Kaichou wa maid sama! fanfic

Hikari Rashi

Chapter 11

Seika High, the next day (monday)…

It's the first day of rehearsals. Everybody that is joining the play shall spend Monday, Wednesday and Friday practicing. Due to some tight schedules (and Hikari's patience) the time to prepare for the play has been cut short. Opening night will be only one month away. It seems a bit long but normally students are given around six to practice for a play this huge. Hikari is hoping it will become the perfect play, so she can finally get back to England. She decided that all the costumes and props will be used only by the second week, so all participants can focus more on their lines for the first one.

Hikari's apartment…

But due to a few complications Hikari has sent this information from her apartment. Hikari feels no need to be at rehearsals, she will only go back to Seika during opening night. All the events during one reversal will be written down by a teacher and sent to Hikari. This way Hikari will know what happens and how to fix it (if 'fix' is the right word). She lay in her bed with her laptop on her lap, typing emails to her mom and dad, who will come to see the show. Hikari has decided to start her own personal journal. She feels the need to express her evil thoughts, and what better place to do it than her beloved laptop. But Hikari has taken the liberty to lay down a set of passwords and a facial recognition test to protect her plan from being exposed.

Hikari Rashi's Private Journal Entry

Monday, day XX month XXXX, year XXXX

Dear Journal,

Today I had an urge. An urge to express the brilliance my wicked scheme, and I had an idea. A journal! A diary is too girly for my likings.

For the next few weeks I will spend my days in my apartment sending emails to my parents. They will be coming to Japan opening night. I will finally get to go back to England with Usui and have finally ripped the annoying couple apart. My plan is absolutely flawless. My superior intellect has done it again, that little slut will remember me and remember me well. I can imagine her life after her feeble little heart has been crushed. I can see it clearly, her weeping over the loss of her true love, refusing to go to school, refusing to talk to anyone. Oh what a sad life, but sadly I don't care.

Hah what imbeciles, a demolition team? Please, the Walkers may have given me funding and power but not a demolition team. They wouldn't trust me THAT much. All it took was a phone, some research where Misaki lives and some convincing language! I could laugh thinking back to that moment when I saw the shock on her face. But I would like to thank the center of my brilliant plan, a man who's foolishness and who's ability to be convinced easily has set the building blocks to this entire thing. My dad. I feel so lucky to have a dad like him. After all it is so easy to convince him. I am after all his precious little angel!

I feel like waffles for breakfast, maybe I shall order from that wonderful breakfast house that I love so much. Their syrup is sweetened to perfection, I feel like drooling just thinking about it. That's enough expressing my brilliance for today.

Hikari,

Seika High…

Rehearsals have just begun. Everybody his going through their parts in various areas of the tent. All the seats have been stacked neatly by the sides to provide some more practice area. For the first ten minutes of every rehearsal students will be practicing their lines. Today's rehearsal will be about cue's. The play will be set up like it is during opening night, except with no props, backgrounds or light. A teacher will tell the students when and how to come on stage and how to exit. The students will be holding their scripts so they can read their dialogue on stage.

The first hour was a disaster. Lots of mishaps and misunderstandings were being created. But soon everyone started to get the hang of it. A lot less mistakes were in store for the hours to come.

"No no no no no! You're not getting it! Little Lucy (the name of her character) is suppose to come in AFTER Juliet says her line!" the teacher said through the microphone on his desk.

"Yes ma'am!" Sakura replied.

"Good. Now Juliet try to say your line a bit louder because when we get the props it will be..."

As the teacher carried on, Misaki was getting things sorted behind stage. Everyone - even the boys, were behaving for the play. It was a bit surprising, normally someone would be goofing around by now, looks like a lot of things have changed.

Since Hikari isn't here every scene with Juliet in it will have to be skipped until they can get the mannequin fixed with her clothes. Some people considered Misaki can be the temporary Juliet but she still has to correct people who mess up, and it's pretty hard to hiss at them when you're meant to be in character. The mannequin will be ready by the next rehearsal two days from now (Wednesday).

The cameo characters (ones who only make a short appearance in the play) have nothing to do most of the time. Most of them only say one sentence and appear two or three times in the play. So they devised this system about halfway through rehearsal. Misaki would tell them when they're suppose to go on while they will sit behind the stage chatting and/or reading magazines. Seems like pretty hard work for Misaki but she already memorized the entire script so it's not THAT hard.

Lunch break...

Soon it was lunch break. They managed to get the cues sorted out (mostly) and after lunch they will perfect them and start learning the lines. Misaki, Sakura and Shizuko are eating their lunch by the shade of a tree.

"So whut did yu dink of rebersal?" Sakura said, while chewing a bite of her sandwich in her mouth.

"It was ok I guess, probably be more interesting if we had props and costumes." Misaki replied.

"Sorry I had to come up with that cue system thing Misaki. Now you have to call pretty much all the cameos on stage." Shizuko apologized.

"Nah it's ok, it made my job a bit more interesting." Misaki replied.

"Heey..you know that everyone backstage were whispering about Juliet's role..." Sakura whispered.

"True, she never auditioned for the role. Pretty suspicious if you ask me..." Shizuko said.

"Y-yeah..." Misaki said, as if she didn't know.

"I bet she pulled a few strings because their dating..." Sakura said.

"Makes sense to me." Misaki replied.

"Hmph, how grabby." Sakura moaned.

"Y-yeah, how annoying..." Misaki mumbled.

Seika High, Monday the next week...

Well today is the first day everyone wears their costumes. This week they focus on staying in character and getting changed in time. A few boys and girls have volunteered to be stagehands. Misaki has gotten the extra job of supervising them. Now the curtains, backdrops and lights will be put into rehearsal. Usui's Juliet mannequin has arrived. It is pretty much a regular old mannequin on wheels, with a layered pink dress, arms, a wig and some marks on it's head to resemble it's face. When it was rolled in there were a few snickers in the crowd, and a few 'I-feel-sorry-for-him' comments. But due to how popular he is, the comments were a bit more empathetic than just laughing at the sheer stupidness of how Usui talking to a mannequin is.

Ok people! The Balcony Scene! Places!" the teacher shouted. "

Everyone hurried around the stage like lost mice. The stagehands placing all the props and backdrops into the scene, two boys were rolling the green grass carpet and five were pushing the fake wooden castle balcony, slowly creeping into view from the left hand side of the stage. The fake balcony was very simple to make, just a large plank of wood, cut and painted to look like a castle. It was placed on a few wheels that impersonate bushes and there are some stairs and a small standing point to help the actors get up onto the balcony. The boys did most of the grunt work, the girls did things like placing the fake trees and bushes.

A stagehand lifted the mannequin onto the small standing point, placed it's fake arms on the balcony's rails, making it look like a real person (without a face).

"Start!" The teacher yelled.

A stagehand put on the background music, composed with simple sounds like crickets, wind and some occasional rustling of leaves and some soft bird sounds.

Usui slowly walked onto the stage, the thumping of his boots echoing through the empty tent. He was is his Romeo costume, a prince-like blue outfit (similar to the one in the original KWMS).

Everyone got a little microphone clipped onto the collar of their costume, so their voice are loud and clear.

The scene was as awkward as any other scene with Juliet. They say their lines and stare at the mannequin for a few seconds and continue, it was like having a talk show with a tree. Every time Usui looked up to the balcony and stared at a stupid mannequin he knew in three weeks he would be staring at a stupid girl's face instead. He would choose the mannequin over Hikari any day.

Seika high, Wednesday...

A new day of rehearsals, it's like yesterday's normal school day wasn't long enough. At first rehearsals were new and exciting. But know their pretty much doing the same thing over and over again. Change into costume, practice lines, practice scene, change costume again, practice scene, change, lunch, change, scene etc. blah blah blah. Everyone has changed into their costumes and practiced their lines.

"Okay everyone! Last Act, Last Scene!" The teacher shouted.

The last act and last scene, the tragedy where Juliet drinks the potion and romeo kills himself, and Juliet wakes up, finds romeo dead and kills herself. Hikari has changed the storyline around a bit though, the last scene will be the only part where they kiss. After they kill themselves they goto heaven and find each other and kiss and happily ever after etc.

After ten minutes the scene was nearly over. The stage was set in some flowery meadow in heaven, the mannequin was rolled into place, and Usui walked toward it.

"Juliet..." Usui said with as much happiness as he would allow himself to be (not that much).

The mannequin didn't reply (duh).

Usui wrapped his arms around the mannequin and gave it a disgustful kiss.

The boys behind the stage couldn't help but laugh. While there were a few girls thinking about how lucky that stupid mannequin Misaki was standing in the shadows of the stage, because she knew three weeks from now it wouldn't be some mannequin that will be getting that kiss.

I will be Hikari...

-End of Chapter 11-

Note: Sorry about delays! I think the new schedule might be 2 chapters every 2 weeks! Unless I get some inspiration!

~XxBlazingFuryxX