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Chapter 19
"You sure your parents won't mind us being here on a school night?" Lita asked when they all arrived near the hot springs.
"They're checking out a few planets, they'll be gone for a couple of days," Seiya replied.
"Then I'll go find Yaten and Taiki and see if they want to join us," Mina said happily and ran off.
"Aren't Taiki and Yaten going to wonder what we're doing here?" Serena inquired as she undressed.
"We'll tell them we had to rescue Seiya from Darien," Rei snickered.
Seiya let out a deep sigh and slipped into the water. He leaned back on one of the heated rock seats and closed his eyes.
"Why don't we just say we came for a visit," Ami suggested.
Seiya opened his eyes and smiled at Ami as Serena snuggled up to him.
Seiya and Serena sat back quietly watching the others trying to dunk each other and splash about.
It wasn't long before their giggles turned to screams as snowballs started flying out of the darkness at them.
"I'd get out and shove snow down your pants if I knew I wouldn't freeze to death first," Lita yelled.
Serena and Seiya remained quiet and watched Lita disappear under water.
"I'm still dressed," Yaten screamed out just before a big splash was heard.
"What's up?" Taiki asked Seiya and Serena while splattering the tops of their heads with handfuls of snow.
They both slid off their seats, startled by Taiki's sudden appearance and cold greeting.
Seiya was quick to his feet and shoved the laughing Taiki into a nearby snow pile. Then he stood on Taiki's ponytail and began pelting him with handfuls of snow.
Taiki swung his legs around and tried to kick Seiya away.
Seiya jumped back into the water.
"Need some help getting your clothes off?" Mina giggled at Yaten after she got into the water.
"I...I can do it myself," Yaten stuttered as he tried to back away from her.
"It's faster if we help," Lita commented with a big grin and locked her arms into his.
"Grab a foot," Rei ordered Mina, as she reached down to get one of Yaten's legs.
"It's your turn to be naked in here," Rei added and pulled off one of Yaten's shoes.
Mina took the other shoe and threw it over her shoulder, towards the shore.
"Taiki," Yaten yelled at a high pitch when one of the girls unzipped his pants.
"You're on your own," Taiki chuckled and reclined near Serena, keeping a bit of a distance between him and Seiya.
"Seiya," Yaten pleaded while Lita held him up, half out of the water so Rei and Mina could pull his pants off/
"You love it, stop trying to fight them," Taiki told Yaten.
Yaten's pants didn't fly like his shoes and soon sank into the darkness of the water.
"I'm enjoying this more than sitting and doing homework," Ami giggled from somewhere in the dim light.
"Where are you, Ami?" Serena inquired.
"In the shadows," Ami continued to giggle. "I can watch all of you and not be attacked."
"I won't attack you," Taiki replied.
"I saw you looking for a victim when your hands were full of snow," Ami remarked.
"Come on Ami, he wants to cover you in snow so he can warm you up after," Serena snickered.
"I'll have to warm him up later," Ami smiled, now bobbing in front of Serena. "He's a gentleman and when we decide to leave the water, he'll fetch me a robe."
"I will?" Taiki responded.
"With those long legs of yours, you could make it to the pool house and back faster then anyone," Ami smiled. "Except maybe Lita, I think she might be faster."
"I could take her in a heartbeat," Taiki boasted.
"Hey Lita," Ami called out.
"What?" Came a reply from somewhere in the dark, amid the laughs and splashes.
"Taiki says he can run to the pool house, grab a robe and run back here, faster then you," Ami answered.
"With those twiggy things you have for legs," Lita said with a huff, as she came into view.
Lita came close to Taiki, she stood tall in the water. Lita lifted one of her legs up, to a standing split with her toes pointed skyward. She then slowly and seductively slid one of her hands down her leg: "You need some muscle for power," she told him and slapped her thigh.
Taiki and Seiya both smiled and admired her...thigh and everything else that was above water.
"Okay boys," Ami spouted with a slight snicker. "Put your tongues back in you mouths."
Serena elbowed Seiya, when she noticed he was ogling Lita.
"Do we have a race?" Ami questioned.
Seiya turned his head and gave Serena's cheek a quick little kiss.
"Come on twiggy," Lita grabbed Taiki's arm.
"You can climb out here," Ami told them when they reached the waters edge.
"Run to the pool house, find a robe and run back," Ami added/
"Ready?" Ami made sure they were side by side.
"Set," Ami continued.
"Go," Ami yelled.
As everyone cheered them on, Seiya leaned near Ami: "I must admire your ability to manipulate, especially someone as intelligent as Taiki," he smiled proudly at her.
"Thank you," Ami gave a little bow of her head.
"Come on Lita," the girls all yelled.
Taiki however was the first to reach Ami.
"The robe," Ami said.
Taiki handed her the robe, without a thought. He smiled proudly when Ami held the robe up and gave it a little wave, before climbing all the way out of the water and wrapping the robe around her.
Lita was wearing a robe when she came up beside Ami.
"Girls," Lita smiled, holding a few robes in her arms.
"I let him win," Lita told the girls as they came out of the water and retrieved a robe. "That way, us girls could have all the warm robes."
Yaten's laugh could probably be heard for miles.
"Such a gentleman," All the girls remarked and bowed their heads to Taiki.
Taiki was standing there with his mouth open and his body shivering.
Taiki walked back into the water and silenced Yaten by holding his head under water.
"Sikora won't be happy if you drown him while she's away," Ami told Taiki, as the girls strolled off.
Seiya scooped up Serena.
Serena wrapped her legs around Seiya's waist and wrapped the robe around him too.
"I have icicles in my hair," Rei announced as they entered the family room.
"I'll get some towels," Seiya told the girls.
"I'll make some hot chocolate," Lita mentioned.
"Rei can get a nice warm fire going in the fireplace," Serena added, as she climbed off Seiya.
The girls were huddled in blankets near the roaring fire when Taiki and Yaten came racing into the room.
"I'm going to die from hypothermia," Yaten whined and slithered his way into Mina's blanket.
"Yaten," Mina screeched.
"I'm cold," his teeth chattered and he cuddled up to Mina.
"There were no robes left in the pool house," Taiki shivered.
Ami quickly put a warm blanket around Taiki.
Yaten curled into Mina's lap and pulled his knees up close to his chest. Mina wrapped her arms and blanket around him. Then she brought the covers over their heads and cocooned him in with her.
"I have to go get some cups and a ladle," Lita mentioned, putting a large pot on a nearby coffee table.
"I'll help," Serena stood up.
When Serena and Lita returned, Lita knocked on Mina's head: "You two going to come out and have hot chocolate?"
Serena was nice enough to serve Mina and Yaten a drink, while the others got their own.
Seiya who was now dry and dressed, handed out the towels, then sat cross legged on the floor with his hot chocolate.
Serena wrapped up her hair then placed a pillow in Seiya's lap. She put her drink on the floor near Seiya. She then got a blanket, put her head on the pillow, pulled the blanket over herself, and then retrieved her mug.
Serena looked up at Seiya, but his eyes were lost in the fire.
"Don't get comfortable," Ami said, giving Serena's foot a nudge. "We have to get going after our drinks."
"What's the rush?" Mina queried.
"I don't know about you guys but I have homework and next week is mid term finals," Ami explained.
"More tests," Serena moaned.
"These tests don't have make up tests. If you fail, you have to make up the marks in summer school," Lita told her.
"All this school talk is dampening the fire and souring my hot chocolate," Seiya complained.
"You're not worried about your grades?" Rei sneered.
"What good is all this crap when we leave?" Seiya sneered back.
"You'll have schools on your new planet," Ami remarked.
"No one there knows who Shakespeare is, or cares who his is," Seiya scowled.
"I think it's passed someone's bedtime," Taiki said crossly.
Seiya carefully slid out from under Serena.
Everyone else quietly finished their drinks.
While the others cleaned up, Serena went looking for Seiya.
Serena found Seiya in the sparring room. The fighting ring was gone and Seiya held Fighter's laser in his hands and was targeting images the computer was generating.
Seiya had to destroy those computer generated bad guys, before they could unleash their lasers on him.
Serena tried to open the glass doors, but they were locked.
Seiya was momentarily distracted by Serena rattling the doors.
One of the computer bad guys was able to strike Seiya with what appeared to be a very painful jolt. Seiya winced then quickly told the computer to stop.
"Are you ok?" Serena asked with concern in her eyes, as the door opened for her.
"I once asked you, aren't I good enough," Seiya said quietly.
"I'm not," he said, grinding his teeth, a sadness in his tone.
Seiya pulled the door from Serena's hand and turned away.
Serena quickly yanked the door before it could lock: "I love the person you are, not how you fight," she yelled, on the verge of tears.
"I almost lost one princess because I couldn't defend her, I won't let it happen to another," he stated, his back still facing Serena.
"Computer ready," Seiya called out.
Serena quickly stepped back and let the door close as the lights began to dim.
After seeing the computer's laser cause Seiya to crumble to the floor in pain, as two computer bad guys hit him at the same time, Serena had to walk away.
Serena spent enough time around Seiya to know there was no stopping this. He wouldn't stop until he won.
An artificial smile graced Serena's face as she joined her friends.
"Did you find Seiya?" Lita asked Serena.
"Yeah," Serena held the smile, "He's playing computer games."
"Better then doing homework," Mina laughed.
"Speaking of homework," Sailor Mercury stated, with a mother like tone.
"We know," Mina and Serena moaned before they took on their Sailor personas.
"See you at school," Taiki waved as the girls disappeared.
