"No no no no..." Keigo jr. screamed loudly and made a scene like his father would do. "This can't be The End!"
"But... that was the last what happened before I woke up the next morning and everything that was already told happened!" his father explained. "I went to work. Yuzu and Kaneda arrived. The terrorist got arrested, I got arrested, Ichigo figured out that his sister slept with..."
"You don't need to tell it that detailed!" Karin interfered before Keigo tells something that embarasses her. "Kids... the point is... that we are all happy that it is over. That was a pretty hard time for everyone of us and we don't want to stress you and us with this..."
"But... there are still so many unanswered questions?" her daughter complained.
"And what?" Karin asked.
"Well... why you never punished that TV-lady?" Masaki asked and pointed on Makoto who hid behind Akira. Her mother immediately pushed her daughters hand down, telling her that it was impolite to point on people.
"Hmm... you know..." Ichigo start to murmur. "I have to confess that I was so close from using my Zanpakutou to cut her head off..."
"What?" Makoto asked shocked. "When?"
"When you identified Keigo's body..." Ichigo said mad and remembered.
10 years ago... After the end of the second part...
Ichigo kneeled down next to the cold metal-table, Keigo's dead body was laying on and begged for forgiveness. The coroner just left and he was alone now with Keigo's dead, severly injured body in the morgue. Continuing endlessly to cry and to apologize. Which was useless anyway. He saw Keigo's soul leaving for the Soul Society right after the body hit the ground after beeing hit by the delivery van. Keigo was already dead, before his body was smashed against the parked car and than slipped down on the cold street. He didn't know how much time had passed since then. A few hours maybe? But it was enough time for the police, to contact someone to identify the body: Makoto!
"Please, tell me that is not true... He can't be dead! No Kurosaki didn't got him?" Ichigo heard her saying when the door was opened again. He couldn't believe it. There were 37 million people living in the Toyko-Metropolitan-Area. And out of this 37 million people, they had to get her! She is even responsible for all the stress... And she even dares to say that he 'got him'? Ichigo could feel how the rage inside him increased. Grabbling the handle of his Zanpakutou, ready to cut her into pieces as soon as she enters. But when she entered, his mood changed imediately...
The though and strong Makoto, looked like a lot of misery. Tears ran down her face. She couldn't even walk properly. The coroner led her to the covered body. She was facing Ichigo directly now, despite the fact that neighter she, nor the coroner could see him. Ichigo still hold the grab of his Zanpakutou, unable to move. But still full of anger towards her. Carefully the coroner lift the white blanket to reveal Keigo's face. Seeing her dead colleague, Makoto start to sob again and cried much more...
"Yeesss..." she cried. "It... it's him..."
"He didn't suffer!" the coroner said, hoping that it makes it easier for her. "I am so sorry for you?"
"I can't believe it! I deny to believe it! Why Keigo freaked out so much?"
Ichigo looked on the crying woman. His hand lowered and his body relaxed. It was wrong to blame her for everything. To be honest... she only did her job. She couldn't know that Keigo will loose control over his life... or that the people will hunt them out of this world! Ichigo lowered his head and left the room. He didn't endure the presence of her, next to his dead friend...
Present...
"I agree... I was so mad on you. I mentally prepared to use my Zanpakutou to cut your head off..." Ichigo said and shaked his head. Makoto listened unimpressed. "But I couldn't! It was wrong to blame you for really everything. It was all my fault. The media witch-hunt against Keigo... and than we came and overwhelmed him. And than we scared him and the rest you already know..."
"No I don't!" Makoto respond. "No, I wanted to figure out the truth..."
10 years ago...
The coroner pulled the blanket back to cover Keigo's face. But Makoto suddenly saw something, the coroner didn't mentioned so far...
"Did someone slap him?"
"What? Oh,... yeah... the wound on his face!" the coroner said. First he thought that this injury came from the accident, too. But now he could see that it could be really from a slap... "You are right? You have an good eye for details! I focused to much on the mortal wound on his occiput so I almost missed this."
The coroner now took a closer look on Keigo's other injuries. So it was a matter of a minute to figure out that Keigo was definetely attacked...
Present...
"You see... I was really curious why suddenly everyone believed in an 'accident' caused by an 'mental-breakdown'.
"And you mom?" Keigo jr. suddenly asked. "Where have you been?"
Akira became red. She was ashamed...
10 years ago...
Akira and her new star-lawyer-boyfriend Toranosuke just left the plane at Dubai-Aiport when Akira connected her smartphone with the local wifi. She fled from Japan just in time before Keigo got arrested. So she missed the most of the scandal. So first of all she had to read all the older 'breaking-news'. She had all important gossip and celebrity apps installed. So it was no wonder that she had hundreds of allerts. From Keigo's heroic act back in Haneda, over his arrest, the dead bodies in his penthouse, the 'shinigami-attack' live in TV up to his fatal accident right in front of his house...
Reading the shocking news about her ex-boyfriend, who was also the father of her unborn child, and remembering breaking his heart just a few days ago, Akira suddenly felt like the worst person in the world. She let out a thrilling and bloodcurdling scream before dropping her phone...
Present...
"Keigo, I am sorry!" she said with a tear running down her face. "I never had the chance to tell you that but I did..."
"Akira, it's fine!" Keigo cut her off. "You were right when you left me! If I had been in your place... I would have did the same! I am the one who has to apologize. Leaving you and Junior behind..."
Keigo pet over his son's head looking on him.
"You... could have warn me about our son having beeing a full-... what-ever?!" Akira said.
Keigo shrugged innoncently. "When I learned about fullbring... he was already born." Keigo explained. "I agree I heared about fullbring before. But as already mentioned, everything they explained me was shown with sketches made by a pre-schooler..."
"EHEEMMM..." Rukia sound up, while Ichigo start to giggle again.
"Rukia... you like drawing. Why don't you attend to an course at a community college?" Keigo said before turning back to his ex-girlfriend. "I understood the basic-facts about fullbring and that our son might have one when I was locked up after my hollowfication and read Ichigo's book in my cell."
"You mean: 'Don't dare to write a book about me!'" Akira said and took the book out of her purse. "I found it in our son's bedroom!"
"That's why she called me! When I wrote the script for the Shinigami-movie... I didn't remembered that I read your book before. And when she showed me the book, I remembered that I was locked up in this boxroom over there and spend the whole night reading it after Keigo succesfully got rid of his evil-twin..."
"I have to admit that I miss Holeigo a little bit! He was in me for so long time, and he understood me better than everyone else. But I am a little bit afraid that he had a crush on Mizuho..." Keigo told and became pale.
"Oh yeah, your crazy sister..." Michiru said and crossed her arms. The whole time she watched her former affair and her son in the corridor. But now, after hearing them talking about the crazy lunatic, she had to tell what happened to her after the events...
10 years ago...
Michiru Ogawa was overwhelmed. By that what she just did and by the fact that a 'living-dead' was laying next to her in her bedroom. Thier clouthes laying around them in the room and Kaneda's Shihakushou laying like a blanket over her. It felt so soft and light. And Kaneda himself was overwhelmed, too. It felt pretty tingly, to the fact that he just commited a crime...
"Wow! I never expected the dead beeing so... funny!" Ogawa said.
"And I never expected the live beeing... enjoyable?" Kaneda respond.
"Huh... In your 'who-knows-how-many-centuries' you never...?"
Kaneda looked on her surprised. "How old do you think I am?"
Michiru shrugged. "I don't know... ten-thousand years?"
"Boah... I don't know anyone beeing able to reach that age. No! I am 49!"
"Just? How much is this in human-years?"
"I died in 1985 at age 19." Kaneda told and smiled. "So, I am all at all 49 years old..."
"O my gosh... I did it with a old man." Michiru murmured, just seconds before suddenly a gate appeared in front of them. And a scary shinigami with a face, that looked like a mask, entered her bedroom...
Kaneda became pale and stared on his captain with open mouth. Michiru just start to scream and hid under the Shihakushou.
"Oh... Taichou-sama..." Kaneda jelled shocked. "...ehm... I can explain..."
Mayuri Kurotsotchi, captain of the twelth division was surprised, shocked but also pretty amused... his reaction surprised Kaneda and Michiru.
"I hope she is worth it?!" the scary captain said. "Oh... and if she got pregnant, I want that the child is named after me..."
Present...
"I KNEW IT!" Kazui screamed happily and turned to Yupa. "I won!"
Upset, Yupa handed his friend 200 Yen... Michiru was shocked about the fact that the boys bet on it..."
10 years ago...
The next thing Michiru Ogawa remembered was that she woke up with a loud scream. She was bathed in sweat and looked around. The gate was gone, the scary man was gone, and Kaneda was gone... As well as the injuries she recieved during the stampede. Was it a nightmare? Was everything she expirenced just a dream?
Tired and exhaused she walked down the stairs. She switched on the TV to listen to the news while preparing breakfast.
"... well known Seiyuu and actor, Keigo Asano is dead. He died last night after beeing run over by a delivery van, in front of his apartment in Minato..."
"WHAT?" Michiru screamed and dropped a bottle that shattered on the ground. In fear she ran back to the TV to watch the news about Keigo's fatal accident. "NO! No no no... this isn't true... they... oh my gosh... they killed him?"
In fear Michiru hid at home for almost a week...
Everyone seemed to have forgotten about the Kurosaki's. She saw them returning, renovating thier house and tring to return to a normal life again. And she did her best to avoid them. Every time Orihime came into the supermarket, Michiru hid in the office. But after some time... Michiru didn't feel very well. She felt weak, had to puke... but the worst thing was that she still continued to see ghosts...
Than around 6 weeks after Keigo's death and her one-night-stand with Kaneda, when she was walking home from work... suddenly the scary mask-man-shinigami appeared in front of her. Next to two other Shinigami... she screamed in fear, trying to flee... But they grabbled her, kidnapped her and brought her to that infamous 'underground-cave' under the Urahara-Shop, the city originally planned to fill up with concrete.
"NO NO NOOOOOOO! AGGHHHHHHH... LET ME GO..." she screamed so loud that all three Shinigami had to hold thier ears.
"Ogawa-san... please calm down..." Kurotsotchi said annoyed before using a Kidou on her to mute her down. "Don't worry... we just need to check something."
The scary mask-man put his hands over her stomach while the two other Shinigami hold her arms and legs. Tears ran down her face, while she mentally prepared to get killed and her soul beeing eaten or whatever... She gave up to resist and just continued crying while she felt his cold hands over her stomach...
"Well well..." he said. "Looks like we have a reason to congratulate you!"
"WHAT?" Michiru screamed. "What for?"
"For your pregnancy!" Kurotsotchi told her and bowed. "And mentioning the fact that the father is a Shinigami, your child will be a Substitute-Shinigami..."
"Boah... wait wait wait... Hands off 'mask-man'!" Michiru yelled, stunning the two other Shinigami. Nobody ever dared to call Mayuri Kurotsotchi something like this. "... don't touch me! And,... I am... am... not pregnant... No no no, that's impossible... I am infertile! I am not able to become pregnant... I have a certificate from the doctor that proves it..."
"Hm... than Ochi-san's semen seem to be very effective..." Kurotsotchi said with a kind of vicious smile and made some notes. "Unfortunately we are not allowed to inerfere! After Kurosaki-Gate some new rules were established. And as you seem to remember everything, it is useless to erease your memory. Once again congratulations. We leave it up to you to contact Kurosaki. We recommend you to consult him regulary. He will keep sure that you and your little Shinigami-baby will be safe... You have any further questions?"
Michiru looked on the three Shinigami in shock. Still denying to believe any word. So instead she start to scream again...
Kurotsotchi and the two Shinigami had to hold thier ears again. Her loud screaming hurt in thier ears.
"MAY WE...?" one of the Shinigami asked and Kurotsotchi just nooded to agree. The next thing Michiru knew that she woke up in her bedroom again. Believing that she had a nightmare again.
She successfully denied to be pregnant for months. The fact that she gained weight was simply explained by her excessive appetite... That her menstruation didn't happened she blamed her infertility again... She was already in fifth month, it was around three weeks before the Hollowficated Keigo attacked, when she had to confess to herself that she might be really pregnant...
Present...
"I mean... that was so crazy. I didn't know who I can trust. I mean Orihime and Ichigo just killed Asano, and the others didn't remembered the whole Shinigami-thing..." Michiru told and everyone could see that she was upset. "... I was so relieved when I learned that the boy is visible..."
"You really thought that he comes out already dressed with a Shihakushou and with a Zanpakutou?" Renji asked.
Michiru shrugged.
"Hey, so when it is over now... what were the consequences?" Keigo jr. asked.
"Yeah..." Mayuri continued when he and his father entered the room. "What was different after that?"
"Well..." his father Kaneda said. "A lot of things!"
10 years ago...
The defendant, Kaneda, was sitting in front of the comission of inquiry and lowered his head after hearing his punishment: 10 years without permission to enter the world of the living. But because the boy is definetely becomming a Substitute and will recieve training from the beginning, he is allowed to stay in touch with him and see him whenever he visits the Soul-Society. As well he will be responsible for everything his son does.
Meanwhile Karin and Yuzu sat together in Toshiro's office where Karin was forced to listen to Yuzu's complaints about the fact that neighter she nor her husband smiled on any of the photos that was taken during thier marriage.
Keigo successfully recovered from his 'hollowfication' and finished his training in the academy with avarage grades. Because he had a son with fullbring-powers in the world of the living he was allowed to see and 'train' him regulary.
The Sereitei established new rules on handling with sprituall aware humans. Learning from the mistakes in the past. All humans who were aware of the Soul Society or the Shinigami were registered and had to be regulary consulted. Keeping sure that noone freaks out like Keigo did.
Yupa successfully recovered from the events. Learning to forgive his parents. He knew that they were just worried and tried to protect him. Officially becoming Kazui's sidekick (with approval of the Sereitei) and so beeing able to spend more time with Ichika in that progress...
Isshin and his daughers Yuzu and Karin arranged with thier new lifes in the Soul Society while Karin gave birth to her daughter Masaki.
Ogawa gave birth to her son Mayuri and accepted her fate to be a 'Shinigami-mommy'. But she still screames sometimes...
Her friend Mahana's baby survived and was released from hospital a few monts after the premature birth. She and her family later moved away. She didn't endure to live in the same neigbourhood as the parents of the woman that almost killed her son.
Akira's memories were replaced. But Keigo somehow organized to keep sure that she inherits at least a little bit from his fortune to keep sure that she is able to take care of thier son. And of course Ichigo and Orihime supported her, too. Akira later got some new engagements as an actress and became a well known celebrity.
Makoto was spared from any punishment. The soul-society knew that she was not responsible and just did her job. She continued her work and became, despite the fact that the most famous story she ever delivered was ereased from the peoples memories, the contrys most popular news-announcer...
Mizuho's son still lived with his father and his stepmother. Together they lived in Osaka, today. He recovered completely and didn't remember it anymore. He never saw his mother Mizuho again...
And Mizuho...
Everyone was scared...
"Oh, yeah... What happened with her?" Keigo jr. asked.
"Well..." Ichigo murmured and remembered back.
10 years ago...
"And you really want us to believe this trash?" the police officer asked confused.
Mizuho nooded. Holeigo severly injured her and she was unconcios for several hours. Waking up here in the hospital and handcuffed she start to scream again and to make a scene. Telling the police officers everything about Kurosaki-Gate, how they brainwashed everyone and her dead brother beeing trained to collect souls.
"So, this is the reason you stormed with a gun into a house to take 14 people hostage, including 3 children and two pregnant woman?" another police officer asked.
"This sounds like you read to many manga in the past."
"NO! MY STUPID BROTHER READ TO MANY MANGA IN THE PAST!" Mizuho screamed and tried to free herself from the handuffs. "LET ME GOOOOOOOO..."
The two policemen left the room while two doctors and two nurses entered to take care of the lunatic.
"What do you think?"
"I am not sure... but I think she is a case for the psychatry..."
Present...
"But in one thing Mizuho improved..." Keigo said. "She finally realized that she has a problem..."
"Yeah... after she almost killed Mahana-chan's baby, shoot around here, almost hurt the kids and continued blaming you for everything during her trial." Orihime said mad.
While they talked, Keigo could see his parents crying. It was was the very first time ever he saw anyone of them crying.
"Aww... this is all our fault..." his father cried.
"Please forgive us!" his mother continued.
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