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The Importance of Chocolate

3. Chocolate Weddings

A fanfiction by Pudadingding

Using characters and situations from

Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi

"Serena, Darien! Hi! I wasn't expecting you so early. I've just got back from the fish market now." Lita declared as she arrived at her apartment to find her friends waiting on her doorstep. In her hands were two bags filled with fresh fish. Handing the bags to her friends, she opened the door and invited them in, excusing herself for the mess.

"Make yourselves at home." She yelled from the kitchen, separating the fish into it's different types and storing it accordingly. On her return to the living room, she was greeted with the sight of Serena and Darien in a moment of passion on her leather recliner. She smirked, "I can see you already have."

Upon hearing Lita's voice, the couple was brought back to earth and they shared a simultaneous blush. How was it that Lita and the other scouts always managed to catch them out, when all the other couples, including Lita and her partner Nathan, got off scot-free? Serena voiced this thought aloud, and Lita replied with a laugh.

"I think it's just that the rest of us can control ourselves until a later time, whereas you two just can't wait! It's quite cute actually. Acting like newly weds before you're even married. Although gods help our eyes, once you actually are! What will you be like then?!"

Darien smirked and whispered something in Serena's ear, causing her to giggle and turn and give him another kiss. Lita tried to salvage to situation before there could be a repeat display of passion.

"So, what are you here for? It's not a scout thing, is it?" After the defeat of some years ago, dark activity had relaxed to virtually nothing. There'd been a couple of stray youmas left over from the various enemies, and they'd done that charity thing last year, but other than that, the Sailor Scouts had been left inactive. Luna still made them train once a fortnight but otherwise their transformation pens lay unused.

"No. Nothing like that, thanks god. Just came to talk to you about the wedding plans." Serena smiled, playing with the simple silver engagement ring on her left hand.

"Have we forgotten something? Does everyone have a dress? Do you want to change the food order? The church isn't double booked or anything, right? The vicar is still alive?" Lita rummaged through her coffee table, trying to find the notes she'd made about the wedding, that was due to take place in one week.

"It's nothing like that. We've got you, Rei, Ami and Mina as bridesmaids, Haruka and Michiru as the music, Hotoru as the flower girl and Molly as the maid of honor. All of you have dresses sorted. Andrew's the best man, and Setsuna is gonna perform the ceremony. Everything is sorted." Serena declared happily, listing off everyone's various roles.

"Everything. Except for one thing." Darien replied in a soothing voice, trying to calm the scout of Jupiter.

"The most important thing." Added Serena, in a serious voice.

"The cake." Lita felt quite intimidated by the seriousness of her Princess and Prince, as they said this statement in unison. Both were quite intimidating on their own, when you considered the power they welded, but when you combined the golden and silver crystal, well that was a lot. And for the owners of those crystals to be staring at her in such a way, well Lita considered herself quite lucky not to have collapsed. Despite it only being over a wedding cake.

"Oh, don't worry about that. I've got it all sorted." She said, trying to avoid their gaze. She opened the notebook on her lap, and held it out to them. "These are the decorations I thought would be suitable. They fit in well with the overall colour scheme and the flowers match the ones in your bouquet."

Serena squealed and pointed at one decoration in particular.

"Oh, Darien! Look! How sweet!" Lita grinned sheepishly, noticing which one she was pointing to.

"I couldn't resist the bunny and rose. They symbolise you two way too well."

"The decorations look lovely, Lita. You have a real talent." Lita blushed at Darien's remark, knowing it was true, but too modest to accept it. "But that's not what we wanted to talk about."

"Oh?" Lita was puzzled.

"We want to talk about the filling. We want it to show that we are joining not only our lives, but our souls too. We want it to combine our favourite things. Our absolute favourites." Stated Serena with a smile on her face, before she began to explain what she actually meant.

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"It's time for the cake!" Rei yelled across the busy crowd. It was finally Serena's wedding day, and everything had gone perfectly. The ceremony had been beautiful, and even Kenji Tsukino couldn't find a reason to object to the couple's union.

The four bridesmaids looked delightful, and everyone said what a beautiful ceremony it was. After a pleasant stroll through the park after the ceremony, Serena and Darien ended up at a small hall, in which the reception was taking place.

After greeting everyone and the customary Best Man and Maid of Honour speeches, which had both Darien and Serena blushing, Rei had rushed across the other side of the hall to stop Haruka and Michiru from playing the couple's first dance as a married couple, so she could make her announcement.

Everyone crowded round the table that held the magnificent wedding cake. And magnificent it was. It was a white three-tier cake, with three inch high stands in between each layer making it appear bigger than it actually was.

All around the bottom tier, were tiny bouquets of pink roses, which, true to Lita's word, looked the same as Serena's bouquet, which she had yet to toss. The second tier held the much talked about 'bunny holding a rose' motif, which Serena had raved about to anyone who would listen.

And on the top tier, admist a circle in all the colours of the rainbow (in shades, Serena noticed, that were particular favourites of each one of the scouts) stood two miniature sugar figures. One was dark haired, and dressed in the style of Prince Endymion of the Silver Millenium, and the other was a blonde with her hair shaped in meatballs, and wearing a dress incredibly similar to the one Princess Serenity planned to wear during her wedding.

Serena appreciated the sentiment. In her past life, Princess Serenity had never been able to wear that dress, for Beryl had attacked before Serenity and Endymion could make their love official. Serena had expressed previously that she wanted to somehow give Serenity a second chance at that dream wedding. Serena hadn't been able to think of a good way to do it justice, but now it seemed that Lita had.

"Thank you." She mouthed at her friend, tears forming in her eyes.

"No problem." Lita mouthed back, glad that she could fufill her princesses wish. Serena smiled at her friend, as she felt Darien wrap his arms around her waist from behind and rest his head on her shoulders.

"We gonna do this together, Buns?" He whispered in her ear softly.

"Always." She replied, getting tearful again. Darien wiped her tears away, and then trailed his hands down her arms before she reached over and picked up the knife, lifting it to the cake.

"Make a wish." Someone yelled from the back of the crowd.

I don't need to, thought Serena, I've got everything I could want.

The cake was quickly handed out, but everyone seemed to be waiting for something before eating. Serena looked blankly at her friends, frowning.

"Why aren't you eating it?" she asked, confused.

"Umm, Buns? Tradition says that we feed it to each other before anyone else eats theirs." Darien held out his slice for his new wife to eat. She blushed before taking a bite.

"Yummy!"

"Now's the part where you smush the cake in his face!" yelled Andrew with a grin on his face.

"What? And waste a perfectly good piece of cake? Yeah right!" Serena retorted allowing Darien his first bite. The guests all laughed before beginning on their cakes. Some of them stopped, and grinned up at the newly wed couple, who were devouring a second piece of cake each.

"A chocolate wedding cake, meatball head?" Rei asked, a bemused expression on her face. "Chocolate?"

"Why not?" Serena replied, reaching for a third piece. "We've got dark chocolate, which is Darien's favourite; milk chocolate which is my favourite; and it's all covered in a lovely white chocolate, which everyone loves."

The guests all grinned, and continued eating. The scouts and their partners looked at each other, sharing the same thought.

"Only Serena and Darien…"

A/N: Another one done… yahey!!!! Only one more chapter to go, but I dunno when that's coming. Thanks to all my lovely reviewers.

Cynthia, lill_one, fudge, hatami, Rini, Joey Li, Honor and the other person who only left a email addy. I love you all!!!!!

By the way, there was one line that I really wanted to put in, but couldn't because it didn't fit with the rest of the story… however I am desperate to write it so I shall…

An alternate section of this fic :

"We gonna do this together, Buns?" He whispered in her ear softly, reminding Serena again of just how lucky she was.

"Always." She replied, getting tearful again. Darien wiped her tears away, and then trailed his hands down her arms before she reached over and picked up the knife, lifting it to the cake.

"Make a wish." Someone yelled from the back of the crowd.

I don't need to, thought Serena, I've got everything I could want.

Next to her, Darien was adamently wishing for that new car he'd seen in the showroom window.

Hee hee… I'm evil….. Reviews below if you please…