Oh beloved people of the word of readers. I am a bad bad author. I know I've been keeping you on a sting and then when I finally DO update it's not even very romantic. Today I would like to give a BIG thank you at the beginning of my story to my recent review.

To JoCrox: Thank you. I admit I don't take problems with my story lightly. But I wanted you to know that appreciated your CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. Thank you for being honest but nice. I know I'm not a great writer but I'm grateful for the opportunity to have SOMEONE who wont laugh at me read my little story. Your suggestions have been noted and in my final revisal, I will fix all I need to. So thank you so much. Gomen for all the trouble I've given everyone! Ja!

And now: For a more romantic part...

The Beginning but More-the End.

"Venus!" The queen was walking toward them. "Venus have you seen my daughter?"

Venus stopped her swinging when she though Mercury had noticed the queen coming long enough to stop.

"Uh, why I think s your majesty. I'll go find her."

"Thank you my dear, tell her I've been waiting in the school room for thirty minutes."

"Yes your majesty." Venus smiled and bowed to the ground. The Queen put a hand on her back and departed but Venus didn't stand up strait right away. "Mercury..." Venus groaned. I can't believe I lied to the queen again." Mercury knelt down next to the still-bent-over Venus.

"Go find her. I'll ay here and cover besides I need a rest anyway." She looked like it too. Her hair was matted to her wet face and her legs could barely hold up her small weight. Her blue bow on her front had even started to droop.

"Yes, I'll go find her. Venus leant down lower and kissed the sweaty princess cheek.

"Just don't expect me to go easy on you when I return."

The day was much too hot to be training outside. But then, it was too hot to do strategic council inside. So outside they were. Mercury fighting with weapons on one court and Mars was doing her best with hand-to-hand fighting on the adjacent one. They heard what the queen had asked but none dared to look at her as she passed them into the caste.

It was relatively a quiet day on the Moon. They had now been here training with the ones they loved the most for a month now and were just getting used to the idea of living there. Of course they missed their own planets but each was being well taken care of. They had never had many problems before.

And now, things seemed to be going well. But almost every night, Rei would return to her fire, pouring over it's encrypted messages for hours. Minako missed their nightly gab sessions. But even with the five girls reunited, it didn't take very long to see how serious their training was to be. Why now? Because of age? Many were already almost so close to being 21. The age of the silver millennium was upon them. But Venus still worried night after night about the Princess of the moon. Mars once told her she saw Serenity running through a burning palace. Minako only saw a dream of it once. But it was only her fears.

Minako did everything in her power to make everyone feel at home and comfortable. She was, after the lighthearted one. She was trying to live up to her reputation. So far, it had worked, everyone seemed happy. Ami with her new love, Rei on the brink of completely disemboweling the King of the east, and Mako..Well no one was quite sure where she was in her relationship status. She was very god at hiding what she did at night. Perhaps nothing. Venus tried to ignore it.

The task was at hand, hopefully, the princess was somewhere on the Moon. "Please let her be here." And not the Earth. Not with him...

(For those of you who have problems I present, the Bunny because it hops POVs. That is, until I think of something more clever.)

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-.- hopping POV

"Endymion!" Kunzite called out. He put a hand through his hair in frustration. "This is s stupid. He can't keep sneeking out to see her any more. What is he thinking...

Kunzite felt dizzy. It was a beautiful day again but today he felt dizzy. His last conversation witht the Royal advisor, had made him so angry he couldn't see strait. He put and hand to his mouth again ad thought, "Where haven't we checked? If I call his name again and he's with her he'll flee. So I'll need to sneek up on him."

Kunzite sopped walking. "But where would I find him?" He was obviously not inside. But he wasn't in the forest, the front rooms, the verandas, and he wouldn't dare go to the cabins out back. He figured he should just forget it. The other sailor senshi would soon recover their curious princess. Like a small rabbit so tiny and wandering. He knew it was not wholly the prince's fault. As far as he knew, the prince had yet to go to the moon to continue this affair. And who could blame him? He could not be bitter again the broken rules. It was love after all. Silly, dangerous, precious love. But that's why he needed to stop this.

He had to find them. "If I had a girl I wasn't supposed to meet where would I take her?" An old rhyme entered his head, "Beauty become more beautiful in the surrounding that suits her best." He couldn't remember the rest. Where would he take her? Where does she belong? Like her sister planet. He knew how close the two were. Long golden hair, yellow eyes, and a big smile came to his thoughts. Her smell filled is nostrils. He closed his eyes. It wasn't fair. After all this time of trying to forget her and it wasn't fair.

'How can I still think of you? How is it I can smell you when you are so far from me? Why can they love when I cannot.'

"I cannot have you." This last part he said allowed. He bit his lip and crunched his eyes. "Venus!" He pounded his fist out upon a tree. The heat was too much to bear. His prince could love but he could not. He could not. His duty called him back.

A petal fell from a tree high above had landed on his sweaty fist. A flower? He gazed up into the thousands of branches. A flower. Kunzite headed to the gardens light on his feet so as not to let them know of his coming.

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o.o

"Princess!" Venus stomped around between the pillars of the moon kingdom. "Princess!" she called but in vain. "Oh for heaven's sake. Serenity!"

She called to the skies her fists raised and a wind blew around her orange fuku skirt, "Would you stop doing this?" In a moment the blond haired warrior was on the Earth. Once again she stomped around and called out her princess's name though cupped hands.

"I can't believe it!" She said mostly to herself. "This is totally against the moon regulation. She knows better than to just up and fall in love! What am I saying? I'm the goddess of Love. But that doesn't excuse this. I mean when I find her I'm gonna...Oooh that girl! Oh no. I have to..."

When she came to the moon she thought she could smell him. General Kunzite. She knew him best after all. But no, it was just the smell of the Earth. He always smelled of the lush Earth. She turned a corner around a bend of white roses as tall as she, when a frill of white lace enter the picture along with a black knight standing next to her holding her hands. They were gazing into one another. Venus felt if she let it continue for much longer, the inevitable would happen. Kissing was definitely not interpersonal Moon regulation.

"Princess! You're here again?! We have to go home!" Serenity began to cry again as Minako came up behind her but something else caught her eye. A man dressed in a gray uniform emerged from just the other side of the garden. Minako looked to him and recognized him at once as General Kunzite. Of course. She felt herself catch breath.

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-.-

He heard her voice before he saw her. But his feet were already in motion, he could see his prince's back.

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o.o

Standing in front of his prince he turned to address Minako. He wore a smile and his eyes seemed to glitter with kindness and amusement: a joyful expression. Oh his smile! She remembered the first time he smiled at her. Their first dance, the first time he avoided her gaze with a blush. His diplomatic air and gentle countanace she realized she had never forgotten. Never had they faded. But why? His words, Venus knew, she wouldn't hurriedly forget.

He said, "It must be hard having a bundle of curiosity for a princess." And then he chuckled with warmth. Endymion was surprised to see Kunzite there and probably surprised at his words. In the background she could hear the prince exclaim "Kunzite!" but Minako could only stare at the silver haired guardian. It was as if the realization had struck her hard in the face.

She held her breath and looked at him. His smile was warm and kind, his steel gray eyes were lit, and his voice shook her as it always had since the first night she met him. She had missed him so much. She yearned for him and he was standing only a few feet away. And now he was smiling at her. He was talking and laughing with her. She had missed his lips and his cheering words. Finally, it was like she could see through clear glass now.

She could see him.

He was...Minako thought very hard about what he was. What was the word? A warm word for him to her. When a whisper came to her, it sounded long and rich.

Wonderful.

Everything about him is just...wonderful.

And it was then that she knew.

'I Love him!'

"Venus?" Mercury inquired. It was a few days after she had last seen him. Venus swatted her head a couple times to get the image and deep feelings out so she could focus. But it was almost of no use.

She let out a breath she did not know she had been holding and with a broad smile, turned to the other senshi.

"Let's get back to work." Even though her forethoughts were on the game at hand, she couldn't stop the last few words from escaping her mind. She had thought them a thousand times in the last few days. She fought them but they came so clearly to her head. She hated the truth they sang but at the same time rejoiced in the revelation that finally she could understand what had been tugging at her heart: A red string! Fight it Venus! But she smiled and swatted her head once more.

"Let's do it again!"

AN: Wai! Isn't it nice! If you do your research YOU CAN FIND THIS IN THE MANGA! No imagination required! Well, forgive my bad updating and writing skillz. I guess I can't make much of a good excuse to make up for ALL that lost time. Plez. Dun't kill me. ::weep:: Oh! And for those of you who think this is the end- dun't cry, its not.

Mr. JoCox: I would appreciate it if you would send me your e-mail address. I have questions about my story I would like t put t you, I don't have anyone else to help me out. And you seem to know what you are doing. ; NO flames I promise. I just need a little help. Ps. I don't know what is going on with this bad bad bad bad spacing. I hate it and I bet you people hate it worse. Oh well, I'll try it from a campus