Chapter 10
The party was the usual Lory style party. The full graduation of the entire LoveME Section. Ren was completely stunned as he watched Kyoko accept her award. He was happy to see that she was well, but he was irritated that she had hidden from him for so long. He wanted answers. Which is why he had followed her covertly, up the winding staircase to a room that looked as though it were decorated specifically for a baby.
He watched as she diapered a pair of small infants and unbuttoned her shirt. She unsnapped her bra and his eyes went wide as he watched her nurse one of the babies. The door pulled shut from the outside by the small woman in front of him now, and his father pushed him away from the room.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Hissed Kuu.
His brow furrowed in anger. "I wanted to talk to Kyoko." He was quiet for a moment. "Who do they belong to?"
"Not that you would actually care, but they're our grandchildren." Juli spat out angrily.
"What does that even mean?! I'm asking who the father is!" Ren demanded. "It's that Fuwa bastard, isn't it!"
"If and when we ever let you get close enough to ask her, she'll tell you herself." Kuu told him. "At the moment, you aren't prepared for the answer and she isn't ready to give it."
Kuon's anger was bubbling over and now he was saying things blindly. "Fine, let the little slut have it her way!"
Juli slapped him, shocking him into a more docile state. "Don't you ever say that again." She growled. "You have no idea what she's been through. I was hoping I was wrong about you, but you just confirmed it. Leave her alone, she isn't one of your little whores and she doesn't deserve what you've done to her." She told him in a low feral tone.
Kuu cleared his throat. "I think that's enough Juli. She doesn't need to hear any of this." He turned to Kuon. "You need to go."
Kuon nodded. "Of course." He was too stunned to reply. He just stalked off to his car without notifying anyone that he was leaving.
Kuon had been officially banned from the Takarada Estate for two weeks. Thankfully, they had avoided any run-ins with him at LME. Lory had brought all of the paperwork for Kyoko home with him for her to sign, and her stay with him was finally up. When they were finally in the air and over the Pacific Ocean, a pair of grandparents could finally breathe easily. They had prevented Kyoko from hearing Kuon's little outburst and mercifully he hadn't shown up at the airport demanding answers.
He was still beyond perplexed at the words his parents used. They made it sound as if he had raped her and the children were his or, as if he'd used her as a one night stand. He would never do that to her. He would have cherished her. God! Why won't this headache go away! He thought as he gripped his temples.
He shook it off and swallowed the emotional and physical pain. The image of that stupid glass of water was still plaguing him like some kind of ominous phantom, stalking him for his soul. He needed to pull himself together. The premier was in a few weeks and he couldn't have himself in such a mess.
"So I'll be making the big reveal during the party. Will Kyoko-san be attending this evening with you?" Director Konoe asked curiously. She was a very nice girl and a great actress, he was really looking forward to seeing her and perhaps offering her work.
Ren shook his head. "She... She moved to the States with some close family friends." Just thinking about it pained him and that last time he spoke to his parents, was one of the most painful moments in his life. He wanted to kick himself for his own stupidity. What made things worse, was the fact that Lory and Yukihito kept silent on the subject when he knew damn well they had something to say to him about it and he regretted every single word he'd said at that party. He knew she wasn't like that, but he was just so angry, so hurt, and so very confused about everything.
"Oh... Well I suppose that was to be expected. She did seem very talented. I should think that would be her next step." Konoe pondered as they entered the large room with a projection screen set up with tables and comfortable furniture spread around the room to lounge on.
Kuon nodded. "Not very surprising... I guess." He commented absently as he eyed the bar across the room.
Konoe smiled and accompanied him to the bar and they placed their orders for food and drinks. The pair then picked a table off to the side in the back. Kuon more for the fact that he didn't want to associate with the others, and Konoe more for the fact that the position made him feel like a king keeping watch over his subjects. It was the perfect vantage point to people-watch and view everything going on in the room. Everything...
Moments before the lights were scheduled to dim and the film was to start showing, Director Konoe noticed something a little strange going on at the bar. Taira Murasame was acting strangely. He had a tall glass of water in front of him, he pulled something out of his pocket, looked around and deposited what he had in his hand in said glass. He turned his gaze to the resident hamster and smirked slyly.
Director Konoe gasped and Kuon was up like he was shot out of a cannon and in seconds had said glass in his hand. He handed it to Konoe and grabbed Murasame by the shirt, tightly.
"What the hell do you think your doing?!" The former thug spat out.
"Stopping you from doing something stupid, Murasame-kun." Director Konoe told him as Kuon sat the idiot down at the table they were standing next to, with his hand tightly on his shoulder, preventing escape.
"I don't know what you're talking about." He told him, glancing over at his former target.
Kuon smirked. "We saw you slip something into that glass. Are you going to deny that?"
Murasame looked at Konoe defiantly. "You going to believe me or some half-breed gaijin that fucks his sister?"
Konoe raised his eyebrow at the young man and shook his head. "I think I'm going to believe my own eyes and Tsuruga-kun."
Murasame gaped at him. "What does Tsuruga have to do with anything?"
Konoe looked up at Kuon. "I think we should just let him be his own judge and jury." Kuon smirked. "He can drink the "water". If there's nothing in it, he has nothing to hide."
Konoe nodded to Kuon. "That sounds like a splendid idea, Tsuruga-kun. I'm glad you thought of it." He sat the glass on the table and stared at the young man expectantly. "Well?" Normally it would have been a bad idea to expose the evidence like that, but Murasame was so stunned, they really had nothing to worry about and they both knew it.
"Ts-Tsuruga? Y-You're Tsuruga? You mean Set...the girl I... You mean she wasn't your sister?" He sputtered out giving far more information than he wanted to in his shock.
Kuon narrowed his eyes at him and a frighteningly feral look fell over him. "You tried to drug her too, didn't you?" and then it hit him. The image of the glass of water and the accusations. What had happened between them? He felt his heart completely shatter. He lifted Murasame from where he sat and threw him across the room. "I LOST HER BECAUSE OF YOU!" In milliseconds he was on him. "I LOST MY BOYS BECAUSE OF YOU!" He punched him in the face as Konoe tried to pull him off. "MY KYOKO-CHAN LEFT ME BECAUSE OF YOU! I'LL KILL..." Konoe was mercifully blessed by the strange young man that rushed in the door with his eccentric boss and quickly put Kuon in a sleeper hold, causing him to pass out moments later, so Ruto could calmly take him to another room.
"What happened?" Lory asked angrily as two security personnel pulled Murasame from the floor and zip-tied him, to wait for the police.
Konoe sighed as he flopped onto the sofa. He pointed to the offending glass, whose contents would go to the police. "Murasame-kun has been up to no good. When he mentioned something about Kyoko-san, Tsuruga-kun just completely lost it."
Lory furrowed his brow. "What do you mean by up to no good?"
Konoe sighed again. "Apparently Murasame-kun was in the process of drugging a glass of water to give to Manaka-chan, when we approached him about it, he mentioned Setsuka-san after I divulged Tsuruga-kun's name." He explained.
Lory closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose. Lory groaned and let out a long sigh. "What a mess." He stood abruptly. "I'm sorry Director, but there's something I need to take care of." He excused himself. He needed to do a little damage control and check on Kuon to see how he was doing. There was a lot of threads that were going to need untangling, fortunately now he had a piece of this confusing puzzle of a story. Now he partially had both sides, at least he suspected he did.