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Gaara: Are you over your mood yet?

blacksyryn: No…but I had a cookie, so I'm hyper.

Naruto: You seem well rested though.

Sakura: Did you sleep? (crosses fingers)

blacksyryn: Does spacing out while listening to "Bohemian Rhapsody" count?

Sakura: Uh…no.

Gaara and Naruto: What's "Bohemian Rhapsody"?

blacksyryn: You're so lucky you're under my control. Go sit in the corner and don't speak for the next 17 minutes. (places headphones on their heads and presses 'play' on her mp3 player)

Kakashi: Y'know, you're gonna have to sleep sometime.

blacksyryn: Wanna bunk with me? (smiles evilly) I'm sure with you in my bed I'll sleep just fine…after…from exhaustion.

Kakashi: (backs away) Um…I think I'm late for something with a mission and a killing thing I have to do. Bye! (runs for his life)

Sakura: Wow, I would have thought he would jump at the chance…considering what a perv he is.

blacksyryn: Just you wait, Hatake…you're turn will come up. (more laughing and smiling with the evilness)

15 minutes and 28 seconds later…

Gaara: Queen fuckin' kicks ASS!

Naruto: Fuck yeah! Let's go get some guitars!

Hinata: Um…Naruto-kun…I could teach you to play…

Naruto: Hinata, you are the BEST! (hugs Hinata)

Gaara: blacksyryn, can I borrow all of your Queen CDs?

blacksyryn: Sure…scratch 'em and you're dead, though. People will find parts of you all over the place for years and years to come.

Everyone: O.o

blacksyryn: What? Queen fuckin' kicks ASS!

Naruto: They do.

Hinata: We should get on with the story. (red faced and loving it, cuz Naruto still hasn't let go)

Lee: blacksyryn would like to tell everyone that drinking heavily is not a good thing…no. In fact, it is a very bad thing. Alcohol won't solve your problems. Also, she doesn't mean to make fun of pop music or BNL. She thinks they rock, but for the sake of the story, she'll make fun of it.

Sakura: Why do you get stuck with the power to break the fourth wall? It's not fair.

Shino: I did it once…

blacksyryn: And never again for you. Lee-kun will be the only one with that power from now on.

Sakura: Lee…

Shino: Kun…

That's Twice This Week

Loud music blasted through the Hyuuga household. Hiashi and Hanabi came in through a side door and found Hinata and her teammates, Inuzaka Kiba and Aburame Shino, outside the closed door of the room where the music was coming from. The words of the song were muffled thanks to the thick wood and soundproofing jutsu Hinata placed around the room.

But the music was so loud and the bass was pumped up so high that the vibrations traveled through the ground and into the blood of everyone within a 3-kilometer radius of the Hyuuga compound. It didn't help that that particular room had the latest, state-of-the-art sound system and speakers the size of Uzumaki Naruto.

Every three minutes, the song ended and five seconds of blessed silence occurred before the music started over again. From the feel of the beats and the rhythm of the music, the occupant of the room was playing the same song over and over again.

It wouldn't be so bad if the music was rock or punk. The Hyuuga could ignore that type of music. Even rap was preferable to the music playing right now. The bouncy sound of popular music made it's way through the corridors of the compound and caused more than one Hyuuga to begin tapping their feet and nodding their heads to the tune. Many disgruntled voices were caught murmuring, "Damn catchy-ass music."

It was nothing more than hell on earth.

"IS IT HIM AGAIN?" Hiashi shouted at his daughter.

"YES, TOU-SAN!" she shouted back.

"WHO THE HELL IS IN THERE?" Kiba asked. He finally noticed Hanabi's presence and blushed a bit. "BEGGING YOUR PARDON, HANABI-SAMA!"

Kiba-kun is looking at me! Hanabi thought to herself. She blushed as well and looked down at the ground. She barely kept herself from pressing her index fingers together the way she saw her sister do around Naruto.

"IT'S ALRIGHT, KIBA-SAN!" she yelled, trying to sound older than she was. "WHERE IS AKAMARU-KUN?"

"HOPEFULLY TEN KILOMETERS AWAY FROM HERE!" he shouted. "DOGS EARS ARE VERY SENSITIVE, Y'KNOW!"

"THERE'S NO HOPE FOR HIM!" Hiashi yelled, going through a series of seals. "ALL WE CAN DO IS WAIT FOR IT TO END!" He slammed his hand against his eldest daughter's barrier and reinforced it with his chakra. The sound lessened, but not by much.

Hinata's getting better at creating barriers, the Head of the Hyuuga Clan thought to himself.

Shino remained silent. He would not stoop to yelling, even if the mighty Hyuuga had. He just turned to his female teammate and raised an eyebrow.

"You don't have to know who's in there!" she yelled, albeit at a lesser volume than she had to use a minute ago.

"That makes it twice this week!" Hanabi said, shooting worried glances at the door. The added sound of someone singing to the music scared her as well as her sister and father. This wasn't a good sign.

"Let's get out of here!" Hiashi said, herding the children out of the house. "We'll return tomorrow."

"Where are we going?" Kiba asked.

It took the older man a second to think about it. "Let's go to an Onsen," he decided as quiet descended on the group. By Shino's calculations, they had five seconds before it started again. "We can rest our ears in the water."

Everyone nodded and hurried from the area.

In the room…

Hyuuga Neji popped the top of another can of beer and slurped noisily from it. He looked around the room with bleary eyes and wondered why he was there. He walked over to the door and tripped over a porcelain mask. He stared at the cat mask and frowned.

Oh yeah, he remembered. I just failed a mission for ANBU. Again…

Tsunade came close to ripping the long-haired Hyuuga a new one when he returned from his mission with the rest of his team needing immediate medical treatment.

"She says I need to consider their safety," he slurred into the quiet of the room. "'sTheir fault for not being as good 'sme…they're ANBU, they should take care o'them own selves…"

He knew, way, way, way, in the back of his mind that the Hokage was right. But dammit, he was a genius. He shouldn't have to shoulder their weight. Okay, maybe he felt a little bad that Naruto and the others got stabbed when he used Kaiten to block those kunai. He easily could have dodged the knives, but Kaiten was so much simpler.

It wasn't his fault that his teammates got turned into pincushions because of the deflected projectiles.

It wasn't.

Neji guzzled down the rest of the beer in an attempt to push down the guilt he felt, but it didn't work. He grabbed a half-full bottle of vodka and was about to drink out of the bottle when the song he forgot was playing looped once more.

"Aw!" he yelled, closing his eyes and snapping his head back. "I LOVE THIS SONG!" Neji took a swig of the vodka and chased it with a sip of flat cola and wiggled his hips to the happy beat. He began to sing along and knew that this would be the last time he would hear the song for a while. Neji knew his limits and he was quickly getting there. Blessed unconsciousness was just around the corner.

Alcohol, my permanent accessory.
Alcohol, a party-time necessity.
Alcohol, alternative to feeling like yourself.
Oh, alcohol, I still drink to your health!

I love you more
Than I did the week before
I discovered alcohol.

Neji tried to sing and drink at the same time, but only succeeded in choking a bit. He decided to keep singing instead, since he LOVED this song.

Forget the café Latte, screw the raspberry iced tea.
A Malibu and coke for you, a G&T for me.
Alcohol, your songs resolve
Like my life never will
When someone else is picking up the bill.

He wiggled his hips along with the music and recalled the scene he witnessed a month or two ago. Hinata-sama's not the only one who can sing, he drunkenly smiled.

I love you more
Than I did the week before
I discovered alcohol.

Oh, alcohol, would you please forgive me?
For while I cannot love myself,
I'll use something else.

The Hyuuga prodigy held the vodka bottle like a guitar and pretended to play it. Some of the precious liquid inside spilled onto the floor, but he was too far-gone to care. His voice rasped the next part as loud as he could.

I thought that alcohol was
Just for those with nothing else to do!
I thought that drinking
Just to get drunk was a waste of precious booze!

But now I know that there's a time
And there's a place where I can choose,
To walk the fine line between
Self-control and self-abuse!

He dropped the bottle after drinking the rest of the vodka inside it and proceeded to play a mean air piano solo. He didn't bother singing the last refrain of the song, but simply mouthed the words.

I love you more
Than I did the week before
I discovered alcohol.

Would you please ignore
That you found me on the floor
Trying on your camisole?

Oh, alcohol, would you please forgive me?
For while I cannot love myself
I'll use something else.

Neji brought a hand to his forehead and ended up poking himself in the eye. He fell back a few steps and landed diagonally onto his bed. His head turned to the side away from the window and the late afternoon sunlight coming through it. He whispered the last two lines of the song, seeing the figures of Naruto and the rest of his ANBU team in his mind's eye.

Would you please forgive me?

Would you please forgive me?

The next morning…

Hinata, Hiashi, and Hanabi walked up to their home and noticed the unusual quiet. Either Neji recovered incredibly quickly from his hangover or something happened to turn the insane music off. It turned out to be the latter when the trio entered the compound to find one extremely annoyed kitsune.

"Y'know," Naruto said, standing up from his position on the stairs. "You could save the village a whole bunch of trouble if you just pulled the circuit breaker to his room."

At the moment, father and daughters had the exact same thought: Why the HELL didn't we think of that?

The three Hyuugas blushed and Naruto found out where Hinata gained her ability to become tomato red in two seconds flat. He chuckled and was about to leave when Hinata's voice stopped him.

"Ano…" she said, gesturing to the casts on his right arm and leg as well as the bandage running down the side of his left face. "What happened to you, Naruto-kun?"

The blonde laughed and shrugged it off. "Nothing," he answered. "Just a little trouble with a few dozen kunai."

He left the Hyuugas staring after him in wonder.