There's an important message at the end of this finale ending, so please read until the end!
First, i want to thank all readers who made it possible for me to finish this and the amount of useful comments I received. I am so incredibly happy that all of you have stuck with me to the very very end and although i had random disappearances, even had second thoughts of finishing this, I did it! I did it guys!
Please enjoy this last epilogue as much as the other chapters. Kisses to all of you, literally all of you! xx
Epilogue
It would've been quiet in the Hitsugaya household if it wasn't for Matsumoto's voice ringing through the huge mansion, "Hinamori Momo!"
A loud scream was heard from Hinamori's room as she ran down the stairs to greet her long time best friend, "RANGIKU!"
They had their moment until they were stopped by a groan from the living room. Hinamori giggled with Matsumoto as they realized how loud they were, "Toushiro's sleeping in the living room right now"
"Really? Didn't he know I was coming?" pouted Matsumoto and put her hands on her hips, "Oh well."
"Why didn't Nathan come today?"
"My beloved Nathan had a business trip," sighed Matsumoto, "It sucks having a working husband."
Hinamori laughed and tucked her hair behind her ear, "He still loves you very much though."
"Yeah, I know," smiled Matsumoto and then looked around the house, "Where's Natsu-chan, Haru-kun and Akita-kun?"
"Oh Haru's grounded, he's just like Toushiro! He's such a playboy and totally rude to nice girls, then he barely studies but manages to actually ace all the tests," groaned Hinamori, "Akita's at school for his club activities and preparing for his examinations."
"At least he manages to ace the tests," shrugged Matsumoto, "I can't believe he's already a grown up high-schooler! That little Haru-kun."
"Tell me about it, I can barely imagine Natsuki growing up," sighed Hinamori
"She's absolutely adorable! Where is she right now?" asked Matsumoto
"She's been walking around the house with this pink dress and I was trying to find her before you came," laughed Hinamori and as if on cue, Natsuki walks by and hides behind Hinamori, "Natsuki, come say hi to auntie Matsumoto."
"Natsu-chaaan!" cooes Matsumoto and lifts Natsuki up swiftly, "I should bring Makoto here more often, they would definitely look adorable together!"
"I think we're thinking too far ahead Rangiku," laughed Hinamori and noticed a black jaguar drive in, "Rukia must be here."
Rukia walked out with Renji behind her, "Oh hey guys!"
"Hi! Toushiro's still asleep on the couch right now," sighed Hinamori
"Well he is a busy man," laughed Rukia and rolled her eyes at Renji, "Unlike this guy."
"Hey, hey, I'm on vacation! Plus Ryuji and I have been getting some quality one on one time," nodded Renji and Ryuji ran between Rukia and Renji entering the house, "Oi, come back here, it's rude to just go in!"
"Where's Haru-nii Hinamori oba-chan!" asked Ryuji, who was no more than 7
"He's in his room," said Hinamori and pointed upstairs, "I'm sure you know the way."
Ryuji ran up the stairs hurriedly, "Haru-nii!" the adults heard the door barge open and Ryuji laugh.
"Wow, Ryuji loves Haru doesn't he?" laughed Renji, "Where are the others?"
"They should be coming soon," said Hinamori, "Wait for a bit, I'll go wake Toushiro up."
As she walked in, Hitsugaya was still sound asleep on the couch, "Toushiro, you have to wake up."
He opened one eye and saw Hinamori's face, "I love you."
She turned red and looked away, "S-stop, you're embarrassing me."
"I love you Hinamori Momo," laughed Hitsugaya and stood up, he made her look at him, "To the milky way and back."
He kissed her with such tenderness it made her melt and once they let go, she smiled, "You cheeky bastard."
Once Hitsugaya was awake, Hinamori brought him to meet the others.
"Yo Hitsugaya!" greeted Renji
"Hey," smiled Hitsugaya and looked around, "Aren't we missing some people?"
"Ichigo's coming with Orihime, they're late because they had to pick up their kids from the school. Ishida's on his way with Chad, Hisagi's coming here with Ikkaku and Yumichika," informed Matsumoto and put Natsuki down, "So what's for dinner?"
"Well I thought we could all make it together," smiled Hinamori as Natsuki ran to Hitsugaya who lifted her up in one scoop, "It'll be a nice dinner making moment."
"Yeah and we'll instagram that shit," laughed Rukia
Three cars drove into the drive way and the rest of the group arrived. As if it was planned, all of the car doors opened and the group walked towards the standing adults.
"Hey sorry we're late," sighed Ichigo with Orihime and his kids behind, "Ren, Megumi, Kosume and Tatsuya took a while."
"Yo Hitsugaya-san, and beautiful as always Hinamori-san," said Ren and kissed Hinamori's hand receiving a slap from Hitsugaya
"Oi, just because your Kurosaki's kid doesn't mean I'll let you touch her," mumbled Hitsugaya setting Natsuki on the ground and pulling Hinamori away
"Dad it worked!" laughed Ren along with his dad
"What?" asked Hitsugaya annoyed
"Dad said that you'll get worked up whenever someone flirted with Hinamori-san," chuckled Ren
"Ren! Stop being so rude," sighed Orihime, "I'm sorry Hinamori-chan."
"It's fine," laughed Hinamori
Natsuki walked over to Megumi, who was the same age as her, and dragged her away to go play elsewhere.
"Where's Akita?" asked Ren looking around, "I was going to have a little chat with him."
"He's still at school, should be coming back soon," said Hinamori
"Well, I'm going to go say hi to Haru," shrugged Kosume (same age as Haru)
"I'll tag along," followed Tatsuya (a year below)
"Whazzap guys!" yelled Ikkaku entering the house with Hisagi, Yumichika, Chad and Ishida
"I just got out of my shift," sighed Ishida and rubbed his eyes, "I'm way too tired."
"Where'd your wife go?" asked Ichigo
"She went back to the countryside to meet her grandmother," said Ishida
"Aw man, I needed to tell her about a funny story I had about you," laughed Ichigo getting a slap from Ishida, "Or maybe not."
"It's been a while hasn't it?" chuckled Hisagi holding his 7 year old son, "This little guy's too shy to go play with the other girls."
"Oi kid, you gotta man up and just go play with the girls, got it?" threatened Ikkaku
He started crying instantly into his father's shoulders, "Geez Ikkaku, you haven't changed at all."
"He's even more violent," sighed Yumichika brushing through his hair
"Well now that everyone's here, let's start cooking!" said Hinamori and yelled the children down, "We're making dinner! Come on down and help!"
As the whole group went into the huge kitchen, which was a normal sight for these billionaires, they started cutting the vegetables and meat.
"Who knew that one day this would happen," laughed Hitsugaya as he cut the vegetables next to Hinamori
"What do you mean?"
"You and me, this family, the others, this life," chuckled Hitsugaya and smiled
"Do you regret it?"
He stopped cutting and looked at her, "Don't you even ask that again. I love you, and you know that."
"I just wanted to hear you say it," giggled Hinamori and kissed him on the cheek, "Only because I love you too."
On the other side of the kitchen Rukia was busy yelling at Renji who cut the carrots too thick, "Renji you're so thickheaded! I told you to cut them in thin slices!"
"Sorry!"
Soon after, the children came down to help set the dining table, "Jeez our parents are so loud," complained Ren
"I feel like Haru's mom and dad are like the only sane ones," yawned Kosume as she set the forks
"No way," disagreed Haru, "They are far from sane and they're so lovey dovey."
"But hey, we wouldn't have traded them for anyone else," laughed Megumi, "we all love our parents."
The front entrance clicked open, "I'm home!"
"Akita nii-chan!" yelled Natsu and leapt onto her older brother who was a spitting image of Hitsugaya minus the white hair.
"Hey Natsu! Did you miss me?" laughed Akita and set her down, "Oh hey guys!"
The others waved at her and he walked into the kitchen to find the adults laughing around, his father included which made him smile, "I can't believe mom said he used to be such a cold hearted guy."
Hitsugaya noticed his son standing in the doorway and called him over, "Come over here Akita."
"Oh look at that! It's Hitsugaya junior! Except the hair's definitely Momo's," laughed Matsumoto ruffling Akita's hair, "I should've brought Kotoko! Too bad she's busy this time of day!"
"I passed her by in the convenience store just the other day," said Akita and showed a picture to Matsumoto, "Supposedly this is her boyfriend?"
"Don't worry about that, give it a few weeks and she'll break up with him. The fate is in our power Akita, you can get her, seriously, you got the Hitsugaya and Hinamori genes!" laughed Matsumoto
"Well thanks but I don't think I need your help Matsumoto oba-chan," laughed Akita and saw his mom smiling at him, "Oh mom, here's the thing you wanted me to buy."
"Right, the sauce! Thank you so much. Anyways, back to work. Could you ask the others to come and make the burger patties?"
"Sure," nodded Akita and brought the others into the kitchen
"It's really lively," stated Haru
"Tell me about it," laughed Kosume, "Mom what should I do?"
"Come help me with this," called Orihime, "All of you should make the shape you want for your burgers!"
"Yay!" cheered Megumi
The dinner ended with laughter, love and asleep toddlers on the sofa holding their favorite toys.
"You know, your mom and dad had a whirlwind of romance," laughed Matsumoto taking a sip of her wine, slightly drunk, "You haven't told them Momo?"
Hinamori blushed and shook her head, "Of course not!"
"Why not," shrugged Hitsugaya and chuckled, "Do you wanna hear it? I don't think your high-school ears could handle it."
"Try me," challenged Haru with a smirk
"Oh my god, that's like Hitsugaya's smirk," laughed Renji
Akita walked back into the dinner room with his hair wet from his shower, "What is this? Story time?"
"Yeah your parents are telling us the story of how they fell in love," said Tatsuya
"Really?" laughed Akita, "It's going to be long so you better be in for a damn long fairytale story."
"That's exactly right Akita!" yelled Matsumoto
"And complicated!" added Rukia
"And messed up!" peeped Orihime
"Not to add, it's so fictional!" said Ichigo
"But it's not even a lie!" mumbled Ishida
"And we're all part of it!" groaned Renji
"So many embarrassing stories within this story too!" exclaimed Hisagi
"It's crazy, so not beautiful," scoffed Yumichika
"Yeah, they annoyed me," sighed Ikkaku
"The amount of drama? I'd have stayed out of it," nodded Chad
"Even Chad oji-san?!" gasped Megumi
"So it all started when I met your dad, the ice prince piercing every poor girl's heart," laughed Hinamori and told the kids the whole story, of course it was elongated because of Matsumoto piping in every time with minor details.
After the whole story was said, the kids looked at their parents, "Woah."
"This is definitely young adult novel material," gulped Tatsuya
"Told you," said Matsumoto
"What'd you say when you asked her to marry you?" asked Haru
"I just asked, 'love or not' knelt down, and opened the box," shrugged Hitsugaya
"Love or not? That's so vague," said Ren, "What'd you say back Hinamori oba-chan?"
"I simply said, 'love'."
Because in the end love is all it really needs to be, no more words such as I or you that might get in the way. As long as their eyes look at you, and only you, there is no need to say I or you because love can last forever and be as big as the distance from the milky way back to earth. Love, that's all it is. No need to blame it, hate it, neglect it, just embrace it.
Love.
Or
Not.
FIN
Thank you! That's the end of the fanfic Love or Not, i hope it was a whirlwind of adventure for all of you!
IMPORTANT MESSAGE
I wrote a new fanfiction called Secrets and it's similar to Love or Not but it takes on a more realistic view and is slightly more gossip girl like. Here's a special plot summary of it if any of you are interested, it would be great if any of you could check it out and give me some comments!
Summary: Ryouta High, Karakura High and Hueco Mundo High. The top 3 prestigious schools in the nation centered in the city of Karakura, Tokyo. Ryouta High is a prestigious all boys school, Karakura High a prestigious all girls school and Hueco Mundo High a prestigious co-ed school, also the national football (soccer) champions of the nation, always beating Ryouta High. Now how did the students from three different schools bump into each other? It was a matter of either coincidence or fate.
In Karakura, it's all about the secret affairs, the dirty businesses, the money, the hot romance, the accidental hook ups, drunk nights, the princes, the princesses, the lovers, the glammer, the media, the blitz, the glam, the paparazzis and last but not least, the drama. So what happens when the idiot meets the princess? The football (soccer) freak meets the babe? The model meets the prince? The bald one meeting one with a bald fetish? The answer is quite simple: chaos.