Here's the third chapter for ya'll, and if you haven't already noticed this is a Seiya bashing fic, so no flames please from Seiya fans.

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Chapter 3

~*~In the Star's kitchen~*~

Lita was cooking up a storm. Sure, she had to chase out everyone from the kitchen in order to do so, but they would have only got in her way if they stayed. She had found the pantry to be very well stocked so she was happily making a large breakfast. Humming away at the cooker, spatula in hand, pancakes on the go, it was all a happy dream for Lita.

A pink-haired child popped her head through the doorway and took a covert look around the room. She noticed that Lita's back was towards them and then turned around to the other three girls that were there, as Ami opted to sit this one out, and gave them a nod of the head. The other girls nodded in reply and the four of them sneaked into the room, Mission Impossible theme playing though their heads.

Crawling on the floor, the girls made it to the round table in front of them. On the other side of the table was Lita at the cooker, still humming away, oblivious to the intruders in her domain. They peaked their heads over the table to check that the coast was still clear. Serena and Rini went for a pancake each, Rei went for the sausages and Mina went for the toast. Just as their hands almost reached their prizes, Lita turned around.

"WHAT are you doing?" she angrily yelled as she pointed the spatula towards the intruders.

They all looked up startled, like rabbits in the headlights of oncoming traffic.

"We… uh… You see…" Serena stuttered out.

"I told you to stay out the kitchen." Lita ground out, glaring at them.

The girls stood up from their crouching positions and backed away from the table. "We're sorry." they said in unison as they bowed their heads in shame.

"You'd better be" Lita said as she waggled the spatula threateningly at them.

At this action, Serena and Rini gave a yelp each. Serena hid behind Rei whereas Rini hid behind Mina. They both peered around their human shields with identical looks of terror on their faces. It's the spatula of doom, ran through Rini's mind while her mother-to-be had a similar thought which consisted of, oh no, we're dead; the spatula will kill us all.

Rei sweat dropped at the antics of the blonde and pinkette while Mina gave a nervous giggle and herded the other girls out the room. "We'll be going now" she called out over her shoulder.

Lita sighed, shook her head and went back to her cooking.

The other girls headed back through to the living room were Ami was reading a book. As they came through the door Ami said "I told you so" as she turned a page in the book.

~*~Five Minutes Later~*~

Ami was still sitting on the couch and was at the last page of her book. Serena was on the arm chair with Rini sitting on her lap and playing with her blonde hair. Serena had her arms around Rini and was resting her chin on her head in-between the cone shaped buns. Mina was at the other end of the couch from Ami sprawled upside down with her arms on the floor and her legs swinging away over the back of the couch. Rei was sitting on the window seat watching the clouds pass by with a board expression on her face.

"Breakfast is ready!" Lita yelled through from the kitchen.

Serena was up like a shot and, still holding Rini in her arms, zoomed into the kitchen. Rini was uncomplaining through it all, as it got her to the food faster than her short legs would allow. Rei was out the living room door after Serena, then Mina, while Ami calmly finished her book and placed it back in the bookshelf before heading through into the kitchen.

The seats to either side of Serena were filled with Rini to the right and Rei to Serena's left so that Seiya could not sit beside her. Mina was on Rei's left with a spare seat between her and Lita, and on Lita's left there were three spare seats all the way round to Rini. Ami took a seat beside Lita on the left, leaving a space free to her left and to Rini's right. Ami then joined the other girls in the act of filling up her plate with food.

"Mmm… something smells good" Taiki said as he and Yaten came through the doorway. Yaten sat in-between Mina and Lita and Taiki sat beside Ami, leaving the last seat between himself and Rini free.

Seiya walked into the room rather stiffly, as he was still healing from the bruising which was evident by the black eyes he was sporting. "Hey Panda!" Rini loudly yelled while waving at him excitedly.

What's she so happy about? Seiya thought nervously. Then seeing the only chair left that he could take, he broke out in a cold sweat. As he went to sit down Rini sweetly smiled at him, too sweetly, causing him to check the chair before he sat on it, then to check his plate, knife and fork. Everyone else at the table did their best to stifle their laughter which only added to Seiya's panic.

Hehe, Rini thought, my being too nice to him is letting his imagination do all the work for me in freaking him out.

~*~After Breakfast~*~

"That was very delicious. Thank you for the wonderful meal Lita" Taiki said as he stood from the table and carried his plate to the sink.

"Well girls, if you go to the living room you will find the clothes Taiki found for you to borrow" Yaten said as he followed Taiki's actions.

The girls followed Seiya into the living room, but Lita hung back, "What about cleaning up?"

"Leave that to us" Yaten answered.

"It's the least we can do after you cooked" Taiki said.

"Oh, alright then" she conceded and went through to the living room to the other girls.

In the living room the girls were rummaging through the piles of clothes to find shorts and tops that would fit them. Serena had already found shorts for both herself and Rini, which the smaller of the two would have to roll the leg bottoms up so that she wouldn't trip. She was now looking for a t-shirt in Rini's size. Seiya held a piece of white clothing in his hand and was edging towards Serena. "Hey Serena, how about this?" Seiya said as he held up the tiniest white tank top that a teenager could ever wear.

"Oh that's perfect!" Serena happily declared.

Yes, Seiya thought, Serena can wear this really short top and I can ogle her body. He grinned.

"It's a brilliant size for Rini." Phew, that was close, Serena thought.

Good one mummy, Rini thought as she hid her grin. "Here you can have this one!" Rini held up a blue button down shirt to Serena.

Seiya froze in his heartbreak at his thwarted plan, but I wanted Serena to wear it. Next time I'll try harder.

By this time, the other girls had found the clothes that they wanted and were making their way to their guest rooms to get changed. "Well, we'll be going" Serena said as she took Rini's hand and followed the other girls out the room.

~*~One Hour Later, At the Palace~*~

"I'm truly sorry that I can't get you home, but you are very welcome here on my planet and to stay at the Kou Mansion." Princess Kakyuu said to the sailor scout team before her.

"You may not be able to help us get home, but you have helped us to find out what's wrong" Ami said.

"Yeah, sure, ten days of having to rebuild our powers before we can teleport home," Rei sarcastically said, "that's all very nice and well, but what are we going to wear for these ten days?"

"Rei" Serena scolded, to which Rei just rolled her eyes.

"But she does bring up a good point." Lita added.

"Not to worry, I will let you borrow some of my clothes for now so that you can go shopping for supplies" Kakyuu said.

"Um, not to be rude or anything, but how are we gonna pay for the stuff we need?" Mina asked.

"I will be footing the bill." Kakyuu informed.

"That's very generous of you." Serena said.

"Princess Serenity, you saved not only me and my planet, but the entire universe. The least I can do is give you aid when you need it. And I would be honoured if we could have a ball here at the Palace for the saviors of us all while you are here."

The girls all looked at each other and grinned. "Yes, we would be delighted."

"Then it's settled. I will see to the preparations immediately." Kakyuu excitedly said.

~*~At the Mall~*~

The limonene pulled up to a gigantic white stone and crystal structure that glittered in the sun. The girls got out of the car and craned their necks to look at it. The building was four stories high and a mile long. "This is a mall?" Mina asked, awed at the building.

"It sure is." Seiya proudly said, "Six food courts, a few chemists, seven jewellers, six bag stores, four hat stores, ten dress boutiques, fifty clothes shops and one shoe shop."

"Only one shoe shop?" Ami asked.

"It's four stories high and covers the end quarter of the mall" Taiki informed.

"There is also a media section of the mall with music, movies and books but we're not going there today." Yaten said which made Ami pout.

"Wow" Serena breathed out.

"I've seen bigger in Crystal Tokyo" Rini stated.

"Really?" Lita asked in awe, as she turned to her with, wide as saucer, eyes to Rini.

"And we're not paying." Rei dreamily sighed.

All the girls turned to each other and shared maniac grins. They rushed into the mall to start hitting the clothes shops. They found plenty of day and night clothes, plus some they wanted to take home with them so bags were bought for the items they wanted to take back to Earth. They also all found gowns for the ball Kakyuu would be hosting and the scouts would be taking these gowns back to Earth too. At several points in the shopping trip Taiki and Yaten would go back to the limo to unload the bags of shopping. This also allowed for them to laugh at Seiya's disastrous attempts at flirting with Serena, which Rini always spoiled as she would refuse to leave her mother's side, for which Serena was grateful.

After lunch the girls were coming to the end of their shopping trip, as by this point they had reached the shoe shop. However, the word 'shop' didn't do the store any justice, as the place was massive. After a few hours at the shoe store the girls were ready to go back to the Kou Mansion.

As they were walking along, in the general direction of the garage, Mina saw something from the corner of her eye. It was a rather tall and muscular man with silver hair, whose back was turned to the group of guys and girls. Mina felt some sort of instantaneous pull to the man. The ribbon-wearing blonde rushed up to him and leapt onto his back, putting her arms around his shoulders and hands resting on his chest, essentially hugging him. The other girls and the guys all looked on with blank faces at the blonde as she hung in the air while attached to the man, then Mina came back to reality.

"Excuse me," the man said, "what are you doing?"

"I honestly have no idea." Mina stressed out.

"Then do you mind getting off me?" he exasperated.

"Uh…Sure…No problem…Hehe."

She remained in her position, holding on to this unknown man with her feet dangling in the air.

"Well?" he said, growing extremely annoyed.

"For God's sake Mina, get off the guy will you!?" Rei yelled at her, as the blonde hanging onto the man's back was causing quite a spectacle and people were staring.

"Jeeze Rei no need to yell." Mina grumbled as she let go. Addressing her victim, "I'm really sorry, I don't know what came over me," she apologized.

"So Mina is your name?" the man said as he turned around.

On seeing his face the girls all froze in terror, for the man who Mina had jumped on, was none other than Kunzite.