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I can't believe I accidentally overwrite the updated draft with the non-updated one after I've wrote this chapter halfway through. Luckily I already posted 13, and I managed to rewrite a MUCH BETTER scene for that scene I wrote on the beginning of this chapter...
Title: Tsunderella
Chapter: 14 - Life's Iroha
Characters: NEWS members, Tackey
Fandom: Johnny's Entertainment
Rating: PG15
Summary: Life is just another stage...
A/N: It's done!!!! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Now that needed break before I continue Orthros... XD Extra notes at the end of the chapter cos it's kinda spoilerish... XD Proofing later... I'm high...
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The five of them were about to storm the room when they heard some hushed voice, talking inside. Curious as to who and what had been talked about, Yamapi and the others slowly turned the door knob open slowly as to not alert the occupants inside of their presence.
It turned out to be only Ryo and his brother Hideaki, as they seemed to be talking in a very serious tone. Ryo seemed to be leaning very close to Hide as Yamapi could swear that he heard some sort of sobbing coming from their direction. Curious of what was wrong, he turned towards the others to keep extremely quiet before glaring at Jin as he had put his whole weight on top of him. Ignoring him, Pi turned back his attention towards the two brothers as Hideaki started to speak again.
”It will turn out fine. You don’t have to worry so much. You did want to be able to walk normally like you used to… right?”
Pi could not hear Ryo’s reply as his voice was almost equally soft as his brother’s, and it sounded like he was trying so hard to keep himself from sobbing too hard as well as speak softly. Hide laughed softly as he pulled his brother closer to him.
“Silly, they won’t forget you just because you went away for a while. They’re your friends, right? You should trust them a bit more than that,” Hide chuckled again as Ryo mumbled something that seemed to amuse him greatly.
“Dear… nothing like that would happen. I think… even everyone that knows you at the market district would still remember you. I’ll bet they’ll miss you just as much as you’ll miss them. I saw Subaru-san today, you know? He asked me to tell you to keep up the effort to get well. I told him about us leaving… and he said good luck. He told me that he’d make you something special later after we get back home. After you get well fully…”
“So see… Ryo-chan, don’t be like this. It’s not like you’d be going there alone. I’ll be there with you.”
Ryo’s sobbing grew even louder as Hide laughed again. “Now… now,” he said loudly. “Don’t cry anymore… you’d look even less cool than you are now if you continue this in front of your friends—“
Taken completely by surprise, Yamapi’s hold on the doorknob slipped as he fell onto the floor, followed by another four young lads crashing on top of him. Ryo glanced towards them and squealed aloud before grabbing a discarded quilt beside the bed to cover himself. Hideaki stared at his brother in amusement before holding him close again, as he turned to check the five lads.
Tegoshi and Masuda cheerfully greeted him as Ohkura and Jin grinned at him sheepishly. Yamapi on the other hand, was preoccupied with his own struggles to free himself from the pile of humans on top of him. Laughing at themselves, the four of them gathered themselves up as Yamapi brushed himself grumpily.
He turned his attention towards Hideaki as he noticed the big lump sitting beside him that should have been where Ryo was supposed to be. Hide grinned.
“Ignore my baby brother. He’s being unusually shy today…” he said as the five approached them closer.
“What’s wrong?” he asked as Hide shrugged.
“You’d probably heard a bit… but someone was worried that everyone would forget about him once he leaves this place—“, he started to explain as the lump beside him started to protest loudly.
“What the—you can’t seriously think that, Ryo-tan!” Tegoshi exclaimed as Hide laughed.
“See? You’ve got your old buddy mad already… didn’t I tell you just now? And it’s not like we won’t maintain any contact after this with everyone—“
“You got that right!” said Ohkura as well as Jin snickered. Yamapi elbowed him as he tried to keep his face straight. Hide smiled as he pulled the covers away as Ryo’s head popped out from underneath it. Ryo’s hair had been tousled, his eyes and cheeks red, and stained with tears as he looked very miserable. Yamapi sighed as he could not help but feel for him.
“I’ll—we’ll call on you often…” he started to say as Tegoshi nodded.
“I’ve always thought of you as my friend, even after we’ve lost contact for a while… so what’s so bad about not meeting again for a few more years? We’ll still meet again after that!”
“So, enough crying already… if you want, I’ll treat you to ice cream after this,” Massu added as Jin showed his thumbs up at him for suggesting such a great idea before Ryo threw the bed covers towards them.
“Idiots! I’d get a cold like that!” he managed to say without stumbling on his words as the five started to laugh loudly. Ryo too, started to cheer up as he realized that his worries had all been baseless…
xxx
That had been a week ago…
Few days later, Ryo and his brother had packed up their things for their journey. Hide later explained to them, that Inagaki-san had told them about a rehab centre in America that has been one of the best places over there that specialized in treating and providing rehabilitation treatment for traumatic brain injuries (TBI) patients like Ryo. He thought if they went there, the chances of Ryo recovering from his current condition was better. Not that Japan did not have similar facilities available locally, but the one at the centre had better experience and equipments. Even Ryo’s current doctor recommended that, which was why he had agreed on that decision.
Keii and Shige would still remain living at the house in Asahina-cho, there was no argument about that. Even if both of them were not related to Ryo and him by blood, they were still their stepbrothers thus family. Even after Yuko had been treating them badly, Hideaki had arranged for the best arrangement for his stepmother’s wellbeing. At which later, Hide had assigned Inagaki-san and Keiichiro to be the ones handling the Nishizawa’s properties until they returned.
The send-off at the airport had been well. Ryo had been slightly better than at that time at the hospital. But still he ended up crying very badly when they finally had to part. Like Hide had mentioned before, they did maintained contact between Keii, Shige as well as the rest of Ryo’s friends.
Of course, there was still the matter of the difference in time zones between them; but it was not as if it had posed a big problem to them…
xxx
Yamapi glanced up in front of him as he tried to reach out towards the particular book on the shelf. He pulled it out as he grinned to himself. Lucky… this particular reference book had been pretty rare. Most of the time when he had tried to borrow this book from the library, the book would always often not around—already taken out by the other students who appeared to have the same thought as he did. Frustrating.
It was not like there weren’t any other reference book that he could use. It’s just that… this particular book had the explanations and terms made easier to understand. But apparently, other people think that as well—regardless, he’s got it now! Pi walked out to the counter as he proceeded to check the book out…
xxx
“Ne… did you hear? I heard that particular long-distance student going to finally study here with us! Finally! I thought we’d going to have to spend another year wondering about how that student had looked like in person…”
Pi glanced sideways at the nearby pair as the two girls continued to chat excitedly under the tree. He rolled his eyes at them, but then… it was his fault for trying to read his book out in the open like this. He would have just move away but he was lazy. It’s not like he’s going to pay any attention towards whatever topic those girls were talking about…
“Ah! You mean that one whose creative prose assignment often got praised by the lecturer?”
“Ah, that’s the one! I happened to read one of that student’s poems, you know? It was simple, he mostly wrote about the most normal things that he had seen around him yet… the way he wrote them, it was so sweet. His style of writing was very simplistic but very beautiful—“
Pi leered towards the two girls as both started giggling.
“Ah! Eri-chan! It sounded like you’ve fallen in love with that student—“
“Mou—Makki!” cried the other girl.
“But you know… I heard that the student had been staying overseas for a while, which was why he had taken our course using the distance learning programme. I wonder why…”
The friend grinned at the other girl. “I bet you hoped that the student was a handsome guy, right Eri-chan?” she said as both girls started teasing each other again before noticing that Pi had been staring at them for quite some time. The girls hastily excused themselves away as Pi chuckled to himself in amusement.
But some time later, Yamapi could not help pondering about the things that those two girls had been talking about. Weird. It was not like him to be interested over some random gossip at the university…
Yamapi glanced towards the north gate entrance of the university as a car came in and stopped in front of the administration office. A man came out from the car as Pi paused to take a closer look. For some reason, that man seemed to be familiar…
The man walked to the passenger’s side of the car before opening the car door. Pi squinted at the man as it appeared he was trying to help the person sitting on the passenger seat to come out from the car. He frowned as the man pulled out a metal hand crutch before gently supporting the other person out in the open.
Without thinking, Pi had started walking towards the direction of that car as he watched the first man slammed the car door close. The man that proceeded to help the other person walk towards the administration office before finally Yamapi got a clear look of the two persons…
“Ryo!”
Nishizawa Ryo looked up from trying to stabilize himself to walking with the hand crutch as he caught sight of a very familiar face. He smiled at him as his brother let out a chuckle, surprised at the unexpected chance meeting…
xxx
“Ryo-taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!” Tegoshi called out towards him from afar before running up towards them to jump at Ryo. Pi caught him midway before Tegoshi could land on Ryo and cause some untoward incidents.
“Watch it! Ryo hadn’t fully regained his full strength still. What if you missed and fell on him and hurt him even more?”
Tegoshi grinned at him. “Fussy Pi... you must be feeling very smug now, since Ryo-tan got into the same university as you—“
“Same university... but different faculty.” Ryo corrected him as he slowly walked towards him.
Pi smiled as he pulled Tegoshi to his side.
“But you know, Tesshi... Ryo-chan was certainly something. Even before he formally attended his new class... he already had a new admirer—“
Tegoshi stared at him wide-eyed with wonder as Ryo blushed.
“Hey, Yamashita! Don’t start making up weird gossips! There was no such thing like that happening!” he cried as Hide grinned at them. He patted Ryo’s head as he turned towards Pi.
“Yamapi... isn’t it a bit too early to start making gossips about my brother—?"
“But it’s true! I overheard the two girls talking about it this morning. Then again... I should have guessed it’s about Ryo. Some of the things mentioned by them were the kind of things Ryo used to do... Aaah! So nice... Ryo, how about we later go double date with those girls? Should be fun! They were both very cute after all”
Ryo’s face flushed into a deeper shade of scarlet as he stuttered.
“I-i-idiot Pi!”
Hide chuckled. “So... what was it that Ryo did that got himself a girl falling for him?” he asked as Ryo started crying in agony for the embarrassment to stop. Tegoshi was grinning too much Ryo wondered why hadn’t his face started bursting apart already. Tegoshi’s face looked like it could be as red as his face seemed to feel like, blushing rapidly... but for a totally different reason.
Pi grinned.
“The girl read one of Ryo’s poems he had sent to the lecturer as an assignment. It really captured her heart... I wonder if it’s love at first sight—no, love at first read! Hahaha—“
“Interesting... I felt like trying to sneak a read into Ryo’s diary again...”
“Onii-san!” cried someone in horror as the brother laughed aloud. Tegoshi laughed as well as he chirped.
“Aaah, that reminds me... Hina-chan and everyone should be ready by now! We should really head to the place for Ryo and Hide-niisan’s welcoming party!”
Pi’s eyes sparkled as he grabbed Tegoshi’s hands.
“Great timing! We should run for it then! Wanna bet if we run now... we’d have enough time to tell the others about Ryo’s secret love story to them before Ryo can catch up to us?” Pi exclaimed as he gave Ryo a cheeky look. Tegoshi grinned as without warning, he grabbed Pi away and ran like lightning towards the appointed venue.
Ryo swore loudly at the sudden movement as he tried his best to chase after them... crutches and all!
Hideaki smiled in amusement.
“You know... chibi, it would have been faster if we get into the car now...” he started to say as Ryo snapped.
“Nope! That’ll be cheating! I want to prove to them I too can catch up to them by my own effort even if both my legs were wood. And don’t call me chibi! It’s been too long since you’ve called me that...” cried Ryo as he continued to r—walk speedily towards the direction his fellow friends had been running to. Hide grinned as he skipped towards his little brother and lifted him up on a piggy ride and started running while carrying him along. Ryo cheered as he started waving his hand crutch like a sword across the neighbourhood, not caring if both of them had looked like some idiots running across the road...
Ah...
Coming back home was such a great feeling...
Sometime later as they arrived, still as hyper as they had been hours ago... both brothers greeted again old friends and new, finally reunited for so long as they all cheered for even more happy outcome in their future...
THE END.
And they lived... happily ever after. Because the narrator feels like this phrase should not be left forgotten.
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* I based the university description to that of Keio University, Main Branch (Mita campus), since I'm not sure if Meiji had distance learning in their programme (there's so much that I can wiki and google). The setting was during Pi's second year... or almost at the beginning of his third year. Not sure of the length of term they should have... but I figure 3 years should be standard. Assumingly the system was similar to how uni's in M'sia worked. I only know Medicine to take longer than that. And perhaps Engineering...
* I had Pi take Business and Administration course similar as to the one he take IRL while Ryo taking Literature under Keio's Faculty of Letter. Whether it's Japanese or English... I'll leave that to speculations. XD. Not sure what actual course they have it the Literature course anyway... just pretend that I know. XD
* Yes the GIRLS! And you'd think we won't even have any mentions of girls in this fic aside from Yuko and the old lady and the faceless girls at the streets. They were based on Horikita Maki and Sawajiri Erika. Or if you prefer Toda Erika... suit yourself. XD
* Though this was the final chapter, I won't mind writing some bits of off-shots of this in the future. Depends on my muses. XDDD
So yeah.... hope you guys enjoy reading this!
Title: Tsunderella
Chapter: 14 - Life's Iroha
Characters: NEWS members, Tackey
Fandom: Johnny's Entertainment
Rating: PG15
Summary: Life is just another stage...
A/N: It's done!!!! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Now that needed break before I continue Orthros... XD Extra notes at the end of the chapter cos it's kinda spoilerish... XD Proofing later... I'm high...
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The five of them were about to storm the room when they heard some hushed voice, talking inside. Curious as to who and what had been talked about, Yamapi and the others slowly turned the door knob open slowly as to not alert the occupants inside of their presence.
It turned out to be only Ryo and his brother Hideaki, as they seemed to be talking in a very serious tone. Ryo seemed to be leaning very close to Hide as Yamapi could swear that he heard some sort of sobbing coming from their direction. Curious of what was wrong, he turned towards the others to keep extremely quiet before glaring at Jin as he had put his whole weight on top of him. Ignoring him, Pi turned back his attention towards the two brothers as Hideaki started to speak again.
”It will turn out fine. You don’t have to worry so much. You did want to be able to walk normally like you used to… right?”
Pi could not hear Ryo’s reply as his voice was almost equally soft as his brother’s, and it sounded like he was trying so hard to keep himself from sobbing too hard as well as speak softly. Hide laughed softly as he pulled his brother closer to him.
“Silly, they won’t forget you just because you went away for a while. They’re your friends, right? You should trust them a bit more than that,” Hide chuckled again as Ryo mumbled something that seemed to amuse him greatly.
“Dear… nothing like that would happen. I think… even everyone that knows you at the market district would still remember you. I’ll bet they’ll miss you just as much as you’ll miss them. I saw Subaru-san today, you know? He asked me to tell you to keep up the effort to get well. I told him about us leaving… and he said good luck. He told me that he’d make you something special later after we get back home. After you get well fully…”
“So see… Ryo-chan, don’t be like this. It’s not like you’d be going there alone. I’ll be there with you.”
Ryo’s sobbing grew even louder as Hide laughed again. “Now… now,” he said loudly. “Don’t cry anymore… you’d look even less cool than you are now if you continue this in front of your friends—“
Taken completely by surprise, Yamapi’s hold on the doorknob slipped as he fell onto the floor, followed by another four young lads crashing on top of him. Ryo glanced towards them and squealed aloud before grabbing a discarded quilt beside the bed to cover himself. Hideaki stared at his brother in amusement before holding him close again, as he turned to check the five lads.
Tegoshi and Masuda cheerfully greeted him as Ohkura and Jin grinned at him sheepishly. Yamapi on the other hand, was preoccupied with his own struggles to free himself from the pile of humans on top of him. Laughing at themselves, the four of them gathered themselves up as Yamapi brushed himself grumpily.
He turned his attention towards Hideaki as he noticed the big lump sitting beside him that should have been where Ryo was supposed to be. Hide grinned.
“Ignore my baby brother. He’s being unusually shy today…” he said as the five approached them closer.
“What’s wrong?” he asked as Hide shrugged.
“You’d probably heard a bit… but someone was worried that everyone would forget about him once he leaves this place—“, he started to explain as the lump beside him started to protest loudly.
“What the—you can’t seriously think that, Ryo-tan!” Tegoshi exclaimed as Hide laughed.
“See? You’ve got your old buddy mad already… didn’t I tell you just now? And it’s not like we won’t maintain any contact after this with everyone—“
“You got that right!” said Ohkura as well as Jin snickered. Yamapi elbowed him as he tried to keep his face straight. Hide smiled as he pulled the covers away as Ryo’s head popped out from underneath it. Ryo’s hair had been tousled, his eyes and cheeks red, and stained with tears as he looked very miserable. Yamapi sighed as he could not help but feel for him.
“I’ll—we’ll call on you often…” he started to say as Tegoshi nodded.
“I’ve always thought of you as my friend, even after we’ve lost contact for a while… so what’s so bad about not meeting again for a few more years? We’ll still meet again after that!”
“So, enough crying already… if you want, I’ll treat you to ice cream after this,” Massu added as Jin showed his thumbs up at him for suggesting such a great idea before Ryo threw the bed covers towards them.
“Idiots! I’d get a cold like that!” he managed to say without stumbling on his words as the five started to laugh loudly. Ryo too, started to cheer up as he realized that his worries had all been baseless…
xxx
That had been a week ago…
Few days later, Ryo and his brother had packed up their things for their journey. Hide later explained to them, that Inagaki-san had told them about a rehab centre in America that has been one of the best places over there that specialized in treating and providing rehabilitation treatment for traumatic brain injuries (TBI) patients like Ryo. He thought if they went there, the chances of Ryo recovering from his current condition was better. Not that Japan did not have similar facilities available locally, but the one at the centre had better experience and equipments. Even Ryo’s current doctor recommended that, which was why he had agreed on that decision.
Keii and Shige would still remain living at the house in Asahina-cho, there was no argument about that. Even if both of them were not related to Ryo and him by blood, they were still their stepbrothers thus family. Even after Yuko had been treating them badly, Hideaki had arranged for the best arrangement for his stepmother’s wellbeing. At which later, Hide had assigned Inagaki-san and Keiichiro to be the ones handling the Nishizawa’s properties until they returned.
The send-off at the airport had been well. Ryo had been slightly better than at that time at the hospital. But still he ended up crying very badly when they finally had to part. Like Hide had mentioned before, they did maintained contact between Keii, Shige as well as the rest of Ryo’s friends.
Of course, there was still the matter of the difference in time zones between them; but it was not as if it had posed a big problem to them…
xxx
Yamapi glanced up in front of him as he tried to reach out towards the particular book on the shelf. He pulled it out as he grinned to himself. Lucky… this particular reference book had been pretty rare. Most of the time when he had tried to borrow this book from the library, the book would always often not around—already taken out by the other students who appeared to have the same thought as he did. Frustrating.
It was not like there weren’t any other reference book that he could use. It’s just that… this particular book had the explanations and terms made easier to understand. But apparently, other people think that as well—regardless, he’s got it now! Pi walked out to the counter as he proceeded to check the book out…
xxx
“Ne… did you hear? I heard that particular long-distance student going to finally study here with us! Finally! I thought we’d going to have to spend another year wondering about how that student had looked like in person…”
Pi glanced sideways at the nearby pair as the two girls continued to chat excitedly under the tree. He rolled his eyes at them, but then… it was his fault for trying to read his book out in the open like this. He would have just move away but he was lazy. It’s not like he’s going to pay any attention towards whatever topic those girls were talking about…
“Ah! You mean that one whose creative prose assignment often got praised by the lecturer?”
“Ah, that’s the one! I happened to read one of that student’s poems, you know? It was simple, he mostly wrote about the most normal things that he had seen around him yet… the way he wrote them, it was so sweet. His style of writing was very simplistic but very beautiful—“
Pi leered towards the two girls as both started giggling.
“Ah! Eri-chan! It sounded like you’ve fallen in love with that student—“
“Mou—Makki!” cried the other girl.
“But you know… I heard that the student had been staying overseas for a while, which was why he had taken our course using the distance learning programme. I wonder why…”
The friend grinned at the other girl. “I bet you hoped that the student was a handsome guy, right Eri-chan?” she said as both girls started teasing each other again before noticing that Pi had been staring at them for quite some time. The girls hastily excused themselves away as Pi chuckled to himself in amusement.
But some time later, Yamapi could not help pondering about the things that those two girls had been talking about. Weird. It was not like him to be interested over some random gossip at the university…
Yamapi glanced towards the north gate entrance of the university as a car came in and stopped in front of the administration office. A man came out from the car as Pi paused to take a closer look. For some reason, that man seemed to be familiar…
The man walked to the passenger’s side of the car before opening the car door. Pi squinted at the man as it appeared he was trying to help the person sitting on the passenger seat to come out from the car. He frowned as the man pulled out a metal hand crutch before gently supporting the other person out in the open.
Without thinking, Pi had started walking towards the direction of that car as he watched the first man slammed the car door close. The man that proceeded to help the other person walk towards the administration office before finally Yamapi got a clear look of the two persons…
“Ryo!”
Nishizawa Ryo looked up from trying to stabilize himself to walking with the hand crutch as he caught sight of a very familiar face. He smiled at him as his brother let out a chuckle, surprised at the unexpected chance meeting…
xxx
“Ryo-taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!” Tegoshi called out towards him from afar before running up towards them to jump at Ryo. Pi caught him midway before Tegoshi could land on Ryo and cause some untoward incidents.
“Watch it! Ryo hadn’t fully regained his full strength still. What if you missed and fell on him and hurt him even more?”
Tegoshi grinned at him. “Fussy Pi... you must be feeling very smug now, since Ryo-tan got into the same university as you—“
“Same university... but different faculty.” Ryo corrected him as he slowly walked towards him.
Pi smiled as he pulled Tegoshi to his side.
“But you know, Tesshi... Ryo-chan was certainly something. Even before he formally attended his new class... he already had a new admirer—“
Tegoshi stared at him wide-eyed with wonder as Ryo blushed.
“Hey, Yamashita! Don’t start making up weird gossips! There was no such thing like that happening!” he cried as Hide grinned at them. He patted Ryo’s head as he turned towards Pi.
“Yamapi... isn’t it a bit too early to start making gossips about my brother—?"
“But it’s true! I overheard the two girls talking about it this morning. Then again... I should have guessed it’s about Ryo. Some of the things mentioned by them were the kind of things Ryo used to do... Aaah! So nice... Ryo, how about we later go double date with those girls? Should be fun! They were both very cute after all”
Ryo’s face flushed into a deeper shade of scarlet as he stuttered.
“I-i-idiot Pi!”
Hide chuckled. “So... what was it that Ryo did that got himself a girl falling for him?” he asked as Ryo started crying in agony for the embarrassment to stop. Tegoshi was grinning too much Ryo wondered why hadn’t his face started bursting apart already. Tegoshi’s face looked like it could be as red as his face seemed to feel like, blushing rapidly... but for a totally different reason.
Pi grinned.
“The girl read one of Ryo’s poems he had sent to the lecturer as an assignment. It really captured her heart... I wonder if it’s love at first sight—no, love at first read! Hahaha—“
“Interesting... I felt like trying to sneak a read into Ryo’s diary again...”
“Onii-san!” cried someone in horror as the brother laughed aloud. Tegoshi laughed as well as he chirped.
“Aaah, that reminds me... Hina-chan and everyone should be ready by now! We should really head to the place for Ryo and Hide-niisan’s welcoming party!”
Pi’s eyes sparkled as he grabbed Tegoshi’s hands.
“Great timing! We should run for it then! Wanna bet if we run now... we’d have enough time to tell the others about Ryo’s secret love story to them before Ryo can catch up to us?” Pi exclaimed as he gave Ryo a cheeky look. Tegoshi grinned as without warning, he grabbed Pi away and ran like lightning towards the appointed venue.
Ryo swore loudly at the sudden movement as he tried his best to chase after them... crutches and all!
Hideaki smiled in amusement.
“You know... chibi, it would have been faster if we get into the car now...” he started to say as Ryo snapped.
“Nope! That’ll be cheating! I want to prove to them I too can catch up to them by my own effort even if both my legs were wood. And don’t call me chibi! It’s been too long since you’ve called me that...” cried Ryo as he continued to r—walk speedily towards the direction his fellow friends had been running to. Hide grinned as he skipped towards his little brother and lifted him up on a piggy ride and started running while carrying him along. Ryo cheered as he started waving his hand crutch like a sword across the neighbourhood, not caring if both of them had looked like some idiots running across the road...
Ah...
Coming back home was such a great feeling...
Sometime later as they arrived, still as hyper as they had been hours ago... both brothers greeted again old friends and new, finally reunited for so long as they all cheered for even more happy outcome in their future...
THE END.
And they lived... happily ever after. Because the narrator feels like this phrase should not be left forgotten.
-------------
* I based the university description to that of Keio University, Main Branch (Mita campus), since I'm not sure if Meiji had distance learning in their programme (there's so much that I can wiki and google). The setting was during Pi's second year... or almost at the beginning of his third year. Not sure of the length of term they should have... but I figure 3 years should be standard. Assumingly the system was similar to how uni's in M'sia worked. I only know Medicine to take longer than that. And perhaps Engineering...
* I had Pi take Business and Administration course similar as to the one he take IRL while Ryo taking Literature under Keio's Faculty of Letter. Whether it's Japanese or English... I'll leave that to speculations. XD. Not sure what actual course they have it the Literature course anyway... just pretend that I know. XD
* Yes the GIRLS! And you'd think we won't even have any mentions of girls in this fic aside from Yuko and the old lady and the faceless girls at the streets. They were based on Horikita Maki and Sawajiri Erika. Or if you prefer Toda Erika... suit yourself. XD
* Though this was the final chapter, I won't mind writing some bits of off-shots of this in the future. Depends on my muses. XDDD
So yeah.... hope you guys enjoy reading this!
