AN: I hope you enjoy this. I read every review but I have a lot of things set up in my mind, I hope to show everything that people are requesting to see but I hope you enjoy the story even if your question isn't answered…yet

Chapter Two – Welcome to America

Kuon looked down as he tossed a ball against the wall in the backyard. When his parents had come back from their celebration dinner – which he hadn't been invited to it seemed – they had told him that Kyoko would be coming to stay with them over the holidays and they were so excited to have her. Kuon sighed, it must be good for them to be excited for some child.

When he had left Japan, it had taken him four months to be able to walk properly and move in a way that looked normal. Four months had been such a huge stretch of time where he had been stuck in the chair and he couldn't wait to get out of it. These days he moved normally and was starting to get back into the acrobatics and martial arts that he loved before but now people always tried to remind him of how he had stumbled and had to pick himself up.

Maybe life was stupid, but he had to keep trying. There had to be some light.

He tossed the ball to the wall again and then paused as he saw his father standing there. "Kuon, did you want to come to the airport with me to collect Kyoko?" he asked and the preteen sighed and shrugged his shoulders with a weak exhale.

"I don't really care," he said and Kuu studied him, he was waiting for more of a response.

"Is something going o-" Kuu said as he approached his son noticing that he looked a little more distant than usual. This wasn't what he had been expecting those weeks ago when the trip was planned and it was too late to do anything now. He couldn't just tell the small girl to beat in and send her on a different flight.

Apparently, this was her one birthday wish and he didn't want to upset her on her birthday.

"Will you shut up!?" Kuon yelled and then his eyes widened as he realized the insecurity that he had let slip out. "Dad, I'm sorry, I'm sorry," he said quickly as Kuu looked at him as if trying to decipher a clue. He walked over to his son but Kuon backed up. "Dad, it's fine. I'm fine. I just…maybe I didn't sleep well last night."

"Do you need to go to the doctor again?" Kuu asked as he reached out to touch his son's forehead and check his temperature. He allowed his hands to rest on Kuon's arms and sighed. "Do your arms hurt? Your legs…weren't you told to rest those. Maybe playing ball isn't a good -"

"Do you have to be so overprotective!?" Kuon yelled again. "I didn't do anything to you!"

"Ku…on" Kuu said slowly and saw the near-teenager look down regretfully.

"Sorry, Dad. Puberty," Kuon said as he held up his hands in defense. Kuu frowned as he watched Kuon go back into the house. "Go to the airport without me," he said with a thumbs up and Kuu sighed.

"Kuon, if you need any -" Kuu said as he looked like a lost and lonely puppy.

"Great, Dad. I've got it," he said with two thumbs up. He just wanted to be left alone. He didn't know why he had made such an impression on the small girl but she shouldn't have come here. Kyoko had such high expectations and she would have some fantasy planned for them. Life wasn't a fantasy though and he definitely wasn't a prince.

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Kyoko nervously looked out at the arrivals gate. She had been told that when she was reunited with the family that was taking care of her for the visit, that the security guard that Lory had employed would bring out her bag to them. That made this so much more exciting. She had flown in a business class seat and they had been really nice to her. It was such an exciting trip and she had even been able to sit in a window seat so she could see the world the way that only fairies naturally could.

As she spotted the Hizuri couple she giggled and ran towards them before stopping. "Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Hizuri," she said with a smile as she made sure to speak in English. She made a small bow. "Thank you for allowing me to come."

"Well, thank you for choosing to come," Kuu smiled and Julie got down to the floor so she could pull the little girl into a hug. "We've really missed you."

"It's so good to see you so happy and healthy, Kyoko," Julie smiled as Kuu made contact with the man who had Kyoko's bag and shared some greetings with him. "It's been a while hasn't it," she said before seeing Kyoko looking around for something. "Did you forget something? Do you need to use the bathroom?" Julie asked her concerned.

"No, I…I thought…" she said before smiling. Maybe Kuon was busy and she should respect that fact.

"Is there something wrong?" Julie asked.

"No, I just…is Kuon busy right now?" she asked as she looked up at the Hizuri parents concerned. "He's alright, isn't he?"

"Of course, he's alright." Kuu laughed. "That kid is always doing his best at whatever he puts his hand to. He's got a lot of confidence and he's intelligent and healthy and he's going to be a great actor," he said proudly as Julie nodded.

"I feel very privileged as a mother to have a boy as mature as Kuon is to be my son," Julie grinned and Kyoko shifted nervously.

"I'm happy that he's doing well, but…" she shook her head, "I'm excited about being in America." She said. She looked at them and then frowned. Why wasn't Kuon here with them and if he wasn't able to come then why were they both here? She didn't want to feel ungrateful to the two of them, after all they had done more for her than her biological mother, but she wondered how Kuon felt being all alone and separated from everyone else.

"Shall we go home and see him?" Kuu said and Kyoko nodded eagerly.

"I think if we go back now, he'll feel less lonely," Kyoko grinned and Julie and Kuu gave her an unsettled look which made Kyoko feel a little self-conscious.

"Kuon never gets lonely, it's not in his character," Kuu said with conviction and Julie nodded along. Kyoko looked at the two of them but then stared down. It wasn't her place to talk about how they might be making Kuon feel bad just by them not being with him. She would feel upset if they had left her behind, but then she wasn't a big kid like he was.

"Can we go and see him though?" Kyoko smiled and Julie nodded.

"Sure, let's go see Kuon and then we can go out to a steakhouse for dinner tonight," she smiled as Kyoko nodded weakly. She hoped that whatever they did made Kuon happy as well.

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Kuon sighed as he sat on the stairs as the car pulled up. He didn't know what to say that wouldn't disappoint her, maybe he shouldn't talk to her at all or pretend he was busy. No. He could never let himself do that to Kyoko but maybe she would be sleepy and he could escape. He didn't want to hurt her at all and that was what would happen if he tried to escape.

He smiled as he heard Kuu open the door and watched his parents come in with Kyoko. He smiled to her from where he was sitting and saw her smile spread over her face much more than when she had been speaking about Sho in the past.

"Hello, Kyoko-chan" he smiled to her and Kyoko ran up to him once she had removed her shoes.

"Corn" she said with tears in her eyes and threw her arms around him. "It's so good to see you again and you're walking and -" Kyoko pushed her head into his chest and smiled. "It's so good to see you again, Corn."

"It's good to see you too, Kyoko-chan," Kuon said as he looked away and Kyoko tilted her head to the side. Something was wrong again.

"Kuon? Are you okay?" she asked and Kuon nodded. He opened his mouth to speak before hearing his mother.

"Kuon?" she said as she held the suitcase, "Could you maybe show Kyoko to the room she'll be in?" Julie asked and Kuon took a shaky breath before nodding and going to get the suitcase. He saw Kyoko's eagerness and internally wished that he wouldn't disappoint her.

"Come on," he gestured and Kyoko followed him with a huge smile on her face. "So, how was your trip?" he asked her and Kyoko noticed his maturity. She always held him up as an inspiration for her life, she wanted to be as amazing as she believed that Kuon was. She would always talk about her fairy prince although she just called him her friend, her very important friend. Nobody needed to know the story about the fairy prince apart from them.

"It was fun. There was good food," Kyoko said in Japanese. She was glad that Kuon had started speaking in Japanese for her. It was hard to speak so much English all at once. "I've never been up in the sky like that before. It looked beautiful and I felt really safe because I knew that I was coming here."\

"Is there something special that you're looking forward to in America?" Kuon asked as he took her down the hallway. "Any food you wanted to eat or anywhere you wanted to go? I know that Dad said that he could take you to Disneyland if you wanted."

"Would you come too?" Kyoko asked and Kuon looked away.

"I…could," he said weakly as they stopped outside of the guest room. "Here," he gestured to the door as he opened it for her but Kyoko kept watching him. She knew that something was wrong and Kuon knew that that was what she was thinking. He just hoped that she wouldn't ask.

"Is something -" Kyoko asked nervously but then remembered about how he had avoided responding to that question on email. Was it worse for her to ask it to him in person? "How is your acting going?" she asked and Kuon looked away.

"It's fine, can we not talk about it?" he asked and Kyoko nodded.

"Sure, we don't have to talk about that, but there is a reason that I wanted to come here," Kyoko said as she looked at the guest room they were in. It was such a nice room and what she would expect in a nice Western house, but this was Corn's house and Corn's territory. It did have a lot of Mr. Hizuri in here though.

"Well tell Dad," Kuon suggested and Kyoko shook her head.

"I wanted to come and see my most important person," Kyoko blushed and Kuon blinked.

"Dad doesn't have every celebrity's phone number, unless it's someone who both Mom and he are friends with than I probably haven't met them. There's a lot of stars in Hollywood," Kuon shrugged but Kyoko looked at him with a cute pout.

"There might be a lot of celebrities, but there's only one star out there whose light shines with fairy magic," she giggled as Kuon looked at her in surprise. "There's only one Kuon Hizuri. My most important person," she blushed.

End Chapter Two

AN2: Thank you to everyone who supports my story. Special shout out to reviewers of chapter one: Ashenvale, Cheshire 2313, Glimare, Guest, Erza, insidebeast, Kris, Mainaru974, Michiyo, PaulaGaTo, Reader4life, Tabbykatroses, The Real Jackie-O