Two more chapters left. TWO MORE! Jeez so much. Lol Ahhh this is making me mad. I can't think of a good summary or a good name for my next fic. But the idea is just right there. I have no creativity. XDD

Oh yeah, if anyone has questions or anything, pm me and I'll reply as soon as I can which will probably be when I get the message. I'm a lazy but face, so yeah. It'll be faster this way anyways. You won't have to wait for at least a week or two before I reply.

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Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Shocker huh?


It was the night of the play. People were rushing around back stage checking to make sure everything was in order. All the cast that would be performing tonight was nervous as hell. Some even started to panic about forgetting their lines.

"Ah, I don't like the idea of me hanging seven feet in the air." Naruto said wearily.

"Don't worry about it Naruto! If you fall there's always your wings!" Imono laughed as he slapped Naruto on the back.

"Haha very funny. Oh and watch it! Those wings are really delicate! They were made by Hinata."

"I see you've broadened your vocabulary Naruto." grinned Tenten as she walked by him.

"My vocabulary was always broad!" Naruto yelled after her.

"Ah, how can you seem so calm Naruto?" Ino asked absolutely frazzled by the pressure.

"Calm about what?"

"About this!"

"What about this?"

"The fact that three thousand people (That is A LOT of people…) are beyond the curtains right now and will be watching our every move when this play starts!"

And she just shouldn't have said that. The boy was as calm as ever before but now…

"I think I just wet myself…"

"Gross! You'd better get cleaned up and hope Hinata has a spare for you!"

"Ahhh! Hinataaaaaaaaaa!" Naruto screamed as he went to find that small girl.

"Ino, you're costume is ready." Hinata's small voice called out to her.

"Huh? Oh yeah. Naruto's looking for you, but I guess he went looking the wrong way." Ino smiled.

"He is? Why?"

"He freaked out at the words 'three thousand people' and wet himself. I hope you have a spare for him."

Hinata chuckled and nodded her head.

"I kind of expected that to happen so I did make an extra."

"Anyways, what were you saying about my costume?"

"It's ready. You should start preparing with make-up as well."

Ino nodded and headed towards the girls change room where it now was used as a prep area for the girl actors.

"Ino, your costume is hanging over there." a girl said to her.

"Thanks."

The blonde girl began to strip off her clothes she was wearing now and put on the brown tattered and holey dress. A white apron was left hanging on the hanger and she took it down. It was a bit frilled on the edges of the cloth, brown make-up was rubbed into the apron to make it look as if it had been used many times and had not been washed. After putting that on, she slipped on the black slippers and then freed her hair from the pony tail. She then put on a black headband into her hair brushing away her bangs that fell into the line of vision of her eyes.

"Ino, hurry up! We need to put make-up on you!"

"I'm coming!"

About ten minutes later she emerged from the change room totally transformed. Her face looked as if she had fallen into dirt. She had a few scratches on her arms as if she had hurt herself while working. Besides her face looking as if it was covered in dirt, her arms and legs were also stained with brown.

"Man, you look like a mess!"

Ino looked at the speaker.

"You don't look so bad yourself." she grinned.

"Tch, it was troublesome trying to get into this."

"Yeah, but it looks really nice. Hinata sure has a knack for this."

Shikamaru sighed and scratched his head. He was dressed in black pants with black boots on his feet. He had on a cream coloured shirt that was ruffled and frilled at the ends of the edges. A navy blue cape hung from his shoulders and flowed to the ground.

"Ah, how in the world did I get into this." he sighed out with slight annoyance.

Ino just shrugged and grinned at him.

"Come on, let's go. The show's going to start soon." she said taking his hand into her own.

"Oi, oi! Quit dragging me. I can walk you know!"

"Aw and for a while I thought you liked holding my hand!" she teased.

He scowled and looked away making her giggle.

"Hey guys, quit your flirting and get your asses on stage." Neji's voice rang through the air.

"How long till it starts?"

"In ten minutes. Now hurry up!"

"Okay, okay! No need pester us mom."

Neji scowled at Ino's comment.

"Do I seriously look like a woman to you people?"

"Well, if you put on some make-up and grew some boobs then yeah you would."

"You didn't to answer that." he growled.

"I know, but when I get a chance to tease you, I take it." the girl laughed.

Shikamaru chuckled and continued to walk towards backstage.

"Hey Ino, we really have to go." he called out.

"Yeah, yeah! Wait up!"


Sakura hummed to herself as she flipped through the pages of script. She was confident that she would do well but at the same time a bit nervous that she might stumble on words. She quickly skimmed a few pages. Her eyes settled on the scene where the Prince and Cinderella would dance. She thought back just two weeks ago what had happened between her and Sasuke.

Slowly her hand touched her lips, tracing them. After the kiss, both were quite shocked at what had happened. But they couldn't deny they enjoyed it. So right now, their relationship status with each other was unsure of.

Sakura was interrupted from her train of thought. The door had opened revealing none other than Uchiha Sasuke. She turned around and smiled a bit.

"Hey…" she greeted softly.

He smirked and nodded, acknowledging that he had heard her. In his point of view, he was quite happy that he had kissed and if he had the chance to kiss her again, he would.

"Ready?" he asked her as he took a seat in front of the dashboard that controlled lights.

"Yup!" she replied cheerfully.

There was a silence between them. It was killing Sakura, the silence was getting to her. She had to do something! Uneasily she looked to her left where the raven haired boy was sitting. He seemed calm. Didn't this quiet make him nervous?

"Um…"

He looked up.

"Uh…"

He continued to look at her.

"Er…"

Still staring…

"I was just uh…"

He smirked and pulled her towards him and buried his face into her hair.

"Um, ah, Sasuke!"

She began to squirm around in his arm. Finally after what seemed to be eternity he released her, his smirk even wider. A voice rang through the small room.

"Oi, Sasuke, Sakura. The show starts in two, got that?"

Sakura picked up the head set and put it on her head replying that both understood and were prepared. She took a deep breath and turned back to face the stony faced boy.

"Sasuke," she began.

"Hm?"

"Where is it that our relationship stands?"

The question had been bugging her for two weeks. Jeez, about time she asked.

"Hmm? I thought you knew."

Sakura sighed.

"No!"

"I'm sure that kiss I gave you said something." he said rubbing his chin as if deep in thought.

"Yeah, but-"

"Good we're on the same page!"

"But…!"

"You guys are on in five…four…"

Sakura and Sasuke quickly turned back around in their seats. She turned the script to the first page and turned on the microphone she would be speaking in and Sasuke began to flick the switches on the dashboard on preparing for the opening act.

(Sakura's narration will be in bold.)

"Welcome to Konoha High's annual Spring Festival!" Sakura's voice rang through the gymnasium.

"This year our junior students will be performing the play Cinderella. During the performance, please turn off all cell phones and pagers so there will be no interruptions for the actors or the audience and so that the performance will be enjoyable as well."

Sasuke glanced at her as she spoke through the microphone. Her voice was steady with confidence and eyes were glittering with excitementfor watching her friends finally do this with a live audience.

"And now, without further ado, Cinderella!"

The velvet black curtains slowly began to pull apart from each other. Sasuke focused the light on one spot make it brighter and brighter until a girl in a tattered dress appeared. She was on the floor appearing to be scrubbing the floor.

"Once upon a time there once lived a girl named Cinderella. When her mother passed away her father had remarried another. At first her step-mother was sweet and kind, but when her father too passed on, she had finally shown her true colours. Her step-mother, along with her two daughters, ordered poor Cinderella around to do the house work."

At that, small sniffles were heard from Ino as she continued to scrub the floor.

"Cinderella!" came a shrill voice. A woman, or should I say boy, walked onto the stage. He wore a deep purple dress with small heels clicking away. Clip on earrings dangled from each ear and blush, eyeliner and mascara was evident on his face. Kenji, the boy who played the step-mother, wanted to take off the disgusting make-up as soon as possible.

Behind him were Satsuki and Kotetsu who were playing the step-sisters. Satsuki had on a light blue dress with earrings dangling from her ears as well. Make-up was no problem since she was used to it. But as for Kotetsu, he too had the same thought as Kenji. Kotetsu wore a pink frilled dress that was layered giving it a poofy look.

"Yes, step-mother?" the working girl's sweet voice replied.

"We have a little something for you."

"The girl stared blankly at them. It wasn't going to be good but for some odd reason she always held a little hope it would be something good."

The two step-sisters snickered.

Anna, played by Kotetsu, stepped in.

"We want you to: wash the windows, clean up our rooms, scrub the toilets, dust the house and…and…"

Looks like someone forgot to read their script over again…

"And…and…"

Hannah, played by Satsuki, helped the struggling boy out.

"Cook our food and milk the cat." she finished lamely. Well seems like she forgot her lines two cause how the hell do you milk a cat?

"Cow!" hissed the step-mother quietly to Satsuki.

"Uh, I mean cow!"

Ino's eye twitched. Well at least it was only a small thing and not big.

"Yes step-mother." she said obediently.

"The poor girl was worked day and night doing work for them. They had named her Cinderella because they had forced her sleep near the fireplace where the cinders resided."

The play had continued smoothly. Well what seemed smoothly. Backstage everyone was a frantic mess. Tenten, Neji and other people working backstage were getting frustrated on shoving people out when they almost missed their cues.

"Could this get any worse?" muttered Tenten irritated.

"You could jinx the play like that." tutted Neji.

"Oh what do you know."

"More than you think."

She rolled her eyes and continued her work.

The next scene was when Cinderella began to cry since her evil step-mother and sisters tore up and ruined her pretty dress for the evening.

"She cried and cried and cried. Her hopes on ever going to the ball had been crushed. Cinderella buried her face into her arms but then spotted a shining star in the corner of her eye. It was quite peculiar. The star looked bigger than the others and was also brighter too."

With that said, Sasuke lit up a small light at the corner of the painted background.

"As Cinderella continued to look up at that single star, it seemed as if it were getting bigger and bigger. Suddenly the started to change its shape."

Ino gasped as she saw the star descend down upon her. It was in fact Naruto in a white and pink dress with silver glittery wings on his back with him holding a gold wand in his left hand. He looked absolutely petrified as he continued down onto the stage.

Meanwhile backstage…

"Oi! Imono! Come down!" he whispered to his friend.

"Ishida you idiot! Can't you see I'm doing something!" he hissed down towards his friend. Indeed he was ding something. Imono was carefully lowering Naruto down towards Ino. One little slip and Naruto could die.

"But Setsuna brought donuts!"

"Ooooh! Donuts!"

And he let go of the single line holding the blonde boy up. A few milliseconds later there was a loud crash.

Back on stage…

"Ow, ow, ow…" groaned Naruto has he lifted his face up from the floor.

"I'm so going to kill Imono!" he screamed out as he slowly got up.

Ino looked at him worried he was hurt but then at the same time annoyed that he had to burst out like that.

"Naruto!" she hissed. Well what she thought was a hiss. It was more like a loud yell, letting the whole audience know the fairy's name…

"Uh…I mean…Are you okay?"

Naruto laughed out loud.

"Me? Ha! Of course I'm okay! Because I'm your FAIRY GODPARENT! AND YOU TIMMY TURNER ARE THE MOST MISERABLE CHILD I'VE EVER SEEN! AHAHAHAHA IT MUST SUCK TO BE YOU!"

With Sasuke and Sakura…

"Is that even in the script?" Sakura said with a hint of panic.

Sasuke shrugged.

"Probably not. Maybe Ino will improvise with him."

Back on stage…

"I mean uh…I'm your fairy godmother?"

"Er…"

Naruto coughed and continued.

"Well anyways, since you were born, I was assigned to be your fairy godmother. When you are in trouble or anything I come to help you. I came here today because uh…because…"

"You're upset and like I said to come and help you!" a person backstage hissed to him.

"Jeez, such a simple line and he forgets it!"

"Oh yeah! Because you look like a monkey and need to help feed you!"

…..

…….

Uh…

"Ah! He screwed it up! How the hell did he get monkey and feed you?" Tenten hissed from the back.

"You're upset and like I said to come and help you!" they hissed at him again.

"No, that isn't right. I think it was, you're upset and like I said to come and help you!"

"Gawd! He finally gets it!"

"I'm here to help you Cinderella to prepare for the Prince's ball!" Naruto said gaining his composure. Well some what gaining.

"But how? My dress is completely ruined. I can't go like this! I look like a mess!"

"Tut tut my child! Now with a flick of my wand…"

Naruto swished the wand a couple of times. Neji quickly turned on the fog machine and cool smog started to surround the stage and the occupants on the stage. Slowly the smog disappeared and there on the stage was Ino standing there with a beautiful blue white dress. It was layered to make it look puffy and glued on sparkles made the dress glitter as she moved around amazed. Her hair was put down and a white glittery band held her bangs in place. On her feet were the ever famous glass slippers but in this case they were plastic.

"Now you are ready to go to the ball!"

"Yes, but how will I get there? I have no carriage or horseman!"

"Yes, yes…you're right. Well then we'll just have to make one!"

"Both the fairy and Cinderella began to search for something that could be made into a carriage and a horseman. Soon, they spotted the perfect objects. An orange pumpkin and a mouse. Again, with the flick of the fairy's wand, the pumpkin was turned into a beautiful carriage and the mouse into a human."

"Oh! Thank you so much! I can go to the ball now!"

"You're very welcome my dear. But remember, when the clock strikes twelve the spell will be broken. Take it as a warning to return before then."

"I will, thank you very much!" Ino said as she waved to her fairy godmother. The curtains began to close as the carriage began to move off stage. Unfortunately, a part of the curtain caught the moving object and it collapsed, which then caused Ino to fall over since she wasn't actually sitting in there but standing as it moved. When Ino fell over she hit the scenery, which then caused it to fall backward which then caused the people backstage to cry out, "TIMBER!" and run away screaming like little girls.

But while that was happening it seemed as if when Naruto was being pulled up from stage, the rope got caught somewhere. Since it got caught he could no longer be pulled up. Poor Naruto, he was dangled up in the air seven feet high swinging back and forth. To make it worse, he was face down. Too bad the audience had to catch that because the curtains never really did fully close.

With Sakura and Sasuke…

"We are so screwed." Sakura breathed.

"Maybe not, listen."

Laughter was heard in the audience. They all thought this was a joke! A comedy act!

"Wow…and here I thought they'd think it was stupid."

"Guess not."

"You know, I think Neji and Tenten did a great job with the props. So nice. Not to mention Hinata's dresses and costumes."

Back on stage…or out there…

"Man! Did you see that major wedgi (I have no idea how to spell that…) Naruto had."

"Yeah, it looked so uncomfortable!"

Silence…

"Uh…do they know that the speakers are on?"

"Do you think they're done fixing the stuff yet?"

"Give them five more minutes."

"Uh…wouldn't know…"

"Should we tell them?"

"Let's be mean and not."

They all snickered. Their ears perked up when they seemed to be in important conversation.

"About two weeks ago…"

"…"

"What did it mean…"

Sasuke sucked in a breath. This was it. He was going to tell her. But should he? What if she didn't feel the same? He never really did take rejection lightly…wait a minute. He's never been rejected before! Eh might as well go for it and find out.

"What did that kiss mean…" she asked again.

Even more silence on the stage…

"HE WHAT?"

The girls were going ballistic when they heard what their dear Sasuke had done.

"AHH MY EARS! MY EARS! HEAR NO MORE! TURN THEM OFF!"

"They're going to tear down the place…"

"SHUT-UP!" Tenten hollered.

"People will hear you out there." Neji pointed out.

"I think they're too into what's going on up there to notice us."

"No! I meant shut-up I want to hear the rest!"

"Sasuke…"

On impulse he captured her lips again in a sweet soft kiss. (Mika if you're reading this…NO MUSH AT SCHOOL PLEASE XDDD) The petal haired girl let out a small gasp. After a few moments the two broke apart with him hugging her and her face against his chest.

"Sakura…"

"AHH WHAT WENT ON UP THERE!"

"DID THEY LIKE YOU KNOW…"

"YOU THINK TOO DIRTY ISHIDA!"

"I love you…" (I think that was OOC but sure what the hey. HE ADMITED IT!)

"Holy freakin crap!"

"He just said…"

Neji and Tenten smiled to themselves.

About time… They both thought.

With Sasuke and Sakura…

"Hey guys, the play can start again. Everything's fixed."

Sakura replied but didn't feel like doing anything at the moment. She just wanted to stay there with him…

"Sasuke I-"

"You guys. Hurry up!"

The play continued quite smoothly until nearing the end where Shikamaru accidentally slipped and the shoe fell right in the lap of a parent. It was quite embarrassing having to retrieve the article when again he tripped down and going up the stairs. But the last part of the movie was the sweetest part yet.

"The Prince was happy that he had finally found the woman he had danced with that night. He asked her to marry him and she happily agreed. When the church bells rang the two,"

The pair embraced each other smiling. Their faces were coming closer and closer until their lips met.

"Hey were they supposed to do that?" Tenten whispered to Neji who at the moment was holding her in his lap.

"I don't think so…"

The audience erupted in applause and cheers. As the curtains closed the two stood there smiling at each other.

"Shikamaru…"

"I love you…" the both whispered in unison.

Ino's eyes widened in shock but then twinkled in happiness as she threw herself on him, pulling him into a tight hug.


"Ah, that was really good!" Hinata told them excitedly.

"Are you sure? Because honestly, I think we did horrible." Tenten said.

"Well, as long as the audience liked it, then we're fine."

"Yeah, that's true."

"So, I heard the both of you got together?"

Ino grinned as she laid her head on Shikamaru's shoulder.

"Isn't it going to be too troublesome?" Naruto teased.

"Having Ino as a girlfriend is going to be more troublesome than before." he grinned.

"Shikamaru!" Ino pouted as she hit her boyfriend in the arm.

"In a good way!" he said defensively.

"Er...it's still an insult." Neji grinned.

"Speaking of getting together…"

"Nice confession you made there Sasuke." Naruto laughed.

The raven haired boy and petal haired girl had been quiet and said nothing for the past hour. Now that their friends had said something to them, and it was quite shocking, did they speak up.

"W-what do you mean?" Sasuke stuttered.

"Wow, Sasuke stuttering?"

"I thought it'd never happen."

"Don't play dumb with us Uchiha." smirked Neji.

"Yep, we heard it all Sasuke" Tenten said in a singsong voice.

"Now that I think about it, Sakura never really said anything back." Ino said thoughtfully as she took a sip from her pop.

"I…uhmm…."

All eyes were on her, waiting for an answer. The girl had never felt so pressure in her entire life! But then again, why was she pressured. Surely she felt the same towards Sasuke. She glanced over to the boy sitting next to her and he seemed quite preoccupied from drinking his coke.

Taking a deep breath she turned a hundred eighty and faced him. Sakura latched her hand onto his black shirt and gave a few tugs. He set his drink down and looked at her.

"I…uhm…"

The rest of them were slowly inching towards the front of their seats. Naruto inched to much forward because before you knew it, he fell thud right onto the floor.

"Ah! Naruto! Are you alright!" Hinata asked him alarmed.

"Yeah, I'm fine!" he said rubbing his sore spot.

Again, Sakura took a deep breath.

"I've been thinking it over…"

They were holding their breaths.

"I think…no…I know I love you…"

They let their breaths out.

"Oi, Tenten you can let your breath out now…"

"Tenten let your breath out!"

"She said it already!"

Sasuke looked at her and gave a small smile. He brought his arms around her and hugged her tightly.

"I love you too…"

THUD!

"She never listens…" Neji sighed as he picked his fallen girlfriend back up.


Very rushed coupling between Shikamaru and Ino eh? Lol Sorry about that. Next chapter will have NaruHina fluff. I promise you. I hope this chapter wasn't that confusing.Pm me if you have questions. I'm starting to get sad because this story is starting to come to and end…Ah well there's still my others!

I'm going to work on Undercover Geek soon. I just have to think of something that won't suck for the second chapter. Lmao

You're lovely dust bunny,

Rachel