A/N: Okayyy... I am back with the next chapter. Thanks to all the amazing people who favorited, placed alerts and reviewed. You guys made my day! :)

So without much further ado, here's

Oh wait. Sorry I forgot to do this in the last chapter.

Standard disclaimer applies... I don't own anything you recognize. Maybe just Oshida Miyuki... but I dont know if I want to own her... :\

Feelin' Green

Two weeks had passed since the Christmas in June debacle at LME... and a debacle it had been. While the president had an amazingly talented team of people, not even they could handle having real snow inside a building in central Tokyo, in the middle of summer. Three days after his brilliant idea had been brought to fruition by the engineers at LME, the maintenance crew had had a gargantuan job of cleaning up the mess left behind, which was big enough that president Takarada had actually given a thought to shutting down the building for a whole day.

Fortunately, it hadn't really come to that, and unfortunately, the Love Me section had been drafted into helping clean up the mess by the maintenance department. This meant wet, dirty and messy work for three whole days and Kyoko for one, was happy that that was done. It wasn't the worst job she'd been given in her life, she'd had to do worse at the Fuwa inn at Kyoto and during the time she lived with Sho. But Kyoko knew that while she didn't have too many problems with the job, Moko-san and Amamiya-san were both quite unhappy with their newest Love Me assignment and for their sake, if not for hers alone, Kyoko wanted to get the job done as soon as she could.

But that was the story of the past and it was now almost two weeks after, and things were kinda back to normal. Kyoko was now part of a new romance and action drama called Arrest Warrant, playing a female detective who was the main male lead's partner at the police station. The story was a crime drama, where the male lead, played by who else, Tsuruga Ren, fell in love with a suspect when they busted a drug ring. The detective Mido Gin, who had been a straight forward and honest cop till that date, would break the law to protect the woman he had fallen in love with. Kyoko had to play the character of Kisaragi Reina, Gin's beautiful but tough partner who had secretly been in love with him for a long time.

The role of Reina was quite a difficult one to portray. She was a young woman, but still very much respected by her peers for her work ethics and bravery. She was very straight forward, but she hadn't revealed her feelings to her partner. Reina was a very tough woman, but she literally melted when it came to Mido Gin. And after she found out that Gin was in love with another woman, a suspect at that, Reina's character goes through a lot of shades, where she wrestles with the desire to stay true to her job and helping her partner. Also, there is the instinctive distrust and dislike she develops for the woman Gin is in love with, which also leads to tension between the two of them.

It was one of the more grown up roles that Kyoko had been offered and had also involved quite a bit of background work for her. Kyoko and Ren, both had undergone specific weapons and martial arts training, an intensive three months of physical training, where she'd had to muscle up considerably and a submersion period, when Kyoko had shadowed a real female detective for about a week to get the finer details of her personality and behavior down pat for the character she was about to essay.

Kyoko had been very happy about getting to portray Reina, a tough but fair cop with a soft heart. But that had been only till Oshida Miyuki had come into the picture. Oshida-san was the actress who played Lin Erica, a spoiled rich girl who had gotten involved in drugs and was an addict who had been found at the site of a drug bust by the Tokyo police. She was the one Gin fell in love with and while she liked the man in general, Erica was only trying to use her influence over the handsome policeman to get away with it. And while Oshida-san was a good actress, you could literally see the little hearts in her eyes every time she looked at Ren.

While Oshida-san appeared to be a nice and friendly person, she hadn't warmed up to Kyoko like everybody else did. Kyoko couldn't really figure out why the actress didn't seem to like her, but there was nothing she could do about it. Tsuruga-san was as always unfailingly polite with all his co-stars, his acting as perfect as always, and Kyoko knew that the only thing that was stopping her from enjoying her job was the presence of Oshida Miyuki.

Oshida-san was a self-proclaimed Tsuruga Ren fan and you could almost see her eyes turning into little hearts whenever she looked at him off the set. On the set, she managed to maintain a professional facade, only slipping up some times during the more romantic scenes, but off set, Oshida-san would try every way to flirt with Ren. Every time, they got a break or went for lunch, she would take up the seat next to him, trying to monopolize Tsuruga-san's time and company.

And then there was her behavior. She spent half the day looking at him coyly from under her lashes, the other half standing or sitting next to him, touching his arm or his shoulder in supposedly innocent gestures. Why she didn't know, but all of these things riled her up to no end. Usually, at the end of filming, Kyoko would need at least another hour to wind down and bring her temper back to normal. It was almost as if Reina's character had taken hold of her and was unwilling to give up.

Of course, due to the natural tension between Oshida-san and Kyoko, the scenes between them were really explosive, the acting of both the actresses praised. The scenes Oshida-san had with Ren were the ones that had the most problems, but Ren being the top-notch professional he was, had managed to coax the love-struck actress to give a better than decent performance.

But the highlight of the filming had been the scenes that Ren and Kyoko had shot. When the director called them to action, they were no longer Ren and Kyoko... only Gin and Reina remained. Both of them being method actors, they liked to literally become the character they were portraying. While Kyoko's descent into her character was quite obvious to all around her, Ren's morphing into character was a lot more controlled and hence, the only people aware of his method of acting were Yashiro, Kyoko and the director he was working under.

But one thing neither of them had disclosed to each other during the course of the movie was that these particular roles had given the two actors extremely valuable insights into their own lives. Ren had finally started looking past the barrier that he had put in the way of a relationship with Kyoko. Reina and Gin's relationship was that of two equals... not a sempai and kohai in any way, and Ren was finally starting to look at Kyoko as something more than a high school girl. He had always known that she was a scarily talented actress... that had never been under question. What had kept his hands tied, was the fact that while she was indeed only four years younger than him, she had managed to retain an innocence, an almost childish quality that he had witnessed in her six year old form.

Every time he would decide to let her know of his feelings, flashes of her innocent six year old face and thoughts of how, while she'd been hurt and closed herself off to love, she still managed to remain the pure hearted, happy creature would flood his brain and he would back off... after all, why would such a pure and happy soul want to attach herself to something as black hearted and violent as himself.

But now, seeing her essay one of the most complex and matured roles of her already illustrious career, Ren had had to agree that she had grown, had matured beyond his imagination. He had even told the president one day that the day when Mogami-san surpassed him in acting was not too far away and that he would eagerly wait for that day to come.

On the other hand, Kyoko's revelation, or rather, the glimmer of a revelation dealt more with the way Reina just wouldn't leave her. While Kyoko's characters usually took possession of her during acting, after the director yelled 'CUT!', she would happily and easily become Mogami Kyoko again. But this time, Kyoko found it very hard to wriggle out of Reina's character... or so she thought. Because, never before had she had any problems with any actor or actress interacting with Tsuruga-san. But this time, she'd had to stop herself from strangling the other actress a couple of times. Not to mention the curse dolls she found herself making (and poking with needles), of Oshida-san.

It was extremely confusing... while the feelings seemed to be Reina's, the reactions were all Kyoko's. Why was it like that? Why did she feel irritated when Oshida-san touched Ren?... Why did it make her want to pull the woman away whenever she flirted with him? Why did she feel almost sick with tension whenever Ren had to film romantic scenes with Oshida-san? Didn't she trust him to be professional? Wasn't she professional enough to understand that as an actor he would have to give every job his 100%? Then why did she feel the need to be the one Tsuruga-san... Ren... spoke, laughed or acted with? And why exactly did thinking of him as Tsuruga-san inside her head not fit anymore?... Why did she want to call him Ren?.. And listen to his lips forming her given name?

Till date, Kyoko had never experienced anything like that and for the life of her, she couldn't understand what the hell was going on. The feelings almost flooding inside her were a weird mix of Reina's... dare she say it?... jealousy, Setsu's protectiveness of her nii-san, Mio's anger and Natsu's determination to eliminate her competition.

Wait. What?

Did she just think of Oshida-san as competition?... For Ts-Tsuruga-san's attention... and affection?...

Oh.

A/N: So that was Feelin' Green... Not as much jealousy as I'd thought I'd be able to bring out. More introspectiveness and a still unaware Kyoko. Sigh!... When is that kid going to learn that she never lost the power to love? Well, apparently, now.

Anyways, stay tuned for the next installment of the series, the color Yellow

Oh and before I forget, this series is based on the song Colourblind by Darius. I found it on some random playlist on my ipod and couldn't get this idea out of my head.

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