By: SalrAnime
Alright, the chapters are going to be comming a little slower now, because I am no longer revising, I am putting out NEW chapters!! YAY :)!! I'll try to get them out as fast as possible, but people please remeber I'm in school, and I do have a life fanfiction is a hobby, so please be patient with me. normal Disclaimers apply, Sailor Moon is SO obviously not mine.
Luna sprinted down the rainy Streets of Tokyo, searching for her snow white partner. She didn't know what to do with the scouts! Should she bring back thier memories, or should she just wait it out and see what happens. She ran faster, knowing that whatever choice she made, she needed to make it quickly and back to the girls soon. Her ignorance to the situation worried her, and she wanted more than anything to get back to the apartment, and snoop around while playing the normal kitty cat that they all thought she was. Luna took a short breather and began to walk when she reached her destination. Mina's house. It was on the other side of town and Luna was just happy to had made it without getting hit by a car. She looked up at the large house with the white brick sidding, and began to formulate a plan to get into to. Twenty minutes later of standing in the cold rain, Luna finally noticed an open window and mentally kicked herself for not noticing it earlier. 'So stupid!' Was the only thing she thought as she sneaked in through the window and made her way to Mina's room. It was the first time she had ever been there, and she almost laughed outloud a the irony at her first look around the place. Sailor V everything was all over the place! Sailor V posters, Sailor V lamps, even a Sailor V beadspread and trashcan. She briefly wondered if she just secretly had a HUGE ego, or if she really did just idolize....herself. She took one more glance around the room before letting her eyes fall on the small white cat that slept on a pillow in a white rocking chair in the corner.
"ARTEMIS!" She yelled, getting his attention and waking him with a start.
"Wha, wha?" He jumped up at attention, still disoriented from sleep. Luna jumped up next to him and pushed him off of the rocking chair.
"Artemis! I can't believe you've been here sleeping all day. Have you even noticed your chargee is gone!?" Arteims looked confused for a moment, and began to form excuses when he realized she was gone.
"Well, you see, since the scouts have been inactivated....uh....she um...argh!....ok so I was asleep all day, I'm a cat!" Luna frowned at him and motioned for him to follow her as she lead him back to Darien's apartment, and filled him on the recent events....well, at least what she knew of them.
Once again, he didn't understand why he was torturing himself by staying so close to her. Shkoroshi hid in the shadows as Serena slept peacefully in Darien's bed. Of course, Darien wasn't with her tonight, he was walking her little brother home, making sure that her parents wouldn't miss him and begen to wonder if she was really spending another night with Raye at the temple. And while Darien was gone, he took the liberty of watching Serena. It was a treat he was only allowed a few times since she had been in his presence again; the majority of the time, Darien was with her. So now, while Darien was away, he watched her, taking in every aspect of her. Too tired after a large meal to put her hair back up into it's customary meatballs, she setteled on a large bun at the top of her head that had slowly began to come loose in her sleep. She looked so sexy to him. She slept in an oversized dress shirt, on her side with one leg over the sheets, exsposing her creamy thighs to his green eyes. She turned on her back to get into a more comfortable position, letting him get a view of her stomach as the sheets twisted around her body, no longer covering her as it should, and he lost control. Slowly, he stpped towards the bed watching as her bun finally fell loose and her hair fell gracefully over the edge of the bed, almost touching the carpted floor below. He knelt down on one knee and looked at her sleeping face, his only inches away. She was beautiful, the way her nose wrinkled when she laughed in her sleep, the was her lips were slightly pated as if waiting for him to plant a small kiss on her lips. Suddenly he wondered to himself,would she wake up if he stole a swift kiss from her? He decided to take the chance. Leaning forward slowly, he took a moment to take in her sweet scent before leaning in and....
"Shukoroshi, what do you think you're doing?" Apparently she would wake up. He stammered for a moment, unable to think of a reasonible excuse, and she knew there wasn't one anyway. She sat up slowly in bed cursing the legnth of her hair as she tried to pull back into the bun it had been in before.
"I was just...I..uh...Serena....." She sighed like a mother sighing to a lying child as if to say "just give it up"
"It's ok, I understand...kind of, but Shukoroshi, I'm not her....no matter what you say, your princess died long ago, I'm NOT her..." She almost felt like it was a starring contest as Shukoroshi stared into her eyes until he suddenly pulled her to her feet, and pulled her to a nearby mirror.
"Serena, no matter what you think, you ARE her, all the way down to that little brown mole on the right side of your neck" He tilted her chin to the side, and showed her the mark even she hadn't been aware of. She looked in the mirror in awe as he slowly pulled her hair down from the bun she had labored so hard to put in her hair, and slowly ever so slowly began to draw small circles around the mole. 'What is he doing!?'
"Shukoroshi?" She questioned, fearing the man for the first time since she had met him. He slowly turned her around to face him, once again loosing himself in the desire to kiss her lips. He moved in closer, only stopping at her sudden request.
"Please,don't...I've never been kissed before..." He took a pained step back when he realized what she was saying. He was about to become her first kiss, and she didn't want it to be him. Stunned, and pained he didn't even try to chase her when she stepped away from him, and left the room stepping out onto the balcony. She just needed to be away from him for now.
Darien returned to a quiet apartment, and briefly wondered where everyone was. He knew the girls had left, but usually Shukoroshi would stay up waiting for him, and would be able to hear Serena's soft breathing comming from his room, instead he heard nothing. He worriedly rushed into the room were Serena was supposssed to be sleeping, and found nothing but Shukoroshi staring out of a window next to the bed. When he heard Darien stepp in he turned to look at him and chuckled .
"I messed up Darien...." He immediatly began to panick.
"What do you mean, where is she?" Shukoroshi cocked his head out the window. Darien looked into the night sky, searchign for the small blond, when he finally saw her lying in a chair snuggled into a blanket on the balcony. He let out a woosh of air when he realized she was ok.
"What happened?" He asked softly. Shukoroshi wondered momentarily if he should tell him...he would probobly try to beat him to a bloody pulp if he did. He decided to leave instead, and let Serena tell him.
"Ask Serena, I'm sure she'll tell you." He stated as he grabbed his coat and closed the door behind him. Darien slightly confused and curious, took soft steps twords the balcony, opening the door slowly as to not wake Serena. He stepped out onto the cold balcony, and knelt down, taking Serena in his arms to carry her back into his room. She stirred slightly and let out a little sneeze as she snuggled deeper into his arms enjoying the new warmth that surrounded her. He softly laid her into the plush comforter of his bed, almost hopping she would open her eyes, just so he could ask what had happened between her and Shukoroshi, but he didn't want to wake her, she was so peaceful and beautiful.... Unconciously, he brought his head lower, until his lips were only inches from his own. He froze, contemplating what he was doing in his head. Should he kiss her, steal what he knew would be her first kiss, or should he just leave now, and not let his instincts take him over. He was still pondering what he was going to do, in deep thought when.
"EEECHI!!!!" SMACK! Serena suddenly opened her eyes to see a dark figure looming over her ; lips only inches from her own. She screamed utterly frightened, not able to focus in the dim light, and let her hand come out instinctively, and smack her attacker right in the face. She heard an annoyed OW!, and then the lights were suddenly flicked on. Her eyes burned momentarily at the new light, but her eyes finally adjusted, and she was able to see the man that attacked her. He stood in the corner of the room, holding his bruised cheek in one hand, while glaring at her with dark blue eyes. Suddenly realization struck her, and she formed an apoligetic "O" with her mouth.
"Meat...ball....head" He said the unwanted nickname slowly and steadily in his rage, and it scared the crap out of Serena, she startted stuttering nervously.
"I..I d didn't know i it was ya you, you scared me!" He let a low growl escape his lips as he took a step towards the small girl. She immediately took one step away from him.
"An and what's with you guys and the ki kiss thing today an anyway!?" Darien froze, 'you guys?'
"What do you mean you guys!?" Serena let confusion grasp her features as Darien let a look af jelousy and anger cross his face.
"Shukoroshi tried to kiss me while I was asleep, that's why I was on the balcony, I...."
"HE TRIED TO KISS YOU!!" He screamed cutting Serena off.
"But he didn't....it really wasn't anything." She said in a small voice, once again stepping away from Darien as he once again looked like he was going to rip someones heart from thier chest.
"Shukoroshi tried to kiss her! and all this time he kept telling me to stay away from her, like I was the dangerous one." Darien knew he was babbling outloud, and probobly freaking Serena out, but all he could think was ''MINE!'' over and over again. For some unknown reason, or lack of logic, his whole body was set on fire with an unreasonable anger.
"Da..Darien?" Serena slowly stretched out her hand her small hand fall on Darien's shoulder. She let a small yelp escape her throat when he suddenly spun around to face her, and pulled her closer to him, his once dark blue eyes almost black with the anger that he held inside them. She was going to question his actions when he cut her off with a whispered "Mine" and brought his lips down into blazing contact with her own. Niether of them could think straight, it was like a fever had taken over their minds, and their was no other cure but each other.
He didn't understand what was happening with him. The only thing he remebered was a sea of blue, then he was kissing her, passionatly and with every emotion inside of him that he didn't know he had for the young girl, then it happened again, he was somewhere else with Serena, but she wasn't Serena. He laid on a large bed of silver silk sheets, with a huge gold headboard, then he heard her small voice.
"I love you, I have since the first time we danced on Earth." Darien looked into his princess' eyes and planted a small kiss on her lips, before letting his hands wonder slowly up her bare creamy thighs.
"I love you too my sweet princess"
Serena lost herself in the kiss, unaware of the edge of Darien's bed touching the back of her leg, until his weight finally pushed her onto the bed, his body leaning over her's so as to not break contact as her back fell into the soft blue sheets. She let out a soft moan when she felt Darien's strong hands run up her sides, and into her hair, deepening the kiss between the two even more.
Somehow, he knew that what he was seeing wasn't real, but the way she felt....the way she shivered when he kissed her neck, or the way she looked up at him so nervously when he slid the soft material of her gown off her body, it was just all so real. He was surprised to hear a low growl from deep within his throat, when Serenity's wet tounge touched his hot chest. She giggled slightly and smiled up at him and he for some reason, a sense of urgancy went through his body, like this could be the last time he would ever be able to touch his princess. He once again captured her lips and laid her back onto the bed. He looked deep into her eyes again, looking for any kind of hesitation, but there was only trust in love. Slowly he let himself enter her body, looking for any signs that she wanted him to stop, but there were none. Then all of a sudden, the vision was gone, and he was staring into Serena's confused blue eyes, as he lay ontop of her body. Serena slowly and reluctantly pushed Darien away, unable to breathe. He looked so confused when his eyes finally gained focus, like he didn't know why he was there. Suddenly, he rose from the bed and left her in the room alone stating he would be back later, never once looking back at the small blond that laid on his bed utterly and completely confused. The last sound Serena heard before she wailed "JERK!!" louder than she ever had in the past, was the door to Darien's apartment slamming behind him as he left.
The ehat from the Sacred Fire was intense as Raye wiped the sweat from her brow. She was worried about Serena and Darien, she had no idea what was going on, and even though everyone would think she was a freak for doing it, her only source of information was the Sacred Fire. She clasped her hands together in front of her, and began the familiar ritual of fire. Once done, she starred into the orange yellow blaze patiently waiting for the sacred element to reveal to her what she needed to know. Once again she wiped her brow and waited......