Wedding Bells

Written by: Fujiwara Zakuro

Chapter 1: The Wedding Planner

After Kouji proposed to Izumi at his wedding, they went back to Japan and brought all her things to his beach cliff side house. It took barely less than a week for Izumi to settle in because she owned a lot of furniture and clothing. But after she organized all of her belongings and such, Izumi and Kouji began to search for a wedding planner.

"Kouji, I'll check the Newspaper ads while you check the Help Wanted ads on the computer. Sounds like a good plan, right?" Izumi inquired. Kouji smiled and nodded. She gave him a quick peck on the cheek and began rummaging through the pile of newspapers Kouji had. Kouji mounted the steps and entered the office, or the "bureau" as Izumi liked to say.

All afternoon, Izumi scanned the newspapers for ads, as did Kouji on the internet. "Now I know why they advertise the Help Wanted websites." Izumi stated as she sighed hopelessly. Izumi glumly tossed the newspaper aside and bent down to grab another newspaper when suddenly Kouji sprung up behind her and grabbed her waist

Now, the waist was Izumi's most sensitive spot to tickling, so she shot up from her seat and screamed. Kouji laughed and let go of Izumi's waist. "Don't do that!!!" Izumi whined. She stuck out her bottom lip and put on a mock sad face. Kouji stopped laughed and said, "You're too cute..." Kouji whispered into Izumi's ear. Izumi giggled and placed her lips upon his. For a while, Izumi and Kouji "canoodled" with each other.

To Izumi, the lingering kisses and embraces she and Kouji shared felt like forever, but it was actually 5 minutes... which was still generally long. Once the two calmed down, Kouji held up a paper with a few names, phone numbers and addresses written on its white surface. "I've got a few wedding planners here, want to try them out?" Kouji asked. Izumi nodded and threw the paper back on the table and kissed Kouji, yet again. "Tomorrow, though." Izumi murmured seductively. Kouji chuckled as she clumsily pushed him upstairs while kissing him.

The next morning, Kouji and Izumi woke up in their bed. Lord knows what they did last night... Anyway, they both took a shower, at individual times, might I add, and set off to the wedding planners' offices. They honestly looked like the perfect couple, a couple that many would be envious of...

Kouji and Izumi faced plenty of unconventional wedding planners, if you know what I mean. One was very forgetful, another was very scary-looking, as well as her personality and another wedding planner was a little too seductive to Izumi's liking.

Kouji drove his red Lamborghini to their last hope and final target: a wedding planner named Jeanne Levesque. Izumi noted that she had an appealing name and sounded like a good wedding planner. It took a short time to get to Ms. Levesque's house. It was a modestly small abode and it was nothing too special, but it made sense, since Jeanne was a single woman.

Izumi stepped up to the house's French doors and rang the star-shaped doorbell. A melodious tune and a patter of light footsteps were heard through the doors. The door opened to reveal a fair and graceful-looking woman. She had gentle lavender eyes and brownish-blond hair that was pulled into a bun held with chopsticks. She wore casual clothes, but looked none-the-less professional. According to both Kouji and Izumi, Jeanne really liked red, if you get what I'm saying.

"Hello, I suspect that you two are the soon-to-be Mr. and Mrs. Minamoto?" Jeanne greeted. Izumi and Kouji nodded. They introduced themselves as Jeanne did to them. She invited them inside her house and led them to a fairly large room. A warm artificial fireplace burned inside the hearth, which was shielded behind a glass cover. Izumi wondered why there was a fireplace, in the first place, because the weather was already burning hot outside and her house was already warm without it.

"Please take a seat." Jeanne kindly gestured towards a couple of cushioned chairs. Izumi and Kouji sat themselves in the comfortable chairs as Jeanne sat down in a chair opposite of them. They discussed their affairs with each other and began to organize the wedding.

After their meeting, Izumi and Kouji weren't finished planning out their wedding, but they were half-way finished. Jeanne would take care of finding the assets, decorations and reception halls, but Izumi and Kouji still had their responsibilities.

AN: I'm soooooo sorry for taking so long! Please forgive me, but I wasn't able to find time to write this chapter. I was too busy traveling back and forth to one city to another, but now I'm back. Just be prepared to have less frequent updates... sorry to say.

PS: This chapter was finished on October third, but the document manager was offline during 11:00 PM Eastern Time Zone, I was unable to upload it at the time.