Rui's cell phone rings in the deadly silent room. Everyone had come back to the inn after hours of searching coming up empty handed and waiting for Tsukasa to come back.

"Hello?" he answers.

"Rui, could you put me on speaker phone so I can speak to everyone?" Tsukasa asks. Rui hits the speaker phone button and Tsukasa's voice echoes in the room. "I found Tsukushi." Everyone sighs. "But I'm not bringing her back."

"WHAT?!"

"I decided to take her away somewhere. That's it I have to go." He hangs up before anyone can make their argument be heard.

"What the hell is he thinking? That idiot!" Shigeru yells.

"Nothing good can come from this", Sakurako adds.

"What should we do?" Rui asks. "We can let them be or we can try and get a trace on their location."

"We have no idea what Tsukasa might do", Akira says.

Karin bursts out laughing. Everyone turns to stare at her in shock. Karin wipes her eyes and waves them off. "It's nothing. I'm just going to leave them alone. You can do whatever you want." She goes into the bed room laughing again.

The next day Karin calls everyone together in the living room. She sets her cell phone in the middle of the table, the speaker on as they wait for the person on the other side of the call to pick up.

"Hello?" Tsukushi answers.

"Good day, Tsukushi. I think everyone has been worn out enough for whatever twisted idea you had. How is your honey moon?"

"Honey moon?!" everyone yells.

"Did you really think I abducted Tsukushi?" Tsukasa asks from the background and he laughs.

"Then why did you make us think that?"

Tsukushi scoffs, "Do you remember on Shigeru's island? I thought a little payback would be nice."

Kazuya looks at Karin, "How did you know all of this?"

Karin laughs, "I figured it out after Tsukasa's phone call. That's what I thought was so funny last night. I called Tsukushi to double check. I'm guessing no one else thought of calling Tsukushi's cell."

The table is surrounded by pink, blushing cheeks.

"When did you get your memory back?" Rui asks.

"Yesterday when I woke up. I wanted to have a little fun."

"So where are you right now?" Yuki wonders.

"Rome! Can you believe it? The fall in Italy is so beautiful. Oh, I have to go now. I promise we'll call as often as possible. Tsukasa insists on taking me on a tour of Europe then we're going to New York so I can get a tour of the company. Don't worry; we'll be home before Christmas. Talk to you soon. Bye!"

Everyone quickly get's in a good bye before Tsukushi hangs up.

"Merry Christmas!" Everyone toasts the holiday together at a beach house owned by Karin's family. The ten friends were enjoying themselves with each other's company, gift exchanges, and champagne. Tsukasa and Tsukushi had spent almost a month on their honey moon and a couple weeks in New York getting back to Japan with a week and a half left before Christmas where Karin had demanded everyone attend a Christmas vacation at her beach house. It was much too cold to go swimming but the area was worth going to see.

Karin's high pitched squeal resounds from the corner of the room followed by a loud thud. Karin had toppled over the chair Akira was sitting in and kissing him wildly.

"Yes… yes… yes…" she says between kisses as everyone else stares at the couple. "I want… five kids… at least!"

"Akira, you didn't pop the question did you?" Soujirou asks baffled and shocked.

Karin doesn't let Akira but holds up her left hand instead to display a shiny new engagement ring. Karin can't ignore her friends' ruckus any longer and stands up pulling Akira up along with her. The girls all gather around Karin to look at her ring and congratulate her. The guys mock Akira and slap him on the back.

Once the commotion dies down, Karin grabs her glass and taps the side of it. The clink of the glass gets everyone's attention. "There's a reason I had everyone meet at this specific place. Follow me." She guides them to the main entry. "I want everyone to grab a pen and sign the wall in the frame hanging there." She points to the frame, nothing is in it, it's just a frame on the wall.

Everyone grabs a pen from the nearby table and signs the wall. Karin is the last person to sign it. She put the cap back on her pen and faces her audience.

"This is an agreement, our agreement. We all have some part we have to play and that doesn't give us much time to get together like this. Today, we agree to meet here at this beach house once a year, every year so that we may never have to say good bye again, just see you later." She raises her glass in the air and everyone copies her. "See you next time."

"See you next time."

Everyone cheers and drinks.

Karin finishes her sip of champagne and laughs. "By the way, the deed to this house has everyone written in as a tenth ownership so you're welcome to come at any time."

"Karin!" Tsukushi starts to complain.

Karin holds up her hand to silence her. "No, this is my present to everyone that will be around for years to come. Just imagine in ten years when this house is full of every one of us here and our spouses and children. This is the best investment I have ever made."

Tsukushi holds up her glass again. "To the future. Whatever it may hold, at least we'll always have each other."

"Kanpai!"