As soon as she got home Hinata ran straight to her room. She needed to think. She let her bag fall to the ground and went to sit on her bed.
She was still trying to wrap her head around the fact that she had won. WON!
Out of who knows how many songs, Shinobi and Naruto liked her song the best. And they even wanted to meet her.
But should she do it?
Wouldn't they just laugh at her and say she was just playing a practical joke. They would probably say that there was no way that a shy girl who stutters could sing like that.
Hinata let out a sigh. "No….I won't tell them."
But Hinata still wanted to sing. After writing that song and recording it reminded her of how much she enjoyed it.
It was her escape from everything in her life like her family, school, and the lack of love life she had.
"Maybe…." Hinata got up and walked over to her desk, which still had the recording equipment out. "Maybe I could continue to send them music anonymously. That way they still got songs, I could still sing, and no one would know who I am."
Hinata smiled. The plan wasn't fool proof but it was the best she had at the moment.
She had finished her homework in class and had free time at the moment, so Hinata walked to her closest and brought out a cardboard box. Inside was a bunch of different journals, each full of songs that she had written through the years. They weren't the best but she thought she might be able to change them up a bit to make them fit today.
Hinata flipped through some of the journals and looked for a song that would work.
She stopped in the middle of one of her journals. The title of the song caught her eye and as she read more of it the more confident she was that she had found her song.
Hinata took the journal to her desk and started on her plan.
With Shinobi…
"UGH!" Kiba growled. "Who's the dummy who came up with this plan….Naruto?"
"Hey it wasn't me. It was mr, watch clouds all day." Naruto pointed at Shikamaru.
"I didn't say that the plan was going to be easy. What did you think would happen? That the girl would just magically show up and no one else would argue?" The look on Naruto and Kiba's faces told Shikamaru that was exactly what they thought. "Troublesome." Shikamaru let out a deep sigh and went on to explain. "We have a large fan base, mostly girls. When they heard that we were looking for the girl that wrote the song they took that as an opportunity. They figured they could just say they were the girl and that's it. Luckily we have the recording of the girl's voice to compare to them. That's why I didn't want to mention it on the radio."
"OOOOOHHHHH!" Kiba and Naruto said in unison.
"Idiots." Sasuke mumbled.
"What did you say teme?"
"Enough." Kakashi walked into the room. "Get back to work. I would like to find that girl soon.."
"Kakashi come look at this." Shino said from his laptop.
"What is it Shino?" Naruto was already looking over his shoulder. Soon all of the band members were circled around his computer.
"I just received this email."
Shino clicked on it and a message came up with an attachment.
Hi Shinobi,
I'm sure that you are getting a lot of girls saying that they are the ones that wrote the song. Which is fine by me. I rather not have people know who I am. Just wanted to say thank you. I'm so happy that you picked my little song as the winner and were sweet enough to sing it on the radio. I also wanted to say that I enjoyed writing so much, that I was kind of hoping you would listen to another one of my songs. Hope you like it and maybe even sing it. If you do sing it on the radio then I will consider that as a form of a deal where I send you songs and you sing them. Until next time,,,
Hope you love the mystery.
P.S. I loved hearing you sing my song Naruto.
"So what do you guys think?" Kakashi asked.
"Let's hear the song and then decide if she really is the one." Shikamaru suggested.
"She sent the sheet music as well." Shino clicked on it and opened the file. All the band members read the song title and chuckled.
"Well the song title is appropriate if we do decide to take her offer." Kakashi said. He then motioned Shino to open the file containing Mystery singing.
As soon as the first notes of the song came on they knew that they had the right girl.
"Now what do we do?" Kiba asked.
"We do what Mystery said to do. Sing it on the radio." Sasuke said.
"So that means that we are going to be getting more songs from her?" Naruto asked.
"Exactly." Shino said.
"Awesome! Just wish we knew who she was so we could thank her properly."
"Maybe you can Naruto."
"What do you mean Shino?"
"Look." Shino pointed to his screen. "I can't find her name but look at the return email address, ."
"What's ?"
"It's a website. Shino type it in." Kakashi ordered.
Shino typed it in and the Konoha High website came up.
"I think I know how to find out who Mystery is."
"How's that?" Kiba asked.
"Boys….you're going to high school." Kakashi gave them his signature eye smile.
Konoha High…
It was already Friday. Last week the whole school was talking about the upcoming concert. But now the entire school was talking about Shinobi's new plans.
The news had spread like wild fire once it got out. Shinobi was coming to Konoha High. No one knew why they decided to come back, nor did anyone really care. All that mattered to them was the fact that they were coming.
Hinata admitted she was a little excited. She was going to get the chance to see Naruto, Kiba, and Shino again after all this time. That is, if they even remember her and want to talk to her.
To celebrate the famous band coming to the school, Principle Tsunade organized a special celebration in the theater after school, which was where Hinata was heading now.
When she got to the theater she saw that most of the people had taken their seats. Hinata looked around and quickly spotted the pinkette waving at her.
"Thanks for saving me a seat."
"No problem. Ino and I were just talking about how excited we were that Shinobi was coming here next week."
"Can you believe it!" Ino chimed in.
"No I can't."
"I wonder if it has anything to do with that mysterious song writer. They say they haven't found her yet. Maybe she is a student here." Sakura suggested.
Hinata froze. She hadn't thought of that.
"Quiet everyone. Settle down." Assistant to the principle Suizune tried to get everyone to stop talking.
"SHUT UP!" The students instantly stopped talking as their principle walked up on stage. "Good, now that I have your attention I can get this thing started. As you know, the band Shinobi will be attending this school starting next week." The crowd cheered. "But I do not want you to treat them any differently. So that means no pictures or autographs." Groans came from the audience. "Now that's settle we can get to having fun. It's my pleasure to give you SHINOBI!" Tsunade moved out of the way as the curtains pulled back to reveal the famous band. The students went wild.
Naruto walked up to the mic and smiled at the crowd. "Hey everyone. We are glad to be coming back to our old home. We just wanted to say thanks for having us here with this little gift. It's a brand new song."
(We've Only Just Begun by Run Kid Run)
As soon as they started playing the intro, Hinata knew it was her song.
You'll have your ups and downs
Don't let them push you out
Cause time is all you've got now
Go make the best of everything you want to be
With ambition pushing forward
Your dreams upon your shoulders
Though impossible it seems
It's time to just believe
From here on out you're just getting older
Pick up yourself you'll keep getting closer
Let's just get it started tonight
All you've ever wanted its in your eyes
Just let it take you where you want to go
Just let it tell you what you want to know
You've got your destination
Progress has now been made and you
Will see the way you've wanted it to be
We've only just begun
There's gold that lies in us
Your hesitation's held you long enough
Though impossible it seems
It's time to just believe
From here on out you're just getting older
Pick up yourself you'll keep getting closer
Let's just get it started tonight
All you've ever wanted its in your eyes
Just let it take you where you want to go
Just let it tell you what you want to know
The future holds a brighter day for you
You may ask yourself tonight
Is it out of reach, out of reach,
is it out of reach is it out of reach,
out of reach, or am I? or am I?
Let's just get it started tonight
All you've ever wanted its in your eyes
Just let it take you where you want to go
Just let it tell you what you want to know
Let's just get this started
(where you are tonight)
All you've ever wanted
(its in your eyes)
Just let it take you where you want to go
Just let it tell you what you want to know
Just let it take you where you want to go
The crowd erupted in applause.
"Thanks everyone. And just in case you were wondering, this song was written by none other than our unknown writer, who we have proudly named Mystery. Hopefully she will be sending us more songs that we will be playing for all of you."
"Mystery…I like it." Hinata thought to herself.
The crowd cheered even louder.
Hinata couldn't believe it. They liked her other song as well. And that meant that they wanted her to write them more songs. She couldn't be happier or more scared. She knew she had to think of another song and soon.