Title
: Wipe Out
Fandom
: Sailor Moon (anime) Dark Kingdom
Pairing
: Kunzite / Zoisite
Rating
: a bit of violence and hints of sex
Copyright
: Zoisite, Kunzite, Sailor Moon and the rest are the property of
Naoko Takeuchi and Toei Animation, if I recall.
Author's
notes : a short chapter told by Zoisite, now THAT is original...
Chapter 9 : Vacation
It went faster than I expected. I thought it would take me hours to get him to spill the truth.
It went better, too.
He seems to be pretty embarrassed about having 'manipulated me into loving him'. I'm not sure whether I should put his mind to rest about that or not, as it makes him more... accommodating, I guess.
I don't get it. When Oniwabandana told me about this affair between us, I imagined much worse than that. That I had used him to get promoted. That it was just the random wakashu/nenja routine.
I didn't expect him to be so giving in bed, for one, and to even know or care what I liked. Maybe that just stems from him thinking he had to make special efforts to ensure my loyalty by the time.
But I also talked to him about my past - my real past, I checked, not some made-up tale designed to get me pity or attention. It's not something I do. It must have been more than mere lust for me to do that.
And then of course... he did endure the pain of using the Ginzuishou to revive me. And chose exile to protect me when it appeared that Beryl would not let me back into the Dark Kingdom.
I know I wear a stupid smile as I remember this.
I snuggle against him some more. He holds me closer and strokes my back.
"Not sleeping, Shiro?"
His voice is amused and fond. Fond. I replay the sound of it in my head then look up to him and grin.
"We have much better to do than sleeping".
He cuddles me a bit higher against him to kiss me.
It could go on forever, I think, but I soon notice a shadow in his eyes. I have to poke at the wound.
"How much time do you think we have left?"
He's startled and thinks up of his answer. Ever since I 'awakened', he never lied straight to my face. Covered the truth, presented it in a convenient way, maybe, but he never really lied.
"It would depend on whether she tries to attack the Senshi before they find an access to the Dark Kingdom by themselves."
"You don't think it will be long, do you?..."
He delays his reply before brushing up the inevitable.
"I'll treasure what we'll have. It's more than I hoped for."
We do end up sleeping, eventually. Too much for my liking, when I realize how late in the day it is when I open up my eyes. We can't afford to waste that much of the precious time we're left.
Kunzite makes a passing comment on how he tends to forget that as a human, I don't have as much endurance or energy as a Tennou anymore. I know he doesn't mean any harm, but it hurts to be reminded that I once was more than I am.
Strangely enough, then, it's him who suggests that we should not spend all of our time in bed. I can tell he's cautious about my health. Not without reason, because no matter how much my mind tells me that the clock is ticking, my body does appreciate the leisure time.
So, we go out to drive and eat and walk and do the mundane things that humans do in this time and place. He brings me to a park in which plumtrees are in bloom, and we sit on the rich grass talking non-sense, or just stay silent, side by side, my head on his shoulder, his arms around me.
People look at us, somehow puzzled by our looks I figure, sometimes affectionately, and only ever getting negative when they hear my voice.
When I can't be just gazing at him, it feels a bit empty not to have any goal any more. No orders to follow. No rival to keep in check. No enemy to kill.
There are the Queens' youma, of course, but they are no match for Kunzite. And with five Senshi armed with the Ginzuishou knocking at the Dark Kingdom's gates, it would be silly of them to waste any more of their forces against us, wouldn't it?
And there's this threat above us... Even being out of the game, we know that it is still going on, and that it will affect us, no matter what we do. I hate that. To know that it will end soon, and I just can't accept that I don't even know what is going on exactly.
I say it to Kunzite, and he suggests we go see Bandana. She is still in touch with the Dark Kingdom, after all.
We drive there, but Kunzite stops quite far from her home. I've told him what happened with the four-armed Youma, and he wants to make sure that Queen Beryl doesn't know who killed her dear Ashura.
I'd like to go with him, but he won't let me. Because I'm powerlessm vulnerable. I clench my teeth but say nothing.
He tells me to remain in the alley, hidden, just the time for him to teleport in Bandana's flat to check it out, and then he'll be back.
He vanishes, and I pop my head out of the alley to look at Bandana's windows.
As something hit my skull, all I can think is "Not again!" before all goes black.
to be continued...
