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Hi guys! So this is my fanfic for KyokoRen week on tumblr for the 'Glamour' prompt, I'm not doing all the prompts unfortunately but this will not be the only one.
Thanks a million to my adorable Beat reader Theriechenbachevent, thanks to her this fanfic is way more pleasant to read!
AU in which Mizuki doesn't exist and Katsuki's love interest is Mio instead.
Ch 21 : Dark Moon Glamour
He was invited to his fiancé's family's new year's eve party. In all honesty, he was attending for the sake of appearances, he himself would have been more than happy to skip the festivities. But what would people think if the Hongo family's soon-to –be son in law weren't present to support his future wife? That would be unacceptable! …And his plans would be ruined.
Ruined.
Yes.
That's what he felt looking at Miss Hongo.
And not the one he was promised to.
No. The one who made him feel ruined was her younger sister. Hongo Mio. His student.
She descended the staircase, a frigid look on her face. She didn't bother greeting anyone, her entrance was more than enough. She was clad in a simple black evening dress with black high heels, and her hair pulled up into a messy twist. The scar on her temple almost as decorative as her jewels, adding to her forbidding charm.
How could someone look so devastatingly beautiful and so cruel at the same time? And att such a young age?
Those were his thoughts then. And those are his thoughts now. Five years later, after marrying her.
Of course she'd figure his plan out. And of course she'd confront him. And of course she'd offer her help with his plans to get back at her disgusting family… And of course he'd give them up for her sake.
At that new year's eve party, five years ago, he had gone out to the balcony to take a breath. Mingling with opportunistic elites wasn't his favorite pastime and he wasn't going to start pretending he enjoyed it now. He needed a break.
"Tired of faking?" Her voice startled him, he hadn't seen her sitting there, in a dark corner, the hem of her dress hanging on her knees. She was sitting on the cold floor, holding her heels in one hand as both her wrists rested on her bended knees. She had shaken her hair loose, the whisps of obsidian hair framing her face, and staring up at the starry sky. Not the best position for a lady such as herself, but she didn't seem to care in the least. And it wasn't as if it made her look any less enchanting.
"Shouldn't you be inside Hongo-san?" He decided to avoid her question.
"Hmm? No need. I've already glared at everyone." She sighed before meeting his gaze "Besides, it would be a pity to miss this sight for the sake of all those murderers inside, don't you think, sensei?" Her lips were curved up as she tore her gaze from the night sky. That was her all-knowing smile.
She knew.
"How?" He asked, trying to keep his composure despite feeling completely blindsided.
"I've been in this family for far longer than your late father started working for them, Sensei." She tapped her scar with two fingers "I've been on the receiving end as well."
"You mean-"
"Yes, sweet little Misao did this to her baby sister." She said before her face turned nonchalant "But you probably won't believe me… Nobody did." She lazily blinked, turning to the side "Doesn't matter, what does matter is that," She threw her shoes and turned her face to look at him again "I want in on your plan."
"That's out of the question." He had said it flatly, without pausing to think. He knew the risks, he knew that after saying that she might give him away, flushing his plan and years of hard work down the toilet if she wanted.
"I know what they did. If we're not doing this together, then I'm doing my part on my own."
He sighed "Hongo-san-"
"Mio. I've always hated that name that binds me to them."
"Mio-san, I don't think-"
"And I don't care what you think, I'm making sure they pay for what they did."
"You don't understand-"
"No, You don't understand! I have to spend every day with them, knowing the things they did, and the things they plan to do. Trying to imagine the things that I haven't heard of."
"Will you stop interrupting me?" he half yelled, exasperated at her cutting him off every time he wanted to say something.
The rest is pretty much self explanatory, they carried on with their revenge plan for a while, before realizing how much it was eating at them. They got closer while working on said plan, which made it even worse. There is no need to talk about the breakdown, or even about the emotionally charged moment when they decided to let the authorities serve justice. And what happened to Misao after that, is a whole other story.
Back to the present day, where he was thinking of how ruined his wife made him feel, Katsuki sighed.
"What's wrong?" she said, turning away from the mirror of her vanity table to face him, while closing her earring's clutch.
"You look ravishing"
"I think that's just the new year's glamour speaking." She said, chuckling.
"Not in the slightest, Mrs. Tachibana." He said, kissing the back of her hand "shall we?".
A/N: alright, hit your keyboards lol jk but reviews would be much apreciated :D
kris: Thanks a lot for your review, I'm glad you liked ghost Ren *wink, wink* I hope you'll like this chapter :D
Sara: lol thanks for reading and reviewing, I think we would all want to be haunted by ghost Ren *evil grin*
Fariha: awww thank you so much for your review, it's nice seeing some found the story creepy, but it's also surprisingly pleasant to see others don't I'm glad you liked it :D
Lennie: awww thanks a lot! I'd like to continue it, but for now I have no idea where to go with it x) so perhaps in the futur? I'm really happy you liked it :D
Guest/G2: I'm really happy you liked that one, and don't be sad, maybe Ghost Ren's not really dead, maybe he's in a coma (kinda like 'just Like Heaven', the movie starring Reese Witherspoon) and he just thinks he's dead, anyway I hope you'll like thi chapter thanks for the review :D
Thanks a lot to all my silent readers! I hope you're enjoying this!
Tomorrow I'll post the fanfic I wrote for the 'Dream' prompt.