Waterfall Eclipse

Wedding ~ Part Five

Chapter One Hundred:

Wedding ~ Part Five

Once Saturday morning came, Rani was a complete mess of nerves unwinding. No one could calm her down no matter how hard they tried.

They were already at Kuchiki Manor, and have been since the night before with the rehearsals. Captain Kuchiki had his servants open up a building that was not in use for the girls to use to get ready. Everything was there waiting for them.

Rani was pacing back and forth in front of the window since she had woken up and the girls were flat out worried for her.

"Rani, you really need to chill."

"It's no use, Kiyomi, I think Rani is getting cold feet."

"I am not Momo." Rani said defensively.

"Are you sure about that?" Momo retorted.

Rani sat down in the chaise lounge chair that was by the window.

"Oh my God. Maybe I am." She realized. "I can't do that to him."

"Just breathe." Chiharu said as she handed Rani a cup of tea. "Drink this and we'll start getting ready first." She added as the door opened. "Hello, Lady Lily."

"Hi!" The ten year old greeted and then saw their worried expressions and looked to Rani. "What's wrong?" She asked the bridesmaids.

"She's nervous." Umeko answered. "And we're about to get changed."

"Oh, right, so I don't know if you peeked at your dresses, but Mister Hiroshi added something to them." Lily said with a smile as Hayashi came in with her dress. "Thank you Hayashi."

"What did he add?" Momo asked confused. "You'll see. It's something small."

The girls smiled and then got into their dresses helping each other along the way. Hayashi helped Lily get into hers and then assisted the other assistants with helping Rani into her shiromuku.

"What do you ladies think about the embroidery?" Rani finally managed to ask them.

"We love it! Whose idea was it?"

"Daddy's." Lily answered. "He told me about it first." She added as Chiharu started to fiddle with the young girl's hair.

"Your hair grew. It's really long."

"I know." She beamed. "I want to grow it out like Rani, and daddy approved, but he said if I can't handle it, then it's to be cut." She finished crinkling her nose.

Rani smiled.

"Just keep pulling it back like I showed you and it will look like you can manage it."

Rani then let the girls do their magic with her hair and makeup the way Hiroshi said it should be styled. Once she was done, Rani could barely recognize herself, even if she didn't have a lot of makeup on her. It looked natural, yet you could tell she had some eye shadow on and lipstick.

"Wrong color?" Kiyomi asked hoping she picked out the right color for her lips.

"It's fine. I just never attempted with so much."

"Yet, it looks very nice." A soft voice said from the doorway. "Rukia!" The girls all said out the same time surprised. "How are you holding up, Rani?"

Instead of verbally responding, Rani just nervously laughed.

"That good, huh?" Rukia teased. "Well, at least there won't be any sticky situations this time around." She added causing Rani to giver he a double- take before cracking up.