A/N: I'm glad I'm done already with overtime for today. As usual I've been really busy, not to mention nearly collapsing last Saturday.

This story was a product of lazing around for three hours last Saturday of February. The idea stuck in my head that time and I couldn't rest until I've put it into writing and so I wrote it, but I wasn't able to re-read afterwards until just recently.

This is a common/fluff/silly story ;)

And you know what, I own none of the MSGM characters or of the characters and story of Sleeping Beauty.

Read at your own risk!

My 14th fic!

"The Prince' Kiss"

---Arvendell---

Chapter 1. The Play

Fukuzawa Yumi didn't know if she would feel excitement or nervousness now that the play for the cultural festival as well as the cast for that play would be discussed. She was excited to know what kind of play they were going to do this year, and yet she was nervous because of the fact that last year, the Roses then forced the en bouton Ogasarawa Sachiko, who became her Onee-sama later on, to play the role of Cinderella and was paired to her hated Prince, Kashiwagi Suguru. Now that Sachiko, Hasekura Rei and Toudou Shimako were the current Roses, Sachiko needed not to worry about being forced again. Rather, that worry was passed on to the current en boutons, she, Shimazu Yoshino and Nijou Noriko. They didn't know what to expect. Who would have the same fate as Sachiko last year? Would it be her? Or Yoshino? Or Noriko? She dreaded the answer.

"Yumi, are you listening?"

Sachiko's stern voice broke into her thoughts. She turned her unfocused gaze to Sachiko sitting across the table in surprise and at the same time felt Yoshino knocking her foot under the table to get her attention back to the meeting.

"Y-yes, Onee-sama?"

"Please pay attention, Yumi. I don't have to tell you how important this is," Sachiko added sternly.

"I'm sorry, Onee-sama," she said and bowed her head in shame. She did it again. How many times must she act stupidly in front of everyone including Sachiko? She was more worried about embarrassing Sachiko rather than her own embarrassment. She didn't want to cause Sachiko any embarrassment or regret for making her her petite soeur. Not that Sachiko had shown any indication that she was in their times together.

Once Sachiko was sure that Yumi was paying attention, she continued with the meeting.

"And so Rosa Foetida, Rosa Gigantea and I decided that for this year's cultural festival, we will do Sleeping Beauty."

Yumi raised her head in excitement, forgetting about what just happened moments ago. Her gaze met Sachiko's, who smiled at her this time. She returned the smile just as she thought excitedly about the play. Sleeping Beauty! She could already imagine Sachiko dancing, wearing a beautiful dress.

Yumi stopped imagining when this time, she was elbowed by Yoshino.

"Yumi-san, I don't think this is the time for you to be smiling like that. We don't know yet who will play what," Yoshino muttered on her breath.

Yumi's smile faltered as Yoshino's words registered in her mind. Yes. The cast hadn't been announced. She should save her smile for the later if there really was something to smile about, if she would still smile or not. Heart thumping, she waited for the cast to be announced.

"For the king's role, it will be Rosa Foetida, and the queen would be Rosa Gigantea," Sachiko continued.

Yumi gazed on Rei who nodded with a smile. Yes. Certainly the role of the king would fit her because of her boyish hair-cut. And Shimako as a queen would be perfect, too.

"For the three good fairies, that would be Yoshino-chan, Noriko-chan and Touko-chan," Sachiko said, looking at the three people mentioned.

Yumi heard Yoshino let out a sigh of relief and she saw Noriko nodded seriously and Touko twist her lips in what could be a hint of smile. They sure were contented with their roles. She was glad for them.

Wait!

The lead role and the wicked fairy's role hadn't announced yet. And she and Sachiko didn't have roles yet. She turned her attention back to Sachiko who smiled at her for the second time. Between her and Sachiko, definitely the role would fit to Sachiko best. She was just a poor comparison to her Onee-sama. There was no way she would be given the lead role. In fact, she was embarrassed to even think about being given that role.

Yumi let out a relieved sigh and smiled back to Sachiko as she once again tried to imagine how Sachiko would look as Sleeping Beauty. Definitely beautiful. And elegant.

However, Yumi's smile froze in her face when she heard what Sachiko said next. She blinked once, then twice, trying to clear her mind. Did she hear it right?

"P-pardon, Onee-sama," she said to Sachiko in confusion.

Sachiko let out a sigh before she repeated her words, "I'll be playing the role of the wicked fairy and you, Yumi, will be Sleeping Beauty."

Yumi's face remained blank as her mind tried to process Sachiko's words, and then her eyes gone impossibly big as she felt blood rushing to her head at what she just heard. She was starting to feel dizzy as well at the news. She didn't pay any attention to what Sachiko said next about the Hanadera Academy Student Council sending someone to play the role of the Prince. All she could hear, all she could think about at the moment was the bomb that Sachiko dropped into her ears. And then she fainted with shock.

---o---

"What?! You'll be playing the Prince' role?" Yumi almost screamed to her brother Yuuki who covered his ears at her outburst.

"Hey, you don't have to shout at me. My hearing is perfectly fine," Yuuki said.

"B-but Yuuki…" she stammered, not knowing what to say first to her brother.

"Well, I'm the President, Yumi. The rest of the Council decided that I should play the role of the lead character's partner," he explained.

"That's not it, Yuuki," she started to explain.

"Then what is it? Geez, get a hold of yourself. I assure you, I'll do my best. I don't want to be an embarrassment of Hanadera."

"That's not it, Yuuki," she snapped. "I am, I will be playing Sleeping Beauty's role!" She practically screamed, trying to make a point.

Yuuki turned to her in surprise, before he said, "That's all you're worrying about? Yumi you…"

"Are you not thinking?!" She said in a raised voice again. Why was Yuuki being so thick? "Sleeping Beauty's story has a kissing scene, Yuuki, a kissing scene!" She exclaimed, but Yuuki remained cool.

"So?"

"So?! You and I will, will…" Yumi couldn't even think about it. She and Yuuki in a kissing scene? She shivered.

"What's with that shaking?" Yuuki asked with a frown. "Would you have preferred to do a kissing scene with Arisu? Or Takada? Or Kobayashi?"

She was silent for a moment, then thought about the other members of the Hanadera Student Council, Arisu and…

She shivered once again with dread. She couldn't imagine it. She didn't want to imagine doing any kissing scene with any of those people. But still, with Yuuki…

She gazed at her frowning brother.

"Well, if you could convince Sachiko-san to be Sleeping Beauty then try it," he challenged.

'What?!'

Yumi's mind screamed no! There was no way she would let anyone kiss Sachiko. Not even her own brother even if it was only in a play. Why, Yumi, her mind asked her, would you have preferred it to be you then who would kiss Sachiko? She blushed furiously at the thought.

"See?" Yuuki said with a triumphant smile. "Just bear with it," he said before walking towards the door out of her room.

Even when Yuuki had long been out of her room, she still couldn't stop blushing at the thought of her kissing Sachiko. Of course she wasn't immune to her Onee-sama's charm, to her stunning looks. But to think about her lips touching Sachiko's was something she dared not to imagine, because there was absolutely zero possibility of that in happening.

A/N: This story is short and simple, I'm telling you ;)

26 May 2008