3:57pm

"Mio…do you….love me?"

"I…I…."

Suddenly, Ryu's hand begins to fade away and become transparent.

"! Ryu, your hand!" Mio clasps her hands onto the disappearing hand.

"Ah…shoot….My time is running out fast…." The rest of Ryu's body beings fade away, along with his consciousness.

"What do you mean by-!" Mio's sudden silence causes Ryu to lift his head, only to see silver droplets falling down the bassist's face.

3:58pm

" No…I don't want this! Why are you disappearing?" Mio's bangs covered her eyes, But Ryu could feel the anguish from behind the curtain on black hair.

Ryu's figure becomes even fainter before.

"Mio…." Ryu's whispers.

Mio looks at Ryu, tearing still streaming down her cheeks.

"Ryu….*sob* please don't…I finally got you back…"

Ryu gives a faint smile, but lays his head back onto the ground, as he begins to lose more of his consciousness and his vision begins to blur.

3:59pm

"Mio...I love you…"

Mio grips Ryu's nearly invisible hand tighter and brings it to her forehead.

"…me too…."

"Mio….? What did you say?" Ryu starts to feel a charge of energy flow through his body, as he felt body began to return to normal.

"I said, me too…Ryu….I love you."

4:00pm

Ryu's body snaps up into sitting position. Right when Mio said those words, he felt like he was electrocuted…but in a good way. He was full of energy. He felt his heart beating at a strong and steady beat.

He was alive.

"R-Ryu?" Mio's eyes still teary.

Ryu turns towards Mio and gives a grin.

"Hey, now~ what's with that face? Hehe~ bfft!" Mio's hand makes contact with Ryu's head.

"BAKA! I was so worried! You were just disappearing a minute ago! And that's all you've got to say? What in the world was that all about?"

Ryu's bangs covered his eyes; rubbing his head, his grin was still visible.

"hehe~ sorry, sorry….really…but…." Ryu brings his hand behind Mio's head and begins to pull her in.

"wh-what are yo-"

Mio is cut off by a pair of warm lips. Time seemed to stop as the two froze in position.

At first, she was tense and in shock; but slowly, Mio returned the gesture, Savoring every moment.

For what seemed like forever, but was actually only a couple of seconds, their lips had finally parted and their faces scarlet red.

Mio brings her fingers to her lips. Still trying to process as to what had just happened.

"…Ryu…" Grey eyes meet amber.

"Heh~ you're so cute when you're angry. Mio-chuan~" *gin*

"knh! Why you!" Mio raises her arm ready to give the drummer another hit on the head. Ryu closes his eyes, anticipating the act…but nothing came. Instead, Mio's hand gently tapped Ryu's head and she was giving a 'what am I going to do with you' look.

"…baka…" *giggles*

Their giggles and chuckles turn into laughter. And it lasted for a couple minutes until….

"hahaha~…wait!" Mio's head snaps towards Ryu.

Ryu stops laughing. "huh? What?"

Mio grabs onto Ryu's head and begins to inspect his scalp.

"Ow! Ow! That hurts, Mio! Stoping pulling on my hair! What are you-!"

"You're still hurt! See?" Mio puts a 'bloody' hand in front of Ryu's face.

"….Huh? OMG! I'm BLEEDING!"

"I'll call the ambulance!" Mio abruptly stands up as Ryu grabs his head and sprawls on the ground.

"WAH~ I'm gonna die!...oh wait." Mio and Ryu stop and look at each other.

"huh?..." Mio puts on a confused face as Ryu stands up and shows Mio the 'bloody hand'.

"See? I mean, it IS blood, but I'm injured anymore. It's just some blood from before."

Mio looks at the hand and begins to examine Ryu's head once more. He was right! There was blood, but no wound.

"It's not there anymore…" Mio says in disbelief.

"Haha~ I guess I just heal quickly~"

*sweatdrop*

(voice) "ohoho~ how naïve, Ryu-kun!"

(Mio/Ryu) "Huh?"

Poof

"Yo!" It's the angel.

"You!" Mio gasps.

"What re you doing here?" Ryu backs away in shock.

"hehehe~ Good for you, Ryu-kun~! It's thanks to me that you were able to recover from that fall, you know. No need to thank m- Wah!" Ryu grabs the angel by the shoulders and begins to shake him violently.

"Don't you say another word old man! Just because everything worked out, it doesn't me I forgive you for what you've done!"

The angel's eyes start to look more like spirals as he begins to get dizzy.

"R-Ryu. Stop, you're hurting him."

Ryu lets go and the angel staggers as he tries to regain his balance.

"So…what's this all about? Why was Ryu disappearing?"

The angel turns towards Mio. "oh, that? He was passing on to the next world."

"HUH?" Mio's eyes widen. "Th-Then why didn't he…?"

"Because of you~" points a figure at Mio.

"M-Me?" Mio turns to face Ryu, whose cheeks were flushed.

"Yes, you. You see, In order to stay in THIS world, Ryu-kun here needed some sort of 'connection' to this world. In other words…someone to live his life wit, a 'lover' in other words."

"D-Don't get me wrong Mio!" Ryu frantically cuts in. "I didn't say and do all that stuff just so I could stay here!...Although…I really wanted to…B-but it's because I-! I mean-! I really-! Grah! What am I saying! L-Look Mio! I didn't-!" Mio's hand slaps onto Ryu's mouth, cutting him off from his ramblings.

"It's okay, Ryu. I understand." Mio smiles and removes her hand from Ryu's mouth.

"Mio…"

"Well then…I best be off~ lots of work to do." The angel lifts a hand as clouds start to encircle his body.

"W-wait just a minute old man!" Ryu tries to reach out to the angel but Mio stops him. The angel smiles.

"Live well, Ryu…I'm sure that God has big plans in store for you."

The clouds completely envelope the angel and disperses second later with nothing in its place.

"He's gone?" Mio asks.

"Thank goodness!" Ryu sighs in relief.

"Ryu?"

"What is it Mio?" Ryu smiles as Mio takes Ryu's hand in her's, their fingers intertwined.

*blush* "L-Let's go home."

"…yeah…"

As the two make their way down the stair case a figure stood just beyond the door that leads to the roof of the school. It was Asakura Kazumi.

"Hmm…It's seems my role is done here." Her arms crossed and content look into her eye, the red head smiles.

Just then, a cloud of black smoke rises up from behind her and a small imp-like creature appears.

"…yes? What is it?" Asakura asks without turning around.

The imp kneels down in loyalty. "Master…the underworld is in need of your assistance. It seems some of the natives are getting restless."

"Hmm…I see." He smiles fades away and a dark cloud consumes Asakura. Her skin darkens, her eyes become the color of wine and horns begin to grow out of the sides of her head.

*sigh* "I was done here anyway. Jeez…I know God let me play around up here since that 'angel' screwed up…But I ended up making it another 'Happy ending'…what is this? Some sort of manga? Oh well, better get going."

Asakura and the imp disappear in a blink of an eye, never to be seen again in the world of the living. (or…at least, by the people reading this fanfic….maybe….? ;b)

So…For the moment at least…This has turned out to be a Happy Ending for the HTT and the two 'lovers'. But even if the peace doesn't last forever, whatever it may be, as long as they have each other…Everything will be just fine~

The End

There You Go! The End huh? Hmm…I'm even kinda sad that it ended…but please look forward to future fanfictions! . Oh! But I AM thinking of creating an OMAKE for this story! If you would like that, please R&R! Thanks for all the support throughout this story! *Bows Deeply*

Oh…and if some of you didn't understand, Asakura Kazumi was actually a demon from the underworld who came into the world of the living to create a little trouble for the 'couple'. (;b)