Hello, minna! I came once more with a new chapter, hoping I wasn't too late T.T I've been busy these past two weeks (working and co.) therefore I couldn't update so quick as the last time. I'm so sorry for not being able to keep my promise T.T

Therefore, I have to say that the next one I don't know when it will come since my schedule is a total mess. I'm to go home in a couple weeks and I haven't solved anything with my ticket plane...yeah, I'm a total klutz xD But no more of this ^^

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Chapter 12 – Where is Minako? Finding lost love

After looking at their first sunrise together, the couple went up to the house for a good and well-deserved sleep. Minako was now sleeping not in the upper room, but in Yaten's room which was at the first level of the house and which had a greater view. Through the window, the warm rays of the sun were caressing them now looking at each other with never ending love and tender.

"I want you to wear the negligee I bought you." Yaten whispered close to her ear.

Minako looked surprised at him and felt her cheeks burn. But she smiled and nodded while leaving the room for granting his wish. Yaten waited for her anxious, not knowing what his reaction will be when seeing her dressed like that. His wait ended not long after, the clicking of the door announcing him of her arrival. He lifted his eyes to her; the pain of desire ripped him apart. She seemed like an angel came down only for him. The negligee was only half revealing the curves of her body; her embarrassment only embellished the effect of it. She seemed almost childish, innocent with her hair falling softly over her bare shoulders and her cheeks bright red. And when she got close to him, he lost himself in the love that embraced him. Yaten looked into her bright and calm eyes and reached for her hands. He held her dearly and suddenly lifted into his arms, not for a moment interrupting their visual contact.

They reached the bed, Yaten letting her reach it gently and lay down next to her. Minako was looking at him with her lips parted a little as if it was hard to breathe. She waited for him to touch him, but he didn't. He only looked at her, savoring the happiness of seeing her next to him, of having him in his arms, of being able to be with her once more.

"Minako…I love you." He said to her, his eyes locked onto hers, his tone a gentle one.

She lifted a little, reached for him and kissed him the way she never did. He was everything she wanted.

While the two of them were rejoined once again, enjoying and accepting each other love; the girls and Mark were searching desperately for Minako. She had been gone since Friday and no one was aware of her whereabouts. Mark was the first one to notice her disappearing when he searched her home and never found. After that, he called the girls telling them that Minako was gone missing. The girls surprised at this news tried to reach for her through their sailor pagers, but since Minako hadn't taken it with her, their idea proved to be futile. Then Ami tried to search for her with her mini-computer, but the result was the same. Minako was further away from them and they couldn't reach to her.

Meanwhile they were staying and worrying about her at Hikawa Shrine, Seiya and Taiki arrived wanting to ask them about having seen Yaten since he was gone missing too. But their look of concentration and worries had them changed.

"What happened, Ami?" Taiki asked and Ami blocked for a second.

"Well…aaa…" she tried to reply, but she went blank. Her mind was totally blank.

"Minako's missing!" Usagi cried and rushed towards Seiya. "We don't know where she is, she's been missing since Friday!" she continued, throwing herself in the arms of him, making Mark to frown.

Taiki and Seiya exchanged a look – 'Yaten was with Minako.'

"Calm down, Odango. Don't cry!" he tried to soothe the blond girl, patting on her back. "She'll come back, I'm sure of it!" he added, smiling to her when she lifted her face to his.

"Really?" she asked on the verge of crying once again.

"Really."

Later, when the girls calmed down thanks to their reassurements, Mark looked to them and asked suspiciously.

"How can you be so sure she's alright? She's with Yaten?"

"No, Yaten is at the studio writing a new song." answered promptly Taiki. "You'll see that she's alright. Minako knows how to defend herself, if something bad happened to her she would have called the girls."

"Leave him, Taiki. You don't need to explain to him." Seiya interfered, throwing an ugly look at Mark.

"If you don't want to start and search for her, then I will!" he shouted angrily and left the shrine not listening to the girls calling.

"Mark, wait!" Usagi tried to go after him, but Seiya stopped her.

"So…Mark is right?" came the question when everything settled. Everyone turned to Ami.

"Ami…I want to talk." Taiki started.

"Of course." She replied politely and left with him.

"She's with him, no?" she asked while walking along with him.

"I think so." He answered looking up, feeling her surprised gaze upon him.

"You think? You're not sure?"

"I tend to be sure since Yaten's been missing since Friday too." He replied, still looking at the sky. "That's why I think she's with him."

"Yes, she's surely with him." Ami told almost to herself, trying to reassure her calm. If Minako was with Yaten, then she was safe.

"Why didn't you come to the concert?" he stopped suddenly and looked at her.

"Well…" Ami's cheeks flushed red. "I did come." She answered, avoiding his eyes.

"You did?" he asked surprised and approached her, grabbing gently her chin between his fingers. "Did you like it?" he looked into her eyes.

"Y-yes…" she managed to reply, feeling her mouth dry. She was being conscious of him, of their closeness.

"I'm glad." He said and laid a gentle kiss on her lips and turned away.

Ami didn't know what to say, what to do or what to believe. That kiss confused her, didn't expect to feel such emotion just because of their lips touching. Suddenly, she felt like she wanted more and more than a simple brush of their lips. She wanted him to love her and her to love him.

She followed and stopped him. His surprise was written all over his face. She got closer to him and reached to him. Her lips touched his which made Taiki pull her into his arms and kiss her properly. Their bodies touched and more locked emotion burst out. That kiss gave Ami all of her memories of him and felt her heart fill with joy and love for the one she was holding and kissing. Finally, a dream was for real. Her dream of truly being loved and truly love someone.

Their reborn love was blessed by the nature through a single swift of the wind and of a sudden chirping of the birds. They have found each other once more…