Ren walked into LME headquarter in a rush. It's been nearly two weeks since he left for the photo shoot in Hong Kong. Although, he had fun at the Armandy shoot, especially with Nick livening it up like always when they work together. He just couldn't help with his mind wondering off to a certain place just northeast of Hong Kong, where a certain gentle yet melodramatic young lady currently on a warpath in a bright powder pink chef's uniform. He was introduced to a new model from Italy named Gabriel. Gabriel was also equally professional, if not a bit shy. As his command of english is limited and his command of japanese and chinese is nonexistent. So, his model agency provided him with two interpreters, one for english and one for japanese and chinese, to help with making the photoshoots easier.
They did a lot of shots around the harbors and some of the touristy areas. Ren was cracking up everytime Nick said something, since everything seems like a joke to Nick. But, still when he's in his hotel room at night, he would impatiently wait for a phone call from a certain little red head back home in Japan. Everytime, Kyoko called he would pretend as if he hasn't been anxiously waiting for her calls at all. That little charade, of course, cause imminent amount of amusement and ribbing from Yashiro. Yashiro, unfortunately, at this moment is being left in the dust by the oh so one tracked actor going after his heart's desire.
Ren scanned the commissary for the unmistakeable uniform. He took a little while, and then he found her and zeroed in. Who she was standing next to made his mood turned dark. It was Hidehito Kijima, the next up and coming star. Kijima, the notorious flirt. Kijima, the insufferable bore. At this moment, he is working really hard in earning Ren's ire, by persistantly begging Kyoko for a date in the middle of the restaurant. Kyoko, all the while, is trying to keep the cheesecake for a patron from being knocked down by the handsome, if not daft actor.
"Kijima-kun, good afternoon." came straight up next to the said actor, while rescuing the said cheesecake, by taking it from Kyoko and putting it down on an unoccuppied table. "Mogami-san, good afternoon." Ren said while politely inserting himself between Kijima and Kyoko, shielding her from the obviously unwanted attention. Kyoko breathed a deep sigh of relieve and greeted Ren's protective back. "Welcome back, Tsuruga-san." Kijima looked up at the storm that is Ren before him, and smile, "Tsuruga-kun, could you convince Kyoko-chan here to go out with me. It'll be great publicity for her, especially with her new print ad just came out." Kijima said still clueless of Ren's increasingly murderous mood.
Ren didn't really like the sight of the aforementioned print ad greeting him when he arrived at the airport. He couldn't turn without the larger than life Kyoko beckoning him with that come hither look. In fact, he noticed quite a few travellers had already walked into several posts and directory boards while staring at his Kyoko. He's just really glad that most people wouldn't be able to recognize Kyoko right off the bat, because of the make up and wig they put on her. The sight of her new and obviously popular print ad only increased his urge to see his Kyoko.
Yashiro came into LA Hearts just in time to see what looks like a super low lying low pressure mass approaching Kijima with possible thunder shower. Yashiro clicked into work mode to rescue Ren from Ren, Kijima from Kijima, and Kyoko from both of them. Yashiro, vaguely thought that there should be compensation for doing this, like a big fat bonus check at the end of the month for rescuing actors from themselves. Yashiro distracted Kijima with some well placed white lie about seeing an attractive fan being outside looking for him and led him away on the pretense of helping him find her. While, Kyoko assisted Yashiro by extracting Ren from the presence of the increasingly annoying play boy actor by pulling him with her past the rear entrance of the cafe and into the hallways of the side entrance of LME, passing a bunch of people rushing in and out, then into one of the many service entrances that Kyoko often used as a Love Me member.
"Are you alright, Tsuruga-san?" Kyoko said at the same time as Ren when he said "Are you alright, Mogami-san?" and with that Ren reached out and held Kyoko to him. He face inches from her face, looking to see if that insufferable upstart Kijima had damaged his Kyoko. Kyoko had leaned into him unlike her usual panicky, deer in the headlight reaction. Ren almost lost any shred of control he has exerting over himself. He remembered what he told Yashiro about never being alone with Kyoko in moments like this. Then, he heard Kyoko chuckling in his embrace. He realized that Kyoko was laughing as a nervous delayed reaction to Kijima's overt advances as soon as he looked down at her face. "Let it out, Mogami-san!" as Ren held her tighter. "Just let it all out. It's okay! He's not going to do anything to hurt you anymore."