Chapter Two
"Feitan wins."

Silence, once again…

"So, Feitan, boss of the evening, are we going to play, or what?" Sharlnark asked him, twiddling the pencil in his hand.

"…I suppose it's better than just sitting around…" Feitan shrugged, taking perch on a window ledge and preceded to write down his questions, much to everyone's thought.

"H-He… agreed!" Phinx stuttered, utterly stunned that his comrade had actually agree to one of Sharlnark's little games. However, he was fairly judged the boss of the night, so even though it was stupid, he didn't have much of a choice. Neither did anyone else.

"Oh, and one more thing, everyone MUST answer the question, okay? No exception, none at all." Sharlnark added as he collected and slipped everyone's questions into the little bag-like thing he made with Feitan's bandana.

Everyone nodded and sat around the bag-thing in a circle, signaling the game to begin.

"Okay, Feitan, you can pick first," Sharlnark said, motioning him to pick a question. Feitan obliged, reaching his hand in and picking a question.

"…"

"Feitan?" Franklin inquired, looking at the small figure, who was staring blankly at the question.

"23,on the floor, raped by…one of my victims…" Feitan replied darkly, a tense look locked into his eyes.

"…Uh, care to read the question?" Phinx told him and Feitan sighed.

"How old, where, and by whom did you loose your virginity to," Feitan said. He had no clue why he even answered… "You're next, Phinx. We're going around the circle."

"Fine, but I can't believe you agreed to this whole thing…" Taking a sigh, Phinx continued. "Let's see… 13, a mummy, in a tomb."

Everyone just gaped at him.

"Okay, okay, I'm joking, but it's… confidential… if I tell you guys, I'd probably die," Phinx explained to them, earning him a gasped from Shizuku.

"You mean th-that… you did that chain-person!" she gasped as the others eyes all went bouncy-bouncy. Phinx just looked shocked.

"No, you idiot!" he spat. "I was joking again! I'm… a virgin…" he confessed as he rubbed his eyes. Boy did that take forever to come out…

"Wow… and I didn't want to think I was the only one…" nodded Shizuku.

"I'm a virgin also," said Kurotopi simply. Machi nodded in agreement, and so did Franklin and Sharlnark.

"So, I guess you're the only one, Feitan, congrats!" Sharlnark told his little friend, giving him a pat on the back, earning him a glare, which he pretended not to have noticed. "But really, how could you get raped by your own victim? Wouldn't that make you the-"

"Okay, that's enough, Sharlnark," Phinx told him sternly as he reached in and picked out a piece of paper. "Hmm… What's your favorite animal, Shizuku."

"Wait, you mean your favorite animal is Shizuku?" questioned Kurotopi, pointing at the seemingly innocent girl.

"Oh, we weren't supposed to sign them?" Shizuku said, completely oblivious. Everyone sighed and ignored her.

"My favorite animal… hmm… a jackrabbit , don't ask."

"Mine's a harbor seal," answered Shizuku.

"…A crane," said Kurotopi, which was completely out of the blue, but no one really cared.

"I like the Amazon Dolphin," replied Machi.

"And I like leeches." No one even wanted to question Franklin about that.

"I, for one, like the Duckbilled Platypus because even though it's-" But once again, Sharlnark was interrupted.

"Foxes. Shizuku, pick the next question," Feitan said, sparing them all a long and boring lecture on an animal they had absolutely no interest in.

"Hmm…" Shizuku wondered out loud as she looked at the questioned she picked. "If you were to marry one person in here, who would he or she be?" Shizuku looked up and thought about the whole thing while everyone else began running their brains also. "Well, probably… Sharlnark because I guess he'd be able to take care of financial aids and all that stuff, not to mention he's probably the more… normal out of all you guys, no offence!" Shizuku finished, glasses nearly falling out from the frantic wavering of her hands at the end of the answer.

"Gee, I feel special," Sharlnark said, half sarcastically, half embarrassed.

"It said 'if'. 'If' I didn't, I won't even have thought twice about walking down the isle with you," Shizuku explained blankly to him, making Sharlnark once again miserable, (only for a second or two though) and earning some chuckles in the group.

"Well…" Kurotopi began as everyone looked in his direction, only to find two of him. "I would marry myself," he shrugged, gesturing towards his clone. (Let's all pretend he can actually do that for now, ne?)

"Ah, escaping the question, but I guess it's fine if you didn't want to tell…" Machi sighed. "Personally, I'd have to choose Phinx, because he's probably the more normal among all of you guys, save Sharlnark, but there is no way I want to listen to him lecture on every single thing every single day, but it's if I didn't have any other choice," she finished, looking at Franklin.

"Uh… I guess Machi… Shizuku's more of a… little sister figure…" he said. "But it is 'if'."

"And I would take Shizuku, because she actually listens to my lectures unlike most of you," Sharlnark replied.

"Machi. Shizuku's eleven years younger than me, and it's not like I want to marry anyone else other than girls…"

"Machi, she's prettier, no offence, Shizuku!"

Everyone then simultaneously sighed, glad that that round was now complete. How they managed to do it is still a mystery, but since they known each other so long, it probably wasn't very hard to simulate, ne?

"Too bad… too bad some of them couldn't make it," Machi sighed, gaze shifted to the painless window. Everyone nodded in agreement as they peered out the window also. It would have been more fun if all of them could have made it this far…