Here's Chapter Ten! OhMyGwad! I can't believe it! OMDG has grown up so fast. *tear*
Anyways, this chapter... you know III don't even know where it came from. I was just typing and this was happened when I stopped. Maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't... Oh, and I PromisePromisePromise there will be more NaruSasu action going on next chapter. BelieveIt!
Now on to the story...
Chapter 10-
"Well isn't this place pretty snazzy?" Mizani commented as they pulled up to the building. The words The Akatsuki were in black lights and surrounded by clouds.
"It is." Gaara nodded taking her hand and leading her to the door. There were already a lot of people waiting in line to enter the teen club. A tall man with silver hair that was slicked back stood at the door. "Hidan, how's the place looking?" he asked.
"Well look who it is!" Hidan said looking at the red head, "And who's this pretty little thing you've got on your arm?" he asked rising an eyebrow at the raven girl.
Before Gaara could open his mouth, Mizani already had a grin on her face and her hand towards the older man, "I'm Mizani, nice to meet you."
"I'll be damned." Hidan laughed, "Got you a girl that introduces herself." He took her hand with a smirk, "Nice to meet you too, I'm Hidan."
"Dude! You're eyes are so pretty!" the raven girl said standing on her toes to see the man's eyes closer, "What the fuck is up with people around here having pretty eyes? I swear…" she muttered the last part as she closed her eyes.
The silver haired man let out a laugh and turned to Gaara, "I approve boy. You got you quite a fucking catch here. I was going to limit my cursing since I was in the presence of a lady, but if she doesn't care I want either!"
Gaara rolled his eyes, 'Why these people are my friends, I'll never know…' he thought. "Can we go in now? I'd like to shoe Mizani the stage were gonna be singing on."
"And she can sing?" Hidan looked to Mizani, "Do you have an older sister?"
"Sorry," she grinned, "One of a kind."
"And all mine." Gaara added with a glare at Hidan as he wrapped his arm around the raven's waist.
He held his hands up in surrender, "I won't gonna go after her. She's all yours! Now get in before Pein starts his rants again."
"Oh yeah, wouldn't want that to happen. Cause it never happens." Gaara said sarcastically, nodding to the man as he opened the door for them to enter. The club was dark for the most part and already filled with a lot of people. Black lights were seat up in different fashions across all the walls while strobe lights of different colors flashed everywhere. He led her to the right towards the front where there were tables set up in a section of brick walls. But instead of sitting down, they bypassed them and continued walking until they were at the back where a large stage stood a good 4 feet off the ground. "Here's our stage."
Mizani blinked at the stage and then at all the people that were already on the dance floor, "It's a very nice stage..."
"You're nervous aren't you?" Gaara asked putting a piece of hair behind her ear.
"Well... okey maybe just a little bit." She admitted.
"You don't have to-"
"No I want to! It's just…"
"Hey." He said softly, placing his hands on either side of her cheeks so she could look him in the eye, "Just focus on me alright? Pretend it's me in you in the car again." The smile that he loved to see shown bright on Mizani's face, "There you go. Now let's go backstage and wait for the boys to show up." He took her hand and led her to a door that was off to the right. Behind the door looked liked a mini club in its self, but with only about seven people.
A red head and a blonde sat in the middle of the room on the floor locked in a glaring session, a man whose hair was half black and half white with a green stripe down the middle was standing near the one of the sets of windows tending to flowers that were on the window seal, another man with seeming blue tinted skin sat at a table with brunette man playing a game of what looked like poker while a man with black hair laid in the floor coloring.
Gaara glanced at Mizani who was on looking the scene with her head tilted to the side, 'So cute.' He thought with a small smile. He tugged her hand gently and led her to a couch were Itachi sat shaking his head. The raven man had heavy eye liner on much like Gaara's, but not as much. He wore a simple fishnet shirt and black skinnies under a black cloak with red clouds on it. "They're at it again, huh?" he asked gesturing to the two glaring at each other as him and Mizani sat down.
Itachi let out a sigh, "Yep. Tobi just had to say something about art and they went at it." He said glaring at the man who was coloring.
"But Tobi's a good boy!" he said holding up his crayons.
"Ooohh! Coloring! I wanna color!" Mizani said going to sit beside Tobi who grinned.
"Please, do not encourage him." The older raven muttered shaking his head.
Mizani turned back to Itachi with a 'kicked-puppy look'. Her blue eyes went wide and shimmered with unshed tears while her bottom lip poked out trembling slightly for added effect, "But-But I like to color…"
"No! Not the face!" Itachi said hiding his face, "Dei uses it all the time and I think you have him beat."
"Who has me beat?" the blonde said looking away from his glaring match at hearing something being said about him.
"Her." The raven said pointing at Mizani who still had the face, without looking.
"You poor thing!" the blonde shouted jumping up, he ran over to her and enveloped her in a hug, "'Tachi, what did you do?"
Itachi's jaw dropped, "Deidara I didn't-"
"'Tachi doesn't want me to color…" Mizani said in a broken voice staring at the crayon in her hand.
"Itachi! Why don't you want her to color?" Before the raven could answer, the blonde began to speak again, "If this is how you treat kids I don't want to even think about adopting with you as the father." He turned to Mizani, "Its okey honey go ahead and color with Tobi, I'm sure he would love for you to." Mizani grinned and started coloring with Tobi, the pair giggling every so often.
Gaara on looked everything with a small smile, 'I'm going to have to lookout for that look, there's no telling what she'll get me to do..' he thought. Itachi turned to him and gestured to Mizani, "And you're not going to help me or anything?" he asked.
The red head shrugged, "What can I say; she's a keeper."
"Come on." He said with a defeated look, "At least help me get back on Dei's good side."
"Go color." Gaara suggested.
"You're kidding…"
"If you can't beat them, join them." He told the raven simply.
With a sigh, Itachi dragged himself from the couch and over to where they were sitting on the floor. There was some words exchanged that the red head could hear, but at the grin on Deidara and Mizani's face, he could tell that things went well. Mizani moved from out of Deidara's arms and near Tobi to help him with the picture he was coloring. Itachi took this opening to move closer to his boyfriend, giving him a small smile. Deidara grinned at him and took his hand, laying his head on the raven's shoulder.
'I wonder if Mizani and I will be like that…' Gaara blinked at the thought but then gave a smile as he watched her fuss over a color and throw a crayon at Itachi. 'I'm sure we are…' he thought nodding to himself.
"Where are going through the back because…?"
Sasuke rolled his eyes at the blonde's question. 'He better be lucky he's cute… No., bad Sasuke. He is not cute.' He glanced at the blonde as he parked the car, 'He's down right sexy.' "For the hundredth time dobe, because I don't want to deal with all the people waiting to get in or the people that are already in the club."
"Teme…" Naruto muttered getting out of the car.
Shaking his head, Sasuke made his way out of the car, locking the doors behind him and walked to the metal door that Naruto was standing beside. The raven took a second to look over the blonde's choice in outfit. Never would he have thought the outfit he had picked out would look that good on the blonde, he wanted to stand there and stare at him. Naruto, at seeing he was walking closer, pushed it open and walked in, Sasuke following behind him, but what he found shocked him.
His brother was laid out in the floor of the space they had backstage surrounded by Mizani, Deidara, Tobi and Sasori. Even though the latter was off to the side, he was still talking amongst the group. He watched as Mizani threw a crayon Itachi, who in turn threw one back but got hit the arm by Deidara. Itachi seemed to pout and continued to color the picture that was in front of him.
"I'm so confused…" Sasuke stated blinking.
"What's there to be confused about teme?" Naruto asked walking over and sitting beside Mizani, "Looks like a bunch of people are sitting in the floor coloring."
"Dobe, I realize that.. I just wanna know why my brother of all people is on the floor coloring." The raven said rolling his eyes.
Itachi glared at the female raven that was happily lying on her stomach, feet swinging in the air as she colored a picture, "She's evil, I swear she is; almost had me sleeping on the couch tonight."
"That was your own fault." Deidara said poking his nose playfully, "You shouldn't have stopped her from coloring."
"But I didn't even-"
"Gaara! I colored you a pretty picture!" Mizani shouted, interrupting the raven man. She jumped up and ran over to the red head who sat on the couch, showing him the picture excitedly.
"Are you sure she's our age?" Sasuke asked Naruto warily watching Mizani.
Naruto shrugged, "She had a pretty deprived childhood for the most part, can't really blame her."
"If you say so." The raven said walking to a small fridge that was beside the couch and taking out a bottle of water.
"Hey."
Everyone in the room looked to the main door where a man with hair similar to Naruto's, though instead of being blonde it was an orange color, stood with piercings in his nose, eyebrows and ears. He wore a black cloak with red clouds like the rest of the older people in the room and all black clothes underneath.
"Your all on in five. The others are already setting up."
Mizani jumped off the couch, almost falling flat on her face, and ran over to the man. She just stood there for a minute before saying, "Damn those had to hurt." Wincing as if she were actually in pain she moved her hands on her on face where he had his piercings.
"Well they don't call be Pein for nothing." He shrugged before walking out of the room.
"Giant Ball of sunshine isn't it..?" the raven girl muttered sarcastically walking back over to Gaara with a pout.
"That girl is one hell of an actress." Itachi stated.
"At least you don't have to live with her. She's okey most of the time but sometimes... she's borderline scary." Naruto stated, "I don't know if she's serious or if she is acting; especially when she's mad." He pointed at Sasuke, "You've seen her when she's mad."
Sasuke's eyes widened at the memory, 'I swear I thought I saw my life flash before my eyes that day…' "I don't think your friend is human honestly."
"I wouldn't doubt if she was some kinda demon or something- OW! What the hell?" Naruto looked at the shoe that lay on the floor beside him. He rubbed the now sore spot on his head.
"I heard that comment." Mizani said. Her eyes narrowed at Sasuke, "I heard you too. But I can't hurt you yet, you've gotta play tonight." She said with a grin before talking to Gaara again.
The group on the floor and Sasuke blinked at her.
"I think I may have to agree with you two on this…" Itachi said as Deidara, Naruto and Sasuke nodded in agreement.
"Sasuke, come on we need to get up on stage." Gaara said standing from the couch, his hand in Mizani's.
"Alright, I'll be out in a second." The raven said waving him on, he looked down at Naruto who had begun to color a picture of his own. 'Not you too…' he thought but a smile made it's made to his face, 'But now that is cute…' "Come on dobe; let's go find you somewhere to sit."
Naruto glared at the raven as he stood, "I am not a dobe, teme."
Rolling his eyes once again, he walked to the door that led to the main part of club. He looked around at the amount people in the club. 'Looks like a full house. Now where to put the dobe…' he spotted the table they usually take after performing and walked over to it. "You can chill here while we sing. You can order whatever you want, put it on Itachi's tab."
Naruto laughed, "Why not put it on yours?" he asked with a grin.
"Whatever dobe. Enjoy the show." He called over his shoulder before walking to the front and climbing on stage.
"You know there's steps right there." Gaara stated pointing at said steps.
"Too late you use them now." The raven shrugged taking up his black vintage guitar. 'Hello beautiful.' He thought happily as he put the strap over his shoulder.
Gaara looked around and saw that everyone was ready. He step up to the microphone, "So, how's everybody doing tonight?" he asked. The crowd cheered and clapped. Nodding he said, "Well that's good. Tonight, we have a bit of a treat. Instead of only hearing me and Mr. Mopey over there." He smirked as he pointed over his shoulder knowing the glare that Sasuke was sending him.
'Stupid red headed… I don't even know what you are!' the raven thought angrily.
"I would like to introduce my girlfriend Mizani. Miz, come on out." Gaara looked over his shoulder to see the raven girl walking towards the front of the stage, microphone in hand. She placed it in the mic stand that Neji had put beside Gaara. "Say hello."
Mizani tucked a stray hair behind her ear, "Hey guys." She waved, "It's nice to see you all, and maybe I can meet you later."
Sasuke watched the pair from his spot with a small smile, yet a bit of envy. The happiness that shown in his friend's eyes was like none he had ever seen before and he could tell the same in Mizani. The raven wished he could find someone that would make him that happy. He glanced out and searched for a blonde head of hair. He saw it right where he left it. Naruto grinned and gave a thumbs up and he heard Mizani laugh.
"Alright, so how about we get to singing?" she asked, "what do you say guys?" she looked back at the rest of the band. Kiba had a huge grin on his face, his drum sticks up and ready while Neji gave a smirk and nodded. Sasuke nodded at her also and she turned to Gaara with a grin.
"Here's Hero- Heroine everyone." Gaara said nodding to Sasuke to begin.
With a smile Sasuke began planning the opening of the song; soon followed by Kiba on the drums and Neji and Gaara with their guitars. He watched as Mizani glanced at Gaara, biting her bottom lip in nervousness but with a small smile from Gaara and a nod of his head, she began to sing.
"It's too late baby, there's no turning around
I got my hands in my pocket and my head in a cloud
This is how I do
When I think about you."
The raven girl's eyes never left Gaara's as she sung, but a bigger smile grew on her face as she got a bit more confident.
"I never thought that you could break me apart
I keep a sinister smile and a hold of my heart
You want to get inside
Then you can get in line
But not this time."
Gaara and Mizani stared at each other, both of them singing together.
"Cause you caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming…"
The raven found himself looking out at the crowd, his eyes somehow finding Naruto's as he joined in singing.
"I feel like a hero and you are my heroine…"
Gaara took up singing the next verse, like Mizani, his eyes never left hers.
"I won't try to philosophize
I'll just take a deep breath then I'll look in your eyes
This is how I feel
And it's so surreal
I got a closet filled up to the brim
With the ghosts of my past and their skeletons
And I don't know why
You'd even try
But I won't lie…"
The hook and chorus came back around and once again, Sasuke founded himself singing to the blonde. Naruto was grinning at Mizani in encouragement, but his grins turned to a smile as he looked Sasuke's way making the raven smile also and play more enthusiastically then he was before. Everyone joined in singing the bridge, more into the song then they were before.
"And I feel a weakness coming on
It never felt so good to be so wrong
Had my heart on lockdown
And then you turned me around
And I'm feeling like a newborn child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile
It's not complicated
I was so jaded
And you caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming
I feel like a hero and you are my heroine
Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?"
[Little side note: Sasuke= Normal Mizani= center and italicized Gaara= center and normal]
"I feel like a hero and you are my heroine…"
"And I feel a weakness coming on
It never felt so good to be so wrong."
"Had my heart on lockdown,
then you turned be around."
"Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?"
"And I'm feeling like a newborn child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile."
"It's not complicated
I was so jaded…"
The crowd burst in a round of applause along with shouting of all sorts of positive things. Sasuke saw that Naruto was standing on the chair he was previously sitting in and cheer possibly the loudest, "GO MIZANI! Yeah! Woo! You Rock!" he then turned towards the raven with a grin, "Alright Sasuke! YEAH! You Rock Too!" the compliment made Sasuke smile with a nod in his direction.
"So what did everybody think of our new singer?" Gaara asked. At the loud cheers and claps he tunred to Mizani, "See told you they'd like you."
She laughed, "Thank you everybody! I don't know about these guys, but I'm kinda tired."
Gaara nodded, "We're going to take a break. But don't go too far because we have more songs for everybody to hear." With that he took Mizani's hand and made his way off stage.
Sasuke put his guitar back in its stand and jumped off the stage, nodding to the calls of 'Good job.' from the crowd and made his way to where Naruto sat grinning. "What did you think?"
"Oh man that was awesome!" he shouted. "You were all like," he made guitar noises while doing an air guitar, "And then Mizani was like," he then held a mic and began to fake sing in a higher voice then his own. "You all were great!"
"Thanks. Maybe you can sing up there next." Sasuke suggested, "You have a pretty good singing voice." 'Pretty good? His singing voice is sexy as hell. What am I saying?' he thought.
Naruto smirked, "I guess we'll have to see. Oh! I love this song! I'm going to go dance!" he said rushing off into the crowd.
'That was the sexy smirk I think I've ever seen.' He looked out at the crowd catching a glimpse of Naruto dancing, 'This is going to be a long night…'
That's all folks! At least for this chapter anyway... Hope you all liked it. =] It was kinda fun writing it, especially the whole Itachi, Deidara and Mizani thing. XD
Sorry for any grammer and spelling mistakes... I tried to read over it... but you know how THAT can go.
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Until next chapter! *two finger salute*