A/N: Hi, here's the second chapter of these bite-size episodes of mine. Thanks for the nice reviews and support you guys give to all my humble projects. This chapter is a bit darker and will give us an insight into Kaya and Reina's relationship and yes, you will probably hate Kaya a bit more [or a lot].

Syaoran Li Clow: Well you know me, I can't write love without drama. This girl will give Reina a run for her money in all aspects so expect pissed and possessive Reina all the way. Thanks for reading.

dinnca: Si! nueva y peligrosa XD.

Warning: Kaya sucks.

Enjoy!


Old scars


"Reina-chan, wake up" a male voice whispered in the trumpeter's ears and she lazily opened her eyes.

"Morning, daddy" Reina mumbled between long yawns. She was not a morning person, despite what everybody thought.

"Here, have this" Luis gave his daughter one of his phones.

"But..."

"No buts" the man smiled tenderly "I know you little girls will die if you don't know about each other during the time you will be here and it's already been more than a week, so..."

"Thanks, daddy" Reina hugged his father and giggled slightly "you are such a romantic"

"I just want to see my baby happy, is that a sin?" Luis stated in a fake dramatic tone and his daughter giggled even more. Those were those rare times that both father and daughter seldom shared but treasured them as their most sacred memories.

"Just remember to hide it from the dragon, remember that plastic and metal can be melt by the fire that woman breathes" Luis chuckled and Reina giggled even more.

"I still don't understand how you are still together, daddy" the young trumpeter voiced out loud and then covered her mouth and her cheeks burned, apparently some habits from certain euphonium player were starting to rub off on her.

"Believe it or not, your mother used to be as adorable as you are so…" looking at his daughter's incredulous look the man smiled "…actually you two look alike a lot but please just don't turn into a dragon like she did, poor Kumiko-chan will run away scared" soon he jumped away when a flying pillow barely missed him.

"Oh, I had forgotten that you were a leftie as a kid" Luis exclaimed while dodging another pillow and Reina looked at him with a surprised expression "you still have it in you, don't you?"

"I was?" purple eyes widened with realization. Blurry memories that she thought were not true made sense now, since she was a kid, the trumpeter was able to perform different tasks with both hands.

"Well, yeah…" Luis rubbed the back of his neck, something he did when he was a bit nervous "I remember that you used to color with your left hand but after six months that I came back from a long tour, you were doing almost everything with your right hand"

Reina closed her eyes and some fuzzy memories came back. Fragments on how her mother forced her to use her right hand instead of her left and how she was hit when she tried to write her name with her left hand.

"I…" Reina hesitated because her memories were really unclear but that sensation of helplessness was still there and instinctively, her hands balled under the covers.

"Well, Kaya told me that one day you just started doing everything with your right hand, after that incident…" Luis frowned trying to remember more details about what happened but nothing came to mind but small pieces of information "…when you hurt your head, do you remember about that?"

"Um…" Reina frowned trying hard to remember "I was around five and I had finished my piano lessons. I was walking home by myself because mother was busy and some kids that hated me pushed me down a hill and I tripped" the young trumpeter touched a small scar she had on the right side of her forehead "That's how I got this, right daddy?"

"I remember getting home and seeing you on the entrance bleeding so I took you to the hospital and you got seven stitches" Luis sighed "I wasn't that scared in my entire life, not even when I had a car accident during that tour two years ago."

"Such a crybaby" the young trumpeter teased and her father hugged her "I know you think you are invincible but you are only human, Reina-chan"

"I know daddy" purple eyes closed and she hugged Luis back. Those were one of those moments when Reina felt safe and secure in her father's arms. They stayed like that for several seconds before Luis started tickling his now laughing daughter who struggled to get away from his grasp.

"Ok, ok I will stop so you can get ready" Luis lifted Reina's dark bangs and kissed her on the forehead, right on the now thin scar "see you downstairs in twenty minutes so we can have breakfast and enjoy the rest of the day together."

Luis had the day off from rehearsals so he decided on spending it with his only daughter having fun, that's why he woke her up, so they could sneak out before dragon Kaya noticed.

"Sure, daddy" Reina smiled but, when the man disappeared and closed the door behind him, the trumpeter's expression darkened and slender fingers caressed the almost forgotten scar.

How could I explain daddy that it was mother and not some kids who did this to me?

What really happened that time, was that young Reina was coloring a picture using her left hand. Her mother just entered the house after a bad day at work and saw her drawing with the forbidden hand, as Kaya called it and slapped her young daughter several times and young Reina started to run to get away from her angry mother but she wasn't fast enough so, when Kaya grabbed her, the young trumpeter tripped and hit her head against the edge of her room's door causing her a deep cut.

Kaya actually got scared because she knew that Luis was on his way home that day so she made up that fake story of Reina being attacked to cover her back and ordered her to sit on the entrance while she cleaned the blood now pooling on the floor.

That's where Luis found his daughter when he got back from his tour that late afternoon, more than ten years ago. Both parents took her to the hospital and the young trumpeter stuck to the story her mother made up to avoid being hurt by her, again.

I am so glad that she is very busy now and dad is home more frequently so these incidents are not happening that often anymore.

Although Reina knew that, as soon as her mother was stressed out due to work, she would be the target of Kaya's anger again. On the bright side, the physical aggressions were almost over but the verbal ones still remained and they hurt the most.

But now, Reina felt braver and was able to face her mother thanks to Kumiko, who gave her the strength she needed to become the best version of herself.

Grabbing the phone her father gave her, Reina made a quick call to her beloved before leaving the room to head towards the place Luis was waiting for her to have a day of father-daughter before her mother came and ruined their plans.


A/N: I don't condone any type of violence but I know about it so it's a source of inspiration. And about the two incidents, the one of the left hand and the scar are taken from author-san's life. I used to be a leftie but I was forced in school to be right-handed and I do have a scar on the right side of my forehead because I tripped and hit my head with our apartment's balcony rail. And no, my mom is lovely XD. Review?