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The Heist

Chapter 1- What's my Character's Name?

A con artist. That's what they wanted her to be. How in the world is someone a con artist and a heroine? She'd gotten this offer because the director had seen her Natsu. Natsu manipulated those around her and things always turned out the way she planned. The director wanted that same ability in Karu Pride.

This agency is kinda small thought Kyoko as she walked down the halls of Summerset Agency. Then again, it could just be that the agency she belonged to was extraordinarily big. Sawara-san had told her about this offer a few days ago. He'd said it was different then the bully roles. Without even asking what the role was, she accepted. Then had rushed out of the room to tell her best friend Kanae that she had graduated from the bully roles.

Now, wandering the halls of this new agency, Kyoko wished she knew more about her character, about the script. Room 211, this was where the first meeting for the drama was to be held. She was a little early, so at least she could peek at her script.

Karu- "But sir, if ever there was a break in, one security guard wouldn't be enough. Two would be able to guard it more efficiently."

Boss- "Hmm… you're right Karu. I'm busy making the preparations for the package's arrival. So I'll leave you in charge of finding us a second security guard."

As the boss turns and walks away Karu smiles a mischievous smile and says, "Oh, I know just the man for the job." Karu dials her cell phone as she walks to her car, "Hey Pablo, we're in."

"Ms. Mogami?" Kyoko looked up from her script to see her sempai and his manager standing right in front of her. "Are you also in this drama?"

"Ye…yes," she managed to stutter out in shock. Sawara-san had said nothing about Ren being in the drama; then again, she hadn't really given him the chance.

"What character are you?" he asked. This was bad. The only character names she knew were Karu, the boss, and some guy named Pablo. She couldn't tell the strict Tsuruga Ren that she had been too excited about her role to listen to what it actually was.

"Umm…"

"This way everyone." Luckily, at that moment a bunch of people filed into the room interrupting their conversation. "Everyone please sit down so we can get started," said the same man as before. "First I'll start off by telling you all whose playing whom. Tsuruga Ren is Yahiko Izumi, Aaron Small is Pablo…" he listed off a few more names and characters, but he didn't mention her. Kyoko was getting nervous now; she still didn't know her character's name. "We've kept this last character a secret up till now because we want her to make the best impact possible. Her name will not be released until posters are put up a few weeks before the show premiers. Karu Pride will be played by Kyoko Mogami."

Wait, what? Wasn't that the main character? How could she, someone not even worthy of being called an actor, be the main character, when Tsuruga Ren was a supporting actor?

"Ms. Mogami … Ms. Mogami," Kyoko once again looked up to see Ren and Yashiro looking at her. The look they saw was one of despair. They didn't know how to react since they were going to congratulate her on getting the leading role. "Ms. Mogami, what's wrong?"

"I… forgot to pay attention." She'd been so distraught over getting a better role than Ren, her senior, that she couldn't pay attention. Her look of despair was because she was the leading actress, yet she knew the least about the drama.

Within seconds Kyoko was on the floor doing a dogeza. "I'm so sorry Tsuruga-san!" she wailed. The words that she said after were so jumbled together that neither Ren nor Yashiro could make any sense of it.

"Ms. Mogami, please stop. It's bad not to pay attention but you don't need to do a dogeza. Please stand up." As Ren helped her to her feet she confessed.

"I was so excited about the drama when Sawara-san told me it wasn't a bully role. So excited that I didn't give him a chance to tell me about it. Walking in, I didn't even know the name of my character. Then when that man said I was the main character and Tsuruga-san was a supporting actor… it… it's just not right. I don't even deserve to be called an actress and yet I'm given a better role then my sempai. I just couldn't focus after that." She ended breathless and all weepy eyed.

"Kyoko-chan, that man was the director, Director Umeda." Yashiro said, not sure how to react to her. Ren had to use all his acting ability not to laugh and hug her as her eyes went from full of tears, to big and round with shock.

"That was the director?" she squealed as her hands flew to her face. "Oh no, I'll never be able to prepare for this role. I don't even know the most basic details!" By this time Kyoko was wallowing in a pit of despair.

"Ms. Mogami calm down. Go home tonight and read the script. Learn as much of it as you can, so that in the next few days you can work on making your Karu. Then, when shooting starts, you'll be in the same place as the rest of us." Ren's words were like a ray of hope. She looked like a child expecting to get a cookie for behaving.

"Really," she exclaimed. "Then I'll go get to work right now. "

As he watched her run off Ren held a painful expression on his face.