6H: It's been awhile since I updated. Sorry, but I was uninspired. Right now, it's 8:03 in the morning on Good Friday, the first day of spring break. I'm holding off on breakfast because today I can't eat between meals. It's a catholic thing.

Anaretsu: Are we gonna start the fic?

6H: I'm changing the layout a bit, since the scene changes might have been hard to follow. Let's go on chapter 6 of The Next Revolution!

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The sword was shaking with Shojiki's rage as he hovered above Aya, who was to the point of crying-somthing she never did. Anna-Lee debated what to do, and decided to walk forward. But as soon as she took one step, Shojiki whirled around and growled at her, his red eyes glaring at her with menace. Anna-Lee, her eyes filled with emptyness, only stood there with a blank look on her face. She showed not her fear-if she even had any. Aya watched the whole exchange from her postion under the possesed duelist. That's when she realised that maybe, just maybe, she liked Shojiki-had a small crush. But then it made her sad, for she saw the invisible and silent bond between Shojiki and The Rose Bride. A type of bond that she'd neve be able to break or come close to. And that's why only a single tear fell.

Chapter 6-The Fairy Tale of the Night

The field was silent. Not even the wind blew. It was like time had been paused on an extremly suspenseful moment, and the tesion was still rising. From the distance, the president, Ryoki, and Hiyoma watched. They were all amazed. What was going on, they weren't quite sure.

"What the hell...?" Ryoki muttered, as if she was afriad Shojiki would come up here and slaughter all of them.

"This isn't right. Something isn't right down there. This isn't like Shojiki Tenjou at all." The president just watched, ignoring the two. Footsteps came up behind them- Ryhashi stood with them now.

"Do you know what's going on, Ryhashi?" his sister asked. He nodded, his face the very potrait of seriousness.

"It's the power of Dia." Ryoki and Hiyoma turned to him with wide eyes. The power of Dia-the one that all of them were trying to get their hands on? Only the president didn't look surprised.

"Miss President? Did you know?" Hiyoma asked her. She nodded, her violet eyes glancing over them all, and then focusing back on the arena. But never a word she said.

Back on the arena, the tension went to inmeasurable levels and continued rising. Shojiki's blood from his leg dripped onto the floor, making a nice little puddle. Aya remained pefectly still-her life still in the balance. Then, Anna-Lee continued forward again, the clicking of her shoes on the ring the only sound besides the spilling of blood. Shojiki looked like he was a viocous animal waiting to attack her, but only remained still, hissing and growling all the while. When Anna-Lee made it all the way to be in front of him, she dropped down to her knees and looked straight at his violent crimson eyes. Aya watched as Anna-Lee leaned forward and wrapped her arms around him, holding him close to her. He struggled to get away, but Anna-Lee wouldn't let go. Finally, he gave up and his eyes turned back to normal blue. The last thing he saw before passing out was the color red.

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Rain poured softly from the sky as Shojiki came too. He was laying down on the arena, with his face towards the sky. The castle was still lit up, looking beautiful in the rain. Shojiki tried to move, but his right leg debated against such an act. Cursing to himself, he forced himself up, and then dragged himself out of the arena.

The blood formed a small trail all the way down the stairs behind him as he struggled to make it back to his place. When he made it too the exit, he finally collapsed. There was no way he'd make it all the way home. That's when someone in an all black school uniform came up to him. He looked up to see a boy with dark violet hair, smiling friendly at him.

"Hi. Do you need help?" he asked.

"Uh...yeah." Shojiki responded, a little dumbstruck. The boy helped him stand up and then helped support Shojiki. "Thanks alot. I'm Shojiki Tenjou. And you are?" The boy looked at him and smiled.

"I'm am Heiro Odojii." he replied. Shojiki smiled. This guy seemed nice. So the two walked back to Shojiki's house. Anna-Lee waited at the door for them as they staggered in. Shojiki sat down on the couch.

"Thanks again, Heiro. I probably would've never made it here."

"It's nothing. I just got here last week, so I don't really know anyone."

"Is that so? I've been here about a month, right Anna-Lee? Or maybe it was longer...I'm not sure. It's hard to keep track."

"The work keeps you busy." Anna-Lee said. Heiro nodded. His dark blue eyes caught the sight of Shojiki's rose crest ring.

"I should be going. It is getting late and I have work to do. I'll see you around Shojiki." And with that, he left. Shojiki looked at Anna-Lee, annoyed.

"Why didn't you bring me home like always?" he asked her. Anna-Lee giggled at his funny and annoyed look.

"I thought the rain could wash the blood away, Mr. Shojiki."

"What?! You wanted the rain to wash the blood away? Well, it's gonna have one hell of a cleaning job since I bled all the way down the stairs! And don't call me Mr., okay?"

"But I'm enga-"

"WE'RE TOO YOUNG TO GET MARRIED!!!!!!!"

"-ged to you." she finished, as though she was never interuupted. Shojiki sighed in defeat.

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So, the next day, Anna-Lee and Shojiki walked up to school like every other day, only to see a poster on the school gates. Taiyakashi met them there.

"Hey, Shojiki! Have you seen it?"

"Seen what?" he asked, still in a bad mood from yesterday.

"This poster right here!" She held up a copy for him to see. He glanced at it, then looked away as he yawned.

"Nope. So what the hell is it?" Anna-Lee read it as Taiyakashi ranted on.

"It's the annual school ball!!!! It's held every year and it's really fancy. People take dates and there's good food, too!"

"Not interested."

"I might be fun, Mr. Shojiki." Anna-Lee suggested.

"Not you too! Come on, Anna-Lee!" Taiyakashi threw an arm around the grey-haired girl and smirked at Shojiki.

"I like the way you think, Anna-Lee. And you've got Shojiki here on a leash..."

"I do?"

"Yep. Let me teach you a thing or two, though..." Taiyakashi said as she dragged Anna-Lee with her.

"Hey!!! Don't conspire against me!!"

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"If the shell breaks before the chick is ready to be born, then the chick will die without ever living. We are the chick, the world is our shell. Repair the world's shell!"

"To stop the revolution of the world!" The student council finished. They all took their regular seats as the president spoke.

"Shojiki Tenjou is dangerous. Aya, you've seen first hand of that, right?"

"...right." she said hesitantly.

"It's the power of Dia."Hiyoma said. "Ryhashi has been mumbeling about it in his sleep lately. Ever since his duel with Shojiki. He still isn't the same. Something is wrong with him..."

"Are you sure it's the power of Dia? I didn't think it would be that destructive." Ryoki remarked. "What if it's not really the power of Dia?"

"What do you mean 'not really the power of Dia?'" Aya said, mocking her. "What else would it be? Don't tell me you think Dios is still up there. He's long gone-so it's only Dia, unless she decided to get some goldfish."

"We shall send him an invitation." the president suddenly said. The others looked at her.

"Who?" Hiyoma asked. "To what?"

"We shall send Shojiki Tenjou and the Rose Bride and invitation to the annual ball. I have a plan to corner him and get him to tell me everything I want. When that's done..." she said, turning to the other memebers. "...I shall destroy him."

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When Anna-Lee and Shojiki arrived home, they found a rose-colored envelope with the school symbol on it. Shojiki sighed at the sight of the thing.

"Don't bother with it. It's probably just a challenge or something." He said, throwing himself on the couch. Anna-Lee read through the note.

"We've been invited by the student council to come to the annual school ball. They say we should get there by six. Let's go, Mr. Shojiki! Please??" she asked with big eyes. Shojiki triedto say no, but his guilty conscience wouldn't let him.

"Fine. We'll go."

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And go they did. Anna-Lee was still getting ready as Shojiki waited for her in the living room. The student council, being as generous as they were, sent them clothes to wear. Apparently, this was a serious affair, or they wouldn't have bothered. So Shojiki sat on the couch in a tuxedo waiting for Anna-Lee to come out of her room. As he waited, he thought of the student council. Something that evening had hit him for the first time-he had never seen or heard of the president. Whoever this guy was, he was pretty determined to keep his life private. But he would most likly be there tonight, so Shojiki would meet him. He'd personally like to give this jerk a peice of his mind.

A door was pulled open and Shojiki snapped out of his thoughts, looking at where the noise came from.

"Anna-Lee-!" he gasped in amazment. Anna-Lee had put her hair up in this back of her head, letting her eyes become the focus of her face instead of the thick hair that framed it. She was clad in a long silver gown that sparlkled like trillions of stars all clumped together. To break the redundency of the dress, black velevet was tied around the wiast and flowed down it in two long streams and touched the floor, looping back around the the bow in back. She smiled shyly at Shojiki and tried to hide the shade of pink that was making it's way across her plae skin. Shojiki stood up.

"Is it okay, Mr' Shojiki?" she asked.

"Hell yeah...I mean yes. Anna-Lee, for tonight, can you just call me by my name?" She nodded nervously. Shojiki sort of smiled-more out of nervousness than happiness. "Well then, let's go." The two walked outside to see a limo waiting for them. "Those damn student council members...they think of everything." he driver came out of the front seat and-surprise,surpirse-said the student council president had sent him. Shojiki rolled his eyes.The two hopped in and they were off.

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"Holy crud! This place is huge!!" Shojiki remarked when they got there.

"Oh wow. I've never seen this place before." Anna-Lee said, looking around at the huge room. It was, as already stated, HUGE. You enter on the front side of the room under some golden arches. The one wall to their left had two vast stair ways that led to many levels of terraces overlooking the room. The lowest level, which they were currently on, was the dance floor and buffet. The second level wrapped around the whole perimeter and seemed to lead outside to many blaconies.

"Man, the student council goes nutts with everything, don't they, Anna-Lee? Speaking of those bastards, let's go find them." They walked up to the second level and saw them standing around in their group towards the railing. Hiyoma saw them first and gave a little wave to them. She was wearing an orange dress that match her hair.

"Well, hello Shojiki Tenjou. Long time no see." she said friendly. Also amongst the group was Ryahashi-who looked miserable and depressed. He was in his student council uniform-but he didn't seem to notice or care. Ryoki wore a red chinese dress with high splits on the sides and edgeing in silver. Shojiki, being the pervert that he could be, shuffled a bit to try to get a better look at Ryoki's legs. Thank god she didn't notice. Last amongst them was Aya. She wore her hair out and had on a green sleeveless dress.

"If you'll excuse me, Tenjou." Ryoki said as she briskly walks away. Shojiki sighed in his mind-his nice veiw was leaving. Ryhashi also wordlessly left.

"So, Shojiki, are you feeling ok since your last duel?" Aya asked. Shojiki rubbed the back of his head.

"I haven't really been thinking about it, but that was really freaky. I don't exactly remeber what happened-just that something wasn't normal. I didn't hurt you, did I, Aya?" Aya shook her head.

"No, I'm fine. The wall might not, though."

"Shojiki, if you could please exucse me and Aya. "Hiyoma said, grabbing Aya's arm.

"But-"

"Don't you remeber, Aya? We have that -uh...-thing to do. Right?" She tightened her grip as Aya winced from the pain.

"Oh yes...the...thing. See you Shojiki! Ow! Hiyoma, you're squeezing too hard!!!" And the two walked off.

"Well that was weird." Shojiki said as he watched them.

"Do you think something's wrong?" Anna-Lee asked him. He looked back to her and shook his head.

"Maybe...but then again everything about the student council is weird. Whatever. I wonder why they invited us anyway..." Then came a familar face-the face of Heiro Odojii. "Hey Heiro!" Shojiki greeted his new friend. Heiro waved back, his dark viloet eyes sparkling with friendlyness.

"Shojiki, and hte fair Miss Anna-Lee. So the both of you came..."

"Yeah. The student council dragged us here." Shojiki said. Heiro nodded.

"Anna-Lee,you look very lovely tonight. Shojiki is very lucky..." Shojiki blushed, but looked away so no one could see it. Heiro caught a glimpse of course, and smiled at what he saw. "Anyway, Anna-Lee, if I could have a word with you in private...you don't mind, do you Shojiki?"

"Huh?" he asked, turning back around. "Ah, no! Go ahead! I'll meet up with you guys later." He said as Heiro pulled Anna-Lee to his side a whispered something in her ear. She nodded, taking a last look at Shojiki before the two disapeared. Shojiki sighed. "This sucks. I'm at the big party, but I'm all alone. Maybe Taiyakashi is around..." So he walked back down to the first level to check out the crowd. He finally met up with Taiyakashi at the punch bowl of all places.

"I thought you weren't coming." she said.

"Well...Anna-Lee changed my mind."

"Cool threds! Where'd you get them from?" she asked slyly.

"Student council." he anwsered, hoping she'd stop asking questions he couldn't anwser. Instead, she grabbed one of his hands and dragged him towards the dance floor. "Taiyakashi...you know I can't dance..."

"You need practice." she said as she succesfully got him into the crowd of couples. She led him through every step, and he nervously stumbled along. He really wasn't good at this stuff. An annoucer came on.

"Alright couples! This is a special dance by the student council. When I give the signal, the girls will change partners and roate around the floor. Ready?" A new song started from the orchestra and the couples were off.

"What the-?" Shojiki started to ask, but the signal was given and Taiyakashi was swept off, Hiyoma Yogoshi taking her place.

"Shojiki Tenjou, we meet again..." she said. Her golden eyes looked like she was sceaming something.

"What's going on?" he asked.

"What are you talking about?"

"Is Heiro Odojii connected to you guys?" Hiyoma shrugged.

"In all honesty I've never heard that name before. Why do you ask?"

"Well, he and Anna-Lee went off somewhere."

"I see. Shojiki, I-" but the signal was given again and she was replaced by Ryoki Jutatsu.

"Tenjou." she greeted coldly. She did not seem pleased, as her black eyes glared at him.

"Hey, Ryoki." 'Oh damn...' he thought. 'She knows I was looking at her!'

"What is wrong with you? You're awfully quiet."

"Nothing!!" he inisted.

"Can't you dance? That's the second time you've stepped on my foot."

"Sorry! Taiyakashi dragged me out here. Do you know where Anna-Lee and Heiro-" but the signal was given and Ryoki was off, not before slapping Shojiki across the face. Aya took her spot.

"Ryoki?" she asked. Shojiki nodded. She smiled at him. "I see. She is a hot head."

"Tell me about it. So ,Shojiki..what is your relationship with the Rose Bride?" she asked nervously. "I was just curious. I mean, she was able to bring you back to normal after the Dia thing-"

"What? What did she do, Aya? Tell me!"

"She just hugged you. Don't freak out on me..."

"Me and Anna-Lee...are just friends, got it?"

"Sure." she said, unconvinced. But for the moment she was happy, for she got to be with him, if only for a moment. The signal was given again when Shojiki ended up with a short girl-she had to have been in elemetry school Her curly blue hair was pulled into pigtails, and her violet blue eyes looked at him happily.

"Uh..hello?"

"I know you!" she said to him. "You're Shojiki Tenjou!"

"How do you-?"

"Whops! I wasn't supposed to-" the signal was given again and the girl dispeared, replaced by an older looking version-except this one had short hair that graced her cheeks. The music stopped and she looked up at him with wide eyes.

"Okay..." Shojiki said. "Do you know me too?" She shook her head. The dance floor was clearing out as new couples were coming in. Shojiki looked over to the sides to see Taiyakashi. He was going to leave when she shook her head no and montioned to the girl next to him. He pouted at her-no way was he going to humilate himself in front of a stranger. But Taiyakashi insisted, so he gave in. "I'm Shojiki Tenjou...what's your name?"

"Kara Tswagi. And that girl that looks like me but younger is my little sister Mitaru." she smiled at him. He smiled back. This girl seemed nice.

"Okay...what grade? I'm in eigth. I just turned 14 this past summer."

"I'm in 10th. And My sixteenth birthday is coming up in a few months" Shojiki counted his lucky stars. 'An older girl! I'm lucky, I swear.' The song ended and the students clapped. The two walked upstairs to the balconies. They found an empty one and looked out upon the school.

"It's strange..."she said suddenly.

"What is?"

"This school is like a cage...the outside is unaware of what really happens here. You know?" she asked, looking at him. That's when a scream came from inside.

"What was that? I'm going to check it out! I'll be back, Kara!" Shojiki ran back in to see what was going on. Kara watched him go, wondering what could be going on in there.

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Shojiki ran down to the main floor to see Ryhashi and Hiyoma just breaking aprat from a sword fight. Hiyoma had lost, blood going down her arm.

"Hiyoma!" Shojiki ran over to the rest of the student council. "What's going on?" he demanded. They all shook their heads. He looked over to Ryhashi. That look in his eyes seemed famillar.

"Shojiki Tenjou...we meet again." the familar voice that was not Ryhashi's said. "I have a gift for you..." He opened his hand to produce a dead dove. "This will soon be you."

"Who are you? Why don't you leave Ryhashi alone?" Shojiki demanded. But the demon only laughed.

"Let's have a sowrd fight. The first one to lose their sword is the loser."

"Fine!" Shojiki took Hiyoma's sword and stood on the other side of the dance floor. The two charged...

"Shojiki!" Kara cried out as she watched from above. The student council looked up at her. A smilar thought through all their minds-'What is she doing?' A sword went flying up into the air, a scream, blood spurting out for a breif moment...

Ryhashi looked in disblief. His sword had flown out of his hands. Shojiki clutched his arm as he looked up at Ryhashi.

"I see. You are more powerful than I thought." and Ryhashi collapsed.

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Outside, the crowds of students were panicing. Kara stood out there, waiting for Shojiki. He walked calmly out to her and then fell to his knees. She supported him, the two were kneeling on the ground.

"Shojiki...I need to tell you..." Shojiki opened one of his turquoise eyes.

"What, Kara? You can tell me..."

"I'm...the president of the student council..." Both of his eyes widened.

"So we're enemies." he said, looking away. A gentle hand on his cheek brought him back around to look at her dark blue violet eyes. She shook her head.

"No...I don't want to be. Not with you. You're so noble...like a prince..." The stared for awhile and then Shojiki leaned down towards her. Her eyes slowly closed, as did hers, and their lips met in a light kiss-barely touching before they released each other. But the kisses were sweet, even if they were hesitant.

From the distnace, Anna-Lee and Heiro watched.

"Only disater will come from this." Heiro said.

"I know. But we cannot stop it now. What a terrible thing they are doing to each other..."

To be continued-------

(Preview)

Shojiki: Kara may be the president of the student council, but she seems different from the rest fo them. As the two of us waltz further down the road of destruction, I get dragged into things. Anna-Lee, don't run off! I don't want to lose our friendship, but if you don't like me and Kara being togehter...Wait, Kara! Did you just use me? I don't want to fight you!! Next time-The Sword Falls. Stop the Revolution of the World!

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6H: HA ha ha!!! Sorry for the long update, but I lost some ideas on this. Shojiki did the preview BY HIMSELF!!! Do you know what this means?

Anaretsu: That he's a big boy now?

6H: No, that something will happen. Well, stick around for the next chapter, and please review.