The Ultimate Konoha Idol!
By Tru and Neko
Disclaimer: We don't own Naruto.
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CHAPTER 5: Move Along, Sasuke
All the females in the audience went wild as Sasuke nonchalantly trudged onstage. He took the mike from Iruka.
"Yo," he muttered. "Look, if any of you losers try interrupting me like you did Shino, you'll pay." His red Sharingan eyes flashed menacingly. The fangirls quieted. "I'll sing Move Along by the All-American Rejects," he addressed the judges.
Loud drumming began; Temari squealed, "I love this song!"
Sasuke glared at her.
She hastily covered her mouth. "Um, oops?" she whispered.
Sakura and Ino had a dance-off contest at the foot of the stage, hoping Sasuke would notice their cool moves. However, the Uchiha simply stood in the middle of the stage, eyes closed, moving his head to the beat.
"Go ahead as you waste your days with thinking. When you fall, everyone sins. Another day and you've had your fill of sinking. With the life held in your hands are shaking cold; these hands are meant to hold…"
As the music reached a crescendo, Sasuke really got into it. He did a weird sort of shuffle dance as he sang, "When all you got to keep is strong, move along, move along like I know you do. And even when your hope is gone, move along, move along just to make it through. Move along."
"Move along…" He reverted back to his slumped, bored posture for the next verse. However, by the end of the song, he was combining jutsu and dancing to perform random high kicks and such, and then walking on place for the chorus.
As he finished the last line, the crowd went wild. "I LOVE YOU SASUKE"s could be heard.
Sasuke just went to the judges, bored again.
"I absolutely loved it!" squealed Temari. "Can I have your autograph?!"
"No."
Kankuro grinned, "That was actually pretty good singing."
"Hn."
The fangirls growled at him.
Gaara glared at Sasuke. "I hate you."
"Hn." Sasuke glared back at him. Electricity seemed to shoot from their glares, until finally Iruka told Sasuke to get off the stage.
"Next up is…Nara Shikamaru!!"
Shikamaru climbed onstage.
"DON'T YOU DARE GET KICKED OFF!!" shouted Ino.
"What a pain in the neck," muttered Shikamaru.
"I'm hungry," said…you know. "Where's the snack bar?"
"IT'S SHIKAMARU'S SONG!" screamed Ino. "SHOW SOME LOYALTY!!!"
"Who was the one dancing off during Sasuke's song?" asked Shikamaru coolly.
Temari sipped her Coke. Gaara glared. Kankuro sulked.
"This show could not be more puppet-less," he sighed.
"Sooo," interrupted Temari, "what are you going to be singing?"
Shikamaru sighed. "This is so troublesome," he muttered. "I'm singing the 59th Avenue Bridge Song…or something like that."
"Never heard of it," said Kankuro. "Who's the artist?"
"Simon and Garfield."
"You mean Garfunkel?" asked Temari.
"Whatever."
Shikamaru shuffled to center stage with the mike, one hand in his pocket.
"Slow down, you move too fast," he began, for once not sounding grumpy. "You got to make the morning last. Just kickin' down the cobble stones. Looking for fun and feelin' groovy."
Naruto snickered at the thought of Shikamaru being groovy.
"Not again," groaned Kurenai.
"This is the second time in three songs you've laughed," hissed Iruka. "Both of them Simon and Garfunkel's songs. Just what do you find funny about them?!?!" Iruka was trying his best to sound calm, but the look in his eyes was murderous. Iruka was a big fan of Simon and Garfunkel, you see.
"Nothing!" said Naruto. "It's just that it's so funny! Shino and Shikamaru singing? It's a riot!"
Fortunately all this happened at an interlude in the song, so Shikamaru hadn't missed much. All this time he had quietly said "Feeling groovy" in the background.
"Hello lamppost," he continued, "what cha knowin'? I've come to watch your flowers growin'. Ain't cha got no rhymes for me? Doo-doo doo-doo, Feelin' groovy."
"Puppets are groovy," said Kankuro.
"No they're not," countered Temari. "They are inanimate objects, and only respond to your chakra."
"Got no deeds to do," Shikamaru sung obliviously, "No promises to keep. I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep."
Ino, quickly analyzing the situation, ran onstage and held Shikamaru up so he wouldn't fall asleep.
"Let the morning time drop all its petals on me," yawned Shikamaru. "Life, I love you. All is groovy."
That was when Shikamaru fell asleep on the spot.
"That's ALL?" asked Tenten.
Guy was in tears.
"Ah, yes," sniffed Guy, "he has sprung up my inner youthfulness."
"Songs from the same artists," Sakura commented. "Is that allowed?"
"Of course," said Iruka. "They only had a day to prepare, so the contestants wouldn't know if someone else picked the same artist. The same song, on the other hand, would be harder to deal with…"
"Artists?" asked Naruto, confused. "What do paintings have to do with singing?"
"Not that kind of artist," sighed Sakura. "Artists, musically, are the people or group that sing songs. Both Shino and Shikamaru sung songs by Simon and Garfunkel! Even Iruka mentioned that indirectly eariler, though you were probably too caught up in your daydream about ramen to notice!"
"I wasn't daydreaming about ramen!" protested Naruto. "Speaking of ramen, I'm hungry!"
"Can we judge now?" asked Kankuro.
"Ahem," said Sakura.
"Huh?" asked Kankuro.
"Read this story, Chapter 3, Lines 50 to 53."
Kankuro stared at her like everyone was wearing pink ballet dresses.
"GRAMMAR LESSON!"
Sasuke sighed. He had been down this road before, and didn't like the scenery much the first time. The first time was actually kind of funny, because it was Naruto being picked on. Now it was all that sans Naruto, therefore taking all the fun out of it.
"Sasuke, calm down," said Kakashi. "No, wait, that was when we fought Zabuza."
"Who's Zabuza?" asked Kankuro.
"STOP ASKING!!IT'S OVERUSED!!" shouted Sakura. "YOU CAN DEMAND, PONDER, WONDER, JUST DON'T ASK!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Who's Zabuza?" Kankuro mused.
"Better," sighed Sakura.
"We should judge right now," said Iruka. "He's waking up."
Indeed, Shikamaru was awake.
"Why do people have to be so LOUD?!??!?!?!" groaned Shikamaru.
"For the last time, who's Zabuza?!" Kankuro practically yelled. Seeing as he was right next to Shikamaru's ear, this probably wasn't the best idea. Shikamaru clutched his head and glared at him.
"This is all just too troublesome," he muttered. "I forfeit!"
With that, he walked off the stage.
"…" The audience was in shock.
"You can't do that!" screeched Ino. "We need all of our team to pass! Right, Choji?"
"Mmph?" Choji looked up from his bag of chips. "Di' you say somphin', I'o?" he asked around a mouthful of chips.
"EEW!" Ino yelled, "Get away from me! That's just gross!"
As Ino proceeded to rant and scream, Choji ignored her and went back to eating chips. Shikamaru had already left the clearing, and Ino's voice carried to him.
"Meh," he said, shrugging. "How troublesome." He wasn't too concerned about what Ino would do to him when she found him, however, as a cloud drifting by distracted him.
"I envy the clouds…" he sighed.
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Sasuke - "Move Along", The All-American Rejects
Shikamaru - "59th Avenue Bridge Song", Simon and Garfunkel