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Title: Theatre of The Sun and The Moon

Author: Zeke Axel

Officially started on May 5, 2007

Remark: I'm from Russia, so forgive me using maybe too much punctuation.

Chapter 1/The Overture:

Mahoroba is a very boring place to live. If time flows like a river, then here it must be stuck in a circle. At least for Himemiya Chikane it was. First she woke up at the mansion where the maids flocked around doing everything she asked them to, then school where the fans silently surrounded and stalked her with admiration and fangirlishness/fanboyishness, a tennis match with Oogami (she always wins), secret lunch with Himeko, more school hustle around the fans and their gossip about her and Oogami, Archery club, Student council duties and finally she retreats back to the mansion.

Chikane was bored with this. She wanted to change something, chase away the maids, lose to Oogami, confess her love to Himeko, burn the damn school. Anything would do. But nothing really did happen… And it was boring her to death…

And on another routine day like this Chikane was doing her normally boring student council duties. Just some more arranging the clubs and stuff. Oh yeah, she did volunteer to "help" some club (in other words to direct and manage wholly on her shoulders) with a play of some sort. Sure she did play in some "Romeo and Juliet"-esque play with Souma, so this would be easy. She ripped the letter open and took out the script of the play.

"…So it's another love story…" – thought Himemiya to herself…

Chikane was reading the script in a very past pace, selectively reading the dialogues, skipping the decorations and stuff.

"Prince and Princess, aka just another Romeo and Juliet… Tragically separated… Power of Love… and ext." – Chikane had to support her chin on her hand so that she wouldn't fall asleep.

"WTF?" – Chikane nearly fell of her seat. "What the hell did I see just now in the script?"

She quickly read the last sentence again. "And the two girls were connected with a passionate kiss" – read Chikane almost out loud.

She'd never expect a play with "that" in it. This just might be interesting… She went back to the first page and this time read the play looking at every word… Apart from being a cheesy Shakespeare rip-off, the play held a romance story between the Princess and one of her girl-servants. The second part of the play would come in only tomorrow, but this was enough to get Chikane's mind playing with ideas. She smiled to her thoughts. She'd play the show her way. As she already knew who would play the female love interest of the Princess (the Prince and Princess roles undoubtedly go to Souma and Chikane). And Himeko will…

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"I won't" – said Himeko in her beautiful high voice…

"Why? You'd look perfect on stage…"

Chikane tried to break out the idea to Himeko on their usual rose bush lunch. She didn't even mention the whole YURI part of the play yet.

"I just won't. I… I… don't want to…" – Himeko was going in her usual 'I'm not good enough to play on stage. I'm not that important' scenario.

"But I haven't read you the script yet…" – Chikane was getting in a begging and soft voice, like she was trying to talk a child into something.

"No. I'm hungry. Let's eat" – Himeko started opening her lunchbox

Chikane had to admit that switching the topic from unwanted themes was a tactic Himeko took from her. So she stopped for a while and opened the bento box as well…

"Maybe you just look through the script…"

"Ah, this food is so delicious…" – Himeko started scarfing down the various sweets from her lunch box.

Chikane decided to go the sneaky way.

"Himeko, you're so cute when you have cream on your cheeks."

Himeko started looking for a handkerchief, but Chikane beat her to it and was already cuddling her cheek.

"Your face looks beautiful in any way. But if you were to participate in the play you would've shown that to everybody else…" – Chikane decided to say "beautiful" instead of "cute", that would have more effect.

Before Himeko could protest some more, Chikane added…

"But since you don't want to, they won't. Just like with your photographs. Nobody would've seen how good they were if you didn't show them…" – With that Chikane started almost hand feeding Himeko her other sweets, so that she wouldn't say anything and just quietly think about what she said.

The Himeko and sweets process was lasting for some time now and Chikane was thinking whether she should bring strawberry and whipped cream next time. Finally the sweets were cleared out and Himeko, much to Chikane's surprise and pleasure even licked her fingers…

"Well OK. Maybe I will look at the script…" – said Himeko finally giving up to Chikane's plan…

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"Chikane! This play has lewd things in it!" – came Himeko's voice while she was blushing redder than the Sun.

"Really? It does? What a surprise." – said Chikane smiling widely.

"You knew. And my role is… is… the girl who…"

"…Loves another girl" – Chikane finished the sentence for her…

Now even Himeko's ears blushed as she turned redder then before…

"Don't worry. I'll help you rehearse…" – Chikane smiled as for once things got interesting in Mahoroba…

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To be continued on to chapter 2…

Coming up… Himeko's reaction to playing Yuri, Chikane's a little perverted plans, Who's the seme and who's the uke. All that coming up soon.

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