(A/n: Ms. Rain here with the final chapter, and prepare for some angst)

Chapter 5: Our Future

It is May now with only three days left until graduation. Kenny is over at his boyfriend's house, both Stan's parents and his sister are out. They are on Stan's bed watching an anime on his laptop, an anime of themselves and it is amazing.

They freaking love it.

The video was posted on the yaoi club's personal website, and it was just uploaded two days ago, it already received a good amount of views in such a short time. The anime was created from Kenny's drawing idea, both him and Stan under the Cherry blossom tree.

The video ends a minute later and Stan asks Kenny if is he hungry. He replies with an of course, and Stan gets up from his position on his bed then leaves out of his room to go get some snacks. While Stan is out, Kenny looks around his boyfriend's room.

Stan's room has changed a lot over the years, changing from childhood drawings and action figures from when Stan was just 10 years old to a more teenager look. The last time Kenny was up here it was when they had their fifth sleepover, back when they were in middle school.

The noriette's room is decorated with comic books, manga and video games on his shelves, a desktop computer and a laptop, a 55in television on a small table with a Xbox360 and a Ps3 underneath with the respective controllers by each console, and his walls are decorated with his favorite bands.

A poster of an anime Kenny does not know the name of and two puppy posters, along with the drawing of both him and Stan underneath a Cherry blossom tree.

Kenny smiles at the drawing on the wall that is beside Stan's bed. The yaoi club can be pretty cool when they are not fangirling and such, their squealing and Butters' so called "manly squeal" can really hurt a person's ears. While he was still thinking about the yaoi club, Stan returns with two cans of Sprite and a bag of Cheesy poofs.

"Oi Kenny, whatcha thinkin' about?" Stan asks while sitting back on his bed, he hands Kenny a drink who nods his thanks.

"Nothing really just thinking about how crazy the yaoi club can be sometimes."

"More like most times."

They chuckle and before they snacked, Stan puts on a horror movie.

Time skip: One more day until Graduation

"Kenny, what are your plans for after you graduate?"

Only one more day until graduation, and Kenny is not all too excited about it like his boyfriend and two best friends are. He is excited to graduate sure, but the problem lies on what he will do afterwards.

They are at Kyle's house sitting in the living room, Kyle invited both Stan and Kenny over and reluctantly Cartman. They are talking excitedly about their plans for after they graduate; Kyle is going to Harvard (Not because his mom told him too of course) to become a lawyer (And not because his father is one).

Cartman is going to the Art Institute of Atlanta to become a game designer (He wants to make better video games, saying today's generation games suck balls).

And Stan is going to Ohio State University to become a veterinarian (His dad was upset about him not continuing his football career after earning five scholarships, but he is still going to support him in whatever college he goes to. Both him and his mother), while Kenny still has not decided yet.

Kenny looks at Kyle, and shrugs. "No idea," he says simply.

Stan and Kyle share a concerned look while Cartman shook his head, thankfully not saying anything; Kenny waves them off. "It's to be expected, I mean I'm poor. My mom can't provide for me to go to college and my job doesn't give me enough money to provide for myself either to go to one. Hell I'm barely hanging on to the apartment I have now, my bitch of a landlord keeps taking my money ever fucking month. Even with two jobs, I can barely keep my life together," he finishes angrily.

Stan puts a comforting hand on his boyfriend's shoulder, but is shrugged off; Kenny gets up stating that he needs some fresh air before leaving out of the house.

Stan knows the troubling life style Kenny is going through, both Kyle and Cartman do too, but he knows majority of it.

It was the first week of them dating, the month of April being almost over. Stan one day asked Kenny were things okay at home, he and his little sister Karen had temporarily moved into the Marsh's house after his father went on a drunken rampage.

It always happened every Friday night, Stuart coming home drunk from God knows where, but that night it got out of hand. His mother, Carol always confronted him about it which always resulted in them arguing.

At that time both Kenny and Karen were in his room, their older brother Kevin had already moved out; well was actually kicked out by their father. He was going to move out anyway for he was tired of the constant arguing and fighting between the two parents.

They were cuddled together during the arguing which later escalated into full-scaled a fist fight.

Punches, slaps, and shouts were heard, but it got quickly out of hand when Stuart threatened he was going to stab her with a knife. Kenny immediately got up once he heard that statement, and told Karen to stay in his room; she reluctantly did so, and tells him to be careful.

He smiled sadly at her then ruffled her hair telling her he will. His family does not know of him being an immortal, manly because he has not been dying that often lately like he used to when he was little.

He slowly walked towards the living room, his mother whom is sporting a black eye and a busted lip is trying to calm her drunken husband down.

They are separated by their beat up couch, Stuart whom is also growing a black eye with scratches here and there on his face is behind it with the dirty knife raised, and Carol is in front of it with fear in her maroon colored eyes.

"Bitch now you're gonna get it. I'm sick an' tired of you bitchin' at me for stupid shit! It's none of your goddamn business where I go every Friday night!" Stuart yells angrily at his wife.

"You drunken fuck! If you stop comin' home drunk every Friday night from God knows where I wouldn't be askin' all the goddamn time! You have no right goin' out anyway, you jobless asshole! At least keep the home you live in stable instead of me doin' all the goddamn work!" Carol yells back angrily.

Her words made Stuart even more pissed, and he was about to charge at her when Kenny suddenly tackles him from behind, the knife flies out of his hands and onto the floor with a dull *clang.*

Carol gasps at her son's sudden presence, but quickly went to retrieve the knife from off of the floor and held on to it, keeping it away from her deranged husband. Stuart elbows Kenny in the face causing him to roll off of him, he looks down at his son in disgust then kicks him in the ribs.

He already did not like that Kenny is gay and he is with the Marsh kid (Carol was okay with it much to Kenny's relief), but what he hated most is him always interfering in him and his wife's argument/fights.

Stuart then looks glares at his wife, his brown eyes seeping with anger at the woman who is clutching the knife with trembling hands. "Stuart I swear if you come near me-"

"You'll what, stab me? Tch, whatever, I'm gone and I ain't comin' back to this shithole again. And since you wanna where I go ever Friday night I'll tell ya," he says then smirks, "I go over to your so called friends' house every night, who treats me with love and respect unlike you."

And after saying that Carol's eyes widen in both shock and anger, but does not say anything while Stuart takes his leave while not looking back.

After that incident, Kenny and Karen were told to stay at the Marsh's for a little while; Kenny vowed to his mother that he will find a job, and be the man of the house.

Carol was grateful for the idea, but told him to get a job to provide for himself, Kenny of course disagreed but she insisted. "Kenny please, You're about to graduate soon and I want you to go ahead, and get an early start on your life. You don't need me and your sister holdin' you back. Go Kenny, live a better life, a life I couldn't provide for you myself."

After hearing those words, Kenny broke down then hugged his mother tightly. He gave her his thanks then said that he will provide them some money to help keep the house and such. Carol was really thankful, and was also going to find a job for herself, to start anew.

Even though she managed to find a job, working at Olive's Garden and Kenny working two jobs, it was still a struggle for them to maintain a decent life. Karen even pitched in when she could being only 13 years old, and working at a bookstore.

With their poor excuse of a father/husband gone, they lived a relatively normal life. Kenny moved out after finally having enough money to live in a apartment, and Carol and Karen bought little by little new furniture for their home.

Stan was about to get up and comfort his boyfriend, but was stopped by Kyle grabbing his hand and shaking his head, signaling him that Kenny needs to be alone right now. "How about we watch t.v or somethin?" Cartman suggests, trying to make the depressing feeling go away, "Drama is such a pain to deal with."

Both Stan and Kyle agree, and Kyle turns on the t.v, but no one is paying attention to what is being shown.

Their mood still dampened.

It is twenty mins later that Kenny returns to the Broflovski's house, the sun having set some becoming the evening.

He went to "Sacred Pond" to cool his head, feeling stupid for getting upset like that and for shrugging his boyfriend off. He sat there looking at the petals in the pond, just nature in general while Tweek was sitting by the edge of the pond with a canteen of coffee in his hands, looking calm.

Tweek still drinks coffee, but not as much like he used to. His ticks, stuttering, and spazz attacks have diminished after apparently being threaten by Craig that he will make sure Tweek never gets his dose of coffee again after having a spazz attack about the underpants gnomes one night. He woke up the noriette about the "incident."

Tweek knew better than to think it was lie so he only drinks two cups of coffee a week with the help/bullying of Craig.

When Tweek felt a presence behind him, he did not expect to see a sad looking Kenny McCormick sitting on the bench.

He did not know what to do, he did not want to annoy the blonde when he obviously came out here for some peace and quiet after leaving whatever that troubled him. But he also did not want to seem rude either, noticing his appearance but not saying anything to him.

"It's okay Tweek," Kenny says sensing the crazy haired blonde's discomfort about the situation, "I don't mind you asking me what's wrong. Actually go a head and ask me, I wanna get this off my chest."

"Eh?" Tweek turns his body around, his blue-green eyes showing relief that Kenny does not mind his being here. He gets up, and walks toward the bench then sits next to Kenny. "So umm what seems to be the matter?" He asks nervously.

Kenny sighs while leaning his head back, looking up at the clouds above. "You know graduation's right around the corner right?" He asks then looks at Tweek, who nods knowing about the upcoming graduation.

"Well the thing is, I have no idea on what I'm gonna do after I graduate. Kyle's going to Harvard to become a lawyer, Cartman's going to the Art Institute of Atlanta to become a game designer, and Stan...he's going to Ohio State University to become a veterinarian. They all have their future sorted out but me, I fell so left out and I hate it."

He clenches his fists in his lap, and stares angrily at the ground. "It's all because I was born into a poor family that I can't live a good life like my friends. All my life I've had it hard, being constantly called poor, mainly by Cartman but I can handle insults from him though but from total strangers, it really pisses me off. My dad was a dead beat, and still is for leaving only my mom to do all the house work to keep the house stable while he went out to God knows where and drunk himself stupid every Friday night. He was also being lazy at home everyday. The asshole had the nerve to kick my older brother out one night when he was drunk! God, I don't blame my mom for this though cuz at least she tried to make up for it by trying to become the better parent for both me and my little sister, but..."

At this point Kenny could not continue, he sits there with tears threatening to fall from his tightly shut eyes. His fists are still clenched that his knuckles have turned white. Tweek takes a sip from his canteen then remain quiet for a few seconds. "I partially know how you feel," he then says.

"Eh? You do?"

He gives the shocked blonde a small smile then stares at the pond. "Yeah, except the being poor part but I'm pretty sure you know about my coffee addiction. Back then it made my life hell, I was always paranoid by the smallest things, twitchy which I really hated, would have spazz attacks from time to time about the underpants gnomes which I've grown out of or just being in too much pressure, and stutter my words."

He chuckles then sighs while clutching his canteen close. "I managed to overcome that weakness thanks to Craig. Clyde and Token helped too but to an extent though, and Craig helped me more than those guys so because of that I-I later fell in love with him. But I should've known Craig wouldn't fall for someone like me, yeah I'm less paranoid, twitchy and stuff now, but back then I still wasn't better so I gave up on loving him and just decided to be his friend. I support him and Clyde's relationship after he told me and Token off that one time."

He pauses to look directly at Kenny, blue-green eyes meeting hazel. "What I'm trying to say is that you can't overcome your struggles alone, you have to have someone help you, someone you can trust and I trusted Craig. So Kenny, who do you trust?"

Kenny's eyes are wide at the speech Tweek just gave, who knew he could provide a speech like that he thinks. He then thinks for a minute about Tweek's question while looking at the pond, but then it hits him after the first three seconds.

He feels stupid for even thinking about the answer when it is obviously- "Stan." Tweek smiles then looks at the pond together with Kenny, that one answer being enough.

Ten minutes later, Tweek announces his leave. Kenny thanks him for helping and listening to him, but Tweek shakes his head. "I didn't help, you helped yourself. Just remember to have the person you trust close to you plus I also wanted to get some things off my chest." He gives Kenny a toothy smile before leaving.

Kenny smiles in turn then stands up to take his leave back to Kyle's house.

To Stan.

Time skip: Graduation Day!

Today is the day Stan thinks as he, and all of the seniors are standing in the gymnasium. Parents, brothers/sisters, other relatives, and friends have already filled the gymnasium; the class of 2010 are wearing their cap and gown in their school colors, green and white.

Everyone is excited to finally be done with school, to finally go to college and such. Even Kenny whom was having doubts about his future is excited about today.

When Kenny returned from his twenty minute self time, he immediately tackled Stan into a hug and kissed him. They did nothing but kiss for three mins and when they pulled apart with both faces flushed, Stan gave him a look. "What's gotten you in a good mood all of a sudden?"

Kenny chuckles then kisses him again. "The Sacred Pond does it's wonders," he simply tells him.

Stan was going to ask him what happened while he was there, but Kenny kisses him yet again. "As long I'm with you I can overcome anything," Stan called him cheesy then they proceeded to make out, but did not take it too far because they were still in Kyle's house.

Stan walks over to the blonde who is talking to Craig. The stoic teen is keeping up his stoic persona, but his silver eyes are showing excitement. "Hey Craig, hey Kenny," he greets the two before giving his boyfriend a kiss on the cheek.

They came out to the school not too long ago, and some of the girls including Wendy (A yaoi fan but was not in the club) squealed while other's stated they thought so. Craig nods his head at the greeting, "Where's Clyde?" Stan asks.

Kenny snickers while Craig shook his head with a small smile. "In the bathroom emptying out the rest of his "excitement." He's been in there for like three minutes now so I'm gonna check on him." Stan shakes his head, he cannot blame him because just a few minutes ago he was doing the exact same thing.

After an hour of getting the graduates seated in alphabetical order, Principle Victoria walks up to the podium then clears her throat. "Good evening family, friends, and the graduating cows of 2010!"

The gym erupts into to thunderous applause. The clapping and cheering dies down some seconds later. "I'm so proud of you all for making it this far. I'm not going to lie, I had my doubts on some of you, but I'm really proud you've proved me wrong. Before we get started I would like for Ms. Wendy Testaburger, the Class President, to say a few words."

Everyone claps and cheers, someone shouts "That's my little girl!" presumably her dad, making Wendy blush in embarrassment while rolling her eyes with a small smile. She takes her place behind the podium then clears her throat.

"Good evening everyone. Parents I know you're very happy to see your son/daughter today graduating, and you should be. We all should be proud of making it this far in our lives, we all had our ups and downs, but to be able to make it this far we deserve a back on the back. Go on do it you deserve it."

Everyone laughs while the graduates gives themselves, and each other a pat on the back.

"I'm gonna miss all of you, well some of you and I'm pretty sure I'll be seeing a few of you at Harvard," she says then turns behind her at Kyle who waves.

"I hope all of the get into a good college, and for those who don't plan on going to college I still wish you best of luck in finding the right path for you. We made it WHOOOO!" Wendy happily exclaims as she fist pumps, and the gym erupts in thunderous cheers and applause again.

She then takes her seat as Principle Victoria returns to the podium. "Thank you very much Wendy, and now we will have Mr. Kyle Broflovski, the Class Vice-President, come up here and talk." Cheers, wolf whistles and Kyle's mother shouting "My bubbe!" erupts throughout the gymnasium.

The cheers die down after a good thirty seconds, and Kyle gives them a small smile. "Hello family, friends, and most importantly class of 2010!" Everyone cheers again, and it dies down after some seconds.

"Like Wendy and Principle Victoria said you all should be proud of yourselves, the struggle was real to make it this far and who do you have to thank for? Yourself because only you can shape your own future, not your mom, your dad, nobody. Only YOU. Just because you've graduated doesn't mean life got a little easier all of a sudden, no, it just got a lot harder. More difficult."

"From now on your parents won't be there for you when the goin' gets tough anymore, they might provide some advice but that's it, that's all you're gonna get and from there you're on your own. I'm not trying to scare you or anything, just giving you guys a heads up on what's life going to be like from now on which I'm pretty sure your parents will fill you guys in on later. I know my mom will. But I'm done ranting now but can you guys promise me something? Before we all go our separate ways, today we will meet at Stark's Pond and there we will promise to plan a future for us all together. OUR future."

The crowd erupts into cheers with the graduates shouting agreements to Kyle's promise, he bows his head then takes his seat. Principle Victoria returns back to the podium. "Thank you very much Kyle for you wonderful speech, and now on to the main event. Issuing out diplomas!"

After everyone received their diplomas an hour and fifteen minutes later, it is dark out and the school is serving eatable snacks and good refreshments for everybody. Kyle walks over to Stan, Kenny, Cartman, Craig, Clyde, Tweek, and Token; "Dude what are we gonna do at Stark's Pond?" Stan asks.

"You'll see," Kyle simply says then they all talk about how the school finally served something edible for once.

Time skip: At Stark's Pond/ Sacred Pond

The moon is out with no stars in sight, and clouds litter the dark sky. Everyone's eyes are wide in awe at the beautiful sight before them, even Stan, Kenny, Craig, Clyde, and Tweek's eyes are wide at the sight with a smirking Kyle in front on them.

On the Sakura tree is a banner saying "Congratulations Class of 2010!" on it making the tree their own personal tree.

"I know what you're all thinking," Kyle says, "How the hell did I managed to get a banner up on this tree? Well of course it wasn't easy, and long story short it took me two hours to finally hang it up there even with some help."

Everyone laughs, but dies down when Kyle gives them a serious look. "Alright now let's get to business. The future we plan for all of us here tonight cannot be forgotten, place it as a reminder in your phone, mark it on your calendar, I don't care but do not forget it even if-"

"Yeah, Yeah jew we heard you the first time now what's the damn promise already?" Cartman asks impatiently.

"Shut it tubby I was getting to that."

"Oi!"

"As I was saying, I want you all to promise that three years from now we will meet back at this very spot with better lives. That's all I ask. It's a future goal I planned for all of us, to meet here under this beautiful tree in the Spring with a boyfriend or a girlfriend or at least something that shows proof that you're leading a good life."

Everyone is silent for a minute until, "You got yourself a promise."

Kyle smiles at Kenny. "Thank you, anyone else?"

Silence. "I'm in too," says a smiling Stan. Shortly after Wendy agrees, then Red, then Craig, and the rest follow suit.

"Alright we got ourselves a promise." And with that everyone relishes the gentle breeze, and the pink petals dance around them. Couples are in each others arm's sharing kisses while friends are talking to one another.

"We'll plan a future together. OUR own future," Stan says to his boyfriend.

They share another passionate kiss.

*End*

(A/n: And done. I noticed when I first typed this fanfic, the first 2 chapters were cheesy as hell lol When I read them over I was so embarrassed with how cheesy some parts sounded ugh I wanted to change them but I got lazy, but anyway I hope you enjoyed this fanfic, of course I`ll be doing more South Park hopefully not making the first chapter or 2 cheesy again and I`ll also be sure to make them longer and please check out my other fanfic Hollow Nights. I know it would be confusing to those who`ve never played Under Night in Birth but I would love it if you could spare a glance at it at least)