Disclaimer: I do not own anything except the OCs!!!!
I got this idea after writing If Sanada was a girl. It's kind of like a prequel to that story, it explains the whole wedding ordeal!
Chapter 1: The Engagement and Information Leaks
Sighing delightedly, Hana stared at the glistening diamond ring on her finger. The moment she had waited for for years had finally come and she couldn't be happier. After high school, everything had gone perfectly for her and her boyfriend. Although he went away for college as did she, they kept in contact. It was an amazing fact that many didn't believe that they had been dating for nearly ten years.
Her friends were always on and off with their boyfriends, but she had never had a real fight with her guy. Sure, they had their share of minor arguments but they never completely broke up. Across the years, she had been there for him and he had been there for him.
And finally just two days ago, he had proposed. Hana smiled happily remembering the delight she had when he popped the question. Oh, how she wished she had filmed that moment. It was so unlike the stoic man. A chuckle escaped her lips at the mere memory.
Of course, after, she had said yes which was already predicted, Hana and Sanada decided to keep it a secret for a while and then slowly let it out to a select number of people before they actually found a date for the wedding and all the other affairs connected to it. The young couple had decided that it would be best to tell only their closest friends who they knew would support them and not try anything foolish. That meant Hana's group of friends, Yukimura Seiichi, and Yanagi Renji. The rest of Sanada's former team was excluded for obvious reasons.
Now that brings us to where Hana sat at the group's favorite café, waiting for her friends to break the good news to them. As nervous as the girl was, she had arrived thirty minutes too early and sat waiting patiently. It was a thing that she took pride in. Of course, she was the only one of her friend's who had the ability to wait along time.
And usually everything turned out right in the end. Her patience always paid off. Like finally getting the ring out of her lover. And today it paid off as well because her friends were earlier than usually this time.
"Hana!" Rin squealed, squeezing the daylights of the younger woman. "I haven't seen you in forever!"
"And whose fault would that be?" Hana looked up to find the owner of the voice, Leslie, rolling her eyes with a smirk.
"Not mine," Rin pouted taking the seat next to Hana. "It's that stupid cat's fault."
"But you were the one who agreed to help him out in his legal needs. You of all people should have known that he would have a lot of problems to deal with. And on top of that, let me guess, he asked you to take care of his cousin's and sister's companies' legal issues?"
Rin nodded, sulkily, "And Fuji's too. But I couldn't say no to him! I was the one who offered in the first place!"
"You give in to his pout too easily," Leslie leaned back in her chair that was next to Rin, crossing her hands.
The maroon haired girl smiled happily remembering her high school days. Her friends hadn't changed that much which pleased her.
"No I don't!" Rin protested; the blonde rolled her eyes as if to say 'yeah right'. The black haired girl narrowed her golden eyes and was already in the air, about to attack her friend when a firm hand pulled her down and hard onto her chair. "OW! My butt!"
"Can't you sit still for fight minutes of your life?" the new comer rolled her eyes. "Honestly, you haven't changed on bit."
"Neither have you, Kyoko," Rin retorted with a smirk. "I'm glad to see that Yagyuu hasn't softened you too much."
"Repeat that and you're dead," Kyoko threatened, trying to hide the blush that was forming on her cheeks.
"Hey guys!" Daphne smiled at the group, her twin sister stood at her side, waving. "What did we miss?"
"Nothing important," Leslie replied casually.
"That's good," Ami said as she sat on the other side of Hana. Soon the rest of the group joined in and took their respected seats. They were a group that liked everything the same way that they were when they were young, so this seating arrangement was kept over the years.
Once they had ordered their drinks and sweets, the conversation turned to talk about their recent activities since they were all curious what everyone else had been up to since the last time they met up like this, almost six months ago and even then Rin, Mai, and Leslie had been absent. After an hour or so, everything had been pretty much covered. Well, most everything.
Rubbing her thumb over her ring under the table, Hana took a deep breath before beginning, "Um, I need to tell you something."
The rest of the group immediately stopped their other conversations and turned to the maroon haired girl who was nervously smiling back at them. "What's wrong, Hana?" Ami asked, worried.
"Well, you know how I've been dating Gen for a long time now," Hana began. "Two days ago, he asked me to marry him and of course, I said yes."
"Oh my god!" Ayame squealed happily, almost choking on the cake she was eating.
"What the hell?" Kyoko spit out her tea. "Ice man finally popped the question?"
Hana nodded, laughing at her friend's reaction.
"Well, I don't think I approve of him," Rin stated. "Let me see the ring."
Placing her left hand on the table so that her friends could see it, Hana gazed at it lovingly as it reminded her of her true love.
"Well, it looks expensive enough," Rin judged. "And it is gorgeous! Okay, I approve."
"Shut up, Rin, it's not like she needed your permission," Leslie smirked.
"So when's the wedding?" Daphne asked, as eager and excited as ever.
"Calm down, they don't want to take this too fast," Kyoko stated. "I bet Sanada wants it over as soon as possible, though."
Hana nodded, "We haven't really talked about a date yet. But he said I could do what ever I want."
"Then hurry up and put a date!" Ayame whined, but calmed down when Mai shot her glare. "Sorry, but it's the first wedding after Akira's! Which makes it the second wedding!"
At her first statement, Akira's mood darkened slightly and her head dropped a little. It was quite unnoticeable to the girls surrounding her. However, Rin's sharps eyes caught the sudden reaction and decided to question her about it at a later time.
"However," Hana bit her lip, not wanting to trouble her friends. "He wants to keep it a secret while we have the preparations taken care of. Could you do that for me?"
The girls nodded. "You can count on us!" Ayame chirped. "But, Akira, I'm not sure about." It was true. The black haired girl had a reputation for texting/telling her husband everything. She had a hard time keeping anything away from him.
"Very funny," Akira smiled.
"I knew I could trust you guys!" Hana smiled brightly. "Oh, Reina, Ami, Gen is going to tell your brothers about the engagement since he trusts them completely."
"As predicted," Reina replied and Ami nodded.
Rin skipped down the road happily thinking back about the announcement one of her best friends had given an hour ago. Although, she didn't know why she was surprised. She and Reina had long predicted that it would happen sooner or later.
As the dark haired woman paused to remember how the young couple had gotten together, she was suddenly pulled into a black limo.
"Ah! Help!" She screamed as the car drove off with her inside. "AHHHHHHHH! I'm getting kidnapped."
"Really, Rin? Really?" She turned to find Kikumaru Eiji, raising an eyebrow.
"Can't you just meet me like a normal person?" Rin demanded, calming down.
"I don't know why you're so surprised. That the fifth time I've done that," Eiji smirked.
"And next time you do it, I won't help you and you'll end up with a black eye," Rin threatened.
"Fine," Eiji chuckled, handing a file to her. "Here's the file that you needed for the case."
With a glare, Rin snatched the file and began flipping through it, silently.
"Judging by the look of delight on your face, something happened," Eiji observed.
"What look of delight? Right now the only look I have is a look of hatred for you for kidnapping me!" Rin snapped.
"No, behind that," Eiji smiled. "Let me guess, Sanada finally proposed."
"Wait, how did you know!?" Rin demanded.
"Two weeks ago you told me that he was going to propose sooner or later. Apparently, it was all in the 'signs'. And I haven't seen you this happy since Akira's wedding," Eiji replied. "And then there was also seeing Sanada in a jewelry shop the other day."
"Cheater," Rin rolled her eyes after hearing the last part. "But, I'm really happy for them."
"Yeah right, I know that look on your face," it was now Eiji's turn to roll his eyes.
"What do you man by that?" She raised an eyebrow.
"Happy, yes, but you're still going to do something at their wedding," Eiji explained his reasoning. "You've already done it at your brother's wedding and Fuji's wedding."
"So, it's a tradition, plus I'll only do some small mischief that won't matter," Rin waved it off. "It's expected, after all."
"Seeing that nothing I say can stop you, I will resort to last thing I can do," Eiji leaned back in his seat.
"Gag me and throw me in a broom closet?" Rin asked jokingly.
"No, pray for Sanada," Eiji grinned.
"You're looking forward to it, too," Rin grinned back. "Now, if you can take me home…"
"Yeah right," Eiji's grin became a smirk. The limo stopped and the red head pushed the young woman out of the car. "See you later," he added with a wink before the limo drove off.
From her position on the ground, Rin steamed and whipped at her cell phone. An evil, cat like smile came to her lips. He's going to pay.
Just coming out of his office, Sanada heard his phone ring. Groaning, he pressed the talk button. He never did like having a cell phone, but Hana always insisted that he carried it around. "Hello?"
"HEY! It's me!"Sanada groaned even more once he recognized the voice. "Congrats on the engagement!"
"Thanks," Sanada replied gruffly.
"Actually, I called because I need to tell you something important! I have no idea how Eiji found out, but he told me that he's going to tell Akaya about your engagement!"
"WHAT?!"
So what do you think? Constructive criticism welcome!
