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I am SO, VERY, REALLY SORRY! For not updating for over a month… If you haven't read reincarnation and read my excuse for being late LOL… My mind got broken due to LIFE… ^_^ and I had trouble writing… I'm so sorry, I hope you'll like it… ENJOY!

Chapter 15

Ren quickly went to Kyoko. He sat on the coffee table in front of her and leaned forward to try to see her hidden face. His hand was reaching out to her but stopped inches away. He really wanted to hug and comfort her, but suppressed the urge. "Mogami-san, are you alright?"

She didn't reply or move. "Mogami-san?" He called again but still no response in any kind. "Mogami-san, if it's about this morning, it really wasn't your fault. So please, don't be like this. I don't want to see you like this."

His hand that stopped reaching for her moved and touched her hair. Kyoko's head immediately shot up as she felt something touched her head. Her eyes were wide with the mixture of fear and then shock. There was silence for a few seconds. "T-tsuruga-san!"

She scrambled and sat properly like how formal Japanese sit. Her back straight, hands on her lap and her expression was so tensed and Ren could not help but laugh. Her expression turned confused and a little annoyed. "How long have you been there, Tsuruga-san?"

Ren received an arrow to the heart at what she said. It hurt him that she hadn't been listening to his heartfelt apology a few minutes ago. "I just arrived."

"Oh, what time is it? I have to prepare your dinner." She started to stand up and go but Ren prevented her by holding her down on her shoulders.

"Not just yet." He looked into her eyes seriously. "Not until you tell me what's wrong? Why were you depressed just a few seconds ago?"

Kyoko's eyes grew wide. "I-it's really nothing. You don't have to worry about it." Ren's eyes narrowed and Kyoko felt the Demon Lord just under the surface waiting to be let out and she panicked. Ren was surprised when the shoulders he was holding suddenly disappeared, leaving his hands empty.

"I'm so sorry, Tsuruga-san, I was so unprofessional I immediately accepted a job without knowing anything about it yet. I'm so sorry!" She exclaimed to her sempai while doing a dogeza on the couch. Ren was surprised and took a few seconds for her explanation to reach his mind. Ren sighed in relief. He thought it was more serious.

"So, you were depressed because you were having trouble with your new job." He stated. Kyoko nodded meekly without raising her head. "What are you depressed about? Is it a hard job?"

"It's a lotion commercial." She murmured as she shook her head lightly. Ren strained to hear it.

"Then what's the problem?" Ren asked. Kyoko just stayed silent. "Mogami-san?" He said asked. But she still didn't say anything. Ren reached out and touched her shoulder to make her sit up. But she suddenly jumped at his touch.

"Sho'sinit,tooandhehastotouchmealotinit!" She said rapidly, Ren couldn't understand. She bowed down again into a dogeza. She thought Ren was mad again.

"Uhm, Mogami-san, can you please say it slowly one more time." Ren said slowly and stopped his hand from reaching out to her again, trying not to scare her.

"SH…it to.. ouch…a lot..it.." She whispered and Ren couldn't understand the bits he heard.

"Mogami-san…" He said impatiently and she flinched.

"SHO'S IN IT TOO AND HE HAS TO TOUCH ME A LOT IN IT!" She nearly shouted at him as she sat up. Ren just froze for a moment, letting her words sipped through his brain. And when it clicked, the green monster inside of him rose from the depths of darkness in his heart. Kyoko was trembling as she felt Ren's darkening aura. This is why I don't want to tell you in the first place. She thought.

After a while, Ren's dark aura started to dissipate as he controlled himself. Kyoko looked at Ren fearfully, backing up to the back of the couch. "You already accepted the job, right Mogami-san?" He asked but with a fake smile. Kyoko only nodded, couldn't find her voice to answer. "You're a professional actress, so I'm sure you're going to do the job properly." He smiled again, now with a more genuine look to it. Kyoko sighed in relief as she saw it and heard what he said.

A smile slowly crept on her face. "Uhn!" She replied with determined eyes. I don't have the right to feel jealous and possessive. Ren thought desperately trying to convince himself as he looked at her beautiful smiling face.

"Don't hesitate to ask me if you need help with anything, okay?" He smiled his special heavenly smile to her. The bright lights hit her and she could only nod in response. They proceeded to the kitchen and she heated up his dinner.

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The next day, Kyoko got out of work early in the afternoon because she didn't had much job. She transformed into a mother and happily picked up Baby Ren who was also very happy to see her. It was a beautiful day so she decided that they go for a walk. The driver stopped by the nearby park. Kyoko and Baby Ren both skipped and walked around the park feeling the fresh air around them. They went on the swing and Baby Ren liked it very much. He was giggling and moving he's legs and arms around a lot. When they got off he pouted cutely and on the verge of crying. But Kyoko took him to the slide and he's face lit up again.

As they enjoyed themselves, Kyoko, the ever oblivious one, didn't noticed the people watching them and taking videos and photos of them. Some people thought it was a filming or something because they were both so beautiful and were so picture perfect-like that it would only be seen in the movies. But there were no cameras and stuff around so it clearly wasn't. The driver who was watching them from afar noticed this and knew the danger if someone were to recognize them. He went to her oblivious Madame and informed her. When she realized they flee the scene but their videos and pictures were already all over the internet.

Before they went home, Kyoko asked the driver to stop by a grocery store. Every time she goes there, people looked and stare at her curiously because she was beautiful and elegant with a super cute baby and in their eyes she was rich. She looked so out of place shopping in a cheap and ordinary store. The employees in that store would eagerly look forward to when she would shop there again. They feast their eyes at her beautiful face and lovely body, and if she wasn't carrying a baby, they would have made a move on her already. But when they looked at the baby, their disappointments of her being already married went away because he was just so cute that you had to smile back at him.

This time she bought a lot of ingredients, which were more than her usual. "Preparing for a special occasion?" asked the male cashier with a light blush.

"You could say that." She murmured and paid for her groceries. She went out and her driver quickly went up to help her.

Her graduation was tomorrow, but the extra lot of groceries wasn't for that. It was for her little plan that evening. As soon as they got home, she immediately started working on her plan. Baby Ren was placed on his crib and he slowly went to sleep, obviously tired of playing at the park. Kyoko as her usual self but with more eagerness and a little nervousness worked her usual magic in the kitchen. It was six thirty when she was finally done. She went to get Baby Ren who was so cute rubbing his eyes as he woke up. Kyoko couldn't help but kissed him all over his face.

It was seven in the evening when Ren was driving home. If it was a few months ago it would really be unusual and weird to be going home at this early hour, but in the last few months, he has been going home early a lot. He went home late at night like at midnight sometimes too, just sometimes and his usual hours were nine or eight in the evening. It impressed him that Yashiro could manage his schedule for him to get home this early in the last few months. Well, it wasn't Yashiro's effort alone, Yashiro was collaborating with THE mastermind of this all, the president.

When he arrived home, he was greeted with a beautiful scene, Kyoko feeding Baby Ren on his high chair. She looked up at him and gave him a beautiful smile that made his heart race. "I'm home." He greeted with a smile as beautiful as hers.

"Welcome back." She greeted shyly and went back to the attention seeker baby in front of her. Kyoko's demons took a hit of the blinding light of Ren's smile. He went to Baby Ren, greeted him and kissed his forehead. Ren asked to take over so that she can prepare the table for them. She happily obliged but when she came to the kitchen, she felt nervous thinking of her plan. He said not to hesitate to ask for his help right? I'm not taking advantage of his kindness or anything, that's why I prepared this special dinner in return for his help. She took a deep breath and let it out.

She prepared the table with the extra special and extra delicious dinner she made. She went back to Ren and the baby to call them. Ren was surprise to see the banquet but then his face turned soft and gentle as he remembered that tomorrow would be her graduation and thought it was for that. They placed Baby Ren's high chair in front of the table, near their seats to watch over him as he play with his toys in front of him. They ate happily discussing their day and future jobs and plans. After they finished, Kyoko went and got the dessert. The meal was light enough that Ren could still eat the dessert. It was the especially made for him on Valentine's Day wine jelly on the rose decorated glass. Kyoko played with the baby as Ren ate his dessert and it gave him the freedom to watch her and the baby while eating the delicious dessert.

After he was finished, they decided to bathe the baby first. Then Kyoko went back to the kitchen and cleaned up, leaving Ren with the baby. He appeared in the kitchen after he dressed the baby and put him to sleep. She was washing the dishes. He went to her side and helped with the drying. There was only silence and the noises of what they were doing. Kyoko was nervous about her plan of asking him for help. Ren was thinking of what to say to her for the exquisite dinner.

"Tsurugan-san."

"Mogami-san."

They spoke at the same time and stopped talking again at the same time as they stopped what they were doing and turned to each other. They opened their mouths to talk but they caught each other about to say something again so they stopped again at the same time.

"You go first." Ren said.

"No, you go first, Tsuruga-san."

"No, ladies first."

"No, you're my sempai, so you go first." Ren thought that it would never end if he continues to insist, so he sighed in defeat.

"Mogami-san, thanks for the dinner." He said with a sweet smile. "And… well, it's a little early but, Congratulations!"

"Congratulations to what?" Kyoko asked confused. She was so busy thinking and worrying about her plan of asking him for help that she forgot about her graduation tomorrow.

"You're graduating tomorrow, right?" He asked unsurely. "Isn't that what dinner was about?"

Her face lit when she remembered. "Oh, yes I am graduating tomorrow. But the dinner wasn't about that, Tsuruga-san."

"It wasn't? Then what was it about then?" Ren asked confused. His mind was running in overdrive thinking of what special occasion he had forgotten.

"Well…." Ren looked down at her. "I thought of asking for your help and…" She pushed on her fingers cutely, making Ren want to reach out for her and pull her to him. "I don't want to always ask for your help shamelessly and not do something for you in return, so… That was…"

"But you don't need to do that, Mogami-san. I offered you my help; you don't have to feel indebted." She looked up to him clearly not believing his words. "You're already doing everything here; you've obviously done enough for me. And you made me gain weight, doesn't that mean I gained something from you?" he said jokingly with a smile. She couldn't help but cracked a smile. "So what do you need help with?"

Kyoko got nervous again. She turned to the sink and started doing what she was doing. "I'll tell you when we finish here." Ren silently agreed and started drying dishes again.

I wonder about what she's going to ask him for help… Hhmmm… secret! It's going to be fun… the hint is in this chapter too… If you'll get what she's having trouble with… Thanks so much for continue reading and reviewing my story… Love you guys…

And pray for me… that I will make the right decision in my life right now… LOL ^_^ seriously