So as I promised a couple people in my reply to their review, the next chapters are somewhat funny and then there are some cute chapters. Don't worry though Ren and Kyoko will get back together...but how and when are the real questions.

Chapter Twenty :: Is It True?

Kyoko paled as she looked across from Julie not knowing that Kuon was listening to them, "So..." she said sadly, "So...Kuon no Hizuri-san wasn't ready to take care of his ex girlfriend and her child even after she had told him that it was his daughter she was going to give birth to."

"You have to understand..." Julie said peacefully, not sensing the danger around the corner for her and from her own son none the less, "He was fifteen at the time, he didn't actually think that..."

"Still..." Kyoko said bitterly, "To not take responsibility for his actions it makes him worse than Shou..." she whispered as Julie shook her head.

"I wouldn't say s-" she began as Kuon looked down depressed and angry

"Thank you Julie-sensei" Kyoko said taking Julie's hand, "You've made me see that Hizuri-san is not the kind of man I should be dating. I value your wisdom, now please help me get the things that I brought so I can go back home," she said as Julie's frown deepened.

"Kuon isn't like that, I mean...he was but..." she stumbled over her words not knowing what to say to convince the seventeen year old, "He cares about you."

"No," she shook her head, "I was wrong, he is still in love with Jennifer, he probably only said he loved me because he related to this situation so well and him acting like Kuon proves it, even I knew that he had regressed, he didn't do this because he loved me. He just pitied me," she smiled as the locks closed on her heart but hate didn't seem to come out. "Thank you, by me accepting his past he wouldn't..."

From the doorway there came a bitter laugh, "Accepting huh?" Kuon asked raising an eyebrow as he stared at Kyoko, "You think that you're accepting my past by moving out?"

Kyoko frowned and before she knew it she had sent her demons towards Ren but his cold smile deflected them back making her know he was angry now...more than angry, her rage meter had actually exploded. "How dare you!" she snapped at him, "You think that 'I love you' is a joke?"

"Of course not!" he yelled at her, "I do love you Kyoko!"

"Don't call me that..." Kyoko whispered as she looked down "When I first saw your eyes you sat down and told me about Rick and then later that evening you told the Japanese public! You never told me that you had a daughter!"

"I..." Kuon looked down, "I didn't have her in the technical sense! I thought it was a joke until..." he lied and Kyoko could tell this about him. Julie looked at him too surprised that he was looking that way, that pained, guilty way.

"Kuon..." she said softly, "Did you know before the newspaper?"

"One of her friends told me when she was in the hospital..." he growled, "Rick had just died. I didn't want to hurt anyone else! I wasn't ready to have a child...I'm ready now," he said. "Let me have a child with the woman I love."

"How old was Jennifer when she had the child?" Kyoko asked as he looked away

"She was seventeen," he replied, "She was one year and several months older than me."

"Is that why you like young girls now?" Kyoko asked raising her chin, "Is that why you spoil me? Because it's some sickness or aversion towards older women."

"I don't love young girls!" Kuon yelled, his eyes pleading for her to understand him but all she knew was that she may never trust him again. "I love you! I've loved you since I was ten! You were always the perfect Japanese women..."

"Someone ignorant! Someone who knew how to cook, clean, and get decent grades on tests! Someone who took care of you when you looked weak!" she said trying hard not to cry, "How could you Kuon and then coming over here, promoting the image of Tsuruga Ren when you're responsible for three deaths."

Kuon looked at her, putting his hands through and messing up his blonde hair, "I...liked you because you were cute, you were approachable, you were so concerned with making people you cared about happy."

"Is that why?" she crossed her arms and shook her head stubbornly, "Kuon that is not enough..."

"I came to love you more after I found out who you were," he told her, "By the time of shooting Dark Moon the girl I had really known how to love was you."

"And yet...I wasn't your first love," she said, "You pretended so well to Bou!"

Julie blinked feeling out of the loop here but she decided to remain silent.

"That was the first time I understood what love was, I'm not lying about that..." he said before looking away, "I'm not responsible for the death of my daughter!" he yelled before shouting at her, "I was fucking fifteen!"

"And yet you still act like a child!" she told him as he blinked at her not knowing what to say about that. "Lying to me, Spoiling Me, Making me think you're doing this because you love me!"

"I love you!" he told her, "Even as Tsuruga Ren I love you."

"And I loved Ren!" she yelled back, "He was a nice character...this side of you though Kuon, it's disgusting!"

Kuon took a step back before looking at his mother, "How could you..." he whispered before hearing the door unlock and saw his father come in eating a bag of popcorn, "How dare you tell her about that!" he said before Kyoko uncharacteristically slapped him hard in the face

"Don't talk to Julie like that if she didn't tell me you'd made a girl pregnant who would later kill herself, I would never have known that the person you are is not who your father made you out to be." With that she tried to leave but Kuon grabbed her arm. "LET ME GO!" she screeched at him as he shook his head.

"No...I'm not going to lose you!" he yelled

"I'm strong!" she shouted in reply, "I'm not going to drown myself just because I have to raise a baby alone! Let me go!"

Kuon looked at her and held her tightly, his nails sinking into her skin he was gripping her so tightly. "Stop it!" Kyoko yelled as Kuu tried to separate them, "You'll kill another baby! Just stay away from me!"

"I love you though," he said nervously, "How can I stay away?" With that Kuu looked at Kuon with a stern look.

"Let her leave Kuon..." he said as Kyoko hugged him

"Thank you father," she whispered before running upstairs to grab her things. Kuu blocked the way for Kuon to come near her.

"Let her breathe...she'll come back if she loves you..." Kuu whispered to his son before Kuon turned round and looked at Julie.

"I never want to talk to you again..." he said in a cold hearted voice, "You ruined the relationship with the girl I loved. I never..."

"Kuon she needed to know! She needed to know why you were so intense after she got pregnant!" Julie tried to reason with him as Kuon shook his head stubbornly

"She didn't need to know at all," he replied to her, "It was none of her business..."

"You can't keep secrets like that!" he yelled at her before going to the door, "I'm leaving, father I'll speak to you again soon..." he said as Julie started crying and he slammed the door on his way out.

Twenty Minutes Later

Kyoko came down to find Julie packing her things and blinked, "Has he gone..." Kyoko asked nervously before seeing Julie's face. "Julie-san"

"I'm sorry Kyoko, seems as if I've given you the impression I was always a failure as a mother, but to see the second son my husband had to be married without knowing. I'm really the world's worst mother."

"Kyoko," Kuu said as he came down with her things, "Sorry about this but can you tell me your mother's name, your last name is Mogami right?"

"Oh," Kyoko nodded, "My mother is Saena Mogami," she said with a far off look.

Kuu looked down thoughtfully a weak smile on his face, "I had a childhood friend with the same name, we knew each other a lot in later years. Her daughter would be about seventeen now," he said before taking Julie's hand and leaving with her as Kyoko paused and blinked

What!

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