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Chapter 10

"Huh?" Confused and surprised, that was all the response that Kyoko could come up with.

He had caught her off of her guard, he knew, but incidental slip or not it was what he had truly wanted. He wasn't going to push it on her, but he wasn't going to eat his words back either.

"Come on, let's get cleaned up and go home." He changed the subject quickly seeing that she wasn't ready to respond to a marriage talk yet.

"Did you just proposed to me?" She asked him just too make sure her hearing was still in check.

"In a nutshell, yes, but if you're still uncomfortable we can just call it a preproposal. After all I still have to take you to pick out your ring." He rambled on out of nerves.

"I just found out today that I'm your girlfriend and you wanted me to be your wife in the same day?" She asked mostly so that she could calm her jumpy heart.

"Why not?" He was putting his clothes on by now.

"Look," She started as she to was putting on her clothes."I promise that it's not that I don't want to get married to you."

He saw her struggled with her back zipper, so he went over to help her as she still continued on.

"It's just that Tsuruga Ren is like your baby. You created him and nurtured him; he is your hard work; he is your pride and joy. He is Japan's number one actor" She said with her fist held up high and a face that was very kakoi.

Ren blushed hearing her gush about him, and hug her from behind; thinking that this girl has a way of making him feel un cool sometimes.

She exhaled and her expression turned to a soft loving one.

"He can't fall from grace, you see, Japan is very much in love with him and so am I. He's like Corn 2.0 to me." She turned around to face him.

"Well then I'll be whoever you want me to be. He is a part of me after all." He knew now that she knew he was Corn. "Why are you complicating things?"

Kyoko wasn't sure why, but that last question irked her.

"Me complicating things? You were the one who created Ren to begin with. There has to be a reason why you became Ren. No? You haven't even made peace with yourself yet and you are ready to drag Ren's name through the mud. And what about dad and... and... your mother? Have you ever thought what that might do to them?" She stormed out the dressing room leaving a very distraught and confused man behind.

What was that? Is she fucking serious right now? She's worried about my reputation? When will she realize that she is an international hit sensation already? What's gotten into her?

He face-palmed and sigh in frustration. He made his way out of the dressing room to follow her. He caught up to her, but she didn't wait for him to open the car door for her.

She got into the car, and broke down in tears.

Ren was really at a loss now. He quickly got into the car and tried his best to calm her down. He held on to her and kiss her head.

"Shhh... there... there... why are you crying now?" He asked her in his soothing voice.

"I don't know..." She answered in between sobs. "I can't stop myself from crying." She managed to breathe in. "Oh no! You have turned me into a blubbering idiot, this is worse than being a cheese head." Her sobs got even louder.

Then he heard it, that loud grumbling sound coming from her stomach despite her sobs.

"I think you're cranky because you're hungry." He said trying to hold in his chuckle. "You didn't get to eat lunch after all."

"I'm not cranky, and it couldn't be helped, I wanted to get today's shoot over with; I had some snacks." She told him still pouting.

"Let's go home then." He said, not wasting any time pulling out of parking.

...

Kyoko's mood improved when she smelled her beef teriyaki being cooked. Her mouth nearly drooled at the smell of her stir fry vegetables. The smell of steamed rice and fried eggs made her stomach growled mood got even better after her second serving of rice.

Seeing her content, Ren braved mentioning his preproposal once again.

"Babe, about what we talked about earlier..."

"I'm going to need some ice cream before we hatch our elopement plan sweetie." She cut him off with a very Natsu smirk on her face.

She went over to the fridge and retrieved a pint of Rocky Road out of the freezer and sat back down in front of him. She stared at him as she took a scoop to her mouth and blinked a few times, as if waiting for him to continue what he was saying.

It took him a few seconds to register what she just said after mentioning ice cream. His face lit up.

"Yes? It's a yes?" He asked her excitedly.

"Yes to your preproposal." She said jokingly.

Ren pouted jokingly.

"Yes," her tone is serious now, "But nothing changes as of yet. Our marriage must be kept a secret for now okay?" She pleaded with him.

"Yes, okay, if that's how you want it, then that is how it will be." Defeated, agreed with her . "However, about my reputation and my parents, please don't stress about those trivial matters too much." He continued as he took her spoonful of ice cream and ate it.

"Now, where would you like for us to elope to princess?" He asked her while getting another scoop and fed it to her.

"Setsu is set to do a shoot in Vegas for a hybrid muscle car line in a month. The company also wanted me to feature their new model in my next MV." She informed him casually.

"In a month? That's right we have a week off from Yakuza 're set to leave for the states? Wow your career took off in every direction I see." He smiled proudly.

"Shhh... you're getting off the subject. Elopement, that's where we were." She snapped him back to their current topic.

They decided to take separate route and meet in Vegas; their honeymoon will have to wait until they can hatch out another secret escapade.

Kyoko yawned then sigh.

"I'm not going to lie, I feel anxious about the whole thing." She said worriedly.

"I'm more worried about what we should do about our rings. Should I get us toe rings or what?" He said to her playfully.

She slapped his chest and laugh out loud at what he said; so loud she snorted.

He laughed with her. He was the happiest man on earth at that moment. She was his and she was laughing again; those were all that mattered to him.

...

Kyoko arrived in Vegas on schedule, though she wasn't sure if she arrived in one piece. She was missing her other half and she wasn't feeling too good either. The flight was long and the thought of going to an empty hotel room made her felt lonely.

"Hey stranger." She smiled at hearing a familiar voice and searched for the source.

"You're not supposed to be here until Thursday." She scolded Ren playfully, but she was glad he was there.

"Yeah well, your manager talked to boss about how ridiculous your work load was, since he was tied up, and I'm already on vacation, the boss sent me here on a private jet to be your temporary manager as my Love Me assignment." He took her hand in his and they walked towards baggage claim and exited.

"He said I'm to slow at getting you and my lack of progress needed a Love Me kind of punishment." They laugh at his sarcasm.

"You are missing the hideous pink coveralls by the way." She said in between her snorts.

...

Ren woke up at six am the next day. He brushed his teeth and ordered breakfast through room service. He then reviewed her schedule. He wasn't too happy at how swamp she is, but this is the only way he can officially make her his. If not for that, he would've begged the president to send Yashiro and Kotonami as back ups. After all, she's practically doing a one man show.

Kyoko woke up thirty minutes later feeling like she was in a sauna, so she didn't bother to put on anything over her tank top and panty. She felt dizzy, but she shook it off as jet lag. She regretted not putting any bra on before bed because now her breast are even more swollen and tender; they felt tight and they were on fire.

She was hot and sweaty, and her cheeks were red. Hunger pain assaulted her stomach and she welcomed the smell of food. She followed the scent of eggs and bacon, and was greeted by the brightest smile she had seen in a while. Her anger detectors made a mad dash towards their beloved Demon Lord and left Kyoko flinching in fear.

"Honey, you don't have to clock in until nine today, why are you up so early?" He asked her while her demons swirled around him.

"I'm starving? And it's too hot too sleep in?" She answered hesitantly.

His mood changed, not by much, but just enough for her to feel comfortable enough to sit down and butter her toast. She took a bite of everything on her plate and took a sip of her water.

"Can you pass me the tablet, I need to review some of the concept panels before I start my day." She asked him as she took another bite.

She felt the crackle in the air as his mood changed for worse.

"You are taking on too much, let me handle some of your work load." He said to her. "Look at you; you're exhausted and you look like you have a fever." He went over to check her temperature.

Her demons swirling around him frantically was making her dizzy and sick to her stomach.

"This is odd, you actually don't have any..." He didn't get his last word out she was already making a run for the bathroom. A few seconds later he heard her emptying the content of her stomach. Then something clicked in his mind.

He went over to his bride to be and rubbed her back as she finished emptying her stomach. When she was done, he handed her some tissues an a cup of tap water, so she could wash her mouth and clean her face.

"How much did you drink on the plane?" He asked her even if he knew the answer.

"None." She answered still wiping her face.

"Honey, I need you to stay calm okay?" He was talking to her like she had a poisonous spider on her. Which made her glance over both her shoulders nervously.

"I'm going to need you to stop taking your birth control okay?" He asked her nervously.

"WHAT? Are you implying that I might be pregnant?" She kind of wished she had a poisonous spider on her shoulder now.

He pulled her to him, made her face the mirror and spoke to her in a soothing voice.

"Look at yourself." He told her while pulling her tank top up over her swollen breasts.

"You looked like you have a fever, but you don't." He touched his forehead to hers.

"Your breasts are increasing in size," He barely touched them, they felt a bit warm, and she winced a bit. "And though they looked amazing, you are in pain. You've had to buy new bras countless times because they were uncomfortable." He pouted. Then he moved his hands down around her still slender waist.

"Your curves are very womanly now, compared to about a month ago." His hands went down to her hips and snaked their way to the bottom of her abdomen. "You were complaining that all your pants fit too tight and uncomfortable about a week ago."

Her mind and her heart was racing. This was a dream; a bad dream. She closed her eyes shut.

"This is a dream, this is a dream, and I will wake up soon." As soon as she opened her eyes, she regretted it. The room started spinning again, and she quickly got down and hugged the toilet bowl once again.

Ren sighed and prepared her another cup of water. When she was done, he handed her a couple more tissue and a fresh cup of water.

"Or it could be just a simple stomach virus." She told him as she made a grab for the water.

"Think about it Kyoko, now that I thought about it, when was the last time you had your... um... cycle?" He asked blushing awkwardly. They had sex almost every other day at least and not once were she ever on her period.

"Oh my God! I don't deserve to be a woman. I'm being told things that I should have known; by my husband nonetheless." Sudden realization hit her. "It was about a week before Fiji when I had my last period. I had received a nasty cut on my ankle while shooting Box R" She showed him what looked like a few stitch like scars. "I had to take antibiotics for a couple of weeks and I had about a week left when we were in Fiji. I'm so stupid." She cried. Then her expression turned even more worrisome.

"I've never realized it, so I kept on taking the pills this whole time. What if I hurt our baby?" She was panicking. "What do we do?

"Shhhh...Shhh... First things first, do you think you can hold anything down?" He ask her in a soothing voice.

"Yeah. The room stopped spinning, but my nerves are still shot. Look my hands shaking and I don't even feel cold. If I didn't know any better, I'd ask for a bottle of Gentlemen Jack or something." She tried to joke through her nerves, which made Ren smile awkwardly.

"There... there... we should start with some toasts and tea." He lift her up and carried her princess style, "I'm trying to breed a basket ball champ, not a drinking champ here woman." He kissed her pouty face.

"Baka." She said as he sat her down.

"I will be right back, I'm just going to go to the convenient store downstairs. Eat up and rest a bit more; you still have a couple more hours before you need to be anywhere." He smiled and left their room.

She did as he told. She ate a couple more toast, and to her surprise she wanted the rest of her food after all.

She leaned back on the recliner after and watched the weather channel.

Not ten minutes later Ren came back bearing gifts of pregnancy test, ginger ale, saltine, peanut butter, and motion sickness band.

He handed her the pregnancy test, and she took it from him.

She faced the bathroom door as if it was an execution room and she was the one getting executed.

She came out the bathroom a few minutes later blushing profusely.

"The damn thing didn't even wait a whole minute to tell me I'm pregnant. I needed that extra nine minutes to prepare my heart more." She told him burying her face into his chest.

Ren smiled into her hair.

"Well now that that's confirmed, we have to find a doctor, and fit an appointment into your schedule ASAP. Then we have to call Yashiro-san and Kotonami-san over," He didn't give her the chance to protest before he continued, "you can't overwork yourself, and besides they are our trust worthy friends. If they find out after the media, wouldn't that hurt their feelings?" He wasn't sure why but he felt like he had to defend his case from the get go.

She pouted harder, but didn't try to argue. She just nodded to everything he was saying.

"You can't do any of the stunts you planned to do in your commercial promo or MV." He continued. "You will rest when you are tired and you will delegate your duties accordingly. And you will trust me to help you in every which way that I can." He felt like he was being selfish by constricting her movement, but her well being comes first.

"In the mean time," he kneeled down and lifted her shirt up and kissed her belly, "We're having a baby. Congratulation mom."

"We're having a baby." She repeated after him rubbing her belly still uncertain about the whole thing.

"Yep. And don't forget, we're getting hitched in a couple of days too." He grinned at her. He then checked the time.

"You get ready for your first meeting of the day, I will go find a near by doctor." He said as his finger fumbled through the yellow pages near the phone.

"I can't fire you, can I?" She shook her head and left him at the table without even a peck on his cheek.

He couldn't helped grinning from ear to ear. His happiness was soaring sky high and he was seeing no end of it.

Whoa! The reveal was hard to write. I had to borrow some of my own experiences on this one. The birth control thing really happened to me and yes, the hubby was the one who suspected first. I felt like an idiot for like an entire week after haha. Hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing this. Thank you for reading.