*Two years ago*
"I don't give a fuck what you think, I'm the paying costumer here and I want another drink." It was another one of those nights, where she would go out with her friends, get a little to drunk and harass the bartender when he refused her another drink because she was 'way passed her limit'.
"Ino, come on. We'll just go somewhere else." Sakura once again had to try and convince the blonde to leave before they got kicked out of yet another bar, this would be the third one this month.
"Fuck that, fuck this place, you make shitty drinks anyways!" Ino announced, flipping the bird to the bartender.
"Listen Pinky," He called out the Sakura, "You're friend here needs help," She embarrassingly looked away and quickly trying stop Ino from punching him in the face after her mumbled 'fucking alcoholic' under his breath but she was to slow and the blonde's fist connected with the bartender's face sending down to the ground.
A week after the indecent Ino was sent to court and was forced to pay a 500 dollar fee and was to go to AA meets for her 'drinking problem', where she replied to the judge in a slur,
"Ihavenodrinkingproblem, you'rethe oneswith a problem." That sent her to a rehab instead for a year, after she test positive for having a high amount of alcohol in her system that morning.
"Ah!" The blonde scream in protest. "I just need one fucking drink! You can't make me quit cold turkey." She wanted to throw everything around her, she wanted to scream her head off and try to escape. Sure this place was amazing, they had everything here; except the one things she needed, a bar. "Sakura, this place is a living hell. I'm not an alcoholic, how could they do this to me?" She threw herself on the sofa and groaned tiredly. "I want to go home,"
"Well you should have thought about the before you punched that bartender." Ino rolled her blue eyes and sighed inwardly. "It's just for a few more months Ino, you can pull through this."
"I have 10 more months Sakura, and all the people here are here for heroin, crack and other drugs. I'm scared." She whispered closely to her friends. "Most of this people have some freakish superhuman hearing."
"Mrs. Yamanaka, visiting time is almost over." A worker informed her and she let out another groan.
"Look Ino, I'll be back next week." Sakura stood up and gave her a light smile. "But before I forget, here I brought you something." She took out a clear glass of purple liquid and Ino's eyes immediately lit up with excitement, see her favorite drink before her.
"Oh my god, Sakura! I can't believe you brought me this." She quickly snatched the drink from Sakura's hand. "Purple Cosmos!" She squealed in excitement and quickly took a big chug from the bottle but almost immediately spit it back out. "What the fuck is this?!" She stared at the bottle in confusion.
"Do you actually think I was going to bring you one with alcohol in it? They even tested it when I came in." Ino wanted to scream again, what was her favorite drink without the vodka and liqueur? Nothing, that's what it was.
"This is just cranberry juice and purple food coloring then!" She let out a sigh after seeing Sakura's hurt expression. "But thanks anyways, maybe I can trick myself into thinking there's alcohol in this." She laughed jokingly as she followed Sakura out the door but was quickly stopped by one of the workers.
"I'll see you soon Ino!" Sakura waved back with a heartfelt smile.
"Next time bring me a real drink!" Ino joked and was taken back to her room. "This is going to a long ten months."
*Ten months later*
Ino stepped out of the building that imprisoned her for a whole year, the sunlight blinding her as she looked around for a sight of pink. The last twelve months were hell for her, she had to admit but she did feel better about herself and no longer felt the need to drink to escape from reality, she was now sober and liked it.
"Ah, I forgot how it felt to be sober again." She whined to Sakura. "It feels really great to wake up every morning without feeling the urge to throw up or still feel drunk." They talked but mostly about Sakura, since nothing new happened with the blonde over the year. "So let me get the straight, he is one of Sasuke's older brother's friends?" The pinkette nodded with a wide grin on her face. "But what about Sasuke? I thought he was the love of your life?" Ino mocked Sakura on how she used to be obsessed with the Uchiha boy.
"Yeah, well he never acknowledge me other then being his friend." Gloom spread over her face as she went on. "I confessed to him a lot of times but every time he didn't say anything back, so a couple of months ago I met Sasori while hanging out with Sasuke and Naruto and well since then," Sakura blushed unable to finish her sentence.
"You guys have been hooking up under the sheets?" Ino winked and nudged Sakura arm with her elbow and her blush deepened to an apple red color. "Well that's great for you," Ino smiled hopefully. "Me on the other hand, no boy is going to want to be with a recovering alcoholic." Her shoulders slumped downwards. "I mean, where's the fun in that?"
"Come on Ino, guys love you sober or not." They pulled up to Ino's old apartment and she sighed, last she left it with empty and filled bottles all over the place. It was going to be a pain to clean up and heart breaking to throw them away. "I cleaned up for you, I even found some secret hiding places." Ino quickly avoided Sakura's jade eyes and laughed nervously.
"Well, I'm a new me now!" Ino announced loudly as they walked into her home and screamed in shock as a house full of people hiding surprised her. "Fuck!" She shouted being taken back. She angrily turned to Sakura, her face as red as the pink head while they were in the car. "Why didn't you tell me I was going to have guests? We could have stopped a bought some drinks for everyone!" The house grew quiet. "Huh, I'm just joking!" The blonde laughed nervously. She was greeted by her friends and family, having to see her parents was the most heart breaking for her as she teared up and hugged them both tightly and cried that she was never going to drink again.
"So, where is he? I want to meet your boy toy." Ino winked with a laugh as Sakura walked her towards the two unknown boys sitting on Ino's sofa.
"Ino, this is Sasori." The younger redhead stood up.
"Ah, it's so great to meet you!" Ino threw herself on him, giving him a big bear hug. "But if you hurt my Sakura, I'll hurt you." She threatened quietly in his ear before pulling away.
"Uh, it's great to meet you as well." Sakura shot Ino a look of displease over hearing Ino's words to him but she smiled back cheerfully. "Ino, this is my best friend." A taller blond man stood up and she was speechless with how handsome he was.
"It's nice to finally meet you." His smile melted inside her and heart felt like it was beating a mile per second. "I'm Deidara."
*Present Day*
He could hear her light footsteps racing towards his room, he let out a light playful sigh and waiting for her to make her entrance, he couldn't wait to see how she greeted him this time.
"Dei!" The door flew open and a very excited blonde girl run in, throwing herself at the man sitting at his desk, knocking him off of his seat. "Deidara!" She cried out with joy and shoved a sheet of paper in his face.. "Look Dei," Deidara sat up with Ino still on his lap and read the paper. "75th annual art contest, held at the Konoha art and music museum. Grand prize 100,000 dollars and the winners piece hung up in the museum."
"Ino, what is this?" He carefully took of off his lap and sat on the floor with the blonde.
"Did you not read what it said? AN ART CONTEST, enter." He let out a sigh, of course this wasn't the first time the girl tried to get him to enter a contest and every time he denied it. "This time I'm demanding you to enter it!" Ino sat up quickly and carefully grabbed the small sculpture from the desk and held it flat on her the palm of her hands. "Look at this Deidara, your art is amazing and beautiful." His face softened at Ino's determined expression.
"Ino, I just can't. Not right now anyways," She placed the small sculpture back down and helped him to his feet. "I have other things I need to finish, school has me busy a lot." Her lower lip curled outwards into a pout. She understood that he was in art school and that it did take up a lot of this time but she also new he would win this because like she always told him;
"But your art belongs in a museum! For everyone to see!"
"Ino, you know I feel about that. I don't want my art trapped away in some glass prison. Art is an explosion!" Ino rolled her blues eyes, Deidara's outlook on art was different from other people's, he would rather see his art being blown up because that's when it's most at it beauty.
"Okay, I understand that but what about the money? You could use it for school and buy better material that you need!"
"Ino, now is not the time, I need to finish this assignment." She let out a sigh and let the paper drop to the floor before walking out of his room.
"Fine, I'll see you later." She stopped at his door, hoping for him to call her back but when she looked at him, he was busy with his work and didn't notice her still there.
Deidara let his breath out after Ino had closed his door. He was glad she was understanding but something was wrong with her today. She was stubborn always and would keep bugging him until he agreed but today, today she gave in to easily.
His eyes wondered at the piece of paper she had left lying on his floor, after picking it up he could no longer focus on this work instead on the paper in his hand.
"Why is he so oblivious Sakura?" Ino complained to her best friend. "I mean after that one night, he's been so different with me." Ino tried to shake the memory out of her head.
Ino's phone ringing caused her eyes to shoot open. It was too late for anyone to call her, looking at her screen and blushed at the name, Deidara. Quickly answering it she heard nothing but loud music in the back ground, sighing already knowing he had probably called her by mistake and didn't realize it she was about to hang up until she heard him call her name.
"Deidara?"
"Ino, I'm going over." His words slurred together and she knew that he was drunk.
"No Deidara, it's to late." She didn't need to see him drunk, that would just bring her back to her old memories.
"What? I'm outside." Her heart stopped and the phone disconnected. She quickly jumped of her bed and looked out her window and saw him walk towards her building. She grabbed a jacket from the chair in the kitchen and opened the door, finding Deidara outside ready to knock on the door.
He had this big smirk on his face when he saw her wearing his jacket and underwear. She pushed her way outside and shivered at the cool night that touched her bare skin.
"What are you doing outsidedressed likethat!" He stood closer to her, she could smell the beer on him and it made her stomach hurt.
"What are you doing here?" She asked him, her voice strained as she fought back the urge to grab the beer out of his hand and drink it. He took a drink from the bottle and looked down at her. Her mouth became dry watching him drink out of it.
"I wanted to seeyou," He slurred, bending his back to her face level. "I can't see you?" Her body got hot smelling the beer that he brought to his mouth and she couldn't take anymore but she continued to fight back the urge.
She pushed him away and turned her back to him. His playful laugh filled her ears, and his hand reached for her door knob, twisting it to open. He pushed her in and closed it behind him, locking it.
They stood there, his drunken eyes were hooded and they stared down at her but she tried her best to avoid them. He took a few steps closer to her and accidentally dropped his bottle and the smell filled her noes and senses. She ran to get a rag and Deidara just stood there watching her as she carefully picked up the pieces of glass that were now scattered across his feet and her floor. The smell began to make her feel sick to her stomach.
"Hey, stop." She looked up at him and then stood up, walked pasted him to throw away the glass she manged to pick up. "Ino," She turned back to him and swallowed hard seeing his face only an inch away from hers.
His lips brushed her, his warm breath made her face hot and then he slammed his lips on hers. She was over taken by how he tasted like alcohol and gave in but she felt horrible, their first kiss and Deidara was drunk out of his mind.
The morning rolled around and Deidara was no longer sleeping soundly on her bed holding her, he had left.
"Ino, Sasori told me that he feels horrible for letting you see him like that. Especially since it had only been a month since you got out of rehab." Ino let out a frustrated groan, it had been almost four months since that day Deidara went over, how long was it going take him to get over, she already did. "Well, tell Sasori for him to get over it already." Sasori soon walked into the room over hearing his name being sad. Speak of the devil and he shall appear." Ino hid her head in her arms on the table and sighed.
"Ino, Deidara is the kind of person who will hate himself if he did something stupid, he's also the kind of person who doesn't really care much about other people's feelings." Ino's eyebrow rose at Sasori's statement, was he trying to say that Deidara didn't care about her but hates himself for that night?
"Ino we're going to Sasori, let's go." And see Deidara?
"I think I'll pass." She jumped off the high chair at the island and walked towards the door. "I'll talk to you later Sakura." She grabbed her backpack from the ground and walked out the door.
"You know telling her that about Deidara made her feel worse." Sasori blinked at Sakura unknowing it was going to have a bad effect on Ino.