Disclaimer: If I owned Skip Beat! or anything mentioned in my story, I probably wouldn't be writing this.
This is my first fanfiction, so please review if you want! It'll help out.
Chapter 1: A Selectively Meaningful Introduction
Mogomi Kyoko was having a perfectly ordinary day. That is to say, a normal day for a revenge-driven actress who unknowingly had two of the most handsome and famous men in the entertainment business (one of which was the receiving end of her revenge) fighting over her.
Actually, I'll have to apologize. It would be insulting to Kyoko if I said she was revenge driven at this point. She now acted for the sake of finding her own self; the one that was hidden as she spent her entire life living for others (especially for those who didn't seem to appreciate it).
Anyway, though that information is important to the story at hand, it's about time to get this rather odd tale going.
"Morning, Mogomi-san," A voice wafted from behind her. Turning around, Kyoko saw that it was her acting sempai, Tsuruga Ren, along with his manager.
"A very good morning to you as well, Tsuruga-san!" Kyoko replied with a small smile.
Now, normally I'm not the person to mention things like "small smiles" when people interact with each other. However, there is a good reason why I specifically did. To show you, let's revisit this scene using Ren's point of view.
Tsuruga Ren and his manager Yashiro were walking down one of the numerous hallways of LME's main building when they came upon a young girl in a bright pink uniform. This normally would have been a very odd sight for a person to see, but both men knew that the person before them was not in the most normal of situations.
LME's rather eccentric president, Takarada Lory, was a man of strange traits. Though he cosplayed regularly and played otome-games, he had a strange way of reading people's true traits. He had seen Kyoko's ability, and had not wanted to simply let it go to waste, even though she lacked what he thought was an actor's most important trait: the ability to love and the want to love others. Therefore, she had been dumped (with a fair amount of negative connotations intended) into his own personal project: the Love Me section.
And so, the rather normal (if a bit eccentric herself) sixteen-year old girl was stuffed into the trademark pink overalls that all Love Me members wore, and was sent to do various jobs for people in order to grasp the power of love.
Charming. Now that we've established that Kyoko isn't wearing something that normally a person would rather die than wear because she wants to, let's move on.
"Morning, Mogomi-san," Ren said as he lengthened his stride to catch up to her. She turned and returned his greeting.
"A very good morning to you as well, Tsuruga-san!" Kyoko replied.
Now before we continue, I'd like to point out for those who haven't noticed that I did not mention her small smile this time. This is simply because it will take much more than a couple of words to describe Ren's reaction. Enjoy.
While saying this, Kyoko flashed an angelically cute smile that made Ren want to drop his normal "cool and collected" image and hug her right there. It was enough trouble for Ren to avoid doing anything too forward to her on a normal basis, but these moments were the ones that Ren ingrained into his mind to help him get through the day.
If you are just as bad as Kyoko in recognizing another's feelings, it should be mentioned at this point that Tsuruga Ren is indeed madly in love with this aspiring high school girl.
"You're certainly energetic today, Kyoko-chan!" chimed in Yashiro. "What do you have planned for today?" It always did his mind good to see her. Not because of any feelings towards her, but because of his charge's. He looked over at Ren's unguarded face. He had a genuine smile on, one that Yashiro could read in a moment.
"I'm going over to the President's office right now. He says that there's a special job that he wants me to take." Kyoko seemed excited.
"Actually, we were going the same way," Ren replied, beginning to walk again. "Why don't we go there together?"
"Sure, if you're fine with walking with your kouhai." Kyoko lowered her head a little at this and followed after Ren.
Yashiro sighed and shook his head.
- For future reference, I do plan to keep this narration going, unless people find it annoying. It's fun for me to write like this, though. Allows me to crack jokes at things. Since I think it's obvious enough when the narrator is talking directly to the readers, I decided not to change the font or do anything to the narrator's lines. I think it makes the story sound more conversational.
- I must say that I applaud Yashiro's efforts to place these two inexperienced people together. He hasn't given up after nearly a year. That takes perseverance.
- Next chapter will be longer. Promise.