Title: It's In Her Kiss...
Chapter Nine
Author: KissThis
Rating: Pg-13...might change to R in later chapters.
Summary: Takes place about a year after the fight with Galaxia and the leaving of the Starlights. Visions plague Healer, and she desires to return to Earth. And a romance ensues with many obstacles and bumps along the way. Usagi/Yaten
Disclaimer: All Sailormoon paraphernalia belongs to Naoko Takeuchi. The plot, though, was dutifully thought of and recorded by my faithful plot bunnies.
A/N: Wow! I'm going to try and fit the entire elevator AND picnic scene in this chapter, but if I find a good cliffhanger I might split it into two! :-P Anyhoo. Let's get on with it.
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"Rock, Paper...Scissors!"
"I win again!" Usagi exclaimed. Clapping her hands giddily together.
"What?"
"Paper covers rock." Usagi repeated for the ninth time since they'd started playing. She lifted her hands and covered her fist with her other hand to emphasize the rules.
"Rock rips through paper." Yaten insisted shaking her head.
"That's not how the game is played."
"Well it's illogical." Yaten declared biting into an apple.
"Illogical or not that's how it goes!" Usagi grabbed the apple from Yaten's hands and took a large bite insolently. She dropped her hands heavily in her lap with a sigh and shifted her position so that she was leaning against the cold metallic walls of the elevator.
Still hungry, Yaten munched on a cookie while changing her position as well. Lying on her back she propped her legs up against the railing. Eating her cookie she seemed fascinated by the tile work on the ceiling. She glanced at her watch. They'd been stuck in the elevator for the past twenty minutes.
"When is your little Scooby gang gonna get here?!" Yaten whined.
"My what?"
Yaten tilted her head back looking at Usagi in an upside-down gaze. She grinned. "Your Scooby gang. Your little band of groupies."
Usagi glared at the silver-haired beauty, who was giving her a cheeky smile, and flopped down onto her stomach. "They're not my groupies."
Yaten's snort of contempt made Usagi glower. Looking backwards at her Yaten ticked her points off on her artistically slender fingers. "They follow you wherever you go. They worship you. You tell them everything and they know everything about you..."
"I could tell you those things..." Usagi whispered. Only now were they both aware of how close they were. Usagi's knees were pressed against wall and despite the fact that only Yaten's upper body was upon the floor they took up almost the entire length of the elevator.
Usagi's forearms rested on either side of Yaten's head and buried within her pool of molten silver tresses. The face of the Moon Princess hovered only inches above Yaten's but the distance between was decreasing as a strange magnetic force pulled them together.
Cool fingers grazed and caressed Yaten's scalp, her jaw, her forehead, her cheeks...
"Promise?" Emerald eyes pleaded.
"Anything..." Usagi was breathless with anticipation and she ducked her head downwards.
DING!
Usagi leapt backwards so fast her back slammed into the wall making the entire contraption shake and shudder. Yaten froze for a nano-second before scrambling to her feet as the elevator doors slid open. Usagi waved weakly at the Inners standing outside in the hallway.
"Hey guys..."
"God, Odango! Only you could manage to get stuck in an elevator!"
Usagi chucked a half-eaten apple at Rei's head, for it was she who had spoken, but she ducked the weak attempt and instead of nailing the raven-haired woman it hit the wall behind her and exploded on impact. Usagi winced as the gooey mess splattered across the beige wall and drip down slowly.
"Nice one." Makoto said with a grin to which Usagi blew a raspberry in response.
Yaten shifted uncomfortably in the corner and everyone's eyes were drawn to her as if realizing that she had been trapped in the elevator as well. A sly smile blossomed on Minako's face giving Usagi a well-based feeling of unease.
"So. How did you two pass the time?"
"Nothing happ-" Yaten started.
"Without a doubt in a more interesting way than you passed the time getting us out." Usagi smirked in a sickeningly sweet voice
The Inners gaped in shock and Ami even had the decency to blush. With a roll of her eyes, Usagi grabbed Yaten's hand and her picnic basket making a hasty retreat. Yaten stumbled while trying to keep up with Usagi's brisk and tasking pace.
"Usagi" She puffed jogging to match her speed, "Why...w-we didn't..."
Usagi scoffed. Noting Yaten's inability to keep up she slowed to a normal walk. "Come on. Minako would have concluded it one way or another." She smiled a nervously cheery smile.
Yaten studied her through narrowed eyes as if concluding something in her head. She linked her arm with Usagi's and they stepped out into the fading sunlight. Usagi's mood instantly soared as the warm beams hit her upturned face and made her amber hair glow.
"The beach?" Usagi inquired.
"The beach."
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The moon lifted from the horizon of the water as if rising from the bottom of the ocean itself. Its pale lighted moonbeams shone down on the couple stretched out in the sand lighting the shadows of their bodies.
Usagi leaned back on her elbows and sipped her wine. The crystal glass was expertly crafted to become a perfectly beautiful vessel. A detailed pattern of roses decorated the bottom and spiraled up the very rim. She turned her head slightly to see her dinner companion scrutinizing her. She quirked a finely arched eyebrow and pressed sugar pink lips to crystalline rim and took another sip.
"See anything you like?" She asked tartly with a smirk.
Yaten blushed, but didn't turn away. Usagi set her glass down in the still warm sand and rolled over on the sandy blanket to face the silver-haired woman.
"Do you want me to tell you a secret?" She whispered.
Yaten nodded.
Usagi grinned.
"You'll have to catch me first!"
Leaping to her feet, she was already sliding out of her skirt and untying her top as she ran to the shoreline kicking up trails of sand behind her. Yaten stared in disbelief as Usagi, clad only in her undergarment reached the water's edge and dove in. She debated internally with herself for a moment before yanking her sweater up and over her head. Dropping it in the sand, she stood up and slinked out of her jeans.
She jogged to the water's edge, her feet padding lightly on the mini-dunes of sand. Yaten only allowed herself a moment's hesitation before diving in after Usagi. The water was as cold as ice. Her body tingled and numbed before she even hit the bottom, and when she did she pushed off hard shooting back up to the surface.
She broke the surface and took shaky breaths finding that the cold made her breathing erratic. Turning around she saw Usagi floating in the rolling waves only a few feet away. Reluctant to submerge her entire body again, Yaten began paddling towards her quarry.
Usagi, always the tease, waited until her hunter was almost upon her before diving again. She resurfaced again, behind Yaten.
The instant Usagi disappeared beneath the waves for the second time Yaten stopped swimming and ceased her splashing. Listening keenly she heard the distinct movements of water. She followed on the surface as Usagi swum beneath her, and when the blonde came up for air Yaten was instantly upon her and holding tight to her upper arm.
Yaten's vein's thrummed with heat despite the frigid waters when, in a simple gesture, Usagi's lower lip jutted out and she pouted like a small child.
"You caught me." She whined. Despite her attempts at being annoyed, she shivered from the cold. Yaten's arms wrapped around her waist and pulled her closer.
"Tell me..."
Usagi's face instantly softened. She reached up and brushed away the soaking silver strands that clung to Yaten's face. Her own bangs fell wetly in her eyes and obscured her vision.
"I think I'm falling in love with you." Usagi whispered.
Yaten swallowed hard as the heat flooded her numb and previously unfeeling body. This was what she had longed for...all those sleepless nights. This tiny hope was what had brought her back from the darkness of her own creating when nothing else could. She had left her home, her princess, and everything that she had grown up around.......for her.
This was real.
"I don't understand this feeling." Yaten murmured. "I've never been attracted to a woman before..."
Usagi's cool arms wrapped around her neck. "Let me love you." She pleaded.
If Yaten hadn't been standing in the shallows she felt that she would have stop swimming and drowned Usagi's intense gaze. Her sapphire eyes begged with an intensity she had never seen before. In that instant, a string inside Yaten broke.
"Anything for you..."
BOOM!
They were ripped apart as something exploded within the ocean. Waves ten stories high rose up between them pulling them in different directions before crashing back down upon them. Yaten was spun around and around beneath the water until she had no idea which way was up. Water filled her lungs threatening to suffocate her if she didn't reach the surface.
Another tsunamic wave formed beneath her pushing her upwards. She managed to gulp in a single breath of air before she was pulled back under by the violent and dangerous crashing of the waves.
Usagi kneeled over on the sand of the beach coughing up gallons of sea-water. Cold metal pressed against her temple filled her with chilling fear. Her terrified azure eyes looked up at the gun pointed at her head.
"Sailor Moon – You must die."
BANG!
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R & R!
I just love my cliffies!
Ok! I've decided to turn this into a full-blown fic, rather than another one of my mini-romances. Isn't this exciting? Next chapter, A NEW ENEMY WILL BE REVEILED! Or is it an old enemy? The Sailor Senshi are coming out of retirement! Won't this be fun?
KissThis
