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20 Minute Intermission

As the curtain came down Hiei passed out and flopped onto the stage, ran to him.

"Hiei! please say something" He pulled Hiei into his arms, a small tear staring to fall from his eye. Yukina ran on stage and lead Kurama away. Yusuke was left standing alone.

"What the hell is going on?" he thought to himself. "Why was Botan acting so strange? I mean she kissed Kurama!" The memory of his one true love lip locked with someone else burned in his mind. He clenched his fist and ran off to his dressing room. Moments later the theater filled with loud, angry, smashing sounds. .

Meanwhile Botan had locked herself in her own dressing room and was collapsed on the floor in tears. Shizuru was knocking on her door begging for Botan to let her in. "Please let me help you, Kid" She pounded and pounded on the door but all she could hear was Botan weeping. She could make out little shouts like "this is all my fault." And "I've lost him." Shizuru tried her hardest to comfort Botan through the door, but to no avail. So she did the only thing she could do. She pulled out a cigarette and sat in front of the door. "She has to come out eventually." She thought to herself as she found her lighter. "I just have to make this right."

After punching most of the free space on the walls of his dressing room, Yusuke stopped to catch his breath. "What am I doing? I shouldn't just waist my energy like this. I need to do my job and start doing some detective work." He stepped out of his now wrecked dressing room, and heading for the green room, turned infirmary. Once there he found Juliet lying on a small sofa he started walking towards her hoping that she might know something. He placed a hand on her shoulder and lightly tried to shake her awake.

"It won't work." A small voice form the other side of the room said. Yusuke turned to see Yukina sitting by another sofa. She was holding her hands over Jin's sword wound, they were glowing a gentle purple as she focused on healing him. "She feel into a coma from pure shock during the last act and she hasn't woken up since." She put down her hands and turned to face Yusuke." I've done all I can but now all we can do is wait for her to wake up on her own."

"That's fine," Yusuke said pulling up a seat next to Yukina, "can we talk for a minute?" He said smiling gently at her. She smiled at him, and sweetly but hesitantly nodded. "Good because I wanted to talk to you about Botan." Yukina froze she was sure he wanted to talk to her about the second act of the play, but Shizuru, Botan, and even Keiko, once they filled her in on the plan, made her promise she wouldn't tell any of the boys especially not Yusuke. She quickly stood up and crossed over to Juliet.

"What do you want to know?" She asked nervously.

"Doesn't she seem to be acting a little I don't know…odd to you?" Yusuke watched as the nervous ice maiden adjust the blankets around Juliet.

"Well…" Yukina said slowly, placing a cold towel on Juliet's forehead. "Love makes people act a little odd." Yusuke raised an eyebrow at this.

"Love?" Yusuke asked "Who does she love" he stood up and crossed the room so he was standing next to Yukina, her eyes shifted between him and Juliet. She knew she couldn't say anything to him, she promised Botan, and the others. Her heart was racing she had to tell him something "Yukina!" Yusuke said a little more forcefully, "Please tell me who does she love?"

"It's Kurama!" Yukina blurted, she gasped and covered her mouth. The room filled with silence Yukina felt like she was going to faint. She knew she shouldn't have lied to her friend like that, but now the only way to fix it would breaking her promise to Botan, all she could do was sit back down and try to catch her breath.

Yusuke stood there shocked "Where is she?" he asked Yukina looked up at him he could see tears forming in her eyes. He didn't want to cause her anymore pain. Hiei would kill him if he knew what he was putting his little sister through right now. "Never mind" he said trying to make his tone lighter. "Yukina thank you for all your help, you really are a true friend." He left the green room thinking that he had just helped Yukina feel better, but his words only caused her to collapse in a fit of tears. Soon there was a pile of gemstones at the foot of her chair.

After talking with Yukina he decided to talk to Kurama he knew there was no way that he felt the same way about Botan. But then he started remembering the kiss. " He didn't seem to mind when she stroked his neck." He started mumbling to himself as he made his way to the fox's dressing room. "In fact he looked pretty damn happy when she jumped into his arms. The bastard! This was his plane all along to steal my Botan before I could even make her mine! I'll strangle the jackass's neck with his own rose whip!" By now he was sprinting towards the redhead's dressing room. He was running on pure rage at this point, all he wanted to do was punch out the stupid fox. Finally he reached the dressing room, he went to open the door but found it locked. He banged on the door "Let me in you dumb bastard!" There was a thug coming from inside the room.

"Hang on a moment!" He heard Kurama say breathlessly he heard muffled voices coming from within and almost thought he heard a growl. Suddenly the door flew open and Kurama was there looking flushed. His hair was messed up and his clothes were all crocked. "Can I help you Yu-" He couldn't finish his sentence before Yusuke was pinning him to the floor. Yusuke's fist hovered above Kurama's face, threatening to fall at any minutes. Yusuke's eyes were full of hurt and rage Kurama just stared at him in confusion. "What are you doing?"

"Shut up!" Yusuke yelled. "I don't want to have to do this but you had it coming. What kind of friend steals another man's girl?" Kurama's eyes widened and he started laughing. Yusuke let go of the fox and just stared at him with confusion. "What are you laughing at?"

"Ye hem" Yusuke heard a loud cough coming from the opposite side of the room he looked up and nearly fainted. There was Hiei completely naked and strapped to the day bed. He had a look of pure hatred mixed with extreme embarrassment. " You really think Kurama is interested in girls?" Hiei asked sarcastically as he broke free of the loosely tied scarves around his wrists. He crossed the room and started to put his close back on "Honestly where is you head detective?"

"But Yukina said Botan was in love with Kurama?" Yusuke said dumb struck, after all he had just seen more of Hiei then he had EVER hoped to see.

At the mention of his sister Hiei's ears pricked up, he walked quickly to over to Yusuke. "What did you do to my sister?" He asked angrily. Yusuke couldn't help but notice Hiei was still naked, he tried to back away but Hiei kept standing WAY TO CLOSE to him.

"Nothing I just talk to her, and she said Botan was acting wired because she was in love with Kurama" Yusuke was straining not to look down at the demon. Kurama and Hiei looked at each other before laughing again.

"Yusuke" Kurama said stifling a giggle. "Botan doesn't love me, she knows that I'm in love with Hiei." He leaned over and grabbed Hiei's hand and gave it a gentle squeeze. Hiei looked up at Kurama and went back to putting his pants back on.

"Then what was the deal with the kiss?" Yusuke asked feeling dumber by the second.

"Hn idiot." Hiei scoffed as he looked for his shirt. "She was obviously trying to get you jealous." Yusuke just stared of into to space his mind was racing with so many questions that only Botan could answer. He stood up to leave but before he could reach the door Yukina burst in.

"Everyone come quick!" he yelled Hiei rushed to her side as he saw a gem fall from her sleeve.

"What's going on?" they asked

"It's Juliet!" she said through teary eyes Hiei reached out and put a hand on her shoulder she was so upset she didn't notice, "Intermission is almost over and she hasn't come out of her coma."

"Well that doesn't seem so bad" Kurama said coming on the other side of Yukina and whipping away some tears, "one of us can just take her place."

Yukina shook her head. "It's not that simple her heart it's almost stopped beating completely." At this the gang all rushed down to the green room. Everyone was already there they were standing around Juliet's bed watching the director cough and wheeze as her breathing grew shallow. "I've tried everything," Yukina cried. "But nothing is working!" Yusuke noticed that Botan was standing over her trying to use her healing powers but they weren't working, he couldn't help notice that she had remnants of tears on her cheek. He desperately wanted to hold her and talk to her, but he knew he now was not the time or place.

"Oh what can we do?" Kieko asked nervously. "We can't just let her die!" Just then there was a huge gust of wind coming from the bed behind them. They all turned to see Jin floating in the air.

"Hey what did I miss?" He said cheerily. His smile dropt when he saw Juliet lying unconscious. "OH NO! What did you do to her? He landed and pushed everyone out of the way as he ran to her side and took her in his arms. "Please don't leave me like this, there's so much I haven't said to you! I…. I…I love you Juliet, and I always will just please don't leave!" Then he placed a soft kiss on Juliet's lips. Her eyes flitted open and her breathing regained its normal rhythm.

"Jin" she murmured "do you really mean that?"

"Yes I do," he said taking her hand "will you be mine?"

Juliet took his hand and smiled up at him "of course I will…but fist" she sprung up and looked over the crowed before her "we have a show to finish now go my actors! Fix this train wreck of a play! Or die trying!" and with that she and ran out of the room and on to the stage.

Jin smiled, "That's my girl!" and flew after her.

One by one they filed out of the green room and prepared for act 3 soon only Yusuke and Botan were left in the room. He needed to talk to her and now was as good a time as ever he crossed the room to her and grabbed her hand. "Botan can we talk?" she looked shocked and a little scared "Please I just want to talk to you."

"Yusuke I…." her voice trailed off and tears filled her eyes. "I just can't do this I've hurt to many already. You should just forget anything ever happened" and with that she ran of to her dressing room crying all the way. 5 minutes later Kurama came looking for Yusuke and found him sitting on the sofa. He looked up and meet Kurama's gaze his eyes wet with tears.

"I've lost her" was all Yusuke could mange to say.

End 20 minutes intermission

Next Time

Act three of the play starts and Paris is finally introduce, but like most people in this play he has an alternative motive that goes far beyond a simple play. (Insert dramatic music here)