Note: This is part of my update-all-polychap-fics-for-first-fanfic-anniversary project... As you can see, I rushed this to meet the deadline...

Chapter 2: Proposal...

"M-m-monica?" Kai stuttered. Wow. This was weird, Kai Suwabara NEVER stuttered.

"Hello Kai. It's been a long time." Monica said, inching closer... "How long has it been? ten months?"

Kai was shivering. It wasn't the cold wind threatening to blow his bandana off, neither was it the cold December air... it was something else... It was Monica. Kai didn't know how to he happy? Scared? Sad? There was some indescribable feeling inside his chest... was it... love?

Monica... The object of his dreams... The one who had the hands of a true artisan... The one who mothered his child... the one who sent his that letter he had been reading for the last ten months... Was she really there in front of him? was it just some crazy dream?

XXX

"Come on Kai, make your move, dammit!" Kyosuke said, Azuma's binoculars were already boring holes in his head as he did not want to miss the action.

"Kyosuke! My binoculars! I wanna see too." Azuma cried behind him.

Tsukino was taking a bite out of a piece of Kazuma's black croissant. "You know, it's impolite to stare." She said.

"It's no use, Tsukino" Shigeru said as he was contemplating Manager Ken's latest shogi move."Iv'e already been telling them that for the last ten minutes!" Shigeru dropped a piece into one of those little squares into the Shogi board. "Checkmate."

"What the?" Manager Ken shouted in disbelief. "That's the sixteenth time you beat me!"

"Correction, manager.." Shigeru wiped his nose. "I have beat you eighteen times. You conceeded twice, remember?"

Kazuma managed to grab his binoculars back and focused on Kai and Monica... He didn't really know what they were doing...

"Tsukino, what are those two doing?" he asked. Tsukino stood up and took the binoculars . She looked at the couple for a few seconds and calmly said, "Kazuma, they are kissing. Monica and Kai are kissing."

"Oh..." Kazuma said. Unfortunately, Kyosuke made this another excuse to so something scandalous so he grabbed Azuma's binoculars once again, viewed the copuple, who sure enough, were kissing, and screamed.

"OH MY GOD! KAI AND MONICA ARE KISSING!"

"Kyosuke, do you really have to make a scene?" Tsukino asked. "Kai loves Monica. Monica loves Kai. It's natural that they kiss."

XXX

Kai found his lips locked in a kiss from Monica. He was surprised at first, but then pleasure overwhelmed his doubt and he let Monica kiss him. Monica broke their contact and smiled. "i love you Kai."

Kai was unresponsive. Did Monica just... kiss him? Clearly, there was a lot of disbelief in him.

"I love you too, Monica."

He looked down at that thing that was wrapped in clothes in Monica's arm.

"This is... our son?" He asked.

"Yes. What do you think we should call him?" Monica said.

Kai took the baby in his strong arms. "Kai Jr." he whispered. Monica laughed at the ridiculous name.

"I was going to name his John or Paul or some other name, but he really reminds me of you, so I brought him here to be named by his father."Monica said.

Kai stared at his son. His raven black hair reminded him of the black sky that was over him when he trained every night to become the swordsman (and baker) that he is today. His son's features were calm, calm like the gentle breeze that whispered through the bamboo trees in the distance. His son slept silently... and at that moment when he opened his big, cerulean eyes to meet his father's, Kai realized what he was...

He was lightning... In human form...

"Rai" he said. "We shall call him Rai"
Yeah yeah, I know, I suck... hehehe... anyway, just in case you are wondering, this IS an overlap of "Vanilla Cookies" by my dear friend, Lui Nahtzi (whom this fic is also dedicated to, no less). I remember that time when we thought up this boy's name... nyahahaha... review please!