Epilogue:
Many years later, when he had traveled the world, learned many languages, taken one wife, Maria, he took her and his three lovely daughters to show them where he lived when he was young. Things had changed over the years. Things had changed dramatically. The estates that his father had owned fell into disrepair. His father, along with his mother and his father's concubines were driven out. Stories and rumors had told everything from them being driven out, to them all being executed during a small rebellion. The land that they had owned was distributed to the locals, turned into farmlands or left to nature. He never really found the truth in the matter, but at this time in his life he was satisfied with what life had given him, even though he felt he didn't deserve it.
It saddened him a bit, but he'd been away for so long, been a man for so long, cared for his wife and daughters, and lived under the name of Shotaro Mogami as named by Kazushi Misonoi for so long, that this part of his past was literally a lifetime removed from what he had now. His lovely wife Maria who was ten years younger than he, had been introduced to him at court by her grandfather and his sensei, Lory Takarada, a very eccentric and lively man, when she was sixteen. He had gained permission and courted her earnestly for a full year before he was granted permission to wed her. He showered her in love and affection. He pampered her like a queen and in turn she blessed him with three beautiful daughters in the span of the first six years of their marriage.
Everywhere he traveled, if he was to be gone for longer than a month, his family traveled with him. He once made a comment in jest to Kuon, that wasn't it funny that men who had many women before they had children, were usually blessed with very lovely daughters. Kuon just laughed and told him that those that were trouble and enjoyed fighting were blessed with more boys. At the time Kuon had five sons and one brand new baby girl, to be followed by another son two years later. Needless to say, a few short years later there would be one wedding and two betrothals, that would unite the two bloodlines. Not long after, the Hizuri bloodline would also be tied to the Yashiro/Kotonami bloodline, and the Kijima/Amamiya bloodline.
A/N: Thank you to H-Nala for asking what happened to Sho's family. I was originally going to scatter them to the four winds and leave it at that, because they had just tossed him aside when he made a mistake, but I decided to punish them a little and give Sho a reward for cleaning up his act. 8)