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Chapter Twenty Five - Revenge

As he left the president's office, Kuon was struggling with his emotions. He had been so happy to be living with Kyoko and working closely with her on 'The Lake in the Park' but he hadn't realized that by being his true self there would be someone come to destroy him or that the president would encourage her to be there. He sighed and dug his phone out from his pocket. Maybe talking to Kyoko would set his mind at ease and allow him to come up with a plan to their benefit.

He knew that she had offers and interviews and that her career was really taking off but he always believed that she would care about him and she would be the one person that he could share his past with, that she wouldn't sell him out and she'd help him and stay with him.

With a quick breath in, he dialed her hoping that she would pick up.

"Kuon," she whispered as she picked it up, "Can I call you back? I'm about to start something…"

"Oh," Kuon said before smiling weakly, "Yes, that's okay. It's not urgent and we can always talk about it when we're both at home," he said and Kyoko started speaking a little quicker.

"No, no it's okay, I want to know what it is, I promise to call you as soon as I can," she told him and Kuon chuckled weakly.

"If that's okay," he said and Kyoko giggled in return.

"Of course, it's okay," she told him, "I love you. It's hard for me to say it without my face going red but I love you. I hope that you're having a good day."

"I love you too," Kuon said before ending the phone call. Hopefully they would find time to discuss it during the day, Kyoko deserved to know the truth about what was going on.

As Kuon ended the phone call, he felt someone take hold of his arm and he looked back to see that Alisa was standing there. He wanted to hurt her painfully the way that her father had hurt him but he had to calm down, he didn't want to turn into that monster and hurting her would only encourage him and lead him to do so. He wanted to be different from who he was in the past.

"You're going to spend the day with me, right, Kuon?" she asked and Kuon shot her a glare that was much more frightening than any so far. "Why are you looking at me like that?" she asked and Kuon tried to calm himself. Scaring her off wasn't good enough. He would have to figure out the punishment that he really wanted her to have.

"You were mean to my girlfriend," he said as he pulled back his arm, "I'm very protective when it comes to Kyoko, I don't like people taking advantage of her and I definitely don't like people insulting her."

"Bus she's so…basic," Alisa protested, "it takes a lot of energy to be nice to someone like that."

"Oh, I know about it taking energy to be nice to somebody," Kuon said with a Ren Tsuruga smile on his face. He had to keep himself calm. He was smart, he could devise the best way to get his revenge when it came to her.

"Good so you're talking about Kyoko as well," Alisa told him and Kuon tried to suppress the anger from inside of him.

"Definitely not, now I have work to do hopefully you can occupy yourself somehow," he said with a glare before leaving, making quick and long strides so that he could ditch her. He wanted to hurt her and that was definitely something bad, he didn't want to hurt anyone and that girl was stupid and might be plotting something but he couldn't harm her. He had to control himself.

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"Are you sure that you wanted to meet me here?" Kyoko asked as she slipped into the booth that Kuon was sitting at in the upscale American diner restaurant. She saw Kuon's nervousness as he tapped his fingers on the table and took deep breaths. She reached out a hand to hold one of his to try to calm him down. "Kuon, are you sure that you're okay?" she asked concerned, "You do know that this is a restaurant."

"I know," Kuon nodded as he bowed his head, "And I'm sorry, I should have asked you where you wanted to meet but I'm just so angry, my head is…I mean, even Yashiro told me that I needed to calm down and…"

"It's okay," Kyoko said though one could tell that she was worried about her boyfriend. "Is it something that I can help with?" she asked and Kuon rubbed the side of his neck, a gesture that Kyoko had learned meant something was truly troubling him and seeing him in this state she knew it wasn't good. "Did something happen today?"

"I know who she is," Kuon said as he bowed his head and started bouncing his knee up and down, "I know who she is and…my dark side, I can't control it very well right now. I know that she's his daughter," he growled and Kyoko held one of his hands with both of hers and kissed it before setting it down.

"Can you tell me who she is?" Kyoko said and Kuon looked down with a dark glare.

"Alisa," he said as the name came out coated with his disgust and dislike for her and Kyoko sighed. She had seen Ren angry more than a few times but this could rival even her own darkest moments, even her Mio moments.

"I gathered," Kyoko said slowly, "So, who is she?"

"When I was young, before I met you, I wanted so badly to be an actor that I really did try different roles, I never did very well in them. I was always compared to my father who was twenty-four years older than me. Whenever he had a hit movie they would say they expected the same from his son," Kuon told her and Kyoko nodded as she listened to him.

"That's when your dad's hands were too wide that they covered the entire sky," she said and Kuon smiled weakly before nodding.

"Yeah, what you might not have known was that I actually went through some physical, mental, and psychological abuse by some of the directors that I worked with," Kuon said but then froze as a waitress came to give them menus and Kuon kept his head down and his mouth closed.

"Oh my god, you're the actor-"

"We're fine," Kuon said firmly and Kyoko smiled to the waitress, she didn't know what she had just walked into and that was the problem with doing this publicly but she did understand why they weren't discussing this in the apartment. Alisa might have even bugged the place and Kyoko wasn't sure what Kuon's story had to do with her. Was she witness to these beatings? She certainly wasn't old enough to be a sleazy director.

"I'm sorry, can you give us a few minutes to order, thank you," Kyoko said before seeing the waitress nod and walk away. "Okay, continue," she said and Kuon sighed.

"I really wanted to be an actor and so I never really did any research on the directors. If they wanted me to act then I would do whatever I could to act because I love acting. I didn't know at that time that I would be signing myself up to being physically hurt and yelled at about my bad performance and whilst it was happening all I could think about was how I didn't do my scenes well enough, how I needed to get better and how it was all my fault," Kuon tried to explain and Kyoko sighed, she looked at him softly before kissing his hand again, she knew how painful this was for him to share with her.

"Alisa is the director of a man who my father almost brought to court because he was scared of the abuse but I pleaded with my dad to not do anything and he let me do that because he didn't want my name thrown around in newspapers before I could even do any work. It killed him to do that," Kuon finally finished and Kyoko looked at him.

She bowed her head, she knew how that felt. When they were filming Dark Moon she was scared about getting the police involved because she didn't want to risk her name being soiled. For Kuon to make that decision as a kid, it must have been terrifying.

"What did your dad say about the physical marks?" Kyoko asked and Kuon sighed.

"I told him that I fell over or I ran into something or that I failed doing a basketball or soccer move, I think he believed me most of the time," Kuon said though Kyoko had the suspicion that Kuu knew all along and was just trying to gather evidence against the director.

"Thank you for telling me this," Kyoko said honestly and tilted her head to the side, "Are you going to be all right?"

"I want revenge," Kuon told her and Kyoko sighed, "I need you to help me figure out how to get revenge on her for what she did."

"You want revenge," Kyoko sighed before looking down, "Kuon, can I be….do you want me to tell you what I think?" she asked and Kuon nodded. "You might think I'm a hypocrite but maybe you shouldn't do anything to her…at least not right now," she said and Kuon stared at her.

"I can't just not do anything," he argued as he looked a little desperate and Kyoko checked the menu, taking a look behind her to see if the waitress was coming.

"I'm thinking you should give yourself forty-eight hours and think about it, think of every possible way that you could react to this but don't just go into revenge, trust me, when revenge is your motive you start hurting yourself in addition to the person that you really want to hurt."

"I can't believe that you're asking me for that," Kuon asked in shock and there was a look of betrayal on his face, "I can't believe that -"

"You were hurt when you were a kid, Kuon, which is inexcusable but that ten-year-old I met in Kyoto, he didn't want revenge. He wanted to be an actor. He wanted to be there when I cried and to play with me and help me feel happy. He taught me ways to cope with my sadness. He loved plants and animals. That little boy was being hurt but he was trying to live a good life. You don't owe it to me to give this forty-eight hours of thought and consideration but you owe it to that ten-year-old," Kyoko said and Kuon's expression softened.

"I get your point," he sighed, "Forty eight hours but then I get to decide on my method of revenge and you have to help me," he told her and Kyoko nodded with a smile. "Any ideas already?" he asked and Kyoko grinned.

"Just one, it's a little childish but I'll let you know what it is," she said in a teasing manner and Kuon nodded. "I was thinking that we set up a place for free donations right outside the apartment building and put all of the stuff she brought with her there. Let her do a little bit of charity work."

Kuon smiled, "Well, she did bring a lot of things with her," she laughed.

Kyoko tilted her head to the side, "Are you going to be okay?" she asked concerned and he nodded though, by the expression on his face, Kyoko doubted that.

End of Chapter Twenty Five

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There's more backstory to come on the director and his daughter but Kuon is definitely going to have to keep his dark self under surveillance now.