A/N: WARNIIIIIIIIIIING! PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE CONTINUING! I know there are a lot of people who don't like reading epilogue and just prefer an ending. So for these people, immediately stop here and don't read anymore. For the rest, just scroll down here.

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A/N2: Unbeta'd.

CHAPTER 82. EPILOGUE

Flashback

Some years ago.

After a year living in France, Ryoga and Miyabi came to Japan. They had decided to settle down in Ryoga's biological parents home, the Yuuji household. Ever since the young couple returned back to Japan, Miyabi had not been very well. She cannot go anywhere too far and not for a very long time. So, to avoid tiring Miyabi, family gatherings are hold at the Yuuji household instead, which why Ryoma and her parents were at the moment. A maid was serving tea and sweets when Ryoga and Miyabi entered the room. Ryoga was supporting Miyabi in his arms, helping her taking one step at the time. Rinko reached out to help Miyabi sitting next to her.

Lately, Miyabi had a lot of difficulty to sleep. She had very short night rest, often felt tired and her body ached there and there. However, being who she was, Miyabi wasn't complaining. She had a very caring husband who answers to her every needs, a concerning mother-in-law about her well-being, a father-in-law who didn't act as if she had a problem to make her feel easy, a cousin-in-law who lately always made all her favorite Japanese sweets and a cute little sister-in-law who was still as cute as she was before Miyabi left for France.

Rinko often cooked for Miyabi very healthy meals for women with a weak body in order to improve for Miyabi's conditions. When Nanako go to the super market, she took twice time than usual to select choose the freshest of the freshest and the most nutritious. She also took time to explain to Ryoma how this one was better than that one.

"Ryoma and selecting food in one sentence? Noooo!" you would say, jumping in the sky.

You are right.

"Ryoma" and "selecting food" in one sentence is downright awkward. But in this particular case, yes, "Ryoma" and "selecting food" are in one sentence. So, get down on earth now and sit down on your chair so I can continue my story!

Unless you want a ball square in the face with the courtesy of a pissed off Ryoma for doubting her capacity to do so, that's it. (You are also right for doubting her in that department, but I advise you to keep that shut in your head or voice it out only when Ryoma is not around. And DON'T listen to Syuusuke when he suggests you to do the contrary! Let me remind you that he is a sadist and seeing you in pain is a joyful show for him.)

"Huhuhuhu!" someone chuckled in the room.

"Syusuke, shut up! You, the readers here, don't smirk in amusement. Watching people in pain is NOT an entertainment show for normal people (as you are supposed to be)! And you, the readers over there, stop trembling like a leaf and sweating cold at his sadistic laugh! You are supposed to get used to it by now already!" I said.

Now, where was I?

Oh yeah!

Here.

So, because Ryoma too wanted to help Miyabi, that's why in this particular case, "Ryoma" and "selecting food" are put together in one sentence. Ryoma cannot cook like her mother or Nanako, so she learned what she can by helping Nanako do the grocery. Miyabi was more than happy of her life despite her late weaker physical conditions. She loved her family-in-law and she felt loved too.

Ryoga pulled out the chair and slowly help Miyabi sitting down. One sat, Miyabi raised her blue eyes to meet his caring ones. Her eyes reflected her happiness despite them being a little bit tired following the short trip from her room down to the salon. Ryoga smiled at her and closed his hand over the small hand he was holding. Slowly, he bend down to meet her lips, kissing her tenderly. It was the picture of a perfect loving husband and wife. But for Ryoma, who was looking at them with an eyebrow raised, something was wrong in the picture. Miyabi was the "something wrong" element in the picture.

"Nee-chan, you're fat," Ryoma blurted, looking pointedly at Miyabi.

"PFFFFFFFUTTT!" Ryoga and Nanjirou choked as Miyabi was completely in shock. She stared straight at Ryoma, unable to move.

"You're fat, nee-chan!" Ryoma insisted again. Tears started to appear in Miyabi's eyes. She tried. She tried hard, really hard. She did everything she could to contain herself. But at the end, she couldn't. She cracked.

"Hu-... Hu-... Hu-... Hahahaha! Hahahahaha!" Miyabi laughed, crying tears while holding her belly with her two hands. She laughed so hard that it hurts. Yet, she couldn't stop laughing. While Miyabi kept laughing, Nanjirou and Ryoga gawked at Ryoma.

"Huhuhuhu!" Rinko chuckled behind her hand.

"Oh, Ryoma-chan, that's not a nice thing to say," Nanako gently scowled.

"But she is fat," Ryoma insisted again, much to her brother's exasperation and her father's more scandalous face. "Look at her, she is as huge as a whale!"

"Hahahahahaha!" Miyabi laughed louder, now closing her arms around her.

"Bishoujo, that's not a nice thing to say to a girl," Nanjirou said. "You are a girl, you should know that!"

"Oyajii, did you ever saw her acting like a girl?" Ryoga asked.

"Ah, that's true. I never saw it once before," Nanjirou said. Ryoma scoffed. Meanwhile, Miyabi was still laughing.

"Hahahahaha!" Miyabi wiped the tears in her eyes. "Ryoma-chan, hahahaha! It's only temporary! Hahahaha!" Ryoma cocked her head. Miyabi tried (and failed) to calm down. "Once the baby will be born, I will be back my normal weight," Miyabi explained, caressing tenderly her very bulging pregnant belly.

Lately, Miyabi had shorter night rest because the baby was moving more and more. The future mother cannot walk anywhere to far because it makes her feet ached. Having less recuperation, Miyabi was often tired. However, she was a happy young future mother. Because she wanted their first child to be born in Japan, which makes Ryoga happier than he thought he was, she insisted on flying back to the land of sakura despite her delicate conditions. Once back to Japan, Rinko and Nanako immediately took care of her on the pregnancy issues. With them around her, Miyabi could finish her pregnancy term at ease.

Ryoma pouted at her sister-in-law's explanation.

"But you're still fat!" she stubbornly said.

"Hahahahahaha!" Miyabi exploded in laugh again. Nanjirou sighed of exasperation while Rinko chuckled. Ryoga was a little depressed. Miyabi wasn't mad at her sister-in-law calling her "fat" while he almost got kill for buying a larger dress to make it easier for her to move.

"Why Chibisuke always get the best of everything from Miyabi and not me, her husband?" he whined, sighing.

End flashback

Present time. Some years later. Fuji mansion.

The Rolls Royce stopped in front of the mansion. The driver opened the door and Fuji Syuusuke stepped out.

"Okaeri, Fuji-sama," Shindou-san and the servants greeted him, bowing.

"Tadaima," Syuusuke said.

"Fuji-sama, hime-sama is in the yellow room with her family," Shindou said. Syuusuke's lips stretched into a small smile. Despite after so many years and despite Ryoma's new status, Shindou kept calling her as 'hime' instead of 'oku-sama' (1). And the rest of the staff also followed Shindou's example, referring Ryoma as 'hime' because they just loved calling her 'hime' more than 'oku-sama'. Ryoma was their 'little queen' princess.

"Thank you, Shindou-san," Syuusuke said. "I will be joining them in the yellow room. Please, prepare us a light meal."

"Hai, Fuji-sama," Shindou bowed and left toward the kitchen.

In the yellow room.

Ryoga and Hiroshi were discussing about their business and were asking for Sennosuke's insight and Nanjirou's opinion. Why Nanjirou's opinion? Ryoma had no idea. Apparently, Hiroshi-nii-sama always found an outsider's opinion to be valuable. Her mother was talking with her mother-in-law Seri and grandmother-in-law Fuji-dono about stuff that Ryoma don't want to know about. Actually, Ryoma don't care about anything happening around her lately. She was often felt tired because of numerous sleepless nights. She could have stayed in her room to rest, but she liked to be surrounded by her family (otherwise, boredom would have kill her). Karupin was snuggled against her, sharing with her his peace. Mii licked her cheek to show her compassion. Ryoma smiled and raised her hand to scratch Mii's head. Miyabi, who was sitting not far from Ryoma, smiled indulgently at her little sister as she was rocking to sleep her eight months old little girl, Yuuji Otaru. She knew about the little suffering Ryoma was going through. Then, Miyabi saw her second child, Yuuji Charles Nokoru, two years old, left the playground to bring Ryoma his plushy white owl toy. Ryoma gave him a small smile before accepting the gift and patted him on his head as a thank you. Pleased with himself, Nokoru returned back on the playground to play with Sora and his sister Nadeshiko, now four years old.

Touga and Sora were there too. They often stopped by their grandparents' place after school ever since Ryoma had started leaving there. As soon as Syuusuke entered the room, Touga and Sora were the first ones to greet him.

"Syuu-niichan, okaeri," Touga and Sora chorused. Syuusuke smiled.

"Tadaima," he said. He walked to Rinko and to Nanjirou to greet them too.

"Otou-sama, oka-sama (2), konnichiwa."

"Konnichiwa, Syuusuke," Rinko greeted back, smiling.

"Hun," Nanjirou nodded to him.

"Chichi, haha (3), obaa-sama, tadaima," Syuusuke great Sennosuke, Seri and his grand-mother.

"Okaeri, Syuusuke," Seri said. Sennosuke and Fuji-dono nodded at him.

Syuusuke nodded to Ryoga and to Miyabi, who returned his greeting too. Lastly, he walked to Ryoma, a tender smiled gracing his lips. Ryoma was too tired to get up to greet him. Instead, she raised her hand up to him, which he took it and close his fingers around it. He bended down to her and their lips met. Usually, Ryoma would come to him to greet him, but lately it was difficult for her to do it. Her physical condition made it very hard for her. She was often tired lately.

"Tadaima, anata (4)," Syuusuke whispered.

"Okaeri," Ryoma said, smiling to him. "How was your day?"

"Good, thank you," Syuusuke said, sitting down next do her. He put his arm across her shoulders and pulled her to him. "How are you two doing?" he asked, putting his hand on her bulging belly.

"Tired, but happy," Ryoma said, leaning in hid warmth. Because of the baby moving in her all night long, Ryoma couldn't rest. That was why she was so often tired, but she wasn't complaining.

Syuusuke felt a kick under his hand as respond from his future child. Syuusuke's eyes open at this pleasant surprise, a wide smile spreading on his face. Ryoma smiled as he caressed the spot where he felt the kick from his soon-to-be-born son or daughter. Touga was glaring at Ryoma's huge belly.

"Nee-chan, you're fat!" Touga blurt. Everybody in the room froze while Ryoma just turned around to look at Touga.

"Hah?" Was her only answer.

Besides Ryoma, the people in the roome were divided into various categories. The first category of absolutely scandalized person was Fuji-dono. The second category of stoic person was impersonified by Hiroshi, who was sipping his Earl Grey tea. After his cousin, nothing could surprise him anymore. Rinko and Seri discretely chuckled behind their hand. Syuusuke and Sennosuke tried discretely (Yeah, right!) to muffle their laugh in their hand while Ryoga and Nanjirou unashamedly gaffed like no tomorrow. Even Nadeshiko was rolling on the floor, imitating her father and grandfather.

"Hihihihi!" Nadeshiko wasn't trying (not very hard) to control herself at her young aunt's predicament. Nokoru flapped his arms in the air as he laughed too. The wolf plush toy in his hand was flunk away to fly straight into Nanjirou's face.

At the end, the joyful atmosphere also win over Fuji-dono, who couldn't keep her lips from twitching into a little smile as she laid her eyes on the future young mother of her next soon-to-be-born-great-grandchild. Even since Ryoma moved in the Fuji household, life had become so much more pleasant. She had become very fond on the new grand-daughter-in-law of the Fuji family.

"Touga, that's not a nice thing to say," Sora said as she pulled Nadeshiko up and cleaned the little girl's dress. She also kept Noruko from imitating his sister and rolled on the floor too.

"But I'm just stating a fact," Touga said. "Look at her. She is as huge as a whale!"

"Hah," Ryoma plainly respond again.

"Hahahaha!" More laughs resonated in the room. Miyabi smiled at Touga's comment as she shifted Otaru in her arms.

"This reminds of a déjà-vu a few years ago." Miyabi said, chuckling softly. Ryoma pouted at the implication underneath.

"Touga, it's only temporary. Once the baby will be born, I will be back my normal weight," Ryoma retorted. Miyabi laughed as Ryoma repeated the same words she said before.

"But you're still fat!" Touga insisted.

"Hahahahaha!" Ryoga and Miyabi laughed while Ryoma sighed.

"A déjà-vu? Tell me more about that." Syuusuke said.

Ryoga and Nanjirou proceed to tell him about the time Miyabi was first pregnant with Nadeshiko. While listening to them, Syuusuke massage Ryoma on the neck, on that spot, making her relax against him. Ryoma couldn't sleep well with an (overly) excited baby in her very round belly, but Syuusuke's touch has magical effect on her. And on the baby too. The young future mother and her soon-to-be-born baby drifted off to a nice slumber under the enchanting touch of one Fuji Syuusuke.

Night time.

"Hmm... " the little baby sighed contently as he sinked in the warmth of his mother.

"Hey, wait, but I want to see the outside. Hmm... Kaa-san, I want to go out. Now!"

Ryoma awoke with a start, shooting up from the bed. Feeling her sudden awake, Syuusuke opened his eyes and raised on his elbow.

"Ryoma, what's wrong?"

Ryoma put a hand on her belly and turned sheepishly to him.

"I think it's time," she said before grimacing under a contraction. Syuusuke grabbed the telephone on the bed table.

"Shindou-san, it looks like we are ahead of schedule. Call Kaoko-san and Aoko-san. Ryoma will be needing them. Now."

"Kashikomarimashita, Fuji-sama."

Next, Syuusuke switched his attention back to Ryoma to help her.

"It looks like the baby want to be born sooner than we expected," Syuusuke said, trying to distract her from.

"You think I didn't notice?!" Ryoma retorted, but was cut off by a sharp pain. "Ahhhhhhhhhh!" Her water broke.

"Hime-sama!" the maids rushed in the master bedroom as they hear Ryoma's scream. They hurried over her to put her at ease. Despite being pulled out of the bed at such an mad morning hour, the maids, still cladded in their pajamas, were grinning excitedly. A baby was coming today and they will be the first eyewitnesses. They grabbed blankets and pillows and set everything to welcome the little tyke.

Shindou stepped in the room, thought he was already primly dressed in his uniform. Being the perfectly trained butler he was, it took him least than 60 seconds to dress up.

"Fuji-sama, hime-sama, Yagyuu-sama is on his way here with the ambulance. I send the driver to get hime's parents," Shindou said, putting down a large buck of hot water he was carrying. He immediately spun on his heels, just in time before he was knocked out with the new comers who were flying in the room.

"Ryoma-chan!" Seri exclaimed and rushed toward her daughter-in-law. Sennosuke appeared half a second after her.

At the first glance at Ryoma, it didn't take a lot of times to Hiroshi to reach his final conclusion.

"The baby won't be waiting until we reach the hospital to be born," he said.

"Onii-sama, I don't care if the baby wants to be out at the hospital or half way to the hospital, just get him out now please! Ahhhhhhhh!" a sharp cry made Ryoma stop talking.

And as Hiroshi expected, the ambulance was useless. Fuji Ryosuke was a too lazy baby to patiently wait until the expected date of the next week to come out into the world or even patiently waiting to reach the hospital to be born. Instead, he just decided to do as he liked and be born in less than 45 minutes after he had taken his decision to go out and say hello to his parents.

The next morning (or the sme morning of that eventful birthday).

Fuji Ryosuke was being cooed by the extended family of his father and his mother while he completely ignored them to enjoy his nap. The first task he had set for himself after coming into the world was saying hello to his mother and his father (on the top of his lunges). He never set himself the task to say hello to other people, so he decided to sleep in their face.

"Syuusuke, this is all your fault that Yousuke is not doing what is expecting from him, be born before the due date and not even in a hospital," Ryoma said.

"But Ryoma, that also applies to you. Have you ever did something that was expected from you?" Syuusuke asked back, smiling pleasantly.

"She never did," Nanjirou, Ryoga and Hiroshi chorused while Syuusuke, Miyabi, Seri and Sennosuke chuckled.

"Ryoma, you too didn't wait until the expected date to come into the world. You were two weeks ahead of your time," Rinko said, smiling. Ryoma only pouted.

"Huh!"

For sure, with such a clearly defined caracter already, Fuji Ryosuke was a promise of a very eventful parenthood life for both his parents.

Ryoma never thought that anything can be as evenftul as with Ryosuke. She was dead wrong. When the twin Eisuke and Yousuke ("Why your family line like so much "-suke" ending name?" Ryoma asked before only have a chuckle from the two Fuji men as answer) came into the world, they made their elder brother look like an angel beside them. Much to Syuusuke's joy (and much to Ryoma's horror).

And Fuji Syuusuke being Fuji Syuusuke, who is a sadist (extraordinaire), had already scheduled ahead more children to have more fun. Despite what Ryoma might think about that. It had never occurred to Syuusuke that the one bearing child was Ryoma and not him (but you and I know that's exactly the definition included in the name of Fuji Syuusuke).

The end of the end.

1) oku-sama: Madam. Usually designed to call the mistress of a house. If said with a Tokyo accent, you 'eat' the sound 'u', which would become 'ok'-sama'. If said with the Osaka accent, then the two syllables are clearly pronounced, becoming 'o-ku-sama'.

2) otou-sama, oka-sama: father and mother.

3) chichi, haha: also father and mother. The difference with 'otou-sama' and 'oka-sama' is that 'chichi' and 'haha' are referred to your own parents. If you are talking about other people's parents, then you referred them as 'otou-san' and 'oka-san'. For example, if you ask "What is your father's/mother's name?" to someone else, it would be "Kimi no otou-san/oka-san no namae wa nan desu ka?" If you talk about your parents, it would be "Watashi no chichi/haha no namae wa [insert names] desu" (My father's/mother's name is [insert name]).

4) anata: you and an appellation between spouses.

MESSAGE REMAINDER(from A/N chapter 79)

To whom this may concern,

I have been made aware that there are people who were posting my fanfic as their own on other fanfiction communities, claiming that they are the author as well. Those acts are described as plagiarism. Please, I will ask the concerned people to remove my fanfic from your publishing account or give me back my credits. I'm happy that my story inspired you to write one. On the other hand, I do not stand for plagiarism. Like every fanfiction writers, I work hard to come up with this story. I believe I deserve respect just for the hadrworking hours I put in to build this story up. If you cannot have respect for my hardwork, please, at least have respect for yourself and do not degrade yourself so low.

Sincerely yours,
Plush

Update on Wednesday, June 05, 2013. Unbeta'd.