Hey everyone, so this is my second attempt at a fanfiction. I've got all the time in the world really to write now that I've finished high school. So please read and review and let my know your thoughts on it. Maybe even tell me if I should just give up now? Thanks.
And just 'cause I need to do this, I don't own any of the characters mentioned unless they are just the ramblings of Ino or anyone else that could be gossiping.
It was just for one night. It was just for one single night, that's what she kept telling herself at least. She needed to have some fun, fun that she hadn't had in the past month since she had ended her relationship with a certain raven haired Uchiha after she had heard of his infidelity when he was away on a business trip. She took another mouthful of her cocktail that was a mixture of blueberry vodka and pomegranate juice, she was already onto her third drink for the night and she wasn't planning on slowing down. In the last month she had become accustom to having a drink or two, or twelve. She didn't want to think about any of the dramas of the past few weeks though, besides, it was New Year's Eve, she would have all of her friends around her and even some people she had never met before. She was glad when she heard that Sasuke wasn't going to be able to make it to the end of year party at Shikamaru's. That way she wouldn't be so tempted to try and mend what had been broken and in the state she was in with thinking about him all the time that would be extremely likely.
As she tied her hair back in a loose messy bun on the top of her head her doorbell rang and three loud knocks were heard at the door, she assumed it was just Ino coming for the pre-drinks before the party so she walked to the door in just her towel from her recent shower and opened the door right up for her bubbly blonde friend to come in and turned around to head back to her en-suite to finish getting dressed. As she got to her bedroom door way she heard her friend begin to discuss the latest gossip that she had heard in the last day, even repeating some of the things that she had said the day before, sometimes Sakura wondered if that girl even remembered who she gossiped to who about. "So you know that Aimi and Iwao broke up, and now Hiro has come out to say that she always knew that he was cheating with like, 5 other girls, I mean, how slack is that? If I found out that my best friend knew about my boyfriend cheating I'd probably go mad." Ino gossiped away while sitting on Sakura's bed while she finished slipping into her skirt and tank. As she heard Ino continue her chatter she realized she was going to need more than just her alcohol tonight, she was going to need to get a new packet of cigarettes, something else that she had also taken a liking to since she had kick Sasuke out of her life. "I mean, how would a guy like that even land that many girls, it's just, like, wow. Sakura, are you even listening to me?" Suddenly Sakura was snapped out of all the thoughts that were going through her mind to the question that Ino asked her.
"Oh, sorry, I was just…" Sakura began to try and explain herself as she walked out of the bathroom, when she was promptly interrupted by Ino.
"Oh wow, you look amazing! I totally understand why you weren't talking you were just admiring how incredibly hot you've become since dumping that d-bag, but regardless you've got to hurry up, cause the guys are going to be here any minute for pre-drinks. I wouldn't be surprised if they we're walking up your porch steps right this instant." Ino said with a little knowing smile as the front door bell rang again. Sakura knew she must have received a text message off of a certain chubby orange haired boyfriend of hers. Before rushing out of her bedroom to answer the door she slipped on a pair of cute heels that made her legs look extra-long. As Sakura walked to the door she had a sinking feeling swell in the pit of her stomach, these people were her friends and although she had still spoken to them all when she was with Sasuke she had fallen out of touch with them in some ways. She calmly walked to the door to open it to the man who had captured her best friends' heart around the same time that Sakura herself had given her heart away. Choji was waiting for the short pink haired girl to invite them in; he began to wonder if it was really a good idea for her to be coming out tonight if she was already so zoned out with only people she was friends around he was concerned about how she would be around people that she's never even met before. Suddenly Sakura's face chirped up as if she had remembered what she was supposed to be doing and Choji made a mental note to talk to Ino about having her and a few others of their friends to keep an eye on her throughout the night. Most of their friends only knew that Sakura and Sasuke had broken up, but only Ino and he knew that it was because the scum had cheated on her, and he had only found out because Ino had consoled in him about because she became worried that he would cheat on her if he ever had to go out of town for some reason.
"Hey guys! Come on in, we're going to have a great night tonight." Sakura said with an over excited voice as she moved aside for them to pass by.
She gave each of the boys a hug as they entered; Shino and Neji were very reluctant and just wanted to get into the house so that they can start with their drinking, whereas Kiba stopped to give her one of the big hugs that she had seen him give to all of their other female friends but never her. She hadn't seen him in the longest, since she was always in the hospital doing her studies and he was always at the vet helping his sister with her business and whenever the group got together he always couldn't make it because he had someone else to hang around with or some other date to go on. As he put her down he leaned into her ear with the distinct smell of rum on his breath he whispered "Sorry to hear about you and the Uchiha, but he was no good for you. Are you using a new shampoo? It smells really fruity" He said with a toothy grin and his nose scrunched into a strange shape at the smell. As a blush formed on Sakura's cheeks all she could do was give a small shrug of her shoulders, and with that he turned to follow the rest of their friends as Sakura closed the door behind them.
As Sakura walk to where her friends were she shook her head at what Kiba had just said, Sasuke no good for her? Nearly everyone had been so happy about them; people had said they were the 'perfect' couple. She just put it down to the alcohol that she had smelt on his breath and just chose to ignore the statement. She walked into her kitchen just in time to see Kiba bumping into Shino as he was about to do a shot of some unknown spirit that they had brought along with them for the night. "Jesus Christ Kiba, slow down with the drinking, at this point you aren't going to make it to Shikamaru's. You're going to be passed out on Sakura's couch and she'll come home to a snoring you.' Ino said with a stern authoritative voice. "Besides, I don't think Sakura want you here tonight if there's any chance of her bringing someone home." She continued with a wink in her voice.
"Well maybe Sakura would want someone here to keep her bed warm until she gets home." Kiba defended with a big smirk forming on his lips while he searched for something to clean up the spill with in her sink cupboard.
"And maybe we should ask Sakura what she would like. Hmm?" Sakura said, surprising Kiba by standing behind him before he had realized that she had even entered the room. Which earned her a small jump from the Inuzuka and a chuckle from all her other friends that were aware of her presence in the kitchen throughout the remarks from Ino and Kiba. Sakura then done something nobody had expected because of her normally prudish ways around everyone other than her sexual partners which there was few of, she leaned down to Kiba's ear to the point of where her chest was extremely close to his face and whispered "Besides, IF I were to bring someone else home, why would I need my bed pre-warmed when we'd be warming it ourselves. Unless you're offering to be that someone I'm bringing home Kiba." She purred his name into his ear, which was when he realized that the smell had smelt when he hugged her wasn't her shampoo, it was instead the alcohol. If she is flirty with only a few drinking into her right now he was looking forward to seeing her later in the night, and he was going to make sure he kept a close eye on her. Just in case she made the same offer she just made him to anyone else, and that was when it hit him. Sakura, the sweet emerald eyed girl he had been friends with since as long as he knew had suggested that he could be 'keeping her bed warm'. He suddenly stood up as quickly as possible as not to knock Sakura down so that he could do something so that no one would be able to see his face that had become the same colour as his birthmarks on his cheeks.
"Sakura, where is your bathroom?" He asked with his head down and so fast that she barely caught what he had said.
"Just through my room" She giggled as she saw a faint red tinge before he dashed off probably in hopes to splash some cold water on his face to cool him off. "Oh, don't be too long, we're supposed to be heading off in a little while." She called out after him as she turned back to everyone with a grinning face and said in an overly eager voice. "Who's up for shots?" Which made everyone cringe at the thought of how this small girl was going to fair through the night.
Again, please tell me if it's horrible or too fast or even too slow. Sorry if there is any problem with paragraphing or grammar.
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