HELLOOO WORLD! I'm back!….sigh…... I can tell how excited you all are. I AM trying to get The Game done. I swear! This was actually bits and pieces that I couldn't make fit into that story, so I strung em' together here. To try and get my comedic flow back together so to speak. This is part one of…. four? So, you know, please review, even if it is just to yell at me for not posting more. ;)
I would like to thank What's-Yer-Offer for writing so so so many happys! BlackBlackHeaven for the massive case of giggles that I come down with when reading the Pocketful story and all it's many sequels. And of course Naoko Takeuchi for creating this Yuri-rific series to begin with and then updating it in the good old 2014! Let me hear you fan girl scream for Sailor Moon Crystal!
Disclaimer: NOT MINE. See Creator above.
Mars blinked. Mercury tilted her head. Jupiter rubbed the bridge of her nose. Moon watched blankly. The Outers collectively groaned. Venus stared at all of them in frustration.
"Oh come on! It's a good idea!" She whined, stomping her heel. Uranus raised a hand in question an Venus rolled her eyes and pointed at her.
"So, I think I missed something. Can you, run this by us one more time?" She requested and the leader of the senshi sighed heavily.
"We've all gotten lax in our training! We don't even put any effort into sparring anymore. And when we team up, no one even cares who wins! We need to train like we mean it! Like we all have something on the line!" Mars snorted and crossed her arms.
"Yes oh fearless leader. I think we all got that part. Where you lost us is exactly what you want us to put on the line." She pointed out and the group nodded in unison. Venus resisted the urge to break out her whip.
"Well, what else do we all fear except for embarrassment? Especially from each other right? And what could be more embarrassing than owing one of us a dare? Or a favor? Or have you forgotten Usagi's birthday?" A shudder rippled through the defenders of the galaxy and a serious of coughs, blushes, and rapidly shifting gazes let Venus know that everyone remembered. Probably clearer than most of them wanted to.
Neptune cleared her throat and put a supportive hand on Uranus's arm as her girlfriend struggled to block out memories that involved Minako, Usagi, and the words 'make-over' and 'mascara'.
"So you propose that we all put dares on the line?" Venus nodded. Finally, they were getting it.
"Yes. We all play free for all, no teams. Whoever you tag out owes you a dare. Any dare. Gives you a hell of an incentive to play for keeps doesn't it?" A large majority of the girls didn't look quite sold.
"How did you come up with this idea?" Pluto asked, leaning slightly on her staff. A light blush crossed the blonde's face and she scratched the back of her head, laughing loudly.
"Oh, you know. I'm just good like that. Thought of it all on my own. Yes, no help at all." She laughed again and Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury shared a curious glance. Oh yeah, Venus wasn't being suspicious at all. Out of the corner of her eye, Mars caught sight of the book-bag Minako had gleefully dropped as soon as she'd reached their training grounds. She could see the top of a manga peeking out of it and she made a face.
"Oh yeah. Thought of it on your own my ass." With that she made for the bag and was incredibly surprised when Venus beat her too it, clutching the bag protectively to her chest.
"Leave my bag out of it!" She yelped, the fear in her eyes a telling sign. Playful violet eyes met emerald green and the two power senshi moved forward as one, sensing a weakness.
"What's in the bag Venus?" Mars taunted stepping ever so nearer. The blonde only clutched it tighter and made a face.
"None of your business Pyro." She bit and Jupiter chuckled from behind her, much much too close for the blonde's comfort.
"Just give it up Venus. We'll get it from you one way or the other." Making a tactical decision the blonde cracked out her whip with one gloved hand, holding the bag behind her.
"My bag!" She declared and Mars felt the fire in her veins boil at the challenge. Sailor Moon, sensing that whatever was in the bag was of great value, joined in the hunt, narrowing her eye gleefully.
"Come on Venus. Don't you trust your Princess?" Said senshi only cracked her whip as the three traitors circled her, looking for a weak point. Mercury sighed and moved closer to Neptune and Pluto, out of harms way.
"I wonder if we'll actually get through training today?" She questioned and Neptune stifled a small giggle as she watched the antics of the inners.
"Well, it's not a bad idea really. The fear of owing someone a dare, or the thrill of having a dare you want to inflict on someone would certainly push us to train for keeps." Mercury nodded in agreement.
"True. I know I'll certainly spar harder, if only to avoid Venus." Pluto gave her a curious look.
"Venus? " Mercury shivered and shifted from foot to foot as Mars made a quick lunge at their leader and then jumped back lightning fast as the whip cracked.
"After that whole….night….was over, Minako told me that she still had one dare she thought would be hilarious." The sea senshi took in the pale look on the genius's face.
"What did she want to do to you?" She couldn't help but ask and Mercury let out a sigh. In the background Sailor Moon lept back to avoid the glowing hearts and tripped over her own feet, landing with a whimper on her backside.
"She wanted to take me…..clubbing." The bluenette whispered, speaking the last word as if it tasted bad in her mouth. Neptune and Pluto blinked and shared a look. Lightning crackled lightly in front of them as Jupiter and Mars both advanced.
"Clubbing?" Neptune echoed. Sure, Mercury was shy. But she said the word like it was a death sentence. The genius nodded slowly, her eyes closed against the unimaginable horrors. Pluto smiled at her and adjusted her staff as a whip cracked and Sailor Moon yelped .
"I know it's not quite your cup of tea, but considering the fiendish plans Uranus no doubt has for Venus or Moon, why is just going clubbing so bad?" Mercury shivered and looked up at curious garnet eyes, a look of disbelief in her eyes.
"Do you have any idea where she clubs at?" The bluenette whispered, as if this explained everything. The outers shared a grin and turned back as the blonde in question was slowly backed up by her three advancing scouts.
"Yes, I suppose Venus would have some….interesting…places in mind." Mercury whimpered aloud, a hollow look in her eyes.
"She showed me pictures of it once." Neptune bit her lip.
"And?"
"And I'm not sure I'd survive." Pluto smirked.
"Just a bit melodramatic are we?" Mercury looked up at her pointedly.
"I'm not sure I'd survive intact." Both women blinked at the word that was stressed and even Neptune had the grace to flush lightly.
"Yes, well then. I suppose your only option is to avoid her." A soft snort came from beside her and the dejected girl kicked at the ground as she watched Venus send several crescent beams in Mar's and Jupiter's direction causing a flurry of yelps and curses.
"Unfortunately, the quality that makes her such a great leader is also why she's so dangerous to challenge. Once she has her mind set on something, there is absolutely no stopping her." Venus held the bag above her head and waved the whip wildly in front of her. Mercury shook her head and focused, trying to change the subject to something other than her impending doom.
"Anyway, I'm sure Uranus wouldn't mind some well deserved revenge. I suppose I can pin my hopes on her getting to Venus before she gets to me." Looking around curiously, Mercury realized they were missing someone. "Where is Uranus anyway?" She questioned and Pluto tapped her shoulder. Mercury turned and amused eyes nodded in the direction of the battle taking place across the courtyard. The water and ice senshi looked over and Neptune hid a giggle with a gloved hand as her lover crept up silently behind the distracted leader.
Not for the first time the wind senshi's height became an advantage and she carefully plucked the manga from the top of the bag Venus gripped, without even alerting her. Satisfied with herself, she backed up a few paces and started to flip through her prize, sending a flirtatious wink in Neptune's direction. Mars and Jupiter, having seen Uranus's sneak attack, suddenly stopped and stood back from their leader, arms crossed, identical smirks plastered across gleeful faces as they waited for their accomplice to share.
Sailor Moon failed to notice however, and continued lunging for her first in command, quite unsuccessfully. Mercury watched as a flush lit up Uranus's face the more she looked through the booklet and she sent Neptune an amused, albeit shocked facial expression, pointing at Venus and shaking her head. The oblivious blondes finally caught on to the fact that they were only ones in battle and while Moon joined her senshi, a smirk on her face, Venus watched them all with a suspicious look in her eyes.
"What?" She questioned, and three victorious, snaky grins continued to stare her down. She dared to look away from her former attackers and chanced a glance to the side where Mercury, Neptune and Pluto were also smiling in pure amusement. Her Venus senses tingling, the thought that that her world was about to go horribly wrong snuck into her brain like a ninja's dart. She opened her mouth but had to no chance to speak as a low whistle sounded from behind her. Her whip disintegrated as she whirled to face the tallest senshi, flipping through a familiar book.
"Wow. And I thought I was kinky." Uranus chuckled as she tilted the book sideways and peered intently at the page in front of her. The love senshi looked quickly through her bag, flinging books and homework every which way, desperately. In the background Mercury tsked and made a mental note to copy her own homework assignments to replace them. Furious, and panicked, Venus glared back up at the woman holding the key to her own painful demise.
"Give it back." She demanded and Uranus sent her a challenging look, flipping to another page. Eyebrows shot nearly off her head at the images and amused eyes flicked up to meet horrified blue. "Was this the favor you were intending to ask?" Shooting a terrified look in Mars's direction, as the fiery Priestess was the most likely to bring her short life to a brutal end, she looked back and her expression turned pleading.
"Pleeease give it back!" She whimpered. Mar's eyes squinted at the look and she took a step forward. Uranus grinned again. Oh the power! The blonde one would pay dearly for her use of mascara. DEARLY. She sent a nod in the fire senshi's direction, fully aware of what she was about to unleash on the inner senshi leader.
"Do you think she can actually bend like that?" She asked thoughtfully and Venus felt the flames erupt from behind her. Her jaw hit the ground at the same time rational thought flew out the proverbial window and she made a lunge for the Outer. Uranus sent the cursed book through the air in Jupiter's direction and gleefully tackled Venus to the ground, holding her prone as the brunette opened the pages to see what was going on.
Mercury, Pluto, and Neptune watched with a mixture of curiosity and amusement as emerald eyes widened. The girl turned as red as Ami ever had and her own jaw dropped. She sent a disbelieving look in Venus's direction as the blond writhed beneath her captor.
"That is sooo not what it looks like. I swear!" She shouted even as Uranus held her tighter. Mars growled lightly.
"What is it?" She demanded and Jupiter jumped a foot in the air, spun, and hid it behind her back.
"Ah…what is what?" She asked and Mars cocked her head in irritation.
"Give it." She demanded and Jupiter backed up, one hand held in front of her in a placating motion.
"I'm…um…not sure that's such a good idea." She stammered. Granted, Venus had sort of brought this on herself, but it wouldn't do if their leader was killed. Fire burst to life in front her as Mars advanced. Taking a cue from the Outers, Moon snuck up silently behind her lightning defender and snatched the controversial booklet away.
"Yoink!" She yelled gleefully and ran behind Mars to flip through her prize. Jupiter made to move toward her but the fire in front of her flared and she stepped back.
"Princess….please…." She begged but Sailor Moon was already flipping pages happily. Jupiter joined the onlookers as Mercury watched the Princess's eager speed-flipping as it gradually slowed and the color drained from her face. Finally, she closed the book and started down at her captive Love senshi, a somber expression on her face.
"Oh, she is going to kill you." Venus sighed, and face-planted the dirt as Mars yanked it away from her Princess to see for herself what the hell was going on. The cover was non-assuming enough. Though familiar faces stared back up at her.
"It's a doujinshi?" She spat and Venus mumbled into the dirt. Mercury groaned and Pluto shook her head. "How could you touch one of these after….last time?" The Inners all whimpered and Jupiter bit her lip. Months ago, excited by the sudden popularity of the 'full-set' of scouts, the girls had happened upon an entire series of doujin, one for each Scout. Gleefully, they'd bought each one, ignoring the incredulous looks of the store keeper and had fled to the shrine to enjoy their stardom. Each page however had brought new levels of horror and in the end they'd burned every last one.
Since that fateful day, the word 'tentacle' had been forbidden from any conversation and every youma who had an appendage even similar in appearance had been dispatched swiftly, and with extreme prejudice. Beside her Mercury shivered and Jupiter put a comforting hand on her shoulder. The bluenette reached up and put her smaller hand on top of the brunette's and looked up, a soft smile of thanks on her face. Jupiter let their eyes meet, let herself get lost for a few seconds in deep endless sapphire before Mercury blushed lightly and looked away, her hand dropping back to her side.
The brunette resisted the urge to sigh. They had been getting closer these past few months, lingering looks, light blushes, extended lunches and 'one-on-one' study periods. She'd lost track of how many times a day they'd simply get lost in each others eyes, the rest of the world forgotten. She knew the younger girl felt for her. It wasn't an if anymore, just a when. Ami was so damned shy. They were just taking their time, tip-toeing toward each other slowly. Very slowly Jupiter thought as she turned back to the explosion that was Mars.
From her position beneath Uranus (obligatory jokes aside) Venus huffed, sending up a puff of dust.
"Training?" Mars read off the cover and her leader shifted in the taller girls grasp.
"Yes! See? I thought it just about training and you all were telling me that I needed to come up with some new training ideas so I thought it'd be perfect." Mars raised an incredulous eyebrow, still refusing to open the offending item in her hands.
"And you thought you could get help from one of these?" Venus sighed again.
"They write doujin about all kinds of crazy stuff. I was just like, oh wow, a doujin on the Sailor Senshi training. Perfect! I didn't know what it was about! I swear!" Mars looked down at the pile of blondes and then back at the pile of paper in her hands.
"And what is it about?" She asked and Venus turned red, hiding her face back in the dirt. Mercury shifted and looked to Jupiter who only shook her head.
"You don't want to know." She whispered, a light blush painting her cheeks as the images she'd seen floated through the forefront of her brain. The raven slowly began to turn the pages and Sailor Moon backed away from her guardian, the explosion imminent. With each page, the Miko's face got a shade redder and even Uranus abandoned her position to take cover with Neptune. Venus could only back away slowly, a sheepish, fearful expression on her face.
"I SWEAR I didn't know that's what it was…." She tried and Mars slapped the pages shut near the end and fixed her leader with a fiery gaze.
"Crap…." The blonde had time to mutter as a flaming blur slammed into her and red and orange fukus rolled into the bushes. As screams and whimpers echoed from the shrubbery that the senshi had disappeared into Neptune tilted her head at her amused lover and nodded her head in the direction of the offending paperback.
"What is it about dear?" She questioned and Uranus grinned, slipping an arm around her girl.
"Well, I can see where she got this whole idea from. That's basically what that doujin is." Neptune arched an eyebrow ( a practiced senshi move) and smiled.
"Basically?" Uranus laughed and shrugged.
"The senshi all spar, and the winners get the losers to do something for them." The others blinked and Mercury look up at the blush still on Jupiter's face.
"That's what all the fuss is over?" Jupiter sighed and shifted under the bluenette's stare.
"What they…um…get…from them isn't so….PG rated." She tried to explain. And just in case Mercury, Neptune and Pluto hadn't figured it out Uranus wiggled her eyebrows at the senshi in her arms.
"They made em' have S…E…X." She spelled, nuzzling Neptune's neck playfully. Mercury flushed red and Pluto rolled her eyes. Her smart-ass comment about getting a room was cut short as the shrubbery exploded and a frazzled love senshi flew out, a human flame close on her heels.
"Oh my Kami Mars! I'm sorry!" Venus yelped as she dove behind a tree, a flame sniper buried in the bark where her head had been.
"No, not yet you aren't!" Mars screamed, notching another arrow. The Outers collectively sighed and Mercury tried to recover from her blush.
"It was a good idea!" The tree defended as fire licked the air.
"ECCHI!" The tree sighed.
"I didn't mean THAT kind of favor Mars!" Sailor Moon snickered aloud suddenly and fire was pointed in her direction. The Princess squealed and dove behind her closest guardian, who just happened to be Jupiter. The brunette raised her hands in surrender.
"What's so funny Princess?" The human shaped flame asked and the second cowering blonde swallowed and peeked out from her hiding place.
" Just that, she was talking about having a dare for Ami earlier, and I didn't know that she meant for the training game, and then the doujin was ecchi and then she said an ecchi favor and I was thinking, Ami'd probably faint first." The Princess finished in a huff. As Mercury slowly turned red, the distraction worked and scouts burst out into laughter, all no doubt picturing Venus attempting to seduce Mercury, and the bluenette fainting. Jupiter tried hard not to laugh, she did, but the visual was hilarious and a snicker escaped. Mercury looked up from kicking the dirt by her boot, the expression in her eyes clearly betrayal as even her best friend, and potential girlfriend, laughed at her expense.
"I'm sorry." Jupiter spoke as she stifled her laughter. "It's okay that you aren't ecchi like Venus. It's sweet." She tried to sooth the bluenette and received a furious blush in response.
"Aw, don't worry Mercury." Venus laughed, having rolled out from her tree as Mars collapsed on the ground giggling. "I would never try anything on you. Jupiter would kill me." She snickered and emerald and sapphire eyes met, locked, blushed, and looked away furiously as the remaining scouts continued giggling quietly. Jupiter crossed her arms with a huff and tried to muster up a glare to send the blonde's way. As if Ami wasn't skittish enough about this whole thing, jokes did most certainly not help.
"Yes, well…." Pluto began, trying hard to pretend that she had not just dissolved into a fit of laughter, " we should get on with actually training." The group sighed collectively and Venus bit her lip, wondering exactly when her self-preservation had died.
"So…..you all wanna do the dare thing?" She chanced and Mercury just hid her head in her hands. Mars shot her a dirty look and Venus shrugged it off with a toss of her hair. " You were all almost on wood before you found that stupid doujin. Admit it, it's a good idea." A set of blanks looks stared back at her and from under her gloves Mercury mumbled.
"On board. We were on board." She clarified as the rest all nodded, the confusion that was Venus cleared up for them. Their leader rolled her eyes.
"Yes yes. That's what I said. On board. So…..?" The girls all exchanged looks, trying to gauge the reactions of the others. No one was willing to be the first to support the idea if everyone else was against it. Venus bit her lip and stifled a sigh. Bothersome doujin! It was a perfectly legitimate idea! Not surprisingly, it was Uranus who spoke first.
"We'd definitely have to set rules." She offered and Venus clutched to the support like a life preserver.
"Yes! Yes, rules! All kinds of rules." She nodded vehemently. Pluto cocked her head. The wind senshi was not the one she would have predicted to demand a set of restrictions.
"Such as?" Uranus sent her an evil grin and turned pointedly to their blonde leader.
"Such as, no whining if she who tags you out decides to use handcuffs as part of your favor." Ah, Pluto thought. That certainly explained it. Venus mewled softly in the back of her throat and tried valiantly to hide the fear in her eyes.
"Ah hah ha. Right. Rules like that." Mercury sighed into her gloves and Jupiter grinned. Between Mars and Uranus, Venus was going to have her hands full fleeing for her life during their training. She cast a sidelong glance at the genius next to her. Could she tag out Mercury? Neptune cleared her throat to interrupt her lover's intimidation tactics.
"So, are we serious about this?" Uranus shrugged her shoulders.
"I'm in." Venus swallowed hard and tried to remember that this was what she wanted.
"I'm in." She answered and Neptune smirked.
"Why not?" She threw in and Uranus wrapped an arm around her shoulders with a proud smile.
"Pluto?" The greenette rolled her shoulders and looked over to her housemates. With a barely concealed smirk she inclined her head.
"Okay." She agreed and Venus resisted the urge to cheer.
"Alright! That's the Outers. How about you guys?" The remaining Inners all shifted and stared at each other uncertainly.
"Oh come on! You aren't going to let them show us up? Right?" She challenged. Still, no response. With a growl she focused on the resident hothead.
"Mars. You can't tell me you're…afraid are you?" Violet eyes glared back.
"Excuse me?" Venus grinned and crossed her arms.
"If that's what it is, I guess it's okay. You can just opt out. I understand if you can't keep up with me." Jupiter felt the heat waves radiating off her fellow senshi and backed up a few steps dragging Mercury and Sailor Moon with her.
"Keep up with you?!" Came the incredulous echo as the fire senshi once again faced off with the blonde. Venus shrugged indifferently, carefully playing her cards. A leader knew her soldiers, and she knew exactly how to get to the raven.
"I mean, I was expecting Sailor Moon to be nervous about it. And I knew I'd have to work to convince Jupiter. I thought for sure it would be Mercury who was the hold-out in the end. But I never expected that you would be afraid to play hardball. I can't believe I'm braver than you are about this." The raven seethed and Venus bit her lip, counting down the seconds until the fire guardian snapped. Just as Mars had stepped forward, ready to throw down, a quiet voice spoke up and surprised the absolute hell out of everyone.
"I'm in." Mercury near whispered and Jupiter whipped her head down to stare at the genius in shock.
"You are?" She asked and determined blue eyes stared up at her.
"Yes. I am." The bluenette affirmed and Uranus and Neptune shared a quick grin. Snapping out of her stupor Venus struck a victory pose.
"Alright Mercury! Way to step it up and play with the big boys!" Mars just rolled her eyes but Venus choose instead to focus on the brunette, given that the lightning senshi's weakness had just volunteered.
"How about you Jupiter? Are you going to let Mercury here play without you?" Had the brunette not been so busy hiding her own blush, she would have noticed the equal blush spouting across the genius's face.
"I guess I'm in too." She muttered, shifting uneasily. As Venus performed a small victory dance Jupiter chanced a look down at the girl by her side. Mercury was staring down at the ground, turned slightly away, but there was most definitely a self-satisfied smirk on her face. Jupiter blinked, never having seen that look on her wanna-be-girlfriends face before. The smaller girl definitely looked pleased with herself and Jupiter opened her mouth to ask what had possessed her to agree to Venus's idea but was interrupted as the aforementioned blond moved in on the two remaining hold-outs.
"Alright guys, what's it gonna be?" The raven had recovered from her shock at Mercury's statement and shot a glare in her leader's direction.
"Oh, I am most certainly in." She seethed vehemently and Venus swallowed hard and forced smile before focusing on her twin.
"Princess?" She questioned and Sailor Moon shifted and looked between her guardians, all watching her expectantly. Well hell, when in Rome….
"Okay. I'm in too." Venus exploded in much more elaborate victory dance and Mars just rolled her eyes.
"Let's just get this started shall we?" She grumped and Venus halted in mid-step, sending an incredibly falsely innocent smile in the fire senshi's direction.
"Oh-ho! That eager to get owned by Moi? Patience you must have. Besides, I have dastardly plans in mind for Mercury." She teased. Mars turned a light red and Mercury whimpered and shot a look to Pluto and Neptune as if to say, I told you I'm doomed. Uranus piped up cheerfully.
"I wouldn't worry about it. To get to you, she'll have to get away from me first." Jupiter snickered as the love senshi gulped audibly and took a step back.
"We actually should have rules set out." Mercury tried to be the voice of reason. Pluto nodded and cocked her head at the terrified blonde.
"Did you already have some in mind?" Venus tore herself away from being stared down by the wind senshi and gave the taller woman a sheepish grin.
"Ah, not really." She admitted and Mars rolled her eyes.
"Why am I not surprised?" She snorted and Neptune grew a mischievous smirk.
"I don't suppose there were any rules that we can adapt from that?" She asked and nodded her head to the abandoned doujin. Venus stared at it for a moment before flushing and furiously shaking her head.
"No, not so much." Uranus grinned and took the opportunity to further torment the girl.
"Did it have any rules at all listed in it?" Came the innocent question and if possible the blonde flushed darker, but did not answer. Mars was looking at her suspiciously again and she waved her hands in front of her face.
"Ah, no. Nope. No rules from there at all." She laughed loudly and Uranus exchanged a quick smirk with her lover before taking a step in the direction of the booklet.
"Maybe I'll just flip through it and see for myself. Just to be sure." She never made it more than a few steps before an orange blur few past and in an impressive rolling dive scooped up the offending paperback and hid it behind her back, again.
"Okay." She admitted as Uranus smirked and Mars scowled. "Maaaaybe it had a few they came up with. But I really really reeeaaallly don't think we could use them right now." She sounded desperate. Truthfully, she was. Mars could not, under any circumstances, actually read through the thing with any focus. She shuddered at the thought as the wind senshi reveled in her misery.
"Like what?" Her Princess spoke up, pre-empting the response Mars was about give. Venus shifted on her feet and mulled what little plot existed from the doujin around in her head. Now how to say it out loud without dooming herself unnecessarily?
"Ah, there were time constraints." She decided on, proud of herself for making it sound so…reasonable. Mercury made a face and nodded.
"That's not a bad idea actually." Jupiter looked down at her skeptically.
"Really?" The genius shrugged.
"Well, if today is a success then it stands to reason that we'll end up doing it each time we spar. Since we train once a week, if we all didn't have to use up our favors, things could potentially add up very quickly. How disastrous would it be if someone called in multiple favors at once?" The group nodded as they thought it over. Half honestly thinking about how funny it would be to do that to someone, the other half horrified at how bad it could be if it was done to them.
"So how long then?" Jupiter asked as they all looked to Mercury. She looked a bit startled but succumbed to the idea of being the rules manager.
"Well, we train on Sunday correct? Perhaps whatever favor or dare you have planned should be completed by Saturday? That way each week we start fresh?" The group mulled this over and Uranus gave her a thoughtful look.
"What time on Saturday?" Mercury blinked at her as Pluto raised an eyebrow.
"That's quite specific Uranus." She pointed out and Uranus crossed her arms and gave a shrug.
"I just want to know how long I can make this last." Terrified blue eyes raised to the wind senshi and received a wink. Venus sighed, mourning the swiftly arriving loss of her dignity and Mercury wrinkled her nose.
"By midnight?" Eyes met, heads nodded, and the senshi agreed. Rule one was in effect.
"What else?" Neptune asked. Mercury cleared her throat.
"Well, the same way it'd be bad if one person called in multiple rules, it would be just as unfortunate if someone were to tag out more than one person. Or if someone was tagged by more than one person per game." Uranus looked between the two remaining blondes with a smirk.
"So, you can only tag out, or be tagged out once?" Pluto clarified and Neptune nodded her head.
"Sounds reasonable."
"So choose who you decide to claim wisely. You only get one a week." Jupiter rolled her eyes as the wind senshi continued to stare down their leader.
"Any more suggestions?" Neptune asked and Mars glared in the direction of the blonde one who was still hiding the doujin. Venus sighed. There was no way to disguise the meaning behind the next rule listed.
"Um, there may have been something about, no recording?" Pluto blinked at her.
"Recording?" She echoed and Venus shifted.
"Ah, yes. No photographs or….videos." She chewed on her tongue as a group blush, in beautiful variety of shades, swept over everyone.
"Oh." The time senshi commented and Mars crossed her arms.
"Ecchi." As one, they all looked to Mercury to rationalize this new rule and the genius flushed darker and tried hard to pull her mind out the gutter it was currently residing in. Something about the best angle in Makoto's bedroom…Jupiter watched several expression flit about the bluenette's face before she set her shoulders and spoke up.
"That makes sense as well." Uranus pouted at the ruling and Neptune patted her lovers arm.
"Are we sure about that one?" She questioned and Venus's eyes widened slightly. As if the photographs that had survived from the infamous birthday party weren't enough, the woman wanted video? As Venus contemplated her doom Mercury shuffled her feet and bit her lip.
"Well, it should be a bit more broad than simply no recording. I would assume the original reason of that rule was so that others did not find out?" She managed to question and looked up at Venus. The blonde hesitated, but then nodded.
"Right. Well I propose we morph that rule into something more along the lines of, No damaging others reputations." Neptune cocked an eyebrow at the vague description.
"Explain that one please." The genius sighed and shifted.
"While we may just be high school students, you all have professional carriers to look out for. Would you really want any of what could happen getting out to the media at large?" While Neptune and Pluto shuddered at the thought Uranus shrugged.
"Might enhance my reputation actually." She stated and Venus took another hesitant step back as Neptune lightly smacked her lovers arm. Mercury searched her mind for a way to explain this that would get everyone to agree to it and Jupiter came to the rescue.
"And if what had happened at the birthday party had been recorded and gotten out?" Uranus shuddered again and while Neptune soothed her traumatized lover, Mercury sent a grateful smile in Jupiter's direction. Feeling a tad brave, the brunette sent a mostly innocent but could be easily misconstrued as slightly less than innocent wink at the genius as was rewarded for her bravery with a violent blush. And though the bluenette looked away immediately, there was a soft smile on her face and Jupiter beamed. Boo-yah!
"You have a point." Pluto agreed and smirked as Uranus shuddered again.
"So, we all agree? No recording, no publishing, and no speaking of what goes on except to those within this group?" Mercury asked. Again, eyes met, heads nodded and rule number three came into being.
"Anything else?" The wind senshi asked, glaring down Venus again. The leader sighed and shifted, looking down at the book in her hands. Well hell….
"Would you believe me if I said no?" She asked and Mars rolled her eyes.
"Say it." She demanded and Venus swallowed hard, glancing back up at the fiery guardian swiftly.
"I really don't think we can use it. Do I have to?" She whined and violet eyes narrowed at her.
"You bought it, you say it out loud."
"I agree. Tell us what the next rule is." Uranus chimed in and even Sailor Moon smirked. Venus huffed and stomped her foot. Fine. They wanted her to say it so badly, she'd say it.
"Okay. Okay." She took a deep breath and everyone focused on her. "Well, the next rule…." She began and the senshi all leaned in. "…is the last rule listed." She stated and they all nodded with her. " And it was by far the most vital rule of all." A look awe overtook the defenders.
"It was?" The Princess whispered and Venus nodded solemnly.
"Oh yes. It was the most important one. Everyone absolutely had to follow this rule above all else." She said seriously and even Mars shifted uneasily.
"What was it?" She asked and Venus kept her serious face on.
"Well, the number one rule…" Mercury leaned forward. "….that everyone followed….." Jupiter held her breath. "….was that no matter what…." Pluto raised an eyebrow. "….you absolutely had to…." Uranus widened her eyes. "….make sure that your dare…" Neptune leaned close to her lover. "…was one hundred percent…" Mars bit her lip as Venus looked into violet eyes with a smirk. "….Echii." She finished and for a moment, no one moved. No one even breathed and then…
"E….ech….echii?" Mercury stuttered out, flushing a deep red and Uranus laughed evilly, sending a lecherous smile Venus's way.
"Oh, I like that rule." Venus whimpered and Neptune thwacked her lover's shoulder again. Pluto just smirked.
"Well, we did ask." Neptune giggled and Jupiter had to fight to focus her suddenly very distracted brain. Would Ami faint if she asked an ecchi favor? What degree of ecchi could she get away with? Mercury just gaped at the blonde as Mars scoffed and crossed her arms.
"Yeah. We should have seen that coming." Sailor Moon shifted and turned to her frozen ice guardian.
"So, how do we use that one?" Mercury opened her mouth to speak, but as no sound came out Uranus snickered.
"Great job Venus. I think you broke her." Their leader sighed.
"I told you we couldn't use it." Jupiter broke her self out of the fantasy world she'd created and hesitantly tapped Mercury on her shoulder.
"Ah, Mercury? It's okay." The startled girl jumped half a foot at her touch, frightening Jupiter along with her. Sailor Moon just giggled as Mercury flushed red and the brunette held a hand to her heart.
"I say we use that one. Make it rule number one." Uranus chuckled and Pluto just leaned onto her staff again.
"And if young Mercury here were to tag out Neptune? Would you still want that rule to apply?" Neptune's jaw dropped and whipped her head around to stare at her housemate, a light flush across her cheeks. Pluto just gave her a semi-innocent shrug. Poor Mercury whimpered and froze up all over again as the tall blonde cocked her head to the side.
"You know, if not for that pesky no recording rule, I might not mind at all." She received more than a light thwack from her lover for that as Mercury buried her head in her hands again.
"Someone's got the couch tonight." Venus taunted, happily turning the teasing tables on the wind senshi. Neptune gave an affirmative nod to that and her lover sulked. Mars blew out a breath.
"So, just completely ignoring that rules existence then?" She asked, trying to get them all back on track. Venus pouted at her with playful eyes.
"Aw, is the fire-bug afraid of having to do something dirty for me?" Said fire-bug opened her mouth to reply but Jupiter interrupted with a smirk.
"More like, how afraid are you of having to do something dirty for Uranus?" The color drained from the love senshi's face as Mars and Uranus both chuckled at her expense. Taking pity on the ice senshi and her current shade of red, Pluto pushed them all forward.
"So, just the first three rules then?" She asked the resident referee and Mercury finally found her voice.
"Ah yes. Just the three then." Uranus shifted and figured that since she was already couched for the night, she might as well make the most of it.
"With the fourth rule listed as 'optional'." She added on and Mars just gave a light groan as Venus flashed an uncertain grin.
"Right. Yes. Um… optional." Mercury stated as firmly as she could. Jupiter smiled down at her and nudged the smaller girl lightly with her shoulder, giving her a reassuring smile when blue eyes met her own. Oh yes, she was going after Mercury today for sure.
"Okay people!" Venus interrupted, leaping into the middle of the semi-circle they'd formed and throwing out a 'V' sign. " The game is ON! Let's warm up and get on with it."