SVDC: Hi! I'm back with a second chapter. Sorry it took so long! Big hugs to Draco1000 and Alucard's Familiar for reviewing! I hope you like the second chapter, I think it's better detailed than the first.

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Chapter 2

"Sakura, you're home so late," Kero said as he met his mistress at the door. "I was really beginning to worry. What's wrong?"

"Dad was in an accident," Sakura managed. "He's in the hospital and I haven't had a chance to see him yet. Oh Kero they say he may not make it!"

"Sakura," Kaho said as she put her hand on the girl's shoulder and pushed her the rest of the way into the house.

"Waa! Where'd you come from?" Kero squeaked in surprise.

"England," Kaho threw out plainly. "You going to be all right by yourself?" She looked down at the young girl.

It hadn't donned on Sakura yet that she was truly alone right now. She had no one else in the house besides Kero. It made her uneasy and she looked up at her teacher with pleading eyes.

Kaho could see the fear and dread run across the girl's eyes when she had first mentioned it. Now Sakura was looking up at her, looking for some kind of answer to her predicament.

"I'll stay with you as long as you need me to," Kaho said as maternal instincts gripped her mind.

"Really?" Sakura asked.

Kaho nodded and the girl hugged her teacher thankfully. The woman looked up at the guardian, who was still floating there watching them. "Any objections Kerberos?"

"No," the guardian answered. "It's a good thing that there is another person in the house with her. She hasn't had a woman's company before, only her family and Tomoyo. I think it will do her some good."

Kaho had to smile in agreement as she looked down at the girl, "You all right?"

"I don't know, I'm scared for my dad, but I have to keep telling myself that he'll survive," Sakura looked up at the woman. "He has too, he's all I have besides Toya! He can't leave me! He can't!" And with that, the girl broke down into tears once again, her usual happy nature having been shattered by the thought of losing her only parent.

Kaho held Sakura as she cried, not sure what else to do to comfort her. She didn't need words, words to a twelve-year-old meant nothing when one of their dearest loves were about to slip through their tiny fingers.

Before she knew it, Sakura had cried herself to sleep in Kaho's arms, leaving the woman slightly shocked and a little uncomfortable.

"I'll show you where her room is," Kero said as he floated towards the stairs.

"Okay," Kaho said as she picked the young card mistress up and followed the Guardian up the stairs and over to Sakura's room. The plush toy looking creature pushed open the door and allowed Kaho to get inside before he transformed into his true form.

"You are back, what is the reason?" Kerberos asked. "Is Eriol with you?"

"No, I came back of my own free will just to be here," Kaho answered as she laid Sakura on her bed. "Eriol and I…grew apart you could say. It seemed to be more of a magical attraction to one another than anything else, similar to how Sakura feels when she's around Mr. Tsukishiro. It was an easy move, we both still care about one another, but not in the way we thought we did."

"I see," Kerberos said as he sat down by Sakura's bed. "Well, shall I give you a tour of the house? Since I'm sure you are going to be here for a while longer."

"I guess, sure," Kaho, although slightly puzzled by the Guardian's friendly behavior, shrugged and followed the lion out of the room. They had made it downstairs and into the living room when they heard Sakura scream.

Kaho was back up to the room in a flash to find Sakura huddled in her bed crying once again. "What's wrong?"

"Dream, I had a dream that my dad died in the hospital," Sakura sobbed. "I'm so scared for him."

"It'll be all right Sakura," Kaho said as she went and sat next to the girl on her bed. "If you want, in a little while, I'll call the hospital and find our how he's doing. All right?"

"Okay," Sakura nodded with a small smile.

"Why don't you get some sleep, you've had a hard day," Kaho coaxed.

"All right, but wake me up when you find out about my dad please?" Sakura asked.

"Of course," Kaho smiled reassuringly.

"Thank you," Sakura said as she laid back onto her pillow.

Kaho silently left the room, leaving Kero to watch over the girl as she made her way back down to the living room to call the hospital. She sat on hold for almost a half an hour, each moment rage and worry welling up more and more in her. She was finally answered and she sighed as she calmed herself, "Yes, I'm calling to check up on Kinomoto Fujitaka. We tried to come in to see him today but they wouldn't allow us to see him. We just want to know his condition and if he's going to make it."

"Yes, well, what relation are you to the Kinomoto family?" The doctor asked.

Kaho bite her tongue, "I'm the guardian of his daughter while he is in the hospital, I'm calling specifically for her sake. She wants to know."

"Well, yes, Ms…uh," the doctor stumbled, looking for name.

"Mitsuki Kaho," Kaho said quickly.

"Yes, Ms. Mitsuki, Mr. Kinomoto is suffering major internal injuries to his left lung and spleen. We managed to close up the bleeding spleen in time, and prognosis says he should recover. We pulled almost a gallon of air away from his left lung so he could breathe normally again, but he's still on surveillance in case more accumulates. Are you with me so far?"

"Yes sir," Kaho answered.

"He also suffered a broken left femur and sprained both wrists," the doctor continued. "On top of all of it he suffered a cracked skull and a concussion. The swelling is slowly dissipating, but like I said again, he's on surveillance in case anything else should occur."

"And the chance that he'll survive all of this?" Kaho asked.

"The chances are pretty high if all goes well, about a ninety percent chance," the doctor answered. "He's very lucky he survived the first few hours."

"What exactly happened to him, we were never told the details, only that he was in a car accident," Kaho asked.

"A semi rolled over him," the doctor answered. "Which is why I'm surprised he doesn't have back injuries and is alive at all."

"Oh my God," Kaho breathed, realizing how close Sakura and Toya had become to becoming orphans.

"Are you all right Miss?" The doctor sounded concerned.

"Yes, I'm fine, thank you for telling me," Kaho stumbled over what she was saying.

"Of course," the doctor said and hung up.

Kaho place the receiver back onto its base and sat down in the chair near the phone for a moment, her head in her hands. How was she going to explain all of this to Sakura? She knew where each of those injuries were and what it was like to have some of those injuries, thanks to her grandfather's training and her own training.

She sighed and stood, reluctantly walking back upstairs to explain it to the young girl. She cracked the door open to Sakura's room and peeked in, the light from the hallway spreading into the dark room a ways. She found Kerberos laying on the edge of Sakura's bed and he looked up at her as she opened the door. He stood and padded silently over her and they stood in the hallway.

"How is Fujitaka?" Kero asked.

"In all honestly I'm not sure," Kaho answered. "The doctor said that if all goes well he should recover, but his injuries are something else. He's got a cracked skull and a concussion, both wrists are sprained, a ruptured spleen that they got closed up, his left lung was collapsed for a little while before the pulled the air away from it, and he has a broken left leg."

"And what happened to him?" Kero asked and he watched Kaho pale at the thought.

"A semi rolled over him," she answered as she hung her head.

"Astonishing, and he lived, and got only those injuries?" Kero asked. "The injuries themselves are pretty serious, but nothing compared to what he could have gotten. He's alive at the very least!"

"I know, but what do we do?" Kaho asked. "How do I tell Sakura these things, she doesn't know anything about them."

"She's asleep now, we'll wait until morning," Kero said as he turned back to the room. "Will we expect you here in the morning?" Kero asked.

"I'm not sure," Kaho said. "I need to go to work, but only if Sakura feels she's able to stay home alone. I'll be here depending on how early she wakes up."

"All right, I hope you don't mind sleeping on the couch," Kero said as he nudged open the door and closed it behind him.

Kaho narrowed her eyes at the retreating Guardian, wanting more that ever to lock him in a room with a hyper Suppi. Heaving a sigh she made her way back downstairs and down to the living room, ready for the long night to begin.

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