CHAPITRE 45
I do not own skip beat! Yoshiki Nakamura does.
Grabbing hold of what's precious
Weighing his elongated shape on his bed, his mind was rehearsing the whimsical dreams of the past nights themselves echoes of his bewitchment five of a week ago. Like so many sighs of his soul revealing his deepest longings with each night passing.
Haunted. He was haunted. By his own memories. By the power of his imagination. By impossible wishes.
He rose from the sheets. Padded away from the bedroom.
Such turmoil couldn't be allowed. His work awaited him. His life awaited him. Feelings were one thing. But this? He would not tolerate it. He was furious at him own mind and heart. He had other tasks to do. His work. Acting. His passion. The indignity of his state was unacceptable.
Even more knowing from how little of a reason it was coming from and how poor the chances from happening it was. He was going to fight this. Fight this influence she had on him. Just a little. So that he would be at least able to live his life.
First thing, evicting all he had inside and pull it out on something.
The knob of a door cracked open and he advanced to a desk. His fingers skidded on the surface of the desk and he pulled a drawer full of notebooks.
Ren took hold of a crayon it glided on the blank sheet of the notebook for long minutes.
He was nearly done when the ping of his phone alarmed him he just received a message in the other room.
His feet race to it in a second and grabbing his phone he unlocked it impatiently.
It was her.
"I'm at the airport with Maria-chan. I'll be leaving soon. I should be back in a few weeks. Don't forget to eat" Kyoko.
He had recently obtained from her to send messages again when she could and Ren felt overjoyed she was actually doing it.
"I will. Enjoy your time with Maria and say hi to her for me. I hope your shootings will go well"he replied.
"Thank you. I hope yours too. Maria says hi"Kyoko.
He pondered for a bit but decided it wasn't pushing it, though it wasn't really helping his case in living and thinking normally but ignored that thought.
"Would you mind if I call time to time to check on you?"
"Haha..Worrying about what this time? I wouldn't mind though" Kyoko.
He closed his eyes in tortured bliss. He could imagine her sweet laugh as she gently mocked him, thinking once again he worried too much with her safety. He sank on his couch. Barely a week and he felt deprived of life. His eyes ached to see her, his hands to touch her even when he knew he would still not have been allowed to. He felt he was delusional to hope diminish the influence she had on him.
He didn't correct her though.
Anything was okay if it meant she didn't mind him calling her. It wasn't a complete lie, he always feel concerned when it was about her. She didn't need to know he was just missing her and that now that he was allowed to, he couldn't stand the thought of not hearing her voice on a regular basic.
"Great. Then expect my bugging calls regularly. Have a nice flight both of you" He texted back.
A laughing smiley was replied with a thanks and she stopped the conversation.
He went for a shower. Straight cold one.
Roughly fifteen hours later, his phone pinged again as he was sliding in his bed sheets but it wasn't Kyoko but Maria instead.
"We just arrived. Onee-sama is retrieving our luggage while I wait for her"Maria.
He was glad they had arrived safely.
"Thank you for warning me Maria. I wish you a good stay with Kyoko" he told her.
"Do you want me to be your infiltrator? Was the text that came next.
"What do you mean?" asked Ren, not getting it.
"Come, on Ren-sama. You've haunted LME and every place you would go for the time Onee-sama was gone when you weren't working. I'm not a child anymore" she told him.
When he didn't answer, too perplexed, a new message came.
"Don't take me for an idiot, Ren-sama. Now I'm older I can see clearly what's happening and that's you're crazy for Onee-sama!" Maria message said.
He groaned audibly. If even Maria was able to see through him, he was forfeited.
"Am I that obvious?"
"Just a bit. But I'm also paying keen attention. Don't worry, Ren-sama. I don't think anyone knows beside the ones very close to you"
Ren put his face into his hands.
"So, any interest in an infiltrator, Ren-sama? I can be your intel on what she's doing and send you pictures" She proposed without remorse and Ren glared at the phone. She was becoming exactly like the president.
"I don't think Kyoko would appreciate that, Maria" He answered after a sigh.
"It would be innocent pictures and info, nothing too private. What the hell are you thinking about, Ren-sama!?" She messaged and he could tell with absolute certitude Maria was teasing him.
He couldn't strangle her. He loved Maria too much. The president would strangle him back.
"Maria!"
"What? Don't you want to know where she had lived all those years? What she is doing when she isn't working? With who she is talking? Which women? Men? How she is looking when she's aware?" She questioned and Ren could feel her snickers all the way to here with just the way she was phrasing it.
Typical Takarada style…No pity in loves' matters…
Of course he was curious. Those questions still kept him awake at night, wondering what she had experimented, who she has met. It was incredibly tempting and this evil preteen knew it very well.
He shouldn't do that. He really shouldn't.
"Fine" he texted.
"It comes with four conditions though" she warned.
"Which ones?" he asked, acceptance of his future suffering settling in.
"I want to be the godmother of your future children. They will all ask for it when the time come and I won't tolerate that" She demanded.
Childr-
Saliva went down the wrong way and he coughed, struggling to un-see the images she has just put into his brain. His face felt terribly hot.
"But for that, you would have to actually make those; that's why you need help" She added.
"MARIA!" his text shouted.
"Yes, Ren-sama?" She replied, innocent to the brink.
He decided to purely ignore the comments and switch back to business. A shudder went through him. To have to be warry of her schemes at her age… It was scary.
"What the other conditions?"
"You need to not forget about me when you'd finally be together" She pipped.
"Maria, you know it's very unlikely for us to-…go that way" He tried to temper her ideas so that she wouldn't rose his own hopes. He knew she didn't mean any harm with her words so he couldn't really blame her.
"Of course it won't if we don't do anything about it but okay let's say hypothetically speaking, I want those conditions" She compromised.
Ren felt so tired.
"Fine. Done. What are the other two?"
"Helping me making her participate to the mask ball I asked grandfather to organize for my birthday this year. She's not sure to be able to be there. I want her there" were written.
"Maria, I can't do that. If she's busy then she is. She might have work that day" He tried to explain to her.
"There is still time. And if it's coming from you, I'm not sure she would refuse you anything if you were really asking her to come…"
She seemed to be under a lot of ideas concerning how Kyoko saw him.
"…it's a lot of assumptions of what she might accept from me, Maria. I can promise you that" he wrote.
"What about trying to make her come?" Came.
"I suppose I can" he admitted. God, what was he getting himself into.
"Then, it's all good as long as you try Ren-sama" Maria said.
"Last condition?"
"Oh, right. Well, supposing I'm right and I'am. I want both of you to help me when I will be the one to have love issues"
He chuckled. She was so convinced it would happen. It was actually cheering him up a bit on his chances. Which was what he wanted to avoid but it was too late for that.
"Will you agree to all of that, Ren-sama?"she asked.
"You drive a hard bargain…But okay, deal done" he sent.
From her side of the world, Maria cheered happily as Kyoko was coming back. Her phone rang, signalling a new message.
"Maria?"
"Yes?" she answered.
"You're a little demon" his final message said and she giggled happily. Some days, she was really glad to be the granddaughter of her grandfather. She wouldn't have been able to detect the things she did and to tease someone like Ren-sama if it hadn't been the case.
Onee-sama reached the bench where she was sitting and Maria excitably thought about when he would call her. She had saw something on Onee-sama, just before they embark and she was pretty sure of what it was. Now if she just could confirm it.
"I have everything. We can go Maria-chan. I hope you will like you ten days stay with me "Onee-sama warmly told her.
PS: I wanted to make it longer but again it was fitting to finish the chapter there. I hope you will like this one as well. I'm glad everyone loved the last two chapters so much.
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