Chapter 266 The Stressful Domestic Hedgehog
As usual, his father left home early to go to the police department. Uchiha Sasuke wanted to say something, but he shut his mouth when he realized that his father didn't seem to have time to pay attention to him.
After hesitating for a moment, Uchiha Sasuke still went out the door.
Walking in Uchiha territory, many neighbors saw him and greeted him warmly.
The woman at the pancake shop insisted that he accept the freshly made pancake, saying he should eat it while it was still hot.
Her smiling, kind face was completely unlike the woman in another memory who urged a coup.
Every member of the tribe who greeted him had a face that more or less radiated happiness with their current life and respect for his father.
Reality has proven that the Uchiha clan could not have launched a coup.
After touring the clan compound, Sasuke Uchiha's anxious heart finally calmed down a bit.
He returned home and, unusually, did not train diligently. Instead, he quietly stayed in his room, pondering all the possibilities related to the Sharingan, and also... Haruko Hayama and Naruto Uzumaki.
Sasuke Uchiha lay on the bed, burying most of his face in the pillow, his fine eyelashes fluttering slowly.
He wanted to clarify his feelings for both of them, but... it was too difficult.
The three of them grew up together and were assigned to the same team after graduation.
Even he had to admit that there was a natural and intimate relationship between the three of them.
It is precisely because the balance is defined by the intimacy between the three parties that the third party feels so lost when the intimacy between the two parties exceeds the intimacy with all three.
In Uchiha Sasuke, this manifested as inexplicable anger and the raising of sharp thorns.
He could have tolerated Naruto's idiotic personality, after all, fate had already brought the three of them together, and they should have been companions who would share hardships and never abandon each other.
Indeed, Sasuke Uchiha attributed his secretly growing closeness to the force of fate.
If it weren't for fate, they wouldn't be companions, and he wouldn't have to tolerate their bickering, nor would he have to be... angry at their increasingly close relationship.
The Uchiha clan has always been proud, and their inherent arrogance makes it difficult for them to take the initiative to approach others.
Therefore, not distancing oneself is tantamount to acknowledging someone's closeness.
Sasuke Uchiha, who was always ashamed to use the word "friend," had the first thought that came to mind—they were no longer the closest of friends they should be.
Or rather, this is how the three of them have lived for the past ten years.
Therefore, he could not accept that Naruto Uzumaki surpassed him and became closer to Haruko Hayama.
It was as if he had been singled out from the three-person team, leaving him to stand aside and watch the two of them enjoying themselves.
Shock, doubt, anger, resentment... countless emotions mingled in his chest, unable to escape.
And then there's the most superficial kind of fear.
I was afraid that they would abandon me.
But this emotion was like a thin mist; once he noticed it, he ruthlessly wiped it away, leaving nothing behind.
ridiculous.
How could he, as an Uchiha, be afraid of being alone?
He wished those two dragging him down were as far away from him as possible.
He should be a loner, that's how it should be...
As for deeper, more subtle, and more intimate thoughts, Sasuke Uchiha instinctively resisted exploring them, perhaps because such thoughts touched upon his precarious sense of self-esteem.
In any case, the final conclusion points to the fact that he should draw a clear line.
From the very beginning, they were just teammates.
They were just teammates.
Sasuke Uchiha, who was lying on the bed, turned over. The pillow blocked the airflow, making it too suffocating.
The handsome young man with black hair had a cool and aloof demeanor that transformed into a sharp and piercing aura in the stillness.
Like a stressed domesticated hedgehog, it huddles in a secluded space, relying on pointing its quills at those close to it to catch its breath.
He doesn't need friends at all.
Knock knock knock.
There was a knock on the door. Sasuke Uchiha, who had slowly gotten up, heard Haruko Hayama's voice outside the door and immediately got out of bed.
"Sasuke! May I come in?"
The host, who was being questioned, was more flustered and at a loss than the guest.
He had just decided to cut ties with them when Haruko showed up at the door in the morning. Uchiha Sasuke stood by the bed, looking around nervously to check if the room was tidy.
Haruko Hayama, not hearing a response from outside the door, grew anxious and knocked a little harder.
"Sasuke, may I come in? I'm so worried about you!"
Uchiha Sasuke's look around finally stopped with the word "worried".
He pursed his lips, and the anger in his heart rekindled for no reason.
He replied in a cold voice, "Whatever."
Knowing that his lack of refusal meant agreement, Haruko pushed open the door and first sized him up.
Aside from a deliberately cold expression, nothing else happened.
After confirming that Uchiha Sasuke was alright, she breathed a sigh of relief, the anxiety in her eyes faded, and she gently turned around and closed the door.
Taking in her series of reactions, Uchiha Sasuke frowned in annoyance, and even the way he sat down clearly revealed his impatience.
Unfazed by his words, Haruko walked briskly to the seat opposite him and sat down.
If Sasuke Uchiha really didn't want to see her, he wouldn't have let her in at all, instead of pretending to be annoyed when he clearly accepted her approach.
"It seems that Sasuke got home safely last night."
Her seemingly random remark left Sasuke Uchiha bewildered.
His silence shattered his feigned indifference, silently revealing the first layer of his disguise, without Uchiha Sasuke even realizing it.
"Have you been spending too much time with Naruto Uzumaki? Has it made you stupid?"
His harsh words were not questions, but statements of fact.
Haruko's smile remained unchanged, and even deepened slightly.
"It's good that Sasuke is with us; it makes us seem much smarter, doesn't it?"
Meeting her clear, smiling eyes, Uchiha Sasuke was momentarily unsure whether she was being sarcastic or genuinely thought so.
It is often said that interpersonal relationships are like a mirror.
Uchiha Sasuke was used to being arrogant and prickly, so even when he was with the gentle Hayama Haruko, he felt offended.
However, he absolutely refused to admit that it was his fault.
"Really? They weren't my teammates, so what you guys do is none of my business."
Seeing the astonishment on Haruko's face, Sasuke's smug satisfaction at winning the battle didn't last long before his nameless anger intensified.
I can't quite put my finger on who I'm angry at.
There's Haruko Hayama who abandoned him, and Naruto Uzumaki who's always going through the motions...
Perhaps it also applies to himself.
It was as if they had returned to the time when they had only known each other for a short time, when they were just acquaintances and not really friends. Uchiha Sasuke felt that everything she said was ill-intentioned.
Thinking of this, Haruko couldn't help but clench her fist to her mouth, using a cough to cover up her laughter.
Sasuke Uchiha, who thought he was the one arguing: ?
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