One Helluva Team

Epilogue

There's a zap. A sting. A crackle.

He couldn't believe that he was alive again, remembering vividly that he was stabbed by Mikey with Akito. Yet here he is, alive and well, thrown back to the past yet again.

The first thing he does is run out of his family home to run to Mikey's family estate. He runs past a park, neighborhoods, police cars surrounding a house, and a convenience store before running through a few more neighborhoods and finding himself in front of the Sano Estate. He looks up at the buzzer outside the home's wall, breathing heavily from running, and hesitant to ring the bell.

Just then he hears a boy shout at him, Takemichi looks over to see a familiar face. It was Baji! He's way younger, with shorter hair, softer features, and small fists balled at his sides. Even his pre-pubescent voice still has that aggressive growl.

Before Takemichi could process or even say his name, he was getting punched in the face by the young Baji.

Falling back to the floor, Takemichi hears the entrance gate open and followed by a young girl's voice calling out to Baji. He sits up to see another familiar face, recognizing the young girl to be Emma pointing an accusatory finger at Baji. Next who comes into his view is a male that is tall and places his hand on the top of Emma's head, he looks like an older version of Mikey with black hair. It had to be Shinichiro.

Next walking from the neighborhood was another boy with blond hair and no scars, but by the name Shinichiro calls him, it was Sanzu! Takemichi stares at the group talking to each other in pure awe and in disbelief. Shinichiro, Emma, and Baji were still alive! Sanzu seemed fine and healthy!

Just then coming out of the house and approaching the group that questions and stare down at the stranger, a young Mikey in a pink hoodie and shorts stare down at the stranger. Takemichi gasps with tears formulating in his blue eyes. At the utterance of Mikey's name, Mikey's eyes widen and respond in disbelief.

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Eyes flutter open slowly, waking up to a bright ceiling light shining down on her and the soft sound of a machine beeping in a steady rhythm. Unable to be able to move, she forces herself to wiggle her fingers, to wiggle her big toe in hopes that'll get her body moving again.

She's alive. She doesn't know how. But she is.

Amber eyes trail down to her feet, wincing in pain as she cranes her head to look down. She's in her family's infirmary. She saw her mother, she knows she did but was that just her imagination?

Where's Mitsuya? Where's Yeong-Ja? Why isn't Hanma at her side? How long has she been asleep?

Too many questions circulate in her mind as she forces herself to get moving again. She needs to get out of bed and see if everyone is okay, she needs to assure her father that she's okay. She has a gang to run, an organization, and a business to oversee. She can't be laying in bed as if she had all the time in the world to do so. She needs to get back to work no matter how long she's been asleep for.

The moment she gets herself to sit up, she snaps her head towards the door at the sound of the doorknob turning and clicking. Like a deer in headlights, her eyes widen seeing the man that enters the room. His golden hazel eye widens with his lips parting, he drops the book in his hand. A smile creeps onto his face as tears burst in his eye, his scarred eye even watering at the sight of the girl in bed sitting up and awake.

"Papa," She smiles sweetly, tears bubbling in her eyes.

A breathless gasp leaves him, "Akito!" He scrambles to the side of her bed and engulfs her in a tight hug.