Step 3 - Location
The location is always an important decision point, whether you build a house or celebrate a party. A location should be meet by some criteria. If you want to celebrate a party, consider the possibilities of building this location with public transport, or whether there are enough parking spaces available, how long it takes to get there and more. When it comes to a wedding location, there are far more criteria; the establishment or the location manages to connect and reflect the personalities of the two future spouses. It will be considered whether any decoration is needed or provided.
The black-haired man yawns when he thinks about it. Apart from the fact that it seems boring to him anyway, his mother had assured him to make the wedding preparations together with his fiancée. His eyes lay on the documents on his table. Swinging and twisting the pen between his fingers, he sighs and throws the pen at the documents. In silence he pushes back his armchair, before turning around and looking out of the glass front, watching the city.
They have been writing the new year for two weeks now. Snow is laying in abundance on the ground and new ones are constantly being added, even if the sun dominates on this day, it is still dangerous. In general it is dangerous in winter, which is why there are more injuries, many people slip on the icy spots and break their foot or arm. One could say that he really loves the snow, but only if he is in the safe interior of a house or is just taking a walk through the forest, which has been very limited in the recent years. For this reason alone, he prefers not to go looking for the right location. Sasuke sighs and looks back at his desk. Beside that, he still has too much work anyway.
Even if he doesn't go with the location search, he can't just sit there waiting for his future wife and mother to conjure up a wedding dream in pink. The Uchiha inevitably shakes when he thinks of standing at the altar and the registrar in front of him in a pink robe. It is precisely for this reason that he ensures that his wishes, or rather criteria, are also met. Suddenly his office door is opened and a blond-haired man stands in it and grins at him. Sasuke sighs and supports his elbow on his desk and his chin on the palm of his hand. That's why he called him to him. In general, you could also call him his best friend, at least he describes himself as such and his parents and brother also call him that. Actually it is inconceivable that this young man should be his best friend, he is loud and sometimes really exhausting when he walks around in such a good mood. It's also almost fascinating how the blonde managed to graduate from school and become a software programmer here at Uchiha Corporation where only the best of the best are hired. As stupid as he does the simplest things, or asks for basic knowledge which should be learned during school.
"Teme! What difficult task do you give me, that Itachi frees me from my work and also does it voluntarily?”, Grinning, Naruto approaches the desk. The black-haired young man sighs and looks up at his friend. Oh yes, he hasn't told anyone yet. A little embarrassed, he scratches the back of his head. "Wedding preparations," it comes from the dark-eyed. "Wedding preparations ... wait! What? Haää?”, Confused and incredulous, as if he was being kidnapped, the blonde looks at him. Sasuke sighs again. "Yes, wedding preparations. I've been engaged since mid-December. At my mother's request, I will marry Sakura Haruno. It takes a few minutes for Naruto to get out of his shock-state. "Wait, wait, wait! You've been engaged for a month and don't tell us about it?” Naruto looks at the young man angrily. "Yes. I somehow forgot to mention that.”, Sasuke shrugs his shoulders, bored. “Anyways, I would like you to visit the locations with my fiancée today and represent my criteria.”
The Uzumaki looks down at him angrily, the blond's eyebrows twitching, which is a rare phenomenon. "You get engaged and tell me nothing about it and now I should drive through half of Tokyo with your fiancée to visit chapels, restaurants and hotels? No! Do it yourself. After all, she is your fiancée!” shouts the blue-eyed man, demonstrating his arms crossed over his chest.
"You aren’t going in my place, but accompany my mother and fiancée, so that we are not going to stand in a dream of pink at the wedding. I want you, as my best friend, to go with them and make sure that my criteria’s are also met.“, The Uchiha sighs again while he repeats the part that Naruto passed over and explains a little more precisely. "Maybe I just don't do it and you have to get married in a dream of pink.", It comes indifferently from the blonde who shrugs his shoulders.
"As you wish, but you, as my best man, must also stand in this dream of pink," sighs the Uchiha and looks down at his documents. "Wait what, best man? You want me to be your best man?” Naruto looks down at his best friend in surprise. "Of course, after all, you are my best friend. That's why I entrust you with the supervision of the wedding preparations.”, The black haired man looks up briefly at the blonde, who looks at him somehow moved that Sasuke is beginning to feel uncomfortable.
The young Uchiha clears his throat in order to bring his friend back to normal. "You've convinced me. I will be there for you with the wedding preparations. Itachi releases me for that anyway and still pays me. So. Tell me what your fiancée is like, what does she look like?“, The blonde looks at him with interest. Sasuke looks up bored and raises his eyebrow indifferently. "I have no idea. It's an arranged marriage, I was with her at the Tokiwa Towers opening six months ago and actually I also forgot what she looks like.“ The black haired shrugged his shoulders and then wrote something on the documents. "So a forced marriage? That's forbidden, isn't it? ”Naruto looks confused at his best friend. "It is not a forced marriage. I try to fulfill my mother's wish, why Sakura agreed, I don't know. But it doesn't matter now.” The Uchiha waves off and turns back to his friend.
"Okay. So what are your viewpoints that I should represent and what exactly should I do?“, The Uzumaki explores and sighs. "Just stop my mother and Sakura from making the wedding a girl's dream. I would prefer rustic influences, something calm. And please make sure that I am not taken by surprise by orange or pink.” The black haired man lists up to his best friend and rubs his hair. Naruto nods, "Okay boss! Everything will be taken care off. When and where does it start?” Sighing, Sasuke leans back in his armchair and looks at his watch on the computer screen. "My mother knows where to go. She is waiting for you at my father's office. And slowly you should hurry up to meet her at 10:15 a.m.” He reports. Naruto nods and blinks briefly, looks at the clock, then turns on his heels and almost runs out of the office.
Sasuke looks down at his table and holds his head with a sigh. No matter how much work he has to do, he will probably be sitting until 7:00 p.m. or even longer. Maybe he should call Naruto back and go to the meeting himself. Then he could at least express his point of view better and actually get to know the young Haruno better, so that he does not have to marry someone who is completely unknown to him. Apart from that, it has not only happened once, that a girl only needs to blink with her eyelashes and the blonde would give in quickly. The youngest Uchiha shakes his head immediately. There is still a lot of work ahead of him and if he still wants to go home today he should concentrate on it. Naruto will do his part somehow.
With a sigh, the black haired man takes his tablet and unlocks it, opens a file and then turns to his computer screen, there he opens a document and then leans back in his armchair, looks at the tablet he has put upright next to the computer and then again back to the documents in his hand. He sighs in agony once again and looks at his desk. It is clearly one of those days when he would rather do anything than work. Sasuke rises and puts the documents back in the associated folder and puts them aside. With a pained look he looks at the chaos on his table and reaches for the three opened folders, which he has opened on top of each other. His eyes slide over the contents before folding them up and placing them on one of the two stacks, followed by the next two folders. Finally, he takes the stack of files and brings it to the filing unit so that it can be redistributed into the departmental files. When he comes back to his office and looks to his table, he lets out a long sigh of relief, because it looks much emptier and organized now. Maybe he'll come out of the office sooner than expected after all.
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The sun shines down on the place in front of the shopping center. Waiting, the young woman looks around and smiles at her companion. Her gaze lies on the tablet in her hand, which she is just putting back in her larger handbag. They have come here because it is time to make the first wedding preparations, and first of all one should choose the location, or maybe several. Depending on whether you get married in a hotel with a chapel or not. The locations should be chosen carefully. Apart from that, there should always be a person who is familiar with it. That's why they both stand here in the freezing cold of January, waiting for her future mother-in-law, who will help her with all wedding preparations.
"I'm sorry for being late!" It sounds next to them and a black-haired woman comes to a stop in front of them. “Hello, my name is Uchiha Mikoto. We were together at the Tokiwa Towers opening ceremony, but I assume that I have been forgotten.“ The black haired woman bows briefly and finally smiles at the pinkette. "Haruno Sakura, nice to meet you mrs. Uchiha. I’m sorry, but it just has been too long.“ Sakura too, bows in traditional Japanese style for the greeting. "Oh please, don't panic, I would have forgotten it too. Anyways, please let’s not be formal with each other.” Mikoto waves off with a smile. "With pleasure.", The pinkette also smiles and looks at the young man next to her soon to be mother in law. "Oh I am sorry. I almost forgot again. The young man with me is my son's best friend, Uzumaki Naruto.” Embarrassed, the Uchiha smiles and points to the blond man, who bows politely. "Hello. This is Hyuga Hinata, she is a budding wedding planner and one of my best friends. I allowed her to try my wedding and gain experience. I am Haruno Sakura.“ Sakura introduces her friend and herself to the Uzumaki politely. The two bow and briefly examine the blonde.
He blinks in confusion before raising his voice, "Haruno, like Ryosuke Haruno?" Sakura looks at the blonde in surprise. "My brother, why?" She asks the only man in the group. "Oh, we were at school together." Embarrassed, the Uzumaki scratches his cheek and the green eyed woman smiles. "I understand." The oldest of the women clears her throat for a moment and then smiles around, "Do we want to get going slowly? We have a few locations to visit and if possible you should also choose a design for the announcement cards.”, as she says that, she points towards the parking lot, "Naruto will be so friendly and play our chauffeur." Mikoto explains as they walk towards a black car. With a smile, Sakura and Mikoto take a seat in the back seat while Hinata takes the passenger seat.
“It is important to choose a suitable color for the cards, you have to choose a font and maybe a design. Here I have different patterns of the announcement cards with the corresponding envelopes.” The black haired woman explains and pulls out a thick folder from a pocket, in which the cards are sorted by company. "I have the designs and fonts here with me." Hinata explains, who sits slightly turned towards them and extends her tablet to the back. The Uchiha smiles, "I can see that nothing can go wrong at the wedding and the planning will be easy. We complement each other perfectly." The Hyuga also smiles satisfied.
"You can first choose the design and add colors as you like and then we will choose the right color from the cards," suggests the light eyed woman, Mikoto nods in agreement. Sakura leans back in silence with the tablet in her hand and looks at the designs. "Hinata, we should coordinate our locations so that we don't have duplicates, or go detours," Says Mikoto and takes another, thinner folder out of her pocket. "Very good idea, mrs. Uchiha.“, The blue haired woman also nods and pulls out her documents, since for safety's sake she has also printed out half of the data. "Oh please. Let’s stop the formalities.” The oldest of the four said with a smile. "Gladly." Hinata nods a little shyly.
Sakura looks at the designs in depth, swipes left and right across the screen to view the next one. She doesn't notice how the city moves past her outside the window. "Sakura. We are here.”, Mikoto's voice pulling her back into reality. The pinkette looks up in surprise and then smiles slightly before covering the tablet with the protective cover and steps out of the car. In front of her is a large white church. Pompous and showy, as the young Haruno thinks. The four of them enter the inside and look around. The pastor comes up to them and shows them everything in detail. Sakura looks around silently and notices how Naruto takes pictures of the location. Hinata and Mikoto leave them to speak and after a few concluding sentences they sit back in the car.
They spend half the day like this, Sakura, as an aspiring industrial designer, is completely dedicated to the design of the announcement cards, Mikoto and Hinata are already talking about possible plans, while Naruto is driving the car somewhat bored. They look at dozens of locations, but none really appeals to the Haruno, somehow to her every location lacks something.
With a sigh, the green eyed woman stops by the car. "Say Naruto, how did you like the locations so far?" She turns to the blonde to hear the opinion of a man. Hyuga and her future mother-in-law are also slowly finding their way to the two. “In my opinion, they're all real girls' dream castles. But I'm here to represent Teme's opinion.”, Grins the blonde, pleased to finally be involved in the discussions. "Teme?" Sakura looks at him in confusion. "Naruto. You shouldn't always call Sasuke a Teme!” Mikoto immediately chides him. Laughing sheepishly, the Uzumaki scratches the back of his head. "Sasuke Uchiha?" The pinkette whispers silently and considers who she could assign the name to. “Anyway, that was pretty much all the locations. And what do you say Sakura? Which one do you like best?“ The black-haired woman turns to her. "And what are Sasuke's imagineations?" Sakura finally asks after a few seconds of thinking.
"He would like something rustic and calm," explains Naruto with a smile. "Do we still have any location with something rustic or quiet?" Sakura examines her future mother-in-law and her wedding planner. Hinata looks briefly at her tablet and then shakes her head. The Haruno deliberately puts her finger on her chin, closes her eyes for a moment and then smiles. "I know where we're going. Naruto we have to go to Nerima!” In a good mood she takes the tablet from the blue haired woman and gets in the passenger seat. Astonished, Mikoto and Hinata sink into the back seats.
A small grin adorns Sakura's lips as she looks briefly over the mirror in the sun visor, to the two women who are sitting there in silence and are still a bit surprised. Then she leans back in her seat and plays with the tablet again. "Say Naruto, what did Sasuke say? Anything special?” She questions further and looks briefly at him. "Yes, about the colors. What it shouldn't be.” He begins to report, he seems to think briefly. "No bright colors, pink, purple, orange or dots.", suddenly it comes from Sakura who smiles at him. Naruto looks at her in surprise and finally smiles. “Close to that. He still kinda allows purple.” The pinkette nods understandingly and when she looks at the tablet she smiles slightly. Briefly she looks outside and sees that the traffic light is switching to red, when Naruto stops the car in the colony, she turns the tablet into his direction. "And? Would he say yes?" She looks at Naruto over the edge of the device, who is so surprised that his eyes widen and slowly starts nodding. “Yes, I think so." "Well, um, we have to go to the Toirstu Johoku Central Park." She gave him brief instructions before Sakura hands the tablet back to its owner. "I would choose the card color in champagne." She comments briefly and then looks out of the window.
Mikoto and Hinata look in amazement at the screen of the tablet, on which they can see the design. In the top left corner of the transversal card there are two golden roses, which have dark red light contours, along the edge of the card the tendrils also run in gold, down to the bottom right corner where they end and two red hearts are one above the other. The names of the two fiancees are written in a dark red.
"We arrived! Here you have to turn right and you can stop in front of the house in the parking lot!” Explains the Haruno joyfully. The Uzumaki follows the instructions and switches off the car after Sakura gets out of the vehicle. "I'm not sure we can park here at all." Notes the blonde as he gets out of the car and looks at the medium sized house in front of him. Suddenly the front door opens and an older man, around 70 years, is standing there. He scowls at the group, until he sees the pink hair. "Oh! If it isn’t Haruno Sakura!“ He comes delighted down the 5 stairs and towards the young woman. "Mr. Ayakashi! I'm happy to see you!“ The young Haruno smiles and bows to him. "We haven't seen each other for a long time. Since then ... " He stops in his words and his look becomes sad, before he shakes his head. “What brings you to me?" "Mr. Ayakashi, may I introduce my companions? These are Mrs. Uchiha Mikoto, Hyuga Hinata and Uzumaki Naruto.” The one mentioned bows. "We are looking for a rustic, quiet location." A small grin is on her lips and a sparkle is in her eyes. Ayakashi smiles and nods "You want to look at the old cellar." The gray haired man comments, goes back to his front door and briefly disappears inside before closing the door and coming back to them.
Together with Sakura, he leads the group into the forest from the park, along a road until a hole appears in the forest on the right and you can see the remaining walls of a dilapidated house. "It still looks like 5 years ago.” The pinkette smiles and takes a few steps forward, stands in the middle of the ruin and turns in a circle, a small laugh on her lips. Mr. Ayakashi laughs wholeheartedly and draws the attention of the Haruno to himself. She smiles sheepishly and comes to the group that has gathered in front of the stairs that lead down into the earth. The old man goes ahead and then unlocks the door down there. Light floods the room when he pushes the light switch to the right of the front door. An old, unused wine cellar extends before the five. Hinata and Mikoto look around in astonishment, while Naruto is already taking the first photos. "That's perfect!" The Haruno exclaims happily and runs forward. Opposite the door, at the other end of the room, there is a structure that resembles kind of an oven. Sakura smiles. "I can already imagine it. We set up rows of seats, attach flowers and cloths. From the middle of the ceiling, where the lamp hangs, we hang cloths to the top and sides and two to the back of the door. We lay a dark red carpet on the floor, which leads over the stairs to the street and place flower arrangements next to the path.”, explains the young Haruno. “And Naruto, would Sasuke like that too?" She looks questioningly at the blond young man, who needs a moment to imagine everything and then nods with a smile. "Yes, I think that could work."
Mr. Ayakashi, to Sakura’s right, clears his throat. "What do you need the basement for, if I may ask?" He inquires carefully. "Of course! I am engaged Mr. Ayakashi. I will get married and want to hold the wedding ceremony here.“ Sakura smiles lovingly. "Oh, Sakura, that's wonderful! Congratulations. I am so happy for you! It would be my honor for you to get married here in this wine cellar!” A little tear steals its way into the old man's eye. "Thank you, then can we also set the date for the first week of June? I don't know exactly which day yet.” Sakura inquires. "Of course!" Mr. Ayakashi nods happily.
“Sakura the location is wonderful. And I already know where the party could take place. Let's go there for lunch.” Mikoto now smiles and seems to be enchanted by the location. The addressed pinkette smiles happily, there really is magic in the air in this place. Which she had already noticed almost 5 years ago, at her father's birthday party.
