AN: I feel like there's a lot in this chapter that I didn't describe well enough but I hope that you still enjoy it. I had a reviewer tell me that the fanfic I talked about in the author notes of chapter one was much better than this one. Although that did hurt hearing that, I do have to admit that Oishi24's Falling for you (All over again) is one of the best Skip Beat fics I have ever read 😊 I don't really like the rewrite of it, I'm sorry to say, but I love this original piece. So adorable 😊 (oh and by the way, the rewrite has a lot more Shou so it's kind of the same as the Shou level in this, anonymous reviewer)

Chapter Three – Letting Your Hand Slip

Kuon stared at them in disbelief. He couldn't believe the words that he had just heard and his body turned stiff, eyes widening. "Don't tell me you believe him," he said as he gestured to Shou. "Fuwa doesn't care about you. He ruined your life by taking you here and then ditching you. You have to remember that," he said desperately and Kyoko watched him.

"I pity you, I really do," she said as Kuon's mouth dropped open. What kind of messed up charade was this? Kuon looked at Aurora, trying to make sure she wasn't affected by this in the same way that he was.

"It's not pity that I need," Kuon said as he looked at his wife. "Kyoko…-chan, I know that it's hard for you to remember, but you have to," he said before seeing her hurt look and felt hurt himself. He wanted to grab her and shake her until she remembered but the way that she had been hurt, the way she thought herself to only be fifteen years old but caught within a spell stopped him from doing this.

"Please," he said as he reached out for her and she flinched, "Please come home with me. I'll take care of you. I'll make sure that you have everything that you need. Please," Kuon tried to beg. He didn't want to see his wife anywhere else. He didn't even notice when Shou took a few steps to the side.

"You're an inhuman monster," Kyoko told him and Kuon was struck speechless by those words. "You're just a monster who used his fairy powers to create a world where I'm forced to live." She looked at Kuon and he could see hate starting to build in her eyes. It had been so long since she had had those kinds of emotions for him.

He took a half breath before turning towards Shou. "I'll let you go with him for now, but only because I know that when you get your memories back, you'll be calling for me and wanting to be in my arms and not his." Kuon took a step closer to Shou, "but I also swear that if you do anything to hurt her or take advantage of her, you'll be seeing first hand why those newspapers talked about the infamous Kuon Hizuri anger. Fuwa, you disgust me but I know you'll keep her safe and until she recovers her memories, I don't think she'll be happy with me, she'd only attempt to get to you."

Shou laughed at that and Kuon had to hold back the urge to punch him, "Face it Hizuri, she was never happy with you."

Kuon took deep breaths so he didn't physically attack Shou. He went to Kyoko and put what was meant to be a calming hand on her shoulder. "Promise me that if you need me for anything, you'll call me. Promise me that if you feel scared or hurt and you need me, even if it is to talk to me, you'll call me. I'll come to your side no matter where you are," he told her. This was the wrong decision and every part of his body was fighting against him doing this.

"I won't," Kyoko said…"I mean I won't need you when I have Shou-chan."

Kuon looked at Fuwa, "If you do anything" he warned again before gathering Aurora and turned to Kyoko. "Please remember how much I love you, princess" he told her before leaving. He kept trying to tell himself that this wasn't a good idea. He wasn't going to be the one to manipulate Kyoko's memories but he knew that she would try to get away and be with Fuwa if he took her home. If he took her to their home and shut her in the guest room and locked her up then she'd hate him even more.

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Kyoko grinned as she came to Shou's apartment. So, this was the place where she lived with her Prince Charming. It didn't feel familiar and Shou hadn't even reached out to hold her hand. Maybe it was Corn's manipulation that made it seem somewhere other than her home. As she pressed her hand against the wood she saw a blurry image play in her mind.

Kyoko unlocked the door to the elegant house, she loved this house because she had picked it out with her husband. As she opened the door, she saw her husband holding their daughter who he had just changed.

"Welcome home," he grinned, "How was your work today, princess."

Kyoko blinked out of that memory and wrapped her arms around herself. Was Corn this much of a trickster that he would place fake memories in her head thinking that she wouldn't question them. Corn had been very thorough with all of this.

As Kyoko came into the apartment, she couldn't help but feel that this was different. She remembered being here but only briefly. She didn't remember living here, but then she barely remembered anything else from her life after the age of fifteen. She did remember being held and being kissed with such passion and yet tenderness, that was something, right? Those moments felt real.

"So, where's the bedroom?" she asked as she looked around. "I'd like to take a shower and get changed into my -"

"Yeah, you don't have any clothes here," Shou shrugged. "Guess you need to buy some."

Kyoko nodded without really understanding why she didn't have anything. She remembered that Corn had brought her a few outfits when he visited her at the hospital. Did Corn steal all of her clothes and belongings? Was Corn a hoarder? Then again, Corn had reluctantly allowed her to follow Shou. He knew that she needed clothes so he would have put them here for her to have.

"Oh, then can I borrow some money?" she asked as Shou laughed at this.

"You can earn your money," he said as Kyoko grabbed to her upper arm. "I mean, what do you think that I am, a lender to a charity case. You can go back to Mos Burger and earn some money that way."

Kyoko looked at her 'husband' and then tried to concentrate on the floor remembering the magazine of her…holding Aurora. She put a hand to her mouth, was that real? Had that picture been real, it was hard to tell.

"Thinking about it, it'd be a huge embarrassment for me to have my wife working such a degrading job. It would reflect poorly on the image that I've cultivated. Why can't you be a housewife, it's what you're good at."

Shou grabbed Kyoko's arm as she stared at him bewildered. All of a sudden, a flash came over her.

The blond man was there again, only he was looking through a number of papers that were on the table in front of him. "Does it matter which one you pick?" he asked as he studied them. "All of them look like they'll advance your career, although this one is just another bullying role."

"I have to pick between them," Kyoko sighed. "I wanted your opinion, you've worked with the directors and I'm sure you have an opinion."

"You're right, I have worked with the directors but I also know your guts and professionalism," the blurry blond told her. "Whatever you choose, I'll be right behind you to support you."

"Don't you support me if I want to act?" Kyoko asked as Shou raised an eyebrow.

"Look, that's only because I didn't want you to be a stupid and boring and plain woman. Now that you're back home, now that you're back to being yourself, you need to forget all about acting." Shou sat down on the sofa and looked at her. "Remember you'd do anything for me."

Kyoko looked around, "Of course Shou-chan," she said as she started to regret not following Corn back to his home, but this was only his constructed form of reality. She needed to find out how to become fifteen years old again and go back to the reality that she knew. Maybe Corn knew a spell to turn this all back.

"You can start by cleaning the apartment," he told her, "It hasn't had a good clean since I fired that housekeeper for theft. It's so stupid that the agency couldn't provide me with someone better. After that we can talk or watch TV or something."

Kyoko nodded and walked into the kitchen obediently. This felt so wrong. It was as if her hands were trying to grab onto something and pull it to her. Corn had gone too far this time. He had altered her memories and tried to make her run back to him. Well, she wasn't going to let him treat her like a play thing. If she stayed here with her husband then she would eventually break Corn and he would give her her memories back or take her back to Kyoto.

After she had filled a bucket with warm, soapy water, she stood and walked over to the living room where Shou was watching a program featuring him that had been aired a month ago. "Hey," she smiled as she watched him. At least Shou looked happy and healthy, at least he looked handsome and she hoped his singing career was going well. She stood there silently for another moment or two before taking a step towards him. "Hi, Shou-chan, can I ask you for something?" she asked.

"Sure," Shou said as he looked at her, "I might not give it. Depends what it is."

"It's not something big," she said before looking at him with a blush spreading over her cheeks. Shou stood, making his way over to her. "Can you kiss me?" she asked. Shou smiled before holding both of her cheeks and kissing her.

Kyoko stepped away after the kiss ended, her body shaking.

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Kuon slammed a hand against the wall as he paused from where he was doing the ironing after washing the dirty clothes in the hamper. He was such an idiot. Just because he was more concerned about his wife's happiness and her comfort, he had made such a huge mistake. He didn't even know if she was safe. He looked at his fist and sighed. It would probably be good to bandage it up and find some way of repairing the wall.

Until his cell phone rang, he was caught up in his own head and his own guilt. He should have been more suspicious and he definitely should have stood his ground and found a way to convince Kyoko that fairy magic wasn't real. If only he hadn't been scared of his own presence doing her psychological harm.

He looked at his phone. He didn't recognize the number but he decided to pick it up anyway. If it was a reporter, he wasn't in any mood to hold himself back from telling them to screw themselves. "Hello, this is Hizuri," he said and heard a soft sobbing on the other end of the line. "Kyoko…chan, is that you?"

"I'm sorry, Corn" Kyoko said trying hard not to trouble him with her tears. "I'm sorry that I didn't believe in your good nature."

"Where are you?" Kuon said as he checked his pocket for his keys and wallet. "Do you know the address?" he asked and heard a labored sob from the other end of the line. "Princess, can you try to tell me what's wrong?" he asked before hearing a voice in the background.

"You called that guy?" Shou said as Kuon's hand tightened around the phone. He was such an idiot. "I thought that we were cool," he said and Kyoko's body shook.

"We are," she replied back to Shou, "We are Shou-chan."

"Kyoko" Kuon said trying to grab her attention as he went to get Aurora ready to go out. "Listen to me. Concentrate on my voice, princess. Where are you? I'm coming to get you. I'm so sorry that I left you, princess."

There was a slam and then the phone line went dead as Kuon felt his heart beat stop and catch in his throat. He should never have let her leave him.

End Chapter Three

AN2: Thank you to everyone who has supported this fic. Special shout outs to: brennakai and Guest for their reviews of Chapter Two. I hope, now I usually don't do what I hope to do because of impatience and wanting to rebel, but I hope the next chapter will be uploaded in a bulk upload of all my 13 Skip Beat fics. Thank you for your support.