Prologue
There is a scowl plastered on his handsome face, a scowl that would no doubt make his ever nagging mother give him an earful about etiquettes and manners. She has told him many times about showing that 'horrid' expression on his face and that girls will never find it attractive. But girls do find it attractive. They say it gives him a bad boy look and they find it 'hot' (take that mother!)
His signature glare soon accompanies his displeased scowl. The small paper, viciously torn from a larger piece of paper, clutched in between his index finger and thumb. The words on the paper are messy, scribbled on as if the writer was in a hurry. The words 'the prince' are scrawled on to the paper, staring at him in mock. This was the cause of his fury. The cause of his future and reputation. The cause of his pride and dignity! His pride for Hagoromo's sake!
A hand is clamped on his shoulder and he doesn't even flinch or spare a glance at the person responsible for it. The person questions him of his dazed state and he doesn't acknowledge them. All he is focused on right now is the small paper clutched in between his index finger and thumb.
"Sasuke? Helloooo? Anybody home up there?" A voice is heard from beside him, the person then lightly (not so lightly) knocks him on the head several times. He jerks away and whacks the person upside the head and proceeds to glare at him.
"Dude, you weren't even answering me. What was I suppose to do?!" His friend (or what he likes to refer to as a lackey) with his sharp shark-like-teeth and white hair with light blue streaks said in an annoyed tone. His expression is set into a frown. "Since I'm the ever patient one, I'll repeat my question. What part did you get?"
"Excuse me?!" He questions, experate and annoyed.
A loud sigh escapes his lips and Suigetsu plops down onto the raven head's table. He stares down at him with a frown, mirroring Sasuke's vicious scowl. Suigetsu holds up a small uneven piece of paper to his friend's face, the words 'villager number 3' scrawled onto it in hurried writing as well. Sasuke blinks, facial expression unmoving as that stubborn scowl of his refuses to retire. He swats Suigetsu's hand away with a grunt as the corner of his friend's lips tug upward.
"Get what I'm talking about now?" He quries with a light grin and earns another grunt from the sullen teen.
"I do understand what you are talking about. It's just that I chose not to acknowledge it," he grumbles, the noisy classroom echoing in the background. He crumples the small piece of paper in his hand, clutching it tightly until his knuckles turned a shade lighter.
"Wha...? Aw c'mon! It's not like you got one of the lead roles right?" He question in an exagerate manner, his arms moving around in the air dramatically. His left eyebrow is raised in confusion from the lack of response he receives from Sasuke. "...Sasuke?"
"WHAT?!" A loud shriek that could rival a banshee's scream rattled his poor ear drums along with several other classmates who were situated near said banshee. His glare is immeadiatly directed towards the sound of the scream and he is not surprise to see a paranoid Karin clutching her hair in agony and biting her trembling bottom lip. "How could I have gotten the role of Gothel?!"
A loud 'Hah!' comes from an amused Suigetsu and Sasuke is pleased to find him tackled over by Karin and receving several punches from her soon after.
Attention was soon called over from the front of the classroom and to Sasuke's annoyance, he finds a grining Naruto standing near the teacher's desk and smiling in triumph. "As you all know, the majority of votes for a class play got the most votes. So we are going to do a play for Gakuen Konoha's school festival. By popular demand, we choose 'Rapunzel' for our play and have agreed on deciding the roles by doing a lucky draw," he pauses for a dramatic effect and Sasuke can't help but roll his eyes. "I'll get straight to the point, who got the role of the prince?"
A chilly silence crosses the room as everyone soon started mumbling amongst themselves. Sasuke's fists clenches tighter as he masks his annoyance with an indifferent stare towards the front of the classroom. He spots their homeroom teacher, Kakashi silently giggling as he read through some peverted book. Sasuke blinks and opts to stare at the black board instead, there was no way in hell was he ever going to revel the role he got.
A few minutes of tense silence pass and the classroom becomes awry, that was until Naruto locked eyes with an irritated Sasuke. A few seconds of silent staring passes and Sasuke narrows his eyes, a look of realization crosses the blonde's face and he smirks. Sasuke mentally curses. Of all the days the knuckle head chose to be smart today had to be the day.
"Teme!" The blonde calls from across the room, he then bounces over to the raven head's seat with a huge grin plastered on his face, the whole room's attention was focused on them, even Kakashi's. "So, what role did you get?" He questions nonchalantly, staring at him straight in the eyes.
Sasuke, still with a look of indifference mentally curses to all that he was told to belive in. He stares at the blonde, expression unwavering and collected. "Villager number 3," he says in a tone that was close to a growl.
"Wha...?" Suigetsu starts but was immeadiatly cut of by the death glare aimed at him by none other then Uchiha Sasuke.
A snort from Naruto makes him direct his glare to him instead.
"Then you won't mind if I take a look at your paper right?"
"I lost it."
"I can see it in your clenched hand. Stop making this difficult, teme!"
"Get a life, dobe!"
"Okay!" Kakashi calls from the front of the class, snapping his fingers to get the class's attention. "First of all, back off Naruto."
Naruto complies with a grumble.
"Now Sasuke, don't you think your behaviour is a little unfair to the class? We all agreed on a lucky draw-"
"I agreed to no such thing!"
"-and I plan to keep it fair and stick to what everyone has agreed to," Kakashi says in a light warning tone. Sasuke glares at him. "Now, be a dear and show everyone your paper to prove that you are 'villager number 3' now would you?"
Sasuke growls and flicks the crumpled piece of paper towards their teacher. Kakashi catches it with ease and smoothes down the crumpled paper. A twinkle of amusement is present is his eyes when he sees the hidden content of the paper. "Guys, I think I've found our prince," he says in an amused tone as the class clapped slowly, afraid of the raven head's short temper. Naruto was snickering at the side along with Suigetsu as Sasuke directed his glare towards them. They were so dead.
"Alright, so who got Rapunzel?" Naruto questions after calming down.
Again, no one admits it and Naruto groans in agony. "Seriously?! Girls?!" He questions desperately. All the girls simply muttered amongst themsleves as some shurgged in response. "A guy couldn't have possibly gotten the role, I mean we seperated the roles of girls and boys in two different boxes!" He says, fustrated.
"N-Naruto-kun," Hinata calls as he whipped his head towards her direction. "There's still one more piece of paper left in the girl's box," she says while digging out the folded paper from the box.
"What? But we wrote down just enough roles for the whole class. How could there be an extra?" He quries with furrowed brows.
"Sakura's not in class," Ino calls from her seat.
Oh. Sasuke thinks. Oh.
"Well, that settles it then," Kakashi anounces as he snatches the paper away from Hinata and unfolds it. "We have our Rapunzel as well."
Just then, the door to the classroom slides open and Sakura steps in, looking like she had just run a marathon. Her long hair was peeking out from the messy bun atop her head, the handles of her bag slipping off her shoulder as she fixed her school uniform, unknowing of the stares she was receiving.
"Sorry, Kakashi-sensei. Tsunade-shishou wanted to see me and..." she slowly trailed off once she finally felt the pressure of the class's stare. She looks up, her large emerald irises sending shivers down Sasuke's spine. "Um...what did I miss?"
"Ah Sakura, glad you could join us, or shall I call you Rapunzel?"
"Eh?"
Disclaimer: I'm not rich enough to own anything!
A/N: I figured it was time I wrote a new story (even though I'm not done with the last one. Guilty okay?) Hope you enjoyed it! Review and tell me what I can improve on (^A^;)
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