CHAPTER 2

The next day sakura made her way to the filming site, even though it was past midday the heat from the sand was still very intense, and she was glad that she had chosen to buy some free flowing cloths yesterday. She had resisted the urge to put on some of the fancier outfits she had bought and instead opted for pair of plain pale blue cotton pants, and a singlet, which she covered with an old dress shirt, tied around her waist to protect her from the sun. With her hair pulled back into a tight bun and her fake glasses in place she was indistinguishable from the rich daughter of a hotel mogul who was used to wearing Chanel, and Louis Vuitton. Today she was just an ordinary girl working in her dream job.

After Arriving on set, she scanned the area for Jiraiya, and sasuke. As much as she doubted it, she didn't want to run the risk of him recognising her as the girl from the pool. Confident that there was no sasuke in sight she made her way to Jiraiya who was standing with the director. "There you are sakura" he said smiling at her "have you met Kakashi yet?" he asked indicating the man he was standing next to.

"no I haven't" she smiled "but I've heard many great things about you" this man was pretty much the epitome of directors, each movie he made was more successful than the last, and sakura felt so lucky to be able to work with him. In fact, at first she had thought that it had been too good to be true, getting the job with Jiraiya had been one thing, but when she had found out that her first assignment would be working on Kakashi Hatake's new movie, sakura had begun to suspect that her father may have had some involvement, although he wasn't directly linked to Hollywood, a lot of big names and people always stayed in his hotels so she wouldn't put it past him to have interfered somehow.

"Sakura, Jiraiya has been telling me all about you, very impressive" Kakashi said welcoming

"Thankyou Mr. Hatake" she said beaming

"Kakashi, please Mr. Hatake is so formal" he said grinning

"So how was your first night?" asked Jiraiya "the heat inst bothering you two much?"

"No its ok" she replied, thinking longingly about the lovely air-conditioned room that she had left to be standing in this blinding heat. "although the heat seems to be making me a bit more tired than usual, so I went to bed quite early last night" but that wasn't entirely true. She had in fact gone to bed early but instead of sleep all she had been able to think about was the image of sasuke standing by the pool massaging her shoulders.

"well I think that this should work a bit better now" said Kakashi indicating to a handful of papers in his hands that must be the script for the day "I'd better go and give it to the actors so that we can start filming"

After saying good bye sakura and Jiraiya went and stood under one of the tents, which where providing some form of relief from the heat, but not much, and get to work. After an hour and a half they were finally ready to begin filming. The scene that they would be shooting was an action one that didn't have a great deal of lines in it, but it did require the hero (played by sasuke) to ride in on his magnificent black stallion, and start fighting the villain of the story.

As the sun finally began to set and relieve them of it intensity sakura picked up her clip board and made her way towards Jiraiya, "everybody is aware of the changes that have been made to this scene" she informed him, as she reached for a chilled bottle of water.

"Good, I would like you to stay here with me and watch the filming of the scene; Kakashi wants to make sure that the true feeling of the story is being portrayed properly" he told her

"ok" she said smiling tentatively, so far she had managed to successfully avoid sasuke all afternoon, even managing to return his shirt from yesterday to his trailer while he had been in makeup, but now she didn't have a choice, she was going to have to face him.

Walking with her boss they made their way to where the scene was to be shot. Supposedly set in a remote desert area, the many cameras's, lighting equipment and boom microphones, made it look anything but.

"Right" she could hear kakashi's voice telling people "sasuke will be entering from the right, he will ride in deliver his lines then jump off the horse and approach lee" he said pointing to the scrawny man who was playing the villain.

Standing next to Jiraiya sakura couldn't see sasuke yet but she could tell where he was from the way all the women kept glancing sideways towards the right of the set. 'I wonder what they all would do if their precious sasuke fell of his horse' she though naughtily imagining sasuke lying in a heap on the ground covered in sand. Smiling silently to herself she heard Kakashi yell 'action' then she stood there waiting.

Silence fell as everybody waited for sasuke to enter; raising her bottle of water to her mouth sakura stopped mid way, as a magnificent black beast came galloping to a halt no more than five metres away from her, and sitting atop it was sasuke, looking equally amazing. Dressed in costume with his muscularly tanned chest and ruffled hair, sakura couldn't help but gape at the imposing figure he made. If she didn't know that this was a movie set, sakura would have sworn that a real Persian prince or Sheik was before her. she was so entranced that she didn't even here him deliver his lines, transfixed she watched as he dismounted his horse and she could see his control over the animal, there was never a chance that he would have fallen off. Walking over to lee he grabbed him by the shirt, his face fierce and sakura though that he was actually going to hit him, when kakashi's voice yell 'cut' and she was thrown back into reality.

"What did you think?" she heard Jiraiya ask as she fought to control her heart which seemed to be trying to jump out of her chest, managing a mumbled 'good' she stood there as they repeated the scene a few more times before Kakashi declared the light to be too dark and that it was a wrap.

Finally allowed to leave sakura hurried over to her desk, put down her clip board and gathered her things before leaving. Making her way to where the bus would pick her up from the set and take her into town she was glad to find that Away from sasuke's presence her heart was beginning to slow down to a normal pace. Hitching her bag over her shoulder she was almost at the stop when she noticed someone yelling out her name.

"Sakura wait will you!"

Instantly her heart skipped a beat and began to pound again, she knew who that voice belonged to. Turning around slowly sakura watched as a sasuke still in costume approached her.

"Finally!" sasuke said stopping "I've been calling out your name, for like the past five minutes"

"Uh you have, why?" she asked stupidly mentally kicking herself that that was the best she could come up with

Sasuke looked like he was now wondering the same thing "I just wanted to say thankyou for returning my shirt" he said gruffly

"Oh...well that's ok" she said looking at the ground trying to avoid his bare chest, she could feel his eyes scrutinizing her as she stood in front of him, 'please don't let him recognise me' she though desperately.

But it seemed luck was on her side as she heard him say "anyway..."

Looking up she managed a weak smile before turning around, thankful that the bus was now there, without waiting for him to say good bye she quickly jumped on the bus and made her way back to her hotel.

Stepping out of the shower sakura wrapped the white fluffy sheet sized towel around her and walked into the living area of her room. It felt good to wash away the fine layer of sand and sweat that had built up on her skin throughout the day. Not bothering with underwear she threw a lovely light green dress on and was just about to settle into eating some chocolate and watching a movie when she heard a knock on her door. Frustrated she stood up from the couch and went to see who it was, she had already been annoyed twice since she had arrived back from the set by the hotel manager, wanting to make sure everything was to her liking.

Throwing open the door she yelled "if that is you again Rafe, I've already told you I don't want...!"

Trailing off she stopped as she realised that it wasn't the small rounded manager named Rafe, which had knocked on her door, Standing there looking just a handsome as ever in a lovely pair of black dress pants and a white shirt was sasuke. For a moment sakura was confused as to why he was here.

"Ah finally the mystery woman from the pool" he said grinned devilishly at her

Thankful that she had taken off her glasses and blow dried her hair sakura swallowed hard as she realised how close this was, "How did you find out which room I was staying in?" she asked folding her arms across her chest.

"Simple, I just gave your description to the women at the desk, and she was more than happy to help" he said smugly

'I bet she was' sakura thought it looked like she was going to needed to have a word with Rafe about security tomorrow.

"What can I do for you Mr. Uchiha" she asked frowning at him

"I was wondering if you would like to come and have dinner with me."He asked not even blinking that she seemed to know who he was.

"Why would I do that? You don't even know my name" she said her anger boiling at how pompous he was

"Names aren't necessary for what I have in mind" he said seriously, looking her up and down

Sakura breathed in deeply as she felt his eyes travel over her body, she was now uncomfortably aware that her lack of underwear was plainly obvious. She could feel her nipples begin to harden against the thin fabric of her dress, her heart was now raging against her chest, and the image of him sitting upon that horse this afternoon, was VERY fresh in her mind. She knew what lay beneath that crisp white shirt and her fingers where itching to run themselves over those tanned and hardened muscles.

Ripping her eyes away from his chest she somehow managed to gain some form of control over herself. "I don't think so" she managed to say, glad that her voice sounded firmer than she has expected. "Now if you will excuse me" she said making to close the door

"Are you saying no to me" he asked smiling dangerously at her

"Yes I am, I know it mustn't get said to you that often but I'm not just some stupid fan girl that will jump into bed with you in the blink of an eye" she said unable to help herself from felling glad that she was dealing his ego a small blow.

"Really?" she heard him say, then before she knew it she was being crushed against that powerful chest that she had only moments before been imagining touching. Her lips were being crushed as she felt his warm mouth against her own, his hand running down her back. Unable to help herself she did the one thing that she had been longing to do since she had bumped into him yesterday, and wound her hands up and into his hair which was still slightly damp from showering. The heat in the pit of her stomach was longing for more as he deepened the kiss, then as soon as It had begun it was over, pulling away he let her go as she stood in the doorway to her room "do you still think you can say no to me?" he asked grinning at her

Feeling like a cold bucket of water had just been thrown on her sakura took one final look at him and angrily slammed the door. Turning she leant against it and slid to the soft carpet, her fingers to her lips she trace them feeling the slight swelling from his kisses. That little display had been nothing but him proving his point, he had used her! And somehow she had managed to issue a challenge that sasuke was clearly looking forward to winning.

Hey everyone sorry this has taken me so long to get up, ive been away but im back now so hopefully the next chappie wont take so long. I hope you enjoyed it and thanks to everyone that reads and reviews my stories, it is greatly appreciated. xoxo