A/N: I win! I finished! Finally! The story is complete! Hehehee. Okay, so now I just have to finish that next chapter in Ceres that I'm only like...halfway through. I hope that by the time I actually post this I'll be far more than halfway through, but while I type, it's halfway done.

Moving on, this is a prolouge, take note that it takes place several months after the last chapter of the main story. So...I just hope you like it. I hope you think it's cute, because that is what I was going for.

Read, review, enjoy.

The sound of a door opening filled the room for a brief second before it was replaced with the soft pitter-pat sound of feet as they stepped across the floor. A pair of hands pulled at the heavy covers that almost completely hid a man's sleeping body. Sakura Valeria smiled as her papa tried to pull the covers back over his head. "Papa, it's three in the afternoon."

The blond man groaned and just pulled the blankets closer, "I'm tired."

"I would be too if I stayed up all night. Come on Papa, you've been asleep for at least nine hours. Wake up."

Fye opened one eye, the blue one, and yawned. "Do I have to?"

Sakura laughed at her papa's whining tone, "Yes you have to!"

"Do I really? Or can I bribe you?"

"Hmm," Sakura rolled her eyes to the ceiling in thought. After a moment she leaned forward and gave Fye a sly look. "What are you going to try and bribe me with?"

Fye clicked his tongue once and then pulled the blankets back. His hand patted the space next to him gently and slowly.

Sakura's face lit up and she squealed with joy as she jumped into bed next to her papa, "Yay!"

"Not so loud, Sakura..." Fye whispered out as he pulled the covers over them both and wrapped his arms around his daughter's shoulders.

For a couple minutes the teehee of Sakura's poorly contained joy filled the air, but then it died away as Fye's breathing evened out. There was silence.

Just as Sakura's eyes began to close the bedroom door burst open again and a boy stormed into the room, "Sakura! I told you to wake him up! Not to go to sleep just like him!"

"But he's so warm..."

"Sakura! He has to go to school!"

Fye's eyes snapped open. "I do?"

Sakura nodded into Fye's chest, "Syaoran got in trouble."

"I'll say he did." Fye looked over his shoulder at his adoptive son. "What did you do?"

Syaoran made a huffing sound and looked away, "I punched a kid in my class."

"What have I told you about acting normal?"

"I did! I didn't put any power behind it. Seriously, Papa, can we just go to school and get this over with?"

Fye sighed and pulled the blankets off of them, "Fine, let's go." Fye carefully crawled over Sakura's body and sat on the edge of his and Kurogane's bed. He fumbled with his shoes and clumsily tied the laces on them before he stood to his feet and began to rush out the door.

"Papa," Sakura began as she sat up. "Your hair is messy."

Fye flinched and sighed, "I was trying to ignore that..." The man slinked over to his dresser and picked up two items a cell phone and a comb. As Fye ran the comb through the tangled strands of his hair Fye dialed a number and held the phone up to his ear.

There was a long pause before, "Kuro-sama?... Yes, it's me...we have a bit of a predicament. Syaoran's gone and gotten himself into trouble...Yes, the three of us are heading to school now. We won't be home when you arrive."

Fye switched the phone to the other side of his head as he continued his merciless attack on his hair. "I suppose you could, but what's the point?...No, I suppose I won't have time to cook...You know it's not a good idea for the kids to eat out as often as we used to."

After a long minute of silence Fye nodded into the phone, "All right, we'll meet you there." Slowly a huge grin spread across his face. "I love you too. Bye."

The cell phone snapped shut and the blond man turned to the two younger people. "All right, out to the car. Your dad will be meeting us outside the school and we'll be going to dinner."

"But that's like a reward," Sakura complained as she stood up and walked next to Syaoran. "You always said that there are consequences to our actions!"

"There are, trust me, Syaoran will be getting his punishment, but with this I won't have time to cook, and then what are we going to do for dinner?"

Sakura seemed to give this a lot of thought before she answered. "I suppose that's true..."

Fye smiled and motioned toward the doorway, "Then let us be on our way."

"But Papa..."

"Yes?"

Sakura giggled and pointed at the blond's chest and slowly pointed at the rest of his clothes, "Aside from your hair, you look really disheveled."

Fye sighed and put a hand to his forehead, "I know, please don't remind me...I don't have time to change, and it's better for me to not think about how horrible my current state is." Fye pointed to Syaoran in a seemingly angry manner. "You are so lucky I love you so much, or I wouldn't even dream of leaving the house like this!"

"You're grounded for five hours...and no candy for a week." Fye said wearily as he came from the teacher's room and sat himself in-between Syaoran and Sakura. "And I may repeal the candy rule after a day or two."

"Why such a light punishment?" Both Sakura and Syaoran asked. Their voices mixed together perfectly as if they had rehearsed that response the entire time they had waited for Fye to come out.

"Simple, I agree with what you did, even though it was a bad reaction. It's not a good idea to punch someone because they tell you that you have the most horrible parents in the world because they're both men." Fye gave a soft chuckle as he slowly closed his eyes and tilted his head toward the ceiling. "Although it probably felt really good to do that."

"It sure did."

"Still, don't do it again. It doesn't reflect well on the parents you're trying to defend. Do you understand?" Fye opened his golden eye and placed his hand on top of Syaoran's head.

"Yeah, I just got so angry at him for assuming that Sakura and I had a bad life just because of that. It's something I don't even think about aside from the fact I know you and Daddy love each other very much."

Sakura pulled on Fye's sleeve very lightly. "Speaking of Daddy, I think he's outside waiting for us."

"Really?" Fye leaned forward, and then a huge grin graced his features, "So he is. Syaoran, you go ride with Daddy, tell him where you want to go for dinner, and Sakura and I will follow you in my car. Okay?"

Syaoran nodded and instantly sprung to his feet, running out to the car.

"Now," Fye began as he made sure there was no lint on his clothes, that his shoes were tied perfectly, and that no hair on his head was out of place. "You two are sure you can take care of our children while we're gone?" As soon as Fye was certain that there was nothing out of place on him, he turned to Kurogane and preformed the same checks on him.

Grudgingly

Kurogane allowed his soon-to-be-spouse to do this.

Fuuma laughed slightly and looked over his shoulder at Kamui, Syaoran, and Sakura. The boy and girl were pulling at and speaking happily to the young man who simply stood there and took it, although the expression Kamui bore said he was going to snap at any moment. "The two kids will be no problem, they're little sweethearts when they settle down, it's Kamui I'm worried about. After a long day of school and Ashura scolding him about the test he failed, I think I may have to watch him more than them."

"Watch it Fuuma, or you're going to end up watching your head fly."

"Scary." Fuuma whispered sarcastically.

"Fuuma..."

"Aheh, you two better go. Trust me, if anything bad happens we'll call Ashura, he's only a ten minutes drive away and he really knows how to handle kids, and you don't have to worry about the other kids there, because Clow practically never leaves the house. Now go on!"

"You heard him Fye. Let's go." Kurogane grabbed onto Fye's arm and pulled him toward the door. Fye said goodbye to all of them, even Kamui, whom he even dared to reach out to and ruffle the boy's hair.

They both walked down to Kurogane's black Honda and as Fye shut the door he asked, "Where exactly are we going tonight?" The blond made a low whistling noise as the car's engine started up. Fye couldn't really think of a reason why they'd be going out tonight. It wasn't a special occasion as far as he knew. The only thing he could think of was that Kurogane wanted to take him somewhere quiet to make their wedding plans.

Wedding plans... Fye's eyes drifted down to the sapphire ring man's ring on the proper ring finger. It didn't look anything like the usual engagement ring, but then again Fye didn't think Kurogane had meant for it to. A small smile crept over his lips as he looked at the object that showed Kurogane's lasting devotion.

The car began to move, "To dinner and then we're going to find the park."

"Just a date?"

"Tomorrow's your birthday. Ashura will surely come and take you away tomorrow, so I want my alone time with you now."

"Really?" Fye paused to ponder. "My birthday's tomorrow?"

"Yes, and you would know that if you had listened to me any of the five times I told you."

"Oops..."

Kurogane shook his head very slightly as he drove, "It's okay. For you to be preoccupied isn't uncommon. We're still getting used to this area."

"I guess..." Fye gazed out the passenger side window, looking at all the houses go by. This scenery was much different than the city Fye had become accustomed to. The buildings weren't as big or close together, there weren't as many stores, and instead of the occasional house versus a multitude of apartment complexes, there were many houses and very few apartment buildings.

What bothered Fye the most was the space. There was so much empty space. Fye loved nature and parks, and just walking in the silence, but to have that all around him constantly went against the way he used to live. Assassins didn't want large open spaces with very few places to hide. Silence made it easier to be heard, and being caught was the sign of a bad assassin. Even though he was no longer in that profession it was habit to want such things for the security that had used to give him. He was sure that Sakura and Syaoran felt the same way to an extent.

"So, where are we going Kuro-pup?"

"Toward the city."

Fye blinked in surprise, "Really?"

"Yes. We're going to have coffee and then talk a nice long walk down the street. Listen to all the cars, and then we'll go to the park. It may not have a fountain like the one we used to go to, but at least it'll be a little bit like old times."

Fye grinned very happily, "That sounds nice."

"I hope so, I planned it just for you."

There was a long pause, "Pull over."

"What?"

"Pull over," Fye repeated. Slowly and reluctantly Kurogane obeyed. The instant the car was no longer in motion Fye unbuckled and leaned forward and up to momentarily kiss Kurogane's lips. "I don't do that enough..." Fye's grin grew wide on his lips as he went to buckle back up. "You always think so kindly of me...I'll have to repay you someday...somehow."

Kurogane sighed and shook his head as he began to drive again. "Love isn't about giving and getting. It's about giving and not expecting anything in return. You give a lot more than you think."

Both Fye's blue and gold eye watched the streetlights begin to turn on as the car sped past them. "Maybe, but that's only part of it. Love is about giving your all to someone...or someones, and not expecting anything in return, but watching that person change because of that love, and then giving it to other people. Whether other people includes you, or their family. Love is about loving and making sure it doesn't stop there."

"I can understand that point of view...where did you learn that?"

Fye chuckled, "From you."