Nakoruru: And I saw it as always, welcome everyone. This is the last
chapter of Thoughts of Yesterday. It's been a real emotional and
spontaneous two months working on this one, and it finally comes to an end.
Blazer: We don't want it to end either people, but it would have had to close at some time.
Nakoruru (teary eyed): Man, this is my brainchild. I didn't expect to do a sequel when I finished One Strange Day, but here it is! And it's all because of you wonderful reviewers! Thanks so much! Without you, this story wouldn't be!
Rinka: And we finally have the votes in. By a vote of six, you guys picked Shishiwakamaru as the person Mina will go on to marry!
Nakoruru: My friend informed me that our choice did survive the tournament. So I guess he can participate in this fic.
Shishiwakamaru (walking in): I demand to know why I was picked? Couldn't Suzuka have sufficed?
Suzuka (coming in): You forgot to put beautiful at the beginning of my name. I will only be addressed as the beautiful Suzuka.
Nakoruru and Rinka (n_n;;): Um, yeah.
Blazer: Let's get on to the fic. We would like to thank Kayla, Nicole, Mai- Ly, The Youkai Nightmare, Artemis Crescent, The Masked Mistress, Bunnychu, Hikari Yume, Eo, Elven Cherry Blossom, SerinityRules, and Lalilla for all their help with the voting.
Nakoruru (o): This chapter is for you guys!
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Time seemed to pass by quite quickly for everyone. Raye was married off before anyone could really blink. Following her marriage was Kuwabara and Yukina's followed by Serena and Hiei's. Not too long from that, everyone was surprised when Mina brought a youkai by the name of Shishiwakamaru to meet everyone. Yusuke and the others told the senshi that he had been a contestant in a tournament they fought in. Yusuke and the others thought Genkai, Yusuke's mentor and teacher had killed him, but he told everyone she had just incapacitated him for a while.
Mina gapped about how she had spotted him in the park sitting by himself and how she used her love chain to keep him from running away. After some much needed explanation on her part, Shishi (we have to shorten his name cause it is way too long for my taste) agreed to go out with her, if only to keep her from using her love chain once again. Everyone didn't know what exactly to make out of it, but they wished her the best of luck. Maybe the relationship would work out in the end.
Not to long after Mina's new relationship with Shishi, Lita and Jin announced that they were going to give a go at marriage. And no more than three months from that, Toya proposed to Amy and the two were married four months later. Lita and Jin were married two weeks before Amy and Toya. Life really was going great for all of them.
Serena smiled, thinking of all the wonderful things that had come for her and the others. The woman sat by a window, thinking of the things she had gone through and how it came to this point in her life. Fifteen years had passed by so quickly. She and the other senshi were no longer needed to look over Crystal Tokyo. It was finally peaceful. . .well, except for the one or two youkai that came through the portal that Amy had established with not only Toya's help, but Koenma's also. But the few troublesome youkai were always dealt with before true chaos was established.
Their world was now connected, which meant that Serena could go visit Lita and Mina whenever she wanted. The two had decided to live in the Hakusho dimension rather than stay in their own. Serena didn't miss them so much, they all got together quite frequently. Amy and Toya were living in Crystal Tokyo with her, while Raye couldn't make up her mind. Kurama had finally told his mother everything, and despite the fact that he had deceived her for so long, she still loved him much the same. Shiori also learned about all the things that had caused Kurama to meet Raye.
*I can't believe that so much time has passed since first meeting Luna and becoming Sailor Moon. Mother, did you know that I would be going through so much? Did you know that I would meet Hiei and we would fall in love?* Serena looked up at the sky, seeing the moon faintly glowing in the sky. A smile rose to Serena's face.
"Shiro! Shiro, where are you? It's time for you to have your studies!" Serena covered her smile as she shifted an eye to Sailor Pluto who had an angry flush on her face. The senshi of time turned to Serena. "Neo Queen Serenity, it seems that Shiro is hiding from his studies yet again. I swear it must be Ryo's influence."
"Don't be so angry at him. He's only a kid. He'll come to his studies when he's ready," Serena said, knowing the boy was probably in the Hakusho dimension playing hooky. "I'll go look for him and tell him to stop skipping his studies."
Serena used the power of her Millennia Crystal to change from out of her Neo Queen attire to more civil clothing. Walking down the hall, she went to the room one of the portals to the other dimension was. Walking through, she came out on the other side. Botan was sitting by the portal reading a book. She looked up to greet Serena with a giant Botan grin.
"You must be looking for Shiro," Botan said. "He came through not too long ago with Rini and Ryo. They said they were going to meet up with the others. He's quite a handful isn't he?"
"He's too much like his brother and father," Serena said with an amused smile. "By the way, have you seen my husband today?"
"I think he went to make sure that Kuwabara hasn't done anything to Yukina. You know how Hiei is. Old habits are hard to break," Botan replied. Serena shook her head as she began to walk off.
"Well, let me go find Shiro before Setsuna has a break down," Serena laughed. "I'll catch you later Botan."
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A young man with black hair and brown eyes laid on a branch above a young man with black hair streaked with blond. The young man's eyes were closed for a minute before he opened them. He became aware of someone standing underneath the tree. Looking down, he saw a girl with dark brown hair and eyes looking up at him with a look of murder on her face. "Hey Kazuya, looks like your sister wants something."
"Weren't we suppose to be meeting Rini, Mieko, and Shiro! What do you two think you're doing lounging around?" shouted the girl.
The male with blond streaked hair disappeared from the branch and appeared next to the slightly taller girl. His crimson eyes looked up at the male who was hopping down from the tree. He then turned his eyes back to the girl. "We lost track of time. S'rry." The girl smacked the boy in the back of the head as she began to walk away. "What was that for, Emi?"
"Being a baka! If you weren't Uncle Hiei's son, I think I would have beaten you into a pulp, Ryo Tsukino! No come on. I'm sure everyone is there by now," the girl who has been identified as Emi Urameshi led the two boys, one being Hiei's oldest son Ryo and Emi's own younger brother, Kazuya Urameshi to where their friends waited.
Emi and Rini had become the best of friends over the years, keeping their siblings in line when they needed it, which was often. Ryo was now of age fifteen, only one year older than Ryo. The two most always hung out on a daily basis. Mieko was Kurama and Raye's oldest daughter, and the same age as Ryo. Emi had a feeling that the half-youko girl had a serious crush on the half-koorime young man, but was too shy to tell him. This little get together was supposed to bring them closer.
Emi became aware of Ryo's presence beside her as he walked in step with her. "Do you always have to hit me? Man, if you keep that up, I don't think you'll ever get a guy. You're one serious macho chick." The young man moved out the way of fist that would have took off the head of any normal man if they hadn't had his speed. Ryo gave her a sly look as he shook his head. "You got your father's temper."
"And you wish you were like Uncle Hiei," Emi stated. She found the young man standing in front of her, his eyes narrowed with a challenge. "Shall we do it one more time?" She rose her fist up in front of her as she spread her feet apart.
"Can't you two stop fighting once in your lives? Man, since we were kids you two have been at each other's throats. You would think that you two were in love," Kazuya said.
"You're very perspective Kazuya." The three teens turn around to see Serena. Walking with her was Raye, and Lita. The three women had smiles on their faces as they watched the two.
"I think it's cute," Lita said. "You can tell that they are the best of friends."
"I give them another year before they're together," calculated Raye. "He's a little heartthrob already. He's just like his father, eh Serena?"
"Oh, cut it out Raye. I'm sure that they'll get together when they stop trying to make wind holes out of each other's faces," Serena said, waving off Raye's comment. The remark brought a flush to not only Emi's face, but also Ryo's.
"I-I wouldn't date an amazon macho chick like her! Mother, you have got to be kidding," Ryo shouted. The remark brought a foot to Ryo's butt, sending him flying. When he finally came down, he found a pair of black shoes in front of him. Looking up, he found his father staring down at him with a rose brow.
"Keep this up and you won't reach your sixteenth birthday."
"Uncle Hiei!" With no regard for the body on the ground, she stepped on him to give Hiei a giant hug. "I was wondering where you were hiding yourself today. Went to go terrorize Kuwabara?"
"You can get off of me, you heavy mammoth. What have you been eating?" groaned Ryo. The male yelped when he felt a shoe dig itself into his back. "Get off of me!"
"You shouldn't kill him just yet," said Rini as she Mieko and Shiro walked up. "We were suppose to be heading out to the beach before fall came in."
"You don't really need your brother," Emi said as she dug her foot deeper into his back.
"I'm sorry okay, you freakin' macho mammoth," cried Ryo as he got an elbow to the back. "Okay, okay! Sorry!"
"Much better," Emi said as she got up from the ground after elbow dropping the young man. "Next time I won't be so nice."
"And you guys wonder why I would never like her," Ryo said as he got up from the ground, dusting himself off.
"You could really do something if you wanted to. You're a lot tougher against youkai. Must be that you really like her," said a little boy with Serena's blue eyes and Hiei's black hair. This boy was Shiro, Serena's third child. He looked up to his older brother and tried to do everything that Ryo did, even skip his lessons from Setsuna, Haruka, and Michiru.
"That's not true! Shiro, don't tell me that they got you brainwashed too!" exclaimed Ryo. "I'm going to have to teach you some taste."
"Speaking of teach, Shiro, you had lessons with Setsuna today," Serena said, giving her son a stern look. "You should go back to the palace before she doubles your next lessons."
"But mom! She's always hard on me! Can't I ditch just this once?" Shiro begged, giving his mother the teary eyed treatment. Serena sighed, not being able to resist how cute he looked when he did that. She nodded, bringing a cheer from the boy. She threw Hiei a slight look. "You spoiled him too much."
A slight smile curled the corner of the koorime's lips as he looked away. Yes, he had spoiled not only Shiro, but also Rini and Ryo.
"Hey, I have an idea!" stated Lita. "Since we are all here, let's have a get together. We haven't had one of those in a while. I'm sure that Amy and Mina aren't doing anything important and would enjoy a good senshi get together. What do you say, Serena, Raye?"
"That actually doesn't sound like a bad idea," Raye said. "I mean it has been almost two months since we really saw either Amy or Mina. Knowing Mina, she's probably ran her poor husband up a wall. I sort of feel sorry for Shishi, she's crazy."
"Mina would run anyone up a wall you let her," Serena joked. "But let's get everyone together. Would be nice for once to sit down and enjoy the day without something interrupting us."
And so, within the hour, Mina and Amy, along with Yusuke and the others were rounded up and they all went to the park that was the starting point of their adventures, and enjoyed the day. Amy and Toya had two children. A boy of eleven named Yuhi and a girl of seven who's name was Aya. Both children had blue hair and eyes. Mina and Shishi had one child by the name of Tora. (A/N: Much to everyone's relief, cause Shishi can't so stable and neither is Mina, so more than one child really isn't a good thing. Anyone who knows about Shishi's little psycho moments knows what I'm talking about.)
"Serena, I see that you finally got out that castle," Mina teased; she was seated by Lita who kept staring at where Jin was teaching their sons to fly on their youki. Both the eleven-year-old Shinya and eight-year-old Takuya watched with interest at their father's mid air acrobats. "Hey, Lita, keep that up and Jin's going to crash and burn with the intense stare you're giving him."
"Hey," Lita said with a blush as she turned to stare at the woman with long blond hair. "At least I didn't have to love chain Jin." A flush came to Mina's face at the realization of what she did fourteen years ago.
"Okay, so I was a little rambunctious then, isn't everyone?" Mina laughed.
"Only you. Remembered you vowed that if you didn't find a youkai to pledge eternal love to you that you would make one?" Raye said.
"Yeah, I do remember something like that," Mina grinned. "But it all came together in the end." Mina looked over at the male who was teaching their eleven-year-old son Tora how to use the dimensional cloak. (A/N: The same one he sent Kuwabara through yes.)
"Now that I think about it, how did you get him to agree to marry you?" Raye wondered. "I don't think we never questioned that. You really have to explain what you did to make him sane enough to marry you."
"What are you trying to say? That I'm not sane enough to get a guy?"
"Actually, when you have to love chain some unsuspecting person in the park, yes, you aren't sane," Lita said. Lita dodged the attack that Mina threw at her as she somehow magically morphed into Super Sailor Venus. "Hey! That almost hit me!" Lita pulled out her morphing pen and shouted the words that transformed her into Super Sailor Jupiter.
"Here we go again," sighed Raye. The three remaining senshi watched the battle between Lita and Mina. "Well, some things never change. Wish they would grow up some. I mean fifteen years have passed."
"They're not the only ones. What about Michiru, Setsuna, and Haruka?" Serena said, sipping on her tea. She watched the two girls call upon their senshi planet attacks. "I don't think that even after all this time, they still accept my choice of a husband."
"Oh, those three will be like that. You know them. And you know that Darien hasn't given up yet. One day I saw him approach Rini and tell her he was her real father," Raye said. "I was visiting my grandfather and Chad. Chad still working at the temple, he's never going to get back to being a rock star. Well, at least he's keeping grandfather company."
"I didn't know about this! I wonder why Rini didn't tell me," Serena said.
"Rini didn't want to worry you. She had everything under control. Shiro was with her too. She told him that she already knew, but that couldn't change her heart about who she called father. She told him that in her heart, Hiei would always be her real father because he had always been there to protect her. Then she just walked away from him. That kid is a lot maturer than you give her credit for. She has grown up."
Serena turned her eyes to where Rini was by Hiei. She was smiling at something he had said, then gave her "otou-chan" a giant hug. Even to this day, she still called him that. The bond that those two had made was a solid one. She should realize that no matter if Darien was that girl's real father, she would be bound to the man that raised and protected her. "She has grown up so much. I think Hiei realizes that too."
"But that girl will always be the little girl he first set eyes on, don't you think? No matter how old she gets."
"I think that's how all parents are," Amy said, turning her eyes on Toya and their children. "By the way, wasn't Hotaru suppose to be here?" Just as the woman was finishing her sentence, the young woman with short dark blackish purple hair came running up.
"Sorry I'm late everyone! I had a pile of work that was still on my desk when Lita called me on the communicator," Hotaru panted.
"Your work as a teacher must be hard, especially with my pink haired terror in your class," Serena said. Hotaru was now a high school teacher for a high school back in Crystal Tokyo. One of her students was of course Rini Tsukino. Hotaru didn't complain about Rini as often as Serena made it sound. In fact, the two were good friends.
"It's not as bad as you make it sound, Serena," Hotaru said.
"So where is your husband? He couldn't make it?" Raye said. Hotaru was married to a teacher who taught at the same high school that Hotaru taught at. They had just recently gotten married no more than a year ago.
"Afraid not. He had a conference meeting to attend to. He wished everyone the best though. So what's-" It was about this time that Hotaru noticed that Mina and Lita were having a sailor battle. "Should I-ask?"
"No, no. Just sit down and enjoy your sanity. They'll be done sooner or later," Raye waved off. Serena smiled as Hotaru sat down with them. Indeed so much has happened from when they all first met. That one strange day turned the tides for something much bigger. Something that had led to the greatest happiest all of them could ever know. Maybe her mother did know what was to come for her when she sent the Moon Kingdom to Earth. Just maybe she saw that the love of her life came from another completely different dimension.
*This life I would never want any other way. If I could go back I wouldn't change one thing about it. Ever.* Serena thought. After all, why tamper with fate and destiny? It was fine the way it was.
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Nakoruru: Um, I don't know how that is for an epilogue for everyone, but the main goal was to tell what everyone has been up to and everyday interaction.
Rinka: The end?
Blazer: Now you can say the end.
Nakoruru: Well mina-san, I hope you've enjoyed Thoughts Of Yesterday. Currently we can't make a sequel because we serious have to get back to work on our Beyblade story Ai Yori Dango and our Ronin Warrior sequel to the original series. And then I just started school so that will take up some time too. I've been so happy to work on this one and have you review. Maybe later in the month we can have a short sequel. Tell us what you want to see in it and next week I can put a note up saying if we can do it or not.
Blazer: So until then, read, review, tell us what you think. From Nakoruru, Rinka, and I, we thank you for reading Thoughts Of Yesterday.
Blazer: We don't want it to end either people, but it would have had to close at some time.
Nakoruru (teary eyed): Man, this is my brainchild. I didn't expect to do a sequel when I finished One Strange Day, but here it is! And it's all because of you wonderful reviewers! Thanks so much! Without you, this story wouldn't be!
Rinka: And we finally have the votes in. By a vote of six, you guys picked Shishiwakamaru as the person Mina will go on to marry!
Nakoruru: My friend informed me that our choice did survive the tournament. So I guess he can participate in this fic.
Shishiwakamaru (walking in): I demand to know why I was picked? Couldn't Suzuka have sufficed?
Suzuka (coming in): You forgot to put beautiful at the beginning of my name. I will only be addressed as the beautiful Suzuka.
Nakoruru and Rinka (n_n;;): Um, yeah.
Blazer: Let's get on to the fic. We would like to thank Kayla, Nicole, Mai- Ly, The Youkai Nightmare, Artemis Crescent, The Masked Mistress, Bunnychu, Hikari Yume, Eo, Elven Cherry Blossom, SerinityRules, and Lalilla for all their help with the voting.
Nakoruru (o): This chapter is for you guys!
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Time seemed to pass by quite quickly for everyone. Raye was married off before anyone could really blink. Following her marriage was Kuwabara and Yukina's followed by Serena and Hiei's. Not too long from that, everyone was surprised when Mina brought a youkai by the name of Shishiwakamaru to meet everyone. Yusuke and the others told the senshi that he had been a contestant in a tournament they fought in. Yusuke and the others thought Genkai, Yusuke's mentor and teacher had killed him, but he told everyone she had just incapacitated him for a while.
Mina gapped about how she had spotted him in the park sitting by himself and how she used her love chain to keep him from running away. After some much needed explanation on her part, Shishi (we have to shorten his name cause it is way too long for my taste) agreed to go out with her, if only to keep her from using her love chain once again. Everyone didn't know what exactly to make out of it, but they wished her the best of luck. Maybe the relationship would work out in the end.
Not to long after Mina's new relationship with Shishi, Lita and Jin announced that they were going to give a go at marriage. And no more than three months from that, Toya proposed to Amy and the two were married four months later. Lita and Jin were married two weeks before Amy and Toya. Life really was going great for all of them.
Serena smiled, thinking of all the wonderful things that had come for her and the others. The woman sat by a window, thinking of the things she had gone through and how it came to this point in her life. Fifteen years had passed by so quickly. She and the other senshi were no longer needed to look over Crystal Tokyo. It was finally peaceful. . .well, except for the one or two youkai that came through the portal that Amy had established with not only Toya's help, but Koenma's also. But the few troublesome youkai were always dealt with before true chaos was established.
Their world was now connected, which meant that Serena could go visit Lita and Mina whenever she wanted. The two had decided to live in the Hakusho dimension rather than stay in their own. Serena didn't miss them so much, they all got together quite frequently. Amy and Toya were living in Crystal Tokyo with her, while Raye couldn't make up her mind. Kurama had finally told his mother everything, and despite the fact that he had deceived her for so long, she still loved him much the same. Shiori also learned about all the things that had caused Kurama to meet Raye.
*I can't believe that so much time has passed since first meeting Luna and becoming Sailor Moon. Mother, did you know that I would be going through so much? Did you know that I would meet Hiei and we would fall in love?* Serena looked up at the sky, seeing the moon faintly glowing in the sky. A smile rose to Serena's face.
"Shiro! Shiro, where are you? It's time for you to have your studies!" Serena covered her smile as she shifted an eye to Sailor Pluto who had an angry flush on her face. The senshi of time turned to Serena. "Neo Queen Serenity, it seems that Shiro is hiding from his studies yet again. I swear it must be Ryo's influence."
"Don't be so angry at him. He's only a kid. He'll come to his studies when he's ready," Serena said, knowing the boy was probably in the Hakusho dimension playing hooky. "I'll go look for him and tell him to stop skipping his studies."
Serena used the power of her Millennia Crystal to change from out of her Neo Queen attire to more civil clothing. Walking down the hall, she went to the room one of the portals to the other dimension was. Walking through, she came out on the other side. Botan was sitting by the portal reading a book. She looked up to greet Serena with a giant Botan grin.
"You must be looking for Shiro," Botan said. "He came through not too long ago with Rini and Ryo. They said they were going to meet up with the others. He's quite a handful isn't he?"
"He's too much like his brother and father," Serena said with an amused smile. "By the way, have you seen my husband today?"
"I think he went to make sure that Kuwabara hasn't done anything to Yukina. You know how Hiei is. Old habits are hard to break," Botan replied. Serena shook her head as she began to walk off.
"Well, let me go find Shiro before Setsuna has a break down," Serena laughed. "I'll catch you later Botan."
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A young man with black hair and brown eyes laid on a branch above a young man with black hair streaked with blond. The young man's eyes were closed for a minute before he opened them. He became aware of someone standing underneath the tree. Looking down, he saw a girl with dark brown hair and eyes looking up at him with a look of murder on her face. "Hey Kazuya, looks like your sister wants something."
"Weren't we suppose to be meeting Rini, Mieko, and Shiro! What do you two think you're doing lounging around?" shouted the girl.
The male with blond streaked hair disappeared from the branch and appeared next to the slightly taller girl. His crimson eyes looked up at the male who was hopping down from the tree. He then turned his eyes back to the girl. "We lost track of time. S'rry." The girl smacked the boy in the back of the head as she began to walk away. "What was that for, Emi?"
"Being a baka! If you weren't Uncle Hiei's son, I think I would have beaten you into a pulp, Ryo Tsukino! No come on. I'm sure everyone is there by now," the girl who has been identified as Emi Urameshi led the two boys, one being Hiei's oldest son Ryo and Emi's own younger brother, Kazuya Urameshi to where their friends waited.
Emi and Rini had become the best of friends over the years, keeping their siblings in line when they needed it, which was often. Ryo was now of age fifteen, only one year older than Ryo. The two most always hung out on a daily basis. Mieko was Kurama and Raye's oldest daughter, and the same age as Ryo. Emi had a feeling that the half-youko girl had a serious crush on the half-koorime young man, but was too shy to tell him. This little get together was supposed to bring them closer.
Emi became aware of Ryo's presence beside her as he walked in step with her. "Do you always have to hit me? Man, if you keep that up, I don't think you'll ever get a guy. You're one serious macho chick." The young man moved out the way of fist that would have took off the head of any normal man if they hadn't had his speed. Ryo gave her a sly look as he shook his head. "You got your father's temper."
"And you wish you were like Uncle Hiei," Emi stated. She found the young man standing in front of her, his eyes narrowed with a challenge. "Shall we do it one more time?" She rose her fist up in front of her as she spread her feet apart.
"Can't you two stop fighting once in your lives? Man, since we were kids you two have been at each other's throats. You would think that you two were in love," Kazuya said.
"You're very perspective Kazuya." The three teens turn around to see Serena. Walking with her was Raye, and Lita. The three women had smiles on their faces as they watched the two.
"I think it's cute," Lita said. "You can tell that they are the best of friends."
"I give them another year before they're together," calculated Raye. "He's a little heartthrob already. He's just like his father, eh Serena?"
"Oh, cut it out Raye. I'm sure that they'll get together when they stop trying to make wind holes out of each other's faces," Serena said, waving off Raye's comment. The remark brought a flush to not only Emi's face, but also Ryo's.
"I-I wouldn't date an amazon macho chick like her! Mother, you have got to be kidding," Ryo shouted. The remark brought a foot to Ryo's butt, sending him flying. When he finally came down, he found a pair of black shoes in front of him. Looking up, he found his father staring down at him with a rose brow.
"Keep this up and you won't reach your sixteenth birthday."
"Uncle Hiei!" With no regard for the body on the ground, she stepped on him to give Hiei a giant hug. "I was wondering where you were hiding yourself today. Went to go terrorize Kuwabara?"
"You can get off of me, you heavy mammoth. What have you been eating?" groaned Ryo. The male yelped when he felt a shoe dig itself into his back. "Get off of me!"
"You shouldn't kill him just yet," said Rini as she Mieko and Shiro walked up. "We were suppose to be heading out to the beach before fall came in."
"You don't really need your brother," Emi said as she dug her foot deeper into his back.
"I'm sorry okay, you freakin' macho mammoth," cried Ryo as he got an elbow to the back. "Okay, okay! Sorry!"
"Much better," Emi said as she got up from the ground after elbow dropping the young man. "Next time I won't be so nice."
"And you guys wonder why I would never like her," Ryo said as he got up from the ground, dusting himself off.
"You could really do something if you wanted to. You're a lot tougher against youkai. Must be that you really like her," said a little boy with Serena's blue eyes and Hiei's black hair. This boy was Shiro, Serena's third child. He looked up to his older brother and tried to do everything that Ryo did, even skip his lessons from Setsuna, Haruka, and Michiru.
"That's not true! Shiro, don't tell me that they got you brainwashed too!" exclaimed Ryo. "I'm going to have to teach you some taste."
"Speaking of teach, Shiro, you had lessons with Setsuna today," Serena said, giving her son a stern look. "You should go back to the palace before she doubles your next lessons."
"But mom! She's always hard on me! Can't I ditch just this once?" Shiro begged, giving his mother the teary eyed treatment. Serena sighed, not being able to resist how cute he looked when he did that. She nodded, bringing a cheer from the boy. She threw Hiei a slight look. "You spoiled him too much."
A slight smile curled the corner of the koorime's lips as he looked away. Yes, he had spoiled not only Shiro, but also Rini and Ryo.
"Hey, I have an idea!" stated Lita. "Since we are all here, let's have a get together. We haven't had one of those in a while. I'm sure that Amy and Mina aren't doing anything important and would enjoy a good senshi get together. What do you say, Serena, Raye?"
"That actually doesn't sound like a bad idea," Raye said. "I mean it has been almost two months since we really saw either Amy or Mina. Knowing Mina, she's probably ran her poor husband up a wall. I sort of feel sorry for Shishi, she's crazy."
"Mina would run anyone up a wall you let her," Serena joked. "But let's get everyone together. Would be nice for once to sit down and enjoy the day without something interrupting us."
And so, within the hour, Mina and Amy, along with Yusuke and the others were rounded up and they all went to the park that was the starting point of their adventures, and enjoyed the day. Amy and Toya had two children. A boy of eleven named Yuhi and a girl of seven who's name was Aya. Both children had blue hair and eyes. Mina and Shishi had one child by the name of Tora. (A/N: Much to everyone's relief, cause Shishi can't so stable and neither is Mina, so more than one child really isn't a good thing. Anyone who knows about Shishi's little psycho moments knows what I'm talking about.)
"Serena, I see that you finally got out that castle," Mina teased; she was seated by Lita who kept staring at where Jin was teaching their sons to fly on their youki. Both the eleven-year-old Shinya and eight-year-old Takuya watched with interest at their father's mid air acrobats. "Hey, Lita, keep that up and Jin's going to crash and burn with the intense stare you're giving him."
"Hey," Lita said with a blush as she turned to stare at the woman with long blond hair. "At least I didn't have to love chain Jin." A flush came to Mina's face at the realization of what she did fourteen years ago.
"Okay, so I was a little rambunctious then, isn't everyone?" Mina laughed.
"Only you. Remembered you vowed that if you didn't find a youkai to pledge eternal love to you that you would make one?" Raye said.
"Yeah, I do remember something like that," Mina grinned. "But it all came together in the end." Mina looked over at the male who was teaching their eleven-year-old son Tora how to use the dimensional cloak. (A/N: The same one he sent Kuwabara through yes.)
"Now that I think about it, how did you get him to agree to marry you?" Raye wondered. "I don't think we never questioned that. You really have to explain what you did to make him sane enough to marry you."
"What are you trying to say? That I'm not sane enough to get a guy?"
"Actually, when you have to love chain some unsuspecting person in the park, yes, you aren't sane," Lita said. Lita dodged the attack that Mina threw at her as she somehow magically morphed into Super Sailor Venus. "Hey! That almost hit me!" Lita pulled out her morphing pen and shouted the words that transformed her into Super Sailor Jupiter.
"Here we go again," sighed Raye. The three remaining senshi watched the battle between Lita and Mina. "Well, some things never change. Wish they would grow up some. I mean fifteen years have passed."
"They're not the only ones. What about Michiru, Setsuna, and Haruka?" Serena said, sipping on her tea. She watched the two girls call upon their senshi planet attacks. "I don't think that even after all this time, they still accept my choice of a husband."
"Oh, those three will be like that. You know them. And you know that Darien hasn't given up yet. One day I saw him approach Rini and tell her he was her real father," Raye said. "I was visiting my grandfather and Chad. Chad still working at the temple, he's never going to get back to being a rock star. Well, at least he's keeping grandfather company."
"I didn't know about this! I wonder why Rini didn't tell me," Serena said.
"Rini didn't want to worry you. She had everything under control. Shiro was with her too. She told him that she already knew, but that couldn't change her heart about who she called father. She told him that in her heart, Hiei would always be her real father because he had always been there to protect her. Then she just walked away from him. That kid is a lot maturer than you give her credit for. She has grown up."
Serena turned her eyes to where Rini was by Hiei. She was smiling at something he had said, then gave her "otou-chan" a giant hug. Even to this day, she still called him that. The bond that those two had made was a solid one. She should realize that no matter if Darien was that girl's real father, she would be bound to the man that raised and protected her. "She has grown up so much. I think Hiei realizes that too."
"But that girl will always be the little girl he first set eyes on, don't you think? No matter how old she gets."
"I think that's how all parents are," Amy said, turning her eyes on Toya and their children. "By the way, wasn't Hotaru suppose to be here?" Just as the woman was finishing her sentence, the young woman with short dark blackish purple hair came running up.
"Sorry I'm late everyone! I had a pile of work that was still on my desk when Lita called me on the communicator," Hotaru panted.
"Your work as a teacher must be hard, especially with my pink haired terror in your class," Serena said. Hotaru was now a high school teacher for a high school back in Crystal Tokyo. One of her students was of course Rini Tsukino. Hotaru didn't complain about Rini as often as Serena made it sound. In fact, the two were good friends.
"It's not as bad as you make it sound, Serena," Hotaru said.
"So where is your husband? He couldn't make it?" Raye said. Hotaru was married to a teacher who taught at the same high school that Hotaru taught at. They had just recently gotten married no more than a year ago.
"Afraid not. He had a conference meeting to attend to. He wished everyone the best though. So what's-" It was about this time that Hotaru noticed that Mina and Lita were having a sailor battle. "Should I-ask?"
"No, no. Just sit down and enjoy your sanity. They'll be done sooner or later," Raye waved off. Serena smiled as Hotaru sat down with them. Indeed so much has happened from when they all first met. That one strange day turned the tides for something much bigger. Something that had led to the greatest happiest all of them could ever know. Maybe her mother did know what was to come for her when she sent the Moon Kingdom to Earth. Just maybe she saw that the love of her life came from another completely different dimension.
*This life I would never want any other way. If I could go back I wouldn't change one thing about it. Ever.* Serena thought. After all, why tamper with fate and destiny? It was fine the way it was.
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Nakoruru: Um, I don't know how that is for an epilogue for everyone, but the main goal was to tell what everyone has been up to and everyday interaction.
Rinka: The end?
Blazer: Now you can say the end.
Nakoruru: Well mina-san, I hope you've enjoyed Thoughts Of Yesterday. Currently we can't make a sequel because we serious have to get back to work on our Beyblade story Ai Yori Dango and our Ronin Warrior sequel to the original series. And then I just started school so that will take up some time too. I've been so happy to work on this one and have you review. Maybe later in the month we can have a short sequel. Tell us what you want to see in it and next week I can put a note up saying if we can do it or not.
Blazer: So until then, read, review, tell us what you think. From Nakoruru, Rinka, and I, we thank you for reading Thoughts Of Yesterday.