No, I'm still alive. I need inspiration! So people, toss me some ideas! Please…? For Mikazuki and Tsubasa? Oh well, here's the chapter after a billion year delay.


NOT-LESSON 3:

A School Performance of Sleeping Hobo

I sniffled in the darkened room and Sara handed me a tissue. After the third box, she'd given up on telling me to shut the hell up. Actually, Rima had taken over.

"Shut up, freak! I can't hear my daughter!" she hissed.

"Little Mika-chan is all grown up!" I cried and several people turned to glare at me. Apparently, school plays weren't my thing.

Mikazuki ignored me gracefully, although Tsubasa wasn't doing such a great job. In fact, the kid had shoved his fist in his mouth to stop the laughter. Karma….Of course, having his hand in his mouth made it hard for him to say his lines.

"Hum frinvess butwey," it sounded like he said. He made a terrible Prince Charming.

"Mika-chan, you're such a cute Sleeping Beauty!" I squealed, completely unable to help myself. A rotten tomato collided with my face.

"Damn it, Ichijou, you just made me waste the tomato I was gonna throw," Shiki growled. Rima cut in and informed us—in more detail than I would've liked—about how horribly she was going to mangle our bodies if we didn't keep quiet. We'd learned our lesson about this months ago, so we stayed quiet. Or at least we did until I recalled exactly how Sleeping Beauty woke up.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Don't soil poor Mika-chan," I wailed. The little monster had the nerve to look up me and then he winked! Yes, maybe he had helped rescue me from on onslaught of crazy children, but that was in the past.

"You little—" I started, jumping out of my seat. What happened next was both a relief and absolutely horrible: a ragged woman with poorly done makeup and beehive styled hair in a pink fluffy ball gown came running in.

"Kaname!" Sara cried and then I realized that it wasn't actually an abused looking woman but instead the hobo I had evicted a couple months ago!

Shiki let out a not-so quiet stream of profanities that ruffled the feathers of several parents. This included Rima who had the expected reaction. His cries of pain could probably be heard from miles away. I might have helped if I wasn't so fascinated by how terrible Kaname looked.

"I want to be Sleeping Beauty!" he cried and ran to the stage. Mikazuki jumped up, cerulean eyes blazing. She had a striking resemblance to her mother in that moment. Even Tsu-kun was scared.

"Not a chance," she growled and kicked the already battered hobo in the face.

"That's my girl!" Rima crowed before bursting into tears and crying to Shiki about how her daughter was beginning a dark path.

"I. Want. The. Part!" Kaname shouted as he tried to grab Mikazuki.

"You're too old! Besides 'Sleeping Beauty'," Mikazuki said, emphasizing the word "beauty".

"Burn," Sara whispered appearing to be slightly awed. The door burst open for the second time and the person I'd sold—er, I meant sent Kaname off to came running through.

"Where's my Kana-wana?" he—she?—demanded. Kaname let out a whimper and stared, giving Mikazuki just enough time to jump away from him and push him off the stage. He landed with a painful thud.

"Ouch," I said wincing at his pain.

"You just owned his ass!" Rima squealed loudly and Mikazuki beamed. With this precious smile, her violent actions were immediately forgiven. Kaname however was dragged off by the transvestite who split between scolding his "little kitten" and apologizing profusely to an old woman with a dangerous looking handbag.

"At least Tsubasa never got to kiss Mikazuki," I said to Shiki with a sigh. He was about to agree when Tsubasa hopped onto the stage and kissed Mikazuki quickly. He looked at Shiki and I. We shared a glance before charging toward the kid.

He split like the smart boy he is while Rima, Sara and Tsubasa's mother fawned and made other motherly sounds and chattered about how precious young love is. We never actually caught Tsubasa.

Lesson to be learned? The more rotten tomatoes that are brought to a school play the better.


So short! Well, I didn't have much to work with. Like I said, gimme some ideas and I'll use them!! My brain thanks you for it ;)