Yes, there is yaoi content. This is probably going to be about my only story with such. It's not the major couple, either, so you can deal with it and just pay attention to the two other couples if you have issues with it. There are a few strange things concerning the design of the wedding in here… they are how I want mine to be. Yes, I am that strange, but I look horrid in dresses so my only good option is a kimono. But a traditional American style ceremony. Eh, just read it.

"I told you, it’s too tight!!! I just really don't like dresses…" Rika mumbled, loosening the Obi around her waist yet again.

"For the last time, it's not a dress. If it was, Henry would be a crossdresser because he's wearing one too," Jeri shot back, motioning to the wall that separated them and the guys' room. They'd been there all morning, picking out the right kimono and matching outfits for the ceremony.

"Quit that!!!" Kim scolded, swatting at Rika's hand as she attempted to loosen her Obi. "We need that much extra to make a rose with it!!" she snagged the loose ends again and pulled them tighter than actually necessary, only because she knew her flame haired friend would be loosening it again momentarily, as soon as she turned around.

"Besides, it brings out your figure more that way."

"Kazu!!! KEEP YOUR EYES TO YOURSELF!!"

"GET OUT OF HERE!!"

"YOU ALREADY *HAVE* A BOYFRIEND!!!" the other three human girls yelled in unison, as Rika took advantage of the moment to loosen the tie yet again, and Renamon debated 'escorting' the boy back to the other room… Which, of course, she promptly did.

Rika sighed and stepped down from the stool the much taller Kim had made her stand on, so Suzie could step onto it and set a dried flower into the half bun in her hair easier. The moment she finished, Kim was motioning for Rika to reclaim the position so she could properly tie the obi into the planned rose formation.

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Next door, Takato was having quite a time trying to do everything Henry needed help on by himself. Ryo had failed to show, the Digimon were of no use, and Kazu had begun sulking when he'd re-entered the room, meaning Kenta was now distracted in trying to console his boyfriend. All in all, Henry was not enjoying the moment.

"I loved the idea originally, but… this is going to be utter chaos at the ceremony, if it's this bad two months beforehand…"

"A month and a half," Takato corrected, glancing at the clock on the wall and flopping down on a couch. "Where is Ryo, anyway? It's going to be very hard to design the ceremony without him."

"It's not his wedding, Takato. I don't need him to keep telling Rika and me what to do," Henry returned, sipping a cup of tea. Takato stared at the boy and his calm manor. Ok, so not boy, but he was so used to calling himself and all the others that… It was so hard to believe that one of his friends was nearly 20, and would soon be getting married… or that he, himself, was engaged. Somehow, however, he'd managed to keep his somewhat perky, somewhat paranoid personality for the last 8 years. The others… had all grown, matured, and changed…

His Jeri, most notably. After Leomon's death, he thought for sure she would have gone into a depression… but that had lasted so briefly, and afterwards she'd started to become a stronger person. Only the exact part of her that he'd fallen in love with originally remained the same… Her smile, and the sweet girl that she was under her mostly new persona.

Henry had probably changed the least, other than himself, over the last years. But then again… he had already been so much older seeming than the others, that he really didn't have that far to go. But still, looking back, Takato wasn't sure how Henry had managed to fall for Rika… The two were so completely different when they first met, that he was sure either one would reason the other to death, or the other would pound the first into a pulp before he could manage it. But that one Christmas night, when Takato had been to drunk of eggnog and busy in the cupboard with Jeri, (He let out a stifled cough at the thought) somehow they'd managed to get along, and that… had changed everything in between.

Rika, of course, was not nearly as cruel as she had been before. She'd already been on her way out of that mode before her relationship with Henry had even come up, but still, it'd helped considerably. Even back in the Digital World, she'd already started to become a kinder person. She and Jeri had quickly become best friends, even while Jeri was under evil's influence… He still, however, found the image in his mind of Rika as she petted Jeri's puppet silently, trying to bring the girl herself back, was almost amusing.

And then there was Kazu and Kenta… they'd been inseparable from each other for as long as he could remember, going through every fad at the same time even when Takato had dragged behind them. But remembering the 'great girl hunt' 6 years earlier, he seriously wondered how the two had wound up… together. He guessed now, that they were just trying to fit in when they were looking for girlfriends that winter. That Valentine's day, though, Kenta found a box of chocolates in his locker… He'd thought it was a secret admirer, only to have the day become one of the strangest in the history of the eighth grade when it was revealed that Kazu had sent them. First it was called a prank… then a result of stress, then, come the end of the day Kazu had finally admitted why he had sent them. Takato waas still fairly thankful he hadn't been there for the sentimental moment… While by now he much more than tolerated his friends' relationship, he had matured enough to know that he would not have been ready to witness that moment all those years earlier.

Ah, heck, it still bugged him that they were hogging the couch on the other end of the room, but he couldn't even stand to watch Henry and Rika make out, so he knew it wasn't the homosexual thing… It was just wanting to steal the couch for his and Jeri's personal use.

"Hey, sorry I'm late. Customs were hell…" Ryo complained, flinging the door open and casually walking through, tossing his jacket towards the couch… Where it was quickly relocated to the floor by a now irritated Kazu. "So what are you up to, Henry? Takato, don't think too hard, you might sprain something." Takato looked up and glared at the boy known as the Digital Wanderer. Him, he hadn't changed at ALL. He was still probably jealous of Henry, in fact. They all knew Ryo had liked Rika long ago… but now he had Kim, so he had no excuse for going after an engaged girl.

"What do you mean, 'customs'?" Henry sighed, knowing he was walking straight into another one of Ryo's recent obsession with cheap jokes.

"Well they wanted to make sure I wasn't sneaking Impmon back in. Or any possesed motorcycles." He stopped and stared at the selection of items laying around the room for a moment. "Purple and pale blue? I'm assuming you didn't choose the colors, and betting Rika didn't either."

"You're right. Renamon chose them, actually. I'm trying to figure out what I want…" Henry responded, not removing his eyes from a small catalogue he'd been reading for the past half hour in an effort to ignore Terriermon.

"She's look great in the one on page 63, in the top right corner," Ryo suggested.

"You think so? Let me see- wait, Ryo… this is a regular fashion catalogue, not one of those!"

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"So," Rika sighed, spinning around slowly and smiling gently at her friends throughout the room.

"Fantastic!" Kim chirped immediately, proud of her handiwork on the Obi's design.

"Like a true queen," Jeri suggested.

Renamon took a deep breath and stared at her matured Tamer for a moment, trying to grasp that it was the same person. "Absolutly perfect," she replied simply.

"Like… the best older sister there ever will be," Suzie laughed, starting to cry from happiness as Rika smiled and stooped to hug the younger girl. One month left and counting…

^^ I'm rather proud of myself for that, and I'm in a better mood now. I might just go take off the little bash in my profile ^^ oh well. Oh, my e-mail got hacked, so I'm CulumonLyra@aol.com now!! And I have access to spoilers if you didn't understand some things in there ^.~ just encouraging you all to review, even if it's just the name of your fave CD… Ja ne to heiwa, ai Lyra-chan!!