Hamlet and Juliet

Author's note: Ah! This week is so tiring! We had so many quizzes, projects and assignments! I even danced rumba and swing on our PE class! (I hate dancing you know… I wonder what will be my grade for dancing rumba with my seatmate, practicing for only 5 minutes before performing…?) Oh well, stop the whines about the 'rumba-rumble' and the 'swing-thing'…

I updated today as promised! (It's a lot earlier than I had promised! Yehey!) Hmm… so? Let's start the next chapter! You know, my fingers are itching a lot this past week… I really wanted to do this chapter as soon as possible coz I really love the idea of… well… just read this chapter for you to find out…

Standard disclaimers applied…

He smiled… his greatest dream…?

His greatest dream is…

Is…

--Act 06 Scene 1: wait for me (part 1)-

1 hour 12 minutes and 33 seconds after the heart-pounding performance…

"Oi! Teme!" The blonde boy called him. Sasuke turned to see Naruto, the president of the We-love-ramen-club…

"What, dobe?" He asked rolling his eyes in annoyance… after the performance, the booth's operations started. He, as the Art's Club president, is very busy doing portraits and paintings of their customers. His vice president is attending to their cinema booth so he was left there in their booth with hundreds of fangirls wishing to be painted by Sasuke himself.

"Nothing…" Naruto gave Sasuke a wide grin "just hanging around here… I'm tired of the fangirls on our booth. They're ordering lots of ramen, you know…"

Sasuke turned his attention back on his painting. He has a very talented hands… the portrait seems to be real when you look at it. He stroked his brush twice before turning a glance at the blonde boy beside him.

"What do you want?" He asked in disbelief on Naruto's answer. He then pulled out the canvas out of his tripod and told his assistant to lend it on their customer. When he's free of any work, he laid his back on the chair comfortably, with his hands on the back of his head.

"Ne, I saw you a while ago…" he grinned

"Hn. Of course you'll do. If you didn't, then you're blind… baka…" He's trying to make some 'sense' on Naruto's 'senseless' statement.

"Gah! Not that one teme!" Naruto then smirked at him "I saw that you're looking at Sakura-chan while performing… what was that for?"

"That's nothing…" Sasuke answered flatly while looking at Naruto who is sitting on the chair next to his.

"Ooh… tell me, what do you think about Sakura-chan?"

"She's nice, smart, friendly, an artist, kind…"

"You like her?" Naruto asked followed by a hard gulp—he must know if his best friend is really in love. For these past few weeks, since the start of the Romeo and Juliet play, he became soft—you know, the most obvious symptom among ice-cubes…

"Moron…" he stood up and started to arrange his things…

"Oh come on! It's just a yes or a no…"

"Hn…"

"Nah! I thought you're a genius but I was wrong! Just a simple yes or—"

"No."

"What?" Naruto stood up from his chair and went in front of Sasuke. He looked at him with questioning eyes… wondering if what Sasuke's saying is true—or a lie.

He lifts his gaze from his brushes and palettes towards Naruto's azure eyes… "You heard me, I said no…" Sasuke then placed his things on his bag… "She's just a good friend…"

Naruto looked at him in disbelief…

He's asking through his gaze the truth…

Sasuke said no…

But his eyes…

…said yes.

Neji is the one who organizes the basketball games on their school as a part his job as the sports club president… he sat uncomfortably on his chair as he watch the on-going match…

…he is missing Sakura. It's just an hour but… ah! He's crazy…

What happened to him to admire and adore her like that? There are many girls who are much prettier than her, smarter and more feminine than her but… it's just something that tells him that she's different from that 'many' that he's talking about.

He must see her…

Then, Aburame Shino came and lends him a folder. He opened it and read its contents… there, inside the folder were documents about Haruno Sakura. He made Shino investigate all essential information that can help him know her better. There were Sakura's birth certificate, Form 137, other legal documents and—

… a certain paper caught his attention. It was her classmate's autograph notebook—the page was Sakura's answered questionnaire…

A smiled played on his lips as he nodded at Shino, asking him to leave… he read the said page…

Greatest dream: to be married with a handsome ice prince someday… be the queen of his cold kingdom—be the sunshine of his life… and I'll bring the spring on his world... (just a fairytale told by my mother, Miyako-chan!)

He stood up on his chair and gestured one of his body guards to come near him. The said 'men-in-black' complied and leaned his ear close to Neji…

"Oi…" Naruto called him for the nth time that hour. He had been tailing over Sasuke… he goes wherever he is—even at the men's toilet.

"You are the ramen club president, why don't you attend on your booth first before tailing and pissing me off in here?"

"Hmp! Hinata is there… she can manage, you know…" he answered while holding the back of his head with both hands.

"Teme…"

"What?"

"Have you heard about the booth that the office will open this afternoon?"

"Not yet…"

"It's interesting!"

"I don't care…"

"Here…" Naruto offered Sasuke a small pink card. He then smiled and ran few blocks away from Sasuke

"What's this?" he raised an eyebrow while waiting for Naruto's answer. He then saw the blonde-haired boy smile…

"If you do love her, then it's the easiest way to let her know…" after that, he ran away and went to their ramen booth. He put the said card on his pocket and walked…

Bam!!!!!!!!!!!

Something hit his head… he turned with angry eyes—whoever did it will surely die in a minute or two…

"Baka! Don't put it on your pocket! Look at it and think about it!" Naruto yelled while running away, holding a big paper fan on his right hand

Sasuke rolled his eyes. Whatever that pink card is… he doesn't care. Anyway, it came from Naruto… it may be a free ramen coupon, a ticket for a film featuring the importance of Ramen or maybe a sticker with frogs printed on it… he held it back on his hand and he threw it on an empty, clean trash can… without even looking at it…

"If you do love her, then it's the easiest way to let her know…"

But the words from Naruto puzzled him… how did he…

"If you do love her, then it's the easiest way to let her know…"

"If you do love her"

"If you do love her"

He started to walk towards the cinema booth to check the accounts and the situation there…

"If you do love her"

"It's the easiest way to let her know…"

The thought haunts him… the easiest way? Naruto must be joking. There's no easy way to tell Sakura that he—

"If you do love her…"

"…you do love her"

"…do love her"

"Love her…"

Sasuke turned a 180 degrees from his last position and start running towards the place where the trash can is… there must be something in the pink card—and on Naruto's words…

The poor handsome boy ran and ran and ran…

He then stopped at the same spot where he threw the card but…

"Hssh!" he rolled his eyes… "Where's that trash can?!" he looked around… to his left, on his right and when he turned behind him, there he saw the old school janitor with the trash can on his cart…

He ran after the janitor…

Veins started to pop on his temple when the janitor pushed the cart faster… he seems to play "chase-after-me-before-you-get-this-trash-can-boy!" Man! Life is so unfair sometimes… he is running for minutes now… and he is getting tired…

But the janitor is old so he got tired of running and put his cart in a stop…

"Huh…huh… hey… what was that for?" The janitor asked Sasuke between pants…

"The trash can is clean… sir…" he smiled at the janitor while getting the can from the cart.

The old man smiled at him… "Thanks boy, I never ran like that since I was 30… and besides.." he looked at the pink card that Sasuke is holding… "That must be very important…"

Sasuke lowered his gaze on the pink card… a ticket for the booth established by the office… he closed his eyes and heaved a deep sigh… he remembered something upon reading the card…

That was two years ago… they were still second year students… that time, he was very annoyed at Sakura even they were very close friends…

"Oi! Sasuke-kun!" He rolled his eyes… the weather is nice so he came at the millennium building's rooftop to sleep and have some time for privacy… he wants rest but…

but there she is… disturbing him again…

"What?" he glared at the smiling Sakura… she sat beside him and lend a pink notebook…

"I don't like pink you know…" he said coolly… Sakura scowled…"Then I'll make my hair blue tomorrow!" She said with a sheepish grin…

"Anyway, what was that for?" He asked

"Can't you see? Miyako's slum book!"

"—so?"

She rolled her eyes… "I'm asking you to answer this!"

"Are you done answering it?" He lifted his body into sitting position and looked at her…

"Hmmm… not yet…" she smiled

"Then answer it first…"

"Uhm.. okay!"

While Sakura is answering the slum book, Sasuke just stared at her… wondering what is she answering now…

"Anno… my favorite song? Eheh…"

"It's ready or not…"

"Ehh… you know it?"

"Hn… It's corny you know…"

"But it's cute!"

He rolled his eyes… "Whatever…" She continued answering the questions… she's reading the questions aloud so Sasuke can hear and could prepare his own answers…

"Hmm... my favorite film? Anno…"

"City of Angels, The Lakehouse and Windstruck…" he answered

"Whoah… you're so great Sasuke-kun!" she then wrote the answer on the cute pink notebook…

"Hmm… my greatest dream?"

"…"

"I bet you don't know the answer…"

"…"

"hehe… Sasuke-kun doesn't know the answer…" she sang in a cute tone…

"You want to be a theater actress…"

"Wow! you knew it?" She exclaimed as Sasuke smiled at her…

She smiled… "But it's not my greatest you know…"

He raised an eyebrow as she started to write on the notebook. She then stood up and lent the notebook to Sasuke…"Answer it and return it to Miyako-chan before dismissal, okay?" then she walked away…

He looked at the notebook and opened it on the unanswered page… and started writing down the answers…

"Favorite movie…?" he heaved a sigh… slum books are troublesome… he then started writing…

"Hm… Forrest Gump, Saw II…" he stopped for a while and smiled… "Exorcist 1, 2, and 3…" he whispered…

"Favorite actress? What kind of questions are these?" He smiled and wrote Catherine Zeta-Jones…

He enjoyed answering the questions somehow… his favorite food? Tomatoes of course… tomatoes with the capital T…

He stopped as he read the final question… his greatest dream… he looked up in the blue sky…

Then he smiled…

Uchiha Sasuke never knew how to smile before but…

Since he met her…

He learned how to smile…

He wrote down the answer…

Then a gentle breeze blew from nowhere that turned the pages of the notebook… when he looked at it, it's on Sakura's page… he read her answer on the last question—her greatest dream…

Greatest dream: to be married with a handsome ice prince someday… be the queen of his cold kingdom—be the sunshine of his life… and I'll bring the spring on his world... (Just a fairytale told by my mother, Miyako-chan!)

He smiled… his greatest dream…?

His greatest dream is…

Is…

"Are you alright boy?" the old man asked Sasuke…

"Yeah... thank you sir…"

"It's alright… then go now and tell her about that…"

"Hai…"

"Ino!" Sakura had been calling the super-busy Ino to help her but… she and Tenten are busy talking on their crush… she sighed. Girls are really troublesome…

She has been working for almost 1hour and 30 minutes straight. Their souvenir booth is sure popular after what had Sasuke done a while ago… his fans were there to see her… so they're buying something for them to talk with her…

Tenten approached the very busy Sakura from behind "Sakura-chan… we don't have paints anymore…"

She turned to look at Tenten… How come they ran out of paint? She is sure that she stocked many pints of it… "Then ask some from Sasuke… their club surely has a lot of it…"

"Sasuke!!!" Tenten yelled loud for Sasuke to hear it…

"What?"

"Sakura is asking for some paint…. We ran out of it…"

"Okay… excuse me for a second…" he then entered their headquarters to look for some paint but unfortunately, they already ran out of it… 'I thought we still have some stock here… maybe I consumed all of it from painting many portraits…'

"Tenten, just tell Sakura to wait for the paint, I'll go and buy it outside…" he then closed the headquarters' door and headed towards the gate… "Then ask her to meet me beside the basketball court before I go to the mall… I'll ask her if she could be my... my..."

"for the booth this afternoon?" she added

"Aah..."

"tell her to be there..."

"Hai! Thanks a lot Sasuke!" Tenten waved him goodbye and ran towards the souvenir booth…

While Sasuke is heading towards the gate, he observed the surroundings… it seems to be normal… there he saw the clubs' banners and emblems, some announcements regarding the game schedules and some notices…

Sakura found Sasuke at last after minutes of searching… She forgot to give Sasuke the money for the paint. He is standing there beside the basketball court, maybe he is waiting for her… and she saw her classmate Kagura near Sasuke…

Sasuke is reading the notices…he looked at it for a while…

1:00-2:00 Juniors vs. Sophomores

2:00-2:30 sports club training club

He then lowered his gaze on the bottom part of the announcement…

He then positioned his hands behind his head but boog! he hit something…

"Aww! It hurts, Sasuke!" Kagura whined while kneading her head and then covered her face with both hands… (It's as if she was crying…)

Kagura seats behind Sasuke during class hours so they got close this semester… as in really close to the point that Sakura became jealous of her…

Sasuke held Kagura's shoulder with both hands and apologized. The girl hasn't replied yet so he leaned closer for her to hear what he is saying…

Sakura saw it from afar… her eyes widened and her knees were trembling hard… why? If you are going to look at it from Sakura's position, with Sasuke's back facing her, it's as if he is kissing Kagura….

Take note of that… kissing someone—in front of her…

She always thought that Sasuke also likes her… that the feeling is mutual but… she's such a fool to believe that… she's wrong… then she ran towards the English club's headquarters—with a heavy feeling inside her…

He looked around but he didn't saw Sakura… 'I guess I should ask her when we arrive…'

"Sasuke-san… I think we should go by now, Sakura-san will be needing the paint…" Shino volunteered to accompany Sasuke on his way to the mall to buy the materials needed…

"Hai…"

It's already 2:45 in the afternoon and Sasuke hasn't arrived yet so Sakura decided to close the booth temporarily and to continue the operation tomorrow… anyway, she's already tired and he had a very, very bad feeling today

"Sakura!!!" Ino yelled her name from afar…

She rolled her eyes… she sensed something wrong with her name as Ino called her…

"What is it, Ino?" She asked. Ino, together with Tenten and Hinata smiled… (Actually it's a smirk…)

"C'mon!!!" Ino exclaimed as the three girls dragged Sakura to their classroom…

"Don't you think we're too slow in buying the things needed?" Sasuke asked Shino… they had been moving around the mall for almost an hour now…

"Sakura needs the paint…" Sasuke added

"But Kurenai-sensei asked us to buy her strawberries here…"

"Where are we going to find strawberries this season?" he rolled his eyes in annoyance…

Sakura looked at the mirror in front of her… she can't believe that she is the girls in the mirror…

"Wow! you look great Sakura-chan!" Tenten exclaimed…

She agreed… she wears a beautiful Renaissance Medieval white dress. The dress has hanging style sleeves that have a gold satin interior lining. The front of the dress has gold trim and embellishments. The waist and sleeves of the dress are trimmed in gold as well.

"You looked like a princess…" Hinata commented

"Yah! Thanks to us! Hehe" Ino agreed…

"What is this for?" Sakura asked

"Well… just see…" the three of them were dressed in a long gown as well… then her three friends courtly vowed at her and led her outside…

Sasuke had a bad feeling about it… they're taking so long… he hasn't asked Sakura about it yet… he looked at his wrist watch… it's already 3:10 in the afternoon… he looked at the pink card—it says that the ceremony will start at 3:00… the pink card has the "special" label on top so the ticket's schedule is 3:25… he doesn't have enough time…

Then he remembered something…

Greatest dream: to be married with a handsome ice prince someday… be the queen of his cold kingdom—be the sunshine of his life… and I'll bring the spring on his world... (Just a fairytale told by my mother, Miyako-chan!)

be married with a handsome ice prince someday…

He remembered the announcement of the sports club…

1:00-2:00 Juniors vs. Sophomores

2:00-2:30 sports club training camp

The announcement at the bottom part of the paper…

At three, the training camp will be closed and practices will resume tomorrow morning. Be sure you have your name listed at the secretary's table for you to have a coupon…

At three, the training camp will be closed…

it's already 3:10 in the afternoon…

he looked at the pink card again—it says that the ceremony will start at 3:00…

He looked at Shino… then…

Truth hit him…

"That Hyuuga!!!" he exclaimed as he dropped the pints of paint on the floor... he ran outside but unfortunately, there's no bus at the loading station… That Hyuuga planned this…

A moment ago, she's looking at the mirror on their classroom but now—there she is… standing in the school chapel's door. She saw many students occupying the seats; there was Sai, in a priest uniform… and Tsunade, sitting on a chair near Sai, scowling…

She then looked at the three girls with her…

"What's this? Is this a joke?" she asked

"What? Don't say you never heard about it?" Ino exclaimed

"Look up there…" Tenten raised a finger pointing upwards… at the entrance door… Sakura looked up…

'Marriage Booth'

SILENCE…

She then looked at Hinata… "What am I doing here?"

"You're the final bride for this day…" she answered… "And the groom…" she added…

Sakura looked at the direction where Hinata is looking. There she saw Neji in 'prince' attire with a crown on his head… he looked—handsome in his suit… he wears a medieval prince attire. He wears a velvet suit with white and gold linings… and with a velvet cape that hangs smoothly on his broad shoulders…

The piano started to play as the school choir hummed sweetly… Tsunade sighed in defeat…

'Sasuke! where are you?!' she thought

--Notes—

Ooh… where are you Sasuke!!!! it is every high school dream to have a wedding like that! (but of course with someone you really like…) aaaaaarrrrg! What do you think? Heheh… I hope you'll wait for the next chappie, ok? I'll work first on our projects… then I'll update soon…

Ja ne!

-angelmoO-