Me: welcome, to the epilogue to my shinzo date series!^^ man, give me a moment, I'm feeling nostalgic. Man, I've been working on these stories for about a year or two, maybe, I think. Those stories have the most reviews, I think, outta all my stories and I'm proud^^ but sadly, it will soon come to an end. But, a happy end, so you can't be mad at that!^^ enjoy!

I stood outside on the upstairs balcony, staring out at the far, beautiful, green land we had…it was like a green ocean, a nice site to look at. I sighed happily as the wind made the grass sway like a wave and the breeze hit me and it felt nice. It was so peacefully quiet, so nice for once after all the things we've been through throughout our lives, there's finally si-

"Mommy, mommy!"

-lence….I turned as a little girl ran to me, seeming near tears in annoyance. I squatted down and she jumped in my arms, beginning to cry a little bit, though she held most of it in as she said angrily, "Mommy, he's being mean!"

"What? Who's being mean?" I asked, standing with her in my arms and then I heard other little footsteps coming.

A small, short and cute little boy with purple hair and brown chunks of hair in his face came in. He had brown eyes and a familiar face. And then a little girl his size came in, though her hair was brown and a bit longer than his, with two purple chunks around her face and messy bangs. She seemed tired, like this was an annoying, usual routine. And the cute, little boy looked guilty.

"Whatever she says I did, I didn't do it, Aunt Jaden!" he said to me with his pleading brown as.

"Yes you did, Mashura! Don't lie!" my daughter yelled back in her small, cute little voice. She was three and she had dark hair, pretty much black, but it seemed to shine blue, so it was actually a dark blue, almost black. And she looked at me with green eyes. "Mommy, tell him to leave me alone!"

And then two other kids walked in. one of them was a boy with light brown hair, almost blond and the other was a girl with light blue hair. They both had blue eyes that seemed to shine and I seemed to know so well. They watched Mashura with looks that said, 'not again'.

"Mashura, what were you doing?" I asked him as I bounced Mizuka up and down in my arms to calmed her down and she did, until she saw Mashura again, she glared.

"…Nuuuuuthin…" she told me, looking at his feet innocently.

"He was bugging her about Ookami, he's been doing that a lot lately, 'cause Ookami always comes around." Carrie, Mashura's sister said standing beside him.

"Ookami? What about Ookami?" I asked, confused.

"She likes him!" Mashura blurted out before he could stop himself and Mizuka hid her face in my long hair.

I was quiet for a moment. One, because I thought it was cute and sweet my daughter had a crush. Two, I was worried about the day I'd have to give my kids the talk, though I knew I didn't need to worry right now. And three, I was a bit annoyed with Mashura. But hey, he takes after his father.

I looked at my blushing daughter and told her, "It's ok, it's nothing to be embarrassed about. And just ignore Mashura, he's just a little hot-head." Then I turned to Mashura, with a look on my face that made him look down again at his feet in guilt. "Why are you messing with her like that? It's not nice…"

"…I don't know…" he said, not looking up.

"It's because he's just like his father." I heard and looked up as I laughed.

A woman with long brown hair and two chunks of it on her shoulders and around her face walked in, resembling the little girl (Carrie is her name) with purple and brown hair a lot, and Mashura, too. She was wearing something that, in all my life, I would never think she'd wear. BUT, what she used to wear is not welcome anymore, now that her belly was extending once again. So, she wore a dark black, red and orange dress with little designs here and there. She watched me with brown/red, tired-like eyes and smiled smally.

"Yeah, I've been able to notice that by now, Heather." I laughed as I came up to her. All the kids surrounded her for a little bit, touching her belly and trying to talk to the baby girl in it….until they got bored with the baby not talking back and they left (everyone except Mizuka, she fell asleep in my arms^^).

"So, how's little Neushra doing? She kicking?" I asked with a bit of excitement. I've had three kids by now, heather's had two and yet, I still get excited. I don't know, I'm happy and excited around babies.

"A little bit, you wanna feel?" heather asked me and I nodded.

"Hold on…" I said and I was thankful Mizuka and Saiya's (my other daughter) was next to mine and Sago's room, which we were in. I laid her in her bed, covering her up and then I turned to heather excitedly and put my hand on her stomachs. "Oh!" I said excitedly (though I tried to be quiet) when I felt a little thump from her belly. I couldn't help giggling smally.

"You're so weird when it comes to babies." She told me with a laugh as we left and I shut the door. "When she's born, you gonna start saying stuff in baby voices where we can't understand?"

"…Not sure yet, depends on the power of her cuteness." I said and then laughed.

As we walked down the stairs to the first floor (I helped her, since she couldn't exactly see the stairs), she asked me something, with a little laughed. "What do you think the real Neushra would think, if she knew I named our next kid after her…?"

"Hmmm…I have no idea. She'd either be flattered and happy, or surprised and curious. I don't really know." I laughed, though I started to wonder, too.

"Look out below!" we heard and heather was faster than me, knowing what was coming and she moved out of the way. But me? No, I was slow and I had been too busy thinking the register what those three words meant was coming.

"GAH!" dang it, that hurt!

"We said look out below, dumbo!" said a man resembling Mashura a lot. He had straight, purple hair to his neck with two chunks or his hair/his bangs, on either side of his face. He had blue, smug eyes and a smile to match along with a cool, golden crown. And his outfit was black tights with orange armor and shoes, though the armor was different then how it used to be. Who was this guy? This guy was Mushra, all grown up and finally tall!

I glared at him as another man stood beside him. He had dark red and black (mostly red) hair, tied back in a little ponytail behind him. he was wearing a dark red, flowing shirt with a few designs on it, a black and gold belt-like thing around his waist and black pants with red boots. He had red shining eyes (with a scar down one of his eyes) and tan skin. He had the same smugness as Mushra and, of course, he was also a hot-head. This guy was Shadow, grown up as well but he was still annoying.

"You know by now how we love to ride down the railing. It makes us look cool." He told me with a laugh, his elbow resting on Mushra's shoulder, before Mushra moved out of the way and he fell on the ground.

"Yeah, you're totally cool, man." Heather said sarcastically, walking back up beside me. Mushra came up to her and hugged her, rubbing her belly, too (he was cute when he was around the baby).

"And why are you guys doing that?" I yelled, annoyed, and not only because I think these two hot-heads broke my back! "You're setting a bad example for the kids! They can do that and get hurt!"

"Oh, please, Jaden, you know you do it, too! When no one's looking!" shadow countered as he stood and I just glared.

"Boy, if you weren't the father of my cousins children, I'd swear I'd have killed you by now." I told him as he laughed.

"Aw, you know you love me like a cousin, too." He said, grabbing me in a hug before I pulled his ponytail. "OW! All you had to do is say let go, you don't have to mess with the hair!"

"Aw, poor Shadow, got his hair pulled on!" we heard someone say in a child-like, mimic voice and then laugh as she came into view. She had tan skin almost like Shadow's and red and black hair (that was straight at the moment) with a little orange. She had red-brown eyes (more red than heather's). She had her own crown, though it was a bit different than Mushra's, with a red jewel in the middle. And her outfit was kinda like Shadow's…sept, you know, for a female. Like, it had something kinda like a skirt flowing from the belt around her waist. And her outfit was red, brown and black.

He looked at her with an annoyed smile and stuck his tongue and she did the same back as she stopped by me. "Hey, cousin!" she said with a smile.

"Hey." I said with a small laugh.

"So, where's water boy?" she asked.

"Wooo hooo!"

"Oh no, he isn't…" I said as I looked up at the stair railings.

"Oh yeah, he is. He said he wanted to go after us." Mushra told me with a laughed and I sighed but waited and then saw Sago zoom by, a blue blur, riding on water.

"You're lucky you can use your powers without hyper forming…" Shadow said, annoyed that he hadn't seemed that cool.

"Hehe!" sago laughed smugly as he smiled…and then he looked at me and scratched the back of his head nervously. "Uh…hey, honey…Nice day today, huh?"

I was just quiet.

"Oh, come on!" Mushra said. "You're such a sour sport!"

"Kane, stop I don't want to-Aaah!" I heard a small voice and turned as Katalina came sliding down, her little brother sliding after her, laughing (they looked like chibi's of their parents. Shadow and Carly).

Katalina flew from the end of the railing and almost hit the ground, but then she landed on the back of a large, fluffy, black and orange wolf. She was surprised at first.

The other kids (except Mizuka) came down the railing also, not scared. And I'm sure Katalina wouldn't really have been scared, if her brother hadn't pushed her so forcefully.

She looked up at the wolf as he changed to a tall, but young man. He was wearing and orange, Japanese like vest thing, with a golden moon shape thing around the neck and orange gloves with black pants and purple boots. He had messy brown hair with black wolf ears and a tail. "You ok?" he asked.

Katalina blushed, along with mine and Heathers daughters, Saiya and Carrie when they saw him. and I'm sure if Mizuka was down here, she would be, too. I laughed.

"Y-yeah." Katalina said with a shy smile.

"Hi, Ookami!" Saiya and Carrie said as they came running up to him, bumping into Katalina and stopping.

He laughed. "Hey, girls. You doing ok?" they nodded and he laughed again, before turning to Heather. "Hiya, Heather." He smiled widely at his friend/substitute mother.

"Hey, sweetie." She said with a smile.

"Hey Jaden, Carly. How's everyone been?"

"Good." We said with smiles like heather.

"How have you been, Ookami?" Mushra asked, throwing his arm around Ookami's shoulder.

"Good." He laughed. "Though, kinda tired. That's why I came to visit, I thought I could just chill for a while."

"What, being a ninth general too hard for ya?" Shadow asked.

"No! It can just take its toll sometimes, and along with training with my papa, it's just a bit tiring sometimes. But I wouldn't deny what I am, I'm proud of it." He said and he looked so much older, like he had such wisdom with him now.

"Well, where's-" I began to say, but then I heard something up stairs.

"Hana, one more time, please!"

"Fine!"

And then a light brown wolf came jumping down the stairs, with Mizuka and a few other kids (as young as her and that resemble a certain sister of mine and her husband) riding on her back. She landed in front of us, smiling a wolfy a smile before then kids jumped off and she changed into a young woman. She had an outfit just like Ookami's, except it was for a girl and it was a red shirt and red boots, rather than orange and purple. She smiled at me.

"Your kids really like riding me, Jaden. One day, they're going to break my back." She laughed and I did, too.

"Well, you're the one who keeps letting them!" I countered with a smile and she smiled too.

"Well, when they have the same face as my substitute mom and dad, except more child-like, it's hard to say no!"

We just laughed. "It's good to see you, sweetie." I told her and gave her a hug, Sago hugging her as well and giving her a father-like kiss on the forehead. No, he's not her father, but that's their connection, same with me. Though, I've become more like a friend.

"So, where's Winter and bubu?" Ookami asked.

"Oh, I think there with Jaden's parents and the rest of her kids. You know, your house is becoming really filled." Hana said, looking at me with a smile.

"Yep, that's why we got one so big." I said.

"Reminds me of cheaper by the dozen." Heather said with a laugh.

"Yeah, except it's sixteen, soon to be seventeen." I said and us grownups sighed tiredly.

"Well, we got our parents to help, thank god!" Carly exclaimed. "We have people to keep these kids in check!" she gave Shadow and noogie and he did it right back, messing up her straight hair.

"Why is your hair so straight anyways? I like it messy." He said.

"Well, my parents thought I should straighten it for once and I kinda like it, though my normal hair style is more me….why are we talking about my hair again?"

"I don't know!" shadow said with a goofy smile.

We all just laughed as we went to find the others. Kutaal (who stayed with us. What? He couldn't leave us, we're his buds!) had announced that food was ready. He was older now, too. He wasn't like his hyper form totally, because he's still around food to much, but he has a few more muscles than before and he's growing a mane around his face. So, now he looks like a big lion instead of a big cat…well, he didn't have a tail, but still.

We were all older, a bit more mature and so much more happy now. It was just…heaven. That's what it felt like, with my friends and family all around me. We were in heaven now.

Me: well, hope you liked the first chapter of my short epilogue. I'll have a few more chapter and then it shall be the end, oh my gosh! I think I might cry! Though, I'm also happy. Well, anyways, I have a question to ask. To all you reading, please tell me (and u have to have had read all three of the shinzo date stories to answer this!) which couple is your favorite?

Mushra: me and heather are, obviously *gets hit in the head* ow, what was that?

Me: well, one, it's tradition for me to smack the back of your head at least a few times in the disclaimer things. And two, don't be so cocky!

Mushra: *smiles* but it's part of my charming personality^^!

Me: ok, yeah, sure. Anyways, review!^^