Riddle in the Leaves

Chapter One- The Part

Sakura's POV

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A/N: If you haven't read "Cherries and Roses" yet, I'd suggest reading it before coming to this one!

"Oh don't worry."

"I'm not worrying, because I'm not going to allow it."

I rolled my eyes. "Really, I don't see why you're so stubborn about this."

Sasuke snorted. "I'd just rather not see my girlfriend doing those kinds of things."

"Well you were perfectly fine when you were in the position with me."

Sasuke huffed in a "no duh" manner.

I grinned. "Are you that jealous?"

Sasuke looked me straight in the eye. "I am not jealous."

"Yes you are."

"I'd just rather not see you up there—"

"Are you two still arguing?" We both turned and saw Naruto, who I had gotten very well acquainted with ever since I started dating Sasuke, coming our way.

Sasuke snorted again. "No, Sakura's just about to go end this stupid thing."

I turned from looking at Naruto and tamped my foot defiantly. "You mean you're going to stop getting so jealous and just let me do this."

Sasuke opened his mouth to say something, but Naruto interjected. "Come on, Teme, it's just a little one."

Sasuke rounded on Naruto. "So how would you feel seeing you girlfriend up on stage having to kiss some other guy?"

Naruto shrugged his shoulders. "Well, since I don't have one I can't really say how I'd feel. It's just a little kiss, I bet you two will just make out right afterwards backstage anyway like last time…and the time before that, and the time before that, and the three times before tha—"

"Dobe, shut up now." Sasuke growled.

"My point is, what's one kiss compared to the hundreds, if not ten-thousands, of times you've gotten to kiss her?"

"Thank you, Naruto, that's my point exactly." I nodded, and looked up at Sasuke. "See, he knows what I'm talking about."

"I'm still not allowing it." Sasuke stated blatantly.

I huffed exasperatedly. "It's just a play! Maybe next time you won't get sick and miss getting the top spot with me on audition day."

"Stupid cold…." Sasuke muttered.

Naruto laughed. "Always blaming others, eh Teme?"

Sasuke shot Naruto a glare. "Don't you have somewhere else to be?"

"Not till the bell rings." Naruto responded.

"Which reminds me…our next class is Drama," I stated. "We should probably start heading over there."

"So I can hide the body of that guy before the teacher comes." Sasuke grumbled lowly.

"No, that's called murder; I'd rather not date a murderer, thank you very much."

As if on cue, the bell rang, and Sasuke grabbed my hand and started to lead me down the hall to our next class. We arrived and took our seats in the back as everyone else came in and settled down for class to start.

Kakashi Hatake, our drama teacher for the past two years we had been there, entered the room a while after the late bell rang.

"Sorry I'm late guys, the script copies got lost on the road from the printer." Kakashi declared.

"That has got to be the crappiest excuse I have ever heard." I murmured.

"Well then," Kakashi began, "I'm sure you've all already seen the casting paper, and you know your positions. Looks like Mr. Uchiha has finally been booted off his position with Ms. Haruno, and has been replaced with Hideki."

I could see Sasuke glance around the room and spot Hideki who sat a few chairs in front of us. The glare he gave the boy probably could have drilled holes through his head.

"So, with that known, let's pass out the scripts." Kakashi announced as he flopped a pile of papers onto the desk in front of him.

The title of the play was "Riddle in the Leaves", which was an adventurous tale depicting the lives of the two main characters Yuki, played by me, and Namimaru, played by Hideki. Thanks to Ino, who once again decided to take a sneak peek at the play, we had found out there was a minor kissing scene near the end. It was really nothing big or epic, but it was still enough to piss Sasuke off.

"So then, let's do the usual. You have twenty minutes to highlight or rehearse your lines." Kakashi instructed as he began to pass out the packets of paper.

I received my copy and flipped it open. I was greeted by a fancy looking design for the title, and on the next page the script began. My character immediately popped up with Hideki's. The characters appeared to have been best friends even before the story began.

I looked up and spotted Hideki sitting near the front. He seemed to sense that I was looking at him, because he turned and met my gaze.

The look he gave me couldn't rightly be described. It was like a mix between "oh, hello" and something akin to a look a girl would give guys when they're thinking "yeah, I know I'm hot", it slightly unsettled me, and I jerked my head down to my script.

I flipped through the pages for a second until I found what I was looking for, the kiss scene that Ino had talked about. I read it over for a moment. It was a simple scene where Yuki kisses Namimaru to give him luck for something he had to do that I hadn't read yet. It definitely wasn't very special, Hideki wasn't even really supposed to respond, but rather stand there dumbly for a moment before going and doing what he needed to do.

Something suddenly nudged me from the side. I glanced over and saw Sasuke with an uncharacteristically, unless we were alone, happy look on his face.

"Looks like I'll get to show that Hideki jerk how I feel about him." Sasuke smirked, and handed me his script flipped to a certain page. I took it from him and read the page. I had to cover my mouth to keep from laughing too hard.

On the page depicted a scene where Sasuke, playing the part of a bandit Yuki and Namimaru have to face in the story, ends up punching Hideki in the face and knocking him out.

"Do you think I'll be able to cut in as Namimaru if I 'accidentally' hit him too hard and knock his lights out? It is before the kissing scene, and his knockout scene would be done perfectly." The thought of knocking out Hideki seemed to joy Sasuke much more than the prospect of getting to be Namimaru and making the kiss between us.

"Actually, you may be removed from the play if you really manage to knock him out, so I think it's a pipe dream." I responded.

Sasuke feigned a hurt expression and turned back to his script. I continued to look at him for a moment with a smile on my face. I then turned back to my script and continued on without another thought of Hideki or any of the problems to come.

Shocker, shocker there's an update! I AM BACK! I have returned! It's been what? A week and a half since the last real update? (Not considering the postponed notice for "Blackmailing an Uchiha" really sorry people! But I do have a few new ideas and I'll hopefully be able to update eventually!) Well…I have good news and bad news for this story. The good news is I actually wrote a sequel to "Cherries and Roses" and I actually have a solid idea for it so I shouldn't have any real problems with it. But…on the downside…I am BUSY AS ALL HELL! That's the main reason I haven't updated…and I'm really sorry. School's back in session and I've started in a new school where things are tougher and with a mountain more homework than what I had before so…I have almost no time. I managed to get this out today since I had practically no homework, so I got lucky as hell. (And if bibsa1 reads this, I will get that chapter to you soon! Like I said, I'm just busy, busy, busy!) Well, that's all! (Well, I would have more to say, but this author's note is already huge, and I'd rather not bore you people to death.) So I'll hope to get the next chapter of this out to you soon!