The spotlight in the center of the stage went out suddenly and screams were suddenly choked by the black lights that turned on immeadiately afterward and the girl from barely a few moments ago, was now seen, rather far from where she had stood in the center, she looked frozen in time, standing in what seemed almost like a ballet pose. That is, if it weren't for the two tigers that stood so eerily still as they were held by leashes from other people dressed in similar outfits, although theirs were a dark grey color that stood out thanks to the black light.

Then, if the people hadn't been staring so intently, enraptured by the stillness of the group, they would have never figured out how the girl had moved so quickly, for in barely a few seconds she was running off from the tigers which chased after her, since the people holding them had let go.

She did several flips before landing between two podiums, which the tigers then stepped onto, and from behind her she pulled out two large white sheets and covered the tigers with them. The basic shape of the large cats was easily seen, and people began to wonder what the purpose of the sheets was for, it was then that the sheets suddenly flew up releasing dozens of white doves into the air, and revealing that the tigers had disappeared. When the doves had cleared, the podiums were gone and next to the girl dressed in orange, was Suicide.

"Hello to all of you here today." he began, speaking into his head microphone, "Welcome to the Circus de Filiano dos Oddities, as my assistant, Arendi, has already warned you, this is not a show for the weak, so those who frighten easily, are highly advised to have a friend recount the events to them for their own good." he paused, looking into the faces of the audience, "Well, as often as people say that the best should be saved for last, I disagree, and so the best is first." the black lights dimmed slightly, darkening the area, "I present, the one, the only, Blades of Death Duo!" and the lights went out completely only to turn on dimly again, revealing a missing Suicide and Arendi, and showing an empty open space.

People wondered about how this was the best show they had, when suddenly the room was brightened by fireworks and from the area of the fireworks a boy on a skateboard jumped out, the boy was none other than Shiki, while still in air he did a 360 flip and removed his skate board from underneath him, only to land safely on the ground.

He didn't look at the audience, but instead looked warily about him, waiting for something, and coming so quietly from behind him that even the audience didn't notice until he was right behind, was Murder, even on the dirt that made the ground that they performed on, he could travel gracefully and silently in his skates.

Murder didn't pay his audience any more attention than Shiki did, but instead pulled from the sleeve of his green shirt, a knife, at this many in the audience gasped, especially since immeadiately after he pulled it out, he struck it into Shiki's shoulder. Or it would have struck Shiki's shoulder, if not for the fact that he turned around and blocked it with his skateboard before its circuit could be completed.

Murder merely smirked before roughly pulling the blade out of the skateboard, taking out a bit of it, which made Shiki's eyes widen, that obviously had not been in the program.

Yet he quickly shifted from his shock and continued with the show. The crowd was placed into a stunned and terrified silence, Shiki soon had pulled out his own knife and he and Murder attempted to almost kill each other with the weapons, the end of their battle ended with the both of them having done flips and landing safely on the ground, their knives clashing and darkness once more consumed them.

The lights quickly turned back on and now Suicide stood between Murder and Shiki, he was smiling at the tremendous applause the duo had received,

"Yes people, this is Shiki, and our newest member, having just made his debut performance, Murder." Suicide said, introducing the two young boys, who merely bowed to the audience, still panting from their performance, "Now get out of here nimrods, be sure not to kill yourselves." and the two glided out of the tent to allow the other performances to be performed of course.



"That was awesome!"

That was what most people were saying as they exited the circus, the show was over and the circus was closing for the night, several people bought tickets for tomorrow night's show or for their friends, and most everyone had a couple of things to say about the Blades of Death Duo.

Hanataro and the Host Club walked along the caravan grounds, apparently looking for Suicide, Jack was walking on her hands, this wasn't all that strange on the grounds though, most people were doing as such, or cart wheeling as well as using several forms of walking around to get to their destinations. Several of the people waved at Hanataro and Jack, their faces illuminated by the dozens of fires and lanterns that were lit. Although, for Hanataro, old habits were still very hard to kick and he wore his medicine mask, fitting in very much with the crowd, by not only his long hair, but the mask as well.

"Yamato-san!" Arendi came up to the group, she still wore the same shade of bright orange, although now it was in a t-shirt and pants combo, showing off her arms which seemed somewhat like twigs that could easily snap.

"Ah, Arendi, hello." Hanataro greeted her, now that she was closer; it was rather easy to see that she was younger than she had looked on stage, perhaps fourteen or so.

"My dear lord of lineage fine, what has brought upon visit so divine?" apparently she had a problem with making each of her sentences rhyme,

"Well, Shiki invited us, where is that twat anyway?" he asked, Arendi shrugged her shoulders, but still pointed off in some direction, only to end up pointing at Suicide's chest.

"Hello there Arendi, oh hello Hanataro, Jack, who is not paying attention, and people whose names I do not know." he said, smiling at the group, "Is there something you need?"

"Yeah, where's the twat?" Hanataro asked once more,

"I honestly have no idea, you could ask Murder, he's in his dressing room." and with that Suicide pulled Arendi off to the side and they went and talked about something as they walked, making them seem very much like a couple, although it would be illegal, seeing how Suicide was twenty five.

"Let's go see Mu-chan!" Jack suddenly shouted and, apparently knowing the way, went off in some direction, leading the group to one of the caravans, where she opened the door.

There in the room, stood Murder, but he had bandages loosely wrapped around his upper body, revealing, very slightly, a feminine figure, and it turned out he was even wearing a sports bra, according to the straps that revealed themselves from underneath the bandages.

"Shit." was the first thing that came out of Murder's mouth, in an obviously female voice,

"Hi his Mu-chan!" Jack shouted, pretty much the only one, who was not in shock, because obviously, she had already known,

Hanataro turned around, "Leave." was all he said and the male host members agreed, leaving Jack, himself, and Haruhi with Murder.



"Well, there goes six months of hiding this down the drain." Murder said, losing any use of the old way of speaking she once had, she sighed and flopped down onto the bed that could barely fit in her room.

"Mu-chan has pretty hairs." Jack suddenly said walking on over to Murder and petting her blonde hair,

"Um thanks Jack." Murder replied, but then she turned to Haruhi, "Why are you two still here?" she asked, looking at both Hanataro and Haruhi.

"No need to worry, your female body does not interest me, and Haruhi is actually a girl so it doesn't matter." Hanataro answered,

"So you really are gay." Murder remarked,

"Yes." Hanataro replied, "What, you feel awkward around me or something?" he asked,

"Nah, my brother's gay too, I was just wondering if you knew I was a girl like she did?" Murder inquired gesturing at Jack who had now apparently found some hair bands and a brush and was busy doing something with Murder's hair.

"I have to admit I wasn't sure, I mean you really are handsome, but I couldn't really say so in my head and normally I'm able to decide whether a guy is handsome or not easily." he explained,

"So you knew I was actually a girl?" Haruhi asked,

"No, because I wouldn't really consider you either way since you're not my type and would therefore not pay much attention to you." Hanataro admitted,

"That sure is a lovely thing to say to your friend, bastard." Murder said, muttering the last word in English, thinking he wouldn't understand her.

"First off, my mom's from America, of course I know English, and secondly, in most rich schools like ours they make the students take a foreign language course and I took English since I already know it." Hanataro told her all in English, although Haruhi didn't understand what was being said since she was taking French with the twins.

"Oh." Murder said, somewhat embarrassed for some reason she couldn't really grasp,

"There, Jack-chan is dones!" Jack exclaimed backing up a little to admire her work; Murder took the mirror that Jack handed her so she could see what had been done to her hair. Jack had taken some of it from both sides of her head and tied it into one ponytail that ran down her back, while somehow being able to tease the rest of it into a natural seeming wavy state.

Murder stared at the mirror, her greenish bangs still covered her forehead, Jack hadn't bothered with those, Murder wondered if it was because she had seen what lay beneath the bangs, or just because she thought it looked better this way. "This is how my brother would do it for me." she remarked suddenly, running a hand through her hair which was actually naturally wavy, but she just normally straightened it to make it seem more guyish.

"Mu-chan shouldn't straighten her hairs so much, they'll die like that." Jack told her, upset with how badly the long, beautiful hair was treated, "Beside, Jack-chan thinks Mu-chan looks better this ways, right Hana-chan, Haha-chan."

"I have to admit, you look more like your actual gender this way." Hanataro said, admiring his friend's excellent work,

"I don't really like to make my like this, reminds me a lot of Damon." Murder said, lying down on her bed,



"I suppose he's your brother." he stated,

"I suppose your correct, now can we stop prying into my personal life?" she asked, while grabbing a random shirt and tightened the bandages around her chest until it was flat and pulled the shirt over her head, she then released her hair from its ponytail, at which Jack looked thoroughly upset and yelled at Murder for ruining her masterpiece, but she ignored the small girl and set to work straightening her hair, despite Jack's protests of how the hair was screaming in pain.

Hanataro and Haruhi stood beside the door and watched as Jack cried and had a tantrum about how evil it was to kill the hair like this, Murder completely ignored her. Haruhi wondered why Murder spoke strangely when she acted like a guy, and Hanataro wondered if the others were still around or if they had left without them.

"Is thou ready to leave?" Murder asked, her hair straightened and looking rather guyish, and her voice now sounding very much like a male's, Hanataro and Haruhi nodded their heads and they all left the caravan, with Jack perched on Hanataro's shoulders.

The Host members asked questions, but none were answered, mostly because Jack told them that if they kept asking, she would scream, she ended up screaming, and they ended up agreeing not to, just to shut her up.

They soon after left, not really getting able to see Suicide, but Hanataro said it was better like this, he couldn't really stand Suicide for too long anyway, and neither could he stand Hanataro.