AN: Yes, this is another Skip Beat fic but trust me, I'm working on a calendar to do once I've finished this current semester of school and hopefully I can start updating all my fics with energy and determination again and get some finished off whilst expanding on others. I hope you do enjoy this one though.

Also, married Kuon-Kyoko is my favorite to write about so 😊

Loyalty

Chapter One – I'm married

Kyoko couldn't believe it had been five years since she and Shotaro had stopped living together and she had started acting, well they hadn't really been living together but she had been taking care of the apartment and the bills. It had been five full years. After just one year she had understood that she was far too deeply in love for it to be ignored any longer. She had felt stupid giving into such an emotion but he had been her prince. After he had found out and he had confessed, the two of them had spent three years in a relationship and it was soon going to be their one year wedding anniversary.

Along with a successful acting career, Kyoko Hizuri was married to her prince. She knew he had his faults and she had identified her own but that was the beauty of a relationship and especially a marriage. You knew that the other person loved you unconditionally. You knew that you loved them and you were willing to make sacrifices – like staying in Japan instead of moving to America - for them.

Kyoko paused as she looked in a shop selling a lot of gadgets and electrics. She smiled as she looked at a camera that was top of the line. Maybe she could buy him that for their anniversary. She knew how he liked to walk in nature and that he was always telling her about the different birds that he saw. He loved animals and the natural world and maybe he could use a camera to capture that.

Still, was it special enough for him. Hadn't he received a couple of cameras from the photographers who had worked with him during his modelling shoots when his birthday had rolled around. Kyoko grinned as she thought about all of the things that he did have. He had told her that her love was all that he had needed but she had wanted to do something special. He was twenty-five, although that wasn't as big as turning thirty, it was still a milestone.

That was why she was glad that she had been able to pay for the two of them to go to America and spend about a week there whilst she told him how special and important he was to her. Kyoko hummed as she tried to think if there was something special and personal between them that she could get him. She imagined his smiling face and blushed before feeling a person step beside her.

"They're pretty neat aren't they?" a man asked and Kyoko looked at him surprised.

"Can I help you?" she asked and the man turned to her.

"Maybe," he said before bluntly stating, "I want to go on a date with you."

Kyoko stared at him, her mouth dropping open as she struggled to come up with some kind of answer to that. Her relationship had always been publicized because he was the Ren Tsuruga. This man must have at least seen some newspaper or magazine that had the two of them in. Since they were both at the top of the acting arena, they were called one of Japan's VIP couple.

"I…can't do that," Kyoko said as she stared at him again.

"Well, I want to go on a date with you," the man said and Kyoko looked him over. He didn't seem very threatening or even very interesting apart from the slicked back silver hair and his ocean colored eyes. He was wearing a black suit and white shirt with black tie, he had on comfortable business shoes but around his neck was a chain that looked slightly like the one that Ren always wore.

"I'm sorry, I'm married," Kyoko said as she lifted up her finger where she had her ruby and white gold ring that turned a deeper shade of red when it caught the light in the right way. "See,"

"Ah, see I was hoping we could forget that little detail, no…I don't really like when people forget things," he said as Kyoko raised an eyebrow. This man seemed to be speaking to her in riddles and she didn't have time to deal with it.

"That's great for you," Kyoko said as she turned away from the shop, she still had a couple of weeks to think of a perfect gift for him. "Now, I have to get home, excuse me," she said as she turned and the man looked at her. He put a hand on her shoulder and Kyoko felt an unhuman chill throughout her body. She looked over to him. Kyoko watched as he picked up a strand of her longer auburn hair. She had continued to dye it during her career (apart from when she was asked not to for a role) but she had grown it out so that it rested half way down her back.

"I want to go out on a date with you," the man said and Kyoko looked at him. "I'm only going to ask you one more time if you say no."

"Then go ahead and ask me," Kyoko said as she stood with her hands by her sides as they slowly turned into fists. "My husband is extremely loyal to me and I share the same loyalty with him, he is protective over me and he loves me. He -"

"Is he warm and cuddly with blond fu- I mean hair and green eyes? Does he like to snuggle up with you? Does he have a special way of speaking to you?" the man said and Kyoko looked at him confused with the way that he was speaking.

"Yes," Kyoko said proudly as she raised her chin, "Yes, he loves me."

"He's your best friend isn't he? Someone whose loyal, listens to what you have to say, guards you from predators and intruders?" he smiled and Kyoko watched him suspiciously but she had no idea how to respond to that. This man really was a creepy weirdo, people didn't talk about other people especially celebrities with these terms.

"Yes," Kyoko nodded, "he –"

"Will you go out on a date with me?" the man repeated and Kyoko stared at him stunned.

"No," she said with finality and the man shrugged and walked away. Kyoko looked over at him confused in a way that she hadn't been for a very long time. She felt a shiver through her body and pulled out her phone. Kuon had told her that he would be home around this time. She tried to call him but there was no answer.

She wanted to vent to him and have him wrap her up in his arms as he listened and they laughed about this weird encounter. Still, with the way that that man had touched her, Kyoko had the feeling that something had gone wrong.

…..

…..

Kyoko carried a bag of groceries over to her and Kuon's apartment. She sighed as she tried to hold all of it in one bag. She had originally requested two bags but they hadn't been listening to her. As she sighed, she went to open the door when she saw a six month old Golden Retriever sitting there who looked a bit worried. The dog approached her cautiously before trying to bark to her. Kyoko flinched a little as she heard the three barks the dog was making as if saying 'Ky-o-ko'.

Kyoko sighed as she saw that the apartment door was left open and she looked into it worried.

"He must have gone out in a rush," she said as the dog kept making the sounds.

Kyoko looked at him as he started to enter the apartment and she held up a finger. "I'm sorry," she said, "Doggy stays outside, okay?" she asked before running a hand through her hair. "Stay," she repeated and she flinched again as she saw that the dog had emerald colored eyes. His golden fur was even a similar color to Kuon's natural hair color.

She watched as the dog stared at her wide eyed and kept putting a foot in and out of the doorway as if trying to decide whether to go in or out. Kyoko lifted another finger up and gave a stern look to the dog, "Stay," she said before hearing the dog whine at her.

Kyoko looked around, "Kuon?" she asked before hearing the dog bark to her as if replying to her. "Kuon!? Sweetheart!? Corn are you here!?" she called as the dog whined and barked in response to that. Kyoko sighed and turned to the dog who just kept watching her. "I'm sorry, will you please…what's the command for not speak. Quiet?" she said before nodding and pointing at the dog, "Quiet."

Kyoko looked around completely stunned, she picked up her phone and dialed Kuon's number. It wasn't like him to leave the apartment with no security. Kyoko took a few deep breaths before hearing a buzzing near the doorway and the dog seemed to be trying to go over to the phone. Kyoko sighed. She would have to tell whoever the owner of this dog was that he would need to be better trained or she - it could be a female dog.

"Why would?" Kyoko asked before going to where Kuon's phone was and saw that he had taken off all of his clothes in the middle of the hallway. What was he thinking? Did he have a cold again of course this was pretty strange behavior even if he did have one of his "rare" colds. She noticed that there was a bag with a jewelry box on the floor and a necklace had fallen out that matched her wedding ring.

"Kuon, what are you thinking?" she asked before seeing a note on the floor. She picked it up before reading it.

I'm leaving you. Ciao. Kuon

"What the…" Kyoko said as the dog looked at her, "Kuon, why did you just -" she saw that the dog had moved closer and was looking at the note with his paw on it. He started shaking his head as he looked at her in shock and Kyoko took a deep breath in before pushing the dog away from her.

"He hasn't left," Kyoko said as she stood up and felt the dogs paws on her legs as he looked up at her with those haunting emerald eyes. "He wouldn't leave. He's not like that. Kuon is different than Shotaro," she said before the dog started to paw at her leg. She looked at him and saw the sadness in those eyes. "Look, my husband has just left me whilst taking off all of his clothes. Either he's lost his mind or something's gone wrong. Kuon wouldn't just leave me," she said as the dog continued to whine.

"I'm sorry," she said as she looked at the dog, "This isn't the right time for this. I'll take you to the landlady and hopefully she'll find your owner for you. I don't have anything for you here and I need to process this," she said before tapping on her leg, "Heel," she said as the dog looked at her shocked. He shook his head refusing to leave the apartment.

"Come with me now or I might have to get animal control to come up here," she said not thinking that the dog would understand her. "They'll be a lot meaner to you," she said before the dog approached her and followed her out. Kyoko locked the apartment building before clicking her fingers to the dog, "Heel," she commanded and with a wary look in his eyes, the dog obeyed the command.

End of Chapter One

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