Kyoko's Prove

I was so scarred as the beagle's lips were about to make contact with mine. I began screaming as loud as I could loud enough to wake the dead that is if the dead could wake.

Ren's Prove

I heard a sudden loud scream as my car drove down the road sending a large shutter up my heart. Kyoko I knew at once where she was I drove up to the forest of Saryia where Kyoko and I had first met 14 years ago. I parked the car unbuckled, pulled open the door and rushed out of the car without even bothering to close the door or grab the keys out of the ignition as I ran into the forest leaving Yashro in my wake.

Pelting through the forest as I ran past trees hoping and praying that what my thoughts were thinking would not be the image that was about to become reality before my eyes.

I ran in full out to the center of the forest and skidded to a stop unable to believe what my eyes were taking in and sending back to my brain.

There stood Kyoko a look of horror and utter fear portrayed on her face as the very man she loath held her pinned down by her arms against a tree his mouth just inches away from her. It only took a few moments for shock to be replaced by anger. Anger at Reino for harming Kyoko, for the sorrow he was causing her, and for what he was just about to do to her. There was no dowt in my mind that Reino aka the Beagle was crossing the line. I didn't care who Reino though he was but there was no way in my right mind I was going to let him hurt Kyoko.

Had Reino been paying any attention to behind him instead of focusing on Kyoko whom he held pinned down and struggling beneath his hands he would have noticed my swift and stellar approach behind him.

Kyoko's Prove

"No, no, no," I said to myself kinking and thrashing to get away as I tried to avoid the inevitable. "No…"

"Ugh," I heard a shout of surprise as the beagle was yanked backward and flung a mere one foot by Tsurgua Ren.

"Leave her alone he shouted a look of anger on his face."

"Stay out of this you show mutt," I heard the beagle shout back. "This is none of your concern," as he wiped the dirt away from his face.

"Maybe you didn't hear me, Ren shouted as his eyes turned a fiery dark blue and a dark demure surrounded his body sending what looked to be a shiver of fear up along the beagle's spine.

I was suddenly worried that the beagle might stay and try to duke it out with Ren. I didn't want Ren to get hurt on my part. But upon seeing the look of deep and dark fury that was placed on the actor Ren Tsuruga's face. I watched as the beagle rushed out of the forest as quick as his legs and the rest of his body would allow him.

Ren's Prove

I let the darkness that was rising within me settle down. "Mogami-san are you all right," I asked my back turned toward her as to prevent Kyoko from seeing how truly and utterly scared I was.

"Tsuruga-sempa," I could hear her say slowly, "thank you." Then the tears flowed.

I turned around so that I was now facing her. "Mogami-san," I approached Kyoko wanting to hold her but resisting the urge to give in to those feelings.

"Corn," she sobbed.

Corn what did she mean by corn? She couldn't possibly have figured out that Ren-Tsuruga wasn't my real name and that my real name was Kuon Hizuri a.k.a. her childhood friend Corn or could she? Wait had Reino told her, and if he did how did he now that Ren wasn't my real name? These were the questions of confusion that raced through my mind as stood there watching Kyoko ball her eyes out. "Kyoko I asked my voice changing to one of sympathy."

"He hurt Corn," I heard her utter.

"Hurt, Corn?" I was confused what could Kyoko possibly mean I was fine I was still standing right her so why was she saying I was hurt. I took another step closer towards Kyoko when I heard a crunching sound as my feet came down. "What the?" Then I saw it. Lying beneath the bottom of my shoes where the shattered remains of what had been Kyoko's most prized possession a small green blue stone that I had given her the day I left Kyoto, Japan. A small gem she had nicknamed corn. "Oh," as realization dawned on me that she didn't know that I was Kuon and that she was referring to her stone and not me.