Hinata POV
I don't believe it. Naruto actually acknowledged me. I'm so happy. I was dazed throughout Sakura's Karaoke performance.
"Hey, Hinata!" Temari said shaking me out of my daze. "Get back to your normal pale color and pay attention. Kiba's about to go on."
Sakura pouted. "Aw shit, I left my ear plugs at home," she joked. Everyone snickered.
"Are you ready to ROCK?!" Kiba said when they announced his name and the song he was going to mangle. Neji and Tenten groaned. They exchanged looked at one another for a split second before they looked away and blushed. I would be sure to get in his case when we got home.
Oreta awai tsubasa
Kimi wa sukoshi
Aosugiru sora ni tsukareta dake sa
Mou dareka no tame ja nakute
Jibun no tame ni waratte ii yo
Izen to shite shinobiyoru kodoku
Uchigawa ni tomoru rousoku
Nigiwau ba ni gouka na shanderia to wa urahara ni
Tarinai kotoba no
Kubomi o nani de umetara ii n' darou
Mou wakaranai yo
Semete yume no naka de
Jiyuu ni oyogetara anna sora mo iranai no ni
Kinou made no koto o
Nuritsubusa nakute mo asu ni mukaeru no ni
Oreta awai tsubasa
Kimi wa sukoshi
Aosugiru sora ni tsukareta dake sa
Mou dareka no tame ja nakute
Jibun no tame ni waratte ii yo
Rettoukan to no wakai wa
Kantan ni wa kanawanaisa
Jiishiki no teppen ni suwaru
Kagami ga utsusu hanabira
Furishiboru you ni
Kogoreta ai wo sakende miru keredo
Modokashikute
Meguru toki no naka de
Kizuguchi wa yagate
Kasabuta ni kawatte iku
Kimi wa sore o matazu
Totemo utsukushiku
Totemo hakanage de
Hagare ochita ato no
Ubuge no you ni
Hi damari no naka de furueru inori
Ima wa muri ni dareka no koto wo
Ai sou to omowanakute ii no ni
[instrumental]
Toki ni kono sekai wa
Ue wo muite
Aruku ni wa sukoshi mabushii sugiru ne
Shizumu you ni
Me wo fuseru to
Kawaita chimen ga namida wo susuru
Why do we feel so alone anytime?
Subete wo uketomenakute ii yo
Why do we feel so alone anytime?
Koraeru koto dakedo yuuki ja nai
Somehow, I thought he was attached with that song. We all clapped because if we didn't then he would give us an unwanted encore
Naruto was next up.
"Thank you, Inuzuka-san", Karaoke Man announced. "You did a wonderful job. Naruto Uzumaki, come on out with your performance of Hero's Come Back by Nobody Knows!"
Naruto was so cool, he needed no intro. He just grabbed the mike and got into the whole thing. Kiba jumped off the stage and took a position next to Harima. I could feel her heart trying to pump it's way out of her ribcage, because mine was doing the same thing for her.
"Harima-san! Did you see me? Was I good? I was awesome wasn't I?" he said to her. He was talking a mile a minute. The side of her mouth twitched into a shy smile and I was proud of her. I heard Naruto's voice ring out and it drew me to his whiskered face. He winked at me before he started, making me swoon.
Tooku de kikoeru koe wo hinto ni
Hitori mata hitori tachiagaru doushi
Kurikaesu dake no fudan doori kutsugaesu
Junbi iize are you ready?
Karadajuu furuwasu shindou ni hageshiku uchinarase yo stomping
Taezu tsuki ugokasu call me kawarazu yuru ga nutsukamu story
Come on!!
Everybody stand up! Agero kyou ichiban no jikan da
Me ni mo tomaranu supiido hantaa
Daremo ga mina toriko kanban yeah! (Come on!)
Everybody hands up! Matashita na hero's come back!!
Zujou kazoe yubi oru count down
Ikuze 3-2-1 make some noise!
What you gonna do? What you gonna do?
Taemanaku nari hibiki kizamu
Deja vu yori mo gotsui shougeki ga
Zenshin wo hashiri hanasan break it down
Turn it up (Turn it up) hey kikoekka?
Sakenda kinou made no koto ga
Kawaru darou madaminu asu e
Koborete afureta omoi no bun made
Machinimatta show time saitechiru shukumei
Dochira ni katamuku shouhai no yukue
Agura kaiterya kyou nimo tsubureru
Nagashita chi to ase onore de nugue
Negai mo puraido mo fukume subete wo seotta tagai no haigo
Nasake wo kaketerya dame ninaru ze
Tamote potensharu mentaru men
Neko mo shakushi mo matta you na hiiroo
Hitoban dake no goran, roman hikou
Oo ii nee sonnan ja nee sa
Kick on the corner mada tari nee ka?
Itsumo to chigau hijou na jinkaku mamoru no sa subete
Like a taamineetaa
Yon kai, go kai de tatsu hairaito (fly high, yeah!)
Isso kono ba de tsutaetaru zo
Everybody stand up! Agero kyou ichiban no jikan da
Me ni mo tomaranu supiido hantaa
Daremo ga mina toriko kanban yeah! (Come on!)
Everybody hands up! Matashita na hero's come back!!
Zujou kazoe yubi oru count down
Ikuze 3-2-1 make some noise!
Mou tashou no risuku wa kakugo desho
Nanka korunda tte tatsu (get it on)
Nare ai ja nai ze kami hitoe no sesshon
Irikunda kanjou kidzukiageta kesshou
Made in hyuuman no dorama no enchou
Marude moesakaru yoshihara no enjou
Endoresu saki mo korogaru nichijou
Warau hodo baka ni narerutte koto
Resseifuku mukaikaze nimo maken
Makikomu nandomo dekuwashite kita ze
Ikudotonaku tatsu kono ba no batoru
Tatakai kata nara kono mi ga satoru
Ichiya niya no tukedakiba ja
Mamoru mon ga chigau na shirohata wo furi na
Hi no moe akogareru hikage wo shiru
Iiwake wa kikan sorekoso ga real
Faito maido i'm proud
Nanikarananima de mada ucchi yanai zo
Yes ka no ja nai itsuka kou warau
Nana kara patto kimeru iku ze aibou
Wakiagaru kansei ga yuuki tonaru
Tachiagareba ima ijou kurushimi tomonau
Soredemo saigo wa kitto warau
Subete sarau shouri to kansei
Everybody stand up! Agero kyou ichiban no jikan da
Me ni mo tomaranu supiido hantaa
Daremo ga mina toriko kanban yeah! (Come on!)
Everybody hands up! Matashita na hero's come back!!
Zujou kazoe yubi oru count down
Ikuze 3-2-1 make some noise!
Everybody stand up! Agero kyou ichiban no jikan da
Me ni mo tomaranu supiido hantaa
Daremo ga mina toriko kanban yeah! (Come on!)
Everybody hands up! Matashita na hero's come back!!
Zujou kazoe yubi oru count down
Ikuze 3-2-1 make some noise!
He was amazing. Without thinking about it, I flung my arms around his abdomen when he hopped off the stage. When I came back to myself, I quickly backed away. Oh he must think I'm a total weirdo now.
"Thanks Hinata-chan!" he said brightly.
Temari, Tenten, and Sakura snickered behind my back. I radiated more that usual.
Now all that was left was for Harima not to fall under pressure.
"Last but not least we have the lovely, Harima Riuzi!" Karaoke Man announced. "Rocking out with Suna No Oshiro by Kanon Wakeshima."
We all clapped for Harima. Knowing her, she's probably whither away faster than I would. She took the stage with the grace I wouldn't have expected from her. Her eyes were glued to the floor as she took the mike. By now a whole crowd had gathered and fell silent. She looked up at the crowd without moving her hair or her skully.
She raised the mike to her chin and…
Sotto nagareru
Shiroi
Kawaita kumo ga tooru
Haiiro no watashi wa
Tada jitto kiete iku no o
Miteta
Hoshi o atsumete
Tsukuru suno no o-shiro ni
Watashi no sasayaka na inori
Koborete ochiru
Sono ashimoto o
Machibuseta nami ga sarau
a world of darkness.
a world of silence.
Kiekakaru inori
Kaze ni aorarenagara
Sore de mo tomoritsuzukete
Watashi ga ikudo mo motsurenagara
Hie yuku te de
Tsukuru suno no o-shiro o
Machibuseta nami ga sarau
Anata e
Everyone was stone quiet for a while. She was that quiet and she sounds like that when she sings. The first one to respond was Kiba. He jumped up and down screaming "Yeah! Yeah, you did great!"
Then everybody joined in! She was great. She smiled that smile she gave that caused Kiba to crash into the wall. I hadn't noticed until then that she had fang-like teeth like Kiba. That's when I knew that they were meant for each other. I had to get them together somehow.
Kiba helped Harima jump off the stage and hugged her so tight, her back arched. She was amazing. Where was this girl coming from? I tore away from Naruto's side and hugged her. All the girls were hugging her.
"I had no idea you were a singer," Sakura crooned.
"I love your voice. I would totally steal it," Tenten agreed smashing her cheek against Harima's.
"Karin and her cronies can't begin to compete with your voice. I wish I tape recorded you!" Temari said triumphantly.
Harima had this look of pure joy in her eyes. Sakura had pushed her hair and skully out of her eyes and they were sparkling like sapphires. She looked bashful.
Then when she looked in one direction, her eyes fell and the same fear we'd met her in replaced her face. She quickly turned around and muttered something. It sounded like "How did he find me?"
Temari noticed her distress first. "Harima-chan? What's wrong?" She looked in her general direction. "Hey, that guy's waving at you. Is he your dad?"
Harima whined and pushed her past everyone to join the creepy looking guy. Kiba grabbed her arm before she got too far. That shocked all of us.
"Harima! Give me your number. I'll call you later!" he said through his warm smile. Harima looked from his strong hand on her arm to Kiba's wild eyes. Her cheeks got this rosy color in them, but it made her look more innocent than she probably was.
Harima pulled a permanent marker from underneath her skully and scribbled her cell number on his arm. This was working out better than I expected, I thought. She looked at all of us apologetically. "Arigato."
"HARIMA!" the man yelled. "Get over here let's go home."
Harima jogged over to the man, who took her by the arm and disappeared out the mall entrance with her.
"I don't trust him," Neji said as soon as they were out of sight.
"I think he's Mom's abusive boyfriend," Shikamaru added. "Did you see how scared she looked when she saw him?"
Though I couldn't see her anymore, I looked after her in the direction they left in. Why was she so quiet? Why did she cover her eyes all the time?
Harima POV
Crap.
That's what I kept thinking as Ryu tightened his grip on my arm the farther we got away from the mall. Why did he have to be there? How did he even know that I was there?
"You should really tell me when you're gonna be out, Harima," Ryu said through his teeth. "Your mother and I were really worried. Don't ever do that again."
A lie. I hadn't seen my mother since we moved to Konoha City. She was always out at some party directly after she got off work. She always left me alone with Ryu. Leaving anything female around Ryu was bad parenting.
He squeezed the feeling out of my arm and I choked down a cry of pain. Do not give him the satisfaction. Do not give him the satisfaction. I drifted my mind elsewhere other than my current situation.
"Learn your place, you little demon. You'll live longer," he hissed in my ear. He back away from my ear and resumed his smile. "I think we're gonna do something different tonight."
My eyes widened as I tried to loosen his grip on my arm. By now I could no longer feel my arm. My other arm tingled where Kiba grabbed it before I left. I think he doesn't think I'm a total loser. He asked for my number after all. I smiled within myself.
"Harima how old are you?" Ryu asked me snapping me out of my fantasy. I looked up at his black hair. He was thirty nine but looked twenty two. That's how he hooked my mom who looks eighteen.
"Fifteen," I spat, turning away from. We reached our apartment building and climbed the stairs to our apartment. "What's it to you?" I unlocked the door and turned the living room light on.
Ryu turned it back off. I turned around to ask him what the hell his problem was, but his mouth came down onto mine, shocking me. "Close enough to eighteen right?" He said sneakily when he pulled away. He coiled his arms around my back and pulled my closer to him.
"Get off me!" I demanded. I tried to pull away from him but it seemed to have a reverse effect. "What are you doing?"
Ryu snickered and I got more scared than I was when Karin called herself giving me a makeover by swearing her red lipstick across my face. "Isn't it obvious, Harima?" I got really scared when his cold hand slid up my back and unhooked my bra. "You…"
I shoved my knee into his stomach and he recoiled, yelling. I ran to my room and locked the door behind me. Just in time too because the minute I turned the lock, there were several bangs on my door. I leaned against the door, my breath labored. When did he start the whole pedophile thing?
"He asked me out!" Neji asked me out!" Tenten squealed. It was after school about a week later via the Karaoke mall trip. I had twenty passes to Ko Land that I had yet to use. I laid across the courtyard table on my back looking up. My hair was tucked under my back and my eyes were closed. Gee I was tired.
"I know. N-neji was freaking out when he got home last night," I heard Hinata say. The corner of my mouth twitched in happiness. It's about time Neji got the balls to ask her out.
"Hey Harima, are you up to go to a concert with us on Saturday?" Sakura asked. I opened my eyes to her emerald eyes looking down at me.
"Concert?" I repeated. I sounded like I was whispering. Nothing at all like when I was talking to Ryu. I shuddered at the thought.
"Yeah!" The voice wasn't Sakura's. It was Naruto's. I guess the boys decided to join us. By then I was used to the boys and their noise, so I didn't bother to move. "Hey what's wrong with you?"
I closed my eyes again and resumed sleeping position.
"Wake up, Hariiiiiiimaaaa!" I knew that voice. I reclined on the outdoor table and looked up at Kiba. My face radiated and I lowered my newsboy cap so that the brim covered my eyes. Why was he making me so nervous? I've known him for a week now.
"Hey, don't do that!" he said getting in close to my face. He took my hat off altogether and pushed my hair out of my eyes. Oh no.
His eyes met mine and vice versa. That was the moment I truly fell in love with Kiba.
"What's that?" he asked poking my forehead from last night. I flinched from the sharp pain.
His eyebrows came together. "Does that hurt?"
I covered my head and nodded.
He frowned in concern. To save myself from any questions, I poked his forehead bruise, intending that our foreheads matched. He winced and laughed. "Our foreheads match so please come to the concert!"
I pretended to think about it. Of course I was going. Then he added "I think you're my good luck charm."
My face heated up and I looked away. He called me his good luck charm. Me!