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DISCLAIMER: Skip Beat! and it's characters are not my original creation, they are owned and created by Nakamura Yoshiki.

Story Timeline: This fanfic is outside the timeline Nakamura-sensei has set forth. This would take place past the present storyline, but a not-so-distant future. Character development applies as I will attempt to keep the characters as Nakamura-sensei has made them. (Otherwise it just isn't a fanfiction but rather a fiction merely using the same names!) Just don't forget that some things may seem a bit out of character since they (characters) are in situations that Nakamura-sensei has not yet put them into or developed the emotional necessity for.

Playing With Fire

Act 5

Oh how he wished he was carrying her then for another reason. There was something exciting and warm about sliding the slippers from her feet in his bed. Something… right.

He stood on the bed facing her. Her cheeks were soft pink in embarrassment of being on Ren's bed, but she did not argue. She stood with the determination of a professional. He loved that about her. She would push herself past her limits if need be. She would do anything to get what she wanted, and right now, it was Ren who could give that to her.

"Lets just start with getting the fall correct. We can work on lines after. If we continue with the lines and the fall, we may get in the habit of having a pause where we've been stopping."

Kyoko nodded and stepped up to him. She put her arms around his neck as he pulled her near him. She looked into his hungry eyes and he started to slide his hands up her back.

Kyoko flinched away, leaving Ren's arms empty and open where she had just been.

"I-I'm sorry Tsuruga-san! I wasn't ready," she fidgeted.

"I'm sorry as well Mogami-san. I moved before you were in character." In truth, he knew he had, but he could not resist his desire to see how she would respond to his touch. It was as he expected. She got scared and pushed away from him. Knowing that, he could now focus and concentrate on playing Katsuki.

"Lets try again. Come. I'll wait till you're ready."

Kyoko slowly stepped forward again and into Ren's arms. She closed her eyes and found Natsu, then Natsu slid her arms up Ren's arms and around his neck.

Ren slid a hand up Natsu's back and into her hair, he then wound his hand in her hair and jerked her head back. Natsu looked at Katsuki hungrily, and Katsuki ran his hand up her left arm then grabbed her wrist and quickly twisted her arm behind her back, forcing Natsu up against him.

Natsu slid her left leg up his, her groin pressing tightly against his thigh. She pulled her leg tight against the back of Katsuki's knee and they fell.

Natsu's arm twisted around from behind her back and she snatched Katsuki's wrist as he fell back. Natsu now held Katsuki against the ground, straddling his pelvis. Her hair fell around her face as she looked at Katsuki's chest and slowly looked up to his face.

Ren's breath caught in his throat. Oh god…she's so erotic…

There was something sensual and dangerous about Natsu, he was seeing that now.

He cleared his throat. "Mogami-san… Mogami-san…" He called to her until her name registered.

"Oh! … Oh!" She let go of his wrist and rolled off of him flustered.

Ren smiled and propped himself up on his elbows. "You did it right. I imagine the most of your problem earlier was the pain in your knee."

"I-I guess you're right… My knee hardly hurts now! Thank you Tsuruga-san!" She started to climb off of the bed, but Ren reached over and gently grabbed her wrist to stop her.

"Tsuruga-san?"

"… You should do it a few more times so your body gets used to the actions. You should be able to do it without thought for the shoot on Monday. That is what will make it seem natural."

They stood on the bed and went through the motions again, landing correctly again. This time there was no agitation or uncomfortableness. They both stayed in character, then stood up to do it again.

"This time lets keep going for a few lines if we fall correctly. Do you know the lines?"

She nodded assent and moved in to start from the fall. As expected, Kyoko did the fall correctly again. Once she put her mind to something, she could to any action once and reproduce the same action over and over. It was part of her talent and what made her exceptional.

Natsu slid her arms up Ren's arms and around his neck while he slid a hand up her back and into her hair, he then wound his hand in her hair and jerked her head back. Natsu looked him in the eyes as Katsuki ran his hand up her left arm then grabbed her wrist and quickly twisted her arm behind her and she up against him.

Natsu slid her left leg up his thigh then pulled her leg tight against the back of Katsuki's knee.

She twisted her arm back around and grabbed his wrist, pinning him to the bed with her straddling him.

Looking down at him, she whispered through her loose hair. "Se-n-sei is very naughty. Touching a student in such a manner…" She leaned forward as if to kiss him but stopped an inch from his mouth. Her lips curled into a grin then she sat back up and slapped him hard across the cheek.

Katsuki's face was forced to the side and his cheek turned red with a handprint where she had struck him.

He turned his face back to her with something new shining in his eyes. Excitement filled Katsuki. Here was a young woman who would fill his needs who was of the same caliber as him. He didn't need to play goodie-goodie with her, and he liked it.

Katsuki used his free arm to grab Natsu's shoulder and force her to the side, off of his pelvis. He rolled her over and rolled directly on top of her, sitting on her thighs and grabbed her hands, pinning her in a Y position.

"Turn-about is fair play." He leaned in to kiss her.