Sorry I haven't updated in a few days. I fell ill, and have been really busy. Things, you know how they are.
Anyway, I'm hoping to get to the major point of the story in this chapter. I wanted to in the last chapter, but things ended up taking way too long with other story points, and one thing lead to another...
Anywho, on with the show!
Disclaimer- I am a banana!
Chapter 10
"Sho, What are you doing here?!" Kyoko screeched, trying to cover herself as quickly as possible, and tore the hose to get them off so she could throw the jumpsuit on. He stared, his eyes never moving from hers.
"I saw the news. You're going out with Ren." He glared, finally standing and walking towards her, his eyes shining like molten metal. "You know what this means. You're going back to Kyoto." He kept an amused lilt to his voice, but his face failed to show it.
"I refuse." Kyoko stayed nonchalant, deciding to ignore him and put her shoes on.
"You made me a promise." Sho growled as he stepped up to her, leaning over her small frame. She sighed.
"Some promises are made to be broken. Who would have honestly agreed to be someone else' slave? I had to get to work, and you were making me late." She blew him off, shrugging. She looked up, staring straight into his eyes. "I don't need you looking out for me, trying to tell me what I need or where I should be. I'd like to remind you that not way too long ago I was the one watching over you. The major difference was I tried to be nice, kind and caring, while you're trying to shove yourself onto me. Sho, I'm not the girl I used to be, and you need to realize that, find out whatever it is you need to continue your life without me, and go. I don't have time to be your babysitter anymore." She said as she brushed past him, and out of the door.
He growled before following her out, staying right beside her all the way to Sawara's office.
He saw Kyoko at first, and was getting ready to greet her when he noticed Sho beside her.
"Fuwa-san!" Sawara nearly stumbled over his words. "What brings you here?"
"He walked in on me changing in the Love Me's room, and now won't stop stalking me. Can we get security to remove him?" Kyoko asked, straight faced, and Sawara nearly started to sweat. He couldn't allow Kyoko to get stalked, but it was Fuwa Sho, who was insanely popular.
"Uh, one second." He sat quickly, calling up the president.
"Mogami-san has stated that Fuwa Sho is stalking her and has asked me to call security. He doesn't seem hostile, but I can't have Mogami-san stalked. What do I do?"
"Keep them there. Sawara, no matter what, don't let him leave that room!" Lori yelled into the phone and loudly hung up.
He looked back to the duo, Sho snarling out words about 'traitor' and such and Kyoko seemed to be ignoring him. Sawara asked Kyoko to start on fan mail on the other side of the room, and Sho grabbed a chair, yanking it out from under a desk to sit beside her. She went through the mail for about fifteen minutes before she found one, unsigned with a typed address. She didn't think much of this before opening it and reading.
'Kyoko,
It's been years and I can tell you've gotten taller. You're beautiful now.
You didn't used to be.
I saw you on television a few times, the first time, I cried.
There are so many things you don't know, so many reasons you don't understand.
Akito was not your father. I wasn't sure until recently.
There's only one other person your father could be.
And this is why you have to disappear.
Kyoko, you need to die.
You need to never be allowed to see the light again. Your face needs to be hidden from the world, you have no right to share the air with us. You have no right to live.
You need to die!
If you don't do it yourself, I'll hunt you down and end the misery you could offer to the world!'
She stared at the letter, her hands shaking, her eyes wide, tears streaming down her face.
It was from her mother.
She stood and stared, feeling like the air had been knocked from her lungs, her knees weak as she fell to the floor and screamed.
Sho ran over. He'd been watching her, but he didn't read the letter, and his eyes had started to wander, so he didn't see the terror that flickered across her face. Sawara ran over, about to bash Sho in the head to get him off of her til he saw him just as panicked. "Kyoko, what's wrong? What happened?" He demanded and Kyoko stared at the paper, finally getting a little breath.
"It's from my mother!" She sobbed and Sho stared, surprised at her. "She wants me dead!" She cried and Sho wrapped his arms around her, looking at the note. His eyes widened as he read, looking up at Sawara. "Find the envelope for this. Call the police."
It was ten minutes later that the police was there, Lori there to keep an eye on the commotion in the office. His eyes kept flickering over to Kyoko and Sho, who refused to leave her side. Sawara was even panicked. After reading the note, they were both afraid. Kyoko insisted no one call Ren. He had work to do, and she planned on keeping her schedule as soon as she was allowed.
"Who was Akito?" Lori asked as the police started shuffling out of the room.
"He was my father, or at least I thought. My mother never mentioned someone else, and Akito died when I was only a few weeks old."
"What happened between you and your mother?" Lori asked, but he tried to keep kind on this sensitive matter. He reached up and patted her shoulder, trying to coax the information from her.
It was now that he really needed to know.
"I don't even remember when she started leaving me at the Fuwa's ryokan. She always yelled at me over my grades, a few times she'd hit me. The Fuwa's asked her to leave me with them until she calmed down. She would visit every once in a while, but when I was about six she stopped coming by unless she was really angry. When I was about nine, she just stopped showing up, and at ten she told the state to offer full custody to the Fuwa family. She didn't show up to the hearing, and I haven't seen her since." Kyoko played with her fingers in her lap, the tears finally drying. Sho softly rubbed his hand across her back and Kyoko looked over with a smile.
"You've gotten better at this." Sho startled, staring at her and Lori sighed.
"Are you sure you don't want to take any time off?"
"I have a job to do." Kyoko stood, sniffing away the last of the sadness, setting her mental stability and looked over with a smile. "I need to get going."
"I'm going with you." Sho stood, his eyes narrowed, and Kyoko was about to argue, but Lori stopped her.
"You insisted on not calling Ren, you've insisted on not claiming Yashiro for the day, as long as Sho isn't shirking his other responsibilities, I think you should keep him by your side." He said and Kyoko groaned.
"You're shirking, right? You're supposed to be writing or something?"
"I can write on a set. That's not a problem." Sho shrugged, hiding an evil smile.
"It's dark, you won't be able to see to write." Kyoko crossed her arms and stared and Sho smiled.
"You know I can only really write when inspiration strikes." He grinned and Kyoko turned to Lori.
"See? Shirking his responsibilities. Sho, call Shoko-san, please."
After explaining the situation, Shoko offered to be the driver for the day. Kyoko cursed the whole way out to the car.
Sho found a way, sitting in the back of the set, keeping an eye on everything, while writing like fire in his hand. Kyoko couldn't help but smile. Apparently he found his inspiration.
She finished the filming for the week's Box R and thanked the staff, half of which were starstruck at Fuwa Sho being on the set, and were surprised when Kyoko frowned just before leaving. "I can't wait to get rid of you." She frowned and Sho grinned, trying to put his arm around her. She smacked it away.
She arrived at TBM with plenty of time to go and hang out and eat with the crew before the show. The Ishibashi brothers told Sho they would only allow him on the set if he would be a surprise guest, as one of the other guests on the show canceled last minute. Sho was happy to offer.
Neither of them knew Ren was going to be on the show.
He waited til just before the show to get there, and made his way to makeup quickly, just in time for Kyoko to get him from the room.
"Ren?!" She gasped as she opened the door.
He smiled at her and nodded. "They asked me to be on the show, I wanted to surprise you." He smiled as he stepped forward and took her 'wing'.
"Ren, just so you know, Sho's on the show too. You need to behave." Kyoko sighed as she walked him to the stage.
"What's he doing here?!" Ren looked ready to beat the other into nothingness.
"I'll explain later. Now, we're on." She smiled, knowing that no one could see it, but she couldn't help it.
Ren smiled as he came out as the persona of Bo took Kyoko over. She walked him to his seat and sat down next to him, smiling. She leaned over, leaning partially over his lap and Hikaru, familiar with the antics of the chicken laughed.
"What's up, Bo? You want something?"
Out of a small back pocket, Bo produced a piece of paper and a pen. It was held up with a little wiggle in the seat and Ren laughed. "You want an autograph?"
Bo nodded manically. Ren took the pen and smiled, taking the pen and giving a flourish in the paper. "For my old friend Bo, Always." He smiled and Hikaru smiled, thinking maybe he'd been talking about Kyoko, and was about to move along, when he heard over his shoulder, "What does that mean?"
He turned and stared at his youngest brother, who shrugged.
"Only a few people know, Bo has helped me out of a few situations, right here at TBM. I had a problem with a script one day, and Bo offered assistance." Ren smiled, remembering the situation and Hikaru sighed. "On another script, he helped me find a character I was having problems with." Ren smiled and Bo nodded, sitting up and patting Ren on the back, looking like old buddies.
Ren laughed and patted him back, shaking his head at the situation.
After this, the show went on normally for a little bit before she went to tell Sho he needed to get ready for the stage. He smiled and nodded. "Shoko's getting my guitar, and I don't need makeup. I'm fine the way I am." He smiled and stood away from the wall, uncrossing his arms and placing his foot that had been on the wall beneath him. She waited for the cue and brought Sho out, grabbing the guitar from Shoko, who'd just walked in on her way through.
Ren watched with shock as Bo came out with a guitar and ran across the stage, falling to his knees and sliding, bringing a wing across the guitar, trying to look awesome, but the note she hit was horrible.
Bo looked down, shocked and held the guitar up and poked it, listening to the sound it made as Sho ran out and grabbed the guitar, giving a horrible glare as he walked back off stage for a second. Kyoko was worried she'd really pissed him off when he ran out, pulling the same move and sliding across the stage on his knees, hitting a perfect note.
"That's how you do it." Sho grinned, patting Bo on the back and handed him back the guitar. "Try it again!"
This time was no better than the last time, causing everyone to laugh. Bo hung his head in shame and walked over to Sho, falling to her knees and offering the guitar back, bowing in a worshiping manner as Sho took the guitar back and laughed. Bo took him over to the couch and walked over to the corner of the stage, falling to a little ball in the corner, playing with invisible dust on the floor.
This caused another laugh from the cast, but a cautious smile from Sho. He intended to keep his eyes on the chicken through the whole show.
After a while, he watched as Kyoko started to back away from the stage and stood, stretching. "This couch is too soft! I'm about to fall asleep! I'll go get the eggs for the next part of the show. Bo!" The chicken spun on foot and was surprised to see Sho smiling and offering her the seat.
"Come sit with your old buddy!" He ushered her over and sat her down, throwing a warning glance at Ren, who was confused as hell, but nodded.
Sho stepped off the stage, to the confusion of the hosts. At this, Bo looked around, leaned back and threw a wing over the back of the couch, crossing the giant legs before her.
Ren couldn't seem to find a way to laugh. He was suddenly scared.
Bo elbowed him and Ren was drawn back to the current situation.
He had to finish the show.
He watched as the chicken's open wing flapped around, as if Bo was telling an amazing story. Ren finally found the ability to laugh again and watched as something seemed to be really amazing.
Finally, after about ten seconds of this, Bo's wide eyes looked up to Ren like he was seeing if Ren had been in the same situation. Ren could only stare, his jaw dropped, trying to think of words for the oddity before him.
"Bo, you've gotten poor Ren speechless!" Sho laughed from the back of the couch, and Bo jumped up, fell to his knees and begged forgiveness. It was instantaneous that the laughter started. Sho sat and patted the chicken on the head.
"You're fine. Ren's safe." He winked and Bo jumped up, wiping sweat from her brow. Kyoko walked right off stage and ran into a stagehand that had been waiting for a while with a bottle of water. Kyoko was just out of site and tore the head off of the outfit, grabbed the water and chugged the whole bottle, surprised when another bottle was immediately produced. She shook her head, thanked the girl and smiled. She watched the stage for a moment before looking out at the audience.
How did she not notice that before?
Right in the front of the audience was her mother.
She stared, her eyes wide and pulled the stage hand back. "Have you seen that woman before? Is she a regular here or anything?" She pointed and the woman looked and sighed.
"I can't tell, there's a lot of people here." She apologized before turning and Kyoko stopped her again.
This was do or die time.
"Call the police, please. That woman threatened to kill me." She watched as the girl stood up straight, surprised before nodding and running off.
Kyoko slid her head back on. She had to go out.
At this, the director clasped a hand on her shoulder. "I heard what you told the stagehand. Don't you dare go out there."
"But the show..." Kyoko pointed and he shook his head.
"I may not be your biggest fan or anything, but I can't have you dying on the set. Is the thing about you and Ren true, or just a rumor?"
"It's true." She asked, surprised as he grabbed her shoulders and forced her into Ren's dressing room.
"Don't leave this room unless there's an emergency, or Ren's here." He demanded and Kyoko frowned. She didn't have her clothing, and Yashiro was right off of the stage.
She was suddenly terrified.
Five minutes later the director came back. He threw open the door and looked at Kyoko, wearing one of Ren's button down shirts that came almost all the way to her knees. He looked at her and sighed.
"The woman you pointed out isn't in the audience anymore, and the audience hands haven't seen her. You need to come with me."
"I'm not dressed, and I don't have shoes."
"But you'll be safe." He stated and started walking in, as Kyoko sighed and walked over to him.
She headed back out to the stage area and watched from the monitors as the director handed out orders, ticked off that the guy he let direct for a moment managed to screw up this badly.
She sat and watched as they talked with Ren about his new found relationship with Kyoko. He blushed, smiled and admitted that they were going out. When asked if there were plans for marriage, Ren looked sadly away.
"I don't think she's ready for that yet." He smiled sadly and Sho stared.
"But you would, wouldn't you?" He was furious. Ren nodded, not paying attention.
"I'd propose, but I don't think she's ready for that yet." Ren smiled and looked up, seeing the fury on Sho's face.
He sat up and stared, a little surprised at the sudden change in attitude.
"You, keep your damned hands off of her!" He yelled, surprising everyone, especially the Ishibashi brothers. "She's been by my side forever! She's the one who kept me supported before I was here! She was the one in my shadow! How in the hell does my shadow move to another person!? She's mine! Keep your damned hands off of her!" Sho yelled and grabbed Ren's collar, yanking him towards the end of the stage. "Go find her! NOW! It's an emergency!" Sho whispered, fear evident in his eyes.
That was all a fake?
"When in the hell did you learn to act?!" Ren grinned, which was caught on camera, unknown to them and Sho snarled.
"You learn fast in these situations. She hasn't been on stage, and the front row is missing someone. Go, now." Sho turned back towards the stage with a frown, but upon seeing the looks on the rest of the crew's faces, he paled.
"I thought it was a different Kyoko. Sorry." He sat quietly, hanging his head in frustration.
"You have a girlfriend named Kyoko too?" Hikaru asked, and Sho smiled sadly at him.
"Not anymore. Kyoko had been my support til a few years ago, and til this day is my best inspiration. I love her dearly, and all I can do is hope that she understands." Sho smiled sadly and Hikaru nodded.
"I hope things work out for you." They all smiled.
Sho could only hang his head. She'd be gone before the show was over. "I doubt that. My ego kind of broke her heart, a lot. I'll just be happy if she forgives me." Sho grinned, running his hands through his hair. He didn't like admitting things like this on television, but he had to come up with an excuse for his behavior. He could only hope she'd realize he took the hit here for her.
He just about jumped out of his skin about thirty seconds later when he heard a gunshot backstage. He jumped up and ran as fast as he could, screaming the instant he heard it.
"KYOKO!"