Confabulation. (A Skip Beat! Fanfic)

Sweet Memories.

Kyoko watched as Kuon exited the bathroom in his silk pajamas. She shivered under the covers, not cold but filled with the dread of what was to come. She was sharing a bed with a man for the first time in her life, the man that was in his eyes her husband. Would he really not touch her? Could she really get away with the story Lory and the doctor had come up with? She fidgeted under the covers as he walked over.

"You ok, honey?" Kuon asked in a soft and tender voice that made her insides squirm and butterflies erupt in her stomach. How had she not realised that vice before? She had heard it before, but never laid thought to the fact it could mean anything but a friendly correlation. She wasn't sure what to say as she squirmed again, turning her head unconsciously away from his eyes, scared that those bright blue orbs would see right into her soul that was trying so hard to deny the fact she was to sleep in the same bed as the man before her.

"Is it your stitches?" he asked in the same voice as she turned her head sharply to him.

Stitches?

she hoped he would elaborate as he continued to approach, picking up a green folder of papers off his bedside table he flipped through the pages.

"I know you had an assisted birth with Rosa, but as they asked me to wait outside I never knew the extent of the damage. I'm sorry sweetie I should have asked. I was just so thrilled to be holding my daughter for the first time I never thought...and you never said..." she watched him as his worried eyes ranged over her, remembering what the doctor had said.

"It's only uncomfortable Kuon, nothing major, please don't worry about it." she whispered as he pulled back the covers on his side and sat down next to her in the bed.

"I know but 17 internal and 21 external, thats not nothing Kyoko. I should have realised...I should have guessed that it wasn't easy for you. Can you ever forgive me?" his eyes were pleading, the same puppy dog eyes he would always use as Cain dove into her heart as she smiled at the memory of her days as Setsu.

"There is nothing to forgive Kuon. I know it sounds bad on paper but really it's only a little uncomfortable and the doctor says I have to be careful for a little longer than normal." she swallowed hard. How had they even come to this conversation? How could she be thinking about that with a man next to her in the same bed? Or was it the fact it was a man in the same bed that made her think about that in the first place? Her head spun with the thoughts of...THAT!? Kuon flipped the documents back onto his bedside table.

"I still wish you would have told me, honey. I love you and it's my job to look after and protect you. How am I to do that if I don't know?" again with the puppy eyes. She smiled and shook her head.

"Then I will just have to promise to tell you in the future." he smiled and putting his arm around her shoulders, pulled her into his arms against his chest as her breath caught in her throat, unable to breathe in or release it. Kuon stroked her hair and back smoothly, not seeming to think his behaviour odd.

He must think we are always this way

Kyoko realised and in his mind this was a common occurrence. The gentle petting of her hair worked a little in calming her nerves even if she didn't know why, yet the tension never left her body. Kuon sighed,

"Have you taken pain killers for the pain?" Kyoko nodded not trusting herself to speak yet another lie to Kuon.

"Then maybe we should think of something to talk about to take your mind off it?" he said with a smile. Her heart was thundering in her chest and ears, but still with his closeness she could hear him perfectly. How could he not hear her heart? She was convinced that even someone like Moko would be able to hear it. In her head it was louder than a jet engine!