Katsuki's Playlist, a skip beat! fanfic

Disclaimer: I don't own Skip Beat and any of the songs...

Author's Chat: Here we go, again with another one-shot.

This story was on my mind for a little and kept pestering me...now that I have the excuse to write my thesis for college graduation, I can secretly write my stories, too...Well, I just need to be careful not to mix everything! I can totally picture the professors faces if they'll start to read about Ren, Katsuki and Cain...*lost in the contemplation* Maybe they'll give me full points! XD

I hope you like it. ^^

Side note: the story line is set during St. Valentine troubles...

Katsuki's Playlist.

It was again that time of the year. February. Well, everyone could tell "St. Valentine".

Yashiro could not. He sighed, closing another box over full of gifts. How on Earth was he supposed to carry everything alone on Ren's apartment? It was true that he called a delivery service, still...it was already the third trip from the studio, back to Ren's! The guys were starting to feel annoyed, he was good at seeing it, thanks to his experience with The Most Cryptic Man of the Japan.

To everyone else he was "The Most Attractive Man", not to Yashiro.

The box he was trying to close was fighting him back with the full force of the fangirls' gifts: the gifts themselves were so soaked by their dreams of being with Ren, that they became a spiritual weapon that was screaming "Love me, please!" and trying to get out of the box with full rage.

Not that Yashiro could see that scary power. The only thing he could see was his long lost evening, trying to wrap the damn gifts, while his pupil was making not a slightly progress with the girl.

He sighed, looked at the box in a very grim way, then, after few seconds of preparation, he assaulted the box pushing all his body over it.

The struggle went by for few minutes, then Yashiro won the match.

It was the last box, so he decided to sit for a while, waiting for the guys to pick the rest of the boxes.

Yashiro dropped himself on the little couch of the dressing room.

And then he saw it. The Object of months of curiosity...

Ren's cd player...the one he used during Katsuki's block.

Revelation hit him. A big Cat of Cheshire smile appeared on his face. He was quite scary in that moment, but he didn't pay attention of his own craziness, so immersed in the big Reveal-All-The-Cryptic-Creature's-Secrets Mission. He was becoming even more fangirlish than the fangirl themselves (in fact in the box the power of the gifts quiet down, feeling a fellow in the room, who could accomplish their mission), giving to Ren the most absurd nickname.

Yashiro hands were trembling in excitement... finally he could listen to Katsuki's playlist, as he called the CD that Ren refused him of listen or even tell what song had in it.

He breathed in and out few times before being able to put the earphones in the right place, after he dropped it five times.

He pushed the play button...and screamed because the high volume hurt his ears.

He downed the volume and tried again...

1*He wears his heart
safety pinned to his backpack
His backpack is all that he knows
Shot down by strangers
whose glances can cripple
the heart and devour the soulto save his life he crawls
like a worm from a bird
crawls like a worm from a bird

All alone he turns to stone
while holding his breath half to death
Terrified of whats inside

Out of his mind away
pushes him whispering
must have been out of his mind
mid-day delusions of pushing this out of his head
maybe out of his mind

All alone he turns to stone
while holding his breath half to death
Terrified of whats inside
to save his life he
crawls like a worm
crawls like a worm from a bird
crawls like a worm from a bird
crawls like a worm from a bird
crawls like a worm
crawls like a worm from a bird

All he knows
If he can't relieve it grows
and so it goes
he crawls like a worm
crawls like a worm from a bird
and he crawls like a worm
he crawls like a worm
he crawls like a worm
crawls like a...

Out of his mind away
pushes him whispering
must have been out of his mind

Yashiro was able to understand some of the words, but he was quite perplexed, so he listened to the second song.

2* Step out the door and it feels like rain

That's the sound that's the sound on your windowpane

Take to the streets but you can't ignore

That's the sound that's the sound you're waiting for

If ever your wold starts crashing down

Whenever your world starts crashing down

That's where you'll find me (yeah)

God love your soul and your aching bones

Take a breath take a step meet me down below

Everyone's the same our fingers to our toes

We just can't get it right but we're on the road

If ever your world starts crashing down

Whenever your world starts crashing down

That's where you'll find me (yeah)

Lost till you're found swim till you drown

Know that we all fall down

Love till you hate strong till you break

Know that we all fall down

If ever your world starts crashing down

Whenever your world starts crashing down

That's where you'll find me

Lost till you're found swim till you drown

Know that we all fall down

Love till you hate strong till you break

Know that we all fall down

All fall down all fall down

Lost till you're found swim till you drown

Know that we all fall down

Love till you hate strong till you break

Know that we all fall down

Yashiro was even more perplexed: no wonder he was having such a dreadful expression! How could he regain his confidence if he used this kind of depressing song?

He shook his head and listened to the third song.

3*I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that
time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away
all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away
all of your fears
I held your hand through
all of these years
But you still have
All of me

You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life
you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that
time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away
all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away
all of your fears
I held your hand through
all of these years
But you still have
All of me

I've tried so hard to tell myself
that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

When you cried I'd wipe away
all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away
all of your fears
I held your hand through
all of these years
But you still have
All of me

From bad to worse! Seriously, what that stupid love fool was thinking back then? The forth song at first seemed only a music track, then...

4* I know who you could be, an innocent who will save me.

I know who you could be, another boy who will wake me.

Haphazard dentistry and stars will fill me up.

And it sounds funny when we kiss, like water drips.

I know who you could be, a Pagliacci to take me.

I know who you could be, a desperado to break me.

Could you be sure and safe from harm in my dead arms?

Poor baby, don't be so strung out when I'm so proud.

And I'll prepare, I'll rip a page from every book you've ever read.

Don't blame me, I had a vision and a whole philosophy on how things ought to be.

Yashiro sighed, hoping the next one was a little less depressing. He was satisfied.

5* If I don't say this now I will surely break
As I'm leaving the one I want to take
Forgive the urgency but hurry up and wait
My heart has started to separate

Oh, oh,
Be my baby
Ohhhhh
Oh, oh
Be my baby
I'll look after you

There now, steady love, so few come and don't go
Will you won't you, be the one I'll always know
When I'm losing my control, the city spins around
You're the only one who knows, you slow it down

Oh, oh
Be my baby
Ohhhhhh
Oh, oh
Be my Baby
I'll look after you
And I'll look after you

If ever there was a doubt
My love she leans into me
This most assuredly counts
She says most assuredly

Oh, oh
Be my baby
I'll look after you
After You
Oh, oh
Be my baby
Ohhhhh

It's always have and never hold
You've begun to feel like home
What's mine is yours to leave or take
What's mine is yours to make your own

You are so beautiful to me

Yashiro was now caught by the music. Too caught for his own good...but he didn't know that, yet...

6* All it takes is an honest mistake
Now I find you here
You've been here before
Tripped up over your shadow

Why did you run
Why did you run
When I'm right here?

It's all gonna be the same
When you get there

Now that we see the signs
Can we walk this line together?
Now that we know it's time
Can we walk this line together?

It's late September, and all I remember is you dear
With the falling leaves I get back on my knees to surrender

Why did you run
Why did you run
When I'm right here?

It's all gonna be the same
When you get there

Now that we see the signs
Can we walk this line together?
Now that we know it's time
Can we walk this line together?

The next song made clear to Yashiro why Ren chose them. They all talked about the mean of love in Katsuki's perpection.

7* A thousand times I've seen you standing
Gravity like lunar landing
You make me wanna run till I find you
I shut the world away from here
Drift to you, you're all I hear
As everything we know fades to black

Half the time the world is ending
Truth is I am done pretending

I, never thought that I
Had anymore to give
You're pushing me so far
Here I am without you
Drink, to all that we have lost
Mistakes we have made
Everything will change
But,love remains the same

Find a place where we escape
Take you with me for a space
The city bus sounds just like a fridge
I walk the streets through seven bars
I have to find just where you are
The faces seem to blurr
They're all the same

Half the time the world is ending
Truth is I am done pretending

I, never thought that I
Had anymore to give
You're pushing me so far
Here I am without you
Drink, to all that we have lost
Mistakes we have made
Everything will change
But, love remains the same

So much more to say
So much to be done
Don't you trick me now
We shall overcome
So all that's left is praying

But we, should have had the sun
We could have been inside
Instead we're over here

Half the time the world is ending
Truth is I am done pretending
Too much time too long defending
You and I are done pretending

I, never thought that I
Had anymore to give
You're pushing me so far
Here I am without you
Drink, to all that we have lost
Mistakes we have made
Everything will change
Everything will change

I, oh I,
I wish this could last forever
I, oh I,
as if we could last forever

Love remains the same
Love remains the same

Yashiro was so stuck by the songs and the realization of their meaning that he didn't hear the door was opening. He didn't hear the door closing either. He was too surprised hearing the next song. It was actually the song he was able to listen a little when the strange chicken guy came to meet Ren. After that, Kyoko's appearance. The song seemed to be prophetic...

7* Don't know much about your life.
Don't know much about your world, but
Don't want to be alone tonight,
On this planet they call earth.I don't have a future figured out.
And maybe this is going too fast.
And maybe it's not meant to last,

You don't know about my past, and

But what do you say to taking chances,
What do you say to jumping off the edge?
Never knowing if there's solid ground below
Or hand to hold, or hell to pay,
What do you say,
What do you say?

I just want to start again,
And maybe you could show me how to try,
And maybe you could take me in,
Somewhere underneath your skin?

What do you say to taking chances,
What do you say to jumping off the edge?

Never knowing if there's solid ground below
Or hand to hold, or hell to pay,
What do you say,
What do you say?

And I had my heart beating down,
But I always come back for more, yeah.
There's nothing like love to pull you up,
When you're laying down on the floor there.
So talk to me, talk to me,
Like lovers do.
Yeah walk with me, walk with me,
Like lovers do,
Like lovers do.

What do you say to taking chances,
What do you say to jumping off the edge?
Never knowing if there's solid ground below
Or hand to hold, or hell to pay,
What do you say,
What do you say?

Don't know much about your life
And I don't know much about your world

There was a long pause after the songs. And then Yashiro was able to feel it...the presence of the Demon Lord. He turned towards the door very slowly, like the prey of the serial killer in a horror movie. And like the victim he was about to scream.

"Yashiro-san...do you mind to tell me what are you doing, exactly?" his frightening smile nearly killed him

"I was...I was wrapping your gifts...and I found..."

"Did you enjoy the songs?" Yashiro gave a too energetic nod, his head almost snapped out of his neck. "Yashiro-san... I suggest to you that next time you ask for permission. Let's go, it's lunch break and Mogami-san asked us to have lunch together" Yashiro nodded again, a little reassured.

He risked his life for his curiosity. Well, it was worth. The Cryptic Man was less cryptic now.

Yashiro inner fangirl was promising to herself that she would search for the title songs. And then he would do a CD and listen whenever Ren progress was so slowly that he risked to die from the frustration. And in a distant future he would tease Ren, blackmailing him to let his and Kyoko-chan children listen the songs...

Ren shook his head. Yashiro had that scary fangirly expression again and he preferred not to ask about it. He was glad Yashiro didn't notice that the songs were all in English...

Side note, part 2: Here are the songs' title and artists.

1* The bird and the worm – The Used

2* All fall down – One Replubic

3* My immortal – Evanescence

4* I know who you could be – Butcher Boy

5* Look after you – The Fray

6* Together – The Kin

7* Love remain the same – Gavin Rossdale

8* Taking chance - Celine Dion

Hope you liked it! ^^

Thank you for reading!

Ah, I want to ask your opinion: should I write The Pillow Fight II – The Revenge? ^^

And about the 10DaysBonus Thicket, please be a little more patient...That story needs more attention, so more time to be write...Sorry...-.-''