Early next morning Keiichi woke with a start, Urd was standing above him with the list that he wrote last night.

"Save money for ring, find right ring, find proper place, tell Skuld, ask," rattled off Urd, "is this what I think it is Keiichi?"

"Urd what are you doing in here?"

"Well I found this paper in the study and recognised the handwriting, and wanted to know if it meant that you are going to ask Bell to marry you."

"Yes it does I was writing a list of things that I need to do before I ask her though."

"You forgot something; you've got to find the place to get married."

"I would let Bell sort that out she is so good at finding beautiful places."

"Ok that I can understand she does have a good eye," commented Urd looking round the place that they were living in, "and I wouldn't worry too much about Skuld I talked to her last night about it and she'll come round."

"It's not her coming round that I'm worried about it's her doing something while I'm trying to propose that I'm worried about."

"She won't do anything 'cause I'd stop her from been able to eat ice-cream, anyway we've got a busy day so get dressed."

With that Urd left the room, leaving Keiichi to wonder what she'd meant when she said "we".

~~~*~~~

After breakfast was, finished Urd made an excuse to drag Keiichi shopping with her to hide her intentions from Bell, and for the moment Keiichi since he still did not know what she had in mind.

Eventually after a lot of shouting done mainly by Keiichi because he was been dragged around the mall by Urd shopping for her, Keiichi finally managed to get her to go to a jewellery store to look at rings for Bell. After another half an hour or so he finally managed to get over to the ring counter, dragging Urd kicking and screaming behind him.

"Good afternoon sir how may I help you?"

"Goof ball here is looking for an engagement ring for my sister."

"Congratulations sir, we have a nice selection over here if you would follow me."

Like a puppy on a leach, Keiichi followed the sales assistant across the store to where the wedding jewellery was kept. Meanwhile Urd was annoying another sales assistant by trying on every necklace that there was in the store.

"Is there anything here that you like the look of sir? Because if there isn't and you had a particular design that you want we can make it for you, all you need to do is choose the setting metal."

"Do you really mean any design?"

"Yes if you can give one of our artists some ideas well get some sketches made up for you."

"Hum well I would like to get her something unique…"

"Ok I'll get one of our artists to come and see you if you could bare with me for a minute please sir."

Meanwhile back across town at the temple Megumi had arrived with a load of bridal magazines to show Bell.

"I really can't believe that you've not thought about you and Keiichi getting married."

"Well with all that he's had to put up with Urd and Skuld been here I'm surprised that he hasn't changed his mind about been with me, so marriage hasn't been high on our thoughts."

"True those two do seem to get into a lot of trouble."

That comment made both Bell and Megumi giggle while they remembered some of the trouble that Urd and Skuld had got themselves into requiring Bell and Keiichi to get them out of it.

"Any way I'm happy as we are, although if Kei asked me to marry him I would say yes."

"Well in that case that gives us time to find the perfect dress for you since Keiichi is incredibly bad at asking you anything like that, hell it took you two a year and a half to have your first kiss."

That comment brought a smile to Bells face as she remembered her first kiss with Keiichi, he had taken her out to a restaurant that has a waiting list of nearly a year it was so exclusive, however Tamiya had known someone who worked there so he pulled a few strings for them. "Yes I suppose he is rather particular about getting everything just right."

With that comment, Megumi opened the first of the magazines with Bell and started looking at bridal gowns.

~~~*~~~

Back at the jewellery store one of the artists had arrived to talk to Keiichi, and by now Urd had tried everything on in the shop and was working her way around again to make sure that she had chosen the right necklace and earrings.

"I've been told that you want something really unique for your engagement ring do you have any ideas? we can do pretty much anything for you."

"Well I think that she is an angel," said Keiichi with a tear of joy in his eye, "so maybe some thing with angel wings?"

"Ok that's easily done," said the artist as he started to sketch some designs out, "have you thought about how you want the wedding band? because we can incorporate the design of that into the engagement ring."

"That would be nice."

After a couple more minutes the artist had come up with three designs, one two separate piece ring set where the engagement ring had the whole of the wing design. One where the wings over lapped the wedding ring which was engraved with some text. And the third, which was the most spectacular, was a two-piece set where the wings carried on from the engagement ring on to the wedding ring, the reason that this was the most spectacular was the detail in the wings and they were engraved to give the impression of individual feathers. At the edges of the wing there was a row of diamonds to highlight the edge, at the centre there was a 1-caret diamond surrounded by sapphires, which imminently reminded Keiichi of Bells eyes.

"Oh my god you've got to have that one Keiichi the wings look so much like"

Before she could finish the sentence, Keiichi put his hand over Urd's mouth.

"Could you find out how much this ring set would cost to make please," said Keiichi to the artist, "Urd I know they look like Bells wings but you can't say stuff like that to people who don't know she is a goddess they'd start to think that you were insane, or on drugs."

Giving that some thought which you could see on Urds face since it was all screwed up she nodded her head and Keiichi removed his hand from her mouth.

Presently the shop assistant that had first helped Keiichi came back with the prices, "the cost of the ring depends what metal that you want the rings to be made from, for 24 caret gold it would cost 57,043.12¥, in white gold it would cost 95,071.86¥ and in platinum which for a ring of this design I would recommend because of the way it reflects light into the diamonds it would cost 142,607.79¥ plus sales tax."

"Ok I'm going to have to work out where I'm going to get that much money from, thank you for your time."

"By the way we give discounts to people for cash purchases so the platinum ring would cost 122,000.00¥ including sales tax."

"Thank you for your help I'll be back when I've got the money for that ring."

"Ok so we keep the design for you can I have your name please?"

"It's Morisato Keiichi."

With that, they left the shop and headed back to the temple.

~~~*~~~

During he cooking of dinner Bell was in the kitchen humming to herself as usual, although what the tune was no one was quite sure what the tune was. Urd was watching TV as normal well if you could call what she did with TV watching as she was still flicked through the channels spending about three minutes on each of them. It was during this time that Keiichi thought it would be good to talk to Skuld about him asking Bell to marry him, with that he went to her room and knocked on the door.

"Give me a minute"

Presently the door opened to reveal Skuld wearing a VR suit which means she was playing a game and given that, she wasn't mad for been interrupted Keiichi guessed it was a game that she shouldn't have been sold because of the age rating.

"Can I have a word with you please Skuld?"

"If it's about you asking Bell to marry you NO!"

"Well it was kinda about that but not about asking her, since you know I'm going to do that anyway because Urd's already told you."

"I know you're going to ask even if I don't want you to so what's there to talk about?"

"Well I want to ask you if you had anything thing planned for me when I asked, because I don't particularly want to be blown up by your bombs again, like when you first saw us kiss."

"Look Keiichi I might not like you all that much but big sis does so I'm not going to do anything to upset her. After Urd talked to me I thought about how happy she's been since you've been with her and I don't want to upset her even if it means that she'll never go back to the heavens with me." With that, she started to cry.

Taken back by Skuld crying Keiichi was at a loss as to what to do so he grabbed her into his arms and held her close as she wept on his chest. Wondering what she hear Bell had gone to see what was happening when she saw what Keiichi was doing she left as quietly as she had arrived with a smile on her face. Keiichi really cared about Skuld even thought she did not like him all in all that much on the surface at least.

"You know Skuld you don't like me because I've taken your sister out of the heavens, but I've never made her stay, and as much as you don't like me I do care for you and I don't want to see you hurt which is why I was telling you before I ask Bell to marry me."

"I know you've not made big sis stay but I don't see what she sees in you however I promise that I won't do anything to screw up your proposal it'll be bad enough coming from you with out my interference."

"Thanks Skuld you don't know how much that means to me. And just so you know Urd didn't think that I should tell you."

"I know I heard you talking at least you had the guts to tell me what you were planning on doing."

"Tell you what after dinner tonight how about I take you to get some ice-cream you can have as much as you want."

That cheered up Skuld and she managed to get a small smile on her face, although her face was still tear marked.

"Now go get cleaned up dinner won't be long."

While Keiichi walked past the kitchen on the way to the sitting room Bell said "thank you for looking after Skuld even when she is so hostile to you".

That comment made Keiichi more determined than ever to get that ring that was designed for him for Bell.

~~~*~~~

Dinner came and went and while Keiichi was helping Bell, wash up he told her that he was going to take Skuld out for ice-cream to cheer her up.

This idea was confirmed as a good one by Bell who tried to give Keiichi some money to do that with but he turned it down saying that he needs to pay so that he can look like the good guy who did not rely on his girlfriend.

A minute later with the sound of Keiichi's bike leaving down the back of the ally with Skuld in the sidecar on the way to the ice-cream pallor, Bell walked into the sitting room and picked up one of the magazines that Megumi left behind earlier.

"What you looking at there Bell?"

"Just a magazine that Megumi left me earlier" she said going red as she told Urd.

"What's the magazine about?

"Wedding dresses," said Bell going the same shade of red as a beetroot.

"OOHH! Has Keiichi said anything?"

"No this was Megumi's idea because we've been going out for long time."

"Well I think its good that your thinking about this its about time you two confirmed you love for each other, and before you say anything I won't use any potions on Keiichi."