Donde Estas Corazon
It was a perfect day for a graduation. The weather was ideal for the outside commencement; blue skies and not a cloud in sight. The diplomas were stacked up in piles on a table in a classroom ready to be carted out to the stage where the graduates would be handed them individually. They were alphabetically arranged to move the graduates swiftly along. Leather bound folders that held the simple slips of paper with each students name were neatly aligned for the ceremony.
They were currently being tampered with.
"I found the s's!" Tohru announced, rummaging through the stack of diplomas with greater haste.
Hatsuharu joined her after putting the stack he had been going through back in order, not particularly caring for the way they looked. The two began opening folders and putting them face down in two stacks until, "Got it." Haru said with a small smirk.
The pile of diplomas was righted minus one, and a cap and gown were tossed over the back of a school chair. Haru and Tohru slunk from the room and shut the door behind them on their stealthy exit. Tohru began humming the Mission Impossible tune as she scanned the path ahead for movement and obstructions.
Following her down the stairwell they had entered Haru asked, "What are you doing?"
Turning to face the ushi Tohru whispered back, "Setting the mood ne?" A large grin spread out on her face and she struck up the tune again, continuing down the stairs and sticking to the walls in commando fashion.
Shaking his head in exasperation Haru trailed her silently, their feet making an echo like sound as they descended. At the exit, Tohru opened the door slightly and peeked out.
"All clear!" She proclaimed, throwing the door open and jumping out into the daylight with her hands held forward in the form of two guns.
Haru rolled his eyes, "This isn't a war you know."
Leaning against the side of the building, Tohru blinked at him before shaking her gun-finger at him and relating, "This is a war! A war of lo-
A hand over her mouth quieted her before she could start off on a tangent. "Just, please be quiet until they get here." Grinning back at the ushi, Tohru did so, eyes sparkling in glee and striking Charlie's Angels poses.
•••
"The graduation starts in a half an hour! Where the hell are we going!" Kyou demanded trying to shake his arm free from Ayame's steel grip.
Gold eyes alight with mischief panned back to him. "It's a secret Kyoukichi! We're almost there!"
Leveling his crimson eyes at the hebi, Kyou grumbled back, "I swear to god, if you make me miss-
Kyou cut himself short as they turned the corner of the school and saw Haru and Tohru waiting against the wall. Ruby eyes filled with confusion upon seeing that Haru didn't have the customary cap and gown on, but rather only the outfit he had selected that morning. Kyou couldn't help but think to himself that Haru looked great.
Smiling, Ayame saw the neko's face soften as the boy's ruby eyes came to rest on the ushi. The hebi dragged the now complacent neko along after him, hurrying to join the two who had stepped away from the wall.
The hebi straightened his long robes from where they had twisted about his legs as he watched the ushi wrap an arm around Kyou's shoulders and kiss the boy affectionately on the forehead. Ayame noted that Haru had grown much taller during the past couple years and now stood a foot higher than his orange haired fiancé.
Tohru clasped her hands together, "Ready to go?" She asked.
Shaking his head to clear his mind, Kyou looked from Tohru to Haru in question, "What? Go where? You're supposed to be graduating!"
Haru smiled at his frantic lover, waving the folder with his diploma in front of the neko's face. "Already got this, and you were the one who said we had to wait until after I graduated."
Rapidly blinking, Kyou put two and two together and understanding dawned on his features. "You mean…"
Haru urged the shocked neko along with him, following Ayame and Tohru away from the school. The ushi rested his cheek against the soft locks of orange hair with a smile, "Exactly kitten."
•••
The ceremony was quiet and Kyou was very reticent, almost appearing to be ready to cry at any given moment. As the witnesses, Tohru and Ayame did have tears spilling from their own eyes and their hands gripped each others as the vows were spoken. When the two before them kissed, sealing their vows, Ayame and Tohru started clapping with wide smiles and stars in their eyes.
Gazing into gray eyes that shown with love for him, Kyou felt the tears finally start to fall, only to be gently brushed away by Haru. The neko dropped his eyes to their joined hands and blushed happily at the matching gold bands that they now wore.
A pale hand lifted the flushed face to stare into scarlet eyes, "Kitten, you've made me the happiest man alive." The ushi said with turbulent emotion straining his voice.
Kyou reached up a suntanned hand and drew the ushi down into another lingering kiss. The neko took a deep breath to calm the rapid beating of his heart when they broke away. "Y-you couldn't have waited until after graduation?" He said hesitantly.
Haru cupped the side of Kyou's face and ran his thumb over the neko's cheek. "No kitten, this was more important." The brilliant smile Haru received was enough of an answer.
•••
Ayame and Tohru were sitting in the kitchen drinking tea when the rest of the graduation party arrived. The pair had seen the newly married couple off at the train station before returning to Shigure's to await the celebration that was scheduled for Momiji. The party was of course also supposed to be for the ushi, but both Ayame and Tohru had agreed that there couldn't have been a better reason to miss it.
Upon bursting through the door, Momiji jumped straight into Tohru's arms. After the smoke cleared, she was cuddling a rabbit wearing a graduate's cap. "Where were you? I didn't see you in the crowd!" The bunny whined.
Shigure pulled up a chair across from the two grinning fools and rabbit. "Ha-kun and Kyou-kun were missing too, what happened?" Merrily prodded the inu.
The hebi and Tohru glanced at each other before clutching their hands together and saying in harmony, "They got married!"
The inu jumped up from his chair, toppling it over. "What! No! We missed it!" Shigure stopped waving his arms about and grabbed his chair from where it had fallen, taking a seat again.
Tohru sipped some tea as Ayame narrated what had transpired. "and then we saw them off on the train to start their honeymoon" The hebi finished dramatically, hands clasped under his chin.
"Mission complete." Tohru added jovially.
Sighing enchantedly Shigure remarked, "Ahh they eloped! How befitting of a romance novel!" The inu abruptly stood, knocking his chair over again then ran off in search of his writing materials. A good story can do that to a writer, call it instant inspiration.
Hatori had an inkling of a smile on his lips as he heard the story, Kagura on the other hand looked like she was about to be ill. Yuki appeared to be contemplating the whole ordeal and turned to his brother and asked, "Why did you two get to go?"
The hebi raised an eyebrow at this, "Well we were the obvious choices of course! Why brother dear, you jealous?" Yuki snorted lightly then walked from the room.
As the days festivities ran into the nighttime, the newly wedded couple had their own in the quiet solitude of the beach house rented for the occasion. Well, when Kyou wasn't being loud of course.
•••
Two weeks and four days, one week of time was spent at the beach Haru thought to himself. The ushi couldn't believe that everything had worked out so well and now he was actually married! It bugged him a little that he had to go get groceries for Tohru, but it wasn't as if he could have brought Kyou with him since the neko was taking an entrance exam for a local university. He was rather surprised that Kyou decided to go to college, but whatever made the neko happy was fine by him.
He would of course prefer to keep the neko all to himself, to cook, clean,
just be an adorable housewife. Haru smiled at the thought, knowing Kyou would
kill him if the ushi ever told him that. Their living arrangements presented
another problem altogether, and Haru really wanted to get them both out of
Shigure's house. That though, would require one or both of them getting a
job. Since he didn't want to attend university himself, he knew he had to
eventually find some line of work that could support them.
What did he possibly
want to do for work though, he thought sighing heavily.
A sign caught Haru's attention and he halted his slow walk back to Shigure's, shifting the bag of groceries to his other hand. Now that would be a rather fun job the ushi mused. Not only that, but he could have Kyou be his housewife, complete with an apron that preferably had nothing underneath.
Haru's gray eyes widened as he suddenly realized he would also get handcuffs. A smirk that couldn't be held back manifested on the ushi's lips as he decided to go fill out an application.
He took one more look at the sign proclaiming; now accepting applications, and strode through the front door of the police station.