This is the last chapter. It's not really a wrap up, just something I wanted to add because I love all of these characters. The rest of SPR is mentioned, but doesn't really say much, so I hope you still like it. See y'all at the end.

Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt

Chapter 20: Epilogue

"Alright guys, make way for the newlyweds! Step aside!" Mai shouted, grinning widely. The orphans, the SPR family and others filling the front steps of the orphanage stepped to the sides. Some of the people were old enough to be in college, but had come back to see their close friends be married off to each other. Some of them were newcomers, curious about the activity and pining to get dressed up for once. Some of them were the basketball players from Seiso Academy that they'd once helped with a ghost.

Each and every one of them wore their best clothing. Mai had a long gown that draped over her slim form in a pale pink. Even after two sets of twins, she still looked every bit as young as she did when she had her first set. After her miscarriage, it had taken two years before she was actually comfortable enough to try again. Even then, the pregnancy had been trying. Beside her and Naru, who had been forced into a dark blue suit by his wife, was Yasu wearing a suit that matched his eyes and his husband, Gene, wearing a deep purple that matched his eyes.

After the destruction of Natalia's spirit, his eyes had gone from the blue of his possession to a mix or their colors resulting in the plum he now wore. Though his body was female, he still considered himself a man and thus, his title was husband.

Rings glittered on the fours' left hands, thin silver bands. They were functional enough to coincide with their hectic job surprisingly well.

Gene's stomach pushed out against his dress, so large and round that Mai didn't even know how he was standing. At eight months pregnant with yet another set of twins, he should have been nearly unable to move. Mai envied his maneuverability. Neither of them had had any chance of producing only a single child in one go.

Standing on the opposite side, surrounded by their orphaned friends and the rest of the SPR children, the collective ten children that belonged to Mai, Naru, Yasu and Gene grinned widely, waiting for their siblings to come marching down the steps followed by their new spouses. Six belonged to Yasu and Gene while the other four belonged to Naru and Mai. Every single one of them except for two had jet black hair, the other two had ash grey. Their eyes varied from brown to navy blue to the crimson that floated around the DNA of Gene's body to Yasu's grey.

The other ten SPR children were fanned out around the first ten. Out of that group, Nanari and two others belonged to Ayako and Monk, five belonged to John and Masako, and the last two belonged to Lin and Madoka. Nanari, his flaming red hair sticking out above the crowd, held his fingers intertwined with those of Mai's biologically oldest daughter.

The doors to the orphanage were suddenly thrown open and Mai's non-biologically oldest twins stood grinning in the sunlight, hands intertwined with each other and their spouses. Attached to Kamin's hand was the little girl she'd kissed on the cheek more than twelve years ago after they'd finished the case. Small and petite, black hair against blonde, dark blue eyes against light blue, they were beautiful and wonderful.

Fingers twined with Tamaki's was a brunette sporting eyes so brown they were almost black, the boy that Gene had slammed against the wall just as many years ago. He'd grown tremendously since he was thirteen quivering beneath Gene's glare. He had somehow become someone the twin's four parents unanimously approved of. Even though he was seven years older than Tamaki, he'd waited patiently for him to reach eighteen. Gene wasn't absolutely sure, but he almost positive that Tamaki had been the reason that the boy had pulled him out of his downward spiral.

The four descended the steps, running down the driveway towards their waiting car.

As they all threw rice, yelling and cheering, Mai whispered jokingly to Gene, "I'm happy their happy, but how did we end up with two children batting for the other's team?" She meant it as a joke, but she was legitimately curious.

Gene laughed, "I was wondering that too. Luck of the draw, I guess, but really, could you see them any other way?"

"I wouldn't want them any other way," Mai told him, tossing up another handful of rice. When the four were safely stowed in their car and moving away, Mai shouted, "Alright everyone, in the vans! Move it, move it! Reception next!"

Grinning, Rika wrapped an arm around Mai's shoulder. "I will never understand why you don't get in to coaching. You'd do great."

Smiling slyly, Masako interjected before Mai could say a thing, her sleeve pressed to her mouth, "Sure, but the only thing she's really good at is ghost hunting. She'd be useless on any sport's field."

"Thank you, peanut gallery, but please shut up," Mai shot at her good-naturedly.

"That's my girl," Monk said, ruffling her hair like she was fifteen again. "I don't think I've told you before, but you're amazing and you've raised fantastic children."

"I second that," Rika chimed in.

"I as well," John spoke up in his soft voice, startling them with his sudden appearance at Masako's said.

"I had help," Mai pointed out, "Gene was the one who raised Tamaki and Kamin."

Gene's voice rose from the center of the milling crowd, "I deny that claim! If you hadn't been there, they would have turned out like Yasu and we all know how bad that would have been!"

From the other side of the crowd, Yasu cried, "Hey! I heard that!" Everyone erupted into laughter. Even Naru and Lin standing off to the side together with Madoka were chuckling quietly.

"He wasn't talking about just the twins, Mai," Ayako told her, swooping in two wrap her arms tightly around the woman who had always been a daughter to her, "He was talking about all of the kids who have come through this orphanage who you've raised and straightened out and your children and Gene and Yasu's children, everyone's children. You were a mother to them all. You helped raise them all. That's what he's talking about."

"We love you, Mama Mai!" the crowd called, hands cupped around their mouths, lips pulled back from teeth in wide smiles.

Mai couldn't help but smiling back just as widely. "Thank you so much," she murmured, returning Ayako's hug fervently. When she pulled away, she was still smiling. "I'd love to continue this conversation, but we really do need to get going. It takes thirty minutes to get to the reception hall, and we have less than an hour now before it starts."

"Oh, right!" Ayako cried, turning to the crowd, "Load the vans! In you all go!" Before anyone knew what was happening, she was herding them through van doors. "I'll never understand why you didn't just do the reception here like the ceremony," she told Mai with a shake of her head.

"A new place with new experiences to start off a new marriage," Mai explained evenly.

…..

"We have an announcement!" Kamin shouted over the din of talk and music, standing with her wife beside her. Her wife moved to stand behind Tamaki while she stood behind his husband.

As if a blanket had been tossed over a noisy bird, the tables and dance floor fell silent, people quickly returning to their seats. The tables had been arranged and been made large enough so that there was only one line of tables in front of the head table, giving everyone access to the newlyweds, their bride's maids and groom's men, and their parents. Beyond that was a dance floor large enough to fit people throwing each other around comfortably, which was the only way Kamin and Tamaki knew how to dance.

Smiling, Mai tilted her head so she could see the faces of the newlyweds. They looked like a large ball of excitement wrapped in a thick blanket of nervousness, their eyes darting between each other and grins tugging at the corners of their mouths.

Taking a deep breath, Kamin squeezed her wife's hand, meeting her eyes. They nodded together and looked out at the crowd. "We know what a huge step we've taken today, how life changing it can be. It was life changing for our parents," Kamin began, spreading her hands to indicate Mai, Naru, Gene and Yasu at her sides, "And we know it will be just as life changing for us. We couldn't have made it to the point we are at in our lives now without their help, love and tolerance." She laughed lightly on the last word, dark eyes twinkling. "But we couldn't have gotten here without all of your help as well, even the help of those who have just recently joined our huge family. Before this day, though, we made another huge decision, another life changing decision. The four of us, we knew it was the right decision, the right time as truly as our mother knows when any of us, any of her family, is in danger." She smiled softly at Mai, and Mai's chest swelled with utter joy, tears gathering in her eyes.

Swallowing hard, Kamin exhaled, smiling shakily at her wife, "So, the thing I'm leading up to, the huge life changing decision I've been eluding to this entire time is… well…" Tearing their eyes from each other, they held their hands close, yelling, "We're pregnant!"

Not even a millisecond had passed before cheers erupted from the entire crowd. Mai, Naru, Gene and Yasu were out of their chairs before the first wave of cheers had finished, wrapping their arms around the twins and their spouses, hugging them tightly.

"I'm proud of you," Naru murmured so quietly that only Kamin and Tamaki caught it as he pressed his lips to her forehead and then his, "Both of you."

Pulling back, Mai cupped Kamin's face in her hands. "How? Who did you choose as the father?"

"Fathers, Mom," she corrected, placing a small, soft hand over hers. "We figured that since all of us were marrying members of the same sex, we could use that to our advantage. My wife, she's carrying Tamaki's child, and I'm carrying his husband's. We want to raise them together so they'll always have someone there to lean on."

Yasu moved in, wrapping his arms around her. "That's brilliant," he told her, "I expected nothing less."

"When did you guys find out?" Gene asked, untangling himself from Tamaki and his husband's embrace, wriggling into Yasu and Kamin's hug. "No, when did you guys do this?"

Sheepishly staring anywhere but at their parents, Tamaki, Kamin and their spouses pursed their lips. "Well, promise you won't be mad when I tell you," Kamin said, glancing into his plum eyes.

"I promise not to get mad. Scout's honor," Gene promised.

Tamaki rolled his eyes with Kamin. "Dad, how many times do we have to remind you that you were never a Boy Scout? We're still pretty sure that your troop would have never survived you if you had been."

"Until the day I die. Now, stop changing the subject."

Kamin fidgeted in Gene's arms. "Okay, well, we found out about four months ago that it had actually taken, but we tried nearly five months ago. We're still surprised that we haven't begun to show that much."

Pulling back, Gene nodded for a moment, lips pursed, eyes closed. "Alright, I just wish you had told us. We could have thrown you a bridal shower that didn't involve alcohol you couldn't drink."

"You couldn't drink it either, Dad," Kamin pointed out, tickling Gene's protruding stomach. "So, you're not angry? None of you?" She looked worriedly around at her mother and two other fathers, but they were smiling.

"Angry? Why would we be angry?" Yasu asked, "We'll have grandkids that we can spoil rotten and then send back to you high on sugar."

Kamin frowned, something finally coming to her mind. "Dad, our kids are going to be the same age as your youngest," she pointed out, making the rest of the group frown as that sunk in.

Finally, Gene shrugged, "They'll always have someone to play with."

Breathing out a laugh, Kamin pulled her four parents into a hug. Tamaki and the other two quickly joined in, squeezing them tightly. "I love you guys."

"And we love you," Mai murmured, nuzzling her daughter's hair lovingly.

Holy. Hell. It's done. I finally finished it. I think I'm going to cry. That… that was my last chapter for the Ghost Hunt fandom. This was last story I'll be contributing to the fandom. I think I might actually cry. Ghost Hunt was the first fandom that actually got me writing long stories and it makes me rather sad to think that I'll be putting aside my Ghost Hunt pencil. I'll still be lurking and maybe one day I'll be back with a new story, but for now, I'll be on the fringes.

Thank you everyone that has stuck around for not only this story, but for all of my other ones up to this point as well. I loved every single one of you, new and old, and I thank you all for taking the time to read and in some cases, review my stories. I'll be honest here, if I was having a bad day and I suddenly got a review, my day would instantly brighten.

I hope to see all of you again one day. For now, goodbye.