Past Is Past

Eyes On Fire

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Warning: Girls kissing girls. And then some.

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To everyone who read and reviewed. Here's a little more of that sexual tension you guys are lovin'.

000

Rei headed straight for the sacred fire. She would figure this out. Whatever this was between her and Minako. She'd figure out just how it'd happened in the first place.

The raven haired woman took a seat before the fire. Her eyes frantic as the turmoil written so plainly across her face turned to determination. She had to concentrate. Had to focus on unlocking the memories trapped within her mind. Had to find out why. How. What. What happened in the past? Why hadn't they remembered something that felt so… so strong? So unbelievably obvious.

Rei shuddered at the thought of Minako. At the memory of the feel of the girl. How had that touch, the one that sent her blood rushing and head spinning, how had that amazing touch have been so easily forgotten? Something happened. She could feel the memory of it churning in her gut. Something horrible happened and she needed to know what.

Amethyst eyes were lost in the fire. Lost to the racing visions it projected. Images of bare skin brushing delicately against bare skin. Lips pressing hard, almost suffocating. Fighting and teasing and taking and having. Visions of a life Rei could barely remember. It was all like a dream.

Weapons clashed, echoing like the booming ruckus of thunder. Venus' love me chain held fast around Mars' fiery bow. The raven haired senshi growled. Her dark eyes burning with rage. Her rage adding to the strength of her bow's fire. "What are you doing Venus!"

Amethyst eyes widened in shock. The memory grabbing her, pulling her in. She could feel it. She could feel the menacing heat of anger ripping at her very soul. The hurt straining her growling voice as she stumbled over her lover's name. What horrible thing had she done in that far away past?

Minako's low, breathless voice startled the miko from her trance. "Rei…"

It was then that the raven haired woman noticed the tears stinging at her eyes. Noticed the timid pull of Minako's arms around her shaking form. The security of those arms around her. Of the fingers tracing circles against her skin. Moving to rake themselves through her long raven hair. Against her cheeks. Rubbing the tears away. And then Rei was staring into those eyes. Those endless blue portals that left her drowning. Gasping for air. Gasping for more.

Rei's body moved of its own will. Her hands craving the feel of Minako. Her lips craving the blonde's taste. She drew Minako closer. Closer and closer until the euphoria of that mouth moving slowly, sensually against her own sent Rei spinning. She couldn't get enough. It wasn't enough. She needed more. She needed…

The miko's roaming hands found the hem of Minako's shirt. Found the soft skin beneath it. The goose bumps spreading as her greedy hands made their way higher. Made their way to the delicious swell of Minako's breasts. Her fingers were aching, head reeling at the thrill of it all.

Minako's back met the floor, breaking their kiss apart. Her hazy sapphire eyes stared up into the swirl of amethyst. A tentative finger brushed against the blonde's nipple. Minako gasped and then moaned as Rei's lips met her bare stomach. A flurry of short, soft kisses trailing up to meet the miko's busy hands. A tongue, soft and wet, pressing to the sensitive nub. The blonde's low moan giving Rei confidence.

And then Minako's fingers were tangled in raven locks. Bringing the dark haired woman's lips against hers. Lips crashing and tongues fighting for dominance. Rei didn't realize Minako had switched their positions, pinning the miko beneath her, until her hands were pinned above her head. Until all she could see was the beautiful blonde hovering temptingly above her.

"I want…" Mina growled. Sapphire eyes sparking dangerously as her fingers trailed up Rei's bare thigh. "To touch you."

The miko's eyes rolled into the back of her head. Tingles shooting like flames through her burning body. All she could do was whimper at the feel of the blonde.

Minako leaned in closer. Watching the red flush spread from Rei's cheeks to her ears and then down into the valley of her breast. She bit her lip. Her voice husky with desire. "Can I touch you, Rei?"

There wasn't an ounce of protest in those dark eyes. Only the murky swirl of desire. Only that stare that made Minako's heart beat furiously beneath her breast. Made that ache settle even lower in her stomach. Made her wet. Made her want.

The miko smirked suddenly. Ruby, kiss bruised lips taunting the blonde straddling her. A tongue darted out to lick those lips. Minako's nipples hardened, aching for that tongue. "I wasn't finished with you Mi-na-ko."

Minako leaned in closer to the other girl. Her darkening gaze never leaving Rei's amethyst eyes. Her grip around the miko's wrist slackened. Her husky voice wavered with the weight of her desire. "If you want me Rei, just take me."

"Rei-chan! Mina-chan!" A frantic Usagi bursted into the room. "There's an attack and we need… to… Ah! Don't kill me Rei-chan!"

As Rei tried to scramble to her feet, the blonde atop her only obliging reluctantly to let her, Usagi's cries of "I'm scarred for life!" and "Save me Mako-chan!" could be heard all throughout the shrine. Followed, Rei noted irately, by Makoto's bellowing laughter.

000

"You are aware of why you've been called here, Venus?"

The blonde woman didn't stand from her kneeling position. She shook her head slowly, her sapphire eyes failing to meet Luna's cold gaze. "I merely received orders for a conference with King Endymion, Queen Serenity, and the royal board. Subject of said conference is still unknown."

"Upon completion of your last rendezvous." Endymion spoke gruffly. The usually kind quality of his voice completely absent. "You and a comrade were spotted, by Martian civilians, in somewhat of a... compromising situation."

Venus gritted her teeth. Quelling her rage at the absurdity of their conference. "With all due respect, your highness, without any incriminating evi-"

"We've taken certain security precautions to evaluate the authenticity of the incident."

Venus' head snapped up at the words 'security precautions'. Her wide sapphire eyes meeting Luna's hard gaze. There was a lump pushing at the blonde's throat as she spoke. "What is the alleged situation we're speaking of? To be clear."

"Minako." Serenity spoke for the first time. The worry in her tone causing the blonde's stomach to lurch violently. The queen couldn't hold her stare. "It's about you and… you and Rei."

At that the blonde stood furiously. Her heart felt as though it were sinking into her stomach. "The status of my relationship with Rei should remain personal."

"Simply put," Luna frowned, her voice curt. "Your relationship must not overstep the boundary of friendship."

"What-What do you…" Minako's frantic gaze swept across each of their cold faces. Landing lastly on that of her queen, her best friend. "Why, Serenity?"

"You must understand, Venus," Endymion put a hand atop his wife's. More so to calm her objections rather than her uneasiness. "If this affair you have with Mars affects your ability to protect-"

"My ability to protect my Queen? To fight for the exact freedoms you wish to take from me?" She spat at the man incredulously. "How dare you even think to question my loyalties!"

"This is absurd!" Serenity withdrew her hand from Endymion's and stood. The promise of tears glimmering in her usually bright eyes. She looked furiously between the impassive Luna and her shocked husband. "Mina is right. We can't discredit ourselves by destroying the things we have fought to uphold. This Kingdom stands on the foundations of Truth, Justice, and most of all Love. Are we not a testament to that, Endymion?"

The dark haired man looked desperately at Luna. When he received only a terse nod, he spoke authoritatively. "I won't risk the chance of you being harmed. I have to keep you safe, Serenity."

The queen shook her head disapprovingly. The regality of her appearance intensified as the determination in her voice rang through the room. "Even as a senshi, especially as a senshi, Minako has the right to exercise her freedom of choice. Rei is her choice partner. That is how it will remain so long as either of them wishes. Not anyone," Her sapphire eyes met the uneasy gazes of everyone in the room save for Minako. They landed with heavy finality on Endymion. "And I mean anyone, has the power to overthrow me."

Endymion hesitated before looking once more to Luna for support. His eyes hardened as they landed on Venus. "Are you sure this affair will not interfere with your duties?"

"Positive, your highness." She could feel her next few words slipping past her lips without proper consent or thought. "If it does… I will end it of my own free will."

Venus didn't know it then, but she'd soon be regretting those words.

Minako's sapphire eyes shot open. Hands gripping the ruffled sheets, tears running down her cheeks, and a light sheen of sweat covering her tensed body. Every detail of the awful memory was playing on repeat in her head. Every word echoing. Making her stomach lurch.

'Was that the secret?' Sapphire eyes shut tight and the blonde brought her legs to her chest. The terrible ache of her heart intensifying at the thought. 'Did I end up choosing my duties as a senshi over my love for Rei?'

"I can't…" The blonde gritted her teeth. She stood abruptly, fist balling at her sides. Breathing low and unsteady. A small whimper emitting from her as her pulse quickened. Stomach churning with a vicious twinge. "I can't let the past repeat itself. I won't."

000

It was just past three in the morning when Minako arrived at the Hikawa shrine. Flustered and panting from her irrational dash to Rei. As she ran up the many steps, making it to Rei's door and using the spare key all the senshi had been given, the dream… the memory was still fresh in her mind. Playing again and again and again. Driving her closer and closer towards insanity. The blonde bursted into Rei's room, sapphire eyes wild. Searching. Wanting. Denying.

'I won't let the past repeat itself.' The senshi of love assured herself.

Her gaze landed on the still slumbering miko. Taking in the tangled sheets. The soft looking expanse of exposed skin. Long legs leading to a toned stomach. Leading to those soft breasts barely clothed by Rei's almost see through tank top. To her neck. To the hammering of the miko's pulse point.

Minako took a cautious step closer. Drawn in by the alluring sight. By the other woman's flushed, silken, shining skin. By the way she tossed and turned. As if trying to get closer to something. As if wanting. Needing. The blonde let loose a shuddery breath. A failed attempt to calm herself.

'Stop…' The voice at the back of her head whispered. Its desire tinted tone did little to quell the yearning in the pit of her stomach. She took another step closer and that voice came again. Fainter than before. 'This is wrong.'

The blonde licked her lips. Suddenly hungry for the feel of Rei against her. Her voice of reason tried once more. One last warning before it faded into the dark recesses of her mind. 'Don't lose control.'

Minako was too lost. Too hungry. To depraved and blinded by the hot blooded lust running through her veins. She couldn't deny the tingles shooting up her spine. The burning torture of her skin, begging to be touched. Begging to touch.

"Mi… na… ko…" Rei barely breathed. Her eyes still shut. Body still tensing. Still taunting Minako's greedy gaze. The miko moaned loudly. Back arching. "Mmm… Minako!"

The blonde froze. A low, animalistic growl bubbling at the back of her throat. Her heart was thudding loudly in her ears. Making it impossible to remember just why she was there. Just why she was watching Rei, ready to pounce.

The raven haired woman's fingers tightened their grip on the bed sheet. Minako watched with oblivious wonder as her own hand lifted itself from her side. Watched it quiver slightly as her fingertips grazed the sensitive flesh of Rei's bare thigh.

"No!" Rei screamed suddenly. "Venus! Don't!"

Dark, swirling blue eyes snapped up to meet Rei's closed eyelids. She watched the miko's face contort in pain. Brows furrowing deeply. Ruby colored lips pursed in a firm line. When Rei shot up, eyes wide and frantic, Minako took a surprised step away from the other woman. The blonde scolded herself. Attempting to put some distance between her and the enraged looking senshi of fire.

Rei's hand shot out, gripping Minako's wrist tightly. The miko's voice was low, growling. Husky with something more than sleep. "You know what happened, don't you."

The blonde tried in vain to tug her arm free. It burned. The feel of Rei's hand around her wrist. The feel of the other woman's skin against hers. It burned. Minako's breathing quickened. A sound scorching its way from deep inside of her. Telling her she'd burn to death if she didn't give in. She held it back.

"Tell me." The miko's voice was harsher. Snarling and low. Rei's amethyst eyes met Minako's sapphire hued black ones. The miko's grip around the blonde's wrist tightened painfully. Rei couldn't ignore the way Minako's tongue darted out to lick those pink lips of hers. Couldn't ignore the blonde woman's slight whimper as their gazes met again. "I won't play any more of your games."

"Rei…" The name slipped past her lips, off the tip of her tongue, from the aching pit of her stomach as a silky, sensual moan. Minako winced at the sound of it, her teeth digging into her lip. Biting down hard enough she could draw blood. Trying to hinder the useless sounds building within her. Trying to form the words she needed to say. Words lost in the desire filled void of her mind. "I… can't…"

'I can't stop myself!' Her mind screamed. It was too late.

The miko's biting words died on the tip of her tongue at Minako's unexpected action. At the feel of the blonde's lips pressed hard against her own. Minako's hand making its way beneath the fabric of her shirt. Rei groaned softly when she felt the other girl's nails digging roughly into her back. Teeth tugging at her lower lip. Minako's other hand slipping past the waist band of her underwear. Dark, desire filled blue depths staring hard into amethyst. Telling instead of asking. Taking instead of wanting. Instead of waiting.

"M-Minako! I want-Mmm… I want you. But," Rei's back arched at the feel of the blonde's fingers against her. Her voice a gasp of words Minako barely heard. "I-I, oh god, I need to know what happened!"

"I'm doing what we were made to do, Rei." Her voice was rough, emotionless. She wouldn't look Mars in the eyes. She couldn't.

Rei stiffened at the words. Her dark eyes widening, hurt and confused, for the briefest of seconds. Tears glistening in her eyes, fighting to break free. She refused to let them fall. The dark haired senshi's features hardened and she snarled. "Get out of my way Venus!"

"We both know I can't do that, Rei. I made an oath." The blonde's voice was almost a whisper. Cold azure eyes met Rei's fiery amethyst ones and her face seemed to darken. The blonde took a defensive stance. "I will protect our Queen. At all costs."

The blonde stiffened. The anger in Rei's voice knocking her back into reality. She scrambled away from the raven haired girl. Her heart wrenching painfully. Her dream, no, her memory sparked vividly. Brought the sting of tears to her eyes. Forced her to run for the nearest exit. To run away from Rei and what could not be.

000

Author's Note:

Hey! I updated fairly quickly! No more two year gaps between updates! *does the happy dance* Hope you all enjoyed. Let me know what ya think. Oh and… I upped the rating. Hehehe.