City Of Angels

Chapter 5: Hyuuga Neji

As the bell for lunch rang out, masses of bodies surged out of the classroom doors and to the canteen. The blonde girl pushed her way past a bunch of nerds (a/n no offence to nerds) to catch up with her friend. Hinata let out a yelp when Ino's hands landed on her shoulders, "Oh! Ino, it's you, you almost gave me a heart failure!"

"Nah, the ramen I saw Naruto eating last night was heart failure on a plate! Yuck!" as soon as Hinata heard her crush's name, a cute pink tinge showed on her cheeks, "Aww, Hina-chan's blushing, come on, lets go and get some food, I'm starved!"

"Heeeeeey Sakura." Sasuke plonked himself down on the chair opposite Sakura and let his head slump on the table, "Ugh, detention with Orochimaru is painful."

"Aww, is lickle Sasuke all depressed?" Sakura said in a mocking voice, pouting,

"Hey, it really is, he made me stack up every chair, then run around the classroom while shouting 'ooh ee ooh ah ah, ting tang walla walla bing bang' at the top of my voice and dancing when I passed a certain table, AND, he recorded the whole thing and put it on you tube. I am depressed." Sasuke ran his hand over his face, properly revealing his eyes, Sakura noticed dark purple-black rings under them, "THEN, I ran out of the classroom, tripping over something on the way, look;" he lifted up his leg, put it on the table and showed Sakura his shin, there was a big red mark in the middle of it,

"Geez, how did you do that?"

"I think the something I tripped over was a lethal sharp something, my leg hurts like hell." The mark on Sasuke's leg was quickly turning purple and swelling up.

"Ouch, that really looks painful," Sakura placed her hand on the bruise to examine it, but hastily removed it, "EW! It's throbbing, gross!"

"Yeah, that makes me feel so much better."

"Sorry! Some doctor I'm gonna make." She pushed Sasuke's throbbing leg off of the table so she could eat her lunch.

Ino walked towards a table that was occupied by smallish pink haired girl and a tall raven hair. "Hey people!" She sat her lunch on the table and hugged both Sakura and Sasuke "Right, Sasuke Hinata, Hinata Sasuke. Now you know each other!"

"Hello to you too Ino. And you, Hinata." Sakura helped herself to a mouthful of Ino's lunch, only to spit it back out onto the plate. The blonde shrugged and began to eat the pile of tuna-y stuff on her plate with a hint of Sakura saliva on her plate. Hinata wrinkled her nose at Ino's disgusting habit but carried on to eat her own, more sensible choice, of curry.

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Sakura was busy pondering which shirt to wear, the yellow 'An Café' one (A J-rock band) or the white 'Tokidoki' one. Ino was sat on Sakura's bed, hugging a plushie piece of toast, "Or… You could wear that kawaii cosplay dress? Please?"

"Gosh, Ino, why do you want me to dress like…that! I can't go to a band practice cosplaying as Ichigo, do you know how heavy that dress is? Don't even get started on the boots and tail!" (a/n This is Ichigo from Tokyo mew mew by the way, not bleach!)

"Aww, but you look too cute when you wear it, I'll wear my Berii dress!" Ino walked over to the wardrobe and picked up another sweet dress, it was pale pink and was sort of like a French maid dress.

"No" Sakura put the dress back and held up a lacy skirt. "I think I'll wear…this, and my 'An Café' tee." She removed her sailor fuku, causing Ino to giggle;

"What?" Sakura pulled the yellow shirt over her head and span around to glare at Ino,

"Pffft, fl-~giggle~ flat chested! ~giggle~" Ino clamped a hand over mouth.

"I've always been lacking in that department! Stop laughing!" she zipped up the zipper, pulled up her stripy knee socks and fastened up a pair of sunny yellow go-go boots, the same shade as her top, then she plonked her guitar into the case and dragged Ino out of her front door.

Sasuke was already at Ryu's and tuning up his bass when the girls got there; "Whoa! Cool room! Cool guitar! Cool piano! Cool flooring! Cool wall panels! Cool ceiling tiles! Cool hair Sasuke!"

"Uh, thanks?"

"Cool hair Sa-, no, wait, perhaps not…"

"hey!"

Ino giggled, "sorry, right, lets get warmed up then!"

"Um Ino," Sasuke started, "this isn't gym class, we don't need a warm up…"

The blonde rolled her eyes "I'm talking about vocal warm-ups! For a boy with a GPA (grade point average) of….what is it?"

"Four point five."

"For a with a GPA of four point five, you are remarkably dumb!"

"Shut up."

"You shut up!"

"Okay! Swiftly moving on, Sasuke, you haven't heard Ino sing yet, so, go and sit over there. Ino, what do you want to sing?" Sakura went and sat down at the baby grand piano in the corner as Ino plugged in one of the microphones into Sakura's amplifier.

"Erm…" Ino started twiddling with the end of her ponytail, "I think I will sing, err, oh Sakura, just play something and I'll sing along, kay?" Sakura rolled her eyes,

"Fine, how about 'Breathe No More'? Evanescence?"

"Yeah sure, whatever," Ino cleared her throat:

"I've been looking in the mirror for so I've come to believe my soul's on the other the little pieces falling, of me,Too sharp to put back small to matter,But big enough to cut me into so many little I try to touch her,And I bleed,I bleed,And I breathe,I breathe no more. Take a breath and I try to draw from my spirits again you refuse to drink like a stubborn to me,Convince me that I've been sick all of this,Will make sense when I get I know the difference,Between myself and my reflection.I just can't help but to wonder,Which of us do you I bleed,I bleed,And I breathe,I breathe no...Bleed,I bleed,And I breathe,I breathe,I breathe-I breathe no more."

"So, how did I do?" Asked Ino, grinning and fanning herself from the heat,

"Wow" said Sasuke, "You can howl!"

"She can, can't she, see, I told you she was good!" Sakura got up from behind the piano smiling, she put an arm around her friend, "Now that," she began, "was a-maze-ing!"

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The trio were lying on a fluffy rug in Ryu's living room. "Ok," Sasuke started, "I'll call him…NOW!" Sasuke pressed the green 'call' button;

"What'dya want?"

"Geez man, not how I expect to be greeted by an old friend!"

"Oh. Sasuke it's you."

"Well duh!"

"Listen man, this isn't a good time, she dumped me."

"Who? Yu-chan?"

"Yeah, Yumi. She said 'it would be best if we broke up!'"

"Why, you guys were really close?"

Neji sighed, "She's moving to Korea."

"Korea!?"

"Yep, I know, far, isn't it?"

"Well back to the point, I called you to ask, will you be in my band?"

"Meh, nothing better to do, I'll set of for Tokyo soon. Supposed to be visiting Hinata soon anyway."

"Thanks, later!"

"Yeah, yeah, bye."

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP……………………………etc…

"YEAH BABY! WE JUST GOT OURSELVES A BAND!" Sasuke jumped up off the floor, only to notice Sakura sat in a chair glaring at him;

"'My' band?"