"Naruto, I thought we would sing karaoke!", Kiba yelled, "Next time you invite people to your birthday party, make sure stuff actually works!", he finished and took a sip out of his glass.
"Yea I'm sorry...eh, look, we can do something else", Naruto nervously rubbed the back of his neck with his hand and smiled with eyes open. "Anyone wants another drink?". Silence. 'Karaoke setup, why would you play dirty on me in my own birthday, dattebayo...'
Naruto frowned and brought his eyes to the floor. He didn't know what to replace the activity with. He invited so many people, and yet many were just having a chat, some people actively stormed his fridge in the kitchen, and those who signed up for karaoke meant the most for him. Those were people that he knew for half of his life.
There in a living room, on the left from him sat Iruka with Genma, then followed Ino and Sai, Shino, Lee and Tenten, Temari with Shikamaru, Neji and from his right sat Hinata (of course she would be there she was his girlfriend), followed by Kiba, Sakura and then Kakashi with Sasuke. All in all, full house!
Once Naruto left the karaoke setup alone he looked at Hinata, non-verbally asking her what to do next. Suddenly Kiba almost jumped out and with a great enthusiasm let out, "I know! I know! Listen to me people, let's play the bottle game!", Akamaru on his shoulder barked in agreement. As they all sat down in a circle, someone managed to drag Kiba down, "Calm down, you dog".
Sakura blushed. What if she had to kiss him? She was so lost in her own dreams, that she didn't notice how Kakashi, who sat by her other side raised his voice, "I don't think this game is suitable for everyone here, Kiba", he calmly started, "You see, what if I had to kiss, let's say...Sakura? I cannot do that, she is my student. Yes, you, for instance, you could". He sighed and stared at Kiba with dark look in his eyes.
"But Kakashi, I don't mind playing the game". Genma raised his voice. Sakura, as many others looked up at him. "And on contrary to you, I would kiss Sakura even if I was her sensei", Genma's eyes were locked at Sakura.
"Hey don't forget Sakura is not the only girl in here", Ino finally snapped.
"Hn", Sakura let out and took a sip of her wine.
"Maa, Genma, I think you would kiss everyone, if we are being fair", Kakashi answered, and leaned against the wall, both hands behind to support his head resting.
"Narutoooo! Hinataaaa!", someone burst out into the room, "Someone just broke your picture wall guys, you gotta come here!". Naruto looked behind his shoulder,"Awh, ma-a-an! Coming!", Naruto replied, put his beer down and got on his two legs. He asked Hinata if she would help him and the couple left.
After Naruto, the main guest of the night left, people also started leaving the room, especially that those who stayed were up to trying out the "bottle game".
Only couple of them were still sitting around the coffee table and at one point Kakashi was getting ready to get up from the floor, as Genma interrupted his plans,"Leaving?", he asked with a grin.
"Not my type of game", silver-haired man muttered and picked his beer up.
"Oh, I think it's your type of game". Genma's eyes shifted from Hatake to Sakura.
"And what would it mean?"
Genma sighed, "Let's put it this way: you are competitive enough. We could do that bet that we discussed before". He smirked at Hatake. If not the chit chats of others in the room, the silent staring between them two would be considered a duel. "Alright, you got the drop on me", Kakashi said rigorously. He broke their gaze and sat back in his place.
"A-a-and there it goes!", Kiba yelled and finally spinned the bottle, "Who will it be?!".
All eyes on the bottle, and Kakashi was praying that it wouldn't be him.
"Tenten?!", Kiba yelled again and everyone made a 'wooooo' sound. "Alright bottle tell us whom will Tenten have to kiss!", he continued. Although Tenten nearly lost her conscious when she seen the bottle stop at her now she was very attentive to follow the path bottle will choose.
"A-a-and! It's gonna be...", Kiba was vocal again watching the bottle spin, "What?! Me?!", he freezed for a second and everyone laughed. Kakashi made a 'whew' gesture and Gemma poked him in his elbow, "Eh, unlucky spin, Kakashi", he smirked at Hatake, "Maybe next one would be yours". Kakashi gave him an odd look and raised his head to watch Kiba kissing Tenten.
'Ah these kids...' he thought.
"O-okay guys", Kiba said with hearts in his eyes, "L-let's continue". And he span the bottle again.
Kakashi held his breath and watched it spin again. There might be a chance that Gemma is doing dirty tricks to the bottle, probably trying to stop it on Kakashi. And they both knew why Kakashi didn't want to be playing this game because if he had to kiss her-
"Wooo it's Kakashi-sensei!", Kiba yelled excitedly, "Whom will you have to kiss sensei?!", and then he added, "Maybe we will see you without mask? It has to be massless kiss Hatake!", Kiba yelled with even more excitement and everyone seemed to wake up from hearing 'Maskless kiss'.
Now, audience was in the heat, anticipating for the bottle to stop on somebody. Who will it be?
What felt Kakashi at that moment? Depression, disguise, despair and just his sweaty hands. It should be Genma's tricks, for fucks sake!
And the bottle stopped on Kiba again.
"N-no. No! NO WAY!", Kiba shivered and yelled so loud that everyone had to cover their ears, "I'm not kissing an old man like you, Kakashi-sensei!".
"As if I am all willing to kiss YOU, Kiba, spin it once again!", Kakashi fought back and drank his tequila shot to let go of what he just witnessed.
"That's not fair!", Tenten protested, "I had to kiss you Kiba! And I would like to see you kissing Kakashi-sensei!", she finished.
"PFFFT", Kakashi nearly spilled his drink, "Please Tenten, I'm an old man, forgive me", he muttered.
"A-a-and there it goes again! Tell us bottle, whom will Kakashi have to kiss?", Kiba gave it another spin.
And like a clockwork, bottle started spinning again. Kakashi had already promised himself to leave immoderately if the bottle stops on Kiba again, and he was mentally fighting himself for being in this room. He should have left and shouldn't have listened to this idiot Genma, who always provocateurs him to do dumb shit. 'What an idiot', Kakashi thought and poured himself another shot of tequila to forget this evening.
And then he looked at the bottle, which was at... Sakura?!
Kakashi spilled his drink. It should be Genma's trick for sure!
"Kakashi...sensei?", Sakura uttered and cursed under her breath, "U-uh I'm not sure about this, you're my sensei...", she said and looked up at Hatake.
Everyone 'woooed' again in the room and yelled 'kiss her!' In one voice. People were drunk and having fun, no one could care less if she was his student or not. Genma poked Kakashi in his elbow again and blinked at him smiling like a devil, "Later you will thank me, idiot", he told Kakashi quietly. Yeah yeah, it was him in the end.
Kakashi raised both of his eyebrows and finally said, "Allright, but I am a man of a privacy I will do it only on one condition", he stated, "We will do it privately where none of you kids can see me without a mask", he finished.
"No way, Kakashi-sensei, that's not fair again", Kiba activated again. "Yeah that's the point of the game to see you kiss", Shikamaru finally pitched his voice.
"I agree", Sakura said and blushed right away. "We will do it only when having privacy", she finished.
And with that Kakashi took her by the arm and they left the room. She followed him across the flat to the entrance door, and once it got closed, there they stood, just two of them.
Kakashi looked up at Sakura for a bit, hoping she would start saying 'Let's pretend we kissed' and they would go back inside, but instead she was just watching the floor around her shoes, as if Kakashi was a ghost to her.
He took a deep breath and said, "We can pretend we did it, Sakura". And once again tried to find her eyes with his. Sakura hummed for a second and finally met his gaze, "What if I don't want to pretend, Kakashi-sensei?".
Oh wow, unexpected.
"What do you mean, Sakura?", Kakashi didn't snap it. "Do you want to kiss an old man like me?", his eyes widened.
"What if I do?", she answered with a question to his.
Kakashi didn't know what to do. Once again he looked into her emerald eyes full with list and wishes, but he didn't know whether Sakura was drunk enough to say that.
"How drunk are you, Sakura?", he asked again.
"I'm not even-, Kakashi! If you find me disgusting or ugly just say so, you don't have to come up with come up with excuses every time!", she angrily answered.
"No, it's not that, Sakura, I'm just...", Kakashi didn't know what to say. What a dumb situation! He wasn't expecting Sakura act like this, and she indeed wanted to kiss him? "Sakura I never kissed a girl that wasn't interested in me, it seems to be wrong right now, I just respect you a lot", he managed to spill it out.
"Interested in you?", Sakura said with a questionable face, emerald eyes filled with lust again. She took a step closer to him, and then another one until she could reach his shoulders with her palms. "Kakashi, don't complicate this, let's have some fun instead", she whispered to his ear and moved her head to his, pressing her lips to meet his. Although she was grinning beneath their kiss and felt proud of herself finally taking advantage of situation, one thing surely annoyed her - his mask.
While tilting her head to the other side and guiding Kakashi (who seemed to be just as lost at that particular moment), she cooed his hands down to her waist, and tried to pull his mask down from the bottom part of his face.
Kakashi suddenly opened his eyes, understanding what was about to happen as he grabbed her by the wrists and whispered, "What do you think you're doing?". But Sakura only smiled in reply and licked his lips even through the dark fabric. Kakashi pulled back from Sakura, studying her eyes again. Maybe she wasn't drunk at all. "What are you doing to me, Sakura?", he asked again.
"Come on sensei, I know you have been into me for a while now, I always seen they way you look at me", Sakura whispered into his ear again.
"So what do we do now?", he asked again.
"I think you already now", was all she replied as she grabbed Kakashi by his hand and led him to somewhere he didn't know.
'I'm the one drunk in here, and I'm definitely going to regret this all in the morning' he thought.