HI!! This is my story debut!! I have offically found time!! Anyways, please review me gently. I love feedback and will almost always respond, pinky promise!!

Have you ever considered what a perfect love story is? I bet so. It would have a princess(you) and a courageous white knight(him) and an evil rival(them) that the knight would defeat. Then he would sweep you off your feet and carry into the sunset, right? Well tough luck sister, because that's just fairy tales. So buckle down and get ready for some real romance!!

It all began on my not so special day. It was the day my band, Cheshire Cat, was going to play at the biggest gig ever. One that would make or break our reputation, the school prom. Yeah, big whoop. I was totally against it, but hey, when you're a jobless teen being offered twenty bucks to play a guitar, are you gonna say no? I thought not.

Anyways, it was actually the night before. When Shikamaru, our bassist, was bringing a friend to band practice because said friend didn't believe that he was really talented(or motivated) enough to be in a band. Some "friend", huh?

"Naruto," Ino barked, "where is that shmuck, Shikamaru!? Prom is tomorrow and this practice is essential. This gig is my one way ticket to high school stardom!!"

"Why don't you shove that stardom down your throat and choke," Karen said sweetly, but with a face that said something like 'say-anything-more-and-i-will-choke-you-with-your-moms-thong'.

"Calm down, dudes. You people need to chillax," Suigetsu giggled(yes men can giggle and not be gay at the same time).

Yep, I'm in a band with the most ridiculous group of people ever to exist on the third rock from the sun. Ino, she was our lead singer, Shikamaru, Karen, our drummer, and Suigetsu, he plays keyboard and sings back-up, and I played guitar(quite awesomely might I add) and sing when the mood hits me.

"Come on guys, he isn't that late," I reason, "He's only-."

"Two and a half hours late. Yeah, that's not much," Ino grumbled.

The garage's side door opened and let in a bitch of cold air along with a late Shikamaru and friend.

"Hey, sorry we're late. My car wouldn't start."

"Well speak of the devil, Shika. Ino was just scheming to skin you alive!!" Suigetsu jested.

"I believe that, Suzy. Anyways, you guys will forgive me because I brought food for your nutrition starved bodies."

"For your information, tardy pants, Naruto and I are on a diet!!" Ino pouted.

"Huh, we are? Since when?"

"Since now," she said calmly.

Sometimes women were just too much. What the hell type of answer is 'since now'? A bullshit answer, that's what it is. And I wasn't going to just lay down and take it.

"Ino, I will no-."

"Shut yer trap, before I tan your hide instead of his!!"

"Yes, ma'am."

Yeah, I had my backbone removed when I met her. What can I say? She's a black belt in several martial arts and has weapons training and I, well, I draw comics and write songs. It ain't surprising who wears the pants here.

"Uh, yeah, so, this is my buddy Sasuke, but you can call him Sasuke."

"Isn't that his name anyways?" I say, not looking at the dude.

"Yeah, but call me anything else and I'll send you to the hospital."

This is where I take one look at the guy and fall head over heels, right? Wrong. One look and I had been transported to London's underground world of fashion. Their was so much black on him, I thought the lights went out. Emo was last year, Bob!!

"Shikamaru, your taste in friends suck," Ino commented, "and your attendance record is the only thing that sucks even worst."

"Yeah, yeah, but what about you. If I suck at choosing friends, I must suck even worse at choosing girlfriends?"

"Even idiots make good choices once in a while," she countered.

Shikamaru sighed, but what Ino said was true. It was a miracle that he wasn't kicked out of the band in the first place. Oh, well. Sasuke walked around and dumped himself on the couch I was sitting on.

"So, you guys gonna actually practice or was Nara really bluffing," he sighed.

Man, what a douche. If you put all the crap in the world in a blender and made a milkshake, that is what you get. A douche bag. I grabbed my guitar and took my place on 'stage'. I kicked on my speaker, ready to blow this jerk way.

"Right, you guys ready?"

We gave the thumbs up for Suigetsu to start the beat.

((I'm Alive by Becca) I'm not writing the song down, look it up if your curious)

By the end of the performance, my fingers were on the brink of falling off. Geez, when Ino wanted to, she could really kill us. I collapsed on the couch beside an expressionless Sasuke.

"How what that for bluffing?"

He chuckled, "Pretty good. For a bunch of monkeys, pretty good."