Chapter 5: Team 3 Hanging out.

Alright, the power difference between Houtarou and Sora he'd been thinking about seemed to be a little bit ENORMOUSLY HIGHER than he thought... ''The Uchiha clan... Should've expected that... Guess I'll better be doing my best tomorrow, hehe!''

He'd been shocked by Nomaru. Not only did she not laugh at him when he fell again, she asked him to come with her? A pretty girl asking a clumsy guy like him to join her? 
This time she was the one pulling him to a place she wanted to be, just like he'd brought her over to this place earlier the day. 

When the 4 of them arrived at Nomaru's 'restaurant' she asked him or he'd ever been drunk before. 
He remembered drinking 3 glasses once with his dad, and how it basically made him double as clumsy and made him forget all his social manners. Kinda hoping that wouldn't happen again, he answered:
No, not really. But are you sure I really should be drinking as a 14 year old?

as Nomaru dragged Houtarou along with her and Torame and Sora followed, Torame got qurious about tomorrows training: "Sensei?, what is that survival training you were talking about? he asked this purely out of curiousity and he tried to be as respectfull as he could, but he didn't like him, just because Torame was named Sora's second coming way to often.

Nomaru laughed her ass off, due to Hatake's reaction to the drinking. She put her head on his shoulder (probably too much contact for the Hatake to handle) and smiled. 'Yes, yes you should be drinking." Giving Hatake an irresistible, almost sexy face. "And so should the toddler; it's time for him to join the big kids. One glass couldn't hurt.' Before anyone could react Nomaru stood up and went to the bar, ordering a huge bottle of Sake to begin with and four glasses. She asked for the menu of the restaurant, four to be precise and walked back to the table with the bottle, some glasses and the menu.
For Nomaru every reason to party was a reason. She filled the glasses and smiled at Sora, Houtarou and Torame yelled: "Kanpai!" In one sip she drank most of the glass, looking at the Hatake. She felt the alcohol burning down her throat. One of the best feelings in the world to her. "Come on Whitey, your turn."

Sora waddled behind Nomaru and Houtaro a cigarette in his mouth as he looked up at the clear sunny sky, they were almost there too, he knew exactly what place the Koui girl would take them too. There were only a couple of places in Konoha where they management wouldn't mind kids consuming alcohol and only one of those in the direction they were going in. He knew this village like he knew the back of his palm, perhaps even better.

Puffing out some smoke he laughed as he heard Hotarou speak.
"What's the matter Houtarou-kun? Afraid to drink? I wonder, does that mean you'd be afraid to kill too?" He smirked and let out a bit of a teasing chuckle at the Hatake boy.
"I was already a Jounin for 2 years when I was your age, with a kill count of over 500 people...once you receive your forehead protector you become a shinobi, a soldier, a human weapon. And every day...including this one could be your last. "


The Jounin smiled and sighed relaxing, despite his words being quite serious. He had both his hands behind the back of his head looking at the sky he was named after.

"If another Village decided to attack us now for example, you would be accounted by both our side and theirs as official full fledged soldiers. And thus would be killed by the enemy upon encounter...Unless you will manage to kill them first. Your friends, team mates and family might die. In fact...my entire team was already dead before I even got to the Chuunin exams. All of them killed in action, most in front of my eyes." He said a bit of sadness slipping onto his face when he remembered his fallen comrades with a deep sigh before he would smirk again and shortly glance to the Hatake.
"Still feel like a kid? Or starting to feel a bit more adult now?....Hatake...Houtarou..." He pronounced the boys name slowly with a bit of a dramatic break in there.

He would then hear the little Uchiha next to him talking and would glance down and to the side at him sideways not changing the direction of his face.
"Huh?" The Uchiha exclaimed a bit dumbfound or surprised, but in such a way as if inquiring how it was that this little pipsqueak could even talk.

He would roll his eyes at the question and huff displeased.
"You're my second coming aren't you? Why don't you figure it out somehow, huh?"
He spat at the boy a bit rude before shaking his head.
"Aaaah....alright, I'll give you a little hint kiddo....If what you showed in your last battle is truely your best....then tomorrow...."
Suddenly the Uchiha Jounin would appear right behind Torame with a kunai at his neck already. But then a split second later he would be right back at the spot where he was smiling friendly at Torame and in a very friendly voice adding the final words.
"....I will kill you."
Was that another Genjutsu, or was he really this fast? And was he serious about killing him?

As they would enter the tent he would settle down and nod to Nomaru with a light smile as she filled his glass as he would grab the menu she brought around and browse through it as he emptied his glass.
"Alright, just have them put this on my tab this time, order whatever guys. It's my treat." Sora would say as he would begin to order everything on the menu as far as food, some of the things twice. Which would total to about 20 dishes if not more.
"It's been a while since I dined at the Village and I'm starving."

Houtarou got a bit angry upon hearing his sensei brag about killing people. He did in no way want an argument with him, but he was one year older and seemed to be in a good mood, so he looked at him and said: 
Why are proud of killing people? That's not my philosophy... I'm not going to kill anyone... I did not choose to become a shinobi to be a tool. Rather than a tool, I'll be in control of my own actions. I'll fulfill my believe to contribute to a more peaceful world, and if I believe the village is not doing that, I will not follow any order-... 
Whatever, it's not a subject for now... Houtarou said, knowing he had gone too far. He hoped Sora wouldn't become mad. He seemed to ignore him and they walked on. 
He was very much shocked by Sora's stories. Had he really seen that much tragedy at this age? Maybe he didn't have the right to say what he just said, but he already did... He felt like he would hear more about this sometime soon... Why did he get so emotional after that statement?

They arrived at Nomaru's little place, and after both his sensei and Nomaru were half forcing him to drink he answered:
Whatever then! I'm mature, gimme that stupid stuff...
He took in way too much already, and the stuff burned down his throat like it had the previous time...
Oh, and thanks for the treat sensei... 
He took another zip after that, feeling the eyes of his teammates burning on his body.

"Not being a tool?" Nomaru laughed at the Hatake. "You're so naive. We are tools, that's the whole point. We're expendable as fuck. Nobody will cry one tear if we die. Nobody cares and nobody ever will care. That's the whole point of a country having an army. Dogs who follow orders and make this world a better place for the people in charge. I talked to enough of the soldiers to know how this shit works." She fell silent for a bit, hating her life again. But there was booze and she drank the rest of her glass. "Now drink your drink Whitey."
Nomaru smiled when the Hatake poured the Sake down his throat and refilled his glass. She gave the young Uchiha a look, waiting for him to empty his glass as well. "Oh come one kid, one glass. We'll get you lemonade afterwards. It's only half full anyway."
She took a look at the list of the dishes and ordered at least 20 more. Food, alcohol. Now only if she could get her hands om some cigarettes...
"Oi, Sora-kun. Gimme a cigarette will you?" Giving him a warm smile.

Houtarou wanted to, impulsively, react with how that was not true and he was an individual who'd do what he thought was right, but he figured he should just shut up about the subject now. He was supposed to have fun now. If such a conversation were to arise again, which it probably would sometime, it'd continue then. One thing was for sure, he wouldn't, or wouldn't let any of his teammates, kill anyone... Because he did knew that was not what would make for peace...

He finished his first glass, he didn't feel anything special yet luckily, and silently hoped Nomaru wasn't gonna make him drink more, but that was probably inevitable... 

He felt bad for Torame, he probably wouldn't be able to escape this either.

Torame was not impressed by the little show that Sora gave him, he was irritated by it. "listen up SENSEI."  the sarcasm dripped from the title. "maybe youve looked trough my list but you dont know much about me, let me tell you something, i dont like to be called 'sora's second coming' this was said with hate, "so please if you would be kind, could you name me Torame, or give me a nickname... i dont care what it is, as long as i dont hear 'sora's second coming'". saying this he walked closer towards the others not waiting for a reply.

when thwy were at the restaurant he sudently realized something. FUCK!!, the hokage expected me in his office!!. "i realy got to go guys, the Hokage is expecting me." He stood up and walked away. once outside he ran as fast as he could to the office of the Hokage hoping that he would not mind the fact he forgot in first place.

Houtarou had no idea why Torame had to leave, but he already ran outside the door, so he shouted:
DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING, BUT SUCCES TORAME! SEE YOU TOMORROW, BE THERE!

"Wow, that was quite the moodkiller," Nomaru gave the toddler a look as he run away from the epic drinking and eating fest and laughed at the reaction of the Hatake. "Dude, you only had one drink, why are you already shouting?" She drank another glass of Sake and would tell the waitress she wanted some beer and gave her the list of food she wanted. 
The owner of the restaurant smiled. This would definitely be a good evening for him. In the rest of the restaurant some shady figures sat down, nothing too much to worry about. Nomaru loved this place, it's where the soldiers during the great war took her. She learned enough from them to not want to be a shinobi even more. 

She wasn't worried about the survival test thingy at all. She didn't suspect it to be too hard and if it would be hard she at least had a good evening. Nomaru just loved enjoying herself more than anything and if she would die tomorrow, as Sora had said would be a possibility she at least would have the best evening of her life.
"The only thing that would make this evening better is Ten-chan. Where is that girl?" She suddenly remembered the existence of her only and best friend and adopted sister.

I wasn't shouting because of this stupid stuff or anything! He wouldn't have heard me had I not shouted...
He heard her mentioning ''Ten-chan''. 
Who's Ten-chan? And if you want another person to be here, why not get her? You wanted to have fun, so do what you want... 


He took a quick look at his sensei, who appeared to be rather concentrated on his food. And that was A LOT of food. 
Yo, sensei, are you sure you can eat all of that?!

"Eh- Haruno Tenshi? Duh. She's the girl I was chilling with earlier on, the sweet one." Nomaru gave the Hatake a look as if he was stupid. "And you need more booze. Drink!" Nomaru pointed at the drink in front of Houtarou, mentioning he was getting a bit more bold and straight forward. Drunk Hatake Houtarou could be just the best thing in the world. She herself would take another sip of her drink and smiled. She didn't really feel like picking up Tenshi, as the girl was probably busy being a good girl and making an awesome battle plan and explained this to the Hatake.


Nomaru would see the food arrive in no-time. For the second time that day she would stuff herself with food, but this time until she had to be dragged home and sleep off the booze. She grabbed her plate and started to fill her own plate, forgetting her crave for cigarettes she started filling herself up, eating in a way most pigs looked like very mannered beasts with loads etiquette.

Ah, that's the nickname you've given her huh? Well, could to hear you've got a friend like that. 

Whatever, if you say so...
Houtarou started drinking again while thinking: ''why am I doing this. Why am I not preparing like I should?! Sora is gonna kill me tomorrow...'' Which made him wonder whether the Uchiha had something enabling them to manouver in a thick fog. He had his Hatake senses, but could a sharingan see through fog? He might just have found a way enabling him to escape Sora if he ever got real mad at him! That made him think though...

Oy, sensei! Can I bring my, or at least some of my, dogs with me tomorrow?!


Awaiting a response, he continued drinking. That stuff made him feel a little bit light in the head... He wanted to stop, but he wanted to show the other two he could handle it, thus took another zip.  
D-d-do you tzink... He shook his head. Damn, why did this stuff have such a strong influence on him so fast?! Didn't seem to have that on Nomaru nor did it on Sora... 
Do you think we should prepare a bit for that test tomorrow, Nomaru?

With a full mouth Nomaru mumbled something that sounded like: "Weahh, dahds tha nam I gievv thwe Hawunrnogurl." She didn't care much for her manners and loved it how easily the Hatake kid was drunk. He would have such a huge hangover.
  Nomaru swallowed her food and took a second to figure out what she was doing. Eating. She loved food, but definitely loved cigarettes more. Nomaru stood up, walked to the little bar at the restaurant and got herself a package of cigarettes on Sora's bill. He offered to pay for anything, didn't he? She lit a cigarette and let the smoke escape from her nose. Booze, food, cigarettes. This could really only get better if Ten-chan would be here.

"Do you think we should prepare a bit for that test tomorrow, Nomaru?" She heard the Hatake ask. 
Nomaru lifted her eyebrow a bit and put her face closer to his, almost as if she would kiss him. "How about no?" She started laughing, just looking at his facial expression, moved her face to the food, put her cigarette in her mouth, as she would refill her plate. "Sora doesn't seem like the guy who gives spoilers, now do you Sora-kun? We should just experience the thing to get a taste of what it's really like," she gave him a bit of a spooky voice. She was not worried at all.

''Ughh, too close...''
Alright then, guess we're just gonna measure our improvisation skills tomorrow then!
He took another zip, but felt kinda light in the head now. 

Uhm, I am off to dza restroom for a bit, be right back... 
Damn... this was a shitty situation... He went to the restroom only to rest for a bit, so he opened the door and...
WAAAAAAH!
''THE LADIES' RESTROOM! AND IT WAS FULL OF WOMEN!'' 
They looked at him angry and shocked, so he threw he closed the door as quickly as possible and ran back to this place, but while running over there some drunk idiot threw a bottle of wisky on the ground and he tripped over the wet floor. 
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
BAM, and there he was again, lying on the ground. Damn that hurt... He was lucky not to have fallen into the glass... Some people were looking at him, and he could see himself becoming red. 
He quitely walked back to his table and sat down next to a feasting Sora and Nomaru. 
Knowing he couldn't ashame himself anymore anyway, he took another big zip thinking ''I hate myself. I f-ing hate myself. Why did I join?!''
He kinda felt like eating something too, but figured the trip to the waiter wasn't safe... ''What are my parents gonna think if I come home like this?!''

Nomaru just laughed at the Hatake. He was a great comic relief in the whole situation. Did he really walk into the ladiesroom? This was just pathetic, she almost felt sorry for the boy. Nomaru figured the Hatake probably had an empty stomach to begin with and if she had learned one thing about drinking it was never to drink on an empty stomach. 
  "You know what you remind me of Houtarou-kun?" She said, with a bit of a smile. "Of me and my bed. We have this intense and mutual love relationship going on. I just can't seem to leave my bed, not ever. Kinda like you and the floor seem to have. It's screaming out for you. It loves you just that much. Give in to it!" She drank another two glasses of Sake and smiled. "You're drunk, or close to drunk anyway. Eat something and try not to puke." Nomaru put a bowl of something with chicken in front of him and continued eating.

That remark about the floor she made made him laugh way harder than he should've, as he felt all of his emotions had kinda gone loose by now. 

She gave him some food after that. 

I'm not gonna puke... But he, t-thanks!
He started eating, which he really needed as he was pretty hungry! 
That Nomaru, she was a really nice person deep inside after all! He kinda wanted Torame to return, as the group would've been complete then, but he'd see him tomorrow. 
He looked at Uchiha Sora, who was STILL EATING! How much could this guy eat?!

"EXCUSE MY INTRSUION" Shikataro bellowed dryly as he poked his head around the door. "Sheesh I had to ask soooo many people where you guys got to. Torame san seems to have forgoten that both of us need to see the Hokage. Remember Torame san?" Wait.... are you two DRINKING!?!" and he pointed at Houtarou and Nomaru

Houtarou looked behind him. It seemed like one of his classmates had appeared to ask where Torame was, but he wasn't clear enough in the mind to see who it was. 
You wanna know where mah boy Torame is?! He ran off saying he had something do...
Oh and we're just drinking because Nomaru-chan here says so! She gave me chicken man! Wanna join?!
Houtarou was talking like an idiot because of all the alcohol but he didn't even notice anymore. He did know he would be extremely emberassed the next morning though... 
He took yet another zip to get rid of that thought and continued eating.

"Good doggy." She petted the Hatake and suddenly saw Nara running inside the restaurant. Quite some of the shady figures looked up surprised, as if they were expecting someone else to run in. 
Nomaru smiled as she looked at the Nara-kid. "The toddler left. Something about meeting someone I guess?" She took another sip of her sake and followed by stuffing her mouth with food again. "Awnd wes, we'we dwinkin," swallowing her food. "Hatake is right. You should totally join us for some Sake!" She did start to feel the alcohol a little bit, but not enough to feel light in the head or really affected by it.

Shikataro looked at them blankly "NO thanks. Alcohol is poison for the brain and I rather like mine the way it is. now that that is out of the way I'll go and catch up with Torame san." With that he zipped away and headed for the Hokage tower.

He knew too much alcohol wasn't good for him, but he hadn't drunk so much that it'd make him dumber really...
See ya around braw! He yelled when Shikataro left. 

Nomaru-chaaaaaaan, I feel... reallyyyyyyy light headed. Whadda I do now? He asked with a face looking pretty drunk by now.

The Uchiha Jounin would tip his foot on the floor waiting for the waiter when the man would bring in what was literally a pile of plates, cups and bowls balancing very carefully on both hands not to drop them and setting the food out on the table.
A large pleased grin would appear on Sora's face upon the sight and smell of food hitting his senses as saliva would start to run down the sides of his lips.
"He he he heeeee..."
The young boy chuckled at the food in such a sinister way as if he was a hungry wolf that hasn't eaten for a week and had just cornered a whole pack of bunnies in an inescapable situation, ready to feast upon their soon to be corpses.
He would then grab his chopsticks and proceed to chow down at a fast, almost unreal rate of speed as well as capacity seeing the boy wasn't too large build. How all that food would even hope to fit inside him would remain a mystery to all including himself, but it went somewhere anyhow his hands moving faster than when throwing Shuriken from the food back to his mouth.

He would likewise for a moment become seemingly indifferent to the world around him ignoring most of what his students did. Giving out only a meek
"Uh-huh....sure thing." When Torame excused himself before continuing his onslaught on the piles of food which soon began to form into a pile of empty plates and bowls.

He would stop however with his violent food consumption when the two Genin started talking about the exercise tomorrow.
"Ohw I'm pretty good at giving spoilers. But spoilers won't do you any good."
He would say his hands coming to a sudden standstill as he glanced sideways at the two with a sly smirk on his face placing one palm underneath his chin as he smirked, chopsticks still in it.
"You see...tomorrow we are going to have a survival exercise with which I should evaluate whether to keep you three as my team...." he would say in a tone equally sly to his grin before fastalking the last part in a more light and comical tone as he added.
"oooooooor....fail you, demote you and send you all back to the academy." He closed his eyes, smiled and waved his hands dismissively as if it were nothing of a worry when he spoke those last words.

He would then take his glass of sake and empty it before getting a light blush on his cheeks, leaning back in the chair while placing his feet on the table and his hands behind his head stretching himself while balancing on the chair and letting out a relieved cocky yet somewhat embarrassed tone.
"And truth be told....I was supposed to come up with some fancy exercise but I still have no clue what I'm gonna do." He said and then raised his shoulders smiling dismissively.

As the Nara boy would enter and intrude so loudly the moment he would appear, the Uchiha would disappear from sight. And remain unseen, aside from the position of the chair. He would become visible once more the second that Shikataro disappeared.
"Aaaah the annoyance. So we have already been spotted. This isn't good." He narrowed his eyes and looked around displeased before closing his eyes and letting out a deep sigh of disappointment. 

He would shake his head removing his feet from the table letting himself drop back down before grabbing his pack of cigarettes and tapping the bottom of the pack to shoot a cigarette up between his lips before shooting one towards Nomaru.
"The after dinner cigarette is the most important one of them all." He smirked giving the girl a wink before putting his pack back away and turning his head towards the kitchen.
"More Sake please!!!"
He then looked a bit annoyed at the Hatake and his drunken question about what to do would be answered by Sora's sarcastic, annoyed and cinical reply.
"Lay down, raise your paws, bark and die while disemboweling....I'm afraid there is nothing else to cure the problem."

'Bye Noru!' She bit her lip as the boy ran out of the restaurant and really wondered again why everyone was always so motivated to do stuff. 

Nomaru catched the cigarette and grabbed the bottle of Sake that the waiter brought. She refilled her glass. 'Oh Sora, don't be so mean to the dog. He's only fourteen and really shouldn't be drinking,' Nomaru smiled as she kept petting the Hatake on his head like she would do with her own dog at home.
When Nomaru was 5, she really really really wanted a dog, so she kept whine, sob and nag about it for almost 2 years, until she finally made a deal with her dad: if she would learn to control her fuuton element he would get her the dog. Now that was some childish motivation activated! Within a few months she finally was able to do a small fuuton trick and her dad went to the pet shop that same day, giving her a cute, silly dog which she named Manuke. She would walk him every day, play with him, feed him, love him and adore him... for five days. By that time she got bored with it and found herself a new thing to play with, leaving poor Manuke all alone with her parents.

  'Really though, Sora's right...' She added with a bit of a shocked and serious voice. 'Poor baby... The only way to make it less painful is by drinking more really.'
  Nomaru drank half a glass more and finally lit the cigarette Sora had given her. She also refilled the Hatakes glass and raised hers. 'Kanpai Hachiko!'


(so kanpai means something like cheers and Hachiko is that adorable dog from the movie... xD)