(A/N Wow thanks for all the reviews I'm touched. Glad you all like the story so far and trust me I have a lot of ideas for this story. All you people need to do is review and I'll update as fast as I can. Reviews help me update faster especially the nice ones. Don't worry Ino will get Sakura back one way or another. Hehehehehehe! Now on to the next chapter.)

Last Time:

"So guys what did you want to talk to me about anyway?" Sakura asked looking at her two other friends.

Tenten and Hinata both shifted in their seats again the strength from earlier completely gone. "Umm...we want to talk about the play that Konoha was holding." Hinata came up with at the last minute.

Suddenly Ino and Sakura both remembered where they have to be in an hour or so. They groaned at the same time causing the two other girls in the room to look at them with confusion on their faces.

"So what about the play?" Ino asked trying really hard to avoid the fact that she was forced into the play.

"Yesterday they held tryouts and everyone tried out except you two." Tenten said was a hint of shyness in her voice.

"Who is playing who!?" Sakura and Ino both yelled at the same time causing their friends to jump in shock. Since their forced into this stupid play they at least wanted to know who else was in it.

"Well okay you'll never believe this, but..."

Regular talking, and in present

Thoughts, lyrics, and flashbacks

Chapter 5: Loathing

"Well okay you'll never believe this, but I got the part of Nessarose." Hinata proudly told the girls with a huge smile.

"That's great Hinata, but why didn't you try out for the lead?" Sakura asked trying not to sound obvious.

"I'm not that great at singing and I'm still not over my shyness. Yeah also the parts were already taken by two girls in the village around our age." Hinata explained with a thoughtful look on her face. Sakura and Ino held back a groan of frustration.

"So Tenten who did you get?" Ino asked the weapons mistress.

"Oh I got like all the little roles. You know like the mother and Dorothy. I took all the small female parts." The girl said as she polished a kunai in her pouch.

"Why would you take all those roles?" Sakura questioned shocked that someone would do something like that.

"Because I don't have to sing so much and I have very little lines. So that means less acting, but I still can be a part of the play. Neji's doing the same thing as me."

"WAIT! Neji as in the Neji Hyuga. The Neji Hyuga who cares more about training than anything else." Ino proclaimed her jaw dropping. She knew that the Hyuga genius wasn't into things like musicals so how in the hell did he get in the play.

"Hey he does care more about his girlfriend than his stupid training!" exclaimed Tenten clearly offended by Ino's comment. I mean wouldn't you be if someone told you that your boyfriend was more interested in training than being with his girlfriend of 6 months.

Sakura smacked her forehead as Ino tried to fix the situation. "I didn't mean it that way Tenten and you know it. I was just shocked that him of all people are in the play."

Tenten giggled making everyone else in the room relax. No one wants to piss the bun haired girl off. Lee made that mistake one time and well lets just say he wasn't talking about youth for a while after that. Ever since that day no one has tried to piss Tenten off.

"I guess your right it's hard to believe that him of all people tried out." Tenten agreed as she started to polish her wooden staff.

"How did you manage to get him to do it?" Sakura asked knowing full well that he didn't do it on his own free will. This was Neji Hyuga we were talking about here.

"I promised that I would train with him for a month at any time he wants. It's really no big deal considering that I alway's train with him." Tenten explained rubbing really hard to try and get rid of a smuge.

"Wait what difinition of training do you mean?" Sakura slyly questioned her with a perverted smirk on her face. That earned her a pillow to the face. "Hey! What was that for!" She yelled at the girl who threw it at her.

Tenten who was standing and pointing an accusing finger at Sakura demanded. "That is none of your business Haruno!"

That caused Sakura to smirk again. "Oh so it's that kind of training. Never knew you were that kind of girl Tenten."

"I'm not like that Sakura!" Tenten said to her, but the blush on her face told the others differently.

Ino raised a questioning eyebrow as she decided to side with Sakura on this one. "Shesh Tenten you promised him sex for 1 month at any time of day. No wonder he said yes any guy would say yes to that."

Now it was Hinata's turn to look at Tenten in shock. "Wow wonder if that would work on Naruto." She muttered to herself, but everyone heard her loud and clear.

Clapping both hands to her ears Sakura started yelling to herself. "EWWW!! BAD PICTURES OF NARUTO!! BAD BAD BAD!!" Then she started pounding her head up against the wall to get rid of the mental pictures.

That caused everyone to start laughing at her. Once Sakura was done she looked at Ino and pointed a finger at her. "Chouji and Shikamaru." It was all she had to say for mental images of the two to pop into Ino's head.

"EWWWW!!! THAT'S NOT RIGHT!! DAMN YOU FOREHEAD GIRL I'M SCARRED FOR LIFE!!!!" Ino screamed as she started to pull her hair out.

Tenten was laughing so hard that she fell on the ground. All Ino did was look at her and say. "Gai and Lee doing something other than training." Now it was Tenten's turn to grab her head and yell.

"OH MY GOD THAT'S SICK!!! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SAY THAT!!! IT'S BAD ENOUGH I HAVE TO DEAL WITH THEIR CONSTANT YOUTH CRAP!!! NOW I CAN NEVER LOOK AT THEM THE SAME WAY AGAIN!!" She was on the ground rolling around like she was on fire all the while screaming ew.

Hinata was laughing so hard that she couldn't even breathe. Tenten glared at her once the images went away. "This all your fault you started it so your going to finish it. Kiba and Shino alone in the your bedroom."

A horiffied look crossed Hinata's face and she did something that they thought she would never do. She covered her eyes with both hands and started screaming. "DAMMIT TENTEN NOW I WON'T BE ABLE TO BE IN MY ROOM WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT THAT!!! THAT'S SOOOO NASTY!!"

All the other girls looked at Hinata liked she grew another head. "Hinata since when do you swear?" Sakura asked in a shocked tone.

Hinata uncovered her eyes, but she still looked mentally disturbed. "When someone says something like that I swear." She explained as she glared at Tenten.

"Jeez Hinata I think you've been hanging out with forehead for too long. Your starting to get her temper." Ino joked trying to provoke Sakura. It worked like a charm as she saw a vain pop out of the said girls forehead.

"What's that supposed to mean pig." Sakura venomously shot back using that damn nickname that Ino despise's with a passion.

Before they could start fighting Tenten interrupted them. "Hey don't you want to know who else got the parts?"

That instantly took them out of the agruement and into their seats as they looked at the other two girls intently. "Okay don't interrupt us just ask questions later because we have only 45 minutes to get to rehearals. I'll just name off the role and who got them okay." Both girls nodded in agreement and waited for Tenten to continue.

"Okay let me see. Naruto got the part of Fiyero. He's the love interest of both the lead characters. Temari got the part of Madame Morrible. Pretty much she's one of the villians. Shikamaru is playing the wizard while Chouji is playing Dr. Dillamond who is a goat. Kiba is playing Boq who is Hinata's lover in the play. Shino and Lee are both stagehands and they both replace the actors that are not there." Tenten explained in her lecture pose.

"Wait Naruto got the lead? How the hell did that happen?" Ino asked in astonishment. 'He's a love interest between both the leads then that means that I have to kiss him. Oh god what the hell did I ever do to deserve this.'

"Well Kakashi and Tsunade made him try out because he left them too many ramen bills. Turns out he's not that bad of a singer and he's pretty good at acting. Who would have guessed?" Hinata said to them as she shrugged her shoulders.

"So why is Temari in the play? Also when did she get here?" Sakura asked wanting to know why the sand nin would be caught dead in a play.

"It was a favor from Tsunade for helping her village last month. Since she's dating Shikamaru she forced him into the play and he dragged Chouji along with him. Both of them were kicking and screaming the whole way their. Seriously Ino I don't know how you deal with them all the time." Tenten sighed as she finished her sentence.

"It's a pain in the ass, but over the years you get used to it. I wish that I would have saw it. Well at least I..." Ino was about to finish before Sakura interrupted her.

"So Hinata how do you feel about Naruto being with two girls in the play and neither of them being you?" Sakura knew what Ino was going to say. She was going to metion that they were in the play, but she decided to let them find out at rehearsals. 'I really should have read that stupid script. Arg. I can't believe that I have to be all lovey dovey with Naruto. He's like a brother to me in all sense of the word execpt blood.'

"I'm okay with it as long as Naruto kisses me when were not in the play." Hinata told them with a shy smile. Ino and Sakura let out a breath that they didn't know that they were holding. They were lucky because they didn't want to lose their friendship with Hinata over some stupid play.

Tenten looked at the clock on the wall and gasped. "Shit we only have 25 minutes to get there. We have to go sorry guys." Hinata and Tenten both stood up ready to leave.

"Hey why don't we tag along with you two. That's if you don't mind." Ino said as she stood along with Sakura. She quickly caught on with what the girl wanted to do. Years of being her friend payed off because she can easily read the expressions on her face.

"Sure we don't mind and I don't think that the instructors would care either. Lets set off." Hinata said as she walked out the door along with Tenten.

Ino turned to her pink haired friend. "Well are you ready to face the music?" She asked nervousness in her voice.

Sakura gave her a weak smile that didn't quite reach her eyes. "About ready as I'll ever be. Here take these." She handed Ino a pair of sunglasses and a black hat.

"Sakura what are you doing?" Ino asked as she looked at the items with curiousity.

"Tsunade said that we had to show up. She never said that we actually had to practice."

"You know they can easily see through that. Why don't we just use henge or something?"

"You don't think that they won't sense our chakra's? These is about as good as it's going to be and I'll be damned if I give in to this stupid thing without a fight." Sakura told her determination shining in her eyes.

Ino sweatdropped, but gave in none the less. "I actually agree with you on this one forehead. We might as well get out of this the best that we can without breaking the rules or at least put up a fight before we're humilated in front of everyone we know." She put on the hat and put the sunglasses on.

"Well lets roll pig." Sakura said as she put on a red bandana and sunglasses.

"Wait why do you get a bandana and I have to wear a stupid hat?" questioned Ino pointing at the 'stupid' hat that was already bugging her.

"Because I have to use something to hide my hair. I'm the only one in Konoha with naturally pink hair. No one would expect you of all people to wear a hat since you alway's say that they ruin your hair." Sakura replied acting like it was plain common sense.

"Why don't you wear the hat and I wear the bandana." Ino suggested with her teeth clenched.

Sakura started laughing at her before responding. "I don't want hat hair that's why." Ino wanted to deck her right then and there, but before she could Sakura wrapped her arms around Ino's shoulders and forced her out the front door.

Ino tried really hard to ignore the feeling in her stomach, but it was really hard. She was too close to Sakura for comfort and it was really fucking up with her thinking. It was so bad that she didn't even realize that they made it to the ninja academy till they were standing right in front of the doors and Sakura was waving her hand in front of her face.

"Hey Ino are you there? Ino hello? Come back to planet Earth." Sakura said her voice filled with concern. Ino realized that it was concern for her. It's been a while since she made Sakura this worried for her safety.

She quickly snapped back into reality. "Oh...Sakura. Sorry I guess that I sorta spaced out there." She tried to laugh it off, but it didn't get rid of the concern written on her friends face. It sorta made her feel guilty that she was making her worry so much.

"Are you sure? You've spaced out for like 5 minutes." Sakura told her as she bit her lower lip. That was a sign for Ino that told her that her friend was either worried or nervous.

'You know she looks really cute when she does that. Wait...I have to stop thinking like this it's not right. She's a friend and a enemy. Also might I add that she is a girl you aren't like that. You like boys not girls' Ino tried to tell herself that over and over, but for some reason it wasn't working. Her thoughts kept going back to the pink haired girl standing in front of her.

Suddenly she was brought out of her thoughts yet again by Sakura waving a hand in her face. "Ino are you sure your okay?" Now her voice held even more concern.

Ino grabbed her hand before she could wave it in her face again. "Sakura I'm fine. I was just thinking about something that's been bugging me for a while now." She tried to give her a good enough answer without telling her everything, but enough for her to leave her alone.

Sakura leaned her head forward and cocked her head to the side. It made her look extremely adorable. "What were you thinking about?" She asked in a curious tone.

"Nothing that concerns you so butt out." Ino rudely told her. Man that was a down right lie, but there's no way in hell that she's telling Sakura that she can't stop thinking about her.

"You know I was only trying to be nice you know." Sakura pouted her lower lip sticking out and her eyes getting wide. Ino couldn't believe that anyone their age could look so cute, but the cherry blossom just proved her wrong.

"Come on we have to get in unnoticed." Ino quickly changed the subject because she was about to crack under the cuteness factor.

"Oh yeah I forgot. Here I brought the scripts just in case. We really should go over our lines and what not." Sakura said as she handed her a script that had her name on it.

"I can't wait till this thing over." Ino muttered as she took the script and quietly walked into the building. She noticed that they were going over a scene and she sighed with relief.

"How late are we?" Ino whispered to Sakura as they took a seat in the very back making sure that there is no light what so ever.

Sakura inspected her watch before replying. "Half an hour."

Ino sighed in annoyance. She decided to look over her lines since everyone else was playing a scene that she had no clue about. She quickly skimmed it taking notice of the lines that were highlighted in yellow with her name next to it. She turned her head to see Sakura looking over her script as well.

About half an hour of this and they pretty much had the first act down flat. They were both very thankful of the fact that they had photograph memories.

"This soooooo boring." Ino whispered as she looked at the others on stage acting. "What the hell is Lee doing? He's getting everything all wrong. God we're so doomed."

"Ino can you quit complaining you've been doing it for ten minutes. I get it they suck at whatever the hell their doing just quit bitching to me." Sakura didn't know what was worse Ino's constant complaining or their friends horrible performances. Seriously what the hell was Lee doing? Whatever it is it's not in the script.

"I'm sorry, but this is pure torture. I'm about to go up there myself to at least save my poor eyes and ears." Ino exclaimed bouncing her leg up and down to keep her preoccupied.

"I know what you mean, but there's no way in hell that I'm going up there. I was thinking of ditching this thing."

"You know we can't do that, but the idea is tempting. Why did Tsunade decided to do this of all things."

"To make us suffer. I know her she wasn't thinking about if this can be pulled off, but rather that we're stuck with each other. Sometimes I wonder how I survived being her student all these years. Hell I'm surprised Shizune lasted this long." Sakura said as she winced from a high note that Shikamaru just sang.

"Please shoot me now." Ino muttered as she dramatically raised her arms in the air.

"Ha if I had a gun I would have shot myself before shooting you. Note to self never have Shikamaru do karoke ever." Sakura said as the Lazy chunin did another high note.

Sure the poor dude was embarassed as hell, but right now that really didn't matter to the two hiding girls. They have had to put up with this crap for a long time and they just wanted to get the hell out of here. It wasn't just Shikamaru that was bad in fact everyone except for Naruto was terrible. They truely didn't want to be mean since they are their friends, but for the love of god they were bad.

Chouji was too busy eating rather than actually trying to act. Well you know about Shikamaru. Temari, Tenten, and Neji forgot their lines half the time and didn't move around to make the play come to life. Poor Hinata was too quiet so hardly anyone could hear her and Kiba kept tripping over his feet. Naruto was the only one that knew what he was doing, he sang at the right notes, and he walked around at the right parts.

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but please bring Naruto back on the stage." Ino whispered as Tsunade started yelling at Chouji for eating on the stage again.

"Yeah I really wish they brought him back on. I never really knew that Naruto could act or sing, but now I know why he got the part." Sakura stated as she complimented her teammate.

Suddenly Ino saw someone at the corner of her eye. She really couldn't tell what it was, but it was hanging off the side of her hat. "Sakura there's something on my hat can you look to see what it is?"

Sakura turned her head and froze when she saw the thing hanging off the side of Ino's hat. "Ino whatever you do don't move." She told her in a serious tone.

Now Ino was panicing. "What the hell is it? Sakura tell me."

"You really don't want to know, but don't worry I'll get it for you." Sakura knew for a fact that this thing scared the shit out of Ino and if she were to see it then their cover would be blown for sure.

She was just about to grab the thing when the sun just had to shine on to then making Ino see it. At first Ino didn't look scared at all and that made Sakura sigh in relief, but soon realization kicked in and her eyes started to widen in pure terror.

"Sp...Spi..." She couldn't quite get the words out and Sakura reached to grab the thing put Ino jumped up in the air. Sakura swore under her breath because she knew what was going to happen next. Ino took a deep breath and screamed at the top of her lungs.

"SPIDER!!!!!" Everyone stopped what they were doing and everything was silent as they saw a frantic girl screaming her head off while another girl was banging her head on the seat in front of her.

"I told her not to look." Sakura muttered under her breath. She quickly stood up and tried to calm Ino down.

With all her might Ino grabbed the hat on her head and slammed it on her ground before jumping up and down screaming. "DIE!!" Now everyone knew that it was Ino making that noise and their eyes widened in shock.

"Well there's no use in trying to hide thanks to blondie over there." Sakura muttered as she pulled the bandana off her head and tossed it on the seat.

"Ino calm down you killed the spider!" Sakura tried to reason with the blonde who was stomping on her poor hat over and over. "For the love of god it was a fucking spider! It's gone now!" She was starting to lose her temper and that was never a good thing.

She reached for her shoulder, but Ino blindly swung her arm at her. It made contact with the side of Sakura's face. The cherry blossom was sent flying into two chairs and she painfully banged her head on the ground.

Now everyone was in a state of absolute shock. It was one thing that Yamanaka Ino was jumping up and down yelling die to a hat, but it was other thing when she sucker punched Haruno Sakura in the face and send her flying to the ground.

Sakura wiped the blood from her lips and groaned as she tried to sit up. 'Son of a bitch! I never knew that her fear of spiders got this bad. There was only two things that would alway's snap her out of it though, but since there's no water anywhere I guess it's time for plan two.' With that she painfully stood up and stood in front of a still hysterical Ino.

"I'm sorry that it's come down to this, but here I go. CHA!!" Sakura screamed as she punched Ino across her right cheek sending her flying to the ground.

Tsunade decided to walk over to the two fighting girls telling the others to stay where they are. Once she reached them she started yelling at Sakura. "What the hell is the meaning of this! Why are you late! I want explainations right now!"

Before Sakura spoke to Tsunade she went over to Ino and crouched down beside her. She grinned at the blonde who was moaning in pain. She noticed Sakura and looked over and asked in a soft voice. "Is it gone?"

The pink haired girl chuckled at her before answering in a voice full of humor. "Yes I'm sure you killed it when you stepped on it for the 50th time."

Ino smiled lightly at her before she started to laugh herself. "I guess I went a little over board didn't I?"

"Oh no. Jumping up and down about 100 times screaming die is completely normal. Not to metion sucker punching the person who was trying to calm your ass down. How would you call that over board?" Sakura sarcastically remarked, but Ino could tell by her smile that she was not mad at her.

"Yeah sorry about that. I didn't mean to hit you, but I.." Ino tried to apologize, but Sakura lifted her hand up to hush her.

"It's okay I'm not mad at you just next time I tell you not to look don't look."

"I'll try, but you know me." That made both of them start laughing. They realized that it was really rare now a days to have both of them laugh together.

'Man I really miss this. It's been sooo long since me and Ino could actually joke like this. Not since...argg come on Sakura don't think about that bastard anymore just treasure this rare moment because this could be your last good moment with her.' Sakura thought to herself as she continued to laugh now finding it really hard to breathe.

'At least the only good thing that came from this whole embarassing incident is that I'm having a great moment with Sakura. It's been so long and I really miss her. I guess the saying is right you don't know what you got till it's gone.' Ino thought as she clutched her sides to help her breathe better.

By the time they were done laughing both had tears of laughter in their eyes, but when they turned their heads they both suppressed a gulp. Looking down at them was a very pissed off Tsunade.

"Now that your done with your fun and games mind telling me why your late?" She asked in a sickly sweet voice that sent shivers up both girls spines. Yup she was beyond pissed and that was not a good thing at all.

"Well actually Tsunade-sama we were on time." Sakura tried to explain to her mentor. Ino wanted to help her friend, but found that she lost her ability to talk.

"Then why didn't you show up and practice with the cast?" She questioned leaning closer to Sakura's face.

"Well you see...we...uh...we..." Before Tsunade could release her rage on Sakura Ino quickly jumped in to save her ass.

"We wanted to see who are other cast members are and if their any good." Tsuande turned her head towards her as Sakura sent her a silent thank you.

Tsunade looked between Ino and Sakura and repeated the process before she sighed her voice sounding really tired. "Well then you two realize how bad this situation is."

Both nodded their heads to confirm Tsuande's statment. "I thought that we were the only inexpericed performers here, but I guess we were terribly mistaken." Ino bluntly told Tsunade who smacked her forehead in frustration.

"Tell me about it, but they were the only one's that showed up. I even had to force some to be in the play. I'm shocked that Naruto is as good as he is, but he can't be the only one that's good." She then looked at Ino and Sakura again. "You two really need to step up. I know that we can help Temari, Tenten, Neji, and Kiba with their problems because theirs are only minor. The others I'm not so sure we can help them in 2 months."

"You have to try Tsunade-sama. Remember that we could be just as bad as they are if not worse." Sakura said trying not to have all this weight on her shoulders. She didn't even want the part and now they were depending on her and Ino to save the show. This was too much.

"We can try, but your roles are what really matter. The leads are alway's the most important and most of the time it's the success or flop of the whole production." Tsunade told them both with another heavy sigh.

"Great we didn't even want this in the first place. This sucks!" Ino exclaimed taking the words right out of Sakura's mouth.

"Look there's nothing I can do now. I would have shut it down already, but were sold out and I can't give them refunds. I didn't know that this would be such a pain in the ass. I need some sake." Tsuande muttered the last part as she rubbed her temples.

"Oh no you don't! You are not going to be drinking your problems away like you do with all your paperwork. Listen Ino and I will try, but only if you help them get better and you stay away from the sake." Sakura told her sensei looking her right in the eyes.

Tsunade threw her arms up in defeat. "Fine you win, but I wouldn't be giving up my sake if I didn't depend on you two so much. Now get on and start practicing. Please you need to give the others a break I don't know how much my ears can take." She said as she turned around and started to walk to the stage Ino and Sakura following behind her.

"Okay everyone listen up. Finally the lead actresses showed up. If your wondering who they are they're right behind me." Tsunade said. Everyone in the cast looked behind the fifth to see a waving Sakura and a smiling Ino.

"WHAT! Why didn't you two tell me that you auditioned." Tenten yelled at her friends mad that they didn't tell her that they were in the play too.

"Who said anything about auditioning?" Sakura questioned to the others as they looked at her in confusion.

"What forehead means is that we didn't audition actually we were more like forced into the play." Ino explained ingoring the glare that Sakura was giving her.

"So I'm not the only one. Well that's good." Shikamaru said lazily rubbing the back of his head.

"You deserved to be in the play lazy ass. It's your fault that I'm here in the first place and your going to get it. Chouji don't think that I forgot you too because trust me I didn't." Ino threatened her voice dangerously low making her two teammates shiver in fear. They knew how Ino gets when she's in one of her moods and they both knew that they were majorly screwed.

"Yeah Sakura-chan is in the play too!" Naruto yelled as he drapped an arm around Sakura.

The pink haired girl smiled at Naruto before punching him in the face sending him flying into a wall creating a huge hole. Sakura then walked over to the huge hole and picked the poor blonde from the ruble. She started to shake him all the while yelling.

"BAKA IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT I'M HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! YOUR GOING TO FEEL MY WRATH!! YOU WON"T KNOW REAL PAIN TILL I'M DONE WITH YOU!!!" Everyone looked on in shock as the two remaining members of Team 7 continued to yell.

"SAKURA-CHAN I'M SORRY I DIDN'T MEAN TO TURN ON YOU!!! IT WAS ALL KAKASHI-SENSEI'S FAULT!! HE CONVINCED ME TO SIDE AGAINEST YOU!! YOU KNOW ME I WOULD NEVER DO THAT TO YOU!!!" Naruto screamed for his life as Sakura released her rage on him.

"DON'T WORRY NARUTO KAKASHI-SENSEI IS GOING TO GET IT TOO!!" Sakura promised as she threw Naruto into another wall.

"Man is she really pissed off this time or what. I don't know if I should feel sorry for Naruto or side with Sakura." Ino muttered under her breath. When Sakura threw the poor blonde into another wall Ino decided that he has had enough.

When Sakura was about to go after him again Ino grabbed her shoulder. Sakura turned her head to look at her questionally. "I think that he's had enough of a beating Sakura. Your going to kill him if you don't watch that strength of yours." She explained to her friend.

"I guess your right." Sakura then went over to Naruto her anger completely gone. Of course Naruto was still scared of her and as he tried to run Sakura grabbed his arm and pulled him down.

"I'M SORRY SAKURA-CHAN!!" Naruto yelled as Sakura forced him on the ground. He wouldn't stop screaming so Sakura did what she alway's does when he annoys the hell out of her.

Raising her fist up to her face she quickly bopped Naruto on top of his head. "Baka I was trying to heal you when you flipped out. Now shut up and let me heal you." Naruto stopped squirming and just let Sakura heal his wounds. Although both knew that his wounds would be gone in an hour thanks to a certain nine tailed demon.

Once Naruto was fully healed he stood up and helped Sakura up. "Thanks again for healing me Sakura-chan."

Sakura sighed in annoyance, but she couldn't help the smile that was forming on her lips. "Naruto how many times do I have to tell you to drop the chan?"

"Sorry it's just so hard to drop old habits Sakura-ch...I mean Sakura." Naruto corrected himself causing the girl to giggle at his actions.

Ino looked at the scene with a small smile. Over the years Naruto and Sakura have gotten really close to one another. At first Sakura just thought he was a pest and Naruto was a love sick puppy, but once Sasuke left they started to get to know each other. They developed this brother/sister realtionship and they both look out for each other through anything. No one truely knows what their missions are like, but they knew that with each one taking care of the other there was no need to worry. Even with Sasuke gone they were the best team out of the entire Konoha 11.

"Okay that was amusing, but lets get back to rehearsal's. Let's practice another song that is a dueted between Sakura and Ino." Kakashi said getting the teens back on track.

'Oh shit.' Ino and Sakura thought in unison as they walked on to the stage.

"Okay everyone else go behind Ino and Sakura because your back up singers." Asuma told the others while everyone groaned. They listened to their sensei though and walked so that they were up against the wall.

"Now there will be no costumes or sets. We're just going to see how your singing and acting is. Then we'll work from there." Kurenai explained glad that someone else was singing.

"The song that your singing is What Is This Feeling. Do you two know it?" Tsunade asked them. Sakura and Ino both nodded because they were too nervous to speak. "Okay then you two can start. Ino your line is first."

'Oh god I can't do this, but I promised. I know the lines so let me do this.' Ino thought as she took a deep breath and got into character.

"Dearest darlingest Momsie and Popsicle." Ino started in a very bubblely voice.

Sakura then came in with a bored tone to her voice. "My dear father." Ino could tell that Sakura was ten times as nervous as she was. The poor girl could never handle being in the spot light.

Both took a deep breath as they both sang this line together.

There's been some confusion
Over rooming here at Shiz

"But of course I'll care for Hina." Sakura sang in a surprisingly good voice.

(A/N Remember that I'm using their own names not the characters in the play.)

"But of course I'll rise above it." Ino sang shocked that her own voice sounded so good. Then they both joined in and sang.

For I know that's how you'd want me to respond
(Spoken:) Yes
There's been some confusion
For you see, my roommate is:

Ino and Sakura faced each other getting in the role they looked each other up and down. Ino then crossed her arms and layed an index finger on her chin as she sang. " Unusually and exceedingly peculiar. And altogether quite impossible to describe."

Sakura just looked at Ino as she tried to hide a smirk. "Blonde."

Ino turned to the audience before facing Sakura again. "What is this feeling, So sudden and new?"

"I felt the moment I laid eyes on you." Sakura sang as she walked over to Ino.

"My pulse is rushing." Ino sang.

"My head is reeling." Sakura shook her head to add empathsis.

"My face is flushing." Ino faked a blush. Then both gilrs threw their arms up in the air as they sang.

What is this feeling?
Fervid as a flame,
Does it have a name?
Yes! Loathing
Unadulterated loathing

Ino then pointed a finger at Sakura showing a disgusted face. "For your face."

Sakura turned away from Ino, but brought her head back to sing. "Your voice."

"Your clothing." Ino sang as she grabbed a piece of Sakura's shirt. Then they walked around each other in circles before turning away from each other.

Let's just say - I loathe it all
Ev'ry little trait, however small
Makes my very flesh begin to crawl

Sakura and Ino then pretended to shiver when they sang the last part. Then they looked back at each other faces scrunched up in digust.

With simple utter loathing
There's a strange exhilaration
In such total detestation
It's so pure and strong!

The two hid back a smile. They didn't sound that bad and they were guessing by the others looks of awe that they didn't think that they sound that bad either.

Though I do admit it came on fast
Still I do believe that it can last
And I will be loathing
Loathing you
My whole life long!

Now the others came up and surrounded Ino leaving Sakura out of the whole group. As a group they didn't sound that bad and they actually remembered their lines.

Dear Ino, you are just too good
How do you stand it? I don't think I could!
She's a terror! She's a Tartar!
We don't mean to show a bias,
But Ino, you're a martyr!

Now it was Ino's turn to hit a high note by herself. She put on a face that showed she was better than you then she placed her right hand over her chest as she sang. "Well. These things are sent to try us!" Then the others started to sing again looking back and forth between Ino and Sakura.

Poor Ino, forced to reside
With someone so disgusticified
We all just want to tell you:
We're all on your side!
We share your;

Now Ino broke through the crowd and looked at Sakura as they started singing louder than the other cast members who went straight to back up singers.

What is this feeling
So sudden and new?
I felt the moment I laid eyes on you
My pulse is rushing
My head is reeling

Now it was time for another high note as both girls turned to the audience.

Oh, what is this feeling?
Does it have a name?
Yes
Ahhh

Everyone joined in together to yell. "LOATHING!" Now Sakura and Ino started singing together again as the students sang loathing over and over.

There's a strange exhilaration. (loathing)

In such total detestation (loathing)

It's so pure, so strong (so strong)

Though I do admit it came on fast
Still I do believe that it can last
And I will be...

Both girls were wondering when this was going to be over because they were getting sick of saying loathing. Though they both had to admit they were having fun doing this.

loathing
For forever...

loathing,
Truly deeply loathing you

loathing you
My whole Life long!

Sakura finished off the song by sneaking up behind Ino and yelling. "BOO!!"

Ino pretended to jump back scared out of her mind as she screamed. "AH!!" Then the song was over and they were finished.

They heard very loud clapping and turned their heads to see all the instrustors standing up clapping like manics. Kakashi even looked like he was crying with tears of joy.

"Yes we have a chance at saving the play. You two were brillant. Wonderful chemistry. Simply wonderful." Tsunade proclaimed looking ten times happier than she did a couple of minutes ago.

"We were that good." Sakura asked unsure of the whole thing. Ino sighed at her friends shyness before coming up to her and wrapping an arm around her neck.

"Of course we were good forehead. Don't tell me you didn't hear us sing." Ino said trying to brighten Sakura's mood.

"I heard you and you sounded great, but I'm not so sure about me." She said acting like that little girl that was alway's unsure of herself.

Ino grabbed her shoulders and spun her around so that they were face to face. "Sakura you did great. Quit being so hard on yourself all the time and give yourself a pat of the back every now and then. Shesh I don't know what I'm going to do with you." Ino pretended in an annoyed voice.

Sakura smiled at her friend who smiled back. "Th...Thanks Ino."

They were brought out of there moment by Tsunade. "Okay now rehearsals are over today, but be back again tomorrow same time same place. You are all dimissed." All the instructors disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Come on Hinata you promised that I could treat you to ramen. Let's go!" Naruto yelled dragging Hinata out of the building.

"Neji, Tenten let's go youthful training awaits!" shouted Lee as he ran out the building with Neji and Tenten trailing behind although not as enthusastic as their teammate.

"Shika-kun you promised to go cloud watching with me today." Temari demanded from her boyfriend who just sighed.

"Troublesome. Come on let's go." They left with Chouji, Kiba, and Shino right behind them saying that they were going to eat.

Ino turned her head towards Sakura as they walked out of the now empty building. "Hey Sakura what are you doing today?"

"Training." Was her only response.

"Come I tag along with you?" Ino asked her as they turned a corner.

"Why do you want to train with me?" Sakura questioned as she turned her full attention on Ino.

'Well I need to train more and you probably need a sparing partner. So why not kill two birds with one stone." Ino told her shrugging her shoulders althought that wasn't the real reason. 'Now I can watch out for her to make sure she doesn't over do it.'

"Well I guess you can come, but I'm warning you my training is pretty rough." The cherry blossom warned her blonde companion.

"Ha I can take anything that you throw at me." Ino declared not knowing that she will soon regret her words big time.

(A/N Yeah!!! I'm done with chapter 5. This has to be my longest chapter yet! Man writing that singing scene turned out to be more of a pain than I thought. Next chapter will deal with Ino and Sakura's day of training. Maybe something more. You never know. PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!!!! SEE YA!!)