A/N: You can definitely tell the age difference between this one and the first one. *grins wryly*

Music Meme 2

(5 Segments)

Words: 784

Characters: Stated in Each Segment; if the name isn't mentioned, I don't put the character because I don't deem it necessary.

Warnings: None

Pairings: Not particularly

Disclaimer/Claimer: While the original Naruto characters do not belong to me, these GenderBender creations are mine. Do not steal them... EVER.

Shinako: FemShikamaru
Ikuo: MaleIno
Chouko: FemChouji

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1. The Math – Hilary Duff (3:17)

Shinako sighed as she watched Ikuo stare blankly at the paper before him. Through some odd coincidence, they along with Chouko had ended up only a few seats from each other – on the same row, in fact – for the writing portion of the Chunin Exams. Therefore, the female Nara had a perfect view of her male teammate's face as he stared in bewilderment at the clearly non-genin level problems. Come to think of it, she thought as she glanced down at her own paper, they were probably too difficult for some of the chunin level nin as well...

The dark-haired girl slid her gaze back to the blonde genin, whose face had twisted itself with both frustration and disdain, the latter of which was being used to mask the first emotion.

'Must be the math problems,' Shinako thought, eying her own paper lazily once more, the very paper she hadn't even bothered to touch.

Numbers had never been Ikuo's forte, after all.

...Unless it had 7 digits and a girl's name scrawled above it.

The Nara rolled her eyes and then narrowed them at her test paper, suddenly feeling irritated. Crossing her arms, she laid down her head and shut her eyes.

She'd let him figure the math himself.

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Ikuo: MaleIno

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2. Mambo #5 – Lou Bega (3:42)

Ikuo grinned, and with a last comb of his hair and tug of his shirt, the blonde was prepared for a night out on the village. The teenage male smirked at his image in the mirror.

Oh, he was so going to get laid tonight.

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Izumi: FemIruka
Nariko: FemNaruto

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3. In My Daughter's Eyes – Martina McBride (3:15)

The female chunin smiled gently as the blonde girl squealed happily over her birthday present. The 7-year-old, as of that day, grinned and clutched the plush green frog tightly to her chest, eyes squeezed shut with joy. Izumi's own brown orbs saddened as tears leaked from her student's closed lids, a reaction most likely brought about by the shock of receiving a gift at all, it probably being her first gift, in fact.

The woman sighed softly and carefully lifted herself from the branch on which she had hidden herself from Nariko's confused but grateful expression. Then, Izumi slipped off as silently as she had arrived, so that she might continue to wonder why she so desperately longed for the shine she saw in the Kyuubi child's eyes.

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Seiichi: MaleSakura
Nariko: FemNaruto

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4. Fifteen – Taylor Swift (4:55)

Nariko stared blankly over the cloaked shoulder her chin rest on as Seiichi held her close to him, saying those awful but still oh-so-tempting words she'd so desperately longed for as a child.

"I love you," the pink-haired male murmured.

'Don't tell me that,' the blonde cried softly in her mind. 'Don't tell me that; not now. I might believe you...'

Against her will, her fingers clutched the fabric of his shirt.

"Why are you doing this!" she wanted to sob, to scream. "How dare you, after all this time... I waited so long for you, gave you everything! How could you?..."

It hurt; a throbbing ache in her chest caused from the knowledge, the terribly painful knowing that he didn't mean a word of that heart-wrenching phrase, that he was lying in the worse sort of way.

Taking a breath, she ripped herself away and looked straight into those confused olive-green orbs.

"I can't stand," she said firmly, "people who lie to themselves."

But oh how she would have loved to believe this one beautiful lie.

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Hansuke: MaleHinata
Nariko: FemNaruto

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5. Hero Heroine – Boys Like Girls (3:52)

Hansuke coughed harshly, his body trembling dangerously as he pushed himself back to his feet, much as he had done all that time ago when he'd fought his cousin, and glared at the Akatsuki woman who had dared to lay a finger on the girl he cared so deeply for.

He gritted his teeth as a step forward caused a jolt of pain that went through his entire system it seemed. He cringed, coughing again and wincing when a mouthful of blood landed on the ground before him. His chest and lungs burned, likely from internal injuries, but he glanced at Nariko's stunned, pained expression and smiled.

It was for her that he was fighting, and thus, he slid into an offensive stance once more, expression both furious and determined, as an odd smile consumed his features and he eyed the apathetic Akatsuki leader.

Nariko had long been his heroine. Now he would be her hero.