CHPTER 5
"What's with all the noise! I'm trying to read up there!" Sakura complained entering the living room, slowly taking in the sight of Naruto, Kiba, Sasuke , Shikamaru, and Ino sitting in a circle with cards rounded in a circle surrounding a cup in the center, with beer bottles in their hands. Sakura looked around to see bottles of beer including smeernof, to some hard rock lemon stuff, to some beer she'd never heard of before.
"Where's mom and dad?" Sakura asked getting used to calling them by those names.
"Not here." Sasuke responded casually picking up one of the center cards. "Four." He announced and everyone slammed their hands on the floor, Naruto being the slowest. "Drink up Naruto." He demanded, and Naruto did as told.
"Get a bottle and sit." Ino suggested.
Sakura raised an eyebrow then responded, "No thanks, I'm reading a really good book right now."
"Come on please Sakura! You can't leave me, a poor helpless girl alone with these wolves!" Ino exclaimed whih her arms moving up and down in shrugging like motions.
"Then why did you join them?" Sakura asked grabbing a bottle of water from the kitchen then returning to watch them.
"It was actually her idea." Naruto spilled, causing Sakura to laugh and shake her head in disappointment. "Please play Sakura!" Naruto asked with his adorable puppy dog face. Sakura sighed and sat between Naruto and Kiba.
"Cool." Sasuke said handing her a random green bottle.
"Thanks." She said examining the liquid, before deciding it was safe enough. "What are we playing?"
"Kings." Shikamaru sighed.
"Yay! Oh this is good!" Ino cheered. "Its Shikamaru's turn!" she said leaning into him since he was next to her.
Shikamaru casually picked a card and flipped it over. "5. Guys drink." All the boys in the group lifted their cups and drank.
"Wait what?" Sakura asked.
"A is when someone sets a rule during the game. 2 is the person who picked the card chooses someone else to drink. 3 is you drink. 4 is everyone hits the floor. 5 is guys drink. 6 is chicks drink. 7 is when everyone raises their hands to the ceiling. 8 is when the person who chose the card chooses someone and both of you drink. 9 is where everyone goes in a circle trying to rhyme with the word the first person said. 10 is never have I ever. J is the person before the picker drinks. Q is the question game in a circle. And finally K is where you pour your drink into the center cup and whoever gets the last king drinks the center cup with the mixture of liquids." Sasuke explained.
"Alright I think I get it."Sakura said straightening up, to get ready for Ino to pick a card.
"A!" Ino grinned. "You guys have to say I love ino before you pick up your cards!" Shikamaru of course rolled his eyes, and the rest expected as much, not really caring.
"I LOVE INO!" Naruto yelled lifting a card and grinning before setting it down. "King, just another step closer to getting one of you super drunk!" He cheered, not realizing he was close to becoming just a drunk.
"Okay. Ughm I love ino." Sakura said lifting a card. "10"
"Never have I ever!" Kiba grinned. "Go Sakura you start.
Everyone put up three fingers and waited as Sakura thought of something good.
"Okay, never have I ever kissed someone in this circle." Ino, Sasuke, Naruto, and Shikamaru each put one finger down.
"All of you with Ino! Eww, guys come on your best friends!" Sakura frowned disapprovingly. What kind of friendship was this?
"No actually Sakura hunny, I've only kissed Shikamaru. Those two are a different story." Ino whispered to the girl next to her.
"Oh, I didn't know guys, I guess I just assumed-" Sakura was interrupted rudely by Sasuke.
"Shut the f*** up Sakura, it's not like that. Naruto kissed me."
"Nu uhh! Not true Sakura someone pushed me and it just happened. I swear I'm completely straight!" he gave a sad face causing Sakura to sweat drop.
"Okay sorry guys."
"never have I ever kissed a girl other then my mom." Kiba said quite gloomily. But deep down he knew it was for a good cause. To scoop things about Sakura!
Shikamaru and Sasuke put a finger down leaving both with only one left. Naruto and Kiba exchanged a quick highfive and then Sasuke went.
"Never have I ever tied my hair up." Both girls and Shikamaru put their fingers down but since Shikamaru lost he had to drink.
"8 is a date" Kiba announced then glanced at Sakura, "Hey baby how'd you like to get a drink?" Sakura giggled and the both clinked glasses then drank.
"WOAH! 1st. you didn't say I love ino! 2nd I wasn't your date, harsh!" Ino frowned.
"Oops, well you know Sakura's so…" Kiba said drinking away.
"Yeah yeah hot, I know." This cause Sakura to choke on the water she had been drinking, so much that it came out of her nose.
"Am not." She said in a disordered voice.
"Anyways, I love ino and 6 chicks drink." Ino and Sakura did as the rules said and drunk away.
After a couple of minute's they'd played all the 10, A, 3, 8, and 5. Done three 6, Q, 4, and 2, and only had two 7, 9, J, and K's go bye.
"Jack is back!" Ino grinned as Shikamaru drank his beer.
"7 HEAVEN" Naruto yelled and everyone through their hands up. Through the night the group had become awfully loud, screaming just about everything.
"K!" Sakura grinned pouring her drink in the cup smiling as widely as one would think possible and said "Next bastard has to drink it all!"
Kiba patted her back and announced "9, rhyme!" he sat thinking thoughtfully for a couple of seconds before saying "DOG!"
"Fog" Sasuke said boredly.
"Log" Shikamaru said smiling at the thought of a log.
"Sog" Ino said as if she were the most confident person there, even though in her head she wondered if she could really pull it off.
"Damnit!" Naruto pouted as he drank, not being able to think of anything rhymable. Ino grinned to herself.
"7"Sasuke said with his hands already n the air. Sakura's delayed reaction caused her to drink.
Shikamaru casually plucked out a J and Sasuke scornfully drank.
"Ino" Ino grinned.
"What." Random voices asked.
"9. Rhyme. INO"
"Latino." Naruto drooled a bit of spit then sucked it back up causing the group to give him a disgusted face. "What it rhymes!"
"Philipino?" Sakura guessed.
"ugh, teeno?" Kiba smiled.
"NO! drink!" Ino jumped in her seat on the floor. Then Sakura began to giggle which turned into fits of laughter she could no longer contain.
"Is she okay?" Shikamaru asked concerned. When she finally calmed down she motioned for Naruto to take the card he had his finger on and as he did so they realized why she laughed so much, even though it wasn't that funny.
"King!" Naruto gasped his mouth wide open, as his group of friends began to cheere and yell "CHUG CHUG CHUG" at him.
"This is going to kill tomorrow." He frowned and chugged the last bit of liquid in the cup. As soon as he was done he laid back on the floor and stared straight into the light bulb. He felt as if it was the only thing keeping him sane in the head. However when he looked up and saw Sakura and Kiba dancing to music he never noticed someone put on, Ino trying to figure out how to make it louder so she could join the dancing, Shikamaru setting up a table while pushing aside the couches and finally Sasuke gathering more random liquid and cups over to the table, he wondered just how long he really had been sleeping with his eyes open.
"What are you guys doing?" Naruto asked forcing his ridiculously heavy head to lean toward Sasuke.
"Beerpong ofcourse." Sasuke said shortly as if it were so obvious. And that's when the party stated to go down hill.
"I wanna play with Naruto!" Sakura announced raising her hand and puling him onto his feat which made him feel incredibly dizy.
"TEAM SHIKASASU v. TEAM SAKUNARU!" Ino announced with a bottle in her hand used as a microphone.
Sasuke started, missed of course as did Shikamaru after him. Naruto failed to get the ball even near the cups, but Sakura made up for it when she successfully through theball and Shikamaru had to drink away.
Sasuke not liking being a loser concentrated ashard as a drunk man can and screamed like Naruto would have, when he made a goal. Naruto gulped as he picked up the cup tok a sip and-
"Holy shit!" Sasuke screamed, while ino gaped from were she stood.
"Ewwww!" Sakura cried as nausea began to hit Naruto again. Kiba started to cheer "First puke of the night, as though it was something to be excited about, but NAruto and Sakura thought otherwise.
Sakura grabbed hold of Naruto's hand and softly, showing no anger at him for throwing up on her adorable dolphin tank top, said "Let's get you to the bathroom. Sasuke immediately getting a sponge to clean the table while Shikamaru grabbed a mop, Sakura and Naruto headed into her room's connecting bathroom.
"Here, over the toilet." She motioned him pulling his hair away from his face.
"I feel fine Sakura." He tried reassuring her, but just as she almost believed him another shot of puke ran out his mouth.
"Oh, no you're not, just stay right here ill be right back." Sakura ran into her room and grabbed a black headband, running back into the bathroom and put it on his head so that he wouldn't have to hold his own hair.
"Thanks." Naruto moaned as he leaned on the wall, liking the cool feeling it gave off on his face.
"I'm just going to go change okay, I'll be right back." Naruto nodded and Sakura went into her bedroom's closet and searched through the shirts before grabbing a plain grey tank top as well as red sweatpants. She quickly changed not noticing the boy in the bathroom who had moved in just the right position to see her matching black bra and underwear. As she turned to go back into the bathroom she saw his lecherous look and reminded herself to smack him the next morning.
Sasuke sighed as he and Shikamaru finally put away the table and most of the cups, while Ino and Kiba cleared away any signs of alcohol. All they had to do now was to remember to put out the trash the next morning.
"Ughh, I'm exhausted." Ino announced to everyone in the living room.
"Man, Kiba's knoced out." Shikamaru informed Sasuke who groaned and woke him up.
"Let's go, I'll bring you to the guest bedroom and while I'm at it I can check up on Naruto." Sasuke grabbed his arm, nicely of course, leading the way for his half asleep friend who was nodding every five seconds.
"Well tonight was fun, I sure feel like I know Sakura a whole lot more." Ino grinned leaning on one knee.
"That's for sure." Shikamaru nodded in agreement remembering things Sakura had said like when in 3rd grade she went to school commando.
"I'm sorry, by the way…" Ino said looking away from him.
"About the kissing thing, I don't think anyone noticed." Shikamaru tried reassuring her, but it didn't help.
"But tomorrow when people start to think straight, questions will definitely unfold."
"Look, Ino. Then we'll tell them the truth. It was a month ago, you were mad at Karin and I was angry with my parents. Again. We comforted each other and BAM we kissed. No big deal. It meant nothing." The usual Shikamaru would have sugar coated the last thought and probably not screamed bam, or stressed the word again after he said he was angry at his parents, but that was the joy of them all being drunk. None of them really were acting normal.
"Oh." Ino said looking a bit hurt and forcing the tears from hitting her eyes. "Fine, cool."
"Are you okay?" HE asked seeing her tight jaw and frown. "I know you get emotional when you drink, so uif you feel like crying I won't juge you."
"Oh I get emotional do i! well then let me just spurt words and hurt your feeling then!" Ino crossed her arms as a couple tears fell down her cheeks.
"I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, just that if you want to tell me something, anything, you can." Shikamaru tied to fix what he said before.
"You know our kiss meant NOTHING to me. Yupp." Ino frowned.
"Is that why your mad?" He asked confused. "I knew I didn't. I don't get it."
"Yes you do! A million reasons for why im mad and crying are in your head and let meguess you've aleady got it narrowed down to two. The one you want to be true and the one you know is true. You just wont let yourself say it though." This time ino's voice quivered a bit.
Shikamaru just cleared his throat and moved towards her, moving her head towards him.
"What are you doing!" She whisper yelled, looking around and pushing him back. "You can't just 'pull a move' onto people!"
Shikamaru sighed, and leaned back up with a slightly pissed expression on his face as he looked away from her.
"You're the one who told me that my minds two options were half right and that I should choose the one I refused to accept." He said it so calm but harsh that it startled ino and got her to thinking, before she began to smile. In a second she was hovering over him, and their second kiss, was something neither would ever she as a drunken mistake, rather a first step they both really hoped they would remember the next morning.
Sasuke, upstairs after putting Kiba to bed went to Sakura's bathroom to see Naruto half asleep leaning on the with Sakura lying on his legs, also half asleep. They both stopped whispering when they saw him enter, and greeted him as happily to dead tired people could.
"Sakura, you can sleep in my bed, and I'll stay and take care of the Dobe." Sasuke offered sitting on the countertop.
"Mm, sure." She smiled getting up and patting Naruto on the head. "Get beter. G'night boys."