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Kagome wanted to pace, to bite her lower lip, to freak out about her wedding. But she was refrained from doing all of those things on the outside because one, she was getting her wedding dress on, so she must not move too much. Second, she had make-up on and she didn't want to ruin it by biting on her lip. And finally, she couldn't freak out because she needed to be calm. "Calm down Kagome, everything is going to be fine." Amaya said, giving her a calm and kind smile. Kagome gave a smile back, "I know, I'm just a little nervous, about the wedding, and everything else."
Kagome looked at Amaya. 'She is so pretty.' Kagome thought looking at her blue dress, and the matching aquamarine and sapphire necklace, silver bracelet, and blue opal earring she lent Amaya. "Now all we need is-" "You talking about me?" Angela said, coming into the room. Kagome laughed, "yes, I was about to say "Angela"." Amaya looked at Kagome, and asked, "so, are you going to have a traditional wedding, or a newer type wedding?" "It's sort of a mix of both, since we won't be able to do a traditional one in the past, since our families are here, and we won't be able to have a now-a-day wedding there, for obvious reasons. We'll just get married here, and say we did so in the past." "That's smart." Amaya said, winking.
Angela looked confused, "there's different weddings in this era?" Kagome nodded, "yea, in this era there are several ways to get married, and depending on what you believe in, and what culture, you'll get married that way." Angela nodded. "So, what parts are from which wedding?" Kagome grinned. "Well, the dress in more modern, but it's pure white, and I also have a veil, and the rest will be traditional." Angela gave a little "oh" and walked to Kagome's bed, and sat down on it, twirling her long black hair. "Are we ready to go?" Kagome nodded, "let's go."
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Kurama stood, waiting for the girls to bring Kagome out. 'We could always go see her alone before the wedding.' Youko whispered suggestively. Before Kurama could say something, the girls came out of the house. As soon as Kurama saw Kagome, he lost his thoughts for a second. She looked incredibly beautiful. She was wearing a pure white dress, it was strapless, but it had long sleeves that were like a kimonos, and the ended on her upper arms. The hem, bust line, and sleeves of the dress looked like it was made out of white rose petals. She wore a white veil, and the veil was covered in light blue and red roses at the top of the veil, and she wore a part of the more see through part of the veil over her eyes. When she got closer, she looked up at him and smiled a warm and loving, if not a little nervous, smile. Kurama gulped, and returned her smile. "Are you ready for this, Kagome?" Kurama asked as he held his arm our for her. "Yeah, but I'm nervous."
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By the time they had reached where they were going to hold the ceremony; the sacred tree, although not a long walk, had calmed Kagome's nerves down considerably. Kagome smiled when she saw her uncle Aki. He wasn't really her uncle, he was a priest friend of her grandpa's, but she had always loved him, and she respected him, so she considered him her uncle. Uncle Aki was a medium height man, taller than her grandpa, and had long, tied-back white hair, a lot of it. His eyes were a grey color, and he was young looking; he was sixty, but he looked only forty. Uncle Aki smiled, a very kind and loving smile, and opened his arms to embrace Kagome, and Kagome hugged him back, kissing him on his cheek. "Hello Kagome, it is so good to see you child." "It's good to see you too, Uncle Aki." He released her, to look at Kurama. "So, is this the young man that has taken your fancy, Kagome." Kagome nodded, with a huge smile. "Hello sir, my name in Suuichi Minamino." Uncle Aki gave Kurama a scrutinized look for a minute, before laughing, and offering him his hand. "Your a good man Suuichi, and I think a perfect match to our Kagome." Kurama gave him a grateful smile, "thank you." "Now, it is time for your wedding."
Kagome and Kurama stood, facing Aki, he was behind a wooden table, he raised his arms. "We are here today to witness the union of Kagome Higurashi, and Suuichi Minamino." As Aki went on, we listened to him talk of how love is very powerful and binding, and how he was glad that we had met each other. When he had gotten to the part about us sharing our vows to one another, Kurama turned to take a seed from Sota, and in a determined, loving voice, said; "Kagome, I love you. You are my best friend. Today I give myself to you in marriage. I promise to encourage and inspire you, to laugh with you, and to comfort you in times of sorrow and struggle. I promise to love you in good times and in bad, when life seems easy and when it seems hard, when our love is simple, and when it is an effort. I promise to cherish you, and to always hold you in highest regard. These things I give to you today, and all the days of our life." Kagome gave Kurama her left hand, and he caressed her hand with his hand that held the seed. Instantly the silver flower petals on her engagement ring went bronze. Kagome almost let out a sad sigh when the flower shrunk and was gone, and the silver band lost the leaves and became a thin silver band, and suddenly the ring became carved into vines, and leaves. Kagome smiled at Kurama when the transformation was complete, it wasn't as extreme as her engagement ring, but she loved her wedding ring even more than her first one.
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Kurama looked at Kagome as she tried to blink back the tears in her eyes. She turned to the little ring holder girl named Hitomi, and picked the silver ring from the pale blue silk pillow, and turned back to Kurama. In a strong, if not water, voice she said; "Kurama, I consider it an honor and a privilege to be the one you have chosen me as your life's mate. I promise to be a true and faithful wife, to love you, respect you and be honest with you always. I promise to be supportive of your goals and as you grow intellectually, emotionally and spiritually, I will be by your side rooting for you all the way. Never be afraid to confide in me. I promise to be a good listener and a safe confidant. You are always welcome in my innermost world, and I promise to share my goals and ideas with you. As we grow together throughout our marriage, there are no limitations on the possibilities of your relationship and I hope we never realize just how high our high can be. I believe in you, Kurama, and I will be there for you always." Kurama offered his left hand to her, and she placed the thicker version of her wedding ring on his left hand.
Aki put a few pages of paper in front of Kagome and Kurama, and he knew that in this world that those were to say that he and Kagome were "officially" married. 'Stupid human traditions.' Youko sneered 'maybe Youko, but this is how it's done here, and for humans.' Kurama grabbed one of the pens that Aki was offering. Kagome grabbed the other. quietness besides the sounds of pen scraping paper. When Kurama finished writing the information the paper was asking of him, he put down his pen, and watched Kagome. She finished shortly after, and handed her paper to Aki, where he looked at them. Aki gestured behind him, and two woman dressed as priestesses came up, and poured sake into two traditional sake cups, and gave them one to Kagome, and one to Kurama. "Now, you have to drink from the cup that the other has." Aki said. Kurama first drank from the cup that Kagome had, and then he offered his to her, which she drank from. This happened two more times.
When that was done he smiled at Kagome and said in a joking voice; "now Kagome, a word of advise about after this is over and your living with Suuichi; you buy yourself a rolling pin, I suggest a really hard one since Suuichi here I can tell isn't exactly a human, and -" he imitated to hold a rolling pin by the handle, and beating Kurama over the head with it. Kagome laughed, "I'll think about it." "Well, in that case." Aki said, then he looked towards Kagome's and Kurama's family, and their friends. "They now have accepted their rolls as partners, and I have the best belief that the gods have given them their blessings for these two to be married. You may kiss." Aki proclaimed. Kurama wasted no time, and had Kagome in a kiss before she could blink. He heard the cheering, but he was not concerned by it. Finally, he broke the kiss, and Kagome and him went to se everyone.
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Kagome was in a daze, her mother, grandpa, Keiko, Angela , and Inuyasha were all around her, and her mother was congratulating her. She became focused when Inuyasha was in front of her, looking a little less than happy. "Inuyasha? Are you alright?" Inuyasha bowed his head, and said. "Kagome, I'm happy for you, and all, but before, have no doubt that I loved you. But after I met Angela, and you met Kurama, I found a better match with Angela, but I will always love you as a best friend, and as family, and I will always help to protect you." Kagome smiled, and hugged Inuyasha hard. "I appreciate that Inuyasha, I really do, and I also think of you as family. Always."
"Kagome, where are you going?" her mother called as she and Kurama walked away from where they were having the reception. Kagome fidgeted, "well, we thought it was better to leave now, I mean, we have a lot to do in the past and..." Kagome looked at Kurama for help. "Yes, Ms. Higurashi, we have much to do that we have put off until now, finding a home, or creating one, settling in, and of course finish finding jewel shards and defeating Naraku." "You sound like Inuyasha, with how obsessed you are about completing the jewel, and destroying Naraku." "Hey!" Kagome looked at Inuyasha, who was a few feet away, and looking a little offended. "I'm not like that!" "Maybe now Inuyasha, but you were before, in the beginning." Kagome called back. Inuyasha assumed his usual pose; hands jammed in his sleeves, nose up. "Yeah, in the beginning, but I'm not like that now!" Kagome sighed. "Anyway, I think it's time for us to go find a home."
Just as Kagome and Kurama were about to walk to the well, Sango called out, making them stop again. "Kagome, Kurama, wait!" Sango, Miroku, Yusuke and Kuwabara came rushing to them, holding two colorfully wrapped boxes. "What are those?" Kagome asked. Sango's face lit up with excitement. "Well, you know how you are going to live in the past with us, well, we figured that since you couldn't really wear this era's clothes, we would get you clothes from here that can be worn in the past without suspicion, and Yusuke said that Kurama wears fighting clothes, and Miroku and I knew that if you lived near Kaede's village, or any village, then you would be considered a priestess, and we also know you dislike those priestess clothes, so we bought you female fighting outfits like Kurama's, and some are in the traditional red and white, so you'd still be a priestess, and you'd have better capabilities to run and fight."
Kagome's eyes began to water for the umpteenth time that day. "Sango, Miroku, Yusuke, Kuwabara, thank you all, this is wonderful, thank you all." "How did you find out our clothes sizes though." Kurama asked curiously. Yusuke shrugged "Sango found Kagome's out from Kagome, we sorta had to guess your size, but we're pretty sure that it's accurate. We even got you lots of different colors; black, red, blue, white, and a few other colors too." Kurama smiled warmly at the two boys.
"Thank you, this means a lot to me, and Kagome." Sango handed Kagome her box, and whispered, "I also got you a outfit like my demon slayer outfit, just not with the amor." Kagome hugged her friend hard. "Thank you Sango, we should go try on one of these outfits, right Kurama?" Kurama nodded as Yusuke handed him his box, and the two went into the house to try on the start of their new wardrobe.
sorry for not getting this to you sooner, i had a hard time with the wedding, never been to one, so it took awhile until I got enough information about what goes on. Also, I would like to say that those vows were not made by me, I found them off of a traditional wedding vow website.