TOTAL STORY REWRITE! ALL CHAPTERS HAVE BEEN EDITED

Chapter Four
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Day 2 (Friday)
Continued

"You realize their memories will come back now too right?" Mamoru asked as he pulled up in front of the temple. They were late. Almost an hour late, but the bonding had been more complex than they remembered. "If they haven't already, that is."

"I know. I wish I could spare them the pain until we have their soulmates in front of them. I do hope it's a slower process for them. It hurt my head getting it all at once like that."

He climbed out of the car and walked around to help her. She practically pulled him up the steps and then into the meeting room where the other Senshi were gathered. "Hi. Sorry we're late. I know you have to go soon Minako, but we got sidetracked and..." she trailed off, noticing the girls were busy glaring at Mamoru. She stepped in front of him.

"Did he make you...?" Asked Ami in a small voice. Usagi's head came up in shock.

"WHAT!?" she screamed. "No. He would have stopped if I said no, and it's not like that! We're..." but she didn't get to finish.

"Yes, but did he actually ask you if you wanted to..." Rei trailed off too.

"What is wrong with you people!? He's my husband for crying out loud. Okay, maybe not technically in this life yet, but Endymion and I were married before, and if I'd wanted him to stop you know very well I would have transformed and pulled out my tiara! I mean come on!"

The girls were straring at her, open mouthed.

"YOU TOLD HIM?" Shouted Rei. She seemed a little shocked and a lot angry.

"No, the memories came back at the same time."

"What memories? I don't understand. Why would you tell him about your secret identity?" Makoto didn't sound angry, just confused.

"I didn't. He knew when he saw where I got hurt, and then he did his golden spark healing thingie, and then we started kissing, and then more stuff happened and then there was this dream issue and then stuff happened again and then we got the memories and then Rei saw me naked and then we remembered some upsetting stuff and he was sad, and then the soul-bond happened. Then we rushed over here so Minako could go on her date but you guys accused him of rape and me of spilling our secret, except he saw last night where I got hit and he saw it today and he KNEW who I was and I wouldn't just tell some random joe-shmo, I mean come on, he's my husband and if you guys cant-MMph. Mmmphh."

"Sorry," Mamoru said from over her shoulder. "Maybe I should explain?" The girls nodded thankfully.

"Okay, first, I'm Tuxedo Mask." Gasps and startled screams filled the room for a moment.

"Second, in our past lives, Serenity was the princess on the moon and the holder of the Silver Crystal. I was the prince of earth, Endymion, and holder of the Golden Crystal. You were her guardians. I also had four guardians, who you were married to... I was married to Serenity, and for a while everyone was happy." He sighed, thinking again about how they were going to rescue his men.

"Then Beryl," he continued, 'who was a princess in one of the lower kingdoms, and who was jealous of Serenity, believed she and I were supposed to be married for some strange reason, so she let Metallia loose, and with her power she mind-controlled the people on Earth and poured dark energy into my Shittenou, turning them into the Dark Generals." He closed his eyes in pain for a moment, remembering them.

"Last night my Usako was injured, and during our morning faceplant I saw the injury, which was getting infected because someone," he glared at Usagi and got a sheepish smile in return, "didn't properly care for it last night. I have the ability to heal, so that's what I did." He smiled at the girls and pulled Usagi closer.

"Now because I have secretly been in love with her for months now, and because she secretly loved me too, when things got a little out of control, we didn't stop them. Our Soul-Bond was formed when we were both open to each other, and now we have a plan to rescue your husbands."

He swiped his hands as if to congratulate himself on a job well-done. "Now. Minako, I understand the guy you plan on seeing tonight has bragged about getting to third base with another girl. I intend to talk to him before he takes you out, or I will not stop Usagi and the others in their plan to spy on you. I mean, if you want four girls in black clothing following you around all night, I'm sure they'd be willing. It's your choice."

He had changed from one topic to another almost as quickly as Usagi and everyone was staring at him, then at her, then at him, then at her again, as though they had both gone completely insane.

Luna cleared her throat. "Okay then, Minako. Um, go get ready for your date. Mamoru and Usagi will meet you at the arcade. The rest of you girls, please clean up this mess. We can discuss all of this later. Maybe by then Mamo-usa or Usa-mamo, or whoever these two are now, can slow down their speech enough for humans to understand. Shoo! Now, Usagi, Mamoru... please walk with me for a moment."

The two followed her outside and Usagi picked her up as they walked around the Shrine. "So, you've found my princess, and the crystal." She finally said.

"Yes." Mamoru agreed, "though to be fair, we had no clue that it would happen. I got a little carried away..." He trailed off flushing. This was the girl's guardian after all.

He started to think back over their past and suddenly he understood some of his own urges a little better. His need to impregnate his Soul-Bonded wasn't just a fetish, it was a need. In the days of the Millennial Kingdom, Endymion and Serenity had been told to produce an heir as quickly as possible to save the kingdom from destruction.

It didn't make his urge to procreate dwindle knowing this. He peered at Usagi as she cuddled the black cat. No, he wanted her pregnant for his own selfish reasons too. Because he wanted her to be his forever, and he wanted forever to start right now. He wanted to see her in every stage of her life, in every stage of pregnancy, in every stage of learning. Hell, he just wanted to be with her forever.

Mamoru stood quietly beside the table, waiting long enough for Minako to sit with Usagi before nodding his head to the boy. He headed to the break room, the boy on his heels, and Motoki following the kid closely. He felt a little hypocritical for the speech he was about to give. After all he and Usagi hadn't been dating when he's taken her virginity. But, he countered to himself, I'd already planned on marrying the girl...

He cleared his throat. "Now, you're Bradley... from America, from what I understand."

The boy nodded. "Yes Chiba-san."

Motoki took over. "In America, customs may be a little different than they are here. For instance, respect. Here, respecting others and putting their needs before your own is very important." He looked the boy in the eye.

"We understand," Mamoru interjected, "that you have claimed to get to 'third-base' with a girl. Do you understand what that would do to her reputation, to her family's honor? Do you understand that because of this claim, Minako's friends are worried to let you be alone with her?"

Mamoru's gut clenched as he thought about what would happen to Usagi's reputation if people knew what he had done with her earlier.

"Not just them," added Motoki. "Here are your rules for dating Minako. You will ask her permission before you touch her. It is her right to refuse, and you will act respectfully if she does so. When you have finished your date, you will bring her back here, where Mamoru and I will be waiting. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes Sir. I mean, Hie Furuhata-san."

"Good," Mamoru said. "Now, she tends to like chocolate, she's allergic to mango. and will eat almost anything. She loves teddy-bears, and flowers, and her favorite color is orange. I suggest a funny movie, or a romantic comedy. Scary movies just annoy her, and you wont get a cuddle. But put her in front of a sappy love scene she might put her head on your shoulder."

"Um... Okay." The boy seemed a bit confused.

"Oh!" Motoki thought of something. "If you want, they're doing that carnival all weekend. You could take her there... Just don't be surprised if she wins the prizes for herself. She's got great aim... almost as good as Usagi-chan."

"Um... I thought maybe you guys hated me... But now you're being nice."

"Not hate. We disapprove of a choice you made. But you won't make that same choice again, will you? I saw it in your eyes, you understood what you had done." Mamoru put a hand on his shoulder. "Bradley, moving to a strange country at your age can be difficult, and you probably said those things hoping to fit in. In America that might have worked, but not in Japan. In public we don't tend to talk like that. Behind closed doors, with people you trust, then it's okay."

"Bradley actually thought they were great," Minako told the girls. "He was terrified of them of course, but I guess once they decided he wouldn't hurt me, they were nice to him."

"So they didn't hurt him at all?" Makoto sounded a little disappointed.

Minako giggled. "No, but they made it pretty clear that they would if necessary, and then Mamoru made him bring me back to the arcade because my parents are still in England, and he and Motoki were waiting outside and talked to us, and then Mamoru brought me here. Thank you Usagi." She hugged her friend.

She blushed before she continued. "I really was worried after you told me what he said, but he was just trying to fit in. He hasn't done any of that. And when he took me to the carnival he was really sweet and asked if I wanted to hold hands, and he didn't get mad that I was stronger than him." She sighed happily.

"That really does sound awesome Minako," said Rei, who was painting Usagi's toenails.

They were attempting to do some of the things normal girls did during sleep-overs. Nails, talking about boys, truth or dare... all the fun stuff they didn't normally get the chance to do. Luna had given them a break, unless there was a Youma attack, but Mamoru was out as Tuxedo Kamen and he would call them if he needed to.

"So, Usagi..." Makoto looked over at her. "I'll give you this tin of cookies I baked if you tell us what an orgasm feels like."

Usagi choked and spluttered for a moment, but the draw of baked goods was too strong. She explained as best she could what she had felt inside and out, how her belly had fluttered and her clit had throbbed, and her inner walls had clenched.

"How many times did you guys... you know?"

"Just four because we had to come to the Shrine, but the last time the Soul-Bond formed and I think we might have passed out for a while."

"I still don't get the Soul-Bond thing."

"You will once we rescue your husbands. Its like... your bodies are together, but your minds have to connect too. It happened the fourth time for us, when he kissed me actually, right after we started, and I just knew he was mine, and he knew I was his. There was light... and music... and I think a breeze. And then I started feeling his side of things. I mean it was like, I could feel him inside me, but I could also feel his side too... being inside me. Like being both sides at once. And everywhere I wanted him to touch, he touched. He could read my needs."

"And now that it's formed it will just get stronger. And because we used the crystals neither of us can be turned evil because our souls are protected. I promise you, as soon as we get your husbands back, we'll use the crystals to infuse your Soul-Bonds too."

"I barely remember Kunzite. I don't want to just jump in and be mated to some guy." Minako sounded wistful.

"Do you want to remember?

"Yes... and no." Minako huffed. "I mean, yes I want to remember, but I don't want to be forced into a relationship just because I loved him in the past."

"No one will make you." Usagi told her quietly.

"You don't know about... how he was with... that." She faltered through an explanation. "Whenever I 'got stubborn' as he called it, he would find a way around me. That's how he got me to sleep with him, and marry him even though I had my duties to you. He would just herd me into doing whatever he wanted."

"But you liked it," said Ami suddenly. "You used to tell him no on purpose. Like when you decided you wanted kids you told him you were never having any. He had you pregnant in a month..." Ami trailed off. "Oh crap! OW!" She held her head tightly against the pain as more and more memories flooded her. Memories of their life on the moon, her love for Zoicite. Everything hit her at once.

Remembering the pain, Usagi stood behind her and rubbed her temples soothingly. She knew the emotional turmoil the girl was going through, and held her as the tears began to flow. At least for Usagi the dreams had been a preparation for the return of her memories. But the others hadn't been having the dreams.