Chapter 1


Hinata was so to say in a depressed mood. Reason was she hadn’t been able to protect her friend earlier that day, when they were encountered by some missing nin of Iwa. He didn’t blame her though and he wasn’t fatally wounded, but that didn’t help her to feel better. So now the shy kunoichi was wandering over the streets of the town she was staying for the mission; pondering over her failure.

It was already past eleven in the night, her team-mates and sensei were asleep in the hotel room she had sneaked out, because she couldn’t sleep.
Since the day the one she loved left the village for training more four years ago, she had pushed herself into training, training and more training. Trying very hard to improve her skills; it had paid of, she had even reached the rank of chu-nin. Her once oversized vest was replaced by a new one that showed of her curves and her hair had grown. She liked it, except for the stares she got from some boys in the village, other than that she liked her new look.

Hinata stopped, she was in some dark allay every town has. ‘Better turn around and go back,’ she thought, but then her eye was caught by something. There was a door open so that you could hear the noise inside. A lot of laughter came out from it and getting curious Hinata walked to it. She found out it was a pub; an illegal pub actually. Normally she would have just turned around and go some other way, but tonight she felt depressed and found herself inside not a minute later.
Finding herself a stool she looked around, seeing a lot of people her age, drinking beer and sake and other strong drinks. She sat down on some empty seat at the bar, or what supposed to be the bar. “What does this beautiful young lady want?” the barkeeper asked with a generous smile.” Hinata thought it over, she didn’t know much about drinks with alcohol, after all she never had one. “Just give me something strong,” she heard herself saying in a not interested tone. “On the way, mah lady,” the barkeeper smiled.

Not long after that she received her drink and looked at it for a moment. This would be her very first alcoholic drink and she got it without trouble, even though she was under aged. With a sigh she grabbed the glass and drunk the liquid without a pause. In a little bit loud way she placed it on the bar again. ‘That wasn’t too bad.’ “Hey you, give me another one of this!” she said to the barkeeper.
When she had finished her second and third in the same way she had drunk the first she ordered a fourth, which she just held in her hand so nobody would steal it. Her depressed mood was gone thanks to the alcohol. Taking it now more slowly, Hinata looked around and listened to her surroundings. “…so the guy…giggle… keeps telling me the three no-noes of a ninja. Money, alcohol and women, but guess what her does every evening?” she heard someone saying pretty loudly. “He goes to a casino, drinks a lot and ends up in a bed with a woman?” another said. The first one started to laugh. “He would wish for that last one! But basically you’re right…giggle…he even uses mah money. Mah money! So tonight I snuck away after getting some of HIS money,” the young man said proudly. There was an outburst of laughter and words as ‘well done’.

Hinata giggled somewhat about it and took a nip from her drink, after that she started leaning on the bar looking into nothing.

“Hey barkeeper! Give me another sake would ya!” The person that had been talking about the three no-noes of a ninja was now sitting next to her. Hinata drank the rest of her whatever she was drinking and said in rather loud way, “while you’re at it give me one too!” and placed her empty glass on the bar again.
“I’m sitting to a girl with guts,” the man next to her laughed in a drunken way. Hinata looked to the side with a not interested look. “Hey the girl with guts happens to be Hinata,” the man said, surprised but still laughing. Now Hinata started to take in his appearance. Blond hair, orange with black clothes, whisker marks on his cheeks. ‘What! It’s Naruto?! After four years he’s sitting next to me and says I have guts?!’ If it had been every other day, she would have just passed out after hearing this. But the alcohol in her body kept her from doing so and she smiled at him. “Naruto-kun, nice to see you again after four years.” “Heh heh, why don’t ya join us. Sitting alone isn’t fun, come on.” The blonde pulled the young Hyuga heiress of her stool in a generous way and the two walked to the table with their new drinks.

“Hey everyone… hick… I would like you to meet mah friend. This is Hinata, she’s been the only one in mah village who has been nice to me,” Naruto giggled as he sat down. Hinata grinned about his introduction and was pleased with it. She sat down next to him. “So you’re the only one who treated our friend here with respect? You’re our friend now as well,” one said. “Yeah, everyone that treats us so called ‘trash’ with respect is our friend,” another said and gulped down some sake.
“Mah family treated me like trash,” Hinata stated completely drunk. “True, true!” Naruto started excited, “I kicked her cousin’s butt for hurting her, hahaha.” “Next time I’ll be the one to kick Neji’s butt,” Hinata giggled. They all laughed and Naruto came to the conclusion his sake bottle was empty once again. “Yo, mud-face! Bring over some sake! And be fast or else you will meet mah special jusu!” he shouted to the barkeeper.
So a minute later the table Hinata and Naruto were sitting at got another round of sake. Hinata enjoyed herself pretty much, she laughed a lot and talked a lot, without stuttering. She didn’t even faint when Naruto threw his arm around her shoulder for a reason she didn’t catch or simply forgot a second after it happened.

The fun was soon interrupted when the towns patrol came in, in a rather loud way so to say. “Run!” people said laughing and completely drunk. Hinata found herself pulled by Naruto, who enjoying this sudden event. “Come on, let’s run for it, Hinata,” he told her giggling. She only nodded with a smile and the two Konoha shinobi quickly made their way to the exit. After they were a few streets away from the illegal pub they stopped.
The two looked at each other with silence for a second, then they burst into laughter. “That was fun,” Hinata admitted. “And we didn’t even have to pay for all that sake,” Naruto grinned. “How much did you have?” Hinata asked. “Hmm, don’t remember.” “Me neither.” The two laughed some more and then Naruto got the money he had stolen from his sensei. “Well, what should we do with this?” he asked Hinata, “I don’t want to give it back to that stupid Ero-sennin.” “It’s still early…” “It’s past midnight…” “Let’s enjoy ourselves at some restaurant or so,” Hinata suggested. “They don’t allow under aged people without adults at this time, I already tried,” Naruto sighed a little, still having a drunken blush on his cheeks.

The blonde leant against the wall of some house or shop, whatever it was he didn’t care and just leant against it, while his friend was pondering over what to do. That little pondering and bored moment didn’t take long, for they heard people shouting to somebody else. “Try to find those who escaped from that pub!”
Naruto started to laugh. “I know something; let’s tease those stupid guards that give away their position by shouting at each other.” “They aren’t smart indeed,” Hinata giggled. “Let’s just wait until they see us and than run away,” Naruto said with a big smile. Enjoying this feeling of adrenaline in her body, Hinata agreed with a nod. It didn’t take long before one of the patrols found the two. They started running like two drunken idiots, what they actually were at that very moment, and it didn’t take long before they lost the man by hiding into a very small allay, what seemed to be a dump for garbage.
Both having their hands on their mouth in order not to start laughing, the two were hiding there very close to each other. That was not noticed until the guard was gone and their little fun was over again.

“You’ve never been this close without passing out, Hinata,” Naruto said with a smile on his face. “Must be the alcohol,” the kunoichi gave as answer, not moving one inch. “So how have ya been, what are ya actually doing here in this boring town?” Naruto asked, remaining in the same position as well. “Boring B mission, Kiba got hurt though, mostly mah fault. What about you?” “Stupid Ero-sennin wanted to go to this town, he says the ladies her are nice. Perverted bastard dumped me at the hotel and took mah money to entertain himself.” “And so ya took his?” “Yup,” Naruto said sheepish.
“When will you come back home?” “Hmm, don’t know, kinda forgot,” the drunken blonde laughed. He looked over at her, she was giggling about his answer. His drunken face trailed of to a perverted drunken face. “Ne Hinata, I know something we could do, but we will only do it if you agree.” Hinata gave him a look that she was wondering what he was talking about. “Let’s have all the three no-noes tonight.”
Even though Hinata was drunk, she understood what he meant and her face turned to crimson red. “You mean…?” Her answer came over as he kissed her full on her mouth, in actually not a rude way but very gentle. “I saw a love hotel some streets away from here. They don’t ask about age at all, I even saw some fourteen year old entering. We need the money to get in. What do ya think?” he whispered after letting go.
The fact that Hinata was taken aback by this unexpected happening would be an understatement. She kept staring at him for a few minutes, processing that had kissed her and was now asking to go to some love hotel. Being a little more impulsive because of the alcohol she pressed her lips on his, stopped for a small moment to say yes and then started kissing him again. While kissing the girl back for several minutes the two took of to the love hotel Naruto had seen earlier on that day.