GT: Sorry to say, but this is the last chapter of The Other Half. Yes, it's been so long since I started it and it's come out great. One of my highest reviewed fics. Thanks to all who read my story and at the bottom I will also leave a special note because I do that whenever I finish a story. Please don't stop reading my fics and keep reviewing. Anyway, here's the last chapter! ;;
Chapter 5: Real Stories Never Have Endings
It has been five years since the Sohma's came into my life.
Tohru sleeps in a new bed, much bigger then what she had been accustomed to. An arm flings itself out of the covers and across her stomach. She slowly opens her eyes to the brightly lit room, sun coming through the windows. She sits up slowly, setting her feet on the hardwood floor. On her bed lies her husband, who still sleeps soundly. The distant running can be heard as two small children run down the hall to their parents room. "Mommy, Mommy." The small children shout happily as they hug her tightly.
They hid a dark secret from the world. And some even were cursed.
"Mommy, is Daddy awoke yet?" Her oldest daughter, seven-year-old Kyoko, asks eyeing the lump on the bed, which was her Father. Tohru smiles slightly and shakes her head. This always happened every morning because the two children "loved" their Father so much. The redheaded Kyoko leaps onto the bed, landing on her dad who shot right up. Glaring at Tohru as he ran his hand through his red hair.
"Why do you always have to do that?" Kyo asks as Kyoko sits on his lap with a huge smile on her small, beaming face.
"'Cuz Mommy says so," Kyoko answers, Kyo directs attention to his wife. A growl coming up from the pit of his stomach. As he is about to open his mouth, someone attaches themselves to his neck from behind. Then Kyoko joins in, pouncing from his lap.
"Tohru, save me." Kyo chokes as he pulls his six-year-old son from behind him. With both children captured Kyo presending to the punishments which is tickling until they die laughing.
"Mommy, Mommy! Help!" Both the children scream in bout of laughter as Tohru tries to hold back from laughing. Kyo smiles and looks up at his wife setting down Kyoko and lifting up their son.
"Whattya goin' to do, Meathead?" His son asks, Kyo and Tohru stare at him in ashoishment. Their son smiles at them.
"That's it, Uncle Hiro is never watching them ever again." Kyo says angrily as Tohru picks up Kyoko and looks over at Kyo.
"Why do you think Hiro has anything to do with it?" She asks but Kyo just glares at her.
"Because he's the only one who calls me that, isn't that right Yuki?" He asks his son who just looks up at him cluelessly, his Mom's blue eyes looking up at his dad and her dark hair with only red bangs.
Tohru opens the door slightly. "Time to get ready," she says as the two kids file out of the room. Tohru looks back at Kyo who just smiles at her, his eyes reflecting her shadowy figure.
They couldn't hug anyone and they were bound to their family. But something happened...
Kyo walks down the stairs dressed and ready to go. The family gets into the car, driving down to the main house. "Do we really have to go?" Kyo asks as he drives up the parking lot. Kyo looks around confused. "Who knew we had a parking lot?" The two kids in the back giggle as Kyo and Tohru help them get out of the car.
"Yuki hasn't been since senior year, don't you want to see him again? After all, you did name our son after him. And he's going back to America in two days, we have to visit him once." Tohru explains as Kyo disagrees under his breath.
"Then why don't we just invite him over?" Kyo suggests but Tohru just smiles at him and walks up to the door.
Toya, Kyo's brother, came into the picture, after being missing for a long time he returned.
"Hey, Little bro!" Toya shouts waving at the couple to come with them. Kyo rolls his eyes as Toya flips a couple of hamburgers.
"Is Yuki the only reason you didn't want to come?" Tohru asks looking over at Toya who runs up to them with a smile on his face and an 'Kiss the Chef' apron.
"They still make those?" Kyo asks studying the grease stained apron, which had a large smiley face on it. Toya hugs his little brother getting grease all over him. "I really don't like you." Toya punches him playfully in the arm before he notices the hamburgers frying to a crisp on the barbecue.
"Ugh, the meaty goodness!" Toya shouts running to the barbecue, flipping the hamburgers onto a plate that he held in his uneasy hand. Kyo sighs heavily, why would Hana even think about marrying that idiot? He thinks to himself, remembering of the oncoming wedding that was going to happen in the winter.
"Kyo, Tohru. I haven't seen you in forever." Shigure says happily carrying a small infant in his arms. "Isn't Hatori's baby the cutest? I just love her so..." Hatori interrupts Shigure's sentence with a shift whack in the head. "So mean."
"You're a bad influence, don't do anything to my daughter or I swear I will..."Hatori says calming himself down, taking deep breathes. "This is why I had a nervous breakdown." Shigure hands him the small baby, who just looks up at Hatori with her big deep green eyes making everything better.
"How's Uo? Is she doing okay?" Tohru asks Hatori, who just looks up from his beloved daughter and smiles softly.
"She's fine, we were a little worried because the baby's a month late. She's on bed rest, which is killing her. But next week we're inducing it if it doesn't happen natural." Hatori explains as Tohru quietly watches him. Who would have thought that Uo would be the one to melt the snow that once covered his heart. "Are you going to see Yuki before he leaves?"
"If we can ever find him," Kyo says under his breath as he notices a familiar American walking into the kitchen. "Found his girl, now only need to find him." Kyo leads Tohru to the kitchen where Samantha Childers-Sohma was over the stove cooking along with Kagura and Momji.
"Kyo! You made it! And Tohru!" Momji shouts in excitement running to Tohru with a huge smile on his face, but Kyo's hand flings itself into the blonde's face.
"You never change," Kyo says angrily as the two start to get into a verbal fight. And then fists are thrown. The once sensitive, childlike Momji quickly dodges Kyo's fists and kicks much like Yuki once did. And landing some blows on Kyo, which ultimately ends with both on the floor breathing for air. Tohru and Sam start catching up with each other. Both acting like sisters who hadn't seen each other in a lifetime.
"Kyo, don't play too rough. Hatori will kill you if you damage his son." Kagura warns indicating that Momji was officially Hatori's only adopted son. Kyo and Momji get to their feet just when the door slides open. Yuki gives Kyo a smug look before walking inside the amazing large kitchen. Followed by Kisa in her high school uniform, who carries the paper plates that Sam bought inside.
"Tohru, I didn't know you came. Hiro will be excited," Kisa says happily as the door slides open again and a teenager dressed like a punk walks in. His left ear littered with silver loops and a tiger earring.
"Great, she's here. I hope the foods good Kagura," Hiro says smugly before Kagura and Kisa shot death glares at the teenager.
"SHUT UP YOU LITTLE PUNK!" Kagura shouts punching him and sending him flying through the door.
"You owe me a door, Kagura!" Shigure shouts as Haru walks in with Ayame and his wife(the lady from his store). "Ayame, I'm glad you could make it. When is your next fashion thingy?"
"Fashion thingy? Shigure, I expect more from you. It's a runway and it's in a month, thank you very much. My star model is going to feature in it." Ayame explains showing him pictures of Haru in different outfits.
"I'm so glad Haru can get something useful from you," Shigure says as Ritsu sets up more decorations. "Ritsu, we don't need any more decorations." Ritsu prepares to throw himself the room but is stopped by a woman who was standing behind him.
"Ritsu honey, just say "okay"." The redhead says gently kissing him on the cheek. Shigure mouths the word "thanks" to Ritsu's wife who just smiles.
We've all changed. Grown in some way or another.
"So, you'll be going back to America." Tohru says grimly as Yuki smiles at her softly, his purple eyes reflecting her image. He hangs on Sam like a child does with his Mother, laying his head on her shoulder.
"We won't be gone forever Tohru, we'll be back in the winter. We're moving back to Japan you know." Yuki says with a smile on his face. Kyo huffs about something under his breath, but Yuki knew that was just him. "How are the kids? Kyo is out in the backyard playing with Shigure's foster children." It surprised Kyo that child services would allow anyone like Shigure to be a foster parent. What surprised Tohru is that the two men who had sworn they hated each other, named their son's after one another. Even more, Kyo had admitted to admiring the rat, known as Yuki.
"But you'll be gone for awhile, right? Give us all a break for awhile and take Hiro with you." Kyo jokingly suggests with a sly smile on his face.
"No, I would rather see you suffer by the hands of a sixteen-year- old." Yuki says as the two separate from their wives and go into the silent adjacent room. Emerging after everyone had left and joining their two wives on the porch.
"See ya later, ya damn rat." Kyo says to Yuki as they start to walk in separate directions, leaded by their wives.
"Good bye, stupid cat." Yuki says with a smile as their kids walk over two them. The redheaded Kyoko in the middle, her dark-haired brother holding her right hand and the other redhead Kyo holding her left hand. Much like Kyo, Tohru, and Yuki had done many times before.
"Bye, you stupid cat." Yuki's Kyo says to Kyo and Tohru's Yuki who gives him a smug look.
"Better watch where ya going, ya damn rat." Kyo's Yuki says to the young Kyo, who was born in the year of the rat. And he was born in the year of the cat, natural born rivals.
"Yuki, don't cuss. Bye, Kyo." Kyoko says with a smile on her face as the two families split and go to their lives.
I can't say that we had a happy ending. Because there is never an ending. Not for my story.
I'm Tohru Sohma. It's been a while and it is going to be an even more while till this story comes to an end. But one journey in our lives have ended. What happens next, I can't really say. Because I don't really know. All I know is that I'm happy, being with the people who love and care about me. And the memories we've made will last for eternity.
Tohru passes a picture of her, Yuki, and Kyo holding hands walking into the sunset.
All we have to do is look forward and only hope for the best. That's all life really is, isn't it?-GilandThatz
GT: I liked how I ended it. I like the picture in the end. And the quote I made up on a whim. Up it's still a good ending. I enjoyed writing this fic, anyone who's read it and reviewed I want to thank you most of all. If you hadn't, I would have never had the courage or will power to finish this fic. Thank you(while writing this, I'm starting to tear up) so very much. Special Thanks to: Durian
Rashaka
Kyou's babe
CrazyInsaneAnimeFanGirl
peas in a pie
missyanimefreak
Kazumi Kairi or Kairi- chan
foxgrl991
Sailor Kenshin
And thank you to everyone who read my fic but never reviewed. Thanks for reading something that took so long to think of and twice as long to write. I will remember your words and hope that you will read more of my writings in the future. See ya later. ;
Chapter 5: Real Stories Never Have Endings
It has been five years since the Sohma's came into my life.
Tohru sleeps in a new bed, much bigger then what she had been accustomed to. An arm flings itself out of the covers and across her stomach. She slowly opens her eyes to the brightly lit room, sun coming through the windows. She sits up slowly, setting her feet on the hardwood floor. On her bed lies her husband, who still sleeps soundly. The distant running can be heard as two small children run down the hall to their parents room. "Mommy, Mommy." The small children shout happily as they hug her tightly.
They hid a dark secret from the world. And some even were cursed.
"Mommy, is Daddy awoke yet?" Her oldest daughter, seven-year-old Kyoko, asks eyeing the lump on the bed, which was her Father. Tohru smiles slightly and shakes her head. This always happened every morning because the two children "loved" their Father so much. The redheaded Kyoko leaps onto the bed, landing on her dad who shot right up. Glaring at Tohru as he ran his hand through his red hair.
"Why do you always have to do that?" Kyo asks as Kyoko sits on his lap with a huge smile on her small, beaming face.
"'Cuz Mommy says so," Kyoko answers, Kyo directs attention to his wife. A growl coming up from the pit of his stomach. As he is about to open his mouth, someone attaches themselves to his neck from behind. Then Kyoko joins in, pouncing from his lap.
"Tohru, save me." Kyo chokes as he pulls his six-year-old son from behind him. With both children captured Kyo presending to the punishments which is tickling until they die laughing.
"Mommy, Mommy! Help!" Both the children scream in bout of laughter as Tohru tries to hold back from laughing. Kyo smiles and looks up at his wife setting down Kyoko and lifting up their son.
"Whattya goin' to do, Meathead?" His son asks, Kyo and Tohru stare at him in ashoishment. Their son smiles at them.
"That's it, Uncle Hiro is never watching them ever again." Kyo says angrily as Tohru picks up Kyoko and looks over at Kyo.
"Why do you think Hiro has anything to do with it?" She asks but Kyo just glares at her.
"Because he's the only one who calls me that, isn't that right Yuki?" He asks his son who just looks up at him cluelessly, his Mom's blue eyes looking up at his dad and her dark hair with only red bangs.
Tohru opens the door slightly. "Time to get ready," she says as the two kids file out of the room. Tohru looks back at Kyo who just smiles at her, his eyes reflecting her shadowy figure.
They couldn't hug anyone and they were bound to their family. But something happened...
Kyo walks down the stairs dressed and ready to go. The family gets into the car, driving down to the main house. "Do we really have to go?" Kyo asks as he drives up the parking lot. Kyo looks around confused. "Who knew we had a parking lot?" The two kids in the back giggle as Kyo and Tohru help them get out of the car.
"Yuki hasn't been since senior year, don't you want to see him again? After all, you did name our son after him. And he's going back to America in two days, we have to visit him once." Tohru explains as Kyo disagrees under his breath.
"Then why don't we just invite him over?" Kyo suggests but Tohru just smiles at him and walks up to the door.
Toya, Kyo's brother, came into the picture, after being missing for a long time he returned.
"Hey, Little bro!" Toya shouts waving at the couple to come with them. Kyo rolls his eyes as Toya flips a couple of hamburgers.
"Is Yuki the only reason you didn't want to come?" Tohru asks looking over at Toya who runs up to them with a smile on his face and an 'Kiss the Chef' apron.
"They still make those?" Kyo asks studying the grease stained apron, which had a large smiley face on it. Toya hugs his little brother getting grease all over him. "I really don't like you." Toya punches him playfully in the arm before he notices the hamburgers frying to a crisp on the barbecue.
"Ugh, the meaty goodness!" Toya shouts running to the barbecue, flipping the hamburgers onto a plate that he held in his uneasy hand. Kyo sighs heavily, why would Hana even think about marrying that idiot? He thinks to himself, remembering of the oncoming wedding that was going to happen in the winter.
"Kyo, Tohru. I haven't seen you in forever." Shigure says happily carrying a small infant in his arms. "Isn't Hatori's baby the cutest? I just love her so..." Hatori interrupts Shigure's sentence with a shift whack in the head. "So mean."
"You're a bad influence, don't do anything to my daughter or I swear I will..."Hatori says calming himself down, taking deep breathes. "This is why I had a nervous breakdown." Shigure hands him the small baby, who just looks up at Hatori with her big deep green eyes making everything better.
"How's Uo? Is she doing okay?" Tohru asks Hatori, who just looks up from his beloved daughter and smiles softly.
"She's fine, we were a little worried because the baby's a month late. She's on bed rest, which is killing her. But next week we're inducing it if it doesn't happen natural." Hatori explains as Tohru quietly watches him. Who would have thought that Uo would be the one to melt the snow that once covered his heart. "Are you going to see Yuki before he leaves?"
"If we can ever find him," Kyo says under his breath as he notices a familiar American walking into the kitchen. "Found his girl, now only need to find him." Kyo leads Tohru to the kitchen where Samantha Childers-Sohma was over the stove cooking along with Kagura and Momji.
"Kyo! You made it! And Tohru!" Momji shouts in excitement running to Tohru with a huge smile on his face, but Kyo's hand flings itself into the blonde's face.
"You never change," Kyo says angrily as the two start to get into a verbal fight. And then fists are thrown. The once sensitive, childlike Momji quickly dodges Kyo's fists and kicks much like Yuki once did. And landing some blows on Kyo, which ultimately ends with both on the floor breathing for air. Tohru and Sam start catching up with each other. Both acting like sisters who hadn't seen each other in a lifetime.
"Kyo, don't play too rough. Hatori will kill you if you damage his son." Kagura warns indicating that Momji was officially Hatori's only adopted son. Kyo and Momji get to their feet just when the door slides open. Yuki gives Kyo a smug look before walking inside the amazing large kitchen. Followed by Kisa in her high school uniform, who carries the paper plates that Sam bought inside.
"Tohru, I didn't know you came. Hiro will be excited," Kisa says happily as the door slides open again and a teenager dressed like a punk walks in. His left ear littered with silver loops and a tiger earring.
"Great, she's here. I hope the foods good Kagura," Hiro says smugly before Kagura and Kisa shot death glares at the teenager.
"SHUT UP YOU LITTLE PUNK!" Kagura shouts punching him and sending him flying through the door.
"You owe me a door, Kagura!" Shigure shouts as Haru walks in with Ayame and his wife(the lady from his store). "Ayame, I'm glad you could make it. When is your next fashion thingy?"
"Fashion thingy? Shigure, I expect more from you. It's a runway and it's in a month, thank you very much. My star model is going to feature in it." Ayame explains showing him pictures of Haru in different outfits.
"I'm so glad Haru can get something useful from you," Shigure says as Ritsu sets up more decorations. "Ritsu, we don't need any more decorations." Ritsu prepares to throw himself the room but is stopped by a woman who was standing behind him.
"Ritsu honey, just say "okay"." The redhead says gently kissing him on the cheek. Shigure mouths the word "thanks" to Ritsu's wife who just smiles.
We've all changed. Grown in some way or another.
"So, you'll be going back to America." Tohru says grimly as Yuki smiles at her softly, his purple eyes reflecting her image. He hangs on Sam like a child does with his Mother, laying his head on her shoulder.
"We won't be gone forever Tohru, we'll be back in the winter. We're moving back to Japan you know." Yuki says with a smile on his face. Kyo huffs about something under his breath, but Yuki knew that was just him. "How are the kids? Kyo is out in the backyard playing with Shigure's foster children." It surprised Kyo that child services would allow anyone like Shigure to be a foster parent. What surprised Tohru is that the two men who had sworn they hated each other, named their son's after one another. Even more, Kyo had admitted to admiring the rat, known as Yuki.
"But you'll be gone for awhile, right? Give us all a break for awhile and take Hiro with you." Kyo jokingly suggests with a sly smile on his face.
"No, I would rather see you suffer by the hands of a sixteen-year- old." Yuki says as the two separate from their wives and go into the silent adjacent room. Emerging after everyone had left and joining their two wives on the porch.
"See ya later, ya damn rat." Kyo says to Yuki as they start to walk in separate directions, leaded by their wives.
"Good bye, stupid cat." Yuki says with a smile as their kids walk over two them. The redheaded Kyoko in the middle, her dark-haired brother holding her right hand and the other redhead Kyo holding her left hand. Much like Kyo, Tohru, and Yuki had done many times before.
"Bye, you stupid cat." Yuki's Kyo says to Kyo and Tohru's Yuki who gives him a smug look.
"Better watch where ya going, ya damn rat." Kyo's Yuki says to the young Kyo, who was born in the year of the rat. And he was born in the year of the cat, natural born rivals.
"Yuki, don't cuss. Bye, Kyo." Kyoko says with a smile on her face as the two families split and go to their lives.
I can't say that we had a happy ending. Because there is never an ending. Not for my story.
I'm Tohru Sohma. It's been a while and it is going to be an even more while till this story comes to an end. But one journey in our lives have ended. What happens next, I can't really say. Because I don't really know. All I know is that I'm happy, being with the people who love and care about me. And the memories we've made will last for eternity.
Tohru passes a picture of her, Yuki, and Kyo holding hands walking into the sunset.
All we have to do is look forward and only hope for the best. That's all life really is, isn't it?-GilandThatz
GT: I liked how I ended it. I like the picture in the end. And the quote I made up on a whim. Up it's still a good ending. I enjoyed writing this fic, anyone who's read it and reviewed I want to thank you most of all. If you hadn't, I would have never had the courage or will power to finish this fic. Thank you(while writing this, I'm starting to tear up) so very much. Special Thanks to: Durian
Rashaka
Kyou's babe
CrazyInsaneAnimeFanGirl
peas in a pie
missyanimefreak
Kazumi Kairi or Kairi- chan
foxgrl991
Sailor Kenshin
And thank you to everyone who read my fic but never reviewed. Thanks for reading something that took so long to think of and twice as long to write. I will remember your words and hope that you will read more of my writings in the future. See ya later. ;