Title: Morning Surprise

Author: KiwiKol

Chapter 15 – Eyes Off

Disclaimer: I soooo own Sailor Moon and all of you writing fics about it sooooowe me money! NOT! I do not own Sailor Moon or any of its characters.

A/N: Here it is after 3 months...hehehe...oops. Hope you all enjoy it. Oh, and by the way…

Mina – 16

Kevin – 19 (in College)

Last Chapter

"If I ever run into her again, I'm going to…to…arghh!" the ebony-haired man roared before taking a deep calming breath. He then turned to his princess and wrapped his arms around her in a loving embrace. "Don't worry Serena, its ok…you're not a bitch…hell, you're anything but that," he smiled down at her before capturing her lips in a sweet kiss.

Mina smiled at the two lovers, the two royals she had sworn to protect, in front of her. Suddenly a thought drifted into her head causing something to click. A devious smiled slowly crept onto her face in place of the tender one that it had held.

"So…Serena…did you show him the skirt yet?"

Chapter 15

CRASH!

The sound of the crystal shattering echoed throughout the dark chambers, leaving a sickening silence to the already ominous room. Zoicite paced back and forth some before forming a new crystal and also sending it to its demise against the stone wall opposite where he was standing.

"Damn!" he cursed while punching the wall beside him. He watched as green blood trickled down from his closed fist and the newly made hole. He frowned causing his eyebrows to furrow.

"Why didn't it work," he asked himself as he stood up and moved over to his uncomfortable bed plopping down, "I know the serum was emitted into their blood streams. So why were they still able to come into contact with each other?"

He looked down at his busted knuckles and chuckled slightly before shaking his head.

"My last chance, huh," he leaned back on the bed trying to formulate a new plan, "Well, I obviously can't try the serum again…that youma's gone. No matter what, I need to get a hold of the next crystal."

"Maybe, I can be of assistance," a feminine voice echoed throughout the chambers.

Zoicite looked up to see a pale-green colored youma slowly walking out of the shadows. He raised his eyebrows in question.

"And, what do you think you can do?"

"I have a plan that will not only get you the crystal, but also possibly kill one if not all of those pesky scouts," the youma responded.

"Well," the blonde general sat up, "I'm listening."

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"Skirt," Darien and Kevin asked simultaneously as they looked to Serena who had a confused expression marring her face. Slowly the comprehension dawned on the blonde's face as her eyes grew wide.

"Oh. My. Gosh! You were the girl at the store!" Serena gushed as she, suddenly, pounced a giggling Mina.

"Yeah, that was me," Mina replied, "but I can't believe that I didn't know it was you. I mean to think my princess was standing right in front of me and I didn't even know it."

"Yeah, well," Serena started as she pulled away from the other blonde, "the 'princess' has pretty much been right underneath my nose and I didn't even know it. Heck, I saw her every morning." This caused the group of four to start laughing, though two of them were still slightly confused.

"So, did you?" Mina asked excitedly.

"Did I, what?" was the confused response from Serena.

"Show him the skirt yet!" the bow-adorned girl replied exasperatedly with wide eyes. "I assume you were talking about prince-boy over there weren't you?"

"Oh," the golden-haired girl giggled, "No, I haven't shown him yet, and yes he's the one I was talking about."

"Wait," Darien spoke up, "How did I enter into all of this?"

"Yeah, I'm confused as well," Kevin joined, not wanting to be left out.

"Oh…well you see…I went to the mall with the girls and was trying clothes on," Serena started to explain, "when Mina showed up and gave me advice on an article of clothing."

"Oh, but not just any article of clothing; it was a really sh-" Mina was cut off with a hand covering her mouth.

"I want to show him, not tell him," Serena whispered in Mina's ear before turning to the guys and lightly giggling, "Umm…I'll be right back." With that she grabbed a bag from the living room floor, which had been dropped when a certain unwanted guest stormed out earlier, and ran into the bedroom.

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Serena walked out of Darien's room self-consciously looking at her feet, not noticing the wide eyes and open mouthed looks faced in her direction.

"You know, Darien, you're going to stain your carpet if you don't quit drooling," Mina smirked watching the prince's reaction. This caused Serena to look up and giggle.

Completely focused on the woman standing in front of him, Darien didn't respond to Mina and instead began to drool even more at Serena's grinning face. He was snapped out of his stupor when Mina used her forefinger to close his mouth, though still did not take his eyes off of Serena.

Proud of the reaction she got, Serena started to strut around while spinning occasionally like a model. However, this just elicited a whistle from Kevin, who was standing beside Darien watching Serena walk around.

WHACK!

WHACK!

"Ouch! What was that for," Kevin asked as he rubbed his hurting head-where Mina hit him- and stomach-where Darien backhanded him.

"I'm standing right here you know," Mina stated while glaring at her past love.

"Keep your eyes off my girlfriend," Darien said while also glaring at the man beside him. He then turned to the pig-tailed blonde in front of him that was giggling, "I love it, Serena, but you aren't allowed to wear it…"

"But why not, Dari-"

"At least," the ebony-haired man interrupted and winked, "outside of this apartment."

"Awe…but why not Darien," Serena whined.

"Because, I will not have every guy in Japan drooling over my girlfriend…I'd have to kick their asses," he replied with a gleam in his eye thinking about hurting any guy that even glanced at the blonde beauty in front of him. He was surprised when he felt Serena's small arms wrap around his waist, giving him a tight hug. He smiled as he wrapped his arms around her and bent to give her a kiss on her temple.

Mina, watching the scene with hearts in her eyes, was surprised when she, also, felt a strong pair of arms capture her arms and wrap around her waist. She looked up to the platinum-haired man holding her and received a kiss on her nose. Scrunching her nose and smiling, the two looked back to the serene scene in front of them before quietly leaving the apartment…but not without leaving numbers and addresses to keep in touch with their Prince and Princess.

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After realizing that they were alone in the apartment, Serena and Darien headed for bed…both exhausted from a very eventful day.

Serena came out from the bathroom to see Darien trying to remove his shirt but failing miserably.

"What's wrong, Darien?"

"Oh…it's nothing," he replied while attempting to take the shirt off again.

"It doesn't look like nothing to me. To me it looks like you can't even remove your shirt," the blonde responded worried while walking over to him. She took hold of the bottom hem and helped lift it over his head. She gasped at the sight before her.

Darien's shoulder had a large scabbed-over hole on the both the back and front. The ebony-haired man winced as he looked at the black and blue skin surrounding the wound.

"What happened to your shoulder, Darien?" Serena asked with wide eyes.

"It's nothing, Serena, don't worry about it," he turned away and started heading into the bathroom that she had just vacated.

"Endymion"

Darien winced as he heard her say his formal name with a very cold voice. He slowly turned around and looked her in the eyes, "It happened at the battle. Zoicite surprised me with a crystal dagger-like thing and I wasn't able to get completely out of the way. It'll heal, Serenity, don't worry about it."

Serena slowly walked past him while Darien watched confused. She entered the bathroom and came back a few minutes later with the first-aid kit.

"Sit"

Darien chuckled, slightly amused with the blonde standing in front of him, and made his way to the bed to sit down. Serena followed him and started to clean the wound on his shoulder. She then wrapped it up so it would be slightly cushioned and nothing could get in it.

"Sorry, I can't heal it," she said as she put the last of the first-aid stuff away, "I need the crystal to be able to heal it." She looked down at her hands sitting in her lap, feeling slightly helpless.

"You don't have to be sorry, darling," Darien reassured as he leaned over and kissed her temple, "You did a wonderful job at cleaning it, and like I said…it will heal."

Serena looked up into his ocean blue eyes filled with love and admiration. She smiled and wrapped her arms around his neck in a tight embrace. They sat there for quite a while until Darien noticed that the blonde in his arms had fallen asleep. He slowly and carefully pulled back the covers, picked her up, and placed her in the bed. He finished getting ready before laying down next to her, pulling her into his arms, and falling fast asleep.

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"You called, your Majesty," a tall platinum-haired man coolly asked when he appeared in the cold cave-like throne room. He bowed low in his grey Negaverse general's uniform waiting for his queen's reply.

"Yes, Kunzite," Queen Beryl responded, "I want you to keep an eye on Zoicite…he's getting on my last nerve."

"Of course, my Queen" Kunzite replied before disappearing in a twirl of his white cape.

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Blood red eyes narrowed as their owner walked around the corner off a wall. Something was following her, and she didn't like the feeling one bit. The nimble, black feline jumped onto the wall that ran next to her. She crouched in the shadows waiting to see if her assumptions were right. Slowly she could see a shadow reaching out from the corner she just passed. She hunched her hind-legs, preparing to pounce. She flexed her claws as the shadow grew longer. Just as she saw the silhouette, she jumped.

A/N: Soooooosorry about the late update. I put a note on my profile page, but I know that not everybody looks at those so I'll explain now. With so much stress, I ended up failing a class last semester...because of that I'm on acedemic probation. It doesn't bother me too much because now my parents know to leave me be to get focus on school. Anyways, that's why I haven't updated, because I barely had time to write. I tried making it pretty long...oh, and thank my beta-reader - Jami-bunny - for telling me to make it longer than what I had it :p. Anyways, hope you guys liked it. Let me know what you think.

Love Ya,

KiwiKol