Chapter 8
"Wait, what?!" almost laughed Minako still in her Venus uniform. "You must be joking!" she said trying to push this man off of her. He held her firmly in place. "Your perfume. I smelled that same scent on Sailor Moon! You are one of the senshi!"
She really didn't want to do this...
"Kendal, if you don't let me go, I am going to slap you in the face!"
"I dare you," he challenged looking at her square in the eye.
This was Kunzite, the man who gave the senshi the run for their money all those years ago.
She tried bringing up her arm to make true of her words, but he restrained her arms. DANG IT! She glared at him coolly. "Let me go."
"Not until you admit you are a Sailor Senshi."
She scoffed. "Is that what this is about?" She shook her head, "I am NOT Sailor Moon!"
"Of course your not," he spoke with thick sarcasm. She was starting to get a bit creaped out. He really was starting to sound like Kunzite, the villain who tried killing her all those years prior.
"I promise you! I'm not Sailor Moon!"
He smirked. "Then you must be Sailor Venus."
"I-! I beg your pardon?!" she huffed, "Why are you trying to accuse me of being something I'm not?"
"You're story," he spoke with a smirk, "You just explained how Venus would occasionally transform and become Sailor Moon. You are wearing the same perfume as Sailor Moon did therefore..." He gazed down at the dumbfounded woman, "You must be the real Sailor Venus."
"Are you kidding me?" she snapped, "That's ridiculous! It's bad enough I LOOK like her. Are you sure your fantasies haven't gotten the best of you?!"
He looked down at her with a smirk, "You are Sailor Venus."
"No, you're dilusional!" she snapped back trying to wiggle out of his grasp.
"Admit it. You are Venus."
"I am Venus in the movie! Geez, why are you trying to make me admit something I'm not?"
Minako was panicking on the inside. She kept telling herself to deny, deny, deny!
But he held firm, "You're lying." His face was uncomfortably close to hers. He was beginning to enjoy her discomfort.
"No! You're dilusional!" she scoffed her nerve beginning to shatter just a little bit.
He caught the chip in her facade. He attacked it with force. "You are Sailor Venus. I KNOW you are."
"No," she denied just a little more weakly as he became just a little closer to her lips. "I'm not..."
"But you are," he said in nothing but a whisper, his lips almost brushing against hers.
She turned her head, "Kunzite-"
He continued on, hearing her tongue slip, "You are Venus, the Senshi of Love. And you pretended to be," he kissed the side of her cheek, "Sailor Moon to try and," he kissed her again on her jaw, "throw me off..."
He noticed when she tensed. She didn't say anything. His lips curled into a smirk, "Venus..."
She looked into his eyes.
"Thank you for saving me."
She shifted her eyes away from him beginning to feel really uncomfortable and very nervous. Usagi and Mamoru's words rang in her mind once more. It was of their desires to allow Kendal to live his life away from all this fighting mess. Under no circumstance was he to know who he was till they both gave the word! She couldn't reveal her most precious secret! No! Even if he was convinced of who she was, under no circumstance could she share that she was Venus!
"Why do you keep denying your heritage?" spoke Kendal, his lips nearing hers once again. She saw the fire in his silver eye. That stupid smirk also crosssed his lips again, "I know it's you. Why do you keep lying? It's better to speak the truth..."
She looked into his eye and frowned. "Why do you keep insisting I'm Venus?"
He shrugged his shoulders, "Because you are."
She narrowed her eyes. "Will you let me go please?"
"Not until you come out with the truth."
Her mind raced. If she did admit to her being Venus, he would hopefully stop harrassing her about it. As long as she kept quiet about him being one of Endymion's Shittenou, she wouldn't be breaking her leaders commands... right?
"Admit it."
Screw it. Screw it all!
"Fine."
"Fine, what?"
"You caught me red handed," she sighed.
His smirk grew wider. "And?"
"And... I am Sailor Venus."
He released her and went to sit on a chair. She was a little flabberghasted specially with the closeness they shared just seconds ago. How could he be so hot and then cold? She almost felt an emotional freezerburn!
She felt her face become really, really warm. She couldn't believe she gave in... just like in her dreams when she would fight against Kunzite during the Silver Millenium!
He had a very, very smug look on his face. "I'm glad you spoke the truth, my dear Venus."
"Go jump off a cliff," she hissed at him.
"And go bungee jumping?" he suggested, "I'd love to take you with me."
She glanced at him and raised an eyebrow. Really? She really wanted to give him a sarcastic tongue lashing.
"So, are you really in your Senshi Uniform?" he asked her casually, "I can tell what you are wearing is not the same material used to make your costume."
Double dang. Was he really that observent, even down to the smallest details?
She crossed her arms over her chest and sat in one of the couches, "I can't stand that costume. Doesn't fit well."
He nodded his head, "Why didn't you tell me in the first place? I could have gotten it changed for you-"
"Because that would defeat the purpose of not sharing my secret to you!" she hissed at him. "Do you know how compromised everything is now? You should not know! My friends could be endangered! You could be put in danger! The enemy knows who you are and came back to kill you! They-" He stood up and walked over to sit next to her, "-don't care...!" she stopped in mid sentence when he began to kiss her fully. Stunned at such an ubrupt gesture, he began to deepen the kiss which she was beginning to enjoy for maybe just a bit...
A loud knock was heard on the door as well as a jingle on the door knob. "Hello? Minako?"
Her eyes snapped open as Kendal continued to shower her with kisses, now moving to her neck. "Y-Yes?" she called out.
"Minako, have you see Kendal? He's needed on the set," spoke Nathan from the other side of the door.
"I-I'll let him know when I see him!" she exclaimed trying to keep her tone as even as possible.
"Thanks Minako," he replied from the other side of the door.
She gave a sigh and gently pushed him away and began wiping away all the saliva left behind from his kisses. She immediately ran to the mirror seeing her lips puffy and red. She also noticed something red and round on her neck.
"You gave me a HICKEY?" she hissed at him, as he smuggly stared back at her.
"You didn't complain when I gave it to you."
Her jaw dropped as she looked at it again with a frown, "You gave me a hickey!" She tried adjusting her clothing and hair to hide the evidence of their previous make-out session. She closed her eyes and felt a headache form. How on earth was she going to now look at this man straight in the eye? How were her co-actors and actresses going to treat her? This was not good at all!
"Go out with me."
She whipped her head to face him, her deep blue eyes in disbelief of his suggestions, "Uh, isn't this against work code? How can I date my own boss?"
"Easy, you say yes."
"How do you know I'm not dating anyone? I might have a boyfriend back at home!" she argued.
He smirked, "You already told me Venus hasn't had a boyfriend since she joined the Sailor Senshi."
Dang it!
All her excuses as to why NOT were being burned up before her very eyes.
"Then you tell me, why should I choose you to be my boyfriend?" she asked him trying to put him back on the spot. "If you remember correctly, I saved you from death."
He shrugged and made his way back over to her, slowly placing his hands on her muscular arms. He leaned his head over her shoulder, "I'll find a way to match your strength. You don't have to worry about me." He kissed her jaw once again, "If you have to fight, I have no doubt that you will win if you use your super powers."
"How do I know my secret is safe with you?" she asked him looking at him in the mirror.
His expression sobered up and became serious, "I will not speak of this to a soul."
"How do I know you won't tell..."
She shut up when she saw his seriousness. She began to gulp.
Okay... point taken.
"Give me some time to think of it Kendal," she finally replied back to him, "I need a day or two to think this over."
"Then come with me to dinner this evening. I was going to postpone the rest of this evening's schedule until tomorrow," he spoke with finality
Persistent. Never-receive-no for an answer. Why did he fall for her? Why couldn't he have fallen for Jupiter or Mars? "Can I choose where we eat?" she asked.
He smirked, "Of course you may."
Though her intentions were to eat him out of the diner, she didn't realize how many butterflies were actually swirling in her stomach from nervousness and excitement.
That evening, she discovered something refreshingly surprising. Kendal Aimes really could be a gentleman when he wanted to be.
Author's Note: I just HAD to... A little more romance that I intended, but she's the senshi of love. And Kunzite is definitely one of those characters who I know would Mind F Minako with his dry sarcasm, authoritarian style, and his desire for his soul mate. Drop a note in the review section. Let me know what you think. I'm going to finish this story with a chapter 10 and then an Epilogue. Not sure which senshi will be next. Perhaps Rei might need more time (Poor Jay).
