Disclaimer: I don't own any Naruto characters or Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. I don't own Brunswick Zone, which also sucks.

Authors Note: Heeyyy, it's summertime and you know what that means! I now have absolutely no excuse as to why I'm taking so long to update. I'm just lazy! On with the show!

Ro-may-oh and Juliet

It was Friday, and the sounds of lockers slamming in the halls signaled locker break. Sakura was staring into hers trying to remember which books she needed. Naruto came up behind her.

"Hey, wanna go out som-"

"No." Sakura interrupted.

He gave a loud dramatic sigh and ran his hand through his spiky hair.

"Allrighty then! Would you, Ino and Hinata like to go bowling with us tonight?"

She thought about it. "Who alls going?"

"Oh the usual." He replied. "Me, Shika, Chouji, Kiba….Shshuke." He mumbled out the last bit.

"Sorry, didn't quite catch that." She said brightly.

"Sasuke. He's coming too. I know! I shouldn't have bothered asking!" He said throwing his hands in the air and turning around to walk away.

"I'll go." Sakura said abruptly.

Naruto whipped back around. "You will?" He said in disbelief.

"Mmmhmm, he's not gonna keep me from enjoying myself."

"Alright!" Naruto said pumping his fist in the air.

Ino leaned over to whisper in Sakura's ear. "I cannot believe you actually came here willingly while Sasuke's here."

They were standing in the Brunswick parking lot, awaiting the arrival of the guys. Hinata looked a little nervous to be there. "Are you sure it's okay for me to be here?" She asked.

Sakura put an arm around her. "Of course it is! They invited you, so they obviously want you to be here. Just sit back and have fun."

The raven-haired girl relaxed a bit. Right then a big black SUV pulled up by where they stood and all the guys piled out. Sakura tried not to make eye contact with Sasuke. Naruto bounded over to them and gave them each individual bear hugs, Hinata blushing furiously.

"I'm so glad you decided to come!" He said earnestly. "Let's grab a lane." And with that they went in. Sasuke held the door open for Sakura and smirked at her while she ignored him.

Chouji signaled that he was going to the snack bar and Kiba mentioned something about the arcade, leaving only six of them.

After they had paid and were putting their bowling shoes on, Sakura said to know one in particular, "I hate these shoes, they make me look like I have clown feet."

"You have as long as I've known you."

Sakura looked up and glared at Sasuke, who gave her a charming smile in return.

"Hey does anyone know how to work this thing?" Naruto said, pointing at the computerized scoring system.

"Um, I do." Hinata said timidly and Naruto beamed at her. She began typing in their names and Sakura slipped into the seat next to her and idly watched her. "Hey Hinata, can you do me a favor?" She whispered the favor into Hinata's ear and the girl giggled.

They grabbed bowling balls with a comfortable weight and started the game.

"Hey Asshole, you're up!" Sakura said to Sasuke. He flipped her off and she only laughed as he took his turn. When he was done the others were now all laughing at him. Naruto was banging his fist on the table saying, "Asshole!"

Sasuke ignored them and looked up at the screen to see his score when he realized what was so funny. Where his name should have been, 'Asshole' was written instead. He looked back at Sakura who now had tears of laughter rolling down her cheeks.

Shikamaru was up next and received a strike. Ino went up after him and only managed to fling her ball behind her, causing new ruptures of laughter to break out. "I can't do it!" She wailed. "I can't put my fingers in the hole or my nails might rip off!" Shikamaru got up to help her and she flirted graciously in return.

Last was Sakura's turn and she ended up with a spare. "Not bad Skank." Sasuke said smiling. She curtsied in response, and then noticing his suspicious smile, whipped around to stare at the screen. Her name had been replaced with 'Skank'. "Oh haha very funny." She said sarcastically. "I learn from the best." Was his reply.

At one point Ino had accidentally taken Naruto's turn, which caused him to throw a fit. Eventually Hinata consoled him by showing him how to edit his score and erase Ino's measly two points she'd given him.

Later Shikamaru yelled "Oy Naruto! I was beating you a minute ago, and you did NOT score all those strikes!" Everyone's attention averted to the screen where, as Shikamaru had said, Naruto's score consisted of all strikes.

"You cheater! You've been editing your score!"

"Don't be mad that I'm winning you loser!"

"The only reason you're winning is because you cheated!

"Your just jealous that I got so many strikes!"

"You didn't get any strikes you just erased your score to add them in!"

Naruto then stuck his fingers in his ears and started to sing loudly while Shika continued to yell at him.

"I'm thirsty." Sakura complained while the two argued in the background.

"Then go buy a drink." Ino stated the obvious.

"I didn't bring enough money." She sighed.

Sasuke stood up. "You want a drink?"

Sakura flushed. "N-no."

He shifted impatiently to his other foot. "Look it's not that big of a deal."

Out of stubbornness she wanted to say 'no' but her thirst overwhelmed her. "Fine." She mumbled grudgingly.

"What'll it be then?"

"Sprite."

Ino called to his retreating back. "Hey can you get me a root beer while you're at it?" He waved his hand to signal he had heard.

Ino rested her head on her hand and stared at Sakura with a smug look of a cat that had just cornered a big fat, juicy mouse.

"What?" she said feeling heat rise to her cheeks. "I'm just thirsty, besides I'm still gonna pay him back."

The blonde just shook her head as if saying "You naïve child, you."

Sasuke came back with the drinks and sat down next to her, sipping his own Coca-Cola.

"I'll pay you back on-"

"Don't worry about it." he interrupted. She didn't even want to look at Ino. Instead she just mumbled a thanks and tried to busy herself in watching Hinata fix the scores.

Ino's mother had picked them up from the bowling alley and was now driving up Sakura's street to drop her off.

She got out of the car and said her goodnights.

"Goodnight sweetie." Mrs. Yamanaka said before she shut the door. Ino rolled down the window as they pulled away. "Goodnight Mrs. Uchiha!" She called.

Sakura yelled back, "Cut it out!" and then started to rummage through her purse for her house keys.

She unlocked the door and looked downstairs into the family room the see her mother and father asleep on the couch, the T.V. still on. She crept into her room and got ready for bed, replaying the night over in her bed, thinking of how fun it had actually been. Even WITH Sasuke there. In fact, he was what she thought of most, even though she'd never admit it, even to herself.

As she drifted into sleep, she couldn't help but think 'Sakura Uchiha, it does have a nice ring to it.'