Rock my World

Ballad

A ballad had started.

The beat of the drums was mellow and almost nonexistent and the guitar had switched to an acoustic resonance that could be compared to the voices of heaven itself. I calmed myself and closed my eyes, holding tight onto Kiba-kun and Shino-kun's hands. After hours of jumping and dancing to lively beats the actual cold temperature of the evening hit me like a bucket full of freezing water.

Naru-kun had not yet started to sing. I took in an airy breathe , making sure that that breath would last for a lifetime because Naru-kun would surely leave me breathless with his sweet voice and his harmonious pitches. I waited with my eyes closed for the melody to strike me like a dagger.

Instead I heard the acoustic guitar continue.

"This is for sunny places!" I heard a husky voice say. I opened my eyes and took a big gulp of air.

Shino-kun gasped softly. This took me by surprise; Shino-kun was not the type to gasp.

"What?" I asked, my hand tightening on both of their grips.

"Well, I just never heard that guitar guy sing…" Shino-kun took out his cellphone and started to take video.

"This is so~ going on YouTube!" Kiba-kun gave a chuckle and held my hand high in the air. He also had his cellphone high above, his amateur video taking focused on the dark haired boy as he started to sing.

His voice was beautiful. So beautiful in fact that what I am about to say will sound SO Bella Swan, but I was embarrassed to be in the presence of such a beautiful voice. It was mellow and sad. The pitch was low yet inspiring. I closed my eyes, letting the notes fall into my ears and letting the beat magnify and unite with my heart. Before I knew it I was in love with the guitar guy. I loved every single thing about him: his voice, his eyes and his hands as they swept over the strings, pulling and tapping at them.

I opened my eyes at the end of the song. No longer was I in love. No longer was I infatuated by this person. He had bewitched me with his voice and had made me believe that what I loved most in the world was him. I hated him for that and I hated myself for that also.

"Ne~ Kiba-kun who's that again?" I pointed at the guitar boy.

He screamed and yelled as he moved my hand in his own restlessly.

"That… oh that's Sasuke!"

Sasuke. Could it be the same Sasuke? Could it be Sasuke-san?

I looked up at the stage towards the dark haired boy.

She was looking at me. I could sense it.

After the ballad ended I took my guitar and scurried backstage.

I can't belive what this idiot girl does to me. I mean I was blushing the whole time I was singing.

This song had not been on the schedule for tonight. In fact this song had not yet been released as a single to the public, it was a very personal song and yet I had deliberately sung it in front of millions of people. This song was never supposed to come out of the shadows and I don't know what stupidity climbed into the depths of my heart to make me do that.

Maybe it was those grey eyes that shone like moons. Her glazing eyes that where looking at me, admiring me that made me do such a thing on impulse.

"What the hell Sasuke!" I heard Naruto's voice from behind as he strutted towards me.

"What do you mean, 'what the hell'?" I knew exactly what he meant though and I also knew that everyone was mad at me. I had done something that wasn't planned.

"You know what I mean! You idiot, what the hell was that just now!" he grinded his teeth as he lifted a fist in the air.

I knew he wouldn't hit me though. He never did.

"Sasuke-kun, was she there?" Sakura said. This was the first time I felt appreciative of Sakura.

"Of course, otherwise do you think I would have done such a stupid thing?"

Shikamaru stood silently, both hands in his pockets. I didn't know why, but the act that he wasn't saying anything made me feel guilty.

I faced the floor in shame.

"So she was there!" Naruto baffled as he took a big sip of water from an icy old bottle.

Didn't I already say that?

"Well then," he smiled a foxy grin, "Bring her here!"

I didn't say anything. As much as I wanted to talk to her again this was not a good idea.

"Did you hear that Kakashi!" he called to our manager; "Look for the weird girl with the purple eyes and bring her here!"

Kakashi grinned, or at least it looked like it, you could never tell by the weird cosplay clothes that he wore. I still don't get why a freaking otaku is our band manager. Kakashi gave a curt nod as if saying, 'hai, master!'

"Alright! Sasuke, Sakura-chan, Shikamaru! The crowd is calling!"

And with that I grumpily went back to the stage.

"Oh, don't forget Kakashi, her name is Hinata!" Naruto wailed.

Idiot, I didn't ask for this.

"Man! I can't believe the concert already ended!" Kiba-kun said as he lifted his arms into the air and pulled me into a one arm embrace.

Shino-kun glared from beneath his totally unnecessary sunglasses "Kiba that's sexual harassment…"

"What!" Shino are you jealous do you want a hug too!" Kiba-kun reached forward and started rubbing his cheek against mine, "Or could it be that you just want Hinata for yourself!"

Shino-kun put his hands in his pockets calmly and cried in exasperation, "Of course not, Hinata has no sex appeal!"

"What! Hey Shino-kun I-I…" this was a recurrent joke of his, seriously he would always say that and point at my breasts, complain about how I didn't have anything there that could make him get excited and laugh. A rare view if you ask me.

"Seriously, there is nothing there!" he said while pointing at my chest.

I covered my chest protectively and blushed a beet red.

"Oi, Shino that's too mean," Kiba-kun said, his expression of pure compassion.

"K-Kiba-kun…"

"You can't blame her for being so underdeveloped!" he just had to say it didn't he?

I laughed and stuck my tongue out, giving both of them a cheesy smile.

"What the hell, Hinata one day you're gonna' kill me with those moe smiles of yours!" Kiba-kun as he pinched my cheeks and patted my head.

These times where the best, being with Kiba-kun and Shino-kun and having them always by my side was all I could ask for. They made me at ease and left my mind to wander in happiness…

"Hinata…-sama?"

I locked arms with Kiba-kun and Shino-kun and smiled once again. These where my precious friends, these people where the people I would grow old with and I would get drunk with and I would trust with watering my plants when I was out of town. These where the people that represented love. I loved Kiba-kun, and I loved Shino-kun. And they were the only ones that I could ever love to such an extent.

"Hey, Hinata someone's calling you."

"Yes, yes what is it Kiba-kun?" I said. My mind was elsewhere and my body sluggish.

"Well I thought someone called your name," he said while he pinched my cheek.

I turned around and looked to my sides, "really? I don't see anyone I know. You were probably just imagining it Kiba-kun."

"That sounds like something Kiba would do," Shino-kun said in his usual monotone voice.

"Right! Shino-kun: 3 Kiba-kun: 0!" I marked a check on an invisible board in the air.

"Wait! Why does Shino have 3 points? I thought the game just started!"

"Well it's obvious! Hinata likes me more!" Shino-kun smirked. He smirked!

"Hinata-sama!"

I heard a vague yell from behind.

"Seriously Hinata, I swear someone is calling you!" Kiba-kun said while rubbing his temple in frustration.

"Yeah I heard that too," Shino-kun added while taking his hands out of his pockets and checking the time on his cellphone.

We kept on walking, our feet moving in complete synchrony.

"HINATA-SAMA!"

"Oh…" was all I said after I heard my name being uttered in such a vastly loud voice that it sparked the anger in me.

"Ne~ Kiba-kun did they say that to me?" I asked as I felt the vein pop in my forehead.

"Shino!" Kiba-kun said.

Shino-kun nodded as they both took hold of my arms and started dragging me.

"Hey! What are you guys doing, let go!"

"Wait, Hinata-sama!"

I looked back towards the source of the voice. What the hell! Was what I thought. Is this some damn otaku, cosplaying guy- slash –stalker! He started walking toward us, his silver hair flaring like thousands of threads of silk and his eyes calm and mellow. Weird, who could run with such an expression?

"Wait! Shino-kun, Kiba-kun, that old man is calling me!" I dug my feet deep into the concrete floor, trying to stop Shino-kun and Kiba-kun from dragging me away.

"Idiot Hinata! Can't you see he is a pedophile!"

"Wait! Who are you calling old and a pedophile!"

I wondered what he wanted and it was out of pure curiosity that I did what I did.

I dug my teeth into Kiba-kun's hand and forcefully escaped from both of their grasps.

"See, he says he isn't bad!" I walked towards the old man and greeted him with a bow.

"I already told you I am not old!"

Kiba-kun was still crying from the pain and Shino-kun was wagging towards us, hands in pockets.

"What do you want?" I could feel the glare through his shades.

"Well Sasuke-san sent me to get her," he said as he did a cheesy curtsy.

Kiba-kun in the middle of wagging his hand up and down dramatically said, "Sasuke? The guy from the concert!"

"Yes," the old… I mean the man said sheepishly.

"Now, now don't peek!" Naruto said as he thrust me forward stupidly. Why was it that the only adjective that I could find to describe him at moments like these was stupid?

"Are you peeking? Ne~ answer me idiot!"

"I'm not!" I replied heatedly.

"Okay no open them!"

I did as he told and I can't help but feel lame, for all I could mutter in such a soap opera moment was this was:

"Hinata?"

A/N: I do not own Naruto.

Finally, chapter four! Wow it is late, or early!

Well for one thing I am sorry fro not updating sooner, for another sorry for switching POV's so much, but I just think that if I didn't it would be a hasle to explain all that is going on.

Thank you for all your reviews... which were a lot by the way, I seriously didn't expect that many. Also sorry if my writing has decayed since the start of this story but I just can't seem to get the word out right. Even if so, the show must go on, or something like that. Again thank you for your reviews and have a nice day.