This is a super short chapter but I decided to split it in two and make two chapters out of this scene instead of just having one. Hope you enjoy it even if it is a really short chapter

Chapter Twenty Seven :: NG

Yashiro frowned as he watched Kuon, something wasn't right here. Kuon looked much more frustrated, more out of it than anyone would expect. This was the last filming of Konyaku Konyaku and he didn't seem to be performing, if Kuon didn't get out of this troubling situation it would catch the attention of the press for all the wrong reasons. "CUT!" he heard and turned to see the director looking at Ren sharply.

"Hizuri!" he began, "I know you can do better than this," he said, "Make me laugh!"

Yashiro looked at Kuon nervously, he hadn't heard what the man's problem was that nearly got announced at the doctor's appointment and when he had asked Kyoko if she knew later she had said that it was alright as long as it stayed that way. Kuon, hold in there, he thought, the look in his eyes more determined as he thought about the conversation that morning.

"So..." Yashiro said playfully, "You and Kyoko are sharing a bed?"

"Do you have cameras on me?" Kuon asked as Yashiro's eyebrows raised and his smile strengthened, he chuckled.

"So the two of you are sleeping together...I thought that you had no chance to get with Kyoko after what happened with her," Yashiro rubbed his chin still interested in playing matchmaker even if it was with two of the most stubborn people he knew.

Kuon sighed before going towards the dressing room, "Will you not say such foolish things Yashiro," he offered a gentleman's smile before sighing, "No...it'll take a while before she's ready."

"So you're trying!" Yashiro said before seeing Kuon staring straight past him, "Kuon?" he asked before standing there for about two minutes just trying to get the man's attention. "Calling Kuon Hizuri back to earth," he said as Kuon blinked

"Huh?" he asked before looking down, "Oh...I guess I'm just stressed with the baby coming and having to plan a trip to Kyoto soon," he replied as Yashiro blinked at him.

"As long as you're sure that's all..." he said slowly.

"CUT! Kuon come on!" the director called as Yashiro got a sinking feeling in his chest, he looked down trying to find the right words to explain things to himself. He took a deep breath as he watched Kuon's struggled face.

"Director Nobayashi!" the lead actress said, "I don't think that this is a good match for Hizuri-san!"

"We've got a couple of other stand ins ready," the makeup director said as Kuon kept looking down.

"I'll try harder..." he whispered as Yashiro's heart sank in his chest

"Alright," the director said before Yashiro paused watching, it was like he was stuck. This wasn't the Kuon he knew, it seemed like the Kuon he knew definitely wasn't there. He looked down wondering if it was being with Kyoko that was giving him this much stress. Maybe they had come together because of things harder than they should be. He looked at Kuon seeing him having trouble and then remembered his face last week.

"So," Yashiro frowned, "You have a past where you had a daughter?" he asked his charge as Kuon blinked back at him. He then adopted a rather awkward, troubled expression. "And she died."

"I..." Kuon looked down, "I never really knew too much about it," he replied nervously, "I really regret the choices I've made if I would have been Ren back then I wouldn't have thought I had a choice, I had to marry her but as Kuon I could do whatever I want"

"Do you think your family situation, your social class situation contributed to that?" Yashiro asked as Kuon nodded thoughtfully.

"My mother never really knew a lot about me," he told him as Yashiro blinked, that wasn't what he had heard from the president, "It was my father who took care of me in my darkest times."

"Kuu?" Yashiro asked as Kuon nodded and Yashiro looked at him

"No matter what this problem is," he told him weakly, "You have to make sure it doesn't effect your acting, if you need help then I'm sure Kyoko will help you but if you can't talk to her make sure you talk to someone,"

"Yashiro," Kuon chuckled, "You really worry too much, your job isn't to be a babysitter you know," Kuon joked

"I'm saying this as a friend Kuon," the manager replied, "If you can't come to me then at least the president,"

"CUT!" the director yelled again waking Yashiro up from his daze, "Hizuri take the day off we'll continue tomorrow," he said tired before Kuon looked down as he heard the people around him talking.

"So I guess the famous Ren Tsuruga was only successful in drama series'" one actress said

"Doesn't even know how to be funny," an actor sighed

"Well it doesn't matter that it's not his style," a second actor replied, "Just he's not putting his all into it. Really standard acting, it takes a lot to have humor and I feel that he's trying to mock us."

Kuon just stood there looking down trying to fight a battle with himself...or with someone other than himself. Those images he had when he was beating himself up those were flashbacks that only seemed new because they weren't his. He looked down feeling his boundaries about to break before he heard something.

Hizuri he heard someone talk to him, an accent speaking in English, Hizuri, take a breather, let me come out! You know you can't do this without me! Kuon struggled before finding himself start to smile, chuckling darkly but he was standing there alone where only the director and Yashiro could hear him.

"Kuon," Yashiro began coming close to the man before catching something, a rough English accent from somewhere outside of London.

"Wrong," the person smiled in a kind of demented way, "I'm not Kuon,"

"What do you mean you're not Kuon?" Yashiro asked confused in Japanese

"Sorry..." he said before leaving the set, "I'm not Kuon, where's my sister gone?" he asked looking around

Yashiro paused and paled before saying in English himself, "What are you talking about? Who are you?"

"Can't you recognize me glasses otaku," he said as Yashiro jumped back at that rough tone, "I'm fucking Cain Heel."

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