AN: I don't own sailor moon, enjoy!

"Rei!" the birds few away from the tops of the trees from Jedite's booming voice. Clearly he wasn't happy. Rei's grandpa has just left to get some tools leaving Rei and Jedite alone.
"You agreed to help grandpa in your drunk stupor the other night," she was calm and did Jedite just see a smile? Damn it, he swore he saw a smile on this evil woman face.
"When did helping become doing all your chores?!" he fought keep his voice down if she wasn't a trained sailor warrior he would of already tried taking her down. He agreed to help, yes but he assumed maybe some paperwork, helping out at the charms table, and small tasks like that. Not this, not sweeping all the steps of the shrine or getting fire wood for the prayers or whatever else they would ask of him.
"This is what helping at a shrine means! If you were expecting this place to be so beautiful out of sheer luck your gravely mistaken," Rei stomped her foot fighting back with just as much anger, her eyes bright with her internal fire, this man can make her go from zero to ten in seconds.
"Slavery ended years ago but clearly you feel the need to impose it on me," He really didn't care anymore, it was amazing he held off this long. It was only fate that the two of them would get angry enough to fight, he was almost certain his friends had bets running. Rei didn't hold back and went in for a punch, Jedite blocked it quickly grabbing her waist which wasn't his normal fighting tactic.
"You're such a selfish needy child!" Rei sneered trying to get her hand back from his hold, it's a good thing they were on the side of the shrine where no one really went. He would already be burnt bacon if he tried this where guests could see them.
"You're a stubborn controlling pyromaniac!" he shouted right back she violently turned making him swing around her causing him to trip and fall right on top of her. He quickly used one arm to pull her even closer and the other one to protect her from the fall. Rei opened her eyes that she must of closed when she felt gravity take over. All she could see was his nice white dress shirt smuggled with dirt, it smelt like him... and pine. A dizzying combination she never knew she would like.
"I'm not a pyromaniac..." she murmured making no sudden attempts to move. Jedite groaned as he dropped his weigh to his elbow only bringing himself closer to the fallen shrine maiden.
"And I'm no child," Rei instantly closed her eyes again, did he have to say that in a low rough voice right into her ear, at least he proved his point.
"Rei? Rei where did you get off to?" Rei could hear her grandfather's voice in the distance and instantly pushed Jedite away and stood brushing off her clothes. She looked back to Jedite who had leaned up on his side and rested his head in his hand with a coy smile.
"You're right, you are worse than a child," Rei said turning on her heal as Jedite quickly got up to scramble after her.
"Is there such a thing?" he asked as Rei snickered, she forgot he didn't like kids about as much as Rei, neither of them were the nurturing type. Rei turned the corner and froze mid step which in turn made Jedite bump into her slightly and look up at the haut in traffic. There was Serena, Mina, Kunzite, Lita and Nephrite all standing together clearly thinking victory would come with numbers, Rei was surprised since they just got punished for their crimes just yesterday...
"Rei there you are! Your friends are here!" grandpa said with a smile, Rei looked over to her so called friends and then back up to Jedite, he smiled clearly already having a slight plan... He knew to break up the group.
"Hey guys! Thanks for coming up to help with the shrine work! Grandpa I asked them to help out, what would you like us to do?" Jedite said pulling Kunzite and Nephrite over to Rei's grandfather as he smiled big at the two new strong male recruits for projects. Kunzite and Nephrite were blind sighted and had no choice but to help the elder in any task set upon them. Rei smiled, Jedite loved getting out of work even at his friends expense.
"We can go have some tea why the guys work," Rei said walking into the shrine, her friends trailed soon after happy they are being spared from shrine cleaning.
"So Jedite is staying here?" of course it was Mina who couldn't hold the question in. Rei froze in the middle of her task, her cheeks flushed a little pink at hearing her reality so blunt like that but she hid her reaction very smoothly. "His apartment was flooded," Rei said with no hint of a lie, she got the tea pot and poured in the hot water happy to have a task to distract her from her friends questioning eyes.
"We know," Serena said who was quite surprised at Rei's ability to keep a straight face around them.
"We checked," Lita added recounting the trip they took before showing up at the shrine...

"He has to be lying," Nephrite couldn't believe they were checking this. Jedite never told the truth under pressure. Heck he likes to lie when he has every reason to tell the truth. So why, oh why were they walking up the entry way of Jedite's apartment complex.
"I would like to validate his actions before scolding him for abusing Hino's hospitality," Kunzite said plainly and that shut Nephrite up real quick, fine, let Kunzite give Jedite the benefit of the doubt. It was lucky for Kunzite that he had Jedite's house key so the whole group went up the elevator to Jedite's level. What they didn't expect was around Jedite's door to have red caution tape... 'Must be him trying to stop us from the truth,' Nephrite thought as he moved to open the door anyways.
"Stop! Don't you see the caution tape," they all turned to see one of the building maintenance crew walking up to the room.
"Sorry we were here to see a friend," Kunzite said to the man who scoffed.
"Well he isn't here, no one is staying here since the pipe burst on this level. Whole apartment flooded, won't be able to be back in for another two weeks. Lucky guy, seems his renters insurance will be buying him all new furniture," said the repair man with a smile. Lucky indeed...

Rei shook her head hearing that Jedite indeed flooded his apartment just to avoid being caught in a lie. He must of done it when he got his cloths for the next few weeks. Well she couldn't fault him for being thorough, it made a smile curl up on the corner of her lips, in some ways she knew he did it for her. "Of course it's flooded, I wouldn't let him stay at the shrine if it wasn't life or death. Goodness knows he is endangering his life everyday just being here," the girl halfheartedly nodded at Rei's comment. Rei was certainly known for hating the man so the news of them being in the same building together was shocking news. Hell must be freezing over, Rei brought over some tea and sat down with the girls. There was a silence over the group, they didn't really know what to do next and they certainly didn't want to make Rei mad. "So," Rei paused to drink some tea, "You're all here just to double check I haven't killed Jedite right?" Rei asked looking into her tea cup.
"Yep," "That's right," "Uh-hu," all the girls said at once as Rei got a sweat drop her head sinking slightly at her friends and their lack of belief in Rei's self-restraint.

Jedite walked into the shine sighing, "they are gone," he announced to Rei who was putting away dishes from their unplanned guests. Rei sighed, they were here for quite a while. Eventually her friends changed the subject and they all fell into their normal catty remarks. Rei was very surprised since she only tortured them with Jedite and her perfect revenge plots a day ago. Maybe they went easy on them? Naaaa. The guys looked the worse for wear when they left, Rei knew her grandfather was rather ruthless with labor and they were put though the worst to date. Rei also knew that Jedite wanted to get back at his friends, seems shrine work was the best way to go about it. Jedite grabbed some cups from the table and joined Rei by the sink. Rei then suddenly looked around confused.
"Jedite you smell horrible," she covered up her nose and mouth with her hand. He smirked,
"that's the smell of hard work, I totally got Kunzite to do most of it, it's wonderful seeing your old commander doing some heavy lifting for once. Do you like it? My smell attracting you?" he said playfully suddenly pulling her close to a hug and no surprise Rei desperately tried to pull away from him.
"Eww don't you dare," she got out small laugh, he was acting like a cat desperate for attention Jedite chuckling himself at his antics.

"I'm going to go shower, don't go missing me," he announced leaving her in the kitchen as Rei rolled her eyes at his silly antics as she put away dishes all the while Rei's grandpa saw their interaction from outside the shrine with a soft smile.

In Jedite's opinion the next day went off without a hitch, woke up, Rei hadn't punched him to death in the middle of the night, he is never awake before her. Really that woman must wake at the first light, at least it counts out her being a vampire. He got to take a nice shower and get dressed for the day. Went to the office and got a lot of paperwork done, ate at his favorite sandwich and soup shop. It was right about then where he got a text from Rei. It simply read 'you're not sleeping in my bed tonight' he smiled, already four days in and she was trying to switch up the rules. That was so like Rei. He cleaned up his food and walked back to work texting her back as he walked. 'Now Rei I don't think that's per our agreement...' he hit send smiling at himself, it was so much easier being a cheeky know-it-all via text then in person. Her response came quick she must be by her phone. 'No, you don't get it. We are house sitting Artemis tonight, he sleeps on my bed when he comes to visit.'

Jedite wanted to crush his new phone in his hands. That bastard ass cat is kicking him out of his bed because he sleeps on the girls bed like some perv cat? Why was Mina making Rei cat sit? Then he thought about the torture he was placing on Kunzite, Mina had to go on a four day trip to make Kunzite crumble like a little girl. Jedite sighed, the things he is willing to do for revenge. Almost as if Rei could sense his remorse another comment appeared on his phone. 'We only have him for one day, Lita will take him for the rest of the time,' oh wonderful he could handle one night. So he smiled texting back. 'Sounds great honey' and smirked down at his phone, he liked what he could get away with via text she instantly shot back, 'if you call me something like that again I'm blocking your number' ok maybe he can't get away with it...

"Thank you so much Rei, I don't know why Mina had to make a sudden trip to London but she will be back in a few days," Artemis said walking next to Rei as she entered the shrine clearly just done with her chores for the day. Rei tried to hold back her smirk at the cats confusion,
"No worries, go ahead and relax, consider it a vacation," Rei said knowing the cats rarely get a break.
"Artemis! Long time no see, still crawling around on four legs I see," Jedite said making it to the top stair, smiling over to the white cat.
"Humans..." Artemis said under his breath before turning to the blond man. "Jedite, I heard you were staying here due to a flood issue, I hope you don't make Rei start a fire, then you will both be out of a place to stay," he was being sassy but then again Artemis was always sassy. Jedite gritted his teeth trying to be jovial and pleasant but it was proving to be harder then he thought.
"Artemis you know the last thing I would do is burn down the shrine, be sensible," Rei said sliding open the door allowing Artemis to enter, once in the safety of the walls of the shrine Artemis instantly switched into human form, a small poof of white smoke and there stood Artemis a good three inches taller than Jedite giving him some leverage.
"Why did you go and do that?!" Jedite asked waving the smoke from his face, Jedite gritted his teeth, he really didn't like the salt and pepper cat crew. Transforming into a human then back into cats and vice versa, it was a sharp reminder that Artemis wasn't human, that Rei wasn't human and in the back of his mind, made him feel inferior.
"Rei said to relax and that's what I'm going to do. Anyways if a child see's a cat at a shrine they will bug me. As a grown man they won't come up and bother me. Now if you will excuse me I'm going to go read a good book," and what was clearly magic Artemis flicked his wrist and a good sized novel appeared out of nowhere, he excused himself further into the shrine.
"Don't pester Artemis, we all know he gets enough of that living with Mina," Rei said walking down the hall to her room, she ignored his irritated brooding. Jedite smiled happy he now had her alone again his smile only increasing until it turned into a wicked grin following her down the hall.
"Whatever you say wife..." Rei instantly turned to muffle the end of Jedite's words pinning him against the wall, her eyes filled with fire.
"You do know cats have an acute sense of hearing. Watch what you say," her words held a heavy threat, it made Jedite frown. He can't even tease Rei while Artemis is here? How annoying. He had to endure the cat all night? Suddenly Artemis walked around the corner and stopped in his tracks raising his eyebrow slowly. Rei instantly moved away from Jedite like nothing happened, Jedite on the other hand smiled and rested against the wall crossing his legs at his ankle and putting his hands in his pockets.
"Can we help you?" he cooed to the man cat Rei sent a searing glare toward the blond, he was making it sound like Artemis was interrupting something! There was nothing to interrupt! Artemis isn't below letting the gossip mill turn.

"I was starting to get hungry," Artemis said looking to the two past lovers wondering if something was up. They don't seem to be yelling at each other nearly as much as he expected.
"What do you want to eat?" Rei asked sweetly and Jedite gritted his teeth again, she is so sweet to Artemis but once she turns to Jedite it's like he was the scum of the Earth. Artemis tapped his chin playfully, clearly taking a page out of Mina's book,
"Ummm udon sounds good!" Artemis announced and Rei nodded moving into the kitchen swiftly to start cooking. Artemis glared at Jedite as he walked past the blond, Jedite just smiled until the cat man was down the hall before Jedite joined Rei in the kitchen.
"You don't have to cook," he said coming up behind her. Rei looked over her shoulder and kept peeping a meal.
"Yes I do, Artemis is a gossip hound, keeping him happy is the only way to keep him quite," Oh, Jedite thought reacting to what Rei just said, this wasn't a choice. Jedite grumbled, but his fate was sealed.
"Fine let me order in some udon. Really it will get here sooner," some udon take out was a small price to keep Rei happy. She turned to look at him with her eyebrow raised, why was he being so nice?
"Deal, but I don't owe you any favors," she pointed her index finger at Jedite making sure he knew this was his idea and Jedite firmly nodded. She walked out of the kitchen lost in thought. Jedite ordered food and not twenty minutes later he walked down the steps to pick up the delivery. Bastard moon cat cost him 5000 yen and a hike back up the stairs. Artemis emerged from his hiding place at the smell of the broth. Artemis ate half of the bowl and leaving the dishes for Jedite to clean. He finally got a break from the cat when Rei was situating the room next to hers for Jedite to sleep for the night. She was impressed Jedite was on good behavior, she has a fear it was going to end very soon. "Ok well this should be everything for the night," Rei looked around making sure the man had everything he needed. Jedite sat on the bed and bounced a little to determine how annoying it would be to sleep, he didn't complain.
"Oh I still need one thing," Rei looked over to him confused. The long pause caused Rei to remember Jedite's silly 'kiss before bed' rule. Rolling her eyes she walked over.
"You're going to get spoiled with this treatment," she sneered, how did he get her to agree such terms? She knows it wasn't when she was drunk though... if her friends ever asked then yes she was deliriously drunk and didn't know any better. Still he waited, his eyes unrelenting making Rei blush slightly. Rei scoffed stepping in front of him looking down to his blue eyes and short boyish blond hair, why did he have to retain all of his good looks in this life? She tucking some of her hair behind her ear and leaning down to kiss Jedite. To Rei's surprise it wasn't like the last few nights where it was a quick peck. No, Jedite pulled Rei close one hand around her back and the other on touching her cheek pulling her closer and he deepened the kiss. Rei let out a little squeak and fell forward on top of Jedite. What was he doing?! What in the hell was he doing, as much as she wanted this to stop that small voice in the back of her mind wanted to keep going and it was winning. Her eyes fluttering closed and clearly forgetting about who she was kissing. Actually she was ok with forgetting just about everything with kisses as wonderful as this one. When did he get so damn good at this? The idea of him learning from someone else instantly aggravated her. Rei heard a soft knock on the door and both of them instantly jumped apart.

"Rei I'm going to take a bath now," came the calm words of Artemis his eyebrow raised, it was oddly quite for those two to be in a room together…
"Thanks for telling me, I will be in my room in a second," she called after him trying to clear her throat removing any signs she was flustered. Hearing foot falls walking down the hall told Rei Artemis went to take his bath, her eyes sharply looked down to Jedite. If looks could kill he would be a pile of ash.
"Thanks that's all I needed, have a good night," his smile looked so evil in her eyes. He was playing a sick game, and evil, destructive game and Rei wasn't sure she was going to get through it unscathed.