Chapter 3: Talented People
Hey guys Heres chap 3
thankyou for all the reviews so far
This is the chapter where
I understand that its taking a while to get into the romance and drama its going to take a couple of chapters to introduce everything once that's set the plot will begin to develop more, In this chapter and the following one i really only go over the classes I'm doing this so you can get a breif idea of the charaters talents and what they do at this school however most of the situations that define the plot will happen outside class. I hope you continue read and to enjoy the story!
heres chapter 3!
i apologize for any grammar mistakes, im not so great with grammar lol.
Chapter 3:Talented People
with Sasuke a.k.a Music class...
" Welcome to music class!,we have one of the most established music programs here at K.I.A, so if your here then your obviously very good at music. However do not think it's going to be so easy, you will all have a long way to go before your more than spectacular."
Kakashi explained casually.
"Don't just think your going to get scouted by some random agent and become a star that only happens on rare occasion so you may as well have a backup career in music. Going to this school will have you set for a job in which you can perform music, you tell a job agency you attended this school you've got a good chance of getting hired. I understand you all play in different areas of music so you will eventually be split into different music classes. One thing that is very important is your ability to compose music yes I understand you've all have experience with composing, but this is something we will be working on improving.
Sasuke had been doing this all his life.
"Okay so um were going to start composing tomorrow for now were just gonna jam and basically get to know each other. So why don't we go ahead and I guess get whatever instrument you have play it?"
Neji was able to display his base skills quite well it was obvious base was his main area of talent when he performed for the class. Naruto had been practicing his drums for years he was crazy good at them. Sasuke has wondered how his friend even got into K.I.A due to the fact that Naruto's academic skills were not of the highest. But upon hearing his friend drum it was pretty evident he had gotten in for his musical skills. The other students were amazed on seeing Naruto drum so fast while producing such difficult beats.
Sasuke had decided to play his guitar.
Girls who were taking music upon seeing him developed an instant crush. Whispers of "Omg he's so cute" or "damn he's so hottt" could be heard around the room much to Sasuke and Naruto's annoyance
"Damn he's still gets all the girls" Naruto murmured under his breath
"damnit" Sasuke thought "I forgot all about this, this is going to be annoying if their in the same area of music I am then I'm so fucking done."
When it was Sasuke's turn to play everyone was silent in awe. His guitar skills were elite .His fingers moved up and down the neck of the guitar too fast to see which fret or strings he was using he was plucking the strings quick and easy and it didn't look challenging to him in any way at all. No buzz or errors were heard he smoothly transitioned each note to the next. Ocassionaly tapping on the guitar for a slight beat.
When Sasuke finished an applause was heard. The whole class could tell how talented he was. Some of the other musicians were quite jelous, Girls were squeling with delight failing to get over how his talent made him even hotter.
Kakashi simply smirked "ha I see. Looks like we've got a projidgy here, lets see how interesting this one is"
"Alright" sighed Kakashi
" well today was a pretty easy day but after this weekend were going to start boot camp understand?"
The students nodded, and went to pack up their instruments before leaving. Ready to take the rest of the day off, although Mondays classes were going to be continue from 8 am to 5pm.
"what'd you think teme" Naruto asked
"hmm s'alrite" Sasuke replied putting his guitar back in it's case "at least the teacher seems to know what he's doing, it's just the girls they wouldn't stop squealing the whole entire class."
"That's what you get for being so pretty Uchiha" Neji smirked
Sasuke simply glared at Neji, although it didn't seem to intimidate Neji being a lot more relaxed than Naruto was. Neji just smirked. Naruto caught on to the joke
" yeah teme, hahaha being beautiful does have its -"
But he stopped upon seeing Sasuke's eyes turn red
"uh-oh sharingun that's means he's pissed"
Sasuke smirked as he saw the nervous look on Naruto's face. his eyes returning to their normal black color
"Ha-ha never fails to work on him" Sasuke mused thankful for the trait he has inherited being part of the Uchiha family.
With Sakura a.k.a dance class
"Ahh here it is!" Sakura cheered as she found the room she was supposed to go too.
Windows aligned the hallway looking into the dance room, making it easier for Sakura to check she was in the right place. The room was of a typical dance studio, mirrors all around and a bar for certain ballet practices. The dance floor was filled with a good amount of students all holding athletic bags, fitting on dance shoes and stretching. Sakura slowly wondered in, and took a seat on the floor waiting for the lesson to start. As soon as everyone had taken their seats Gai and Kurenai walked in from the back door to start the lesson.
Gai beamed at the audience of dancers "Ahh a fountain of youth welcome all of you"
Once again Sweat dropped among the students
"Hey Gai why don't you leave this one to me"
"But Kurenai! It is my responsibility to encourage the importance of youth among the –
"YOU CAN DO THAT LATER, WHY DON'T YOU GO SORT OUT LEE HES IN THE OTHER ROOM ? She broke into her fake smile ushering him out into the other gymnasium
"AHH YES LEE MY MOST YOUTHUL PUPIL I MUST SEE TO HIM AT ONCE"
The students sighed in relief as Kurenai took over.
Greetings all of you I'm Kurenai and that was Gai and we are, as you've already been informed your dancing instructors. You all sent in your submissions, and we were impressed by your performances good job getting accepted. Now let us get down to basics, like Tsunade said earlier we don't accept slackers in this school. You are all going to be working your ass off constantly, if you don't get a move right then you better improve it by the end of the day even if you have to stay here till the next morning. We only want elite dancers. Make sure each and everyone one of you eats a good breakfast because you're going to need a lot of energy for the amount of dancing that's going on.
All off a sudden she leaped across the dance floor and landed in a perfect set of pirouettes
"You have to be able to execute and land moves perfectly!"
She pushed her self up on her hands and began a walking hand stand backwards ten feet across the floor
"Use you muscle and strength to support your body!"
She stood up and leaned forward straightening one knee and lifting the other leg out behind her, her arms out in perfect balance, this position in ballet known to be called "abesque"
"Have perfect balance"
All of sudden she did a back flip landed on the floor crouched and sprung up performing all sort of dance moves with her hands and legs one after the other, as if not having to think before each move.
"Remember all the moves fast and transition from one move to another in good enough timing. You shouldn't have to think about the next move. The routines we practice will eventually become something that's second nature to you and if that isn't possible your to slow and need improvement. GOT IT?"
Most of the students looked nervous after seeing Kurenai's remarkable example. Sakura was among the other student who answered with an enthusiastic HAI as they felt the inspiration build up inside them.
"Alright all of you change into your dance clothes, and we'll get started"
Everyone stripped off their clothes to reveal leotards underneath. The male dancers wore sweat pants to class with leotards underneath them so they just had to remove their hoodies.
As Sakura went to take off her clothes many of the straight male dancers eyed her curious too see what this "hot chick's" body truly looked liked, and maybe the chance that she wasn't wearing her leotard under her clothing, but that she was one of the girls who wasn't shy and wouldn't mind stripping down to a sports bra and panties to change. Much to their disappointment Sakura wasn't that kind of girl. Still, the tightness of the leotard was good enough to make a couple of guys drool.
As she folded her clothes and stuffed them in her handbag Sakura looked up to see Ino walking into the dance studio
"Ino? -what are you doing here?" Sakura said a little confused but excited to see her friend.
"Yey now i'm not lonely"
"That's what I'd like to know" Kurenai said walking over to the pair of eighteen year olds
-COUGH Ino and Sak looked over to see a girl with red hair and eyes snickering at them. She was whispering to her colleague who seemed to be a boy with shoulder length white hair, purple eyes and sharpened teeth.
Ino glared at her for a short moment before answering the question
"Oh Asuma let us off early he said we'd start working next class, so I came here to watch my friend dance"
"Oh well in that case you can sit over there with the other dancers"
"Arigato sensei" Ino bowed before heading over with Sakura to sit in the corner.
"Alright then, now i'm going to take the time to evaluate each and everyone of your moves. Everyone against the wall".
Students followed Kurenai's instruction wondering over to the mirrored wall and taking a seat against it.
" Let us see what your peers are made of, I believe you all brought your own mix of dance songs as I asked you?"
Sak reached into her handbag, casually took out a pink CD case, and gave a small nod
"ok!" Kurenai announced " Now that you all have you CD's you are instructed to pick your best song and show us what you got, any kind of dance is fine just make sure its good."
"Your up first!" said Kurenai pointing to a blue eyed female with sandy colored hair. It was tied in into four pony tails at each corner or her head. Her dance outfit was quite different form the other students who wore plain black leotards she wore a long orange V-neck tunic that was tied with a giant red bow so that it looked like a light dress. She wore a black leotard underneath it with long black tights, grey leg warmers and silky lilac ballet flats.
The girl got up and walked towards the dance floor nonchalantly placing the CD in Kurenai's hand as she simply uttered "track number 5"
"I like her outfit" Ino whispered
"yea it's a cute idea i'm interested too see what kind of dance it's for" Sakura replied
"Alright, then and what's your name and where are you from ?"
Kurenai asked the girl
" I'm Temari from Suna"
"Alright Temari and what kind of dance will you be displaying for us today?"
"hmm you'll see" Temari said smirking as she took out two small fans
"Ahh interesting, is this perhaps geisha inspired? " Kurenai asked
"like I said you'll see"
"okay then ready for play?"
Temari bent down in ready position on one knee her head down and arms crossed holding one fan in each hand.
"hit it" she replied
The music wasn't merely "geisha" music it was more of a modern remix
Temari jumped up her fans out she used the geisha style technique moving her fan in elegant gestures to emphasize the beauty of her dance moves. She waved the fan out and bent back bringing it over her eyes , she continued to pull it out spinning with her fan as she began to bring more hip hop style dance into play, she began pulling her fans with the beat of the song, using them as a tool to help her body move fluidly. Her dance was beuaitful and artistic and in the process she was able to do a few back flips which was impressive in itself..
the song ended.
There was two seconds of silence before applause was heard throughout the dance room.
Well done, Temari , How innovative, and the fact that you can also use gymnastics in your dance is remarkable, everyone give applause to Temari for her creativity.
"Woot yea Temari" Sakura yelled "I may not know her, but she deserves high credit for that performance."
Temari turned to see who had just cheered her, she made eye contact with Sak giving her a quick smile and nod before returning to her seat.
"Ha creative, pfft that was stupid, it's just like cheerleading with fans instead of pompoms"
Upon hearing this Sakura turned to see who the speaker was, it was the same girl who had snickered at Ino and her earlier.
The girls comment angered Sakura "who does she think she is" A voice in Sakura's head fumed, Sakura was used to this, It was known to be her "inner self" or "inner Sakura". Sakura's conscience was known to appear at moments when she was really pissed off and well damn this girl had pissed her off enough ."Time to take action" Announced inner Sakura. Before Sakura could stop her self, she turned towards the red head girl and decided to give her a piece of her mind
"Just because she's talented doesn't mean you have to make snide remarks! That was a beautiful and creative dance and if you can't see that then you obviously need to do some more research"
The girl looked up at Sakura and smirked.
" who are you?" Her tone was snobbish alright
"I'm Sakura" She answered coldly her fists clenched tight enough to break bones.
"Ahh such a pretty name to bad I cant say the same about you appearance, such a big…forehead "
The statement hit Sakura harder than one would expect, What would be expected anger only transformed in sadness. Ino was the only person who was allowed to call Sakura forehead due to certain reasons, but whenever someone else mentioned it, it hurt Sakura badly. As a child the other girls would taunt her for her forehead which apparently was "oversized". As pretty as Sak was, she never thought so herself. She never felt like she was beautiful, and she had always wished so much that she could decrease the size of her forehead. Flash backs traveled through her mind instantly back to when she was only four.
A little girl sat alone in the school yard , her hair was short and pink she had long bangs that covered her entire forehead and barely covered her eyes.
She was crying hysterically, Ami had just made another comment about her forehead and it hurt pretty bad. She had no true friends, everyone just poked fun at her and she didn't know what to do., She was too shy to do anything about it and it just encouraged the kids to push it even further.
Another little girl wondered in to the yard in search for some flowers to pick. Her hair was pale blonde and short she had bright blue eyes and a warm smile, Sakura hadn't noticed her she was too busy crying over her forehead.
The other young girl saw Sakura and wondered what was wrong, slowly she walked over and kneeled down in front of the crying girl. Sakura feeling her presence looked up revealing those turquoise eyes of hers, big, bright and filled with tears
"wh-who are you?" she asked the blonde girl shyly
"I'm Ino Yamanaka, but why are you crying?" she replied
"i-I" Sakura buried her face in her knees releasing more tears
"Hey it's alright, you can tell me, your forehead girl aren't you?"
Hearing those words "forehead girl" just caused her to cry harder
"its ok here let me see it"
Sakura looked up at Ino allowing her to lift up her bangs
"well it is pretty big"
More tears
" But hey, hiding it with those bangs isn't helping now is it? You like an old English sheep dog, besides it's not that bad and you have a pretty face so it shouldn't matter
The tears slowly began to stop Sakura wiped her eye sniffling
"really?" she asked
"mhmm, you have very nice face , in fact here" Ino took a piece of scrap ribbon out of her pocket which she used to wrap flowers together. She brushed Sakura's bangs back tying them with the ribbon
"Ahh much better"
"but my forehead now everyone can"-
"relax you never going to forget about it if you keep hiding it silly!"
"hm arigato Ino-chan" Sakura smiled at her new friend.
The flash back ended
Ino was the only one allowed to call Sakura forehead girl , Ino was her best friend. It was Ino who introduced Sakura to Hinata and Tenten. The four girls first met the guys at recess and the gang eventually formed, and ever since then no-one in school dared to insult Sakura when she had her friends to back her up..
Ino heard Karin's insult loud and clear and she immediately stood up and attacked right back
"LOOK YOU! ONLY I CAN CALL HER FORHEAD, AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN BE INSULTING SAKURA BECAUSE SHE GOT IN WITH A FUCKING SCHOLARSHIP DUMBASS WHO I BET GOT WAITLISTED.
Sakura blushed embarrassed at Ino's mention of the scholarship. While inner Sakura did quite the opposite "CHYEAA DAMN RIGHT I GOT A SCHOLARSHIP"
Karin's face became consumed with anger and jealousy as to the fact that Ino's assumption was correct. She reminded herself to keep cool, losing her expression and returning to yet another smirk to pretend that the statement hadn't affected her.
"ha I don't have time for you wannabe losers"
"WHY YOU"-
"Ino its ok don't waste your energy on her save it for the theatre"
"hmm yea, you're right Sak I don't need to waste my energy on idiots like her" Ino remarked sitting back down folding her arms.
The girls sat and watched other dancers. Some found strength in jazz, others in hip-hop, ballet, tap and other sorts. It was interesting to watch and both Ino and especially Sakura found it exciting.
"Alright the last two left to perform are Karin and Haruno"
"wha-? sensei you know my name? I haven't even told you.."
Kurenai bent down and whispered "I remember your video" and winked
Sakura was satisfied at this, being quite happy that one could remember her dancing out of the thousands of students who had applied.
"chyyeaa that's right she remember our video" Inner Sakura bragged
"Alright Karin your first show us what you can do"
Karin arose form her seat "Beat this Forehead" and she handed a CD to Kurenai
"Number 19 sensei."
"What style of dance?"
"That's not important." Karin answered
"Okay then." Kuranai shrugged and pressed play
Karins dance was very…erotic, alot of movement in the hips and an attempt at seductivness was evident in her dance style. She was running her hand down her legs and dragging herself along the floor at one point"
"wow is she like trying to joke or did she apply thinking this was a school for strip dancing." Ino noted
"hahahaha I have no clue she's not that bad though I did see her land a spin just now and she seems to know a good few ballet moves, but your right she definitely got strip dancing down."
Karin's dance eventually ended, she turned around to glare at Sakura real fast before she went to sit down by her friend with the sharpened teeth.
"Okay Haruno that leaves you."
"WOOT ALRITE" inner Sak punched her fist into the air ready to dance
"lets show ' em what we've got"
"Track 9"
Sakura walked to the middle of the dance floor and got in ready position
The music started
Sakura was breaking out into a beautiful mix of ballet and hiphop with the occasional and suprising reference to break dancing that she had learned off the streets.
The dance Sakura chose to do was complicated but she made it look graceful twirls and executing high kicks with the ability to push her limits made sakura's dance skills unbelievable. she was able to accomplish a one handed back spring smoothly while landing in a beautifully formed posture Her ability to move her body in such a fast motion understanding the movement of hip-hop as well as ballet showed her studied observation of different styles. She felt the beat of the music flow through her. Dancing was her passion this feeling of freedom and energy that she was able to express through movement. At this part when the music slowed down she only focused on ballet, this was the most beautiful moment in the song where she imitated "swan lake" pulling herself along the dance floor with beautiful leaps and turns expressing emotional gestures with her arms and torso. As the music began to catch up to its normal beat she pulled off nine pirouettes not losing one ounce of balance and broke back into hip hop.
.The whole audience was in awe, many applauded, and some wolf whistled,
Ino could be heard yelling "YEAAAH SAK, WOOT YOU SHOWED EM' YOU GO GIRL"
Karin looked so red it looked like she was about to kill someone, it was obvious who the best in the class was, Sakura was talented she had been dancing all her life and she was completely dedicated to her goal. Ever since Sasuke left to pursue his goal she decided she's push her dance skills to her maximum ability in hope to be strong enough for him and it eventually became an escape for her a way in which she could vent the emotional loss she felt when Sasuke had left. Now the pink haired cherry blossom was the best in her class at one of the most prestigious dance programs in the country. An intense feeling of happiness over took her.
"Well done Haruno!" Kurenai said impressed
"Arigato Kurenai sensei"
"if you don't mind me asking where did you learn to break like that"
"Ahh there were these guys who hung out near my street and I would always see them doing it. I mean, I already knew ballet and all but I wanted to try something a little different. What they could do looked really cool so when I told them that they had inspired me to learn it I guess they were more than willing to teach me."
"Ahh impressive."
And the cherry blossom smiled the warm feeling still there .
