Previously:

She felt the ground have a small pounding noise coming from it as it got louder and louder. Finally the man had drawn back and got off of her as he said something that Momo could hardly make out. "It's not what it seems" is what she thought she had heard. But she couldn't be curtain. The man let out a harsh yell as the sound of flesh meeting flesh echoed through the room.

"Don't you ever touch her again!" Was the last thing she remembered before everything went dark.

What Money Can't Buy

By: Regina Guthrie

Chapter Six

Momo's eyes fluttered open as she felt pain flow through her head. The throbbing grew worse as she became more awake. She laid there, not moving or opening her eyes, hoping to fall back into a peaceful sleep. It wasn't working. Finally giving up on the idea, she decided to try and remember what had happened to her. Her thoughts cringed as the images shot through her mind. Her hands flew up to her forehead as the thought just made her head sting more. She whimpered as she tried to remember how the whole occurrence ended.

"So, Your finally awake." Her eyes opened slowly as everything was a blur, but then went to normal. Toshiro was walking towards her where she laid in her bed with the covers tucked in all around her and stopped up her arms. He took a seat at the edge of the bed and reached out to feel her forehead. He gently moved her hands out of the way and brushed his fingers over a huge black and blue bruise that led from her cheek to her forehead. "He hit you pretty hard, didn't he?" He whispered lowly but angrily. Momo nodded slightly as she watched him look down at her with worried eyes. "Do you feel okay? Do you hurt anywhere?" He asked kindly with a soft smile.

"My head stings like it's on fire, that's it." She whimpered out. She knew she must have sounded like a baby to him. But she just couldn't help it, her head was throbbing with killer pain. Toshiro sighed and crawled onto the bed with her and sat down. He carefully placed one of his hands around her waist and the other under her head like you would support an infants head and pulled her over into his lap. She didn't recline but only started to cry when she was pressed up against him. Toshiro looked down at the sobbing girl that had buried her face into his chest. He sighed and brushed his fingers through her hair. "I...I...I was s...so s...scared!" She sobbed with a sniffle at the end. Toshiro didn't know what to do, she was crying over something he had helped the best he could with already.

"Momo, it's okay. He won't touch you again, made sure of it." He whispered into her hair as he kissed the top of her head. Momo buried her loud cries into his shirt while he tried to sooth her, but nothing seemed to work. "I wish you had listened to me Momo, I wasn't doing it to be mean or anything, I was aware with the people working here and the men. I was keeping you safe until I could deal with the situation. I'm so sorry." He whispered the words carefully with pain struck with every one. Momo lifted her head as much as she could without the pain getting to bad. She looked at his guilty looking face and smiled, tears still rolling down her face.

"Thank you, for helping me." She whispered as she felt a burning sensation coming from her cheeks. Toshiro smiled back at her and kissed her forehead very gently, as to not have hurt the bruise that sat there.

"As if I would let some bastard hurt you." He smiled down at her. Momo just stared at him. "Never." He whispered before diving down and kissing the side of Momo's bruised lips. Her eyes widened but she didn't know rather to pull away or just enjoy it for the moment. His lips hovered over hers for a moment and then dove down again. This time when they broke apart, Momo tried to fallow. It boosted Toshiro's self confidence about the whole thing and dove again for a deeper kiss. Momo gave in to him at that moment and pressed her lips to his as they came down again. Her arms slowly circled around his neck while her fingers entwined in his hair. Toshiro groaned as he started to kiss her more wildly causing Momo to moan a little. His hands made it to her sides and grasped onto her, pushing her body into his.

Toshiro's lips detached from Momo's causing her to let out a small whine. He chuckled as his lips brushed against her chin and made there way down to her neck, where he began sucking on the skin there. Momo through her head back and started to breath heavily out of her mouth as everywhere he kissed felt like it was on fire. Not the fire like her head had felt like but a good fire. She yanked at his hair to come back up to her lips but he only chuckled and continued playing with the skin of her neck. Momo moaned a little more and started to get inpatient. Toshiro noticed this and finally decided to give her her wish and return to her lips where he forcefully claimed them as his. Momo parted her mouth slightly when Toshiro's teeth grazed over her bottom lip. His tongue slid slowly through her wet cavern and met with hers. Sending a shock through her body. She never imagined kissing him to be like this, she thought before that it would be overly degusting and make her puke but it was the total opposite.

He pulled back and laid a small kiss on her forehead before laying back all the way and pushing her head back into it's place on his chest as he stroked her cheek. Momo pouted up at him as he laughed and nuzzled her temple with his nose causing her to jump slightly from the ticklish sensation.

"Are you hungry sweet heart?" He asked lowly as he took a piece of her hair and swirled it around his fingers. "You've been asleep for a good five hours, I would think you would be hungry." He stated. Momo looked up at him with an amazed look on her face.

"Five hours?" She questioned with an amazed tone in her voice.

"Yep, five hours, are you hungry?" He re-asked with a smirk. She only giggled and shook her head. Laying back down on him and closing her eyes she added. "Just a little tired." She yawned. Toshiro laughed.

"I can see that, Go to sleep Momo. I'll talk to you in the morning." He said before gently moving her off of him and into the middle of her huge bed. He easily climbed off and started to approach the door when he turned around one last time and took in her lovely features as she slept. He smiled and walked out the door.

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The morning sun beams blasted through the glass window of Momo's room and stretched across the floor or her bed, shinning upon her closed eyes. Birds sang outside with there high-pitched voices and brightened the day. Momo groaned slightly as her eye lids wrinkled when she closed them tighter and shifted to the other side where the light had not yet made it's appearance. Her hair was scattered over the many pillows with small tangles in each section of it. She sighed slightly as sleep began to over take her features again.

A few seconds after almost drifting off again, the door creaked as a sign that it was being opened. Momo pulled the covers over her head as footsteps were making there way across the floor and towards her. She heard a slight chuckle as the bed sank a little from the weight of another person sitting on the side.

"Momo, get up." A husky voice whispered as a hand landed on her arm that was covered up by the main blanket of the bed. Momo groaned and tossed back to the other side where to sun was shinning. "Momo, come on get up." He said again while running his hand down her side. She jumped slightly making him stop. He then smirked when he noticed why she had jumped. "Momo Hinamori get up this instant or else." He tried again.

"Or else what?" She murmured tiredly as she curled up into the blankets more. Toshiro smirked.

"Or else this." He said before grabbing her hips and wiggling his fingers over them. Momo jumped up with a squeal of laughter and her arms flew it his, trying to remove them. Toshiro laughed as he used one of his hands to pin her arms above her head and continued with the other. Momo screeched in laughter as she tried to kick him off. Her legs began to swing around like crazy. Toshiro only smirked and climbed on top of her as he pressed his legs down on hers to keep her from kicking.

"S...s...STOP!" Momo barely screamed out. Toshiro only chuckled and continued to tickle her sides. Momo's face was already past red and she had two tears rolling down the sides of her face. Finally, when she couldn't take it anymore, she started to kick and squirm and go crazy on him. It took a minute, but she managed to get him to role over onto the side of the bed, laying on his back. Momo rolled over with him and startled his waist as she sat up straight trying to kept her breath. Toshiro laughed and placed his hands back on her lower hips.

"That was fun, wanna try it again." He smirked at her about to wiggle his fingers again when she shot her hands on top of his and held them there still as she shot him a glare. He only laughed.

"That wasn't funny, Toshiro!" She scolded keeping a serious scowl on her face as she crossed her arms over her chest. Toshiro only gave a half a smile in her direction.

"I thought it was breathtakingly funny." He said. Momo groaned at his words and slapped his chest lightly. He pretended to flinch and then chuckled under his breath. A few seconds past of the two starring each other down when Toshiro let out a small laugh while shaking his head.

"What now?" She asked irritated. Toshiro only smirked up at her with a glint in his eyes. Momo raised an eyebrow.

"I was just thinking about how amusing it was to watch you squirm under me." Momo's face turned cherry red as she forcefully brought her hands up to cover it. leaning to the side, she tried to roll away from him but he only chuckled and pulled her back on top of him by her hips where his hands were still laying. "Where are you going?" He said in an angry voice but Momo could still hear the playfulness in the tone of it. She smiled lightly with a face still flushed and leaned down until her cheek was against his chest and she was laying down on top of him. Toshiro brought his hands up to her hair and smoothed through the knots that laid in it. Momo closed her eyes with a sigh and snuggled up into his chest. Toshiro looked down at her and smiled. He leaned forward and placed a small kiss on her forehead. "Don't you fall back asleep on me, or we'll have to relive the past." He whispered. Momo only nodded as they both went silent again and she couldn't help it, her mind drifted off into a deep slumber as her body went limp.

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Momo opened her eyes slowly as the sound of rain trickling on the roof over took her hearing. She groaned as she pulled herself into a sitting position as a small amount of pain shot through her head. She was in her room and it was probably around midnight she could tell. Looking around she sighed and gradually laid herself back down.

"It was a dream." She whispered softly to herself. She brought her hands up to her head and sighed. In a way she was thankful that it was a dream but in another way that she couldn't understand, she was a bit unpleased with the whole thing. She had made it clear to herself and him that she had no use of being with him nor any desire of it either. He was arrogant and not like the kind of person she had always imagined herself being with. But for some strange reason the dream had felt so real. What really got her though was her actions in the dream. She went along with it, as if she was really in love with him. It didn't make since. It was a dream and anything could happen in them but because she didn't want to wake up from it, it seemed puzzling.

She groaned while looking towards the window. The whole occurrence from the day before shot through her head like a bullet when her eyes laid upon the window that had given her the view of the garden in the first place. Thinking back, she recalled being saved. By who? she did not know. She had money on it being Toshiro though. His voice sounded like him. Although she was halfway unconscious so it was possible she was wrong.

a streak of lightning flashed out of the sky with a booming noise as it lit up the room. Momo jumped and whimpered. All her thoughts were now gone as the only thing that stayed was how much she hated thunderstorms. Ever since she was little she had been overly scared of them and even to this day she would climb in bed wit her mother when they had came, even if she was to old. Her mother always welcomed her with open arms though. This was one of the times she wished she really was home, now she had no one to turn to. There was Toshiro, just right in front of her bedroom but that was her very last result.

Breathing in slowly she closed her eyes and pulled the covers up to her chin trying to think of something else besides what was happening outside. It was working until another bash of lightning lit up the sky and made an even louder boom then the last. She shot up breathing heavily as sweat beads ran down her forehead. Pulling her knees to her chest she started to cry as the lightning struck out again and again. Her mind raced as she tried to keep from crying anymore but it wasn't working. Finally she decided to give up.

Momo pulled herself out of the bed and set her feet on the cold ground as a shiver ran up her spin. Taking small steps because her body was still sore from being dragged and pushed around so roughly she slowly made it to the door that led out of her room and into the hallway. She took her time opening it when another flash of lightning shot from the sky. She then pushed the door open with force and nearly ran to Toshiro's bedroom door. She stood in front of it for a minute. She didn't know what to do. She didn't want to stay with him for the night but she also didn't want to stay by herself while the lightning was so fierce.

Momo sighed as she finally decided to go to Toshiro. She lightly grabbed the knob and twisted it while pushing the door open. The room was dark and she couldn't see anything. Slowly she walked through rubbing her feet on the floor to make sure she didn't step or run into anything. Closing the door, she leaned against it and sighed. The thought of leaving flashed through her mind and she about did it when a flash came through from his window and the boom echoed. She whimpered and closed her eyes as she slid down the door and sat there. Her knees pulled up to her chest and head buried in between as uncontrollable sobs broke loose. She just wanted to lightning and the noises to stop. If they did she would be perfectly fine with just the ran. She sniffled a few times with one or two hiccups at the end.

"Momo?" A husky voice that had sleep entwined with it asked as the bed springs creaked a little. Momo's head shot up as her muffle crying were now hearable.

""Hmm?" She whimpered out as her body started to shake.

"W-what are you doing in here? It's nearly two in the morning, are you okay?" He asked with concerned buckled in with tiredness. She couldn't see him but he bet was he was sitting up now in bed looking in the direction her cries were coming from. At least by the direction of his voice that was what it seemed.

"N...no." She squeaked out with a few cries at the end. "I... I'm...I'm-" A jolt of lightning flashed through the air again as it lit up the room bringing the horrid sound with it again. "SCARED!" She finished with a scream when it happened. Her cries got louder and she heard the bed squeak again, then footsteps coming near her. A hand fell on her cheek and stoked lightly as she leaned into the welcoming touch that made her feel safe. A few more whimpers were let out as he pulled her into him.

"Shh, it's okay. come on you can stay with me for tonight." He whispered soothingly as he gently picked her up bridal style and made his way back to his bed. Momo clung to him as the room lit up again. She closed her eyes and buried her face into Toshiro's chest. He sat her on one side of the bed while he crawled into the other. Momo sniffled back the tears as her shaking did not stop. Toshiro listened to her cry as he debated on trying to hold her or not and if that's the kind of comfort she needed. Plus if she would except it.

After a few more seconds he decided to try it. Slowly he inched closer to her as one of his long muscular arms snaked around her small waist. She squeaked in return but then allowed him to pull her into his warm embrace. She laid buried her face into the croak of his neck and breathed in heavily as her hands laid on his chest. Toshiro held her tightly in his arms as his nose was buried in the top of her head, taking in her peachy smell.

"Don't cry anymore Momo, I'm here and I'll protect you, I promise." He whispered as he listened to her cries get lower and lower until they were gone and her steady breathing was the only noise he could hear.

"Thank you." She whispered before drifting off to sleep.

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That's the sixth chapter and I hope you all liked it! The last scene with the thunder and sleeping together was supposed to happen next chapter but i had no way to end this chapter without it being short besides this so I just did it for this chapter. Next chapter I think they'll go golfing... lol please review!