EDIT: So, here's another chapter. There's only one more after this that needs to be edited. I hope this is making it easier to read.

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Here's the next chapter. There should only be about, maybe, two or three more chapters of this confusing stuff. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt or any of Shakespeare's works. Conversations and quotes used from his works are purely NOT mine and only being used for the story.

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Chapter 9: Disbelief

Suddenly I was walking next Naru in the dark, our hands entwined together. We were close to a clearing. Not the one Monk, Ayako, Masako and Yasu had been in earlier. Through the trees I could see Ayako sleeping on a bed of flowers. Monk was lying next to her. He moved the hair out of her face, brushing her eyelids with the flower. Without even asking I knew Naru couldn't see them.

We stepped through the trees and into the clearing when Naru finally spoke. "My love, you look like you're about to faint, and to tell you the truth, I've gotten us lost," he said, taking both of my hands, "We'll take a rest, if you think it's a good idea, and wait until the sun rises."

I smiled up at him. "Let's do that. You find something sleep on. I'm going to sleep over here," I told him, looking around at this side of the clearing. Tall grass grew around us.

"We can both sleep in the grass together. We'll have one heart, one bed, two bodies, and one faithful vow," he tried with a suggestive grin and wiggle of his eyebrows.

I shook my head. That was not going to happen. Not in the woods anyway. "No, Oliver. Please sleep a little farther away. Don't sleep so close to me," I told him, pushing him away.

"Oh, I didn't mean anything bad when I said that. I just meant that our hearts are joined, so we can almost think of them as one heart. Our two bodies are linked together by the promises we've made to each other, so there are two bodies and one faithful vow. So let me sleep next to you. If I lie next to you, I won't lie to you, I'll be faithful and respect you," he told me earnestly.

I shook my head with a laugh. "You've got a way with words, but I didn't mean to imply that you were a liar. But please, darling, sleep a little farther away so we can behave properly. It's only proper for a well-behaved bachelor and a well-behaved girl to be physically separated like this. Stay away for now, and good night. I hope your love for me remains this strong for your entire life!"

Naru sighed. "Amen to that. I hope my life ends before my loyalty to you does!" he exclaimed, walking to the other side of the clearing, "I'll sleep over here then. Sleep well!"

I smiled at him, sitting lightly on the ground near a tree, "You sleep well too." My character's problem with sleeping near each other seemed kind of pointless to me, but I reminded myself that I wasn't the one running the show.

We both leaned against our respective trees. Instantly, my eyelids dropped and my body relaxed. Our breathing slowed. I knew that Naru was truly asleep, but I fought against the hypnotic sleep, triumphing over it. There were soft footsteps in the grass soon after Naru had drifted off. I sat there and listened to a long winded speech by Madoka, cracking my eyes open just enough to see Madoka rub the flower across Naru's eyes.

That flower gave me a horrible feeling.

She fluttered out of the clearing only to be replaced by a gasping Yasu and Masako. They didn't seem to realize we were here. "Yasuhara, stop! …even if only to kill me," Masako gasped, coming to a stop. She bent over with her hands on her knees.

"I keep telling you, leave me alone! Stop following me around," Yasu told her angrily, backing up until he was several yards away from her.

Masako looked up quickly, fear flashing in her eyes. "You're going to leave me alone in the dark? Please don't," she nearly pleaded.

"Stay here at your own risk. I'm going on alone," Yasu said with a sneer before running off past Naru.

Masako made a sound in her throat like she was about to cry. "I'm tired of this stupid chase. The more I pray, the less I get out of it. Mai is lucky because she has beautiful eyes. How did her eyes get so bright? Obviously not from crying. If that were the case, I would have eyes just as bright as hers. No, I'm as ugly as a bear, since animals that see me run away in terror. So it's no surprise that Yasu runs away from me as if I were a monster. What mirror made me think I could compete with Mai's eyes?" she asked no one with a pitying sigh, dropping her head.

"Is that Oliver?" she wondered aloud, her eyes finally finding him in the grass, "Is he dead or maybe just sleeping. I don't see any blood or injuries so…" She dropped down beside him, shaking his shoulder lightly. "Oliver, if you're alive then wake up."

Naru's breathe hitched. His eyes grew wide as they found Masako. "I'd even run through fire if you told me to, Masako! I feel like Mother Nature has allowed me to see into your heart, as if by magic. Where is Yasu? Oh, I'd kill him if I could!" Naru declared, jumping to his feet.

Had Naru lost his mind?! What was this sudden jump of love from me to Masako?! Was this really how the play progressed or was Stephanie just having her fun with us? I didn't know if I really wanted to know.

"Don't say that, Oliver. Why do you even care that he loves Mai? What does it matter? Mai still loves you, so be happy," Masako tried to reason, standing and stepping away from Naru's searching glare.

Naru snorted in disgust. "Happy with Mai? No. I regret all the time that I wasted with her. I don't love Mai. I love you, Masako," he said. Even though I knew it was just his character's lines it still hurt to hear them. "Who wouldn't love a dove more than a crow? A man's desires are influenced by his logical mind, and it's logical that you're more worthy of love than Mai is. My sense of reason has not been mature until now. My logic now has more control over my desires, and it's telling me to look into your eyes, where I see every love story ever told."

Masako shook her head adamantly, anger and sorrow coating her next words. "Why does everyone always make fun of me? What have I done to deserve this kind of treatment from you? Isn't it enough that I'll never be pretty for Yasu to look at me? Do you have to make fun of me faults too? I thought you were much kinder than this. How awful that a lady who's already been rejected by one man should be treated horribly by another one!" she shouted at him before running off.

Naru was stunned for a second. "She didn't see Mai." He looked over at me quickly. "Mai, keep sleeping, and don't come near me ever again! People always hate the mistakes they made in the past more than anyone else. Mai, you're the mistake I used to make, and so hate you more than anyone else does." He turned away from me, following after Maskao. "I'll use all my talents and efforts to serve Masako and bring her honor."

I was finally able to move. I 'woke' with a start, clutching at the front of my dress. Despited the fact I knew it was a play, my heart still ached under the thin fabric. "Help me, Oliver! Get this snake off of my chest. Oh, my God! What a terrible dream I just had! Olive, I'm shaking with fear. I thought a snake was eating my heart while you sat smiling and watching." When Naru didn't answer I looked around in confusion. This acting thing was starting to really confuse me. "Oliver! What, is he gone? Oliver! Is he out of earshot? Gone? No answer? Where are you? Say something if you can hear me. Say something, please! I'm almost fainting." I stood and pretended to faint. Again, no answer. "Nothing? I guess I'll just have find you."

I ran and ran. At one point I ran past the clearing where Ayako slept. I slowed to a stop, listening to the conversation of the six person acting group that I'd passed earlier that day. I leaned around the tree, watching the chaos and Madoka having a good laugh in a tree.

The boy with shocking orange hair had just walked back in from the woods. He was speaking one of his lines for their play. "'If I were handsome, my lovely Thisbe, I would still want only you,'" he said, his head not the head of a man, but the head of a donkey now.

Gene stared wide-eyed at the sight of him. "Help! It's a monster! We're being haunted. Run, everyone, run!" he cried, scrambling away from the man. Oh, how ironic such a statement was for him.

"I'll follow you. I'll make you run around in circles, through bushes and woods and thorns. Maybe I'll take the shape of a horse and other times I'll take the shape of a hound or a pig or a headless bear! Sometimes I'll turn into fire! And I'll neigh like a horse and bark like a hound and grunt like a pig and roar like a bear and burn like a fire at every turn," Madoka said with a sadistic giggle.

"Why are they running away? This is just a joke to scare me, right?" the man wondered to himself, confused.

"Brian, you've changed! What have you got on your head?" a large man with a severe face shouted.

"What do you think I've got on my head? You know, you're kind of acting like an ass?" the red-head, Brian, asked not knowing how ironic that statement truly was.

Gene stepped in front of the other men and Jessica. "God bless you, Brian. You've been changed," Gene said earnestly.

Finally, they all ran past me and I followed after them. Brian stayed behind in the clearing with a waking Ayako. After a while of running, I changed direction. I passed by another clearing where Madoka was relaying her story of how Ayako was now in love with a donkey to Monk. She jumped around him excitedly.

Not wanting to hear any more long monologues that Madoka's character seemed to love, I kept moving. There was a noise beside me. I whipped my head around and found Naru stumbling out of the bushes. He was following a barely worn path. I followed after him.

He and Masako ripped through the trees into the clearing where Monk and Madoka stood. Yasuhara leaned against a tree, fast asleep. I only had enough time to see Monk straightening up with the flower clutched in his hand before Naru's line to Masako broke through my thoughts.

"Why do you think I'm making fun of you when I tell you I love you? People don't cry when they mock someone," Naru said earnestly, "Look, when I swear that I love you, I cry, and when someone cries while he's making a promise, he's usually telling the truth. How can you think I'm making fun of you, when my tears prove that I'm sincere?"

Masako glared angrily at him. "You get trickier and trickier. You've made the same promises to me and to Mai. They can't both be true! You're lying to both of us! The promises you're making to me belong to Mai. Are you just going to leave her? If you weighed the promises you made to me against the promises you made to her, they'd come out the same. They both weigh nothing. They're lies," she spat at him.

"I wasn't thinking clearly when I made those promises to her," he said, shaking his head.

Masako shook her own head in disbelief. "And you're not thinking clearly now either."

"Yasu loves her, but not you," Naru tried to reason. Only if he knew how wrong he truly was now.

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There you have it. Hopefully this chapter wasn't too confusing. The next one will be up soon. Review please :D

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Give me hooooonnnoooorrrrr *grabs for honor*

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. I just saw the word honor earlier on in the text and had to say something :P So, I'm starting to realize how much of a mistake this was, haha. I don't regret it though because this brought out a lot of what I needed in my story :P