Ok here's Chapter 3. In response to the reviews, Minoru is 20 years old and yes there will be a happy ending!

As we slowly reach the graveyard I begin to tense up. Ten years since I was here. I still remember the service. I was 8. Both my parents came, despite the divorce. Everyone cried. I had never felt so alone. When I saw her for that last time, flowers all around I begged her to wake up. Just to see her hazel eyes……

But she didn't. Then as the coffin was lowered I finally shed a tear. I didn't know how to feel, how to think, what to think.

The car slowly stops. Hideki and Miss Chi exit the car first. Then, Yuzuki. Lastly me.

Yuzuki: "We're here Minoru. I'll take the flowers."

"Yes, ok then."

We begin to walk along the path. I see others there, grieving for their loved ones. They know how it must feel, to have this empty void inside you.

Chi: "Hideki, why are these people crying? Do they hurt?"

Hideki: "Yes Chi. Someone they know has died. They're crying because that person has died."

Chi: "Hideki will die too?

Hideki: "No no no Chi! Well, not for a while anyway. Don't you worry about it ok?"

We all have to die sometime. It's when that's the question.

Yuzuki: "There it is Minoru."

Kaede's grave.

And then it began to snow again.

"Hello Kaede"

Hideki: "Er, Chi, let's go for a walk. I think Minoru wants to be alone for a while"

Thank you, Hideki. Yuzuki lays the flowers on her grave.

Yuzuki: "Should I go too Minoru?"

"What? NO! No please stay."

Yuzuki: "Alright then. Thank you Minoru"

I need to tell her. I just need to….

"Yuzuki… I ….lo-"

Yuzuki: "I know."

WHAT??????????

"Wh-what did you say?"

Yuzuki: "Minoru, I've known for so long now. I've watched you for ten long years. I've learned about the way you look at me, that look of longing. I used to think that it was because you made me to replace Kaede, but now I know otherwise. And, now I have to tell you, I love you too Minoru."

Yuzuki……..

"But you are a…..-

Yuzuki: Persocom? I know that. Even still you treat me as if I were human. That is why I love you. Because you treat me as an individual. Just like Hideki and Miss Chi. If they can be together, why can't we?

"You're right. Thank you, Yuzuki. I've been so confused for so long but now it's all so clear. But if you knew, why didn't you tell me?

Yuzuki: "Because until today I wasn't sure if you felt the same. But when you told me to call you just Minoru, that's when I knew."

I've never felt so happy. I know this is the way Kaede wanted.

Hideki: "Hey Minoru! Are you ready yet? Shimbo's waiting for us!"

"Ok Hideki! Yuzuki lets go. And thank you again."