What the New Year Brings
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KakaSaku Celebrate Their First Anniversary
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you have a great 2010! ^_^
Chapter 59-KakaSaku Celebrate Their First Anniversary
"5...4...3...2...1! You may now kiss the bride!"
Despite all the New Year's party favors, all the noise is surprisingly muffled and distant, as if listening to it underwater.
"Happy New Year, Mrs. Hatake." Kakashi says, smiling down at me with a happy eye crease, his voice low and meant only for me.
"Happy New Year." I say quietly back, returning his smile. Then, at the same time Kakashi pulls down his mask, I raise my bouquet up to hide our faces and we kiss, for the first time, as husband and wife.
Only Shishou, who acts as minister and stands on the other side of the bouquet with us, gets to see Kakashi's unmasked face, but she's pulled Kakashi out of enough emergency room injuries to have seen his face several times over.
It's everyone else on the other side of the bouquet, the ones who haven't seen Kakashi's face like Naruto and Ino, who give a mutual groan of disappointment at being cheated yet once again, but when Kakashi and I finally part and we face the crowd once more with Kakashi's mask pulled securely back up over his face, everyone still cheers and claps for us, even the ones who had disapproved of our relationship in the beginning.
Yes, we've definitely come a long way since this year - no - last year began.
Last New Year's, Kakashi's kiss was a big surprise to everyone, including me, so it's only fitting to celebrate this New Year's, our one year anniversary, with yet another surprise...a wedding.
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One week ago...
After ripping off the wrapping paper of my last Christmas present and looking inside the box, I shoot Kakashi a look of complete and utter surprise.
He just smiles back at me with that infuriating happy eye crease of his.
"Merry Christmas, Sakura."
I look back at him dumbfounded.
"Kakashi, is this what I think it is?"
He nods his head in the affirmative.
"But isn't it bad luck to see-"
"Only if you're wearing it, which you're not, so I'm pretty sure we're safe, and one more thing...I'd really like it if you wore it on New Year's."
"New Year's? But this is a-" And then it dawns on me what it is exactly that Kakashi intends for us to do. "But I thought we were going to do it on your birthday so that you'd never forget our anniversary!"
"It's kind of difficult to forget New Year's!" Kakashi laughs. "Besides, New Year's is already our anniversary for when we first got together. We might as well make it our wedding anniversary as well."
I lift up Kakashi's present, admiring it. He had bought me another kimono, but this one is made of shimmering white silk and on its back is a fine, embroidered pattern of two cranes, the tips of their beaks lightly touching. This isn't just any kimono, it's a Japanese wedding kimono and it's common to have the image of cranes on them because cranes are known to mate with only one partner for life. (1)
"You do know that we're going to have to get Shishou in on it since she's acting as minister."
"Already taken care of." Kakashi says with a happy eye crease.
I look back at him astonished.
"And what about Yamato and Ino? They are your best man and my maid of honor, after all."
"I think they could use the surprise. Besides, Ino is a great friend and all, but I'm not sure telling the village gossip our little secret is the wisest thing to do."
"No, I agree, but I still can't believe we're doing this! I thought I still had a few more months to prepare!"
"Sakura, we can wait if you want. We can still do it on my birthday like we first planned."
"No, no, no! I want to do it on New Year's! You're right, it'll be a great surprise! Besides, I think we've waited long enough as it is, don't you think?"
Kakashi's only response is a kiss on the lips that leads to...other things.
~*~*~*~
The Present
So it isn't the big white wedding I had imagined, but to be honest, I think our impromptu wedding couldn't have been more perfect. Most everyone we know and love is already here - and I say "most everyone" only because Chiyo and the Sand Siblings aren't - but that one thing aside and once everyone got over the shock of Kakashi's and my big surprise, everyone quickly took their assigned roles and turned Shishou's annual New Year's party into a New Year's wedding ceremony instead. It all went smoothly, smoother than any impromptu wedding could ever hope to be.
And so, it all ends where it began: With a simple New Year's kiss, but this time the kiss is a promise to stay with each other for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, until we're both old, wrinkled, and gray, 'til death do us part. So it's not an ending, really, more like a new beginning, just the way New Year's ought to be.
To be continued...
(Because I'm neurotic and I want to end this story at an even 60 chapters!) :P
~*~*~*~
(1) http://www.lifescript.com/life/relationships/marriage/what_do_various_wedding_symbols_really_mean.aspx
"5...4...3...2...1! You may now kiss the bride!"
Despite all the New Year's party favors, all the noise is surprisingly muffled and distant, as if listening to it underwater.
"Happy New Year, Mrs. Hatake." Kakashi says, smiling down at me with a happy eye crease, his voice low and meant only for me.
"Happy New Year." I say quietly back, returning his smile. Then, at the same time Kakashi pulls down his mask, I raise my bouquet up to hide our faces and we kiss, for the first time, as husband and wife.
Only Shishou, who acts as minister and stands on the other side of the bouquet with us, gets to see Kakashi's unmasked face, but she's pulled Kakashi out of enough emergency room injuries to have seen his face several times over.
It's everyone else on the other side of the bouquet, the ones who haven't seen Kakashi's face like Naruto and Ino, who give a mutual groan of disappointment at being cheated yet once again, but when Kakashi and I finally part and we face the crowd once more with Kakashi's mask pulled securely back up over his face, everyone still cheers and claps for us, even the ones who had disapproved of our relationship in the beginning.
Yes, we've definitely come a long way since this year - no - last year began.
Last New Year's, Kakashi's kiss was a big surprise to everyone, including me, so it's only fitting to celebrate this New Year's, our one year anniversary, with yet another surprise...a wedding.
One week ago...
After ripping off the wrapping paper of my last Christmas present and looking inside the box, I shoot Kakashi a look of complete and utter surprise.
He just smiles back at me with that infuriating happy eye crease of his.
"Merry Christmas, Sakura."
I look back at him dumbfounded.
"Kakashi, is this what I think it is?"
He nods his head in the affirmative.
"But isn't it bad luck to see-"
"Only if you're wearing it, which you're not, so I'm pretty sure we're safe, and one more thing...I'd really like it if you wore it on New Year's."
"New Year's? But this is a-" And then it dawns on me what it is exactly that Kakashi intends for us to do. "But I thought we were going to do it on your birthday so that you'd never forget our anniversary!"
"It's kind of difficult to forget New Year's!" Kakashi laughs. "Besides, New Year's is already our anniversary for when we first got together. We might as well make it our wedding anniversary as well."
I lift up Kakashi's present, admiring it. He had bought me another kimono, but this one is made of shimmering white silk and on its back is a fine, embroidered pattern of two cranes, the tips of their beaks lightly touching. This isn't just any kimono, it's a Japanese wedding kimono and it's common to have the image of cranes on them because cranes are known to mate with only one partner for life. (1)
"You do know that we're going to have to get Shishou in on it since she's acting as minister."
"Already taken care of." Kakashi says with a happy eye crease.
I look back at him astonished.
"And what about Yamato and Ino? They are your best man and my maid of honor, after all."
"I think they could use the surprise. Besides, Ino is a great friend and all, but I'm not sure telling the village gossip our little secret is the wisest thing to do."
"No, I agree, but I still can't believe we're doing this! I thought I still had a few more months to prepare!"
"Sakura, we can wait if you want. We can still do it on my birthday like we first planned."
"No, no, no! I want to do it on New Year's! You're right, it'll be a great surprise! Besides, I think we've waited long enough as it is, don't you think?"
Kakashi's only response is a kiss on the lips that leads to...other things.
The Present
So it isn't the big white wedding I had imagined, but to be honest, I think our impromptu wedding couldn't have been more perfect. Most everyone we know and love is already here - and I say "most everyone" only because Chiyo and the Sand Siblings aren't - but that one thing aside and once everyone got over the shock of Kakashi's and my big surprise, everyone quickly took their assigned roles and turned Shishou's annual New Year's party into a New Year's wedding ceremony instead. It all went smoothly, smoother than any impromptu wedding could ever hope to be.
And so, it all ends where it began: With a simple New Year's kiss, but this time the kiss is a promise to stay with each other for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, until we're both old, wrinkled, and gray, 'til death do us part. So it's not an ending, really, more like a new beginning, just the way New Year's ought to be.
(Because I'm neurotic and I want to end this story at an even 60 chapters!) :P
~*~*~*~
(1) http://www.lifescript.com/life/relationships/marriage/what_do_various_wedding_symbols_really_mean.aspx