I Want To Love You

Chapter Seven

Chapter Seven

* This chapter is going to be in Naruto’s POV *

“Text me later?” I asked Sasuke, hoping he would cheer up. “Sure,” he replied and went inside his apartment. I sighed as we pulled away and made our way to Neji’s. Maybe I shouldn’t go… “Hey Kiba? I don’t think I’m gonna go to Neji’s.” I said after a moment. Kiba slammed on the breaks, “What? Come on, man! Why not?” I shrugged, “I don’t know, I just don’t feel like drinking.” Kiba shook his head, “Just stay for a little while, you don’t have to drink.” Arguing with Kiba was like arguing with a brick wall - he never took no for an answer. “Alright,” I finally gave in, “But I’m only staying for an hour.” Kiba grinned, “Awesome! Full speed ahead!”

Within fifteen minutes they arrived at Neji’s. “Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve been here,” I said as we entered the giant house. “Yeah, it’s been about a year right?” Shino said. Kiba nodded, “Yep, after last year’s huge party he quit having them. I heard a lot of people got arrested, the cops got called.” I gave Kiba a ‘you-better-hope-nothing-like-that-happens-this-time’ look and he just grinned and said, “Don’t worry about it, we’re only staying an hour. Now excuse me while I get a drink.” I rolled my eyes, looks like I’ll be the designated driver tonight. “Looks like it’s just me and you,” Sakura said while touching my arm. I looked around us and noticed Shino also disappeared. I pulled my arm out of her grasp and mumbled, “Yeah,” trying to find an excuse to get away from her. What did I even see in her before? “I’m gonna go get a drink, do you want anything?” she asked. “Yeah, just get me a water or something.” I said, thankful she was leaving me alone.

I surveyed the room while I waited for her to return with my drink and noticed Lee was here along with Ino, Hinata, and Tenten. Neji was standing next to Tenten, arm wrapped around her. I swear they’ve been together for as long as I can remember. Lee seemed to be hitting on Ino and getting rejected pretty hard. I laughed, he was always flirting with girls and getting turned down pretty hard. He was a good guy though. Hinata was standing awkwardly next to them, she was always really shy. After a few minutes of waiting I decided to join them. “Hey, Neji. Long time no see.” I flashed him a big grin. He returned the smile, “It’s been awhile Naruto.” Neji looked around for a minute, “Where’s that pink-haired rat of yours?” I rolled my eyes, “She’s-” but was interrupted by Sakura, “Right here! You don’t have to be so rude, Neji.” Neji scoffed, he hated Sakura. “Here,” Sakura said, putting a cup in my hand. “They didn’t have any water so I got you some pop.” I glanced down at the dark liquid and shrugged, taking a drink.

Everyone started catching up, talking about how they were excited to visit their parents for Christmas. I glanced at my phone, we’ve only been here ten minutes. I sighed and texted Sasuke, “Hey, are you still up?” A few seconds later I got a text back, “Yeah, are you having fun?” I quickly texted back, “Not really, wish you were here.” I finished the rest of my drink and turned to Sakura, “Hey, where’d you get this? I want some more.” She smiled and took the cup from my hands, “I’ll get you some more, I need a refill too.”

Ten minutes later I was on my fourth cup of pop, I tended to drink a lot when I was avoiding making conversation. “I’ll be right back,” I said and made my way to the bathroom, my bladder was paying the price of drinking so much in so little time. I emptied my bladder and proceeded to wash my hands. I looked up in the bathroom mirror and noticed everything was a bit blurry. I stumbled out of the bathroom and saw Sakura waiting for me. “How do you feel?” She asked me. I looked at her puzzled, “What are you talking about?” I said. She smirked, “I put some alcohol in your pop, and it looks like its finally starting to kick in.” I couldn’t think straight, the alcohol was slowly taking effect and clouding my judgement.