Chapter 16

The house was crowded, which amazed me since the house was so big that I could not imagine that one person knew enough people to fill out so much space. Hidan did apparently, but on the other hand, he had invited me and we did not really know each other that well so he was probably just the kind of person who invited just about anyone. Not to speak bad about him, though, Hidan seemed like a genuinely nice person, he just was not my cup of tea.

Hidan left me the second we got inside. He wanted to get me something to drink since he did not want any sober people at his party as he had so gracefully put it – not. So I was currently standing alone in a house I had never been inside before with people pushing their way through the crowd to come from one point to another. I looked around to try and find the best place to stand while waiting for Hidan. I had to get up on my toes in order to get a better view and I discovered a spot by a small, classy table with a bouquet of flowering rush on top of it that was not as overcrowded as the place I stood in at the moment.

I made my way over there with trouble, no matter how fast I tried to push my body in between everyone, the people around me constantly forced me to slow down. When I finally got there, I backed up against the wall and placed one hand on the upper part of my opposite arm, trying to make myself as small as possible. Parties like these were never comfortable until you had gotten drunk so that you did not notice the awkwardness anymore.

I looked to the left, realizing that I was standing very close to a huge black painting. Pushing myself a bit away from the wall, I was able to see what was on the painting. It was pretty simple, only a purple circle with an inverted triangle had been painted on the black background. It looked homemade since the paintwork was not even nor smooth. Some of the purple paint had run outside the otherwise plain line work. A 6-year-old could easily have done it and it seemed so misplaced among the other fancy looking things. I did not understand why I had not seen the enormous painting earlier on since it hung on the wall right in front of the entrance door. I just figured it was because of the confusing crowd of jumping party-loving people.

As I stood there, looking at the painting, I realized that I had seen that symbol somewhere before. I did not remember exactly where, but I was familiar with it somehow. I narrowed my eyes and cocked my head a bit to get a better view of it, but no associations came to my mind. I would have to remember asking Hidan about it later. That painting just did not fit into the bigger picture of the house or that glamorous lifestyle of Hidan's.

I turned around to look at the right. The great double door stood wide open, letting me look inside what appeared to be some kind of high-class living room. You probably did not even call it a living room in these affluent circles, but I had never been in a place like this so I had no idea of what else to call it.

A group of people moved away from the direction I was looking in, exposing what they had hidden behind them. It was an elegant couch filled with people. But it was not just anybody who were sitting on that neat, red couch. I recognized at least three of them; Asuma, Anko and Kakashi.

At first, I thought about joining them since getting to talk to Kakashi was the whole point of me going to the party, but when I saw that they were in the middle of some teenage game, I decided it was better if I just stayed out of it. They appeared to be playing 'suck and blow,' a well known party game that I had even played myself when I was younger. When I was younger. Why those grown up men and women were playing it remained a mystery to me since I the only reason I knew about for wanting to play this game was to have an excuse for kissing girls, something adults usually did without having to play a game first.

I watched as a new round began. It was Kakashi's turn to put the credit card in front of his mouth and suck in some air so that the valuable plastic card stayed in place. He then turned his head to the side, leaning closer towards the girl, who I did not know, on his left side. She met him halfway and put her lips on the other side of the credit card. Kakashi began to blow, but the girl did not start breathing in before it was too late and the card fell down on the couch between their legs.

This made me freeze in my place. There was only one rule in this game. If you dropped the credit card while passing it to someone, the people passing it to each other would have to kiss. My eyes widened a bit as I looked at the girl on Kakashi's other side. It was Anko. Would she allow him to kiss another girl when she was sitting right beside him?

Kakashi sent the blonde girl a sexually depraved, wry smile and looked into her impatient eyes intensely. She wanted him to kiss her, you could easily tell that. Anko did barely look their way, she was busy conversing with the big guy with scars all over his face who sat beside her. My eyes glided back to Kakashi and to my surprise, he was well under his way of exploring the inside of the blonde's face. My jaw dropped, I could not believe my own eyes.

"There you are," I turned around to look at the man behind me, my jaw still being dropped, "You look like you've seen a ghost or something, what happened?" Hidan looked at me questioningly as he gave me the large can of beer he had just gotten for me.

I blinked a few times before realizing that I probably looked like an idiot and finally closed my mouth again so I would look more decent, "Nothing, I just can't believe that Kakashi-san is making out with another girl while Anko-san is right by his side," I admitted, taking a sip of the cold beer. Both Hidan and I looked over at Kakashi who was still making out with that blonde. He probably would not have if he had not been wearing that double mask again – the one with the hole in it – at least I figured he would not have kissed her if he had to take his mask off completely.

"Oh, that's just Kakashi. He get's kinda slutty when being drunk. Anko doesn't mind, it's just a kiss after all," I did not know if it was okay for me to ask the next question I had in mind, but I could not hold it back.

"Is Kakashi-san the cheating type?" Hidan looked at me with a raised brow and smiled suspiciously like he was on to something. He could not have figured it out, could he? Had he heard us that night?

"Not really. He's pretty loyal, he would never do anything that Anko wouldn't do herself or that she wouldn't approve of. Why do you ask?"

"No reason, I was just curious," I tried to look away from Hidan, but I could see that he was leaning closer from the corner of my eye. He was smirking in a way that made me nervous.

"Did he try anything with you? I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if he had," I froze once again, staring directly into Hidan's hungry face. When I had finally come over the shock of his straightforwardness, I answered, trying to sound as honest as possible.

"No, why would you think that?" my voice was firm and controlled, Hidan would not get me to admit anything.

"No reason, I was just curious," he was purposely quoting me just to be annoying. We looked back at Kakashi who had finally backed off from that purple dressed girl. He took a shot after picking up the credit card and passing it to the girl, by hand, so that the game could continue. It did not appear like he was interested in taking part in it anymore. I glanced at Hidan who was still looking at Kakashi when suddenly saying, "He's a good kisser, though," I nearly choked on some of the beer I had just poured into my mouth and had to cough a couple of times before I was able to answer.

"Wh-What?" you did not just say stuff like that out of the blue. Was he trying to kill me or something?

He looked at me as I coughed again and my eyes went glossy, "What do you mean by what? You mean you don't know?"

"Know what?" I sent him a puzzled look as I got up into a straight position, struggling not to start coughing again.

"That I kiss both men and women," my eyes widened yet another time. These guys kept surprising me.

"So... You're like bisexual or what?" Hidan looked at me like I was some kind of idiot and shook his head.

"I wouldn't call myself that. Women are both for the serious and the fun stuff while men are all about the fun. I'm just open-minded."

"Did you ever... you know... with a man before?" Hidan started laughing and I could not quite read the situation. This was just too weird for me, but I was kind of curious to see what turn this conversation would take. Also, now that we had opened up to this subject and Hidan was an experienced guy, I would be able to pump him for certain informations.

"Kami, no. I never take it further than till around first base with guys. As said, they are just for fun. I like exploring, but I have limits."

"Oh, so when did that thing with Kakashi-san happen?" we were on our way out to some interesting ground. Come on, Hidan, I hope that I can count on you now!

"That? Well, that was a long time ago and we were drunk. He actually also tried to kiss Asuma once, but that didn't end very well for him. We ended up having to take him to the dentist the next day because Asuma had punched one of his teeth out. Poor bastard," Hidan threw his head back and gulped down several mouthfuls of beer before lowering the can and looking back at me. Did I dare asking him the golden question?

"So... Uhm... What does that make Kakashi-san?" he shot me a confused look.

"What does that make him? Oh, you mean sexually. He's straight. Straight, straight, straight. I guess he just jumps on everything with a pulse once he has had enough alcohol," yeah, tell me about it. Apparently I had been yet another one of his sex victims. It had just felt so real, like he really meant it, but on the other hand, maybe that was why he had been so forceful to begin with. No matter what, this still did not answer the question whether if I myself was gay or not. After all, I had went along with the kissing that night.

Suddenly, I noticed that Hidan was staring at me with a weird smirk on his face and it made me a tad uncomfortable in the kind of locked position I was standing in.

"What?" I asked, taking a small step away from him and hoped that he would not notice.

"You wanna try?" I knew what he was referring to, it was so obvious.

"No, thank you," the way I answered was a little too polite given the situation, but he had caught me completely off guard. I would have never imagined that the ladies man, Hidan, would be into exploring things with men.

Hidan shrugged and smiled at me with his eyes closed, "Your loss, but the offer still stands if you change your mind," he winked at me and snapped his fingers with one hand, ending the snap with pointing at me. I tried my best to give him a smile back, but my body had tensed up doing that last part of our conversation. I could not accept an offer like that from Hidan, it just was not going to happen, "Well, see you. I have to get another one of these," he held up his empty beer can and shook it back and forth quickly a few times before making his way through the crowd, leaving me to myself yet again.

I sighed loudly and tried to process all the information Hidan had just given me, but it was impossible to think clearly in all that noise. I had to get out for a minute or else I would not stand being there the whole night through.

People had gotten pretty drunk at this point so it was not so hard to get to the other end of the room where there was a sliding door of glass that let to the backyard of Hidan's parent's house. If I just pushed them a bit, they started waddling around or just fell, making it a lot easier for me to get through. I knew that I was not nice to push people like that, but I was just letting them taste some of their own medicine. At that moment, I did not care about all those unknown people's feelings.

When I finally got outside and shut the door close behind me, I felt relived and stood in my place for a couple of seconds before taking a look around at the surroundings. There was a stone path like the one in the front that let you around the beautiful garden. They had all sorts of flowers, trees and bushes, but my favorite thing about that backyard was that they had a pool. A clean, illuminated, chlorine smelling pool. It did not take me long to get over there and feel the water with one hand. It was hot – very hot. April was not a particularly cold month, but the temperature of the reflecting water indicated that the pool ran on self-generating heat.

Within a few seconds, I had gotten my shoes and socks off, turned up my trouser legs so that they would not get wet and stuck my feet into the relaxing water.

Man, this was heaven. It was the first time I had ever tried even being near a private pool like this one and the joy and excitement I felt when first laying eyes on it resembled a child's expectant behavior. I usually got like that when seeing or trying something that I had not had the pleasure of trying when I was still a child.

"Ahhh," I exhaled heavily and grunted happily when carefully kicking my feet under the surface of the water so that I would not splash any water on myself or anywhere else.

"It's nice, isn't it?" my body jumped and my head shot up from its lazy position, making eye contact with the person standing at the other end of the pool.

I cleared my throat and felt the heat rush all the way from my feet and up to my cheeks. How long had he been watching me? "Yeah, i-it is," I stammered lightly as I tried to make my heart go into a normal rhythm again. Kakashi had scared the crap out of me.

"Feel like taking a swim?" he asked as he tugged off his shirt. When the shirt was still covering his face, I was eager to see if both his masks would come off once the shirt had been removed completely. I was not that lucky, though. Apparently, the second mask was not attached to the shirt like the other one was. What a drag. But at least I got to take a peak at his lean upper body again.

"No, I think I'm good here," I looked down at my feet as I alternately lifted one foot over the surface of the water and then back down into it, lifting the foot as the other went in again. Carefully, I listened to the sounds the water made when my feet moved around in it since I was not really comfortable with the sound of Kakashi's belt dropping to the ground.

"Well, I'm not going to hold back," he chuckled and I heard how the water splashed when his body hit the water and I felt a few drops landing on me. I tried to stay focused on my foot work since I did not dare to look up at him. Supposedly, he was only wearing his underwear, which was not really that hygienic when being in a pool like this one, but that was not the main problem. The main problem was that I was only a glance away of seeing Kakashi almost completely naked. More than what I had already seen when walking in on him in the shower.

Yet again he was close to giving me a heart attack when suddenly appearing from under the water just near my feet. Quickly, I pressed the back of my leg against the wall of the pool so that my feet would not be floating around by his face once he would realize where he was. He smiled up at me and I smiled back the best I could as he swam closer, placing his arms on the ground at the edge of the pool, but still staying in the water.

He looked up at me. No, he was staring up at me.

"Is something wrong, Iruka-san, you seem a little out to night?" I shook my head slowly and looked down at the water – looking away from him.

"No, I'm fine, don't worry," I could hear when Kakashi moved around in the water, but I could not figure out what he was doing.

"Hey, Iruka!" he shouted loudly and so suddenly that I could not stop myself from quickly turning my attention to him, "Heads up!" he laughed, grabbing me by my arm and forcing me down into the water. At that very moment, I was terrified.

When my body hit the surface of the water, it splashed out to every possible direction. I closed my eyes and held my breath, this was probably not going to have a happy ending.

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So, this was the first part of the party. Second part will be up tomorrow since I'm done with it already^^

I'm seriously on a roll here, I update often at the moment, don't I? Yay, I guess o.O?

Well, I don't have much to say this time (which you are probably just happy about since these A/Ns always turn into a novel or something when I write them – sorry xD)

I promise some action and some background story on two of the characters in this story in the next chapter – which, as said, will be posted tomorrow..

Until tomorrow, thank you everyone, especially those who review. You people are amazing :D!