Seishiro: [pauses from making out with Subaru] This is THAT scene, isn't it?

Subaru: [disinterested] Oh, the balcony scene?

Sorata: [rolling eyes] Get a room, you two.

[both characters stand up and head in the direction of the dressing rooms.
Sorata throws a shoe at them.]

Sorata: Not now! After we finish this act!

SCENE II. Sumeragi's orchard.

[Enter Seishiro]

Seishiro:
Anyone who makes fun of me has never been in love...

[Subaru appears above at a window]

Oh! Look, it's Subaru, framed by the light! He
looks like the sun beckoning from the east. Come
out, sun, and get rid of the moon, who is not so
beautiful anymore. It is my [snicker] lady-

Subaru: Oi! I object! No more of that, or you're sleeping
on the couch tonight! And I'll blackmail the rest of you
if you don't stop.

All: ...

Seishiro: -It is my lord, oh, it is my love.
His mouth is moving, but I can't hear him...but
he's not speaking to me. He's looking at the stars...
the fairest two in heaven, I think. But he's more
beautiful than those stars, much as daylight is more
glorious than lamplight. [Subaru is blushing an
attractive cherry shade.] Oh....look how he's resting
his cheek on his hand. I wish I were a glove on that
hand, so I could touch that cheek! [aside] Yech! Mushy!

Subaru: [sighs] Oh dear...

Seishiro: He's saying something! Speak again,
bright angel, for you are as beautiful as the night
over my head; as an angel would fly over my head
and display himself to wondering mortals as he flies
easily through the clouds. [aside] Double yech!


Subaru: Seishiro, Seishiro, why do you have to be
Seishiro? Deny your- [glances around quickly, to
see if CLAMP is watching] -cherry tree [snickers
come from the other characters] and refuse your
name, or if you won't, just swear that you love me,
and I'll no longer be a Sumeragi.

[the other characters applaud Subaru's cutesy speech.
Subaru stands and takes a quick bow.]

CLAMP: Subaru! ...Oh, never mind, why do we bother?

Seishiro: Should I say something now, or keep listening?

Subaru: It's only your name that's my enemy. What's a
Sakurazuka, anyway? It's not a hand or foot or arm
or face or any other part of a man. Oh, I wish you had
some other name! What does a name matter? Even if we
called a rose something else, it would still smell the same!
Likewise, Seishiro would still be the same, even if he wasn't
called Seishiro. Seishiro, get rid of your name, which is not
part of you, and take me instead.

Seishiro: I'll take it you mean what you say. Just
call me your love, and I'll take a new name- from
here on, I never will be Seishiro.

Subaru: [alarmed, overacting] [slight screech]
Eeeek! Who is sneaking around listening to me?

Seishiro: [emerging from the bushes]
I don't know how to tell you who I am, since
we both hate my name so much.

Subaru: Even though I've heard you speak
very little, I know your voice at once. Are
you Seishiro, and a Sakurazuka?

Seishiro: [sappily, also overacting]
Neither, if you don't like my names.

Subaru: [calming down slightly] How did
you get here, and why? The walls of the orchard
are high and hard to climb. And if you were caught
here by any of my family, you would be killed, since
you are Sakurazuka.

Seishiro: [peering at the script, eyes bugging out]
Can this get any sappier? I thought this was supposed
to be a tragedy.

Subaru: [elbows him] Quiet. It is a tragedy. Read your
lines.

Seishiro: [sighs] I got over the wall with love's light
wings, for walls can't hold love out. And love has no
fear, so your family does not matter to me.

Subaru: [worried, again purposely overacting]
If they saw you, they would MURDER you!

Seishiro: One look from you is more dangerous than
twenty of their swords-

Sorata: So they had the big, Yuzuriha-patented
puppy dog eyes back then, too?

Arashi: [elbows him, much like Subaru did to
Seishiro.] Quiet, you!

Seishiro: [continuing] -Just look at me once,
and I'm not at all worried about death.

Subaru: But I don't want you to be found here!

Seishiro: It's dark, and I'm well hidden. And if you don't love
me, let them kill me- I'm better off being killed by their hate
than by wasting away from unrequited love. [aside] Boy, these
old Italian people sure fell in love fast.

Subaru: [ignoring the fact that Seishiro is talking about dying,
since obviously this is a tragedy and everyone's going to die
regardless] How did you know I'd be here? Did someone
tell you?

Seishiro: [overacting] It was LOVE! [decides
that he doesn't care to recite the rest of the speech]

Subaru: Oooh. Long speech. Edited version:
How embarrassing! Don't listen to me talking to
myself again! And if you love me, you need to tell
me honestly. Right now. Or else.

Seishiro: [very seriously] I swear by the blessed moon,
that's covering all the fruit-trees with beautiful silver-

Subaru: Don't swear by the moon! It's so inconstant,
ever changing. Don't swear love by the moon, for
I don't want it to turn out to be varying the same way.

Seishiro: [bewildered] Well, what should I
swear by?

Subaru: Don't swear at all. Or if you have to,
swear on yourself, since I love you, and I'll
believe you.

Seishiro: OK, if that's what you-

Subaru: [hiding a smile, trying to sound bossy]
Never mind, don't swear! [under breath] No bad
words from you, or you won't get any supper tonight....
[normal tone] Even though you make me happy, I
don't want to hear this tonight. It's too fast, too sudden,
too stupid-

Seishiro: [under breath, sarcastic] Thank you....

Subaru: -Good night, then. This love, just budding, may
be a beautiful flower next time we meet. Good night,
good night, I sound like a broken record! Is anyone listening
anymore? I thought not. Sleep well, dear Seishiro!

Seishiro: [leering] Would you leave me so unsatisfied?

Subaru: [smacking him] That's not what it meant, and you
know it! Shakespeare wasn't that perverted.

Arashi: What about the Porter scene in Macbeth?

Subaru: ....I have nothing to say to that.
[continues with his lines] What do you want?

Seishiro: [leering again] You know what I want....

[Subaru smacks him again, causing Seishiro to drop
his script. He picks it up, pouting, and resumes his lines.]

Seishiro: I said that I love you. I wish that you would
say so in return.

Subaru: I told you before, when you were eavesdropping.
What, you want me to give it again?

Seishiro: ....Are you going to change your mind?

Subaru: I'll tell you truthfully. My love is as deep as the
sea, and as infinite.

[Sorata calls to Subaru in a high falsetto from inside the
house]

I hear my nurse calling me. [raises voice] Just a minute,
Sorata! [goes to give Seishiro a quick kiss. It turns into a
makeout session.]

[Sorata calls again, sounding a bit irritated]

Subaru: I have to go. Wait just a second, and I'll be
back...
[exits]

Seishiro: This seems like a dream...
[under breath] More like a nightmare...

[Subaru re-enters]

Subaru: Three words for you: good night indeed.
If you really love me, propose to me. Send me word
tomorrow. Where, what time, and what church. If you
do this, I'll- [glares at script] -apparently lie down at
your feet like a bitch.

Sorata: [from inside] Mada- [catches Subaru's glare]
Sir?

Subaru: I'll come in, just a second! [to Seishiro, who
is distracting Subaru from his lines by kissing up his arm]
But if you don't mean well- Seishiro, please stop!

Sorata: [inside] Sir!

Subaru: I'm coming! Just a moment...[gasping]
If you don't mean well, then stop, and leave
me with my grief.

Seishiro: I really mean it-

Subaru: [breaking away] A thousand good nights!
[exits]

Seishiro: [cutesy] Love goes toward love
the same way schoolboys flee their books;
But love goes away from love
like boys to school with saddened looks.
[starts to leave]

[Subaru re-enters]

Seishiro: [mutter] What, you're back again?

Subaru: Pssst! Seishiro! Psssst! Ah,
literary allusions. I feel like Echo, since I
can only keep repeating Seishiro's name.

Seishiro: I hear Subaru call...

Subaru: Seishiro!

Seishiro: Subaru!

Subaru: Seishiro!

Seishiro: Subaru!

Subaru: At what time tomorrow should I send
someone to fetch your reply?

Seishiro: Nine is good.

Subaru: It feels like twenty years until then.
I forgot why I called you back! [giggles, then bends
down to begin making out with Seishiro again]

Seishiro: Good reason...
I'll wait here until you remember. [leer]

Subaru: You're not helping...

Seishiro: That's all right. ^_^

Subaru: But it's almost morning- you need to leave
but you won't really be gone...um...I don't understand
this metaphor.

Seishiro: [not paying much attention] I wish I were that bird.

Others: ?

Subaru: Um, right. I agree completely. Good night! I really mean
it this time! Parting is such sweet sorrow. Good night!
[exit]

Seishiro: Have a good night's sleep. I'm going to go talk to the priest.
[exits]