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Chapter 26

Can't take my eyes off of you

The next morning Rei awoke to a strange feeling and almost immediately knew what it was. Slowly she slid out of Minako's grasp and off the bed quickly getting dressed into her miko uniform and pulling her hair back into a semi-respectable position. Just as she finished brushing her teeth she heard a knock on the door. Wasting no time she went to answer the front door and began to speak even before it was open.

"Hey Setsuna, How are you this morning."

"Mars, how did you know it was me" Setsuna asked as she walked into the living room. Rei smiled and gestured for her guest to take a seat.

"I sensed you coming up the steps, your aura awoke me from a deep sleep actually, your pregnancy must be what's making it pulse like that"

"My aura is pulsing?"

"Yeah its weird actually its almost the equivalent to you standing there and screaming at me, that's how I sensed you from so far away, I bet your driving Michiru crazy" Rei said with a little giggle. "But that's the burden of being psychic I guess, but my powers center more on seeing the future then sensing, unlike Michiru who can hardly see five minutes into the future but can sense things all across the country happening"

"Oh well sorry for screaming at you I don't mean too" Setsuna said seriously, Rei just giggled.

"So what can I do for you this morning. I assume you have a reason for coming other then a random visit at 4:30 in the morning" Setsuna smiled.

"Yes I do actually, I'm worried"

"About what specifically" Rei asked since there were quite a few things she could think of that Setsuna would worry about.

"About the time line, I cant go to the gates to see the possible futures and its making me uneasy, some of the possibilities are catastrophic and I want to be sure to avoid those futures but like I said we are totally in the dark"

"Ok" Rei said to acknowledge she understood.

"So I was wondering if you could do some fire readings, try to sense the future a little, I know with the problem going on it will be hard for you to see and probably a little blurry but some information is better then none"

"I could try, I haven't used my powers intentionally in about five years and when I'm out of practice I tend to get a lot of random images I cant guarantee my senses will concentrate on the things you may want me to see"

"That's alright there's a good chance that the future were heading toward is what you will be seeing so do a few readings it doesn't matter what you see just give it a try and let me know what you saw I can then translate it and use what I have already seen at the gates to see which path we may be taking"

"Ok, I can do a few readings this morning since we don't have to be at Usagi's fittings until noon and Minako probably wont be up for hours yet"

"You don't have to do it now you can go back to sleep and do it later if you want" Setsuna said feeling guilty that she had come over so early. She had been living at the time gates for so long before the senshi had been reestablished that sometimes she overlooked the time of the day and social protocols that are attached to them, day's, hours, and seconds tend to blend together and not matter much after one thousand years alone.

"Oh its no problem, after I get up I usually cant fall back asleep anyway, plus I was planning to start to meditate and do readings again . A few times now Mina has come up behind me and scared the crap out of me, and as someone who has been psychic my whole life that rarely ever happens, and I don't really like it, so I need to exercise my powers so she cant do it anymore" Rei said with a mischievous grin hoping to get her mental abilities back into shape so she can foil any more of Minako's plots to sneak up behind her.

"Ok thanks Mars, I guess ill leave you to it, and I'll see you at the fittings" Setsuna said back.

"yup see ya there" Rei answered as she escorted Setsuna to the door.

Making her way to the kitchen Rei made herself some toast and a glass of orange juice, it wasn't good to try to meditate on an empty stomach, 'it tends to screw up my concentration if I'm thinking about food' Rei thought as she finished her light breakfast and headed towards the shrine room. Rei soon made her way to the sacred fire, sitting down in front of the flames and readying her mind for the experience of sensing the future.

Rei hadn't been meditating for long when she finally felt images and feelings, indicating she was tapping into the future. Soon she saw a vision, it was somewhat blurry but she could still make out her room here at the shrine. Then she heard a voice.

"Rei?" and she saw someone stirring on the bed. Soon Minako's golden hair was in view and she could almost make out the idols face through the blurriness. 'well I wanted to see the future but not a few hours into it I need to concentrate to see further. Rei then pushed her consciousness out of the vision and settled back into deep meditation until she felt the pull of another vision.

Once again it was blurry and she could hear music, music that gave away exactly what she was seeing as she looked down the aisle to see a blond women in white slowly walking toward them to the beat of the wedding march. 'crap Usagi's wedding this isn't what I was going for, Usagi will kill me if she finds out I saw it before it happened I better not stay and watch' so once again Rei brought her consciousness back into meditation and stayed there trying to concentrate on the future while thinking about the problem with the time line.

About thirty minutes later she felt the familiar tug and let herself be pulled into another vision, this one confused her. 'What is this the past? No it cant be' Rei thought as she looked at the blurry vision of herself 'I would remember this if it was the past, and it wouldn't be blurry like this'. The vision was a blurry representation of her apartment in New York she saw herself walk across the room toward the ringing telephone, but couldn't make out the expression on the future Rei's face. Slowly she made her way to the future her and placed her consciousness inside the future Rei's body, something she had found very handy when it came to seeing visions of herself she found she could hear, see, and feel what the future Rei was experiencing if she did this.

"Hello, Rei?" She heard on the other line, it was Ami and she sounded panicked or scared.

"Yeah Ami, what's wrong." Rei said back. Things started to get more hazy 'I'm having trouble staying in this vision' Rei thought as she fought to see and hear clearly.

"It's Mina" Ami said then paused, the future Rei just waited and listened. "She's dieing"

"What!" the future Rei said. Then Rei couldn't hold onto the vision any longer and found herself back in her meditative state. 'what was that, did she say dieing' Rei thought as she tried to force her way back into the quickly retreating vision. 'I could hardly make out what Ami was saying, I hope I heard wrong'

Chasing the vision didn't work and soon she was being pulled into another one. The future Rei was walking down a hall with white walls, she heard a voice over the intercom.

"Dr. Yumika please report to ICU" 'a hospital, what am I doing here' Rei thought as she remembered the last vision she became afraid. The future Rei made her way to a group of people and as the two Rei's came closer the present Rei noticed, through the blurriness, it was her friend group, all the senshi, at leas. Maybe more people. John stepped forward with a mad look on his face.

"You bitch, how could you do that to her" he said. Rei was stunned John had never been in anyway hostile toward her in the past. 'what's going on?, I cant get clear visions, there just random gaps in time. 'The future Rei didn't seem fazed by Johns reaction she just mumbled something, but the present Rei couldn't make it out. Whatever she said seemed to make John more angry. Roughly he shoved her, hard, pushing her to the ground while screaming.

"SHE'S DIEING BECAUSE OF YOU!!!" Rei heard as clearly as if she were actually standing right there then she felt herself being pulled from the vision. 'no, not yet, I need to know what's happening' Rei thought as her consciousness fought to stay in this time. Rei was able to stay only long enough to see John being forcefully restrained by Mamoru, Haruka and Makoto, from causing the future her anymore damage.

Rei was so emotionally distraught she couldn't even bring herself back into a meditative state, opening her eyes she came back to reality. 'I'm crying' she thought as she felt the wetness at her cheeks. Her face was covered in sweat and tears and she was physically exhausted. 'what was that, what was happening, what did I do, and what was wrong with Mina, questions just more questions I found no answers at all' Rei thought. The miko was still sitting there in front of the sacred flames when she heard the door to the shrine room slid open. Rei quickly wiped the tears away from her face.

"Rei, what are you doing up so early, its only 5:30 in the morning" Mina asked. Rei turned to look at her and smiled, Mina hadn't bothered to put any clothes on preferring to just wrap herself in Rei's dark purple sheet. 'its only been an hour, jeez those visions were quick, guess its because I couldn't stay in one for long'

"Setsuna asked me to do a few fire readings to try to see the future" Rei answered as she stood and slowly walked toward Minako.

"Oh well you should do it at a decent time, I cant sleep without you with me" Mina said as she reached her hand out to Rei and guided her back to the bed room. Rei smiled at those words then frowned 'some how in the future I'm going to hurt her, I should try to keep my distance, at least until I get a more clear reading of what's going on' Rei thought as Minako removed Rei's clothes and pushed her back into bed, snuggling close, placing her head on Rei's chest. Minako sighed and Rei hugged her close. 'I don't want to hurt you' Rei thought.

"So did you see anything interesting in the future" Mina asked when she got comfy.

"Not sure yet what I saw, I need to meditate a little on it" Rei said as a way to sidestep the question.

"oh, ok" Mina said on a yawn and nuzzled deeper into the crook of Rei's neck.

In no time at all Minako was fast asleep. Rei felt exhausted she had forgot how tiring it could be to use her powers. Slowly Rei fell back asleep too, holding Mina close. Thinking of her visions and trying to think of ways of how she could avoid the last one.

The sun was shining bright through the window and had long ago become an annoyance to the occupant of the bed, whom hours ago decided to hide from the troublesome light by way of a large fluffy pillow over her head. The dark haired girl was fast asleep still hiding under said pillow when her blond girlfriend quietly walked into the room they had been sharing. Slowly Mina walks up to the bed and crawls across, towards the hiding dark haired miko, leaning down and placing light gentle kisses on her shoulder slowly making her way up to Rei's neck and whispering.

"Baby, you better get up soon if you want to eat before the fittings" Rei shifted slightly but made no noise or move to get up. Minako smiled, she liked this, waking Rei up. Rei was always up before her since she was the more disciplined of the two and Mina hardly got to be the one to make sure they weren't late for anything. Minako was pulled out of her thoughts when Rei mumbled something in her sleep, efficiently helping Mina locate her mouth from under the pillow, but the phrase was totally incoherent and sounded something like.

"the ponies want monkeys for shoes" Minako bit her lip to keep from laughing and was wondering if what she thought she heard was actually what Rei had said. Pushing the pillow up a little bit so as to expose Rei's lips Minako got really close and said.

"Ponies cant have monkeys for shoes Rei" then kissed her girlfriend gently, well it was gently at first but the sleeping Rei soon brought her hands to Minako's back pulling her tightly to the miko and deepening the kiss tremendously. Before Mina knew what was happening Rei had flipped them over and had her pinned to the mattress ravishing her mouth, hands wandering to places they aught not to be unless they could finish what they were starting and Minako knew they didn't have the time. Especially since they still had to eat. Minako reluctantly pulled away and put her head in the crook of Rei's neck so her dark haired girlfriend wouldn't be able to get to her lips again.

"Rei we have to get up, we cant spend all day in bed whether we are sleeping or… doing other things, we have Usagi's fittings remember." Rei who was still not totally awake answered in a mumble.

"don't worry sweetie…, I saw it yesterday, we all.. look great"

"You saw Usagi's wedding in the fire? You know she will be upset if she knew you saw the whole thing before it happened."

"Hmm" was the only sound Minako heard as Rei started to kiss her neck. Mina smiled as she pushed Rei up a little.

"Rei wake up already, its one thing to be ravished by you when your awake its totally inappropriate if your asleep." Minako said as she gently patted Rei's face. She knew the precise moment when reality dawned on Rei and she was fully awake, her eyes seemed to focus and turn a darker color violet.

"Your eyes are really light when you just wake up, almost a lilac color. Its really pretty" Mina said as Rei sat up and started untangling her hair with her fingers.

"Really?, cool, guess I never ran to look in the mirror to see them" Rei said in a slightly joking tone. Minako smiled and said.

"well you should, your gorgeous." Rei humphed and said.

"Yeah right Mina, I just woke up"

"Your still pretty, I just cant take my eyes off you" Minako answered.

"You're a tease" Rei said. Minako smiled.

"its true, you make me feel things I've never known, but we should get up and eat so we wont be late for Usagi's fitting even if you have seen the wedding we still need to go" Rei quickly stated.

"I only saw a little I left when I realized what I was seeing I knew Usagi would freak out!"

"Yeah she would" Minako said as she got off the bed while Rei began to dress in a pair of jeans just like hers and a tight black t-shirt that said "Team Jacob." Minako smiled at the shirt and grabbed Rei's hand pulling her toward the kitchen with a mischievous smile. Rei wondered at the smile but didn't say anything, Rei quickly realized what Minako was smiling about when she saw Naru dressed in some of Minako's clothes, sitting at the table with Youchiro eating a late breakfast. Rei joined Minako in a the mischievous smile and they entered the kitchen holding hands.

"Hey guys have fun last night" Rei said in a joking and very insinuating tone. Naru blushed but Youchiro said.

"Jeez Rei you're a perv nothing happened" Naru decided to not be so embarrassed and continued.

"Yeah when we got to my moms house, which is were I'm staying, she had already gone to bed and locked me out, guess she's not used to me being here, so Youchiro said I could stay in the guest room. And you guys were here so its not like we were alone"

"True" Mina said as she made a plate for her and Rei, leaving the sausage off of Rei's plate knowing how she doesn't really care for it. Rei got Minako and herself a glass of tea remembering to put some milk and sugar in Mina's like she liked it 'weird English raised freak.' Rei thought as a joke. They both made it to the table at the same time giving each other the food and drink they made for the other. Naru smiled at this.

"Gosh you guys exactly how long have you been together??, you already act like you have been dating for years" Youchiro said. It was Rei and Mina's turn to blush. Naru decided to answer.

"Well they haven't been dating long, but they have been friends for like ever. Since they were like fourteen so it makes sense they would be so comfortable around each other."

"That's true, its just cute to see how much they know about each other like see how Rei doesn't have sausage and how Minako's tea has milk and sugar." Rei and Mina blushed got even deeper. Naru and Youchiro both laughed until Minako flicked a little bit of scrambled egg at them. Rei laughed at this and quickly finished her food and drink.

"Come on Mina we only have like ten minutes to noon you know Usagi will be early since wedding stuff is the only thing she is ever early for and if I'm late ill never hear the end of it, because according to Usagi I've never gotten over Mamoru and it will just give her more ammo to tease me with" Youchiro and Mina laughed Naru looked puzzled and said.

"you dated Mamoru too?" Rei smiled at the confused red head and said.

"Not really but kinda, its complicated"

"So you are like bisexual I'm guessing since you've dated Youchiro and Mamoru but are now dating Minako, sorry if I'm being nosy I was just wondering" Naru asked. Rei smiled not having any problem with Naru's questions.

"Yes I guess that's what you would call me, I've dated both men and women in my past" then Naru turned to Minako and asked.

"I guess your bisexual to since I've seen in magazines all the guys you date" Mina smiled and corrected the red head.

"Well I wasn't actually dating any of those men, they are friends or co-workers I was out with. My agent seems to think it helps my image as a sex symbol if I'm seen with a lot of men, I'm actually not interested in men, I've only dated women so I guess you would classify me as a lesbian"

"That's not true Mina you used to have a huge crush on Motoki" Rei countered.

"Well actually Rei I wasn't really that interested in him I was mostly trying to cover up the fact that I was gay when I would swoon over guys, I almost thought I might be Bi when I got a huge crush on Haruka then we all found out she was a she and it only seemed to confirm my thoughts" Mina answered.

"YOU had a crush on Haruka" Rei asked then quickly realized she sounded jealous and covered by continuing "well she is hot so I guess that's ok" Mina had noticed the jealousy in Rei voice and also noticed that Rei was trying to control it. Minako smiled when she noticed this thinking Rei was very sweet to try so hard to not be so possessive.

"Well we better go honey we are now going to be late and Usagi will be able to tease you"

"Damn" Rei said as she looked at her watch and noticed it was three minutes past noon.

By the time they got to the dress shop it was already twelve thirteen. Minako had driven like a crazy person making Rei a little sick in the process but getting them there very quickly.

"Shit Minako do you even have a license" Rei asked.

"Of course I do Rei, its a L.A/USA license but why would you ask that" Mina asked with a questioning gaze.

"No reason" Rei said as she got out of the car and made a mental note to buy some Dramamine.

A/N Ok I lied a little last time I guess I never got to the part of the fittings but they are almost there so yeah, its probably gonna be boring anyways just getting dresses and a little gossip. I had a little bit of inspiration for a few of the lines when they were talking in bed from Lady Antabellum's song "Can't take my eyes off of you". Tried to make the story move along a bit and hope to get rid of the writers block and make my ideas come out on "paper" better. Please review I get so discouraged!!!!!