A/N: The final part of The Way I Want You Tonight! Thank you for supporting me through thick and thin! This chapter is inspired by My Big Fat Greek Wedding; the best romantic comedy in history! This chapter is only Four-K's long.
The Way I Want You Tonight
Part Three: The Rest of Our Lives
Konoha was bustling with activity, as always. The merchants and restaurant workers were busily taking requests, the ninjas on vacation were spending their time being with their loved ones or wasting their time under the shade of trees or their beds and drinking in their favourite pub. Most of the kunoichis, however, from that group of ninjas were located in a rather fancy mansion. The mansion was the home of one certain Rokudaime Hokage of six months.
It was the home of the recently instated Hokage, Uzumaki Naruto and currently, it was being used by the majority of kunoichis to prepare a certain Yuuhi Kurenai for the Hokage's wedding. But there was a slight problem with the preparations. The problem was that the bride, Kurenai, was not up yet.
Up a large spiral staircase was a rather large corridor that held many doors on its side. The corridors were currently filled with females, all of them ninjas except for one certain middle-aged woman that went by the name of Yuuhi Yoriko, Kurenai's mother. She literally jumped with joy knowing that her daughter was finally to be wed, but when she heard about the young Hokage being her man, she literally screamed in happiness and put her daughter in a hug that would make Tsunade jealous. Of course, there was a slight feeling of disbelief with it.
Currently, the kunoichis were banging on a certain door that held the bride.
'Yuuhi Kurenai, it's your wedding day, get up!' Anko banged on the door.
'Come on, Kurenai, wake up!' Yoriko banged on the door after Anko.
'Stand back.' Sakura approached the door, breathed in and out and slammed her fist against it, shattering the door into many tiny splinters and chips of wood.
Kurenai was there as the women entered the sanctuary that was her place of relaxation. She was desperately trying to get some sleep in her four-poster bed until a certain mother of hers came in and shook her to wake.
'Kurenai, are you going to disappoint your future husband by not going to the wedding?' Kurenai's mother questioned; the relatively young woman looked at her droopily; the kunoichis around her stared intently at Kurenai.
'Mother, what are you doing?' Kurenai slowly yawned, 'It's only…'
'Four hours to the wedding.' her mother finished for her as Kurenai smiled.
Then, her eyes widened as she looked to the clock on the wall and looked to the many females around her. She rushed out of the bed.
'Oh my God, is it really that late!' Kurenai exclaimed, running out the hallway.
'Finally, she grasps the truth that she's late.' Yoriko said.
Kurenai ran over to her dressing room with the girls that were her friends in tow, following her. They were in a big room, where many dresses for the bridesmaids, all of which were blue and went down to reach their knees, white high-heels and make-up were set, all of them lined up and ready for use.
There were even several sashes and bows hung on a rack.
Suddenly, the red-eyed woman was ushered to a seat near a mirror
Kurenai sat down on a soft chair by force, thanks to her mother, Anko, Sakura, Hinata and Kiba's sister, Tsume. All around her, Kurenai could see that the women were getting ready, putting their make-up on.
'We're going to give you a bridal shower, so you better get ready.'
Kurenai was immediately dragged away by her comrades and into a five-star bathroom, where they started to strip her down and put her into a bath that had started to be filled with skin cleansers that had a faint mixed scent of lemon and strawberries. Kurenai chuckled to herself as she felt her hair washed and wetted herself. Anko was sitting behind her, washing her hair with a special shampoo that her mother had bought from an herbal specialist the day before. Kurenai did not know what was so special about it, but her mother had said that it will keep your man from running off or leaving you for dangerous missions of the sort.
'Kurenai, help me here! There's only four hours left you know?' Anko said.
Kurenai started to wash herself with a bar of soap even faster. Thirty minutes passed and Kurenai's mother barged in with a set of brand new undergarments in an opened blue package. Kurenai got out of the bath and Anko drained it.
'Here, Kurenai, put these on after you dry yourself!' her mother ordered.
Kurenai draped herself in a towel as several more of her fellow kunoichi ushered her out of a room and into another room down the hallway.
It was amazing how women could do things in an instant when it really mattered in the world of fashion and beauty. Kurenai was stripped of her towel and was put on her undergarments in under ten seconds, however, a four second window that saw her completely naked would have give Uzumaki Naruto the nosebleed of his life. But he wasn't there, thank God.
Kurenai was shoved into another chair and the women who were known as the deadliest in Konoha, led by the former Hokage, Tsunade-sama, was at the forefront of performing the most delicate and sophisticated methods of beauty.
She was no beginner at this; that was for sure. Why? Because after her stint as Hokage of Konoha, the aggressive woman made herself a beauty parlour for all women to come and regenerate or persevere the beauty that they were.
She had already ninety-five percent of her debts paid off thanks to it.
So now, before the bride-to-be was the Greatest Beauty Specialist that Konoha had ever known, clad in a white robe and wearing white gloves. Over her mouth and nose was a facemask. At her side, on a table was an assortment of make-up tools from tweezers to lip moisturizers to what looked like a powder puff.
'Yuuhi Kurenai, when we are done with you, Naruto will be the happiest man alive.' Tsunade said, massaging her wrists as several more girls came up to her.
Even though she did not show it, Kurenai was extremely uneasy with all this.
Hell, who wouldn't be? Her thoughts drifted to a certain blonde Hokage.
Naruto was not someone that you would call a coward. He had many deeds to prove that he was as brave as a lion. There was when he fought Orochimaru in the forest during his first Chuunin Examination when his other team-mates were still in shock from the snake-man's awesome power. There was when he faced Gaara for the first time in the forest on the outskirts of the village around that period as well. There was when he fought Yakushi Kabuto in an effort to defend the then-wanderer Tsunade and defeated him with a well-placed Rasengan.
You would think that their Hokage was a brave man. He was; except that could not explain why the blonde storm of a Rokudaime had locked himself within the room that guarded the Scroll of Forbidden Seals. There were several seals placed on the door leading in so that not a single person could get in.
Outside the door, in the hallway, was a very peeved Jiraiya, an extremely frustrated Hyuuga Neji and a disappointed Iruka. Jiraiya was peeved that his student was the one who had arranged the wedding and yet he was a coward from going on with it. Hyuuga Neji was frustrated because of the fact that they many times he had tried to convince the Hokage to come out, he retorted back with a very good comeback. For example, Neji had started to rant about fate that Naruto was fated to be a coward. Naruto came back saying that Neji was destined to be a homosexual with his girly looks. Iruka was disappointed because his "little brother" was being not the Hokage, but the same childish boy of twelve again.
'Damn it, the wedding can't go on without the Groom.' Jiraiya said.
'What are we going to do, Jiraiya-sama? Naruto's too stubborn to give in.' Iruka cast a look at the door before grimacing rather comically, 'That, and he's scared.'
'I heard that!' Naruto shouted from the other side of the door.
'Uzumaki Naruto if you do not open the door this instant do you know what will happen?' Neji tried a different approach, hopefully, it would work.
'No, what?" Naruto said sarcastically from his shelter that was the dark room.
'Well, since I am your Best Man, guess who I'm going to end up in bed with because of your absence?' Neji tried to make the Uzumaki jealous, it almost always worked; sure enough, he heard a shift in the room, 'Why don't you just stay in there, Naruto? Let me march off to the ceremony say that you are not going to go through with the wedding. Then I, the one you say will go through life accused of being a homosexual, will be spending my time in your place in Tea Country on a honeymoon thanks to your cowardice.' Neji felt a twitch in the room and another shift in movement, 'And then the nights in the hotel room…'
The door burst and turned into tiny pieces, the odd number of splinters hanging from the hinges of the doorframe. Inside, as though he was consumed by darkness, was their very own Hokage, emitting an extremely powerful killing intent. It was enough to send a chill up Jiraiya's spine.
'Neji, if you finish your sentence, I promise you that Sakura's hits will pale in comparison to what I will do to you.' Naruto's voice could scare even Morino Ibiki.
Neji had only joked the honeymoon, but that did not stop the Hyuuga from taking the threat of the Rokudaime Hokage seriously. He swallowed.
In that instant, Jiraiya seized the opportunity to take Naruto to the place where he would get himself ready for his wedding; The Hyuuga Household. Hyuuga Hiashi was kind enough to let the Hokage and his friends get dressed for the wedding there, but Naruto was not there yet. He was still in the Administration Building and at the moment, releasing an extremely powerful killing intent.
It was after Jiraiya put him in the bind of a chakra-enforced rope did Rokudaime Hokage Uzumaki Naruto realize his mistake of leaving the room.
'Ero-sennin, release me this instant!' Naruto called out, to no avail.
'Iruka, it seems that our Hokage is using his chakra to stick to his spot, would you please be so kind enough to reverse the process for me?' Jiraiya asked.
Iruka looked to a serious-looking Jiraiya to an extremely deadly Naruto. He sighed as he neared Naruto, who was glaring at the Chuunin and released the flow of chakra from his feet, allowing Jiraiya to take him away.
'Naruto, this is for your own good, you know.' Jiraiya said.
Naruto was currently being dragged by the Sannin through the streets of Konoha by the rope. It was almost useless to struggle any longer for the blonde Hokage; the ropes were made of the same material that Jiraiya had trained him with years ago. He vaguely remembered a prank that he pulled with the ropes on Jiraiya while he was still the mischievous boy in his early days of adolescence.
Through the streets of Konoha, the people were giving the Hokage and histeacher very puzzled and amused looks as they had never seen a Hokage being dragged by another person. An exception to this was the late Sandaime, who was dragged by two Anbus to his own wedding.
They had a very fleeting moment of déjà vu on their minds at the moment.
'Ero-sennin, you can untie me now.' Naruto said, halfway through the dragging.
'How do I know that you won't run away?' Jiraiya questioned, stopping.
'I don't go back on my words; that's my Nindo.' Naruto said.
Jiraiya proceeded to untie his student, who immediately hit him on the head.
'That was for dragging me like a bag!' Naruto said calmly as Jiraiya glared.
They continued to walk to the Hyuuga Household. Hiashi was at the entrance, already in his white tuxedo with Shino in a black one. Naruto greeted them.
'What took you two so long? Everyone's practically dressed.' Shino said.
'Our Hokage here chickened out at the last second. If it weren't for your nephew, Neji, Hiashi, the wedding would've turned into chaos.' Jiraiya said.
'You almost "chickened out" Hokage-sama?' Hiashi raised an eyebrow.
Naruto said nothing; the only indication to his response was a red face as Jiraiya gave a superior smirk to the Rokudaime, only to receive another glare.
'Well then, Naruto, you better get dressed and ready for your wedding.' Shino looked to his black wristwatch and smirked, 'You only have two-and-a-half hours.'
Jiraiya grabbed his student by the collar and dragged himinside the Hyuuga Estates. At the same time, Iruka and Neji chose to make their appearance, along with Kiba and Akamaru. Naruto gave one last look before the white-haired Sannin, other wise known to Naruto affectionately as "Ero-sennin" dragged his student along the corridors and He entered a room in the household that was reserved for the Hokage to get dressed. Naruto's eyes widened as he saw his suit.
'I get to wear that?' Naruto stared at the black suit before him.
It looked like a long black robe with a white long-sleeved shirt inside it and a pair of black pants that came with it. Under the black robe was what looked like a black vest made out of silk. And to Naruto's delight, no bow was in sight.
'It's the traditional suit style that the male Hokage's wear when they get married. The Inuzuka kid had one tailor-made for your tastes.' Jiraiya said.
'I'll have to thank Kiba later.' Naruto felt the fabric on his suit.
Naruto then proceeded to ushed Jiraiya out of the room just so his perverted eyes did not get any "inspiration" when he was changing. Naruto dressed in a flash and was about to exit the room when the door burst open and several old ladies came in, several kits of make up in their hands.
'These ladies will take care of your looks for the wedding, Naruto.'
The author of Icha Icha Paradise could be heard sniggering sadistically at Naruto's misfortune of experiencing ragging first-hand at the women.
Then the author of the books remembered the same thing had happened to him when he got married to his late wife several years before; he shivered instead.
The past one-hour-and-a-half were one of the worst that the Rokudaime Hokage had experienced in all his life. Who could have known that three very innocent elderly women could get so rough in making him look good. It was nothing short of a torture session with eight Morino Ibikis and an Anko with kunais.
Naruto shivered at the thought. Would his son, assuming that he had one, have to go through this as well in the future? Naruto decided there and then that his son would have to go through with the pain at the hands of elderly women.
After all, it would be a good experience for him for future trials.
Back to the present; Naruto was outside in the gardens that stood in the Hyuuga Household, wearing his long black robe that was draped around his shoulders. He was thinking about the future; what would lie in wait for them there? He was slightly scared. Altight, that was an understatement; he was practically fearful of his wedding. There were three reasons.
Reason one: he was the first out of the Konoha Rookie Nine to get married; reason two: he had never experienced love with any other person and was relatively scared if he would hurt Kurenai; reason three: with his duties as Hokage, would he be able to support his family at the same time?
Naruto swallowed, not noticing Kiba and Lee approach him from behind.
'You nervous, Naruto?' Kiba asked, putting his hand on the Hokage's shoulder.
'I'd be lying if I said no.' Naruto said, showing them a sincere smile.
He then raised an eyebrow at Lee's suit; it was still the same as his other favourite clothes; green, while Kiba was dressed in a black tuxedo that was reaching down to the back of his knees. Naruto had to hand it to Kiba; he had very good taste in style when it came to clothes.
'Naruto-kun, the ceremony will begin in one hour, let us rush if you do not want to be late for your own wedding!' Lee exclaimed, getting into an outrageous pose.
'Lee, get your two feet back on the ground before I burn your eyebrows.' Naruto virtually ordered, the tone of a Hokage in his voice.
Lee followed the command and got back up standing like a normal human being once again. Jiraiya and Hiashi then came into view, in their matching white tuxedoes. Naruto raised an eyebrow at this before he shook it off.
'Hokage-sama, I think that we should leave now. The ceremony is going to start in less than and hour. I assume that you would not want to be late for your own wedding?' Hiashi inquired; Naruto gave a shaking head as his response.
The group of ninjas then perform several handseals and disappeared in a puff of smoke, reappearing in a garden full of cherry blossom trees and fitted with several garden chairs and an altar, where Naruto was to stand with Kurenai.
Naruto gulped as he watched the man who were to wed them, fittingly, the owner of Ichiraku Ramen, who had a license to marry people. He walked up to Naruto gave and Naruto shook his hand in greeting and gave a smile.
'So are you nervous about your own wedding, Rokudaime-sama?' Mr. Ichiraku asked the blonde Hokage, who looked undecided with nodding his head or shaking it as a response, 'Hey, don't worry about it; marriage is a wonderful thing, especially since your bride is one of the most beautiful women around.'
Naruto felt a slight blush coming up his face; it was true.
'Well, I have to prepare myself for the wedding; don't want to be at the Hokage's wedding all unprepared and messed up now, do we?'
Mr. Ichiraku laughed to himself before walking away from the Hokage. After several minutes passed by, a flurry of guests came to the reception. Neji was the Best Man to the Hokage, so he was the first to arrive and took his place next to Naruto, standing on the altar as an outdoor piano is placed next to the altar, where the resident piano-playing genius, Shizune was, flexing her hands. Next to her on the grass were Naruto's pet fox, Sai and Akamaru, Kiba's dog.
Naruto stood tense for several minutes, Neji was next to him, worried if his friend would run away from the altar. Jiraiya was sitting on one side of the guests seats, watching his second student stand at the altar with pride and happiness.
Chouji was sitting next to Gaara and Tenten, Tenten had her hand on her stomach, obviously, she was pregnant with a child. That could possibly (Naruto mused) mean that Gaara could only gain more lines under his eyes.
Suddenly, after the tense moments had passed, all the guests had arrived, the music from the outdoor piano started to play. At the other end of the stone path before the altar, was Yuuhi Kurenai in a long white wedding dress that looked quite simple except for the fact that therewas white robe over it that was at least two metres in length, held by Hanabi and Moegi. Behind her came the many bridesmaids and Kurenai's Maid of Honor, Hinata. As she neared the altar, Naruto felt as though he was warm, as though he was happy. He was.
It was his wedding day to his first love, the woman who he had met as a child, healing his forehead wound when they met. The same woman that kept him warm after they admitted their shared feelings on the night of the festival.
As Kurenai took her place beside Naruto, Mr. Ichiraku began saying his words to unite the couple. Above them, the sun shone brightly, as if agreeing to their union. In the many guests, Iruka was seen crying into a twitching Kakashi's shoulder, Tsunade was blowing her nose into a handkerchief Jiraiya had handed her and Gai and Lee were kept silent by Sakura's silencing Jutsu.
At the end of his words, Mr. Ichiraku looked from Naruto to Kurenai.
'You may kiss the bride.' Mr. Ichiraku said, beaming at them.
Naruto lifted the veil before Kurenai and she looked into his eyes, blushing.
'You're beautiful…' Naruto said to her, no other words able to compete.
Kurenai gave him a genuine smile before their lips met. Hinata smiled at the couple before noticing that the emotionless Hyuuga Neji was blowing his nose into a handkerchief, tears coming out of his eyes. Neji looked to his cousin, who gave him a knowing smirk. Hyuuga Hiashi, sitting with the other guests wondered when did his nephew become so emotional and when did his daughter develop the Neji-like smirk. He left his questions for later. Now, they were celebrating the wedding of Rokudaime Hokage Uzumaki Naruto to Yuuhi Kurenai.
As the couple finished their long kiss, they joined in with the celebration, and after the drinks were finished, the food was devoured and even Hyuuga Neji and Aburame Shino were drunk, Neji somehow had found his way to Ichiraku Ayame's lap and used it as a pillow, leaving a very red Ichiraku Ramen waitress. Shikamaru found himself the person to drag back Shino to his home, much to his dismay. Chouji had to go to the hospital because he ate too much and Anko and Iruka, as well as Shizune and Kiba, were discovered making out in places.
As for the newlyweds, they had left for their honeymoon in Tea Country.
InKonoha, the rain had stopped. Yuuhi Kurenai was stirring from her sleep in her very large bed. To her left, were two figures of little girls, one blonde and one brunette, sleeping peacefully. They were such angels when they were not awake. Well, the blonde was more of a chore than the brunette, but that was probably one of the traits that she had picked up from her father.
It had been six years since Yuuhi Kurenai's marriage to Naruto. Currently, the blonde Hokage was in the study, signing what th bane of the Hokage's existence was; paperwork. She giggled to herself as she thought of her husband, how they had met, how they had fallen in love and how they had ended up here.
She smiled at the two little girls; her children; their children. She remembered the joy on his face when she said that she was pregnant. His face was full of joy and happiness. She remembered when he played with her stomach when it started to grow, containing the twin girls. And every time he did, he was happy.
And the delivery; oh, how she remembered being the only person to toss the Rokudaime Hokage Uzumaki Naruto through a window and down to the ground below. People must have thought of her as intimidating when she was giving birth. Their Hokage being defeated so easily; it was quite a sight!
But when Naruto came back up, with a broken wrist and a bloody forehead, he was greeted with the sight of his two daughters, Uzumaki Yukiko and Uzumaki Inoue. Yukiko proved to be a female version of her father, active and animated, while Inoue was just like her mother, calm and cool. But their father's genes did not seem as though they were going to stay away from her long. She had recently developed a liking to ramen. Today, she had devoured four bowls.
Kurenai put on a red bathrobe and went downstairs to the study, where her husband was, reading several mission reports and giving his official signature.
'Doing your reports again, I see.' Kurenai stood in the doorway, smiling.
'Yeah, with those two asleep I can finally finish them.' Naruto looked up to her, smiling as well, 'So, how did you get them to fall asleep so quickly?'
'I told them the story of how we fell in love.'
'And did they enjoy it?'
'Yup. Especially the way we kissed under that tree.' Kurenai sat on the edge of his desk, 'Are you really going to do all that by yourself?'
She indicated the pile of paper on his desk; Naruto grimaced.
'The bane of the Hokage's existence. If I don't put up with it, I go down.'
She smiled knowingly and, to his surprise, removed the paper from his desk.
Naruto looked to his wife, who was now smiling evilly at him.
'Kurenai-dear, I don't think that there'll be time for that…' Naruto tried.
'Oh, yes, you do. You are not going back on your words, are you? You said that you'd love me forever on our wedding night.' Kurenai teased.
Naruto reasoned; Nindo versus Job. It finished with Nindo being victorious.
'You know, Kurenai-chan, if there's one thing about you I love, it's this.'
'And what's that?' Kurenai questioned, her arms around his neck.
'You take all my worries away.' Naruto said sincerely.
Kurenai smiled at him and their lips met. And Naruto's thoughts went as far back as he could remember, and he saw the day that he fell in love with this woman. In the cold rain where she turned into the warmth in his heart. And then the days that passed as he began to fall in love with her. To Uzumaki Naruto, it wasn't Fate that brought them together, but their hearts.
'I love you.' Kurenai whispered to Naruto.
Naruto smiled; yes, it was their hearts that brought them together.
THE END
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