8. Their lives then
When Tohru had returned home with the baby Ayame wouldn't go away insisting in helping Tohru with the newborn Aimi. In the end Hatori had to come to Yuki and Tohru's apartment to take Ayame away. "Ayame, you're being a nuisance. Return to your own place." Ayame looked at a smiling Tohru, an annoyed Yuki, and a serious Hatori. "Well then, g'bye dear brother and my dear sister-in-law, and my beautiful niece." And so Ayame had left with Hatori.
***
Saki and Akito had been going out together for a year now. Ayame was already going nuts with their wedding plans, but he had many employees now. He could hire as many girls as he liked. He now had 10 pretty girls working for him and Mine was their supervisor, and even Ayame's girlfriend or at least that's what everyone suspected. Ayame already had two previous experiences in wedding planning. He had planned Kyou and Kagura's wedding and Kureno and Arisa's wedding. Although he had always thought that Arisa and Kureno had been too desperate. There was also the fact that three months after their wedding Arisa had a belly. Of course that was suspicious, but Ayame decided not to comment. He just thought to himself: 'Kureno must have really wanted his freedom to enjoy certain manly pleasures.' Ayame was still waiting for Hiro and Kisa to ask him to plan their wedding, but it seemed that they weren't in a hurry for marriage. Still, there were other couples that maybe would ask for his services in a nearby future.
Hatori was going out with Mayuko. Mayuko had been Kana's best friend and had always loved Hatori. They say best friends tend to fall for the same man and that had been their case. Mayuko was going to do everything in her hands to make Hatori happy. She had seen how devastated Hatori was after erasing Kana's memory and Kana was no longer to come back to him because she was now happily married to another man. Still, it had been very difficult for Mayuko to accept that Hatori was truly free, although in the end she finally did.
Ritsu cut his hair and was now dressing like a man. He had decided to make some adjustments in his life and above all he didn't want to be an embarrassment to his family. He was working in one of the Sohma Buildings and he was doing great. He was even going out with Shigure's editor, Mitsuru. The only thing was that he still had to control his apologizing outburts, but at least now he had some meaning in his life.
Haru and Rin were living together and they both had jobs. Somehow everyone had expected that and Ayame didn't dare ask them if they were going to get married. Rin in particular was extremely happy even if she didn't show it. She had desperately wanted the curse to be broken. In the end it wasn't Tohru who helped, but two strange friends Tohru had.
Hiro and Kisa were both studying. Hiro was already in Med-school while Kisa was finishing her training as a nurse with Hatori. Of course she was planning to be a nurse helping future Dr. Hiro Sohma.
Shigure kept writing his novels. He still laughed whenever he thought of Mit-chan and Ritsu being together, but the truth was he kind of envied them. After all, he was still single and alone in his big house. Ayame would sometimes crash for a night, but that wasn't what Shigure really wanted. He was seriously considering finding a girlfriend, but kept postponing it.
Megumi Hanajima had to start all of the courses left idle in the university all over. He wasn't particularly annoyed or anything like that. Yuki of course had him working for him again. After all what had happened was Akito's fault and had to be kept a secret between the Sohmas. Megumi and Saki had told their parents that they had to spent some time away meditating. Because they have always been weird their parents had accepted the strange excuse. Saki also kept working for Yuki even with Akito's persistence in telling her that she didn't have to.
Kyou and Kagura had marriage quarrels almost every day, but always ended well. They still didn't have children and that was somehow a relief for Kyou who had nightmares of having triplet girls that looked just like Kagura and acted as Kagura had used to act all the time. Kyou was working as a martial arts teacher and Kagura was a housewife for her Kyou-kun.
Momiji had a girlfriend too who was almost as childish as he was still at 22. She was originally from Okinawa and her name was Tamashiro Minori. He was very happy especially since the memory erasing in his mother had been partially removed so that she could remember about him being her son, but not the part of him ever being cursed. He could now see Momo anytime and was even working with their father with no problems at all.
Kureno and Arisa were happily expecting their first baby and from time to time Arisa yelled at Akito because he still called Kureno even on the phone to order him around and Kureno stupidly obeyed everything. Kureno was too used to it to just push Akito aside and Akito seemed to enjoy this still even as a joke.
Akito was longing for marriage. He still wanted a baby, but he now wanted one of his own and he kept bugging Saki about it: "Saki, we can start trying for one even before marriage..." Saki half smiled sort of mischievously: "My answer is again no. You will have to wait until after we are married."
Yuki and Tohru were going through parenthood living in a house now, but little Aimi was terrible. She was only one year old and already made horrible tantrums. "She definitely didn't get that from me, but neither from you Tohru", Yuki said. Tohru laughed. She was a very patient mother, but she also thought a lot about Aimi's behaviour: "It almost seems as if she is like Kyou, ne Yuki?" "Umm... Tohru... Are you sure she is mine?" Tohru shoved Yuki hard and she was giggling. "Don't you dare imply thinks like that Yuki Sohma! She even has your eyes! Maybe the next one will behave better." "Tohru, what do you mean with next one?" "Well Yuki, I was planning on keeping it a secret still, but..." She then got a pregnancy test out of her purse and showed it to him. It had a red positive cross on it. "Wha!? It's too soon!" "You know I didn't produced it alone Yuki." Tohru winked at him and Yuki smiled and hugged her lovingly. Only a thought crossed his mind. Would Akito try to get his hands on this baby? But then he thought that now that was highly unlikely when suddenly the phone rang.
Yuki let go of Tohru to pick up the phone. It was Akito and he was suddenly nervous watching the cell phone number with the name Akito Sohma on the caller ID. Akito never called! He answered: "Hello?" "Hello Yuki! How are you and Tohru?" "We... we are fine. How about you?" "I'm fine too. Right now I'm in a restaurant with my bride to be. She just told me that Tohru is pregnant again. She felt it with her denpa wave reading. Is this so?" Yuki was trembling and cursing himself with his thoughts by being still somehow afraid of the ex Sohma Clan Master. "Y-Yes. She... just told me." "Congratulations then! and by the way Yuki... YOUR SECOND BORN WILL BE MINE." "WHA!?" Yuki was trembling for real, but then he heard giggles on the other line. He also heard Hatori's voice scolding Akito: "Akito, that is not nice." Akito was telling the people with him: "I think HE ACTUALLY believed me!" The laughter on the other line continued and Yuki was turning into different shades of color. "AKITO! HOW DARE YOU TRY TO SCARE ME LIKE THAT! BAKA! WHO THE HELL IS WITH YOU?" Everyone on the other line had heard Yuki's voice coming from Akito's cell phone and went silent. Akito had taken the cell phone out of his ear's reach not wanting to become deaf. He then returned the cell phone to his ear laughing. "Sorry Yuki. I just had to. Here with me are Hatori with Mayuko, Momiji with Minori, Shigure, Ritsu with Mit-chan, Saki, and Kureno with Arisa." Yuki was controlling himself. "Okay Akito, say hello to them from me and Tohru, but don't ever do that again please." Akito then giggled. "Then Yuki, help me convince Saki of producing me a baby." There were more laughs on the other line and Tohru was looking worriedly at Yuki. Yuki had noticed Tohru and smiled reassuring her. "Akito... That is your problem. BYE!" He hung up and then told everything to Tohru. Tohru was happy. Everything was so nice now. Even Akito making jokes was something great. It meant he had really changed. Tohru closed her eyes thinking: 'Things are alright for sure. This happiness for all of us is truly a blessing'.
-The End
*Thank you for reading and for all your reviews. Made me truly happy.
*Listening to The Power of Smile by KOKIA
When Tohru had returned home with the baby Ayame wouldn't go away insisting in helping Tohru with the newborn Aimi. In the end Hatori had to come to Yuki and Tohru's apartment to take Ayame away. "Ayame, you're being a nuisance. Return to your own place." Ayame looked at a smiling Tohru, an annoyed Yuki, and a serious Hatori. "Well then, g'bye dear brother and my dear sister-in-law, and my beautiful niece." And so Ayame had left with Hatori.
***
Saki and Akito had been going out together for a year now. Ayame was already going nuts with their wedding plans, but he had many employees now. He could hire as many girls as he liked. He now had 10 pretty girls working for him and Mine was their supervisor, and even Ayame's girlfriend or at least that's what everyone suspected. Ayame already had two previous experiences in wedding planning. He had planned Kyou and Kagura's wedding and Kureno and Arisa's wedding. Although he had always thought that Arisa and Kureno had been too desperate. There was also the fact that three months after their wedding Arisa had a belly. Of course that was suspicious, but Ayame decided not to comment. He just thought to himself: 'Kureno must have really wanted his freedom to enjoy certain manly pleasures.' Ayame was still waiting for Hiro and Kisa to ask him to plan their wedding, but it seemed that they weren't in a hurry for marriage. Still, there were other couples that maybe would ask for his services in a nearby future.
Hatori was going out with Mayuko. Mayuko had been Kana's best friend and had always loved Hatori. They say best friends tend to fall for the same man and that had been their case. Mayuko was going to do everything in her hands to make Hatori happy. She had seen how devastated Hatori was after erasing Kana's memory and Kana was no longer to come back to him because she was now happily married to another man. Still, it had been very difficult for Mayuko to accept that Hatori was truly free, although in the end she finally did.
Ritsu cut his hair and was now dressing like a man. He had decided to make some adjustments in his life and above all he didn't want to be an embarrassment to his family. He was working in one of the Sohma Buildings and he was doing great. He was even going out with Shigure's editor, Mitsuru. The only thing was that he still had to control his apologizing outburts, but at least now he had some meaning in his life.
Haru and Rin were living together and they both had jobs. Somehow everyone had expected that and Ayame didn't dare ask them if they were going to get married. Rin in particular was extremely happy even if she didn't show it. She had desperately wanted the curse to be broken. In the end it wasn't Tohru who helped, but two strange friends Tohru had.
Hiro and Kisa were both studying. Hiro was already in Med-school while Kisa was finishing her training as a nurse with Hatori. Of course she was planning to be a nurse helping future Dr. Hiro Sohma.
Shigure kept writing his novels. He still laughed whenever he thought of Mit-chan and Ritsu being together, but the truth was he kind of envied them. After all, he was still single and alone in his big house. Ayame would sometimes crash for a night, but that wasn't what Shigure really wanted. He was seriously considering finding a girlfriend, but kept postponing it.
Megumi Hanajima had to start all of the courses left idle in the university all over. He wasn't particularly annoyed or anything like that. Yuki of course had him working for him again. After all what had happened was Akito's fault and had to be kept a secret between the Sohmas. Megumi and Saki had told their parents that they had to spent some time away meditating. Because they have always been weird their parents had accepted the strange excuse. Saki also kept working for Yuki even with Akito's persistence in telling her that she didn't have to.
Kyou and Kagura had marriage quarrels almost every day, but always ended well. They still didn't have children and that was somehow a relief for Kyou who had nightmares of having triplet girls that looked just like Kagura and acted as Kagura had used to act all the time. Kyou was working as a martial arts teacher and Kagura was a housewife for her Kyou-kun.
Momiji had a girlfriend too who was almost as childish as he was still at 22. She was originally from Okinawa and her name was Tamashiro Minori. He was very happy especially since the memory erasing in his mother had been partially removed so that she could remember about him being her son, but not the part of him ever being cursed. He could now see Momo anytime and was even working with their father with no problems at all.
Kureno and Arisa were happily expecting their first baby and from time to time Arisa yelled at Akito because he still called Kureno even on the phone to order him around and Kureno stupidly obeyed everything. Kureno was too used to it to just push Akito aside and Akito seemed to enjoy this still even as a joke.
Akito was longing for marriage. He still wanted a baby, but he now wanted one of his own and he kept bugging Saki about it: "Saki, we can start trying for one even before marriage..." Saki half smiled sort of mischievously: "My answer is again no. You will have to wait until after we are married."
Yuki and Tohru were going through parenthood living in a house now, but little Aimi was terrible. She was only one year old and already made horrible tantrums. "She definitely didn't get that from me, but neither from you Tohru", Yuki said. Tohru laughed. She was a very patient mother, but she also thought a lot about Aimi's behaviour: "It almost seems as if she is like Kyou, ne Yuki?" "Umm... Tohru... Are you sure she is mine?" Tohru shoved Yuki hard and she was giggling. "Don't you dare imply thinks like that Yuki Sohma! She even has your eyes! Maybe the next one will behave better." "Tohru, what do you mean with next one?" "Well Yuki, I was planning on keeping it a secret still, but..." She then got a pregnancy test out of her purse and showed it to him. It had a red positive cross on it. "Wha!? It's too soon!" "You know I didn't produced it alone Yuki." Tohru winked at him and Yuki smiled and hugged her lovingly. Only a thought crossed his mind. Would Akito try to get his hands on this baby? But then he thought that now that was highly unlikely when suddenly the phone rang.
Yuki let go of Tohru to pick up the phone. It was Akito and he was suddenly nervous watching the cell phone number with the name Akito Sohma on the caller ID. Akito never called! He answered: "Hello?" "Hello Yuki! How are you and Tohru?" "We... we are fine. How about you?" "I'm fine too. Right now I'm in a restaurant with my bride to be. She just told me that Tohru is pregnant again. She felt it with her denpa wave reading. Is this so?" Yuki was trembling and cursing himself with his thoughts by being still somehow afraid of the ex Sohma Clan Master. "Y-Yes. She... just told me." "Congratulations then! and by the way Yuki... YOUR SECOND BORN WILL BE MINE." "WHA!?" Yuki was trembling for real, but then he heard giggles on the other line. He also heard Hatori's voice scolding Akito: "Akito, that is not nice." Akito was telling the people with him: "I think HE ACTUALLY believed me!" The laughter on the other line continued and Yuki was turning into different shades of color. "AKITO! HOW DARE YOU TRY TO SCARE ME LIKE THAT! BAKA! WHO THE HELL IS WITH YOU?" Everyone on the other line had heard Yuki's voice coming from Akito's cell phone and went silent. Akito had taken the cell phone out of his ear's reach not wanting to become deaf. He then returned the cell phone to his ear laughing. "Sorry Yuki. I just had to. Here with me are Hatori with Mayuko, Momiji with Minori, Shigure, Ritsu with Mit-chan, Saki, and Kureno with Arisa." Yuki was controlling himself. "Okay Akito, say hello to them from me and Tohru, but don't ever do that again please." Akito then giggled. "Then Yuki, help me convince Saki of producing me a baby." There were more laughs on the other line and Tohru was looking worriedly at Yuki. Yuki had noticed Tohru and smiled reassuring her. "Akito... That is your problem. BYE!" He hung up and then told everything to Tohru. Tohru was happy. Everything was so nice now. Even Akito making jokes was something great. It meant he had really changed. Tohru closed her eyes thinking: 'Things are alright for sure. This happiness for all of us is truly a blessing'.
-The End
*Thank you for reading and for all your reviews. Made me truly happy.
*Listening to The Power of Smile by KOKIA