The evening of the last chapter

"It's good to see you again sister."

"And it's good to see you again, and its good to be home again," Tomoe said.

They both sat in silence for a bit, until Kenshin spoke up.

"So how..." he was cut off.

"Later, if you don't mind Kenshin, I've had enough people ask me what the U.S. was like for one day."

"Um ok, but actually I was going to just ask if you enjoyed your stay over there."

"Oh," Tomoe mused, "well if thats all, considering the circumstances, not to bad."

"Well, this one's glad to hear that."

"So tell me," Tomoe asked, "how's our little brother doing? I heard he joined the Japanse self-defense ground force."

"Yes, yes, that he did. I was as unhappy about hearing that as well, but I was able to except it after a while at least."

"Well, just because you've excepted it, doesnt mean I have to. He sure will get an earfull from me when I see him."

"I am sure he will. While we are on the subject of Enishi, he left me a message at work today. He said he should be

ariving in Tokyo tomorrow morning around 10:00 a.m."

"Well that's good to hear," Tomoe interjected, "I guess that means we'll have to work hard at cleaning up my house tomorrow.

I really don't think that you two have room for me and Enishi, even if it is only for a few days. Especially since you have the baby now.

It's still hard for me to think of myself as an aunt now, it all just happened so sudenly, just like when he, was, was..." Tomoe stopped in

mid-sentence and started to cry. Kenshin got up and walked over to his sister to sit down next to her. "I-I'm sorry Kenshin," she sobbed out, " here you and Kaoru are doing so much for me and all I seem to be doing is crying about him, even after two years."

"It's ok Tomoe," Kenshin said as he rubbed her shoulder, " you don't have to apolgize for anything. You never got a chance to see him after the funeral, did you?" She shook her head. "Well, if you want, I can take you over tomorrow morning before Enishi gets here, ok?"

"Ok, thank you Kenshin," she said as she gave him a hug. "Well now, since I've told you guys about my stay over in America, how about you catch me up to speed on things here?"

"Hhm, ok sis."

Later the next day..

"Enishi!" Tomoe called out waving to her brother.

"Sister!" he called back, as he ran up to his siblings.

Well, thats it for this chapter, sorry for the long wait, maybe someday I'll get more schelduled with tyhis and update regulary.

Well, until then, ttfn!