A/N: I forgot to mention that this series will be rather slow paced, with a lot of sentimental moments (I think). Plus, I actually wrote up to 4 chapters in my Microsoft words, wow. So I'm going to post them all up today, and then you'll have to wait until I got the free time to upload the rest.
Disclaimers: I don't own any of the Skip Beat! characters. I do own my own characters as well. OOC probability is quite high, but I'll try to stick to their personality (I hope).
Please enjoy!
Chapter 3: Servant beast
The day starts out as early as 6am, usually. However, it seems that these days, Tsuruga Ren has been having free early morning, and there was doubt that his 'capable' manager, who is also a not-so-secretive fangirl to his love life, did something to his packed schedule.
Yashiro Yukihito, as always, got into his charge's silver Porsche with his wide smile lighting up his already-happy aura, letting Ren see the impossible: blooming flowers in the background.
"Yashiro-san, did something good happen?" Ren asked as he steered his car from the car park.
"Nothing happened, but I'm sure something's going to happen." Yashiro replied nonchalantly, putting up his professional manager mask for a few seconds before it broke into another sly smile as he glanced at the bachelor, "With you and Kyoko-chan, even insignificant progresses count."
Ren took a few seconds to compose himself by reasoning mentally that smacking this meddling friend would not be wise, and thus flashed his gentleman smile, "Really?"
Yashiro cringed and cowered at the bright smile, knowing that the 'Demon Lord', as Kyoko had dubbed, is sure to be hiding just under his skin.
And so he kept quiet for the half of the journey to LME.
For the other half of the journey, Yashiro had to do some persuading, finally getting Ren to make his way to LoveMe department in hopes to get Kyoko to hitch a ride with them, but if he had known something like that would happen, he wished he hadn't open his mouth.
But nobody could predict the future, and so Yashiro hadn't known why on earth his prediction did happened.
Sure, the manager wanted something to happen when it comes to the actor and his lady love, but no! He didn't need somebody else (not after Sho and even by a little, Kijima) to barge into their already-slow progress!
Even he couldn't believe his eyes, so somewhere in the back of his mind, he wondered what Ren was thinking about the display before them.
They heard Kyoko squealing something about fairies, and then suddenly a boy's voice snapped loudly, which resulted in Ren slamming the door open in fear that something might happen to Kyoko.
But… but, something like a wolf-boy carrying a blushing Kyoko in front of the other stupefied LoveMe girls… in the room… it's just too much!
"Mogami-san?" Ren had called out in surprise, his eyes widened.
"T-Tsu-Tsuruga-san!" Kyoko stammered in equal surprise and wide eyes.
Shion, seeing that the young maiden has calmed down, sets her down on the ground and turned around to face the tall gentleman… not.
The smile Ren is flashing at the moment almost blinded him, and he had to turn his head to a side to avoid the direct glitters from burning his eyes, more than the ridiculous hot pink the three ladies are wearing.
And then he saw it. The orange haired girl was cringing behind his back, as if he's the only shield she's got, which probably is true, seeing how the other girls has already escaped to their little conversation in the corner of the room.
"Who is this… friend of yours, Mogami-san?" Ren had questioned, tuning his gentleman smile up by one level.
Kyoko opened and closed her mouth multiple times, as if a goldfish. What was she to say? She just met this 'friend' for a few minutes!
…Wait a minute… Friends?
"Are we friends?" Kyoko asked the boy, suddenly forgetting all about the possible-appearance-of-Demon-Lord before her.
Shion shrugged, "Do you want us to be?"
Her golden eyes sparkled once again, nodding vigorously. She was going to make a new friend!
Ren was not going to tolerate any more men in his lady love's life, not at least when she already has some troublesome ones, whose names should never be mentioned. To say that he was angry was a great understatement, for he was practically shining with his ultra-fake smile.
"Mogami-san?"
Kyoko froze again, looking at her senpai as if he was a ghost, "U-Uh…"
"Hey, stop bullying little Red, would you?" Shion crossed his arms as he glared defiantly up at the giant.
Ren was surprised. Even Fuwa would've at least cringed a little at him, but this young boy… he didn't even bat an eye (he did turn away though). Plus, that appearance… those eyes…
"You are—"
"SHION!" Lory's voice boomed and echoed against the walls of the fortunately empty corridor. Everyone but the wolf boy was startled by the evident anger in the usually nonchalant and flamboyant president's voice.
"Oh, Lory-sama, you're so slow."
Why the prefix?! All eyes were on the boy, who was fiddling with a lock of his ochre hair while smiling at the oldest gentleman.
Lory wanted to argue back, but with the amount of questioning eyes on them, he sighed with a palm rubbing his face instead, "What are you doing here?"
"You wanted me here, no? You said you were going to introduce me to the 'LoveMe' girls." Shion tilts his head to a side, "Am I wrong?"
"You're not wrong but… I wanted to properly introduce you to them." Lory then faced the younger audiences, and did his happy-dramatic pose, "Good morning my children!"
The only responses he got were a polite and friendly, smiling Ren and a frantic waist-deep bow from Kyoko. The rest were shell-shocked, possibly from the troublemaker, Shion, or from his attire this time.
He was dressed in a creamy white toga held with a golden badge, a bronze laurel crown wrapping around his forehead, and a pair of straw sandals. Sebastian was behind him, wearing the same thing, only that he has a matching white scarf covering his lower face.
"Erm, President, exactly who is Shion-kun?" Kyoko asked timidly, breaking the awkward silence hanging above their heads.
"Oh, that's right." Lory pushed Ren and Yashiro into the room and followed in with Sebastian closing the door behind him.
The black haired man patted on the kid's head, "He is a Servant Beast."
With all the blank yet clueless faces, Shion wanted to laugh out loud.
"It's not surprising that you do not know about them. Servant Beasts, Serbeasts for short, were androids with actual animalistic qualities created in secret by Professor Hinamori Azuma approximately 20 years ago to be companions to humans." Seeing the wolf boy frown sadly, Lory felt bad for he would be digging up some bad memories, but he needed to explain the situation.
"Unfortunately, they were banned 5 years into making and destroyed by some bigger countries for Serbeasts were used to… satisfy sexual desires and be scapegoats for crimes humans are responsible for. Professor Hinamori disappeared shortly after that, taking only the handful of the remaining Serbeasts he had saved."
The room was silent with mainly shock and sympathy for the Serbeast standing before them.
"Azuma… he disappeared before us as well." Shion took it from there, brushing off the assuring and warm hand resting on his head.
"We are androids with human's feelings and we have the animal qualities we are modeled after. Lory-sama had kindly informed me about the destruction of the other Serbeasts, and that I am the only one left in this world."
Kyoko was practically crying a river by now. Moving forward, she grasped his hand and sobbed, "You must be so lonely and sad!" She knew the pain of being abandoned, after all, with her mother and that cockroach.
Smiling bitterly, Shion squeezed her warm hand, "That's why I need to find Azuma."
"Why?" Ren asked. He has a very bad feeling about the answer.
Blue topaz eyes steeled with determination met with shimmering brown ones.
"I want him to end my life with his own hands."
How was it? Sho and Reino wouldn't come out for the first few chapters (I'm so sorry about that).
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