Haha! I am done with chapter 3! Sorry that took so long! School is tuff! Not to mention I was also working on Silver and Gold , Silver and Gold 2, AND I came up with two MORE 'sequels' to Silver and Gold. SG2 will lead in to one and that into another, but Kunzite and Minako don't play major roles in them as of yet.

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"Aino! AINO!!! If you don't wake up I swear I am going to kill you!" Someone yelled at me. I was laying on the ground of the training arena with four worried Princesses in Senshi fuku around me. I sat up groggily and remembered why the heck I was down here. Oh yeah, I blacked out after my vision of the end of the world.

"Aino! What were you doing that made you faint?" Makoto said. "Are you alright? I finished my opponent just as you hit the ground, your eyes were all glazed over."

"I'm fine, I had a rather bizarre vision. I think Rei you were right about maybe talking to that Beryl about her prediction. I am leaving in two days for earth, I'll find out whatever I can from Beryl and report back to the main computer." I said half talking to myself. I stood up and started to gather all of the weapons I had been training with.

"Ami, I think she's lost it." Usagi whispered.

"Never consult when your enemy can hear you." I said over my shoulder. Usagi gave me another cheesy grin before helping clean the arena. Taking my weapons to my room, I dug a communicator out of a drawer and punched a series of numbers which linked me to Artemis' communicator. Usually the device lets the other person decide if they wish to talk to me or not, but I have found many cheats and codes that let you talk immediately weather they wish to or not.

"Artemis? You there. uh. um." I said staring into the little screen. I had accidentally dropped in on Artemis taking a bath. Why the hell did he bring his communicator into the bathroom?

"Minako! What are you doing? You know you are supposed to wait for me to answer instead of your silly little cheats!" He yelled, blushing into a maroon shade.

"Hea.hea? Um yeah, so anyway," I said turning my communicator's screen to the wall. "I am headed to Earth in two days to do some investigation about a sage's most recent prophecy. I was hoping that you wouldn't mind getting a clearance from the Earthen and Venusian police departments."

"As long as you promise never to use the cheats again on me, AND I come with you on your adventure."

"No! I don't need you to come, you would be of more help here or anywhere else. I can find my way on Earth and you can check in with me at any time and." I said quickly. I was hoping that Kunzite could accompany me but telling Artemis to stay here was like telling a cat not to chase a mouse. I would have argued longer but Artemis considered the case closed so he turned his communicator off. The next two days went slowly, all I did was research on hints and clues I had picked up from books concerning the end of the Silver Millennium and trained for battle.

"Minako! Time to go, that is unless you want to get caught." Artemis said shaking me as I lay sleeping. I would have normally been up earlier, but the vision I had during training kept going through my head.

"Why would we be caught? You did get the papers did you not?" I said rolling out of bed and picking up a back pack containing everything I needed for the trip. I started to gather clothes and went into the bathroom to change.

"Well, I did get them, but we are on the Moon not Venus so therefore we are kind of breaking a law in one way or another. Minako, you are. are." Artemis stammered as I came out of the bathroom.

"Wearing a dress out of my own free will? Yes I am, if I went in my normal fuku I would get looks and most Earthlings don't know about the Princess Senshi so I would look a bit intimidating. I'll tell Beryl who I am but no on else needs to know now do they?"

"I wouldn't say intimidating." Artemis blushed. "No! I shouldn't have said that. Minako, I didn't say that got it?"

"What did you say?" I said slinging the bag around my arm I took
Artemis' hand. "Venus Power teleport!"

We were soon flying around the Earth in the familiar golden bubble. Having Artemis just hold on to my arm, I dug a map out of my bag and examined it carefully. It was a map of Earth that I had stolen from the Venusian Library a while ago, it had several major points marked including our destination. Beryl lived not to far from the main palace so it was easy to find her temple.

I landed in the forest out of sight of the castle, hopefully no one spotted us. It took about an hour to walk to the temple and when we arrived they seemed to be having some sort of celebration. Artemis turned into a cat and walked up to the front doors as a young woman dressed in white came out and bowed to me.

"Venus! It is a pleasure to see you." She bowed again. "Please come in! My name is Radina, I am a priestess in the East, but know surely you know why we gather here?"

"Uh no I don't." I said feeling a bit embarrassed.

"To rejoice!" Radina laughed. "I know you wished to Beryl but that will have to wait. Your companion, where is he? The one you traveled here with?"

"Here." Artemis said turning back into human shape after I gave him a nod.

"Ah! Hello, well both of your rooms are prepared. Shall I take you to them and then we may get to the party?" I was a bit taken a back, I thought no one would know I thought I was through of concealing my plans to come here. "Venus, do not worry, I saw your arrival yesterday morning in the lake."

Radina led Artemis to his room in the North wing and then lead me to my room in the upper West wing. Radina had taken a lot of time preparing for my arrival. She guessed that I wouldn't have a formal outfit to wear so she had somehow gotten a dress of mine from Venus brought there. Not only a dress though, she also had one of my father's servants to send jewelry and other accessories. I thanked her many times, but every time all she would say is that I was Sailor Venus and I deserved it.

The dress I wore was yellow with straps for shoulders, the bottom went straight down but three different cloths, each a different shade of yellow, loosely hung around me displaying the inner dress. I spun myself around once or twice thinking that maybe I should wear dresses more often. I tied my hair back with a yellow ribbon and went out to find Radina. I didn't have to go far though, she was walking down the hallway towards me. Instead of the white robes she wore before she had on a long lilac dress.

"Oh Venus! You look lovely, Beryl can not wait to meet you! Come, we are gathering now, your friend is already there and I believe that you know some of the other people there as well."

"Radina, please call me Aino, My name isn't Venus."

"I'd be honored to! Now shall we go to the celebration?" Radina said her eyes lighting up like a small child's.

"I will be there shortly, I wish to visit the gardens. I have heard that they are beautiful this time of year." Radina reluctantly told me how to get to the gardens and ran off to the party. I walked through the gardens for a while admiring the lovely flowers. As I stopped to gaze at a curious pink flower someone's arms wrapped around my waist.

"You came to the Earth with out telling me?" a familiar voice questioned.

"Kunzite, what are you doing here?" I said a bit surprised that he was at a sage's temple.

"I was going to ask you the same thing, but it doesn't matter to me. As long as you are in my arms I am content." He said kissing my cheek.

"I am here investigating a vision I had and I think Beryl may be able to tell me something. You haven't gotten any weird visions, dreams or anything, have you?" I said softly, looking up at Kunzite, glad that he was here.

"No, but I don't need to even ask if you have, you are immensely tense." He said leaning over and nibbling at my neck.

"Stop that right now General!" I whispered urgently, trying to pull away from him.

"Then stop tasting so good." Kunzite said, now gently kissing where he had bitten me. "You need to relax, so I am here to help."

"No relaxing until I know what my visions mean, and no more of your 'relaxing' methods because Artemis is here with me and will soon be coming. And I swear if you left a bite mark Artemis will kill you!"

"I don't bite that hard, unless you want me to." Kunzite smirked, resting his chin on my head. "Why would Artemis care what you are doing? I thought you told me he was just your tutor."

"He can be over protective and jump to conclusions. Besides, you are a man."

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"I suppose you don't know what it is like to have someone you care about in love with someone." I said thinking about Usagi. I pushed myself away from him and walked towards the temple, stopping at a pool to make sure my neck looked normal.

"Venus! I mean Aino!" Radina called as I entered the great hall. The room went silent as she pulled me towards a small platform that had been set up for announcements that night. "This is Venus! She has come!"

The crowd cheered for a long time as I stood there in confusion. Radina promptly announced to the crowd gathered, that the prophesy she had become a priestess to fulfill was soon to come. Venus would come out of the heavens in search of something, she would lead the end of this age and lead the beginning of the next. A man would accompany her to the Earth, but a different man would accompany her in the battles and both would go on to the next age with her. The people were ecstatic with this news, but I noticed that there was a hint of sadness in Radina's eyes. Later she explained to me that every priest and priestess who lived in that temple, had come there in order to train, their only motivation is that on day they shall bring a prophesy to truth. The numbers had dwindled though, as less and less young Eartians had visions of the future and acted upon them. Radina herself had seen her prophesy when she was six and studied ever since. Once a year, on this holiday, one holy person's prophesy came true.

After her little speech, she lead me off the stage, and to a pillar, where a group quickly gathered to meet me. I stood stiff, and barley nodded as each person bowed before me in a way of thanking me for listening to my destiny. Artemis soon came up and hovered next to me after complimenting my looks. As the worshippers left me to go and rejoice I was left alone with Radina and Artemis who I soon excused myself from to find something to drink.

"May I have this dance?" a familiar voice asked as I sent down the glass I had drunk from.

"Sorry but I've promised all my dances away." I lied, knowing that if Artemis saw me dancing with Kunzite that would be the end of friendship and on to forced courtship.

"Well as far as I am concerned none of your men have found you yet, so I'll take their dances to save you from boredom." Kunzite said taking my hand and leading me out in to the center of the room. One hand locked with mine, the other wrapped tightly around my waist, he led our dance. One dance turned into two and soon that two was proceeded by a one.

"I think 12 dances with you. Is enough to last me a century." I finally said, releasing his hand and removing my other hand from where it lay on his shoulder. I noticed after the first few dances we were slowly getting closer and closer together, as soon as I pulled away my body miss his warmth immediately.

"So what are you doing here anyway?" I asked Kunzite as we walked to the tables to join the feast.

"Why, I am here to accompany my favorite goddess to her food." Kunzite said, a small smirk playing his lips. If we took one step out of this hall, he would be a complete flirt and smiling his head off, but in the company of so many, he behaved more like I did when I wasn't with him. I acted like a fool, every rigid icy part of my attitude melted away at his touch or the sound of his voice. Like hell I'll ever let him know the power he has over me. Funny what a little crush can do to people?

"No, why are you at the temple?" I asked, forgetting to glare at him when he pulled a chair out for me. I sat down and he sat to my right.

"Every year one of the Generals comes to represent the royal family to the clerics, and this year it was my turn." We talked long, almost all the way through the celebration, only taking intervals to dance with each other. During one such dance, Kunzite and I were extremely close, his hands around my waist and mine on his shoulders. Getting a bit drowsy from reasons unknown, I leaned my head against his chest, moving as little as possible with out stopping dancing.

"Your determination is amazing Minako. I would say just fall asleep and allow me to carry you to your room." Kunzite said softy, his hushed whisper driving me to the point of almost total relaxation.

"I should probably get back to my room." I said politely, stiffening and moving my hands towards my sides. I looked up and smiled softly at him, and he returned it, a look of disappointment betraying his eyes. I sighed, thinking for some reason how I could just leave this gorgeous man here alone? "You may walk me to my room General."

"And after that?" he smirked, kissing my cheek and holding my hand to his side, as he begun walking through the now slowly dispersing crowd, allowing me to keep my tired pace. I was happy to find that I couldn't find Artemis, so my sacred relationship with this man was safe for now. Stumbling a few times, Kunzite picked me up Princess style despite my protests and walked to my room, which I was quite surprised that he knew were it was.

"Put me down?" I asked as he opened the door to my room and stepped inside. Disregarding my request, he walked to my bed and managed to tuck me under the covers. He smiled down at me as I yawned and rubbed my eyes.

"You look so cute right now." He chuckled, leaning over me and kissing my forehead. "See you in the morning I suppose unless I am called away in the night."

"Stay with me?" I whispered almost not realizing what I had said. I watched my slim milky white hand reach up and cling to his sleeve.

"You sure you want me to spent the night in the same room as you?"

"This bed is big enough for ten people."

"Do you know what you are getting yourself into?" he smirked.

"Ya huh." I whispered, pulling his arm sleeve again as he kicked off his shoes and took off his jacket. I let go of him and moved over to make room, he soon joined me under the covers, propping his head up with one hand as he slowly caressed my cheek with his other hand.

"Minako are you sure about this?"

"You don't have to stay here if you don't want to." I laughed before taking his hand in mine and pulling myself up to kiss him softly on the lips. When I pulled away he looked so confused but also so happy. Wait. I just kissed him? Am I really that tired not to think straight? I believe that I just signed my heart away, not that I mind in the slightest that I'm in love with Kunzite.

"Well that's a first." he said before smirking and wrapping the hand that was holding his head, under my waist and pulling me close. "You've returned my kisses, but never kissed me. Does that mean that my feelings for you are returned?"

"If you think you are falling in love with me, then yes." I said before instigating a long passionate kiss.

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