Act 1:
Scene i, busy Konoha street:
Naruto Uzumaki and Rock Lee, servants of the Capulet's, walked down the busy Konoha street. "Lee," Naruto began, "On my word, we must not endure insults."
"No we mustn't"
"If I were to be angered I would draw my sword. I strike quickly, being moved." Naruto pretended to pull out a sword and strike with it.
"But you can't move quickly to strike." Lee joked. Naruto turned to him and gave a smile.
"A dog of the house of Hyuga will make me want to move." Naruto and Lee continued to walk down the crowded street.
"The cowards and weaker stand towards the back of the lines." Lee stated.
"Tis true; and therefore women, being the weakest, are thrust to the back of the lines. Therefore I will push Montague's men from the back to the front and his maids to the back." Naruto said proudly.
"But this fight is between our masters and us, their men." Lee seemed worried.
"When I fight the men, I will be civil with the maids- I will cut off their heads."
"The heads of the maids?" Lee looked bewildered.
"Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads. Take it in what sense they want." Naruto gave an evil smile.
"Their maidenheads? You will take their virginity?" Lee was still bewildered.
"Ay."
"Then they must take it in whatever sense they feel like." The two Capulet servants spotted two servingmen of the Hyuga household, Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame. Naruto smirked as they walked by. He flipped them off before they could completely pass. Kiba turned to him.
"Did you just flip me off?" He asked in an angry tone. Naruto looked at him with a smile.
"Ay, sir, I did." Kiba drew his sword.
"Do you want to fight sir?" Lee asked as he also drew his sword.
"A fight? No sir I do not wish to fight." Kiba replied, sword still held in his hand.
Hinata Hyuga, cousin to Neji Hyuga, walked towards them. "Part fools." She commanded. "Put up your swords. You know not what you do." Kankuro, nephew to Lord Capulet and Tenten's cousin, also walked up to them.
"Why do you draw your sword to these worthless servants? Fight me, Hinata; and look upon your death." Kankuro said, sword held out.
"I'm trying to keep the peace. Put up your sword, or help me to part these men." Hinata said, trying to solve the issue.
"You hold out your sword," Kankuro slid his sword across hers to emphasize his point, "and talk of peace? I hate Hell as much as all Hyugas and yourself. Have at thee, coward!" With that line, all the servants from both households that had gathered upon thy street began to fight for the pride of their clans.
Lord and Lady Capulet enter the street, not far from their house, where the fight was going on. "What noise is this? Give me my sword, hurry." He said gesturing to his wife.
"You're too old! Why do you want your sword?" She complained.
"Give me my sword, I say. Old Hyuga is coming and holds his blade even though I don't have mine." Capulet complained as Lord Hyuga and his wife enter the street where the fight is making a commotion.
"That villain, Capulet. Don't hold me back, let me fight." He said. Lady Hyuga stepped in his way and stopped him.
"Thou shalt not step one foot towards you foe to fight." She said sternly. Just then, the trumpets sounded and Prince Shikamaru, riding his white stallion, entered the street. He looked around.
"What be this fight about?" His eyes landed on Capulet and Hyuga. "Another quarrel between the clans? Three times the fights between you two have interrupted the peace of Konoha. You must stop the fighting in my streets this instance, or be put to hang." Shikamaru looked at Capulet. "I want you, Capulet, to come with me for a meeting," he looked at Hyuga, "And you Hyuga, will meet with me in the afternoon. On that note, I must depart." Prince Shikamaru said as he turned around and rode off. Lord Capulet followed him and all the servants departed, going their separate ways. The only left on the street was Hyuga, his wife, and Hinata.
"Who started this fight?" Hyuga asked looking at Hinata. She then gave him a recap of what happened, word for word.
"Where is Neji? Have you seen him today? I'm so glad he wasn't at this fight." The lady said.
"Madam, I saw Neji this morning and he seemed awful depressed. He walked off into the forest to be alone." Hinata replied.
"Many mornings he has been doing this." Hyuga said with a slight shake of his head.
"My dear uncle, do you know what is causing this?" Hyuga shook his head. Hinata sighed and looked off into the distance. "I see him there. Please will you leave us, so I can find the cause of this?" Hinata asked politely.
"I would be happy to see him back to his old self." He turned to his wife. "Come Lady Hyuga, let us be gone." With that Lord and Lady Hyuga left as Neji reached Hinata.
"Good day cousin." Hinata said with a smile. Neji sat down on one of the benches on the side of the street.
"Is the day so young?" He asked.
"It has already struck noon." Hinata told him. Neji placed a hand on his head.
"Ay me. Saddening hours seem to last so long."
"What sadness lengthens your hours?" Hinata asked while walking closer to the bench where Neji resided.
"Not having what that wants, makes them sad."
"In love?" She asked questionably.
"Out-" He replied sorrowly.
"Of love?"
"I am in love with she, who is a beauty, but she doesn't return the favor." He glumly lied down and stared up at the light blue sky.
"Tell me who you love." She asked sofly.
"Why would I tell thee?" He questioned rudely.
"I swear I will help you to overlook this." She told him sincerely.
"How will you do that?" Neji looked at her with a questionable look.
"I will make you forget." Hinata gave him a smile.
"Teach how I should forget to think!" He said, sitting up to face her.
"Look at other women."
"She is too beautiful. No matter how many women you show me, no one can surpass her beauty. You would not be able to show me someone prettier." Neji said glumly.
"I'll swear to it I will, or die trying."
Scene ii, a street:
Count Sasuke Uchiha and Lord Capulet walked down the streets in the middle of a conversation. "I wish to wed your daughter." Sasuke said.
"That is acceptable, but I wish to wait two more years. She is still quite young."
"There are girls much younger than her that are already mothers." Sasuke replied.
"I know this. Woo her at my party tonight, Sasuke. Make her fall in love with you and wait two more years then I will let you marry my daughter." Capulet said, he had his mind made up. He ushered his servant over. "Take this list and invite these people to the party." With that Lord Capulet and Sasuke left the servant. He stared at the list.
"If only I knew how to read." A little farther down the street, Neji and Hinata were conversing. The servant walked up to them. "Good day kind sir and madam. Can one of you read?" The servant held out a list and Neji took it into his hands.
"I can." He looked at the list and read it out loud. "Where is this being held?" Neji asked curiously.
"At my masters." Replied the servant. "I will tell you before you ask, my master is the great Capulet. If you are not of the Hyuga clan, I wish for you to come and have a cup of wine. Have a good day." The servant left, not knowing he just invited two of the Hyugas.
"We will go tonight and I will make your swan look like a crow." Hinata said, referring to Neji's love.
"Try what you want, but it will not work." He replied, having doubt in his cousin.
Scene iii, Capulet house:
"Nurse," said Lady Capulet, "Where is my daughter? Bring her to me." Temari, the nurse to Tenten, left and brought back Tenten to her mother.
"You wished to see me?" Young Tenten questioned.
"Nurse and other servants, leave for a bit. We must talk in secret." She motioned the servants out, while Temari was hesitant. "Wait Nurse, come back. You shall here our talk." Capulet turned back to her daughter. "Thou know my daughter is of a pretty age."
"I can tell you her age to the hour." The nurse replied proudly.
"She's not fourteen."
"Not yet. I remember a day when young Tenten fell forward and hit her head. My husband- God bless his soul- then picked her up and smiled to her. He then said 'Did you just fall on your face? You will fall back when you are older, will you not, Ten?' Then she cried and nodded her head. 'Ay.' She said." Temari then started laughing like a crazy woman.
"Enough of this Nurse. Hold your tongue." Lady Capulet said sternly.
"Yes, but I still can't stop laughing. To think she would say 'Ay.' Then my husband had said, 'Yea, you fell upon your face. You will fall backward when you come to age. Will you not, Ten?" She nodded once again." Temari started laughing again.
"I pray thee to stop, dear Nurse." Tenten cried.
"I am done my sweet child. One day I wish to see thee married." Temari said placing a hand on Tenten's shoulder.
"Married is the subject I wish to talk about. Tell me Tenten, what is your thought on being married?"
"It is an honor I do not dream of." Tenten said proudly. She didn't wish to be married.
"Think over the thought of marriage. Girls younger than you have already become mothers. Even I was a mother at your age. The valiant Sasuke wishes for you love?"
"A man wants Tenten's hand in marriage?" Temari exclaimed happily.
"What do you say Tenten? Can you love him? Tonight you will meet him at our feast. He wishes dearly to make you his." The Lady said excitedly. "Can you love Sasuke back?"
"I will try to like him by looking, but I will only look enough to your consent." Tenten replied respectively. A servingman entered the room.
"Madam, the guests have arrived. Supper has been served." He stated briefly.
"We will follow you, the Count awaits."
"Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days." Temari said happily as she gave Tenten a little shove towards the door.
Scene iv, a street:
Neji, Hinata, and Sai along with many more torchbearers and Hyuga servants danced through the street, each one holding a mask so they could conceal themselves when they reach the party, except for Sai who was neutral through the whole fight between clans. They were all prancing around with a grin on everyone's face.
"Should we announce our arrival when we get there as it is custom or just go about our business?" Neji asked.
"Let us forget about announcing our entrance. We will dance for a while, then take our leave." Hinata quietly replied.
"Hand me a torch," Neji said holding his hand out. "I am not for this party, but being sad and bear it by myself." Sai pushed Neji's hand down.
"No Neji. You must dance." He put on a small smile.
"Not I, trust me." Neji shook his head. "You have dancing shoes with nimble soles; I have a soul of lead. I cannot dance."
"You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar above them all." Sai said.
"I am too sore because he has pierced me with his arrow so I cannot soar with his light feathers. Under heavy burden from love, I am bound." Neji replied, sulking again.
"Nonsense. Come, we're burning daylight." The sky was setting and almost completely dark, except for the torches.
"I dreamt a dream tonight." Neji said.
"And I did too."
"What was your dream Sai?" Neji asked.
Sai gave a smirk. "That dreamers often lie."
"You talk of nothing." Neji scolded him sternly. They had stopped walking and were staring each other down in the middle of an abandoned street.
"True, I talk of dreams, which are nothing, but vain fantasy; which is a thin substance of air, and more inconstant than the wind." Sai spoke intelligently and with a good point.
"This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves." Hinata remarked after being silent for so long. "Dinner at the party is done and we shall be too late." They started walking again, hurrying to make it to the party with time to spare for dancing.
"I fear too early; for my mind is fearful that some future event, fated by the stars, shall start to run its course tonight and cut my life short." Neji said, telling them of his dream.
"Then let us go." Hinata said excitedly.
Scene v, a hall in Capulet's house:
"Welcome guests." Lord Capulet said, gesturing to everyone filing into the ballroom. "Ladies, care free to dance of those who can dance. My mistresses, which one of you all will deny a dance? Come gentlemen, come musicians. Let us dance." Said the formal Lord, taking a Lady to dance with. Neji, Hinata, and Sai entered the room.
Many guests were dancing, but one caught Neji's eyes. To him, she was alluring and beautiful. She danced with such grace it should be illegal. He watched her dance with one of the men, who he envied for being able to dance with the beauty. He watched her twirl around the floor. Sakura. The one who stole his heart and didn't give hers in place. Neji watched her move around before she disappeared from his sight, but he stopped looking when he spotted someone even more alluring. She had dark mahogany hair that was tightly held in twin buns.
"Who is that lady that dances with that Count?" Neji asked a nearby servant. The servant glanced at the girl and replied to Neji.
"I know not, sir." With that he left Neji behind to gaze at the mysterious beauty. He had completely forgotten about Sakura and his heartache over her.
"She's gorgeous." He murmured out loud while taking off his mask. Kankuro spotted him.
"This, by his voice, is a Hyuga. Fetch me my sword!" He told a passing servant.
Lord Capulet walked up. "What be this? What are you starting?" Kankuro was livid.
"Uncle, this is a Hyuga, our foe, a villain, that is here in spite of the feud." Kankuro replied to the lord. Capulet looked at him.
"Young Neji is it?"
"Yes it is, that villain Neji." Kankuro spat his name.
"Calm down. You must not start a fight at my party. If you ruin the party then you'll have everyone talking and you'll be in trouble." Lord Capulet scolded him.
"I will not endure him." Kankuro pouted with a frown still on his face."
"You will endure him otherwise you'll make a mutiny amongst my guests. Now go!"Kankuro leaves the Lord in a huff. The Lord continues to party and dine with his guests. Neji walks up to Tenten and greets her.
"Your hands," he takes her hands in his, "are so holy. Mine are unworthy to even touch yours." He says smoothly. Tenten smiles at him.
"You wrong your hands too much. They are not unworthy at all." She replies to him softly.
"But my lips are full of sin while yours are holy and untainted." Neji says, still holding onto her hands.
"My lips are in fact untainted." Tenten says with a smirk.
"Then save my sinful lips using yours." He says. Then he pulls her in for a kiss. Tenten gasps.
"But now my lips have your sin." Tenten says with a smile, placing her fingers on her lips.
"Sin from my lips? Then give me my sin again!" Neji says pulling her back in for a kiss that lasts longer. The nurse walks up.
"Madam your mother would like to talk to you." Tenten pulls away and turns to the nurse. She then walks away to her mother. Neji looks at the nurse curiously.
"Who is her mother?" He inquires.
"She is the lady of the house and a good lady who is wise and virtuous. I nursed her daughter that you talked with. Let me tell you, the guy that can take a hold of her heart shall have the money." Temari says with a smile.
Neji nods and starts walking back to his friends. "She is a Capulet? My life is at the mercy of the enemies of my family." He shakes his head as he reaches Hinata and Sai.
"It's time to go." Hinata says. Neji just nods in acknowledgement and they take their leave. The rest of the guests are slowly making their way out as Tenten calls to her nurse, Temari.
"Come here. Who is that gentleman over there?" Hinata says pointing to a man with pointy silver hair.
"Oh that is the son of Hatake." She replies. Tenten points to a guy with medium length grayish white hair.
"And him?"
"I think that is Hidan." Tenten nods.
"Who is that right there that would not dance?" Tenten asks.
"I don't know."
"Well go ask of his name. If he is married my grave is likely to be my wedding bed." Tenten says as Temari comes back.
"He is Neji and a Hyuga, the son of your only enemy." Temari says sadly.
"My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Monstrous birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy."
"What is that?" Temari asks curiously.
"A rhyme I learned of for the one I talked with." Someone calls Tenten's name.
"We have to go. Come on Tenten, the guests are all gone." With that they leave the ballroom and make their way to a different room in the house.