Chapter 4: Bridge Rock part 2

There was dead silance as the same thought passed through everyone's mind. The Tsuruga Ren was the missing son of Hizuri Kuu.

Ren and Kyoko stood side by side in front of the audiance while they waited for the fireworks to explode. And explode they did.

"KYAAA!"

"OH MY GOD!"

"THIS IS SO AWESOME!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH REN-SAMA IS AMAZING!"

"I LOVE YOU!"

On and on it went for several minutes while the two just stood there smiling and nodding. Ren finally grabbed hold of Kyoko's elbow and led her back to the couch. They sat side by side and he had his arm resting behind her shoulders.

Shin'ichi was the first to recover from the shock. "Hizuri Kuon?"

Ren nodded. "I left when I was fifteen because something happened in America that I could not deal with. It took me six years before I was able to face my past. I was only able to face it with Mogami-san by my side. Boss wasn't joking when he called her my goodluck talisman."

Yusei leaned forward and asked, "You said that you are now able to face what happened. May I ask what happened six years ago?"

Ren took a deep breath and Kyoko rubbed his arm. He looked at her and she nodded. He smiled and gripped her shoulder in thanks. He began, "I am 1/4 Russian, 1/4 Japanese and 1/2 American. Many people didn't like me because they thought that I was different and because of my heritage. I was subjected to bullying alot. The first friend that I ever had was when I met Mogoami-san the first time. When I had to go back to America I dreaded it because I knew that I would be going back to that form of hell. I met another friend when I was twelve. His name was Rick. He and his girlfriend took me under their wing and taught me how to stand up for myself. I was a wimp at twelve, I will admit that.

Anyway, one night when I was fifteen and on my way home from Rick's, a bunch of older guys jumped me and started beating me. I started beating them back until they left, but not before giving me a nice concussion. I stumbled out onto the street and Rick, who had followed me, pulled me out of the way of a car who was speeding. He noticed how banged up I was and decided to help me home. We crossed the street because we had the go ahead, just then a car ran the red light and hit Rick who had shoved me back onto the sidewalk. There I was, fifteen, and my best friend was dead because of a stupid driver that was drunk too on top of it. I was covered in his blood, and his fiancee was yelling at me. I clammed up. I would not eat or talk to anyone for several days. Dad called Boss, and I was on the next plane here. I changed my name because I couldn't face my past. I didn't want to. I just wanted to curl up in a ball and hide from the world."

There were several sniffles and people crying in the audiances. Hikaru, Yusei, and Shin'ichi looked at him and bowed together. "It takes alot to get over something like that Tsuruga-san. Or is it Hizuri-san?" Hikaru asked with a small smirk.

Ren sent him a small glare. "Tsuruga while at work, Hizuri when not. Give me a while to go back to actually being Hizuri Kuon. I haven't used that name in years." Just then he was tackled of the couch by a crying woman.

When he was able to see again he raised his head up and recognized the woman crying into his shirt. "M..Mom?"

Hizuri Juliena lifted her head from his chest amd threw her arms around his neck. "Kuon!"

Ren blinked his eyes several times and hestaintly raised his arms to hug his mother for the first time in six years. He looked around and saw that his father was sitting in his seat hugging Kyoko to him amd smirking down at him. "Hey Kiddo! Long time no see. How about you pick yourself off the ground and come join this lovely lady and me on the couch."

Ren glared at him and slowly got up. Hard to do with your mother hanging on you and currently chocking the life out of you. "M..Mom...air! Pl..ease.." he gasped out.

Juliena gasped and let go of him. "I'm so sorry sweetie. It's been six years..." Ren smiled and just hugged her again. He moved them to the couch. Kuu got up and Ren manuverd his mother to sit next to Kyoko. Kuu stuck his hand out to his son. "Kuon," Ren smiled. "Hey dad." he said as he shook his father's hand. They turned to the couch when they heard a squeal and saw Juliea hugging Kyoko.

"Kuu, you never told me Kyoko-chan was soooo cute! Kyaa! Our daughter is sooo much cuuter in person!" Juliena screamed out loud while rocking Kyoko back and forth. "Kuon! I want grandbabies!"

Kuu busted out laughing while Ren and Kyoko blushed. "Mom/mother!"

Hikaru, Shin'ichi and Yusei all blinked and blushed at the blunt statement. The audiance was still trying to grasp just what was going on.

Kuu patted Ren on the back hard and said, "I want grandbabies too. So hurry up please." he smiled at his son.

Ren blushed hard and said in a strained voice, "For God's sake guys! I'm only twenty-one!"

Juliena smiled, still holding onto Kyoko and said, "But you are old enough to get married and have kids." Kuu sat down on the other side of Kyoko and said, "Even Kyoko-chan is old enough to get married now. Why don't you marry her?"

Kyoko jumped up and stood next to a shocked Ren. "Dad/Father!" Ren sighed and hung his head. "Damn, now I see why you get along with the Boss."

Juliena smiled up at him innocently, "Why, because our one purpose is to hook you up with Kyoko-chan here and that we think you two make an excellent couple?" Ren stared at her. "Not you too Mom!"

"I am just stateing what I am thinking." she said with a smirk.

"Now I know where you get your evil streak Corn." Kyoko mumbled up to him.

"I learned from the best Kyoko-chan." he grumbled.

"Oh Kuu darling, can't you just imagine the little ones?" Juliena said while grasping Kuu's arm. Kuu smirked and said, "At least one black hair with green eyes and one with blond hair and gold eyes."

Ren and Kyoko just sighed, shuddered, and sat on the other couch. "I appologize for my crazy parents Kyoko-chan." She laughed and said, "That's alright Kuon. I'm just curious about one thing." He raised his eyebrow in question. "Oh?" "Yes, if father has a black hole for a stomach, why do you pick at your food?"

Everyone stared at her. Ren laughed and said, "You have seen my father eat. I grew up seeing that at least once a day when I was younger. That was enough to make me lose any appetite that I had. And mom made it here mission to force feed me any food that I didn't eat."

He turned to his mom and saw her lightly glaring at him. He smirked and said, "Has your cooking improved in the past six years any? Or have you almost burnt down the kitchen again?"

Kuu laughed as Juliena growled at him. "Oh you cheeky little brat! Is that how we raised you?!"

Ren smirked and said, "Gee mom, I was raised to tell the truth. And the truth is...that you are dangerous in the kitchen."

"Why you little-"

"It hasn't improved son. I got food poising last week from undercook chicken. Again. Third time this year."

"KUU!" Ren chuckled and turned to Kyoko. "I am very thankful that you are willing to come over and cook meals for me. I am afraid that I got my cooking skills from my mother."

Juliena turned to him and sent him a dead glare. "Don't make me tie you to a chair and feed you porridge little boy."

Ren smiled and said, "Mother, I am at least a foot taller then you. If you can tie me to a chair, I will willingly eat what you call porridge." "Deal."

Juliena and Kyoko shared an evil look that Ren saw. "And neither Kyoko nor dad nor anyone can help you." Juliena smiled and said, "Oh no dear son, that was not part of the agreement." Ren placed his chin on his hands and said, "I'm dead."

Kuu walked over to him and patted his shoulder in sympathy. "Don't worry son, I won't let your mother poison the porridge like she did last time." Ren growled at him and turned to his mother. "If you ever force feed me porridge, make Kyoko here prepare it."

Kyoko blushed while Juliena pouted. "I did not poision the porridge. Why do you two keep saying that?"

"This is you were are talking about love/mom." Kuu and Ren spoke up at the same time in the same flate tone. Juliena glared at them. "You are sleeping on the couch for the next week Kuu."

"Damn." Kuu mumbled. "I'm sorry sweetie. I didn't mean anything by it. I love you!" Juliena turned her chin up at him and started talking to Kyoko.

"So, you actually met Kuon when he was younger?"

"Yes ma'am. I -"

"Mom or mother dear. If you call Kuu 'father' then I can be called 'mother'. He has already welcomed you into the family and I welcome you with open arms too."

Kyoko smiled and hugged her new mother.

Kuu spoke up from the other side of Ren, "I can't wait till our son and daughter start dating! Yay! Ouch." Kuu rubbed his forehead in surprise and stared at Ren. "You... seriously!?"

Ren gulped, got up and backed away. Kuu got up and followed him. "Nu-uh you damn brat. I have waited twenty-one years for you to do that. Twenty-one long years for you to be able to land a hit. It's on!" "If I die...Kyoko here gets EVERYTHING AHHHHH! DAMN YOU YOU OLD MAN!" Ren ran backstage with Kuu chasing him.

Juliena turned to Kyoko and said, "Kuon actually flicked him on the forehead." Kyoko rubbed her head remembering the time he did that to her. "Those hurt a little." Juliena laughed. "Those two made a game out of it when Kuon was younger." Kyoko smiled. "I bet they did. Oh look, here they come again."

Ren ran back onto the stage and slide under their couch with Kuu a few feet behind him. Kyoko smirked, grabbed her water bottle, and poured it on Kuu as he was sliding under them. Then she got up and joined Ren in running for their lives.

Kuu got up sputtering and soaking. He looked and saw Kyoko standing next to a shocked Kuon. "KYOKO!" "Kuon:1; Kyoko:1; Father:0. Getting a slow there father." Kyoko said. Ren laughed, high-fived Kyoko and they ran while Kuu chased them.

Juliena was doubled over laughing with tears falling down her face. Hikaru walked over to her with a bottle of water and she drank from it. "Thank you." she said while fanning her face. "Oh it is nice to see Kuon and Kuu playing again."

"DAMN IT DAD/FATHER! THAT'S CHEATING!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NEVER UNDERESTIMATE YOUR FATHER KIDS! HE ALWAYS HAS A FEW TRICKS UP HIS SLEEVES!"

The three walked back in, all wet. Ren and Kyoko sat on the woodened bench while Kuu just stood. As one they shook their hair and water flew everywhere. Kyoko and Ren turned to Kuu and glared at him. He smirked. "Not my fault that you two just happened to run into a water jug that just happened to be unballanced and just happened to have a loose lid..." he said in an innocent voice.

Juliea walked up to him and smacked the back of his head, hard. "Ow! God woman! What was that for?" he asked rubbing his head. "If our children get sick because of you, you are sleeping on the couch for a month Hizuri Kuu."

"Yeah Dad, you wouldn't want your precious children to get sick now would you?" Ren asked in a smug voice. Kuu glared at him.

Hikaru, Yusei, and Shin'ichi looked at each other. "I think this show got away from us." "I never imagined that it would turn out like this." "This is much better then what we orriginally planned." "Did any of you suspect that Tsuruga-san and Kyoko-chan would have been childhood friends?" "Or that he was the lost son of Hizuri Kuu?" "Right under our noses this whole time!" "Am I the only to notice that we have been on the air for about an hour and a half now straight with no commercials?" "Well nobody expected Tsuruga-san to reveal who he really was right at the end of the hour, and then the Hizuri's show up out of nowhere." "Talk about perfect timing. I can't belive that his mother tackled him." "Or that Kuu-san and Ren-san are actually father and son and were running around earlier." "Ren-san flicking his forehead was funny then the running off, then Kyoko-chan pouring the water on Kuu-san...classic." "Why are Kuu-san and Juliea-san calling Kyoko-chan daughter? That is what I want to know."

"I'll tell you if you want to know." Kuu spoke up from behind them. The three boys jumped in surprise. Kuu smiled at them and sat down on the couch with his family. They were sharing one couch with Kuu and Ren on either end. Kyoko was sitting between Kuu and Juliea while Juliea was between Kyoko amd Ren. So it was Kuu, Kyoko, Juliea, and Ren.

Kuu placed his arm around Kyoko amd begain. "When I came over about a year ago, I had a mission to accomplish. I needed to see my son and convince him to make a video so that his mother would know that he was doing alright. The president knew the Ren was close to Kyoko, so that was why he assigned her to me. I began with the intent to break her. Just so that she would go crying to Ren. I underesrimated her."

He ruffeled her hair affectionatly. "This little one actually tricked me the very first night I was there. She had fixed me dinner and I insulted her cooking. I told her to go and complain to her boss. She called, and told the Boss what a good person I was being. I was horrified. Here I was, being a downright bastard to her and she was complimenting me. I snapped, threw all the food in a bag and told her to go feed it to that male lead actor from Dark Moon. I don't think I have ever been so terrified. She unleashed full fledged Mio on me. Scary that. We got into a huge argument and she had the gall to put the fiod into a bowl and tell me to eat it like a comman person. I was pissed off and hungery. So I grabbed a pair of chopsticks and took a bite. Curse my black hole of a stomach. I ate the whole thing.

"That night I visited the Boss..the president of LME, and told him what happened, when I told him about the phone call, he said that he never talked to Kyoko-chan. I was pissed. Here I was, a professional actor, and I got tripped up by a newbie. I was going to make her pay. I didn't make her pay. The next day, before I could say anything, she appologized. That floored me. I gave up on trying to break her, so in the end I tried to help her. I gave her homework. The next day she was going to act out my son."

Ren turned and glared at him. "I was beyoned pissed when I saw her dressed as a young me that day." Kuu smiled. "I could tell. She played a ten year old you so perfectly that I had wondered if she had met you before. Now it all made sense." He looked at Kyoko and said, "You got everything right about him. Even the cooking. I was shocked beyond belief when I saw fried eggs with egg shells and a loaf of bread with jelly, chocolate, and peanut butter smothered around it. That brought flashbacks."

Ren fell out of the chair laughing. Kuu glared at him. "Shut up cheeky brat. You did the same thing when you were ten."

"I...I..hahaha know. Oh."

"Heck, she woke me up in English and I actually thought that it was you speaking until I opened my eyes. She asked how to pronounce birds in Japanese."

Ren looked up at a blushing Kyoko. "You really did portray a younger me very well." she reached down and smacked his chest lightly. "Do behave. I based my Kuon on the ten year old 'Corn' and a little bit of you. This was way before I even found out that you two were one and the same."

Kuu smiled at them. "That day Kyoko played my son. I had just finished up an interview and I found her talking to Ren and Yahiro-san. I believe Yashiro-san was freaking out because he didn't realize that Kyoko was playing a role. Kyoko didn't even break character. She purposefully misspoke Japanese. I could tell Ren was making the connections when she called the president Boss. I think he was growling in his mind."

"Oh I was doing more then that dad. I was growling, yet imaging taking a samurai sword and slashing you in the side with it." Ren said with a smile. Kuu gulped. "If it makes you feel any better Kuon, you did that when you walked into the Boss's house that night. Your eyes were cold and there was a storm raging behind them."

"You had my friend act out a younger me and I didn't know what you were playing at." Ren said in an innocent voice as he got up off the floor and sat back on the couch. He turned to Kyoko and said, "Though, what were the water bottles for?"

She laughed and said, "I forgot to use them. I was going to throw them at father and the string was going to pull out and soak the floor making him slip. Or something like that." Ren smiled and said, "Tried that at age twelve, never really could pull it off."

Kuu reached over and tried to smack his head, he dodged. "Try it old man and I will leave you to mom's cooking."

Kuu pouted and said, "Here I was looking foreward to having a nice meal cooked by Kyoko-chan. Oh well, I guess that means that your mother and I are going to invade your apartment more often. Just to make sure that you eat." Ren paled and turned to Kyoko, who was chuckling. "Save me." He mouthed.

"Father, I will cook a couple of meals seeing as how I am free for the next couple of days." Kuu stood up and twirled her around. "Yay! A father eating his precious daughter's cooking! Oh how I have missed it!"

Ren stood up and gently took the now dizzy Kyoko out of his father's arms. "Has anyone else noticed that it is quiet in here?" He said while carrying Kyoko and sitting down with her in his lap. Again. Kuu and Juliea smiled.

Juliena spoke up and said. "The audiance is being quiet because they are listening with rapt attetion and they don't want to miss anything. The lovely young gentlemen who run this show are sitting there in stunned silance."

Ren looked around and said, "Hmm...funny, I thought that with me revealing who I am and you two showing up, that my manager would be beside himself."

Kyoko, who was now not so dizzy, looked up at him and said, "He is currently passed out on the couch in the hallway. Has been for quite a while actually." He looked down at her and said, "Ah, hence the reason why I don't hear any screaming."

Kuu turned to Ren and asked, "How about we wrap this up, you two come back to our hotel suite and we will continue there? Boss already had Sebastian take your bags over there anywys seeing as how that place is more secure then yours."

Ren and Kyoko nodded. As on the four stood up bowed to the audiance and said, "Thank you for haveing us on." They turned to Bridge Rock and said, "Thank you for taking care of us. Sorry for any trouble we may have caused." The guys bowed back and then shook their hands. "Believe me, it was a pleasure having you on this show. Take care."

A/N: 9-18-14 Reviewed and ready for posting!

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