It was quiet for a couple of days, while Yasunobu completed his task of providing the restaurant with 10 Outstanding Steaks...which as it turned out was the last accomplished task he ever did.
The next day, Simis showed up...to talk to his step-daughter. "What is it, Dad?" River asked her step-dad. "I need you to be strong...River...the Reaper grows restless again..." he intoned, his hollow voice as if emanating from deep within a sepulchre. River felt a growing sense of dread creep up on her. No...it surely couldn't be... Haruo came in to see Simis disappear in a puff of blue smoke. "What is it? Honey?" Haruo asked River seeing as she was a little startled. "Just hold me..." River said and Haruo obliged.
"Mom...I'm going into business...so I found out that I need to go to a boarding school to learn business..." Brayden said to his mother as River looked pained. Her son had just come home, but wanted to go back to boarding school again. But she nodded as that was Brayden's wish to become a CEO of a MegaCorporation and far be it for her to stand in her son's way for selfish reasons. River loved her sons and daughter and would do anything for them up to and including giving up her life for them. "I understand, son...." was all River said before she made the phone call to Smuggsworth Prep School. He would leave at 9AM the next morning.
That night a restless Yasunobu woke up and was greeted by the glowing motes of transfiguration. Realizing what it was the ghostly form of Yasunobu reached into his pocket and pulled out a deathflower. "Ha...got you there...Reaper-san. I have a gift for you." The Reaper looked glum and intoned. "I suggest that you be magnanimous and give your remaining deathflowers to your kin...because I will be back for you tomorrow..." he intoned. Yasunobu stared fearlessly into the black vacant yawning hood of the Reaper and nodded. "As you wish..." "Very well..." intoned the Reaper. I have one thing to ask you..."
"What do you wish of me...Shinigami-san" (Shinigami is the Japanese Grim Reaper). "PILLOW FIGHT!!!" the Reaper said, his voice echoing and smacked Yasunobu in the head with a four pound queen-size pillow and a pillowfight ensued with lots of laughter. Creator face-palm: So much for the solemnity of the occasion.
Grim was kind enough to give him the majority of the day to spend with his family...but when the time was up it was up and no amount of pleading would sway the Reaper in collecting his soul he had come for.
Haruo was heartbroken as was the entire family. They had thought they would have more time with Yasunobu than he had. His heart had given out from so much heartbreak over the last few weeks. And amid much grief, was laid to rest in the graveyard next door.
Hopefully the Reaper would leave them alone after this...for a long while.
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