Disclaimer: No seriously, if I owned Sailor Moon rather than Takeuchi Naoko, Reinako would be canon.

She was watching everything from someone else's eyes.

The King of Mars, known as Diomedes to most, stared at a young toddler staring in her crib. Her long raven hair and amethyst eyed weren't unusual for their race, and her complexion was due to her gender—most Martian females were extremely pale, after all. The males on the other hand normally were tanned, and it was cultural for them—him included—to have a beard. He was no exception to his culture, and neither was his daughter.

"Diomedes," a woman—his wife—spoke as she trolled in the room. She looked just like their daughter, with the only difference being that her hair had a slight wave to it. "An ambassador from Earth is here to see you—it's about Riko."

Their daughter—Riko—giggled at the sound of her mother saying her name.

"Alright." Diomedes stood and headed into the throne room, only to find a blonde man with icy blue eyes.

"Hello," the man bowed, "your highness." What do you wish for?" his gruff voice demanded.

"I wish for my son, Jadeite, to have your daughter's hand in marriage when they come of age," the stranger answered. "I am Myanmar, King of Earth."

Diomedes scowled. "And what will it benefit my planet?"

Myanmar smiled smoothly. "It shall ally Mars with Earth, my son is going to be lord of the Middle East of Earth, and we will aid you in times of need."

Diomedes nodded. "I accept, after I go over and sign the documents."

"Very well," Myanmar agreed, then led the Martian king to where the papers were.

Mars played with her soldier uniform as she stood in front of her mother.

The Queen ran a hand through her seven-year old daughter's hair. "I'm so proud of you Riko! I can't believe you're off to the Moon Kingdom to visit Princess Serenity!"

"Mama, you know I like when you call me Riko unless I'm transformed," Mars murmured. "And you're going too, right?"

The Queen nodded. "But, going on a shuttle together with other children."

Mars crossed her arms. "Why do I have to babysit an infant for my entire life? Why can't someone else do it?"

She frowned. "Because, there is no one else to do it, and you already swore to the High Queen."

"I was practically forced." Mars scowled. "But I don't want to! I want to stay home, with you and Papa!"

Her mother smiled sadly and began ushering Mars out the door of the bedroom. "You have to, it's your duty."

Mars kept her unhappy stature during the first half of the shuttle ride, which was around an hour. Her mother wasn't lying about the other children in outfits like her's. Jupiter was taller than all of them by an inch—in Mercury's case two, due to the smartest child being the shortest. The Jovian was kind enough, and seemed to enjoy sparring. Mercury on the other hand, was soft-spoken and calm, only seeming to talk to her, just in rarity. Then, there was Venus. She was the pure definition of hyperactive and bubbly in Mars' mind. The blonde was kind, that was certain—but she also was impulsive. Mars found her the most annoying out of all them all.

"Hey, Mars to Mars!" Venus giggled.

Mars' eye brow twitched. "What do you want Venus?"

"Can you call me Mina?" Venus asked.

"We're not friends, Venus!" Mars snapped bitterly. "We merely work together!"

"Meanie." Venus pouted. "Jupiter, Mercury, what are your names?"

"My name is Lita," Jupiter said proudly.

"And mine is Amy," Mercury informed timidly. "Mars, I am rather curious what your name is."

"Riko," Mars whispered. There was no harm in telling the Mercurian, she wasn't annoying at all—most unlike someone she knew—in any rate.

"We have arrived on the Moon Kingdom," the pilot announced.

"C'mon guys," Venus said, leading them to a gleaming pearly white palace.

When Mars had gotten sight of the infant princess and her mother, she felt her heart soften. To say Princess Serenity was adorable was an understatement—she just hoped that the girl didn't turn out to be anything like Venus. That would be rather catastrophic.

I just hope blonde isn't disease, Mars mused silently.

Venus' hands flew to her mouth at the sight. "That's her!

"That's the Princess?" Jupiter asked. "Why is she so small?"

"Yep!" Venus said cheerfully. "Serenity is going to rule one day—so that's why we're here."

Mars frowned but kept her eyes trained on her friends. Unlike Princess Serenity's pink one, Venus had an orange aura, Jupiter green had green, Mercury, blue, and she herself had red—the same colors of their sailor uniforms. She was about to continue the thought, but then someone cut her off.

"I am glad that everyone was able to make it," Queen Serenity greeted, motioning to her daughter's guardians and the large mass of people that crowded the Moon Palace. "Thank you for all attending this joyous even celebrating the birth of my beautiful daughter—"

Mars completely zoned out. Her mother and father were out there somewhere in the thick mass of crowds. The feeing of pride and joy practically rolled off the people, which was completely understandable. After all, their princess—their future ruler—had just been born, and if Serenity was anything like her mother, their feelings were well worth it.

Mars snapped out of her thoughts as her eyes caught her allies kneeling, in which she followed the action hastily. She felt a bright smile tug at her lips.

Maybe, protecting the Princess wasn't such a bad idea after all.

It's been four years since then.

Riko scowled in Princess Mina's direction. They were eleven now, and Mina was pestering her to attend a ball, much to her discontent.

"Please," Mina begged. "It will be a lot of a fun and there are going to be so many princes there."

Great, Riko thought, She's going into prince fangirl mode; that's never good.

"The Earth Prince's Guards are really handsome!" Mina enthused. "But the other princes are really handsome too!"

"Yes," Riko started rolled her eyes. "Because you know I truly see men the way you do. All of the male population are complete imbeciles, maybe save for my father."

Mina stuck her tongue out at her friend. "Not all men are stupid! They're really good looking and humorous to be around at times!"

"I completely believe you." Riko rolled her eyes once again. "And I have no interest in men, so don't try to rope me into a dance with one of them. I will go to the ball though."

Mina whooped and pumped her fist in the air happily.

Riko mentally groaned. How come I have a feeling I'm going to regret this?

Riko had hated the it all. It was all fun at first, many men—princes and nobles alike—had asked her to dance, and she had turned them down and she had danced with Mina and Serenity. Then everything went downhill when she had met Jadeite, her betrothed. She had departed from the ball to her chambers almost immediately, and was currently in her room beating pillows and sobbing all while doing so.

"Are you alright Riko?" Mina approached her cautiously.

"What happened in there Riko?" Lita asked. "You just bolted off without telling anyone; Serenity was so worried and she wanted to come, but she couldn't so we kept Amy with her."

"I just found out I'm engaged to some man and have been for since I was a toddler." Riko wiped her face to extinguish any stray tears. "Of course, I'm okay."

Mina had walked up and wrapped her into in an embrace. "We'll get you out if this; I promise."

"Yeah," Lita agreed. "So do I."

And they had eventually got her out of the engagement months later, much to Riko and her friend's joy and parent's disappointment.

"Riko!"

It seemed as if three years had passed by since then in seemingly an instant, and quite shockingly, Mars and Venus had become close, almost inseparable. Ever since Mars had come to the Moon Palace—much to her past annoyance—Venus had constantly followed her around in an attempt to befriend her. Of course she had succeeded, even if it had taken a year or two to do so.

She'd never admit it, but after a while, she had ended up beginning to fall for the blonde. She had tried to condemn the feelings into nothingness, but they had just kept growing; it didn't help all when both Kunzite and Zoisite practically threw themselves at Mina, causing her to seethe in great anger when she was alone in her chambers, and maybe break a the mg or two while she was at it, too.

Riko thought Mina was naturally beautiful. With her her thick blonde hair, gleaming big blue eyes, pane complexion, full lips, and a rare need for make-up, she was the perfect Avatar of Venus. Riko had grown to love her personality too. She found Mina's caring nature, kind, dutiful, and hyperactive nature endearing. And after time, the blonde had occupied her heart almost completely—with Serenity lingering in there somewhere—but she, like the object of her affections, knew to chose duty over love if needed; they always had.

"Hey Riko, are you there?" Mina asked while proceeding to knock on the door that led to her chambers. "Riko?"

"Come in!" Riko called back. "It's open."

"No it isn't!" A frustrated huff could be heard coming from Mina's mouth. "It's locked! I've been asking you to open it forever!"

"Now you sound like Serenity," Riko mused as she opened the door. "I wouldn't be shocked if you two were illegitimate twins or something."

"I am purely of Venusian blood thank you!" Mina defended. "I don't even have a hint of Lunarian blood running through my veins."

Riko sighed. "I never doubted that for an instant; you do go from man to man like true Venusian, after all."

"Serenity is right." Mina stuck her tongue out at Riko. "You are mean with your damned opinions!"

"Yeah right," Riko scoffed. "I'd love to see you name the instances that I was being opinionated rather than factual."

Mina had tears in her eyes. "Well those facts hurt Riko; they hurt a lot!"

"Please, only your ego is deflated," Riko grumbled. Am I really as mean as she dubs me? Am I cruel in Serenity's eyes too?

Mina glared at her. "You insulted my bloodline and practically classified me as one of those Venusian whores!"

"Just because I said that you went from man to man doesn't make you whore!" Riko argued. "It's a matter on whether you slept with all of them or not!"

"You were implying that I had, Riko!" Mina shot back angrily. "And I had stopped doing that a year ago!"

"Explain that to Kunzite then," Riko scoffed. "I'm sure he and Zoisite would beg to differ, with all your endless flirting."

Mina's face went red with embarrassment. "That was only for fun! I happen to love someone else, pyro!"

"Who then?" Riko raised a brow. "Please do tell."

Mina's gaze adverted to the ground as she mumbled quietly, "it's you."

"What?" Riko inquired. With her ears, she could pock up on a pin drop in a crowd full of people; maybe it was the intense piano lessons that had done it, since she had been trained to be able to replicate notes since she was young. "You love me? Why me?"

"Because," Mina started. "You're such a great person. As cruel as some of your remarks can get, you truly care about us and others. You're also a lot of fun to spend time with and tease." Riko had groaned at that part, earning a giggle from Mina. "You're also for better words, beautiful."

"Now that I think about it." Riko pulled the blonde closer in by the waist. "I think I love you too."

Mina felt her hair being stroked rhythmically, and her face getting closer to Riko's.

Riko smirked and leaned down, taking Mina's lips in her own.

Inhaling a deep breath, she broke the kiss and ran a hand through Mina's thick tresses of golden hair. "We have to fight the Earth tomorrow."

"I know." Mina leaned back into her touch. "We will win though; the Moon Kingdom will come through victorious.

"No," Riko said as she frowned visibly. "I had a vision; there's nothing we can do, the Moon Kingdom will fall, and with it, everything else."

"You can go out to fight believe that!" Venus stated. "We are going to win, then we'll get married and go settle somewhere with the others for a little while. "But, don't lose hope, love; hopelessness doesn't look good on you."

"Maybe you're right." Riko kissed Mina's temple, then down to her throat. "But we have tonight, and I plan to spend it entirely with you."

Mina smiled and closed her eyes in bliss. "Touché."

The Final Battle had been horrible, to say the least. People had died the worst of the deaths, building burned, and traitors run amok; it was both directions disgusting and terrifying at the same time—she was no exception.

Sailor Mars had fought hard and valiantly, with her only being there to witness Princess Serenity's suicide. She had though it would be something great that would kill her, but had not Sailor Venus intervened, it would have been an explosion caused by a lowly Earthen foot soldier.

You fool! Mars ran over and immediately took Venus' body in her arms, cradling her gently. "Why?"

"B-because I love you," Venus murmured and began to drift off.

"Venus, snap out of it!" Mars shouted desperately. They were in the ruins of a once beautiful gleaming Moon Palace.

"R-Riko, please don't cry." Venus wiped a tear that fell loosely from the other woman's face weakly. "Hopelessness doesn't look good on you."

Mars held the hand that had been caressing her face. "Hypocrite, I know full well that you'd be doing the same if I was in this situation."

"You need to cease your grieving for now protect the princess!" Venus ordered, then began coughing up blood.

"She's already dead," Mars said somberly. "She killed herself over the Earth Prince's corpse."

Venus' eyes went wide before becoming half-lidded. "I love you Riko."

"Me too." Mars pressed her lips against her lover's bloody forehead. "I love you too Mina."

Venus smiled briefly before her eyes glazed over, and then she went limp.

"MINA!" Mars screamed desperately. "WAKE UP!"

"I'm sorry," Queen Serenity apologized as she approached Mars. "Mars, I'm sorry, but they're gone—all of them."

Mars buried her face into her gloved hands. "Lita and Amy are dead too, huh?"

Serenity nodded. "Yes, and it's very grievous; my beautiful Serenity is gone."

Mars notes that the woman's voice break near the end of the sentence. Her own grief multiplied tenfold. "My Queen, I wasn't able to protect them; I failed."

"You did not fail, I did." Serenity frowned. "If I had listened to you or Prince Endymion when he had come to me, this may have all been avoided," she paused to smile sadly, "do not fear though, you shall reborn with your love and my daughter; protect her in your next life excellently as you had done in the past."

Mars bowed her head and met Venus' lifeless stare. "I shall, my Queen."

Suddenly a lone Earth soldiers made his appearance, with his sword aimed at the Queen's head.

"So the Moon Queen has finally made an appearance?" he scoffed.

Mars immediately shield her superior. Her eyes were cold and ruthless, as if devoid of an emotion except anger, grief, and ruthlessness. "You will not harm the Queen, Kunzite."

"And you'll do what?" Kunzite sneered. "Sob over the woman that was supposed to be mine?"

"You were once a good man," Mars stated darkly. "Until you had been corrupted by Metallia. I know I will die tonight, but I shall do it only after I defeated you with my bare hands!" she raised her arms. "BURNING MANDALA!"

The ruthless attack had disintegrated Kunzite on the spot, much to her delight. Mars stumbled to Venus' corpse and finally collapsed. She clasped their hands and placed a kiss on her lover's forehead before her eyes glazed over.

And at that moment, the stubborn Mars Riko was finally dead.

Hino Rei's eyes snapped open as she bolted upright in a cold sweat. Minako was sleeping soundly beside her, with a heavenly expression pulled across her face.

These Silver Millennium flashes are horrible. Rei leaned down and planted a kiss on the blonde's forehead.

Rei remembered the time where she had once crushed on Usagi for the longest time, but then Minako had come along and had stolen her heart for the better. It was quite humorous that they were lovers during the Silver Millennium, too.

These flashes of their past life has been mostly in chronological order, but short events events that had the most impact on Mars' Reiko's life, with King Diomedes' being a small exception of a vision interception.

Rei smiled and laid back down, draping an arm over Minako gently and a chaste kiss to her lover's forehead.

But, at least I have you to wake up to, Mina.

Aishiteru.

A/N: This is the product of the horror known as Writer's Block. Well, atleast it's still Reinako oriented. Oh, and please don't forget to rate and review!

-Fun Fact: Riko got her name from the main female lead in Buzzer Beat, Shirokawa Riko (Kitagawa Keiko); Kitagawa-san had also played Sailor Mars in the live action series, PGSM, as well—hence why I chose the name. Komatsu Ayaka—who played as Sailor Venus in PGSM—in Buzzer Beat too, although her character's name wasn't Mina. :D

-Another Fun Fact: Riko got her piano skill from the manga short story, Casablanca Memories and my own skill at playing both violin and piano by ear.

-Aishiteru means "I love you" in Japanese.