All the boys gathered in an empty clasroom next day. The drama room was already taken by many other groups and their only option was an empty clasroom. As Katana promised yesterday he brought the script. "Ok" Katana said handing everyone a script. "This is the script guys and I poured my heart and soul into it" Katana said dramatically sighing.

"That's why it stinks" Lui commented.

Katana held his heart dramatically. "That hurt"

Shinki snickered then burst out laughing as Shu cautiously went through the script. He sighed. "I can't do this Katana"

Katana looked at Shu. "Come on where's your spirit? Remember your prince would be sad" He said winking.

Kazuki huffed. "Isn't this boring?"

Katana looked at him matter of factly. "Can you tell me how I'm supposed to make a hyped up drama from a very common story?"

"Yes you have a point" Gou said. "And I heard the girls are doing Sleeping Beauty"

"They have a better chance to win rather than us" Shinki said.

Katana shrugged. "Maybe or maybe not"

"What do you mean by maybe not?" One of the boys questioned.

"Forget it" Katana said. "Let's take this desks and chairs away so we can have some space" 

They all cleared the classroom and started their first practice session. Shu looked at the scripts last few pages. Katana wasn't kiddin when he said that they're including a kissing scene. "I can't kiss him in front of the whole school" Shu said.

Shinki smirked. "Come on you two kissed at the Ferris Wheel and the whole world saw it"

"That was because we thought no one would be watching us" Lui said.

Katana sighed. "That's for later now we only have to concentrate on the first part okay first the narrator should come and start"

The narrator was a boy who was always known to talk a lot even in wrong times. He cleared his throat and started to read the script. His expression was rather hilarious he was trying hard not to laugh. Katana sighed. "What's wrong?"

The boy also known as Haruto looked at Katana. "Is it only me or anyone else imagine that it would be hilarious if we compared this to Shu and Lui's love story" Then he looked at the expression of the others who had blank faces. "No? Just me? Okay" He said turning around and start to read the script in a more proper way. 

The practice went swiftly until Shu started to read the script. "No no no" Katana said cutting him off. "You have to be more feminine"

"I'm a male" Shu sternly said.

Shinki snnickered. "Ooooh very straightforward"

Katana plopped himself to the chair. Lui looked at Shu. "Do it like you did various things when we were in our date" 

That took everyone's attention. Shu turned to a living tomato. "What kind of things?" Shinki asked wiggling his brows.

"Fine fine stop it" Shu said taking his script again. Then looked at Katana. "What do you mean by be more feminine by the way?"

Katana thought for a moment. "I don't now either"

Shu pouted looking at the first lines. Shinki sighed as he walked to Shu. "This is my times to show talents" He said.

Lui raised his brow. "You mean?"

Shinki didn't answer as he looked at Shu. "Okay try to make your voice more soft"

"Huh?" Shu asked. "I don't think I can change my voice"

Gou looked at Shu. "Shu do it the way you want"

Shu nodded. "That I can do"

"You'll ruin the drama anyway you have no talent" Kazuki commented. 

Lui growled and was about to snap when Shu talked. "You think so?"

"Of course you can't even act like a girl" Kazuki said.

Shu tilted his head and gave him a smirk. "That means you know how to act like a girl?"

Kazuki's eyes widen as Gou talked. "Let's look at your acting"

Kazuki shuddered but got up anyway and he started acting more like a robot than a human. They all burst put laughing at his poor acting skills as Kazuki growls telling them to stop it. "Ahhhh" Katana screamed in frustration as he watched the boys. 'We can't do this. Shinki you're the fairy god mother not a badass girl and Lui your the prince not an alleyway thug"

"Youre the one who put us all in this situation so deal with it?" Lui said.

Katana smiled sheepisly as he scrached his neck. "Youre right"

Touma who is also the in charge of costumes came in. "Guys I desighned the costumes Cinderella would have two dresses and the others would just one"

"Are you telling me I have to wear two dresses not just one?" Shu asked.

Touma nodded as he gave the designs to Katana. He looked at the costumes and gave him a thumb up. "At least we can rock the costumes now"

"Yeah let's switch our drama into a fasion show" Shinki mocked.

Katana got up throwing his hands in the air. "Oh my lord save us from this mess"

"Amen" Shu said smiling.

"Hallelujah" Shinki joined them.

"Okay that was our last option pray for gods let's start again" Katana said. 

They all started to practice the whole week and all of them tried their best. Kazuki took every single chance to torture Shu even in practice sessions while his acting became more natural with that. And every time Shu and Lui would ignore the kissing scene saying they would do it later. And Shinki was acting gracefully than before. Lui also act more like a prince while Shu rock the stage every time with his acts. 

"Shu you're doing amazing" Katana said.

Shu thanked him as he plopped down from exhaution. "I never thought I would work hard for something else beside beyblade"

"Me neither" Lui said sitting beside him. 

"It's good to see you two thinking about your life other than beyblading" Gou said.

"I've got to say we're doing better than we did before we came a long way" Shinki said.

"And I don't think coming to Rideout Academy is not a bad idea after all" Shu said. " You guys are way better friends than I expected"

"Wow that touched my heart" Katana said pulling Shu into a hug. "Love you too my friend" He said. 

Shu chuckled. "Yeah yeah"

They all trained one more time right before for the last time before their competitions tommorow and the beyclub and the sworldflames were also invited to the occasion. Katana is the one who invited them. But Shu felt devastated when he found out that he's gonna perform as a girl in front of their friends. But everyone still agreed one thing. Their play was too boring and no fun but some of the other actors had other plans. 

The day finally came Shu arrived to the school. The whole school was buzzing with excitement. Everyone was hurrying and some of them already was wearing their costumes. Shu went to his class and saw Katana talking with Touma. Katana smiled as soon as he saw Shu. "Oh good we were talking about your dress since you have two you have to be quick "

Shu nodded setting his bag on the desk. "I know but I'm not sure though"

"Don't worry buddy you can do this" Katana said giving him a thumbs up. Shu smiled as Katana got up. "Let's go others are already in the costume rooms"

The two boys walked in. Gou was wearing a casual outfit cause ha had to act like Cinderella's father. Kazuki was wearing a dress reached his ankles. It was black in colour cause he refused to wear any other colours. Shinki was also wearing a dress. Two other boys were currnetly helping him to put on his fairy wings. His dress was a mix of orange and white. Shinki waved. "How do I look?" He asked batting his fake eyelashes.

"Like a wild animal" Someone behind him commented. Shu turned around to see Lui in his prince outfit. He stopped and stared. He looked gorgeous like a real prince. He was wearing white pants decorated with gold and a light blue dress shirt and a white sleeved coat over it. There was two golden strips around the wrist of his coat. And an elegant light blue cloak flowed behind. He was wearing knee length white boots and a golden crown on his head. His violet eyes were stunning at always. 

"Shu Kurenai" Someone yelled at his ear. Shu blinked looking at Shinki who was smirking beside him.

"What?" Shu asked.

"You were staring at Lui for like fifteen minutes" Shinki said.

Shu blinked again and looked again at Lui who was standing right in front of him. His arms crossed over his chest. "Why? Falling for me again" Lui asked with a smirk.

Shu felt his face go red. He looked away. "No" he said.

Lui took a step forward and pecked his lips. Shu looked at him with the same blush covering his face. "You still have to get ready."

Shu nodded as Shinki started squealing beside them. Lui gave him a death glare. "shut up"

Katana walked to Shu. "let's go you are the only one who hasn't got ready still"

Shu followed Katana walking away from the scene where Lui was yelling at Shinki who is still squealing. Touma looked at Shu. "here you are" He said handing him a dress. "This dress is pretty casual and boring the other one is the one you wear for the ball so go and get ready"

Shu nodded taking the dress in his hands as he entered a room and closed the door behind him. 

Meanwhile Valt and the gang was walking to the rideout academy. "I can't beleive they made Shu agree to wear a dress" Valt said.

"Yeah" Xander said. "He doesn't even like to act even though he is seriously good at it"

"And as I heard Lui is playing the role of the prince" Ukyo chimed in.

"Figured if Shu is acting to Cinderella it's pretty normal Lui acting the prince" Wakiya said.

They all arrived to the school premises. 

"Wow this place is huge" Valt said.

"Guys right here" They all looked at Katana waving at them. They all walked to him.

"So...."Yugo said.

"Wanna visit the others in the costume rooms?" Katana asked.

"We can?" Honcho asked.

"You guys are friends why not?" Katana said leading the way. 

They all walked in silence until Xander broke it. "So how's Shu?"

"He's still changing" Katana said. He lead them to their costume room. Shinki was the first to greet them. He gave them a death glare. "Don't comment or else I'll make you a frog" He said violently shaking his wand.

Wakiya snickered. "Seriously a frog?"

"Is that Kazuki?" Daigo asked. 

Kazuki glared at the gang and looked away. They all looked at Lui and Gou who was approaching them. "Wow Lui you look stunning" Ukyo said giving him a thumb up.

"Thanks" Lui muttered.

"Shu stared at him for atleast fifteen minutes when he saw him" Gou said.

"That is normal for lovers" Quon said.

"speaking if Shu where is he?" Valt asked looking around.

"Touma is putting makeup to him. It took us half an hour to make him agree to put on makeup" Lui spoke.

"I'm not going out like this" They all heard Shu's voice coming from behind a door. 

They all walked to the door. "Shu come out your friends are here?" Shinki said from the other side. 

"I'm not defenietly coming out now" Shu talked.

"Please Shu" Valt said.

He heard Shu sigh from the other side and the door opened revealing Shu. They all looked at him. He was wearing a knee length brown colour dress. The dress was not something so flashy and not boring either. The sleeves were only long to his elbows. His hair was adjuted into a little ponytail and the bangs were let loose. Shu refused to look at his friends in the eys as he kept glancing around.  "Wow Shu you look amazing" Xander said smiling.

Shu gave him a are you serious look. "Yep you are probably the only one who can pull of a dress like that" Valt said giving him thumbs up.

 "but this is embarassing" Shu said trying to hide his blush. Suddenly Lui stepped toward him and put a hand around his waist pulling him closer. Shu squeaked of the sudden reaction of the Dragon Blader. 

"You look amazing" He said looking at the red eyed blader. Then placed a quick peck on his lips. 

Wakiya sighed. "Let's go guys we need to give this two love birds some time"

"W-what?" Shu asked as others waved at them and left the costume area. The time went quickly and they were all waiting back stage to start their drama and the announcer said.

"Next drama is Cinderella everyone welcome"