Kyoko's baby bother! Chapter 19: The magic of Corn, a skip beat! fanfic

Just a warning I am Dyslexic so my stories will not be perfect but I now have one Beta reader to help me along the way :D

Thank you so much to Roshelle Diall for offering to work with me :D

Hello my sweeties :)

Well I did kinda expect the response I got to Kyoko's reaction to Corn

so let me explain :) as I have thought about it very deeply and used my Physiology of the human mind knowledge to come to these conclusions

Kyoko still loves Ren/Kuon and even corn, but Corn to her is what thy call an emotional anchor this is a subconscious attachment to an object/memory that provided motional support during the hardest times in our lives religion can also be classed as on of these.

With Kyoko we can s how much her motional anchor has affected her life no matter what happened weather it be her

mother: she would put her unhappy feelings into corn

Sho: she threw everything away from her old life but that one thing

now with Kuon's revelation the one thing that has always supported her through hard times is no longer there it has shaken her emotionally and brought on a fear response

this girl has suffered so much pain and so much trauma and she associates

these feelings now with what has happened both times before

she was abandoned.

Fear makes you do crazy things it is simply her fear of being hurt and abandoned that has made her act this way she feels like the world has turned against her and with the loss of her anchor she is confused and desperate.

Read the next chapter and listen to Kyoko's side of the feelings before you think too harshly of her, I myself suffered a large emotional trauma at her age with the loss of the person I loved deeply who sadly died at a very young age.

WARNING: even thought the medical emergency procedure Ren uses in this chapter has actually been preformed and saved the life of a 3 year old girl

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME IT IS VERY DANGEROUS AND COULD

KILL RATHER THAN SAVE A LIFE!

Enjoy..

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"TORU!...TORU!...HHHHHHEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL PPPPPPPPPPPP! SOMEBODY HELLLLPPPPPPPP!" the scream was terrifying like that of a banshee. Ren was already spun around and in the door of the Love Me locker room when Yashiro joined him. There on the floor of the LME locker room was Toru, Chiori bent over the tiny figure as his face and lips were slowly turning blue...he was unable to breathe.

Ren jumped to action immediately. Yashiro was shocked when he ran over to the water cooler and tipped it onto its side. Grabbing the cold tap he yanked out the water tube. Ripping the tap part off, he was back at Toru's side swinging the pipe madly to remove any water that still remained. Opening the small child's mouth and pulling his tongue free, with two fingers he tilted his head and looked down his throat,

"What happened?" he asked full of calm as he looked at Chiori who was shaking uncontrollably.

"I gave him his medicine. He has an ear infection and Kyoko told me to give it him." she was a jumble of words and fear.

"Calm down Chiori. What happened next? Could he have swallowed anything?" Ren slowly put the tube to the small child's lips.

"Chiori shook her head, we weere playing. I never took my eyes off of him and the next thing I know he starts gasping for breath and then I screamed." that was all Ren needed to know.

Slowly he started to insert the small pipe into the child's mouth and down his throat. He seemed to fix it in a position but shook his head lightly when he gently blew into the tube. Again, he pulled the tube slowly out and tried again. This time when he blew into the tube, the child's small chest rose and fell slightly.

"Get me some scissors." he didn't direct the order at anyone but the next moment scissors were offered to him. He cut the pipe to a shorter length. Next he went to work feeling for a pulse, breathing a sigh of relief when he felt one. It was shallow, but there.

Hold on Toru. Daddy's here.

"The ambulance is on its way." Yashiro said as he watched Ren checking the child's vital signs. With the introduction of the pipe, the child's chest was rising and falling. He was able to breathe through the tube.

"Chiori, I need you to get the medicine. We will need to show it to the doctors. I think it may be an allergic reaction but I'm not sure." she nodded and grabbed the bottle of penicillin from the fridge. Toru started to regain consciousness as his brain regained its needed life force Ren took the small child in his arms and cuddled him tight.

"Its OK, I'm here. I'm here." he said in the calm voice he had used throughout but his eyes even now were radiating the fear he felt.

He had to be strong. Even with his calm voice no one failed to notice the tears that ran down his face onto the semi conscious child. Yashiro ushered out the spectators who were all complimenting Ren's quick actions and when together with Chiori and Yashiro they walked the short trip to foyer everyone stepped out of the way of the large man holding the baby. As they arrived at the doors so did the ambulance. Ren ran, carrying Toru to the ambulance while the driver took the penicillin from Chiori. It was then Lory arrived, breathless.

"Where's my grandson?" he cried in alarm as he saw the ambulance.

He was about to run to the ambulance when Yashiro stopped him with a firm hand and slowly explained what had happened before he allowed Lory to approach the ambulance. Ren was still cradling the small child as the ambulance crew gave the child an injection and attached an oxygen mask, not taking the tube out Ren had put there. Lory watched the silent tears of the young man with the firm grip on the child he loved as his own. In a heart clenching moment. the small hand held on tightly to the shirt of the man he called Daddy.

He never asked to go in the ambulance. This was no place for him though he called for his car and he, Yashiro and Chiori followed the ambulance to the hospital. On the way, Lory made the call he was dreading.

"Hello sweetheart, it's Daddy. Now I need you to listen to me carefully..."

Ren sat in the cubicle. Toru's breathing had stabilised. The doctor had removed the tube Ren had put down his throat and commended him for his fast actions and quick thinking.

"Without your actions it is quite possible he would have died." he had told him and the three people who had come after the ambulance. Her voice could be heard before she could be seen.

"DAD?...TORU?" she called her voice desperate as she entered the hospital still fully dressed as Natsu. People recognised her and for once no one approached as she looked around flustered, Lory walked to meet her.

"Where is my baby?" she cried seeing him there she panicked. Surely if Toru was OK he would not be separated from his granddad. Even though he loved Chiori, he was closer to Lory.

"Sweetie, Toru is fine but I need to speak with you before you see him." she looked as if she was about to barge past him as he tightened his hold on her shoulders.

"You will Listen to me, Takarada Kyoko." that was the first time he had ever called her by that name. It was not a question but an order and as she had always been taught she obeyed, so Lory told her all that had happened.

Toru smiled up at Ren, his eyes still a little watery from the crying he had done. Now gripping onto his shirt, he smiled and Ren's heart skipped a beat as he kissed his forehead. The curtain was drawn back and Ren lifted his eyes to the person before him.

She looked down at the man who had been causing her heart so much grief as of late. She had tried many times in the past few weeks to use her beloved Corn stone to take away her sadness but it no longer worked. The Magic of the Corn stone had vanished along with her fairy prince, but as she stood in that doorway looking down at the two males before her, her heart jolted.

How could I not have seen this before?

Her heart leapt at her sudden realisation. The hum rang through her body like ripples after a stone has been tossed into a still pond getting bigger and stronger as she flung herself at the man and boy. She wept openly, holding them both tight.

"Don't you ever let me let you go again Kuon. Please don't ever let me become someone like her." she sobbed as she held him tight.

For a moment he didn't know what to do or say. He had expected her to ask him to leave and not speak to him at all. Anything but the loving embrace she held him in now, but as his free hand reached up and held her head and neck, she cuddled closer into his comfort and he cried along with her. Baby Toru was silent, embracing both of them the best way he could.

She had been stupid. After the initial shock, she had not thrown her box away but hidden it deep within her. The fact was she realised now she no longer held the key to that box. At one time the key itself could have been her corn stone but no longer. When she had heard of Toru's illness she had rushed to the hospital as fast as she could, her own body pulling out the box as her father told her of the quick and brave actions of Ren.

Her brain had shut off all thoughts when she had entered that cubicle, just the simple sight of the two men she loved more than anything in this world opened her box again. The keys they both held and Kyoko understood then the deepest meaning of love. Her box was not empty as she had believed. She had not lost it or thrown it away, she had simply given it to the two people before her, she had given them her heart.

The reason the Corn stone no longer worked was no longer a mystery to her. The truth of the matter was it hadn't worked for a very long time. In all that time there had only been one thing or one person who could make her smile when she felt like crying. There had been only one person who could take away her sadness and fears. She had stupidly pushed that person away, her own fear clouding her judgement, her own head blocking the word of her heart which she vowed again never to ignore.

"I love you Hizuri Kuon. Promise you will never let me let you go again." lifting her chin with his finger he stared deeply into those golden eyes.

No measurement or words could describe the happiness that was shining in his own but as he spoke, her heart broke free of its cracked and scarred outer skin. Like a butterfly shedding a cocoon, it stretched out its iridescent wings and soared.

"I promise Kyoko, I will never let you go ever again." he said before he kissed her, sealing his promise as Toru looked on and giggled.

"Momma...Dada...*chu*"

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