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"Are you insane?! What do you think Reino would do if he found out?!" Moko whisper shouted to me. (Be honest. How many of you thought it was Reino?) I wasn't worried about that…okay I was worried about that but I wasn't going to hide it. "I'm going to tell him. He should know about it." I told her. She seemed to calm down a bit but the frustration was evident on her face. "But it still doesn't change the fact that you're still going." she said with narrowed eyes.
"Moko. I have to talk to him. After what Reino told me about him…it's not something that I can ignore. I tried sometimes but I just can't do it while knowing how he feels and him not knowing that I know." I said internally begging for her to understand. She seemed to see my desperation in my eyes because her own eyes softened and she nodded. "Fine. But I'm coming with you." she said. "Moko you don't have-" she cut me off and said, "Kyoko you must be utterly insane if you truly believe that I'll let you be alone with that guy. Even if he loves you it doesn't cancel out the possibilities of him doing something to you." she said not giving me any options. She was right though. I was alone with him when I told him that he was losing against the Beagles and I ended up getting scratched on my face. Even though it was an accident.
I looked at her and smiled. She was the bestest friend that I could ever ask for. Always looking out for me. "Okay. You can come." she was satisfied that I agreed but not happy of what I agreed with Sho. I felt the guilt come over me again.
Moko started to go back to the table. I stayed for a second to make sure my face was natural. I breathed in and out a few times and put a smell smile on my lips when I got back to them. "Who was that?" Mr. Tsuruga asked. His name was getting long the more I think about it. Mr. Tsuruga. Five syllables. That was kind of long. I moved that thought out of my head for now and focused on how to answer him. "It was Mizue. She told me that she'll have us picked up around 7." I told them. Mizue was the first name that popped into my head. They nodded and continued eating. I can not believe that I just lied to Mr. Tsuruga and got away with it without being suspicious. I did it before but not right in front of him. (Remember the time she first got freaked out by Reino but didn't tell Ren when he called? That's what I mean.)
Moko was shaking her head and put her script back. Then I thought of something. "Hey Moko. If they just finalized the movies yesterday why do they already have the scripts?" I asked her. She thought about it. Then both of our eyes widened. "Those devious little demons!" we hissed. They're up to something! "What happened?" Mr. Yashiro asked. (This part may not make much sense so i apologise in advance.)
"We think they are up to something." Moko and I said. "Why?" Mr. Tsuruga asked. "Because. Haven't you noticed that the president was acting weird yesterday? He's been smiling evilly sometimes and I thought that it was just another one of his grand entrances because he has that look a lot when he's thinking about it." I said.
"And then all of a sudden today we get our debut film. Both romances. Tomorrow is Valentines day. We don't have any Love Me work. It's too weird!" Moko yelled lowly.
"That makes no sense at all. It's highly likely that it was just a coincidence." Mr. Tsuruga said looking at us weirdly. Mr. Yashiro was calm. Why?
"Mr. Yashiro. You don't seem to think that any of this is weird. And you don't seem to think that our explanation is strange." I said looking at him suspiciously. He glanced at me and Moko and then gulped. He gulped. An immediate sign of fear or guilt.
"You know something about this?" I whispered outraged. I'll admit that the explanation made no sense but his reaction was a dead giveaway. He shook his head. "N-no."
"Who planned it?" I asked.
"I don't know!"
"What do you know?"
"Nothing?"
"How long have you known?"
"About a week." he gasped and clasped his hands to his mouth. "Hah! I knew it!" I said. He groaned and covered his face with one hand. "Mr. Yashiro?" Mr. Tsuruga said. We all looked at him and saw his Gentlemanly smile. I shivered slightly. That smile will never cease to freak me out.
"What?" Mr. Yashiro asked cautiously. "What are you hiding?" He asked still smiling. "Nothing." he said again but this time his voice wavered. "You're lying." Mr. Tsuruga, Moko, and I said glaring at him. Mr. Yashiro threw panicked glances at each of us until he grabbed all of his things and started running away from us. Mr. Tsuruga started to get up and go after him but I grabbed his hand and told him, "It's okay. We'll get him later. Or we could go to the president." Or a certain father of mine.
He looked at our hands and I think I saw him smile a little. I let go and he sat down. Moko was looking at him speculatively. "What do you think you're doing?" I asked Mr. Tsuruga when he started getting up again. "What?" he asked. I eyed his tray. He still had a whole muffin left and half his coffee was still there. "Finish it." I said firmly. He seemed to be struggling with some inner turmoil because he was about to continue walking away but then stopped and he has a undecided look on his face. I narrowed my eyes and sharply told him, "Sit down and finish it." His eyes widened ad he sat down and started eating. Satisfied I let go of his hand and smiled at Moko who was also smiling slyly. We both watched him eat his food. His mouth had a hint of a pout. I turned to Moko and pouted. I pointed to my mouth and then to him. She looked at him and then realized what I was talking about. We both coughed to cover up our laughs. Mr. Tsuruga obviously knew we were laughing. "It doesn't hide anything if you cough at the same time." he said bitterly and glared at us. We both laughed out loud and he just grimaced.
He finished and said, "It's rude to force me like that."
"Well it's rude to glare at us like that." I countered. "Why are you so mean now?" he asked childishly. "Consider it an image change. And why are you talking like a kid being treated unfairly? It sounds weird coming from you." Moko started laughing again.
"I'm not talking like a-"
"Excuse me." a voice said behind Mr. Tsuruga. We all jumped and saw Mizue standing there trying not to laugh. "You need to stop doing that." Moko told her sounding annoyed by how she just pops up out of no where.
"Sorry. I hate to interrupt your little….squabble but I should probably tell you that you will need to pack some clothes when you come over tonight. You both are staying over." she said. Moko and I just stared at her. "I think I need permission for that." I said still surprised by the sudden news. "No need. I already asked both your families and they said yes. Like before my brother will pick you up and drop you to your houses and then you'll come to my house." she explained. Wow. She thought of everything.
"We'd hate to impose but-" Moko started but got cut off by Mizue. "It wasn't an offer. I'm telling you to. Like I said I told your families and you will be my hostages for three days." She said humorously. "We don't have a choice do we?" Moko asked.
"Nope." she said popping the p. "You're so evil." I told her as a joke. "So I've been told but you haven't seen anything yet." she gave us a sly smile and walked away. She could have done the disappearing act but I guess she didn't because of Mr. Tsuruga. "Who was that?" he asked. "Mizue. She was the one that called earlier."
"Oh. She looks familiar." he said. We cocked an eyebrow at him. "You know her?" we both asked. "No. I just said she looks familiar. It's possible because she's in LME. We might have bumped into each other one time. She can't just walk in with out being stopped." he explained throwing his trash away. Pfft. He doesn't know her. If Reino could get into LME with out any one knowing then why wouldn't she be able to?
"Moko we should go now." I told her getting up. She also started packing her things and we bid our goodbyes to him and went our separated ways to get our movie info just to meet up with each other later.
..:~: Ren POV :~:..
I stared after Kyoko as she walked away. She's changed lately. She's wearing darker colors, is more confident and daring. Her hair grew longer and if you look really closely you could see the barest hint of her natural black colors showing again. Of course no one would pay so much attention to her as much as I do. Another thing about her that's changed. She's more perceptive. It surprised me so much when she said my smile became a frown. I made sure that no one saw but she did.
I sighed and got up to go find Mr. Yashiro. He owed me an explanation.
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Fast forward to the end of Both Kyoko's and Kanae's dramas. I'm sorry. I wanted to write a bit about it but I just couldn't do it.
..:~: Kyoko's POV :~:..
I looked at my phone. It read 6:52. This is taking forever. Moko should be here by now. Reino was picking us up in at least 8 minutes. I'd already went to the Darumaya and got my things. Okami-san wished a fun time and told me to be safe. The taisho looked like he always did but I'm pretty sure I saw a trace of worry in his eyes. I smiled. They were like my parents.
Finally a cab pulled over and Moko came out with a duffle bag and her purse with her. "Hey. How long did you have to wait?" she asked. I shrugged. "Four minutes." (Kanae: Four? Seriously? That was so long that it was forever? Me: What? It's Reino! Who wouldn't be anxious to see him?!)
By now it was 6: 56. Moko said, "I wish he would hurry up. If he doesn't come within the next 4 minutes then I'm going home. I really don't feel like waiting." she said.
You ever hear of the quote 'your wish is my command'? Well right after Moko said that we saw a black car pull up right in front of us. "Huh. I should do that more often." she said and I laughed. "What's so funny?' Reino asked getting out of the car. "Nothing." we both said. He didn't believe us. "Sure. So you guys have everything?" he asked. We nodded and the both of us went into the back seat. I would have sat in the front but I just wanted to tease him a little. Moko and I snickered when we saw his disappointed look in the rearview mirror. It may seem like I'm messing with his feelings by doing something like that but come on. He is so irresistible when he's pouting! Five minutes into the drive and Moko whispered me, "I don't know if you noticed but he keeps glancing at you from the mirror." I looked at the said mirror and sure enough Reino glanced at me every few times and would quickly look down if he noticed me looking. Moko and I smirked. Then she whispered again, "He is SO whipped." I started coughing to cover up my laugh. I saw Reino's eyes narrow. That just brought on another wave of laughter, I mean coughing.
For about 3 more minutes we kept on getting more humorous reactions from Reino until he parked in front of a large, white, three story building with a balcony at the back and I think a roof top terrace. Moko whistled at the sight. Reino, who was obviously still ticked roughly took our bags and stomped to the door. We followed grinning like fools. He took out a set of keys from his pocket and used one to open the door. When we were in he called out, "Mizue!" Moko and I were just staring at the inside. In front of us was a PALACE!! In front of us was a long corridor. To our right as the living room which was pretty large and open. It had like a late night theme with violet walls and white borders, black leather sofas with dark purple and dark blue cushions. They also had a rectangular coffee table with matching side tables next to each sofa. There was a 35in flat screen on a glass TV set with DVDs and video games stored in the right places. And this was just one room!
"Reino!" we heard a shout come from up stairs. All of our heads snapped up to see a fuming Mizue who for some reason instead if her pitch black hair had a maroon or burgundy colored hair. "You are dead!" she hissed appearing right behind him. He smirked and the both of them disappeared.
They were still in the house. Somewhere, but still there. We could hear shouting from all over the place. We could here them from upstairs, downstairs, in the living room, one time they even came right in front of us. It was hilarious at first but now it's just getting annoying. I mean they've been at it for ten minutes. We decided to just sit in the living room until they gave up. I huffed. Moko decided to stop them herself. "Okay. The next time they appear in this room we grab whoever is the closest to us so we could put a stop to it." I nodded. Two minutes was all it took for them to appear in the room again. Reino was the closest to us so Moko and I went to either side of him and grabbed each of his arms so he couldn't get away. Mizue huffed in satisfaction and brushed some of the hair out of her face. "Thank you." she said to both of us a little breathless. Reino was squirming and he was looking at me with a look that said one thing, 'Why?'
"Because. It was getting annoying." I told him. He pouted and I just couldn't help but be swooned by it. It was so freaking adorable. "I'm sorry. Mizue, please, I'm sorry." he started begging. He sounded so desperate it almost made me believe him. "No. We were even. We made a truce but you just had to go and mix hair dye with my shampoo." she seethed.
"Well if it makes you feel better you look pretty that way. And the color was supposed to turn blue but…" he trailed off. He was right. She really didn't look bad at all with that color. She looked better with black but she still looked really pretty in red. "He' right. You do look really nice with that color." Moko said letting go of his arm. I did the same but he grabbed my hand and held it. "Your lucky your girlfriend and her best friend agree with you because I would have killed you. No. I know you aren't afraid of death. So I would have burned you alive. That would be the perfect revenge for all of the pranks you pulled on me all these years." she whispered menacingly. We all shuddered at how sincere she sounded. "So. What do you guys want to do?" she asked pleasantly as if the last twelve minutes never even happened. "Maybe you should show them their rooms and then we could talk." Reino suggested. She nodded and grabbed Moko and my hands and dragged us up the black carpeted floor. Reino followed after us with our bags. We made a right turn and there was a hallway that was almost identical to the downstairs one if it wasn't for the softer tones. "We have two extra rooms. One is an actual bedroom while the other one is more of a guest room. Now what I want to ask if you both want to share a room or be separated." Mizue told us. Moko and I looked at each other and then back at her. "Share." we said. Mizue laughed and guided us to the guest room. This room had parallel twin sized beds, red walls, a mahogany bedroom set with the side table in between the two beds. There was one closet and a door that I think leads to the bathroom. The comforters were of a sunset theme with instead of red, orange, and yellow the had red, orange, and white. There were also two windows parallel to the beds. The perfect word to describe it was…perfect. Mizue giggled at our stunned faces. "It's great." I managed to breath out. She thanked us and told us that the door leads to a bathroom. I knew it. Then she offered us a tour. The room next to ours was Mizue's. Her room was really pretty. It had a queen sized bed, black walls with white borders, a white marble bedroom set, a door that lead to the bathroom, and a computer desk that had held a computer which was obviously tweaked because the CPU had a few extra wires. And also because she sort of hinted it. The comforters were sapphire and white with black floral designs. The walls had white floral designs coming from below and a few coming down the walls. They looked really elegant and otherworldly. At first I thought that she had a professional do it but she said that she did it herself. The windows one the walls were actually doors to a the balcony.
The one across from our room was the unoccupied room. It was basically the same as the guest room but with a queen sized bed. Then she told us that the one in front of hers was Reino's room which held another way to the balcony. We were about to go in but he heavily refused. Mizue didn't argue with that and we didn't ponder on it.
We went back down and she pointed out the living room, kitchen, dining room, and then we stopped at a pair of double doors. She opened it and it revealed a mini library. Three of the walls were filled with book shelves and then there were a few lower shelves that held more books. There were also a few desks that held some lamps. "This is more of a library and a study room combined. We didn't have enough space downstairs. Which by the way is both of our favorite." Mizue said. She opened a door near the library/study and revealed a staircase. She switched the light on and began walking down. "This door is actually a storage room. That one is a mini recording studio where Reino and his friends sometimes come to, and this is the music room." She said stopping in front of another double doors. She pushed it open and we all walked in. This room was different than the whole house. It had white walls, white carpet, a grand piano in one corner, a couple guitars and other instruments hung on one of the walls, and two parallel walls had white flowing curtains despite the fact that it had no windows. One particular instrument caught my attention. It was a violin. I could tell by the case. It was placed on a shelf that was near the piano. It also had some little booklets in the shelf under it. A few yards away from where we were standing there was a keyboard. I looked at the whole room again. It was so open. It was bigger than the mini library. "This seems really nice. I can see why it's your favorite room." Moko said smiling softly.
We didn't really go into the recording studio. Mostly because we've already seen them before. "You guys hungry?" Mizue asked. She didn't wait for our answers because she was already dragging us back up. She went in to the kitchen and took out a large bowl of ramen. Except this was mixed with shrimp, vegetables, cumin, ginger, chili pepper, and tomato sauce. It looked and smelled good. "Drinks?" she asked. Moko and I said for water and Reino got 'the usual'. Whatever that was. She first came with our water and then two glasses of a black colored drink. In the light it looked like an orange red. Mizue noticed my staring. "It's coke mixed with iced tea." she said. (It tastes pretty good if you try it.)
Moko and I scoffed as we sat down on the dining table. I never liked soda but now they mix it with iced tea? "It's a bit sweet but it's good." she defended. We laughed and started eating. The ramen was really good. Reino was picking out the carrots from it and then ate. I giggled at his childish behavior. "What? I don't like cooked carrots. They're too soft." he said. "Like your muscles. Or lack there of." Mizue teased. "Shut up." he hissed. "I've been practicing ever since that incident." What was he talking about. "What incident?" I asked.
"I don't know if Fuwa ever told you but when you guys left, me and Fuwa sort of had an argument. I thwarted him and he retaliated." he answered looking down. "Oh. That. Yeah he said that he beat your 'I' line to a pulp." I almost laughed at the end of that. The image in my mind was rather humorous. He just glared at me and stayed silent. We all, except for Reino, laughed at that. He just scowled and ignored us. "Sorry." I whispered to him. "It's okay." he whispered back, a little smile playing on his lips. "Yeah. It's okay only because Kyoko apologized. If it had been one of us you would have rudely ignored us." Moko stated. "So true." Mizue agreed. "It's kind of cute watching him soften up now. They way he talks about her shows a side of him that would warm anyone's heart." Mizue said grinning at Reino. We both blushed and just continued to finish our meals. We heard 'aww's from both Mizue and Moko followed by a high five between the two. I glanced at Reino who was still blushing. "By the way Reino you should probably know that because you broke the truce I will get revenge." Mizue warned. He gulped and scooted his chair away from the table while saying, "I'm done." and rushing out the room. We giggled and started cleaning up.
"What are you going to do to him?" Moko asked when we finished with the dishes. "It's a surprise. I won't say it in front of Kyoko because she would probably tell Reino." she said. I gave a dramatic gasp. "How could you say such a thing."
"No. Seriously. What I'm planning right now will definitely cause you to rat us out because it sort of includes you." Mizue said smirking. I looked at her warily and then said, "Okaaay then, changing the subject. How do you and Reino do that little disappear act thing?"
"You mean this?" Reino said into my ear. I screamed and smacked his arm. "Agh! What did you do? Before you used to be so weak." I told him rubbing my hand a bit. He sat on a separate couch and said, "Like I told you before. I started practicing after the Fuwa incident. Meaning I've been working out more." Mizue's mind clicked. "Oh yeah. I forgot about that. The roof has another small room there that Reino uses for work out. Any way back on track. That disappearing act is actually called short distance teleportation. It's more of a speed thing. Like say I'm on a football field. I can go to the other side in less than ten seconds. Of course you also have to have stamina. If you lack stamina then you get there much slower than you want to. Like Reino here, he used to take 5 seconds to go down a fifty foot corridor when the average speed is 2 seconds. Now he takes 3. Of course there are also so limits. You can't really go much over half a mile at once. There's also the thing where if your in a closed room you can't get out of it with the sort distance teleportation. There has to be an opening. The reason is, like I said, speed. It's not really teleportation. But we tend to go so fast that it was the only name we could think of."
"We?" Moko and I asked. "We know some other's like us. We keep in contact. Sort of. We just contact each other on emergencies."
"So how many of you exactly are there?" Moko asked. "Worldwide is about twenty to twenty five. In Japan there are two more besides us." Mizue said. Wow. I thought that there would be around hundreds but I guess I was wrong.
"Reino didn't tell you about why there's so little?" Mizue asked. I shook my head. "Oh. Well I'll tell you. You see Kyoko, every person is born with a Pandora's Box. In one year about twenty of our kind are created when the box opens due to specific situations. It could be by anger, grief, or jealousy, but only in tremendous amounts of it. First they all just end up with grudges but there are rare ones that hold actual demons. When the box opens the persons grudges or demons gradually develop into to some kinds of abilities. You can tell because you start to see ghosts. We don't exactly know why ghosts but we are working on it. Any way while your grudges change so does your appearance. We ran some tests and it's like a speeding up of puberty. Your physical appearance, voice, everything that deals with puberty speed up in process. If your wondering why, the development on grudges and demons work with the brain so…you get the picture. Which leads to my next point. When the brain is put on a certain amount of stress it can shut down. You can die or, if your lucky, you live but with out grudges/ demons anymore. So far there are only about 52 cases of that in the past decade. Those who do survive went through a painless process. Those who didn't, suffered. If your parent had been a survivor they would have passed on the gene to you and increased your chances of beholding grudges. Kyoko your father was one of the survivors." she finished in a serious tone. I stared at her, shocked. (Preview of next chapter below)
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He was still knocked out when Mizue came came back with two boxes of hair dye. I cocked my eyebrow at her and she said, "It's his original hair color. And I was going to get back my black hair." I shook my head. She told me to hold his head up and took out a scissor. My eyes widened. "Relax. I'm just cutting some of his hair. The long hair in the back still gets on my nerves for some reason." I couldn't argue with that. That hair was a bit weird. She carefully cut off the little tail, but left a little bit of it still there, and trimmed the rest of his hair so it looked more 'boyish' than 'cool'. She also did this thing with his bangs so that the right eye was still behind his bangs but the left eye was mostly visible by a partition of the bangs. When that was over she took over and wet his hair, dyed, and shampooed it. After that she sat him one the floor. "If he had some black makeup on he'd look emo." I said looking at his face. Mizue and I looked at each other and then we grinned. "I'll be right back." she said and ran back upstairs. After two minutes she was back and handed me black nail polish. She had eyeliner, a comb, scissors, face powder, and bright red lipstick.
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"Lets go back inside." I said. She nodded and we started making our way down. "Wait a minute." she said when we were in Mizue's room. I still didn't want her to see my room. "I don't exactly know why I didn't ask you this before but what's with the emo image?"
"That's Mizue's and your friend's fault. They knocked me out and did this to me. Mizue most likely wanted revenge for what I did to her hair and Kanae wanted to release her anger out on me by making me look like this. I think now she knows that I'm not fond of the emo thing." I told her, frowning. She bit her lip and touched the black strands of hair over my eye. "Actually I find that you look very…attractive like this." she said a bit seductively, probably unaware of it. My breath hitched. Oh please don't do this to me. She brought her face closer to mine and I didn't know that I did the same until our lips met. I know we kissed twice before this but those times we didn't kiss. The first time I kissed her and the second time she kissed me. This time was so different. In a good way. Both of our lips moved in sync and it was so…ethereal. Her lips were so soft and so sweet. She tasted like fresh apples. Her hands made their way around my neck and one of her hands tangled into my hair. One of my hands held her cheek while the other one snaked it's way around her waist, refusing to let go. We continued kissing each other for who knew how long.
I didn't hear the door to the room open until... I'm being too nice!!!! Review if you want more!!