 After the accidental deaths of her parents which didn't seem to faze her, Kayako marries Takeo Saeki, the only person who understands and cares for her, and together, they have a son named Toshio.By now, Kobayashi is Toshio's school teacher, and she falls in love with him again.She writes of her feelings for him in the journal she kept all her life; in most variations of the story, Takeo ends up finding and reading her diary.