Title: Waste Of Breath
Author: Kina-chan
Pairing: Kinda NaruSasu
Warning: Language, Brief Non-Descriptive Violence, Slight OOC-ness
Chapter Rating: PG-13 (R?)
Word Count: 6,572
Summary: Sasuke is the lead singer to hit rock band, Okami Yokai. When Naruto and the gang win free tickets to see their next show, what will arise?
AU: Time skips indicated by (--), thoughts in italics, flashbacks and dreams indicated by (/--/). I'm so sorry for the long wait! School is my worst enemy I swear! I'm on Spring Break and yet I'm still piled down with homework! It makes me homicidal! Okay, not really, but still! I'm so sorry you guys. I'll try my hardest to get the next chapter out soon! Songs used are: Taion by Gazette, Burial Applicant by Gazette, Blue Blood by X Japan, and Long Way to Happy by Pink.
Chapter 8
Naruto wakes with a start as his alarm clock goes off. He stares at his alarm clock questioningly. When did I set my alarm clock? I never set my alarm clock on weekends.
"Naruto, breakfast is ready!" Iruka yells from the kitchen.
The blond sighs and absentmindedly scratches his stomach. He makes to move before stopping, feeling a suspicious stickiness in his boxers. The blond closes his eyes and groans as memories from the previous night resurface.
With a face dusted with crimson, Naruto looks around his room for any traces of the other teen. He frowns when he doesn't see him. Come to think of it... wouldn't I be warm if he slept with me last night? But then again… The blonde's expression turns sour. He could have just woken up early and left me.
A knock as his door rouses Naruto from his stupor. "Naruto? Is everything alright? You're usually ecstatic to eat breakfast."
The blond sighs. "Everything's fine Iruka… I think I'm gonna take a shower before I eat."
"Are you sure?" Comes the brunette's worried voice.
"Yes, and don't worry! Everything's fine, I just feel like getting the grime off me before I eat."
"O…okay Naruto. I'll put your food in the microwave."
"'kay!" Naruto sighs once again when he hears the other walking away.
The blond grabs a change of clothes and makes his way to the bathroom for a shower. He turns the water on and then turns the showerhead on before slipping out of his clothes and into the warm water.
While in the shower, many thoughts run thought Naruto's mind. I can't believe it happened again… and even worse is that I initiated it this time… I was the one who started it. I let him do it to me and… I did it to him first.
How could I let this happen again… how could I let it happen the first time? Before the concert… and last night… what the hell is wrong with me?! I don't even like guys! Then again… it's not like he masculine or anything… in fact, the first time I saw him I thought he was a chick… but he's still male and so am I.
It's not like I have anything against homosexuals… I mean, Haku is and he's one of my best and closest friends. Although… just because Haku is doesn't mean I want to be one too.
The blond sighs and scrubs shampoo into his hair vigorously. And it's not like I could like Sasuke… cause Haku's been infatuated with him for years… and apparently Neji is getting there too. I'd feel awful if I was… what… dating him? Pft… I doubt I'd be able to date him anyway. That redheaded guy would probably kill me… and he's sleepin' with that old guy… eww.
But… if I'm not falling for him then what is this? I mean, yeah, I like him. There's this mysterious cloak draped around him that makes me wonder what is underneath, he's beautiful and even a blind man would probably be able to see that… his voice is intoxicating, and even though he seems kinda like a jerk… A memory of the night before when the raven had smiled and looked happily at the picture of his father. I'm pretty sure that he can be a good guy too.
So maybe I do like him… but I don't love him.
Naruto nods and rinses the soap suds from his hair and body before jumping out of the shower and drying off. He throws his clothes on and runs a brush through the mess of blond locks known as his hair a couple times before shaking his head, getting the desired ruffled look to his hair that looks surprisingly good on him. He winks at himself in the mirror, grins, and then runs out of the bathroom and into the kitchen.
He nods towards Iruka and Kakashi, who are sitting at the dining room table, before reheating his food in the microwave. He drums his thumbs on the countertop while looking around the rooms he can see in. I don't see Sasuke… wonder where he is.
The blond shrugs before opening the microwave and getting out his food. He grins and the plate of eggs and bacon on the plate before practically whistling to the dining table, determined to not let his mind drift on things that could possibly ruin such a good meal.
Iruka smiles at his foster son as he takes a seat at the table. "Good morning Naruto."
"Good morning Iruka," the blond says around a mouthful of food.
"Have a good night?"
The blond nods, his mouth too occupied to actually give a verbal response. He swallows his bite of food before grinning up at his foster father. "And I slept really well… better than usual! I slept like a log… doubt an atomic bomb could'a woken me."
The brunette chuckles. "Don't you usually sleep like that?"
"Mmmm… nah. I'm usually a pretty light sleeper."
Kakashi, deciding to join the conversation grins and stares at the blond teen. "Where'd Sasuke sleep? You didn't make your guest sleep on the floor did you?"
Naruto fights down a blush as once again the memories of the night before rush back to his mind. He grabs an extra-large bite of egg, one Iruka would have scolded him for taking if he were paying attention, and stuffs it in his mouth. "Of coose noth… he slepth with me… in my beth."
"Naruto! Swallow before you speak!" Iruka scolds. "Honestly… you'd think you were raised in a barn!" As if a second thought he adds, "And repeat what you said."
The blond swallows solemnly. "Sorry. Uhh… what I said was: Of course not, he slept with me in bed."
"He slept in the same bed as you?" Kakashi asks.
Well… he wasn't there when I woke up. "Uhh… yeah?"
Kakashi stares at the blond curiously. "Hmm… he hasn't willingly slept in a bed with another person for a few years now."
The blond blinks. Seriously? "Well… he did."
The room is blanketed in an awkward silence as Naruto finishes his breakfast. When he's finished he takes his plate to the sink and rinses it off.
"He isn't still sleeping is he?" Iruka asks. "His food is going to get cold."
Naruto hears the silver-haired man mumble something that sounded like, "He wouldn't eat it anyway." The blond sighs. "He wasn't in bed when I woke up… I kinda figured he was out here with you two."
The brunette blinks. "I haven't seen him all morning… not since early last night in fact… are you sure he wasn't sleeping in your room?"
At the blonde's nod, Kakashi stands abruptly from the table.
"What's wrong?" Iruka asks.
The other simply shakes his head and goes to search the small home.
Iruka and Naruto exchange glances until the other returns, looking slightly worried and agitated.
"He's not here… and neither is his bag."
The brunette pales slightly. "Where could he be?"
Kakashi thinks for a moment before pulling his cell phone from his pocket and dialing a number. After a few moments someone answers the phone.
"Gaara speaking," comes the slightly irate greeting.
"Gaara," Kakashi takes a breath and makes a silent prayer that the raven is with the other. "Sasuke wouldn't happen to be with you… would he?"
"Nope." Kakashi goes silent, and Gaara seems to catch on that something's wrong. "Why… what's going on?"
"He's not at Iruka's… so I was hoping he was with you… it's not like he really knows anyone else here." Kakashi says quickly.
There's silence for a few moments on the other end of the phone. "Well… at least be grateful that there's no real downtown in Konoha so he can't be getting himself into too much trouble."
"But according to him-"
"All towns have a downtown," the other says. "Yes, I heard that little speech too."
Kakashi sighs. "Well… I don't know…" The man bites his bottom lip. "I don't know what to do."
"Wait it out."
"But I don't want to!"
The redhead on the other end of the phone sighs. "Try calling his cell phone, he never goes anywhere without it."
Kakashi sighs heavily. "Alright… thanks, I'll do that." He hangs up without saying bye, they never say bye to each other when it comes to matters involving Sasuke.
"Was that Gaara-san?" Iruka asks. At the other's nod Iruka sighs thankfully. "So… what'd he say? Is he over there?"
"No… but he said to call his cell phone." Just as Kakashi finishes saying this two things happen. He finishes dialing the raven's number and a cell phone goes off somewhere towards the living room.
Kakashi frowns and follows the sound to get to the source of the ringing. Iruka and Naruto follow behind him curiously. Kakashi, figuring out the ringing is coming from the couch, starts digging through the cushions. He pulls out a cell phone from in between two cushions and makes a whining sound as he sees on the face of the phone, "Kakashi Calling".
He shuts his own cell phone and the other stops ringing. "He left his cell phone… he never leaves his cell phone." He flips the phone open and frowns when he sees the message reading "3 missed calls".
Iruka comes up and grips the man's arm in a hopefully encouraging manner. "It's okay… he might have just…"
"He never goes anywhere without his phone Iruka," Kakashi almost whines. "He takes it everywhere." In case something happens.
Iruka looks to the phone and sees the message on the screen as well. "Maybe… maybe he called his phone to contact us? You turned yours off last night right?"
Kakashi frowns but pushes a button on the phone to listen to messages none the less. God I hope he didn't call… there's no good reason he would call.
A mechanical voice comes on. "You have… three… new messages. To hear these messages, press o-"
Kakashi pushes one with a little more force than necessary.
"One new message on… Saturday April 9th… at… 11:49 pm." The mechanical voice changes to that of a gruff male voice. "Sasuke… it's Zabuza… call me when you get this… it's important." The mechanical voice comes back on, but Kakashi ignores it until it says the date and time again. "… Sunday April 10th… at… 2:59 am." Kakashi's brows furrow when the same guy's voice comes on. "Dammit Sasuke I know you're not asleep you insomniac!" The man sighs into the phone. "Fine then… I lost a package and I need help. Call back as soon as you get this Sasuke." The mechanical voice comes back on. "End of messages. To de-"
Kakashi shuts the phone and frowns at it. "Lost a package? What the hell?"
Naruto clears his throat, having heard the messages since Kakashi had put them on speaker. "Maybe it's code for something?"
The silver-haired man growls. "For what?"
A knock on the door brings all of their attention to the front door. Iruka coughs slightly before going to the door and opening it. "Yes, how can I-" The brunette goes silent and a second later Kakashi and Naruto see why.
Sasuke slips in the door, his bag hanging loosely on his shoulder, his clothes and hair mused in all the wrong places, his face pale, and his eyes lowered.
Kakashi walks briskly to his foster son and almost grabs a hold of him until he smells him. Right… no downtown my ass. He smells like he's had sex and… he looks drugged… again. "Where have you been?"
The raven shrugs and starts to make his way towards the hallway until Kakashi grabs his arm.
Sasuke looks back to his foster father/manager/producer/whatever-he-is and smirks. "I just went out for a bit… nothing new."
Kakashi's gaze hardens. "You didn't take your phone… I was worried."
The other snorts. "'kay Mom… I'll be sure to take it with me next time." He moves to get out of the other's grasp but Kakashi just holds tighter.
"You can't just run around wherever you want to Sasuke… you could get hurt."
"I can take care of myself."
Naruto stares in disbelief at the other. He frowns and opens his mouth to speak before Iruka puts a hand on his shoulder. He looks up at his guardian who just shakes his head sadly. The blond silently looks back at the display.
"You smell horrible," Kakashi notes, his nose wrinkling.
"Aww, thanks. You smell nice yourself too."
The silver-haired man growls and moves his grip up higher on the teen's arm. "Sas-"
Sasuke hisses and bats the man's hand away, so Kakashi releases him with wide eyes.
"Sasuke…" Kakashi looks to the teen's arm where he's held onto him. So I was right… he somehow got a hold of drugs again… God Sasuke…
The raven-haired teen waves his hand animatedly. "Whatever. I'm going to go take a shower and then crash for a few hours… need to be ready for later."
This catches Kakashi's attention, along with the other two in the room also. "Later… what's happening later?"
The Uchiha smirks. "I got us a gig tonight… pay-at-the-door club-kinda thing. Three o'clock…" His smirk grows. "See? You're not the only one that can get us some gigs… I have connections too."
Kakashi frowns before something comes to mind. He clears his throat and watches the other's retreating back. "I lost a package and I need help." He doesn't fail to see the other tense and stop walking. "Does that mean anything to you?"
Sasuke turns around, his eyes looking just a tad less clouded and a tad more fearful. He walks up to his foster father and holds out his hand. "Give me my phone."
"Not until you tell me what the man who said that on your messages meant."
The other sighs. "It's just a stupid little phrase said between me and some of my friends when we're pissed off."
Kakashi frowns. "I don't believe you."
Sasuke growls. "I'm telling the truth."
Kakashi gazes at the raven for a few minutes before reluctantly giving him the phone. Sasuke snorts and makes his way to the bathroom again.
Iruka comes up to the silver-haired man and strokes his arm lovingly. "It's probably nothing."
Kakashi nods. "Yeah."
Naruto stares down the hallway towards the bathroom. He… was he high or something? His words weren't really slurring but… and what about his smell?! Surely we didn't cause that smell… I mean, I didn't smell like that.
Sasuke… something tells me that something bad is gonna happen… I can feel it.
Sasuke grasps his phone to his chest tightly before locking the door behind him. He turns on the water and shower before sinking to the floor, shivering in not cold but fear.
Not now… not now… please not now. He opens his phone and dials Zabuza's number. He waits a few minutes until his voicemail comes on. "Either I don't like you or I'm not able to get to my phone right now. Leave a message, but I promise I won't call you back."
Sasuke growls when the beep sounds, indicating he should start his message. "Zabuza you dick, this is no time for fucking phone tag! I got your message and I need you to tell me what's going on dammit!" He can hear his voice rising, not in volume but in octave. He winces when his voice comes out as an irritating squeak. "Listen… I have to go do a performance later so please call me back."
Sasuke flips his phone closed and rests the device to his forehead. The back of his eyes sting and he fights hard against the tears that threaten to run down his cheeks. He takes in a deep and shaky breath before struggling to his feet and getting into the shower.
Something bad must have happened for him to leave a message like that… this can't be a coincidence. First Itachi, then the flowers, now this? I don't know what to do anymore!
Sasuke digs under his nails as he waits for five o'clock to come so he can get on the small stage in the club. What can he say? He was bored and thought that performing might be a good idea.
He has fifteen minutes to wait and he's getting very impatient. He stares down at his watch, the small black face outlined by silver while the numbers are a dull white. He watches the second hand tick by; it's a habit of his that is quite boring but quite interesting as well. Sometimes he'll be staring at the second hand and it'll seem almost as if it paused… like time itself stopped to take a break.
He snorts and looks away from his watch. The drug he had managed to get a hold of early in the day left his body hours ago, but he can still feel it in his nervous system or he imagines he does.
"Man… this has got to be the stupidest thing you've ever done," Suigetsu mumbles.
"Oh hush," Temari growls. "It's not like there's anything else to do in this godforsaken city anyw-" She stops talking when Kankuro elbows her and nods his head towards their lead singer.
Sasuke sighs and crosses his leg, bouncing the leg on bottom irritably.
"What's got your panties up in a bunch?" Suigetsu asks sarcastically.
Temari smacks her band mate, but Sasuke only laughs.
"Oh nothing Sui-chan," Sasuke says with fake sweetness, "I was just thinking about how I'm going to murder you is all. Should I take it nice and slow and painful or make it quick and painless?" He turns to the white-haired teen with a wicked grin spread across his lips. "I guess it all depends on how much you annoy me."
Suigetsu rolls his eyes. "As if you could, you don't have a single murderous bone in that lithe body of yours."
"Why Sui-chan, it almost sounds like you're hitting on me," Sasuke smiles at his drummer. "Careful now or Gaa-chan might kill you for real."
"Don't bring me into your stupid games Uchiha," Gaara growls. He's pissed and that's putting it lightly. Half an hour after Kakashi had called him, frantic because Sasuke was nowhere to be found, he calls back sounding close to tears spilling out everything that had happened. Really, the man could be really emotional sometimes.
Sasuke stands from his spot and saunters over to the redhead. He places his arms over the stoic teen's neck and presses his body flush against his. "Now Gaa-chan, you don't really mean that. Remember all the fun that comes around from playing games?" He presses his lips to the other's ear and breaths into it sultrily. "Or do you need a reminder of how tight my body really is?"
Gaara shudders and tries to look unfazed but his body is heating up and God if he's not getting horny. "Stop acting like a slut."
Sasuke grins and removes his arms from the other's neck. "Slut you say?" He brings his hand down to tease at the crotch of the other's pants. He can feel the hot member there going bigger under his touch. "I thought you liked me slutty."
"Get a fucking room!" Suigetsu howls.
Sasuke grins before removing himself completely from the redhead, his hands raised in surrender. "My bad, didn't know I was making anyone uncomfortable." He glances at his watch again before heading towards the bathroom, his bag flung over his shoulder. "See ya guys in a few."
The three teens all sigh heavily, Gaara sighing the loudest.
"What the hell is his problem tonight?" Suigetsu growls while scowling towards the bathroom.
Gaara lets his own eyes trail towards the bathroom. "Something has him upset."
Suigetsu snorts. "Yeah, he seemed really upset."
"I'm not joking. He… he only ever acted this way one time before, as far back as I've known him, and that was when we got the letter saying Itachi broke out." Gaara runs a hand through his hair. "This could get really ugly… last time…" He frowns and stands, making his way towards the club floor.
His eyes trail murderously to the blond teen talking among his friends. He walks up to them and they all go silent. "I need a word with you," he says to the blond.
Naruto gulps at the look in the other teen's eyes. "Uh… sure."
Gaara turns his back and heads back towards the room behind the stage, not even looking to see if the other follows or not. Once inside the room he waits for a couple minutes before the other teen comes in. Immediately Gaara has the other pinned to the wall by his throat.
The other three people in the room jump to their feet, Kankuro and Temari running towards their brother to keep him from hurting the blond.
"What did you do to him?" Gaara spits in the other's face.
Naruto's eyes widen. "I-I-I didn't do anything to him."
"Liar!"
Temari puts her hand on her younger brother's arm. "Gaara, calm down okay? You're going to hurt him."
"I want to hurt him," Gaara growls. "Now answer me you bastard, what did you do to Sasuke? He was staying at your apartment and he was fine right before he went there."
"So you automatically think I did something? Christ! You're messed up in the head if you think that!" Naruto growls back, his patience having snapped. "I did absolutely nothing! I woke up this morning and he was gone. Then he comes back to my apartment smelling like sex and looking like he'd overdosed on something!"
Gaara's eyes lower to slits. "You said when you woke he was gone… why would he be there when you woke up? It's not like he slept with you."
Naruto's cheeks heat up and go crimson.
Gaara growls. He pulls the blond back then slams him back against the wall, the blonde's head making a sickening cracking sound, before shoving his arm under a tan chin and pressing so hard the other starts gasping.
Temari grabs a hold of one of her brother's arms while Kankuro grabs the other. "Gaara stop it!"
Gaara ignores his siblings and struggles to get at the blond, who is holding his throat and coughing. "If you touched him I swear I'll kill you."
Naruto looks fearfully to Gaara, but frowns none the same. "He's not your possession. If he chooses to be with someone there is nothing you can do about it!"
"So you did touch him?!"
"So what if I did?!" Naruto glares at the redhead, but in the back of his mind alarms are going off and telling him to 'Get the hell away as fast as you can!', but he doesn't listen. "I was only returning the favor I assure you."
Gaara growls and lunges forward, breaking free of his siblings' hold, and beats Naruto to the ground. Naruto grabs the redhead's shoulder and tries to flip them over so that he can get a punch in, but Gaara grabs him by the skull and bangs his head into the hard floor.
Temari and Kankuro and trying to pry Gaara off the blond but it's not working, only pissing the redhead off even more. Suigetsu runs out of the room.
Gaara seethes and lifts his arm back to land a punch to the blonde's face, but his wrist is grabbed by a strong hand while nails dig into his skin. He goes still, he knows whose hand it is. He turns his head towards the other, but doesn't make it as a platform boot lands into his face.
Sasuke glares down at the redhead and raises his knee again before slamming his foot into the other's stomach. "What. Are. You. Doing? Make your answers short, quick, and precise or I might get violent."
Naruto's eyes widen and he crawls away from the enraged raven. Temari goes to help the blond, cleaning his wounds and checking to make sure he's okay.
"He touched you," Gaara says quickly. He'd only seen Sasuke angry a few times, but the person on the receiving end rarely came out unscathed. "'Thought you weren't going to sleep with him."
Sasuke smirks with painted lips and moves his platform boot to the other's neck and presses into it slightly. "Whom I sleep with is my business. But, for your own personal, stupid, self-assurance I didn't sleep with him." He bends down, his foot still pressed to the other's throat, and snickers. "Besides… if I were to sleep with him you couldn't do anything about it."
"I understand," Gaara says briskly. Better to say what the raven wants to hear then make him any more mad.
Sasuke grins. "Good." He removes his foot and moves out of the other's way. "Now stand up."
Gaara does so, but he's not up for long. As soon as Gaara is standing, Sasuke punches him in the face.
The raven shakes his hand and pops his knuckles. He looks up to see the other occupants of the room staring at him. He smiles innocently, a fake smile he'd mastered over the years, and walks up to Naruto. The blond cowers slightly but Sasuke just gently prods his face and throat, his face more than his throat. "It seems you'll be fine. No broken bones thankfully, but your cheek is already starting to swell and your throat is slightly bruising." He frowns and tosses a look back at Gaara that promises violence, but he controls himself.
Temari sighs and covers her eyes with her hand. "Never mind that Sasuke, we're used to your sudden bursts of violence. What the hell are you wearing?"
Sasuke looks down at himself. He's wearing a tight leather tube-top with a fishnet shirt over that, black leather buckles adorn his upper arms and bandages adorn his wrists. He's wearing an extremely tiny skirt made of leather that hangs way too low on his hips and under the skirt he's wearing skin-tight fishnet leggings. His platform boots are also leather and hug his feminine legs all the way up to his knees. He grins. "I like it."
"You look like a whore… and what's with your makeup and hair?"
Sasuke walks over to the mirror in the back to look at the "problem areas" Temari asked about. His hair is sticking up in the back drastically while his face is half covered with his bangs. He's wearing heavy black eye liner and dark red lipstick. "It's not very different from the how I usually look."
Temari sighs. "Whatever… but I'm not chasing guys away from you. You're just asking to be raped."
A tall man steps into the room and clears his throat. "Okami Yokai, you're on now."
Sasuke grins happily and bounces off towards the stage before stopping and turning to the blond. "Go back to your seat now. You won't want to miss my performance." With this said he goes on stage, only to be greeted by the screams of the people in the club.
The club is fairly big and people are jammed inside the room. He sees security guards at the exits and entrances. He looks down to see Kakashi, Iruka, all of Naruto's friends, and in a few minutes sees Naruto himself.
He hears his band mates getting on stage and he grins. He picks up the microphone I front of him and puts a slender finger to his painted lips. The room goes quiet and he smiles. "Well hello everyone."
Everyone in the room screams and Sasuke laughs. "Well, as you know we had a performance last night and we just decided to stick around and have another performance here tonight. And, oh, how people are going to be jealous of you when you tell your friends that didn't come about tonight.
'Now, to start off we'll be doing something a little different than usual. Before each song I will allow one question and I will answer it, no matter how personal it may be. But, I will not answer to shouted questions." He grins. "You'll have to raise your hand, yes, just like in school." He laughs as a few people boo. "Now, I have a reputation to keep up here, so I'll torture you guys a little bit."
'Now… first question."
Almost every hand in the room rises.
Sasuke scans the room before picking somebody in the front.
"When did you start cross dressing?"
The raven laughs. "Just now actually. I decided, what the hell, people always mistake me for a chick so why not dress the part? So this is my concoction of cross dressing." He grins. "Alright, now that the question's out of the way, who's ready for the first song?"
The room roars with shouts and sceams.
Sasuke nods. "Alright then, first song is called Taion."
Drums start out a beat and then the other instruments join. Sasuke takes a deep breath and then starts to sing. "A wintry sky and the broken streetlight cold wind. Unknown shadow the footprint of desertion. Freedom was taken. If it wakes up a gloomy ceiling
a laughing voice sinks in the eardrum. It is soiled and violence rapes me." Sasuke places a hand over his heart and hunches forward, as if in pain. "An understanding is impossible.
Why was I chosen? Someone should answer..."
Sasuke raises his head high into the air and raises his free hand into the air. "Please answer me it is a horrible dream. How much should I shout, writhe and suffer? Please tell me it is a horrible dream. I shouted many times with losing voice. There is no hand of preparing of the disordered hair. A laughing voice sinks in the eardrum a faint temperature is mixed in the midwinter." He takes a deep breath and continues. "I persuaded myself, who had a dying voice and began writhing. Not to lose for living. I was drowned in the night when I feared and had a dying voice. Please forgive my dying breath. Please answer me it is a horrible dream. How much should I shout, writhe and suffer? Please tell me it is a horrible dream. I want to smile again at last!" Sasuke lowers his head and then the crowd starts screaming.
After a few minutes the crowd settles and Sasuke looks up to see hands raised, he just has to laugh. He points to somebody in the corner.
"Are you gay?"
Sasuke smiles smugly. "Sorry girls, I am indeed gay and am in a relationship at the moment." He sees a few hands shoot up but he just shakes his head. "Next song is Burial Applicant."
The drums and guitar start out loud and Sasuke bobs his head to the beat, his free hand patting his thigh to the rhythm. He takes a breath and then starts to sing. "Hello my dear, kill me gently. A burned body doesn't leave you. If you wait that you cannot save me, have you at least seen death? Can I take your ragged breathing as a fake act?
Under the "creaks" that rain upon me, the trembling won't stop. I will break my ties with the pain that I can only understand with my mind."
After taking a deep breath Sasuke continues. "Die for me... you can't save it. Is it wrong? Answer me. See; let your eyes sway and waver because there are no lies in spilled tears.
My hand... eyes... mind... and breath. What is left in the end are the rotten memories that have been burned. And the remains that can't even save a child. The shadow of the subject of the photograph goes crazy. Hate and terror scream together. Seeing the peeling love, why must this body rot as well? In the darkness that laughs in red, the foolish words that were spilled every time a breath was released is very alike to that 'hate'.
'Under the 'creaks' that rain upon me, the trembling won't stop. I will break my ties with the pain that I can only understand with my mind. Hello my dear, kill me gently. A burned body doesn't leave you. Let my wishes reach the ear that knows a newborn baby's voice and the sound of screams, to the pit bottom. Somehow, please make them sink so far into those wet eyes, as if to swallow them. Deep...So that they never touch me again and those warped memories that laugh."
Sasuke closes his eyes and takes a breath. "Forget me..., you can't save it. Is it wrong? Answer me. See, let your eyes sway and waver because there is nothing but lies in spilled tears. My hand... eyes... mind... and breath. What is left behind in the end are the rotten memories that have been burned. And the carriage that can't even love a child."
After the screaming stops Sasuke picks yet another hand from the crowd.
"Who are you dating?"
Sasuke chuckles. "I knew you guys would ask that. Well… he's older than me and owns an establishment… and that's all I can say."
There are boos in the crowd and Sasuke shrugs. "Next song is Blue Blood."
"My face is covered with blood. There's nothing but pain, passing closest to pleasure. I can't tell where I'm going to. I'm running all confused. Death himself is coming. Then I see you standing there, can do nothing but run away. Following you in my dream. Look out! I'm raving mad. You can't stop my sadness. The first dream is beginning to flow. I'll slice my face, covered with blue blood. Give me some more pain. Give me throws of death."
Sasuke pauses and breathes before starting again. "Tears melt in blue blood. A blurry, reincarnated form of desire. Now a frightened lonely heart seeks to wander with the
passing of dreams. Dance to the sad tragedy as a phantom. On the awakening form of the stage. My eyes overflow again. To disappear, throw away love's gleaming replica. Give me some more pain. Give me throws of death. Tears melt in blue blood. A blurry, reincarnated form of desire. Blue tears dance to the tragedy of solitude. As my heart continues to be soaked."
Sasuke puts a hand to his head and waits for the screaming to stop. He doesn't feel well but there's no way in hell he's going to stop in the middle of a show. He randomly points somewhere for someone to ask a question.
"Are you a virgin?"
Sasuke laughs bitterly. "Nope, not that. And that my friends was the last question seeing as this is the last song we'll be performing." There are angry shouts. "I know, I know. But this is the end. Song is called Long Way to Happy."
The music starts and Sasuke bobs his head before singing. "One night to you, lasted six weeks for me. Just a bitter little pill now, just to try to go to sleep. No more waking up to innocence. Say hello to hesitance… to everyone I meet. Thanks to you years ago. I guess I'll never know what love means to me but oh I'll keep on rolling down this road. But I've got a bad, bad feeling."
Sasuke flings his arm out to the side and raises his head and sings directly into the microphone. "It's gonna take a long time to love. It's gonna take a lot to hold on. It's gonna be a long way to happy, yeah. Left in the pieces that you broke me into. Torn apart but now I've got to keep on rolling like a stone 'cause it's gonna be a long long way to happy.
'Left my childhood behind in a roll away bed. Everything was so damn simple. Now I'm losing my head, trying to cover up the damage and pad out all the bruises. Too young to know I had it so it didn't hurt to lose it. Didn't hurt to lose it. No but oh I'll keep on rolling down this road. But I've got a bad, bad feeling. It's gonna take a long time to love. It's gonna take a lot to hold on. It's gonna be a long way to happy, yeah. Left in the pieces that you broke me into. Torn apart but now I've got to keep on rolling like a stone 'cause it's gonna be a long long way. Now I'm numb as hell and I can't feel a thing. But don't worry about regret or guilt cause I never knew your name. I just want to thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the sleepless nights and for tearing me apart yeah yeah!"
Sasuke pauses at the short instrumental break and wipes his sweaty brow. He's getting dizzy and he hopes he doesn't collapse on stage. He takes a deep breath and proceeds to finish the song. "It's gonna take a long time to love. It's gonna take a lot to hold on. It's gonna be a long way to happy, yeah. Left in the pieces that you broke me into. Torn apart but now I've got to keep on rolling like a stone 'cause it's gonna be a long long way. It's gonna take a long time to love. It's gonna take a lot to hold on. It's gonna be a long, long, long, long way to happy, yeah. Left in the pieces that you broke me into. Torn apart but now I've got to keep on rolling like a stone 'cause it's gonna be a long long way to happy."
Sasuke bows as the crowd roars before turning and walking weakly back to the room behind the stage. He collapses into a chair and gasps for air. He feels wrong. He's dizzy, his head feels like it's splitting open, he feels like he's going to throw up, and he feels so fucking weak!
He groans and is glad to hear the door open. "You guys got done quicker than I thought you would."
"Sorry to disappoint," a voice says from behind the raven.
Sasuke gasps and turns around right as a cloth comes up to cover his mouth and nose. His nostrils burn from the chemical on the cloth and each breath feels like he's swallowing fire. Before he loses consciousness he sees familiar black hair and obsidian eyes.