I admit this story was stuck in my mind and I unable to write. (TT_TT)

Okay, the vote is end up with Minako (I know, the majority says so, it's really thin gap between Minako and commander.) I will try to be fair here.

Rei felt like she had been walking for hours searching the blonde commander. The longer she walked, the greater the guilt in her heart. Rei stopped on her track, her hand clenched formed a fist. She wanted to yell, scream, hell… maybe killing something. Where are the black clans when she needed them the most? The frustration built up within her had reached the limit.

I am a fool. All I want was to go back to my dimension, to her. Rei hugged herself with both her arms. Her legs gave away as her body collapsed on the ground. She couldn't bear this fate any longer. She wanted to retreat but gave up here means all of her struggles until this point would end up in vain. Rei was tired, she desired an escape hole from her miserable life for a moment. So, she shut her eyes welcoming the darkness came upon her.

"Rei… wake up! You are really a sleepyhead." The voice echoed in her ears. The sweet and gentle voice which Rei missed a lot. The raven haired girl opened her eyes, at first it's only a blur image, however slowly and surely the dots shaped the fuzzy image. Rei registered what happened, she found herself looking to the blonde venusian.

"Minako…" The martian jerked up immediately, she examined her surrounding and knew the place. It was her room, she also figured that other than Minako, Ami, Makoto, and Usagi were also there. They were occupied the only bed in her chamber.

"You passed out like 2 hours!" Minako giggled, she took out her cell phone.

"I catch the picture drooling Rei!" The venusian showed off the picture to everyone. Usagi reacted first, she chuckled because now she has another material to mock back the priestess.

"This is a master piece…" Usagi nodded and laughed together with Minako.

Rei only sat dumbly on her spot. The last thing she remembered… was it all a dream? No way…

"Are you okay Rei?" Ami noticed the unusual expression from her friend. Maybe the heat from the season made the fire senshi suddenly slow and stupid.

"Someone pinch me, punch me, kick me, whatever… I need to fully wake up." Rei responded in hurry.

"As you wish!" Minako jumped to Rei and attacked her with the super pinched on Rei's cheek. She deliberately pulled out the skin as far as it can stretch.

"Oucch… ouch…" Rei grabbed Minako's hand. "It hurts, stop it!"

"You ask for it." Minako grinned evilly. "Usagi, help me here!" The other blonde salute to Minako's order. She went clutching Rei's hand from moving. Minako launched another attack with tickles attack.

"Hahahaha….stop it! Haahahahaha…" Rei laughed in tears.

"Hey, guys… cut it out." Makoto and Ami both only watched in amused. Ami was the one who put an end to it.

"Let's continue our study. Minako, Usagi… you both still don't understand the formula yet, right?" Ami closed her book with a loud sound.

Minako and Usagi looked at each other, their face went pale.

"I think we get a break?" Usagi whined, her brain already tired.

Rei still watched the scene with her eyes. Unbeliavable. All of it back then only a dream?

Rei cleaned up her room after everyone went home. She gathered the trash in one plastic and took it out to the front yard. There, she saw Minako still standing in front of the shrine gate. The blonde's sight fell on the scenery ahead her. The sun set on the west.

Rei waited until Minako finished, the priestess noticed a single drop of tear fell down from the cerulean eyes. After the red sky changed into a completely dark black sky, the moon appear on the other side. The blonde smiled, took a deep breath as she stepped down the stairs outside the shrine.

"Minako." Rei finally called her. She knew, she could see her tomorrow. However, the martian was afraid of the unexpected turn of fate that can happen anytime. When the blonde turned her head on her, Rei silently thankful every moment she capable to see the venusian. She realized her feelings after a long distant without end nightmare. For Rei, she would never let go the chance she has now.

"Rei..." Minako smiled cheerfully like usual, the tear just now was gone without trace.

"I think you went home already." Rei reached out Minako's hand. "Follow me. Do not ask anything." Rei asked.

The blonde seem confused. "please?" Rei begged, Minako only nodded.

Rei pulled Minako back to the shrine.

"Rei, what is it? Your grip… hurts." Minako mentioned Rei's grip on her wrist.

"I'm sorry… I just want to talk to you."

Minako unusually quiet, Rei knew that the blonde could read the tension in her voice.

"I… I had a nightmare." Rei started.

"I had a nightmare when you are not you, Usagi is not Usagi, and everyone I knew here are strangers." Rei never let go her grip on Minako.

"I'm scared."

"… Rei." Minako saw Rei with concern in her eyes. Her other hand unconsciously went to touch the martian's face. All Minako wanted at the moment was to ease the expression, chase away the sorrows from the amethyst eyes that looking on her.

"It's just a dream. Everyone fine, I am me." Minako smiled, she absorbed all the warm on Rei's blushed cheek.

"You are still you, of course." The fluttered heart inside Rei was resulting the martian cannot think straight.

"Minako… I'm scared, but I realized that I mostly afraid to lose you, to not be able come back… to not seeing you forever. Hell, that's the scariest thing ever…" the next thing Rei saw is Minako's finger on her lips. The venusian cut her words with shush.

"Shut up, Rei. I want to kiss you." Minako couldn't stand the martian being this cute.

"But… What?"

WHAT?

Next second, Minako's lips were on hers.

The next thing followed was another blank empty darkness.

This time, Rei woke up in another empty room. However, it wasn't her room. The room was surprisingly bright and hurt her eyes with its light. Rei saw a person stood on the corner of the room.

"Hey, Rei. I'm sorry we just meet now." The other person's voice sounded very similar, but Rei couldn't recall who it is. It was too bright.

"We only have short time, I will make it brief. The event just now you are experiencing isn't real. However, the feelings are real, because it's the altered dimension in altered time. Long explanation, so let's just skip it. After here, you will go back to the woods, you have to complete your mission. The sword trial, you remember? Tell me, you get it what I've been saying until now." The person walked closer to Rei, but Rei still can't see her. Yes, it was a woman who talking.

"Who the hell are you?" Rei managed out a question from thousands in her head.

"Let's put aside the question. I want to explain something here." She replied.

"I was kissing Minako just now, and you disturb it." Rei groaned.

"That wasn't real, Rei. It will be, if you listen to me."

She continued despite Rei's complains. "You will finish your mission. Take down the black clan, Rei. I know you can do it, it will not be easy task. However, I am sure you can do it. I chose you not without reasons after all."

In here, Rei realized that she was having a conversation with that person.

"You are Fire?"

"Guess?"

"You are the one who make me like this!" Rei got up, she wanted to kill the woman now. Everything that happened was her blame, the reasons why she is like this now is this person.

"You can't kill me. I already dead. Peace there." Fire tried to calm Rei.

"I don't care. You can go hell twice." Rei punched the woman, but caught an empty air.

"Listen! We don't have time to fight. You still can go back, Rei. I assure you, after the black clan was defeated, you will grant for any wish you want."

Rei felt sudden pain on whole of her body.

"Our time is up. You and I must go back. I wish the best fate for you, Rei. I tell you something… I were you once. The cycle of life won't stop at this point either."

"Rei! Rei! Wake up! Open your eyes, damn it!" The desperately voice reached Rei as she slowly opened her eyes. She swore, if she ended up somewhere strange again… she would kill whoever responsible for this. The first thing she felt as she opened her eyes was pain. The pain ached and throbbed on her whole body. She gasped for air but found her chest hurt very much for the effort.

"Rei! Look at me, slow breath, please." Rei could feel the warm sensation as the familiar hand touched her chest. She listened to the only voice she could hear and took a shallow breath.

"… What… where?" Rei's sight came back to her. She could see Minako, no… the commander face above her. The usual cold and compose expression replaced with agony and devastated expression.

"What happened? Are you okay?" Rei tried to get up but then surrender to the great pain as the price.

"You shouldn't move there, Rei… I don't know where you are hurting, I'm not Ami." She said.

"Everywhere hurts." Rei winced, she was fully awake now and the torture still there. Worse even.

"You didn't breathe when I found you. You were not breathing! I want to call Ami but I don't want leave you here! It was… do not ever scare me like that again." The commander said the last line with serious and threatening tone. Her tears fell, she cried… but her grip on Rei tightened.

Rei blinked, once… twice. She was now looking the broken commander beside her. Was she looking like this when Fire died?

They were like that until the time passes, no one from them broke the silence. Rei, due to the guilt she was carrying on the commander. The commander, due to she needed time to recover from the trauma she had experienced.

It was even worse than Fire's death. The facts that she did come back and opened her eyes again, make my fear more overwhelming and uncontrollable. I can't lose her… I need her… I want her.

Fire, what should I do? I think… I think I'm in love with her… The commander gave up on second wave of sorrows.

That's it. If you want a re-vote for Minako or Commander…

Reviews please… I love them.