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Chapter TWELEVE

Takai shook Akako once more before she suddenly screamed and pushed him back telling him to stop. He sat back beside her after he let her go.

Akako sat back and this time she wasn't crying while she started to straighten out her clothes knowing everyone was watching her. But her eyes were puffy and red from earlier. She took her time not knowing how to start telling them what they all wanted to know.

Akako glanced up and over seeing Mamoru and really looked at him.

"Why was my rabbit with you young man?" Akako asked sounding like she usually did all proper like.

"We meet one night on the street. She was hungry and living in an empty lot… I brought her home." Mamoru answered.

"It doesn't matter why Usagi is with Mamoru what is important is why she was homeless and not with you!" Motoki suddenly said taking a step forward and only stopping after Kaemon placed a hand on his arm.

Akako looked off into space and said, "She shouldn't have been on the streets. I left her with a nice wonderful couple who took care of her and some other children….. Mr. and Mrs. Block. Yes the Blocks"

"You mean the couple who kept Usa home to do the cleaning and locked her up sometimes when she would start to ask too many questions. The same couple that didn't send her to school?" Mamoru asked.

Akako and the others looked at him and Mamoru only stared at Akako.

"'The same couple, who Usa was always taken back to after she would run away and the cops would find her and take her to them each time? The same couple, whose son would bully her, the same ones who made Usa leave when she was fourteen saying how she was able to take care of herself?" Mamoru then said making the others wonder how much Mamoru really knew about Usagi.

Mamoru stood there looking at Usagi's mother remembering all that Usagi had told him when he was able to get her to talk that past week. He had figured most of it out at the time finally just now letting the pieces fall into place.

He wondered if Usagi had started to dress like a boy after the son bothered her. He figured she must have as he remembered that time she only told that the boy would bully her and while she had talked she was hugging herself. And at that time Mamoru had thought she had been picked on because of her height and small frame. He suddenly wondered if the boy had tried to do something sexual with Usagi.

The others looked back to Akako who was sitting there shaking her head in denial while whispering no a few times.

"No they were nice and promised me that they would take very good care of her. They promised that she was in good hands." Akako said more to herself.

"But why did you leave the child with them? Why didn't you tell me you kept the baby after telling me you had an abortion?" Takai cried out.

Akako looked at him and said with her voice sounding softer, "I was too far along to have the abortion done and when I told you I was pregnant you freaked out and ran away so I lied to you. I couldn't let Kenji know about us and that I was pregnant. He would have known it wasn't his since he was gone during that time in Russia."

Takai glanced over to Kenji who was looking like he was thinking.

"He knew about us. He wasn't stupid." Takai said before turning away.

Kenji slowly started to nod his head in agreement but he didn't look at anyone.

"Usagi knew about you so you must have seen her at times." Kaemon said trying to grasp that a mother would leave her child with strangers.

"You…..You had Usagi with you one time, I remember seeing you with a child….Yes it was her - Usagi. You told us that you were watching your sister's child but you called her Buns!" Chikako said remembering the past while Kaemon started nodding in agreement while he remembered that summer day also.

He glanced to Rei and noticed that she was remembering that time also. She had been thirteen with Mamoru still twelve. That would have made Usagi six that day that Akako had shown up to visit with Chikako. But Akako had called Usagi Buns the whole day so they all thought that was her name.

Rei could remember that day since it was the first time she could remember Mamoru ever letting any girl who wasn't family near him. Then after Usagi had left, Mamoru didn't let any other girl close to him until high school and Sayaka.

Usagi had given Mamoru red roses all that she could find and pick, running over to him each time and handing them to him. Mamoru had at first acted like Usagi was bothering him but he would always accept the roses and he even let Usagi hang with him that afternoon when before he never let any girl except Rei near him. He even gave Usagi a kiss on the check before she and her mother left for the day. After that when they saw Akako again she just told how Usagi was with her family then wouldn't say anything else.

Rei looked to Mamoru noticing him looking off into space wondering if he was remembering that day also.

Akako looked toward Kaemon then Chikako and smiled.

"Yes. I kept Usagi with me for a few years at first since Kenji was gone over seas so much conducting business. I wanted to see what it was like having a child and I had been alone since Kenji and even Takai was gone at that time. I hired a nanny to watch Usagi in an apartment not far from our place since Kenji did show up now and then. I saw Usagi every weekend and whenever Kenji left I was over there staying with her full time. I used the money I got from Kenji to pay for everything. ….And no Takai, I wasn't seeing other men like you think, I was with Usagi the whole time." Akako said looking around at the others looking to Takai last before she looked down.

"But when she turned seven soon after that one day, Kenji came home for good and wanted me to travel with him saying how it would be good for the business for him to be seen as a family man who had his wife by his side. The nanny had gotten sick and wasn't able to look after Usagi anymore. That same day I meet Mrs. Block who I left Usagi with. I signed papers giving whoever had Usagi custody of her. I paid Mrs. Block handsomely so Usagi would never be without …..I … I didn't know she would hurt Usagi and make her leave her home."

"Did you ever go and check on Usagi?" Motoki asked.

"No. I was busy and over time I forgot since I told the woman to call me if Usagi needed anything or if she got sick. She… never called so I thought Usagi was doing just fine." Akako answered looking around at the others.

"But why does Usagi think you died?" Kaemon asked.

Akako looked down now with tears and said, "I told them to tell her that since Mrs. Block did call one time and said that Usagi wouldn't stop asking when I was coming home. It was during a large dinner party and I got upset and told her to tell Usagi I died. I guess….. she did."

The room got silent for awhile everyone got lost in their own minds.

Mamoru looked over to his left after he felt Usagi touching his arm. He noticed the pain expression on her face before he turned to her and picked her up and carried her back to his bed and sat her down before giving her the two pills.

Usagi sat there and just watched him while Mamoru sat down beside her and held her hand while they listened to the others in the living room. Mamoru wondered if Usagi had heard everyone and after he looked in her eyes he realized she had.

"When is Usagi's birthday?" Kenji asked breaking the silence.

"It is the last day of June. She is seventeen now. She had her birthday a few months ago." Akako answered.

"Was she early or late?" Kenji asked looking to his second wife while wishing his first wife Ikuko had never died during labor.

"She was a week late." Akako said after she thought about it.

She and the others looked over at Kenji when he suddenly grabbed his chest and moaned as he sat down in the nearest chair. If anyone had been looking at Motoki they would have seen him take a step closer to the man.

"You got pregnant in October." Kenji said keeping his eyes closed tight

"Yeah I guess." Akako said after she had counted her fingers.

Kenji looked over to his brother who was standing there looking at him then Kenji looked to Akako and said, "You got pregnant before I left for Russia. Did you sleep with Takai any time that week before I left?"

Akako looked at Takai then to Kenji and nodded her head while saying, "Once."

Kenji looked to Takai then back to Akako and said, "We slept together the night before I left. You came to me drunk telling me you wanted some and I kept telling you no to leave…."

Akako interrupted him and said, "Don't try it Kenji Usagi isn't yours! You got that vasectomy done remember! I know I do! You always told me that you didn't want any children since Ikuko had died and if she couldn't give you any then you didn't want any kids from anyone else at all! I remember hearing that too many times!"

Akako turned her head away missing Takai eyes going wide while he and Kenji looked at each other.

"No…..Russia….You went to Russia to get the…." Takai tried to talk as it hit him that Kenji could be Usagi's father.

"Yes brother I went to Russia to get the vasectomy done since my doctor was there at the time." Kenji answered before looking to Akako who sat back in shock.

"I told you that night not to bother me Akako but you kept it up so I did you taking the chance that you might end up with a child figuring I would deal with it later if it happened. I then left that morning to meet my doctor. I waited a few months and since you didn't come and tell me you were pregnant I left again to do business." Kenji told her and the others.

He glanced over at Motoki who was looking just as shocked as the others.

Mamoru watched while Usagi suddenly moved her hands and covered her ears while she shook her head back and forth.

Mamoru stood up and started walking to the door.

"Damn I hope you are the father. I don't want a daughter." Takai said looking to Kenji who was looking to the ground.

Before anyone answered Takai they heard Mamoru's bedroom door close and the lock turn.

After the door was closed Motoki was the one to go off on Takai who only sat there not listening to him. Takai stood up and started to walk to the front door only to be stopped by Motoki grabbing his arm.

"You will not leave yet!" Motoki said glaring towards Takai after he turned him toward him.

"I don't need to be here anymore. I saw the child who is female. AND I DON'T WANT A DAUGHTER! Kenji can play Daddy!" Takai yelled out while pulling his arm free.

"We will both need to be tested it's only fair to Usagi to know the truth. Kaemon, I will contact you when we will do it. Will you please see that your son knows so he can bring….Usagi?" Kenji asked after he stood up and walked over to Kaemon who nodded his head.

Kenji looked to Takai and said, "You will do it also so we will know for sure. I can tell that one of us is the father since she looks like us some also. But we will both test to know for sure."

Takai glanced to Akako knowing that Kenji also knew she had other lovers in the past.

Takai agreed and left the apartment while Kenji turned to Motoki and nodded his head ever so slightly with Motoki blinking his eyes once slowly. Only they understood the secret between them.

Kenji glanced to Akako who was standing up and walking toward Mamoru's bedroom door but stopped when Rei stood in her way.

"Where do you think you are going?" Rei asked standing her ground.

"I'm going to see my daughter." Akako answered expecting Rei to move.

"No."

"Now see here young lady…" Akako started to say but got silent after Chikako joined Rei.

"Right now is not the best time for you to see Usagi. Think about it Akako, Usagi has believed you were dead since she was eight you saw what happened after she spotted you. Don't go to her right now." Chikako said.

"She is my daughter and I'll see her if I want!" Akako said as she started to get upset that she wasn't getting her way.

"I'm taking her home with me!"

"No!" Rei, Chikako and even Motoki said at the same time. He had gone and was standing beside the two.

"Akako, Usagi will stay here for now until we figure out who her father is. It is best that she stay put where she is. No more being sent away. If she knew Motoki a little better she could stay with him but she doesn't know him yet. No it's best for Usagi to stay put." Kenji said glancing to his son who only he and Motoki knew Kenji was his father. Motoki only nodded his head once agreeing.

Kenji glanced to Kaemon and said, "I trust she will be safe with Mamoru."

Kaemon only nodded his head before watching Kenji as he walked to the front door and left out.

Akako's eyes widened before she glared at the three standing in front of her. She then turned and took off following Kenji praying he wasn't going to leave her behind.

Kaemon sighed as he watched Jadeite closing the door after Akako leave. Jadeite looked at him before walking back to the living room.

"Motoki, why don't you go also? Nothing will be done right now about Usagi and from the way she was looking she needs to rest." Chikako said after she touched Motoki's arm.

Motoki looked at her then nodded his head.

"I'm going to find Takai and have a private talk with him. Please tell Mamoru to call me later." Motoki said before he left the apartment knowing he was really going to find his father first then over to see Takai.

After Motoki was gone Rei walked over and knocked on the bedroom door a few times telling Mamoru to open.

Mamoru took a deep breath wishing his family would leave also as he glanced over toward Usagi who was now lying back down.

"Go away Rei." Mamoru said through the door.

"Mamoru come out it's only me, mom, dad and Jade."

"Go away!"

"Mamoru…." Rei looked to her father after the man touched her hand.

Rei stepped back while she smiled knowing her father would get Mamoru to open the door.

"Son open up."

"No."

"Son come out."

"I don't wanna!"

"Son…." Kaemon got silent after Chikako touched his arm.

"Honey please come out." Chikako said taking Kaemon's spot.

"No Mother I want everyone to leave. My head is killing me and I'm hungry. It's already Sunday and I haven't worked on some things for work and I know I'm not going to be ready…. Not with Rei still here because I will go off on her if I see her again."

Chikako and Kaemon both looked to Rei who was just as surprised as them as to why Mamoru would be upset with him. She wondered what she had done.

"Why are you mad at me?" Rei called out.

Mamoru opened the door and stuck his head out and said, "Because Rei, you took advantage of Usagi. You and your little posse got her drunk and undressed her and put her in my bed almost naked! WHY? To find out the truth about her sex? Did it ever occur to you to just ask Usagi? No I'm sure it didn't. You were listening to Minako weren't you! You know she doesn't have a brain half the time! You all didn't need to get Usagi drunk! You better warn your three partners in crime that I'm after blood and I will get it after I'm feeling better. Now if I was you I would leave!"

Mamoru closed the door once again and locked it hearing his mother ask about Rei giving Usagi alcohol and getting her drunk. He leaned against the door listening to Rei try to use excuses. He smiled when he heard his father tell Rei that she needed to leave while Chikako told Rei they would be having a serious talk later. His smile grew while he listened to Rei complaining until the front door was closed.

Mamoru finally opened the door when his father knocked again and said that Rei had left. Mamoru walked out leaving the door opened. He noticed his mother was in the kitchen starting to cook and his father was standing beside a chair smiling at him.

Mamoru looked around making sure Rei was gone before he sat down and leaned back in his favorite chair.

"Some morning huh?" Kaemon asked while he sat down across from Mamoru.

Mamoru only nodded his head wishing in a way his parents would leave but he wasn't going to be mean.

"Don't worry about work right now. I'm giving you the week off. Longer if you need it."

Mamoru didn't answer but he did nod his head twice before he sighed being thankful.

"Where were you and Usagi at that she didn't have any shoes on?"

Mamoru looked to his father then into his room knowing that Usagi had gone back to sleep.

"Just out."

"Just out…Did you find out about Usagi this morning?" Kaemon asked remembering when Mamoru had said that part about Usagi being in his bed. He wondered if Mamoru had said something to Usagi making her run out only to have Mamoru follow.

"Yes I found out." Mamoru answered laying his head back again.

Kaemon looked to Chikako who was bringing in some food for Mamoru who looked at her then said thank you before he started eating. He watched while Chikako walked to his room and over to his bed.

"Why did you ask about those papers of Usa's?" Mamoru asked between bites looking to his father.

Kaemon smiled and stood up and walked over to the stairs. Mamoru watched his father walking up then back down a few seconds later with Usagi's papers in his hands.

Kaemon sat back down and handed a paper to Mamoru the whole time smiling.

"That paper gives whoever has it and Usagi in their possession…. guardianship of Usagi until she is of age."

Mamoru's eyes flew open as he looked to his father who was smiling and nodding his head up and down slowly.

Mamoru looked to the paper and started reading it hearing his father say,

"Congratulations! It's a girl."

To be continued.