Chapter 14: Father Daughter Moment

Princess Sango

Kyoko woke up in the middle of the night, hearing someone walking around. Cautiously she slipped out of her warm bed and walked around Arisa and Hana before she slipped out of her room. She crept along the halls that were dark and made her way to the kitchen where someone was looking in the fridge. At first glance the man was tall but looked familiar, like a taller and more mature version of her brother.

She gasped as she realized this could be her father and crept into the room, "May I help you?"

The figure blinked and stared out into the darkness, "Who are you?"

Kyoko's hands moved quickly to the light switch and when the light was on she observed the figure, "I'm Sohma Kyoko, now who are you?"

The figure relaxed and smiled, "I'm Sohma Kyo; it's been a long time."

Kyoko stood and finally she recognized the voice, "So you were that man in the hut? You're my father aren't you?"

Kyo looked down and then at his daughter and noticed she looked more like Tohru, but the hair was mixed but the innocence was still there, along with the more mature version of someone way older than herself, sort of like Hiro… "Yes I am your father, sorry that I haven't been here for along time."

Kyoko stood frozen to the ground, her small feet becoming heavy cement blocks and the very voice she once had was gone. The questions lay screaming in her mind now are only small whispers, as she watched her father observe her. She quickly regained her composure, "I've always wanted to meet you, and here you are, you're finally here!" She ran up and hugged him and Kyo was shocked, this girl had accepted him immediately.

Awkwardly he hugged her back, "Did I wake you up?"

"Yeah, I thought you were Kyo-kun or even Uncle Yuki."

Kyo hissed at Yuki's name and Kyoko noticed, "Do you not like Uncle Yuki?"

Kyo closed his eyes, "Not very much, no I never really got along that well with him. It goes back way too far."

Kyoko gently withdrew from his arms, "Well I have time, do you want to tell me?"

"Don't you have to get up or something?"

"No, mom home schools us since forever and I really just want to spend time with you, please?" Kyoko asked her father childishly, her blue eyes sparkling and pleading at the same time.

"Okay, okay, let's sit down and I'll explain, but not a word to anyone else okay?"

Kyoko nodded as they both sat down across from each other and Kyo started his long story, "It all started the day I was born..."

Next day…

Kyoko woke up in her mother's room and figured out that her father must have carried her all the way here. Sure enough, there was her dad on one side and her mother on the other side, she gently squirmed out of the bed and walked out of the room and saw Yuki and Kyo talking with Hana and Arisa, "Ohayo gozaimasu!"

Everyone greeted her back but everyone knew with Kyo around, everything was going to be different, everything.

TBC…