Sparkle of Sunshine

Chapter 7

"Confused thoughts"

Hiro sat in front of his television, looking at old home movies. He smiled at the ones of Kin and him finger painting when his son was three and Kin learning how to play the guitar at age seven.

Ayaka brought Hiro some green tea, smiled and left. Hiro sipped the tea and continued to watch, "No one deserves to live life not knowing who they really are, right?"

Hiro watched as him and Kin wrestled on the floor and Hiro pretended to be defeated by his nine year old son. The two of them got along so well, Hiro didn't know where he would be without Kin. His life was complete with his loving wife and blessing son.

Hiro then opened his video camera bag and pulled out a tape labeled little pink.

He popped it into the video camera and hooked it up to the TV set. He rewound it a bit and stopped, showing Shuichi smiling down at the bundle he held in his arms.

"Say hi to Uncle Hiro, Rose!" Shuichi said, taking his daughters arm and waving it towards the camera. Little Rose began to cry.

"I don't think she likes the camera." Hiro muffled but Shuichi rolled his eyes, "I don't think she likes your ugly face!" Shuichi chuckled and took his gaze back to his daughter.

"Anyway, tell me about her, my battery is dying." Hiro said, re-adjusting the camera, "Well, she's three days old, she has big, beautiful golden eyes and wisps of my strawberry hair… I'm glad she has my eye shape, I was worried she would have Yuki's… but I'm glad she has his color eyes." Shuichi paused as if saying what was playing in his mind would be difficult, "Tomorrow her adopted parents are coming to pick her up, and take her home and give her a life I can't." Shuichi smiled at the camera then looked down lovingly at his daughter.

"It was meant to be this way, I know what I'm doing is the right thing, I'm doing what's best for her, because I love her." Shuichi paused and looked at his daughter who opened her golden eyes and stared into his eyes.

"I'm proud of you Shuichi, and I'm always here for you, and don't you worry, we can tape your little pink and you can have a copy of the tape." Hiro said but Shuichi only shook his head, "No, I don't want to haunt myself with the decision I made." Shuichi looked at the camera with sadness, "Turn it off, please." And after that moment, the screen was filled with TV fizz.

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"GOOOOOD MORNING EVERYONE!" Kari said, bouncing into the kitchen and caught the piece of toast that flew out of the toaster.

"Hey you little brat, that's mine!" Yuki roared, getting out of his chair.

Kari licked the toast, "It's mine now! Ohhh!"

Shuichi looked between the two, "They act like it's the last piece of toast in the world…or at least Yuki does."

Yuki mumbled a few words but Kari only patted him on the back, "It's okay Mr. Uesugi, old men tend to be grumpy in the morning."

Yuki glared up at her but couldn't stay mad with that cute look she had on her face.

"Just get out of my face." Yuki blankly said, turning back to his eggs.

Yuki looked where the outline of his plate once was.

"KAAARRRRIIIII!"

"So Kari what do you plan on doing today?" Shuichi asked, leaning in the door frame.

"Oh, I'm going to caught up on my writing." She stated, pulling out her laptop from underneath the bed. She turned it on and while waiting, she finished her stolen eggs.

"I didn't know you cooked." Shuichi raised an eyebrow. Kari gulped down the last egg, "I couldn't if my life depended on it."

Just then, Shuichi was missing from the doorframe and there stood an angry Yuki, "You conniving little brat! How dare you take something that isn't yours! You're so sneaking and yet can be so innocent, it's as if you get away with anything, you remind me of…" Yuki paused and thought of what he was going to say.

Shuichi crawled into the room, "She reminds you of you, doesn't she?" he said, smiling and fell to the floor.

Yuki smirked, "Yeah, I guess you do." He said and she smirked back at him.

Shuichi looked between the two and they had the same trademark smirk, "You two entertain me."

"More like, you entertain us." The two of them said in unison.

Yuki peered over at the laptop as Kari began to write, "You write?" he asked and Kari only nodded; "Now if you'll leave me to my work, I don't like my thoughts to be interrupted." She stated sternly, sounding just like someone we know.

"Okay, well then, I'll be going." Yuki looked at the ground to see Shuichi just looking up at him with his puppy eyes, then grinning evilly.

Kari looked up at the two and sighed, "If you're going to look at each other like that, get a room!"

The two took her seriously and left for their bedroom and Kari tried her best to remove the thoughts forming in her mind, "Man…this sucks, I can't concentrate! I have such a headache!" Kari then realized she was missing something. She leaned over the side of her bed and picked up a pink eye glass case, "Almost forgot my reading glasses!" she perked up and began writing endless pages of mind riddling thoughts.

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"Baby, what's wrong?" Ayaka asked, turning over with sleepy eyes, seeing her husband sitting up in bed.

Hiro didn't answer.

"Hiro, it's three in the morning, tell me what's wrong." Ayaka asked again, sitting up and massaging her husband's shoulders. Hiro tensed up then relaxed.

"You know about Shuichi's daughter, Rose?" Hiro asked and Ayaka nodded and said, "Yes, why are you bringing her up? I thought she was never to be brought up again, it was Shuichi's wish."

"Well, I was watching home movies today and I don't know where I would be without our son, I could have never given him up as a baby, he meant too much, yet Shuichi gave up his daughter out of pure love for her, to give her a life he never could." Hiro continued to stare off into space and Ayaka sighed.

"Where are you going with this?" she asked sternly.

"Ayaka, she's here in Japan, looking for her parents."

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Yuki woke up and looked down at his arms and there slept his lover, his face still a little flush. Yuki smirked and kissed Shuichi's forehead and slowly turned his lover over so he was out of his arms and Yuki was free to go.

Yuki put on his boxers, a white shirt and his robe, normally he would just put on his boxers but there was a lady in the house.

Yuki's feet scuffed across the wooden floor as his mind was only on reaching the bathroom. He did not look very awake either, his hair all going in different directions and his eyes half closed.

click click click click click

Yuki's head perked up, "Is she still on her computer?"

Yuki decided to be curious and peek into her room, seeing her looking so concentrated at her work. If he didn't know better, he'd say he was looking at himself in a woman's body.

"Mr. Uesugi?" she asked, seeing him at the door.

"You know, you can call me Eiri, I'm starting to get annoyed by the name Yuki, for certain reasons." He said, walking into the room.

"Alright, Eiri." She said looking back at her work.

"What are you writing?" he asked, very interested since writing was his life and passion.

"Well, I've read your books and you inspired me to write romance stories, but mine's end with a happy ending, maybe not the way people would want the happy ending to be, but its still nice." She smiled, "Want to read and tell me your honest opinion? I heard you're a big critic." She giggled.

Yuki took the laptop into his own lap and first checked to see how many pages there were.

276

"You expect me to read two hundred and seventy six pages right now? It's three in the morning?" Yuki said blankly and yawned, "I'll read it tomorrow, I promise." He smiled and got up off the bed, "Thank you for your time, Eiri." She said, saving her work and turning off her laptop for the night.

"You're welcome." Yuki said, and slowly closed the door.

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Star laid in her bed, staring up at her ceiling fan as it slowly made its full rotation.

She closed her eyes, thinking of what Kari said yesterday.

"I'm trying to find my parents." Kari whispered, barely audible.

"What do you mean? Are they here in Japan? That's cute! They came all the way from America!" Star smiled but only saw tears on Kari's face, "Didn't I tell you? I was adopted… and I was hoping to find my parents here in Japan if at all possible."

"Oh hunny…. I didn't know! I'm so sorry, do you know their names?" Star asked but Kari only shook her head in a no.

"All I have… are these lyrics… that… my birth father wrote to me." Kari whispered pulling out the lyrics from her back pocket.

Star was confused as hell, "Wait birth father!"

Kari sighed, "Yeah, a guy can have a baby nowadays. I find it fascinating that a guy would go that length to have a girl like me, but why was I given up? For a guy to do that is a major health risk and it's not very cheap."

"Well I'll do everything in my power to find them with you Kari!" Star winked which made Kari smile.

That last line echoed in Star's mind when suddenly she opened her eyes and glared up at the ceiling.

"Kari deserves to know her parents and I will stop at nothing to find out who they are, even if I have to get my uncle to help." Star grinned, feeling satisfied she turned over and fell into a deep slumber.

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DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUN! What's Hiro going to do? And Who the hell is Star's uncle? I decided to put a little twist in here now to make it interesting! Chapter 8 will be out ASAP!

Ayaka