AN 1: Thank you so much for everyone reading and supporting this fic and I hope you enjoy this chapter. I might have taken some artistic license with some of the questions but I had my reasons for doing so 😊 I hope you will entertain my ideas for them even if just for this chapter.

Chapter Thirteen – Get to Know Kuon Hizuri

Kuon offered Kyoko a cocky smile before the next part of the show. This was where they were supposed to play twenty questions at the set of a fancy dining table. Kyoko had already warned her boyfriend that there was going to be a dare in case Kuon wanted to back out of answering any of the questions and unfortunately, this involved something that scared Kuon. Food.

"So, I guess I can just cover up any answers that I don't want to give," Kuon attempted to tell the rooster. "After all, I am an actor. I can just pick and choose the words which I want to use when giving my answers. I can make things sound different just by my word choice."

"Bring it, Hizuri" Kyoko challenged him already in tune with Bo.

The two of them walked onto the stage so that when the cameras started rolling they would already be sitting down at the table and ready to start. Before action was called, Kuon looked across at Bo and smiled. "You know, typically in twenty questions you have to find out what the other person is thinking of, it's not a get to know you lightning round," he winked as Bo shook his head and then turned towards the camera holding his board up.

On the board were the words: Get to know Hizuri Kuon with 20 questions.

Kuon heard the countdown and braced himself. He didn't know how hard the questions were going to be but he had watched the very first episode of the show in preparation for him being on there. He just hoped that they wouldn't pick on him as much as they did Fuwa.

"Action!" the producer called out and a refreshed Hikaru stood in front of the camera.

"So, we wanted to get to know a bit more about our guest though we weren't expecting so much information to be revealed so fast," he laughed weakly. "So, we've heard that Hizuri-san is a really picky eater and so in this game if he decides not to answer one of our fan's questions, he will have to eat some rare and exotic food." Bo looked at Kuon as he saw that gentleman's smile trying to mask the fear in Kuon's eyes about what the foods under the metal cloche were.

"Let's go with the twenty questions," Hikaru announced as Bo lifted the first board and Hikaru read it aloud. "Where were you born?"

Kuon looked down, "Los Angeles, California, United States" he said before seeing Bo tilt his head to the side and so used his Californian accent, "I was born in California" he said as some of the fans started squealing. If one could describe the way they were reacting there would be many hearts rising up into the air.

"Okay, question two. What is one of your favorite childhood memories?"

Kuon smiled, this was so much easier after he had uncovered his identity. "Telling my father about my interest in acting and any memory which involves my parents."

Kyoko smiled from inside the Bo costume. She could imagine how happy Kuu-sama would be to hear something like that. She looked at the next card and Hikaru smiled, this was going along very smoothly.

"Name two hobbies that you had as a young child outside of acting," Hikaru said, "this should be fun."

Kuon nodded, "I think I loved being in nature and bird watching, I think that's how the president, Lory Takarda, came up with giving me the stage name Ren. I also loved my martial arts classes and playing sports. I enjoyed being active."

Hikaru nodded, "I think a lot of our viewers can relate to that," he saw the next card. "Do you have a favorite dessert?" he asked and Kuon smiled.

"I'm not one for sweet things honestly, I do get a lot of chocolates from fans for Valentine's Day that I'm really appreciative of, but I think my favorite dessert is rose wine gelee," he said as he raised an eyebrow to Bo who just kept looking back at him with the same expression despite Kyoko blushing underneath the head piece.

"Such an interesting choice," Hikaru stated, "Could you tell me a bit more about why that is?"

"It's more to do with who made me that in the first place. Some of the things that I like are based on experience more than the actual product. I just know that that gelee was rather tasty. I was very thankful to the person who made it for me," he said as he felt the heat from Kyoko's cheeks despite not being able to see her under Bo's smiling head.

"Let's go on with our fifth question. Do you watch comedy shows?" Hikaru laughed awkwardly. This had the chance to make or break Kimagure Rock.

"Honestly," Kuon replied, "I don't watch a lot of TV. I do admire the work that you do here though, I enjoy seeing the four of you interact with your guests. Even though I don't watch TV, you guys do an excellent job."

"We thank you for that," Hikaru smiled, "Okay, this is a quick one. Name one of your favorite movies, the first one to come to mind," he said as Kuon paled and then said weakly.

"Fight Club, it's…it's an American movie that I first saw when I was thirteen," he tried to tell them. "My dad watched it. It's pretty intense."

Hikaru nodded, "I've seen it. Interesting, is that where you got the inspiration for your recent Cain Heel character?"

"Sure," Kuon said as Kyoko looked at him but didn't say anything, she just turned over the next card for Hikaru to read.

"Who is your hero?"

"Kuu Hizuri," Kuon said, "My father has always been and will always be the person that I look up to most."

"If I had a father like him then I'd feel the same way," Hikaru said with a nod. "Next question, Bo" Hikaru smiled weakly as he stared at the words on the next card, "Would you ever want to be a father?"

Kyoko dropped that card as she looked back at Kuon and saw him looking at her.

"Yes," he nodded, "I would like to, but that's a choice between me and my future wife. If she isn't someone who wants children it would be a discussion we'd have to have before marriage. I'd try to follow my parent's examples if I had a child…apart from the need to send them to a foreign country…hopefully."

Hikaru nodded and looked back at Bo as well but no change could be seen in the rooster. "Okay, do you think you're in love?"

"I know I am," Kuon said as he looked back at Hikaru. "I'm deeply in love with my girlfriend, Kyoko, but I'm feeling a few sparks between myself and this rooster as well."

Hikaru forced himself to continue smiling, "Alright, do you have a favorite female actress?" he asked.

"Aside from Kyoko?" Kuon asked with a smile, "I'm very biased about this and have to say without a doubt that I'm a huge fan of Julienna Hizuri."

Hikaru nodded and Kyoko smiled from underneath the head piece. "I think that's what comes from being from such a famous family," he grinned.

"Okay, this is a good one," Hikaru said as he looked at the words on the next question, "Do you have any rivals in the entertainment industry."

Kyoko paused as she looked at the card. Was he going to talk about how much he disliked Shotaro right now? He had to have more tact than that if he was being filmed. Of course it was Ren Tsuruga who had tact, maybe Kuon did everything impulsively. She didn't want to take that chance.

"I do," Kuon nodded, "but I don't want to give names. I think within show business you can't expect to make yourself into any kind of celebrity or role model by putting one another down," he said as Hikaru smiled. At least he could admire that position, he was about to read the next question when there was an unexpected voice and someone stepped onto stage.

"It's because you're intimidated isn't it, Hizuri?" Shou said looking completely pissed off. "You go around acting like a gentleman but all of this is an act, isn't it?"

"Uh…" Hikaru said before gesturing to the cameraman to stop shooting, "Let's take a little bit of a break and then we can come back and finish some of these questions with a super speed round," he said as he looked at the unwanted visitor. "Fuwa-san," he struggled.

"I think there is a little acting in everyone," Kuon said as his eyes showed his dislike for the singer. He could hear the people in the crowd whispering about the somewhat strange interruption as well as a few people asking if this was part of the show and if it was why they had stopped filming. Was this where Kuon Hizuri and Shou Fuwa were going to have a fight? Was this some type of promo for the two of them working together?

"What is your problem?" Kyoko said as she stood up as Bo. "You come to disturb us at work like the idiot that you are. This is my job. I don't come into your recording studio any time you want to sing one of your 'I'm so special' songs. This isn't like it was when we were little, you don't have any ownership of me or right to think that."

Shou laughed, "Well, too bad that you'll have to go and work for my parents for the rest of your life," Shou pointed a finger at Bo and Kyoko sighed and removed the head so that she could look at the person who had treated her so badly.

"I told you that I would never be foolish enough to date Ren Tsuruga," Kyoko said and then smiled with a superior gleam in her eyes. "You might call me a stupid woman if you wish, but no part of that agreement said that I couldn't go out with Kuon Hizuri. I'm going out with Kuon not Ren so I guess I win that bet," she said as Kuon looked between them and sighed feeling a little hurt that he was treated that way.

"It's the same person, same DNA," Shou argued, "You can't think that you can just talk your way out of this, Kyoko."

"It's a different name and therefore I never broke from the words that I actually said despite how much you want to convince me that I did," Kyoko said, "It's something the same as stealing someone's first kiss because you wanted to taste a chocolate you put in their mouth. Now, I don't think you're of any significance to me anymore. I love Kuon and I'm scared of love but that's it. I might not want children but I love him."

"Well that's good, there'd be no more of his genetics in the world after his death," Shou said and Kyoko put her head back on.

"Unless you change your attitude Shou, there won't be any children with your genetics either, that way you will never get onto good terms with your parents," she took her seat back at the table and Kuon sat down with her.

He reached across and took one of Bo's wings in his hand, he ran his thumb down the back of it and laughed. "You are amazing," he told her. "As long as you don't really leave me for some stupid argument, it'll be okay." He looked at her and then bowed his head, "I can't wait until we go on overseas with an ocean to divide us from him."

"We don't need an ocean," Kyoko told him. "I'm already on an island in my mind, just the two of us together, isn't that one of the metaphors for love."

AN 2:

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