I've added a splash of lime to this one, so I'm rating it PG-13 just to be safe. I took the liberty of adding a little bit of spice to Mamoru's…well, masculine instincts, with a little help from Usagi. And anyway, it's just so much fun to tease him!

On a side note...oh my gosh! What's happened to all of my dividing lines?! Sadness...All gone...:sob: (I had to add them in manually!)


100 Themed Drabbles

Ala Verity

29. Buried Treasure (Word Count: 981)


"This has got to be the stupidest excuse for an arcade-sponsored game day I have ever heard of."

"Well, good! So indulge me on this stupidest of days."

These were the words that Motoki and Mamoru had exchanged before the blond whisked his friend off to search for the prized buried treasure.

"Perfectly harebrained scheme…" Mamoru muttered under his breath as he straightened the crinkled paper in his hands, the latest of clues he had found in this scavenger hunt. Trudging through the hot sand in bare feet, he squinted at the tiny handwriting scrawled across the paper, trying to make out what it said.

He was so busy reading that he didn't see the girl huddled up over a mound of sand in front of him.

"Oomph!"

His foot made contact with her back, and he went flying spectacularly into the sand.

"Eep!"

"Ouch!"

"Mamoru-baka?"

"Oy…Odango?" Mamoru groaned, rubbing his head and looking up. His gaze was met with a pair of wide, curious eyes staring back at him.

"Is it just me dreaming, or did Chiba Mamoru just fall for me?" she quipped, her sea-blue eyes twinkling.

"You're dreaming," he muttered, shaking the sand out of his hair. Usagi laughed and turned back to her digging.

"Eek! I found it!" she shrieked suddenly, her hands shoveling out sand from a particular spot with more vigor than a dog on crack. Mamoru's eyes alighted on a discarded treasure map lying abandoned a few yards away, and he looked up just in time to see Usagi holding something up triumphantly in front of his face.

"Look! I found the treasure!"

Mamoru's first reaction was to blink. So he blinked. He blinked a second time. Then his eyes grew impossibly large as his mind finally registered the sight of the translucent piece of latex dangling in front of his nose.

His hand shot out instantly to snatch it out of her undefiled fingers. Unfortunately, Tsukino Usagi had ideas of her own.

"What is it?" she asked, fingering the elastic material (Mamoru flying hand missed by a mile as she held the latex up to the sunlight for examination). "Is it a balloon?"

And to Mamoru's eternal horror (although he swore he felt a surge of desire coursing through his body as she did it, which he quickly suppressed), she put the rubber to her lips—and blew.

PTHHHBBB!

"It's—not—working!" she puffed with exertion, wiping saliva from the rim of the little piece and sweat from her forehead. "This is one hard blowing job!"

Mamoru choked and pounded his chest forcefully.

"O-Odango, do you know what you're—"

The words on his lips died a sudden death, however, as he caught sight of the glint in her eyes that could only mean one thing.

Trouble.

"Oh, Mamoru…" Usagi began in a singsong voice, crawling towards him through the sand with her treasure clutched tightly in hand. He gulped and tried to ignore the mixed signals that his brain was sending all through his body as he watched her, her bare skin gleaming under the dazzling sunlight.

"Wh-what?" he croaked.

"You know what this is…don't you?"

Boy, did he ever! And if she didn't stop looking at him like that, he was thinking that he would need to make use of it very soon…

"N-no…"

Mamoru licked his lips nervously. He definitely needed to remember to wear looser jeans to the beach. But was it his fault she had decided to don such a revealing bikini for the occasion?

"Oh?" Usagi smiled (was that seduction he saw in her eyes?!). "Well, then, you wouldn't object if I used it like…this?"

And without further warning, she stretched the latex as far as it would go…and snapped it onto Mamoru's foot.

SNAP!

"Yeowch! Odango!"

"Geez, you grouch," Usagi grumbled, eyeing the result with a slightly amused pout. "Why is your foot so BIG?"

They both looked down at the piece of rubber, which was stretched tightly over Mamoru's big toe.

Mamoru could feel the heat rush to his face, although he had the strangest feeling that it had not so much to do with the sun, as with what was going on in front of him…

"Wow. Your foot…is humongous, Mamoru-baka. There's no way that tiny piece of plastic would ever fit it!"

Usagi gave a shout of laughter and shuffled away on her hands and knees just as Motoki sidled up next to him. Mamoru's face had turned a bright beet red.

"Sunburned already, Mamoru?" Motoki asked with a raised eyebrow. "You really should put on some of that sunscreen I brought. But I thought you never—never got…"

His eyes fell on the yellow latex fit snugly on his friend's toe. Motoki choked, looking from Usagi, who was happily immersed in building a sand castle, and back up at a fiercely blushing Mamoru.

"Er…" Stifled laughter. "Do I want to—?"

"No."

Yanking the offending rubber off of his foot and throwing it back into the hole, Mamoru piled up sand on top of it until an enormous dune sat in the middle of the otherwise flat expanse of beach.

"Hey, Mamoru?"

"What?"

Motoki grinned. "Want me to tell Usagi what she really uncovered today? Some hidden feelings, perhaps? Or maybe some eroti—"

"You know, I hate treasure hunting almost as much I hate you right now, Motoki," Mamoru snapped, swiping a handful of sand at Motoki's legs as his friend laughed. Then he sat down irritably on top of the mound to brood, propping his chin on his hand as he watched Usagi build her castle, its turrets lopsided and crumbling but standing tall nevertheless.

Yes, he thought to himself as he sat pensively on top of the sand dune, still sweating slightly from the close encounter—it was definitely better to keep this little treasure buried, and buried deep.


And you thought Mamoru was always such a gentleman… ;)

...And to put an end to the concerns, no, it was not used. Seriously, guys!! I hadn't even thought of that until you brought it up! :makes face:

Sexual innuendo isn't usually my style, but if you're reading this, let me know what you thought of it!

Bunches of love, Ala