A/N: Wow, update after two or three days? I'm on a roll here!
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As promised, here's the party!
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"hmmm…..27 Paisley Avenue….." Neji murmurs under his breath as he traces a finger along the map in his lap.
I drum my fingernails impatiently against the dashboard of the car.
"Can we leave now Neji?" I ask as he frowns at me.
"If you weren't drinking at the party then you'd be able to drive yourself to and from the party!" Neji growls at me before turning his attention back to the map.
I should have asked Father to take me. Although he'd probably handle the situation even worse, when I told him I was going to be drinking he kept on lecturing me about choosing the right type of wines and not drinking cheap wines you can purchase from the supermarket.
'Drink with class, Hinata' He told me.
Seriously! If I asked him to buy me alcohol, he'd end up giving me a 20,000 yen bottle of wine.
Father can be so snobby sometimes.
Which is exactly why I asked Neji to take me. I think Father has this picture in his mind of people dressed in suits and ball gowns, trotting around a huge mansion clinking wine glasses full of expensive wines.
When really, it's Ino's slightly-larger-than-average house with plenty of tipsy teenagers staggering around to music pumping through huge speakers with beer and vodka in hands.
Neji's not much better than Father though, he continues to warn me about what to do to drunk teenage boys if they stand within five feet of me.
'Knee them in the stomach and leave a nice bruise'
Of course I'm not taking Father or Neji's advice. Personally, I'm not a big fan of wine (More of a vodka cruiser type) and I'll knee someone in the stomach if they're too touchy feely but not within five feet of me.
Eventually, Neji manages to find Ino's house on the map and he drives me to the party in his sleek black four-wheel-drive Mazda.
After a quick goodbye to Neji (ie. Slamming the door in his face before he has a chance to inspect the house)
I dash to the doorstep where the party seems to have already taken off.
Music is blaring through speakers and even though I've seen Ino's house before (When she was dropping Hanabi and I home, she pointed it out) it looks prettier now with fairy lights decorating the porch.
It's about 6.00 pm and it's already pretty dark.
I catch sight of myself in the reflection of the window.
I look a lot more pleasant than usual. I'm wearing light blue seemingly-oxygen-depriving jeans (skinny jeans are a lot more comfortable than they appear), a light blue v-neck tank-top, a plain black hooded jacket and black converse sneakers, low tops.
I knock on the door and Ino, wearing a creamed coloured chiffon shirt which is hanging loosely off her shoulders and faded sky blue skinny jeans that have silver sequins lining the pockets. Eyeliner rings around her eyes and she has a thin coat of mascara on her lashes.
"Hina-chan! You're finally here, I've been waiting for you. Here, have a drink!" She thrusts a bottle of vodka cruiser in my hand and leads me to her living room.
Her living room is quite spacious, two black leather couches have been pushed against the wall to make room for a dancing space. In the dining room (Which is connected to the living room) is a long dining table which has been stacked with a huge assortment of snacks and finger foods, along with alcohol of course.
Everyone seems to be spread out across the living room, socializing, laughing and dancing.
Ino and I stand by the snack table, gulping down our drinks and nibbling at chips and dip.
"I'm glad you're here. Sakura are Karin have infested my lounge and they've both taken to glaring at me whenever I walk by" Ino rolls her eyes in irritation as she gestures to Sakura and Karin who have placed themselves on either side of Sasuke and seem to be bickering over who is going to sit in his lap.
"Why did you invite those two anyway?" I ask and Ino scrunches up her nose.
"Stupid Konoha High traditional rule. All cheerleaders and football players are invited to the football after-parties, no matter what the host of the party says. The host has authority over everything but inviting cheerleaders and football players" Ino explains and raises an eyebrow.
"What the hell are they wearing, anyway?"
We both glance at Sakura and Karin again.
Karin's wearing black leather incredibly short-shorts and a lilac spaghetti strap singlet with long black leather boots.
Sakura has a pink mini-skirt on, an inch longer than Karin's shorts and a hot-pink cropped singlet (Revealing her belly button) that has the slogan 'I'll chew you up', which ironic considering Ino and I sometimes call her bubblegum. On her feet are four inch cherry-blossom-pink heels that are probably a hazard to walk in.
Both girls shoot Ino and I death glares when they catch us looking at them and Ino frowns as presses the vodka cruiser bottle against her lips.
"I better start drinking before they end up killing my buzz"
"Ino. Maybe you should stop drinking now" I tell her as the girl scrunches up her nose and hits me playfully on the shoulder.
"Nonsense Hina-chan! I'm fine! I'm fine! Stop being such a buzz kill!" She tries to reassure me.
"No, you're not fine" I inform her firmly.
"Do you know what you need Hina-chan? You need to relieve that stress off your shoulders, you need to get laid!" She exclaims as she stumbles over, tripping over her own feet.
I wince as this comment as I catch her before she slams into the speaker system and start dragging her towards the kitchen. I'll give her some water so she wont be so hungover in the morning.
Geesh, it's only 8.00 pm and she's drunk!
I suppose that was her seventh bottle.
I've only had five drinks and I'm not a light weight drinker so the alcohol hasn't taken much affect on me.
I sigh as I drag a struggling Ino into the kitchen.
I dump her onto the kitchen stool and point a finger at her.
"Stay there" I order her, Ino simply giggles and nodds her head.
I rummage through the cupboards until I find a cup, then I fill the cup up with water and thrust it into Ino's hand.
"Drink it" I command, she frowns at the cup but takes a sip of it before spitting it out on the floor.
"This isn't my drink!" She points to the cup then storms over to the sink and tips the rest of the water down the drain.
I sigh.
"Ino! Stop making this so difficult!" I whine as Ino's frowns at me again.
"You're stressed! I know what you need!" Ino raises a fist triumphantly and I roll my eyes.
"Let me guess, I need to get-"I begin to say before Ino interrupts me.
"Cookies! Freshly baked cookies!" Ino sings as she dives into her pantry and draws out flour, tomato sauce, a can of peaches, chocolate chips and sugar before spilling them onto the bench.
"I'll m-make the best cookies in the world for Hina-chan!" She declares as she dips her hand into the flour and scoops it onto the bench.
"Having trouble?" A familiar voice asks as I twist my head around to see Sasuke standing behind me with Naruto clinging onto his arm for support.
Sasuke's wearing the same outfit from the football game. Dark grey jean shorts and a navy blue t-shirt. I thought he'd try a bit harder since it's a party and all but I guess not, he still looks good though.
Naruto's wearing an orange t-shirt and black jeans with an orange and black wrist band clinging onto his wrist. That boy sure does love orange.
"Yes" I groan as Ino continues to scoop flour onto the bench.
He chuckles and raises an eyebrow at me.
"To be honest, I thought you'd be the one trying to make cookies out of tomato sauce and flour"
I glare at him.
"And here I was thinking you came to help me. I should have known you only came to taunt me" I growl and he pats me on the head.
"Sorry sweetheart, I have my own baby sitting to do" He gestures to Naruto who frowns at Sasuke.
"Shut-up Teme! If the room wasn't spinning so much right now, I'd kick your teeth in" He says, still holding onto Sasuke's shoulder for support.
"Don't call me sweetheart" Is all I reply as I seize the tomato sauce bottle from Ino's hands as she tries to squirt it all over the bench.
"I'll call you whatever you like" He retorts and I growl under my breath.
"I don't have time for this Uchiha" I say as I have a tug of war match with Ino over the bottle of tomato sauce.
"I could call you, Miss-Goody-Two-Shoes- I know you hate that. I could call you cluts, I could call you-" He continues to mock me and a surge of anger runs through my veins as I yank the tomato sauce bottle away from Ino's grip and 'accidentally' squirt Sasuke in the face with it.
Sasuke stands there for a second, blinking at me.
"Ooooooh!" Naruto and Ino chorus as Sasuke's shocked expression morphs into a sinister expression.
"You're dead, Hyuuga" He growls as he leaps forward and scoops up a handful of flour and shoves it down the back of my top.
I yelp then retaliate by squishing a handful of flour into his face and into his hair, spreading the tomato sauce into his hair while doing so.
Sasuke unscrews the sugar container lid and heaps it into my hair while I grab the whole container of flour and tip it down his shirt before retreating backwards while he attempts to shake the flour out of his shirt.
He takes a step towards me and scowls down at me.
"Okay, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have gone that far" I apologise and he frowns at me before collecting a dollop of tomato sauce off his face and wiping it onto my cheek.
"You're lucky I like tomatoes, otherwise I wouldn't forgive you so easily" He mumbles then combs a hand through his tomato sauce and flour-stiffened hair.
"Ask your drunk friend where her bathroom is, I think I need to take a shower, you got it all through my clothes" He tells me and I roll my eyes and glance at Ino who seems to have given up on the cookies and is poking Naruto in the back.
"Ino, where's the bathroom?" I ask her bluntly and Ino blinks at me as if she didn't understand the question.
"Bathroom. You know, where you take showers" I clarify and she nodds her head in realization.
"Oh! That bathroom! Sure, there's one upstairs, follow me!" She cheers and begins to skip and stagger to lead the way to the bathroom.
While going up the stairs, I'm forced to hold onto Ino.
By the way that she was bumping against the hallway walls, I have a feeling I cant trust her to go up the stairs without toppling over.
We eventually reach the bathroom and Sasuke goes in to take a shower and dumps Naruto outside the door.
"Look after him until I come out, before I caught him trying to chat up Kiba so I'm sure he's pretty out of it" He orders me and I scowl at him as he closes the door on my face.
Oh, so when I need his help he says 'Sorry sweetheart, I have my own babysitting to do' but when the tables are turned, he acts like it's my duty to do him favours.
"Jack ass!" I mumble as I hear the shower start up.
I flicker my glance towards Naruto and Ino.
Luckily, both of them aren't violent drunks, they're simply childish.
Naruto's sitting there sucking on his finger while Ino is beginning to doze off next to me, resting her cheek on my shoulder.
Just as I am beginning to relax Ino's eyes pop open and there is an urgent expression on her face.
"Hina-chan, what are you doing here?" She asks and I blink at her.
"What do you mean?" I ask and she slaps me playfully on the shoulder.
"You know! Why aren't you inside the bathroom, you said you needed to go the bathroom!":
She hauls me to my feet and Naruto frowns at me.
"Yeah, you said you needed to go to the bathroom. Why aren't you in the bathroom?" He asks and Ino nodds her head in agreement.
"Guy's it wasn't me who needed to go to the bathroom, it's Sasuke" I try to explain but Ino creaks open the bathroom door and Naruto grabs onto my arm.
"What are you two doing?" I demand and Naruto and Ino give me confused expressions.
"You need to go the bathroom!" Ino says as if it's the most obvious thing in the world, she smiles at me and shoves me into the bathroom and I land on the cold tiles of the bathroom floor.
Shit!
I sigh as the water washes over my body. I've stolen some of Yamanaka's conditioner and now I'm rinsing it out of my hair.
I hope my hair's alright, it was really hard to get out the clumps of flour and ketchup.
Suddenly I hear the door open and Hinata is tossed into the bathroom with a horrified expression on her face.
She immediately spins around and tries to open the door but has no luck.
She pounds her fists on the door.
"Ino! Ino! Let me out!" Hinata begs desperately.
I roll my eyes, switch off the water and reach a hand out of the shower to pluck a towel from the towel rack and wind it around my waist.
Since she's a virgin, if I came out with my man-hood on full display she'd probably scream or faint….or both.
I step out of the shower and she freezes, her back is still to me but she's heard the water stops
"Sasuke?"
"Yes?"
"Are you wearing a towel?"
I smirk. With full intentions of making her feel uncomfortable, I tap my foot against the bathroom floor.
"Nope" I reply, my smirk growing wider.
"Then will you put one on?" She begs and I comb my fingers through my tomato-sauce-and-flour-free hair.
"Naaahhh….I don't really feel like it" I yawn and she growls under her breath.
"Put on a towel, dammit!" She orders me and I chuckle.
"I was just kidding, Idiot. Of course I was wearing a towel" I scold her and she twists her body around to face me, two hands covering her eyes.
"You promise? I don't want to be blinded for life" She remarks and I scoff.
"Blinded by beauty" I correct her and she raises an eyebrow.
"I don't think so"
I sigh impatiently.
"I'm wearing a towel Hyuuga" I assure her and she removes her hands from her eyes and breathes a sigh of relief.
I stride over the door and shove against it, hard.
It doesn't budge.
"Oi! Dobe! Let us out!" I shout through the door but I receive no reply.
They must have barricaded the door or something. I wonder what's going through their minds at the moment.
"We're stuck" I say to Hinata and she pouts.
"Stuck? We can't be stuck!" She says as she wraps her arms around her knees like a child.
I nodd my head as I walk over the towel rack and tug my shirt over my torso.
I notice that she's staring at me and I raise an eyebrow at her.
"I know you want to see what's underneath this towel really badly but do you have to make it that obvious you want to?" I smirk as she mumbles 'Asshole' under her breath before clasping her hands over her eyes.
I quickly slip on my boxers, then my denim shorts and she removes her hands.
"So how are we going to get out of here?" I ask as Hinata stands up and opens the window, climbing upon the window sill.
"Hinata?" I ask, she twists her head around and smiles at me.
"Follow me" She tells me and I gawk at her.
She's not going to do what I think she's going to do….right?
"You idiot! Don't jump out the window! We're on the second story!" I call after her but it's too late. She leaps into the cold night air and lands in the garden.
"Arrgh!" I facepalm.
She's probably drunk too!
I better go check if she has a broken leg.
I sigh as I clamber onto the window sill and spring into the air before plunging into a flowerbed, that didn't do anything to break my fall.
Hinata is kneeling beside me and I groan in pain.
I landed on my ass! Lucky the window wasn't that high, but it still hurts!
"Moron, you have no idea how to jump off high places, do you?" She laughs at me and I frown at her and lie back into the dirt.
Surprisingly, she flops down beside me, still laughing to herself.
I can't see her very well but I can tell her hair is splayed out in the flowers and even though she stops laughing, a smile is still present on her lips.
"Why are you still smiling?" I question and she rolls over onto her side to face me.
"You should've seen the way you landed. Your arms were flapping around in the air like you were trying to fly, then you suddenly landed next to me, ass first"
I cant help but crack a smile at this. Her smile is contagious.
"You should have caught me" I tell her as she rolls onto her back again.
"Yeah, just like you caught me when I jumped from the gate?" She comments sarcastically.
"That was your fault, you didn't give me any warning" I defend myself and she blinks at me for a moment.
"You would have caught me?"
I roll my eyes.
"Not then, I wouldn't have. Now, I probably would" I inform her absent mindedly as I rest the back of my head in my hands, by elbows jutting out to the sides.
She turns over on her side again and smiles at me.
"That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me"
I flick her on the nose. "Why are you acting so surprised? I'm nice person!"
She blows her fringe out of her face and scoffs.
"Then why are you always so mean to me?" She asks, sincerity filling lavender tinted eyes.
I open my mouth to say something but words wont come out.
What the hell should I say?
If I tell her I'm mean to her because I want her attention, it'll sound like…..I like her.
I like her.
That's why.
Because I like her.
I have no idea how that's possible, but I do.
I shake this thought out of my head.
"Hey, what are you two doing down there?" Kiba shouts from the porch and Hinata and I sit up.
"Two idiots locked us in the bathroom, so we jumped out of the window" I reply, slightly annoyed that Kiba interrupted my conversation with Hinata.
"Are you talking about Naruto and Ino? They're looking for you two, said something about wanting to make another batch of cookies"
I press my cheek against the car window and groan.
"Is your head sore Hinata? How much did you drink?" Neji asks and I shake my head.
"It's not that" I assure him.
It's the truth, my head doesn't hurt from the alcohol but from a mental realization.
I'm starting to actually like Sasuke.
No, not 'like' him as a friend.
Like him.
Are you freaking kidding me?
I'm using all the restraint I have at the moment not to bang my head against the window, if I did, Neji would definitely think I'm drunk.
For some reason I can't help but like him.
I felt so happy for some reason, simply lying next to him in the dirt.
Maybe it's the surprise that he can actually say nice things.
I wonder if he ever says other nice things and disguises them but adding insults to the end of them.
Or maybe I was just imagining it. Maybe I am drunk and I'm not thinking straight.
Yeah, I probably am drunk, who'd like that egotistical bastard anyway!
The little voice in my mind squeaks 'You' and I slam my forehead against the window, startling Neji.
I really hope I'm drunk at the moment!
A/N: Yay! Quick update! You guys are lucky!
The reason why this was so quick is because I've been sick for the past two days and have had an awful lot of free time on my hands.
Did you like the SasuHina romance?
Yeah, it's not as fluffy and romantic as usual romance fics but Sasuke and Hinata's relationship isn't going to be all flowery because that's not their style.
Anyway, hope you liked it. By the way, if you're thinking 'Why is Ino so random when she's drunk, it's not realistic', my drunk friend locked me in the bathroom and wouldnt let me out, so I had to climb out the window. She also tried to make pancakes and ended cracking a dozen eggs over my other friend's kitchen floor...don't judge her, she's a light drinker.
Review! Tell me what you think ! I love reviews, every single one makes me happy!
In the next chapter, problems are going to arise and things are going to get complicated.
Hint: NaruIno is in the next chappy
