Lovely Circumstances.

By Takara-Star

Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket. It belongs to Natsuki Takaya.

Summary: Arisa, Hana-Jima, and Yuki decide to do a play to get Kyo and Tohru together.

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Chapter One: A Playful Idea

"It's irritating to watch!" exclaimed Arisa with an exasperated sigh. "They are both so clueless, or something."

"Yes, I think so," Hana replied. "I think they need a push in the right direction. Neither of them will make the first move."

Haru's blank face seemed curious; although, it was hard to tell. But he did give some input. "Settings," he said bluntly. "Setting usually always work."

"Huh?" Arisa's face became bewildered. "Settings?"

Yuki decided to translate to the best of his ability. "I think he means, 'right place, right time', or the 'right conditions.'"

"Hm," said Haru with a nod.

"But…how could we do that? Dinner, Dance…?" Arisa said, thinking out loud.

"A play would do it," Hana replied. "With Tohru-Kun, and Kyo-Kun as the leads. He might say 'no' at first, but Tohru would do it happily. If he sees how excited she is, he'll feel bad for quitting. So, therefore, it should work."

"Okay, but what play?" Yuki asked, wondering if this were even a good idea.

Haru began reciting a line in his deadpan tone. "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Refuse thy father, and deny thy name! And I'll no longer be a Capulet!"

Yuki went wide eyed. "You've got to be kidding me."

"Nope," said Haru with a small smile. "We are reading it in class. It might be cool to actually perform it."

"Romeo and Juliet is a grand idea," Hana said, writing something down in a notebook.

"No one will suspect a thing. Everyone will think we are just doing it because our classes are reading it," Haru added.

Yuki wasn't sure about the whole thing, he decided to talk to the student council about it anyway. Hana and Arisa would bug him about it to no end. So, he might as well say something. Also, secretly, he wanted to play Mercutio, Romeo's best friend. Mostly just to make Kyo angry. "I'll discuss it with the rest of the student council. I'll have to tell them why we are doing the play, though."

"Go ahead," Haru said with a chuckle. "I'm interested to see what happens.

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"Students, listen up!" Mayu said, getting everyone's attention. "Yuki Sohma has an announcement to make. Everyone pay attention to him, and the student council."

Everyone went quiet as Yuki made his way to the front to stand with the other student council members. When he got up there, he cleared his throat, and began to speak. "As was discussed with some of you," he said, referring to Arisa and Hana. "We will be putting on a play. I've gotten permission from the Principal, and we will be doing Romeo and Juliet." Many of the girls went 'ooh' and 'ah' as if they were imagining themselves as Juliet with Yuki, or Kyo. He continued, "Our class and the student council are in charge of the play. And the Student Council has already discussed who will play who." Yuki motioned to the student council members to began telling who was who.

Manabe winked at the class. "Lets get this show on the road. Now, the role of Lady Montague, Romeo's lovely Mother, will be played by Saki Hana-Jima san."

Machi sighed. "I will be playing Lady Capulet, Juliet's Mother."

"For Mercutio, the role will be played by Yuki Sohma. The rest of Romeo's friends will be played by Hatsuharu Sohma, and Chibi!" Put in Manabe.

"I am NOT chibi!" Nao said angrily.

Kimi did a hair flip, and blew a kiss at Kyo, who just grimaced. "And Lord Montague will be played by Kakeru Manabe; While Lord Capulet will be played by Takuru Kasaki." Kimi winked flirtatiously at Takuru, who waved back dreamily. His girlfriend kicked him in the leg.

"The nurse role will be played by Arisa Uotani. And the role of Narrator will be played by Momiji Sohma," Nao said, looking at his clip board.

"Now for the two leads," Manabe said slyly. "Juliet will be played by…drumroll please!" a group of boys in the band began to beat on their desks. "Miss Tohru Honda-san."

"Eh?" Tohru said, looking up. "Me? Juliet?" she looked completely stunned, as if she couldn't believe it. "Th-thank you…such an honor…"

"And Romeo will," said Yuki, putting emphasis on will. "Will be played by…Kyo Sohma."

Kyo dropped his pencil, and nearly fell out of his desk. Was this some kind of joke? Was he hearing things correctly? His face looked bewildered.

Tohru looked over at Kyo and blushed. This would be interesting. She watched the movie version with her mom once. She would have to…kiss Kyo. She blushed even deeper, and felt herself fill with a quiet happiness. She did not mind it at all. She smiled and impulsively let out a giggle. "If you're playing Romeo, Kyo-kun, that makes me happy. I'd feel much more comfortable playing Juliet with you as Romeo."

Kyo blushed at Tohru's cute smile. "I…uh…um…" he just couldn't say 'no'. "Yeah, yeah. Fine. I'll play Romeo."

"Cool," said one of the boys. "You two get to swap spit!"

Tohru's heart beat faster. Kyo's did the same; but Kyo would NOT be talked to that way. "It's disgusting when you put it that way!" But, truthfully, Kyo was looking forward to doing the play with Tohru. As strange as it was.

Hana and Arisa looked at each other with knowing smirks. So far, so good. At least, that's how it looked.

End Chapter One.

A/N: I am so excited about this one. I am in Drama Club at school, and we are going to be doing a play where the characters use Romeo and Juliet as a way to get the two lead characters together. Then I thought that would make a great idea for a fan fiction idea. Not only that, but I really like Romeo and Juliet. It's a great play.

Everyone caught the joke behind which role Hana is playing right? I just had to cast her as Romeo's mother. The relationship between her and Kyo is extremely amusing to me. I laugh whenever I think about it.

Thank you for reading this! I will have chapter numero dos up soon!

-Takara Star.