I AM SO SORRY I DIDN'T POST YESTERDAY! I WAS LOCKED OUT OF MY HOUSE FOR HOURS YEASTERDAY AND IT WAS EVEN RAINING! But still thanks to all who reviewed and used my retarded review to show me that you DO read as well! BTW, the lamp from the last chapter is actually the one on my bedside table ^u^! And I was ECSTATIC! 40 REVIEWS! You people make me happy! And per request, I tried writing this chapter in the third person as to include both Ren and Kyoko's thoughts. I also had a concert today, so that's why this chap got a late posting. REALLY SORRY GUYS! I try to reply to some reviews, but most of you guys just leave anonymous ones! I appreciate those people too! I read ALL my reviews. BTW, Rons, loved the review! And Sumi031885 you make me laff! XDD And to anonymous John, of course I wouldn't make Ren try anything too quickly! To Malina, I'm sorry, but I HATE Reino. To cobalt eyes, THANKS!

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My Own Happy Ending

Chapter 5: Recollections

"Kyoko," he breathed cupping her cheeks with his own hands, moving her face closer, his eyes closing.

Her eyes widened in shock as…

Japan's Favorite Actor encircled her in a hug and gently leaned his forehead against hers. His muscled arms wrapped around her waist and held her tightly, as if meaning to never let her go.

All Kyoko could think was, 'How does he know me? He called my name and now he's hugging me? I'm getting hugged by Tsuruga Ren in his apartment! For crissakes, will someone please tell me what is going on?!'

She looked up at his face, long lashes dusting his cheeks, and blood rushed to her face as she thought of how handsome he was, up close.

Ren could only thank whatever gods that were out there. They sent him the one thing that gave him hope. His Kyoko-chan. 'She's really here, I can't believe it. The same shiny, black hair has grown out longer. And her eyes. The beautiful golden eyes of hers that I've always loved. They're the same. She's so beautiful all grown up. Now that I've found her, I don't think I can ever let her go.'

He worried when her forehead heated up, and the still fevered girl turned warmer. Ren pulled back and cupped her cheeks, asking worriedly, "Are you alright?"

Dazzled, she nodded her head no as he chuckled.

"Don't you remember me, Kyoko-chan?"

Kyoko sucked in a harsh breath, and gasped recalling a certain boyish prince's smile.

"Corn!? Is it really you?!" she exclaimed, disbelieving that Tsuruga Ren could possibly be her childhood fairy prince.

He nodded, and she jumped into his arms, squeezing her arms around his neck, and legs around his stomach. He laughed and she giggled as he twirled her in his arms.

"Why did you change your hair, Corn?" she asked fingering his dark locks, still wrapped around him like a koala would to a tree.

"That is a long story, Kyoko-chan," Ren sobered. "But it seems like you have one to tell too. Why were you in the park yesterday, with a fever, in such heavy rain."

Kyoko turned somber and a numb look replaced the happiness that receded from her eyes. Ren felt angry at the person who could so easily make Kyoko unhappy.

Kyoko let herself down and followed Ren into the kitchen. He sat her on one of the chairs and grabbed a towel to take care of the mess Kyoko had made before. After hurriedly wiping up the tea and collecting the broken shards of the two mugs, he came back to find Kyoko already boiling the water for another two cups of tea.

She turned to him and apologized again for hitting him, and for the broken cups. Ren smiled like it was nothing and leaned back against the counter as they waited in companionable silence for the tea to finish. When it did, Ren poured it into two new cups that he had retrieved. Ren sat while Kyoko collapsed into one of the chairs at the dining room table.

She sipped her tea tiredly while Ren stared at her, expectant. Kyoko wearily sighed, "You want to know what happened, don't you." It was said like a statement rather than a question from the tired girl. Ren nodded at her and took a gulp of his own tea.

"The long, or condensed version?" Kyoko asked giving him a look from the corners of her eyes, hoping that he would want to hear the shorter version.

"I have time," he said. "Tell me everything."

Kyoko looked down at the shades of brown in the wooden table and began, "I missed you a lot when you left, Corn. All that you left me with was a piece of your beautiful soul, my greatest treasure. It helped me a lot through my whole life. It felt like I still had you and your strength with me," she gave him a small smile.

"After you left, Mother's beatings only got worse. I was only 6 then, remember? Kids at school began asking how I got that cut, or a busted lip, and how I got that bruise or this bruise. It became harder to hide them, she kept at it so often. After you showed me happiness in that one amazing week, then left me behind…I-I just missed you so much," she said, her voice breaking at the end.

Ren's eyes steeled at the hurt in her voice, and at the pain he had caused his most precious person, but mostly to keep himself in check from showing his anger at towards the vile woman Kyoko biologically called her mother.

"I had to bear that for 4 more years until she left me. She left like she always would, but that time, she never came back.

"I learned pretty quickly that fairytales are only wishes and dreams people like me have to keep their will to live, alive." She smiled dryly at him, knowing that he would understand that she wasn't upset at the fact that he lied about being a fairy.

"The Fuwas took me in, but it was just like moving from one hell to another," she snorted. "They 'raised' me in their ryokan. Mostly it was just maid work. I developed a hard, cold, and outwardly uncaring personality that everyone else saw; that I would only take down around my precious 'prince,' Shou-chan," she mocked herself in a bitter tone. She spoke low, and embittered.

"So of course I followed him to Tokyo at 14 when he said he was pursuing his dream to be a musician. I worked my self into the ground for two whole years, supporting him, so in deeply love with him, while I had never noticed, he had turned me into his personal maid. I did everything for him. I quit school to support him." Her tone brimmed with a passionate hate for the idiot who had used her and thrown her away.

She laughed bitterly, now shaking her head at her own stupidity. "All the while, he was fucking anything with breasts, but he couldn't give me the time of day. So, when I found out, I left. I ended up just walking around and saw the park. I overworked myself that week, and I had a fever and on top of the rain, I passed out.

"Then I woke up here, to find my best friend, my fairy prince," she chuckled, "only after finding out he was Japan's Number 1 Actor and that I hit him over the head with his own lamp!"

Kyoko laughed, hoping she had lightened the mood. Ren had put on an indescribable aura. He was tensed, hands clenched, like the was going to rip the place apart, but was barely controlling himself.

As she stood up to wash their cups, Kyoko looked up at Corn with tear-filled eyes. He wrapped her in a hug and petted her hair softly, holding her to his chest. She gave him a lingering squeeze but pulled back and said, "I'm not the little girl you used to know Corn. I've grown up."

'And I wish you hadn't,' Ren thought.

He truly was hanging just by a thread. He had listened to her story without saying a word, his eyes blazing, but with cold. He hated how she had been treated like this. She had lived lifetimes at an age where one should have been enjoying the flavor of youth. He wished now that he had just ran away with her when he had the chance, when they were young. He wanted to protect and hide her from anymore hardships and heartbreak that would come her way.

And he would succeed, no matter what it took.

…

After washing the mugs and placing them in the dish rack, Kyoko felt the weight of her situation press down on her. It was stifling. She wasn't a freeloader; she couldn't stay here at Corn's place especially when he was also Tsuruga Ren, and being seen with a girl could damage his reputation. After all that Corn had done for her, she wasn't going to make things hard for him.

Ren waited for her in the living room while she washed the dishes. After folding up the blanket, he wondered what he could possibly say to her to convince her to stay. Even though Kyoko had changed plenty, she was still the same sweet girl at heart that he had met 10 years ago. And he knew that she would not want to impose on him. But he wanted her to. He wanted to spoil and love her.

Ren knew that she currently was not ready for taking a chance with love again, and that after all that she had been through, Kyoko was going to need to be taken special care of. After all, she was his precious gem.

As Kyoko entered the living room again and made her way to the couch where Ren was sitting, she felt his anxiousness. But she herself felt completely drained. Even telling Corn her past was hard for her.

"You don't have to tell me about your past if you don't want to," Kyoko said somberly, hoping that she could be someone he confided in eventually. She let out a yawn. The after effects of the fever lingered with her. She assumed it had broken some time when she sweated it out with all that adrenaline pumping through her veins. Kyoko thought that she had woken up in the morning, but in truth, it was already the late evening. She was hungry, but her tiredness overrode it, and she laid out on the couch, snuggling into the couch opposite Ren's side.

Ren felt a little upset that she didn't snuggle into him, but brushed it aside as he said, "I do want to tell you, but I don't think I can tell you the whole story without you hating me." He spoke softly, looking at her to gauge her reaction.

"I would never hate you Corn. You are the best thing that ever happened in my life."

He felt reassured by her words, but knew Kyoko was already half asleep, so he carried her from the sofa in a princess-lift. Her eyes snapped open, hazy with sleep, and asked, "Corn, where are you taking me?"

He chuckled, and she felt the vibrations of his chest under her head. I'm taking you to the bedroom."

"Mmmff," she groaned sleepily. "Okay."

He laughed again, and contemplated switching his route from the guest room to the master bedroom, and decided against it.

Ren gently placed her on the bed and tucked her in, checking her forehead one last time for her fever that seemed to have passed.

He thought of his job tomorrow, and just hoped that she wouldn't be gone by the time he came back.

…

The end of ch5! So I tried to lighten up some parts because of Kyoko's extra dark childhood. As you have read, these two are, especially Kyoko, very OOC. I don't know exactly where I wanna go with this, only that Kyoko becomes an actress as well and then lives happily ever after with Ren. SO if you guys have suggestions, fell free to drop a review! I tried 3rd person. How was it?

And umm…there will probably be sporadic updates on this from now until some time. I think BD2 will take even longer to be finished.

BUT I'VE GOT SOMETHIN NEW!

So please keep on putting up with me guys! REVIEW!