Thank you reviewers whoever you are!!! ZOMG, I love this fic!
Just wanted to say... I'm changing Sakura's hair for this chapter. It just grew to waist-length. Ha.
DO NOT OWN "Blow Me Away", "Bleed It Out" or Naruto. End. Fin. Fine. Whatever...
Konoha Boarding School
Chapter 2
Naruto thought Hinata was the only sane, non-violent person around. She had offered to show him back to his room, gave him a brownie, and was even willing enough to help him memorize his schedule. She was about the most normal person in the school.
That is, until he saw her drum.
At 11:00 pm, Neji had come to their room and led them down two flights of stairs and across a few corridors, finally coming in front of room 147.
Inside the room was a drumming kit, three electric guitars and one acoustic, and two microphones.
"Ah," Sakura said, smirking. "So they have come at last."
"Seven people?" Shikamaru questioned. Sakura shrugged. "Six, actually. We share the acoustic guitar between us."
"OK, so here's the info," Kiba said, standing up from Sakura's bed. "Sakura and Sasuke are our singers. Temari is guitarist and backup singer. Tenten and Neji are on the other two guitars. I do the rapping if needed. Lee and Ino are in charge of the recording."
"Great," Shikamaru said. "Who drums?"
Kiba and Ino looked briefly at each other, then laughed. "Hinata."
"Ready guys?" Sakura called.
The girls wore black miniskirts and fishnets with dark red tank tops. The guys had black skinny jeans and dark blue t-shirts. Ino set up the filming equipment while Lee pulled out his laptop and expertly started the software designed to record and edit songs.
Sasuke: They fall in line
One at a time
Ready to play
Temari: I can't see them anyway
Sakura: No time to lose
we've got to move
Steady your hand
Temari: I am losing sight again
Sasuke&Sakura: Fire your guns
it's time to run
Blow me away
Temari: I will stay unless I may
Sasuke&Sakura: After the fall
We'll shake it off
Show me the way
All: Only the strongest will survive
Lead me to heaven when we die
I am a shadow on the wall
I'll be the one to save us all
Sasuke: There's nothing left
So save your breath
Lying awake
Temari: Caught inside this tidal wave
Sakura: Your cover's blown
nowhere to go
holding your faith
Temari: Loaded I will walk alone
all: Fire your guns
it's time to run
Blow me away
Temari: I will stay unless I may
Sasuke&Sakura: After the fall
we'll shake it off
Show me the way...
"Woo hoo!" Naruto exclaimed. "That was amazing, people! I never thought I'd hear a girl sing a guy's song!"
"Haha," Temari said sarcastically. "You should probably hear Kiba rap. Move on to faint."
"Faint?" Shikamaru muttered.
Sasuke: I am
A little bit of loneliness
A little bit of disregard
A handful of complaints
But I can't help the fact
That everyone can see these scars
Sakura: I am
What I want you to want
What I want you to feel
But it's like
No matter what I do
I can't convince you
To just believe this is real
Kiba: So I let go watching you
Turn your back like you always do
Face away and pretend that I'm not
But I'll be here
'Cause you're all that I got
Sasuke: I can't feel
The way I did before
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
Kiba: Time won't heal
This damage anymore
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
Sakura: I am
A little bit insecure
A little unconfident
'Cause you don't understand
I do what I can
But sometimes I don't make sense
Sasuke: I am
What you never want to say
But I've never had a doubt
It's like no matter what I do
I can't convince you
For once just to hear me out
Kiba: So I let go watching you
Turn your back like you always do
Face away and pretend that I'm not
But I'll be here
'Cause you're all that I got
All: I can't feel
The way I did before
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
Time won't heal
This damage anymore
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
"HARDCORE!" Ino yelled and punched the air above her. "Take it off, Hinata!"
Hinata then proceeded to do a sequence of really loud, rocker music that was very unlike her, accompanied by Neji and Tenten's guitars.
"We so rock," Temari gasped, grinning. "Did ya get it, Lee?"
"All your youthfulness has been recorded on my computer!"
"Perfect. Ino?"
"I've got it all on tape. We can add it to our album and send it to a recording company!"
"So, Shikamaru," the dirty-blonde said, turning to him. "What do you think?"
Shikamaru smirked. "Pretty good... for a girl."
Temari snorted but didn't reply.
"OK, Temari, Hinata, let's move," Tenten called as she stored the instruments in a compartment at the back of the closet.
"Good night," they said and the group dispersed.
~*~
"Sasuke will be mine," Karin repeated in the mirror. Kin and Tayuya nodded. They were in the bathroom right in front of their English classroom.
"Absolutely," the magenta haired girl assured her, rolling her dark grey eyes and tying her blue tie on. God, she is so self-centred! How can Kin put up with her? Why am I even their friend? She thought disgustedly.
At that moment, a pink-haired, green-eyed girl walked in. Tayuya sucked in her breath. It was Sakura, Karin's rival. This was going to get ugly.
"Oh, hello forehead," Karin called in a singsong voice. Sakura clenched her fists but otherwise ignored her, choosing instead to walk calmly up to the mirror and apply concealer on lavender bags that were barely visible on her thinly tanned skin.
"Had a rough night?" the redhead taunted. "Who's the new lucky guy?"
Sakura didn't answer, not even when Kin said, "Slut," and laughed derisively.
Out of the corner of her eye, Tayuya saw Karin pull a small knife from her skirt pocket and slowly creep up behind Sakura, who was calmly stuffing her books into her bag.
She's not really going to harm her, Tayuya thought. She wouldn't have the guts. Only few people can do it and get away with it. She thought back to the scar on that blonde girl's arm, and of how she had just excused it as a cut produced by falling off a tree. Once again, Deidara had gotten away.
The students were careful not to tell anyone about their activities. If they did decide to tell Tsunade, their cover would be blown, the school shut down, and half the students sent to jail for abuse, stealing, and maybe even rape. Not fun.
Sakura didn't react fast enough. Karin's blade flashed and the next moment a chunk of pink hair fell to the linoleum floor.
The pink-haired girl gasped. Karin mercilessly grabbed Sakura by her now-shoulder-length hair and dragged her out of the bathroom, with Kin close behind, tossing her books around the hallway. Tayuya watched from the sidelines, fiddling with her blue skirt.
"…And we all know how much Sasuke likes girls with long hair," Karin was boasting, flipping her own red hair on Sakura's tear-streaked face. "That's it for you, Pinkie. Tayuya, are you coming or not?"
"I…" Tayuya glanced at Sakura. "It's OK, you guys can go. I'll just apply some eyeliner and head to band."
As soon as the two girls' backs were turned, Tayuya picked up all of Sakura's books and handed them to her. "Here," she said, putting them in front of her. "I'm sorry."
Sakura watched Tayuya's retreating form and felt more tears sting her eyes. Why was she suddenly being so nice to her? An even better question: why was she, the pink-haired girl who had so often stood up for Hinata and Ino and fought alongside Tenten and Temari, crying about her friggin' hair? What did she care what Sasuke thought?
"This is all so pointless!" she wailed as the bell rang, signalling that if students didn't get their butts to class in five minutes, they were busted.
Sasuke had just rounded the corner as the bell rang and heard Sakura's desperate scream. He took his time as he strode towards her. I wonder what that stupid, impertinent, annoying girl is crying about…
Sasuke had never reserved any special kind of liking towards Sakura. She mimicked his trademark smirk flawlessly, annoyed him to no ends and even teased him about his hairstyle, completely missing out on the fact that 1. He was the most popular, hot and wanted sophomore in the school, and 2. She was the one who had PINK hair. Talk about weird.
"Watcha crying about?" he asked, smirking at her demise. She just glared at him as he knelt down.
He suddenly noticed that her hair was a little shorter. No, scratch that, it was A LOT shorter. From the silky, neat waist-length it had gone to a jagged shoulder-length cut.
He brushed some hair out of her face and wiped some tears away.
What he meant to say was, "What happened?"
What he really said was, "Why the hell are you crying about you hair?"
She death-glared at him again, and spat out, "Well, I'm sorry if I was fucking attacked for no reason, dragged by the fucking hair and then publicly humiliated, not to mention that I received help from my own fucking enemy, and now you're asking me why I'm crying about my fucking hair? Well, Mr. Uchiha, I am NOT going to put up with this shit anymore! So don't you go high and mighty on me, or else—"
"We're going to be late," he warned her, looking like he couldn't care less. She just clenched her fists but gathered her books, stood up and walked into class.
She was very aware of fifteen pairs of eyes on her hair as she walked in wearing her most dignified look. All eyes immediately turned to Karin, who just smirked at the pinkette as she took her place next to Ino.
"Sakura, what happened to your hair?" she asked, feeling it gingerly.
"Karin," Sakura huffed, taking out pen and paper so she could take notes on some weirdo called Edgar Allan Poe.
"That bitch!" Temari said under her breath, obviously overhearing their conversation.
"Talk about it," Tenten agreed, rolling her eyes at a note Neji had passed to her.
Hinata just smiled sympathetically. "Don't take it seriously, Sakura-chan. Karin is just very jealous."
Sakura cracked her knuckles. "No way. This totally calls for a full-blown..."
Hinata, Temari, Ino and Tenten looked at each other with glee evident on their faces.
"Girlfight."