Title: The Taste of Vanilla
Author: Kitty Malfoy
Rating: PG-13
Setting: Uh...Sailormoon world?!
Summary: After first dumping Mamoru for cheating on her, Usagi is on her way to the Three Light's apartment to ask out Seiya - which is what everyone expects her to do. But wait! Here comes Yaten in the #2 car! U/Y
Disclaimer: All Sailormoon paraphernalia belongs to Naoko Takeuchi. The plot, though, was dutifully thought of and recorded by my faithful plot bunnies: Fufu, Tofu, Mushu, Kovu, Washu, Princess, Rags, and Patches. (Rags and Patches are twins)
A/N: Ok. If you are a Seiya/Usagi fan...shield your eyes and click the 'Back' button. I love Seiya too! He's Yummy! But I also like Yaten - Sex- sah! I wanted to try my hand at a Yaten/Usagi fic, since there wasn't many of them out there. Don't hurt me! I love you all!
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Usagi stared out her bedroom window and watched the sun play hide and seek in the clouds. It was so perfect outside; so unlike the day before. Yesterday she had sat at the same vantage-point by her window and watched the rain pour down until it seemed as if the clouds were mourning. It was then that she had started thinking about Seiya. Thoughts of Seiya always found her when it rained. It had rained that afternoon on the rooftop of the school. When he had revealed the truth she had struggled to keep her feelings hidden. It'd rained hard yesterday. Just like that day...
That day she had wished with her whole heart that he had been serious about taking her away after the final concert. But Mamoru...he deserved another chance, didn't he? Usagi knew now what she hadn't understood that day. She had sacrificed her own happiness for Mamoru.
Usagi laughed bitterly to herself.
Mamoru.
Now the name burned through her thoughts like acid. She had convinced herself years ago - after the passion had died - that their love was still all hearts and rainbows.
She had sacrificed everything for him.
But isn't that how the story goes?
Usagi realized now that the only thing that had kept them together for so long was not love but, ironically, fear. When someone tells you your destiny is "set in stone" it makes you a bit cautious and hesitant to give it up. She probably had never really "loved" Mamoru, but her mind had been tricked into believing what she was told.
Usagi sighed once again and turned away from the window and her thoughts. At the prime age of 19 Usagi was heaven on earth. Her moon origins combined with the royal blood that pumped through her veins gave her unsurpassable beauty and grace. Her body was graced with supple curves in all the right places without an inch of fat on her entire body. Her arms, legs, and abdomen were sleekly honed and muscled from years of fighting as the sailor-suited, champion of love and justice, Sailor Moon. With the approach of Crystal Tokyo imminent, her hair had transformed to the color of moonlight. She wore it with the sides pulled back into a crescent moon barrette and let the rest fall loose to her hips were she had cut it.
For today's excursion she had chosen a solid black tank top with a black laced, box collar. White, hip-hugging, short shorts left her long slender legs, rather indecently exposed, though, Usagi could honestly care less - if she noticed at all. Stooping to look into her vanity mirror she brushed a few imaginary stray hairs out of her face and checked her appearance. Usagi was born into beauty and she accepted it and left it at that. Never in her life had make-up marred her perfect skin, save for a dab of lip-gloss here and there.
Large cerulean blue eyes filled her face - giving her a childish charm - and were framed beneath long and luscious ebony lashes. Beneath those eyes were finely sculpted and prominent cheekbones. Her small pink mouth quirked as she applied some vanilla lip-gloss, and she smacked them in a finishing touch. Her features were not chiseled but rather smoothed and artistic - even going so far as to be compared to that of china dolls.
She gave her reflection a lopsided smile and a wink before she grabbed her white sandals and headed out of her room.
"Usagi! Wow!"
"You're gorgeous!"
"Pulling out the big guns!"
"You're gonna knock 'im dead!"
"The judges give it a 9.5!"
Usagi glared at Rei who was holding a makeshift sign with '9.5' written on it in crayon. Rei stuck out her tongue and flipped the sign over revealing a '10' in big gold writing. Usagi laughed and hugged her best friends AND College roommates.
"Arigatou, minna!" Usagi squealed as she walked out of their penthouse suite and down the apartment complex's stairs. A chorus of 'Your welcomes' floated down after her as she descended to the main floor.
Stepping out into the sunlight she found it was indeed as nice out as she had predicted from her window. The warm summer air broke across her beaming features and rustled her steel stained hair streaking it with beams of white light. The warmth of the day soaked into her and turned her erratic trail of thought, once again, to a memory of two days ago when she had first "heard" that the Starlights were back in town.
Actually, it was more that she "sensed" it rather than heard it. After teaming up with Minako they had persuaded Ami to look into whether or not their old apartment had been rented out. Sure thing, it had been rented out to three persons around the same time Usagi had sensed their presence. The strangest thing...and the thing that hurt Usagi the most was that Seiya hadn't come to find her. None of the three had been spotted outside of their apartment. Recalling that small detail pricked her heart and she sighed.
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Seiya Kou wandered aimlessly around the Juuban shopping district. The landlord at his/her old apartment had been more than happy to rent to them, and they had settled in quiet nicely. He/She only wished that when he/she had been in Japan previously that he/she had taken the time to learn his/her way around, for now he/she was hopelessly lost, and would be happy to see any familiar face.
Nearing a street corner, a sudden impulse made him/her turn right, but all that he/she saw there was a girl with pretty silver hair walking in his/her direction. The girl's eyes were closed as she walked and she looked blissfully at peace - not to mention she remained in a straight line, even sliding out of his/her way as he/she walked past her. The glare of the sun made it impossible to discern anything other than her closed eyes, but it felt as if he/she knew her. Warmth and light emanated off of her challenging the bright rays of sun beating down upon them, and Seiya found a piece of it fill him/her - and it felt good.
He/she stumbled over uneven slab of the sidewalk and was snapped out of his/her thoughts. He/she looked around a bit more, until he/she realized where he/she was. With a sigh, he/she headed towards the park to work out some of his/her jumbled thoughts.
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Usagi swung her beaded purse back and forth alongside her as she walked through the gate of the apartment complex where they figured the Starlights were staying. Stepping into the elevator she automatically hit the top floor button out of habit. After a consecutive amount of "dinging" to acknowledge the separate floors the doors slid open and Usagi stepped out into the hall.
She counted the doors out loud as she walked down the hall before stopping at the sixth one on the right. In a nervous maneuver that betrayed her calm and cheery exterior she hitched her purse higher on her shoulder and raised her hand tentatively to knock.
She hadn't thought much of it when she had rapped her closed fist on the oak door, but her loud and vibrant knock echoed through the empty hallway. Usagi winced. After a brief pause, the sounds of motion where heard and the click of a lock being released. The door swung open and Usagi almost fell over.
She had to look down about an inch and a half, but a woman stood in front of her wearing nothing but an ice blue bra and panties. She couldn't tell the woman's hair color beneath the towel that was wrapped around her head, most likely due to wet hair, like a turban. The soapy toothbrush the woman had been holding fell from her hands in shock and hit the carpeted floor. Both woman turned bright red, and Usagi stammered out an apology.
"Oh! I'm so sorry! I must have the wrong room! Really! Yurusu!" Usagi turned to go, but the woman grabbed her hand.
(A/N: Yurusu means 'to forgive' or 'pardon', 'Forgive me!')
"Wait!" The woman insisted.
Usagi turned as the woman's turban unraveled and fell on top of the previously dropped toothbrush. Long charcoal gray hair drying to silver- white tumbled free, and Usagi noticed for the first time the woman's intense emerald eyes.
"Yaten?!" She exclaimed, "Healer?!"
The woman froze.
Usagi's eyes lit up and she stepped up right in front of Healer despite the clothing between them, or lack there of. Usagi felt her heart contract in an unusual way when Healer made no indication of recognition. She and Healer had never really had any connection or even a mutual understanding for that matter. But why did it hurt so much? She pushed it aside and in exasperation, she held her silver tresses up into two buns on top of her head with her hands. That did the trick.
"Odango?!"
This time someone did fall over, and it was Healer. Usagi stepped inside and closed the door behind her. Quickly slipping off her shoes she kneeled beside the shocked woman. "Damnnit!" Healer swore suddenly. "I thought you were one of the other two...since we don't have multiple keys yet. I thought no one knew we were back..." She looked up, somewhat accusingly at Usagi. Usagi smiled warmly, "I could sense you..." Healer looked up at her in surprise. "Three." She added quickly. That's what she had been planning on saying and yet when those wide green eyes had been turned on her she had frozen. "I could sense you three."
Healer was quiet for a moment, but then she nodded. Holding out a hand, Usagi took it and they pulled each other up off the floor. It took Healer a moment to find her robe, and the entire time Usagi's eyes never left her. She fought with all her might, but she just couldn't turn away.
When the robe was securely fastened around Healer's body Usagi snapped back into reality, "Why are you..."
"A girl?" Healer finished
"Yeah" Usagi affirmed with a curious grin.
"Well when we decided to leave Kinmokusei and return to Japan, most of our powers were taken from us. You see if we had stayed on Kinmokusei, we would have married men and produced children. Those children would have received our powers. When we left, our Princess took those powers that would have been transferred and stored them in the palace so that they could be bestowed upon another to continue the Starlight legacy..." Healer explained lying down on the couch.
"So then, without your powers you aren't able to take on your male form." Usagi guessed, piecing the information together.
Healer snapped her fingers, "Bingo."
There was a quiet silence until healer spoke up, "I guess you're here for Fighter, er...I mean Seiya."
Usagi sighed quietly, "I guess so..."
ACK! That's not what she had meant to say! What was going on?
"What do you mean, 'You guess so?'" Yaten asked.
"Nothing..." Usagi mumbled quietly
Yaten rolled her eyes and made a face at Usagi, "You are such a ditz sometimes, Odango." She teased. Usagi switched to defensive mode and glared at Yaten. "You are soooo mean to me!" She whined. Yaten nodded in confession and an idea popped into Usagi's head.
Opening her purse she pulled out a bulging goodie-bag decorated in stars and crescent moons. Untying it revealed dozens of cookies and pastries she had picked up on her way over. If anybody loved food as much as Usagi it was Yaten, though, Yaten tended to be more mannerly and polite when she ate. Usagi herself had been put through etiquette class in preparation for Crystal Tokyo and had lost her ravenous eating habits. Food was probably Yaten's only weakness and Usagi relished in the longing that appeared on the other woman's face at the sight of the desserts.
"I guess I'll just eat these all by myself..." Usagi said, innocently and bit into an eclair. "Mmm.....tastes good." She teased.
"I'm sorry!" Yaten apologized in exasperation.
Usagi didn't give in that easily. She slapped at Yaten's hand as the girl reached for a cookie and shook her head stubbornly. "I don't think you mean it," She admonished while Yaten nursed her hand.
Yaten flopped back on the couch and pouted, sticking out her lower lip. Usagi knew what was coming next from personal use, and shielded her eyes and recovered the bag.
"Usaaaaaaaaagi..." The woman begged.
"I'm not looking!" Usagi insisted firmly. Despite her resolution not to look her fingers split and she peeked through the crack. The oxygen was sucked out of her body and her heart contracted. She found it hard to breathe and her face flushed with heat.
Yaten was still pouting but now she had adopted the world renowned puppy- dog eyes. Her emerald orbs were wide and mournful and shone with fake tears; not to mention that perfectly kissable pout...
Kissable?
Usagi's heart thudded against her chest and her jaw dropped open with shock at the wild twist her thoughts had taken.
Cautiously, Yaten crawled along the couch, but Usagi's eyes were no longer on her. Instead, they were wide and unfocused as they stared off into space. Her hands were frozen near her mouth where she had started to drop them. Yaten inched forward and slowly pulled back the cloth folded on top of the snacks. Extracting a cream-filled donut she retreated back along the couch.
Usagi snapped back into reality and blinked in confusion at Yaten as the woman bit into the donut and smirked evilly at her. Usagi slid back into her automatic cheery demeanor, but the hesitation in the change baffled Yaten. Usagi laughed at Yaten as a second bite of donut left a white, vanilla, cream residue along the rim of her upper lip.
Usagi crawled up to the shorter woman with a grin and Yaten unconsciously backed up against the arm of the couch until she had nowhere left to go. Usagi stopped crawling and kneeled between Yaten's legs, leaning forward. Yaten could feel Usagi's warm breath against her face and she turned pink when Usagi placed a hand on her leg to keep from falling over. Usagi blinked slowly, her long lashes brushing her creamy skin and the light in her cerulean eyes changed to something else.
She wanted to kiss her, Usagi realized, and she wanted it bad. Her blood boiled and thundered in her ears and Yaten's shallow breathing against her face made the hairs on the back of her neck rise. Her eyes locked with green ones and as she leaned forward she watched them close and the chin beneath them tilt upwards.
A door slammed in the hallway and Usagi's head snapped back up. Her breathing was low and uneven and her head pounded with longing. Yaten opened her eyes slowly and leaned back against the arm of the chair. Her face was clear and calm, but her eyes shouted her disappointment as well.
Usagi reached up her hand and wiped off the cream, giving Yaten a lopsided smile. Yaten wasn't going to let her go without getting anything, and she grabbed her wrist. She brought the pale and quaking hand to her mouth and closed her lips around Usagi's cream covered finger. She let go of Usagi's hand and the girl drew it back slowly. She made no move to wipe off her hand nor did her face show anything but amusement. In fact, she grinned and looked up at Yaten through her lashes.
Usagi had always thought of herself as straight, but now the possibility of being lesbian didn't bother her. She thought back to what Yaten had told her earlier, and it finally registered in her brain that Seiya was probably stuck in her female form as well. That's why he, er, she hadn't come to see her. She guessed that Seiya hadn't known what her reaction would be, so therefore, had avoided it. But none of this mattered as she looked up at Yaten and Yaten smiled down at her. Her heart melted, and any love that she might have had for Seiya disappeared...just like in the fairy tales.
"Are you in love?" Yaten asked.
"Yes."
Yaten's shoulders sagged slightly and she sighed sadly, "With Seiya?"
"With you."
Yaten's eyes widened in disbelief, "But!"
"Seiya be damned!" Usagi declared angrily. She had finally realized her love for the woman in front of her, and she wouldn't be denied. She wanted Yaten now...now more than anything and she wouldn't let the woman slip away.
Her eyes softened and she stroked Yaten's trembling cheek. Ducking her head, she pressed her lips against hers and their eyes locked. Rather than closing her eyes as she was apt to do when kissing, Usagi left them open as Yaten's own eyes challenged the love she saw in Usagi's.
Finally giving in, Yaten's eyes closed and she welcomed Usagi's sweet kisses along her lips and jaw. Usagi pulled away and they both opened her eyes. Usagi's silver hair tumbled over her shoulders, and like a curtain hid them from the outside world.
"You taste like vanilla" Usagi whispered in Yaten's ear. The woman shivered beneath her and Usagi smiled.
"Stay with me?" Yaten pleaded.
Usagi nodded, "Forever, my love."
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Taiki looked up from making breakfast as Yaten's door opened and closed with the sound of giggling. Even though, Taiki couldn't see the hallway from where she was, she figured Yaten had a girlfriend over. Taiki rolled her eyes as the sound of water running through the pipes and the sound of the shower was mixed with giggling.
Seiya walked through the hallway and into the main living area aiming a scowl at the bathroom door. Taiki gave her a questioning look as she plopped down at the kitchen table. "Hey!" Seiya exclaimed defensively, "Your room isn't next to hers! Her and her "girlfriend" kept me up all night!" Taiki laughed and turned off the stove.
Like Yaten, both Seiya and Taiki were immensely confidant in their female bodies and frequently wore their underwear around the house. Taiki the more modest of the three wore a T-shirt and purple underwear, whereas Seiya, the sportiest of the three, wore her favorite silky red bra, and black sport shorts rolled up around her waist.
Just then Yaten herself, the wild and crazy one of the group (and by far, the least modest), came out of the bathroom and into the kitchen wearing only a lacy white bra and matching panties. Her hair was up in a towel as it usually was when she got out of the shower, and she was grinning like a banshee.
"Man you were loud last night." Seiya complained. Yaten stuck her tongue out at her and sat down with a piece of bacon.
"I want to see this girl..." Taiki admitted from the kitchen. Yaten laughed, but didn't say a word.
The bathroom door closed and both Seiya and Taiki looked up as Yaten's girlfriend walked into the living room. Taiki dropped the pan of eggs and the gooey yellow breakfast food splattered against the tiled floor. Seiya was having a seizure in her chair, with her indigo eyes the size of tennis balls.
Usagi walked over to the couch in her black, lacey bra and underwear. Her silver hair, being saturated with water, had turned to a dark gray color and clung wetly to her chest and back. She retrieved her shorts from between the cushions of the couch and pulled them on. Letting out a sigh, she grabbed her purse and kissed Yaten goodbye. "I have to go meet the girls."
Yaten nodded.
"I can't find my shirt," She said innocently, "It doesn't matter. It's probably ripped anyway."
Seiya and Taiki's jaws dropped.
She grinned and opened the apartment door. "It was nice seeing you two," she called out, "Call me, Yaten! Ja ne."
"Ja ne, bijin." Yaten replied.
(A/N: 'Bijin' means 'beautiful woman', or 'babe'.)
Yaten looked at her "sisters" and their shocked expressions, and laughed.
"Kami! I love that girl..."
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R & R!
I didn't intend for this to be as long as it turned out, but it just kept coming out of my head. I for one think Usagi and Yaten would be cute together, though I'm not totally ruling out Seiya or Haruka. DOWN WITH MAMORU!!!
I love you all. Review a person you want to be paired up with Usagi, and I'll see what I can do for you. No Mamoru, though. Yuck.
Kitty Malfoy (^ ^)
Author: Kitty Malfoy
Rating: PG-13
Setting: Uh...Sailormoon world?!
Summary: After first dumping Mamoru for cheating on her, Usagi is on her way to the Three Light's apartment to ask out Seiya - which is what everyone expects her to do. But wait! Here comes Yaten in the #2 car! U/Y
Disclaimer: All Sailormoon paraphernalia belongs to Naoko Takeuchi. The plot, though, was dutifully thought of and recorded by my faithful plot bunnies: Fufu, Tofu, Mushu, Kovu, Washu, Princess, Rags, and Patches. (Rags and Patches are twins)
A/N: Ok. If you are a Seiya/Usagi fan...shield your eyes and click the 'Back' button. I love Seiya too! He's Yummy! But I also like Yaten - Sex- sah! I wanted to try my hand at a Yaten/Usagi fic, since there wasn't many of them out there. Don't hurt me! I love you all!
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Usagi stared out her bedroom window and watched the sun play hide and seek in the clouds. It was so perfect outside; so unlike the day before. Yesterday she had sat at the same vantage-point by her window and watched the rain pour down until it seemed as if the clouds were mourning. It was then that she had started thinking about Seiya. Thoughts of Seiya always found her when it rained. It had rained that afternoon on the rooftop of the school. When he had revealed the truth she had struggled to keep her feelings hidden. It'd rained hard yesterday. Just like that day...
That day she had wished with her whole heart that he had been serious about taking her away after the final concert. But Mamoru...he deserved another chance, didn't he? Usagi knew now what she hadn't understood that day. She had sacrificed her own happiness for Mamoru.
Usagi laughed bitterly to herself.
Mamoru.
Now the name burned through her thoughts like acid. She had convinced herself years ago - after the passion had died - that their love was still all hearts and rainbows.
She had sacrificed everything for him.
But isn't that how the story goes?
Usagi realized now that the only thing that had kept them together for so long was not love but, ironically, fear. When someone tells you your destiny is "set in stone" it makes you a bit cautious and hesitant to give it up. She probably had never really "loved" Mamoru, but her mind had been tricked into believing what she was told.
Usagi sighed once again and turned away from the window and her thoughts. At the prime age of 19 Usagi was heaven on earth. Her moon origins combined with the royal blood that pumped through her veins gave her unsurpassable beauty and grace. Her body was graced with supple curves in all the right places without an inch of fat on her entire body. Her arms, legs, and abdomen were sleekly honed and muscled from years of fighting as the sailor-suited, champion of love and justice, Sailor Moon. With the approach of Crystal Tokyo imminent, her hair had transformed to the color of moonlight. She wore it with the sides pulled back into a crescent moon barrette and let the rest fall loose to her hips were she had cut it.
For today's excursion she had chosen a solid black tank top with a black laced, box collar. White, hip-hugging, short shorts left her long slender legs, rather indecently exposed, though, Usagi could honestly care less - if she noticed at all. Stooping to look into her vanity mirror she brushed a few imaginary stray hairs out of her face and checked her appearance. Usagi was born into beauty and she accepted it and left it at that. Never in her life had make-up marred her perfect skin, save for a dab of lip-gloss here and there.
Large cerulean blue eyes filled her face - giving her a childish charm - and were framed beneath long and luscious ebony lashes. Beneath those eyes were finely sculpted and prominent cheekbones. Her small pink mouth quirked as she applied some vanilla lip-gloss, and she smacked them in a finishing touch. Her features were not chiseled but rather smoothed and artistic - even going so far as to be compared to that of china dolls.
She gave her reflection a lopsided smile and a wink before she grabbed her white sandals and headed out of her room.
"Usagi! Wow!"
"You're gorgeous!"
"Pulling out the big guns!"
"You're gonna knock 'im dead!"
"The judges give it a 9.5!"
Usagi glared at Rei who was holding a makeshift sign with '9.5' written on it in crayon. Rei stuck out her tongue and flipped the sign over revealing a '10' in big gold writing. Usagi laughed and hugged her best friends AND College roommates.
"Arigatou, minna!" Usagi squealed as she walked out of their penthouse suite and down the apartment complex's stairs. A chorus of 'Your welcomes' floated down after her as she descended to the main floor.
Stepping out into the sunlight she found it was indeed as nice out as she had predicted from her window. The warm summer air broke across her beaming features and rustled her steel stained hair streaking it with beams of white light. The warmth of the day soaked into her and turned her erratic trail of thought, once again, to a memory of two days ago when she had first "heard" that the Starlights were back in town.
Actually, it was more that she "sensed" it rather than heard it. After teaming up with Minako they had persuaded Ami to look into whether or not their old apartment had been rented out. Sure thing, it had been rented out to three persons around the same time Usagi had sensed their presence. The strangest thing...and the thing that hurt Usagi the most was that Seiya hadn't come to find her. None of the three had been spotted outside of their apartment. Recalling that small detail pricked her heart and she sighed.
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Seiya Kou wandered aimlessly around the Juuban shopping district. The landlord at his/her old apartment had been more than happy to rent to them, and they had settled in quiet nicely. He/She only wished that when he/she had been in Japan previously that he/she had taken the time to learn his/her way around, for now he/she was hopelessly lost, and would be happy to see any familiar face.
Nearing a street corner, a sudden impulse made him/her turn right, but all that he/she saw there was a girl with pretty silver hair walking in his/her direction. The girl's eyes were closed as she walked and she looked blissfully at peace - not to mention she remained in a straight line, even sliding out of his/her way as he/she walked past her. The glare of the sun made it impossible to discern anything other than her closed eyes, but it felt as if he/she knew her. Warmth and light emanated off of her challenging the bright rays of sun beating down upon them, and Seiya found a piece of it fill him/her - and it felt good.
He/she stumbled over uneven slab of the sidewalk and was snapped out of his/her thoughts. He/she looked around a bit more, until he/she realized where he/she was. With a sigh, he/she headed towards the park to work out some of his/her jumbled thoughts.
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Usagi swung her beaded purse back and forth alongside her as she walked through the gate of the apartment complex where they figured the Starlights were staying. Stepping into the elevator she automatically hit the top floor button out of habit. After a consecutive amount of "dinging" to acknowledge the separate floors the doors slid open and Usagi stepped out into the hall.
She counted the doors out loud as she walked down the hall before stopping at the sixth one on the right. In a nervous maneuver that betrayed her calm and cheery exterior she hitched her purse higher on her shoulder and raised her hand tentatively to knock.
She hadn't thought much of it when she had rapped her closed fist on the oak door, but her loud and vibrant knock echoed through the empty hallway. Usagi winced. After a brief pause, the sounds of motion where heard and the click of a lock being released. The door swung open and Usagi almost fell over.
She had to look down about an inch and a half, but a woman stood in front of her wearing nothing but an ice blue bra and panties. She couldn't tell the woman's hair color beneath the towel that was wrapped around her head, most likely due to wet hair, like a turban. The soapy toothbrush the woman had been holding fell from her hands in shock and hit the carpeted floor. Both woman turned bright red, and Usagi stammered out an apology.
"Oh! I'm so sorry! I must have the wrong room! Really! Yurusu!" Usagi turned to go, but the woman grabbed her hand.
(A/N: Yurusu means 'to forgive' or 'pardon', 'Forgive me!')
"Wait!" The woman insisted.
Usagi turned as the woman's turban unraveled and fell on top of the previously dropped toothbrush. Long charcoal gray hair drying to silver- white tumbled free, and Usagi noticed for the first time the woman's intense emerald eyes.
"Yaten?!" She exclaimed, "Healer?!"
The woman froze.
Usagi's eyes lit up and she stepped up right in front of Healer despite the clothing between them, or lack there of. Usagi felt her heart contract in an unusual way when Healer made no indication of recognition. She and Healer had never really had any connection or even a mutual understanding for that matter. But why did it hurt so much? She pushed it aside and in exasperation, she held her silver tresses up into two buns on top of her head with her hands. That did the trick.
"Odango?!"
This time someone did fall over, and it was Healer. Usagi stepped inside and closed the door behind her. Quickly slipping off her shoes she kneeled beside the shocked woman. "Damnnit!" Healer swore suddenly. "I thought you were one of the other two...since we don't have multiple keys yet. I thought no one knew we were back..." She looked up, somewhat accusingly at Usagi. Usagi smiled warmly, "I could sense you..." Healer looked up at her in surprise. "Three." She added quickly. That's what she had been planning on saying and yet when those wide green eyes had been turned on her she had frozen. "I could sense you three."
Healer was quiet for a moment, but then she nodded. Holding out a hand, Usagi took it and they pulled each other up off the floor. It took Healer a moment to find her robe, and the entire time Usagi's eyes never left her. She fought with all her might, but she just couldn't turn away.
When the robe was securely fastened around Healer's body Usagi snapped back into reality, "Why are you..."
"A girl?" Healer finished
"Yeah" Usagi affirmed with a curious grin.
"Well when we decided to leave Kinmokusei and return to Japan, most of our powers were taken from us. You see if we had stayed on Kinmokusei, we would have married men and produced children. Those children would have received our powers. When we left, our Princess took those powers that would have been transferred and stored them in the palace so that they could be bestowed upon another to continue the Starlight legacy..." Healer explained lying down on the couch.
"So then, without your powers you aren't able to take on your male form." Usagi guessed, piecing the information together.
Healer snapped her fingers, "Bingo."
There was a quiet silence until healer spoke up, "I guess you're here for Fighter, er...I mean Seiya."
Usagi sighed quietly, "I guess so..."
ACK! That's not what she had meant to say! What was going on?
"What do you mean, 'You guess so?'" Yaten asked.
"Nothing..." Usagi mumbled quietly
Yaten rolled her eyes and made a face at Usagi, "You are such a ditz sometimes, Odango." She teased. Usagi switched to defensive mode and glared at Yaten. "You are soooo mean to me!" She whined. Yaten nodded in confession and an idea popped into Usagi's head.
Opening her purse she pulled out a bulging goodie-bag decorated in stars and crescent moons. Untying it revealed dozens of cookies and pastries she had picked up on her way over. If anybody loved food as much as Usagi it was Yaten, though, Yaten tended to be more mannerly and polite when she ate. Usagi herself had been put through etiquette class in preparation for Crystal Tokyo and had lost her ravenous eating habits. Food was probably Yaten's only weakness and Usagi relished in the longing that appeared on the other woman's face at the sight of the desserts.
"I guess I'll just eat these all by myself..." Usagi said, innocently and bit into an eclair. "Mmm.....tastes good." She teased.
"I'm sorry!" Yaten apologized in exasperation.
Usagi didn't give in that easily. She slapped at Yaten's hand as the girl reached for a cookie and shook her head stubbornly. "I don't think you mean it," She admonished while Yaten nursed her hand.
Yaten flopped back on the couch and pouted, sticking out her lower lip. Usagi knew what was coming next from personal use, and shielded her eyes and recovered the bag.
"Usaaaaaaaaagi..." The woman begged.
"I'm not looking!" Usagi insisted firmly. Despite her resolution not to look her fingers split and she peeked through the crack. The oxygen was sucked out of her body and her heart contracted. She found it hard to breathe and her face flushed with heat.
Yaten was still pouting but now she had adopted the world renowned puppy- dog eyes. Her emerald orbs were wide and mournful and shone with fake tears; not to mention that perfectly kissable pout...
Kissable?
Usagi's heart thudded against her chest and her jaw dropped open with shock at the wild twist her thoughts had taken.
Cautiously, Yaten crawled along the couch, but Usagi's eyes were no longer on her. Instead, they were wide and unfocused as they stared off into space. Her hands were frozen near her mouth where she had started to drop them. Yaten inched forward and slowly pulled back the cloth folded on top of the snacks. Extracting a cream-filled donut she retreated back along the couch.
Usagi snapped back into reality and blinked in confusion at Yaten as the woman bit into the donut and smirked evilly at her. Usagi slid back into her automatic cheery demeanor, but the hesitation in the change baffled Yaten. Usagi laughed at Yaten as a second bite of donut left a white, vanilla, cream residue along the rim of her upper lip.
Usagi crawled up to the shorter woman with a grin and Yaten unconsciously backed up against the arm of the couch until she had nowhere left to go. Usagi stopped crawling and kneeled between Yaten's legs, leaning forward. Yaten could feel Usagi's warm breath against her face and she turned pink when Usagi placed a hand on her leg to keep from falling over. Usagi blinked slowly, her long lashes brushing her creamy skin and the light in her cerulean eyes changed to something else.
She wanted to kiss her, Usagi realized, and she wanted it bad. Her blood boiled and thundered in her ears and Yaten's shallow breathing against her face made the hairs on the back of her neck rise. Her eyes locked with green ones and as she leaned forward she watched them close and the chin beneath them tilt upwards.
A door slammed in the hallway and Usagi's head snapped back up. Her breathing was low and uneven and her head pounded with longing. Yaten opened her eyes slowly and leaned back against the arm of the chair. Her face was clear and calm, but her eyes shouted her disappointment as well.
Usagi reached up her hand and wiped off the cream, giving Yaten a lopsided smile. Yaten wasn't going to let her go without getting anything, and she grabbed her wrist. She brought the pale and quaking hand to her mouth and closed her lips around Usagi's cream covered finger. She let go of Usagi's hand and the girl drew it back slowly. She made no move to wipe off her hand nor did her face show anything but amusement. In fact, she grinned and looked up at Yaten through her lashes.
Usagi had always thought of herself as straight, but now the possibility of being lesbian didn't bother her. She thought back to what Yaten had told her earlier, and it finally registered in her brain that Seiya was probably stuck in her female form as well. That's why he, er, she hadn't come to see her. She guessed that Seiya hadn't known what her reaction would be, so therefore, had avoided it. But none of this mattered as she looked up at Yaten and Yaten smiled down at her. Her heart melted, and any love that she might have had for Seiya disappeared...just like in the fairy tales.
"Are you in love?" Yaten asked.
"Yes."
Yaten's shoulders sagged slightly and she sighed sadly, "With Seiya?"
"With you."
Yaten's eyes widened in disbelief, "But!"
"Seiya be damned!" Usagi declared angrily. She had finally realized her love for the woman in front of her, and she wouldn't be denied. She wanted Yaten now...now more than anything and she wouldn't let the woman slip away.
Her eyes softened and she stroked Yaten's trembling cheek. Ducking her head, she pressed her lips against hers and their eyes locked. Rather than closing her eyes as she was apt to do when kissing, Usagi left them open as Yaten's own eyes challenged the love she saw in Usagi's.
Finally giving in, Yaten's eyes closed and she welcomed Usagi's sweet kisses along her lips and jaw. Usagi pulled away and they both opened her eyes. Usagi's silver hair tumbled over her shoulders, and like a curtain hid them from the outside world.
"You taste like vanilla" Usagi whispered in Yaten's ear. The woman shivered beneath her and Usagi smiled.
"Stay with me?" Yaten pleaded.
Usagi nodded, "Forever, my love."
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Taiki looked up from making breakfast as Yaten's door opened and closed with the sound of giggling. Even though, Taiki couldn't see the hallway from where she was, she figured Yaten had a girlfriend over. Taiki rolled her eyes as the sound of water running through the pipes and the sound of the shower was mixed with giggling.
Seiya walked through the hallway and into the main living area aiming a scowl at the bathroom door. Taiki gave her a questioning look as she plopped down at the kitchen table. "Hey!" Seiya exclaimed defensively, "Your room isn't next to hers! Her and her "girlfriend" kept me up all night!" Taiki laughed and turned off the stove.
Like Yaten, both Seiya and Taiki were immensely confidant in their female bodies and frequently wore their underwear around the house. Taiki the more modest of the three wore a T-shirt and purple underwear, whereas Seiya, the sportiest of the three, wore her favorite silky red bra, and black sport shorts rolled up around her waist.
Just then Yaten herself, the wild and crazy one of the group (and by far, the least modest), came out of the bathroom and into the kitchen wearing only a lacy white bra and matching panties. Her hair was up in a towel as it usually was when she got out of the shower, and she was grinning like a banshee.
"Man you were loud last night." Seiya complained. Yaten stuck her tongue out at her and sat down with a piece of bacon.
"I want to see this girl..." Taiki admitted from the kitchen. Yaten laughed, but didn't say a word.
The bathroom door closed and both Seiya and Taiki looked up as Yaten's girlfriend walked into the living room. Taiki dropped the pan of eggs and the gooey yellow breakfast food splattered against the tiled floor. Seiya was having a seizure in her chair, with her indigo eyes the size of tennis balls.
Usagi walked over to the couch in her black, lacey bra and underwear. Her silver hair, being saturated with water, had turned to a dark gray color and clung wetly to her chest and back. She retrieved her shorts from between the cushions of the couch and pulled them on. Letting out a sigh, she grabbed her purse and kissed Yaten goodbye. "I have to go meet the girls."
Yaten nodded.
"I can't find my shirt," She said innocently, "It doesn't matter. It's probably ripped anyway."
Seiya and Taiki's jaws dropped.
She grinned and opened the apartment door. "It was nice seeing you two," she called out, "Call me, Yaten! Ja ne."
"Ja ne, bijin." Yaten replied.
(A/N: 'Bijin' means 'beautiful woman', or 'babe'.)
Yaten looked at her "sisters" and their shocked expressions, and laughed.
"Kami! I love that girl..."
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R & R!
I didn't intend for this to be as long as it turned out, but it just kept coming out of my head. I for one think Usagi and Yaten would be cute together, though I'm not totally ruling out Seiya or Haruka. DOWN WITH MAMORU!!!
I love you all. Review a person you want to be paired up with Usagi, and I'll see what I can do for you. No Mamoru, though. Yuck.
Kitty Malfoy (^ ^)
