A/N: Honulicious: Actually, Sets wants Mina to be happy, but she's a lot like Rei in her thinking. For the same reason that Rei disappears, she's encouraging Minako to date Kei. It has nothing to do with her personal success; it's about seeing one of her best friends achieve her dream. Not to mention that she doesn't really like Rei much. As for the manager, well, he likes Sets, and Sets may like him too. However, Minako and Haruka don't know that, so they set her up with someone else. It's going to cause more chaos for Sets later, too. (I'm not just gonna let her dislike Rei and get away with it!)

Disclaimer: see previous chapter.

"Minako, don't tell anyone about that date."

The blond looked up at her much older friend. "What happened? Was it terrible?"

Setsuna smiled. "It was fun, but you don't know who he is."

Minako gasped. "What?! Did he try something crazy? Is he a rapist? A murderer?"

"No, it's nothing like that. You just sent me on a date with your boyfriend's father."

Minako blinked. "I did?"

"You did. I researched Kei when he first approached you asking you to open for him. You just sent me on a date with Hideki Arai, Kei's father. He uses a fake name, though, so I don't blame you for not knowing."

Minako looked down to the carpet on the floor of the older woman's bedroom. She refused to go home before Setsuna came back and told her everything that happened. As soon as she walked through the door, Minako was by her side and hadn't left yet.

"Don't tell Kei or his manager, especially. Kei and his father have a rather distant relationship, but it works for them. Kei lives how he wants with his manager, and his father lives off of his royalties and doesn't have to claim his son."

"That sounds crazy."

"Everyone has different ways of dealing with their families. It works for both of them-"

Minako interrupted. "Where's his mom?"

"I'm not sure. It's possible that she died, or she could just have disappeared from both of thier lives. You'd have to ask your boyfriend about that."

Minako made a face. "I hate that word. I've never had a boyfriend before, and I don't want to have one now."

Setsuna smiled gently from where she sat on her bed. "I know. Try to enjoy it. If you're still this upset in a few months I'll let you get out of it."

Minako looked hopeful. "You promise?"

"Only if you promise to try to enjoy it."

The blond's face contorted again. "Ugh, only if it'll get me out of it. He makes me nauseous. And he has an unnatural attraction so Sailor V and Sailor Venus. I'm tired of talking about myself in third person to him."

Setsuna laughed. "I think everyone who is currently under the age of 30 and was alive while you were Sailor V has a crush on you. Even Usagi had an unnatural obsession with you."

"Yeah, I know about that. Makoto did, too. It was more than a little weird when I found out about those two, but Rei out right scared me. For someone to live under a rock in the middle of the woods in the Middle Ages, she sure did manage to get a lot of paraphernelia. She even has the video games, with no tv to play them on."

Setsuna smiled at her friend, allowing her to enjoy her nostalgia.

"I never knew she was such a fan, you know? She screamed bloody murder when I found the chest she kept all the stuff in, but now she puts all the stuff I'm currently working on in there. Well, she used to. I don't know if she still does."

Minako sighed. Setsuna looked at her sympathetically. "Did you send someone to talk to her, yet?"

"I asked Usagi to go, but she didn't get back to me, so I don't know if she did or not."

Setsuna shook her head. "Don't worry about Rei. If Usagi talked to her, she'll be fine."

"I'm trying not to worry about her, but I can't help missing her. I need her in my life, Sets. She's my other half. She's my best friend."

The older woman indicated that Minako sit beside her on the bed. When she complied, Setsuna put a reassuring hand on the smaller woman's knee. Minako's blue eyes stared at the hand touching her. "Give it time. You'll be friends again."

"Yeah, I guess. Hey, Sets, all I have to do is think about Rei and you let me get in your bed and start touching me. Do you only come on to depressed people?" Minako grinned.

Setsuna smiled. "I only come on to you when you're depressed. I hate it when you get all melodramatic. But, since you're smiling, I can put you out of my room now." She removed her hand from the other woman's knee.

Minako's smile turned downwards dramatically. "No! I'm still depressed! Poor me! I miss Rei! I have no love! I hate my boyfriend! I hate my life!"

Setsuna chuckled. "Minako, stop it. I've told you a million times, I don't want you. I'm not a lesbian."

The blond pouted. "You can't make an exception for a depressed friend?"

The time mage quirked an eyebrow. "You want me to be a one night stand? Sorry, Minako, I'm not the type. And I don't sleep with friends. And I wouldn't sleep with you, friend or not, woman or not, until I saw the results of an STD test."

Minako rolled her eyes. "Sets, you see the results of all off my STD tests. You know my health status better than I do. And you wouldn't be a one night stand. You be calling me to come back every day."

Setsuna stared at her laughing friend. "Regardless, I'm not sleeping with you, Minako. I don't like women, and I don't like you."

Minako put her hands over her heart. "Ouch, that hurt. I think you'll take those words back, though."

"I doubt that."

"Well then, I guess I'm going to start walking back to Tokyo. Hopefully I'll make it there before the time I'm supposed to be at work."

Setsuna frowned. "You're staying here. You knew that when you first came over. You and I are not sleeping in the same bed, though. I know what you did to Rei."

Minako smiled. That was a good night. "You know because I told you. Stop acting like you're omniscient. That's why people are scared of you."

The time mage grinned. "I love my job."

Minako rolled her eyes again. "Whatever. Besides, I didn't seduce Rei, she seduced me. And when I tried to leave, she wouldn't let me. She kept calling me back after that night, too. Just like you will be." The look on the blond's face was like the cat who had cornered the canary, but hadn't caught it yet. Had Setsuna been anyone else, she may have shuddered.

"You can have your fantasies somewhere else, Minako. I'm tired, and I'm sleeping in my own bed tonight, after what you put me through."

"What did I put you through?"

"You made me go on a date! And Haruka was hitting on me." At that, she did shudder. MInako just laughed. "And as if it wasn't bad enough that I was on a date, you sent me out with that brat's father. Just because you have to deal with one doesn't mean you should force the other one on me."

Minako smiled. Setsuna didn't seem to have a problem with being hit on by her. "I didn't know anything about that. I gave you an out, too."

"Your 'out' was unreasonable. I'm not sleeping with you, Minako. I'd rather date the brat than sleep with you."

"Geez, Sets. You don't have to be so cold. Unless you secretly want me to warm you up." Minako waggled her eyebrows.

"Eww. Minako get out of here so I can go to sleep. You know where the guest room is."

The blond didn't move. "I have nothing to sleep in."

Setsuna was already looking through her closet. Pulling out a sleeping dress, she handed it to the younger woman. "Here. Wear this."

Minako still didn't move. "Sets, you're so freaking old! You really sleep in that?"

Setsuna dropped the garment in the blond's lap. "Yes, I do. If you have a problem with it, go ask Hotaru if you can borrow something from her instead."

The blond stood, taking off her shorts and shirt.

"Minako, what are you doing?"

"I'm not going to bother Hotaru. I'll just put this on."

"That's not what I was talking about. Why are you taking off your clothes?"

"You don't expect me to sleep with this on top of my clothes, do you?"

"I expect you to change somewhere else."

Minako grinned as she unhooked her bra. "Why, Sets? Am I making you uncomfortable?"

Setsuna's face gave nothing away. "Minako, go somewhere else and change."

The blond dropped her bra to the floor, smiling when she saw the older woman blush. "Ok, I'll go put this on in the bathroom."

"Minako, you can't go in the hall like that!"

"But you don't have a bathroom in here."

"Minako, just put the thing on, already."

The blond smiled and pulled off her underwear. "Okay."

Setsuna hid her eyes behind her hands. The younger woman had no sense of shame.

When she looked again, all she saw was a blond head tucked into her bed up to the neck, and Minako's folded clothes sitting on her dresser. "Minako! Get out of my bed! I told you you're not sleeping any where near me."

The younger woman smiled, but didn't turn around, pretending to be asleep.

"I know you hear me! Minako get up!"

Setsuna walked to where the girl was laying and pulled back the covers, revealing the naked woman beneath. She froze.

Minako saw her opportunity and grabbed it-and the older woman, pulling her down to the bed and pinning her to the mattress, grinning.

"Sets-chan, do I really have to go sleep on that uncomfortable guest mattress? Your bed is so much softer." The blond lowered her head between the other woman's breasts and nuzzled the area between them. "Can I stay? I promise I won't do anything funny."

Setsuna swallowed. "Minako, you're doing something funny now. Get your head from there!"

Minako looked up. "You want me to move away from your breasts?"

"Yes! And get off of me! And put on some clothes!"

Minako grinned yet again, showing all of her teeth to the woman beneath her. "Why're you so flustered, Sets-chan? Are you nervous?"

"Minako, get off of me!"

"Can I stay?"

"Get off!"

Minako laughed and Setsuna groaned as she realized the connotation the blond gave to her words. "Get up!"

The blond stood, finally giving the flustered woman some space. She put her hands on her hips. "You shouldn't be so mean, Setsuna. I don't like the guest room. It's so impersonal."

Setsuna sighed. She couldn't disagree with the woman. She didn't even like to go in the guest bedroom. "Put something on; I'll let you stay in here. Just don't touch me."

Minako grinned. She was barely able to keep from jumping for joy. Not only had she beat Setsuna, she won a bet as well. She couldn't wait until the morning. She climbed in bed next to the older woman without putting anything at all on her naked body.

"Minako put on something!"

Haruka couldn't believe her eyes. She looked into the guest bedroom, expecting to see Minako sleeping in there, but went to Setsuna's room when she didn't see anyone. She was greeted by the sight of a topless blond with an arm wrapped around Setsuna's shoulders.

Minako opened her eyes sleepily, and looking up, locked eyes with Haruka. She grinned brightly. The younger blond just won two hundred dollars. And she was about to make another hundred.

Before the older blond could leave, Minako leaned down and connected her lips with those of the still sleeping woman.

"I can't believe you!"

Minako grinned at the other woman in the mirror. "I'm sorry, Sets. I didn't really think I could do it, but it was so easy! I'll give you half-"

"I don't want the money, Minako. I want the taste of you out of my mouth."

"You opened your mouth! What did you expect me to do?"

"I expected you to not make a bet like that and not take advantage of me while I sleep. That's what I expect. Apparently, I was wrong."

The blond pouted. "I'll give you all of it."

"I don't want the money!"

"I tried. Look, I'm sorry. I just didn't think you would go along with it, and the stakes were so high-"

"I'm not interested, Minako. You teamed up with Haruka to mock me."

"Don't think of it like that. Think of it as you and me teaming up against Haruka. She's the one out of four hundred dollars."

"Four hun- What on Earth were you betting on?"

"Well, first it was that no one would sleep in your bed. That was fifty. Then it was that it wouldn't be a woman. Another fifty. Then that you and the person wouldn't be naked. That was a hundred total, but I only got half of that, so another fifty. Then that it wouldn't be me. That one was one hundred. Then that you wouldn't be the cuddling type, but my arm was around you when Haruka saw us, so I get another fifty for that. There was another hundred for a morning kiss, and a running joke we had a long time ago was that you would never raise your voice, but that the last one hundred was that you wouldn't get loud last night. I won that one because I'm sure Hotaru and Michiru heard you even if Haruka won't admit it. You were quite upset last night. I should have bet her that you wouldn't yell my name... That could have been another easy hundred..."

Setsuna gaped. "You two are pathetic! Stop betting on me!"

It wasn't the first time. The two blonds had bet before that Setsuna hadn't had sex in over a decade. Minako lost that one; Haruka's faith in Setsuna's prudishness literally paid off.

Minako smiled. "We really should, but your just so profitable! Who would have thought I would have gotten four hundred dollars that easily?"

Setsuna frowned, putting down her toothbrush. She had scrubbed her gums until they bled. There was no use; she would never forget the fact that Minako's tongue had been in her mouth.

"Here you go, kid. You win, this time."

Minako smiled as she took her money from Haruka. She handed the bills to the still fuming Setsuna. "Here."

"I don't want your bet money."

"It's not. It's your bonus for the extra work you did last night."

Haruka raised an eyebrow.

"Minako?"

"Shut up Haruka! I was talking about the date she didn't want to go on."

"You're paying me for going on a date?"

"Yep. You were with my boyfriend's father. I think it's safe to call that a business dinner. Now you can still say you haven't been on a date."

Setsuna looked at the bills wearily. "Keep it. I'm going to the car. If you want a a ride to work, come on."

Minako just shrugged.

Haruka frowned. "Your boyfriend? I thought you had come to the other side with the sane people, Minako."

Minako grinned. "Haruka, I have no comment on your girlfriend, but you are far from being sane. And I am gay; he's something that Rei and Sets think would be good for my publicity. We haven't officially come out as a couple yet, though."

"It will probably be happening soon, Minako. His manager and I discussed having a photo shoot sometime next week, but we need to find a time that will fit both of your schedules."

Minako groaned.

Haruka's frown deepend. "Why can't she be with a girl?"

Minako raised an eyebrow. "Why can't I be with Rei?"

Setsuna sighed. "Haruka, she can be with a girl, but that's not the way things are working at the moment. Minako, you can be with Rei, but not right now. She wanted it to be this way. You know that.

"Now come on. I am never late."

A/N: I have no idea where this came from lol. Total filler. I just had to make fun of Sets. She makes it so easy. She's all "I'm the shit; I never get flustered" but blushes whenever Minako gets... however she gets. I guess I just like showing how human she is. And she can totally not predict the future. That's just crazy. She just acts like it because she likes to scare the crap out of people like Rei and Makoto.

Anyway, I'll be moving the plot along next chapter. Rei will be back in two more. =D And from there, the angst really starts. :D