Thank god I got a prompt that wasn't heavy and sad and depressing!

Found the definition (among other obscene definitions for the same word) for triangle as the perfect three-way friendship, aka team Gai. Let's be real.

This story is based on personal experience which I found to be absolutely hilarious.

Drunk Lee FTW.

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Enjoy!

Day Ninety – 19 November 2017

Prompt – Triangle

Summary – Team Gai is the best.

Notes – Modern AU, everyone's early 20s, in London for a vacation.

Word Count – 2132

Triangle

"Did you know, the term "triangle" can colloquially refer to three compatriots who are perfect for each other in every way?" Lee beamed at his two friends as they walked down the sidewalk, looking for a pub to get a bite to eat.

"I didn't know that," Tenten replied. "Why a triangle?"

"Because, dear Tenten, nobody wants to be a square, and if three people are a triangle it's the best possible combination and no one wants to ruin it."

"Because then they'd be a square."

"Indeed, Neji!" Lee hung his arms around the shoulders of his two companions, grinning like an idiot who'd figured out the greatest secret of the universe.

"So we're a triangle, is what you're saying," Neji looked over at Lee even as he laughed.

"That is exactly what I am saying! We are perfect for each other!"

"Well, you're not wrong," Tenten pulled out her phone to check their location on the map. "We should be close. Everyone still wanting the classic fish n' chips? It's a London staple."

Before Neji could raise his hand and say something, Lee surged forward and made a fist, punching it in the air. "There is no way we are leaving London without eating its classic dish!"

Even though Neji was about to remind Lee (as he did every time, it seemed) that he didn't indulge in junk food, he let his hand drop and sighed in exasperation. Who was he to try to temper his friend's enthusiasm? It was true, Lee got a bit overbearing at times, but for him he always made an effort to include him in everything did, including autumn trips to London, apparently.

When Lee ducked rushed ahead and ducked into the pub that they were destined for, Tenten bumped him with her elbow and smiled at him. "He's a little nuts, isn't he?"

Neji adjusted the beanie on his head and tucked an errant strand of hair behind his shoulder. "It's just Lee. You know how he is." She weaved her arm with his and leaned her head on his shoulder, her pink cheeks and nose standing out brightly in the dreary afternoon. He blinked his icy eyes and snuck a quick kiss on her forehead before they too entered the pub.

It was rather quiet inside, given the tourist season was now at an end, and the barkeep welcomed them in thick Cockney and told them to sit where they liked. Of course, Lee had already seated himself at a window overlooking the river and was patiently waiting for their arrival.

"You have to order food and drinks at the bar. London is very big on ciders, so everyone should order one with their dinner!" Lee exclaimed.

"We will, Lee," Tenten laughed. "Don't worry, we're not going to miss out on the London experience."

Neji chuckled under his breath as Lee bounded to the bar and began animatedly speaking with the barkeep, snips of their conversation echoing throughout the room. Neji shrugged out of his overcoat and rolled up the sleeves on his shirt and straightened his vest. "I feel so odd going to a bar dressed like we're going to meet the Queen," he commented to Tenten.

"Well Lee wouldn't let us go back to the room and change, so we didn't have a choice," she said. She was dressed in slacks and a nice shirt and was brushing drops of rain off her pants. "The play was phenomenal though, I really enjoyed it."

"I agree," he replied, and offered his hand to hold as they also made their way up to the bar to order. Tenten ordered their seasonal pumpkin cider (which Neji wrinkled his nose at, he hated pumpkin) and he'd ordered a pear cider, something much more palatable.

Lee was furiously downing his own mug when they sat back down. Damn, he's just so intense with everything, Tenten thought.

"Slow down, Lee, or we're going to have to drag you to the subway after we're done."

"In London they call it the "tube," Neji." Lee retorted. "Also, I promise I can hold my liquor."

"We know you can't," Tenten said flatly.

Lee laughed because he most definitely knew that he couldn't hold his liquor either, but they were on vacation! A vacation with their best friends who they'd been inseparable from since they were twelve years old in school. They'd followed each other through high school and college and were now celebrating their graduation and the start of new lives.

"We'll take care of him, Ten." Neji told her. "We are on vacation, after all. Even a lightweight like Lee has to enjoy himself somehow."

"You take that back!" Lee shouted, but Neji only leaned back and smirked.

"You drink one mug of that stuff and you'll be done for the night. It'll take me at least four to get to that same point, Lee."

"You are wrong! I swear that I will match you drink-for-drink tonight!"

"Guys, I don't think that's a great idea," Tenten spoke up softly. Why am I always the voice of reason here?

"You won't keep up," Neji retorted, crossing his arms across his chest.

"Then I dare you to get as drunk as I will be after this drink! You won't!"

This struck a chord in Neji; Tenten saw the expression in his face. His eyebrows quirked as he tried to ignore the challenge, but Lee was always going on about how Neji was his rival and that he was one day going to surpass him in terms of money and status and education. That rivalry spanned every facet of their friendship, down to drinking, it seemed.

"You guys are going to kill me…" she sighed when Neji grinned and clacked his mug against Lee's.

"You're on, buddy," he said, and promptly took a handful of huge draughts out of his own cider.

When the crispy fish and chips were placed on the table, Lee was well on his way to blacking out, and Neji had finished two mugs and was halfway through a third. It seemed to be a gargantuan effort to finish the food and Tenten didn't think they even tasted what they ate (whenever she was drinking she couldn't taste anything, anyways). By the time the plates were cleared away, Lee had managed to work halfway through a second mug and Neji had drowned five.

"You two are going to be the end of me," she grumbled as her companions stumbled out into the street without their coats, Neji tugging on Lee's cashmere sweater and tugging loose his tie. Neji's vest had somehow become unbuttoned and one sleeve had slipped down to his wrist.

"Thank you," Tenten called as she gathered their things and prepared herself to herd them onto the subway.

"Tenten!" Neji beamed at her. "Thank you for m- coat!" He slurred the sentence as he took his jacket and hat from her and struggled to figure out where the arm holes were.

Lee slouched against the building, cheeks flushed and eyes wide. "Tenten! Look at the bridge!" He pointed to the London bridge which stared down disapprovingly at them. "It's so huge!"

"I know, Lee. Get your jacket on so we can go back to the room." She shoved his coat in his direction and he draped it over his shoulders, not even trying to put the garment on.

Tenten grabbed Neji by the hand and wrapped an arm around Lee and made her way to the nearest station, laughing to herself as she watched Lee and Neji stumble along drunkenly over the cobblestones. They had to slouch against the wall of the train as they rode the handful of stops to their rented apartment. By then, both Lee and Neji were singing Christmas carols (of all things!) obnoxiously down the neighborhood street, and no amount of begging would get them to shut up.

"Get inside you two," Tenten said, and herded them to the door. Lee made it over the threshold successfully, but Neji managed to catch the lip of his oxfords on the frame and fell face-first into the foray. On the way down he caught his cheek on the corner of the baseboards, and he came away numbly holding his nose as blood dripped down his jaw into his shirt.

"Christ, Neji, really?" Tenten grumbled as she grabbed a paper towel to hold to his cheek, handing it down to him where he still sat on the floor. Lee was in hysterics, pointing and laughing and hardly able to contain his mirth.

"Shut up, ass." Neji grumbled even as he shook with his own laughter.

"Oh Neji, you looked ridiculous!" Lee doubled over with another fit of laughter as Tenten approached with a small first aid kit.

"Let me see it," she told him, and took his hand away from the gash.

"Kiss him, Tenten!" Lee chanted in the background still reveling in hilarity. She tsked her tongue as her cheeks flamed. They'd never kissed in front of someone else.

"I'm looking at his face, Lee," she snapped. The cut was small and didn't look particularly deep, thankfully. "I don't think it'll need stitches, but you definitely need a bandage on that."

"I'll give you something to bandage," Neji said rather jokingly as he placed his hands behind his head, trying to puff his chest out.

"Shove off, Neji," Tenten said, though she was smiling at his antics. In a few deft movements she'd covered the cut with a couple steri-strips and taped a square of gauze firmly against them. "You'll probably have a bruise in the morning, if I had to guess."

"Kiss it better?" He pouted, sticking his lip out, and she gave him a playful slap on the chest.

"Lee, where are you?" She asked. The answer came when a series of heavy thumps came from his room, and Tenten sighed and stood. "Go get your pajamas on, I'll be right back."

Lee had managed to turn himself upside down between the bed and the wall wearing nothing but his underwear. "I need help, please!" He screamed.

"Quiet down, Lee!" She told him as she wrapped her arms around his torso and hauled him onto the sheets. "Honestly, how did you do that?"

Lee wobbled and laughed to himself as he tried to slide a pair of flannel pants on, but was met with limited success. He could hardly sit up without assistance, much less dress himself. It was a miracle that he'd managed to get out of his clothing in the first place.

"Let me help you, idiot," she said as she helped him hike his pants up over his hips while Lee fell into the bed and looked drunkenly at the ceiling, still giggling to himself.

"You're the best, dear Tenten," he said, and gave her the goofiest smile she'd ever seen. It was then that she remembered just how much she cared for him and why they were best friends.

"I know I am," she replied. "I'm going to go help Neji."

"Give him a big smooch for me!" He chided!"

Tenten blushed and frowned. "I don't th-"

"The party's just arrived, bitches!" Neji careened into the room, shirtless in his own pajama pants, hair flying everywhere as he landed right next to Lee, who burst into a fit of renewed laughter at the sight of Neji flying through the air. The impact nearly tossed Lee onto the floor again, and as Tenten stood to leave (and hopefully distance herself from any sort of drunken tomfoolery) Neji grabbed her arm and hauled her down into the jumble of limbs and hair. They were both howling with laughter and though Tenten was initially rather irked, she immediately began to laugh with them, tousling and roughhousing with them.

When they'd calmed down (mostly because Lee thought he was going to puke), she went and changed into her pajamas and grabbed two glasses and filled them with water. One she left on Neji's nightstand in their room, and the other she carried to Lee's.

They'd somehow fallen asleep sprawled across the bed, mouths wide open. Tenten shook her head but was still smiling when she set the glass down and went to turn the lights off. When she poked Neji to help him to their room he only pulled her down with him again, between him and Lee.

"Cuddles," he said, and wrapped her arm around him, even as Lee turned and draped his arm over her.

"I love you guys," Lee mumbled under his breath, and Tenten tucked her head into the thick hair at the base of Nejis neck, holding tight to them both as they fell asleep.

Lee was right. The three of them were most definitely a triangle.

Go team triangle!