Just a warning I am Dyslexic so my stories will not be perfect but I now have one Beta reader to help me along the way :D

Thank you so much to rsrdiall for offering to work with me :D

Hello my sweeties,

Well lets see how well I get back into this story :P

Enjoy.

Neh xxx

I do not own Skip Beat!

"So it was an electrical issue?" Calvin asked for what Setsu swore was the hundredth time already.

"Otou-san!" Setsu exclaimed as she lowered her head onto her arms on the table. She was fed up. 'Oyabaka' didn't come close to describing her father as he yet again went into a rant about how equipment and electrics should be checked!

"2 hours! they had my children and my friends trapped for 2 hours!" It was just as Calvin took a breath to continue that Setsu's nerve snapped.

"OTOU-SAN! It. was. not 2 hours. It was an hour and thirty five minutes! No one was hurt and the water leak that had shorted out the system was something that would not have been noticed until the lift was used again." Setsu's head had snapped back up off the table as she begun her tirade. Her eyes were burning like molten silver as she made her point quite clear to everyone seated at the table with them that the matter was closed.

They were waiting for Cain to finish filming his last scene. It had annoyed Setsu when they had been asked to leave the set, but as one of the female actresses was doing a nude scene with a skin suit Setsu had done nothing more than uncross her arms and leave as requested. Cain carried out one of the more gruesome murders of the young lady in her shower.

"Nii-san? You OK?" Setsu asked as she watched Cain rub his eyes and forehead.

"Do we have any aspirin left Kyoko?" Ren asked as he tried to rub the tension away. That last scene had been hard on him. The studio had been almost empty of course so the actress playing the victim would get some privacy. Yet Ren wished Kyoko would have been allowed to stay. Only by pushing Kuon to the furthest corner of his mind and immersing himself fully in not only Ren but Cain was he able to hide the young man from his fear. He stopped another completely catatonic state as the fake blood started running through the scene area.

Only the repeated mantra of "Kyoko is waiting for me, Setsu needs me." kept the full on terror from Kuon's distress taking a hold of his nerves and senses. The way Setsu had practically teleported to Cain's side when the set had been reopened and the way she fussed over her most important man held him in control long enough to leave the set. But somehow he had done it and now he was able to sit down and think about just what it had taken to do so.

"Sure Tsuruga-san I will just go and get you some." Setsu instantly left Kyoko as she heard the tired quality in Ren's voice. It didn't take Kyoko but a few moments to grab the glass of water and the pills.

"Here Tsuruga-san," she said handing them over.

"It's Ren," Kyoko was almost knocked over by his words

"W..what?" she asked stuttering slightly as she looked at the man seated before her.

"My name. It's Ren and I would be pleased if you would call me by my given name Kyoko." He didn't look at her preferring just to take the pills with closed eyes. He knew if he looked at Kyoko and she held that scared expression she sometimes had that he would lose his nerve, but he needed this in that moment. He needed her in that moment.

Kyoko watched the man before her. For a moment she was stunned and she had to admit scared. She loved this man how could she keep the distance between them if she was to begin calling him in a more casual loving way? Yet as she watched the man she had come to know so... intimately she realised she knew he was asking her because in this moment he needed the closeness, needed the feeling her calling him by his given name would give him.

Taking a deep breath Kyoko did something she really knew she shouldn't do, but for someone she would do anything for.

"Ok Ren-san. If that's what you would like I would be happy to."

The smile he gave her was Kyoko's reward and also her breaking. As her heart ached for the man she loved but would never love her back it almost felt like she had just pushed a splinter into her heart. His smile twisted it as she tried to ignore the pain.

"Would... would you like me to rub your shoulders?" the twisting in her heart intensified yet she almost laughed at the look of shock on his face... or was it disgust?

Oh god he has someone he loves already and here I am offering myself to him like this! she thought in panic as she started forming the apology in her head, right before Ren simply nodded.

"That would be nice." Kyoko stopped her apology instantly and knew she had basically dug her own grave as she pulled herself onto the bed behind him and began the slow rhythmic movements of rubbing his shoulders.

"Hello and welcome to GOOD MORNING JAPAN!"

The live audience went wild as Mitoki Sakura welcomed the world to her live TV show. She couldn't help but smile wider as she saw a few of the posters in the audience. Some called for the guests sorrow, others for their happiness. But either way Sakura was getting to the bottom of this little mystery and in the process making sure her name stayed at the top of the business.

"Well we all know why we are here today." The crowd screamed and shouted louder.

Sakura allowed the smile to break through wider as she thought of just what this was doing for her career. If only she knew just what she was up against... just who she was up against, maybe that smile would have been tilting downwards.

"Without further ado why don't we start by getting down to the question that has been bothering the nation? Why don't we find out the truth? Please allow me to introduce my guests for today." Sakura stood from her chair and spreading her arms wide to the side of the stage she smiled brightly at the energy building more in the crowd.

"Please give a warm welcome to the Heels" Someone outside the studio at that point may have thought a bomb had just gone off... or maybe an explosion as Calvin and Sayuri Heel entered the stage followed by their children. Sayuri and Calvin both waved happily to the audience, but Setsu and Cain simply walked onto the set as if they were walking into their own home: the hotel room.

When Sakura greeted them with her overly large and smug smile the Heel seniors smiled politely shaking her hand and bowing. The Heel siblings simply looked as if they tilted forwards an inch before seating themselves as far away from the woman as possible allowing their parents to take the closer positions on the four seat sofa. Julie couldn't help but notice Sakura's eyes narrow at her children and the way her smile for a single moment turned predatory.

You've lost your mind if you think you're even getting a chance to take a shot at my children, was her only thought as she too smiled at the woman for only a moment. It was a smile that made Sakura shiver. Even if she didn't see it she definitely felt the fear of some unknown force fill her.

No one else noticed the small movement of Julie's hand as she seated herself closest to the host. No one in her family went anywhere without a plan. This was the wonderful thing about building a character. There was always deeper to dive only ever seeing what the person wanted you to see. And the Heels were something that could never have been expected.

"So welcome to the show! As you may know my name is Mikito Sakura Why don't you introduce yourselves?" She wanted to get the siblings talking because she needed to get them involved somehow even if they were trying to distance themselves from her. She knew this tactic of the parents protecting their children. Shielding them from what they knew was coming, she wasn't some newbie talento! She was Mikito Sakura and she was going to bust this case wide open... no matter who it hurt.

Sayuri smiled sweetly towards Sakura and also the audience.

"Well it makes me wonder with the welcome we recieved if my children need any type of introduction they seem to have done a very good job of getting themselves known." the answering calls from the crowd made her point clearly for her as she giggled and smiled beautifully. Half the men in the audience who had not already fallen in love with the beautiful woman did so now.

"My name is Heel Sayuri and this is my husband Heel Calvin. Please excuse the confused look he may get occasionally, even though he loves me... my home language is something he has never fully grasped." Calvin nodded sadly as he bowed again to the audience.

Sakura was fuming, this woman was single handedly winning over her audience as if she did it every day of her life! And all because she was was a makeup artist!

"Ahh so Heel Calvin your nationality is?" Sayuri turned towards Calvin before he answered slowly in Japanese with a smile.

"I'm English, born and raised in England." Sakura smiled as she turned towards the siblings again.

"So were you both born in England too?"

Setsu looked at her for a moment. She was leaning heavily on her brother when she simply looked up back at him without really thinking about Sakura's question and speaking in English.

"Do you think the entire show is going to be like this?" Cain simply shrugged and half nodded as he mumbled something under his breath and Setsu sighed. "I was born in England. Cain Nii-san was born in Japan." Her complete lack of regard for the woman who had asked the question left her seething.

"In Japan you say? Then why does your brother require you as a translator Heel Setsuka-san?" Sakura thought maybe she had knocked Sayuri off with the way she had approached her children. But the simple giggle and the sweet voice changed that in a moment.

"Mikito-san, maybe it would be easier to call us all by our given names as Heel-san would get confusing and saying our full names is rather a mouthful... wouldn't you agree?" Yet again Sakura seethed, but she smiled politely and nodded her acquiescence.

"Thank you Sayuri-san That would make things easier. So Setsu-san," but she was immediately shutdown as Setsu was suddenly out of her seat and in front of the woman.

"Do. Not. Call. Me. That!" Setsu never raised her voice and other than standing up from her chair she did not behave threateningly as both Calvin and Cain grabbed Setsu's hands but did not pull her down.

"Setsu." Cain mumbled softly as the young woman started shaking in front of the entire audience. A few of them saw it as the type of shaking you would see if someone was cold or maybe scared even. Setsuka Heel turned back to look at her brother before seating herself beside him again and almost burrowing herself into his side.

What on earth? Sakura thought as she watched Sayuri lean around her husband to pat her daughter's hand comfortingly.

"Setsuka prefers people outside of the family to use her full name," she said still smiling. She had basically spelled out Setsu's full name as if mocking the woman for not being aware of her own guest names as if she was a bad host!

"I'm so sorry, Setsuka-san. I was unaware after hearing your family calling you by your shortened name it would cause you distress." She tried to smile encouragingly at the girl who simply nodded jerkily.

"Allow me to answer your question. It seems the males in our family are sadly lacking in language knowledge. To Setsu it seems to come naturally, Cain not so much. His gift is more towards music like his father whereas both me and Setsu couldn't play an instrument if you payed us to." She laughed softly again and Sakura saw the crowd smile.

"I suppose we all have things that we are good at and others we are not so good at." Sakura saw members of the crowd nodding as Sayuri continued to smile softly.

"So Even if Cain was born in Japan Japanese is not his mother tongue?" There she was again with that tinkling laugh.

"No. Cain was moved to England before his first birthday so English would be classed as his mother tongue." Sakura nodded before turning to Setsuka.

"So how many times have you been to Japan, Setsuka-san? Your Japanese is wonderful." Sakura smiled in a friendly manner. Make friends with the girl first, then the brother will simply walk into my net. She watched as Setsu just sat there staring at her uncaring before Cain squeezed her knee and spoke softly in English.

"Setsu be polite." Again the reaction was a sigh before Setsu answered again in her perfect Japanese.

"This would be my first visit to Japan. Until Nii-san got the job in Tragic Marker I had never been here."

Sakura was shocked by her answer. Such wonderful Japanese, yet the girl had never been to the country before?

"Well that is surprising. Your Japanese is wonderful."

Before Sakura could take a breath to continue it was Calvin that interrupted her this time. "Of course her Japanese is wonderful. Our Setsu has the highest scores her school has ever seen! She's a walking genius my little girl." A few people laughed as Setsu flopped back onto her brother and muttered the well known 'Baka' as Calvin was off in broken Japanese with thrown in English words telling everyone about how wonderful his daughter was and how clever.

Sakura was almost thrown off by his constant tirade before Sayuri placed her hand on her husband's leg patting it whilst looking at him sternly speaking in English. "Time and place dear."

Calvin looked a little shocked for a moment before he looked across at Sakura with a very apologetic smile on his face."Sorry my children are my world." he said as if this answered all the questions in the world whilst Sayuri and Setsu both shook their heads.

"So Cain-san how was your schooling? Does exceptional intellect run in the family?" Sakura swapped her target noticing how Setsu seemed to listen to her brother's command rather than anyone else. A masochist maybe? she thought as she smiled knowingly towards the dark and brooding man.

"Sadly no. My sister seems to have gotten all the brains and beauty." Setsu smirked happily as she pulled her brother's over her shoulders and rested into his chest with a small smirk still remaining.

Here it was! the moment she had been waiting for. " So you think your sister is beautiful?" Sakura asked as Cain simply looked at her as if she was stupid.

"Why? You think she is not?" Cain asked still in his broken Japanese yet showing his feelings about the woman before him as if she had no right to even doubt his sister's beauty.

"Ahh no I do think your sister is beautiful." Sakura answered as she smiled at Setsu.

"But that is not normally a comment a brother would make about his sibling especially in their presence. Most siblings I know are normally arguing too much to even think about the looks of the other." Cain simply looked at Sakura. He felt no need to comment and simply pulled Setsu closer, kissed her hair softly and whispered something into her ear which made her smirk wider and nod. What the? Sakura thought as she was suddenly left with no information. Once more as the audience began muttering about the closeness the siblings were yet again showing as Sakura wondered just how she was going to break them. "Sayuri-san what do you think about your children's suspected relationship?" it was time to pull out the big guns and get right to the root of the matter. No more beating around the bush!

"What about their relationship? We have never had any problems with either of them." Sakura was almost shocked to silence as Sakura wondered was this some type of weird relationship that the whole family shared.

"Well they have been accused of incestuous behaviour. The pictures we have been seeing and the kiss Setsuka-san gave Cain-san a few days ago raise a few questions to whether or not the rumours are true?"

Sayuri simply smiled. "I can assure you my children are in no relationship like that. Yes they have a close relationship, but it does not go past that I can assure you."

At this the crowd began getting louder as they called out questions and objections. Sakura now happy they were getting somewhere looked at all of the people on her sofa before looking Sayuri in the eyes and digging deeper.

"Well how can you be sure when they have been in Japan for the last few weeks? How can you be so sure that while they have been away from you their relationship has not gone one step further?" Sayuri simply tapped her fingers a few times and shrugged in the same way her son had.

"And what if they have? It's not like it would be a problem." And with those words the entire studio erupted once more as Sakura sat there simply stunned.

Well we have the start of the interview :P

The Heels have a game plan going, but what will that be I wonder?

thanks for reading

Neh xxx

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