The hall shook as hundreds of people from Konoha-Gakura and Oto-Gakure rose from their seats, stamped on the floor and sang loud cheers. It was the handball second leg of the league and it was about the championship lead. The game was basically already decided, because there were only three minutes to play and Oto led 31 to 30. The goal for Oto's lead had just fallen and the Konoha team rushed to the center line. Sasuke had the ball. He was in the middle position and was known as the strongest player on the team. With a jerk he put one foot on the center line and the referee whistled. Immediately the six rushed off. There was not much dribbling to save time, instead an incredibly fast ball exchange took place. Sasuke gave up, threw far outside at Shikamaru, who was standing on the right, further to Naruto, half left, over to Naji, half right and back to Sasuke. He found a gap and dashed forward, but that was just a distraction.Naruo ran after him in an arc. Sasuke jumped off and took a long swing, but he didn't throw.
"Naruto !!" he called and played the ball skillfully over to Naruto, who was already standing on the circle. Sasuke could still catch himself and even saw how Naruto reached out and let himself fall forward. The opposing goalie had no chance when Naruto smashed the ball into the lower left corner. He hit the floor unpleasantly, but he didn't care because the 31st to 31st whistle was just being whistled. He quickly got up and ran back to the defensive position with the others.
Sakura, Ino, Hinata, Choji and Kiba were sitting on the platform in the first row and all five jumped up and cheered loudly as Naruto sank the ball. Chips pelted to the floor as Choji threw his arms in the air, completely forgetting that he was eating something. There was an upbeat mood that left no one indifferent. Everyone was excited. The scoreboard clicked loudly and now it was 31 to 31.The black-clad Konohas quickly ran back into the defense and one could see from Sakura's perspective the blue Konoha symbols on their backs and the respective numbers. Sasuke carried the seven.
"Sasuke-ku ~ n !!!" she called again and again to cheer on her darling, but Sakura's calls were simply drowned in the loud roar of the crowd.
The Konoha team formed at their circle when the whistle was pushed again and the Oto team went on to attack.
"Poor!!!" Naruto's shrill voice rang out and suddenly all Konohas tore, if she hadn't already done so, arms up to give the opponent no chance. Dosu, the leader of the Oto team, had the ball and was dribbling towards the goal at a tremendous pace. He paste the ball to a teammate, but he hadn't expected Sasuke. In a flash, Sasuke dived forward and grabbed the ball in the air. Without hesitation, he ran at a hell of a pace towards the open gate of the Oto.The hall was booming and all Konoha fans joined in with the same chant.
"UCHIHA! UCHIHA !!!"
Sakura and the others also took part. It was an amazing mood.
Sasuke ran, but an oto player was hot on his heels. Zaku had almost caught up with the Uchiha and now stood just before the circle against him and threw up his arms in defense.
"You won't come over here!" he yelled at his black-haired opponent, but he just grinned maliciously.
Time in the hall seemed to stand still when Sasuke started to jump. Legs apart, he almost stood in the air while he reached out with his right hand. Without paying attention to Zaku, he let himself fall forward and with a scream that seemed to give the throw even more power, Sasuke hurled the ball towards the goal. Since he had put so much force into the throw, he fell head-on on Zaku and pulled him to the ground with him.
The goalie from Oto jumped into the air and moved his arms and legs away, but he didn't have the slightest chance.The ball landed in the top left corner and the man in the goal sank desperately to the ground.
The people were beside themselves and a loud cheer went through the rows, followed by clapping clapping. Ino screamed with joy and jumped into Sakura's arms, who even had tears in her eyes from happiness.
Kakashi, the trainer of the Konohas made a little jump in the air and then sat beaming with joy to congratulate his boys when a loud horn sounded. The signal for the end of the game. Konoha won. 32 to 31.
Naruto laughed as loudly as he could and ran, or rather lifted up to Sasuke, who had just straightened up again to knock him down again by falling around his neck and giving him a strong squeeze. Big tears of friends ran down his cheeks.
"Sasukäää ~ you are my hero!", Naruto whimpered as he rubbed his cheek against the Sasukes.
"Let go, idiot.", Sasuke growled at him and broke away from the uncomfortable hug, but immediately after he got up his other teammates came for an intense hug.Sasuke freed himself only with difficulty and was able to prevent being lifted onto the shoulders of his comrades.
Kakashi threw a malicious grin over to Orochimaru, the trainer of the Otos, who didn't show his anger.
Don't get excited too soon. Sasuke will soon be mine,thought Orochimaru and smiled as maliciously as the trainer of the Konohas.
Closed, the players of the Konoha team left the hall through the northern entrance to change and take a shower. Everyone was in a good mood and talked animatedly about what was going on in the game.
Sakura, Ino and Hinata went together to the back exit where the players come out to wait for their friends. They too were in a good mood and laughed a lot.

After three hours and after almost all the other fans of the Konoha team had left, the door finally opened in front of which Sakura, Ino and Hinata had been waiting. Ino had sat down on a bench with Hinata and put her head on the shoulder of Hyuuga, who also almost fell asleep.Only Sakura was too excited all the time to sit down quietly.
They finally came. Naruto first, followed by Kakashi and the rest. Sasuke came last.
Hinata and Ino jumped up as if struck by lightning. Ino ran up to Shikamaru and fell around his neck.
"Shika-chan!" she screamed, hugging him tightly. The Nara grimaced at this ridiculous nickname, but then put his arms around Ino's waist. Some of his teak colleagues grinned broadly and Shikamaru knew that he had to prepare for a few stupid sayings from his friends for the next training session, which was tomorrow.
"Sasuke-kun!" Shouted Sakura when she finally spotted her crush. She walked quickly towards him and stopped briefly in front of him.
"You played really well, Sasuke-kun!" and her smile literally beamed at him. But Sasuke was completely cold. Bored, he looked briefly at Sakura, but then turned away and walked past her to make his way home."SASUKEEE!", Naruto yelled full of euphoria when he realized that the Uchiha wanted to go home.
"Wait! We have to celebrate the victory! You can't go home yet!", Naruto shouted again, but Sasuke didn't let himself be influenced and just raised his hand in goodbye.
"I'm tired, Dope. See you tomorrow at training.", Sasuke said, as cool as always and went on. It was already so dark that it looked as if the Uchiha was disappearing into the darkness.
Sakura looked sadly after the black-haired boy. She really would have liked him to exchange a few nice words with her. A short sigh was heard from Sakura.
"Don't worry.", Naruto said in an unusually lovable way as he put a hand on Sakura's shoulder and smiled at the girl. .
He only means well,she thought to herself and forced a tiny smile.

Sasuke was home quickly. He lived not far from his school, the Undokai Sports High School.After his parents moved abroad three years ago, he lived alone. He also had a brother named Itachi, but he didn't have a good relationship with him. On the contrary. He hated him profoundly. Itachi was the reason why the Uchihas never cared for Sasuke. Itachi was a few years older than his little brother, but since early childhood Sasuke had never managed to surpass his brother. He'd always got good grades in school, too, but Itachi was just a little better for Sasuke's age. It was the same with handball. Itachi has played in the national team since he was 17 with the best players in the world. Sasuke, on the other hand, was still at the league level at 19 even now. He knew his family would never accept him if he didn't manage to outdo his brother one day. And for this goal Sasuke really did everything. Like his brother he used to go out of the sports high school and trained hard every day until he fell into bed completely exhausted in the evening.It was already quite late, but Naruto and his team really wanted to go party. After all, they didn't have a victory like this every day. Because of Sasuke, Sakura didn't feel like going with me. She had known all of her friends since elementary school. Ino, Hinata and Naruto have even been around since kindergarten.
Sakura could still remember the day when she met Sasuke for the first time.

[i]It was fourth grade and Sasuke had just moved into the area. Confident and with the usual cool look, he stood in front of the 10 to 11 year old students to introduce himself. Some boys looked at him disparagingly and whispered, others greeted him cheerfully and the girls were delighted with him. Young Haruna was not averse either. With an embarrassed look she examined the Uchiha from head to toe.
Sakura was often teased in her youth because of her large forehead. Ino often helped her to defend herself, but that one day Ino was sick and Sakura was on her own.Some boys and girls cornered her, pointed fingers and laughed out loud. "Big forehead, mini-brain!" They always teased them. Sakura was injured and stretched because of the nasty sayings, but she couldn't do anything. Desperate and she buried her hands in her face, praying that the boys and girls who teased her would soon go away. Suddenly she heard a dull sound and immediately afterwards the hysterical screaming of one of her