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I am so SORRY! It has taken forever to update… I can't believe it myself. So I am so incredibly sorry… I hope that this chapter is worth it… :s

Scene 4 (end flashback)

Set in Shigure's house during the day)

Shigure: Oh Kyo kun! Kyonkininchi! Where are you…?

(Shigure looks in unlikely places, such as the umbrella stand)

Oh! Come on Kyo kun! I only want to try it on you (muttered to himself) and take photographic evidence and use them to illustrate my latest book: "When straight men cross-dress…"

(Shigure fails to find him)

Stupid Kyo kun… won't let me have any fun…

(Looks up to see Hatori in the doorway)

(Brightly) Tori-san! What on Earth are you doing here? Not that it is unpleasant to have you turn up so suddenly-

Hatori: Shut up with your babbling. I have a headache.

Shigure: (mock upset) Ah Tori-san you are too cruel… one of these days I might just cave under all of the insults you fling at me. I might try and thrust chopsticks through my bellybutton or-

Hatori: (unconcerned) Is Tohru-kun home?

Shigure: (snaps back to normal) I am afraid not. (Motions for Hatori to come in) She is out with Kyo-kun doing whatever young fiancés do.

(They make their way to the kitchen)

Hatori: So it is true then? Kyo-kun asked her to marry him?

Shigure (delightedly) Yes! Oh isn't it wonderful!

Hatori (stares at the kitchen in disbelief)

(Shigure, seeing where Hatori is staring, turns to look at his kitchen.)

Shigure: My… my…my…

(Yuki emerges from amongst the wreckage to see Shigure on his knees crying over a lemon zester abandoned on the floor, and Hatori standing shell-shocked in the doorway.)

Yuki: I wanted to make a cake… but err…

Shigure: (accusingly) So you tear my house to pieces?

Yuki: (defensively) Last time I looked, the Kitchen wasn't the whole house.

Shigure: Yes, but it is the heart of the house, so destroying the Kitchen is like ripping the heart out of my house, therefore destroying the house.

(Yuki is clearly getting annoyed)

Hatori: Why would you want to bake a cake anyway?

Yuki (thankful for the different direction in conversation) It is for Honda-san... (as an after thought) and that idiot.

Shigure: (wailing) Then why don't you just buy a cake instead of going to all of this trouble? My house! My beautiful house…

Yuki: I have been enhancing my cooking skills for a long time now and I thought that I would try something a bit more complex… but I don't know where Honda-san keeps the mixing bowls… or the ingredients…

(Yuki's voice trails off as he looks helplessly around the mess of a kitchen.)

Hatori: (approvingly) That is very kind of you Yuki-kun. (Turns to Shigure) It would mean more to Tohru kun if Yuki kun made the cake instead of buying one.

Shigure: (to himself) It would mean more to my house and me if he didn't… the oven… (realization hits him) Oh my god the flames!

Hatori: (suspiciously) What was that?

Shigure: (now terrified at the prospect of Yuki using the oven) Nothing…

(To distract himself, Shigure progresses to make tea, dancing around the frantic Yuki.)

(Shigure and Hatori settle down to drink the tea. After some convincing, Yuki joins them.)

Shigure: So, Tori san, are you here to congratulate the happy couple?

Hatori: Yes… but more than anything else, I wanted to know if what Ayame has told me was true…

Shigure: Ahh yes, Ayya… you do have to question pretty much everything he say's…

Yuki: What has that idiot brother of mine said now?

Hatori: Well, from what I could understand, something along the lines of "Yuki kun and Kyo kun have set aside their differences and are now blood brothers, if only in name…"

Yuki: …?

Shigure: Oh I know what he means! (leans in towards Hatori, who instinctively backs away) Kyo kun asked Yuki kun to be his best man!

Hatori: (shocked) Well that is a surprise…

Shigure: Ahh, trust Tori san to make the biggest, most obvious understatement of the century!

Yuki: (quietly) It's true…trust me it was as big a shock to me as to anyone else in the room.

Hatori: I don't know what to say -

Shigure: Say that you enjoy my tea more than Tohru kun's!

Hatori: (not even surprised by the change in topic) I could never say such a thing… (Takes a sip of tea and winces)

Shigure: (mock upset) Oh Tori san! There you go again! Now where are those chopsticks…?

(Hatori shrugs, clearly unconcerned)

Yuki: Honda san and Kyo are out at the moment. They should be back soon, if you want to stay and congratulate them.

Hatori: Yes, I think I will… do you need any help with that cake? What type is it?

(Shigure chokes on his tea)

Yuki: Creaming method I think… but I think I need your help sensei…

Shigure: (still coughing and spluttering) W-w-what…?

Yuki: (sighs in resignation) If you must know, Hatori san has been my sensei… I have been taking cooking lessons from him for a long time now.

Shigure…

Hatori: It's true. (To Yuki) You have improved greatly over the last few months in particular.

(Shigure launches into hysterical laughter. He is ignore by both Hatori and Yuki)

Yuki: I'll just find the recipe book… it should be here somewhere… (Looks desperately at the mess in the kitchen)

Hatori: Hmm… I think we should start by clearing this lot up first…

(Yuki and Hatori go about putting things away. Shigure is still laughing.)

Shigure: (in fits of hysterics) Cooking! (Doubles over) Oh if only Ayya were here…

Scene 4: end

So there you have it… just a little comic relief from the whole "I love you!… I love you too!" from the previous scene. I would so love it if Yuki and Hatori opened up their own bakery or something! HA! That would just be too good…" stares into the distance, drooling"

Ahem…

I know I probably don't deserve them… but please… review! Please…? Ducks flying objects

"sweatdrops" Okay okay... i am sorry... O.o