Authors note: I know I may skip ahead on time a lot but that is because well nothing interesting I could find to make happen on the other days, plus I'm not a patient person and I really wanted to get to this chapter. It is so far my personal favorite chapter I wrote for this and if by any chance someone wanted to you know do a picture of some one of the scenes, that I'll mention at the end, I'd be forever grateful I doubt it'll happen but just throwing that out there. Anyways read and review please. And if it seems like I'm going fast on the feelings and couples I'm sorry, I like to keep it interesting and so I tend to move fast, if you feel I am please tell me.

Chapter 3: Long Way To Happy

It was they day after Naruto's bad had played and Sasuke was in the empty lounge sitting on the side of the stage trying to write the lyrics for the song her and Naruto would have to perform. He had written most of the music so she couldn't let him have the pleasure of writing the lyrics as well. She heard the door open and saw a certain blonde and redhead walk in. "Hey boys," she said.

"Sasuke I need to talk to you," Gaara said.

"Uh, really?" she asked, wondering what it could be about.

"Yeah, Naruto can you give us a sec?" Gaara asked, looking toward the blonde.

Naruto gave him a funny look, "Yeah sure." He went and pretended to walk back stage, but really was just behind the curtain and could hear them perfectly clear.

"So what is it Gaara?" she asked.

"Will you go out with me Thursday?" he replied.

"You mean like a date?" Sasuke asked.

"Yes," he said.

"Sure, but I have to practice that night," she told him.

"We can go out in the day," he shrugged.

"Okay, it's a date," she said with a small smile, he just nodded and walked back stage.

"What the hell?" Naruto whispered loudly to Gaara.

"What?" Gaara asked innocently.

"You know what; we agreed not to go for her," he said.

"I never agreed to that," Gaara replied.

"You're such an ass," Naruto almost yelled.

"You've said repeatedly you don't like her that way, you just find her attractive," Gaara pointed out.

"I don't care, she's my friend and I know that you date a girl or guy and dump them when the next best thing comes along," he said angrily.

"So?" Gaara asked.

Angrily Naruto walked out to over by Sasuke, "I can't believe that you're going on a date with him."

"Huh? Oh Gaara?" she asked.

"Yeah," he frowned.

"Mad you didn't get him first?" she asked teasing him. He just glared at her. "Why do you care anyway?"

"I don't!" he exclaimed.

"Could have fooled me," she said rolling her eyes and walked back stage.

"Where are you going?" he asked. She just walked away not saying a word to him.

"You know, I can tell you like Naruto more than Gaara."

She turned around to see Karin standing there. "No I don't," the dark haired girl replied.

"Really?" Karin asked doubtfully.

"Yeah, I don't like cowards," she shrugged.

"How is he a coward?" the other girl asked.

"He's too scared to even admit he likes me," Sasuke said.

"Oh. And Gaara?" Karin asked.

"He asked me out on a date today," she replied.

"Whatever makes you happy," Karin walked out to where Naruto was.

"Hey Karin," Naruto said.

"Hey, so do you like Sasuke?" Karin asked.

"No! Well as a friend," he replied.

"Hn, whatever you say," she shrugged.

"What are you trying to say?" he asked.

"She doesn't like cowards," Karin smirked and walked out of the lounge.

"Coward? I am not a coward," he said angrily.

Back stage Sasuke sat down on the couch and continued to write lyrics.

Tensions had been high between Gaara and Naruto all week, but now it was Thursday, and Gaara and Sasuke's date was today. Naruto was not happy about it, not only had it been their date day, but he was just having a bad day all together. Needless to say when they came to the lounge hand in hand it did not please him. He was also not pleased with the fact that Sasuke kissed Gaara on the cheek before going back stage.

"So what are you two dating now?" Naruto grumbled.

"Yes," Gaara said smirking

"WHAT?" Naruto yelled a little louder than he meant to.

"I asked she said yes," he shrugged.

"Gah you are such an ass!" Naruto said angrily.

"So you do like her?" the red head asked.

"NO!" He stormed back stage, which surprised Sasuke.

"You've known him what hardly a week and you're dating him?" Naruto glared.

"We happen to have a lot in common," she replied.

"Whatever," he mumbled.

Sasuke was about to reply when Suigetsu came back stage, "Hey Sasuke, one of our amps blew will you go buy a new one?"

"Yeah, I'll be back in a little bit," she said. Sasuke left angry at how Naruto was acting, she found it all very annoying.

It was dark by the time she started walking back to the lounge, and she had a bad feeling.

"Hello Sasuke."

She froze in her tracks as she heard a voice that was all too familiar, "Itachi?"

"Hm, you still recognize you're older brother's voice." He appeared close to her in his tight leather pants, see through black top and his long black trench coat.

"What do you want, haven't you done enough damage to my life?" She half yelled, trying to keep her cool.

"Oh, Sasuke didn't you know? I'm coming to see your show tomorrow," he smirked.

"Stay away from me," She said trying to not sound scared.

He went up to her and purred in her ear, "But haven't you missed me?" he asked her as he slid his hand down her side. He slid his hand down her arm feeling the black mesh shirt that was underneath her blood read tee shirt, he felt down to her skin tight pant and stopped at the chain that was connected her studded belt to her pocket. He pulled on it trying to bring her closer to him. She tried to push him off. No, this can't be happening again. Please make him go away!

Her eyes snapped such and as soon as he appeared before her, he was gone.

Why is he here? Why did he show up? He kills our parents and relatives and then disappears and now he thinks I want to see him? He rapped me years ago, he's the reason I have all this anger and sadness in me. Is he just trying to torture me? Why does he have to do this to me?

Sasuke felt her legs turn to jelly as she fell to the ground in a panic attack. She hated when this happened because she felt weak. A tear started to roll down her cheek, he only touched her and it made her feel dirty and worthless, she never wanted to remember what it was like when he forced himself on her.

Back at the lounge Suigetsu looked worried.

"What's wrong Suigetsu?" Naruto asked walking into the lounge seeing Suigetsu just sitting there staring at the door.

"Sasuke should be back by now," he replied, obviously worried.

"She's not?" he suddenly felt worried to.

"No."

"Did you go look for her?" Naruto asked, wondering why he was just sitting there.

"No, but I'm going to, stay here," the other teen said as he started for the door.

"What? Why?" Naruto questioned.

"You don't know her like I do," was his vague response.

"I'm coming," Gaara said.

"No you aren't," Suigetsu hissed.

"Excuse me?" Gaara said in a deathly tone.

"I said you aren't," he glared. Suigetsu walked off toward the store he knew Sasuke would go to.

Soon enough he found Sasuke on the ground where Itachi had left her. She was sitting there staring into the darkness.

"Sasuke!" he quickly ran over to her and helped her up.

Normally she wouldn't show her weakness to others, but he knew what she had been through, he understood. She collapsed his arms crying.

"It was him wasn't it? What did he do?" Suigetsu asked, somewhat panicked.

"He touched me, no further, but it brought back all the memories," she said in between sobs. This was the exact reason Suigetsu didn't let anyone else come with him, he feared this might have happened.

He didn't say a word, he just picked her up and carried her back to the lounge, he thought she'd feel safer there. "Did he say anything?" he asked.

"He said that he was going to come to the show Friday," she said sadly.

"I'll make sure he doesn't lay a hand on you," Suigetsu promised.

"Thanks," she responded weakly.

He smiled, he knew that was all he'd get out of her; after all she was still an Uchiha.

Naruto stood up as Suigetsu entered the lounge with Sasuke in his arms.

"What happened?" Naruto yelled.

"Shut it Naruto!" Suigetsu yelled as he sat Sasuke on the side of the stage.

Juugo walked out to see what the noise was about to see Sasuke on the side of the stage with her legs pulled into her with her arms wrapped around them.

"He didn't! I'll kill him!" Juugo yelled seeing Sasuke's state. Suigetsu just nodded and Juugo started to get angrier.

"Settle down Juugo, I'm fine," Sasuke said. Juugo just took a deep breath and tried to calm himself for Sasuke's sake.

"What the fuck is going on?" Naruto yelled and they all just looked at him.

"Sasuke are you going to be able to play tomorrow?" Suigetsu asked.

"Yes, but we are changing the last song if he is here," she replied, not looking any of them in the eye. They all, except for Naruto, just nodded knowing what she meant.

"I'm going to tell Karin," Suigetsu said. He walked backstage and Juugo followed him back so he could finish what he was doing before the news.

Naruto looked at her, "Him?"

"It's a long story," she said, not trusting him enough to tell him.

"I've got time," he replied.

"I can't tell it," she frowned.

"Why not?" he asked, trying to understand what had just happened.

"It hurts too much," she almost let a tear out but she willed it away and got up and walked back stage leaving a confused Naruto.

If there was one thing Sasuke was good at, it was pretending that she was okay for the show. She acted like she would any other time. It didn't matter if inside she wanted to die; if it were for a show she'd pull it together.

They came out for their show to start and Sasuke yelled into the microphone, "How is everyone tonight?"

The crowed cheered and she scanned the crowd for Itachi, she didn't see him and that reassured her.

She turned around and put on a blonde wig and the song started to play. As she sang the lyrics she flipped the blonde wig back and pushed up her bra, which made the crowd laugh. She was mocking how some girls were superficial and didn't act like herself, in other words the stupid girls.

Naruto just shook his head laughing and Gaara didn't look amused. As she sang she walked to the front of the stage, getting the crowd worked up. She ripped off the blonde wig, throwing it out into the crowd as she made a point of not fitting in, not conforming to societies standards.

After she finished the song, she looked around to see if he was in the crowd, but he wasn't. It was at that point that she felt she was going to get through the set with out him coming to see them. It wasn't until the last song was about to start and he walked in. She immediately froze and the rest of the band saw him.

"It's okay Sasuke, you can do it," Karin whispered.

Sasuke nodded and Naruto could tell something was wrong. He stared at Sasuke, but she didn't take her eyes off of the black haired man that had just walked in. He looked a lot like her and she seemed to be a mix of sadness and anger in his company.

The band nodded and they knew what song to play. "This is called A Long Way to Happy," she said to the crowd. The semi slow song started to play and her voice came in.

She didn't even bother to really move on the stage she just stared at the same person with a rage in her eyes. If you couldn't tell whom the song was for, you were an idiot. Sure most didn't know what it was really about, but that didn't matter.

The music started to speed up for the chorus and she moved to the front of the stage, all the while still looking right at him. When the music went back to the original pace and she still stood in her spot, she had so much emotion going into the song it really didn't matter that she didn't move.

She walked back to her original spot as the music started to speed up, but she kept her eyes on him the entire time. She couldn't help it; she didn't trust him and she wanted to make her point just how much he broke her. She didn't care if he didn't care that he killed apart of her the day he took everything she had left, she had to actually do something.

Naruto looked at her and how she sang to the one guy. 'There is definitely something that she's not telling. I wonder if Gaara knows, he is dating her. Wait a minute, why is Gaara looking so friendly with Neji?'

"Gaara can I talk to you?" Naruto asked.

Gaara sighed and walked over to the side with Naruto, "What?"

"You're looking too comfortable with Neji," he stated.

"Well, I didn't think Sasuke had so many problems," he shrugged. Gaara had issues of his own, he felt that he didn't need to be with someone who had issues on the level that Sasuke appeared to have.

Naruto resisted his urge to punch Gaara, "Whatever."

The song ended and Sasuke immediately left the stage and went to the couch back stage.

"Hello Sasuke," a voice behind her said.

TBC…

Songs of inspiration: Stupid Girls by Pink and A Long Way to Happy by Pink