Hello, I'm awfully sorry I uploaded this chapter REALLY latee. I had no time whatsoever. 8th grade was HARD, and if I didn't pass any of my test I wouldn't pass to freashman year. It was alot of pressure!! So here it is! I would try to upload as fast I can and thank you for all the reviews :).
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NARRATOR
I don't own Naruto or any of it's characters. I don't own any of the songs in this story either.
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"War of the bands."
Chapter 3: The First Round!
It's been a week since the closet incident, and the big day has come. The first round of the contest. The girls were excited; the boys were ready. Everything so far was good, but something was going to happen. I guess no one knew what was next. Two hours before the contest the girls were getting ready. They already had their hair done; they were putting make-up now.
"Does pink make my eyes sparkle?" Sakura looked at her eyes in the mirror. Tenten passed her the black eye shadow.
"Black is better, but put some pink too," Tenten said while putting on some aqua eye liner.
"You guys, another band is singing OUR song!" Ino came bursting into the room, and she had a paper with all the band names and the song they were playing written on it. "What are going to do!?"
"Okay, calm down, Ino. We can do another song," Tenten took the paper away from Ino and scanned through it. "Connected here you are! They are playing a song by Fall Out Boy, 'Thnks Fr Th Mmrs'. Well, we are not doing Fall Out Boy." She dropped her self into a sofa.
"We can do Paramore," Sakura said scanning her iPod.
Hinata stood up from a chair and said, "It's too predictable. Girl band sings girl song. We should do a guy song."
"Hinata has a point. We have to amuse everyone!" Tenten stood up and took Sakura's iPod of her hands. "Hmm, we can do… 'Gives You Hell' by All-American Rejects."
"No! I have a better one!" Sakura took her iPod away from Tenten. She plugged into her pink speakers. She pressed play and the rock music filled the room.
In Naruto's house...
"Okay are we ready?" Naruto asked the boys, who were sitting on a couch. Sasuke tying his black Converse, Neji adjusting his guitar, and Shikamaru flipping the channels on the TV.
"We thought you were never coming out of the bathroom," Neji said not looking up from his guitar.
"It's not my fault Sasuke put jalapenos in my ramen!!" Naruto threw his arms up in the air.
"I asked you if you liked your ramen hot." Sasuke stood up and got his base guitar.
"Not that kind of hot…"
"We are going to be late, and for the first time it's not going to be my fault." Shikamaru stood up, stretching his back.
"Thank God for that," Neji nodded in agreement.
"Let's go then!!" Naruto got his drum sticks and ran to the door.
"Don't forget to open the do-" SLAM! "-or…" Sasuke looked at Naruto as he slowly sled down the door.
"Nice one, dude" Shikamaru gave his two thumbs up.
"Not… funny…" Naruto said with his face stuck to the door.
Neji went and pushed him away and opened the door. "If you'll excuse me, I have a concert to attend to." And so all the guys left the house, right to the Battle of the Bands.
The girls had arrived early at the Konoha Entertainment Center or KEC for short, and were thrilled about the contest.
"Okay, so…" Ino's leg was shacking like crazy. She was nervous, like everyone else.
"Ino, your leg is giving me the creeps…" Tenten put her hand on Ino's leg to stop it.
"Well, at least I'm not eating my fingers!" Everyone turned around to see Sakura. Her hand was on her mouth, she was biting her finger nails.
"What? I'm nervous like everybody else!" She said putting her hands behind her back.
"Yeah, but we want that nail polish to last." Tenten stood up and looked for her special microphone. I say special because she decorated it with a bunch of glitter and aqua stars. "Sakura, where did I leave my lucky microphone?" She asked taking everything out of her bag.
"I don't know you did put it in your bag. I remember." Sakura looked at her nails. "Ino, the nail polish?"
"In my bag. Here," Ino took the black nail polish out of her bag, and passed it to Sakura.
"Thank you." She grabbed it and started to repaint her nails.
"FOUND IT!!" Tenten jumped up and down in excitement.
Sakura looked up from her repainting and rolled her eyes. "I told you it was in your bag."
"Hey, aren't we supposed to share this dressing room?" Hinata asked looking at Tenten while she jumped up and down.
"I guess…" Ino looked at her nails, and just as she got the nail polish from Sakura the door opened.
"I wonder who we are sharing the-" Naruto opened the door, everyone's eyes were wide open.
"This just killed my celebration dance," Tenten said throwing her self at a sofa behind her.
"Well, this sucks." Sasuke entered room sitting next to Tenten.
"Give me a good reason I shouldn't kill you right now."
"Um, I have my base with me?" Sasuke said raising his base so Tenten could see.
"Not good enough." Tenten gave him a little punch in the shoulder.
"Ow?" Ino and Naruto laughed at Sasuke's reaction. "It did hurt Tenten punches like a boy."
"And I'm proud of it!" Tenten grinned as she stood up. "Well, I guess we have to deal with this and try not to kill each other in the process."
"I agree with Tenten," Sasuke said playing a random song on his base. Sasuke and Tenten were childhood friends. They were neighbors and they're parents knew each other from high school, so they didn't fight as much as everyone else.
"How much time do we have left until this thing starts?" Shikamaru asked lying on the floor.
"We have like 5 minutes." Sakura glanced at the clock hanging in the wall.
"I guess your not napping after all, Lazyass." Ino smiled and kicked Shikamaru on the arm.
"Troublesome woman."
"EVERYONE FIVE MINUTES!! FIVE MINUTES!! FIRST FIVE BANDS PLEASE COME TO THE WINGS!" a lady shouted from outside.
"What number did they give you?" Hinata asked Neji who was next to her sitting on a table.
"Number ten. What about you?"
"Number eleven." Hinata smiled showing her cousin the paper with an 11 written in it.
"You are last!?" All the boys shouted, some even getting up from were they were sitting.
"We are?!" The girls shouted back.
"Yes, there are only eleven bands! I can't believe they gave you the last spot!" Naruto sat back down.
"We're always last. We wanted to know who they gave the last place, and I guess we got what we wanted." Neji said sitting back down on the table. Tenten started to laugh.
"What's so funny, Mickey Mouse?" Neji angrily asked Tenten, who stopped laughing.
"Well, Minnie Mouse, I imagined you breaking the table. And falling in your ass." She smirked. Neji stared confused.
"Minnie Mouse?"
"You are a girl aren't you?" she crossed her arms and sat back down next to Sasuke. Naruto burst into laughter, everyone but Neji followed.
"You have to admit it, man. It was kind of funny!" Naruto gave Tenten a high-five. Neji kept on glaring. "Fine then be a party pooper…"
Time went by, the guys and the girls were extremely bored.
"BANDS FROM SIX THROUGH NINE PLEASE COME TO THE WINGS!"
"Hey, I guess we are the two last bands. They are keeping the best for last." Naruto high-fived Shikamaru.
"Oh, thanks for saying we are the best," Sakura pinched one of Naruto's cheeks.
"Oh yeah, we're not last…" Sakura pinched his cheek harder. "Ow, Ow…OOOWW!!!"
"That's what I thought."
"Okay, I'm bored out of my mind. What should we do?" Ino asked, everyone's eyes went to another direction. "Now I agree with Naruto, you guys are party poopers."
"I'm not playing anything related to a closet," Tenten stated looking at Neji, he just smirked.
"Yeah, me neither," Hinata agreed.
"Then?" Sakura asked.
"Let's put some music." Sasuke got his iPod out of his back pocket. "Anyone brought any kind of speakers?"
"Saku-chan did. Right?" Hinata said looking at Sakura. Sakura looked at her bag.
"I think I did. Let me check." She walked up to her bag and looked inside. She took out a pair of pink mini speakers. "This should work!" she handed them to Sasuke.
"Does everything you own have to be pink?" He asked looking at the mini speakers.
"Yes. If you haven't noticed we all have everything in our favorite colors. I have everything in pink and red."
"I have everything in green and aqua," Tenten said waving her microphone.
"I have everything in purple and white," Hinata said pointing at her purse.
"And I have everything in baby blue and silver," Ino raised her drum sticks.
The boys just stared. "Well, I call that obsession," Sasuke said plugging his iPod to the speakers. 'American Idiot' started playing.
"Wow that is good music." Tenten smiled and moved her head at the rhythm.
"I DON'T WANNA BE AN AMERICAN IDIOT!" everybody sang at the same time. They all laughed. They listened to music for a good fifteen minutes before they got called out.
"THE LAST TWO BANDS, TEN AND NINE, PLEASE REPORT TO THE WINGS!" they all looked at each other. This was it. The moment they been waiting for. Both bands took all their equipment and reported where told.
"Tenten, your hands are shacking…" Sakura whispered. Tenten just nodded.
"Okay, who's ten?" a lady asked, she had some sort of headphones in her ears, the kind with the microphone. And a clipboard, everyone supposed it had all the band names in it.
"We are," Neji said raising his hand.
"Okay, you are next…" she looked at her clipboard. "Connected? The four in a row winners? Well, this is a pleasure."
"The one and only." Naruto smiled.
"Good luck for both of you." She smiled and left.
"Creepy lady," Tenten whispered all the girls giggled.
"I know what a stalker…" Sakura said, more giggles after the comment.
The boys just stared. All the girls smiled. Then they heard the announcer.
"Thank you, Wonderland! And next we have our four time winners," the announcer paused. The screaming grew louder, girls mostly. This bothered the girls backstage. "Here they are, CONNECTED!!" the screaming was in another level once the boys were out. This made the girls really nervous. Everyone in school was here. All their friends were here to cheer them. Or so they hoped. The crowd went silent when Neji took the microphone. Tenten saw a bunch of posters that said stuff like 'Neji, marry me!' or 'Sasuke, have my kids!!' and stuff like that. She kept on looking around and saw a big group of girls with handmade shirts that said 'Sour Candy, Baby!' She smiled. Those girls were from their class and from the seniors and sophomores. She doubted any freshman were there. She saw a couple of boys with posters for them. She waved at the girls to join her. They all saw them and their faces lit up. 'Tenten, be my girl!', 'Sakura, I want you to marry me!', 'Ino, your so HOT!!', 'Hinata, have my babies!'
The girls flushed and laughed. Then they heard Neji speak.
"Hey guys, how's it going?' everybody screamed. "Well, I know we said we were going to play 'Thnks fr th Mmrs', but we changed our mind like always. So, here's our favorite song. A classic of course." Neji got his guitar and gave the guys a signal. The girls recognized that song. The first song the boys played when they practiced for the girls.
"ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL?!" they all shouted looking at each other.
"(Neji) A Go
Well a-1, 2, 3
Take my hand and come with me
Because you look so fine
That I really wanna make you mine
I said, you look so fine
That I really wanna make you mine"
"(Sasuke) 4, 5, 6
C'mon and get your kicks
Now you don't need the money
when you look like that, do ya honey "
"(Neji) Big black boots
Long brown hair
She's so sweet
With her get-back stare"
Tenten flushed when Neji looked her way. He smiled and kept singing.
"(Neji & Sasuke) Well I could see
You home with me
But you were with another man, yeah
I know we ain't got much to say
Before I let you get away, yeah
I said, are you gonna be my girl?"
"(Sasuke) Well a-1, 2, 3
Take my hand and come with me
Because you look so fine
That I really wanna make you mine
I said, you look so fine
That I really wanna make you mine"
"(Neji) 4, 5, 6
C'mon and get your kicks
Now you don't need the money
With a face like that, do ya"
"(Sasuke) Big black boots
Long pink hair
She's so sweet
With her get-back stare"
Sakura's face was in awe. "That's not how it goes." Tenten laughed and she said, "Only if Sasuke sings that part." Sakura flushed.
"(Naruto & Shikamaru) Well, I could see
You home with me
But you were with another man, yeah
I know we ain't got much to say
Before I let you get away, yeah
I said, are you gonna be my girl?"
"(Neji) Oh yeah
Oh yeah
C'mon!"
Neji was rocking in the guitar solo. The girls were singing along and jumping up and down. This brought them a lot of memories. "We have to change our song!" Ino shouted over all the noise. All the girls nodded. They knew exactly what song to play.
"(Neji & Sasuke) I could see
You home with me
But you were with another man, yeah
I know we ain't got much to say
Before I let you get away, yeah
Be my girl
Be my girl
Are you gonna be my girl?
Yeah!"
The crowd went crazy when they were done. The girls were clapping and laughing. When the guys came the girls went to serious mode.
"What the hell was that?" Tenten asked.
"Just a little present. Do you like it?" Neji said smiling. Tenten just stared at him.
"Well, if you want to know if we liked it you better stay here and listen to our song, okay?" All the boys nodded, and then the announcer started talking.
"Wow!! Wasn't that a great song?" The crowd went crazy, meaning 'yes'. "Alright now our next band is a new one! First time competing! Sour Candy come out!" The girls ran to the stage, you could here boys whistling and girls screaming. They all smiled satisfied. "Hello there, nervous?"
"Tenten connected her microphone and said, "Why would we be nervous?" she smiled at the announcer, he smiled back.
"Well, that's the spirit!! Good luck!" and then he left, leaving the girls alone.
"What's up? I'm Tenten and leader of Sour Candy. We were supposed to play 'Misery Business' another band already played that song. So, we had to choose another song. This song is kind of slow, but its one of our favorites. And it does have a meaning for us. So here go!" Ino started playing the drums. The song started slow. Couples began to dance. Tenten started to sing.
"(Tenten) I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so, I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know"
Neji's eyes were open wide. He knew that song. He used to play it over and over again after Tenten broke up with him. He once heard her sing that song in the choir room, after the brake up. That's why he would listen to it so much.
"(Sakura) I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is you"
Sasuke felt bad. He never did anything that Sakura accused him of. He loved her. And right now she looked like she was going to cry.
"(Tenten) I'm sorry that I hurt you
It's something I must live with everyday
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
That's why I need you to hear"
Tenten was holding tears up; she didn't want to cry right now. Not now.
"(Ino & Hinata) I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is you
And the reason is you
And the reason is you
And the reason is you"
"(Tenten) I'm not a perfect person
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know"
She couldn't hold them any longer. They just started slipping all the way down to her shin. Neji saw that she was crying, he was fighting tears too.
"(All) I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is you"
"(Tenten) I've found a reason to show
A side of me you didn't know
A reason for all that I do"
"(All) And the reason is you"
Now, all the girls were wiping tears of their faces, Tenten thanked the audience, and the audience went wild. They were about to leave the stage when the announcer walked in.
"Well, that was one of the most powerful songs I've heard this evening. But please stay where you are. We are about to call all the bands out to announce the semi-finalist.
"Sure, just let me get my microphone." Tenten told the announcer, he nodded. So she went to the front of the stage and took her mike. Then, she spotted Kiba. He was looking at her concerned. She mouthed, 'I'm fine.' He smiled. She smiled back. Neji noticed that she was looking at Kiba, and sighed.
"Okay, all bands please report to the stage!!!" Soon after, all the bands were standing next to Sour Candy. The girls looked at every face. All nervous, some of them were looking down, holding their band mates hands. And they did too. They all smiled at each other. "Okay, first band to pass to the semi-finals this very evening is… CONNECTED!! No guess in that one." The band stepped forward. They were all smiling, and they looked back at the girls. The girls waved. The announcer said three more bands. Only one place left. Tenten looked at Sakura, she smiled and said, "It's gonna be fine. We got this in the bag." She winked and Tenten smiled. That's what best friends are for.
"And the last band is…"
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