Disclaimer: Of course Gokusen isn't mine. How I wish, but I'm not that good. Also, I am gaijin. So forgive me, if I get some things incorrect about Japan. The characters and theme belong to Morimouto, but I own this plot.
(A/N) This story is mine and for entertainment only. This my ending to the jdorama. Hope you like it. I've finally completed it.
Chapter 14 Epilogue Revenge
1 Year Later In a prison Laundry room
"I don't understand it. You mean to tell me that you escaped from jail, and instead of hiding, setting up an operation, and laying low, the first thing you did was take revenge on some insignificant little high school teacher. Baka! You belong here then, Tatsumi."
Tatsumi looked him in the eyes. "I'm planning on rectifying that mistake soon. I've got a plan to get out of here. I'm going to take your advice, set up shop, and lay low for a while and then come up with the perfect plan. When she least expects it, I'm going to go after her. I hear that she is getting married soon to one of her former students, the little prick who showed up last time to save her and ruined my big plans." He rubbed his hands together with a gleam in his eye. "They won't be so lucky this time. They won't know that I'm coming this time, but then I will strike, and they'll know it was me."
"Now, that's more like it. Now you are starting to think more like a yakuza." Tatsumi smiled at the compliment. The other man continued. "They have long memories and even a longer reach. Most of the time, they don't even have to inflict the punishment themselves. They just have to tell the person who has wronged them of the harm he has caused. Then that person knows what has to be done. For example, take Kuroda from the Oedo clan, if someone threatened or harmed his family, he would strike with fierceness. Let's say someone kidnapped and tried to hurt his most precious only granddaughter, who happens to be a high school teacher at an all boys' school by the way, and he wanted to make sure that the man never touched his granddaughter again, then the man's hands would be severed in a freak accident in prison. Let's say in a laundry room like this one on a steam press like that one and in a prison like this one, he would be avenged."
"That sounds like a man after my own heart." Tatsumi laughed.
"No truer words have ever been spoken, my friend." Tatusmi's eyes opened wide as reality finally sank in. "Then you know what else the Oedo clan would do? They would make sure that while the man is recovering in the infirmary from his injuries the doctor would leave and allow someone else to go in there to cut out the man's vocal chords so that he could never tell anyone anything. They would make sure it was an enemy of the man like one of the thugs he hired to rough up the teacher that was sent to prison with that man. That's what yakuza would do for vengeance. You should think more like a yakuza." The big man had been backing Tatsumi into a corner while he spoke and blocking the man's passage and view. When he finished talking, he moved out of the man's way to see the twenty thugs that he had hired to rough up Yankumi surrounding him. Then he handed the man a sharp instrument and left, laughing a sinister laugh. He walked out, closed the door and left.
A few minutes later, the man heard the blood-curdling scream of a man in agony from having his fingers severed. Then he heard the sound of choking as the screams stopped and a thud.
"So, they were self inflicted?"
"Yes," the coroner said. "He also left a note saying that he couldn't take prison life and was better off this way."
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"I understand." Shinohara put the phone down and looked at the invitation he had just received. I don't believe it for a minute. I wonder how they got to him. I can't prove it, though. Not that I would want to anyway, now she is safe from him. Still, if he hadn't escaped I would have never seen her again and realized my true feelings for her. Well, it's too late now. He checked the box for "Yes" on the RSVP card. That is one regret that I will have not realizing my true feelings sooner and taking hers for granted. Oh well, it is working out with Kawashima sensei after all.
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"I understand … Thank you … Good Work. Hai." Kyou hung up the phone and went to Kuroda's study and waited for the man to summon him into the room.
"Kumichou, I have news from my contact in prison. That man will never bother Ojou or her student again. It seems that he accidentally lost his fingers, and the pain was so great that he took his own life. He also left a note saying he had trouble adjusting to prison life."
"Understood," nodded Kuroda. "Kyou, good work, thank you. I see your strategic efforts in prison paid off for you."
"Hai," Kyou left the room smiling at the praise he had received from the man. What do you know, protecting the prison doctor and one of another lesser clan's members and helping the coroner out of a tight jam had indeed proven profitable. This is an early wedding present for Ojou and Young Master Lion.
In Van Couver, British Columbia, Canada
Odigiri looked at the letter he had just received. It was an invitation. He noted the return name, Sawada Shin. "I guess he didn't wait two years after all. Still, I won't give up until after the wedding." He also RSVP'd yes and returned the card.
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In a brand new school in a classroom marked 3D
"Okay class, please settle down while I call attendance. Class? Class? I said SHUT UP you annoying brats." A certain teacher wearing glasses, two pony tails, a jersey, and trainers looked at her class with fire in her eyes. As she called the names she thought to herself. How did I get stuck with 3D again? That Sawada Shin promised that I would get 1A at the new school. I'd get one of the top classes with students inspired to learn so that I could finally teach high school math, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, not these guys again.
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"Why did I get stuck with 3D again? I was supposed to get 1A." Yankumi complained
"Well, you had to go and get married and go on your honeymoon for a month during the school year. They had no choice. They kept running out of teachers for 3D. So they had to give 1A to one of the other teachers while they had substitutes for 3D. You are the only one that can handle them. Besides its only 3 months," Kawashima sensei smiled at her friend.
"That Sawada Shin, that's the last time I'll marry him and go on our honeymoon during a school year."
"It better be." She laughed with her friend.
Yankumi actually glowed when she pictured the wedding and then flushed when she thought about the honeymoon. "It was all worth it, though."
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She was smiling to herself when she was interrupted by a young man with spiked green hair waving his hands in front of her face and yelling. "Hello, is anybody in there? Where are you, and why do you have that stupid grin on your face?"
She shook her head and motioned to the young man to sit down. "Oh, I'm your home room teacher Sawada Kumiko. You can call me Yankumi for short. I'll continue with attendance now."
"What the hell, Yankumi is not a nickname for Sawada Kumiko."
"Oh, it's a nickname for Yamaguchi Kumiko."
"What kind of crazy chick are you? You don't even know your own name. First its Sawada then Yamaguchi."
"Oh, my name used to be Yamaguchi. Now it's Sawada." She turned around to begin writing on the board.
"What happened did your old man divorce you for someone prettier or hotter?"
"No, I got married to one of the most wonderful men in the whole world." She stopped writing on the board to daydream again.
"Hey," someone yelled and through a small marble at her. "Wake up."
She caught it without looking. Then turned around slowly and stared at them with a dark look. Everyone had stopped to stare at her with their mouth's open. She looked at the object in her hand and then smiled with her goofy grin. "Oh, someone dropped this."
Outside the door and through the window, 20 pairs of eyes were watching and laughing. Odigiri patted Sawada on the back. "Man, I don't envy you. You have your hands full. How do you intend to keep her from getting into trouble with and for her students?"
Shin looked at him from the side and rolled his eyes. He answered smugly. "I don't intend to at all. I intend to let Yankumi be Yankumi."
Well spoken, Young Master Lion, well spoken. Another pair of eyes, one with a visible scar, thought as he watched the classroom and the other ten.
So, that's how I think it should have ended. I hope you liked it and thought so as well. Oh, I did leave one loose end with Tetsu. I don't think he will ever confess, especially not now. So, I hope it is okay. I hope you enjoyed visiting the far reaches of my mind with me. I appreciate all of your reviews because you definitely made this a better story.