SailorStar9: Sorry for the long wait people. My bro's on the com for the last two weeks. Anyway, this isthe epilogueand the end of this mega fic. Read and review.

Disclaimers: YYH, Magic Knight Rayearth and Sailor Moon aren't mine.

Chapter Summary: High school student Kazuma Kuwabara is having a typical day. He is studying hard for his college entrance exams and fending off the flirtatious glances from his female admirers. But nothing could prepare him for what happens when he arrives at a mysterious meeting with Genkai. Surprise follows surprise as one by one each member of the old gang shows up! But where is Yusuke?

Epilogue: To the Future


In the platform of a train station in Ningenkai, Kuwabara gaped. "Are you serious? Everyone was defeated?"

Shuichi confirmed it; even Yusuke was defeated in the Makai Tournament, despite how bravely they all had fought.

Kuwabara sighed, saying it was a good thing he did not take part in it

"I know my powers' limits." he muttered.

Ami and Shuichi looked at each other and laughed.

Two girls, a blonde and a brunette, approached and greet Kuwabara, asking where he was going.

"Private matter." the redhead replied.

The brunette glanced at Shuichi.

"And this is your girlfriend?" The blonde asked if Kuwabara would not introduce her.

Kuwabara choked with the soda he was drinking.

Aside, Ami was laughing hysterically.

"You morons! He's a guy!"

The girls did not believe him; the blonde actually leaned over to examine Shuichi's face closely, while the brunette snickered,

"I didn't know about this side of your life, Kazu-san…"

Shuichi gazed back at the blonde calmly, but Kuwabara was pissed off.

"I'm not what you're thinking!"

The girls giggled and entered their train.

"You should have warned us before. Bye!"

"I told you to cut your hair." Ami reprimanded her boyfriend, in the amidst of giggles.

"Very funny." Shuichi muttered.

After the train left, Kuwabara apologized for the incident. Kurama replied that he did not mind, and commented that Kuwabara seemed to have become very popular.

"Right after I entered High School I predicted an earthquake, and now no one there leaves me alone." the taller boy explained.

Later in a train, Kuwabara tells Shuichi how hard it was to go through the exams that allowed him into High School.

Then he sighed remembering that it had been two years since he last saw Urameshi.

"With you I still had some contact, so it doesn't seem too long. But it's been two years already…"

"Yusuke didn't change a thing." Shuichi answered.

"Won't he ever come back?" Kuwabara complained.

"He stayed there do deal with some unfinished business of his, and promised Keiko to be back in three years. To tell you the truth, I think he's stalling her again." Ami sighed.

Kuwabara scowled, saying Urameshi was playing the tough guy like always.

"If he was defeated, he should come back here at once. Keiko would be a lot happier."

"Well, a promise is a promise." Ami noted.


At the exit of a girls' school, Keiko was invited by her classmates to go to the mall.

"I'm sorry, I have a place to go today." she replied.

One classmate suggested that she found a new boyfriend which Keiko denied.

"How would she find a boyfriend if she never looks at any boy?" commented the other girl.

They asked Keiko if she was already betrothed. She did not answer.


In a cafe at the shinkansen station, Kuwabara asked Shuichi how he got across to the Makai and back so freely if two years ago there was such a trouble about Sensui's tunnel.

The redhead informed him that there was no barrier whatsoever between the two worlds now.

Kuwabara freaked out "But with the barrier down the demons can be anywhere in this world, Kurama!"

"What's the shouting all about?" asked a familiar voice.

"Hello, Shizuru." greeted Ami.

"Kurama! Icy! Long time no see!" she exclaimed with a big, warm smile.

"Be careful, Neesan." Kuwabara warned her. "We might be surrounded by demons!"

Shuichi soothed him, telling him about the verbal agreement that prevented demons from attacking humans.

Kuwabara relaxed a little.

Someone knocked at the cafe's window to call their attention.

"Keiko!" came the unison exclaim.

The girl waved.

Kuwabara noticed she had let her hair grow, and Shizuru complimented that she looked good like that.

Now that everyone was present, it was time to leave.

In the shinkansen, Shizuru read the newspapers and found an intriguing headline about a space monster.

Ami leaned over to take a look.

"Hey, isn't that Hiei?"

Startled, Kuwabara stared at the rough drawing of the short spiky-haired, three-eyed 'space monster'.

"This is Hiei alright... But I thought he was in Makai!" he pondered.

Shuichi explained that Hiei now worked with a patrol that dealt with humans that inadvertently cross the borders to Makai.


In the Makai, Hiei was traveling on one of Mukuro's insect-like vehicles beside another demon who sniffed the air with a huge nose

"I smell a ningen over there."

"Damn." Hiei groaned. "Another?"

Finding an unconscious human lying on the grass, Hiei commanded the other demons to take the man. One youkai asked if they should treat the ningen's wounded lung.

"No." replied Hiei. "If he dies, then that's his fate."

The human woke up groggily on a metal bed in a strange room, and saw Hiei with the glowing Jagan, saying, "Now it's time we send him back to his world. When he wakes up he will have forgotten everything he saw here. He won't remember a thing."

Hiei snapped his fingers and the human fell unconscious again.


The narrator's voice was heard, "According to Enki's laws, the humans that enter the Demon World must be protected and sent back to Ningenkai. The ones that lost the Tournament are in charge of this mission."
In a corridor of Mukuro's fortress, five of her men -- including Hiei and Kiren -- walked home after a day's work, some of them complaining about the three-year job of patrolling the borders.

One argued that if Mukuro had fought for real, Enki would not have won the Tournament.

Kiren disagreed, saying that Mukuro's powers were strongly influenced by her emotions:.

"In a peaceful combat, her total strength is half her real strength. We'll probably never see her real strength now; it's something beyond your imagination. We'll never see it happening again."

"Why?"

"Her eyes now reveal so much peace…"

Hiei listened in silence as his companions wondered what could have caused the change in her.

Mukuro woke up in her bed when Hiei stepped into her room.

"So how was the patrol?" she asked.

"Boring." Hiei snorted.

"You are free,." she reminded him. "You can go back to Ningenkai whenever you want. I know you have a girl waiting for you."

Hiei sat comfortably on a chair and placed his legs on the low table.

"Right." he smiled. "I'll do that if I want to.


Back to the shinkansen, Shuichi commented that Hiei's life was now just like he wanted it to be.

Kuwabara wondered why Genkai had summoned them.

He, Shuichi, Ami, Keiko and Shizuru climbed the staircase to Genkai's temple and were greeted by Yukina.

Kuwabara was more than happy to see her, of course.

Shizuru asked if she and Genkai ere doing well, alone in the remote temple.

"We're great." Yukina assured her, "because Kazuma-san comes to visit us often."

Somehow, I'm not surprised. Ami commented mentally to the redhead beside her.

I know. And I'm remotely stunned that you still remember the mind link we had. Shuichi replied.

Shizuru mockingly reprimanded her brother for not saying a word to her about those visits.

Kuwabara blushed.

"Well, everyone left for Makai, so I had to come here and give them all the bits of news I got…"

They were all gathered inside the temple with Genkai.

"Now the only missing thing is my boy to come back." the old lady commented. "What is he still doing there?"

Shuichi admitted he had no idea.

"Fighting is all that jerk has in his head!" complained Kuwabara, receiving a nudge from his sister.

Belatedly, he remembered Keiko was there and shut his trap.

Keiko looked sad for a moment, then perked up.

"You know, I feel a lot better now that I saw our dear Obaachan's face."

The Kuwabara siblings agreed.

Genkai snorted, "I'm not a sedative pill for your nerves."

They all laughed.

Botan and Koenma, in his teen form, joined them a while later, and Genkai finally told them why she summoned them all.

"It's a matter related to my death."

None of them felt comfortable with the subject.

Nonetheless, Genkai went on.

"When I die, this place will belong to you. It'll be a long time before humans and demons can live in peace. From the town, this temple is a bit too far away, a little inconvenient. But it's a good place to hide from demons. I want you to take care of this place's nature and enjoy it as much as possible."

Kuwabara, Shuichi, Ami, Shizuru, Keiko, Botan and Yukina went outside to admire the beauty of the region.

They decided to take a stroll at the beach.

Kuwabara stayed behind for a while, looking sadly at the staircase.

"What is it, Kuwabara?" Shuichi asked.

"Urameshi and I met Genkai for the first time when we climbed this long staircase to take part in the contest that appointed her successor. Then we fought against the Four Beasts, then in Taroukane's mansion... and of course, in the Dark Tournament. Now Urameshi became a Makai child himself... but I think everything started in this staircase. I can't forget…"

"So much has happened." Shuichi agreed.

"Sometimes it's hard to remember everything." Ami nodded.

The girls called them, disturbing the quiet moment.

"It's not proper for you three to contemplate the sunset together." Shizuru smirked.

"YUKINA-SAAAAAN!" Kuwabara yelled, running down the stairs. "Don't leave me!"

"I so saw that coming." Shizuru shook her head.

Shuichi and Ami laughed at her comment.

At the beach, Keiko and Yukina took off their shoes to walk close to the sea as the sun fell slowly to meet the skyline.

Everything was golden and pink around them.

Yukina was fascinated.

Keiko suggested that they should come earlier some other day, when both sky and ocean would be deep blue.

Kuwabara called Yukina's name, saying he had found a giant starfish, and Botan picked some interesting shells.

The Ice Maiden ran towards them to look at those treasures.

Ami shook her head in bemusement, "Children these days."

Alone, Keiko stared at the sunset and saw Yusuke's face in it.

"Yusuke…" she called longingly. "You... IDIOT!"

Everyone was surprised at her scream.

"Yusuke! Why don't you come back?" the girl yelled angrily at the sunset.

"I won't wait three years more! You big imbecile!"

"Love hurts I guess." Ami remarked.

Shuichi and Shizuru nodded.

Her friends felt sorry for her, until they hear a voice they had not heard for quite a while.

"You don't have to wait anymore, Keiko."

Yusuke was there, backpack hanging from his shoulder, broad smile on his face.

"Hi! I'm back."

"About darn time." Ami muttered.

Shuichi blinked at her.

In shock, Keiko started a slow walk towards him, then suddenly shouted his name and ran to hug him, knocking them both on the sand.

"Are you nuts, girl?" Yusuke protested. "Are you trying to kill me?"

But Keiko did not seem to be listening.

Very serious, she came down to kiss him.

Yusuke's eyes widened.

Abruptly, a huge wave crashed right over them.

Watching everything a few meters away, the rest of the gang laughed at the scene.

"Too bad Hiei's missing all this." Shuichi joked.

"Where's a video camera when you need one?" Ami kidded.

Yusuke and Keiko laughed too, and he ran after her into the sea, where they start a splashing war.

Kuwabara chuckled only until he was also hit by a strong splash.

"What are you laughing at, you big moron?"

Yusuke was kicking water on him.

Kuwabara ran to grab him by the neck and rubbed a clenched fist on Yusuke's head.

"You jerk, weren't you going to be the King of Makai?"

"Someday I will." Yusuke promised, inverting their positions. "I'm gonna start all over again, you'll see."

"But first I'm gonna beat you to a pulp!"

The two wrestled for a moment, until Kuwabara managed to throw Yusuke over his shoulder and into the water.

But his victory was brief, as Botan joined the game and jumped on him, shoving him down the water too.

Yukina played with them while Shuichi, Ami and Shizuru watched from the beach.


Hiei was taking a nap on a tree branch as the sun set in Makai.
George sweatdropped as Koenma, in his baby form, stamped piles and piles of papers in Reikai.
Beside the adult form of Puu, Genkai sipped her tea.
The rest of the gang watched as the sun went down at the beach.

Forever. Forever.


SailorStar9: This fic is officially finished! I'm planning a sequel for this and I don't know how to start it. Ideas anyone?