CHAPTER 22

I do not own skip beat! Nakamura sensei does.

~Back at home~

~New beginnings can be triggered by harsh truths~ part one~

It has been nearly four weeks since Kyoko had come back in Japan and today was a dreadful day. Lotus in the mud shooting was coming to an end and so she was unfortunately free today.

In result, she was available for some distressing appointment she had postponed for some time already.

For some mysterious terrible reasons she was going to see her.

Her mother.

Toudou-san had contacted her for some important matters to be discussed with her mother and Kyoko was dragging her feet to the meeting with growing apprehension.

Not that she didn't still appreciate to see her but her mother would never contact her on her own to share a good new, she would just find it unnecessary. So, it could only be bad.

She reached the law office and wondered once more how was Ren. He was still filming that she knew and had news time to time by mails but she it has been nearly a month and a call or a mail weren't the same as seeing him in person.

She pushed open the door and focused on the task at hand.

She picked the phone with annoyance but when she saw who was calling she put it on speaker eagerly.

-Morizumi Kimiko speaking.

-Hi Kimiko-chan. How are you echoed in her room the charming voice of Cedric Bennet.

-Wonderful Cedric-san she pipped with excitement. I'm so happy you called me. I missed talking to you since I went back in Japan.

-Haha. Well, I missed our time together as well he said in a sultry voice and Kimiko blushed remembering the sweaty trashy rogue nights at his hotel while she was there. Her, bind at the head-bed, her face stuffed in a pillow choking for grasping air while her legs would be spread wide open, her butt raised in the air and he would shredded her pulsing pleasured bloody pussy apart hammering into her in raging angry lust until she fainted in pained bliss every singled times. It was always more than intense and abusive. She remembered he was quite the aggressive one when lost in his thrill.

But she liked it. It exhilarated her. And as long as she was with him, she didn't mind the violence. His whims could be virulently exciting.

Her pants got wet while she was recollecting about it and she tantalizingly spoke:

-What can I do for you Cedric-san?

He laughed with pleasure in his tone and whisperingly growled.

-Oh, you can do a lot of things but right I would gladly like if you could do me a favour and take care of something for me in Japan?

-Of course. Anything she sweetly answered.

-Did you hear by any chance about some Mogami Kyoko? He asked with a sickening tone she recognized well and her own voice turned ice cold.

Her. Again.

-Yeah. Why?

-Well, it happened she was on the set I was working on helping a friend as a translator or something but then I supposed she couldn't stand me because-…he trailed off.

-What did she do? Kimiko asked with burning fury.

-She got me fired Kimiko-chan. And upset enough my uncle with me for him to cut ties. I'm really feeling trampled he whined to her with a sad tone.

She got fired-…my man! I'm going to butcher her.

A dirty black slime viscosity had seized the insides of Kimiko and was growing with the pulsing of her dark heart beating in melting madness.

-It's completely ridiculous you know Cedric snivelled to her, I'm innocent here. But she was such a crass crazy bitch to me. She accused me of insane things. Like abusing girls or other thin-…

-I'm at your command. No boundaries or limits. What do I have to do? She cut in in a calm cold determination.

He giggled sickeningly in the phone.

-Well, you see, I have a promise to fulfil he explained nonchalantly.

-It will done, Cedric-san Kimiko promised sweetly again. I hope we will be able to meet soon.

-Me too Kimiko-chan. Me too. Keep me informed.

When Kyoko stepped in the office, Toudou-san was already there for her and looked oddly anxious while he leaded her to a private room where she found her mother already sitting and waiting.

Kyoko sat and Toudou-san took the seat beside her mother in front of her.

-I'm sorry for the impromptu meeting Kyoko-san but we have several matters to discuss.

Kyoko nodded and listened.

-You see, though her mother was very private about this issue, some rumours seemed to have leaked, non-sense rumours of all sort but I followed her declaration on TV about not having any child he explained sternly. And though no one can prove that she lied, some seemed to remember about old talk of Mogami-san having a child. For that reason, a decision that I advised was taken.

-Toudou-san suggested I get married officially with someone to cut any bad press. So that if any proof was to be provided, we could still pretend it was from this person. He suggested I get married to him precisely Saena explained without any expression.

Kyoko looked at Toudou-san, not fooled the least.

And for the first time, he dropped his pleasant mask and looked on the side ashamed and with an apological smile directed at her.

Kyoko frowned in confusion.

-I see Kyoko said. So to clarify, you are going to marry to Toudou-san so that if proves happened to be given you can say that I'm from you and Toudou-san relationship.

-That's exact. Another thing. As it has to be an official thing, it won't be too small. But you can imagine you are forbidden to come, of course. I still wish our link won't be revealed in the open if possible.

It's not like I'm surprised…I perfectly understand her reasons…

-Of course Kyoko agreed with bitter sadness.

But it still hurts…She thoughts, holding her tears back with a comprehensive smile.

Toudou-san looked at her with a mixed of pity and shame but Kyoko shook her head, signifying him to just drop it.

-There is one more matter we need to discuss Kyoko-san Toudou-san added at last.

Kyoko stared, expecting them to talk and her mother opened her mouth to begin but Toudou-san hold her back.

-I will do it if it's okay with okay. It needs more tact than you possess.

-Kyoko-san, Toudou-san began, after the issue of keeping your existence a secret appeared, when the decision of marriage had been made, we didn't want to miss any loop hole, to disregard any future threat on this matter. So we-

-We searched for you father ended Saena.

Kyoko gasped.

Toudou-san looked at her severely and she shut her mouth with a sigh.

-Yes, Toudou-san resumed, we looked for him. In Kyoko and everywhere in Japan.

-And? Kyoko asked.

-We found him, made some analyses and tried to talk to him.

-It broke my heart what had happened to him Saena suddenly grieved looking on the side with a sad face.

Toudou-san grimly sighed.

-That's not the subject, Saena.

-Why? Kyoko demanded. I mean I understand, he doesn't know me but can't I at least know a little a bit of him? I know he's just my genitor but-

Toudou-san shook his head.

-No. Kyoko-san, we were wrong. Though Misonoi-san was your mother's former lover, I'm afraid he's not your genitor.

-What do you mean? Kyoko questioned, completely lost. I thought I was conceived on-

-You were conceived around that time but the tests we did confirmed it Kyoko-san.

-The tests?

-We did AND tests when we met him. Just to be sure. After all this time and as he changed a lot…Toudou-san trailed off.

-And? Kyoko asked again.

-The AND didn't match. You aren't his daughter.

Kyoko groaned. Her head was fuzzy.

-But then who? Do you even know mother?! Demanded Kyoko with a bit of anger seeping through her voice.

Was it not already enough that none of her parents wanted her or that they could hate her? That the betrayal of one caused the hate of the other against her own child? No, now, she was back in the black.

-Who?! She demanded, he voice raising an octave.

Toudou-san sighed again and with sad eyes looked at her and replied:

-We don't know. Saena doesn't remember.

-I don't remember who it was corrected Saena but though at first there was nothing I could picked back, I got back a blurry memory of the night after learning of Misonoi betrayal, I recollected getting very drunk and ending the night in some stranger's arms, now. It seemed as such an inconsequential moment, such a meaningless thing compared to what happened with Misonoi that I didn't even remember it and of course I thought that he was necessarily your father.

Kyoko brushed past what she could say about the night of her conception, knowing really well it was pointless and that her mother couldn't help it.

-Just that? She finally asked.

Saena shook her head.

-Not just some stranger as an unknown person but a stranger as in a foreigner, a gai-jin. It's odd really that I didn't remember directly because now that I do, it's so obvious.

Kyoko rubbed her temples feeling a headache coming.

Her genitor was a foreigner…that's the palm of everything…

Not that she had anything against foreigners; she was in love with one. No, but for her very conservative mother, that was really unexpected and quite ironic.

-What do you mean? Why is it so obvious? She asked after a moment.

-Because the only other I remember from that night is the eyes of this man and there were this sick caramel-gold colour. Which it's pretty rare. Plus you don't resemble Misonoi at all. I should have seen it right away.

-I see Kyoko dully concluded. I suppose thank you for telling me all of this.

-Yes, you should Saena agreed hardly when she saw the distraught look on her face.

-Saena! No, she shouldn't. Kyoko-san. It was you right to know. You had the right to be aware of the truth but I can understand what a burden it is to learn. So, no. I just hope you will be able to digest it without too much difficulty Toudou-san sympathised with a warm but guilty expression while giving her the papers involving the tests taken.

Kyoko smiled kindly at him but couldn't look her mother in the eyes right now. She still loved her but she was feeling a bit sick by all of it.

-Thank you Toudou-san for your thoughtfulness and kindness Kyoko gratefully said while taking the papers and standing up. Thanks mother. I won't spell a word of anything. Now, if you would excuse me, I have work to do.

She left.

Her head in a bit of mess. Sad but also thankful for their honesty.

PS: First harsh one done. Sorry, the next one is even darker.

By the way, there might be four rather than three but it will become sweeter again.

Hope you will still like it.

Don't kill me.

It's necessary to the plot.

Kisses. See you soon, hopefully.