Hey Ya'll Look who is here! ME! Yes, I am alive and happy to bring you not one, not 5 BUT 12 pages of fanfiction. Yeah so there!
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P.P.S. You still haven't review Tux-chan!
OOO! By the way, I would like to tell you WHY I took so long writing this!!! (Okay maybe it wasn't THAT long, but it felt like it to me) answer: The person who I shall never dedicate any thing to again: Max F
Dedications:
ME! CAUSE I'M WORTH MORE THAN I THINK!
My Steel Bubble: which keeps my depression away from the rest of the world.
Mike: Who listens to me and is always there to cheer me up ( AND IS MINE!!! MINE!! NO TUX-KUN FOR YOU SERENITY A!!!)
"Minako?" Kunzite whispered as he started to slid open the door to her room. The room was rather plain, only consisting of a wardrobe, desk, and a short platform bed, which had a large ball of blue clothe white lace, and golden hair.
"Minako?" Kunzite whispered again as he kneeled down on the floor next to the bed. The girl did not move and inch, and barley seemed to be breathing.
"Go away." came a muffled voice from the bed after a rather long silence.
"But Minako," Kunzite replied quickly.
"I said go away. I can't see you. Just forget about me."
"Why Minako? Just because I know your other identity?"
"That and because I might kill you one day... and I don't want to."
"How do you know that you will kill me?
"Because I've killed you before, what's to say I won't do it again?" Minako said, rolling over to look Kunzite in the eyes.
"What do you mean you have killed me before?" he asked softly, his stone mask from ancient days stead fast on his face.
"Don't you-" Minako started before a loud song was heard. Leaping out of bed, the blond rummaged into her bag pulling out her orange cell phone and flicking it open.
"V, here." She said. "Mars, I'll take it, don't go. What is it Moon? ... Be there in a second."
Hanging up her phone she ran down the hall towards the dining room, Kunzite following her closely.
"Rei, I'll be back, you stay here." Minako said as she started running for the door, the raven haired priestess caught her arm.
"I'm coming too, you have a lot on your mind, you can't go like that. You stay here with them."
"You are all too damn careless, I'm going. Jadeite, Kunzite, we'll be back." Minako said, before running down the hall, pulling her friend along. Jadeite and Kunzite looked at each other, and without a second thought raced after the girls. The two men chased them through the woods behind the temple and finally to a clearing near the far corner.
"Mars Star Power!" Rei yelled, thrusting her left hand into the air.
"Venus Star Power!" Minako yelled, following her friend's action.
"Make up!" they yelled together in unison. As the two men watched from behind the bushes, the two girls transformed into their Eternal fuku and took their battle positions. They stood for only half a second before seven people jumped over the wall, landing in front of the newly transformed girls.
"HO HO HO HO!" One of them laughed, she was dressed unlike the others, in a tight mini-skirt and bikini top... and of course there was the fact her skin was neon pink... "I have found you Sailor Venus!"
"You were looking for me?" Sailor Mars answered, trying to confuse the youma.
"Not you." the monster woman glared, sending a burst of energy at energy at Rei, sending her flying back into the wall and lost consciousness. Jadeite immediately was at her side, picking her up gently, and trying to help her in anyway possible.
"Rei-chan!" The winged girl with odangos called. "Moon Therapy Kiss!"
With another glare from the monster, the attack was sent back towards the girl, which missed thanks to the tallest woman pushing the girl to the ground.
"Youma!" Venus called. "What do you want?"
"HO HO HO HO!" it laughed, her hand to her mouth. "You my dear!"
"Love and Beauty Shock!" Sailor Venus called as the monster ran towards her. The monster easily dodged the attack, sending the girls behind her running for cover. In a second, the monster had Sailor Venus pinned to the wall.
"Come close and I kill you!" the monster hissed, turning her head 180 degrees to look at the other girls. "She's my prize, the master should be pleased..."
Kunzite, still hidden among the shadows, had been battling an immense pain near his shoulder blades since the second he saw Minako transform. With that last threat, the pain exploded before coming to an abrupt halt. Without a second thought, Kunzite found himself standing near Minako, punching the youma's face as hard as he could. To his surprise, the youma went flying back and landed hard on the ground. Even more to his surprise, Minako threw her arms around his neck.
"It's okay, just calm down... sush... now retract your wings before they all see..." Minako murmured into his ear. Kunzite felt the pain return again, lasting barley two seconds before it vanished. "Good, good..."
"Hssss... I am taking Sailor Venus, she is MY PRIZE!" the youma hissed angrily as she stood up. With a death glare that should have killed anyone on the receiving end, Minako released Kunzite and turning to face the monster, she flicked her wrist, making a huge crystal sword appear and running towards the youma.
Weapon skewered flesh, and a hideous scream was released. With curses of 'my prize!' and flashing lights, the monster disappeared, as well as the sword Venus had summoned. Venus had just turned around to go yell at Kunzite for following her, when a woman who had entered earlier, barring a staff, called out.
"Close your eyes! It's a trap!"
An orange powder erupted from where the monster had just disappeared from, soon spreading and covering all of the people in the clearing. Many coughs were heard as the powder started to recede.
"I'll tell you when to look, I have my visor on." came a soft voice.
"Get off me Kunzite." Minako growled, pushing away from the man who had wrapped her in his arms the second the powder appeared. "I told you to go away! Our relationship is forbidden to work. Just leave me alone, it's torture enough that I have to see you at work."
"Minako, but I-"
"You can open your eyes everyone, and whoever is clinging to Venus, you better step away, she's going to blast you..." Mercury said, starting to look for clues on what the powder was.
"We will take our leave now." The tall girl said, wrapping her arm around a shorter woman with wavy aqua hair, and the woman with the staff coming to her other side. "I'm going to come and visit you about that sword you summoned. And I don't like him Venus, get rid of him."
"What do you think I'm TRYING to do Haruka? And haven't I already told you about my sword?" Minako hissed, finally freeing herself from Kunzite's death grip.
"Isn't that only the second time you've summoned it though? I disagree about the young man despite what Haru-chan says." the aqua haired girl giggled. "I think destiny has bonded you two to each other. But I think the Goddess of Love would know best."
"Why is it so dark out?" Minako asked, the second after the three women had jumped over the wall and away.
"Because it's night?" the odango girl asked timidly.
"It's not that dark out yet... it can't be! But I can't see a thing!" Minako said sadly.
"V, look at me," a blue haired girl requested as she walked towards Minako and Kunzite. "No, I'm the other way... oh dear... Jupiter, I want you to carry her back to her room."
"I can walk by myself!" Minako hissed as she was picked up bride style. Swinging her fist, she ended up punching Kunzite in the chest, as he had decided to pick her up instead letting someone else do it.
"Let go of her." The blue haired girl said, Kunzite slowly lowering the blonde to the ground. "Moon, You and I will walk her back, Jupiter, keep him here and then check on Mars when he leaves. She might already be up and with us."
"Stay where you are." A tall brunette commanded as Kunzite turned to watch the remaining girls direct Minako back towards the shrine. "I've seen you before, have I not? A few weeks ago in another park, against that tree lady."
"Yes, I believe you did have me pinned to a tree..." Kunzite said, remembering the first night he had seen Minako transform.
"Venus has changed her ideas about you apparently, but I suggest you do what she says and stay away from her. Usually when she speaks that harshly to anyone she means it very seriously." the brunette said, crossing her arms. "Now can I escort you to somewhere, or do you promise to leave quietly without seeing Venus?"
"I'll leave by myself thank you." Kunzite said, bowing his head slightly, before walking slowly back towards the shrine, making certain he was on the opposite side of the grounds from Rei's quarters. The brunette looked at him and sighed, shaking her head, before running off to find her companions.
An hour later found the five inner Senshi de-transformed and sitting in Minako's room, Ami and Rei huddled around Minako. Rei told the girls she had woke up when Jadeite was carrying her back, and knowing that the battle was probably over already, had rested until Ami and Usagi had returned with Minako. Rei also explained that Jadeite knew she was Sailor Mars (and to Minako's disapproval) knew that he wouldn't tell for his life.
"Minako-chan..." Ami started, as she typed into her little hand held computer. "It's a poison, kind of..."
"What to you mean by 'kinda of a poison'?" Minako said through gritted teeth, overly annoyed at the idea of being helpless.
"Well, it's not permanent, it is a powder version of a chemical that was used in the Silver Millennium to train warriors. Basically you have a barrier of some sort that is keeping you from advancing on the right path. Once you overcome the barrier, you can see again."
"And that is why I'm the ONLY one who is blind from that damn youma?" Minako half shouted.
"Minako, calm down." Makoto interjected. "Think of it as a chance for you to get stronger than the rest of us. I'm sure you can defeat it within a week tops."
"But how do we know what the barrier is?" Usagi asked timidly.
"You don't need to know, I do." Minako mumbled. "Give me a day to figure it out. If one of you could drive me back to my house that would be great. Telena left today for a trip to her parents, I don't expect her back for a week."
"But how will you manage food, and getting dressed, or whatever else you need to do?" Makoto questioned. "We all have work tomorrow.
"I will take care of that." Rei responded. "I will have someone come over to help her, I would volunteer Artemis, but he has enough trouble already, with Luna and all..."
"Who?" Minako asked, disgusted with the fact that someone would need to help her.
"I don't know yet. I'll call the local hospital in the morning and ask them if they know of any agencies that could help."
"So who is going to drive me home?" Minako asked, yawning slightly.
Before long, Minako had been driven home and escorted to her room by Ami and Makoto. After the two girls had changed Minako into her favorite nightdress, and forced her to lie in bed, Ami and Makoto cleaned the house to some extent. Telena had cleaned most of it before she left and had piled all of her paintings and assorted junk that used to be in the living room into her room.
"Okay there are enough meals for two to last a week in the refrigerator!" Makoto announced two hours later to Ami at Minako's apartment door.
"The guest room is cleaned as well as the rest of the house. I arranged Minako's closet by type and length, so it should be easy for her to find anything." Ami announced proudly, Makoto sweat-dropping at her friend's eagerness.
"Let's just hope Rei knows what she is doing..." Makoto whispered as they left Minako's apartment, locking the temporary blind sleeping beauty inside.
"Good morning Minako!" came a cheery male voice from the hall.
"Is that you, Jadeite?" Minako asked from her massive bed in the center of the room. She had been up for hours, her determined strength wearing away swiftly as she sat in silence. Last night she had felt angered, but now she was feeling extremely vulnerable.
"How did you get in?"
"Rei gave me her keys. I'm sorry to hear about your blindness, too bad you can't see how beautiful you look right now." Jadeite joked as he always did when he had talked to her at Rei's. Walking into the room, he sat down on Minako's bed. "I brought someone to see you."
Minako sat quietly, waiting for him to continue, and name her visitor. It seemed as if he and her guest were having a short battle of looks and gestures. Minako sighed, wishing she could see who it was.
"Well, they are being immensely shy right now. Rei asked me to tell you that your friends cleaned the house and prepared the guest room, and cooked enough for the two of you for a week. She says to expect the unexpected visits... and said something else... something like don't talk to plants, and talk to a pen if you are in trouble."
"Oh, thank you for telling me." Minako giggled. Jadeite and her new 'keeper' probably thought her best friend insane.
"I have to leave now, I promised Rei I would help out at the shrine today. She's predicting a crowd of tourists today." With that, Jadeite left the apartment, Minako could hear the doors close with small thuds. Minako's mind reverted back to her current situation. She was left alone in her house with a complete stranger.
"Why don't you talk?" She asked childishly, directing her eyes to where she thought her guest should be. Receiving no answer she assumed they were mute and continued. "Oh, I'm so sorry, I hope I didn't insult you. Here, come sit beside me."
"I think you are taller than me." Minako said reaching out her hand to touch her guest's shoulder, after feeling the person sit on the edge of the bed. "I wish that I could see you, or at least see enough to read, then maybe I could learn more about you. I'll find someway to learn your name."
The 'stranger's' heart was broken, she couldn't see because of him (at least he thought he could have done something more to have protected her). Kunzite was sitting on the edge of his true love's bed, he was so close to her, but he didn't want her to know it was him. After she had practically torn out his heart the night before, he doubted she would want to be anywhere near him again.
"Okay!" Minako said cheerfully, ready to, in her mind, make a new friend. "Since I can't see you and you can't talk, for a little while we can work with yes no answers okay? Give me your right hand if you mean yes, and your left hand if you mean no."
"Hum, do you know anything about me?" Minako said placing her hand in front of her to receive his. "Wow your hand is so much bigger than mine. So you do know about me. Did Jadeite tell you a lot?"
This questioning went on for a while until Minako had found out that her guest lived in the area, was male, single and assorted other random things. Minako giggled and reached out her hand to touch his face. Tracing his features, she summoned a mental image of the person with her. She then went on to feel his hair and its length.
"Your hair and your face remind me of this man I know." She sighed. "Do you want me to tell you about him?" Kunzite gladly gave her his right hand, amused at how she acted like he was a small child waiting to hear a bedtime story.
"Well, I used to work for the police and there was this man named Kunzite. He worked in the desk next to me as long as I could remember. I had a huge crush on him. I forgot about him for a while because of some social problems, and I never told him how I felt. We were became partners for a certain crime though, and I literally fell in love with him. I felt like I had loved him since my past life" Minako giggled.
"But then while we were on the case, he told me that he loved me. I so dearly wanted to tell him I loved him as well, but my mind was set on the case and that day was crucially important so I pushed him away. I'm such an idiot, I should have told him after that. I just kept on making excuses on why we couldn't be together." Minako laughed slightly, brushing away the small tears in her eyes. "Oh I'm sorry, I rambled. Oh, it must be getting close to lunch time, I'm hungry. Would you be a dear and hand me my brush, it should be on the vanity. I'm sorry I can't be a help, but you warm up some food? The kitchen is to the left of the door you came in from. There should be food my friend Makoto made somewhere in there. Knock before you come back in though, I need to get changed."
Kunzite was shocked with her little story. Not only had she revealed that she liked him, no loved him, but that she was also aware of their past lives' romance (he had remembered his past life in all entirety the night before, his most vivid memories being of Minako). Recovering from his shock slightly, Kunzite rushed off and retrieved his goddess' brush and left the room to prepare a late breakfast. In the kitchen he tried to reason with himself, if he didn't calm down, he would surely run back to her room and kiss her until her roommate came back from her trip. Gathering his wits and self-control, Kunzite warmed up the plates in the refrigerator that said 'Day 1 Breakfast' on their plastic wrap.
After a few minutes, Kunzite decided that if he told Minako now that he was no stranger, she would never trust him. Walking to her room with the plates and assorted utensils on a tray he found, he knocked quietly on her door.
"Come in, I'm dressed." Minako replied. Kunzite walked into the room and almost dropped the tray. It might have been better if Minako had just put on a robe. She was sitting on her bed combing her hair, wearing a plaid pleated miniskirt and a tight black shirt. Kunzite was reconsidering his resolution not to tell her it was him... especially that previous thought about kissing her.
"I guess what I'm wearing isn't all that appropriate ne?" Minako giggled after she heard the tray clatter from a short fall. "I think my friend Ami reorganized my closet... I can't find anything. I'm afraid of knocking things over, so could you just bring the tray you brought in over to the nightstand and I suppose it would be easiest if you sit next to me."
Kunzite did as he was asked and was soon sitting beside her. Placing the utensils in her hands, he started on his own waffle and fruit quietly. His eyes never left Minako, as he watched her slowly feel out the waffle and attempt to cut it. Setting down his food, Kunzite gently took the fork and knife from Minako and cut her food. She sat confused for a minute until she felt something press against her lips. Opening her mouth to say something, her taste buds were greeted with warm waffle.
"Oh, arigato." Minako said after swallowing.
Kunzite smiled to himself. She was so cute, and who knew watching her eat could be so sexy? Breakfast past slowly and when Minako was done she insisted that she would sit and sip her juice while her companion could eat his.
'I can start to see.' Minako thought to herself. She could make out her bed, the blob of her wardrobe, and the other furniture in her room. Only big blobs, no detail, not even color... not even the person sitting beside her. Something deep inside Minako's heart stirred. She knew something about him he wasn't ready to tell her; the fact that he was the one to help heal her, not the one to help her heal herself.
'How can I know this?' she thought. 'Maybe I could think of it easier without him here... something about his aura gives me the chills. But it feels so familiar! I want to hold him, kiss him, know his every secret! Where do I know this feeling from?'
Kunzite noticed that Minako had sunk into her own little world while he ate. Picking up the tray, he headed for the kitchen.
"Um, if you don't mind..." Minako started "I need some time to think. There is a TV in the living room, so make yourself at home, if you need anything, I'm sure we can find a way for you to ask me. If anyone comes to visit, please let them come in, they all should know where my room is. If a girl with a brown ponytail comes and runs to the kitchen, just ignore her, she'll visit me eventually."
"Oh yes," Minako giggled thinking of an aura slowly trying to makes it's way towards her. "If a cat with a crescent bald spot comes to the window please let him in. He's almost guaranteed to hiss at you though, but he won't do anything. Thank you for lunch by the way."
Minako smiled at him as she heard him close the door. Kunzite walked down the hall and put the dishes in the dishwasher and the tray on the main table. Leisurely making his way to the living room, he settled himself on the couch to think. He was going to explode if he didn't tell her soon.
The rest of the day pasted slowly, and Minako fell into a silent depression, which continued into the next day. Minako and Kunzite dined together at every meal in her room, but usually Minako would request privacy. The Inner Senshi did come to visit her, bringing the two cats, which proved to be a bad idea as it took an hour to convince Artemis to leave Minako. Finally on the third day, Kunzite decided he had to do something about her depression. As he sat on the couch in the living room trying to think of what to do to make her happy again, a loud crash came frame Minako's room.
"Gomen ne, but can you help me find my cell phone?" Minako said as Kunzite entered her room. She was dressed in a tank top and jeans, obviously she had just fallen off her bed, trying to reach for something to far away.
"Do you see my purse anywhere? I need my cell phone..." Minako mumbled. "Don't get the house phone, I only need my cell phone, it's the only place I keep his number... Wait! Natsuna would have it! Could you get pen, paper, and the telephone?"
"Why?" Kunzite said, talking before he could think about blowing his cover. Whatever could excite Minako this much, had to be important.
"Why? Because I need to call Kunzite, and tell him I love him! He doesn't know, and I bet he thinks I hate him now because of how I've been acting towards him!" Minako screamed, continuing to blindly ransack her room, not seeming to notice when Kunzite spoke. Kunzite chuckled at the irony of the situation, earning Minako's attention for a minute.
"What is so damn funny?" she demanded glaring in his general direction. Before she could start yelling at him and searching again, Kunzite put his hands on her shoulders and gently covered his mouth with his.
"I've been here all along." he said, in an amused voice after Minako had tried squirming away. Minako shook her head furiously and after rubbing her eyes, she looked up again and stared into his silvery eyes.
"Kunzite... you're here... it was you here all along?" Minako said softly.
"Yes, I didn't tell you because I thought you ha-" Kunzite's apology was cut short when Minako threw her arms around his neck and kissed him on the lips.
"I love you." she whispered, barely taking a breath before kissing him again.
"MINAKO-CHAN!" came a squeal from the other room, making the two lover instantly detach themselves.
"Hotaru... watch your step!" a very feminine voice came as feet here heard running towards Minako's room.
"Minako-chan!" a little girl with short black hair cried as she ran into Minako's room and threw herself onto the blonde. "Is he your lover that Michiru-mama was talking about?"
"Gomen Mina... Ami let her have candy when we were out today." a tall blonde girl said rubbing her head as she entered Minako's room, closely followed by a shorter girl with wavy sea green hair. The taller one turned to Kunzite and glared. "What is he doing here?"
"Haruka-papa says that you are too young to have a lover, and says you could do better and you should go out with Rei-chan." the short haired girl proclaimed.
"Well, Michiru-mama and Haruka-papa became lovers when they were both much younger." Minako said calmly, although blushing at this whole exchange.
"That's what I said, but Ruka-koi won't listen." the shorter girl by the door said.
"Oh Kunzite, this attached to me is, Hotaru, and Haruka and Michiru are standing by the door. Michiru being the one with the pretty dress." Minako said, nodding towards them in turn as she couldn't point, due to Hotaru in her arms.
"How many fingers?" Hotaru asked, holding her hand up in front of Minako's face.
"Three, and I see you've been into Michiru's nail polish again?" Minako said laughing.
"Good to know you have your sight back." a woman slightly shorter than Haruka said, her long green hair gently flowing in behind her.
"Hello, Setsuna. Kunzite this is Setsuna-"
"Setsuna is the only one who doesn't have something to say about your lover-" Hotaru started in her matter-of-factly voice. Before she could continue, Michiru covered the young girl's mouth and took her from Minako's arms.
"Hotaru, how about you go find Artemis, you can play dress up with him. You may use the make up in my bag, and you know where Minako keeps her dolls." Michiru said placing the girl down on the ground. The six-year-old girl squealed and ran out of the room.
"Arti isn't here..."
"We know." Haruka stated calmly, a vein popping in her head as a crash was heard in the other room. Hotaru yelled something out along the line of 'sorry' and 'I'll clean it!' before another crash was heard. "At least she hasn't found your pen yet..."
"Don't worry, I have that locked away, I'm not even allowed to use it." Minako said, leading her company and Kunzite into the living room. Sitting herself on a couch, she started again. "Now if all three of you are here there must be a reason?"
"We just came to check up on you." Michiru said smiling, earning a glare from Haruka.
"There is a reason, but he may not hear it." Setsuna said, looking at Kunzite.
"I'll go help Hotaru clean up the mess she's made..." Kunzite said, standing and going far enough down the hall not to be seen. He strained his ears to listen, something deep down told him to listen, he didn't want to eavesdrop, but he knew that they were discussing something important concerning Minako.
"Saturn appeared last night, not as she is now, but as when we fought the Amazons." Setsuna said softly.
"Oh dear," Minako muttered, shifting her position on the chair.
"Cutting the drama," Haruka said, slightly annoyed at the slow progress of the discussion. "Saturn told us that the enemy is not only related to the Silver Millennium, but a few of your old enemies..."
"Emphasis on yours." Michiru sighed, placing her hand on Minako's knee. "She thinks that they are after you."
"It can't be true..." Minako said slowly and calmly, "I think that I might just be their first target..."
"Maybe." Haruka said standing. "Come Hotaru, time to go."
"Take care of yourself princess of Venus..." Setsuna said quietly as she and the other outer Senshi left the apartment.
"You heard?" Minako said out loud a minute later.
"Yes, they left..." Kunzite said as he walked down the hall.
"You were standing there the whole time listening to out conversation weren't you?" Minako glared at him.
"Yes." He said sitting down on the couch near her.
"I'm scared..." Minako whispered before throwing herself into Kunzite's arm's and burying her face in his chest, soon crying lightly.
"Shhh, shhh..." Kunzite whispered. "No one is going to hurt you ever, not with out me around."
"You promise?" Minako said looking up with big eyes. When Kunzite nodded, she swiftly kissed him and clung to his neck. "I love you, my akurei-sama."
Yes most authors tell you what they say in Japanese means in English, but I won't cause that's how the next chapter starts! HAHAH!
(Hi I'm Fearie, the horse on top of Cassi's comp. First of all, she doesn't own Sailor moon or any other characters besides Telena who is her own. And akurei means deamon and sama is a honorific.)
Yeah, review, and please don't be dumb and say "You can do better," cause it really hurts. And I'm depressed so I would love to have a review or two cheer me up!