By Mad Meg Askevron

Spreading Light

Chapter Five

Disclaimer: Hello? Fan fiction?

I wanted to make this chapter a little brighter, I was kind of surprised how sad the last chapter was. ( and how many typos) I'm writing this today and posting it, so beware of the Typos, the sometimes bite passer-byes. BTW Soz about the mess up with Chapter 5 before!

Also Nightfall2525 I will use that idea, thank you I'll be sure to say you were more then the muse.

Chapter Five: Tohru's Epiphany

After playing in the gardens Tohru and Jomei fell asleep under the shade of lemon tree. Tohru didn't really dream anything, just vague sadness that was all around her, as if everyone around her was feeling the cold sadness that haunted her.

Tohru opened her eyes to see her son's face unusually serious.

"Mommy, who's my daddy?" He asked such a painful question; his three-year-old mind could not comprehend her pain.

" I don't know who your 'real' father is, but Hatori will be as much of a father and more then anyone else could be. He loves you more then your 'real' father ever could. He has a big heart, big enough for both of us." Tohru brushed a curl off Jomei's forehead.

"Tohru! Jomei!" They looked up to a high up balcony where Hatori was standing. "Dinner!"

"Now come on we have to get cleaned-up for dinner. I'll race you!" Tohru and Jomei scrambled to their feet and ran laughing through the gardens. To everyone who heard them, it was like waking up from an eternity of darkness and seeing the sun rising over the horizon, it was like the dawn they were told that would never rise.

Junsui stood up and washed her face. As she was leaving the rooms she stopped, she caressed a blossom of snowy white. And she left with her skirt slightly trailing.

Hatori smiled as he saw them running towards him. He grabbed Jomei and swung him around making him squeal with laughter. He held Jomei on his hip with one slightly muscular arm, the other was wrapped around Tohru's waist with her arms wrapped around his waist and she clutched the material as she nearly fell over with laughter. Jomei had put a rose in Hatori's hair and one of petals had fallen on his nose and then rested at the crook of his neck.

He took off the rose and smiled as he tucked it behind Tohru's ear. Dinner was bright and full of laughter they settled down after wards and watched an anime called "Read or Die." (It was on TV last night.) It was late and everyone went to bed.

Tohru changed first and she was standing out on the balcony when Hatori came out. He watched her for a minute, when he was about to turn away and go to bed he saw a little crystal swirl on the wind and fly away. He softly walked up to her, his bare feet chilled on the stone tile of the carved balcony. The room behind him that had been so warm with it's welcoming reds and golds. But here was Tohru standing barefoot and in her nightgown out on the cold, cold balcony framed but gardens of twilight. She looked so poetic and sad with her hair streaming out around her slim form. Crystal tears swirling around her, untouched by their rainbows.

She looked so very sad.

He gently turned her toward her, her face cold from the tears. He wiped away her tears and he rested his hand on her cheek. Slowly she placed hers over his hand with her face upturned, she looked like an angel denied heaven.

Slowly his face lowered to meet hers. Her cold lips slowly warmed to his. His arms held her cold form hard and firm to his strong body. Her arms were around his neck and shoulders. He had to pick her up slightly to keep from bending in half.

Her toes barely brushed the ground as he swept her in a kiss, which was in many ways, her first. That night all they did was lay there, arms around each other, and look in their eyes, as if there were a whole new universe there.

When dawn came they still hadn't moved, but when gray light flooded the room they moved in unison and rose to get dressed. Jomei came racing in.

"Good morning, Mommy! Good morning, Daddy! Breakfast is ready. They both took one of his hands and swung him between them with excited giggles ringing the halls. As they walked in everyone greeted them.

"Tohru, Hatori, we're going to a carnival today, do you want to come, we can take Jomei if you don't want to." Yuki said after they had been handed bowls of oatmeal.

"Well why don't you guys go, and we'll meet you later." Hatori nodded his agreement. Soon after, they were all gone. Wei offered to drive them some where, but Hatori said that was okay, Wei should have the day off, he could drive them.

"Where do you want to go?" Tohru shrugged with a smile, so Hatori drove out of the entrance and they went and saw a movie. It was dark when they left. When they arrived at the carnival and found their friends, Tohru excused herself to use the bathrooms. As she walked out suddenly she was held immobile by black clad arms. Her mouth was completely blocked.

He placed a white cloth to her face and she realized with horror that had been sprinkled with chloroform. And the world was dark; she only had the vague sense of being picked up and carried away till there was nothing.

End of Chapter Five

I know, but I couldn't resist, think of it this way, it was either being kidnapped or dying in a car crash and that was the end with Hatori raising Jomei alone. I may do that as an alternate ending, but there's going to be a happy ending too.

Preview of 6:

Chapter Six: Horrors

Tohru woke up much later. She was unbound much to her surprise. Her jeans were covered in dirt, she slowly stood up, her head feeling like it weighted 50 pounds. She was in some kind of small, low ceiling basement. There was only a door up in the ceiling, and surprise surprise, it was locked. Tohru beat on it till her knuckles bled.

As she collapsed and leaned against the wall, the ceiling opened and a tray was lowered, she ran to it but it closed before she reached it.