Author's Note: Ah, yes, another ending to a story! It is probably going to be one of the shortest one's that I'll ever write! LOL! Anyways, I hope that for those of you who DID get a chance to read over the Winter Break will enjoy this little bit as well. But, I have to be back in school on Wednesday of this coming week, so I'm trying to get done all of these stories. So, yeah. Enjoy!

Chapter 6

Always With You

"Thank you SO much for helping me! I do owe you," Tohru smiled sheepishly.

"It was a pleasure," he smiled at her.

"It's really kind of you to say so, but, I don't think that's true. What's so pleasurable about researching books and trying to find information about eighteenth century dynasties," she laughed out loud. It was near midnight and all the hallways were deserted. As the two walked down the walkway towards the dorm rooms, Yuki stared at the moonlight reflecting against Tohru's hair and started to romanticize how it might've been if her memories weren't erased.

"Do you remember me?" Yuki asked out of the blue.

"Of course I do! I mean, you went to the same high school as me, right?" she smiled as she looked at his features silhouetted in the moonlight.

"No, I mean like other memories that you may have of me. Like one's out of school…" he drifted off hazily.

"Well, no. I don't think so. There was a time when you and I played badminton with Uo and Hana and some other people. A boy with blonde hair and someone else named Haru and an orange haired kid. But, I don't seem to have understood why or how I got to know these people," she pondered to herself more than to Yuki.

Yuki looked at her in surprise. "When did you have that memory first come to you?" he seriously asked her.

"The time when you found me on the ground, when my head started to hurt and that mental picture came into my mind," she stared at him. "Do you know something about it?"

Yuki thought to himself for a moment. "Come with me," he pulled Tohru towards the boy's dorm.

"Wait! I don't think that I should be going in here!" Tohru said alarmed.

"You have to see something. I think that it can help you to remember," he said while walking very fast.

Tohru ran to keep up. They went up a couple of floors and finally, they stopped at room 647. Yuki opened it and rummaged around for a second. Finally, he came out again with a note. "Do you know what this is?" he held it out to her and hope flickered in his eyes.

Tohru looked at the note for a second. Then, slowly, she reached out her hand to take it. Suddenly, she felt a pain in her head and suddenly all these memories flooded into her head. Yuki working in his garden with her, her singing and watching Leiko stand next to Yuki. Yuki kissing her, Shigure welcoming her into their home.

She shrieked in pain as all of these memories suddenly came back all in a rush. She sunk to her knees and moaned in pain as she hit the bare floor. Suddenly, she felt faint. When she looked up, she saw Yuki with tears in his eyes.

"Yuki?" there was something different about her voice. It was slightly more matured and there was a difference in her demeanor.

"Tohru?" he gazed expectantly into her eyes.

"You… my memories! I have them! Akito… Hatori…" she began to get confused and started to mumble fragments of sentences and suddenly she stood up and embraced Yuki with all of her might. "You still have to thank Megumi,"

Yuki was taken aback. No one had gotten this close to him for many years. Two years to be exact. Akito couldn't control them anymore because in those years, he had been killed in a deadly car crash. The new head was just a year old and couldn't hurt a fly if he wanted to.

"You're safe now. Everything is okay," he whispered into her hair.

"What did I miss during this time when I was… let's say, mind-warped?" Tohru asked pulling away reluctantly from his touch.

"Akito died and the new head has been born. Not that he can do much to hurt any of us at the moment. Hatori just hasn't been the same since he erased your memories. He just caved in and kept away from other people. It was worse than it was with Kana if that's possible. I think that having to go through the same thing with another person that had been such a big part of the Sohma family crushed him," he smiled down at her large turquoise eyes. "I've missed you,"

"As have I," she said in return. "It's been way too long,"

"I've still kept my promise to you. That I'll be by your side forever. That I'll keep you safe,"

Tohru embraced Yuki again and although she couldn't see it, the ghost of her mother loomed ahead a distance from Yuki's face. He was surprised to see someone else in his apartment.

"I was getting a little worried about her. But, I guess everything's alright. Take good care of her for me," the figure disintegrated into thin air.

"Hm," Tohru frowned cutely as she pulled herself away from Yuki. "That's odd,"

"What's odd?"

"It just seemed like my Mom was here. I could've sworn that I felt her presence," Tohru scratched her head.

"Your mother is always going to be watching over you. Wherever you go. She would never forsake you. Even if she's not physically by your side. She's always with you. In spirit. But, I, will be here with you in both body and soul," he kissed her lovingly after all these years. Tohru returned the gesture. It was the end of a wonderful chapter in life. They faced all sorts of problems in their way, but, in the end, they had prevailed, and their love had won all battles in the journey of life.