Chapter 7:

Healer and Fighter turned around to face Princess Kakyuu, eyes widening in horror and shock before they both dropped down into a kneeling position and cried out in unison, "Princess!"

Kakyuu giggled behind a dainty hand and said in a soothing tone, "Healer, Fighter, you both should know by now that I consider you to be my best friends. You don't have to kneel before me."

"As you wish, Princess, " replied Fighter in a heartbeat, ignoring the brief, pointed glare that her silver-haired companion shot her and stood up.

"How is your day going so far?" asked the red-head, smiling at two of her guardians and friends while folding her hands in front of herself elegantly.

Healer nearly rolled her eyes as her lovesick, idiotic friend replied like an obedient puppy, "It's absolutely fine. What about you, Princess?" Midnight blue eyes looked into red ones in absolute adoration and longing as their owner waited for her beloved one's angelic voice to respond to her.

"Mine is going just fine also, but I can't help but to think that I just interrupted something between you two. Is something wrong?" Red eyes looked into her two most trusted friends' eyes as their owner's face scrunched up in a delicate frown.

Opening her mouth to give a response that would ease the red-head's worries, Healer was sharply cut off by her friend which earned the bluenette another glare from her shorter companion.

"It wasn't anything important really. We were just talking about something that Healer wanted to know about and I gave her a reasonable answer. Didn't I, Healer?"

Two eyes looked over at the shorter woman, who tried her best not to smack the smirk right off of her leader's mouth that her princess was completely oblivious to. The silver-haired woman sighed, barely containing an eye roll at the obvious lie that was about to flow out of her lips and responded, "Yes, princess, I did. I wanted to know if Fighter knows what brand of shampoo I should use to make my hair a lot more softer."

"Well that's very nice of you, Fighter, to help Healer with her hair problems, " said Kakyuu with a sweet smile on her face, turning her attention back onto the Starlight leader. "But I've been meaning to talk to you anyway."

"Really? About what?" came Fighter's enthusiastic answer, her adoration increasing even more to the point it almost caused Healer to throw up right then and there.

Kakyuu replied, "I'll tell you while we're walking through the garden." Then she added while looking over at the shorter Starlight, "That is if you don't mind, Healer."

The short-tempered woman shook her head, looking crossly into Fighter's eyes and said evenly,"No, I don't mind at all. We'll pick up on what we were talking about earlier later, Fighter." Then she bowed towards Kakyuu before walking away, ignoring the two pairs of eyes on her back.

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"I see that it went well, " came Maker's amused voice from her place on her bed without looking up from her book after her bedroom door was slammed closed.

The silver-haired woman growled, sitting down beside the taller woman's legs and said sarcastically, "Yeah, and she's going to go give Usagi-san a big kiss on the lips as we're speaking. Whoo-hoo."

"That bad?" asked the brunette with concern, taking her amethyst-colored eyes off of her book to look over at her companion.

"Yes, and I swear that if common sense doesn't hit her I will kick her fucking ass. I'm so sick of the way she's acting. She really needs to grow the hell up!" she screeched and clenched her hands into fists.

"Healer, maybe it's best to ..."

Lime green eyes met amethyst ones in a heated glare as theie owner growled out dangerously, "Don't 'Healer' me, Taiki! She needs to fucking realize that it's not only her feelings that she has to worry about, but Usagi-san's also! Right now, she's being a lovesick puppy with our princess in the garden while her wife is probably looking for her."

Maker sighed, sitting her book down and said, "I know, Yaten, but you should know by now that in order for Seiya to come to her senses that a tragedy has to happen. So we must wait for that to happen."

"But Seiya's too much ..."

Amethyst eyes gleamed dangerously as the brunette hissed, "Yaten ..."

The silver-haired woman sighed. throwing her hands up into the air and yelled, "Fine! No more trying to talk some sense into that dumbass! I understand!"

"Good. Now go shopping or something. We're not needed for now." The brunette smiled, resuming what she was doing earlier.

Silence filled the room for a few minutes with the shorter Starlight not leaving, until the shorter Starlight asked one question that came to her mind that made her shoot to her feet in alarm, "Where's Usagi-san?"

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The blonde beauty ran a brush through her hair a few more times before she sat it down and sighed. Looking over at the time, the petite woman got up from her husband's vanity and made her way out to the balcony to clear her thoughts.

Usagi leaned against the railing, admiring the beautiful scenery down below before her eyes caught sight of a familiar dark blue ponytail and felt her heart leap into her throat as her husband and her princess came into view.

'Fighter ...'

Then a pang of sadness and hurt filled her chest at the way that Fighter was looking at her princess, causing her to back away from the railing and turned away when her husband took the princess's hands into hers, rushing back into the bedroom as tears started to fill her vision.