Kuri: And now, chapter 1! Or... is it chapter 2? I'm still not sure if the last chapter was just a prequel... oh well!

Julia! Great news! I was watching the D. Gray-man OST song "Towards Battle Again" on YouTube, and someone in the comments said D. Gray-Man is indeed coming back! You see, the person who posted the comment has a friend who helps make the anime, and they said, quote, "It will be going again after a short while. What seems right now would be quarter 3 of 2010 around October, if not it will be released in quarter 1 of 2011 for sure."

Translation: The D. Gray-Man anime should be back up and running by the first quarter of 2011, at least in Japan. I guess all we D. Gray-Man fans can breathe a sigh of relief! (And until the new parts of the anime are subbed/dubbed and released in the US, there's always the manga!)

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or shows used in this fanfiction.

Kuri hopped onto her cloud and headed towards the Make Up Room. She passed by Julia, who was getting all the girls seated in the front row.

"Hey, Kuri?" Julia asked. Kuri nodded at her.

"What?"

Julia motioned with her hands to the whole auditorium. "Wasn't this place charred beyond use the last time we were here? I mean, now everything is alright. There isn't a speck of ash anywhere! How on Earth is it back to normal?"

Kuri chuckled. "Oh, that's simple. This place was just like burnt toast. I just scraped the black stuff off and it was good as new!"

Julia shrugged. "Hmm, I guess that makes sense. Okay!"

They waved to each other and Kuri continued towards the Make Up Room. She parted the velvet curtains that blocked the entrance (and exit) and glanced at all of the guys that were being fitted into their suits.

"Hey! What's with this? I thought only the girls had to get dressed up!" Lavi protested. He was currently struggling to loosen the tie that had been knotted around his neck.

Kuri shrugged. "I figured I'd mix things up a bit. This time the girls will be spinning. Besides, you look adorable!" She patted Lavi on the head and floated over to Jade.

"So... how's it going?" she asked her. "With the outfitting, I mean."

Jade shrugged. "Everything's going alright for the most part, but, a CERTAIN SOMEONE won't keep still while I measure him for his shirt!" She took a moment to glare at Zuko, who was fidgeting between her hands.

"Oh, if that's the case, I'm glad I got you this." said Kuri, taking out a box wrapped in shiny green wrapping-paper from nowhere in particular. "Happy birthday!" she cheered.

Jade stared at the shiny box. "Ah... but, it's not my birthday." she muttered.

Kuri snorted. "Fine," she said with a smile, "Happy unbirthday!" And pushed the box into Jade's awaiting hands.

"Works for me!" said Jade as she ripped open the box. Inside it there was a tazer, with a bunch of colorful buttons on it and a big dial.

Kuri pointed to the dial. "There's three settings: painful stun, crispy bacon, and pile of ash. Julia and I both have weapons/items, so you need one too."

Jade smiled. "Awww... you shouldn't of! But I'm glad you did!" She then gave Zuko a sweet smile and set the tazer to "painful stun".

Zuko gulped.

After about a half an hour, everything was all set up and ready to go. Even Ichigohad stopped grumbling about having to put up with all of this again. Kuri took her spot on the giant spin-the-bottle wheel, while Jade and Julia made it their buisnessto intimidate every contestant with menacing glares and creepy smiles.

"So," said Kuri, "who wants to go first?"

The girls of ShugoChara, who were all new to this and rather curious, all decided to raise their hands. Everyone who had been in this position a month ago pitied them, but did not make any motion to stop them, as they did not want to go first either.

"Ahh... how about you, Tadase?" said Kuri, pointing to the blonde boy.

Tadase blinked. "I though the girls were spinning." he stated.

"Oh, they are." retorted Kuri with a smile.

"Kuri, quit picking on Tadase." Julia scolded, flicking her in the head.

Kuri sighed. "Fine. Nadeshiko, you're up!"

Everyone stared at the place Nagihiko had been sitting in. This spot was now empty, and "Nadeshiko" was getting up on stage.

"Wait, wait, wait! Nagihiko, you're not allowed to crossdress here!" shouted Jade.

Nagihiko, wearing Nadeshiko's red checkered outfit and flowery hair tie, pouted at her. "And where does it say that?" he/she asked defiantly.

Kuri pointed to the left wall. "On that sign, over there."

All heads turned left to read the white sign on the wall with words printed on it in big red letters.

The sign read:

Attention all STB players/captives!

Please note that in the game room, the following rule must be obeyed by all players:

- Nudity, peacocking, yaoi/yuri, any forms of groovy disco dancing, mooning, half-mooning, cross-dressing, quarter-mooning, and lemon are strictly forbiddenin the game room, unless Kuri deems it to be temporarily okay.

If any player attempts to break this this rule, they will be thrown to the savage tribe of fan-girls and anti-fangirls Kuri has been breeding in the bottomless pitt of DOOM inside of the Ark without hesitation.

. . .

Unless it's Kish. Kish gets a second chance.

Thank you.

Nadeshiko gulped and quickly changed back into Nagihiko. He sat down in his seat, not daring to make eye contact withanyone. Kish on the other hand, although relieved that he got two tries, was a bit dissapointed, because he had been wanting to break into a fit of groovy disco dancing ever since they had arrived in the game room.

Kuri smirked. "Okay, so now that we've covered that, let's have someone spin the wheel! Whoooo's goin' first?"

She looked around expectantly, but even the newbee Shugo Chara girls had turned pale and refused to raise a finger.

"Alright then," said Julia, "I'll pick. Road, you're turn."

Road giggled and skipped over to the wheel. She took the little lever Kuri had saved from last time and gave it a tug. Slowly, the wheel turned. It went over the boys names quickly, then eventually slowing down to a crawl.

Finally, it landed on Allen Walker.

Allen's eyes were wide. "Nooo!" he exclaimed. "No way, no! I refuse to leave it at that! You can't make me!" He got up and started to walk backwards down the aisle.

Tyki smiled in his seat. "It landed on your name, boy. You have to."

Allen screamed and ran up onto the stage, where he ripped the lever out of Road's hands and started to pull it again and again and again. Each time, it landed on his name.

"GAAAH! This thing is rigged!" he shouted in rage.

Kuri, who now currently sat on the edge of the stage with Julia and Jade, was snickering to herself quietly. Jade, finding this suspicious, gave her a poke in the arm.

"Is there something you know that we should know?" she asked with a mixture of curiosity and irritation in her tone.

Kuri flashed her a pointy, idiotic grin. "Oh, nothing." she replied, still smiling like a fool. "Nothing at all..."

*flashback time*

"Road! Tyki! Where the heck are you two?" shouted Kuri as she scanned the room with her eyes. "The game's about to start!"

Suddenly, Kuri's ears picked up some whispering. She trotted over to where it seemed to be coming from, which was right behind the giant wheel. There, to her surprise, Road and Tyki were having some sort of argument. Feeling very curious, Kuri decided to keep out of sight and listen in.

"Awww, c'mon, Tyki!" pleaded Road. "You know how much this would mean to me!"

Kuri heard Tyki sigh.

"Yes, I know very well how much. But- and this is a big but - Kuri would kill both of us if she found out. And then, after she had killed us, she'd rip out our internal organs and feed them to the fangirls. After she had poked out our eyeballs with sticks and turned them into necklaces for Jade and Julia."

Kuri was disgusted by this gory, detailed description Tyki had given, but, she couldn't say it was necessarily untrue.

"Pleeeeaaaseee?" Road begged, apparently ignoring any possible consequences that could be given in the future. "Just this one time, for me?"

"Excuse me," said Kuri suddenly, emerging in front of them from the shadows, "but I couldn't help but overhear you two talking about something that could probably cause me to want to murder you. Please, may I ask, what would this be?"

Tyki took a glance at Road, then at Kuri. By now he knew that lying to Kuri was futile, and never ended well. So, he told the truth.

"Road wanted me to use my Noah powers to go into the wheel and rig it so it would land on Allen every time."

"Tyki!" shouted Road.

She looked over a Kuri, who hadn't answered. "Ah... ah... you see," said Road frantically, "I wanted to get my turn to make out with Allen this time, that's all! But, now..."

Kuri stroked her imaginary beard on her little cartoon chin. Road and Tyki, who did not have the power to read minds, assumed she was contemplating over whether to kill them both now or just one of them here and the other one later.

"You know, usually this kind of thing would bring up a whole bucket-load of fury in me, and then I'd probably have to think of some sort of punishment for you guys." started Kuri. "But, it just so happens that I've recently become a die-hard AllenxRoad fan. So, I think I'll let you off the hook this time... somewhat."

Road grinned, realizing what she meant. "So... we can rig the wheel?"

Kuri grinned back in response. "Yeah, go ahead. But you have to change it back when your turn is over, 'kay?"

Tyki and Road nodded, and Tyki used his powers to go through the metal on the back of the wheel and into the gears. Road zipped around to the front and took her seat. Kuri did the same.

*end of flashback*

Allen was now making out with Road. (Well, it was completely against his will, of course, but still technically making out)

Tyki went behind the wheel, for reasons unknown to Jade and Julia. Maybe he had to take a pee or something.

"Okaaay..." began Kuri, reading from her notebook/sketch pad. "...there have been a few requests sent in by a new reviewer named "Morgan". Apparently," she looked directly at Ikuto, "YOU need to be punished, for... something. I dunno why, just for something. With glitter, too." Ikuto looked at Jade and Julia as if for a clarification, but they just shrugged and looked back over at Kuri.

"Next, Lavi, we need to have you do something funny, once again I don't know why, but it sounds fun! I can't wait! But, really I'm just happy to meet some more fans that like to torture their favorite characters. And I'm glad to meet another Ikuto and Lavi fan!"

Lavi gulped. Kuri's version of "funny" wasn't exactly a match to the definition he'd put down in the Bookman records.

Aang and the other Avatar characters, who have not been mentioned since early in the first chapter, rocked back and forth in their chairs nervously. During the flashback, Kuri had told them all that she felt she had neglected their pairings in the last story, and she was going to start on them right away this time. This obviously was a cause for great distress.

Jade opened her book and started reading while Kuri started rambling on again about how she was going to put Lavi in such odd positions it'd make him blush constantly for the next couple of years, and how Ikuto was going to be punished out of his mind even though he didn't really do anything, and blah blah blah.

Julia polished her mallet in anticipation.

(It could take a while for this story to really get going...)

See you next chapter!