Disclaimer: I don't own skip beat or any of its characters. It's an AU story. This story is rewrite of "Poison of Unrequited Love" not its sequel which means it's multi-chaptered based upon the same plot of previously uploaded story not the same two chaptered one.

Bond of Love: Chapter 02

"If you can't make someone happy then you have no right to hurt either"

"Mogami-san, it's inappropriate. I'm your teacher, not a college student!" Ren snapped at Kyoko then turned his gaze to Itsumi Momose who looked pretty shocked at that moment. "Sorry sensei, but I'll have to deal with her please excuse me for a bit" He said hurriedly and grabbed Kyoko's wrist, pulling her out of the staff room.

Ren had caught her secretly staring at him again with those deep sad eyes. She'd always made lame excuses just to be around him and it annoyed him but he didn't react but now, she'd daringly come into the staff room vowing her undying love to him in front of his colleague. He was glad there was no one else around or else he'd have to deal with gossips and pinpointing whispers of the entire college later. Love confession of a young student could do worst to his career and reputation. He was afraid that people might think he was screwing his own student.

"T-Tsuruga-sensei, it hurts. Let go!" Kyoko pleaded as he dragged her with him but he didn't let go until they were a safe distance away from everyone.

Kyoko snatched her wrist away and rubbed the redness off. "Why sensei? Do you have someone else in your life?" Kyoko asked hesitantly with her eyes rooted to the ground.

Ren sighed and pressed two fingers between his eyes. His face started to wrinkle in frustration but the girl before him remained silent and unfazed, waiting for his answer with restless patience.

"Mogami-san, you are a nice girl but you are too young for an old man like me. It's not like I hate you but I can't return your feelings. I'm not for you. Our relationship is impossible. Please understand." Ren tried to speak as politely as he possibly could. He controlled the pitch of his voice not to sound angered because he didn't want to hurt her any further.

He hated her guts. Her persistence was making him cross the boundary line he'd silently dictated never to cross. He was supposed to deny love, not to accept it with open arms.

The image of broken girl before him cut through his heart. He didn't mean to make her cry but he had no option. He needed to push her away before spreading the rumors of teacher-student love affair around the college. It could ruin her studying career and he couldn't let that happen, not when she was one of the best students of the college. He needed to drive her far away from himself before she could read his mind and figure out how he felt. He had to put on his defenses before she could break through the barrier to reach inside the chambers of his well-guarded heart.

"I... I understand. I don't expect you to reciprocate my feelings. Even if you hate me, that's okay. At least you feel something about me. I just want to be with you." Her words came out lower than a whisper but Ren was left stunned, completely blown away.

He hated how his heart reacted to her words but he refused to melt. He had to act mature. She was being pushy and obstinate.

Ren looked at her so sharply that she was forced to look down again.

"I think you should forget about the love topic and concentrate on your studies only. You'd damage your grades if you kept thinking like that...I don't want to get involved in an affair with you..." Ren inhaled sharply as he spoke to her devastated form.

Suddenly her eyes shot up to meet his surprised ones and Ren was taken aback by the intensity of her gaze.

"Love isn't an affair sensei and an affair can never be called love. Don't try to insult my feelings for you if you can't return them"

Ren was slammed into silence.

He hated it even more. Why did she affect him so much when she was 12 years younger than him? He'd tried to get her out of his head. He'd tried countless times to shove her away, to push her out of his life but she never listened and kept following him everywhere like a stalker ever since the first day. Why was she so adamant about prying herself into his life when she could have any man of her age easily? She was young, beautiful, charming, intelligent, caring and humble then why was she trying to pursue a man like him?

"M-Mogami-san... please, don't make me feel guilty anymore. I just can't...I'm 12 years apart from you. Don't you get it? NOTHING can ever happen between us" he regretted how rudely he behaved but he was ready to avail anything if it meant to keep her away from him. He didn't deserve love, not after killing his own teacher in the past. He wasn't living as himself anymore. He'd hidden his true-self underneath the shell of Ren Tsuruga. He was a run away. He was a horrible person who'd always hurt others and he didn't want to throw her in darkness.

"Please sensei…." Kyoko's voice was so broken that Ren's heart was ripped out. He gritted his teeth to hold back his overbearing emotions.

"Sensei…. Please… I really do love you. Don't push me away. I won't be able to withstand it." Kyoko let out again but she couldn't voice her turmoil. An intolerant feeling of extreme discomfort started to set inside of her and the air around them suddenly became thick that she found herself gasping for air sharply. Poor girl was just trying to collect herself when Ren's voice ran into her ears.

"Enough! I never asked you to love me! Stop forcing your way into my life and leave me alone!"

Kyoko flinched bitterly. Her whole body shook at the coldness of his voice.

Tears started to form but she refused to cry. She didn't want to cry in front of him.

Kyoko made an attempt to reach for his sleeve but he shook her away. "Enough, I have a class to teach. It's already late. I have to go" Ren almost yelled, unable to take it anymore. His heart was inflamed to give into his desires and just embrace the girl but he wasn't brave enough.

His angered eyes met Kyoko's and she stumbled backwards, stunned to silence.

"If you love me like you say then stay away from me. Don't try to poke your nose into my life. Never try to come any closer and be in your limits. I already have enough headache to deal with." Before he could recover from the stabbing pain he felt in his heart, he promptly turned on his heel and marched away because he had a stack of paper work to go through and classes to teach, his only way to divert his attention from the girl he'd broken.

~O..o.o..O~

Once boarded the plane, Kyoko finally allowed a single tear to roll down her cheek.

"Why am I thinking about him again? He's kicked me out of his life already. Why can't I just forget about him and move on?" Kyoko's heart tightened as she questioned herself. No matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't get rid of his thoughts. She'd been thinking about him only like a crazy maniac.

She didn't have a choice to back out now. She had to be mature. She had a responsibility to fulfill. She needed a change. She needed to be like a bird and learn how to fly freely by herself. She needed to learn how to bottle up her swarming emotions. She'd been too expressive. She needed to lock her heart away with her untouched love for Ren buried deep inside the guarded chambers of her heart. Despite of their protest, she had left her two best friends behind, who were more like a family to her and she did it just to learn, to make herself independent, to have some time away from him so that she could learn how to live her entire life alone without him.

It was going to be a long tiring journey she knew it so she just leaned against her seat and closed her eyes, inhaling sharply. She knew it would take a life time for her to get that man out of her mind. "Sayonara sensei"

"She left a day ago. Are you satisfied now?" said rather an irritated Lory as he ducked his head down and puffed his cigar exasperatingly.

Because of that old foolish guy, he had to send his favorite and best student away. Appalled and affronted, Lory wanted to snap the life out of that guy who called himself an adult.

Ren's face saddened and he lowered his head to stare at the floor.

"It's better this way Sir"

Lory frowned and sighed deeply. "I'm disappointed in you Ren. It wasn't manly of you to hurt her feelings. I never expected something like that from you. You didn't have to be so rude. It really was pointless"

Ren looked up to see a livid Panther glowering at him and averted his eyes again feeling guilty.

Lory shook his head back and forth. "You disappointed Rick. He didn't teach you to be that way. You are not fit for this post Ren."

Ren flinched again, hearing the name of his former teacher brought back all the bitter and sweet memories.

He closed his eyes, letting his mask slip away. His eyes turned gloomy as tears began to fall. "I'm sorry. I just thought if she'd just put her determination to something more constructive than wooing my heart then it'd benefit her more. I drove her away because I wasn't fit for her. She deserved someone better. I was too old for her. My relationship with her seemed to be unacceptable."

Lory was astonished.

So this aged jerk did love her and yet he dared to break her heart and scare her away and out of his life! This insensitive moron!

"So you do love her don't you Ren?"

Ren lowered his head again as his face curled in pain.

"I am asking you something" Lory sneered this time to catch his attention.

Ren nodded.

Lory sighed and leaned against his chair. "If you loved her then you shouldn't have hurt her. You acted like a loser Ren"

"I am sorry"

"I'm not the person you should be apologizing to"

"I'm sorry…." All he could do was apologizing to air because he knew the person whom he owed it was already gone and he didn't have the heart to travel all the way to America to bring her back and tell her the truth. She had an academic career to pursue.

Ren's POV:

I had never thought she'd actually leave. I had expected her to stay away from me and continue her studies normally but I hadn't expected her to leave the country and be gone out of my life. I went too far.

Lory looked pissed off. I'd disappointed him. The man who'd given me a chance to start over after I ran away from America 8 years ago. Even though I was supposed to take over my father's business in Japan I declined and decided to pursue teaching career just like Rick so that I could follow his footsteps and remember him forever.

I'd disappointed Rick. Rick my former teacher. Rick, the man whom I admired a lot. The man who'd taken the bullet in my place and died on the spot. I could never get over his death. It left me frayed and scarred. I'd sworn to myself never to fall in love with anyone but I couldn't keep my words.

I fell in love at first sight with Mogami Kyoko. It was a memorable day of my life when I first met her.

She was probably looking for her class, walking down the hallway and gazing down at her class time table when she accidently bumped into me and lost her balance.

I caught her in time before she could hit the floor and hurt herself.

I lost myself into the depth of her amber eyes. Her eyes were mesmerizing.

Blushing a million shades of red, she freed herself from my grasp and bowed to me, muttering her apology for my inconvenience. I was angry at first and wanted to shout but when I saw her cute blushing face and deep eyes gawking at me, I forgot everything. It was as if she held me under her spell.

It felt like she was looking deep into my soul and I instantly became relaxed around her. All of my anger and frustration was gone and I felt so comfortable. My heart beat grew wider as she smiled at me timidly and walked away elegantly. Her waist-length raven hair, her slim form, her extraordinarily beautiful eyes, her graceful posture and the way she walked away elegantly, everything about her was so breathtaking.

Was this what people called love at first sight? Yes, I had fallen for her only to find out the fact of her being my class student. I'd keep that day enclosed in my heart forever.

I hurt her. I let her go. I broke her and sent her away. Lory offered her the scholarship because I asked him to help me getting rid of her but now that she's gone, I felt nothing but miserable.

May be it was time for me to kill the persona of Ren Tsuruga and come out of my cocoon as myself. I didn't befit the position of a teacher. I didn't want her to come back after four years and curse me for hurting her. It was time for Hizuri Kuon to come out of his shell and face the world as himself, if not now than sooner, if not sooner, than later because Ren Tsuruga didn't deserve to live after hurting an innocent and kind soul.

As the working day ended, Ren stumbled home wearily. Back at his apartment, it was blissfully quiet. He just walked shakily and threw himself on the couch, not caring how he landed or where he landed.

He felt crushed. His heart was wounded and pain was the only thing he felt.

Tears dropped and he didn't care to hold them back as put an arm over his eyes.

"Kyoko, will you be alright there all by yourself? These four years are going to be worst than hell but even if you returned after four years, I wouldn't be able to meet you as Ren. He's going to be replaced by Hizuri Kuon, the one whom you aren't familiar with" he whispered to himself as tears of guilt leaked from the corner of his eyes. "I have to win your heart all over again. I'll be waiting Kyoko, just don't take too long. It hurts so much. Having to live without you hurts so much"

"Love is worship. When you fall in love, you don't care what happens to you. The only thing that matters is happiness of your beloved."

END of Chapter 2

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