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'."