Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Ruin ❯ About Time ( Epilogue )

Hajime purposely stayed far behind Haruka in the next race. When she and Michiru had walked passed him after her victory, he had lowered his head so that Haruka couldn't claim that he had been looking at Michiru. Haruka had also noticed that none of the men he had associated with seemed to have anything to do with him anymore. It seemed like only a matter of time before he quit racing completely. Haruka couldn't wait.

She and Michiru had made up completely over the past few months. With twice the amount of lovemaking, there wasn't any way that she couldn't completely redeem her feelings for her lover. They had continued to make music together: Haruka with her piano and Michiru with her violin. They had been invited to play at many parties. Hajime, by some chance of pure misfortune, had been one of the guests. Haruka wasn't sure if Michiru had noticed him, but when he caught Haruka's eye upon him, he dropped his glass of champagne and rushed from the building. Haruka noticed that his gaze had fallen upon Michiru as he was browsing the row of musicians, but she didn't feel like taking the time to find him so that she could punish him a bit more. Anyway, Hajime never bothered anyone again.

Michiru never asked Haruka about what she had done to Hajime to cause such a difference in him, but she seemed to be satisfied. Michiru never told her exactly what he had done to her, but Haruka didn't really want to know. The only difference Haruka had noticed in her was that her paintings had converted from ocean scenes to scenes of families by the ocean, to simply scenes of families. All of them contained two women and a little girl. Haruka got the picture after a while and decided to suck up her courage and pop the question.

Haruka had screwed up on her entire proposal but Michiru had still accepted it. They had gone to America to carry out the ceremony. Their marriage meant nothing in Japan, but holding the license meant more than the world to the both of them. Haruka and Michiru had it framed and placed above their bed. They had gone back to America for six years of the highest education possible, and when they came back, they adopted the beautiful little girl that Michiru had always wanted.

In other words, Haruka, Michiru, and their two-year old daughter, Megumi, lived happily ever after. Hajime, however, did not. He fought colon cancer, rectal cancer, and testicular cancer (all at the same time) for fifteen years before he died a lonely man.