Disclaimer: I don't own any Naruto characters or Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Authors Note: I'm not exactly a Sakura/Sasuke shipper, but when I thought of these characters they seemed to fit the part he best. Also I got the idea from watching Romeo and Juliet in English class. The one with Leonardo DiCaprio. Hence the "YO RO-MAY-OH", spoken by Mercutio AKA the guy who plays Michael in "Lost".

Summary: Two rival students, Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha, must share the spotlight in order to produce this years school play, Romeo and Juliet. Unfortunately, they hate each other more than they can bear to act, though neither is willing enough to give up the game. Can they over come their differences and discover that just maybe, there really is something hidden under all the hate? Maybe even a little romance?

Ro-may-oh and Juliet

Meet Sakura Haruno. Perfect example of the three P's: Pretty, popular, preppy. She was the apple of almost every guy's eye. Long, sleek pink hair, eyes the truest green and a robust body. She took the lead female roles in the school plays every year, and had a voice that could make any girl green with envy. Sakura was also a straight A, all around perfect student.

Introducing Sasuke Uchiha. He was handsome, admired, subdued. The kind of guy all girls had crushes on. His muddled, spiky, raven black hair and dark eyes weren't the only attractive feature he had. On top of his looks he had many friends, despite his quiet demeanor and he was a hard-worker, the top of his classes. And like Sakura, Sasuke was an incredible actor who managed to snag the leading role every year.

Anyone outside of junior year at Konoha High School, or Kona-high as the students referred to it would have thought that they were the perfect compliment of one another, a match made in heaven. But there was one thing that they didn't know about these two prestigious people. They loathed each other.

It all started on their freshman year, were everyone was just starting out. Kids searching around frantically, trying to find someone, anyone that they knew to share the first-day jitters with. Upper classmen looked down at the newbies with distaste, completely ignorant of that fact that they themselves had been in the same predicament the prior year.

Luckily though Sakura had thought ahead, not wanting to look foolish in front of any older students. She had wanted to enter Kona-high looking like she belonged without the disgruntled impression of so many others that had lost their way to class. After memorizing her schedule, and the map of the school provided to them, she had arranged to be dropped off with her best friend Ino Yamanaka, to avoid being nervous by herself.

The girls had spent the night over Sakura's house and had woken up at 4:30 to make perfect of themselves on this status-starting day. Ino had her long blonde hair pulled back in a tight, high ponytail, like always. Black capris, a navy blue-sleeveless sweatshirt, and white armbands completed her sporty attire. Sakura had left her straightened hair down (her mother always complained about why she bothered to straighten her already straight hair, "It has waves in it mom!") and went with a plain white, button down tank top, and maroon jeans with matching belt. She was total prep, and she looked good.

Not wanting to make their grand entrance on a school bus, Sakura set for her mom to drop them off before work. "Okay mom you can stop here." Said the girl from the passenger seat. Her mother looked at her sharply. "Honey you'll have to walk for another block or so, how about I pull up just a little closer?" Sakura opened the door impatiently as did Ino from the backseat. "We prefer not to be seen being dropped of by mommy at this age." She said closing the door. Her mother sighed, smiling and waving goodbye to the two girls that she had watched grow up before her very eyes.

The talked about what the first day would be like until the reached the building. It was an overwhelming site. Tons of students were grouped here and there, shouting at missed friends, giving hugs and high-fives. Girls sat on the grass talking, guys threw a football, a kid rode his bike into a tree to avoid hitting a group of Goths that had seen the bike but evidently didn't care enough to move.

Ino pointed out a group of guys sitting on the steps. "Ooh I knew high school was were dreams come true!" she squealed. Sakura knew what she meant immediately. In the middle of the group sat the most gorgeous looking guy she had ever laid eyes on. "Let's go introduce ourselves, shall we?" Ino said excitedly. Before Sakura could object Ino had grabbed her arm and began to forcefully pull her over to them.

"Yo heads up, check out the chicks already heading our way! I told you high school would have it all!" Said an animated boy pumping his fist in the air. Another boy, who had just been previously napping with his head resting on his backpack, spoke up. "Oi, Kiba! Quiet down would ya? You're too noisy for so early in the morning, it's so bothersome…" Kiba rolled his eyes, and the blonde boy next to him growled, "Aww lighten up Shikamaru! It's the first day, not even the first hour and your already complaining?"

The guy in the middle of the group, who had been taking in his surroundings decided to join in to the conversation being held. "Naruto, as far as I'm concerned it doesn't matter what Kiba says, but your voice is like nails scratching on a chalk board to me." "Hey!" said the blonde boy looking irritated. "And Kiba, what's with the war paint anyway?" Kiba shrugged and answered impassively, "Just felt like being a little different."

Sasuke looked up to notice the two girls that had just came up to them. The blonde girl spoke first smiling cheerfully at them. "Hullo boys! Are you freshman too?" Sasuke nodded smirking, and said, "That we are! This is Naruto Uzumaki," he said pointing to the lively blonde boy in his weird yet cool orange jump suit "Kiba Inuzuka," the boy with the war-paint flashed his pointy teeth "Shikamaru Nara," the one laying back on the steps waved his hand, only one eye open "and I'm Sasuke Uchiha. And who might you two lovely young women be?" He said putting on his suave voice.

The blonde spoke first offering her hand to Sasuke. "The name's Ino Yamanaka." He took her hand and kissed it and she smiled smugly. Sasuke looked at the other girl, whom he noticed, was very attractive. She looked as though she were annoyed at her friend's flirty manner, but put a smile on any way. 'Very pretty indeed.' Thought Sasuke. She held out her hand for them to shake it, "My name is-" but before she could introduce herself a loud squeal was heard from behind them and Sakura found herself being pushed aside by a group of girls.

"Sasuke-kun! It's been so long, how are you?" said the girl in the front. Sasuke seemed to immediately forget that she had just been speaking to him and allowed the girls to hang all over him like a bunch of groupies clinging to a rock star. Sakura sat still sprawled across the ground, dumbfounded. Ino shook her head disbelievingly and leant down to help her friend up.

"Hey, are you okay? Said the boy, introduced as Naruto. "Yeah" said Sakura, taking the hand he offered her. "I cannot believe the nerve of that guy!" She said angrily, dusting herself off. "First he acts all sophisticated, then he disregards me like a piece of trash!" "Yeeeaaahh, I guess you could say he's like that sometimes." Spoke Kiba who had come to check on her also. The only one left near Sasuke was Shikamaru, whom had put a book over his head and continued to nap. The girls pulled Sasuke up and walked into the building with him, and Naruto walked over and kicked Shikamaru lightly in the ribs. He groaned and sat up yawning. The three boys grabbed their stuff and began to make their way inside.

"See ya later!" Naruto shouted and they waved and went through the doors Sasuke had previously entered.

Sakura, still seething stomped up the steps, cursing under her breath and Ino, still shaking her head, followed Sakura through the doors.

"Well, I'll be seeing you later." said Ino, whose homeroom was in another part of the building. Sakura walked into her homeroom and found an empty seat next to the windows. Soon the class began to fill up with students. She was delighted to find that Hinata Hyuga, a friend of hers from her junior high, was in the same homeroom. They talked for a couple of minutes, until Sakura noticed someone walk through the door. Her eyes blazed with anger when she realized who it was.

Noticing the girl from earlier, Sasuke smirked and made his way to sit behind her. "Hey you never told me your-" Sakura cut him off. "And I'm not planning on telling it to your ignorant self either!" she snapped. He looked confused for a moment until realization hit him. "Ohh, you mean when my friends from last year came? Well I'm sorry if I temporarily forgot about you but I haven't seen them all summer." "That's such a lame excuse for being an ass whole."

Sasuke was beginning to get ticked off. What had he done for her to treat him so ignorantly? "Look I don't know what the hell your problem is but-" "MY PROBLEM?" she said loudly, enough for the people in the class who weren't already listening, to hear. "Here I am introducing myself and then your little fan girls came and pushed me to the ground, and you totally forgot about me and didn't even ask to see if I was okay! Then you get up and leave, then come here talking to me like nothing happened!" Sasuke thought she was over-reacting and told her so. Apparently this was the wrong thing to say.

"You know what?" she said, "I think your kind of guy is the worst. You're rude, conceited and you have an the biggest ego, thinking that all girls will just flock to you." Sasuke was pissed now. "At least my ego isn't as big as your forehead!" Her forehead wasn't really that big at all, but it was the easiest target Sasuke could find. He saw a quick flash of hurt across her eyes, but in an instant it was gone. She stood up and grabbed her books but not before she slapped him hard across the face, and moved to another seat in the room amongst all the "OOOO, SHE GOT YOU!"s.

Sasuke sat dazed for a couple of seconds, his hand placed over his stinging cheek. He looked up to see their homeroom teacher, Mr. Sarutobi, shaking his head at Sasuke, apparently thinking he'd gotten what he deserved. No girl, no person had ever shown such defiance towards him. He tried to ignore all the disapproving remarks he was getting, and the girls all situated around Sakura, who was sitting with her arms crossed, looking smug. She had embarrassed him in front of his whole class, and he knew this would cause trouble making new acquaintances if they all knew about this. He shook from anger. This girl was from now on his enemy

Luckily for Sasuke being such a popular guy, this incident did not destroy his reputation, and he proceeded to become one of the most popular kids in Kona-high. And luckily for Sakura this incident made her very popular as well, and she made her way to the top of social status.

For the next few years they would hate each other, and take pleasure in any misfortune that the other went through. Theirs would become the harshest of rivalries, the cause of many a disagreements. They took pride in tormenting each other, and that was only when they spoke to one another, which wasn't often. Becoming the two most popular guy and gal in school was easy. Avoiding each other when having so much in common kept throwing them together wasn't.