Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, I'd be rich and I wouldn't be here.
Rules
Shinobi must abstain from alcohol, money, and women.
Neji snorts.
These people aren't ninja. Ninja don't sit around all day, drinking and gambling.
He deliberately ignores the fact that Konoha's very own Hokage, Tsunade-sama, does just that.
Well, at least she doesn't flirt and sleep around with random people, he thinks, disgusted, as he watches the rowdy drunks.
"Hey, Neji."
He barely glances over at the sound of his teammate's familiar voice. "Tenten."
"Lee wants to try out those gambling machines. You wanna come with?"
He turns around stiffly to look at her. "No."
Tenten gives him a pout. "Aww, come on, Neji. Lighten up a bit!"
Neji feels himself soften. He can't hold up under Tenten's pleading look "... Alright."
So they go, and Lee is ecstatic and convinced that Neji is finally reaching his Springtime of Youth. Slowly, Neji relaxes- even accepting a bowl of warm sake after Lee's left. And then another, and another, until both him and Tenten are, to put it simply, drunk. Soon- though he's not sure how- they end up kissing.
Neji thinks hazily that he's managed to break all three rules.
But, as the kisses get more heated and they stumble off to find a room, he thinks (in a very un-Neji-like way) that rules… well, rules were made to be broken.
Heh, whenever we go to Las Vegas, I alway want to try those gambling machines... but I'm not old enough...
(I just wanna pull the lever thingy! I swear!)