I don't own Sailor Moon... sad, but true...
„Hey Mina!" a voice was heard from the bedroom.
"Yeah!" the blonde shouted back from her spot. In spite of the strange and pretty loud noises that could be heard through the wall and door, the blue-eyed girl named Mina didn't even flinch from the chair, her eyes stuck on her computer's screen. The movements inside the adjacent room turned louder and louder, as if someone was digging through something, until it all stopped with a thud.
"Mina!" the door suddenly burst open, revealing a panting, yet gorgeously looking Rei.
"Yeah!" the blonde responded again, this time showing signs of annoyance.
"Did you at least move all morning?" the raven-haired beauty stared at her curiously, with a rosen eyebrow.
"You mean all night." The other simply stated, without even turning to her house mate.
"All night? Girl, what have you been doing?" Rei ran to her chair and managed to break her friend's gaze from the screen. "Your eyes are red like hell! I've never seen you like this before! Gods, Mina, have you been crying?"
"Crying? No!" the blonde shook her head and got up from the chair, jumping happily, but obviously tired in front of her friend. "I've been on the Net all this time!"
"Have you been chatting again?" Rei inquired seriously, with a sweatdrop.
"Rei, don't you think I grew up?"
"Not really?" It was Mina's time to sweatdrop.
"Well, I have! I found this amazing website, where everyone can either post stories named fanfiction or original works. It's really cool… especially the romance categories…" she ended dreamily, with twinkles in her eyes.
"Really?" Rei burst, pushing the blonde back into the chair and leaning over her shoulder so that she could see the screen too.
"Yeah… and I found this guy… I mean, I think he's a guy…" she rubbed her head and smiled innocently.
"Mina… how come everything is about guys in your world?"
"Rei!" she roared.
"Ok, ok… so, you found this guy…"
"Oh, yeayh! And I read his works. They're amazing… and that's mildly put!"
"Romantic stories? By a guy?" the dark-haired girl eyed her strangely again.
"Actually, he writes more drama… and I found him at the original stories… so, no!" Mina explained and ended with a "hmph".
"So…?"
"So what?"
"Haven't you two talked or something?"
"Well, I've just finished all his stories and reviewed them all… He might answer to my mails…" the blonde suddenly lost all the confidence.
"Or?"
"Or he might think I'm some kind of freackin' stalker and block me from writing more messages to him…"
"Oh, Mina… whatever am I going to do with you?" Rei started massaging her temples.
"What the hell?" Kunzite stared at his computer screen.
"What's up?" a blonde man came out of the apartment's kitchen and threw a cola to his friend.
"I don't get it…"
"What?"
"I mean, when the hell did they find the time to read and write so many reviews in such a short time?" he kept asking himself.
"What?" the other one asked again, this time louder.
"Just e-mail, Jade!" Kunzite said, but already knew that his friend would just come up and disturb him.
"Aw, Kunz! Looks like you've got yourself a fan here… and not just any fan…" Jadeite looked at him with half closed eyes.
"Love-Me-Chain." The silver-haired man stared lost at the screen.
"A fangirl!" Jed squeaked behind him.
"Love-Me-Chain?" he turned to the blonde and made an unpleased face.
"So?" he suddenly stopped all his cheering, already losing his enthusiasm.
"Love-Me-Chain…"
"Yeah, as if "The Silver General" is a really incredible pen name."
"Yeah… but Love-Me-Chain?"
"Maybe she works at a matrimonial firm…" Jed rose his shoulders. "Or, better yet, maybe she's a stripper and she has a chain as…" the blonde suddenly got cut off by receiving a strong fist in his stomach and being sent straight to the floor.
"Would you cut it out?"
"Geez, I was just joking dude…" Jed collected himself off the carpet and stood up again. "So, what did she say anyway?"
"That she loved the stories. You know, I think she pretty much understood all my messages. I've met other people to get them, but never this fast."
"Oh… so, nothing like "let's meet up for coffee" or something?" the blonde turned disappointed.
"I don't even know if she's from Japan!" Kunzite sounded enraged.
"Well ask, would ya?"
"Don't make me hit you again!"
The sound of an unlocking door woke her up. She lazily cracked an eye open and caught a glimpse of Rei.
"Hey. How was work?" Mina asked, not even bothering to get up from the couch.
"I hate law!" Rei growled.
"No you don't."
"Really? And how would you know?"
"Otherwise you wouldn't still be working in that place for such a salary." Mina smiled warmly.
"Damn experience! I hate firms that don't employ people who have just finished university. I mean, we have to live too!" Rei huffed and slammed her bag into the nearest chair.
"Well, when you'll make your own company you can do that." The blonde winked at her and made room for the brunette to throw herself on the couch, next to her.
"Thanks for the support." Rei smiled as well.
"Always." She responded and yawned.
"Hey! Didn't you see?" the other pointed a finger at the computer. "You've got mail!"
"I do?" Mina jumped from her spot and landed on the desk chair, barely dodging the small coffee table. Rei chuckled and joined her.
"So?"
"It's from him!" the blonde glanced to her friend with stars in her eyes.
"Are you even sure it's a him?"
"The Silver General."
"What?"
"That's his pen name."
"Oh… what's yours?"
"Love-Me-Chain." Mina answered, forcing her friend to burst out laughing.
"Girl, you've been watching Sailor Moon for too long." She patted her shoulder.
"Speak for yourself, Mars!"
"Alright already! So, what is he saying?"
"He thanks me for reviewing… hmm…"
"What?"
"I think he's a bit intrigued."
"Ok, psichologist, tell me more!"
"He asks how come I could read and understand his works so fast. He says that I'm actually the first to get it all so far."
"Feh, he doesn't know that he's messing with the smartest blonde in Tokyo." The brunette teased,
"Rei!" Mina clentched her teeth.
"Well, it's true!" she defended herself and ran into her bedroom that next second, away from her annoyed friend.
Six months later
"You look perfect! Oh, if this gets serious, I'm so nominating you for the most beautiful real love story ever category!" Rei gave her friend a tight hug, barely stopping herself from crying.
"You'd better do so!" Mina his her in the shoulder playfully.
"So, this is it, huh?"
"Yeah…" the two remained silent in the middle of the hallway.
"It's going to be ok, you'll see! He'll love you from the first moment." Rei winked, encouraging her even more.
"I hope so… especially ever since I saw his picture." The two started giggling like two school girls.
"So, are you going to enter that damn caffe or what?" the brunette nudged her. "Don't worry, if anything goes wrong, I'll be right outside in the car." Mina nodded and watched her best friend leave the building and enter her vehicle. She then took a deep breath, opened the door to the small caffé and took a seat somewhere, waiting impatiently.
"And here we go!" Jed stared at the large building which sheltered the place where the Silver General and Love-Me-Chain were about to meet for the first time in person. "You're not getting cold feet, I hope…" he glanced at the extremely silent silver-haired man next to him.
"No… I'm just… nervous…" he spoke sternly.
"Aww, out little Kunz is growing up…" the blonde teased him.
"Jed, don't make me do something extremely embarrassing to you here and now." He simply warned.
"At least you didn't change much… or at all…" he backed away, only a bit scared.
Kunzite simply started at the building in complete silence for few long moments. He then clutched tightly the lovely bouquet of white lilies and entered the caffé, leaving his good friend behind.
It was the third nail that Mina was chewing on. Her heart was beating like mad and she suddenly thought that if she made only one mistake in her language or behaviour, all her good looks and charm would go to waste. After all, she was meeting one of the best authors at was so worked up on her thought that she didn't even notice a gorgeous man with a very serious appearance entering the caffé.
Kunzite gazed around the room and finally saw her. She was even more beautiful that in the pictures and this proximity made him nervous… just like she seemed to be.
"You know, for a therapist, you sure can reveal your inner feelings." A deep male voice startled her and forced her to look up. "Here, maybe this will send your restlessness away." Kunzite offered the flowers to the blushing blonde.
"Kunzite?" she asked.
"Hello Mina." he greeted her and enjoyed her beautiful smile.
"Oh well, my job's done here." Jed stared at the building and sarted backing away. Unfortunately, being stuck in his own world, he missed to see a car exiting the parking lot. A moment later, a thump and the sound of breaks filled the air.
"Oh my God! Are you ok?" a voice inquired fastly and almost scared.
"Huh?" the blonde man opened an eyes and suddenly woke up on the uncomfortable street, fallen down. "What happened?" he asked while a dark-haired person helped him get up.
"You were walking with you back and I didn't see you… god, are you alright?" the female voice asked again.
"Well, I'm stading, aren't I?" he joked and turned to see a lovely black-haired woman, staring at him with wide eyes. If it weren't for the awful headache he felt, he would've drooled over the girl. "Don't worry, I'm fine." He cleared the air with a kind smile.
"Are you sure? I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to…"
"Don't worry, it's ok… Trust me, this happens to me a lot…"
"Getting his by cars while day-dreaming?" the girl rose an eyebrow.
"Yeah… and it would happen even more often if all the drivers would look like you…" he gazed at her and gave her a toothy grin.
"Hold your horses there, Casanova! Or I might be forced to run you down again and this time do some serious damage!"
"Well, don't I at least receive medical attention or somethin, Miss…?"
"Rei." She cautiously answered. "I have a therapist friend." She offered.
"Err… I was actually thinking of you…" he suggested.
"I'm not very good with stitches and medical stuff." She pointed at the cut above his left eyebrow. "Mr…"
"Jadeite." He slightly bowed. "I don't mind… I can endure high levels of pain…" he gazed at her some more.
"I am a lawyer." Rei stiffed immediately.
"And I am prosecutor. Present me your case, Miss Rei." Jadeite winked and received her palm's print stuck on his face, one moment later.
"Never from the first, second, third date.. or even more!" she glared.
"So, it's a date?" he asked, this time a safe meter away.
"Maybe…"
"I see. In this case… maybe I'll meet you here tomorrow, six o'clock, let's say?"
"Maybe…" she mysteriously answered.
"I'll be waiting, Rei." He bowed.
"Hmph. You'd better be!" she gave him a cocky smile and turned around, getting into her car and driving away, leaving a very curious blonde man behind.
First of all, if the pen names I've written here are actually taken by one or more writers on this web site, I apologize... They don't represent anyone in particular, they're just names I've given my characters. So, if anyone should feel offended in any way, I apologize, it wasn't my intention.
Apart from that, here's a new one-shot which I am proud tocall the longest one-shot I've ever written ( or at leastI think so...). Please read, please review and let me know if this thingy right here that I wrote between two economics classes is good of somethin'... thanks and see'ya'll next time !