It happened without warning...


The pounding echoed painfully through Reiís ears. Her headache had been bad, and this... this just made it ten times worse. Who was knocking at her door at two in the morning?

She bet it was Usagi, coming to cry on her shoulder because Mamoru had made fun of her or Shingo had eaten the last of her sweets...

-They say that order breeds chaos...-

He had fallen into a heap at her feet. In a moment of empathy, or perhaps sheer stupidity, she knelt down and began the tedious process of dragging the limp, heavy body into her house.

It only took a moment...


Lightening lit up the jet black sky, sending shadows to dance across the wall of Reiís apartment briefly. Only hours before she had been outside, gazing into what was now a mass of clouds, counting the stars as they sparkled like diamonds just out of reach.

It just went to prove how everything could change in the blink of an eye.

"Aren't you going to tell me who you are?' Rei asked. The man who sat across from her on the couch was silent for a few seconds. A sigh was heaved, a response given.

"No."

-From chaos conflict rises, like a phoenix from the ashes...-

For Fate to speak...


"I love you!" she yelled causing the retreating figure to stop dead.

"You can't!" he replied at last, and just as fiercely as she had expressed her true feelings. He refused to turn around, he couldn't bare the thought of seeing her upset.

"Why? Tell me why!" she screamed at him, on the verge of tears. Rei didn't understand it, why couldn't she love him? Why was he so scared to let her in? She just wanted to walk right up to him and hit him until he said he loved her back, until he took her in his arms and kissed her.

She might have been cynical and catty by nature... but she had her own inner desires, and the fairy tale life Usagi had dropped at her feet was one Rei had always yearned to experience.

Star crossed love...


"Don't underestimate me, Korru!"

"I never have," he said, his lips twitching slightly as he resisted the urge to smile. She was a little hellion. He had never thought in a million years that he would feel this strongly for her.

His words caught Rei off guard and all she could do was stare at him a moment. She didn't know how she was going to get it through to him! She couldnít even explain it to herself, the intensity of the feelings that roared through her.

"Why won't you come back with me? Let me help you?"

"You wouldn't understand," he replied.

"Try me," Rei snapped back, "You'd be surprised." She was getting rather irritated and it was definitely beginning to show.

"I can't" There are things! I have... secrets."

"Things?" she stared at him a moment and decided to move to the next topic... nothing came to mind to counter 'things'. "Everyone has secrets!"

"Mine will get you killed."

Destinies Intertwined...


"I told you to leave," he murmured lifting his gaze to look at the raven haired woman who refused to see reason.

"You tell me to do a lot of things," Rei replied placing both hands defiantly upon her hips. "What gave you the idea I would start listening now?" She was quite serious, her chin had tilted a bit allowing her to get the maximum glare-effect.

"I donít know how you do it," Korru said with the faintest of grins. Rei thought this an odd gesture, considering the circumstances but she didnít comment.

"Do what?" she asked at last, deciding that taking the bait was better than standing there glaring at each other all night.

As Things Collide...

"Rei don"t do this alone, let us help," Usagi pleaded. Rei wanted more then anything to let her come, to let all of her friends come, but this wasnít their mission. She couldn't allow them to risk their lives for something they didn't, and never would, understand. Hell, she didn't understand what or why she was doing it.

For love.

The thought nagged at the back of her mind as she walked away.

"I can't let you," she said softly, understanding at last why he had tried so many times to push her away.