I Do Not Own Naruto

Chapter 21

Ino had decided that she was going to use the night of drinking as a way to get Temari to agree t going on the date with Shikamaru. Which was why she was eager for tonight's game as she looked around for Tenten and Hinata so they could start. She found them and grinned in delight as she darted over to them.

"Hey guys! Come on! We're going to have fun all of us tonight!" she shouted as she jogged over to them. Both girl blinked at her.

"What are we doing?" Tenten asked suspiciously.

"We're drinking, you're drinking a tea Sakura made you that's supposed to be full of good vitamins and proteins for the baby," Ino announced as she grabbed both of their hands and tugged them up and along with her. dragging them to the suit she grinned when they entered and Temari looked up.

"We're playing 'Have You Ever…'," Temari announced and Ino sighed as Sakura looked ready to giggle.

"No, no, Temari, it's I have never, not have you ever," Ino corrected as she took a seat.

"So long as we drink I don't care," the blonde countered blandly. Sakura chuckled, and Ino fought back the giggles as they sat there.

"How about we have Sakura start!" Ino declared.

"Alright," her pink friend shrugged. "Now, the rules are simple, instead of lowering fingers people who have done the implied never done event take a shot, everyone has three 'I have never; and then we go around the circle, and on we go, round and round until we have our first pass out or run out of booze!"

They all nodded and Ino grinned as she picked up her drink then.

"I have never kissed a girl," Sakura said, Ino scowled as she tossed back the shot and poured another drink.

"Sexual experimentation," she grinned at the confused look from Temari.

"A dare from Neji," Tenten chuckled and she did a double take of the brunette then.

"I have never walked in public without my clothes," Sakura said and Ino frowned at her friend catching onto the game, they had ganged up to get her drunk. Well, that was fine with her, but she had plenty of stuff on Sakura too!

The next hours were fun, and she was giggling hysterically before too long as she dragged Hinata along to dance to the music. She was savoring the bubbly buzz in her brain as she swung her hips in time with the music and moved her arms over her head and grinned.

A bleary thought hit her which had her bouncing over to a drunk Temari.

"Temari! Temari! Temari! Will you do that favor for me!?" she giggled hysterically as she skidded into the table, that was fun.

"Swure," Temari giggled with a hiccup.

"Gweat! You'rwa taking Shikamura, I mean, Shikameru, no Shikamaru! On a date!" she declared as she finally managed the name and grinned in triumph.

"Sounds," hic! "Good to me! He's got a cute butt!" Temari hiccupped and she giggled hysterically in triumph.

"Good, remembwer she agwreed Tenten!" Ino demanded as she yawned.

"Hey Captain Yamato!" Naruto bellowed when they entered the bar. Sai looked over to the ANBU captain and nodded in greeting as he took a seat. He was quick to order his preferred drink and enjoy chatting with Yamato when everything was shot to hell.

"Come on Sasuke! Get a drink!" Naruto demanded eagerly. Sai shook his head at Naruto but he didn't think dickless could see him as he vigorously shook his head to not push the traitor tonight.

"No." Sasuke snapped.

"Come on teme! It's a night out, a celebration that Team 7 is whole again! Well, everyone is here but Sakura…" Naruto said and pulled a face as he shook his head.

"I'm not drinking Naruto," Sasuke snapped. Sai had to commend the traitor for not bowing to Naruto's demands.

"Come on, it's fun! And nothing bad is going to happen! You're fine!" Naruto dismissed. Sai saw Sasuke flinch at that, and he shook his head at Naruto again he didn't know what would happen, but he did not think it was going to be good.

"Hey!" Naruto called to the passing waitress who cautiously approached the table then. He glared at the woman, and he saw Kakashi doing the same. "He'll have what I'm having!"

"Alright," she giggled nervously as she hurried away.

"Naruto I Am Not Drinking," Sasuke snarled. Sai sensed that there was trouble coming then as he wanted his equipment.

"Come on Sasuke! Just this once don't be an ass," Naruto huffed out.

"Naruto I said no." the Uchiha snapped and left. Sai tried to stop Naruto, but they all flinched when they didn't and it happened. Sai watched it all happen in slow motion as his friend grabbed Sasuke's sleeve, and the traitor spun around fast as lightning to slam a fist into Naruto's face sending dickless sprawling on the ground. Sai stared at the traitor and then Sasuke was gone.

"Ow," Naruto groaned. "That asshole! Why the hell did he hit me!?"

"You deserved that," Sai said flatly then and Naruto glared at him.

"I didn't do anything!" Naruto snapped.

"No Naruto, you wouldn't listen to your friend," Kakashi snapped and that silenced the entire murmurings in the bar. "He said no, and you pushed, you deserved everything that happened. Drinking might not be something good for his mind at this moment Naruto, think of that the next time you push someone."

Sai watched as dickless looked a bit ashamed then he too was gone and he sighed as he rubbed his temples. He didn't like the traitor, he had hurt Sakura a lot, however, he didn't want the man to be pushed like that when he was clearly very important to Sakura.

"If they come back we won't be needing that drink," Yamato said to the waitress when she came over.

"Oh, alright," she nodded and everything went back to normal as Kakashi and Yamato chatted. The entire bar tensed when Naruto returned with Sasuke and they sat at the table again. Sai knew then that they were back to being friends, which was a good sign in his mind as he slowly sipped his drink.

"Better?" Kakashi demanded of the Uchiha.

"Aa," Sasuke nodded and Sai took that moment to approach a very serious subject with the hopes of getting some needed answers since he hadn't had a chance to talk to Sakura about the matter. And there was simply no way in hell he was going to try to talk to dickless about it when he was almost certain that dickless was gay. However, this was important and he needed the answers.

"Kakashi, is it normal for women to never be quiet!?" he demanded.

"Yes," Sasuke and Kakashi answered simultaneously.

"Why?" Naruto asked him.

"Beautiful will never be quiet," he answered.

"Beautiful?" the traitor asked.

"Yamanaka Ino, he calls her Beautiful and Sakura Ugly," Kakashi elaborated. The Uchiha gave him a dirty look and Sai smiled in response.

"Nicknames build team bonds," he explained then. The Uchiha said nothing as he sipped the club soda before him.

"Yeah, and she totally adores the nickname, that's why she hits you every time you use it," Naruto grumbled. Sai frowned at him and didn't point out that Ugly no longer seemed to mind being called Ugly.

"Ugly at least does not balk over it, unlike you dickless," he said icily. Sasuke snorted and Naruto balked.

"What did you call me!? Why you bastard…!" Naruto started and Sai smiled.

"That's a better name than dobe," Sasuke suddenly admitted.

"Thank you traitor," Sai said and Sasuke nodded with a smirk as Naruto gaped at them both. Alright, so perhaps he could like the traitor, Sasuke didn't seem so bad now that they were relaxing.

"Why you teme! You know he just called you traitor!" Naruto bellowed.

"I am a traitor," Sasuke retorted and Sai kind of regretted the nickname then. "Besides, he a social retard."

"That is very rude traitor," Sai countered.

"No ruder than you calling him traitor," Yamato chuckled and they all laughed, Sai decided that the Uchiha might not be all back and that was alright with him as they all drank the night away. It turned out that after the initial fight between Sasuke and Naruto it was a good night.

Humming to himself he stumbled home, and grinned as he entered the Yamanaka compound. It felt like home as he stripped and fell onto his futon. Never had a place felt like home before the Yamanaka compound and he wondered why that was as he yawned and let sleep over take him.

Platinum, pastel blue, and dark purple all danced through his mind as he closed his eyes and hummed a tuneless tune he could quite remember and sighed. He didn't know why but he felt very at ease at this moment as he thought of those colors and let sleep drag him under.

Ino found the greasy food to cure her hang over before they left the resort and started home. She was rather pleased to know she had secured the favor from Temari. But she wasn't pleased to learn that she had stripped again when she was drunk but it didn't matter to her as she hurried up to Temaru then.

"Hey Temari!' she grinned as she bounced up to the older blonde.

"I still hate that I have somehow been suckered into a date by you with a guy, three years my junior!" Temari snapped at her, but she didn't falter. She wanted Shikamaru and Chōji back, but she couldn't have them in her life if they were only going to look down on her for wanting to be Intelligence.

"Ah, come on! I'm sure you two will have a lot of fun!" she grinned and tried to point out that Shikamaru and Temari always seemed to have fun whenever they were together. Even in the Chūnin Exam had looked fun. And she had only been a spector! However, she had never seen Shikamaru smile like that around anyone but Temari, and she didn't know how to put it but she had a feeling that Temari was something very special to her friend. Also, she happened to be the only girl Shikamaru had ever expressed any interest in, and she knew that made Temari special to Shikamaru in a way that probably wasn't ever going to be said.

"He's three years younger than me," Temari snapped at her and she rolled her eyes. Three years wasn't that big of a deal was it? She didn't see it as a problem either, Shikamaru was very mature for his age, even if he was as lazy as a sloth at times.

"Psht," she shook her head as she waved this off. "You two will have fun, besides, please do this," she pleaded.

"I said I'd do it, so I'll do it," Temari said sourly. "But I expect a detailed, thorough reasoning for me having to do this date!"

That wasn't too much for Temari to ask in Ino's mind, but still, she didn't want to explain her reasoning to Temari. No one truly understood the depths of the bonds of Ino-Shika-Chō and to try to explain it was pointless unless Temari married Shikamaru or something, which she doubted would happen. However, if Temari did marry Shikamaru then it would be shown to her, the depth of these bonds between them, until then though it wasn't going to need to be explained in full depth.

"Fine," Ino submitted as she rolled her eyes dramaticall.

For the rest of the trip she explained her reasoning to Temari who listened intently to everything she had to say. It was a different change of pace for her because instead of ranting, like she would with Sakura, she found herself explaining this to Temari very carefully.

The other blonde never ridiculed her as she listened.

That's all for now folks!

Enjoy Until the Day I Stumble! =)