Skip Beat fanfic.

I do not own the manga or its characters. If you love the manga then buy it to show your appreciation, like I do.

This fanfic is rated MA romance/ LEMON (some chapters more than others) and should only be read by adult people.

This fanfic is based on the manga until around chapter 185 when the Cain Heel arc is still in play.

Enjoy!

Kyoko closed the door from the cab and hoisted her shoulder bag up on her shoulder. The cab slowly drew away and leaved her in front of Ren's apartment building. She couldn't stop smiling. She hadn't had the time to see Ren after their interview about them getting married 3 days ago. Ren had to go to Kyoto to film scenes in a crime suspense drama that he was playing one of the detectives in. She herself had also been occupied with the shooting for Sho's music video until yesterday so she had also been busy. Tonight he was home again and she realized that she had missed him terrible much. She still couldn't believe what Ren had told her about him loving her. How could it be possible that someone so perfect like him could love someone as plain as her!? She would think that she had dreamt about it if not everyone around her had to congratulate her all the time. She smiled when she thought about the reaction from the manager and his wife when she had told them about the marriage. They very seldom watched the television so they hadn't heard anything about it. They made her feel like they were her real parents and she had promised them that they would get to meet Ren for dinner in a couple of days.

She went up the stairs and realized that she had to speak with Ren about him being Kuon or Corn that she had called him since she was little. She froze in her steps and a worried impression got on her face. She felt that she needed to tell him about Bou since she didn't want any secrets between them. But how should she say it without him getting furious that she had lied about it. Or wait, not lied about since she hadn't lied about it, just not told him that she was Bou. But in this case it felt even worse since he had confined in her not knowing who Bou was. Her feet felt like led and the last couple of stair steps felt like they had become higher and a lot more than they should be.

She took the last step up to the floor Ren lived in and turned to the left into the corridor and quickly turned around panicking and started to go down the stairs again. Ren! Ren was standing in the hallway and looked pissed off when he saw her. She panicked. Had he somehow already discovered the truth about her being Bou!? She took another step down the stair when her shoulder was grabbed from the behind and she was forced to turn around.

She fell down on the ground in a dogeza and she felt how she became cold with the cold sweat.

"I'm so sorry! I didn't meant to lie to you about me being Bou! I…"

"Kyoko! I need to tell you something important!... Wait. It was you that was Bou all the time!?" Ren looked shocked a moment but he quickly got his worried face on again. "That doesn't matter right now. We've got bigger problems…"

Kyoko turned her head up and looked questioning on him. He wasn't mad at her? He helped her up on her feet and refused to let go of her hand. He still looked like he had some type of problem and that he had problem of finding the words. That made Kyoko even more worried. He never had problems speaking! Never!

"What's the matter?" Kyoko felt the whole of her starting to hurt when seeing him having this hard of a time. She got afraid. Had something happened with his career? Had the media heard something about his troublesome past? Had Lory been in an accident? Or was it something worse…? Thousands of problems got into her imagination. The next one worse than the first. It felt like it had been hours since he said that.

"My parents are inside the apartment…" Ren looked even worse after telling her that.

"What?" Kyoko's distress lessened.

"I haven't told you about my family. I didn't want to let you know about them like this. Actually I'm…" Kyoko caressed his cheek and smiled.

"It's ok Corn. I already know who you are and who your family is. Remember I'm also Kuus son. No wait, it should be daughter now right?" Ren's mouth opened up and Kyoko couldn't help but smile when seeing his astonished expression. It looked like he tried to say something to her but not a sound could come over his lips. Her smile widened even more and she gave him a kiss on his other cheek and said:

"I guess that dad didn't tell you about our meeting then." She felt like smiling even more when she realized that she could continue to call him dad, even if she wouldn't be able to play "Kuon" any more. Ren seemed to relax a bit and one of his famous smiles was seen in his face again.

"Seems like your one step ahead of me this time Kyoko. But I still have to warn you…"

"KYOKO!" A shrill scream was heard and all of a sudden Kyoko felt something pink and a nice smelling enfold her in a big hug. The next second she fell on the floor with a big thud and her hip ached a bit. Kyoko looked confused on the… "thing" on top of her had two beautiful blue eyes with tons of wavy blond locks cascaded round the unfamiliar face. She was a gorgeous woman and Kyoko thought that she resembled Ren in some ways. She soon realized that this must be Ren's mother.

"You must be Kyoko!" The woman hugged her again and Kyoko didn't know what else to do than to give the pretty lady a hug back.

"I'm Juliena, mother to this brat that leaves home far too long." Ren reached for the both of them to try to help them up and to save Kyoko from his mother's embrace. Ren managed to get the both of them into the apartment before the neighbours would want to know what was happening in the hallway.

In the apartment Hizuri rose from the sofa that he was sitting in and came forward to give Kyoko another big hug. Ren's mother went to her husband and started to cry what looked like happy tears and she told Kyoko that she was so happy that she had her son back again and that she also got a lovely daughter to pamper with now. After that presentation she gave Kyoko another hug. She was all over the place all in the same time and Kyoko thought that she had a lot of energy to be moving around like that.

Kyoko had never received that many hugs before from another person and never this many at the same time! But for some reason she liked getting hugs from Juliena. Suddenly Kyoko realized that she felt some strange kind of smell and sniffed the air.

"I think something is burning…" she said. Juliena got white in her face and ran into the kitchen with everyone following her. She opened up the oven and black smoke rose around her when she pulled out something black and wobbly.

"Oh no! I think I burned it" She looked distressed and a soft whine was heard from her. Kyoko was wondering what she would do when Juliena brightened up again. "It doesn't look that bad. Maybe I can do something with it and ad some ketchup…"

Kyoko felt her back turning ice cold. Ren was standing there and she could feel his dread. All of a sudden she realized why Ren never felt like eating and why she had wondered for so long if he had had some kind of trauma regarding food. Now she understood…

"Ehm… Juliena-san. Do you mind me helping? I know a tasty thing to do…" Kyoko was prepared this time for the jumping hug.

"I get to cook with my daughter! But please call me mom or just Juliena." Juliena cried happily. While Kyoko tried to get loose of Juliena's grip Hizuri silently put the black smouldering substance into the bin.
Kyoko felt relief when she opened the fridge and saw that it still had a lot of food from her last shopping spree in it. Now she could make something edible…

Kyoko watched Ren putting a blanket on top of his mum. She could see the love that Ren had for her and she felt a bit envious when she had seen the love that she had for her son. If her mother had a third of the love for her that Juliena had for Ren then she would have been happy. But she felt better when she realized that Juliena made her feel like she was her daughter, even if Ren and her wasn't even married yet. She felt like a part of his loving family and that made her warm inside.

Hizuri came out from the kitchen with a cup of Coffee in his hand. He smiled lovingly when he saw his wife sleeping happily in the sofa. He said that she had been too excited to sleep on the flight to Japan and that she must be exhausted. Hizuri had picked her up from the airport and gone straight here only a couple of hours before. When he had finished his cup he bowed down and took his wife into his arms and went into the guestroom.

"Come on. I'll drive you." Ren gave her the jacket and helped her to put it on like a proper gentleman. He locked the door and went with her down to the garage to his car. He started the car and drove out on the streets. The radio played music in a hushed tone.

"So, when did you realize that I was Corn?" The question startled Kyoko and she looked at him. She thought a bit and then answered him.

"I think that I knew it already a while ago, from the time when I first saw you without your contacts. But I didn't get it confirmed until I met your dad 3 days ago. But it took me longer to understand that Corn was Kuon. Why have you kept your family a secret and changed your name?" Kyoko saw Ren's expression change and she wondered if she shouldn't have asked the question.

"I wanted to show everyone that I could do it without having my father's fame backing me up." Ren continued to tell her of the reasons why he left the US to come here and make a career. Kyoko listened and felt that she understood him. She had during the years met a couple of celebrities that had problems just because of their parents' fame.

The car stopped. Kyoko looked out and saw that they stood in another parking garage. She looked confused at Ren. She had been listening so intense at him so she hadn't noticed where they've been going.

"This isn't where I live." Ren smiled his Emperor of the night smile. Kyoko got both a bit on edge since she never knew what Ren was going to do when he was like this but at the same time she got excited since it most of the time it ended with her feeling like floating on clouds.

"Good observation skills miss Kyoko. I never told you that we were going home to your place. Come on, let's go." He got unbuckled and was certain that she would do to. She tried to make him tell her where they were but he only said to her that she would soon know. He led her into an elevator that was playing relaxing lounge music. Kyoko didn't feel relaxed at all. Ren stood beside her and his Emperor of the night aura told her that something was waiting happening. The doors opened up and she saw that they stood in a hallway that looked a lot like a posh hotel. Ren made her go into the hallway and soon he stopped in front of a door. He took a key card and opened the door and pushed Kyoko into the room and quickly closed the door. She looked around and then turned around to look at Ren. He leaned against the frame of the door with his arms crossed in front of him.

"Now. You told me today something very interesting Kyoko." Kyoko felt the fear rise in her. Ren's face looked scary!

"Eh… huh?"

"So you tell me that you were Bou the whole time and didn't feel like you had to tell me about it?"

"Well… no. I didn't mean to lie… I just…. I'm so sorry!" Kyoko bowed down to apologies but rose again when Ren took a step towards her. She couldn't help but to take a step backwards.

"You got to hear a lot of personal information and a lot of my thoughts during that time." He took another step forwards and Kyoko stepped back again.

"I never told anyone about that information! Honest!"

"I told you all that information… and you still didn't get it, now did you?" More steps were taken.

"Huh? Yah!" Kyoko fell down on the king-sized bed when the last step made her lose her balance. Ren leaned in on the bed and placed his arms on both sides of Kyoko. He looked at her with his beautiful eyes. His blue eyes was even more beautiful than his brown eyes he had when wearing contacts. He had taken them out during the dinner with his parents and hadn't bothered to put them back in after that.

"I told Bou all my problems with the girl I was in love with and you NEVER understood that it was you I told you about?! You gave me advice in how to act and you NEVER realized that the advice was then used on YOU?!"

Kyoko got a panicked face and started to wriggle underneath him.

"But I never thought that you would be interested in a plain kohai like me… I…" Ren leaned in closer and gave her a deep kiss that made all her joints turn jelly. He ended the kiss and looked at her again with a grin on his face.

"Well then… I will just have to punish you for lying to me... And I will just have to do it until you understand that I've always loved you and that you're mine. Just to make certain that you will never EVER misunderstand me again…"

He leaned in again and gave her a kiss that made her whole body turn into liquid fire…

^_^ Well. Sorry for the LONG wait. Life… and a baby has it's ways of taking a lot of your time. I'm sorry that it wasn't that much lemon in this chapter… the family reunion part felt like it had to be told before new lemonade could be made. I promise: next chapter WILL include a lot more Lemon and you will not have to wait that long for it since I do have more time again to write. *Yay!*