Chapter 9

Everything important/useful about what happened in the 10 months before the wedding

(THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG CHAPTER)

JULY

It was about a month after Kaito had proposed, and we were having an engagement party. People get things done fast when your famous. The venue was a massive hotel in Osaka, and about 1000 people came. I know! I wore a floor length dress, and there seemed to be a red theme. Oh! I should probably tell you about the ring. It was silver, and had one diamond in the middle, with two little gems either side. I'd never seen anything like it, and it looked pretty expensive.

The party went on and eventually finished at 1am, I think.

AUGUST

The date now was 23rd of August. The wedding was approaching fast. Ish.

We decided to go to a wedding faire, to see what we could have in the wedding. I've said wedding a lot. Wedding.

We tried food, looked at locations, but most importantly tried on dresses. Well I did. First I tried on a Kimono, because it's Japanese tradition to wear a kimono. I wasn't sure about wearing it for the ceremony, but maybe the party after. Then, I tried on a tight, pearl dress that was quite sparkly. I quite liked this one. But then I tried on a white one. It was tight at the top, but at the waist poofed out, like Cinderella's'. I absolutely loved this one. They even let me try on a veil, and did my hair too. It was a bit curly on the bottom and wavy. I didn't know had Kaito was wearing, until I walked out of the dressing room. He looked speechless.

"How do I look?" I felt myself blush.

"Y-you look amazing!" This was perhaps only the third time ice ever heard him stutter in awe. At least I hoped it was awe. He walked up to me, admiring my curls, and I looked at what he was wearing - a white suit, and we looked like twins!

We had a 50k budget - a lot, but were famous, let us party! And as well as this, we had all the vocaloids coming, and the 'news people'. I guess they're ok. We'd considered having the ceremony in a Kyoto temple, but we didn't know about the party and other things.

But back to the dress. I love big, poofy dressed and so warned Kaito, "Most of our budget will be spent on dresses!" He just agreed, casually. He said nervously, "How many dresses do you want?"

"Three..."

"THREE?"

"Yup."

"Well, I guess if you really want you can have three-"

"Yay!"

So, I ended up getting the Kimono, Big poofy dress and a mermaid dress, I think they're called. They are all white, and pretty!

The wedding faire was great, and there's not that long to go until the wedding. But before we left, I ordered the dresses and Kaito ordered his suit. It came to a grand total of £21,350. Wow.

SEPTEMBER

There was now seven months till the wedding. We hadn't really left that much for planning, but we'd booked the venue! That Kyoto temple said we could get married there, and we'd booked a pretty posh hotel, for the party. In this month, nothing much really happened. We'd got everything booked, the venue, the food, DRESSES and the guest list was done. All we had to do was wait. And wait. And wait.

DECEMBER

The next few months went slow. Very slow. We had nothing else to do. Christmas came and went, but i interrupt the story to tell you about the awkward conversation between our parents.

So picture the scene.

-me and Kaito in the living room

-me and Kaito's parents in the kitchen, having a loud, "secret" conversation.

We pressed our heads against the door, and looked through a tiny crack.

"Ok then " Kaito's dad continued, "when will we be expecting a grandchild?"

Laughter circled through the room, all the adults sounded like they'd had a bit too much sake, but I was shocked. I looked at Kaito, to find him trying to hold back from giggling. "KAITO!" I whispered a bit too loudly.

"Ok, ok." he was still laughing. He walked off, and I followed. "What's so funny?" I asked.

It was getting kinda late now, about 10pm, so I expected our parents to Leaving soon. Yay.

"It's just..."

"Woah, you're not leaving me are you?"

"No! No, I was just wondering, after the wedding, do we think about kids?"

This hit me like a bus.

"Um... Well..." I took a seat on the sofa. "I guess so-"

"Sorry to bring it up so sudden. I've just been wondering for a while."

I hadn't even considered this. But after a long talk after the parents had left, we decided to leave it until after the wedding. I didn't really sleep all night thinking about it, and for once I watched over Kaito instead of him watching over me.

JANUARY

So, fast forward a bit. There's now only 3 months till the wedding. THREE! Things were starting to get real, and I was really excited. I bounced up every morning! But today on January the 29th, Neru and Len came over.

They'd been together for ages, remember how loud-mouth Neru was/is? She full on threw herself at him one day, and they have unfortunately been inseparable since.

They came over to talk about the wedding, and we explained most of it to them. Then, Neru put her arm around Len and said, "Were gonna get married one day, right?"

"Uh, yeah... Sure." replied Len. It was funny see how much Neru got on his nerves. He usually kissed her to shut her up, but this made Neru, more 'Passionate', should we say. We should film it one day.

Len has a twin sister, Rin. She's in the same class as me, and we get on quite well. You could say she gets on a bit too well with Meiko...

Len and Neru eventually left, with Neru attempting to persuade Len to marry her - it looked like it failed, for now.

FEBRUARY

2 months until the happiest day of my life!

We went shopping a lot at this time, but got adamantly followed by 'Kaito fan girls'. I'll kill them one day. So, we bought lots of favors, ordered flowers to go on tables, and got these little name tags things to show people where to sit,

As well as this, we had a confirmed wedding date, April the 20th. We tried on our outfits and they still fitted.

The only other relatively important was valentine's day. This was important in some way...

Nothing else really happened from now on, and I don't want to bore you. The next 2 months consisted of me being excited, but I had my last concert before the wedding on the 12th of March. I was performing with a few other vocaloids, Luka, Rin and Len too.

MARCH

So, we are all headed off for Spain. Me, Luka, Rin & Len, Neru and Kaito's obviously coming. We got on another private jet, and set off. Neru was all over Len the whole journey, and Rin tried desperately or pull them apart. I filmed it! I have succeeded in life's Main quest! Me and Kaito just fell asleep on the chairs eventually. As loud as Len's screams were, it was more peaceful than anything we'd been through in the past few weeks.

"Hey Miku!" Rin whispered.

"Miku?" Len poked my eye.

"WAKE UP WERE IN GODDAM SPAIN!" Neru kindly screamed at us.

Don't you love having Friends who have seemed to have already deafened themselves but set out to do it to others?

During the concert, me, Rin and Luka performed Unhappy refrain, and that was cool. Rin performed Meltdown with Len and Luka performed Luka Luka night fever. Too many Lukas! Funnily enough, Kaito performed too. He did rolling girl, and only now am I realizing the irony in that. Neru did 'ごちゃごちゃうるせ', a lot of people seemed to like that.

We came back on 16th - The concert came and went, and on the way back, let's just say Neru "succeeded" and Len suffered. Me and Kaito just relaxed like before, and he said "It'll all be over soon, hime-sama." And we had just over a month till the wedding!

APRIL

This was gonna be one long wait.

20 days to go. This month was just waiting. A long, long wait. But it wasn't even a month anymore! (Cue excitement!) I felt like a little kid, wanting to jump around the house in anticipation. I just ran around the house, singing 'Romeo and Cinderella' at the top of my lungs.

19 days to go. Rin, Len and Neru came over today. Len was mentally scarred. "I'm blind!" He screamed. "BLIND!" I swear, I'm getting a pair of handcuffs for Neru. Neru tried desperately to drag him upstairs for about 20 minutes. She failed. Rin admired my ring for a bit, and so did I. It must have been so expensive.

18 days to go. Meiko came over. MEIKO! You may not know, but there have been massive news stories about Kaito and Meiko together, people claiming their more 'canon'. I didn't hate Meiko, but she was the one spreading the propaganda of some sort. She came over though, and wished us well. I think she's gave up on Kaito now.

17 days to go. We went and checked the venues for the last time today, and got their after being mobbed. There was an imminent blue theme to the wedding, and the bridesmaids and pageboy (sorry) were Rin, Neru, Luka, gumi and Len. We told Neru, "No funny business in the ceremony!"

She agreed, after the compromise that Len was hers after the party.

16 days to go. We had peace today! No visitors, phone calls, nothing! The only bad thing that happened was that the cat spewed on Kaito's foot. Ha!

15 days to go. I met with the beautician, a nice Russian lady, and we tried a few hairstyles. We evaluated that I'll have my hair a little curly but down. I wasn't with Kaito for most of the day. I felt lonely all day.

14 days to go. Only two weeks! SCREAMS OF EXCITEMENT! Nothing important happened today. I woke up, had breakfast, lunch and dinner and slept.

13 days to go. 13 is unlucky. Nothing to say today.

12 days to go. Luka and Gakupo came over. Their already married, and have been for 3 years. Luka told me some unmentionable things, whilst Gakupo and Kaito had 'manly talks'. Which are unmentionable.

11 days to go. All the bridesmaids, and Len, came over to try on their dresses/suits once more before the wedding. They all wore blue dresses, except for Len. Making everything masculine for him is annoying! He just had a white suit with a blue tie. He looked ADORABLE. The best man was Gakupo, but I didn't know what he was wearing.

You might be wondering why Kaito isn't wearing a kimono. Let's just leave it at, " He looks like a sack of potatoes in one."

10 days to go. It's all getting real now. Oh geez. But Neru came over today, alone.

"where's Len?" I asked.

"tied up in my basement!" She replied. I can't believe I pitied her for a second.

"So Miku." She continued. "What's it like living alone with Kaito?"

"Uh, nice I guess -"

"Do you m-"

"NO! I mean... Yes"

"What are you telling her Miku?" Kaito yelled from the kitchen.

"No fair! Rin's always there when The sofas free."

"Uh..."

I love me and Nerus' conversations.

"How's Len?"

"Tied up."

"I mean, uh..."

"He promised to do anything I want if I let him go, he's free when I go home."

(Awkward silence)

"I best be going then!"

And off she went. Poor Len.

9 days to go. I got a lovely phone call this morning.

"Miku? Guess what?"

"Erm... What?"

"I've locked Rin out of the house! LENS MINE!"

"KAITO START THE CAR!"

And that's how most of the day went. But Neru got Len. I'm surprised their still together after all this.

8 days to go. We locked our own doors today, having a nice peaceful day. Kaito turned on the TV, and it talked about our wedding, every channel making up fake stories about It. I cuddled into Kaito, and we took one look at each other, before running up to the attic. But I felt a bit meh. Probably just excitement.

7 days to go. The reason the description of these last few days is so vague is because we were too busy being excited to do anything else. Today is important though. But I felt kinda sick today.

"I hope I'm not ill for the wedding!" I prayed inside my head. But disaster struck when I was sick in the morning. I might've watched too much TV, but I suspected something.

"IM GOING SHOPPING KAITO!" I yelled up the stairs to him.

"But weren't you just sick?"

"I'm fine! Just excitement."

And I ran out of the door before saying anything else.

I hoped nothing was wrong so close to the wedding, but I put it at the back of my mind as I shopped. I got rice, fruit and mobbed by loads of people, but I coped with that ok. I was kinda regretting not taking Kaito with me.

I got in the car eventually. The Toyota corolla couldn't protect me from the doubts I had. I pulled up outside our house, and ran inside.

I ran upstairs, and Kaito yelled, "you ok Miku?" I didn't reply. "hmm." I heard him mutter, before going back to cooking. I opened the toilet door and Locked it.

A few minutes later there was a knock. "MIKU? Answer me, are you ok?" I burst into tears as I opened the door. Kaito put his hands of my shoulders and said. "MIKU! Answer me please!"

"I-..."

"You what?"

I smiled through my tears, as I was as shocked as he would be.

"I'm pregnant!" I showed him the test.

"W-what?"

I saw his face light up. He burst into tears as well. I collapsed onto my knees.

"But I thought we were leaving it until after the wedding?"

"so did I!"

I just hugged him, and he hugged me back.

"Congratulations, then!"

I laughed, before crying even more. Turns out this week was happier than I thought.

I was up all night, thinking how much this would change our lives. Wow.

6 days to go. We decided not to tell anyone, until the wedding. BUT Neru comes over - and luckily alone. She could be an exception. I remembered her loud mouth, but she'd to keep something this big a secret.

She comes through the door, And I drag her to the sofa.

"Miku, what's up?"

Me and Kaito looked at her, as I said, "you promise not to tell anyone? Not even Len?"

"This sounds serious, you haven't broken up have you-"

"No!" We both agreed.

"Ok." I took a deep breath.

"Ok..."

"I'm pregnant!" I could barely say the words without bursting into tears.

"NO WAY!" She yelled. She seemed more shocked than Kaito. She was speechless.

"Congrats you two!" She began blubbering too.

"Oh Neru!" I went over and hugged her.

"Promise not to tell anyone?"

"Oh Miku, of course I promise!" Neru doesn't cry often, this was the second time I think I've ever seen her even tear up. Wow.

5 days to go. I felt a bit bad about not telling my parents, but I thought we should tell them and everyone else in the wedding. But our relatives from Australia were coming to stay at our house, so we had to keep it especially secret. They'd be staying here, alone with my older brother, Mikuo. We have such creative names. I'm sure he's never met Kaito, so this should be interesting.

I introduced my Australian relatives to Kaito, that went ok. They don't speak Japanese that well, but Kaito interpreted what they said. Now, I thought Kaito meeting Mikuo would be more tense than 進撃の巨人, but they seemed to get on well, and I thought maybe too well as it looked like a bromance was developing.

"Mikuo, remember he's my husband, not yours."

"MIKU!"

Cue ノラガミ face! Mikuo didn't look impressed. He tried desperately to explain to Kaito he wasn't into Yaoi, as I walked off to talk to my Australian relatives.

"Konnichiwa Miku!" And that started a long, awkward conversation, in a combination of English and Japanese. Painful.

4 days to go. I woke up early to try and cook Australian food. Kaito came down too, and whispered into my ear, "You shouldn't put too much strain into it." I giggled, as Kaito started helping me. We cooked the incredible - 6 pieces of toast! We really only eat rice for breakfast, unlike some Japanese people. But they enjoyed the toasted bread. Mm. Nothing else interesting happened.

3 days to go. I was up at five this morning, I'm so excited. I need to find synonyms of excited and but. But! They aren't my biggest problems. Giggle.

Kaito got up early too, and as I put the Hoover around, he said, "Miku, seriously. Don't put yourself through so much trouble!"

"Hmm." I felt myself frowning. "oh ok then." I handed him the hoover, before taking a seat on the sofa. "You should just chill all day; we have a massive week in front of us." Kaito said, reassuringly. And that's what I did all day.

2 days to go. Oh geez. All day, I thought about what I would say to everyone in the wedding - I rehearsed it in my head like a script.

1 day to go. I woke up stupidly early this morning, but stayed in bed. Kaito came in with a tray of rice and miso soup, and sat at the foot of the bed.

"There's no turning back now, hime-sama!" He joked. I out the breakfast down as he sat next to me. He could see something was bothering me. "You look a little pale." He said.

"I'm just, nervous about telling everyone."

"It'll all work out fine." He kissed me on the forehead, before leaving to deal with Mikuo.

"THE TOASTERS BROKEN!" This was a practical crime scene. Mikuo loves toast.

I crept into bed late tonight. Kaito turned around and said, "Still worried?"

"Mm."

"Well, try and put it at the back of your mind till later." He smiled, before closing his eyes. I held his hand whilst looking at the ceiling, going over the script a few more times.