[:::tenth:::]
The girls had all gone to the same beauty salon to get their hair done for the prom that night. They were all sitting around reading magazines and talking while the stylists were doing their hair. "So what's going on after the prom? Any good parties?" Makoto was asking Minako since she always had the info on such things.
"Surprisingly no, I haven't heard of anything going on afterwards that sounds like any fun." Minako was thumbing through a magazine and came across and Three Lights article. She chuckled to herself when she came across a bad picture of Yaten.
"We should plan to do something, like have a party." Kakyuu joined in. "I mean we're going to be all dressed up we might as well take advantage of it. We can have a party at our apartment." She was getting too excited and wiggled around while the hairdresser tried her best to hold her still.
"Do you think that the guys would mind?" Ami asked always being the voice of reason.
"Who cares, I live there too!" Kakyuu shook her finger at the blue haired girl who had already gotten her hair done and was now working on her make up. "We'll tell everyone that we want to come at the prom tonight! This is going to be great."
"Woohoo, now I won't have too far to get home afterwards." Usagi cheered as she thought of having to walk in heals.
"You should all stay over. When we leave here, before we get dressed, we can go and get everyone's stuff and put it in my room for tonight. The guys shouldn't be there so we don't have to worry about them seeing us." Kakyuu's hair was done now and the hairdresser seemed as though she was going to have a nervous breakdown as she did a face fault onto the floor.
Once everyone was finished they all headed out to their own homes to collect the things that they would need for tonight. When they were finished they headed over to the Light's apartment to drop it all off. Everyone piled their things into Kakyuu's room. "Are you sure they won't mind?" Usagi asked Kakyuu again to be sure.
"Do you really think that Seiya is going to say no to you sleeping over?" She teased loudly.
"Yeah Usagi, what's going on there?" Minako joined in the fun. "Don't think I won't be watching you." She winked at her.
"Shut up Minako, you're really one to talk, 'Oh Yaten!'" Usagi imitated her and batted her eyes. A small fight broke out but Rei stopped them before they messed themselves up.
"Will you guys stop?!" She yelled while pulling the blonds apart. "We don't have much time left, we should start getting ready now." Everyone else agreed.
"I think that it would be really romantic if you told him tonight." Kakyuu said to Usagi on the side. "I mean you're both going to be dressed up and it's going to be such a beautiful setting." She started to get hearts in her eyes, a dreamy look on her face and a hint of drool on her lip.
"Umm, Earth to Kakyuu! Hello!" Usagi waved her hand in front of her face. There was no reply. "So are you going to make a move on Misaki tonight?"
Kakyuu immediately snapped out of her romantic daydream and turned her attention to Usagi. "No, I can't be that forward," she giggled at herself, "but I'm not going to discourage him from doing so."
Minako came into her room to see Kakyuu holding up a victory sign and Usagi just sighing. "Well?" She had finished getting ready and was now doing super model poses to show her off to the two girls. "What do you think?"
"You look beautiful!" They said in unison.
"Beautiful?" Minako stopped doing her poses to question them. "Beautiful? Not stupendous, sexy, or breath taking?"
"Oh come on Minako, you know what we meant." Usagi waved at her.
"Well how am I supposed to get Yaten's attention if I'm just beautiful?" Minako put her hands on her hips.
"Hey, he asked you didn't he? That means you were already doing something right to get his attention, this is just like icing on the cake!" Kakyuu told her to shut her up. The girls finished getting ready and they were just trying to put Usagi's necklace on when the doorbell rang.
Minako's mom answered the door to see the three boys standing on the steps. "Hello boys." She said as she turned around to face inside the house. "Girls, your dates are here." She yelled up the stairs. A loud thunder could be heard upstairs. "You can dress them up but you can't take them out." Her mother said while simultaneously sweat dropping with the boys. Minako's mother often said small clichés and that's where Minako picked them up from, but could never remember them right.
Once the girls made their way down the stairs you never would have guessed by looking at them that they were the same girls that had just made the ruckus earlier. "I want to get some pictures." Her mom said while lining everyone up on the lawn in front of her house. They all exchanged their flowers and got into the limo.
"I hate getting my picture taken when I'm not getting paid for it." Yaten exclaimed as he fixed his hair.
"Oh shut up, you know you love it." Minako nudged him. Yaten smiled back at her, she was right. "Should we tell them now?" The comment was directed at Kakyuu who was sitting across from her in the limo.
Kakyuu seemed to be preoccupied with something next to her and she didn't notice that Minako was speaking to her until Misaki tapped her on the shoulder. "I suppose since we're going to have to start telling people when we get there. Just remember you guys that this was all my idea!" Kakyuu warned Seiya and Yaten before they could yell at the girls, the comment was more so directed at Yaten.
"We're having a party after the prom." Minako got excited.
"So what's so bad about that?" Seiya asked from the other end of the limo.
".It's going to be at your apartment." Usagi told him.
"WHAT!" Yaten exclaimed. "What were you thinking? I'm not cleaning up!"
"Yeah, we're all staying over too." Minako added while watching Yaten's face out of the corner of her eye to see his reaction.
He seemed to calm down a bit and this pleased Minako. "Good, then you will be there to pick up the next morning."
"Sure I will." Minako smiled. "Right after you make me breakfast." She continued to smile at him. He just put his hand to his forehead and shook his head. The other passengers of the car couldn't help but laugh at him.
The rest of the ride turned out to be rather uneventful. Ami had informed Taiki of their plan to have a party. They arrived fashionably late. They started to get a swarm of girls around them when they first entered the room but that soon died down when everyone settled in. (I bet you can't guess who was the king and queen of the prom? How about who was on the court? With that said I guess I don't have to tell you anymore.)
Usagi was having an unusually graceful night compared to her normal string of klutziness. Kakyuu had been right, this was the perfect setting to tell Seiya how she truly felt about him. Usagi, Seiya, Taiki and Ami were sitting at their table while everyone else was dancing. Ami and Taiki both agreed not to dance too much because neither one of them were very good at it and Usagi and Seiya were just taking a breather from talking to people. A slow song came on and Seiya asked Usagi to dance.
He stood before her with his arm outstretched to her. She delicately placed her hand in his and allowed him to escort her out to the floor. Couples were all around them and romance was in the air. "This is wonderful isn't it?" Usagi asked as she turned her attention from the couples around her back to Seiya, her prom King.
"I agree, everyone looks great all dressed up, especially you. You look very beautiful tonight." He smiled down at her and noticed her blush. He knew that he had already told her this a million times tonight.
Usagi looked deep into his eyes as their bodies swayed to the music. "Seiya. I've been meaning to tell you something." She felt that now was the right time to tell him about her feelings for him. Even though there were lots of people around them, it felt like they were the only ones on Earth.
This was the moment that Seiya had been waiting for. He knew what Usagi wanted to discuss with him. "What's that?" He asked with a cute smile.
Usagi took a big gulp before trying to get the words out. "I don't think there are enough words to tell you. I'm so happy when I'm with you. I just wanted you to know how much I lo.." She was cut off by the sudden change in music and Yaten and Minako bumping into them.
"Are you guys just going to stand there all night or are you going to dance?" Minako said as her and Yaten got farther away. They seemed to be doing some sort of Ho-Down dance that was not very becoming of either one of them. They were galloping, skipping and hooting and hollering all around the room.
Seiya and Usagi both got a huge sweat drop. "So what was it that you wanted to tell me?" Seiya wanted her to continue.
"I'll tell you later." She mumbled as the mood had been ruined and her best friend was going to get it later! Kakyuu came up behind them.
"You were close." She whispered in Usagi's ear. When she pulled her face away she displayed a huge smile and then took her date's hand as she drug him out onto the floor to join Yaten and Minako.
Looking around she saw Makoto, her date, Rei and Yuuricho sitting at their table. She knew they couldn't talk there so she scanned the room for a quiet place. The balcony. The obnoxious music played all around them. "Seiya would you like to step outside for some air with me?" Usagi motioned towards the open French doors.
Seiya doubted that they were supposed to go out there, but then again that would mean that they would be alone. "Of course." He replied as Usagi lead him through the crowd.
The air was sweet, it was a perfect spring night. There were particles of pollen that floated by in the air to give it a magical atmosphere. Usagi went to the railing and gazed over the edge to see the lake below. The tiny particles would pass by her, just hanging in the air. She picked her attention up to the stars above. 'How could I ask for a more perfect night?' She thought to herself as she felt Seiya's arm around her waist. She turned her head around to see him staring straight at her. She gave him a smile to show that she didn't mind him touching her.
"I wish everyday could be as beautiful as this one." Usagi sighed as she looked up at the moon. "Are you sad that you aren't ever going to see your planet or you friends again?" She asked. She knew that she was taking a chance here asking him this. 'Why do I even bother opening my mouth sometimes!!!' She cursed herself mentally.
"No." He replied while pulling himself back away from her. He spun around so that his back was to the railing that Usagi was looking over. He casually propped his elbows up on the top rail and relaxed against it. "We didn't have friends on our planet. Yaten, Taiki and I were senshi for Kakyuu. It was always the four of us. They are my family. And as for my planet, there were only a few differences between here and there. But you're the best difference of them all." He shifted himself closer to Usagi. "Now what was it that you were saying before inside?" He eyed her carefully as he could see that he had put a little tension in the situation by leaning to her so close.
A smile appeared on her lips. This surprised Seiya, since he didn't think that she was as comfortable with it as he was. "I was trying to tell you something that I should have told you a long time ago." She leaned her face a little closer to Seiya's. "I lo." is as far as she got again before one of the chaperones broke on to the balcony while they were only inches apart.
"Get in here you two. If you want to make out some place private, wait until you get home. Don't do it on my time!" She yelled as she ushered them inside. Usagi and Seiya made their way through the crowd, both still blushing furiously.
"Strike two!" Kakyuu said to Usagi. "Hey the third times a charm right?" She smiled as she took her date's arm. Her and Misaki had gotten pretty close that night, you would never have guessed that they weren't a couple.
"We've gotten most of the people that we want to come rounded up for the party. This place is getting pretty dull. We were thinking about heading out." Minako was huffing as she danced up to them.
"I thought you didn't want to have a party Yaten?" Seiya asked in disbelief. "Why did you help her?"
"I knew that even if I didn't want to have a party that they were going to invite everyone anyway. By helping out I got to weed out the people that I didn't want to come. I only picked the cream of the crop." He winked at the group.
"Yeah and the best looking girls!" Minako said while still dancing. (She looked ridiculous by the way!) "I'm not worried, I can take them. After all I am the goddess of love and beauty!" She shot up a little victory sign as she grabbed Yaten to finish up the dance with her.
"I've never seen him dance before." Kakyuu pointed out. "Now I wish that I hadn't!" She laughed at herself and so did Misaki. "I'm all for getting out of here. Plus we should get back to the apartment before everyone else does." Misaki shook his head in agreement. He really didn't say much at all.
Seiya looked at Usagi who was watching Kakyuu and Misaki. "What do you think Odango? Do you want to stay or leave?" He took her hand in his.
'If we leave I can get him alone without having Minako, Yaten or a stupid monitor stop me.' Usagi thought to herself before nodding her head. "I wouldn't mind leaving now." She squeezed Seiya's hand that was now in hers.
"Good then I'll go and tell the others." Kakyuu took off dragging her date behind her.
"Poor guy, she just gets too excited sometimes. She likes just being able to be a normal person."" Seiya looked after her as he barged through the crowd.
"Don't we all?" Usagi smiled and looked up at him.
He turned his attention back to her and gave her a weird sort of smirk. "Not all of the time. If we were always normal I would never have met you." Usagi hadn't thought about that and then thought that maybe it wasn't so bad being a senshi after all. Maybe all of their battles and pain were just a preamble to the pleasures and happiness that was ahead.
The girls had all gone to the same beauty salon to get their hair done for the prom that night. They were all sitting around reading magazines and talking while the stylists were doing their hair. "So what's going on after the prom? Any good parties?" Makoto was asking Minako since she always had the info on such things.
"Surprisingly no, I haven't heard of anything going on afterwards that sounds like any fun." Minako was thumbing through a magazine and came across and Three Lights article. She chuckled to herself when she came across a bad picture of Yaten.
"We should plan to do something, like have a party." Kakyuu joined in. "I mean we're going to be all dressed up we might as well take advantage of it. We can have a party at our apartment." She was getting too excited and wiggled around while the hairdresser tried her best to hold her still.
"Do you think that the guys would mind?" Ami asked always being the voice of reason.
"Who cares, I live there too!" Kakyuu shook her finger at the blue haired girl who had already gotten her hair done and was now working on her make up. "We'll tell everyone that we want to come at the prom tonight! This is going to be great."
"Woohoo, now I won't have too far to get home afterwards." Usagi cheered as she thought of having to walk in heals.
"You should all stay over. When we leave here, before we get dressed, we can go and get everyone's stuff and put it in my room for tonight. The guys shouldn't be there so we don't have to worry about them seeing us." Kakyuu's hair was done now and the hairdresser seemed as though she was going to have a nervous breakdown as she did a face fault onto the floor.
Once everyone was finished they all headed out to their own homes to collect the things that they would need for tonight. When they were finished they headed over to the Light's apartment to drop it all off. Everyone piled their things into Kakyuu's room. "Are you sure they won't mind?" Usagi asked Kakyuu again to be sure.
"Do you really think that Seiya is going to say no to you sleeping over?" She teased loudly.
"Yeah Usagi, what's going on there?" Minako joined in the fun. "Don't think I won't be watching you." She winked at her.
"Shut up Minako, you're really one to talk, 'Oh Yaten!'" Usagi imitated her and batted her eyes. A small fight broke out but Rei stopped them before they messed themselves up.
"Will you guys stop?!" She yelled while pulling the blonds apart. "We don't have much time left, we should start getting ready now." Everyone else agreed.
"I think that it would be really romantic if you told him tonight." Kakyuu said to Usagi on the side. "I mean you're both going to be dressed up and it's going to be such a beautiful setting." She started to get hearts in her eyes, a dreamy look on her face and a hint of drool on her lip.
"Umm, Earth to Kakyuu! Hello!" Usagi waved her hand in front of her face. There was no reply. "So are you going to make a move on Misaki tonight?"
Kakyuu immediately snapped out of her romantic daydream and turned her attention to Usagi. "No, I can't be that forward," she giggled at herself, "but I'm not going to discourage him from doing so."
Minako came into her room to see Kakyuu holding up a victory sign and Usagi just sighing. "Well?" She had finished getting ready and was now doing super model poses to show her off to the two girls. "What do you think?"
"You look beautiful!" They said in unison.
"Beautiful?" Minako stopped doing her poses to question them. "Beautiful? Not stupendous, sexy, or breath taking?"
"Oh come on Minako, you know what we meant." Usagi waved at her.
"Well how am I supposed to get Yaten's attention if I'm just beautiful?" Minako put her hands on her hips.
"Hey, he asked you didn't he? That means you were already doing something right to get his attention, this is just like icing on the cake!" Kakyuu told her to shut her up. The girls finished getting ready and they were just trying to put Usagi's necklace on when the doorbell rang.
Minako's mom answered the door to see the three boys standing on the steps. "Hello boys." She said as she turned around to face inside the house. "Girls, your dates are here." She yelled up the stairs. A loud thunder could be heard upstairs. "You can dress them up but you can't take them out." Her mother said while simultaneously sweat dropping with the boys. Minako's mother often said small clichés and that's where Minako picked them up from, but could never remember them right.
Once the girls made their way down the stairs you never would have guessed by looking at them that they were the same girls that had just made the ruckus earlier. "I want to get some pictures." Her mom said while lining everyone up on the lawn in front of her house. They all exchanged their flowers and got into the limo.
"I hate getting my picture taken when I'm not getting paid for it." Yaten exclaimed as he fixed his hair.
"Oh shut up, you know you love it." Minako nudged him. Yaten smiled back at her, she was right. "Should we tell them now?" The comment was directed at Kakyuu who was sitting across from her in the limo.
Kakyuu seemed to be preoccupied with something next to her and she didn't notice that Minako was speaking to her until Misaki tapped her on the shoulder. "I suppose since we're going to have to start telling people when we get there. Just remember you guys that this was all my idea!" Kakyuu warned Seiya and Yaten before they could yell at the girls, the comment was more so directed at Yaten.
"We're having a party after the prom." Minako got excited.
"So what's so bad about that?" Seiya asked from the other end of the limo.
".It's going to be at your apartment." Usagi told him.
"WHAT!" Yaten exclaimed. "What were you thinking? I'm not cleaning up!"
"Yeah, we're all staying over too." Minako added while watching Yaten's face out of the corner of her eye to see his reaction.
He seemed to calm down a bit and this pleased Minako. "Good, then you will be there to pick up the next morning."
"Sure I will." Minako smiled. "Right after you make me breakfast." She continued to smile at him. He just put his hand to his forehead and shook his head. The other passengers of the car couldn't help but laugh at him.
The rest of the ride turned out to be rather uneventful. Ami had informed Taiki of their plan to have a party. They arrived fashionably late. They started to get a swarm of girls around them when they first entered the room but that soon died down when everyone settled in. (I bet you can't guess who was the king and queen of the prom? How about who was on the court? With that said I guess I don't have to tell you anymore.)
Usagi was having an unusually graceful night compared to her normal string of klutziness. Kakyuu had been right, this was the perfect setting to tell Seiya how she truly felt about him. Usagi, Seiya, Taiki and Ami were sitting at their table while everyone else was dancing. Ami and Taiki both agreed not to dance too much because neither one of them were very good at it and Usagi and Seiya were just taking a breather from talking to people. A slow song came on and Seiya asked Usagi to dance.
He stood before her with his arm outstretched to her. She delicately placed her hand in his and allowed him to escort her out to the floor. Couples were all around them and romance was in the air. "This is wonderful isn't it?" Usagi asked as she turned her attention from the couples around her back to Seiya, her prom King.
"I agree, everyone looks great all dressed up, especially you. You look very beautiful tonight." He smiled down at her and noticed her blush. He knew that he had already told her this a million times tonight.
Usagi looked deep into his eyes as their bodies swayed to the music. "Seiya. I've been meaning to tell you something." She felt that now was the right time to tell him about her feelings for him. Even though there were lots of people around them, it felt like they were the only ones on Earth.
This was the moment that Seiya had been waiting for. He knew what Usagi wanted to discuss with him. "What's that?" He asked with a cute smile.
Usagi took a big gulp before trying to get the words out. "I don't think there are enough words to tell you. I'm so happy when I'm with you. I just wanted you to know how much I lo.." She was cut off by the sudden change in music and Yaten and Minako bumping into them.
"Are you guys just going to stand there all night or are you going to dance?" Minako said as her and Yaten got farther away. They seemed to be doing some sort of Ho-Down dance that was not very becoming of either one of them. They were galloping, skipping and hooting and hollering all around the room.
Seiya and Usagi both got a huge sweat drop. "So what was it that you wanted to tell me?" Seiya wanted her to continue.
"I'll tell you later." She mumbled as the mood had been ruined and her best friend was going to get it later! Kakyuu came up behind them.
"You were close." She whispered in Usagi's ear. When she pulled her face away she displayed a huge smile and then took her date's hand as she drug him out onto the floor to join Yaten and Minako.
Looking around she saw Makoto, her date, Rei and Yuuricho sitting at their table. She knew they couldn't talk there so she scanned the room for a quiet place. The balcony. The obnoxious music played all around them. "Seiya would you like to step outside for some air with me?" Usagi motioned towards the open French doors.
Seiya doubted that they were supposed to go out there, but then again that would mean that they would be alone. "Of course." He replied as Usagi lead him through the crowd.
The air was sweet, it was a perfect spring night. There were particles of pollen that floated by in the air to give it a magical atmosphere. Usagi went to the railing and gazed over the edge to see the lake below. The tiny particles would pass by her, just hanging in the air. She picked her attention up to the stars above. 'How could I ask for a more perfect night?' She thought to herself as she felt Seiya's arm around her waist. She turned her head around to see him staring straight at her. She gave him a smile to show that she didn't mind him touching her.
"I wish everyday could be as beautiful as this one." Usagi sighed as she looked up at the moon. "Are you sad that you aren't ever going to see your planet or you friends again?" She asked. She knew that she was taking a chance here asking him this. 'Why do I even bother opening my mouth sometimes!!!' She cursed herself mentally.
"No." He replied while pulling himself back away from her. He spun around so that his back was to the railing that Usagi was looking over. He casually propped his elbows up on the top rail and relaxed against it. "We didn't have friends on our planet. Yaten, Taiki and I were senshi for Kakyuu. It was always the four of us. They are my family. And as for my planet, there were only a few differences between here and there. But you're the best difference of them all." He shifted himself closer to Usagi. "Now what was it that you were saying before inside?" He eyed her carefully as he could see that he had put a little tension in the situation by leaning to her so close.
A smile appeared on her lips. This surprised Seiya, since he didn't think that she was as comfortable with it as he was. "I was trying to tell you something that I should have told you a long time ago." She leaned her face a little closer to Seiya's. "I lo." is as far as she got again before one of the chaperones broke on to the balcony while they were only inches apart.
"Get in here you two. If you want to make out some place private, wait until you get home. Don't do it on my time!" She yelled as she ushered them inside. Usagi and Seiya made their way through the crowd, both still blushing furiously.
"Strike two!" Kakyuu said to Usagi. "Hey the third times a charm right?" She smiled as she took her date's arm. Her and Misaki had gotten pretty close that night, you would never have guessed that they weren't a couple.
"We've gotten most of the people that we want to come rounded up for the party. This place is getting pretty dull. We were thinking about heading out." Minako was huffing as she danced up to them.
"I thought you didn't want to have a party Yaten?" Seiya asked in disbelief. "Why did you help her?"
"I knew that even if I didn't want to have a party that they were going to invite everyone anyway. By helping out I got to weed out the people that I didn't want to come. I only picked the cream of the crop." He winked at the group.
"Yeah and the best looking girls!" Minako said while still dancing. (She looked ridiculous by the way!) "I'm not worried, I can take them. After all I am the goddess of love and beauty!" She shot up a little victory sign as she grabbed Yaten to finish up the dance with her.
"I've never seen him dance before." Kakyuu pointed out. "Now I wish that I hadn't!" She laughed at herself and so did Misaki. "I'm all for getting out of here. Plus we should get back to the apartment before everyone else does." Misaki shook his head in agreement. He really didn't say much at all.
Seiya looked at Usagi who was watching Kakyuu and Misaki. "What do you think Odango? Do you want to stay or leave?" He took her hand in his.
'If we leave I can get him alone without having Minako, Yaten or a stupid monitor stop me.' Usagi thought to herself before nodding her head. "I wouldn't mind leaving now." She squeezed Seiya's hand that was now in hers.
"Good then I'll go and tell the others." Kakyuu took off dragging her date behind her.
"Poor guy, she just gets too excited sometimes. She likes just being able to be a normal person."" Seiya looked after her as he barged through the crowd.
"Don't we all?" Usagi smiled and looked up at him.
He turned his attention back to her and gave her a weird sort of smirk. "Not all of the time. If we were always normal I would never have met you." Usagi hadn't thought about that and then thought that maybe it wasn't so bad being a senshi after all. Maybe all of their battles and pain were just a preamble to the pleasures and happiness that was ahead.
