"Look at this."

Sasuke took out the specific page in the newspaper and spread it out on the table.

"It's the Literature page. It always post stories or poems that people wrote." Naruto frowned. "What does it have to do with us?"

"Use your brain Naruto. I know you have one, though it's pea-sized." Sasuke continued quickly before Naruto can retort. "Look. Even if our songs were great, our singing skills were great, and we looked super duper hot... Who would care?"

"Why wouldn't they care?"

"Obviously, we aren't going to perform in our real identities. So why would people listen to songs of two singers, whom they have never seen or heard off?"

"...that makes sense."

"Think of Muse (μ's) for example. Their first performance only has about ten audience members (including us). They have passed flyers around the school, and spreaded the word, so how come only ten people showed up? It's because they weren't well-known and had no fans at that time. If A-RISE had held a concert there, the auditorium would be completely filled. It wasn't until many performances later, after gathering more members and performing in front of different schools, on the street, in Love Live, were they popular enough to defeat A-RISE in Love Live's final round (1)."

Naruto stared at him with a strange expression. "And how come you know about them so well?"

"Well..." Sasuke looked a little embarrassed. "I like their songs...and..."

"And~~?"

"Umm..." Sasuke looked away. "They look cute...and..."

"Don't tell me..." Naruto suddenly gasped. "YOU were the one who sent Ayase-san that love letter! No wonder the handwriting looked familiar. It was you after all!" (In case you don't understand this part, there are explanations at the bottom of this chapter.)

"It was a dare!" Sasuke argued, blushing furiously.

But Naruto wasn't buying it. "And the darer had dared you to send a second love letter after your first one was exposed for the entire student body to view?"

"...w-well, anyway, ahem," cough cough, "right now, we are just like Muse after their initial debut. Nobody knows about us, so they wouldn't bother to listen to songs of two strangers, no matter how good the songs may be (just like Muse's first song). And thus, we need to find a way to introduce us to Konoha. We need to slowly gather fans and audiences, so when we finally perform our first song officially, there will be people who actually bothered to listen to it."

"But how do we do that?"

"With this." Sasuke tapped a certain section on the page.

"Poems?" Naruto wonder out loud. "How would that help with anything?"

"Many song lyrics could also be read as poems. Therefore, we'll choose some of the good ones and publish them onto this newspaper. When we have enough fans who love our poems, we can then announce that we're gonna turn those poems into songs. That would interest these fans, and they'd want to know how their favorite poem would sound like as a song. Especially if the songs are going to be sing by the writer of the poems."

"Great idea, Sasuke! I never thought of that!" Naruto exclaimed. "So what poem should we publish first?"

"...this."

Konoha's Newspaper Publisher was a huge and well-known company. Almost everyone would buy a newspaper everyday, to keep up with the news and important events. Living in a ninja village, information was very important. And that's the reason why this Publisher was so well-known.

-Literature Section-

"What's this shit!?" Head Editor Seito growled, slamming the crumbled paper onto the table. Everyone in the room trembled.

"Your eyes are so beautiful,

just staring at them made me faint.

Your hair is so shiny,

just staring at it made me blind.

Your lips are so sexy,

just staring at it made me drool.

Your boobs are so big,

just staring at it made me cum.

Your ass is so hot,

just staring at it made me HARD! They call this poetry!? They dare to call this literature!? This little piece of shit!"

"S-seito-san...please calm down-"

"Calm down!? How can I calm down!" The poor editor retreated back to his corner, regretting to have spoken. "I've been looking through poems after poems all my fucking day, and all I found is shit! I'm done! I'm leaving!"

"Wait! Please, just stay for a while more! We have only one more poem left to look through! It might be good!" Another editor spoke up. Not because he's curious of what the last poem's about, but because he's afraid that all of them would be in trouble if they weren't able to find a good-enough poem to fill in the spot, after the last poem author had retired.

"Fine! After this I'm leaving!" Seito sat down, ripped open the letter, and began reading...

...five minutes later...he's still reading...

All the other editors stared each other in the eyes, confused.

Then all of a sudden, Seito's hands began to shake...then his head...then his whole body... He shook so hard it's hard to believe he wasn't epileptic.

Before the editors could ask for his well being, Seito jumped up and exclaimed. "I found it! This is the one!"

The editors could only stare each other in the eyes, confused.

Oh well, it's not like this was new.

Sakura was smart, book-smart. One reason why was that she loved to read. Ever since she was little, her mother would make her read the literature section of Konoha's News. According her mother, in order to understand the political and economic sections of the newspaper, she needs to improve her reading skills and vocabulary first.

It was quite fun, actually, to read interesting stories, which were mostly about ninja. But because most of the authors were all civilians, who don't quite understand how the ninja world works, they made it sound very cool and fun. That's why Sakura wanted to become a ninja, because wouldn't anyone want to be cool and have fun?

Reading has become a habit. Now that Sakura's older, she'd still read the Literature section of the newspaper during breakfast.

Today, as usual, Sakura sat down onto the breakfast table and picked up today's newspaper, flipped to the page, and began reading the story she had been keeping up to date with. After reading everything, she skimmed her eyes to the poems section. She was surprised to see her favorite author being replaced by an unknown name.

"A new author? Humph." She was ready to throw down the newspaper, since she's a huge fan of Sakamoto-sensei, and she doesn't believe anyone could write poems better than he could, but the title caught her eyes.

"Daughter of Evil? By Nakamura Tenzoi?" The title was strange. Could the poem about a girl with dark power? Without much expectations, Sakura began reading. Slowly and bored at first...then she got more and more hooked by the poem. She realized, the poem was different from those she usually read. This one was a story.

There was once upon a time in another place

An evil kingdom who no person dared to face

And the ruler was a girl so mean

A tiny little princess of only age fourteen!

"A fourteen years old girl is the ruler of a kingdom? How can a girl that young be evil? Could this be an exaggeration to hook the readers in?" Sakura was suspicious, but she continued reading.

So many furnitures littered her abode

Her loyal servant who's likeness surely showed

Josephine was what her horse was named

All the riches of the world is what she had claimed.

"A servant...that looks like her? Is this foreshadowing something?" Sakura wondered, and kept on reading.

If you're short on money that's no fearful thing

Just take it from those who you dangle on a string

To those who feel that they want to bring me down

You'll just tidy up my gown.

Now, bow to me!

"What a conceited person! I don't think I'm going to like her..." Sakura frowned. 'Bow to me?' No one would like to be talked to like that. But so far, the girl only sounded mean and arrogant, not evil yet.

Evil flowers

Steadily bloom

With an array of colourful doom

But the weeds who feel that they want to stay

They'll just die and and feed me the same anyway.

The princess held a love for a man

Of blue who wasn't very much her fan

But instead he chose his neighbor's girl

Of green who's eyes shone like a pearl.

"I have a bad feeling about this..." An arrogant and jealous girl... Who knows what she'd do to be together with her love.

The princess knew this and was filled with rage

She called the servant locked in her cage

And said in a soft voice to not be heard

"Make sure the green country is badly stirred."

"No way!" Sakura exclaimed. "She's destroying an entire country just because she doesn't like that one girl!?"

Houses of the people were burned to the ground

So many voices would no longer make a sound

The people who had suffered so much pain

Didn't get pity from the one who'd slain.

"Oh, it's tea time."

"S-she...doesn't she care about these people's lives!? They are also human beings! How could she kill them all and sit there like nothing had happened!?" Sakura was filled with rage, but at the same time, she wanted to cry for the death of all those innocents.

Evil flowers

Steadily bloom

With an array of bloodied doom

Even though the flower is so very refined

The thorns had driven its garden to decline.

To defeat the princess was no easy task

But the people could no longer wear their mask

Like a flock of birds they were led by

A red lady mercenary into the nigh.

All the anger that had built up over the years

Now consumed them without any fears

But the army was battered from the green war

Their attacks were not much of a chore.

Once they fell the countrymen surrounded the court

The servants ran away as time was short

Little woman princess would not pose a fight

And she was finally captured in the night

"You're such a disrespectful man!"

"Yes! The evil girl would get what she deserved!" Sakura cheered.

Evil flowers

Steadily bloom

With an array of funest doom

How the paradise that she made for herself

Put this broken doll right back on the wooden shelf.

There was once upon a time in another place

An evil kingdom who no person dared to face

And the ruler was a girl so mean

A tiny little princess of only age fourteen.

She was to be punished at three o' clock

When the church bells resounded a tock

The person who was once royalty

Was bored in jail with no loyalty.

"A girl who's only fourteen years old...is going to be killed..." Sakura felt pity for the girl, but another voice in her mind told her that the girl deserved it.

At the time that eventually came

The church bells to her sounded rather lame

Without looking to faces of the crowd

Said she with eyes in a shroud

"Oh, it's tea time."

Sakura was angry once again. Why doesn't the girl apologize? Even before she's about to be killed, she still won't regret her actions?

Evil flowers

Steadily bloom

With an array of colourful doom

Now the people speak of her without a second thought

That daughter of evil had received what she sought.

TBC

The poem ended here, surprisingly, with a 'TBC' written at the end.

Does that mean this poem hadn't ended yet? Does that mean there's more to the story?

Sakura smiled so widely her cheeks hurt. It's her first time she liked a poem this much! Even Sakamoto-sensei didn't give her this feeling...this indescribable feeling.

An evil girl, a very very evil girl, fell in love, very conceited, killed everyone, got punished... The story may sound simple and cliche, similar to any other children stories which teach youngsters that evil was bad and good was, well, good. But this simple plot line indeed had captured Sakura's attention. She had never felt so emotional towards a fictional character before.

Usually, when she read about an evil character, she would feel angry about him or her and pity the innocents. But that's it. She would feel angry, then she would continue her day as normal and put the story behind her (so she can fill her mind with thoughts of her beloved Sasuke-kun). But this girl, this evil girl, had made her want to cry, want to scream, and even want to jump into the poem and kill her herself!

Placing the poem down, Sakura finally picked up her cold toast and started chewing on it. She didn't even notice how she was taking large bites, which she normally wouldn't do because it would make her fat. (She had read on a Health magazine that one should always chew a mouthful at least 20 times before swallowing it.) While eating her breakfast, Sakura couldn't help but think back to the poem.

Who will become the next Queen, or King? What will happen to the Blue boy and the servant? The country? Or even the evil girl herself?

She had a feeling that this poem wouldn't leave her mind for days.

(1) Muse (μ's): From the idol anime Love Live: School Idol Project. Muse consists of 9 girls who created this school idol group to save their school from closing due to the decreasing amount of applicants each year. A-RISE is a successful school idol group of UTX high school, which gained many applicants each year due to A-RISE's reputation. Love Live is the ultimate school idol competition featuring the best groups of Japan.

Indeed, in one certain loop, Sasuke and Naruto were students in Otonokizaka Academy, which was the school the Muse girls were in. Sasuke had a crush on Ayase Alisa so he sent her a love letter anonymously. Ayase was determined to find out the sender, so she exposed the letter to the entire school. Then, Sasuke sent another one, again, anonymously. During the whole time, Naruto was busy with the club he had joined. (They try different things in different loops, to keep themselves entertained, which means they are skillful in many different areas.)

And that's just a little explanation to help you understand that part.