The little girl refused to leave Rei or Jay's side. When asked what her name was by one of the other Senshi or Shittenou, she would hide her face in either the robes of the raven-haired priestess or in the suit of the blond businessman.
Rei agreed to let the little girl act as a Miko in the temple assisting with bringing in wood and keeping the area spotless with the straw broom, of course this was all within eye-sight of the priestess. The little girl didn't say much, but she did sing simple songs that Rei remembered hearing from her mother as a child. The little girl also smiled a lot when her eyes caught the gaze of either of her parents glancing over at her.
Days seemed to become weeks as the senshi waited for Pluto's summon to be fulfilled. It seemed though the senshi was rather busy dealing with something else. Perhaps there were challenges with the timeline? No one knew.
So the little girl remained with Rei. Of course, Jay came and visited every day staying the evening in another room assigned to him though there were a few times he tried sneaking to Rei's room without her noticing (to check on her of course). There were a few nights, though, that Jay awoke with a small, warm bundle sleeping at his side. He gave a soft smile when he saw the little girl there, resting peacefully with a little smile on her face. He usually would pick her up and carry her back to her room, to which he would wake up in the morning finding that same little girl curled up at his side once more.
During this time, Usagi and Mamoru did marry, to which the young girl was able to watch and participate in the unique celebrations of the King and Queen. Kendal and Minako returned for that event, both still in their newly-wed, honeymoon phase with rose-tinted vision of each other. They were surprised when they saw the young girl with raven tresses clinging to Jay's pant leg.
"Do you know you have a kid attached to your clothes?" pointedly asked Kendal raising a single silver eyebrow.
"Did you know that you have a wife attached to your arm?" retorted Jay dismissing the question his leader asked.
Minako smiled brightly as she looked down to the little child, "What's your name, sweety?"
The big sapphire eyes of the child watched carefully the blonde woman before hiding her face in her "daddy's" pant leg. The business man chuckled and rubbed the young girl's head, "She doesn't talk to strangers."
"Hmmm," thought Kendal curious about the child and her origins.
"She kind of reminds me of Chibi Usa," spoke the Love Senshi off-handedly.
Jay smiled, "We've been hearing that name tossed around a lot. Chibi Usa."
"You'll meet her one day," Minako announced waving her hand in the air. "That young girl was something else. She's become a beautiful young lady. We saw her some years back. She looks more and more like her mother."
The young raven-locked girl looked up to the senshi of Venus before saying, "Chibi Mina is my best friend."
Jay turned down looking at the child having said something for the first time in days other than singing a song or calling out 'Mama!' or 'Papa!'. "Chibi Mina?"
The future daughter of the blond Shittenou looked into the man's eyes and smiled before nodding his head, "She is my best friend! Uncle Kunzite and Auntie Venus are her mommy and daddy."
Jay immediately caught the blush that covered the Senshi's face and the slight hue of red that stained the cheeks of his Commanding officer. Well, this was indeed news.
"Well, I know their daughter's name," spoke Jay pointing to the newly weds who were still in shock of the news, "Yet I have no clue what your name is, sweetheart."
The young girl shyly looked up at the man who would soon be her father, and she smiled brightly, "My name is Rei."
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It was late at night when Rei and Jay finally returned to the temple. Jay held the young girl in his arms as she laid her head over his right shoulder. Rei couldn't help but smile watching as the young girl began to drool over Jay's blue dress shirt. Not that he cared, but it was still an adorable sight to see. To think, they were both in the presence of their future daughter... she wondered if Usagi and Mamoru felt the same way she did at this moment, staring at a young girl who would soon be hers and Jay's creation.
Rei slid open the door to the temple and let the business man in. He thanked her softly and with a nod before walking over to "Chibi Rei's" assigned room to tuck the child into bed.
Rei's heart began to warm. Though she may be stubborn and angry at threats, insults, and plain old teasing from this insufferable man, she watched as he gently cared for a young girl. This brought the senshi to care more for this man. Rei went to her room and began taking off her jewelry, pull down the combs from her hair, and dress into her pajamas. As she was ready to slip into her futon, she heard a knock on the door.
"Come in," she spoke as she set in her bed. Her amethyst eyes caught the sight of Jay as he slipped in and closed the door. He turned around and walked over to where she was sitting. He gave a smile and ran a hand through his curly, short blond locks.
"That child is something else," he chuckled, "I'm surprised I didn't wake her!"
Rei smiled and nodded her head, her thoughts traveling back to how kind this business man had been to the child. She couldn't help but smile at the thought of him being a wonderful fa"ther to any children he sired. "She really did open up today," commented the senshi but paused beginning to feel the chill of colder weather Autumn usually brought in.
The blond noticed her chill before he took off his suit coat, pulled off his tie, and began pulling back her covers. Rei began to hiss and protest as he wrapped his arms around her and pull her close.
"What the HELL do you think you are doing?!" fire began forming in her eyes as she forced herself not to will the same element at her finger tips thus destroying her cozy bed.
He used his strong arms to embrace her and hold her close as she continued struggling against him and hissing. He huffed, "Calm down Rei. I'm just trying to keep you warm."
She froze at his comment, "I am not sleeping with you!"
He looked into her amethyst eyes and gave a devilish smirk after a few moments, "Oh? Not ever? Isn't Chibi Rei proof of our future passionate nights together?"
A bright red blush covered her face as she averted her eyes elsewhere. "Not now at least... I need to set an example for our daughter."
Jay knew exactly what she was meaning. Before, he wouldn't have minded spending that intimate time with Rei before they married, in which he was originally planning on proposing the day they met with that youma attack almost one year ago. But having met and spent time with his future little girl, any lust he had for the woman currently in his arms was cooled for the time being. He knew he needed to be careful now with little eyes and ears in this temple. Something in him welled to wanting to protect this young girl as much as setting the example for her. "I'll wait for that," spoke Jay with a small smirk, a teasing tone beginning to come into his tone, "We don't want Chibi Rei catching us creating her, now do we?"
Rei gasped and hissed as she began trying to push out of his arms as he began to laugh while holding her steady in them, the twinkle in his eye as he kissed her forehead, "We won't be doing anything, Rei. I'm just wanting to keep you warm from the chill in this weather."
"You promise you won't try any funny business?"
"I'm still in my suit, aren't I?"
Rei noticed he was still very much in the pressed shirt, vest, and pants...
"It is rather cold," muttered the priestess.
He chuckled and kissed her cheek this time settling in futher into her futon, "Let's rest while we can. Don't forget, we have a meeting with the team tomorrow."
She rolled her eyes. "How can I forget?"
He chuckled and adjusted his hold on her as she became comfortable in his arms. Though sleep didn't seem to always come easy to the shittenou, thanks to his military past in both the Silver Millenium and after his coma with the memories(thanks to Beryl), he found it easy to slip into sleep with his love in his arms. Both he and Rei didn't notice the little girl slip into the same room, and find a spot to snuggle in that cool, Autumn night.
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Either the room was extremely dark, the bed, or the warmth from their embrace resting in the bed was exceptionally comforting to both that neither of the people asleep woke when the sound of the doors to the temple slid open and voices began ringing in the halls.
"...not meditating?"
"Isn't she normally up before dawn?"
"Did she drink too much last evening?"
"Maybe he had a late night with Jay- OW!"
"Quiet! Do you want Rei to give you third degree burns, Nathan?"
"It was just..."
"Let's see if she's still in bed," spoke the cheery bubbly voice belonging to no other than Minako. As she opened the door leading to her friend's room and ready to throw her out of bed, she shouted, "Good Morning Sunshine! Time to get out of-"
The love senshi's eyes widened at the sight of the three snuggled in the rather small futon still sleeping peacefully.
The blonde's jaw dropped as did at least two other people in the group with a few blushes and a few smirks.
"Someone..." the leader of the senshi whispered, "get me a camera... or my cell phone."
A flash went off, "Got it." Ami held up her device and began saving it to her data system. "One for the books."
"Let's let them sleep," spoke Makoto, "Rei and Jay deserve this. You know they don't sleep well at night-"
"I agree," added Ami putting away her cell phone and reaching to Zach who was holding their little baby, "We have the evidence. Let them enjoy these moments together before reality hits them."
"Jay could care less if we caught them like this," spoke the long haired, blond man with a shrug.
Kendal's ice blue eyes looked to his comrad, "You know for Rei's sake, he would throw fire at anyone who disturbed the two of them... happened back in the Silver Millenium."
"Oh yeah..." uttered the new father. His green eyes looked to the ceiling contemplative. "Well... I suppose we should just wait then in the other room till they wake."
"Let them think we didn't catch them?" shrugged Nathan, "We knew they would be together again later than sooner."
Makoto and Kunzite began slowly sliding the doors closed to the room. The brunette woman shooing the people into the main meeting room of the temple. "The least we can do is allow them their privacy as they wake up," spoke the leader of the Shittenou.
"And give them the picture as blackmail?" teased Zach. He hissed when he felt his wife smack the back of his head with one hand as she carried the baby in the other. He saw her blue eyes glaring at him. "No. I will give it to them when they begin missing Chibi Rei after she returns to the future."
"Good idea," nodded Makoto as their group began walking down the hall to the main meeting room.
The leader of the senshi sighed as she held hands with her new husband, "Oh! Such a blossoming love! Maybe they might get married sooner than later."
Zach smirked. Knowing Jay as long as he did, the two might decide to elope in Vegas after this little ordeal.
Not that it was a surprise to those around.
They knew the two would be getting together. It was just a matter of time before they overcame their stubborness and actually spent time together.
"I think they'll go right to making a kid," spoke Zach nodding his head in a matter of fact tone.
He felt a second smack come from his irritated wife.
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Jay felt movement, which stirred him awake. His deep blue eyes peaked open as he saw the woman next to him. A smile began forming on his lips as she shifted to be more comfortable. He noticed the light begin to shine into the room. It was morning. Something lingered in the back of his mind that he had something he needed to take care of.
He heard her call his name in that groggy voice as she turned her head towards him, her sleepy eyes opening to look up at him. He placed a kiss on her forehead and used his fingers to sweep away some strands of hair. "Morning."
She gave him a smile before sighing and laying back down, "What time is it?"
He shrugged as he pulled her back in his arms, "Not sure. The sun is up though."
He felt her body zing up and he eyes widen, hair flying all over the place and their young future daughter quickly stirring at the abrupt movement. Both Jay and Rei's eyes widened at the sight of the little girl who decided to come to her room at night, so it seemed.
Not that they were going to ask what Chibi Rei was doing here, albeit she had a habit of going to one of her future parent's rooms at night. It was a little startling to see that she was indeed in the room with them, her eyes still glazed as her tired brain tried waking up the lethargic body from sleep.
Rei carefully rubbed the arm of the little girl noticing her fall back into the futon and decide to sleep a little more. Both of her future parent's blinked in surprise before a sweatdrop fell from the side of their head.
"Alrighty then," uttered Jay a bit amused.
"The senshi meeting," uttered Rei, her voice beginning to panic. She looked at Jay, "They have to be on their way!"
He rubbed his face as he also sat up, "Don't worry... nothing happened. You waking up with me and our daughter here is innocent enough. Look. I'm still in my dress clothes from last night and you are in your pajamas."
"I... I don't know."
He embraced her and kissed her temple, "Everything is okay. We are just getting up a little later than normal. We will have the meeting, no one will suspect a thing."
She looked into his eyes, her heart trying to convince her otherwise. Her gut was saying something else, "Jay..."
"You have nothing to worry about."
It was about ten minutes later, Rei was dressed in her Priestess clothing, Jay, still in now wrinkled pants and shirt (no tie) as they walked to the main meeting room. To their surprise, everyone sat in the room quietly chatting to each other. It was when the couple, known for their skills in fire manipulation appeared, they turned to them completely silent.
Rei and Jay became very silent as six sets of eyes watched them silently... till Zach decided to open his mouth.
"Was the sex good last night?"
Rei was THIS close to throwing fire at the man before she felt a tugging on her clothes. She looked down to watch Chibi Rei look up at her mom with bright eyes. "Mom, what's sex?"
Forget Rei wanting to burn the man. Jay was already rolling up his sleeves and storming over to drag his long time friend out of the room by his pony tail!
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Author's Note: A LOT has happened over the last month (which was the last time I updated...). For those of you who don't know, I am a Real Estate Agent. I have quite a few house and land listings, closings, and rentals that I have been taking care of over the month. There was other family stuff that has been going on as well which has taken quite a bit of time. I also am doing AirBNB at my home (which does take some prep time).
I'm looking at writing a few future chapters for the next book, Seasons, but it might not be quick and speedy updates like before. I will update when I can, but reviews really, really help encourage me to continue and update quicker.
ALSO! I wanted to announce that I finished writing a story with my brother who has the penname Jakeros! Yay! Look out for it. I'm not sure what he will be titling the story or when he will be publishing it, but we LITERALLY spent a MONTH working on this thing together. His sense of humor and story telling skills amazes me. He wrote from the point of view of Jadeite and I the POV of Rei. It is a Rei/Jadeite story. I actually have read through our rough draft several times and continue to be amused by it. Although I normally don't read or write rated M stories... it will be going into that direction in the middle of the story and after. You will see why it is an M rating as the story progresses. If you want to get the updates for when the story begins, I would suggest putting an Author Alert on Jakeros for when he begins posting the story. I do believe a Beta Reader is working on the chapters as of this moment. Again, we did finish writing the entire story! It will be multi-chaptered. It's going to be a roller coaster ride.
We will see what happens!
Epilogue is next which will conclude Autumn.
Please review!