Seiya leaned back and looked at her. "What's wrong?"

Seiya heard Usagi scream in the other room. He let go of Minako and quickly opened the door. What it looked like to him was just Minako blushing at Yaten.

"What's going on out here?"

Usagi ran to Seiya and hugged him around the waist. "Eek, Seiya!" She hid her head on him.

"Uh, Minako-chan?" Seiya had question marks around his head.

"Iie, I'm done playing now!" Usagi covered her ears.

"What's wrong, *Minako?*" Minako grinned at Usagi.

"This isn't funny anymore." She looked up at Seiya. "Don't you recognize me?"

"Uh . . .O . . Odango?" Seiya looked down at Usagi and blushed.

"Hai!" Usagi had winky eyes. "Minako and I changed our clothes and our hair styles! Aren't we bad?"

"You WHAT?" Yaten yelled.

"Gomen, Gomen, Yaten-kun! It was all in good fun!" Minako took her Odangos down and ran over to Yaten and kissed him on the cheek.

"I just bared my soul to . . .Usagi." Yaten quietly whispered.

"I guess you'll just have to do it again, for me!" Minako giggled and winked.

Usagi led Seiya out of the hallway and shut the sliding door to give Minako and Yaten a little space.

"Where's Taiki?" Seiya looked around the room.

"He's in another room, with Ami." Usagi flipped on a light and turned back around to Seiya and smiled. Her hair was still down and it seemed to dance around her.

"You know," Seiya wrapped his arms around Usagi. "You look nice with your hair down."

"Oh, so I don't look nice normally?" She pouted.

"Of course you look good Odango . . ." He paused. "Can I still call you that?"

"Hai, Seiya-kun!" Usagi giggled.

"Wow," Seiya looked into her eyes, "We've finally gotten a chance to be alone together."

Usagi looked up and blushed a little. "Yes . . .now we're alone."

Seiya leaned down and kissed Usagi gently. He slowly brought his hand through her now undone hair. He broke the kiss and looked at Usagi. She looked back at him, her blue eyes staring into his deep blue eyes.

"Ai shiteru, Usagi." Seiya whispered.

Usagi looked back up at him and tears started forming in her eyes. "Ai shiteru, Seiya."

She laid her head onto his chest and heard his gentle heartbeat.

"I'll love you forever, Odango, I'll never let you go." He whispered.

"I hope not." Usagi squeezed him tighter.

***

"Wow," Minako sighed. "I never knew that."

Yaten brushed a silver strand of hair away from his face. "Now you do know."

"I'm so sorry." Minako placed her hand onto Yaten's shoulder.

"It's okay, I mean, just some people don't understand why I'm this way. And now you know."

Minako hugged Yaten tightly. "Don't worry, I'll be here now." Minako pulled back from her hug. "As long as we know how we both feel about each other and such, everything should be okay."

"I am just worried about this battle." Yaten scowled. "Not that I'm afraid or anything, I just don't want to lose anyone else, like we lost Jupiter."

"I know what you mean," Minako sighed, thinking about Jupiter. "I'm sure everything will turn out all right in the end."

"I hope so." Yaten yawned. "I'm tired, is there any place we can sleep here?"

"Yeah, we can go into one of the spare rooms and try to get a little shut-eye." Minako took Yaten's hand and they went into another room to rest.

***

When Taiki awoke, it was dark outside. He sat up and looked around the room he was in. He spotted Ami sitting in a chair near the door, she looked to be asleep. He stood up and walked over to her. She was sleeping with a book on her lap, and Taiki smiled to himself.

Ami opened her eyes. "Oh, Taiki-san, you're awake!" She sat up straight.

"Hai, I'm awake now, I feel pretty good." He stretched. "I'm a little hungry though."

"I'm sure you are." Ami smiled and stood up. She set the book down on the chair and looked into Taiki's eyes. "How about we go get something to eat from the kitchen?"

"That would be all right." Taiki smiled at Ami and looked into her deep blue eyes.

"Well, the kitchen is this way, Taiki-san." Ami started to leave and Taiki grabbed her hand. Ami blushed at Taiki and then brought him to the kitchen for a snack.



After they had eaten something they went to look for Rei. They found her doing a fire reading, so they went into the room, and watched her. Akiko was also sitting in the room, she was sleeping in the corner.

Rei was in a trance, sitting near the fire, she was oblivious to everything around her, and the only thing she saw was the fire.

She saw dark figures, a menacing laugh, she saw Surya being vaporized, she felt the birth of a Sailor Senshi. She lastly felt the calm eerie feeling of death wash over her.

Rei shuddered and looked around the dark room. She saw Taiki and Ami sleeping in the corner. She stood up and stretched.

"You guys awake?" She looked at Taiki and Ami. She heard snores coming from Akiko.

"Iie, I was just resting my eyes," Ami stood up and looked at Rei.

"I was as well." Taiki stood up and smiled at Rei. "Did you see anything good?"

Rei shrugged. "I don't really know if it was good or bad. I usually have to think about these things for a while." She sighed. "Where is everyone else?"

"I think everyone else is sleeping." Taiki stretched and looked at Akiko. "We should probably be thinking about going to bed ourselves, you know? We have a big battle coming up tomorrow."

"Yeah," Ami yawned. "Do you have any place for us to sleep?"

"Sure, how about I just get some blankets and you guys can sleep in here, like Akiko?"

"That sounds okay." Ami giggled.

"What time is it, anyway?" Rei opened the door.

"I think it's around nine." Taiki looked at his wrist, but saw no watch there.

"Alright, I'll bring you guys back some blankets and pillows and then I'll check on everyone else, and I'll go to bed."

"All right." Taiki and Ami said in unison. They looked at each other and laughed.

Rei left the room, smiling to herself. She went to the linen closet and got some blankets out for Taiki, Ami and Akiko and brought them back. Then she went to go find Yaten and Minako, but found them asleep in another room, so she covered them up. She couldn't find Usagi and Seiya, so she decided to give up and go to bed.

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Gomenasai about that mean cliffy I left you with last time! ^^ I just felt like being mean! Now I'm being nice and updating, like I said I would! ^^ Thankies everyone for being with me through 20 whole chapters! I'd also appreciate it if you checked out my other story that I was writing when I had a writer's block about this one. Well, thank you all again! ^^ R/R BTW Sailor Moon doesn't belong to me, I already cried about that today! ;-)