(insert song: "Catch You Catch Me" by Gumi)

Sakura Kinomoto was a happy, genki, elementary school student... who was more often than not running late in the mornings. It was for this reason her father had seen fit to give her rollerblades. She was in the middle of making a mad dash around the house, her brown hair flying about her face and into her vibrant green eyes. She reached for her fuku, her breakfast, her skates, her lunch... she ran past the table where her brother was just in the process of calmly sitting down to breakfast. Skidding to a stop, Sakura looked back and demanded,

" Oniichan! You're gonna be late!! "

Touya Kinomoto grinned evilly at his sister and pointed at the clock behind him.

Sakura stared. She did a double take. It was only after the words, " I set your clock ahead an hour to help you get ready early, " left her brother's mouth did she get mad.

" ONIICHAN!! "

Touya ate his breakfast in gleeful evilness. Sakura sat across from him and glared as she ate.

" Oi, Monster. Your face will stay that way you know. "

Sakura stuck her tongue out. " If anyone is a monster here, it's YOU. O-MA-E, " she reitterated, drawing out the word in an effort to make him understand.

" Heehee. "

**

(insert song: "Reset" by Rina Chinen)

Goku clung to Sanzou around the taller man's middle and vehemently shook his head, wailing his protests and generally making a scene. Sanzou suffered through it to a certain extent, until finally the paper hallissen/tessen/fan/whatever you want to call it emerged and smacked Goku directly across the head.

" Bakazou!  I'm not even going to be gone for very long! Now shut the hell up and stay here with Hakkai and Gojyo! "

Duo raised an eyebrow. " This guy's a buddhist monk? "

Hakkai sweatdropped.

" So says the 'God of Death' in priest's clothing, " Wufei retorted.

" Saa, appearances can be deceiving, " Xellos added happily.

**

(insert song: "Rose and Release" by Masami Okui)

" Tell me again why you tagged along this time? "

Riva blinked at Duo. " I told you, I have something to take care of here. "

Duo frowned. " You're not gonna get your ass kicked again, are you? "

" Nah, " she brushed it off. " This time it'll be eeeaaasssyyyy... "

" Famous last words, " muttered Sanzou.

Duo looked at Sanzou, then at Tasuki. " By the way... don't you think Sanzou and Tasuki look a little out of place? " He pointed at their rather noticeable attire.

" Sou... " Riva trailed off. " I guess we'll have to get them a change of clothes. At least Trunks changed before tagging along. "

" Yeah, skintight blue spandex and funny armor weren't really his style, huh. "

" Hurry up Monster, or you'll be late despite my efforts. "

Tasuki perked up. " Woohoo!! " He took off running ahead and rounded a corner with a gleeful, " CHI-CHI-RI~!! " Glomp.

" Houee?? " Sakura stared at the orange haired man in the blue trenchcoat who had just glomped onto Touya's back. Touya looked something between confused, annoyed, and utterly unimpressed.

The rest of Tasuki's group rounded the corner and sweatdropped en masse.

" Please excuse him, he's mistaken your brother for someone else, " Riva apologized.

" Ohaiyou Gozaimasu, Sakurachan. "

Sakura turned away from the strange people (including the one still glomped onto her brother) and greeted Tomoyo as her friend walked up to her. " Ohaiyou Tomoyochan. "

Tomoyo caught up and shook her long black curls from her shoulders. " Your brother seems very popular today. "

" Uh... yeah... he does... "

" Sakurachan, are you free tonight? " Tomoyo asked. She held out two tickets. " My mother aquired these through a business deal, I would like you to come with me. It's for a concert with a new band called Bad Luck. " She smiled as Sakura took the tickets. " I have enough for you and I to go, as well as Touya and Yukito. "

Stars appeared in Sakura's eyes. " Yukitosan!! "

" Ohaiyou! "

A visible shiver ran though Duo. " Oh GODS. It's that woman from the park!! "

Wufei looked shocked. " The crossdresser? "

Touya glared at that one. " You wanna say that again? "

Riva giggled at the rampant confusion and pulled tickets like Tomoyo's from thin air. " Sou da! I'm treating you all to a concert while we're here. Soshite! " She walked up to Yukito and handed him an envelope. " This is for you. "

Yukito blinked behind his glasses. " For me...? " He started to hand it back. " Gomen nasai, I'm not interested in Love Letters. "

" Awhn, " Riva took it back.

Duo and Wufei's jaws dropped to the sidewalk. She was letting someone refuse?!

" Da-chan will be so disappointed. " She pulled out another envelope. " This is from me. It's not a love letter. "

Duo and Wufei turned white and fell over. A breeze ran past, into which they faded to dust and blew away.

Sanzou smacked them both. " Cut that out! "

**

(insert song: "Sleepless Beauty" by Nittle Grasper)

The Auditorium was steadily filling with people as the group took their seats all in a row. Subaru and Trunks sat together with Yukito, who sat next to Touya, who couldn't seem to get Tasuki to detach from him. Tasuki, being out of his niche, seemed to need something to cling to that was familiar, and the tall dark-haired boy with Chichiri's voice seemed to do the trick. Somewhere in between the morning meeting and here they had found Tasuki and Sanzou less conspicuous clothing. Sanzou and Duo sat together, despite their rocky beginning they seemed to be getting along all right. Funny how being thrown together by a crazy girl with letters inviting them on strange quests to do stuff made unlikely allies of people.

Speaking of Riva, she had disappeared at the doors, citing that she had to go take care of the aforementioned 'something' before the concert started.

So, as it was, the seating arrangement went thus: Aisle-Trunks-Subaru-Yukito-Touya-Tasuki-Xellos-Sanzou-Duo-Wufei-Tomoyo-Sakura-empty-empty-empty-Aisle.

Tomoyo looked past Sakura at the three empty seats. " One of those is for Rivasan, but I wonder who will sit in the other
two. "

By the magic of good timing, the occupants of the two seats in question approached the row at that moment. One was a tall man blatantly wearing a gun in a holster under his arm. He had his long blonde hair pulled into a high ponytail. He gave off the aire of a policeman or secret service agent or something. The other was a shorter man, who looked more like a boy. He had messy green-black hair and bright eyes half hidden under a baseball cap.

" Harou Rediiz, " (1) the tall man greeted cordially in bad English. Lapsing back into Japanese he inquired politely, " May we sit here? "

Sakura and Tomoyo giggled like the little girls they were and said it was okay.

However, it was not okay with Wufei. The chinese pilot got to his feet and turned an accusing glare on the man with the bad English. " Treize?! How dare you show your face he-- uh? " He blinked, taking in the blonde hair and the gun aimed at his nose. " You're not Treize... "

Duo leaned forward and glared at Wufei. " Who was acting all haughty for not mistaking any of the pseudo-Zechs earlier? " he said sardonically.

The man in the cap waved his hands in a plea for peace. " Maa maa! Let's all be friends ne? Friends! No need to fight over a case of mistaken identity! "

Subaru blinked in surprise and stood up. Looking down the row he trailed off, " Boku... "

The other man blinked too.

Subaru continued, " My voice...? "

" What a coincidence!! My names Ryuuichi! What's yours? "

" Subaru Sumeragi. "

" Nice to meet you Subarukun! "

Subaru bowed. " Pleased to meet you. "

Thus, peace was restored. At least in that area of the auditorium.

**

(insert song: "No Style" from Gravitation)

The members of the band ASK were tuning their instruments and generally looking innocent. But we all know the truth, so let's get to the point before we start feeling sorry for them.

" Anyone who's mean to Shuuichi Shindou must pay! "

" Yuuki Eiri?! "

One hand went to the back of Riva's head. " Oh come now, that's one voice that shouldn't be confused with mine. "

The lead singer of ASK (oh my, I seem to have forgotten his name) pulled a white and red ball out of nowhere and shouted,
" WHEEZING! I CHOOSE YOU!! "

Riva watched the ball land at her feet and do absolutely nothing. Looking back up with an evil grin she said. " Oh come now, there's no proof that Wheezing was Wheezing in the Japanese version. And no mixing characters without my say! If you could do it at will, what would have stopped Sei-bastard from pulling a kitana and calling me a Takatori? Or sucking the blood of the nearest redhead and kicking my ass THAT way? huh? "

" What the hell are you talking about? "

" Nothing you need to concern yourselves with! Now retract all the mean things you ever have and ever will say about Shuuichi and let Bad Luck have the spotlight or I'll make sure your next record is an endless repetition of 'Love and Peace! Love and Peace! Love and Peace! Love and Peace! "

Needless to say, Riva won. For while Vash the Stampede is very cool, no one would buy a record consisting of that three word phrase being repeated for a full fourty-five minutes.

**

(insert song: "Glaring Dream" from Gravitation)

" I'm ba~ack! " Riva called, running down the aisle towards the row. Stopping at the row she asked sweetly, " Did you miss me? "

This was met with a number of no's. None of which Riva paid any heed.

" Excuse me, " said Riva to the man with the gun. " Can I get to my seat please? "

" Oh, of course, " said K, standing to allow her to pass.

Riva abruptly froze, turned, and glomped him with a, " WAI! " The row blinked in unision. Looking up at K with stars in her eyes, Riva said, " I adore your voice!! It's a mystery why you don't do any singing! "

K smiled. " Sank yuu. " (2)

" She's... " Duo trailed off in disbelief.

" ... shameless. " Sanzou concluded for him.

**

K-san no translation notes ^_^
(1) Hello Ladies
(2) Thank You

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