Tsuruga Ren was a gentleman. He did not sneak girls into his dressing room. He was not one to fool around during the workday nor was he prone to forgetting he was at work altogether. He would never ignore the script he was supposed to be reading in favor of making out. There were no unsavory rumors one could pin to him. No one could accuse him of ever being anything other than professional not even with his 'girlfriend' Kana.

Kyouko counted herself lucky that Tsuruga Ren the epitome of what a gentleman should be was not her boyfriend.

Hizuri Kuon had no qualms about sneaking her into his dressing room on the set of his newest cm. Not even when their manager had specifically warned them against doing such things. In fact, the warning had only seemed to make him want to invite her to visit him more. She was conveniently only a block away filming an interview. He had invited her under the pretext of lunch, but she knew from his voice that food had been the furthest thing from his mind. That had not deterred her from showing up lunch in hand and innocently waltzing passed a suspicious Yashiro who shot her a warning glare. He had grown annoyed with them after he had caught them in a vacant corridor at LME having lost their senses, in his words. Kuon had rolled his eyes and joked that Yashiro needed to get laid. And even though Kyouko thought it was a rude thing to say she couldn't help but giggle as she admonished him for it.

Kuon had tossed his script on the table the moment she entered his dressing room and they both promptly forgot about lunch. Yes, eating was important and acting was their passion, but Kyouko loved that he wanted her. She didn't question whether he found her attractive because his mouth ravishing hers told her that he did. She felt cherished by the tender yet commanding way he held her face to give himself the best angle for his tongue to explore her mouth. There was no lack of love in the way his hand trailed down her back firmly molding her to his body as it travelled down to squeeze her butt.

She whimpered into their kiss and pressed herself closer to him. The hand gripping her but lifted her up and placed her on the makeup counter. Their surroundings faded away and all else ceased to matter as they lost themselves to the feeling of being wanted. It wasn't clear to her if she had wound her legs around his thigh or if he had coaxed her thighs apart to press his leg between them. All she knew was that it felt good when her hips pushed forward to grind against the hard muscle. She moaned embarrassed by the wetness she could feel pooling against his thigh, but it felt too good to pull away. The hand on her ass guided her against him and he pressed his leg to her center willing her to take pleasure from him.

"Mmm ahh!" she tore her mouth away her lungs aching for air. His mouth descended to nibble on the tender flesh of her throat.

They had both lost control of their desire, forgetting why it was important to keep quiet. Kyouko's voice sang out as Kuon continued to kiss and lick and bite and her hips bucked against him searching for something she had never known she wanted. But she did want it, so badly that she clawed at his back and pushed on his shoulders to signal for him to move down. Her body was acting on its own and demanding him to sate the desire he had stirred up in her.

He smiled against her skin as his hand moved up to deftly unbutton her blouse to kiss further down. She gave a soft mewl of disapproval when she lost contact with his thigh, but he distracted her by laying kisses between her breasts. Warmth coiled inside of her as she felt his large hands trail down her sides and curve around her hips. His lips followed suit leaving a wet path down to her belly button where he gingerly pulled some flesh between his teeth.

"Kuon!" she gasped throwing her head back.

His hands had made their way to the hem of her skirt and were travelling back up beneath the fabric. His mouth languidly kissed down to the waistband of the skirt stirring up her insides. He chuckled when she bucked her hips up in offering, he doubted she was completely aware of the meaning of. Guilt flit across his mind for the briefest moment and he almost pulled away, but her voice pleaded with him and he gave in to his need to for her. He was not a gentleman, but a selfish wicked beast who always got what he wanted, and she was all he had ever wanted and more. His hands gripped her thighs and spread them more as he continued to kiss down over her skirt.

"Tsuruga Ren what the hell are you doing to Kyouko!" Their managers voice was like a bucket of ice water poured over them.

They froze in position and stared at each other as they slowly came back to reality. The waiting room they were in came back into view. Kyouko was glad for the makeup counter beneath her as she thought she would faint from the horror of being caught. Her hands flew up to pull her shirt closed and she lowered her head in shame. Kuon stood to full height and turned to Yashiro moving to block Kyouko from view. It was then that he noticed the other two occupants in the room with Yashiro. Kana was at the manager's side with her hands over her mouth looking as if she were about to burst into laughter. Meanwhile Hikaru stood at the door his eyes blank and wide as he stared at the wall.

"I am so done with you two. Can't you do this at home in that giant bed of yours?" Yashiro asked and Kana snorted her laughter behind her hands. "Not helpful." Yashiro griped at her before turning back to his charges. "I am the biggest proponent of your relationship, but this has to stop. The two of you need to learn to take care of your needs at home."

Feeling rebellious and annoyed at the interruption Kuon crossed his arms and said, "The thing is my wife is hot and I mean she's mine so…" he motioned towards the door. "Can you get out?"

"No but you can stop acting like a spoiled teenager." Yashiro said then at the end of his rope with how to make them behave he said. "If you keep this up the president is bound to notice and then you'll be in for it."

The color drained from Kuon's face and he lowered his head. Behind him Kyouko finished buttoning her shirt and smoothing her skirt down then placed her hands on his back. He moved to allow her to jump down and they both bowed to their manager.

"I'm sorry Yashiro-san."

"Forgive me Yukihito."

They said together then finished with, "Please continue to look after us."

Having heard this from them before Yashiro shook his head but said, "You're forgiven." He couldn't stay mad at them even if they were making his job so much more difficult than it needed to be. "Eat your lunch and get back to work. Kyouko-chan, Hikaru-san came to pick you up. He will accompany you to TBM. Remember that Fuwa-san will be there to work on lyrics."

"Yes." Kyouko said doing her best to shove her embarrassment down.

"I'll… I… we can…" Hikaru stuttered still staring at the wall. "Lunch… on… way."

Kuon smiled contritely knowing that the other man had a crush on Kyouko. Hikaru had confessed to Kuon on their second or third time hanging out together that he liked her. He'd also promised to hold Kuon accountable for her happiness. Kuon wondered what the shorter man was thinking of him in that moment. He hoped his image wasn't too tarnished in the musician's eyes. Then he frowned wondering why he cared so much what Hikaru thought of him.

"Um, right lunch." Kyouko stumbled over her words as she looked around for the lunch she had brought.

Hikaru noticed and picked it up from where she had dropped it near the door. Kana finally burst out laughing as Kyouko gave a meek thank you to Hikaru handing her lunch to Kuon.

"I'll eat this, you go have lunch with Hikaru-san." Kuon said petting Kyouko who eyed him suspiciously. "I promise I'll eat it."

"Well, he didn't get to eat what he wanted so he'll have to eat the lunch." Kana commented beaming at the two of them.

"And on that note, I think it's time for Kyouko-chan to take off." Yashiro said holding his arm out to usher Kyouko and Hikaru out the door. He was torn between thinking they were cute for being so amorous and needing a vacation from their constant lustful energy.

Kuon settled on the couch and Kana took the seat across from him still wearing a smug grin. He avoided her gaze and kept his head down to pick at the lunch Kyouko had brought for herself. It wasn't as neatly packed as his always were and was absent of shapes. He never knew how much he appreciated the extra time and care she put into his lunches until he realized that she didn't show the same attention to her own.

"Is the big bad wolf moping that he didn't get to eat his princess?" Kana asked not caring in the slightest that the two men remaining in the room were uncomfortable. Hikaru had seemed sweet and she would spare his innocent brain her vulgarities, but she knew there was nothing innocent and Tsuruga Ren and Yashiro was a proper adult. Unlike the rest of them.

"I told her all about oral." Kana continued when Tsuruga gave no response. "At the time she was very clueless, but I explained everything in great detail in case you were worried about her reciprocating. I mean there's no need for you to feel guilty about wanting to go further anyway. Seeing as she asked you to fuck her for her birthday present."

"What?!" Yashiro asked scandalized by the thought but also immensely pleased with the progress his ship had made.

"Please try to be a little less vulgar Kana-san. I swear sometimes talking to you is like talking to a Kijima-san." Kuon griped before stuffing his mouth.

Kana scrunched her face and said, "That's kind of sexist of you. What, I can't be vulgar because I'm a woman or Kijima-san is vulgar because he's a man?"

"No, Kijima-san is vulgar because it amuses him." Kuon said swallowing hard. "But even he knows better than to talk like that in front of Yukihito." Kuon said prompting Kana to turn and look at the manager who was furiously blushing with his face in his hands.

"Oh Kyouko-chan I'm so worried that the beast of a man will devour you. I hope you're prepared and I'm sorry big brother couldn't protect you." Yashiro said seeming to be fantasizing about something.

"Kyouko does the same thing. Are we sure they're not related?" Kana asked cocking her head.

"No Kyouko completely dissociates from reality. Yukihito just makes things up and jumps to conclusions." Kuon said and Kana raised a brow at him because wasn't that the same thing? "In any case I'm done eating and need to get to set."

"Wait! I came to finalize our plans." Kana said jumping up and pushing him back onto the couch.

"Plans?" Yashiro asked suddenly coming back to reality. "What plans? When? Ren has to leave tomorrow morning for an audition."

"Yes, I'm aware. He'll be gone for two days. In the meantime, Kyouko will be at the Takarada mansion setting up for her party and I'll be at Tsuruga's setting up her birthday present." Kana said then turned to Kuon. "Did you not tell your manager anything about your plans?"

Kuon shrugged looking down in shame and said, "I didn't want him to tease me or talk me out of it."

Yashiro pouted crossing his arms. "Since when have I ever been anything but supportive of you and Kyouko-chan? I even rearranged your audition in the states to make it possible for you to make it back in time for her party." He grumbled.

"Right sorry." Kuon said realizing that he had hurt his best friend with his mistrust. "Since I'll be gone Kana-san offered to help me set everything up. I wanted to make things special for Kyouko." He was scarlet and staring at the floor as Yashiro caught on to the implications.

"You're so sweet." Yashiro praised happily easily forgetting about his hurt ego. "I can meet up with Kana after dropping Kyouko and Maria-chan off. Do you have a specific layout that we're meant to follow?"

"I'm in charge of that. Seeing as I am the expert on setting the mood." Kana enthused and pulled out a detailed drawing of Kuon's apartment. "Here by the door is where we're going to set up a bouquet of white roses, Tsuruga picked the expensive specialty order ones called queen or something. He's cheesy like that. Anyway, we'll make a path of fake candles and rose petals which will start out white but gradually shift into palest pink petals all the way to the deepest of rich red petals on the bed where there will be a giant stuffed puppy. Tsuruga picked that out too."

"Aww!" Yashiro said having overheard Kyouko say that Ren reminded her of a puppy sometimes.

"I've also got some soft violin and piano music. It will sound like a fantasy scene and smell like a fairy garden. I'm so happy for my little Kyouko-chan!" Kana said pulling out her song list for Yashiro.

"Ren is so lucky to have friends like us. He's not completely clueless when it comes to romantic gestures but how would he ever find the time to do all of this?" Yashiro said then asked, "Did you need me to go pick anything up. I know you're busy as well and I'll have some free time since this one is running away to America to audition by himself."

"That would be much appreciated. The bouquet will be delivered to the door, but I was going to go pick out less expensive roses to pull apart. And I don't think I got enough candles. Ooh I almost forgot we also need bath bombs and massage oil. Ren said he wanted to give her a massage before hand and a bath after." Kana said pulling out a list of scents.

"See not completely clueless." Yashiro said beaming proudly at the spot where his charge had been. "Where did he go?"

"He had a scene to film." Kana said flippantly waving her hand towards the door. "Which scent do you think would be best?"

"Ooh lavender!" the manager squealed.

In his waiting room Shou was livid. Not only had Shoko dropped him off early and left but the Ishibashi were being rude to him. It was as if that comedy group boy band thought they were better than him. He paced back and forth grumbling about being nice and coming all this way to help Kyouko with lyrics, but everyone treated him like the bad guy. From that over overprotective four eyed manager to Tsuruga's girlfriend, everyone kept siding with Kyouko. What kind of woman defended her boyfriend's teenage mistress! Shoutaro was sick of all of them pretending Tsuruga and Kyouko were innocent and good.

'That worthless actor stole what is rightfully mine.' He thought as he watched Shinichi lean back on the couch with his arm draped behind Kyouko. It was bad enough watching her shamelessly flirt with Tsuruga, now here she was fawning over some hack back up singer's writing skills.

"What are you two whispering about?" Shou asked irate over the two huddling together and excluding him.

"Nothing." Kyouko replied dismissively.

Shinichi turned to Shou and winked at him. Ren had told him all about Shou harassing Kyouko on the set of their drama. Shinichi would have liked nothing more than for Fuwa to become jealous and show his true colors. Yuusei shook his head at Shinichi's antics and Hikaru smiled pleasantly as he sat on Kyouko's other side writing in his own notebook.

"Whatever, let me read what you've got so far." Shou said ignoring the jealousy festering beneath his skin. He knew that Kyouko would have shoved his arm off by now had he placed it behind her. He had never hoped so much for Tsuruga to make an appearance knowing that the overprotective senpai would shove these guys off.

Kyouko bit her lip and fidgeted in her seat as she handed her notebook over to Shou. Maybe it was a remnant from their childhood, but she wanted him to like it at least a little. Sensing her nervousness Shou smirked and skimmed his eyes over the paper. The song wasn't terrible, but he loved having this little bit of power over her. It also helped that he felt jealous of the sentiments expressed in the song and that they were most likely about Tsuruga.

"You call this a love song? I wrote better songs than this when we were five, but you were still writing fairy songs back then." He said and ripped the page from the notebook and crumpled it up tossing it behind himself.

"Hey, Kyouko-chan worked hard on that." Hikaru protested jumping up to retrieve the crumped paper.

"No, it's okay Hikaru-san. I can start over. Shoutaro knows what he's talking about when it comes to writing songs." She said and Shou almost felt bad for picking on her.

"Yes, I am the best." Shou said hoping she would continue to bolster his ego.

"The best at being delusional maybe." Yuusei mocked earning a laugh from Shinichi.

"Yuusei!" Hikaru chided, "I think we should all strive to have as much confidence as Fuwa-san."

"Confidence, right." Shinichi said.

"Well, we should always believe in our own ability to improve as well." Hikaru said and despite his agreeable tone and words Shou felt as though he had been talked down to.

"Right, we can always work on becoming better versions of ourselves." Kyouko agreed giving Hikaru a warm smile. Shou sneered at the sight.

"Ever our wise and gracious leader." Shinichi praised bowing his head to Hikaru.

Shou rolled his eyes at the comment and the way Kyouko beamed at the shorter man. Seeing the reaction Yuusei said, "He is the mature one in our group. I am not nearly as mature as he is. You like mature men don't you Kyouko-chan? Why not go on a date with the fearless leader of Bridge rock, Hikaru?"

A disgusted snort came from Shou's direction and he said, "As if her beloved senpai would let her date someone else. He isn't done using her."

With a sigh Kyouko said, "You were doing so well. You can leave now if you're going to start with your baseless accusations." She said pointing at the door.

"Tch," Shou sneered and sat back in his chair. "If I go no one will be here to help you write. All your babysitters do is praise you." He said. "Besides they're not my baseless accusations. You have a whole fan site dedicated to you and that ogre."

"Don't call Tsuruga-san an ogre." Hikaru said shocking Shou with how defensive he sounded.

"Sorry I didn't know you were screwing him too." Shou said wondering why everyone was so in love with the overrated actor.

"He's our friend." Shinichi said. "Furthermore, there was nothing wrong with that song you threw away. It was pretty and I think it would be something Satoshi would make her sing with him for a talent show."

"I'm so lucky to be loving you? Why the hell would that be a lyric in a song for Satoshi. She should tell him to go to hell. A song from Sayuri should either be more sorrowful or angrier. The guy beats her when all she ever does is love him." Shou said then scrunched his face when Kyouko snorted at his words. "What?"

"Nothing it's just funny hearing you sound so repulsed by Satoshi-san." Kyouko replied.

"What's that supposed to mean?" he asked standing up and to his horror Kyouko had the slightest involuntary flinch at his sudden outburst. "When did I ever hit anyone?" he pressed not liking the narrative she seemed to have of him. He bet Tsuruga had put it in her head that their childhood together had been abusive.

Hikaru saw the flinch and narrowed his eyes. He had been skeptical about everything Tsuruga had told them, knowing that Ren was overprotective of Kyouko. Shou and Kyouko had seemed to be at odds with each other and bickered a lot but he wouldn't have called it abusive until that moment. Hikaru had noted a general arrogance about Shou and a penchant towards being mean to Kyouko but Shou had always been careful to keep it more playful or professional depending on the situation. There was no denying however that Kyouko had automatic reactions to Shou depending on his mood. She knew when to quarrel with him and when his anger might get the best of him.

"Whatever," Shou said seeing Kyouko touch her cheek where he in fact had hit her once on accident then her covered arm. "Nobody could ever accuse me of being like Satoshi and you know it. I never beat anyone then apologized with flowers and new clothes."

"No, you never apologize for anything." Kyouko mumbled then in a loud bubbly voice mimicking her old self added, "Because Shou-chan is perfect. Here." She said handing him another page filled with lyrics she hadn't even been aware she'd been writing.

Shou read the song and his heart squeezed with regret. There was nothing wrong with it except it was too good. He was torn between pride and jealousy. He ripped the page out of the notebook again but didn't crumple it up.

"Better, but still not enough anger or sadness. You're supposed to be in love even though you realize he hurts you." Shou said folding the paper neatly and pocketing it.

"We're working on the love song for the talent show scene and if it's so bad why are you keeping it?" Shinichi asked.

"It might come in handy later." Shou said with a smug smile. "Let's work on the angry song that supposed to play while Tsuruga is forcing himself on Kyouko."

Kyouko grimaced at his description of the scene. It was another one that Kuon was not looking forward to and had even tried to persuade director Anna and the producers to not include. They had all claimed that in the book the scene had been more graphic, and it was a necessity as a turning point for Sayuri.

"Tell me does Tsuruga get off on those violent scenes? I wonder if you can feel his boner when he's thrashing you around?" Shou said and Kyouko could feel her temples throb.

She clenched her fists and her jaw saying, "Tsuruga-san isn't like you. He's a professional."

"Is that what he told you?" Shou asked with a biting laugh. "I'm sure the truth of it is that you're an unsexy troll and he couldn't get a hard on even if you were naked and throwing yourself at him. It could also be that he's so small even when fully erect that you can't even feel it."

"Do you spend a lot of time thinking about Tsuruga-san's erect manhood Fuwa-san?" Shinichi asked forcing Kyouko to swallow whatever retort she was about to shout at Shou.

Shou grimaced but said, "No I just wonder what kind of man could ever be attracted to this flat boring woman. Any such man would have to be impotent and small."

"I'm confused, is Ren-san using Kyouko-chan for sex or is he impotent?" Yuusei asked struggling to follow all of Shou's accusations. "Does he find her attractive or think she's a troll? Do you find her desirable to Japan's top voted sexiest man or are you just projecting your own feelings for Tsuruga-san onto her?"

"No judgement man but you can't go around trying to break them up with accusations so you can steal Kana-san's man." Shinichi said. "Or is it really our dear little Kyouko-chan you want?"

Shou growled and spat, "If anything it would be Kana that I want."

"Really? I'm a Tsuruga man myself. No offense Kyouko but you're kind of short." Shinichi said pointing at both Kyouko and Hikaru. "You could be twins."

"Tsuruga does have a sort of charm though. He just sucks you in and you can't help but to wonder what it would be like to be with him. I can tell he's the type who would be fine throwing you down and having his way with you or letting you take control. Whatever you prefer he would be fine with. Either way he would definitely make sure you had a pleasurable night, or morning." Yuusei said watching Kyouko attempt to keep her cheeks from flushing.

"Or lunch." Hikaru couldn't help himself and he was rewarded with Kyouko turning her head glowing red.

"Lunch?" Shinichi asked cocking his head at Hikaru.

"Lunch." Hikaru nodded with a devilish grin. He could see why Ren loved to tease Kyouko so much.

"What?" Shou asked annoyed that they had thwarted his efforts to rile Kyouko up.

Puffing her cheeks up Kyouko blew out the air willing her skin to return to its normal shade. She turned back to face Hikaru and he winked at her bringing the blush back in full force.

"What the hell Kyouko?" Shou shouted ready to wedge himself between her and the other men.

"I think it's time for us to start filming." She said standing up and heading towards the door. It wasn't fair how everyone teased her about sex with Kuon. Especially since she had never actually had sex.

"When are we going to work on the songs?" Shou demanded. He wasn't done harassing her about Tsuruga she couldn't just leave. Not when he hadn't had one moment of alone time with her.

"Whatever Fuwa." She said perfectly mocking the inflection of his voice. "Hikaru-san will help me later tonight with the lyrics. Hopefully we can produce something the producers will like."

"As if you could produce anything good. I haven't even heard you sing yet. You probably still sound like a drowning cat." Shou sneered and for the life of her Kyouko couldn't understand why his insults still hurt so much. "How late are you planning to stay here anyway? I could just wait, and my driver could drive us to your place. We could work on the songs there."

"You're not allowed at my place." Kyouko replied.

"My place than."

"That's not happening." Kyouko said flatly.

"Right, I forgot Tsuruga owns you now. He's probably too scared to let you get close to me." Shou said trying to tower over her and be intimidating. He needed to manipulate her into agreeing to meet up alone with him.

"We can't tonight anyway, we're having a get together to wish Tsuruga-san luck on his next audition." Kyouko said sidestepping his comments about Kuon.

"Tsuruga-san needs luck to pass an audition?" Shou asked with a deadpan expression. Even he didn't buy that. Tsuruga Ren wasn't someone who needed to audition. Shou was pretty sure that every male lead was written with Tsuruga in mind, even if he was reluctant to admit it.

"No." Kyouko replied. In truth they were going out with their friend's because she was afraid that he would go to America and never want to come back. She wanted to send him off with the memory of good friends so he would have something he wanted to come home to. Though she doubted he had ever thought of Japan as his home.

"Look whatever, we need the first song by next Wednesday and I don't even know if you can sing. We need to get together alone some time and I'll play some music for you to sing to. It can be easier to write the lyrics if you already have the music in your head." Shou suggested and to his credit there was no ulterior motive present in his tone of voice.

Shinichi wasn't buying his excuse. He pursed his lips and said, "If you want to hear her sing just join us at karaoke tonight."

"Shh!" Kyouko reacted too late as Yuusei was already adding on to Shinichi's invitation.

"We'll have our own private room with food and drinks. Koga-san and Kijima-san will be there so Tsuruga-san will already be in a foul mood. He can barely tolerate Kijima-san and Koga always has something snarky to say about him." Yuusei said ignoring Kyouko's hand motions for him to shut up.

"Cool I'll join you." Shou said with finality.

Kyouko stared at him with a stony expression. Inside she was panicking. Inside a warning siren was blaring at her telling her to back down. She should just turn on her heel and leave. There was no way he would find out where they were going and even less of a chance he could get into their private box. If he did manage to sneak in Kuon would kill him and as fun as that might be to watch she couldn't let that happen.

"You can't join us. Only proper celebrities and their friends are invited." She said haughtily.

"Then why are you going?" Shou asked lowering his face to mere centimeters from hers.

Hikaru, Shinichi, and Yuusei were at a loss for what to do. The two seemed to be in an impenetrable bubble. They wondered if they should call Yashiro or Ren for help.

"I'm Kana-san's friend." Kyouko said but her excuse sounded lame even to herself.

"Friend right. You fuck her lover at night and party with her during the day. What kind of snake have you become?"

"I don't do anything with Kana-san's lover. She won't even be there." Kyouko said with a kick to his shin.

"You're having a party for Tsuruga without his girlfriend?" Shou asked gripping her shoulders.

"No." Kyouko said catching her slip. Nobody in their group even knew about Kana's girlfriend. Only her and Kuon were aware of that detail of their fake relationship.

"What do you mean no?" Shou asked thinking he had almost gotten her to admit that she was Ren's girlfriend.

"Nothing. Get off." She replied shoving his hands off and kicking him again.

"I'm going with because I need proof that you're not a whore." Shou sneered.

"Why are you such an asshole? I don't owe you proof of anything but as I told you before I've never done anything. You can't call me names when I haven't done anything."

"Alright well I need proof that you can sing." Shou said and she fell silent. There was no way she was going to sing in front of him without her friends around.

"Fine." She said with a sigh. "You can come but don't get mad at me when Koga-san, Kijima-san, and Tsuruga-san team up to beat you up. They may not always get along, but they are friends."

"Cute like you and me." Shou said smirking down at her.

"Except I hate you." Kyouko said quizzically.

"You love me." Shou said with feigned confidence.

"I hope Tsuruga-san smashes your face into the karaoke machine."

A/N: I was going to have the Karaoke trip in this chapter but then I realized that it's been a while since I posted a new chapter and I still can't decide which songs to use for the drama and also one for Kyouko to tell Shou during the karaoke party. I can't write songs so I'm debating on which angry break up songs to use. I also realize that I sprung the trip to the US on you guys but originally it was going to be a secret trip that only Yashiro and Kana would know about. My therapist said that was toxic even if Kuon was doing it to protect Kyouko from her abandonment issues. He was going to leave Japan without telling her and accidentally miss her bday party. It's a simple yet necessary change to keep Kuon honest but it doesn't change the end of the story.