Chapter 27

Past Stories, Future Slip ups

(Wed)

As Rei and Minako exited the car and began to walk towards the dress shop they saw Ami's black SUV pull up and park directly behind them.

"Hey Guys" Minako said with a blond smile as Makoto and Ami stepped out of the vehicle. Makoto smiled and waved. Ami just waved and continue to the shop entering while muttering under her breath something they couldn't hear.

"What's wrong with Ami?" Rei asked Makoto as the brunette made her way around the vehicle. Mako smiled and stated.

"She hates being late, one of her interns called her in last minute for an "emergency" and it turned out to be something stupid and easy that the intern had ended up getting done before we got there, but neglected to call her and let her know she was no longer needed. So she got pissed and she just gets so cute when she like that I couldn't help but tease her so now she is pissed at me, but it is totally worth it! she's just so cute when she scowls, since she doesn't do it that often, especially with her cute little glasses, like a naughty school girl" Makoto continued her thoughts drifting off as she continued.

"Whoa unnecessary mental image, I think I'm gonna be haunted by that for days" Mina said as she tried to get the image of Ami as a sexy school girl out of her head. At Mina's words Rei got a mental image as well and decided to tease the other girls.

"Yeah me to, but mines an image I may want to keep!, short skirt, high heels, the cute glasses, tight sheer bra, maybe a whip or something oh yeah" Minako and Makoto both glared at her like they were on the verge of killing the teasing miko. Rei inwardly smiled and continued.

"Now that's sexy I may never be able to see Ami the same way again, from now on I think I'm gonna end up seeing her scantily clad with the whip" Rei said as she purposely let her face seem to drift off in thought as if she was thinking/imagining it as much as possible at that very moment. Makoto got a little mad and said.

"You better get that image out of your head now or ill knock it out" Mako said as she grabbed the front of Rei's shirt in anger. Minako was very upset and contemplated letting Makoto hit Rei, then she realized if Rei got hurt physically it would only hurt her emotionally to see her dark haired lover in pain so she grabbed Makoto's arm and said.

"Mako come on its not like Rei is gonna go and try to steal Ami from you, plus Ami would never leave you, she loves you way to much" Minako's words seemed to calm down the enraged thunder senshi and Makoto quickly came to her senses and released Rei's shirt.

It all happened so fast Rei hardly had time to react one second she was teasing her friend and girlfriend, the next she was about to get the shit knocked out of her.

"What's going on out here" The three heard Ami's voice just as Makoto let Rei go.

"Makoto was going to kick Rei's ass for having impure thoughts about you" Minako stated plainly.

"Jeez guys I was totally kidding, Mako I didn't think you would react like this" Rei said as she straightened her shirt. Ami found the situation amusing and decided to play along, quickly walking up to Rei sexily she leaned in and whispered in her ear hoping to make it seem like she was saying something sexy.

"Play along" Ami said then backed up a little, still very close to Rei's face, and said louder so Mako and Mina could hear.

"And just what kind of impure thoughts were you having about me Rei, something naughty I hope" It was Mina's turn to get angry. She got livid when Rei placed her hand on Ami's cheek with a smile and leaned in to whisper close to Ami's ear.

"It had to do with you being a naughty school girl and if Mako kicks my ass for this I'm blaming you!" Rei then leaned back into their previous position and said louder much like Ami had before.

"That's what It was about, although I played it down a little for Mako and Mina you got the uncensored version" Ami giggled and answered.

"That's very sexy!, We may have to try that later" Ami said with a wink. At this point Minako was about to rage and she flinched painfully as she felt a searing ache in her chest for a split second as she looked at Ami and Rei, but Mako distracted her by saying something first.

"No one is going to be trying anything later!" Ami and Rei both began to laugh hysterically.

"Oh my gosh, guys your faces were priceless" Ami said "Mako it seems like we need to have another talk about my eternal love for you if you are this insecure" Ami said as she pulled Makoto down for a heated kiss. Makoto was very surprised at Ami's blatant public display of affection.

"And that's payback for teasing me earlier" Ami said as she grabbed Makoto's hand and pulled her into the dress shop, but not before turning and saying with a wink and smile to Rei.

"See you in there baby" Mako just pulled Ami the rest of the way into the shop. Rei laughed finding the whole situation very funny, especially Ami's teasing.

"That was hilarious" Rei said as she turned to Minako.

"Yeah very funny" Mina said with a sad smile and obvious sarcasm in her voice 'about as funny as a knife in the gut, and probably twice as painful' Minako thought as the idol remembered seeing Rei openly flirt with Ami. After hearing the jealousy in her own voice the blond sighed 'jeez they were just joking, I need to stop being so insecure, Rei loves me, she wont leave me' Minako thought as a way to try to calm herself down. Rei stepped up to Minako pulling her close and said in a quiet voice.

"Baby I was kidding" Rei said. Mina smiled sincerely and answered while taking Rei's hand in her own.

"I know, it just bothered me a little bit, but don't worry ill get used to it. I know I'm flirtatious by nature so I'm guessing you have to deal with this a lot more then I do"

"Maybe a little bit more" Rei teased and turned to pull Minako into the dress shop.

"Were have you guys been, all four of you late!, Rei, Ami I never would have believed it of you, I mean Mina and Mako yeah, but you guys are the responsible ones" Usagi lectured as the group of four found the rest of the senshi back in the large dressing room area.

"We have to get all the fittings done today because the wedding is going to have to be sooner then we excepted. This weekend actually, I think Mamoru has everything ready, there was a cancellation luckily for us." Usagi said with a big smile.

"Why so soon Usagi?" Mina asked.

"Cuz Mama over here is already getting bigger" Usagi said in a teasing happy voice. Setsuna scowled and said.

"I'm already two sizes bigger then I was a few days ago. At this rate ill be huge if we wait any longer ill never be able to wear the dress and then I wont be able to be in the wedding, which was ok with me but the Princess was adamant I be there, I think it may also be an excuse to rush it though" Setsuna said seriously, not meaning it as a joke, but everyone laughed anyway. 'I don't get it' Setsuna thought, this happened all the time she would say something and not understand why it was so funny. She was just being truthful.

"I wasn't on the moon when you guys were born so I cant remember if this is what it was like for your mothers, god I hate not knowing things, I always know things. I've been alive for so long its hard not to know, but this I have no idea, it frustrates me to no end"

"Or maybe your just getting hormonal" Rei said.

"I'm not hormonal!" Setsuna yelled very suddenly.

"yeah totally not hormonal" Haruka said sarcastically.

"I hate you Ruka I really do" Setsuna said to the blond tomboy.

"Nah you love me teasing you and you know it, you wouldn't know what to do if I stopped teasing you and started to be nice all of the sudden" Haruka answered back.

"Yes that would be a little scary if you were nice to people." Michiru said with a giggle.

"Hey I'm not that mean, and anyway my teasing is just part of my charm" Haruka said with a roguish smile.

"yeah very charming" Hotaru said sarcastically, everyone laughed at the joke.

"Jeez Haruka she sounds like you, why couldn't she have ended up with Michiru's normal scenes of humor" Rei said while giggling. Everyone giggled.

"Hey!" both Haruka and Hotaru said as if they had been insulted.

"God you think another life time would change you guys a bit but no, your still annoying, especially you Haruka, and when you were kids I swear! I got in trouble all the time for "accidentally" throwing you through time" Setsuna said.

"You threw Haruka and Michiru through time" Usagi said in an incredulous voice.

"Mostly Haruka but I sent Michiru to Medieval times once she was there for two whole days before, anyone noticed she was missing from the castle. Of course it was the love struck Haruka who noticed she hadn't seen her little girlfriend in a while and when the queen couldn't sense her anywhere my mother was called to find her, and oh my was I in trouble"

"Where did you send Haruka?" Minako asked loving this little story of the outer senshi as kids.

"Oh she was got on my nerves so often she visited almost every time period I knew as a child."

"Oh Plu tell them the story of the time you sent her to Cro-Magnon times" Chibiusa said. "I love that story" She continued to Hotaru.

"Cro-Magnon?" Mina asked.

"I swear Mina its like you never went to school at all, Cave men Mina, Cro-Magnon were cave men." Rei said matter-of-factly.

"I thought those were Neanderthals" Mina asked.

"Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon are two different types of "cave men" It is speculated that the Neanderthals were the first type of Humans but were later replaced by Cro-Magnon which we are said to have evolved from, its also speculated, but never totally proved, that for a brief period in time the two actually co existed on the planet" Ami started as if she were giving a lecture on the beginnings of the human race. Makoto was used to Ami's random text book knowledge and she knew sometimes if you let her get going she was impossible to stop so she interjected when Ami paused to breath.

"So what happened when you sent Haruka to the B.C's"

"She was there for about two weeks" Setsuna started.

"Two weeks how did no one notice her gone" Hotaru asked.

"Michiru was on Neptune for some political ball or something and all of you were on your planets as well since you had yet to manifest your powers. Everyone just assumed that she was some place else, Haruka you see never stops, she is and was always on the move and usually as a break neck pace" Setsuna continued. "But she was there for two weeks and when my mother finally brought her back, she was the head hunter for a clan of Cro-Magnon and had been offered five different women to be her wives as well as constantly courted by all thirteen the men in the clan."

"Two weeks and you had five wives and thirteen boyfriends, your such a floozy" Michiru teased.

"Hey I wasn't married or had any boyfriends, I needed a place to stay they needed help getting meat for the coming winter, so I helped, I was as fast if not faster then all the game they hunted. That's how I became head hunter so fast, and I'm sure they had a very comfortable winter compared to any other they had previously" Haruka said in her defense "Plus I wouldn't have had to get domestic with the cave clan if Plu here had learned how to bring people back from where she sent them.

"Hey its not easy to find someone and bring them back, its a lot easier to send someone when they are right there in front of you" Setsuna said as she got all teary eyed.

"She was just kidding Setsuna, I'm sure it is hard I mean none of us can even begging to time travel so it pretty amazing" Usagi said hoping to make Setsuna feel better, the time senshi hardly ever showed emotion at all let alone yelled and cried five minutes apart.

"apologize Haruka" Usagi said.

"What I didn't say anything" Haruka started to argue then she noticed there princess's stubborn face a knew that no amount of logic was going to get her out of this apology.

"Fine, Sets I'm sorry you are the best ever at any type of time travel"

"See she is sorry, are you feeling better" Usagi said. Setsuna just wiped away her tears and nodded her head.

"So ready to try on dresses" Michiru said cheerfully.

They spent the rest of the afternoon trying on many different brides maid dresses. Usagi ended up picking a very cute style that went a little ways past the knees and had a cute two inch thick ribbon that tied just above the waist. All the dresses were black with the ribbons the color of choice for each brides maid. Everyone pretty much knew what colors everyone would have. Hotaru's was a deep purple, Michiru chose her trademark aquamarine, as well as Haruka picking her normal deep dark blue, Setsuna when with a light purple, Rei got her normal red, Mina chose her favorite orange, Ami went with a lighter blue, while Makoto chose her normal forest green.

"So Chibiusa your not going to be in the wedding" Mina asked when she noticed the pink haired princess wasn't trying on any dresses.

"No that would be weird to be in my parents wedding I'm already in the pictures and believe me that was confusing growing up. They always told me that I just looked like the girl in the pictures, it wasn't until I stated to time travel that I realized it was probably me" Everyone laughed.

"Aren't you going to try on dresses for the wedding anyways hun" Hotaru said as she slipped on another dress.

"Nope I got one already, Mom said that she had it made for Re.. I mean one of the Senshi's weddings a long time ago, said she got the design from that time I turned into Wicked Lady. She said she thought my dress was soooo cute and she wore it to the wedding and that's the dress I was wearing in the picture so its what I brought plus it is very cute, the dark moon family may have been bad but they had good taste when they gave me that dress"

"Who's wedding did she have it made for" Rei asked since she had noticed Chibiusa's almost slip up.

"Um…" Chibiusa said and looked to Setsuna for help. Setsuna seemed to be off in la la land. "Um I'm not supposed to tell anything about the future" She continued.

"It was for Rei's wedding wasn't it, you pretty much said her name already" Haruka said. Rei immediately looked to Mina who seemed to be very interested in the conversation.

"Um yeah it was for Rei's wedding but I'm not supposed to say anything else, I'm sure ill be getting in trouble already" Chibiusa said.

"I get married?" Rei said. "to who" she asked.

"Rei you know I cant say who"

Mina was lost in thought and she felt the pain in her chest again as she realized what this meant, 'two women can't get married in Japan, this means Rei and I must not end up together, if she gets married to someone. To someone else, someone who's not me' Mina felt like she was about to hyperventilate she couldn't breath and the pain in her chest was getting to be unbearable, but the blond worked hard to not panic and hide the fact that she was in physical pain from her thoughts. Rei noticed Mina's slight distress and reached out to put her hand on the blonds elbow. The dark haired girl noticed that everyone was back to getting dressed and holding other conversations. The moment Rei touched her the pain and panic seemed to start to dissipate.

"I ah gotta use the restroom" Mina announced as she turned to leave. Hoping to get a little time to compose herself. Rei watched her leave and said.

"Yeah I need to use the restroom too" and she turned to follow the blond. When she opened the door to the bathroom she immediately turned to lock it. Searching the room she quickly found Mina with her hands on the sink leaning forward onto them her head down and eyes closed with a few tears slowly going down her face.

"Mina" Rei said. Minako just looked up into the face of the woman she loves so much.

"We don't stay together" Mina whispered. "You marry someone else, we don't end up together" Mina ended on a sob and brought her hands up to cover her face. Minako started to feel the panicked feeling again and gasped for air. Rei ran to the distressed blond pulling her quickly into an tight embrace. Mina breathed easier in Rei's arms.

"Mina I love you, I only want to be with you, we cant let what Chibiusa said get in the way of our love, we don't know the circumstances of anything from the future, plus you heard what Setsuna said, the time line is in a state of flux, things could end up differently then what Chibiusa knows"

"I couldn't do it Rei" Mina started as she held tight to her dark haired love. "I couldn't watch you walk down the aisle, towards someone else, away from me, I just couldn't handle it, if it turns out that way, don't expect me to be there, it would kill me to watch that" Mina sobbed.

"Its not going to end up that way Mina, I'm with you now and forever, in a thousand years I still want to wake up next to you, I still want to see you smile, listen to you sing in the shower, deal with your obnoxious teasing and pranks" Mina giggled a little and blushed when she realized Rei had been listening to her sing while she was in the shower.

"Rei you listen while I sing in the shower, I don't even try when I'm in the shower" Mina said. Rei laughed and said.

"I know, If I hadn't heard you live I would think you couldn't sing at all from the performance you put on in the shower" Mina gave Rei a little punch in the ribs.

"I'm not that bad" Minako mumbled.

"I know love, I was just teasing." Rei answered as she pulled Minako forward into another love filled hug.

A/N Sorry for the delay in posting, things here have been crazy and I lost inspiration for a while. I would like to throw out a thank you for Gambet who praised my story in the A/N of their story "lead me to my fate" which I have been following religiously lol. Oh this is a link to the dress I thought looked most like the dress I was imagining for Usagi's bridesmaid dresses, I thought that this style would look good on all the girls including the taller and shorter girls. Hope it works if not just copy and past. Please review!!! If I don't get more then three review I will assume people aren't interested in the story anymore. P.S. gave a little of the silver millennium Outers for those who wanted a taste of the misbehaving outer senshi. ;)

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