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The next day was hectic. Keigo and Mizuiro painting props, Chad moving them, everyone else practicing scenes, and Ishida fitting people.

Right, fitting. Ishida was moving swiftly with measuring tape, a notepad, and a pen that he kept in his mouth often.

"Skin tone, tan, skin all around, horrible. Hair, a horrible orange, eyes, disgusting brown. Sizes are…" Ishida said softly to himself. Ichigo, however, heard everything.

"Hey! What's with you criticizing me?" Ichigo snorted.

"You can't have colors that don't go with your face and skintone. Your face however…" Ishida stopped and looked up from his notepad. "Can kill anything."

Ichigo scowled and tossed the Quincy off the stage. Ishida got up and straiten his glasses muttering something about death gods.

Ishida walked back up on stage was picked up this measure tape and stuck a new pen between his lips. He turned to the figure, "Okay, let's hurry with this…" Ishida's voice faded when he came face to… chest with Orihime. He flushed furiously and backed up. 'That's right, I have to measure girls.' Ishida mentally smacked his forehead.

"OH! YOU SHOULD LET ME DO IT FOR HIME" Chizuru's voice rang out as she lunged for Orihime only to have her face come in contact with Tatsuki's foot.

"Have I ever told you that you were freaky?" Tatsuki asked flatly.

Ishida pretend to not notice the girls and he only wished Chizuru would measure for him. He shook his head to clear his thought and place his arms around Orihime to get the measuring tape around her. As he was about to close in the tape at her neck with trembling hands, a voice called him.

"Ishida."

Ishida turned to his teacher, "H-hai?"

"I want you to go check out the fabric we have in the back to see if you can work with them. I'll keep measuring for you to speed this up, I need the kids to practice their lines as soon as possible."

Ishida sighed in relief and nodded, walking off to the back.

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"Alright kids, we need to get started." The teacher said loudly after she was done measuring the girls. "We'll do act one today. I want you guys to get an idea of what the dancing scene will be like. We'll be learning the Waltz."

Murmurs, sighs, groans and giggles were heard. Ichigo continuously banged his head against the chair in front of him, knowing that he HAD to learn it.

"Who would like to volunteer to set an example?"

"Hey, Keigo. That girl down there looks pretty hot." Mizuiro whispered to his friend pointing at a random seat.

"HUH? WHERE? Hey… that's no girl. That's Chad!" The boy had jumped out of his seat.

"Ah, Keigo. Thank you. C'mon down."

"WHAT?" Keigo yelled loudly. Mizuiro grinned to himself.

"Left foot step forward. Right foot step forward. Left foot step down. Right foot step forward. Left foot step forward. Right foot step down." The teacher instructed and she showed the class who snickered to keep themselves from bursting out loud laughing.

"Alright, Kuchiki and Kurosaki!" the teacher yelled out when she was done dragging Keigo around. "Come down here" She pointed at the center of the stage. "Who wants and extra part?"

A few students jumped off their seats, females dragging their boyfriends and Chizuru dragging down Orihime.

"Sorry Chizuru, we're trying to keep it male-female."

"That's just sexist!" she complained.

"We're lacking boys." The teacher said when she saw the extra females standing all by themselves. "Ishida, Mizuiro, and everyone else, come down here!"

"What?" Ishida half yelled, his glasses falling off his nose.

"Get down here! You can partner up with Inoue."

Ishida gulped, "N-no thanks."

"You're our last male, get down here!"

"I'm sure you can loose a couple." Ishida laughed nervously to his teacher. There was no way he's Waltzing.

"Aww. But Uryuu-kun! I want to dance!"

"You can dance with me, Hime!" Chizuru went flying at Orihime.

"I said male-female." The teacher stated again. Chizuru groaned. Ishida was sweating beads.

"Will you stop delaying us and just dance? It's not like I want to either." Ichigo yelled at the Quincy.

"S-shut up!"

"C'mon Uryuu-kun!" Orihime grab his arm and dragged him down.

"H-hey!"

"Alright! You saw how I did it! Now repeat!" The teacher yelled on stage. "Left foot forward, right foot forward. Left-"

Not even two steps and students where colliding into each other. Ishida and Ichigo bumped shoulders, causing Ichigo to tug Rukia towards him, which made him crash into Ishida, who came colliding down on Orihime, who fell on Tatsuki and knock down Mizuiro, and so the domino-effect goes.

The teacher smacked her forehead, sighed and shook her head.

"Rukia… You're lucky you're small." Ichigo groaned at the body on him, still having trouble breathing.

"GET OF BEFORE YOU KILL MY LUNGS KUROSAKI!" Ishida yelled.

"YOUR LUNGS? WHAT ABOUT MINE?" Tatsuki shriek from the bottom of the pile. "I HAVE ABOUT FOUR PEOPLE ON ME. NOW GET OFF!"

Everyone looked down at her and didn't move.

"Arge! I said get off!" With that, Tatsuki stood up fiercely, knocking everyone on her off.

"Oi…" Rukia rubbed her head.

The teacher heaved a sigh. "We'll work on the dance scene later on. Just… practice your lines…"

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Incoming on the next chapter: Rukia and Ichigo get to the kissing scene. Oh no!