I do not own Skip Beat!

Thank you Yoshiki Nakamura for all of your incredible talent.

Day three:

Battle of The Plushies

This time the four men would wage their collective battle with plushies. And yes... once again it happened to fall on the same day. No one really knows how or, why they were all attuned to the same wavelength. Maybe it was fate, maybe it was Kyoko or, maybe it was the little arrow shooting, cherubic 'Love Deity' that sometimes roamed the halls of LME without Takarada Lory's knowledge admiring the President's work. Yes, that was quite possibly it, unfortunately for Kyoko, she was his focus, it was her turn and he was not going to let her off his radar.

On this day, day three of the small war that was being waged against Kyoko's heart, one more of the males in the race had discovered that there was competition for his Kyoko's attentions. Hikaru was not happy with the prospect of having to compete against others for her, especially this particular one. He saw him early this morning entering the LoveMe room with lion in pocket. So, it botched his plan of leaving his gift first thing, he had to wait until later when he had time. With this new knowledge in hand he would step up his game next time around. Hopefully the next gift will sway her, he smiled.

Lory had a hunch, lo and behold it panned out as he saw Ren pet the little lion in his pocket as he passed through the LoveMe room doorway in the early hours of the morning. 'I knew it!' His inner matchmaker shouted in triumph.

The first of the menagerie mystically appeared in the LoveMe room lounging silently on the sofa waiting for Kyoko as she entered in the morning. He was adorable. (Ren) The first of the admirers had snuck in the most endearing stuffed plush, blond lion with a long soft mane and pink heart shaped nose and matching paw pads. Around his cute little left paw was a little brown ribbon tied in a bow with a card attached to it reading: I'd be "Lion" if I said I didn't love you. I love you Kyoko-chan, with Love your Secret Admirer. A pink tinge lightly dusted her cheeks and her ears felt warm. She picked up the little lion and cuddled him. "He's so adorable, I can't put him down." She said dreamily and then put him in her locker for safekeeping.

"Well, well what do we have here?" Lory snickered to himself as he watched the admirer sneak in like a criminal to deposit the cute little treasure

The second invader was snuck into the LoveMe room around mid-morning very sneakily by the giver himself nearly getting himself caught, so he thought. He didn't realize that Lory was watching from the comfort of his own office the mystery unfolding in front of him on the security camera monitor. (Hikaru) The admirer snuck into the LoveMe room with a little plush gold star with googly eyes and a goofy smile under his jacket so no one else would see. He had wanted to send her a plushy Bo but, that would be giving away too much too quickly, after all he had other gifts planned.

Kyoko returned from her mid-morning duties to find the little guy sitting on the sofa waiting for her. She paused in the doorway. "No way..." She strode over to the sofa and picked off the card. You leave me with Stars in my eyes every time I see you. My heart is yours to keep, with Love your Secret Admirer. She sighed and shook her head smiling, opened her locker and placed the little star next to the lion on the shelf as she patted the lion on the head. "See ya later Leo." She blew him a little kiss, closed her locker and left to meet Kanae for lunch.

"Kyoko-chan!" the receptionist called to her, "You have another delivery today." as she pulled out two plushies and lay them on the desk as Kyoko and Kanae returned from their lunch.

The one from the (Sho) admirer was an adorable little plush, orange, beanie tiger with a black and gold striped bow tied around his neck that served as a collar with a little heart shaped I.D. tag, with a message that read: You bring out the Tiger in me when you're around. With all my heart, Love your Secret Admirer.

As she read the message the little candy grudge popped out again with an overwhelming desire to shred it, Kyoko fought it off. This is a familiar feeling cooed the little grudge, let's kill it. As she slithered around the tiger.

From the next admirer (Reino). The cute little plush apple with arms and legs sported googly eyes and a toothy smile, topped off with a little silver bow wrapped around his stem. Although, it was cute, it still creeped her out. The card read: You are the apple of my eye My Sweet. You've taken a bite out of my heart. Eternally yours, your Secret Admirer.

Kyoko brought out the others from her locker and displayed them for Kanae. She presented the cards.

"These are from this morning." as Kanae read the cards. "I found them sitting on the sofa."

"Mo! Again with this?" Kanae motioned to the array of plushies that adorned the sofa.

"They are cute but, really now."

"You know what that means don't you?"

"No."

"It means that Lion-san and Star-san" she pointed to the plushies, "were in here this morning. They work at LME, Kyoko." she stated grimly.

Kyoko gasped, "You're right!"

Kyoko sighed. "But, aren't they sooo cute?" as she picked up the little lion and held it close cuddling it and rubbing her cheek on him. So soft and smells sooo good.

Kanae just shook her head, Tsuruga-san you better get this over with. I don't know how much more I can take of her like this.

Kyoko stored most of her little treasures and prepared to leave for her next drama shoot with a little blond passenger in her coat pocket, slightly less paranoid than last time.

Ren sneezed as another arrow struck him with inspiration.