Shuuichi Minamino: Well, here it is; the long awaited epilogue. You know, when I first started writing this fanfic, I honestly had no idea just how so many people were going to enjoy reading it! So I want to take this moment to thank everyone who posted a review and gave me encouraging words to continue! Hugs and kisses, and many, many, many thanks to you all!

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It was late in the evening as Kyo made his way back to his and Iori's room that was one of the many guesthouses on Kurai's parents' island, passing through the many different gardens. Kyo's personal favorite was the large koi pond and waterfall that their room was next to. Stepping onto the veranda and sliding the door aside, Kyo toed off his shoes before entering.

He, Kurai, Chris and Iori had arrived earlier that day as they had been invited to the quintuplets' third birthday. Iori had spent most of the time playing a long and very complicated game of Go with Kurai's father, while Kyo, Kurai and Chris had fun player with the dragon toddlers.

What struck Kyo strange that even though Nikko, Nichibotsu, Kumo and Kazefuyu were all the same age; their heights were noticeably different. Nikko was tall as an eight-year-old, Nichibotsu was tall as a six-year-old, Kumo was tall as a five-year-old, and Kazefuyu was the only one who looked the appropriate height for a three-year-old. Kurai had eased Kyo by explaining that the difference in their heights despite them being all the same age was normal, for dragons anyway.

"They grow in stages like this until they hit puberty. I, however, aged like a human because I wasn't born from an egg," Kurai had added.

Inside the guesthouse, Kyo entered the bedroom to gather his bathing materials. Kurai told him that because there was a volcano on this island, there were hundreds of natural hot springs and one located near their appointed guesthouse. Like any normal Japanese man, Kyo loved soaking in hot springs, and was looking forward to spending some relaxing time in one of them. Kurai's young cousins were bundles of pure energy and were quite demanding from their playmates no matter who or what the age.

Tying on a yukata, Kyo walked down the step stone path towards the hot spring and push opened the bamboo gate. The hot spring looked heavenly and Kyo couldn't wait to dive in. Setting his things down and untying his yukata, Kyo quickly seated himself into the water. It was hot, but not so much that it was uncomfortable. Crossing his arms behind his head, Kyo leaned back and stretched, feeling his muscles relaxing underneath the soothing, hot water.

'Ah, bliss,' Kyo thought.

He felt the water ripple and opened an eye to see that Iori had joined him.

"Enjoy your game of Go?" Kyo asked casually.

"Yes. Kurai's father is a agreeable…being," Iori said.

"You and he are kind of similar," Kyo remarked. Iori looked at his lover to continue. "Well, you both don't say much unless you have a point to make, you both have dominating presences, you're both honest, and of course, good looking."

"Meanwhile your friend Kurai takes more after his mother," Iori said.

"He does, doesn't he, but I think Kurai's more crafty and he has something his mother doesn't have; an evil streak. Especially on those who cause harm to those he cares for," Kyo said.

"How very true," Iori nodded, having seen part of it during the beginning of the 'Revenge on Yuki' episode. The redhead turned to face Kyo. "Turn around."

"Hmm? Why?"

"I want to give you a massage," Iori explained.

"Sounds great," Kyo said, turning his back towards Iori. The brunette gave a happy sigh as Iori slowly worked out the kinks and knots.

"You have quite a few knots," Iori pointed out.

"I spent the day entertaining Kurai's cousins," Kyo explained. "They demand quite a bit of attention at such a young age."

"I think perhaps we need to go inside and have you lay down on your stomach that way I can work out these knots effectively," Iori suggested.

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Back inside the bedroom, Kyo laid out on his stomach while Iori straddled over Kyo's rear, starting from the head and slowly working his way down the brunette's back. Iori focused a lot around Kyo's neck and shoulder line where most of the knots were located, and having strong hands came useful as Iori had really work on a couple of hard knots. It caused Kyo a little discomfort, but after they were worked, out, he was feeling great. After a full hour had passed, Kyo's back line was free from kinks and knots.

"Ah, that feels so much better, Iori. Thank you," Kyo said, rolling onto his back.

"No problem," the redhead replied, taking one of Kyo's feet into his hands and switching the mood of the massage from relaxing to arousing, and Iori knew that the way to start was with the feet.

Kyo gave a sudden sigh. The palms of his feet were a gathering a nerves, as was his back, and one only had to touch them a particular way to send bolts of pleasure throughout Kyo's body. Iori knew just how to do so. Kyo rested his cheek against the bedding as Iori gently brushed the pads of his fingers up and down the arch of his foot. The brunette squirmed as Iori lifted the feet up and gently sank his teeth into the pad of his big toe. Iori trailed a path of sucking kisses up the inside of Kyo's leg, brushing his finger pads over the acres of skin he could reach while tracing the creases of Kyo's hip joints soaking in the soft whimpers of his lover.

Kyo buried a hand in the redhead's hair trying to direct his mouth to where he wanted Iori to pay attention, but the taller fighter removed Kyos' hand from his locks and held it down as he made his way up Kyo's lean abdomen with his mouth, teeth and tongue, outlining the boy's naval before dipping his tongue into the short cavern.

Iori leaned up to one of his favorite areas and switched between nibbling and sucking on the hollow of Kyo's throat while one of his hands drew down the side of Kyo's form, and wrapped long digits around the brunette's drooling arousal, smearing the wet proof of the boy's pleasure around the sensitive head. Kyo arched upwards into the redhead's hand and buried a hand into cool red locks while placing his other one on of Iori's shoulders.

Kyo lifted one of his long, lean legs and wrapped it around Iori's waist, drawing their matching hard arousal together, and pushed upwards. Iori's hand abandoned Kyo's arousal and held onto the boy's hips as they began grinding against one another. Kyo lifted Iori from his neck and sealed their mouths together in a deep, long kiss, caressing and rolling their tongues around the others'.

Iori pulled away and ended the kiss with reluctances for half a minute as he went to get something that would make their coupling so much easier. Kyo lay out on his back and drew his legs up in a sensual offering that made Iori's arousal throb at the sight. Kneeling back down between the boy's legs, Iori unscrewed the cap and squeezed a fair amount onto two of his digits. Pressing them against Kyo's tight opening, Iori slowly worked his fingers inside, stretching the shorter fighter. Removing the second digit, Iori pushed the remaining one deeper until it brushed against a nub inside Kyo that made the boy cry out and arch.

Withdrawing his remaining finger, Iori squeezed more of the lubricant and coated his throbbing need. Kyo tipped his head back, arching as he felt the head of Iori's hard member against his opening and released a low breath as Iori slowly pushed his way in. Sheathed up to his root, Iori paused long enough for Kyo to adjust to the invader, although it was hard with Kyo's tight muscles throbbing in tune with the boy's heartbeat around his arousal.

Leaning down, Iori placed a deep kiss against the arch of Kyo's throat and pushed his hips into Kyo. The redhead repeated the action twice until he located Kyo's sensitive prostate, striking it every time he drove back into his lover. Kyo held onto Iori's arms as he lover stroked him from the inside, the redhead sank his teeth gently into one of the hot spots behind Kyo's ear and applied suction each time he drove back inside, and stroked Kyo's arousal for good measurement. It wasn't long underneath his lover's pleasurable treatments that Kyo wailed his released, climaxing hard around Iori, trigging his own deep inside Kyo. Breathing heavily as their bodies rode the last spasm of pleasure, Iori and Kyo held onto each other until they caught their breaths. Pulling out slowly, Iori rolled out on his side and drew Kyo close, burying his nose into the brunette's dampened locks. A whisper of love was exchanged between the two fighters as they drifted off to sleep.

The End

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Kurai: Oh man! That ending was so sappy! It's like reading a gay romance novel.

Shuuichi Minamino: (flicks him off) Oh shut up! I happen to like ending them this way.

Kurai: Thank kami you didn't end it with something like 'a whisper of love was exchanged between the two lovers as they drifted off to sleep, dreaming of what the future held in store for them'.

Shuuichi Minamino: Considering that the epilogue is supposed to take place three years in the future, I couldn't end the fic like that. Plus that would be so…"

Iori: Wants-to-make-me-gag?

Shuuichi Minamino: Exactly!