"Yeah, we'll miss you, too!"

"Come back soon, okay? You won't forget us?"

"How could we forget you? You'll have to visit us sometime, too!"

"Deal!"

"I wish Ran was here, though."

"Does anyone have any idea where he is? It's been a few days now, and I'm really beginning to get worried."

"He'll come back when his temper cools down. If he comes home sooner it'll only mean trouble for all of you," Reiichi reassured Weiss. Four days after Ran's argument with Schuldich about his parents Crashers had to get back home. They didn't want to leave without saying goodbye to their former member, but he was still hiding somewhere, sulking. After a final goodbye Crashers piled into their car and pulled out of the driveway.

Just as they were reaching the street Ran appeared behind them. His hair was shorter, barely reaching his neck, and his eyes were just beginning to get narrow. His face was tear-stained, and he had a hard, determined look that Crashers did not miss in the slightest. It was obvious to those gathered that he had reached the point in his growth when the memories of his family's death began.

Ran said a quick apology and a goodbye before running up to Schuldich. He looked the telepath in the face and looked like he was about to say something when he lost his nerve. He rushed into the apartment, and didn't come out again until after dinner.

"Schuldich?" Ran asked tentatively. Schuldich looked up from his book and smiled reassuringly at his younger brother.

"What is it?" Schu asked, laying his book on the table and turning his full attention to the boy in front of him.

"I… Um… I'm really sorry. I should have believed you when you- "

"Don't worry about it. I wouldn't have believed me either," Schuldich assured him. He walked over to the younger redhead and gave him a light hug. Ran clung to his brother, sobbing. Schu could do nothing more than hold his brother and try to comfort him, mainly because his own guilt was too much for him to bear. He realized at that moment why his mother named him Schuldich. She had been a precog, like Brad. She must have seen it all play out, and knew it would be the most fitting name for him. [1]

"But you're really my brother though, right?" Ran asked once his tears had subsided. Schu nodded and put his hand on Ran's cheek, smiling down at him.

"Half brother, but yeah, you're still stuck with me." Ran smiled back and leaned into another hug.

"Omi! What is your problem lately?"

"School's starting again soon!"

"Soon as in how soon?"

"As in three days!"

"And you're just now getting everything ready?"

"I didn't realize college needed so much more stuff!"

"I've got all of my stuff together," Nagi commented as he walked into the room.

"That's because you're still in high school!"

"Calm down Omi! It'll be okay! It's not like you'll be staying in a dorm or anything."

"Wait a sec, do you mean it's September already?" Yohji asked from his position slumped over the counter.

"Yes, and Naru will be going to the same school as me!"

"Isn't Naru twenty now?"

"Almost. He had to retake a year in high school because of Crashers."

"That still doesn't put the two of you in the same grade."

"He didn't want to go to college until now."

"Oh." Omi, Nagi, Schuldich, and Yohji were gathered in the kitchen, the latter watching Omi rush around the house getting things together while trying to make lunch. Omi didn't appreciate the humor they saw in it. Farfarello and Brad were in the main dining room with Ran and Ken, discussing the upcoming wedding. Ran was opting for having everyone, females included, wearing tuxedos, but Ken was fighting for dresses on the females. Brad and Farfarello were trying to keep them on other, more pressing concerns. Namely, when and where the wedding would take place.

"Guys, the wedding will have to be soon. You agreed that it would be not long after Ran returned to his normal age. He's been his normal age since early August, and there's still been no wedding. I think Sakura's getting her hopes back up that Ran will marry her."

"Not. Happening," Ran growled. The other three at the table looked at him in shock. "It's not that I have anything against her, I just don't think it would be very good for a marriage if one of the people involved made a habit of stalking the other. Everywhere. I swear I saw her looking in my bathroom window when I first started helping her." The others grimaced, knowing that he was not exaggerating the point. Sakura was a little freaky. 'Little' being an understatement.

"Anyway," Brad steered the conversation back to the topic, "When did you say you wanted it?"

"I think we agreed on sometime in September, right?" Ran asked, looking to his fiancé.

Ken smiled at him. "Yep. And I was thinking we could have it in that park next to the cemetery. And before you say anything, it's not some morbid thing, it's just that the Fujimiyas are buried right against the fence. It'll be like they're watching."

"As romantically creepy as that sounds, Kenken, I'd really rather not."

"Romantically creepy?"

"I don't want Kouga watching my wedding."

"Point taken. Where do you want it?" Ran blushed bright red and mumbled something. Ken leaned closer to him and asked him to repeat it.

"I said, at that cliff looking over the ocean."

"Ooh! That spot is nice! And I don't think anyone's ever been married there!"

"Don't you guys mean 'bonded'?" The four men looked over at the doorway for the source of the voice. Ran's face lit up when he saw whom it was.

"Yuushi!"

"Yep! We came back to help you get on with wedding preparations. Why is it never referred to as bonding, by the way?"

"It's easier to say 'married' than to remember 'bonding' every time."

"I guess that's true. Do you guys have a date yet?"

"That's what I've been trying to get them to decide on for the past three days," Brad sighed, turning over the job to Yuushi. The blond man pulled out a calendar and held it out in front of the couple.

"Now, both of you close your eyes and twine your hands together. I want your pointer fingers aiming in the same direction." The two did as they were told. "Now point to somewhere in front of you… Okay, you'll be getting married… September 27th. Congratulations, you've set a date." [2]

"Are you sure about this?" Ran asked. Schuldich and Hanae exchanged a look and turned back to their brother.

"Of course. You love each other, right?"

"Yes."

"And you want to get married, right?"

"Yes."

"Then what's left to question?" Ran blushed bright red at the question, but offered no answer.

I don't think it'll be that painful, Rannie.

SCHULDICH! That's got nothing to do with it!

"Would you two mind explaining what you're talking about?" Hanae asked. The brothers turned to face her, and gulped simultaneously when they saw he hands on her hips and an annoyed expression on her face.

"Just making the last question more… private."

"Ran, why don't you give the real reason you're nervous so that Schu will stop teasing you?"

Ran fidgeted with his suit before answering. "What if something goes wrong with the ceremony? What if I get too nervous to go through with it?" Ran's eyes widened in horror as the next thought came to his mind. "What if Ken gets too nervous to go through with it?"

"What if everyone grow fins and flippers at the reception?" Schuldich asked dryly.

"Can that happen?" Ran asked, his face completely white.

"Of course not. Schuldich's just messing with you. Now, Schu, unless you're going to be helpful, I suggest you get out."

To the immense relief of both Ran and Ken, and the rest of Weiss and Crashers, the wedding went smoothly, with the song, "Return to Innocence" playing in the background. [3] During the reception, the newly married couple danced to the song "Dearest". [4] The wedding and reception were a hit, and everyone went home happy that evening.

All of Weiss (including the married couple) went back to the Koneko after the reception. It had been decided that they would have the entire top floor as their honeymoon suite, and the others would be doubling up again, at least for that one night. The next morning, however, when the six single Weiss members were sitting at the table eating breakfast, they received a shock.

"What do you mean you're moving?" Nagi asked, struggling to keep from panicking. He hadn't had a lot of stability in his life until he joined Schwarz, and then he got switched to Weiss, and now that stability was threatening to end. Ran, however, caught the look on Nagi's face and smiled gently.

"We'll still be part of Weiss, and I'll still be the 'leader', but we just won't be living here anymore, that's all. There's an apartment we found not far from here where we can still be close by and accessible to you, but we'll also have our privacy." Ken leaned over and placed a gentle kiss on his shoulder.

"So you're not leaving for good?" Farfarello asked, also somewhat worried about his friends.

"Of course not!" Ken chirped.

"Do either of you know when you'll be moving?" Brad questioned, needing to know all of the details before letting himself get worried.

"We packed most of my things last night, and Ken's things should be packed by this afternoon, so we should be gone by this evening," Ran responded. He didn't mean to make it sound so uncaring, but he was still having trouble with watching his vocal inflections. Besides, after almost three years of only speaking when necessary, and even then only saying what was needed, he found it difficult to say more than what was needed.

"Well," Schuldich forced after a few moments of silence, "can we at least help you pack?"

"Don't worry about it, Rannie. I'll be fine," Schu tried to persuade his brother.

"You keep saying that."

"Then why don't you believe me?"

"Because you still look like you're about to cry."

"I have every right to look like this."

"What makes you say that?"

"Mainly because I've only had my little brother with me for a year, and most of that was spent with either both of us unaware, or you as a toddler. And don't argue with me on that; I'm going to have pictures to prove it as soon as I get the film developed."

"I'm not really leaving, you know."

"Yeah, but now I've got to share you."

"I hate to break it to you, but you've been sharing me this entire time."

"Yeah, but at least then I was sharing you in the same house!" Schu pulled the smaller man closer to him and hugged him tightly. Ran returned the hug, and the stood there for a few minutes, just holding each other. Finally, reluctantly, Ran pulled away.

"We'll only be a few streets over, remember?" Schuldich nodded and pulled Ran into another hug. He released his brother when he looked up and noticed Ken standing in the doorway, his lips pulled upward in a smirk.

"You ready to go, koi?" Ken asked, moving closer to the brothers and putting his arm around Ran's waist. Ran looked to Schuldich once more to make sure he could handle it before nodding, saying one final goodbye, and getting into the car. Schuldich sighed as the car pulled away, then leaned into the warm presence he felt behind him.

"Don't worry, he'll be fine."

"I know." Schuldich turned and clung to Brad's shirt, giving in to the tears that had threatened to spill all day. Brad rubbed his hands in small circles on Schu's back, striving to comfort the distraught telepath.

"Well, it looks like the four of you are going to have that huge, rambling apartment building all to yourselves," Schuldich commented to the two couples in front of him. It was mid-November, and he and Brad were leaving the Koneko apartments. In October, there had been a double wedding: Schuldich and Brad, and Farfarello and Yohji. The latter couple had decided to stay at the Koneko, but the former had agreed with Ran and Ken that it was better to have a place of privacy.

"It's not like it's going to be big for long," Nagi commented.

"Oh?" Schuldich asked. Nagi groaned, knowing exactly where the redhead was heading, and berating himself mentally for not thinking ahead and realizing how that would sound. "Have one of you fallen into some kind of chemical lately? Are we going to have a baby in Weiss?"

"No Schuldich," Yohji replied, stifling his laughter. "But we agreed that Farf and I will have the entire top floor to ourselves, and the chibis will have the bottom floor.

"That works. I wonder how our poor fangirls will take it when they learn that not one of us is single anymore… "

"They'll love it, and probably try to catch us in action," Ran replied, surprising everyone by his sudden entrance into the conversation. He wasn't overly quiet anymore, but he had just gotten over a cold, and his throat still bothered him, so he hadn't been talking very often.

"Ran-koi! You're supposed to be letting your voice rest!" Ken chided before kissing his husband on the forehead. Ran wrinkled his face slightly, but said nothing.

"Uh-oh, what's this? Trouble in matrimonial bliss already?" Yohji joked. Ken laughed, and answered.

"No, he just still doesn't understand why I kiss him on the forehead or cheek."

"And why do you?"

"Because he's cute and I can?" Everyone laughed as Ken kissed Ran on the cheek, as if to prove his point.

"Oh yeah, and why would they love it so much?"

"Have you ever heard those girls talking?"

"Not that I remember paying any attention to."

"They all seem as obsessed about yaoi as they do about us."

"Oh my."

"Oh yeah."

"Well, at least we'll give them a show, right?"

"Sure."

The eight assassins all stayed in Kritiker, and they remained good friends with Crashers, who visited them frequently. When they got older, Omi and Nagi did end up getting married, and they continued living in the downstairs section of the Koneko. They spent quite a few years as agents for Kritiker, and had a few more adventures involving chemicals, but they always looked back fondly at that time.

~Owari~

A/N: I hope you liked it. The end just wouldn't come out right, so I had to do a narrator's ending. Please review and let me know what you thought!

[1] – This idea just popped into my head all of a sudden. I had to write it. I thought it would be fitting.

[2] – This is how I plan to set my wedding day… when I find a guy… and we get that close. The 27th has no particular importance that I remember, I just picked a random day.

[3] – by Enigma. It's the wedding song in the movie "Man of the House" with Chevy Chase and Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Isn't it a nice song? I love it!

[4] – It's one of the theme songs for Inuyasha.

And here's the section where I thank all of the wonderful people who reviewed for the last chapter! I hope you liked your cookies!

aki: Did the make-up between Ran and Schu suit you? Yeah, my sappy side really showed up in this chapter…

Dragon Shadow4: Does a hug work for when they make up? Thanks for the review!

Kyra2: Sorry about the brake/break mix-up. My spell-check and grammar check didn't pick that one up. I hope you like how they turned out. Oh, and Rannie's back to his usual age!

Brad: I'm afraid that's the end of the story. I hope you liked this chapter though.

Koji-chan: Thanks for giving me those sites! I did read some of them, and they were great! As with the sites you've found, the ones I've got are mainly with only Yuushi. V_V

KyraEnsui: I'm glad you liked the chapter! Here's the end, I hope you liked it, too!

Bombay Kitty: Thanks for sticking with it! And thanks for reviewing!

Manx16: Yes, the situation was pretty bad, but I hope you like how it turned out. I just couldn't leave them angry at each other! I hope you like My Boys if you end up reading it!

Anime the Fallen Angel: Yes, it's kinda nasty when the cake is covered in toddler spit, isn't it? So glad my cousins are getting to the age where they can actually blow out the candles with no liquid involved.

Yami Aibou: Thank you for the review (and the kind words). Here's the next (and final) chapter!