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Author's Note: Why yes, I am alive. I just happen to be in college and not have any of my uploadable chapters with me. Sorry! Hopefully summer will be good for updates... For now, random Tsunade/Jiraiya drabble. I just felt like writing something illustrating how I feel lately, you know?
Sake
She swirled a finger around the empty saucer, the sake that had once filled it now seeping into her head. The familiar buzz soothed her tired eyes as the same old scene played out in front of her.
His arm dangled loosely around the girl's waist, both of them laughing at nothing. She could not hear them, but despite her inability to lip-read she knew the words he had whispered into the girl's ear.
His fingers would delicately push the hair behind her ear, allowing him to lean in close and whisper his proposition. The girl giggled, his words were warm and his breath tickled her ear.
The saucer was filled with sake once more. She drank it down in one swallow, letting the burning in heart be matched by the physical one developing in her throat.
She watched the pair leave, arms around each other and feet stumbling over nonexistent roadblocks. His eyes sparkling, like they had at her once so long ago. One last drink of sake found its way past her lips. She sighed, letting her forehead sink forward until it finally came to rest on the cool wood of the counter. The saucer slipped from her hand with a clatter, as empty as her heart felt.