"You!"
That odango-head! She did mix up the stones!
"I could say the same thing!" Nephrite asked, his eyes blinking owlishly at Rei. "I was expecting Makoto!"
"Yeah, well, I was expecting Jadeite and... Wait a minute! What do you mean you were expecting Makoto?!" Rei practically shrieked.
"Yes, well..." Nephrite shrugged. "The princess kinda told us you would summon us! You..."
That odango-head! She actually told them we'd summon them! Rei slapped her forehead at the thought.
"... I was expecting my thunder goddess, but not you!"
"Didn't see you in the stars, did you?" Rei asked him sarcastically, poking fun at Nephrite's tendency to consult the constellations for answers.
"Hello? I was in a stone. It's not like I could the sky from there," Nephrite asked sarcastically. "How come you didn't consult the fires?" It was his turn to tweak Rei's nose, and tweak he did. Rei's eyes narrowed and her cheeks reddened. No one, and she meant no one, had any right to mess with her fire readings. "You... You... You!" Rei shrieked, her voice rising several decibels.
"Jadeite was right. You do have a temper!"
"I do not have a..." Rei started screaming, and then her eyes narrowed even more. "Jadeite said that?" Her voice was almost a whisper.
Nephrite gulped. He knew what that look meant, and if he didn't talk fast, either he or his friend would end up being fried to a crisp. "Well, you know Jadeite. He always talks about a lot of stuff. Heh."
"Like what?" If possible, Rei's voice was even more menacing.
"Well, you know. Rei this, Rei that. Mars said this, Mars told me that. All he talked about was you! By the end of the day, we were practically sick of hearing your name," Nephrite was literally babbling, not really caring what he said, as he looked in fear of Rei's clenched fists. He had been hit by her back in the Silver Millennium, and he swore the mark of her palm was still there. "We knew what your favorites were, color, food, flower. Heck, he even told us about the time when you were training and there was this tree in front of you, but you were so busy talking with him that you didn't see and..."
"He said what?!"
"Er, heh?"
"JADEITE TOLD YOU ABOUT THAT?!"
"Well, he might have mentioned something about you and a close encounter with an oak tree in the garden," Nephrite said feebly, edging closer to the table where his stone was. True enough, Rei shrieked, and he narrowly escaped being extra crispy by hiding in his stone. Even so, the smell of burnt hair floated in the air.