Disclaimer: I hope you enjoy this story, my mother and I have been working on this for some time now, I do not own Sailor Moon or any character involved with it. It belongs to Naoko Takeuchi, This is a story for what happens after the Three Lights leave!
CHAPTER 4
"Girls," was the greeting Serena and her company got the nest morning when they reached the corner where Rei would turn off to her school.
They looked over in the direction of the voices.
Leaning against the wall, just like the day before, was the Three Lights.
"Are you going to school today?" Rei asked before breaking away from the others.
"Will have something to talk about tonight," Rei sprinted off.
"Be here at three," Lita yelled after Rei.
"You must have had lots to talk about yesterday," Seiya commented as he joined up with the girls.
"A few things," Lita said with a nod before her and Mina each took one of Yaten's arms and strolled ahead at a quickened pace.
Ami and Taiki shook their heads, looked at each other and began discussing something about physics.
Serena now found herself, some what along with Seiya. She suddenly felt a little uncomfortable and speechless.
Every time she snuck a peek at him she heard his voice echo through her head: "Am I not good enough."
"You okay?" Seiya asked Serena after several minutes of quiet walking.
"Sorry," Serena smiled.
"What's wrong?" He questioned.
"You were really mean to Yaten yesterday," she replied, trying to sound annoyed. That was a little hard to do, considering she did find it rather amusing.
"When an opportunity, such as the phone incident, presents itself," he began. Then with his hand over his heart he continued; "I must take full advantage in anyway I can. I have to show him he isn't always right. Its not like I would ever get him in any real trouble or harm." He finished with a big smile.
"What about him crawling on his knees?" Serena scoffed.
"I had no part in that," Seiya assured her. "He was merely told to apologize and make it sincere."
"I guess he thought you couldn't refuse him if he approached you in that manner," Seiya laughed hard: "But you didn't even notice him."
"I was ah...ah... thinking," she finally spit out.
"About me," Seiya cooed and leaned his head on top of Serena's.
"Maybe," she giggled and ran off to school.
Every time Serena looked at a clock she would sigh.
"Will this day ever end," she huffed to herself the next time she checked the clock.
Lunch time finally rolled around, but talking to Seiya was impossible. At least half the girl population was surrounding him, the other half had Yaten. Taiki didn't seem to be anywhere. Since Ami was also missing, Serena assumed Ami and Taiki were doing some extra school work.
Lita as usual had enough lunch for two or three and Serena was more than willing to help her eat it.
"I think I'll spend lunch in a different galaxy where I can find some peace," Seiya mumbled behind Serena, when afternoon classes resumed. "Want to join me?" he whispered in Serena's neck.
Her neck felt every word he breathed causing a strange warmth to wave over her body.
She felt her body lean back, wanting to hear or better yet, feel more of his breath in her neck.
Serena closed her eyes and could feel that comforting feeling she had felt the day Seiya held her close to his chest at the dance club. She remembered his desire to protect her and the security she felt pressed against his chest. Then his scent drifted through her thought, she smiled to herself. That rush of warmth dashed away quickly when she was suddenly struck with the image of him kneeling down in front of her, the cold rain fell, his voice cracked:"Am I not good enough?".
"Seiya!" She screamed out.
Her eyes burst open and the whole class was staring at her.
"Ooops," she mumbled and dropped her head down on her desk, wishing she was in a different galaxy.
"I am accustom to you dozing off in my class, Serena," the teacher admitted. "But yelling in your sleep will have to stop."
The class enjoyed a very good laugh at her expense.
Seiya was beaming, proud as a peacock.
Now Serena really wanted the day to end quickly.
The rest of the afternoon was a waste, Serena was afraid to doze off again and couldn't do much work with Seiya constantly whispering: "Dumpling," behind her, followed by a quiet snicker.
Every once in awhile he would snicker a little too loud and someone would look over at them.
The second the days end bell rang Serena bolted from the room.
She scampered down the stairs, two sometimes three at a time, she burst threw the doors.
"Serena," an older man's voice called out to her.
She looked up to see who was casting a shadow over her and speaking her name, as she was trying to catch her breath.
It was the gentleman from the Starlight's apartment building.
"I'm Serena," she exhaled.
"Princess Kakyuu is in the car," he told her, "This way please."
"Where are your companions?" he asked as he escorted her.
"They shouldn't be too far behind me," Serena assured him.
He opened the door to the back seat of the extremely large limo and gestured her in.
"Kakyuu," Serena smiled.
"Do you always flee the school like that?" Kakyuu giggled, having seen Serena's burst of freedom.
This was the last person, except maybe Amara, that Serena wanted to explain the afternoon to.
"If I've been waiting to do something really special after school," Serena giggled.
"I would like you to meet my closest and dearest friend, Sikora," Kakyuu held her hand out, palm up and pointed in the direction of the woman that sat to her right.
"You're the woman we rode the elevator with," Serena smiled. "Please don't bow to me," she quickly spouted.
Kakyuu and Sikora laughed gently.
"Sikora is the teacher of all my best fighters," Kakyuu remarked proudly."Just as her mother trained the best of my mothers warriors."
"Dumpling," Seiya beamed at Serena as he climbed in beside her.
Serena was so thankful when she heard Mina's bubbly voice telling Seiya to move his ass.
"I'm so sorry," Mina clasped her hand over her mouth when she realized Kakyuu was in the car. "That wasn't very lady like was it?"
"Moving my ass," Seiya snickered and slid a bit. "Moving my ass," he repeated and slid a little more.
Sikora kicked at Seiya's shin, not to hard, but it did shut him up and move him right up against Serena.
The door remained open while Mina, Lita and Rei climbed onto Serena's side of the car, Yaten, Ami and Taiki sat on the opposite side.
Taiki and Ami went threw the motions of taking their seat and continued to discuss even argue about whatever Ami had on her little hand held computer.
They seemed to be oblivious to Kakyuu and Sikora's presence.
"They do this all the time," Mina told Kakyuu, shaking her head at the two debaters.
"At least someone's concerned with school work," Sikora said plainly.
"Concerned, yes," Rei replied. "But those two are obsessive."
"I remember you," Mina grinned.
"You do?" Seiya appeared dumb struck.
"I'm sorry," Ami gave a small bow of her head. "I didn't realize..."
She was abruptly cut off by Seiya: "You're oblivious to everything if that computer is on."
Again, this Sikora woman kicked Seiya's shin, with a little more force this time and continued to tap her foot against him.
Ami had closed her computer and sat back quietly.
"Ignore him," Taiki smiled warmly at Ami. "Bring that physics question back up, I might have an idea how to solve it."
Amy and Taiki resumed their debate and Mina babbled about a lot of things with Rei and Lita.
Serena was just happy that her snooze episode was not one of the conversations topics. Serena soon joined in the babble session. Making sure that nothing negative was said about the Three Lights.
Through out the ride Serena would occasionally glance down at Sikora's foot that remained against Seiya's leg.
Serena had never spent that much time with Seiya not uttering a sound. She decided to learn exactly which nerve she needed to tap on his leg to keep him still and best of all quiet.
Serena looked over at Sikora and smiled, she hoped this teacher of Kakyuu's fighters could teach her a few new tricks.
They stopped briefly at the estate gates.
The squeaking of the gates opening was a cue for the girls to shut up and gawk out the windows.
"This place is so big, you can't see where the fence goes," Mina mentioned while leaning over Rei and Lita.
"Lots and lots of space," Rei informed Kakyuu.
"I wouldn't want to shovel snow off this driveway," Mina gently shook her head from side to side as they continued to drive towards the massive main house.
All the gardens were pristine and very well cared for and Serena could smell their fragrant aroma drift into the car.
The car came to a stop in front of a woman smartly dresses in a grey suit.
The driver came and opened the door closest to Kakyuu, Sikora followed Kakyuu out while everyone else remained.
Kakyuu introduced herself with a very slight bow of her head. The business woman returned the bow, but lower then Kakyuu's.
"I am Juno," the smartly dressed woman said.
"This is my assistant Sikora," Kakyuu introduced her fighters teacher.
After they exchange pleasantries, Sikora asked if her students could explore the surrounding grounds.
"That will be fine," Juno agreed.
Sikora came back over to the limo door: "You can look around the grounds, in a respectable manor and don't touch anything," She emphasized the word don't.
Taiki opened the door on his side of the limo, the contents of the car slowly made their way out.
The driver walked a step or two behind Kakyuu, Sikora remained at Kakyuu's side and Juno was slightly in front, painting and explaining various features of the estate.
Ami and Taiki were the first two, to wander away from the car, their attention was drawn to a garden of beautifully sculpted Bonsai trees.
Mina wanted to drag Yaten off in any direction.
Serena stuck close to Rei and Lita, she assumed if she was left alone with Seiya, he might ask her why she screamed his name in her dream.
Serena wrapped her left arm around Rei's and her right to Lita's.
"Let's look around the back," Serena suggested and pulled her friends along.
"Coming?" Lita looked over her shoulder at Seiya.
He ran up and took one of Serena's ponytails in each hand.
"Don't leave me here alone," he whimpered in a childish voice and gave a gentle tug on her hair.
"Hey!" Serena squeaked and turned her head quickly causing Seiya to accidently pull to hard on one of her ponytails.
"Sorry," Seiya let go and pouted at Serena.
"Come on," Lita said to Seiya and took his arm.
Lita and Seiya ran off arm in arm, Serena and Rei chased after them.
They had expected to find a large pool, but not a hot tub that looked big enough for twenty people. The pool house had massage beds and a heated sand pit to sooth yourself in.
Next they headed over to one of the half a dozen or so private cabins.
Each cabin was somewhat secluded, nestled among the trees. The four of them went into one of the cabins to have a look.
"A nice little place for a quiet candle lit dinner, with a small fire glowing in the fireplace," Seiya commented.
Lita opened the sliding doors just off the sitting area: "Wow! Look at that bed," she exclaimed. "It's big enough for a slumber party and even has enough pillows for a good fight."
"If princess gets the place, you guys can come have all the slumber parties you want," Seiya replied with a mischievous grin.
Rei elbowed him in the stomach and quipped: " Not with you wolves running around here."
Lita allowed herself to fall backwards on the bed, she reached her hand back grabbed a pillow and threw it at Rei. It wasn't long before it was the three girls against Seiya.
There screaming and giggles soon attracted the attention of Ami and Taiki, they had come to admire the back gardens.
"What the hell!" Taiki bellowed from the bedroom doorway.
The pillow fighters all stopped. The bedcovers and pillow shams were strung about the room, and everyone's hair was in disarray.
Taiki was greeted with four pairs of eyes trying to look innocent of any wrong doings.
Ami began to pick up some of the pillow covers, Lita pushed Seiya off the bed at the same time as Rei pushed Serena off.
Rei and Lita each took a side and began to straighten up the bed covers.
Serena and Seiya helped Ami put the pillow shams back on. Taiki stood in the doorway like an watchman.
Once everything was back in it's place, Taiki pointed a finger at the cabin door.
Lita hooked arms with Serena and the two of them skipped off ahead of the pack, giggling as they went.
The limo driver was standing at one of the many French doors that opened onto the back terrace, and waved Serena and Lita over.
The girls brought their giggly childish antics to an end and came over to him.
"Princess Kakyuu would like everyone to join her inside for tea," he told the girls.
They straighten up their hair and outfits before entering the house.
Yaten and Mina were already seated at the massive dining table.
The table and chairs were carved mahogany and sat at least fifty people.
Lita and Serena slowly walked to the far end of the table where the others were already seated. They both admired some of the unique carved panel that adorned the walls.
"A room fit for a princess,"Serena smiled at Kakyuu as she sat down.
The four younger ones sat quietly while the older women spoke to each other.
The limo driver took the seat next to Sikora, while the rest of the group followed and chose someplace to sit.
Juno got up and poured tea for everyone and offered biscuits. All the girls acted prime and proper, even Serena graciously took only one little cookie. the room itself seemed to demand lady like mannerism, which they were all capable of if needed. Mina was sitting straight and quiet.
the conversation was limited to house and Kakyuu wanted to hear everyone's opinion.
By teas end Kakyuu was signing paperwork after the limo driver read each piece and handed it to her.
Serena looked at Rei when she saw this happening.
"I think driving is his side job," Rei Whispered discreetly into Serena's ear.
"Oh," Serena sighed, feeling rather stupid for not thinking of that.
The minute the papers were signed and the adults finished shaking hands and bowing with Juno, Kakyuu looked down the table: "Check out our new home," she smiled at the younger ones.
All of them calmly rose and each gave a polite bow to those at the top of the table. Once they were on the other side of the two story dining hall doors, they bolted off in various directions like school was over.