Title: Spring Mornings are for Souring

Category: Beyblade

Summary: Sequel to "Winter Nights are a Sight". Four years after the birth of their twins, Kai and Miguel are living happily when Kai starts feeling strange again. What now? And with the twins child-curiosity, life is never boring.

Pairings: Miguel/Kai; Bryan/Tala; Lee/Ray

Warnings: Shounen-ai; language

Disclaimer: Don't own.

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Chapter One

A Scare and Condolence

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Mornings for a lot of people are peaceful, waking up at any time in the day, eating in quiet, and just listening to the morning birds start their busy day. Yes, it was quite passive for the average person, but in one certain household on the outskirts of Beycity, Japan, it was the complete opposite.

Two tiny sets of feet tip-toed their way through the carpeted hallway to the farthest room. One small hand turned the doorknob ever so slowly, making no noise as the door opened. Muffled giggles and shushes were the only other sound than deep, even breathing coming from the bed as the two figures crept closer. Bare feet made their way to each side of the bed, climbing up onto the cold, metal bedframe the sheets did not cover. Two other forms lay in the bed, asleep, one draped over the other, covers doing the same. The newest figures each held up a hand, signaling the "one", "two", and "three" before jumping onto the bouncy mattress and stomachs of the sleeping ones.

"Wake up!" the twins cried, shutting their violet eyes from the world to laugh and scream at the top of their lungs. Short slate blue and blonde tipped hair tossed all over the place as they threw their heads back. "Time to wake up!"

Groaning came from one parent while pained chuckling emitted from the other. Violet orbs that rivaled the twins' appeared from under thick lashes, slate blue hair falling in front and on either side of the slanted eyes. Kai blinked as he recognized his two sons. Beside him, Miguel opened his sea blue eyes and lifted his blonde head.

"You two need to learn the value of sleeping in," the gargoyle smiled sleepily, reaching up to ruffle one of the twins' hair.

Taiyo giggled and grabbed hold of his father's hand, swinging it up and down. "Nuh, uh!" he laughed, tugging on the appendage. "Time to get up, Daddy! No sleeping in today!"

"Yeah, come on, Papa!" Tsuki cried, bouncing a little on Kai's stomach. "Time to get up! It's eight o'clock! Waky time!"

"Alright, alright," the phoenix relented, sitting up a little which caused the older of the twins to topple backwards, "we're up. We're up. Now, go get dressed, you two."

Both boys smiled and gave each of the older males a hug and kiss on the cheek. "Okay, Papa!" they both called back as they ran out of the room.

Kai smiled as he watched the two. Already four years had passed since he had them. It was summer time, so neither were in school yet, and those two each had the energy of a hyperactive puppy. He turned to Miguel and caught sight of the amused sea orbs.

"Good morning," he murmured, leaning up to kiss his phoenix's lips.

"Morning," Kai replied, kissing back.

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"Papa?"

Kai turned around from his place at the kitchen counter. He was making a new batch of tea just as the twins came into the tiled room. "Yes?" he asked, smiling down at the two.

Taiyo and Tsuki both looked the same; with their short-cropped slate blue hair, the tips golden yellow like Miguel's, and their bright violet eyes that matched their Papa's so much. The only way anyone could tell the difference, even for the parents, were their eyes and personality. Tsuki's eyes took on Miguel's soft look, seeming to have a blue tint to the iris, while Taiyo's took on Kai's harsh edges and were more crimson. As for personality, Tsuki was more like Miguel with his happy, smiling, and tranquilized personality. Taiyo inherited Kai's calm, cool, quick-thinking habits. It was only if one looked closely to tell the difference between the two, especially when they started talking at the same time.

Tsuki went over to the phoenix, tiny, four-year-old hands gripping the fabric of Kai's jeans. "Can we have peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch?"

"Please?" Taiyo added afterwards. Both boys gazed up at the Russian with wide, pleading eyes that only made the adult laugh.

"Alright." He smiled as they cheered, each hugging a leg. Kai pat both of their heads as the twins looked up at him again.

"May we watch tel-tel-" Tsuki stopped, trying to remember the word.

Kai smiled, "Television?"

"Yeah!" the youngest cried happily. "Television!"

"Please?" Taiyo pleaded again, "Just while you are making lunch?"

"Sure, it should already be set on the Discovery channel."

"Discovery!" the twins exclaimed, each giving another squeeze to Kai's legs and then rushing off into the living room and turning on the TV.

Kai chuckled at his boys' enthusiasm in learning new things before turning back around and getting out the bread for the sandwiches. He sighed, as he got out a knife and the peanut butter. The room was looking a little fuzzy, as it had been all morning. The dull ache in his abdomen was driving him up the wall, but thinking it was just something he had eaten the day before, Kai grabbed the jelly from the refrigerator and set it on the counter with the other stuff. He could hear the narrator on the TV in the other room and his sons' excited gasps as they heard something new about another animal. It sounded so loud, yet so far. His vision swam as he picked up the knife and bread slice. Breathing heavily, sweat pouring down, he set the items for lunch back down on the counter and leaned against the wooden thing very heavily. Opting to sit at the table for a bit, he turned slowly but stopped as another wave of pain erupted from his stomach area, sending jolts of lightning through his system. Wrapping his arms around his stomach, he lost all sense of direction and his only way of staying standing. Legs buckling with another bout of pain, the phoenix fell to the cold, hard, tiled floor, the world around him turning black.

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Taiyo blinked as he heard a loud thump from behind him. He tore his gaze away from the program he was watching to crawl and look behind the couch in the middle of the living room. Tsuki spotted his movement and did the same.

"What ya hear?" the little moon asked, staring at his brother for a minute.

"A thump," the sun replied, crawling off the couch. "It came from the kitchen."

"Papa's in the kitchen," Tsuki pointed out. "It can't be a bad guy; Papa would have stopped him."

"I no think it was a bad guy, Tsuki," Taiyo replied going over to the kitchen doorway, his brother right behind him. Looking around, nothing seemed out of the ordinary, until he saw a foot sticking out from behind the kitchen table.

"Papa!" Tsuki exclaimed, rushing over to the fallen phoenix.

Kai lay on the floor, eyes closed, sweat pouring down, gripping his stomach like he had been stabbed. His breathing came in short gasps, face scrunched up in pain as a whimper escaped from his closed lips. Taiyo couldn't believe what was going on. Shaking his head, he tried to remember what his parents had told him to do in case of an emergency. "Tsuki," the moon called to his brother, "try and wake Papa up. I go call Daddy." Tsuki nodded as Taiyo grabbed one of the chairs from the table and pushed it over to the counter top. Climbing on top of the seat, he then climbed onto the counter and grabbed the phone from the wall. Looking at the list of emergency numbers, he remembered that Papa had told him his Daddy's phone number was the first one on the list. Punching in the right numbers, he held the phone up to his ear and listened as the electronic rang.

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Miguel sighed happily as he watched his team practice. Everyone was having a good day, even Aaron. Leaning back against the wall to watch some more, he let his mind wander to his home life, wishing Kai was there with him. The phoenix always had something to say in order to help his team better themselves. Having been in beyblading for most of his life, the young Russian knew quite a lot about the game, and there were strategies that ran in his head every time he watched a match. He was a good adversary to have around, not to mention, the kids would help work his team until they dropped. Those two knew how to make someone push to their limit, even at four years old.

He blinked as he felt something vibrate in his pocket, a familiar ringtone blaring. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out his phone and frowned as he saw that "Home" was calling him. Kai rarely ever called him during practice, let alone from the house phone. The last time he did that, one of the twins had been sick and he needed Miguel to get home and take care of the other while he went to the doctor. Flipping the phone open, he answered, "Hello?"

"Daddy?" a voice asked on the other end.

"Taiyo?" Miguel guessed, recognizing his son's voice, "what's wrong?"

The youngster took in a deep breath before answering shakily, "Papa....Papa's fallen, and he won't wake up. Tsuki keeps trying, but he won't wake up, Daddy." The boy started to cry on the other end of the phone. "I'm scared," he whispered, "Papa keeps whining like a puppy and holding his stomach. He won't wake up, Daddy. He won't wake up....."

Ice gripped the gargoyle's heart as the news sank in. "Taiyo, I want you to listen to me, alright?"

A sniff, "Okay."

"Just keep trying to wake Papa up, alright? I'm on my way home right now. I will be there soon, just keep trying to wake him up. Do you understand?"

"Y-Yeah, but I'm scared, Daddy."

"I know, Taiyo. I know. I just need you and your brother to keep trying to wake Papa up. I will be there soon. Okay?"

"Okay."

With that, he hung up, stuffing his phone into his pocket and rushing over to Claude. "Claude!" he called, reaching the silver haired male. "Something's happened."

The Spaniard turned to face his best friend. "What's wrong? Are the kids alright?"

Miguel shook his head. "It's Kai. Call an ambulance, tell them to go to my house. Kai's fallen. He won't wake up, and he's holding his stomach in pain. Other than that, I don't know. I just have to get there now."

"Alright. Go! Go!"

Miguel didn't need anymore encouraging.

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Taiyo hung up the phone and jumped down from his position on the counter. Running over to his brother and father, he knelt down to assess the situation. Tsuki was still shaking Kai's shoulder, calling out "Papa" over and over again but gaining no response except a whimper or gasp as the phoenix tried to curl in on himself. The young sun didn't know what to do but to help his brother in shaking his father awake.

This went on for ten minutes before Miguel burst through the front door and into the kitchen, barely breathing heavily. He rushed to his lover's side and slipped his hands behind his phoenix's head, bringing it to rest in his lap. "Kai," he called softly, pushing the wet bangs off of the equally sweaty brow. "Kai, wake up, love."

Tsuki and Taiyo watched as their blonde father continued to speak softly to their other dad, finally gaining a response after a little while.

"Miguel?" Kai whispered, opening pained violet orbs.

"I'm here," the gargoyle continued to whisper. "What hurts, Kai?"

Kai's breathing started picking back up again, as if he were running a marathon. "My-My stomach area. I keep having sh-sharp jolts of-of pain."

Miguel nodded, stroking his lover's brow. "The ambulance is on its way. You'll be fine soon, okay?"

The young phoenix nodded before drifting off into unconsciousness again.

"Is he okay, Daddy?" Taiyo asked, crawling closer to his two fathers.

Miguel nodded, running a hand through each of the twin's hair. "He will be just fine," he answered just as the door opened to reveal three men in white uniforms and a stretcher.

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Not many people would be able to comment that they had seen a young, blonde haired, blue eyed Spaniard in the hospital waiting room with two twin boys, each well-behaved and barely talking as they sat in their father's lap. Neither male moved from their seats in the waiting room, until an older man in a white coat came up to them.

Doctor Strandland had seen many cases in his time. Just four years ago, he had done the impossible and helped a young, healthy, and very pregnant teenager through a C-section. The teen delivered twin boys, both as cute as buttons. That day, as he was called into the emergency area of the hospital, he was dealt with another case but consisted of the same boy. Walking down the hall, he spotted Miguel Lavalier and the twins he helped deliver four years beforehand.

The blonde Spaniard looked up and, with one boy in each arm, stood to meet the doctor. "How is he?" he asked, blue eyes wide in fear and worry.

Strandland sighed heavily. "Well, I have good news and bad news, Miguel," he started.

The gargoyle's face went white at that. "What is it? Is Kai going to be alright?"

The doctor held up his hand to stop the young man. "Kai is going to be just fine, physically anyway." At Miguel's confused look, he continued, "It seems that he miscarried."

"Miscarried?"

Strandland nodded. "Yes, it happens with people more than we want it to. In Kai's case, he was about three weeks pregnant. We ran some tests and concluded that the baby had a faulty chromosome."

Miguel tilted his head. "I don't understand."

"Sometimes, during fertilization, the egg doesn't aquire all of the data it needs to make a baby. In Kai's case, the baby ended up not gaining a chromosome that he desperately needed to survive. Most cases like this end up in the parent miscarrying within weeks of fertilization. Sometimes, later on in the pregnancy, which can be dangerous. There are also cases where the parent has miscarried during labor. I have a feeling that if Kai had not miscarried now, then it would have endangered his health, especially if he ended up having the child. Most cases like that, the baby does not survive twenty-four hours after delivery, and during the delivery, both the baby and parent are in danger of dying. With Kai being a male, and having to have a cesarian section, we probably would have lost both of them."

The Spaniard let out a really long breath and sat down. "So, he's going to be alright?"

Strandland nodded. "Yes, physically. Mentally, a lot of parents - both male and female - go through a mild to heavy depression. He may think that it was his fault that he lost the baby. When, in reality, it wasn't his doing at all."

Miguel shook his head, knowing full well that Kai would be thinking exactly how the doctor said. "Can we see him?"

"Of course."

After receiving directions and heading down the hall, Miguel kept a good hold on his two living sons. If Kai was thinking any depressing thoughts, all he had to do was see his sons. He would cheer up then. He would live for them.

"Daddy?" Tsuki's voice rang through his thoughts.

"Yeah?"

"Papa was pregnance?"

"Pregnant, yes."

"What's that mean?"

Miguel chuckled at his son's innocent curiosity. "When someone is pregnant, that means that they have a baby growing inside of them."

"That's where babies come from?" Taiyo asked. "Like on the Discovery channel?"

Miguel nodded. "Humans give birth the same way some animals do, like monkeys, or gorillas."

"Oh," the boys admired. "But Papa's not pregnant anymores?"

"Anymore," Miguel corrected. "No, he's not. If he was still pregnant, then we wouldn't have him anymore."

"You mean, Papa would die?" Taiyo asked, violet eyes going wide.

The blonde nodded. "Yes."

They reached the phoenix's room before more was said. Miguel opened the door and stepped in, taking in the sight of his lover propped up on the bed by pillows, everything white. Kai caught sight of them and turned his gaze away, not meeting those intense blues. The gargoyle set the twins down on the floor and strode over to his lover.

"Kai," the Spaniard murmured, stroking the pale forehead as the boys climbed up on the bed.

"I lost the baby, Miguel," Kai whispered, not looking at anything. "I lost it."

"Papa?" the twins asked, crawling to their father's sides. Kai looked down with sad violets at his living sons.

"We'd rather have you," Tsuki started.

"Than a baby and not you," Taiyo finished.

"Cause you're our Papa," they both said, hugging the phoenix, "and we love you."

Kai felt the tiny arms encircle his waist and the muscular arm of his lover wind around his shoulders. Three sets of body heat warmed his own body, inside and out. Tears sprang to his eyes as he realized that he had three others that loved him, that he had. He needed them, and they needed him. How could he forget?

Wrapping one arm around the twins, and the other around Miguel, he hugged the three people in his life that meant more than his own. Yeah, he lost one life, but he had three others to keep him company and to share that sorrow. He wasn't as alone as he thought.

"I love you, too," he whispered, smiling.

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Highlights for Chapter Two

Two months after the scare that landed Kai into the hospital, the twins are excited to be going to the doctors for their yearly check-up. The only problem is, Kai's sick again, but why is Daddy so anxious to go to the store?

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Well, how's chapter one? I do apologize for any mistakes I could have made, and I apologize again for not uploading the chapters for the 2nd in the trilogy earlier. At least you had five chapters to read! ^^ That's gotta earn some brownie points, huh?

Review! Tell me what ya think! Chapters two and three up next week! ^^