Chapter 4: Memories

Disclaimer: I do not own "Skip Beat".

Author's Note: If you have not read up to Chapter 125 then you might be confused in some parts of this chapter.

(In the Hospital)

While Kyoko was looking at the ceiling from her hospital bed, she did not know if this was a dream or reality. The light made it hard for her eyes to open, so she just closed them. She heard some voices just outside her door. The voices did sound familiar at first and she had no doubt who it was, but why would they be here right now. Were they not far away from Tokyo? The voices got louder and the door opened full-swing. Kyoko began to open her eyes again and saw something she had not seen in a while.

"Corn" she said. While looking half a sleep. The fact that she says this to a little boy shocked Ren greatly. It seemed that fate had other things in for store for Ren.

Since this little boy and Sho Fuwa just showed up out of nowhere. They came immediately, when there was news of her on the media; Kyoko surprisingly fainted at the

beach party. Ren thought the kid looked to be almost three years old, and what was more surprising was, he had blonde hair. The boy jumped on the bed and started

to crawl towards Kyoko. Sho notices what the kid is about to do and catches him before he woke Kyoko.

"Hey! What are you doing? Kyoko is trying to sleep." Sho said in a demanding tone.

"I want mommy." said the little boy. Did he just call her mommy?

"What is this boy saying? Fuwa?"

"Nothing that could bother with you." Glaring at him with those eyes that said. "Kyoko is mine."

The doctor was just checking on Kyoko's vital signs to see if there was any side-effects, while they were conversing with each other. But she noticed that this was Kyoko the famous actress who worked on "Dark Moon" a few years ago. This woman was a fan of Kyoko, even though most of them were men.

"Mommy is okay"

Automatically, this catches the other people's attention, who are in the room already. Sho was not surprised after he talked with his parents from Kyoto, but it was amazing that the boy knew what to do. The boy had this grandiloquent aura around him that made him stand out, even though the room was all plain and simple. The little boy did not care about the others in the room. He looked happy to see Kyoko, it was a fact that was shown on his face when he ran into the room. The boy just stared at her when Sho stopped him. The boy then took out a stone; the only thing that actually took Ren's eyes away from him was the kid who puts the stone in Kyoko's hand. At the same time, Sho is puzzled as to how the boy got a stone so pretty. Kyoko's eyes begin to open. While she opens them she sees old and new faces.

Kyoko has a smile on her face, but then she begins to touch her head to show her dizziness and she sinks back into the bed.

"What are you doing here?" Kyoko said with her eyes closed. She was dreaming of her past and it made her sad. Remembering on what has happened, she gets up and tries to walk. (Obviously bedridden for a couple of days can make you numb.) So she fell off the bed with a "thud" sound. Being her that is what she predicted, but she never got to hear that sound. Because someone cushioned her fall. In a state of unconsciousness Kyoko was brought back to her past.

(Kyoko's memories)

What has happened to my acting? Staring at the mirror of her room Kyoko did not feel so good have her role as Natsu. Something was stopping her from actually doing her best and Kyoko did not know what it was. She decided to walk outside and get some fresh air. Since she lived in Tokyo right after Sho and she left home, Kyoko had not gone to the countryside in a while. She even had the pink stone with her that was found in the Queen of Rosa. She got it from Ren on her 17th Birthday.

It was time for Kyoko to go back and see the forest to re-energize herself. Since she has been away from the fairies. Even to hoping that Corn would be there to help her out. Since it was getting late Kyoko decided to rest and sleep for the whole day.

"Kyoko-chan, how are you today?" In her dream it felt like time stood still; the day she first saw him. A boy ten years of age.

"Corn, I am having trouble with my job and I do not know how to face it." Kyoko was not the six year old girl, she was back then, but the seventeen year old.

"You are funny Kyoko-chan. Everything is going to be alright as long as you keep that personality of yours."

(Back in the Hospital)

"Mommy is all right, right?" said the little boy. As he looks at Kyoko.

"Kid, why don't you play with your toy." As the little boy turns around he stares at Ren for the first time.

Sho did not like where this was going. So he decided to walk out of the room. The atmosphere of the room changed all of a sudden and that just made things worse. Sho saw the look in the kid's eyes as the boy stared at Ren who still had Kyoko in his arms. The room was full of slience and that did not help the situation at hand. The little boy seemed to be querying who this man was and why he was helping his mother. The boy's eyes then being to sparkle and that is when he notices something about the man.

"Hey! You look like dolls mommy has." said the little boy to Ren.

"What in the world is he talking about?" Sho did not know that Kyoko created dolls as her hobby. Maybe, Kyoko started making dolls as a kid, but never showed them to him.

"The kid is saying that I look like a doll?" Ren said, with a prosy look on his face.

Ren was as mystified as Sho about the situation with the doll. Why would Kyoko have a doll of him? There cannot be merchandise that goes as far to create dolls of himself out there. It would be strange to see dolls of himself everywhere. The kid is also suspicious or should I say sharp, to notice that I look like some doll, though. It brings back some memories.

(Flashback)

Maria always wanted a doll, but of who? Ren thought. Out of nowhere Maria walked up to him.

"Ren-san, big sister Kyoko creates wonderful dolls. You should see them." Maria said.

Hmm... She always talks to herself, maybe Kyoko-chan was talking to these so-called dolls.

"They are amazing; the dolls look so real like it's just the smaller version of the actual person." Maria said this with stars in her eyes.

Why would Kyoko have dolls with her all the time?

"But when I asked her for a doll she said you could not give it to me."

The situation was pretty weird because Maria was talking about dolls. Even though Ren knew that she had this fetish for them. He did not know that Kyoko had dolls or even made them. It was a surprise that he never got to see one after all this time.

(Present)

Could it have been me that Maria was talking about?

Ren was remembering the past and did not notice that the boy looked really happy at all. The little boy almost looked jealous. Especially, toward the fact that

Ren was still holding Kyoko from her fall earlier. Now at this moment Ren also felt self- conscious about this fact, even though there were only two people watching the whole thing. Ren began to think something was going to happen and it wasn't really good, yet he was so absorbed in his thoughts he did not notice that Kyoko was moving. A sign that she was about to wake up.

"Hello. Tsuruga-san, why am I, in your arms?" said a mortified Kyoko. Kyoko felt comfortable in Ren's arms and this fact seemed creepy at first and even to the point that it freaked her out. Kyoko then set her mind off the situation she was in, but the place in which she was staying in. Getting use to her surrounding, she felt the eyes of people who were staring at her.

"mommy" the little boy said, while he jumped into her arms surprising both of them.

Sho was disturbed greatly, while looking at the skeptical in front of him. The threesome looked like a family. This fact did not brighten his day, either. The someone unexpected opened the door with a bang.

Author's Note: It has been a while since I have updated this story. So I felt like I should make this chapter gargantuan.