Honey Honey Wedding | yuzuruhanyu

1. Bride and Groom

an. please listen to the song above while reading the story if you want! I find it really nice and it suits this chapter, I think.

Reika Fueguchi looks at her reflection at the mirror once again. Her hair was done in such pretty way. Half is let down on her shoulder, while the other half is braided to a bun. Her face has been layered by so much cosmetics to enhance her beauty, though she doesn't really need it. I look like a geisha, she thought.

But even so, behind all that exaggerated make-ups, she knows she has a beautiful face. Her white kimono looks perfect on her body, symbolizing her "purity" and that she will become the color of her husband's family.

Husband, huh?

She sighs once again.

According to the quick search she did last night after she knew his name, her future husband is an Olympic athlete. Her future husband is Japan's superstar. Her husband is someone girls would kill to get.

Their family has been close since the beginning. Her future parents-in-law adore her.

Everything looks so perfect, yet she doesn't really feel that happy.

Even though today is her wedding day.

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All the kimono-fitting is a pain, he thought. Yuzuru Hanyu would never thought a simple traditional wedding ceremony could be this complicated. He has to take a long bath, use perfumes, wear layers of clothes, but thank god no one touched his face. He wouldn't want to look like a geisha in his own wedding, with really white face but milky neck, and blood-like lips.

"Yuzu, you ready? The ceremony's starting soon. Let's go."

Yuzuru shrugs, but goes along his mother anyway. "Okaasan," he calls.

"Nani?" Yumi, his mother, looks at him, worried.

"Just so you know, I don't know if Im ready for this." And he probably will never be. Yuzuru is at his peak in his career. He just took gold in the recnt olympic, and he's ready to take more medals, but when he returns home he was welcomed by a sudden arranged wedding.

Yumi still remember Yuzu's expression when it was told. He was shocked, than anything. He's an obedient child and wouldn't want his family's name to be stained if he refused when it's already set. Besides, the Fueguchi family is close to his and he doesn't really want to find his own bride so an arranged marriage is what he wants, but not his early. He still want to be a skater. He still wants to pursue his career.

Would he sacrifice his career for a girl he's never even see before? Yuzuru takes a deep sighs. No, Yuzu. He thought to himself. Do it for family. The Fueguchis are nice, surely their daughter is a decent person.

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In a private room in the Hanyu residence, with a Shinto shrine miniature on the corner, and their family only as guests, a couple have their wedding ceremony.

Yuzuru has to bite his inner lip to hold his laugh when he sees his "bride". Her face was just like what he didn't want to be. Covered up by really white powder and her lips tinted bloody red. She looks like a clown.

It's a traditional Japanese wedding ceremony. The couple perform do rituals of this and that, first comes the ritual of purification, then the bride and groom exchange sake in the san san ku do ceremony that unites them and their two families.

And finally, the marriage vows.

Yuzuru and Reika stand in front of the shrine miniature, with the Shinto priest near them. They perform the vows as the priest guides, and when they're done...

"I declare you as husband and wife. You may kiss the bride."

Reika takes a small step back, startled. Kiss? Never in her life she kissed anyone except for her family. When Yuzuru slowly walks closer to her, she doesn't know what to do.

She let him come and pull her close. Yuzuru looks at the face of the girl who's now his wife. Slowly, he moves his face closer to hers, and kiss her forehead.

Slowly and faintly, Reika let go of her breath, relieved.

The ceremony closes with symbolic offerings of small tree twigs, called sakaki, which are put on the shrine miniature.

From the corner of her eyes, Reika Fueguchi steals a glance at her husband. This is the first time we see each other, she thought. How come he's so calm? Her heart races faster by every second. Yuzuru Hanyu has a different aura. He's so mature and calm and polite.

Reika lost her calmness the second her father mentioned marriage, how come this guy is so composed?

She takes another deep breath.

This man is now my husband.

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an.
Hello. Yes, I wrote a new fanfic while my previous fanfic isn't finished yet.

reviews pls I'm not really used to this kind of story, but I'm tryn my best