Thanks...here are my final good-byes

THANK YOU!

BlackSongBird- you have been with me from the very beginning! You are my support system! I love you! THANKS!

Fallen Wolf- I'm glad you liked it and here is the epilogue!

Trickstertheifgirl- no that's not how it ended, I just needed some more reviews!

OneNightOneDream- I'm sorry I made you cry, here is the last part!

Lostsoul- THANK YOU! YOU WERE MY LAST REVIEWER! And I hope you like how I tied this all up! I can't wait for you to get an account and I promise Hiei isn't completely traumatized, but what the hell you'll see yourself!

Standard disclaimers apply

Epilogue

225 years later

(Hiei)

Looking down at little Kyoko I watched her consume her chocolate ice cream cone quickly. She was the spitting image of her mother with bright red eyes and sea green hair. Yukina had had her about fifteen years ago but Koorime age so slowly she still looked like she was still only five years old. She was wearing a pretty kimono that I had got for her a while ago from the Makai, it was pink, her favorite color. After a day at the circus she was still full of energy and rip roaring to go. She had multiple designs painted on her face and pink balloon was tied to her wrist so it wouldn't fly away. Glancing around the park we were sitting in I spotted two women who looked to be about in their mid-twenties sitting on a nearby wall talking quietly. One had long black hair pulled back in a braid and her eyes were blue-flecked grey, her companion was decidedly smaller and had shoulder length brown hair pulled back in a ponytail a hat covering the top of her head and her eyes were concealed behind a pair of glasses. I knew I could easily eavesdrop on their conversation but I didn't feel like it so I turned my attention to my niece you was tugging on my shirt.

"Uncle Hiei, I'm done." She held the cone out to me; she never liked the cone so she gave it to me.

"Ok." I took the cone and quickly ate it and was about to stand up and leave with Kyoko when the brown haired woman came over. She looked nervous and my heart sank when I realized she was going to try and ask me out on a date.

"Hello, I was wondering if you could tell me your name, you look familiar." She smiled at me and all I wanted to do was throttle her. I was sick to death of people trying doing this. Kyoko looked up at this new person with interest while I tried to figure out a nice way to get her to leave me alone, she was an invader of privacy.

"My name is Kyoko," Kyoko informed her nodding vigorously and my heart sank, I couldn't use the: I'm married and this is my kid thing cause I knew what she was going to say next. "This is my Uncle Hiei."

"Oh, really?" The invader pressed her fingertips to her forehead as if she was getting a headache, her voice sounded familiar, "I knew that, how did I know that? I've never met you before." She gripped her head as her face contorted with pain and she bent over double. The motion struck a chord in me, where had I seen that before? Where I had I seen someone do that?

"Sumiko!" Her friend ran over and my heart stopped, "Oh my God, are you ok? Sumi?" Her name was Sumiko? Reiko's real name had been Sumiko!

"It hurts," Sumiko gasped out. It was like déjà vu, Reiko when she had had flashbacks would moan the same thing. "It feels like my head's going to explode!" C.J. yanked off her friend's hat and pulled out her ponytail to relieve any pressure on her head. Her hair. It was brown but it was dyed, I knew it because an inch of white roots could be seen. Reiko's hair had been white. "I'm sorry, sometimes this happens, we don't know what causes it," I wasn't listening it was all starting to come together, all the pieces and parts.

"What's her name?" I demanded grabbing C.J.'s arm.

"Sumiko, why?" C.J. replied looking at me strangely as I started and yanked off the girl's glasses. Her eyes were screwed shut in pain and sweat was beginning to bead on her skin. She looked like Reiko when she had had her panic attacks. Their facial structure was so similar. Please if there was a God don't let me be wrong about this. If I am I don't think I'll survive.

"Sumiko, open your eyes," I commanded her and held my breath as she slowly obeyed me and opened them to reveal pain clouded tri-colored orbs. "Oh my God, Reiko!" I gathered her close to me and smoothed her hair back as I rocked the two of us back and forth. It was her, it really was.

"It hurts Hiei," Sumiko sobbed clinging to me. "What's going on? I keep seeing so many things, so many things I don't understand!"

"You're remembering darling, you're remembering, relax." I hugged her close and wished that I could take it all away.

"Make it stop!" Sumiko cried as she turned her tear-streaked face up to look pleadingly into my eyes. Without taking time to think about it I lowered my head and kissed her, our lips met and a wave of rightness flooded me as Reiko's body flexed in pain before going lax.

"Reiko, are you alright?" I asked running my fingers through her hair.

"Yes Hiei, I'm fine now." She smiled at me her eyes weary but filled with infinite happiness, "You waited."

"Of course, I'd wait a million lifetimes if only to spend a moment with you," I told her as tears of joy filled my eyes.

"I missed you so much, you better not ever let me go again," Reiko informed me as she reached up to gently touch my face.

"Does this mean I have an aunt?" Kyoko questioned and the two of us laughed as C.J. stood there looking terribly confused. Some day we'd explain what had happened but right now it was just about us, just about me and Reiko.

C'est fini


I'm so proud...yet so sad