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Chapter 17
Yaten and Seiya's Crushes
(Monday)
The next morning Mina woke up at a relatively decent time Rei was still in bed with her. She finally felt rested. Mina decided to watch Rei sleep until the dark haired girl woke up. Slowly she turned her head vaguely noticing she was on Rei's side of the bed. Minako smiled as she looked at Rei's beautiful face, peaceful in her sleep. Minako lifted her hand and was about to gently stroke the perfect profile she was admiring when she heard a weird buzzing noise. The blond quickly realized the noise was Rei's phone on the dresser next to her set to vibrate. Minako quickly grabbed it looking at the LCD screen. It was Haruka and Michiru's home number so she quickly and quietly got up threw on a robe and left the room answering the phone once the door was shut.
"Hello Rei Hino's phone, Minako Aino speaking how may I help you" Mina said jokingly.
"Hey Minako its Seiya."
"Hey Seiya what's up"
"Well Yaten and I were wondering if you and Rei wanted to go hang out, get some breakfast or something, were kinda bored everyone else had to go to work since they all took it off yesterday, Mamoru and Usagi are off doing wedding stuff and were not really into that. Tahiki ran off with Ami to the hospital since he is somewhat of a healer on our planet which is kinda funny that he was into that and not Yaten since he's Sailor Star Healer and Tahiki is Sailor Star Maker." Seiya said rambling a little. Mina smiled she forgot that Seiya had a tendency to talk, a lot.
"So what do you say, wana spend the day with us?" He finished.
"I'd love to, I'll have to ask Rei if she wants to go, she's still asleep. How about we meet in an hour at the Crown sound good we can plan the rest of the day over breakfast" Mina answered.
"Yes!!!" Seiya said enthusiastically. "I was so bored, Hey Yaten Mina said she." Seiya started to say then stopped.
"Crap Yaten fell back asleep, guess he's still jet lagged, traveling form planet to planet seems to bother him more then Tahiki and myself, guess its just me then. I guess I'll see you soon." He said cheerfully.
"Yup I guess so, I'll see if Rei wants to come if not then its just you and me, Hey maybe we can do Karaoke in the back part of the crown they added on a whole bunch of rooms you can rent out. I've heard they are really fun"
"Sweet! great idea I haven't had much chance to sing since we left earth. To tell you the truth I kinda miss being an idol, Maybe I should get The Three Lights back together now that the planet is all back together and stable."
"Hey maybe we could do a little concert here while your in town it would be great publicity, The Three Lights and Minako Aino we'd have all your old fans and all my recent ones what do you think" Mina asked excited at the chance to sing with her former hero's.
"That sounds cool I'm totally up for it we will just have to convince the other guys, but I'm sure it wont be to hard the other day I caught Yaten writing music and Tahiki strumming away on his guitar I think they miss the music life a little too."
"Great, well we can talk about the rest over breakfast and practice a little in the Karaoke rooms they have all my songs and most of yours too." Mina said.
"Ok see you soon babe" Seiya said before hanging up.
Minako was so excited at the possibility of singing with The Three Lights they had been some of her greatest inspiration when she was in school and she knew the whole of Japan was devastated when they 'broke up and went their separate ways', well actually they left the planet but you cant really tell the public that. Mina turned around and walked back into Rei's room removing her robe and gently scooting into bed sliding up behind Rei wrapping her arms around her and placing little kisses at the back of the fire senshi's neck. Rei stirred a little but didn't wake up so Minako decided to tenderly caress Rei's toned stomach, outlining the strong abs she felt there. When Rei still didn't wake up Minako leaned in and began to whisper in her ear.
"Rei, time to wake up honey. Seiya wants to go have breakfast he's bored" Rei just grumbled and grabbed the blonds hands still caressing the dark haired girls stomach and pulled them tight around herself effectively trapping Minako to herself. Not that Mina cared to much she just continued to kiss her neck softly.
"Come on Rei the other boys deserted him and I promised to go hang out, you were invited as well do you want to come" Mina continued. Rei finally pulling herself from her almost coma heard Mina's comment and answered sleepily.
"I'm sorry baby I cant go with you I promised Youchiro I would stay and work at the shrine. Things have fallen behind a little since I got back and haven't been able to help, plus we have also been distracting Youchiro too so he couldn't keep up with it either, but you should go have fun no need to be stuck here at the shrine" Rei finished with a yawn.
"Rei if you're here I would have no trouble being at the shrine for the rest of my life, but I did promise Seiya so I guess I better get up and get dressed I would probably cause quite a stir meeting him in an hour with no cloths on" Mina said jokingly.
"I don't think he would mind much but I certainly would" Rei said as she turned in Minako's embrace and leaned in for a light kiss.
They both got up and began to dress for the day, Mina in her normal clothes with a baseball cap and designer sun glasses, Rei donned her traditional red and white miko outfit sitting on the bed putting on her sandals.
"Well I better go, Seiya wanted to meet at the crown and I'm already going to be late" Minako said while leaning down for a goodbye kiss. Rei leaned up to meet her for the kiss filled with a little more passion then was normal for a goodbye. Minako turned to leave.
"Don't forget your phone, John would be upset if he called you and you had left it here" Rei said as she grabbed the vividly bright orange blackberry that was so Mina, from the desk and handed it to her.
"Thanks babe" Minako said and kissed the miko one more time before turning to depart.
"Your right he would probably kick my ass if he called and I didn't answer" Mina finished while walking out the bedroom door.
Minako left the temple and jumped into her obnoxious yellow car, quickly driving to the crown. Parking was a nightmare but she finally found a spot just down the road. Swiftly seizing it and jumping out to quickly walk to the Crowns entrance. As she made it she noticed Seiya just walking up from the other direction.
"Hey" he said when they reached each other.
"Hey" Minako answered. "So what kind of breakfast were you thinking, I'm going to get pancakes because I love them and my trainer and agent never let me have them" Mina continued as they walked into the Crown and took a booth.
"I'm going for waffles I keep trying to get the cooks to make them on my planet but they can never seem to get them right" Seiya said as they waited for the waitress to come and take their orders. When she arrived they both ordered what they wanted.
"Oh my god, your Seiya from The Three Lights, and your Minako Aino could I have your autographs" the waitress asked.
"Sure" Seiya said quietly. "but please keep it down we don't really want to be bothered with crazy fans right now" He continued while he signed the notebook she handed him and then handed it to Minako who signed it as well smiling.
"Yes please don't call to much attention to us I'm on vacation and would really like to not have to duck the paparazzi for the rest of the time I'm in town" Mina said.
"Sorry but I'm not the only one who noticed you" the waitress said while looking around the room. Mina quickly put her sunglasses back on not that it would do much good now, everyone in the crown seemed to be looking at them. The waitress left to go get their orders ready.
"Crap I think everyone in the place is looking at us" Seiya whispered. Mina just nodded her head. After a while the excitement seemed to calm down and most of the people seemed to be paying attention to their food again. Not long after the waitress brought them their pancakes and waffles and they both dug in with huge smiles forgetting about their appearances.
They both talked while they ate Minako talking about how annoying being an idol can be and Seiya sharing stories of crazy times and stalkers back in his idol days, hinting a little about herself having been one of them. Mina blushed remembering how her and the other girls had tended to follow around The Three Lights back in school.
"But it seems I have lost Makoto and Ami as stalkers" Seiya sighed as he joked referring to the fact that the girls were obviously together. "Maybe I could get them back if I transformed into Fighter, then I would be a girl" Seiya continued to joke. Minako just laughed.
"wow these waffles are so good have you tried them? If I had known the crown had these good of waffles I would have been coming here all the time when I was still on Earth" Seiya continued.
"No I haven't tired the waffles we hardly ever came here for breakfast back then, I was lucky if I was up in time to grab some toast from my kitchen table before I had to be at school" Minako laughed as she answered.
"Here try some they are fantastic" Seiya said as he picked up a bit on his fork and leaned across the table toward Minako.
"Sure" Mina said as she leaned to grab the bite. They were interrupted by a flash of light when they turned to find it they didn't see anything.
"What was that " Minako said through a mouth full of waffles.
"I don't know" Seiya said as he looked out the window. "Maybe its going to rain" He finished looking at the sky it was a little dark but didn't look like it was going to start to fall until later in the day. Minako quickly forgot about it when someone opened the back door of the Crown and they heard someone singing Karaoke. She smiled and said.
"Hey wana do some singing now" tilting her head towards the back door and the desk which was the entrance to the karaoke section of the Crown.
"Sure" Seiya said while finishing his last bit and downing his last sip of orange juice.
They walked back to the desk and rented a karaoke room. The girl behind the counter stared at them wide eyed amazed that she was actually talking to Minako Aino and Seiya Kou although she didn't really talk she just stared. When she realized they were waiting for instructions she shook her head and finally began to talk.
"Oh sorry, uhm you'll be in room 6 on the very end, there is a red button by the door if you need any assistance with the karaoke equipment but I think you will be able to handle it. If you want we can record your session for you, many people like to do that as a gift to parents and such." Mina interrupted and said to Seiya.
"Lets do that so we can hear if we want to do the concert or not plus it may help sway Yaten and Tahiki."
"Sure" Seiya said and turned to the girl behind the counter.
"Please set our room up for record"
"alright" the girl said as she punched a few things into the computer.
"Your all set and thank you for coming to Crown Karaoke" she continued and handed them a card.
"This will open the door to room six have a nice time" She said as they walked through the door.
Minako and Seiya reached the room and opened it. There was all kinds of Karaoke equipment and the room was outrageously cheerful. They descended the stairs with a smile. Minako immediately ran to the equipment and set up her number one hit song 'C'est La Vie' as the beginning started she said.
"gotta warm up, plus you need to learn the words" Seiya sat down and looked at the screen. He figured he would know the whole song after she sang it once and could probably sing a tenor part to it, he had always been amazingly good at learning songs and writing his own. When Minako started to sing he was entranced. 'damn if I knew she was this good I would have brought her on tour with us back in school, no wonder she's the number one pop star in this world right now' When the song was over Seiya clapped and Mina bowed.
"Your turn" Mina said as she handed the microphone to Seiya.
"You know my song already get up here and sing with me so we can see if our voices mesh good." Seiya said as he searched for The Three Lights song 'Moonlight Princess'
"To bad Rei's not here she is just as good at singing as me she just never wanted to be and idol" Minako said as she grabbed the other microphone.
"Really" Seiya said a little shocked that he never knew these girls were so good, he started to punch in the code for their next song.
"Yeah we used to sing together all the time in school we actually got a few offers to go on tour together but she never wanted that, she always wanted to be a business woman but I guess she couldn't give up on music totally she did become an agent for Phoenix Music."
"Phoenix, wow they are a really good agency, back in the day we were considering them but they were based in New York and we had to stay in Japan since we were sure our Princess was here." Seiya said. "If she works for Phoenix what's she doing here" he said while pausing the machine so it wouldn't start while they were talking.
"Well she has been living in New York for the past five years but when her grandpa died and left the temple to her, she quit so she could come back to Japan and run the temple. Its been in her family for generations, I think from the time it was first built, she always expected to come back here and run it some day" Mina said as she walked up to the stage.
"That sucks about her grandpa, but as long as she is happy working at the temple, you all deserve to be happy after all you have done for this planet. Hell how many times did you die, twice??" Seiya said kinda joking then quickly changed the subject. "so you ready" he continued as he looked at her.
"Lets do this" Mina said in a serious tone with a smile on her face as Seiya hit the un pause button and the song 'Moonlight Princess' began to play.
Their voices meshed perfectly Mina had known the song for years and quickly came up with her own part. After they were done she decided to sing 'Romance' one of her other songs. Seiya quickly learned that one as well, already thinking about how he would write his own part to it. They continued to sing each others songs for about 2 or 3 more hours before they decided to get out of there and get some ice cream. Seiya asked more about her and Rei's singing until they reached the ice cream parlor. Seiya ordered chocolate and Minako ordered her favorite, strawberry. They continued their topic of music until they reached the park.
"Hey lets walk through the park it's a short cut to the car that way I can give you a ride to the mansion or the temple if you wana come hang out with Rei and myself"
"Sure" Seiya said as he finished his ice cream. They were just entering the park when Mina tripped and was about to fall face first into the cement when Seiya grabbed her around the waist holding her tight.
"Shit Mina you almost fell on your head, I think you are beginning to have the grace of Usagi" Seiya said laughing.
"Hey I'm not as bad as her, but thanks for catching me I would be totally upset if I had to go back and get more ice cream" at that Seiya laughed and let her go.
"ice cream that's what you were worried about? Oh who cares about the concussion I need my ice cream" Seiya mimicked as they walked through the park.
"Oh Seiya you don't even know! Sailor Venus has a huge strawberry addiction" She said as she laughed at Seiya's antics.
"Well since Sailor Star Fighter is hopelessly addicted to Chocolate I guess I can understand" Seiya said while smiling.
They made it through the park without any more concussion close calls and walked to Minako's rental car.
"Holy Crap Minako what kind of car is this I would think you might want to be inconspicuous, this car clearly say's 'look at me! look at me! I'm right here'" he said while they got in the car.
"Yeah John was the one who picked it out he did it specifically to annoy me because he knows I hate flashy cars and convertibles." Mina said as she bent close to Seiya to put her hat in the glove box so she didn't lose it to the wind when she drove." Seiya lleaned over looking through the center console and grabbed one of Minako's CD's and popped it into the player to listen to while they drove so he could learn all her songs.
Mina started to drive to the temple and when the song 'Romance' came on Seiya began to sing it very loudly and out of tune. Minako just laughed and parked. They were both still laughing when they reached the temple steps Rei was there at the bottom just having finished sweeping them.
"Hey Guys" Rei said with a smile to cover her annoyance that Minako was obviously having a great time with Seiya.
"Hey Rei, Minako was telling me you are good at singing and I want to hear. I got to hear her voice today and of course it is wonderful, but then she said that you are just as good as her and I want to know if its true because then I can kick myself for not having grabbed you two back in school to make you part of the band" Seiya said laughing.
"I swear she is just as good as me" Minako said with a grin.
"I don't know Mina I haven't sang in such a long time I might suck now" Rei answered.
"I don't think so Rei I had a little taste of your vocal skills the other night and I think you still got it" Mina said while looking at Rei with mischief in her eyes obviously referring to how loud Rei was vocally during sex. Rei blushed deeply but Seiya missed the insinuation, it having totally gone over his head.
"Well anyway I want to hear it we should all go back to the Karaoke place tomorrow after everyone gets out of work it would be a blast." Seiya said as they began to walk the long trip up the stairs to the temple. They were almost half way up when they heard Yaten yell.
"Hey guys" He yelled as he ran up the steps quickly catching up.
"Sorry I missed breakfast I was just crazy tired"
"Don't worry Yaten I didn't get to go either I had to finish some chores but I was just about to make a snack if you want some" Rei said as they reached the top of the steps.
"Yeah that sounds good ill help" Yaten said as he took Rei's hand and started to walk with her to the house. Rei started a little when Yaten did this, he had never really showed affection like this before, but she decided not to say anything and just walked with him to the house leaving the other two at the top of the steps following at a slower pace.
When Yaten and Rei made it to the house Seiya started to laugh.
"What's so funny" Minako said with a frown at how Yaten was holding Rei's hand.
"Looks like Yaten has a crush" Seiya said as he continued to laugh lightly.
"On Rei!!!" Mina said dumbfounded.
"I would say so, he has always liked her more serious personality. And they both tend to be loners, maybe they would be good together." Seiya commented.
"She's taken" Mina said forcefully.
"Really? I heard she was single, to bad, Yaten rarely if ever shows an interest in someone" Seiya said as they made it to the house. The conversation stopped when they entered and made their way to the kitchen. When they walked in Mina didn't like what she saw. Rei was grabbing Yaten's hands helping him cut up the cheese into little slices so they would fit on the sandwiches she had started to make. The cuts he had previously made were discarded since they were more like huge chunks. Rei grabbed one and ate it chuckling as she went to finish the sandwiches, confident that Yaten now understood her instruction to slice the cheese not hack at the cheese.
"do you guys want a sandwich its been a while since you had breakfast" Rei said turning her head to look at Minako and Seiya now sitting at the new table.
"Sure I'll have one as long as you make it, We are not allowed in a kitchen on our planet" Seiya said laughing. "Well obviously" He continued indicating Yaten's inability to cut the cheese into slices. Since Rei had left him the slices seemed to be getting thicker and thicker. Rei just smiled at the white haired mans attempting at slicing the cheese.
"Yeah I'll have one too" Mina said with a smile as well, it was funny how Yaten's cheese slices were getting to be so large she could probably slice them again.
"Done" Yaten said with a smile. Taking the cheese to Rei.
"Thanks, ill finish up you can go and sit with the others" When his back was turned Rei sliced a few of the larger pieces once more. And placed them all on the sandwiches. She then carried all possible ingredients and condiments to the table followed by the sandwiches and took a seat at the table. Rei just grabbed the mayonnaise and ham and was done. Mina settled for ham, mayo and mustard, the boys seemed to want everything, this just made the girls smile.
"So Yaten, Minako and I went to karaoke today" Seiya said.
"Yeah you guys want to hear how we did" Mina said taking the CD they had recorded from her purse and running over to the CD player in the kitchen which Minako recognized as Rei's from a very long time ago.
"Doesn't look like we get a choice" Rei whispered loudly, so everyone could hear, while leaning in towards Yaten to say this. Yaten just grinned as the first song came on.
"This is just Minako, most of her songs are just her since I hadn't heard them yet." Seiya explained as they heard Mina's voice singing to her song. Yaten was entranced as well.
"Wow your really good" He said to Minako.
"Thanks that's why they pay me" Mina said and grinned.
When the first song was over they all, excluding Minako, clapped. Yaten smiled when he heard the beginnings of The Three Lights song 'Moonlight Princess'.
"This one we did together" Seiya said just before the singing started. When the song was over Yaten looked stunned.
"Damn that was amazing I never thought about adding a female part to that song but it sounded great" Yaten said.
"Oh you should hear Rei and I sing it, we used to all the time back in high school. it's the song we were singing when we were offered that music deal and to go on tour." Mina said turning to Seiya.
"You can sing too" Yaten said to Rei.
"I haven't in so long" Rei began but was cut off by Minako.
"Yeah she's just as good as me if not better, I've always liked her voice more then my own personally" Yaten smiled and looked at Seiya.
"You thinking what I'm thinking??" He said. Seiya nodded and they both said at the exact same time.
"Karaoke Party!!!"
A/N I love how Minako gets to feel a little jealous over Yaten's crush on Rei since Rei had to deal with her jealousy over John and Seiya so far. She also gets a little protective quickly saying that Rei was already taken. Oh and for those of you who have seen the live action, the Karaoke room is similar to the one they always were in at the crown and the songs 'C'est La Vie' and 'Romance' are both Minako's from the live action as well. 'Moonlight Princess' is obviously The Three Lights from season 5 of the anime.