Brotherly Love, Sisterly Sin. (A Skip Beat! Fanfic)

Chapter 26

Hello my sweeties,

Well guys you have all been simply amazing!

What a response!

I'm amazed I'm not dead with you guys hating the cliffies :P

But we have got here and now I want you to...

Enjoy.

Neh xxx

I do not own Skip Beat!

o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o

Setsu heard the cry from her father, but she already knew the car would be coming for her. How could she not? It was one of Kyoko's talents, simple understanding in a crisis. It didn't come out often just when needed. Like at the Curara commercial auditions in that single moment when she had made up a new scenario on the spot. Or when she had been acting for the chance to join the acting school with swapping the script lines between the two characters.

It was something Kyoko could do almost without conscious thought, that single moment when everything became clear to her. She had known all along the car would not aim for Cain. Why should it? How can you hurt someone when they are already dead? Kyoko knew it would be her all along, she told the others differently, but she knew it would be her.

The driver of the car was trying to hurt Kuon, trying to break the man he blamed for everything. There were more ways to truly kill a man. Taking away the thing he cared for most was one of the cruelest.

"SETSU!" of course she heard her name cried out in terror as she turned her head towards the car. It was so close now she could already imagine how much this was going to hurt.

God I hope this works. If not I'm sorry. Kyoko thought as she watched and waited for the correct moment. It was vital she do this right. Her breathing steadied as she stared at the driver of the car. She would let him know exactly what he was doing and exactly who he was doing it to. Even as that sneer faltered at the fact the woman before him was not even attempting to move Kyoko stared at him.

It all happened in slow motion for Kyoko as at that exact second she threw herself onto the hood of the stunt car. She made sure her body kept up the rolling momentum which allowed it to carry her up and over the car. She smacked the ground soundly as she rolled out of the impact just as she had seen the stunt professionals teaching all those actors and actresses so many times.

It hurt of course. The wind was knocked out of her. As the car skidded off to the right and into the crash barrier Setsu steadied herself and took in gasping breaths to replace the air that had been forcibly knocked out of her. And as the driver's door opened Kyoko took that final push, springing up and forwards like the panther so many men had compared her to. Kyoko was upon the young man who was trying to escape almost instantly.

"Oh no you don't!" Kyoko cried tackling the taller and bigger built man to the floor with her full body weight. Even the shock of seeing the woman they had been almost sure would have been killed by such a fast impact up and running didn't stop the people racing towards the scene. And as Calvin pulled his daughter away and into the safety of his arms Cain was upon the man who had almost killed his most beloved person.

"CAIN STOP!" Kyoko cried as she tried and failed to push away from her father's strong grasp. It was almost like the scene with Murasame all over again. Kyoko thought as she watched the fuming man dangling her would be killer off of the side of the Tokyo bridge.

"Cain," Kyoko said again, knowing that her tone of voice was not Setsu, but knowing she needed to stop the man.

Sayuri grabbed her husband's arm having arrived like so many others who were standing back watching the wrathful daemon, who seemed to have overtaken Cain Heel.