-Oxford - Wednesday: Part 5-
The Fukumi sons had shown up shortly before lunch most of the models would be having lunch within the next hour or two. Not everyone was showing today either apparently their mother was not showing but the models were expected to be there so that tomorrow's walkway would be ready for them. There were several others who would be walking. KYO like several other of the bigger name clothing lines had several walks spread out during the week and it was the only day four of the show, their mother had been here for five days of course. Saturday would be the last day, two more days. The big final and they just had to get through it. His mother had to get as much as possible done today she wouldn't have much time tomorrow or on the final day.
Daiki had taken Keiji on their father's order so that he could his younger brother. Not that Keiji required much looking after. The wannabe neet should be the one who required additional attention, though even Daiki wasn't really a neet, he had a feeling that if it wasn't his goal to create games which required him to have some education in how to do such a thing. He would have been. Daiki was so anti-social that Keiji doubted he even had friends that weren't digital. So once they had checked in he had muttered about going up to their room, that they would be sharing with their mother.
Keiji nodded his head pulling out his cell phone his eyes looking at the text message that they had a gotten from their mother while they were on the road. They were already on the VIP list thanks to their mother. 'Might as well go' he moved towards the hotel map scanning the locations and best route to get to her before making his way down towards them. He had only planned to inform their mother in person they were they had arrived and check up on Kyoko for the most part. The news about what happened had not been kept from them, or at the very least the information that she was assaulted and the matter was being taken care of. Still, something had not felt right and the way his father spoke with Lory had made it all the more clear to him something more was going on. So he had convinced his brother to bring him here, once on the road did they inform their parents. They could, of course, have put a stop to it but neither did, which made him wonder exactly what was going on.
Which was why at this very moment he was standing against a wall in the distance, waiting for his mother to have a free moment. Keiji had pulled out his cell phone checking his messages when he caught the movement of a certain blonde came at him with such an unnatural speed that it had taken all he could to turn from her, she hit the wall. He was sure if she had the strength that there would have been holes in the wall but she was also quick so even though it looked like she had hit the wall she in truth stopped millimeters from doing.
"Keiji-chan that's not very nice!" Keiji went back to looking at his phone now that he knew she was there. He could do what was required to keep himself out of her reach.
"Either is your force attention," he said moving out of her reach again as she attempted to grab him, he stepped just in time that her hand slid right by him as he turned to face her general direction.
"But I haven't seen you in ages," she said huffing as she took two steps forward. Keiji placed a single finger on her forehead as he lifted the phone to his ear. She huffed as she crossed her arms, no longer attempting to pull him into an embrace. True there was no force, no logical reason for this to work but it for some reason had since he was a child. As if she accepted this as a no without the actual word being said.
"Daiki, I don't recommend leaving the room. It seems Oba-san is here," he said looking at the woman before him, there was no hate in his features. "Yes… she's overdoing it again." he sighed heavily nodding his head, "yeah I blame him too." he felt a smack on the back of his head, his eyes turning towards his mother before sighing again.
Kyo looked at him was very clear, 'hug her now or else'. He gave a small nod of his head as she turned back to her work.
Keiji returned to his call with his brother, "I gotta go." he hung up and looked back at the Juliena who still 'held' in place. Rather he had wanted to hug her didn't matter once his mother made it clear he was going to do so, he didn't want to think of what else could be either. "You get one hug, no more than 10 seconds before you release or nothing. Do you agree?"
Juliena smiled brightly at him and nodded her head. He dropped his finger and held out his arms. She hugged him for exactly 10.9 seconds before releasing him from her embraced. She placed her hands on either side of his cheek. "I haven't seen you in ages." she clearly wanted to pull him back in a hug but a finger on her forehead caused her to pout. "I know, one hug." he dropped it again, still Keiji could see the urge to pull him into another hug but she was fighting that urge of hers. After all the one time she broke her agreement he refused to hug her the rest of the time they were together and the 'or else' had not been much fun for him either.
"You saw me last fall…" he said looking back down at his phone before sighing. "Daiki is the one you haven't seen in ages you should make sure to give him a lot of affection to make up for it." That would in part take care of her trying to fill her affections on her godsons instead.
"Yes… good point. Maybe after Kuu comes, I won't be able to join you for dinner tonight. I so want too though time is so short this time to see you and your brother" she said softly as she dabbed her eyes.
Keiji knew that there was a reason if Kuu was showing up. His eyes trailed down Juliena's face and body. 'What is exactly going on here?' Kuu didn't come with Juliena when she models for KYO. The length of time that she was ever way was a little more than a week, the longest he could think of was ten days and so it made no sense 'Not unless Lory asked him here...' his eyes narrowed slightly. Still, there was one more thing that he had to make sure of before he could start allowing himself to focus on the bigger problem.
"Mom…" he said looking back at Kyo who was busy fixing a hem, "did you prepare the staff here?" Kuu could eat a business out of business if they weren't prepared ahead of time. The fact that he hadn't heard anything about Kuu showing up even from his mother troubled him a bit more.
"I'm not his keeper. I only look after Juliena." she said looking up at him for a moment before shaking her head, "but perhaps it wouldn't hurt…" the look between his mother and him made it clear that neither of them actually trusted Juliena to warn them ahead of time. His eyes turned towards Juliena a frown on his face.
Juliena "Don't treat me like a little kid. I know how to contact the staff!" she said with a huff.
"And did you warn them?" He would honestly be surprised if she actually did and didn't just have someone else do it.
"Well not exactly…" Keiji sighed heavily. "Well I didn't do it but it was done." He pinched the bridge of his nose, it was as he thought. "Don't do that!"
"Who did you send?" his voice was rather sharp when he said it.
"The kidnapper's servant," she said crossing her arms as she looked at him. It was written on her face that she knew he could not find any fault with Ruto. That man was known to be on top of things.
"Good, then he did it," he said looking back at his phone before frowning. Placing his phone into his back pocket, "Mom where's Kyoko?"
Kyo looked up at him and smiled it wasn't one of her happy smiles, more of a 'please don't worry' smile. "She didn't sleep well last night, she's taking a nap in the lobby." That didn't set with Keiji at all.
"Don't do that Keiji no one is supposed to come down here unless they have business with us and it's not like anyone would be stupid to touch my goddaughter. They all know better." His eyes scanned the room once more. It was true, no one here was even out of place. His mother did run a very tight ship and she was known to keep just as tight ship when it came to other people too. It was pretty clear that if you did something to upset his mother, that whatever it was that you wanted would not be given to you. If it was bad enough she could ruin you.
"I'm going to go check on her anyways. Though you are correct no one would be stupid enough to get on Kyo of KYO's bad side." The worry that he saw on Juliena's face bothered him but he knew how to fix that as well, well give her something that wouldn't be easily fixed and make her forget her own worries. "Juliena-san, don't think so much it'll give you wrinkles and what will you do if Kuu falls out of love with you because you aren't the most beautiful woman in the whole world?" He watched her eyes widen before she ran to Kyo.
"Keiji!" his mother snapped at him at the woman who held her tearing up.
"Why is he so mean to me!" she cried as he walked off, feeling the glares on the back of his head but he also knew that he wasn't going to be in any real trouble as he went out to the lobby.
Ren placed an arm over his eyes.
His mind thinking as Yashiro chatted happy about new talents in showbiz but he wasn't really paying any attention as he was waiting for the digestive medicine to kick in. He was going to need a lot of that today. He flinched as he recalled exactly how he got into this mess in the first place.
"Kyoko, doesn't it worry you that Ren isn't eating a proper meal?" inside Ren couldn't help but groan as my mother's voice washed over me.
It was bad enough that he had planned to sit next to Kyoko but she had placed Juliena between them. This had only soon had Kyo sitting between them because she worried that Juliena might slip and likely, for example, try to force feed him. When Yashiro had shown up she had made it clear that he was to sit next to his charge. This would have been fine even to a point but Maria, when Juliena had first sit down, had quickly put David, Amanda, and Laura between them. By the time Ruto had joined them he had taken the place between Juliena and Kyoko instead. In the end, he had sat across from her and for some reason, he was not happy at all about this development.
So when she had finally turned to pay him any mind it was to look at his plate of food. "Well, it's fine to have a small breakfast Nephele as long as has a proper lunch and dinner as well."
Yashiro laughed "This will likely be the only meal he eats for the rest of the day." he had felt his mother's eyes and Kyoko on him he found himself flinching slightly at the feel of these two women and then he felt a third set of eyes. 'Great now Kyo is mad at me for upsetting my mother' He tried to pay no attention to the fact that David and Amanda were trying to not laugh.
"Maria what does our Kyoko say about eating?" said Laura as she turned her straw in her water.
Maira looked towards Ren before looking back towards Laura, "That it's important to never skip meals. A person cannot stay healthy if they don't eat properly, and don't complain about the food you get..." her eyes trailed back toward Ren. Somehow she felt guilty as Kyoko placed a hand on her head.
"Maira you shouldn't feel bad, it's that man's job to make sure you are taught properly. He failed you with his eating habits." Her eyes turned towards him as she smiled "and he did promise he would not teach you any bad habits. So even if he doesn't like to eat, he will eat everything on his plate won't you Tsuruga?"
That had hurt a bit to be called 'that man' and he found himself smiling at her. "Yes of course." that had been his mistake of course.
"Wonderful, then you will join us for lunch. Isn't that wonderful Maria?" the little girl eyes looked darkly at her Aunt but only because she saw how wicket her aunt was being and she was falling in love with it as the smile played across her lips.
"Oh yes, it would be!"
"I have an even better idea!" said Amanda looking at David who snorted.
"I totally agree my other half! He should totally have dinner with us!"
"Yes wouldn't it be wonderful!" came Laura's voice.
Amanda looked towards Yashiro "You make sure he has no way out. Today all his meal times is with us."
'What did I do to be punished like this?' Thinking about the food he was going to have to eat was making him feel sick to his stomach 'Might as work it off some.' he sighed as he slowly rose from the couch he laid on, his eyes turning towards to Yashiro. "You do realize that this is your fault?"
Yashiro raised an eyebrow at him, "What is?" His eyes narrowed at his manager and the man chuckled. "Ah, that. Well, that is really your own fault for not having good eating habits. You should be happy to have so many women wanting to look after your health."
"I eat when I'm hungry" he muttered under his breath and Yashiro shook his head clearly not believing him. "I'm going to go for a walk…"
"Do you want company?" Yashiro asked though he already knew the answer to that as well.
"No," he said walking out the door.
Sho ran a hand through his hair as he walked down the hall to where the designers and models would be at. Shoko had been right, getting up to the VIP floor, let alone her actual room number, they had stated that they wouldn't give room numbers away. They didn't care that he was a star or a big name in Japan. Still, he figured he could or should had been allowed u to their floor but with the royal family, he was turned down. 'How the hell did Shoko even get information from these people?' It didn't matter what skills he used, or how he flirts they simply wouldn't budge on the matter. 'Something wrong with this country. When a good-looking man is asking for help they should give it to them.'
The only thing he had to go with after that was to ask for KYO's location. It had been a good thing to know which group his goddess worked for. Otherwise, he was sure that they wouldn't even have given him that information. The biggest problem he had found when he made it to the lobby area where it broke into rooms for each person showing. Though apparently some of the smaller names would be sharing a room location. Was that he didn't know which room she was located behind. There was also not a single soul in the lobby. Which meant he would have to wait to find out, he figured it would be uncool to be knocking on some random door like a lost lamb, more so when they might not even. Making everyone in that area know that he was lost compared to one or two people he may have to ask.
Shoving his hands in his pocket he made his way to one of the couches, when he looked down he saw her. 'Kyoko' his eyes scanned the area real fast. He saw no one before his eyes trailed back down towards her sleeping form. She was curled up on her side, she rested her head on one of her arms, while the other was protecting her stomach. He didn't know that the reason that every time she breathed in she made the smallest whimper sound. He figured it was a nightmare. He knelt down touching the side of her face 'She still been brainwashed and the nightmares are proof that.'
This movement caused her to pull her legs up to her chest as she tried to turn her face from him. He leaned forward to give her that so-called true love kiss. He was expecting to feel a hand wrap around his mouth, he wasn't expecting to be flung away from her. Sho landed hard on his left lip as he rolled. It hadn't been far but it had been painful. "Do you fucking know who I am?"