Confabulation. (A Skip Beat! Fanfic)

Rosa

Though nothing could prepare her for the video call Lory set up for them. One moment it was a blank screen, the next there in front of her was Kuu, Julie and on Julie's lap Rosa. It hit Kyoko then. This was now her daughter she had signed away her heart to this little child! Without a thought of the child, what if she was like her mother? What if she was wrong? What if she couldn't love the child as she needed to? But as the small face turned to face the screen and golden eyes hit golden eyes, Kyoko suddenly felt a deep yearning inside herself as a small smile crept across the baby's face and Kyoko's world went black.

"Kyoko?...Kyoko honey?" she felt a tender hand tapping against her cheek as slowly she fought through her head thick with cobwebs, seeking the light she could see from behind her eyelids.

"Come on sweetie, you're scaring me...wake up Kyoko." finally her eyes fluttered open as she looked up into the face of what she could only describe as an angel.

"Am I dead?" she asked, her voice cracking slightly as the face above her smiled. Kuon sighed and Lory sat back down. Kuon had caught Kyoko instantly laying her on the rug when she had fainted, Kuu and Julie were calling her worriedly through the computer screen as Lory calmed them both, a baby's cry could be heard and Julie's voice as she tried to calm the child.

"You better not be. Rosa and I need you too much, you're never allowed to leave my side Kyoko. I would have to go to heaven and bring you back myself if you ever considered leaving me." Kuon put a hand behind her head and another wrapped around her shoulders as he slowly sat her up into his chest.

"Please don't scare me like that again, OK?" Kyoko felt Kuon tremble slightly as he held her tight.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me." she whispered as she slowly and haltingly wrapped her arms around Kuon. He pulled away slightly, resting his head against hers and kissing her nose.

"You don't have a temperature." he declared and she smiled at him.

"I think I'm OK no. Maybe it was just because of coming in from outside or something?" but she knew this wasn't the case, she knew exactly what had caused her reaction. Those golden eyes that had seemed to look straight into her heart and soul, those golden eyes so much like the ones that looked back at her when she looked in the mirror. Her heart was still beating rapidly from the shock of it all, but she knew to Kuon it would just appear like her fainting spell had caused the temporary increase of her heart rate. But for what seemed like the hundredth time to Kyoko just Kuon's scent was calming her body and mind as he slowly helped her to her feet.

"Do you want to go and lay down?" the care and concern thick in his voice as she shook her head. Slowly taking a deep breath, she manoeuvred herself back over and into the chair she had fallen out of, Kuon hovering around her in case it was to happen again, not happy until she was seated he too sat down. Placing his arm across the back of her chair, he gently stroked her shoulder making his presence a constant in her mind, giving her the strength to look back at the screen. She was doing this for the man beside her. The man who loved her. The man she was willing to change her life for.

"Hello Rosa, sweetie." she said as she looked at the baby who until Kyoko had spoken had still been crying a little. Hearing Kyoko her head tilted and looked towards the screen as Kuu and Julie smiled between each other. Unbeknown to Kyoko, Lory had sent over a few recordings of Kyoko they had made as promotional ads for the young actress including one startling piece of her singing which had shocked Lory and Jelly who had been present at the studio that day. Kuu and Julie had been playing the recordings over and over including recordings of Kuon. To the child in Julie's arms she had heard the voices of the two people beyond the screen more than she had the people she was sitting with and it showed in her reaction.