Author's Note: Yay! I finally got this updated.

Disclaimer: If I owned Skip Beat this wouldn't be a fanfic, and it wouldn't be on fanfiction.

Kyoko thumped down rethinking about her acting skills. She had improved a lot from when she first started, but she was still missing her important emotion. Kyoko had just started a new role, Yuri, a energetic school girl that no one could hate. However, Hitoshi, the antagonist, pretends to be nice to Yuri only to back stab her latter. In response Yuri loses herself in sorrow when Saya, Yuri's closest friend, tells her that Hitoshi was really in love with her.

Kyoko still couldn't connect with Yuri's feelings of relief when it turned out that Hitoshi loved her. Kyoko had just finished coming from the set, still not sure how to display Yuri's feelings. Kyoko kept her thoughts going around in circles when she heard a phone ring. She sat up wondering who had called this time, even though it was probably a deliver order, she couldn't help but think that it was for her.

"Mogami-san, it's for you!" Kyoko skipped the steps two at a time wondering who had called.

"Hey Kyoko." Kyoko closed her eyes repressing her anger to the best of her ability. It was him who had called.

"What do you want?" Kyoko managed to keep her voice neutral and the venom out of her words. If he knew that she still despised him, he would take it as an invitation to mock her even more.

"Simple, isn't an sempai allowed to check up on their kohai every once in a while?" Kyoko bawled up her hands into tight fists.

"You are not my sempai. My sempai is Tsuruga, Ren." Kyoko gave up on being polite and let acid drip from her words.

"Tsk, Tsk, Tsk. Is that really any way to treat the person who got you interested in show biz?" Kyoko could easily imagine herself slapping his smirk off his face.

"How did you get this number anyway." Kyoko was sure she made it clear that she wanted no one to know her phone number.

"I have connections." Kyoko felt her nerves begin to snap so she used all of her patience to compose herself.

"Good for you, now if you'll excuse me." Kyoko slammed the phone down on the receiver and then quickly apologized to the Darumaya couple and went for a walk. Kyoko instinctively shivered against the cold night air. She ran through back alleyways and jumped across small streams until she reached the woods. Once there Kyoko scaled the steep hill and at the top their was a beautiful clearing that looked magical in the moonlight.

Kyoko was holding corn tightly to her chest, letting it absorb all of her sorrows. When something hit her over her head knocking her unconscious.

Ren was walking through the woods letting his feet take him where they may. He normally avoided these woods, considering the fact that they were notorious for harboring nasty criminals, but he wasn't really paying attention to that.

Ren was exhausting himself, trying to find a new excuse to stay away from Kyoko. Soon she would be 18, and then Yashiro would pounce. If Ren couldn't find another excuse by the 25th he was doomed to admit defeat to Yashiro or find something else for the unreasonable middle-aged man to bother him about. Neither prospects were pleasing, but Ren couldn't think of another excuse.

Ren's thoughts were interrupted when he saw several men huddled around something, although he couldn't tell what, whistling and cheering. Ren moved closer only to see that they were about to undress Kyoko. So Ren did what any other gentleman would of done in his place, he punched their leader.

"What are you doing you-" the man's words were cut off as Ren broke his nose. The man lifted his chubby hand to his face, to see what Ren did, and when he found out Ren had broken his nose. He let out a mighty roar that made the hill tremble. The leader's henchmen leaped back in fear of the bald man's anger, but Ren stood his ground unafraid of the powers that any of them possessed. He had beaten opponents thousands of times stronger than them when his power wasn't being amplified by his rage.

"Leave." Ren smiled his devil smile, that drove all of the henchmen to drag off their leader and run away. Which was smart considering how furious Ren was. If any of them had stayed Ren may of very well snapped.

"Don't worry Mogami-san, they're gone now." Ren spoke softly stroking Kyoko, trying to give her the comfort she might need. It didn't take Ren very long to notice Kyoko wasn't waking up. He quickly brought her to a hospital and once he was their he sat down beside her and waited. Ren stayed beside Kyoko, not ever leaving her side, he was determined to be the first person she saw when she woke up.

"Sir, do you need anything." Ren turned towards the sound to see that a nurse was holding food for Kyoko, although she still slept. Ren glanced at the clock to see that it was already 10 am, Kyoko had been asleep for about 12 hours now. It was also time for him to pick up Yashiro.

"Do you mind if I use my cell phone?" Ren gave one of his dazzling smiles, and the nurse blushed while vigorously nodding her head. Ren quickly dialed Yashiro's number waiting for his manager to pick up.

"Who is it?" Yashiro asked in his If-you-are-another-fangirl-chasing-after-Ren-you-better-hang-up-now voice.

"The person who needs to tell his manager that he isn't going to be able to make work today." Ren replied. He knew that Yashiro would pry, but at the moment he wouldn't leave Kyoko's side.

"Ren, since when do you ask for days off?" Yashiro began his prying, Ren sighed he didn't have an answer for that which wouldn't make Yashiro more curious.

"Yashiro-san, can you do this for me now? I'll explain latter." Ren let his aggravation into his voice, he didn't have time to deal with this.

"Fine." Yashiro hung up the phone, and was hopefully informing all of people who were in charge of Ren's jobs that he couldn't make it. Ren turned back to Kyoko, she was so defenseless. There was no way he would let anyone else be with her before him when she woke up. The doctor's came in and informed Ren about her condition. Apparently she had a hit to her head that might affect her memory, but everything else was fine. Ren let himself release an inward sigh of relief, at least she was going to be alright.

Kyoko started to wake up and she asked Ren the one of the few things that could make him physically flinch.

"Who are you?"

"Who are you?" Kyoko brushed her dress. She wasn't sure who the person in front of her was, the way he looked at her made Kyoko feel as if he was examining her. Kyoko tilted her head and pushed her lips together into a small delicate frown. She then crossed her legs underneath her and put her head on her palm. Who was this mysterious, yet familiar, man in front of her.

"I'm Tsuruga, Ren, your sempai at LME. The real question is do you remember anything from before?" Kyoko felt her heart skip a beat, maybe she simply hadn't recognized this man. Kyoko paused letting herself gather her thoughts. Her golden eyes swarmed with information and questions, but none of them answered anything about her past or this mysterious man. She was about to shake her head 'no' when one sole memory spirited her away from reality back into a distant past.

There was a small girl with short black hair up in two pigtails, the girl was crying her eyes out. Occasionally sobbing something about not being able to please her mother. When the child tripped over a thorn bush she was helped up by a ten year old boy. The boy became the girl's closest companion, as it turns out his name was Corn. He would show her amazing tricks that would help the girl feel better. Corn would always listen to the girl's problems and help her find her way through them. At the end of the string of memories Kyoko realized that she was that girl, and these were her memories of Corn. The only thing she had left of her past at all.

Kyoko didn't know why, but she felt reluctant to share this memory with Ren, so she lied and said "Sorry, but nothing comes to mind." Kyoko kept her voice light. She didn't know why she wanted to cry, but she'd refuse to cry in front of a stranger. Kyoko continued to hold her own as Ren searched her eyes with his own, pleading for her to remember something, and several times Kyoko was tempted to tell him the truth. When she was about to admit her lie a new person entered and she clamped her mouth shut.

"Hello, Mogami-san." This man was wearing strange plastic gloves and headed strait towards Ren.

"Yashiro-san, why are you here." Ren asked, although Kyoko felt that Ren added Yashiro's name for her benefit.

"To see why you asked for a day off, and to see Kyoko-chan of course." Kyoko could feel the hostility as Ren smiled a smile that reminded her of a devil.

"Thank you Yashiro-san, you can leave now." Yashiro pouted and huddled next to Kyoko.

"I haven't even said hi to Kyoko-chan yet." Kyoko quickly looked at Yashiro and decided she could ask him about what was going on.

"Hello Yashiro-san. Would you please explain to me how I know you and Tsuruga-san, what LME is, and if there's anybody else that I should know about coming?" Kyoko figured if Ren could get Yashiro to shut up and answer his questions by smiling, then so could she.

"Are you being serious Kyoko-chan, are you?" Kyoko could see Yashiro wavering under the pressure of her smile, so Kyoko made it even more dazzling and Yashiro caved. Not to mention Ren began to wonder what she was thinking about that could give such an overwhelming smile.

"I'll start with the easy question. LME is an agency that both you and Ren work at. Ren is currently the best in the acting section, and you were working in the Love Me section." Kyoko groaned at the name and Yashiro figured she was probably embarrassed, after all who wouldn't be.

"Your partner in the Love Me section is Kotonami, Kanae. She will be here in about an hour, which is about four o'clock. She can fill you in on what you did there, and you met me and Ren in the LME agency. Speaking of which the President's granddaughter, Maria, is going to be here in about thirty minutes." Kyoko processed the information and then declared.

"Kay. I want all of you to leave me alone for a while, and don't wake me up until somebody else gets here. Also, if you don't mind me asking, could somebody please let the others know before hand that I don't have any memory? Thanks." With that Kyoko felt herself drift back into a deep reassuring sleep.

Author's Note: Yesh, that was a lot of typing that's it for chapter one, and please comment about your idea's. Thanks for reading :D