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italics - thoughts
bold is actually talked in English

After the initial shock that they have to share one hotel room - which both actors tried not to let show on their faces - they were now standing before an even bigger surprise. A double bed. The operative word is 'a', singular, as in only one bed for the two of them. They both stood frozen in the entrance of the room and stared disbelievingly at the big bed.

'...Oh yeah... surely that's exactly what she is after... and Lory is even playing the mastermind behind all that...' Ren thought, till he looked to his left and noticed her expression. She stood as stiff as a statue, her gray eyes wide open and her skin as pale as death.

"...Setsuka-san..."

She jerked. "...Yes... Onii-sama..?"

'...What's wrong with her? That does not sound like the Setsuka she was faithfully portraying until a few moments ago... as shocked as she seems to be... maybe this isn't a part of her plan at all... which would mean that all of this is Lory's idea... who knows... in the end he could be playing with her like he does with me...'

"Everything OK? You look pale."

"...I-i-i... t-t-that..."

"What is it, Setsu?"

She took a deep breath - trying to calm her nerves - and just opened her mouth to start talking when they heard a knock on the door. The two of them turned and looked at the entryway. Kyoko didn't think twice as she went to open the door and see who disrupted them in such a moment - she definitely was not unhappy about the interruption.

About twenty minutes, and a sickeningly long rant of apologies from the hotel manager and one of his staff, later the door closed again behind the two of them - only this time in a room with two beds. Ren sat on one of the beds with his face in his hands and his elbows resting on his knees, while Setsuka, in this moment still displaying more of Kyoko than her character, tried to handle the tons of coupons and hotel amenity goods of every imaginable kind with which the hotel staff stuffed her arms. She managed to take three steps before the first thing skidded down the mountain. As she tried to catch it at the last moment, she lost the fight and everything went flying to the ground.

The "Wahh!" she made caused Ren to look up, but he didn't move a single inch as he watched all the things fall down.

"Jeez! See? This is why I told him not to give me so much... I knew I couldn't hold everything..." she spluttered as she bent down to clean up the mess.

'...That should be the real person... will she notice that she is out of character right now?... 17 the boss said... so young... and he puts her with a being like Cain Heel in such a small hotel room?...That man- Oh! Wow wow wow!...' he thought as he saw her collecting the dropped items into her arms. '...Does she show so much skin deliberately?... No, wait... Miss Woods mentioned that she isn't used to these kind of clothes... That would mean that this is once again one of Lory's great ideas... Does he want to test me? Isn't it my choice to prefer my career over the search for a girlfriend? For at least once, why can't he keep his nose out of my life...'

He breathed in deeply, rose from the bed and made his way towards his 'sister.'

"Setsu."

Kyoko jerked, dropping the items again, as she heard his voice and then his shoes came into vision right in front of her. '...Shoot! Uh, Setsu Setsu Setsu...' she thought before she looked up at him with Setsu's usual bored expression and sexy smile.

"Yes, Nii-san?"

"I need to talk to the girl that's hiding behind my beloved sister. Bring her out."

Kyoko was shocked, but Setsu didn't like to hear such a thing. She rose from her kneeling position and crossed her arms under her chest. "What do you want from her? She's a boring little girl and not your type at all." Setsu closed the distance between them by taking the last step over the fallen and now ignored items and stood right in front of him. With wide eyes and a pout on her lips she looked up into his gray eyes. "Or do you want to tell me that you don't want your cute little sister anymore?"

'...Puppy dog eyes... oh boy!... it's as if she knows how she has to handle me...'

"Setsu... bring her out. I only want to say hello. Without her you wouldn't be here after all." She thought for a short while about it and looked at him warily. "Setsu... It's not me who wants to talk with her. Besides, you're going to listen anyway." Kyoko didn't want to, but Setsu obeyed her brother - at least sometimes. And now was one of these moments. Setsu backed down and left a surprised and really horrified Kyoko behind. Before she herself could even think one straight thought she took two large steps back and bowed down deeply.

"I am sooo sorry, Tsuruga-san. I knew I should have greeted you properly first, but Setsu didn't want to wait any longer to meet her brother and I was so nervous and..."

Ren was too shocked by her sudden change, that he needed a while to recover himself. "It's all right," he interrupted her and tried to get her to stand upright again. "Can we talk in a normal fashion? You don't have to apologize any longer." She straightened herself slowly and looked at him with a red face and teary eyes.

'...Wow! That's a really extreme change in character... Who could have guessed something like that?... Even her posture is different from before...' he thought.

"Please accept my apologies, Tsuruga-san." She said and bowed down, but this time only briefly and not as deep as before. "It's a pleasure to meet you and an honor to be able to work with you. My name is Kyoko." She smiled at him sheepishly.

Ren was quiet for a moment and then he said what was on his mind. "Only Kyoko? No surname?"

The girl blushed slightly at his use of her given name without a suffix and gave him a small smile. "That's right, Tsuruga-san. It's my stage name."

"OK... Then it shall be Kyoko-san. I want to ask you a question. What did Takarada-shachou tell you about all this?" They both went to the small table that was placed next to one of the beds in the room, while Kyoko thought about where to start. He sat down on the edge of the bed whereas she took the chair across from him. It was amazing to see a girl with such refined movements and then her perfect poise when she sat down. But it was at least equally strange to see her graceful posture clad in black leather and chains - that outfit didn't match with this girl.

"Takarada-shachou said you're shooting a movie undercover and that you would need someone who would care for you and who would distract the attention from you. He meant that the only way to put someone next to Cain Heel-san would be a younger, clingy sister. She would be the only person he could listen to without it seeming unnatural." She looked with a frown at him. "Furthermore he told me about your eating habits and I really hope he exaggerated that." There was a questioning look on her face.

Ren winced inwardly and decided to stall that last topic as long as possible. "You are to distract from Cain? Either he distrusts my acting skills or he wants to be overprotective and on the safe side..."

"Oh, I'm sure he only wants to err on the side of caution. After all you are one of the best, if not the best, and most popular actor in whole Japan. I don't know if I am even capable of being some sort of help to you..." She looked down on her folded hands with a frown. "I don't have much acting experience yet after all."

"Hm? Shachou said you did work on a few projects already... What were those? If I'm allowed to ask."

She smiled curtly at him. "It wasn't much...only... a commercial... a PV, then there is one weekly variety show and two TV dramas, but one of those dramas hasn't aired yet. And of course all the 'missions' I get from Takarada-shachou."

"Those are already quite a few. And how long have you been working in show business now?"

"Hmm... the casting was on February the 17...," she mumbled, "... so, almost a year."

For a second she could clearly see the surprise on Ren's face. "That's a good deal for only one year in the business. Then the President didn't exaggerate when he told me about you being a great actress."

The girl blushed profusely. "Oh, no. Not really." She waved it off. "That, without fail, was an overstatement - just the same as when he was talking about your eating habits."

Ren purposefully skipped that subject again. "You can believe me, when I tell you that Takarada Lory isn't the type of person to compliment someone who didn't deserve it - much less if it is one of his talents. He thinks highly of you, otherwise he wouldn't trust you with a project of this kind."

"Probably he doesn't have anyone else available for such a long period of time. If Moko-san wasn't as much in demand as she is now, then it would surely be her acting as the sister of Cain Heel-san."

The tall actor was rather confused. "Moko-san?"

"Oh no. No no no no. You never heard that, OK? If she finds out that I called her 'Moko-san' in front of the Tsuruga Ren-san, then she will never ever talk to me again and then she will completely ignore me and," she started to cry, throwing herself into her panic, "eventually she will quit being my friend and I will be all alone again..."

Because of some inexplicable reason, it hurt the man to see her cry like this. "Shh, everything is OK, Kyoko-san. I won't tell anybody anything."

The girl slowly calmed down. "Honestly?" She hiccuped and looked up at him still with tears in her eyes.

"Honestly." He assured. "But would you mind telling me who this 'Moko-san' would be?"

"Kotonami Kanae." Her face brightened and the actor had to force himself not to overly gape at the cute sight - still, he couldn't tear his eyes away, even if he'd wanted to. "She's a first class actress and my very best friend." With every word her whole aura started glowing and the room seemed to light up. "She is so beautiful and talented. She can memorize a whole book in a few minutes. That's what talent she did for the LME casting initially. We shot the commercial together and she really is incredible. I hope we will be able to work on a project together again in the future. She will become the best and most sought after actress in Japan and eventually in the whole world. I am sure of it!" Ren had to laugh. And that was what brought her back to reality. Kyoko frowned at him. "What's so funny? Or did you laugh at me just now?"

"No, no. I am not laughing at you. Your smile was just so contagious and... I just..." He sighed. "I am sorry. It wasn't my intention to laugh." She looked at him, still leery. Then a loud growl resounded in the small hotel room and her face turned bright red. Ren couldn't quite put a place to that sound and glanced around in puzzlement. It wasn't till the girl crossed her arms in front of her stomach and looked down in embarrassment as the sound reiterated that he figured it out. The tall actor let his eyes wander around the place in search of a clock and was surprised to realize that it was already near ten pm.

"I didn't realize that it's already this late. We should get something to eat." The girl was still as red as a tomato and simply nodded as an answer. "Is the room-service all right or would you prefer to dine out?"

Kyoko looked at him with wide eyes. "Neither. That would be too expensive. I'll cook."

"But we don't have anything in the fridge, and it is way too late to go grocery shopping. As for me, I would prefer the room-service. That way we could talk some more." He rose from where he was sitting on the bed and walked to the telephone where a hotel brochure with the menu lay. The tall man handed her the leaflet with a smile on his face. "Order whatever you want to eat. It's okay to treat oneself every once in a while." Kyoko couldn't quite read his smile and decided to think about it later. For now she needed something to calm her nerves and it would be just perfect if it was edible as well. Since she felt there wasn't much chance to change his mind about the matter, she chose her meal from the menu and he ordered two - one for himself exactly the same as hers.

While eating what they had ordered from the room service, the tall actor asked the small girl across from him at the table, "Say, Kyoko-san, is it all right if I ask you how you created Setsuka-san?"

Kyoko paled and looked at him a little scared. "W-why? Is there something wrong with her? Maybe she is," and now she blushed again, "eh... too... too clingy?"

"No, no. Don't worry. She is fine the way she is." '...I think...' "I'm interested in the things you based her on. Takarada-shachou didn't give me much in the way of information - neither about you nor about Setsuka Heel."

"Oh. OK... Well... Shachou told me a few details about Setsuka and Cain-san and then he showed me a short video clip of you while being Cain Heel-san. And then... I'm not sure how to explain it properly... hmm... Well, suddenly she was just there. It was the same with my other characters. I thought about their past and then about the person behind the 'role'... and then, like magic there they were."

Ren was a little confused and at least equally curious - it was the first time he heard someone compare acting and character creation to 'magic'. "And what were those 'details' he told you?" He looked at her questioningly.

"Takarada-shachou told me about their sad past. Their parents were abusive and when they died, the siblings were sent from one orphanage to the next, because they ignored everyone around them and refused to be put in separate families. Cain-san always protected his sister and shielded her from everyone and everything who could mean harm to her. Then when he was about 15 he took her and they ran away to live on their own. Setsuka is totally dependent on her brother and really clingy. But he thinks that's cute and spoils her and then she gets even more clingy..." Kyoko drifted a little away from the facts to the image that Lory put in her head. "She only has eyes for her perfect brother and everyone who is not him is all the same to her. Setsuka cares for him and spoils him in her own way. Oh, and she dresses like this to attract his attention, even though he only has eyes for his 'cute little sister'. She thinks that it's not enough and is constantly-"

"I get it." The tall actor interrupted her. He sighed inwardly. "She has a severe case of brother complex..."

"That's right. Her brother is the most important thing to her in the whole world. Ever. Cain-san always comes first. And second. He comes third and fourth... and fifth as well. In other words, she only cares for her brother. Setsuka has a brother complex so immense, it's like a sickness."

'...Is Lory serious about that? I need to let her stick to me all day? And in the end I even should want her to?...' He got lost in his thoughts and didn't even register that he was staring at her, but he didn't see her at all.

She became abashed as she saw his intense stare and sat up even straighter - if it was possible. Then she noticed that he was looking, not at her, but straight through her.

'...Cain has only his sister... The only things he cares for in his life are his job and his sister... The both of them were and are always together...he calls her,' "Setsu."

"Who gave you permission to call me that?" Kyoko had disappeared instantly and an annoyed Setsuka took her place. Ren hadn't noticed that he had said her name aloud, and was surprised and a little confused by the sudden change in the girl across from him. Her entire aura had changed - again - in only one second. She crossed her legs, leaned back in her chair, then she crossed her arms under her chest and glared at him and her bored expression was also an annoyed one.

"I beg your pardon, Kyoko-san. I only was thinking aloud and-"

"The little girl isn't here anymore." She continued glaring at him. "Whatever. Give me back my Nii-san."

The tall actor was taken aback. "Setsuka-san?"

"100 points. Give me my Nii-san."

Ren didn't know what he should think about that. '...Method actress she may be, but what is that? She seems to be... more like... as if she... has a split personality...' "If it is possible I would like to talk with Kyoko-san a little more, Setsuka-san."

"Yeah. But I don't want to listen to that stuff anymore. So, give me my Nii-san!"

"Does that mean Kyoko-san is able to listen to what we talk about right now as well?"

"If she wants to. Give me back my Nii-san. Now!" Slowly, she was becoming really impatient with his reticence to change back.

"OK, okay. But could you at least tell me, when I will be able to talk with her again?"

"When she wants to, needs to, or gets to push me away."

He raised an eyebrow. "Are you trying to tell me that she doesn't want to talk with me anymore?"

"Not as much as I want Nii-san."

"Is there something that I can use to trigger her?"

"Why should I tell you? Give me my Nii-san!"

Ren sighed and this time aloud - not only inwardly. He breathed in deeply and became Cain. "Setsu, let him talk to the little girl."

"No! They can talk another time. I want to be with you now."

'...Not again. Those puppy dog eyes... and that pout… what a master manipulator...' He sighed in defeat. "You're right, Setsu."

"I know." She smiled seductively at him. "What do you want to do tomorrow? You have the day-"

"Setsu." He interrupted her.

"Yes, Nii-san?"

"We are in Japan."

"Yeah, I know..." She was a little confused.

"Talk in Japanese."

"You have the day off tomorrow. What do you want to do?"

He didn't even need a second to think about it. "Shopping. You need something to wear." '...Damn right! She absolutely needs more fabric on her body... How can Lory let her walk around like that?...'

"You're right. I didn't bring much."

After the both of them had finished eating, and Setsuka made sure that he ate the whole thing, they watched a little TV, got ready for the night and went to bed - each in their own, of course.

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