Disclaimer: I don't own Skip Beat!

This is totally unrelated to 'Her Cure,' I'm just going to make it into a series of oneshots, an outlet for my sudden bursts of inspiration. I hope you enjoy this little drabble.

Ren found Kyoko sitting in the LoveMe room, concentrating very hard on something she was writing in a small, hot pink notebook that matched her coveralls. He knocked on the door frame to get her attention. She jumped at the sound, suddenly pulled from her thoughts to see her respected sempai watching her. She blushed and closed the notebook.

"Hello, Tsuruga-san," she smiled. "How are you?"

"I'm fine Mogami-san. I'm sorry to disrupt you. What were you writing anyway?"

"Oh, w-well," she stuttered and blushed. "It was just something I've been meaning to write down for a while. I was just making a list before I forgot. It's my bucket list."

"Bucket list?" The term sounded familiar to Ren, but he was too busy watching her cute blush to remember.

"Yeah, a list of things I want to do before I, um, 'kick the bucket' as the saying goes." It was an odd, American phrase and tradition that she had seen in a movie once. Ever since she saw it when she had thought of things she wanted to do she mentally added them to her bucket list before she even realized that she was making one. She was only now writing them down, though.

"Is that so? Well, what sorts of things are on your bucket list?"

Kyoko, slightly reluctantly, handed Ren the notebook. After flipping past a few pages filled with to do lists, phone numbers, and meeting times he found the page he was looking for. He read it quickly and quietly.

Bucket List:

1. Become Japan's best actress

2. Visit Kuu Otou-san in America

3. Take up Karate

4. Learn French

Her list continued only a few items further, mostly a list of skills she wanted to learn, and a couple of places she wanted to travel to. He thought it was a rather good list, nothing shallow like objects she wanted. But he felt that there was something missing from her list, something he knew had been her goal for quite some time.

"Mogami-san, this is very nice, and I'm sure someone of your intelligence and determination will be able to finish this list easily within a year or so. But, I think you forgot something."

"Oh? What is it?"

"Wasn't your first goal in life to defeat Fuwa Sho?"

Kyoko's face went totally blank for a minute while she thought of the implications of her failure to add that to the list. Then she smiled.

"I didn't forget, Tsuruga-san. It's just not important anymore, so I don't think about him. There are other more important things."

"Important things like these," he clarified, holding up her list.

"Yes, those things as well as others. In fact . . . Recently . . . I've been thinking a lot about trying to accept my lost important emotion again."

Ren froze, as Kyoko smiled shyly, meaningfully at him. Then she took her notebook back, saying that she had a meeting soon, and said goodbye.

He watched her walk out, and a smile broke out on his face to match the hope he felt renewed in his heart. Maybe Yashiro would say that he hadn't made any progress, but perhaps, if she kept thinking like that, Kyoko might meet him halfway.

A/n: I was making my own bucket list when i suddenly thought about Kyoko making one. Then I thought, if she forgot about Sho, what would that mean for Ren? It just grew from there. I hope you like it. Cheers.