9 – Drink

Wakefulness came slowly in the morning. Naruto stretched slowly almost cat-like before curling back into his personal heater. Ibiki was still asleep, his breath deep and even. Normally when Naruto woke the man would already be gone or, if Naruto was lucky, getting ready to leave.

Today however there wasn't any hurry – for either of them. They both had a day of and to celebrate this they had broken out some sake yesterday. Truly they had meant for it to be only a few cups, but then they had begun reminiscing their past. Talking about the things they normally didn't and it had felt good.

To finally be able to get the heavy memories out into the open and wash away some of the fears they had gathered. The memories would stay, as would the scars, but the irrational fears the two of them had would be enough to write a book about.

So they had talked, about the sad things, the funny things and the weird things. The sake bottle had gone empty and they had fetched another, to engrossed in each other to think about it, and more over they had barely been feeling tipsy at the moment.

In the end they had both been quite drunk and decided to go to bed. Naruto however didn't mind that they both had clearly had too much to drink, after all. Naruto loved it when Ibiki got drunk, because then he could finally top.

AN: Yeah. How long have it been now. A year? Holy shit it's taken me long.