Incadenscently

Chapter Four

Prompt: Lean on Me

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When he had gotten a call in the middle of the night, Sasuke had expected it to be someone from the station calling him into work for some type of emergency. He wasn't completely wrong. It was a call from the police station.

A tad bit annoyed that someone had decided to disturb his sleep so late, Sasuke groaned loudly at the sound of his phone ringing. What could the idiots that he called his employees possibly need from him at this time. He only left them less than three hours ago, they couldn't fuck up anything that bad already. Barely suppressing his urge to chuck the phone across the room, he pressed it against his ear, mumbling, "Uchiha Sasuke."

"Sorry to wake you Sir," it was Jugo. As he continued to listen on to what the man was saying to him, he could overhear a bunch of commotion happening in the background. Mainly a loud female voice shouting nonsense.

Stopping Jugo mid-sentence, Sasuke asked, "What idiot did you guys take in that's making all that noise?"

"Uh…," he could hear the hesitance in the man's voice. "I wouldn't say that she's an idiot, Sir. Just a little… drunk."

"And who is this she?"

The moment the three syllable name fell from Jugo's mouth, Sasuke was up and out from his bed in a flash, throwing a jacket over his shoulders, and grabbing his keys before dashing out the door. Starting his car, he placed the call on speaker. "I'm coming. Just keep her hydrated. Keep a trash can near by in case she throws up. I'll be there soon."

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With is being so late at night, there was barely any cars on the road, so Sasuke made it to the station in a record's time all while maybe breaking a traffic law or two in the process. Giving the guard up front a curt nod, he keyed in the passcode to the overnight jail room. Before he could even allow the door to close behind him, a blob of pink threw itself at his body.

Thanks to his quick reflexes, he was able to steady the both of them before they both went tumbling to the ground. Glaring at the two guards in front him, he shook his head in disappointment.

Looking down at the girl snuggled in his arms, he gave her a good flick to the forehead. "What did you do?"

Eyes completely glazed over, Sakura pouted. Jabbing her index finger against his chest, she whined, "Accusing me already? You don't even know if it was my fault!"

Suppressing the urge to roll his eyes, Sasuke took in her condition. Her cheeks were flushed red, her face glistening with light level of sweat. Her pink locks that he assumed was once styled and curl, was nothing but a heaping mess on top of her head. The highly ugly handmade sweater that she was wearing wasn't even sitting on her shoulders properly anymore as it was skewed far to the right, exposing her pale skin. Her mascara was starting to smudge around the edges but she still looked beautiful regardless.

As he allowed her to continue on with her rant, he could faintly smell the scent of multiple glasses of fruity martinis. Shaking his head, he draped his jacket over her tiny form. Fruity drinks and Sakura really didn't mix well. They were always too light for her so she would just continue knocking them back until her body would crash from the overdose, hence drunk Sakura. Usually, she handled her alcohol pretty well.

"How did she get here?" Sasuke questioned as he didn't see any other familiar faces in sight. He knew that she had went to a company holiday party with a bunch of her coworkers, who all happened to be their old high school classmates, so he was surprised that she ended up here instead of carpooling home with one of them.

From the corner of the room, lounging lazily at his desk, Suigetsu said, "Dunno man. A loud blondie came in earlier with pinky. But her boyfriend came and picked her up already. Looks like they walked here by themselves."

Sasuke's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets at the new found information. She what? Snapping his head over to the still ranting Sakura, he couldn't help but mentally face palm himself. Two completely drunk and defenseless girls walking alone in the dark. Not mention the station was miles from where the party was at.

"You're insane, you know that?" He told her as he bid Suigetsu and Jugo goodbye before leading her out the door. "Walking here in this state?"

"Oh, come on." Sakura grumbled, arms crossing in front of her chest. "Yes, I'm drunk. But that doesn't mean that I'm incapable of defending myself. Plus I had Ino."

"Was that supposed to give me some sense of reassurance? Because it didn't."

"I'm not weak."

"I know." He sighed tiredly. Resting his hands on her shoulders, he tightened the jacket over her body as they exited the building and into the cold winter night. There wasn't any snow on the ground anymore, as most of it had melted away over the past couple of days. But that didn't mean that it got any warmer.

Barely making a step or two out into the street, Sakura turned around to him unsteadily and pouted. "Carry me. I'm tired."

Her words had him stunned for a second. Sober Sakura would have never asked such a thing. Sure, for a while now, they have gotten closer with each other, to a point where Sasuke was okay with some types of contacts, but definitely not that close. They've had their accidental shoulder brushing moments when they're walking too close to each other or sudden knee bumps underneath the table. And once, he had allowed her to lay her head on his shoulder during one of their movie nights when she fell asleep halfway through. Those were nothing but fleeting touches though.

As he continued to stand there frozen, Sakura whined even louder. She even went as far as grasping his hand completely in hers and swinging it side to side.

Drunk Sakura sure made a fearless Sakura, Sasuke had concluded.

Sighing deeply, he turned around so that his back was facing her and crouched down. Waving her towards him, he mumbled, "Come on."

Laughing giddily, Sakura was happy to comply as she hopped onto his back without any complaint. Arms tightening around his neck, she buried her face into the crook of his neck, unintentionally sending shivers down his spine as he felt her warm breath fanning against his skin. "You're the best, Sasuke."

Bracing her legs, Sasuke began walking towards to his car as Sakura continued to talk his ear off about all the things that happened at the holiday party; who wore what, who brought who, who won the ugly sweater contest, who's got drama with who. Just all the gossip in the world.

By the time they had reached his car, he noticed that Sakura wasn't rambling about the party anymore. Turning his head to look at her, he found that she had indeed fallen asleep on his back. Which wasn't unexpected. Sleepiness would bound to kick in sooner or later. Shaking his head, he couldn't help but smile when he felt her tighten her arms even more when he tried to remove them and put her into the car.

Drunk Sakura was also cute Sakura.

{A/N}: Not sure if I had mentioned this before or not, but these chapters are not related nor continuation of each other. Rather, they're just short prompt based drabbles based in different AUs. Some might be canon too.

Anyways, hoped you liked it! A tad bit longer chapter. So review!

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