Hi readers! I'm back for this story!~ :DD However the ideas for this story are becoming numbered…D: So sooner or later I might have to open up the questions to the readers ^^ But I'm not sure yet, but when I am, I'll tell you :3 However my other story 'To Fall In Love Again' is flowing like a raging river it's crazy XD

A super duper big thank you to everyone for waiting for this chapter! Hope you guys enjoy! Note that italics are English :3 (but it's short…but then again the first chapter was short…)

Disclaimer: I don't own Junjou Romantica.

Shinobu stared at his script with burning intent.

"…ee…eee…yee…"

"It's 'yeah'." Miyagi read out the word as he wrapped his arms around the younger from behind and rested his chin on his shoulder.

"I knew that!" Shinobu huffed as he returned to reading it.

"Yee…eah…aa…aii…I…uu…uwa…wa…"

"'Yeah I was' is what you're supposed to say." The younger man groaned in frustration.

"I know You!" Shinobu snapped back at Miyagi before pulling away from the older man's embrace and pushed his script to the raven's chest.

"Why don't YOU read it out?!" Shinobu sulked angrily as he crossed his arms over his chest. Miyagi smirked at the younger before reading it out.

"'Yeah! I was rolling on the floor laughing!'" Shinobu felt his eye twitch at that moment before snatching the script back and began to recite it from the start.

All they had to do was film this episode, and they would be done. The two postponed this episode until the very last moment so Shinobu could spend time trying to recite the English words out. But after many months, barely any progress was made. Miyagi had considered calling the others to help him out but Shinobu was adamant on reciting it for himself. The raven knew his lover hated looking inferior towards others except for himself, so he left the idea alone for a while now. But looking at him right now…

We're hopeless if we don't get someone helping us out. Usami-san and Onodera-san are both fluent in English, and the others can speak English at a secondary grade level…maybe excepting Shinobu and Kirishima-chan, but still… The raven shook his head at his lover's failure. Any progress will do.

"I'm gonna go outside for a smoke, continue reciting and I'll get back to you." Miyagi waved at his lover before walking out to the balcony. Luckily the wall divider between them obscured Shinobu's vision of Miyagi. So the younger wouldn't have noticed when the raven pulled out his phone and dialled someone.

"Ah, Miyagi, what is it?"

"Hey Kirishima, do you know where Onodera-san or Usami-san is at the moment?" Miyagi inquired. He and Kirishima were colleagues back in college and were Drama classmates, so they were quite close after being in the same field of expertise. As well as that, their levels of English were around the same. (1)

"Nah, last time I saw one of them was when Takano-san snatched Onodera-san."

"'Snatched' huh? Best not to try and find them. We know how that went last time." A chuckle was heard on the phone.

"They sure went at it like rabbits, and it was priceless when we found them out. They looked like deer in the headlights! Even I don't do that to Takafumi." Miyagi allowed a burst of laughter, seeing how both their intimate lives were so different to their juniors.

"I don't do that to my Shinobu either. Now back to my question. How about Usami-san?"

"Mm…he might be shooting the OVA, why do you need them?"

"Shinobu is unable to recite his English." A sound of acknowledgement was heard on the receiver.

"Then, I'm free for the moment if you want me to help out. Takafumi went to help the other cast members, so it's just Hiyo and me." Miyagi thought about it for a moment and shrugged.

"Sure, why not? Come over. Any effort than right now would make a huge difference for us." Miyagi chuckled.

"Gotcha, I'll be here in a bit." And with that, Miyagi closed his phone.

"Yo." Kirishima waved at Miyagi and watched as Hiyori bounced up and waved.

"Hii Miyagi-san!~" Hiyori giggled.

"Hello Kirishima-chan." Miyagi ruffled her hair.

"Soo…your predicament?" Kirishima asked. Miyagi nodded and allowed the two in. Walking further into the apartment, the three could hear a strained effort to pronounce 'rolling' before they could hear a curse, excepting Hiyori since Kirishima covered her ears.

"Shinobu, best not to curse when there is a child here." Miyagi chuckled as all three of them saw Shinobu wringing his script.

"Aww come on! I told you not to get other people involved!" The raven chuckled at his lover's stubborn antics and ruffled his hair.

"It doesn't hurt to get a little bit of tutoring." Kirishima chuckled and opened his hand out.

"Here, let me have a look at the script." With a bit of reluctance, Shinobu passed the script over to Kirishima, who sat down on the couch with Hiyori peeking over beside him.

"'Yeah! I was rolling on the floor laughing!'" Hiyori made a sound of amazement at her father's English voice.

"That wasn't hard." Kirishima chuckled before looking over at the script again. "What have you gotten to so far?"

"The 'yeah I was' part." Miyagi looked at Shinobu with eyebrows raised and smiled at Shinobu.

"Okay, recite it to me." Shinobu sat across from Kirishima and took a deep breath.

"'Yeah!' …ai… 'I wa—' …uuwa… 'was'." Kirishima chuckled and nodded.

"That's how you say it. Now try again, and do it a little smoother." Miyagi crossed his arms and chuckled softly at Kirishima's tone of voice. Out of the two, Kirishima was often the teacher out of them. Miyagi would usually show examples to people rather than trying to explain why he did so.

"…'Yeah! I was'." Kirishima nodded once more and passed the script back to Shinobu.

"Good, now try say 'rolling'." Shinobu's eyes widened just a little bit before he read over his script with strong concentration.

"…'ro…ror…rring…'…" Miyagi raised an eyebrow before covering his smile with the back of his hand. Kirishima burst out laughing and clutched his stomach as Shinobu stood up with a red face and threw his script at Kirishima.

"Shut up! Not my problem if I can't pronounce the 'l' sound right!" Hiyori looked back and forth between Miyagi to Shinobu to her father in confusion and laid back on the couch.

"Bahaha! Sorry, let's try this again. First off say 'la'."

"'Ra'."

"'La'."

"'Ra'."

"Um…how abouy 'lay'?"

"'Ray'."

"'Like'?"

"'Rike'."

"…"

"…wha—"

"BWAHAHAHAHAHA!" Kirishima threw his back on the couch and clutched his stomach once more. Miyagi was joining in at his point and slapped his knee as he wiped the tears that came from his eyes.

"SHUT UP!"

"I'm so sorry Shinobu! I love you~" Miyagi tried to hug his lover from behind but was pushed away.

"Not forgiven!" Shinobu pouted and plopped back onto the couch.

"Oh man! It really does sound weird when Japanese people pronounce 'l' words!" Kirishima snickered and sighed.

"Okay Takatsuki-san, I really can't help you on pronouncing 'l' words, so I'm gonna go and try find Usami-san or Onodera-san."

"You could try Kamijou-san, or even Kusama-san too, they both went to America, didn't they?" (2)

"Yeah he did…but I'd rather get the fluent speakers to help out Takatsuki-san." Kirishima stated as he stood and lifted up Hiyori into his arms.

"No Papa! Let me down!" Hiyori giggled as she was placed back down on the floor. Kirishima chuckled and ruffled her hair.

"Okay, sounds good, so we'll be expecting Usami-san or Onodera-san soon?" Kirishima nodded and was led out by Miyagi. Saying their goodbyes, Miyagi returned back to the living room and sat down next to Shinobu.

"While waiting, let's try this again…"

In the late afternoon, Onodera and Akihiko had appeared at Miyagi's apartment and began to tutor Shinobu on how to pronounce 'l' words. And after hours of teaching they had finally come to a conclusion…

…that Shinobu was absolutely hopeless.

But even so, they kept their act together and continued on until the evening. Well maybe one person decided to keep their act together while the other is close to flipping anything that is flippable.

"'La'." Akihiko deadpanned.

"'Ra'."

"Okay, what about trying to sing 'la'? 'Laaa~'" Onodera suggested.

"'Raaa~'."

"This is not going anywhere, I'm giving up." Akihiko tried to walk out but was pulled back by Onodera.

"Hey! We're not leaving until we help out Takatsuki-san!" The brunette protested.

"Unlike you, I wanna go to sleep." Akihiko sighed and yawned.

"How long have you been up for?"

"I don't know, like…18 hours? Maybe 20…can't remember…I do remember waking up 7pm last night though for some filming…" Onodera practically had his jaw to the floor as Shinobu sighed in frustration and buried his face in his hand.

"Usami-san can go home and sleep. Sorry about the trouble." Akihiko waved his hand to Shinobu.

"Don't worry about it, at least you got everything else down except for 'rolling', 'floor' and 'laughing'." Shinobu nodded as he watch Akihiko leave before he glanced down at his script once more.

"'Yeah! I was rowrreeng on the fuor rafhueng!'" Shinobu felt his eye twitch when Miyagi burst out laughing once more in the background.

"Ohhh man! I'm so sorry!" Miyagi gasped out in his laughing fit. Onodera turned his head away from Shinobu and allowed a little chuckle escape from his lips.

"Oh come on! Not you too Onodera-san!" The young man complained as he glared at Miyagi and threw his script at him for the umpteenth time.

"And you! Stop laughing!" Shinobu shouted and threw his head back onto the couch and slapped his hand to his forehead.

"Mannn…this is so annoying…not to mention embarrassing as hell." The brunette smiled softly and sat adjacent to Shinobu.

"Don't worry, you'll get it right, let's just continue, okay?" Shinobu sighed and nodded and the group continued throughout the night.

"…I surrender. No offense to Takatsuki-san." Onodera groaned and slumped over the couch with a weary aura. Miyagi chuckled and sat down next to the downhearted Shinobu and ruffled his hair.

"Don't worry Shinobu, we'll just improvise somehow." The raven tried to encourage his lover. Onodera stood up and yawned as he stretched.

"You're shooting tomorrow right?" The brunette questioned. The duo nodded at Onodera.

"Good luck for Takatsuki-san then." Onodera offered a small smile. Shinobu sighed softly and nodded.

"Yeah…thanks." Miyagi looked towards Onodera and nodded in thanks and greeted the brunette out.

"Come on Shinobu, get some rest, you'll need it for tomorrow." Shinobu sighed and agreed quietly with Miyagi and they moved into the bedroom.

~Next morning~

"Ugh, I'm never gonna make it." Shinobu grumbled as he made his way onto the set with Miyagi.

"Don't worry Shinobu, I told you, just improvise." The raven smiled and glanced towards the set where they were supposed to shoot, and the duo saw Akihiko and Misaki up ahead.

"Oh hey Takahashi-san, Usami-san." Miyagi greeted as Shinobu walked up behind him.

"Hey, we just dropped by to wish Takatsuki-san good luck." The young emerald-eyed man smiled. Shinobu groaned softly and nodded.

"Yeah, thanks for the support, but I'm not really looking forward to acting." Misaki chuckled softly and patted Shinobu on the shoulder.

"So I've heard you've asked everyone to help you." Misaki spoke with a questioning tone in his voice.

"Don't ask." Shinobu placed his face in his hand as Miyagi ruffled his hair.

"I guess it didn't work out. So you've really asked everyone?" The brunette asked once more.

"Only the fluent speakers." Miyagi replied in Shinobu's stead, who was standing behind him in self-pity.

"Oh, so then that marks out me, Onodera-san and Hiroki-san." At this, the duo had their eyes bulged out as they shouted in unison, "Wait, WHAT?!"

"Kamijou-san's a fluent speaker?!" Shinobu asked in shock. The brunette nodded.

"Yeah, Hiroki-niisan pursued English in high school and graduated with it. Oh, and he also used to have a part time job with English tutoring." (3) Misaki explained.

"Wait! He was a tutor as well?!" At this, Misaki nodded once more.

"Why? Didn't you ask him?" Misaki tilted his head.

"We didn't even know! We thought he only partly learnt English!" Miyagi protested.

"Oh…" A silence enveloped the four, Akihiko soon after breaking the silence with a sigh.

"I'll call him, he might be resting, but whatever." Akihiko dialled his number and pressed the phone to his ear. After a few rings Hiroki answered.

"Yep, Takahashi—wait no, Kamijou here." Akihiko chuckled at the mistake in response.

"Hey, it's Akihiko."

"Oh hey, what's up?"

"So…how do you pronounce 'l' words?"

"…did you get amnesia or something?"

"Nah, it's just that Takatsuki-san here needs help, he's hopeless unfortunately."

"Shut up!" The amethyst eyed man only smirked.

"Oh, really? Pass the phone to him." Akihiko removed the phone from his ear and handed it to Shinobu.

"Eh? What for?"

"Hiroki-san's gonna help you." Shinobu nodded and pressed the phone to his ear.

"Hello?"

"Yo Takatsuki-san, first off, try say an 'l' word."

"Um…'rowrreeng'…"

"…BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Shinobu growled in annoyance and pulled the phone away from his ear.

"IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA HELP ME THEN I'M HANGING UP!"

"NO! Wait! Sorry! *cough cough* HAHAHA! *pant* Okay…okay…*wheeze* Ah, god that was funny as hell." Shinobu sighed before placed the phone back to his ear once more.

"Okay…place your tongue on the ceiling of your mouth." Shinobu did so and hummed so Hiroki would understand he got that step down.
"Okay, now say 'love'."

"…'Love.'" Shinobu spoke normally before cupping his mouth in surprise. Miyagi had his jaw to the floor while Akihiko and Misaki smiled in satisfaction.

"Hey, that's not a bad effort! Okay, go through the same procedure and say a few 'l' words."

"…'Love, laugh, like, laaa~'" Miyagi watched in awe as Shinobu began to recite his lines.

"Shinobu…you did it…" Shinobu glanced at his awestruck lover and blushed slightly.

"T-Thank you…"

"You're welcome Takatsuki-san." Shinobu jumped slightly and realised he had forgotten that he was still on the phone with Hiroki.

"A-ah yes! Thank you Kamijou-san! I'll hand the phone back to Usami-san." The young man said before passing the phone to Akihiko.

"Thanks for helping him out. Mm? Yeah we're free. Okay…yeah alright, see you." Akihiko finished off the call and looked towards Miyagi and Shinobu.

"Sorry, but we gotta run now, Hiroki-san's gonna have us over for dinner."

"Eh, really? He said that?" Misaki questioned. Akihiko nodded and placed his phone away.

"That's no problems. Enjoy your dinner, and tell Kamijou-san I said thanks as well." Miyagi smiled gratefully to the two.

"Will do. See you." Akihiko waved to them.

"Good luck Takatsuki-san!" Misaki cheered before leaving with Akihiko. Miyagi turned towards Shinobu and pressed a kiss to his forehead.

"See Shinobu? You did it, that's great." Shinobu blushed and scratched the back of his head.

"Well…it's nothing really…" Shinobu muttered before the director had come up to them.

"Ah Takatsuki-san! Miyagi-san! Ready for filming?" The duo nodded and were led to their scene.

Welp, back on track! ^^ Once again, sorry for the long wait ^^; I think I remember telling you guys that July's a busy month for me…and it is hehe…personal reasons really :)) But not to worry! Hopefully I'll get the next chapter up before my two-week holiday ends! :D

Now, confusion sort out time!~

(1) Since Miyagi and Kirishima are about the same age, they are colleagues in their college years ^^ And also you know how they call each other casually by their stage names? Well that's because this lazy author over here can't be bothered getting two Japanese last names ^^;; sorry hehe…

(2) I only made the people who had gone overseas (excepting Shinobu) become fluent/kinda fluent in the English language :3 Nowaki's learnt a fair bit of English but isn't fluent at it. Everyone else has only graduated up to college/high-school level Japanese, and Shinobu and Hiyori are the only ones who can't speak the language properly ahaha.

Oh wait, and yes, Nowaki and Hiroki went to America and placed their acting on hiatus, aaaaaannnnddd, they're engaged :DD (Hopefully I'll write a chappie about this sooner or later)

(3) Hiroki and Misaki learnt English because their parents were strict about it, and so Misaki's still learning it but Hiroki got the English hands down XD

Soo…I guess that's all for confusion sort-out time, and I hope to see you next chapter! :D

Next chapter – Sekaiichi Hatsukoi: How did the Nostalgia couple act out their high school scenes? See you soon ^_^