I will not be posting lyrics of any kind! I don't own the characters or songs!

The Unforgiven I, II, and III are by Metallica. Party In Your Bedroom is by Cash, Cash. If I'm James Dean, Then You're Audrey Hepburn is by Sleeping With Sirens. Swing, Swing is by All American Rejects.

Again, I will not be posting the lyrics, I will just be referring to them. More song will be added later on in the story, it's recommended that you look them up! :D

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Enjoy!

"Gaara! I can't wait for the concert tonight! You tribute band is doing great!"

I stopped myself from rolling my eyes at the girl. She'd probably even heard a Metallica song before. I must ask myself again:

Since when was it cool to be in a tribute band?

I'll tell you when. Never! My band isn't even a tribute band! We're just doing a few Metallica covers! Personally, I don't think I sound anything like their lead singer.

"Hn."

The only reason my band was performing tonight was because of the festival. It's weird. I've never heard of a festival dedicated to music before. Since my band is the only good band in Suna, the guy in charge of the festival asked us to perform covers of Metallica and some of our original stuff.

He's going to pay us handsomely might I just tell you.

The girl tucked a piece of hair behind her ear and attempted to bat her eyelashes at me.

"So I was wondering-"

"Bahahahahahaha! Gaara's getting hit on! Make the move honey! See what happens!"

The said girl's face went the color of a tomato and I rolled my eyes. This time at least. She looked like she was going to pass out. I didn't really care though to be honest. She didn't even have my attention.

Naruto stomped over between us and grinned, "Sorry, you're not his type!"

The girl frowned and crossed her arms, "How would you know?!"

Naruto, oh god, that grin. He touched my chest and started playing with my lip ring. I had to hold myself from punching him in the throat. I have violent tendencies…

"We're lovers, duh!"

Her face was priceless but she grinned evilly. Oh shit. I know that look.

"Gay lovers, huh? Kiss then!"

Oh hell no. There was no way.

We were best friends but that was going too far just to get away from a girl. Naruto's face went blank. A true blonde, he was. He started shaking his head hysterically.

"No way!"

I pushed him away and turned away from them both.

"Then I want to talk to Gaara!" She stomped her foot on the ground.

My eye twitched. She was getting annoying now. Very annoying. I'm tired of being nice now.

"Listen. I don't even know your name and you're starting to piss me off. Go away."

I made a shooing movement. I rarely ever do that… That's how annoyed I was.

The girl stared at me in disbelief.

"You don't know my name? We went on a date last year!"

I arched a brow at her. I've never been on a 'date.' There's a perfectly solid reason for that too! Naruto started laughing.

"You thought Sasori was Gaara!"

"W-what?! No I didn't!" Her face went red again.

I growled. I had more important things to do than deal with this kid. My jaw was getting sore from me biting my tongue.

This conversation is over. I'm done now. I walked away without looking back. Naruto soon followed, catching up to me eventually.

"Does that happen a lot?" He sounded curious about it. We've known each other for so long and I've never told him about my… girl problems. I've never had any girl related issues. Just stupid idiot fangirls with nothing better to do than stalk the shit out of me because everyone else is scared to death of me at school. Seriously, I stepped out of the classroom one day to go to my locker and every single person in the hallway cleared out. They were smart to do that too. I wasn't happy that day.

"Aa."

Naruto laughed again, "Dude! You get hit on by girls all the time and you never told me?!"

"It's not important. None of them have ever made a difference before. Most of them don't hit on me. Rather they follow me around and take creepy photos and post them on Instagram saying 'Look at Gaara! Isn't he so cute?' and assume I'd never find out about it."

I've never met a girl that's stuck in my head in a positive way. Ever. Of course, there's my sister, Temari and her friends but they don't count.

Naruto blinked at me for a minute and started laughing again.

"Bitches be crazy these days!" Naruto… My blonde best friend.

Why me? Why did you choose me? Sometimes I wonder if you did it to torture me with your ridiculously annoying antics.

"Anyway, Neji and Shikamaru are waiting for us to start rehearsal at the warehouse."

I nodded and got in the driver's seat of my car. Naruto wasted no time jumping in the passenger seat.

I noticed his phone go off and he read it so intently it was a little intimidating. It was either really serious or Naruto hasn't eaten in a little while and that's his hungry face.

"Hinata said there's a new girl in the neighborhood!"

Why doesn't that surprise me? Please Naruto, try to get Hinata to set me up with her. I beg of you. I almost sickened myself with sarcasm.

Naruto grinned even wider than earlier and let me know exactly where she lived.

"She lives right next door to you!"

Great, knowing Temari, the new girl will be at our house all the time now. Unless they all went to her house instead… Nope. Temari would find a reason to be at our house all the freaking time.

There's no telling what Tenten, Hinata and Temari will do to try and get us on a date too. It's like they're desperate to find me a girlfriend. They probably take pity on me because I'm the only one in the group that's single.

I wanted to bang my head up against the steering wheel until I bled to death.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

"Hinata said they're bringing her to the festival to show her around. Eh, Gaara… What do you think?"

My eyebrow twitched involuntarily. I'm losing patience with my friends.

"Naruto, this better not be one of their plans to hook me up again."

"C'mon! She could be cute!"

"I don't care if she's cute or not. Tell them in advance that I'm not interested and I would rather not have them try to hook us up."

Naruto pouted a little. This guy is eighteen years old and he still pouts like a six year old. It's ridiculous.

~The Festival~

I couldn't believe how crowded the festival was. It began at 4pm and ended at around 12am.

We went on at 7pm. Oh yeah, in like twenty minutes.

Naruto and Choji, Shikamaru's friend, had an eating contest to see who could eat the most ramen. It didn't surprise me when Naruto won. Choji's pretty big but he has nothing on Naruto when it comes to ramen. Not a thing.

Naruto jumped from his seat in triumph.

"Ahem! We go on in less than twenty minutes. Let's go now!" I practically dragged Naruto across the grounds. Shikamaru and Neji followed behind in silence.

"Next up is Reverse Destiny performing their cover of The Unforgiven trilogy and a few originals!" Kakashi announced.

Naruto peeked out from behind the curtains and laughed suddenly. Neji jerked him back into place.

"What are you doing Naruto?! Get into your seat at the drums!"

Naruto pouted.

"I was just seeing if Hinata was with the new girl or not…"

"And?" Shikamaru pushed.

"She is and she-"

"Shut up!" I yelled.

"Fine… No more talk about her. What are we doing again?"

"The Unforgiven trilogy, Party In your Bedroom, If I'm James Dean, Then You're Audrey Hepburn, and Swing Swing."

"Awesome!"

The curtains opened and the music started. Naruto on drums, Shikamaru on bass, Neji on guitar and me on vocals and guitar. That was when I saw it.

Her.

I almost forgot what I was doing. She had pink hair and bright green eyes and was standing right in the center of the crowd. I had never seen her before. Just looking at her made me breathless.

Oh right, music.