Chapter 6

Despite being blessed with a glamorous face, Aiyora was not blessed with an intelligent head. She was not into all those 'learn and acquire knowledge' she loved to live in her own imaginary world where everything is so easy and uncomplicated. Tragically she falls into the exact cliché off beauty without a brain who, barely kept up with the news and knowledge going on around the world.

And believe if anyone ever told her the kind of mess she was about to get into for her naïve nature then she definitely would have thought through each and every world that is about to come out of her mouth. But more than that someone definitely should have told her bit about the man whom she got engaged to, Kaname Kuran, no ahem The Kaname Kuran.

But alas…! No one did that either, not even Yuki.

"Are you kidding me!?" Aiyora hissed at the grocer. "Only this much tomatoes for three hundred Yen? Please tell me you are not serious Mister."

"You know he is actually asking for quite a cheaper price Aiyora." Besides her standing Yori reminded.

"I know, but I'm trying to get a better bargain out of it." And that made Yori sigh in defeat. At this point all she can hope is that they are done sooner, after all this place is way too crowded for her comfort; and dying squashed between human bodies is not the ideal way Yori pictures the ending of her life. However at the rate Aiyora was going on with her heated bargain with the old man for some freaking tomatoes it appears it will not end so easily.

"No more than 80 yen!" Aiyora went on.

"I'm not selling you the tomatoes!"

"95 YEN!" Aiyora yelled.

"GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!"

"Okay last chance old man 100 YEN!"

"No less than 250 YEN kid!"

"Excuse me Ma'am! Excuse me… Ma'am…Ma'am Excuse me!" So engrossed in argument Aiyora did not even realize that the lady was actually trying to speak to her.

"Ma'am I have just one question about Kuran-sama?" Aiyora did not pay attention, nor did she register what she was asked.

"How did you meet Kuran-sama?" Aiyora still had her attention focused into bargaining. "Were you guys' lovers? Were you his mistress? Are you the reason for Miss Sara Shirabuki's heart break?"

"FINAL PRICE …150 YEN!" Aiyora gave her verdict.

"200 YEN no more no less!"

"Ma'am please just answering one thing about Kuran-sama?" this time the questioning female tapped on her shoulder making Aiyora finally understand that it was her she was trying to talk to.

Aiyora snapped her head unsure about the whole situation.

"Ma'am about Kuran-sama?"

"Who?" Aiyora asked crunching her nose, while in her head wondering 'Who the fuck is Kuran-sama?'.

"You don't know Kuran-sama?" This time the lady's eyebrow arched and voice intrigued.

"NO NO NO!" Aiyora answered in a tone that was similar to shoo-ing away someone. The lady simply smirked and turned away allowing Aiyora to resume back to her bargain. Today is her lucky day, after all she got a fantastic story to cover, and boss will surely be pleased.

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NEXT DAY:

"KANAME KURAN, WHO?" –Aiyora.

"I DON"T KNOW ANY KURAN-SAMA!" –Aiyora.

AIYORA DENIES THE ENGAMENT.

KANAME KURAN, DUMPED WITIN A WEEK AFTER ENGAMENT.

"I WOULD HAVE NEVER DONE THIS TO KANAME!" –Sara Shirabuki.

Juri Kuran snarled, in rage that made her want to blow up the entire Kuran mansion! She quickly got up leaving her breakfast untouched and rushed towards her son's room. Usually everybody knocks before entering the young Kuran's chamber. The same rule still applies to his parents and sister. But today is not the day Juri would care. She just twisted the knob and barged in. The room was stiil dark, curtains and drapes still closed and Kaname was still asleep tucked under the soft duvet.

"Kaname!" She called him rather loudly, while pulling apart the curtains to let sunlight in.

"Kaname…Kaname…Kaname…" she almost went into the verge of yelling. "It's no time to sleep." This time she went up to her boy and shook him up.

The young man shot his eyes open. His vision still blurry but his mother's shouting and howling drumming before his ears.

"What is the matter?" Kaname groaned having difficulty to fully wake up.

"This is the matter my son," she threw all those newspapers onto him. "This. Is. The. Matter!"

It took Kaname a second to register what his mother was trying to show him. Then letting out a loud yawn he slowly sat up leaned against the board and took the newspapers in hand only to have his mouth come apart in shock.

"How? How did this happen?" He was having real difficulty believing his eyes.

…

"Here," Juri threw all the newspapers at Aiyora's face making her flinch. "Look what you have!"

Sitting next to Aiyora was Yuki. It was her who picked up the newspapers and started to go through them. And honestly Yuki was having a real hard time not to explode into laughter. There was Kaname in front page of almost every newspaper with hilarious heading above. This is not the first time that Kaname has actually appeared on the cover of a magazine or on the front page of newspaper, or even became the headline. But yes this is the first time he became the victim of tabloids…for a rumour that was no just silly but insulting at its best.

"Answer me girl," Juri hissed pacing around the open space inside her son's office. "Do you have any idea about the depth of your action? Do you even realize the damage you have done to his reputation?" Aiyora's frightened eyes moved towards Kaname who was seated on the leather couch with his legs one on top of the other drinking his tea. The fact there was no emotion on his face made Aiyora even more scared. She did not know whether he was a little angry or furious like his mother.

"Just because you don't come from class doesn't mean you can bring down Kaname's as well." Aiyora's mouth fell apart but Juri Kuran was not going to stop so easily; she gave out a cruel laughter and continued. "Why am I not surprised? How would you know about class? When your father himself probably does not know about it."

"What class?" Aiyora gasped, she could no longer just sit there and tolerate. She stood up at once and then opened her mouth in defence realizing the type of insult her soon to be mother in law was throwing at her.

"If your issue is that I do not come from family of loaded money, then please then by all means break this engagement. I have no desire to married into a family where my father and I will not be respected for who we are." With that said Aiyora pulled out the ring and threw on the face of her precious son.

"Aiyora," This time it was Yuki who gasped at her lover's boldness and also fearing what her mother might to see revenge for this insult. "Aiyora, calm down. Please calm down!" Yuki was trying her best to shut Aiyora up before things could get so bitter that her mother will hate Aiyora for the rest of her life.

Kaname on the other hand did something different. He shot his head back at his mother and demanded she stopped and apologized to Aiyora.

"Mother please apologized to Aiyora."

"Excuse me?" Juri was really very surprised by her son's words.

"I said apologize to her." Kaname repeated calmly, but it was one of those dangerous clams before the storm.

"Why should I apologize…Who is even she that I have to apologize? Who is she? What is her status?"

"HER SATUS IS MY WIFE!" This time Kaname raised his voice standing up. "She is the one becoming my wife, mother!" His roar not only shook up all three of the ladies but also confused them quite a bit especially Yuki and Aiyora.

"You can insult me all you want, I will tolerate, but insulting my wife to be…I won't let that happen." Juri could hear the threat lacing under his voice and visualize it in his eyes. It increased her anger further. The very fact that her son was going against her for some random girl, did not sit very well with her.

"Seiran…?" the said female came in within few seconds. "Please escort mother home."

"But-" Juri was about to protest.

"We shall have further discussion at night once I'm home."

Soon after Juri left Kaname once more apologized to Aiyora on his mother's behalf and Yuki begged her not to end this engagement. Since this engagement is the only hope of light to their taboo love. When Aiyora was finally calm and settled after a hell lot of crying and ranting,Kaname took Yuki with him and left for a short meeting to seek solution to the current matter asking Aiyora to make herself comfortable while she waited for them in the office.

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Sitting there all by herself Aiyora was starting to feel a bit bore. However, no matter how bored she was the chain of event did not seem to escape her mind. It made no sense as to how this all happened. She realized it was the lady from the grocery store. It must be her. No it has to be her. So she is a journalist. Finally pieces of puzzle settled down into Aiyora's head. But what made no sense is to why she came after her? It isn't like she is getting married to a celebrity. Kaname is just Yuki brother. He is no movie star, nor is her some sort of singer, or with any band. Then why on earth are people with cameras have gathered around her house. Why does she now have people following her around trying to take pictures? Then people asking again and again about how she got chosen by Kaname. Why the fact that she got engaged to him is such a big deal?

Aiyora let out a tired sigh letting leaning on the sofa. It really made no sense.

Then, suddenly a bulb lit upon her head. She turned her head back and looked at the large wooden desk only to find that Kaname has left his computer running. Both the laptop and desktop were running. Amazing! Wasting no time she rushed over, sat down on his chair, went to Google and typed down

KANAME KURAN

And within two seconds Aiyora could feel her jaw dropping to the ground. He has a freaking Wikipedia page! Who the heck is he? She clicked on the link to read on more her husband to be.

Kaname Kuran is not just who she thought him to be. He is not just Yuki's brother and son of Kuran family. He has done double major in finance and law. Right after undergrad he worked at a highly prestigious law firm in the Stated for about years. During his time in university his spent his summer taking flying lesson at a prestigious aviation academy. At the age of 22, Kaname joined the national air force and served there for the next three years of his life. At only 25, he was recruited by world's number one commercial airliner where he served as the captain. Till to this day he is counted as one of the top highest paid commercial pilot to have ever worked. Now Kaname Kuran has decided to join hands with his father and run the whole empire of Kuran group of industry.

Aiyora blinked several times that was just the professional side. She scrolled down and looked into the social work section. He was surprised to see that he is involved with quite a few charitable organizations. There were event some pictures, Aiyora opened those in another tab and started to go through them.

Her heart skipped a beat, as she started to go through those pictures.

The first picture appeared to be taken at some orphanage. Kaname was surrounded by the kid. There were pictures of him playing with them, teaching them. There is even a picture of two little girls kissing both his cheeks at the same time. In another picture he is seen playing football with a group of boys from what looked like another orphanage. The next picture was actually taken at an old age home, where Kaname was surrounded by various senior citizens, the next one after that showed Kaname reading out books to them, best was the next one where he was dancing with a group of old ladies and yes they were trying to flirt and grope him every possible way. Then there were pictures of Kaname on the streets protesting for human right, working with the coal minors, at the hospital with aids patients and list went on. Skipping those Aiyora moved back to the previous tab.

This time she decided to focus on his other side and found out that he has done various endorsements for extremely high end brands and cars and even the airline company he used to pilot for. She founds some pictures there as well from his shoot as he modeled for them, walked the ramps as shows topper. Among these the best three pictures were one when he was walking the ramp with the designer, next was from car commercial where he was inside sitting on the driver's seat holding the steering wheels and a hot model lying down on the bonnet. The third one was a perfume commercial where he is on a black leather couch and two hot models on two sides both ripping his suit open one nuzzling his chest and the other his neck. Aiyora could not bring herself to stop laughing at the picture.

Moving on she decided to check more and find out that thought he was nonfactor or singer but he was no less a celebrity. For heaven's sake he hung around the celebrity crowd. He partied with them. This dude lived the most awesome life. He is actually the richest Kuran. Although the Kuran Corporation is a multi-billion dollar business empire however Kaname Kuran alone is multi-billionaire on his own without daddy's money. So when you combine Kaname Kuran with Kuran Corporation it would burst up the calculator.

By the time her research was done Aiyora could feel her head spinning. This man is an all-rounder. Life with him is going to be so much difficult. Can she even cope up with the pressure?

"Aha…look what we have here?" a husky voice purred in her ear. Making Aiyora jump on the place and turn only to see that she has been caught…

"Do I have myself a new stalker now?" Aiyora blushed deeper at the comment.

"I'm sorry Kaname onii-sama."

"Onii-sama?" He raised his eyebrow only to burst into laughter a second later. "Why would you call me that? Have you forgotten that we are engaged?"

"Ummm," Aiyora found herself at loss of words. That was a good point indeed.

"Call me Kaname from now on." He declared turing the chair towards him to get a better view of her.

"How about Kuran-sama? Or even better Mr. Kuran?" She suggested with a cheeky smile. However her smile did not last long since his next words baffled her out.

"Mr. Kuran is what ladies call my male organ!" he said with a wink.

"Excuse me!"

"He is about the same size as your hand…"

"What the hell!"

"But a lot wider in girth!"

"Are you bragging?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

He did not respond to her right away. instead leaned further down closing the distance between them only leaving a small gap for the air to pass and whispered in a teasing voice letting his hot breath shower her face "…Just informing."

"You know Yuki would not like it." Aiyora slipped out the threat.

"Yuki would not like it, I on the other hand would surely enjoy it…" he paused and came dangerously close. "…but in the end it would be your decision whose side you chose. You can be with Yuki or come to me…"his nose crossed with her. "…I will accept you with open arms."

"What are you talking about?" Aiyora was all confused. She wanted to move away but her head was trapped between him and the chair. "Please stop it…" she begged not having any other option in hand.

"Aiyora…" his voice hissed in demand as his tongue slowly darted out and traced her lower lip. "…Aiyora…do not blush like that…" her eyes turned wide, she did even know that she was blushing. "I will not be able to hold myself back." he spoke against her lips. His lips had already captured her lower one.

"Kaname oni-" with a frustrated groan his dashed his tongue inside forcing her into a kiss. In the next second his hands tightly gripped her arms so that she cannot escape. Her eyes turned wide as realization hit her about what is taking place. She quickly placed a hand over his chest and tried to push him back but he was stronger and she is no match for him. Aiyora started to struggle but then;

"Kiss him back Ai." She heard Yuki's voice like it was some command. "Kiss him more passionately. Wrap your arms around and pull him into your arms. Think of it as wrong yet hard to resist. Tug his hair; fist your hand on his back. Show passion, show desire, show lust."

Aiyora was confused yet followed the instruction word to word. She felt like an actress shooting an intimate scene with the director telling her what to do. She heard the sounds of click and shutter and realized that pictures were being taken.

"Thank you sir, thank you ma'am you can pull part now." This time it's a male voice.

The kiss broke leaving them both breathing heavily. Aiyora quickly looked to the side to see Yuki with couple men standing at the entrance of the office. One of the men had a camera in hand. Then she turned the other way and saw another man with large lense camera on top the building in front with Seiran, Kaname's personal assistance.

"Pictures have been clicked from few angles." One of the men declared. "We shall pic the best real looking ones and leak them to the magazine and by tomorrow morning they shall be on the on the newspaper and by next week every magazine will have them on cover."

"Wait what?" Aiyora shot up on her feet. "What is going on? Why would there be pictures of him and I kissing on the newspapers?"

"Aiyora," Yuki was about to open her mouth but the Kuran PR person beat her to it.

"Ma'am this is the only way to tackle the embarrassing mess that you have caused. At this point we have to anything and everything to make sure you both appear like a genuine couple. Therefore starting from now till the wedding you and Kuran-sama must spend quite a lot time together. There must be public appearances and privately caught moments."

Aiyora's eyes danced between Kaname, Yuki and those men. She realized the kind of mess she has gotten into. To her suddenly it all seemed like a trap, a trap from which she desperately wanted to get out. Her head started to spin and she felt strange nauseated out of too much nervousness.

Aiyora's body gave away and was about to collapse but luckily Kaname was right there to catch her and save her from the fall. Yuki too rushed too her side asking if she was okay.

"Home," Aiyora whispered looking between the Kuran siblings with tired eyes. "I want to go home. I need some time to think, to process everything!"

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"Sir Maria Kurenai is here to see you." the receptionist told Kaname Kuran over the phone only to get order from him to send her to his office right away.

The silver haired female knocked on the door and waited for the permission to come from inside. With the permission she slowly twisted the knob, opened the door and stepped in. Kaname Kuran had his back facing the door. Maria watched as the man looked outside through the window.

"Kaname…?" she called to get his attention.

"Please have a seat Maria."

"You called me, what is the matter?" she asked getting comfortable on the chair.

Kaname took seat upon his chair. He brought out the cheque from the drawer and passed it over rot her.

"Don't be shy to tell me if the amount unsatisfied you."

The female had her eyes wide with shock. Was he kidding? The cheque is a lot better then she expected.

"Also gives my special thanks to your reporter who approached Aiyora." Yes here is the nasty secret that no one knew that it was Kaname who sent the reporter lady after when she was shopping at the grocery store.

"And anytime your publishing house needs donation, don't feel shy to ask."

"Actually Kaname I was thinking if one of our magazine could feature you both on in cover. This way we can have our increased sale and you can have a grand debut of your wife to be."

"That can be done." He agreed. "I shall arrange everything and send words for you. In the meantime keep this." He brought out another envelope from the drawer and passed it to her.

Maria opened the envelope only to have her eyes turn wide to see intimate pictures of Yuki and his soon to be wife.

"You want these published?"

He smirked proudly "…Right before the wedding."

"I don't understand how will this benefit you?"

He did not answer to that and gave a different reply "I shall tell you the exact day, date and time…till then wait for my call."

"Are you sure Kaname? I mean this is playing with fire. I mean who would want his soon to be wife's such a big scandal to be out in public? I mean one wrong move this will end in catastrophe." Maria only hoped that he would come back to his senses and his words suggested otherwise.

"Thank you Maria, it was nice seeing you."

And she knew its pointless to argue with him. It's either you are on his side or not. And Maria Kurenai was definitely on his side. The equation is simple Kaname Kuran equals to huge sum of money that she needed to run her business.

a.n. thank you all for reading hope you guys enjoyed. also don't forget to favorite, follow and review it if loved it. Thank you all.