AN: I meant to update this sooner but I've had a lot of drama in my life to take care of recently and this wasn't a high priority for me to be honest. If you have a problem with it not being a high priority, you need to reevaluate your life.

Act 75 – You Die or I Die Enemy

Ren paused as he looked at his phone after he had finished shooting. It wasn't unusual for people to text him but he wouldn't get that many calls that weren't going through Yashiro first. It had to be something unimportant like celebrity gossip which he had no interest in listening to. Usually Ren would put work first but the fact that someone had called him interested him.

He looked at the phone carefully. There was a new voice message on it. Again, he would usually wait until after work to do this and not whilst he was on a break from his set but someone had called him and he wanted to know who. He smiled as he saw her number there and beamed. So, for some reason or another, she had called for him. He didn't know what it meant but he wished he could have answered the phone the moment that it had rung.

She was always so respectful and she knew he was most likely working but this meant that she was reaching out for him, that she wanted to depend on him. That wasn't like her. She knew he wanted to keep their relationship private but then again he was happy that she had called him. He eagerly went onto his voice mail and listened to it before hearing her panic.

What was going on with her? What had she gotten herself involved with this time?

Despite his listening to voice messages and wanting to call people back whilst he was at work was new to him, she was worth the exception. He smiled peacefully. He should be rushing to the new filming ground but in his mind, she came first. He closed his eyes, listening to her voice, wanting her to be there in front of him.

"It's Kyoko!" the voicemail played, "You must be working hard now. So sorry to disturb you in the midst of your work! I suddenly called you because I need your help with something, actually…" Ren froze as the message went silent. There was a long pause and he held the phone closer to his ear in case he couldn't quite hear her. She needed his help and he was more than willing to give it to her but she had stopped speaking and gone silent. He wasn't sure how he was supposed to help her. She sounded as if she was hard at work at some project but then would you ask someone for help only to…go silent?

Ren's eyes widened as he heard the sound of the message ending. So it had cut off without her saying anything? She hadn't even addressed the issue at hand so he wasn't sure how to help her. He did know that he wanted to hear her voice, he wanted to hear her say that she was okay and either she had resolved the problem or it had worked its way out alone.

He didn't care if this was the first time he was prioritizing a phone call over work. She was different. She was someone he might sacrifice nearly anything over. He had known her since they were children and she was the most important part of his childhood which he would prefer not to remember. He would always want to remember those days they spent together though.

Ren could hear the constant ringing of the phone and the fact that it didn't seem a voice mail inbox was set up. It was troubling for him. He had gotten her that cell phone for a reason and he would have to double check it and make sure that it was all set up. He didn't want her calling and reaching out for him with no way to help her.

He definitely needed to get into contact with the young woman he cared about above all others.

…

…..

As Kyoko passed by Sho's dressing room, she saw him holding a blushing Midori in his arms as she seemed to melt with pleasure at just his touch. Shotaro had never touched her in such a way and she would remember it clearly if he used those types of words to her, those romantic words. She continued to stare at the, as she passed by and her eyes went to Midori for a moment and then she continued to stare at Shotaro.

"That gave me a shock," she stated as a fainted Midori was rushed out of the room, "I never knew you had this in you and it seemed as if you're very good at it." Sho blinked confused and Kyoko realized that he had no idea of what she was talking about. "The ability to stop a girl crying in minutes. It seems that your gentleness only has a price to me."

Sho's eyes widened as Kyoko glared at him. So what if she was attacking him. He needed to know how hurtful the way he usually acted was. She continued to stare at him in an annoyed way and Sho blinked.

"You…are you referring to when we were young?" he asked and Kyoko continued to look bored by his responses.

"Yup, that's right," she nodded, "You always had that dumb look when you were watching the cowardly me cry," she told him and Sho seemed to flinch. Kyoko knew that she was right and she had somehow gotten under his skin with that one. She was surprised that he actually cared at all about her words and how he had made her feel.

Sho leaned forwards, "It's not that I only know how to stand by and watch stupidly," he attempted to argue and Kyoko was surprised that there appeared to be passion in his voice, some desire for her to believe in her but why would he care so much about her now when he had cared so little before. Sho turned away and Kyoko suspected that it was because he didn't want to show any weakness in front of her.

"I knew that," Kyoko replied and Sho looked at her again, "So naturally, I never cried in front of you again because I didn't want to make things hard for you." Kyoko smiled as she gazed off into the distance remembering when she had met Corn who was now Kuon who was now Ren. He had allowed her to cry. He had been silly with her. He had let her speak. He would always listen to her, even now she was sure that if he hadn't been working, he would have listened to her during that phone call.

Corn was an important memory to her but he wasn't just a memory to her anymore. He was a person, a physical person whom she could reach out and touch. Maybe he couldn't fly in the sky like a fairy could but his career was soaring. She just needed to be in his life and she needed him in hers. He was that important to her.

"So this means that during the instances when you were missing, you actually went somewhere else to cry?" Sho asked as he distracted Kyoko from her memories. Kyoko's eyes widened and she stared at him. He had no idea of what treasures she had in life and he was bringing her out of thinking about her memories.

"Get lost!" Kyoko barked at him, "My beautiful memories, don't intrude."

Sho gave her a confused look as if she had hit her head, "Beautiful memories?" he asked her confused and Kyoko stared at him. She didn't need for him to know about Corn and he most definitely didn't need to know about where Corn was now or what he was doing. Kyoko didn't care about Shotaro but she secretly adored Kuon.

"It doesn't mean anything!" Kyoko responded quickly, "It's none of your business! Stop following me please! So disgusting!" Kyoko commented and Sho's eyes widened.

"Disgusting!" he yelled out and Kyoko nodded, "Eh?" he stared at her, he hadn't been called that before and he hated it. He didn't want her to trash his image and that's what he felt was happening. "The disgusting one is you! The one who wears such tasteless uniforms," he said and he stared at her angrily, the emotion almost radiating out of him.

"At first I thought you were some stranger and so I held back and didn't say anything," Sho continued before showing how truly frustrated he was because of her, "but since I know you, I can be frank and tell you what I truly think! You…the uniform is ugly! Be it for an artiste or any human being! You really have no taste!"

Kyoko flinched at this, pulling back. It wasn't as if she had designed this outfit herself, she wouldn't be caught dead in this color and she hated that she agreed with Sho. Her eyes widened as she looked at him, she didn't want to hear this from him especially since she agreed with it herself.

"What!" she barked back, "As the worst human being ever, you have no right to criticize me!" she told him, "This is what the company told me to wear! And you also have no right to say that I have no taste!" Kyoko looked at him with a superior glint in her eyes that seemed to challenge him. "I will announce to the whole world your real name is Fuwa Sho-"

Shotaro firmly covered Kyoko's mouth with his hand and Kyoko couldn't speak, all sound was blocked and this was because he really would carry this secret with him to the grave or at least the grave of show business.

"If you dare tell anyone," he threatened her with a dark shadow looming behind him similar to that she had felt before from Ren, "I will let out that secret when you gain the slightest bit of reputation. I'll say that your name Kyoko, came because your suggested names like "Princess Cindy" and "Princess Rose" were rejected by you company and they couldn't take it. So, that's what I'll say."

Kyoko twitched as she knew that he would do it and she also knew how that would harm her popularity when she started to get that type of reputation. She stared at him, pulling back from the disgusting hand which covered her mouth.

"How did you know?" she asked with a little twitch, "Were you peeping?"

Sho lifted his chin, staring at her in disbelief, "What? So that was really true? Oh, god. You really have no shame. This is great, I'll be sure to publicize this matter."

Kyoko's eyes widened, so he had gambled on that fact and he hadn't known for sure and she had fallen straight into his trap. She shook with anger as she stared at him, "You!" she yelled. "So you were just guessing, you cowardly cunning man."

Sho laughed as he tried to run from her in order to 'spread the news' "And you are dumb enough to fall for it!" Sho told her and Kyoko grabbed his arm. She didn't want people to know that, it would definitely shake her image even if people didn't yet know who she was.

Haruki looked at them, staring at the weird way they were acting which neither one of them had known until she had spoken, "Are you guys still going out?" she asked and both of them stopped, looking at her with horror.

"I'm not going out with him! Not even once! Why is it still?" Kyoko asked as she looked mortified by the question,

"Just one look and you'll know we're only arguing," Sho said as he turned to a professional stance, he looked annoyed but he wasn't letting that type of bad attitude affect his profession and Kyoko could see it from the way he stood and spoke.

They both pointed to one another and said in unison, "More importantly, to me this idiot is…"

"An 'either you die or I die' enemy," Sho continued passionately as Kyoko could hear her phone. She grabbed for it, ignoring Shotaro's words. Someone was calling her. Someone was considering her important enough to call. Something inside of her was asking if it was really him.

End of Act 75

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