Once the dragon landed on the ground Ryo hopped off and sent the dragon back to the castle. It wouldn't do for one of the servants who knew about the switch to find a missing dragon. After Ryo watched to dragon fly out of sight, Ryo started walking towards Mia's house. He really didn't know how long it was going to take him to get back home, but he was going to get there as fast as he could.
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The next morning Sakura woke up around her normal time, 11:00. Sakura had never been a morning person and Alanna and Mia, who were, always made pains to make sure they didn't wake her up. Especially now that she was almost always up past midnight, making wedding arrangements. Thinking about her and Ryo's upcoming wedding made her fall back on the pillows and sigh. 'Who would have thought that even a small wedding would take so much planning?' she thought to herself petting the still sleeping Kero and White Blaze. Ryo had left her in charge of the wedding. Sakura remembered the conversation they had had about who was coming, what kind of cake it would be and things like that.
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"Okay Ryo, where do you want the wedding to be?" Sakura asked Ryo as he was spread out on the couch.
"Where do you want it to be?" He asked lazily watching his fiancé scribble on a notepad.
"Well, we could have it outside or in a church or a pavilion type thing." Sakura said giving out suggestions.
"Anything is fine with me." Ryo answered. Sakura scribbled on the pad.
"Ok, how many can we expect from you side?" she asked. "I mean besides everyone who lives here."
"Who ever you want to come is fine." Ryo again said shrugging. Sakura gave Ryo a frustrated look out of the corner of her eye at his lack of answers.
"What kind of cake do you want?" she asked as she perched atop the side of the chair.
"I don't care." Ryo answered. Sakura slammed the notepad she had been writing on down on the cushion.
"Ok, this isn't just a one person thing Ryo!" she said angrily. "Your getting married too you know!"
Ryo, realizing that his seeming lack on interest made her upset sat up. "I know." He said.
"Then you think you could help me out a little bit here?!" she asked frustrated.
"Look, to be honest I really don't care about the wedding all that much." Ryo admitted. Sakura's eyes widened.
"Excuse me!" she said in a tone of voice that almost made Ryo cringe. It meant she was mad and he better say something to make the situation better, and fast.
"I mean that we can get married in a court room for all I care." He answered. Sakura raised on eyebrow, showing she wasn't happy with his answer.
"Look, I know this is probably different from you, but I'm not really going to remember the wedding all that much after it's done. I'm not going to remember who was there, who married us, or what kind of cake we had. All I'm going to remember is that on that day, I took you as my wife, and vowed to protect, and love you the rest of my life." Ryo said as he got up and put his arms around Sakura. Sakura looked at him.
"So the only thing that you're going to remember is saying I do, basically." She asked.
"Well… that and the wedding night." Ryo teased, making Sakura blush. "All that matters to me is that we get married." Ryo said giving her a kiss on the forehead.
"Fine, you're off the hook." She said as she kissed him back.
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Sakura smiled remembering as she got up out of bed and, made her way down stairs. She had just reached the bottom of the stairs when she saw the Ryo-looking Seriyu pass by. He glanced at her when he saw her and stopped.
"Good morning, sweetie! I thought you were never going to wake up!" he said cheerfully. Sakura peeked a glance at the clock.
"Ryo it's only 11:10. I normally get up about this time, you know that. Now what's weird is that you beat me. You are even less of a morning person than I am." Sakura said giving him a weird look.
Seriyu panicked for a moment. "I just had so much excitement yesterday that I couldn't wait to get up." He explained. Sakura seemed to take this for a good answer and Seriyu let out a sigh of relief. 'That was a close one.' He thought as he escorted her to the kitchen.
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Back at Seriyu's castle, Hudson had just walked into the room that held the imprisoned Ryo. Finding the opened shackle and missing Ronin he immediately called all hands to see him.
"Have any of you seen a man who looks just like Lord Seriyu?" he asked urgently. The man from the dragon stables took a tentative step forward.
"I did, I gave him a dragon to get down to the mainland." He said in a trembling voice. Hudson cursed.
"I want every available man down there looking for him. Report back in two hours." Hudson commanded. The servants all rushed to do as they were bid as Hudson sat wearily down on a chair. He just hoped that he wouldn't have to tell Lord Seriyu about this.