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Yo guys! Today's the big day! XD sorta… well, it's Poll-day so, that counts for something, right?

Anyway, here's a crazy little chapter, that probably makes zero sense lol but I hope you'll enjoy it anyway!

As I said before, I'm updating on a whim, and I didn't have the time to send the last few chapters to my beta, so I'll be relying on you to let me know if there are any mistakes!

This chapter is dedicated to my indecisive Guest! The one who left me the review saying they couldn't pick which chapter they want me to make into a long fic! Enjoy sweetie!

Ch26: Don't mess up!

The morning sun seeped through the curtains of a well furnished office. A slender hand put a cup of coffee on the desk as well as a thick folder.

The young lady who had put the folder sighed, adjusted her glasses and picked it up again only to smack it on the desk making sure it made a loud thud.

"Huh! What?"

Satisfied by the result of her actions she spoke to her now awake boss "Good morning, Mr. workaholic!"

"Ugh… Kyoko, morning…did you really have to wake me up that way?" he asked rubbing the sleep off of his eyes.

"First of all, waking you up isn't in my work description. Secondly, If you slept in your bed, in your home like most human beings do, maybe you'd have the privilege of being gently woken up by an actual alarm clock!" she huffed before gesturing to the plastic wrapped suit on the chair across from his "Your change of clothes, coffee and a few papers you have to sign." She said, tapping on the lid of the paper cup "I'll be back with your schedule in fifteen minutes, make sure to be cleaned up by then" she turned to leave and just before exiting the office she turned back "Oh, and for god's sake please shave that face of yours! You can shoot a shaving cream commercial with that beard!".

Fifteen minutes later, Hizuri Kuon was looking his best. Thanks to those super handy built in showers in the company offices, he was showered, his jaw cleanly shaved and his hair impeccably styled. He smiled at his reflection as he tightened his tie "Shoot a shaving cream commercial! Tsk! Was that her way of telling me I look like a model?" he mused out loud.

"No, actually that was her way of telling you looked like a hedgehog." The woman in question said, casually leaning on the door frame.

"A drop dead gorgeous hedgehog, you mean!" he said, looking at her throught the mirror.

She smirked and walked to one of the seats opening a dark covered planner "Alright so here's what your schedule for the day looks like!"

"Enlighten me!"

She rolled her eyes and directed her attention back to the page of the planner "At nine you have a meeting with the head of the Hatori company. Make sure to complement his plants he seems to be very proud of them."

Kuon snorted and she shot him a stern glare "I mean it! No comments about his office looking like a jungle or anything like that!"

"Alright, alright I'll behave!"

"After that, you have lunch with the board members at Tsuki traditional restaurant, I've already logged the address in your car's navigator."

He nodded, which was her cue to carry on.

"At two P.M. you have an important conference call from that foreign company, Digital Horizons. They're potential investors, so make sure to be on time."

Then, pulling an envelope that was tucked between the pages of the planner she said "And at eight, you have ..." she pulled out a card from the envelope "...a hot date with me."

"Wh-what?" Kuon almost fell off his chair after hearing that.

His assistant chuckled and raised the card so that he can see it "It's from President Takarada, guess it's the closest thing he could manage to a dinner invitation!" She shook her head with a fond smile "That man will never grow up!"

Kuon leaned back into his seat with a disappointed 'Oh!'. He knew that Kyoko was too 'professional' to ask him out over dinner, but somehow, deep down he hoped she actually said those words as her own instead of reading them from an invitation card addressed to him by a middle aged family friend.

"And that's it for today! Make sure to sleep early, in an actual BED! Tomorrow's the centennial celebration of Hizuri Enterprises and I did not spend the last three months planning this event for you to show up half asleep!"

"Won't that be held in the evening anyway?"

"Yeah, but you're taking the Millers on a Tokyo tour at daytime remember?"

"Oh, right! I totally did not forget about that!" he awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck. The Millers were important business partners, they were the biggest foreign investors with the company and their work together goes three generations back.

She sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose "I'll also need you to come and take care of things at the venue for a while so that I can prepare myself for the party, so don't mess this up, okay?"

"Yes, mother!"

Kyoko rolled her eyes for the second time in the span of three minutes. How did this man manage to become CEO again?

Oh, right! Regardless of the fact that it was founded by his great grandfather, he's actually a very capable businessman. Just not a very mature boss…

The venue was magnificent. The guests were amazed by the classy decoration and the exquisite food. A lot of big names in the industry were present and they seemed to be having a very good time. Kyoko smiled to herself in satisfaction, inwardly giving herself a pat on the back.

Then her smile got wiped away when she saw her boss trying to subtly dump the content of his drink in a plant pot.

In a matter of seconds she was standing next to him, a fake smile set on her face. "You realize that you're in the presence of everyone that had ever done business with our company, right?"

He shrugged, hands in the pockets of his expensive dress pants "So?" he replied, childishly.

She tried to fake a laugh, to make it seem like she wasn't in fact, scolding her boss "So, Hizuri-san, you need to socialize!" she turned her face in an angle so that only he could see her expression "At least greet a few people, damn it!"

He wasn't sure what to do. He knew that she only called him Hizuri-san when she got really pissed, which was confirmed when she turned to him. And to be honest, that was understandable. Through the past three months, this event took all her time and efforts to plan, So to say it would be pretty bad if he ruined it would be an understatement.

"But I don't recognize half the people here!" he whined.

She sighed "It's alright, I will help you with the people from your father's generation, and you can manage with the rest yourself." She narrowed her eyes at him when she saw him avert his gaze and bite on his lower lip "You do remember the ones we're currently dealing with, right?"

"Sorta…"

"Sor-? …Oh, god! Okay fine, just walk with me!"

He obliged and as if talking about anything but the present company, Kyoko started telling him about every person they crossed, mere moments before they reached them.

"Oh, and that woman over there, is Fujitsu Fuyuki. She dealt with both your father and grandfather, Julie-sama calls her Yuki, try dropping that in!" she whispered.

"Hizuri-san! What a wonderful party!"

"Ah! Fujitsu-sama, how do you do?"

The middle aged lady smiled "I'm doing great how are your parents?"

"They're marvelous! Mother specifically asked me to say hi to her dear friend, 'Yuki'!"

And he scores! Kyoko thought as she watched the veteran light up.

They chatted with her a little more before they moved to their next target.

"That man with the bow tie, is Chino Minoru. He's the heir of Chino Universal, we're currently dealing with his father Chino Kojiro."

Kuon exchanged pleasantries with the man, asking him about his father and telling him to greet him before they moved on.

Whadaya know! Kuon thought. If he was well accompanied, he wasn't entirely socially awkward. He fought the urge to say that out loud, Kyoko would probably argue that he was cheating by relying on her, so he decided to savor his victory silently.

"Oh, who's that guy?"

"Hmm? Who?" Kyoko put her empty glass on the tray of a passing staff.

"That guy with the bleached hair."

"Oh, god! No way…" She made them turn away from the man in question "That's Fuwa Sho, I have no idea what he's doing here, I'm pretty sure he wasn't invited! Unless your parents invited him…but that wouldn't make any sense, he has nothing to do with the industry!" she mumbled incoherently, speaking more to herself then to him.

"Oh, Fuwa! I remember dad talking about them! Don't his parents have an inn or something?"

"Yeah… so it was your father…maybe he's here to represent his parents?"

"So, why is his presence an issue?" he asked.

"Besides the fact that he's my ex, and that we didn't end it on friendly grounds, it's not. I just don't wanna deal with him right now."

"He's your ex?" Kuon frowned for a moment "Let's just skip him."

When they turned to walk towards the rest of the guests, Kyoko suddenly grabbed his wrist and ran towards the balcony.

"What the-?" Kuon started to inquire about her behavior when she suddenly gripped her head and started jogging in her place, jumping up and down in her heels.

"Oh, no, no, no, no, noooo!"

He looked at her for a moment, amused by her behavior "Do you need the rest room?" he asked.

"No! No, god! No, I do not need the damn rest room!"

"Ooo-kay!" he raised his eyebrows "I wasn't aware you were that objected to rest rooms…" he mumbled.

"In there, in the beige and peach Kimono next to Sho!" she gestured to the ballroom.

"Lovely lady, but I think she's too old for you." He joked.

"No, idiot! That's the Okami! Sho's mother!" she half yelled, half whispered.

"Oh, I see! Damn! bummer! ... So, why are we hiding again?" he comically whispered back.

"You don't know how scary that woman is! She was convinced I was going to marry her son, if she sees me here, I'm dead meat!"

"Um, okay! So, crazy ex-to-be-mother-in-law! What do we do?" he asked, genuinely confused about their next step.

"You are going to give me a lift, I'll climb to the first floor, and sneak out through the grand exit. Then, you are going back in there and mingle with those businessmen, I don't care if you call them 'darling' when you forget their names, work it out!"

"Ooooh boy! Are you sure I can't sneak out with you and call it a night? Or..! or we could say that there was an emergency and I had to go!"

"NO! you are going in there and making this event a success! I didn't bust my ass for the last three months for you to bail!" she shrieked, or tried to shriek in a very low voice.

"So, it's okay for you to bail, but if I do it it's the end of the world?" he argued one last time before she shot him a death glare.

"HIZURI KUON!"

"Okay, fine!" he shrugged off his jacket and linked his hands together and gestured for her to step on them so he could give her a boost.

She looked around, making sure no one was around before taking off her high heels "Thank you!" she said.

"Just go already!" he urged.

"If you even try peeking up my dress, you're dead!" she warned as she put one hand on his shoulder and lifted her foot to step on the other.

"Wouldn't …dream.. of it…oumf!"

"Sorry!" she said and in one last effort, she pulled herself up, clutching the bars of the upper floor's balcony.

"Hold on, I'll give you one last push!" once she was no longer standing on his shoulders, he grabbed her feet and elevated her, and just like that, she swung one leg over the balcony railing, and jumped inside.

"Mission accomplished!" she smiled, panting "Could you throw me my shoes and my clutch bag?"

"Sure!… heads up!"

She smoothed down her dress, and put on her shoes, and peering down one more time she said "Thanks Kuon, I owe you one!"

"Oh, what are bosses for!" he joked "Hey, I'll hold you up to that!"

"Alright, take care! I'm off!" and with one last wave, she ran away.

Kuon put his jacket back on, and lifting his chin, he headed back to the crowed of businessmen waiting for him inside.

Oh, you owe me alright! A date! That's how you'll pay your dues! He thought smugly as he waved to one of his business partners.

A/N: Crazy, crazy, crazy! XD I love writing immature Kuon and uptight Kyoko xD again, the OOC'ness in this chapter is so high XD but I really wanted to write it lol you guys can think of these AUs as roles their acting if it makes you feel better :p

I have a test tomorrow, and I spent precious studying time writing this XD which is by no means surprising, since creativity usually hits me when I'm supposed to be studying anyway.

Okayyy, So it's May, 10th!

Which means, the poll is up! And here are the chapters that made it!

#1: Chapter 22: The Dream Bakery And The Fairy Within.

#2: Chapter 1: Sniper.

#3: Chapter 20: I Believe In Ghosts. Do You?

#4: Chapter 4: Reunion.

#5: Chapter 15: You're All I See.

Go on my profile, and vote for the one you like the most (the poll's on top of my bio!), and by June, 10th the story with the most votes, will become my next, fanfic! Yes, a full one, with an actual plot XD

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