A Gamble.
Sakura walked towards Tsunade's office.
All week she had been thinking of a Bachelor party for Hinata, Ino, Kurenai and herself.
Because none of them knew a good spot were they could hold a nice party she decided to ask Tsunade.
She knocked on the door of Tsunade's office.
"Come in." said Tsunade.
Tsunade was reading a thick book, and on her desk laid all different kind of forms.
"Hello Hokage-sama, I wanted to ask something."
"Please keep it short because I'm very busy at the moment." she replied.
"Did you hear about Ino and Shikamaru?" asked Sakura.
Tsunade looked up from her book, "Something wrong with them?" she asked.
'Wait, she couldn't come to last week's picnic because she had a meeting.' thought Sakura.
"Well Shikamaru asked Ino to marry him." said Sakura.
"Poor dude, no way Ino is going to say yes." replied Tsunade.
"Well actually she did say yes." said Sakura.
"She did?!" asked Tsunade surprised.
"They are a couple for eight years." said Sakura.
"They've been together for so long and no-one knew about it?" asked Tsunade surprised.
"Except Naruto and me no-one knew about it," she said, "By the way you're also invited to the wedding."
Tsunade smiled; there hadn't been a party in the village for many months. "So what was you're question?"
"Well I thought that a bachelor party would be nice, but no-one knew a nice spot for a party so I wanted to ask if maybe you knew a nice place?" asked Sakura.
Tsunade's smile grew bigger, "Yeah, I know just the right spot. Don't worry about the party I'll organise it, how about next week's Tuesday?"
"Ok I'll tell the others about it, see you then. By the way thank you for doing this." said Sakura.
"No problem." replied Tsunade. 'This will be a party to be remembered.' she thought.
"Being lazy isn't that bad." said Ino.
"I know." replied Shikamaru.
The two lay under a tree looking at the clouds.
"Just two weeks to the wedding." said Ino.
"Are you nervous?" asked Shikamaru.
"To be honest, yes," she replied, "What if I trip over my dress or something like that?"
Shikamaru grabbed Ino's hand, "I'm sure that everything will be fine."
"Well if you say so then it'll probably be so, you're always right." said Ino with a smile.
She crept a bit closer to him and laid her head on his shoulder.
"So how about you?" she asked.
"Hmm I don't know, I'll probably become nervous 30 min before the wedding." he replied.
"And do you Nara Shikamaru take Yamanaka Ino to be your wife?" said Ino on a playful tone.
"Of course." said Shikamaru.
He touched her cheek with his hand and gently kissed her on her lips.
"It's getting late, and I still have to cook dinner so let's go home." said Ino.
Shikamaru stood up and helped Ino up.
"You're a real gentlemen." said Ino.
Shikamaru smiled, "I know." he said.
"Sakura organised a bachelor party for me and the others." said Ino.
"Sounds troublesome." replied Shikamaru.
"Yeah I know, anyway did one of the boys organise a party or something like that?" she asked.
"No I didn't hear anyone about it, and I'm not going to organise such a troublesome thing myself." he replied.
"Lazy bum." said Ino and stuck her tongue out to him.
Shikamaru smiled, "You aren't perfect either Ino." he replied.
"Name three things about me why I'm not perfect." she said.
Shikamaru stopped and looked at Ino.
"Well you can make a terrible fuss about what you're going to wear."
"That's one, two more." she said.
"You can be so busy with your hair that you forget other important things."
"And the third one?" she asked.
"Well eh… I don't actually."
"I've won." she said happily.
Shikamaru opened the door of their house and walked in.
Ino sighted, "I'm not really in a mood for cooking."
"Then I'll cook!" said Shikamaru.
Ino looked surprised at him, he hated to cook.
"You're really going to cook?" she asked.
Shikamaru smiled, "Of course not, I wanted to go to Ichiraku's"
Ino handed him her wallet and said, "Good luck."
"I'll be back in five minutes." Shikamaru said while he walked outside.
Ino walked towards the bridge, most of the others were already there except Tsunade.
"So what are we going to do?" asked Ino.
"I have no idea, Tsunade said that she would organise a nice party." answered Sakura.
"Hi Ino!" said Tsunade who came walking towards them.
"Congratulations with your engagement."
"Thanks!" Ino replied.
Tsunade turned around to the talk to the others, "Everyone here, follow me!"
They headed towards a village three kilometres from Konoha.
Tsunade stopped before a village with a big billboard before the entrance; Game corner gambling.
Tsunade smiled, "Ladies please yourselves!" and she walked inside, the others followed her.
Inside the building some of the staff members were waiting for them to arrive.
"Follow me." said one of the staff members.
They were led into a room with privet gamble machines and a bar.
"Sakura had you any idea of this?" Ino asked.
"No, I thought she would just organise a small party or something like that, not that she would take us to a casino." replied Sakura.
They take a seat on the small table that was reserved for them.
A bottle of whisky was served, and soon the atmosphere in the room became joyful.
Ino walked towards Tsunade and asked, "Who's paying this?"
Tsunade smiled and said, "Don't worry about it; a friend of mine is paying it."
"Ok." said Ino and walked back to her seat.
After everyone had a drink Tsunade walked towards one of the gambling tables.
"Everyone who likes to gamble please join me." she said.
"What are we playing?" asked Tenten.
"Poker." replied Tsunade.
Ino liked to play a game of Poker and walked towards Tsunade.
Tenten, Sakura and Kurenai followed. Hinata said that she would join them later.
Tsunade gave everyone five cards and waited what was going to happen.
Ino had two queens and two kings and an eight.
Sakura was the winner of the first game with four kings.
The second game won Ino with a street.
The input became quite high and everyone was curious who was going to win.
The third and the fourth game were for Hinata who had joined in after the second game.
Finally the last game, the winner of this game could keep all the money.
Ino looked around the table, most of the other players seemed quite confident about their cards.
She turned around hers.
She couldn't believe her eyes; she had a royal flush in her hands.
Ino put almost all her money in and most of the others followed.
After everyone had put their money in, Tsunade put even more money in.
Most of the others quit and only Tsunade and Ino were left to the end.
"Well what have you got?" asked Ino.
Tsunade smiled and said, "A big street."
"Well, that's not good." said Ino.
Tsunade's smile grew bigger, no way that she was going to lose this game.
"Not good for you, because I have a royal flush." said Ino.
"What!" said Tsunade angry.
Ino took all the money that was on the table and put in her wallet.
Suddenly Jiraiya ran in the room and shouted, "Tsunade how dare-"
He stopped when he saw all the ladies in the room.
"Hello ladies." he said.
Except Tsunade, Sakura and Ino no-one in the room knew that Jiraiya was a gigantic pervert.
"Hi!" replied Hinata, Kuranai and Tenten.
Tsunade walked towards Jiraiya and asked, "Something wrong?"
"I was angry on you for holding a party with my money, but I won't mind if I can stay."
"Pervert." replied Tsunade.
Jiraiya smiled and walked towards the bar, "Who want something to drink?"
"I knew something was wrong." said Ino to Sakura.
"Still I think he'll behave himself, he knows that Tsunade would kill him if he touched anyone here." replied Sakura.
Ino and Sakura walked towards the bar, gambling made you thirsty.
"So what kind of part is this?" asked Jiraiya to Sakura.
"A bachelor party." she replied.
"Who's going to marry here?" he asked.
"I am." said Ino.
"You're the daughter of Inoshi aren't you?" he asked.
"Yep." she replied.
"So with whom are you going to marry?"
"Nara Shikamaru."
"He's a nice guy, I worked with him together on a mission. He's really smart."
"I know." said Ino.
"How was the party?" asked Shikamaru when Ino came home.
"We went to a gamble centre and I've won a lot of money with poker," she replied, "So how was you're day?"
"Not that special, I've visited Chouji and fixed some things about the wedding."
"Meow!"
"Cosmos!" Ino walked towards the big fat black cat and took him in her arms.
"Meow." said Cosmos again.
Ino put the cat down and walked towards Shikamaru.
"Who's going to cook, you or me?" she asked him.
"I'm not hungry." he replied.
"Me neither, I ate at the casino." said Ino.
"To be honest, I visited Ichiraku's with Chouji."
Ino smiled, "How about a game of Go?"
"Sounds nice." replied Shikamaru.