Well here it is sorry I took so long, the next chapter is already as long as this one and is only ½ done I think.
- reads all the review for chapter 5 -
Deadly diva: Mystery guest??? I think you reviewed before you read the chapter...
JoCrox: I just know the ending, no idea of the middle lol... actually come to think of it... I don't remember that the ending was... lol jk jk
Minako-chan4: How could Minako die at least 3 times and still be a Senshi? I danno, I just like deamons heheheh. Yeah, they did battle Metallia and all... I was going to tie that in somewhere, but I kinda altered stuff, so it will get her eventually
SweetMina: BLAH yeah yeah I know I should either beta it or have someone else do it, but I'm working on the spelling. Thank you though!
Everyone who said something about a cliffie::::
Dedications?
To the Rabid one, who I promised I would dedicate this to.
To my myserty pastry (Amy would understand)
To Kate, who has agreed to be my Haruka and Tuxedo Kamen next year when we cosplay together (I'll be Michiru and Serenity)
Another one to my mystery pasty, who will forever inspire me.
"What did you say Minako?" Natsuna said, her mouth hanging open in surprise.
"I would like to resign."
"But why?"
"My identity is known, it is not safe for the sailors to be anywhere near me, I must get out of the country." Minako said, in French.
"Who knows other than me?" Natsuna replied back in the same language. The two male occupants of the room where shocked by Minako's declaration, and even more so when they found that their boss and her star officer were talking in a foreign language they didn't know.
"Kunzite saw me transform when I was getting ready to fight."
"He won't tell!"
"Natsuna! I would like to believe that! But I can't take any chances."
"Promise me that you will stay in the county for a little while? Three weeks vacation and then I'll speak to you again and maybe you will come back to work?" Natsuna said. She knew it was against policies to allow the vacation, but Minako needed time to think and Natsuna couldn't think of how chaotic each little crime would be without her Minako to take on the larger ones.
"Okay." Minako replied, reverting back to Japanese.
"Good! Now if you are going to the Hi-" Nastuna said following suit of language change.
"I have been sent a ride. Thank you Natsuna, you have my number if you are in an emergency." Minako said, cutting off Natsuna from saying 'Hikawa Shrine'. The less Kunzite knew about her location, the better.
"Wakagi, bring Minako to your car and get her luggage and please wait for her ride out front. I want to know who picks her up." Natsuna said, thinking Minako was going to take a taxi. "Kunzite, you are to write up a report and email it to Minako. Minako, I want you to have the report done before I see you again."
"Yes." Minako said bowing again and leaving with Wakagi in tow.
"Wait! No, I forgot," Natsuna said. "Kunzite you go with Minako and wait with her. I had one of the little annoying office girls bring up your bags, they should be at the front desk. Wakagi, you have a bit of work to do on that case Fukanaru was to work on..."
Wakagi groaned... Dear little Minako was being sent off without him to protect her from the 'evil' man at her side.
"Minako! Wait!" Kunzite said, chasing Minako down the hall as she walked as fast as she could. Retrieving her bag she ran to the elevators.
"Minako, why are you going to resign?" Kunzite asked casually as he held the doors open as he walked into the elevator she was desperately trying to escape.
'Fuck this god-damn slow elevator!' Minako thought.
"Is it because of me?" Kunzite asked quietly. Silence followed. The two walked outside a few minutes later, Minako called Rei and told her she was ready to go.
"You don't have to-"
"I want to wait with you." Kunzite finished.
"Fine." Minako said before she was swept up in a tight embrace, her face half-buried in Kunzite's chest.
"Don't leave me."
"I have too!" Minako yelled at him, now muffled with tears. She cursed at herself for her weakness.
"So you are leaving because of me?"
"Yes..."
"Because I know your other identity?" Kunzite said, the thought striking him.
"...yes..." Minako whispered, sobbing into his shirt, clutching at him with both of her hands.
"I promise I'll never tell. Why would I?" Kunzite replied. Minako looked up hopefully, thinking maybe she had a shot at being with him, her past and present love. Kunzite looked at her with a warm loving look in his eyes. "I would never tell the secret of the one I love to anyone."
Their faces slowly crept together, both thinking that they had a chance, this could work... and then...
"Minako?" came a male voice. Minako blushed and whipped away from Kunzite's grip. Picking up her forgotten bag from the ground where she dropped it she walked towards a man slightly shorter than Kunzite with waist length white hair.
"Mina!" Kunzite called. "I'll see you again, right?"
"If you find me, but I won't com searching for you." Minako said smiling sadly at him before turning back to the other man and allowing him to take her in his arms. The two shared a quick kiss before getting into a black convertible.
Kunzite watched the two go down the road and turn. 'Lovely. I almost kiss her and then some guy shows up and she says I have to look for her and then SHE KISSES HIM! Lovely... just lovely.'
"What did he do to you?" the driver of the black car said as he pulled over to the side of the road a mile away from his passenger's office.
"I fell in love with him."
"Then why are you crying Minako?"
"Don't be stupid Artemis! He saw me transform and I might never be able to see him again!" Minako sobbed into her hands. She was glad her guardian Artemis was sent by Rei instead of Yuurichiu, Rei's shrine-helper probably would have been embarrassed to pick her up and driven back to the shrine.
"I don't like him." Artemis said, whispering into Minako's ear. His arms were around her in a brotherly way and she was leaning over onto his chest.
"You never did."
"What? I've never met him before."
"Do you remember the Earth General's from the Silver Millenium?"
"Yes... you kept one running away to see one."
"General Kunzite has stolen my heart again." Minako said, hoping that Artemis did not remember he was in love with her and she had refused him only to go off with Kunzite. Lucky no recollection registered about it in her guardian's face and words.
"Well we better get to Rei's before she worries I got lost again." Artemis said calmly, releasing Minako and attaching his hands to the steering wheel once again.
"Who knew that I could actually have pulled this off for a week?" Minako said, talking to herself in the mirror. She was getting dressed for yet another boring day of working at the shrine. Rei had lent Minako a few of the spare priestess outfits, and Minako soon became adjusted to wearing it day after day.
Her whole plan was in motion, and all going according to planned. Not one sight of Kunzite (although she deeply missed him) and all of her friends believed she was fine. Telena visited her every other day, with many complaints about being left alone, but let Minako help during the Hikawa Shrine's busy season.
Tying her hair back in a high ponytail with her customary red ribbon, Minako headed out towards her little stand next to the shrine. Rei had assigned her to the perfect job, love-fortune casting. The idea was from Rei's grandfather, and while he was still alive he kept it running and made it a huge success. After his death, three years ago, Minako had volunteered to take up the post when ever she had the chance. After all, who would be better to cast love fortunes other than the goddess of love?
"Ohiyo Minako-chan!!!" came an over-hyper voice the second Minako sat down in her chair behind the stand. A drop of sweat rolled down the blonde's face as she was pounced on from behind.
"Good morning Telena."
"Cast my fortune?" the green-haired girl said, tossing the yen required into the small box at Minako's side. "I've asked all week, and now you have no customers, so you have to!"
"Fine... just it's hard to read the crystal ball when you are on top of me." Minako said, her room mate giggling and walking to the other side of the stand. "Any thing in particular you wish to know about your love life?"
"When am I going to find the one for me?"
"Something less cliché please."
"Fine, will they find me or will I find them?"
"Let's see..." Minako said crossing her hands over the ball and uncrossing them. The ball was just a fancy prop to help her in her telling, although it was completely unnecessary, it was easier to make her thoughts into tangible images. After looking for a while, Minako sat back and smiled up at her friend. "You have already found them."
"Yatta!" the girl shrieked, dancing around in a circle before standing still. "Oh, Minako, I'm going to be leaving tomorrow to be spending a week or so with my parents. I'm going to miss you, but I'll be home before you can go off with another girl! Bye bye Lover!!!"
"At least she is leaving..." Minako muttered to herself as her roommate pranced off. She had lied to the girl about her fortune. Minako stared back into the ball, glad the vision had disappeared. In less than a year, Telena was going to be killed over love. The worst part was the heart shaped beam attacking the monsters around Telena, not really the monsters around Telena, more like the monsters, protecting Telena.
"Shit, I might kill Telena." She muttered again.
"It's not healthy to give death threats in the morning." came a cheery voice from about Minako's bent head.
"Hello Jadeite. How are you?" Minako said smiling, greeting Rei's boyfriend. He was a tall man with short blonde hair, loving to joke and flirt with anyone who wouldn't hit him over the head, which was Rei's job.
"Cast a love fortune for me?" he said grinning slyly.
"Not if it's between you and Rei. You two are going to be in love as long as any of us live, even in our next lives." Minako said, thinking about the last time she had told that to Rei... in her last life on Earth.
"It's for a friend of mine."
"Okay then," Minako said "where are they?"
"He's not here, but I'm worried about him, he's having love problems."
"That is rather vague." Minako said. "Wait, no this one is easy. He's in love with someone right?"
"I think so, but he won't tell me."
"She loves him as much as he loves her. She's the one for him, so don't you let him run away." Minako said, simply reading her vision out of her friend's eyes.
"But I was going to introduce him to this really hot girl tomorrow night..."
"You are introducing him to the person he's already in love with."
"How do you know?"
"Because you are telling me everything threw your eyes. I can see every little detail minus the faces. Why do you think Rei makes me sit here every day? I know everything when it comes to love! Now Jadeite, if you'll please excuse me, you are holding up the line of my before school customers."
Another slow day passed for Minako, as she told fortune after fortune. Her favorite parts where the looks on the girl's faces when she told them to give their crushes the letters they wrote during fourth period yesterday. Least favorite: when perverted guys asked her to cast their fortune for if they would take her out to the movies Sunday.
"Minako..." Rei said, slowly and gracefully making her way over to her friend. "We are having guests for dinner, so close up an hour early okay? Since Makoto has saved the world and given you cooking lessons, you will be helping me with dinner. Oh, and find something to wear other than that, like a skirt or something."
"Who is coming? If it were one of the scouts you would be honest enough to save them from both our cooking. Never had you decided to actually try to earnestly make a meal for them."
"Friends of mine who you might want to meet. You better hurry up with your last costumers, so you'll have time for a shower." The raven hair beauty said before walking off to get the meal started.
"Creepy..." Minako muttered as she hurried the line for fortunes along.
"Rei! I'm ready to cook!" Minako said cheerfully. She had shut down the stand, taken a shower, and changed for the meal in only an hour. Too busy congratulating herself on her achievement, the blonde did not notice the priestess' confused stare at her clothes.
"Did you steal your clothes off a super sized doll?" Rei asked, slightly amused and slightly disgusted at her friend's choice of apparel which was a blue dress with a tight lace up top and puffy skirt ending at her knees, with a matching bow in her hair. "I didn't know you were in to that style."
"I'm not really, but it was too cute so I bought it anyways." Minako giggled, observing that Rei was wearing a knee length black skirt and a long sleeved red shirt, which was rather tight fitting. "Besides, I feel happy for the first time in a week, I can rejoice in my own way. Now what are we cooking?"
Dinner was cooked in a total of two hours, a new record for the two girls, as usually they started over five times instead of three. Dinner was laid out on the short traditional style table, leaving barley room for their own plates. The two girls then went around tidying as they could, only to be stopped by a doorbell. Exchanging looks the two gracefully stopped their work and walked peacefully to the door.
Rei was the first on to greet the guests, and Minako stood, half hiding, in the adjacent hall. Minako looked over the wall in to the entrance while Rei opened the door. Minako smiled evilly as she watched her friend swept away in a kiss from Jedite as he hovered in the doorway.
'Wait' she thought, recalling her conversation with him the previous day.
--Flashback--
"But I was going to introduce him to this really hot girl tomorrow night..."
"You are introducing him to the person he's already in love with."
--End Flashback—
"Shit" Minako breathed, as obviously Rei wasn't the hot girl spoken of. And if her guess was right...
"Rei, may I introduce you to my friend," Jadeite said ushering in the man behind him.
"Kunzite..."
The three in the entrance hall turned in surprise to the source of the whisper, only to see the end of a puffy blue skirt being swept from sight as the wearer ran down the hall. Beginning gasps of tears were heard before a far off door was slammed.
"Rei, you knew?" Jadeite asked softly as he removed his shoes and stepped up onto the wooden floor.
"Yes." was the priestess' quite response.
"Are you shielding her?" Jadeite asked, as Kunzite looked up confused at both of them as he removed his own shoes and shut the door.
"Her shield is stronger than mine. I stopped the second she spoke though." Rei said. Her and her boyfriend turned their heads towards Kunzite as he stood with a straight face, yet signs of pure confusion coursed through his eyes.
"Don't tell me you can't feel auras anymore?" Jadeite asked a slight smirk on his face.
Kunzite glared at the blonde man for half a second before realization stuck him and he ran down the hall.
"Took him long enough" Jadeite muttered before wrapping his arm around Rei and walking with her towards the dinner that was quickly getting cold.
That's all for now
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