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Music and Notes

By Cnguyen456

Chapter 3: What is Music?

I leaned back in my chair as I got ready to sign off. I needed piano time. Suddenly, a chat window popped onto the screen. It was from Hinata. I yawned as my eyes narrowed at the screen. I had always told her to change her screen name,

HyuugaHinata: Hinata has not returned home. We have no idea of her whereabouts, do you know anything?

Hinata was … missing. I placed my fingers on the keyboard as my fingers begin to type.

HeavenlyTen: Call Sakura. It's a Tuesday; she is most likely trying to woo Naruto. Wink?

I stretched as my hands lifted themselves in the air.

HyuugaHinata: Thank you…..name?

I laughed.

HeavenlyTen: Its common courtesy to tell ones name before asking for another's.

HyuugaHinata: Hyuuga Neji. Name?

HeavenlyTen: The way you play makes great music.

HyuugaHinata: I don't make music. I let it out. It is none of my doing, it's the instruments.

HeavenlyTen: Without you, the piano would be nothing.

HyuugaHinata: Every instrument has music in its voice, music players are just there to let it out. A guitar has its own music, a piano does too, and we are just there to let them be heard.

I stared at the screen.

HyuugaHinata: That's why we're here.

HeavenlyTen: That's why we're here. To make music, one of the oldest art forms, to let it be heard. We're on Earth to make music, to make rhythms, it's all the same thing. We're sending messages.

HyuugaHinata: ….

HeavenlyTen: All music lovers think alike and different at the same time right?

I glanced at my piano. Music has to be let out. Signing off I grabbed my music journal and pushed the chair over to the piano, collecting dust from not being used in such a long period of time. I took in a breath. Time to let the music escape.

Regular Point of View

Neji stared at the screen rereading the words.

All music lovers think alike and different at the same time.

Music Lovers…

He stopped in his thinking when someone burst through the door.

"We've found Hinata. We are sorry to waste your time like that Hyuuga-sama." A maid bowed down low.

Neji stood up and glanced back at the computer.

"It wasn't a waste of time," He said walking past her into his own room.

Tenten's point of view

I sighed deeply as my fingers cramped. Shaking them slightly, I stood up as my cell phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Tenten, we're all at Hinata's house. We're studying for the exams. Come on over."

I rolled my eyes.

"Be right there."

I hastily shoved my books into my bag and slung it over my shoulder. Running downstairs, I opened the door and stepped outside. The long walk to Hinata's house was not wanted. Groaning I started down the steps towards the sidewalk.

My phone, tucked nicely into my pocket, started vibrating. Pausing, I reached into my perfectly fitting jeans and snapped open the phone.

"Hello?"

"Hinata asked Neji to come pick you up since he was already on his way home from his band practice."

"Wait a minute."

"Have fun!"

"WAIT! I DON'T NEED HELP. I LIVE JUST DOWN THE STREET!" I almost slapped myself across the face.

His hotness was coming to pick me up.

Oh joy.

Rolling my eyes I walked back over to my porch steps as I leaned on the rails waiting for my unnecessary ride. I looked up at the dark night sky. Hopefully, his friends were with him.

Pulling out my music journal, I stared at the small amount of notes I had written in an hour's time.

It was already 8:30 and my mom wouldn't be too excited to find that I had gone to a friend's house at nighttime.

I would probably be forced to spend the night. Ripping a page out of my journal I quickly scribbled across it, 'Might not come home tonight. At Hinata's no need to worry'.

I stuck it onto the door using some tape I had conveniently found in my bag.

"What are you doing?"

I gave a yelp as I jumped up startled. I turned around to be face to face with Hyuuga Neji. His car was parked neatly in the driveway, and luckily, in the passengers seat was Uchiha Sasuke. I hadn't even heard the car park in the driveway nonetheless Neji get out of the car and walk behind me.

"How did you do that?" I asked staring at him leaning casually against the porch stair rails.

He raised an eyebrow as I shook my head.

"That scared me. I'm leaving a note for my mom." I said easily.

He glanced at the note and seemed to shrug it off as he pushed himself off of the stair rails, but he seemed to stop as he stared at my note narrowing his eyes.

"Something wrong?"

He glanced at me and shook his head as he descended down the steps. Obviously I was supposed to follow. Rolling my eyes, I grabbed my pack from its resting spot next to my feet and followed him into his car.

Settling myself for the long ride to the Hyuuga mansion, I focused my concentration out the window careful not to look at either prodigy sitting in the front.

My phone began to vibrate as I looked at the caller I.D. and quickly opened it. I growled into the phone.

"I will slit your throat when I get there, Ino. You better stop running because I swear when I get my hands on you I'll throttle you until you"

I swear I heard a chuckle come from one of the two sitting in the front seat.

I was cut off by her sickeningly sweet voice.

"I was just trying to be nice. It's not my fault the person picking you up happens to be the perfect undeniable match for you."

My cheeks grew hot as I suddenly became aware of her loud voice propelling off of my cell phone. Hastily, I snapped the phone shut and continued to look out the window.

"So… Ino tells me you guys are in a band?" I smile trying to change the subject from what they must have heard. "Your instruments must be really good."

Sasuke scoffed.

"Our instruments?"

I smiled brightly.

"Yes, the instrument has the music. The person playing just lets it out."

I swear I could have seen Neji's eyes narrow in the mirror. Sasuke scoffed again.

"The person playing must skillfully let it out in order for it to be good. The technique in which a person plays his instrument has to correspond to the instruments music. You make music your own song." He muttered.

I raised an eyebrow.

Skillfully let it out?

I smiled warmly.

Maybe this car ride wasn't exactly unnecessary.

"INO, YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE YOU DIRTY LITTLE TRICKSTER!" I yelled the moment I stepped into the house.

Neji walked past me as Sasuke followed him.

"Tenten's here!" I heard Sakura faintly yell from Hinata's room.

I grinned as I ran up the steps towards Hinata's room.

I fell back onto her bed as I gave a loud groan.

"I'm done studying. I have enough credit to pass my senior year. Forget this." I stood up and walked over to Hinata's computer. "I'm going to use your computer."

We had been studying for 2 hours and it was already 10:45. Sakura and Ino were quizzing each other while Hinata re read some chapters.

At this point, I didn't even care if I failed. I didn't need to study this stuff; I needed to understand what Neji and Sasuke meant.

If you are playing music, you have to correspond with your instrument because your instrument has the music in it. You just have to let it out, but it's not only the instrument that is playing the music, its how you decide to use your instrument. And then if you were playing someone else's music you made it your own?

I was totally confused and I would even admit it out loud. The computer was not amusing, I needed a piano. I smiled. Neji had a piano and according to Sakura and Ino who had been on Uchiha Sasuke watch, Neji and Sasuke had left to play basketball out at the inside courts at the Hyuuga mansion.

Slyly I stood up.

"Hinata, I'll be back."

Quietly and as slyly as possible I walked into the hallway towards Neji's room. I proceeded towards the piano looking around from time to time to make sure no one was watching. I sat down at his piano and placed my fingers on the keys when I realized something.

There was a yellow post it stuck to his piano.

And I was pretty sure I didn't write it. Curious, I grabbed the post it and read it. In neat handwriting it said:

In case 'Music Lover' comes back, there is a CD in my left drawer. Take it.

-Hyuuga Neji

I stared at the post it note as I raised my eyebrow. I crumpled up the post it and proceeded to raid his left drawer. Finally finding the CD case, which was labeled music lover, I grabbed it and took a post-it note while I was at it.

Scribbling I wrote:

Thanks for the CD, I'll listen when I have time. If you ever need to contact me, I'm closer than you'd think. I'm also still disappointed that the song that you have written, which is beautiful by the way, doesn't have a name.

NAME IT!

-Music Lover

I smiled with satisfaction. It didn't sound too desperate nor did it sound like a stalker. I was pretty proud of myself as I walked out of the room. I forgot what I was in there for in the first place.

I made my way back to Hinata' s room clutching the CD. I entered and made sure to keep in safely in my backpack before resuming studying.

"Hey Tenten? Can I borrow your calculator?" Ino asked as I settled into the bed with a book on my lap.

"Go ahead, it's in my bag."

She smiled and grabbed my bag by the strap as the items in it flooded out.

"INO!" I yelled about ready to throw the book at her.

She smiled sheepishly at me.

"I didn't know it was open!" She yelled as she crammed stuff back into my bag.

Rolling my eyes, I continued studying.

Regular Point of View

"Hinata, are you still awake?" Neji walked into the room as he glanced around at the sleeping figures.

He turned around to leave before stopping. He turned around and stared at the CD laying on top of a backpack. Walking towards it, he raised an eyebrow noting that it was the CD he had made for the person going into his room and sticking post-it notes everywhere.

He glanced at Hinata's friends.

One of them was Music Lover.

A/n: Barely any NejiTen moments, sorry! Read and Review! Sorry for the late update! I'm a lazy bum.