Aaaaand another week done! Happy Friday everyone - these kisses are going to be over so much sooner than I think, now?! This one is new one, again.
A Kiss Because The World Is Saved
She's been running for a while now. On and on and on through dark, bricked vaults that went on endlessly, with tireless legs and never slowing down, never looking back, hitting enemy after enemy. Blonde hair flapped behind her, red and blue fuku almost her only weapon.
It was almost eerie how easy it suddenly was, how effortless it felt, how fast she came through, jumping and somersaulting across enemy after enemy, as if something had boosted her into invincibility.
Just a little bit more. Just a tiny fraction more. She could almost taste the victory. She'd never been this fast ever before.
She could win this. This time there was no way she wouldn't survive.
She jumped - an elegant double flick, not a hair out of place, and hit the monster square on the head - it went down without so much as a twitch, and then she ran into the light.
Usagi's arms flew up in a joyous scream that spooked the other patrons when her tiny Sailor V cleared the final stage with a full high score.
YOU WIN, the arcade machine flashed at her in pink capital letters and she did a little victory dance on her stool.
Beside her, sitting on a stool at an unused machine, Mamoru was smiling at her over his book.
"Saved the world again, I take it?"
He threw her a half smile, not really taking her Very Important Joy seriously, but she didn't mind.
"Third time in a row!" she cheered excitedly, hands up in the air.
And then his smile slipped into a real one, a genuine one. A proud one.
He leaned over suddenly; pressed a hard, insistent kiss against her forehead, his hand grabbing the back of her neck, his lips lingering.
"That you did," he said softly against her skin and she blinked.
Right. That had been the third one…
And then he let her go, leaned forward, and slipped another 100 Yen coin into her slot, and the game woke up again.
She beamed only for a second before she dove back in to round four, and he went back to his book.
Yesterday, she'd jumped into a black hole after Sailor Saturn and came out alive with a baby in her arms.
Today he insisted she could play as long as she'd like. His treat.
Obvious Setting Tag: S