Hey guys, sorry for the late chapters lately. I've been reading a lot of GaaraxHinata fics lately, cause that pairing is so damn cute!!!! Thanks again to Angels-with-Guns for the advice, and don't worry, Sakura's cuteness will show in the next chapter. I also decided to put in this chapter right after I took down and reposted chapter 3…uh, yay?
Italics and Bold-Inner Sakura
Italics-Thinking and singing
Disclaimer: AIN'T MINE, BABE!!!!!(Cept Rook… But I don't really own Mikko. She owns herself. Oh, and the Mysterious Girl. She's mine too.)
Chapter 4- "Band Practice"
Sasuke's P.O.V.
I looked around, but she was gone. I felt something uncomfortable in the pit of my stomach, but pushed it down. The idea of getting mauled by demons like the one from yesterday did not appeal to me.
I got up and went back inside, realizing that by now, school was probably over.
Normal P.O.V.
While Sasuke and the boys got ready for rehearsal, Sakura floated around the school, invisible. That was one of the good parts of being a shikigami: unused chakra could be harnessed to do anything, even become invisible and fly. She watched Ino fight with Tenten about whose art project was better, laughing internally.
'Those two have a kind of sister complex.' She thought with a silent chuckle. She saw Mikko and Gaara talking. She couldn't make out what they were saying, but after a minute, he said something and she began to laugh. Sakura smiled softly as she noticed Gaara blushing and letting out a small grin. She also noticed Rook hovering nearby, a frown plastered onto his face.
"You really do father her, you know." She purposely bumped into the older shikigami. He looked at her in surprise.
"Shouldn't you be down there?"
"Nah, I decided to cut. Not like it matters." She shrugged.
"Tsk, tsk, Sakura. I thought you'd know better than to risk blowing your cover like that."
"What's wrong with cutting class? A lot of kids do it!" Sakura pouted.
"Oh stop. You look like a child." Rook looked at her seriously. The easy-going feeling in the conversation was gone, making the pink-haired shikigami nervous.
"You really want to be a true shikigami? Well here's rule number one: don't do anything to risk blowing your cover. Rule number two: don't abandon your master. And rule number three: never abuse your chakra reserve. If you lose it all, you'll be reduced to a Deviant."
Sakura shivered at that last comment. Deviants. Spirits who abused their chakra amounts and went through fight after fight without waiting to regain some eventually lost it all, and also the ability to be a shikigami. They are cast off by the head council of shikigami elders into a sort of limbo, where they will just float with an unquenchable thirst for all of eternity.
"At least, that is what my father told me when I was your age." Rook smiled at Sakura's nervous expression. She warmed slightly at his familiar face, and noticed Mikko getting farther away.
"You better follow Rule number two." He looked down the hall to see Mikko about to leave the school with Gaara.
"Crap. Bye Sakura-chan!" He sped off. Sakura couldn't help wonder what Sasuke was doing right now. She decided to go find out.
Sasuke plugged his guitar into the amp and turned it on. The familiar high-pitched shriek welcomed him like an old friend as he picked up his guitar.
"Shikamaru, you got the drums ready?" Naruto called to their pineapple haired friend. A crash of a cymbal was heard, then a muffled, "Yeah!"
"Hyuuga, you ready on bass?" Sasuke called to Neji. Neji nodded.
"Hey Konoha High, what's up? We're gonna play a new song for you today." The Uchiha spoke through the microphone to their friends Tenten, Ino, Lee, Choji, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Gaara, Mikko (who Gaara invited), Temari, and Kankuro. (This was not including the vicious Sasuke Fangirls that were hiding in the back of the theatre)
Some of the kids whooped and laughed as the boys stared to play. No one noticed a pink haired girl stroll in through the back door quietly. Sasuke didn't notice either, as he began to sing.
She says she's no good with words
but I'm worse
Barely stuttered out
"A joke of a romantic"
or stuck to my tongue
Weighed down with words too
[Whispered: We're going into D-Minor
Dance, Dance
We're falling apart to half time
Dance, Dance
And these are the lives you'd love to lead
Dance, this is the way they'd love
If they knew how misery loved me
You always fold just before you're found out
Drink up its last call
Last resort
But only the first mistake and I...
Why don't you show me the little bit of spine
You've been saving for his mattress, love
Dance, Dance
We're falling apart to half time
Dance, Dance
And these are the lives you'd love to lead
Dance, this is the way they'd love
If they knew how misery loved me
the little bit of spine
You've been saving for his mattress
(mattress, mattress)
I only want sympathy in the form of you
Dance, Dance
We're falling apart to half time
Dance, Dance
And these are the lives you'd love to lead
(way they'd love)
Dance this is the way they'd love
Sakura's P.O.V.
They were good. No, they were really, really good. The lyrics were amazing and the music was fantastic.
I clapped lightly, positive no one could see me.
'Sasuke looks….really hot…'
'DAMN RIGHT HE DOES!!!'
'No!!! I did not just think that!!!'
'Sorry girlie, but ya did.'
I sighed, then watched something strange happen. Gaara, who wasn't clapping, stood up and ran out of the theatre through the side door, Mikko chasing after him.
'This place just gets weirder and weirder…'
I left the theatre to follow them.
Normal P.O.V.
Sasuke felt a strange presence. He looked toward the back door of the theatre, and swore he saw a breeze of pink hair as the door closed silently.
'Was that…?'
Sorry for the short chappie. I went on vacation for a week and had no access to my computer. I just finished school. (HELL YEAH!!!!)
Mysterious Girl: I didn't appear in this chapter.
Me: Don't worry, you'll be in the next one!
Mysterious Girl: glares who said I was worried?
Me: backs away …right…whispers she's so creepy!!!
Rook: Not creepy. Just misunderstood.
Me: Uh…. okay then. Reviews welcome, flames accepted!!!!