The characters will be slightly different. Rated M for the time being, this may be changed but due to the subject matter even at the moment, I think this is best. I will also admit that this is inspired but other fanfictions I've read so there will be elements found within this as well. I will be also switching between the first person and third Also please remember I don't own Skip Beat and the story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. All that said I hope you enjoy.

A/N: The story within leans a bit into the darkness. The best way to think of this story is like that of A Song of Fire and Ice/Game of Thrones [lots of bad things happen to the characters within those books] that said, there is indeed a Happy Ending to all this, yes Kuon/Ren and Kyoko end up together. Yes like in the Manga it is safe to assume that they are both too dense to realize the other person actually does love them and yes those around them will realize it a lot sooner than they themselves will [or even accept]. Shoutaro is not the big bad guy in this [We have someone else for that and a few others for that matter.] Yes there will be feels [hopefully] and yes in some ways you can help inspire the story within. I might not think of something as I'm writing this and that one little comment can make me add just a wee bit more [it has indeed happened] little sections might be expanded upon, the outcome is still the same but nice little treats still! That said. I hope you really do like this story that I'm telling and if not, tell me! I can take it :D

I also want to point out that while this is a Drama - Romance it also has aspects of Supernatural and Darkness/Crime [but fluff too] again think Asofai/GoT [But honestly Skip Beat already has the Supernatural bits in it so I'm just expanding on it?]

.: This project is on Hiatus while I work on editing the first book. Please understand that this is NOT done by any means of the word. :.

Special Thanks to Pixilated Pencil who is helping me with the long process of editing with their wonderful notes. It is truly amazing to have someone who is willing to help make this story even better. I will forever be grateful to you for this.

-Book One: Prologue-

This isn't how I expected the day before my 15th birthday to be spent. My heart is being shattered into a million pieces until nothing remains but the darkness that finally took such a deep hold of my very being. I stand in a glass box; dressed like a porcelain doll, next to more porcelain dolls, with a price tag attached.

How did I get here? What did I do wrong? Perhaps the day before Summer break, during our last year in Junior high. After all, that was when my Prince finally noticed me.

"Kyoko, won't you come with me?"

A hand I always wanted to have held out to me was finally held out. Shoutaro was asking me to be by his side. To move to Tokyo! I seriously thought that my dreams were finally coming true. I had worked so hard for Shoutaro to see me, to care about me as much as I cared about him since I was five years old and it only took nine years for him to truly see me. I took that hand without a second thought about my own future. I only cared about this man's happiness, I cared only about making his family happy; after all, I had been taught all that I would ever need to know to make sure of my future husband happiness. The Fuwas made sure of that. I was never to cry, never to complain, never be a burden. While other girls within the inn took care of the special clientele, I would never know that burden. After all, my place was to be beside Shoutaro and I must remain a virgin until that time I was to be married, hopefully to him. My life belonged to my Prince and his family and I was happy to give it to them.

That's why I never expected that hand to throw me aside in such a way.