Pairings: KyokoxRen, Minor KyokoxShou and KyokoxReino.

Disclaimer: I do not own Skip Beat! in any way because it's... well... not mine? (:

Author's Note: I'm sooo happy that so many people enjoy this story! It brings tears of happiness to my eyes ;u; and I'm very sorry for having neglected it! I'll try my best to still update even though there's about 3 super tough weeks of Cross Country left. Unfortunately, Track season comes up almost right after and conditioning starts in December... Gulp. But no matter!

Now, anyways, about the story. So far, you don't know much about the characters besides a few intentions and blah blah blah. But you don't really know about their past, right? Once you realize how everyone is connected, you'll see why I incorporated a little bit of OOCness in here. but this is various styles of acting after all, so OOCness shouldn't be anything new to Fanfiction. Just to explain for those who didn't like the OOCness of Kyoko (which I didn't really intend to make OOC). (:

Anyhoos, please enjoy the chapter!xv

Rating: Rated T as of now but is completely subject to change ;D

Chapter 4

Full Summary: Kyoko is an international criminal. She had stolen all three of the Lory heirloom weapons: Setsuka's Chain Whip, Natsu's Glass Blade, and the Cursed Spear of Mio. There are currently three people assigned to arrest and retrieve the treasures back from her: Shou, the information seducer, Reino, the psychic phenomenon, and Ren, the master detective. Who will be the first to find her?

His lips had crashed onto hers, the feeling of it causing her knees to go weak almost immediately. She would have broken her role to fall to the floor had he not been holding her up against the wall of the small elevator.

His tongue was begging to enter her lips, but her teeth were stubbornly gritted together. At this, Shou bit her bottom lip roughly and when she opened her mouth to yell in pain, instead of sound coming out, his tongue forced its way in.

With only one second to show surprise, she bit down harshly on the foreign flesh.

"Tch!" Shou removed his lips and spit some blood out of his mouth. "Kyoko..."

She stiffened. "Get away from me." But Shou held onto her wrists tighter, admiring the position they were in - his leg was nicely positioned between her legs, and his broad chest cascaded over her petite body, making her seem small and fragile despite her misleading title. "Let go!" she yelled, her eyes becoming large with expressions of hate and just a bit of fear, the kind of expression that he liked to see. If she hated him more, then she would never forget the hatred she would forever have for him, or at least until he could turn that into love. "I said," she now whispered in a furious breath, "to let go."

"I've waited too long for this," Shou murmured in her ear, his voice coated with lust. "For once, my plans triumph yours."

"It was a fluke," she spat. "Beginner's luck." The dark malice in her voice did not faze Shou.

"I'm no beginner," Shou smirked, leaning in to kiss the nape of her neck. "I'm quite... experienced."

Kyoko held her breath as his lips softly grazed her bosom before settling upon the right side of her lower neck, and began sucking on the pale, sensitive skin. The detective placed a hickey on her neck, dark and red. "And now, you're my territory." He laid his gaze on her soft, tangerine hair before looking into Kyoko's broad, stimulating eyes.

She growled, and wanting revenge for that strange feeling he had forced on her, bit into his neck. She wanted to cause him the same pain, but he only smirked some more. "Marking me as well? I'm touched - tch!" he stopped abruptly as he felt her teeth draw blood, pulling away from her mouth, as his body's unblemished looks were his life. "What are you doing? That hurts-"

Knowing now that he was off guard, Kyoko rapidly mounted her knee up.

"Oof!" With an enraged expression, she forced the blonde man to shrivel to the floor. His hands were now desperately trying to soothe his precious jewels, holding them delicately as he groaned in absolute pain. Shou bit his tongue in the middle of a curse before keeling over and falling on his side in misery.

The thief tended to her wrists, which were probably bruised from Shou's strong grip on them. 'Damn his strength!' she thought as she rubbed the pain out of them. Kyoko then sighed, lightly touching the fresh love mark on her neck. "You disgusting, stupid, selfish bastard!" she let herself yell at him to release frustration before resuming her role.

"But... it's nothing a little make up can't conceal." Coughing, she spit out a big wad of saliva right in front of his face. "And that kiss was terrible. Your skills are sub-par for a seducer."

Shou could only groan in reply as he realized that her knee had quite the strength. The doors of the elevator soon opened after Kyoko had frightfully bashed the buttons. "Goodbye, Shou. Maybe you should have brought some back up. That's pathetic and overconfident of you not to."

He simply looked up with a weary grin. "It's of no matter to me. I have your first kiss, and that alone is a great achievement in my book."

"You..." she almost blushed in shame and embarrassment. "You're pathetic!"

Kyoko glared icily at him before turning on her heel and leaving him, the doors closing in her wake. He chuckled as he slowly got up and found his women trying to help him up in the elevator a while later, though he thought bitterly of how it took them nearly five whole minutes to do so. That was dawdling speed.

Shouko looked worriedly into his eyes now, also noticing the bite mark on his neck. In turn, he was also surprised to see the different clothes on her. "Shouko, what are you wearing? Those clothes look a little big on you."

She pulled up the jeans that she did not own and pouted. "Ask your lover. She gave these to me and took my beloved piece of closet."

The seducing detective laughed before he closed his eyes and stumbled out of the boarding area, his army close behind him. "I'm tired. I'm going to call Ren and Reino... her plane is already gone." he said as he took notice of the wide screen displaying flights before his eyes in the middle of the room.

The latest one that just flew was San Francisco, London, and Beijing. He would have to take a lucky guess.

"Oh, and Shouko, get a ticket for San Francisco, London, and Beijing as quickly as possible." he immediately dialed Ren and Reino's number, not willing to take a chance with the tickets. To his misfortune, none of them picked up and he became irritated.

Fine, then he would guess. Shouko came over with the tickets.

"We're going to London," he said with finality, he prayed that he was right.

Moko stood in the non-existent line, waiting for her stupid partner to come. All the other passengers had boarded, and if it weren't for her having Kyoko's ticket, she would've gone in and saved some seats as well. The raven-haired girl was sure that there were only back seats left, and she despised going in the back. Imagine all the people she would have to pass through!

The flight attendant tapped her feet impatiently by the desk, clicking her tongue as she crossed her arms. "Are you going to keep waiting for your friend? The doors are closing in three minutes."

Moko glared at the sassy woman and she quickly became quiet. She glanced over towards the stairs and the elevator, where Kyoko was nowhere in sight. At first, when she saw the stairs a while ago, a stampede of women shot up from the stairs, searched the entire floor, and then took the elevator back down about ten minutes ago.

A few seconds after that thought, Kyoko appeared, running up the stairs while rubbing her mouth with her sleeve furiously as she sprinted over to Moko. "I-I'm not late..?" she panted as Moko sighed and gave the tickets to the flight attendant. The little attendant took the tickets impatiently and the two walked in through the hallway passage into the plane, where they greeted the pilot and took their seats all the way in the back.

Kyoko helped Moko shove their suitcases into the upper compartments before slouching down into their seats, buckling up while the speakers blared annoying instructions about safety and rules.

"So, what took you so long?" Moko asked with a hint of annoyance. "Usually you aren't this slow with the escape."

Kyoko suddenly remembered what happened and continued to rub her mouth with her sleeve.

"Got kissed?"

No reply.

"Figures."

Kyoko stared at her accomplice with eyes brimming with tears. "M-M-Mokoooooooo! How will I get married noooooow?" she wailed as she sobbed into Moko's shoulder. Moko sighed and uncomfortably patted her back, wondering who the kisser was. But she didn't want to invoke any more emotions from the orange head anymore.

"Erm, anyways, our first destination should be for America. We're hitting San Francisco, CA and then driving down towards Santa Cruz Bay where the purpose has to be fulfilled for the glass blade."

"Natsu's Glass Blade?"

Moko nodded. "Apparently there's a glass waterfall there and a priest who owns it. He should able to tell us what to do from there, so long as we're intimidating." She scanned the map on her iPhone, scrolling down the page with her smooth, slender finger. "We'll need to get a car or something."

Kyoko shrugged, already putting the past behind. Moko really was her strength. "Can't be that hard with you around."

Moko scoffed. "Of course not."

The plane took off from the airport as the two women talked about their upcoming adventurous journey.

Ren, yet again, caught a flight attendant holding his and Reino's purchased meals on his lap. She laughed with undistinguished cackles, apologizing for her "sudden clumsiness" and offered him free alcohol for compensation. He took one look at Reino, and his face said it all.

"No thank you," Ren told the lady as he took the food, which were two croissant sandwiches. "We don't drink."

"You're missing out on quite a lot," she giggled before moving down the aisle. Ren slouched in his seat as he handed a sandwich to Reino.

"She was going to give you a heavy dose of alcohol and try to have her way with you," Reino spat with disgust. "She thinks that you think she's beautiful with the way you 'keep on making eye contact and gestures to her'."

"I was trying to get her attention so that we could have something to sustain ourselves with," he snapped. Reino snorted.

"How long until we get there?" he decided to change the topic.

Ren shrugged. "A couple more hours, maybe seven or so. Once we get there, we'll have to make a lucky guess on whether Kyoko got there ahead of us and left already or she's behind us in a plane right now."

"I say that Shou might have stalled her a bit, so she's behind us."

"You truly think Shou was able to even catch a glimpse of her? I doubt he even got that much of an opportunity."

"... You're right. We should just go ahead."

Ren examined the map on his tablet and traced a finger down a red path streaking up the state of California in America. "Their next destination should be around the coastal area... I can't remember the exact place." He placed a finger right next to Santa Cruz. "Around here?"

Reino shrugged. "I don't even know why they're going there except for this Red Dragon you spoke of and never explained to me."

Ren bit into his sandwich and chewed slowly, swallowing it a few minutes later. "The Red Dragon is... is a power, you might say. it's actually a fabled myth, so I'm not sure why she's after something fake. It's a story that Lory himself told me ages ago, but I never paid too much attention to it besides the places he describes where to go, how the weapons go in each place and has a certain purpose, and the power in the end. My vague memory is our lead, basically, and I have no clue as to why she would want something mythical."

"Unless it isn't mythical," Reino said. "Unless Lory was talking seriously to you and it wasn't just a fantasy story like you thought."

Just about to laugh the thought off, Ren sudden;y went silent. Reino stared at him, surprised to see Ren frozen in the shock of a realization. "Ren?" No answer. "Tsuruga Ren? What's wrong?"

"I just remembered something important."

"What?"

"Kyoko..."

"What about her?"

"... Lory once broadcasted that same story on a television show once. During that show as he was being recorded live, telling that same fable to a crowd of guests invited by him, that was when we first saw her... at the banquet for the anniversary of LME."

"You're right," Reino mused. "But that just means that she must have learned of this from that day."

"No," Ren shook his head. "It means that she had been planning this from a very, very long time ago. To only start it now... it only means she has many tricks up her sleeve. Not to mention we know nothing of her accomplice besides the fact that she can steal cars like taking candy from a baby."

"She was a mystery to begin with," Reino sighed.

Ren closed his eyes, both his mind and body exhausted to the pont that even Reino could feel it. "I'm tired. Wake me up an hour before we reach our destination so we discuss among other things."

"I'll ask the flirty lady to do that for us. I need to rest as well."

And the both of them succumbed to their fatigue in the soft rumble of the flight.