Aino Minako considered her life very fortunate. Not only had she survived death, she had a great group of friends and to top all that off, one of them was her girlfriend. Her very sexy, attractive, good looking, great personality, teddy bear at heart, girlfriend. Okay so maybe some people might disagree with the whole great personality, but Minako knew her better than anyone else. She had seen Rei on romantic dates together and had gotten gifts from her in private. Hell, Rei had let her move into the Shrine after deciding her life at home wasn't a life. Hino Rei was a gift from the gods.

As life tends to go however, life is never all good running. No one had complaints about them together. They tended to keep PDAs a no-go situation because of Rei's school life and trying to avoid her being kicked out given that they weren't too keen on girl on girl relationships. Hell they weren't keen on ANY relationship if Minako was being real. However, she was unaware of one stickler that would come around to get at her. To get what they wanted one way or another.

"A…dinner?" Minako blinked a few times at the man in front of her. Hino Takeshi, politician and father of Hino Rei, her girlfriend, was asking her to a dinner.

"Yes. To get to know you better. While I'm not in Rei's life much at all, I do keep tabs on her and who she is with. Since you're dating her, I figured this is a good opportunity to get to know you. Privately."

"I don't know…I don't think Rei would agree." Minako frowned at the idea. There had been many dinner invites for Rei that had always turned out to be nothing more than political cover ups to make it seem like he spent time with his daughter and they had a good relationship.

"A lunch then. Far shorter. Thirty minutes maximum. I have an open spot tomorrow and you can come while Rei is at archery practice."

"I…"

"Look…" He pulled a piece of paper out and wrote on it, passing it to her. "Should you decide to come, this is the place. Tell them you're with the Hino party. 1:30 PM. I look forward to seeing you, but I must go. I have an appointment to go to." Then he pulled out a second paper, folded up. "Here sign at the bottom so I can confirm you for going in case they question it." Without question, she signed her name at the bottom, and he left.

That left no room for any argument as he got in his car and left Minako with a single piece of paper in her hands. What harm could a thirty minute lunch do? Rei didn't have to know about it and it's not like him showing his political side with her did him any favors for him or his career. In fact, being with a random teen would prove to be rather strange and questionable.

"Well that solves lunch tomorrow…"

So found Minako in front of a smaller restaurant that was still high class. She had informed the host that she was there for a lunch with the Hino party and lead to a room in the back where the door was shut and Takeshi sat on one side of the table with his security guards flanking him. No cameras in sight. No reporters to note. The only suspicious thing was being in a single room, but being a politician could be crowding, she supposed. With that, she took her seat.

"I appreciate you joining me, Aino-san. Please. Have some water." He motioned to the glass in front of her. "I ordered some salads to start with until you're ready to order your lunch."

This seemed a little too…perfect. Hesitating, Minako drank from her glass nervously. Then took a second and third drink in the silence. "So uhm..what did you want to talk about?"

"Why that's rather simple." Suddenly the charade dropped and Takeshi was holding the same face Rei constantly had. He looked stoic and serious. "I want you to, put quite simply, quit dating my daughter."

"Excuse me?" That garnered every square inch of Minako's attention. "Who are you to decide what she or I do? You're not even part of her life."

"Her father, for one."

"You ditched her at a shrine! You could care less about her!"

"You're right, I really don't care. What I care about is you tarnishing my image. You think hiding public displays is keeping you two hidden?" He pulled out a folder and slapped it onto the table, opening it. Inside where many photos of her and Rei. Some were them leaned against each other, or Rei asleep in Minako's lap or vice versa. But one stood out of them kissing at the shrine.

"I..Are you stalking us? I'll call the police."

"Hardly. These are all media photos. I didn't even have to send someone scouring for evidence because you two are so stupid to do things in what you think are a private space. I'll also be clear that while your own parents hate you, they also disprove of this relationship."

Minako was floored by what was going on. The media had been watching them? Taking images? How long? What else existed out there?

"So today, you are going to willingly end this with her."

"Fuck you. I'm not ending anything." Minako glared at him and stood up, slamming her hand on the table, knocking the water over. Suddenly the room was moving.

"Well if you won't do it willingly, there's more than one way to handle the situation." Takeshi gathered the folder back up as Minako wobbled on her legs.

"What the…hell did you do?"

"All I did was provide you with water. It's what you do after that you should be worried about, Aino-san. It was nice talking to you, but I do have an actual lunch to attend to. My men will see to you. I would say don't worry, but well…"

"You asshole!" Minako tried to reach for him, but suddenly sank to the ground, watching him walk to the door, her ears filling with the sound of rushing water and her vision blacking out as the door closed.

I swear I love these characters 100%. But I got this idea totally from Trust and Playing with Fire (A GREAT fic by the way.)