Hello again everyone.  This is my warning for the rest of the story.  I'm going to have to give this fic a rating now, nc17 probably.  No, there's nothing graphic in here but there are some, how should I say, adult situations.  If you feel that your mind has been warped in any way don't come crying to me because I warned you!

Part II

"So we finally get to meet your alleged boyfriend today huh?"  Yaten poked at her ribs.

"Cut it out.  You'd better be nice to him or I'll knock you out!"  Seiya threatened while she combed her hair.

Seiya had been seeing this guy (so they thought) for almost a year now and would never let any of them meet him.  They decided that they would all go out to dinner tonight and invite him along. (Kakyuu, Taiki, Yaten, Seiya and Kenada)

"I can't believe you're going to wear that color eye shadow!  Are you trying to scare him away!"  Yaten laughed at Seiya's make up job.  (It really didn't look bad.)

"You know, I don't think a black eye will match that dress you're wearing out tonight now will it!"  A threatening fist was shook in her face.  Yaten took this as her cue to back off.

"Do you think that he's going to feel awkward being the only guy going out tonight?"  Taiki asked as she came into the bathroom.

"Shut up!  We know you're just looking for an excuse to transform into a guy!"  Yaten teased.

"Don't you have anything else better to do?"  Taiki looked down on her.  As usual the two taller girls were aggravated with their companion.  Yaten walked out of the bathroom in a huff.

"I think she's just jealous."  Seiya said returning to the mirror to put her lipstick on.  "I know that he won't feel too uncomfortable around you guys, after all, I've told him so much about all of you."

"Seiya, you didn't tell him EVERYTHING did you?"  Taiki grew a little concerned.  She remembered how Seiya had tried to tell Usagi everything when he fell in love with her.  Thinking about Usagi again always made his heart sink a little.  They all missed her.

"Wouldn't you like to know!"  She smiled back at her brown hair questioner.  "Come on, what do you think I did walk up to him and say 'hi, how are you, I'm an alien and a sailor senshi!'  I don't think so!"  Seiya laughed a bit at herself.  She had been in such a good mood lately.  'I wonder if they'll be able to sense Usagi's star seed in Kenada?'  Seiya thought to herself as she stopped what she was doing.

"You're never going to finish that way!"  Yaten poked her head in and noticed Seiya staring in the mirror.  Seiya's lipstick flew past Yaten's face barely missing her.  "Ha!  Your aim is off, you're loosing it!"

Seiya ignored the comment and walked out of the bathroom.  The doorbell sounded right on time and Seiya walked to the door to greet her guest.  "Hello Kenada, come on in."

Kenada walked in and gave Seiya a kiss as a greeting.  "Sorry if I'm late, I had a little trouble with traffic."  He smiled as he took off his jacket.

"No, you're not late don't worry about it."  Seiya smiled at him.  She remembered how hard it was to convince him to come.  She had explained it to him this way, she could work her way up to meeting her old friends by practicing on the Lights.  Kenada was still skeptical but went along with it anyway.

When the two turned around they noticed three mouths dropped to the floor hung wide open.  "Uh. hi nice to meet you."  Kenada said hesitantly as he waved.

Seiya put her hand up in front of her face in embarrassment, or so they would have thought, she was actually trying very hard not to laugh.  "Did you guys forget that you had manners?"  She mumbled and Kenada laughed.

One by one they came forward and Seiya 'introduced' them.  First was Kakyuu, she was very polite and reserved.  Second was Taiki who was impressed at how well Seiya had done for herself. And last but certainly not least was Yaten.  Yaten blushed furiously while shaking Kenada's hand and gazed helplessly into his eyes.  She made it no secret that she was quite taken by him.  "Now you know why I wouldn't let you meet him earlier."  Seiya said shoving Yaten out of the way with her hip. 

Kenada once again laughed at the whole situation.  "Well are we ready?"  He said looking around and then getting the door for the 'ladies'.

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"So how was it?"  Seiya asked after they dropped the others off.  "See it wasn't as bad as you thought it was going to be."  The car was dark except for the occasional streetlight that flashed through the windows.

"No it wasn't too bad."  Kenada kept driving but laughed inspite himself.  "It was good to see them again, actually I'm not so sure about Yaten."

Seiya smirked a bit at this comment.  "You're the only person that I've ever seen Yaten throw herself at like that.  You should take it as a compliment!"  She laughed a bit more.

The car sped on and a comfortable silence filled the air until Kenada broke it.  "I don't know if I'm ready to see the others yet.  That was hard.  Seeing them again. I don't know how I'd react. I'd probably have a nervous breakdown!"

"No you won't.  You'll be fine.  I'm here for you."  Seiya looked over and smiled at him.  "I'll always be here for you."  Seiya's hand found it's way to Kenada's leg and rested there.

Kenada felt his muscle tighten a bit at her touch but said nothing, only looked at her.  Seiya withdrew her hand and looked out the window.  "I do love you, you know."

"I know."  She said not looking back over to him.

Kenada knew what was going through her mind and felt horrible.  It was true, Kenada did love Seiya more than anything in the world and was delighted to have her in his life.  But there was something missing, the physical contact.  Kenada's thoughts slipped from the Earth senshi to his more personal problems.  Seiya was going to be staying over at his apartment again tonight, and again tonight they were going to have to go through the same dilemma.  It wasn't that Kenada didn't want to be close to Seiya, it was that it all just felt too weird.

Kenada had been living as a male for quite some time now but there was still Usagi inside of him, and he couldn't ignore her inhibitions.  Besides the normal pressures that he had felt before about these kind of situations this only made it worse.  He had thought he had it all figured out when he was a female, but now he didn't know what he was supposed to do. 

Kenada would be able to kiss Seiya to greet her or say goodnight, it wasn't as if she hadn't done it before.  These kisses didn't mean anything and were just a formality.  He knew she wanted more and so did he.

The car came to a stop in front of his apartment and he turned the engine off.  Before he could say anything Seiya had already opened the door and left the vehicle.  Kenada sighed as he pulled the keys from the ignition and turned the headlights off. 

Seiya was waiting by the door for him to open it.  He looked at her before he put the key in the lock and she returned the gaze.  Nothing was said but everything seemed to be understood.  Once they were in the apartment Seiya threw her bag down on the bench near the door and walked to the bathroom.  Kenada claimed his seat on the couch and turned on the television.

"I'm just going to go to sleep."  She said when she came out into the living room. 

Kenada looked up from the tv and acknowledged her.  "You know how I feel about you and you."

"Shhh. it's alright.  I understand."  She said before turning and heading towards the bedroom.

Kenada turned the tv off soon afterwards and got up to follow her.  When he walked in the bedroom he saw her in a t-shirt pulling back the covers on the bed ready to climb in.  He changed into his pajamas and joined her.  His arms made their way over to wrap around her frame and pull her close to him. 

"I love you, whether you're Kenada or Usagi, it doesn't matter to me."  Seiya said into his chest.  "I never thought that I could love a man but this is different, this is you. my Odango."  She said tracing her finger over his chest.

Kenada rested his chin on top of her head and soaked up the words that she had just said.  "I love you too, and that is why this is so hard."

"No one said it was going to be easy." 

"Last time things got too hard to deal with I just ran away from my problem, but I don't want to run this time."  He brought his head down to face her.

Seiya looked up longingly at him, her eyes seemed to plead for what her heart wanted.  "No more running."

"No, no more running."  He smiled at her.  "Thank you for being so patient with me."

"I'll always have patients for you."  Seiya said as she brought her lips up to meet his.  The kiss held nothing of what she had been looking for and they soon broke away.  "No matter how long it takes."

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Breakfast was on the table and Taiki and Kakyuu were enjoying their meal and each reading a paper.  "Did you sense something strange about 'him' last night?"  Taiki asked over her paper.

Kakyuu nodded and looked towards the doorway.  Yaten was standing there still waking up and scratching her head.  "What are you guys talking about?"  She came in and took a seat.

"Kenada."  Taiki said dryly.

"Oh. so you felt it too?"  Yaten's awareness seemed to peek.  "No wonder she was so attracted to him.  His star feels very similar to Usagi's."

Kakyuu nodded her head once again.  "That's what I felt too.  I don't think we should mention this to Seiya though, let her be happy for once."  She went back to her paper. 

Without any further conversation Yaten got up and headed towards the bathroom for a shower.  "Where are you going this early in the morning?"  Taiki questioned her.

"Out with Minako."  She said before closing the bathroom door.

Yaten had found it much easier to be around Minako now that she was a girl.  The two had gotten past the whole obsession thing and a strong friendship had developed between the two.  Despite Yaten's constant denying it to herself she had to admit that she really did like Minako and that she had grown very close to her now that Seiya didn't seem to have as much time as he used to for her.

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The horn sounded for the third time and Yaten grew impatient.  "God, she takes longer to get ready than I do!  Who the hell is she trying to impress any way?"  She grumbled to herself as she finally spotted Minako emerging from her apartment.

"Sorry I made you wait, Makoto called just as I was heading out the door."  Minako jumped in the front seat of the car closing the door behind her.  "So how was it last night?"  She asked.

Yaten pulled away and began driving.  "It was alright.  I'm really impressed, he is hot as hell.  I don't know what he's doing with Seiya."

"Why not?  Seiya's a very beautiful woman, any guy would want her."  Minako looked over at her companion questioningly.

"I guess, but still. I don't know, I guess you'd just have to have seen him." 

"Yeah, when do I get to meet him?"  Minako asked. 

"I don't know, why are you asking me?  Ask Seiya."  She huffed again in her seat and made Minako smile at this.

"Fine then I will."  Minako grabbed for Yaten's cell phone.

"What are you doing?"  She asked.

"Asking Seiya. man you're getting dense."  She began to flip through his numbers and finally came across Kenada's number.  They all knew that Seiya spent most of her time with him and assumed that this was the first place to call to talk to him.

"Hey, stop, don't call there!"  Yaten clumsily grabbed for the phone.  Seeing that there was no stopping her she added a few words of advice.  "If you're going to do that at least say you're me, so he doesn't ask questions of course.  He wouldn't recognize my voice anyway, I just met him last night."

The phone rang throughout the apartment and cause Kenada to wake up.  He fumbled for the phone on his nightstand and finally got it from its cradle.  "Hello?"  He said sleepily.

"Hi, how are you?  Is Seiya there?"  Minako asked.

Kenada sat up straight in his bed, even though it had been so long he still remembered Minako's voice on the phone.  "Who is this?"  He asked.

"Uhh. this is Yaten, remember we met last night?"  Minako looked over at Yaten concerned.

"Oh yeah, how could I forget."  Kenada knew it was Minako but couldn't call her on it.  "Here she is hold on."  He nudged Seiya to wake her up.

Seiya's eyes slowly opened and she realized how alert Kenada was for just waking up.  "What?"

Kenada put his hand on the mouthpiece.  "It's Minako!"  He whispered.

Seiya looked at him puzzled and took the phone.  "Hello?"  She asked confused.

"Hi Seiya, this is Minako, I told Kenada that it was Yaten."  She giggled at herself.  "Boy does he sound cute, even if it is first thing in the morning.  Anyway, Yaten told me all about him and I want to meet him.  Bring him over to Rei's temple tomorrow at 5 for a party.  It's Mamoru's birthday.  See you then."  Minako quickly hung up the phone.

"Well what did she say?"  Yaten looked over anxiously.

"That's for me to know and you to find out."  Minako stuck her tongue out at her.

Yaten growled and gripped the steering wheel harder.  "You're incorrigible you know that!"

"No, you're just funny when you're mad."  Minako laughed.  "I didn't give her a chance to say no I hung up before she could say anything."  Minako and Yaten had a good laugh together and proceeded to the mall.

"What did she want?"  Kenada asked taking the phone back from Seiya to hang it up.

"She didn't give me a chance to say anything.  She told me to bring you to a party at Rei's tomorrow night."  Seiya laid back down.

Kenada gulped when he realized what tomorrow was.  "Mamoru's birthday."  Kenada started to breathe heavily and panic.  "I can't . I can't go. I'm not ready to face them yet. Oh god. I can't."

Seiya saw how panicked he was becoming and sat up and put her arms around him.  "Shhh. calm down, we don't have to go. it will be alright."  She could feel his chest heaving against her own.

"I can't. please don't make me. I can't."  With the last 'I can't'  Kenada started to change and glow.  Soon Seiya found Usagi passed out in her arms.

"Odango."  She whispered into her hair.  It had been a while since she had seen her face.  The last time she had seen her was when she mistakenly attacked Kenada so long ago.