IMPORTANT TO READ! PLEASE!
Okay. Well, what can I say? I've been hit with the Glee bug. This is my take of Glee and Naruto combined. That being said, don't expect an exact repeat of the Glee plot with only Naruto characters. I've taken some creative liberties.
1) I'm making something's a little different. I'm not a big fan of songfics, where I have to scroll down and I'll see these lyrics but I have no idea what song they are from, so then I have to stop my reading to search up the lyrics to play the song. Plus, the lyrics themselves can sometimes be boring to read. So, at the beginning of each chapter that has lyrics or songs playing in them, I'll have a Playlist. And under that playlist with be the name and artist of the song(s) that is featured in that chapter. So I would suggest, you find that song first, and listen to it while you're reading.
Also, I won't always be putting the whole lyrics up on the chapter. I might only do that if 1) I really love the song or 2) There are multiple people singing. The lyrics I do put are probably significant in some way to the plot or I really just love those words.
2) Hinata is the main character. But I have no idea who to pair her with. I'm going back and forth on two characters in particular. So I want your input. In every review from different chapters, tell me who you want Hinata to be with. It doesn't matter if you are telling me in every single review that it should be one pairing. I just want to know what you guys think. But, keep your minds open. Don't just stick to a particular pairing because that is the pairing you like in the anime/manga. My versions of the characters are OOC.
Okay? Alright! On with it then.
Playlist: Life is a Highway by Tom Cochrane.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Glee. But damn, do I wish I did (at least a little bit).
Okaa-san…
"Sweetheart, never forget that music can express what the heart keeps hidden."
Okaa-san…
"To me, music is food for the soul and balm for its wounds."
Okaa-san… Why?
"Hanabi, stop playing your game. You're going to get a headache."
Hinata pulled her self from her semi-conscious state. Blinking away her sleepiness, she shifted her eyes to notice her father's stare at her sister.
Hanabi's groan from behind her was annoyingly loud. "Awwwwww! Dad, it's a PSP and if I don't play it, I'm gonna DIE of boredom before we even get there!"
Hiashi shrugged lightly from the driver's seat. "We could play 'I Spy'?"
Hanabi scowled. "We did already. For the first 20 minutes before you almost crashed looking for my something orange."
Hiashi fought down a flush. "Fine. Just don't complain to me about your headache when you get it."
The car was filled with silence. Hinata gazed almost blankly out the window, seeing the landscape pass by yet not absorbing what she saw. Though, technically, there is nothing to absorb. Just the occasional cars and the trees. Everything sort of blurs together – a mass of green and brown.
Hinata's gaze flipped to her father and then to her sister using the side mirror. Hinata's eyes narrowed behind her aviator glasses (the cool ones where you can't see the wearer's eyes because it's a mirror and all you see is the reflection). She could see the tension in her father and the irritation in her sister. Hinata closed her eyes as she receded into her memories.
Okaa-san. What would you do? How was it that you cheered up Otou-san and imouto-chan?
Hinata's eyes snapped open. Of course.
Quick as a butterfly, she stretched out her sore muscles using some fast pulls and turns. Reaching down, she disconnected her headphones from her iPod so she could connect her iPod to the car's stereo.
Hiashi looked down in confusion as he kept driving. "Hinata. What are you doing?"
Hinata didn't even look up from her task of scrolling through the music. "The silence is unbearable. Let's sing along."
Tom Cochrane's Life is a Highway came blaring on the speakers. Hinata felt her body come alive as she bopped to the beat of the opening guitar. She looked behind her as Hanabi was leaning forward with barely hidden excitement, closing her PSP. Her father was smirking as his fingers tapped on the steering wheel.
"Otou-san! Start it off," cried out Hanabi.
Hiashi smirked as he let his deep baritone voice flow the lyrics out.
"Life's like a road that you travel on
When there's ne day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend and sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your head to the wind
There's a world outside every darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won't hesitate
Break down the garden's gate
There's not much time left today"
The girls all grinned as they belted out the chorus.
"Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long"
Hinata giggled as she watched her father get into the music of his secret favourite road trip songs. Hanabi was rocking the air guitar in the back and Hinata just kept swaying to the song.
Hiashi continued his singing:
"Through all these cities and all these towns
It's in my blood and it's all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights
Knock me down get back up again
You're in my blood
I'm not a lonely man
There's no load I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors"
Hinata and Hanabi jumped in for the chorus.
"Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long"
Hiashi smirked at his girls as he took lead once more.
"Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
There was a distance between you and I
A misunderstanding once
But now we look in the eye
OH~!
Hinata laughed as Hanabi from the back faked the harmonica.
There ain't no load that I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors"
Hinata turned back to her sister as they practically yelled out the last of the song.
"Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah"
Hanabi cheered, "encore! Encore!" While Hinata politely applauded her father, causing her father to do a small mock bow to his adoring audience.
Hinata continued to let her iPod play some songs, some the family sung to, and some they just bopped their heads to.
So much has changed in these 3 months. Before, Otou-san didn't let music into his house. He didn't understand the power of music, how it can manipulate your emotions. You can cry to one song then turn around and burst from excitement because of another. Besides, music is the only thing we have left of Okaa-san…
I guess it's only fitting music's come back. Because in the end, we've come back to the beginning.
So, you're done the prologue! Read and review so I know what you think.
Also PLEASE! Give me some songs to use in the chapters. I would prefer some older music and songs from musicals.
Oh, I'm looking for a beta-reader. Not that my current ones are not amazing, but they, like me, are swamped by university right now. So, if you have a few moments to spare and you like the sound of this prologue right now, message me on .
-Ramen.