-Oxford - Wednesday: Part 22-

Kyoko sat glaring in Ren's direction but not really looking at him, actually any time she made eye contact with him she couldn't help but flushed. This only seemed to amuse him. That only seemed to annoy her more as she crossed her arms shifting herself so she was further away from not that she could get all that far from him. Regardless she was attempting to do so as she narrowed her eyes looking out the window, "Ublyudok" she couldn't believe herself either for that matter. She had allowed it in a way, hadn't she? She could have done something to stop him but had she? No, and the worse part was, she wasn't as uncomfortable as she thought she should have been with it. 'Because I know he's just acting' she mentally sighed. 'Shoutaro only acted too...' she narrowed her eyes as she began to think of the last time, she remembered the tone of his voice and the fear of being taken back, how now she was missing time but Ren had been there too 'maybe I could ask him.'

Ren couldn't take his eyes off of her, even when she called him a bastard he couldn't help but smile. It was too cute how she refused to swear in English choosing a less known language at that to talk to him, he hadn't heard her do that to anyone else and he wondered why that was. 'When did I start thinking in such terms as cute and adorable' he mentally shook his head. Her body language changed and he knew that inside her mind he was no longer the focus and that annoyed him. He acted without much thought, which was unlike the Ren Tsuruga but not Kuon, not his true nature. Moving across the limo he rested both of his hands on the other side of her head, she didn't even seem to even notice him there. His eyes narrowed as he nuzzled her neck, he felt her jump and couldn't help but grin as he felt her hands against his chest. "You need to focus..." he said simply as he shifted so he was sitting next to her.

Her eyes narrowed at him as he sat next to her she attempted to move across the limo but his hands were on her waist pulling her so she was almost in his lap, "What do you think you are doing?" she gasped as she found herself now sitting next to him but he looked relaxed his arms draped along the back of the seat as he looked at her. As if daring her to move again.

"You need to get used to me being near you." He ran a hand through his hair, "I know you aren't an actress but I would at least think you would have an idea how show interested in someone." He sighed heavily as he shook his head.

Kyoko couldn't believe he was lecturing her and about something like this. "Is that so?" she leaned away from him as she looked up at him. "I'm pretty sure only you have to make it look good. I don't recall that being my job." He stared at her for a moment surprised as she stuck her tongue out at him, she didn't care if it was childish at the moment and she knew that.

Everything in him was telling him to one thing but he stood his ground doing nothing but staring at her. She looked away, but he couldn't take his eyes off her even now. No matter how he thought about it that blonde might had been sexy and he wouldn't deny that but there was something that was missing compared to the two of them. Kyoko was somehow more attractive to him, mad it hard for him to stay in the character of Ren.

"I'm sorry about that woman..."

"Are you a mind reader?" he wasn't sure how she could tell that he had just been thinking about her and it made him uncomfortable.

"No," she said with a roll of her eyes, "But I know when someone is pretty." she lowered her face, "I saw the way you looked at her."

"Are you jealous?" for some reason he wanted her to be but the way she snorted made it clear that was not the case and that made him bitter inside.

"No, I assure you I have no interest." she sighed softly, "I've had enough fakes in my life, it's enough that I can trust you.

"Why don't you like me?" the pain in his voice startled her some and she sighed heavily as she looked at him. Hurting him was not something she wanted to do at all.

"Do you like everyone you work with?" she watched him shake his head no and she smiled, "Yet you trust them enough to do their jobs right?" he narrowed his eyes she was sure there were cases where that wasn't the case but he gave a single nod she couldn't help but smile at him. "Then, can you accept that trusting you is good?" she said leaning towards him, "For me, the trust is worth so much more," his eyes widen slightly. It was clear to him that she did accept him even if she didn't like him. He wanted to pull her to him, to wrap his arms around her yet he didn't do anything.

Kyoko sighed heavily at the sight across from her, Shoutaro and his date, a pretty French model with bottled red hair, she wasn't close enough to see her eyes but she was almost built in the way that Shoutaro would like. It wasn't even that he was sitting at the table right by theirs but the fact that when he realized who she was and who she was with that he seemed to have the brilliant thought of making her as uncomfortable as he could. By what Kyoko could only refer to as sex while fully dressed. Though she was trying her best to not pay much attention the fact remained that the woman would make such moans from time to time that caused Kyoko to be fully disturbed.

This, of course, was rubbing off on Ren apparently, though in her mind it was because he could be enjoying himself with the pretty blonde and not be stuck with her while that was far from the truth. Not that she would know, his anger and annoyance was a mix of the fact that the man was even there, that Kyoko was so focused on trying not to let the man get to her that he was again being replaced in her thoughts.

The booths were designed to give privacy for those type of intimate moments that passed between couples without making everyone else around them uncomfortable but depending on where you sat you could find yourself face to face with the other couple if one sat in just the right place and that was what she was finding was happening, she had moved away so she wouldn't have to look at him but it didn't help enough for her imagination. Shoutaro wanted her to see and was making it very hard for her not to see him. He also was making it very hard not to hear them talking.

"She is so boring looking" she heard the woman say in French as she basically sat in Shoutaro's lap. This was nothing new in her world either, how many time had she been told that? It was a key factor that lots of girls like to bring up. Yes compared to so many others, she was plain looking. They didn't like how close she had been to Shoutaro either. If she had been prettier maybe things would have been different, maybe she would have had friends in school.

Shoutaro smirked as she looked up at her "I know babe" he said running a hand down her back, "You gotta feel bad for that no-talent actor" of all the languages that Shoutaro had learned French was perhaps was the one he had chosen only because he thought it made him sound cooler, even if he didn't speak it grand it was good enough that anyone who knew French would understand him.

"She is so innocent, you see how red she is?" the woman looked back toward Kyoko and Ren and smiled, "I pity the girl..." she leaned in kissing him. "Maybe I should teach her hm?"

"There isn't a point in teaching her." he sounded amused, "All she's good for is cleaning and cooking."

"Oh that poor girl, she will never get a man that way." she shook her head sadly as the two of them began another make out section.

Kyoko could only flinch at the fact that the woman had been correct. She had only been good for those two things in Shoutaro's world and that had gotten her sold off like a piece of property, she had been bought and given, thankfully, to her father and was in a much better place. She lowered her eyes sighing softly, "Sorry..." she whispered to Ren who stared at her for a moment. She looked up at him she felt awful for him to be put with her. He reached over pulling her to him, "Please don't..." she said pushing her hands against his chest to move away but he held her to him as he placed his forehead against her own, this took her slightly by surprise.

"I won't betray you." He didn't realize how right those words felt to say until he had said them to her.

"That's not it." she found herself shifting so she could lean against his side. Ren ran his fingertips down her arm and she felt almost at once relaxed by the motion which honestly surprised her a bit.

"What is it then?" for Ren it was enough that she was with him at the moment. He had noticed how she seemed to relax under his touch and that brought such a lightness to his heart that he feared what it would do to him once this little act was up. For that's all it was, he knew that and it hurt him in a way he didn't think was possible. Then again he had been hurt badly when he had left her when they were children as well. He had wanted to stay with her but he knew that wouldn't be possible then, 'and it's not really now is it?' he thought bitterly.

Kyoko tilted her head to look up at him, "He doesn't love her," she spoke in French and Ren noticed from the edge of his eyesight that this had surprised younger man, perhaps he hadn't expected her to out him out or maybe to be able to speak French. "He's not actually into her at all, well sexually yes, men like women like that don't they?" she said tilting her head and he caressed her cheek, trailing his fingers down her neck he wanted to kiss her so badly but he didn't because that wouldn't be the type of answer she would want from him.

"Some do yes, I admit that a woman's body is a way to lure us men in." he felt her shift slightly as he drew her legs into his lap, "But I find that there needs to be more than just a certain look." Ren really liked the way Kyoko, for example, fit him better than anyone else, something he never thought would be the case but every time he thought about that, he thought about her age. He thought about how she was with Keiji even if it wasn't romantic and it bothered him. It bothered him that Shoutaro was the one she had loved maybe even still did.

"Oh and you find me attractive?" he noticed how her face was flushing slightly as he smiled at her.

"More than you can possibly know" he was surprised by how she seemed to accept his hand running up and down her leg though he was sure it was taking a lot out of her to not pull away from him.

"I suppose I will tell you why trust means more to me than caring about someone," Ren noted how the air around her seemed to grow warmer. Her eyes seemed darker to him, "He's the kind of man who can't understand someone's heart." she said placing a hand across her chest for a moment, "Even if you love someone and they don't wish to return the other person's feelings it's more important to say so... but he liked to toy with me, knowing how I felt. Toyed so much that I was stupid and foolish..." his hand stilled by her knee and he found himself fighting the urge to hit him, and urge that only got worse as she went on. "No, I want to say it's wonderful that I never gave him my firsts... but those were stolen..." her eyes narrowed as she spoke, "I have the most important one, that's all that matters but because of him... I know Heth." she leaned back as she stared up at him, "I've known others... but I was a perfect Blue Rose in the end." She felt the darkness around him even as she said the words. Something seemed to snap inside of the man and the only thing that seemed to be holding him in place right now was the fact her legs were resting in his lap.