AN: I was actually hoping to update this once every other day so the next update won't be until Friday but I was really excited to see people's reactions to it so I'm going to keep the every other day until people start to lose interest. Thank you for the support

Act Two – A Change of Location

Ren sighed as he turned his attention to the apartment building that Kyoko had just gone into. It was a much more glamorous place than he had expected. Was he wrong in judging her to become some kind of homeless working girl, did she actually need his help? He ran his fingers through his hair again. He could have lied to her, given her a false identity and explained that he had only been joking as children, but he had wanted to grab his chance when it came to him. Kyoko thought that he was still a fairy inside, was it so wrong to play the part of a fairy prince?

Yes. Lying to somebody was wrong but he had been lying to everybody for five years.

That also brought another question to Ren's mind. What kind of teenager still believes in fairies? Yes, pure and innocent were the first two words that entered his mind but would someone really be so pure and so innocent as to believe he was a fairy prince. Was she some complete nutjob? No. He had to get less prejudiced. This was Kyoko, his childhood friend, she hadn't gone off the deep end.

He saw her rush down with a couple of bags and got out of the car to help her.

She shook her head, "No, Co—Tsuruga-san. If you want me to be your housekeeper, I can't let you carry my bags," she said as she placed a hand on her hip. Ren looked at her surprised but then paused. She was wearing a jacket, blouse, skirt, and different shoes not the uniform that she had been wearing before. She actually looked pretty cute.

"I see," he said slowly, "Is this all you have?" he asked gesturing to the two bags and Kyoko blushed slightly before shaking her head.

"No. I can come back for the rest later. I didn't want to hold you up any longer," she bowed and Ren stared at her.

"Are you sure you want to come back for the rest. You can send the boxes to the lobby but it would be easier for you to take them now. I'm willing to help or wait, whichever is better for you," he shrugged and Kyoko blinked. "I don't like giving my home address out," he said.

Kyoko nervously paused. She took a look up at the apartment before nodding. "There's an inside garage that way," she pointed. "But Tsuruga-san, it's impolite to judge a human woman on what things that she owns so please remember that," she told him and Ren smiled with a weak smile on his face.

"Yes, I'll remember that, Mogami-san," he replied feeling like Kyoko would have felt more comfortable were he wearing a disguise. Well, Ren Tsuruga was a disguise but his real identity was something that she didn't know yet. After they had gone and parked in the inside garage, Ren got out the car and stretched his legs. "I'll follow your lead," he replied and Kyoko paled before nodding.

"It's this way," she gestured and he followed her lead.

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Posters. Multiple copies of CDs. Other Random Merchandise.

This Shotaro from her childhood had certainly deceived her heart, maybe even bewitched it. Somehow he looked like the kind of guy who took those real life events less seriously than he should. Ren saw the massive influence he had had on her. Hopefully Kyoko wouldn't fall into another trap.

"What are you planning on doing with all of this," Ren said as he waved a hand at a wall that had four framed pictures of the singer. "I mean, knowing show business first hand, some of this….stuff probably could be sold for a decent amount." Kyoko turned to him as she started throwing things into boxes at a speed that Ren hadn't seen before. He saw her tape the boxes closed and wondered if she knew what was in each box.

"I plan to sell it and start a new life with new goals," she told him and Ren chuckled.

"Wow, such a change after collecting for so long," he commented but as she glared at the floor, he felt that he had said the wrong thing. "Let me know if you need any help and Kyoko, I do have one more request for you," he told her and Kyoko turned to him.

"Umm, sure," she said wondering if he was going to tell her to not disclose that they were living together or talk to the media about anything embarrassing. She had already learned her lesson with Sho, she wasn't going to do either of those things, she respected Corn and his journey too much for that.

Ren walked over to her and placed a hand on the back of her shoulder before leaning in closer, "Don't fall in love with me," he whispered and Kyoko shivered at his touch.

"Of course not," she said before looking down. "I'm done with love anyway. I don't want to feel that kind of emotion again. Love is made out to be more than it is, I don't want to be one of those foolish girls that just blindly delivers herself to such an emotion," she said before turning to him. "You must have no idea being a fairy what a burden love is, I don't want to feel it again," she whispered and Ren hummed.

"Is that so?" he asked softly and Kyoko nodded.

"It's not as if fairy-human love is an established thing anyway. There must be many rules about how it's performed, how it's treated by society. I mean, in these days there is all types of love that others are against but love in general makes me want to vomit," Kyoko told him and Ren blinked before nodding.

"That's good then," he told her, "I'm going to take these boxes down to the car," he told her as he gestured to them. "Going down in a few trips would be easier than if we were to try to take all of this at once. You continue with the boxes," he said as he picked three of the boxes up and walked out of the apartment. Kyoko blushed as she saw him leave.

No. She couldn't afford to let something like Corn's kindness and generosity make her think of those cursed feelings again. She wasn't going to fall in love ever again. She needed to protect her virtue and Corn must have told her that for a reason. Still, if she became the princess of fairyland then that would be a great kind of adventure.

She looked around. She was going to get at least half of the remaining boxes packed up by the time that Ren got back upstairs to help her and then she was going to make him the best human meal that he had ever had. Kyoko froze. Yes, Corn was living as a human but maybe there were dishes that she could make from fairyland. What kind of things did fairies eat anyway? Nectar from plants? Butterfly wings? Flower petals?

She would make him a dish with flower petals in it, there were many plants that you could eat the petals of and a nice salad would probably be very filling for him. Still, where was she going to find flower petals tonight and which ones were Corn's favorites? Flowers had distinct smells so they must vary in the taste.

Kyoko froze. She should be concentrating on the boxes and not on any kind of food that she could make for Corn, that could come later. Maybe she could ask him if he had any dietary needs. She paused. It was a good thing that she still believed in fairies because otherwise she might have distrusted him, thought that he was somebody else who was pretending to be a Japanese actor. Yeah, a thought like that wasn't worthy of Corn.

She packed another box and taped it closed. She should try to do something to get her mind off of Ren Tsuruga. Ren Tsuruga wasn't a real person, he was a fairy who was trying to make a disguise so that he could escape the fairy king's hands. She bowed her head before her eyes widened and she looked up. Corn had become Ren because he wanted a new life and although she didn't want a new life, she did want to make a new Kyoko.

Maybe after she sold this stuff she could afford to have her hair cut, dyed, and styled. She smiled as she thought about that and then heard a noise at the door. She grinned as he walked over to him. "I'm almost done. It'll just take one more single trip and then I'll help with the remaining boxes." She stood before bowing deeply, "Thank you so much for helping me with this," she told him and he looked away.

"You don't need to thank me," he told her as he had three more boxes. "Well, you can thank me if you want but you don't have to. I'll have to show you your room and your private bathroom when we get back to the apartment."

Kyoko nodded eagerly. She would find a way to truly repay him for his generosity.

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…

Ren managed to bring the final box into the apartment for Kyoko to unpack, he sat down on the guest bed as she opened the box and looked at him with a smile.

"Again, Cor—Tsuruga-san," she said as she watched him, "Thank you so much for all of this. Is there any-"

"For tonight why don't you just try to get a good sleep? I'm going to have an employment and a tenant form drawn up by tomorrow afternoon for you to sign. I have to wake up early to get to a shoot and then I've got a few other jobs lined up but I finish early tomorrow so I should be back about six or seven."

Kyoko nodded. A full twelve hours was normal for a celebrity, right? Well, she hadn't really known how much Shotaro worked and it was becoming apparent to her now how little Shotaro actually cared about her. She should have been able to see the signs earlier.

"Is there anything that you -"

"Please call me Ren," he told her, "We're in my apartment so Ren should be fine. We can save the formalities for when we're in public which is another thing. I could refer to you as my childhood friend, live-in maid," he said and Kyoko froze.

"Maybe it's best if we just act as acquaintances," she said and Ren nodded slowly, "I mean, the live-in-maid would be better if we were found out but people might get the wrong idea if you just tell them that you've started living with a woman. Wouldn't the Ren Tsuruga image get changed?"

"I'm not denying that it would change," Ren said before nodding, "All right, if that's the way you wish it. What time do you have school?" he asked and Kyoko paled. She stared at him wide-eyed. "From what I remember, you always got the best grades at the cram school that you went to…or maybe you got a couple of questions wrong from time to time."

Kyoko paled as she looked ahead of her as if she were seeing a ghost, "I don't…I don't go to school," she whispered and Ren stared at her in shock.

He stood and walked to the doorway, "Well," he said with a kind smile, "We'll just have to remedy that, won't we? My friend, Kyoko, deserves a proper high school experience after all," he said and before Kyoko could stop him, he had walked away.

Was Corn actually going to pay her tuition for her? She had to find a way to stop him from doing that or she'd never be able to clear her debt.

End of Act Two

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Author Response

Sometimes I really wish I had ball joint dolls were I could act out the scenes I write, it would definitely make things more fun 😊 Yep, Ren is still insecure about being Kuon Hizuri so he's still pretending. There will definitely be some encounters with Sho in the future.