Silver Dreams
Chapter 5 :: "Feelings of Flame"
Author: Nightmoon
A/N: Again, these writings are taken from the fragmented_Reality RPG. Some of it has been edited for reading ease. It's shorter than the others, but I know you'll enjoy it all the same! R/R SVP!
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Rei was in the guest room, laying on the bed, looking out the open window. The moon was rising in the sky, the sun almost gone under the horizon and a few stars sparkled in the midnight sky.
Suddenly, he heard a voice in his head...
*Fire...* The voice said... *Fire, arise tonight and take the girl Ami... bring me Mercury!*
The tattoo's on Rei's upper arms shimmered of dark energy and Rei could feel the surge of energy fall through his body, he wanted to scream out. Beryl's hand came up like a ghostly spirit from his pillow to muffle the scream that would come, until the transformation was complete. The outfit was as it was before, like the Silver Mars uniform except in blood reds and blacks.
Beryl's hand disappeared and Fire now stood up. "Yes, my Queen, she will be yours..."
Fire silently walked out of the guest room. Grandma Hino was already asleep. He crept silently into the room Ami was sleeping in and knelt down beside her. She was in a deep sleep. He gently carressed his hand against the side of her face. "Ami, listen to my voice," Fire's voice, soft and sweet, beckoned to her. From his hand, a dark energy entered her, swirling through her veins.
Ami felt dark energy flowing through her, but what kept her from fighting it was Reis gentle touch. So soft... so sweet to her skin. She then opened her eyes. The symbol of mercury appeared on her forehead. The thing that triggered the dark energy was the locket. She
opened her crystal blue eyes they then went to an icey blue. She then appeared in a dark blue fuku. She had a skin tight shirt on and a black blue skirt. Her eyes turned black for a moment. The locket glowed brightly as did the symbol.
Beryl appeared as a ghostly-form looking at her two Senshi. "Excellent. Well done Fire. You have brought her to our side," she laughed softly, evily. "Tomorrow will be another day. You will act as if this hadn't happened, and you two will go along as Senshi until you hear my command." Beryl then disappeared from the room...
Fire listened, but never took his eyes from Icey's. When Beryl left, without seeing that they detransformed, the night was theirs. And with the new energy surging through them, they were each others. Fire placed his hand down to Icey's, their fingers interlacing, and the dark energy surged around them.
"What's your name?" Fire asked, his voice husky and gentle as a dark flame flickered about him.
"Icey," she replied in a calm and soothing voice. An evil grin crept across her face and her icey blue eyes flickered. She let all the dark energy flow through her body. "What's yours?"
"Fire," he replied back, taking off the dark drape that covered his mouth. "How do you feel?" he asked, caressing his hand slowly and gently up Icey's arm. This stimulated her nerves, giving her a cold, shivering feeling through her body, a sensuality that revived her senses.
She sighed. "I feel great... better than ever." She shuddred as she felt his hand upon her arm. She bit her lip she looked upon his hansome face.
Fire brought his hand up to Icey's face, bringing his hand behind her head and pulled her in towards him. Their lips met and they shared a deep, firey kiss as Fire placed her down upon the bed. Parting, his dark red eyes looked over her icey blues, and he put his index finger to her soft lips. "Sleep now, Icey," he said, "Beryl is our Queen, and we will do whatever she wishes. And I, Icey, will do whatever you wish."
Icey gave an evil grin. "I will serve her and do as she wishes, but I will serve you more and do whatever you wish of me." A slight smirk covered her face.
Fire put his hand over Icey's eyes, making her fall to a deep sleep as her evil henshin disappeared leaving her as Ami in the grey shirt Grandma Hino had given her. "Goodnight, my dear Icey," he said, kissing her lips against softly before rising from the bed and exiting the room for the night.
Ami fell into a deep state as if nothing ever happened and all the memories of Fire and Icey slowly faded away into a deep corner of her mind. She remembered nothing of Beryl or even Fire coming into her room. She slept as if nothing even happened.
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Ami woke up in the middle of the night. She felt very dizzy and in the dark she found herself in the guest room, where sleeping deeply on the bed was Rei. She didn't know if this was a sin or what but she couldn't resist. He was peacefully in a deep state of sleep. She walked over beside his bed and crawled in beside him. She snuggled up against him and fell asleep.
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The sun was just rising when Rei began to stir awake. When he began to stretch, he felt a warm body beside his own and jerked to sit up. He then saw it was Ami. "Kami-sama..." he growled lowly, frustrated that Ami would even -think- of sleeping beside him. Since she was still asleep, he decided not to wake her and to talk to her about it later on. He silently slid off the bed
and dressed in his temple robes, then walked outside, opening the door to be shocked by the presence of Grandma Hino staring up at him.
"Obaa-," he shouted.
Grandma Hino put a finger to his mouth to hush him, pointing to the sleeping Ami. Rei cocked a brow. "You knew?" he whispered, closing the door behind him and walking with his Grandma to the temple grounds.
"Course I knew," Grandma Hino replied, "She's had feelings for you since the first time she saw you. You, on the other hand, are a different matter..."
"Obaasan... please, don't give me 'you must chose a wife' deal." Rei rolled his eyes.
"Ah, my dear Rei, some day you will choose one. But you must be open to the feelings of the women that surround you. Like Ami for one..." Grandma said.
"I want her gone," Rei growled... "I'll find another home for her today. I'm not going to be taken in by her. I do not want her neither do I care about her in any way she feels about me. I'm going to stop her childish crush on me before it gets worse!"
"Rei!" Grandma shouted, jumping up to grab Rei by the collar and pulled him down to her height.
Rei knelt and looked into his Grandma's eyes, quite serious about his decision. Grandma was searching for some sort of lie within him, but his eyes showed her only truth. She smirked. "Ami can stay under my supervision for as long as she likes. You have no say in who stays and who
goes. Now, go do your morning chores. I have to run some errans and will be back later in the afternoon." Grandma Hino then let go of Rei's collar and skiddled off.
Rei shook his head and stood up, then walking to the storage shed and taking out a bag of bird seed. He whistled a set of high and low whistles, calling Phoebos and Deimos to his side. The two black crows came and landed before him. He knelt down and took some seed into his palm, extending his hand out to the birds as they hopped up to his hand and started to eat.
Moments later, Ami walked past him, shooting him an icey glare. Rei didn't notice this, as his attention was upon the two black crows that happily ate seed from his hand.
"Kon'nichiwa!" A feminine voice called to him. Rei lifted his head to see a long blonde wearing a red bow walk up to him. "I'm Minako and you are?" She held her hand out towards Rei. "Is that your girlfriend?" She asked, craning her neck towards Ami. A white cat jumped on her shoulder.
Rei shook Minako's hand, then glancing at Ami quickly and looking back to Minako. "No, she is not," he said coldy. "I'm Hino Rei, my Obaasan owns this temple. It's a pleasure to meet you Minako-chan."
Ami looked at Minako. "Sorry to interrupt, but could you give us a
moment?"
"Sure..." said Minako.
Ami dragged Rei to behind the temple. "Rei, I heard what you said about me. I didn't come in your room for that reason. Something happened to me, I don't know what it was. But that feeling pulled me there."
Ami paused and lowered her head, trying to keep back the tears. "I had a dream," she continued. "You came in my room last night. It might have been what pulled me. I'm sorry. I'm going to confess it right now... I love you..." A single tear caressed down her cheek. "I may not be as
beautiful as Usagi. I know you don't feel that way about me, but I have immence feelings for you." A slight whimper came from her.
"I'm not gonna make you love me," she added. "I never said you had to. But I love you. I apologize for what I've done. I promise you that I will leave as soon as I make enough money to buy an apartment. We are fighting on the same side now. We might be spending a lot of time with each other." She placed her arms under her chest. She looked at him sadly and just stood there.
Rei growled. Not only was he angry at Ami for sleeping beside him, but now it was being put on that she was making lies about being 'attracted' to him by some strange aura. And telling him that she loved him? Rei was utterly confused...
"Do NOT say you love me..." Rei snapped. "What you feel for me is nothing more than a idiotic teenage crush, Mizuno-san. Confessing it doesn't mean it's true love. How can you feel this 'love' for me, when you just met me? You may know where I live, where I work, and my name. But you do NOT know -WHO- I AM!" He put his hands to Ami's shoulders and pinned her against the wall of the house.
Crouching down to her level, he stared directly into her eyes. "What I feel for Usagi is none of your business. I will tolerate fighting beside you, because I have no choice otherwise. Hell, I wouldn't have minded at all, you know... if only you would've kept your mouth shut! I am NOT ready to hear those words from someone I don't feel the same for! Not only have you ruined
the one, clean moment I've been looking foreward too, the moment that the woman I loved would say those three, precious words to me... you have also shadowed my soul. I will never be the same again. I will never forget this moment. And I hope you don't either. Know what. You wouldn't have succeeded in making me love you. For all that you are Mizuno-san..." He paused before going on,
telling her what was in his mind about his first impression of her to now...
He pushed away from her and stepped away. "You will not say a word of what happened to anyone, understand? And you will keep your distance from me too, or so help me..." he growled, then walked back around the house to where Minako was.
Rei saw Minako now talking with Makoto. Then, off in the distance, running up the stairs, he saw the familiar blonde odango's of Usagi. She was running up the stairs, out of breath, and slowed down to a stop when she reached the top. "So.. *huff* many.. *huff* stairs!" she whined. She then looked up to see Makoto. "Makoto-san! Glad you made it..." She smiled. She then saw Rei and
blushed... seeing him now, she can remember the dance they shared, and how close he was to her...
"Rei, uhm... kon'nichiwa," she greeted him.
"Kon'nichiwa bright eyes," Rei said. "Sleep well?"
"Hai," she replied, blushing even more from Rei calling her 'bright eyes'. She didn't mind at all...
She then noticed Minako and the white cat... "Oh, who are you?" She asked Minako.
Luna pounced down from a tree, scaring Phoebos and Deimos away as she softly walked up to Usagi's side... looking up at the white cat on Minako's shoulder, she smiled. "Artemis-kun!" she greeted him, "How nice to see you again."
Amis heart grew shallow as it was broken into many peices. She pushed back tears never in her life had she been so hurt. She walked over to the rest tears still in her eyes. Artemis noticed Amis tears and wispered to Minako. Minako looked directly at Ami and she felt the
ache this poor girl had. Whatever this man had said had shattered her. Artmeis looked directly at Rei so did Minako then back to Ami. Then it happened... Ami collapsed on the ground tears flowing. Minako quickly bent down. "What is it?"
Usagi gasped as Ami fell. "Ami-chan? Ami-chan! What's wrong?" Usagi ran over to her and knelt beside her. "What happened? Are you okay?"
Rei simply stood in place, watching Minako and Usagi as they tended to their friend. Friends, yes, that's what he is to them... but to Ami, a whole different story. His heart did ache to the poor girl. But he had to tell her what he felt towards her, he had to tell the truth, and that Rei knew was right to do. The truth does hurt, and Ami just has to get used to it. It didn't seem
now that anything she could say would change his mind about her. First impressions are important, and Ami at first made a good impression on him... but after all that's happened... that first impression had faded from his mind.
Rei looked to Minako and Artemis. She seemed to be looking at him before, probably suspected he had done it. She was right to do so. He had something to do with it, but the rest was Ami's fault. She had put herself easily into something that would've just hurt her in the end if she wasn't careful... and she wasn't.
"Let's get this meeting on with," Rei said. "First on the list, Minako, are you here for a reason?"
Even though Ami had told them nothing was wrong, Minako knew otherwise. She looked up at Rei. "You had something to do with this didn't you?" She spat.
Artemis walked over to Luna. "Luna when passed a pet shop on the way here, we got strong vibes. They sell irresitable cute pets. I say we check it out later. Minako and I are well aware of what's happening. We've fought the negaverse many times before and we feel that something
big is about to happen."
Luna looked at Artemis and nodded, "We should check it out. On the way here, I think I also felt a little something around that area. But, seems like we've got out own problems here to worry about."
Usagi rubbed her hand on Ami's back to try and calm her tears. Then when Minako started to yell at Rei, she looked up between them. "Rei, what's going on?" Usagi asked.
Rei was quiet towards Usagi's question, looking directly at Minako. He would have yelled back at Minako, tell her a lie possible, ask her who she thought she was to be accusing him of making Ami cry... but he couldn't lie. "In a way, it was my fault. But it's none of your business what's going on between Ami and I. None of your business, understand?"
Usagi stood up and looked at Rei. "Rei, what did you do? Please, tell me..."
Rei closed his eyes and sighed deeply. "Please don't ask me to tell you... you shouldn't be involved," he then said softly.
"Don't be like that Rei. Ami's one of my friends, and so are you. I'd like to know what's going on then maybe we can settle this and make Ami feel better..." Usagi said, but could see Rei's eyes were still closed. "Rei... look at her, please. Look at how broken she is because of what you've done."
"What I've done?" Rei shouted, snapping his eyes open and looking at Usagi. "I'm not the one who says 'I love you' just by meeting a person. I'm not the one that sleeps beside a total stranger and says that some stupid 'energy' made her do it. If I dare think so, I think I've done -nothing- except be a very welcome host to her. I carried her here when she was wounded and even gave her my room to sleep in until she felt better. Now, can you tell me exactly what I did wrong?"
Usagi, after hearing Rei speak his mind, had nothing to say to Rei... but then, looking down at Ami, she asked, "Is this true?"
Ami closed her eyes. "Rei I told you... something's going on... something pulled me there. Do you think I'd actually dare to do that?" She opened her eyes which were filled with truth. She then looked at Rei. "I'm sorry, don't be like this. Hate me all you want. I'm worth nothing anyway. I have always been. I'm never going to get to go to Harvard or anything like that. My life savings are gone, so is my home."
Minako looked down saying nothing. "You should both be ashamed." She said quietly.
(A/N: For those of you who don't know, which would be most of you. Ami's house was burnt to the ground the day before and her mom told her to stay with friends until she contacted her. It's something I couldn't put in because Rei wasn't there to witness it. ^^)
"Ami," Usagi gasped. "Don't say that. You're worth everything you're meant to be. Don't be put down because of a boy, especially Rei-kun!"
Rei cocked a brow at what Usagi had said...
Usagi continued... "You'll go to 'Harvard', you just have to try! Keep your spirits up! Look on the bright side of things!" She turned her head and shot a glare at Rei. "She appologized for what she's done. With the negaverse around, you should know things can't quite be as they seem..."
Rei's face relaxed. "You're right," he said. "Gomen nesai Ami-chan. I can be such a fool sometimes."
Ami looked up at Rei. "All is forgiven. For what I've done it will take you a long time to forgive. I've made a bad impression. I did not mean to say those three words. Something in the back of my head made me. I feel very weird. Guess I don't get another chance. I wasn't even trying to make you love me. I would never do that." She pushed bits of blue hair back.
Then suddenly, a shock of dark energy went through Rei's mind... something was approaching the temple. He turned his head slowly to see a man (Mamoru) walk up the stairs holding two fluffy creatures, one blue, the other pink. "What the?" he exclaimed.
Usagi looked over to the man. "Chiba-san?" she said, then stood up and ran to him. "What are you doing here?" She asked Mamoru. She looked strangely at the creatures he held... "Those must be the same kind that Naru-chan bought." She looked back at Mamoru, "Why do you have two?"
Artmeis took a look at the pets Mamoru was carrying. "Luna, I'm getting very strong negative
vibes from those things."
Mamoru looked at Usagi contemptuously. "They are my new pets. I was going to give one to you, but have changed my mind. They are too cute for anyone else to have. Especially my little Tsukikage here," he said indicating the pink one. "Chi is just as cute. They are the cutest two ever. I can't believe that I was ever going to give something so cute up. Good day," he said as he walked away.
Usagi looked at the pink animal as Mamoru held it, he calling it 'Tsukikage'. Then when Mamoru walked away, Usagi went to catch up to him, grabbing his arm to stop him. "Chiba-san, I don't want one of those... those... creatures. Sure, they're cute and all, but I don't want one. What I want to know is why you're acting so strangely?"
Rei eyed the creatures and narrowed his eyes. There was certainly something awfully wrong about them... he just couldn't put his finger on it. He watched as Usagi ran up to the man... was this guy someone she was interested in? Certainly, together they struck to him some sort of de ja vu experience, as if it was meant to be.
Although Rei was confused of his feelings, something else came over him. He pulled out a long peics of paper with four kanji-characters written on it... he muttered some words, a flicker of wind gusting around him, as the limp paper suddenly stood up straight and he threw it out to Mamoru.
Mamoru gripped his head in pain as the charm made contact. The two creatures fell to the ground, but stayed next to Mamoru. Their eyes began to glow a dark red. A cry of pain came from Mamoru's lips as the ward attempted to break the spell that was growing in strength.
He closed his eyes and prayed for the pain to stop. Relief finally came when he passed out.
The two creatures seemed to nod to each other before jumping onto Usagi. They immediately began to weave their magic into her. 'You cannot allow harm to come to us. We are everything. Nothing else matters. You must think of us. Our cuteness is all that is important. OBEY!' the two drilled into Usagi.
"Venus star power, Makeup!" Yelled Minako as she appeared in a gold fuku. "Venus love beam shot!" She yelled. The light went straight into the two creatures eyes blinding them. They
then fell. She ran up to Usagi. "Are you ok?"
Artmeis ran up behind her. "We're not done yet! Finish them off!"
"Mercury star power, Makeup!" Yelled Ami appearing the silverish blue fuku. "Tented ice!" She
yelled as she spun her tiny ice-staff. A calm mist covered the creatures freezing them, crushing them down with the ice and destroying them.
She then looked at Rei and then noticed the charm on her arm. "Friendship..." She thought. She shrugged it off and walked to where he was standing. "I'm sorry..." She wispered. "Think you can ever forgive me?"
With the two creatures now frozen, Usagi fell to her knees... confused on all that just happened. "What was that?" she asked.
"The NegaVerse," Luna replied, "They must have those creatures under their control."
Usagi looked up to the entrance, to see Grandma Hino and another girl standing there... "Luna!" she whispered, "We have a problem."
Luna turned to see the two 'watchers' and knew immediately it would be something hard to handle... she would have turned to Artemis, Minako and Ami to yell them out about not thinking before transforming, but not even she had seen them so she couldn't put the blame on the three.
Rei was out of it, nearly not paying attention to Ami as she asked if he could forgive her. His eyes were set at the entrance of the temple where there stood Grandma Hino and a 15-year old girl, her long violet hair swaying in the warm breeze. She held a long white cane, her eyes a light grey telling him exactly who she was...
"Yume-chan?" He whispered her nickname. He then left Ami's side and walked towards the girl.
Grandma's eyes were wide open after what she had seen... "Rei, what just happened here?" She asked slow and unbelieving.
Rei was too taken by Aislinn's presence there to reply. He was looking straight at her, straight into her eyes, even though he knew she couldn't technically 'see' him. "Yume-chan..." he said softly, reaching a hand to touch her shoulder as to not startle her. He was speachless on what else to say to her. His hand slid down from her shoulder to grasp her hand. "It's... good to see you again, Aislinn."
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To Be Continued...
Chapter 6 :: "We Meet Again"
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Chapter 5 :: "Feelings of Flame"
Author: Nightmoon
A/N: Again, these writings are taken from the fragmented_Reality RPG. Some of it has been edited for reading ease. It's shorter than the others, but I know you'll enjoy it all the same! R/R SVP!
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Rei was in the guest room, laying on the bed, looking out the open window. The moon was rising in the sky, the sun almost gone under the horizon and a few stars sparkled in the midnight sky.
Suddenly, he heard a voice in his head...
*Fire...* The voice said... *Fire, arise tonight and take the girl Ami... bring me Mercury!*
The tattoo's on Rei's upper arms shimmered of dark energy and Rei could feel the surge of energy fall through his body, he wanted to scream out. Beryl's hand came up like a ghostly spirit from his pillow to muffle the scream that would come, until the transformation was complete. The outfit was as it was before, like the Silver Mars uniform except in blood reds and blacks.
Beryl's hand disappeared and Fire now stood up. "Yes, my Queen, she will be yours..."
Fire silently walked out of the guest room. Grandma Hino was already asleep. He crept silently into the room Ami was sleeping in and knelt down beside her. She was in a deep sleep. He gently carressed his hand against the side of her face. "Ami, listen to my voice," Fire's voice, soft and sweet, beckoned to her. From his hand, a dark energy entered her, swirling through her veins.
Ami felt dark energy flowing through her, but what kept her from fighting it was Reis gentle touch. So soft... so sweet to her skin. She then opened her eyes. The symbol of mercury appeared on her forehead. The thing that triggered the dark energy was the locket. She
opened her crystal blue eyes they then went to an icey blue. She then appeared in a dark blue fuku. She had a skin tight shirt on and a black blue skirt. Her eyes turned black for a moment. The locket glowed brightly as did the symbol.
Beryl appeared as a ghostly-form looking at her two Senshi. "Excellent. Well done Fire. You have brought her to our side," she laughed softly, evily. "Tomorrow will be another day. You will act as if this hadn't happened, and you two will go along as Senshi until you hear my command." Beryl then disappeared from the room...
Fire listened, but never took his eyes from Icey's. When Beryl left, without seeing that they detransformed, the night was theirs. And with the new energy surging through them, they were each others. Fire placed his hand down to Icey's, their fingers interlacing, and the dark energy surged around them.
"What's your name?" Fire asked, his voice husky and gentle as a dark flame flickered about him.
"Icey," she replied in a calm and soothing voice. An evil grin crept across her face and her icey blue eyes flickered. She let all the dark energy flow through her body. "What's yours?"
"Fire," he replied back, taking off the dark drape that covered his mouth. "How do you feel?" he asked, caressing his hand slowly and gently up Icey's arm. This stimulated her nerves, giving her a cold, shivering feeling through her body, a sensuality that revived her senses.
She sighed. "I feel great... better than ever." She shuddred as she felt his hand upon her arm. She bit her lip she looked upon his hansome face.
Fire brought his hand up to Icey's face, bringing his hand behind her head and pulled her in towards him. Their lips met and they shared a deep, firey kiss as Fire placed her down upon the bed. Parting, his dark red eyes looked over her icey blues, and he put his index finger to her soft lips. "Sleep now, Icey," he said, "Beryl is our Queen, and we will do whatever she wishes. And I, Icey, will do whatever you wish."
Icey gave an evil grin. "I will serve her and do as she wishes, but I will serve you more and do whatever you wish of me." A slight smirk covered her face.
Fire put his hand over Icey's eyes, making her fall to a deep sleep as her evil henshin disappeared leaving her as Ami in the grey shirt Grandma Hino had given her. "Goodnight, my dear Icey," he said, kissing her lips against softly before rising from the bed and exiting the room for the night.
Ami fell into a deep state as if nothing ever happened and all the memories of Fire and Icey slowly faded away into a deep corner of her mind. She remembered nothing of Beryl or even Fire coming into her room. She slept as if nothing even happened.
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Ami woke up in the middle of the night. She felt very dizzy and in the dark she found herself in the guest room, where sleeping deeply on the bed was Rei. She didn't know if this was a sin or what but she couldn't resist. He was peacefully in a deep state of sleep. She walked over beside his bed and crawled in beside him. She snuggled up against him and fell asleep.
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The sun was just rising when Rei began to stir awake. When he began to stretch, he felt a warm body beside his own and jerked to sit up. He then saw it was Ami. "Kami-sama..." he growled lowly, frustrated that Ami would even -think- of sleeping beside him. Since she was still asleep, he decided not to wake her and to talk to her about it later on. He silently slid off the bed
and dressed in his temple robes, then walked outside, opening the door to be shocked by the presence of Grandma Hino staring up at him.
"Obaa-," he shouted.
Grandma Hino put a finger to his mouth to hush him, pointing to the sleeping Ami. Rei cocked a brow. "You knew?" he whispered, closing the door behind him and walking with his Grandma to the temple grounds.
"Course I knew," Grandma Hino replied, "She's had feelings for you since the first time she saw you. You, on the other hand, are a different matter..."
"Obaasan... please, don't give me 'you must chose a wife' deal." Rei rolled his eyes.
"Ah, my dear Rei, some day you will choose one. But you must be open to the feelings of the women that surround you. Like Ami for one..." Grandma said.
"I want her gone," Rei growled... "I'll find another home for her today. I'm not going to be taken in by her. I do not want her neither do I care about her in any way she feels about me. I'm going to stop her childish crush on me before it gets worse!"
"Rei!" Grandma shouted, jumping up to grab Rei by the collar and pulled him down to her height.
Rei knelt and looked into his Grandma's eyes, quite serious about his decision. Grandma was searching for some sort of lie within him, but his eyes showed her only truth. She smirked. "Ami can stay under my supervision for as long as she likes. You have no say in who stays and who
goes. Now, go do your morning chores. I have to run some errans and will be back later in the afternoon." Grandma Hino then let go of Rei's collar and skiddled off.
Rei shook his head and stood up, then walking to the storage shed and taking out a bag of bird seed. He whistled a set of high and low whistles, calling Phoebos and Deimos to his side. The two black crows came and landed before him. He knelt down and took some seed into his palm, extending his hand out to the birds as they hopped up to his hand and started to eat.
Moments later, Ami walked past him, shooting him an icey glare. Rei didn't notice this, as his attention was upon the two black crows that happily ate seed from his hand.
"Kon'nichiwa!" A feminine voice called to him. Rei lifted his head to see a long blonde wearing a red bow walk up to him. "I'm Minako and you are?" She held her hand out towards Rei. "Is that your girlfriend?" She asked, craning her neck towards Ami. A white cat jumped on her shoulder.
Rei shook Minako's hand, then glancing at Ami quickly and looking back to Minako. "No, she is not," he said coldy. "I'm Hino Rei, my Obaasan owns this temple. It's a pleasure to meet you Minako-chan."
Ami looked at Minako. "Sorry to interrupt, but could you give us a
moment?"
"Sure..." said Minako.
Ami dragged Rei to behind the temple. "Rei, I heard what you said about me. I didn't come in your room for that reason. Something happened to me, I don't know what it was. But that feeling pulled me there."
Ami paused and lowered her head, trying to keep back the tears. "I had a dream," she continued. "You came in my room last night. It might have been what pulled me. I'm sorry. I'm going to confess it right now... I love you..." A single tear caressed down her cheek. "I may not be as
beautiful as Usagi. I know you don't feel that way about me, but I have immence feelings for you." A slight whimper came from her.
"I'm not gonna make you love me," she added. "I never said you had to. But I love you. I apologize for what I've done. I promise you that I will leave as soon as I make enough money to buy an apartment. We are fighting on the same side now. We might be spending a lot of time with each other." She placed her arms under her chest. She looked at him sadly and just stood there.
Rei growled. Not only was he angry at Ami for sleeping beside him, but now it was being put on that she was making lies about being 'attracted' to him by some strange aura. And telling him that she loved him? Rei was utterly confused...
"Do NOT say you love me..." Rei snapped. "What you feel for me is nothing more than a idiotic teenage crush, Mizuno-san. Confessing it doesn't mean it's true love. How can you feel this 'love' for me, when you just met me? You may know where I live, where I work, and my name. But you do NOT know -WHO- I AM!" He put his hands to Ami's shoulders and pinned her against the wall of the house.
Crouching down to her level, he stared directly into her eyes. "What I feel for Usagi is none of your business. I will tolerate fighting beside you, because I have no choice otherwise. Hell, I wouldn't have minded at all, you know... if only you would've kept your mouth shut! I am NOT ready to hear those words from someone I don't feel the same for! Not only have you ruined
the one, clean moment I've been looking foreward too, the moment that the woman I loved would say those three, precious words to me... you have also shadowed my soul. I will never be the same again. I will never forget this moment. And I hope you don't either. Know what. You wouldn't have succeeded in making me love you. For all that you are Mizuno-san..." He paused before going on,
telling her what was in his mind about his first impression of her to now...
He pushed away from her and stepped away. "You will not say a word of what happened to anyone, understand? And you will keep your distance from me too, or so help me..." he growled, then walked back around the house to where Minako was.
Rei saw Minako now talking with Makoto. Then, off in the distance, running up the stairs, he saw the familiar blonde odango's of Usagi. She was running up the stairs, out of breath, and slowed down to a stop when she reached the top. "So.. *huff* many.. *huff* stairs!" she whined. She then looked up to see Makoto. "Makoto-san! Glad you made it..." She smiled. She then saw Rei and
blushed... seeing him now, she can remember the dance they shared, and how close he was to her...
"Rei, uhm... kon'nichiwa," she greeted him.
"Kon'nichiwa bright eyes," Rei said. "Sleep well?"
"Hai," she replied, blushing even more from Rei calling her 'bright eyes'. She didn't mind at all...
She then noticed Minako and the white cat... "Oh, who are you?" She asked Minako.
Luna pounced down from a tree, scaring Phoebos and Deimos away as she softly walked up to Usagi's side... looking up at the white cat on Minako's shoulder, she smiled. "Artemis-kun!" she greeted him, "How nice to see you again."
Amis heart grew shallow as it was broken into many peices. She pushed back tears never in her life had she been so hurt. She walked over to the rest tears still in her eyes. Artemis noticed Amis tears and wispered to Minako. Minako looked directly at Ami and she felt the
ache this poor girl had. Whatever this man had said had shattered her. Artmeis looked directly at Rei so did Minako then back to Ami. Then it happened... Ami collapsed on the ground tears flowing. Minako quickly bent down. "What is it?"
Usagi gasped as Ami fell. "Ami-chan? Ami-chan! What's wrong?" Usagi ran over to her and knelt beside her. "What happened? Are you okay?"
Rei simply stood in place, watching Minako and Usagi as they tended to their friend. Friends, yes, that's what he is to them... but to Ami, a whole different story. His heart did ache to the poor girl. But he had to tell her what he felt towards her, he had to tell the truth, and that Rei knew was right to do. The truth does hurt, and Ami just has to get used to it. It didn't seem
now that anything she could say would change his mind about her. First impressions are important, and Ami at first made a good impression on him... but after all that's happened... that first impression had faded from his mind.
Rei looked to Minako and Artemis. She seemed to be looking at him before, probably suspected he had done it. She was right to do so. He had something to do with it, but the rest was Ami's fault. She had put herself easily into something that would've just hurt her in the end if she wasn't careful... and she wasn't.
"Let's get this meeting on with," Rei said. "First on the list, Minako, are you here for a reason?"
Even though Ami had told them nothing was wrong, Minako knew otherwise. She looked up at Rei. "You had something to do with this didn't you?" She spat.
Artemis walked over to Luna. "Luna when passed a pet shop on the way here, we got strong vibes. They sell irresitable cute pets. I say we check it out later. Minako and I are well aware of what's happening. We've fought the negaverse many times before and we feel that something
big is about to happen."
Luna looked at Artemis and nodded, "We should check it out. On the way here, I think I also felt a little something around that area. But, seems like we've got out own problems here to worry about."
Usagi rubbed her hand on Ami's back to try and calm her tears. Then when Minako started to yell at Rei, she looked up between them. "Rei, what's going on?" Usagi asked.
Rei was quiet towards Usagi's question, looking directly at Minako. He would have yelled back at Minako, tell her a lie possible, ask her who she thought she was to be accusing him of making Ami cry... but he couldn't lie. "In a way, it was my fault. But it's none of your business what's going on between Ami and I. None of your business, understand?"
Usagi stood up and looked at Rei. "Rei, what did you do? Please, tell me..."
Rei closed his eyes and sighed deeply. "Please don't ask me to tell you... you shouldn't be involved," he then said softly.
"Don't be like that Rei. Ami's one of my friends, and so are you. I'd like to know what's going on then maybe we can settle this and make Ami feel better..." Usagi said, but could see Rei's eyes were still closed. "Rei... look at her, please. Look at how broken she is because of what you've done."
"What I've done?" Rei shouted, snapping his eyes open and looking at Usagi. "I'm not the one who says 'I love you' just by meeting a person. I'm not the one that sleeps beside a total stranger and says that some stupid 'energy' made her do it. If I dare think so, I think I've done -nothing- except be a very welcome host to her. I carried her here when she was wounded and even gave her my room to sleep in until she felt better. Now, can you tell me exactly what I did wrong?"
Usagi, after hearing Rei speak his mind, had nothing to say to Rei... but then, looking down at Ami, she asked, "Is this true?"
Ami closed her eyes. "Rei I told you... something's going on... something pulled me there. Do you think I'd actually dare to do that?" She opened her eyes which were filled with truth. She then looked at Rei. "I'm sorry, don't be like this. Hate me all you want. I'm worth nothing anyway. I have always been. I'm never going to get to go to Harvard or anything like that. My life savings are gone, so is my home."
Minako looked down saying nothing. "You should both be ashamed." She said quietly.
(A/N: For those of you who don't know, which would be most of you. Ami's house was burnt to the ground the day before and her mom told her to stay with friends until she contacted her. It's something I couldn't put in because Rei wasn't there to witness it. ^^)
"Ami," Usagi gasped. "Don't say that. You're worth everything you're meant to be. Don't be put down because of a boy, especially Rei-kun!"
Rei cocked a brow at what Usagi had said...
Usagi continued... "You'll go to 'Harvard', you just have to try! Keep your spirits up! Look on the bright side of things!" She turned her head and shot a glare at Rei. "She appologized for what she's done. With the negaverse around, you should know things can't quite be as they seem..."
Rei's face relaxed. "You're right," he said. "Gomen nesai Ami-chan. I can be such a fool sometimes."
Ami looked up at Rei. "All is forgiven. For what I've done it will take you a long time to forgive. I've made a bad impression. I did not mean to say those three words. Something in the back of my head made me. I feel very weird. Guess I don't get another chance. I wasn't even trying to make you love me. I would never do that." She pushed bits of blue hair back.
Then suddenly, a shock of dark energy went through Rei's mind... something was approaching the temple. He turned his head slowly to see a man (Mamoru) walk up the stairs holding two fluffy creatures, one blue, the other pink. "What the?" he exclaimed.
Usagi looked over to the man. "Chiba-san?" she said, then stood up and ran to him. "What are you doing here?" She asked Mamoru. She looked strangely at the creatures he held... "Those must be the same kind that Naru-chan bought." She looked back at Mamoru, "Why do you have two?"
Artmeis took a look at the pets Mamoru was carrying. "Luna, I'm getting very strong negative
vibes from those things."
Mamoru looked at Usagi contemptuously. "They are my new pets. I was going to give one to you, but have changed my mind. They are too cute for anyone else to have. Especially my little Tsukikage here," he said indicating the pink one. "Chi is just as cute. They are the cutest two ever. I can't believe that I was ever going to give something so cute up. Good day," he said as he walked away.
Usagi looked at the pink animal as Mamoru held it, he calling it 'Tsukikage'. Then when Mamoru walked away, Usagi went to catch up to him, grabbing his arm to stop him. "Chiba-san, I don't want one of those... those... creatures. Sure, they're cute and all, but I don't want one. What I want to know is why you're acting so strangely?"
Rei eyed the creatures and narrowed his eyes. There was certainly something awfully wrong about them... he just couldn't put his finger on it. He watched as Usagi ran up to the man... was this guy someone she was interested in? Certainly, together they struck to him some sort of de ja vu experience, as if it was meant to be.
Although Rei was confused of his feelings, something else came over him. He pulled out a long peics of paper with four kanji-characters written on it... he muttered some words, a flicker of wind gusting around him, as the limp paper suddenly stood up straight and he threw it out to Mamoru.
Mamoru gripped his head in pain as the charm made contact. The two creatures fell to the ground, but stayed next to Mamoru. Their eyes began to glow a dark red. A cry of pain came from Mamoru's lips as the ward attempted to break the spell that was growing in strength.
He closed his eyes and prayed for the pain to stop. Relief finally came when he passed out.
The two creatures seemed to nod to each other before jumping onto Usagi. They immediately began to weave their magic into her. 'You cannot allow harm to come to us. We are everything. Nothing else matters. You must think of us. Our cuteness is all that is important. OBEY!' the two drilled into Usagi.
"Venus star power, Makeup!" Yelled Minako as she appeared in a gold fuku. "Venus love beam shot!" She yelled. The light went straight into the two creatures eyes blinding them. They
then fell. She ran up to Usagi. "Are you ok?"
Artmeis ran up behind her. "We're not done yet! Finish them off!"
"Mercury star power, Makeup!" Yelled Ami appearing the silverish blue fuku. "Tented ice!" She
yelled as she spun her tiny ice-staff. A calm mist covered the creatures freezing them, crushing them down with the ice and destroying them.
She then looked at Rei and then noticed the charm on her arm. "Friendship..." She thought. She shrugged it off and walked to where he was standing. "I'm sorry..." She wispered. "Think you can ever forgive me?"
With the two creatures now frozen, Usagi fell to her knees... confused on all that just happened. "What was that?" she asked.
"The NegaVerse," Luna replied, "They must have those creatures under their control."
Usagi looked up to the entrance, to see Grandma Hino and another girl standing there... "Luna!" she whispered, "We have a problem."
Luna turned to see the two 'watchers' and knew immediately it would be something hard to handle... she would have turned to Artemis, Minako and Ami to yell them out about not thinking before transforming, but not even she had seen them so she couldn't put the blame on the three.
Rei was out of it, nearly not paying attention to Ami as she asked if he could forgive her. His eyes were set at the entrance of the temple where there stood Grandma Hino and a 15-year old girl, her long violet hair swaying in the warm breeze. She held a long white cane, her eyes a light grey telling him exactly who she was...
"Yume-chan?" He whispered her nickname. He then left Ami's side and walked towards the girl.
Grandma's eyes were wide open after what she had seen... "Rei, what just happened here?" She asked slow and unbelieving.
Rei was too taken by Aislinn's presence there to reply. He was looking straight at her, straight into her eyes, even though he knew she couldn't technically 'see' him. "Yume-chan..." he said softly, reaching a hand to touch her shoulder as to not startle her. He was speachless on what else to say to her. His hand slid down from her shoulder to grasp her hand. "It's... good to see you again, Aislinn."
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To Be Continued...
Chapter 6 :: "We Meet Again"
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