He had no clue about how he even came up with these plans. Last week, it had been Ino. This night, it was a bar and a few shots. The music was blasting out of the huge speakers and the people in there were dancing as if it would be their last night on earth.

Sasuke sat on a barstool and was leaning against the counter, a glass in his hand. He took a sip as he watched the jumping crowd, and didn't notice the laughing girl that made her way over to him. She took the seat next to him, put her hair behind her ear and ordered a drink. Sasuke didn't pay her any attention, until he felt her gaze burning on him. He turned his head to look at her.

She had long, black hair, but the lighting in the club almost made it seem blue. Her eyes were grey and she was dressed in a pair of black jeans and a white top. She waved to someone out on the dance floor and then turned to him again.

"Hi. I'm sorry to bother you, but, you're Sasuke Uchiha, right?"

He didn't really have the energy to deal with any girls that night, but since she hadn't clinged to his arm with a crazy smile on her lips yet, he decided to give her a chance to leave with her dignity intact.

"Yea, that's me."

He saw a gentle and cute smile spread across her lips as she shifted to reach for his hand.

"I'm Hinata. Or, maybe Hyuga would be a better name to introduce myself with."

Sasuke blinked for a few seconds before he grabbed and shook her hand, smirking. He tried his best to see the little girl he remembered meeting years ago, but Hinata sure had grown up.

"Hi, Hinata. Sorry I didn't recognize you, it's been a while since we last met."

She took the drink being handed to her and nodded.

"Yea, almost three years now."

They both took a drink from their glasses.

"My cousin is here somewhere, as well. I'm sure you remember him."

Sasuke nodded and tried to spot the other Hyuga in the dancing crowd, without success. He turned back to Hinata.

"I'm guessing you went to the meeting in Florida last week?"

She smiled.

"Yes, we both did. You know our dads; they're all about us succeeding the business."

He chuckled and nodded. Oh yes, he knew about all that. They all, more or less, ignored the possibility that some of their kids would want to do something else with their lives. Sure, it was good to know that they all could have the security of the two huge companies, but, still.

His thoughts was interrupted when the cousin came stumbling towards them, a girl following behind him. Sasuke stood up to greet the other Hyuga successor.

"Hey, Neji. It's good to see you again."

Hinata smiled and put her drink on the counter.

"You remember Sasuke, right?"

Neji blinked towards them both, and Sasuke realized that he probably had had a few drinks. It was kind of amusing to actually see that stiff guy letting it loose.

"Oh yea, of course I remember! Hi Sasuke."

Neji chuckled and shook hands with the raven, and then turned towards the girl that was standing beside him.

"Sasuke, this is Tenten. Tenten, meet Sasuke Uchiha."

They shook hands and greeted each other before Neji leaned against the girl. She rolled her eyes with a smile.

"I'm, obviously, the driver tonight."

They shared a few laughs and talked about old memories, mainly involving their parents and their businesses. Eventually, they found an empty table and settled down before ordering a couple of more drinks.

"So, how are things? You and your brother didn't attend to the meeting."

Sasuke nodded.

"We got to stay home, since we wouldn't meet any new people if we went, anyway."

The cousins shared a look before glancing back to Sasuke. He raised his eyebrows.

"So, have you heard the good news?"

He slowly shook his head.

"I… guess not. What good news?"

Neji grabbed his drink, cleared his throat and raised the glass for a toast.

"From august and on, both our family businesses will become one!"

Sasuke blinked before a genuine smile spread across his lips. Actually, that was good news. Great, even! The merging of the Uchiha Industries and the Hyuga Corporation would not only be a huge success; it also meant that he got to meet the Hyugas a lot more often, and truth to be told, he didn't mind spending some time with such sensible people.

"And…"

Sasuke looked at Hinata.

"We'll be transferring to Europe! Well, we won't, but a part of the business will."

Sasuke chuckled, grabbed his glass and raised it to join the toast. This had been too much to hope for, but now that it had finally happened, Sasuke felt some kind of relief. Maybe his father would stop taking the work home all the time, and just trust that the Corporation could run without him taking the wheel all the time.

"And by Europe, that will include what countries?"

He took a sip of his drink.

"To a start, that includes Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Denmark and Sweden. We're required to go there a lot this year; meetings, dinners and such. But I'm not complaining."

Sasuke almost choked on the liquid.

Sasuke didn't even notice that he felt a bit sick, he was still shocked about the news. He was sitting in the kitchen with a glass of water in a try to prevent the hangover he probably would have to experience in the morning.

He was a bit irritated with his parents. They hadn't told him or his brother about all the decisions that were made at the meeting in Florida. Then again, they had arrived in New York just two days earlier. Maybe he could forgive them. Eventually.

He emptied the glass in the sink and made his way upstairs and entered his room. The faint scent of chlorine made him grimace. Why did his mother have to clean his bathroom today? He stumbled across the room and sat down at his bed with a relieved sigh, glad that he actually had made it all the way from the club and to his bed without falling. The one time when Neji had grabbed his arm and dragged him down with him didn't count.

He reached for his phone in his pocket, opened his and Naruto's conversation and focused on writing without seeming drunk.

"Guess what."

He didn't even have time to put the phone down before it beeped and blinked Naruto's name.

"Dude, guess what!"

Sasuke smiled and started typing an answer, but got interrupted once again.

"Jinx, you owe me a soda!"

He held in a laugh and cleared his throat, blinking to see the buttons on the phone clearly.

"I have no idea. You got pushed into the water and when you got up, your phone had turned into an iPad?"

Sasuke pressed send and slowly made his way to the bathroom. He washed his face and brushed his teeth, wanting the taste of alcohol gone. He did not look forward to waking up the next morning; he would almost certainly end up in bed all day with a headache from hell.

He heard the beeping sound again and walked back into his room, grabbing the phone and then read the new message.

He gritted his teeth. Oh how he wanted to shoot the blonde. No, he didn't want to shoot him; he wanted to shoot his girlfriend. And then he wanted to place and set off a fucking nuclear bomb in Naruto's mouth, then revive the guy and do it over and over.

He took a deep breath and read the text again.

"I just proposed to Sakura and she said yes! How awesome is that!"

Sasuke clenched his fist, the phone still in his hand. He was grateful that he could control himself as much as he did, because if he couldn't, he would have crushed the phone right there and then. In fact, he probably would've raged, crushed the phone and then borrowed Itachi's cell just to call the guy and yell at him for being so fucking dumb. Seriously, who gets engaged when they're twenty years old?

Sasuke ignored the fact that he could think of at least four couples he knew that had gotten engaged at that age, and then lived happily with each other. This was different. This was Naruto, wasting his life on this… this girl.

He took another deep breath and then turned back to the phone.

"And why aren't you celebrating instead of texting me?"

Sasuke sat with the phone in his hand and had no plans whatsoever to put it down until he got an answer. He could feel his insides boiling like hot lava. He would never get engaged at twenty, hell, he probably wouldn't get engaged at thirty! It was stupid and unnecessary and why the fuck did it take so long for the blonde to reply?

Sasuke groaned and fell backwards onto the bed and almost had a heart attack when the phone beeped again.

"I'm on it, just wanted to let you know first, that's all. Everything alright?"

He gritted his teeth and didn't really know what to do with his body. It was strange that something like this could get him going, but he had to admit it; he was furious. If the blonde was there with him, he would have punched him in the face for doing something so stupid! Like, really? He knew now that he wanted to be with that Sakura for the rest of his life?

He shook his head. This wasn't like him, not at all.

"Yea, sorry. I'm alright, just tired. Congrats to you guys."

He put the phone down right next to him, sat up and rubbed his face with his palms. He was breathing heavily and he got kind of irritated at himself. He almost never got this upset, no matter what. He always managed to keep his cool and hold his feelings inside, but this… It just bugged him, for some reason.

He picked up the phone when it beeped once again.

"Okay :) My turn. I really have no idea... Maybe your relatives came by for a surprise party in your honor? That would probably piss you off!"

Sasuke didn't allow himself to smile, and then, his thoughts started to wander. What had he been thinking, anyway? That he would tell Naruto that he probably would go to Sweden sometime during this summer? That maybe they could meet up and grab something to eat together? And then what? Naruto would bring that Sakura girl and introduce her as his fiancée?

He sighed and groaned. He could feel that headache coming creeping, and all he wanted to do was to go to sleep and just forget about this night.

He tried to reply to the message a couple of times, and then just gave up. He crawled out of his clothes and got to bed.