A/N: when I was writing this a year ago, the 'kuu arc' was just coming out, so I had to go over it again to rewrite the second chapter. At the time I was at my grandmother's who doesn't have an internet connection at all, so the rewritten first chapter update was also delayed. Once again, this is still very much the same as the initial version, but with more content.

Chapter the second:

A petite teenager with bleached, generically short hair paced the corridor of the illustrious LME headquarters, muttering darkly to herself. Indeed this had the effect of clearing the usually busy corridor, as most quickly found reasons to take a detour or a different route (some abandoning all pretense and simply running for dear life), rather than encounter the demonic aura that the girl seemed to exude. 'Damn it. I hate this. All of them want 'Mio'. I can't tell them that I hated the role', Kyoko stiffened her resolve as she imagined the anguished cries of Director Ogata. No, she couldn't say anything but ... she didn't want to play 'Mio' again either. A curious head poked out of his office at the lack of noise, only to spot the dark girl, shivering with bone-chilling fear the man shut the door & collapsed against it inside his office as he tried to justify his terror at a seemingly unreasonable fear of a small teenage girl. As Kyoko sat on her stool in a daze, a harassed looking LME staff member rushed up to her.

Luckily her demonic aura had retreated somewhat and the poor slave of the administration department (who was otherwise too unimportant to bother with) was able to approach her without too much fear (though by now, her reputation as LME's most fear-inspiring employee was cemented in stone. Indeed, Sawamura-san was a brave man). "Mogami-san?" he asked questioningly.

Kyoko nodded the affirmative.

"Thank goodness!" the man let out a relieved sigh and sat down on another nearby stool, on which he slumped, plainly exhausted. Kyoko was about to help the man when he announced in a slightly panting tone. "Mogami-san, there is a phone call for you at the main office. Please go and take it, the caller said it was urgent" Kyoko hesitated, unsure of weather to leave him, afterall he looked as if he might need medical attention, or a good rest. Perhaps she could use her demons to...

When he saw she had yet to leave he said, slowly catching his breath "Go now! Please! He's been on the phone for the last half hour yelling for you!"

Kyoko ran.

Natsumi Mogami liked to think he was a patient man. In fact, 9 times out of ten, he was a very patient man. However if there was one thing he could not stand it was dithering administration staff, LME's dithering administration staff. He sometimes wondered how Lory Takeda could stand it. He crushed that thought, Lory Takeda probably hired them because of it.

He heard the phone be transferred to a new recipient. Damn the administration, damn them all.

"Hello?"

The voice was young and female. 'Please god, Kami, save me from trainees!' "Look here! I want to talk to Mogami Kyoko immediately, now-"

"This is Mogami Kyoko".

Oh. Damn. That was a great first impression. Alright...courage man! "Hello" Natsumi paused, how should he introduce himself? 'I am your father!' sounded like a line from that american Sci-fi movie his secretary had became obsessed with last year...besides it was way to cliche. Perhaps he should ask her to meet him...no, that sounded way too stalkerish.

"Um, excuse me? Is this some kind of prank call? If it is I'm just going to hang up-"

"No! I'm sorry a...problem just came up on my end of the line". Yes my inability to plan what to say to my daughter.

"That's fine" Kyoko replied, burying her irritation with the practised calm demenour of one who has worked in the service industry for years. For the last three minutes she had sat beside a silent phone, so it really wasn't fine. But she had learned from her time working at the inn to excercise patience in trying situations. Learned a the inn...Shoutaro...'shudder'.

"Please could you tell me if you are Kyoko Mogami, daughter of Saena Mogami?" Alright, let her think he was an intermediatry, or...was that too impersonal? No, it would do. If not, he'd try again.

My mother? Does he know her? Has she...could she have sent him to find me? Her mother had never cared about her in the 6 months since she ran away. Why should she care now? But..."yes i am the daughter of Saena Mogami."

Proof. Conclusive proof. Dear lord, he found her, his baby, his little girl had been in tokyo and he hadn't even known. "Miss Mogami, were you aware that your mother had kept her married name despite being divorced by your father 16 years ago?"

"Divorce? My father...my father died!" What on earth? What was this about her father? Her mother hadn't spoken of him, but from what she had told the boss-lady at the inn, her father died shortly before her birth.

"Were you also aware that your father was in control of a significant fortune, most of which your mother believed she claimed in the divorce settlements?"

"...no" A significant fortune? Her mother did run a successful buisness, so money was never a big issue and they lived in an upperclass neighbourhood, but a significant fortune? Had she used it to start up? But why divorce? Perhaps it had gone to something she was unaware of?

It was as he feared. "Miss Mogami, your father has expressed a desire to meet with you. He was told you were born stillborn and discovered you were alive in the drama you played in."

"To meet with me?" Kyoko's heart and mind were racing as she realized her mother's true betrayal of her, how could she lie to Kyoko about something so important? But her father? He was an unknown. But he might actually care about her if he wanted to meet her...she decided. "Where would my father like us to meet." quickly a time and date were organised. Cautiously, the episode on the dark moon set had made her realize the possibility of a stalker (like the beagle leader), she picked the Daruma, he couldn't find she lived there if she didn't tell him.

Whoever he was, he knew more about her past then she did and she wanted, no. she needed to know about it, whatever it was.

She wanted to meet this man.

Natumi hung up the phone reluctantly. He sat for a minute then dialled a number into his mobile. The information was highly sensitive he was just paranoid enough to believe his phones might be tapped.

"This is Saena Mogami, I'm not home right now, so please leave a message after the beep. Beep" Damn. An answering machine.

"Saena, it's me". He didn't bother to give his name, she'd know who it was. "We need to talk, about the events of 16 years ago, call me on XXX-XXX". Well he made the first move, now it was her turn.

Then he called in his secretary. "Sawamura-san!", a lovely black haired woman in her early thirties entered his office, her frazzled hair in a loose bun at the nape of her neck, a few strands curling delicatly near her ear. Despite her connection to LME through her cousin, Ms Aya Sawamura was unquestionably loyal, capable & efficient. To the point that he'd kept her as his secretary for the fifteen years he'd been director.

"yes sir?"

Aya Sawamura was indeed loyal, capable and efficient. You had to be, after years of working for Natsumi Mogami. Having worked for him for fifteen years she was one of the few who actually knew his last name and one of the few who saw him turn from a cold bitter man, heartsick from his past into the man he was today, a good natured, charming gentleman. So was she indeed surprised at the look, so remanisent of that time on his face.

" I want you to clear tomorrow afternoon, all of it." What? But tomorrow's when he does the paperwork! He always works thursday afternoons!

"Are...are you sure sir?" oh dear lord.

"yes, I have a very important meeting to go to" and he looked up at her, every inch a handsome 37-year-old man and smiled.

Brain function slowing...stopped. Mind... turning... to mush.

"Ms Sawamura?" the handsome thing inquired.

"y-yes?"

"The schedule for tomorrow? Please rearrange it as requested".

Handsome thing want's afternoon off? It shall be done! "O-ok"

"Thankyou that will be all". Escape!

Aya practically ran out the door, collapsing at her desk, blushing madly. 'what just happened?!'

'What just happened?' Natsumi pondered his secretary's behaviour, never had she reacted so in fifteen years. She had been however, oddly flushed. Perhaps she was sick? On that note, he buzzed her intercom & told her that she was welcome to take the rest of the afternoon off after rearranging his schedule.

He just hoped it wasn't serious.

A/N: Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me! Ok, I turned 17 just before christmas, but one of my presents was lost in the mail and I just got it today! At the moment I'm still at my grandmother's so this isn't really relevant by the time this will be posted though =). Now things are changing from the initial story, a little more depth has been added and a new character introduced. Originally Aya was going to be introduced much later (in the seventh or eighth chapter), remember this is the same story, just the rewritten version, not a seperate story altogether. Note that it's about doubled in size!

Secondly, thankyou to the awesome reviewers! To the reviewers who asked if i'm incorporating Saena, yes, yes I shall, though this wasn't a clearly planned development in the initial version, but it would have occurred late in the story. So Saena won't actually appear for a while (a couple of chapters at least -_-') but she'll have an influence (not sure how large it'll be) over the characters.