A.N. As always I do not own Naruto, or Phantom of the Opera.

This is gonna be a ROMCOM but I actually haven't decided on pairings ^/^ so if there are any you readers want in particular (don't care as to who it may be) let me know and we'll see what happens :P

Please review, I like the reviews!

A dark tune wafted through the freshly cleaned corridors just as the doors to the school opened for the day. Once it reached the students' ears, they all instantly knew what it meant.

It was time for the school production.

All eyes narrowed, all mouths smirked, as raven hair moved into the building. His dark eyes focused on the greyed floor, attempting to avoid any and all contact with the laughing glares around him. He still didn't know why he had willingly chosen to come to this school, knowing full well that he was already working here. It was just so embarrassing.

"Heeeeeey Sasuke-kun‼" the chirpy call pulled him out of his own self-pitying thoughts, of course she was the first one to actually speak to him, "Itachi Sensei has picked the production for this year‼"

Sasuke locked his eyes onto his classroom and kept his pace even, "It would seem so."

"You recognise the song don't you?"

"Hn."

"Oh come on‼" Sakura jumped in front of the door and stared down at him disapprovingly, "How could you, you of all people, not know what that song is?!"

"Look," Sasuke pushed past her and strode into the filling classroom, "just because onii-san is into that stuff doesn't mean that I am. He has his life and I have mine."

"Well I just adore this song, and the whole production as a matter of fact."

"Is that so…"

Sakura giggled gently, following along behind him and sitting on his desk the moment they arrived, and without Sasuke's permission, "I would love to have two men fighting over me, and I get to watch my one and true love pull through."

"You're very annoying."

"Hey! So are you Sasuke‼" out of nowhere Naruto came flying, leaning over his friend's head just to be a pain, "So what are you gonna do about the play, huh? You gonna try out?"

"Why would I do that Dobe?"

"Because you're a Teme."

Sakura smiled gently at the blonde, more amused by him than by Sasuke, "Are you going to audition for it Naruto-kun? You could make a cute Raoul."

"Yeah?!" Naruto pushed Sasuke's face into the desk out of excitement, "I was talking to Lee just before and he said that Itachi Sensei had asked him and Ren to do the chor-or-or….. dancing."

"Wait," Sakura leapt off Sasuke's desk to sit on hers, directly beside his, "I didn't know that Lee-kun danced."

"Yeah, apparently he's done it almost all of his life."

"Wow… where does he get the energy? He's just about in every sports club there is already," Sakura mused.

"Yeah, and I'm not the only one whose gonna do it either. Gaara said he's gonna try out too," Naruto finally got off Sasuke to ask the red head who sat behind him, "Didn't you?"

"Yes," Gaara mumbled in response, avoiding eye contact with the smiling cherry blossom the best that he could.

"Why are you auditioning?" Sasuke was genuinely curious about the only other silent boy in the classroom, "It'll be nothing more than a huge waste of time, I don't get it."

"I think that it could be fun..."

"You can't be serious?"

"Why not?"

"Everyone around me is annoying," Sasuke turned back to his desk and started to take out whatever books he could.

"Well, if Gaara-kun is auditioning then I recon everyone should," Sakura decided, "I'll go talk to Ino-pig and Hinata-chan after class, and you guys can go find Kiba-kun too."

"Kiba definitely won't do it," Sasuke stood by his ideals, knowing that if any more people were going to audition then he'd be forced to as well, "Why can't you just leave everyone else alone?"

"Because I want to have fun."

"Go have fun by yourself."

"I would but I prefer to do that when I'm alone in my bedroom," Sakura gave a small wink and seductive smirk, "Sasu-ke-kun." Anyone around who had heard immediately coughed loudly, trying to hide the fact that they had heard but the blushes on their faces betrayed them.

Sasuke remained stone faced while his mind was racing, he was a teenage boy after all and Sakura had always been a pretty girl. He threw a book back at Naruto to shut the squeaking boy up and then turned back to his desk, "Whatever. I'm not auditioning for Itachi's stupid production."

"Don't worry Sakura-chan," Naruto smirked and wiped away the last of the blood from his nose, "Teme will do it, otherwise he'll have no one to hang out with. That and I know some things others don't."

Sasuke choked on the oxygen he tried to breathe in. He didn't know Naruto had dirt on him… no… wait… yes, yes he did. Sasuke swore in his mind as he felt Naruto's eyes drill into the back of his head, of course he had to console in the blonde that one damn time. He knew he'd regret it. He regretted it ever since that day. But there was nothing he could do about it now.

"Alright class let's get started," Iruka charged in right as the bell rang for the school day to begin, "Sit down, first thing on the list is our school's upcoming production…"

Sasuke groaned and looked out the window, he wasn't going to enjoy this experience at all.

"Phantom of the Opera huh?" Sasori glanced over the script before tossing it back to Itachi, "What on Earth made you pick this one?" Itachi flicked through the script himself with a small smile, "It's a classic musical Sasori, you sound as though you have a problem with it."

"I'm doing the scenery aren't I?"

"Don't complain, you have that ex-student coming back for the term aren't you?"

"Oh yes, Deidara," Sasori leaned back and pressed the warm coffee cup to his lips, "Annoying little brat he was; never could understand the true meaning of art. He was also a bit of pyromaniac from memory."

"That he was Sasori," right on cue the orange haired principal of the school walked into the staff room, his real name was Nagato but got everyone to call him Pein to mess with the students, "Nearly set the entire art block on fire when his girlfriend dumped him, just stood there smirking the whole time I lectured him."

"And you allowed him to come back because…?"

"You will need a hand creating the background's for the production won't you?" Pein smirked as he poured himself some coffee, "Last time you did it alone I distinctly remember you actually threw a student out the window… and that was Deidara too wasn't it?"

"Really glad he didn't press charges for that…"

"So now if you get stressed you could do the same thing again instead of attacking the students I like."

"Sounds fair."

"And as for you Itachi," Pein dropped the cup on the Uchiha's head and caught it before it spilled, "I don't want you favouring any students in this production, that's gonna cause a lot of trouble on my end if you do. I don't want to deal with it."

Itachi rubbed the sore on his head slowly, "I will not be favouring my brother, I would just hate to cause trouble for you Pein-sama. Besides, he's not really into musicals or things like that. I know that he won't audition though I get the feeling his friends will."

"Don't favourite them either."

"I won't," Itachi looked at the script once more, that small returning to his face, "I wonder though who is going to audition, for once in my life I would like for one of my productions to go well."

"This better not cost a lot."

"Since when did you start worrying about money?"

"Since Kakuzu has been riding my ass," Pein blushed lightly at the immature chuckles the other teachers gave, "metaphorically of course. Apparently our budget isn't very good at the moment and he doesn't want us to be spending any more than we have to."

"What's the budget?"

"…"

Itachi groaned and leaned back to look at the ceiling, "This just keeps getting better and better…"

The lunch hall was filling with students, but even over all the noise Ino's excited squeals could still be heard.

"SASUKE-KUN IS EVEN GOING TO AUDITION?!"

"Shut up Ino-pig," Sakura rubbed her ears and pulled her friend back to her seat, "but yeah apparently Naruto-kun blackmailed him into doing it."

"So… Naruto-kun is auditioning too?" Hinata mumbled hopefully, her fingers pressing together softly.

"Yeah, he even convinced Gaara-kun to audition I think..."

"My otouto?" Temari gave a roar of laughter, trying to imagine her youngest of brothers dancing and singing on a stage, "I can't believe it. Tell you what, if Gaara does audition then I'll drag Kankuro down and we can all audition together."

"You're on, and that means…" all four girls slowly turned their heads to the last two in their group, sitting down the end of the table. Both girls shivered and bowed their heads.

"We'll audition too..."

Karin recovered first and pointed over at the boy's table, "So who else is going to audition then?"

"Not sure," Sakura took a swig of her milk before continuing, "Why don't you convince Neji-san to audition with us?"

"Oh he already is," Ten-Ten explained, "Something about it looking good on collage applications or something like that… I wasn't really listening to be honest."

"Well you have to… he talks about things you don't understand most of the time."

"But from the sounds of it the production is actually going to be successful this time round," Ino gave an evil chuckle as past events came to mind, "Poor Itachi Sensei. Remember when he tried to get the school to do 'Bye Bye Birdie'? Everyone thought that it was going to be successful…"

"…until the entire cast got food poisoning the night before the production," Karin finished, having remembered from her junior year also, "I remember seeing Itachi Sensei the next day, he looked just so… deflated."

Sakura picked up her carton of milk and raised it to the roof, "Well, if we get into the production then I say we make it a successful one for once. I vow to work hard for Itachi Sensei!"

All the girl's mimicked her actions and words, "For Itachi Sensei‼"

Upon hearing his brother's name cheered at the girl's table, Sasuke cringed and bit into his sandwich, "This is ridiculous."

"I guess they are speaking about the upcoming production," Lee assumed, glancing over at the giggling group, "It would be nice for it to go well this year, do you agree?"

Gaara nodded and decided to warn his brother, "I am auditioning."

"Oh no!" Kankuro nearly jumped out of his chair but decided not to make a scene, "Why the hell would you want to do that?! It's social suicide!"

"I don't socialize anyway."

"That's not the point Gaara…"

"There's absolutely nothing wrong with it," Naruto tossed some of his unwanted at lunch at Kankuro, "Teme and I are auditioning too! And so is Kiba."

Unfortunately Kiba hadn't been told yet, "I'm what?"

"Oh yeah, you're doing it too. Sakura-chan said that she's gonna talk to all the girls and get them to all audition too, so we can all be in the production."

"You assume that you are just going to get in," Neji chuckled softly, wiping his mouth delicately with a napkin, "Just because Sasuke is related to Itachi Sensei doesn't mean that he will favour you in anyway. He'll pick those who are best for the roles and that is that."

"You're auditioning?"

"Yes I am, I have nothing planned so I don't see any reason not to audition."

Once again Sasuke wished that he could crawl under a hole and just remain there until the production was finally over. Why all of his friends had to decide to audition just made things worst. If there was thing that he knew, it was that he was not going to enjoy this experience at all.