Allen: 'A performance? I'm good in that. I've been a clown before.'

Lavi: 'Uhm... Allen... I don't think it's that kind of a performance.'

Allen: *confused* 'Then what is it?'

Lavi: 'Like in acting like you're a different person before a big public. Like Romeo and Julliet.'

Allen: 'Oh, I don't know about that. I've never done that before. Wait, Romeo and Julliet, you mean like kissing a girl?!' *blushes*

Lavi: *teasing* 'Ohhh, Allen, are you interested?'

Kanda: 'Shut up you two! How can anyone read this if you keep chatting about useless stuff?'

Allen: *dark aura*

Me: 'Stop that, Allen, he's right. Give the people a chance to read this.'

Wait, what, we have to do a performance?!

"Is every exorcist here already?" Komui asked while letting his eyes rest on every face separately. Without waiting for the answer he already continued. "You're all here because I have an important task for you."

"For all of us?" Lavi asked surprised.

Komui nodded. "Yes, all of you. You see, the order has a little bit of a money problem so we thought of the solution."

Allen felt himself getting sick already. Money problems? That didn't predict anything good. Unintentionally he shot a glance at his master. It didn't have anything to do with him, did it?

Komui waited a moment to be sure he had everybody's attention before declaring: "The order is going to organize a theatrical play which is going to be played by the exorcists."

First a deep silence fell, then Allen and Lavi responded with a shocked "EEEEHHH?!", while Kanda used his usual "tssskk" to express displeasure.

"That's not our work," Cross declared while he put his feet on Komui's desk. "No way I'm going to do it."

Allen narrowed his eyes. Like he would if it was. He knew his master was probably the most lazy exorcist of them all.

"You have to," Komui answered. Suddenly he smiled satisfactory. "We already expected you to refuse, so we decided you won't get any wine anymore until you've did well in the play."

Allen could see his master was getting uneasy now.

"No women either, even not a general," Komui added.

Cross froze on the couch, the cigarette that he had been smoking fell out of his mouth. He clearly hadn't expected this.

"More complaints?" Komui asked while looking into everyone's eyes again. Of course nobody dared to say anything. They were afraid of the same treatment as the general had received. "No? Great! Then you'd better go to work already. You have one week and you still have to decide the play and roles too."

"But, Komui, how can we organize a good play in such a short time!" Lavi asked, nearly panicking. "I've never heard of anyone ever getting so little time to achieve something like this."

"You can do it," Komui responded. "We count on you."

"Come on, nii-san, you know it's impossible," Lenalee tried to persuade him, but it was useless.

Komui suddenly got a sad expression. "I'm sorry, Lenalee, I didn't have anything to say in this. I really tried to give you more time."

All of them sighed. If Lenalee couldn't change it, then nobody could. Then the exorcists left the room one by one.

They all gathered in the dining hall, which was the easiest place to contain so many people without feeling cramped. Allen had made good use of this opportunity to get something to eat before he didn't get the chance anymore when they went to practice.

"So, what are we going to do now?" Miranda asked anxiously. "Will we be able to finish this in time?"

Most of them were wondering the same and it stayed silent for a long time.

"Well, we at least need a script. We can't divide roles before we got one," Marie pointed out.

Lenalee was the one who responded: "We should do something original, otherwise people will get bored too easily."

"And it might help to keep them from noticing our lack of skills!" Lavi called happily. "That's a good idea, I can do something about that! I've read some plays. I probably can make one based on those."

"You whan?" Allen asked with his mouth full of meat.

"Sure, just leave it to me! Let's meet here again in three hours. I should be done at that time." He stood up. "I'll make sure to make an original script."

Three hours later everyone was back at the table. Even Cross had come in time. He should be really motivated after Komui's statement.

Allen looked around the table to all the familiar faces. There really were a lot of the exorcist at the order at the moment. There were Lenalee and Lavi, but also the two generals Cross and Tiedoll and Kanda, Marie, Miranda and Krory were also present. It was a group of nearly all the exorcists there were at the moment.

Lavi dropped a bunch of papers on the table before sitting down. "Here it is. I can assure you that it is original. Now we only need to divide the roles."

"Let's draw lots," Lenalee suggested. "It could keep us from arguing and it's fast."

Lavi nodded. "That's a good idea. I'll write the roles on a piece of paper, then everyone can pick one randomly."

And so they drew lots to divide the roles.

Allen looked at his lot. "I'm the knight, that's not bad at all."

He looked at the others. Kanda was the first to catch attention. He didn't seem happy with his role at all. Not that he was ever happy, but he seemed even grumpier than usual and he sent a death glare to the piece of paper in his hand.

So Allen crept closer to shoot a glance at it. He froze on the spot when he could read what was written there. "No way…" Then he chuckled. "Your role really suits you, Kanda, at least you have suitable hair for it already."

Kanda turned around with thundering eyes. "Shut up, moyashi, or do you want to die?"

"Now, now, Kanda, those words don't really suit a princes." Allen continued with a trembling voice of anger.

Lavi turned around too after hearing the turmoil. "Oh come on, not again. Stop fighting you two, we don't have time for this."

Kanda ignored it. "Well, let's see how strong the knight is then," Kanda responded while drawing his sword. "I'll cut you to pieces."

Allen wanted to snap something back when Lenalee stepped in between. "Enough," she ordered. "Lavi is right, we don't have time for this. We have to begin practising. Come, we'll do it in the training room."

"O.. okay," Allen answered.

Kanda didn't say anything at all.

"Come, everyone, let's move." Lavi announced. "The earlier we start, the better it is."