SailorStar9: You ladies wanted this chapter, so here goes. This is Chapter 8 of this fic; and please be a dear and review.
Disclaimers: I do not own the animes. But I do own the pairing, I hope.
Chapter 8: Protect Mamoru! Jealousy of Usagi the Ninja
Time passes, in Mamoru's apartment...
"And so, the problem is this quadratic function." Mamoru pointed out the problem.
"Oh, I see." Ami nodded. "I had to think about the relativity in space first."
"That's my Nymph." Thomas declared proudly, returning to the table with a tray of drinks for the study group. "Always so good at learning these things."
"Sweet-talker." Ami accused playfully.
"Nope, that's the truth." Thomas smirked, kissing her on the cheek; the young doctor was taking the night shift that night.
"And see, this one here." Mamoru continued his tutoring, smiling inwardly at the couple. "You can apply what you did to the other problem to solve it."
"You're right." Ami agreed. "That saves me a whole lot."
"Now, you're perfect." Thomas nodded.
"Don't get so close together!" Usagi fumed, splitting Mamoru and Ami apart, causing Ami to fall into Thomas' arms.
"Oh boy, Usagi is at it again." Chibi-Usa sighed as Thomas caught his soulmate before she hit the ground.
"Ami is here to be tutored by Mamoru." Minako reminded.
"Even if it's studying, I don't want him looking elsewhere!" Usagi whined.
"You're such a child." Rei sighed.
"What?" Usagi growled. "Rei, you're a meanie!" and a tongue-war started between them.
"There's no way that we'd interrupt your hot little relationship now." Minako reminded.
"Huh?" Makoto started. "Don't you think it's a little smoky more than hot?"
"It's a fire!" Diana panicked, looking out of the balcony. "Fire, fire fire!"
"The fire extinguisher!" Minako screamed. "The fire extinguisher!"
"Calm down, guys!" Mamoru advised the panicking girls.
"Here's the fire extinguisher." Rei returned with the fire extinguisher in hand, before she tripped over a fallen light post and pressed the lever by accident.
"Oh boy, this is going to be messy." Thomas muttered, shielding Ami when the form exploded out of the nozzle.
"What Diana saw was the smoke from the kitchen as some fish were being charbroiled." Thomas explained to the apologetic girls when Mamoru slammed his laptop shut.
"I'm sorry." Diana apologized.
"It's not your fault." Rei assured. "It was because I went down to Usagi's level and panicked."
"What was that?" Usagi fumed.
"Usagi!" the other girls snapped.
"But what are you going to do, Mamoru?" Thomas asked after Usagi pouted. "You can't use this room for a while."
"This doesn't look good." Mamoru agreed. "I'm a little behind on my report for college. I have to finish it up by tomorrow."
"Then, Mamoru, you can stay over at our place." Rei offered. "We have an extra room."
"No!" Usagi protested. "Absolutely not! If he's going to stay over, it will be at my place!"
"How are you going to explain Mamo-chan to Papa and Mama?" Chibi-Usa reminded.
"It will be alright!" Diana assured, hopping over to Mamoru. "Leave it to me! I will tag along and risk my life to guard them and make sure that Mamoru-sama and Rei-sama will not make any mistakes."
"Mistakes?" Minako echoed, blushing.
"NO!" Usagi wailed. "Absolutely not!"
"Minako, get your mind off the gutter." Thomas smirked jokingly. "What would your dear Hitoshi say to you if he was here right now?"
In the Dead Moon Circus tent...
"We must hurry up." Zirconia urged. "Our ambition to take over the world depends on whether or not we find the Pegasus."
"Zirconia-sama, we already have powers that far surpasses those of humans." Tigers-Eye voiced.
"Even if we don't find Pegasus, I believe that it will be easy to take over the world." Fish-Eye agreed.
"What in the world is Pegasus, if I may ask?" Hawks-Eye requested.
"All you need to do is obey me and do as I say!" Zirconia silenced the Trio. "If you have time to make wisecracks, find the person in whom Pegasus is hiding."
The Trio bowed.
In the bar...
"Geez, it's not like we're some low-rank underling." Fish-Eye pouted. "She could tell us something, you know?"
"You know, it seems like Pegasus is more important to Zirconia-sama than taking over the world." Hawks-Eye remarked. "Hey, what are you doing?" he looked over at the musing Tigers-Eye.
"Psychic fortune-telling." Tigers-Eye replied.
"Tigers-Eye, a psychic?" Fish-Eye joked.
"Oh, hush!" Tigers-Eye snapped. "See, it's looking pretty good." he picked out Rei's photo. "I guess it's time to go back to traditional Japanese, right?"
In the Hikawa Shrine...
"I'm sorry that my little Rei has troubled you." Grandpa Hino apologized to their guest. "I humble apologize."
"It's not that." Mamoru protested. "Please lift your head up."
"No, no." Grandpa Hino corrected. "If that is to be, you can stay here a year, even two."
"Sheesh, Grandpa, you're overreacting." Rei sighed.
"But in any case, he's a rather nice fellow." Grandpa Hino noted. "Rei, don't let him get away."
"Grandpa!" Rei protested.
"Well, this Hikawa Shrine has traditionally been a righteous place, but I don't have a successor." Grandpa Hino added. "So I want Rei to find a good man to marry into our family and become my successor. Pretty good..." he surveyed Mamoru.
"That grandpa!" Usagi fumed, the group hiding behind the pillar. "I'm going to take Mamo-chan back with me!
"Usagi!" Makoto pulled the blond back.
"Let go of me!" Usagi complained.
"USAGI!" the girls chided.
"It's alright." Yuichiro assured as he took Mamoru's suitcase. "I know Rei and I believe in her."
"That's because it's you, Yuichiro." Usagi deathpanned.
"That's a little rude, Usagi." Ami chided. "Even though Mamoru used to date Rei..."
"Dated?" Yuichiro stammered in shock. "Ouch!" he yelled in pain, dropping the suitcase on his foot.
"Ami!" Makoto scolded.
"Is it true that they were dating?" Chibi-Usa inquired.
"It was a long time ago." Minako cut in. "Now, Rei doesn't feel anything for him."
"That's right." Ami agreed. "She said she's looking for a boyfriend and is set on finding a great guy now."
"Looking for a boyfriend?" Yuichiro echoed and crashed into a tree.
"Whoops, that wasn't a good followup at all..." the girls remarked.
"Oh Dad." Enyo sighed.
That night...
"A quiet room." Diana remarked on a cushion. "This should allow Mamoru-sama's studies to progress.
"You know Diana, can you stop calling me Mamoru-sama?" Mamoru requested. "Mamo-chan is just fine."
"I cannot"! Diana insisted. "Mamoru-sama, you're the one who will become the king in the future world. To have you study hard, I, Diana, will not allow anyone to approach this roo... Mamoru-sama!" she gasped when Mamoru stood up.
"I"m going to take a bath." Mamoru told her. "Would you like to join me?" Diana gasped in shock and blushed.
"Really Grandpa, what's this about a successor?" Rei sighed, both mother-and-daughter were heading to the bathroom. "I'm a dreamy little maiden. Love! Work! A beautiful life!"
"You keep deluding yourself, Mom." Enyo muttered.
"Enyo..." Rei growled.
"Oops." Enyo stuck out her tongue. "Mom?" she blinked when Rei jumped out of the bathroom, covering her eyes and blushing as Mamoru leapt into the bathtub in embarrassment. "You didn't..."
"What is it?" Yuichiro ran in. "What happened, Rei? Rei, what in the world..." he turned to the priestess.
"You idiot!" Rei kicked Yuichiro to the ground.
"Rei..." Yuichiro blinked.
"Dad," Enyo sighed. "Why didn't you tell Mom the order we were taking baths when you passed us earlier?"
"Rei!" Yuichiro called as Rei ran off in embarrassment.
"You really asked for that, Dad." Enyo shook her head and took off after her mother.
"You seem to be very relaxed, Mamoru." Yuichiro turned his attention to the man in the tub.
In Rei's room...
"Sheesh!" Rei entered her room and slid the door shut. "All of you are idiots! Big idiots!"
"Who's an idiot?" Usagi droned.
"Who is it?" Enyo went on alert.
"Usagi?" Rei looked at the red-suited ninja who had crawled out form underneath the table. "What are you doing so late?"
"Time doesn't matter to a girl in love." Usagi glared. "Cooperate and tell me where Mamo-chan is."
"If you want to go, go on ahead." Rei snorted and sat on the bed. "He's in the bath, though."
"The bath?" Usagi echoed. "It can't be... You didn't peek, did you? What's that face, Rei?" she demanded, seeing Rei's red face.
"I didn't see it because I wanted to see it." Rei defended.
"You saw him!" Usagi shrieked.
"Just his back." Rei confessed.
"But you saw his back!" Usagi screamed.
"What, it's his fault for showing me!" Rei insisted.
"Rei saw him!" Usagi repeated.
"It's the fault of the one who shows me!" Rei asserted.
"Rei saw him!" Usagi yelled.
"As I said, it was just a little bit!" Rei pressed.
"You saw just even a little bit!" Usagi fumed.
In Mamoru's room...
"Enyo, what's wrong?" Diana looked at the frustrated chibi Senshi who had entered the room.
"Immature mothers." Enyo muttered and refused to elaborate.
In the Tsukino household, in her room...
"Pegasus..." Chibi-Usa turned her attention to the Stallion Rêve when Pegasus manifested. "Hey, why do people get jealous when they fall in love with someone? Usagi really believes in Mamo-chan. But she always says, 'Don't look at others.'"
When you fall in love with someone you start thinking that you want them to look at you and only you forever. Pegasus replied.
"I don't want that." Chibi-Usa replied. "It just isn't cool. If it was me, I would believe in the person I fell in love with."
When you really are in love, waiting and believing in them is one shape that your love can take. Pegasus advised.
"You think so?" Chibi-Usa blushed at Pegasus' intent expression.
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The next day in the Hikawa Shrine...
"I couldn't finish it after all..." Mamoru winced, cracking his shoulders.
"You still have time left." Diana encouraged. "Give it your best, Mamoru-sama!"
"Yeah..." Mamoru agreed.
"I couldn't sleep well at all." Rei slide open her room's door.
"Me too." Enyo yawned.
"You haven't trained enough, Rei." Usagi interjected.
"Don't tell me..." Enyo looked up at the tree.
"I went home quietly last night." Usagi supplied. "But I will make sure I get Mamo-chan back today."
"Go right ahead." Rei retorted. "I don't think of Mamoru at all."
"Are you making fun of my Mamo-chan?" Usagi snapped.
"I didn't say anything like that!" Rei shot back.
"Here we go again..." Enyo sighed.
"Both of you, please be quiet." Diana scolded. "Sheesh! Are you fine with it if Mamoru-sama fails his classes? For shame!"
"Diana sure has a vivid imagination." Enyo remarked as the kitten ran off.
"I have no choice." Usagi commented. "But I will not be separated from Mamo-chan. After I eat breakfast, I'll be back. Farewell!" she exited.
"What's that about farewell?" Rei snapped.
"She sure is persistent." Enyo muttered.
"Yuichiro, kick that silly ninja out of here!" Rei ordered. "Yuichiro, you're not around?"
"Mom," Enyo tugged her mother's sleeve. "Dad's mediating right now." she whispered.
I found her. Tigers-Eye reached the top of the stairs, finding Rei in front of the praying shrine. That girl is the target. She's pretty good. A pure, beautiful girl with a beautiful dream hidden inside her. It would be a waste to just assault her. "First, I'll take my time to completely charm her."
"There, you are, Usagi!" Rei flared out, nearly hitting Tigers-Eye with her broomstick. "Oh?" she blinked. "I thought it was Usagi. Is something the matter?"
"No..." Tigers-Eye blinked in shock as Rei retrieved her broom. "Someone so beautiful, I was enticed by your mysterious eyes and my feet just faltered."
"Damnit Usagi." Rei looked about the bush. "Where are you hiding? Here? Or over here" she slammed her broom into the bushes.
"Is she saying that I don't register in her line of sight?" Tigers-Eye fumed. "Such a wonderful me?"
"Where?" Rei looked around. "Where? Here?" she wracked the bush. "Huh?" she blinked when her broom was sent flying and Tigers-Eye reverted to his original form.
"Uh oh..." Enyo muttered and ran off to find her father. "DAD!" she shouted.
"What's wrong, Enyo?" Yuichiro stopped sweeping the courtyard.
"It's Mom!" Enyo replied. "Mom's being attacked!"
"What?" Yuichiro gasped. "Mars Eternal Power, Armor Up!"
"Enyo Dream Weaver, Make Up!" Enyo transformed.
"One!" Tigers-Eye chanted as a slate appeared behind Rei "Two!" Rei's wrists and ankles were cuffed in place. "Three!" at that, Rei screamed as her 'Dream Mirror' was drawn out forcefully. "I will have a look at your beautiful dream."
Meanwhile..
"Haven't you had enough of that?" Chibi-Usa deathpanned, seeing Usagi scaling up the wall.
"I can't give up!" Usagi was determined. "I must protect my darling Mamo-chan from the evil hands of my nemesis, Rei."
"You know, people can be disliked for being annoying." Chibi-Usa reminded. "Here." she pulled Usagi up. "I think that waiting and believing in them is one shape that your love can take." she repeated Pegasus' words.
"Where did you learn such a line..." Usagi wondered when they heard Rei's scream.
"Moon Dream Weaver, Make Up!" the two Moon Senshi transformed.
"It's great!" Tigers-Eye chuckled, sticking his head into Rei's 'Dream Mirror'. "Such a dream. But Pegasus isn't in here." he removed his head. "A beautiful dream that see the future. It would be a problem if this ends up being Pegasus' future home. So I'll be getting rid of you."
"Magma Pillar!"a column of flames shot from the ground underneath Tigers-Eye, washing over the Amazon.
"Curse you!" Tigers-Eye growled at Dragon Mars as Enyo hurried over to free her mother.
"Hold it right here!" Moon announced.
"Trying to find true love in the future." Chibi-Moon added. "Full of hope, full of dreams. You're a villain who wants to do horrible things to a pure maiden who dreams of the future."
"There you go with your tough lines again..." Moon muttered. "In any case, for love and justice!"
"The pretty Senshi in Sailor suits." Chibi-Moon remarked.
"Moon!" Moon introduced.
"Chibi-Moon!" Chibi-Moon posed.
"In the name of the moon..." Moon posed.
"We'll punish you!" the two chorused.
"Each and every time, you bother me." Tigers-Eye snorted. "Come on out, my Lemure, water trick artist, Mizugeiko. Wonderful." he noted when the Lemure manifested. "Cool down their heads with plenty of water."
Sprouting water from the bottom of her two fans, Mizugeiko charged at the Moon Senshi on her umbrella, forcing them to dodge.
"What is this?" Moon exclaimed, finding her suit drenched.
"Oh no!" Chibi-Moon realized. "It's not water!"
"Mamo-chan!" Moon wailed.
In his room...
"Is Usako calling me?" Mamoru stopped in mid-type.
"Mamoru-sama!" Diana reminded. "If you don't do your best, you wont' make it in time."
"Yeah, I know." Mamoru replied. "I'll do it, I'll do it."
Outside...
"Water freely moves to the right, and to the left." Mizugeiko chanted, her water jets closing in on the two Senshi. "Rainy Boy Crosses the Canyon!" the Lemure released a spout of water from the tip of her umbrella at the cornered Senshi, forming a rainbow arch that sent numerous biting dolls at the two Senshi.
"Tsunami Freeze!" came Mercury's icy wave of water that blew the dolls away, the rest of the Senshi jumping into the battle.
"Light Comet!" Venus struck the Lemure with her attack.
"Berserker Bolt!" Jupiter's attack fried the umbrella.
"Dream Tambourines..." the five chibi Senshi called. "Paralyzation Unification!" The five magical instruments released a powerful star-shaped beam of paralyzing dream energy wave at the Lemure.
"Now, Chibi-Moon!" Aurora called.
"Please Pegasus!" Chibi-Moon went in prayer mode. "Protect everyone's dreams! Twinkle Yell!"
"Now, Moon!" Jupiter shouted.
"Everyone!" Moon winced and stood up. "Moon Gorgeous Mediation!" she fired her attack at the frozen Lemure.
"Stage Out!" Mizugeiko squealed as the attack washed over her.
Growling, Tigers-Eye retreated via a fire ring.
The slate holding Rei in place vanished and Dragon Mars caught his female counterpart before she hit the ground.
"Rei." Dragon Mars stated, recalling his armor.
"Yuu..." Rei smiled.
Later at Crown...
"I don't care!" Usagi fumed. "I don't care! You didn't come to rescue me! Sheesh!"
"I'm sorry." Mamoru apologized. "I'm really sorry. I apologize."
SailorStar9: Now that's done, read and review. In the next chapter, Chibi-Usa befriends Kitakata, an artist obsessed with fairies. Meanwhile, Fish-Eye prepares to seduce Kitakata by disguising himself as a beautiful fairy.
