Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Z or Sailor Moon. Dragonball Z and all of its characters belong to Akira Toriyama. Sailor Moon and all of its characters belong to Naoko Takeuchi.

Author's Notes: I know this took a while to get out but with school and a nasty case of writer's block I was having trouble producing a chapter I could be happy with. I finally managed to get some ideas for the story going in my head and I was able to get this installment done. Enjoy!

Altered Destinies

By: Kynthia

Part 10

Rei sat in bed already wearing her pajamas even though it was only the afternoon. She had one hand clasped around the phoenix pendant that she had gotten back the night before. All of this was becoming far too weird, with or without the newly found pendant. The killer cyborg that seemed to live to torment her at the moment was plenty to have to deal with as far as she was concerned.

She couldn't bring herself to tell the others about what had happened so far. Not only was it creepy it was pretty embarrassing. She really didn't want to discuss the kiss. Well kisses. Minako would have a field day with that! The girl was a hopeless romantic and when, no, if she heard about this she would probably start preaching something about how Rei could change him or some nonsense. Rei snorted at the thought. 'I'm pretty sure I would need Ami's help and a very good computer manual for that,' she thought dryly.

A knock on her bedroom door made her look up. "Come in," she called from habit.

A blonde head poked itself through the door opening. "Rei, are you ok?" Usagi asked, her expression one of obvious concern. She should have known they would have started noticing that she was acting differently sometime.

Before she could lie to the girl she stopped herself. Usagi tended to have a big mouth but she had to tell someone and vent sometime before her head exploded. Sighing she made her decision. "Usagi sit down. I have something to tell you." And she told her. Everything.

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"Oh how dreamy," Usagi said starry eyed.

"There's more," Rei said despairingly.

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"AN ANDR-"

"Quiet! I don't need Trunks ripping my door off its hinges just because you shouted 'android'."

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"HE WHAT!?" Usagi all but screamed before Rei's hand was clamped down over her mouth.

"He kissed me," Rei supplied exasperated.

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"Wow," Usagi muttered wide-eyed. "No wonder you were acting weird."

"You have to swear you won't tell anyone," Rei said seriously.

"They should-" she was cut off by the withering glare Rei was giving her. "All right," she sighed, defeated, "I swear."

"Thank you," Rei said slouching. It had taken longer then she had expected to get everything out and it was full dark now.

"I don't think there is any kind of advice that I can give you, Rei," Usagi said, "but if you ever need to talk like this again you can always come to me."

The raven-haired girl smiled warmly, "Thanks."

Usagi gave Rei a friendly hug before leaving to get to bed. Not likely that she would be able to get any sleep with what Rei had just told her, but she might as well try. Rei was thankful she had been already in her pajamas as she climbed under the sheets of her own bed and dozed off with a much lighter heart than she had the night before.

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Eighteen landed a few feet away from her brother, where he sat on the edge of the roof. He was brooding again. It seemed like it was his new hobby lately. From what she had seen the night before it wasn't his only one.

She narrowed her eyes in annoyance and placed her hands on her hips. "I know," she said simply and without preamble.

"What? That your skirt makes you look fat," he said shortly not turning to look at her. She ignored the remark knowing it was said to distract her.

"You should stay away from the girl," she said scornfully. Her enhanced senses saw the furious expression on his face at her words.

"Since when do you think I will take orders from you," Seventeen said turning an icy glare onto his sister. His arms crossed arrogantly in front of him.

"She's human," Eighteen filled the word with all the disgust she felt at the thought. For this Seventeen had no answer and he turned to glare balefully out at the clouds in the night sky as if they had caused all his problems.

Eighteen stayed a few minutes more but after it had been made clear that her twin wasn't going to say anything, she took to the air from boredom at his lack of response.

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She was wrapped in a feeling of warmth. She could smell lilies and the scent of fresh earth. The air was clean and crisp like after a rainfall. The sky overhead was a clear blue and cloudless. The grass was soft and seemed to work as padding for where she sat. She was sitting with her back against the trunk of a massive willow tree. A gentle breeze blew and a few renegade strands of hair blew into her eyes. The moss and leaves that were in the tree's branches wafted with the breeze. Before her was a field of wild flowers.

She leaned back against the tree trunk with a contented sigh. This was bliss. She closed her eyes as she gave herself over to the contented atmosphere. She didn't open her eyes until she felt something touch her cheek. It hadn't actually been a touch more like a brush, light and brief. Opening her eyes she saw the fluttering of butterfly wings. They were pale ice blue with black markings on the tips. She held still afraid to frighten away the odd little creature. If she wasn't about to be so rudely disturbed she might have sat there and watched it for a while longer.

Rei felt her body jerk and as it did she closed her eyes. When she opened them again she found herself looking not at an interesting butterfly but two very annoying, in her opinion, familiar ice blue eyes just inches from her face. When she opened her mouth to give the asshole the tongue-lashing he so rightfully deserved a hand came up to cover her mouth before she could utter a single syllable.

"If you start yelling you'll wake up the entire house and I'm sure you don't want me taking out half of your wall," came a familiar mocking voice. "If you promise to be a good girl and not yell at me until my ears bleed, I'll move my hand."

Rei growled something unpleasant about Seventeen's appearance, family, personality, and assigned him several creative places he could relocate to, but with his hand still over her mouth it only came out as muffled nonsense.

"I'll take that as to meaning that you are agreeing to my perfectly reasonable terms," Seventeen said as he removed his hand completely ignoring the glare she was giving him that was custom designed to melt objects at five meters distance. It was beginning to seriously annoy her how he could do that.

"What are you doing in my room?" she ground out. Inside she flinched when she realized what she had asked. Part of her really, really didn't want to know why a dangerous and homicidal android was in her room. She waited for his answer anyway.

It was dark enough that she couldn't read his expression but she could have sworn she heard him raise an eyebrow. "Tired of my pleasant company already?" she heard him ask.

"How's annoyed by your very existence sound?" she asked in turn. She glared at the shadowed form where he had decided to lean against the wall. Something else he was doing that managed to get on her nerves.

"Not very nice at all actually," he responded without budging.

She continued to glare balefully at him for a few moments longer waiting to see if he would say anything as why he was there. He remained silent. 'Of course when I want him to shut up he has to open his mouth but when I need answers he clams up,' she thought acidly.

"Well?" she asked crossing her arms over her chest.

"Well what?" It took every ounce of self-control Rei had not to scream in indignant rage at that moment. He must have been able to see her face despite the lack of light. "Oh you mean what am I doing here?" She thought she heard him hesitate for a moment. "I was bored," he said finally.

"Bored?" Rei asked dumbfounded. What kind of answer was that?! She asked him.

"I was bored. I had nothing better to do so…" he left the sentence hanging.

"So you just thought 'Hey why not just drag some poor girl awake and annoy the heck out of her'. Am I getting warm?" she asked.

"Something along those lines," he sounded amused.

"Why don't you just tell me why you're here then?" she gave an exasperated sigh and mentally counted down from ten. She closed her eyes and tried to relax.

"Why bother with telling you when I can just show you?" Her eyes snapped open. She didn't think she was going to like this. When she felt an arm wrap around her waist and was suddenly out in the open night air, she knew she didn't like it. Seventeen must have jumped out of the same window he had entered through because suddenly both of them were flying through the air.

"Bastard!" she shouted as she wrapped her arms around Seventeen's neck to keep from falling to her demise. Call her paranoid, but she didn't trust the restraining arm around her waist to keep her safe. She heard his amused chuckle in her ear. Rei knew he was probably smiling, but she didn't want to have to open her eyes to confirm her suspicion.

'Bastard,' she thought to herself.