hey...
yes... well... dose it help when i say i'm sorry for taking so long to update? Truely i am... but like all writers i have my reasons (excuses)... the month of June was a horible month. first off my dad had to go in for surgery for triple bypass, luckily he didn;t have a heart attack, but he was really close to it, but they cought it early. and the kicker there is that the surg was an the night my school band was having their last concert... then a few days after that my grandpa died... and the furneral was the same day that dad was supposed to come home. ug. so i missed a tone of school work, and so missed all my art deadlines for the show, then exames. But July wasn't a picnic either. i have a new superviser at work who is a jerk. and i think that the only reason why i can work with him now is that i expect him to be a jerk and so it doesn't bother me (anymore).
but on the good side, i did finialy get my new computer... though i forgot to transfer over my most recent copy of this story... so i had to re-write this chapter
i have been sying to write this chapter ever since our fav Esca couple came to Earth. so i hope you all enjoy this! and i appologise if i kill any one from laughter when you read what Kurisu gave them for a present... took me like 5 min to calm down my giggles to actually write it.
Chapter 39: Surprise It's A Boy!
After the vows were made the group all walked back to the building, where they divided up to pile into the few cars that they had parked in the parking lot.
The newly weds were finally allowed to stay together. Hands clasped they were shoved into Kurisu's sports car, which was thankfully not painted with giant letters saying "JUST MARRIED" nor were there a dozen or so cans of beer or whatever, dangling from the back of it. When Hitomi commented on this Kurisu replied that there was no time to decorate, nor would he let anyone live if they had done that to his baby.
The other member of their group was Hitomi's brother Mamoru, who sat in the front passenger seat. The ride from the parking lot was very silent, everyone looking out his or her window, the two in the back too nervous to look at the other, but held hands never the less.
After driving around in gigantic circles, they finally pulled up a long driveway with flowers and garden lights planted along the way. The sun had set close to an hour ago; giving the house they were pulling up to, a very welcoming look as the exterior lights were being turned on. There were many lights on, on the first floor and people moving in front of the windows. It appeared that Kurisu had taken a long and winding way to get to his house so as to let everyone else get there before them.
Kurisu led the way up the path between the garage and the front of the house, Mamoru lagged behind so he could take a good, long look at the house, as it was his first time being to the star's house. Kurisu was the first one to enter the house, giving the couple a grand entrance, "May I, present to you," he called in a clear, loud voice. "For the first time," every one was gathering in the entrance hall, "Mr. and Mrs." He winked at Hitomi, "Van and Hitomi, Fanel!" he finished with a bow.
Van glanced down at Hitomi and watched as her face that was a rose-y pink in the car, change to beet red, then drain of all colour. Van looked to were Hitomi's eyes were glued, and saw what had caused her such terror.
There spanning the entire entrance hall was a banner that read; "IT'S A BOY!" It was at this time that Mamoru crossed the threshold.
Hitomi turned to face him, eyes ablaze with furry. "You told them!"
"Waa-?"
"You actually told them! I can't believe you!"
"What are you talking about?" he asked, staring at his sister completely dumbfounded. Then he saw the banner. "Sis, I didn't tell them anything." Sincerity ringing in his voice, Hitomi's eyes grew large and her face that was turning red with rage, went suddenly ghostly white again...
There was a complete and total silence, that followed that lasted for several minuets. No one moved. Out of the corner of his eye, Van noticed that there were a few more people there then he had so far met. The silence grew as Hitomi turned to face her friends, her face still pale.
The silence grew to a deafening roar, before it was broken by Kurisu, who flung himself at Hitomi landing on his knees, "Oh! This is simply marvelous!" he exclaimed, and wrapped his arms tightly around her legs, and pressing the side of his head against her stomach, as if he could hear the life inside her growing. "Hello in there." he said to her lower half in baby talk, "This is your Uncie Kurisu. And when you come out, I'm gonna spoil, you, rotten!" he emphasized the last three words.
"Get off of her, you fruit." said the women who was standing in a doorway off the side of the hallway, and she literary stepped over to the kneeling actor and pulled him off when he did not release Hitomi.
Standing up Kurisu brushed himself off, a great big smile was planted across his face. "This calls for celebration!" he called to no one in particular, "I shall open my finest fermented and non-fermented grape juice!" with that he turned on his heel and went down the hall and through the far door at the end.
This was not how she had wanted to tell her friends. True she really didn't have a plan on how she was going to tell them, but just blurting it out like that, was defiantly NOT how she wanted to tell them. And everyone was there; Master Kirijini, Maketu, Miruton, Frank, Kurisu, Sam, Tsurara, and even Joy!
Joy was Miruton's eight-year-old niece, who lived with him, because of her parents not being able to afford to keep her. She attended a high-end private school, and was the perfect example of the 'perfect little girl'. On the occasions that Hitomi had watched Joy, the girl was always polite, respectful, and very mature for her age. She was still dressed in her school uniform, a white t-shirt with the school crest, and dark red skirt, her black hair pulled back into a pony-tail, with a few strains framing her face. Joy stepped over to Hitomi, and looked up at with with wide eyes, "Is it true? Your truly really pregnant?"
Hitomi bent down, to be eye-to -eye with the young girl, and nodded her head, "Ya. It is."
The little girl hugged her friend, and whispered in Hitomi's ear, "Congratulations." and Hitomi hugged her back. When they released each other, Joy held onto Hitomi's hand, "Come, I have something to show you." With that Joy lead Hitomi, followed by Van and everyone else into the room to the left of the hallway.
This room Van figured this was the sitting room, as there were many chairs and couches to sit on, a fire place at the back of the room, and a very large window in the front give a nice view of the extensive lawn and garden at the front of the building.
To Hitomi's slight horror, and great embarrassment, there were other banners in this room and they read; "CONGRADULATIONS", "HAPPY BIRTHDAY", "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY", "IT'S A GIRL", "HAPPY HALLOWEEN", "MERRY CHRISTMAS", "HAPPY VALENITINS DAY", "HAPPY ST. PRACTRICKS DAY", "HAPPY NEW YEAR!", "HAPPY THANKS GIVING", "HAPPY MOTHERS DAY", and "HAPPY FATHERS DAY"
"Well, we figured that we wouldn't be seeing you for a while, so we decided that we would celebrate what we could think of." said Maketu as everyone entered the room and chose their seats.
The brown-haired guy who was wearing square glasses walked over to Van, "Hi, I don't think I've had the honor of meeting you...I'm Sam."
Van could only stare at the guy... Sam; the person who was dating Kurisu, was a guy. A small smile spread across Sam's face as he no doubt understood why Van was staring with such a shocked look.
"M'Lady! You haven't done the introductions yet?" teased Kurisu, walking into the room, carrying a couple bottles of wine, and a pitcher of grape juice, which he set down on the coffee table that was in the middle of all the furniture."How many time do i have to tell you, that you are supposed to stop any and all conversations, when someone new joins you." he continued in an over dramatic voice, waving his arms about.
"How rude of me." Hitomi retorted, in the same dramatic voice, "Everyone I would like you to meet Kurisu Kyosei, Kurisu, meet everyone. I do believe that you all have met before."
"Ha, ha. Very funny. Now try it again." he droned, as he started pouring the wine in the wine glasses that were already set out, and handing the full glasses to the people already sitting.
Hitomi grinned, having won a battle. "Alright. Everyone this is Van. Van you know, Yukari, Amano, my brother, Frank, Maketu, Miruton, Master Kirijini, Kurisu and Sam. I'd like to introduce you to Tsurara, Maketu's wife of two years and Joy, Miruton's niece.
Van bowed to them, "It is an honor to meet you."
Everyone nodded in return from their seats, but Joy stood up and curtsied low to the new couple. "The honor is ours." she said as she sat back down, Frank gave her a stern look that was missed be everyone else as Kurisu ushered the still standing people to sit down, the two guests of honor to the love seat, and he handed Van a glass of wine.
"For the mother..." he poured a glass of the grape juice and handed it to Hitomi, "and for the child." he handed another to Joy. Then took his set beside Sam.
"Hitomi, Van," said Frank in a serious tone. A stillness fell upon the room as he talked. Hitomi was always slightly surprised at how much all her friends followed his lead. "All of us here can tell that you two love each other... That's kind of why we pushed you to 'take the plunge'. And many of us have seen evidence to prove that no matter what kind of a crazy story you have to tell, it is the truth. Some of us even know a part of the story, but for the others, please enlighten us. How did you two meet?"
Hitomi, sighed silently. She had wondered when this conversation was going to happen. She had even foolishly hoped that it wouldn't even happen. but she looked around the room, and saw that everyone had settled in for a long story, and she knew that she wouldn't be able to get out of it. Not any more.
So she told them. She told them everything. Well except maybe a small detail or two that had slipped her mind. She didn't really plan on telling them everything but as she told them of the day that she first left Earth, how Van fought the dragon, everything else just fell into place... Allen, the invisible giants, Merle, Millerna, Chid, Dryden, Dilandau, Folken, Zaibach, the Mystic Valley, the war.
When she finally finished her story, it was Yukari and her brother who looked the most awed. "Hitomi..." started Yukari, but couldn't finish what she was going to say.
There was an awkward silence as everyone digested the story. Believing, wanting to believe, or not wanting to believe, but knowing that it was the truth.
It was Kurisu's stomach that finally broke the silence, with a growl of hunger. "AH, yes. The lovely ladies... and Sam. Have prepared us a fantastic feast! So shall we digress to the dinning room?" it wasn't really a question, as he gt up and lead the way across the entrance hallway, to the room on the other side. Where there was a grand table of light wood, with more then enough room for them all. And there laid out in the middle of the table, on the fine silver platers, and bowls were multiple varieties of-
"Take-out?" asked Hitomi dumbfounded.
"Well of course." replied Kurisu, "You didn't expect us to cook, now did you?"
Hitomi just shook her head, a great big smile across her face, and took the seat that was offered to her, in the middle of the table. Of course they wouldn't have cooked. She always was the one that cooked anything when they got together. And the one time that Kurisu did try to cook a large meal for them all... well she didn't want to think of that before she started eating. They all dug in passing this and that, and taking turns to explain what each dish was to Van, who clearly had never seen any of the food before.
Once they were all fed, they were ushered back into the sitting room, as the guys cleared the table. When they joined them they brought with them another bottle of wine, and presents, which they placed on the little table in front of Van and Hitomi.
"You didn't have to do this." said Hitomi blushing.
"We wanted too." answered Tsurara.
"Open them." encouraged Joy, pressing hers in Hitomi's lap. "I made this myself."
Hitomi unwrapped the gift, which turned out to be a photo album with pictures from back in her high school years when it was just Yukari, Amano, and herself, pictures of tournaments, the guys goofing off, pictures of them B.A.S.E. jumping, all the way up to tonight. There was even a picture of the kiss on the beach... "How did you get this?"
"Oh! Kurisu just forwarded it to me from his cellphone. Same with the next one." She said so proudly, turning the page over, to the last picture.
This picture was terrifyingly beautiful. True it wasn't the best quality of picture, but it was very good considering that it came from a cam-phone, and there was obvious signs of computer enhancement, because the lighting obviously was bad. But none of that mattered, because this was a picture that was worth a thousand words, and more. Much, much more.
But Hitomi was lost for words. for there, standing in only the white pants, in the middle of a room stood Van, his wings fully extended. Unfortunately, since the picture was so grainy Hitomi could not see his face clearly.
She looked up at the real Van, still speechless.
he had shown them.
Complete strangers.
He had shown complete strangers the one thing that she know hurt him the most...
...for her
The real Van's face was a cool mask, showing no emotion. Giving Hitomi no inclination of what he was thinking. But there was no time for her to ponder this, as Miruton gave his gift. "Now mine isn't as sentimental, but I do hope that you'll enjoy it just as much." he pulled out a sheaf of paper from his briefcase, and set them don on the table. "I just need you two to sign at the marked places... and your marriage will be official."
"Can you really do that?" Hitomi asked.
"Of course. I passed the Bar last week."
"Oh! Congratulations!"
Miruton chuckled, "Just sign." and handed Van an expensive looking pen, pointing to where he needed to sign.
Van Salanzar de Fanel
Then Hitomi signed.
Hitomi Hoshino Kanzaki
He then placed the papers back into his briefcase as the presents continued. A baby sling from Yukari and Amano. "Just 'cause you're always on the go."
Scented candles and massage oil from Tsurara, and Maketu. Which earned the the blush that they were going for... but it was Sam and Kurisu's presents that got the biggest blush...
The newlyweds were both handed an identical rectangular box, wrapped in the same wrapping paper. "Now, we really only expect your wife here to be the one wearing these," Kurisu addressed to Van, "but we hope that you'll get just as much enjoyment out of them, as she will." His grin was as mischievous, and Sam winked at the couple.
Hitomi was the first to lift the lid to the box that was underneath the wrappings, but it was a quick glance, of something pink and fuzzy before the lid was pushed back on, and her face turned the darkest shade of red any of them had ever seen. She then hid her face in her glass, cursing to herself, for the fact that she couldn't blame the redness on the alcohol. These actions, sparked Van's curiosity but he opened his lid with caution.
Inside was a silk move nightgown, trimmed with black lace. Hew handed the box over to Hitomi, who's face was starting to go back to normal. She pulled it out of the box, revealing that it was VERY short. And that the neck line plunged just a little too low, and had pieces of string for shoulder straps. As she pulled to garment out of the box, something that was wrapped inside fell onto Van's lap...
He picked it up...
And felt his face go red, as everyone in the room halalled and shouted cat calls. And to confirm his thoughts, he heard Kurisu in a loud whisper, to Kirijini "He just picked up the panties!" Which started another round.
Hitomi quickly grabbed the panties from Van and stuffed them in their box along with the gown... neither one could look at the other. "Awe. They're both embarrassed!" teased Maketu.
"Alright, alright." carried Master Kirijini's voice above the bubbling voices. "You've all had your fun. Now let them open my gift." and Joy passed a handsome wooden box to the couple. "Now i know this isn't a typical gift to give for a Wedding... But this hasn't really been your typical wedding."
Van opened the lid, and there inside, resting on a red silk pillow, sat two daggers. The one was a perfect match to Hitomi's sword, and the other looked like it's twin only in black "...Sensei..." breathed Hitomi.
"I knew from the moment that you bought that sword of yours that you'd want the matching dagger."And so I got the 'his' version of it." he said smugly. "just think of them as 'his' and 'hers' towels."
The last gift on the table was from Frank.
from the size of it, it clearly was jewelery...
Hitomi opened it, and inside was a white pendent necklass... exactly like her pink pendent.
The room went dead quiet. Hitomi felt her stomach drop to the bottom of her feet as she stared at Frank.
"Now let us tell you our story."
LostGryffindorFoundSlytherin - no it's not on hiatus... they woouldn't let me sleep if it was... x.x
Drakan - yes.. well... this was very slow, but i hope you really liked it.
moeraeleizhaj - yes, that wedding will be... interesting... Hitomi's actually going to be planing it... though how much say she actually is going to have to still being witht he counsil members...
ellylion - well your wait begins again... and two imagenery coookies to you for reading it all straight through
dilly-sammas luverdilly-sammas luver - well if this chapter hasn't answered your questions, then the next one will
darkangel - thankies
mic - well i'm quite done with them yet... don't forget that there's a war bruing
The Winggoddess - yes i finially updated!!! and to pass the time you may like to re-read the 'earth chapters' and catch the dramic irony lol though i will try to update sooner
osuwari246 - awe. thank you so much. and well this next chapter will hopefully send ya for a loop. hehe
serenityrain2233 - well i do hope that you enjoyed this
trekker4life - that's a really good idea... too bad it was hard enough to get Hitomi to wear the garter in the first place... but i think that Kurisu made up for that lol.
well i thank you all for reading, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting... i hope to hear what you all thought of this one. and hope to see you for the next chapter