Here is the next chapter. I hope you like it
Note: I don't own Skip Beat!
As sleep released him, Ren snuggled deeper in to the warmth that surrounded him. He was content where he was and did not want to move from the strong arms that held him. Ren's eyes popped open as his mind registered his predicament. He was currently snuggled into the chest of his own body, and Kyoko was holding him fairly tightly. He had woken up with a woman in his arms many times, but for it to be the other way around was a WHOLE different ball game. The only thing he could see was the gray of the t-shirt just inches away from his face and his arms were pinned between him that the body against him. He laid there for a long time mulling over what to do. He was ecstatic to find that he was pressed up against the person he loved, but he kept having issues. He wasn't pressed against Kyoko's body, he in Kyoko's body and pressed against his body. He groaned slightly at how his mind had made that innocent statement sound so wrong. And does loving the touch of one's own body make him a narcissus?
Unable to properly enjoy waking up in bed with Kyoko, Ren tried to push away gently but stopped when Kyoko moaned lightly and pulled him in tighter. He tried to wiggle out of her grip, but found that their legs were intertwined too. He relaxed back to think about their situation and what to do about it. He did not think he would be able to fight Kyoko off him without waking her up; he could wake her up, which would probably embarrass the hell out of her; or he could try to go back to sleep and hope that she woke up and let him go. He pondered his choices for a moment. Lory had said that he would clear their schedule, so they could take as long as they wanted. Ren decided to try and go back to sleep.
Ren studied the sleeping face in front of him. He had never looked upon his own face when it was so open and unguarded. He was almost cute. Ren shook his head, how could he think such things about himself. Ren screwed his eyes shut and tried to drive the weird thoughts from his brain. He was interrupted by a soft tinkling noise and opened his eyes to see that the fairy had landed on Kyoko's arm. The little winged girl looked down at him and smiled.
"Good morning." He whispered softly so as not to disturb the person sleeping next to her. The soft tinkle of the fairy's voice fell on his ears as she returned what he believed to be the same greeting. He watched as the little girl stretched in her gossamer dress.
"Did you sleep well?" He asked politely. The girl grinned and nodded her head before pointing to him. Ren pondered this for a moment until he realized that she was asking him the same question.
"Yes, thank you," He smiled. "But it seems that I am stuck for the moment." The fairy looked at him then looked down at Kyoko and laughed. The tiny creature waved her hand at him and stood up on Kyoko's arm. Ren watched in horror as the fairy walked up Kyoko and leaned over to her ear. The soft tinkling of her voice came louder as the little fairy screamed for Kyoko to wake up. The fairy took flight as Kyoko shifted in her sleep, but did not wake up or release her senpai. The fairy looked a little cross that her attempts had not worked and landed back on the side of Kyoko's head.
"Don't wake her." Ren hissed at the little thing, but she ignored him. The girl sleeping in Ren's body had unknowingly posed a challenge to the fairy and she was bound and determined that she would answer it. The fairy messed with the brown hair on Ren's body, braiding it into neat plaits, but Kyoko still did not wake up. Ren hissed for the girl to stop, but the fairy took no notice of his protests. As she was playing in the tall actor's hair, the fairy noticed something in the fine hairs around his ears, roots. She examined the golden base of the hair and looked at the brown farther down its shaft. She placed her hand at the base of the hair and quickly ran it up the length of the hair. The true gold of his hair shot out along the length of the hair and the little fairy squealed in delight. Ren wiggled in Kyoko's arms as he tried to stop the fairy from ruining all of Jelly's hard work, but he was trapped in Kyoko's arms.
"Stop." Ren hissed louder but the fairy ignored him in favor of changing the brown hairs back to gold, she like this color much better than what he had dyed it. Ren gave up trying to keep from waking Kyoko and proceeded to kick her. Kyoko shifted as she pulled from her sleep. The fairy, seeing that Ren was ruining her fun, placed both hand on the side of Kyoko's head and pushed a little bit of magic into it. The brown color exploded off of the hair in a shower of brown dust and the fairy zoomed away laughing. Ren kicked from Kyoko's arms and the entangling blankets as he screamed for the fairy to come back and fix his hair.
Kyoko looked up at Ren standing on the bed screaming at the small fairy flying around his head. He had no idea what had cause his outburst, but he was madder than a wet hen. She tried to reach up to calm him, but he pushed her hands off and turned on her.
"It's your fault!" Kyoko raised her hands between them defending off the outrage. "If you hadn't held on so tight, I could have stopped her!" Ren jumped off the bed and stormed from the room. Kyoko stared after him in shock. What was her fault? What could he have stopped? Kyoko heard the tinkling of the fairy and looked down to the bed to see the thing crumpled on the bed laughing as hard as Yashiro had been yesterday morning. She carefully bent over and lifted the little girl in her hands.
"What did you do?" She asked the fairy. As she moved, she caught a hint of gold out of the corner of her eye and lifted her hand up to see what was there. She gasped as she saw the color of the hair on her head. The fairy lifted off as Kyoko dropped her hands and hurried to get out of the bed. She rushed to the mirror on the back of Ren's bedroom door and stared at the sight it held. If she wasn't absolutely sure that it was her, she would never have recognized the blond haired, blue eyed man staring back at her from the glass. She turned her head back and forth to look at the work the fairy had done. She laughed a little at the tiny braids set in the hair and reached up and carefully pulled them loose. The fairy landed on her head and smiled at Kyoko in the mirror.
"It looks nice, but you really should not have done that." Kyoko explained to the little girl. The fairy cocked her head in question. Kyoko tried to find a way to explain it to the little girl. "His job is based on his looks and if we change it, then it will affect his work." The fairy thought about this for a moment before nodding her understanding. "Can you change it back?" The fairy's wings wilted a little and she shook her head before pointing back to the bed. Kyoko turned to look at the fine brown dust all over the pillow. "Oh, you did not change it you just removed the artificial color." The fairy nodded. "And you can't put it back on can you?" The fairy shook her head. "Oh well, let's just go apologize, ok?" The fairy agreed and Kyoko opened the door to go and make sure Ren was ok.
Ren rested his head into the kitchen table as he waited for the coffee to finish percolating. He played the entire morning over in his mind and banged his head on the wooden surface. How could he do something so stupid? He hadn't meant to yell at Kyoko. What happened was not her fault, but he had blindly raged at her for it anyway. He did not know how he had gotten so out of control. He even went as far as to tell her that she had held on to him in her sleep. He stopped banging his head when the first signs of a headache pressed into the back of his eyes. He rolled his head over so that his cheek was pressed in the cool surface and trained his eyes on the stove where Kyoko cooked for him. He closed his eyes imagined her there stirring a pot or chopping up some unnamed vegetable. A single tear rolled from his eye as the thought slipped away to be replaced by the fear of her unwilling to be near such a terrible man again. As Ren wallowed in his misery, he missed the soft footfalls of Kyoko entering the kitchen.
"Are you ok?" Kyoko asked as she touched the back of her own body draped over the table. Ren gasped as his eyes popped open and he sat up at the unexpected touch. He had expected Kyoko to freak out over him yelling at her, but today she seemed much calmer than usual. Ren looked up at the golden hair and the little fairy nestled into it. His guilt at yelling at the innocent girl outweighed his anger at either of them and he hung his head in shame.
"I am sorry Kyoko-chan." Ren spoke in just over a whisper. "It's not your fault and I did not mean to yell at you like that." Kyoko knelt down so she could talk with her penitent senpai better. Ren looked at the face that was now much closer to him. "I don't know what came over me, I'm just…" Ren searched for the right word, "emotional this morning." It was the only way to describe the fit that he had just thrown. Kyoko smiled and chuckled at him.
"It's ok. I get that way on occasion too." Kyoko pushed up on the chair to stand before turning to the kitchen to start breakfast. Ren looked at her as he thought about how to explain his situation, she did not seem to understand that this was not normal for him.
"That's the thing, I don't." Ren sat his chin on the table as he tried to figure out why the fairy's actions had caused him to be so out of control. "I don't usually blow up like that without a good reason." Yes it was going to be a problem, but he could just get Jelly to recolor it for him, and he did not have anything to do today. The fairy took off from her perch on Kyoko's head and landed on the table in front of Ren. He could see the apology in her eyes as she spoke soft words that he never heard. An amused grin slipped on Ren's face as he forgave the fairy for her fun.
"It's ok." He told the little creature. "We will get it fixed." The little girl stepped up and gave Ren a hug across the face and placed a light kiss on the ridge of his cheek. The weak grin on his face spread a little bit more at the kind gesture.
"Thank you." He whispered softly to the little girl before closing his eyes and letting out a sigh. He had never felt so emotionally drained so early in the morning before. Kyoko looked over at the relaxed form at the table. She knew that her senpai was usually more level headed then he had been this morning. When he did get angry at something, he would smolder with a heat that could melt you to the bone, not explode. And she had never seen him go from an emotional high to such a low state in such a short time. It was vaguely familiar. She turned the thought over in her head as she cracked eggs in a bowl to scramble. She usually got that way a day or two before….. Kyoko nearly dropped the egg in her hand as she whipped around to look at her body slouched onto the table. She sent a prayer up to whatever god was listening that the fairy's spell would end soon and they would be returned to their normal bodies. There was no way that she wanted her senpai to go through THAT, especially in her body.