Author's Notes: It was when I first saw the movie "She's the Man" that this idea came and beat me upside the head. No, this isn't an exact copy of the movie's plot but still has quite the few things familiar with it. This is the first time I'm writing a Yu-Gi-Oh! AU without any fantasy or adventure elements. It stars Shizuka and Katsuya and throws Honda and Kaiba into the mix for some romance. So, this fic is going to be having shounen-ai in the form of the Kaiba x Jou pairing. There's also going to be a Hiroto x Shizuka pairing to even things out. So, in short, this is a drag fic that isn't actually crack with one shounen-ai and het pairing.

I would also like to apologise for the random Japanese, but I found it necessary to bring out the differences in Jou's and Shizuka's ways of addressing their family members. The words pretty much entail 'niichan meaning "big brother", 'kaasan/okaasan meaning "mom/mother" and 'tousan/otousan meaning "dad/father".

Play Your Part, Shizuka

Chapter 1

The Script

"Katsuya!" The yell echoed through the apartment, snapping the teen in question out of the trance his math homework for the summer had put him in. He sat up on the bed he had been lying on his stomach on and called back: "Yeah, dad?"

"Phone for you!" Osamu Jounouchi's voice responded through the door. Katsuya leaped out of his bed and rushed over to his father who was offering him the handset of the house phone. He grabbed it without a word and his father grunted at him before walking off with a muttered: "We really should communicate in more ways than merely screaming through the house." Katsuya paid the words no mind, his father was always saying things like that, and put the phone against the side of his face.

"This is Jou", he spoke shortly. He never introduced himself by his first name, preferring that people called him by the nickname his friends had gotten out of his last name. Somehow, he though, Katsuya sounded girly to him. He always wondered what his parents had been thinking while naming him.

"Hi, Katsuya!" a cheerful, female voice cheered through the phone lines. A smile spread on Katsuya's face at the sound of it. It could only be one person and that person always made him smile.

"Hi, Shizuka", Katsuya greeted. Shizuka was his younger sister by three years and lived with their mother in another city. Even though their parents had divorced years ago the two did anything they could to stay in contact and were very close.

"How does it feel like, now that school's out?" Katsuya questioned his younger sibling while jumping up to sit on the kitchen counter. He always preferred to move the cordless phone with him to the kitchen when he talked with Shizuka. This was simply because the calls usually turned out to be incredibly long and that way Katsuya could get himself a snack during the conversation easily.

"No different than any other summer vacation", Shizuka replied cheerfully. "I'm just excited about finally being a ninth grader." Katsuya could almost hear his sister's small victory dance over the phone. "Next year there won't be any upper graders to pick on me."

"That's right", Katsuya replied with a laugh. "This time around you'll be the one doing the teasing."

"Oh, be quiet, Katsuya", Shizuka said with distaste. "You know I'm not into that kind of a thing."

"Of course I do, Shizuka", Katsuya said with a fond smile that the girl could not see. "I know you're an angel."

"Exactly", Shizuka grunted into the phone in a tone of voice that caught Katsuya completely off-guard. The way Shizuka had spoken the word was like the girl would have wanted to be anything but an angel.

"Okay", Katsuya spoke sternly. "What is this about now?" He fixed his position against the wall behind his back. "You know it always worries me when you talk about things like that."

A sigh came from the other end of the phone before Shizuka replied simply: "Mom's being difficult again."

"Oh?" Katsuya hummed while lifting an eyebrow in curiosity. "How so? Is she stopping you from dating again?" He grinned widely then. "Because then I'm definitely on her side in this."

"No!" Shizuka snapped in a manner that made Katsuya proud. That should work on their mother as well if Shizuka ever bothered. "She's treating me like a child and makes decision about my life without asking for my opinion."

Another hum came from Katsuya as he rolled his eyes to the roof. That was exactly like their mother to try to control Shizuka as soon as she started to show signs of becoming an adult. Still, the boy could not help but grin as he queried: "Is she trying to make you take ballet classes again?"

"No", Shizuka said with a heavy sigh. "It's a lot worse..." Katsuya briefly wondered what could be worse than ballet classes when Shizuka already continued: "She's making me go to a ballroom dancing course."

"Ah", Katsuya commented as he began to understand the cause of Shizuka's distress. "And you can't get out of it by simply acting like you're no good." Yes, Katsuya could very well see where this was leading. "You want me to talk to her, right?" He ran a hand through his shaggy blond hair. "Sorry, sis, but you know mom doesn't listen to a word I have to say to her."

"I know", Shizuka said curtly. "I'm not stupid." Her voice gained a mischievous undertone. "That's why we're going to use actions instead of words to get through to her."

"Oh?" Katsuya questioned. "And what is this grand master plan of yours?"

"It's pure genius", Shizuka stated firmly. "And with our parents both always at work, neither of them will know what hit them."

"Whoa, slow down for a moment there!" Katsuya interrupted his sister in mid-rant. "What do you mean 'both'? I don't have any trouble with dad."

"He ignores you, I remember all the times you've complained about that. Mom's the same. She ignores me all the time unless she wants to make me do something", Shizuka spoke and Katsuya could actually recall many times he had told his sister about how much he felt like thin air sometimes. Despite the seriousness of the situation Katsuya smiled as he said: "I see you really do listen to me."

"I always listen to you, Katsuya", Shizuka said in a caring tone. "You're the only person who listens to me so it's reasonable that I return the favour."

Katsuya's smile grew wider at that as he said softly: "Thanks, sis." Then he continued in his usually tone: "Then what is it that you have planned?"

"We'll show mom that I can take care of myself", Shizuka said. "And at the same time we show both of our parents that they should pay more attention at us."

"Okay", Katsuya spoke. "I understood that bit already." He scratched the side of his head. "The question is how we're going to accomplish that."

The first response Katsuya got was laughter. Then, in a thoroughly devious tone of voice, Shizuka said: "We trade places for the summer break. I'll show mom that I can handle your life and she'll see that I have grown up. When we finally reveal our plot to them we have already been living each other's lives for some time. Then they realize that they never noticed a thing and learn that they should pay more attention to us since they didn't notice the change."

There was a long pause as Katsuya simply stared at the wall opposite to himself. The thing that snapped his out of his trance was Shizuka's proud voice that asked: "So, what do you think?"

"Ah!" Katsuya shook his head to get his focus back. "Well, I really don't see how that's going to work, Shizuka", the boy replied truthfully. "I mean, we don't look that much alike. Mom and dad are going to notice. They are oblivious but not that oblivious of us."

There was a giggle from Shizuka as the girl said: "We're going to dress up like one another. They won't notice the change in our height as long as we avoid being face to face and too close to them." Another laugh escaped from Shizuka, this one almost sinister. "And with them being the way they are, there shouldn't be any problems in that department."

"I really don't know, Shizuka", Katsuya said with a sigh. "I mean, we live with them. There will be confrontations."

"Are you absolutely sure about that, brother?" Shizuka spoke in a voice that Katsuya would have never recognized as his sister's. It sounded so adult. "Then tell me, when was the last time you ate dinner or breakfast together? When have you done anything together with dad? Can you actually remember?"

Katsuya thought long and hard about a truthful reply but came out empty-handed. Finally he sighed in defeat and knew from the quiet whoop that his sister had heard the noise. Knowing that his sister's plan was not going to survive the first day, let alone the whole summer break, the teen conceded: "Alright then, Shizuka. You win." He allowed himself to smirk as he went into plotting mode. Deep down he wanted to teach his parents a lesson they would never forget. Taking the phone with him to his room, just in case his father would need something from the kitchen, Katsuya told his sister to wait a moment. Only after the door to his room clicked shut as he pushed it closed with his foot did he speak again.

"Okay, then, sis. Lets hear some details about this genius plan of yours."

To be continued...