AN: Hope you enjoy this chapter even though it has a lot that is the same as the previous one.
Chapter Nine – Demonic Creatures
Kyoko smiled at the form for her new passport. After they had gone shopping, they had decided that the best thing to do was for Kyoko to be brought back from the dead and that meant activating the bank account, getting her an ID, updating her in the medical system, and requesting a new passport. That had made it so that they were in time to have a late dinner.
"Thank you for today," Kyoko smiled as she held Kuon's hand tightly in hers as they went to the formal restaurant. Kyoko was dressed in a white evening dress with a pink coat that Kuon had been excited to buy for her whilst he had on a suit jacket, shirt and tie, and formal pants. She moved herself to his arm and wrapped herself around him whilst humming.
"Are you sure you're okay with the restaurant choice," Kuon said softly as he kissed the top of her head. "I thought with the level of VIP service in here, it would be nice to go somewhere where we wouldn't be bothered," Kuon let his fingers go through her black hair and grinned at her, "You're ravishing, absolutely gorgeous," he said as he kissed the strand of hair and saw her blush slightly.
"Do we have time to stop outside?" Kyoko asked as she looked at the restaurant in front of them.
"I think that we have a couple of minutes," Kuon replied as a concerned expression crossed over his face. "Why, is something wrong? Do you need something?"
"Stay right there," Kyoko smiled as she put her hands on Kuon's shoulders and then leaned up on her heels enough to kiss him. She beamed up at him, "I needed to kiss my husband," she said as Kuon smiled at her as if she was the most beautiful thing in the world, which to him, she was.
"Okay, now it's your turn to come here," Kuon gestured with his hand for her to come right to his chest. Ignoring the paparazzi that had come out to take photos of him, Kuon lifted his wife up, twirled her a little and then gave her the most passionate kiss before putting her feet on the ground and finishing the kiss. He paused as he heard a few people cheering at this movie style kiss.
"You're always such a romantic," Kyoko commented as she giggled over how this man could be so affectionate with somebody like her. She never wanted this moment to end but she knew they had to enter the restaurant otherwise they would miss the reservation.
"That's because I'm inspired by the woman I want to be romantic to," Kuon grinned. He let his hand go through her hair again and laughed before hearing someone cough. He recognized that sound as something ugly and his back straightened.
"American people are often disgusting with their ugly public displays of affection," the woman said and Kuon's eyes narrowed. There was no way that they could be somewhere at the same time as this…creature.
Kyoko's eyes widened as she noticed the woman, "Mo-" she said before noticing that she was with a group of people who looked like the country's top lawyers. She had promised to try to not let the relationship be too public. She bowed knowing how to cover up that mistake, "Mogami-san, it's good to -"
"Let's go inside, Kyoko," Kuon said as Kyoko saw the Ren Tsuruga face that Kuon had and she felt a burning hatred within him. She hadn't felt this all day but she knew that it was what happened when he really disliked somebody. She had felt in towards her in the early days of her LME adventure and she had felt it in her dream.
"I see you're still a wild beast, Hizuri," she said as she tried to ignore the way some of her colleagues were looking at him as if he were a god. "I thought that you would have caged your inner monster. Well, I guess they even give animals blue ribbons so an idiotic country like The United States must not be able to tell the difference with their awards. What next? a tiger?"
Kuon grit his teeth as his anger grew deeper, "Do you even see this woman standing in front of you?" he asked as Kyoko felt a shock inside by those words. She turned back to Kuon, had something happened between the two of them? "Do you even see who this is and that's how you -"
"Someone that insignificant," Saena commented, "so she decided to fall into a lake and get frozen. It worked for me. I didn't have to be associated with a rat like her, just a small vermin of no importance. It only solidified my feelings that she should have been gotten rid of during pregnancy."
Kyoko's body started shaking at that and Kuon saw the tears fall down her cheeks.
"Princess, why don't you go get us the table?" he asked as he tried to dab away her tears. "I'll be right in, would that be okay?" he said, "or we don't have to eat at all. We can just tell them to cancel it, it'll be okay," he said and Kyoko reached out to hold him.
Kuon saw Saena wave her colleagues away and he wrapped his arms tightly around his wife.
"She's as ugly as your...offspring, crying is -" Saena continued but Kuon felt his anger growing.
"Well, you seem to have a warped sense of what beauty is which I would have told you before," he said with a cold grin and the darkness in his eyes. "The only thing that stopped me from telling you how cold and cruel you were before is that my daughter was upset and crying and I don't like to get angry in front of her. You are nothing," he whispered to her, "You think that you have control over the people that I love, you think you can insult them and tear them down but it would only take a couple of words from me and an insignificant amount of money for me to wipe out your career, to cast you out into the street. Yet, I would never do that because I don't share your inhuman qualities."
He was swiftly leading them to somewhere away from the public without Saena noticing, he was keeping his voice down so people couldn't hear his words.
"The fact that you have so little confidence in yourself, deserved of course but pitiable, that you would attack a five-year-old who was only trying to be polite shows you as the bug that you are. I've never forgiven you for your interactions with our daughter," he said as Kyoko stared at him wide-eyed but she still hung to his arm. "You will never get near her again. I showed my respect to you before because you gave birth to my wife and biologically are Isabella's family but I don't give a crap about that."
"I don't really care if you call me an animal because at least I'm not a demon like you. I have had to deal with creatures like you my entire life and you can't even see how the world doesn't acknowledge you. You want to attack the people that I love, well I'll protect them with my entire being. You want to bad mouth me to the authorities, to the press, I don't give a damn because my wife and my daughter are more important to me than being liked. You don't deserve these biological members of your family because you've never learned what it is to love."
"If I ever see you again, I'll make sure that your precious career is nothing but ashes and trust me," he said as an extremely cold and dark expression crossed his face but also the feeling of superiority, "I have the power to do so. So," he leaned closer to her and said very slowly, " F off"
Saena's mouth hung open and she looked to her daughter who was now rubbing the man's back and still holding tightly to his hand as if how he had acted had been acceptable, as if she could still love someone that heartless. "You can be with a monster like that?" she asked Kyoko and Kuon's eyes widened as he looked upon her.
"Of course," Kyoko smiled, "I don't mean you any disrespect but I love each and every part of my husband and I accept him for who he is. I hope we can talk in the future," she said, "but I will always choose to be with my husband, standing by his side, no matter how deeply his words cut because that's what love is."
Kyoko pushed her face into Kuon's arm again, "Kuon, let's go and eat dinner," she said as she tried to lead Kuon back to the restaurant. She didn't want him to see how shocked his words had made her. However, even seeing him like this, she didn't love him any less at all.
Before they stepped into the restaurant, Kyoko put her hand to her husband's cheek and gently rubbed his stubble with her thumb. "Will you be okay?" she asked him, "that was a lot of anger."
"I'll be okay as long as you are," Kuon said as Kyoko noticed the sadness and guilt that giving into that darkness was causing him. Kyoko grinned up at him, trying to blink back the tears in her own eyes.
"Then we both will be," she said before they took a few more breaths and both entered the restaurant.
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Kuon smiled softly as he picked up his phone, "I'm just going to make a call," he said as he checked the time and Kyoko nodded. Kuon had already made a quick call in the middle of the day saying that he would call his parents and Isabella in the morning for them. She wanted to see her daughter but she was nervous. She had left Isabella as a baby and now she was a little girl, she had missed so many of her firsts and she had missed so much of her life.
Maybe her daughter wouldn't even want to see her and that scared Kyoko the most.
She understood Kuon's reasons for her not connecting with her daughter just yet and she agreed that it would be better to handle it face to face but she did long to see her little girl and she was sure that Kuon had done an amazing job raising her.
"I'm going to go to the bathroom," she gestured and Kuon nodded, still amazed that he got to be with her again. Hopefully this wasn't a coma and he was going to wake up and she wouldn't be here anymore. He had already pinched himself a number of times to test whether this was a dream. If it was then he didn't want it to end.
Kyoko went to look at herself in the mirror and smiled. She had once thought it was the power of magic that made people tell her she looked beautiful but as she looked at herself she knew that it was true. As big of an ego as that might be, Kuon had convinced her that she was a beautiful person and she felt even more gorgeous when with him. She blushed as she took the makeup off and smiled at her reflection.
That was what she was most thankful for, the fact that he hadn't moved on from her and the way he had been loyal to her memory. She was able to be with the love of her life and that would always be worth coming back for.
As she stepped out of the bathroom, she saw Kuon sitting with a concerned look on his face as if he were trying to decide upon something. "Sweetheart?" she asked as she looked at him, "Corn, what is it? What's wrong?"
Kuon looked at her before smiling softly, "How would you feel about Isabella coming to Japan?"
Kyoko paused for a moment before tears came into her eyes again and she put a hand over her mouth, she nodded as she struggled to get any words out. That was something that she desperately wanted.
End of Chapter Nine
Thank you for reading
Thank you reviewers of Chapter Eight
Brennakai: Well there are different methods of parenting AND grandparenting and Isabella's parents and grandparents all want her happiness.
Guest: Well, I was saving it 😉 but I'm glad that you liked it
KrisXD: I hope that I didn't disappoint with this chapter then
Ktoll9: I still love the prince 😊 I think I always will
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