Author Note: Yes, once again there is another fic. I actually decided to get a bunch of my ideas out all at once and then to work on all the different fics. This actually prevents me from doing something totally crazy like I have done before out of boredom or feeling the need to update one fic too often which allows people a chance to read it. Again, I hope you enjoy this fic as well and I want to talk about my inspiration for writing Skip Beat which is an old friend I had in the past named Sarah (or Cindersarah) you can find her profile on my favorite authors list and she was someone I roleplayed with for years.

As I always say, I hope you enjoy.

The Big Bad Wolf

Chapter One – A Burning Ring of Fire

Kyoko was extremely happy with her life. She was now twenty-six years old and she had a five year old daughter and a twenty-nine year old husband. She had recently been ranked as the number one celebrity in Japan and she had people offering her all kinds of roles. This was like a dream come true. She had seen Shoutaro plunge in the rankings to where he was no longer in the top one hundred stars and she had married Corn, her fairy prince.

She didn't know what else she could ask for. She even had dabbled a little in singing and had released an album. She was overjoyed with the praise and admiration that the second top actor in Japan gave her. Well, he was also the most sought after director and screenwriter as well.

What she saw him as most though was Kuon Hizuri, the best father and husband she could think of and with the grandfather that her daughter had it was a very close tie. Still, she had her own prejudices like everyone and Kuon would always be the man or fairy prince of her dreams.

Kyoko looked down at Yuna as the girl snuggled down in the princess bed they had picked out together as a family. "So, the fairy princess and the fairy prince lived happily ever after," she grinned as she finished reading to the little girl.

She didn't know if Yuna was too old to be read these bedtime stories, but it would be a cold day in hell before she was ready to stop doing so.

Kyoko placed the book on the bookshelf and then got out of the room, turning off the light and shutting the door. She went down the stairs and smiled to herself as she saw Kuon looking over a book. She grinned and then very quietly put her hands around his shoulders from behind and kissed him on the cheek as he laughed and placed a bookmark where he had been reading.

"Did I surprise you, Corn?" she asked with a very playful smile as Kuon rolled his eyes and laughed, turning to look at her properly.

"Would it make a difference if you hadn't?" he asked. "So, she's asleep?" he asked as Kyoko once again took in his blond hair and emerald eyes. She was so thrilled that she could see him with them every day. Even the glasses that he had been told he had to wear now added to his sex appeal. For some reason switching your eye color back and forth really wasn't the safest thing to do.

Kyoko shrugged as she looked at him, her hair was once again black and hung down to her waist. Lory had suggested that she keep her first image, but since the directors were always asking her to consider other hair styles, she had just let it grow unless it was needed in a scene.

She didn't have to escape from herself anymore, Kuon both knew and unconditionally accepted who she was. Her family was all that really mattered to her.

"Not really," she said before reaching a hand out to him, "Don't tell me you're getting worried because your birthday is coming up next week," she teased him, "The big three zero"

"Don't remind me," Kuon laughed. "I feel that that's so old. Of course, we do seem to have something about this ten year mark on my life. It was when I was ten that you first met me as Corn and when I was twenty you met me as Ren Tsuruga."

"I wonder who I'll meet this year," Kyoko grinned.

Kuon rolled his eyes, "I promise you that I have already told you all of my secrets and everything about me of any relevance. You know me inside and out and you know me so well that if you were to have to tell a blind guy that you were me then you could do it."

Kyoko shook her head, "Maybe if I had stilts," she teased him before he pulled her close to his body and held her whilst they snuggled up on the sofa together. Kyoko felt her heart bursting with light at how safe her beloved Kuon was making her feel.

It was then however that Kuon saw a golden card sticking out of a black envelope.

Kyoko bit her lip, she hadn't told him about this. Grabbing it so he couldn't see it would disturb the moment, they always trusted each other with everything. Kyoko even knew Rick's parents' names from how honest Kuon had been about his past and all the details that he had included.

As the blond looked at the letter he frowned and had to read it over three times before seeing who had signed it, "Reino?" he asked her, "Wasn't that the creep who stalked you for about three years?" he asked. "I thought that his band broke up about seven years ago."

"They did. This is the first time that he's contacted me since then," Kyoko frowned as she looked at the invitation. "See he wants to meet up with me and tell me about how proud he is of me. It's completely weird for a stalker to want to show me things like that," she leaned back. "Though I might go, it would be worse if he tried other methods."

Kuon nodded slowly, "Then let me go with you? We can ask Kanae to babysit just for a short time and if she's busy then we have other options. If we face this creep together then at least we can sort to it that he will never get a chance to attack further."

"Okay, that would be good," Kyoko smiled gently. "I think I would feel safer with you there as well. The guy was a mess ten years ago, I wonder how much of a disaster he got his life into now. After all, you never can teach an old beagle new tricks."

Kuon chuckled as she said that and pulled her close to kiss her again. "I love you so much," he told her as she grinned.

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The Next Night

Kyoko checked her phone yet again as they walked to the address that Reino had given them, which seemed to be out in a field for some reason. She turned to Kuon, "So, Babysitter Yashiro read the three little pigs again. Is there a reason why he keeps choosing that as the story?" she asked.

Kuon shrugged, "Apart from his love for dogs, I'm not sure what that guy is thinking," he said as he talked about one of his closest friends. He stopped as they got a small barn as the address. Kuon sighed and then looked playfully upset. "Aww, this is it. I mean, I was at least expecting if we were in the middle of a field anyway to find a wicker man or something," he said using his pathetically cute expression.

"You don't have to look so upset you know?" Kyoko laughed at how her husband could so easily switch between emperor of the night to an adorable little puppy who wanted his bone.

"I was just expecting him to do something more creative. I mean, this is just a barn and I'm not sure if he wants to reenact a scene from a horror film, but it's a let down. Where's the dark demon spirit? Where's the human chess board? Where's the circling…"

"Ring of fire?" Kyoko said as she pointed behind Kuon to where a field had started to light up in a giant ring. She saw childish excitement on her husband's face and rolled her eyes, "If I'd known you'd be this happy to see fire, I would have planned something completely different for your birthday," she teased him.

As the two Hizuris looked at the marks in the ground, they saw Reino coming towards them. His hair was long, going down to near his knees and he was wearing a dark gothic coat with some crows swarming above him. He had silver hair now but the differences which were strangest were his fangs and his two pointed ears, there was also a sign of the devil on his forehead as if it had been branded on.

"Why, hello, my guests have arrived," he told them before seeing them both glare at him. "I was almost going to console myself that we should never meet again. You see, you've been training under artists whilst I've been training under masters."

Kyoko rolled her eyes, "Yes, you really needed to do that, you damn beagle," she said as she felt her old self come out, though with Kuon by her side she felt so much stronger. "I hope he taught you how to sit."

Kuon placed a hand on Kyoko's shoulder to steady her, "I hope you know what you're doing," he warned the man in front of him, "because neither of us negotiate with terror producing individuals."

Reino laughed. "I do know what I'm doing, thank you for the compliment," he said before Kyoko could see something in the grass. There were small dark figures as if some creature had been brought out of the earth by the fire. She took a step back. They looked like small monkeys made out of black smoke and she wasn't sure why Kuon wasn't seeing them.

"If you knew exactly what you were doing -" Kuon said as he took a step forwards but then felt the dark power clutching him all over and bringing him to the center of the circle. All of a sudden the blades of grass turned to shards of glass and a dark purple mist was filling the air. Kyoko was about to rush forwards to see if there was a way she could help her husband when she heard a clap of thunder and it started to rain.

The next thing that she could observe was a zap of lightning that went through the sky and aimed at Kuon. She wanted to run out and make sure that he was alive, but how could he be? "Kuon…" she whispered completely terrified of what was going on. Had this idiot really gone to the gates of hell to do this and what for? What threat did either she or her husband pose to him anymore?

As the light faded and the rain fell down, Kyoko saw a black figure on the ground and she wanted to run forwards to see if Kuon was alive. Even if he was in a coma, she needed to have some certainty that at some point in the future they would all be a family again.

"Well, he'll obey you as his mistress but I don't think anyone else stands much of a chance," Reino smiled before seeming to sink into the ground and Kyoko was left alone with the body in the middle of the field. She rushed over to him quickly before her feet seemed to stop and she looked over the body of a large and scary black wolf.

Kyoko looked around wanting to know where her husband was or what this wolf was doing there. The words that Reino had left her with had been cryptic, that she was his mistress? What did he mean by that? Was Kuon here?

Picking up a large tree branch to defend herself, Kyoko could hear the wolf getting up and start snarling and growling and she felt terrified. This creature was going to attack her. She watched it with her heart pounding in her chest as the wolf acted very much like a wolf.

She flinched as the wolf sat and howled at the moon above and wondered if it was alerting its pack that she was here, fresh meat was very appealing to wolves. She took deep breaths wanting to find a place where she could calm herself and the she saw it. The all too familiar emerald eyes.

As the wolf looked around, Kyoko felt herself shiver as she whispered, "Kuon?" she gasped as the wolf looked at her with a faint recognition of that name.

"Kuon," she said as she tried to stand tall, momentarily lowering the branch she was holding, "Come," she ordered as one might order a dog and the wolf went over to her and stood in front of her, "Sit," she said as the wolf sat down. "Calm, no bite" she said again as she dared herself to touch the wolf on the top of the head.

She bent down slightly to look at the wolf face to face, "Kuon?" she asked before hearing a soft whine coming from the wolf.

What the hell was going on!?