LOL, hey Pissy Sir Piss-a-lot, that is the best name I've ever heard of!!
^_^v Gomen for making you guys wait so long, I was just dreading writing
this chapter. ::sighs:: Plus, I was discouraged since it took my little
cheerleader so long to review it… ::pouts:: But she did!!! YEAH!! I'm not
really in the mood for author note's right now so you guys got lucky!
[::Akuen::]
by LiR
(And We All Fall Down)
Taiki was on her way to Ami's house and Seiya had gone out to do god only knows what, leaving Yaten and Minako home all alone. Yaten grinned as she looked over at Minako. "Not going to work today?" She asked casually.
Minako stiffened a bit and flicked the television to a different channel. "Nope, there wasn't really any reason for me to be there." She said hoping that Yaten didn't look any more into it. The real reason that she had stayed home this morning and probably would for the rest of the day was because she saw her opening to be alone with Yaten with no Taiki or Seiya.
Yaten walked over and leaned on the back of the couch looking over Minako's shoulder. "No reason huh? Did you forget that I work there too and know that you had at least three meetings scheduled for today?" There was a smug smiled displayed on Yaten's face as she looked in the direction that Minako was.
Minako shook her head, she had been caught but it wasn't like it was a bad thing. "Well maybe I had to do a little cleaning around the house." She said getting up and walking towards the kitchen.
Yaten had to blink her eyes a few times to make sure that the site she was witnessing was the real thing. Minako began to rummage through a small cabinet near the sink and soon pulled out rubber gloves and a bucket of cleaning supplies. "What are you doing?" She asked referring to the cleaning products.
"What does it look like I'm doing? I just told you that I wanted to stay home and clean." Minako looked at Yaten with a cockeyed look. She didn't want to throw herself at her all the time and for once she wanted her to actually admit that she was happy that Minako had stayed home.
Yaten just stood and stared as the blond walked by her and into the bathroom. The apartment didn't need any cleaning per say, a little picking up every here and there and it would be fine. What the hell was she trying to pull? Yaten's brow began to furrow as she tried to figure Minako out. She had been almost sure that she had the same thing on her mind, that's why Yaten figured she stayed home… so why was she cleaning? Was she having a blond moment?
"Will you hand me the package of sponges?" Minako called from the bathroom.
Walking into the kitchen, still in a daze, Yaten grabbed the sponges without really thinking about them too much. Cleaning wasn't sexy, at least not in Yaten's book. She rounded the corner and saw Minako on her knees scrubbing the bathtub. Her butt bobbed up and down in the air as she put more pressure in her strokes. Alright, maybe cleaning was a little sexy. Yaten grinned to herself and handed Minako the sponges. "Here." She said as she looked down at the blond still cleaning.
Minako truly didn't hear Yaten because of the running water of the tub. If she had scrubbed the bathtub a little more she may have been able to see the reflection of Yaten's pissy face in it. She stood behind Minako getting more aggravated by the minute. Already sexually frustrated and now she was quickly get more irritated by the fact that Minako was blatantly ignoring her. Minako failed to here Yaten's numerous comments alerting her of her presence and it was no surprise that she was shocked to find the sponge she asked for flying into the back of her head. "What the hell was that for?" She asked picking the sponges that she was using up and hurling them at Yaten.
The silver haired girl stood with her arms out in complete disgust. "That was freaking gross!"
"That's what you get for being an ass!" Minako looked up sternly from the tub taking off her rubber gloves.
Yaten picked up another sponge that she felt was appropriate to counter attack Minako. "You should have answered me when I was talking to you!" She launched her weapon.
Minako once again caught the sponge in the head, but this time it was in the face. She picked up the toilet brush and held it in front of her in a threatening manner. "Oh you wanna go huh?" She mocked Yaten getting in a fighting stance.
Yaten reached behind her and grabbed the air freshener can and a tube of toothpaste. "Bring it on girly." She smiled an evil grin.
Minako began to charge after her with the toilet brush hoping to knock her weapons from her hand. Yaten squeezed the toothpaste container as hard as she could when she saw Minako approaching. The toothpaste went all over the front of Minako and on her arms, some even went down her shirt. "Ewww… it's slimy!!" She screeched forgetting about her attack and taking time to try to dig the toothpaste from her cleavage. Yaten simply smiled but she wasn't done with her yet. Minako looked up just in time to see her pointing the aerosol can ominously at her.
Yaten faltered in her approach as she saw Minako open her arms to greet her. Before she knew it she was wrapped in a full toothpaste hug and Minako was doing all she could to work it onto her body. "Get off! Get off devil woman!" Yaten called trying to pry Minako from her body. "Damn you!" She called. All of her insults and squirming only encouraged Minako more as she held her tighter until she smelt the lovely smell of lilacs.
"My hair!" Minako screamed as she released Yaten and felt her now damp hair. Yaten just smirked as she stood back and admired her handy work. Since she couldn't get away from Minako she began spraying the air freshener in her hair. "Oh god, I think I'm going to die!" Minako began to feign gagging. It was absolutely horrid in the room with all the spray but Yaten was still enjoying her show.
Minako rushed over to crack the window. "Close that damn thing would ya!" Yaten called bending down next to the freshly cleaned tub. "I don't want the whole neighborhood watching me while I take a bath."
"Nu-uh, I'm taking a bath first!" Minako said grabbing her towel off the rack. "People can smell me a mile away now!"
"Hey, I was here first and besides, I'm more delicate than you, there's no telling what toothpaste will do to my skin!" Yaten said sticking her nose in the air a bit but also trying not to laugh.
Minako began to pout, seeing as how her brute force didn't appear to be working. Yaten looked over at her and smiled. She looked absolutely adorable like that, smeared with toothpaste and her hair all disheveled, she found it hard to be mean to her. "You know Minako…" The slamming of the front door cut off Yaten.
The door to the bathroom had been closed in their shuffle and they couldn't see who was there. They heard the sound of the refrigerator door open, a chugging noise and a long 'ahhhh'. "Seiya's home." Minako said a little down heartedly.
"Oh, but she doesn't know we're BOTH in here." Yaten smirked looking casually over to the bath she was drawing. Minako smiled back and her silver haired companion came to present her with a seductive kiss.
"It took you long enough didn't it?" Minako said between kisses as she held Yaten in return.
Yaten just smiled having figured out her little game. "Shhh… Do you want Seiya-baka to come in here and bust us?" She began unbuttoning Minako's pajama top.
Minako didn't say another word and just let Yaten take care of all the details. Soon the bathwater was shut off and Minako placed her toe into it to test its temperature. Pleased with its warmth she climbed in and lay back allowing the water to come up and cover her body. Since Yaten had spent most of her time undressing Minako she was still busy removing her own clothing. Minako looked on, simply amazed at how some one who wore half of the sexy lingerie that Yaten did could have ever survived in a man's body. Once her lace panties, that had barely covered anything in the first place, hit the floor Yaten began to climb into the tub also.
Yaten sat up on her knees and straddled Minako giving her kisses. The tub was deep, but not enough to submerge Yaten's entire body, only up to her waist was covered. A knock sounded at the front door and broke the couple's attention from one another. They didn't hear Seiya get up and answer it but it opened anyway. "Seiya?" Usagi's voice called through the apartment. "Seiya? Are you here?"
"Great, now there are two of them out there!" Yaten sighed and sunk down a bit in the water almost losing her mood.
"Maybe she came to meet her to go out somewhere." The suggestion seemed logical enough, but that just wasn't Yaten's luck.
Yaten shook her head and turned over, resting her head on Minako's chest. "Seiya probably thinks she's alone, and judging from the state she was in this morning…"
"Oh…" Minako said realizing that they would probably be out there for a while. "But what's stopping us from having fun in here?"
Yaten smiled. "Nothing if we're quiet." She turned over to capture Minako's lips once again.
"What are you doing here?" Seiya asked looking distastefully at Usagi.
Usagi was confused and hadn't expected this kind of welcoming. "What do you mean, I came to see you." She brushed off Seiya's hasty comment and came up closer to the raven-haired girl for a hug.
Seiya looked down at her and moved out of the way so that she couldn't wrap her arms around her. "You should have called first, I'm not really in the mood for company right now." Her voice was cold and her face showed no emotion either. Had Usagi only dreamed their encounter last night?
Yaten and Minako couldn't help but listen to their conversation, the walls were thin and besides, they were standing right next to the bathroom. "Looks like there's trouble in paradise." Yaten mocked.
"Yeah, but seriously, have you ever heard Seiya say she didn't want to see Usagi?" Minako asked holding Yaten in a more comfortable position.
"Gomen, I didn't mean to intrude on you, I just wanted to see you again." Usagi smiled but looked at the floor. This hurt, she couldn't even look in Seiya's eyes, they seemed empty.
"Yeah well maybe you should go."
"Why are you pushing me away?" Usagi was confused and tried once again to embrace the taller girl only to have her move away again. "What's going on? What did I do?" She was on the verge of tears.
"Nothing, you did everything right, but now I'm done with you." Seiya said trying to walk past her to get the door for her.
"Nani? You're done with me? What the hell are you talking about?" Usagi stammered but didn't follow Seiya towards the door.
Seiya stopped walking and turned to face Usagi again. She didn't want to do this but it was for her own good. "I got what I wanted from you, so now I'm done with you." The words were the biggest lie Seiya had ever spoken but she was a remarkable actress in the situation.
"You used me?!" Usagi spoke astonished. Her eyes were wide and her hand clutched the shirt on her chest. "Last night meant nothing to you? You didn't mean what you said?"
Seiya laughed, it was helping her from crying. "You should really go now."
"NO! I'm not leaving until you answer me." She stated firmly.
Seiya caught a glimpse of the tears threatening to break from their barriers. She knew that she wasn't going to be the one to comfort Usagi after she said this, and she doubted that she would ever be again. Before her true emotions could show on her face she chuckled again. "What, you mean when I said I loved you?" She watched as Usagi's head nodded. Seiya gulped down hard before speaking again. "It got your skirt up didn't it?"
Before she could even think of what she was doing Usagi's hand came in one swift hard motion to contact with the side of Seiya's face. "I can't believe you! I can't believe you did this to me! I trusted you…"
Minako was just about ready to fly out of the bath and pound Seiya's face in for what she just said to her princess. As if Usagi hadn't already been through enough, she didn't need this, she didn't deserve this. Yaten held her back trying to keep her quiet. She didn't understand what was going on either, she knew Seiya well enough to know that she wasn't like that and would never do that to anyone, ESPECIALLY not Usagi.
"Well we've learned a little lesson here now haven't we?" Seiya said turning from her and walked towards the door. "Thanks for the good times."
"Seiya…" Usagi said tears quietly trickling down her face. There were no sobs, no staggered breath, only quiet tears of regret. Seiya turned around and saw this and felt as though she was going to die right then and there. "… do you really not love me?" Usagi looked at her pleading. "I love you so much… and… and I just don't know what I'd do without you…"
Seiya's heart ached and she thought her knees were going to give out at any second. She couldn't keep up this act. Walking to the door and holding it open she turned back to Usagi. "Usagi…" It felt so strange saying that name. "… I never loved you and I never could love you."
Usagi's eyes closed at bit as she took that pain, she nodded her head that she understood and headed for the door. "I hope you have a nice life." Is all she said as she walked out the door and out of Seiya's life forever.
Seiya closed the door hastily and immediately fell to the floor in a slump on the other side. The tears came freely and her body hurt everywhere. "Gomen ne Odango…" She sobbed. Telling her Odango that she didn't love her caused her more pain than anything she had ever known. Just the mere thought of never knowing her company again piled on to that pain, knowing that when she smiled, it would never be for her added more. None of the kisses she granted would ever be for her, it was like another knife in her body.
By now Minako and Yaten had gotten out of the bath to see what was going on. Minako was still completely furious as to the way Seiya had treated Usagi but all of that fury faded when she saw Seiya in a broken mess on the floor in front of the door. Yaten made her way over to her friend and picked up her head. "Seiya?"
Seiya wrapped her arms around Yaten's shoulders, held her close and continued to cry. "She's gone and she's never coming back…" She sobbed out sounding like a drunken fool.
"What did you do?" Yaten asked stroking her hair. Seiya never acted like this, she didn't even cry this much when they had lost their princess, for her to break down this way…
"Seiya? Why did you say all of those things to Usagi?" Minako came over and sat next to Yaten.
Seiya continued to cry, unable to control her self or her emotions at all. "I didn't want to… She's getting married to my princess."
"Even so, but she loves you." Minako stated, having heard Usagi say those words to her.
Seiya calmed down a bit and tried to suck back some of the emotions that she was pouring out. "What good is love when you can't be with the one you love?"
"Weren't you just with her last night?" Yaten asked. "Obviously she wants to be with you."
"No." Seiya stood up and brushed Yaten off of her. "I'd be giving everything I ever had and was to that relationship even when she has to run off and be with her wife. Don't I deserve the same from her?" Even though she was trying her best to be strong the sadness still lingered around her. "Besides, Kakyuu is supposed to be her wife, I should do the honorable thing and step down, ne?"
It was clear where she was coming from. Yaten knew that Seiya loved Usagi more than anything, but she also knew that she had an overwhelming sense of pride that would never allow her to be some one's second. "Seiya what are you going to do?"
"I don't have to do anything now. I can go back to being the head of the senshi and have a clear mind." Seiya's face went to stone again and revealed no emotions what so ever.
"Why did you have to hurt her though? Why couldn't you have just explained to her?" Minako felt so bad for Usagi and couldn't help but wonder what kind of state she was in right now.
"I tried explaining it to her, I tried stopping it last night." Seiya closed her eyes for a moment remembering the intimate time they had shared the night before. "This was the only way. Now she'll never come near me again and this way neither of us will get hurt any more."
"Oh yeah, it really seems like you're not hurt right now… and you know, come to think of it, it looked like Usagi was in a GREAT mood when she left here." Yaten said sarcastically rolling her eyes. "You can be really stupid sometimes, you know that?"
"I'm going to find Usagi." Minako picked up her keys and walked out the door.
"What the hell do you know, and besides, do you really think I need your lectures right now?" Seiya walked past Yaten and towards the space she occupied.
"Well genius, did you ever stop to think that being the 'perfect senshi' would require tending to the princess? And with that, did you ever stop to think that Usagi will be your princess soon?" Yaten scoffed as she threw herself down on the couch. "Oh and thanks for ruining my alone time with Minako."
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The wedding was the day after tomorrow and Usagi had thought that it was going to be the end of her life. She was wrong. The end of her life was right now. She felt as though she was dying the worst death possible, being slowly tortured and ripped apart from the inside out. Her mind swirled and her chest ached. There was so much adrenalin pumping in her veins and it became the only thing that kept her going.
People passed her on the street and gave her odd looks but she didn't notice them, nothing mattered now. Usagi had given up hope that anything that was left in her life could bring her happiness. Some how, by some small miracle, she made it back to her apartment and into her room. "Usagi?" Kakyuu called from the other room when she heard some one come in.
Usagi didn't answer and instead lay face down on her bed. Having received no answer Kakyuu got up and looked around the apartment for her visitor. Before she reached Usagi's bedroom there was a knock at the door. Upon opening it, Minako stood in the hallway. "Kakyuu, did Usagi come here?"
Kakyuu noted the worriment on Minako's face and her eyes that darted beyond her to scan the apartment before she received an answer. "I thought she had come home, but she didn't answer me when I called her."
Minako let out a sigh of relief. "Thank god. Please take care of her and don't leave her alone. Please?"
"Yeah sure, what's going on?" Kakyuu moved aside to offer Minako passage into the apartment.
Minako shook her head and refused entry. "She just received some bad news, just promise me that you'll take care of her." Kakyuu nodded and watched Minako walk away.
Very curious about the situation and what was going on with Usagi, Kakyuu walked down the hall towards her bedroom. "Usagi?" She called from the door as she saw Usagi laying face down on her bed.
Usagi didn't move, with the warning that Minako had given her, Kakyuu assumed the worst and though that she had killed herself. "Oh god… Usagi." She rushed over to the bed and sat on it pulling Usagi up into her arms. She was still alive, she was just passed out. Kakyuu made herself comfortable and laid down with Usagi to keep her eye on her.
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A tall man with long red hair stood in the doorway and Minako couldn't help but stare at him in awe, what the hell was he doing here in the late of the night? "Hello, Miss?" He waved his hand in front of Minako's face and she snapped out of her daze.
"Uh, gomen." She muttered. "What did you say your name was again?" She asked not really catching it, actually she didn't even remember him saying it in the first place.
"I came here looking for Seiya."
"Well I'm not going to get her unless I know who I'm handing her over to." Minako put her hands on her hips and stared him down. She was nothing compared to the size of this man but made her best attempt to look like she could snap him in half.
"Kounetsu?" Yaten asked as she walked by with a piece of toast hanging out of her mouth. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"I came to see Seiya, but your adamant door woman here is being a bit pushy." He pointed in reference to Minako who just blushed and smiled.
"Minako this is Kounetsu, Kounetsu this is Minako." Yaten introduced them to one another but was shoved out of the way by Kounetsu.
"Seiya damn it, what the hell did you think you were doing?" He questioned very threateningly towards Seiya who had gotten up for a snack.
"Piss off Kounetsu, I'm in no mood to deal with you right now." Seiya waved him off like he was a child and continued into the kitchen.
Kounetsu's face turned a new shade of red as she became even more visibly angry. "Do you have any idea of what you've done?" He demanded of the shorter more calm girl.
"What is your problem? You little 'plan' can still work out, just find another scapegoat to follow through for you." Seiya found herself being rudely ripped up off the floor by her collar to come face to face with Kounetsu.
"Really?" He said almost sarcastically. "Then explain to me why Kakyuu and Usagi are laying together right now in Usagi's bed!" He discarded her and she straightened out her clothes.
"Kounetsu was Kakyuu's lover that she had to leave from Kinmoku." Yaten whispered over to Minako so that she at least had a little background on this.
"It's none of our business what they do!" Seiya shouted at him being pissed that she was being accused and reamed out for doing the right thing.
"You're her senshi, it is your business what she does!" Kounetsu stood towering above Seiya ready to breath fire if possible on her. Any normal person would have backed away and cowered but Seiya stood firm and strong and Minako and Yaten had to admire that. "Get your ass back over there and fix what you fucked up, NOW!" He pointed to the door.
"No."
"You're a fucking senshi, you have to follow my orders." Kounetsu was pissed but didn't lay a hand on her. He was a prince after all, he had learned some forms of dignity although he picked and chose his moments to express them.
"I'm not your senshi."
Kounetsu huffed and walked out the door not bothering to close it behind him.
[::Akuen::]
by LiR
(And We All Fall Down)
Taiki was on her way to Ami's house and Seiya had gone out to do god only knows what, leaving Yaten and Minako home all alone. Yaten grinned as she looked over at Minako. "Not going to work today?" She asked casually.
Minako stiffened a bit and flicked the television to a different channel. "Nope, there wasn't really any reason for me to be there." She said hoping that Yaten didn't look any more into it. The real reason that she had stayed home this morning and probably would for the rest of the day was because she saw her opening to be alone with Yaten with no Taiki or Seiya.
Yaten walked over and leaned on the back of the couch looking over Minako's shoulder. "No reason huh? Did you forget that I work there too and know that you had at least three meetings scheduled for today?" There was a smug smiled displayed on Yaten's face as she looked in the direction that Minako was.
Minako shook her head, she had been caught but it wasn't like it was a bad thing. "Well maybe I had to do a little cleaning around the house." She said getting up and walking towards the kitchen.
Yaten had to blink her eyes a few times to make sure that the site she was witnessing was the real thing. Minako began to rummage through a small cabinet near the sink and soon pulled out rubber gloves and a bucket of cleaning supplies. "What are you doing?" She asked referring to the cleaning products.
"What does it look like I'm doing? I just told you that I wanted to stay home and clean." Minako looked at Yaten with a cockeyed look. She didn't want to throw herself at her all the time and for once she wanted her to actually admit that she was happy that Minako had stayed home.
Yaten just stood and stared as the blond walked by her and into the bathroom. The apartment didn't need any cleaning per say, a little picking up every here and there and it would be fine. What the hell was she trying to pull? Yaten's brow began to furrow as she tried to figure Minako out. She had been almost sure that she had the same thing on her mind, that's why Yaten figured she stayed home… so why was she cleaning? Was she having a blond moment?
"Will you hand me the package of sponges?" Minako called from the bathroom.
Walking into the kitchen, still in a daze, Yaten grabbed the sponges without really thinking about them too much. Cleaning wasn't sexy, at least not in Yaten's book. She rounded the corner and saw Minako on her knees scrubbing the bathtub. Her butt bobbed up and down in the air as she put more pressure in her strokes. Alright, maybe cleaning was a little sexy. Yaten grinned to herself and handed Minako the sponges. "Here." She said as she looked down at the blond still cleaning.
Minako truly didn't hear Yaten because of the running water of the tub. If she had scrubbed the bathtub a little more she may have been able to see the reflection of Yaten's pissy face in it. She stood behind Minako getting more aggravated by the minute. Already sexually frustrated and now she was quickly get more irritated by the fact that Minako was blatantly ignoring her. Minako failed to here Yaten's numerous comments alerting her of her presence and it was no surprise that she was shocked to find the sponge she asked for flying into the back of her head. "What the hell was that for?" She asked picking the sponges that she was using up and hurling them at Yaten.
The silver haired girl stood with her arms out in complete disgust. "That was freaking gross!"
"That's what you get for being an ass!" Minako looked up sternly from the tub taking off her rubber gloves.
Yaten picked up another sponge that she felt was appropriate to counter attack Minako. "You should have answered me when I was talking to you!" She launched her weapon.
Minako once again caught the sponge in the head, but this time it was in the face. She picked up the toilet brush and held it in front of her in a threatening manner. "Oh you wanna go huh?" She mocked Yaten getting in a fighting stance.
Yaten reached behind her and grabbed the air freshener can and a tube of toothpaste. "Bring it on girly." She smiled an evil grin.
Minako began to charge after her with the toilet brush hoping to knock her weapons from her hand. Yaten squeezed the toothpaste container as hard as she could when she saw Minako approaching. The toothpaste went all over the front of Minako and on her arms, some even went down her shirt. "Ewww… it's slimy!!" She screeched forgetting about her attack and taking time to try to dig the toothpaste from her cleavage. Yaten simply smiled but she wasn't done with her yet. Minako looked up just in time to see her pointing the aerosol can ominously at her.
Yaten faltered in her approach as she saw Minako open her arms to greet her. Before she knew it she was wrapped in a full toothpaste hug and Minako was doing all she could to work it onto her body. "Get off! Get off devil woman!" Yaten called trying to pry Minako from her body. "Damn you!" She called. All of her insults and squirming only encouraged Minako more as she held her tighter until she smelt the lovely smell of lilacs.
"My hair!" Minako screamed as she released Yaten and felt her now damp hair. Yaten just smirked as she stood back and admired her handy work. Since she couldn't get away from Minako she began spraying the air freshener in her hair. "Oh god, I think I'm going to die!" Minako began to feign gagging. It was absolutely horrid in the room with all the spray but Yaten was still enjoying her show.
Minako rushed over to crack the window. "Close that damn thing would ya!" Yaten called bending down next to the freshly cleaned tub. "I don't want the whole neighborhood watching me while I take a bath."
"Nu-uh, I'm taking a bath first!" Minako said grabbing her towel off the rack. "People can smell me a mile away now!"
"Hey, I was here first and besides, I'm more delicate than you, there's no telling what toothpaste will do to my skin!" Yaten said sticking her nose in the air a bit but also trying not to laugh.
Minako began to pout, seeing as how her brute force didn't appear to be working. Yaten looked over at her and smiled. She looked absolutely adorable like that, smeared with toothpaste and her hair all disheveled, she found it hard to be mean to her. "You know Minako…" The slamming of the front door cut off Yaten.
The door to the bathroom had been closed in their shuffle and they couldn't see who was there. They heard the sound of the refrigerator door open, a chugging noise and a long 'ahhhh'. "Seiya's home." Minako said a little down heartedly.
"Oh, but she doesn't know we're BOTH in here." Yaten smirked looking casually over to the bath she was drawing. Minako smiled back and her silver haired companion came to present her with a seductive kiss.
"It took you long enough didn't it?" Minako said between kisses as she held Yaten in return.
Yaten just smiled having figured out her little game. "Shhh… Do you want Seiya-baka to come in here and bust us?" She began unbuttoning Minako's pajama top.
Minako didn't say another word and just let Yaten take care of all the details. Soon the bathwater was shut off and Minako placed her toe into it to test its temperature. Pleased with its warmth she climbed in and lay back allowing the water to come up and cover her body. Since Yaten had spent most of her time undressing Minako she was still busy removing her own clothing. Minako looked on, simply amazed at how some one who wore half of the sexy lingerie that Yaten did could have ever survived in a man's body. Once her lace panties, that had barely covered anything in the first place, hit the floor Yaten began to climb into the tub also.
Yaten sat up on her knees and straddled Minako giving her kisses. The tub was deep, but not enough to submerge Yaten's entire body, only up to her waist was covered. A knock sounded at the front door and broke the couple's attention from one another. They didn't hear Seiya get up and answer it but it opened anyway. "Seiya?" Usagi's voice called through the apartment. "Seiya? Are you here?"
"Great, now there are two of them out there!" Yaten sighed and sunk down a bit in the water almost losing her mood.
"Maybe she came to meet her to go out somewhere." The suggestion seemed logical enough, but that just wasn't Yaten's luck.
Yaten shook her head and turned over, resting her head on Minako's chest. "Seiya probably thinks she's alone, and judging from the state she was in this morning…"
"Oh…" Minako said realizing that they would probably be out there for a while. "But what's stopping us from having fun in here?"
Yaten smiled. "Nothing if we're quiet." She turned over to capture Minako's lips once again.
"What are you doing here?" Seiya asked looking distastefully at Usagi.
Usagi was confused and hadn't expected this kind of welcoming. "What do you mean, I came to see you." She brushed off Seiya's hasty comment and came up closer to the raven-haired girl for a hug.
Seiya looked down at her and moved out of the way so that she couldn't wrap her arms around her. "You should have called first, I'm not really in the mood for company right now." Her voice was cold and her face showed no emotion either. Had Usagi only dreamed their encounter last night?
Yaten and Minako couldn't help but listen to their conversation, the walls were thin and besides, they were standing right next to the bathroom. "Looks like there's trouble in paradise." Yaten mocked.
"Yeah, but seriously, have you ever heard Seiya say she didn't want to see Usagi?" Minako asked holding Yaten in a more comfortable position.
"Gomen, I didn't mean to intrude on you, I just wanted to see you again." Usagi smiled but looked at the floor. This hurt, she couldn't even look in Seiya's eyes, they seemed empty.
"Yeah well maybe you should go."
"Why are you pushing me away?" Usagi was confused and tried once again to embrace the taller girl only to have her move away again. "What's going on? What did I do?" She was on the verge of tears.
"Nothing, you did everything right, but now I'm done with you." Seiya said trying to walk past her to get the door for her.
"Nani? You're done with me? What the hell are you talking about?" Usagi stammered but didn't follow Seiya towards the door.
Seiya stopped walking and turned to face Usagi again. She didn't want to do this but it was for her own good. "I got what I wanted from you, so now I'm done with you." The words were the biggest lie Seiya had ever spoken but she was a remarkable actress in the situation.
"You used me?!" Usagi spoke astonished. Her eyes were wide and her hand clutched the shirt on her chest. "Last night meant nothing to you? You didn't mean what you said?"
Seiya laughed, it was helping her from crying. "You should really go now."
"NO! I'm not leaving until you answer me." She stated firmly.
Seiya caught a glimpse of the tears threatening to break from their barriers. She knew that she wasn't going to be the one to comfort Usagi after she said this, and she doubted that she would ever be again. Before her true emotions could show on her face she chuckled again. "What, you mean when I said I loved you?" She watched as Usagi's head nodded. Seiya gulped down hard before speaking again. "It got your skirt up didn't it?"
Before she could even think of what she was doing Usagi's hand came in one swift hard motion to contact with the side of Seiya's face. "I can't believe you! I can't believe you did this to me! I trusted you…"
Minako was just about ready to fly out of the bath and pound Seiya's face in for what she just said to her princess. As if Usagi hadn't already been through enough, she didn't need this, she didn't deserve this. Yaten held her back trying to keep her quiet. She didn't understand what was going on either, she knew Seiya well enough to know that she wasn't like that and would never do that to anyone, ESPECIALLY not Usagi.
"Well we've learned a little lesson here now haven't we?" Seiya said turning from her and walked towards the door. "Thanks for the good times."
"Seiya…" Usagi said tears quietly trickling down her face. There were no sobs, no staggered breath, only quiet tears of regret. Seiya turned around and saw this and felt as though she was going to die right then and there. "… do you really not love me?" Usagi looked at her pleading. "I love you so much… and… and I just don't know what I'd do without you…"
Seiya's heart ached and she thought her knees were going to give out at any second. She couldn't keep up this act. Walking to the door and holding it open she turned back to Usagi. "Usagi…" It felt so strange saying that name. "… I never loved you and I never could love you."
Usagi's eyes closed at bit as she took that pain, she nodded her head that she understood and headed for the door. "I hope you have a nice life." Is all she said as she walked out the door and out of Seiya's life forever.
Seiya closed the door hastily and immediately fell to the floor in a slump on the other side. The tears came freely and her body hurt everywhere. "Gomen ne Odango…" She sobbed. Telling her Odango that she didn't love her caused her more pain than anything she had ever known. Just the mere thought of never knowing her company again piled on to that pain, knowing that when she smiled, it would never be for her added more. None of the kisses she granted would ever be for her, it was like another knife in her body.
By now Minako and Yaten had gotten out of the bath to see what was going on. Minako was still completely furious as to the way Seiya had treated Usagi but all of that fury faded when she saw Seiya in a broken mess on the floor in front of the door. Yaten made her way over to her friend and picked up her head. "Seiya?"
Seiya wrapped her arms around Yaten's shoulders, held her close and continued to cry. "She's gone and she's never coming back…" She sobbed out sounding like a drunken fool.
"What did you do?" Yaten asked stroking her hair. Seiya never acted like this, she didn't even cry this much when they had lost their princess, for her to break down this way…
"Seiya? Why did you say all of those things to Usagi?" Minako came over and sat next to Yaten.
Seiya continued to cry, unable to control her self or her emotions at all. "I didn't want to… She's getting married to my princess."
"Even so, but she loves you." Minako stated, having heard Usagi say those words to her.
Seiya calmed down a bit and tried to suck back some of the emotions that she was pouring out. "What good is love when you can't be with the one you love?"
"Weren't you just with her last night?" Yaten asked. "Obviously she wants to be with you."
"No." Seiya stood up and brushed Yaten off of her. "I'd be giving everything I ever had and was to that relationship even when she has to run off and be with her wife. Don't I deserve the same from her?" Even though she was trying her best to be strong the sadness still lingered around her. "Besides, Kakyuu is supposed to be her wife, I should do the honorable thing and step down, ne?"
It was clear where she was coming from. Yaten knew that Seiya loved Usagi more than anything, but she also knew that she had an overwhelming sense of pride that would never allow her to be some one's second. "Seiya what are you going to do?"
"I don't have to do anything now. I can go back to being the head of the senshi and have a clear mind." Seiya's face went to stone again and revealed no emotions what so ever.
"Why did you have to hurt her though? Why couldn't you have just explained to her?" Minako felt so bad for Usagi and couldn't help but wonder what kind of state she was in right now.
"I tried explaining it to her, I tried stopping it last night." Seiya closed her eyes for a moment remembering the intimate time they had shared the night before. "This was the only way. Now she'll never come near me again and this way neither of us will get hurt any more."
"Oh yeah, it really seems like you're not hurt right now… and you know, come to think of it, it looked like Usagi was in a GREAT mood when she left here." Yaten said sarcastically rolling her eyes. "You can be really stupid sometimes, you know that?"
"I'm going to find Usagi." Minako picked up her keys and walked out the door.
"What the hell do you know, and besides, do you really think I need your lectures right now?" Seiya walked past Yaten and towards the space she occupied.
"Well genius, did you ever stop to think that being the 'perfect senshi' would require tending to the princess? And with that, did you ever stop to think that Usagi will be your princess soon?" Yaten scoffed as she threw herself down on the couch. "Oh and thanks for ruining my alone time with Minako."
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The wedding was the day after tomorrow and Usagi had thought that it was going to be the end of her life. She was wrong. The end of her life was right now. She felt as though she was dying the worst death possible, being slowly tortured and ripped apart from the inside out. Her mind swirled and her chest ached. There was so much adrenalin pumping in her veins and it became the only thing that kept her going.
People passed her on the street and gave her odd looks but she didn't notice them, nothing mattered now. Usagi had given up hope that anything that was left in her life could bring her happiness. Some how, by some small miracle, she made it back to her apartment and into her room. "Usagi?" Kakyuu called from the other room when she heard some one come in.
Usagi didn't answer and instead lay face down on her bed. Having received no answer Kakyuu got up and looked around the apartment for her visitor. Before she reached Usagi's bedroom there was a knock at the door. Upon opening it, Minako stood in the hallway. "Kakyuu, did Usagi come here?"
Kakyuu noted the worriment on Minako's face and her eyes that darted beyond her to scan the apartment before she received an answer. "I thought she had come home, but she didn't answer me when I called her."
Minako let out a sigh of relief. "Thank god. Please take care of her and don't leave her alone. Please?"
"Yeah sure, what's going on?" Kakyuu moved aside to offer Minako passage into the apartment.
Minako shook her head and refused entry. "She just received some bad news, just promise me that you'll take care of her." Kakyuu nodded and watched Minako walk away.
Very curious about the situation and what was going on with Usagi, Kakyuu walked down the hall towards her bedroom. "Usagi?" She called from the door as she saw Usagi laying face down on her bed.
Usagi didn't move, with the warning that Minako had given her, Kakyuu assumed the worst and though that she had killed herself. "Oh god… Usagi." She rushed over to the bed and sat on it pulling Usagi up into her arms. She was still alive, she was just passed out. Kakyuu made herself comfortable and laid down with Usagi to keep her eye on her.
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A tall man with long red hair stood in the doorway and Minako couldn't help but stare at him in awe, what the hell was he doing here in the late of the night? "Hello, Miss?" He waved his hand in front of Minako's face and she snapped out of her daze.
"Uh, gomen." She muttered. "What did you say your name was again?" She asked not really catching it, actually she didn't even remember him saying it in the first place.
"I came here looking for Seiya."
"Well I'm not going to get her unless I know who I'm handing her over to." Minako put her hands on her hips and stared him down. She was nothing compared to the size of this man but made her best attempt to look like she could snap him in half.
"Kounetsu?" Yaten asked as she walked by with a piece of toast hanging out of her mouth. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"I came to see Seiya, but your adamant door woman here is being a bit pushy." He pointed in reference to Minako who just blushed and smiled.
"Minako this is Kounetsu, Kounetsu this is Minako." Yaten introduced them to one another but was shoved out of the way by Kounetsu.
"Seiya damn it, what the hell did you think you were doing?" He questioned very threateningly towards Seiya who had gotten up for a snack.
"Piss off Kounetsu, I'm in no mood to deal with you right now." Seiya waved him off like he was a child and continued into the kitchen.
Kounetsu's face turned a new shade of red as she became even more visibly angry. "Do you have any idea of what you've done?" He demanded of the shorter more calm girl.
"What is your problem? You little 'plan' can still work out, just find another scapegoat to follow through for you." Seiya found herself being rudely ripped up off the floor by her collar to come face to face with Kounetsu.
"Really?" He said almost sarcastically. "Then explain to me why Kakyuu and Usagi are laying together right now in Usagi's bed!" He discarded her and she straightened out her clothes.
"Kounetsu was Kakyuu's lover that she had to leave from Kinmoku." Yaten whispered over to Minako so that she at least had a little background on this.
"It's none of our business what they do!" Seiya shouted at him being pissed that she was being accused and reamed out for doing the right thing.
"You're her senshi, it is your business what she does!" Kounetsu stood towering above Seiya ready to breath fire if possible on her. Any normal person would have backed away and cowered but Seiya stood firm and strong and Minako and Yaten had to admire that. "Get your ass back over there and fix what you fucked up, NOW!" He pointed to the door.
"No."
"You're a fucking senshi, you have to follow my orders." Kounetsu was pissed but didn't lay a hand on her. He was a prince after all, he had learned some forms of dignity although he picked and chose his moments to express them.
"I'm not your senshi."
Kounetsu huffed and walked out the door not bothering to close it behind him.