Thank-you everyone who has read, reviewed, favorited, and followed this fan fiction. I didn't think so many people would and it makes me very happy and grateful. Here is chapter three of Laser-Tag Love. I hope that you all enjoy it as much as the first two. As always constructive criticism is very welcome. And I apologize if there are any grammar or spelling errors that I missed. That being said please enjoy this chapter. The next chapter will be posted in one week.
Disclaimer: I do not own Skip Beat or any of the characters from it. Skip Beat is the property of Yoshiki Nakamura.
Ren's Plan
'Why does Boss need to speak to Kyoko alone?' Ren thought allowing some of Kuon to slip through. 'It seems as though speaking to us privately was an after thought. Seriously what is boss thinking? There has to be more to this laser-tag scheme then he's letting on. I have a feeling that I should be nervous but nervous about what? Too many things can happen when Boss is involved.' This train of thought was starting to make Ren irritated so he stopped it. He sat down and reeled Kuon back in. 'It isn't time to let Kuon out yet. Not yet. But soon, very soon.'
Ren pulled his phone out and started to look up restaurants that might be nice to take Kyoko to that night. Thanks to Yashiro he knew that Kyoko didn't have any jobs for the rest of the day and she was also off the next day. So he decided to ask Kyoko out to dinner, and maybe to do something tomorrow as well, to be able to spend as much time with her as possible.
'I haven't seen her since she left Guam. I missed her more than I thought I would. It was enough to feel constantly homesick. I want to spend time with her and tell her everything about me. I also need to stamp her book.' Ren had a small smile on his face as he thought this. 'Kyoko did a truly amazing job as Setsu, helping my through those times when the darkness was drowning me. I'll never be able to thank her enough. But I'll spend my whole life trying to.'
Ren's smile disappeared. 'It's scary thinking about telling Kyoko everything. She could very well hate me when she knows everything and decide to never see me again. I won't be able to live if that happens. I love her too much to loose her but its because I love her that I need to tell her. Ugh... this is complicated.'
Ren gave a small sigh.
'Why not just grab her, tell her we love her, and then kiss her senseless?' Kuon's voice came back full force.
'No,' Ren countered. 'That would scare her away. That's the last thine we want. Things need to be taken slow when it comes to Kyoko.'
'How can you say you're going to tell her everything when you're leaving out the most important part? You can't say you're going to tell her everything when you're leaving out our feelings.'
'Our feelings will scare her away. One step at a time. And to be honest telling her about our past isn't a simple step. It's a huge leap. One that I'm scared out of my mind to take.'
'So am I,' Kuon's voice said. 'But I'm even more scared that someone else will take her if we don't tell her. Seriously she didn't mind when we, as Corn, kissed her. She said that she considers it as her first kiss. Doesn't that mean anything about how she feels about us?'
'But she doesn't know that Corn/Kuon, and I are the same person. A person who keeps arguing to himself as different people.'
'Right now you're Ren and I'm Kuon. Two different people with different views on life but one thing in common. Our feelings for Kyoko. Come on it's time to tell her. I feel sick about lying to her all the time and for so long.'
'Lying to her makes me feel sick too,' said Ren's voice.
As their voices combined the thought was, 'I can't keep lying to her about anything. I'm going to tell her everything tonight, including my feelings. I can only hope and pray that doing so doesn't scare her away.'
Ren was so deep in his thoughts that he didn't hear Kyoko leave Takarada's office.
"Excuse me Tsuruga-san." Kyoko's voice came to Ren's ears.
Ren quickly closed his phone and smile up at Kyoko. "Yes Mogami-san?"
"Um, President Takarada asked me to tell you to go in now." She said this quickly wanting to leave before she died from the brightness of his smile.
Having known her for a little over a year, not counting their time together as children, Ren was able to understand her. Even though she spoke very fast. "I see." He stood but instead of going into Takarada's office he stayed there looking at Kyoko.
"Uh, is something wrong Tsururga-san?"
"No, nothing is wrong Mogami-san. I was just curious about your plans for the rest of the day."
"Well I'm all done. So I was just going to go to the Daruma-ya and help Taisho and Okami-san. Why?"
"Actually I was wondering if you would like to go to dinner with me tonight." Seeing that she was most likely going to refuse Ren added, "I still need to show you the pictures I that I took to prove that I ate properly after you left." 'To be honest I would love to ask you out to dinner without an excuse like this.'
Then how about I make dinner instead?" It could be damaging to your career if we go some where and people recognize you and think that we are d... um together." Kyoko said turning slightly pink. "I don't want to be the cause of anything bad happening to your career. And you could show me the pictures while we eat."
'It would be nice if she wasn't so worried about my career. I want to spoil her by taking her to a nice restaurant and getting her whatever she wants. I want to do this along with buying her a nice dress. She deserves to be treated like a princess and I want to be the one to treat her that way. But she won't let me do that, at least not yet. I should be happy that she didn't say no to dinner. And I honestly love her cooking. I wish that I could have her cooking everyday. I can imagine seeing her in my kitchen everyday with-'
"Tsuruga-san?" Kyoko said pulling Ren out of his thoughts and back to reality. "Are you okay?"
Ren smiled, "yes I'm okay Mogami. I'm fine with you cooking if that is what you would like to do. Would you mind waiting for me while I talk to President Takarada? Then we can go to buy the groceries need for tonight."
"Oh no, I wouldn't want to impose on you Tsuruga-san! I can get the groceries myself and meet you at your apartment." Kyoko replied quickly.
"You wouldn't be imposing Mogami. You'll be the one cooking so driving you to the store and paying for the groceries is the least I can do. I am not going to change my mind about this Mogami." Ren gave her is gentlemanly smile to emphasize his point.
Kyoko silently nodded in agreement and Ren went into Takarada's office.
'Something is definitely off. Kyoko would usually argue a lot more than that. Just what did Boss tell her?' Kuon came out a bit again. 'I'm rather confused and just slightly annoyed. What is Boss up to?' This was Ren's thought process as he walked to the couch in Takarada's office and sat down.