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Tears Don't Fall
I woke with a start hearing something crash to the ground. I looked to the side and saw Sasuke lying on the floor near his suitcase. I laughed to myself as I heard a groan coming from his side of the room. I fell back against the pillow and realized this was my second day as a member of Konoha Legend.
"Ow," Sasuke finally said from the floor as he got up slowly from the floor. I laughed to myself as I turned over in my bed and looked over at Sasuke. He smirked over at me while I smirked back at him.
"You're pretty clumsy in the morning I see," I told him. I didn't add that he looked pretty sexy with his bed head since I had no idea where Sasuke and I stood after what had occurred when we first got to the hotel and the immense flirting that had gone on when we were at the club.
Sasuke looked over at me and smirked as he nodded his head in my direction. I quirked an eyebrow at him as he scrunched up his face and his smirk widened.
"You're one to talk. What do you do when you sleep? You're hair looks a mess, not that it doesn't suit you," Sasuke slurred at me. I felt myself blush at that comment and laughed uneasily. He came over to me, clad only in boxers from yesterday as he laid down next to me. I looked into his obsidian eyes and looked on a bit shocked at what I saw.
I saw no emotion in his eyes whatsoever. Almost as if everything was being blocked inside of him behind some invisible wall or something. I continued to look on as he shifted and made me realize that I was staring.
"What's so intriguing?" Sasuke questioned me. I looked at the ceiling at that point afraid to answer the question.
"Why does something have to be intriguing?" I questioned him.
"Because you were staring at me. Openly might I add. Only a dobe does something like that," he answered me lowly. I laughed at the nickname/insult whilst continuing to look at the ceiling.
"Only a teme cares enough to ask," I told him then looking at him again. He continued to look at me as I looked down at his lips. I leaned into him and kissed him gently knowing that he was definitely not used to gentle kisses. I felt him kiss back as I separated from him. He continued to look at me as I sat up in the bed fully aware of what I just did.
"You okay?" he questioned me. I put my head in my hands wanting to shoot myself at that point.
"Yeah, I'm fine," I told him. But in reality I had no idea what I was doing anymore. I wanted to be with Sasuke, but was so damn scared because of how emotionless his eyes were, and how little he would tell me about himself. I felt Sasuke sit up from the bed as he placed his lips on my neck. I shivered at the touch and felt him snicker against my neck at that.
"There's obviously something wrong with you," Sasuke told me. I snickered and then looked at him trying to keep my Uzumaki spirit up.
"And why would the stoic Uchiha care?" I questioned him laughing at the comment, feeling the fakeness seeping through it.
"And why would the Uzumaki not have a smile on his face?" Sasuke countered me. I looked at him and at his lips getting ready to lean into him when the door to our hotel crashed open and we were greeted by Anko which tore me away from his face which was only inches apart from my own.
"Get ready and get dressed you guys! Rehearsal and Sound check is in 20 minutes! HURRY UP!" she shouted at her before closing the door behind her. I got up from the bed slowly and made my way over to my suitcase to get my clothes out for that day. I looked at Sasuke on the bed as I slipped on my black "Pink Floyd" T-shirt with my black ripped jeans.
I continued to look at Sasuke as he got up from the bed and walked over to his suitcase just ripping a shirt and skinny jeans from his suitcase, not really caring which it was. He pulled on his shirt over his head and his pants next as he went into the bathroom and wet his hair flipping it so it came into its original state.
I turned to myself and pulled on my pants and then slipped on my t-shirt over my head. Looking around for my socks I slipped those on next along with my high-top converse. I bent over and shook my head a bit combing my fingers through it as it stood on its end. I stood straight happily as I saw that my hair looked normal now.
I walked into the bathroom and rinsed my mouth out with mouth wash and winked at Sasuke as he looked at me. I was getting ready to leave the bathroom when I felt him grab my wrist and twist me around, pulling me flush against his chest as he put a hand on my lower back, keeping me in my place. I looked at his eyes and then down at his lips as his eyes, looked me over. I felt his breath on my lips and swallowed audibly as he smirked at me.
"You look incredibly gorgeous," Sasuke whispered upon my lips. I felt myself blush as he said this and cursed myself for blushing at compliments such as that.
"You're one to speak," I whispered back. I saw Sasuke smile slightly as he twisted his head to the side.
"And why is that dobe?"
"You know perfectly well," I told him trying to break away from the embrace that he held me in, but to no avail he kept his hand firmly on my lower back keeping me pressed up against him.
"What's wrong Uzumaki? Uncomfortable?" he questioned me smirking.
"N-no, we have to get going soon," I told him looking anywhere but his eyes. I felt his hand grab my chin as he forced me to look into his eyes. I looked into them and then remembered why they said the eyes are the windows to the soul. Every emotion possible was hidden behind those eyes though he gave off the impression that he was cold as ice.
He leaned in slowly and kissed me as his hand went to the back of my neck. I closed my eyes feeling his lips against my own and wrapped my arms around his neck. He licked my bottom lip requesting entrance as I gave it to him, opening my mouth to let his tongue in. I then felt his hand go down lower to my bum and give a squeeze. I moaned into the kiss as I felt him smirk against my lips. In the distance I heard the door opening and pulled away from him and pressed my forehead against his and smiled brightly at him.
"Baby brother, you can't even wait a week?"
I laughed to myself as I heard Itachi's question when he saw us. I pulled away from him and he kept his arm around my waist. I smiled at Itachi and saw that Deidara was leaning against the doorframe and Sasori standing behind him. Surprisingly Anko was nowhere to be found.
"We have to get going, yeah," Deidara told us. I nodded to him as Sasuke let me go and I walked forward. He walked back into the room with our beds and slipped on his sneakers quickly not even bothering to tie the laces but just shoved them into his sneakers. I walked along with Itachi, Deidara, Sasori and Sasuke as we walked towards the tour bus so we could get going to the sound check and rehearsal.
"Well looks like today is your first real gig," Itachi told me smirking. I laughed nervously as Sasuke put an arm around my shoulders and shook me lightly.
"There's no need to be nervous. You'll do fine!" he told me kissing my ear. I blushed furiously at that as Itachi laughed silently to himself. Sasori started to drive to our rehearsal which wasn't that far away. We got there in less than 10 minutes which to Anko's was much to Anko's relief.
"Took you assholes long enough! Christ, what were all of you doing for that long?"
"Well you see Na-," Itachi began but was soon cut off Sasuke's hand on his mouth. Anko looked at both brothers as she just disregarded what he was about to say as she ushered us onto the stage. We had people rush to us and give us instruments. I plugged my guitar into an amp as the rest of the band did the same. Sasuke touched the mike tapping it as he blew into it to make sure that it was on.
I looked around myself and saw the humongous stadium and realized that tonight this was going to be full of people. I smiled to myself as a mike was put in front of me, and the other musicians. Itachi flipped his hair as he waited to hear what we were going to be doing.
"Check…1,2" Sasuke said into the microphone. Knowing that it was on we all tapped the mic making sure that ours were on as well.
"Okay so Sasuke what songs are you planning for tonight to know the lighting?" Anko told him.
"I wanted to open with Tears Don't Fall, From Yesterday…." He continued to name the songs he wanted to play as I was quaking in my converse because of the first song he said. Tears Don't Fall had a crazy guitar solo in it. And he trusted me on the first day to nail a guitar solo such as that one? Maybe this was a test…this had to be a test.
"Okay so then let's rehearse Tears Don't Fall, for Naruto's sake so he can look calm, because right now he doesn't look too calm," she snickered. Everybody looked my way as I smiled goofily. Sasuke smirked at that as he nodded in agreement.
Sasori counted the tempo on his sticks over at the drums as I started on the first chords of Tears Don't Fall by myself. When that was over I heard Deidara come in under my tone for a few moments as we both died out and looked at Sasuke. I knew this was going to be a long rehearsal.
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I got off stage and handed my guitar to somebody who was taking the instruments. I went backstage and looked around seeing that there were already fans there when the concert didn't start until a few hours later. I walked towards Sasuke as he waved to a couple of fans from behind the bars.
"Hey, uhm…why are there so many people here already?" I questioned him.
"People get here early in order to catch some pictures with the band members if they can. Others are here because they have backstage passes," Sasuke told me. I nodded absentmindedly at that.
"You wanna meet some fans?" Sasuke questioned me. I looked up at him at that comment and flushed immediately afraid of meeting fans.
"What? No, I can't I mean…I just joined the band, people won't know who I am it's not a goo-,"
Sasuke shut me up at that point by grabbing my wrist and walking towards the gates to open them. Suddenly cheers and screams erupted from the girls that were standing behind the fence which were behind the gate that they were located at.
"SASUKE!"
"WE LOVE YOU!"
"I WANN HAVE YOUR BABIES!"
These among other things were shouted as Sasuke came out with a full fledged grin on his face. He stood far enough away from the grabbing hands that were reaching for him.
"Does this always happen?" I shouted at him.
"Some chick ripped my shirt off of me once and I found it on E-bay the next day," Sasuke shouted back at me. I gawked at that remark as I was ferociously grabbed by a fan girl. Sasuke saw this and laughed as the girl pulled me into her face so she could look at me.
"You don't look like you're from Konoha Legend!" she shouted. I blinked several times at that as she just held me in place. Suddenly a smile spread on her face looking at me.
"Well uh-you see-," I tried to say but she interrupted me.
"It doesn't matter! YOU'RE HOT!" She shouted into my face. She pulled her camera out and took a picture with me as I tried my best to smile. Sasuke laughed at this as he took an autograph and signed it. I took pictures with more people as Sasuke took pictures and signed autographs.
After 10,000 pictures I finally went back behind the gates where I was safe and none of the girls could get to me. Sasuke looked at me and smirked at the way my hair was messed up and messier than usual.
"I am never doing that again. You can do that by yourself. Or with Itachi," I told him.
"You know, I said that too when it was my first time. Now I come out here all the time," Sasuke told me. I looked at him baffled as he laughed silently to himself. I heard a gate opening and looked to the side to see that they were opening but with much calmer fans whom were looking around in awe.
"There go those with the backstage passes," Sasuke told me. I nodded at him as he said that happy that the fans were much calmer than the ones that I just experienced.
The band suddenly materialized next to Sasuke and I as the fans were brought over. I saw some of them as their eyes darted between Sasuke and his brother. Some of the girls were solely staring at Sasori and Deidara who kept exchanging glances.
"Hey," Sasuke said waving nonchalantly to them. Some of the girls sighed as he said that while Itachi put an arm around his shoulder and winked at them. Itachi and Sasuke turned as Sasori and Deidara did the same and waited for them to follow towards one of the many tables set up backstage.
We each sat down in one table as Sasuke smirked at everyone who got into a line at the table. Itachi looked at the first girl as she gave him her article to be signed by us. He passed it down the line as she smiled at him.
"So what's your name?" Itachi questioned her.
"I'm Ino," she said as she swiped a glance at Sasuke. Sasuke noticed this as he signed it and passed it down to me.
"Ino?" Sasuke scoffed. I looked over to him as he said this and couldn't help but wonder what he was getting at. Ino looked at him as he said this and she couldn't help but smile at him. I could almost feel the hearts in her eyes as he said her name.
"Sasuke…" Itachi warned him.
"No, let him be Itachi…this should be interesting," Sasori told him. I looked at Sasuke expectantly as he just looked at the Ino girl over the top of his hands. I handed the girl her article as she looked at Sasuke. We all held our breath as we waited to hear what he had to say.
"With the size of your forehead why don't you just plaster I'm a big fat idiot on it to save us all the trouble?" Sasuke questioned her while smirking. I gawked at him as Sasori and Deidara fell over themselves in laughter. Itachi snickered to himself while Sasuke merely smirked at her. Her smile fell as she turned her face into a snarl and left backstage.
"Oh my god! SASUKE!" I screamed at him as he shrugged his shoulders.
"What? They don't pay me to be NICE to my fans," he told me. He motioned for the next person to come up as this went on for a while. Afterwards we ended up just talking to a few of the people and I found out nothing special except how much everyone loved Sasuke. I also found out that the order of fangirls it went into was that Sasuke had the most, Itachi had the second most, and Sasori came up in third while Deidara came up last. Be it the fact that I had just joined Konoha Legend…nobody knew me.
Though I did get a few girls wanting to know if I had a girlfriend and if I would marry them…now I know how Sasuke feels when the girls do this to him. It doesn't feel that hot. It may sound a bit cool but after the fourth person asked me I just wanted to shout out "NO I'M GAY AND IN LOVE WITH MY BANDS LEAD SINGER".
But that would have been very unethical, and lord only knows what Sasuke would have done to me if I did that. After we went backstage I collapsed on one of the chairs as Sasuke laughed whole-heartedly at me. I glared up at him while Itachi sat down next to me and Sasori and Deidara occupied a chair nearby.
"How'd you like your first ever meet and greet?" Sasuke questioned me, stuffing his hands into his pockets. I glared up at him as he smirked at that seeing my expression.
I saw Anko come through the doors as she looked at us all waiting to see if everyone was there. We all looked over at her as she smiled at us while waving her hand around all of us.
"Let's go. You guys are on in five!" Anko told us all as we all scrambled up from the couch. I felt my heart in my chest as I got up from where I was sitting and was rushed on stage. Somebody gave me a guitar as we were ushered into the darkness of the stage. I could hear everybody outside just then and realized that it was time…this was my first actual performance.
I heard the beginning static to the instrumental "Wake" that the band opened the show with. I looked over at Sasuke and saw him walking along the stage silently, not putting an eye on anybody. I looked around and saw that the rest of the band was looking down waiting for the song to build up.
I looked down as well, holding my guitar in hand and waiting for the point where I would come in boldly. I heard loud screams as Sasuke climbed onto one of the monitors and raised his arms out to the audience asking for applause. He then raised his head slowly and looked around as he grabbed the microphone.
"Are you ready for the most kick ass show you've ever seen?" he questioned them then. A loud scream erupted from the audience then as Sasuke got up and raised his body. I heard the drums rumble slowly as it kept up a steady beat. When the music finally built up Sasuke jumped down from the monitor as everybody played loudly. The stage erupted into that of bright light as we all played, the lights dancing around our skin lighting it on fire.
And just as soon as we finished playing bright lights flashed onto the stage saying Konoha Legend in yellow. Sasuke smirked at the audience and the placed the mike back in the stand as he looked over at me on his right side. He nodded to me as I nodded back and we all looked at the audience.
I looked down and breathed slowly and played the intro to "Tears Don't Fall" and then heard the rhythm guitar back me up as we played the ending of the intro waiting for Sasuke.
LET'S GO!
Sasuke erupted into the long scream that he did in the beginning of the song as we continued to play backing him up. I bobbed my head as everyone else faded out and I continued to play waiting for Sasuke to sing.
With bloodshot eyes
I watch you sleeping
The warmth I feel inside me
Is slowly fading
Would he hear me?
If I called his name
Would he hold me?
If he knew my shame?
I looked over at Sasuke as he winked at me and then went into the interval.
There's always something different going on
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things bet-TER!
I shuddered as I felt the rush of everybody's screams. I looked up and could almost see everybody in the audience. Amazing how a mili-second could seem like 3 hours to me on stage.
Your tears don't fall!
They crash around me!
His conscience calls
The guilty to come home
Your tears don't fall
They crash around me
His conscience calls
The guilty to come home.
Sasuke took the mike off the stand as he walked around Sasori, Itachi and I as he sang the lyrics. I waited with baited breath for him to get to me.
The moments die
I hear no screaming
The visions left inside me
Are slowly fading
Would he hear me?
If I called his name?
Sasuke came to me then as he sang this next part, wrapping an arm around my shoulders almost singing into my ear.
Would he hold me?
If he knew my shame?
He walked away at this point before giving me a look and he continued to sing as Sasori and I crossed the stage.
There's always something different going on
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things bet-TER!
Your tears don't fall!
They crash around me!
His conscious calls
The guilty to come home
Your tears don't fall
They crash around me
Your conscious calls
The guilty to come home
OH! YEAH!
Sasori and I got together in the center-stage and started playing waiting for Sasuke to start singing again. I looked up at him and saw him walking to the tip of the stage and singing into the crowd.
This battered room I've seen before
These broken bones they heal no more
No more!
With my last breath I'm choking
Will this ever end I'm hoping!
My world is over one more time!
LET'S GO!
At that point Sasori and I were back to back playing the guitar solo that was set in place in this song as Sasuke went around the stage going crazy. I played my fingers almost hurting as I remembered how much I loved this song but hated to play it. Just then the guitar solo ended as Sasori and I separated from each other dramatically and Sasuke swayed on stage about to sing the next part. I looked over at him and noticed that we were looking at each other. He walked over to me and stood directly behind me, singing each note into my ear.
Would he hear me?
If I called his name?
Would he hold me?
If he knew my shame?
He moved away then brushing my shoulder with his hand as he screamed out the next part once again.
There's always something to be going wrong
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things bet-TER!
Your tears don't fall
They crash around me
His conscious calls
The guilty to come home
I then got close to the mike that was in front of me as I started to sing the undertone
Your tears don't fall (tears don't fall)
(Conscious calls) His conscious calls
The guilty to come home
We played the ending to the song as I leaned back with the guitar adding a little bit of flavor the song as Sasuke jerked with each ending note ending in a pose.
The entire stadium erupted into applause as Sasuke smirked at them and said thank you into the microphone. After Tears Don't Fall we went into From Yesterday going into The Ghost of You, False Pretense, Sound of Madness, Afterlife, The Pretender, Typical, and then we finally closed the show out with Diary of Jane. Which for some odd reason Sasuke was looking at me through that entire song. And I couldn't help but wonder for a split second as to why.
Once getting backstage I almost couldn't hold myself up. I just couldn't fathom how I had done something so freaking amazing! I just did my first real performance…and I loved it! I looked back to where Itachi, Sasori, Deidara, and Sasuke were coming out.
Sasuke saw my huge grin and smirked at me as Itachi walked by me patting my head. Sasori was with Deidara who was full of energy. I looked on and couldn't help but feel the same. Being on that stage was the most single best rush that I have ever felt in well…AGES! I couldn't even IMAGINE how it would be when we got back on stage the next time.
I walked over to Sasuke and looked at him as he waited for everything to get set up so we could go back to the hotel. I could only imagine what was in store for tomorrow. He looked over at me a bit tiredly and then scratched at his neck.
"How'd you like your first show?" he questioned me smirking. I grinned at him widely and was almost to exasperated to speak.
"It was freaking awesome! Nothing like the gigs my friends and I ever performed," I told him excitedly.
"Yeah, the first one is always like that. The second and third might be like that to…by the fourth you get used to it and learn how to actually milk the crowd for all their worth,"
"Oh really? Is that why you do it so well?" I questioned him leaning back on one of the tables as I crossed my arms over my chest. He glanced over at me and smirked.
"I guess that's what you could say," he told me. I looked away grinning and then thought about when we were performing Diary of Jane. It was almost as if Sasuke was singing the song to me! Then again, maybe that was just awesome staging, still…
"Sasuke uhm…could I ask you a question?" I glanced over at him. He looked at me and then turned to give me his full attention.
"Yeah sure…" he told me looking at me with an expressionless face.
"When we were performing Diary of Jane, you well uh…kept glancing at me. I was wondering were you singing that to me? Or does that like have anything to do with your life? I mean I could be totally wrong but I just wanted to know if that was uhm…"
"Naruto…that song is li-,"
"Sasuke we're ready!" Anko called out from somewhere distant. He turned and cursed to himself as he told me to follow so that they could get moving and get back to the hotel before all the fans mobbed them…I kind of already knew that they were going to though.
The minute we walked outside there were fans all around us shoving things at the band asking for autographs and trying to take pictures. Everyone grabbed a few autographs to sign as we all smiled while trying to make our way to the bus.
Once we settled ourselves on the bus it took us a while to actually pull off because of all the traffic that there was and because there were rabid fangirls that kept tossing themselves at the bus wanting to get on or inside.
I didn't even care about the fangirls because at the moment I was only thinking about what Sasuke would have explained to me about Diary of Jane. I mean, I couldn't be that self-centered and think that he was actually singing that song to me…but for some reason I couldn't help but wonder what Sasuke and I had.
We obviously weren't "boyfriends" because for some reason I don't think rock icons had "boyfriends" let alone a boyfriend on the first day that they met the damn person! I mean come on that's not how it worked…right?
I looked over at Sasuke and then noticed that even though I was in love with this man I knew absolutely nothing about him. I didn't know what he did on his spare time…I didn't know what made him tick, I didn't know what his likes and dislikes were. Even though he was constantly in the spotlight for the band there was never anything about him that showed the REAL Sasuke.
It was kind of frightening when you really think about it. I was touring with this band that I idolized, but then when I thought about everything I knew about them I came up with diddly squat! All my friends say that I'm naïve and I'm actually starting to believe them…this is purely ridiculous!
"Naruto? You okay?" Itachi questioned me from his spot on the bus.
"Yeah…yeah I'm fine!" I told him smiling brightly. He looked at me for a moment longer before nodding and looking away. I then thought about the song Tears don't fall. The very song we opened with…I didn't even know if Sasuke lived that as his life. What shame did he have that he couldn't share with anybody?
What was he hiding that nobody wanted to tell me?
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WHEW! That took For freaking EVER to write! I kept getting blocked up and didn't know how to continue! God I'm so sorry you guys! I've also been all over the freaking states this summer which made it harder for me to update. Please forgive me! And please review and tell me what you thought! I would love to know! Okay well I'm done now. Lol. Thx 4 reading