Night had set in, Katsumi was asleep in bed, cuddled up with Kenzo. A figure entered through her hallway window. Her bedroom door open, giving whoever, it was, a clear view of her.
"Neji." The figure froze and looked back down the hallway. Ibiki was sat in dark, on the chair with a clear view of the hallway. "Sit down." Ibiki ordered, leaning forward to pick up a bottle off the coffee table and pouring into two glasses.
Neji took a deep breath and walked into the lounge. Ibiki turned on the lamp next to him, the light set an eerie setting for Neji who sat down opposite him. Ibiki passed him one of the glasses. "Drink." He said before taking a sip of his own. Neji ruled out poison seeing as it was poured from the same bottle, before taking a sip himself. He coughed at the taste, whatever it was, it was strong. Ibiki smirked at his reaction to Katsumi's scotch. He knew if he didn't replace it however, he was a dead man. "Forget something, Neji?" Ibiki asked pretending to be curious.
"Uh, no." Neji almost stuttered out. "I just came to check on Katsumi-chan. I wanted to make sure she was alright on her own." He said quickly and Ibiki nodded as he took another sip.
"At one in the morning?" Ibiki asked with skepticism.
"I didn't know you would be staying, Ibiki-san, I was worried she would upset on her own." Ibiki hummed slightly and glared at Neji.
"You know, she told me." He hinted at him and Neji frowned slightly.
"Told you what?" He asked pretending to be curious like Ibiki had done before.
"About you stalking her." He answered bluntly. Neji froze in fear, he could hear the anger in Ibiki's tone. He was done for. "But..." Neji un-tense at the sound of his voice being calmer. "I should thank you, for telling Kakashi." He finished.
"I had to help her." Neji responded but Ibiki shook his head.
"Helping her would mean you went in there and ripped him off her." Ibiki hissed. "You just ran and let someone else deal with it. You're a coward." He hissed at him. "You let him hurt her and then you try to claim the glory of saving, all of it. If you had just spoken to her in the real world may be, she may have looked at you twice. If you had just walked in there and ripped Sasuke away from her then she wouldn't be in half pain she's in now. You are just a guilty as Sasuke in my eyes, if I ever catch you near here again, I will hurt you worse than you could possibly imagine." Ibiki finished his glass before starting a scared Neji down. "Do I make myself clear?" He asked calmly and Neji nodded. "I didn't hear that."
"Crystal clear, sir." Neji spoke up and Ibiki nodded.
"Get out and this time use the door." Neji nodded and ran straight to the door.
Ibiki smirked to himself, pouring himself another glass before leaning back and putting his feet up on the coffee table. Just as he was about to take another sip, a hand covered the glass. Ibiki looked up to see Katsumi with a raised eyebrow.
"Feet off my coffee table." She ordered. "And is that my best scotch?" She asked annoyed and Ibiki nodded, giving her a cheeky grin. She huffed and sat down. "Why is there another glass?" Ibiki just stared at her in disbelief. "What?" She asked confused.
"How is it you can hear me putting my feet up on your oh so precious coffee table, but you didn't hear Neji get in and leave?" He asked confused and she shrugged.
"Maybe you being here means I don't have to be on alert." She answered getting up and getting a clean glass. Ibiki poured for her in the now clean glass and pulled her down on his lap. "You always get brave when you drink." She giggled and sat side on so she looked up at him.
"I'll have you know I'm always brave." He huffed and wrapped his arm around her waist. She giggled and took a sip from her glass before snuggling up to him, resting her head in the crook of his neck. "I missed this." He admitted with a sigh.
"Yeah, me too." She whispered before looking at him.
She leant down and gently kissed him on the lips.
"Are you sure, you want this?" Ibiki asked as she pulled away. "I want us to be together, not a fling." He admitted as he ran his hand through her hair.
"I'm sure. I don't know why I didn't choose you in the beginning." She said as she looked into his eyes. He kissed her, gently, using his hand on the back of her neck to pull her closer.
The next morning, a pounding on the door woke the pair up. They had both fallen asleep on the armchair. Katsumi grumbled before slowly pulling herself off Ibiki. He quickly held onto her arm.
"Leave it, they'll go away." He muttered, trying to pull her back. Kenzo started barking and ran to the door.
"I'll be right back, maybe you could make a start on breakfast." She smiled and kissed him softly. Ibiki smiled back and let her go.
Katsumi stumbled to the door and opened up, covering her eyes as the sun blinded her. "Rock Lee? What do you want?" She groaned at him.
"Neji-kun, he's threatening to jump off the Hokage Memorial!" He shouted in a panic. Katsumi's eyes went wide in shock. "He said he wanted to talk to you before he jumped! You need to come quickly! You can stop him!" She looked back at Ibiki who nodded for her go.
"I'll take care of Kenzo." He said and she kissed him gently before putting her shoes on and grabbing her jacket. She was glad her shoulder bothered her too much to change. She didn't care if she looked like a mess right now.
She followed Lee through Konoha. She had given up on trying to put her arm the one sleeve, she didn't have time to ask Lee to help her.