Epilogue 3

A month later

It was a sunny day and it was a big day for the pair. Kakashi was standing at the Memorial Stone again. He was talking to the people that he missed on the stone, as well as his parents in law, well from today onwards.

An quietly approached him from behind. "Kashi-kun…"

"An-nii," Kakashi addressed without turning his head. "Time to go?"

"Yes. We need to pay a visit to the graves before we head back to the mansion."

"Okay."

They walked to the cemetery and firstly, they stopped by the Umino's grave. Kakashi whispered lowly at the gravestone and then moved on to the Hatake's graves. While Kakashi stood in front of his father's grave, An was whispering to Minoru's stone.

After their talk at the graves, they quickly travelled back to the mansion and got ready for Kakashi's big day. When An returned to his bedroom, Hiroshi was already dressed and waiting for him by the sofa. "Are you excited, love?" Hiroshi asked.

"Yea, it has been a long time since we have any wedding ceremony in this mansion." An replied, while he was trying to slip on his suit jacket, "and that it's my first time to be a witness. I mean as the head of clan, I meant to be witness lots of times, but with the exile, most of my clan got married at the elders instead."

When they were ready and got down to the drawing room, which has been converted to a marriage room and that they have converted the dinning hall for the wedding reception. Kakashi was sitting by the table, deep in thought.

"Thinking of Ruka-chan?" An teased. "Come on, you guys only haven't seen each other for a day."

Kakashi was slightly flushed and Hiroshi pulled An's sleeves, "An-chan, stop teasing our little Kashi-kun."

"Hey, who is teasing now?" Nonetheless, An pull out the chair and sat next to Kakashi. Hiroshi walked to the other room, so that the other guests could get themselves seated.

The Registrar for today was an ex ANBU member, Kakashi recognised, as he nodded politely, "sempai."

The woman nodded back, "glad to see you getting married today, kohai."

Once the guests were settled, Sarutobi entered the room with Iruka. They walked passed the guests slowly down the aisle. Iruka looked really attractive today. The white suit really fitted him well. He has let his hair down and gently tied at the back like what Kakashi has done when they were at the resort in the Land of Water.

Kakashi smiled warmly as he was pleased to have the man as his eternal partner. He would not really use words to describe his emotions. He managed to survive with numerous missions and he has fought with lots of S- class missing-nins, but he was not as nervous as he was now. Somehow, making his wedding proclamation was even more terrifying than fighting. He took a deep breath and placed his gaze softly on the man that he loved.

The Registrar begins when Iruka and Sandaime reached the table. "Firstly, she began firmly. 'Is there anyone objects the marriage between Mr Hatake Sasaki Kakashi and Mr Umino Iruka?"

Everyone remained silence, though obviously, Naruto was typing to be cheeky and wanted to raise his hand, while Sakura stopped him in time. Therefore, the Registrar continued, "Today, we celebrate the marriage of Mr Hatake and Mr Umino." She bought up a piece of paper from her file:

I belong in your slender, strong arms
It was my destination
For which I could stay peacefully

And securely with no doubts,
No fears, no sadness, as well as no tears

This place is packed with happiness and joy
Even though the space was small, but still,

I have enough space, and,

The freedom to move around,
To live the way that I have hoped and be my true self.
For this magnificent place, which I never believed really existed;
I have found my destiny,
To be inside your arms, inside your heart, inside your love.

When she finished, she then turned her attention to Kakashi, "Hatake Kakashi, could you repeat after me?" Kakashi nervously nodded and therefore she began, "Umino Iruka, with this ring, I offer you my love…"

Kakashi took a silver ring from An's palm and verbalised, "Umino Iruka, with this ring, I offer you my love, my support and my loyalty. This love is the very flame of life, and may no living being dare to quench it. I promise to be faithful to you, to nurture you, to cherish you and encourage you, with the same care and concern that I give myself. Throughout our lifetime together, you will always be my beloved and my only one." He then leaned forward and whispered lowly that only Sandaime, the Registrar and An could hear, "not even my pronouncement to sensei that could be more important than you." Afterwards, he took Iruka's left hand softly and pushed the ring into his ring finger.

Thereafter, the Registrar turned to Iruka, 'please repeat after me…' Once the Registrar finished, Iruka began, "Hatake Kakashi, with this ring, I offer you my love, my support and my loyalty. This love is the very flame of life, and may no man dare to quench it. I promise to be faithful to you, to nurture you, to cherish you and encourage you, with the same care and concern that I give myself." He delicately took a similar silver ring from Sandaime and slipped the ring into Kakashi's ring finger.

The Registrar then swiftly filled in the information on the marriage certificate as well as the registrar books; she pushed the paperwork foreword for the men to sign. After all four of them have signed the paper and sealed the registrar books with their charka, as well as the crest of Sasaki by An; she verbalised again, "with today's guests and the presence of the Sandaime Hokage and the head of the Sasaki clan, in bond and blood, I pronounce you man and man," she pulled a small smile; "now you may kiss each other."

Kakashi turned to Iruka quickly and gave him a passionate kiss. "Now you are mine, Ru…" he whispered tenderly. "I love you."

Iruka smiled. "I love you too."

An smiled, while having his fingers intertwined with Hiroshi, "great, congregations, Kashi-kun and Ruka-chan!" Then, he turned to the rest of the guest and said, "please could you all follow Kazuhiko-kun to the reception."

As they all moved into the dinning room, Kazuhiko passed glasses of champagne to the newly wed. Once Kakashi received the glass, he said, "thank you for everyone to come to our wedding and of course, I love you, Ruka!" When everyone either burst into laughs or 'awws', An as well as Kyo raised their glasses and proposed a toast, "to the newly wed, Kakashi and Iruka!"

Once they drank their beverages, the music began and Kakashi gently invited Iruka for the first dance. Sarutobi and An stood by the bar, while looking at the jounin, chunin and genin danced messily and happily, though some did dance romantically. "I hope they really hold their happiness as long as they could."

"They will, Sasaki-kun, with our effort." Sarutobi replied plainly, "I have owed the boy too much."

An did not respond to what Sarutobi said, but he hit the man's glass with his softly, "to Konoha and Sasaki." Then, he drank. Sarutobi nodded gently, and drained the content in his glass. "to humans and immortals," he added.

Really,

The End

[Yanvi: Woo Hoo… Finally after months of 'hard labour', I have reached the end of this story! … well not exactly, as I am still hoping to plan to develop more about An-kun, however, as I have said before, as this Mission10 is delicate to the pair that I love most, Kashi-kun and Ruka-chan, so for their journey, it would stop here, and that I will post the stuff about An-kun on my live journal, and my user name is also Yanvi over there.

So this is it. The end of Mission10 and thank you very much for reading this and especially Kick-Akt,who has left me comment in lots of the chapters and that I have to thank my husband who has no bad words about me writing and typing all the time!]

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