AN: This chapter and next chapter will be very by the book. I didn't want to leave the chapters out but there's not much I want to change but I still hope you enjoy.

Also, I have a new fic that I'm a little excited about so if you have time I'd appreciate you checking it out. Title is: It's Sho Time For Kuon

Act 30 – The Rooster

Kyoko froze as the world seemed to cloud in around her with a creepy and dark energy. This wasn't how she had expected her life to go and she was trying hard to focus on the positives. She felt the color draw from her face and one question remained on her mind.

Why was she in a chicken suit?

"Eh?" she asked panicked before she turned to Kanae who had accepted the job assignment that Kyoko was now stuck doing. "Why did it turn out like this!?" she panicked, "aren't you the one they requested?" she begged of Kanae but Kanae stood firm with her arms crossed over her chest. This showed that there was not going to be a way of Kyoko making her put on this chicken suit.

"What are you talking about?" Kanae asked as she raised her chin acting superior over Kyoko. "I'm an actress! How can I do a job like this? Isn't this your forte? You said you were going to be an entertainer."

Kyoko felt as if the world wanted to swallow her whole only to regurgitate her. There seemed to be imaginary walls closing in and she stared in horror at Kanae. "When did I say that? If it's like that, you shouldn't have agreed from the start. How mean"

"Oh, then would you have accepted this job?" Kanae snorted back which left Kyoko speechless. The manager kept trying to tell them that it didn't matter which one of them did the job, it was a gap that needed to be filled. Kyoko looked around and saw that Kanae wouldn't switch places with her for anything and this was the first time that Kyoko would be going out onto a stage.

"But," she panicked, "But this is live! I can't fail! I can't finish a script like you can in fifteen seconds," Kyoko said as she started flapping her wings. She could hear people say that the show was about to start recording and she didn't like it. She wasn't ready to be this chicken. She wanted for there to be more preparation time to become this 'Bo'.

"Don't worry," Kanae said with more disinterest than concern, "Didn't you hear that there aren't any lines? Your job is to welcome the guests and the hosts plus a small feature. If anyone talks to you just reply with a cute gesture!" she called out.

Kyoko felt herself trapped underneath a large rooster head as she was rushed onto the set. A cute gesture? What did that mean? What kind of gesture was considered a cute gesture? "This can't be happening!" she yelled out though it was muffled underneath the head. "I don't want to appear like this!"

Kyoko was led out to the set where she could see the show starting. She had tried to be friends with Moko and now that girl had trapped her in a rooster shoot about to appear on a TV show. She felt pain within her chest. She didn't want for people to know this was her first role, her first TV show appearance. Hopefully people would forget about her and she wouldn't appear her again. Still, she shouldn't burn bridges and she had to live within the jobs she received as a Love Me member. That meant that she had to try to become the rooster.

"Good evening everyone!" the Ishibashi guys said loudly, "Totally Wild Rock has finally started broadcast! This is our first time hosting so we're quite nervous!"

Kyoko could hear the screams as she sat in the middle of the stage and saw the way girls were screaming and shouting. For some reason they all seemed to become one person, all looking the same with the same smile and hope in their eyes, something that Kyoko wasn't very fond of. No. She had to look on the positive of everything, maybe without realizing it her heart and body had become that of a roosters.

Kyoko wasn't really listening as the Ishibashi group spoke again, "To commemorate this first episode, we have a special guest. Fuwa Sho!"

Kyoko felt her eyes widen despite wearing a head and she felt faint. No! No no no. Shotaro couldn't see her like this. This was an embarrassing role to have and she didn't like the idea of being so close to him. No. Corn was good to be near but Shotaro, she didn't want to get close to Shotaro. She whipped around and started screaming internally as she saw Sho standing there. So he did look glittery and glamorous and like a total asshole who had ruined her life and stopped her from attending school.

She turned to look back at the fans who were now holding up pictures of Sho, words like 'crazy for you' and 'love' and his name. No. This was a nightmare. Couldn't someone save her from this nightmare!?

…..

…..

Behind the set, Kyoko was raging with her grudges flying everywhere. She had become completely possessed because of her grudge for Sho. She wasn't going to let this chance get away from her, she wasn't going to just allow Shotaro to evade her. She scowled coldly as she walked along in what some people might call a dance of insanity. She felt haunted and dark and she didn't want for Ren to ever know about this type of her.

She didn't want him to figure out it was her but then as she thought about it, her being dressed this way made things a little bit easier for her. As long as she was dressed as Bo, Shotaro would never figure out that she was inside of the chicken. Suddenly not being seen was working out very well for her. She could use the power of anonymity to settle the score with him.

Kyoko took a look at the back to see what kind of props there were available to her. There were some footballs, croquet hammers, pool cues, some miner helmets, a heavy baseball bat…a lot of things to wet her appetite but she knew that she couldn't do anything risky that would mess up her own future. She was looking through the boxes before she found the perfect weapon.

When she had been younger, she and Sho had played badminton all of the time. It was the one and only thing that she would beat him at every time. He had always been cocky and popular and she was constantly losing to him, not that she ever showed that she cared but she hadn't been able to really prove that she was good at something until now. As she thought back on that so-called 'precious memory' she could see Shotaro in a different light. He was always hot-headed, selfish, and egotistical. He loved showing off and though they only played for fun, he would always blame her when he lost. He was always really angry at her and really arrogant and had treated her like dirt when she thought the world of him.

"Hey, Bo" a stage hand said as he approached Kyoko, "Can you go and hand these to Bridge?" he asked and Kyoko could feel a tense aura in the room. Had something spoiled the atmosphere in here and made it gloomy. She looked at the basket of eggs that the man was holding.

"What are these eggs for?" Kyoko asked as she took the basket that he was holding.

The man smiled, this was a question that he could work with. "These eggs contain either questions from the audience or what the next segment of the show will be," he tried to explain before everything felt even more threatening and though the outfit of Bo hadn't changed, the rooster now appeared to be smiling evilly.

"That sounds…interesting," she said slowly which gave the stage hand pause. It felt like something really bad was about to happen.

…

…

Kyoko smiled as she walked onto the set holding the 'mystery eggs' in the basket. The suit made heavy and squeaky footsteps but inside the costume, Kyoko was eagerly awaiting how she would take Shotaro down. She eyed Sho cautiously.

"That's right!" Hikaru said with a weak smile, "Isn't this your first appearance on a variety show since you became a singer?"

Kyoko paused. She knew the truth when it came to Shotaro and variety shows and how they were his kryptonite. It was okay for people to be on variety shows or like variety shows, Ren had told her that. Ren had taught her that when somebody was famous, they could always spin a story and the audience would appreciate not being lied to. That was far far more mature than what Shotaro did.

"Yeah," Sho said and Hikaru nodded.

"Do you like to watch them?" he asked and Kyoko wished that she could tell him that he had stepped onto a landmine which was going to blow up.

"No. Not at all," Sho said still trying to preserve his 'image', "I don't watch much television," he stated and Kyoko looked at the girls who were foolishly enchanted by him and deceived by his lies. They seemed to be looking at him as if he was a god and Kyoko was regretting the fact that maybe she had once looked at this guy in that same way.

She felt angry because she knew that he was still trying to do whatever he could possible do to look cool. Whenever she came home from work, she'd always find him watching variety shows on repeat and rolling on the floor laughing. She wanted to destroy his image and change everyone's impression of him. He would be the cool guy no longer and he wouldn't ever be able to put up a false front again.

She could do even more than destroy his image, she could cause for his smooth sailing career to become nothing but ruins. It would be history and she would rejoice in the fall of Sho Fuwa. It would make her revenge plans excel and right now that was what she wanted. That was all that she wanted.

She heard Hikaru take an egg and break it open. He eagerly looked towards the camera, "This is a question for Sho from an audience member," he told everyone and Kyoko looked at him wondering what kind of question he'd ask, which of those unlucky eggs got the privilege of being the first egg?

"I heard through the grapevine that Fuwa-kun's true name is something unique," Hikaru said with a smile and Kyoko laughed as she studied Shotaro. He looked shocked which caused her to leer at him with an unseen smile of satisfaction. She saw the fear enter his face as he was set to confront one of his most painful secrets. "So can you please tell me what it is?"

Kyoko could see the fear on his face and she was enjoying watching it. Before the show ended tonight, she would end his career in the entertainment industry. This was her shot to take him down. She smiled waiting for him to shatter his own image and could hear the expectant voices in the crowd.

Sho stayed still, he was obviously wrestling inside and Kyoko could count that as another win.

Sho suddenly breathed out, he looked tranquil and peaceful and the definition of cool as he replied. "I'm sorry but I can't tell you because as part of the price of joining the entertainment world I had to throw away my past. Someday, somewhere, when I finally decide to use my real name, that will be the day I leave the entertainment industry and when I'll say goodbye to my identity as "Fuwa Sho" forever."

Kyoko froze. With the studio spotlights on him, he seemed almost magical as he said that and although it did piss her off she would have been just as entranced as the audience was not that long ago.

Sho looked very happy with himself and Kyoko couldn't stand that. He had somehow managed to increase his popularity and appear the ultimate cool. His image could even be said to have improved because of her. That was not what she wanted. She had to make another move, she couldn't let him win. She couldn't let him experience happiness.

As another egg was opened, Kyoko smiled.

Badminton. It would all come down to badminton.

End of Act 30
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Author Response:

Sho battle will be in next chapter and then half of the next part is different and then huge difference in aftermath. I don't think I ever mentioned anything about Ren telling Bo that he loves Kyoko but I'm really sorry if I misled anyone into thinking that