SVDC: "Oh! Sorry it took me so long to update, but music has been ruling my life for the last month and I haven't been able to write anything! School is starting again soon so updating will be slow…sorry. I promise I'll update as best I can. Until then, I hope you like this chapie, I like this one. Makes the title make sense now.

Kero: "SVDC doesn't own CCS or any of its characters."

Suppi: (Hyper) "Let's go let's go let's go!"

Kero and SVDC: (Run away and hide)

Chapter 4

It became a routine, Kaho going with Sakura to visit her father and for the woman to secretly heal him a little more. It took a long time, nearly two months before Fujitaka was able to get out of the hospital. His leg was still in a cast, but was nearly heal and would be removed in about a week. Outwardly that was his only injury. Internally he was still fragile and needed to refrain from any sort of physical activity for another few weeks.

The Fujitaka was to be released, Kaho appeared in his room, alone.

"Sakura isn't with you?" Fujitaka asked as Kaho walked into the room.

"I thought I'd give her a surprise," Kaho smiled as she walked over. "Ready to go home?"

"As long as I can walk there," Fujitaka said.

"That's how I got here," Kaho said, then thought again, "No, halfway by bus, and I think you might want to take that way too if you're using those crutches."

"I guess you're right," Fujitaka said as he stood up and grabbed his crutches. "It just feels good knowing I'm getting out of here."

Kaho smiled, "I'll bet."

They both walked out of the hospital and down to the bus stop.

"So, how's Sakura?" Fujitaka asked.

"Happier now that her brother's back home," Kaho answered. "I stayed with her while Toya was gone, but I haven't been over much since he came home. She's seems fine when she's at school, but I haven't talked to her much alone."

"I'll bet she'll be happy when you bring me through the door," Fujitaka smiled.

"I wouldn't bet against you," Kaho smiled back at him as the bus arrived.

They rode the bus to the bus stop on the other side of town and started walking down the street.

Fujitaka mostly paid attention to where he put his crutches and where he was going. After a while though, he got the hang of it and started looking around. He looked up at Kaho and found her smiling to herself.

"What are you smiling about?" Fujitaka asked.

"Nothing really, just thinking about a song that's stuck in my head," Kaho answered.

"What song?"

"It's by an American singer named Faith Hill," Kaho said. "I heard it when I was in England and liked it. I have the album at home."

"What's the song called?" Fujitaka asked.

"This Is Me," Kaho answered.

"How's it go?" Fujitaka asked, "I've been to America, I may have heard it."

"Maybe," Kaho answered, she was silent for a moment, the started a verse of the song. "I laugh at silly movies, tear up when I see babies, and I'm stubborn as a stone. I criticize my body; I wonder if I'm ready to ever be alone. I'm just like everybody else, I cry, yes I cry, just like everybody else."

Fujitaka listened to the song and found it had a pleasant tone, or maybe it was Kaho's nice singing voice. Whichever it was, he liked it, though he had never heard it before.

"Sing a little more," Fujitaka said.

Kaho blushed a little at his request, ""I don't know what you believe, what you think of what you see. But this is apart of me, of what I do and who I am. All of my impurities are right here on my sleeve, this is me. Oh, this is me."

Fujitaka stopped walking and looked up at her, "You're pretty good."

Kaho's blush deepened, "Thanks, um, thanks."

They started walking again in complete silence. Fujitaka wondered how Sakura was doing. He knew she had taken his accident pretty hard and she had been worried for a long time. He was grateful that someone had been there to watch over her while Toya was away and that Sakura had a new friend in life.

He looked over at Kaho again and noticed something different about her that he hadn't noticed before. He knew she had been attractive when his son had had a relationship with her, but he had never really gotten to know her. Now he saw her in a new light and found her very attractive. There was something else that he couldn't quite pinpoint that was out of place, but he knew there was something.

He let the thought slip away as he spied his home only a few yards away. He quickened the slow pace he had been taking, but had to slow down again before he lost his balance on his crutches.

Kaho laughed as she helped him steady himself, "Something's telling me you're glad to be home."

"I am," Fujitaka asked as he steadied himself and they walked up to the door. Kaho went in first and called Sakura.

"Sakura! It's me Kaho, where are you?" Kaho called.

"Right here," Sakura said as she scampered downstairs.

"I have a surprise for you," Kaho said as the girl turned the corner and into the entryway.

"What?" Sakura asked.

"Take a look for yourself," Kaho said as she stepped aside to let Fujitaka into view.

"Dad!" Sakura cried and hugged her father tightly, without knocking him over. "You're really here, you're really home!" They all made it a few feet from the entryway when Sakura hugged her father again. "Is it really you?"

"Yes, it's really me," Fujitaka said as he balanced on one crutch and hugged his daughter. He looked up at Kaho, "Thank you for watching over her."

Kaho nodded and turned to go. She walked passed Fujitaka, but then dizziness and a wave of unbearable nausea washed over her like a giant wave. She doubled over and fell against the side of the staircase and her mind raced.

Why? What's wrong with me? Why is this happening? She asked herself over and over as her vision blurred. What is this? She didn't remember everything going black.

OOOO

"Kaho," came Fujitaka's voice through the mists of her mind.

Kaho opened her eyes and looked up through blurry vision into the eyes of Sakura and Fujitaka. She went to sit up, but though better of it when her stomach rolled. "What happened?" She asked as she rubbed her throbbing head.

"You passed out," Fujitaka said. "You almost hyperventilated."

"I got really nauseous," Kaho said stupidly.

"From what?" Sakura asked.

"I haven't a clue," Kaho said, "It's been that way for a little over a month now. I don't know what it is."

Fujitaka frowned, "What else happens?"

"I get dizzy, nauseous, lightheaded, and whatever else you would describe those symptoms of who knows what," Kaho answered as she tentatively tried to sit up.

Fujitaka's frown deepened, "I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but those are the same symptoms my wife had when she was pregnant."

"What!" Kaho fell back onto her back with a thud. "I didn't hear you right, I must still be delirious."

"No, you heard me right," Fujitaka said.

"That can't be true, I haven't even been in the same house with a man for a year almost, and that was to return a book." Kaho sat up completely, ignoring another strong wave of nausea. She looked around and found herself on the couch in the living room. "How did I get here, I know you couldn't have carried me."

Sakura held up the Float Card, "Dad knows what I can do now."

"And we are going to have a long talk about it later," Fujitaka said. "Now, more on you. What I said was just an assumption, I could be completely wrong. I think you're hope I'm wrong." Kaho nodded.

Fujitaka started again, "I know this is a personal question, and I can't ask it in front of Sakura because she's young so I'll say it in a slang way. Have you experienced that time of the month recently?"

Kaho thought for a moment. She knew exactly what he was talking about and she hadn't really been thinking about it for a while. She mouthed the word shit and Fujitaka couldn't help but smile.

"I think I hit a nerve," Fujitaka said.

Kaho pulled her knees to her chin and shivered, "I'm pregnant." She was silent for a minute, and Fujitaka spied tears starting to form. "How?"

"Got me," Fujitaka said as Sakura scooted out of the room, knowing it would be easier if she weren't in there. Fujitaka just sat on the side couch, watching Kaho as her tears started to stream down her face.

Kaho looked up at the ceiling, "Tell me this Fujitaka, is it a bad thing that I don't know how I got pregnant? That I don't know what I'm going to do now or where life is going to take me? Further more, how am I going to live my life with people asking me the question I'm asking myself and telling them I have no answer. How did I get pregnant in the first place?"

"I can tell you one thing," Fujitaka said as he leaned back on the couch and propped his leg up on a cushion. "Being pregnant isn't the bad part, and for what you're going to do, you can always come to us. I still owe you for watching over Sakura. Helping you out with something like this is about even for what you did for me. You never know, we may even become better friends."

Kaho smiled as she stood up and walked over to him, putting a pillow under his head as she sat down next to him.

Fujitaka smiled, "You're spoiling me."

"With what you've been through you deserve a little spoiling, since I doubt you've had any for years." Kaho said as she teased his hair. "I think you're right about one thing."

"What?" Fujitaka asked.

"We may become better friends," Kaho smiled as she leaned against the back of the couch.

"Well I figured out one thing," Fujitaka said after a moment of silence.

"What?" Kaho asked as she peered down at him.

"This cast itches," he said as he sat up and Kaho laughed. "You laugh at my discomfort," Fujitaka said as he looked for a ruler.

"No," Kaho stifled a laugh, "it was the way you said it." She got up and found a ruler for him to use to fit through the cast.

Fujitaka sat back against the couch with a sigh, "Remind me to carry on of those in my pocket." He looked up at Kaho, who was glaring out the window. "What's the matter?"

Sakura scrambled into the room a second later, "What is that?"

"Don't know," Kaho said as she looked out the window. She saw a force coming straight at the window and hollered for Sakura to get to her father on the couch.

Sakura hit the couch as she heard the window shatter and Kaho yelp. Sakura watched as Kaho was knocked to the floor and slid backwards. The sliding glass door shattered next as the power went out and the whole room became a vortex of razor sharp pieces of glass. Sakura clung to her father as Kaho stood, her hair whipping around in the wind. She flinched every time a glass shard hit her.

Then her eyes flashed gold and she raised her hand, sending out a neutralizing blast of wind to counteract the one roaring through the room. At the same time she built up a magical barrier to cover Sakura and Fujitaka, protecting them from the glass.

Finally, after a moment of tension, Kaho overpowered the wind with her own and everything died away, leaving glass all over the floor and all of the power in the house out.

Kaho dropped the barrier around Sakura and Fujitaka and Sakura scrambled over to her.

"What was that?" Sakura asked.

"I don't know," Kaho said as she gasped for air. The energy exerted in neutralizing the wind and tired her out, but she stayed standing, in fear of showing weakness when something else may return.

"Sakura, would you go see if the breakers need resetting?" Fujitaka asked.

"Sure," Sakura said as she ran to find a flashlight.

Fujitaka grabbed his crutches and walked over to Kaho, who was over at the window. "Thanks again," Fujitaka said as he made it over, "We would have been torn to shreds without you."

"No, Sakura would have acted if I hadn't been here," Kaho said as she reached out her hand as if to touch where the glass had been. The air where she touched rippled and before Fujitaka realized it, the glass had picked itself up from off the ground and was reconstructing itself on not only the window, but the sliding glass door as well. In less than a moment it was complete and Kaho let her hand drop to her side.

"How did you do that?" Fujitaka asked.

Kaho shrugged as she stared out the window, looking exhausted.

It was then Fujitaka realized the damage the glass had done to her. She was cut up badly on her arms and face, and there was one gash on her neck that worried him the most. Blood ran down her arms and face like water and it made his insides churn.

"We'll need to bandage those," Fujitaka said as the lights came back on. He looked up and smiled, "All right Sakura!" Fujitaka hobbled out of the room and up the stairs with unexpected agility and came back down a moment later with Kerberos, carrying a first-aid kit.

Kaho was near the couch when Fujitaka walked back into the room with Kero and he smiled at her. "Sit." Kaho complied and sat down gently, evidently sore.

"You are really going to hate me after this," Fujitaka said as he pulled out a bottle of iodine and a bunch of cotton swabs.

"Yep," Kaho said as she scowled at the iodine, but stayed where she was.

Sakura walked back into the living room to the sound of Kaho saying ouch and Fujitaka laughing.

"It's not funny Fujitaka," Kaho said as Sakura walked in.

"They need to be cleaned or they'll get infected," Fujitaka said as started cleaning another cut.

"I know that but I have a right to fuss," Kaho said through clenched teeth.

"How come Dad and I aren't all cut up?" Sakura asked.

"I built up an invisible barrier around you and your father at the same time so you wouldn't get hurt," Kaho said. "Your father already has enough to deal with involving that cast, and you don't need to get hurt."

"You know, if you weren't all bloody I'd kiss you," Fujitaka said as he finished cleaning one arm. "Other arm please."

Kaho blushed as she shifted over so he could get to her other arm. Sakura laughed at the sight and went to get a wet paper towel so Kaho could get the blood off of her face. Sakura also wanted to see if her father would go through with what he said.

Sakura came back in to find her father bandaging Kaho's arms. She handed the damp paper towel to Kaho when her father was through and she wiped off her face, flinching as the water stung on a few of the cuts.

"Well Dad, her face isn't all bloody," Sakura grinned mischievously.

"Hmm, you're right," Fujitaka said as Kaho turned to look at him. He gave her a quick, but tender kiss on the lips and Sakura squealed with laughter. Kaho went red and Fujitaka chuckled when he pulled away.

Sakura walked out of the room saying, "I hope you guys don't start making out on the couch."

"Sakura," her father warned as he bandaged Kaho's neck, who had gone an impossibly deeper shade of red. He looked back up at Kaho and smiled, "Sorry, did I embarrass you?"

Kaho shook her head as he finished and leaned back against the couch and tried to settle her rolling stomach. Her stomach heaved as the strong smell of iodine reached her senses again after she had worked to block it out. She started panting to keep her stomach under control, inhaling more of the nauseating iodine at the same time. She put her hand on her stomach in last resort as she leaned back against the couch as her head started to pound.

Fujitaka frowned and pulled her into his arms. He massaged her stomach gently, and to her surprise, it settled a little. Her head still pounded, but that was easier to cope with.

Fujitaka shifted to where he was lying against the back of the couch the long way and Kaho lay against him between his legs.

"You never seem to catch a break do you?" Fujitaka asked as he continued to massage her stomach.

"Not often," Kaho said as she leaned against him with a content sigh. They were silent for a while, just enjoying each other's company. They heard Sakura and Kero talking upstairs and giggled when Kero shouted something stupid or fell off the desk, hearing a loud thud every time.

After a while, Kaho looked up at Fujitaka with a small smile of thanks. She kissed him lightly before she sat up and carefully got off the couch, not wanting to bump his leg. "I better get home."

"Well, wait a second and I'll walk you to the door," Fujitaka said as he sat up and reached for his crutches. They walked to the door and Fujitaka hollered up to his daughter, "Kaho's leaving!"

"Coming!" Sakura shouted and they heard Sakura scamper down the stares. She turned into the entryway and gave her teacher a hug goodbye. "Thanks again for bringing my dad home."

"Sure," Kaho said as the girl released her and she walked out the door, throwing one last wave over her shoulder before she left.

"What are you grinning about?" Sakura asked as she spied her father smiling after her teacher.

"Nothing," Fujitaka said as he smiled down at his daughter, "I'm just glad to be home."

OOOO

SVDC: "Well I thought it was cute, and there's an enemy now!"

Kero and Suppi: "What is it?"

SVDC: "You'll find out."

Suppi: "Review quickly!"

Kero: "I wanna know what it is!"

SVDC: Sweatdrop