Naruto woke up in a haze, alcohol blurring his vision, a headache piercing his ear drums. He grumbled out of bed, watching the room move around him. Naruto picked up his annoyingly loud buzzing phone, he looked at the bright screen flickering the Hokage's tower number repeatedly.
"NARUTO! WHERE ARE YOU?"
Naruto was hit by the loud sound of Kakashi screaming into the phone, he had no idea what had happened last night, everything after walking towards the bar after Sasuke left was a black haze to Naruto.
"Uh Kakashi, um I had a really bad night last night. Kind of got drunk. I'm sorry, is everything okay? I will be there as soon as possible."
Naruto could hear Kakashi take in a deep breath, he knew he was screwed for Kakashi to be this mad, most of the time he gave literally zero shits.
"Naruto everything is fine, in the sense that there isn't an emergency, but the team of advisers and the elders are so pissed that you are so late. We tried Hinata but she said she left early in the morning and you were still in bed, she presumed you were working late today. You had the team meeting today remember? The board are furious, I tried to calm them down, but this is out of my hands now. I would advise you to get here as quick as possible."
Naruto took in a deep breath to steady himself.
"Okay Kakashi be there in 10."
Naruto hanged up the phone before Kakashi could keep reminding him of how screwed he was. Naruto stood up, feeling the ground slip underneath him. He stumbled and caught himself quickly on a nearby wall. Naruto didn't have to try very hard to find out the house was completely empty; he couldn't sense anyone's chakra around the house.
He didn't want to think about having to deal with Hinata and the board all in the same day.
"FUCK!"
Naruto slammed his fist into the wall, leaving a large dent in the wall. He needed to control himself. At this point he was glad he had Kurama inside himself, alcohol never affected him too much because he had such quick healing properties, he could already feel his concentration start to focusing and his headache simmering down.
What worried Naruto was the fact that he was this hung over, which means he would have gotten wasted the night before, especially for all of it to be a hazy memory.
He quickly had a heart attack, realizing he may have accidentally confessed something to Sasuke. He didn't, did he? No... Could he? Naruto picked up his cell phone and without thinking about the repercussions of what he was doing, his phone was already dialing Sasuke's number.
Within two short rings, Sasuke picked up.
"Hey Naruto, it must be an emergency for you to call me, are you okay? What's going on?"
Naruto had no idea how to ask if something had happened, without asking it, just in case he didn't say anything to Sasuke at all.
"Teme, this is odd, but after you left yesterday, did we see each other or talk or anything."
Naruto could sense how silent the line had become, Sasuke stayed quite for a minute.
"Um, no Naruto. Was there something you were meant to say?"
Naruto knew he was in dangerous grounds right now. He relaxed a little knowing he hadn't said anything whilst drunk, but he also revealed that he might have wanted to say something to Sasuke about his confession.
"No Sasuke, I uh...actually, had to give you an assignment, could you come into my office tomorrow to pick it up?"
Naruto was trying to think of the most logical thing for why he would have wanted to speak to Sasuke, he knew he sounded awkward over the phone, but it was the best acting he could do, considering how hung over he was.
