Although Temari hated drinking on the Job, she might as well have a little sip since they have a week to do anything they want. After a few piña coladas, she noticed the rowdiness shared between her, Kankuro and Ino. With all the laughs she thought nothing could ruin this moment, except not hearing Shikamaru laugh.
"It's been a hour" She thought before excusing herself to go check on him. She noticed he was still locked in the bathroom, but even through the door she could smell the lingering cigarette smoke. "Let me in Shika". Temari gave two little knocks on the wooden door before he opened it to reveal his face.
"Wassup?" Shikamaru said quietly as Temari pushed her way into the bathroom, trying to figure out what took him so long.
"I don't know, you tell me. You've been in here for an hour. Come have a drink with us before we head to bed." Temari pleaded with a pout look on her face. Shikamaru knew that Temari knew this was a for sure way to get him to do what she wants. And of course it worked. He knew that he wasn't off the hook for being in the bathroom that long, but if Temari was going to drop the situation for know, he definitely wasn't going to bring it up.
"One rum and coke won't hurt" Shikamaru smiled as he followed Temari out to the bar where Ino and Kankuro were at. Temari couldn't help but smile back.
Shikamaru had way more than one rum and coke. In fact by time him a Kankuro decided they were done drinking the entire bottle of rum was gone.
"Another bottle!" Kankuro screamed, trying to grab another bottle of alcohol.
"No, not tonight" Temari hurried and swiped it from him before he even had the chance to grab it.
"Fine" Kankuro's words were slurred and even he realized it was time for bed. Shikamaru wasn't any better, while his speech wasn't suffering, he did stumble into the room.
Temari waved good night to Ino before shutting the door. And Shikamaru was on his way to sleep. "Unh-Un, those are outside clothes. Go take a shower. I take one after you."
"We could just take one together" Temari could tell he had too much because this is the only time that he's blunt with what he wants.
"I guess we would get to bed faster" Temari could barely finish her sentence before Shikamaru grabbed her wrist and headed to the bathroom.
Ino was the least drunk one here, she could hear Kankuro snoring, and bath water running in Shikamaru and Temari's room. All she needed was a quick relaxing shower before heading to bed.
But just as she lifted the covers to slide into bed, she heard three precise knocks at the door. These knocks were so unique to one person that she thought she was hearing things. But it happened again. So she hurried and answered the door.
"SAI" Ino jumped into his arms before he could even say anything. "Why are you here?"
"Well um I had to..." Ino had cut him off when she noticed the rain dripping from his clothes. When they had initially arrived it wasn't raining that much, but Ino could obviously see that the week long storm that Shikamaru was talking about was starting to begin. SAI noticed Ino's worried look on her face and tried to reassure that he was okay.
"This rain is nothing to me. It's a normal job." Sai chuckled. Of course Ino knew that rain didn't stop a ninja, but it was urgent enough for him to make a day and a half trip in a few hours. But the ame rain wasn't like other rain, it was dangerous. It was the equivalent of sand storms in Suna...you could easily lose your since of direction. It was hard to see through the heavy rain.
And the fact that it was constant didn't help either. She knew that Sai coming here wasn't for his leisure. But it was late and was pretty sure that he was ready to go to sleep. And that's exactly what they did.
