A/N: Now we get to the good stuff: the play! Sorry it took me sooo long to update. I was on vacation.
DSC: You're lying...
A/N: Rrrghhh!...Alright, I wasn't.(damn self-conscience) I just don't like "Romeo and Juliet", so I've been avoiding it. But that's just me. (I wonder why I even chose to do this story. Oh, that's right. I wanted to be evil to Yuki and Kyo)
Disclaimer: I don't own "Romeo and Juliet", and I'm so glad I don't. I also don't own Furuba.
Chapter 7
"Places, everyone!" shouted Takei. "We're almost ready to begin!"
It was Friday evening, and the seats in the auditorium were filling up. The sets for the first act were prepped and ready, and the actors were all in costumes, courtesy of Ayame(much to Kyo's and Yuki's chagrin). The lights were ready, the props were set, and all of the stage crew was on standby. All they needed was for the clock to strike 7 and the play would begin.
Almost all the adult Sohmas had come. Shigure, Ayame, Hatori, Kazuma, Kunimitsu, and Akito(to Yuki's, Kyo's, Tohru's, Haru's, and Momiji's horror) were in the audience. Tohru's grandfather had also come. In fact, the majority of the school and their parents had come.
"Break a leg!" said Uotani.
"Good luck!" said Tohru.
Then, the play began.
The chorus went on stage, and he began. "Two houses, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-marked love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, naught could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend." Then, he exited.
The actors who played Sampson and Gregory stepped onto the stage, side by side. They began the play(A/N: I'm not going to write the whole play). Then, Abram and Balthasar entered on the stage. Sampson insulted them, and then they fought. Kakeru Manabe, Benvolio, made his appearance.
"Part, fools!
Put up your swords. You know not what you do."
Then, Momiji as Tybalt appeared. "What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?
Turn thee, Benvolio! look upon thy death."
Manabe retorted, "Oh yeah?" The audience laughed. Takei slapped his head, along with a few other people behind the stage. Manabe was slightly confused, then remembered that that wasn't what he was supposed to say. "Wups! Um...I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword,
Or manage it to part these men with me."
"Okay!" said Momiji happily. The audience laughed harder. Haru looked slightly amused, Hanajima showed no emotion, as usual, Uotani and Yuki shook their heads, Kyo looked like he would love to pound Momiji, and Takei hit his head with his hand. Tohru tried to catch Momiji's attention.
"Momiji! Momiji! That's not what you're supposed to say!" whispered Tohru as loudly as she could without the audience hearing her.
Momiji looked confused for a moment, then remembered his lines. "What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.
Have at thee, coward!"
Momiji started fighting Manabe with the plastic swords the stage crew had managed to find. An officer and a few stage crew members who had volunteered to play citizen roles and minstrels, including Tohru and Hanajima, came out and said, "Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues!"
Lord Montague, Lady Montague, Lord Capulet, and Lady Capulet showed up. Lord Capulet and Lord Montague wanted to fight, but their wives wouldn't let them. Then the prince showed up and broke the fight up with a long speech. Then, all but Manabe, Lord Montague, and Lady Montague left the stage. They start talking about how strange Romeo(Kyo) is acting. Kyo enters and Lord and Lady Montague leave.
Oh great, thought Kyo.
Manabe walked over and said, "Good morrow, cousin."
Kyo promptly replied without thinking, "What's so great about it?" The audience laughed. Then, Kyo remembered his lines. "Uh...is the day so young?"
"But new struck nine," said Manabe happily.
Kyo had started acting moody, but now he really was. "Ay me! sad hours seem long.
Was that my father that went hence so fast?"
"It was," said Manabe, slightly soberly. "What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours."
Kyo replied, "Not having that which having makes them short."
Manabe and Kyo continued to act out the play. Kyo was obviously getting moodier by the second, which only made Manabe amused, which only served to irritate Kyo even more.
Finally, the first scene was over. When Kyo got off-stage, he almost collapsed.
"Don't collapse, stupid cat," said Yuki quietly. He was in a dark-blue dress, so he was very mad.
"I won't, damn rat," said Kyo, resisting the urge to yell. Barely.
Haru(Paris), Lord Capulet, and Hanajima as a servant went on stage. Lord Capulet and Haru were discussing who Juliet might marry, and Lord Capulet was telling Haru to woo her. When Haru and Lord Capulet went offstage, Hanajima said, "Find them out whose names are written here? It is written that the shoemaker should meddle with his yard and the tailor with his cil and the fisher with his pencil and the painter with his nets, but I am sent to find those persons whose names are here writ, and can never find what names the writing person hath here writ. I must to the learned. In good time." She said it all without emotion.
"Someone else might've been better," said Uotani. Yuki nodded. Momiji nodded furiously. Takei slapped himself for what must've been the fiftieth time since the play began.
Manabe and Kyo went on stage and acted out their parts, even if Manabe's hyper activeness got Kyo a little ticked.
Then, scene three came, and Yuki was absolutely dreading it. Lady Capulet and Minagawa walked onstage. When Minagawa called for Yuki, she went, "Oh, Yu-I mean- What, Juliet," for which Takei slapped himself with the script. Someone in the stage crew muttered, "How airheaded can she get?"
Yuki walked on stage. Tohru could hear the laughter of Ayame and Shigure as they saw Yuki wearing a dress. Yuki started fuming, but still acted, trying very hard to ignore the two laughing idiots.
"Someone out to lock those two out," muttered Kyo, who was standing right next to Tohru.
"You said it," agreed Uotani.
"Indeed," muttered Hanajima. But soon, everyone heard them squeak and settle down. Hanajima had a smug look on her face. (A/N: guess)
"Hanajima," muttered Uotani, "what did you do?"
"Heh," was the only response that came out of her mouth.
Minagawa managed to blunder through her lines while bashing her eyes at Yuki, which only caused Yuki to stiffen. Kyo rolled his eyes at this.
Scene four rolled around. Kyo, Uotani, and Manabe walked on stage. Kyo seemed much more relieved because now he didn't have to be alone on the stage talking with Manabe. Uotani did an excellent job with her Queen Mab speech(Queen Mab is the fairies' midwife; she also tends to cause dreams and hurts ladies who "dream on kisses"). They left the stage, Kyo only slightly agitated.
"Excellent job, Arisa," said Hanajima.
"Yes!" said Tohru.
Now, Scene five. Takei was dreading this scene, mainly because Romeo and Juliet first meet and sparks go flying(HINT HINT HINT). The beginning of the scene went smoothly, even though Momiji said his lines happily, which caused the audience to laugh.
Then, Kyo started talking to Yuki. But instead of saying his lines with any emotions, he just rambled them. "If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this;
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand,
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss." Kyo and Yuki both couldn't disguise looks of great dislike and disgust, even though they were just acting.
Yuki responded, "Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss." He too said his lines as quickly as he could.
Kyo responded, "Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?"
"Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer."
"O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do!
They pray; grant thou, les faith turn to despair." Almost everyone caught the sarcasm that Kyo put on "dear".
Yuki shook in anger, as well as turned red. "Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake."
Kyo looked repulsed. "Then move not while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my ips, by thine my sin is purged."
They faux kissed. Some of the audience members sighed loudly(A/N: think of two particular Sohmas who are the romantic type, but also annoying as hell), but some of the more rowdy crew members whistled a little bit. Minagawa sighed, and Takei turned a little red.
It barely lasted five seconds, but both Kyo and Yuki looked like they were about to strangle each other.
"Fight, fight, fight!" whispered Uotani quietly. Hanajima nodded. Tohru looked ready to freak.
Yuki said his next lines rather stiffly. "Then have my lips the sin that they have took."
Kyo looked like he'd rather die. "Rrgh! Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged. Give me my sin again." They faux kissed again, with the same results.
Yuki and Kyo stared at each other for a few seconds, ready to fight. But Yuki said, "You kiss by th' book."
The finish of the scene went very smoothly. Now, at the end of the act, they had a five-minute interval to allow the stage crew to change the scenes. Kyo and Yuki spent much of that time arguing and insulting each other.
That's the end of act one. In case you were wondering, I do have "Romeo and Juliet" in front of me, so I am quoting the lines. I actually thought about quoting the entire act, but decided not to. It'd be too long(not that I don't mind, I just hate "Romeo and Juliet" and didn't want to have to type it up.).
Okay, question for all of you. I have written an evil alternate ending to "Romeo and Juliet". It has absolutely NOTHING AT ALL to do with Furuba. Should I put it at the end of this story or not? Put it in your reviews, please!(It'd be a bonus chapter)