Hello again, faithful fanfiction readers! Long, loonnnggg time, no stories. So this one is new. But beware! It's actually not new, I wrote it a year or three ago. I wrote the entire thing while I didn't have internet, so I never posted it. Then I basically forgot about and it sat in my files and collected dust. Now it has come time to release it though, so here it is! Anything not in bold was written when the story was. Hope you enjoy! (LOTS of chapters to come, I will update once a week. Maybe more if I get lots of sweet reviews...)
I was playing Guitar Hero earlier and I thought of how cool it would be to write a fic where they played guitar hero, but then it thought it would be cooler if it were a real guitar and one thing led to another, to create this!
Not to mention, I just got my second and third ear piecing, and I FEEL LIKE A ROCKER! Yeah, I know, I'm a dork. I have an icon that says 'I may be a loser but I'm the coolest loser you'll ever know!'. So true. At least, to my friends it's true.
Disclaimer- I do not own Naruto or any of it's characters. The song and lyrics of Paralyzer belong to Finger Eleven.
If you have never heard of that song, check it out, you might like it. I love it.
Warning, slight Sakura bashing but not till later chapters. Yay Sakura bashing! Don't worry, its nowhere close to as bad as Glue for a Broken Heart's Sakura bashing. That was pretty harsh...I almost feel bad now...oh well. Sympathy should not be wasted on her whiney ass.
Sasuke Uchiha was just a normal teen rocker. He loved to play guitar, and girls crawled on him like bees on honey. He had money, left by his deceased parents, he had connections that could bring his band to stardom, hell, he even had a dedicated drummer and keyboardist. His problem? He didn't have a singer.
Sure, not a big deal, go find a singer. The fifteen year old went through singers like most people go through toilet paper. One minute he had himself a singer and he was on the train to stardom, then that train slammed into the big brick wall of realization, and his singer was gone. They all had their reasons, not the type of music they had hoped for, trouble cooperating with band members, scared to death of band member's siblings (that was Gaara's fault) and even just flat out 'I don't like your attitude'. The latter being the most common. Sasuke had to admit, his attitude was not the best, but it cost him many good singers. His drummer, Temari, constantly told him to at least pretend to be sweet, but he couldn't. The raven haired rocker was not a people person.
His last singer, an average guy, had called Sasuke about ten minutes ago to tell him that his grandma was in the hospital, and he had to move away to go take care of her. Translation: I don't like your band, your attitude sucks, your keyboardist is a lazy bastard and your drummer is a raving lunatic. Which, when you thought about it, was basically true. But Sasuke liked it that way, and if somebody couldn't deal with him and his two best friends, then they could go rot for all he cared.
Other than that, Sasuke had no problems. He had a lot of cool friends (the few people that didn't mind his attitude) and he could have almost any girl he wanted. He had no money problems, he had no family to stress over, and he had his guitars. He was a healthy teen living a laid back and problem free life.
Except for the singer problem. Which, of course, was his biggest problem.
Sasuke lay stretched out on his bed, thinking over everything for the thousandth time. Everything fit into place, except for the singer. It felt like he had put together a puzzle of himself, to find out the one piece with his face on it, was missing. That final piece. The black cell phone on his nightstand vibrated, then a recorded drum solo came pounding out of the phone's speakers. It was Temari.
"Hey Sasuke! Wassup?"
"The ceiling."
"Haha. Well, I just called to tell you about the festival tonight."
"Yeah, I already heard."
"Well, you're coming. I just bought four tickets!"
"Four?"
"Yeah, my baby brother is tagging along."
"Oh, sounds like we'll have the whole place to ourselves"
"Oh shut up. He isn't that scary, and he likes festivals, believe it or not."
"Whatever. Have fun."
"You are coming if I have to drag you by your eyelids."
"Fine, I'm coming."
"See you around five!"
"See ya."
He peeked at the time, then shut the phone and set it down, staring at his ceiling once again. Temari always made him come to these things. She said it was good for his attitude. And this one, the graduation festival, was one of the biggest festivals there was. He wasn't graduating, but neither were most of the people that were going. They went to celebrate the end of the school year in general.
Sasuke was almost asleep, when a piano version of Beethoven's 5th came flowing out of his phone. Shikimaru. He sighed and reached for the phone, flipping it open and putting it to his ear.
"Hey."
"Hey, is Temari dragging you along too?
"yeah." Sasuke sighed. "of course. Gaara is coming too."
"oh, well at least he doesn't try to kill me for being too close to Temari."
"Yeah."
"Okay, well, I'm picking Temari up at four thirty, so we should be there around five."
"Yeah, she told me."
"Okay. See ya then."
"Nn."
Sasuke set his phone down again. He heard his dryer turn off, and sighed. Great, laundry. I hate doing laundry. Reluctantly, got up and pulled the warm clothing out of the machine. He plopped them down on his bed and started folding, setting aside his outfit for tonight - black pants, white sleeveless shirt, and his black leather jacket to go over. After putting the laundry away, he pulled on his clothes, adding a studded leather belt to the outfit. He put on his necklace: a string of leather that wrapped around his neck about seven times, and had a bat charm on it. Running a brush through his gravity defying hair, he examined himself, then slipped his feet into a pair of black boots. Finally, he went to the kitchen and threw together a sandwich, which he ate while waiting for his friends.
Sasuke walked side by side with Gaara, Temari and Shikimaru walking in front of them. While Temari, Shikimaru, and Gaara were eating at a food stand, Sasuke snuck off to karaoke stage. He took a seat on the bleachers and looked up at the stage. The blonde that was singing now was drunk, and about halfway through the song, her boyfriend, a dark haired man, dragged his drunken pigtailed girlfriend away. There were many singers, a few good ones, a few bad ones, but mostly average. After a shy purple haired girl sang, Sasuke was about to leave, when a voice caught his attention. Not just the voice, the song as well, Paralyzer by Finger Eleven. The voice that was singing it was incredible. The song was Sasuke's favorite, and he was impressed. He sat back down and looked up at the stage. There was a blonde boy on the stage, belting out the lyrics enthusiastically. He was wearing orange cargo pants and a black tank top, black spike wristcuffs and a large grin on his face. The guitar solo ended and the boy started singing again.
Well I'm not paralyzed,
but I seem to be struck by you.
I wanna make you move,
Because your standing still.
If your body matches what your eyes can do,
You'll probably move right through,
Me on my way to you!
Sasuke could have sworn the blonde was staring at him, and it was very possible, since there weren't many people there. The blonde finished the song, winked at Sasuke, and skipped away from the microphone after a dramatic bow. Sasuke sat there, dumbfounded, then regained his senses and stood abruptly, walking swiftly in the direction the boy had went. He found him at a ramen stand a few minutes later. After ordering a small bowl of ramen, he turned to the boy. Be polite. Nice, cheerful and polite.
"Um, I saw you singing... you are an amazing singer." Sasuke said.
"I saw you too." he replied cheerfully, slurping up his ramen.
"Well, I was wondering if you were interested in singing for a band."
The boy's eyes lit up. "Seriously?"
"Yeah, I'm the guitarist, and we need a singer. I have connections with some people that could get us into the band battle this month."
"Ah, wow, I can't believe it!"
"So are you interested?"
"What's the band called?"
Sasuke was about to answer when he realized, he didn't have an answer. His band never had established a name. "Uh, we haven't decided on a name yet, we were waiting to get a singer."
"Hm, okay, I accept. I'm Naruto Uzumaki." He stuck out his hand.
"Sasuke Uchiha." Sasuke shook his hand, then watched as he slurped the rest of his ramen down. Naruto eyed Sasuke's untouched bowl, and Sasuke pushed it to him.
"Yay! Thanks Sasuke!" That bowl of ramen quickly disappeared as well. Sasuke paid for both of theirs, and the two wondered into the crowd. "Thank you for letting me join your band, I'm so happy!"
"No problem, I'm surprised you didn't already belong to a band, with your singing talent." Sasuke was trying to be as cheery as possible, not wanting to loose such a gem so early on because of his crappy attitude.
"Nope, I've never sang in a public place before. But I love singing!"
"Well, good thing you aren't afraid of crowds."
"Yeah. So, when am I going to meet the rest of your band?"
"Do you want to meet them now?"
"Yeah!"
Sasuke pulled out his phone and hit the speed dial for Temari.
"Hey, where are you!" her voice yelled through the phone.
"We just left a ramen stand."
"We?"
"Me and our new singer."
"Go Sasuke!" Temari cheered. "I think I see you, are you standing next to a blonde guy?"
"Yeah, that's our singer."
"Sweet, be there in a sec." The phone clicked off and a few seconds later, his three friends materialized out of the crowd.
"Hi Sasuke, care to introduce him?"
"Yeah. Guys, this is Naruto. Naruto, this is Temari, the drummer, Shikimaru, the keyboardist, and Gaara, Temari's brother."
"Cool!"
The group walked through the festival, stopping to play games and win prizes. Gaara won the biggest prize - a giant teddy bear. While they were waiting for the man to get the bear down from the shelf, a large crowd of hyper teens came running through. Naruto grabbed Sasuke's sleeve just in time, but Temari Gaara, and Shikimaru were lost in the crowd. Sasuke tried calling them, but they must have not been able to hear their phones, because neither of them picked up. Naruto and Sasuke even looked for them for a while, then decided it was too much trouble, so they would just wait for them to turn up. It was almost midnight, and the three were nowhere to be seen.
"Sasuke, maybe they will be at the fireworks show, you think?"
"Maybe, lets go anyways. If they don't turn up, I'll try calling them again."
"Okay." They were headed to the fireworks area, when Naruto grabbed Sasuke's arm and pulled him into a store. He pulled a baseball cap out of his pocket and put it on, then pretended to look at the jewelry that the man who owned the booth was selling.
"Naruto? What are you doing?"
"See those tall guys that are walking that way? I'm hiding from them."
"Any particular reason?"
"It's complicated."
"Nn."
When they guys were further away, Naruto stuffed the hat back in his pocket and they continued on their way to the fireworks show. They got there, and stretched out on the grass like everyone else was, then waited for the fireworks to start. Sasuke was staring off into space when a loud pop startled him into a sitting position. The sky lit up and people started clapping.
"Those guys want to beat me up. They belong to a gang, and I was dating a girl, who turned out to be cheating on me, with the gang leader. Now that entire gang is out to get me. It's annoying, but its okay, they've only caught me twice." Naruto said, not once taking his attention away from the fireworks.
"you mean they beat you up twice?"
"yeah. No big deal though."
"I'll kick their asses for you if you want."
"nah, they would probably beat you, fifteen to one isn't good odds."
"Whatever. Tell me if you change your mind."
"Okay." They sat quietly and watched the show for a few minutes, then Naruto pulled a pen out of his pocket and took Sasuke's arm. He started to write something on it.
"Why are you writing on my arm?"
"Do you have any paper?"
"No"
"Neither do I. Don't worry, it comes off." He finished writing and Sasuke looked at his arm. An email address was scribbled on it, then an arrow pointed to 'Naru'. Naruto held his arm out and handed Sasuke the pen.
"Write yours." he said, grinning. Sasuke took the pen and carefully wrote his email address.
"There."
"Thanks! You can email me anytime, my computer is always on."
"Isn't that bad for the computer?"
"Probably."
Sasuke smiled, (a rare occurrence) and looked up just in time to see the finale of the fireworks. The sky lit up with the words 'Happy Summer Vacation!' and the crowd cheered. Sasuke felt his phone vibrate and heard the familiar drum solo start up.
"Hey Temari, we were looking for you guys."
"I know I know, we got sucked up into a crowd of idiotic teens who were screaming about some famous guy they swear they saw. It turned out to be the wrong guy, but they didn't figure that out until the entire group had glomped him. I hope he doesn't have too many broken bones."
"I guess I'll meet you at the car."
"yeah. See you there. Ask Naru if he needs a ride, Shika said he doesn't mind."
He hung up the phone and looked at Naruto.
"Do you have a ride home?"
"Do, I'll call a cab."
"That's okay, Shikimaru said he'll give you a ride."
"Really? Thanks!"
A few minutes later, they were piling into Shikimaru's car, which was slightly cramped, since Gaara insisted that the teddy bear had his own seat. Sasuke found himself jammed between a window and the new singer.
They arrived at Naruto's apartment and he crawled out of the car. "Thanks for the ride, and thank you for letting me join your band, I'm so happy!"
"No problem! See you on Monday?"
"Yep!"
"Great. Bye!"
"Buh-bye!" He chirped, skipping away.
So, how do ya like it so far? Yeah, I know, not very exciting for a first chapter, but this is just the 'setup chapter', the fun is gonna start next chappy. Sorry if there are more mistakes than usual, I'm using a different keyboard and its kinda weird...I don't know, it just doesn't feel the same.
(later edit: actually, now I'm using a laptop. wow, this is ancient. lol)
Thanks =)