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This is the end, guys! 0.o

I'm sorry it took so long, far longer than I expected. Have had a troubling week, and just found time to upload it now. I'm really sorry for the wait!

Thanks to xXYour DoomXx, DUDE, chibi beary and Guest for all your lovely reviews and thank you, each and every one of you, for sticking through this fic! :D :#

This epilogue takes place some years later.

All your questions will be answered here...

Read and Enjoy~!

"Mom, do you think Granny is watching over us?" Hikaru asked, looking at her with eyes the mixture of blue and green, and hair the colour of red.

Teru had always believed their appearance came from her father's late mother, but now she knew it came from her dad by blood.

"Hmm, I have the feeling she does…"

Her son had been devastated when she told him his grandmother had died, died by age. He had cried for days before he decided to meet the world again. It had helped to see their graves afterwards, and Teru had concluded it was his sort of therapy, coping with it. He had gotten over it, but she and Hikaru found themselves at the graveyard from times to times, either talking to them or just watching the gravestones in silence.

They talked to them today, Hikaru telling them about how he had been, and what exciting things they had done at the Academy lately.

They went watching the other gravestones around them as they left afterwards. Either commenting when they knew who was lying there, or simply watching them in silence.

"Mom, look, this woman died at the same day as Granny!"

Teru looked at him for a moment, realising he had run ahead, and went towards him, looking at the twin gravestones he was looking at.

As she came close, she froze.

Here lays the memory of Aijo Eienda and Koi Itsumo

Deeply loved

Deeply missed

Followed by the time of each birth and death, Teru swallowing as the woman's dates where the exact same as her mother.

'It can't be… there's their grave…my mother and…real father. How…who made this?'

Teru made a mental note to ask who did, but the mere thought vanished as she saw what lay on the ground mixed with beautiful flowers; an open space, forming two small circles.

Memories flew across her mind, and the most recent got stuck.

-,-.-,-.-

"Um…can I help you?" A nurse asked, looking at me and was prepared to either help me or shove me out the door I had just entered.

I was at Suna Nursing Home, feeling as awkward as I possibly looked at I stuttered the name of the person I wanted to see, and the main reason I was here in Suna.

The nurse contemplated for a moment, giving me the once-over, then nodded her head and led me to a room a few corridors away and softly knocked on a door, "Kankuro…someone is here to see you."

A sound of confirmation, and before I knew it I was there, and looking at my…uncle, who looked at me frowning.

"Who are you?"

"I…" my voice was dry, I coughed, wetting my lips and began again, "I-I am…the daughter of Hinata Hyuuga and your…y-your b-brother…"

The silence that came shoved no signs of leaving, and I had to bite my lips forcing my eyes not to leave his.

"How can…." He said at last, face turning into one of pain and sadness, feelings so old they had marred his skin and made him look ages older than he actually was, "H-he disappeared so long ago…"

"T-They met when she was going to deliver a message to him, some weeks before his…disappearance… and they h-had a relationship…"

When Kankuro made no other sound Teru found herself telling him her mother and his brother's story, as much as she could at least, before tears streamed down and she had to take a deep breath to collect herself.

"Where's …Hinata…?"

"S-she died two years ago, after telling me this…she had no proof, but she had a scar around her ring finger, and she told me about their wedding and what happened to her ring afterwards…"

"A ring you say…?" Kankuro got on his two shaking legs with a little effort and made his way to a drawer near his bed, finding an envelope marked by ages with how tattered it was at, and gave it to me.

"I looked for Gaara a lot after he went missing. I have no idea how many hills I passed, and then a second and third time just to be absolutely sure no Gaara or traces of him were there…Maybe two-three weeks after his disappearance, where the hope was vanishing, I found an envelope just lying on the ground, and two rings lying over it to make sure it didn't fly away. . ."

He found the rings he was talking about and gave them to me, one the colour of sand, the other the colour of lavender, both so beautiful made of love and care, "Me and 'Mari was sure it came from Gaara due to the handwriting at the front…, but it wasn't his name or none that we knew of and no one else had heard of that person so.."

He took a staggering breath, and I did the same as I read the name of the front of the letter, "K-Koi Itsumo…"

"If what you say is true…then he wrote it to your mother. The rings must be their wedding rings…"

"H-How can the sand-ring be there…? M-mom said it got destroyed when she was going to remove it…"

Kankuro bit his lip, "Gaara had the power to move sand…it wouldn't surprise me if he made this…and did something so it came back to him if something happened to it…"

Silence hugged us, both of us trying to sort out emotions and understand what we just found out, ". . . c-can you read the letter out loud . . . maybe it makes sense now…?"

And as he asked I did, tears streaming down at the end.

-.-,-.-,-

"Mom…Are you crying? You know these people?"

Teru blinked, meeting his gaze, though blurrily, and nodded. "Y-Yes…yes, I do…"

Hikaru didn't ask more, simply nodding back and said he was going ahead, sensing that his mother needed some time alone.

When her son was no longer in sight, Teru crouched down to her knees and found two special rings in her pocket. She carefully put them in the circles, drying some tears and sniffed a little.

Then she whispered, smiling softly as she watched the rings, "Hey mom… Hey dad… I have been doing great . . ."

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That was it, guys! Thank you all for reading this story and I hope to see you again when the Naruto-oneshot and the Gaara-fic-thingie gets up. I actually planned posting the Naruto-fic at the same time as this epilogue. But I haven't had time writing it yet, and I couldn't stand not posting the epilogue soon. So in other words... If you want to read the Naruto-fic and the Gaara-fic-thingie then you have to stalk me (ehem...I mean follow but stalking is actually more right...) XD

Now, other facts/information I either forgot or decided to write together with the epilogue;

¤ If you are curious about the letter Gaara wrote, it will be written in the Gaara-fic-thingie...

¤ You have to use your imagination to 'see' how the twin-gravestones looks. I don't know enough words or are good using them to describe it for you.

¤ Kankuro never really forgot his brother... and he had no idea he and Hinata were togheter. Though he may have thought it...

¤ Where did Gaara go...? That question and many else will be answered in the Gaara-fic (ugh, I really need to find a name to it!)-thingie I will write as soon as I can!

Eeh, that's what I can remember on the spot. I'm sure I have forgotten some things though...:P

This was the last time; thank you for reading! Bye~!