Looping, oh the fun! (Naruto)

Ch10 Daughter of Evil

"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.