This chapter includes Aerosmith's Make it, Uncle Salty, Dream On, and Pink.
The stage was set. Plugs and wires everywhere. Behind the amps and equipment was a hastily spray-painted bed sheet with a shuriken and a kunai on both the left and the right. Under the sign was the name "Shinobi" written in cursive. Students in promenade were all on the gymnasium floor, but on thing was missing. The Band.
"Shit, man, can't you go faster," shouted Dario from the back, "We're as late as hell!"
"I know, Dario, but this bucket of bolts is hard to drive!" Shouted Sasuke.
"Can I drive?" Asked Dario
"Can you drive a stick?"
"No." Dario sounded defeated.
"Then back off!"
"Okay, Okay, just hurry."
"Just be ready to jump out."
The doors to the gym flew open as four teenagers and a twenty-one year old literally ran, instruments in hand onto the stage. As they got there, Dario took the mic as the band plugs in their stuff. Kiba helped Naruto get his drums set up. He wasn't needed until later.
Dario studied the stand. Sasuke had a tripod, so a rounded bottom was new, but Dario was confident.
"Hi, folks. We, uh, apologize for bein' late, but now that we are hear, lets start the show the way we're supposed to…Ahem…HELLO, NIPMUC HIGH SCHOOL! WE ARE SHINOBI! ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?" some applause, but for Dario, not enough. "I SAID, ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?" The crowd took a little more enthusiasm. "SASUKE UCHIHA, HIT IT!"
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooh-!
Ooh, Good evening people, welcome to the show
Got somethin' here I want you all to know
When laughin' people bring on primal screams
You got to think of
What it's gonna take to make your dreams
Make It
Don't break it
I said Make It
Don't Brake it like you do when you feel like the world's coming down on you
You know that history repeats itself
But you just done so by somebody else
You know you do, you gotta think up fast
You gotta figure what it's gonna take to make it last
Make It
Don't brake it
I said Make It
Don't brake it
Then you do
Better weather, pull yourself together
Don't be catchin' the blues
Better weather, pull yourself together
What have you got to lose
You're only paying your dues
[Guitar Solo] Sasuke got so into the mood, he found himself on his back playing so hard, his mind couldn't think.
-Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell
Ooh too big a price that you gotta pay
And if you don't they'll get you anyway
Although you know what you've been going through
Your only dreams feel like a tattoo
Make It
Don't brake it
I said Make It
Don't brake it
Then you do
Better weather, pull yourself together
Don't be catchin' the blues
Better weather, pull yourself together
What have you got to lose.
Oh, yeah, baby. Well, that's it for introductions, lets go.
They played and played for another two hours.
Uncle Salty told me
stories of a lonely
baby with a lonely kind of life to lead
my mammy was lusted,
Daddy he was busted
they left her to be trusted till the orphan bleeds
but when she cried at night,
no one came
and when she cried at night,
went insane
Uncle Salty told me
when she was just a baby
that she'd get by and maybe someday she'd see
but soon she found her mother's
love for all the others
the pushers and the shovers
was the life to lead
but when she cried at night,
no one came
and when she cried at night, went insane
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
oooh, it's a sunny day outside my window
oooh, it's a sunny day outside my window
oooh, oh yeah
oooh, oh yeah, yeah yeah
[Guitar solo]
now she's doin any
for money and a penny
a sailor with a penny or two or three
hers is the cunning
for men who come a-runnin'
they all come for fun and it seems to me
that when she cried at night,
no one came
and when she cried at night,
went insane
Dario: oooh, it's a sunny day outside my window
Sasuke: oooh, it's a sunny day outside my window
Dario: oooh, it's a sunny day outside my window
Sasuke: oooh, it's a sunny day outside my window
Dario: oooh, it's a sunny day outside my window
Sasuke: oooh, it's a sunny day outside my window
Dario: oooh, it's a sunny day outside my window
Sasuke: oooh, it's a sunny day outside my window
Dario: oooh, it's a sunny day outside my window
Sasuke: oooh, it's a sunny day outside my window
Dario: oooh, it's a sunny day outside my window
Sasuke: oooh, it's a sunny day outside my window
Both: outside my window.
"Yeah, Sasuke Uchiha. Okay, now I'd like to slow it down, so grab yo date and get deep!"
[Sasuke starts]
Every time I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone
In the night, like dusk to dawn
Isn't that the way
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay
Yeah, I know nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win
Half my life Is in books' written pages
Lived and learned from fools and from sages
You know it's true
All the things come back to you
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laugh, sing for the tears
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away, yeah
[Sasuke solo]
Yeah, sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laugh, sing for the tear
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good
Lord will take you away
Dream On
Dream On
Dream On
Dream until the dream come true
Dream On
Dream On
Dream On
Dream until your dream comes true
Dream On
Dream On
Dream On
Dream On
Dream On
Dream On
Dream On
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laugh, sing for the tear
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laugh, sing for the tear
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away...
Dario lifted up his mic stand over his head when he suddenly felt a draft on his chest, he looked down and found his shirt had split up the middle. Improvising, he set his mic stand down and took his shirt off, along with his headband. He then tied each to the stand for decoration.
"Alright. It's getting late, and some of you might have plans, so we gonna go head and do one last song." Dario said as he took out his harmonica.
Naruto hit his drums seven times and Dario started playing.
Pink - it's my new obsession, yeah
Pink - it's not even a question,
Pink - on the lips of your lover 'cause
Pink is the love you discover
Pink - as the bing on your cherry
Pink - 'cause you are so very
Pink - it's the color of passion
'cause today it just goes with the fashion
Pink - it was love at first sight
Yeah, Pink - when I turn out the light
And Pink gets me high as a kite
And I think everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do tonight
You could be my flamingo
'Cause pink - it's the new kinda of lingo
Pink - like a deco umbrella
It's kink that you don't ever tell her yeeeah!
Pink - it was love at first sight
And Pink when I turn out the light
Yeah, Pink gets me high as a kite
And I think everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do tonight
[guitar solo]
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!
I want to be your lover
I, I wanna wrap you in rubber
As pink as the sheets that we lay on
'Cause Pink - it's my favorite crayon
Yeah!
Pink - it was love at first sight Yeah!
Pink - when I turn out the light
Pink - it's like red but not quite
And I think, everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do tonight-ta
"THANK YOU, GOOD NIGHT!" Dario said as he and the band disappeared back stage.
"Not bad for a first show, I gotta say." Sasuke said as he and the others changed into some less sweaty clothes back stage.
"Not bad? We blew the place back thirty years, man," said Dario as he entered the locker room. "What a name for a high school, huh? 'Nipmuc.'"
"Nice shirt, Dar." said Naruto.
"Well, show ya how much we rock, we rock till our clothes rip!"
Everybody laughed at Dario's comment.
"I am gonna need a new shirt, though."
"What about that one?" said Shikamaru, pointing to a PE shirt hanging in one of the lockers.
"Well…what the hell, it's got less wholes then mine." Said Dario as he took the shirt.
"So what now?" Asked Kiba as they drove away.
"Well, I think we should go on a road trip this summer, find some bars, do some gigs. Ya never know, we might meet some big shot music producer." Said Dario
"Yeah right." said Shikamaru.
"What about after that?" asked Naruto.
"You guys still got another year o' school, right?" asked Dario.
"I'm graduating," said Neji, "but the rest of us have one more year."
"That year would be a good time to write more songs…as long as it doesn't get old for you." Dario said, "Then we can go on another road trip."
"You suppose we're gonna make a carreer out of this?" asked Sasuke.
"Don't know, all depends on who's watchin'."
