Ok, this is a late update. Reason being, I was lazy, ran out of steam, reading comics and working on something else. This chapters going to be a bit of a background thing and rolling a little with the plot.

Chapter 5: Tunes and Timing

It had been a month since they started working there. To Naruto, it only seemed like yesterday.

Flashback

"Now this is where your going to work." Savage opened the door and the three felt as if judgement day had arrived for them. Through the door, they saw a kitchen. People were busily running about and shouting orders. Waiters and waitresses were going in and out almost mechanically. Savage turned to Hinata.

"You'll be working as a waitress here for six days a week. Lose the stutter and work hard." He patted her on the back and pushed her gently into the kitchen. "Lads we've got a new worker, treat her nice and report any issues."

"Yes sir." They chorused. Hinata started to fidget slightly looking from one corner to another and from person to person. She turned to look at Savage with a look of nervousness.

"Don't worry love. Give it a day or two and you'll get along with everybody here." He around and before he turned the door he stuck his head into the kitchen. "Careful though, perverts and molesters try to swarm here like anything."

"EH?!" She turned to look at him with blood rushing to her face, but he had closed the door.

"This way you two." He said as he led them towards and elevator. He pushed the button and they headed down a level. As the door opened he walked out and down the corridor. "You'll be working here, Sasuke." He said as he opened a door. A stuffy cloud of the smell of sweat hit the trio head on causing Sasuke's hair to fly backwards with his eyes widening and Naruto flying into a wall. The 'breeze' had come from a large room with various fighting rings and shouting throughout it. "You'll be training here. You'll have to use a different ring each day but sooner or later it's bound to sink in." Sasuke looked at Savage.

"Why?"

"Since you've shown that you have a vast amount of potential you'll be doing all of the physical training from six in the mourning to seven at night. You get a one hour break for lunch at noon." Sasuke's face fell and his eye twitched.

"Am I going to die?"

"Probably." Sasuke's head snapped towards Savage. "There are seven different trainers for swimming, gymnastics, martial arts, boxing, running, cycling, weights and so on. You'll spend one day with each trainer every week."

"What's so on for?"

"Iron man training." Savage said with a smile. Sasuke jumped slightly before backing away slightly.

"I bet she even has a name for this." Savage turned to Sasuke.

"You a psychic?" He asked.

"This the newbie." A large muscular man came up to the trio. He looked Sasuke over.

"Yes, Greg. He's got the 'special' set of training." A large grin grew on the man's face.

"Very well." He put his hand on Sasuke's shoulder and started to pull at his arms and see how big his muscles are. "He's a little limp, but a couple of weeks with me and the boys and we'll make him something that can stop a bullet with his fist."

"I'll leave him to you then." The man pulled Sasuke in and put his arm around Sasuke's shoulders.

"Welcome to your own hell my friend." He said sweeping his other hand across the scenery.

"Bye bye." Savage closed the door before Sasuke could absorb the position he was in. He turned to Naruto who was rubbing his head. "Your turn." He said before leading Naruto back to the elevator. He called the elevator and they went two floors up. They left the elevator and walked straight down the well-lit corridor with a sparkling marble floor. As they got closer to they end, Naruto was sure he could hear music playing. Savage turned the corner and opened a door. It was a cupboard with various cleaning equipments, buckets and mops.

"You'll be working behind the scenes. Your job is to clean everything on this floor and maintain all of the garbage units and bathrooms." Savage reached in and clasped an old wooden mop and a bucket on wheels. He handed them to Naruto. "You won't need anything more than what's in this cupboard." Naruto got a sly grin on his face.

"So I've got the easiest job, this shouldn't be too hard." Savage let out a little laugh. "What's so funny Savvy?" Naruto asked.

"I appreciate the nick name but I prefer Savage. It's more of a tough guy thing." Savage managed to calm the rest of his laughter before continuing. "I'll be off now." He started to walk down the corridor towards the elevator. "Oh Naruto."

"Yeah" Naruto called back.

"This building is four blocks large, try not to get lost."

"EH?!" Naruto said as his joy diminished. "Damn that Oba-chan!" Naruto shouted.

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Tsunade snapped her pen. Shizune look at her.

"Anything wrong Tsunade-sama?" Tsunade put the pen down and cleaned her hand with a handkerchief.

"I'm not sure, but for some reason I want to kill the loud one."

Flashback

"Sleep." Sasuke droned. He looked much the same as when he started out the training but his muscles had grown slightly and he had started to appreciate sleep and food more and more every time he return to the same room they had been in since they arrived at the building. Naruto laughed.

"Don't forget to eat teme. It's chicken and your ever favourite protein drink." Sasuke flopped onto the bed.

"No more work outs." Sasuke had had to face the boxing today and, while his face was un-fazed and he had won the fight, his chin and stomach had taken the full on power of the hits. Hinata walked into the room. She had grown the most accustomed to her work and had even made a couple of friends out of some of the other waitresses there.

"G-good evening Naruto-kun, Sasuke-kun." She smiled sweetly.

"Good evening Hinata-chan, how was today?" Naruto shouted with energy as he jumped up and stood with his hand in the air. For a moment, there was silence. Hinata let out a faint blush but hadn't gone as red as a tomato as usual when Naruto jumped closer to her and acted with energy. "Hey teme, at least say hello!" Naruto said pulling Hinata out of space. She looked at him as he started shouting down at Sasuke's motionless form.

"Yeah, hi." Sasuke just waved his hand as he lay face-down. Naruto looked at him and shouted down at Sasuke again.

"You shouldn't be so rude teme! What would people think." Naruto held his face with his hand. Sasuke turned his head towards Naruto.

"And yet your the one calling me 'teme'. The irony deserves an award." Sasuke turned around on the bed to face the wall. "Besides, your started to sound like my grandma." Naruto stood there silently. Hinata had learnt never to bring up their late families into a conversation. How they kept the pain in was beyond her but she had to admit, it was impressive.

'Knock, knock.' Everyone turned to the door.

"It's Savage, I've got your food." Jim opened the door.

"Good evening Savvy." Naruto said casually. Jim turned to him.

"Remember last time you called me by that name?"

"Huh?" Naruto thought for a moment.

Flashback

"Morning Savvy." Savage punched Naruto in the face and sent him flying into, and breaking, the men's lavatory.

Flashback

"Oh yeah, you punched me into a toilet."

"Phuhahahaha" Sasuke started laughing as he lay down on the bed.

"What's so funny teme?" Naruto said as he loomed over Sasuke with a grim face.

"E-hem" Jim coughed. "You best eat before the food gets cold. Naruto walked over and sat on a chair. Savage pulled back Hinata's chair for her slightly and she thanked him. Sasuke turned and fell on the floor before rolling over to the table and slumping into a chair. Savage fetched the food on a tray from the cart. Placed on it was a simple plate with a small, roasted chicken, three potatoes, a couple of packets of orange juice and a carton of a protein drink. They all loomed over the food and stared down at it with a sick felling in their guts.

"I think I'm going to be sick." Sasuke said as he looked at the drink.

"That oba-chan sure is stingy when it comes to anything but gambling." Naruto said solemnly. Jim finished placing the plate and drinks onto the table. He then hit Naruto over the head with the metal tray.

"Ita! What was that for Savvy?!" Naruto shouted up and Jim before being hit over the head twice again.

"One: It is rude to speak of your host like that. Two: I warned you about calling me that again." Savage said before he departed the room. "Night, night." He waved as he closed the door behind him. The trio was left in silence.

"We b-best eat. Itadakimasu." Hinata said as she used a knife and fork to cut of a leg from the small chicken. Then, in turn, they all took a bit of the chicken.

"What's this?" Naruto questioned as he pulled out a small angular wish bone. "a wish bone?" He turned to Sasuke. "I bet you don't have enough energy to even hold on long enough before this bone breaks. Sasuke looked at him while chewing some chicken. He swallowed. A grin stretched across his face.

"Fine." He said as he held onto one of the sides of the wish bone. "Make a wish."

"I wish I could get out of her and find a girl." Naruto said.

"Your not supposed to say what your wishing dobe!" Sasuke said.

"Eh? Really?" He looked at the ceiling. "So that's why my wishes didn't come true when I last had a wish bone."

"Let's just get on with it." Sasuke said. He pulled and Naruto bent over the table and stretched his arm, stopping Sasuke from breaking the wish bone.

"Hey, teme, tell me what your wish is first."

"What? No way." He tried to pull again but Naruto stopped him from breaking the wish bone again.

"Fair's fair teme, out with it." Naruto said.

"Urgh, fine if your going to be like that. I want my hellish training to end." He tried to pull again but Naruto smiled and wagged his finger.

"You didn't say 'I wish'."

"Ah, shut up."

"San."

"Ni."

"Iti."

"Rei." They both pulled on the wish bone, a single thought coursing through their minds: 'I want to get out of here and get rocking on the road.' The bone split and small splinters fell as the main part dropped and landing in the middle of the table. All three of them looked at the piece of bone.

"U-um, is that even p-possible?" Hinata asked as she looked at the other two who were, how to say, flabbergasted.

"Ah, let's just eat." Naruto said as he started to furiously scratch his head as he lent backwards. He then wolfed down his food and rushed to the bathroom and then jumped into bed.

"...What just happened?" Sasuke said as his hair flew about the place. Hinata let out a small giggle as she looked at Naruto in the bed with his sleeping hat.

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"Please Tsunade-san, we only need a bassist and guitarist to perform." Tsunade put down her pen and looked at the two young men in her office.

"I'm sorry but you should have thought about that before you booked here." One of the men got on his knees.

"Please, we need this chance to land a record deal, my friend worked himself to the bone to get people to come see a no-name band like us." He clasped his hands together above his head and he bowed slightly towards Tsunade.

"It's a busy time of year, everything's booked and I have no one to spare who could play at all, learn a song in a day." She said calmly.

"I can play." Everyone turned their attention towards the doorway. There stood Naruto in his janitor's clothes and with his mop by his side.

"The janitor?" One of the men asked?" Tsunade had a vein throbbing on her forehead.

"How many times do I have to tell you, your don't work on this floor, why do you keep finding your way back?"

"To see if I can hear anything to set against you oba-chan." Naruto said with a smile. 'Snap'. Part of Tsunade's pen broke and a piece flew through the room and pinned Naruto to the wall.

"You want to run that by me again?" She said through clenched teeth. Naruto shook his head. "I thought so."

"Wait a minute." The man got up from his knees and looked at Naruto. "You can play?"

"Yep, but my guitar's in pieces." Naruto said.

"Well that's no bloody good." He turned to Tsunade. "Could we by chance borrow a guitar?"

"For a small fee." She said with a glint in her eye.

"So that's one problem sorted, but we still need a bassist." Naruto looked up from his position on the wall.

"Oh teme's good!" He said.

"Teme?"

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Sasuke ducked under a kick and kicked his opponent in the gut. He then turned and embeded his heel into his opponent's face before clasping his leg around his opponent's arm and smashing the opponent's face in with his knee. His opponent fell to the floor, unconscious, with a bleeding, broken nose. Sasuke jumped back and landed on the other side of the ring. Naruto and the two band members looked at the show of force and cruelty with jaws dropped.

"You sure this is the right guy?" One asked as he pointed towards Sasuke.

"Oh yeah, he learns fast and has a good tempo. Oi, teme!" Naruto shouted. 'Is he brave or stupid?' The band members thought.

"What do you want, dobe?" Sasuke said as he wiped the sweat from his brow with a white towel.

"These guys need a couple of players." Sasuke raised an eyebrow.

"What they go to you for then? I know I can attract a woman or two but you'd scare them off or get a drink in your face." Sasuke said. Naruto looked at him completely confused.

"Now your just trying to be sexist. I meant a guitarist and bassist." Naruto asked.

"Oh, sure when's the gig." Sasuke said as he started to drink some water.

"Tonight." Sasuke spat out his water.

"You crazy, we'll never learn any of the songs fast enough." Sasuke said.

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"We actually went and did it." Sasuke said with his eye twitching. The four of them stood on a small stage in a bar on the ground floor. There were a lot of people gathered. Drunk and anticipating a good show.

"Hey Hinata-chan, what are you doing here?" Naruto asked as he looked over at Hinata serving people near-by. One of the band members drooled slightly as he looked at her.

"Um, dude?" The other said tapping on his friend's shoulder.

"What?" He said turning around to feel a death aura coming from Sasuke with a glint in his eye that said: 'Do and die.'. "Oh, sorry she your friend." Sasuke nodded slowly. The man backed away slightly. "Sorry, it won't happen again."

"It better not." Sasuke said as he plugged the bass he was borrowing into an amplifier and checking the that the sound was right. They all stood on the stage and looked at the masses of people in the bar. The singer checked the microphone was working before he introduced the band.

"Get on with it." A drunk shouted. They all looked at each other and nodded. The drummer held his sticks up and hit them together.

"One, two, three, four!" He hit the drums and Naruto started the guitar-play. The show was on.

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I know you all hate me for the slow update but I've got some stuff going on and it's not going too well. I'll probably, update in a week or so.

Chapter 6: Moving on