AN: I promise I am working on a way to do quicker updates with my fics but I need to figure out how to juggle work and school first so thanks for your patience. I got a craving to write a fic about this and hope you enjoy it. Soon I'll probably run out of storylines with this series but I hope you enjoy this.
Our Twins
Chapter One – I Didn't Know
It had been nearly two decades since Kuon Hizuri, the star formerly known as Tsuruga Ren had been to this part of Kyoto. He had just won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture and he had decided that the next project he would take on was an independent movie that was seen as the hottest thing to hit Japan since Dark Moon. He usually wouldn't work in Japan anymore but the project was interesting to him and the director – Hiroaki Date – was someone who bore nostalgic feelings for him.
He was now twenty-nine and had left Japan six years ago to pursue acting in America. That was after he had been able to spend one passionate night with his girlfriend, their first time, and she had bolted from him. He hadn't thought that he was rushing her into anything but she had seemed to vanish and though he had tried to contact whoever he could think of, nobody knew anything about her or else they weren't about to tell him.
Ren had gotten sick of waiting for her to return to him and so he had gone back to using his proper name and auditioned for some Hollywood movies. The directors and producers loved him and admired his acting, considering it as different than his father's. Despite the long gap and long distance between himself and Kyoko, he hadn't been able to get serious about a relationship and the ones he had tried he would always end up comparing the woman to Kyoko. It hadn't been fair to any of them.
It did feel good to be back in Japan. Kuon stretched his arms out and looked up at the sky. It was a perfect blue. He only wished that he had somebody who he could share it with. He only wished that he could share it with her. Somehow he had scared her and she had left LME and never appeared in a drama again as far as he knew. He often wondered why she had cut her dreams off when she had so much talent. Even if she hated him more than Fuwa, he would have wanted to see any work that she was a part of and watch her perform.
He closed his eyes imagining her and heard two small voices. There were new kids who had found this place. Of course there were new kids who had found this place.
"Come on, Yuuki," a young five-year-old girl called out. She had long black hair and reminded him a lot of when he had met Kyoko. She had gorgeous emerald eyes. Strange for a young Japanese girl to share his eye color. He looked back at Yuuki who she had called after and saw a blond boy of the same age but with amber eyes.
It was like looking at a mirror image of himself as a child. He sighed and turned to them, stepping back so that he could watch him but as he did so, he stepped on a branch and both children turned around in a flash to look at him.
"Don't get too close, Rin" Yuuki said as he held onto his friend's? Sister's? hand. Rin blinked as she faced him and they looked at each other. "Are you a foreigner?" Yuuki asked in Japanese. He turned to Rin. "He doesn't speak Japanese."
"I do speak Japanese," Kuon told them. He knelt down to look at them and they both gasped as they saw him face to face.
"You're that actor who's in the movies," Rin pointed to him and Kuon laughed. Their parents might be fans of his. He bowed his head and nodded. "Mommy has all kinds of pictures of you," she said excitedly. "There's this picture of you and her together. She met you once."
Kuon laughed. "How does your Daddy feel about that?" he asked trying to make conversation and the two children looked at each other. They were twins who didn't look the same at all and they both had a distinctive trait that was a recessive gene. They must have Western blood in them.
"We don't have a Daddy," Yuuki said as both of them tensed. "Mommy says we don't have a Daddy."
"We don't know what happened to him," Rin tried to explain. "Mommy doesn't like to talk about him but she said that he's famous and one day she'll tell us the story."
"The story of your Daddy?" Kuon asked. These children felt eerily similar to himself. "Are you guys alone? Do you know your way home?" he asked and they both nodded. Kuon smiled as he saw Yuuki's eyes widen.
"We've been told not to speak to strangers," he said as he grabbed Rin's hand tighter. "Mommy lets us play but she says to not talk to strangers."
"Good advice," Kuon nodded, "I promise though that I mean you no harm. I used to play here when I was a little boy…well only for a few days but it was an incredibly meaningful part of my life. I think I fell in love here," he grinned. He sighed as he looked down, caught by the nostalgia. He missed her. Even if she would never forgive him for whatever he had done wrong, he missed her. It would have been better seeing her every day with her hating him than for her to just disappear.
"Are you sick, mister?" Yuuki asked as he tilted his head to the side.
"Mommy knows how to cure all the sicknesses," Rin chirped up. "Follow us," she gestured and Kuon sighed but didn't argue. He followed the two of them to a large traditional inn. "This is Mommy's. She got it as a gift because they wanted her to run it and even let her change the name of it."
Kuon looked at the inn. It was pretty impressive. He was glad that the kids had a good place to live and he could see all the lively crowds gathered around. He stood there staring at it and admiring the architecture and the rock garden at the front. He was lost in thought until he saw Yuuki running over to a woman.
"Mommy!" he called and Rin came dashing over to her.
Kuon looked across to see a woman with long black hair wearing a fashionable kimono. He smiled as he saw the two children be kissed and embraced by their mother. It made him happy that they looked so loved even if they didn't know who the deadbeat dad was who had abandoned his own family. He started to hear people say his name and look towards him with some even taking photographs of him. He sighed. He could never escape it these days.
The woman froze as she heard the crowd.
"Isn't that Hizuri Kuon, what's he doing here?"
"Hizuri-sama must be staying in the area. We're so lucky to see him."
"Kuon-sama. Can I please get your autograph!?"
Kuon's eyes widened as the woman rose with wide eyes and a dropped jaw and he had the same expression as her. He had finally tracked down Kyoko and – thinking about it- she was where he should have been looking all of this time. "Kyoko," he whispered. She still took his breath away after all of this time. He looked at her with a grin and waved hoping that she wouldn't return his action with a glare. Instead she stood like a deer caught in the headlights.
"You two go inside," Kyoko told them both as she kissed their foreheads and then approached Kuon. "Hi," she said with an uncomfortable bow. "I didn't know you were in Kyoto. I heard about the movie and about your award. Everyone has been talking about it. A former Japanese actor receiving the highest honor in acting. Congratulations."
Kuon smiled, "Thank you," he said before gesturing to the ryokan. "This is quite impressive. I thought that you didn't want any part of this but it looks beautiful. You look beautiful," he complimented her and Kyoko turned a bright red as she hung her head. Even after all of these years, she still continued to love him. "I met your children. They told me about their father, I'm sorry that you met some scummy guy like that."
Kuon dared himself to place a hand on Kyoko's shoulder. "If you had phoned me, I would have come over and kicked his ass," he chuckled and Kyoko shook her head.
"Yuuki and Rin are five and a half," she said and Kuon laughed.
"Even so. You could have called me. I would have done anything for you. I would have given you whatever support you needed despite who their father turned out to be," he said and Kyoko dropped into a deeper bow.
"Don't say that," she told him and Kuon tilted his head to the side. "Kuon, I got pregnant with the twins a little over six years ago," she said and Kuon blinked as he looked at her and then at the way that the children had left. He looked between them again. Kyoko felt horrible that her words didn't seem to be making it to him.
Kuon froze as he remembered what had caused Kyoko to leave, that erotic night when he had taken it too far and scared her away from both him and the dreams she had with LME. His eyes widened as he continued to look between them and then laughed weakly.
Kuon took her arm gently and managed to find a place where people couldn't follow him, he was very skilled at doing that. "Are you telling me that they're mine? They're my children?" he asked and Kyoko nodded. Kuon watched her, his eyes widening.
"You left because you were pregnant? You never told me." Kuon said trying to battle between depression and anger. "You never told me anything about -"
"What do you want to know about them?" Kyoko asked, "You weren't her-"
"Everything," Kuon said as he stared at her in disbelief and feeling that she had wronged him. "I want to know everything about them."
