Sailor Moon One-shots
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)
Rei's eyebrow twitched as she saw another boy hitting on her princess while they were enjoying the Shrine Festival. She had gone along in her grandfathers place since his back was hurting too much to deal with this, and Usagi had tagged along out of curiosity and so that she could spend more time with Rei.
Rei was delighted to spend time with her princess, no matter how much she would deny it to anyone else, but she was getting pissed with all the people trying to flirt with and take away her blond princess.
"Pardon me. Here you go, one orange soda." Rei said hissing the first two words to the guy that was daring to flirt with her clueless princess, before her voice softened as she handed the drink to said princess.
"Thanks Rei! You're the best!" Usagi said making Rei smile slightly but fake a scoff.
"You act like I don't know that already." Rei said with a fake haughty sniff although she did have a small smug smile on her face towards the guy. She was the best not him. Take that loser.
"Oh aren't you in the archery competition? Should I cheer for you?" Usagi asked bounding along at Rei's side as the miko led her blond friend away from the boy who frowned and hurried to catch up.
"You have to be quiet while we're shooting Odango or else we'll get distracted and someone will misfire. Wait until they announce the winners to cheer." Rei said rolling her eyes although she was smiling fondly at her princess. Usagi was always willing to support any of them in anything and cheer them all on no matter what they were doing, she especially liked cheering Matoko on when the Lightning Senshi was trying out new recipes.
"Okay. I know you'll win first place easy but shouldn't you practice?" Usagi asked blinking those innocent eyes up at her easy to annoy bodyguard and friend.
"So you like archers? How about I win you a prize from the archery booth?" The boy that was following them asked before Rei could say something, making Usagi look at him confused before she followed the way his finger was pointing to a nearby booth where they were using blunted arrows to try and knock down what looked like soda cans in order to win prizes.
"This would be good enough for practice before the contest." Rei said eyeing the booth as well when she noticed one of the prizes was a stuffed yellow rabbit. It looked a lot like Usagi actually. There was also a red bird of some type that was bigger.
"Can I watch Rei?" Usagi asked eagerly as she began bouncing on her toes a bit, she always liked watching Rei practice her archery. She made it look so easy, but last time Usagi tried using a bow and arrow the arrow somehow ended up two hundred feet behind her pinning Haruka to a tree much to the others amusement. Rei still had no clue how the princess had done that.
"Of course." Rei said watching as the boy used surprisingly good form to knock down two of the bottles with his arrow, earning a medium prize which turned out to be the rabbit.
"Here you go my lady." The boy said flirtatiously as he handed the rabbit to Usagi who blinked at it for a second before smiling at the boy.
"Thank you?" Usagi asked unsurely while Rei gave a snort that drew their attention to her.
"Ironic that he gave you a rabbit when your name means rabbit." Rei said before walking up to the counter and handing over the money for her arrow and the bow that she was being lent. Rei frowned for a second when she felt the slightly off weight of the arrow, it'd drag and hit lighter than it should making it harder to knock down the cans. If it weren't for how often Rei actually used bows and arrows, especially with her Flaming Sniper attack, she wouldn't have noticed.
Closing her eyes for a second Rei adjusted her grip and her stance to accommodate the rigged arrow and channeled just a little bit of her Senshi strength into her arms and a bit of her fire into the bow in order to make it easier.
If they were going to cheat people out of their money, then she saw no reason not to cheat the cheaters right back.
Opening her eyes Rei let her arrow fly with a small smirk on her face, watching with eagle eyes as it hit right where she was aiming and knocked all three cans down with the force of a small gun.
"Wha-" The stall owner was shocked since no one had been able to knock down the whole stack for over a year since he rigged the arrows like he had.
"Which prize do you want princess?" Rei asked glancing back at Usagi who blinked before beaming brightly as she pointed at the red crow. Why it was red she had no idea but Rei didn't really care at the moment.
"The crow please." Rei said glaring the stall owner into handing over the prize and making him tremble a bit at the fire in her gaze as he handed the chosen prize over to the miko.
"Here you go princess." Rei said promptly handing the prize over to the blond who cuddled it close happily while handing Rei the bunny.
"Thank you Rei! You're the best!" Usagi said glomping onto Rei a bit as they continued walking onwards making the boy stare at their backs in disbelief.
"I know but…do you mind if I ask you a question Odango-hime?" Rei asked using her own nickname/title for the blond who beamed up at her.
"What is it?" Usagi asked tilting her head slightly with a smile, making Rei blush a bit as she looked at the bunny in her arms in order to avoid looking at the blond next to her.
"Why did you pick the red crow?" Rei asked making Usagi giggle.
"That's easy! It's because it reminds me of you!" Usagi said making Rei pause and blush brightly as those words sunk in.
"What?" Rei asked her voice a bit higher than normal, not that Usagi noticed.
"Mmhmm. It's red which is your favorite color, and it's a crow like Phobos and Deimos! I want you to keep the bunny though, that way you have something to remind you of me!" Usagi said cheerfully and making Rei blush brighter but smile as she put her arm around Usagi's shoulders and pulled her into a side hug.
"Baka-hime. I don't need a stuffed toy when I have the real thing…but I'll take good care of it." Rei said her voice fond and softer than usual while Usagi giggled.
"Good cause I'll take the best care of Mars here!" Usagi said cuddling the crow close even as she leaned into Rei's side.
Rei shook her head with a smile but kept her arm around her princess, it seemed to help ward off the boys around the festival at the least.
Despite all the boys that had tried hitting on her or her princess…maybe having Usagi along wasn't so bad.
Rei glanced at her princess just in time to see the blond press a kiss to the beak of the crow…and felt her face turn as red as her miko robes.
Yeah…definitely not bad.
