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Corn was missing.
And he wasn't just missing, he had vanished.
He had never been gone for this long.
Usually he would come back after an hour or two, however he had been gone for a full night.
And to make matter's worse, in the morning, they received a call from the Elves Royal family, their pretty daughter who had long pink hair, blue eyes and pointy ears was present.
They were calling to see if the engagement was approved.
Talk about how extremely awkward it must have been for Corn's parents.
How were they supposed to say, that their own son ran away as soon as he know about the possible engagement?
The Elf princess had expressed an interest in him and yet none of them know where he was.
As a result, they had to think of something on the spot and hope that the Elves family doesn't come over and try to meet Corn.
They managed to fend them off for now.
Had the engagement been a mistake on their part?
His parents couldn't help but think that he had run away because he did not want to marry anybody.
Had it been to soon for him?
Did he not want to marry her?
Why didn't he just tell them instead of running away!
On one hand, they wanted to find him and lay down punishment.
On the other hand, they wanted to make sure he was okay.
They were his parents after all.
"FIND HIM!" The King yelled, as countless fairies took to the sky's an passed through the border separating the Fairy world from the Human world.
Both he and his wife prayed that nothing happened to their child.
Meanwhile Corn who was in the Human world, wondered why somebody was in his bed.
But the person who was in it, did smell really nice and they were very comfortable to snuggle again.
"K-Koun?" Said, a voice he would recognise in his sleep.
KYOKO!?
What alarmed him even more was that the voice was close.
Really close.
WHAT THE!?
His eyes snapped up and he almost had a heart attack at the sight of a face, not that far from him.
The face belonged to none other then Kyoko Mogami.
Both he and Kyoko stared at each other.
"..."
Neither of them said anything.
Ch 4: Tell no-one.
Both Kyoko and Corn must have stared at each for five minutes before Corn mind processed what was happening.
When he did, he tried to escape.
He tried to make it look as casual as possible, removing his arm from her side and slidding out of bed, while Kyoko watched him the whole time.
Then he remembered what had happened to him the day before.
He got depressed.
"K-Koun?" Kyoko said.
Corn was not listening, he did not want to go home.
But, he couldn't stay here either.
Suddenly he felt a wave of magic sweep through the room.
Fairies.
Corn seemly teleporting to the nearby window, shocking Kyoko and looking out of it, like he was a man being hunted down just like in the movies.
He draw the curtains, only to be shocked a second later.
Kyoko who had slid out of the bed, had hugged him.
And despite knowing he shouldn't, he hugged back.
Then she slapped him.
The slap left him stunned, as tears dripped from her eyes.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEING!" She yelled before punching him in the stomach.
The punch was heavy.
If he wasn't human, he would mostly have been downed from the punch.
Then she kissed him.
Then slapped him, again
If any fairy saw this, Kyoko wouldn't have gotten away with half of what she did, she would be captured and trailed by a Fairy Court.
However, Corn did not fight back, he let her vent her frustration on him, despite the pain.
If somebody you loved, suddenly disappeared for 10 years and then showed up out of the blue, he would be pretty angry as well.
However...
How long was this going to go on?
Corn wanted to sweat drop as Kyoko took out her anger on him for 10 minutes straight.
Oh, right.
This wasn't out of character for her.
Then Kyoko finally calmed down and sobbed in his arm's, all the while he was feeling incredibly awkward, the pain from her last punch, vanished like a lie.
Then Kyoko was frustrated when she realised she didn't inflict a single bruise on him and he was still shinning so brightly.
"I'm so glad, that your here." She said, with puff eyes.
Are you really!?
Corn wanted to ask.
His question must have shown in his eyes because Kyoko said.
"Be glad that I didn't throw you out of the window" She said, making his eyes widen. "You don't know what I put me through. I come to see you in the hospital after you suddenly grow wings and then I find out, you had disappeared! I thought you were kidnapped!"
Well...technically. I was. Corn thought.
"You should have at least eaten my food, before you disappeared!" She said.
Kyoko...is that's what you were worried about all these years!? Corn thought.
He had such a unique former girlfriend.
"But then you had the nerve to send me flowers, two years later!" She said, she was truly mad, but not as mad as she was before. "You didn't even show up! You sent a little boy in your place! What kind of Man does that!?"
"I'm sorry" Corn said, well he was actually there, that little boy was him. "I handle it poorly. I hope that you can forgive me."
Kyoko huffed, very poorly indeed, the letter actually told her to give up on him.
She tried, but her heart didn't beat the same way for another guy.
"I'll think about it" She said, shocking him by how stubborn she had become, before she asked the most important question that everybody had been waiting 10 years for.
"Koun, why did you leave?" She said, she couldn't understand.
Why did he leave her, his family, his friends, his whole behind life without even a notice?
However, what Kyoko did not expect was the dead silence.
It was a very long and hard, silence.
"So what are you up to these day's, Kyoko?" Corn said, with a smile that Kyoko know all too well to tell her to drop it.
She almost did, out of habit.
Almost.
But it had been 10 years.
"Alright then" Kyoko said, before droping another question, realated to his dissappeaence. "Why haven't you aged, since the last time I saw you? I thought you would have looked more like your dad by now."
Many women would kill to keep their looks the same.
However, once again, very noticible silence decended on both of them.
"So you moved into my apartment. I didn't think you loved me so much" Corn said, changing the subject, making her blush.
"NO!" She yelled, surprising him "Don't change the subject! Are you planning to answer any of my questions!?"
Not if it's anything related to the past 10 years, I'm not. Corn thought with eyes that said it all.
"Fine" Kyoko said. "If your not going to ask any of my questions. Then maybe you'll answer them if they were asked by parents. I'm sure, they will be more then happy to hear from you again."
She planned to call them up to tell them Koun was here.
What she didn't expect was for Koun to make his move so fast and pratically find her phone, way before she did and attempt to hide it right in front her.
However, Kyoko wasn't having it.
That was her phone!
Her phone was everything in this age!
Corn eyes widened when Kyoko launched at him and with lightening hands she almost grabbed her phone.
However, he was a lot faster and stronger then she was.
"You can't tell anybody about me" He said.
"Why?" She said.
Corn responded with silence again.
"You just can't" He said, before saying. "If you do. You'll never get you phone back"
"W-" Kyoko began.
Then her phone rang and they both stopped, then Corn smile and reading the text and said. "It's your manager. She's wondering why you're so late?"
Late?
Kyoko eyes immediately went to her alarm clock and was horrified.
It was 7: 40.
She literally had 20 minutes until her manager would come over personally to check on her.
She had never been late!
And seeing panic on her face, Corn know he had won and to celebrate it, he was annoyingly sparkling about it.
Kyoko glared and went to bathroom.
When she came out, she was in a bath towel, she found that Corn had made himself home.
Although it had been his previous home, it was still rude.
And now that she thought about it.
Koun, was different, from the last time she saw him.
It was like he was more childish.
Then Corn could not ignore her heavy stare and Kyoko was suddenly aware of his roaming eyes.
"TURN AROUND! YOU PERVERT!" She yelled, throwing a top at his face.
Corn turned around but his eyes glanced secretly every once in a while, while she changed.
Kyoko who had super sharp senses, could feel his eyes but every time she turned around, Koun hadn't moved at all.
In the end, she grabbed some clothes and changed in the bathroom.
When she came out, she was in her disguise.
"Are you going to give me back, my phone?" She said.
"Aren't you going to be late for work?" He replied cheekily back.
Kyoko made a face.
She know that she had no choice but to grab her bag and walk out the door, the joke was on him though because she had her all cards and money with her and her fridge was practically empty.
Even if he could call for a take away, there was no money in the house.
Let him starve as punishment.
She walked away, walked down the steps and out the door into her car, before reality hit here.
Koun was here.
In her apartment.
After 10 years, he was fiscal here.
"You see very happy" Said, her manager, she had obviously caught Kyoko with an expression she had never seen before.
"Huh?" Kyoko said, suddenly seeing what she looked like in the mirror and automatically corrected her face which was creepy as hell to her manager.
But the smile broke out again.
Damn.
Kyoko hoped that she could manage to keep it off her face, when she walked into the LME but it was not to be, everybody was exposed to her smile.
"Miss Mogami-san, seems more beautiful today," One co-worker said, with a red face.
"Who knows that she could smile like that?" Said, another. "I bet she's got a man in her life. You know what they say, a woman smile gets brighter when she's in love. Good for her"
"NO! Miss Mogami-san belongs to all the man in the country!" Said, one of her male fans. "Who is stupid enough to try and claim her for themselves!?"
It was because of male her fan club that male suitors thought twice before making an official move on her.
Then they all noticed the president, standing not that far away from them and quieted down.
How much did he hear!?
Lory Takarada came forward and saw Kyoko dazzling smile as she spoke to one co-worker who was being blinded by it.
This year he will finally be retiring and leave the business to his son.
It had been a while since he had seen Kyoko smile that bright.
In fact.
The last time, Kyoko smiled like that was when she was with Koun...
"Kyoko," He said.
Kyoko turned around but when she saw the president, her smile face morphed into one of pure horror.
Even after all these years, she was still fairly easy to read.
'Why is he here!? Don't let him find out' was written on her face.
"Please come to my office," He said.
The look on face told him, he was about to discover something very interesting.
And scene!
Next chapter, Kyoko is in Lory Office and all she could think about was her phone and Koun disappearing once again. She tries her best to hide it, but with age, Lory has grown even sharper and it doesn't take long for him to uncover who was currently hiding in her apartment. Review/fav and follow!