2. Frantic Search
Disclaimer: Skip Beat! and all of its characters belong to Yoshiki Nakamura.
A/N: I feel depressed. I wonder why? I hope I did well on my finals. (May 28, 2009)
"So..." Ren's manager, Yukihito Yashiro-san, looked up at him.
"So, what?" Ren asked with no peculiar interest as he shut the car door beside him.
Yashiro sighed with exasperation. This boy just doesn't get it, does he?
"So you are finally able to see Kyoko-chan again, and you haven't showed any sign of joy or happiness." Not even a smile, Yashiro-san added in his head, as Ren drove onto the street.
Ren didn't say anything as he fixed his eyes on the road. True, that he hasn't been able to see Kyoko for the past two weeks since they were doing scenes with only Mizuki and Katsuki, so there weren't any Mio scenes. But for today, they were filming the episode where Mio expresses her hate for Katsuki in person for the first time and additionally, they would be working on more Mio and Katsuki scenes together for the next two months. Ren was quite excited to see how Kyoko would do. He wanted to see and feel Mio's wrath from Kyoko's acting skills up close, and in person. Of course, he would never admit that to anyone, not even to himself. First, people would think he is a masochist. Second, Yashiro-san would probably engulf him with his strange way of thinking on why Ren would feel that way. But yes, he was indeed happy to see Kyoko again.
Ren parked the car in the parking lot that belonged to the fifty-story building that they were going to use to film today. When Ren first learned that they were going to use a building that belonged to Akatoki Agency, he was not at all pleased. He had a feeling on how Kyoko would react and apparently, he was right but he just didn't witness that. But he was a professional actor. And there was no way in hell that he would complain to the director and cause suspicions that would ruin his career. He knew that Kyoko would feel that way too so he didn't say anything. Kyoko was aiming to become a professional actress so he knew that she was going sit still and act like one. At least… he hoped.
As they got out of the car, Yashiro tried to make Ren spill the beans. He wasn't about to give up that easily.
"Ren," he asked, bending down as they walked across the lot to get a better view of the brunette's face. "Are you telling me that you haven't missed your dear little kouhai-chan for the past two weeks at all?" his eyes growing all puppy like. "AT ALL?"
He's trying to make me spill, Ren thought as his left eyebrow twitched. Of course he missed her! Terribly, in fact.
"Of course I miss her," he said casually. Yashiro grinned devilishly but stopped short as Ren continued his sentence. "As well as Momose-san, Oohara-san, Director Ogata-san, oh and I must not forget Iizuka-san whom I haven't seen and talked to in a while. Oh and…"
Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!! SHUT UP right now before I seriously kick that overly gentlemanly-sized ass of yours Ren and before I shut your lying fat mouth up by myself, Yashiro thought furiously while a vein as big as Mars was pulsing in his forehead.
The first thing they felt when they walked into the main entrance of the building was a swoosh of air going right past them, and a big trail of dust behind them too. And then another… and another, and another.
Right and left, people were running past them frantically, too busy to notice that they were even there. Yashiro and Ren sweat dropped.
"KYOKO-SAAAN!!!" a man's voice yelled.
"FUWA-KUUUN!!!" yelled a woman.
"SHO-CHAAAN!!!" called another.
"KYOKO-CHAAAN!!!"
Okay….
"Ano…" Yashiro inquired to the last girl who almost flew past them. "Can you tell us what's going on?"
"Oh, Yashiro-san. Tsuruga-san," the blonde girl acknowledged. It was Momose-san. "Hey," she continued as she swiped a sheet of sweat from her forehead.
"How long have you been there?" she asked, confused. "Didn't you hear the news? Kyoko-chan and Fuwa-san are nowhere to be found. Why aren't you guys looking?" she looked from Yashiro-san who was looking at Ren, to a dumbfounded Tsuruga-san.
Ren was in shock.
WHAT?!?
His Kyok-… erm…
Mogami-san and Fuwa Sho were both missing?!? This was bad. This was really, really bad. What if they had bumped into each other? What would Sho do or say to her if they did? What if he confessed to her like he almost did back in Karuizawa, before Ren stopped him? He would beat him at his own game.
Shit.
Ren thrust his bag into Yashiro's arms and turned into the hallway, on his search to find Kyoko before anything bad happens.
This left a very confused Yashiro-san and Momose-chan behind him as he walked briskly away, with those long legs of his, with big red question marks hanging around in the background.
Momose-chan was the first one to snap out of it. "Well, I better continue searching. You too, Yashiro-san. Help out. Bye!" she waved, as she ran off in the opposite direction yelling Kyoko's name.
But Yashiro wasn't listening. He just had a huge, satisfied, yet evil grin set on his face pointed at the direction to where Ren had already disappeared to. He looked comically funny with that huge smirk on his face and with Ren's big bag in his hands.
He threw a fist in the air. Finally, a reaction!!
Thank… you… SHO!!! He thought victoriously as he litterally skipped off happily to the general direction of the where filming/changing rooms were to leave Ren's stuff there.
As soon as he closed the door, he dropped Ren's bag onto the ground and started laughing maniacally. "Mwuah ha ha ha ha ha ha!! Muah ha ha ha ha ha!!!"
Yashiro turned around with his fingers to his chin as his glasses flashed white, hiding his hazel, brown eyes while reacting to the light. This is going to get interesting. REN.
Then he started cracking up like hell again, before Director Ogata opened the door and scolded him for not joining in on the search for Kyoko-chan.
A/N: So how'd u like it? I've already started writing the next chapter. What do u think is going to happen? Feel free to give ideas and suggestions! Reviews!! Remember that constructive criticism are always welcomed!! X3 (I'm going to try to update every Monday or Thursday)
