Hello darlings. I am back again as promised, with the new chapter. So I had it written down and guess what? I couldn't friggin find it! So I had to type it all over again! UGH! Woe is mii. =[
A/N: Okay so the reason I have like 3 different chapters being updated is because I saw so many mistakes in the other 2 so yes, pls excuse that. And the THERAPIST IS NOW MINATO!
Disclaimer: Do not own Naruto sadly.
Kind of Perfect/Foolish Games
I growled and ended up throwing a drumstick at the kid auditioning. He ducked as I narrowly missed him and ended up striking a cymbal instead as it crashed and made a loud sound. The kid looking startled stood up and ran out of the audition space. Sakura looked at me as I ran my hand down my face annoyed.
"Naruto…what the hell is going on?! That kid was just auditioning. You didn't have to throw a drumstick at him!"
"These kids are auditioning for a fucking band but they have no fucking heart or soul in what they're doing. To them it's just a title! None of them compare to what Kiba had! They have to live and breathe the music and none of them get that!" I growled angrily at her.
"You're not even giving them a chance!'
"DID THAT DRIVER GIVE KIBA A CHANCE BEFORE HE RAN RIGHT INTO HIM?!" I shouted. Sakura looked at me solemnly and said nothing looking back at the stage where the drums were vacantly placed. I suddenly felt bad for losing my tempter with Sakura because it wasn't her fault. I shouldn't be getting upset with her. I put a hand on her shoulder and rubbed it as she nodded her head.
"Next," I shouted waiting for the next person to get onto the stage so we could get this over with. The next person got on the stage and started playing stupidity as I banged my head on the table and groaned. This was never ending. Shikamaru saw how I was getting and just motioned for the kid to get off the stage. He complied and walked away as I looked at Sakura throwing that sheet on the floor along with the others that had been rejected.
"This is agonizing," Shino stated on the other side of me. Ever since he had gotten out of the house and had actually been assisting with the auditions he's seemed to open up more and more each day.
"This is the most troublesome thing in the world," Shikamaru said out loud.
"I just want one person…one person to show that not all of them are the same…to show that there is still hope out there for the heart of the music to show. IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD?!" I shouted angrily. All my friends looked at me and then back towards the stage.
"NEXT!" Gaara shouted. A guy stepped on stage with piercings along the bridge of his nose. Both of his ears were fully pierced and he had two snake bites on his bottom lip that were in the form of a spike. His hair was gelled up into spikes that slightly reminded me of Kiba's hair except his was a more orange reddish color. This mysterious guy sat down and looked up at us. As he looked up I noticed his eyes were a very weird spiral which I assumed to be contacts for nobody's eyes could look the way his did.
He took drumsticks out of his back pockets and counted off bopping his head and started playing the drum part that Travis Barker remixed for Low by the hit rap artist Flo Rida. We all knew that song because Kiba would never shut up about it when it came out and he saw how Travis Barker (his idol) had remixed it. We all stared in awe as he played it perfectly, something that took Kiba forever to master.
Sakura stared at me and smirked already knowing that I was in love with this kid before me and I didn't even know his name. He had soul, and just a presence that couldn't be ignored. A presence like that could not be passed up or excused whatsoever. When he finished playing he looked up at us and waited to hear what we had to say.
"Shika?"
"Hm?"
"Send everybody home,"
"…Tsk…So troublesome," he responded as he got up from his seat and went to go tell the remaining people that their time had come to leave.
"How old are you dude?" I questioned him.
"20,"
"How long have you been playing the drums?"
"Since I was about 10,"
"Did you have lessons?"
"Nope,"
"You picked it up on your own?"
"Yeah," the guy answered us. I looked at everyone as they all couldn't believe this guy. I looked at him again and saw that he didn't really smile or move much, he was silent and just there.
"You want to be a member of Konoha Underdogs?"
"I would like that very much,"
"What's your name?"
"Pain,"
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Sasuke continued to shake uncontrollably as the sweat continued to pour from his pores. Sasuke's teeth chattered and he couldn't hold in the bile that was not accumulating in his mouth. Leaning over the bed he threw up the contents of his stomach into the bucket that was conveniently placed beside his bed.
Sasuke laid on his back trying to catch his breath as the muscles in his arms started to ache from the pain that was within all of his body. Sasuke looked to the side and picked up a pen and a piece of paper that he had been writing on. He wrote down a few things on the slip of paper and then threw it away from him as he bent over the bed to throw up once again.
Leaning back on the bed he drummed a beat over and over in his head. There was no other way to pass time when you were laying on your ass throwing up every five minutes or worse, sweating out 5 sheets within an hour of itself. Sasuke heard the door opening and saw the nurse Tenten walking in to look at him. She smiled at him as he narrowed his eyes to look at her and then away.
"Hello Sasuke…I came to see how you were doing," she spoke softly not wanting to disturb him or anger him. Sasuke merely groaned and turned his head back into the pillow in pain. She came over to him with plastic gloves on and took the bucket emptying it out into a waste basket in the hall. She put it back beside his bed as she threw out the gloves as well and knelt beside the bed to look at Sasuke.
"It's time for your meeting with the doctor," Tenten told him. Sasuke narrowed his eyes at her and shut them in pain. He sat up awkwardly feeling his muscles protest. Tenten gripped him softly, aiding him to get up and make his way to Minato's office. She helped him inside and waited as he sat down and then left.
Minato looked at Sasuke whom was doing his best to stop twitching and hold attention long enough on Minato's face. Sasuke looked at him and soon looked away not believing the resemblance he held to Naruto.
"Hello Sasuke," Minato said to him. Sasuke didn't meet his gaze and said nothing. Minato leaned back in his chair and folded his hands. Sasuke kept his eyes trained on his feet and made sure not to look at the person in front of him. Minato cleared his throat and Sasuke looked up to see Minato smiling at him.
"Sasuke, I'm not going to harm you…I am only here to help you," he said slowly. Sasuke nodded and groaned as pain shot through his back.
"Do you know anybody named Naruto?" Sasuke questioned. Minato quirked his head to the side and smirked.
"Why do you ask?" Minato questioned back. Sasuke shrugged and looked away forgetting that therapists were annoying with the always evading questions.
"DO I remind you of this Naruto?" he pressed on. Sasuke froze as Naruto's face flashed before him. The obnoxiously bright blonde hair that flopped over his eyes when not styled, the amazingly beautiful blue yes that shone with the every morning light. But mostly, his smile that just brightened his day no matter what was going wrong or what was affecting him. Sasuke looked at Minato and his eyes saddened greatly. What were the chances that this man was even related to his sunshine boy?
"Sasuke?"
Sasuke looked up at him and saw Minato looked at him worriedly. He held his gaze this time not bothering to look away because of how weak it was making him seem.
"What are you thinking Sasuke?" Minato questioned. Sasuke breathed and continued to look at him trying to hold his composure.
"You look exactly like the person who led me to come here. You resemble him in every single way. The bright blonde hair and the quirky half smile. Your hair may be longer in the front but if his were that long I would never be able to keep my hands to myself. If her were about 10 years older he would look exactly like you and it scares the hell out of me that I just so happen to come to a place where I can't even get away from him. You remind me of my entire destruction," Sasuke said slowly. Minato kept his gaze on Sasuke unmoving. Sasuke closed his eyes as pain continued to course through his body and he continued to see images of Naruto until his breath became ragged, as his heart quickened and a pain encased his heart.
"Sasuke…as time goes on, you will begin to learn that only you can cause your own destruction an th-,"
"I DIDN'T DO THIS!" Sasuke shouted angrily, "I wouldn't even BE here if it wasn't for that sun tanned idiot! If it wasn't for his pleading eyes and his soft understanding words and him leaving me fucking ALONE I wouldn't be HERE! If he had never come into my life I wouldn't give a DAMN if I was ever alone or clean!"
Minato's eyes widened and he smirked at Sasuke then.
"Well then, thank god for Naruto,"
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"So what's your name again?"
"Pain,"
"And your last name?"
"Pain,"
"So your name is Pain Pain?"
"Just Pain,"
Shikamaru shook his head as Lee, Neji, Gaara and everybody looked on confused. I looked at Sakura as she exchanged my glance and I clapped loudly to make everybody look at me.
"Okay, so you've met Pain and Pain has met you all now can we get down to business please?"
"Did those piercings hurt?" Gaara questioned him pointing to his own nose. I gawked at Gaara as he totally disregarded me.
"Yeah, they kind of hurt, but I like how it looks,"
"GUYS!" I shouted at them all. Once again everybody's attention was on me as Sakura laughed behind me.
"Let's get down to business now that we have all our members please," I told them all. Just then Lee's hand shot up in the air and I looked at him to let him know that he could speak.
"Why did we need a drummer when Shikamaru drummed most of the time when Kiba couldn't?"
"Well Shikamaru is lazy and I Think he would like it more if we got a solid drummer," I answered. Shikamaru gave thumbs up and smirked at me.
"So then what are your plans boss?" Gaara questioned sarcastically. I looked at them and then at Sakura who urged me on. I looked at them all and smiled somewhat.
"Well, I was thinking that we should go mainstream and release our songs. I mean our songs are amazing and if people heard them it could change a lot, and we deserve to be heard. But it's going to take time and it's going to take a lot from all of us. It's a group effort and we all need to buy in or it won't work. I have a lot of new songs written and if you guys have any ideas put it on paper so that we can get it together. What do you guys think?"
Everybody looked at each other as they debated what I had just said. Pain stayed quiet amongst the rest of them since he was the now joining member. Everybody then looked at me as Gaara shrugged and smirked.
"What the hell, why not?"
"But why do you want our input?" Neji questioned. I looked at him and quirked an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean we're not IN the band, we're kind of like stage people. We just support you guys. So what would it matter what we thought?"
"I feel like you guys are family. I think you guys have as much say as Sakura or Pain does," I told them. Gaara smirked as Lee smiled brightly and Neji nodded seeing how it made sense.
"Okay, well I know somebody perfect who can help us with this," I smiled already knowing who we were going to go to.
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Sasuke sat in the group and shook slightly as the people kept speaking about their lives and what they had been doing to get over their addiction. Usual idiotic shit that he had no care in hearing. He only cared about getting better himself. He wanted to prove that he was worthy of Naruto's love and that he genuinely did care.
"Sasuke?" Minato said gently. Sasuke looked at him and felt his heart tug as he automatically saw Naruto's face.
"Hm?" Sasuke grunted to allow Minato to know that he had heard him.
"Is there anything you would like to share?" Minato questioned him. Sasuke looked away and then down at his hands.
"I wrote a song…" Sasuke said quietly.
"Really? Would you like to sing it?" Minato questioned.
Sasuke took a breath and did his best to remember the words he had written down and didn't move his gaze from his feet as he began to sing.
Can I just be something?
Somewhere in your room…
That you won't notice
Maybe I'll be paper
Or books thrown on your floor
Move me if you want to
I'll live where you put me
In your VCR, if I become a cassette
Or on top of your computer
If that's where I would fit
Then so be it
Sasuke stopped and held his breath in for a moment remembering Naruto's face s he looked up with his eyes closed.
But things can't be perfect
All the time
That I know
Sometimes we just have to let some things go
Sasuke stopped singing as a single tear escaped his eye and he opened them to stare at Minato. He smiled at him and jotted something down as Sasuke looked away then. He ran from the group then feeling himself about to throw up and ran to his room as he retched into the bin.
Sasuke leaned on his bed and put the heels of his hands in his eyes not believing himself. How could a single person do this to him? He wanted to leave. He wanted to get out and just go see the boy that he loved so damn much. Sasuke laid his head back and thought back to when he first saw the sunshine boy and smiled.
"Naruto…"
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I walked into my room and pushed play on the CD player not even feeling half as well as I seemed. My heart ached for Sasuke and I couldn't help but wonder where he was and how he was doing. I heard the piano entry of the song and automatically recognized it as my heart wrenched in pain.
You took your coat off
And stood in the rain
You were always crazy like that
And I watched from my window
I always felt I was outside
Looking in
On you
I walked over to my window and opened the curtains letting the moonlight shine in as thunder burst from the sky.
You were always the mysterious one with
Dark eyes and careless hair, you were
Fashionably sensitive
But too cool to care
You stood in my doorway
With nothing to say
Besides some comment on the weather
I felt a sob reach my throat and couldn't bear the thought of me crying when I had already cried so much already.
Well in case you failed to notice
In case you failed to see
That this is my heart
Bleeding before you
This is me down on my knees
And these foolish games
Are tearing me apart
And your thoughtless words
Are breaking my heart
You're breaking my heart
Sasuke tossed and turned in the bed as different shocks wracked his body. He couldn't breathe correctly as the sweat and heat from his body became unbearable.
You're always brilliant in the morning
In smoking your cigarettes
And talking
Over coffee
You're philosophies on art, Baroque moved you
You loved Mozart
And you'd speak of your loved ones
As I clumsily strummed my guitar
Sasuke shook as his teeth chattered consistently and he became freezing cold not believing that he could be freezing and sweating all at the same time. He sat up in bed and gripped his head in agony wanting the pain to just stop.
Well excuse me
Cause I've mistaken you for somebody else
Somebody who gave a damn
Somebody more like myself
I walked over to the window and pressed my hands against it feeling the coolness radiate to my body heat. I slid down to my knees as the sob finally escaped my throat.
And these foolish games
Are tearing me
You're tearing me
You're tearing me apart
Sasuke made his way from his bed and to the door on shaky legs as he tried his best to hold himself up on the doorframe. An orderly saw this and ran over to him to stop him as he shoved them away and looked into the distance seeing something he knew was not there.
And you're thoughtless words
Are breaking
My heart!
You're breaking my
Heart
I slid to the floor and laid there looking out the window and up at the moon wondering if Sasuke was looking at it to.
You took your coat off
As one of the people grabbed him he saw bright blonde hair and an outstretched hand and smiled at him.
And stood in the rain
Another person grabbed him but he didn't even try to fight them as he was smiling in pure bliss
You were always crazy
Like
That
"Naruto…"
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Okay, I know it's a bit short sorry. But I hope you all like it. Memba 2 review! =]