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Age: 13 old years.

Italics: Thoughts

Please use your imagination for all facial expressions.


Chapter 1

Everyone in Konoha and Suna knows that the high school auditorium out by the border between the two countries is haunted.

Many say that it's just a legend that the auditorium was haunted by ghosts, but many believed that it was the spirits of the past shinobis who have passed away. They say that it's the restless spirits who causes the unexplainable, supernatural events that happens around there; many likes to believe it's a legend and stuck with that belief.

Now the students of Konoha and Suna must visit this eerie auditorium to put on a play for the entire 2 villages.

"Why do we have to do this stupid play anyways?" asked the frustrated Naruto.

"Because, Naruto, it's for Elders and Feudal Lords and plus you can "train" while you're acting. Besides, they wish to see how well the shinobis of Konoha and Suna can work together." chuckled Iruka nervously.

"Train??"

"Of course!" said Iruka, trying to be enthusiastic.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Iruka-sensei were walking together with students in front and in back of them. They were all heading for the auditorium to begin on the play.

"Hey, Iruka-sensei…I heard the auditorium was haunted, is that true?" asked Sasuke.

"H-haunted??!??!" asked the now frightened Naruto.

Naruto grabbed onto Sasuke and shifted his eyes around nervously.

"Get off me, you doofus!" said Sasuke as he pulled his arm away forcefully.

"Ne! Ne!! Iruka-sensei…is the auditorium r-really h-h-ha-haunted?!?!?"

"Oh Naruto, that's only a legend…you know that; I know that; everybody knows that…come on, Naruto…" said Iruka as he walked on ahead. He then turned around and added, "Don't worry…"

Naruto looked at Iruka as he walked away with non-reassuring eyes. Kiba, who had just overheard the entire conversation, walked up to Naruto's side and snickered.

"Oh? Haunted, eh?" said Kiba.

"WHAT?!?!?" screamed Naruto.

"Oh! Calm down, you moron. You heard what Iruka-sensei said. It's only a legend. Geez!" said Sasuke.

"Oh? Legend, huh? Maybe we can spice things up!" suggested Kiba.

"What do you mean?" asked Naruto.

"Since they SAY it's a legend…why not make it MORE than a legend…we can go around playing pranks and people will believe that it's really haunted and never go back! Not even the adults!!" laughed Kiba.

"But…" hesitated Naruto.

"Come on, you guys!! It'll be fun!!! Besides, it'll only be US who will know what's going on…"

Suddenly, a smirk formed on Sasuke's face.

"Interesting…"

"Uhh….Sasuke….?" said Naruto.

"Why don't we try this out Naruto…..we can have lots of fun…." an evil smile came upon Sasuke's face.

"U-uh….o-ok….Sasuke…"

Behind them, in the crowd, Sakura makes her way through her fellow students towards Sasuke and Naruto.

"SASUKE-KUN!!!!" screamed Sakura through the crowd at the top of her lungs.

Ino, who was also fighting her way through the crowd, began to catch up to Sakura.

"BIG-FOREHEAD GIRL!! WHO GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO WALK WITH SASUKE WHEN HE CLEARLY WANTS TO WALK WITH ME!?!?" screamed Ino to Sakura.

"WALK WITH YOU!??! YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING, INO-PIG!! THE LAST THING HE WANTS TO GET NEAR IS YOU!!!!" screamed back Sakura.

"WHAT?!?!? WHAT, YOU THINK HE WANTS YOU??!? COME ON! FOREHEAD GIRL!!! FACE IT! YOU SUCK AT THIS LOVE STUFF!! THERE'S NO POINT FOR YOU TO EVEN TRY! GIVE IT UP!! SASUKE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW YOU'RE ALIVE!!!"

"LOOK WHOSE TALKING!! INO-PIG!"

Sakura and Ino stopped in the middle of the crowd just to glare at each other with their stare of death. They gritted their teeth at each other and growled. Sakura grabbed Ino's hair and yanked it hard. Ino slapped Sakura's face before she let go of her hair. Everyone around them moved away cautiously as to not get hit or get involved. Sakura turned her head away from Ino as she did the same. "Hmph!!" The pink-haired girl began to walk towards her one true love as the blonde chased after her, racing their way to the top. Once they almost reached Sasuke, out of nowhere, Naruto popped up, looking excitedly at whatever it is he had picked up from the floor, knocking Sakura and Ino to the ground. Naruto walked off with the object in his hands, still fascinated by it. Behind him, Sakura and Ino were having a hard time trying to pick themselves up.

"NA-RU-TO!!!!!" screamed inner-Sakura.

Naruto felt a deep chill run down his spine and paused in his tracks. He slowly turned his head around to see where the eerie feeling had come from. When his head was fully turned, he could see Sakura and Ino glaring at him with fire in their eyes. Slowly, they moved in closer for the kill. Naruto began backing away slowly.

"H-hold on, S-Sakura-chan!!" screamed Naruto as he began to run away.

Naruto ran towards Sasuke hoping to find protection, but, unfortunately for him, before he even got there, Sakura and Ino had caught up and sent him flying to who knows where. Sakura's eyes followed the flying Naruto as he flew away. Before Sakura knew it, Ino was already in the arms of Sasuke, grabbing onto him as if he was her boyfriend. The angry teen ran after what she sought to be rightfully hers and grabbed onto his left arm.

"STUPID BIG-FOREHEAD GIRL!! I GOT HERE FIRST!!! GO FIND YOUR OWN BOYTOY!!"

"WHAT DID YOU SAY, INO-PIG?!??!"

"YOU HEARD ME!!!"

A frown formed on Sasuke's face and he pulled both arms away from the girls allowing them to come in contact with each other to argue some more. They followed the raven-haired boy as they argued their way to the auditorium.

When everyone reached the auditorium, coincidently, Naruto had just landed right in front of them. Took him long enough to fall back down.

"Naruto! What are you doing?!?!" screamed Sakura.

"Ahh…Sakura-chan…heh…heh…" said Naruto as he scratched his head, still sitting on the ground.

Naruto got up to his feet as Sakura and Ino followed Sasuke into the auditorium like a pair of ravenous dogs. As they walked through the auditorium doors, a piece of paper was handed to them. Naruto tagged along behind them and walked into the auditorium full of chairs up and down. The lights were on to ensure that everyone could see. As they made their way into the aisles, Naruto noticed that on the other side of the auditorium were the 3 sand siblings. Naruto began to wave his arms frantically at them.

"OI!! GAARA!! TEMARI! KANKUROU!" screamed the blonde.

The 3 sand siblings turned towards to where the yelling blonde was and walked over to greet him. Naruto ran up the aisle, passing Sasuke and Sakura, to meet them.

"You guys got dragged into this too, huh?" asked Naruto.

"It would seem so." answered Temari.

"What exactly are we doing anyways?" asked Kankurou.

"Iruka-sensei told me that we had to put on a play…it's supposedly what the Elders and the Feudal Lords want…and something about to see how well Konoha and Suna works with each other." said the blonde boy.

"Pfft, pfft…can everyone hear me??"

Everyone in the auditorium turned their heads to the direction where the voice came from. Their eyes landed on Iruka-sensei as he began to start his next sentence.

"Will everyone please take a seat? I will explain to you what we will be doing shortly."

All the students of Konoha and Suna took a seat somewhere, as long as they sat down they were fine. It was so overcrowded that not many had the space to walk around or even stretch their legs. It took the students a well 20 minutes to get everyone seated.

"Alright! Everyone seated? Good. Jaa, let's get down to busy. First of all, you all know that we will be putting on a play that requires both villages to work together. This play will prove to see how well our villages cooperate and it will bring us closer together as friends rather than just allies." explained Iruka.

"So…to start off…" began Kakashi. "We will have to decide what kind of performance you guys want to do. There's a lot to choose from…remember the piece of paper that was handed to you when you entered the auditorium? That paper has a list of titles to choose from, and now….you guys will be the ones to decide." smiled Kakashi.

All the students in the auditorium murmured. There was a lot to choose from and everyone must agree on it. After about 15 minutes of arguing and deciding, they came to the conclusion to do "A Journey to Overcome" play.

The play is supposedly about this: a Prince is out one day and finds himself falling for a peasant girl. He goes and sees her everyday until one day he is caught by his father's right-hand woman. His father's right-hand woman casts a spell on the girl since she wants the Prince for herself. Now the Prince must set out on a journey to help find a cure for his one true love.

"OK, so we've all decided on "A Journey to Overcome" play? Now we just got to figure out the cast. First off, the Prince--"

Fan girls began screaming in the background: "SASUKE!!!" "SASUKE-KUN!!!" "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Well…I guess majority rules. Sasuke's our Prince."

Naruto glared at Sasuke with unforgiving, sneaky eyes. "Why does HE always get the attention?? Always Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke!! TEME!!"

"What are you looking at, moron?" said Sasuke…directing the question to obviously only one person in the auditorium.

Naruto just kept staring with loathing eyes.

"Jaa, since that's over with, let's move onto the peasant girl, the one whom the Prince falls in love with…"

Sakura and Ino was about to raise their hands when suddenly Naruto jerked up from his seat due to a furry Akamaru walking past his legs and startling him.

"Oh, thank you for volunteering, Naruto."

Sakura and Ino stood there, frozen to the pits. Their brains couldn't process what had just happened, while in the background you could see Kiba laughing his ass off.

All the girls looked at Naruto with evil eyes and wanted to pounce him so badly.

"NA-RU-TO!!!!" screamed Sakura and Ino.

"W-wait!! I-it's not my fault!!!"

"Girls! Stop it!" shouted Iruka. "We still need a lot of other characters to cast….the King, Queen, the witch/King's right-hand woman, guards, other peasants and so forth and majority of the people will be helping in the back as the stage crew."

"Iruka-sensei, Sakura said she'd be willing to be the witch.." snickered Ino.

"Oh, since you volunteered her, Ino, I think it's best that you take the role."

"WHAT?!?!"

"Next time don't volunteer others; I'm pretty they have a mouth to talk with." said Iruka.

Sakura turned to Ino and stuck her tongue out at her. Ino glared back angrily.

"Oi…I'm surrounded by morons!!" thought Sasuke.

They spent the rest of the day deciding who would play what role.

Ino got the witch; Sakura got the Queen; Neji got the King; Naruto got the peasant girl; Sasuke got the Prince; Hinata got the Princess (the Prince's little sister); guards and peasants were played by majority of the other students and the chorus as well was made up of the rest of the students.

"Jaa, that's it for today! Everyone camp out and we will start bright and early tomorrow!!" said Iruka.

That night, all the genin boys slept in one tent while the girls slept in another. As they were about to drift off, Naruto began to hear crackling twigs and perked up his eyes immediately.

"Hey….guys…d-did you hear that??" asked the terrified Naruto.

"Go to sleep, Naruto…it was just your imagination!" growled Kiba.

"Arf!" barked Akamaru in agreement.

"B-but…b-but…"

"You moron! Stop chickening out and go to sleep!" yelled Sasuke.

Naruto lied down on his sleeping bag and covered his entire head. He could still hear whatever sound it was that was making the creepy noise. Naruto was so petrified that he couldn't get to sleep until 3 something in the morning…

Translation for the Japanese words:

-Konoha: Leaf

-Suna: Sand

-Shinobi: Ninja

-Sensei: Teacher

-Jaa: Well then…

-Teme: Bastard