Sasuke dropped his bass in frustration, causing all the other band members to stop playing suddenly.

"What's wrong teme? You sounded fine!" Naruto stopped singing to look at his best friend.

Sasuke growled in his throat. "It doesn't sound right at all! It sounds so boring!"

Sakura sighed. He's been on edge all week. What's his problem?

Naruto got instantly angry. "Well maybe if you had been practicing instead of playing games all weekend, we would sound better, teme!"

Sasuke glared at Naruto and wordlessly walked out of the room, leaving Sakura and Naruto to wonder just what Uchiha was thinking.

The pinkette looked over at Naruto, saying "You wanna practice a bit more? I know you hate stopping in the middle of a solo."

Naruto looked at Sakura and smiled sadly. "Nah. It wouldn't be the same without 'im. I'll go talk to him and see what's up his butt." He started to follow Sasuke until their manager, Kakashi, stopped him at the door. "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

Naruto looked at the man, wondering for the thousandth time why their manager wore a mask and a headband draped over one eye. On anyone else it would look ridiculous, but it seemed to work for the silver-haired man.

He frowned at Kakashi. "Oh yeah, and why not? He's being a total iass/i today!"

Kakashi's visible eye looked sad. "He has his reasons for being out-of-sorts today, Naruto. You need to respect that, and give him his space."

Sakura knew that look in Kakashi's eye. It said that Sasuke was dealing with something that he didn't want to share with the rest of the band. She played a couple of chords on her guitar while she waited for Naruto to back down and practice with her until Sasuke came back.

Sasuke couldn't really talk to his bandmates about what he was going through. Well, maybe Naruto would understand, since never he knew his parents, but Sakura...she had no idea. She still had both of her parents. Today it just felt worse for some reason. And it was affecting his music. Sasuke ran his fingers through his hair and sighed. He really needed to get it together. He continued to walk out of Kakashi's house and walked down the street and around the corner. Sasuke sat on the curb and watched the cars drive by while memories of his parents rushed through him. He hummed softly to himself, and almost didn't hear the footsteps behind him. "What, Sakura?"

Sakura started slightly. Crap. I didn't think he could hear me. She stood beside him, wondering exactly how to say what she needed to. "Sasuke, I know you might not want to talk about whatever you're going through with me, but I just wanted you to know..."She sat on the curb next to him. "You can talk to me about anything. Your past, your grocery list, I don't care. If you need to talk to someone about anything at all, I'm here for you."

Sasuke looked sideways at her. "...thanks."

Sakura smiled softly, and watched the cars with Sasuke for a while until they heard Naruto bellowing down the street for them to come back. "We need to practice, 'ttebayo!"

Sighing at their bandmate's antics, they both stood up and began to walk back to Kakashi's house.

They made it to the porch when Sasuke stopped Sakura. "Hey, Sakura."

The pinkette turned. "Hm?"

The next thing Sakura knew, she was being gently hugged by...Sasuke! Okay, don't hyperventillate. What are you doing, just standing there? HUG BACK, idiot! Inner Sakura raged.

Sakura hugged back, whispering "Sasuke? What..."

Sasuke smirked into pink hair. "I didn't thank you properly earlier." He pulled away and walked into the house, leaving Sakura to follow him to a (hopefully) productive practice session.

A/N:Yeah. Um. I have no idea where this came from.
This is clearly an AU of some kind. I have an inkling that it may be a parallel to this world, but they can still use all their Taijutsu and stuff, I guess.
I think I read something similar to this at one point, but I don't remember Sasuke storming out of the studio... ANYWAY. I don't own Naruto or any of the other characters in here, they are property of Kishimoto-sama.
This is weird, because not only are there no sexual themes or strong language in this so far, it also doesn't mention any of the members of Akatsuki. Yeah, I think this is the first time I've written anything about Squad Seven.
Weeeeird.
I might continue this, but I'm not sure. All I know is that I had to get this out of my head or it would start eating important stuff. Like speech function, perhaps. I do know that this was somewhat inspired by a video I found on The Tube of You of Sasuke's Japanese voice actor singing a song called Scenario... DAYUM! I now have a certain liking for Sasuke...but Japanese Sasuke, not English Sasuke. Hehe.