Sorry this has taken me so long guys! I had my birthday on Friday, and, well, I just didn't feel like writing more, and plus the site was down..but no more excuses! Here is your new chappie! *standard disclaimer* Sorry this one'll be short! As always, R/R!



*** "What bakas!" Rei shook her head. Everyone was sitting at a table at Crown Restaurant.

"I think that it's sweet." Minako winked.

"I certainly don't." Yaten shook his head.

"Why not, Yaten-kun? Don't you believe in finding love?" Minako's eyes went all starry as she stared at her lust object.

"Nah, I can live without it." Yaten placed his arms behind his head and leaned back.

"What a bad attitude to have!" Minako poked Yaten in the stomach.

"Hey!" Yaten swatted at her hand.

"I just wanted to make sure that you hear me, Shrimp Boy!" Minako stood up and struck a pose. "I, Sailor Venus, will make it to be my personal mission to find love for everyone I care about, even snotty old Yaten!"

"Shrimp boy? Snotty? Old?" Yaten stood up. "You had better take that back Venus before I pop you a good one right on your pretty little . . ."

"Stop it, you two!" Taiki was annoyed. Minako and Yaten hadn't heard him and continued arguing.

"Why you little, cross-dresser! I'll blow you back to that planet you came from!" Minako threatened him with a fist.

"Oh, I'm so scared!" Yaten pretended to hide. "I'm so afraid that the Goddess of Love will get me!" He sarcastically retorted.

"Well," Mokoto said to Akiko, "You know that arguing is a sign of affection."

"Affection?" Yaten turned to Mokoto and looked disgusted. "How could anyone have any affection towards that skinny, no figure, self proclaimed Goddess?"

"Well, I don't know why anyone would want to show any affection towards the meanest, most self-centered of all the Lights!"

"All right you guys," Taiki stood up. "Take it outside, will you?"

"FINE!" Yaten and Minako yelled at each other as they continued to walk outside.

"There's been something I always wanted to tell you, Yaten," Minako started. Then the door closed behind them.

"That's a relief." Mokoto sighed.

"Yes, if they argue that much them they must really like each other." Akiko stirred the tea she had in front of her.

"Just ignore Healer, Akiko, he can get a little hot-headed."

"Everyone can be a little undesirable at times." Ami quietly added.

"Eh, eh." Everyone at the table nodded.

"Taiki-san?" Rei asked.

"Nani?"

"What do you think about Seiya and Usagi getting together?" Rei stirred her drink.

Taiki put his hand to his chin for a moment, as if in thought. "Well, we are all aware that Usagi and Mamoru-san are supposed to rule together in Crystal Tokyo. Maybe this is just a little misunderstanding between Usagi and Mamoru-san. I advised Seiya it would not be wise of him to be with Usagi now; he might regret it later. Because we live on different planets he knows it would be difficult to pursue a relationship even if Usagi and Mamoru-san did break up." He sighed. "I think that it is all a bad idea."

"I agree." Rei looked around triumphantly at the scouts.

"I don't agree with you on that, Taiki-san." Ami looked up at Taiki.

"Why not, Ami-san?"

"Well, for one thing, Seiya and Usagi are grown adults and deserve the right to choose whomever they want to be with. Don't you think it would be a little bit odd if someone came up to you and told you that you had to marry this person because that was your destiny?"

"Well, I," Taiki started.

"Of course Usagi-chan and Mamoru-san would become a couple, because they were told that they had to be. I know Usagi-chan very well, and I know that she hasn't been as happy as she once was. Now that Seiya has returned, I've seen my old friend again, and if that's what is best for her, then so be it."

"You're forgetting the point," Rei snarled. "What will happen to Chibi-Usa? What about her coming back to the past to be with us?"

"Do you really think that so much of the future would actually be told to us, Rei-chan? Do you believe in destiny? I don't, I like to believe that we each have the power to change and shape our own future!" Ami was speaking with a passion that no one had ever really seen in her before.

"That was well spoken, Ami-chan." Akiko smiled at her blue-haired friend.

"Arigato, Akiko-san." Ami turned and looked away to avoid the blush that now covered her face.

"You sound logical to me." Mokoto smiled.

"What? Is everyone turning on me all of a sudden?" Rei threw her hands in the air.

"Maybe so, Rei-san." Taiki looked at Ami thoughtfully. Ami looked back at him and for a moment, their eyes locked into place.

"Such beautiful eyes." Taiki thought.

"Such a lovely face." Ami thought.

"I think I'm going to be sick! Not them too!" Rei pretended to throw up. Akiko and Mokoto started to giggle. Then the waitress came over with their food and the group started to eat. ***