_ Chapter 11 (Epilogue)_

When Keigo opened the door to his apartment he could smell the burned mattress again. The floor was covered with glass sharps. One of his chickens and one of his ducks went inside threw the broken windows and walked around in his living-area. His carpets and his parquet were full of Gazpacho. And in the middle of the chaos Yuzu, Hanataro, the two police-inspectors and the man from the phone-provider sleept peacefully after thier overdoze. Keigo looked around and groaned. He put on his shoes again to prevent to step into the sharps and tried to get an overview of the damages.

"Oh, my gosh... Fortunately, my charwoman comes tomorrow! She will be so happy!" Keigo murmured.

Keigo walked across the room to find Yuzu and Hanataro sleeping closely arm-in-arm on his couch. It looked like they did it together. Keigo smiled and covered them with a blanket. "Aww... You two are such a sweet couple! Good luck to you two! I hope for you he causes not as much trouble as your crazy North Korean ex-boyfriend, Yuzu. And I wish good luck to you too Hanataro! Ichigo will definetly kill you when he finds out... It was nice to meet you!"

Keigo turned around to find the sleeping police inspectors. "Hmm... I will need a very good explanation when they wake up! OH, I'm in trobule now!" Keigo murmured and covered them, too. Behind his couch he found the technican from the phone-provider. "Aw... and the curious guy from the phone-company is also still here. I hope he repairs the phone completely when he wakes up."

Keigo went outside threw the big hole in his terrace-door. It was a cozy, quiet and cloudless evening. He was tired and settled down on his second deck-chair next to the sleeping Shinigami and hold his head. He realized that he need a shower: His nose was still bleeding and he had leftovers of vegetables in his hairs...

Everything was so implausible. But what in his live was plausible at all? Shinigami, Hollows, ghosts... North Korean terrorists and mentally ill ex-boyfriends seemed normal compared to them. He looked up and saw a plane that just departed on Haneda Airport. They are aboard, he was pretty sure. He doesn't need her. He wasn't addicted to her. His biggest wish of a intact family he could reach on another way... Even when he start a first attempt with her. If he was lucky, there would be a little happy end at all. But not together with her. For him... she was dead...

Keigo woke up from his imaginery when the Shinigami next to him start to wake up...

Confused, the Shinigami asked himself what happend. He remembered that the drank some of this red stuff he found in Keigo's refrigerator. Now he was laying here. It was night. And he was still in the world of the living. He stretched himself yawning and tried to remember what happend.

"Did you sleep well?" Keigo asked with a smile on his face.

"Wha... Oh,... Asano... Did I sleep?"

"Yes, for a couple of hours!" Keigo said a little bit ashamed. He avoid to tell him that he accidently drugged him.

The Shinigami looked on Keigo confused and was shocked about his condition: "Something wrong? Asano-san, what happend to your face?"

"Aw... Nothing... By the way, what's you name? You haven't tell me by now!"

"Oh, sorry... My name is Ochi! Kaneda Ochi!"

"Ochi... Oh, my gosh... In high-school I had a teacher with the same name!" Keigo murmured.

"Oh, Kurosaki-san told me the same! Maybe she is the sister I had before I died..." Kaneda told with a smile. "Keigo, you look so worried. What happend?"

"Aww... I haven't sleep for days. The day before yesterday I almost killed myself with an overdose off pills. I just lost my job, I just end up my bad relationship and I really would like to do it like Yuzu and jump off the terrace to end my horrible live..." Keigo groaned while the Shinigami next to him listened shocked. "But I won't do it. I can't run away from my responsibility!"

"Which responsibility? You have nothing to to with Kurosaki's Shinigami-Affairs. You don't need to take the responsibility."

"I don't talk about Ichigo, nor the Shinigami-Affair... No! I'm talking about my own responsibility and my own affairs: Yesterday I found out that I'm gonna be a father!"

The Shinigami looked on Keigo with big eyes while he was smiling.

"Really?!"

Keigo nooded. "Yeah! You are the first one I tell it!"

"Oh, congratulations! That are great news!" the Shinigami said happily and lift up to congratulate Keigo better. Than he saw the chaos in the living-room and the sleeping couple on the couch. "A... That... is... Unbeliv... Ya... Yamada... and... K... Kurosaki's sister..."

"Hey, leave them alone!" Keigo said. "And thank you for listening! It felt great to talk to someone normally!"

"Oh, you're welcome... But please tell me, what's going on between Yamada and Kurosaki's sister?"

"Hmm... I don't know, too. I wasn't here." Keigo told.

Both talked for hours. Keigo enjoyed to talk to someone normally. It was one of the only things he need... A friend! A friend he can talk with. Someone he can tell everything without getting slapped. But Keigo was not same at all. He knew that many people thought that he is annoying... now he was like he was in truth... a quiet and shy guy. He enjoyed it. The next months will be really difficult. His future, and the future of his unborn child were uncertain. He had to handle everything now...

After two hours someone knocked on the door angrilly. Keigo knew that it was over now...

"Kaneda, would you please open the door! I'm pretty sure it is the police!"

"The police? Why?"

"Ow... This is a long story... Please go and open the door for me. Than you should hide somewhere. I just want to enjoy the view a little bit more..."

"The view?! Oh... yes... you are right!"

"Yeah... I moved in here just because of this outlook... I will really miss it..." were Keigo's last words before Kaneda went back inside to let the police in...

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