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Chiye and Kaoru:
Chiye sat in a chair. It was a rather comfortable chair; in fact, it was the most comfortable one in the entire room. But this was not comforting to Chiye at all. There was no one in the chair next to her. Not because she had no one, but because the person she had didn't know that he had her.
Kaoru was in a chair across the room from her, staring at a blank wall. It was what he did every day now and Chiye just sat and watched him watch the wall. She didn't have the energy to do anything else anymore.
Since that fateful night, 26 years ago, she had lost all of her extra energy. She and Kaoru hadn't lived, they had merely existed. True, they had each other and they had their children, but it wasn't the same. They had always had their twin, since before they were born.
They had never pretended to be young again; they had merely lain next to each other, holding each other, as they tried to sleep through the night. They had been there to see their first grandchildren born, but it hadn't been the same without Hikaru and Masaye.
It hadn't been too long ago that Kaoru had begun to show signs of dementia. When they had discussed what to do about it, neither had really cared. Kaoru had been grateful for the thought of losing his memory, which would make him lose his pain. Chiye had been jealous of this and also scared of losing the only person that truly understood her pain.
Now all Chiye could do was watch Kaoru live in his pain free world, while she was alone, completely and utterly alone.
Dierck:
Dierck hated visiting the nursing home that his parents lived in. In fact, he was the only one of his siblings that actually visited them regularly.
As soon as Dierck walked into the common room he saw the normal picture. There was his dad in his chair, staring at the blank wall, and across the room, in another chair, sat his mother, who was staring at his father.
That was all she did all day, it was so depressing that Dierck had stopped bring Christel and their children in to visit her, they just found it painful. Not that he needed to bring his children; they were old enough to come on their own now, but they usually didn't.
Dierck said hello to his mother, but all she did was nod slightly, her eyes never straying from her husband. Dierck sighed, turned around, and walked back out. He just couldn't do it anymore. That wasn't his mother in there anymore. His mother had died the same night Aunt Masaye and Uncle Hikaru had died.
As soon as Dierck got into his vehicle he told it to take him home before breaking down and crying. He missed his parents so much, both sets of them…
Everyone:
No one was surprised much when they got the call in October, telling them that Chiye and Kaoru had passed away in their sleep. The doctor's weren't sure what they had died of; though they could say that Chiye and Kaoru had died within minutes of each other.
The overall feeling at the funeral was one of relief, because they knew that Kaoru and Chiye were finally where they had been trying to get to for the past 26 years.
In Heaven:
She watched, with her husband beside her, as the twins were reunited. There was not a dry eye around at the reunion.
There was only one more of the original seven left on earth. She smiled to herself and sent a prayer down to earth. "Daughter on earth, take your time, enjoy your life, and keep casting your sunshine onto all that comes."
Author's Note: Please don't hate me. It's not over yet.
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