The bar was not a place he often spent his time. Nursing an aching shoulder where Kakashi dug his teeth into him, Baki thought that maybe he was allowed a beer. The bottle was sweating around his fingers wrapped, loosely, around the neck. Eye fixed on nothing—possibly the blinking neon sign against the far wall. He also didn't like to get into pointless fights, but he had kids staying with him now … he had to make sure they were safe; even from the surrounding neighbors. (Even if Kakashi was usually harmless, a little odd—but mostly harmless). Speaking of the kids, he sent them to the movies, but he was sure they split the money and currently are stalking around the mall doing whatever they wanted, hopefully just staying out of trouble. He's had enough of that for one fucking day.
The woman behind the bar passed him like a pinball, back and forth, takes out a rag to clean up some spilled ice, and back again. She was nice enough; if he were drunker, he might've asked for her number before he asked if she was single. The music was low, but pounding enough that she had to speak up to patrons, so when she dissapeared from his eyesight, he can't hear what's being said around him—not that he cares too much. Thirty bucks was crumpled in his palm, ready to be placed down so he can stumble home before the kids do.
“Here,” the woman slid him a beer from behind the counter. It was sweating a ring into the bar. The woman, whose nametag read Anko, jabbed a thumb towards the end of the bar. “From your buddy down there.”
Buddy?
The person separating them slides off their stool and stumbles out. Baki sighed at the shock of wild, gray hair.
“You didn't have to do that.”
"Yeah," Kakashi agrees, not bothering to slip into the stool closer to Baki. He isn't exactly wary of him- Baki had seemed disinterested in continuing to punch him after their little dust-up had concluded and Kakashi had unlocked his jaw from the meat of his shoulder- but he likes his personal space. He's drinking a sprite through a ridiculous straw, and holding a zip bag with a frozen damp paper towel to his black eye.
Bastard hit him on his good side.
Their fight didn't even rank in the top twenty most painful; most of those belonged to Carson, or some of the guys in his old unit. Baki probably wasn't hitting him as hard as he could, considering the guy has biceps that are bigger than Kakashi's thighs and fists like hammers. All the same, he figured it was just polite to buy him a beer for not crushing his skull on the front lawn in front of Sasuke and his own three shiny new bad ass little shits. It's no skin off his back, considering he'd stolen Officer Reeves' wallet when he'd come to 'break up the fight' after it was already over.
"You got insurance, man?" he asks absently, stirring his sprite with his stupid fucking straw. "If you do, you should go get your shoulder checked out. People have fucked up mouths, you don't want a staph infection or nothin'."
Says the guy that fuckin' bit him, right?