Author's note: This was done a long time ago, when I was watching some kind dramatic action movie. Forgotten what it was but anyways, this was my first NaruHina fanfic. It's totally ALTERNATE UNIVERSE. Like really. And the reason why Hinata was in the club was because TenTen dragged her along so that she could have a chance with some guys. HAHA! cos' Neji challenged her. :{ me and my mind... oooh.

Hope you'll enjoy. Should I continue with an another chapter for this? Cos' it was always a one shot to me, ever since.

The Lucky Bet

"Alright, I'll do it, okay?"

Naruto ran his obvious shaking fingers to ruffle his own hair in frustration. His nervous blue eyes gaze upward to his current center of attraction, a girl at a corner with her hair drawn below her shoulders, as he gradually paced forward. His face flustered while his hands shifted anxiously inside his pockets.

"Are you sure you're able to do this, Scaredy Cat?" Sasuke teased with a hint of snicker behind his voice, "I don't mind you backing out but, you'll owe me a bet you're not able to pay off."

"Shut up," Naruto rebutted back.

With that, Sasuke shoved his friend forward with a cackle.

Naruto, as stubborn as he was, decided to get on with it and end this. He wasn't going to lose to a stupid bet made by a bastard. How hard could it be, to kiss a lady he never met? Well, considering he never met her, he might get beaten up by the girl's possible boyfriend or the girl herself. She would call him a pervert, an idiot and all those other negative things. But, he's rather experienced in that area after having Sakura hit him millions of times due to her short-temper.

Most people would have walked away to a bet such as ones made by Sasuke. He'd give the most ridiculous ones whenever he got drunk. And having him drunk would be a bad idea. This was one of the reasons why Sakura beat him hard on the head on the first place. However, this time, Sasuke's bet wasn't out-of-this-world compared to other occasions. He had clinked glasses with Naruto with his arm hung over him, saying that, Naruto was gay. Naruto rejected the idea until it took him moments to know what Sasuke was about to say, "I bet you are! If not… prove it. Or you need to go around this bar naked."

"Are you dead serious?"

Sasuke pointed to one random girl in the club before he leaned away and sloppily kicked Naruto to move on and hit on the girl. If he was alone with Sasuke at the bar, he would have ignored his stupid statement but the others were with them. Kiba, Shikamaru and Lee were around to agree with Sasuke's blabbers wickedly and cheered Naruto on. That way, he couldn't get out of the situation at all.

"Sakura's right, never get Sasuke drunk. This is crazy."

Despite all of his attempts to resist from this dumb bet, the guys had made it worst and began threatening to blackmail him. In the end, he had to do the bet.

He clasped his hands together, and made his game face. He maneuvered across the disco lights and party people to approach the girl with the straight dark hair. She was sitting rather alone on one of the VIP seats, with her face down, staring lifelessly on a glass of wine in front of her. It downed upon Naruto that it might not be good time for him to do such a bet with her now. He knew well enough that girls, whenever they were very emotional -because she seems down and emotional, would result in him getting beat up. In general, he was making inference to his friend, Sakura, again. Nonetheless, he had to get it over and done with.

He meditated in his head that whatever happens in the club, would stay in the club. And, since he would likely be a stranger to her, he would be forgotten one day.

Having realized someone was standing next to her, the girl looked up, seeing a sheepish smile from a blonde before she asked, "H-Hai?"

Naruto stared at her striking eyes, her smooth dark hair that had fallen perfectly without her trying and her delicate face that revealed a slight smile on her lips. Having gotten himself mesmerized for a moment, he had gotten himself back together when a man from the abundant crowd had accidentally hit him on the back. That's when he began to strike a conversation with her.

"Well… Do you see my friend over there?" Naruto pointed at his "friend", Sasuke, who was lying lifelessly, looking as if he was about to pass out soon on the table, with Kiba and Lee smirking with a thumbs up towards him. Having caught Sasuke's narrowing dark eyes, it made Naruto feel that Sasuke was watching intently on his every move, seeing whether he'd win his bet or not.

"Yes, why?" Her lips revealed a petite and tiny voice. It made Naruto feel sick that he might steal an innocent girl's kiss. It might probably her first kiss too, making Naruto feel guilty.

"I made a lil' bet with him and you have to be part of it," Naruto tried his best to keep the girl to stay until he planted that kiss. He had to, if not Sasuke wouldn't let him go. If only Sasuke didn't make such an idiotic bet but, of course, Sasuke wouldn't say that –a non-drunk Sasuke, in fact.

"What do you mean?"

This made Naruto much guiltier, that he would possibly steal the girl's first kiss. He ran a hand over his hair, beginning to sigh.

He had to finish this off and go. Then he'd win Sasuke's stupid bet.

As he reached over next to her, cupping her face with his hands, his eyes slowly closed –even if her eyes were wide, and pressed his lips delicately on her.

He wasn't surprised if she didn't kiss back. Then, he pulled back and he gradually opened his eyes. His eyes, showing him the girl with clueless glassy eyes, made him feel a rush of guilt run through his veins.

"Sorry, I didn't mean of that," Naruto finally stated. He didn't really want to be an ass, especially in front of this girl.

He abruptly stood up, walked through the crowd and disappeared from the girl's vision. Naruto rushed back to only see Sasuke already passed out. Kiba laughed loudly as he began to explain with a number of snickers in between, "He went… unconscious when you… kissed the girl."

With that, the group of guys laughed together in Naruto's expense. However, Naruto kept quiet as he carried his drunk friend off the table and on his shoulders. He walked off with the bastard's weight burdening him and out of the premises of the club. Flagging for a cab, he felt guilt rush back.

"You owe me one, Sasuke- teme!" Naruto glared at his friend.

Back in the club, the girl felt her flushed face with her hands. She felt as if she didn't know what to do until a familiar voice called out to her.

"H-Hi-Hinata?" The dark haired girl watched her brunette friend rush towards her, "Are you alright? Are you okay? I saw him kiss you."

Hinata's eyes stared at her friend, Ten Ten, not knowing what to say. She was kissed. Yes, Hinata-sama got her first kiss by a stranger. A handsome stranger…

The next day...

"Sakura-san, here are the documents you needed for the trial," Hinata handed to her in an orderly fashion. Sakura, as busy as she was, held her phone between her ear and shoulders, as she smiled in response to receiving the paperwork. She couldn't spare the time to sit still but, that was one of the wonders Sakura Haruno was good at.

"ARE YOU STUPID? HOW MANY DRINKS DID YOU BOTH HAVE LAST NIGHT? WHAT KIND OF DRINKING PARTY WAS THAT ANYWAY? DID YOU BRING SASUKE-KUN HOME?" Hinata heard Sakura yell at the phone. Obviously, Sakura didn't give a hell in the world if anyone was being disturbed by her shrieking. She held a strict and stern reputation, like the boss who was before her. Since she was trained by Tsunade herself, it was an obvious wide contrast when Hinata was compared to Sakura. Hinata was the delicate quiet social worker while Sakura was the hard attorney.

"COME OVER TO THE OFFICE NOW, I NEED A REAL TALK WITH YOU."

Having Hinata to work with Sakura posed quite a challenge for her as she never met such a woman before but, as she continued to work with this lady, she learnt how much dedicated she was in her work. They were working on a complicated case upon a custody battle between two parties over a boy. It was a dispute over to whom the boy should be belonged to and Hinata was one of the social workers involved.

Sakura slammed her phone down the table with much anger before she rested her tired hands on her forehead.

"I don't understand why men would want to have drinking parties," Sakura commented in a hoarse voice until she grabbed a glass of water from her pantry, "I don't get it."

Hinata simply smiled to her newly made friend. She, too, couldn't understand anything about men but having to relate anything to a club made her wonder about last night's little episode. Sakura began to shuffle the papers in front of her desk, looking rather serious until she looked up, seeing a rather distracted Hinata.

"If anything's troubling you, you should say it. That way it wouldn't divert you away from your work," Sakura rearranged her desk before she looked into the paragraphs about the boy again. Hinata admired Sakura's blatant attitude. No wonder, she was such a good speaker in terms of being an attorney because her opinions would have been considerable and right.

Hinata just shook her head, trying her best not to think about the blonde man from the night before, "That's alright."

"If you say so…" Sakura stated before she made an abrupt outburst about her boyfriend throwing up on the bed last night because he was drunk.

Maybe, Sakura wasn't as dedicated to her work as much Hinata thought.

"Sakura-san, we should get more focused on Minori…"

"Oh, I'm sorry…"

"I'm meeting with him later at the orphanage. Would you like to come, Sakura-san?"

"That would be a good idea."

"It'll be a long drive there though."

"That's alright, I'm not going to drive," Sakura stated.

"Eh?"

Sakura smirked evilly, "Well, I'm just going to make someone do a good fat favor for me since he let my boyfriend get serious drunk."

"Oh, I see…"

"Well, I'll gather these up and maybe visiting Minori would contribute to our conclusion to our case."

"I hope Minori would be happy with whatever decision that would be made."

Sakura fell silent until she replied in a hoarse voice, "I hope so too,"

"Anyway," Sakura clapped her hands together, "Have you found the owner of that photograph?"

"I haven't… I still couldn't pinpoint who the woman in the photo is. In the state records, the computers didn't seem to have located any match."

"But, I don't get it why you kept it in the first place."

"Good question… I really don't know what came over to me back then. When I found it under the pile of rubble from the fire that broke out in the state tower, I just really thought that I should keep it."

"You mean it survived from the fire?"

"You can say that… Which is quite puzzling, isn't it?"

"Lucky! That can be a lucky charm."

"Hmmm… That's a good idea, since I always kept it in my purse."

Sakura took a moment to look closer at the window, "I wish you'd find who that belongs to though. Maybe you could start off with the survivors of the state tower building."

"Yeah, I should," Hinata smiled.

Their little conversation turned into a halt when one of Sakura's secretaries knocked on the door lightly and came in to say that a visitor was here. Sakura smirked, knowing full well that the baka finally arrived.

"Let him in," Sakura stated in her usual voice which held so much authority.

It indicated that Hinata should be up and leaving. She stood up and bowed to Sakura before she turned for her leave. As Hinata stretched her hand for the carefully embellished handle to the large door, the door unlocked open. Without warning, Hinata stare into the familiar ocean blue eyes and the striking blonde hair.

Hinata pointed with a shaky finger and Naruto took a step back before they both wailed in unison, "It's you…!"