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Chapter 36
Kyoko woke up the next day feeling light and warm and very well rested. She had not felt that way ever before. Then all the memories of last night came rushing back. It put a small smile and a cute blush on her still half-asleep face.
After she recovered from the pain she felt in her eyes, she saw the broken door and the three people standing before it. Her demon came out in full force and their target was none other than poor Kiri, who was wide-eyed and trembling in fear. He immediately jumped for cover behind Hime and Kanae.
"I'm so sorry, Kaa-san!" He cried out in a high pitched voice like a girl. "I-I-I was worried about you, Kaa-san."
"Enough to break a door down?" Kyoko asked angrily.
"I'm so sorry, Kaa-san! You can take the damage fee out of my allowance. Please, Kaa-san I'm sorry." Kiri begged.
"Yeah, Kaa-san. We were worried, too, you know." Hime helped her cowering brother because she knew how scary their mother can be. Even in their entire lives, they only saw it once, it was enough to scare them not to do anything so bad. Kuon put his free arm around Kyoko's waist and pulled her to him.
"Calm down. It's just a door and they didn't mean any harm." Kuon said to her. Hime's eyes sparkled in admiration at his father. Kiri scowled because of all people, why was that rotten bastard helping him.
After she calmed down, Kanae and Hime helped her packed all her belongings while Kuon called the front desk to tell them about the damage Kiri caused. Then, they all went next door inside Hime's room. Kyoko decided to stay in Hime's room for the time being. Kanae thought of offering but three nights of slumber party with Kyoko was enough, she could not take the girly stuff Kyoko thought of doing together anymore. She needed a break. Kuon suggested that Kyoko could sleep in his room but Kiri strongly opposed to the idea with a capital O.
"Then, I'll sleep in the couch." Kuon said as he made his way to the couch to sit.
"No way! Go back to your own room, Old man!" Kiri shouted at Kuon.
"Kiri!" Hime and Kyoko hissed him.
"It's okay, Kyoko." He assured them. "I can handle my own son." He said calmly but with a smug smile while looking at Kiri. Kiri was burning in anger. He was so itching to punch the lights out of that smug face of Kuon.
"Mo! You family solve your own problems. I swear you all have issues. I'm going to bed already. Good night." Kanae said in frustration and made her way to the door.
"Good night, Moko-san." Kyoko called after her as she shut the door.
"So, how about this, Girls sleep in this room and the boys in Kiri's room." Kuon suggested. "Does anyone object to the idea?" No one said anything. "It's settled then. Good night, girls." Kuon said as he hugged and kissed Hime on the forehead and kissed Kyoko lightly on the lips. He pulled away with his heavenly smile pasted on his face. When Kyoko recovered from that light kissed and the lights of Kuon's smile, she went to Kiri.
"Behave tonight, okay?" She told him sternly. "Sleep tight." Kyoko kissed him on the checked and Kiri blushed lightly. Hime giggled and Kuon chuckled quietly beside her.
When the boys were finally alone in Kiri's room, Kiri turned around and faced Kuon with a mischievous smile. "I've been waiting for this moment for so long." Kiri said as he popped the joints in his fingers and his neck.
But Kuon only smiled his bright fake smile and said, "Let's see what you got." It ticked off Kiri more and he lunged for Kuon. After thirty minutes of trying to 'punch the lights out' of his father, Kiri was breathing heavily and he did not even landed a single blow to Kuon yet, not even once. He was so frustrated.
Kuon sighed. "That's enough. You're not the one I really want to beat up right now." Kuon said in a dark voice. His hand clenched into a fist as his eyes gleamed again like it did a while ago down at the lobby. "I've been dreaming of killing only one person since I met Kyoko in Tokyo." He sat at the edge of Kiri's bed. Kiri just stood there, frustrated and confused. Then he remembered his mom's story of her childhood.
"Fu-fuwa Sho was that childhood prince Shotarou she talked about?" He asked in disbelief and Kuon nodded. If he was… How could I just stood there and let my kaa-san go have dinner with him? Kiri thought as he trembled in anger he could not control. He turned around and released his anger in a punch to the wall, but he was surprised to see it didn't landed on the wall. A hand caught it. I-impossible! Kiri thought in his head. He looked back to the bed several feet away from him, where his father was sitting a few seconds ago. But surely enough, he wasn't there. Kiri looked back at his fist and then trailing to the hand that caught his fist and to his father's face.
"You'll wake them." He whispered to Kiri.
"Ho- how did you do that?" He asked in extreme disbelief. "How did you get there so fast? I didn't even hear you."
Kuon only snorted and it really pissed Kiri. It pissed him that he looked like his otou-san. It pissed him that Kuon was nicer than he thought possible. It pissed him that Kuon could make his kaa-san and Hime happy and smile. It pissed him that Kuon was so d**n cool. It pissed him that Kuon was so talented. It pissed him that Kuon was even more good at fighting than him. It pissed him that Kuon did not know his mother was alive and that he got her pregnant. It pissed him that Kuon was not there with them when they were growing up. It pissed him that he could see how much Kuon loves his kaa-san. It pissed him so much that no matter how much he tried to think his father was a rotten cold-hearted bastard, he could not really hate this man standing right in front of him, who was really his father.
Kiri let out low growl in anger and frustration. Kuon reading the conflict in his son's eyes, smiled a loving and gathered the mini version of himself to him. He rubbed his back in comfort. Kiri did not protest for two minutes but after that, he broke out of his father's embrace and went to bed without words. Kuon watched him with small smile. Kuon settled himself on the small couch and tried to get some rest from the tiring night they all had.
After Kyoko reminisced about the past night, he suddenly felt a warm hand curled down on her waist and warm lips on his cheeks. Her eyes flew open and she looked to her side. She was met by the most beautiful blue eyes she had ever seen. "Good morning." He whispered with a loving smile. She blushed furiously.
The bed dipped and Kuon laid down next to her, molding his body with hers. "G-good morning…" She replied shyly.
"Don't I get a good morning kiss?" Kuon asked her as he put locks of her hair away from covering her face.
"Hmmnn…" A small voice grunted. "As much as I love you both and like seeing you lovey-dovey so early in the moring." Hime said as she turned to look at them. "You really should just do that when you're all alone. I'm still an innocent little girl." She pouted but then it turned into a smile. "Good morning." She greeted them and climbed out of bed. She made her way to the bathroom that also connect to Kiri's bedroom.
"Don't I get a good morning kiss from you, too?" Kuon called out after her. He only heard her giggled.
When Kuon returned to his room, his manager was waiting for him and asked annoying questions about his whereabouts last night. Kuon and Kyoko already talked that morning about whether they reveal or keep it from the rest of his family. He asked if they could keep it a secret for a while longer. He wanted to properly introduced Hime and Kiri himself to his parents. Though it would really be a long story and a lot of explaining and showing of proof. I bet Yashiro would faint if he found out Kyoko is alive and Kiri and Hime are really our children. He laughed inside. He told Yashiro he went out for a walk early in the morning. Yashiro also pointed out that his bed looked like nobody slept on it. He said he drank some last night and fell asleep on the chair. He then quickly went to the bathroom to prepare for the day.
As usual during breakfast the two families shared a table and nobody mentioned or asked about last night's events. In Julie, Kuu and Yashiro's eyes nothing changed. The two of them still had not made up because they were not talking to each other or not even looking at each other at all.
After breakfast, they all went to work. They were filming the part where there were a lot of singing in Rosa's part. To Kuon and Kiri's dislike, the blonde idiot showed up on set once again. Now two people were really in a bad mood and emitting dangerous killing aura and death glares. Kiri only do the death glares, Kuon was in his Ren gentleman persona. His face has the brightest fake smile but he was really emitting killing aura which was only known to people who really knew him and especially to people who knew what happened last night.
Sho was impressed by Rosa's singing. Kuon's did the piano. But they would properly record it again in the studio. Kuon's ability to play piano had greatly improved over the years. He liked acting and drowning his sorrows in alcohol but when his mom threw all the alcohol in their house away and he realized that he was making her sad, he turned to music. They had a grand piano in their house in a soundproof-walls music room. He spent all his free time in there playing music that reminds him of her or songs that told what he was feelings. But Fuwa did not care about that. Sho hated the man, still did and maybe forever.
Kuon was a little glad that Kiri was there because Kiri was so protective of Kyoko. Kiri was always beside Rosa whenever she was on break and she stayed on set to watch the others act their scenes and not in her dressing room. He was her guard dog. But still, Sho tried to converse and flirt with her even while Kiri was glowering at him.
Kyoko inside Rosa thought of telling Sho that Kyoko was alive and she was indeed Kyoko because after all he was her childhood friend. She even wanted to help his parents because they did raise her. But she was supposed to be dead and revealing her true identity to them could cause scandals and chaos. She did not want that. But she was still thinking of telling Sho the truth, just him.
Their plan for filming for that day was for the parts with Rosa and Kuon practicing the songs he wrote for her. The director thought this would take so much time but the two lead actors were in their groove today and the director decided to just film the ending of that part that night. So they could wrap it all up that day.
Night came and they filmed outside on the rooftop of the building of the club they rent for filming. Bert was at the rooftop with Yvette. Delilah and Lenny came just as Yvette threw herself at him. When she was about to go back inside, there were two men with guns came out from the door they just went through. Their meeting as spies and about the plans were busted. The men shot Yvette when she yelled at them and the other tried to shot her but Lenny shielded him with his body. They shot at her again but she fell out from the fire escape stairs. She held on to the metal but her hand hurt so much because of her body weight. Bert tried to help her but she heard gunshots and she watched Bert flew past her and heard him hit the ground.
The director yelled cut. Kuon safely landed on the pads with wires on his hips supporting him to make a graceful landing. Then there was a commotion somewhere, all heads turned to where it came from. They saw a woman with brown hair standing in front of Sho.
"Sho, I'm been looking all over for you! You just suddenly left and was gone for four days without contacting me!" She scolded him. "Let's go, you have a lot of work to do."
"No. I'm staying here for today. I'll go back tomorrow." Sho said nonchalantly.
"Uhm, excuse me." Director Ogata interrupted. "You're kind of interrupting our filming. We really need to wrap this up by tonight. So please, can lower you voice down?" The gentle director asked them.
They continued filming. Sho just pouted on his chair. Shoko was standing next to him with a dark expression.
Lenny helped her up and they went down to where Bert was. She shook him. "Bert! Wake up! Wake up! Bert! Wake up!"
Lenny went to her and held her. She sobbed on his chest. The ghost Bert's scene would be filmed after. Bert tried to comfort her but he knew he was a ghost and was useless to her. He walked away but she called out to him. She could somehow see him, he realized. "I love you." He said.
"I love you too, Bert." She whispered.
The director yelled cut. They stood up and the crews began shuffling around to get ready to film Bert's ghost scenes alone. Rosa searched for Sho and Shoko when she was free, but she saw them walking away. Sho's hands crept around Shoko's waist and he placed his chin on her shoulder. Shoko's hand caressed his cheek and down to his neck. Rosa smiled looking at them. Seems like it's okay not to tell him. He has her now. Kyoko thought inside.
She went to change back to her regular clothes inside the building where the dressing rooms were. She took her time changing and erasing her make up. When she was about to be finish, someone knocked and opened the door. She turned her head to look at who it was. She saw Kuon closed the door behind him and took two strides with his incredibly long legs and cupped her face in his hands and kissed her full on the lips.
It wasn't a sweet gentle kiss. It was intense and full of passion. Kyoko was surprised but slowly melted to the kiss. He somehow pulled her up to him while they kissed and Kyoko was now standing pressed up to his body with a hand possessively wrapped around her waist. She did not even noticed. They pulled away breathless. He intensely gazed into her eyes and caressed her cheek. He did not need to see her real eyes. He knew she was Kyoko, the love of his life. She was his life, his world, his everything. His eyes softened.
"Have I ever told you that I love you?" He asked in a breathless whisper, as he smiled his heavenly smile only meant for her. "My Kyoko."
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