Disclaimer: I don't own Skip Beat! or any of its characters.

"I know you killed my husband!" Izumi shouted and sat on the gentleman's stomach with her sword poking into his throat. "Tell me why I should let you live!"

Kinji rolled his eyes and tossed a glare at the girl on top of him. "He was planning on killing you and you were completely oblivious to it! Why would your father hire an assassin to kill the man you loved if there wasn't something wrong? Use your damn head!"

Izumi slapped the man beneath her across his face and threw her sword. He said the words that had been floating in her head, but she refused to listen. "Get away from me."

"I'm afraid I can't do that just yet," he said and got to his feet. "Your man still have loyal followers coming after you and I won't feel good until I know you're safe."

Izumi rolled her eyes and walked over to him. "Fine, protector of mine. Where do we go next? We can't exactly go back to my place since it's going to be the first place they look for me."

"I'm glad you're not completely stupid," he said with a smirk. "First, we need to see Toad."

"Toad?"

"It's my doctor's code name. He needs to stitch up a couple of scratches some crazy woman sent my way," Kinji joked and gave a steady smile in response to her laugh. He opened the room's door and obviously checked out her butt as she walked through. "Can I give you a compliment without sounding too dirty?"

"I guess I can take a nice comment right now," she said and looked over her shoulder.

"This outfit was a terrible weapon when you were fighting. Do you know how hard it is not to try and steal glances when you were doing those flips?" he asked and shook his head. He grabbed a tiny bit of her skirt and flipped it gently. "You looked very good when it spun up for me when I earned this little mark on my chin."

Izumi let a soft laugh escape and shook her head. "Keep those fingers to yourself or we may have to ad a mark to balance you out."

Kinji laughed as he pulled the door closed behind them.

"Cut!" the director called and sat back in his chair with a smile as Ren and Kyoko walked off the set and over to him. "The scene was basically perfect! A few edits from the technical guys and it'll be ready to go! I think we'll have no problem getting this movie done. Get these stars cleaned up and then we can all take a lunch!"

Kyoko smiled up at Ren and he returned the gesture. She lead their way to their dressing rooms and slipped into see Kanae sitting on her long couch. Instantly, she ran to her best friend's arms.

"What are you doing here?!" she asked as she took a seat in the chair to have her makeup and hair removed.

"When I was told you were staring in a movie I was so pumped!" Kanae said and gave Kyoko a proud smile. "I wanted to come and see you work and what do I see? You sitting on top of Japan's hottest actor as if it was an every day thing."

Kyoko did her best not to think back to the times she did sit on him in their role as Heel siblings. She was able to separate the feelings at that time as being a man's sister. Now the challenge would always be there for her to ignore the romance that was to be built between the characters.

The makeup artist took out the last bit of the black hair and stepped out of the room to give the women privacy. She died to know star's gossip, but she was woman enough to know when there was much more than simple gossip floating around.

"This movie, it's going to be deep, isn't it?" Kanae said and Kyoko's silence confirmed her thoughts. "There's obviously some action in it and that might be a challenge for you, sure. But I don't see what could keep you so quiet when you are working with the man you used to always call sempai. Wait, wait, wait!"

Kyoko sat back as she watched Kanae connect the pieces in her head. She hated how easy everyone read her. The only person unable to see was the one that really mattered.

"You love Ren!" Kanae yelled as she jumped to her feet and made Kyoko also jump up. She ran forward and covered her hand over her mouth.

"He doesn't know," Kyoko said in a whisper. "I can't tell him."

"Oh, for the love of...!" She threw her hands in the air and let of a frustrated growl. Were both parties in the building relationship so oblivious to the other. "When are you planning to tell him? You can't keep this locked up much longer!"

Kyoko chewed on her bottom lip and shrugged. "I hope it just rolls off eventually and I'm able to just spill it out. I'm just afraid of what he will do when I tell him."

Idiot she thought about her friend but she couldn't say the word when the woman was so obviously lost. "What is going on the rest of the day?"

"Right now is our lunch break and then we're going to shoot one more scene before the day is done," Kyoko picked up a brush and ran it through her short hair. She saw Kanae open her closet and pull out random clothes. "What are you doing?"

"If you want to know how he feels you need to dress yourself up and see how he reacts. It's hard to get a reaction out of that man but I've noticed you are able to pull his strings. Ware that and pay attention to what he does," Kanae said and tossed the clothes on the couch.

"If you say so," Kyoko said and changed into the outfit. The jeans were tight and made her hips pop like she was a super star. The shirt was cut to fall slightly off her right shoulder and allow a man's mind to wonder. She had no idea where these clothes came from or where she got them. But she looked damn fine.

"I've seen you walk in heels, so just put on those flats," Kanae said and Kyoko stuck out her tongue. She grabbed Kyoko and gave a wink for luck. When she opened the door she saw Ren give her a shocked look. "Hey Tsuruga-san. I just wanted to give Kyoko a quick hello before I headed out for my commercial shoot. Have a good lunch guys!"

Kyoko stepped out as Kanae ran away and her eyes met Ren's. She caught his quick glance to her bare shoulder and the very unnoticeable search up and down her body. How many times had she missed that look? It made her stomach tighten and her hands grew sweaty.

"Where did you get those clothes?" he asked with a smirk trying to appear unaffected by her look.

"Just something I found in my closet. Probably gifts from the President. You know how he gets," she said. "Where do you want to go for our lunch?"

Ren appeared next to her before she walked to far away from him and looked down at her and grumbled. "A place with a low male population."

Kyoko played dumb and looked up at him innocently. "What?"

"Let's go to the shack that just down the road. There won't be a lot of people there we need to avoid."

...

Ren knew his eyes were jumping around trying avoid looking too close at Kyoko. The outfit she wore had his head spinning into positions he never thought he would allow his mind to place her. He could see her curled up in his bed, relaxing in his bathtub, or sitting on his stomach like she had done only twenty minutes ago.

"Ren, are you alright?" she asked innocently.

Hearing his name roll of her lips and the tilt of her head was only adding to his crazy head. When had he gotten so lost when it came to women? Kyoko chuckled and he looked up curiously.

"You look like you are trying to solve the world's toughest problem. Care to let me have a go?" Kyoko took a final drink of her tea and sat back relaxed. It was evil to think she had no idea what she was doing to him.

"I'm just trying to figure out why people are so drawn to the type of movie we are working on," he said. He glanced around and saw that no one appeared to be listening. Kyoko did the same and knew they shouldn't spill anything other than what the public already knew about the movie. Ren took their bill and his credit card to the register to pay. After they signed their autographs they left and headed to where the movie's next scene took place.

"I think I may know the answer to your thoughts," Kyoko said and Ren looked down at her patiently. He was curious what she would say to answer him. "I think everyone in this world wants something solid in a relationship. They want it to be solid and stable, but deep down we all know nothing it one hundred percent stable. Put together romance between two people tried to fight and that escalades the unstable threat of danger. Raising danger can push people to step up and stand closer together and raise the romance. This movie hits all of our wants and dreams right at the heart."

Ren smiled down at Kyoko and shook his head. He could not believe the words he was hearing were coming from her mouth. "When did I miss you growing up?"

"About the same time you backed away from me after our Heel act," she said and skipped away to where the director stood and spoke with him.

Ren stopped walking as soon as the words left her mouth. He could not believe she said what she said. There was very little if any chance he even took a single step away from her ever. He watched her every movement before the Heel siblings were created and continued to follow her afterwards. Why didn't she see that?

Because he did his damn best to hide it from her. He gave a sigh of defeat and walked over to sit with his makeup artist.

"We're doing the meeting after you see Toad," Kyoko said. "The director said it's on page thirty-nine."

Ren picked up the scrip to drill in his lines while his character was created. They were going to record the first scene to build up their romance. Great.