Ok, I wanted to thank my reviewers again! Cris, dimonyo-anghel, Thunder-Goddess-905, and Rena H.M! This is for you guys!

Um…oh yeah, don't own Gundam Wing or Sailor Moon, obviously.:( Anyway, here's chapter seven. Hope you like it!

Emerald Eclipse

Chapter Seven: Crushes, Foreign Feasts and Talking Cats

The next morning, the girls woke up to no delicious smells and an empty mansion. In the kitchen, Minako and Makoto found a note written by Quatre.

Girls, Good morning. I'm sorry, but we had something urgent to do this morning, we should be back around noon. The servants do not work today; they only come in twice a week, so there is no food ready. I am terribly sorry and will make you all something or take you out to eat when we arrive back.

Sincerely,

Quatre R. Winner

Upon reading the letter, Makoto grinned. Cooking was something she knew how to do very well, no matter what dimension she was in. All she needed was her magic that she now knew still worked fine since she tested it out in the training room after Heero left the night before. In frustration, she accidentally made a hole in the wall, then used her magic to fix it again.

Minako knew what her close friend was thinking and smiled as well.

"I'll go tell the others you're cooking this morning." With that, she left.

Makoto glanced at the clock in the kitchen, 10:08. The guys would be back soon enough, so she decided she would cook for them as well. She could make chicken or hog, their dimension's specialties, fruits and nuts can be added, and she could also make her family's famous soup. She walked outside, into Quatre's large back yard. She thought of everything she needed; sauces, spices, herbs, fire, caldrons, a chicken, and so on. Concentrating, hard, she formed energy balls in her hands. She molded them and chanted a few times, after about ten minutes, she created or summoned everything she needed in front of her. Then, she began making her feast.

Back inside the mansion, the other girl's all sat in Rei's room.

"Setsuna, I noticed you spent a lot of time in the library with Trowa yesterday, anything you want to tell us about?" Hotaru asked, smiling shyly. Setsuna blushed.

"Oooohhh, we're here for just a day and already Setsuna's luring men away from their insanity! You truly are just like your mother, eh?" Minako laughed.

"Minako," Setsuna paused. "It's not like that. He was just teaching me some things about this world. It's quite interesting actually, did you know that –"

"Can it, Sets," Minako interrupted, raising her hand. "Don't try to change the subject on the Princess of Judarga; the kingdom of love spells, romantic gardens, and wish-giving little pink faeries!"

Rei raised an eyebrow.

"Well it's true," Minako continued. "My kingdom is the kingdom of love, only lovers live there and only lovers want to be there. My kingdom stands for love. Anyway, Setsuna, as the princess of love, I know how to tell if someone is falling in love, I know everything about love! Do not try to change the subject or avoid the conversation! I do believe something is going on between you two; Even if it's just you seducing the man unintentionally." Minako smiled triumphantly as she leaned back against the bed from her sitting position on the floor, hands placed as a pillow behind her head.

Setsuna was speechless and embarrassed. She hadn't even thought about something like that. She only just met this man two days before. But she was her mother's daughter, and she knew that her mother never intentionally seduced any man except for maybe her father. Maybe her being around this man wasn't safe for him?

"Hey, I know that look Setsuna." Hotaru said, speaking up for the first time from her position on one of the four plush chairs around the room. "Don't worry about it. We're in a different dimension, nothings going to happen."

"Sorry Sets, didn't mean to get you worried about your 'inherited seducing powers', I think this guy's different anyway." Minako stated, still smiling slightly. "Anywho, I think you like him too!" That was it, Minako was bubbly again.

"Minako…" Setsuna was blushing now.

"Aww, leave the poor girl alone, Mina!" Hotaru giggled.

"What? I can see it in her eyes whenever someone says his name, she gets all shy and dreamy!"

"Minako!" Setsuna's blush deepened immensely.

"And I can see it in her eyes when she looks at him, too, all she wants to do is tear his clothes off!"

"MINAKO!" Setsuna's whole face was now a tomato, something the girls weren't used to. Minako, Hotaru and Rei started cracking up. Maybe the man was seducing their friend instead?

"It's not funny you guys! And it's not true!" She tried to defend herself.

"Actually, I noticed that, too." Rei choked out between laughs. "I walked by the library yesterday and saw you two sitting on the couch. You two were so close and absorbed in one another I thought you were going to kiss!"

"Oh my goddess! You and Trowa kissed? I knew it!"

"No, Minako, NO! We didn't kiss! We were just talking! We didn't kiss! Rei! Tell her we didn't kiss!" Setsuna was on her knees now, red from head to toe, waving her arms around. She was frantic and didn't care about acting properly or lady-like.

"Well, not while I was still watching, I got distracted and had to turn away. But when I turned back to look, I saw you blushing and embarrassed." Rei answered, still giggling.

"Oooh, sounds like what Setsuna would do after a kiss. Setsuna kissed Trowa! Setsuna kissed Trowa!" Minako was now on her feet, arms in the air and running around the bedroom, chanting loudly that Setsuna kissed Trowa. Rei was now on the floor from her recent position on her bed, clutching her stomach due to laughing so hard. Hotaru wasn't even trying to control her giggles anymore as she was shaking, leaning back in the chair with her mouth hanging wide open.

"Hey, that's not fair you guys! What about Hotaru! I saw how she followed Duo after we got back from the mall!"

As if on cue, Hotaru stopped laughing immediately and turned slightly pink. "No, I was just following Minako around; Minako was the one playing video games with Duo."

"Uh-uh." Minako finally stopped running around wildly and chanting, she shook her head. "Duo asked you to play video games and you pointed him in my direction. You said you wanted to watch." A wicked smile came to her face. "You like Duo don't you!"

Hotaru didn't deny and just sat there, blushing.

"Oh my goddess, how sweet!" Minako gushed. "Hotaru! I am SO setting you two up!"

"No! Minako please! I don't know if I like him! I just met him!"

"So? Haven't you ever heard of love at first site? That's what's going on with Setsuna, now, too. How Sweet! I'm so happy now! I'm setting you two up!"

"Mina, No! Please!"

"And now you know how I feel." Setsuna stated quietly, a smile playing on her face.

"Um, guys? Weren't we supposed to be talking about something else in here?" Rei asked, remembering the more important issue at hand.

"Oh, right, the Emeruka." Minako sighed as she sat on the floor across from Setsuna again.

"Damn, how could we of forgotten?" Setsuna sat down again.

"It's her fault." Minako said, pointing to Hotaru still seated in the chair.

"Hey!"

"Enough, we need to be serious!" We haven't done anything for our problem and we have no idea what's going on back home! For all we know, that sorcerer has already wreaked some sort of havoc." Setsuna was now glaring at the floor in front of her.

Rei nodded. "I can find a way to keep in check with everything over there."

The other three looked at her, surprised. 'How' was the question on all their minds.

"I wish I thought of it before," Rei frowned. "But there is a spell that my grandfather recently taught me. I'll need the Uka, since it was our way out of our own dimension into this one. We need someone we can trust back home, I need to make something, and I need a little time."

"What exactly is it that you can do?" Hotaru asked, interested. Setsuna nodded and Minako was slightly confused.

"It's a way to create almost a separate portal that can appear when we call upon it. But it's a portal that you can not step into, nor see into or send anything through. All you can do is hear what's on the other side."

"I see, which is why we would need someone we could trust on the other side." Setsuna reasoned.

"Precisely."

"I don't get it." Minako said unhappily.

"I will create this portal, and in, I guess you could say a ceremony of sorts, I will send it to our dimension to a person whom we can trust and tell them we'll need to keep in contact. Whenever we send our portal to this person, they can tell us if anything is happening over there."

"But how do we send the portal to our dimension? How do we know where it will 'land' and if it will 'land' near the right person?"

"That's what the ceremony is for." Setsuna answered for Rei. "Am I right?"

Rei nodded. "I'll need all of our powers and concentration. I'm sure we'll be able to do it, but it's going to be kind of hard; especially since I've never been able to try it before."

"Why not?" Hotaru asked.

"Because I needed to have something that can bring people to portals in the first place, hence my need for the Uka. You'll see what I mean during the ceremony."

Hotaru nodded her head slightly.

"Who do we send this portal to, then?" Setsuna questioned aloud.

They were all silent a moment.

"Well, we can't send it to any of our parents, they won't believe us." Minako stated.

"Yeah, we shouldn't let them know where we are, either. That sorcerer might use their knowledge against us." Setsuna agreed.

"We aren't sending it to any of our siblings either." Hotaru noted. The others nodded.

"So, no intermediate family or friends, it will endanger them." Rei confirmed.

"But who else do we trust?" Setsuna asked.

"What about intermediate family pets?" Minako inquired.

"What are you thinking about Mina?" Hotaru cocked her head to the side as her friend in question smiled.

"Artemis."

"Artemis? And how do you suppose we get your pet cat to talk?" Setsuna was shocked to hear something so absurd coming out of her friend's mouth. Although considering which friend had said it, she shouldn't have been so shocked. But still, even in their dimension, talking cats?

"Oh come on, Setsuna! Think about it! There is magic for that. And I've done it before, too. I made him talk for a day, then the magic wore off. I can do it again."

"Really? I didn't know you could do that! How?" Hotaru was now quite interested.

"It's just a love spell my mom taught me. But I wanted to practice. So, naturally, I tried it on Artemis, the poor thing, as I do with most spells when I learn them. It made him able to talk!"

"That's amazing, Minako. It's a spell with a different affect on different species. Those really are the most fun to learn and practice!" Rei smiled, amusedly.

"That poor cat, didn't you give him a scar from one of the other love spells you tried on him?" Setsuna asked.

"Heh, yeah, the one on his forehead. But it looks like a moon, so it's ok."

"Mina…" Setsuna gave her friend a scolding, yet loving look. "You're lucky if you don't kill that poor cat one day."

"Hey guys, we're getting off track again." Rei reminded.

"Right, well, is Artemis a good, trusted choice?" Minako questioned the group.

After a moment of silence, Setsuna nodded. "It's alright with me."

"Me two."

"I guess I'm fine with it then, if the rest of you trust it. But Mina, how are you going to put the spell on the cat if he's not here?" Rei asked.

"Well, lucky for us, it's a 'listen to the words only' spell. There are no ingredients, no nothing. All that is needed is a little bit of energy, concentration, the directed person, or cat in our case, in mind and the chant. It takes about a day or so to kick in though. And I'll have to repeat it every time we decide to contact him. But it'll work fine."

The others nodded approvingly.

"I suggest you do the magic tonight around midnight, therefore tomorrow, same time, we'll do our 'portal ceremony' and he'll just gain his ability to talk, right in time. Then we can tell him what's going on and he can help us."

Before anyone else said another word, a voice was heard from outside the bedroom. The door opened and revealed Makoto.

"Hey guys, come help me set the table, the guys should be home any minute according to the letter." Makoto wore a white shirt covered in new stains from the just cooked meal. There was also a smudge of some sort of honey colored liquid on her cheek. The blue shorts she had on were also covered in the same stains as were on her shirt. She was smiling at her friends blissfully. With the opening of the door, the smells of the familiar foods filled their noses and four tiny stomachs began to growl. Makoto laughed.

"Geez, Makoto, how much food did you make? I smell at least five different things down there!" Rei gasped after taking in yet another long whiff of the meal.

Makoto giggled. "Enough for ten hungry people and leftovers for dinner."

"As usual, Mako." Setsuna smiled, got up and walked passed her brunette friend and down into the kitchen.

"Mmmm, I smell chicken." Minako said as she followed behind Setsuna. Hotaru laughed and got up along side Rei, they went down together, Makoto not too far behind. In the kitchen, the foods were neatly placed all over in different areas. Makoto and Setsuna went outside to make all that was used become magically disposed of. Rei, Hotaru and Minako stayed in the kitchen and looked for what was used as silverware and plates in this dimension. They found both and placed them on the table.

"Hey, why does it smell so good in here?" A male voice was heard from the hallway, close to the door. Just then, Duo peaked into the kitchen and realized what it was.

"Duo, we didn't hear you get in. Where are the others?" Hotaru asked, smiling shyly. Minako noticed and smiled widely.

"They're here." Duo said and as if on cue, Wufei, Trowa, Heero and Quatre all walked around to see where the lovely aromas were coming from. "Did you guys cook?" Duo walked into the kitchen and stood next to Hotaru who just picked up the chicken to place it onto the large table. "It smells so good!"

"Actually, just Makoto cooked." Rei answered.

"Yep, cooking is Mako's specialty!" Minako smiled at the guys brightly. Duo looked all around until his eyes settled on a large ancient looking bowl filled with a steamy creamy substance. He stuck his finger in to have a taste just as Makoto and Setsuna stepped back in from outside.

"Duo! Not yet!" Makoto shouted.

"You!" Duo yelled happily as he ran to the quite dirty Makoto and all but pounced on her in a hug. "You rock! You made food! I'm starving!" As he pounced, he knocked the poor girl into the wall behind her and then proceeded to thank her, praise her and ask when they were going to eat. The other girls laughed and Quatre and Trowa tried to peel Duo off of Makoto.

"I'm so sorry, Miss Makoto. Duo's just very…hungry." Quatre apologized, then smiled. "But I'm so happy you cooked. I was afraid you girl's would be too hungry when we got back and there was just no time this morning to make anything or order anything. May I ask how you made everything anyway?"

"Perhaps she should save that for while we're eating. Makoto should shower and by the looks of it, you guys should, too." Rei said. Then the other girls noticed, too. The guys' clothes were covered in dirt and sweat, their hair was messy, or for some, messier than usual, and some of the guys' clothes were slightly torn. Before the girls asked any questions, Heero spoke.

"We'll eat when we come back down." Then he turned and left, followed by Wufei. Trowa nodded slightly before leaving and Duo groaned, staring at the food, then ran up the stairs. Quatre looked to the girls and apologized again. Then thanked them, looked at the food longingly and said he'd be right back. Rei agreed to keep all the food heated with a spell she knew, and Makoto went upstairs to shower as well. Within fifteen minutes, Duo came down in a rush to where Minako, Hotaru, Rei and Setsuna were talking quietly.

"Don't start yet! I'm here! I'm here!" He yelled frantically as he flew into the large kitchen. "Oh." He said when he realized no one was eating yet. He was the only one who was down here, yet, besides the girls who didn't need to go and shower.

Hotaru and Minako giggled as he entered the room yelling, but Duo didn't care. All he wanted was the food, right then and there. Realizing this made the two girls laugh even more.

"Say, did Makoto make dessert too?" He asked, staring at the still steaming, moist looking chicken and the other unknown delicious looking foods. Was one of those the dessert? Did one of those have the sugar that he desperately wanted and some would say needed? Trowa silently entered the room and Setsuna blushed.

"I don't know if she made dessert, Duo, you'll have to ask her. I don't see any on the table, though." Hotaru answered calmly. She leaned back on the kitchen counter and watched the man sit down in one of the chairs. He stared at the food tiredly, making Hotaru wonder what the guys had to do today. He was wearing a black t-shirt and what were known as blue jeans. No socks, no shoes. His hair was still dripping water as it remained in its usual braid. His face was frustrated and contemplating. Both of his arms were on top of the table and he was tapping the wood with his fingers quite rhythmically. She looked down at her own image. She was wearing a pair of black pants and a dark purple button up silk shirt. It had a collar and no sleeves. She also had on a pair of black socks. Her short black hair was down as usual, sweeping along her shoulder blades. Without needing a mirror, she knew that her violet eyes were standing out due to her pale skin. Hotaru looked up to spot Duo again. Feeling guilty and embarrassed, Hotaru realized she wanted Duo to stop staring at the food, and notice that little fact about her eyes.

Quatre then walked in and smiled. He took a seat next to Trowa who was sitting next to Duo. "I don't recognize anything here except for the chicken. What is everything else?" He asked.

Minako went and took the seat next to Quatre and grinned. "Well, Mr. Quatre," She began quite playfully. "It's some of Makoto's kingdom's specialties."

"It's all quite healthy, too" Setsuna announced as she sat across from Trowa. He nodded his head in greeting, Setsuna smiled and nodded back. She was proud of herself when she realized she didn't blush, especially with the memories of the little conversation she and her friends had about him not too long ago still fresh in her mind. Hotaru sat down in front of Minako. She was afraid if she sat across from Duo, she'd end up staring at him the whole time. Rei sat on the other side of Setsuna, across from Duo.

"Once again, I'm very sorry you girls had to go through this trouble, it's very kind of you." Quatre praised.

"Oh, don't worry about it, Quatre, Makoto did all the work and its work she loves to do!" Minako said. "I think she wouldn't mind cooking everyday. It could be our way of saying thank you for letting us stay here."

"Not to mention the clothes." Rei giggled warmly just as Wufei walked in and looked at his choices in seats. He wasn't happy with any. He could either sit between the bubbly blonde female version of Duo and the wall, between the dark haired quiet girl and the wall, or at the head of the table between Duo and the other raven haired girl. He didn't want to sit next to Duo, but he'd rather sit next to him than near two and possibly three different onnas.

"Injustice." He muttered bitterly as he took his seat at the head of the table.

"Excuse me?" Rei asked, glaring at the Chinese man who just sat down.

"Injustice," He said again. "For the fact that my only choices of seating are next to weak, undeserving women."

Rei scowled. "And what is that supposed to mean?"

"Exactly what I said it means, you are weak and undeserving women and I should have just told one of you to move!"

"Wufei!" Quatre chided.

"First of all, you hog, we are not weak woman!"

Duo laughed. "Ha! Ha! She called you a hog!"

"Second of all, undeserving of what? Sitting next to you? Who said we want to sit even remotely close to you?" Rei screeched. Wufei covered his ears and growled.

"Hog? I am no hog, woman! And all women are weak and should feel lucky to sit next to a man as honorable as I am!" He glared. "And stop that lone defense mechanism! All you woman and your annoying screeching…" His voice trailed off. "Do you want us all to go deaf?"

"Just you, perhaps! And women are not all weak! Any of us can take you on any day, Sir honorable hog!"

"Honorable hog! Ha! Ha!" Duo laughed again. "Wu-man…"

"Rei, please." Setsuna put a hand on her shoulder, trying to calm the younger girl's nerves. She then turned to glare at Wufei. "I would think you were kind enough to show some respect to your guests, Wufei."

"Yeah, Wufei!" Rei taunted.

Before Wufei could say anything, Quatre stopped him. "Wufei, stop it, now. Or I'll give Duo a copy of the key to your bedroom."

"Yes! Rei keep taunting him!" Duo yelled happily.

"NO!" Wufei's eyes bulged. "Ok, Ok, I surrender!" He looked down onto his lap, beaten.

Seeing this made Rei laugh which made Wufei look back at her and glare.

"Rei…" Setsuna warned. Rei just smiled at the older woman and leaned back in her chair triumphantly. She beat Wufei in their first battle, and as she figured, it would not be their last.

Upstairs, Makoto was just walking out of her room and down the stairs where she saw Heero, also just beginning to go down the stairs.

"Well, Heero, it looks like we just keep running into each other on these stairs, huh?" She smiled, looking him in the one eye that she could see from his profile. Heero's face remained stone and his eyes unmoving. He looked straight ahead and didn't even glance her way as he continued down the stairs next to her.

"Aw," Makoto whined. "You really aren't going to say anything?" He still didn't move.

"Are you just so hungry that you can't bear to speak?" Mako smiled as he finally turned his face to her, slightly, and glared. It wasn't the best reaction from him, but it was better than nothing. He turned away from her again as they reached the bottom of the steps and into the hallway. They remained walking at the same pace.

"You know, the Emeruka has the power to destroy your whole dimension-" Makoto began, taking the Uka out of her pocket and staring at it.

"Is that a threat?" Heero cut her off and snatched a gun from his back pocket. He aimed it at Makoto's forehead. Makoto was surprised for a second, then frowned.

"No, actually, I was going to thank you for helping us out, so it would never come to that, even though you haven't done anything yet." Makoto's tone deepened as she grew semi angry. She put the Uka back in her pocket as Heero returned his gun to its hiding place. They had stopped walking and were only a few feet in front of the opening that brings them into the kitchen. They could see the table and some of their friends if they looked through, but they were just glaring at each other. Makoto glared straight into the taller man's eyes, but Heero, still cautious of what happened the last time, glared between her eyebrows. Makoto tore her eyes away first and walked into the kitchen. Heero followed, glare gone from his eyes. His frown deepened, however, at the sight of the last seat remaining. The seat across from the chocolate haired, emerald eyed witch. Not whom he wanted to sit across from.

Well, I was going to add more, but then I decided a little overten pages for one chapter was enough...sorry, hehe. And if anyone right now is asking 'What happened to the plot of this story?' DON'T WORRY! I'm gonna get back to that within a chapter or two….there's just some things I want to do with this/try with this, first. Well, anyway, hope you enjoyed it and PLEASE REVIEW! You have no idea how happy they (reviews) make me!...well, if you're on this site then really, you probably do…which means you should definitely review(unless your just evil…your not evil, right?)! And please, Please, PLEASE! If you have ANY CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM WHATSOEVER, give it to me! I can ALWAYS use criticism…just try to be nice about it, please, hehe. Byee! MiLeggie