When Ryo was busy reminding himself the memories of the moments he and Kaori spent together, there was a similar turmoil going on in Kaori's mind too. She wanted to see him for one more time and he wanted to hear her again, perhaps for eternity. "Kaori, just come back once for God's sake. I promise that I won't even try to look at any other mokkori woman in my entire life. Just come back. Talk like you used to, hit me like you used to. I will always stay low for you… You and only you. You are the one who gave me my identity, made me the person I am today. After making me this, you can't leave me alone again. Please wake up Kaori, please wake up." Ryo was saying in his damp voice as he was crying with his head on Kaori's abdomen. Just as he finished saying, he could feel a soft touch on his hairs and a soft yet stern voice that his ears had been longing to hear since the past year "Get up you idiot, don't you have work to do? And for god's sake what have you done to yourself?" He looked up with a teary eye, it was her! It was Kaori! It really was Kaori….! She was awake and was looking at him once again, with those dazzling eyes. Ryo's mind was rushing with the thoughts from the past year after she was apparently dead. He could remember each and every moment he spent without her. He simply was overjoyed, he could tell that at that moment he was possibly the happiest person in the world. He forgot the surroundings, and just hugged Kaori as tightly as he could. Kaori's face reddened with embarrassment alright, but she didn't object. Instead she put her arms around him and both of them savored the moment. Ryo was crying on her shoulders and saying "Forgive me Kaori and promise me that you won't ever leave me alone like this. Please promise me. Without you I am just nothing. Kaori…." But the person to whom this was being said to, couldn't answer anymore, as she was again sleeping. Ryo sensed something amiss with the situation, and thought of calling the doctor. As he opened the door and came out, he couldn't find any of them there. Where are the rest? He wondered and took the steps to reach the doctor's chamber. As he entered, what he saw was enough to enrage him. Saeko, Miki san and Old Doc was busy seeing on the computer of the clinic, what seemed to be the room Kaori was in, and were smiling among them. Ryo quietly went and put a hand on Saeko's shoulder. Saeko turned around in a flash, and was thunderstruck seeing him there. But he had a calm face. He told "Doc, come with me. Kaori was awake, but she slept again suddenly. Come and check if something's wrong." The old Doc followed him without another word, and after checking her, said in a relieved voice "Ryo, she is just sleeping. Nothing's wrong, don't worry. You can go home; I will let you know if I need something. You need some sleep. At least now get some sleep! I promise you she will be alright." "No I think I will stay here until she's alright. Now I'll return home only when she's good to go with me, and besides I have some unfinished business left to do after she is awake. And moreover it's morning. Trust me doc, I want to stay here." The Doc left without a word, as he knew that it was no use telling Ryo to leave. He wouldn't hear anyone except the person on the bed. She was the dearest to him in this whole world. "Only God knows what he is feeling now, seeing her like this on bed." thought the Doc, and started climbing the stairs. As he reached his chamber, he saw that Tomo Chan was awake. "Ohio gozaimas, Tomo Chan" Tomo Chan looked at him with a smiling face, and before she could speak anything, her eyes fell on the other persons present in the room and moreover on the computer screen. She rushed to the computer and after running a brief glance on the screen, looked at him again questioningly. "Yes, that's Saeba in her room. Kaori needed him. She is out of the coma because of him. A lot happened while you were asleep Tomo Chan" Miki said. Tomo's eyes turned to her, Miki continued, "Perhaps you can't tell from his behavior now, but mark my words, He is the happiest person in the world at the present moment. No one can possibly imagine how happy he is, seeing Kaori awake and very much alive." Saeko and the Old Doc nodded in approval. Miki's brow darkened as she continued "But if you think that's all there to it, you would be vaguely wrong. After Kaori is well enough and goes home with him, there will be probably a massacre in Shinjuku. I bet his mind is on flames, seeing the one dearest to him, like this on bed. But no one can possibly sense what's going on in his mind except Kaori. If there's anyone who can stop him, it's her. I hope she gets better soon."
When all those was going on in the doctor's clinic in second floor, Ryo sat on the tool there beside Kaori's bed, put his head on Kaori's belly and drifted off to a peaceful slumber for the first time since that fateful night, a year ago. For the past year, he couldn't put himself to rest even for a moment. Whenever he felt tired and wanted to have a little rest, he could see Kaori's lifeless corpse before him. He panicked within himself, but there was no one with whom he could share his pain with. Umibozu could understand what he was going through, but he knew no way to console Ryo for, he was a bit at loss with words. For the past year Ryo felt like he was perfectly alone, left in this godforsaken world only to suffer. But the wheels of his fate seemed to turn dramatically; suddenly he had everything that a man can dream of: a family! He was a contented man. With the profession he was in, neither could he never think for once that he could die an honorable death, nor could he think that he could have a circle of friends whom he could rely upon and a family to return to at the end of day. As a man like he was, he had more share of woman than other men, and having it, he could remember none, fulfilling him more perfectly as Kaori. She fought with him, she hit him, got angry on him often, but she loved him deeply. When all others left, she stayed back for him. Ryo was more than happy, just to see her once more after that night. He fell in the arms of Morpheus, dreaming about the only woman he had ever loved: Kaori.
Seeing him drifting off to sleep through the small closed circuit camera from the doctor's chamber in the second floor, Saeko, Old Doc and Miki heaved a sigh of relief. Saeko was truly happy now that Ryo and Kaori were together. She knew that now there was no more danger for Kaori as Ryo was there with her. Miki San, after seeing the two of them, ran away back to the café where Umibozu had returned long back, with a beaming smile. The Old Doc let out a huge sigh and leaned back on his large chair. Only God knows what he was going through for the past year. It was a perfect hell. Both he and Saeko were thinking of the incidents back from the time She found Kaori in a horrible state.
