The a few day the four princess were called down to the Home EC. room to try on the new princess costumes- they had been supposed to go in three days earlier, but Natasho-senpai had to create a dress for Chiaki or else "The newly extended band of princesses would not be complete!"

It was going pretty normally, Mikoto was throwing a fit about the new costumes- halter cut dresses with a layer of lace under neath, his was pink- while Yuujirou continuously told him to deal with it, Tooru was trying to untangle some knots from the otherwise perfect blue wig, and Chiaki was still changing.

"I don't want to!" Mikoto cried, stomping his foot on the ground.

"We go through this every single time! Man up and put on the dress!" Yuujirou persisted, beginning to grow tired with the Eastern princess' constant complaints.

"How is one supposed to 'man up' when his pride is being damaged by-"

"Hey, Mikoto-kun!"

Both stopped arguing and looked over towards the changing room.

Chiaki was barely peaking out from behind the door, "Mikoto-kun~ can you please help me tie the strap here?" he pushed the door open, holding the ends of the straps above his shoulders to keep the top from falling down. Admittedly he looked quiet attractive in the dress, it defined his waist and shoulders beautifully and was just below the knee, revealing the right amount of leg, and the indigo colour looked fairly good with his black hair and blue-grey eyes. Even without a wig and make up he already looked a lot like a girl.

Yuujirou's eyes narrowed and his expression darkened instantaneously.

"Uh... s-sure..." Mikoto couldn't help stuttering and blushing a little.

Chiaki smiled, "Thank you-"

"Let me!" Yuujirou interrupted looking at the floor, "... Mikoto needs to hurry up and get changed..." he looked back up, a convincing smile on his face, "I will be more then happy to help you... Shidoku-kun..."

Chiaki's grin faltered for a second, but he regained it in an instant, "O-oh, of course, thanks, Shihou-dani..."

Tooru looked from one to the other then to Mikoto who was only staring at Yuujirou cluelessly, 'There's a great amount of tension between those two...' he sighed, 'I was hoping maybe Shidoku would try to cozy up to Yuujirou and he'd stop being so unusually melodramatic but that unfortunately doesn't seem to be the case...'

Yuujirou marched over stiffly, "Turn around," he ordered.

Chiaki turned, now facing towards Tooru, he gave the bluenette a small warm smile, much different from the one he and Yuujirou had shared.

Yuujirou took the ends of the straps in his hands and began tying them into a bow.

Tooru was actually worried the Western Princess would tie it too tight as to strangle Chiaki- and the look on Mikoto's face as he finally disappeared behind the door to change showed he was too- but the blonde merely finished the knot and tapped Chiaki on the shoulder.

"There, all done..."

Chiaki looked over his shoulder at it, "Thanks, Shihoudani~"

"I wonder..." Yuujirou started, "why didn't you just tie it yourself? Its not that hard and it doesn't need to be perfect since all we're doing is trying on the costumes..."

Chiaki's eyes narrowed ever so slightly, "If you had an issue with me getting help tying it then you didn't need to volunteer yourself to do it when Mikoto-kun had already agreed to do so..." he turned and tapped his chin, "hmm... I wonder... why exactly you did that? Its not as if it would have delayed Mikoto-kun by very long..."

'The tension just went up again!' Tooru stepped in between the two, "Alright, alright, both of you stop it!"

There was a slight pause before both regained fake smiles and apologized for the display.

"Forgive me, Shihoudani, it was silly of me to take the question as a personal attack!" Chiaki lowered his head.

"Think nothing of it, it was a stupid question!" Yuujirou waved dismissively.

Tooru's eyes jumped from one to the other, 'I still feel like they're going to kill each other!'

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no! It's just not right!" Natasho cried in frustration.

Mikoto exited the changing room, now wearing the dress, "Uh, what's not right, Senpai?"

Natasho banged his face against the desk, "These costumes! They simply do not work at all!"

"What are you talking about?" Tooru asked, "I thought they were just fine..."

"Maybe for you and Yutaka! But I simply don't get the feel for it on Shidoku! It's all wrong! The colour, the style, the waist line! It doesn't work!- and Shihoudani could use a different dress as well..."

Chiaki spun around, "I can certainly get a feel for it~"

"No! It's not right! It needs to be something else!" Natasho immediately began examining Chiaki, "hmm... but what? What costume would suit this figure?"

"How about black?" Yuujirou scoffed.

Chiaki gave him a side glance, questioning his answer.

Yuujirou gave a small smirk which he tried to cover up with a smile, "I just think it'd suit you..!"

"Oh I could say the same for you~" Chiaki looked away and added, "in more ways then one!" under his breath so only Yuujirou could hear.

Natasho snapped his fingers, "Shihoudani! You've inspired me!" he ran back to his desk and began feverishly sketching and looking through fabric samples.

All four princesses gave him confused looks.

"With a bit of satin, some lace here, a little bit of ribbon there, some bows, a pair of elevated Mary Janes..." Natasho began listing. He turned around revealing his newest outfit design- a Gothic Lolita dress. A tight sleeveless top, the skirt was layered and big, a black ribbon tying around the back, a tight collar, lined with black lace, and a pair of long black gloves that came up to the elbows with ribbons that criss crossed and tied all the way up the arm- to the Princesses, "I can transform Shidoku Chiaki into the perfect black princess!"

Was the last thing they heard before Yuujirou stormed out of the room and the door slammed shut behind him.

THANK YOU GUYS!

What do you think of Chiaki? I want honest opinions! and jealous Yuujirou? I'm trying not to completely change his personality but its really hard for me to make him hate Chiaki without making him act like this, sorry if it bugs you.

By the way, the dress is supposed to be the one used in the cover image, but I figured I'd probably lose points for writing "see cover image" instead of all that!

I will try to do an update for Halloween, but we all know what happened the last time I promised to update now don't we...

Thanks so much for reading, it makes me happy, REVIEWS HELP ME WRITE ;)

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