Karaoke, Yes, Karaoke
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Kankuro blinked at the spot where his sister had been before it dawned on him. "Oh. No."
He turned quickly to the stage. Empty.
For now…
"You don't think she'd…I mean, she wouldn't possibly…would she?"
He turned to his little brother for reassurance, panic of the moment robbing him of the common sense that his little brother did not give support, never had and most likely never will.
Gaara stirred crossly, his sadistic train of thought disturbed. "I don't care, Temari can do whatever she wants. If anyone dares bring it up later on, I will kill them."
Kankuro shuddered. Okay, baby brother slightly more murderous than usual…but that was Gaara's solution to everything. If you don't like something, kill it. Hell, kill it anyways.
Kankuro sighed and fidgeted nervously. Hopefully, Temari would not make a fool of herself…
Rock Lee brightened when he saw his beloved sensei heading toward the table. Instantly, he bounced up in his seat, eyes brimming in overjoyed expectation of praise at their performance.
"How was it Gai-sensei?! We tried to outshine Kakashi, we really did-"
His words were cut short as beloved Gai-sensei raised his fist with superhuman speed and punched him over three tables and into the bar area. Anko grimaced at the bleeding, teary, bruised face that decorated her bar table before unceremoniously pushing it to the floor.
"No fightin unless you want me to throw you out!!"
Neji watched his sensei shuddering with unshed tears, and wondered why destiny hated him so.
"Why Gai-sensei?!" cried Lee, nursing his bruised face.
"Because my boy!!" roared his sensei. "Even though you were trying to outdo Kakashi, you must never lower yourself to speak such perverted and filthy words!! It is a shame upon a shinobi's honor!!"
Gai looked upon his student, tears that he could not hold streaming down his cheeks. Lee met his gaze, mirroring his face.
"I will never do it again Gai sensei!!"
"That's my boy Lee!"
And they ran to each other in a tearful hug. Neji grimaced. He was going to need a lot more alcohol to rid his mind of that image…
Kankuro was hoping, praying, pleading that Temari was not going to get on that stage. To every single deity he remembered. He even prayed to Shukaku for crying out loud!!
But no amount of praying could ever stop Temari from doing anything. It would've been more useful to get Gaara to get up and drag his sister down from the stage, but Gaara was in no mood for dragging anything from anywhere and besides, what would he care?
So thus Kankuro groaned when the lights dimmed to a sultry level and some very familiar music started playing. And then he buried his face in the table when he remembered what it was called.
A spotlight shone down on Temari, dressed in very tight jeans, a black tanktop, and lots of shiny necklaces and bracelets and big gold hoop earrings. She grinned slightly and started to sing.
"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard - And they're like - It's better than yours - Damn right it's better than yours - I can teach you - But I have to charge"
With that she jumped down from the stage and, catlike, made her way over to the bar. The eyes off half the guys and more in the bar followed her because Temari, being fifteen, seemed a lot sexier than the girls they had been used to seeing all their lives. Well, the guys of Team 8 had Kurenai-sensei, but Kurenai-sensei never acted like this.
She slid smoothly into a bar seat and Anko, who seemed to be in on this whole deal, grinned wickedly and slid her a frothy milkshake, cherry on top. Temari lifted the straw lightly with her fingers and with a coy smile pretended to be occupied with it.
"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard - And they're like - It's better than yours - Damn right it's better than yours - I can teach you - But I have to charge"
She lifted the cherry and licked the cream off slowly, before popping it in her mouth and pulling out the stem with a pucker of her lips. Then she turned and leaned on the bar suggestively, that slight, scornful, tempting smile on her face.
"I know you want it"
She gave a flirtatious wink over in Sasuke's direction. Said boy gulped nervously because behind his cool exterior he was very muchly still a teenager and he very muchly still had hormones that were firing off inside him.
"The thing that makes me - What the guys go crazy for"
She hopped up onto the bar, lifting the glass and sipping from the straw delicately and gazing over the male portion of the audience with sensual green eyes. She licked her lips again and Hinata kicked Kiba under the table because she was pretty sure she heard him moan and even though she was a kind understanding soul, she didn't like Kiba being an animal in front of her.
"They lose their minds - The way I wind - I think it's time"
She slid off the bar and walked over to Team 7's table. She leaned down close to Sasuke, who was red despite all his attempts to control himself and sang the next bit near his ear.
"La la-la la la - Warm it up"
She stood up and stalked away to the dance floor, stopping with a sensuous dip of her body.
"Lala-lalala - The boys are waiting"
She crooked a finger at the audience, as if inviting anyone to come up, then swung side to side, hypnotically.
"La la-la la la - Warm it up"
Then she turned with a toss of her head, looking back with a daring nod. She winked again.
"Lala-lalala - The boys are waiting"
Then she faced the girls who were still at the verge of the dance floor, too shocked or angered to do anything, she gave them an aloof look and sang the next part.
"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard - And they're like - It's better than yours - Damn right it's better than yours - I can teach you - But I have to charge - My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard - And they're like - It's better than yours - Damn right it's better than yours - I can teach you - But I have to charge"
Tenten looked murderous, Ino looked shocked, and Sakura seemed to be considering something. Temari smirked and faced her, and Sakura looked up, skeptical.
"I can see you're on it - You want me to teach thee"
Sakura shrugged, and gave her a look over. Temari smiled still, and motioned toward the audience.
"Techniques that freaks these boys?"
Sakura's eyes fell on Sasuke, who was still beet red while Naruto snickered, then she looked Temari in the eye and nodded. Teamri gave a devilish smiled and whirled away.
"It can't be bought - Just know, thieves get caught"
She turned her head back abruptly and grinned at the pink-haired girl.
"Watch if you're smart"
Sakura smiled a bit and she looked awfully like Temari for a moment. Then the dirty-blond Sand genin walked back to the dance floor and proceeded to dance in a way that made Sakura and Ino's earlier performance look like a proper ballroom dance.
"La la-la la la - Warm it up - La la-la la la - The boys are waiting - La la-la la la - Warm it up - La la-la la la - The boys are waiting"
Temari surveyed the room and looked for someone that didn't look that interested in her performance. The pickings were few. Kiba was panting like a dog in heat, both Naruto and Sauke were burning red, Lee was seemingly enraptured and watching with wide eyes, Neji was quickly gulping down some liquid with an embarrassed look on his face, and that Chouji kid was reaching for an entrée but missing terribly, he was so busy watching her. The only few not affected were the jounin and chuunin in the back, her brothers, Shino (someone please check that he's alive), and the boy from Team 10, Shikamaru, who was just looking bored and slightly disgusted.
She grinned as she found her prey.
"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard - And they're like - It's better than yours - Damn right it's better than yours - I can teach you - But I have to charge"
She walked over to his table, that same sexy catwalk, and leaned on it, giving him an inviting look. He just looked up at her like he didn't know what the hell was going in and would she please leave.
So she leaned down closer until she was staring him right in the face and reached out, letting her fingers crawl up his chest. At this he looked slightly flustered but still managed to keep his cool and glare back at her. She just grinned.
"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard - And they're like - It's better than yours - Damn right it's better than yours - I can teach you - But I have to charge"
Her fingers closed over his collar and she jerked him to his feet. At this his cool broke for a moment and he looked utterly shocked, probably because he did not expect a girl to be so strong. Still looking into his eyes, she led him to the dance floor and proceeded to dance with him in a way that even unflappable little Shikamaru who had never shown any outward interest in a girl 'cept Ino was blushing red and looking somewhere in between of outrage and pleasure.
Over her shoulder she glanced at the three girls and noticed to her satisfaction that Ino looked extremely infuriated and possessive. She turned to face them, still dancing with the genius genin.
"Oh, once you get involved - Everyone will look this way-so - You must maintain your charm - Same time maintain your halo"
The girls took this as their sign to get on the dance floor. With Sakura in the lead, they proceeded to copy Temari's dance movements as well as if they all had Sharingan. The older girl smiled.
"Just get the perfect blend - Plus what you have within"
Feeling more comfortable now, the girls started to put their own little improvisations and each developed into a style of their own.
"Then next his eyes are squint - Then he's picked up your scent"
This was taken as the message for most of the guys to get on the dance floor, and once it sunk in they did so with a frantic scraping of chairs and the speed of a caffeinated cheetah. Let's face it, they might be ninja and most of the time they are cool, calm, level-headed people, but let's also take in the fact that they are adolescent boys with hormones and there are four very pretty girls on the floor oozing libido and inviting them to join in.
What sane boy wouldn't?
Well, Shino obviously, he's preferring to stay behind with a mortified and slightly traumatized Hinata.
And Temari is in the middle of the mass of dancers that she helped incite grinning and enjoying this because at the moment it's about two or three guys per girl and nobody really cares who anyone else is dancing with as long as they are. But it's pretty much Sakura with Sasuke and Naruto, Tenten with Neji and Lee, Ino grabbing Shikamaru and permitting Chouji in as well, and Kiba jumping from group to group. But in all this they're switching people so everyone dances with everyone else at least once.
"La la-la la la - Warm it up - La la-la la la - The boys are waiting - La la-la la la - Warm it up - La la-la la la - The boys are waiting"
And then the chaos breaks a bit and all the girls come to the front behind Temari as she sings the final verse.
"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard - And they're like - It's better than yours - Damn right it's better than yours - I can teach you - But I have to charge - My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard - And they're like - It's better than yours - Damn right it's better than yours - I can teach you - But I have to charge"
And then thusic faded and everyone on the dance floor cheers and claps and looks a little more than embarrassed before they all return to their seats.
In the back the jounin are looking a little shocked, and a little pleased.
"Kids these days," Kurenai sighs with a smile.
Asuma shakes his head but he's grinning too, and Gai is moderately happy because he has just seen youthful paaion at its best. And Kakashi…
Kakashi has an idea. It's no use letting the genin have all the fun. "Yo guys!"
All the jounin turn. "I have an idea…"
So Gai, Asuma, and Kurenai lean a little closer as Kakashi explains his plan. Then they all begin to grin and Kurenai goes off to get Anko and the three guys head for the stage.
O.o Can't believe I just wrote that…Sorry for the wait people . Neways, this chapter was pretty difficult to write because I didn't know what to give Temari, so I just ended up writing songs on slips of paper and picking one out. Yes, I actually did that -.-() Temari is so OOC and it wasn't funny as the other ones and that's disappointing…But I'll try to make it up next chapter with the jounin. A cookie to anyone who guesses what they sing... : )
mOnster1: Um Kakashi sings something in this, but I'll try to give him a solo, maybe Eminem. It depends on how far I want to carry this…
Grave: Shikamaru's going to sing something, soon.
Shadow Clara: I never thought of that, thanks for the idea!! I'm trying to choose a group song for the girls, I'll keep Destiny's Child in mind :)
Fuji Fox: o.o;; That is a lot of pairings…and a lot of yaoi… Neways, I don't have anything against yaoi, other than the fact I suck at writing it XD But I'll try to include some of the pairings, if I can find ways to work them in.
ITSAME: Shino dancing? Interesting thought…
Kawaii Rabbit: Someone's going to sing 'Hey Mama', I'm not sure who yet, but that's an interesting combination.
Thanks everyone for the support. I'm kind of surprised I didn't get flamed already o.o Oh well, I guess that's a good thing : )
Ja Ne!