Author Note:

Hi. So, you probably can tell that this follows the same storylines as one of my other fics. I am still going to keep that particular fic up, but I thought that since there is so much more complexity to this fic that I'd try a fourth, you read that right fourth time to write it the way I envision it.

Thank you for reading, Always Yours , and I hope you enjoy it.

Future set with info up until the Momji arc.

Always Yours

Chapter One – What's Important

A lot could change within seven years. Seven years was just enough time for Ren Tsuruga to become Kuon Hizuri. Four years was enough for Kuon Hizuri to get engaged, get married, have a son with the woman he adored, and go to America to start acting. Two years was enough time for Kuon to get the right jobs in America and tonight he had earned something he had honestly only dreamed about. An Academy Award for Best Actor.

It felt strange as he had held it in his hand. It had felt even stranger when he had approached the stage and thanked his parents, his friends and former manager, and of course his wife. Everything was coming together with the Hizuris and Kuon hated to say that finally finally Kyoko was getting acting jobs too. She was playing a med student on one of the hottest NBC sitcoms and they had just finished with filming the first season. That gave the two of them time to relax with their little boy.

"You have no idea what these past years have meant to me," Kuon said gratefully as he kissed his twenty-three year old wife. Kyoko returned the kiss and smiled as she let her head rest on his strong shoulder.

"You have no idea what your speech meant to me, Kuon," she smiled. "You're welcome for those past two years. I've always known it's your dream to act in America and I couldn't let you go alone." Kuon looked at her as she started to fall asleep. He felt bad for how mercilessly he had dragged her to the award ceremony and then made appearances at two of the after parties.

It felt like his wife had been sick for a full month now and he was scared that instead of getting better, she was getting worse. "Princess," he asked as she coughed and closed her eyes. "Hey," he said as he moved her so she could rest more comfortably against him. "Please let me come with you to the next doctor's visit?" he asked as she shook her head. "Please, Kyoko?" he asked as he touched her forehead.

She was burning up. How long had she been like this? How long had he failed to notice how sick she was? "We can go to the hospi-" he whispered to her as she grabbed his hand and squeezed it.

"Don't you dare," she said. "I'm just sleepy. There was a lot of alcohol," she argued.

"Which you didn't drink much of at all," Kuon said as he felt relief that they were getting to his parents' residence. "Let's just get Kou and I'll drive us home?" he asked as she smiled, snuggling next to him.

"That sounds good, he'll be excited to see Daddy's award," she said to him as he smiled thoughtfully. He let his hands hold her towards his body and his fingers slipped through her hair trying to comfort her.

"We're almost home," Kuon said feeling his heart break watching her. She would always try and hide her pain, she had been doing that since he had known her and she had hurt her ankle. He was scared that if something did happen to her, something unexpected, that she wouldn't tell him. "Don't worry, the emperor of the night won't be making an appearance tonight."

"He can if you want," Kyoko said before the driver stopped and Kuon got out, thanking him as always.

Kuon tucked his head back in as he picked up Kyoko's purse and the award statue. "You want me to give you the princess carry?" he asked as she tried to wake herself up. Kuon knelt down upon the seat and reached over to his wife's forehead, his eyes showing all of the concern he held for her. "Kyoko?" he asked nervously. "If you're not feeling alright, princess, let me know? I don't mind taking you to the hospital, my parents don't mind keeping Kou overnight. He's most likely asleep."

"Don't you dare," Kyoko said before taking his hand and letting him help her out the car. "I'm just tired. My husband won an award tonight. My husband won the award tonight, I'm just tired," she yawned. Kuon sighed as he looked at her and kissed the top of her head.

"I just wish that one day the world will see how much more amazing my wife is," he told her before pulling her close. Kyoko laughed before reaching for his cheek.

"I know my husband just told the entire audience how amazing and wonderful he thinks I am, but did I tell him how proud I am of him and of being his wife. How kind he is, how he's my sweet Corn, how much I respect him and his acting skills, and how much I love him?" she asked before kissing him.

Kuon lifted her to really make the kiss special, he put her down and let his fingers roam her hair again.

"I am so lucky to have you," he said as he pulled her close to his chest. "Come on, let's go get Kou."

Kyoko grinned and walked with him to the front door. However, as she held onto the hand of the man she loved, she felt her body weaken. She felt her heel slip and she saw she was about to land on the grass and not the hard ground. She froze when she felt that her body didn't hit anything at all and she looked up into Kuon's terrified and protective green eyes.

"Kyoko?" he asked as she felt like she was losing consciousness, only concentrating on those green eyes that made her feel so loved. At least she was with Kuon.

….

….

"Have the doctors told you anything?" Kuu asked as Kuon stood just outside the waiting room trying to get the information on his wife's health and if he needed to get her anything or sign any documents. "Don't worry we have the…"

Kuon looked away, "Dad, thanks, but the last thing on my mind is material gain," he said sadly. "Maybe I shouldn't have gone, I pushed her too hard. I should have realized that she was this sick," he paced as he tried to take in the nature around him. Hopefully the plants and flowers would help calm his nerves at least a little. "Is Kou okay? You two don't mind him…"

"He's fine," Kuu said as Kuon nodded with a sigh of relief. "He's asleep in his guest room. Julie and I have made sure he's okay, he doesn't know any of this. Are you sure you don't want me down there?"

Kuon looked up at the stars in the sky trying his best to keep his fear and pain to a minimum. He felt so incredibly guilty that this had happened. If he hadn't been pushing his wife to do these things with him, if he had just argued with her and taken her to the hospital. Maybe she wouldn't have collapsed.

It was his fault.

"No. I can handle all of this. I think Kyoko will be angry enough that the two of us are here, she wouldn't want you to inconvenience yourself any more than she already will think you have. I'm just waiting on the test results and the diagnosis and I'm hoping I can see her soon. I didn't think it was anything this serious."

"It's not your fault," Kuu replied. "Kuon, nobody thought it was this serious. That's who Kyoko is, she won't let anyone see that she's sick."

"She's my wife though, she always knows when I'm pretending to not be ill and…" Kuon tried to argue before Kuu cut him off.

"I'm sorry to say, son, that during those times I don't think anyone would give you an Oscar." Kuon felt himself laugh weakly at his dad's joke. He wasn't sure whether it was because he couldn't act or because of Kyoko's sixth sense to pick up on small details. He could still remember when she had known his body so well she had used measurements to learn that he had been Cain Heel.

"Mr. Hizuri," a doctor said as she approached Kuon. "We have the results for your wife's test back."

Kuon nodded, "Dad, I have to…"

"I know," Kuu said. "Let us know if there's anything that you need. Can I just say how proud I am of you?" he asked as Kuon smiled.

"Thanks, dad. I'll call you when I get a chance," he said as he touched his own blond hair. He hung up his phone and turned it off before turning to the doctor. "Can I see her?" he asked.

"You will be able to in a moment or two," the doctor said. "However, as her spouse, there are things that I need to discuss with you before you can see her," she said as Kuon nodded. He hated to say that he was terrified. He had always tried to be strong and hold back from admitting fear. Being in the hospital was one of the scariest things he had gone through, maybe surpassed by the proposal and marriage and the knowledge he was going to be a father and the birth of Kou.

His family was everything to him and Kyoko was such a huge part of that. He followed the doctor to an office and saw a folder full of documents, he frowned as he saw Kyoko's name on there as well as some personal details but he didn't understand the tests.

"Mr. Hizuri," the doctor said as Kuon looked up from the documents he was attempting to scan for anything he could understand. "Your wife has a rare hybrid illness," she said as he looked at her confused. What on earth was classified as rare and hybrid? Did that mean there were two diagnoses?

"I'm sorry?" Kuon asked confused, "I'm not sure what that means."

"Well," the doctor said with a deep breath, "Mr. Hizuri, your wife is sick and her illness mimics that of a cancer, but we haven't seen very much like this infection before."

"It mimics cancer?" Kuon asked confused. "So, you're saying that my wife has cancer?" he asked as his heart broke for the woman he loved. Kyoko had been through far too much to deserve this. He wanted to protect her, but how could he fight for her against an illness? He wished there was something that he could do. "Does my wife have cancer?"

"She has an undiagnosible illness so we have to treat it as the closest match we have," the doctor said as Kuon stared at her. What on earth was happening? These doctors had everything on file and even if these doctors didn't have it on a physical file, the data was accessible. He stared at the doctor in disbelief. He couldn't understand what she was saying to him.

"So, this means chemotherapy?" he asked trying to wrap his mind around how sick Kyoko was, "radiation? Surgery? What is it that I can arrange for my wife to get healthy or put it in remission or…" Kuon felt himself panic. He was losing the cool, calm, and collected side of himself. These words that he was being told had stopped making sense to him. What on earth were they saying that was wrong with the woman he loved so deeply?

"There's a drug treatment," the doctor said. "There are a few hospitals around the world which can treat it. One of those is quite close by, there's also one in Chicago, New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Beijing."

Kuon nodded as he closed his eyes. He didn't care where they went as long as Kyoko got better. They were saying that there were drugs for it but he didn't understand how they could prescribe her drugs for something that they weren't even sure about. His breath caught in his chest as he looked down and asked the only thing that mattered right now

"Can I see my wife now?" he asked hating the shakiness in his voice.

This was unbelievable. Wasn't this the type of thing that happened in movies and TV shows rather than real life? Wasn't this something that happened in medical shows after the show jumped the shark, so to speak. He stood as the doctor opened the door and took him to where Kyoko was lying weakly in the hospital bed.

"Does she know?" he asked the doctor wanting to run over and hold his wife but not wanting to either hurt or scare her.

"She knows," the doctor said as Kuon nodded and went forward to hold his wife's hand. Hopefully he could share some of his remaining strength with her.

"Hey, princess," he smiled to her as she squeezed his hand back. "The doctor just told me," he said, "How are you feeling?" he asked, "Is there anything I can get for -"

"Can we go back to Japan, Kuon?" Kyoko asked with tears in her eyes as Kuon nodded.

"Yes. Yes, we can go back. Is that what would make you happy, Kyoko?" he asked her as he pressed his face to her hand not wanting her to see how upset he was. He pressed gentle kisses to the back of her hand as he used both of his to hold it.

Kyoko nodded, "Kuon, I -"

"Then that's what we'll do," Kuon promised her. "I'll find some time to talk to Lory, hopefully he'll be able to help." He looked at her and kissed her softly. "I love you, princess," he said before staring down. He was glad that the doctor had shared the information that it was non contagious and he hated himself for asking the question when they went to the room.