Sorry for the long update. Here is the last Chapter of Travel to the Other Land. Enjoy it.
Chapter 7: Epilogue.
"Days passed so fast. Don't you guys think?" said Mochu looking outside of the windows.
"Yeah it does." Answered Sumire watching nothing.
"So many things happened these days." Said Nonoko and Anna emotionless.
"Yeah. We discovered something really new." Said, the usually shy but not really anymore, Yuu.
"Hum." Nodded some people.
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Flashback of 15 days ago.
"Waaaaaaa. Natsume look, look. It's all white outside! Let's go play, ne?" shouted an excited brunette girl jumping out of the blue on the bed.
Moan.
"Let me sleep, Strawberry." Said a rude voice coming from under the sheet.
A hand came from it trying to grab the clock. Then a raven haired head appeared.
Moan.
"Do you know what time it is, Baka Girl?"
"Mou. It's almost three past fifteen. And lunch time is already done. And be glad that I let you sleep till now."
Mikan sat on the corner of the bed and playing with the sheet, likely. Natsume sat and look at her with a question face.
"What do you mean by "three past fifteen"? And "lunch time"?"
"Well it's 2.45pm."
He looked at the alarm digital clock which showed up 5.29am. He then got up and looked outside. It was right. It was day. People were walking and running and playing in and with the snow. Mikan looked at him all puzzled. Suddenly the alarm clock burnt. She jolted by it but then chuckled. He wasn't in a good mood at all.
"Did you forget that this clock do not work anymore?"
He didn't react to her say. He was like stunned or freeze. She went to him and looked at his face.
"Nats-"
He had a shock look. It was as if he saw a ghost near by. He was looking outside to a certain place. She followed his look and only saw…
'Park? Tree? Lake? Swan?'
It was not too far from the house. It was somewhere in the garden, rather a part of it. She looked back a him.
'Why would he look at it?'
"Them."
'What?'
"Saw them. They were just there. At the border of the lake."
"W-what are you talking about? You are scaring me."
"Shingo and him."
Mikan looked at him totally shocked of what he said. They were silent. She didn't know how to react to this.
- o -
Later that day, in the living room, the GA, the AA, the family and the friends were chatting of all things.
"Eh. Koko, did you see Ruka and Hotaru?" asked Anna.
"Hum. No I haven't seen them. Why?"
"Because it's so calm."
Everyone looked at her. It was true. This morning, in winter season, almost the end, was rally quiet, even too quiet.
"Now we are at it. Where are Mikan, Natsume, Kaya and Kévin?" asked Sumire.
That was true. These four weren't here also. So six persons were missing to the group. But they all went back to what they were doing.
'Hum. It's better to not tell them that they are having a little conflict by themselves or the girls will be really anxious about it. By the way, I wanna see how ill Ruka react to it.'
Koko got up from the sofa. Anna looked at him. He murmured something, not available to others: "I'll be back.".
He went out of the room. He walked in the corridor which was painted in white.
"So today it's white with some little snow? Hum, Mikan has really got good taste about this kind of thing. After all it's her house."
He walked until he stopped by a door which got the words: "Forbidden to YOU."
Sigh.
"I really can't say if it's me or for everyone to not go in."
He pushed the door. It was all dark inside. He went in and disappeared behind it. When the door closed by itself, the words changed: "Welcome."
True, it's really weird of warning.
- o -
Somewhere else, in the cold white snow, there were two persons standing near a fountain. There was an Angel statue. Water was still running even through the cold season.
"Hum..."
The two of them were standing front in front. A girl with raven hair was holding a red pack in her arms. She was blushing really hard. The blond haired boy was also blushing. He was like a tomato.
"Here." Said, almost shouted, the girl.
She held the packet to him which almost pushing him to the fountain. He grabbed it but then she ran away after a little contact.
SPLASH.
Poor boy, he ended up in the fountain after all. At least the packet wasn't wet since his hand was really up in the air.
"Is the bath good, Ruka?" asked a raven haired boy with a smirk on his face.
"Shut up, Natsume. And help me to get up will you."
"Tsk."
Natsume helped him as he grabbed his hand, some of his Alice went to him which warmed him a lot.
"Thanks."
Ruka wasn't wet anymore. But was a little pissed off something.
"What's wrong? Aren't you happy she gave you chocolates?"
"Not her."
"What?"
"True. Hotaru disappeared last night at 11.59pm." said a girl voice.
Yawn.
"And I'm in a real bad mood."
She got an awful look. It was terrible. Suddenly the weather turned quite dark at that place.
FLASH.
"Mikan, where are Hotaru and Natsume, then?" asked Ruka who looked at the boy who was laid on the ground.
"Kaya and Kévin are looking at them."
"But…"
"Don't worry. They'll be back soon. And when he's back, tell him to stay at home till I come back. Understand?"
"Alright."
Mikan disappeared leaving Ruka alone. The boy was gone too. He must be with her. He started to walk away. The packet was in the fountain and disappeared slowly.
- o -
The same day but somewhere in the City, there was someone walking by among the people. That person was wearing a slight red dress. She looked like to a little doll from one of those England style, I think so.
"Oh, Mom, Look at the girl." Said a little girl to her mom.
"Oh, my. Why is she alone?" said a teenage girl.
"She must be lost." Said another girl.
The little girl didn't take much attention to what people said. She didn't care at all. She was focus on a particular thing.
"Shingo."
- o -
Somewhere else, it must be in a warehouse because it's all dark, no light and smells fish. It's nonsense.
Bang.
"Damn it."
"It won't do anything if you are angry, Hyuuga. And you'll be tied if you use useless energy for nothingness."
"Tsk."
There was nothing besides them: totally dark and cold. There was only a window which was truly up and high from them. The door can't be broken after all the kick Natsume had done on it.
"Damn."
Sigh.
"I wonder how can she support your character?"
"This is what she fells for, Hotaru." Said a sweet boy voice.
They looked up and saw a boy coming down the non existent window.
"Kévin?" said Natsume.
"Yo, boy."
"You…"
BAM.
"No fight. It's not the right time to."
"Kaya."
"Hotaru-chan. Mikan is really worried. She sent us to pick you guys up."
"Then let's go."
Kaya and Hotaru went outside of the room by the room which was mysteriously opened. Kévin and Natsume got bump on their head.
- o -
Back to the mansion.
Everyone was in the living room, excluding Mikan. Ruka was in his thought which made everyone a little worried.
"I wonder what's wrong with Ruka-kun? He's like that since he comes in." said Mochu.
No one knew a thing about the missing.
"Huh. Ano, did someone see Koko coming back?" asked Anna who was worried.
Everyone looked at her. Koko wasn't here at all. And it attracted Ruka's attention.
"Wasn't he here a moment?" said Yuu.
"He was but he said he will be back. And he's gone now for 2 hours."
'2 hours? It's the moment when I've met up with that girl.'
"We're back." Shouted Kaya as the door flew away.
"Oh. What's wrong?"
"Why can't you be gentler with thing? No wonder Uncle asked me to look after you."
BAM.
"Humph."
"Hum."
"Damn."
"Will you stop saying this word, Hyuuga?" shouted Hotaru.
When her voice was heard from outside the room, Ruka got bunny ears and looked at the door. Then he saw Hotaru who was pissed. He ran to her and grabbed her hand. They were outta of the view.
"What the-"
"Natsume." Called Anna.
"What is it?"
"Have you seen Koko on the way?"
"No. Why?"
"Because he's not back."
"…"
Everyone stayed silent. Kaya and Kévin looked at them and each others. Now two persons were missing: Mikan (except Ruka) and Koko.
- o -
To where Hotaru and Ruka were.
Ruka was holding her. And she was confused but figured out what was the problems.
FLASH.
"Wha-"
"Payback."
Silence.
Hotaru was walking away from Ruka since he had released her. He snapped from the other world and understood what was the situation.
"Come back here Imai. And give me the picture."
He chased after her. And you had guessed it, they were back to normal.
- o -
It was night now. Ruka was still running after Hotaru which surprised everyone. Kay and Kévin were fighting each other like usual. Yuka and Persona were also doing the same. Jinno was trying to escape from Narumi. Everyone was enjoying their time as they laughed out so hard about them. Anna was gripping herself to Koko who was in fact found in the basement of the house. He knocked himself out by running into a wall. Only Mikan wasn't back.
Natsume wanted to go look after her but Ruka told him what she told him. He was the only one who wasn't enjoying the time. He was thinking about Mikan. What she might be doing? Where was she? Was she safe? And so on.
Suddenly the door opened. He looked at the door and was shocked to what he saw.
- o -
Outside the mansion, in front of the gate.
"What should we do now?"
"Let's get in."
"But…"
"I know. But don't you think it's time."
"I think too. But that wasn't what I wanted to say."
"What is it?"
"Why didn't you buy me new clothes?"
Dropped.
Sweat dropping.
"Sorry. But we didn't have time, Shingo."
"Hmph. Master always says that when Master is happy."
- o -
Inside the mansion.
"Damn."
"I never know that Imai can say this word?"
"Shut up Hyuuga."
"You…"
"Stop it, you two." Shouted Ruka.
"Don't you see that is not the right moment to fight?"
"He's right. You must listen to this blond little girl." Said a man who had bandages half of his face and on his right arm.
BAM.
"What the…"
"Do. Not. Touch. His. Face. You. Damn. Slut. Man." Said rudely a maiden girl.
She was on the man who had touched Ruka's face.
"What the hell do you think you are doing, you little girl?" shouted some men coming to her.
Vein Pop.
"I'm no more Little."
BOUM.
"Oya. Shingo you jut broke half of the living room. Grandma will not be happy seeing it." Said a man coming from behind her as men flew away.
"Oh yes. I'm not happy at all."
Gulp.
"Gr-grandma."
"You haven't come back home for now 10 years and this is how you great us?"
"No. No this is not wh-"
BOUM.
"Shingo?!"
"It's not me."
"Damn you. I'm going to Kill all of you. I took me all day to finish it. Damn you. You are all dead." Shouted an angry familiar voice.
"Mikan?"
Everyone sweated. They all knew she was really furious. And it wasn't good at all. Even Natsume was afraid of this kind of character. It made him recall his past.
"Lt's go see wha-"
BOUM.
"Too late. Mistress has gone mad."
"Shingo?!"
"What? It's true. Mistress can't control her feeling when something she like or her doing are destroyed in front of her eyes."
"That's true. She has never been good at it."
Sigh.
"It's better to stay here and to clean up or we'll be dead to."
"Yes. It's better for you to clean before I come back, Kaoru."
- o -
Next Morning.
"Mikan. Get up."
"No."
"You are already up?"
"Hm."
"Come on. Come out."
"No."
"Mikan."
"No."
"I'll be picking up the door. Do you want it?"
Click.
"No."
"Alright. Let's go. Breakfast is out".
"Humph."
"Did you see that? Mikan did what the doll said? And she didn't listen to Natsume?"
BAM.
"Call me ever again a Doll. And you're dead."
"Yes, Madam."
A boy had be slapped and kicked by Shingo. They all were now in the living room around a table full of food.
That's right. Shingo is no more a doll. This is what they told them last night. Also Master, whose name is Kaoru, was sick since the day Mikan went back to Japan. And Shingo was beside him as his personal nurse. But for strange reason after a little visit to Japan a day, they met up with a pale blond boy at the GA hospital. That boy had touched once Shingo and the next day she seemed to become a human being. But she can't grow up. It surprised them. But they knew who the boy was.
Breakfast was silent. Tension wasn't in Rendez-vous. That was strange because in a normal time, Mikan would have gone Berserk to know what, rather why, they hadn't contacted her and such. But the reason was almost given.
"So Ruka. How were the chocolates?" asked Natsume.
Ruka blushed and Hotaru turned red. At that moment everyone knew what the thing was about.
'Hotaru has given Chocolates?!' thought everyone.
Mikan was silent but smiled slightly behind her tea cup. Natsume smirked to the embarrassed best friend who wanted absolutely kill him.
The day passed really fast. It was snowing all day. It was the after Valentine's Day. Mikan was dressed in her white dress, the one she received on Christmas, given by Persona. Oh! Talking about Persona, where has he gone?
"Mikan!!!!"
"Ooooops. I think I'll be got going. Bye bye guys. See you later Natsume."
Mikan ran off before Persona appeared in her view. She got a little time to kiss Natsume. But then Shingo and Kaoru came to them (the gang). They were like a couple, a cute couple. Shingo had grown a lot. But her look was still of a little girl. That is what Natsume thought off.
"Hey, Natsume. How come they are here? And what happened yesterday?" asked Ruka.
"Well, all we did was to talked to each other, that is."
"And?"
"Well we discovered that the old man was hospitalized after the attack and was announced to be dead. This is what they thought. Shingo stayed with him but like you know she met up with that Doll Guy."
"Yes we already know it."
"Then what?"
"Why is Mikan so calm?"
"Pardon."
"Well, in normal time she would have gone mad, no?"
"Oh. True. I was thinking that something was strange. But well, what can we do? She knows everything. So she knew that day will come when he had covered back her memories. And all we have to do is to wait."
"Is that so."
"By the way…"
Natsume looked around in search of someone.
"Where has gone the other?"
Ruka looked at him then turned his head. No one was behind.
"I think they got lost."
True. Natsume and Ruka were walking off when Shingo and Kaoru came in view. But the gang was in fact mistreated by Shingo who wanted to know all things about Mikan and him. They were all scared of her. He wanted to laugh at the situation but knew it would be bad to do it or he would be killed. Then they had to tell all to her.
In the end, Shingo was happy to hear the new life of her mistress. And Kaoru was mesmerized by her smile.
"So you two are together?" said a cute and familiar voice.
Shingo blushed and Kaoru turned around.
Sigh.
"Well, you turned out to be a beautiful Lady, Shingo."
"Mou. I'm not."
"Why?"
"…"
"Oh if it's about that, you don't have to worry about it. No one will think that is Paedophile between you."
Silence.
"MIKAN?!"
This time it was Kaoru who ran after her. But in fact it was a copy of her. But she ended up to be kicked by Shingo.
The day and the trip ended up smoothly. Nothing much than that happened. It was official that Hotaru and Ruka were together. Yuka will stay in France to take over the Bar. And so is he coming to France too. Persona was nice to everyone. The Minami's family will stay all together in these mansions. Kaya will get married in two years from now on to Kévin. The girls did all shopping twice. And it wasn't enough. The teachers were participated to the teaching in France. And lastly, our little couple was doing nothing than staying home with Shingo and Kaoru. These two couples were on their side, by doing the same thing: Enjoying their time, before time stops for forever right before them.
End Flashback.
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"I can't believe that these two can stay a little more, just for the wedding." Complaining Sumire.
"Well, what can we do since they are from family?" said Hotaru.
"At least she can have some time with them, after long break." Said Ruka.
He got a point. Everyone agreed to this. Mikan needed this time to take back what she had lost a long time ago.
When they got to Japan, life was back to normal. No AAO, no weird attack, no shouting but love was coming in this beginning of Spring Season once our favourite couple was back to the Academy.
And life goes on until time decides to stop it.
But for now, let's enjoy time,
Before it's too late.
- The End. -
That is the end. Tell me what you think. I know it will suck to some of you. But i did this Chapter i dunno how many times because i lost track to my own idea and story. But i expect you did enjoy it. If does, i'm happy to know it. See you later.