Nartorious
N/A: I'm terribly sorry about this, but I'll be reposting Nartorious. Somehow someone managed to hacked into my account and deleted it. Also I have no ownership of Victorious or Naruto.
Chapter 1: Make It Shine
Victoria Vega also known as Tori Vega, a pretty well mannered sixteen year old girl was working on her science project was her classmate from Sherwood High School, Ian. The project they were working on was smelling and feeling a mold bush. And while they were going over it, they were soon interrupted by another teenage girl but older she was Katrina Vega aka Trina Vega, Tori's older sister."
"Ahh, I'm so upset!" Trina growled. "You won't believe who I got partnered up with for the Big Showcase."
"Who?" Tori asked, curious to know who it was that made her sister so angry.
"Andrew Harris, a tenth grader." she answered.
"What's the Big Showcase?" Ian asked, never hearing such an event.
"It's a performance they put on every year at Hollywood Arts, they-
"They invite agents, directors, producers, and other super powerful people in show business." Trina said cutting Tori off. "And it's extremely important to me, which is why I'm very upset because the person I have to work with is below my grade level."
"Oh, well that sucks!" Ian said, apathetic not seeing the problem.
"Yes it does, which is way I'm gonna need you to leave."
"What? But me and Tori have a project to complete."
Trina grabbed Ian's arm and walked him out the door then slammed it behind him."
"Trina?" Tori shouted, couldn't believe what her sister just did. "We were working on a project."
"So, you and what's his name can do your project some other time." she said like it was no big deal.
"My project is due tomorrow."
"Well you just forget about your stupid project? Andrew's coming over, and you've got help figure out what we're gonna do in the Big showcase. I definitely wanna sing a song."
"Why me?"
"You don't expect me to come up with everything myself do you?"
Tori didn't answer then the doorbell rang."
"Ugh, that must be him be him now!" Trina said, walking to the door. She opened the door and there was an African American boy with dreadlocks."
"Come in!" Trina said in a rude manner.
"Thanks, I think!" he said, walking inside the house.
"Tori this is Andrew, Andrew that's Tori." Trina introduced.
"Andre, my names Andre."
"Whatever, we've got work to do!"
"Hey!" Tori waved to Andre.
"Hey, you go go to Hollywood Arts, too?"
"No, I go to Sherwood. I'm not really a performer, just my sister."
"Yup. I was born with all the talent and the looks." she said, praising herself.
Andre nodded his head then his attention was lead to the Vega sister's piano. "Oh, nice piano!" Andre sat down at the piano and played a few keys, surprisingly he was good, very good.
"Oh, my god, you're fantastic!" Tori said, amazed by his musical talent.
"He's okay!" Trina said, clearly not impressed.
Andre give her an unsatisfied look then smelled something bad like it was rotten. He turned to Tori and sniffs her since the smell seem to be coming from her, Andre wonder what that awful stench was then he got his answer."
"It's fish mood!"
"Gross!" was the only thing he could say the moment.
Five days later, Tori had been helping Andre and Trina rehearse a song for the Big Showcase, Andre come up with the song "Make It Shine" and wrote it down for Trina to sing. Tori however felt like the passed five days have been five years of endless torture, having to listen to her sister sing which was horrible beyond words. But the only good thing that did happened to her was she and Andre became fast friends."
Andre was standing outside the Vega house, talking to his grandmother on his cellphone. "Grandma, don't worry nothing bad gonna happen to you. No grandma there's no way you can drown at my school...you're not gonna fall into a toilet either! Look I'll call you later, bye-bye."
As Andre hung up his phone Tori came out carrying two glasses of green punch and offers Andre one.
"So is your grandmother's going to the Big Showcase?" Tori asked, overhearing his rather odd conversation.
"Yeah, it's going to be the first time she's left the house in six years."
"Why?" she asked, wondering how she can be cooped up for so long.
"Cause the woman's afraid of everything." Andre pointed out. "People, umbrellas, rabbis, bikinis, breakfast food."
"So if she saw a rabbi in a bikini eating pancakes what do you suppose would happen to her?"
"The woman would burst into flames!"
Tori laughed a little bit, believing that there's no way that could possibility happen."
"Tori, Andy, come on!" Trina called.
"Oh, well looks like it's back to rehearsal."
"Looks like. And my names Andre, Andre." he shouted.
The two walked inside the living room were Trina waited for them, wearing a blue and white dress with a tiara."
"So, what do you think? It's fabulous, right?" she asked, turning around.
"Do you really need to wear that just to rehearse?"
Yes Tori, I do. A performer needs to feel the part to be the part." Trina said as she tapped Tori's nose.
"I thought we talked about you not tapping my nose anymore."
Trina didn't respond cause she was more focused on her performance. "Okay, we got this comedy stuff down, so let's start with my song."
"And by your song, I'm guessing you mean the song that I wrote?" sitting in front of the piano.
"No one cares who wrote the song." she said laughing a little. "Now, go!"
Andre started playing the piano in a mid-tempo style."
"PLAY SLOWER!" she shouted.
Taken back by her outburst, Andre decided to what she said, not wanting to get yelled at again and plays a slow tune. Trina starts singing off-key, way off-key."
You don't have to be afraid
To put your dreams in action
You're never gonna...
Tori didn't know how much of listening to her sister singing she could stand."
"Trina...Trina!"
"What?" she shouts, upset that her younger sister interrupted her.
"I think Andre was right. You should let him play the song in a faster tempo."
"No!" Trina cried. "It has to be power balled, so all the important people can hear my range and vocal clarity."
"But Trina, I think maybe you...
"No, just...Take it from When I Make It Shine." she says to Andre, ignoring Tori and any of her comments.
As Trina sings When I Make It Shine she holds it on a high note, which sounded more like high-pitch shrieking. Tori and Andre thought along the same line, when will she ever stop and thankfully she did."
"Well, how was that?"
Andre looked at Tori and said. "Do you have any aspirin?"
Luck for him she had some in her pocket and pours him handful."
"Thanks!"
Hollywood Arts High School
The day of the Big Showcase had finally arrived, Tori had skipped school to see her older sister's performance along with her parents David and Holly Vega. The school auditorium was almost like a standing room, the last person to show up was Andre grandmother, who looked paranoid. Tori who was sitting in front of her noticed her arrival and greets her."
"Hi you're Andre's grandmother, right?"
"I don't know you!" she screamed, ducking to the floor
Tori looked at her and remembered what Andre said about her being scared of everything. But in her and everyone else's point of view thought she was just plain crazy, Tori thought it was best not to bother her and just enjoy the show. The performances on stage were very impressive Tori and her parents were really enjoying the show, as they were watching the events they heard a strange sound coming from backstage, like someone was in trouble. Tori and her mother looked at each other with concern, a concern that a man pushed his way down the row to reach the Vega family."
"Exchange me, are you Trina's parents?" he asked.
"Yes, and you are?" David asked.
"I'm Lane, Lane Alexander the school's guidance counselor. Please come with me, it's about your daughter."
They followed Lane as he lead them backstage. There were a group of students and a nurse stood in a circle, Tori and her parents approached the circle and saw Trina in distress because to her tongue had become so swollen it looked like she could cough on it."
"Trina?" Holly cried.
"What happened?" her father asked concern for his daughter.
"There's something wrong with my tongue." she mumbled.
"Oh, my god, it's huge!" Tori said, staring a her sister's over-sized tongue.
Trina tried to say something but with her tongue so big it was almost impossible to know what she was trying to say."
"Are you the school nurse?" Holly asked the woman.
"Yes, I am! Does anyone know how this may have happened to her?" the nurse asked the students.
"The Chinese herb gargle!" Tori answered.
Trina signaled with a charades gesture,"right on the nose implying her sister guessed correctly."
"Wait, what are you talking about, sweetie?"
" She found some website that shows you how to make this special Chinese herb gargle that's supposed to help you sing better." Tori told her father.
"Well, she must have had an allergic reaction to it."
"Oh, my tongue fills huge!" Trina wailed.
"Will she be okay?"
"Well, her tongue is obviously engorged and it...oh, my god, it's throbbing erratically." The nurse said, feeling Trina's tongue.
"Throbbing erratically?"
"It is throbbing erratically!" Trina said, feeling it pulsing.
"Is there anyway she'll be able to perform today?" Lane asked the nurse.
"No, of course not!"
"Yes, I can!" Trina muttered, determine to do her performance no matter what. "I swear to god I can."
"Stop talking, your tongue could burst!"
That was enough to make Trina whisper in despair, but what she was really upset about was she couldn't perform. All that time she spent rehearing for her big performance only to have it ruined."
"I'm sorry sweetheart!" Holly said, comforting her daughter knowing how much this performance meant to her.
"There's always next year!" David told her.
"I'm gonna take her to my office and massage her tongue."
"Message my tongue?"
As the nurse take Trina away Holly and David followed behind to support their daughter. Then one of the technical director, a really odd looking kid named Sinjin Van Cleef approached Lane."
"What now? Trina was our last act for today, and now she can't preform."
"Oh well, it looks like my grandma came here for nothing!" Andre says with an amount of disappointment in his voice.
"Wait, isn't there anyone else here that knows Trina's part?" Lane asked the students.
"Her sister does!"
"Me sister?" Tori pointed at herself. "No, no, no, no, all I did was help rehearse, I'm not even a student here."
Andre grabbed Tori's arm and takes her to the side. "Tori listen, you know this whole thing inside and out, the song, the choreography. You can do this!"
"No!" shaking her head.
"She said she'll do it!" Andre lied.
The students and Lane cheered for Tori delighted she was taking part in their school event, much to Tori's disapproval."
"No, I didn't say that!"
Lane looked at Tori's outfit and said. "Hold on she can't go on stage dressed like that."
"Excuse me?" sounding offended.
"Go get her something better to wear." he said to one the female students.
"What? No, I'm not going out there!"
"Bring her!"
Andre dragged Tori off despite her fighting and protest as he got her behind a stage wall she managed to escape a runs back out. Andre ran after her and grabs her again, dragging her despite she was holding on to a chair where a drummer was practicing, Andre picked her up and carried her to the backstage area."
"This is kidnapping, let go."
"Set her down!" said Lane.
"Alright!"
Just as Andre puts her down she tried to runaway again but the students prevented her from going anywhere, they had her completely surrounded while a few of them were holding her back."
"Let go of me, my dad is a cop." giving them a warning and surly enough they slightly backed away from her.
"It's almost time for the next act, take her behind the screen and get her dressed, hurry." said a female student.
The girls dragged Tori behind a screen with a three boys including Andre followed behind."
"Just the girls!" Lane said, stopping the guys from seeing Tori undressed.
The wardrobe mistress runs in with a silver sequined mini skirt and pink trimmed sneakers."
"I've got the clothes, where is she?"
"Back there put it on her."
Sinjin runs in holding a wireless microphone and gives it to Lane. "Here, here's her headset."
Lane takes it and holds it over the screen, asking on of the girls to put it on Tori's head. Soon after Tori is dressed everyone gets in their positions for the final act, Tori's mother and father asked Sinjin if they could watch from backstage and he agreed. Lane was forced to get Tori on stage, he pushed her on and she runs back off. Lane catches her and and this time he pushes her far enough for her to be seen by the audience."
Tori stood there frozen with fear and embarrassment as the audience had their eyes on her. She thought about running off stage but it wouldn't do any since Lane and the other students had her blocked off. She then sees Andre, who's sitting at his keyboard. He mouths to her the words, "You can do this."
Tori takes a deep breath and begins to sing
Here I am
Once again
Feeling lost but now and then
I breath it in
To let it go
And you don't know
Where you are now
Or what it would come to
If only someday could hear
When you figure out how
You're lost in the moment
You disappear
Tori mouths to Andre and the other band members to turn up the music
You don't have to be afraid
To be put your dreams in action
You're never gonna fade
You'll be the main attraction
Not a fantasy
Just remember me
When it turns out right
Cause you know that if your live in
Your imagination
Tomorrow you'll
Be everybody's fascination
In my victory
Just remember me
When I make it shine
Tori started to dance, feeling confident in herself and no longer afraid
You don't have to be afraid
To put your dreams in action
You're never gonna fade
You'll be the main attraction
Not a fantasy
Just remember me
When it turns out right
Cause you know that if your live in
Your imagination
Tomorrow you'll
Be everybody's fascination
In my victory
Just remember me
When I make it shine
Tori finished singing and everyone in the audience stood out of their seats as they cheered and clapped at her performance. The curtains closed as her sister and parents hugged and congratulated her."
"You were wonderful, sweetie!" Holly said, proud of her daughter.
"Tori, that was fantastic!" David agreed.
"I was great wasn't I?"
"It was okay, I guess." Trina muttered, her tongue still swollen.
"I told you, you could do it, girl." Andre said, hugging Tori.
"Are you really Trina's sister?" Lane asked, founding it hard to believe Tori was talented and Trina wasn't
"What?" she mumbled.
Then a man approached Tori. " Excuse me, who are you?"
"I'm Tori, Tori Vega!" introducing her. "And you are?"
"This is Mr. Eikner the schools principle." Lane told her.
"Do you go to school here?"
"No but my sister does." pointing to Trina.
"Well then Tori, how would you like to attend Hollywood Arts?"
Tori didn't respond she was at a lost words while Andre said. "She loved to!"
"Andre?"
"Tori listen, your singing was awesome you're definitely qualified enough to go to school here."
"I don't know, everyone here's crazy talented, what if I'm not good enough."
Everyone started giving out their options while Tori continues to doubt herself. Andre quietly sneaks out of the group and turns the switch the opens the curtains. Everyone stops talking as the audience was staring at them, Andre steps out in plain view and speak to the audience."
"Hey!"
"Hey, Andre!" his grandmother shouts.
Andre grabbed Tori's arm and gently dragged her for the beside him for the audience to see her. "This girl doesn't think she's good enough to go to school here. What do you people think?"
Everyone cheered and applauded, approving she's got what it takes to attend school here. Tori looked at everyone and couldn't help but smile at how much everyone thought she should go for it."
"Well?"
"Okay, I accept!"
Everyone cheered for her again but even louder, Tori hugged Andre while everyone was still cheering."
"Do you really think I'm good for this?" Tori asked.
"Of course I do!" Andre replied.
End Chapter
A/N: Here's the first chapter I hope that you all enjoy this. The next chapter will be released on Friday. I have five more Naruto+Victorious stories, I plan to write as well.
