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Chapter 18: I Do

Koko's P.O.V.

I watched as we were showered with pale jasmines and cherry blossoms. All around us, the friends and family of the two that had gone through fire and sword to be together, gathered to bear witness to the binding between them. I felt myself close to tears as I saw Natsume at the alter, jittering like…a jitter bug.

Then, they started falling, when I heard Pachelbel's Canon start on the organ. I turned along with the rest and my eyes thought they were dreaming. Mikan Sakura, beautiful and born anew as Michelle, walked down the aisle to a smiling Natsume, or Nathan as we now called him. The Academy was still looking for Mikan Sakura and they would hopefully never find her. Narumi would try to make that a future a reality.

She walked in slow, practiced steps, her clumsy gait disappearing years ago. Mikan smiled at the people around her, her face glistening with a millennium's worth of happiness she threw away ten years ago. Now, she received what she lost so long ago. Her smile was so bright, it made the sun look trivial and dull.

She finally reached the alter. She looked at Natsume with so much love, it was overpowering. The vows began. They were whispered words, barely able to be heard but I heard it all. In their minds, I heard only one sentence.

I love you.

I smiled as the priest finished the vows. "With the power vested in me, by the power of God, I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride." The flame caster grinned evilly and raised her veil. He dipped low and whispered something that only I could hear before he kissed her deep and sweetly. She smiled into the kiss and whispered back before reaching out for another kiss.

"Neh, Mikan. How many kids will we have?"

"None if you keep smiling like that."

I chuckled. Natsume, still kissing her, swung her around again and again.

Epilogue

"Takyou Hyuuga! You get your butt here right now!"

A young toddler with sparkling red eyes and dashing jet black hair toddled around, smiling like the sun. Truly, Takyou Hyuuga was the young child of Mikan Sakura and Natsume Hyuuga. The latter sat on a nearby white bench, grinning and chuckling as his wife and child played Tag.

It had been five years since the birth of their sunshine. The world had never looked brighter.

And it was just getting better.