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and now for......

Chapter 6: Temptations

"Gotcha now!" Lita's voice sang out as she launched a practice attack at Rei.

"Don't think so!" Rei yelled as she counter attacked Lita's lightening with her fire.

"Arg!!!! you always do that!!!" Lita whined.

"Well, I just can't let you win," Rei said, standing proudly.

"Neph," Jadeite said to his friend as they approached the training grounds. "I don't think this is such a good idea."

"Just watch your step and you'll be fine."

Rei concentrated and gave Lita her best shot.

All of the sudden, Nephrite was walking alone. He looked around.

"Jadeite?" he asked out loud.

"Down here," he said. Nephrite looked down to see Jadeite flat on his back.

"What happened to you?" Nephrite nearly laughed out. Just then the two girls ran up to the scene.

"I am so sorry," Lita said. "It's all her fault. I swear."

"Lita you snitch," Rei snapped. "He messed up my concentration on you and got hit so it's his fault not mine."

"Yeah, sure," Lita said, disbelievingly.

"So that's what happened," Jadeite said, still laying on the ground. "I was up one second and the next.... down here, looking up," and at that phrase he realized that he had a perfect view of the short uniform skirts the two girls wore.

Nephrite cleared his throat. "We should be going Jadeite," he said firmly.

"Pervert!" Rei yelled and kicked Jadeite hard in the side.

He curled up in pain from the powerful kick she delivered and laughed.

"I'm sorry for his actions princesses," Nephrite said. "He still has much to learn."

Jadeite finally stood and looked down upon Rei. "One day," he whispered to himself.

*weeks later* Jadeite found himself in the middle of a circular room with five doors around it, each bearing a sign of a different planet from Mercury to Jupiter.

He found the one the one with he emblem of Mars and gently knocked on it. There was a clamor on the other side followed by several nasty curse words. He cringed, awaiting his punishment for disturbing her. This prompted the other princesses to peek out, unnoticed, upon the man, watching his fate as the door to Rei's room slowly opened.

"What in the hell do you want now?" she demanded, not looking to see the man who stood before her.

"I'm sorry princess," came his sincere reply. "I have caught you at a bad time and have apparently irritated and offended you. I shall go and leave you in peace now."

He turned to go but her voice held him back. "Jadeite?" she asked, confused. "Lord Jadeite?"

He turned back to her. "Yes?" he asked.

"You haven't offended me," she said apologetically. "I was just in the middle of something and I thought you were one of the others," she confessed. "It is I who should be sorry."

"I see," he said.

"Please, if it's anything I can do to atone my rudeness, come in," she opened the door wider.

He smiled softly at her and walked into the dimly lit room. She looked around outside of her door.

"I know you're watching," she said and glared at each individual door before retreating into her own and shutting the door quite loudly.

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"So Rei," Mina asked cheerfully at breakfast. "What ever happened between you and that incredibly hot general at your door last night?" She asked.

"Yeah," Sere added. "I never saw him leave."

Amy threw a sideways glance at Rei. Rei shook her head at the blue haired girl.

"Fraternizing with earth's military personnel?" Amy asked Rei, just to make her presence credible.

"Incredibly hot military personnel," Mina corrected. "And high ranking at that."

Rei smirked at Mina. "So you really wanna know what happened?" Rei asked, cocking an eyebrow.

*FLASH* she slammed into something strong and solid. Him. She could tell by the way he smelled. She couldn't describe the smell but it was intoxicating. She closed her eyes and dropped her head back. She could feel him breathing on her exposed neck. He pushed her back against her door gently and began approaching her.

"Damn the formalities," he said, his breath hot on her face.

She smiled softly, opening her eyes and walking away from him.

He quickly caught her arm in his hand and pulled her back around to him.

"I'm through with your games," he stated. "Tempting me to nothing."

"You shouldn't be so tempted," she said coldly.

"I'm a man, it's what I do best."

"If I never hear truer words..." she said, looking him up and down.

"I do grow tired of your playing," he said, pushing her back to the door again and holding her to it with his body.

"One day," he said, still pressing her to the door with his body.

"One day you'll be mine," he breathed out, drawing closer to her.

"It'll be my bed you sleep in," he lowered his lips to her bare neck and a shiver ran up her spine at the sensation.

"My name you call out...." he trailed off as his lips touched the gentle curve of her neck.

She ran a hand over the back of his neck, encouraging him to indulge himself.

*FLASH* "It's none of your damned business Minako," Rei said, using Mina's full name.

"I don't get it," Mina said. "You are the least social and certainly the hardest to get out of all of us, yet you are the one with the most suitors, the one who has the hottest of these guys wrapped around your little finger, and, not to mention, you're screwing him behind the scenes. It's just not fair," she pouted and crossed her arms.

"You don't know that," Amy said.

"I can definitely pick this kind of stuff up," Mina said. "Remember? I'm the goddess of love!" she exclaimed, smiling brilliantly and holding up two fingers in a V for victory. "I can smell it a mile away!"

"Smell what?" Sere asked. "Love or sex?"

"Love, stupid," Lita said, rolling her eyes. "And besides, if Rei had done him, don't you think she'd still be in there going at it for another round or two?"

The others thought about that comment as Rei and Lita exchanged looks.

"I suppose," Mina said. "But I'm still smelling something."

*FLASH* He put both hands on her sides and lifted her up. She wrapped her legs around his waist and nearly knocked him off balance. He slammed her back into the wall beside the door and they continued kissing.

"This isn't very comfortable," she said in between hard, heavy kisses.

"I can fix that," he said, breaking the kiss, as he carried her over to her bed and sat her down on it. "Better?" he asked, climbing on top of her and kissing her hard as her arms went around his neck, tightly clinging to him.

"Much," she breathed out as he began kissing her neck again and exploring her body with his deft hands.

*FLASH* "Must be him," Sere said.

"Must be," Mina said. "I definitely smell something or someone different...." with emphasis towards Rei on the someone.

"You're hallucinating," Amy said, looking up from her mini computer and taking a sip of her chocolate milk.

"Yeah, you should really get that checked out," Lita said. "Maybe your smell-o-meter is off."

"For your information it isn't," Mina stated. "And I have the feeling that more than just Rei knows what went on in that room and no one's saying anything."

"You could be right," Rei said. "Or they could have their assumptions just like you but they are keeping them to themselves."

"Whatever," Mina rolled her eyes. "You know, you can be such a bitch sometimes Rei."

"I know," she said smiling at her friend.

*FLASH* "You know," he said, nearly breathless, as he continued giving her simple pleasure by kisses on her lips, on her neck, touching her in various places, various ways. "This could get dangerous."

"How do you mean?" she asked, kissing him hard on the lips.

"Well," he began.

His gold hair fell forward into his line of sight, the light glinting off of it when the flames of a candle wavered in the distance, and his intense blue eyes pierced through her like a knife.

"What do you think the other members of the court would think if they found out?"

"Who's to say they will?" she asked. ***FLASH***

Rei's eyes snapped open abruptly followed by Jadeite's eyes slowly opening to find her possessively wrapped in his arms.

"What in the hell is going on?" she demanded.

"I haven't the slightest," he responded.

"Well, for starters get the hell off of me!" she yelled, catching him off- guard and expelling him from the bed and onto the floor.

"Gods Rei! Could you warn me the next time you decide to catapult me from anywhere?" he demanded from the floor.

"Why? You don't deserve it," she said.

"Why the hell not?" he asked, the level of animosity between them rising.

"You are such an insufferable asshole," she growled.

"And just what makes you think that?" he leaned back against a wall for support.

"Just listen to yourself," she spat out.

"You should listen to yourself," he retorted. "And you call me insufferable."

She glared at him mercilessly.

"What?" he asked. "It's not like you didn't know," he said to her arrogantly.

"This could get real ugly real quick if you don't shut your mouth," she threatened.

"Oh, I'm so scared," sarcasm seeping from his voice. "what could you possibly do to me?"

"Many things," she said darkly.

His eyes narrowed to meet the intensity of her glare.

"You don't have it in you," he finally said after a long pause.

"Who's to say?"

"I am," he said. "And trust me, whatever it is you think you can do to me, I can do that and much, much more to you as well."

"You don't know anything about what I was going to do. And I don't think you'd ever have it in yourself to do anything to me either."

"You're right," he paused. "But I can see into your mind. See your thoughts," he paused. "But you knew that."

"Oh and just what do you think you know?" she demanded.

"I know that you know more now than you did when you first saw me in that hell hole," he looked off and scoffed at the last part of his statement. "I can tell what you are feeling. It radiates off of you in waves. Big waves."

"You're lying."

"Oh, I am?" he asked, looking at her, a tinge of arrogance in his expression. "Now don't start with sounding like Amy," he warned her in his usual, clear voice, dropping the husky tone in which he normally spoke to her.

"Sounding like Amy?" she asked loudly. "What's that supposed to mean?" He stood up and began making his way to her.

"You were going to say something about how I 'couldn't possibly be able to do any such thing'."

Her jaw dropped and she glared, crossing her arms.

"Well," she paused. "Sorry to disappoint you but you couldn't possibly be able to sense any such things or know anything like that."

"Wanna bet?" he asked her, lowering his face to where he was only a few inches from her.

She glared at him as menacingly as she possibly could, trying to block him out and the overwhelming feelings she was receiving from him and emanating from herself.

'I don't want him,' she chanted over and over in her head, trying to repel the forces of Mina at work.

she closed her eyes tight in concentration, not willing to look at him. He grinned at that, knowing her epidemic.

He gently placed a hand on her cheek and to his surprise, she didn't reject his touch. His smile faded to be replaced by a look of confusion. He kneeled down by her and brushed his thumb against her bottom lip.

"You can't escape it," he said softly. "I couldn't."

"Can't escape what?" she asked, controlling herself very well, still clenching her eyes shut.

"My love," he stated as she opened her eyes and stared down into his blue eyes.

"What?" she asked, astounded at his reply.

"Which part surprises you princess?" he asked softly. "The part about my loving you or not being able to stop?"

"The latter," she said bluntly.

"I tried," he said. "I tried several times, several different ways. No matter what I did, where I went, who I was with-"

"Who you were with?" she demanded possessively.

"Whoa! Do I detect a hint of jealousy in your voice princess?" he asked.

"What? no!" she defended herself. "Jealous? of who? some whore you'd pick up to replace me?"

He smiled and chuckled to himself.

"No," he stated, looking at the ground. "I never went that far."

"Well?" she asked. "Just how far did you go?"

"Well, since most of the women of high, medium, and low stature were completely star struck with us generals, I had no problems finding anyone to court after the moon."

"So you found someone else?" she asked, feeling a tinge of jealously, rage, and sadness.

"No," he said softly, sadly. "I couldn't. After you, there just wasn't anything else. You were it." "What happened then?" she asked him, the previous feelings being replaced by relief.

"I went back to the moon," he said.

"But I thought that once you and the others had left that Selene told you not to return until-"

"Until the threat had been defeated and the negaverse had been sealed away," he finished. "I know," he said, smirking. "But do I ever listen to what anybody tells me?"

"So you?"

"I snuck back on a cargo transport," he confessed.

Rei gave him her 'I can't believe you did that' look.

"Well, I did get caught," he informed her. "And the queen was not too happy."

"From what I've heard, I wouldn't expect her to be," Rei said. "And I wouldn't expect your punishment to be light."

"Oh," he said. "It was anything but light. Especially since she caught me with you. But yo didn't get into any trouble. I was following you in the hallway after we'd had a talk and you told me to leave before I was seen."

"You should have listened," she reprimanded him.

"I know," he said. "I just had to see you, hold you. But you wouldn't let me. You told me that you wouldn't 'participate in any activities in which you would be punished.' Gods you sounded so much like Amy."

"So what happened to you?"

"I was sent back to Earth and forbidden to leave the border of the capital city for a month," he said. "I was so mad."

"Mad at what?"

"Mad at myself," he said.

He grew confused and looked up at her.

"why are you being so nice to me?"

"Me? being nice?" she asked, surprised. "What could possibly make you think that?"

"Oh, just maybe it was because you weren't yelling curses me," he shot back at her.

"You should know by now that I don't have to yell curses to feel the same way that I have been."

"Oh," he said.

"Why? Is that what you want?" she asked him.

"No," he replied and then grinned. "You should know what I want by now."

"Pervert!" she yelled at him.

"Like I said before, if I am, it's all your fault," he said back to her, dragging out the last part as she jumped from the bed and tackled him to his back on the floor.

"Been here before," he said insinuating a previous situation between the two of them as she straddled him.

"Pervert!" she yelled again.

"Yeah, we've been through this before," he said, holding her arms in his strong grip to keep her from hitting him.

'Gods he's so hot,' she thought to herself. 'Especially like this,' she thought hungrily.

His expression changed suddenly and she shook her head violently to rid herself of those thoughts.

'No, you can't want him. Not even like that, for that,' she scolded herself.

'Yes you can,' his voice rang out in her mind. 'Quit thinking for once and just feel.'

"Why does that sound familiar?" she asked, through gritted teeth.

"Because, I've probably said it to you before in a situation much similar to this," he said. "So for once, just do it. Follow your heart and not your mind," he said and she let up on trying to get out of his iron grip.

"You're right," she breathed out, suddenly kissing him hard on the lips.

"Now that's what I'm talking about," he stated as he wrapped his arms around her slender form and rolled her over onto her back, following her over.

She whimpered in surprise as her back made contact with the cold stone of the floor.

"Sorry," he said quickly and softly, resuming kissing her.

"This isn't gonna work," she said, running a hand on the back of his neck.

"What?"

"The floor," she said, shifting her body.

"I'm sorry," he apologized, rocking back and then sitting half Indian- style.

"Don't worry about it," she said, standing in front of him and holding her hand out for him.

A storm began brewing outside of her window, neither aware of it. He looked up at her from his sitting position, the light in the room dancing off of his heavenly blue eyes just right. He paused for a moment, considering what she was offering and then, with a sure hand, he accepted her hand in his.

The power fluctuated and then went completely out as she pulled him up to his feet, with his help, and started off toward her bed. He pulled her arm back and she swiftly turned toward him to land perfectly against his strong chest in his arms.

She looked up at him in the dark, their eleven inch height difference quite evident to her, towering over her. He gently tipped her head back with his thumb on her chin and lowered his mouth to millimeters away from hers. Adrenaline began pumping through his system, speeding up his breathing and heart beat in anticipation. She closed her eyes and swallowed.

then, lightening struck.

His lips pressed against hers and lightening literally struck in the distance. His hand dropped from her arm and rested firmly on her waist, not letting her back out of anything anymore.

She lifted herself up onto her toes, trying to make the distance between them shorter for him. She curled her fingers around the shoulders of his shirt for leverage which, actually, pulled her closer up to him, not that he minded it too much.

He momentarily broke the kiss to scoop her up into his arms. Her arms went to his neck, a bit surprised at his action. He smiled down at her warmly and she relaxed as he carried her off to her bed. He gently lowered her to the bed and, reluctantly, she loosened her grip on him.

Her head fell back on the soft pillow just as he climbed up on the bed as well. She saw his eyes flash in the lightening as he moved over her, his clear conviction flickering in the crystal blue depths. He kissed her again, this time not as softly but more ardent, more needy.

She gasped as she felt one of his hands on the bare skin of her side and back. He moved his other hand to aid his cause and gently held her sitting up while taking her shirt off with the other, barely ever breaking their contact. Still sitting, she tugged at the bottom of his shirt and he quickly removed the obstructing article from his body.

"I'm not letting you back out this time," she said softly to him.

"I wasn't planning on it," he half-grinned as he guided her back down onto her back, his lips touching hers the instant her head hit the pillow.



AN: This ought to keep ya guys happy for a while!!! i think that since i have been making these chapters so freaking long, there will only be a maximum of two more chappies...*sniff* anywho, thanks to all who review me!!!i really do love you guys for it!!

Ps- to ponder: did they do it? or not? stay tuned!!!