-Oxford - Wednesday: Part 6-
Keiji hadn't expected to see Fuwa Sho, who he was pretty sure was the same man as Shoutaro but there was no proof this man and that man was the same. If it was easy to tell then people would have brought up his real name by now. Still seeing as there was no one inside this area but the one that was napping it didn't take him long to figure it out. It also didn't take him long to make the short distance between where he had been to where Sho was. Keiji had been on high alert from the moment he had entered KYO's dressing room due to Juliena.
Regardless he couldn't believe someone who does this to a woman they clearly weren't with. Keiji eyes narrowed as he grabbed Sho around his mouth. It took him less than a half second to think of his next move which was to fling him across the side of the room. He rolled slightly as he landed on his side but Keiji paid no mind to him. Something caught his attention when it came to Kyoko. Her dress had skirted up slightly and if you didn't pay close attention it would have been easy to miss it.
"Do you fucking know who I am?" Sho growled at him.
"No one important," he said simply removing his jacket, he held it out slightly before carefully lifting the hem of her dress. His eyes narrowed as he dropped it and the jacket itself as a blanket over her. The movement flowed nicely and he was sure that Sho wouldn't have noticed what he had done. The fact that Kyoko turned slightly with a smallest of whimpers didn't go unmissed by him. No, what was annoying him at the moment was the damn peacock of a man who clearly had to prove he was someone.
"No one important?" He laughed "I'm Fuwa Sho, Japan's number one artist!"
"I was under the impression that was one Tsuruga Ren," he said pulling out his phone, Keiji never once raised his voice. Yet he could feel the anger that was coming off of Sho. "I see, music charts," he said turning off the screen before putting it back into his pocket. Leaning forward some to touch the side of Kyoko's face. 'She must be really out of it' he wondered if he should call Ruto down to take her to her room but he could just as easily do that once he dealt with the peacock.
"I have women throwing themselves at me." Sho couldn't help but cross his arms as he stood up at his full height. "Not that I expect someone like you to understand what that's like."
Keiji wished he didn't know what it was like, to be honest. Women, in general, were exhausting creatures. Kyoko and Amanda being the only ones he chose to socially with inside the school, the rest were normally due to force. Not that he hated them, he just wasn't interested in them in the way they wanted and he didn't feel like explaining himself. Women got scarier somehow when they learned one of the male students were gay. As if just by being gay that meant you were willing to act like a girlfriend to them.
Sighing he stood up his own full height. Sho snorted at the difference in their sizes and Keiji waited for him to get it out of his system. Keiji knew he was shorter than the average height for a Japanese man, add in the fact where he spent most of his life which was in the Royal Academy and thus England. He was used to being well on the small size of things. It was hardly a surprise that many women were taller than him or near his own height anyways. Not that seemed to sway them from bothering him for some strange reason. Regardless Keiji knew better than anyone that height didn't mean anything when it came to strength and he was far from a weakling.
Keiji sighed as he looked back towards Kyoko for just a moment, when he looked back at Sho he placed a finger to his lips before looking back towards Kyoko for just a moment. He saw the man seem to debate this fact before nodding his head. Keiji turned his head motioning for him to follow him and much to his surprise Sho followed after him. They made their way towards to the hall that leads to the lobby. Keiji stood across from Sho who was leaning with his arms crossed in front of his chest. While Keiji was able to keep his eye on the couch where Kyoko was. It wasn't as far as he would have liked but it was at least not right in front of her. Not that she seemed to notice them talking. That worried him a bit.
"Well?" Sho asked Keiji looked back towards him. Sho took the expression he made as if having forgotten and he rolled his eyes, "Aren't you going to acknowledge how great I am? To get all those women throwing themselves at me, a nobody like you should be amazed." he muttered the last part to himself. Keiji eyes trailed back towards where Kyoko was.
"I only need one woman to look in my direction." His eyes turned back towards Sho who stared at him like he was insane or perhaps grew a second head, "That's my partner, any other woman is not worth my time." There was no reason to explain to this man that he wasn't actually interested in females.
Sho opened his mouth for a moment before closing it trying hard not to laugh because it wouldn't be cool. After he was sure he had himself in check he motioned towards the lobby "That boring, plain, no sex appeal girl that's not a real woman. I'm talking about real women, hotties." He shook his head looking at him smugly, "If that's all you can get, I feel bad for you."
"Don't" his eyes narrowed only slightly, 'Pretty sure this is Shoutaro based on those words' the look at Sho face showed his confusion.
"You can't be serious about her."
"And what if I am?" it wasn't as if he expected any reasonable answer from him but he had not expected him to grab him by his shirt pulling him towards him Keiji's eyes looked down at the man's hand.
"Troublesome." The word was out of his mouth as he grabbed Sho's shoulders. Using the wall he had been against to help push him up and into a perfect handstand, on Sho's shoulders. He had been surprised by the action he had released him the moment he started to move. Sho looked up at the man who was using him like a perch before he lifted one hand off of Sho's shoulder, he grinned. "She's mine now Shoutaro" with that he flipped over Sho's landing with perfect ease.
"What did you just say, shorty?" Keiji knew he had turned around to look at him, there was a moment of anger and fear. Keiji was sure he didn't understand how he knew his real name but it was becoming clear to Keiji that Sho couldn't be fooled about this matter. He knew who she was and the only thing to do was to make it clear that no matter how much he spoke about it, no one was going to believe him.
"Kyoko is no longer yours." he shifted his weight as he moved towards the corner of the hallway to look into the lobby. "You lost your chance with a superior woman. So don't attempt to kiss her again." Keiji eyes narrowed but it wasn't about Sho or whatever nonsense he was going on about only going for superior women and Kyoko not being one of them. 'Great a damn lion has entered the den now' he sighed. "Troublesome," he said walking towards Kyoko.
Ren was overwhelmed by the time he had shut the door to the R'Mandy's private room for their models. He leaned against the door holding the knob for just a moment to make sure no one would be following him. He hated doing it but it didn't matter how Francis tried to get them under control it wouldn't work if they really wanted to do something. 'He really should have Ryu here'
His eyes narrowed slightly as he heard voices just off to the distance. Tuning them out not caring what they were talking, Ren had no desire to take part in any of drama, as long as it didn't bother his work. Which right now it didn't but it also meant his walk wouldn't be that great until they moved on. He debated if he should just walk pass by them when his eyes fell upon the small figured curled up under a man's jacket. His eyes trailed towards their face and he felt the bitterness swell through him, 'Kyoko' he moved forward, 'why is she sleeping out here' he stopped looking down at her.
"Excuse me," Ren's eyes widen in surprise at the young man who had simply leaped over the back of the couch, landing with perfect ease between him and Kyoko, his eyes narrowed at the young man. He would any other time admit that the man had skill but the fact remained he was now standing between him and Kyoko and that didn't sit well with him. Ren looked him over feeling like he should be able to place him, there was an air of familiarity with the way he looked but he was clueless. "I know she's cute when she's sleeping but I rather you leave her alone."
He wouldn't deny that she did look rather adorable sleeping but he didn't like the fact this guy got in the middle of him watching her, it wasn't like he would do something to her. "You are?" Ren asked, there was no way that this kid was her guard. He was far too young to have such a job.
"I'm her partner." The words twisted in Ren's heart and he couldn't understand why this bothered him so much.
He repeated the word, clearly not likely the sound of it either. 'No, she would have brought up a boyfriend' he looked at him 'then again we're not exactly friends either...' He was tempted to say something but his head turned towards the man walking towards them full of anger.
"She's not your damn partner," He was starting to wonder if Kyoko was just full of stalkers. Yet neither gave off the same vibe as the man known as Heth. They were both harmless or to put it exactly, harmless to him as Ren. The blonde was more of an annoyance that could cause problems but nothing he couldn't handle. The smaller man was a different sort of annoyance because he seemed to have a real connection to Kyoko, he wasn't trying to own or make himself her number one. It was like he already held that position and felt no need to prove it.
The smaller man sighed as though he was dealing with a pest before turning his attention fully to Kyoko he leaned forward, Ren realized that this man was not fearful at all. He watched as the man shook Kyoko gentle.
"Kyoko, get up. I'm tired of playing bodyguard." Ren moved forward but the look in smaller man's eyes had him stop for a moment. It wasn't fear but it was very clear he was telling him not to do anything as Sho grabbed his wrist and yanked it away from Kyoko, his eyes turned back towards Sho who had done such a thing before shaking Kyoko once more, she stirred under his touch before rubbing her eyes.
"Stop fucking touching her." Kyoko eyes looked up at Sho who was close to her face as he had been leaning over to keep the smaller man and she rolled off the couch right into the smaller man's lap. She quickly crawled out of his lap.
"Sorry, Keiji..." she said bowing her head as she moved away from. Ren stared at the back of the man's head, whose name he now knew. He had heard that name before still, he couldn't place it. The young man sighed as he stood up pulling Kyoko up with him as he did so.
"It's fine," he said straightening out her dress she showed no signs of being embarrassed by this action when he looked towards Sho it was clear he was at a loss to what was happening between them. Keiji picked up his jacket and put it back on paying no mind to either of them. Buttoning it up he pulled out his phone to look at it for a moment before putting it back into his back pocket. "We should get going, it's about lunchtime and Daiki is going to be a problem to get out of the bedroom."
It was Daiki's name that hit him, "You're Kyo's kid?" Keiji looked at him, a single nod of his head. His eyes turned back towards Kyoko as he took her hand and pulled her away towards the door. "Go tell her that we are getting ready for lunch. I need to talk to a Peacock and Lion," he said simply before opening the door to the KYO room and shutting it behind her. His eyes turned back towards the two of them and Ren was sure he wasn't going to like what's about to be told to him.
Keiji looked back between the two 'Lion... Peacock' he wondered what that made him 'Mama Bear maybe?' he mentally sighed. "Fuwa Sho here seems to have a crush on my partner." He paid no mind to Sho's protests that he did not like that plain boring girl with no sex appeal as though he had said nothing at all. His eyes turning back towards Ren as he looked at him, he could pick up anger in him but he hid it well. Perhaps to well, still he had noticed it.
"You seem to have shown some interested in her as well." he looked him over once, he couldn't be sure not just yet anyway. The man didn't even look like he understood his own emotions and perhaps it was just that. A cute girl who doesn't seem to be interested in him, because she was no longer interested in the other sex not after her history. Still, she had become a target for one Tsuruga Ren who all women wanted to be with. "I don't care if you crush on her. Like I said she's cute and regardless of what this guy thinks."
Sho moved towards him and his eyes narrowed, "I allowed you to touch me once simply because of where she was. Do it again and I will have you flat on your damn ass." his voice was low and deadly and from the look on Sho's face and even Ren's, neither of them knew exactly for sure if this was possible Sho huffed and he closed his eyes. "You are both Japanese and you will be heading home in about three days time." he said looking at them both, "Not that I understand why you are here" his eyes falling on Sho as he said it, "but the Oxford Fashion Show will be over in two days. I suspect maybe a day to pack and be gone."
The look on Ren's face was clear that he understood what he was speaking about, "so keep your dick in your pants." he said simply as the door opened and Kyoko stepped out, Juliena wrapping her arms around her waist.
"Nephele, I promise I'll bring you something sweet, please let go now," she said trying to get through the door. Sho eyes widen and a grin played across his lips.
A/N: The average height Japanese man is 171.2 cm or about 5'7 for a female it's 158.8 cm or about 5'2. Shoutaro apparently is 178 cm or about 5'10 (at 16) Ren/Kuon is listed as being 190 cm or 6'3 and Kyoko being 163 cm or 5'3. Keiji in this respect is 165.5 cm or just barely 5'5 (and he's 16)
I've lowered all but Ren down by an inch in this. This will allow Kyoko to grow a little more before she stops (most girls stop growing about 14-15 years old. They may still grow a little but not much more after that. Where young men usually have finished growing by the time they are 18.