"Rei?"
"Rei-chan?"
"Rei honey?"
"Firefly?"
"..."
"Ow! What was that for?" Rei screamed angrily.
"Well, you weren't talking!" Jadeite said defensively. Truth of the matter was, he wasn't used to a silent Rei. A screaming Rei, he was used to. A fire-hurling Rei he had encountered (and way too many times, in his mind). A silent one, though, scared him out of his wits. But he wasn't about to admit that, not even at his deathbed.
"What am I supposed to say?" Rei asked. For a senshi of fire, her tone was ice-cold.
"Well..."
Rei made her voice sickeningly sweet, gazing in awe at the Shitennou. "Oh, my beloved Jadeite, you finally came back to me after all these years! I missed you so!" she said, fluttering her eyelashes.
"Yeah, that could work," Jadeite said smugly. "I... Ow!"
"Jerk! Did you really think I meant that?"
Unlike most men, the sight of a furious Rei got him grinning. After all these years, he still knew how to get under her skin. "Well, you did say it," he said lazily.
"Hello? Sarcasm?"
"Hah! The Rei I knew back in the Silver Millennium never knew how to lie, and I don't think she's changed after all these years!" Jadeite countered, and was rewarded when Rei turned the color of her Sailor Mars fuku. "Hah!" He exclaimed again, pointing at her in triumph.
"Will you shut up?" Rei hissed, trying to drag his hand down to his side.
"I knew you couldn't get your hands off me," Jadeite said smugly, wrapping said arm around her shoulders.
"Get off, you big lummox!" Rei shrieked, squirming out of his grasp.
"Hey, I resent that," Jadeite said, grinning, sounding anything but resentful.
"You, you, you... oaf!" Rei screamed, pummeling him with her fists.
If it was even possible, Jadeite laughed even harder, and as a result, ended up having more blows hit him instead of blocking them. A strong left hook got him down, gasping as he tried to catch his breath. Immediately, Rei went down to her knees. "Are you okay?" she asked worriedly, neatly forgetting that she was the one who brought him down in the first place. It took her a few seconds to realize that the shaking of his shoulders were not of pain, but of laughter. "Jerk!" she shrieked again, whacking Jadeite on the head. Instead of getting mad, he immediately put his arms around her.
"Leggo!"
"Ah, dear firefly, I missed you too," Jadeite said through his laughter, burying his face in her hair.
"Who said anything about missing you?" she asked, but she didn't make any attempts to pull away.
"Like I said a while ago, you're a pretty bad liar, Rei," he said, pulling back just a little to grin at her. "Now, what's gotten you pissed now?"
"Come on, Rei, not the silent treatment again," Jadeite wheedled. "It must've been something bad, or you wouldn't lose your temper just like that."
"I don't have a temper!"
"Erm..."
Rei raised a fist threateningly.
"Okay, okay, you don't have a temper!" Jadeite said hastily, lifting his hands in defense. "Now, what got you upset?"
"Did you really tell the other Shitennou about the tree?" Rei asked, her eyes narrowed.
"Eh? What tree?" Jadeite asked, blinking confusedly. Out of all the things he expected her to ask, a question about a plant was the furthest from his mind.
"You know, the tree!" Rei said, her voice rising slightly. "The one where I..." and Rei turned red again.
"Oh, yeah, the one where you tripped and fell flat on your face!" Jadeite blurted out, and then bit his tongue when he saw Rei's face.
"Did you tell Nephrite about that?" Rei asked, pronouncing each word slowly and clearly.
"Weeeell..."
"Answer me, Jadeite!"
"I might have?" Jadeite said timidly.
"Argh! What else have you been telling him? I swear, you are the most insufferable male in this world. I ought to..." As the sound of her voice drifted off, another voice accompanied it, and it sounded suspiciously like, "Sorry, dear. Yes, dear. Anything you say, dear."