A/N: Hi, it's my first time and writing anything here, and just thought I'd post this as a for fun kind of thing. If you spot mistakes or anything like that, let me know I'm always looking to improve. Also, if the characters are a bit OOC I'm sorry, I had to do it for the story I wanted to incorporate the characters into. Any suggestions would be appreciated. It's rated T for now unless something changes and just to be safe.
Disclaimer: I don't own Mai Hime, or Imagine me and You or anything else that is copyrighted.
Today is the happiest day of my life, the start of a new journey with someone who was my friend first, then my best friend, then my lover, and now my soon to be partner for life. Yes, today is the happiest day of my life.
I sat on my bed calmly sipping tea waiting for the clock to sound its alarm for me to wake up. At exactly 6:00am the alarm began to sound, I reached over hit the off switch on it and collapsed on my bed, mentally getting ready for the biggest day of my life. As I lay there thinking about how lucky I am I hear my doorbell. I walk over to the door and open it without a word. One of my best friends is there on the other side staring at me with a wide smile on her face.
"Ara, Haruka? What are you doing here?" I say in my most innocent teasing voice.
"Don't be coy with me Shizuru! You know exactly why I'm here!" She shouts in what many would consider an intimidating voice, but not me, I know Haruka, and I know she's all bark but no bite. There's a moment of silence between us before we both squeal like high school girls.
Today is just another day for me. I wake up to the same annoying sound of my alarm going off, I glance at the clock and it reads 6:35am, I roll back over pulling the sheets with me over my head. Wait a second, did that say 6:35am?!?! Holy shit I'm late. I bolt upright in bed and try to jump out, but the sheets have tangled up in my legs and I do a face plant right into the floor worthy of a 10.0 score. I rub my lower lip, I bit it when my face was introduced to the hardwood floor, that is going to swell up like a balloon. I rush into the shower quickly shedding my clothes as I turn the water on. The cold water hits me like a train and I instantly yelp in surprise. I hate mornings.
As I stand in front of my mirror brushing my long midnight blue hair I see my lip. It looks terrible, it's swollen where I bit it and is a pinkish red color. Oh well nothing I can do there, hopefully what I'll be wearing will distract from the atrocity on my face. I pull up my dark blue hip hugging straight leg jeans. I button up my black quarter sleeve form fitting shirt, leaving the top four buttons undone because buttoning it up all the way always suffocates me, not to mention the extra amount of cleavage will be a sure fire way of distracting from my lip. I put on my black converse, grab my things, and head out the front door of my apartment.
I am busy readying my Ducati and putting my things away so I don't notice when someone sneaks up behind me.
"Hi Natsuki!" a girl with bright red hair shouts at me.
"GAH!!!!!" I feel like I jump three feet out of my skin, "NAO! Don't do that!! You know how unobservant of my surroundings I am!"
"Dense is more like it pup." Nao gives me a smirk and I can't help but to smile back at her. "So don't you think you're a little under dressed for the occasion?" I look down at my attire,
"I thought I looked nice" I say with a pout.
"No one is saying you DON'T look nice, but it's a wedding for crying out loud, shouldn't you be dressed in something more formal than jeans and converse?"
"Well, I suppose, but I like wearing this, and when she first saw me, she was ok with how I was dressed!" I argued crossing my arms over my chest.
"Ok Ok, hey want to go out afterwards to the clubs?"
"Sure," Nao looked up excitedly
"REALLY?"
"Yes, I'll meet you there," I say as I put on my helmet and mount my bike,
"You aren't going to come are you?! You need love life!" I start my engine as Nao shouts at me from the sidewalk.
"I have a LIFE life, it suits me just fine!" I rev my engine and peel out. Nao is left on the curb shaking her head.
I'm standing in the bathroom looking at myself in the mirror, I can't believe I'll soon to be wed. With one last glance I stride out to the bedroom where my mother and Haruka are waiting. I look at them and smile shyly
"Darling you look gorgeous!" my mother fawns over me.
"Yeah Shizuru, you look just like your wedding cake." Haruka smiles at me and I know she means that as a compliment.
"Good." I respond while doing a little twirl. At that moment my father walks into the bedroom.
"Shizuru, sweet heart, you look absolutely stunning." My father walks up and gives me a warm hug,
"Shizuru tell your father he looks ridiculous with that suit on!" I look my father over, he's wearing a suit with the twin tailcoats that you see in old movies,
"Dad, you look very handsome." I smile sweetly at him.
"Thank you pumpkin." He smiles at me gratefully, "Shall we go?"
"Yes lets." I respond taking my father's arm.
"Well I'll see you all there, I have to meet the photographer I hired a bit earlier." My mother informs us, and in a flourish she's out the door.
I wander around the large grounds looking for the woman who hired me, seeing no one I start to randomly take pictures of the guests arriving. This is one fancy wedding, People were dressed in gorgeous clothing. I snap a few pictures and spot who I'm sure is the groom, seeing as he's standing at the entrance of the home shaking hands with everyone that shows up. I walk up to him and stick out my hand,
"Hi, I'm Natsuki, I'm doing your photos," I say to him while holding up my camera for emphasis.
"Oh! Hi there, nice to meet you," He smiles an extremely charming, but at the same time goofy smile, "I'm the groom, Reito." There's a cough coming from his side.
"Ahem." Reito looks to his left and smiles,
"Oh, and this is my best man, Takeda." Takeda smiles at me and extends his hand. I know the look on his face, and I don't like it one bit, but because they are paying me, I have to be on my best behavior.
"Nice to meet you Natsuki, if you need ANYTHING at all, feel free to COME find me." He smiles, and it's not charming or goofy like Reito's, it's slimy, and it makes my skin crawl.
"Er, nice to meet you, if you'll excuse me I have some photo's to take." I use my job as my excuse and scurry into the house. If I had stood there any longer I would have punched Takeda out, he was leering down my shirt the whole time. At least no one said anything about my busted lip. I was about to head inside when I hear someone shouting for the photographer, I turn around and see an older woman, maybe in her mid forties with long wavy brown hair, gesturing wildly. I walk back outside.
"Excuse me ma'am, you were looking for me?" I smile at her and hold up my camera.
"Ah, yes, The bride should be arriving any moment now, please be over there," she points to an obscure place next to a large tree, "to take photos when the bride steps out of the car, it's the best spot to get the car pulling up and is unobstructed so you have a perfect view of the bride as she steps out." I nod my understanding and make my way thru the crowd to said tree. I am checking my settings on the camera when I hear a car pulling up, I look up and ready my camera, I take a few shots of the car itself, and then the door opens and out steps the most beautiful bride I'd ever seen, I look through my view finder and zoom in on her face, her skin is flawless, and her eyes, her eyes are the most beautiful and mysterious shade of red I'd ever seen in my life. I snap a few dozen shots before she disappears into the front door of the house.
