Ren can't believe his mother sometimes. No matter how many times he tried to insist on his point that maybe he should let Kyoko rest, his mom would stand firm on her ground.

"Go get my daughter, Kuon!"

Ren sighed deep when he reached Kanae's apartment. His hand reached out for the door bell and found it damaged. He then knocked several times but no avail.

"What are they doing in there?"

He checked the handle and found the door unlocked. Panic rushed through his body. Maybe someone broke in. Ren rushed inside and was about to call out to Kyoko when he heard to known voices coming from the bedroom. He went to the door and was about to knock when something in the conversation caught his interest.

"Well I can eavesdrop for a little while"

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Kyoko and Kanae sat at the floor cross legged and busy in chit chat when Kanae suddenly decided to bring up a strange topic.

"Kyoko, would you mind if I ask something?"

"No, go ahead, Moko-san"

"Did you ever dreamed of how you would want to get married?" the sudden question shocked Kyoko. She froze when times with Sho flashed back in her mind.

Sho-Chan I will wear the most beautiful wedding gown ever.

The church will be covered with roses and everything will be like a fairy tale. Right, sho-chan?

Tears whelmed up in her eyes when she remembered the old foolish Kyoko but still it was so beautiful to feel that that someday your prince charming will come and take you away. But now it was all nothing but mere foolishness.

"Kyoko, I am so sorry. If you don't want to answer then…"

"No no, Moko-san. I just remembered something." She quickly wiped away her tears. Even from behind the door and not being able to see her tears, Ren's heart ached. You caused her pain.

"So will you answer?" Kanae wanted to badly know if the girl ever imagined such things. She seemed too dense when it came to such things.

No matter how much foolishness it seemed to be, no matter how much nonsense it was to her mind, her heart yet urged her to speak. The vision appeared in front of her eyes and her tongue seemed to form words on its own.

"A grand church, a grand door, as it opens a wave of beautiful fragrance freshens your soul. As I enter a rain of flowers fall upon me. Beneath me a carpet of roses lay elegantly, waiting patiently for me to step on it. I walk up to the aisle barefooted on the roses to my prince who stood there all so elegant and patient in a black tux. The whole church is decorated with roses and iris. The scenario mid blowing. A light music in the background that warms your soul. I walk to my prince in a white wedding gown on a lovely afternoon"

Kanae looked up at Kyoko who seemed to be lost in thoughts. A tear escaped her eye. How poor was Kyoko! She knitted so many beautiful dreams for herself which deserved to be fulfilled and yet here she was marrying a wedding for the sole purpose to give an unborn child a good future. Life has been so cruel to the girl and no matter how much Kanae mourned at her friend's luck it would always be less.

Ren snapped out from imagining Kyoko's dream with his imaginary eye.

"My heart aches so much as I see you like this, so broken. I can't help but feel that I am the one who crushed your dreams and turned your life into a living hell. But still I can fulfill your this dream" His lips curved in a smile at the thought of giving her even a little happiness. So instead of going inside he left to fulfill a dream of his only love.

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Sighing Kyoko stood in front of grand door of the church. All the pre-wedding events have already tired her. Today she has learnt an important lesson, feigning to be happy was a thousand times more difficult than to pretend to be sad. She looked over to the over excited Julie and Kuu. At least I am going have two great parents. Kuu took Kyoko's arm and the doors to the church opened.

As the door opened, a wave of fresh fragrance hit her nose. Her eyes widened at the scene beyond her eyes. Just like her fantasy, a carpet of roses waiting for her. Kuu smiled as her daughter finally showed the pure happiness that a bride should. Her eyes turned sparkly. For a moment, Kyoko lost control of her feign mask. Her true emotions swept through and all her worries just vanished.

"Who did this?" was all she could manage to say.

"Well my son can sometime do some amazing jobs, can't he?" Kyoko's eyes widened in surprise but more was the sadness. Tears threatened to fall but she quickly hid them."I can't believe it. The person I love the most, the person I am going to marry, the person who destroyed my life did the thing for me that no one else could have done. Within a day he created my dream to reality. How can I hate him? But… how can I love him?"

As she entered the church all eyes turned to her and everyone stood up. Ren looked over to his soon to be wife. There she stood completely in awe in a white ivory champagne taffeta mermaid wedding dress with a long chapel train with diamond earring carved in heart shape. She could complete or better say win from any princess in a contest of grace and elegance. At that moment his heart skipped a beat. At that moment, nothing else mattered. At that moment the worries hid behind his back. At that moment, nothing could take her away. At that moment his heart declared its true love for her. At that moment it was just her that he could see. Nothing else mattered. Nothing else was there. Only her and the expression of pure happiness on her face that melted his heart. Hi heart soothed a little and the guilt lessened when he saw that his little attempt made her heart bloom. Can anything compare to that feeling? No. giving happiness to the person you love the most is the sole duty of a person. And that's what Ren did. His heart was crushed due to injustice of fate but still he can hope can't he.

Kyoko took a step and entered the church. There she saw him staring at her with his lips carved in his genuine smile. He was looking breath taking in his black tuxedo and auburn black hair. Her heart skipped a beat when she goes over the fact again that he did all this for her. How much she wanted to go and fall in his arms, hug him tight and confess all? How much she wanted her love to be reciprocated? How much she wanted the feeling of his lips on her's? How much she wanted him to love her? But dream's are for sleeping ones. And they belong in the fantasy world. Anyone would laugh if they heard her wishes but no one can have a control on them. If she can't fulfill her wishes then at least she could treasure them in her heart. May be a day will come and clear all the complexities.

Being in her thoughts, Kyoko never realized when she reached the aisle and Kuu gave her hand into Ren's secure one. Ren smiled as he took her hand gently. Yashiro and Kanae stood in a white tux and a peach one shoulder chiffon dress as groom's man and bride's maid. Maria was the flower girl looking like a doll in her purple ribbon fur decorated knee length dress.

Ren gave Kyoko am assuring smile and both turned to the priest.

We are gathered here today in the sight of God and angels, and the presence of friends and loved ones, to celebrate one of life's greatest moments, to give recognition to the worth and beauty of love, and to add our best wishes and blessings to the words which shall unite Hizuri Kuon and Mogami Kyoko in holy matrimony.

Marriage is a most honorable estate, created and Instituted by God, signifying unto us the mystical union, which also rests between Christ and the Church; so too may this marriage be adorned by true and abiding love.

Life is given to each of us as individuals, and yet we must learn to live together. Love is give to us by our family and friends. We learn to love by being loved. Learning to love and living together is one of life's greatest challenges and is the shared goal of a married life.

But a husband and wife should not confuse love of worldly measures for even if worldly success is found; only love will maintain a marriage. Mankind did not create love; love is created by God. The measure of true love is a love both freely given and freely accepted, just as God's love of us is unconditional and free.

Today truly is a glorious day the Lord hath made – as today both of you are blessed with God's greatest of all gifts – the gift of abiding love and devotion between a man and a woman. All present here today – and those here in heart – wish both of you all the joy, happiness and success and the world has to offer.

As you travel through life together, I caution you to remember that the true measure of success, the true avenue to joy and peace, is to be found within the love you hold in your hearts. I would ask that you hold the key to your heart very tightly.

Within the Bible, nothing is of more importance that loves. We are told the crystalline and beautiful truth: "God is Love". We are assured that "Love conquers all". It is love, which brings you here today, the union of two hearts and two spirits. As your lives continue to interweave as one pattern, remember that it was love that brought you here today, it is love that will make this a glorious union, and it is love which will cause this union to endure.

The words of the priest caused their hearts to rumble. It became difficult for them to hold composure. All he was talking was about love. And that was the topic that hurt them the most. They both have endured the deep pain that was caused by this felling. This so beautiful, pure feeling gives such a deep pain that no medicine will affect to heel the wound. This wound is heeled if your love is reciprocated and in their case, love becomes complex. It is a tangled string. You start untangling one end and will reach to a more tangled end. You always find a dead end no matter what you do. But unknown to them, the most difficult tasks have the easiest solutions. And so does there's. Their love will also conquer all. There love will also be invincible. Both will love the sensation of being loved but all you have to do is to wait. Time a great healer. It will heal the wound given by love and will take them to their destination. It is fate. It always is.

"Would you please face each other and join hands." Both did as told. Neither of them dared to look into others eyes.

Hizuri Kuon do you take Mogami Kyoko to be your lawfully wedded wife?
Do you promise to love, honor, cherish and protect her, forsaking all others
and holding only to her forevermore?

Ren looked at Kyoko. No going to be his Kyoko. Happiness and Sadness enveloped him in equal proportion. Then he nodded.

"I do"

Mogami Kyoko do you take Hizuri Kuon to be your lawfully wedded husband?
Do you promise to love, honor, cherish and protect him, forsaking all others
and holding only to her forevermore?

Kyoko looked at him. His eyes showed sincerity. Those emerald eyes forced words out of her mouth.

"I do"

"I, Hizuri Kuon, take thee Mogami Kyoko, to be my wife. To have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, and I promise my love to you forevermore". How much passion those words held in them didn't pass unnoticed by Kyoko.

"I Mogami Kyoko take thee Hizuri Kuon, to be my husband. To have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, and I promise my love to you forevermore." Inside tears were fighting to let loose. Heart was breaking. The thought of entering a relation with the person you love the most but still not loved by, was eating both of them. This wedding was becoming a challenge for them. Feigning happiness is hard, they learnt it today.

"Hizuri Kuon And Mogami Kyoko in so much as the two of you have agreed to live together in Matrimony, have promised your love for each other by these vows, and the joining of your hands, I now declare you to be husband and wife. You may kiss the bride."

Ren turned to his Kyoko, his finger aligned her chin so that now their eyes were locked. He could see tears swimming in her eyes. His heart broke to see her in pain. He moved forward and as his lips touched her's, he felt something wet. A tear had escaped from her eye. She never responded the kiss, no matter how much she wanted to. She just can't bring her mind to agree with the fact. He pulled away after a few seconds.

"I now pronounce you husband and wife"

A wedding is supposed to be a holy union. A union of two hearts, a union of two families. This wedding indeed was both but still nothing. Marrying a person you love is a wish everyone wants to get fulfilled. But marrying a person you love knowing the other can never love you is like stabbing yourself with a knife knowing how painful it will be. Same is for Kyuoko and Kuon. Both love each other but cannot confess due to fear of rejection. It is same as you don't like to swim; you are not afraid to swim but are afraid to drown. You are not afraid to love but are afraid of rejection. It is life and indeed it is a cruel reality.

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A/N: - I was planning to extend this chapter but I guess this works too. Thank you for reading, fav-ing, following, reviewing my story. This story requires a patient reader. I will not take it too long. So stick with me and tell me do you like it or not. And give suggestions.