Anthology

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Not for the first time Naruto wondered if he should gone for a lighter color to start with. The thin walls still weren't quite what he wanted them to be and he still had a column to paint as he well. He sighed.

"Et tu Wall?" He said, altering the Caesar quote a bit as he stared at the set piece. Mr. Hatake was an unusual Drama teacher, assigning to help build the actual set pieces and paint them. The blonde felt zero desire to be painting the walls of the throne. No, he wanted to be the heroic king of the play! 

"Naruto! Are you almost done with that? I could use some help with the styrofoam. The rocks just don't look right." 

"Be right there Sakura!" He called back. Despite the fact that most of them had been assigned roles and had to study their lines, Mr. Hatake stil had them help out crafting. With a groan Naruto stood up to go and help out Sakura, who had gotten the role of empress of a neighboring kingdom, but his he stepped on one his brushed. The brush rolled under his foot and snapped leaving him to fall backwards into smack into where Sasuke had been reading over the notes, on assembling the the the actual pieces together to make it the two story rolly monster that it had to be. 

"that hurt." Naruto said rubbing his head. 

"Watch where your walking dobe." Naruto grunted and glared up at him. 

"Who asked you?" Naruto replied, getting pissed just looking at his face. Their relationship had improved over the course of them working together but that only amounted to tolerance and profession on stage respect. Off stage and out of the drama room? All hell was free to reign then. 

"A higher power begging me to save your pathetic ass." 

"Are you sure they were talking about you duck butt?" 

"Oh look, the dobe found a come-back. How cute." Sasuke said rolling his eyes as he shoved the blonde. "Now get out of space. I have start putting this shit show together."

"Sucks for you." 

"Hey both of you, shut up!" Came a loud yell from Ino who was practically buried under various boxes, fabrics, notes and tags off stage left in the wings. "Some of us are actually working. Chouji where the hell are my fuchsia flowers?!"

"I left them next to the orange blossoms." 

"Damnit, i told you not to mix flowers!!" Chouji looked guilty as the mistake but it wasn't anything big. Ino was always super particular when it came to costumes and accessories and since there was supposed to be a scene featuring a wedding the flowers got involved. Which was a personal hobby of hers. Naruto grimaced. 'Glad im not working with the clothes.' Giving another dirty look at Sasuke he managed to dodge, duck and dive his way across the stage and sit next to Sakura. 

"Alrighy! What can i do for ya miss?" The blonde said doing his best impression of a southern cowboy. She pushed a strand of her out of face as she laughed. 

"Oh fine sir! I simply cannot seem to get my rocks to look well. Oh gentle sir please say you'll help?" She replied in swooping tones as though on the verge of fainting like some weak willed southern belle, before bursting out into roaring laughter. "No but seriously. It just doesn't look right but i can't place my finger in why. Any ideas?" Naruto frowned and eyes to wanna be rocks carefully. Before he could respond another voice spoke. 

"You forgot to plaster them. The texture is showing and affecting the coloring." As if on cue both Sakura and Naruto turned to see Gaara standing there looking at the rock with a calm seemingly indifferent expression. 

"Yo gaara your back! Did you get the pizza and ramen?!" Like a lightbulb as night everyone looked and started to gravitate toward where Gaara was standing hopeful for the promise of good food. Gaara nodded. 

"Long table in the green room." He said not looking away from the rock. As though he had said there was a bomb, all of them quickly started a mass migration to the green room to chow down on the food. It was going on nine o'clock at night and they were all a little hungry. Finally only Naruto, Gaara and Sasuke were left on the stage. 

"Im getting food. If you two love birds are hungry you had better go before its all gone." Sasuke called out as he opened the side down and went down the hall to the green room. 

"Fuck you duckbutt!" Naruto yelled. 

"Not interested. Maybe later." Came the swift reply. 

"Thanks for getting food!" Naruto said with a grin and Gaara quirked his lips in a small smile as he pulled his back pack of to open it. Inside were two Mc.Donalds bags.

"I know how competitive food can be." Gaara said as they went to sit on the edge of the stage to eat.

"You my dear are the best damn boyfriend i could ask for!" Naruto said happily leaning in to give the red head a kiss.