SailorStar9: With Chapter 96 out, this is the epilogue and end of this fic. Which also means, I'll be starting the Gundam 00 timeline book tomorrow. Remember boys and girls, reviews are an author's subsistence. Really, is it so difficult for you guys to review instead of just putting this fic up in your favorites and alerts?

Pairings: Tieria/Ami, Mamoru/Usagi and quite possible Setsuna/Hotaru.

Just in case anyone is still confused, Kubo Satoshi is the Present Day Tieria Erde and Faheem Kamal is the Present Day Setsuna F. Seiei.

Standard BS Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon, Gundam 00 or the pairings. If I did, the other Senshi would be as powerful as Sailor Moon and kicking MOTD ass more often and VEDA would have least an anti-hacker program installed. The only thing I do own is the plot.

Epilogue: Someday We Will Be Together


Five years later...

Dressed in her mourning kimono, an emotionally detached Ami silently sat through Satoshi's wake.

"Ami-chan." Kazumi took seemingly mute young woman aside. "It's okay to cry."

"Kazumi-san..." the medical graduate muttered, allowing the grieving mother to pull her head against her chest.

"Call me kaa-san." Kazumi whispered. "You're already practically family."

"It isn't fair." Ami sobbed. "Satoshi... he just proposed two weeks ago and now... it just isn't fair..."

"I know..." Kazumi soothed.


The next morning...

Ami pecked at the nigiri sushi on her plate. Sighing, she put down her chopsticks and played with her engagement ring.


Flashback to two weeks earlier...

Satoshi had led Ami on a quiet scroll in Arashiyama Bamboo Grove. Once he stopped at his preferred spot, he knelt down on one knee before his confused girlfriend and produced a ring box from his jacket pocket.

"Mizuno Ami," the purple-haired man cleared his throat. "The eternal love of my life, would you grant me the greatest honor of becoming my wife?"

"Yes." Ami whispered, joyous tears welling up.


And to think, he'd be dead two days later; caught in the convenience store robbery. Ami thought morosely. Noticing the concerned looks the Kubo family were giving her, the blue-haired woman just smiled and bit into the sushi on her plate.


On the way to the crematorium...

Chiba Usagi saw the procession and placed a hand on her henshin brooch. When she heard about Satoshi and Ami's engagement, all her teenage petty jealousy resurfaced when she recalled Satoshi's rejections and at that moment, she made a thoughtless wish. And unbeknownst to her, the Ginzuishou responded to that wish and less than six hours later, Satoshi was dead by a robber's hand. Did she regret the wish? Maybe, maybe not. "Oh dear." she glanced at her watch. "I'm late for work." gobbling down the last bit of her ice pop, she rushed back to work.


In the crematorium...

After the cremation, Takashi and Kazumi took on the job of excarnating their son's bones from his ashes into the burial urn.

With a bow to the crematorium staff, the Kubo Family left the building with cremated remains of their sole heir.


Three years later...

Ami found her way to the Kubo family grave with a bouquet of camellias, carnations and larkspurs. "It's been three years since you left me, Satoshi." she placed the flowers in front of the stone slab of the tombstone. "And even after so long, you were the only one I would ever love." with that solemn promise, she exited the cemetery.

In another time, in another place, some day, we will be together.

FIN


SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.