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Hi... It's been a while... I'm not who I was before... You looked surprise... Your words don't burn me anymore... LOL I'm sorry guys for the late update. I already told you that I update really slow on this one like snail pace or much worst than that. I don't prioritize this story. I would update like once in three months... I know you want more but that's all I can give you guys... I'm sorry... I hope you will enjoy reading the story. Please excuse any typos or any grammatical errors. I'm not good with it. Enjoy! ^_^

~!On Fire!~

Kyoko was trembling backstage. She was terrified. She felt like she'd rather jump off a building than go onstage right now. Why was she there exactly? Or more importantly, how did she get into this situation. Well, it was their fault for getting drunk and singing their names out loud for the whole world to know! But seriously, was this the right choice? After the big reveal on that TV show, things were crazy! She couldn't go out without disguising and transforming herself into someone unrecognizable to the media. She was also terrified of Ren's fans. I mean, it wasn't a scandal about the two of them romantically involve but still… there was some speculations about why nobody has discovered that side of Ren until she came along. Mostly, the media was just impressed and were very eager to see and hear the real thing to confirm it with their own eyes and ears.

That's why she was there standing backstage and any minute now she was going to go out there and sing. Sing! In front of all those people who were surely Ren's fans. A room full of Tsuruga crazed fans. That didn't sound too appealing.

A hand on her shoulder startled and broke her out of her dooms day thoughts. She jumped out of her skin and turned to look at who had startled her. It was none other than the famous Tsuruga Ren. He smiled at her reassuringly, as if that would just calm her down. Well, it sort of did a little. Just a little…

"It's going to be okay, Kyoko." Ren told her assuringly. Kyoko looked at him for a few seconds and then her lips slowly curled into a smile.

"Funny, those were the exact same words President said to us more than a week ago… look where that got us?" She couldn't help but giggle. Ren chuckled too.

"You two are on in 2 minutes." One of the crew informed them.

"Like what I told you on stage in Okinawa. Just pretend it's my living room."

"Yeah, with you all your fans ready to tear me to pieces for getting close to you." Kyoko replied dryly.

"I didn't know Mio can get scared too." He teased her but then smiled softly at her. "You'll be fine. I'll be up there with you too."

He patted her hair and quietly went to his position next to the grand piano onstage. It was dark and the audience couldn't see well what was happening on stage. A beat started and a male voice suddenly started rapping fluently in English. The audience were taken by surprise and confusion at first. They were there for the famous Tsuruga Ren's performance and they were hearing some foreigner perform? They couldn't recognize Ren's voice because speaking and singing voice were slightly different and how he sang it in English, his accent, was very foreign to his fans.

I can't tell you what it really is

I can only tell you what it feels like

And right now there's a steel knife in my windpipe

I can't breathe but I still fight while I can fight

As long as the wrong feels right it's like I'm in flight

A lone spotlight shun on Ren who wore a plain white tees, a fitted black leather jacket over it, black straight cut jeans and silvery grey sneakers. Even then, they took a few seconds to really believe what they were hearing and watching. But then, the shriek, squeals and screams broke out and it was mad, insane even!

High off her love, drunk from her hate,

It's like I'm huffing paint and I love her the more I suffer, I suffocate

And right before I'm about to drown, she resuscitates me

She f***ing hates me and I love it.

"Wait! Where you going?"

"I'm leaving you!"

"No you ain't. Come back."

We're running right back.

Here we go again

It's so insane cause when it's going good, it's going great

I'm Superman with the wind at his back, she's Lois Lane

But when it's bad it's awful, I feel so ashamed I snapped

Who's that dude?

"I don't even know his name."

I laid hands on her, I'll never stoop so low again

I guess I don't know my own strength

Then the beat stopped. It was pure silence for a second until she heard the crowd. Kyoko was so scared to go out there.

Why did the president pick this song? She thought begrudgingly.

All the female fans out there were going crazy. Why? Do you have to ask why? They just saw their hot, gorgeous and sexy idol rapped in front of them! Who wouldn't be jumping up and down, screaming, shrieking, squealing and fainting?

But she had to. She had made her bed, she has to lie on it. Or more like she had made her stage and she has to perform on it. Well, she was there. Ren was there, her partner in crime. He was also waiting for her to join him on stage. She thought about all those scenes she so wanted to film for this song that they arranged and now, it was happening live where she can finally perform in it. So, what the heck? Make the most of a bad situation…or maybe a really terrifying, walking-into-hell sitiuation. So she took a deep breath, letting go of all her fears and got into the feeling and character that suited that song. She took that one last step to be out onto that stage to make her ideas into a reality.

And she sang…

She's just a girl and she's on fire

Hotter than a fantasy, lonely like a highway

The spotlight shone on her, showing her in a simple white mini dress. It has a crew neck, with side diamond cutouts that complimented her already gorgeous figure and it ended just above her knee. It was a decent dress and she paired it with gold heels and gold dangling earrings. She had light makeup that just enhanced her natural beauty and her hair…her hair was the same flaming orange hair cut just above her shoulders.

Ren on the other hand was sitting down on the piano seat, he put his microphone on the holder so he could still sing while he played the piano to accompany Kyoko's singing.

She's living in a world and it's on fire

Filled with catastrophe, but she knows she can fly away

Oh, oh oh oh oh (Ren did the second voice and the beat started again)

She got both feet on the ground

And she's burning it down

Oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh

She got her head in the clouds

And she's not backing down

This girl is on fire

The TV screen walls behind her came to life as it showed burning flames dancing and engulfing her frame so she looked like she was thrown into the fire but still walking. The floor was black and shiny which reflected the flames so it really looked like she was in the fire but wasn't consumed.

This girl is on fire

She's walking on fire

This girl is on fire

Oh oh oh oh oh

Everybody stares as she goes by

Cause they can see the flame that's in her eyes

Watch her as she's lighting up the night

Nobody knows that she's a lonely girl

And it's a lonely world

But she gon' let it burn, baby, burn, baby

Now the music paused and then came the beats again and by this time, every single person in the studio was either stunned or in awe. Ren stood up from the piano seat and started rapping again. Singing to the crowd and to Kyoko. He walked to her and got her hand so he can slowly walk her to share the center of the stage.

Now I know we said things, did things that we didn't mean

And we fall back into the same patterns, same routine

But your temper's just as bad as mine is

You're the same as me

When it comes to love you're just as blinded

Baby, please come back

It wasn't you, baby it was me

Maybe our relationship isn't as crazy as it seems

Maybe that's what happens when a tornado meets a volcano

All I know is I love you too much to walk away though

Oh, how Ren wanted to seriously tell her that he meant that one line above. He was so engrossed in looking at her eyes and meaning what he was rapping to her that he was a bit surprise when the crowd got a bit crazy for him again. So, he paid them attention again. It wasn't time for musical confessions right that moment. Kyoko deserved more than that.

Come inside, pick up your bags off the sidewalk

Don't you hear sincerity in my voice when I talk

Told you this is my fault

Look me in the eyeball

Next time I'm pissed, I'll aim my fist at the drywall

Next time? There won't be no next time!

I apologize even though I know its lies

I'm tired of the games I just want her back

I know I'm a liar

If she ever tries to fucking leave again

Im'a tie her to the bed and set this house on

[Kyoko]

Fire (fire , fire)

Kyoko sang the last word of the rap with girl on fire tune. She was really into the song now. She was belting everything out... letting it all out. She was swaying and dancing a little bit to the song. She was getting comfortable. She was getting drowned by the feeling the music evoked in her.

This girl is on fire

She's walking on fire

This girl is on fire

Ohoooohoh, ohooohoh, ohooohoo, ohooohoo~

I love the way you lie

She looked at Ren and she saw a big grin on his face. The boyish grin that he only gave to her which slowly melts her insides and turns her knees into jelly.

It shouldn't even be legal! She grumbled in her head.

Well, but it is finally done. The TV host announced them once again. It was their surprise debut performance and that they have to stay tuned to view the very short exclusive interview they finally give in their dressing room after the break.

Ren waved and thanked the crowd for such a great audience and for the support. Kyoko bowed and thanked them too. But inside she was asking for their forgiveness for getting close to Ren and asking them to not skin her, fillet her, chop her or kill her.

They got off stage and Ren was whistling. He was in a very good mood. The performance went great and that little interview went great too. He couldn't forget one question that was asked. Although their questions were screened and approved by LME before they could ask it, it still caught them off-guard.

xxx

"Final question, can you two tell us what song would fit the other in the way you both see each other."

Both their brows went up in surprise for the unusual question.

"Hmmm..." Ren pursed his lips in thought. Then, he turned to Kyoko. "Ladies first." He said to her.

"No. Please, you first. You are, after all, my sempai." A very Kyoko-like answer as usual which kind of made the interviewers think that there wasn't really going on with the two them which was honestly true but underneath all that formalities, they really did have something going. It was just that the two were just really blind and dense to realize it.

Ren smiled a gentle smile at her. "Just the Way You Are by Bruno mars." He answered and then encouraged her for her response. "and yours?"

Kyoko nervously wet her lips. "I think his fans would think E.T. by Katy Perry would suit him."

xxx

Kyoko and Ren were sitting next to each other inside the stretched limo provided by the president to ensure their safety from the mob of fans from their debut in the music industry. Yashiro sat to the other end of the car near the driver to not disturb them of his many phone calls he has to take, he said.

"So what was your own answer to the last question?" Ren asked Kyoko when he could not take his itching curiousity anymore.

Kyoko looked at him confused but a bit startled inside because he knew that she side stepped that question porpusely and discreetly. She looked at his eyes and the will to lie died. Those eyes that could see through her were really scary and also who lies beneath it was even more scary. So she gulped and answered.

"Demons by Imagine Dragons."

Yashiro who was eavesdropping was horrified that that was how Kyoko sees Ren and when he took a pick at Ren's expression expecting him to be surprised and hurt, instead he saw him smirk. Yashiro's eyes widened in confusion. Did his charge go insane? He didn't know.

He didn't know what the song was about too. so he was surely bound to be confused.

Thanks for reading. my eyes are dropping already. I need to sleep. I just wanted to finish this for you guys. I hope you excused my for the typos and all the grammatical errors. I hoped you liked it! It was supposed to be Brand New Me by alicia keys but I wouldn't be able to showcase Ren's rapping. I was trying to find a song that I could mash up with it but I couldn't find one. So I just went with this one. I hope you also liked the extra bit at the end. Thanks so much for reading, reviewing, following, fav-ing and liking my stories. Love you guys. Read yah whenever... God bless... ^_^