Songs For Daddy- Chapter 9: For You I Will
Author: bar_ohki
Title: Songs for Daddy
Rating: This chapter is rated T.
Summary: After receiving a phone call, Hiruma abandons his job, his football team, and his friends, disappearing into nothing. After several years pass, Mamori finds a strange girl in her Kindergarten class, a girl strange enough to have the only remaining connection to the missing quarterback….
Pairings: Past HirumaOC, present nothing decided, future HiruMamo.
Warnings: Angst, depressing things, death, childish innocence, Hiruma’s vocabulary, sex, and parents being evil.
Notes: For You I Will is by Monica, I do not own it.
Links: To song on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch
To lyrics of song: www.lyrics007.com/Monica%20Lyrics/For%20You%20I%20Will%20Lyrics.html
To a list of chapter links: bar-ohki.livejournal.com/10704.html
Songs for Daddy
Chapter 9: For You I Will
“I wanna go to the park!” Emiko wailed, not having stopped crying upon arrival at her grandmother’s home.
“You ungrateful brat!” Saburo hissed as she pulled Emiko over her knee.
“It’s my birthday!” Emiko protested with tears. “I want to go to the park and play on the swings!”
Saburo spanked Emiko several times, ranting about her bad behavior all the while. Emiko continued to cry, extremely upset and in pain. After the spanking was over, Emiko was sent to her room.
“If you keep this up you’re not getting any dinner tonight!” Saburo snapped and slammed the door as she left the bedroom. Emiko crawled onto her bed, defeated. She cried onto her pillow, wishing silently for her father.
“…You promised you’d always be here!” Emiko cried quietly. “Why Papa? Why!?”
All her crying and fighting coupled with the emotional ups and downs of the day finally got the best of Emiko. Within moments of not moving on the pillow, the miserable girl shut her eyes and fell into a dreamless sleep.
Several hours later, when it was time for dinner, Saburo came upstairs to find Emiko napping. The girl looked worn and exhausted and the sight of that stirred the maternal side of Saburo. She quickly crossed the room and began to undress Emiko. Soon Saburo had her granddaughter in a particularly fluffy nightgown and under the covers of her bed.
“I’m sorry your father had to show up and give you such a long day.” Saburo apologized to the sleeping girl, running her wrinkled fingers through Emiko’s fine hair. Gingerly, Saburo planted a kiss on the girl’s forehead before she left the room.
After the door shut a demonic shadow appeared in the window. A few small squeaks later, the window opened, blowing in a cold breeze. Emiko stirred in her sleep, her face scrunching up unpleasantly. The soft patter of feet touched the wooden floor and crossed it to the bedside.
A long fingered hand, pearly white in the moonlight, reached out and began to stroke Emiko’s cheek with practiced ease. At the familiar touch Emiko’s eyes shot open, looking up at the face of her father. Emiko let out a sigh of relief, relaxing instantly. Hiruma eased himself carefully onto the bed so that it would not make any abnormal squeaks to alert Saburo.
“Hey birthday girl….” Hiruma whispered with a small smile.
“Papa!” Emiko smiled big and bright. “You came!”
“I promised, didn’t I?” Hiruma reminded his daughter. “I’ve got some good news too.”
“I get to go home with you?” Emiko asked. Hiruma frowned slightly.
“Not just yet, I’m doing everything I can to get you back.” Hiruma assured his daughter.
“Why can’t I go now?” Emiko asked, her pervious confusion returning.
“Because we would both get in a lot of trouble if you came home with me now.” Hiruma told her simply.
“Why?” Emiko sounded like she was going to cry.
“…The people who write the rules don’t always make fair choices.” Hiruma explained. “Right now the rules aren’t in our favor, so we have to wait until the next half to turn the game around.”
“You’re going to change the rules, Papa?” Emiko sounded awed.
“No, I’m going to change the game by playing by the rules.” Hiruma corrected his daughter. “Now, Anezaki-sensei said she’d keep your lion for you at school so that you could still play with it.”
“Really?” Emiko was really happy to hear that, she had liked the lion a lot.
“Yeah.” Hiruma smiled at his daughter. Emiko decided then that Anezaki-sensei was probably a really awesome person because she was on Papa’s side.
“…I’ll be with you on my next birthday right?” Emiko asked, a little worried.
“Of course!” Hiruma sounded almost offended that Emiko had thought otherwise.
Emiko smiled and then yawned loudly.
“Looks like someone’s had a long day,” Hiruma observed, “I guess its time for you to back to bed, my sleepyhead.”
“But-!” Emiko protested, knowing her Papa probably wouldn’t be here in the morning.
“You’re growing, you need to rest up and get stronger.” Hiruma explained to her softly. “Besides, I’ll be back before you know it!”
“Okay. G’night Papa.” Emiko shut her eyes and waited for the kiss on the forehead before she fell asleep again. Hiruma laid on the bed next to his daughter for a few more minutes, listening quietly to the sound of her breathing. Carefully Hiruma retreated from the room, taking one last glance at his daughter.
“G’night Emiko.” And Hiruma leapt out of the window, into the night.
-back to 2:00 pm, with Anezaki-
Anezaki felt somewhat horrible as she dialed the number on her phone. The person she was trying to reach was currently living in Boston, Massachusetts and it would be midnight his time. Anezaki pushed ‘talk’ and put the phone to her ear and listened to it ring. While she was waiting and hoping for her friend to pick up, she tried to clean up Emiko’s lion a little bit more.
Thankfully after four rings someone picked up.
“Mamori-neechan, why are you calling so late?” A sleepy male voice inquired on the other end.
“Sena! I need your help with something!” Anezaki was a bundle of energy.
“Can’t it wait till morning? It’s midnight here and I have practice early tomorrow….” Kobayakawa Sena, Anezaki’s childhood friend, did not bother to disguise his loud yawn. Kobayakawa had moved to America to play football in the PAC 10, from there he immigrated properly and was now the star runningback of the New England Patriots. Since football was literally his job, getting sleep and going to practice mattered.
“It’s Hiruma-kun!” Anezaki explained simply. “The reason he disappeared six years ago was because of his daughter. And he just lost custody of Emiko and everything’s all messed up!”
“Hiruma-san has a what?” You could hear Kobayakawa’s confused blink over the long distance line.
“A daughter!” Anezaki clarified. “She’s living with his in-laws right now because they took her away from him!”
“But isn’t Hiruma-san missing?” Kobayakawa was slowly waking up.
“Well, sort of. You see his daughter is now in my kindergarten class and-” Anezaki stopped herself, realizing that Kobayakawa wasn’t awake enough to process all the information she had to give him.
“Hiruma-san has come back?” The sleepy Kobayakawa asked.
“I found him again but…” Anezaki swallowed, “I think he’s afraid to come back.”
“And he has a daughter now?” Kobayakawa sounded a little more aware.
“Yes, she was recently taken away from him though.” Anezaki answered. “I want to help the two of them get back together, but I don’t know what Hiruma-kun is thinking!”
“He’s afraid of failure.” Kobayakawa observed. “Parents can be extremely illogical when it comes to their kids; I think Hiruma-san is afraid of depending on others because they might fail.”
“But didn’t he learn to trust us-!” Anezaki protested.
“Six years is a lot of time to change, for him, for us.” Kobayakawa ended his sentence with a yawn. “And becoming a parent really changes your perspective on everything. Hiruma-san might have reverted back to the way he was before he had friends in the six years he’s been missing.”
“Ah.” Anezaki followed the logic perfectly; she knew it had been a good idea to talk to Kobayakawa about this. “What should I do?”
“…Have you talked to Musashi or Kurita?” Kobayakawa asked.
“Not yet.” Anezaki admitted.
“Work with them for now, they know Hiruma-san best.” Kobayakawa advised her. “…I’ll try to see if I can get over there by the end of the month.”
“Sena!? Are you sure? It’s the middle of your season-!” Anezaki protested.
“The only thing I can do to help I have to be there in person for.” Kobayakawa explained. “Until then I need you to hold down the field until I can get there.”
“But your games-” Anezaki was concerned.
“They aren’t nearly as important as my friends.” Kobayakawa told her simply. “Especially Hiruma-san.” Anezaki heard the unspoken comment. Kobayakawa wouldn’t be loving and playing football if it hadn’t been for Hiruma. For Kobayakawa, saving the man who gave him football was more important than playing it. Anezaki understood.
“Okay, say hi to Suzuna for me.” Anezaki bid Kobayakawa a quick fairwell, knowing he wanted to sleep.
“Don’t give up, Mamori-neechan.” Kobayakawa wished her and hung up.
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I’ve brought Sena into the mix now! Tell me what you think!
Title: Songs for Daddy
Rating: This chapter is rated T.
Summary: After receiving a phone call, Hiruma abandons his job, his football team, and his friends, disappearing into nothing. After several years pass, Mamori finds a strange girl in her Kindergarten class, a girl strange enough to have the only remaining connection to the missing quarterback….
Pairings: Past HirumaOC, present nothing decided, future HiruMamo.
Warnings: Angst, depressing things, death, childish innocence, Hiruma’s vocabulary, sex, and parents being evil.
Notes: For You I Will is by Monica, I do not own it.
Links: To song on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch
To lyrics of song: www.lyrics007.com/Monica%20Lyrics/For%20You%20I%20Will%20Lyrics.html
To a list of chapter links: bar-ohki.livejournal.com/10704.html
Songs for Daddy
Chapter 9: For You I Will
“I wanna go to the park!” Emiko wailed, not having stopped crying upon arrival at her grandmother’s home.
“You ungrateful brat!” Saburo hissed as she pulled Emiko over her knee.
“It’s my birthday!” Emiko protested with tears. “I want to go to the park and play on the swings!”
Saburo spanked Emiko several times, ranting about her bad behavior all the while. Emiko continued to cry, extremely upset and in pain. After the spanking was over, Emiko was sent to her room.
“If you keep this up you’re not getting any dinner tonight!” Saburo snapped and slammed the door as she left the bedroom. Emiko crawled onto her bed, defeated. She cried onto her pillow, wishing silently for her father.
“…You promised you’d always be here!” Emiko cried quietly. “Why Papa? Why!?”
All her crying and fighting coupled with the emotional ups and downs of the day finally got the best of Emiko. Within moments of not moving on the pillow, the miserable girl shut her eyes and fell into a dreamless sleep.
Several hours later, when it was time for dinner, Saburo came upstairs to find Emiko napping. The girl looked worn and exhausted and the sight of that stirred the maternal side of Saburo. She quickly crossed the room and began to undress Emiko. Soon Saburo had her granddaughter in a particularly fluffy nightgown and under the covers of her bed.
“I’m sorry your father had to show up and give you such a long day.” Saburo apologized to the sleeping girl, running her wrinkled fingers through Emiko’s fine hair. Gingerly, Saburo planted a kiss on the girl’s forehead before she left the room.
After the door shut a demonic shadow appeared in the window. A few small squeaks later, the window opened, blowing in a cold breeze. Emiko stirred in her sleep, her face scrunching up unpleasantly. The soft patter of feet touched the wooden floor and crossed it to the bedside.
A long fingered hand, pearly white in the moonlight, reached out and began to stroke Emiko’s cheek with practiced ease. At the familiar touch Emiko’s eyes shot open, looking up at the face of her father. Emiko let out a sigh of relief, relaxing instantly. Hiruma eased himself carefully onto the bed so that it would not make any abnormal squeaks to alert Saburo.
“Hey birthday girl….” Hiruma whispered with a small smile.
“Papa!” Emiko smiled big and bright. “You came!”
“I promised, didn’t I?” Hiruma reminded his daughter. “I’ve got some good news too.”
“I get to go home with you?” Emiko asked. Hiruma frowned slightly.
“Not just yet, I’m doing everything I can to get you back.” Hiruma assured his daughter.
“Why can’t I go now?” Emiko asked, her pervious confusion returning.
“Because we would both get in a lot of trouble if you came home with me now.” Hiruma told her simply.
“Why?” Emiko sounded like she was going to cry.
“…The people who write the rules don’t always make fair choices.” Hiruma explained. “Right now the rules aren’t in our favor, so we have to wait until the next half to turn the game around.”
“You’re going to change the rules, Papa?” Emiko sounded awed.
“No, I’m going to change the game by playing by the rules.” Hiruma corrected his daughter. “Now, Anezaki-sensei said she’d keep your lion for you at school so that you could still play with it.”
“Really?” Emiko was really happy to hear that, she had liked the lion a lot.
“Yeah.” Hiruma smiled at his daughter. Emiko decided then that Anezaki-sensei was probably a really awesome person because she was on Papa’s side.
“…I’ll be with you on my next birthday right?” Emiko asked, a little worried.
“Of course!” Hiruma sounded almost offended that Emiko had thought otherwise.
Emiko smiled and then yawned loudly.
“Looks like someone’s had a long day,” Hiruma observed, “I guess its time for you to back to bed, my sleepyhead.”
“But-!” Emiko protested, knowing her Papa probably wouldn’t be here in the morning.
“You’re growing, you need to rest up and get stronger.” Hiruma explained to her softly. “Besides, I’ll be back before you know it!”
“Okay. G’night Papa.” Emiko shut her eyes and waited for the kiss on the forehead before she fell asleep again. Hiruma laid on the bed next to his daughter for a few more minutes, listening quietly to the sound of her breathing. Carefully Hiruma retreated from the room, taking one last glance at his daughter.
“G’night Emiko.” And Hiruma leapt out of the window, into the night.
-back to 2:00 pm, with Anezaki-
Anezaki felt somewhat horrible as she dialed the number on her phone. The person she was trying to reach was currently living in Boston, Massachusetts and it would be midnight his time. Anezaki pushed ‘talk’ and put the phone to her ear and listened to it ring. While she was waiting and hoping for her friend to pick up, she tried to clean up Emiko’s lion a little bit more.
Thankfully after four rings someone picked up.
“Mamori-neechan, why are you calling so late?” A sleepy male voice inquired on the other end.
“Sena! I need your help with something!” Anezaki was a bundle of energy.
“Can’t it wait till morning? It’s midnight here and I have practice early tomorrow….” Kobayakawa Sena, Anezaki’s childhood friend, did not bother to disguise his loud yawn. Kobayakawa had moved to America to play football in the PAC 10, from there he immigrated properly and was now the star runningback of the New England Patriots. Since football was literally his job, getting sleep and going to practice mattered.
“It’s Hiruma-kun!” Anezaki explained simply. “The reason he disappeared six years ago was because of his daughter. And he just lost custody of Emiko and everything’s all messed up!”
“Hiruma-san has a what?” You could hear Kobayakawa’s confused blink over the long distance line.
“A daughter!” Anezaki clarified. “She’s living with his in-laws right now because they took her away from him!”
“But isn’t Hiruma-san missing?” Kobayakawa was slowly waking up.
“Well, sort of. You see his daughter is now in my kindergarten class and-” Anezaki stopped herself, realizing that Kobayakawa wasn’t awake enough to process all the information she had to give him.
“Hiruma-san has come back?” The sleepy Kobayakawa asked.
“I found him again but…” Anezaki swallowed, “I think he’s afraid to come back.”
“And he has a daughter now?” Kobayakawa sounded a little more aware.
“Yes, she was recently taken away from him though.” Anezaki answered. “I want to help the two of them get back together, but I don’t know what Hiruma-kun is thinking!”
“He’s afraid of failure.” Kobayakawa observed. “Parents can be extremely illogical when it comes to their kids; I think Hiruma-san is afraid of depending on others because they might fail.”
“But didn’t he learn to trust us-!” Anezaki protested.
“Six years is a lot of time to change, for him, for us.” Kobayakawa ended his sentence with a yawn. “And becoming a parent really changes your perspective on everything. Hiruma-san might have reverted back to the way he was before he had friends in the six years he’s been missing.”
“Ah.” Anezaki followed the logic perfectly; she knew it had been a good idea to talk to Kobayakawa about this. “What should I do?”
“…Have you talked to Musashi or Kurita?” Kobayakawa asked.
“Not yet.” Anezaki admitted.
“Work with them for now, they know Hiruma-san best.” Kobayakawa advised her. “…I’ll try to see if I can get over there by the end of the month.”
“Sena!? Are you sure? It’s the middle of your season-!” Anezaki protested.
“The only thing I can do to help I have to be there in person for.” Kobayakawa explained. “Until then I need you to hold down the field until I can get there.”
“But your games-” Anezaki was concerned.
“They aren’t nearly as important as my friends.” Kobayakawa told her simply. “Especially Hiruma-san.” Anezaki heard the unspoken comment. Kobayakawa wouldn’t be loving and playing football if it hadn’t been for Hiruma. For Kobayakawa, saving the man who gave him football was more important than playing it. Anezaki understood.
“Okay, say hi to Suzuna for me.” Anezaki bid Kobayakawa a quick fairwell, knowing he wanted to sleep.
“Don’t give up, Mamori-neechan.” Kobayakawa wished her and hung up.
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I’ve brought Sena into the mix now! Tell me what you think!