98% Safe 2% Kyoko. (A Skip Beat! Fanfic)

B.L.I.N.C.S.

"KUON! KUON!" Yashiro was out of breath and panting, the phone call that morning had chilled him to the bone.

His best friends words, the tone he had used and the utter and complete hopelessness in his voice. What had happened to Kyoko? Was it the babies? Yashiro hadn't thought twice racing from his apartment and grabbing a cab he had flown across the city to Kuon and Kyoko's new house on the outskirts of the city, praying everything was OK.

'Yuki, you've gotta help me. This is terrible, I just can't do this alone.'

'Kuon! What's wrong? What's terrible?'

'Kyoko's gone, I can't do this alone Yuki!' beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep...'

So he was here. He had even paid the cab driver extra to punch it. What had happened? Had Kyoko left him? His frantic knocking was soon answered by a very distraught Kuon, his hair was dishevelled and his shirt untucked, his blue eyes alight with confusion and in the very depths fear.

"YUKI!" Kuon exclaimed grabbing his best friend and dragging him through the door. Yashiro was ready to bet the worst thing in the world had happened to Kuon, the way his friend looked as Kuon dragged him swiftly through the new house to the sitting room with Yashiro trying to ask questions the entire time.

"What's wrong Kuon? What happened? I can't help you unless you tell me..." Yashiro stopped as he looked around what had been the neat sitting room. They had moved in 2 weeks ago, Kyoko was now 28 weeks pregnant and Kuon had paid a specialist company to move and unpack and settle them so Kyoko would not have to worry. Now the room looked like a bomb had hit it. His heart flipped. Had they been robbed? But no wait. What was that noise?

Kuon had stepped further into the room than Yashiro, no longer dragging him. Kuon was now listlessly pointing to the space before the sofas that Yashiro couldn't see. Yashiro's heart was racing, his head filled with horrible thoughts of finding Kyoko dead on the carpet or some other gruesome thing. Kuon would never hurt her surely? No of course he wouldn't, but there were plenty of complications with pregnancy. What if she...Yashiro had taken a few steps forward and all he could do was gasp at the sight before him.

"I don't think this is right, I feel bad leaving him like that Moko." Kyoko said as Kanae concentrated on the road before them. They were driving out of the city towards Kanae's destination of choice as Kyoko sat, almost sobbing in the passenger seat.

"You needed to get away Kyoko, even Natalie agreed. I'm sure Kuon will figure it out for himself. Now please stop worrying, you need to think about you and the babies. Nothing else, OK?" Kyoko nodded slowly and Kanae smiled.

"You know I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't for the best?" Kyoko nodded again and sighed.

"Thank you Moko, I really did need to get away." and they drove on in silence, Kyoko wiping her eyes on a tissue Kanae handed her as the vibrations in the car lulled her into a sweet sleep.

Yashiro stared at the twin Moses baskets before him.

"Oh Kuon..." the sound of crying filled the air and Yashiro raced past the sofa to what appeared to be two screaming dolls.

"What's going on?" Yashiro asked completely and utterly confused by the situation as Kuon, walking around the sofa, collapsed onto it. Putting his head in his hands as he again tried to rock the baskets getting the dolls to stop crying.

"It's our baby group project!" Kuon explained in a tone of utter defeat, rubbing his hands up and down his tired face as he rocked the baskets with his feet.

"They are the highest form of Baby Like Intelligence Notation Collection Systems: BLINCS for short. They are meant to show what it is like to have a real baby in the house and we are supposed to care for them for 1 week. They're set at around 2 weeks old and they register and store all information about how they are cared for. They can feel and sense everything they are so highly advanced, but I just can't do it alone Yuki! Kyoko's gone off for a spa day with Kanae as she has been feeling really depressed and now I'm all alone and can't do it!" Yashiro just stared at Kuon.