Chapter 5: A Certain Bride's Wedding

Misaka walked quietly towards her destination, she was very nearly there, when a certain photo on the wall caught her attention, it was a important one, she remembered the day it was taken very very clearly...

"There you go!" Kazari exclaimed cheerfully as she made the last adjustments to Misaka's crown of flowers. "Now you look like a real goddess of spring!"

Today was Misaka wedding day and Uiharu Kazari was handling the weddings organisation (keyword 'spring', hence the girls were in leafy green and the church was covered in springtime flowers), which included making sure the bride-to-be looked her best. Inside the little room, alongside Kazari and Misaka, there was also her Onee-sama, Kuroko, Ruiko, Ruiko's two little girls and the Controller, (AKA Last Order).

"I'm so nervous!" Mikoto mumbled as she paced up and down in the little room. " My little sister finally getting married!"

"Well you could have some wine to steady your nerves." Kuroko suggested in a all too innocent tone.

"Are you trying to get me drunk -already-?" Mikoto replied with a annoyed air.

"But your so much more fun when your under the influence Onee-sama!" Kuroko replied cheekily. "You become so much more open with your feelings!"

"Oh you twi-..." Mikoto began in angry air, only to be cut short by Ruiko making a coughing noise with the words 'minors present' concealed within.

"Anyway!" Mikoto said as she sharply changed the topic. "Everything seems to be going surprisingly smoothly so far, I'm thought Touma's misfortune would have showed itself by now, I mean its not even trying to rain, how weird is that?"

Misaka gave the Controller (AKA Decretum when she was dealing with Magic side types) a knowing glance in the mirror. She didn't really have the heart to tell her older sister how much effort it had took to create this apparent lack of misfortune. Firstly the weather was being artificially controlled by the spells of the Amakusa-Style Remix Sect (there were in a constant war with several 'unexpected' weather systems , one that included snow) Her sisters of the Old Academy City Squad of Misaka's were currently keeping a eye out for trouble from the rooftops (and had so far stopped fourteen of Misaka's rivals for Touma's affection from making a scene at the wedding via the use of tranquilises darts). The members of the Agnese Forces where also busy in the general area, ensuring no magical attacks from hostile magicians disrupted the ceremony and apparently Accelerator had called in some 'favours' to make sure things went smoothly... Misaka really felt it was better if she didn't know the details on that one.

"Well it is his wedding day, maybe his misfortune decided to give him a day of for once?" Ruiko suggested. "I mean it's not like he's not earned a break with all the good stuff he's done over the years."

"Well I'm wearing a cute tiger t-shirt under this dress just to play it safe says Misaka as Misaka examines her cute tiger bracelet and necklace." Said the Controller (AKA General Misaka of the recently reformed Japanese Army... that one was a long story).

That got her a funny look from Ruiko, who was unfamiliar with the long standing belief amongst the Sisters that cute tigers were lucky.

"Ok!" Ruiko said as she turned to her two young daughters "Sakura, Hoshi, are you two going to be really good and help Imouto with her dress, its her big day and it such a big dress, so she needs a hand getting around in it!"

"Of course!" said Sakura (age five) as she proudly stood to attention. "we can handle the responsibility easy!"

"And we got our cute tiger bracelets from Noriko too!" Said Hoshi brightly (age four) as she motioned towards the Controller we with way too many names and titles (She was also author and had several honorary titles from various foreign nations. Noriko was admittedly her hard fought legal name however).

Misaka smiled a bit inside, everyone was putting so much effort into this special day. There was then a knock at the door.

"I got it!" Mikoto said cheerfully as she rushed over to the door and opened it, however she made a very neutral face as she saw who was past it.

"Last Order told me I was wanted in here about now?" Accelerator said as he used the oldest name of the Controller. He didn't really approve of her hobby of collecting names and titles and as a result rarely used any name but her first... he had a burning hate for 'Cosima' especially (used when dealing with Magic side people while on boats and hovercraft on national Holidays).

"Yes, that is correct, Says Misaka as she readies herself to make a serous request."

Accelerator gave her a curious look and tactfully ignored the cold one from Mikoto, her Onee-sama had still not truly made her peace with him... Misaka really wanted to change that.

"So what do you want from me?" Accelerator ask in his normal if somewhat impolite tone. The Controller had put a great deal of effort into trying to turn him into a civil and social human being, but it was a uphill battle.

"I wish for you to give me away, says Misaka as she voices her heartfelt request."

As expected, Accelerator was shocked, and also as expected, so was Mikoto.

"You want -him- to act as your father on your wedding day?!" Mikoto screamed out in clear disbelief. "I thought it was weird how you kept avoiding the topic of who was going to give you away when I brought it up, now I know why!"

"I can't believe this, you know what I've done and you want to give me a honour like this?" Accelerator said in a quieter, but equally disbelieving tone.

"I do, which is exactly why I think your the closest thing the MISKA Network has to a father, says Misaka as she vaguely explain her choice."

"I will explain in private, just before you take me down the aisle, which is due in few minutes, says Misaka as she springs her trap on the young man who she considers to be her paternal figure."

"He can't escape now, Says Misaka 20001, as Misaka 20001 silently giggles in delight at the Networks cunning!"

"If we did this any other way, he would almost certainly found a way to weasel out, but because the timeframe is so small, he can't, Says Misaka 10033 as she explains the reason for the plan success."

"I wonder if Shinobu ever thought we would use the knowledge in Testament to construct a plan like this? Says Misaka 13577 in quiet thought."

"Well I feel she would be very glad that one us is getting married today.. wherever she is, says Misaka 19090 as she wonders whatever happened to the researcher."

Accelerator sighed.

"I suppose I have no choice but to accept.. since you made sure I have too" Accelerator said in annoyed tone.

"Sakura and Hoshi, could you please help me with my dress? Misaka politely asks her two young friends."

"Of course!" The two little girls replied in unison as moved into position to help Misaka. Shortly afterwards she headed out the door with Accelerator.

"So why did you think of me as something akin to a father then?" Accelerator quietly asked once they were out of earshot of the older girls.

"Because you do everything a father should do, Misaka replies honestly."

"My hands are baked in blood..."Accelerator said in a painfully low tone, low enough that the young girls wouldn't hear, he was considerate like that.

"Indeed they are, but you have also bled much blood since for the Sisters and to our pride you have shed blood for others besides us, Misaka argues."

"I'm not a good man, I'm a monster, sure I've saved innocent people, but I've always done it because I got to look you girls in the eyes..."

"Monsters don't care about looking people in the eyes, monsters always make there excuses for there sins, Misaka points out. You have never tried to run away from your sins, instead you decided to bleed for them and take the hard path, even if that means taking a bullet in the brain and standing before the stuff of nightmares, Misaka continues forcefully."

"And that make me your father figure?" Accelerator asked as he looked as Misaka in the eyes.

"A father protects his children, he is no saint, but shows his children the right way to live, says Misaka as she looks the flawed man in the eyes. And what better example than a father who crawled his way out of hell, step by painful step, and shows by personal example that hope is far more than a word? Says Misaka as she tells the father of the Network what the Network truly feels about him deep down."

Accelerator wasn't a man who was good with his emotions, he wasn't a man who was good with people... but he was a man who could let a tear fall from his eyes when told a touching truth.

"Lets get you married Imouto." Accelerator said as he firmly took her hand.

The two of them walked down the aisle with little Sakura and Hoshi coming up behind, holding Misaka's dress. Touma was at the other side of the church, with his best man, Tsuchimikado who was wearing a suit with a green tie and for once wasn't wearing his sunglasses. Far more dramatically, Stiyl wearing a far more normal priestly outfit, his hair was in a ponytail and a cigarette no were near his mouth.

As they reached the men, Misaka felt butterflies flutter in her stomach, it was really happening, she really was going to be legally known Kamijou Misaka 10032 Imouto in a matter of minutes. All around her were friends Touma and her had picked up along the way (most who seemed to be female) and more a few of them had started as foes... and they all were looking forwards to seeing the two of them wed.

Accelerator squeezed her hand.

"Your nearly there." He said softly. "Nothing bad going to happen at the last minute, we've all made sure of that."

Misaka walked forwards, and as Accelerator let her go he whispered a few words "And remember if he ever cheats on you and make you cry, that you can run to your daddy and he'll make him pay for every tear."

He said that last bit with a little too much relish.

Misaka took her place besides Touma and he gave her a little smile as she did so. The ceremony then started in earnest

"First, I am required to ask anyone present who knows a reason why these persons may not lawfully marry, to declare it now." Stiyl spoke as he looked around the room.

No one spoke.

"The vows you are about to take are to be made in the presence of God, who is judge of all and knows all the secrets of our hearts; therefore if either of you knows a reason why you may not lawfully marry, you must declare it now." Again Stiyl spoke as looked between the two of them. Neither of them spoke, through Touma did look at Misaka, before giving Stiyl a little nod.

"Kamijou Touma, will you take Misaka Misaka 10032 Imouto to be your wife? Will you love her, comfort her, honour and protect her, and, forsaking all others, be faithful to her as long as you both shall live?" Stiyl said to Touma in a gravely serous voice.

"I will." Touma said firmly as he looked Misaka in the eyes.

Misaka readied herself, she knew what was coming next and she had spent hours with Kuroko and a apple practicing for the moment.

"Misaka Misaka 10032 Imouto, will you take Kamijou Touma to be your husband? Will you love him, comfort him, honour and protect him, and, forsaking all others, be faithful to him as long as you both shall live?"

"I will" Misaka said, and only said. It was act of will to do so, but Misaka was determined that she was going to do these oaths as they should be done, even if she felt every sentence was like trying to suppress a caught. But Misaka didn't falterer as she made each oath, nor did she falterer as she sang the hymns (which were Amakusa in origin and like everything else about them, cunningly disguised. They sounded like Japanese folk songs.), and as the service came to a end she heard those classic words...

"You may now kiss the bride."

Touma softly took both of her hands before learning in and kissing her lips, it was a magical moment and in the aftermath of that kiss and as there friends clapped in celebration, Misaka did something new, something she had never done before.

She truly smiled.

Apparently it had been Kazari who had took the photo of a smiling happy couple holding hands on there wedding day that was now hanging from the wall. Misaka grinned as she remembered whispering in Touma's ear after "says Misaka joyously as she swears most serous oaths with her husband while speaking the most disjointed sentence in her life ever." (the words had to come out sooner or latter). Misaka smiled outwardly a lot more these days and it didn't take something as big as her wedding day to get her to do so, in fact there was a good reason to smile just past the door in front of her.

She pushed it open, there was a big poster of Gekota on the front, it had been a gift from her Onee-same for the rooms occupant who was sleeping soundly, her small form hugging a certain incredibly cute and large tiger toy that had found its perfect place. She was also wearing tiger striped pyjamas, a gift from the Controller. When her existence had first come to light ( shortly after there honeymoon), Touma had berated his "misfortune", that she come so early and because of her, there life's were going to be turned upside down. But when he first locked his eyes with hers, his view had changed 180, in fact her name Hideyoshi meant esteemed good luck and had been thought up by her father Touma. She had her father's dark hair, but thankfully had inherited Misaka's small nose. She liked cute things and seeing new places (she already had quiet a passport history for a four year old and Index and Stiyl had given there little family a good tour of London last year) and was a rather confident little girl.

Of course her arrival into there life's had turned things upside down, Misaka collection of firearms and other weaponry had to be far more securely locked away these days and yes, her needs often limited what Misaka could do, but Misaka didn't regret the changes for a moment. She had never really realised it when she first met Touma as she been far to busy trying to make sense of the world and trying to connect with her humanity to connect the dots and realise why Touma mercy had drawn her like a moth to flame.

He was a good father. He showed her little girl the right way to live and he protected her with all his might. He knew how to make her smile, but he also knew how to scold her when she did wrong. Misaka was a happy woman, and through conventionally it was suppose to be little girls who sneaked into there parents bed when they couldn't sleep, Misaka had never been one to partially care about conventions, and as she quickly fell to sleep with her arms wrapped around her Hideyoshi, her last thoughts were of how close her life was to being perfect, and how happy Touma had made her.

A/N: So here we are at the end of this little fluffy romance story :) For those who want a little giggle, try looking up some of Last Orders names on a baby name generator (which are great tools when you need to name OC BTW, since they often have meaning and origin alongside them).

Coming next from me will be a little one shot feature a certain Level 5 and a certain perverted teleporter in which this author fights a battle to keep a teen rating and Kuroko IC! . It will take place in this timeline and explain a little bit more about Kuroko little plan and what the message " She is not afraid" was about (which incidentally I think will be its title!)

After that, I'm planning another long fanfic, through I'm torn between several choices:

A rather silly Railgun girls centric fanfic in which the girls get trapped in a online game (and take the piss out of every sci-fi and fantasy troop I can think of), that likely be a Final Fantasy/Raildex crossover on here.

Another fanfic that bouncing about my head is a Mikoto and Misaka based one in which our Railgun finds herself thrown in a future world in which everything has changed and (nearly) everyone she loves is dead, which will likely be pretty bleak and have strong spiritual and family themes.

The final fanfic idea that bouncing around my head is doing the fall of Academy City, which would be with Accelerator as lead and feature character death... lots of character death, and not just villains! That would also use NT elements because I love to use a certain clone who's not been animated yet...

Anyway rate and review, and feel free to cast your votes on my next big fanfic!