Chapter Two- This Will Be My Life for a While

Sakura stared at the results for a couple more seconds in shock until Ino pulled her back and into a side hallway.

"You know what this means, don't you?" Ino hissed.

"Um…I…I don't know…." Sakura replied, still in shock.

"See, I was looking at the script, just out of curiosity—"

"How'd you get the—"

Ino cut Sakura off, and spoke in a whisper. "Quiet! No one can hear about this!"

"How'd you get it?" Sakura questioned in a harsh whisper.

"Oh, you'd be surprised what Master Kakashi's perverted book love can get you." Ino answered.

"On second thought," Sakura whispered, "I don't want to know. So what'd you find out?"

"For one, there's no kissing between the lower characters." Ino whispered almost sadly, Sakura made a mental note to see what Ino got. "But for two, there is a big, climatic kissing scene between Ayame and Keichi!"

For Sakura, all went black after that.

'"'"'"'"

Later, as Sakura's eyes finally opened and started to adjust, she found herself in the Nurses' Office.

She sat up, grabbing her head. "What the hell happened?" She mumbled.

"You fainted."

Sakura looked to the side to see Ino watching her from a chair against the wall.

"Ino." she murmured. "What do you mean I fainted?"

"I mean you dropped unconscious in the middle of the hallway and I had to get Naruto and Kiba to carry you in."

"Oh, great…" She grumbled. "How bad was it?"

"The 'you fainting part', or the humiliation?" Ino asked.

"Both."

"I wouldn't say it went that bad. Worst was that you hit your head pretty hard on the ground, and basically caused everyone to go into a panic so bad they had to call in the principle."

"Oh, shit." Sakura sighed, embarrassed.

"Hey, it's not all that bad." Ino announced.

"Why? What can make this right?"

"I saw Sasuke in the crowd, and it looked like he was actually worried about what just happened."

Sakura turned pink for a moment.

"Well," Sakura retorted, "it's not every day you see someone drop to the ground in a dead faint. I think anyone may have gotten concerned."

"Sakura," Ino protested, "we are talking about an Uchiha who, might I add, is only really friends with, like, Naruto. And even though Naruto tries to make him, he just won't become friends with anyone else. Why would he care if some random girl fell unconscious in the hall? He only cared because it was little Sakura Haruno that fainted. Face it Sakura, he's very aware of your presence."

Sakura hugged her knees to her chest, turning red and trying to bury her face so Ino couldn't see.

When did you become "little Sakura Haruno"? Inner Sakura boomed.

"Not right now, I am going through a freaking crisis!"

That's why I'm here! I'm supposed to help you through it!

"What are you, a therapist?"

Just call me Professor Haruno!

"Get on with it, this is weird."

Okay, I'll make it short and sweet. You, Sakura Haruno, are happy because you think Sasuke Uchiha may just have a glimmering hope of liking you! I bet you his emotions are all bunched up right now over the kiss that's destined to be, and he needs his unconscious lady to set them free!

"I'm not unconscious anymore."

Sasuke doesn't know that. Just give the boy some time, and you'll probably get more than just an onstage kiss!

"Okay, I am officially done with this."

You know it's truuuueee!

"Dammit, shut up!"

"Sakura!"

Sakura snapped her head up. Ino had gotten up and now stood next to her.

"Did you space out or something?" Ino asked. "I thought for a moment you fainted again!"

"Oh, sorry." Sakura apologized.

At that moment the nurse walked in, and, seeing that Sakura was okay, she allowed her to go back to classes.

But, as fate would have it, upon getting out of the Nurses' Office, it was class switching time, and it was time for her and Ino to go to Drama Club.

"Well, well, look who's here." Kakashi greeted as he saw Sakura enter.

Sakura looked down as she came in, trying not to attract attention to herself. She took her seat.

"Well, aren't we all famous? Why don't you do us a favor and drop out of here." Came a cold reply next to her.

Sakura turned her head and wrinkled her nose in disgust. Sitting next to her was Karin, who she, personally, couldn't stand in the slightest.

"Oh, we all know you're just a jealous mess." Sakura turned her head to see Ino had joined in, "Just because you didn't get the lead role next to Sasuke, slut."

"Pig, stay out of this." Karin snapped.

"Ha, ha, I just can't help but feel sorry for your little…actually, there's nothing to be sorry about, just a lot of gloating to do, because little Sakura here is going to be the girl in Sasuke's arms, and will get to have her lips on his."

"Well, class, shall we begin?" Kakashi began.

Sakura looked to the front, and just heard Karin mutter something that sounded like, "We'll see." She got a bad feeling in her gut as she heard this. Karin's a bitch, but she knew she could go pretty far to get what she wanted.

"I'll hand out the scripts, and you all can take about twenty minutes to highlight your lines." Kakashi instructed, handing out the booklets.

Sakura took hers and flipped it open, she observed the setting description to be a little early century, and suddenly got an image in her mind of the old style clothes they'd have to wear. She shivered a bit.

Twenty minutes later, Kakashi walked to the front and announced, "Okay, let's start some rehearsal. All characters involved in Act One, please come to the front."

Sakura counted herself lucky that she wasn't in the first act, but Sasuke and Karin were, which made her nervous. Ino seemed to sense this, as she leaned over and whispered, "Gonna be hard for her to flirt when there're so many people in such a close space, everything will be fine, so cool down, Sakura."

Sakura sighed and cast her gaze to the front where they had started acting. She watched as Sasuke preformed his lines. No one was really trying, seeing as it was their first rehearsal, but Sakura still couldn't help but notice how good Sasuke really was at acting.

A thought briefly crossed her mind as she took in the scene before her. "This…will be my life for a while…."

Hey, sorry this took so long. (At least long compared to my other updates.) But I have to mark this as about the most hellacious week of my life! I'm lucky to be home for five straight hours. (Not counting time at home to sleep.) That and I still have other things to do, and I have to come up with the stuff that'll fill in this story, and it's basically a bunch of stuff we people with hectic lives (a few of you should understand this) go through. So, anyway, enough of that. Tell me what you think!