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Chapter Thirteen: Autumn Blues.

Aito was up bright and early the next morning. He went straight into Hikaru's room to wake her up. There was much they could be doing instead of sleeping. The sun was barely rising, as he entered Hikaru's room to find her not there. Anger rose up inside of him. He went to his son's room to find both of his children cuddled up together. He snatched Hikaru up by her arm, not giving her anytime to wake up and started yelling at her.

"You are not supposed to be in your brothers bed." Aito hollered. Tears weld up in Hikaru's eyes, she couldn't figure out if she was in a nightmare or not.

Kaimu woke up from all the yelling and saw that his dad was holding onto Hikaru's arm pretty tightly. He slowly moved up to the sitting position, "Leave her alone." he said, trying to sound brave, but instead sounded more coward like.

Michiru came into the bedroom, dressed in her pajama's. "It's six thirty in the morning what are you doing?"

"The kids need to get up. And I caught Hikaru in Kaimu's bed."

"So." Michiru said, shrugging her shoulders.

"She's five-years-old she needs to sleep in her own bedroom," Aito lectured.

"Why are you acting like this?" Michiru asked. "Can't you just be kind to them? They don't deserve any of this."

"I don't deserve any of this either." Aito snapped. "I was perfectly content living by myself without any daily worries. I was for once free. Free from the tiring job of being a father. Free from being with you."

"You want to make it final? Let's get a divorce." Michiru said, sternly. "I'm tired of you screaming at the children. You can treat me like dirt all you want, but I will not stand here and watch you do this to the children."

Aito walked over to his wife, gripping his hands tightly on her shoulders. He pushed her back to their bedroom and shut the door. Pushing her onto the bed, he started to undress her, "I think you owe me something."

"I owe you nothing, Aito." Michiru said, kicking Aito off of her. Aito brought his knee up to her stomach, and Michiru froze in an instant terror. Aito pushed her back down and managed to get her clothes off.

Michiru screamed, "I'm pregnant!"

Aito slapped her and stood up, "You're what?"

"Pregnant you bastard."

"What the heck is wrong with you? I leave for a few days and you go off and get pregnant? You slut!" Aito begins packing his things. "Don't expect me to come back and most certainly don't expect child support."

"It's your child."

"Go to Hell." Aito said, picking up a suitcase, he begin pilling his laundry into a suitcase. Michiru got up and left, after getting redressed. Aito took a picture off his nightstand of his two children, he whispered, "I'm sorry." and kissed both of them. He placed the picture into his bag and zipped it up.

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It had been approximately three weeks, before Michiru decided to get out of her house. Aito had vanished, and this time Michiru wasn't going to make any attempts to call him back. She had talked to her children about the divorce, and they were both okay with having their dad out of their lives.

Michiru was just about to enter Hikaru's room when she heard the two of them talking. There was a crack wide enough for her to peek in to see what they were doing. Hikaru was brushing her dolls hair, and Kaimu, by the looks of it was building a castle.

"Mommy's sad." Kaimu said, placing a green block on top of a blue one. "I think she's sad because daddy has to leave."

"I shoulda been a better kid." Hikaru replied sadly. Kaimu stood up, knocking over half of his castle, ignoring it he walked over to Hikaru's bed and climbed up on it. He put his arm around her shoulder and rested his head on her shoulder.

"Yous the bestest kid. And the bestest sister."

Hikaru smiled and kissed her brother on his cheek, "And you're the bestest little brother."

Michiru breathed in, her chest rising, she was half relieved that their conversation had ended well, but was still concerned. She breathed out. Knocking on Hikaru's door and entering it the same time. "Would you guys like to go out for a little while?"

Kaimu and Hikaru nodded. Kaimu seemed to realize that his castle had fallen over, he looked up at his mother with sad, puppy-dog-eyes, "Mommy, can we buy some more blocks? And can you help me build my castle biggerer?"

"Of course," Michiru said, taking her son's hand and leading him into his bedroom to help him get changed into some clothes. Hikaru helped herself to her dresser. She pulled out a pair of brown shorts, and a pink shirt to go with it. She pulled her shirt over her head, and then wiggled into her shorts. She buttoned and zipped them. Michiru came back in and attempted to help her, but she protested saying she could do it by herself. Michiru and Kaimu sat on her bed and waited for her to finish getting ready. She put on her brown sandals, combed out her hair and then placed her pink-polka-dotted hat over her blue hair. She went into her closet, throwing a few things out to get to her jacket. It was a light weight jacked, and went with the outfit well. At last, she was ready to go as she grabbed the sock puppet off her dresser and placed it on her hand. Michiru didn't ask any questions, she didn't understand why she liked a sock that much.

As soon as Michiru opened the door, the fresh autumn air hit her nose. She breathed it in; taking her back to the times when it was just her, Haruka, Setsuna, and little Hotaru. Sometimes she wished it could still be like that, but somehow have the same small children she had now. Michiru felt guilt hit her stomach; she hadn't told the kids yet.

"Hikaru and Kaimu, mommy has something very important to tell you." She said, stopping them before they continued on with their walk. Hikaru and Kaimu's attention went straight to their mother. "I'm going to have another baby."

"Why?" Kaimu asked, confused.

"Well…" Michiru didn't know how to answer this question. She didn't want to tell him it was an accident because then that'd make him think he was an accident. She couldn't tell him she wanted another baby because that wasn't the truth. She half-hoped that he would be accepting to this. She glanced over at Hikaru, seeing that she had lost interests in this topic. She was chasing after a butterfly.

"Because it just happened. I can't really explain why." Michiru concluded.

"Soo…this means I'm going to have to move out?" Kaimu asked.

Michiru gave her son a funny look, "No. We'll just have to make more room."

"Oh." Kaimu responded and stepped of the stairs. Michiru followed him, taking Hikaru's hand, the three of them walked down the sidewalk. "Is the baby a boy?"

Michiru blinked, "I don't know."

"Why not?"

"I haven't went to the doctors yet…"

Hikaru looked up at her mother, "Why do we need another boy? We already have one."

Michiru stared down at her daughter in disbelief; she hadn't heard a word about the new baby. She had only made herself seem interested. "I'm having another baby, Hikaru."

"Oh. Why would you do that?" Hikaru asked.

Michiru rolled her eyes and explained again, "It just happened, there is no explanation."

"Okay." Hikaru said, jumping off the sidewalk and back on. Michiru yanked her up by her arm.

"Please don't do that. Cars tend to have a habit to speed through here." Michiru reminded her.

"Sorry mommy."

She was trying to contain herself from jumping off the sidewalk again. Michiru decided she needed to act fast before Hikaru got herself hurt. She was becoming extremely antsy.

"Mommy I'm hungry." Kaimu begin to whine.

"Okay." Michiru replied, thinking about where they could eat. She didn't want to go to Makoto's kitchen, she loved her friend dearly, but she needed something different and so did the kids. A grin appeared on her face when she thought of the perfect place. It was a little bit further in town, but it was the perfect place for children. They served pizza, and had tubes going all over the place for the children to play in. They had a games, and plenty to do.

Michiru decided she didn't want to walk on feet all the way to Fina's Kid's Palace. Not to mention, Hikaru had a bad habit of getting distracted easily and Kaimu was already whiny. She stopped by Hotaru's house to see if maybe she wanted to take Ginny up to the Kids Palace.

She knocked on the door, quickly receiving a reply from Hotaru. She opened the door almost immediately, with baby Kaemon in her arms. He was about six months, considering he had arrived in March and it was now September, dawning on Kaimu's birthday, which was in October.

"I wanted to see if you'd like to come to Kids Palace with me?" Michiru asked, hoping she'd say yes. Hotaru nodded, seeming relieved to be asked to go out of the house.

"Let me gather up Kaemon's diaper bag."

The car ride their Michiru explained what was going on with her and the kids, Hotaru suggested maybe moving in, permanently, with either her or Haruka, at least. Hotaru had pointed out that eventually, unless she gets a job, that she'll lose her house. Michiru sighed, knowing that there was some truth in that. Michiru's old dreams, playing the violin or painting wasn't exactly something she could do right now. That creative spark just wasn't there.

Once they arrived at Fina's Kids Palace, the kids were lost in a maze of tubes. Every once in a while they'd come down to the table to grab a bite of the pizza. Kaimu rushed to the table, panting hard. He took his juice cup, sucking it dry.

"Mommy! Did you see me? Did you see me?" Kaimu asked, jumping with excitement.

Michiru nodded, although she hadn't a clue what she was supposed to be seeing. Kaimu grinned and ran off to go play. Michiru true smile appeared across her lips; she for once felt happy. Even if it was because her children were utterly happy being lost in a maze of tubes.

Authors Note: Kaimu should actually be three in this story, his birthday is October 4th. I didn't realize this when I started the story because I hadn't figured out everyone's birthday. Kaemon and Kira's birthday's are in March, approximately a week apart. The unborn baby that Michiru is carrying will be born in January at some time. Haruka's daughters birthdays are as followed; Morgan; May 13th. Hana; December 31st. I'll have updated profiles in my Profile in this up coming week.