FEEL THE MUSIC

"Yet another half-hearted try to write a fan fiction, but now, I've actually written up a few chapters in advance (not typed up though.), so that.. You know.. Eh. No?Crack pairings as Kel calls them, Very present in this story. Random is good.

Summary;
Sakura and Ino attend to a two week long international music festival. They meet up with an old friend, and find new ones. Plot - ish. Unknown pairings will figure out as I write. (Might have sh/ai stuff in it as well, I don't know yet.) Well, more surprises for you, then? 3

CHAPTER 01; The festival.

"Damn, it's so hot outside today" a girl said to her best friend as they were standing on the sun-deck of a cruise ship. "Yeah, I know. I feel like I'm about to melt away up here" the other replied. It really was that bad, the summer had brought a dry-period with extreme temperatures for the area, and it didn't look like it'd stop anytime soon. Despite this, ten-thousands of people flocked together to attend to the international music festival in a city close to where the girls lived. With world-famous stars visiting the city, huge sales and small stands offering strange items, the festival had become a success once again. And not to forget the music, which was the main point of the whole festival, which people came to listen to and enjoy.

The two girls had made it a best-friend tradition to visit the festival at least once during the week it was held every year. Ever since they turned ten and were allowed to travel alone, they had come back every year for six years, and this year would be no exception. Both of them had turned sixteen earlier that year and were ready for their seventh visit at the annual international music festival. One of the girls was a tall blonde, with hair so light it could nearly be considered white, her hair in a pony tail. A single blood red stripe was the only hint of colour amongst the white. Her clothing was casual, baggy jeans and a band tee saying "Fuck off, it's music" or something similar, which wasn't really readable since it had been washed so many times. The tee was in a greyish black and the letters, originally white, was in a stained light-grey colour. Her friend wore similar clothes, also with a band tee and baggy jeans, but her hair was dyed in a deep pink, or so they'd make people believe. In fact, the pink was the girl's natural hair-colour, even though it was very unusual. Her mother had the same shade of pink hair, and her mother before her. The overall appearance made it look really cool though, so she wouldn't complain about it. She looked just like if she was one of those rabid crazy teenage stars that visited the festival from time to time to play.

"Today's the release day for that book you've been talking about for so long, isn't it?" the blonde asked the other, "I don't really see the big deal about it, it's just a book, right?". "Just a book, I guess. I'm not that big of a fan anymore, anyway." The pink tried to say while chewing a huge piece of shrieking blue bubble-gum. "I'm going to go buy it, but you don't have to tag along if you don't want to, you know." She said seeing that her friend let out a small sigh. The blonde's face lit up for a second, "I could go check out the bands that are playing today, and I got us tickets for the main concert event earlier." "Yeah, you do that and I'll find a bookstore." "The main concert will be watched by almost twenty-three thousand people, imagine that!" she whined excitedly, thinking of the concert they'd be watching. They hadn't gotten the best tickets, but it was outdoors with no numbered seats so it really didn't matter. They had no use for the more expensive tickets which gave you access to certain places within the concert area anyways.

The girls looked at the magnificent city that met them as their ship gradually got closer to the destination it was supposed to anchor up at. Huge stadiums and skyscrapers dominated one part of it, whilst the other consisted of older-fashioned buildings and what looked like cosy markets and small stands. Things that naturally followed huge festivals like this one. Since the ship they were on was so huge, it would have to anchor up outside the coast, and then bring the passengers to the city by speedboats that could take up to twenty people in one. Because the girls had wanted to have some time before the concerts started, they hurried down the stairs to get a good spot in the lines that now were forming at the exits.

They stepped safely ashore after a two minute ride in the speed-boat belonging to the travel-company which hosted the trip to the festival. Dust rose up as they ran towards the market, the first thing they did when they visited every year, was to find the stand of an old woman whose expertise was reading the future. It had been included to the tradition ever since the two girls as ten-year olds had met the old woman on the market and helped her carry her things to the place she had to set them up. Her stand always looked quite the same, green and lilac with white details and baby-pink banners. Much like a thing you'd expect to see on a Tivoli, really.

Running through the crowded streets, they both looked for the stand which they had grown so fond of visiting. After a while they saw it, and slowed down to be greeted by the old woman. "Sakura and Ino, I've been waiting for you this year as always!" the old shouted as she saw the girls. Giving them both a big hug, she told them to come inside and get something to drink in the summer-warmth.

"Carmen, visiting you is always what we look forwards to the most" Sakura, the pink hair, exclaimed and followed her into the tent-like thing behind the stand. "I look forwards to having you visit throughout the whole year as well, my dear" Old lady Carmen answered and looked at the pink. "You've gotten so thin, don't you eat properly darling?" Sakura brushed it off with a smile, assuring her that she ate well, but that she had only recently been a bit sick and lost weight. Ino looked at the pictures on the walls, and she commented on the image of a black-haired girl around their own age or a little younger. "Is this your grand-niece? How is she doing?" She asked Carmencita, "Oh, she's doing quite fine. She's actually here with me at the festival, but she has joined the medical squad and is on duty." The woman answered with a smile, "She's grown up so quickly, only a little younger than the two of you she is." "So she joined the medical squad? She must have an awful lot to do with all the heat strokes related to the weather, doesn't she?" Sakura asked, "There's quite a lot to do, but she's very much helped by one of the other medics. I believe he's her superior and very skilled in healing" Carmen said and smiled some more, offering the two girls another cup of cold ice-tea.

Due to the amounts of people visiting the city during the festival, the hospital-management had been forced to create mobile medic divisions to cope with the masses of diseases and illnesses each day. The squads usually consisted of five to seven skilled and educated or in trainee medics, whose main task was to cover an area of a kilometre in radius. Since it was a big city, at least 80 of these mobile health corps had been created, and healers had been recruited. During the main concert it was expected that things would get a little bit out of hand, so nearly half of the medic squads were assigned the concert area during the hours of play.

Ino and Sakura finished their cups of home-made herbal ice-tea and continued to chatter with Carmencita, they listened to all the things she had seen since their last visits, news within her family and the latest gossip. As a fortune teller and a healer, Carmen heard everything worth hearing during the festival, and of course knew a lot more of what was going on at any time than anyone else. The girls listened to everything the old lady said, she had recently gotten a new grand-niece, the cousin of the dark-haired girl in the picture. Her brother had died the past winter and her sister had come down with a light illness, so she couldn't join them for the festival.

After a while, Carmen asked if she should read their future, like she did every year. And this wasn't just some fake trick, the old lady really could tell the future, though vaguely with few certain details. Ino was first up, and sat down in a chair next to the woman. She felt a shiver crawl up her spine as the area went darker and a silence surely not normal to this world entered the room. "Ino my dear, I can see quite a few things much clearer than I have the past years. There is a shadowy figure present in my vision, he will come into your life quite soon, and will bring you nothing but good." Carmen whispered and paused for a moment, before continuing "I can see a group of people, which you'll engage a close friendship with. Unfortunately, I can't say much more right now, it's very diffuse if you look away from what I just told you." Ino nodded and smiled at the fortune-teller, "I can't wait to find out who these people are, Carmencita." "Well, I hope you'll find them soon, they seem to have very good auras to them" was her reply.

"Sakura, darling, I can't see much of your future this time. Only the colours red and black, there's a sunset as well. And, oh! I see a hospital, and many white-coated medics." Carmen said dramatically as she held Sakura's hand in hers. "I can't figure out what it's supposed to mean, but I'm a little worried, dear." "I bet I'll be all right, the hospital worries me a bit though, I've never been seriously ill before, and now's not a good time for that." Sakura said, a bit freaked out. "Relax, Sakura, you're probably right after all." Carmencita said before the lights returned to the room. The pressuring silence had gone as well, something the girls were very grateful for.

The grocery store at the corner was packed with people, so many that it was hard to actually move. Ino had been quite glad to hear that they only had to speak to one of the employees of the store to get what they needed, rather than moving through the masses of shoppers. Carmen had of course made sure that it was all right, since the thing they were supposed to get was for her. It was a certain type of tea which they had only in this specific store, so they got it and headed back to the market and Carmen's stand.

"Give us the money, kid!" Sakura heard person say a little bit too loud, "Or else I'll kick your ass". She tried to locate the source of the quarrel, and saw a little blonde kid standing in a corner, surrounded by older boys. At the first glance it looked like just an ordinary disagreement, but she recognised them as one of the street-gangs that roamed the area. They made a living of beating up those younger than them, she knew as she had kicked their asses once before on an earlier occasion.

"Hey, let the kid go!" the pink-hair ran over to them and grabbed the one that appeared to be the leader's shirt. "Listen to me you bitch, let the kid go peacefully, or I'll personally make sure you'll regret it". "Oh, a pink haired girl is going to kick my ass?" the raven-haired boy replied mockingly, "You couldn't hit a, uh, whatever" he stated, as if he believed it to be a pure fact. 'What a mistake' Ino thought to herself and giggled as she saw Sakura punch the boy's stomach and hit his nose with her elbow. No doubt did Sakura bite worse than she barked, that was a fact. The rest of the gang had run once their leader had engaged the fight with the girl, and by the looks of it, was about to lose. The blonde kid had run off in the chaos that followed. "Aaargh!" Whined the leader of the gang as Sakura let him escape with a few more bruises, a tooth less than before and a bleeding nose. The girl fell to the ground, breathing heavily from the exhaustion of holding back her strength.

Just like Carmen's prediction of the future, Sakura had immense strength, not natural to her kind at all. She never used it, unless she needed to, and never for personal reasons. Ino too had some sort of ability, she could understand people's feeling on a whim, and her intuition never failed.

"Goodbye Carmen, we'll stop by tomorrow." Ino said and hugged the lady, "Bye-bye" Sakura waved, ready to go to their hotel to check-in. They'd have to do that before noon and it was already 11:25 am. After they'd done that, Sakura planned to find a bookstore somewhere nearby to buy that book she'd been looking forwards to reading for so long. Carmen had told her that she knew the owner of a bookstore close to their hotel, and that she'd call him to save a copy of it for her. The girls thanked Carmen again, and left to find their hotel.

A little bit hurried, that ending. I'll make it up to the people that might read this by spending time on the second chapter (:

Lisa: Well, what an ending. But it'll get more exciting in the next chapter when Sakura bumps into.. oh, I'm not supposed to say, am I?

Saixl: Damn right you're not supposed to say.

Lisa: But…

Saixl: Shut up and write the next chapter, please?

Lisa: You're scary..

Saixl: I'm your twisted alter-ego, I'm paid to be scary.

Lisa: Oh..

Saixl: Don't forget to review. –evil smirk-