Forever begins.

The sky is clear of any ominous clouds and the only clouds in sight somehow look to my heart fluttering and to my askew vision, like little hearts in the blue.

I watch as my family is seated and the paparazzi make there way to the assigned places.
I spot quite a number trying to hide in other places for a more dramatic view of the wedding but that is fine with me,I told security to let them be.

There can be no bad shot today.
I believe that GOD will have today absolutely perfect,so it will be.

My Mom and Kaoru just left me to get seated,my Mom was the picture of joy mixed in with so much sadness too.
I think we both really were convinced that I would never marry in the grounds of my extreme paranoia but that is a beast by GOD and the love of my family,the love of Kenshin,that we slew and it has remained gone now.
Thank GOD.

Can anyone really be prepared for a wedding?Be prepared for what it feels like to wear a stunning wedding dress and looking out a window to see a family of blood.

A family of connections as strong as blood and...

The future connection about to be made.

Oiha is sitting happily texting on the phone with Arata given the little perking of her lips suddenly,he also came and left me a lovely wedding cake before I could even thank him.

It looked like a pure white sunflower of a cake in multiple layers of white and dark chocolate cake with little cherry blossoms cascading down.

"I wish I could have said thank you at least,I thought things had changed to being friends again..."

I say to no one really,but I can not do much else than smile aside from that brief thought.

My dad and Uncle Goji are by themselves standing by a cherry blossom tree near the alter where the ceremony will take place and they seem so....
Heavy.

Not sad just.
Heavy.

I can hardly see him though over all the media talking and surrounding them.
Kenshin is surrounded by over two dozen members of the media with also his parents by his side.

I actually got visited by both of them at different times last night and just the few words of each gave me a bit of hope.

"Do not fail.You claim to have fought yourself,fought past a series of events that you claim are over...Prove it.Do not be the weakness in this family line.There is too much for you to do now to be any less."

Kenshin almost beamed when I told him that.
Like it was a compliment of sorts and that I should be more than happy so I am.

"Your Mother,Your Aunt and I agree on it and now truly embrace it.The heroine and the swordsman will change the future for many.Do it with confidence and make him happy,he needs you like he needs air child."

He is something.
My Shin.
I watch him clearly now and he is so painfully handsome to me and full of a naughty manner it is enough to drive a woman happily mad.

He wears a black hakama that has been the wedding outfit for each man for the last one hundred and  fifty years I saw some of the pictures for each one who wore it and handsomeness runs in the family like being one women men also.

All of them.

One fear I never had of him was cheating.
I was more afraid we would just hurt each other somehow or someway but really the only enemy of love is two.

Fear and hate.

I do neither.

Especially not for him.
I see him look up just the once and our eyes meet,I wish this moment would last forever and ever but a better one is coming.
That smile too he lets loose.

"GOD,thank you for stopping me from letting that wonderful man go.Thank you."

KENSHIN

Let me watch this moment forever.

Just her simply walking towards me in that dress is more than enough to make me stupid smile,her long hair is in soft waves only a little pulled back and the dress is fitted everywhere she knows makes her more intoxicating to view but it is her eyes.

She looks like a sun.

She smiles like a woman who knows the effect it has on me and does not mind making sure I know it but I do not mind it,not one bit.

I can not wait for forever too much longer.

She blushes so much more when I shamelessly convey that with my smile,her family looks so sad and so happy at once.
Oiha,My Lovely chose her to be maid of honor, is actually beginning to tear up as she takes Yukihanas bouquet of sunflowers and cherry blossoms from her,Sokako stays to Oihas side trying to be invisible from someone here who I realize is Kaigo.

I feel sad for her.

He had no idea she was infatuated with him for so long and seeing him here with a stunning advocate for peace had to hurt but she seems stronger than she shows.
I just sense there is a bright future for her but in what I do not know but it will be something good, I sincerely believe.

For now though.

I have my Lovely to wed.


LATER.
YUKIHANA

Everyone is gone now.
Our flight is two hours from now because we told everyone it would be at seven but we changed it to nine so we could have just a little time away under the moonlight without the fear of having more cameras around,which I am growing accustom to now.

Meanwhile.

We are slowly dancing under the moonlight as the light it gives is gently covering us like the petals from the cherry blossom tree ,even the river beside us is calm except for a few excited fish that have lingered when Kenshin would feed them off and on today saying:

"Guests should not be at a wedding hungry,I will not have anyone around me hungry if I can help it.Man or creature."

He is adorable and much to naughty somehow at once most of the time but now...

Now we just are under the moonlight,my wedding gown off and  changed into this mid length little white dress with embroidered flowers his mother did for me and I am wearing white sneakers because heels will eventually be my death.

"Are you happy my love?"

I get up on my tip toes and he smirks at how high I have to go to reach his lips and he only helps me slightly in bending a little.

"If this is not happy then I have no idea what is..."

He smirks as I kiss him but as the moment grows from the seed of amusement into a flower blooming into a more deeper connection I find my heart beats even faster than it did the first time we kissed,my mouth was closed then and I was scared and even the second time was the same but now.

I am not scared of him.
My heart beats as hard and fast as ever with him.

I love how he loves me,the way he still holds me gently and how it still feels both bold and passionate with being a little shy even after three years together.

That shyness does not last long though.
His kiss is deeper,makes my face redden and I am still somehow shy and I reciprocate slowly but I soon embrace the intense feeling of a real kiss and I do fully reciprocate happily.

He ,even after moments pass and we take a moment to breath,has me in his arms twirling me around like we are teenagers again.

Thank you GOD.

"I love you Kenshin Ito,my sword boy."

He puts his forehead to mine,he breathes in softly with an expression like he could hear me say that more than once.

"I love you Yukihana ..Ito.My Lovely Wordsmith."

If smiling like a happy child and heart beating like a teenager is what marriage feels like at the beginning it is a feeling I am absorbing in abundance and more than happy to drown in.

More than happy.