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{Meeting Despair}

{Day 2 - 3:28:52}

{Student Naruto Miso Namikaze}

{2010, Hope's Peak Academy}

{Yokohama, Japan}

It was too late for Naruto Miso Namikaze to be up. Then again this wasn't his fault, it was a Saturday after all, early Saturday morning. You might just be asking; well, why was he up this late? He'd tell you that: "The person next to me was way too loud!" He'd yell tossing and turning in his bed. His first night, his first god damn night and he can't get any sleep! His first sleepless night that required no studying!

Yes, that was the answer he would give you. Whoever this person was, had no regard for the others next to them. Just what in the hell were they doing? Why would they need to be blasting music this loud, this damn late? He groaned as he threw a pillow over his head trying to block out the racket. You see Naruto was a heavy sleeper, He could sleep through an atomic holocaust, but he couldn't capitalize on that fact if he never fell asleep in the first place. The last straw for him was when Kurama barked and started pulling on the sheets showing how upset he was. The other fox was just glaring at the wall were the obnoxious sounds were coming from. "Okay, I've had it too!" Naruto declared jumping out of his bed with an angry expression on his features.

Naruto didn't care to put on any additional clothes as he marched to his door. He didn't care that he was only in his boxers and a black wife-beater. He did care that whoever the person next him was way too damn loud for their own good! The nerve of these damn teenagers. 'Oh my god do I sound old!' The boy thought with disgust. He shook his head to rid his mind of those thoughts. Regardless of the thought, it was the truth. He just wanted some sleep before he meets anyone.

"Just who in the hell would be up at this hour?!" Naruto swung the door open to his room, ignoring the bark of approval from Kurama, and walked the short walk to whoever's room it was next to him. Now that may have been a stupid question all in itself. You know, teens like to stay up all night for stupid shit and all. He glared at the door before him trying to burn a hole into it. He could clearly hear it now that he was in front of the door.

This damn music was pissing him, it sounded like if pop and death-metal had a glorious baby. Yes for a mix of such polar opposite genres…, It didn't sound half bad. Yeah, it was pretty good he'd admit, however, it shouldn't be playing this damn loud at three in the morning! He was going to catch the name of the band that was playing though.

Naruto gave the door two loud bangs hoping that would be enough to get the attention of person behind the door. To his luck, the music stopped and the sound of someone moving to the door could be heard. He heard the door click and the door opened wide to reveal a girl with horns. Wait...What?!

The girl blinked at him curiously. She is quite a pale girl with pink eyes. She has long multi-colored hair consisting of black, pink, blue and white, some of which is tied into two oni horns on the top of her head. The reason he first thought she had horns. Both of her ears have six needle earrings and a small earlobe gauge. She also has three mouth piercings and black nail polish. She was wearing a necklace that looked like it was made from a barbed-wire fence, and three silver rings on her left hand. She was wearing…, He didn't quite understand what she was wearing.

She has on a black skirt with a black belt that has square bedazzles on the front of them. Her top consisted of a blue and black checkered wifebeater, a pink bra under that, an arm sleeve with black and pink stripes, and two thigh long socks. The socks were blue and pink and had holes in them. There was also a black Guitar on her back. 'This explains a lot.' Naruto thought as he took her in.

"Hi…," Naruto cleared his throat, "I'm your next door Neighbor, Naruto Namikaze." Naruto greeted the girl in a monotone. Obviously tired and still angered about not being able to get sleep.

The girl gained a shocked look, clearly surprised. That look had quickly switched to one of excitement, "A new person! You should be more energetic when you introduce yourself!" she commented loudly. She must have forgotten a couple of things, important things such as…

"It's three thirty in the morning and we are standing in the middle of the hallway where other people are sleeping." The blond deadpanned looking around the hallway making sure they didn't wake anybody up. He was at least a little considerate to other people at night hours. That and it wouldn't bold well to be found in the hallways by the headmaster if he awoke.

The girl waved it off like it was no big deal at all, "Ibuki is Ibuki!" she pointed to herself, "'I,' 'Buki,' 'Mio,' 'Da!'" she sounded out each syllable of her name, "Put that together and what do you get?" Naruto was about to answer but was fastly cut off by her, "Ibuki Mioda!"

"Err...Right? Any-" she cut him off again.

"Naruto-Kun?" she tested the name then laughed, "That's a funny name! It means fishcakes! Or Maelstrom! But Ibuki likes fishcakes better, Ibuki never tried maelstrom. Is it good?! Ibuki should try it! Ibuki likes trying new things!" she told him excited at trying something new. Especially food!

Naruto had the urge to facepalm, 'What is this girl?' The blond thought, he was completely blindsided by her personality. 'She refers to herself in the third person. That's new.' He thought about Ibuki's way of speaking. It was definitely quite the quirk. "Oi, my name means maelstrom, not fishcakes!" Did he just yell that in the hallway? "So what are you doing up this late?" Naruto asked making small talk, trying to get to the bottom of what was going on. If this had been some random person he would have just told them to cut the racket, but it is such an interesting character...Might as well see what they were up to.

"Oh would Naruto-Kun like to see?!" The girl grinned seeing the opportunity to show off her music, she grabbed the male by the arm and, quite literally, dragged him into her room. Naruto had not expected that at all, he was completely out of his comfort zone now that he was in a foreign room. Uncharted waters. Undiscovered lost treasure in the deepest cave. Naruto Namikaze...was in a girl's room...With a girl...late at night...Awesome. Man, maybe this school wouldn't be all that bad. Sure he was far away from his family and had to hide his foxes, but this place was far more unique than his odd home.

Naruto heard the door close behind him which caused him to blink, he turned to face the door when he had heard it lock. Did she just lock them in here? Trusting someone so easily huh? He could dig that. After all, that was his fatal flaw too. She seemed to be a rather good person. Overly excited it seemed, bold...she told him to sit on her bed...Very bold indeed!

Naruto did as he was told and sat on her bed. He looked around her room to see it covered in multiple posters. Most of them looked like death metal bands, such as 'Arch Enemy', 'Nile', 'Death', and 'At the Gates'. There was also some other bands as well, 'BABYMETAL', 'SMAP', 'AC/DC', 'My Chemical Romance', 'Queen', 'The Beatles', 'Tokio Hotel', 'Ich + Ich', 'Sigh', 'Man with a Mission', 'Sand', and so many others, he kid you not! She had bands from all around the world in here! There was also a ton of CDs...Everywhere. It was like all the music from the world came together and made a library just for itself, in this girl's room. Her walls were colored black with blue and pink splatters everywhere. She had bean bag chairs that matched her color scheme over in the corner. In fact, all the furniture matched her color scheme.

The most interesting person he had met so far by far. Well the quiet girl in the room across from him was interesting too, just not like Ibuki. That and how did just three lines of dialogue get him here? The world may never know, just like how it would never know how many licks it took to get to the center of a- No he was not making that joke here.

She hooked up her Guitar to her amplifier, Naruto knew at that instant, his ears were going to bleed to hardcore death metal. Everything about the girl screamed it. "Just sit back and let Ibuki rock your world!" she winked. 'Oh, that didn't sound suggestive as fuck!' Naruto mentally yelled as he shakes his legs a little nervously. He was really hoping he was going to have ears after this.

She starts off slow with her strumming of the guitar strings, then picked up the pace to a good old fashioned guitar solo. Was she playing stairway to heaven? Cause right now...he saw an angel of rock right before his eyes. Then that angle was quickly destroyed as she went into the death metal and a horrifying demon was replaced with that very angel. It was good, but it was loud as fuck!

When she was done, one thing was for sure...Kurama was going to kill him. He came over to stop this very person from making such a racket and now...He had joined her in making more of it. Funny how the world works right? Yeah laugh it up, you're not the one who has to deal with an angry pair of foxes!

That song and the girl had also got his mind working. An awesome idea had appeared before his eyes. It would be a painting of Ibuki playing the guitar on a stairway, her left half would be in the form of an angel up higher than right half which would be low and descending into the darkness. The right half of her would be of an Oni. It would show the two sides of the same coin. Showing just how the girl was in one painting. She could make soft and sweet music, or ear ringing, headbanging hardcore music. Epic was the word. He needed to jump on this paint idea right way. The life of an artist is never complete. There was just too much that one could draw in the world and an endless amount of inspiration.

So he sat there on the girl's dark bed that matched the walls and the floors. He at first thought that he was going to lose his hearing due to the girl's loud playing from before but she might have been just jamming out. All good rockers and musicians did that. That was one great way of working out new songs and finding great beats. When she finally finished her guitar playing, she gave the male she had offered to play for an eager grin. "Whatcha think?! Ibuki just came up with it!"

Naruto blinked hearing that, "You just came up with that? Who are you? Jimi Hendrix?!"

Ibuki smirked at the praise, "Ibuki is the Ultimate Musician after all! Ibuki can play all types of instruments from the woodwind, percussion, strings, brass, and of course electric instruments. Ibuki writes Ibuki's own songs and sings too!" She said proudly at her skills as a musician. She then looked at him again, "Oi, you still haven't answered Ibuki's question!" she blurted out in realization.

"You didn't give me time too!" Naruto told her to defend himself, "Well you definitely deserve your title." Naruto complimented her ability.

She pouted at his answer, "Fuck the title! What did Ibuki's song make you feel?"

Naruto was not expecting that answer from her, well take two, huh? "Made me feel…?" she nodded at him with her eyes closed like she was in deep thought, ready for any answer the boy would give her, "Er...I guess I feel inspired to make a painting."

Her eyes shot wide open, "What kind of painting?" she demanded to know.

"An awesome painting?" Naruto tried. It seemed to work too.

"Hahaha...Ibuki can't wait to see it! So you're an artist?! So that must mean..." she pointed at him, "You're the Ultimate artist that never showed up!" she exclaimed uncovering Naruto's talent, "Ibuki wonders why Naruto-Kun is late?" she questioned.

Naruto crossed his arms and frowned, "FedEx sucks!" Naruto told her. "This academy should have used UPS." he complained with a pout, "Oh we cover more ground than UPS ground in some locations, my ass." he quoted a commercial that FedEx used recently.

Ibuki nodded in understanding rubbing the bottom of her chin, "Ibuki sees the problem." She also got very close to him to inspect him, it was also at this moment that he found out she was taller than him. It seemed like all the girls in this school he had met so far were taller than him. She was five foot four and a half inches tall, a whole three and a half inches taller than him. Well, at least he liked taller girls right? You kinda had to if you were five foot one. She had quite the calculating look on her face, "Has Naruto-Kun ever played an instrument?"

Naruto was about to answer the question, though the feeling of her hot breath on him was making him hot under the collar, "Well I once played the drums for about two months." He said absentmindedly scratching his cheek thinking about the time Kiba wanted to start a band. Kiba quit from that path saying that everyone was terrible but himself. Shikamaru didn't really care, Chouji just ate chips the whole time. Naruto and Kiba were the only ones that really tried...Why was Ibuki looking at him like that?!

Ibuki had a spark shine real bright in her eyes, dare he say like a gem sparkling in the sun when he said "play" and "drums". Her curiosity in the blond teen had gone from a hundred to a million real quick. He could play the drums, and he was an artist. The possibilities this had were great. She was totally stoooked to hear him beat those drums! This could not wait! They were leaving right now!

Naruto found himself being dragged out the girl's room once again. This time however he had no idea where the hell they were going, "Oi! Where are we going!" Naruto cried out not caring that he was in the hallway any longer. Maybe someone would help him out or something? Nah he could handle this.

"To the music room Naruto-Kun!" she declared happily.

"Why?!" Naruto questioned struggling to get his arm out of her hold.

"To hear you play the drums, of course!" she said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. And like it totally made sense that he should be playing the drums, at THREE IN THE MORNING!

This...He didn't know what to call this type of situation. Man...He didn't have any clothes on. If that principal guy caught him out here like this...WITH A GIRL...He was dead. "Let me put some damn pants on first!" He beckoned for the girl to let him go and change.

She shook her head, "There isn't any time to dally!" she told him then stopped dragging him for a second, to give him a bold smile, "Besides...Ibuki likes the ramen!" She then restarted pulling him down the hallway. She was quite strong for a girl of her size. And what did she mean by she liked the ramen?

Then it hit him as his face was flushed red, his boxers, she likes his boxers. She basically just told him that she had checked him out, and she was so blunt about it! "W-what?!" was Naruto's shocked reply. She was just so bold, and loud. In fact, he was still wondering how they hadn't woken anyone up just yet. Either the hallway was soundproof, or they were all deaf! Or was it because she was playing her music so loud that even if the rooms were soundproof, he could still hear her because they were next to each other?! This girl was nuts, a loon, batshit crazy! He liked that. The world would be a boring ass place if there were only normal people around.

'Ehh what to do I care? I like crazy.' Naruto decided if he was going anywhere he wasn't going to be dragged there. He sped up so he was by her side and said this to her, "I'll race you there!" He grinned before getting out of her grasp. He took off down the hall like he had an oni hot on his tall. If someone was watching from behind and they saw Ibuki's horn looking hair, it would have looked that way.

"Now that's the spirit Ibuki likes!" she laughed as she chased after him. That was until she saw the writing on the wall, she was not going to catch up to him. Nope, there was no chance. "Wait for Ibuki!" she whined after him.

Naruto had arrived at music room first and didn't even break a sweat getting to it. Much to his shock, it looks like you could have a play or a musical in here. There was a sea of comfortable looking red leather seats. A stage that could easily hold forty plus people. He could also see a whole bunch of instruments further back on the stage. There was a complete drum set to the left out in front.

Before he could even take in the room fully, "Ibuki is here!" She slammed into him at full speed. Why was she running at full speed without slowing down once she got close to the distinction, he hadn't the faintest idea. There was also the question of why had the person who built this place, made the stairs so close to the door? Seriously who built this place?!

The two tumbled down the stairs as Naruto took most of the damage, shielding Ibuki. They crashed onto the floor in front of the stage. Naruto landed flat on his back and she landed in the top of him. By instinct, his arms were wrapped around her. She sat up from her spot on him, Naruto let his hands slip off of her, "Hehe...Ibuki is on top."

Naruto was about to ask her if she was okay, but hearing that line come from her mouth, made him forget about that. The way she said it too and her smile was also a sign that she had meant it to be taken that way. Naruto pinched the bridge of his nose to show how done was. "Um...Ibuki?" If the headmaster came and saw this, he would be expelled, deported, and then killed.

"Yes, Naruto-kun~?" She sang beautifully.

He looked at for about two seconds; she had an amazing voice. She was truly talented. Shaking his head to rid his mind, he asked, "I thought we can to see me play the drums, not have you tease me?" He finished with a smile, though his cheeks were still red from her earlier statement and the fact she hadn't attempted to get off of him yet.

For the first time that he had met the girl, she had the decency to become flustered. "Don't call out Ibuki so easily, easily!" She finished hopping off of him.

'No way...No way! She repeats words when embarrassed! That's so...Cute! No, get back to playing the drums Naruto...That you barely know how to play.' Great, he was doubting himself now! Naruto picked himself up from the floor. He felt a little banged up and dizzy from the fall still. When he regained his bearings, he climbed up into the stage and got behind the drums set. When he looked up from them, there Ibuki was sitting in the front row. The look on her face was one that looked like a kid in a candy store. She was really eager to see him play. Well, he did not want to disappoint her.

He took a deep breath as he got himself ready to play. He started off with the simple but powerful beat that all drummers should know, 'Eighth Note'! It was the beginning beat that came almost naturally to anyone who stuck around the drums long enough. This beat is played with eighth notes on the hi-hat and the snare drum on 2 & 4. Quarter notes are played on the bass drum if you want a driving beat or played on 1 & 3 for a more laid-back feel. He played it at a faster tempo because he figured that was the way Ibuki rolled. He then went on to the next beat of the song that was called 'The Super Slow Drum Beat'. This beat is played with sixteenth notes on the hi-hat (by the right hand), the bass drum on 1 & 3, and the snare on 2 & 4 (with the left hand). It's played at tempos from 50 to 80 beats per minute (bpm).

He looked up to see Ibuki watching him very carefully with a critical eye. He knew for sure that she easily knew these beats. He decided not to stick around with that beat because it was easy to bore out someone like her. He followed up with the fastest of all drum beats 'The Super Fast Drum Beat'. It's basically 'The Super Slow Drum Beat' but you leave out notes to keep the tempo from slowing down (dragging). Play quarter notes on the hi-hat, bass drum on 1 & 3 and snare on 2 & 4. This beat can be played as slow as 130 bpm. He saw the girl rub the bottom of her chin in thought.

She was getting bored, either that or she was in deep thought. 'Ahh to hell with this!' Naruto completely slashed the current beat and threw random beats everywhere. Ibuki was shocked by this new development. The beat was so sporadic and chaotic, like a typhoon! It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. Well, she would definitely say he was on that beginner level who has a general grasp on the drums. With her help...A new idea! "An idea!" Ibuki yelled from her spot which stopped Naruto from playing his randomize performance. He blinked as she walked up on to the stage and stood before him, acting like she was stroking her imagery beard.

"You know you don't have hair on your chin right?" he pointed out.

She nodded at him, "Ibuki knows this." she told him. She clapped her hands together, "What do you call that last piece of music? Ibuki knows that you know the basics, but what was that last one?"

"Err...The last one?" She raised an eyebrow at him and tapped her foot. Thinking about what he thought at the time. He let these words slip from his mouth, "Ahh to Hell with It?"

Ibuki exploded at the name, "How cool! It's so metal!" she gushed like a schoolgirl, wait...she was a schoolgirl, just not your typical day schoolgirl. "All we have to do is get rid of some of those odd beats, add in some other instruments, some vocals, and we got ourselves a song!"

"Sounds legit." Naruto agreed for some reason. It was kind of hard not seeing the girl so excited.

"More importantly, you're okay at the drums, but Ibuki will teach how to really play the drums," she informed him.

Woah, Woah, Woah, hold the phone... She was going to teach him to play the drums now? He only started playing the drums because he was talked into it when he was younger, now the ultimate musician wants to teach him. He was going to be doing a lot of heavy metal if he said yes, and seeing that hopeful expression on her face... It seemed like it meant the whole world to her if he said yes. He wasn't going to be that guy that said no and crushed that look.

"Yeah that sounds cool, I wouldn't mind jamming out or something." Naruto smiled at her. Well, it would seem that Naruto had somehow got involved in the music club. Population, him and Ibuki, great?

At first she was overjoyed by hearing him say yes to her offer, however, she saw how he seemed to be lost in his thoughts, maybe he was thinking that he wasn't good enough or something? 'Ibuki should cheer him up!' With that thought in mind, she gave him some encouragement, "Everyone has to start somewhere. If you have enough passion it won't be a problem."

Naruto looked at her completely surprised by that wise statement. He smiled at her, "You're right. This is going to be fun, so I should enjoy myself." he lightened up. Sure he might be tried, but it was a Saturday, there was plenty of time for sleep. Naruto scratched the back of his head, "So what do we do now?" he asked. She merely grinned at him.

"And with that, you passed the first Ibuki free time event!" she exclaimed happily clapping her hands together.

"What?" Naruto blinked in confusion at her. This wasn't a visual novel damn it!

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