Even A Caged Bird Needs to Fly - Epilogue

"Once, when I was younger, the kids in my class played a game where they went around assigning everyone the name of a fruit. I asked them 'what should I be?' They laughed and told me 'You can be the rice ball'. Then they started running around chasing each other, playing... Every so often, they'd call out the name of another fruit, and that child would get to join in. But they never called me. I was too dumb to realize...there's no rice ball in a fruits basket."

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Even A Caged Bird Needs to Fly - Epilogue

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I just realized that the epilogue for my last post got cut off... so I will place it here instead.

Haru: She's such a baka.



Epilogue

I step out of the cab holding my daughter in one arm and my cane in the opposite hand and wait as Tohru pays the man at the back of the cab for driving us from the airport. He sets our bags on the sidewalk and pulls off leaving us standing at the main gates of the Sohma compound. Most of our things had been shipped over prior to our arrival.

Summer break had arrived and we?d made a number of decisions over the last semester. We got married as soon as I was released from bed rest and had Kari?s surname changed officially to Sohma. We both applied for entrance to Japanese Universities and were accepted by the same one that Momiji was attending. After careful consideration, we had determined that in some ways Akito was right. We were going to need to be in a place where we didn?t have to worry about Kari or me changing. Home was the best place for that. So, now that the semester was over, we had come back here.

Hatori had had Akito placed in a home for the mentally disturbed; being his family physician, he could do that. Yuki is currently serving in the Clan head?s stead. He has assured me, several times that it?s safe for the Cat to come home. The cage where so many bearing the Curse of the Cat had been placed was razed to the ground as soon as Yuki took over. The next official clan head, whomever that may be, will never be told that it was ever a practice and hopefully will the horrible tradition will be buried forever.
I push open the gate to find most of the Juunishi gathered on the other side.

Yuki and Momiji move forward and pick up the bags where they sit at Tohru?s feet. I hand Kisa my cane and gather Tohru?s hand into mine. We enter the compound, not looking back, only forward. While the future is never certain, ours is filled with love and hope.

So, this is what home is supposed to feel like?who would have known?
~~ Koneko I am, koneko I'll always be, living in the darkness beyond the night.~~
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