Welcome back for Chapter 7! I hope you all enjoy the next section, I had fun writing it.
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Ren spent the next twenty minutes rewriting Kyoko's image of a runway walk. Since she had done such a good job learning the female's side, it was not hard for her to apply the new style to the walk. The basics were the same, it was just the stances that were a little different. What took Ren the longest to impart on her were the facial expressions that Kyoko would need to play him convincingly. Kyoko could pull off the dark and brooding looks and the fun loving and light hearted looks, but it was what was referred to as 'bedroom eyes' that made Kyoko blush. Ren tired showing it to her so that she could copy it, but she just could not bring herself to look at him that way.
"Come on Kyoko-chan." Ren tried to figure out a way to explain it to her. "I know you have seen that expression before." He tried to think of a time when he looked at her with wanton eyes that would not be too hard for her to remember. Kyoko thought hard about it and her mind caught on the first time he had turned desire filled eyes on her. She could still feel his body pressed on top of hers as he offered to teach her about kissing. She blushed lightly at the look that she had deemed 'Emperor of the night' and tried to mimic that look. Ren smiled as she turned this face to him. "Good, that's a start, but it needs more heat." Ren explained. "Think of something that that you really want, something that makes your pulse quicken and breath shorten, something or someone that you desire with all your being and let that light show through your eyes." Kyoko thought about it for a long time trying to find something that stirred her inside. Ren was the first thing that popped into her mind, but she shook that thought away. How could she think about her respected senpai that way? Sho pulled up the wrong emotions, as did Kanae, Kuu, and Corn. She tried picturing Corn as an adult, but this caused more flowers and sparkles to pop out and Ren nixed this thought immediately.
"It does not matter is it is something you feel you deserve or can get, just that you desire it." Ren explained, he saw her consider this and fight with herself over something. He kept seeing the emotions he wanted pass her eyes, but she kept shaking it away. Ren thought he heard something click as Kyoko finally gave a sigh of defeat and settled on a thought before turning to him with heated eyes that made him shiver. He had seen that look on his face many times, but knowing that Kyoko was in there making those eyes at him had his heart racing. He knew she had found what she needed to get the job done. "That's it." He smiled at Kyoko, his heart wished that he was causing that heat in her. Kyoko dropped the intense look and smiled warmly at him, she was not about to tell him that she had let the last lock fall so that she could help her beloved senpai. She only hoped that she would be able to shove her feelings back into that box after all of this was over. Ren's heart skipped a little at the sincerity in her smile and he closed his eyes trying to calm himself.
When Ren was more centered he moved on to show Kyoko the different stances that she would need for the modeling job. Kyoko blushed a little at some of the sexy poses that Ren put her into, but she was able to pull them off easily after just a few minutes of practice. The next thing he did made Kyoko turned the same shade as a boiled lobster. Ren made the girl possesing his body take off her shirt and proceed through all of the walks and poses and looks until she could do so without blushing. He was proud of his love, she was doing a great job.
"There is just one more thing that you need to know before you are ready." Ren said as he closed the distance between them. Ren took Kyoko's hands and wrapped them gently around his waist. "You will need to know a few couple poses." He explained. Kyoko's face turned bright red as she tried to pull away from the close contact with her senpai. Ren pinned her with a warning look and she stopped her retreat and let Ren position himself in the circle of her arms. Ren wrapped his arms up around Kyoko's chest and looked deeply into his familiar brown eyes. Kyoko swallowed as her mouth went dry, she could feel the heat of their bodies mingle where Ren pressed into her.
"You may be asked to get up close and personal in the pictures." Ren breathed to her as he pulled himself even closer to his kohai. Kyoko's blush deepened as she felt the body she was in respond to the close contact. Kyoko instinctively wrapped her arms tighter around Ren as he turned his head to rest it on her chest. She was sure that he would go deaf from how loud and hard her heart was pounding. She could feel his voice vibrate through her as he explained that she would need to get use to the feel of a body against hers. Kyoko nodded her understanding and tried to relax around him.
Kyoko cataloged everything she felt from the body in her arms; the moist breath that caressed her bare skin, the pull of the skin as Ren moved his head, and the slight tickle of eyelashes as he blinked his eyes. After a few tense minutes, Kyoko started to grow accustom to the touch and melted around her senpai. She turned her head and let it drop to rest her cheek on top of his head. She felt him sigh and relax a little bit more. They held this position until Kyoko's breathing and heart rate settled out. When she was calm and comfortable with his touch, Ren proceeded to walk the girl through a series of two person poses where he wrapped his smaller frame around her in intimate positions. He also instructed her on how to properly hold a woman and took her through several positions that she would need to know. He explained that these would be some of the moves that she would be asked to do with the French model tonight. Kyoko swallowed down her emotions and worked through the exercise until she could do them all without the slightest hint of embarrassment. Ren made her do them again with the heated look in her eyes until it was almost natural for her. When he was sure she could handle the photo shoot and his control could take no more Ren pulled away from Kyoko's arms and tried to separate himself from what he was feeling. His heart was fluttering in his chest from the intimacy they had just shared. Ren so wanted to be back in his own body so he could do those things to Kyoko.
"Thank you." Kyoko bowed to her senpai. Ren turned and looked at his shirtless body and blushed. He didn't understand why the sight of his own topless form would make him have that response. Ren shook the thought away.
"You are welcome," Ren bowed back to her. "Thank you for doing this for me." Kyoko smiled brightly at being able to help her respected senpai out. "Get your shirt on so we can go before you are late." Ren turned away from the girl he loved in his body. He really needed to get ahold of himself before he did something stupid. He puzzled over the reactions and decided that it had to be the young girl's hormones that were causing him so much trouble.
Kyoko and Ren walked back out into Lory's office to see Yashiro and Lory sitting on the chairs as if they had never moved, but Ren knew there something was up from the smile that graced Lory's face and the little piece of bloody tissue stuck up his manager's nose. He glared at the two men as they tried to find something to occupy their attention other than the actors. Ren could not find anything to accuse them of so he had to let them go. Lory finally looked at the pair.
"Ready?" He asked Kyoko. She nodded her head and stood confidently behind Ren. Lory smiled, it was the first time he saw the tall actor's body look like he should since they had come in. "Good, you should just have enough time to make it to the shoot. I have cleared your schedules for the next few days. I suggest that the two of you lay low until this passes." Both Ren and Kyoko agreed. Yashiro stood up and gathered his bag to take the actors to the scheduled appointment. He pulled the tissue from his nose and dropped it into the waste basket. It would not do to have Ren's manager walking around with bloodied tissue stuffed up his nose. He turned to his charges for the day.
"Ready?" He asked seriously and received a nod from both of the actors. The three friends headed to Ren's car. Ren settled into the driver's seat to take them to the studio and spent the drive telling Kyoko as much as he could about the photographer that would be taking the pictures and the French model. He had worked with the photographer before, but this would be his first time meeting the model, so all she had to do was put up the professional mask he wore and they would not be discovered. Kyoko nodded as she tried to focus her mind. She had seen Ren's professional side many times so it would be no problem for her to copy him. Yashiro sat in the back of the car and listened to the exchange, he added in little bits of information he had gathered about the model and photographer when they were appropriate.
"If you get into a spot that you don't know what to do, just look to me and I will help you out as best I can." Ren smiled reassuringly at the girl. Kyoko nodded and set her mind as close to her senpai's as she could get.
Ren parked the car at the small studio and they got out. Kyoko stepped into the mostly empty lobby of the building and looked around. When she slowed Yashiro turned and took in the odd look on her face.
"Is something wrong?" He asked Kyoko. Kyoko turned concerned eyes to the manager and muttered something. Yashiro twisted his head to try and catch the quite words, but missed them. Kyoko swallowed and repeated her request a little louder.
"I have to go to the restroom." Just the slightest hint of red colored her cheeks as her two companions' eyes widened. Ren and Yashiro had been in this building many times so it was no problem to alter their course to take care of Kyoko's needs. The two 'men' stopped in front of a door and Kyoko looked at it ominously. She shifted her weight from foot to foot trying to dig up the courage to push it open and go in. She had almost decided to ignore the growing presure in her gut when Yashiro spoke.
"Do you need help?" He offered softly. She knew Yashiro was only trying to make things easier for her, but being treated like a child only made her mad and embarrassed. Kyoko glared at the bespectacled man and stepped forward and through the door without another thought. Her two companions stood and stared at the door that had swallowed her. After a moment Ren decided that using the restroom would be a good idea and turned to go into the other room. Yashiro stood in front of the two doors and looked between them. He was sure that Ren would have less of a problem with the task then Kyoko would.
Kyoko looked around the inside of the men's restroom. She had been in male restrooms to clean them in the many service based jobs that she had, so it was not strange to her, but she did not know if she had the courage to perform the task that she was there to do. She stood in front of the sink and tried to glare herself into it, but the image of Ren glaring out at her only made her more uneasy. Kyoko turned away from the mirror and walked over the row of porcelain fixtures on the wall and tried to think like a man.
'Now how do men do this?' Kyoko thought as she stood even with the urinal and set her feet shoulder width apart. 'Step one: position. Done.' She looked down at the front of her pants and reached carefully for the zipper. 'Step Two: Exposure.' Kyoko closed her eyes and pulled the zipper down slowly. She carefully slipped her fingers between the rows of metal teeth, but she failed when she felt the silk of the boxer shorts she had been given this morning. Kyoko quickly withdrew her hand and dropped to a squatted ball with her hand wrapped around her head. She just could not bring herself to touch Ren's private parts. It was just not right! Kyoko's mind recalled the incident in the shower and she worried about a reoccurrence here.
"ARRRR. If only men weren't so weird I could sit on the toilet like normal…." Kyoko lifted her head wide eyed as a great idea hit her. She could sit on the toilet! There would be no need to touch down there if she sat down. Happily Kyoko popped up from the floor and when into one of the stalls and looked at the familiar fixture there. She unhooked the belt and dropped her pants without looking down. She settled herself on the bowl and relaxed so that she could relieve the pressure. An odd noise reached her ears and she looked down to see that the stream was not going into the water, but shooting straight towards the lip of the bowl. Quickly she dropped her hand down to redirect the flow before it could splash over the side and soaked the back of her pants. Her face bloomed tomato red as it hit her, she was now TOUCHING REN! She had touched the body that she was in when she showered, but she had been careful to keep the washcloth between her fingers and the skin. She slammed her eyes shut and waited till the sound of the liquid stopped before moving. She was going to have to look down to make sure everything was clean before she could redress. It wouldn't do for Japan's favorite actor to walk around with urine spots on his pants.
Kyoko cracked one eye and peeked down between her legs as she pulled her hand back. The liquid had stopped leaving just a tiny droplet behind. Kyoko snagged a square of paper and dab the drop away carefully, but paused in her motion when something unexpected caught her eye. She lifted the bottom edge of her shirt up and looked at the golden curls that adorned the actor. Why did Ren have golden hair? Kyoko marveled for a moment till it hit her, she was staring at Ren's naked body! The brilliant red rushed up her face as she jerked her eyes away from her discovery and dropped the shirt back down. Kyoko quickly dressed and flushed away the evidence that she had been there.
As she washed her hands, Kyoko stared at the image of Ren in the mirror pondering what she had just seen. Why did Ren have golden body hair? She looked closely at the brown hair on his head, it was definitely not golden. Kyoko closed her eyes and tried to picture Ren with the swimming blue eyes she knew he truly had and golden hair. Her heart pounded as the image materialized in her head and she gasped. He was not allowed to look that good, it would endanger the hearts of all the women of Japan! Kyoko was bewildered by her imagination; the picture she had come up with was something akin to what she had imagined Corn would look like as an adult. Kyoko giggled as she pictured her senpai dressed as a fairy prince with big beautiful wings.
'Wait!' She thought as she rested her hand on the exit door. 'If Yashiro-san does not know about the blue eyes, would he know about the golden hair?' She pondered for a moment and decided that it would be best to push the thought from her mind until she and Ren were alone to ask him about her discovery. Kyoko stepped out of the bathroom to find Yashiro standing between an upset man and the door.
"What do you mean I can't go in?" The man almost yelled at the manager as he looked up and saw the tall actor coming out of the restroom. "It looks like it works fine to me." Yashiro turned around to see Kyoko stepping out of the room.
"I am sorry, I must have been told wrong." Yashiro bowed out of the way as the angry man pushed past the manager and Kyoko to go into the room. Kyoko's eyes widened as she realized what she had just seen. Yashiro had delayed the man from going into the restroom so that she could have some privacy. The blush that had faded came back as she stepped close to the manager and thanked him.
"No problem." Yashiro answered as he pulled his glasses off to clean them. "Better now?" Kyoko pressed her hands together in front of her and nodded. Yashiro returned his glasses to his face and smiled reassuringly to the girl in Ren's body. "Let me know if there is anything I can do to help." He offered Kyoko. She chuckled and smiled lightly as she tried to find the proper mindset for what she needed to do today. She was thankful for the managaer's consideration. Ren rejoined them a few moments later and the three friends quickly departed for the studio where Kyoko was going to take on the challenge of Ren's photo shoot. The two actors followed Yashiro in silence as they each tried to deal with their thoughts.