Overly Dramatic
Chapter Six: Torajikomedii (Tragi-comedy)
Ayame: So does this mean it's the last chapter before I get to really bond with Yuki?
{Yuki scowls and before I could answer that, Hatori comes in the room with a tranquilizer and sticks Ayame with it. Ayame is fast asleep and is dragged off by his long hair.}
Hatori: That's for blackmailing me in the last chapter!
BSCW: Oh well! There's goes Ayame and let's get on with the story!
It was the night to perform in front of students, parents, and anyone else you could think of. Ayame was looking at his watch. 'Where is everybody?' He was asking no one in particular as he noticed that Hatsuharu, Rin, Kyou, Kagura, Kazuma, Hiro, and Yuki haven't arrived yet. Of course, he hadn't expected Hatsuharu to show up since he got lost all the time.
He took the opportunity to stick his head through the curtains and spotted the principal and his wife standing near the seats in the front row. "So honey, are you enjoying yourself tonight?" the principal asked his wife.
"Oh yes. Say isn't that one of your students?" his wife asked, pointing to the person behind him. The principal turned around slowly and saw the long white-haired bishounen standing there smiling. "You," the principal muttered wide-eyed.
"Why, yes. I was one of his students at his old high school. I am the magnificent Ayame Souma!" Ayame said, loud and proud, while shaking the awed woman's hand. "I remember one time your husband wanted me to cut off my hair...."
"And you still haven't taken my advice, have you?" the unnerved man said, pointing a shaking finger at him.
"Well...what gave you the slightest idea that I would cut these beautiful tresses?" Ayame was twirling his hair with his finger while laughing. The principal stood there shocked thinking, 'No matter where I go, the Soumas come back to haunt me!' But as for his wife, she seemed amazed at Ayame's confidence. She had never met anyone who wasn't ashamed, no matter what somebody who was as critical as her husband said. Then she spoke.
"Souma-san, are you in Romeo and Juliet?
"Hahaha. I am playing as Juliet! Gure-san is playing Romeo. He's my cousin as well as my friend. Didn't I mention I have a brother who's in this school named Yuki Souma?" At that last sentence, the principal ran away, leaving his wife and Ayame behind. "I don't know what came over my husband. I guess he's not used to seeing former students. Well, I gotta get going." Then the woman turned around, but she felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned to face Ayame, who presented her with a business card. "I have my own clothing shop. Please stop by tomorrow to check it out." The woman didn't say anything. She nodded her head blushing and stood there while Ayame walked away. 'What does my husband have against this guy? He should learn not to judge others so quickly, especially when they're confident and creative individuals,' she thought, looking at the business card Ayame gave her.
Meanwhile, Arisa was sitting with Tohru in the first row. Obviously, the yankee watched the whole scene, while Tohru sat there thinking about her dead mother. "Hana-chan, did you see that? Slither boy had the woman practically eating out of his hands." Then she looked to the psychic who was two seats away from her. Hanajima didn't hear what her friend said since she seemed busy making out with the guy next to her.
"Hana-chan, were you listening to me?" The yankee gave her a hard tap on the shoulder and as soon as the couple turned to her, Arisa seemed surprised to see that the guy the psychic sat next to seemed familiar—short black hair and eyes dark and mysterious. Akito!
"Uo-chan, what is it that you want?" Hanajima asked in a monotone voice, enough to send shivers up the yankee's spine.
"Akito-san, aren't you supposed to be in the main house since...oh I don't know...Tohru-chan told us about a million times how sick you are?"
"What's it to you, yankee? I came here to see my family perform! Besides, I am the family head. I do whatever I please and I can be with whomever I please. I guess Tohru-san hasn't told you that, huh?" Then Akito turned to Hanajima. "I get that all the time." The yankee shuddered and walked back to her seat. 'Let's pretend I didn't see that,' she thought.
A half hour later, the show was about to start and as Ayame looked around the stage, he saw Shigure, Hatori, Ritsu, Kureno, Kisa, and Momiji, but no Kyou, Kagura, Hiro, Hatsuharu, Rin, Kazuma, and Yuki! But wait! The door backstage opened and a amethyst haired bishounen dressed as Tybalt walked in.
Ayame turned around to see his younger brother. "Yuki! I thought you deserted us!" The older Souma's golden eyes were shining as Yuki walked forward. He knew that Yuki had arrived because Tohru coaxed him into it, but Ayame, being Ayame, had his hopes up that their relationship was getting better. Yuki simply rolled his eyes, trying to ignore him.
The show began and as usual, the audience clapped. During the play, it started out normal as usual. The only change that occurred was the scene between Tybalt and Mercutio—Mercutio was Kureno, since Kyou wasn't there to perform the part.
Kureno/Mercutio: O calm, dishonourable, vile submission! Alla stoccata carries it away. {Draws sword} Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?
Yuki/Tybalt: What wouldst thou have with me?
Kureno/Mercutio: Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine
lives; that I mean to make bold withal, and as you
shall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of the
eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher
by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your
ears ere it be out.
Yuki/Tybalt: I am for you! {Draws sword}
Shigure/Romeo: Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.
Kureno/Mercutio: Come, sir, your passado.
{Mercutio and Tybalt start to fight.}
Shigure/Romeo: Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons.
Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage!
Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath
Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:
Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio! {TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies with his followers.}
However, during the scene when Juliet was at the balcony, Ritsu, playing the maid, bumped into the "house," while calling Juliet's name, which caused everything else on the set to fall with it. Fortunately, Shigure ran out of there before the stage could fall on top of him. Mine pulled the curtains as fast as she could.
As usual, Ritsu would go crazy apologizing until Shigure would poke him in the ribs, which made him faint. The next you would see of Ritsu is when he was tied up in the dressing room, but he was not alone. Momiji was tied up too, since Ayame didn't really want him to sing during the play and because Hatori refused to erase the audience's memories.
The show went on and Yuki watched dreading it. The kissing scene that Shigure and Ayame had been talking about was finally being performed. He wanted to look away. Look away when Ayame was passionately kissing Shigure, who was now playing the dead Romeo. To Yuki, it was simply disgusting seeing his older brother and his older cousin kissing.
But there was something about that scene that really got Yuki's attention. Ayame, playing Juliet, had a dagger high over his head. Yuki listened closely to the lines his older brother was about to recite, but the words he uttered wasn't what Juliet said. ("This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.") Instead all he heard was the same words in his dream. 'Gure-san, I appreciate you welcoming me into your home, but...I know when I'm not wanted.' At that moment, he shook his head. Surely he was hallucinating. The audience and the remaining Soumas seemed unfazed by what Yuki thought he heard his older brother say. What was happening to him? Why did his dream come back to haunt him?
As if it couldn't get any worse, he saw two caskets, carrying Ayame and Shigure. Thinking that he must be losing it, Yuki ran towards the backstage and stormed out the school building.
BSCW: That's all for this chapter! If you're wondering why I'm writing this story, it is because there wasn't one fic about Ayame committing suicide on this website when I looked it up in the search engine. (The only suicidal fics I saw was when Kyou was committing suicide and also one of Hanajima committing suicide as well, just type in the word "suicide" in the keyword and Search by summary and you'll see what I mean.) I just wanted to write about how Yuki would've reacted if he saw his only brother was committing suicide in his dream. Sure, there are other good "Yuki and Ayame" fics out there, but I've decided to kick it up a notch!
Yuki: So that's your reason why you poisoned my mind with thoughts of that idiot committing suicide? {glares at authoress}
BSCW: Well....
Ayame: Let the girl do her job, Yuki! {enters room}
Yuki: Oh no. {runs out of room again and Ayame runs after him}
BSCW: In the next chapter, you'll get to read what thoughts Ayame and Yuki are having after what happened in this chapter. R&R