The author's words to Sailor Swifty: Yes...and Zoisite sometimes acts far braver than his mentor, thought that silver-haired man is definitely more powerful~Perhaps he was just not so free and easy as his lover~

The author's words to Innouva: I'm happy you enjoy this fiction~ ^^

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Now, back to the story, please:

"Lady Beryl?" Zoisite looked a little confused, "Has she anything to do with the engagements or the marriages of people in the palace?"

I slapped my lover on the back when answered thoughtfully:"Actually marriages were not her field, but the political plots of the other kingdoms were. As I said just now, the government of the moon was certainly not planning on the official betroths only for allowing our prince to have us around him."

Zoisite bit his lip and asked quietly:"You mean there is political plot in the engagements? Are you sure, Kunzite-sama?"

"There must be." I answered for sure. Though life in the Silver Millennium was extravagant and idle, Queen Serenity couldn't be that idle away her time by facilitating four couples of nonsense marriages only for the sake of keeping her future son-in-law from loneliness.

Thinking about these, I explained my thoughts to my lover, he pouted before asked:"Has it anything to do with the awake of Metallia?"

I nodded while tightened my arms around my talent little beloved student:"Actually, Zoisite,it my view as well. I would talk to Lady Beryl for it in a few days." Before he answered I added:"We don't have much time left, I wonder if the lunar queen and her guardians know about the newest information of Metallia."

Zoisite didn't say anything more, and no more words were needed between up. We knew each other clearly, we understood each other very well, and we shared the same opinions as well as the similar feelings.

What is destiny?

What does it mean to me?

I understood at the moment staring at my beloved beauty resting in my embrace with a residual uneasy to the unsure future on his face but completely faithful to me and my words in his eyes.

Destiny was one thing that one could never evade, but for which worth paying any price if one finally made the decision to fight against it.

And it means I would and should do my best to struggle for my true love against those void, meaningless "orders" which were actually given to us without considering carefully for his own terrain compatriots by that Monarch, even fight to death.

I gazed at Zoisite, who gave all his loyalty and faith to me instead of anyone else, he smiled to me as if he could read my mind.

In the next morning I got up a little earlier than usual. Zoisite was still asleep when I got up and put on my clothes. I prepared breakfast and put it on the bedside cupboard together with a cup of hot black tea which was Zoisite's favorite.

He opened his eyes when I kissed him a good morning. Seeing what I had done for him, Zoisite pouted:"So you are going to greet her, aren't you?" He quickly added:"Well, I know, I know, it's your responsibility as the highest-ranked general as well as the leader of the royal guardians of our prince, and I should understand that responsibility of you and my own one day."

I was taken aback for an instant. He repeated my words fluently…but that was not what I want to say at the time, not any more.

"I could almost recite what you was always saying, and I just answered for you just now." Zoisite lifted the quilt and grabbed his clothes in his hands while saying these words. His emerald eyes were looking at somewhere else, and he kept pouting when putting on his clothes.

I felt a little guilty for letting him being in a fit of depression, but this time the situation was much more serious than simply love affairs.

"Don't be jealous, Zoisite, such a mood doesn't match your beauty at all." I said to him as he turned his head away from me. I caressed his soft, silky copper hair while explaining my thoughts to him:"We surely have to do something if the Silver Millennium was planning on any actions to the matter of Metallia, and we shouldn't alert those ones from the moon before I talked with Lady Beryl and we made a decision."

Zoisite mumbled:"Well, reasonable reason." But finally he nodded:"I understand, Kunzite-sama. Just go and say hello to her for me if you like." I kissed my lover's forehead:"Don't forget your breakfast and your favorite black tea, Zoisite."

The younger one slightly blushed and nodded:"Thank you, Kunzite-sama."

I was just on time to teleport to my home—actually I called it a house I shared with my given fiancée rather than a home—to meet Sailor Venus, who was waiting for me already.

"Good morning, Kunzite." She greeted me as soon as she saw me. I kept silent and simply nodded to her, and she smiled as if she had expected my response like that. We took wordless counsel on such things.

Then started a day appeared tranquil but with subterranean current flowing secretly.

It was peace and nothing happed in the morning, Princess Serenity greeted her leader senshi with as hug when we appeared together in the Elysium Palace, and the Prince Endymion winkled to me smirking. I knew what he was thinking, yet, I wouldn't care his mistaken thoughts, and I didn't correct it either, it wasn't the time.

According to the schedule, the daytime would be a leisure day for the visitors from the Silver Millennium to enjoy themselves freely, since there were no official activities. Yet, a former meeting was on the schedule of the evening, and Endymion said that Queen Serenity had something rather important to the moon-earth alliance to announce to the public according to the words of his girlfriend.

"I wonder what it is, Kunzite, you know, I'm really curious about it. But Serenity said it was a secret, she is really afflicting me!" He complained to me made a face with fake painful expression, while his voice was in fact full with joy and happiness.

Hearing these words, the fourteen-year-old princess giggled: "Of course not, Lord Kunzite, I'm not afflicting your prince!"

The lunar princess released and pulled Sailor Venus who was still hugging her and turned to me with a grin:"Actually it was he who is bothering me with asking me about the secret endlessly. Yet, all I would say is, it is a definitely good thing, and it was with love and joy. You wouldn't be disappointed, Endymion, I promise, and you would feel pleasantly surprised when you heard that finally, but not now!"

"Well, alright." Endymion sighed but was still smiling with affection, "See? Kunzite, what a naughty lover I have! She always lets me guess a riddle while she herself is keeping asking questions on everything and anything!"

The lunar princess pouted to her beloved prince:"Don't be so mean to me, Endymion! I'm just curious."

I couldn't help smiled to that prince who was legally adult yet still a little childish mentally:"Isn't it making you exhausted being together with a princess full of curiosity?"