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"Ok, so, what did you have in mind?" Yaten asked as she laid herself down on the bed, resting on her stomach. Making sure her bottom was covered by the yellow dress she was still wearing, she let her bare feet dance freely in the air as she rested her chin on her hands; lime green eyes looking up at her tall friend.
With a towel still around her head, and still wearing her white bathrobe, Taiki frowned as she stared at her opened wardrobe.
She had an hour to get ready.
The company that published her books was throwing a dinner party, and considering she was a well known writer, she hadn't been able to find a reasonable, plausible excuse not to go. And she normally had no problem with those kinds of events. But the fact that there was this new, rising author practically chasing her around every time they run into each other...
Not that the man was bad looking. Quite the opposite, actually. And he was charming, too. The rumors about him being quite the ladies' man was proof enough of that. And although she was more than smart enough not to trust every single gossip out there, her years of training and serving as her Princess' personal guard had served her right, and she was pretty good at reading people. And men that went flirting around with women they barely knew -with not so well hidden intentions...- were just not her type. And she certainly didn't appreciate being considered nothing but some man's next sex toy.
But she had to go to that dinner. And her editor being fascinated about this 'new star' of theirs, and her not so subtle hints on wanting Taiki to hook up with the man were just not making the entire event appealing to her at all.
She took a black, simple, ponte corset dress and put it over her frame, looking at the image the mirror gave back to her. She tilted her head to a side, frowning, as she studied herself.
"You don't wanna wear that one," came Seiya's voice, making her turn around to look at the black haired woman as she rested against the door frame.
"What's wrong with it?" Yaten asked, frowning. "I like it," she added, nodding her head and smiling in assurance towards the tall Light.
"Oh, it's really nice, alright," Seiya agreed, nodding her head as she made her way to the bed, sitting down on it and laying back, supporting herself with her elbows. "But if I go out with some girl, and she's wearing that," she pointed out, "I know she's thinking about the sheets."
"It's a business dinner," Taiki argued, blushing at the accusation. "I'm not 'going out' with anyone."
"I know," Seiya said, nodding her head. "But men tend to think with the wrong part of their bodies..."
"Oh, so you're a man?" Yaten asked, interrupting her, and smiling smugly at the black haired Light.
"And that dress just screams sex," Seiya continued, completely ignoring the silvery haired woman. "So, if you don't want to send the wrong message..."
"It's just a dress!" Taiki exclaimed, hands up in the air.
"Just a dress?" Seiya asked, taking the black fabric off Taiki's hands and inspecting it. "It's a tight, sexy little thing, with a bra like cleavage..." she trailed off. "I bet it's so tight, I can even guess what kind of underwear you have on. That is, if you're planning on wearing any, of course..."
"Seiya!" Taiki exclaimed again, getting redder by the second, as Yaten burst out laughing. "Sweet Stars! You really are a guy!"
"Hey!" the black haired woman exclaimed, offended. "I'm just saying..."
"Get out," the tall woman said, pointing at the door with one finger, and massaging her temples with the other hand. "Both of you, get out, now."
"Why me?" Yaten asked, frowning confused.
"I need to get change," the tall woman simply explained.
"So?" Seiya asked, as a sided smile came to her lips. "It's not like you have anything I haven't seen before..."
Cheeks burned brightly red at the comment, purple eyes going wide open. She blinked once before frowning, and she went to grab the black haired woman's arms, forcing her up. The only thing stopping her from actually kicking her out of her bedroom was the fact that she was completely naked underneath her robe, and risking flashing herself and giving Seiya yet another reason to teas her was just not in her agenda right now.
"Ok, ok! No need to get rude!" Yaten exclaimed as soon as Taiki turned around, glaring down at her. "I can get out by myself, see?" she said, standing up and walking out with an innocent smile upon her features.
And as soon as she was out in the hallway, right next to an openly laughing black haired woman, Taiki shut down her door right on their faces.
"I think she's just nervous," Yaten ventured, loud enough to let the woman on the other side of the door hear her. "She thinks we'll embarrass her with the dating rules..."
Blue eyes went wide opened at that; a teasing smile coming to Seiya's features as she all but glued her face to the closed door. "Someone's picking you up?" she asked, smiling widely. "That's so great! I'm so in the mood to do the lecture…"
An exasperated, rather loud growl reached them through the door, interrupting the black haired woman, and making her blink at the door, as a goofy, happy grin made it to her lips.
"Hey, Taiki, don't you think we should change number two?" she asked, faking a serious tone of voice, as she tapped her chin with one hand in a thoughtful manner. "I mean, it's kind of old fashioned... and we're all breaking it all the time, anyway, right?"
"You mean, you are breaking it all the time," Yaten corrected her, arching an eyebrow, questioningly.
Blue eyes blinked at her; a soft, pink blush coming to the black haired woman's cheeks, as a sheepish smile came to her lips, and she shook her shoulders. "Maybe..." she admitted. "But just a little bit," she then added, raising her hand and gesturing.
The petite woman rolled her lime green eyes at her, turning around and making her way to the kitchen. With one black haired woman hot on her heels.
"Oh, come on!" she exclaimed. "It is old fashioned! I mean, ok, I'd be fine with it if we were like... I don't know... fifteen?" she asked, rhetorically. "'Cause, you know, fifteen year old are so not supposed to be having grown up fun time..."
"Is this the part where you're supposed to say something like, you're only made of flesh, and your body has needs?" Yaten asked, arching a disproving, questioning eyebrow at her friend. And when her only answer to that one was a sheepish grin and a stupid, almost childish giggle, she rolled her eyes at the black Light. "Forget it, Seiya, the rules stay as they are," she said, firmly. "The only reason they exist in the first place, is to make sure I keep on being blissfully unaware of your daily conquests..."
"Daily?" Seiya interrupted her; a smug, amused smile coming to her lips. "Boy, you really have me on high standards, don't you?"
"And whatever it is that you do with those bimbos of yours," the silvery haired woman continued, slightly raising her voice in order to try and keep herself from actually answering that last comment. "I rather have you walking in every morning wearing the same outfit as the night before, than having a parade of strange girls coming and going out of my apartment."
"You mean our apartment," the black haired woman corrected her. "And it's not every single morning..." she then trailed off, her smile widening when the petite woman stared at her. "And if you absolutely have to know, I didn't have sex last night."
"Like I care," Yaten grunted, turning around and pouring water on the kettle.
"Well, you seem to be pretty interested," Seiya argued, leaning against the counter and crossing her arms over her chest. "Bringing the subject up all the time..."
"As if!"
"I ran into Ami last night."
At that, Yaten turned around abruptly to look at her leader. Lime green eyes wide open, her jaw practically hitting the floor.
Along with the kettle.
"Oh my God!" she practically yelled.
Seiya laughed at the reaction, shaking her head. "Would you hear me out?"
"No!" the petite woman exclaimed. "I really don't want to know!"
"Do you really think I'd do something as stupid as sleeping with her? Or any of them, for that matter?" Seiya asked, now frowning in a somewhat offended manner when the only answer she got was one perfect silvery eyebrow, going up. But she shook her head, deciding on a different approach. "Have you ever seen Ami completely wasted?" she asked.
Yaten blinked at her. "No," she answered, admittedly.
"Neither have I," Seiya said, smiling now. "Up until last night. And let me tell you, for such a small, usually quiet girl, she sure knows how to be a handful," she said, chuckling at the memory. "Getting three tequila shots down her throat in record time, dancing in the counter, and flirting with pretty much every single guy there... I swear, she put Minako's tricks to shame last night."
Again, Yaten blinked at her, now tilting her head to a side and frowning. "Ami," she pointed, incredulous.
"Yeah," the black haired woman said, nodding her head. Blue eyes wide opened just to make her point clear. "You know, blue hair, blue eyes, kinda short but really cute, goes to med school..."
"Ami?" Yaten asked again, now crossing her arms over her chest. "And what the hell was Ami doing, getting wasted like that? It's so not like her..."
"Well, apparently, she got her very first B ever," Seiya explained, repeating the explanation she'd got last night. "And she was pretty down, so the girls decided the best way for her to get over it was going out and getting drunk."
"That was Minako's idea, wasn't it?" Yaten asked, amused now.
"Didn't really go that far into details..." Seiya said, smiling, as she remembered exactly how she'd found the petite genius dancing like a sex goddess on fire, right in the middle of the dance floor, shamelessly flirting with all the men around her.
And as the black haired woman tried to save her from the vultures, Ami had simply laughed at her, practically dragging the Light to the bar and waving for tequila shots. To then promptly lift herself up on the counter, getting extremely close to do a pole dance for the whistling, clapping, obviously turned on, and completely male audience...
But, luckily for her -and for Ami's future conscious-, Seiya had also run into one tall brunette, green eyed young woman last night. With an embarrassed, but still amused smile, Makoto had admitted having no idea where Rei had disappeared into, and she could only guess both Minako and Usagi had run off to their boyfriends. Leaving the two of them to save one petite blue haired, completely drunk genius from any further future embarrassment, dragging her off the counter, out the night club and into Makoto's car, where Ami had made a human ball out of herself to then fall deeply asleep.
"So after we put her in bed, Makoto offered to make some late dinner," Seiya said, smiling. "And you know whatever she makes in the kitchen is the best thing in the world... Right after sex," she joked, chuckling when Yaten rolled her eyes at her. "And then I kind of crashed in there, 'cause, you know, I was kinda tired and didn't really feel like making the way back home..."
The Inner Senshi had all moved in together into a nice, spacious apartment they all shared. But Usagi had soon moved out, going to live with her boyfriend, now fiancé. So that left one empty room they used as a guest room.
And being really tired after a night of dancing and clubbing, and then rescuing the drunken genius, Seiya hadn't really felt like asking Makoto to drive her back to her own apartment. And she never really felt at ease calling a cab at such a late hour. She was strong, and more than perfectly able to defend herself, but that didn't mean she was careless. Cocky? Yes. Stupid? Not so much... and she knew there were all kinds of creeps and perverts milling around at night...
So, taking advantage of the Inners' guest room, Seiya had been more than happy to claim that nice, comfy bed with equally comfy, puffy pillows for herself for one night.
"I can't believe Ami would get drunk like that..." Yaten mumbled, tilting her head to a side.
"Ami got drunk?" came Taiki's voice, making the both of them turn around and look at the tall brunette as she just entered the kitchen and was now frowning at them, obviously as surprised as the petite silvery haired woman upon the new information on one particular blue haired genius. "How did that happen?"
A rather loud whistle filled the kitchen then, making Taiki blush, as Seiya walked up to her, with a sided, teasing, goofy smile playing on her lips. "Nice!" she said, nodding her head approvingly, while taking the tall brunette's hand. "A little turn?"
Taiki blushed like a true tomato at that, but silently obliged, making a small, slow spin for her fellow Senshi to appreciate her choice of clothing. Her tall, perfectly shaped frame was wrapped around a fitting, black, knee length dress with a cowl neck up front, suggesting her generous breasts in an elegant, subtle way, and then an open back, with a small tie around the back of her neck to keep the material from falling off her shoulders.
"So what do you think?" Taiki asked, as her hands went to rearranged the skirt of her dress.
"I like it!" Seiya said, smiling. "So you went for a thong here, uh?"
"Shut up, I wasn't talking to you," Taiki said, rolling her eyes, and not fully able to fight her blush at Seiya's never ending teasing words, before looking at the petite woman. "So? Too much? Too simple? What?"
"You look really good," Yaten said, smiling approvingly at her tall friend. "When did you get that dress?" she then asked, curiously.
"A while ago," Taiki answered. "Never really got around to actually wear it," she then added, now rearranging the material over her breasts. "I don't really like walking around without a bra..." she mumbled, frowning.
"Why?" Seiya asked, as her trademark sided, teasing smile came to her lips again. "Makes all the attention go there, as the girls dance and bump around!" she exclaimed, arching her back and puffing her breasts out in an exaggerated manner, as she started circling around the tall woman. "Hello, have we met? Do you come here often?" she joked, throwing out pick-up lines randomly.
"And that," Taiki said, pointing at Seiya's silly acting frame, "is exactly what I'm trying to avoid here."
"But why?" Seiya asked, almost whining now. "Fooling around a little never killed anyone," she pointed out. "And I seriously think you really need to get laid."
"That's none of your business!" Taiki exclaimed, blushing yet again. "And stop shoving your boobs at me!" she then added, when Seiya wouldn't stop puffing her chest out and against her.
"Those are not my eyes, honey," the black haired woman said, obviously amused. "But it's ok. I'm hot, I know."
"Get over yourself" Yaten growled, rolling her eyes. "You sure those are real and not the work of some talented surgeon?" she then asked, mockingly. "'Cause I'm starting to have my doubts here... maybe there's something hidden in between your legs..." she taunted.
Blue eyes blinked at her for a moment, before a frown came to Seiya's features. "I do not have nor want a dick between my legs, in any possible way, thank you very much," she said, rolling her eyes. "And I certainly don't need one" she then added, smiling now. "It's all about knowing how to treat a lady..."
"The incredibly overlarge size of your ego never ceases to amaze me," Taiki commented, shaking her head and rolling her eyes.
"And I have never received any complaints about my performance," Seiya continued, completely ignoring Taiki's words, as she looked at the petite silvery haired woman; a cocky smile playing on her lips.
Yaten arched an eyebrow at her, crossing her arms over her chest. "So? Maybe you just had it removed or something," she continued, now elaborating her new-found theory. "They can do that now a days... You know, off it goes, in come the boobs..." she trailed off, frowning lightly when Seiya's only reaction was her smile getting wider.
"Wanna see for yourself?" the black haired woman asked, lifting the helm of her black tee just a little over her flat stomach before Yaten's hands stopped her movements.
"Get a room, you two," came Taiki's comment, as she simply turned around to make her way out of the kitchen, leaving the two to their own argument.
"Taiki!" Yaten exclaimed, horrified. Lime green eyes wide open, and cheeks burning red.
"Just... don't use mine, ok?" the tall brunette added, completely ignoring the two. "And no common areas, either!"
"It's ok, my sweet little elf," Seiya said, in a deliberately low, sensual voice. "My bed is just perfect..."
"Shut up!" Yaten finally exclaimed, hitting Seiya's hands with hers and stepping away from her. "Go flash yourself somewhere else!"
"Oh, but I thought you wanted me to..."
A loud growl interrupted the black haired woman before she could even finish her sentence, and she laughed, making her way out of the kitchen, fast.
No, she was not stupid. And that also meant she knew when to get away from one angry little silvery haired elf.
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A.N.: ok, so, I have a very specific idea of where I'm going with this story. And this is the picture I have of Seiya when writing "Shattered hearts" (and therefor, this story as well):
florlolasmfanart . blogspot dot com / 2010 / 09 / pin-up-seiya dot html
You know, that "I'm so hot and I know it" attitude kind of goes with her... imo...