Wow, thanks for all the reviews!!! ^_^ Okies, now, onto the standard disclaimer: I own neither Yoden Samurai Troopers nor Sailor Moon. I've been a lil' busy trying to beat FFVII...Sepiroth...mmm...Anyways, on with it!!!
Touma looked at the stars late into the evening. He occasionally made comments to Minako, who never replied. After a while, he found Minako not talking to be strange. He glanced over to where she was laying, only to find her asleep. Her limbs were sprawled out everywhere, and her mouth hung open. She snored gently, a thin line of drool exiting her lips. But other then that, she looked elegant in the way the moonlight was cast upon her skin.
Touma shook his head, and picked her up off the roof. He then entered back into the house by a ladder. He held Minako against his chest with one hand tucked gently under her kneecaps and another around her back. Minako was gently muttering things, hands wrapped around his neck.
Touma walked into the main living area with Minako to see Sai and Seiji. Seiji was sitting back in the chair, arms crossed and eyes shut. Sai had a drink in his hand, and a towel loosely around his neck as he wore a body suit, his hair dripping onto the suit.
"Planning on taking Sleeping Beauty to her bed?" Sai asked as he took a gulp from his drink. Seiji popped an eye open, and observed the two.
"Mako-chan..Usa-chan..." Minako muttered in his sleep.
"What she saying?" Seiji asked as he sat up a bit.
"Something about names...I'm not sure! What does it matter?" Touma shrugged.
"Sushi...Shrimp tempura..." Mianko babbled on as a sweat drop slid down the sides of the Trooper's heads whom were in the room. Minako's stomach growled in her sleep, and she moaned unhappily.
"I think she's hungry again." Seiji pointed out.
"Nasty's not back from the store yet." Sai leaned back onto the couch.
"What'll we feed her?" Touma sounded confused.
"She's not a baby. She can fend for her self." Seiji rolled his eyes at Touma.
"I'm just going to take her on up to bed...if she sleep walks downstairs tonight, don't come to me because she got into the fridge." Touma started to walk up the stairs. "Sheesh, she's heavy! Maybe she should lay off the food."
"I heard that." Minako growled, opening her eyes partially. "It hasn't messed up my girlish figure yet."
"Who's going to sit in her room with her and sleep in there with her?" Seiji questioned.
"Don't look at me!" Touma whirled around to look back at Seiji and Sai. "I had to watch her take a bath!" 'Although the view wasn't that horrible...'
"..." Minako glared up at him, tempted to spit in his face again.
"I will." Sai offered his services, and walked up to Touma, taking Minako in his arms.
"Hey, you're all wet!" Mianko complained.
"You're awake, you can walk. Do you want to do that, or have a free complimentarily no-walking ride up to your room?" Sai questioned. 'Jeeze, this Sailor Soldier needs to lay off the sweets!'
"..." Minako glared again. She then jumped out of his arms. "I'm not some 'baby'." Minako mocked the words Seiji said earlier. "I can do things on my own quite well, thank you very much." She then ran a few fingers through her hair as she passed Sai going up the stairs.
"..." Sai glared behind her back, sighed, shrugged, and trudged up the stairs behind of him.
Meanwhile, in the Dark Moon, Kunzite and Beryl were having a disagreement on a completely different level. Beryl was seated in her throne, and Kunzite was growling.
"All I asked you to do was one simple task. The sooner you do it, the sooner you can have Minako. Just kill the Moon Princess and the Earth Prince." Beryl tried to break it down into simpler terms for Kunzite, thinking that he was too simple to understand large words.
"My Queen," Kunzite rose from his kneeling position, "Your information on the Moon Princess is horrible wrong. She has a new transformation."
"What?" Disbelief flashed across Beryl's face. She regained her composure, and sighed. "We can deal with her, no matter what. You're better then her. Don't mess up, or I'll call upon another General."
"Yes, my Queen." Kunzite bowed again.
"Now, you need to attack again. I suspect that the girls will be meeting very soon at the temple that the Sailor to Mars calls home. I suggest you appear there." Queen Beryl stated.
Ami sat on her bed, wearing an over sized dark blue pajamas set. A pair of large glasses rested on her nose, and a half eaten sandwich lay beside of her. IN one palm, she held her mini computer, furiously typing away at it. She had been informed an hour or so ago that Usagi and Mamoru had come across Kunzite. Ami, not being her typical self, shoved half a sandwich in her mouth, the other half sticking out.
"Let's see here..." Ami said with her mouth full. Surrounding her were several thick textbooks on Ancient Japan. In a few, it mentioned myths of armors, but nothing more. Ami hit a few buttons, the screen loading for the results of the blood and armor sample discovered at the battle scene.
Ami waited in suspense, eyes glue to the scene with her heart up in her throat. Her heart sunk to the bottom of her stomach when she saw what the screen read: Not able to identify sample. Ami sighed, sitting her mini computer down and finishing her sandwich. She felt so tempted to use one of her attacks on the piece of equipment and watch it be blasted to pieces.
Ami rose and walked over to a phone hanging on the wall. She picked it up, and punched in Makoto's phone number. "Hello?" Makoto answered the phone at her apartment.
"Makoto, it's me, Ami." Ami said, feeling bummed out. "I've got bad news."
"What?" Makoto wore an apron and a green turtle neck followed by black slacks. In one hand, she currently held a large stirring spoon.
"There were no test results." Ami grimly informed her.
"Huh?!" Makoto exclaimed, her spoon clattering to the ground. "But that's impossible! Maybe your computer got damaged when it fell from your hands! You know, when Haruka-san scared the hell outta us."
"No way, I've already done a damage test on it because of that." Ami sighed. "Not a single flaw, I whish I could write it off as that."
"So we have no clue on where Minako could be?" Makoto questioned, tears stinging her eyes.
"Mmhmm." Ami nodded over the phone.
"They've got to show up again, right?" Makoto tried to look on the bright side, not really believing in her heart the words that were coming from her lips.
"They've got to. Obviously, they're battling the Dark Moon, Usagi had a small encounter with Kunzite." Ami sighed. "I'm sure someone's called you. In that case, they'll need Usagi. And they'll need the rest of us."
"Do you think we need the Star Lights yet? We can get a hold of them." Makoto sat down in a chair.
"We'll see how it goes. Things are tense right now. A battle between Seiya-chan and Haruka-san is the last thing we need. I'm going to get off here so I can read to chapter 35."
"Uhh...Ami-chan..." Makoto allowed a sweat drop to slide down the side of her head as she talked on the phone. "We're only on chapter 15."
"I know, but the story so so enthralling." Ami sighed. She needed something to briefly take her mind off the current situation.
"Then we'll talk later. Oh yea, and by the way, senshi meeting at Rei's temple. Bye!" Makoto hung up the hand, and started to weep instantly, head in her crossed arms on the table.
Minako walked into her bedroom, and Sai dragged in behind of her. Minako put her hands on her hips, glaring at Sai. "Turn around, I have to change for bed." Sai obediently turned around, crossing his arms.
Meanwhile, Minako was bending over, searching under the bed for her gym bag. Sai happened to turn around and glance to see if she was finished, and got an instant head rush. From where he was standing, he had a great view of Minako. He turned around, popping his neck as he turned, muttering some words under his breath. 'Why? Why? Why, did I have to look? Awww...great...I wanna do it again!'
Minako discovered her gym bag, and quickly pulled it out. She changed out of her outfit, and into the medium shirt, which barely covered her bottom. "Finished." Sai turned back around, eyes getting wide and then rolling them to the side a bit after he observed Minako.
'Well, what she's wearing doesn't help my situation one damn bit.' Sai mentally cursed.
"What?" Minako questioned, not thinking anything to be wrong with her uniform top.
"Nothing, just...just...get to sleep." Sai sat down in a chair, and looked to the side, outside the window. Minako crawled into her bed, pulling the sheets up around her chin.
"Would you kill me if I asked for a story?" Minako cracked, feeling some tension in the room.
"What are you, a child? You're a mature teenager, or at least supposed to be..." Sai didn't get her joke, and he was trying to use the cold shoulder on her, so not to get involved.
"Hey!" Mianko complained. "I was just joking, you don't have to be so mean. Hmph." Minako pulled the sheets over her head, and rolled over away from Sai.
'Way to go, Sai. You just made her mad.' Sai mentally slapped his self. Instead of apologizing, he just kept quiet. He looked out the window to the water, which looked so inviting to him. 'Dammit, Ryo better get in here before I do something I might regret with Minako...It has to be close to his turn to watch her.'
Minako huffed. 'You know, he could be nicer. Most girls don't go for guys like then, unless the girl has a major mental problem. All these guys are hot one minute, cold the next.' Minako rubbed the back of her head. 'Minako Aino! What are you thinking! You're not here to see how many guys you can get after you! YOU WERE KIDNAPPED! Actually, you're not a kid...Hold on, why am I talking in third person.' Minako shook her head, trying to clear her thoughts. 'I need to get away, I'm pretty sure their guard will be down later tonight. I'll just act like I'm asleep...'
Sai yawned, and sat back in the chair, drawing his gaze away from the water. He stayed that way, watching Minako's sleeping form for quite some time until Ryo entered. Ryo wore no shirt and a pair of drawstring black pants.
"About time." Sai commented as he stood up and stretched.
"Sorry." Ryo shrugged as he took a seat in the chair. Sai silently left, taking a glance back at Minako before he left.
Minako lay in the bed for three hours, putting on her sleeping act. She decided it was time to get out of there, and slowly got up. Ryo had his head tilted to the side with his mouth hanging open slightly, asleep. Minako creped over to the window, making a board in the floor creak loudly. She froze, and slowly turned around to see if she woke Ryo. Luckily, she didn't.
Minako breathed a sigh of relief as she made her way to the window. Once there, she slowly and silently opened the window. She didn't bother to see how high up she was. She dragged a stool fairly quietly over to the window, and stood on her tiptoes. She then threw one hand over the windowsill, and quickly exit the window.
Minako hung from the windowsill by her two hands. She got ready to jump down, but she was compelled to look down to the ground. She was on the second story, meaning she was quite away from the bottom. 'If I jump, I'll get my legs broken!!' Minako whimpered as one hand slipped from the windowsill, the other one barely hanging in there. 'Well, I didn't quite want to go out this way...'
Minako felt something latch onto her wrist. She gulped, feeling her heart go up into her throat. She slowly looked up to who had grabbed onto her through her bangs. Standing there was one very angry looking Ryo. He only held her wrist by one hand, and glared down at her. "Umm...Hey?"
"You know, if you wanted to kill yourself you could think of better ways to do it. But then again, I think you were trying to get away. Do you want to be tied up again?" He questioned, and Minako shook her head 'no'. "I thought so. But, because you did try to escape, I could tie you up here with a rope and leave you dangling out the window. Do you want that?" Minako shook her head 'no' once again.
"Good then. I suggest when you get back inside this house, you act like the sweet angel you are." Ryo then hauled Minako in with no effort. After in the window, Minako tackled Ryo and hugged him. She gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"Thank you! You just saved my life!" Minako blushed as she realized that she had given him a kiss. She jumped back in the bed, pulled the covers over her head, curled up into a ball, and faced the wall.
Ryo cocked his head to the side, one hand against the cheek that Minako just kissed. 'Wow...Maybe she should escape more often...' Ryo then set back down in the chair, leaning forward with his elbows on his knees and chin on his knuckles, watching Minako.