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Chapter Six - Brian

Kyoko smiled softly as she woke up to find her husband still sleeping beside her. She placed a hand on his chest and closed her eyes as she waited for each exhale and each inhale. He was alive. He was alive with a couple of characters who had entered his everyday life, but he was alive.

"Hey," Kyoko grinned as she sat next to Kuon and then allowed her hand to run through the blond strands, "Are you awake, my prince?"

Kuon turned and looked at Kyoko with wide eyes and a sense of not knowing her in them.

"I'm…I'm sorry," he said nervously, "Who are you? Where am I? Why am I…here?" he asked as Kyoko hesitated. She wasn't sure what to say. Hopefully this wasn't Sean's twin brother, she could only deal with one rude and horrible personality inside of Kuon. She looked away trying to find the correct answer before seeing the blond start shaking as if having a panic attack.

"This isn't right. This isn't right. The subtitles aren't on," he said as Kyoko raised an eyebrow.

"I can tell you what's going on here, but first you have to tell me who you are," she said. If this was another version of Kuon then she would be able to deal with it better, even the younger Kuon was trusting of her now – although he preferred to sleep in the guest room where Sean was always banished to – but if it was somebody else then that would create further problems.

"Brian," the blond answered, "I'm Brian. I'm…they call me the chicken."

"They?" Kyoko asked before seeing Brian hide his head down under the blanket, "Who are they?"

"Nobody. It's nobody. I didn't say anything," he replied as Kyoko looked up. So if this guy was an emotion he definitely would be fear but at least if he was scared he wasn't going to want to attack, Kyoko felt that even from a wheelchair Kuon could take her but she hoped something like that would never happen.

"Are you saying they call you a chicken because you're actually a chicken?" Kyoko asked as Brian looked at her with wide eyes.

"Holy heck! Do I look like a chicken to you? Are you high or delusional or just…I'm not, please don't tell me I'm here where people actually think I'm a chicken," Brian held up his arms, "or maybe I'm crazy. These look like arms to me but they could be wings. Oh my god! Am I a…"

"You don't look like a chicken to me," Kyoko said as she went to the notebook that she kept wherever she was in case one of Kuon's alters came out and she could quickly note down the information. "No, you look very human. I was making a joke."

"Oh, okay…yeah, that was dumb, I'm dumb," Brian said as Kyoko smiled at him.

"I wouldn't say you're dumb. It's fair that you're confused and I'm wondering if the next few sentences I say will ease that confusion or help you. Do you know that you are an alternate personality?" she asked as Brian's expression turned even further panic stricken. He stared at Kyoko horrified.

"I'm the alternate personality of a chicken?" he asked, "Is this an alternate universe that has such things like chickens running around inside of it?"

Kyoko shook her head and smiled guiltily, "Maybe I shouldn't have told you that," she said regretfully, "I just mean that you are another personality of my husband's. He was in an accident about a month and a half ago and his head was hit or something, I'm not sure if it was after he jumped out of the plane or during the time it was coming down."

"This really isn't a ploy to get me to sleep with you is it?" Brian asked, "I swear, if you want me to sleep with you, I'll…I'll do it, yeah it's okay, I don't remember anyone significant to get back to. I kind of remember my mother but it's okay, I'm sure my mother will give me permission to sleep with you."

Kyoko paused hesitantly, she noticed the speed at which Brian was talking and how his eyes kept darting around. Somehow she felt more surprised that this nervous and intimidated man was inside of her husband over Sean who was a jerk in it for his own gain.

"I'm not going to force you to sleep with me, that isn't what we do," Kyoko got up from the bed and went over to get the wedding photo. She handed it to him with a smile as he looked it over, he let a finger slip over the front and then his body turned rigid before looking limp and suddenly he was looking at her with very knowing emerald eyes.

"Did someone else come out there for a while?" he asked.

"Yes, a very nervous guy named Brian," Kyoko commented as she wrapped her arms around Kuon. "I think that Brian might be a decent person but he isn't Kuon Hizuri," she smiled.

"Did he think he was a chicken?" Kuon sighed before looking up in a guilty and yet very adorable manner, "Thanks. I wish we could say let's find out what he wants and clear up the unfinished business, but I think that's referring to ghosts and not multiple personalities."

Kyoko grinned. "That was my take on it as well."

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Kuon had been getting a little better day by day but now it was January and this would be Kuu's last day at the hospital for a couple of weeks. Nobody hated that fact more than Kuu himself. He would be leaving this place where he wasn't sure if his son would live or die, to work. Hopefully he could come back to an awake Kuon instead of a corpse.

"You know, Father" Kyoko pointed to where the food was in front of them. "Kuon would hate trying to eat that food," she whispered to where a man was carrying an unappetizing bowl of soup. "I'm sorry, that was probably very rude, I'm sorry to whoever worked on that," she said with a weak laugh. It was obvious that she hadn't been sleeping very well.

"My son barely eats anything so you're right. I'm going to have to give you some recommendations and you'll have to make sure that he eats them," Kuu said with a smile.

"You know, a number of years back, Kuon…well Ren videoed himself eating food for me. I think he was trying to do it as a joke but he also knew how much I prided myself in my work. Since I wouldn't be with him, I thought he was just going to show them to me later but then he found me after my mother rejected me on TV and told me he came all the way there for the food videos. I didn't want to admit to it, but he had come to make sure that I was alright. He would have done anythi-"

"He still will do anything," Kuu cut her off and he sighed. "Kyoko, he's not gone yet which means that he's fighting and whether or not you think that the strength people talk about is physical only or whether it's more of emotional, psychological, spiritual, and physical strength he's fighting with, he wouldn't be this strong without you." Kuu smiled to her as Kyoko felt the tears well up in her eyes. "You are the reason my son is fighting and has the ability to fight, thank you."

Kyoko looked down, "No, thank you, for raising a boy who makes me feel so safe and so loved. There would not be a Kuon if there wasn't a Kuu."

Kuu chuckled, "Well, I vote on going out of the hospital and finding some food that would be good to get for Kuon when he wakes up even if that day isn't today," Kuu smiled as Kyoko nodded, drying her tears. She started walking out of the hospital whilst discussing different nearby restaurants with her father-in-law.

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"So, I have to do something at LME but I asked for someone to come over to keep you company," Kyoko smiled as she placed a gentle kiss on Kuon's forehead. She had made him chicken omelet whilst Kuon had woken up, showered, and dressed in some comfortable clothes despite needing Kyoko to help him.

Kuon turned to her, "Shouldn't I go with you?" he asked and Kyoko smiled.

"You're going tomorrow to talk to Yashiro, this isn't really about you either, not entirely. I need to talk to the president about a few things," Kyoko shifted uncomfortably. She didn't want to tell him that she was going to be discussing how to hide these personalities in a press conference. She didn't even know if that was possible, but showing how sick he was would definitely bring him down a bit in popularity.

Kyoko heard a knock on the door and she grinned to Kuon, "Don't worry, I think you'll like this visitor," she grinned before turning. What she didn't know was how she had just left Kuon circling in self doubt until the point he got dizzy.

Kyoko grinned as she opened the door and without warning threw her arms around her father. "Hey, Kuu-sama," she teased him before kissing him on the cheek. She wasn't sure why he wasn't hugging her back until she saw the bags full of treats. Knowing that Kuon wanted to eat more and especially eat more unhealthy food had given Kuu something to do. Food, even food that a person should only eat once in a while, was something he had expertise in.

He really just wanted to do something for Kuon and if feeding him was the best he got, he would take it.

"I'll take those from you, Father" she said as she carried the bags to the kitchen. "You bought a lot," she smiled to him as Kuu laughed.

"When it comes to food sometimes I don't know when to stop," he said as Kyoko laughed. "I'm hoping that my metabolism is genetic."

"I hope so too," Kyoko nodded, "but Father, even if Kuon gains so much weight that we have to get him a special wheelchair because he needs something wider, I'm still going to love him and want to be married to him."

Kyoko grinned as she saw Kuu's thumbs up and blushed a little. "I know that you and Julie will accept him too. I can't imagine either of you casting him away because of something like that."

"Kyoko, Julie and I love you and Kuon unconditionally. No matter what happens to Kuon, he will always be my little boy, my son. It hurt so much for me not to have him in my life for so many years, I'm not running off on him because of something like weight gain or multiple personalities."

Kyoko smiled before hearing Kuon's wheelchair, she turned to face him with a grin but found that bitterness in his eyes. She tensed a little and then looked at Kuu. "I don't think the two of you have been introduced," she said as Kuu stood there, quickly registering that this was an alter.

"No, I haven't met the worst father of the last twenty-seven years and I don't think that I want to," he coughed as he looked at Kuu with contempt. "After all, he's not even able to help his own son, what the heck does he think he can help me for." He looked up at Kuu who had withdrawn in on himself a little. "My name is Sean and I do not need someone pretending to be my father. It's one role that he couldn't act out."

Kuu nodded as Kyoko looked at her father, a landmine had definitely been stepped on at this point. It was something that the real Kuon would never joke about. Julie and Kuu had felt such heartache and regret at sending their only child away and Sean was using that for his advantage.

"Missing all these events must suck," Sean said unkindly, "but then it's what you deserved for your poor deliverance of a father."

"Kuu, he's just being unkind on purpose, Sean is like that, he's not Kuon," Kyoko tried to remind her father as she saw him turn pale and his eyes show more pain. "Kuon loves you, you're his hero."

"You're…You're right," Kuu nodded as Kyoko turned to Sean.

Maybe she shouldn't leave him and Kuu alone at this point.

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