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. (Sorry, this chapter does not have any lemonade… but a lot of laughter.)

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

Enjoy!

The shop assistant Eiko didn't know if she had died and gone to heaven or if this was some kind of bad karma punishment that happened to her.
In front of her the famous, gorgeous celebrity Ren stood and wanted HER help! He had been her biggest idol for years and now she had the opportunity to meet him in person. And he wanted HER help! It would have been the best day ever if he didn't look like he was about to kill her if she didn't help him to his satisfaction… maybe the rumours where true that he had been the actor playing that scary role as an serial killer a couple of years ago. She thought he was called Ken… no Carl… no Cain! That was his name! She forced herself to stop thinking about that and pay attention to him again.

"So uhm… do you like this model more than that one? This one is a bit slimmer and the latest model but that one can be used for longer periods of time…" Eiko felt a bit better when she sounded calm. Maybe she would survive this…

Ren looked confused at her and pointed to one of them. "That one!" he said sounding more determined than he looked. He walked a few steps and looked at another display.

"I need one of these too!" she followed him and looked at the items in it.

"Yes. But if I may suggest this one I think will be too small for you. You may risk that your back will start to ache after using it to long… this model however…"

"OK! I will take one of both! No wait! It's… argh! You decide!" He pointed at her and she took a step backwards just in case that his finger would be deadly sharp. She gulped and decided that this must be the karma version… Eiko had met flustered and confused customers before. Especially those first timers… but this celebrity was worse than ten of them together!

Ren stomped ahead and stopped again. This time in front of a shelf.

"Which ones of these should I pick?!"He asked and looked at her again. She went after him again and pointed on a chart on the wall.

"I would recommend that you choose from these ones. As you can see these are sorted so it will be easier to choose the right ones…"

"I'll need one of every one!"

"Oh my! So you mean that… how exciting!" she tried to make him feel better by complementing him.

"No it's not! I just don't know what she want!" he looked like he was about to kill again.

Eiko whimpered and tried to look discreetly around to see if she could get any help from her colleagues. But they had vanished all of them to get away from the crazy celebrity. She felt like she was about to die…

He continued to run around in the store and the things that he wanted to buy got into piles. Now and then she managed to tell him that he didn't need that many of some things or that she should probably wait a while to buy them, that he should choose another model for some and convince him that he didn't need all of those.

He stopped again in another part of the store and his face got a bit whiter. He started to look panicked… again.

"I think that these will be needed too I guess…"She could just hear him whisper it and look at her like she was his saviour. He took one from the rack and gave it to her.

"Ehm. I do think that maybe this one is not the right one to choose… Do you know her measurements? If you do then you should realize that you should choose this one instead since you will need it. It can be very painful when it's filled…"

"What have I done to her?!" Ren shouted all of a sudden. Eiko felt like fainting. This was a nightmare! She needed that vacation badly!

Finally he seemed to realize that he had something from almost every section of the store and he took his credit card and paid for it. She helped him get most of the things into his car. But the bigger things she promised would arrive at his home in an hour.

She fled into the store again when she realized that everything was solved and ran into the personnel cafeteria and started crying. She wished that she never needed to see him in that store again! Even if her bonus this year would sky rocket!

Back in the car Ren put the ignition key into the lock and looked at his reflection in the mirror. He lowered his head onto his hands on the steering wheel and made a huge sigh. He realized that he hadn't done much correct this day at all. He had panicked and realized that Kyoko would kill him! He deserved it but first he needed to get the things home before he met her again…

Earlier that day:

Ren hummed a fun melody and realized that he almost ran when walking in the hallway to Kyoko's dressing room. He forcefully made his feet take slower steps. It would not be good for his image if the others saw him run like crazy to Kyoko. If he was unlucky they would think that something had happened and run after him and make a fuss. If he was a bit less unlucky they would say that he had lost his "coolnes". Image is everything in the showbiz.

Could life be any better!? He could not believe that his feeling was returned by that beautiful and talented girl. Even better that she was perfect in his bed. He had earlier had a feeling that she would be passionate, but this was far better than his expectations. He wished that the wedding was over and that he could finally call her his wife.

He started thinking. How long had he wanted Kyoko as his wife? He realized that it was probably almost as long as he had realized that he loved her. Kyoko was not someone that you had sex with (GREAT sex at that!) and then left afterwards. In some ways he felt ashamed that he had been using her in that way so freely before they are wed. But then again how could he not have done it when she'd been so wonderful!

He finally stood in front of her door. He made sure that he had everything with him. He had stopped by her favourite Indian restaurant and bought take away food for them. Other than that he had the folder with the wedding planning and a bouquet with red roses. He hoped that she would not be panicking when she saw the list of all the people that should be invited to the wedding and the dinner afterwards. He smiled when he remembered some of the comments their older colleagues had said about him wanting to be this involved in the preparations. No sane man would go into that hysteria… Well, he was crazy in love with Kyoko so he felt that it was worth it.

He knocked on the door and announced that it was him before opening the door and walked in. Kyoko came out of the bathroom with a towel on her head. She towelled her hair and he realized that she had taken a shower. A bit of regret fell over him. What a shame that he hadn't arrived earlier! But then he shrugged. No, this was for the better since it would not be appropriate to make crazy love at her working place. What if someone went in and saw… everything. No, better not. It could totally ruin her image. His… would probably only improve with it.

"Did the filming go well today?" he asked when she delivered a tired smile.

"It went ok, but not more than that. For some reason I don't feel that I managed to grasp the role completely. Maybe it's because I'm feeling so tired and a bit out of myself today."

She went to the table and looked at him and the boxes he took out from the plastic bag. "Oh no!" he thought. Had he been too selfish these last couple of days so that Kyoko would get too tired? He decided that he would try not to be the sex-maniac that he had become these last weeks. It would do no good if he sabotaged for Kyoko and her acting career. He looked at her and saw that she looked dead tired. She had gotten an unhealthy grey colour to her skin and bags under her eyes. Nothing more exciting than getting her too sleep for the whole night tonight he decided. He cursed himself when he felt a bit of disappointment when he thought that. If he really did love her, her needs had to go before his!

He opened one of the boxes with the Indian food and turned towards Kyoko. He stretched his arm to give her it since he knew that she loved this one. He stopped in his movement and looked alarmed at her. She was not grey anymore. Nope, her colour had turned an alarming green tone. He saw her rising and running back into the bathroom in no time and soon he heard retching sounds from inside.

Now it was his turn to turn ashen. What was he supposed to do now?! Kyoko… he rose from the couch and didn't even realize that he spilled his box of food on the little table. He had to go out of here now!

So he did. He ran out from the room. He almost knocked one of the stage workers down when rounding a corner. The man looked over his shoulder in shock. This was not the way Ren usually acted.

Just as he was opening the door outside he saw Moko-san walking in. He shouted at her:

"Moko-san! You have to go to Kyoko now! She needs you!" He ran on to his car as soon as he saw that she had heard him. She looked terrified and started running in to the building. He sat in the car and was igniting the motor when he realized that his mobile was ringing. It was Yashiro.

"Ren! Where are you?! They said you're running out from the building like you had hellhounds chasing you! Are you alright?" his manager sounded really worried.

"It's Kyoko… She's… I'm sorry! But you will have to cancel all my schedule today! I have something that I need to do!" Ren turned the phone off and threw it on the passenger side of the car and with screeching tires he left the parking.

A while later:

Ren looked around in the room. He need to get a bigger flat… no! A house would be so much better! But for the time being this looked great. Kyoko would love this and he hoped that he would live long enough to see her enjoy it.

He felt sweaty. But then again it wasn't that strange since he had all by himself moved a lot of heavy furniture and managed to put some new ones together. He went to the fluffy white bedding and pulled the string to a cute little dragon and the notes to "twinkle twinkle little star" played softly out it. He realized that it was probably overkill to have both the cradle and the baby bed standing in the room at the same time. Maybe he had gone a little bit overboard at the store… but he… ok. He had panicked. For once in his life he had lost control and made a bit of a fool of himself. Kyoko would hate him for leaving her like that. He left her when she needed him the most. He was a scumbag!

He took one of the big teddy bears sitting on the dresser and gave it a hug. How was he supposed to make up to her? He wanted to see her and apologize right now. But at the same time he dreaded the meeting. She would definitely kill him!

Yashiro had sent a message a while ago telling him that Kyoko was on her way over to him with the help of Moko. He also wrote that Ren was going to make up for it BIG time later for the both of them. Ren felt sorry for Yashiro since he probably had some problems with cancelling and apologizing to those he stood up.

He went in to the living room and sat down on the sofa still cuddling the teddy bear. He wanted Kyoko to come home now. This had become her home as much as his.

He stands up startled when he hears the doorbell ring. Kyoko! He runs to the door and opens it wide up. He sees Kyoko leaning on Moko still looking green and a bit grey. He pushes the teddy bear into Moko's arms and then he lifts Kyoko up and runs with her to the couch and places her gently on top of it.

"Kyoko darling. How do you feel?" he looks worried at her.

"I'm not feeling that great but at the moment its ok."

Moko comes closes the door and then puts the teddy bear away looking at it curiously. She then looks angrily at Ren.

"You almost gave me a heart attack when you shouted at me before! You made me believe that Kyoko was dying! And why the heck where you running away in the other direction!?"

"I'm so sorry Kyoko! I panicked and didn't know what to do. I know that I should have stayed… but I…"

"It's ok Ren. I didn't want you to see me sick like that…I'm sorry" Kyoko smiled weakly at him. He looked gorgeous even when not her best! He thought.

"I'm the one that should be sorry! I'm the one that made you like this!" Kyoko looked up at him with questioning eyes for a few seconds. Then she jumped up and ran into the toilet and slammed the door behind her. Her retching sounding in the whole apartment. Ren turned and looked at Moko. She looked like she also wanted to throw up when hearing Kyoko. She shrugged and looked angry at Ren.

"Thanks to you I will now have to go home and take a shower and try to disinfect myself so that I won't become sick too. Almost the whole crew are sick right now…"

Ren looked at her really confused. What was she talking about?!

"But what Kyoko have is not contagious… how could you become sick…?"

"What are you talking about?!" Moko looked like she wanted to hit him hard in his head. "Is this fun to you?! Just you wait when you too start to puke like crazy…" she stopped when he all of a sudden started to laugh.

"Silly! You know that's not possible… men can't be pregnant…"

"WHAT?!" Moko's eyes became large and shocked. "What did you just say?!"

"I said that Kyoko is having my child!" He realized that he was smiling with a big smile.

They both turned towards the bathroom and the gasping sound they heard. Kyoko wasn't green in the face anymore. Instead she had turned red as a tomato. The smile went away from Ren's face.

"Wha- what did you just say I was?" Kyoko stammered.

Moko was the first one to react. She started laughing like she had become crazy.

"So that is what this was about!" she took a few steps towards the teddy bear and grabbed it in one of her hands and shock it in Ren's direction. "You thought that Kyoko was having a baby instead of food poisoning!" She laughed again doubling over from it. She continued still laughing: "The macho man Ren panicked when he thought that he had knocked up his beloved Kyoko!"

Moko decided that her work there was done and that she should go before Ren did something even more crazy and to leave those two crazy lovebirds alone. She closed the door behind her and they could both hear her laughter when she walked away in the hallway.

Ren turned around to look at Kyoko feeling rather stupid.

"So you're not pregnant then?" he asked. He felt rather disappointed. He hadn't had the time to think this over but he still felt some loss.

"No. The doctor that came to the set said that it was probably food poisoning since so many became ill at the same time. It must have been the lunchboxes. I'm sorry…" she looked sad and she showed with all her person that she felt miserable when she wasn't what Ren seemed to want.

Ren went towards her and gave her a tender hug. He felt like a jerk when he made her feel that way. He was just about to say something to her when the doorbell rang loudly. Ren's arms hadn't even left her before he realized that the person outside had a set of keys and was opening the door.

The door opened and he didn't even had the time so see who it was before he was pushed back and pink fluff was all around Kyoko.

"Kyoko! How are you? Oh what a happy day! When is the baby due? I'm going to be a grandma!"

Ren froze. Uh oh! He had forgot that he had phoned his mum being desperate when he couldn't decide where to put up the diaper station. In the new baby room or in the bathroom… Of course she would come running.

"Mom!" He carefully tried to move her away from Kyoko and get her attention. "Mom! Listen! It was a mistake! She's not pregnant. She's food poisoned…"

"What?! But where's the baby?" Ren cursed himself. He knew that look. And now he had hurt his mom too…

"I'm sorry I'm not pregnant Juliena… I'm…" Again Kyoko turned green and started running to the toilet once again.

"Oh you poor baby!" Juliena followed her into the bathroom to help her.

Left was Ren. He looked around and sighed. Correction. Kyoko would probably not kill him. She was too lovely and nice for it. But his mother definitely would…

He slowly walked into the room that he had redecorated. He took another teddy bear from the cradle and just slumped down in the middle of the room. He looked at it, hugged it and sighed. He closed his eyes.

"I'm not becoming a father…" he sighed again.

So! What do you think? I must say I laughed a lot writing this chapter. I just wanted to find something that would make Ren behave a bit out of character. Guess I found it. ;-)
I'm sorry though that this chapter didn't include any lemons… maybe the next one will?
Please leave me feedback so that I will know if you liked it or not.