AN: Yes, this is mostly a copy of the Skip Beat manga but put in a novel format. Skip Beat is written by Yoshiki Nakamura. However, I would say that I have between 40-50 original Skip Beat fics on this site so I am by no means someone lacking in originality or who only knows how to steal. Also, there will be some new stuff in the next chapters too

Act 58 – On The Back of A Bicycle

Kyoko leaned forwards, her hand gripping onto the shoulder of the driver as dark energy seemed to spiral around the car. "You are a driver," she told him in a menacing kind of manner. "Use your driver knowledge to think of something. Like bump the other cars out of the way and destroy them," she urged as she seemed to intimidate the older man.

Ren looked at her in shock, had she just said that? Anyone would be scared and he didn't know where Kyoko had gained her driver's knowledge but it seemed to have come right out of a Grand Theft Auto game. He felt a little sweat trickle down his back. She was asking for some quite unreasonable things. He watched her cautiously.

"Enough, don't ask such an impossible question. Are you drunk?" Ren asked before humming as he tried to come up with any alternatives that would solve their problems.

"But if this continues, you'll really be late," Kyoko tried to urge him. She was desperate as she sank forwards in the seat, "Your perfect attendance will be ruined." Kyoko said and Ren looked at her before sighing, he knew that he really felt pride in it and Kyoko was obviously trying to protect his sacrifice but there were things in life that had to happen anyway. He had never been sick before but he had been sick the past few days.

He'd just have to apologize and go for a near perfect but there were still options. He sat there and though about what to do before it came to him, "The subway should be faster," he commented and Kyoko stared at him as if he had just announced that the sacrifice he had made was that he would never be able to go back to his home planet. No. He wasn't an alien, he wasn't a fairy, but he certainly didn't seem to have a sense of who he was.

Kyoko stared at him as images flooded her mind of how she couldn't do anything to protect him when it came to a subway. People would come running onto their car in order to just breathe the same air that Ren Tsuruga had. That comment sounded as if it had no place being in reality and she felt that he had wanted to suggest something that should be happening but instead he had not thought it through at all. He wasn't aware of his own fame and that was problematic, even Shotaro was aware of who he was.

"Driver," Ren said as Kyoko froze, "We'll get out here, please stop."

"Oh, all right, hold on" he said and Kyoko looked around trying to think of a way where they didn't have to go on the subway but the roads seemed blocked. She paused as she heard the sound of a bell in her head before turning to the side and she felt her heart light up inside of her. She rushed out, her sole motive was to get that bike. If she used all her powers and rode with Tsuruga-san on the back of the bike then she could make sure he kept his honor. She just needed to get that bike.

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As Ren was handed the change from the cab driver, he turned to the side to see that Kyoko had disappeared. He hadn't even realized that she had left the car and she had just bolted? Was she that desperate to go to the train station?

"Tsuruga-san," Kyoko called out and Ren froze as she was perched on the seat of a bike that had a lot of schools and ominous design to it. He felt startled at seeing her there. She looked as if she was intending to have him ride on the bike with her. "Quickly! Come sit!" she almost ordered and Ren felt himself sweat slightly as he looked around.

"You….how did you get the bicycle?" he asked wanting to know what kinds of powers she really had. Kyoko looked back at him with a strong smile.

"A very generous person leant it to me," she told him and Ren concentrated on her face enough to ignore the person behind her that seemed to be talking about the darkness that had come to him when Kyoko approached him. Somehow Kuon managed to break through that darkness, he wasn't sure whether that was a good thing or not.

"You want to use the bicycle to take me? How is that possible?" Ren asked as he tried to think about the weight capabilities on the bike and Kyoko still looked at him determined. Ren's brain was trying to figure the physics out and how much time it would take to pedal there carrying that much weight but Kyoko seemed immune to thinking about that. "Impossible."

"I will make it!" Kyoko said with strong determination, "No matter what I have to do! Like a cheetah!"

Ren looked to Kyoko with wide eyes as she seemed determined to ride the bicycle and carry him to their workplace. She had such determination to help him with his dreams and Ren definitely was grateful for that. He took a deep breath as he took a step back to observe the situation.

"Because this is my job," Kyoko said with conviction. She turned her attention to the sky and held her hand to her chest, she was embracing the true Kyoko who had been in her since before her birth. "No matter what, we have to be on time. You have a perfect attendance record. That's why, as your manager, that's me, will help you keep it."

Ren looked at Kyoko. At first he wanted to argue with her that he didn't believe the plausibility of her -plan and that he could see some obvious points where it was failing but then seeing her eyes and seeing that fire within them, he laughed. He was no match for her, that was one thing that he had learned that weekend. She had grown up strong and resilient and hopefully she would never have to try to get her revenge ever again.

He grinned as he saw how much she wanted it and how it would nurture her to continue acting and move away from the rage and jealousy that came when she finally told him that she didn't care about her revenge anymore. He would have to give her the 100% stamp which will help her in the eyes of the president.

As Ren sat down on the seat of the bike, there was a powerful push forward as if he were on some kind of roller coaster ride or as if Kyoko were the headless horsemen with a strong pursuit. He could feel the way that the tires went across the street and the fire that was becoming Kyoko being part of the bicycle but as they rode the bike along more and more people were spotting him. This would have been worse were he standing still. The subway most likely would not have been a good idea.

Kyoko could feel the herd coming after her like a pack of stampeding wilderbeast who wouldn't stop until after the death of the king of Pride Rock and over time there were more people running after them. "Don't worry," Kyoko tried to assure Ren, "I'll definitely lose them!" she said and Ren laughed as he studied her face. He now believed that she really could do anything.

"You sure?" he asked and Kyoko grinned, the sun reflecting off the smile and making it so that Ren wasn't able to keep his eyes off of her.

"Of course!" Kyoko said proudly, "Leave it to me!"

Ren smiled as he continued to study her. It was amazing that she had been able to break free of the pain of her past but she hadn't seen herself that way. She still seemed to imagine herself as being claimed and destroyed by Shotaro but Ren had to admit that she was stunning. He nodded with a smile as the rest of the world seemed to clear away, "Okay. I'll leave it to you." He told her and Kyoko laughed as they rode off into the horizon.

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Kuon smiled as he sat on his bed holding the phone to his ear. He was glad that Kyoko had contacted him to tell him that she had passed her tests and that had full marks on the entrance exam. He had been hoping for that and it was good of her to want to tell him. He smiled. He had to go overseas to shoot in only a few days but maybe there was something he could do for her or get her to say congratulations.

"Well," Kuon chuckled, "Congratulations. Thank you, though, for your performance as my temporary manager. I am very thankful that I was able to have your assistance, I don't think that I would have been able to do it without you."

"How's your throat?" Kyoko asked, her voice sounding anxious and Kuon grinned. He was grateful that someone cared about him on a human level. Yes, she definitely deserved that 100 points mark. She had taken care of him and given him love and that was what she was meant to do as a Love Me member.

"It's better. I think that I'll be okay. Let me know if there is anything that I can do to repay you," the actor chuckled.

"No. No, that's, that's not why I did, umm, uh, I mean the stamp bu-" Kyoko said quickly and Kuon chortled as he imagined her face turning a deep and embarrassing shade of red. He bowed his head and smiled before getting up and going over to the kitchen where she had made him some meals and drinks for when he needed nutrition. He liked having here. Not having her here made him crave her in a way that a man of his age shouldn't do with a girl of her age.

"Anyway, I have to go out of town on a shoot but I would very much like to take you out to celebrate your success with the placement tests," Kuon told her and there was silence on the other end of the line. Kuon reached out for a cup and turned it around in his hand whilst studying it. "Kyoko?" he asked and Kyoko coughed in response.

"Take out? Like a hitman?" she asked and Kuon almost dropped the cup as his eyes widened. What did she think of him? What kind of weird ideas were in her head? He would never do anything of the kind especially when it came to her.

"No, to dinner," Kuon smiled. "It's not a date but -"

"Can I cook for you?" Kyoko asked nervously and Kuon smiled as he thought back on when she had tried to feed him flowers because that's what she believed fairies ate.

"Yes," he grinned. "I look forward to it."

End of Act 58

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