When Yukimura opened the front door, groans and thumps met their ears. Sasuke winced. Yukimura grabbed the broom and started thumping on the ceiling.

"You have 3.5 seconds before I come up there! 3.5, 2.5, 1.5, ZERO!"

Sasuke was impressed. Yukimura could produce an amazing snarl when he felt like it.

Several screeches and a broken window later, they saw two forms racing through the bushes and down the street. Sasuke peered after them.

"Was that Tora and Kyoshiro? Ew."

Yukimura walked over to the hall table.

"Look, a letter! Hey, there's three...they all look the same. Oh! They're from the school! Gradution is coming up!"

Sasuke peered at the letter from under his arm. "Those are really old. You guys already missed your graduation ceremony."

"Oh. Well, we graduate anyway. Wow! Now, only you and Yuya are still going to school! Oh, and here's your grade report..."

Whoops. Distraction time. "Hey, Yukimura, let's throw a party!"

Yukimura dropped the letter and looked at him with a priceless comfused face. "Party?"

"Yeah! For your graduation!"

Sasuke was sweating. If this didn't work, and Yukimura saw his grades...

"That's a great idea, Sasuke!"

-...-

Yuya was disgruntled. How dare Kyo grope Sakuya, and right in front of her, too! How dare he grope another woman!

Yuya crossed her arms over her chest and "hmph"ed. Kyo looked over at her, confused. She'd been sulking since they took Sakuya to the hospital, and he still couldn't figure out why.

"You on the rag, woman?"

Yuya's face turned purple. "Kyo! You can't ask a girl that!"

"Oh. Well, you PMSing, then?"

Kyo found himself rather thankful he'd discovered the pistol she'd hidden under the front seat of his car. Dodging bullets while he was driving was bothersome.

He pulled into the driveway while Yuya was still in the middle of her apoplectic fit.

"What the...?"

Kyo opened his door and stood up, his mouth open.

There was a swarm of police on the front lawn, shouting with bullhorns at a house that didn't seem to be responding. Kyo could feel his ribcage vibrating in sympathy with the music pouring out of the house. His bootlegged stereo system!

He spotted the cop he'd wrestled with last time. His eyes narrowed. Time for round two.

-...-

Yuya was shrieking Kyo's name over and over again (rather aggravating, but he could use it to tease her later), bullets were flying everywhere, a SWAT team had just piled out of their truck, and a small delivery car from Starbuck's had just pulled up to the driveway.

All the noise stopped. Over a dozen pairs of eyes turned to watch the girl from the coffee shop traipse blithely through the carnage up to the front door. She knocked.

"Starbuck's Delivery Service! We've got your order!"

One of the cops whistled. "Starbuck's delivers?"

"They do if you pay enough!" came a cheerful voice from an upstairs window. A white-haired boy, small for his age and wearing nothing but tightey-whities, leaned out the window. He deftly lowered a tray to the ground with ropes.

"Money's on the tray! Just set the coffee on there, please!"

The girl complied cheerfully.

"Have a nice day!"

Sasuke waved as she got into her car. Then he hauled the coffee up, flipped the lid off the biggest cup, and started chugging.

The only noise was the sound of Sasuke gulping. And gulping. And continuing to gulp. The boy had some skills when it came to coffee.

This was going to be a wierd day.

-...-

Sasuke sat comfortably on the roof.

He was absolutely naked. (A/n: what can i say? i love that kid...)

He took a deep breath.

"Hello darkness, my old friend..."

"I've come to talk with you again..."

Yukimura clambered up beside him. Also naked.

"Because a vision softly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping..."

Kyo and Yuya, leaning against the house, looked up. Silently they stood up and stripped, then began to sing along.

"And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains, within the sound of silence."

Akira and Hotaru filed out of their house. Nude.

"In restless dreams I walked alone, narrow streets of cobblestone..."

Kyoshiro and Benitora appeared on top of Bontenmaru and Okuni's house.

"'Neath the halo of a street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp..."

Bontenmaru and Okuni joined them. They were all naked, of course.

"When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light, that split the night, and touched the sound of silence."

Sakuya popped up and was promptly smacked down again.

"And in the naked light I saw, ten thousand people, maybe more."

Shinrei appeared at the edge of one of the streetlamps glow.

"People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening..."

Chinmei started dancing drunkenly up and down the street, singing in a slurred voice.

"People writing songs that voices never share, and no one dared, disturb the sound of silence."

Saizou cautiously appeared.

"'Fools,' said I, 'You do not know, silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words that I might teach you, take my arms that I might reach you.'"

Kotaro climbed up on the roof with Sasuke and Yukimura.

"But my words like silent raindrops fell, and echoed in the wells of silence."

Saishi and Saisei swayed in rythm as they sang.

"And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon god they made."

Nobunaga popped up.

"And the sign flashed out its warning, in the words that it was forming."

Everyone else whose names escape me appeared and sang too.

"And the sign said, 'The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls.'"

The song grew to a crescendo.

"And whisper'd..."

They all bowed their heads.

"In the sounds of silence."