A/N: Here's the 11th chapter! AHHHH!!! I feel so accomplished! I don't know the marriage laws of Japan…so I stuck to the American ones .. I hope everyone enjoys this chapter!!!! Review!

Chapter 11

Ever since I had forgiven him it was like first love all over again.

First love—like when you're first going out with some one. The whole period of time where you guys dote over each other, when all you do it talk no physical stuff involved, and the part where you guys just can't seem to see enough of each other.

But one thing that has and always will be is the fact that we have always wanted to make each other happy. I would say things to put a smile on his face, draw a picture for him out of the blue…you know do cute things just to see that beautiful face find it's way to a smile.

Now it's to the point where Haru and I are sleeping in the same bed again. That doesn't mean that we are having sex. I told him we have to slow it down if we want to make things better. However, things were already better…even though I thought they never would be better than before…they were and still are!

I can't find a reason to frown! As I hold his hand I'm fully aware that I'm never going to be alone again!

My high school graduation is today…joyous occasion…whatever. Haru promised he would come see me get my diploma, and I know he will come. As I sat in the gown and hat the school provided for us I craned my neck around, scanning the crowd for my love. I soon spotted him sitting with Hatori-Nii and Gure-Nii. He let me see the energetic wave signaling that he saw me. I waved back smiling from ear to ear.

"Is that your boyfriend?" the girl next to me asked.

"Uh-huh," I answered swelling with pride.

"Wow…he's hot," she said glancing back at him.

"You bet!" I replied blowing a kiss to Haru.

Ever since I had let the pain go I've felt like a new person. My soul felt so much lighter as if I had never experienced hurt or sorrow. The new feeling was so great that I wanted to fly off to heaven and scream at the top of my lungs this joyful expression.

I glanced back at the crowd…but Haru wasn't there?

Where is he? I wondered searching the ocean of people for the two toned beauty of my life.

"Sohma, Isuzu," the principal said into the microphone.

I snapped out of the trance and walked up to the stage to accept my diploma. As my body reached the shade of the overhanging Haru came into focus. My smile doubled in size. He held my diploma out with one hand as the other held a secret behind his back.

What is he doing? Why is he on…Oh dear gods…he's not going to is he? He IS!!!

Haru knelt on one knee before me.

He's going to do it!!!

A small red velvet box was in his hand while the other surrounded my left hand.

"Isuzu Sohma, I love you. Ever since I met you my life has had meaning. The light of the sun could never compare to your beauty or to your sweet voice. I will always be in love with you…never will this change. I live only to make you the happiest person in this world. I want to make you shine even when the sky is storming. My existence was made to be with you. I will never hurt you. Everyday will bring the new possibility to heal those wounds that have plagued your mind. I will be the one to heal those wounds and chase the scars away. To me you are perfection and I need to have you in my life. So please, allow me the pleasure of having your hand in marriage…" Haru's speech brought a tear to me eye.

"Isuzu…Will you marry me?" he popped the question as he popped the lid to the box.

Velvet pillows held a ring that looked to be one karat diamond. The diamond was gently cradled between two deep red rubies. A squeal fell from my lungs and onto the air.

"Of course I'll marry you Hatsuharu!" I exclaimed as my hands shook like a Californian earthquake.

The ring was slipped on my finger and he stood only to be knocked down by my sudden embrace. I was so ready to marry him that I didn't care about all the fancy things and showy details. I just wanted to call him mine forever.

I lay on top of him kissing his sweet honey lips. The hands of an angel groom my hair tenderly as we form a beautiful moment of pure love. His lips felt so fragile yet so strong, like they could speak the whole truth every time I asked for it.

It was a few minuets before the principal broke us up. If he hadn't I could have died right then and there in Haru's arms completely happy. If God is great then this was the point in time where he had proved it. Or rather…she.

I didn't care about it anymore! I had forgiven him and that was that! We never brought it up and it never bothered me. It happened yes…but it's in the past just as everything else was.

Admiring the huge rock on my finger I walked back to my seat to be greeted with cold glares and words of congratulations.

But…the rest of the ceremony was a blur. I couldn't get my mind off of the fact that Haru wanted me to be his wife. The me who pushed him away so desperately to protect him but only hurt him with it was the one he asked. He wanted to be with the me who had been so cold after a big mistake. Last of all…he wanted to be with the me who was severely flawed.

First, before we pick out the location of our wedding….we had to get his parents to sign some legal document saying that he could get married to me. Needless to say I was nervous beyond reason. I wasn't exactly what you would call…liked by his parents.

Last time I met with them they only nodded and smiled at me. Then later that day they caught us making out like crazy and told me that I had to leave. I heard them yelling at Haru the second the door knob turned.

We sat in Hatori-nii's car as we sped down the street to get to Haru's house. It had been only days after he asked me to marry him. His hand was laced in mine so tightly. I could tell he was as nervous as I was.

After what felt like a lifetime and afterlife we arrived in the living room. Across from me sat his mom and I could feel the daggers flying at me. His father filed into the room with a tray of tea.

"So, what do we owe this pleasure to?" his mom asked with a hit on sarcasm mixed with her formal manners.

"Well…we….Ummm…Uhh…" Haru was as a loss for words. "Wanna take this one Nii-san?" he asked turning his head to Hatori who calmly took over.

"What he's trying to say is that he has asked Isuzu to marry him and we need your consent to do this," Hatori elaborated handing them a few papers of legal mumbo-jumbo.

"Well…this sure is a shock," Haru's mom said with a speck of ironic laughter in her voice.

Haru's dad set his tea cup down with a small click of the porcelain, "Absolutely not."

Oh great…his black side… I thought as Haru stood up fast enough to where a normal person would fall back down.

"What is your problem?! We only ask you to take 2 friggin' seconds out of your ever so 'busy' lives to sign a stupid paper that allows us to get married and out of your hair!!!!" his words hit both of them like stones.

"Haru…you are far too young to understand love-" his mom began but was cut off by his continual outbursts.

"No! You don't understand! You guys don't love each other! You're only together so that you guys can reap the benefits of being the parents of a zodiac!!!"

"That's not true—"

"Yes it is!"

Haru's dad then stood up and turned his back to the conversation.

"No you don't! We are BOTH going to deal with this!" his mom had finally raised her voice to the occasion.

"It doesn't matter! Neither of you were there for me anyway! Why was I expecting this to be any different?!" he screamed storming out to the car.

I only stuck around long enough to hear Hatori try to convince them to rethink the situation.

"Please, if they do it now at least they have your blessing. Either way they will do it sooner or later."

I then followed the Black Haru. He sat pouting in the back seat. The door popped open. This was his invitation to me for me to join him. I climbed in and sat next to him. His tantalizing eyes followed me. Just as I settled down Haru's body flew onto mine knocking me onto my back.

"Haru, are you okay?" I asked a little scared of his aggressive nature right now.

"Never better," he sarcastically answered kissing me roughly.

"Stop Haru…" I asked knowing he would stop soon anyway.

He snapped out of his Black state and back to white. His eyes softened and his hard expressions became lighter.

"I'm so sorry Rin!" he apologized as he helped me back into a sitting position.

Haru's hands fluttered over me to check for any threatening damage or dark bruising. None was found so he just settled for dusting my face with sweet kind kisses.

"It's okay Haru, you were in your black state," I pardoned his behavior with the multiple personality thing.

"That's no excuse Rin…if I ever hit you, then leave me and never look back. I mean it Rin," he warned me although I knew he would never hit me.

"Why should I worry about that?" I asked crooking my smile to one side. "You'd never hit me. If you were going to you, you'd have already done it."

"This is no time to joke. Rin, I'm dead serious if I ever try something like that again just hit me and leave," his voice didn't falter…I knew he wasn't joking at all.

"I promise," I responded kissing his lips.

"Okay, I've got it all worked out," Hatori said settling into the diver's seat and starting up the car.

"What do you mean?" Haru asked curiously.

"I got them to sign the papers," he answered looking behind him for the unlikely event of a car coming by.

"Are you serious?!" I exclaimed feeling higher than the clouds.

"Yeah, you guys can get married now."

A huge kiss with the pent up energy was sure to lead to other things later, but for now it was all I could give to Haru to show the amount of happiness I had right now.

Maybe this wasn't such a bad day afterall?