Sparkle of Sunshine
Disclaimer: I do not own Gravitation but I do own Kari, Kin and the band Forbidden Rose, I also do not own any lyrics I put into this story.
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Chapter 10
"Silent Truth"
Kari just looked into the puzzled face of Shuichi Shindo, the man who she wanted to know why he has possession of her baby photo.
"Why would he have something like this?" she wondered and thought if he was invading her privacy.
"Why do you have my baby picture?"
"Why do you
have my baby picture?"
"Why do you
have my baby picture?"
That sentence was ringing in Shuichi's mind, just like a broken recorded, repeating nonstop.
Shuichi thought he was dreaming and felt his whole body starting to shake and a cold sweat come over him. This young woman, who's been rooming with Yuki and him, the one girl who the most beautiful voice, adorable laughter and heart melting smile, was indeed his daughter….
"My daughter…" Shuichi thought… and Kari waved a hand in front of his face, "Hello? Shuichi are you there? Do you feel alright, you look absolutely pale."
Shuichi looked her in the eye and felt his heart beating faster… this couldn't be… but it was…
Yuki felt worried, "Hun, are you feeling alright? Do you need to lie down?"
Shuichi wasn't responding and stood up.
"He might be a little warm, maybe the temperature is high." Kari suggested and looked over at Yuki.
"I'll go check the temperature of the home, be right back." Yuki said, getting off the couch and walking into the next room to check.
"I found your picture while cleaning and…." Shuichi couldn't control himself anymore and felt his whole body let go and the room began to spin.
Darkness fell over Shuichi…
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Ayaka walked past the living room, carrying a tray for Hiro, a simple dinner since Hiro's been working on his half of the lyrics for Bad Luck's song, Pink.
Even though Bad Luck hasn't taken the stage in many years, they wanted to make a small comeback and rock Japan with their music that struck the world years ago. They planned on making a tour within the year which would last several months.
She stopped when she noticed Kin, her only son which she adored and loved more than anything. He was bummed out on the couch, the television was off and he just stared at the ceiling, emotionless.
"Kin?" Ayaka spoke softly, startling the young man a bit and he looked over at his mother in the door way.
"Yes mother?" he asked, sitting up and looking at her, "Are you feeling alright? You're never like this, something you want to talk to me about?" she asked and Kin just looked away.
Ayaka sighed and walked into the room, setting the tray down and took a seat next to her son, "Now Kin, you know you can tell me anything, I promise to listen and help you, I know there's something wrong, is it that girl, Kari?" she asked and Kin looked at her in shock, "Yeah… how did you know?" he asked while Ayaka grinned.
"I'm your mother, I know all." She giggled, earning a small smile from Kin.
"Kari's awesome mom, I really do like her it's just… I've never felt this way towards a girl I liked, I'm usually the one making the girl speechless and being smooth and all but Kari… she makes me weak in the knees with her smile and just by hearing her voice I feel so defenseless." Kin said and felt his face reddened a bit and Ayaka just smiled, "Hey I know what you're going through, your father felt that way about me, I remember, he was usually the type to confront girls, except me, he was like a shy schoolboy giving a valentine to a pretty girl he liked."
Kin chuckled and Ayaka gently placed her hand on her son's cheek and made eye contact with him and gave him a warm smile, "Have confidence and talk to her, you never know until you ask right? And if things don't work out, I'm always here for you, and so is your father, you still have us." She said and Kin gave his mother a hug.
"Thanks." He whispered.
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"GET HIM TO THE ER IMMEDIATELY!" A doctor yelled, running down the hall as the man held his stomach in a wheelchair, tears falling out of his eyes.
"What's wrong with my baby?" The man yelled and nurses weren't saying much, just focused on getting him into emergency cesarean section, "PLEASE SOMEONE ANSWER ME PLEASE!" the man bawled, holding the stomach where his unborn child lay helpless as the dangers of death surrounded the infant.
"Sir, we are going to give you your epidural and get you in." the nurse tried to calm him down, "Sir you need to calm down, for the baby's health." She said firmly and the man nodded his messy pink hair.
The man was helped onto a patient's table and asked to bow his head down and felt the fabric from his back being removed and a cold, wet cotton ball being placed and rubbed around the area for where the needle would be inserted.
"Now relax… and after we get this over with I'll tell you what's going on okay?" she said and he nodded once again and winced as he felt the cold, thick needle being inserted into his back and gave a slight jolt as a clear tube as inserted into his spinal cord.
He felt so relaxed at the moment and shortly felt numbness come to the bottom half of his body, "Sir, your baby's heart beat is falling slowly, so even though she'll be born two weeks early, we need to do this for the baby's health or if we wait, we could possibly have a still birth." She said, wheeling him down to the operation room.
"But she'll be fine right?" he asked, glancing up over his shoulder and the nurse smiled warmly, "If we do it now, your girl will be fine." She said and the white light impacted his eyes from the opening of the doors and soon all the noises and sounds faded away…
Shuichi…
Shuichi…
Shuichi…
"Shuichi."
Shuichi's eyed opened wide in shock and tried to sit up and instantly regretted that and felt the pounding headache impact him at full force, showing no mercy for the poor singer.
"Just lay down, you'll be okay, you've been asleep for about fifteen minutes." Yuki spoke softly and slowly so Shuichi could understand in his hurting mind.
"Where's… where's Kari?" Shuichi asked as Yuki placed the cold pack back on Shuichi's burning forehead.
"She's in her room, she thinks this is all her fault but I told her not to worry and stuff like this happens, you just happened to suddenly not feel well… yet I've never seen you pass out before, this is odd." Yuki questioned and Shuichi only closed his eyes but only saw pictures of his baby and Kari's beautiful face pop into his mind and quickly opened his eyes.
Yuki noticed this and was worried for his lover, "Shuichi you know how close we are, you know you can tell me anything that's bothering you, I'll listen and try to help, I would do anything for you because I…I love you." Yuki choked on the last words.
Even to this day, Yuki still was afraid to say those three words.
Those words were never spoken often from Eiri Yuki.
Shuichi listened and knew deep down the secret that could never reach his lover's ears. A secret so strong now it would probably tear the two apart. The mere thought of that instantly brought Shuichi to rapid tears as he cried hysterically.
Yuki instantly pulled his lover into his arms and stroked his soft pink hair, "Shh, everything's going to be fine, don't cry, my Shuichi." Yuki whispered as Shuichi's tears slowly broke Yuki's heart.
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"Thank you…yes… have a nice day." Tohma hung up his phone and put his forehead in the palm of his hand, pushing back his blonde hair a bit.
"Someone… tell me what I should do… give me a sign… I can't do this on my own, for once I can admit that… this is my family I'm talking about and I'm very emotional with them… I just want the best and I don't know which side to be on right now…" Tohma thought, feeling the pain in his heart weld up.
He looked in surprise when his cell phone started going off in his pant's pocket. He dug it out and saw it was his Mika calling.
"Hello." He said, wanting to know what his darling Mika wanted.
"Tohma, I just called my brother and Kari answered the phone, she told me the two were busy at the moment, apparently she said that Shuichi had her baby picture and she asked why he started to feel ill and fainted… Tohma… I think Shuichi knows but it seems Kari is still in the dark about it."
Tohma's eyed widened.
Mika heard his cell phone drop and it went dead, ending her call.
She looked at her phone's screen and tears started to form in her delicate eyes, "Tohma…."
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Shuichi stared up at the spinning ceiling fan, the room felt so hot to him that he was striped down to boxers and a light sheet draped across his legs.
He closed his eyes and concentrated on his long hot breath, seeping into his lungs and leaving through his nose.
The feeling of the cool breeze from the fan just wasn't enough.
Shuichi felt sweat run down his face and ran a hand through it hair, getting his fingers cause on the messy sticky hair from the humidity he was feeling.
All this shock was really making him so sick to his stomach and heart. Yuki would come in every now and then to check on his and offer him something like a food or drink but Shuichi just refused.
This started to worry Yuki, he felt and knew something was wrong.
Is it something so important that he must never know?
That thought struck his heart with full force, is it something Shuichi's afraid of telling him? He is deadly afraid?
"I would never leave him, no matter what he's hiding." Yuki thought, staring at his laptop screen, fingers hovering above the keys, suddenly at a loss for words that should magically appear and finish the novel.
"I just so worried about Shuichi, its making me restless, I need to know, I have to know, for the sake of the both of us." Yuki thought and thought of confronting Shuichi… just not now, not when Shuichi was feeling so awful.
Yuki got up from his desk for the millionth time and peeked in on the sleeping form of Shuichi.
He must of stood there for what seemed like eternity, watching his lovers chest fall up and down in a steady rhythm.
"Sleep well….Shuichi…" Yuki whispered and closed the door, heading back to his office.
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A few days have gone by, not much was said between the three who shared the apartment, just a casual, how are you or what are you up to for today?
It was now about seven in the evening, Kari was in her room on the phone, door locked and Shuichi had Ryuichi over to talk about… his daughter.
But he soon discovered Yuki was going to be home for the night since his interview was canceled at the last minute. Shuichi didn't want Yuki to suspect anything so he told Ryuichi that their conversation would be held till further notice and they would just hang out for the night.
The two were loud….noisy…. whiny… and giving the author a huge headache.
He was staring at the screen, a hand pulling the top of his hair and at any given moment could be rip it out of his skull.
It wasn't the writers block that was bothering him… it was how he was going to kill that Kumagoro and over grown adult in the other room so he could be alone with Shuichi.
Yuki sighed, letting go of his hair and his arms collapsed on the desk and he laid his head in them, closing his eyes and sighed.
"Shuichi…. What's wrong? Please tell me…" Yuki whispered and felt tears roll down his face.
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Yeah…. Sorry about not updating… with guard, stupid boys, friends and writers block, it wasn't a good combo… so yeah.. this chapter is short but I dunno if the next one will be longer or what…..
Ayaka Chan