Day to Day Chapter 4: My Quiet Little One, a naruto fanfic

Day to Day

A Naruto Fan fiction

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any bands mentioned

(A/N: Before you read this next installment, I wanted to let you know that I made this a Naruto and Hinata because I tallied up the requests from my third chapter, and bam! Naruto and Hinata won by one vote, with three requests, Sasuke and Sakura came in second with two votes, and Ino and Shikamaru came in dead last with one request. Let it be known in the future that if you want a certain couple, please request it in your review. Thanks!)

Chapter 4: My Quiet Little One

Ting, ting-ting, tong.

The rough ends of his fingers pushed various parts of the old six-string. He turned the top pegs once in a while, tuning the instrument. After playing with the pegs and strumming a few notes with just a finger on a single string until he was satisfied that it was tune, he picked up his beat-up old pick and began to play his beat-up old six-string.

Bum, ba-bum-ba-bum.

He played the worn six-string guitar, and his blue eyes closed as he started to feel the familiar freeness and fun feeling spread through his veins like a new kind of blood. He sat up from the bed, and started to walk around the room, making rocker poses and banging his head as he strummed on the guitar, pulling off high notes with low notes, fast sixteenth notes that suddenly became soft, slow quarter notes, and steady rhythms along with fast, wild ones. His song was jumbled and constantly changing-along with being pulled fresh from his head. He just played whatever felt good at the moment, and whatever seemed to flow. After five minutes of jumping around and acting like a crazed rock star, he jumped on top of his bed, which gave a loud squeak of protest, and ended on three short, separated notes, throwing his head from side of side with each one, and then strumming really fast on one note and rocking his head back and forth, throwing his head around and sticking out his tongue.

"Thank you Konoha!"

He held up devil horns, and stuck out his tongue and wagged it like KISS.

There truly was nothing better than playing an old, beat-up six string and having a good head banging! Laughing, he fell back on his bed, and lay there a moment, staring up at the ceiling. He sighed, and laughed again, remembering the part where he had jumped in front of his length-mirror and flicked himself off between rapid notes. There was nothing planned about his actions; they were spur of the moment, let's-flick-myself-off-for-no-reason kind of things, and that was the best part.

Finally, after lying there a moment daydreaming, he sat up, and leaned against the wall. After his first date, he had come home, and written a song-his first real, good song-one that he actually remembered! The notes came rushing back to him in an instant even though he had never written them down, and the lyrics on the tip of his tongue. Smiling lightly, he started off the song, while just laying on his creaky bed, sitting up against a cracked wall, in a white under-shirt, jeans (after his date, he went out and bought clothes that were yellow), and socks that were too big for him and hung off his toes.

The beginning rhythm was simple, a switching back and forth between a few notes with a constant and easy strum; but he knew it would get harder when he got to the part later on. He nodded his head, listening to the note in his head before his playing, sort of like singing along with your favorite song, and uttered the first lyric.

"I've been here for a while, and I've never seen you before."

He kept up the same notes, the rhythm only changing slightly.

"Black hair, dark eyes, so quiet, you even blend in with the bright, blue, skies. So tiny, so silent, but you have so much to share, and so much to learn. Everyone towers above you, everyone sees below you, but I see, just you.

Dark moonlit skies and white snow, fall all around us, and the white holes in the sky, my only company, in the dark, but something tells me, I can add you to my list."

The guitar took on a faster beat.

"I'm a social evangelist, yea, I'm a social disgrace, and then in my dark, yea in my dark, I can always see you. You're always my light in my night; you're always my quiet little friend, always the quiet one, the only one who sees me. I'm always running, but you're always right behind; I'm always dying, but you stand there to see me off. My quiet little one."

The guitar returned to the original beat, and he continued.

"I love to see the stars, but I'm always afraid I'll fall like them."

The guitar took on the second beat again, as he started on the second verse.

"It takes, so much, out of people, out of everyone, so see me like you do. I wonder day after day, watching the snowfall all around me, if some how I lost you in the dark night, and the snow came, and made you stand out. I could only wish upon the stars that fall that I could ever be as gentle, that I could ever be a true, and you've taught, me day after day, that its all right, and I'm all right the way I am, and to be true is to be snow."

The guitar took the faster beat again, and his half-lidded eyes watched his fingers got up and down the strings.

In a sudden and swift moment, he quickly began a faster, more studded beat as he pulled into the dramatic middle verse.

"And I, I could only wish to be like you. I could only, I could only hope and pray, that you would be with me. That when the snow is faded, when the sky isn't as dark, that you will still be bright. But why, why would you, want to be bright for me? I'm the social evangelist; I'm the social disgrace. My quiet little one!"

He stood up on the bed, biting his lip as he played the guitar solo, and, unlike most of the time he was just playing his guitar, he wasn't jumping around and banging his head.

The guitar then adapted the refrain's beat as he started off the refrain again.

He finished off with three quick notes on the last few words, and then smiled, and leaned against the wall, listening to the bed squeak as he moved.

"That was great!"

Naruto's head turned suddenly to the door, and saw with horror that Sakura was standing in the doorway clapping, with Ino appearing behind her.

"That, Blondie, was amazing!" Ino exclaimed, walking in. She was smiling widely, with her hands on her skinny hips as usual.

"She's right Naruto; that was beautiful." Sakura said, walking in beside Ino.

Naruto looked from girl to girl, standing straight up now, his eyes bugged, and his mouth hanging open. They heard him play? But that was his SECRET SONG!

"You should play that for Hinata!" Ino exclaimed, after taking a huge gasp of realization. The two girls turned to each other, and then began to jump up and down, screaming and giggling.

"Hinata would just die!"

"I know! And it would be so romantic!"

Naruto's face seemed to melt in horror. What had he just done?

Ino then returned to normal, and said begrudgingly, "I wish Shii-chan would do something like that for me."

"Yea; but I'm happy with Sasuke!" Sakura replied, smiling, rubbing it in her friend's face intentionally in the spirit of the sarcastic relationship.

"Well duh; I mean, you did get the dream boat all of us wanted!" Ino said, rolling her eyes. "Now, Naruto, you have to sing that song for Hinata!"

"I DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING!"

"YES, YOU DO!" both girls shouted at him, making Naruto quickly take cover in a corner. Ninja girls were scary-that was a given; and Naruto had learned a long time ago to not try and go against two mean girls; especially when they were in the same room.

"But-but-I don't-"

"No buts!" Ino declared, stepped forward and placing her hands on her hips again, "Tomorrow night, you, Uzumaki Naruto, will have a romantic date with Hinata, and sing her your song!"

"Should will really force him thought, Ino?" Sakura asked, and tapped her finger on her friend's shoulder.

"Why not? I mean, its like, the greatest song!"

"Well, if he doesn't want to do it, it might not sound as good, you know?"

Ino paused, and then rolled her eyes. "Aw, you're right." She turned around and winked at Sakura so Naruto couldn't see, and said in a strange voice, "I'm going home. You go home whenever you want, Sakura."

She began to walk off, and as she passed by Sakura, she whispered, "Work your magic girlfriend!"

Then, in a strangely happy mood, she walked out of the room and slammed the door behind her.

Sakura rolled her eyes and sighed. Ino was the most sarcastic, stubborn and some how entertaining person she had ever met. With her antics, things were always guaranteed to take a strange or interesting turn.

Naruto was now sitting on his bed, his guitar on his lap, sighing with relief. He stared up at the ceiling, his head leaning against the wall. 'Thank you God, I will repay your mercy.' He thought, sighing again with relief. Then Sakura walked over and sat down beside him, and he thought, 'Uh-oh, what now?'

"Naruto-kun."

He looked at Sakura, his face not smiling (he was still getting over the idea of playing his song in front of Hinata).

"Naruto-kun, what scares you so much about playing in front of Hinata-chan?" she asked. Her eyes were full of curiosity, and they sparkled in the lights.

"Well," Naruto scratched the back of his neck. It wasn't every day Sakura came over and had a heart-to-heart with him, you know. He wasn't going to pass it up.

"What if she doesn't like it? I mean, what if she thinks its creep-HEY! How do YOU know it's about Hinata, anyway?"

Sakura rolled her eyes. "Well duh. I mean, who else is your 'little quiet one', and has 'black hair, dark eyes', with the exception of Sasuke?" the image of Naruto and Sasuke together came into her head suddenly, and she felt the need to barf.

Her Sasuke, with Naruto-kun? Gross much!

She quickly assembled herself, and then continued, "Besides, Naruto, I know that if Sasuke had written a song for me, and then sung it for me, it would've been the world to me. I wouldn't think it was creepy or anything-it's like when Ino said that she wished Shikamaru would do something like that for her; for girls, stuff like that is what makes relationships special, and what makes them last."

Naruto frowned a bit, and asked, "Does Sasuke do special things for you?"

Sakura blushed, and replied, "Sure. But he probably wouldn't be happy if I started telling you."

Naruto quickly adopted the puppy-dog eyes, and pleaded, "Pretty, pretty please, Sakura-chan? Please?"

She quickly whacked him on the head, making his shoulders suddenly rise up and his head plunge down.

"Ow! That hurt Sakura-chan!"

"Then stop avoiding the subject!"

Naruto rubbed his sore head, and frowned deeply.

"Now then," Sakura said, "Naruto-kun, I think that playing your song for Hinata would be a great way to show you love her, and that she's important to you. You know Hinata-she has such low self-esteem, and needs others to help lift her up. Just imagine how special this would be for her!" She grabbed Naruto's arm, and shook it, trying to get it through his thick skull.

"Um...maybe I could..."

"Then it's settled!" Sakura exclaimed, jumping up off the bed, making it wail with protest. "You'll have date with Hinata, and sing her the song!" Then, smiling and her eyes twinkling like never before, she leaned over and put her hands on Naruto's shoulders.

"Don't worry! It'll all be worth it! She loves you so much Naruto, you could parade around in a chicken suit for her and she'd love it!"

After that, she dashed out the door, without giving Naruto another say in it.

The boy sat there, mouth agape, and eyes bugged again.

Dear Lord.

He was going to sing his secret song.

For Hinata!

"What am I going to wear?" Hinata asked, her hands on her cheeks.

"First of all, Hinata, don't put your dirty hands on your cheeks like that! It clogs your pores!" Ino replied, "And don't worry-you know Sakura-chan, ever the fashionable and the shopaholic; she's bound to have, what, a million different things that will look simply stunning on you!" She held both of Hinata's shoulders, and smiled. "I'll even help out as much as I can; but I'm going out with Shii-chan at seven, so we've got to move!"

Then she dashed away, probably to get Sakura.

It was another night of the girl's ritual; preparing each other for a night of romance with their one and only.

Before Hinata knew it, Ino came back into her apartment and whisked Hinata into Sakura's neat apartment.

All three girls ran into Sakura's room, Ino pushing the stunned Hinata along.

Sakura quickly pushed back her sliding closet doors, and began picking through the clothes.

"Jeans or a skirt, Ino?"

"In this cold? Pants, defiantly. And not the same look as before!"

"Okay!"

Sakura then began to pull out pants after pants, and some pretty shirts. Then she dashed over to the shelves in another closet, and began picking through shirts.

Ino then assembled outfits, while Hinata sat in a chair, watching the two more fashionable girls decide all of the hard decisions, such as if pink was a good winter color, or if they should layer the shirts and then put it with one of Sakura's long trench coats.

After many debates, and Hinata trying on outfit after outfit, a decision was made.

Hinata emerged with brown pin-stripe flared pants (but the flare wasn't too over the top, just enough to cover the back of the shoes and part of the heel), cute brown boots, a white long-sleeve shirt, and a brown velvet blazer with a silver and light blue diamond-studded flower brooch (of course, it wasn't real diamonds; it just appeared that way) with a single pearl in the middle.

Next was jewelry.

They picked through Hinata, Ino and Sakura's supply, until they came up with two silver rings, tiny silver flower stud earrings, and a silver necklace with a small heart charm hanging off of it at an angle.

Next was the best part; the pampering!

Hinata was rushed out of the clothes, and then sent to Sakura's bathroom. Ino washed her hair in the skin while Sakura assembled the hair products and make-up. They brushed and tamed a blushing Hinata's plain hair, finally deciding that all they could do was add shine, since it was too thick to flip out. After that, Sakura did the make-up, and Ino painted her nails a shocking white.

Finally, Hinata put on the chosen clothes, and all that left was the purse, the most important part in some ways to the girls.

Eventually, a black leather purse was chosen, and given to the blushing Hinata.

"Thank you so much, girls. It means so much to me that you would do this all for me, just so I could look nice for Naruto." She said quietly, "It really does."

"Ah, forget it, Hinata-chan. You're our little sister!" Ino declared, and hugged her.

"Yea." Sakura agreed, and hugged Hinata as well.

"We love you, Hinata."

"Now get out there and have a good time!"

"Yea, with your man!"

"Shut-up, Sakura!"

Naruto walked up to the door, pulled at his collar, and gulped. Here we go.

After seeing Naruto's last outfit, Sakura had ran to her room, grabbed a few magazines and said, "This is what's in style-look at all the guy ads and celebrity guys, okay?"

He flipped through the magazine, smelling perfume adds and laughing at the articles like, 'Nine Secrets Guys Will Never Tell you' and 'The Seventeen Butt-buster Work-out'; surprisingly, among all of these girly editorials, he was able to dug up countless outfits for guys, and he cut out his favorite five. He taped them to his wall, and thought, 'These must be the hot guys the girls all drool over; I could TOTALLY be like them!' He had smiled his wide smile, and shouted loudly, "THAT'S RIGHT-YOU WAIT! I'LL BE THE HOT GUY YOU NEVER REALLY NOTICED! HAHAHA!" Of course, he quickly composed himself when his neighbor stuck his head out the window and began to shout obscenities at him, only to then start shouting them back at the neighbor. In the end, Sasuke had to come over and stop Naruto from destroying the man's house, and to calm the neighbor before he really provoked the hyperactive ninja.

So, thanks to the magazine and the shopping trip, Naruto appeared in the same outfit as Chad Michaels; a blue faded vintage t-shirt, black pants, those puffy skater shoes, Shikamaru jacket again, and he left his headband around his forehead.

Needless to say, he felt really odd; this defiantly wasn't ninja garb like he was used to!

He pushed open the door was a mighty heave, and found himself on the first floor as always.

"Hey Naruto."

He looked to the side, and saw Hinata already standing there, holding her coat, gloves, purse and hat in her hands. She was blushing as always, and her voice was still barely audible, even thought they were in a hallway known for constant echoes.

He smiled slightly, feeling stupid all of the sudden, and scratched the back of his head.

"Uh, well...."

They both paused a while, finding the floor suddenly interesting. Finally, Naruto got sick of the pauses that only seemed to make his fears multiply, and he walked up to Hinata and grabbed her hand.

"Come on; don't want to be late!"

She smiled, and nodded, and began to pull on her gloves, coat and hat. Naruto took her blazer and put it on her, making her face turn red. Finally, they walked out of the door, shutting it quietly behind them.

The snow was falling silently like every other night that week, hitting the gravel and dirt and grass, some times melting, sometimes piling onto the blanket of white. The two walked down the city streets, more populated by night.

Konoha, although it was a ninja village, boarder lined its mother home, and on the very edge of the mother home was the Reese City, one of the biggest cities in the world, filled to the brim with all kinds of people, flashing lights and loud noises; truly a city that never slept. They walked close together, and held each other's hand tightly, making their arms rub together.

The snow now fell on asphalt, and it seemed to disappear as soon as it began to pile thanks to those who shoveled it up and piled it somewhere else so it wouldn't hold up traffic. Hinata was amazed at everything; she had never been to Reese City, and Naruto smiled down at her when she gasped and pointed at the flashing and changing cocoa cola adds up on skyscrapers that seemed to touch the dark night sky. Naruto had visited Reese City out of boredom more times than he could count, so it almost amazed him that something like this would amaze her.

"Look Naruto! Look how tall that one is!" Hinata exclaimed, or, her kind of exclamation, and pointed up excitedly at one of the tallest towers around. She smiled, and looked at him to see his reaction.

"Yea, that one's owned by some really rich guy!" he replied. His tone was loud as usual, and his smile bright. People would always pass by him and then looked behind again when they saw his headband; it wasn't everyday a ninja came into Reese City; in fact, it was down right unimaginable.

Finally, after walking what seemed like a thousand blocks (and everything on each one amazed Hinata, of course), they came upon a small club, with a big purple neon sign that said KILLER STRINGS ROCK CLUB. Hinata read the sign, and looked at Naruto with a confused expression as he said, "That's it; come on, let's go in!"

He walked up to the man standing guard over the club, and slipped out his wallet. He flashed card, and then the man nodded and stepped aside. Hinata just stared at the man, and couldn't believe any one person could be so large and not be fat.

"Don't flip out, okay?" Naruto said, looking at her. She nodded, and watched at Naruto pushed open the door.

It was amazing.

The club seemed small on the outside, but was huge inside. They stepped out onto what turned out to be a metal balcony and that over looked a huge crowd; on either side of the crowd was a long bar with bar tenders on the other side, filling orders, mixing drinks and laughing. In front of the huge crowd was a large stage, with lights all above it, and large velvet red drapes covered the sides. Instruments already sat on the stage, and in front of the stage stood security guards like the one outside, making sure no one got onstage. Lights swirled, and all that could be heard now was the dull roar of talking.

Hinata's mouth was agape in wonder, and she stared at the people below and all of the posters that littered the walls and the weird people, with all kinds of clothes and piercing and tattoos; some even had their head shaved on the sides and long spikes of hair standing up in the middle of their head! Of course, there were plenty of normal-looking people; these strange ones just made everything seem even more weird and wondrous.

"Hey! Naruto! My man!" On strange looking guy walked up, with a rod through his eyebrow.

"Nakato!" Naruto exclaimed, and slapped hands with the guy with his free hand.

"Hey, Nakato, this is Hinata." He said, introducing the two, and stepping to the side so Nakato could see Hinata.

"Hey, how are you?" he asked, and nodded instead of shaking hands. "Welcome to club Killer Strings."

"You know the plan, right, Nakato?" Naruto asked, trying to be discreet but failing.

"Yea, dude."

"Okay!" Naruto turned around, and said to Hinata, "Hey, I've got to go do some stuff, so you're going to stay with Nakato for a while. He'll take you to a good spot before the band comes on, and I'll see you in a few minutes, okay? And don't worry-Nakato won't hurt you. Besides, he's not even a ninja; you could kick his butt if he pulls anything!"

Hinata just nodded, and gave a small shout when Naruto let her hand go and dashed off. She felt so abandoned, in a world she knew nothing about. Her eyes got this desperate look in them, and she clasped her hands together, looking at the floor and biting her lip.

"Hey, Naruto told me you were shy. It's okay." Nakato said, offering his hand, "I may look a little scary to you, but I won't hurt ya. Naruto's a great friend of mine; I'd never hurt his girl."

Hinata looked him up and down a moment, and then finally gave in. Nakato took her hand and took her down the balcony steps to the thick crowd below.

Hinata stood right in front of the crowd next to Nakato, who had elbowed and shoved his way to the front, tiny Hinata in tow. After pushing just about every person in the club aside, they now stood side by side, leaning on the gate that separated the guards from the crowd.

Finally, the lights on the metal stage came on, and began to swirl as the announcer came on.

"ALL RIGHT! WE'VE BEEN WAITING TOO LONG-"

"Get ready for a surprise." Nakato told her, smiling.

"NOW PRESENTING, COURTESY NIGHTMARE DEFECTS SHOP, WE BRING YOU, THE ONE, THE ONLY, STAR PIRATE SHIP!"

The crowd roared, fans throwing up their fists and screaming.

The band members walked on and pulled their guitar straps over their shoulders and the drummer sat down at his drum set.

And finally, on walked Uzumaki Naruto.

Hinata gasped as he walked on, smiled at her, and accompanied the abandoned microphone, with an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar sitting near by.

Immediately, the band started up, and Naruto began to play with the band as soon as he pulled on his own guitar. This song was faster and harder, with another band member singing it. The song soon came to an end, and Hinata was still staring at Naruto, now smiling.

"Hey guys." The guy who sang the song said, and the crowd roared. "Yea, well, one of my best friends is her with me today, and a lot of times he can't do gigs with us, be he got the time tonight, and, well, he brought a very special girl with him."

The crowd roared again, and someone whistled.

"Although he can't manage to say much of anything at the moment, he's decided that tonight he's going to play a song he wrote for her, right here at the Killer Strings."

The crowd again interrupted him, and he waited until they settled down before he went on.

"Hey, it's an emo acoustic, and I know its early in the night for that mess, but just, make an exception, cause' this guy's practically ready to pee in his pants just thinking about it, so, give a round of applause, for Uzumaki Naruto!"

The crowd roared even louder than before as Naruto strapped up his acoustic guitar, and sat up on a stool that a security guard placed on stage for him. He took a long drag of water, and then nodded, saying in the mic, "Let's go."

Hinata stared up at Naruto as he played the song, singing each note like it was everything to him, like it was real and true. His eyes would close and then open to look at her.

And yet, even in all of that stress and fear that swirled inside him, he managed to pull off a Uzumaki ending; throwing up his hands and shouting, "THANK YOU REESE CITY! YEAH MAN!"

The crowd roared and cheered, and Hinata felt a tear fall down her face.

She watched him play with the band the rest of the night, smiling and cheering with the crowd. Because that was her Naruto up there, the Naruto that wrote a song for her, the Naruto that had the amazing courage to go up on a stage in front of a huge crowd and play it just for her. She felt so special, so loved, and most of all, she had no doubts about how much Naruto cared about her; it was all said that night at a place called Killer Strings.

Hey ya'll!

Thanks so much for reading this! I'm not sure when I can update next, since I'm leaving for Florida soon, and I won't be back for a week or so-I made this one really long, a lot for that reason! It's to tie you over!

Thanks so much to my reviewers animEvivvErz, kiki tameishi, sspanchan, adsf, Seldom Sorrow, Lina, and AkiabinZaid. You guys are what keep me going!

I'll try and update soon; remember, what you request it what you get! So if you want a certain couple (I won't do yaoi, sorry), then put it in your review, please! The couple with the most requests becomes the next chapter! The three main ones are Sakura and Sasuke, Naruto and Hinata, and Ino and Shikamaru; so I won't take a Kakashi and Sakura, or a Gaara and Hinata or something like that. Sorry! Maybe, if I get enough requests for one of those, I'll make another story fort it! But for now, let's stick with the three, shall we?

Although, if I get anything for Kiba and Tenten or something like that and the person isn't already being used, I'll try and do a chapter on them.

I also want to apologize to any yaoi fans that were upset by Sakura's comment on Sasuke and Naruto being a couple; I just know that the idea of my boyfriend ever dating or kissing any of my other guy friends grosses me out, and this was supposed to be from her point of view, you know?

Also, it would be much appreciated if you told me what you thought of this chapter. I thought it was really dry and lacking a lot of description, but I think you all would know better, so please put your opinions in your review along with your request!

Thanks for the reviews! Please review!

-IHearVoices