AN: I decided to update this tonight instead of tomorrow 😊 Hope you enjoy it, I felt it was time to go back to her health condition 😊

Chapter Twenty Six – Heat Sensitivity

Kyoko looked around the much smaller house that Yashiro was living in. Kuon was going to be working on set whilst Isabella spent some time with her grandfather and Kyoko had a casting call to go on later that day. Still, she couldn't help but notice all the differences between Kuon as he was now and Kuon from six years ago. She still believed that he was the same man but she didn't know how to break down those walls he had put up around himself.

She couldn't blame him though. If Kuon had died she most likely would have secured her own walls to stop herself from feeling any of the pain whilst raising an amazing little girl. She smiled gratefully as Yashiro set down tea in front of her.

"It's good to have you back," the manager smiled, "Despite the fifteen years age ga-"

"Don't start on me about age differences," Kyoko said as she smiled teasingly at her friend, "You sound just like Kuon when you do that." She sighed, "Yashiro, you know how much I love Kuon. You know how much he changed me and how I went from a teenager who hated the idea of loving someone else and giving your heart to them to a young bride who wanted nothing more than to be with my husband as we both went out to fight for our dreams."

"Which was definitely a wild change," Yashiro smiled as he raised an eyebrow. "Can I just say how amazing It feels to see the two of you together, it's like a great love epic and I can see him smiling again for real. It's been a while since I've seen him smile with his whole body."

"Kuon seems different than when I left," Kyoko said slowly as she saw Yashiro hum.

"The depression? It surprised me too when I learned how bad it had become for him. I know that he had feelings of self doubt and some anxiety and before the incident that was concentrated for the most part around his friend, Rick, but after the incident he felt that he was cursed to hurt anyone who was around him. He didn't even really want to be a pare-" he looked at Kyoko before pausing, "Please don't tell him that I said any of this."

"He didn't want to be a parent?" Kyoko asked as she thought about how much love and attention that Kuon had given Isabella and how many sacrifices he had made for her, their only child.

"He wanted to be a parent but he didn't feel like he deserved to be one. There was a point when he kept talking about himself as if he were this monster," Yashiro said as he picked up a teacup. "He felt that he was going to curse her and he was scared of touching her because he was scared he'd hurt her. I think there are some deeper psychological issues that he's dealing with. Maybe he hasn't told -"

"He hasn't told me very much of his medical history," Kyoko admitted, "I do know he's on medication and that he sees a psychiatrist and a therapist and I know that last night he got really anxious and had to tap into Ren Tsuruga again. It was strange seeing Ren appear." She said with a playful shudder, Yashiro nodded.

"I've seen Ren myself on occasion," he admitted. "Kyoko…" he said slowly before shaking his head and tried to sip his tea and act as if he hadn't tried to ask the question that was floating around in his mind.

Kyoko looked at him and tilted her head to the side as if studying him and attempting to read his mind.

"What?" she asked before looking at her arm where she could see something that looked like a worm underneath the skin, a very thin line as if there were a piece of silk in her arm and her eyes widened as she touched it. It was only the length of the tip of her index finger and as thin as her nail but there was something there. She let her finger brush across it and realized it was part of her vein. It felt like a burn.

"Kyoko, we need to go to the hospital," Yashiro said but the younger woman stood and looked at him trying not to go into a panic attack of her own.

"Ice," she said simply as Yashiro nodded and went to get some.

"Kyoko, I really think that we should get you checked out. You just came out of a cryogenic type of sleep less than three weeks ago. I don't think that we can really think that this is going to work like normal medicine and Kuon will be worried and upset if you don-" Yashiro froze as Kyoko pricked her skin and let the cold ice water seep into the open cut, the thread seemed to disappear as the ice melted into her skin and she stared down wide eyed.

"How did you know that would work?" Yashiro asked her and Kyoko reached across for some paper towel to put on her arm.

"I didn't," she whispered before looking at him. "Can I please ask you for something?" she asked and Yashiro looked at her anxiously, he was concerned that she might just fall over and shrivel up. He nodded weakly and Kyoko closed her eyes, "Please don't tell Kuon about that. It's never happened before and I'd like to tell him myself. Hopefully it won't happen again but if it does then please let me tell him."

"Kyoko, he'd want to know, above all else Kuon cares about yours and Isabella's happiness. He cares about what you need and helping you and if he found out that this happened and he didn't know," Yashiro tried to argue but Kyoko shook her head.

"Kuon wants to stay in Los Angeles," she said firmly, "I'll figure it out. It won't happen again."

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Kyoko tried to sit calmly by the pool as she looked through a book that she had bought. This was all about how to love somebody who had depression and discussed such things as making sure you knew what medication they were on and the side effects of it. Making sure that you took time for yourself. Making sure you could provide an open space for the person to talk to you about anything they were going through.

Kyoko really hoped that it would help. She smiled as she read it but then found that the sunlight was hitting her through the trees. She flinched as she felt it strike her hand and she felt as if it was burning her. She froze before looking at her hand and seeing that small bumps had come up as if she had a rash. One moment she had been fine and then the next.

She looked at the light and felt her mind go black for a moment. She felt so drained and lightheaded and she hadn't been doing anything. She had just been sitting under the sun and she had come out in rashes and felt dehydrated, her veins felt weird as if they were sticking and she tried to sit down next to the pool.

She fell onto her side as she tried to put her legs in the pool. It felt nice. It felt nice to have the cold water steadying her and she reached into the water with the arm that had the small bumps that had come up, she smiled as they seemed to just vanish due to the cold water. She needed it.

Digging out anything that might get damaged under the water, Kyoko threw herself into the pool with her clothes on. It felt so much better here and away from the sunlight. She felt that she could breathe with the cold water around her. She had never had an allergic reaction to the sun before but she had seen it described in those books about the young rich daughters who had to be kept inside in the dark.

That brought back the bitter taste of one of her first Love Me assignments and how she had had to use that enormous umbrella and hurt her foot. Kyoko definitely didn't want to turn out like her.

Kyoko froze as she heard a panicked voice and soon she felt someone grabbing her and she went to the surface, turning around to see Kuon extremely panicked about her.

"Kyoko, princess?" he asked looking completely broken as he tried to move her to somewhere where the two of them did not have to tread water to get air. He looked absolutely terrified and Kyoko swam over to the steps to get out. She saw him looking at her in so much pain. He was a very tall man so the fact that he had to tread water proved the depth of the pool.

"Kyoko?" he asked painfully as he stood with his arms wrapped around himself, his button up shirt and formal pants were completely drenched but his jacket lay on the grass beside the pool. So he had had the forethought of mind to actually remove something. "Are you okay? Did you fall? Are you hurt?" he asked and Kyoko looked at him. Her face softened a little as she saw him literally shaking with fear as he looked at her as if she had just escaped from the mouth of the huge tiger cave of wonders thing in that Disney movie.

Kyoko wanted to tell him that she was fine but then his words about wanting to finish his movie and the obviousness of how much he wanted to stay in Los Angeles came into her mind. If he were to see those rashes then he would move them all up to the North Pole and then the life that he had built for himself and Isabella would come to an end.

"Stop treating me like a kid!" Kyoko snapped at him as she saw the heartbreak in his eyes, "I know I may look young but I've always -"

"Princess," Kuon said softly as he quickly dug out his cellphone from the jacket. "I'm not trying to treat you as a little kid, I'm not, I don't see you that way but if you're hurt then we need to get you somewhere where they can check you over. I managed to make sure that my health insurance covers you so don't worry about the cost. I can drive you myself. Can you walk?"

"I can walk, I'm capable, what I don't want you to do is worry so much over me that you ignore yourself," Kyoko said as she tried to keep her distance from him. She could see how painful those words were to him and how he had jumped into a pool to save her. "I don't need to go to the hospital, is that really what you think of me?"

"That I'm worried that you're okay because you spent six years at the bottom of a frozen lake?" Kuon asked slowly. He backed up as he held up his hands to show that he wasn't going to approach her, "I'm sorry."

"Please don't come near me until I'm ready," Kyoko said back to him as she watched him nod and wring out his clothes. He looked at her nervously.

"You'll tell me if you need me for anything, right?" he asked like a sad puppy dog and Kyoko nodded. She really didn't want to tell him what happened because he would give up on all of his dreams if he knew that the weather here was hurting her.

End of Chapter Twenty Six

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