-Oxford - Wednesday: Part 3-
The police office smiled warmly at the three people there, he took in the two men, Ruto who stood behind Kyoko as a servant would likely do. Ren who still remain sitting as if he had no care in the world but his eyes lingered on Kyoko. but his eyes were really focused on Kyoko. "Ah Lady Kyoko, I was told you would be here." This was a lie and Ruto picked it up quickly. There was no one other than maybe Kyo who would have bothered to be up this early.
Ren noticed there was something different about her. Though he couldn't put his finger exactly on what was different about her. 'How is that even possible?' still, he watched how Ruto seemed to move slightly closer, his eyes trailed back towards the police officer. There was nothing that really stood out about him. Actually, you wouldn't even bother to take a second look at all. He was average and even slightly older. Ren figured he was likely younger than Ruto or Lory. Yet much older than him. The way he was looking at Kyoko seemed to come off innocent enough and then his eyes narrowed. 'He's attracted to her.' He wondered if that was what she had felt yesterday with him.
Kyoko smiled sweetly at him Ruto eyes turned towards her slightly before looking back at Ren who was watching her. The smile lacked any real warmth it was the perfect smile for dealing with people. "Really? May I ask who told you?"
"Ah that may have been Princess Amanda." his voice was warm he took off his hat running his hand through his brown hair as he watched her. "But to be honest I'm not exactly sure, it was in your suite though." her eyes narrowed slightly as she looked down at her feet. Ren in his position could see her close her eyes and take a deep breath. Slowly she lifted her head and looked up towards the glass ceiling, the trees blocked most of it but it was as if she was trying to catch sight of the sun.
His eyes narrowed 'she's mine' no he was sure then that she likely had no idea that he was attracted to her, it was something else. Something else that bothered her about him. 'Maybe she can just feel something is off from him and doesn't understand what it is. Otherwise, she wouldn't be making such a cute expression' Ren wasn't exactly sure if that would be the case. Had she not made such expressions when she was modeling next to him? 'Is it too much to think that maybe that was just because it was me?' He knew it was but that still didn't mean that he really thought she knew what she was doing.
"Is it after 9 already?" she bit her lower lip and Ren noticed that the officer was watching her movements.
There was just too much innocence that was being expressed by her question. So much that he wanted to break the spell he didn't want this man to be brought into her light. Brought into her magic. His eyes turned towards the police officer before replying, "No. It's not even after 8 yet." His eyes watched as Ruto held out his cell phone for her she peaked at the screen. Yet from the corner of his vision he could see that the officer had shifted just slightly. It came off as an innocent movement but if he thought of him as any female who was drawn to him. He could finally understand exactly what he was doing.
"Mister Tsuruga, you have a remarkable inner clock" Kyoko paused before looking towards him "or did you cheat?" she voice may have one thing but her look was clear in his direction. 'Behave, don't do anything needlessly' she smiled softly at him as she was sure he understood the meaning she was sending him. The smile on his face threw her back, 'that mean's don't be angry!' she mentally cried out before sighing deeply. 'Don't screw this up he's my only way to get to him right now' she mentally snapped at him. Yet without him knowing exactly what she was doing or going after because she didn't want him to know or anyone else for that matter it made it clear this was going to be a problem.
Ren had understood with no problems what she was saying to him, 'No what's remarkable is how easy you can make me want to do whatever you ask of me.' It still didn't sit well with him and he was getting annoyed and angry at how he was so willing to listen to her and to follow her lid, 'I'm so screwed when it comes to this one' So he fell on his default gentlemanly ways and smiled at her, "Thank you Lady Kyoko as an actor I don't always get to have my phone handy so I got pretty good at judging the time." His eyes turned towards the officer, "Do I need to leave Officer?" His smile seemed to intensify but the policeman didn't seem to notice at all. Ren, of course, had no real reason to leave and even if the officer had told him to do, he wouldn't unless Kyoko or Ruto had told him to do so.
Kyoko wanted to bang her head against something, anything at this point. She found herself questioning why no one seemed to notice how he used this to hide his real feelings, she didn't understand why he was just not more honest. Then again when she thought about her own family she could understand that perhaps it was a public face but that didn't hide the fact that it was never a good sign when he smiled that way. She placed a hand on her forehead sighing softly, "There should be no issues with you being here. You were assigned to watch over me while Ruto was busy last night." True to a point, just not saying when that had happened and making it clear that it had been an assignment and that he was just doing his job should protect him should this somehow backfire. It would mean his actions were her fault and anything he did or didn't do would fall upon her. Still, that didn't set so well with her either because she understood that Ren was indeed famous, course she wouldn't have known that if not for Shoutaro's outrageous hatred for him. That had been when she began to realize that he never seemed to show any real smiles, it was all business. She just didn't realize that they also applied to his temper too, or perhaps not as clear as when she had met him that one day while shopping with Maria. What was worse was she actually preferred this level of anger compare to his Demon Lord look.
"Right, you're the young man who came in after the fact?" he looked towards Ren smiling at him. Ren knew these looks really well because they were the kind that many men gave him even as a child, "I'm afraid we don't need your statement at this time seeing as charges are not being pressed against you for sexual assault."
Kyoko mentally sighed, 'so he has gone through with it. It's now indeed noted... for the time anyway.'
Ren's mouth dropped before he quickly looked towards Kyoko and then back to the officer. "How is that even possible?" Kyoko shook her head softly. As if to tell him silently to not bother asking, to just drop it but Ren was not going to listen not this time. 'Maybe I'm not so screwed as I thought.' Ren watched as she hugged herself but didn't even look surprised by this knowledge. His eyes turned toward Ruto who also seemed to know about this already. His eyes narrowed anger was building up around him. The air seemed to drop around him and her eyes turned towards him.
"Well, Lady Kyoko had no single mark on her body. Heth came out with a broken wrist that we were informed was caused by Lady Kyoko during her threats when he tried to tell you what had happened. She used her Father's position in the showbiz to threaten him into having" he coughed slightly "or so it was stated. That Lady Kyoko attempted to force him into sex and got violent when he refused. Heth says he was scared of what this would mean for his career. LME is a very large corporation they can make a lot of blocks in a young man's career."
Ruto placed a hand on her shoulder, "Miss Kyoko was not left unharmed." as she stood there still holding herself, she made no notion to defend herself. It was Ruto who did so, "This should all be in the report that was already sent to your office."
Ren could feel his anger boiling at this knowledge 'so he left a mark on her?' His eyes scanned her body the only place he could guess they were at, were under her dress. Yet she didn't show any signs of being in pain, so perhaps it wasn't that bad.
"Is that true Lady Kyoko?" she gave a small nod of her head. "Well then can you please show me?" she shook her head. "Lady Kyoko if you are not willing to work with me there is nothing I can do for you." He sounded like he honestly wanted to help her but something felt off and she found herself stepping back into Ruto.
Ren stood up and moved towards him, his anger was at full power now and he could feel himself slipping. "I'm sure the location is not one she would feel comfortable showing to men."
"Nicht!" she could tell, she knew something was going to happen. He wasn't going to let this man push himself on her and as nice as that was. She needed this man, she needed him to speak to Heth. Heth would get the knowledge rather this man worked with him or not. It wouldn't matter because they were in contact.
Ren's head snapped towards her, 'Shit did I scare her?"
There Kyoko was holding herself shaking her head back and forth. "No, I'll show you. Yet... it's rather high up and it's not exactly proper... so..." She sounded so scared. Truth be told she wasn't scared. She had expected this, no that wasn't exactly correct either she wasn't scared of this man. At least not with Ruto here and yes even Ren for that matter. It was the fact that this would bring her one step closer into the game back toward Heth's grasp and that's what really scared her because when the time came, she would be alone with him. For how long she didn't know and what he would or could do to her during that time she didn't want to think about. It wouldn't be good regardless.
"Ren perhaps it would be best if you turn around. The officer here says he needs to know and seeing as it seems Miss Kyoko will agree to his demand." His eyes turned towards him slightly, "I think it would be best if some privacy could be withheld." Ruto could tell that Ren didn't really want to do so but he slowly nodded before turning his back towards her.
"Thank you," he said to Ruto as he undid his cloak he held it up as a privacy screen of sorts. Kyoko took several deep breaths, this was not what she had wanted to do not with this man but she would. She closed her eyes looking up towards the ceiling once more before pulling up her dress, she allowed Ruto to position his cloak in a way that covered her lower half while her dress itself covered her front. The officer gasped as the bruises they looked worse than they did last night but she knew that they would.
Kyoko, however, froze as the stepped forward, she closed her eyes tightly expecting to feel his hands on her body. That she didn't realize that Ruto had grabbed his wrist until his words reached her, "Please do not touch Miss Kyoko." his voice was calm but the man must have noticed something in his eyes because he dropped his hand the moment Ruto let him go.
"Sorry I was just trying to make sure she was alright, they look rather painful." She began to pull back on her dress as the cloak rose once again to cover her form as she redressed when it dropped she was fully back to normal and Ruto was replacing his cloak onto himself.
"It's fine to look now Mister Tsuruga, thank you at least for being a decent human being, unlike this man," she said holding herself again.
The officer smiled, "It's not that at all. I just didn't realize, it does look rather painful. I'm surprised you can hide it so well." She laughed softly but there was no warmth and Ren looked at her concern washing over his face.
"Looks painful? You, must be joking? My whole body hurts, just because I know how to hide the pain because a member of the royal family cannot look weak cannot look hurt. We must always carry ourselves to perfection no matter what we are feeling inside, no matter how much we are in pain. It is our job as royals to do so. We do not have the luxury of being selfish human beings who can get away with assaulting a young woman and having the police side with him and release him on his word. I don't have that luxury to show how upset I am. How scared I am that man who did this to me is out and can come for me at any moment. I do not have the luxury to be scared because the people of this nation of my home country must be sold on the image that we hold." No there wasn't much difference she had come to learn through Cody mostly that this was a job like any other job. The fact she spent years being taught to hold in her pain for the customers, to serve them always with a smile no matter how sick or hurt she was. It all played so well in this new life.
"Of course, I understand. Forgive me Lady Kyoko, I didn't mean to cause you any problems but it would be best if you would at least let me take you to the station. I can have someone take a look at your bruises and take a photo."
"I'm afraid I'm not in the mood to have more photos taken." she pulled out her cell phone looking at it, "Let's see I know General Brown of the Royal Guard has them. Knowing him, he's sent it to everyone involved in this case. I'm surprised you haven't gotten yet, perhaps it's still with" she bit her lower lip. "what's her name again… the one for Royalty and Specialist Protection that was called because of this?" Ren wanted to pull her to him she looked so tired, so hurt and tired.
"Gayle King, she came under the Protection Commend on the other of Queen Mary," Ruto said looking down at her.
Kyoko shook her head, "yes of course, sorry. I shouldn't have forgotten. Just so much happened last night. I wish I could just put it behind me and forget it. Sadly it seems that's not the case. Apparently, I've assaulted a man who so easily overpowered me, so easily cause so much pain. Yes, yes of course. I'm at fault." she placed a hand over her eyes for a moment taking a deep breath.
Ren found himself moving towards her. He placed a hand under her chin looking at her. 'She's not acting' he said closing his eyes. "We should get going Lady Kyoko." He knew he was going to regret this, "I did promise to treat you and your family to breakfast today if you played for me." he saw the confusion cross her face but he was blocking the view from the officer. His eyes turned towards the man, he took several steps back. "We are going now. If you have any more questions I recommend you talk to her Lawyer."
A/N: nicht- Russian for don't