A/N: So I know you guys have been waiting sometime for this. And I have nothing to say but...
Well here it is. Enjoy, hate, love, review, flame? JUST READ IT!
I have run out of good chapter titles, as you may have noticed some chapters back. So I give.
Chapter 16: The wedding...
After what seemed like endless months of planning, the long awaited day had finally come. It wasn't anything big...
IT WAS FREAKING HUGE!
The Uchiha and Hyuuga clans having been joined together by the temporary elopement of Hyuuga Hanabi to one of the younger Uchiha of a branch family. Long story short, Hiashi couldn't dis-own Hanabi, and the Uchiha boy was easily forgiven, so now the Uchiha and Hyuuga families have set aside their differences and joined the two clans.
Put simply, instead of Just the Head household's offspring, plus Neji, and a few of the clan heads. The ENTIRE FREAKING HYUUGA CLAN was invited to Itachi, and Sakura's wedding. But Sakura didn't mind, it just meant that the guest list went from ALMOST everyone in Konoha, to ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE in Konoha. The best man was Shisui, whom was currently not standing by the Alter for the soul purpose of giving Sakura way. And the Groomsmen were (in order) Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Hyuuga Neji, Hoshigaki Kisame, and some dude from Anbu that Sakura didn't recognize. But it was cool, because he was apparently good enough friends with Itachi for him to have been asked to be a part of the ceremony. Which was Very good in Sakura's book, because it meant that Itachi had made new friends while she was "away".
Moving on, the made of honor, was so OBVIOUSLY Yamanaka Ino. And the rest of the Bridesmaids (also in order) were, Nara Sabaku no Temari, Uzumaki Hyuuga Hinata, ? Tenten, Pein Konan, and Uchiha Hyuuga Hanabi. ;D
In addition to the entire population of Konoha, there was also The Kazekage, Gaara. His brother Kankurou, and their cousin Sasori. Also the entire organization of Akatsuki. With Tobi, Juugo, and Suigetsu as tag-a-longs. In fact there was So many people, the wedding had to be held in a small outdoor chapel just east of the Konoha main gate. Where all the guests could be seated around the chapel to watch the wedding. Suddenly Fugaku stood up, and approached Itachi. "Are you nervous son?" he asked. "No." Itachi replied, Fugaku looked momentarily lost. "I Believed her to be dead for over three years. I have surpassed Nervous Father. I don't believe there is a word in existence to describe how I feel this very second." Fugaku could only smirk as he assured his eldest son that everything would be fine, then he returned to his seat next to Mikoto. "Well?" she asked, "How is he?" "Nervous." Fugaku replied, still sporting the famous Uchiha smirk.
Before Itachi knew it, the band began to play, and the Bridal party began to walk down the aisle. Yamanaka Ino lead the procession alone, as she declared it would fit better than to have someone that wasn't participating in the ceremony to escort her. She elegantly walked down the aisle in a floor length purple gown, with silver stars embroidered into it, starting at her left shoulder, and pouring down while getting smaller, all the way to the bottom right corner of her dress. The sleeves were traditional Japanese, and reached her wrists, and the gown had a short, yet elegant train. Her hair was done up with silver chopsticks, instead of her usual high pony tail. And her bangs pulled back into the bun.
All the bridesmaids wore the same dress, except in different colors. The next couple down the aisle, was Sasuke, escorting Temari, in her soft green gown, after that came Naruto with Hinata, in her soft blue, Neji with Tenten her's in nice light yellow, next Kisame, with Konan, who's dress was perfect red, and last the Anbu man, named Yugi, escorting Hanabi, and her gown was in baby pink.
After all the couples parted to stand on their respective sides of the alter. The music changed to the bridal march. Since the wedding was held out of doors, in order to prevent Itachi from seeing Sakura(Cuz there was no back room, Right.) The Hyuuga, and Uchiha clan elders had volunteered to stand as the, so called, "wall" to hide the bride. So as each set of three clan elders reached the beginning of the aisle, they would part and go to their respective seats.
(A/N: The sets of three went back and forth, Two Hyuuga, one Uchiha in the middle, Then two Uchiha, one Hyuuga in the middle. And so on.)
After what felt like millions of clan heads to Itachi, finally he could see Sakura, escorted by her brother. She was gorgeous. Her dress was a perfect whits silk full length gown with a long train trailing behind her, sleeves the same as her bridesmaids dresses. But she had instead of stars, cherry blossoms and leaves embroidered in a pearl white on her gown, her vale was entirely white lace, and had a train slightly longer than her gowns'. Her hair wasn't done up, but instead pulled half back with a pair of Mikoto's hair clips. And the vale looked as though it stayed on her by itself. Although it was actually being held to her hair by tiny little clips, courtesy of Ino. Lined up on either side of the aisle were the very best Anbu in the village(mostly Uchiha, and Hyuuga, with some random Yamanaka and Aburame thrown in there). And after the Anbu, the rest of the Akatsuki on either side. And all were saluting the bride, as she made her way down the aisle.
When she finally reached the alter, both her and Itachi let out silent breathes, neither one realized they had been holding. Itachi was still above and beyond nervous, until he looked into her eyes, and then nothing mattered. And he could see the same thing reflected in her eyes.
I'll not bore you with the details of the ceremony mass. It was the same as any other, minus the fact that the Nara twins started bawling right in the middle of it, and Shikamaru had to take them outside.(er, to another part of the forest?) Causing silent laughter from the bride.
After all was said and done, and the priest said the final 'Amen', the band played the finale and Itachi and Sakura, instead of kissing and running, shared a passionate kiss, and disappeared before they even parted.
They transported to the south gate of Konoha, and they began their customary Saturday evening walk, before they would turn up at the Uchiha compound for the reception.
Later at the reception...
Naruto was drunk, Suigetsu was passed out. Tobi was running from a very pissed looking Deidara, Mikoto, was crying... again. Fugaku was comforting her, again. Sasori was knocked out(do to hitting on Tenten in front of her boyfriend), Hinata was scolding Naruto, whom wasn't listening, cuz he was about to pass out. And Ino was just getting ready to give her speech. "May I have everyone's attention please? Please? Hello? EVERYONE SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!" everyone went silent. "Thank you. Now as you all know, I am Yamanaka Ino, best friend and maid of honor. I know you'd all LOVE to get back to drinking your saki. No comments Tsunade! So I'll skip the sentimental 'Oh Sakura and I have been bffs' since, blah, blah, blah, blah.'" at this everyone laughed, "Because we actually weren't. Sakura came to the village in high school, and I met her there. It wasn't one of those. CLICK instant friends things, it was one of those. 'Oh another poser to join the Uchiha and/or Hyuuga fan-club things.
But one day, Shisui picked her up from school, and, I wont lie, my first thought was...
FREAKING CRADEL ROBBER! THE HELL?" here the audience burst out laughing, even Itachi managed something more than a chuckle. While Sakura was in full blown hysterics. Then Ino continued. "So I thought, 'well, she's not a fangirl. Why don't I go find somethings out about her?' and I did, I broke into the schools' filing system, thinking, 'Dude! Imma bad ass NINJA!' and couldn't find her file. Why? Cuz I didn't know her last name! So much for bad ass ninja. But no sweat. I started flipping through the new student stuff, and I was like. 'HOLY SHIT! AN UCHIHA HAS PINK HAIR!' so I decided, after perusing her student file, and not finding anything helpful besides her report card scores she hadn't gotten yet. ~wink~wink~ To go on over to Hokage tower and look into her personal file. So there I was right, walking down the hall, looking for an empty counsel meeting room or something when this deep voice comes up behind me and says. 'Miss Yamanaka. May I inquire the reason as to why you are walking all over the Hokage's mansion carrying my cousin's personal folder?'" Ino was trying to imitate Itachi, and Sakura found it hilarious. "So the first thing that went through my head was..." she paused, knowing full well that every person in the room was aware of her being a fangirl back then.
"'BUSTED! DAMN! Dad would be SO disappointed.' and my second thought was... 'HOLY SHIT! COUSIN?' and THEN it was. 'OMG! Itachi UCHIHA!' well then he ruined my internal fangirling by going, 'Well?' and me being me I was all, 'Uh... its pretty self explanatory really.' to which he then made me put the file back, and he escorted me to Sakura, and Shisui's house so I could apologize. And BAM Sakura and I have been friends ever since." she paused while everyone laughed again, then started once more. "So shortly after becoming friends with Sakura, I gave up fangirling. Call it her good example, call it being around the Uchiha pretty much daily, call it whatever you freaking want. But Imma tell you right now, its cuz back then, to me Shisui was just fucking Creepy! And of course when I found out about Sakura and Sasuke's hate/hate relationship, I just couldn't pass up the chance to help her prank him constantly. Oh which reminds me Sasuke, I taught Sakura 'shades of Grey' Jutsu, except she used purple in your bedroom." "I'll get you for that Ino!" Sasuke yelled from the crowd. "Whatever. And yeah, he would get pretty ticked at us. But then the greatest thing happened. Sakura came to my house one Saturday night, after about a week of being depressed. And she tells me, 'Ino-pig! HE LOVES ME!' so you know, she wasn't exactly being kinda clear, so I was like, 'SASUKE?' to which she looked at me like I was Naruto..." "HEY!" Naruto yelled. Guess he woke up. "And she said, 'No pig! ITACHI!' to which we spent the next few hours screaming like the teenagers we were. They hadn't been dating two months when I called her on it, and asked if they were secretly engaged. Cuz I would totally kill her if she didn't tell me. She swore they weren't and said she didn't know if he cared for her that much. Earning herself a wake up call to the back of her head. I told her, 'I give him a year. NO, six months seeing how this is Itachi we're talking about. And you two are engaged.' And BOY was I glad we didn't put money on that, cuz he didn't end up proposing until her eighteenth birthday. And OH was I ever so excited. She asked me that same night to be her maid of honor. And said I HAD to help her design her dress. Blah, blah, blah. Yadda, yadda, yadda. She was geeking out. And seems how the years following that are kinda in the category of 'touchy subject', we're going to skip that. Its been a long, hard road Itachi, and Sakura. But here you are, a newly wed couple. And Sakura FINALLY got to wear the dress we designed for her almost four years ago. Congratulations guys." after everyone had finished laughing, they toasted the newly weds, and Shisui stood to make his speech. "Itachi and I grew up together." He started. "We've not always been best friends. But he admits now that I'm the best man." Shisui smirked while Itachi shook his head at the pun. "But We've always been there for each other when it counted. Be it on the battle field, when he was out of chakra, and on his last Kunai, or be it when he brings a pink haired teenager to my house, whom tells me she is the step daughter of my long lost father. Let me tell you, I was glad he was there at that time. That was the day I met my sister, Sakura. And I could see, from the moment I opened the door to them, that there was a certain interest he held for her, I later assumed it was because she wasn't a fangirl, and she would fearlessly talk back to him, and even on occasion insult him. As the days went by, I became more and more attached to Sakura, overprotective even, like she'd been there my whole life. I was even protective of her spending weekends with Itachi, or Sasuke. I was beginning to think I was becoming an overbearing parent. But I was soon assured that I was doing no more than a brother would, when they told me they were dating. I was within inches of setting Itachi's hair on fire, and ordering him to stay away from my sister, when I realized that. If there was one person. One single person in this world that I, or even my father could entrust Sakura's safety, health, and Happiness to. It was Itachi. And so when he came to me at Christmas, asking for my permission to marry her, I agreed, slightly unwillingly, and offered to help him pick out the ring, as I knew what her ring size was, and that she hated ruby, which was what he'd planned to get her I might add. It was shortly after that, that Sakura set off on her first mission as an Anbu member of Konoha's finest. And when her team returned without her, I knew Itachi would take it badly." when he said this, Itachi tensed. And Sakura held her breath. Then Shisui continued. "At the funeral I tried to comfort him, and he told me. 'Its best to let these things go, and move on.' when I heard him say that, my instinct was take him down. But Sasuke stopped me, so Itachi could continue. He said, that as police we are trained to tell the families that have lost someone dear to them, 'In times like these, its best to let them go, and celebrate their life, instead of mourning their death.' He also told me that although that is what's best for us. Its not what we want to do. That sometimes, we should do what our emotions tell us to. As time went by, I missed her more and more each day. Itachi was depressed, going on suicidal missions, and never even thinking of anohter woman but Sakura. And each day I thought about what he said, sometimes we should do what our emotions tell us. And I did, I let my emotions tell me what to do every so often. And so when Sakura came back. My emotions were telling me, never let her out of your sight again, protect her with your life, and keep an eye on her. While my logical mind was telling me, that Itachi would do that for me, because just like on the battle field, he has my back, and he'll take care of her. As will Sakura take care of him. And so Ladies, and Gentlemen, I give you, Mr. and Mrs. Uchiha Itachi. Thank you everyone"
the audience began clapping as a crying Sakura stood up and gave her brother a hug, as did a serious looking Itachi. "Take care of my little sister Itachi." Shisui said to him. "You have my word." Itachi replied.
After Shisui's touching speech, and Ino's hysterical one, the bride and groom shared their first dance as Husband and Wife. After this, Fugaku danced with Sakura, while Itachi danced with his Mother. And more dancing, and more drinking, and Naruto passed out again. And Hinata was trying to get Neji to help her bring him home, and Tenten has beating the crap out of a wasted Sasori. Gaara ended up having to help carry Naruto home. And all the guests finally left. There was Itachi and Sakura silently swaying to the soft music in the back yard of the Uchiha household.
And Itachi leaned down and softly kissed her forehead, and said, "We should be getting home Sakura. We have to go on a trip in the morning." she smiled softly at him, "I know. But it just feels so perfect right now." with that she lay her head back on his shoulder, and they continued to dance.
The End? or
To be continued..?
A/N: I was going to just leave it at that. But I think there should be at least one or two more chapters to it. How else are we going to see Sasuke propose? Or find out if Sakura has any kids in the next year or two? Anyway, reviewers will decide. Right now I'm working on a one shot to the song 'According to you' and I think I'm gonna make it NaruSaku. Cuz if you've ever heard the song, you would know why that makes sence. Well tell me whatcha think...
ja,
Gintsuki... :P
Ps: AND OH MY GAWSHNESS FLUFF! I kid you not, I nearly gagged, and I was the one writing it! Sad really, and speaking of sad, I was going for tear jerker with Shisui's speech, so please tell me if I succeeded. PLEASE! I've been to my fair share of weddings. But very few receptions. And even when I DID go to the reception, I was normally too late for the speeches. Which totally sucks, cuz that's like the best part of the reception. Next to getting drunk. CUZ UNDERAGE DRINKING IS LEGAL IF YOU'RE IN THE BRIDAL PARTY! which I normally tell the cops that I was. (SHHHHHH!)
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