A/N i do not own Skip Beat! i just use the characters for my own amusment

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Ren dreamed of Kyoko. She was as she was when they met when she was a child, small, wide-eyed, and hopeful. Then she became Satsu and the eyes grew colder. He was in their hotel room that the Heel siblings shared. Satsu was taking a bath. "REN, HELP" came an anguished cry from the bathroom. He tried to run to her side but he felt like he was moving through water. His movements were exaggerated and slow. When he finally pulled open the door it wasn't Satsu he found, but Kyoko, dressed in her Box 'R' costume, beaten up and bleeding. She looked at him pleadingly for one last time, asking him to save her, "Cain" she said weakly, and then her eyes closed forever.

"Cain" Ren turned and hurried out of the room, looking for the one calling his name, his Satsu. He found himself in complete blackness. He heard a disembodied giggle, with Satsu nowhere to be found. "Why didn't you save me Cain?" it said cruelly. Ren gave up trying to search for the voice and fell to the floor sobbing. "I didn't know" he muttered weakly, large body sagging in on itself. "You are the reason I am dead" the sweet voice said maliciously in his ear. "I know! I know, I'm sorry! I am so sorry!"

"Cain," Ren felt a soft hand on his shoulder and turned around, not seeing anything. "Please wake up now," the voice said softly. "Cain!' He felt a soft hand on his forehead and opened his eyes to see himself looking into worried brown eyes that he thought he would never see again. "Kyoko" he breathed, panting as if he had really run around in the blackness. He felt damp all over from sweat, and reached up to feel tears still cascading down his cheeks. "Kyoko!" he said a little louder "You are alive!" her large brown eyes were large as saucers as she looked at him in a bemused manner. Ren didn't care, he grabbed her by the waist and pulled her into bed with him, breathing in her sent through the Satsu wig she was wearing. "I love you." He murmured to her "Don't ever leave my side again."

She giggled sweetly "I love you too Nii-san!" Kyoko, ever the professional, was still playing Ren's, or rather Cain's, charming younger sister.

Ren sighed, still gripping her tight. He needed her to understand "No, Kyoko, I love YOU" Her eyes widened as she looked at him. And then slowly he leaned down and kissed the soft warm lips, still slightly open in amazement. To his surprise, and pleasure, she did not push him away, and innocently returned the kiss, as if she had never had one before, which now that Ren thought about it, she probably hadn't.

Ren didn't know how long the kiss lasted, but finally they broke apart. Kyoko looked over Ren to the clock. "Baka!" she said to herself. "We are going to be late! Did you forget? You have to go back to Ten-chan and become Ren again, Yashiro will pick you up to go to a movie shoot that you are scheduled for today." Ren froze.

"What day is it?" he asked cautiously, wanting to have his worst fear denied.

"Friday, why?" she answered getting up and going to the stove. She was making rice omelets, exactly what she had made the day she died.

"You have a Box 'R' shooting today, don't you?" he asked warily. "Don't go." She looked at him in surprise.

"What do you mean, 'don't go.'" She said turning around from her cooking, surprised and starting to get upset. "I have to go, you, of all people, should know that. Ren, You are scaring me, what's going on? Oh, I already placed clothes for you in the bath"

Ren got up and shook his head distracted, trudging to the bathroom "Nothing…" She glared at him and he relented, giving her an answer "I just wanted to spend the whole day with you." He said, being only slightly honest.

She smiled at him sweetly "How thoughtful!" she said cheerfully, "But we cant today, How about tomorrow! Yes?" he nodded dully, 'if you are alive tomorrow' he thought glumly. Ren took a quick shower and finished his transformation into Cain. They would have no more talk of her death right now, but Ren was determined to stop it even if it was something he made up in his head, after all, it could just be a coincidence that it is Friday and she is making omelets. Those aren't fool-proof signs. As Cain stood in front of him in the mirror Ren gasped. He was wearing the same clothes from the dream too. "No" he said out loud, banging his fist against the wall. "She WON'T die!" He used breathing exercises Lory taught him to steady his breathing, calming down and composing himself. Then he walked out of the bathroom

"Who wont die?" Satsu asked him curiously as he came out and sat down at the table.

"Its none of your concern, little sister" Cain said gently, ruffling her hair in a tender manner. "Lets eat, itadakimasu"

After a few moments of quiet Cain broke the silence. "I don't want you walking to work today, Satsu." He said sternly. "Please let me give you a lift."

She looked up at him. "But you start earlier than me today" she said, surprised.

"Its ok," He said, looking at her still firm but loving. "If its for you, I will be late to work." Kyoko dropped Satsu for a moment shaking her head vigorously.

"No, no, no," she said, "I can't ask you to do that for me, I am just your Kohai" She said, looking down.

"Yes, you are" Ren answered, using his finger to lift her chin so her eyes met his "and you are not just my Kohai, or do I need to remind you?" His eyes were blazing fiercely as he stood up and leaned across the table to kiss the girl again. "You will let me drive you," He said again, and she nodded, defeated. She looked at her watch and jumped up.

"Oh no! Ten-chan is waiting for us!" She said, grabbing both of their half eaten plates and taking them to the sink to be washed. "You go down" she said to him. "I will meet you there in ten minutes"

Cain nodded and put his shoes on a the door "Gochisosamadeshta and Remember," he said before leaving "Satsu is never hurried." And with that he left the girl in their room to clean up from breakfast and started making his way to the parking garage where he was to become Tsuruga Ren, once more.

A/N - bwahaha! God i feel so evil! sorry i came up with this idea a like 5 this morning, i knew it would be totally worth it!

Will Ren's premonition come true?

sorry this chapter is so short!

Translations

Kohai - means underclassman, on that note Sempai - which i will surely use at some point, means upperclassmen. I dont mean in school where half the class are upperclassmen and the other half are lower, no, this means in any business or school, whoever has been there longer is the Sempai. It doesnt matter who is older. You can have a younger sempai, as long as they have been there longer than you have. a Kohai is anyone who has been there for less time than you (obviously).

Itadakimasu - what you say before a meal - kind of, thanks for the food

Gochisosamadeshta - what you say after a meal, "i appreciate the food that i just ate"ish

Please R&R!