Their ears rang and thudded with the loud music blaring. The aroma of alcohol filled the bar. They were celebrating Naruto's twenty-first birthday. Kakashi, Gaara, Sasuke, Neji, Kiba, and Naruto stepped up to the bar and glanced around for a bartender. There wasn't one in sight for a few minutes. She walked up to them in a bright pink halter top and some black skinny jeans.
"What can I get ya?" She asked as she turned around to the rows of alcohol and got eight or nine shot glasses and poured whiskey in everyone of them except the last one she put in patrone. Naruto's eyes widened as he looked around to see who all was watching him. No one that he could see, but he had an uneasy feeling and everyone one of the guys he was with seemed to notice, as did the bartender. "New drinker?" She asked Kiba.
"Yeah. Give him one of your weakest drinks."
"Pepsi. Can he handle it?" She asked with a laugh.
"HEY! I can handle the strongest drink you got." Naruto said.
"No you can't. You probably couldn't a shot of vodka. I am not going to even think about getting you plastered." She said with a laugh.
"It's his twenty-first birthday. I am going to get him plastered." Kiba said.
"Oh, well in that case here." She said as she got out a huge glass and poured several different types of alcohol in it. "Drink up baby." She said as she handed it to him. "Can you do it in less than four drinks?"
"Hell yes, I can do it in one." He said as a challenge.
"Fine here. Wanna make a bet?" She said as she got out another glass.
"Uh, sure?" He said not sounding so sure of him self.
"Okay... I bet I can down this drink before you can." She said as the rest of them oh-ed and ah-ed at the challenge.
"Fine. I'll take the bet. Wait what are we betting?"
"Hm, how about.." She trailed off as someone else whispered in his ear.
"I would choose sex. Dude she's hot." She raised one eye brow and gave a crooked smile. Kiba winked at her. "Oh, we never got your name."
"And your not getting. Sorry." She said teasingly. "So did we ever figure out what your bettin?"
"Yeah, he did. If he wins he gets laid. If you win..." Kiba trailed off.
"So how about you guys? Got any better bets?" She asked Kakashi, Gaara, Neji and Sasuke. "My regular don't have any ideas either? Eh, Kakashi?" They all looked at Kakashi and dropped their jaws. "Oh yeah... Didn't you know? As soon as this place opened up he's been in here everyday. I'm guessing it's from dealing with you people." She laughed.
"Wow. Thanks Sakura. Just ruin my reputation." Kakashi said as the rest of the them laughed.
"What of a drunk? See that tip jar?" She said pointing to the three-fourths full, giant jar behind her. "Those tips are all from him."
"Damn, I think he likes you Sakura?" Kiba said. Clearly flirting.
"Yeah, thats my name. And are you kidding he's my favorite customer." She smiled and winked at him. Then looked back to Naruto. "So what do I get if I win?"
"My cash." Neji said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a wad of fifties and twenties.
"I couldn't take that. How about if I win you guys stick around all night and then come back tomorrow?" She offered. They all nodded and she grabbed a glass and filled it with the same liquids that she filled Naruto's with. She raised her glass and looked at him. "Sure you can do this?" She asked and he just nodded and picked up his glass. She pressed it to her lips and waited for him to do the same she lowered hers for a moment and said, "Kakashi you say go." She quickly raised it back to her lips.
"Go." He said and she quickly began to chug. Naruto barely even took a sip of it and cringed. She waited when she had just a drink left. She watched him drink slowly and she waited until he had his down to the last gulp before she picked it up again. She slowly sipped the last drink and he chugged his as fast as possible.
"Darn I loose." She said as she took back the cup. "So is that really what he took for the bet?" She said as she walked down the bar and got another couple of drunk guys another beer.
"Yes, that is what he want." Kiba answered.
"I think he has lips for a reason. So let him answer." She said as she slammed her hands on the counter and looked Kiba in the eyes. "You two must be the drink in silent types. What do you want? I'll put it on the house." She said as she looked at the other three sitting very still.
"Just give them a beer." Kiba said.
"Listen, loud mouth. Shut it or I'll have someone shut it for ya. Maybe you're why they don't talk much. Because you never give them a chance to." She turned to Naruto again. "So birthday boy you never answered me. Is that what you wanted or did you just want a round of shots all to you're self." She said with a smile.
"Well I have a girlfriend so I don't think she would be very happy if I slept with another chick. So a round of shots is good with me." He said back with the smile of a drunk man.
"Alrighty." She said as she got out ten shot glasses and poured patrone in everyone of them. "If you can handle that and not fall over then you can probably handle ten shots of patrone." She smiled as she handed him the first one. He stared at like he didn't know how to drink it. "Like this." She said as she picked up one of them and downed it in a gulp.
"Best bar tender ever." Naruto said as he finished his night and they began walking home. "Damn I forgot to get her number." He said as he turned around. The all laughed as he fell on his ass with every other step he took. Sakura ran up behind Gaara and jumped on his back.
"Hi babe." She said as she gave him a kiss.
"Hello." He said back. As he turned around and gave her a hug.
"Oh, so that's why you threatened to hit me back in the bar. She's your girlfriend. I am so sorry dude. Maybe." Kiba said under his breath.
"Yeah, that's why I said if you say another sexual comment to her I was going to punch you in your fucking face." Gaara said with stern look.
"Whoa babe calm down. I wouldn't go out with him anyway." She smiled and kissed Gaara. They walked home hand-in-hand until Naruto fell into a car it triggered the alarm. They all bolted and Sakura took the lead. She knew whose car that was and they had dogs. "Run faster! Those dogs will catch you!" She screamed to people behind her. They all sped up and Sakura turned down an ally way that had a fence at the end. They could hear faint barking getting closer and closer. She helped Naruto over the fence and everyone else got their over on their own. She jumped up and barely missed getting her foot snapped on by a dog. She sat at the top of the fence for a maximum of thirty seconds. "They also have guns. We should leave now!" Everyone but Sakura and Gaara stopped when they heard the first gun shot. Sakura whipped around.
"You dumb asses! Don't stop that's how you die!" Gaara grabbed her arm as everyone picked up pace again. They were at Sakura's house quicker than she had ever remembered. "We'll be safe here."
"This is your house?" Kiba asked.
"That is a stupid fucking question." She said as she gestured for Naruto to lay down on the couch. She grabbed a blanket. He was quickly out and she told everyone that if they wanted to sit they could sit on the floor. But Gaara, sat in her chair. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Well that is a 'stupid fucking question' babe. It doesn't deserve an answer." He laughed and made her sit on his lap. Everyone but Sakura fell asleep with-in the hour. She smirked and went to her bedroom.