WARNING: Any statements about males, religion or homosexuality do not actually reflect the views of the author. Inspired in a large part by real life, with a lot of meddling, this is meant only for humor purposes.


Setsuna's Bad Day

By: Anna DeMarco Ice-dragon-katana

Michiru Kaioh was sitting peacefully as she read over notes for an upcoming concert. Her deep blue eyes shifted to her incredibly bored lover. Ten'ou Haruka was perched against a wall in her sweats, feet toward the ceiling with heels touching the wall and shoulders on the floor. To herself Michiru noted that the posistion her neck was in looked far from comfortable but the blonde seemed to be in some form of deep thought.

The door to the house opened and shut very slowly and teal eyes popped open lazily. Suddenly a very loud and frustrated noise emitted from the hall and the normally calm time guardian appeared in the living room. At the sudden sound Michiru jumped slightly in her seat and Haruka lost her balance. The blonde toppled to the floor sideways and landed in a pile with a very loud thump sound. Momentarily both Michiru and Setsuna fell silent and waited for the blonde senshi to make some movement. Once she twitched Setsuna walked over and held out a hand.

"What was that about?" Haruka asked as she took a hold of the offered hand and pulled herself from the floor. The blonde rolled her neck a few times as she walked over to sit next to Michiru on the couch. "Bad day?"

"That may just be an understatement." Setsuna commented as she let her self-fall into a near by chair, and very nearly missed. After righting her self she looked toward the other two occupants of the house.

"Would you like to tell us what happened?' Michiru offered politely and watched as Setsuna closed her eyes. A long-suffering sigh escaped the woman as she leaned more into her own chair.

"First I woke up early to take Hotaru to school."

"But Hotaru is staying at Serena's all week." Haruka commented and Setsuna opened one eye to regard the blonde coldly.

"I know, but I forgot until I was half way through making her lunch." Now both red eyes opened and gazed at the ceiling. "Which was another disaster in the making."

"How so?" Michiru gave her friend a curious look.

"Well I decided to make tuna fish, but when I tried to open the can I sliced my finger somehow. For some reason it wouldn't stop bleeding." Setsuna held up her right hand and both noticed the three Band-Aids wrapped tightly about it and the large red spot that stained them. "Once I got that under control the eggs wouldn't boil. I've never had that happen, I mean how does an egg just not boil?"

"Whoa there Suna." Haruka held up both hands as Setsuna stood and began to pace before the two but the green haired woman took no notice. "Maybe they were bad or something."

"No, no. The egg box said they were fine." Setsuna waved her left hand about as she paced back and fourth. "Actually the mayo was expired, and of course once I found the new jar I noticed we had no bread."

"Oh!" Haruka smacked her forehead and both turned their gazes on the blonde. She gave them a sheepish look and tried to smile weakly. "I was supposed to buy that yesterday, I knew I forgot something."

"Please go on." Michiru said before Setsuna could think too much about how Haruka inadvertently added to the day's trials.

"So then I took another shower to get ready for that job interview today." Setsuna stopped and looked squarely at the two. "Do you know how strange it was to interview at a church knowing that other powers exist? I mean once or twice I was tempted to tell the man how Jesus really died."

"What?" Haruka and Michiru spoke at the same time as they heard this and Setsuna shook her head.

"Never mind, I can't talk about it anyway." She began pacing again before the two as she seemed to get more a gaited. "And they passed me up! I had everything down except for some weird print shop program, so they hired the other candidate. I'd like to see them find someone else who can speak Hebrew." The last part was muttered to her self.

"And that's when you came home?" Haruka asked, thinking the long story had ended.

"Oh no." Setsuna said and again took a seat, this time on the arm of the couch. "I got a call from Jerome, you know that man who kept claiming to be in love with me, the one from America. Well he asked if we could have lunch together."

"When I got there I noticed so was the other candidate from work." Setsuna looked at them both with an annoyed expression. "They eloped a few days ago and he wasn't even going to tell me, his wife had to make him. I thought we were friends! And for that matter he claimed he was in love with me just yesterday."

"But I thought you didn't have an interest in him?" Haruka asked, receiving an elbow from Michiru for the remark.

"That is far from the point Ten'ou Haruka!" Setsuna said sternly before she gave a sigh. "I did like him at one point, but for some reason every time we met it just made me stop."

"If you are his friend he should have told you." Michiru put in lightly.

"What about that guy you were dating, what happened?" Haruka asked.

"He just wasn't my type."

"And Yoshi?" Michiru asked.

"Only wanted to sleep with me."

"Taka?" Haruka suggested.

"Male chauvinist." All three winced at the thought; they were from a matriarchy after all.

"Ryu?" Haruka asked again.

"Too long distance."

"Seiji" Michiru asked on a whim though Setsuna hadn't dated any of the Stars. "Or Taki and Yetan?"

"Far too young, do I look like a child molester to you?" Setsuna said, leveling a gaze that said clearly the answer better be no. They both noticed Haruka writing something down on a notepad. "What are you doing?"

"Trying to remember where Yoshi and Taka live." The blonde muttered distractedly.

"For what?" Michiru asked lightly as she looked at the odd notes Haruka was making.

"To go teach them manners."

"HARUKA!" Setsuna and Michiru both yelled in perfect unison. Michiru took away the notepad while Setsuna lightly slapped the blonde on the head.

"Bad Uranus!" Setsuna said with as serious a tone as she could manage at the moment, though there was a glint in her red eyes. "No picking on the poor male mortals."

"Oh come on, just Yoshi?" Haruka plead with her friend and Setsuna seemed to consider it. Michiru balled up the paper and threw it over Haruka's head at Setsuna, this seemed to wake the time senshi and she shook her head.

"Uh, no." Setsuna got a glare from the senshi of the sea and spoke a bit more firmly. "I mean no, absolutely not. We can't beat up the people randomly even if they are low class men who only want to get into a woman's pants. I mean for one thing we'd likely have to beat up the entire male populace of Japan."

"Careful, statements like that lead to wonderings about why you date that gender." Haruka warned and received a light slap on both arms. She grinned evilly and winked at Setsuna. "Hey, you're always welcome to join us."

"Haruka!" Michiru whapped the blonde's head and Setsuna smiled a bit at the innocent look Haruka was trying to give her lover. "I'll have you know that just because I am a lesbian doesn't mean I intend to have a three some for your enjoyment. I have morals you flirt."

"Ah, but I'm sure you'd agree that Setsuna is pretty cute." Haruka replied. Setsuna turned red while Michiru eyed her for a moment before nodding to the statement.

"Yes she is." Michiru said slowly then glared at her lover. "Of course you're still sleeping on the couch tonight."

"Thank you both." Setsuna said as she smothered a laugh and smiled at them from behind her hand. "I think you just relieved my stress. I needed the laugh."

"Anytime Suna." Haruka smiled flirtatiously at the woman perched on the couch arm. "Oh, and you're welcome to join me on the couch."

"Which you seem to want to live on." Michiru added softly to Haruka's devious grin.

"Thank you for the offer, but I haven't quite given up on men." Setsuna said as she stood and left the room.

"Michi?"

"Yes Haruka?" Michiru was back to looking over sheet music even as Haruka wrapped two warm arms around her waist.

"I love you." The blonde whispered into her ear.

"I love you too." Michiru responded in a warm tone and turned to give Haruka's cheek a quick kiss before she turned back to her sheet music. "But you're still sleeping on the couch."

Haruka sighed and just rested her head On Michiru's shoulder. The blonde resigned herself to a night on the couch with a blanket and as tradition dictated in the house, Hotaru's teddy bear.

AN.

Since I didn't explain that last part I will say something about it really quick. It stems from a story by Haruka's Knight called "Cold Night". Yes, HK does know that I used that idea and didn't have any objections.