very well written.....

ganbatte~~

Oh Dear God!!

you...you..your...

WAAAHH!!!



you know you always make me think while i'm reading that...

YOU ARE AMAZING!!

haha. sorry naman..

hehe. anyways! what a good chapter na namen!!


will they'll be back together again? will nino found out about kazuko? or will cho just gonna ditch nino again?..awwiieee!! poor nino chan..hahaha

waaah!..can't wait!..


ui anu bang meron dun sa part b?...BS?

haha..GOMEN!..BSTA! pm kita ah!..hehe..

wanna find out what it is!!

OMG!!! That was the most number of comments i received... YET... hoping for more! gomen for being a comment whore...

rosevic87: maturely? haha... define that...

kumoarashi: oh my... do you need some blood?

k_j: why not?

pretty_princess: as much as i want to feel those feelings, i couldn't for i was the one who wrote the chapter... being a writer, you don't feel the things your readers feel.

trick-3:

chiara.loooves.nino: oh my.. why did you read the b chapter if you're younger than me???

g_ann93: mochiron desu yo. NDA was a request. i have to impress the real one...

dairy6: that's my fave song

animelenie: not to vague and not too descriptive... that's a good one

poptarttt: thanks

firefly tenshi: thanks!

adrika: i'm not....

kritsyndavid: sure ka ba...?

here's my UPDATE!!!... We have a test on saturday so i don't have time to update on that date.....

hope to keep the comments coming!!

CHAPTER 21c:

I slowly opened my eyes, my head spinning. I felt something heavy on my chest and I found Nino beside me, his arms around me. There was a large clock at the wall. It was already dawn. The sun’s early rays were shining down with a golden glow.

I slowly and carefully removed his arm around me and got up. I took my clothes which were still slightly damp and hurriedly wore them before getting my things. I was about to get out of the room when I saw him stir in his sleep. I approached Nino and looked at him for a moment.

“Gomenasai,” I whispered at his ear. He moved a bit and I looked at him nervously. He still did not wake up. I cautiously got out of the room and out of the hotel. Thankfully, there was a taxi stand nearby. I went back home.

I unlocked the door with my own key and changed into a fresh set of clothes before going to bed next to Kazuko. I embraced him. I kissed him on the cheek and said, “I just saw your father last night.”

He stirred in his sleep but he did not wake up. I looked at him closely. He really looked like him. Maybe he would look like him more when he grows up.

And when he grows up, I couldn’t hide the truth from him anymore.

The uchiwa he gave me was on the bedside table. I took it and looked at it, flipping it back and forth. It showed his face, then his message for me.

“Gomen ne. I left him again,” I said.

***

Nino woke up from his slumber to find out the Cho was not beside him. “Cho?” he called out. He sat up and looked around the empty room.

“Iie!” Nino said, unbelieving that she left him again. “Cho!” He stood up and hastily dressed up to follow her wherever she might go.

But the way she said it…

He’ll never find her again…

“Cho, I’ll wait. I know that we’ll be together again,” Nino said as he stopped running. He did not know where she was or where she would go but he knew that they’ll meet again.

“And I’ll never let you go when that day comes…”

***

Nino was driving on the road. Going nowhere in particular. He was passing an apartment building when a small kid started to run to his driveway. In shock, he tried to step on the brakes as hard as he could, causing him to hit the steering wheel. He stepped down and realized that he was too late. The young boy’s head was bleeding profusely.

“Oh no,” he said, his eyes widening. No one was around to ask for help and since he was the one who has the car, he carried the boy and placed him at the back of the car to drive him to the hospital. He felt scared and nervous as he tried his best to drive to the nearest hospital. Cold beads of sweat formed at his forehead. He was undoubtedly panicking for the life of the child. He himself did not know why.

He reached the hospital and hastily took the child to his arms, carrying him to the emergency room. “Tasukete!” he shouted, not caring that he had no disguise and people inside might recognize him.

A nurse immediately approached him and asked him to put the boy on the nearest bed. “What happened?”

“I… I accidentally hit that running boy on the road,” he said in a trembling voice. Was it because he was afraid he might get sued? No… He felt as if the child’s life was important. If it was the normal Nino, he would have been wailing that the accident was the child’s fault, not looking at the way.

Nino was in the waiting area, waiting for the operation to finish. The boy’s forehead had been bleeding and his right arm was broken too. There was also internal bleeding. “This is my fault,” he said, looking at the ground. “I hope he’s safe.” He closed his eyes and remembered that time when he was helpless to save Murasaki from the truck, and the time when he saved Cho from suffering the same accident. He felt his eyes burning his tears. “If something bad happens to him…” he muttered.

The doctor went out of the operating room. “How is he?” Nino asked nervously.

“Are you a relative?” he asked back.

“Iie,” Nino answered.

The doctor sighed. “We need a blood donor for him. He suffered too much blood loss.”

“You could take mine,” Nino offered.

“Demo…”

“I’ll try my best!” Nino answered.

The doctor sighed again. “Very well.” He asked a nurse to accompany him to another room for a series of blood tests. In the end, they found out that his blood type was perfectly compatible with the child so they took blood from him.

Hours later, Nino found himself on a bed in the hospital. He was still weak after the blood letting. He slowly tried to stand up but his head was still spinning. “Can I… see the boy?” he asked the nurse monitoring his vital signs.

She nodded. “He is in the next room to the left,” she said.

“Arigatou,” Nino replied. He limply made his way to the other room. He slowly opened the door and sat on the stool beside the boy’s bed. He was still sleeping. He looked so damn familiar to Nino.

He watched as the boy stirred in his sleep. He slowly opened his eyes. “A-re?”

“Ohayou,” Nino said, smiling. He helped the boy as he tried to sit up.

“Who are you?” he asked. “You look familiar.”

“Sou deshou?” Nino replied. He smirked. “Ninomiya Kazunari desu.”

“Chotto matte. You are the man on my okaa-san’s uchiwa!” he answered. He frowned a bit.

“His mother’s a fangirl,” Nino thought. “Doushita?”

The boy bit his lip. “Nan demo nai. What am I doing here?”

“I brought you here because you got hit by my car. Gomen ne…”

“Ah, gomenasai,” he apologized. “If I had been more careful…” he started to cry.

Nino stared at him. “He was even thinking that everything was his fault!” He suddenly remembered that time when he was wounded and Cho was crying while trying to tend to his wound. He remembered how she always wanted to blame herself when something bad happens to him, even though they very well knew that it was not her fault.

“Oi, don’t cry. Men don’t cry,” Nino said, patting his head. The boy hiccupped as he stopped crying.

“Hai,” he replied.

“By the way, what’s your name?” Nino asked. “I gave you my name.”

“Anou… Wa… Kazuko desu,” he said. The boy did not want to say his whole name to a complete stranger… or to the guy who makes his mother cry everytime she sees him.

“I thought you are bad,” Kazuko said minutes later, breaking the silence.

“Eh?” Nino was puzzled and angered. “Do I look like a bad person?”

“It’s because…” his voice drifted away.

***

“Anou, Warashi-san, the man who helped your son and the one who gave blood to him is inside the room,” the nurse said.

“Sou ne?” I answered. “I might as well thank him personally,” I added. I opened the door of the almost empty ward. However, I stopped behind the closed curtain of the bed next to me when I heard a familiar voice talking to Kazuko.

“Nande?”

“Ah, sumimasen, that was a complete misunderstanding.”

“Sou da ne?” Nino answered. I heard a little moan of pain. “I think you should sleep, Kazu-kun. Could I call you Kazu-kun?”

“Iie. Only kaa-chan calls me Kazu-kun. She told me I might be mistaken for another person if others call me Kazu-kun,” he answered.

“Daijoubu,” Nino answered, laughing. “I’m the other Kazu-kun.”

“So what should I call you?” Kazuko asked.

“Umm… Kazu-kun?”

I heard their laughter. I heard Kazu’s laughter. A laughter that I have never heard before. And because of that, tears slowly fell from my eyes.

“Ne, Kazu-kun, I think you should sleep,” Nino said in an affectionate voice. The same voice I heard when he comforted me in my sleep. I went behind the shadows and took a peek through the curtains, seeing the two of them. Nino was helping Kazu lie back again on the pillows and put a blanket over him.

“I couldn’t sleep,” Kazuko complained.

“Nande?” Nino asked.

The boy sighed. “I could only sleep when kaa-chan talks to me or sings to me before sleeping.” He sighed. “But there were times, like last night, that she couldn’t sing ot me because she’s gone from work. I always play her CD on those times.”

“Eh? I couldn’t imitate your kaa-chan’s voice!” Nino said. “I’m an idol, not an impersonator.” Then he thought for a while. “What kind of song does your kaa-chan sing?”

“Anou… different songs,” he said. “But I have a favorite…”

“Nani?”

Kazuko tried to hum the tune. I was motionless while I watched the two of them. Nino thinking of the song while Kazuko trying to hum the song to him.

“Baka. That song’s title is ‘Caramel Song’,” Nino said.

“You know that song?” Kazuko asked excitedly.

“Hai,” Nino replied. He started to sing the song, a little slower than the original version and more soulful.

“Shikakui mado ga kiritotta
Akaneiro ni somatta gogo
Kureteku kyou ga owatteiku
Asu wa kimi no tabidachi no hi

Yasashi asa wa itsu datte sabishi sa wo tsureteru
Kazoe kirenu omoide ni ima wa me wo tojite isasete …”

I gripped on the curtains tightly as I listened to his voice. I felt my knees weaken. His voice was full of sadness and desperation. Could that be because of me?

“BERANDA chiisana machinami ni
Akari tomoru no wo miteta
Hikouki kumo ga nagareteku
Boku no tameiki no seikana? …”

I watched as Kazuko stared at Nino while he sang. Instead of sleeping, however, he remained looking at him while his father sang with too much feeling it was piercing.

“Kuchi ni dashitara kitto sukoshi komarudarou na
Tonari de te ga fureru dakete tsutawaranai kana 「Sayonara.」

Gyutto nigiri au te to te ni
Shinjita yume wa ugokidasu
Kimi wo zutto wasurenai yo
Amai yuu sora ga tokete yuku…

I slowly moved away and out of the room, his voice still echoing in my head. I held my chest tightly and closed my eyes as I tried to catch my breath. At the moment, I wanted to be found. I want him to find me there, to know that the child he was singing to was his. But a part of me wanted to hide and that part of me won.

“Sono te wo nobashite
Yuuyami ga mada
Hoshi wo tsukamaeyou
Semaru sono mae
Tsunagi tometai honto wa...

Zutto boku no takara mono sa
Okashii kurai kimi ga suki
Itsuka kimi ga waraeru nara
Boku wa kokoro kara tewofuru yo…”

“Anou… why are you crying?” Kazuko asked as Nino’s eyes started to get watery with tears.

“Betsuni,” Nino answered. “I’m ridiculous, ne? I told you men don’t cry but I am here, crying in front of you.”

Kazuko smiled. “Daijoubu. Doushita?”

“I just remembered someone with that song,” he explained.

“Dare?” Kazuko asked curiously.

“The woman I love,” Nino said, smiling. “I know I made her cry a lot of times even though I promised her that I won’t. I hurt her and know I won’t be able to see her again. But I still love her and I won’t give up until I find her again.”

Kazuko looked at him sadly. “He did not want kaa-chan to cry. He loves her as much as she still loves him,” the boy thought.

“Gomen ne?” Nino said, looking at the dazed boy. “I shouldn’t have said those things. Let’s keep them as secrets, okay?”

“Hai,” Kazuko replied, taking out his pinky finger.

***

i'll be writing an NDA one-shot... however, i am wondering how in the world will i put an r-rated one shot here... hhmmmm....

^^
waaa~ choshi...
this is sooo touching..i loved the part when nino sang for kazuko while cho's just there,listening to them..
i feel like crying..

uwaaa....choshi...i feel like crying because of this chap...
like i was there watching nino sing caramel song to his son w/ his feelings full of sadness and wanting...uwaa...haha...dramatical much?

i read in your lj kahapon nga pla ... natamaan ako dun sa pasaway na minor ah... XD pero nabasa ko na eh... no turning back n un...haha...

anyway, pls continue~~~

Caramel song! thanks for this update, this was kind of touching.. did the younger Kazu-kun realize that Nino was his father?!?! if he didn't, i guess he will find that out soon..! i'm just curious which one will realize who's the father first, the older or the younger Kazu-kun?

wonderfull as always~
kazuko is really a smart boy!
waiting for your next update!

Awww, I was so touched by this chapter..
Kazuko is indeed a smart boy, and Cho, please don''t hide from Nino anymore.
thanks for the update!
feel na feel ko yung emotions ni Nino. grabe na 'to!

nino met his son but he did not knot it... it was so sad...
luckily kazuko is alright after the accident, or else cho will hate nino
thanx for the update choshi
i have read the b part
how should i put it here...fast n romantic...
anyway,
can't wait for the next update! ganbate choshi!!!
can't wait till nino finds out that kazuko is his son

Love the update. I can really sense how Kazuko values his mom. What a great kid! Valiung his parents and such...

Age doesnt matter, ya know. And I really love reading your fanfics. PROMISE.Though I'm 13, I always read rated-R fics so I'm sort of use to it (kahit bawal)

Another hint: I have an aunt here, readind in this very same thread. Would you mind telling me who she is? :>

YEAP!!..sure na sure!!

haha...cge na please?!!

waah!...cho is so kaines!!

you can resist seeing nino like this?!

waaah!!...kaawaawang nino...tsk tsk!

hahaha....

waaah!! UPDATE!!...

BY THE WAY, CAN I ASK?...ANU PO BA AGE MUH?..hehe..just curious..

goodboy....
kazuko knows nino is his father..wuuuu


ganbatte~~

oh well..'bout the B CHAPPIE.....

Hahaha..cn't stop smiling evilly while reading it....

hahahahaha...

i wish there are more b chapters to come!!..

hahahaha.... jokes!! ^_^V