DISCLAIMER: All hardcore Naruto fans of the world have witnessed the creative mind of Sir Kishimoto. I wish he'd lend me a part of his artistic cerebrum… ((sigh)) By then I can be a very proud part owner of Naruto. The thing is, I doubt that's possible… Oh, AND ANOTHER ONE! I don't own the song 'Forgotten', Avril does, from 'Under My Skin'. Green Day owns 'Are We The Waiting' from their album 'American Idiot'. I'm just a poor little innocent 13-year-old ficwriter.
A/N: I'M STILL ALIVE! MWAHAHAHAHAHA! ((SMACK!)) Aww! Who threw a … er- tomato… at me? ((looks around with a glare and spots a reader)) OH, HELLO! Good day! Here's the next chappy! Thank you very much for your lovely reviews! Even though a review doesn't reach 5 words, my Inspiration Percentage still goes up! Well, IF the review is encouraging… Keep on reviewing, and give me some ideas, please! I'm INSPIRED! ((holds up a sign saying 'INSPIRED LUNATIC ON THE LOOSE, coming soon in theatres near you')) OKEH!
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So here it is!
Chapter 2
Rehearsal at the Hyuuga Manor
Sakura ran as fast as she could towards the Hyuuga manor. She had just awoken from her nap when her pink clock displayed 4:07, so she had quickly changed into an ocean blue shirt with a matching denim jacket. She wore loose khaki pants with a lot of pockets and white rubber shoes (A/N: Heck, that's way too OOC for Sakura! Hehe…). She finished off by tying her pink hair in a single ponytail. Afterwards, she dashed away at top speed.
DAMN! Inner Sakura was cursing, I'm sure the alarm clock is sick! Afternoon naps SUCK! Sakura turned around a corner on her heel. 4:12! And to think I was the one who suggested we rehearse before the show! Argh! I hope they won't kill me for being late! It's a miracle she wasn't able to bump on someone or stumble upon something while listening to an Inner Self ranting endlessly in her mind.
Zenith had been performing for over a year now, and their usual rehearsing place is the Uzumaki residence. This time, it's the Hyuuga Manor. Mind you, that place is HUGE, due to the fact that all the members of the clan live there, and that the very same family owned a part of Konoha. Whoa, talk about power. Even though it's her first time visiting Neji's place, she was sure she wouldn't get lost in finding it, since a lot of people in the village knew where the manor is, and its exceptionally large size makes it very conspicuous.
Sure enough, she found tall golden gates with a huge letter 'H' engraved in the middle. Sakura abruptly halted running and was panting heavily, her hands on her knees. She was now in front of the huge manor's gold front gate. As she was trying to calm herself down, someone spoke up from somewhere, which scared the living daylights out of her… a little.
"Glad you could make it."
"Gah!" Sakura exclaimed. She turned around and saw Gaara, his arms folded. He was smirking. Sakura, on the other hand, looked flushed.
"G-GAARA-SAN! Y-You scared the living hell out of me! Er – sorry…" she scratched her head apologetically, "Hehe… umm… are they…?"
Gaara nodded, "Neji and Naruto are waiting. Come on."
"OK!" Sakura said smiling as she walked side-by-side with Gaara towards the doors of the Manor. For some reason, Gaara was still smirking at Sakura's childish behavior. Too bad Sakura didn't notice it.
"Hmm… nope," stated Sakura as she was tuning a black electric guitar she borrowed. Her eyebrows were furrowed. She plucked the strings each a lot of times while listening to it before the practice to check the tunes. The four were in the Recording Room, although they aren't recording. They chose it since not much noise can be heard from the outside while you're inside.
Neji was also tuning his guitar, a dark blue one, for the 4th time. Gaara was playing the bass guitar to make sure his fingers were in the right condition to play. Naruto was tapping the drums. He then threw a drumstick, which did a somersault in midair, and caught it before it hits the floor.
After a few minutes, Sakura then stepped up near the microphone.
"OK guys! I think it's enough for the warm up! Let's rock!" Sakura exclaimed grinning. Gaara and Neji nodded while Naruto yelled, "O-KEH! Let Sakura-chan do the singing!"
Sakura smiled, "OK then; let's do 'Forgotten'."
Intro…
"I'm giving' up on everything
Because you messed me up
Don't know how much you screwed it up
You never listened
That's just too bad
"Because I'm moving on
I won't forget you were the one that was wrong
I know I need to step up and be strong
Don't patronize me
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
"Have you forgotten
Everything that I wanted?
Do you forget it now?
You never got it
Do you get it now?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
"Gotta get away
There's no point in thinking about yesterday
It's too late now
It won't ever be the same
We're so different now
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
"Have you forgotten
Everything that I wanted?
Do you forget it now?
You never got it
Do you get it now?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
"I know I wanna run away
I know I wanna run away
Run away
If only I could run away
If only I could run away
Run away
I told you what I wanted
I told you what I wanted
What I wanted
But I was forgotten
I won't be forgotten
Never again
"Have you forgotten
Everything that I wanted?
Do you forget it now?
You never got it
Do you get it now?
Do you get it now?
"Have you forgotten
Everything that I wanted?
Do you forget it now?
You never got it
Do you get it now?
Do you get it now?
"Forgotten…
Forgotten…
Forgotten…
Forgotten…"Sakura ended the song with one last strum on her black guitar.
"Great, Sakura-chan!" Naruto happily exclaimed.
"Thanks, Naruto," said Sakura smiling at her best friend. She then turned to Neji, "Your turn, Neji-san."
Neji nodded and adjusted the microphone, "Alright. Let's do 'Are We The Waiting'."
Naruto, Gaara and Sakura nodded and began to do their own thing.
"Starry nights city lightsComing down over me
Skyscrapers and stargazers
In my head
"Are we we are, are we we are
The waiting unknown
This dirty town was burning down in my dreams
Lost and found city bound in my dreams
"And screaming
Are we we are
Are we we are the waiting
And screaming
Are we we are
Are we we are the waiting
"Forget me nots and second thoughts
Live in isolation
Heads or tails and fairytales
In my mind
"Are we we are, are we we are
The waiting unknown
The rage and love, the story of my life
The Jesus of suburbia is a lie
"And screaming
Are we we are
Are we we are the waiting
And screaming
Are we we are
Are we we are the waiting
"And screaming
Are we we are
Are we we are the waiting
And screaming
Are we we are
Are we we are the waiting
"Are we we are
Are we we are the waiting
Are we we are
Are we we are the waiting…"
Then the song ended.
"That was great, Neji-san," Sakura told Neji with a smile on her face. Neji faced her and returned the smile with one of his rare ones.
Naruto stood up and stretched his arms, "Ne, I'm hungry! Neji, could we take a break and eat? My stomach is leading a revolt against me along with my liver, intestines, and pancreas…"
Sakura pouted, "Naruto, you're exaggerating."
"No, it's okay. Go ahead in the living room. Hinata-sama volunteered to attend to you," Neji told Naruto.
"Yay! Food! Food! I hope there's ramen! Yeepee! Food! Hahah! Wheeeeeeeee!"
The Fox Dance again.
WHACK!
A lump again.
"Naruto, if you don't behave, Hinata-chan won't give you any food! Suffer the revolt of your digestive organs by yourself!" Sakura lectured him.
Naruto tended his new lump, "Owie… OK, all right… Ne, Gaara! Help me beat Sakura-chan when it comes to boxing, will ya!"
"Hn" was his only reply.
Sakura sighed, "OK, I'll go ahead. I must help Hinata-chan instead of having war with Naruto. See you guys later." She then walked off to find Hinata.
Naruto was relieved, "I was granted salvation."
Gaara and Neji, however, smirked.
'I guess this is the living room,' Sakura looked around. There was a huge flat screen TV and a DVD player on a large rack. There were a lot of DVDs and VCDs along with it. The sofas were of a dark green shade. There was also a chandelier on the ceiling just above the sofa set. 'But no one's here… I guess Hinata-chan's in the kitchen.' She then went to find Hinata.
Wow, the Hyuuga Manor was SO big and SO spacious.
So… where is the kitchen anyway?
Hinata looked at all the food on the kitchen table, "I-Isn't this t-too much?"
A girl who had bangs and had her brown hair tied in two buns tried to assure Hinata, "Don't worry Hinata-chan! Naruto's got a spacious stomach. I bet he can eat a quarter of all these food we prepared."
Hinata blushed scarlet at the mention of Naruto's name.
A blonde with blue eyes spoke up, "Tenten, you should be cautious in mentioning Naruto's name. Look at Hinata, she's tomato red." Then she giggled.
"Ino, you shouldn't only mention Naruto just to make Hinata do her best in cooking a lot of food. How about the other members of the band?" Tenten asked Ino with a grin.
"I think you should worry about the other three band members. Uzumaki Naruto might consume all the food. And Hinata will blush madly," another blonde spoke up.
"Temari!" Ino slightly shrieked, "I have a question. Is Naruto a mad-eater-on-the-loose so all of us are supposed to worry if there's still food left for the rest of us?"
Temari, the blonde with four pigtails, smirked, "I think so."
Tenten turned to Temari, "Even though your brother, Sakura-chan, Neji-san and Naruto are famous now, we should still treat them like old friends. We've known each other since our lower years."
Ino sighed, "Well, as long as I can remember, we were close to Sakura-chan and Naruto. Hyuuga Neji and Gaara don't open up easily."
Tenten bushed furiously at the mention of Neji's name.
Hinata giggled, "Tenten, relax."
Temari grinned, "The world knows how much Tenten likes Neji… except for Neji himself."
Tenten blushed bloody red.
Ino joined the teasing, "And how much Hinata-chan likes Naruto! Although the baka doesn't know that!"
Hinata blushed scarlet red (again).
Temari snorted, "Much more on the fact that Ino likes that human ice cube Uchiha Sasuke."
Ino blushed tomato red.
Tenten snapped, "We all know that our dear Temari-chan likes that lazy genius Nara Shikamaru."
Temari blushed crimson red.
They were all blushing. Silence occupied the whole kitchen while the four girls blushed different shades of red until they heard someone calling someone's name.
"Hinata-chan!"
Hinata blinked, "Huh?"
"Hinata-chan! Where're you!"
Hinata turned to face the kitchen door, "W-Wait… was that…?"
Ino nodded, "I think it is." She approached the door and slowly opened it, only to find a certain pink-haired girl standing on the other side of the door.
Ino jumped back, anime style. "S-Sakura-chan!"
Sakura was surprised, "Ino-chan?"
Hinata, Tenten and Temari were surprised as well. "SAKURA!" They bellowed in unison.
"Sakura looked around at the back of Ino, "Hinata-chan? Ten-chan? Temari-chan?"
They stood there looking at each other for a few minutes before Sakura spoke to Hinata.
"Ehe… umm… I've been looking for you for ages… anyway," she turned to the other three, "Why are you all here? I didn't expect Hinata-chan to invite the rest of you… sorry…"
Hinata smiled at her and said, "I-I'm sorry I h-haven't told y-you, S-Sakura-chan; I-I invited them to h-help me prepare the f-food… Y-You need to eat a g-good am-amount for t-tonight's p-performance…"
Sakura smiled too, "Aww… thanks… but I should've helped all of you in preparing the food…"
Tenten grinned, "Come on, Saku-chan! It's okay!"
Temari nodded, "Besides… we need help in bringing all these to the dining room." She pointed at all the delicious food on the table. Sakura was drooling.
"S-Sakura-chan?' Ino looked at Sakura. Before they even saw Sakura's drooling expression, she snapped back to reality and exclaimed, "OK! I'll help bring the food! Come on now people!"
The four girls sweat-dropped.
A/N: Hinata likes Naruto. Tenten likes Neji. Ino likes Sasuke. Temari likes Shikamaru. But they aren't the necessary pairings. I've decided on the side triangles: SakuNaruHina (not really), InoShikaTema, NaruHinaKiba and SakuNejiTen. Oh pooh, I'm twisting it.OK that's it.
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