Sequel to Sing A Lunar Song – Now Truth Begins

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(Narrators POV)

"Mama, wake up mama!"

Hinamori, now Hotori, Amu woke up everyday to her child's calls out to her. "What is it honey?" Amu was now a 22 year-old woman who looked five years younger with a five year old son. In her younger days of high school (and Junior High) she was dating the crush of her life, and what a short lived crush it was, Hotori Tadase. Through out high school she had to deal with turning down so many boys with crushes on her, and that was hard for her since she didn't like turning people down at all. Tadase and Amu soon married after they got out of high school and created a fruit of there love before all of that. Amu gave birth to her son when she was 17 years old on December 19. Two years after this, Tadase and Amu got a divorce because within that time span of high school ending to two years after there son's birth, Tadase began to show his true colors, and slowly became more like Kiseki.

He was almost never home, on the exception on coming home to have a meal or two, then leaving for the night to go 'hang out' was often his excuse. He'd leaving Amu alone with the baby boy, trying to keep up two steady jobs, house work, and trying to take care of two and feed three. Tadase had no job himself and usually hung around the 'gang.' The worst part of it all, on Amu's special day, he would abandon her and leave for another girl, and she knew it. Amu's special day wasn't her birthday, but Mother's Day. He would be home for her birthday, but leave soon after saying he had somewhere to go, her birthday soon became like any other day, as did Mother's Day… Though that was not what she wished for, especially not on Mother's Day, her day to relax.

"Sorry, I forgot."

"I was out with the boys."

These were the two excuses Tadase made up when he came home intoxicated the next morning, after Mother's Day. Those nights after Tadase was gone again and she'd cry for hours, breaking down. Often Miki, her guardian character, would draw Amu crying, and put the lyrics of the song, 'Let Go by Frou Frou' around Amu. "Because there's beauty in a break down." She also put other songs around Amu like, 'Somewhere by Within Temptation.' "Lost in the darkness, hopping for a sign. Instead there's only silence. Can't you hear my screams?" In the background of the crying Amu picture with the song 'Somewhere' there was always someone standing in the background, though Miki never knew who it was. It was someone with a guardian Character though, since in the picture when she drew it, the boy had a floating creature beside him.

Amu new truly, madly, and deeply where Tadase was going and that was often the reason for her crying. She loved Tadase, and she knew he thought she wasn't good enough, so he went out and saw Rima, a former friend and guardian. Kukai had somehow ended up with Hoshina Utau, the famous idol. Though in high school Kukai dated Utau, I still didn't expect them to stay together. Tadase got together with the former guardians of Seiyo Elementary School (And Seiyo Junior High and High) almost all the time; she'd even find golden colored strands of long hair upon Tadase's cloths. I started to wonder if Negihiko knew about any of it…

"Let's watch morning cartoons together,' the boy said excitedly, jumping up and down. His hair bounced and his eyes twinkled like stars in the sky, they reminded Amu of something, but she wasn't clear on what it was yet.

Amu's hand reached out from beneath the covers and patted her prince… No. I said I'd never call him that, ever! Amu yelled at herself in her head, mentally killing herself for it. She patted Hikaru on the head, a smile upon her face, even with the inside struggle she had lived with for so many years. "All right. All right. Let me get up and I'll fix everything up so we can have our 'mother and son Saturdays' together." She laughed at the lame name she had given it, her son laughed along.

"Amu is sure waking up early again," commented her pick guardian character Ran. She wore a pink cheerleader outfit and had her hair tied up in a high side pony-tail. A bandana hung around her neck. She was the first egg to hatch from the three Amu first received, the athletic and innocent… annoying as well. Ran was the heart from the five guardian characters. "Are you sure it's okay for her to strain herself like that?"

"If Amu wants to wake up early, I'm sure it's okay-desu. She's a great mother and wants to take care of her child, I'm so proud," Suu said back to Ran. Suu was dressed in a green maids-like uniform and was the third to hatch from the three original eggs to appear. She was the green clover. She's the motherly chara that loves to cook and does house work, Suu is very proud of Amu because she became more like her guardian character when she got married to Tadase, though she was sad of the heartache Amu had to go through.

Three eggs laid together, the guardian characters inside still sleeping. Miki, the artistic level-headed spade guardian character was born second with the color of blue. She was still resting from drawing Amu lying asleep in bed with puffy eyes and watered cheeks. Dai, the musical yellow diamond guardian character had been sleeping for a wile now, waiting for Amu to shine again, and often almost got turned into an 'x-egg.' Ritsuka was Amu's newly born guardian character. She has a gothic Lolita angel style, having two black angel wings coming from her back, but having no halo and a white and black outfit. She represented Amu's wish for something better for her son. In a lot of ways, Ritsuka looked after Hikaru as if she was Hikaru's guardian character, or guardian angel.

Amu wrapped herself with the blanket and prepared the area of where they'd watch TV. Her bed was a futon and turned into a couch and the TV sat near it, sitting next to an opening that led into the kitchen. Due to circumstances, they lived in a very small apartment in a very old fashioned building. One room apartment with a: living room, kitchen, and bathroom. The bathroom had an old bathtub from ancient times, though it gave off a very soothing sense unless you often get claustrophobic. The kitchen was a little bigger than the bathroom, but could only hold one person if you were cooking, or food would fly and someone would get burned.

Amu's room was shared as the living room, her bed being a futon so it turned from a bed to a couch. Around the living room were boxes of books and cloths since they didn't have that much money for dressers. Everything was on a hardwood floor except for the tile in the bathroom. When walking in through the door of the small apartment you would have three ways to choose to go. Choosing right would lead you into the small kitchen, which had another doorway to your left into the living room. Choosing straight would lead you straight into the living room/ Amu's room and turning through two glass doors on your left in the living room/ Amu's room would be Hikaru's room. Choose left and you'd be moving into the small bathroom, looking right you'd see the counter with a sink and a small old mirror and next to that the toilet. Looking straight into the bathroom you'd see the bathtub. Calling there house 'ghetto' was a complement.

Hikaru sat next to his mother with a blanket wrapped around him as well, snuggling next to his mother. Amu noticed how he was very much like herself when she was a little kid. He didn't really look like his mother or his father, though she was glad be had more of his mother in him than his dad. His mother's smile, his father's silkiness in his hair, though his hair was a light brown, much like Yaya's. His eyes reminded of someone she knew when she was younger, a boy named Ikuto. He was five years older than her with midnight blue sapphire eyes and midnight blue or purple hair, it mattered what the lighting was, though it was mostly midnight blue.

Amu was just realizing how cruel she really was to that poor boy. He was just a kid, like herself, even though he was five years older than her, he acted like a child, though she was so much more like a child. He would tease her, temp her, he made her like him. Ikuto, she still had a sketch somewhere hidden that Miki had drawn many years ago, and Amu would sometimes find comfort in it. Never would she loose her 'cool and spicy' around Tadase and the others, sometimes it would vanish, but it would be easily regained. Though… around Ikuto, she couldn't even try, try to be her 'cool and spicy.' It never worked because around him she couldn't help but be herself.

Before she entered her second year of Junior High, this was the last time she saw Ikuto. It was after Ikuto had stayed over at her house. He really was a stray cat. Amu had tried to get him to sleep with her in the warm bed but something stopped him, she still didn't know what happened. Sometime in the night he had snuck into her bed and they began to talk after all the freaking out and whisper screaming was over. That was so long ago.

She felt like a cruel, sickening, damned, and any other bad word she could think of, person. She thought all the things Tadase had put her through were karma for the things she had put Ikuto through, and she felt like she deserved it all. She was a masochist… though she really wasn't. She just thought she deserved it all.

Amu turned the TV on, but wasn't really necessary since she knew Hikaru wanted to talk to her about something. "Hey mama," she heard him say. "What is Mother's Day? Some of the kids in my art class are making things for there mothers and when I asked why they said, Mother's Day, what else. What is it?" Amu was surprised by this; she had no clue that Mother's Day was the coming up.

"It's the day that, usually, in a family… well… it's the day of appreciation for all the mothers. It's like a day of saying 'Thank you' to mothers around the world." Amu wasn't sure if she was explaining it correctly, but she knew she was hitting close to home, or so far off that home was no where in sight. Her honey eyes looked into the midnight sapphire eyes of her child's, her adorable child's.

"Then what are we going to do? I don't think I have enough time to make you something," Hikaru murmured to himself. He had his pointer finger on his lips as he thought. "Maybe I can buy you something mama?" Hikaru's eyes shimmered with pleasure as he thought of a great idea. He felt a hand on his head, it was his mothers.

"Okay, okay. Saturday I'm working so I'll get a little more cash then, I'll let you run around town Sunday with some money to get me a present if you want. Though you have to bring Ran, Miki, Suu, and Hikari with you though." Amu was pulling off her 'I'm a stricken parent' face as she talked to her son, though he just smiled and laughed.

"Okay, I will. Mama, thank you."

He soon asked if he could go outside and play with some friends. Amu defiantly agreed since she needed some rest, and this was her only day until Mother's Day to do so. Wile Hikaru was out, Amu rested till 6pm. When Hikaru came back with mud all over, Amu opened one eyes as the boy tried to sneak into his room, though knew he'd be caught but the creeks the old floor made.

"Go take a shower mister before you come treading into the house all the way like that." Amu really hated cleaning everything up, especially since that time. She was glad that Suu offered to clean it up, though she felt a little guilty. Amu rolled onto her back, her hand gliding through her hair, pushing it back so she could see the ceiling more clearly. "Why do I always do things wrong?" Amu asked herself more than anyone else.

"Amu, you don't always do things wrong. And you learn how to go through life that way," Ran tried to cheer Amu up, though only made a frown come upon her face.

"Yeah, you do, do a lot of things wrong," Miki commented, to busy drawing a picture of Amu in a close up, slightly looking back at a shadowed man with the lyrics, "And suddenly, it isn't what it used to be. And after all this time, it worked out just fine. And suddenly, I know where I'm supposed to be. And after all the tears, I was supposed to be here." These lyrics came form the song, Suddenly by Superchick. Miki noticed how when she said the words of how Amu did everything wrong, she got a glare from both Suu, who was still cleaning up, and Ran who just floated.

"Well it's true," Miki whimpered to herself.

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The week had gone by slowly for Amu, working hard for two jobs and barely getting any sleep. Hikaru also asked for special attention since some of the kids at school had begun making fun of him for not having a father. Hikaru had come home with all sorts of burses and scratches, he had fought back. She took him out of school Friday and made sure he stayed home, even though she had to work, she left Ran, Suu, and Hikari (with the sleeping Dai) to watch over him. Miki went to work with Amu.

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(Hikaru's POV)

My mother is a beautiful woman who worked so hard to keep us both living, and often only had one day off each week. Also having two jobs occupied more of her time. Through the week before mother's day the kids started to pick on me, saying I had no dad who loved me and my mother was probably dead. When the principle heard of this I begged him not to tell my mom that the reason he got in a fight was really because of the kids saying she probably didn't exist.

On Friday my mother was called from work saying that they were sending me home. Even with her busy schedule, she came to pick me up anyways. She had run all the way from her work in downtown to come pick me up, and I really wondered how she managed. I realized then that Ran was with her. I didn't know why but I was always able to see the 'guardian characters' of my mother. I grew learning all about them since I could see them.

Mama left me at home with Ran, Suu, the yellow egg that never hatched, and Hikari. My wounds were tended for and I could walk after a few hours. Mama said she wouldn't be home till midnight or so and it was only noon. I looked to the floating guardians, mainly Ritsuka, because she knew me very well, and when mom wasn't able to, she cared for me. "Can we please leave so I have some extra hours on searching for my mama's present?" I asked, receiving an awkward stare from the pink and green characters. Ritsuka just sighed and nodded, the one called Ran and the one called Suu were shocked by this. They had known that I was leaving every evening so I could to search through the town for my momma's mother's day present ever since I received the money to do so.

I made sure I locked the door after me first, before I left, then I was off down the stairs of the five story old building. I exited the building with the three guardian characters fallowing me, making sure I was safe. I ran around all of town until it was dark and around 7 PM. I was sitting on a bench breathing heavily because I was literally running around for most of the time. I stood abruptly and the guardian characters behind me that were breathing deeply as well moaned. "No more," I thought I heard one say. I was off running again, I needed to find that perfect present, and I had already decided that I would be making her breakfast Sunday morning so that was all good.

I turned into an alleyway but I couldn't see what had happened, it was so quick but I found myself pinned to the wall by some older boys from a middle school probably. "Hey kid, we've seen you around a lot and we just wanted to tell you that this is our territory," one of the boys growled. I wasn't paying to much attention to there features but to the three guardian characters that, two, were screaming my mom's name and the other just glared at the boys, deciding her move. "But for payback, you give us all your money and promise you'll never hang around here again and we might let you go," said the other boy.

"How about you let me go and I won't call the cops over here and arrest you for sexual assault, harassment, abuse and or threatening," I said under my breath as I looked away from them, I could feel the bored expression on my face. I was already dressed in a long sleeve black shirt so no one could see the wounds on my arms and stomach, and long pants so no one could see the wounds on my legs. There were only some band aids on my face since I was able to protect there easily, but wile one kid tried to beat my face, the rest would beat my stomach, arms, legs, and back.

"What was that punk?" Oh so my words made these boys angry? I was surprised they could hear me since I just took a look at them and it looked like they came from a rich family. Snobby, rich, and ugly, no wonder they were trying to act all high and 'all that.'

"Hey, let the kid go before you get your ass kicked."

I heard an older male's voice come from deeper into the alleyway. I was curious so I turned my head to see my savior, though I didn't really need one. As I saw the man emerge into the dim light I began to study his features. Midnight blue eyes that looked like my own, midnight blue hair, though this man seemed oddly familiar. That was it, I had seen this man, well maybe not this man exactly, but something like this man in a picture Miki had drawn for mama. Who was this man?

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Well, there's the first chapter to the sequel of Sing a Lunar Song. I hope you liked it! Since I had typed a lot of it up before Sing a Lunar Song came to existence I was able to make the first chapter really easy. I just had to reword some things, add and subtract things here and there. So yeah… Thank you for reading…

Hikaru: Yes! In your story 'Guilty' you should make a second chapter to that and let me be the kid in that too!!!

Amu: Umm… Hikaru, I don't think that'd be best…

Scarlet: I agree with your mamma…

Hikaru: Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

Scarlet: 'Cause that's a one-shot and I'd like to leave it the way it is… But it's cool of you for thinking of a way to make things better. Good Job kiddo, here's some candy.

Amu: Scarlet… are you a creeper?

Scarlet: No, why?

Amu: Just never give my kid candy again, okay?

Scarlet: Sure…

Tadase: Why am I the bad guy?!?!?!?!

Scarlet: Shut up to neglecting father!

Tadase: But you made me!

Scarlet: No I didn't, shut up!

So anyways, thank you for reading, now I hope you review.

Loves!