Her Chuujitsu Chapter 4: Bijou, Boss and Hamtaro, a hamtaro fanfic

Bijou

Hamtaro couldn't speak. "Bijou, how did you…? Did anyone tell you? Your mother?"

"No one told me, father," she declared proudly.

Hamtaro frowned, "Don't lie to me. Who told you?"

She was still smiling. "I figured it out. Mother said it was because I was so smart."

"You are smart," Hamtaro agreed, feeling a sense of relief for some strange reason. "But I don't understand how you figured it out."

"You have blue eyes…mine are brown. Mother doesn't have brown eyes either."

"That doesn't mean you aren't my daughter."

"But I asked mother!" she paused, feeling slightly scared. "…when I realized nothing between us matched. My eyes, my hair…mines aren't like mother's and they aren't like yours. Are you mad, father?"

"Of course not." Hamtaro felt a smile tug on his lips, but that smile immediately left. "Did she tell you anything about your real father?"

"I tried, but she started crying…" The little girl trailed off. "She didn't want to tell me about you, I could tell that much. I asked her a lot, and then she finally told me during your anniversary party. Her eyes were watery…but she was happy. It was very strange. Father, do you anything about my real father?"

Hamtaro remained silent but continued staring at the girl.

"It doesn't matter if you don't, father." however, the girl's expression showed otherwise.

"I'm sorry I didn't--we didn't--…-were you upset?" Hamtaro asked tentatively.

The girl pondered for a moment, staring at her feet. "I…" she seemed unsure, and suddenly, "no…" She gathered her thoughts, "When she told me why you married her and how you took care of me when I came, treated me as your own…I couldn't feel sad. And then she told me how you named me after 'Bijou'! She told me what a precious name it was to you. She told me to respect what you did because you did it all for me: 'Hamtaro-san gave us so much! I'm forever within his debt!'"

Hamtaro kissed his daughter's chestnut brown hair. "Let's go back to the clubhouse, sweetie."

"Please, Hamtaro-san. I cannot ask so much of you."

"…"

"You needn't help me. I can make do," She lied. Hamtaro knew very well she wasn't telling the truth.

"The baby will need a father."

The woman paused… She spoke only two words, "Bijou-chan."

Hamtaro looked up, surprised. Why did she bring her up?

"It's lovely, ne?" Hamtaro asked, staring straight at the woman. "If it's a girl, I think that will make a fine name."

"You'll never stop waiting for her, will you?"

"Nope. I don't see how I can."

The girl came closer to Hamtaro. "Well then, I guess I'll wait with you."

Bijou pressed herself against the cherry blossom. She placed her hand over her heart, feeling that its beating was becoming slowly yet surely more steady.

Her heart ached so badly when she heard the little girl's name, and the reasoning behind the name, that she feared she could not control it from jumping out of her chest.

"Are you Bijou?"

"There's another Bijou," she told herself. "It's not a terribly uncommon name."

Stop lying.

"I was named after the only woman my father ever loved!"

She had to bite her lip to keep from crying her unshed tears.

No! She thought, panicking. I tried for five years…five years. She's so small…I can't let her words ruin what I worked so hard for. I forgot him. He's nothing more than a memory to me. He is! There's nothing in my heart for him anymore. The moment I slammed the car door in his face, I gave up.

Haha. You'll continue with the lying, then?

Liar.

She shut her eyes, but her mind taunted her, Liar. Liar. Liar-

No! It's true!

"Where are you going?"

Liar. Liar. Liar.

Stop it! I'm not lying! STOP IT!

"Bijou-chan, there's something I have to tell you."

She opened her eyes. "There must be someone else with that name." I can't be the only girl entitled to such a name?

In Japan? A girl with a French name?

You're so stupid, Bijou.

"The heart cannot choose. The heart cannot choose. The heart cannot choose."

No…the heart has nothing to do with choosing. I chose. I picked him. I loved him. The only thing the heart did was break when his love was unreciprocated.

It broke you.

It was devastating.

She was so tired from the plane ride back.

Why did I come back?

You couldn't stay away.

Every second I spent away from him was a blessing-

Every second was a punishment for your heart!

The breezes were so soft. Her eyes couldn't help but feel relaxed in the setting. She did always love the smell of Japan.

"Why are you leaving?"

"...stop…asking…"

"Just let me tell you!"

"I…don't…want to know. Stop…please, stop." Her eyes gave in slowly to the power of sleep.

"Bijou-chan! What is all of this!"

"I want to sleep…" She could feel her eyelids get heavier.

"You have to hear what I have to say!"

"…stop," she said, already asleep.

"Please, Bijou-chan, there's something you should know!"

"No…let me sleep…I…sleep…"

"Bijou-chan, there's something I have to tell you."

"…no…"

Let me sleep. Let me dream. Her body fell over.

"Where are you going?"

To sleep.

"I…don't…forget…" she mumbled. "Don't forget him."

I never did.

"This is the girl you love!"

No, I'm not.

"Are you Bijou?"

"Yes!" Her sleeping body exclaimed.

"The only woman my father ever loved!"

"Bijou-chan…"

I never forgot you, Hamtaro-san.

Never.

As she slept, a single tear fell from her eye.

"Where is everybody?" Boss asked, noticing the abandoned clubhouse.

"Where should they be, Boss-kun?" Sandy, the only other occupant in the room responded. She got up from the table she was sitting at and approached Boss.

"Boss-kun, is everything alright?" Her eyebrows were raised.

Boss smiled a smile he hadn't smiled in five years. "Yes! I mean, no. Well, sorta…Bijou."

"Is everything alright with Little Bijou?" Sandy asked apprehensively. She placed a hand on her mouth. "Please, Boss-kun, I can't stand the suspense."

Boss shook his head. "Not Little Bijou."

Sandy gasped. "No…you're joking!"

Boss shook his head again. "She's back!"

"Where is she!" It wasn't a question; it was more like an angry declaration of Bijou's lack of presence.

Boss shrugged. "She ran off when Little Bijou claimed Hamtaro loved her-"

"Hamtaro-san saw her?" Her eyes went wide. Boss nodded sadly. Sandy clenched her fists. "She caused him so much pain and…" She looked up at Boss, "she did the same to you!"

"I told you her reasons! You should've seen her the night before she left."

"Her feelings were nothing compared to what all of us went through," Sandy reminded. "I thought there was no hope for you and Hamtaro-san." The Ham-Human started pacing around the room.

It was while she was pacing that the door to the clubhouse opened, revealing Hamtaro and Little Bijou. Hamtaro looked at Boss, asking him, without using words, if he had told Sandy. Boss nodded.

"I'll go track down the rest of the Ham-Humans to tell them the news," Boss said, brushing past Hamtaro and Little Bijou on his way out.

"Thanks, Boss-san," Hamtaro mumbled.

"No problem, Hamtaro."

Little Bijou entered the clubhouse and, after greeting Sandy, ran into a corner where her toys were kept and started to play with a small doll.

Hamtaro sat down at the table and ran a hand through his orange and white hair. Sandy sat down beside him. Little Bijou noticed that the two adults were acting very strangely. She went over to her father.

"Father, is everything alright?"

Hamtaro looked around the room and noticed that Sandy was the only other adult Ham-Human in it. He, going against his better judgment, shook his head. This wasn't the person he needed to talk to at the moment. "I have to tell your mother something."

Little Bijou nodded her head and went back to playing with her toys. Sandy, making sure the little girl wasn't paying attention to them, whispered, "She's back?"

Hamtaro, still frustrated, turned and looked at Sandy.

"It seems your daughter finally met her namesake."

AN: Thanks for making this story so much fun to write! I appreciate all the support I receive from you guys!

I'm actually adding this author's note to ask whom do you, the readers, believe the next chapter should revolve around? I could continue with the pattern and go Bijou, Boss and Hamtaro, or I could do someone completely new? If you guys tell me who you want, I'll do their chapter.

The story's only just begun.