I just want to say that this is my first multi-chapter story, so please be nice. Oh, and I would like to say thanks to BookWrymm because she is really nice, she helped me figure out how to put the lines separating the different sections, and she is an amazing writer! Go read her story Cindersoot!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto or any of the characters. I do, however, own Sakachi, the band names, and any future characters added.
Summary: At last year's Battle of the Bands, the 2 bands F.R.E.A.K. OUT and RIPTIDE tied in first place, resulting in neither getting the trophy. Now this year's battle is coming up and both bands have announced they are going to be there, making the town's teens divide into Freaks and Rips. What's this? A third band has also announced they are going to be there! "Guys, come on, they can't be that good. I mean, The Screams? You've got to be kidding me," Naruto said, pushing the door open in the practice hall. "Oh my god," Sakura said, listening to the music around her, the girl singing. "If that's the girl, we're in trouble."
"Naruto! Have you lost your mind?" Sakura screeched, scaring everyone within a mile radius.
"NO! Don't kill me Sakura! I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!" Everyone was standing around watching as the pink haired nerd held up the blue eyed boy in a chokehold. Gaara grabbed his sister's hand and made her put Naruto down. He opened his mouth to say something put was cut off by the she-devil.
"Look what the cat dragged in," a white blonde said, sneering at the group of nerds on the ground outside.
"Look what the possum threw up. Garbage," Sakura said glaring at Ami.
"What did you say?" Ami asked, raising her hand as if to slap Sakura.
"Nothing," Hinata said quickly.
"That's what I thought," Hana said, glaring at her cousin. Tenten growled lightly.
"Let's go," Ami said, "before their ugly wears off on us." The 2 sluts and 3 manwhores walked off.
"Yeah, wouldn't want you any uglier," Naruto said once she out of earshot, "you might turn everyone blind." When Ino heard that she busted out laughing while Naruto grinned.
"Anyway," Neji said, smirking, "we got to figure out how we are going to announce that we are going to be at the battle."
While our favorite teens think of a way to think of possible way to announce F.R.E.A.K. OUT, I'm going to describe them to you. All of our teens dress like nerds while in school so they aren't noticed by the school unlike RIPTIDE who flaunt themselves around the school. The guys (Neji, Naruto, and Shikamaru) wore the school uniform a couple sizes too big to make them look scrawny along with a baseball cap to hide their hair. The girls wore the uniform skirts down to their knees, the shirts and vests that make them look flat, and the knee-high socks along with chunky black shoes. Their hair was up in buns except Tenten because she had two. Sakura and Gaara wear thick black square glasses, Hinata and Neji wore sunglasses to hide their eyes, Naruto and Ino wore Harry Potter glasses, while Tenten and Shikamaru had none.
"I got it!" Hinata shouted. (She doesn't stutter in this)
"What is it?" Ino asked, sitting down next to Sakura as they all faced her.
"We get Tsunade-sama to let Shizune announce to the whole school over the P.A. system that F.R.E.A.K. OUT is going to be at the battle." Hinata said, looking at them.
"That is genius! No wonder we kept you around," Sakura said, "other than you're badass bass playing, of course."
"Thanks," Hinata said, her voice dripping sarcasm.
"Anyway, how are we going to convince Tsunade?" Shikamaru asked, yawning. Everyone looked at Sakura.
"Oh-no. I am not going up to Shishou and asking if we can get Shizune to do this. Nope. No way."
Ten Minutes Later
"…and that's why I think it would be a good idea if Shizune can announce over the P.A. system that F.R.E.A.K. OUT is coming to the battle," Sakura finished. Tsunade just stared at the pinkette.
"You really want me to do this?" She asked. Sakura nodded her head frantically.
"Alright, I'll do it. But on one condition."
"What's that, Shishou?"
"You beat RIPTIDE into the ground."
Sakura smiled sweetly. "It would be my pleasure." Sakura turned and walked out of the office. She jogged down the hall to the front doors and screamed to her friends who were on the steps, waiting for her, "SHE'LL DO IT!"
"Yes! Now we have to go practice." Naruto said, getting up and running towards the front gates. Everyone shook their head but followed him anyway.
At Hyuga House
"Okay, what song are we practicing?" Neji said from the sound box.
"I don't know. Should we do one of our old songs?" Sakura asked, setting up the mics.
"Yeah! We should do the duet we wrote last year," Naruto said, "because this year we need a duet for the finals." Everyone agreed that they should do the duet because it's awesome and it's the only duet they have written, as Hinata so kindly pointed out.
"How are we going to do the duet with both our lead guitarists singing and performing?" Naruto asked.
"We could get Shikamaru to help out with the tech stuff backstage and Neji could play that song," Sakura suggested, shrugging her shoulders. They all agreed to that, not seeing another solution. So while they practiced their song in the (soundproof) basement of the Hyuga house, somebody else was outside spray painting a sign on the town's highest family's gate wall.
Next Day
Beep….beep….beep….beep….be-Crash!
"Goddammit! Gaara is going to kill me! That's the 13th one this month!" Sakura groaned, rolling over to face the clock. "How much more time do I have to sleep?" She muttered, glaring at the green mess that used to be her clock. It blinked up at her 7:45. She rolled back over and closed her eyes, thinking '7:45. I could sleep for ten more minutes, get up, eat, then-WAIT! 7:45!' she rolled back over (again) and picked up her alarm clock.
"Shit! What am I doing laying here? I got to get ready!" She jumped out of bed and ran to her closet and started throwing everything out of it. She finally found her clean uniform and hurried to put it on as she hopped to the bathroom to brush her hair and teeth. 10 minutes later she came flying out of the bathroom and out her door, only to come right back in and grab her glasses. She ran down the stairs to see her brother holding her shoes and a piece of toast she ran past, grabbing both things, and out the door to she Hinata outside against her car. She smiled sheepishly as she got in the passenger seat as her brother slid in the back.
"Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!" she said to Hinata, hugging her.
"You're welcome. Just," she sighed, "just try to wake up on time. You know how much I hate bringing my car to school. It makes me feel like……Ami," she looked at Sakura as Sakura busted out laughing.
"Trust me. You turn into Ami; I'll be the first to turn you back. Besides," she said nonchalantly, "Naruto wouldn't like that very much." That earned a whack to the back of the head.
"Mou, what was that for?" Sakura whined, rubbing the back of her head.
"For almost making Hinata faint," Gaara said, pointing at Hinata. Her face was as red as a dodge ball.
"I'm sorry, Hina-chan! Don't Faint! We would get into an accident! And then Kiki would get scratched!" Sakura said, waving her hands around as she got out the car.
"What are you babbling about?" Shikamaru asked.
"KIKI!" Sakura screamed, just as Ami was walking by.
"Aw, Sakura, are you speaking in your native language?" Ami said as her posse laughed behind her.
"No Ami, I was trying out you language. Banshee," Sakura said as her friends laughed behind her, mocking RIPTIDE.
"Listen here, you freak," she said to Sakura (she doesn't know how right she is), "I am the queen around here and you are the lowly peasant. So you do not talk to me; you do not insult me; you don't even look at me. Do you get that?"
"Yeah, I get it. I mean who would even want to look at you? You're hideous. So I can oblige to not looking at you or talking to you. But expect insults because," Sakura looked her up and down, "sluts always have insults thrown at them." She turned around and walked away.
"Wow, do you know what you just did?" Tenten asked her as she walked towards the front door of school.
"Um, stood up to Ami?" Sakura said, confused.
"Yes but we aren't F.R.E.A.K. OUT right now."
"…," Sakura stopped in front of the door to homeroom, "Oh, shit."
"Hell yeah, 'Oh shit'. Do you want her to find out?"
"No. But just forget it for now. You can chew me out later. We're going to be late for class." Sakura turned and walked through the door. She and Tenten sat down in their desks at the front as the rest of the band walked through the door. Not even 10 minutes later did the teacher come in.
"Sorry I'm late class, I had to hel…," he was cut off by a "LIAR!" from the whole class. He shook his head and continued.
"Today, class, we get 3 new students." He motioned for the door to open and in came 3 teens with baggy jackets zipped all the way up and hoods on. They also had on sunglasses and kept their heads down so nobody can see their faces.
"You can sit over there," Kakashi said, pointing to three seats in the corner. The female one of the three sat in the exact corner, while the thinner male sat in front of her and the last sat next to her.
"We also have a new teacher. I am at the understanding that he is you elder brother?" Kakashi asked. The thinner male raised his hand. "Yes?"
"He is my elder cousin," the boy said in a low voice which almost nobody caught.
"Ah. Well, he has asked if you would call him sensei or teacher. Nothing else," Kakashi said, picking up his orange book. "Now if you will excuse me, you can do what ever you want." Suddenly everyone started talking and moving desks to talk to their friends. Naruto got up and started walking towards the new kids.
"Hi, I'm Uzumaki Naruto. What are you names?" he asked, holding his hand out. Both of the males said "Hn," and ignored him. But the girl slipped her small, cold hand into his much larger, warm hand.
"I am Sakachi. Nice to meet you." She spoke with perfect articulation and as if she was royalty. She lifted her face to meet his and his eyes widened. Her face was completely covered. She wore a mask over the bottom half of her face, with large sunglasses over lapping the edge of the mask and a black baseball cap. She had all her hair gathered up into the baseball cap and the hood up over it.
"Are you okay?" Naruto asked, not noticing how it came out. But if it came out rude, she didn't care. She laughed and continued speaking.
"Yes, I am okay," she chuckled lightly, "I just like to conceal my identity."
"If you don't mind me asking, what does conceal mean?"
"Hide," she said.
"Ohhhh," Naruto said, a look of understanding on his face. The guy sitting next to her snorted and shook his head. Naruto looked at him with narrowed eyes and opened his mouth to say something but was beaten to it.
"Aniki," she hissed, "be nice."
"Fine," he said.
"Apologize." He tilted his head upward and, just like his sisters, his whole face was covered and his hair was in his hat.
"I'm sorry," he turned toward the girl, "Happy?"
"Yes!" and Naruto thought if she didn't have that mask on, she would be grinning. While all this was happening, his friends were watching him in wonder. Suddenly they heard him ask,
"Do you want to meet my friends?"
"I would love to," Sakachi said, "but we can't"
"Why not?"
"It's…," she hesitated, "complicated."
"What's so complicated about meeting new people? Come on." He grabbed her hand and pulled her with him. Both boys started to growl but when they heard Sakachi's laughter, they calmed down and went with her.
"Guys," Naruto said, "meet Sakachi." He gestured to girl next to him. She waved lightly and said,
"Hello." Sakura walked up to her.
"My name's Sakura. Nice to meet you."
"Likewise," Sakachi said, bowing her head slightly. She turned to the boys behind her. She pointed at the thin one.
"This is Sai. He is my cousin," she turned to the other.
"And this is Sasuke. He's my twin brother." As she said this, she grabbed his arm and laid her head against it. Sakura turned around and started to name people.
"The one with the pineapple shaped hair is Shikamaru, the blonde girl next to him is Ino. The guy with the long hair in a low ponytail and sunglasses is Neji and you know Naruto. The girl with the two buns on her head is Tenten and the girl with the blue hair and sunglasses is Hinata," she turned to red head boy next to her, "this is my twin brother, Gaara. The teacher is our dad." She shrugged and turned back to Sakachi. "And that's it."
"Oh," Sakachi said, "well do you guys have Math?" They all nodded yes.
"That's my older brother," she said proudly.
"Does he dress like you?" Shikamaru asked very rudely. Ino wacked him in the back of the head.
"Ow! What was that for?"
"For being rude," Ino said, crossing her arms across her chest. Sakachi laughed.
"It's okay and yes, he does dress like us." The bell suddenly rang and everyone jumped. They all ran out of the room and laughed.
"Well, it was nice meeting you," Sakachi said, standing in-between Sasuke and Sai.
"You too," Tenten said, "we should hangout sometime."
"I would like that." They saw her mask move and it looked like she was smiling. The 3 of them started walking down the hallway. Sakachi looked back and waved. Everybody waved back. They all headed to their classes, happy they have somebody outside of the band that liked them.
After school
The band was walking out of the school when they heard Tsunade's voice come over the intercom.
"Please report to the auditorium for an important assembly." They all looked at each other and headed to the auditorium. When they got there, they took their seats and looked towards the stage to see Tsunade standing there with an angered look on her face.
"Uh-oh," Hinata whispered, "this can't be good."
"I have called this assembly because something has happened in our town. Something bad." She glared at all the students in there. "Somebody decided to make their battle of the bands declaration on the front of our sacred family's wall. The Uchiha's wall." She shook her head. "whoever did this I expect you to come clean about it by the end of the week, exactly on the day before the finals. This band, The Screams," She turned on the projector to show the intricately spray painted sign on the wall with the bands name in the middle, "will not be punished or kicked out. We just want to know who did it." Tsunade looked out into the crowd, hoping that someone would raise their hand, but no one did. "Okay then, if no one will come out with it , then you are dismissed."
Everyone left the auditorium. Sakura saw Sakachi and her family a little ways up.
"Sakachi!" Sakura yelled, waving her arms over her head. Sakachi turned around and waved. She ran to catch up with them.
"Hey," Sakachi said once Sakura was next to her.
"Hey, do you guys want to come hang out with us? We are going to the Hyuga compound," Sakura said.
"I would love to!" Sakachi exclaimed.
"Then come on." Sakura turned around to go back to her friends, but not before she saw Sakachi grabbing Sasuke and Si and waving goodbye to her older brother. She walked over to her friends and announced,
"They are coming with us to The House." When everybody's eyes widened, Sakachi asked,
"What's 'The House'?" Sakura turned on her.
"It's our town's highest family's house. Nobody's lived there since I was 8. And that's where The Screams painted their logo." She walked out of the gates and pointed down the street. "The Uchiha House. The biggest house ever. We have never actually got past the gate but tonight we thought if we have you guys, we might get in."
"Why do you think that?" Sai asked, talking for the first time.
"Because we always have 3 people on lookout. And this is big so we need 3 guys on lookout," she said, pointing at Naruto, Shikamaru, and Neji, "and we girls would never go in if we only had Gaara with us. We need more guys. That's where you come in. We would have 2 more guys with us." She pointed at Sasuke and Sai.
"But what if someone lives there?" Sakachi asked, fidgeting with her hands.
"If someone did live there, it would be all over town," Sakura said, waving her hand in a dismissing manner. "So, will you help us?" Sakachi turned her head towards Sasuke. He looked at her. She looked back at Sakura.
"We'll do it."
The group was standing in front of the Uchiha gates, looking at the big, big house. Neji, Naruto, and Shikamaru took up positions. Neji was in the tree, Naruto was in the bushes, and Shikamaru was behind the tree. Hinata opened her duffel and pulled out a walkie-talkie for everyone.
"Now, we only use these in emergencies. We can't just use them for fun." She looked at Sasuke and Sai. "You two will help Gaara in cracking the gate code. By my estimate, we should be in there b-," she was cut off by a high keening sound. They all looked towards the gate to see Sakachi standing by the code pad.
"How did you do that?" Tenten asked.
"The numbers were faded." She shrugged and walked through the gate. Suddenly a loud blaring rang through the air and they all covered their eyes. Sakachi turned her head left and right, looking for something. Suddenly she did a front flip into the grass and landed on something hard. The noise stopped.
"How did you do that?" Tenten asked again. Sakachi just shrugged and walked up to the front door. She opened the door and motioned for everyone to follow her. She disappeared into the dark house.
Wow. That took me about 5 hours to write. My cousins kept bugging me and right after I saved the chapter to my flashdrive and the computer, it crashed! So I had to walked my lazy butt to the library. Not fun.
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