A/N: I really wish I could say that the major issue at the beginning of the chapter was a completely random idea and has no correlation with reality. Unfortunately, I cannot. Like some other events in this story, it was brought on by a real occurrence, one I wish I hadn't witnessed.



So.

All was lovely. Except for the fact that they were still trapped in the goddamned room with the effigy of Osama Bin Laden who periodically barfed up random fics for them to read and MST. Besides that, it was all good.

I exaggerate. There was one other thing that was very bad indeed. One thing so horrible that I shudder to think that I am actually going to type it in a minute.

Shigeru had taken his shirt off.

"God, Shigeru, put your shirt back on," Tomoyo groaned, covering her eyes.

Setsuna pursed her lips at hearing the Lord's name in vain but said nothing. She too wanted him to put his shirt on.

Michiru had taken to staring at the ceiling so as not to have to look. "You know, if you had done that while Arima was here, you'd be headless by now."

"Taiki too," Setsuna added, blushing.

Shigeru shrugged. "In case you hadn't noticed, we don't exactly have air conditioning in here, and it's hot." Okay, another bad thing I forgot to mention. So sue me.

Nanami rolled his eyes; "Well apparently the Ladies don't think you are, so please wear the shirt. You don't see Fiore or me with ours off."

"Your just jealous you can't pull it off."

"If you could pull it off, we wouldn't be telling you to put it on." Michiru pointed out. Shigeru crossed his arms stubbornly.

Fiore, who was facing the other way and eating a bag of chips, remained silent. This wasn't his battle.

"Seriously." Tomoyo added to Michiru's statement. Setsuna nodded. Nanami laughed.

Not his battle. Not his battle. Not his battlenothisbattlenothisbattle- oh skrew it. "SHUT UP!"

Everyone stared at him. Tomoyo spoke up after a moment of stunned silence, "what did you say?"

Fiore was blushing. "I'm sorry, that wasn't very nice, but who really cares if Shigeru wears a shirt? I mean, just don't look at him."

Michiru stared at him in disbelief. "You're not even facing him."

"And I plan to stay that way." No one could really argue with that, and they all continued to avert their eyes. Ignoring him would be a better motivator than yelling at him anyway.

Of course, they had to avert their eyes to somewhere, like the opposite side of the room where Osama stood, vomiting a fic. Tomoyo picked it up. "Oh, great."



MICHIRU: what?

TOMOYO: this story has no paragraphs, and who ever wrote it can't spell worth carp.

SETSUNA: I guess it's my turn to read then.

ALL: ...

SETSUNA: what? You know I can't spell.

TOMOYO: *hands story to Setsuna*

ROAD TTIRPSS!!!!111

ALL: . oh great.

MICHIRU: are they mocking "Halfway?"

TOMOYO: probably.

NANAMI: what?

SETSUNA: *begins reading, gives up and lays the fic down on the card table in disgust.* read it for yourselves.

OKYA SO LIEK TI WAS THE ALASST DAY OF SKOLL AT MINEHEAAHAH AKACADEMy??/ AND TEHY ALL DECIDEDE TO GO ON ROAD TRIP LOL SO NANMI SAID "I DONT SK NOW THIS COULD BE TROUBLE!!!1" AND THEY SAID OH NONAMI RY SO SILLY" AND TEHY ALL LAUGHED LOLOLOL SO TEHN EVRY1 GOT IN TEH CAR AND LYKE FIORE HAD TO DRIVE???// BCUZ HSE TEH SMRAT ONE BSIZEZ NANEMAI SO SHIGAYRU GOES "I KALL SHOTGUNZ!" AND HE PUTS THIS TAPE IN THE TPAPE PLAYR AND ITS JAY-Z AND TEHYR ALL LIKE "MAN WHY U GOTA PLAY JAY-Z" AND HE SEZ "BCUZ I RAPPER LOLZ" AND WOW TEHY GO TO TEH CALYFORNYA AND SUM GUY EATING PAPRE THER AND MICHIRU SAY "aaaaaAAHA IT'S MICKIII" AND SETSUNA SOLVE A MYSTERY AND THEN TOMOYO

The end.

ALL: WHAT THE.?

SHIGERU: I am insulted by the way my name is spelled in that story.

MICHIRU: I am just insulted, period. One, Miki does not eat paper, Two, we would not go to California, and Three, my story is better than that.

TOMOYO: and what did I do at the end?

SHIGERU: maybe we don't want to know.

FIORE: I am confused by why I had to drive.

SETSUNA: what does me solving a mystery have to do with any of this?

NANAMI: at least my character was right.

ALL: you were?

NANAMI: yeah, that was a troubling road trip.



Everyone laughed from sheer exhaustion and relief that at least that part of tourture for the chapter was over, unless it decided to be a two-fic chapter like the 2nd one.

They really had nothing to worry about.

Well, besides the fact that Shigeru still had his shirt off.

"They really need to get us air conditioning if they are gong to lock people in a room like this," Setsuna noticed, over a hand of Hearts, "It's just inhumane."

Everyone sighed in agreement. It was too hot to move, and no one wanted to beg Shigeru for pop. Not in his current state, at least. Although a nice cold soda was tempting.

"AHHHHHH!" card game forgotten, the five wearing shirts made an advancing semi-circle around Shigeru and his pop machine.

"we'll make a deal with you." Tomoyo started,

"You give us each a pop." Michiru continued,

"And we won't hurt you." Nanami said through gritted teeth.

Shigeru looked up at the people surrounding him. "I knew you couldn't keep away from me without a shirt on."

Setsuna hit him in the side of the head. "ow! Hey, you can have pop, okay? Just don't run my poor baby out of it, she needs rest and care."

They stopped. Had he just said what they thought he said? "Shigeru? I think you're a bit delusional," Fiore supplied. "Maybe you should take a pop yourself."

"but. I don't want to lose her." he babbled incoherently. Everyone else looked at each other and shrugged.

"Hey, maybe he's really sick. he could have a fever or something." Michiru extrapolated, "Of course, then he would probably feel cold."

Nanami was staring at Michiru.

"What?"

"I'm supposed to be the smart one."

"Oh, right. Go ahead."

Nanami cleared his throat. "He could really be sick, but he'd be feeling cold then, and most likely wouldn't have taken his shirt off."

Shigeru was looking dizzily up at them, sitting on the floor. "Does anyone have a blanket?" and then he passed out.



A/N: okay, so it's a short chapter. It's still a chapter. And there is somewhat of a plot now. A really dumb plot, but I was getting sick of just MSTing things and having them sit around doing nothing the rest of the chapter but bicker. And no one has given me any better ideas.