Mine, It Will Never Change

Chapter 24

Chapter 24

"What makes you really think that (Name)'s son is mine?" Saruhiko asked.

"Your father did." Kaoru answered.

"The exact words?" Saruhiko pressed.

"Father's exact words?" Kaoru frowned.

"Yes, his exact words." Saruhiko nodded, "and also what exactly happened during then."

"Does it matter?"

"Yes, it matters." Saruhiko said.


*flashback*

 "When are you going to give me a grandchild, Kaoru?" The old man Tomoe asked Kaoru who immediately looked up from the tea she was drinking.

"Father?" she chuckled in a lady manner. "Isn't it too early?"

"Early? I don't think its still early. I let you marry my son because I was expecting that you are ready to give me a grandchild." He says.

"B-but fathe-"

"(Full Name) is better than you are." The old man dropped photos of a young boy in front of her.

"I-it cant be!"

"What can't be?" Tomoe's father asked, "(Name) is a healthy young woman. She was willing to keep up with my son's uselessness and antics. Of course she could produce a child a heir for...all of this." Tomoe's father gestured to his house, his expensive things and all that is his.

"I may not look like it, Kaoru..." he continued, "But I love little children. What is the use of having all these money if you cannot see your son and grandchildren be happy for having all of these?"

"Father I-"

"Tell me, when are you going to give me a grandchild? I cannot be alive for a long time, life is not that long."

"Father, isn't it too soon?"

"Too soon for (name) to bear a child too, don't you think? Tomoe's father studied the nervous look on Kaoru's. "I wonder who the father is...It could be Saruhiko, no?"

"Father!" Kaoru gasped, "That child--could it be--"

"If the child is, then he deserves to have a share of what is mine...he shares the same blood.."

"Father-"

"Do you have any objection?" Tomoe's father asked Kaoru.

"But father-" Kaoru didn't want it. She didn't want to share his husband to a child that is not hers.

"You don't have to worry Kaoru, I can deal with (name), if proven that the child is my son's." Tomoe's father assured her.

"Still-"

"Either ways, (Name) didn't answer my letters. She is not interested with dealing with Saruhiko nor with me about her son."

"You contacted her?"

"Why wouldn't I, I have the very rights to know my grandson and to be a part of his life. I can fill the needs that (Name) can't provide, I can help them. I can do it even without Saruhiko knowing." Tomoe's father smiled, "My son is useless, I don't even know why you chose him."

Kaoru didn't answer. Her father in law was willing to provide for the child that you bear if proven that he is her husband's child.

But she cannot allow that! How could this happen to her? Why now when she is having a stable relationship with her husband, they are starting to get along...and if ever she shows up with her son...her marriage will be ruined.


Later that day, Kaoru walked back to their bedroom and she weakly sobbed on their bed. She can't believe it that Saruhiko had a child with that woman...does he know? Was he keeping it from her all along? Were they going out as a family when she's in Osaka and he's doing work at Tokyo? Could it be that Saruhiko is cheating on her?

Her thoughts was on the roll...Even though father didn't mention that Saruhiko knows about this, her thoughts was on the roll and continued supplying her of different scenarios that could happen and could be happening without her knowledge...

Her husband and his old lover.
Her husband and his old lover together.
Her husband and his old lover together with her son.
Her husband and his old lover together with their son.
Her husband and his new family.

NO!

All the sadness and anger combined and Kaoru stood up and walked to their bathroom and looked at the large mirror at herself.

"That damned Saruhiko!" she screamed and grabbed the nearest object and threw it on the large mirror breaking it.

"MADAM!" moments later her maid entered their room without knocking and rushed to her side, "Madam, are you ok? I heard a--MADAM!" when the servant looked around the large bathroom, the mirror was broken and the medicine cabinet is open wide with all the capsules and tablets scattered on the floor...all around Kaoru's semi-unconscious body.

---AKASHI---

Saruhiko was quietly sitting on the couch and watching his unconscious wife. He was thinking, Kaoru was never like this, she was a level headed woman...

"Kaoru." He called and as if in instant, Kaoru opened her eyes but in irritation.

"What are you doing here?" She asked, as if nothing happened to her. She doesnt make a move.

"What happened here?" He asked, "What does the doctor mean about that ."

"That?" Kaoru chuckled quietly. "Overdose. I cannot sleep, I took a lot. My mistake."

"Not that. You had a miscarriage." Saruhiko whispered, Kaoru's eyes widened.

"What...are you talking about?" She whispered back.

"You never told me you are pregnant, it was 8 weeks...and it just slipped out of your hands? Was it because you didn't really want one?"

Kaoru was devastated. They kept the secret of the miscarriage together. It was like nothing happened, Saruhiko never treated her differently. At first it was ok, until the news reached the older Tomoe.

"What is this?" The old man angrily dropped a copy of the medical report of Kaoru's miscarriage.

"F-father! Let me explain-"

"It doesnt matter! If you cannot even take care of yourself when a child is inside you, what more if the child is out of you?" the old man was a traditional person. He is looking forward for a heir for his fortunes and he was expecting that Saruhiko could give him that, while that is all for the company's sake...he is also a loving person at heart. He loves children and he loved Saruhiko even though he was a rebel idiot.

"I want to see my grandchild while I am still breathing, Kaoru." with that the old man stood up and walked out of their house.

Kaoru and Saruhiko went to the doctors for a check-up but that's when they received the news.

"Tomoe-san, I'm sorry. But..."