Ouran High School Host Club One-Shots

Nightmares (Takashi X Mizura)

"Mommy?" the small voice of our youngest child asked, poking at my shoulder.

"Did you have a bad dream again?" I asked her as I slowly sat up. Kari was standing there next to the bed, sleepily nodding her head. "Come here."

I picked her up and sat her on my lap. This happened quite often. I'd had nightmares a lot when I was little, but eventually they quit happening so much. "Is Daddy awake?"

Glancing over, I saw Takashi sleeping peacefully. He'd always looked so sweet like that. It often reminded me of how much we've been through together. I was somewhat glad that he was still sleeping. "Doesn't look like it. Want to know a little secret?" I whispered to my daughter. She nodded and looked up at me with a smile. "I get those nightmares too. We get them because we're special."

Before she had to ask what I meant by special, I held up one of my hands, letting my claws show for the first time in a very long time. This was the first she'd seen them, but she wasn't scared. In fact, her smile got even bigger; because she had them too.

Takashi and I had decided to keep it secret from everyone, but when she'd come to me one afternoon claiming that she had "kitty claws," I'd been considering telling her about mine. At the time, I'd just told her that they were special, but she shouldn't tell anyone because it might scare them. She simply accepted it and kept it as our little secret.

"Are Daddy and Masumi special too?"

It was so cute that you couldn't help but laugh. Takashi and our son were both normal. "Not like we are. Everyone's special in their own way," I told her, glancing back at Takashi again. He looked like he was still asleep. "Now, why don't you go on back to bed and tell those mean old nightmares to leave you be?"

"Okay Mommy!" she said cheerfully.

"That's my tough girl." I held up my hand like you would for a high five and Kari softly punched the palm of my hand. That was our thing. She'd been lucky to inherit some of Takashi's talent, not to mention my abilities as well.

As she climbed down and headed off to bed, I felt a pair of arms wrap around me. "You know, she reminds me of someone," Takashi's voice whispered to me.

"How long have you been awake?" I asked, turning towards him. He seemed too awake to have just woken up.

"Since you started having that nightmare." Talking to our little one had made me forget what I'd been dreaming about when she had woken me. When I told her that I had nightmares too, it had been the truth. Sure, they didn't bother me much anymore, but I still had them. Takashi usually knew when I had them, since I would often start tossing and turning in the middle of the night.

"So you were pretending?" Giving him a playful glare, I kissed his cheek.

"You know you can wake me up whenever you have them." As much as I loved him, we both knew I wouldn't. That was the way I was; I never asked anyone to help with anything I knew I could handle on my own. But no matter what, it was the thought that mattered the most.

Cuddling up close to him, I felt as happy as I had always been. This was the place where I'd fallen in love and the place where I wanted to stay forever. With his arms around me, I looked up at him.

He just smiled at me. "It's never too late to have another one," Takashi playfully suggested before kissing me. Before anything else could happen, we heard the voice of our son Masumi calling from the doorway.

"Momma? Can I sleep with you and Daddy?"