*Chapter 2, The Date*
The next day, Friday, was a typical day. School was the usual yet Recca had kept his distance from Mina, which would be normal, since what happened was pretty dramatic to Recca. He never thought one of his friends would ever kick his ass like that. It wasn't as hot as the other days have been but it was nice and the warm night soon dawned on them. The night sky dark and peaceful, no clouds in the sky. The girls all gathered in Kaoru's room to get ready for their dates.
"I can't believe I'm going on a blind date!" Mina argued as Kaoru finished buttoning up the back of Mina's dress, her hair was let down, falling to her sides.
"Don't worry so much he's a really interesting guy." Hilde giggled sitting on the bed in her black, skin tight dress. "It won't be that bad."
"Are you sure Darien is going to want you wearing that?" Kaoru pointed out, laughing.
"Oh Darien will just eat this up." Hilde laughed and looked over to Kaoru and Mina. Kaoru in a beautiful short red dress, her hair up in a interesting arrangement and Mina in her dark green, sleeveless, gown type of dress.
"How did you guys even get me a date within that short of time?" Mina asked with a puzzled look on her face, putting the finishing touches to her hair. "I mean, who seriously wants to go on a blind date with me?"
"We have our ways and believe me, this guy is wanting to go out with ya really badly." Kaoru and Hilde laughed and the door bell rang.
( Outside )
"Are you sure this is going to work?" The blind date pointed out, checking himself out.
Darien and Duo laughed. "Don't worry she'll love ya, and don't worry Sanosuke is going to be watching out the entire time." Darien said confidently.
"Sano?" The date asked, questionably.
Darien pointed out that Sanosuke was going to be watching just in case anything went wrong, seeing him made everything seem a little bit easier and the door suddenly opened to 2 darling ladies. Darien and Duo gaped at the site of their dates.
"Babe! You're looking fine!" Duo said as he reached out to take Kaoru's hand. Kaoru smiled and took his hand, as he led her into the nights sweet air.
"Very pretty as always my sweet." Darien took Hilde's hand softly, pressing a little kiss upon it. "But where is the fair Mina?"
Hilde looked over at the blind date and looked back over to the door. She turned back to the door. "Mina you can come out now!"
Mina stepped out her face down, her hands trying not to wrinkle her dress as she grabbed it in nervousness and slowly looked up, her face red as a tomato. Mina blinked. "Recca-kun!?!"
"Hey ya Mina." Recca smiled and reached out his hand for hers, shaking. "Will you do the honor of being my date tonight?" Mina blushed and reached for his hand. Recca lifted it to his mouth and placed a kiss on it as Mina nodded in agreement, even though the marks were still there from yesterday.
Sanosuke looked on from the bushes and decided that it was time to run over to the restaurant to make sure that he got there before they did. Sanosuke particularly noticed Mina and how smashing she looked that night. He sighed and ran on down the street, wondering how he got himself into this mess. He knew he was never the dating type or wanted to be involved in anyway with this.
At the restaurant they all got their table for 6. Each sitting by their date and Hilde sitting by Mina of course. After ordering their meals, the music was playing, Kaoru and Duo got up to dance along with Hilde and Darien. Recca blushed slightly, not trying to show it. "Mina would you like to dance with me tonight?" Mina nodded and smiled as they headed out to the dance floor, Mina still in amazement. The music was soothing to the ears, their bodies moving as one, as typical dancers should. Mina glanced over around the room for a little bit and blinked when she saw Kenshin and Lita sitting together hand in hand right across the room. Mina's heart sank and Recca looked at Mina and asked. "Something wrong?"
Mina returned to the earth. "No Recca-kun, I'm having a wonderful time." Recca smiled and they clapped at the end of the song and returned to their table to partake of salad and their Italian dishes. After endless dribble of conversation and shoving of faces, Mina got a really bad feeling and Luna came running into the restaurant. "I'll be right back." Mina said as she got up and went to the bathroom with the black cat. "What's wrong Luna? Did something happen?" Mina said wondering.
"Big trouble at Main and 3rd! The negaverse is acting up again. The others are waiting for us! Serena sent me for you! But there's no time to explain! Come on!" Mina nodded and would have loved to stay with her date but had to leave. She ran into the room and told everyone goodnight, giving Recca a peck on his cheek and dashed out of the restaurant as fast as she could.
Sanosuke was picking his teeth with a fishbone and heard something like heals running. He looked over as Mina came running out of the restaurant. "Heh?!?" Sanosuke knew something was wrong other wise the others would have left with Mina. He knew he should stay but he ran after her. Following the sound of her heals banging the pavement as she raced down the street.
Mina ran as fast as she could. "Oh no! I got to run 3 more blocks! I've got to get moving!" Mina pressed on as she could hear the others quietly in the distance. Sanosuke chasing her down Main St. When Mina made it to Main and 3rd she saw Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury and Sailor Mars but no Sailor Jupiter. Mina thought 'she must still be with Kenshin.' She shrugged and shouted "VENUS CRYSTAL POWER!" thus transforming into the guardian of the planet Venus, Sailor Venus, in a flash of orange and yellow lights surrounding her. Sanosuke looked on and blinked in amazement and thought to himself 'Mina is Sailor Venus?' Sanosuke ran into a tree to see the action, laughing a little to himself at the thought.
"Mars Fire Surround!" Sailor Mars shouted as the fire burned the monster, in the darkness, the fire was like a bon fire. It was amazing to Sanosuke's eyes. Sailor Mars looked over at Sailor Mercury and Sailor Mars nodded. Sailor Mercury ran over and put her hands together. "Mercury Bubble Blast!" Sent a storm of bubbles at the creature, like a wavy sea current. Sailor Venus ran over to the scene without wasting any time. The bubbles had knock the being around and Venus knew her entrance. "Venus Love and Beauty Shock!" Sailor Venus yelled as a flying heart flew at the enemy causing it to give it enough push to slam it into the pavement. "Sailor Moon you need to go!" Came screaming out of Sailor Venus's mouth. The monster stumbled around trying to get up and Sailor Moon looked onto the monster and shouted, raising her moon staff into the air. "Moon Gorgeous Shocking Blast!" Her ultimate attack, a blast of pink beams and red hearts flew at the monster, killing the monster as it shredded into a million pieces. The pure heart crystal floated in the air, un hurt and alright. After a pause, the girls looked at each other and caught their breath, then Sailor Mars finally spoke up, taking the heart crystal and putting back into Julia, another classmate of theirs.
"Where is Sailor Jupiter!?!"
"I don't know, do you Sailor Venus?" Sailor Mercury looked at Sailor Venus and she sighed.
"Out on a date with Kenshin." Sailor Venus said with softness in her voice.
"Oh! He's so hot!" Serena screamed.
"Hey Serena remember Mikagami!" Sailor Mars smirked.
"I know, I know, but we should, well ya all know." Sailor moon trailed off and the other agreed and Sailor Moon de transformed into Serena, Sailor Mercury into Amy, Sailor Mars into Rei and Sailor Venus back into Mina with her green gown, in their flashes of white, blue, red and orange. "Oh Mina? Were you on a date tonight?" Serena asked.
Mina blushed. "Yeah, with Recca."
Amy giggled. "Not a bad catch."
Rei shrieked in shock. "AMY!? What about books?"
They all laughed. Mina said calmly. "Seriously, he's ok but he might not my type. I think."
Amy laughed. "Then let me at him." The others blinked and started laughing.
Julia slowly came too in Rei's arms. Rei realized and put her down, and pretended to be out of breath. Rei looked panicked. "Julia! Julia! Are you alright?" Julia blinked.
"What happened?" Julia questioned.
"I don't know but I saw you lying here and I was so worried." Rei was totally lying through her teeth but it was for the better.
"Thanks Rei." Julia got up and headed home as if nothing happened. All the girls laughed a little at this, shrugging it off. Sanosuke didn't know wether to run out and tell the other guys he knew or to keep it secret. Both options were good ones to him. The sly fox he was. With a smirk on his face, he jumped out of the tree and ran back to the restaurant. To finish the job he started before with the other dates. The girls all said their goodnights and went to bed that Friday night, to sleep the sleep of success.