So I originally had more written than this, however it just seemed to expand on something that was unneeded, I also thought the last line was a good ending.

Chapter Seven :: Ren vs Kuon

Lory, dressed today as one might imagine a genie to dress if they were just let out of the lamp, stared at Kuon as he was led in to the office. His jaw dropped at the clothes, the hair, the eyes and how all of this was done without him knowing. He blinked as he saw Kuon's cockiness, his pride, his...un-Ren ness. "Thank you for bringing him here," Lory said as Kyoko blinked at Ren recognizing him at once but also completely blinded by the hair.

"If you really look at it," Shou smiled as he ran his hand through his hair, "I really have to use my own personal stylist when I get famous," Kyoko blinked at him as she prepared them something to eat together, "Afterall...I have to keep this blonde look to keep my image fresh, if I let it drop even the slightest then...well you know," he shrugged.

"Yes of course," Kyoko grinned back at him, "And you're a cute blonde too Shou-chan," she smiled before bringing him the dinner. "The couple at Darumaya taught me how to make this, it's so good that I found a job so easily in Tokyo."

"Yeah well what else have you got to do?" Shou asked with a shrug as he looked in the mirror, his hair it had to be this way, this foreign shade, it was what was considered modern after all."

Kyoko shook as she thought about that memory before blinking up at Lory and noticing his anger and frustration. She looked around and then realized she had been forgotten about, she looked at the president before pausing, "President should I..."

"You've really lost it now haven't you!" Lory asked as he looked at Ren...no Kuon, "This isn't a character you're playing this time! There's no way of taking back what you've said by saying you're playing the "role" of Kuon Hizuri! Have you gone mad!"

Kuon looked at him, "Japanese," he asked before shrugging, he turned towards Kyoko and lifted his eyebrow, "Well if it's for her benefit..." he smiled using a different smile than his prince one, this was more flirtatious, more fresh, younger perhaps, "I suppose we could do so."

Lory froze before looking at Kyoko who he only remembered was there now, "If you didn't want her to know Kuon you shouldn't have...has any sense of what I've told you been in your head? To think your father was anxious about you appearing this way in a private video."

"Oh," Kyoko spoke up, "Tsuru...Hizuri-san already told me this morning when I went into his bathroom."

Kuon licked his lips as he heard this, "What a delightful encounter," he smiled at her using a simple but sexy expression on his face and keeping a heated voice, "Of course..." he grinned, "It would be nicer to take a bath together."

At this Lory's and Kyoko's mouths dropped, who the hell was this? They looked like Ren apart from the hair and the clothes and the eyes. However the way he was acting wasn't like his usual self, perhaps this was the first time he had actually put forth his real self. "Think of your acting career, think of the things that are most important to you," Lory said clamping a hand down on Kuon's shoulder. "How are you going to escape..."

Kuon laughed shortly before looking at Kyoko, he got down on one knee and offered her the roses as she had a what the fuck expression on her face. "Take them, a beautiful princess like you deserves beautiful flowers...even if you can't accept the real me. You made that clear this morning..."

"Tsuruga-san?" Kyoko asked before bowing deeply, "I apologize, I was in shock. I...I didn't want to make you revert back to your fifteen year old self!" she said quickly before Lory looked at Kuon.

"What are you going to do?" he asked firmly, "If it was another actor giving us all this trouble you might have been released from the agency."

"Oh really," Kuon got up and licked his lips, "Then fire me," he challenged Lory, "Because I'm not going back...I have made my choice. I am not shackled by my past anymore."

Lory sighed, "I knew you should have taken a break when you got fired from being Cain Heel, I knew that I should have suggested it stronger to you." He looked at Kuon before sighing, "I think you might be operating from an early mid life crisis. What now? What about if your past gets out..."

"You mean..." Kuon began before Kyoko completed it for him

"The murder?" Kyoko looked between Kuon and Lory as Lory stared at her wondering how much of this she knew about. "The girl that Tsuru-Hizuri-san tied up, raped, and murdered in his basement in Los Angeles?" she blurted out her thoughts without thinking.

"What...the...hell?" Kuon asked in English as Lory blinked confused.

"You told her that?" Lory asked Kuon, "Really...I doubt that she accepted the real you if you tell her lies like that."

"Of course I didn't tell her that!" Kuon yelled back as Lory shook his head with a frown. "I just told her I killed someone and she didn't stay to..."

"Rick was killed in a car accident, yes he chased after you when you were fighting with those other guys but it was because of the people driving the car that he's dead not you." Lory told him before Kuon blinked at him, "Kuu told me everything you told him."

"It was my fault!" Kuon yelled at him, "I killed Rick! He was my friend and because of him he died. That's why I wore..."

"Was that his watch?" Kyoko asked before the tears trickled down her face, she looked down. How could she have been saying such mean things about him? Yes he used a stage name but so did Chiori-chan...if this was to come out in the press, no Murasame-san was known to be in a gang when he was younger so perhaps there could be things that could be done. "I'm sorry that I didn't listen to you Hizuri-san, you can go back to being Tsuruga-san if you need to."

"I killed him," Kuon said bluntly as Kyoko looked at Lory who looked heartbroken at that.

"Kuon..." he tried gently, "I know that's what you..."

"Not Rick," Kuon replied, "Ren...I killed him."

"What do you mean you killed him?" Kyoko blinked, tears in her eyes. Okay, maybe the man she loved was a character, but a character was only an extension of the original. For Ren to lose his mind like this, it hurt her. "You need him..." she whispered.

"And what makes you think that?" he asked as Kyoko looked down, her eyes filled with tears. She reached forward to hold his hand but he pulled away from her.

"Tsuruga-san is a part of you Corn," she whispered with a smile, "Perhaps you might feel that he's been holding you back, maybe you even have a form of split personality that actors sometimes get, but right in here," she said touching her chest, "In here Tsuruga-san lives and you need him for your actor's persona."

Kuon blinked as he looked at Kyoko, "It's too late..." he told her.

"No," Kyoko shook her head, "Muse...we can get Muse to,"

"You mean Ten?" Kuon asked before smiling at her warmly, a smile that Kyoko recognized and now realized that it was Kuon's inner most smile of confidence, "It's too late, because I've decided there is something more important than breaking free of my dad's shadow and living as Tsuruga Ren."

"Really?" Lory asked looking at Kuon with a stern face.

"What is that?" Kyoko asked before he looked at her, taking her hand and pressing it to his lips.

"The answer is you"