Just a warning I am Dyslexic so my stories will not be perfect but I now have one Beta reader to help me along the way :D

Thank you so much to Roshelle Diall for offering to work with me :D

Hello my sweeties, sorry about no update yesterday life was simply hectic by the time I got home I was lucky to even be able to crawl to my bed before passing out till this morning :)

well hope you wont kill me for a one day lapse XD

Enjoy...

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Kyoko stood on the small stage looking out at the sea of people before her. She had wanted to say so many things to all these people, but now she stood there. With all their eyes gazing at her she had no words to express her thoughts. Small tears began to trickle down her cheeks as she stood. Then to everyone's astonishment Kyoko simply bowed to them all with one word on her lips,

"Thank you."

She stayed there in that position for a few minuets showing her utmost respect to the people in the room as she fought with her own emotions and with what to say. A hand in the small of her back snapped her out of her turmoil as a voice next to her ear whispered,

"Mogami-san. It might be a good time for this."

Kyoko looked at what the president was handing to her. The silver engraved tube he had given her in the hospital which she had asked him to keep safe for her rested lightly in his hand offering her the choice. Kyoko nodded and slowly took the tube from his hand.

"I'm sorry ladies and gentlemen. Don't worry I think the moment just got to be too much for Mogami-san but we will be continuing now." Lory didn't leave the stage he just took a few steps back to a seat Sebastian had set up for him there.

Kyoko was grateful for this. She felt his amazing presence fill her with confidence as she stood and looked across the sea of faces once more. But this time when she cleared her throat and began to talk into the microphone her words started flowing smoothly from her lips. Maybe next time I have to stand on stage I should bring out my Natsu. She wouldn't freeze up that's for sure. The idea of standing on this stage as Natsu made her smile. She could imagine what Natsu would be like with all the men seated around the room.

Well maybe it wouldn't be such a good idea.

"Hello and as everyone has already said thank you all for coming. You cannot even to begin to imagine what this all means to me to have you all here. To think that everyone would be here for the Number one Love Me section girl is to myself rather amazing, but I suppose that now I have begun to understand what love can really be like." She looked over to Ren with a smile. "I can begin to understand how much every single person in this room means to me without being afraid of the hurt that up until recently has been my view on love."

Taking a deep breath she continued,

"Until recently I suppose I boxed away all my feelings not because I didn't want to make friends and be happy but because all I knew from love was hurt." Kyoko swallowed hard fighting back tears. "When I was younger I was never loved my father died before I was born and I was never good enough for my mother. If I couldn't be perfect I wasn't good enough to be seen as her daughter."

A startled gasp at her words filled the hall but no one spoke.

"So she abandoned me at a family friend's ryokan where I was set to work for my living and bored. Now I don't want to seem like I'm ungrateful to the family that took me in, fed and clothed me as it's far from the truth. But as I was never truly their child and having a very busy business to run I was just taken along because it was easier. I worked hard. I learnt things that normal children at my age would never have even considered because I didn't want to be a burden to them."

A few of the guests now had tears in their eyes. Juliena was crying softly on Kuu's shoulder and even though Kyoko or no one else had noticed Ren saw Yashiro grasp Kanae's hand below the table comforting her.

"It wasn't a bad life and I had a friend the same age as me. the owner's son who I played with occasionally when I had the time. He was kind to me which in its own way brought me trouble from girls in my school. I was bullied daily because of our close relationship they wished they could have with him. Sadly popular people don't see the discord they sow around them by their actions sometimes. But when he asked me to run away to Tokyo with him to follow his dream I jumped at the chance. To me he was my perfect prince. Sadly life is not one filled with the fairytales I love so much."

People grinned around her. She was known for her fanciful love of fairies and fairytales.

"So after working 3 jobs a day to pay for us both to live in Tokyo while he stayed home and worked on his dream, I was basically a maid and walking cash machine for him. But at that time I didn't care he was everything that I wanted, yet slowly as his dream came true I was slowly left out of the perfect picture. I had never really been part of his dream just a stepping stone towards it. So after I was cast aside in a cruel and vicious manner I decided never to love again. I would never allow anyone into my heart or to even come near it. The pain that I believed was brought by love made it so that I ran from it and hid my heart inside locks with no keys."

Shoko who had came alone to the party since Sho refused point blank to even see Kyoko after the revelation she was now with Ren felt the cold chill and saw the scene again of that day. When Kyoko had thrown the food at her charge before saying she would one day rise above him and make him bow down before her. Unlike Sho she had never taken it as an empty threat.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman scorned. She thought as she looked up at Kyoko, yet she smiled. Well maybe things like this happen for a reason

She watched as the young woman accepted a drink from a server before she continued.

"At first I entered show business to get my revenge on that boy." A few people looked shocked at her statement. "But after acting against Ren during a Love Me assignment I found out to my own joy that I really honestly and truly loved to act. It was the first time in my life I was doing something not for someone else but for myself. I was working for my own happiness which makes a world of difference."

She smiled wickedly and Ren wondered what was coming but when she spoke next he had to grin himself while hiding his face in his hands. This girl will be the death of me, he thought but still he smiled.

"There were challenges. Lots of them and I literally fought my way into an LME audition tooth and claw. Then there was the fact I was hated by the number one actor in Japan."

All eyes turned to Ren as out of the corner of her eye she saw him cover his face while grinning.

"But slowly I made my own mark, I was lucky and fought hard for what I wanted even though most of the time I thought I was fighting alone, I realise now I was never truly alone I had Moko-san who inspired me by her amazing ability, together we got our first job on a commercial." Kyoko smiled at that memory. "There were always people supporting me even if I didn't realise it: the president, Moko-san, Sawara-san and most of all my landlords who took me in and gave me a roof to live under and a stable job if I needed it. They encouraged me, never gave up on me and when I was at my lowest they would pick me back up again and insist I keep fighting. We all meet lots of people in our lives people who change it for the better or for the worse. And since meeting Taisho and Okami-san I've been blessed by them to meet so many amazing people as yourselves."

Kyoko again had to stop take a few deep breaths to control herself before she felt able to continue.

"I'm not going to talk more about myself now but I will say keep watching, I'm not going to let a little thing as being shot keep me down." Everyone was smiling now. "I'm going to make my own path in life with my own decisions and the first one is this."

Holding up the silver engraved tube she showed it to the room.

"In here is probably the best thing my mother ever did for me. She probably didn't know she was doing something good she and probably just wanted to be rid of me forever." Lory flinched behind her. "From now on I will continue making the choices for my future. I just hope you all will always be there to support me as you have done tonight. And in return, if I can ever support you in any way it would be my honour."

Kyoko bowed again to the crowd as she turned to the president.

The room exploded in cheers. People stood and applauded her as she exited the stage and walked straight down to the table but not to her seat. She stood before the Darumaya couple and bowed holding out the silver tube.

"I would be honoured if you would accept this, accept me."

Kyoko didn't dare move from her bowed position. Her heart felt heavy almost like it was struggling to beat as she waited for what seemed like a millennia before she finally felt the tube being taken by a steady hand. Looking up she saw Okami crying and Taisho holding the scroll. She would never forget the words he spoke to her that day. The man who had never really showed her any emotions.

"We never needed a piece of paper to love you like our daughter, Kyoko. You have always and always will be part of our family."

His eyes glistened with tears as he slowly swept her into a big hug. Kyoko cried against his suit jacket as she held him back. If other guests in the room had wanted to speak to anyone at the table they need only take one look at the scene playing out right now to know there was plenty of time. Another day to talk and let the young, brave woman have her moment.

Yet again Ren looked down at the beautiful woman beside him as they pulled up outside the hotel. It was just after 2am. After Kuu looked around and signalled there was no one around Ren slowly scooped Kyoko up in his arms and exited the limo carrying his sleeping princess through the hotel doors and straight to the lifts. Hs mother and father followed a few steps behind arm in arm.

Juliena insisted she help Kyoko into her nightwear telling Kuu and Ren to wait outside as she helped the half asleep girl change.

"I'm sorry mom," she said lightly as Juliena helped her into her pyjama top.

"What are you sorry about sweet heart?" she asked slightly puzzled by the young woman.

"I'm sorry I didn't give you and Dad my adoption papers. But if I had Kuon is right. We wouldn't be able to be together any more." Juliena smiled down at the dozing child as she lay her back gently on the bed and she was fully asleep before her head hit the pillow. Juliena knew she was probably asleep when she was talking, bless her. She leaned over kissing Kyoko on her cheek before standing and smiling fondly at the young woman.

"There is more than one way to truly become one of our family Kyoko. Just make sure when the time comes you say yes."

She watched as a smile spread across the girl's face as she turned and left the room. Smiling to herself she opened the door and looked at her son and husband dearly.

Yes one day we will all be a family. I may even get grandchildren, she thought excitedly as she hugged her son goodnight and he entered his and Kyoko's bedroom. Maybe I should start on a children's range of clothes. She thought to herself as she and Kuu went to their own bed.

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So Kyoko is taking a stand for her own life her freedom, she has chosen her new parents and is about to continue her career as an actress.

Yet as she said herself not everything in life happens like a fairytale, I can see bumps along the road ahead

thanks for reading xxx