AN: I do promise that I am attempting to update all my fics but I have stricter instructors in school this semester and because I work with lots of people who only work two or three days, I've been asked to do 30 hours at work so there's a lot stealing my time away. I hope to get my time in line so that I can start to update more fics for you guys so thanks for your patience 😊

Chapter Fifty Two – Realization

Kuu was trying his best not to glare or show any anger towards his daughter-in-law. He had the hope that she would snap out of it and consider what she was doing and go and see Kuon at the hospital. Kuon loved her. He had always considered that love, their marriage as special and he could see the pain each time it was him in the hospital room instead of Kyoko.

Kuu saw that man, that stupid singer, wearing a shirt and jeans that he knew belonged to his son and he took heavy breaths to calm himself down as he faced Kyoko. "What the hell are you doing?" he finally asked her and Kyoko paused. Not hearing a reply, Kuu raised his voice a little louder, "[What the hell are you doing?]" he asked her, changing it to Japanese as the anger appeared in his eyes.

"I'm…" Kyoko said awkwardly, "I'm sorry. I'm just at home and…"

"Well you know who isn't at home?" Kuu asked as he felt the pain in his heart dig in deeper. Why should he care how this woman would see him? His son was suffering and she was playing make believe with a man who was so pathetic that he didn't mind taking the place of somebody else.

"Fa—" Kyoko began before seeing that by the reaction in his eyes she should approach this another way, "Kuu-sama, what do you mean? Why are you insulting -"

"Do you love him?" Kuu asked and Kyoko paled, shivering a little as she wrapped an arm around herself. "Because everything is telling me that you love him."

"I love Kuon," Kyoko whispered and Kuu raised an eyebrow.

"I wasn't talking about Kuon," Kuu said before pointing at Sho, "That is not Kuon. I don't give a damn if your mind is so twisted that dressing him up in Kuon's clothes, letting him stay in Kuon's house, holding onto him as if he were Kuon makes you feel better. That is not Kuon and I am appalled by the way you're actually treating Kuon."

Kyoko felt the tears in her eyes, "He's not wearing Kuo-" she looked at Kuu and then turned around to see Sho actually wearing Kuon's clothes. She shivered, how had she not noticed this? Had she been so caught up in her own imagination that she hadn't paid attention to this very creepy fact. "[Sho,]" she said as she looked at him with the pieces of what she was doing starting to click together in her head, "[Why are you wearing Kuon's clothes?]" she asked and Sho looked at her.

"[You said that I could,]" he said and Kyoko blinked. Why would she say that? Why would she ever say that a person that Kuon greatly disliked could use his things, could even dress in his clothes. This was creepy. "[Please take them off and put on your own clothes,]" she said as Sho looked at her in shock.

"[You think that retard is co-]" Sho began but Kyoko felt the tears start to trickle down her cheeks and she slapped him as hard as she could. Sho stared at her again as if she were crazy. "[What the hell!?]" he yelled out and Kyoko looked at her hand.

"[Don't call him that. He's injured but he's not stupid. He's not…]" Kyoko took a step back as she put a hand over her cheek and felt the waves of guilt flow through her as she realized that she hadn't been present in mind over the past few days. She hadn't been able to accept what was happening so she had personally tried to replace him. She felt cold chills through her body, how long had it been since she had last seen her husband? Was he still waiting on her? Did he think she hated him because of his new disabilities.

"[So you actually are going to crawl back to that cripple? That loser? That braindead asshole?]" Sho said as Kyoko felt the pain start to create a rip in her own heart.

Kuu approached him with his own anger which Kyoko had to say looked like a copy of Ren's. He punched Sho in the face before throwing him onto the ground and kicking him in the groin putting Sho in a lot of pain as he was unable to get up.

"[Don't you DARE talk about my son in that way!]" he said as all of his protective anger was finally shown. "[My son is ten times the man that you are. How dare you attack him! On behalf of my son, change into your own damn clothes and get the fu** out of this house!]"

"Kuu-sama?" Kyoko asked and Kuu looked at her, the anger only dying down a little bit.

"I'm going to go see my son. I advise that you figure out what's important to you and make the decision whether to see him or not," Kuu said before raising an eyebrow, "but if you don't see him, consider this you giving up on your marriage. Now, where's Bella, I want to take her to see her dad."

"Are you sure that that won't hurt her?" Kyoko asked and Kuu nodded.

"I'm positive it won't," he said before seeing Bella running down the stairs and grabbing to her grandfather's leg.

"Are we really going to see Daddy?" she asked hopefully and Kuu nodded as Bella went to get her shoes, smiling a little as she saw the pain that Sho was going through. She ran over to her grandfather without even looking at her mother as her grandfather pulled out her jacket for her. "Let's go," she grinned before they walked out of the house.

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Isabella nervously went to the room where she knew that her daddy was. She was excited to see him but she had already been made aware that he was hurt and it was worse than a regular cold. She really hoped not to upset him, that was the worst thing that she could think of. Even if all she could do was see him and watch him, she wanted to do it. She was scared of thinking he could leave her.

Kuu entered the room with a hand on Isabella's shoulder, "Kuon," he said as Kuon turned to look at him from where he was on the bed. "I brought someone to see you," he said as Kuon reached out his left hand to her.

"H-h-hhi, baby," he whispered before Isabella ran up to him and stood in front of him with tears in her eyes. Kuon softly placed his hand on her cheek as he looked at her concerned, "Iiiss ss-o—"

"Nothing's wrong, Daddy" Isabella said as she tried to rub away her tears with her sleeve. "I'm so happy to see you," she said before Kuon gently moved her arm away from her eyes and smiled at her.

Kuon managed to get himself into a sitting position very slowly. He patted the bed and Isabella climbed up to him, wrapping her arms around him but trying not to hurt him. Kuon put a hand on her head, letting his thumb run through his hair as he mouthed a thank you to his father who sat down and watched Kuon taking care of his daughter.

"Bella, be gentle okay," Kuu couldn't help but say as he looked at the bruising around his son's left eye. "Are you having trouble with vision?" he asked and Kuon looked at him blankly for a moment before looking down as if he were having trouble figuring out how to answer the question. Kuu froze, maybe the word vision was too complex, the doctors had told them to use short and simple sentences.

"Kuon, don't pu-" Kuu said quickly before seeing his son shake his head.

"I ss-till ha-h-" he said before stopping and gestured to his eyes, "Ggl-asses," he said and Kuu nodded. He knew how much his son was trying and the way he was holding Isabella as she sobbed into his chest showed what his priorities were.

"Why is Daddy not talking a lot?" Isabella asked her father as Kuon looked down guiltily.

Noticing his reluctance, Kuu leaned forward. "Bella, Daddy got hit in the head so it's a little harder for him to form sentences and choose which words he'll use. It's like when you have a headache and you don't want to speak or when you have a headache and it's harder for you to use your Japanese," he attempted to explain and Bella thought about that before nodding.

"Okay, Daddy," she said before jumping off the bed and looked around. "You don't have to speak. I'll speak to you," she said before finding a children's nature magazine with a picture of a hippo on the front. "I'll read to you," she grinned as Kuon watched her lovingly. His daughter was such an inspiration, so much like her mother.

Bella climbed back on the bed and opened the magazine to the page on the hippos, not noticing her dad's fear as he looked at the words which he was having trouble reading. Kuu noticed this and opened his mouth but Kuon shook his head to his dad and Kuu understood that he didn't want Bella to know. Kuu didn't want to ruin the time between them.

"Don't the hippos look friendly?" Bella asked as she looked up at her dad who nodded.

Kuon pointed to a picture that had a hippo in the water, "Tha-tt o-one i-iss" he winced in pain but fortunately Bella was concentrating on the picture he was pointing to, "Ha-having ff-unn."

"Yeah," Bella nodded, "Like when I do my swim class," she said before concentrating on the words and Kuon held her close. Fortunately Bella was under the impression that Kuon didn't want to read because he didn't want to speak and so she read the whole article on the hippos to her father as Kuu watched the two of them bond. He really had to wonder if he was as good a father as his son was.

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Bella had fallen asleep at her dad's side and Kuon had an arm wrapped around her as they lay together. He watched his father as Kuu stood up and went over to wake Bella up, before he did so, he smiled at his son. "You did really well today," he told his son hoping to reassure him. He knew that Kuon wasn't acting like he was before the accident but he still had the fight and perseverance that he had before.

Kuon opened his mouth but the pain on his face showed that he had overworked himself and all for Bella's benefit.

"It's okay," Kuu told him as he put a hand on his son's shoulder, "You worked really hard to bond with her. Just relax, don't over exhaust yourself. I'll see you tomorrow, okay?"

Kuon looked at Bella before putting a hand on her shoulder and patted her a little before she woke up. She looked around before smiling at her dad.

"Bella," Kuu said as he saw the little girl sit up sleepily, "It's time to go home," he said before seeing Bella's pained look, "I promise that we will both come back tomorrow. It was fun to see your dad wasn't it?" he asked and Bella nodded.

"Have a good sleep, Daddy," Bella said as she got to the floor and kissed her dad's cheek. "I'll bring a new book tomorrow," she told him.

As they were leaving, Bella saw somebody who she really didn't want to see but because of her love for her father didn't say anything, she just held to her grandfather's hand. Her grandfather had a firm look at the woman before him as she stood nervously looking at her husband.

"Hi, sweetheart," she said and Kuu managed to calm his expression before seeing the painful joy and happiness on his son's face. He really deserved more than this.

End of Chapter Fifty Two

Thank you for reading

Thank you to those who reviewed Chapter Fifty One

Ashenvale: I guess you never watched Glee because they waaay over used cheating 😉 I hope that things work out for them but Kyoko should never have acted that way

Kris XD: She definitely should have kicked him out but I think Kuu reacted too much

Ktoll9: Yes, but she's going to think that of herself too

Loyalty Counts: So many predictions, hope you weren't disappointed 😊

Paulagato: Yep, Kyoko has been acting without thinking and she's going to feel very guilty next chapter

Undertheskys: Well Kyoko is very disappointed in herself