Disclaimer: I do not own Sailormoon or the songs used in this story.

A/N: Hi guys! :D Thanks for bearing with the mushiness of the first chapter and now on with the drama… Before I forget…

Da Pyro's Love – thanks for the review! And I have a surprise for you at the end of the chapter! Hope you'd like it. :D

Honulicious – Erm… me, a mushy person? *blush* Let's just keep that a secret, it doesn't suit my badass façade I got going… Ha-ha. ^^

ReaderMarz – thanks for the review! Hopefully I'll finish the story this month… ^^ Oh and thanks for liking how I interpreted the first part of the song, I really appreciate it!

PeaPrince – thanks for the review and the wonderful message you sent me! *hug*

Also, thanks to – Vaan the Elf and Mayenne for the story alert thingy… :D

Oh and I just noticed that I wrote the first chapter mostly on Rei's POV so I decided to go through with that although some scenes may require others to tell their side just to connect what's happening. Just wanted to inform you guys… ^^

And on with the drama…


Tell me did you sail across the sun
Did you make it to the milky way to see the lights all faded
And that heaven is overrated

But tell me, did you fall for a shooting star
One without a permanent scar
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there


Rei tried to shift on her side and groaned when she felt something heavy was lying on her stomach. The miko felt someone breathing on her neck and the familiar smell invaded her senses, again. She slowly opened her eyes, willing the gods to make it reality that her angel was indeed sleeping soundly with her and not just another dream that she had been having for the past couple of years. Finally seeing Minako on her side, the arm of the blonde laying haphazardly on Rei's stomach while her head was nestled on the crook of Rei's neck made the miko smile. Rei brushed a loose hair away from Minako's face and the blonde smiled, saying something incoherent and nuzzling impossibly closer to Rei. The miko draped her arm around Minako and then kissed her forehead. Rei sighed and tried to sleep again.

Several minutes later, Rei woke as she felt someone was staring at her.

"Stop staring at me, it's creepy," Rei groaned and shifted to her side.

"I am not staring. I'm just…" Minako answered but was cut off when she couldn't find the right word for what she was thinking.

"Staring," Rei finished the sentence for Minako.

"Am not!" Minako pouted but spooned behind the miko and nuzzled Rei's hair. "You still smell the same," the blonde sighed and inhaled the sweet natural scent of the miko.

"Eeeewww! Did you just sniff me? Okay now that is really creepy and the fact I haven't showered yet is just… yuck," Rei chuckled and shifted so that she was now facing the pop star.

Both of them blushed as they faced each other. Rei kept looking at Minako's lips and unconsciously gritted her teeth while Minako blushed as she saw the miko's eyes linger on her lips and she unconsciously bit her bottom lip in the process.

"Stop gritting your teeth."

"Stop biting you lip."

They simultaneously said.

Rei cocked her head on her side while Minako arched an eyebrow.

"You do that when your unconsciously restraining yourself on doing something you think will get in you in trouble," Minako said and nuzzled Rei's neck again.

"I do not!" Rei protested as she pulled away from Minako. The miko gritted her teeth again as she saw Minako biting her lip, suppressing a smile.

"Why are you controlling yourself? It's only me," Minako answered and clutched the miko's shirt. When Rei suddenly averted her eyes from Minako, the blonde knew she said something that the miko didn't want to discuss so she decided to change the subject.

Minako saw the shirt Rei was wearing and decided to talk about it instead. "Hey this is my shirt!" the blonde exclaimed, tightening her grip on the said shirt.

"Wha… Oh no no no Aino Minako! This is my shirt! You ruined yours when you accidentally put some bleach while washing it," Rei feigned anger but her lips were curling into a smile as she gently pushed Minako away from her.

Minako pouted.

"No, Minako."

Minako pouted and looked at Rei with puppy dog eyes.

"I said no. So no!" Rei sat; her arms crossed on her chest and looked away at Minako.

The blonde sat also and was still pouting. She gave the best puppy dog eyes she could muster and moved her lips a little bit to make it look she was about to cry.

Rei peeked with one eye on what Minako was doing.

'Not that look!' Rei thought and looked away again then she heard sniffing from the blonde.

'Damnit! The things you do to me, woman!' Rei internally groaned.

The sniffing grew a bit louder.

"Fine Monster! You could have it. Ugh!" Rei let out an exasperated sigh and took off the shirt and handed it to Minako. The miko didn't even notice that she called Minako with the nickname she gave when they were little.

"Yey! Thank yo…" Minako couldn't help but blush when she saw a half naked miko standing up from the bed and slumping dejectedly as she made her way to bag near the study table across the bed.

"We better go to my apartment soon so I could cook you breakfast then we could clean up and head to the restaurant," Rei said while her back was facing Minako. She was searching for something to wear while Minako ogled her from the bed. "Minako?" the miko inquired when didn't get a response.

"Oh… sure," Minako blushed. The pop star went off the bed and lifted her shirt up so she can change to the shirt that Rei was wearing earlier.

The moment that the blonde lifted her shirt, Rei whipped around to talk to the blonde. The miko was frozen in place as she saw the pop star undressing in slow motion. Minako's hair slowly cascaded back as the blonde pulled the shirt over head and whipped her hair around after.

"You… you got abs… like sexy… abs…" Rei unconsciously ogled Minako's body. In turn, the blonde rested her hand on her hip and arched an eyebrow at Rei while still being half naked. The miko's gaze went up to the blonde's face and she blushed when she saw the pop star smirk while arching an eyebrow.

"Oh shit. I said that out loud didn't I?" Rei's eyes went wide as the blonde nodded and a shit eating grin spread across her face.

"Well how can I not drool when I see…" Rei pointed at Minako's abs, "that!" she finished. "I mean… it's not like… you know… like… I like it like it… it's not that I dislike it or anything… what in hell am I saying?" the miko blushed and facepalmed.

"I always had abs before, Rei," Minako chuckled at Rei's look. The miko was still ogling Minako.

"But you're tan and… and… more toned," the miko flailed her arms up and down towards Minako's body which earned her a giggle. "Well it's true!" the miko shouted and blushed.

"I do dance and work out a lot and I get to go to beaches. You know I played a lot of volleyball during highschool too but I never thought you noticed my abs before, Rei-kuma," Minako smirked at Rei.

"Of course I noticed!" Rei almost shouted, flailing her arms in the air. Minako made an amused smile and arched an eyebrow.

"Shit! That didn't come out right. I mean… I… I wasn't peeking when we had sleep overs… I'm not a pervert… It's just that…"

"Just what?"

"I caught you changing shirts sometimes! Accidentally caught you changing! It's not like I planned it and besides how can you not notice that?" Rei's blush can compete with a ripe tomato right about now as she pointed at Minako's abs.

"Hmmm… I always thought you were a "boob" kind of girl," Minako tapped her index finger on her lips while batting her eyelashes.

"Am not! I like everything!" Rei shouted.

"Everything? So that's why when we went to the beach you can't hardly concentrate when girls with really great boobs were talking to you," giggle Minako.

"Just shut up, Monster," Rei actually huffed, pouted and turned her back at her bestfriend.

"Oh I haven't told you! Once I got to shoot in a beach in Greece and there were like a lot of beautiful people out there! Like a lot. They looked like gods and goddesses…" Minako began to ramble and her eyes seemed to be glazed over.

"Really?" Rei tried to hide the sadness in her voice and it seemed to work because Minako continued her rambling. The miko sat on the bed and began playing with hem of her shirt.

"Yeah! They were like all tan and muscular and very very hot. Like sizzling hot. I ended up staying there for like a month after the shoot because I soooo love it there! And I met some wonderful people out there so we partied almost every night but it became boring so I left," Minako clasped her hands and jumped and giggled while telling the story.

"I hate to break you out of your trance but we really have to get going," Rei said as she got uncomfortable. 'It's not like I don't want to hear her stories or anything. It's getting late and we have to meet the group later.' Rei thought that her being suddenly rude and interrupting Minako had a justified cause.

"Oh yeah. Sorry, I got carried away," Minako answered as she put on her shirt.

When they arrived at Rei's apartment, the miko made some breakfast while Minako took a shower. The blonde borrowed some of the miko's clothes since the blonde said that she decided not to bring anything since she can just buy stuff once she got to Japan. Unfortunately, the blonde insisted on wearing Rei's clothes rather than buying since they were more "comfortable." Rei decided to stay in the living room to wait for Minako to dress up before taking some clothes and showering herself. Once she got out of her room, she saw Minako browsing on the old photos that were displayed on a corner table.

"Hey, are you ready?" the miko asked as she walked towards the blonde.

Minako was caught off guard and abruptly placed the old photo that she was looking at back at the table. "Yep," Minako smiled and walked passed Rei towards the door. The miko shrugged it off and followed the blonde out of her apartment.

The pair walked side by side from the apartment towards the restaurant. The miko gave the blonde a cap, made her wear her hair into a pony tail and gave her the aviator glasses to wear. Rei was getting restless, thinking that someone might recognize the pop star but fortunately, Minako blended well with the crowd and the cap did help a lot. Makoto and Rei purposely closed the restaurant to accommodate her friends and so that there will be no disruptions for the group. A few uncomfortable minutes for Rei later, they arrived at the restaurant.

"Minako!" Usagi jumped on her friend as soon Rei and her went in the restaurant.

"Usa! I thought I told you not to jump on Minako!" Mamoru slightly scolded her girlfriend after face palming himself which earned a giggle from Michiru, Ami and Setsuna while Rei, Makoto, Haruka and Hotaru chuckled.

"What? I'm just excited to see her again!" Usagi answered her boyfriend while still clinging to Minako by her neck.

"It's okay, Mamo-kun," Minako softly smiled and hugged Usagi also. After a couple of seconds, Minako said, "You can let me go now, Usa."

"Oh! Sorry…" Usagi sheepishly answered and let go of her friend. The other friends except Rei came and hugged the pop star.

Rei smiled as she saw her friends giggle and make chit chats with Minako. She did miss seeing her friends together and complete like this. The miko's thoughts were interrupted when Minako softly brushed Rei's shoulder and whispered, "The others are already walking to our table, and we should too." Rei blushed and nodded her head at Minako and before the miko registered what she was doing, she got hold of the blonde's hand and interlaced their fingers together. Rei looked at Minako seemingly asking if it was okay to hold her hand like that and Minako gave a squeeze and a smile indicating it was more than alright.

Everyone were chatting and laughing when the pair got to the table. Makoto was serving and everyone were seated. Rei pulled a chair for Minako and let the blonde sit and pushed the chair softly once the pop star had seated. Minako smiled at Rei before talking to the others and Makoto chuckled as she saw the miko blush a bit.

Hotaru was seating next to Rei's chair when the miko turned her head and saw the child looking at her intently. Rei arched an eyebrow at Hotaru and the child looked at her and Minako a couple of times.

"What?" Rei whispered to the child while arching an eyebrow.

"You're different today Uncle Rei," Hotaru narrowed her eyes at Rei.

"Huh?"

"I said, you seemed different, Uncle Rei," this time Hotaru smiled.

Everybody around the room went quiet and looked at Rei. Even Minako seemed to be interested on what the child had said.

"Ummm… Hey! How many times do I have to tell you not to call me uncle," Rei flailed her arms around hoping to change the subject.

"But I can't call you "aunt". It's weird and I call her," Hotaru pointed at Makoto and continued, "Uncle Mako and she doesn't mind at all." Makoto winked at the child and smiled.

"Fine," Rei huffed and narrowed her eyes on the child and Hotaru gave her "uncle" a smug grin. "You are, no doubt, the child of Haruka Tenoh," Rei whispered but Haruka, Hotaru and Minako, the ones closest to her on the sitting arrangement, heard her.

"Yes she is!" Haruka proudly answered and wrapped her arm around the child. They both gave Rei the same smug grin. Minako giggled and Rei sighed.

"You know what, I think I'll get some wine from the cellar," Rei offered to Makoto as the brunette was still serving the group. The miko excused herself and went to the small cellar located at the basement of the restaurant.

"What to get? What to get?" Rei talked to herself as she paced around the wine cellar. After a couple of minutes of choosing from different bottles, she finally decided to get one red and white wine bottle from the selection. Proud of herself for choosing the best wine they could offer, she went up the stairs and slowly walked to the dining room where the others were happily listening to a story from Minako.

As she neared the group, she heard Usagi ask, "So that's where you met him?"

"Met who?" Rei asked as she searched for the wine bottle opener.

"Yaten," Minako answered without looking at Rei. The blonde waved her hand dismissively as if Rei interrupted a very important story.

"Oh," was the only reaction that Rei said as the cork of the wine made an audible pop.

Everybody went quiet as Minako became wide eyed from the realization. Even Hotaru seemed sad as she looked at her "uncle" trying to be calm and unaffected of one name.

"Who wants red and who wants white?" Rei gave a fake smile.

"Red please," Ami answered, hoping to dismiss the sudden tension in the room.

Rei went to Ami and poured her a glass of red wine and whispered "thanks" to her friend who just nodded.

"Please continue your story," Rei acted like she wasn't affected with the story as she moved around the table to pour wine for everybody. As she reached Hotaru, the miko said, "Here you go," and poured grape juice on the kid's glass. Michiru gave her a soft smile of understanding and Rei smiled in return.

Minako faked a cough and hesitantly continued, "Yeah, that's were a met him. He seemed nice and serious at first but when I got to know him a bit more, he was totally clumsy and funny and everything." Rei stoically poured some white wine on Minako's glass and she sat down. "After a month or so, he went to one of my rehearsals, waited for like an hour or two just to ask me out. He even bought me huge bouquet of roses. I said yes and the rest was history."

"When was this?" asked Rei while chewing a mouthful of salad. The miko knew manners. She just thought that maybe she should ask while her mouth was full to mask the bitterness in her voice.

"Ummm… maybe a couple of months after I went to England," Minako shifted nervously on her seat.

"So who wants seconds?" Makoto suddenly stood up and asked the group. "Me!" Haruka almost shouted her reply and propped her hand up. "Okay then! I'll get the food!" Makoto answered, too happy perhaps, and bounded to the kitchen. "I'll help Mako. Please excuse me," Michiru said, wipes her lips with the table napkin and went to the kitchen to help the brunette.

"Hey, eat your vegetables," Rei teased Hotaru and the child replies, "Yuck!"

Ami arched an eyebrow at Hotaru and the child shoved a forkful of vegetables in her mouth in return. The rest of the group chuckled as Hotaru mumbled something incoherent as she chewed.

"Will you please excuse me, I think I will help Mako and Michi as well," Rei stood and walked to the kitchen.

Several seconds later, she went inside the kitchen finding Makoto and Michiru arranging some food on the serving plates. Makoto and Michiru looked at each other and then looked at Rei.

"Need any help?" Rei asked as she stood at the other side of the counter.

"Help me with these while Mako serves the other food," Michiru gestured at the pot full of soup. With that, Makoto went out to serve their friends again.

Rei went over to the stove where the pot is and started putting some on the bowl.

"So how are you holding up?"

Rei just shrugged at her friend's question.

"That bad huh?"

Rei just snorted.

"You know what, take a breather. Ami will come by to help me with these anyway," Michiru softly smiled and continued to toss the salad.

"Thanks," mumbled Rei. But before she could get outside, she patted her pockets a couple of times and sighed.

"Looking for this? Mako made me get this in your office," Ami asked Rei as she held out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter.

"Thanks, Ami," Rei walked towards her friend and grabbed the cigarettes and lighter. "You're not mad that I'm smoking?" asked Rei as she tapped a stick out of the pack.

"You know I dislike cigarettes but…" Ami sighed and continued, "Just don't smoke where I can smell it, okay?" The doctor softly smiled at Rei. "Now go before I get that pack and run it under the faucet. We'll take care of the rest," Ami winked at Rei.

The miko smiled and hurriedly went out the restaurant through the back door. She went again in the alley and lit her cigarette. The miko leaned on the wall and puffed several smokes when she noticed Haruka and Mamoru walking over. The racer leaned also on the wall and got her pack of cigarettes, giving one to Mamoru.

"Got a lighter?" Mamoru asked. Rei handed him the lighter and handed Haruka her cigarette so that they simultaneously light up their cigarettes. "Nice zippo," Mamoru inspected the blood red zippo of Rei while Haruka handed the cigarette back to the miko.

"Thanks. I got it three years ago," Rei said as she took the lighter from Mamoru and pocketed the thing. "Usa might get angry when she see's you smoking," the miko said after she puffed.

"Nah. I asked her before we went over here and she said okay so I'm smoking," Mamoru smiled.

"So…" Haruka tried to start the conversation.

"Don't, Ruka. Please," pleaded Rei.

"We can't ignore it, Rei. You're beginning to shut down again," Ruka answered sadly but straight to the point and Mamoru nodded.

"I'm not. I swear," Rei puffed another one and threw the cigarette on the floor and squashed it with her shoe.

"You're beginning to shut down. Believe us," Mamoru stood in front of Rei.

A moment of silence went by when Rei finally spoke, "Just give me time to adjust, okay? I don't want to talk about it now."

"We did that in the past, remember? And you know what happened," Haruka flicked her cigarette, trying to retain her composure.

"At least tell us what you're feeling. Come on Rei, we can't just sit around and watch you shut down again like the last time. We are your friends and friends help each other," Mamoru tried to talk some sense to Rei as she lit up another cigarette.

"We don't want a friend who's a "walking zombie"," Haruka added.

"Fine," huffed Rei and continued, "It's just I'm confused, why is she here? I mean I know she has a concert but that's like a month away and she went to me first without notice like the past didn't happen. And now I'm pissed off because all of the feelings that I learned to bury is now resurfacing fast and hard. Now she talks about the guy who finally got her heart and a guy without issues and she's happy and stuff with everything that is happening to her and she tells the stories while I'm there! I know I'm always serious and I'm not perky or sunshine and rainbows but I have feelings to!" The miko's hands were beginning to shake and she dropped her cigarette in the middle of her speech to calm down her nerves.

The two friends knew better that they shouldn't hug the miko because if they hugged Rei, the tears will follow and they don't want Minako to question the miko on why she was crying even though the blonde knew the answer already. The two knew that Rei needed some time to herself to think and they decided to give it to their friend.

"You know what, go home, take a long bubble bath or something and we'll just make up some excuse to the others on why you didn't return," Haruka said and Mamoru continued, "Besides Mako said that she'll do all the work for tomorrow and Ami's helping her so go home."

"But Minako will surely ask questions."

"Then let her. It's about damn time that she knew what you went through," Mamoru answered.

"Just leave it to us and I'm pretty sure Usagi will keep her occupied for the rest of the day and don't worry, I'll tell her to stay with us for tonight," Haruka added.

"Thanks guys. I'm sorry…" Rei was cut off with Mamoru saying, "We understand, Rei. Don't you dare say sorry again."

"Okay but if you need anything just call me," Rei softly smiled.

"Yeah yeah," Haruka answered and pushed Rei outside the alley. "Go home," Haruka said and smiled.

"I'm going!" Rei smiled and started to walk towards her apartment. After a few steps, she turned around and waved good bye to her friends who also waved in return.


A/N: Sorry for the super late posting of this chapter, life and work became super hectic and I couldn't find the time to write and edit the chapter. I don't know when I'd be able to write the next two or three chapters but I swear I will continue this story once I get another free time. ^^

Oh and here is Da Pyro's Love's surprise –

*drum roll*

My very first omake dedicated to Da Pyro's Love. ^^ Hope you'd like it!

chakeroo: *whistling while surfing for some photos of Jessica Capshaw and Sasha Alexander*

Usagi: That one is nice. *points at a picture on the laptop screen*

chakeroo: I don't like that one, I think this is better. *changes the pic*

Usagi: That is better! She's soooo sexy.

chakeroo: *archs an eyebrow at Usagi* Are you sure your straight?

DPL: *walks inside the room" Whatcha doin'?

Usagi: Just looking for some nice photos of chakeroo's crushes. Oooh! That one is nice! *points at the screen*

DPL: Are you sure your straight?

Usagi: Last time I checked, which was last night, I am one.

DPL and chakeroo: Eeeewww! Don't go into details!

*Usagi's phone beeps*

Usagi: *reads text* Oh my god! Rei's upset that Minako will have a concert here!

DPL: What? Hey! Stop drooling on the pictures! *slaps the back of the head if chakeroo*

chakeroo: I was not! *wipes mouth*

Usagi: I have to call Rei! *dials Rei's number*

DPL: *archs an eyebrow at Usagi* Why is she here anyway? *points at Usagi*

chakeroo: Everybody is doing something productive…

DPL: Like surfing the net for Jessica and Sasha's pictures?

chakeroo: *glares at DPL* As I was saying, everybody is busy so she decided to come here and hang out with me. Without her telling me first.

DPL: Sounds like her.

Usagi: Pick up the phone, Pyro!

DPL: Don't bother her Usa, she might be doing something impor… Will you stop drooling over the computer! *throws a pillow on chakeroo but to no avail* You are such a pervert!

Usagi: Rei? Are you alright? Where are you? Makoto mentioned something earlier when she texted me. Oh my god, did something happen? You're not answering my questions Rei! Answer me! Come over now, we're at chakeroo's place…

DPL: *facepalms*

Usagi: Who's there? Minako? Are you sure it's her? You're joking right? *starts to jump and becomes wide eyed* OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD! MINAKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

DPL: Aren't you hearing any of these? *covers ears as Usagi squeels*

chakeroo: Nice! *eyes glued to the screen*

Usagi: Minako? Is that really you? Why didn't you call me first! I would have fetched you at the airport! I thought I was your twin…

DPL: *mumbles* I think my ears are bleeding and she's completely oblivious to what's going on. *rolls eyes* *Usagi shuts up* Finally!

Usagi: Can we have dinner? Come over? You know? Please please please! Okay, give us one hour! Bye! *hangs up the phone* Oh my god oh my god Oh my god… *jumps around squeeling*

DPL gets a pillow and smacks Usagi right in the face. Usagi stops jumping and squeeling and glared at a chuckling DPL.

Usagi: You are soooo gonna get it! *gets pillow*

DPL: Bring it on, odango head! *gets another pillow*

Pillow fight ensues.

chakeroo: let's go to the other room these two are so noisy. I can't concentrate on Sasha and Jessica!

END.

*** Was the omake too long? Haha… sorry! ^^