Thank you for joining me for Chapter 4, the chaos continues as our unfortunate couple gets ready for their day. Oh and what a day it will be, he he he.
I am sorry that Yashiro seems OOC in the last chapter, but there was really not much he could do besides sit back and watch/laugh. He heard the conversation between Ren and the fairy so he knew they would be ok, and I figured his sanity cracked a little in dealing with the situation… I know mine would. Don't worry, he gets better. And I am sure that Ren is going to find a way to make him PAY for his amusement later. :) * now taking suggestions for punishment for Yashiro*
**** WARNING! THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS MILDLY SUGGESTIVE THEAMS******
(but nothing worse than seen on primetime TV)
Please let me know what you think.
Note: I do not own Skip Beat!
Ren threw himself down on top of the covers on his bed and tried to sort out his thoughts and feeling. He hoped Kyoko would understand that he was trying to preserve her modesty and not think he didn't want to see her naked, but he could not explain it to her without either confessing his feelings or sounding like a pervert. Ren ran his hands through his hair roughly and let out an exasperated noise. He could still feel the effects the water had had on his unfamiliar body. Since he didn't know about it, he decided the best course of action was to ignore it and hope that that tight knot in his stomach would do away. He sat up and finished drying off before going to look for something suitable to where. He opened his closet and flipped through his clothing. There was nothing in there that Kyoko's smaller body wouldn't swim in, so he decided to go for one of the t-shirt he used to work out in. He also took out a pair of his running shorts that had a draw string.
He stood back and looked at himself in the mirror. He liked the way Kyoko looked in his clothing. He pulled up his shirt and rubbed his hand over the soft skin of his stomach. He loved her skin. He shook his head to clear the perverted thoughts running through his mind and dropped the shirt back down. He turned to walk out and stopped as the seam in his shorts rubbed against sensitive skin. He loosened the shorts so they rode lower on him and decided that they were either going shopping or back to the Darumaya to get some proper clothing for him.
When Ren arrived in the kitchen, he found that Kyoko had laid out a proper breakfast and she was sitting with Yashiro already eating. Kyoko was surprised when she got halfway through her meal and found that she was full and could eat no more. She placed her hand on her stomach and looked up at Ren eating on the other side of the table. He had been waiting for her to hit that full point. He swallowed the piece of bread in his mouth so he could speak.
"I told you that I don't need that much to eat." He grinned at her. Kyoko shook her head at him and went to take her shower. Ren finished everything on his plate with ease and went back for seconds on the soup. He was amazed at how much food Kyoko's body could take comfortably. Ren suddenly thought of something and ran to the bathroom to stop Kyoko from getting in the shower. He didn't hear water running so he knocked on the door. "Kyoko-chan." He called. It felt weird using her given name, but he was using her body, so the formal way he usually called her just didn't seem right. Kyoko opened the door and looked out at him.
"What's wrong?" She asked. Ren pushed the door open and let himself into the bathroom. He shut the door behind him and locked it.
"There is something that I need to tell you before you get in the shower." Kyoko had already taken her shirt off and was clutching it to her chest out of habit. Ren opened a drawer on his counter and pulled out a case for contacts and the solution that went with it. "I wear contacts." His words were just above a whisper, but she heard them. She stared at him in disbelief before turning to look at her eyes in the mirror, but couldn't see the contacts. "You'll need to take them out before you shower just in case you get soap in your eyes." Ren opened the case and put some fresh solution in the wells.
"How do I get them out?" She asked. She had never worn contacts. Ren explained it and helped her to get the first one out. She gasped at the blue eye that stared back at her from the mirror. Ren dropped the first contact in its divot and when back to help her remove the second. Once he had secured both contacts in their case, he turned to his kohai examining his eyes closely in the mirror. "You have such beautify eyes, why do you hide them?" She asked. Ren looked away from her; he was not ready to reveal his secret to her just yet.
"It's a long story." He answered before looking back up to her. "Please don't tell anyone about this." His puppy dog eyes were too adorable coming out of Kyoko's face. Kyoko smiled warmly at him, she could tell this was important to him.
"I promise." She rested her hand on Ren's shoulder.
"Not even Yashiro." Ren stated. She gave him a confused look but agreed to keep the secret. Ren turned to go. "Call me when you get out of the shower and I will help you put the contacts back in." She nodded and Ren opened the door to leave. He paused and looked back at his love. "Oh, by the way, I will not be upset if you touch my body in the shower." On that note, he shut the door behind him before she could say anything. Kyoko stared at the door with an open mouth processing his departing words. She blushed hard when they fully sunk in. Could that have been what had caused him to fall in the shower earlier? She shook that thought away, and turned to more pressing matters, how was she going to take a shower in Ren's body? Yes, he had just given her permission, but she didn't know if her heart was up to caressing the skin of the man she held so dear. She thought about turning the lights off like Ren had, but she didn't know the way around his bathroom well enough to try it. She looked into the blue eyes in the mirror and dug up the courage to strip off the rest of the man's cloths and get in the shower. She decided that she would just keep her eyes closed as much as possible.
She stood in the running water and ran her hands over most of Ren's body with her eyes closed. She had his measurements memorized, but feeling the angles of his body from both sides gave her more insight into him then any study of him could have done. She now had a LOT more detail to add to her dolls. She finally finished washing him except for one area that she was avoiding, but she could not just ignore it. Hygiene was important so every inch of the body she was in needed to be washed. She lathered up a washcloth till it was thick with froth. She had convinced herself that if there was a cloth between her hands and groin, it would not count as touching. She placed the cloth on her hand and carefully pressed it into the area she had been avoiding. Her eyes shot open and she looked down to see the response that the unfamiliar body was having to her touch. She made a great impression of a gold fish as her brain tried to process what she was seeing. She snapped her face back up and she clinched her hands as she tried to reorder her world. She has just see Ren completely naked and fully aroused, and she did not know what to do about it. She still had to finish her cleaning, so she went back to the job and scrubbed him clean gently. She was clean now, but the added sensations only served to compound her problem. She stood in the water and tried to think of ways to solve the issue, but the answers she kept coming up with made her blush harder and harder until she was almost completely red. She decided that she would wait it out, how long could it last? Kyoko shut the water off and found a towel to dry off with.
Ren and Yashiro washed the dishes while Kyoko took her shower. Yashiro teased Ren when he asked his now taller manager to put some of the pots back into the cabinet that he could no longer reach. He didn't want to have an episode with Yashiro like he had with Kyoko when she tried to get things down from the folding cabinet.
"You're enjoying this, aren't you?" Ren glared at the smile on Yashiro's face.
"Greatly." His manager admitted before chuckling again. The two men were interrupted by the voice calling for Ren from the bathroom. He had started to wonder if she was ever going to be done with her shower. He smiled a little at the thought that she might have actually taken the opportunity he had given her, but doubted it. Ren excused himself to go help Kyoko in the bathroom.
Ren knocked lightly on the partially open door before pushing it open and looking down on Kyoko. She was sitting on the bathmat with her kneed up and ankles crossed. Her arms were wrapped around her knees, and there was a towel wrapped around her waist. She looked up at him with tears rimming blue eyes. Ren stepped all the way into the room and shut the door. He closed the distance between then.
"What's wrong Kyoko?" He asked. He had forgotten about using honorifics in light of the situation. How are you supposed to use 'san or when the person you are talking to is in your body, naked, mostly wet, and about to cry? Tears did fall from her eyes as she answered his question.
"It wouldn't go away." She whimpered as a deep blush rushed up her skin, she hung her head so she could not look at him.
"What?" He asked. What wouldn't go away that would make her this upset?
"How do you make it go away?" She sobbed her question. It took him a moment to realize what the problem was. The epiphany struck and he blushed just as red as Kyoko was. She hadn't see his reaction due to her attempts to hide her face, but Ren pushed the embarrassment away so he could help her.
"You should have taken care of that in the shower." Ren said with the best calm voice he could muster. Kyoko's head shot up and she stared at him in shock. Had he just suggested what she thought he had? Ren read the surprise in her face and quickly amended his statement. What she was thinking would work best, but that was not what he had suggested. "Cold water usually works." Kyoko calmed down as Ren helped her to her feet and turned on the water to just cooler then comfortable. He held her towel as she stepped into the water. He chanced a glance at her problem as she got into the water. His eyes widened at what he saw, no wonder the young girl was upset. He couldn't remember when he had such a response from a shower, but then he remembered his shower and the unfamiliar body he was in. In a few minutes, he pulled Kyoko out of the shower with chattering teeth and wrapped a towel around her so she wouldn't catch a cold. Her problem had passed, but she was still on the edge of embarrassed tears.
"I really didn't do anything." She defended herself. Ren just smiled warmly at her.
"Don't worry about it." He tried to sooth her. "It's a natural response, it's ok." Kyoko still didn't feel like it was ok.
"Does that happen often?" Ren chucked lightly and blushed at Kyoko's question.
"More than I would like to admit." Ren sighed. Somehow his honesty calmed her down and they were able to dry her off. Ren helped her put the contacts back in to hid his blue eyes.
"You really do have beautiful eyes." Kyoko told Ren. The complement made him blush again as he led her to his room so they could find clothing for her. Yashiro poked his head out of the kitchen to see a slightly red Kyoko, dressed in Ren's shirt and shorts, leading a meek looking Ren, wrapped in a towel, by the hand into his bedroom. He quickly snapped a picture of the scene to share with Lory later. He was sure that the older man would love it. Ren found acceptable clothing for Kyoko and left so she could get dressed. He went to the kitchen were Yashiro had sat back down to drink his coffee. He grinned widely at Ren and held back a snicker.
"You're still not helping." Ren glared at him, but that look just didn't work right coming from Kyoko's face. Yashiro giggled a little more as Ren shook his head and let out an exasperated sigh. This was really going to be a long day.
Author's note: This chapter was hard to keep out of M rating too. There have been several suggestions that I let it slip over that line, but for this story I wanted to keep it away. It's not that I can't write those scenes, I just wanted to make it acceptable for a wider audience. I will take your suggestions into consideration for omake of those shower scenes.
