Azusa's pov

I come home to find the apartment cleaned and Kari asleep on the couch. She opens her eyes and smiles.

"Azu, I thought you weren't home till tonight."

"I got off early, we have a lot to plan." I smile and sit beside her wrapping an arm around her waist.

"And how is this planning?"

"I don't know we could have some fun before hand." I bend closer to kiss her, but the sound of crying starts.

"Can we pause this a moment, she's hungry." Kari gets up and grabs the baby. I sigh and lay out on the couch.

"So what have you been up to?" I ask finally.

"Having my first drink since after she was born. Hatsumi and Ryoki took me out. Akane babysat." She puts the baby down after a while, and comes and sits with me on the couch.

"Nervous?" I ask. She seems a bit distracted. She looks back at me and lays beside me on the couch, her arms around my neck.

"I suppose that's what this feeling must be." She says dreamily. I put my lips on hers, and wrap my arms around her.

"I'll cheer you up." I grin. She gives me a small smile, and laughs.

Kari's pov

The wedding is today. I have Hatsumi help me into my dress, because of the many buttons and clasps on it, and fix my hair.

"Knock Knock." Ryoki says coming in. I turn to my older cousin, biting my lip.

"You alright?" Ryoki asks from behind me. I put the veil over my eyes.

"Nothing a good bottle of sake couldn't cure." I murmur.

"Drinking isn't going to help." Hatsumi adds.

"I know. You think Akane's alright watching the baby?"

"Ya she watched Mizuku for me when she was a baby."

"I'm not a baby!" We all turn to see Mizuku, wearing a long pink kimono with her hair wrapped up in two buns.

"You're not. You're a big girl huh." I hand her the basket of cherry blossom petals, and ruffle her hair. I look up at Ryoki.

"Thanks for...ya know standing in for Dad." The truth is, my Father and Mother have gone on vacation. Ryoki offered to walk me down the aisle.

Flashback

Ryoki, age nine, is sitting with Kari, age four on the playground. Kari smiles.

"Someday I'm getting married Ryo-chan, and you can come if your real nice to me."

"Like anyone would marry you." Ryoki says sticking out his tongue. Kari looks away sadly.

"But if I'm really pretty maybe, because...I'll wish real hard..." She starts crying, and Ryo sighs.

"I was only kidding will you stop it? We have to go back to my house soon."

Kari sniffles, and wipes her eyes. He frowns and goes to get a drink from the water fountain, he returns to find his younger cousin asleep on the grass. He walks home, with her riding on his shoulders.

Ryoki's pov

"No problem."

"Hatsu, did Shinogu come?"

"No, he said he had to work an extra shift." Hatsumi sighs.

Kari wipes her eyes, and fixes the veil so it doesn't show that she's crying. I want to say something, but wait until Hatsu goes ahead down the aisle, with Mizuku throwing flowers ahead of her.

"You don't have go through with this. You can call it off." I tell her. She holds the bouquet of violet flowers to her.

"Of course not. I love...Azu." She looks down the aisle, and puts her hand on my arm. "Its time to go, come on."

I take her down the aisle, and look at Azusa. He's smirking, unaware of how meloncholy his future wife is..

If it wouldn't cause a scene I'd beat the hell out of him! I sigh and let go of Kari's arm. She smiles at me, more for herself then me, and continues to him.

"Thanks Ryo." She whispers as she goes to him.

Flashback (sorry another one)

A teenage Kari is crying, and her cousin walks over concerned.

"What's wrong?" He asks putting his hands in his pockets. No one else is around, so he can show concern without feeling dumb. She looks up at him, and pushes him away.

"Go away Ryoki! All you boys are alike, mean and evil! Using girls and.." She wipes her eyes and shakes her head.

"I didn't do anything to you! What happened?" Ryoki demands only making her mad.

"He lied to me! Said he loved me, well if I ever try to get married to a jerk like him again stop me Ryo."

flashback over

I sigh and watch Azusa grab her hand. I tried Kari...I had promised you back then, and I couldn't go through with it.

Kari looks back at me a moment, and instead of her tear stained face, her eyes pink from crying, I picture the little girl I had to carry home from the park a long time ago.

"Kari.." I begin to say but the music stops playing, and the minister begins to talk.

Mizuku's pov

I stand by Mama, near Aunt Neptune. This old guy is talking, and I look at Auntie Neptune.

She's wearing a really pretty white dress, with a really shiny silver tiara on her head tied to a veil. She looks at me, smiling a little.

The old man talks for a long long time, and I want to fall asleep. The baby cries, then stops cause Auntie Akane gives it something to play with.

When I get married, I won't let an old guy talk so long. Or maybe I'll give everyone coloring books. I smile at the thought, and look back up.

"If anyone has anything against these two being wed, speak now or forever hold your peas." I think that's what the old guy said. He stops talking, and everyone is quiet. Suddenly Uncle Shinogu runs down the aisle.

Everyone looks at him, cause he's wearing his 7/11 uniform shirt, and his hair is very messy. Everyone is super quiet, as he grabs Neptune's hand and catches his breath.

"Kari don't, I won't let you do this." He tells Auntie Kari. She looks at him, and I think she's crying.

"What the hell are you doing Shinogu?" The bad man says.

"Stopping her from making a mistake."

"The only mistake was you coming here."

Suddenly the bad man and Uncle Shinogu start fighting. I grab my basket from the ground and throw it at the bad man to help. Auntie Kari finally screams at them.

"BOTH OF YOU STOP IT RIGHT NOW!"

Both of them stop and look at her. She pushes the veil away from her face, and looks at Uncle Shinogu, pulling him up by his t-shirt.

"Why are you here? Is this some kind of joke to just show up like this and beat him up? To blame him for Marumi?" Auntie Kari starts crying again, and I bite my lip.

"Because I love you Kari, and I don't care who's baby it is. I'm stopping you from making the biggest mistake you'll ever make."

She looks at him, then at the bad man. The bad man frowns. "Tell him how you feel, that he should get out of here and let us get on with this."

She smiles, wipes her eyes, and takes the ring off her finger, throwing it at him. "Your right Azusa, I have to tell him how I feel. Shinogu I love you, and I'm so sorry."

She jumps into Uncle Shinogu's arms, and looks at everyone. "Sorry, I suppose my wedding sucked, but help yourself to the refreshments they've already been paid for."

Uncle Shinogu carries her outside, both of them smiling and kissing.

I pull my moon wand from my dress where I had hidden it. "Moon magic fixes everything."

Kari's pov

We go to the afterparty anyway. Azusa had left, angry. We party anyway, since I had used Azusa's credit card to pay for it.

As the first slow song plays, Shinogu and I dance to it. My arms around his neck, smiling up at him.

"I knew you'd come." I whisper in his ear.

"How'd you know?"

"I don't know. Magic maybe. Promise me something Shinogu, if this is going to work out." I add the last part, whispering in his ear.

"Anything."

"Love me. Love me more then Hatsumi, love me best." I whisper. He looks at me a moment, wrapping a bit of my hair around his finger.

"I love you, more then..." He looks hesitantly at her. The love of his childhood, or me.

"Yes."

"Hatsumi. Hatsumi is my sister, and you are, my fiancé." He smiles.

"Excuse me, I heard no proposal of that." I point out. He pulls a simple silver band from his pocket, and puts it on my finger. I smile and hug him.

"Well?" He asks.

"Yes." I wipe my eyes, laughing. "Yes I will marry you Shinogu."

I smile and hug Shinogu. We laugh and dance for a long time, until a hand lands on my shoulder.

"Hey Shinogu, can I borrow Kari?" Ryoki grins.

"Sure. Don't disappear with her." Shinogu gives him a look and leaves. I laugh and start dancing with Ryo.

"So I suppose this means I'll have to go to another wedding." Ryoki says dryly staring at my ring. I smile and nod.

"Yep, maybe we can even convince my parents to come. Dad's met Shinogu, he'll approve."

"Azusa's got to be pissed."

"Ya, I guess I'll have to go get my stuff from his apartment tomorrow."

"You really suck at dancing." He tells me. I laugh and shove him playfully.

"Excuse me, I practically taught you how to dance."

Flashback

Two children are dancing in a large fancy apartment, tripping over each other.

"That was dumb." The boy, a child Ryoki, told her frowning.

"Nu-uh it was fun. Your just too mean to dance."

"You're the one that punched the boy at daycare."

"He was mean." Kari says sitting on his couch with him. "Go get me a drink I'm thirsty."

"I'm thirsty too, go get me a drink." He teased.

"Fine." She disappears in the kitchen, and returns with a water gun. Squirting at him, he ends up jumping around the apartment, and she laughs.

"Master Ryoki? Mistress Kari what are the two of you doing?" The maid says walking in.

"Teaching him how to dance." Kari grins.

Flashback over

"I wouldn't call that a dancing lesson."

"It was close enough." I laugh.

Shinogu's pov

After the wedding, Kari moved out of Azusa's apartment. Later she told me when she opened the door he was making out with his old agent. Something fitting about that.

We married the next spring, Kari in a white kimono, her hair now dyed red up in a bun. I remember during the wedding, Marumi started saying the word "Mizu" over and over. We all laughed afterwords.

Though she didn't like the idea too much, Kari gave Azusa custody of Marumi some times of the year. He's getting married this march to his agent.

Now we're all out on this beach years afterward, Kari sitting beside Hatsumi tanning, Ryoki and I watching Mizuku and Marumi race into the ocean, then race back.

"Waaaahhh!" A cry comes from beside me. Kari sits up, and walks over. She leans between me and Ryo, and picks up our three year old son.

"Nakatsu, don't cry. Shinogu are you tormenting your son again?" Kari teases smiling at the boy.. I stare at him, a mess of black hair and dark green eyes.

"It takes after you always being needy, and crying all the time."

"Amen to that." Ryoki adds.

Kari hands the baby to Hatsumi, and smiles at us. "You wait right here."

She disappears behind some rocks, so we forget. Before we know it, she snuck behind us and threw cold water on us.

"Oh shit that's cold!" Ryoki yells. I yell similar curses, and Mizu and Marumi run to us.

"Your not supposed to say bad words." Marumi tells me. "It is not nice right Mama?"

Kari smiles at her, and nods. "Ya, its not nice."

I run and grab Kari, and she kicks me as I carry her to the water. "Oh don't, I just got my hair dyed again! Oh Shinogu if you..."

Ryoki had done the same with Hatsumi, and we dropped them in the water, they squealed and ran to their towels, yelling at us.

Before we leave, I find Marumi, Mizuku, and Nakatsu sitting by the water. Mizuku looks at the others.

"Since I'm the oldest, I get to be in charge. We can be super heros."

"I'm hungry." Nakatsu replies.

"Can I be in charge?" Marumi asks.

"We can both."

"I'mhungry!" Nakatsu complains again. Both girls sigh andMarumi hands him her popcicle, which leaves a red mess on him.

Mizuku smiles at her friend, and they both grab one of Nakatsu's hands and leads him to Ryoki's car.

A/N: Oh the end, I feel so sad. Oh well, I'll be working on another new story soon enough, thanks for being here for this fic, you guys rock. Check out my other story home is where I lay my head.

Reviews:

Jenbo- Shinogu had a fine ending though didn't he?

bobthebrick- well Azusa wasn't very true to her was he. With his agent the day after.

Haru is my lovely- shinogu had a happy ending.

Ryokilover-Yes, I love the idea of Ryoki being like a big brother type, being rude but nice at the same time. He was a big thing in my story.

Darkkimp: Yes, Shinogu had a sad moment but now he's happy.

Momo-sama- Yes, the baby was cute, I love the idea of her son Nakatsu he's so cute!

The end, love you all!