Naru didn't go home after her confrontation with Sauske.

She ran a shaky hand through her mid back length ash blond hair and growled low in her throat. God she hated that shifty eyed son of a bitch! He had been like this ever since she had brought him back to the village.

Why? Why was he so fucking fixated on trying to ruin her? She had done nothing to him but save his life time and time again.

She was about half way to her home when she decided that she didn't want to go there just yet and turned around and started for the local bar.

She needed a drink.

She needed something to take her mind off of Sauske and his shit before she decided to go back and finish him off.

And maybe a nice strong drink and some hapless man might help to take her mind off of the snake bastard and his stupid threats.

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Kakashi sat in the dimly lit room, in one of the bar corner booths, checking out the women in the bar. Most of them were plain, homely, and completely shit faced. He didn't like that. Especially since he wanted a half sober warm willing body to lay with tonight. He didn't need a woman who was so drunk that she either passed out or started crying during sex.

Because those things were a total turn off.

And he liked hearing the soft moans and sighs and cries. Liked having an active participant to kiss and touch and to have himself kissed and touched in return. He took a drink of his long neck and scanned the room again. Noting that some of the women were being picked up by other guys and taken out of the bar.

He glanced down at his left wrist, pulling back his glove a little bit to see what time it was and sighed. It was almost eleven, he was still sober, and there wasn't a damn woman in sight that could meet his expectations. All in all he was starting to think that his night would be a bust when the door across the way opened and a familiar pretty little blond walked in. He blinked and looked down at the table, absent mindedly counting the number of empty bottles strewn about.

He counted ten which meant that he was on his eleventh bottle. He frowned a little bit wondering when the number of drinks he had had slipped his mind and turned his attention back to his former student and soon to be Hokage. Wondering if his eyes were maybe playing tricks on him.

He doubted it, but couldn't help but wonder anyways.

Naru had gown up from the awkward and adorable little genin that he had taught, into a wonderful, and insanely beautiful young woman who had exceeded all of his expectations. She was now nineteen years old, and had accomplished more in her young life than most shinobi blessed enough to live to see their sixties.

Which was why he was so puzzled and just a little bit worried to see her sitting down at the bar and ordering a whiskey.

He got up from his table, grabbed his beer and quietly made his way over to the bar as she downed a shot of the amber liquid and shuddered as she screwed up her face a little bit as she swallowed her drink. He set his beer down on the counter and pulled out one of the swivel chairs and sat down as she looked at him. A surprised look flitting across her pretty face as she licked her lips then poured herself another drink.

"Do you mind if I join you?" Kakashi asked as he got comfortable, he didn't really wait for her to say yes or no, he had only asked the question as a formality. He was going to join her whether she wanted him too or not.

"Help yourself, sensei." Naru muttered in a dark tone that he had only heard from her a few times before in all the years that he had known her and he studied her as she tossed back her second shot then poured herself another.

"I didn't know that you drank." Kakashi said after a second or so.

"Yeah well..." There is a lot that you don't know about me sensei. Naru thought as she started to lift the shot glass to her lips again when he put his hand between her and her drink, palm down right over the top of it.

"What's got you so strung out Naru?" Kakashi asked. Concern coloring his tone. She looked at him and then smacked the back of his hand sharply, causing him to jump and jerk his hand back as she grinned at him and tossed back her drink.

He sighed and rubbed his hand. He should have seen that one coming. "I don't really want to talk about what has me here Kakashi-sensei-" Naru said as she poured another drink and then handed the shot glass to him. He took it without question and lifted it to his lips and tipped it back and downed the fiery amber liquid and had to resist the urge to cringe as he felt the burning all the way in the pit of his stomach. He handed the shot glass back to her and smiled at her.

"What has you in a place like this on a friday night sensei?" Naru asked as she picked up his beer and took a small drink and choked a little bit before slapping her hand over her mouth and setting it back down and swallowing the horrible, horrible liquid and blinked and gasped.

"Oh dear god that stuff tastes like piss!"

Kakashi chuckled and picked up the beer and took a nice long drink, knowing that it would bother her. Sure enough, it did. She gagged and shook her head as she looked away from him muttering under her breath. "That is so gross."

He set the empty bottle down and lifted his hand to signal the guy a few feet away and let him know that he wanted another. "Yeah, that are. But they're the only type of alcohol that I can drink. The other stuff sort of fucks up my stomach if I drink too much of it."

Naru made a humming sound as his new beer was set down in front of him, he stared at it for a second before answering her question. "I came out to get tipsy and find a woman to take home with me."

"Oh, the old one night stand thing."

Kakashi laughed a little bit. "Yeah. Or it could be the old find a girl in the bar and take her home intending a one night stand and she's so..." He snickered and blushed a little bit. "Awesome in bed that I might actually decide to keep her sort of thing."

Naru grinned at him, her earlier bad mood vanishing as if it had never been. "Hows that going for you sensei?"

Kakashi looked around the bar and then back at her and laughed again, genuinely amused by everything. Naru had the sneaky suspicion that he was already tipsy because she had never really seen him smile or laugh like he was now, before. "Not very well at all. I'm beginning to think that I'm doomed to live out the rest of my days alone." He said very softly as his smile died down a little bit and changed into something sad.

Naru didn't say anything. Really what could she say? "I was thinking about finding some hapless guy to take home with me-" She said with a frown and Kakashi instantly seemed to perk up a little bit in his seat.

"Hows that going for you?" He parroted her question back at her and she cringed.

"Not good at all." She said as she poured herself another drink and tossed it back. Kakashi snickered before asking.

"What's your type?" It was a stupid and somewhat invasive question but since he had told her his intentions, it really did seem only fair.

"Anything male, breathing, and not in the habit of trying to take advantage of me."

Kakashi made a humming sound. "There aren't many guys like that." Especially in bars. Most of the people found in dives like the one they were in right now were drunks, abusive boyfriends, would be rapists and killers looking for an easy soon as the though crossed his mind he set his beer down and pushed it away.

He probably shouldn't drink any more since he was going to end up walking her home just to be sure that no one tried anything funny. "Are you going to keep looking for some hapless guy?" He asked curiously and Naru shook her head no.

There was no point since everyone in the bar knew that Kakashi was sitting with her. His presence had more or less frightened off any potential bed mates she could have had. "Nah. I don't think I'm going to drink any more either. I think I'll just call it a night and head home." Naru said as she started to pull out some money to pay for her whiskey when Kakashi gripped her wrist and stopped her.

"I'll pay. Just don't go anywhere yet."

Naru gave him a puzzled look and he leaned down a little bit and whispered. "I want you to take me home with you." Because he wasn't sure if he would make it to his own home and he trusted her to take good care of him.