Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto! waaaaah Also I do not own use of the songs or lyrics used in this!

I spent my whole day writing this chapter, listening to music, tumblr, and watched Weeds (season 1 again). Oh yeah, BOXING DAY IS TOMORROW~


Better Than Revenge
by sushicakes


The six friends are sitting around the dinning table at Ino's as she and Hinata are finishing up making the spaghetti. It has been two days since Shikamaru asked Sakura to join his band as their singer. Sakura thought about it a lot, what would she write about though? Obviously the one thing is her break up with Sai but how on Earth is she going to write about it?

"Do I have to write lyrics?"

Ino looked up from her magazine. "What?"

"Shikamaru asked me to join you guys... but I-"

"Oh Sakura that would be awesome if you do!"

"But I don't know..."

"Oh come on forehead! You won't be the only one writing, we'll all be helping each other!"

The blond ran over to her best friend and hugged her tightly from the side.

"Don't worry, you don't have to rush to give us your answer!"


After leaving Ino's place, Sakura thought about going home but went to a local dollar store, purchased a notebook and headed towards a small bakery. Settling down with a small honeydew bubble tea, Sakura opened up the notebook and stared at it. Trying to get some ideas, the girl looks around her but all she could see is a couple of middle aged couples with their children and people on bikes.

Turning back her attention to her blank notebook, as Sakura took a big sip from her drink, she looked up to see Sai was standing right in front of her.

"Oh great," she mumbled and crossed her arms.

"Sakura, please let me just explain..."

"Explain what? Everyone now knows that YOU cheated on me and that we're broken up."

The boy ran his hand through his short black hair and looked at the girl.

"I'm so sorry Sakura... I was drunk and she... the girl we... I'm just so damn sorry Sakura."

He reached over and took Sakura's hand into his but Sakura shaked it off.

"Drunk or not, what you did and I saw is the worst hurtful thing ever! We are OVER Sai. You're pretty much dead to me."

There was this boy who tore my heart in two.

Sakura quickly putting her notebook into her bag and got up.

"Now excuse me, I have to go somewhere important."


"What's up?"

"Ino, do you think you can get everyone to Shikamaru's place?"

"Sure thing. Naruto and I are already here. Why though?"

"When everyone arrives I'll tell you all. Gotta go, crossing the street!"

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"Pass the bowl over here!" Naruto shouted.

Everyone finally arrived at Shikamaru's and all sat in a circle in the basement.

"So Sakura, what's the big news?"

"Yeah Saki, did you kill Sai?" asked Tenten.

"WHAT? No no... I wish I could though..."

"I know a perfect spot where we could bury his-"

"Tenten!" Hinata cried.

"ANYWAY! Okay so I wrote something..."

"Ouu show us!"

Ino took the notebook that Sakura had handed to her and read out loud.

"There was this boy who tore my heart in two
I had to lay him eight feet underground

All I need is someone to save me
Cause I am goin' down
And what I need is someone to save me
Cause I am goin' down, all the way down"

Everyone was silent after Ino had read what Sakura had written down. Since no one going to speak, Shikamaru mumbled a 'too quiet... how troublesome' and cleared his throat.

"Sakura, that's good."

"Thanks... I'm wondering if you guys can help me write the rest...?"

"OH FOREHEAD DOES THAT MEAN YOU'LL JOIN US?"

"Yes! Now please let go of me!"


March break passed and when Sakura got to school, many people, especially the girls came up to her and hugged her. They also told her that she doesn't need a boy like Sai in her life. Sakura simply thanked everyone. As days passed, Sakura celebrated her sweet 16 with her friends and family at her place.

With all the lyrics written down with the help of everyone, Sakura had practice and practice her butt off for her very first band practice with her friends.

'Okay, I could do this! YOSH!'

Exiting the bathroom, Sakura could hear Tenten shouting at Ino to turn off the TV.

"But Tenny! It's a new episode of 'Summer Glamorous!'"

"You can watch it later! Now come on, we got our very first practice with Saki... OH SAKURA!"

Tenten grabbed both of Sakura and Ino's hands and went down to the garage.

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After a few warm up tips from Naruto, Sakura took a big gulp out of her water bottle and walked up to the mic. Making sure it was on, she gave a thumbs up to Tenten who was near the speakers and other machines. Ino counted and as she reached 3, her, Shikamaru and Naruto started to play, and Tenten came in with the drums. But as they were playing and reached the part where Sakura was suppose to start singing, nothing came out.

Naruto signaled everyone to stop and walked over to the pink hair girl.

"Sakura? What's wrong?"

"I-I can't do this."

"Yeah you can, here how about this? Ino will sing along too and I'll throw some back up vocals."

Sakura turned around to face Naruto and nodded.

They began to play again from the beginning and this time, Sakura sang.

Hey there, Father
I don't wanna bother you
But I've got a sin to confess
I'm just 16 if you know what I mean
Do you mind if I take off my dress?

Don't know where to start
Let me get to the good parts
Might wanna cross up your legs
I've got envy, I've got greed, anything that you need
And I'm not above having to beg

There was this boy who tore my heart in two
I had to lay him eight feet underground

All I need is someone to save me
Cause I am goin' down
And what I need is someone to save me
Cause I am goin' down, all the way down

Everyone was surprised with Sakura's vocals. It was very different from the usual vocals the would hear from random singing and karaoke.

Well, hey there, Father
There is just one other thing
I have a simple request
I hear you know God could you give him a nod in my direction
I would be in your debt

Perhaps there is something that we could work out
I noticed your breathing is starting to change
We could go in the back behind all these stacks of bibles
And get out of this cage

There was this boy who tore my heart in two
I had to lay him eight feet underground

All I need is someone to save me
Cause I am goin' down
And what I need is someone to save me
Cause God, I'm goin' down, all the way down

I didn't wanna do it, Father
But I caught him with another woman in the bed I made him
So I put him in a grave

And now there's no one left around to get me off
When I want it to drag

The next day on the television they identified him
By the circumcision that I made and now I'm on the run
But wait, why did I have to go and kill him
When he was the best I'd ever had?

All I need is someone to save me
Cause I am goin' down
And what I need is something to save me
Cause God, I'm goin' down, all the way down

I'm goin' down
All the way down


Sitting in front of her laptop screen, Sakura Googled some things for her homework. While doing that, she tried to write some more lyrics. Suddenly she hears a ping, opening up the chat which everyone was in it already.

Ino: GUYS GUESS WHAT!

Tenten: Whats up?

Ino: ya'll know the Deadly K tour right?

Sakura: The one where a whole bunch of bands get together and play all summer at different places?

Ino: yup!

Shikamaru: troublesome.. what about it?

Ino: well they're holding this contest for local bands and if the band gets the most votes, they can get to play when the tour comes into their town!

Naruto: lets apply!

Sakura: whaaaaaaat! no ;-;

Naruto: why not sakura?

Tenten: yeah why not?

Sakura: I'm not good with performing live...being on stage

Shikamaru: we'll just record a song, post it and then see what happens

Ino: come on forehead!

Sakura: well...


wheee yay! chapter two is finished. :3 The song I used is Goin' Down by The Pretty Reckless!

Oh man I found so much grammar errors in the first chapter while reading it on my iPod, got up, turned the internet back on and fixed it so many times and it was 6 in the morning. x_x