A/N: Well, this is it. There's not much to say about this story but thank you very much for following, reviewing and favorite it. When I was writing Oh Sister! back in 2015/16, I came up with the concept for this story. I wanted to try a different way to write it and started several chapters but dropped it for a while. I recently lost my laptop so I found this on my back up docs and decided to give it a try. I only had one part ready and a general concept of where I wanted to take it. You might know by now that I am a sucker for happy endings, I think life is hard and sad as it is at times to create more sadness in the form of fanfiction. I might write a couple but not yet.
The whole concept of this fic was the Japanese words 'tadaima' and 'okaeri'. Coming home from a long journey and find that life can be good was what moved this story forward. I hope you had enjoyed it and let me know your final thoughts in a review.
Thestral212: A pleasure, you know how much I enjoy writing.
sakuya112: Thanks for the love it makes my heart warm.
Satan: Here's the last one, I hope you like it.
Invisiblewall: You are welcome.
VolpineGrinz: I am glad you had enjoyed it and that it helped you somehow on this sad times.
elliehandesu: Thanks, I hope you like this chap.
SkullChaser09: I had a hard time with Suguru and their sexy nights so I just mentioned. I ship my girls together and nothing more but it was for continuity purposes only. I wanted to tell a story from a different perspective from 'the other side' which was very challenging but rewarding. Hehe, I had my moments where I could not stop laughing on that last chapter, Youko and Sachiko can be really scary if provoked and Sei is just the perfect balance there. Thanks for reading.
heimdal7: Well, as far as I know, brunette hair could be used for brown or dark hair but yeah, just words. I hope you find this chapter satisfying enough.
One last thing. This chapter is dedicated to VolpineGrinz. I know you are going through a hard time and I am deeply sorry for your loss but let me tell you this, Open your eyes is a little piece of happiness that I hope it helps you have a smile upon your face soon. I deeply care about you, my dear friend.
Enjoy!
8.- Memories
Yumi woke up with a gasp. The last thing she remembered was getting into the operation room to deliver her babies. Now she was lying on a bed in a very white room. Looking down, she saw that her stomach was flat, no trace of being pregnant whatsoever and she panicked.
Trying to sit down, a hand on her arm held her in place and she turned around to see those cerulean orbs that she adored. Sachiko was sitting in a wheelchair and was smiling at her.
"I am so glad that you are awake, Yumi" the president added softly. The brown-haired woman smiled but soon, she was invaded by an odd feeling, as if this was not where she was supposed to be. And then, she saw it.
Sachiko was rubbing her swollen belly and Yumi gasped. Something was wrong, very wrong indeed.
"Our babies will be born soon and it is only fair that both of their mothers are with them when they grace us with their presence, don't you think, Yumi?" Sachiko smiled and the brown-haired woman didn't know what to do or react.
"Onee-sama, what happened?" Yumi asked quietly and the president tilted her head confused.
"You fell down the stairs and hit your head" Sachiko looked flustered "I panicked but was able to get some help and brought you here" the president took Yumi's hands and smiled softly "you had been asleep ever since"
This is not what Yumi remembered. Actually, she was the one pregnant and Sachiko was in a coma. She was about to give birth when darkness pulled her and she felt like floating. Then, she woke up in this room, with this Sachiko that she knows is not the one she was married to.
"I need to leave" Yumi removed the IV attached at her arm, left the bed and walked past the pregnant woman she did not recognize as her wife and got into a deserted hallway. She needed to find a doctor or a nurse, anyone that can actually explain what was happening.
Yumi…
And then, she heard Sachiko, her Sachiko was calling her. She tried to follow her voice and ran into someone very familiar.
"Sei-sama?" Yumi asked clearly confused.
"Yumi-chan, why are you out of bed?" the blonde frowned clearly confused and pointed the brown-haired woman's arm "you are bleeding"
"I need to get out of here" Yumi felt how her chest hurt and she placed a hand on it. Something was making her weak and legs shook. A second shockwave passed through her chest and she fell on her knees.
"Yumi" Sei called with a smile.
"Yes, Sei-sama?" the brown-haired replied softly.
"Go home to her" the blonde added cryptically.
"I am planning to" Yumi replied and grinned with tears in her chocolate eyes.
Yumi, come back to me. I came back for you.
Please, don't leave me.
The voice was calling her and she refused to stay in this strange reality any longer so she just closed her eyes when her head hit the ground. A long corridor appeared in front of her. The light was so intense that it was blinding.
After keeping her eyes closed for a few moments, Yumi opened them again and the corridor was divided into two different roads. On the right, she could hear that lovely voice calling for her, on the other side, was the place she just came from. A strange reality where Sachiko was the one pregnant and she was a patient.
Without thinking it twice, Yumi walked towards the light on the right and the ground disappeared. Suddenly, she was falling into the unknown with Sachiko's voice as her sole guide. The brown-haired woman was not scared anymore because deep inside, she knew that wherever she was heading, Sachiko was the one waiting for her.
Brown orbs opened once more and she panicked when she awoke in a white room once more. She was so sure that she had gone home by now and the uncertainty was eating her inside. Looking down, her stomach was flat but pain irradiated from her lower back and womb when she tried to sit on the bed.
Soon, the door opened and her wife entered in a wheelchair pushed by Youko. Yumi saw that Sachiko was not pregnant and sighed relieved. Then, she noticed a bundle wrapped in a pink blanket the president was carrying in her arms and a second carried by Sei.
"Yumi!" Sachiko said with tears in her blue orbs "thanks to Maria-sama you are okay."
"You gave us quite the scare, Yumi-chan" Sei added while approaching the bed.
"There were some complications when you were giving birth to your daughters" Youko stated calmly while placing a hand on Sachiko's shoulder "you had a heart attack."
Yumi touched her chest and realization hit her. That was the excruciating pain she felt earlier, back then.
"I woke up somewhere else where Sachiko was pregnant" Yumi explained and Sachiko and Youko exchanged glances.
"That was the reality I saw when I was in a coma, Yumi" the president smiled "and I was married to Suguru" Sei could not help but laugh at the brown-haired woman's disgusted face.
"She was the one carrying twins there" the blonde added "Suguru's bundles of joy" Youko slapped her arm and glared at her.
"But now everything is fine" Sachiko added in a soft voice while Sei handed the bundle she was carrying to an anxious Yumi. A sleepy girl with dark brown tresses yawned and opened her beautiful eyes. The right one was chocolate brown as her birth mother and the left one was dark blue like Sachiko's. It was a beautiful and miraculous sight.
"Kiseki" Yumi whispered and the president could not agree more, she was indeed their little miracle.
"And this is Yume" with Youko's help, Sachiko sat on the bed and approached showing their other daughter to the ecstatic mother. The dark-haired baby looked at Yumi with curiosity, her baby blue with brown inner rings gaped at her before giggling. It was the perfect moment after the hard journey they had been through, their own personal happy ending.
"I am home, Yumi" Sachiko whispered before giving her wife a soft peck on the lips.
"Welcome back, Sachiko" Yumi added while leaning her head on the president's shoulder and enjoying the bliss of the beginning of their married life and their new two additions to their now bigger family.
Happiness was not a concept anymore, for them was just the way they will start to live each little moment from now on and until death does them apart. Sachiko's love for Yumi made her come back to her real world and Yumi's adoration towards the president and their two daughters brought her back to her beloved. Now they are sure that whenever they open their eyes again, everything will be fine.
A/N: Well, this is the end. Oh yeah, did you notice the words made with the first letter of the title of each chapter, that was just a lucky coincidence [or not, we would never know]. I hope you had enjoyed our little journey together and see you soon in another story, some final reviews would be highly appreciated.