AN: Final chapter, I hope you enjoy it!
Rei's cheeks were flushed, she didn't trust the elevator so instead she ran up four flights of stairs at top speed now slightly out of breath she was searching her pocket for the key. She knew the key was with her, she clutched it tight in her pocket it was her only distraction from the long taxi ride, the bus would of taken too long. Man was she acting crazy, she normally makes fun of people who act like this, she would call them love sick, roll her eyes at them and do her best to ignore. Nope not now, now she has to count herself as one of the crazy people running downtown Toyko trying to make it to Jedite's appartment before he leaves. Rei suddenly feared that the key wouldn't work, he did give her a key to his apartment right? This wasn't a key to some lock box full of cash or a storage container right? Rei looked down at the ring and couldn't help but smile, why in the hell was she trying so hard to fight her love for this man for so long? For goodness sakes he was hot, wealthy and her father hates him, that's a catch! Without a second thought she put the key in the doors lock and turned it bursting into the room. There stood Jedite, by the window in his white dress shirt and tie slightly loose around his neck. He looked surprised, oh yeah don't hear from her all day only to have her barge in right before the party, classic. Rei shut the door behind her leaning on it amazed she made it this far. Clearly she found his apartment key in the ring box, a smirk creeped on his lips, that means she found the ring. It was that look Rei was waiting for and with little hesitation and no words she quickly closed the distance between the two of them. Jedite staggered back slightly catching Rei in his arms, not long after Rei's lips were on he was having a hard time keeping up with her actions. He couldn't be cold and distant with her kissing him like this! Rei pulled back to look into his eyes brushing some of his blond curls out of his face, darn it she really does love him. "I hate you a lot," Jedite instantly frowned, "but I love you more," and Jedite instantly picked up Rei in sheer joy.
"You mean it? You're not just making a joke?" he asked looking into her eyes. She can't play with him on this, they have gone too far! There has been too much kisses too much tender moments, if he had to go back to a life without Rei in it every day he wouldn't be able to manage. Jedite got a slap on the arm for thinking she would do such a thing to the man.
"I'm not a tease Jedite! I'm not going to say I love you and then take it back! My gosh you drive me crazy!" Jedite pulled her close. She said it, she actually said the words and he was over the moon. Rei hit him on the arm for good measure, making a joke about something like that, what a joke.
"Say it again, without that hate part," he cooed into her ear, she closed her eyes. The cologne she use to hate is now sweet and comforting. Everything about him felt like home and that's a feeling Rei never felt in this life, now she knew why. She wasn't complete without him.
"Jedite I love you," she was hoping he wasn't secretly recording her right now, oh she would be so mad if he did that. Instead he said nothing, actually he was being sweet putting his hand on her cheek looking into her eyes seeking something but Rei didn't know what, maybe he just liked looking at her, she smiled at that. After a few seconds he smiled this all knowing smile and kissed her sweetly on the lips.
"Do you like the ring?" he had mounted this level of anticipation all day over it bringing her hand up to look at it, it was hypnotic on her hand.
"It's beautiful Jedite. Is there a larger ruby on this planet?" she joked looked at it again on her finger, it made her smile. Jedite could tell from that look on her face she was happy,
"If there is we can just go and steal it!" another playful hit to Jedite's arm, if he keeps this up he will have a bruise. Instantly Rei realized Jedite was getting dressed for the party, the arty she couldn't attend wearing her shirt and skirt to.
"I don't have time to get a dress for Mina's party!" Rei was suddenly panicked. She left everything once she saw that ring. It was like she totally forgot she had to go to Mina's birthday party, all that was on her mind was Jedite and the engagement ring. Really Rei is lucky she isn't wearing her slippers.
"I have one of your dresses in my closet, I slipped it in when I got my suits," he said with a sly smile.
"Ohh you had plans!" Rei couldn't help bit tease him over it, he clearly thought this whole thing out. Being gone all day must of tortured him, she couldn't help but smile evilly at the suffering he must of gone through all day. She went to his closet wondering what dress he picked out for her.
"I was hopeful you would come to your senses," he said leaning on the bedroom door frame smirking as she glared over to him but still pulled out the dress and started undressing but she paused looking at him in annoyance.
"Are you just going to stand there gawking?" her annoyed emotionless tone came across to Jedite as playful and mischievous.
"Oh are you suggesting I help?" he spoke back with a cocky smile but still he didn't budge from his perch at the door.
"Of course I am," Rei said playfully over her shoulder winking, he didn't need to be told twice and Jedite quickly walked over and planted a hot kiss on Rei's lips making quick work of her shirt.
Suddenly a knock came at the door, Jedite grunted in annoyance. The first time Rei was more than willing for them to be intimate there has to be a knock at the door, how typical. "I will go deal with that," gabbed the handle for the bedroom door signaling her to stay in the room and stay quite as he shut it going to the front door. "Hey Jed, I need to borrow some cloths for the party," Neph was already half way across the room.
"Nope!" Jedite threw himself in front of the door trying to lean on it all casual. "Noooo it's crazy messy in there." He really needed to work on his excuses because they were just getting worse and worse, or so he thought.
"As if I haven't seen your room messy before," Neph tried again but Jedite blocked again.
"Annnnd all my clothes are still at Rei's! Yep, nothing to borrow in here!" Rei could hear Jedite standing at the door trying to block Nephrite from getting in, doesn't the tall brown haired ex-general have his own cloths? Reirolled her eyes at Jedites failed attempt at blocking Nephrite from entering the room she was hiding in. She needed her own plan,
"Just let me in!" Nephrite broke through Jedite's blockade and walked into the room "it's not messy at all Jedite," Jedite looked around the room and didn't see Rei at all. How did she do that?
"Um yeah you know... it looks messy to me," Jedite tried to make up an excuse as Nephrite looked through his cloths, "well my best suits are back at the shrine," he added as Nephrite riffled through his closet. Suddenly Jedite heard another knock on the door and he grunted in annoyance, how much people were going to show up?! "Coming!" he called leaving Rei to be found by Nephrite in his bedroom, the amount of BS he was about to make up was going to be legendary.
He opened it to see Rei smile and walk in, "how did you..." Rei covered up his mouth muffling his shocked reaction.
"I am a super hero," she sneered at him, she was already wearing her dress looking stunning in all red. Well yeah she was a super hero.. and he did have a window in his bedroom so he put two and two together.
"Rei, what are you doing here?" Nephrite asked quite surprised by Rei's arrival.
"I got an express order from Mina to come to the party with Jedite, she thinks we won't kill each other if we come as a pair. I make no promises," she glared over to Nephrite for asking such a question.
"Oh ok," clearly he didn't want to get burnt to a crisp and decided to go hide in Jedite's room still on the hunt for cloths. Rei smiled up at Jedite playfully and he took the invite leaning down to kiss her, "Jedite can I wear this?" Nephrite came out to the living room to see Rei sitting on the sofa and Jedite standing behind it.
"Yeah wear whatever you want," Jedite said and Nephrite nodded going into the room again. Jedite quickly moved to grab Rei out of the sofa and into his arms for a hot kiss.
"Do you think this looks good on me?" Nephrite looked up to see Jedite sitting on the sofa and Rei standing behind it. Did they just switch places? Jedite sighed,
"It's my cloths, everything is going to look good on you," he sneered and Nephrite nodded in agreement walking back into the bedroom. Rei quickly moved back to the sofa and sat on Jedite's lap kissing him sweetly.
"Ok, how do I look?" Nephrite asked seeing Rei on one end of the sofa looking out at the view and Jedite on the other end his legs crossed looking straight at Nephrite clearly very annoyed with this friend, what in the hell were these two doing?!
"Great, looks great! Super great, never seen you look better! Ok well I need to get ready for the party now and you don't want to be late picking up Lita," Jedite was pushing Nephrite toward the door at top speed.
"See you there!" with that Jedite shut the door and locked it. Turning around he saw Rei rolling her eyes at his actions.
"You could of been a little nicer," Rei walked up to Jedite and started to loosen his tie more.
"No with Nephrite, forceful it better," Jedite smirked he was now alone with Rei again.
"Hum, I will make sure to tell that to Lita," but her mind wasn't on her friend. Oh no, she was very distracted by her husband and if they were going to be late to the party then so be it.
Nephrite thought that whole ordeal was very weird and thought he would call Serena to give her an update. Heck she was the one to suggested he go over to Jedite's apartment to ask to borrow cloths.
"What did you find out?" Serena's voice was hushed, like she was taking a call in a quiet room or sneaking around where she shouldn't be.
"Serena where in the world are you?" he was not use to her being quite. He heard some whispering and shuffling.
"We are very busy doing official business, yes super official. Answer the question Neph!" Serena said trying to stay hushed but clearly she was having a hard time of it. Nephrite was confused, why did she say 'we'?
"Nothing looked out of place or weird. The two of them should be ready to go to the party soon Jedite just needed to change. How they can stand being in the room together like that is shocking," Nephrite said pushing but button for the elevator, he didn't want to be late picking up Lita.
"Two of them?" Serena asked confused, did Jedite suddenly get a twin because Serena wasn't sure Rei could handle that.
"Rei was there. She told me Mina wanted them to show up together, I don't know. I have to go now, see you at the party," and with that Nephrite's bidding was complete. He wanted nothing more to do with this crazy plot Serena started.
Serena put her phone away, "Mina! She lied to Nephrite so she could spend time with Jedite! I'm telling you something is up!" the two blonds were on their way to shrine. They wanted to talk to Rei in person and corner her about these allegations Chad told Serena earlier.
"Serena if I'm late to my own party over this I'm going to be very mad," how in the world Serena dragged Mina out of the house and to Rei's was beyond her. Yes the idea of Rei being secretly married to Jedite was laughable, really she laughed very loud when Serena whispered it in her ear earlier. When Mina realized Serena was being very serious she demanded proof. Without knowing it that forced her to join Serena in this secret (totally obvious) and stealth (out in the open) mission. They got to the top of the shrine hill and tried to stay quite as they made it thought he court yard.
"Mina we will find proof here ok! We just need to look," Serena whispered as they got into the kitchen. Everything looked perfectly in place, all accept an opened box and some paperwork on the table. "Mina! It says love Jedite on this note!" Serena was having the hardest time keeping her voice down. Mina jumped near Serena grabbing up the folder and reading the title.
"HOLY CRAP," Mina shouted and instantly slapped her hand over her mouth. Grabbing Serena's wrist they booked it from the shrine. The two didn't stop to catch her breath till they were all the way down the stairs. "This says," Mina was out of breath, "divorce... papers," she handed it over to Serena who didn't think it really was true.
"Oh my gosh they really are married," Serena said in shock she really was hanging on to the idea that it was all a lie, people tell her all the time to not jump to conclusions but here she is being right about all of it.
"How in all of the solar system did Rei keep this quite? How long? Just how long have they been married! Oh my gosh we need a plan! We need strategy!" For once Mina wasn't thinking fast enough on her toes, as the leader of the girls she always had a plan no matter how wild it was.
"We need to get to your party," Serena said as they both jumped into Mina's car.
"We have to get back to my place before they show up!" Mina couldn't believe it, those two pesky friends of her. Was this all a lie? Were they secretly seeing each other behind their friends back? Was this just some prank Jedite was pulling and they were about to see Rei explode from anger? Mina couldn't of dreamed this up but it is her reality, Rei and Jedite are married.
"Act normal," Rei said over her shoulder standing outside of Mina's apartment they finally made it to the party, not late but certainly not early either. Rei wanted to arrive at the perfect time to avoid any questions.
"Like we have ever acted normal," Jedite adjusted his suit jacket smirking, Rei had to agree with him on that when she knocked on the door. "Oh! Rei the ring," Rei jumped noticing her very big very noticeable engagement ring was still on, she scrambled to take it off before someone answered the door.
"Keep with you I don't have pockets," Jedite took the ring an narrowly got it in his pocket when Lita of all people answered the door. Rei looked confused at the tall brunette,
"Mina and Serena are running a little late. They had an.. errand to attend to. Who knows what kind of trouble they are getting into," Lita let them into Mina's big lavish apartment. It's easy to see why Mina doesn't want to give up her prized apartment even if it meant to move in with Kunzite. Rei smirked, Mina was late to her own party? That was perfect ammo to pester her with for a the next year easy but to have Serena missing too.. that wasn't a good sign.
"You alright Nephrite?" Jedite asked patting the jittery Nephrite on the shoulder, of course he wasn't alright! He was the only one who knew where the dynamic blond duo ran off to and he was afraid if Rei and Jedite teamed up against him they could get the information out in record time.
"I'm... fine," he tried to stay calm half smiling up to his friend. Rei gave Neph a weird look but decided to go over and talk with Ami who was lucky enough to get away from the hospital for the afternoon. Rei and Jedite tried to not socialize at all, Rei was worried that if she even tried to steal a glance over at him it would be a sign to her friends so she avoided it as best she could. Still she couldn't help herself and darted her eyes to Jedite who was touching Kunzite's suit, they were clearly talking about each other's outfits. Rei smiled she was sure Jedite was boasting about allowing Nephrite to use his cloths for the party. Ami or Lita didn't seem to notice or mind, just seeing Rei was nice since she has been a little hard to get ahold of for these past few weeks.
"So you came with Jedite? I thought he had moved out of the shrine, do you need to tell us something we don't know?" Rei flinched at Lita's question, darn it she did notice her glance. You can't pass anything by these senchi! Rei laughed nervously wondering how she was going to answer that question lucky for Rei the door opened and it totally distracted her from the question. Unlucky for Rei the door opened to show Serena and Mina.
"Mina Rei beat us here!" Serena pouting seeing Jedite and Rei standing on opposite sides of the room, everyone was turned to the new comers. Rei blinked a few times at such a declaration, when did this become a race? The two blonds made their dramatic entrance clearly totally forgetting to make a plan on their drive to Mina's place.
"Rei Hino your secret is out!" Mina pointed up into the air in a dramatic fashion before pointing to the paperwork in her other hand. Rei's eyes darted to the paperwork and she instantly recognized them, the divorce papers.
"Oh shit," Rei froze in place her heart rate started to dramatically increase and Mina smirked proudly at her friends reaction. Cruse Jedite! Curse him and his stupid choice to label the paperwork!
"Rei, where did they get those papers," Jedite's higher pitched voice told Rei he was just as panic stricken as she was. Rei was shouting desperately but inwardly, outward she was trying to stay cool and collected, goodness knows it wouldn't last long. There was a silence in the room, Mina and Serena were waiting for the married couple to talk and Rei would prefer flee the scene before saying a word. There was about five hundred different ways Rei imagined this information to get out and this wasn't on the top of her list.
"Ok guys no one is telling us what's going on and I kind of want to know what this is all about," Kunzite demanded and instead of calming Rei Kun's words seemed to elevate her stress, she shot a look over to Jedite, he could see the worry in her eyes.
"Oh well these two have a little secret see they are actually mar..." Mina started but Jedite shouted over her quickly.
"STOP," all eyes dated to the him, he has never shouted like that before. Everyone in the room realized this wasn't a normal argument between the fiery Rei and her rival. Jedite looked right at Mina who was affronted by his shouting, "please Mina you know this isn't your news to tell," he added and Mina looked affronted. All the silly joy she got from knowing one of the largest secrets of the century was instantly deflated, it was like she no longer saw Jedite. She saw a man in love desperately trying to defend his wife's dignity. The two of them together might be shocking news, but it was their right to keep it secret.
"Now I really need to know what's going on," Darien added into the group noticing how this party was going sour really quick. Rei sighed, hiding it now was borderline impossible, she didn't want to spoil Mina's party. The second Darien starts demanding information she knew there wasn't any value in hiding anything anymore.
"Jedite and I are married," Rei said point blank and the whole room gasped in shock. She could feel the waves of disbelief flood the room, this had to be the most elabrate prank Jedite has ever pulled to get Rei involved.
"Your lying, she has to be lying... tell me she is lying!" Zoicite said looking to Jedite hoping for a smirk to grace his face but it didn't happen and everyone had to realize that Rei wasn't pulling their leg.
"This can't be true," Lita said shocked as everyone else and Rei rolled her eyes quickly walking over to Jedite and after shorting rummaging through his jacket's pocket pulled out her ring put it on her finger and everyone gasped again.
"You even got her a ring!?" Mina squealed in delight, there was nothing more offical then a ring! Nephrite knew this couldn't be a prank that ring was real and it fit on Rei's hand perfectly.
"Of course I got my wife a wedding ring. I'm not a barbarian," Jedite thought the notion of her not having a ring was totally unrealistic.
"You are a barbarian but yes he got me a ring," Rei couldn't help but jab at Jedite's comment with a smirk. Serena shuffled over to look at the ring, her joy for the two quickly changed the tone in the room.
"When did this happen?" Serena asked softly, it was the one piece of the puzzle she didn't know. Everyone else seemed to huddle around the couple still stunned by this turn of events.
"Ohhhh when did we get married Rei? Was it about two and a half weeks ago?" Jedite's sly smile showed up proudly. Mina's jaw could of hit the floor, that long? How in the world did they manage to hide this from her, she was the goddess of love for goodness sakes!
"Two weeks and two days but who is counting," Rei said sweetly up to Jedite realizing they actually had a wedding anniversary.
"Rei that doesn't make sense, if that's the day you got married then that means you guys got married on the day we all went to the bar," Ami was certainly shocked but she could still do the math... Rei blushed recounting the night all over again stumbling outside the club beyond drunk and stumbling right into the wedding chapel.
"Your apartment didn't fluid at all, you just needed an excuse to live together to get a divorce," Serena said shocked and everyone gave their princess a weird look. Of all people to know that, Serena rolled her eyes, "oh come on now Darien and I are the only other married couple in this room and it says on the paperwork you have to live together," it's like they had zero faith in her as an adult, like she wasn't going to read the fine print of her own marriage certificate.
"Yes well we aren't getting a divorce so it doesn't matter," Rei said in a short snappy tone, all eyes fell on Rei again and she couldn't help but blush.
"You're not?" Mina couldn't hide the hopefulness in her voice.
"Of course I'm not going to divorce him! I love him!" Rei shouted and instantly her cheeks went as red as her dress.
"Now Rei what did we talk about declarations of love in public," he couldn't help but tease her.
"Shut up," Rei spat out her face only getting more flushed.
"And now the love is gone," Jedite sighed knowing her affection was only going to show for a small window of time. The two were acting a bit more normal and that made everyone happy.
"So you're really not joking," Kunzite said after the fact making sure Jedite wasn't pulling the most elaborate prank he has ever pulled in his life. Rei rolled her eyes,
"Why would we joke about something like this?" marriage was one thing Rei didn't joke about, don't they know her better than that?
"Well we don't consider Jedite the marriage type," Zoicite snickered at his own snide comment. Rei looked at him point blank,
"Are you making fun of Jedite?" you could hear the venom in Rei's voice and the other scouts were smart enough to shuffle away to avoid association. Zoicite nervously laughed looking to Jedite to save him, all he got was Jedite giving him the 'you did this to yourself' look. Darn right his girl is going to stand up for him! No one is going to mess with him now... other than Rei that is... which is almost worse. "Out of the two of us I think he was the one hoping that I didn't divorce him in the middle of the night," Rei smirked looking over to the blond.
"Yeah I will need to burn those divorce papers so you can't get a hold of them," Jedite said under his breath wanting to cover all his bases.
"I'm going to go talk to the girls, you boys have fun," and with no hesitation Rei turned to face Jedite and leaned up to kiss Jedite on the spot. Kunzite's eyebrow's rose in surprise, Rei smirked after they parted and walked off to the girls.
"Yep they are together," Nephrite said quickly.
"Super together, never more together then now," Zoicite said right after his eyes big still trying to process what he just saw.
"You two are really in love right?" Darien added in hoping this was going to last Jedite looked over to Rei as all the girls huddled around her wedding ring, though all the attention she couldn't help but look up and check in on Jedite and he smiled. He could tell she wished they were back at the shrine in their own world getting to spend time with each other.
"Well I certainly love her and with any luck she will keep on loving me back," Jedite said honestly knowing full well that his relationship with Rei wasn't smooth sailing and it might be a rough ride but he loved adventure and Rei was worth every single moment of it.
The End.
AN: And that's everything! Thank you for reading, leave a review if you wish... and see you next time. Oh if you want me to write one pairing over another next leave a comment!