Okay, another fanfic that I REALLY wanted to write, but this time, I am going to make this story multiple chapters long instead of only a chapter. I have already a few ideas lined up so I hope you like it! On to Chapter 1! PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!

Disclaimer: I do not own Skip Beat or any of its characters.

"Good morning, Tsuruga-san!"

"How are you, sir?"

"Good luck with the shoot today!"

"Looking good, Ren!"

"Okay, you are really too famous for your own good," Yashiro said with a shake of his head as he walked down the hall. Pushing his glasses up the brim of his nose, he looked up at his best friend who had a friendly smile on his face as he passed his fellow workers in LME.

"You make it sound as if people greeting me is a bad thing. I thought you always said the more publicity, the better."

"It is—to a certain extent of course. But don't you ever get annoyed with all of the…pestering?" Yashiro asked with his hands flailing around to represent the annoyance.

Ren laughed and lightly nudged Yashiro on the shoulder. "If I hated all of this attention, I should have never been an actor in the first place, should I? Besides, isn't this a sign of my success, Yashiro?"

He frowned in defeat. No matter how much Yashiro hated to admit it, Ren was right. It was just a curse of his alluring personality and great talent as an actor that attracted other people. Ren was just too perfect to pass up.

As the two men walked down the hall, greeting a dozen more people along the way, they finally spotted the one person that Yashiro was hoping to see all morning: Mogami Kyoko.

If people didn't know any better, they would have thought that Yashiro was in love with Kyoko by the looks of his facial expression every time he saw her. But they couldn't have been farther from the truth. In fact, the person in love with Kyoko was not Yashiro at all; it was the tall, handsome gentleman next to Yashiro who fell for everything about her.

Yes, Tsuruga Ren was in love and not with a famous actress who was on the same standard as he. In reality, she wasn't even anywhere close to being as successful or well-known as Ren. No, Mogami Kyoko was just an aspiring actress in high school who had a hold on Ren's heart that nobody could ever understand.

With a smile that would have knocked other women senseless, Ren walked up to his pupil who had her back turned and her head buried in a thick-looking packet. Peeking around her shoulder, Ren realized that it was a script.

It was titled SWEET AFFECTION. "Odd," Ren thought. "Is this a new drama?"

To Ren's and Yashiro's surprise, Kyoko was mumbling to herself. Nothing too out of the ordinary for her, since it was Kyoko of course, but it was what she was saying that made them curious.

"There is no way…ARE THEY CRAZY!? I can't do this! I've never—UGH, I can't even say it! DESPICABLE!"

The two men looked at each other with their eyebrows raised. "What is she talking about?" they thought simultaneously.

With a light tap on her shoulder, Kyoko turned around as if electrified and nearly tripped over her own feet when she saw who it was.

"TSURUGA-SAN! Yashiro-san!" she cried loudly. "I'm so sorry! I didn't see you guys there!" Then she stepped to the side in order to open up more space in the hall to let the two men through.

Ren shook his head and replied, "You're not in the way, Mogami-san. I'm just wondering what you're doing. Is something wrong?"

Horrified, Kyoko quickly thrust her hands behind her back, hiding the script from view. "It's nothing!" she said earnestly. "Just something Sawara-san gave me. Nothing important!" She laughed nervously and smiled with a wide grin. Yashiro snickered.

Ren's aura turned a tad shade darker as he loomed over his pupil and asked, "Really? Because I have a bad feeling that you're lying to me."

And just as he expected, Kyoko cowered in fear and whimpered. "No…not lying…not really…"

Ren smiled.

"Umm…it's not…"

Still smiling.

"I don't want to bother you—!"

STILL smiling.

"Tsuruga-san!" she cried exasperatedly, a clear sign that she wasn't giving up easily.

Ren chuckled and with one fluid motion, he reached for the script behind Kyoko's back and took it out of her grasp.

Despite her desperate tries to take it out of his hands ("NO! GIVE IT BACK!"), Ren was able to get the gist of the script before he placed it back in its rightful place. She let out a breath and glared at her ridiculously tall mentor.

He smiled sheepishly and shrugged his shoulders. "I was curious."

Yashiro couldn't help but laugh at Ren; he found it really refreshing at times like these when Ren allowed his true, comical side to shine through instead of that professional façade that he had to uphold all the time. No matter how hard he tried to hide it, Ren always acted like himself around Kyoko.

"So a commercial, huh?" Ren asked. "Are you going to do it?"

Kyoko furrowed her eyebrows. "I want to…" she replied slowly. "But…"

"But…?" Ren repeated questioningly.

Kyoko looked up at Ren and frowned. "I have a problem with it."

"What's the problem?"

She looked down at her feet and started to squirm. "I don't know how to say it…"

Ren smiled reassuringly. "Then just say it."

Kyoko shook her head.

"Have you always been this stubborn?" Ren asked with a chuckle as he ran his fingers through his hair. "I can always find out for myself, you know…" he threatened as he slowly reached for the script again.

Kyoko quickly took a step back and glared. "Don't you dare," she communicated with her eyes.

"Then tell me," Ren replied.

And during this entire conversation, Yashiro, who hadn't said a word, kind of felt like he was a third wheel. It seemed like they didn't even realize he was still there. But he was used to this feeling and it didn't really bother him. He was too focused on getting these two together that he didn't have any time left to feel the least bit offended.

Then with a frown, Kyoko looked behind Ren and Yashiro, her eyes scanning side to side, up and down. She then turned around and twisted her head.

"The coast is clear," Ren said, smiling.

Sure that there was no on around, she let out a long breath and whispered softly, "Well, the one problem I have with it…is at the end. The director wants me to do something that I'm not exactly…comfortable with."

Ren couldn't help but lean in to Kyoko when he asked, "And what is he making you do?" Surprisingly, Ren could already feel the irritation starting to bubble inside of him. It sounded bad from the way Kyoko was saying it. And there was no way in hell was he going to let any person, let alone a MAN, hurt or cause her any trouble. Not his Kyoko.

She looked up at Ren from underneath her lashes and mumbled something incoherent.

"I'm sorry, Mogami-san. I didn't catch that."

Kyoko closed her eyes and sucked in a breath. "He—"

"Yes?"

"He wants me to—"

"YES?"

"—kiss someone."

Ren's heart shattered.