Rock My World

Mangaka

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"So what your saying is that they want to use our song for an anime?" Naruto asked, a rather stupid grin spread over his face.

"I thought I said that already," Kakashi responded in a sort of amused yet flat tone.

"What's the anime about anyways?" I asked.

He seemed hesitant to explain all the details so instead he passed me a magazine, Sparkles and Wishes, a girls magazine, filled with girls manga's. On the cover an announcement was printed in enthusiastic, pink letters.

Doki Doki Love Love by the Popular Mangaka Yamana Inoko

to Have an Anime This Coming Spring

"A shoujo manga, really," I said in disbelief. "This is a girls manga, for girls!"

"Yes, I know that," Kakashi said with a sly smile, "but think about it. More than two thirds of your audience are girls..."

This was interrupted by Sakura barging into the conversation by exclaiming happily, "Doki Doki Love Love is having an anime! I love this manga!"

"You read this kind of stuff," Shikamaru said as he pried open at a random page of the magazine that he had just taken from my hand and started reading. He was out of it.

Naruto then said, obviously trying to sound like he knew what he was talking about, "I think that it's a good idea. I mean if what Kakashi says is true then them using our song for an anime opening would really boost up sales and ̶ " he paused for a second, as if he was really thinking what to say next, "and then we'll get more famous and a lot of cute girls will scream Naruto! Naruto! We love you, have our babies!"

I was considering hanging myself of sheer embarrassment from his words. Was he really my best friend? How was that possible. Anyways, back to the girly anime.

"So what's it about then?" I said, not really wanting to find out.

At this Sakura spoke once again, "It's about this girl and she's really timid and then the prince of this magical country comes and falls in love with her and he takes her as his wife but before they can get married another guy from her country comes and tells he he loves her and she used to have a crush on that other guy so then she can't decide who to love and in the end she decides that she does want to marry the prince even if he was forcing her to marry him and right now she is having a little prince baby because the dad of the prince died and now the prince is king and she is queen..." she paused for a while to suck in some air, her eyes a bright neon green and her hair sort of disheveled as she passed her hand through it repeatedly.

I hoped to God all girls weren't like that. No, actually I knew all girls weren't like that. Hinata wasn't.

I turned to Kakashi to see if whatever it was that Sakura said was correct. He smiled and said, "Well that's pretty much it."

"It seems like bullshit," I said.

Sakura seemed indignant but did not speak. Naruto did speak and he did with a fox like grin, "Anyways, you shouldn't underestimate the power of a heartwarming girls manga."

"I'm not underestimating it though," I said and I crossed my arms across my chest.

Shikamaru cleared his throat. We stared at him expectantly as he lowered the magazine onto the coffee table and then said, "I don't think we should do this."

It was a surprise to us all that Shikamaru would reject a job offer. Despite how lazy he was he was really serious when it came to work.

"Why is that Shikamaru-kun?" Kakashi said in what he thought was a neutral tone.

"We might lose credibility as a respectful band," he said, though it didn't seem like he truly believed that. Normally, getting an offer for an anime opening, no matter how bad the anime itself was, meant that you were doing something right. That you were hitting it big.

"You know what, let's just vote," Naruto said enthusiastically.

Sakura smiled a little and then nodded in agreement.

"Okay then," he started, "Whoever votes for having our song featured in this anime... Doki Whatever raise your hands."

Sakura raised her hand before Naruto even finished. Then Naruto himself raised his hand with a sheepish grin and then Kakashi.

"You don't get a vote," I told him, "You're not a member of the band, your just our manager."

"We need a tie breaker, and really Sasuke, we wouldn't even be a band without Kakashi anymore," Sakura protested.

I had to admit that was true. So as reluctantly as it was done, our song would be featured on the anime of the incessantly popular and also immensely stupid manga Doki Doki Love Love by whoever this Yamana person was.

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"Oh my God, Kiba-kun did you see this," I said as I shoved the magazine under Kiba-kun's nose. We were at school, lunch time. I was wearing my uniform, it was a sailor suit, pretty and all but not really important at the moment.

He gagged as he took the magazine and stared at it as if it was some cursed item.

"Hinata, you read this sort of stuff?"

"Don't act like you don't," I said. He gagged again as if he wanted to puke just at the thought. He really needed to get more in touch with his feminine side.

"I'm a self respecting man, I don't read this sort of chick stuff," he said as he pinched his nose with his thumb and index finger and edged the magazine away dramatically.

I rolled my eyes and took the magazine in my hands. It was a thick thing, like a phone book but with brighter, neon colored pages instead of the usual gray. A manga magazine, one of my favorites, it came out twice a month, Sparkles and Wishes was it's name. I absolutely adored the manga's that this magazine published and of them all my favorite had to be Doki Doki Love Love. The mangaka, a manga artist, for this manga was my absolute favorite as well. Anything that she made I loved. I was her long standing fan. I just loved every single work by her, Yamana Inoko.

I handed the magazine to Shino-kun. We were sitting at the rooftop eating lunch. Bento boxes that I made myself every day for the three of us.

"What exactly am I supposed to be reading?" he asked, perplexed and awkward. Shino-kun was just like that when it came to anything that didn't have to do with bugs and insects. I don't know if there's a science that studies insects but if there is Shino-kun will probably do that. Forever.

"The announcement," I said pointing, he fished in between the lakes of color for whatever it was he was looking for, a little annoyed I pointed at the bottom right corner and said at the same time he read, "Doki Doki Love Love to have an anime this spring!"

"Yay," he said in a monotone.

"I can't believe you like that Hina," Kiba-kun said as he took a fried piece of meat and popped it into his mouth. I slapped his hand as he made to get more. "Hey, what for!"

"You already ate your share," I said.

He smiled a little sheepishly as he finished his green tea and threw the can aside.

"Anyways, why are you so excited about some dumb girls anime?"

"Because I love the manga," I said a little condescending. Just a little.

"You know who else loves manga?" he said and I rolled my eyes in preparation for what I already knew he was about to say. "Sasuke Uchiha," he said teasingly. Ever since that day when he left me and Sasuke-kun alone he kept trying to bring him into the conversation. I really didn't know what his fixation on the guy was. I hadn't talked to him since. Sasuke-kun that is. Not since that time that he held my hand. When I got home I realized I was beat red and my heart was beating just a little faster than it usually did.

I don't know why though.

I don't know why he held my hand that day either. He said that it was because it was cold. I also don't know why I kept expecting him to call me. Or text me. Or email me. It was only later on that I realized that he had not one of those things so that he could contact me.

I saw him on TV quite often. On interviews and music videos. I liked watching him on TV at least. I also liked watching the rest of them. Especially Naruto-kun. He had this very nice, spunky attitude that I always found fans underestimated.

So yeah, it's been a month since that happened. It is now almost Christmas. It was kind of awkward actually, when all that happened with the whole hand holding, and well for just a moment I think I got the wrong idea. Anyways it sort of went like this.

I was supposed to be walking Sasuke-kun home, but I didn't know where he lived so I asked him and then he remembered he could just call a taxi. He was about to do that when a pair of girls, kind of drunk, it was very late, and oddly dressed came up to him and said in slurred voices, "Are you Sasuke Uchiha? The Sasuke!"

He sighed just a little as he handed me his phone mid dial and said, "Yes, that's me," with as much enthusiasm as he could.

"See, I told you it was him," one told the other. Then something really embarrassing happened. One of the girls, one that was wearing a short zebra printed skirt and an exaggerated sort of french bob rummaged in her bag until she found this pencil eyeliner and the other started to unbutton her shirt, very slowly and then so did the other until they stood there in the middle of the chilly night with their breasts popping out.

Sasuke-kun blushed a little, but I guess with him being a pretty famous guy, he must get things like that a lot. I wasn't so lucky for I was blushing like mad as I stared at the girls' bare breasts as they handed Sasuke-kun the pencil eyeliner and both said in unison, "Will you sign my boob?"

He did. After that he didn't hold my hand anymore. It was quite the embarrassment.

After that he called a taxi and we went back to my apartment and he waited outside. A pale blue taxi arrived a good fifteen minutes later and without as much as a goodbye he left, and since then we haven't talked.

I came back to myself as I saw Kiba-kun stretching his hand for more food. I scolded him and laughed.

"Hey, I wasn't talking about food," he said and suddenly he got kind of serious.

"Huh?" I said, still a little distracted.

He seemed to be holding back a tired sigh as he said, "Look Hinata, I don't know what the hell happened between you and that stupid punk, emo whatever Sasuke, but I mean, if you want to see the guy just see him."

"I don't want to see him," I said. I might have lied a little but it's not like I wanted to see him especially. And it's not like I could see him whenever I wanted, not in person at least. He was a very busy person, I presumed.

Shino-kun then spoke in his very calm, raspy voice, which was weird because Shino-kun never said anything unless he really thought it was worth saying. So he said: "You do."

This took me a little by surprise. What was stopping me anyway? Stopping me mentally because physically I was pretty sure CHIDORI had somebody as bodyguard so that they don't let people get near them. Maybe if I went and visited him at his school. Did he even go to school? He said once that he did. But what school was it?

I shook the invasive thoughts out of my mind as I took a sullen sip from my soda.

"See, you do want to see him!" Kida-kun said as he pointed at me and smiled.

"No I don't!" I said and decided that I had had enough about talking about Uchiha Sasuke. So I started talking about Doki Doki Love Love instead. Kiba-kun seemed to be about to talk about Sasuke-kun again but to my surprise Shino-kun took off his glasses in this very slow way and just stared at Kiba-kun. He shut up soon after that.

— * —

I had been extremely busy this last month. I had so desperately wanted to see Hinata but I had been so busy. I had also wanted to call her but I didn't have her number. Or anything of hers at all, which was kind of depressing. I didn't show it though, I didn't want to seem weak. Naruto was already teasing me just for the fact that I liked a girl, imagine if he knew I was practically in agony over wanting to see her.

I looked at my reflection on the polarized window. It was about three or four o' clock and the people from the high schools were walking back home. I didn't go to school very often nowadays considering how busy I was but sometimes I would imagine what Hinata would do at this time of the day. Did she have a club to go to? Did she go straight home? I knew she was cute in her uniform, I had seen her once in it, but that was quite a while ago and I think she was still wearing her summer uniform with her short sleeves and white blouse.

As I fantasized about how she looked in her winter uniform we arrived at Simple K studios. Here we would meet the mangaka of Doki Doki Love Love and record the song for the anime. Previously the producers of the anime had asked for a song that we had already released but due to a suggestion of the mangaka they asked for a completely new song. They gave only one specification as to how the song should be: cute.

I didn't do cute. I did cool and awesome but not cute. I wasn't looking forward to meeting this Yamana Inoko person. Whether it was a man or a woman was the same for me, all I knew was that by the manga that person made I could in no way find myself liking her. I knew it was a her by the way. Guys don't draw manga like that. I don't want to sound sexist but I just feel that guys wouldn't draw manga like that. No, I know.

As we entered the building we were received by a woman in a pencil skirt and a fluttery blouse. She talked in a soothing voice as she led us all to the meeting room where we would have a short meeting with the producers and the mangaka. This Yamana person seemed really irritating. I don't think mangaka's are normally as involved in the making of the anime as this Yamana person is. She sure is annoying.

We entered the conference room and I tried not to seem nervous. As soon as I enter though a tall, blond figure jumps up from her seat and introduces herself.

"Oh my God, Hello, I'm Yamana Inoko, the author of Doki Doki Love Love. I'm so pleased to meet you," she said and she gave a light, flirty kind of bow. She was blond and her legs were long and smooth looking. I could tell because she was wearing a very short skirt. Her eyes were an electric blue and they had this determined glint to them.

I noticed she addressed herself especially to me. After a few seconds I responded with a curt hello and a bow. As did the rest of the band. All except Shikamaru who just stood there. We all turned to look at him, like I said before, Shikamaru didn't behave so disrespectfully when it came to work.

"Shikamaru, don't be rude," Sakura whispered and she nudged him lightly on the ribs. His face was ashen and his expression stoic, but not in all bored looking like his usual stoic face looked like. Yamana Inoko payed no attention to him though and when she finally did she didn't seem to awknowledge him as part of the band.

He didn't talk for quite a while and then he muttered in disbelief, "Ino?"

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I don't want to start by saying sorry for not updating for I think is more than a year but yeah, sorry. I don't even know if there are still any readers out there. If there are I really am deeply sorry. My only excuse is laziness. I hope you like this though and I am back to writing and I promise that I WILL finish this story. And there will be some drama llama between Ino and Hinata and Sasuke and well... I don't want to give too much away so yeah.

Again sorry. I feel terrible for updating a year later. So, yeah. Read and review. Reviews maintain me young and make me want to write more.