AU: So, this is my new fic. I like my idea for this, and LOVe to hear yours. This a NaruXHina story, but there will be twists and turns. Don't worry about that! Um well I guess read and review and more importantly enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters, I also do not own th song Hinata sings in the flashback, Bayside does. It's called Devotion and Desire. I do own the band's name however.

"speaking"

'thinking'

flashback

Lyrics

That's just for people who don't understand the obvious.

"Alright, we'll start with why you should become the new singer of Artica?" The blonde boy asked.

Everything came to her at once. She could answer conceitedly, or nicely, or just stutter her way through. Hinata starred at the panel in front of her. A slightly annoyed looking boy with paler skin and raven black-blue spiked back hair. The other boy, her lifetime crush, well it wasn't exactly a lifetime crush, but since the first day she had heard them, and had seen them she knew he was it. The hyper active lead guitarist, who had as much stage energy as he did normal energy.

The band had lost their old lead singer and bassist, rumors went around the two were together and left to be alone with each other, but it was never confirmed. She opened her mouth to speak; words as fragile as she was began to trip out. "I.-I…I think I should be the new singer because...because um I've always been a big fan, and I thought this was a good opportunity to try…" she paused and gulped before restarting, "to try to be…apart of s-something, th-th-that I've always wanted to…to…um try." She gulped again, hoping she hadn't sounded to dumb, or mix her thoughts up without noticing.

The two boys looked at her. The blonde looked down at the papers she had given him when she walked in. "Alright, fair enough. Let's hear you sing." The boy glanced at the paper. "Uh, what will you be singing? It's not on here?"

The girl blinked, "Oh, uh that's…that's because I-I was going to sing an original. Is…is that ok?"

The blonde guitarist blinked, and looked at his fellow band mate. He gave a scoff and shrug to show he didn't care as long as they moved this along. Hinata tugged at the strap that lay across her chest. She took a deep breath and sighed. "Do you have you guitar?" she asked, head lowered.

The blonde blinked again. "Yeah, my acoustic is in the corner. Why?"

Hinata pulled the case off her back and sat herself on the ground, taking the soft case with her. She unzipped a larger pocket and held out a piece of paper with scribbles of writing on it. "Could you play this while I play my bass?" The boy smiled and stood up, walking behind the foldable table. He returned with a satin finish curvy body guitar.

He sat on the floor beside her. She handed him the piece of paper, blushing, noticing a small part of her fanatical dream was happening. She was playing with The Uzumaki Naruto, and singing next to him. Butterfly monsoons swirled in her stomach. She watched as Naruto scanned the paper. "Well, this is a little difficult. Strumming pattern is this right?" He held a 'G' chord and strummed one, two, one, two just as she wrote it. She nodded. Hinata retrieved her deep purple bass from it protective soft gig bag case. "Ready?" she asked him.

He glanced at the chords and patterns a couple more times, "I think, keeping going though if I mess up. I'll try to jump back in." he flashed her a quick smile before looking back down at the paper on the floor. Hinata gave one last nervous glance towards the drummer waiting somewhat impatiently at the table. Taking another deep breath, she started, "One, Two, One, Two ready go…" she said in tempo.

Naruto did his best picking the first few measures, struggling once getting to the second line, but Hinata's fingers glided up and down the bass's neck moving side to side to perform her original piece. The beats went off in her head, One and, Two and,…"

I'm trying to create something that's not there.
A spark I saw. A bomb is really just a means to an end.
I was just so happy to be out of my shell again, don't think that I really cared for who or what.
I'll just have to keep myself shut.

If you're not ready, you're not ready.
Please stop acting like you are.

How could I know that everything you say are lies about devotion and desire?
I know the spark inside your eyes
was just the match I used to set myself on fire

Hinata stopped playing, and Naruto followed suit when he didn't hear the black-purple haired girl sing anymore. "Oh, sorry that's all I have so far."

Naruto stood up his acoustic guitar in hand as he walked to the table where the drummer was still starring with interest. He and the blonde whispered to each other, occasionally glancing at the clipboard and her. She kept her head low, her pale irises starring at her twiddling thumbs. "Well, Hinata, I have good news and bad news which do you want first?"

She thought for a second, "Bad new." She'd need something to look forward too.

"Well, I'm going to give you the good news first instead. The good news is…we're choosing you to be our new lead singer and bassist. Bad news is you don't have enough attitude, so we're going to have to teach it to you. So, are you in?"

Her head shot up at the news, of course she was in. forget she didn't have the right 'attitude' that could be fixed. She had been chosen. "Yeah, I'm in." For one she said something with confidence.

"Where's Kakashi at? He's thirty minutes late! This is a BIG deal!" Naruto shouted in the third floor conference room of the Kohana's Killer Music building. Kohana's Killer Music is a big deal; they only sign the best of the underground bands floating around Kohana. Artica had gotten signed by them their third year being together, and a year later the singer and bassist left.

The three of them sat around the long table in different seats. Sasuke had changed his seat about four times. Naruto gave up on sitting and decided to lay at the other end. "You know he's always late, but god this is the first time he's meeting her. You think he'd at least show up ten minutes late." Naruto didn't reply he just picked up a paper laying on the table and placed it over his mouth blowing it up and down.

Hinata sat in the chair not saying a word, twiddling her thumbs once again, starring ahead at the large wood table. It had been a month since she joined, they'd already written three songs with music to accompany them, and four that were still in the acoustic process. Hinata had written all the songs with help from Sasuke or Naruto every now and then, but everyone helped with the music. "I say we give him three seconds, or we leave."

Sasuke agreed. Naruto started the countdown to one. "One, One and one half, Two, Two and half," He stood up off the table and the other two stood as well. As Naruto opened his mouth to say the last and final number the door clicked opened. A man in a black sports jacket, and dress pants with a scarf covering his lower face and neck. "Just in time. Everyone head back to doom." Naruto said sarcastically.

The man starred at Naruto before hitting him a maroon three ring binder on the head. He sat in the chair next to him, Naruto sat across from him and Sasuke on his left, and Hinata moved herself to the right of him. "So, Kakashi, what's this spontaneous meeting about?"

"Well, I want to talk to you three about the start of a new CD and a promotional concert. Think of it as a coming out for…uh…what's your name?"

Hinata looked up, "I'm Hyuuga Hinata."

So that's the first installment. Please review and email any other thoughts or ideas.

Thanks for reading.