A/n This is a weird story. Ren and Kyoko will be OOC. I just had to write this and I wanted to put it up since it's finished. There will be about three chapters and they are already written. I will probably upload them today and tomorrow just so that I can edit the last bit of the story.

Memories Awakened

Kyoko quickly made her way down the street making sure that she kept an eye on her surroundings. Due to her role in Dark Moon, and more recently, her role as Natsu in Box-R, she had started being recognized by the public. She wasn't anywhere near the fame level of Ren, but the more people that recognized her, the harder it would be to walk around the city by herself.

There didn't seem to be any unsavory characters about so she let kept walking toward her destination. She was going to see Ren in one of his new roles. He had invited her to watch and she had promised to watch after she was done with school for the day.

Part of her was thrilled that she would get to witness Ren acting again, but another part of her was worried. Already that man had broken the locks on her love box and seeing him act would do nothing, but make her love him more than she already did. Either way she had promised to go and see him and she would not go back on her word.

Several minutes later she arrived at the building that was being used for the shoot. Yashiro was standing there waiting for her.

"Good afternoon Yashiro-san," Kyoko greeted him polite as always.

"Good afternoon Mogami-san," Yashiro replied. "Follow me and try to be as quiet as you can. They just started a scene a few minutes ago."

Together both of them walked into the building. The scene was still ongoing. Kyoko looked on, mesmerized at the acting before her. In this drama Ren was a serious detective. The way that he held himself told Kyoko that this was the type of man that allowed nothing to stop him from doing his job.

"Narukami Saito-san," said another actor said as he approached Ren.

"Seta-san?'"

The man hesitated for a moment before pulling a weapon and shooting it.

Saito caught the other man's intent a moment too late to dodge, but he managed to move in time so that the bullet was not fatal. Not taking a moment to think, Saito dove at the other man causing gun to fly across the floor. The two men fought and man called Seta managed to get his hands on the gun again.

It went off again and blood stained the floor. For a moment it was impossible to tell who had perished and then Sai stood up. The man could only look on in horror as the crimson stain spread out on the floor. A blankness started to appear in his eyes.

"CUT," the director said.

Ren offered his hand to the other actor lifted him from the pool of fake blood. The other actor accepted his hand gratefully.

Ren stepped on the stage and smiled in thanks at the congratulations that he was receiving. Inside he was breathing a sigh of relief. The blank reaction had not been something that he had planned, although, it did work for the character, since Saito was not one to show a lot of emotion no matter the circumstance. If the director hadn't cut the scene when he had, Ren might have fallen into a full flashback.

Suddenly, a pair of golden eyes connected with his eyes. Of course she was here. His smile became more genuine as he made his way over to his manager and the girl that he loved.

Yashiro complimented his work. Then he walked away under the pretense of asking some question to someone.

Kyoko looked over Ren's face with a critical eye. She was stunned when his expression became sheepish after a few moments. "Are you okay?" She asked softly.

Ren didn't want to lie to her, but he couldn't very well tell her just how close he had come to shutting down when the pool of fake blood began to expand, especially not here. He took a breath and gave her a small smile. "Can we talk later?" he asked side-stepping the question.

Kyoko nodded and watched as Ren went back to the set to shoot the next scene. This one consisting of his character being rushed to the hospital.

An hour later the shoot was wrapped and Kyoko was riding in Ren's car. Yashiro had been dropped off already and it was just the two of them. They had arrived at Ren's apartment at 9:30 and Kyoko made some dinner for both of them.

The silence was starting to unnerve Kyoko so she decided that she would have to be the one to start a conversation. "I was worried today," she admitted.

Ren looked at her with surprise evident on his features.

Kyoko looked down. She couldn't look at him and speak. If she did he would know how she felt and then he would hate her forever. "You looked like you did in that car and I was scared..."

Ren wanted to hit himself for worrying Kyoko. He knew that he should have spoken first, but he hadn't known what say or how to explain what had made him act the way that he had. He couldn't tell her the truth, but he also couldn't lie and that impossible situation had left him tongue-tied.

"I'm sorry for worrying you," Ren apologized. "Being in that situation...reminded me of something that I try not to think about." he admitted in a voice that was hardly above a whisper.

Kyoko was silent for a moment and then she hopped up. Ren feared that he had said something wrong until he saw that she was just going to her bag, the green and white one, that she had lain on the floor beside the door when they had arrived. She quickly found what she was looking for in her bag and went back over to Ren.

"Do you remember this?" She asked showing him the stone.

Ren nodded.

Kyoko placed the stone in his hand and closed his fingers around it. "It takes away sadness," she said.

Ren closed his eyes and squeezed the stone. He felt the edges press into his palm. He also felt the warmth from Kyoko's hand that was still on his hand. When he opened his eyes again he was startled to find that he felt a little bit better.

"Thank you Mogami-san." Ren said with a soft smile on his face.

Kyoko blushed and moved away with flustered and flurried movements.

Ren smiled brighter than before and he couldn't contain his laughter when his smile only made her blush more than she already was.

"Tsuruga-san... you're... you're such a bully!"

That did nothing, but make him laugh harder than before.

Something about seeing Ren look carefree caused Kyoko to laugh as well. This was not something that she thought would happen, but it was infinitely better than the melancholy that had gripped him before. The only thing worse than that would have been seeing that horrifying gentlemanly smile.

Once they were able to calm down, they shared the task of washing the dishes they had used. Then Ren offered to drive Kyoko home and invited her back to the set for the next shoot if she was interested in watching the story unfold. She accepted both offers and allowed herself to hope that there might be a chance that love was not the curse that she thought it was.