These wicked games. A Darkness before dawn Music video by Sentora Rurouni Kenshin and it's characters aren't mine, folks, It's Watsuki's and Sony nether is Ninja Scroll, whoever it belongs to.^_^; However, the song is, So ask nicely if you'd like to borrow it or I'd be forced to hurt ya. ^_^ This one kinda goes to same tune as 'Show me the meaning of being lonely' on the new Backstreet Boys CD Millennium, just a little faster, and it's a duet between Megumi and Sano, guest starring Jubei, taking place the same night of part three. Here we go! (As the scene fades into view, we see the scene spilt three ways to show Megumi in one of those old fashioned bathtubs overflowing with bubbles in her room, one soapy leg stretched into the air as she towels it slowly.....A shirtless Jubei practicing a kata with his sword in the middle screen, his face both determined and wistful....and the last screen has Sano lying on the rooftop of the Last chance inn, looking up at the stars with an expression between anger and sadness.) All three: It's so easy to play these wicked games.... (Music starts....the camera now focusing on Megumi, who rests on the rim on her crossed arms and gazes at the camera as she sings.) (Megumi) At first it seemed, To be the perfect plan.... Use your jealousy To finally force your hand.... But what went wrong? I just don't understand.... Now I'm trapped in the arms Of another man.... (View quickly switches to Sano, showing him from different viewpoints as he sings.) (Sano) You mess with my head, So much that it's a sin So I thought it's time, To put your games to an end. Pay you back with a Taste of your own medicine..... Now it's a tug of war, I'm not sure I can win.... (Screen switches to a split screen between the two as they sing the chorus, showing a view of them from above looking up at the camera.) (CHORUS) It's so easy to play These wicked games But when they go wrong, Then who's to blame? You point your finger at me But four point back at you.... Oh, Kami-Sama, what can I do? (Jubei's sword slashes through the scene as if it was paper, the halves peeling away to focus on him as he goes through the kata with such grace he seems to dance.) (Jubei) You're like a ghost.... Of a love that could not stay I see her in your eyes Everytime you smile my way.... (Stops the kata, resting his head against the wall and lets his hair fall into his eyes, idly stroking his cheek where Megumi slapped him earlier.) Am I falling for you? I honesty can't say.... Oh, the wicked games Fate loves to play.... (Megumi throws her hair back, sending water flying through the air....Then she hugs her legs to her chest as she looks sadly) (Megumi) Never meant to cause You both such pain.... (Sano shoves the right side of the screen enough to make it a split screen, leaning up against it.) (Sano) That damn girl always Drives me insane (Jubei shoves the other side over to make it a three way split again, also leaning against the split as he examines his katana.) (All three) Guess things between us Will never be the same.... We have a better chance Stopping the rain.... (Instrumental plays....the view switching to a grand, red carpeted ballroom and stairway similar to the one in Beauty and the Beast, Sano and Megumi 'dirty dancing' style at the top, Sano in a white western suit and Megumi in a red, lacy dress....Both looking deep into the other eyes with indescribable passion....then Megumi twirls out of his arms and right into the Jubei's behind her, who's wearing a black version of Sano's suit....Jubei dipping her gracefully as a EXTREMELY pissed off Sano looks on....Megumi and Jubei seeming to glide across the floor together.....Before Sano suddenly slides out of nowhere to take her right out Jubei's hands when he twirls her....Smirking at Jubei as he dips her in imitation before Megumi finally gets aggravated and shoves Sano off her and faces him down, the two almost nose to nose as she advances while Sano retreats and the Duet begins again, everything else including Jubei fading to black as a spotlight shines on the two. (Megumi, singing angrily) (Sano, echoing her defensively.) It's all your fault! My Fault?! You should have been more aware! It's all your fault! My Fault?! You should of have at least dared, To say I love you, That you really cared! We would of gotten somewhere! (Sano immediately reverses the situation, now advancing while she retreats.) (Sano, singing angrily) (Megumi, echoing him defensively.) It's all your fault! My Fault?! These damn games you lead! It's all your fault! My Fault?! I'm not some book you can read! Now I'm asking you Who the winner will be? Is it gonna be him? (Pulls her close, and gazes into her eyes.) Or me? (The scene switches back to the three way split screen as the beginning, all three doing the same thing as before as they sing the chorus.) (All three.) It's so easy to play These wicked games But when they go wrong, Then who's to blame? You point your finger at me But four point back at you.... Oh, Kami-Sama, what can I do? (All three look up at the skies with a pleading expression as the music slows.) (All three.) Oh, Kami-Sama.....What can I do...... Music and scene fades to black.