"I guess we all have to chip in and pay." Said Shikamaru.
"It's ok." Said a voice. "I'll pay for your food."
They all looked around to see it was Iruka that had spoken.
"Alright!" Choji said happily.
"Thanks Iruka sensei." Naruto said eagerly.
"Not a problem." Iruka said sitting down.
"What'll it be?" asked the waiter.
"50 orders of short ribs, 15 teas, and some sake please." Said Iruka.
"Coming right up." Said the waiter.
He walked off. Iruka turned to his former students.
"So what's new with you guys?"
"Well, I was trying to come up with some new technique today." Naruto started eagerly. "I think I'll have it down by maybe tomorrow."
"Naruto, you couldn't even understand what kind of technique that was that you were reading off that scroll, much less pull it off." Sakura said.
"Yeah, the first few times the jutsu blew up in your face." Kiba added.
"Hey gimme a break. At least I was trying."
Ino started to laugh. "The first time you flew 30 feet into the air and ended up hanging by your underwear in a tree."
Everyone, except Shino, Neji, and Hinata (who was beet red), started to laugh.
"Seeing your butt was not a very pleasant experience, or anything I wanted to see in my lifetime." Neji said disdainfully.
"Same here." Shino said.
"I-I'm sure you'll get it next time N-Naruto." Hinata said shyly.
"She is right. You must perfect it as much as you can." Lee said enthusiastically.
Iruka smiled; it was a pleasure seeing and talking to his former students for a change.
A few minutes later the food and drinks came.
"Ahh, finally." Choji said. He snatched up 10 pieces of rib or so.
"Hey Choji, save some for the rest of us will ya?" Shikamaru said, annoyed.
"You snooze, you lose Shikamaru." Choji said with a mouth full of short ribs.
Ino rolled her eyes and scooped some up before Choji could eat them all.
Iruka decided to pour himself some sake, in a small glass. Lee was sitting right next to him.
"So Iruka sensei what have you been up to lately?" Sakura asked.
"Well, not much. Grading papers, disciplining the students, and going on missions." Iruka said, not watching where he was pouring his sake.
"It must feel good to do your part for the future of the leaf village." Lee said, drinking out of his cup.
"Well it does." Iruka said happily. "I mean wouldn't you be happy being entrusted with the leaf village's future?"
Lee didn't answer.
"Lee?" Iruka said looking over at him.
"What's wrong? Didn't you hear Iruka?" Temari asked.
Everyone looked at Lee. He just sat there looking down and not moving.
He suddenly jumped up, hiccupped, and giggled.
"Oh no." Neji and Tenten said standing up.
Lee swayed back and forth on the spot. Everyone looked at him nervously.
"Uh, bushy Brows you feeling alright?" Naruto asked.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME ASSHOLE?!" Lee screamed. Naruto looked bewildered. Lee had never minded him calling him bushy brows before and did he just swear? Lee suddenly smashed the table they were sitting at in two. Everyone in the restaurant looked over at them.
"Naruto get away from Lee he's…" Neji didn't finish because Naruto suddenly got punched halfway across the bar.
"What the hell has gotten into Lee?" Kankuro asked watching Lee smash another unsuspecting customer's table.
"He uses the drunken fist. Any amount of alcohol and he becomes unpredictable and uncontrollable." Neji explained.
"And destructive." Tenten added, dodging a piece of table Lee had just thrown.
"Yeah that too."
Lee let out a roar and jumped into the air and landed on top of someone else's table, smashing it in two. The customers screamed and ran. Everyone got into a fighting position. Lee noticed this.
"OH, You want a piece of me?!" He asked angrily, nearly losing his balance. He ran right at Kiba and aimed a kick at his head. Kiba ducked but Lee tried to punch him next. Kiba got out of the way and Lee's fist connected with the wall, which crumpled. Lee picked up the pieces and flung them at Temari, who jumped out of the way. The pieces sailed out the closed window and onto the street below. People looked up in alarm.
"What is going on here?" The owner asked. "Why is he wrecking my restaurant?"
"Drunken Fist." Neji said. "I think you should clear everyone out of here. Now."
Lee charged at Neji and began to deliver a flurry of kicks and punches to his body. Neji just barely blocked all of them.
"Tenten, a little help please." Neji said blocking a kick.
"Right." Tenten said, grabbing a scroll.
Lee got into his drunken stance and proceeded to lay waste to the restaurant. He overturned and smashed all the tables in the restaurant, ripped a banner off the wall, smashed the remaining walls, and scattered food and debris all over the floor. Smoke began to pour from the smashed windows and people on the streets began to gather around to see what was going on. Shikamaru attempted to use Shadow Possession, but Lee's movements were so fast and erratic that he couldn't get a good lock. As the fight moved into the kitchen, Lee became more violent. Lee lunged at Shino to give him a well-placed kick in the mouth. Shino jumped up on the ceiling and Lee's foot connected with a barrel of hot sake. The barrel's contents splashed all over Lee, who was standing in front of it.
"Oh shit." Said Neji.
Lee emerged sputtering out of the flowing torrent of alcohol. Everyone stood and watched to see what Lee would do. Lee stood there for a minute as though in shock. Then, just as Shikamaru was about to get him in his jutsu, Lee screamed and jumped in the air, whipping a knife at Sakura who deflected it with a kunai. Almost immediately, Lee smashed the counters and started hurling pots and pans and silverware at everyone who moved.
"Is it me, or has Lee gotten faster?" Tenten asked, ducking as a huge cutting knife sailed at her head.
"I think it's the booze." Said Choji dodging a fork.
"Obviously! What did you think it was?" Ino snapped.
"Now what do we do?" asked Naruto, deflecting a fork with a pot.
"I don't know." Said Neji.
"Well what did you do last time?"
"We just waited it out." Said Tenten.
"And how long was that?" asked Kankuro.
"Um, 20 minutes I think."
"I don't think that's an option." Said Shino.
"So what now?" Sakura asked.
Before they could come to a decision, Lee screamed and ran out of the kitchen. There was a horrible sound of smashing glass as Lee jumped out of a window. Everyone rushed over to the window in time to see Lee running down the street at incredible speed. People stared after him in shock.
"Ah crap. He's loose. Now what do we do?" said Naruto.
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