Time Heals- Chapter 8

IMPORTANT!!(Alright people. Change in plans. I thought I was going to be out all day, but I wasn't so I threw together one last chapter till I go AWOL on ya. Now, the soonest I will be able to update will be next Friday. So please be patient. PLEASE! Thank you!

GracedAngel1854: I'm glad you're so dedicated! I happily await your next chapter! And it was with your happy review in mind that I thought to squeeze out one last chapter before I go on hiatus.

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Angelicmayuka: Do I HAVE to stop poking you? It's so much fun! But since you asked so nicely I will stop. Don't want my reviewer to die of continuous poking syndrome now do I?

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Disclaimer: If I owned GW or SM, then why Am I still sleeping on the floor? Huh? Food for thought.

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Another month had passed since Duo's birthday. Ami and Makoto were back to being best friends. All had been forgiven between them.

Ami had gone on a few more dates with Duo, and he had finally asked her to be his girlfriend. Blushing something mad, Ami had accepted.

Makoto and Trowa were still going out, but he had yet to ask her to be his girlfriend. Makoto was slightly annoyed by this, but decided that she had all the time in the cosmos, so gave him at least a few more weeks.

It was as Ami, Duo, Makoto, and Trowa were all having lunch together that Ami told them of her decision to go and see Minako.

Makoto smiled. "She misses you Ami! And I'm sure that she would be ecstatic when she sees you!"

Duo also smiled at his girlfriend. "You should go see her. Get it out of your system."

Trowa, not really knowing what the others did to Ami, didn't say anything. All he really knew was that Ami and her friends had had a really big fight.

"Do you want us to come with you?" Makoto asked Ami, seeing the nervousness in her face.

Ami grinned nervously. "If you wouldn't mind Makoto, I would like it if you came with me."

"Hey!" Duo shouted while grinning. "What about me?"

Ami smiled at him. "Minako sees you, she'll start drooling all over the place. Not something I'd like to happen right now."

Duo grinned even more. "I thought all girls drooled over me!"

"In your dreams!" Makoto ribbed him. "Only one guy I'll be drooling over!"

"And you Ami? Do you drool?" Duo asked playfully.

Ami gazed at him. "The only people who would drool about you are the ones that can't have you. If they have you or someone else, they needn't bother."

Duo paused trying to understand what Ami had just said, then grinned. "Does this mean I don't get to drool over you?" he asked with puppy dog eyes.

Ami only half smiled, half smirked.

"Good" Duo replied. "Cuz I like drooling over you!"

Ami blushed a slight bit. She would have blushed more, but she was becoming used to his playfulness.

"So," Makoto said, trying to change the subject from drooling. "When should we go see Minako?"

Ami gazed out the window. "Sometime before I lose my nerve. I have tomorrow off, so I guess that would be as good a time as any."

Ami sighed. Time was going to stretch on forever until that time.

Duo, hearing his Ami's sigh, wrapped an arm around her. "Hey," he whispered. "If all goes well, then bring her over to the yard, Heero will be there. And" He added in an amused voice, "He needs a girl who can keep Relena at bay!"

Ami giggled. Trust Duo to know how to lighten her mood. "I feel sorry for Heero. But at least he didn't have to stay with the drama queen!"

Everyone laughed. Even Trowa, even if his was more of a light chuckle.

After lunch, Ami smiled while looking at the sky. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad after all.

The next morning, around eleven, Makoto banged on Ami's door. It was time to go.

Ami, awake, dressed, and nervous as hell, closed the door lightly behind her.

Gingerly, she trailed behind Makoto as they headed towards Minako's work.

Strangely enough, Minako also worked in the same city. It was one hell of a coincidence that Makoto had been here, but Minako too? At least Rei was on one of the colonies according to Makoto.

Ami stared at the building. 'Venusian Femme' was the sign over the stylish building.

'Figures' Ami muttered in her own head. 'Lightening Rose' for the senshi of lightning, one who still wore rose earrings. And 'Venusian Femme' for the goddess of love. 'Figures'

Ami trailed behind Makoto. She at least seemed to know where she was going.

After going threw a few doors, they came to a secretary desk. The woman behind it looked up at them.

"May I help you?" she asked.

Makoto looked back. "Makoto Kino. 11:30 appt with Minako Aino"

The secretary looked down at a book. "All right. You know where you're going?"

Makoto nodded as they left.

"Makoto? I've been meaning to ask you why you and Minako are going by your names. After all they are the same ones that you had 487 years ago."

Makoto grinned back at her. "We have changed our names before. This time we just felt like having our old names back. It was strange. It was like we just HAD to have those names back this time."

Ami stared at her. It did make a kind of sense. 'Maybe Pluto had something to do with that...' Ami thought. It would make a lot more sense.

Makoto stopped at a mahogany door with the name 'Aphrodite' on it.

Ami grinned. "I assume she still has a flare for the dramatics?"

Makoto grinned back. "Yep!" Then she knocked on the door. "Yo! Mina-chan! Can I come in?"

A bright happy voice answered back. "Sure Mako-chan. Come on in."

Ami noticed that Minako's voice wasn't as happy as when she last had heard it. It had dulled somewhat.

Trying not to be so nervous, Ami straightened as Makoto opened the door.

The first thing Ami saw as she entered the room, was Minako's hair. Sunlight had streamed into the room form the window and gave her hair a radiant shine.

The first think Minako noticed after Makoto entered the room, was the nervous looking, blue haired woman. 'Wait, back up, blue hair? Only one person that I've ever seen had blue hair. And that was Ami....'

"OH MY GOD! AMI!" Minako shouted as she raced the few feet towards her old friend.

Ami saw Minako race towards her and cringed back slightly.

Minako ran into Ami with a full force hug.

"Gods above Ami, I missed you!" Minako sobbed into Ami's shoulder.

Awkwardly, Ami patted the distraught girls back. "It's okay Minako, I'm back."

Minako stepped back from Ami and glared at her. "It's NOT okay Ami! You disappeared! Do you have any idea how worried about you we were?!?!" She screeched.

Makoto giggled from the corner post she had taken up.

Both of the other girls looked at her and asked the same question. "What's so funny?" Then they looked at each other and broke out in smiles.

Makoto laughed a bit more. "Oh, it's nothing.....it's just....that Minako sounded so much like...." Makoto snorted in laughter.

"Who?" Ami and Minako shouted at their brunette friend.

"Relena!" Makoto finished.

Both girls paled.

Ami was the first to laugh. "She's right! You defiantly have her screech! And I should know!"

Minako glanced at Ami in confusion. "I think there's a lot I don't know. And no blonde jokes about me not knowing anything Mako-chan!"

All the girls smiled.

"Lunch?" Makoto questioned.

Minako looked at her watch. "Yep, I can do lunch. I'm off for the rest of today!"

They went to a little bistro that was only a block away from Minako's work for lunch.

During their semi-quiet lunch, Ami, with a little help from Makoto filled Minako in on what happened. That is, after Minako apologized to Ami till she was blue in the face.

When Makoto let it slip that Ami had a boyfriend, the goddess of Love almost fell out of her seat.

"AMI! You have a boyfriend!?!? Oh my GOD!" She had squealed in happiness. "I have got to meet the guy who stole our Ami's heart!"

Ami was a little nervous. Should she let Minako meet Duo so soon? She didn't have to answer that as Makoto reminded her that Duo wanted them to stop by after lunch.

Minako, like a small child wanting candy, was tugging on Makoto and Ami's arms.

'As if that'll get us there any faster' Ami thought wirily. 'Same old Minako.'

They had taken a bus to get to Ami and Duo's work place.

Minako had been surprised to learn that not only did she work in a junk yard, but that she also worked with her boyfriend.

"That must be tons of fun!' Minako laughed in delight at Ami's blush.

The bus let off a block from Ami's work, so they walked and chatted the rest of the way.

Minako had a lot of glamorous jobs. The job she had now was as a model. But she also owned the company that she worked as a model at. Not that anyone really knew that.

"All the other people who work there think I'm just one of the models and one of the paper pushers. It delights me to no end!" Minako had replied with a grin.

As they got to the entrance of the junk yard, Ami could hear Duo whining to Heero.

That was followed by a gun shot.

Ami and Makoto shook their heads and laughed. But Minako was frantic!

"OH MY GOD! What happened? Could some one be hurt? Why would some one shoot off a gun?"

Minako was about to start running around like a chicken with her head cut off when she saw the other two laughing their asses off. "What?"

Ami smiled and told her that Duo's friend was here today, and that he was a BIG gun nut. That he likes to practice by aiming to scare annoying people.

"Weird" Minako whispered, but followed as both Ami and Makoto entered the yard.

Ami saw Duo run out of the office as fast as he would run when Wufei would chase after him with his katanna. Heero was only a few feet behind him.

Ami giggled as Makoto yelled at both of them to stop as they had company.

Duo, hiding behind one of the piles of the junk, peered out with large purple eyes. "Thank you so much Mako-chan!" he yelled.

Heero had stopped dead in his tracks before turning to look at the intruders.

Two of them he knew, and would tolerate. The other was unknown. But she didn't look as annoying as Relena.

After surveying the new girl, Duo leaped out from the junk pile. "Babe!" he shouted as he ran in to hug his girlfriend.

Makoto and Ami were right. Minako was drooling. But over BOTH boys.

When the love goddess saw Duo fly over to Ami, she knew that he was her boyfriend. "Nice catch Ami!" she shouted.

Ami blushed as Duo grinned.

"Who says she caught me? Maybe I caught her?" Duo quipped back at her.

Minako laughed. "Maybe! Now you must be Duo."

At Duo's nod. Minako continued. "And who might the other cutie be?"

If Heero could flush, he would be cherry red at the moment. 'Did that gorgeous girl call me a cutie? I think my minds gonna blow!' "Hn..." Heero responded.

Duo answered Minako's question though. "Mister no talking over there's named Heero. And a poor man he is!" He shouted loud enough for Heero to hear him.

Heero glared at him.

Minako, confused, asked "Why's he a poor guy?"

Duo grinned cheekily. "Relena Peacecrap...err, craft, has the hots for him. It's all he can do to get away from the psycho chick!"

Heero aimed his gun towards Duo's braid and shot.

A few hairs fell to the ground. Duo screamed. "Heero you baka! Why did ya do that!?"

Minako giggled. "Maybe he doesn't like you talking about him all the time?" She walked a little cautiously up to Heero.

"I have a proposition for you." She told him.

"Hn."

Minako took that for a 'go ahead and speak.' "Well, the fastest way for a girl to take a hint about a guy not liking her is for said guy to go out with another woman. So my, proposition is for you to go on a date with me. That was I can get Ami and Makoto to triple date!"

"What would you know" Heero told her.

Minako huffed. "I should know a lot about love! I'm the goddess of love after all!"

Heero's eye brow twitched.

Minako grinned. "If you don't say anything, I'll take that as a 'Yes, Minako, I will go on a date with you'"

Heero said nothing. He really wanted to get rid of Relena. And if this was an easy way to do so, then he was up for it.

"Great!" Minako said happily before bouncing over to the other girls.

"Okay!" Minako near sang. "We need to triple date!"

Makoto and Ami looked at her funny.

"We can double date, but for a triple, you need a guy Mina-chan" Makoto said.

"Done" Minako chirped. "I got Heero to go on a date with me!"

Ami and Makoto's jaws dropped. "How did you manage that?!" they both screamed.

Minako grinned. "I told him that it would get Relena away from him!'

The others grinned. That would about do the trick.

"Do you know what we need to do now?" Minako asked.

Ami and Makoto looked nervously to their friend.

"Shopping!" Minako answered.

Ami and Makoto prayed for something to happen so they wouldn't have to go.

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That's it. Hope I see you guys Friday! I'm going out of town tomorrow. I get to go see all my old friends again! YAY! ::Runs around in total bliss:: I miss my friends. I moved a few months ago and haven't seen them so wish me fun! ^-^8 Oh, yes, and REVIEW! Thank you! I luvs you all!

~DevilWench~