Why, hello there! I'm back with one more chapter! The EPILOGUE!!! WOOHOOO!! Because this story achieved over 100 reviews (o yea!) I have decided to treat you good people to an epilogue to my best story (so far) on this site. (btw, sry it took so long, but High School is so busy :\)
"I love you…… Tohru," he said.
"Kyo-kun," Tohru said softly. Then she yelled, with all her heart, "I love you too!!!" She flew into his arms, embracing him tightly. Kyo fell back a little, his heart soaring, barely realizing what had just happened. His arms wrapped around the girl's petite form and they waited. They waited for the one thing they knew was coming.
"AWWWWWWWW!!!" Three teenage girls chorused, holding their faces in their hands. They were crowded around a small television in the living room, watching a video taped long ago.
"Oh my God! That's so cute!" The girl with long, straight black hair on the left addressed the one in the middle.
"Yes it was, Kohana." The one on the right with short blonde hair spoke in a monotone, also glancing at the girl in the middle, who was not taking her eyes off the screen. The one in the middle, Kohana, cupped her bright orange hair behind her ears.
"Awesome, isn't it?" she asked. "Out of all the Phantom movies I've seen, I still think this one," she stared at the scene played in front of her, "is the best one out of all of them."
In the video, the audience was applauding, giving the two onstage a standing ovation. All of a sudden, two legs and an apron blocked the girls' view.
"Excuse me one second, girls."
"Ma! Can you move please? We're gonna miss the best part!!" Kohana flailed her arm frantically and gave her mother a glare, the bridge of her nose wrinkling.
The woman blocking them turned and placed her hands on her hips, standing in front of them defiantly. As the sound played louder and the music got stronger, the girls started panicking. The woman giggled and stepped aside, and bent over to see the screen herself, her long brown hair falling out from behind her shoulder where it was usually kept.
With his left hand he picked up the orange cat necklace from the ground and held it high above his head. His tears in his eyes and on his cheeks sparkled in the stage lights. He looked at the necklace and cried, "You alonnne can make my song take fliiiiigghhtt… It's over now… The Musiiccc ooofff thhheee Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggghhhttt!!"
"Hey, Kohana…" the friend on the left said. "Isn't that… your bracelet?" she pointed to the faded colored red and white bracelet on Kohana's small wrist.
Kohana smiled brightly. "Yep. That very one." she looked up at her mother, also granting her that smile.
Her mother returned it and walked off with the basket of laundry she had been folding. A man with hair as bright a color as Kohana's came in through the doorway. "Aw, geez! Not that crap again…"
"What's the matter, Dad?" Kohana inquired playfully. "Don't like to see yourself prancing around all over the stage?"
He gave her a smirk and kissed his wife. He turned back to Kohana. "Yea, yea. You're funny… really funny. I still can't believe Shigure managed to tape this." The father folded his arms, watching the end of the play.
"I still can't believe you let him get away with it, Kyo," The mother came over and hugged his arm.
"So, Mr. Sohma…" The friend on the left said. He looked down at her. "This was your bracelet?" she then again pointed to the band around Kohana's wrist.
"Yea. That was mine. Glad I broke the damn thing too."
"Why?"
He hesitated, looking down at his wife, and back to the girl. "Well… I figured it was something only a stupid ra-…Raoul… would wear." He laughed at this, and Kohana snickered.
"So you mean it looked too…gay." Piped in the friend on the right, still in a monotone and half-closed eyes.
"Er… yea. You could say that. It looked gay… and I'm not gay." Kyo gave a lopsided smile, mentally kicking himself for a horrible explanation. But he turned to his wife, "Right, Tohru?"
She started laughing, "Of course, of course!" But then she put a finger to her lips, "But… you think that Yuki-kun is gay?" she looked up at him and he laughed. Her airheaded-ness would definitely stay with her till her dying day, and would keep Kyo laughing brightly until then. And that was why he loved her.
Everyone jumped when the doorbell rang. Kohana sprang up to answer the door. She opened it and standing there was a boy about three feet taller that her.
"Toshi-kun!" she said excitedly.
The boy blushed. "Hey…" he murmured.
"What are you doing here?" she moved aside and he took a few more steps in.
"I… I wanted to talk to your dad about something…"
"Dad?" Kohana turned, confused. Kyo also, looked confused. Tohru, however, smiled sweetly and said, "Welcome. Please come in, Toshi-san!"
Tohru took his coat, he muttered a thanks and Tohru went back over to Kyo. She looked like she understood everything at the moment and whispered in his ear, "Take him to the porch outside, where the rose bushes are."
Kyo gave another look of confusion, but then it slowly dawned on him, and his eyes widened. A scowl appeared on his face and he grabbed the kid's arm and led him back outside. He slammed the door behind him and the three girls looked at each other, and Tohru went back to the laundry, humming a familiar tune. 'He's there… the Phantom of Furubaaa!' she giggled to herself and quietly hoped that Kyo knew what he had to do.
"Okay, what did you want?" Kyo released the boy outside by the porch bench. Toshi shook a little, he was tall, but Kohana's father was much, much taller. He had an aura surrounding him of hatred.
Toshi gulped, "I… I'd like to ask your permission, to go out, possibly go steady, with your daughter…"
Kyo folded his arms. He looked up and down the boy, from the messiness of his black hair to the bottom of his shoes. He stared particularly longer at the shoes. Finally he said, "You have my permission. But I assume you'll take good care of her."
"Yes sir, of course!" Toshi looked determined, reminding him of one of Tohru's looks she always gave. Toshi then became more timid and went quiet.
"And you promise to never hurt her."
"Yes, yes! I like her, very, very much…"
Kyo gave him a genuine smile. "You got nothing to worry about kid, I like ya. You're a good kid… and I also have a little advice to give you, when you ask her out." Kyo's fingers lingered towards the bushes and his eyes found Toshi's shoes.
"What are they talking about out there?" Kohana strained her ears to listen.
"Come on, Kohana. No eavesdropping. Yuu and Keiko, you too." Tohru lightly scolded. The three girls had their ears pinned to the front door, trying to hear what they were saying, but it was coming out in faint words that no one could make out. "They apparently need their privacy for a reason."
"Do… do you think they're talking about me?" Kohana couldn't hide her excitement nor blush at the thought.
"Maybe, Kohana, maybe…" Yuu said putting her black hair in a loose ponytail.
"Yes… maybe their talking about how pretty you are, or how special you are." Keiko said, monotonously.
"I wouldn't be surprised if they were." Tohru said. "Do you want them to be talking about you?" Tohru asked, smiling.
Kohana couldn't answer. She held her face in her hands to prevent her friends and mother from seeing her turn bright red.
"Kohana! I always thought you liked Toshi!" Yuu exclaimed.
"No no no no no no nooo!!!" Kohana shook her head in embarrassment. "He would never like me back, never!"
"Never give up, Kohana," Tohru said, folding one of Kyo's shirts. "Just look at the bracelet on your wrist and remember that." Kohana released her face from her hands and merely nodded. "Mm hmm."
The door opened and the girls flew back. Scurrying to find a chair and make their eavesdropping go on unnoticed, they turned the television louder and continued to watch the rest of the tape. Toshi came in, followed by a smug looking Kyo, who walked over to Tohru and wrapped his arms around her waist. "Watch this." He whispered in her ear.
Toshi walked over to Kohana with his hands behind his back. He cleared his throat. "Kohana…"
"Y-yes?" Kohana looked up at him from her spot on the floor. Toshi knelt down next to her and hesitated. He thrust something quickly into her hands, blushing furiously.
Kohana almost cried when she saw it. It was a rose, from their rose bushes out front, and tied in a neat bow around its stem, was a black shoelace.
She looked up to him, tears in her eyes.
"W-would you go out with me?" Toshi stammered.
"Sure!" Kohana sprung up and hugged his neck tightly. Toshi was a little taken aback that she had said yes and smiled as his heart soared.
"AAWWWW!" the two other girls awed. Kyo and Tohru watched from the living room doorway.
"Smart idea." Tohru said.
"Well, it worked pretty well for you…" Kyo smirked.
"Yes, it did," Tohru snuggled her head on Kyo's shoulder. They turned and walked out of the doorway, going up the stairs to their bedroom, leaving the scene, and Kyo quietly singing, "You alone can make my song take flight… help me make the music of… the… night…"
And Tohru whispered, "I will…"
Not really... the end
yes yes, methinks it is only the beginning for Kyo and Tohru. May they live in peace happily together (Kohana and Toshi too!) Yes, i love the name Kohana (little flower) as a name for Kyoru's daughter (even though they dnt have a daughter...) and Toshi for the guy she likes... idk i guess its because Kyo-Kohana and Tohru-Toshi:)
and i did add some of my Ganbaru Never Give Up lesson because i believe it was really important, especially for Kyo and Tohru's situation.
Anyway, I shall see you in the next oneshot (because i really dnt think another great multichapter idea is gonna come to me soon) and everyone be safe!
Kyo and Tohru will love each other forever! and They will stay together (as they wish) for eternity :)
KKL