Chapter 3
The rest of the evening went as planned. They went out and bought groceries for their meal, intimidating absolutely everyone they came across. She cooked, and they ate their meal with minimal whining from Cain about the lack of meat. They watched a movie and retired the uneventful night. Kyoko didn't quite understand this assignment but was eager for the real assignment to start tomorrow. The only reason she could come up for all this non-filming time together was to ensure that their performance as the Heel siblings was flawless, for fear of revealing the truth. Setsu had to know EVERYTHING about her precious brother, so Kyoko didn't argue spending almost every night with Ren.
Besides, who would complain about being with the person you love every night? The only problem was that it wasn't Ren she was with. It was Cain. Still, she saw Ren in Cain just as Setsu saw Cain in Ren. The little clothing incident wasn't mentioned at all that night though Kyoko couldn't keep it out of her mind. What happened? Why did he do that? Why was he angry? Was it something she did? It had to be. He was fine coming in that night. The moment she turned into Setsu he grew more and more upset.
She wanted to ask him, to understand what exactly happened but she couldn't. Ren played his part perfectly, but she could see the underlining guilt. Cain bought her treats at the store like ice cream and candy. He ate more than usual as if trying to please her, served her drinks and even picked up his clothing at the end of the night. With his sweet efforts to stay in character and apologize at the same time, she couldn't bring up the topic.
Kyoko woke up from her restless sleep before the alarm clock rang and turned it off. Cain would never wake up with it, so it was mostly for herself. She was up an hour before required due to the tossing and turning. She glanced over to Ren's sleeping form to ensure he was still asleep. He didn't move, so she guessed that he was. She quietly slipped out of her bed and into the restroom. Again, Setsu didn't need to be quiet with Cain, but Ren was a light sleeper, and if she could let him sleep for a few more minutes, Kyoko would do so. No doubt he would be awake as soon as she opened the door, but Cain would stubbornly stay bundled up till she dragged him out. She relieved herself, brushed her teeth, splashed water on her face and glanced at herself in the mirror.
A small pleased smile decorated her face as she looked at her pajamas, if she could call it that. It was a simple black t-shirt, though not hers, but his. She tried her best to buy sleepwear that was Setsu approved but couldn't. No bright pastel colors, which eliminated a lot of women's sleepwear, no silly sleeping tees or long sleeved shirt/pant sets. She only wanted camisoles and really tiny shorts, or simply underwear and always made of black lace and semi-sheer materials. Kyoko was open to a lot of things but to wear that in front of a man, any man, was beyond her comfort zone.
So Setsu and Kyoko struck a bargain. Setsu was more than happy to sleep in her brother's shirts, and Kyoko was more than covered in his large garments. One night after their showers, Setsu took the shirt Cain discarded and slipped it on. Setsu didn't ask for permission, though Kyoko desperately wanted to. At least then she would feel a little better wearing something that wasn't hers. Maybe he would give her something he didn't mind her wearing. What if this was his favorite shirt, or he didn't want her wearing something he wore that day? When she came out, he took one look at her and then went back to watching TV as if it was nothing, so Setsu did the same.
Kyoko couldn't stop blushing as she looked at herself in his shirt. It hit her mid thigh and the sleeves hit her elbows. She hugged it against her, feeling how incredibly soft it was against her bare skin. While the shirt itself was very nice, the best part was the smell, his scent. She pulled the shirt up and over her nose and inhaled deeply. Well, it smelled like smoke at first, but after that was all him. She smiled happily and let the shirt fall down. She had to get dressed now, back into her leathers and chains. She almost regretted taking it off every morning but her sense of duty always overcame her desires. The fact that she would once again be putting another one later always helped too.
Today she had to prove her character to the President, and Kyoko was more than nervous. Was she ready? Would she be able to fool everyone into thinking they were brother and sister? Would her English be fluent enough? She couldn't make anymore mistakes playing Setsuka, and she wanted to make Ren proud to have her as his sister. After getting dressed as Setsu, she yanked open the door letting it slam back against the wall as hard as possible. Ren was awake, but Cain didn't move. She grinned as she thought of a brilliant way to wake up her big brother. She padded over to the little kitchenette and got herself a glass of water. Setsu leisurely walked over to where Cain was facing, taking little sips of water.
"Nii-san, it's time to get up," she spoke lightly, seeing if the mere sound of her voice would wake him up. It never did. She set the glass down on the nightstand and crawled onto the bed.
"Niiiiiiiiiiii-ssssssaaaaaaaannnnnn," she whined and shook him. "Get up!" Setsu pushed Cain roughly. He simply rolled over facing away from her. She sighed in frustration. It was like this every morning, causing her to set the alarm extra early just for this reason. She eyed him slyly and moved to straddle above him. Setsu leaned over and grabbed the glass of water. She took another sip and leaned over his body slightly. She stretched her arm out, holding the glass of water directly over his head.
"This is your last chance, Nii-san. It's time to get up," she threatened as her hand started to very slowly tip the glass.
"Or what?" Cain grumbled. He actually loved all the efforts Setsu put into waking him up. It was always interesting to see the new things she tries every morning.
"1..." Setsu started her countdown. Cain simply ignored her.
"2..." she continued. Cain flinched as he felt something on his cheek. He picked up his shoulder that was tucked into the blankets and wiped whatever it was off. He then turned, his eyes barely open, to see what it could be.
"3!"
Cain turned just in time to see the glass of water turn upside down and all of its contents splash onto his face. He immediately shot up gasping and sputtering as the semi cold water woke up every single nerve in his body. Setsu fell back on his bed laughing her butt off at the expression of pure shock on his face. As soon as she could see again, the laughter slowing down, she looked up at him and paled.
"Uh-oh," she whimpered as she watched her very ticked off brother glaring at her through wet strands of hair. She slowly backed away and spoke in a nice soothing voice, "Now, Nii-san, I did warn you. You wouldn't get up. What choice did I have?" She smiled sweetly at him to no avail. Her eyes flickered to find the edge of the bed and back to the wet angry animal in front of her.
"It's just water. It's not like your going to get sticky or anything." Setsu felt the edge of the bed coming closer, just a few more centimeters. "And look, you're up, and we can have a nice relaxing breakfast instead of a rushed one like normal. That will be nice, right?" She reached the edge as she spoke and gradually lowered her foot onto the ground. As she started to push her weight off the bed, she heard him growl very, very softly. Setsu gulped and remembered that she still had the glass in her hand.
"CATCH!" she tossed the glass to him and took off! The only other door was the bathroom, but she needed him to get ready so she headed to the next best thing – out of the room. Turned out that was the best and only escaped from her brother. Since he though she was heading to the bathroom too, Cain leaped in front of it to block her expected salvation. She ran past the bathroom door and was reaching for the door handle screaming and laughing at the same time. Her heart was pounding as adrenaline surged through her veins. She opened the door just enough to get her tiny body through and rushed out. Her eyes widened as she turned and saw him almost on top of her as she instinctually shut the door in his face.
Setsu clung onto that door handle as if her life depended on it. It sort of did. She had to use her whole body to keep that damn handle from turning, placing her feet on the door frame for support and leaning as far back as she could. A few people and a worker peeked out to see what the slamming door was about to find a beautiful dark punk girl breathing heavily while holding on to the door knob and grinning from ear to ear.
"Um, excuse me," a man spoke drawing Setsu's attention, "is everything okay?"
Setsu sneered at him as he interrupted her fun. "Yeah," she said with a strained voice, "Everything is just fine." She turned to him and found he was more interested in looking down her blouse than the situation she was in. She narrowed her eyes at him while trying to keep the grip on the ever moving door handle. "Why don't you fu… gah!" Setsu abruptly fell on to floor as the thing that was holding her up was unexpectedly detached.
"Shit," she cursed as she looked at the broken door handle. She let the useless handle drop to the floor and watched as the curious doorman took off running.
"What a sissy," she murmured and flinched as she felt her brother glare on her. She slowly turned towards him, finding his feet first. He was still wearing his pajama bottoms, her eyes following the loose cotton pants up his legs, past his pale naked chest. The dark purple aura grew darker as she slowly made her way up to his face. He wasn't smiling, just scowling down at her. She smiled sweetly at him and wiggled her fingers in a little wave.
"Hi, Nii-san," she said with a big smile and then she got serious. "You really should be getting ready. We still need to eat, and I am not going to let you be late."
Cain didn't say anything. He simply took a step towards her, and she stiffened. Another step and Setsu started crab walking backwards to get away from him. "Now, Nii-san, don't be mad. It was for your own goo…WAH!" Cain bent over and lifted her up into the air and over his shoulder. "PUT ME DOWN!" None of the gawkers moved a muscle as they watched the young girl being kidnapped by the scary older man. They were simply too afraid they would be next.
"NII-SAN! Let Me Go!" She wiggled and squirmed over his shoulder prompting him to spank her butt lightly. Setsu froze in shock. "D…did… did you just spank me?"
"Yes," Cain replied as he pushed the hotel door closed then pushed a potted plant in front of it with his foot. She smiled as she looked down. I can do that too! She reached down and found that she couldn't reach. She squirmed on his shoulder trying to lower herself further and he spanked her again, a little harder. Setsu jumped at the shock of it but sighed in defeated. If that was the worse of the punishment, she could deal with that. He walked over to the bed, and she prepared herself to be tossed onto it, however, that didn't happen. Instead he leaned down slightly and went into the bathroom where she heard running water.
"NO!" She screamed, recognizing his intentions. "DON'T! STOP! CAIN!" The water turned off, and she squirmed to get away as he pulled her from his shoulder and dropped her into a tub of freezing cold water.
"AAAAHHHH!" Kyoko screamed high and loud as the water hit her skin. Ren's laughter filled the room almost as loudly as her screams did. The water was only up to her breast, and he was rather gentle in dunking her into the tub, but the punishment was still rather affective. She crawled out as quickly as she could, drenched from head to toe and shivering.
Ren couldn't help himself. It was just too funny. Kyoko was the only person in the world to make him laugh this hard. He didn't notice the room grow smaller and darker, lost in his hysteria. He sat on the floor next to her wiping the tears that threatened to fall from his eyes. After a moment, he focused on Kyoko who was on her hands and knees dripping wet, her hair was hanging flat and dragging onto the floor, her clothes were plastered against her skin more so than they usually were causing him to coughed lightly as he rather enjoyed the way they hugged her.
"Tsuruga-san…," she growled. Kyoko let all her little demons out ready to attack the man that dared to do this to her. She reached into the tub as he calmed down from his fit of laughter and grinned maliciously at him.
Finally noticing her intentions, he spoke up, "Mogami-san, I was just playing my role. Cain would never let Setsu get away with...," Kyoko swung her arm up and out of the tub, gathering as much water as she could and directed it towards Ren.
"That," he finished as the water splashed across his chest and legs. He sat there motionless as his mind processed what his kohai just did. Her soft bell like giggle reached his ears.
Kyoko watched him carefully, gauging his reaction. Ren didn't move, didn't say anything, or react in anyway. He wasn't angry, happy, sad, confused, or anything. Maybe I went to far…. She frowned sadly. I'm so stupid. Setsu is allowed to play with Cain, not Kyoko with Ren.
"Mogami-san," Ren spoke softly, carefully. "You know this means war, right?"
Kyoko's brow furrowed as she repeated his words in her head. Her eyes went wide as she finally registered their meaning.
"AH!" She yelled out as he reached into tub and splashed cold water onto her warmed body. He continued his assault with a childlike expression as she took cover behind the edge of the tub laughing. She popped up and started the counterattack, enthusiastically throwing water back at him. Soon all of the water was on the floor around them rather than in the tub, and they were both soaking wet and breathless from laughing. The war was over once they ran out of ammo, declaring it a tie. She crawled over to Ren, who was sitting with his back against the tub trying to catch his breath. He turned towards her with a big happy smile as she sat next to him. She matched his smile and lifted a large clump of soggy hair.
"I think it's ruined," she said sadly, holding up strands of the limp wig.
Ren chuckled. "We'll ask Jelly if she can fix it when we go in," he replied. Kyoko let the blonde mess drop back on her breast and sighed. She let her head rest on Ren's shoulder and gently took his hand into hers. As soon as she did though, she snapped her hand back and pulled herself away from him.
"We should get going," Kyoko said nervously.
"Yes," Ren agreed, "I'll call housekeeping to get this cleaned up." He stood up and offered her a hand.
She looked at it apprehensively but took it. He helped her stand and started walking her out the door when she let go of his hand. Ren looked back at her puzzled. She smiled and explained her thoughts, "Our changing room is out of commission. I'll wait here while you get dressed. Just knock on the door, and I'll know it's safe to come out."
"Ah." Ren wanted to argue as he looked at her. She was shivering from the cold, and he was worried she was going to get sick if she stayed wet. However, she would rather be sick than change in the same room as him.
He smiled. She didn't want to change in front of me. That means she's embarrassed changing in front of a man. He nodded happily to her and plopped a fluffy white towel on her head. "I'll be quick, but dry up as much as you can, I don't want you to get sick." He gestured to her wet clothes causing her to look down at herself. She blushed and nodded. He watched her for a second longer and left the room. It was so odd seeing Kyoko in such revealing clothes. Setsu he was use to but not his innocent Kyoko.
"I prefer her in my shirts though," he murmured to himself and set off to change and call housekeeping.
Kyoko splashed the water on the floor with her feet lightly. She smiled as she reminisce their little battle, then felt guilty about the mess they made. She thought about using the towel to soak up some of the water and wringing it out in the tub, but then a shiver ran through her, her body telling her how cold she was. Deciding her heath was more important, she set the towel on the sink, took off her wig and started peeling her clothes off. She was wearing the leather pants that Cain bought her so it took some dancing around to get the garment off. Finally free of all her wet clothing, she starting drying off.
"Mogami-san," Ren knocked as he opened the door, "you can come out. We actually got a…"
"STOP!" She screamed out as she tried to cover herself up as fast as possible.
Ren slammed the door closed as fast as he could, a blush adorning his cheeks. "I'm so sorry, Mogami-san. I didn't think you were going to undress." He felt the door open and turned to find her shyly peeking out.
"Did you see anything?" She asked timidly, her face was blazing red in embarrassment.
He coughed lightly, blushing. "Nothing to be concerned about, I promise," he lied. Ren didn't see as much as he would like but some of the puzzle pieces were fitted into the overall picture for him. What she never realized was that she's shown him so much over the course of living together. The press of her body against his, the quick glimpses his shirt gave as she bent over, and the little mini skirts all helped with building his mental image of her. Now he knew she had this cute little birthmark on her left breast and that her butt was as nice out of clothes as it was in them.
Kyoko groaned. "Then why are you blushing?" She came out of the bathroom completely, and he had to look away. She wrapped the towel around her, covering more than what her normal Setsu clothes did but, the fact that she had nothing on underneath was too tempting.
"Mogami-san, you need to hurry up and get dressed," He stated, trying to change the subject, "House keeping and maintenance is going to be up in a few minutes, and we need to go soon."
She sighed knowing that she wasn't going to get a straight answer from him. She looked around and then back into the messy bathroom.
"Where am I going to change?" She asked curiously.
"Oh, I forgot," Ren blushed again, knowing he was distracted from the vision beside him. "They are going to give us a new room because of the…" he coughed, "damages that we caused. I thought you would change there."
"If only someone would have told me that sooner," Setsu said sarcastically. Ren smirked trying to hide his laughter. Sarcasm coming from Kyoko's lips was odd, but it wasn't Kyoko talking so he let Cain take over.
Cain sneered, "And whose fault do you think that is?"
"Yours!" Setsu stuck her tongue out at him "Get out so I can get dressed," Setsu snapped at him.
He smirked at her. "What? You've changed in front of me before, just hurry up and we can go."
Setsu glared and then shrugged. "Fine," she said as she walked over to the dresser for her underwear. "I don't care if you see me, Nii-san." she walked over to the bed farthest from him and sat down with her back to him.
"But the maintenance men are coming up to fix the door, so they may see me naked too," she let the towel slowly slip down her back but still careful to keep her front covered as she spoke.
"If you don't mind other men seeing me, then…." She heard the front door close and turned to find Cain missing. Kyoko blew out her courage and softly screamed into her hands. Why did Cain and Setsu have to have such a weird relationship? She took several deep breaths to calm down her nerves. She was worried that she would really have to change in front of him and actually considered just changing in the closet. She was small enough to do so. Thankfully, she got her way without going out of character. Her mind recalled the "revealing" as she dropped her towel. She blushed brightly and quickly slipped on her panties and snapped on her bra, funny how she instantly felt better having underwear on.
"I wouldn't have minded so much if he saw me in my underwear," she whispered to herself as she put on a pair of shorts. You liar! She frowned at the inner voice yelling at her.
"It doesn't matter anyway, he didn't see anything," she spoke confidently to her inner voice. Kyoko sighed as she buttoned up her shorts. Ren deflected the question, which could only mean that he saw more than he let on. Worse case scenario, he saw everything. She groaned. He's seen me naked now. He knows how completely unsexy I am compared to all those beautiful women he's always around. She knew that he saw so many naked women just by being a model. There was no way her sexless body would be able to compete with them.
Kyoko wrapped her arms around herself, feeling very cold - very vulnerable. She quickly slipped on her top and threw on her jacket suddenly wanting to start the day. She started to pack up her things, intentionally forgetting that Cain was waiting for her outside. He can stay outside, Setsu thought. She was going to pack all his things anyway. As she tip toed into the bathroom to get their personal affects, she noticed her wig on the sink and grimaced. Kyoko looked up into the mirror to find an incomplete image, Setsu clothes, but no Setsu make-up or hair, posing the question of how to hide this little fault.
She finished packing her things and started on Cain's. As she put away his clothes she found a black hoodie. It was still cool outside, though Setsu wouldn't wear something like this. Kyoko frowned. But it's Cain's so it should be okay. She put it on anyway.
Ren was starting to get concerned with how long she was taking. She normally was very quick to get dressed, though she took a while with make-up and hair. Still, maintenance was already waiting for him to give the okay to start working, and Cain was making him antsy.
"Should I come back another time?" The middle-aged man said shakily. Cain frightened him, standing so very tall and looking like something he wouldn't want to meet in the best conditions let alone in a deserted hallway.
"No," Cain replied sharply. After a few moments, movement caught his eye. House keeping was now making there way over with their large cart and they were now out of time. Cain turned to the man. "Wait here. Don't Move," he ordered causing the older man to nod furiously. He turned to the door and timidly pushed it open. He was thankful that the door didn't reveal the room right away so he could make his presence known before hand.
"Setsu, hurry up," Cain called out callously making Setsu peek her head around the corner.
"Oi, maybe if I had some help we could leave sooner. Grab those and let me finish this last bag." Setsu pointed to a couple of duffle bags that were sitting in the kitchenette.
"Maybe if you told me you were packing I would have helped," he growled out and grabbed the bags. She came out as he straightened up, and he snorted at her non-stylish clothes.
"Yeah, yeah laugh it up, Chuckles," she grumbled, taking the lead out of their ruined hotel room. She stepped out careful to keep the hood over her head to cover her lack of blonde hair. Kyoko saw the two hotel employees waiting to go in and immediately wanted to bow in apology. Setsu didn't give them a second look, stepping out of the way for her brother to come out with the rest of their things.
"Where's the room?" she asked straightforwardly to her brother.
"Two floors down," he replied. They quietly but quickly made their way there. As soon as they were in the room, they shed their personas not wanting to waste time acting appropriately. The Heel siblings had no sense of urgency, and they were extremely late as it is.
"I'll take a shower first. I promise it will be quick," Kyoko said as she pulled the hoodie off, already heading to the bathroom. She grabbed her bag and went into the bathroom just before Ren could object. Time was ticking away leaving less and less time for them to eat which he was sure Kyoko wanted to do. While she showered, Ren searched for the hair dryer. He dried off as best as he could in the other room, but his hair still needed to be styled correctly.
Kyoko found her clothing, showered and got dressed in record time. The next battle was her hair. She had to style it to match Setsu. She could always use the excuse that her real hair was a wig. She grabbed her bag which had all of their grooming materials and looked at the time. Kyoko groaned, she couldn't do this in here, Ren still needed to take a shower.
She opened the door with the big bag in hand. "Your turn, I'm going try to style my hair out here while you shower." She tossed her bag on the bed and uploaded everything onto it. She grabbed the hair gel, comb and hair dryer. She turned to the only other mirror in the hotel room and got to work. She frowned at herself, wondering if she would be able to fool anyone with her original hair color.
You are an actress! You can fool anyone, Kyoko told herself and opened the jar of hair gel. She carelessly dipped her fingers inside the green goo and pulled out a large amount for her hair. Ren disappeared into the bathroom as she started to pull her hair up but didn't close the door. Kyoko looked at it through the mirror worriedly as she heard the water start to run.
"Nii-san, you need to close the door if you are going to take a shower," she complained. Before she could move to close the door, he came out with a towel around his neck and his hair drenched again.
"I just need to fix Cain's hair. Where are the gel and the hair dryer?" He asked as he rummaged through the things on the bed. Kyoko turned back to the mirror leaning over the little dresser.
"I have it," she called out as she ran the comb through her hair spiking it up. She pressed her lips together in frustration; her hair was too long to spike it up. Punk, she needed to be punkish right? Achieving this look was easier with different hair colors, having only one shade was going to kill everything. As she redesigned her hair in her head, Ren stepped up behind her reaching for the blow dryer. Kyoko felt herself blush at his casual closeness.
"Go to the other mirror!" Setsu yelled at him over the hair dryer.
"No, you have everything here. Hurry up, we need to go," Cain responded loudly without pausing. Setsu huffed agitated and looked into the mirror again. How am I going to make this work? After a few seconds she stuck her fingers into her hair and thrashed it about wildly. Ren stilled for a moment as he watched her completely mess up her hair. When she opened her eyes again, he forced himself to continue. She leaned over the dresser, closer to the mirror and started to slide or fix certain strands of hair in certain directions. She was so focused fixing her hair that she didn't realized the position she put herself in.
Ren looked down at her bent over the dresser, her butt up in the air in leather shorts so tight he knew she had to be wearing a thong. He closed his eyes and his fists to keep his desires from taking over. He didn't know how much time had passed until he felt her move back straight into him finally finished with her hair and make-up. He bit back a groan as she accidentally brushed her body against him.
"What are you doing, Nii-san? We have to go!" Setsu shoved away from the dresser and grabbed his arm at the same time. Instead of moving, Cain held his ground and refocused on fixing his cowlicks. He would go when he was ready to go.
"If I can go out with this," she gestured to her spiky artfully messy orange hair, "you can go out like that! Let's go!" She screamed and pulled at him again. He glanced at her again and smirked. Ren actually thought she looked pretty good. The gel was on so thick her hair color was darkened to the point of it almost being red. Then she did her make-up to look like she had on a pink mask. With dark pink eye shadow around her eyes to fade down to her cheeks and black eye liner that trailed off into little dots at the corner of her eyes. Where she learned to put on make-up like that was a mystery but it hid Kyoko perfectly. No one would recognize her.