Her return

More meetings.

"You needed me, Nakazawa-san?"

The head of the singing section smiled at the confusion in Kyoko's voice, "I was wondering if you'd like to sign a contract to become a part of the singing section?"

As much as she hated to admit it, she was thrilled beyond belief at the offer, "Could I!?"

He smiles much wider and things fall into place quickly, ending with Kyoko signing her name in both Japanese and English; chuckling in her giddiness, Kyoko leaves and heads to the Love Me locker room: wanting to reminisce in peace and in her own element. She walks to her old locker, staring at the door that has yet to be open for the first time in about six years, she's afraid of what she'll see. It would be a huge lie if she were to say that she hasn't worried about the angry words people had for her after she left, and she has a feeling that they left them in her locker as notes. She shudders, "It's now or never."

She opens it and six notes rest in the bottom, numbered one to six, Kyoko picks up the first one and with shaking fingers, unfolds it with care, "Hello, Mogami-san, it's been about a year since you left and I miss you...a lot."

Her eyes fill with tears, "I never thought I'd be writing to you this way, but I am and it's awful. Why did you leave!? If I scared you away during our time as the Heel siblings I'm sorry, but you left without warning! You left us!"

The tears fall freely from her eyes as she reads the last bit of the letter, "I know I have no place acting like I control you, but it hurts knowing the woman I love would leave me!

                                                                                                                              With love,                                                                                                                                                                                           Tsuruga Ren."

The paper falls to the floor, and she drops to her knees sobbing, "All this time, I'm so sorry!"

She doesn't dare read the other five notes, afraid that the way she looks at the world will change again. She didn't hear the door open during her reading, but what she did hear scared the living shit out of her, "It's okay."

"KYA!"

Her frightened eyes dart upward and all the color drains from her face in her relief, "Ren."

"Yo!"

They stare at each other in silence for several moments before Kyoko says, "I wasn't frightened by you," she paused, "During our time as the Heels that is."

He's shocked so she continues, "Obviously you had some things about yourself you couldn't talk about, still can't talk about, so I just want you to know that I won't ever be scared of you...like that."

His response, "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Your super gentle-manly smile with the lying intentions scares the hell out of me."

He laughs, having thought that he should've expected that answer.

...Timeskip...

Kyoko walked into Darumaya, stepping out of her shoes and into her slippers, "I'm home!"

She calls, minding her manners, "Welcome home, Kyoko-chan! You have a visitor!"

Kyoko smiles widely at her land lady, "Thanks, who?"

"Fuwa Sho-kun!"

Kyoko is more than a little surprised, but not as much than she had expected, because somewhere deep in her mind she knew it was coming. She nods and feels a lot more at ease than expected, "I see, is he in the main room?"

"Hai!"

"Thank you, Missus."

Kyoko walks slowly, but with certainty, "Sho?"

His head snaps up quickly, as though he had hung it in shame and tears start to pour from his eyes, "Hey."

Her voice is tender and careful as she asks, "What're you doing here?"

Waterfalls now occupy his face, but all he mutters is, "I'm sorry...for everything."

She nods, even though she's shocked, "I know and I forgave you a long time ago; so go ahead and be sorry, but there's no need."

She settles onto a cushion across from him and he stares at her, seeing her smile, her bright golden eyes, and most of all her natural beauty that makes her the very essence of Kyoko. He opens his mouth to speak, but she holds up a hand to silence him, "I forgive you, and it would be amazing to have the boy who often stood next to me as a brother back."

His heart stops, did she really just say that she wanted him in her life!? After all the awful things he had done!? He's all too quick to reply, "But I hurt you, I said all those things to make you cry! I HIT-!"

"Shut up."

The blond freezes as her thin, but muscular, arms wrap around his neck, "Please just be the brother I need."

He nods and hugs her back, accepting the feeling of his heart shattering at the revelation that Kyoko will only ever look at him as family now, "Of course, Kyoko."

Taisho and Okamisan smile at him as he leaves, Kyoko steps off the final stair in her kimono and proudly announces, "I shall help!"

The dinner rush, even though it sounds awful, Kyoko looks forward to it, "Kyoko-nee!"

She smiles at him, Kyosuke. He and his family had become regulars at the cozy restaurant, "Why hello, Kyosuke-kun!"

They speak happily and Kyoko takes their orders, and when she returns with the food she almost freezes in shock. At the door stands, her "father". In a flash the familiar family has their food, and she's ushering the food to a private dining room, "What're you doing here, Otou-san!?" She's elated, "I missed you!"

Kuu chuckles, "And I you, even though we just seen each other a few weeks before you left."

They hug and Kyoko goes to tell the Taisho to prepare food as though he's feeding an army, Taisho looks horrified and thrilled all at once. 

...Timeskip...

"That was so good~!"

Kyoko laughed at him. Okamisan helped clean up the mess along with Taisho, and together they left the pair alone. Kuu looked over to the woman he adored and loved as his very own child, "What have you been up to?"

"I'm in a movie with Ren!"

He freezes, Ren? Does that mean, "How are you doing with that?"

She blushes and that's all the answer he needs, even though the boy's his son he has the uncontrollable urge to say something: so he does, "If he hurts you, I swear to everything that's holy I will sever his baby maker."

Even though this horrifies her, she just laughs it off, "Oh god, no."