Chapter 11
Lory sat on the chair across from the sofa that Kuon had been placed on, in the small office in the back hall of the large room, that had been rented for the party. He leaned back and lit his cigar after Ruto left to guard the door from curious ears.
"Sorry." Kuon mumbled with his arm crossed over his face and his head resting on the arm of the sofa.
Lory took a drag and grunted. "Mmm..."
"I... lost my temper." He murmured once again.
Lory nodded. "Was he responsible for drugging Kyoko-chan?"
Kuon silently shook his head. "He gave her the drink, but I drank it to piss him off." He was now starting to remember a few things, very vividly. The revelation had removed that troublesome wall in his mind and images came flooding back at once.
Lory sighed. "I see."
Kuon rolled over on the sofa to face the back. "It's all my fault." He mumbled.
Lory chuckled. "No... You were drugged. It's understandable."
"The things I said..." He muttered into the sofa. "She's gone... She was Isabelle... Wasn't she?" He asked in a small voice.
Lory sighed and leaned forward, then patted Kuon on the back. "I think we should leave this conversation for my home office, when you have a clearer head." Lory stood and patted him again. "Stop by tomorrow when you're feeling a little more up to it. Right now, Cain Heel has a premier to attend. He can think about how to get his sister back at his side tomorrow."
Kuon rolled over to him with eyes red from unshed tears. "Do you really think it will be that easy? So easy you can say it so casually like that?"
Lory sighed. "Look... she didn't report anything and she has two beautiful little sons that look exactly like their father... You tell me. What does that tell you?" He smirked a little.
Kuon took a deep breath, sat up, and for once, in the past almost year, he felt a little hope in his heart. He nodded to Lory. "Thanks Uncle Lory."
Lory chuckled and pulled him into a hug. "Alright... Now get out there and do your job. We'll talk about this tomorrow."
Days later it would be revealed that Taira Murasame had many victims of his actions. Ren was counted as one of the "nameless" male victims, but Lory had sent Juli and Kuu a copy of the police report, along with the news articles to show to Kyoko. The three had all thought it was a good idea at the time... Wrong...
Kuu and Juli sat with her in their arms, beyond confused by her reaction. She was now a complete mess. "K-Kyoko? Isn't this good news?" Juli stammered out. Not with the way Kyoko's mind works, it wasn't.
"How would this be good news?!" She howled. "Not only was I a one time thing... He had to be drugged to see me in that way." And so the tears, howls and cries increased seven-fold.
Kuu looked over at Juli with the sobbing female in his arms and shook his head. He needs to explain this himself. He mouthed to her and Juli nodded in agreement, then sighed as she rubbed Kyoko's back.
Hours later, when she had finally calmed, nursed her boys and went to bed, Lory received a phone call. He kind of suspected it would be something like this. Now she not only thought that she was a "One Nighter", she believed that he would have never looked at her as desirable enough to love her without him being drugged for it. They had inadvertently broken her even more than she was in the beginning. At least in the beginning, she thought that he had done it because he found her a little bit attractive, but now... that had been completely destroyed. The insults of Sho Fuwa constantly echoed in her mind and brought tears in her sleep. There was nothing Juli and Kuu could do to help her.
Kuon was understandably pissed. Because of the selfish actions of a complete ass, his and Kyoko's life was a complete mess. Certainly he wanted to confess to her, when they were both ready. He absolutely wanted to spend the rest of his life with her, when she was ready. However, because of Murasame things were all out of order. He had two beautiful, three almost four month old, twin sons, not that he was complaining about them. The woman he loved was severely damaged in more ways than one, he was definitely complaining about that. Finally, the plans to travel back to see his parents had been moved up a little more quickly than he had ever anticipated or wanted.
Yukihito just stared at him in shock when Kuon was finished telling him everything he remembered, which wasn't a complete picture, but he got the jist of it. His past, his ties to Kyoko, him being drugged and not remembering absolutely everything that had happened that night, and finally his children with her, and her identity.
Yuki groaned. Under normal circumstances he would have been happy for Kuon; however, these obviously were not normal circumstances and Kuon had a lot of work to do, so did Yuki. A packed schedule was going to need to be cleared immediately for an indefinable amount of time, because Kuon made it quite clear that he would not be returning to Japan without her and his children. More specifically, without her as his wife and if that meant it took a year of trying to convince her that he loved her more than life itself by repeating it every moment of every day, all day, he would. As of the end of the week, he would be on hiatus. This was more important to him than any film or photo he would ever release.
"Kuu, are you sure this is a good idea?" Juli questioned in a worried whisper. "Isn't it going to stress her out more?"
Kuu sighed. "It's for the best. She needs to know the truth and he needs to be here to tell her himself. We are not going to tell her anything." He whispered back so that their beautiful daughter wouldn't hear what they and Lory had schemed.
Juli sat back on the sofa and crossed her arms. "Fine, when will he be here?"
Kuu nodded with a little smirk. "Tomorrow afternoon. His plane lands at two and we should be here around three if traffic isn't too bad."
"Alright, I'll try to keep her out until around four or five with the boys. That should give him time to settle in and prepare." Juli mumbled then kissed his cheek. "Tell him I'm sorry for being so horrible to him."
Kuu nodded. "I'm sure he'll understand. Don't worry so much about it, we didn't know and neither did they."
"I still feel horrible about it all." Juli pouted and Kuu pulled her into his arms.
Kuon was a nervous mess for the entire flight. He had hoped to get at least a little sleep so that he could deal with everything, with a clear head, but it seemed as though it just wasn't in the cards for him. He still didn't know how he was going to salvage all of this. He thought perhaps the direct approach might be prudent. Lory had told him what her reaction to the situation surrounding the conception of their sons had been. She couldn't have been more wrong than that, but it was Kyoko of course. He had a hunch that it wasn't going to matter what he said to her at this point, it was going to take a long time to get her to believe him. Too bad he couldn't bring his friend Bo with him to convince her.
