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Ch 4. Why him of All people?

"What the Fuck!"

"Sakura can you tone it down some?"

The glare that she sent his way immediately told him he shouldn't have asked that.

Her left eye started to twitch; the scary grin she had been wearing for the last hour seemed to be permanently frozen on her face. It would be safe to say that she might have been angry. Just a bit.

"Why would you make Itachi my opposite? Why him of all people?"

The second they had the chance to move about again she had yanked him into the backstage dressing room. She hadn't even given him time to greet the guests. Not that he minded. The whole meet and greet stuff was so not his thing.

"Look this had been planned out a long time ago; the only thing that was switched was casting you for lead actress instead of Ino." He told her calmly in an attempt to cool her down and took a cigarette out of his pocket.

Just as he was about to place it in his mouth she ripped it out of his hands and broke it in half, right in front of him.

Shikamaru paled and his mouth dropped on reflex. He was left gaping like a fool. His hands came up in front of him and reach at the air, as if he could change the fate of his last cigarette by grabbing at the air.

"Ew that's so disgusting, you are soo not smoking in front of me. Ugh, Shikamaru this is a total nightmare. What am I going to do?" Sakura tossed the cigarette in the trash can and slumped into the sofa.

Shikamaru didn't say anything in reply he was still too shocked, by the death of his cigarette. He seriously almost wimpered. He only replied to her by jerking his head towards her, now it was his turn to give her an evil look.

"I can't be in the same movie with Itachi, he reminds me too much of Sasuke. And besides Itachi hates me."

Sakura hung her head in defeat and continued on the path to being the perfect emo.

This put Shikamaru in an awkward position, because he kind of really hated his…girlfriend…right now and at the same time as a man he felt obligated to say something to cheer her up. Sigh…what to do?

"He doesn't hate you."

"Yes, he does. Every time I saw him he'd make fun of me and he has never called me by my name. Always 'SSF' or 'Sasuke's Supreme Fangirl'."

"Well that was when you were married to him, now you're not. There's no need to worry."

At this Sakura's head perked up and gave Shikamaru a happy smile. She took her hand and placed it on top of Shikamaru's thigh.

"You know what Shikamaru, you're right! He has to treat me differently now."

Shikamaru was caught off guard for the second time that night with her sudden contact. Her hand on his thigh surprisingly felt good. Whether that was because he was a man and his raging hormones were screaming for him to get it in or because he really likes her he didn't know.

She then took her hand off his thigh and abruptly stood up, looking like her bubbly normal self.

"Cheah! Ok, I'm ready. Let's go face them and rub our looove in their faces!"

Shikamaru's hormones retreated back to the little dark perverted cave they came from and his stress came racing back to him. Oh god this is going to be such a drag.

Reluctantly he stood up, took her hand in his and escorted them back out to face the world.

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At first they just greeted the normal celebrity her and there. Rock Lee the famous Olympian who'd recently won all of the medals in the 20 sports he competed in, Kiba the famous rock star with the triple platinum record, his best friend Chouji the famous quarter back who had just won his 15th straight game in a row, Neji Hyuuga from the famous Hyuuga family that was so rich they practically had companies for every product in the world, and then came Ino.

She had some random guy on her arm, which Sakura was sure he was some stranger that she had latched onto try to make herself look good. Not that she could cast stones, when she was after all practically doing the same thing.

"Hello Shikamaru, Sakura."

"Hey Ino." Shikamaru lazily said and Sakura only said Ino's name in greeting. "Ino."

"My my you both sure do move on quick. It's a bit of a surprise that you two would get together." She said with a questioning glance.

Shikamaru shrugged. Sakura wrapped her arm around Shikamaru's to bring them closer together and smugly stared back.

This made Ino's face reveal some of the anger she was holding in, but she kept her cool.

"Shikamaru made this role especially for me, you're probably going to have some trouble adjusting Sakura."

"Well I hope not. That would mean the Academy was foolish for giving me the Oscar for best actress, and you don't think the Academy is foolish do you Ino?"

This time Ino was the one who didn't say anything, she only stared back and gave Sakura the death glare.

"I mean after all Ino you were the one to walk away from the role. That can only mean that you knew it wasn't right for you."

"I walked away because Shikamaru and I broke up. It was difficult to work with him and be reminded of what we once had day after day" she dramatically said.

At this Shikamaru intervened. "Don't lie Ino. If you were really that heartbroken over us then why did you end it?"

Ino ignored him and pretended he didn't say anything. She just continued on with her theatrical speech.

"Oh, Sakura that reminds me how are you going to work with Sasuke's brother? Itachi was it?"

Sakura stiffened. She was just talking about this with Shikamaru in the dressing room.

"Unless that's the real reason why you hooked up with Shikamaru. To finally be with the Uchiha you really wanted?"

Ino's comment was so unbelievably bogus that Sakura couldn't control from bursting out.

"Ugh as if! Itachi has got nothing over Sasuke!" she yelled and it was at that precise moment that he decided to show up.

"Hn."

Sakura instantly froze. Her entire body went rigid. Her mouth was left opened uselessly trying to take a gasp of air. Blood quickly rushed to her cheeks and colored them bright red. If she hadn't been holding onto Shikamaru she was sure she would have fainted.

She thought she might just die from embarrassment, because that exact voice is what she has been dreading this entire night.

With his wonderfully soft hair, to the tip of his bold pointed nose, his breathtakingly delicious mouth and his incredibly dark mystical gaze that always left you hot all over. He turned the perfection of his body towards her giving her his full attention.

Sakura brought up her hand up to cover the fact that she was still gaping like a fish.

She finally gathered her wits and managed to squeeze out his name.

"Sasuke-kun."

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Author's Notes:

Dun Dun Duuun

Any way this is the fourth chapter. Don't believe Ino when she says she was heartbroken, because she's not. She had other motives for leaving Shikamaru, but that's all I'll say.

Looks like Sakura really put her foot in it this time. She just couldn't control herself and her old feelings betrayed her. Damn "feelings" why can't they move on when you say "Move On!"

But at the same time its perfect because I get to write you this lovely story!

So as always please tell me what you think and enjoy.