Rewriting this a little. Just making outfits different and grammar, you know, CORRECT. Plus… well… yeah. Nothing big is changing.

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"HINA! HELP!"

Hinata held the phone about a foot from her ear as her friend screamed bloody murder. "Ino… Ino! Calm down! What's going on?"

"THE PARTY, THAT"S WHAT'S FUCKING GOING ON!"

Relieved, Hinata let out a breath of air. "What's wrong? And please don't scream…"

"I need your help!"

At least she stopped screaming… Hinata thought as she warily brought the phone back to her ear. Now it was time to continue painting her nails, as she was doing before Ino called. Holding the phone to her ear with her shoulder, she finished painting with a flourish.

"I need you to help me buy things for the party. Naruto fucking bailed on me!" Ino complained loudly.

Sighing lightly, Hinata relaxed on the living room couch, looking out of the window upside down as she stretched her neck. Naruto really is a slacker, isn't he? It was a sort of 'blah' day, with nothing really interesting about the weather except for the fact that it was devoid of anything interesting.

"Okay… when do you want me over there?"

Ino screamed into the phone again, causing Hinata to wince painfully. "THANK YOU HINATA!"

"Yeah, you're welcome, I didn't have much to do today, until the party anyway…" she said lightly, looking at her now pale orange nails as she held them in the air to dry. Admittedly, she had stolen her sister's nail polish collection and decided to try the creamy color and was happy at how it turned out.

"Can you come over here right now?" Ino asked desperately. She was known to be a party perfectionist, down to the last piece of confetti. Groaning silently, Hinata looked at the arty Diesel watch on her left wrist. 3 in the afternoon, nice! They had 5 hours, and Ino was already freaking out.

"Uh huh… I'll be there in a bit. Half an hour at most…"

"Thanks Hina!"

Disconnecting the call, Hinata looked vaguely at the photo she had of Ino that would pop up whenever she called. I wonder how this party's going to be…

Sitting up suddenly, Hinata realized something. Gah! I didn't tell Neji!

4 hours and a telling of Neji, Tenten and Lee later, Hinata and Ino looked around the former's living room, admiring their work.

"Yeah, we rock." Ino commented lightly, putting her hands on her hips.

Her large living room was now party-ready. A table by the back wall was groaning under bowls of food and various beverages, alcoholic and not. There was a colored disco ball type thing that spun around at a constant speed, throwing pink, purple, red, green, blue and yellow spots of light all over. The room was dim, lit by only a string of white Christmas lights around the perimeter of the walls. In a corner next to the couch, a fantastic stereo was dully playing a song on a low volume with the only thing audible coming out of it was the pumping of the bass.

Hinata, who was sitting on the couch, nodded lightly before smiling at her blond friend. "Ino… why did Naruto bail on you?"

She just sighed and sat down next to her. "It's not that. I couldn't reach him to say that we needed to buy the stuff today. He's so dead when he comes to his own party as if he were a guest. Such a little asshole!"

Hinata blushed a little, but took nothing much of what she had said. Ino was the friend who insulted people and got away with it. It was just her personality, and once you saw through the initial viciousness there was a wonderful young woman.

"Hina… you know that Naruto is insane about Sakura…"

Yes, she knew better than anyone else at this point. "Yeah. But if I don't have any hope, what's the point in living?"

It was one of those rhetorical, deep and thought-provoking questions that Hinata was prone to dish out randomly. She just said it quietly and with a smile on her face, but when someone thought about it, they were likely to become depressed for a short amount of time until they forgot. A strange power this girl had.

Basically, a question Ino hated and chose to ignore, sending the pair of them into a sleepy silence.

They were both exhausted and the party wasn't even due to start for an hour. It was really hard getting ready for something like this, especially when you were with Ino the crazy perfectionist. Honestly, Hinata had been moving for the last 3 hours straight. Having been quiet for 5 minutes, which was bordering on driving Ino insane, she gazed absentmindedly at what Hinata was wearing. "Is that what your outfit? Seriously?"

"Eh? What's wrong with it?" Hinata cried, getting defensive. She was wearing jeans with a slightly large t-shirt. Comfortable at best.

Ino just shook her head, smiling evilly at her friend. Oh no…

"No…"

Ino put the pair of short shorts on the ever-growing pile on her bed before locating a small jean skirt and holding it up.

"No…"

"Hina, wow. There's nothing wrong with all these things!"

Hinata just shook her head. "Yeah, nothing besides a country of cleavage…"

Something broke inside of Ino. "That's it." It was a declaration. "I'm picking out what you're wearing right now. You can't say no until you've tried it on."

Her selection, to Hinata, was ridiculous. It was a dark blue long sleeved dress with a low-draping back and a short skirt. Hinata, though leggy generally wasn't her compliment, was really hiding a good figure under her normal jeans and shirts.

"Ino… I don't think…"

"Try. It. On."

After 5 minutes of Hinata looking at herself in the mirror carefully, Ino came bursting into the bathroom, unable to wait any longer.

"Hinata! Did you just grow up in the last fifteen seconds?" She shrieked, causing Hinata to blush like a tomato. In order to avoid saying something, she looked back into the mirror.

It looked good. Ino held out a pair of badass leather boots with wide cuffs, which she slipped on without thinking. "These used to be my favorite, but they're too small." Ino explained, throwing one last longing glance to the awesome boots.

They fit the bluenette perfectly.

"Alright, you're wearing that. Naruto will fucking faint when he sees you." She muttered, taking out her ponytail to run a brush through it.

"But…"

Ino didn't even look at her friend, but was obviously smiling. "Just deal with it. Next is make-up!"

Hinata grudgingly obliged. She made sure that Ino wouldn't go crazy and was glad when she saw that she had only given her mascara and a bit of blush. "Why do I need blush when I'm never not blushing?"

Sitting back in her chair whilst holding a pencil to her eye, Ino stopped and looked at her friend. "Hn, you're right. I didn't even think about that."

After taking off the blush and instead going for a clear lip-gloss, Ino finished and let Hinata go meet the incoming guests who would arrive shortly. Casting one last look at what she was wearing, she walked back into the room to await people.

I've been to a trillion parties before… why am I so nervous? She asked herself lightly, biting her lip as her new nervous habit. Oh yeah, I'm nervous because I'm drinking for the first time ever, looking as attractive as I've ever been, ever.

"Wow. Hinata, you look…"

Hinata looked up at Kiba who was struggling with words so say. The party had been going on for an hour already and he had only just arrived. "…daring."

Of all the things he could have said, he had to go with daring?

"Thanks… though you look rather cowardly if I do say so myself." She muttered, putting a hand on her hip as she mock-glared at him. After a moment, she decided to throw her hair up into a low, messy bun.

"Well… I mean… you know!" He sputtered, running a hand through his hair as he tried to get himself out of the situation. At that moment Sakura passed by his shoulder, smirking.

"Just stop Kiba."

He turned to face her and grinned. "Stop? Stop what, being irresistible?"

She socked him rather painfully in the shoulder, which made him pinch her in her exposed right shoulder, which led to a pinch versus punch fest.

It wasn't until Kiba tickled her in the sides did it turn into an all out war. Since both of them were ticklish, each tried to surprise the other with an odd lunge. It was rather like the 'knife fight' game where you held your hand like a gun and locked it with another gun-hand and tried to poke the other person while at the same time defending. One move and your opponent could easily turn it around.

In this case, it was Sakura's wrong move that did her in. She lunged for his sides, he just gracefully dodged and then nailed her, sending the pink haired girl to the floor where he dived on top of her, tickling her into the next century.

Hinata stared, holding a cup of ginger ale in one dainty hand. Since when have they been so… flirty? When did this happen?

Then she remembered what Sakura had said to her in that car ride three days ago:

"And then there's Kiba! I was riding in the car with him and we like all of the same music and he's really attractive actually. Do you see how sweet he is with his dog? It's just wonderful!"

"I just don't know. I've spent all my time going after Sasuke-kun that I almost missed all the amazing guys we take for granted."

Maybe Sakura really thought about what she had said back then. She certainly looked like she had.

"Kiba-laugh- stop… you have to-laugh-stop or I will kill you Kiba!"

Naruto, who had been getting angrier and angrier at seeing his two friends writhing on the floor, turned away, muttering low threats to smother Kiba in his sleep. Not only was he completely on top of her, but also she was enjoying it.

"I think it's safe to say Kiba is winning." Muttered a low voice in Hinata's ear. She turned to see her cousin Neji smirking at the sight below.

"It definitely seems so."

They stared a while at the sight before Neji sighed, revealing what was in his hand. "Tenten sends you this from across the room…" He was holding a red plastic cup of an amber liquid. "She also recommends that you drink it."

Hinata looked at Tenten who gave her a wave, drinking a cup of the same liquid she gave her. Out of politeness, she put her cup of ginger ale down and focused her full attention to the mystery drink. "Uh… why didn't she come give it to me herself?"

"Because," Neji muttered, looking over his shoulder. "I needed to talk to you anyway. I just want you to know that if you decide to get drunk, you can rest assured that you will not be taken advantaged of."

"Taken… advantage?"

Neji pinched the bridge of his nose as she said this. "You're so pure, you have no idea. Listen, this will sound awkward so I'm just going to spit it out." he paused for a second before continuing. "You are very naive and pretty and oh my God don't even get me starting on how you look tonight. Nobody knows what will happen if you get drunk, and nobody knows what people will do once they are drunk, and you are as well."

He took a really backwards way of saying that. "Okay?"

"I'm just going to say that you are well protected. First of all, there's me, and then there's Lee, and then Kiba, Shino… None of us will stand by watching if some asshole tries to… you know."

"It's like the mafia…" Hinata commented, giggling as she took a sip of her drink. It burned sliding down her throat, but she definitely felt more alive. It was coke mixed with rum, she realized. "Whoa, this is good!"

Neji shook his head in vain. She hadn't even listened to what he had said! Taking another gulp of the drink, her smile widened. This is what I've been missing out on?

The infamous Uchiha Sasuke decided to make his stealthy entrance right when everyone started to get drunk, even the chaste little heiress. He had to get a second look as he saw what was in her hands and what she was wearing. Oh… Oh no. He had to escape to the bathroom and take a few thousand deep breaths and think of his dead, wrinkled grandma before he was ready to face Hinata in Sexy-mode.

Now gently mixing a Gin and Tonic at the table, Sasuke smirked, watching her dance and sing softly to the music with other people. He knew there was one thing that happened at Ino's parties, that was always better if you were a tad bit smashed. It was a rule at her gigs actually… the night could not get by without at least one game.

And near midnight, they started it.

"SPIN DE BOTTLE!" Ino called, dancing her way over from the table to the middle of the floor with an empty glass bottle of booze that had been consumed. Yeah, she was drunk. Sitting down, she crossed her legs and called everyone's attention again.

"Alright! You don't have to play, but some do have to and if I don't get enough people, we all have to or else I'm kicking you out, got it?" It was just a fun, drunken statement. One thing Ino prided herself on was her drunken eloquence.

Some people sat out and they just hung out in the corners and talked amongst themselves. The final list of the players was Ino, Naruto, Kiba, Sakura, Neji, Tenten, Sasuke, Kankuro, Temari, Shikamaru and lastly, Hinata. She was sitting in-between Sasuke and Naruto, to her delight.

She had never participated in this game when it was played before, and that was because she just didn't like to. Her first kiss was definitely out of the way, but she was still a little hesitant about just kissing. The only real reason she was playing was because she was, indeed, NOT SOBER. And loving it.

"Rules! No family shit, because that's gross. If you land on a sibling or something like that, just spin again. And… guy on guy and girl on girl is allowed. If you don't like, don't play. And go!" Ino called, spinning the bottle in front of her with all her might.

It was almost surreal for Hinata. The Christmas lights were pretty; the disco ball was throwing colored light everywhere and the music was playing, though no one could hear it over the people talking. She looked down in time to see Ino's spin pointing to Neji. The circle catcalled and screamed their delight as Ino crawled up to Neji and started sucking face with him for a good five seconds. Funnily enough for Hinata, he was completely enjoying it.

When Ino returned to her spot, smiling lightly, she slid the bottle to Neji and he gave it a whirl, looking up at Temari as it landed pointing at her foot. He crawled his way slowly over to her, all the while thinking: I thought she was with Shikamaru… oh wel—whoa! She's a good kisser!

They game proceeded like that, with the kissing bouncing around the circle, mercifully missing her every time. That was until Kiba's spin landed smack dead on her.

Turning as red as a beet as Kiba sensually crawled over to her, she tried to give him a weak smile. He, of course wasted no time getting over to where she sat and then slammed his lips down on hers roughly, quickly slipping his tongue into her mouth.

Oh yeah, I remember how much I LOVE KISSING. She thought, putting her hands on his face to pull him in a little closer. No wonder Ino likes this game.

Of course, she failed to see the glares coming from Sasuke and Neji as the two of them played tonsil hockey for a few seconds. When she finally pushed him away, licking her lips, she spun the bottle weakly, giving a little "Eep!" when it landed on Sakura.

The men, Naruto and Kiba especially, hooted for joy at this. It was the first same gender occurrence, at which both Sakura and Hinata blushed. Knowing she had to do the crawling, Hinata made her way over to her friend, who shot her a smirk. She returned it before lightly kissing her for a few seconds.

The boys, including the pensive Sasuke, craned their necks to get a look at what was going on and were sad when it ended (with the obvious exception of Neji). It was such an interesting sight to see the pair of them kissing. Hinata was the pure little angel and Sakura was a little on the prude side, though not as much as the former. So to see, in many people's opinion, the two prettiest girls going at it was a little… sweet.

Hinata had been steadily drinking a bit more and more until her head was swimming slightly. This is fun! She thought to herself, watching Sakura make out with Kankuro with interest.

Soon, after any cold that one of them had was passed around to everybody in the circle, the impossible occurred. The heavenly pairing of incredible sex-gods… Naruto and Sasuke.

It took a few moments of everyone looking at the bottle pointing at the dark man for it to sink in. Naruto and Sasuke. The blond laughed out loud, to which Sasuke just smirked.

"I bet he's a terrible kisser despite being such a player!" Naruto chanted, pointing his finger at his friend quite drunkenly.

To the men in the circle, this would be funny. But to the women… it was faint-worthy. Hinata went completely red, realizing how close she would be to the action. Naruto leaned forward and crossed over her to get to Sasuke, who moved towards him, and by default her as well.

It was odd to see Sasuke so into something, but then again, he was drunk… they all were. Then it started. The girls all giggled and blushed at the pair, now in a compromising position. Hinata was caught in the middle, staring at every little detail until Naruto moved more at him, causing him to almost lie on her lap. Sasuke was now leaning back slightly, letting Naruto come onto him.

The funny thing was that they were playing it up solely because the girls were all screaming their approval. Stuck under Naruto and next to the face sucking, Hinata went redder and redder until she was close to purple. Finally finishing after a good 30 seconds, the pair stopped kissing at the same time.

It was like an alternate universe. Naruto and Sasuke were kissing, Hinata was drunk and kissing people and the little cold that Neji had was now completely breeding inside of everyone's bodies. Fun.

"Okay, he is a good kisser…" Naruto admitted grudgingly, taking his body off of both Sasuke and Hinata. Everybody laughed and Sasuke just shrugged before spinning the bottle again, raising his eyebrow as it landed pointing at Tenten.

After bouncing from Sasuke to Tenten to Temari to Shikamaru, he spun it lazily and she gasped as it the spin landed on no other than Hinata.

To her extreme surprise, he was the best kisser yet.

Sasuke smirked as he always did when someone got the privilege to kiss her. It was for the fact that she would be spinning again right after that, and there was a chance it would land on him. A 1/11 chance, but still a chance.

To his hidden annoyance, she spun to Ino. That was just a short session and when Ino spun, it landed on Kiba. Watching the blond and brunette making out lazily, Sasuke just gave up. It wasn't going to happen!

He let his eyes wander, and they fell on the Christmas lights. This is such a waste of time. A… 9 percent chance for it to land on me… that's not enough! Wait, I can't count Neji, so that makes it… oh, I don't fucking care about the math!

But then Kiba spun to Hinata, who put her hand over her mouth for having to do it again so soon. Once again they frenched right next to Sasuke, who was still looking at the lights. 12.5 percent chance for it to land on me… That's beyond failing…

Yawning, he turned his head back to the game and down to the bottle. It's pointing at me? I thought Hinata and Kiba were… oh! Trying to contain his mounting excitement just in case it was a mistake, he looked at Hinata who was blushing cutely. Whether from embarrassment or just being drunk he didn't know, but didn't care at the time. It was for sure, for realzies.

He was going to kiss her. Wait, scratch that, she was going to kiss him.

Spurred on by Naruto's comment of him being a good kisser, he cocked his head at her who started to lean into him, not having to crawl for they were next to each other.

Fuck. She's right there.

She had an odd glint in her eyes, as if she was excited for it. Well, who wouldn't want to kiss him? The kid had his own fanclub! Soon their noses were touching and her breath was blowing softly on his lips.

Oh my, I'm going to kiss Uchiha Sasuke. Ohhhhhhh my… She thought quickly, looking into his eyes deeply.

Then their lips touched. Soft, however it was anything but innocent. Naruto was right. He is a fanTAStic kisser. She closed her eyes, just becoming enveloped in it all.

Sasuke, his mind completely blank, devoid of anything except her, decided to try his luck. He wrapped one of his arms around her, delicately arching her back so she seemed to curve into his body like a puzzle piece. His other arm was lightly hovering over her neck, moving slowly over her soft, china doll skin.

Displaying an initiative she did not know she possessed, Hinata knew she wanted more and so she licked his lips while kissing before slipping her tongue into his mouth to meet his. Moving her eager hands to his head, they randomly found themselves lost in his locks as she pulled him closer to her.

He's so much more… tender and soft than I would have thought!

She's aggressive… who'd have known?

"Ahem,"

Neither of them heard Kiba's interruption, but to everybody's amusement (except Neji once again, who was fuming) Hinata pulled away suddenly, gasping. "Oh!"

Sasuke raised an eyebrow (singular mind you) at her, who just smiled a really happy grin. "I love this song!"

Everybody strained to hear to what was playing on the stereo now. The familiar clapping introduction made them smile. Temperature by Sean Paul, a rather old song by now, but was still one of the only ones that installed such a drive to dance to it. Old, but good.

"Come dance with me!" Hinata asked lightly, standing up and holding her hand to Sasuke. Why Sasuke? Because, he was honestly the closest one to her at the time. And they had just shared an electric moment.

The game had officially ended with her statement. It caused a reverse domino effect as people started getting up and dancing. Sasuke, still having hold of Hinata's hand twirled her around in a circle before getting into a fast salsa-type thing to the beat of the song.

"I'm sorry I'm not so much of a dancer…" She apologized despite being completely in step with him.

"Doesn't matter." He muttered, enveloping her in his arms as he took her through a very… close step. Oddly, next thing either of them knew, they were completely grinding. Funny how that works out…

What exactly happened next was sort of blurry to everyone. They just danced and drank more and then danced some more. Hinata and Sasuke dominated most of each other's time, but as soon as she left to get a drink, there was a fucking line to dance with her.

Someone's popular now that it turns out she's curvaceous… He thought bitterly as once again he was denied his chance to snag her as a partner by none other than the quiet Gaara.

It was true; Hinata had a smattering of bachelors fighting to dance with her. What was both sad and funny at the same time was that most of them wouldn't really remember her being so outgoing come morning. 'Tis the thing with those sorts of parties… it's hard to recall exactly what happened and who did what.

But to Hinata, it didn't matter. The fact that she did try her hand at being outgoing gave her a little glowing orb of confidence that radiated energy for her to drive off of. She was, in affect, a living battery.

But come morning, that battery would lose its charge to give way to the massive headache that was already spawning in her noggin.

Yes, done done done. I have Hinata's dress and boots. And I love it.

Scene's from the Next:

"Of all the things that happened, all you can remember is them making out?"

Bubbles: plus, sasuke-kun's bust is nowhere near mine, sry sas…