SailorStar9: With Chapter 88 uploaded, this is the epilogue and the end of this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors (myself included) sustain on readers' reviews.

Pairings: Established!Zen/Ami, Established!Rikuo/Hotaru

Disclaimers: This fic idea and the Rikuo/Hotaru pairing belong to Pavel123; I only own the plot idea and the main pairing. Anything else belong to their respective owners.

Epilogue: Six Years Later

In the Yakuzen Hall...

The morning sun filtered gently through the shōji windows, illuminating the bedroom with its red and golden haze.

One of the two occupants of the room, the Head of the Yakushi Clan, Zen, aroused from his slumber, his crimson eyes drifting to still slumbering form of his wife as memories from years past bubbled from the back of his mind; of how he had found Bunko's reincarnation and of how he had married his soulmate a second time.

A future without her in it was not something he wanted to go through again.

"You have that look again." Ami muttered, stirring from her sleep. Pushing herself up from her futon, she gave her husband a soft kiss on the nose.

"I'm sorry." Zen smiled and returned the kiss.

"Zen-sama, Ami-sama," one of the male servants voiced from the other side of the shōji door. "Breakfast is already awaiting in the main hall."

"The monthly meeting at the Nura Main House is on Thursday, right?" Ami asked, swallowing her bite of grilled mackerel.

"Right." Zen replied, gulping down a mouthful of miso soup.

"I think I'll have to drop in to see how Hotaru's holding up." Ami mused.

"Hotaru-sama..." Zen paused for a moment and looked at his wife who also doubled as the Death Senshi's gynecologist.. "She's pregnant, isn't she?"

Two days later...

"The baby is growing quite well." Ami concluded, after a session with the five-month pregnant Hotaru. "Tsurara, have you been following my instructions?"

"Yes, Ami-sama." said Yuki Onna responded. "Kejōrō and the kitchen staff have been adhering to your orders strictly."

"Good." Ami turned to the Snow Woman from the zabuton. "Tell Kejōrō that I need some changes made to Hotaru's nutritional needs."

"At once." Tsurara answered.

"Hotaru," with Tsurara out of earshot, Ami turned to her fellow Senshi. "Have you heard from Chiba Usagi?"

The Senshi of Death propped herself up from the futon she was resting on, "Has she been giving you trouble, Ami?"

"Well, I won't say trouble..." Ami frowned, recalling how the married blond had appeared at the gates of Yakuzen Hall the previous day, bearing a basket of apology flowers. "Usagi... she's changed ever since the both of us got married."

"Has she?" Hotaru wondered, remembering the funeral wreath the pig-tailed blond had sent to her wedding.

"Usagi, she..." Ami started. "Came over to the Yakuzen Hall yesterday with an apology present. It seems that getting married to Mamoru did her some good; she isn't as anti-Yokai as she once was."

"Or maybe, she finally realized that Crystal Tokyo isn't coming into fruition." Hotaru suggested. "I mean, didn't Setsuna marry Gyūki two years ago?"

"Perhaps." Ami admitted. "Hotaru, are you happy?"

"With the life I have now?" Hotaru asked back. "Yes. What I have now, what we have now, goes to show that we don't Crystal Tokyo to be happy."

SailorStar9: Well, this chapter is done. Thoughts, reviews, anyone?