This chapter is pretty long but nothing happens really. Anyway, read for yourself.

"And you're sure it's safe? This isn't some set-up? You're Yuki-san's brother, after all."

"Well, I told him I thought Shuichi was right dumping him. It didn't go down too well."

"I can imagine…"

"So, you're going for it?"

"Yeah. But you're dead meat (K clicked his gun) if we get caught."

Tatsuha laughed nervously. "It's, um, Su's responsibility, I'm just a messenger…"

"You mean Fujisaki Suguru?"

"Yeah."

K and Hiro exchanged funny glances. Su?

"…Right. Well, let's get going."

"Okay!"

The three of them were met with Ryuichi and Shuichi still singing, and Suguru stacking up on aspirin. Hiro sweatdropped while K began laughing like a maniac for no reason.

"Ah, Nakano-san, K-san. We were just working on the costumes. Please pick one from this section."

"Fujisaki-kun, not you too! Is perverseness contagious or something!"

"No, I'm just outnumbered by perverts. If I had a say in this, we would have Costumes from the first section."

"But you're the director, you're in charge!"

"You go and explain that to those guys, and especially Tatsuha!"

Hiro sweatdropped again. Tatsuha? Not Uesugi-san or even Tatsuha-kun!

"Geesh, do you and Tatsuha-san have something together!"

Suguru blushed. "uh…Yeah. I'm his boyfriend."

Hiro's eyes widened (K is still occupied with laughing, he doesn't hear any of his)

"Seriously!"

Suguru nodded.

"But you know the guy how long? Maybe a day?"

Suguru blushed, but looked determined none the less. "Yeah, well, I really like him." Even if he is a big perv…

Hiro smiled. "Congratulations, then. I wish you good luck."

Suguru looked genuinely surprised. "Uh… Thanks, Nakano-san."

"Have fun with Tatsuha-san" Hiro winked, and Suguru blushed again.

"K-san no da! K-san no da! K-san no da! Ryu-chan gets to play with K-san na no da!"

"Ahahahahahahaha!"

"K-saaaaan!"

Ryuichi began tugging on K's sleeve.

"K-saaaaaahaaaaaaaaan!"

"Ahahahahahahahahahaha!"

"Shu, K-san is stuck in his laughter da!"

"Oh no!"

Ryuichi and Shuichi began trying to get K to stop laughing, involving some belts and whips they found in Tatsuha's bag. Tatsuha himself joined in as well after he saw them misusing his stuff, then proceeded to show them how belts and whips were used properly. Hiro collapsed with a severe case of nosebleed once he saw it. Suguru downed a bottle of aspirin.

"Eiri-san? Are you feeling better yet?"

Eiri grunted in response.

"I'd like to start rehearsing, so if you're up to it…?"

Eiri sighed. "How can you think about something like that play in a time like this?"

"You need to get your mind off Shindo, Eiri-san. And I don't want to lose to my cousin if I don't have to."

"Ok, maybe it's a good idea, but I don't like having a female part. I hate cross-dressing."

Tohma was silent for a moment.

"Then how about I be Juliet, and you can be Romeo? Will you do it then?"

Eiri looked at Tohma suspiciously. "You want me to come that bad?"

"Yes, Eiri-san, I care for you a lot."

"Fine, I'll come, if you're Juliet."

Tohma smiled, and for once, it actually seemed genuine (can you believe it!) "That's great, Eiri-san. By the way, what happened to Tatsuha-kun?"

"He thought Shuichi had a point in dumping me, so I told him to curl up in a corner and die, preferably somewhere far away from me."

"I see…" Tohma looked pissed. He had that look like when he's gonna push you in front of a car.

"Seguchi?"

"Yes, Eiri-san?"

"I don't give a shit if you kill Tatsuha. Do whatever you want with him."

Tohma's expression darkened.

"I'll keep that in mind, Eiri-san. Now, could we leave for rehearsal?"

Back with our favourite gang of chaos children, Suguru had managed to more or less restore peace. Hiro and K were picking a costume (occasionally getting nosebleeds in the process), Ryuichi and Shuichi were making out ("Rehearsing no da!") and Tatsuha was reading a porn magazine. So much for his promise.

"Tatsuha, you promised you wouldn't read any porn while I was around!"

"But you won't let me touch you, so it doesn't count!"

Suguru decided maybe a new approach would help. He sat down in Tatsuha's lap. "Fine then."

Tatsuha squealed at this surprise and began cuddling him. Suguru took the opportunity to grab the magazine and burn it. Tatsuha was too busy groping to notice. At this rate he'd get rid of those magazines in no time! Ah, yes, Suguru can scheme just as well as Tohma.

"Hey, Fujisaki-kun, what's the script like? You stuck to the original story, right?"

Suguru twitched and hung his head. "I was going to, but Tatsuha interfered and now, it's, ah, well it's not like the original story at all."

"Well, it can't be worse than Seguchi's version with the incest!"

"Don't be too sure, Nakano-san. Tatsuha doesn't even know the story of Romeo and Juliet."

Hiro stared in disbelief. "You've got no control at all in here, have you?"

Suguru sniffled.

"Aww, c'mon Su, my version was waaay better than that boring ol' thing Shakespeare wrote ages ago!"

"Don't talk about Shakespeare like that, he was a great writer!"

"Yeah, was. Now that I'm here, everyone will forget about him in no time!"

"Dream on, Tatsuha."

Tatsuha pouted.

"Anyway, what parts do we get?"

"Well, we still need Juliet's mother, his father, and an evil witch."

K and Hiro stared.

"His father?"

"An evil witch?"

"Yeah, Juliet is male, an' forced to marry an evil witch by his parents. Romeo's parents are both in love with Juliet's father, but because they know they can't have him they hate the family.

Then Romeo and Juliet fall in love and the two families catch them making out. Juliet's parents see the light and realize they made their son marry an evil witch, and Juliet's mother sets off to slay her. Romeo's parents take the opportunity to jump Juliet's father, and when they find out they both like the same guy, they set up a happy threesome. In the end, everyone is making out."

"Except for Juliet's mother."

"Well I was thinking, maybe we could have her fall in love with the evil witch. Wouldn't that be cool? We could make the evil witch turn good!"

"Tatsuha, this isn't a fairytale!"

"I know, the witch always gets killed in fairytales."

Suguru hung his head in defeat. "This play is doomed anyway. Do whatever you want."

Tatsuha giggled and hugged Suguru (he was still groping before) "Yay! Thanks, Su!"

Hiro shock his head. "Doomed, huh?"

"ohh, I dunno. I like the story. It's very… original. Hey Hiro-kun, what do you say I be Juliet's mother and you the evil witch?"

"What? Why do I have to be the evil witch?"

"…Because I could show Judy I want to leave her through this play."

"K! You're going to get a divo-

Not so loud! I don't want anyone to know!"

"Oh, ok…"

Hiro seemed shocked.

"Hiiiiroooooo! What are you going to be?"

"Oh, hey, Shuichi. I'm going to be the evil witch."

"Huh? Really?"

"Yeah. What are you?"

"I'm Romeo, and Ryu is Juliet!"

"I see. You sure seem happy."

Shuichi giggled. "I am happy!"

Hiro was happy too. Finally Shuichi had dumped Yuki! At first he hadn't believed it, but seeing Ryuichi and Shuichi like that… Yeah, Ryuichi was sweet and caring, and definitely better for Shuichi than Yuki. But Yuki… He would probably be broken, angry and sad. Not that he cared Yuki, but Seguchi might take this the wrong way, even though he was always trying to break them apart. And Seguchi would most likely act like an angry mother bear. And angry mother bears were scary.

"Hiiiiirrooooooo! Are you even listening!"

"Huh? Yeah, I'm listening!"

Shuichi pouted. "Then what was I talking about?"

"About…" Ryuichi was drawing a picture of him and Shuichi wearing something tiny and black. Hiro figured it were their costumes. "…Sakuma-san and the play."

Shuichi beamed. "Yeah! You were listening after all!"

Hiro grinned. "Of course I was."

K got another fit of laughter. Hiro glared at him.

"Nakano-san, have you and K-san decided on your costumes yet?"

"Hmm? Yeah, K wanted the spiky one and I'll take the one with the thigh-high boots."

"Okay. Now we only need Juliet's father. Who could we ask for that?"

"I dunno…"

There was a clunking sound. It seemed to be coming from the ceiling.

"What the heck…?"

"Waaaah! I'm scared!"

"Ryu-chan an' Kuma too no da!"

Ryuichi and Shuichi wrapped together and began crying.

"Don't worry! I'll protect everyone!"

K fired some random shots through the ceiling. The noise stopped, and a red liquid dripped trough on of the bullet holes. Ryuichi and Shuichi turned up the volume, effectively drowning out the cry of pain coming from the ceiling.

"Uh oh. I think you hit someone, K."

"Shuichi! Ryuichi! Shut up!"

The singers quickly shut up at the sight of K's gun in their faces, though they were still sniffling. The cries could now be heard clearly.

"Anyone theeeeree?"

"Yes!"

Tatsuha gasped "The girl from the closet!"

"Noriko-chan!" Ryuichi began crying again. "Noriko-chan is gonna dieieieieie! Waaaahahaaa!"

"Don't worry Ryu-chan, I wasn't hit, and neither was Sakano-kun!"

"Then what is that dripping down the ceiling, huh?"

"The body paint I just bought! And that stuff was expensive, damn it!"

Noriko continued rambling as everyone in the room was stunned into silence. Well, almost everyone.

"Noriko-chan, why are you and Sakano in the ceiling with body paint na no da? Were you painting the ventilation tubes red da? Kuma thinks you should've used normal, pink paint no da."

Everyone sighed. Tatsuha placed a bucket under the stream of body paint. Why waste good body paint?

"Ukai-san, please move on and don't disturb us any further. And… Don't talk to Seguchi about this. I'll sue you for spying!"

"Yeah yeah, don't worry."

The clunking sounds moved away to the next room.

"What were they doing in the ceiling anyway?"

"Ryu-chan doesn't know, Shu."

I really don't like this chapter. I hate it, actually. Anyway, I hope the next will be better. Man it took me ages to write this.

Thanks for reviewing, Yukishiro Tomoe-chan and tinystarkitten!