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Lory looked around the room at the gathered people and at the laptop that rested on the windowsill. Doctor Benkia looked at him and he nodded slowly for him to proceed.

"Well from what we have gathered in ways of evidence, it appears Tsuruga-san is suffering from brain damage due to blunt force trauma. The effects it seems is an condition we call Confabulation. Confabulation is a memory disturbance, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without a conscious intention. It appears Tsuruga-san has all his old memories fully intact, however he also has a lot of new memories which have not occurred. In his mind, these memories are just as true and just as real as the true memories." Benkia paused waiting to allow what he had just told them to filter in.

"So what you're saying is Ren now has new memories that haven't occurred but he believes them to be true." Benkia nodded as Yashiro looked dumbstruck. Kanae now had her arm wrapped comfortingly around Kyoko, as she sipped a cup of water and looked up between the president and the doctor.

"What kind of new memories?" she asked slowly, feeling Kyoko wince beside her. It was Lory who answered this time as his aid who Kyoko had lovingly dubbed Sebastian passed Lory the notepad. He had scribbled down every word Kuon had said during their conversation between him, Lory and Benkia.

"Ren seems to believe that around 2 years have passed. Now I need you all to remain calm as this will be a shocking experience for you all."Clearing his throat, he watched Kyoko. He wasn't the only one. After Kanae had forcibly worked it out of her why she had fainted, she already dreaded what Lory was going to say.

"Mogami-san, in Ren's fabricated reality, you have in fact been married happily for a year now. You have a young 4 month old daughter, Rosa Juliena, whom you happily named after the roses he buys you each year for your birthday. You're living in the house you own together and both doing very well with your careers. In his mind last year you won the best actress award from JMA, beating your best friend Kanae by only a few votes. You were gracious enough to share the win with her telling the entirety of Japan you wouldn't be there without her help." he looked down from the notepad into the girls wide, staring terrified eyes. She looked like she wanted to speak, but after a few moments he realised she was too shocked to do so. He decided to continue,

"Kotonami-san, you are and always have been Mogami-san's best friend. Even after their marriage you remain so, often visiting the couple at their home with your partner for company and meals..." Kanae cut him off here as she shrieked.

"My partner! I don't have a partner." Lory smiled at her shocked and angry face.

"In Ren's reality you have been dating Yashiro-san now for just over a year. You're very happy, recently moving in together." now it was Kanae's turn with the wide-eyed, shocked expression as she turned to Yashiro who looked just as confused, staring back at her.

"This sounds very much like all of Ren's dreams coming true! Though where he got our relationship from I will never know." Yashiro said pushing off his glasses and rubbing his eyes, exhausted. Kyoko finally found her voice at this point,

"What are you talking about Yashiro-san? Surely it's more like a nightmare for Tsuruga-san to be married to me?" everyone in the room and the two people sitting watching via the live webcam feed snorted, giggled or chuckled, apart from doctor Benkia who seemed to understand that this must not be true, he just smiled.

"Mogami-san, this isn't the way I would have wanted you to find this out. I would've hoped you could have come to understand his feelings in your own time as I'm sure Ren was hoping. But in this situation I think it is only fair to tell you that Ren has been completely and hopelessly in love with you for over 2 years now. Yashiro is right, this is Ren's dream come true and I'm pretty sure his dreams and fantasies are where these new memories have come from." he watched the young woman, she looked about to argue as Kanae grabbed her hand.

"Kyoko, I'm your best friend. Would I lie to you?" Kyoko shook her head looking straight into Kanae's eyes.

"Then trust me. Trust the president and you can ask anyone else present that knows Ren that this is true. He really does love you Kyoko and he has for a while now." Kyoko's mouth fell open. Mouthing like a fish she fought for words, something, anything, but no words could escape her dry mouth as she felt her throat constricting.

"There is also another matter we need to discuss." Lory said as they all looked at him,

"This one is of an even more sensitive nature and this is the reason I've asked Mr. and Mrs. Hizuri to be present, Kuu...Julie, he believes he has come out with the truth." their audible gasps were heard across the computer. The atmosphere in the room could have been cut with a knife, as Kanae swallowed.

"Come out with what? You're not trying to tell us he's gay I hope?" instantly Julie, Kuu and Lory burst out laughing, diminishing the tension as fast as it had fallen.

"No Kotonami-san, that's not what I was referring to. I'm going to tell you a story, this story is of a young boy who grew up in very difficult circumstances. He wasn't poor nor was he unloved. No this young boy had a very more complicated difficulty. Fame." Lory spoke for a while about this boy, how he had strived to become his own person, but was sadly only ever trapped in the shadow of his parents who were so famous in their own rights he was expected to be just like them.

They all listened intently as Lory spoke of the anger and pain of never feeling good enough, of the bullying and abuse, the fighting and crime. Ending with the death of that boy's best friend in a brutal yet accidental car accident.

"The boy blamed himself for his friends death, if he had not been trying to stop him he would never have run across the road and been hit. The boy hated himself so deeply he began wasting away. With no one to help him out of his black hole of misery he was doomed to die. That young boy's name was Hizuri Kuon." Kyoko gasped recognising the name of her adoptive parents son, the same boy she had acted as.

Had he wasted away? Was he truly dead because of the pain and sorrow of losing his best friend? Had he died of a broken heart?

So many questions were running through Kyoko's head, but Lory hadn't finished yet as he continued she listened.

"His parents, fearing for their son's life contacted me. I went and I, as Julie would say, kidnapped him. I brought him back here to Japan where we fashioned him a new name, that name was Tsuruga Ren. Ren challenged himself. Until he was able to step from beneath his father's shadow, he would not recognise them as his parents as they would not treat him as their son. At his own request, they would be strangers which is how it has continued for almost 6 years. Though through Mogami-san's help, Ren did make contact with his father for a short time." Kuu nodded. Julie was crying silently.

"Don't get us wrong, we loved him...we loved him so much it took me almost 6 months to understand that Lory wasn't kidnapping him but rather saving him from what fate would have done to our Kuon otherwise...(sob)...Kyoko deary if you can't believe Lory, believe Kuon's mother. I have never seen him as happy as when he is with you. I've watched you together at the Dark Moon party, you were so beautiful and he couldn't take his eyes off you." Julie broke down into sobs again as Kuu hugged her tightly with one arm before speaking,

"You listen to your mother sweetie. I got to see it first hand, he really does care for you. You are the only reason he consented to meet with me at all when I was in Japan. It was because of how much he cared for you that he found the courage to be himself." all Kyoko could do was nod, how was she expected to take all of this in at once? Ren loved her, but he wasn't really Ren he was Hizuri Kuon...

"God, this just gets more and more complicated" Kanae moaned and Yashiro sighed.

"I knew he had a secret past and I will not hold it against him, but now we have an even bigger problem when explaining to him!" Lory and Dr. Benkia looked at each other as Lory turned back to the gathered.

"We're not going to tell him." Lory stated simply.

"WHAT!?" Kanae and Yashiro both screamed at the same time.

"I said we're not going to tell him." Lory stated again as the room became silent once more. Dr. Benkia cleared his throat,

"For the time being, we are not sure how Tsuruga-san or Hizuri-san will take the information. At this point it could be detrimental to his health if we were to tell him that the memories that he believes are reality are just the workings of his imagination." he said slowly, allowing each word to sink in.

"For the time being I am going to have to ask you to play along with the workings of Kuon's thoughts. You are the only people at this time that will know about this. He will not be working in this current state, but we will all need to help him as much as we can. We need to hide this condition from the media until we can see if there is anyway for us to help him or if we are lucky for the damage to fix itself." Lory said as he watched Kyoko's face. This was going to be very hard for her, he knew that, but he also knew without a shadow of a doubt Kuon needed her the most of all.

"Mogami-san I will not force you to do this. I will not make it a Love Me task or a job, but I will ask you as your friend to help Kuon. You will need to take care of him and support him more than anyone." he didn't want to push her so he waited. He watched as she bit her lower lip and closed her eyes.

"I will do it president. He has always done so much for me. It could have been me in that bed and I know he would have done this for me. Even if I do struggle to understand how he could love me as you all say. I will do this for Tsuruga-san or Hizuri-san...I'm not sure what to call him now." she admitted, finally opening her eyes at her own realisation. Lory chuckled,

"You need to either call him Kuon. I'm not sure but maybe if you have a pet name for him in his new memories." Kyoko blushed. She wondered if she would be able to do this, but she knew she had to.

"President, sorry to burst your little bubble and everything, but didn't you say he thought they had a child together? Isn't that going to be a big thing when he goes home and there's no baby?" Kanae stated boldly.

"And then there is the fact that if he wants to …...consummate their marriage it will be pretty obvious that she has not had a child if you catch my meaning." Kanae said with a glare that said everything her words didn't.

"Well I have thought about that Kotonami-san. We are going to tell Kuon he has been out for 2 days which he has. In that time Kuu or Julie have come over and taken their granddaughter back with them to L.A while Kuon recovers. This way Mogami-san doesn't have to care for both of them." Lory said as if it was an obvious thing. Dr. Benkia answered the later question,

"It isn't uncommon for doctors to tell new mothers not to engage in intercourse until 6-8 months after the birth of their child giving the body time to settle. I believe this will keep Mogami-san safe until we have gained more information in what we are going to do next." Kanae nodded accepting the reasoning, but she wasn't happy about it and the look she gave Lory showed that.

"So for the time being we are going to play along with Kuon's fantasies?" Yashiro asked slowly.

"Exactly!" replied Lory.

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so who expected that?

Hehe

so many of you saying poor Ren,

maybe it should have been

poor Ren's friends or his fake wife :P

Thank you for reading :)

Neh xxx

Oh also i may be trying to have a crack at the most scary Fanfic of them all,

Harry Potter! so if you're a potter fan look out for my new story

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Hehe yeah she'll be safe for the first two weeks maybe. I wonder how she'll stop herself when she gets in a "compromising" situation?