I hope some of these people never EVER see this story...but here they are...my awesome cast!

Tohru: Lindsey
Kyo: Cooper
Yuki: John
Shigure: Anthony
Ayame: Trey
Hatori: Conor
Momiji: Heinz
Kagura: Rebecca
Hatsuharu: Danny
Rin/Isuzu: Liza
Kisa: Jamie
Hiro: Austin
Kureno: Lee
Ritsu: Seamus
Arisa: Kaley
Saki: Katie
Mayuko: Maggie


Wow, chapter 8 already? Geez, it's like the plot hasn't moved a whole lot...I'm sorry! I think this chapter moves the plot forward a bit more...so enjoy! Chapter 9's on its way!


No matter how optimistically Lindsey says, "We can fit in another scene!", my sleeping pattern stubbornly insists on my body shutting down to go to sleep no later than precisely 1:44 AM. Sooo…I ended up falling asleep. Let's see how things go from here….(NOTE: This is a secondhand account. Facts depend on eyewitnesses' integrity and memory accuracy.)

"Oooooo," Katie said, pointing at me. "Liza fell asleep!"

"Oh no!" Kaley cried fearfully. "How can we do this scene? We can't do it without her!"

"Hmmmm," Katie contemplated, deep in thought. "We…shall…improvise."

"Woo! Improv ROCKS!" Lindsey yelled.

"Nnnn…." I turned uncomfortably in my slumber. I sat up and felt around for my pillow that I had carried with me onto the bus. However, subconscious-me is blind (and lazy), so I laid back down with a sigh.

"Hey Danny, I think you should-" Katie said.

Ignoring her, Danny grabbed my pillow, lifted up my head gently, slid the pillow under it, and slowly lowered my head. But the pillow fell to the floor right as his grip slipped, so my head hit the wall with a loud -thump!-.

"Owww…," I muttered. "What the heck…."

Danny flinched in shock. "Sorry, sorry!" he muttered.

"Mmm, s'ok. This wall's uncomfortable."

"Here's your pillow…."

"Nah, it's ok. I can't really sleep with those three giggling away anyway." I sat up and shot a narrow glance at Lindsey, Katie, and Kaley, who were indeed giggling with excitement. "Knock it off, you guys," I said to them. "Let's get this over with."

"YAY!" the three of them yelled simultaneously.

"Shut uuuppp," Cooper muttered.

"We're trying to sleep," John yawned.

Kaley was too busy poking Lee, who was fast asleep, to stay focused on the task at hand. "Hee hee hee! This is so much fun!" She was giggling and laughing like a little girl.

"Darn it. I guess we can't keep going then…." Lindsey said sadly.

"Let's just go to sleep then," Katie sighed, leaning on John's shoulder happily.

"Mmk," I yawned, leaning up against the window again. I then felt something heavy drop onto my shoulder. "No pillow?" I asked.

"Yeah…d'you mind?" Danny replied.

"Nah, go ahead. I kinda figured you'd have to since I have the window seat…. G'night, everybody!"

"Thanks. Night!"

"Good night, Liza!"

"Snore, snore!"

"Ohmygod, just shut up and go to sleep! And who is that, anyway?"

"I'm your worst nightmare. Good luck trying to fall asleep now."

"Oooh, I'm so scared."

"Hey, you wanna go? YOU WANNA GO? LET'S TAKE THIS OUTSIDE!"

"…We're going 70 mph on the highway. In a bus. Somewhere in Georgia. I don't think we can 'take this outside', idiot."

"YOU-"

"Guys! Shut up and go to sleep!"

"Wait," Kaley said, looking toward the back of the bus. (All of us segregated ourselves to the front of the bus so that she could cast a spell to create a "wall" between us and the others.) "Errrr…I feel like something's changed. There's something wrong back there…."

"We can worry about that tomorrow," I told her sleepily. "Besides, you could very well mess up if you're tired."

"Mmmm…I guess. But still…."

"I'm sure it's fine. Go to sleep."

Scene 5

It was a peaceful, quiet night at the Sohma residence. (Shigure Sohma, not the main house.) Everyone was fast asleep, dreaming of the next day when they would be on their way to the Sohma onsen courtesy of Momiji. But there was something amiss in the house….

The wooden floor creaked as someone crept into the house. "Stupid Shigure," the person thought, "always leaving the door unlocked." This person fox walked across the squeaky floor to Shigure's bedroom, where the owner of the house was snoring gently. He turned over in his sleep when the wood squeaked particularly loudly. There was a slight laugh, and that person backed out of the room and walked carelessly to Yuki's bedroom. Luckily for him/her, there was carpet upstairs in the bedroom, so Yuki was unperturbed by his mysterious visitor. That person crept slowly but surely up to the sleeping Yuki and caressed his face. "Yuki," he/she thought, "you will be mine." A beam of moonlight suddenly shone over the person's face. She smiled evilly, stood, and snuck back out of the house. Her kimono flapped in the wind outside as she began her trek to the main house.

Akito…. (Back to the bus….! -dun, dun, DUUUUUUN!-)

"Hmmm," a girl muttered, patting John on the head. "I wonder why I haven't seen any of these people the entire trip. I mean, I thought these were just empty seats when I walked by them before! This is weird…but I will find out what's going on!" She walked back to her end of the bus quietly, nonchalantly crossing the magical barrier.

The next morning…

"HEY! Why is there one more scene than there should be?"

"Urrrrrgh…shut uppp…," I muttered sleepily. "I'm still sleeping…."

"BUT THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE SCRIPT! THIS IS SERIOUS!"

Cursing to myself quietly, I sat up slowly and stretched. However, I totally forgot that Danny was still deeply asleep, so he ended up pulling an "Ayame" moment. (Y'know, that one time when he stayed over at Shigure's house in Kyo's room, and he got woken up by the alarm clock? He hugs Kyo and says "Mmm, I'm still sleeping…!", and Kyo turns completely white and screams at him. That's what happened.)

"No, don't-"

-POOF!-

"DAMMIT! Not again!"

"Oh, you two. You need to control yourselves back there!"

"SHUT UP! It was an accident!"

"Errr…he's still sleeping…."

"No way! How?"

"I don't know! It's weird!"

"Hey, some of us are still trying to sleep here…!"

"Yeah! Shut up back there!"

"I CAN'T SEE! I CAN'T SEE!"

-POOF!-

"Gah! Gotta change, gotta change…!" I quickly pulled on my sweatpants and my t-shirt that had fallen to the ground and threw my blanket over the miraculously-still-sleeping Danny. "This is too much. TOO MUCH," I thought.

"Now as I was saying," came Kaley's voice, "there is SOMETHING. WRONG. With the SCRIPT."

"What happened?" I asked curiously.

"A random scene that I'd never seen before just…appeared out of nowhere!" she cried, obviously freaked out that someone had been messing with her magic.

"Here, lemme see it…," I said, carefully stepping over Danny and gently taking the script from her. "Ummm, Scene 5, right?"

She nodded, covering her face with her hands.

"Huh. We're all asleep in this scene," I stated, scanning the text. "It must've happened last night! …Who'd we cast to be Akito?"

Kaley looked up at me from between her fingers. "No one," she whispered.


And the plot thickens some more! Mwahahahahahaha! Right, so...conflict. Yeah. (I think if you know our class, you can guess who it is.) For the sake of those that don't know us, I'll be elaborating on this person's character in...a later chapter. I'm not exactly sure if it'll be the next one. We'll see how it turns out...if someone would REVIEW. PLEASE, people, that's all I ask! Read and review! (No flames, though.)

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