Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, first and only warning
The two sat against the bar, quietly watching the party unfold around them. As part of a political mission, the ninja of Konaha had attended the wedding of the prince from the land of the rice, and the princess from the land of tea. It was to be a week long wedding celebration, and as Tsunade saw it, a way to strength relations with the newly formed land of trade. They were even supposed to start a academy in the new capital, which is where they were sitting at now, watching as people around them danced and drank, and in some cases, were giving each other lap dances.
"So how's Naruto coming along?" The platinum blond asked, trying to take her mind off of the merriment in front to her.
"Not so good," replied the pink haired girl, slowly taking a swig of her beer, "I heard Anko and he hooked up about two months ago. They seem inseparable." Her green eyes gazed longingly in the direction of Namikaze Naruto and Mitarashi Anko who were dancing to a romantic song. Anko was nuzzled into Naruto's neck, her eyes closed; a small smile was plastered to her face. The pink haired chuunin sighed and took a deep drink of the beer, finishing it and signaling for another one.
"Wow. I'm not sure what's worse, you or Naruto dating Anko." The platinum blond chuunin's eye's drifted across the party, bathed in its strobe lights and multitude of colors.
"What's that supposed to mean Ino? Besides Anko isn't that old." The girl replied.
"No I mean how lovesick you are Sakura." she replied back.
"Huh?"
"Look at you, you're going into the first stages of alcoholism over him. I never thought you liked him. You know because it was all 'Sauske this' and 'Sasuke that' with you." She took a light sip before resting it back in her lap.
"I don't know Ino; it just feels like I have nobody left anymore."
"Bullshit, Naruto's still there for you, and Tsunade and me and all the others."
"No, I mean someone who will like who I am and ask me out on a date sometime."
"Sakura, I'll go out with you." Ino said smiling a little bit.
"Ino you're freakin hilarious." Sakura laughed a little loudly.
She just hurt Ino though she didn't realize it. Ino chuckled a little and returned to her drink. Ino had been in love with Sakura since she was five, like a lost puppy finding a caring person in the cold dark storm. When she was five, she use to tell Sakura she loved her all the time. Sakura of course responded but didn't realize that Ino meant it. When she had announced at the start of her academy training to be a ninja that she liked Sauske, well that just changed everything. If she couldn't have Sakura, well, no one could. She had chased after the boy just so Sakura couldn't have him by herself. Finally when the bastard left they had become friends again. They had nothing to fight about so, why fight? They had rekindled their friendship and discussed the usual things girls would, cloths, eating, sex, boys (which Ino constantly put up with) and of course missions.
"Yeah I am." Ino replied a little pained. She finished off her beer and signaled for another one, her fourth.
"You're a good friend Ino." Sakura said as she watched Anko and Naruto share a brief, tender and hungry kiss. They walked over to the bar, Naruto in a pair of slender jeans and a tight black muscle shirt and his hair was in its usual messy form. Anko was in a black muscle shirt as well that barely covered her bust and a skirt, her purple hair was down to her mid back and was well brushed. She was hanging onto Naruto's chest.
"Hi guys." he said sitting down to the right of Sakura.
"we are girls Naruto." she replied taking a light sip of the amber liquid.
"Well sorry Sakura." he replied rubbing the back of his neck and grinning. His eyes were vibrant and mischievous, his whiskers stretched barely visible, almost translucent in the colorful ambient light.
"It's okay Naruto." She replied. She stuck two fingers up and the bartender bought over two beers. She handed one to Naruto and another reluctantly to Anko.
"So how are you and Naruto getting along?" Sakura asked, her bitter tone almost disguised by the music.
"Oh were getting along great." she replied using her hands. Not a good sign for Sakura.
"Oh well that's good. So where are you so far?"
"Third base." she replied taking a sip of the amber liquid. Ino's Sakura's and Naruto's jaw's dropped.
"T-th-third base?" Sakura croaked.
"Anko! I thought you said you'd be good this evening!" Naruto said sternly blushing a bit.
"I couldn't help it." she shrugged.
"You're a bad girl." he said.
"Oh and I do hope I get spanked tonight." Anko replied grinning cheekily. Naruto blushed again.
"You are such a bad girl tonight that I might just have to...tie you up." he replied. It was Anko's turn to blush.
"Then what, Master?"
"Holy shit the sexual innuendo with you two is unbearable!" Ino yelled at the two.
"Sorry Ino. Sorry Sakura." Naruto replied. He swung the bottle up to his lips and chugged the ice cold bear down.
"Why aren't you two dancing with men at the moment, or doing something then drinking?" Anko asked looking thoughtfully at the two.
"I don't really know." Sakura replied.
"I guess it's just drinking time today." Ino spun around on the bar stool and giggled.
"Unless you two are trying to have a moment together and one of you is trying to admit the love for the other." she said plainly. Naruto who was on another beer choked and Anko turned and patted him roughly on the back. Ino had a huge large blush on her face which wasn't visible on her face thanks to a slow romantic song which had dimmed the lights. Sakura's face was that of a pure disgust.
"Is there anything that you can't talk about? Do I honestly look like a lesbian? What the hell is wrong with you?"
"Hey just because you've never tried it doesn't mean you shouldn't knock it." Anko replied looking back at Ino and Sakura.
"What you have?" Sakura laughed at her cunning, which was actually quite dull at the moment.
"Yes." Naruto who was back to drinking choked again for the second time on another beer.
"Wh-what?" Ino's jaw dropped. Anko had been with a girl?
"Oh yeah, there just as good as men in sex there pretty an all that." she replied with a mischievous grin.
"You can talk about anything, can't you?" Sakura asked
"Yes."
"So then why are you with Naruto if girls are so great?" Ino asked polite as the alcohol running through her veins would allow of her.
"Well girls can be downright bitches, always hungry for sex and complete bitches towards you. Not all but most. Then you have guys who can be the same way. Then you have Naruto. Kind, sweet, brave, loving, and a generally admirable person. Don't get me wrong, I'm not all straight, I'm bi, and if it weren't for him, I'd get the two of you so drunk as to go back to the hotel and do naughty things." Naruto choked on his beer for the last time.
"Okay well I think I'll go sit over there." he said pointing at a bar stool at the end of the counter. He got up and moved.
"I think I'll go as well." Sakura commented. She also move towards the seats at the end of the bar, leaving Anko and Ino sitting almost side by side. Anko moved closer to Ino.
"So how long?" she asked.
"Huh?"
"how long have you loved her? Or are you just trying to get into her pants?" Anko smirked
"What the fuck are you talking about?" Ino drew her hand to her face as if to draw off an attacker.
"You didn't think I saw that blush on your face?" she replied.
"Oh fuck. You saw that?" she said exasperatedly.
"No but you just told me, and besides, when I said what I said you tensed up." Ino rested her head on the counter and began to bang it gently against the counter.
"Great now this'll get out and everybody'll know and someone will tell Sakura and I'll be fucked, and not in the good way. I wish I could find out if I really were gay or not. I just, need answers."
"Do you love her?" Ino sat up and turned to Anko, her eye's alight with passion and lust.
"More then you know." Anko sighed and took a sip of the beer she was holding.
"Look there's two ways to figure that out. One is to go visit a psychiatrist and the other is to experiment with the opposite sex, and because option one is too damn expensive, you and I are going clubbing."
"What about Naruto and Sakura?"
"I'll tell Naruto the truth, tell Sakura you're going somewhere and you'll meet her back at the hotel room."
"What he's okay with it?" she asked dumbfounded.
"Oh yes, he said, and I quote "As long as it's not a guy Anko-chan I'm fine with it." end quote."
"Wow. Why'd he let you do that?"
"Oh he reasoned that as long as it wasn't another guy trying to shove his junk into my trunk I could fuck any girl I want. To put it bluntly. He also said maybe I could bring home said companions and maybe we could have 'fun', which it always is."
"He-you-the"
"Times a wasting! Let's go Ino." She got up walked over to Naruto and whispered into his ear.
"Well you dirty girl. I love you, see ya soon." He laughed. Ino walked over.
"Sakura this party sucks, I'm going out to a club or something." she stated quietly enough that no one around her could hear her. Sakura merely through her hand forward in the universal 'whatever-I-don't-give-a-fuck' sign. Ino walked outside of the massive recreational hall into the crisp cool air. The trees lining the streets were bare, the sidewalk was cold and there was a thin layer of ice on the sides. Her breath misted in the air. It was winter.
She had always loved it, as much as summer. It was cold but it made you hold on to something to keep warm. As if proof a couple with a child walked past her on the opposite side of the street. She smiled a little.
"Alright, play times over, time to go clubbing." Anko said from behind her. Ino jumped.
"Jesus you scared me!"
"I should, I'm a ninja, and I shouldn't have because you're a ninja." Anko said seriously.
"Follow me Yanakama."
"Again, just Ino."
"Come on Ino." she waved her hand forward and Ino followed down the street in the cold and darkness.
The two ninja walked down the street for a while, the cold wind flaying them alive. They finally came to stop at a Wal-Mart. (look I don't know. I came up with it, roll with it!)
"What the hell are we doing here?" Ino asked, looking over at a bemused Anko.
"You can't go dressed like that, no one will even want to touch you." she shrugged.
"WHAT"S WRONG WITH MY OUTFIT!" she yelled She wore tight black jeans and a black vest which cut out at her midriff. A long trench coat was over top. Her hair was in the usual Ponytail.
"There's a lot wrong with you." Anko replied.
"What do you mean I have every guy in-"
"Repeat what you just said."
"I had every guy in the club l-"
"Exactly. Every guy. You specifically said you wanted to get it on with a girl."
"What! No I said I wanted to find out if I were gay or not." she said blushing heavily
"What other way is there?"
"ah hell."
About twenty minutes, a black skirt, stockings color eye liner and assorted pairs of scissors, dog collars and chains Ino was finished. She was now in a very short skirt that barely went halfway down to her thighs; the stockings they had bought were shredded up into long strips and wound around her legs in exotic styles. Chains hung from her waist down. Her vest was gone, replaced by an open V-neck shirt, stretched out to the point that it went down to her midriff, she had lost her bra and her hair was now down and was darker with green highlights, almost making her appear perfectly Gothic.(as my classmates would say, she looks gothin.)
"Well a good job if I say so myself." Anko said, holding her fingers in a picture frame like style.
"I look so...Gothic." she finished, looking at her legs in disgust, "And my legs are too pale."
"Exactly what I set out to do."
"Yeah but why Gothic?"
"Have you ever even seen a Goth girl? They have everyone looking at them, especially the troths."
"The hell is troth?" Ino asked raising an eyebrow.
"Tramp Goths, they dress in skimpy clothing that especially draws women. I don't know why, just like looking."
"Okay."
"Alright to the club, for real this time!" Anko shouted as she pumped her fist in the air. They walked for blocks through the now metropolis city to a little club at the edge of town.
"I give you: ciel de deux cerises: two cherries heaven. The only pure Bi bar in town. Tonight you either are getting laid by a man or woman but you are not leaving until you have been." Anko said glorifying the place. It was a large storage warehouse, probably turned into the hottest club in the city.
"Stay with me Ino and I'll teach you what you need to know." Ino followed Anko to the front entrance, skipping past a long line of people waiting in line. A perky woman with a loose fitting track suit stopped the two at the door.
"la réponse à la vie l'univers et tout ?" she asked in flawless French
"Quarante-deux." she replied back in French. The girl smiled and opened the door to the club, thin smoke rolling out and speakers blasting. The two entered.
The music was loud and intense. Girls were dancing in cages above the audience, their bodies reflecting the light. A multitude of people were on the dance floor, most girls. There were booths to either side of the floor and a bar ran on either side of the speakers, so the one could actually talk and be heard. The DJ station sat in the middle of the two speakers, in the middle of the whole club, and the office was over that, giving anyone a clear view of the entire club. Ino followed Anko through the throng of dancers, and immediately felt her face flush at some of the looks the people on the dance floor gave her. They sat at the bar. At the left handed speaker.
The bartender, a slim brunette in her late twenties had looked at the two and immediately bought out a bottle of scotch, aged twenty years. She left the two with the bottle and shot glasses.
"So now what?" Ino asked looking at Anko. She merely shrugged and poured herself a shot, quickly draining it.
"I said I'd take you here but ultimately it's your choice Ino. Who you hit it off with is your problem. Now, I'm going to go sit at a booth and wait for girls, you do whatever." and with that she left, taking the bottle of scotch and the glasses.
She turned around and ordered a Sam Adams Boston lager. She had liked the taste of the beer on the last two occasions she had it. She sat at the bar, watching nothing in particular and sipping her beer. She was tapped on the shoulder in the middle of a long gulp. She turned to her left and was greeted by a knockout of a girl. She had raven black hair, like Sauske's , Green eye's that were intelligent, and a jade green at that, Her face was about the same shape as Sakura's, except for the black lip stick and the few light freckles on her cheeks. She was in a tight button up, white shirt, her nipples clearly visible through the fabric. She wore long tight black jeans.
"Like what you see?" she asked, wrapping an arm around Ino's waist and bringing her closer to her. Ino just nodded. This girl was beautiful. Where Sakura hardly wore anything of eloquence, this girl had swept Ino off of her feet, and she had just started talking.
"Yes."
"My name is Sarooko. I assume yours is angel?" she grinned a small bit, the white teeth in her mouth in heavy contrast to the black hair and throbbing lights. Ino blushed again.
"It's Ino. Nice to meet you Sarooko."
Sarooko put her face in the nape of Ino's neck and inhaled ever so slightly before pulling back out and sitting on the stool to the side of her.
"Sooo, going anywhere?" she asked. The bartender came over with another Sam Adams for Sarooko. She was obviously a regular.
"Naw, just came here for tonight." she replied as she lifted the beer to her mouth.
"What for?" She asked, leaning in as if it were a world changing secret.
"you wouldn't believe me if I told you."
"Try me."
"Well there's this gi-"
"-girl and you're not sure whether you like her or not, and in you confusion you decided the only way to tell was by experimenting." Ino's jaw opened and closed a few times, like a fish gasping for air. Sarooko just grinned at the girl.
"You're not the only one, my angel." she cooed. Ino went back to her beer, pausing to take a long gulp, almost draining it.
"So what do you want from me?" she asked, turning her head back to the girl. Sarooko had taken her hand off of Ino's waist and was combing it through her now green locks.
"It's obvious, isn't it? You want to know for sure, and I want you. You're gorgeous and I feel great. How about it?"
"Wow, to ask me straight out without getting me drunk, that takes balls." She smirked. Sarooko gave a quick laugh.
"So how about it?" Her green eyes sparkled, with passion or lust, Ino did not know but only one word came to mind.
"Yes." Sarooko grinned, setting her beer down and wrapping her other arm (the one not going through Ino's lush locks) around her waist. Their noses touched as they looked into each other's eyes.
"You want to go back to my place?" she asked.
"S-sure." The two got up, Sarooko letting go, and then wrapping an arm around Ino's waist, and walked out the door. Ino looked back to see Anko grinning at her, flanked on either side by drop dead sexy girls. She waved her fingers good bye at her. The grin was Intoxicating because soon Ino and even Sarooko had a grin plastered to their faces, as they left the club. They walked around the block and stopped at a Shelby GT 350 mustang as Sarooko dug out her keys.
"Nice car." she commented. Sarooko moved around to the other side, opening the door and getting in. Ino did the same.
The car hummed to life, purring like an oversized metallic cat. They drove, down the road in silence. Ten minutes later the two exited the car and Stood in front of a tall two story house with a flat roof.
"Well come on." Sarooko motioned the girl into the house, the door standing ajar.
There was no backing down now. If Ino went into the darkness, with Sarooko, she'd be a new woman. If she didn't, she'd still be the scared thing she was, and would probably never be able to ask Sakura, or any other girl for that matter. She walked up the steps, fist clenched in caution, almost standing rigid. Sarooko pushed the door open, so that the faintest outlines of a table in the dark place could be seen from outside, due to the moonlight. She walked Inside, Sarooko following closely. She closed the door and locked it. Ino felt her heart jump and a tingle shoot through her spine. She shivered. She wanted out, She wanted in. She wanted to win, not like this though. She felt the footsteps echo across the floor, which she assumed was hard wood from the sound. A moment later, Sarooko's arms wrapped themselves around her waist from behind; she laid her chin on Ino's shoulder. Her breath was hot on the back of Ino's neck, calm, like a hunter waiting for the shot.
"I think I need a drink first." Ino commented
CLIFFHANGER!