The bar was packed that night, people spilling out of the entrance and sipping their drinks while leaning against the building's wall. Inside the dimmed lights illuminated tables scrunched together at the corners and back of the bar with people flirting and sipping at their drinks. A catwalk and small stage had been erected as they did every other night for the evening crowd.
Gizelle flounced about from table to table, occassionally blowing a kiss or treating a poor innocent customer to the gentle sway of her hips.
Instantly she turned at Naruto's entrance, tray cradled in her arm as she bent her hands to rest them haughtily on her hips. One of Gizelle's friends covered her mouth as she giggled at an unnaturally high pitch, elbowing Naruto playfully before flouncing over to said girl, draping her thin arms around the waitress's shoulders as her hands wandered dangerously.
"Good, now we have more entertainment!" Gizelle's friend, Nell, chirped, untangled her arms to jog around the curtains behind the stage, waving her arms as she talked to the other dancers. Gizelle watched her go, a twinkle in her eye as she appreciated Nell's form.
Naruto cleared his throat and smirked rather loudly, trying to ignore the lustful glances sent his way by a number of the regulars that eagerly awaited his performance.
"Ai De Shadow!" A couple of goth teens chanted, sitting back down hurriedly with muffled laughter when the blonde sent them a mock stern glance.
"You need any backup tonight?" His friend asked, catching his attention once more.
Naruto furrowed his brows and muttered a few lyrics to himself for a minute. "Actually, I was thinking that maybe you could wrap up tonight with a solo..?" He smiled innocently as Gizelle paled before scowling fiercely.
She turned and clutched the tray to her chest, turning as she sauntered off,"I'll think about it."
The blonde grinned and shook his head, vaulting onto the stage without a hint of self-consciousness. The crowd cheered as one and the customers that had been lounging outside filed in and found places to either sit of stand, sipping on their drinks as they waited for the show to begin.
"Are you all ready for a show tonight!"Naruto growled into the microphone, dipping it with his body as he narrowed his eyes at the cheering crowd."What was that!"
"FUCK YES!"
"Take
it off!"
-whistle-
Shrugging back into a straight posture, he backed behind to curtains, glancing around with a whistle at the scantily clad girls who were filing out to begin enticing the crowd as Nell, dressed in what seemed to be a scrap of torn black cloth tied around her chest with fishnet armwarmers and a much too small deep green snakeskin shirt. Her dyed midnight blue hair hanging in gelled spikes around her face as she sat her small frame on a stool centered in a drum set.
She raised her eyebrows playfully at him, twirling her battered drumsticks between her fingers. A scarily thin and alarmingly tall man in only a kilt stood near her drumset, bass guitar strung over his shoulder as he plucked lightly at the strings, muttered the notes to himself and paying absolutely no attention to anyone else.
"Where'd you find this guy?"
Nell shrugged, tossing her head to move a stray strand of blue hair from her hazel green eyes,"He was smoking crack in the alley near my apartment, poor guy was plucking on a guitar with two strings."
"Nell..This guitar doesn't have two strings."
"Trust me, this guy can play anything, no matter how many strings."She chuckled.
"You only found one?"
Nell frowned, biting her bottom lips and in the process smearing dark blue lipsticks on her teeth. "There was one more guy... I don't really know him at all but he said he could play and he sounded really eager...especially when he found out that you were the singer-"
"Did this guy have black hair?"
Nell gave him a look."You just described more than half of the crowd here tonight, Naru."
A series of whistles errupted behind the curtain and a fairly tall figure slipped inside and Naruto felt his jaw drop in shock. Sasuke stood, smirking evilly at him whilst clad in the sexiest pair of black leather pants the blonde had ever seen. His shirt? Well, Naruto's stalker didn't appear to be wearing one. The air backstage suddenly seemed stagnant and stale, the atmosphere practically crackling with heat as Naruto flushed and tore his eyes away as the brunette grabbed the remaining guitar, tightening the strings and giving it a experiment strum before nodding his head slightly, eyes watching Naruto.
"Fuckin hell.."The blonde muttered under his breath, not failing to notice the way Nell licked her lips as she appreciately eyed Sasuke. "Alright, let's get this show on the road!"He shouted, a dancer pulled back the curtains as Naruto trode back onto the catwalk and grabbed the microphone rod, the quiet but steady strums of the several guitarists building behind him as Nell casually tapped in tune on a symbol.
Taking a quiet yet deep breath, the blonde leaned in almost intamately close to the microphone, lips brushing the metal mesh with every movement.
"Silken
sweet...I cradle this piece of you in my
bloodied..hands..
Whis-per-ing to me as if you were
still..here.with.me.
I see- its not the same as if you had actually loved me.
Yes, yes, its all so clear to me now,
swimming into mind's eye with heartbreaking clar-i-ty..
So I break, as you ..take..Away all-that-is-me.
With every smile and every scream
I drift into this shadowed re-a-li-ty
and cradle this knife in my hands
as a single line of blood trails from my wrist,
to scrawl out..
I.NEED.YOU.TO.HATE.ME.
Bitter bliss...to have you..here...with me.
Call-ing to me as if you want...to stay.
I see-its not the same as if you had actually loved me.
Yes, yes, its all so fucking clear to me now,
swimming into my broken mind with heartbreaking clar-i-ty...
So I break, as you ..take..Away all-that-is-me.
With every smile and every scream
I drift into this shadowed re-a-li-ty
and cradle this knife in my hands
as a single line of blood trails from my wrist,
to scrawl out..
I.NEED.YOU.TO.HATE.ME.
BEAT
ME. BREAK ME!
I NEED YOU TO HATE ME!
TAKE ME. AND RAPE
ME!
JUST NEED YOU TO FUCKING HATE ME!
YES ALL I NEED
ALL I
WANT
IS FOR YOU TO..
love.me..."
Naruto's voice shuddered on the last line, trembling whisper ringing through the spellbound bar as he stepped back, pushing the personal meaning of that song to the back of his head as he took a swig from his waterbottle, wiping a small sheen of sweat off his forehead as he swaggered back over to his spot, smiling at the cheering crowd.
"You want more?"He asked rheotorically, putting his pinky in his ear when the crowd responded in kind. "Ok ok. Any requests?"
"Skinless!"Someone shouted enthusiastically.
Naruto shrugged and cocked his head at the other bandmates. Sasuke nodded slightly, indicating that Nell had given him that music sheet. The blonde sweatdropped when the bony druggy merely adjusted his guitar in response.
"Okayyy..."Naruto sighed bemusedly, twisting his leg around the stand as he plucked the 'phone from said object, tilting back his head.
"Something has been building up inside of me,
twisting everything I am and will be.
Tearing out all sense of priority..
Its like a skinless parasite caressing me from the inside."
Naruto slowly swayed towards Sasuke, grinning evilly when he saw the brunette absorbed in his playing. He jumped in startlement when the shorter man slid snakelike around his side to his fingers lightly along his bare back and shoulderblades.
"Writhing and fucking and caressing me from the inside,
a pulsing heat I feel spreading throughout me,
I wish I could just feel some sort of release,
Skinless parasite twisting everything i am and will be."
The blonde gyrated against the back of Sasuke's leather clad legs, panting lightly as he recited the lyrics huskily. The brunette's fingers fumbled ever so slightly on the strings, muscles tensing as his body responded.
Naruto took pity on him and straightened, swaying back to the catwalk and returning his attention to the now dancing and writhing crowd.
"Something has been taking over my body,
fucking with my mind, my priorities.
Tearing out all my human desires,
replacing it with a carnal hunger that I just..
Writhing and fucking and caressing me from the inside,
a pulsing heat I feel spreading throughout me,
I wish I could just feel some sort of release,
skinless parasite twisting everything i am and could me.
Writhing and fucking and caressing me from the inside,
a pulsing heat I feel spreading throughout me,
I wish I could just feel some sort of release,
Skinless parasite twisting everything i am and will be."
Naruto bowed mockingly, lowering the microphone and squinting out into the dim crowd. "Well, if she'll have us, I was planning on a certain woman named Gizelle singing a bit of a solo to wrap the show up tonight."
Immediately everyone parted and poor Gizelle was pushed forward, serving tray torn from her tight grip as Naruto gripped her wrist and pulled her up onto the stage. The blonde looked over his shoulder when he felt a poke. Nell grinned at him and elbowed him, taking Gizelle's hand and setting the microphone and stand in front of them with the other.
"I'm going to sing too!" She cried enthusiastically. Gizelle flushed and sent a glare at Naruto before nodding in assent.
"Well, Im picking what we'll sing then."The blonde muttered grudgingly, eye twitching when the crowd errupted into catcalls and cheers.
"Bjork's song..Emergency."
Nell's eyes lit up and she motioned to Sasuke and the other guitarist to start up. Naruto hopped offstage and watched as Sasuke hesitated before strumming softly, making up something that roughly went along with the song.
Naruto smiled and sat back to enjoy the song.
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I think the song is called emergency... ..; The one where they go... You leave me in a state of emergency..its all soft and beautiful. Love bjork... idiots saying I like it cause Gilmoure Girls. -.- they got an earful. I watched around..ten episodes of that and then I couldnt anymore cause...i dont like the show so... yeah...I didnt even know Bjork played a theme for that. I heard it from a music scan on my Winamp. -.- And had a friend burn the cd for me so now I listen to it lots along with Finch and FlyLeaf and Dresden Dolls and all those other awesome bands...
I made up the lyrics in five minutes. Not joking. So er, dont make fun of me -sweatdrop- You all thought I was gonna make him a stripper or something, didnt you! MWAHAHAHAHAH..haha..ha..no. And his band isnt all official and shit.. youll meet the boss in the next chapter... the boss character I plan on making awesome and basically she lets the employees do whatever they want with the place as long as they dont destroy it and make money. Resteraunt turned to bar! MWHAAHAHA..ok...thats all for now..review please...
my other computer ish still dead. And sorry to NNCS! I love the pictures you sent me..but this computer is screwing itself and is dying whenever I go to yahoo or et..GRWAR! So I have to wait to reply until I get a chance to at school...which will be a difficult task but I shall try!