Well everyone, here's chapter 7 I thank all the people who have taken time to read it and review even.
New Summary: Kaa-chan I think Sasuke just had his first kiss." Sasuke lay on his bed with swollen lips occasionally mumbling something that sounded like he was doing something more enjoyable with his lavander-eyed friend. (can be found in this chapter!)
New Disclaimer: I still don't own Naruto or its characters, but if I did you can expect this in the show.
"Come on now, don't be so rash. Think about it Hiashi, there's still plenty of time." Uchiha Mikoto said in her sweetest voice as she visited her old friend. She'd been doing it a lot recently as she intended to put her plan into action at once.
"Miko, I've been through this enough times already." Hyuuga Hiashi said rubbing his temples. "I still don't think your son is the right match for my daughter." He and Mikoto went way back, from a playmate childhood, to mischievous teens always playing pranks on their parents, to the close friends they were now. And even though they were business rivals, they gave advice to each other on everything, everything except their children of course. Both were very different in terms of raising their children and I bet you could guess how. Hiashi was the loving, down-to-earth father as Mikoto was the serious, no-nonsense mother.
"I know that last time was bad timing as you were adopting Naruto." Mikoto started.
"Was it ever?" Hiashi laughed. "Miko, I have to say, to this day you still have the worst timing there is!" He exclaimed as he cited times that went totally wrong because of said bad timing skills, and Mikoto couldn't keep herself from bursting out in laughter at her friend's antics.
When she finally got over herself her face went serious. "But think Hiashi, this could be the future of both our businesses, our children have proven able more times than one and don't you think it's time we stepped down and let them have a shot at it?" Hiashi stared at her incredulously. "You don't mean that all this was to unite our companies?" Mikoto was shocked at this. "Hiashi, it was just a theory, and don't you think your Hinata would make a good pair with my son?" Hiashi thought it over for a while. "Well we could arrange for both your sons to meet her one of these days. The prospect of this union is just as clear as it was ten years ago; it might have been decided earlier if not for your bad timing!"
Mikoto couldn't help but laugh again. Yes, it had been stupid to propose all of this right after his wife died. She stared out the window. "Wouldn't it be nice to see our children as close as we were?" She thought aloud wishfully. "I agree," Hiashi said in the same voice. And he snapped back into reality. "But truthfully, why suggest Itachi? It's quite obvious she's been carrying on about something with that younger son of yours, Sasuke you know?" Mikoto's eyes shot open as she realized her plan may have gone out of hand.
"That would explain a lot." She said, choosing her words carefully, not wanting to show how shocked she was at the news.
"Speaking of which, have you noticed anything different about your son lately?" Hiashi interrupted her thoughts. "Because lately, Hinata's been ecstatic about everything, always jumping around and she's smiling a lot more than she used to." He said, daring to touch the taboo topic of their children. "I'm wondering if your Sasuke's coming here a few days ago might have sparked up anything between them."
Mikoto looked at him closely to make sure he wasn't pulling another prank, but his face was a mirror of good humor and he didn't look like he was going to explode sitting on that armchair."Well, Sasuke did come home late on the first day of school." She said slowly as the events of the day filled her mind.
"Okaa-san, I'm home." Sasuke said, blundering up the stairs making straight for his room. His mother could not see him like this. Slowly, almost there, just a few more steps and—"Nice to see you looking so happy Otooto-chan." Sasuke cringed at his brother's sardonic voice and dared to look up. He was greeted by the smug face of Itachi. "Itachi-chan, is Sasuke-chan alright? He's extremely late today." Mikoto said as she rushed over to the staircase.
"Gomenasai Okaa-san, it won't happen again." He said, not daring to look at his mother and instead keeping his eyes in a steady glare at his smirking brother. He expected a violent reaction from his mother but instead she came up and gave him a hug from behind, taking him by surprise. His eyes went wide as she whispered the words he always wanted to hear from his mother.
"Sasuke-chan, I heard about what happened with Sakura-chan today." She turned him around to get a better view of his face and was quite shocked at the state of it. She continued none the less. "What you did was brave and worthy of the highest praise. My son, I am very proud of you." She said, her eyes never leaving his face. Does that mean this was part of her plan too? Sasuke thought to himself. But he was interrupted as his mother took him into another hug. Sasuke was just bursting that moment he wondered if he wound cry like those soap operas he'd always mock Kiba for watching.
"A-arigatou Okaa-san," He said, not really knowing what else to say. His mother pulled out of the embrace and took a good look at his face. "It's nothing Sasuke-chan, but I am always proud of you, never think otherwise. Although I have to ask, what happened to your lips?" She said scrutinizing him as closely as she could. Sasuke blushed and quickly looked away as his mother smoothed down his messy hair and searched for the right words to explain the happiest day of his life.
"Kaa-chan," Itachi cleared his throat. "I think Sasuke just had his first kiss today." He said simply.
Sasuke wanted to kill his brother right now, but his mother looked like she would cry first. "Oh Sasuke, I waited so long for this moment. This is truly one of the happiest days I will look back upon. She looked at her eldest son with tears in her eyes. "And wasn't it just yesterday when my little Itachi-chan wanted to know what it was like to sleep with a girl?" She let go of Sasuke and went to hug Itachi. "See you later Nii-chan." Sasuke said with a smile as his brother was trapped with his mother, a look of pure hatred on his normally placid face.
Sasuke then skipped to his room and turned on the mp3 stereo to full blast and lay on his bed. This is the best day ever. He thought to himself, as horny songs started to fill his room, and even hornier thoughts in his head as he drifted off to sleep, occasionally mumbling a few things that sounded like he was doing something more enjoyable, and it just happened to involve a certain lavender-eyed friend of his.
"My Sasuke has grown a lot, but what could be wrong this time?" Mikoto said as she peeped through the door. "Perhaps I'm not related to him after all." Itachi told her, folding his arms over his chest. He was about to say something a lot worse when a look from his mother silenced him. "Then maybe he's mentally ill," He said as his mother turned to leave. "He might be autistic or something." He thought aloud and gave a chuckle as his mother walked away with a sigh and muttering something under her breath about how siblings never learn and how she should have had one child instead of two.
Hiashi took a moment to take it all in as Mikoto gave the full details of that fateful day. "And the ANBU guards were all complaining how he skipped home like some kind of drug addict." She laughed as she recounted the events. "That makes a lot of sense considering how the Akatsuki wanted to kill your son after they were in a considerably bad mood." Mikoto burst into another fit of giggles as he said those words. "I think my boys may be a bit too overprotective of her." Hiashi said worriedly. Mikoto took a deep breath to try and regain her self-control at her next line. "No, they just take after their proprietor." She said in between gasps for air as the two laughed until they could no longer breathe.
Both friends knew of the not-so-secret bodyguards that protected their children, but their identities were of course a mystery to both.
"Speaking of encounters, aren't your other boys having another concert soon?"
"Well, I told Hinata not to join any until I got back but she's been excited to get back up on stage ever since." He said thoughtfully.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking then?" Mikoto asked her friend seriously.
"What time are they coming over?" Hiashi said smiling.
"Hey sis are ya ready yet?" Sasori asked through the door.
"Yeah sure come in." Was the reply.
"So sis, are you all set?" Sasori asked as he watched Hinata flex her fingers before gently taking her guitar as if it was a precious stone. The Akatsuki band was started sometime before Naruto came over. Sasori spent hours arguing with Pein so he could call it that. It was pretty much your basic band, with Sasori as the lead singer and guitarist, Deidara on bass guitar, Naruto on keyboards, good boy Tobi was the drummer demon, and last but not least our very own Hinata on second guitar and sometimes she'd sing, but then again, Akatsuki was one of those bands where everyone sang.
"Is it time to leave already?" She said looking at her watch, Father told her she'd be meeting some friends of his after the concert and she couldn't even guess why, it had been nagging at her mind all night.
Sasori nodded and just to remind them that it was true, as they were about to leave Deidara and Tobi met them in the hall asking if they could leave already. "Hai, we were just about to pick up you guys." Sasori said as Hinata gave both a hi-five. "You ready to rock sis?" Deidara said as they stepped into the limousine, a gift to him when he turned twenty. Truth be told, Hinata was more excited than she'd been for a while. Her father left ahead of them to welcome his friends and being with her adoptive brothers was always a lot of fun.
"Always!" She said smiling. Deidara pulled over into an empty space next to the cars of the other Akatsuki, the bodyguard ones and everyone got out. This would be the Akatsuki's second gig in Konoha after their keyboardist, Naruto's death.
They all unloaded their equipment and waited on stage for the show to start. "So how come I haven't seen that warrior cousin of yours Hina?" Deidara commented out of boredom. "He's usually right here." He said as he pointed to the space in between Hinata and everyone else. "Well," Hinata said casually, "He's somewhere in the audience with his girlfriend. Deidara almost fell off the drum he was leaning on, shocking the napping Tobi at his feet. "He has a girlfriend?!" He gave Sasori the fisheye look that was supposed to be Kisame's thing. Sasori looked at him disapprovingly. "I mean, some girl actually wanted to date Neji?!" Hinata giggled and Sasori sighed. "Yes Dei," He said wearily. "And no girl's gonna want to date you if you keep talking like that." Hinata burst into laughter. "Whatever man," Deidara said, trying to look offended.
"You're on soon." Hidan's pissed voice could be heard on the other side of Sasori's earphone. You could tell he did not want to play manager in this whole thing. Maybe executioner would have been a better job.
"Hey Hidan-san!" They all shouted in to the earphone's mouthpiece. There was a crashing sound on the other end. "What the hell is freaking wrong with all of you!?" Hidan complained from the other side as he picked himself up to try and get back on his seat. "Gomen Hidan-san!" Hinata said to earphone while Deidara made a face. "Say hi to Oto-san for me." The audience was finally let in and chants for the band were being shouted to the heavens. "Roger that Hinata, break a leg and tell that Deidara to stop making faces at me, I can see him from here." Deidara's eyes went wide as he frantically searched for where is superior could be hiding. Hidan gave a chuckle and the connection shut off.
"That dude is pure evil." Deidara said to his friends and the lights turned on and their opening act entered the stage.
Three guys went on. There was a tall guy on drums, a red haired guitarist and a keyboardist. All had microphones but, "What? They don't have a bass guitarist? They must be crazy!" Deidara said, nearly deafening the silent Tobi. "Ow, Deidara-sempai, that hurt." Tobi said through his mask. "Shhh." Sasori snapped. They're about to start. And all three fell silent as the keyboardist gave the signal to start.
"Are you all ready to ROCK!?" There was a deafening reply of screams and chants. "Man, these guys must be pretty famous." Sasori remarked. "Looks like we can't slack off anymore sis." He joked. "What was that?" The guy asked the crowd. "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!" He screamed to the mic. There was and even louder reply and one or two screeches. "THEN LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!" The crowd went wild at once as the music started.
First there was a wicked solo on keys and the drums kicked to life as both the keys and guitarist started the first verse.
Hinata could at least say she was impressed. The way they sang was the perfect rocker's voice. Gravelly, husky, but full of the expression needed for rock.
It started off kinda slow, kinda like this, the first part, just on keys:
Hey, you looking at me there,
You know, I just heard from a little bird,
What right do you got starin' me down like that?
Not sayin as single word.
The drums started to kick in, as did the guitar and the whole tempo just went faster.
Have you ever thought there might be something else?
Did you ever think I'd keep hindin in this shell?
Cause you and I both know
That I don't need you anymore
So why you pullin me down
What the hell's this for?
The keyboardist and guitarist were rocking so hard by the chorus it was hard to tell how they could still play and sing. The drummer was an all-out demon and he was keeping the whole thing together.
So you gotta look me in the eye
Tell me what's on your mind
'Cause I'm not gonna wait anymore
For that forever closing door
I'm not gonna watch your back
As it turns away- that's crap
Don't come back and tell me why
Just look me in the eyes!
It totally went wild as they reached the end of their song.
I'm not gonna watch you leave
And don't come tell me why—
The music went silent as he whispered the last part.
Just face me now…
There was a sound like the whole crowd held its breath.
AND LOOOOOK ME IN THE EEYEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
The singers let out a rocking shriek and the crowd just exploded with mad applause.
"Looks like we have some competition." Sasori said to Hinata as the band entered backstage. "That was the Dark Iris with their new hit single Look Me in the Eyes! Now it's time for…."
The keyboardist remarked to the guitarist. "That wasn't a bad solo, for a Kazekage." This earned him a sour glare.
"Nice job, yeah!" Deidara said in mad props to the Dark Iris. The Dark Iris stepped into the light of backstage and both Hinata and Sasori gave a gasp at the faces of the performers. "Gaara-san, Sasuke-kun?"
"I never expected your girlfriend would be here Otooto-chan." The drummer smirked to the keyboardist.
There you go, chapter 7.
If the song's lame, it helps that I just made it up.
I hope you liked it. Please review and comment.
Did you enjoy Sasuke's rocker side?
Next time you will witness the fierce power of LOVE!!!
Oh no! I'm starting to sound like Lee Darnit!
Until next chapter.
