Mira moon: It takes time. I mean, hello, can anyone say past resentment! J
Blue eyes: Thank you so much. They were afraid they were going to have to shock her heart, but luckily not! She is home now!
Warrior of Ice: Glad you like the villians. Laughed my ass off writing them.
Kaze: Read BOTH!
Rona: I always wondered what it would be like if they saw the Senshi. It was always a question. I felt sorry for them to!
Ibora: Hey ice cream can be VERY dangerous.
Monoxide Child: You getting ahead of me! Back up! J No really you are just going to have to wait. And I promise a good Rei/Jason seen just for you!
Marni: Thanks for the review!
Also for all those who want a darker more violent story try out Aurora Eos Rose. Her story redemption is on my favorites list. It has everything you want. Lust, dark male senshi (trust me GOOD!) and everything inbetween. She also has a really good page dedicated to Shittenou (the Generals name Like Senshi). It is a must check out!
Okay ON TO THE SHOW!
Rei looked out the window and raked a hand through her dark hair. It fell in a cascade of night around her form.
" Do they have to come?" Minako growled, sounding like a two year old instead of the leader of Senshi.
" YOU are getting that shoulder fixed." Usagi hissed. For once she sounded truly upset and it caused Rei to consider letting her own anger go. But a pair of mocking blue eyes, the eyes that had been haunting her sleep for the past two nights, entered her line of vision and it flared again.
" We made it without them once," Rei insisted turning to her Princess, " We sure as hell don't need them now. I mean, Usagi, how many times have they tried to maim, hurt, kill us?"
" They have changed!" Usagi insisted. Her eyes were wide but they saw that she meant it.
Makoto heaved a breath of frustration. " I don't care if they walk grannies across the street and play boy scout, I DO NOT TRUST THEM." Makoto snapped irritably.
" Let not worry about the Generals right now." Ami said. " Rei get me another towel. I need to shut this bleeding of." Rei stood in a fridged manner and limped.
Ami raked a hand through her own tossled hair, " Never mind. Sit, Rei. Makoto you get me another towel. And maybe you could fix some tea?"
Makoto was gone and back in a matter of moments. The blond Senshi under Ami's care was white and the signs of strain on her face were becoming more apparent.
Just then the sound of screeching tires reached there ears. Two cars stopped in front of the temple. Rei growled and reached for her wand but was stopped by Usagi. Rei growled as she watched the men pound up the steps.
Zach was the first to reach the scene. Makoto seemed to be the only one not hurt, and her arms were crossed and her lips compressed. Twin flames of green looked at him in warning.
He let his eyes flip to the brunett sitting with her leg propped up. Her face was pale and it only highlighted the dark beauty of her face. Her eyes blazed, with what he was not sure, and her eyes narrowed when he felt a shadow dropped over him. He did not have to turn to know Jason was the cause of her temper.
Next he looked Usa over. Her face was warm with welcome and she seemed to be doing okay. That was good. Mamoru would have been on a rampage other wise.
Turning he strode to Ami who had a blood soaked towel pressed over Minako's shoulder. Minako turned and looked at him head on. Her expression was filled with pain, but he caught the warning in it.
" What do you belive the problem to be." Zach ask the last member of the group. Dark blue eyes latched onto his. Her face was tired and he saw the stiff way she moved. There was a cut below her temple.
" Ripped tendons, and who knows what else. Ho…Saturn is not avalable." Ami looked at him for a moment. " What do you think you can do to help her?"
Zach looked at her weighing his words. " One of my gifts is healing. It is not quite the same as Saturns, though. I can only heal cetain things. Luckily this is in my area." He looked at Minako and saw the light blue eyes might have been pain filled but they missed nothing.
" With your permission?" Zach said softly, directing his question at Minako. She looked at him straight in the eye and he got the impression she was reading his soul. He had thought Rei was the only one who could do that. A few moments later she nodded.
Placing his hands on the wound, Zach closed his eyes and began the process of binding the injured parts.
Rei looked directly outside and refused ot acknowledge Jason, who stood directly behind her. She knew, just knew, that if she even opened her mouth she was going to be nasty. And no matter how much she hated this General, she had promised Usagi. But if he made one…just one…smart ass comment about her heels, promise be dammed.
" So…long time no see?" Jason said in a tentitive manner. Rei turned and gave him what the others called her Empress look. One brow raised and she did not say a single word.
Jason gulped uncomfortable and tried again. " How have you been doing?"
Rei bluntly rolled her eyes this time and gave him a cold shoulder as she turned back to the window.
" Hey, I am TRYING to be nice." Jason snapped irritably.
Rei sighed and looked at him. " And I do not want any part of it, hotshot. Do I have to get up and kicked you like a dog?"
Jason narrowed his eye. " With that ankle you could not kick a fly." He growled back. Heat simmered between the two.
Rei growled low in her throat. " For you, I would forget the ankle. Trust me."
" You know," Jason said pulling up a chair like he had all the time in the world, " You would have more friend if you were more civil."
" Yes more friends like you? Oh yes, friends are always good to have around. Expecially when they are trying to kill you." Rei said in a low angry tone.
Jason's blue eyes flared. " You know, I do not know why I try."
Rei raised her brow at him. " Neither do I."
Jason got up and stalked away in irritation.
Nate leaned over to Keaton and smiled. " Rei 1, Jason 0." Keaton just grunted.
~*~
Makoto hummed as she placed the tea bags into the water. Watching the water change color she sighed as she thought about the situation they were in.
Rei and Jason just kept shooting dirty looks at each other, as if they was going to solve the problem. Zach and Ami were working to heal Minako, but the tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife.
Nate and Keaton just starred at her and Minako until you flet like you were on the market as a side of beef. And all Usagi and Mamoru could do was cuddle. So Makoto had fled to the kitchen so she could get away from all the stupidity that was going on.
Reaching into her cookie pot, Makoto pulled out a couple of dozen freshly done cookies and placed them on a different tray. Also Makoto pulled out the cherry pie she had done before Minakot had done. The brownies she was saving them for later.
Grabbing the pie Makoto opened the door that went into living area. Shoving the swinging door with more force thatn she had ment to she was surprised when she heard a yelp. Turning she blinked when she saw Nate holding his nose.
" Well, get out of the way." Makoto said in exasperation. Nate just looked at her with injured chocolate eyes and Makoto shrugged. Placing the pie on the table Makoto walked back into the kitchen.
This time instead of hitting him with the door, which had been a accident!, she now stomped on his foot. Of course all of it was a complete accident!
Walking for the last time Makoto carefully looked around the door. Sliding carefully out Makoto watched her feet as to where she was going. Which was why she did not see Nate with his nose covered in a towel walking back into the living room. And why a few moments later she lost one of her favorite tea sets.
All Usagi could do was laugh. She had no idea what was funnier, watching Nate snarl at Makoto or watching Makoto box his ears. The champion of justice laughed until she cried. And fell of the couch with a loud thud.
~*~
Minako munched on one hand and watched Zach try to pin Rei down, who was hoping away from him screaming that she was not having a dark general, ex or not, touch her ankle. She was waiting for Saturn.
It got expecially violent when she got her hands on one of Makoto's pans. It was one of the larger skillets and even off balance with one foot, she still swung with surprising accuracy. Which, unfortunetly, Jason found out.
Watching the Second Ranking General attempt to grab the pan from Rei was rather amusing. It soon turned into a full General chase, and it took Usagi falling on top of her to get her to stop running.
Minako just shook her head and leaned back. Hearing a low chuckle next to her Minako peaked a single eye open.
" Its amazing how you managed to live with them all these years and not kill one of them." Keaton told her, his grey eye gentle holding a look that seemed almost déjà vu.
" Yah, but there loyal and I would die for them." Minako said simply closing her eyes and blocking out the sound. Soon she was fast asleep, a side effect of being healed by Zach.
Keaton picked the taller women up and gentle placed her on the couch. His arms and heart screamed at him not to put her down, but with more self-control then he knew he had, he placed her on the couch. Covering he lithe form with a blanket he headed over to help try to keep Jason from being killed.
~*~
Rei walked down the street and grumbled under her breath. It had been two days since she had seen the Generals, and the wonderful Drag Queen idiots, and it caused her to wonder what was up.
Something was edging in the back of her mind. It was something that she simply could not but her finger on. Walking over to Star Bucks, Rei bought herself a simple coffee to go. She really was not into that Triple Mocha whatever it was with all that foam that Minako craved.
Sitting down on the side of the street Rei looked up when she heard a voice call her name. Looking over Rei sulked deeper into bench she was sitting on. Chad walked over with his dopey grin and plopped himself down like he owned the thing.
Rei smiled and nodded in the right places and finally resorted to telling him to bug off. But of course Chad thought she was just being temperamental when she really just wanted him to leave. Finally Rei stormed off and could have strangled anyone.
Rei closed her eyes and growled again. Her day could not get any worse. First it had started with her Grandfather wanting to know who the kind young man who had come by yesterday had been. He had described him as a tall handsome young man with blond hair. Was he a relative of Minako's?
Then Chad had been running into her left and right wanting to know if she would go out with him. What did he think, that if he bugged her enough she would just say yes?
Rei sighed. Hearing something between a roar and a scream, the sound sending goose bumps down her spine Rei slowly turned. Nope, things just got worse. Rei looked around trying to find some type of weapon. Remembering Minako telling them she had thrown her Ice cream Rei through her entire cup of scalding hot coffee into the single eye of the creature.
It roared in pain and Rei turned on her heel. Only to run smack dab into a solid chest. Falling to the ground with enough force to jar her body and to bruise her tailbone Rei looked up. Meeting a pair of mocking orange eyes she groaned.
Her day had just been blown to hell.
~*~
Minako walked carefully in the new heels she had just bought. Smoothing her pale yellow skirt and matching shirt, she knew she looked good. It was a good thing because she had a meeting in ten minuets. The place she was going was not to fair from there.
" Usagi, I am heading out. I will be back later!" Hearing the muffled shout Minako closed the door behind her.
Looking at her perfectly painted nails Minako headed down the busy street. There was no wind so her hair fell in smooth waves down her back. Today she met with the man who was going to make or break her carrier.
Mr. Dash was perhaps the best photographer today. He was the one man that no one argued with. He had seen it all, and taken a picture of it. He was the best, and her agent had gotten her in to see him. All it would take was one photo by him, and she was set.
Which was why seeing Rei pinned down by the Yoma pissed her off beyond reason. Watching Rei hold own against the thing Minako picked up her cell phone.
" Yes, Mr. Dash would please?"
A few seconds later Minako put on the biggest show of her life. Models just had to beautiful not smart.
" Yes, Mr. Dash?" Minako said putting a hysterical note in her voice. Hearing his answer she continued. " My care BLEW a tire. I am like stuck here in the middle of a BUSY street and I have no way of making it the… the meeting on time. I called the repair unit but they…" Minako let out a perfectly planned sob. Hearing his reassurances that he understood her predicament and to come when she could.
Minako sobbed that she would. After he hung up Minako rolled her eyes. She should be an actress.
Ducking into an alley she transformed to help her friend. Only to find her in the arms of a Green haired freak.
AN: SO I left a lot of stuff out. Trust me when I say I am happy to get this much out. This week has been hell on wheels and next week is so not any better. These next three weeks are going to be extremely hectic. I will try to work on the next chapters whenever possible! Thank you for you patience and reviews.