SailorStar9: With Chapter 15 uploaded, this is Chapter 16 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?
Pairings: Furuya Rei/Mizuno Ami
Disclaimers: I own absolutely nothing, except this plot and pairing.
Chapter 16: Senshi Reunion aka It's Catch-Up Time, Ladies
Time passes...
"Fumio-kun, what are you listening to?" Amuro asked, seeing his son listening to his I-pod.
"It's a new song Godmother Michiru composed for her and Godmother Haruka's revival concert." Fumio replied. "By the way, tou-san, here." he took out a concert ticket from his schoolbag.
"Tickets to the 'Tenoh Haruka and Kaioh Michiru Second Revival' concert?" Amuro echoed in plain amazement when Fumio passed the ticket over to his father.
"Hm mm." Fumio nodded.
"And how did you know such famous musicians?" Amuro asked.
"They're my joint godmothers." Fumio replied plainly.
The next day...
"Seriously!?" Conan was surprised when Fumio handed him and the Detective Boys the stack of concert tickets. "Tickets to the 'Tenoh Haruka and Kaioh Michiru Second Revival' concert? Haibara's their big fan. " he gave the stoic girl a knowing grin.
"Edogawa-kun..." Haibara glared.
"Er..." Fumio started. "It's a symphony performance, so..."
"We know." Conan assured. "Suits and dresses, right?"
Later that weekend...
"Tou-san!" a suited-up Fumio opened the door eagerly to let his father enter.
"Fumio-kun." Amuro greeted his son. "Are the two of you ready?"
"Kaa-san!" Fumio called to Ami's locked room.
"Coming!" Ami answered. "Hey." she smiled at her partner.
"Hey yourself." Amuro returned the smile. "Shall we go?"
"Ami-chan!" Minako squealed, giving the arriving woman a big hug. "Fumio-kun!" she turned to the boy. "Look at you, you've grown so big already!"
"Minako-baa..." Fumio stammered. At Minako's glare, he corrected himself, "Mina-nee-san."
"Mina-chan, stop hogging the kid." Rei chided. "Good evening, kiddo."
"Konbanwa, Rei-baa-san." Fumio beamed.
"Oi, oi oi." Kuwabara Kazuma remarked, seeing the females cluster around Fumio. "Is that normal?"
"Leave them be, Kuwabara-san." Yuuichirou remarked. "The girls haven't seen each other for a very long time."
"It's how they bond, Kuwabara-san." Date Seiji agreed.
"It's just like how females don't understand how males bond, we males won't understand how they bond." Amuro quipped. "Amuro Tooru." he introduced himself, reaching out his hand for a handshake.
"Date Seiji." Seiji returned the handshake. "Engaged to one Kino Makoto."
"Kuwabara Kazuma," Kuwabara introduced himself. "Aino Minako's manager."
"And underground lover to Aino-san. I would know, when my relationship with Rei came into the open, we were hounded by the paparazzi too." Yuuichirou gave a knowing smirk to the flustered Kuwabara. "Kumada Yuuichirou, married to the former Hino Rei."
"Should we consider ourselves lucky that neither us nor our ladies are in the public's eye?" Amuro wondered outloud to Seiji.
"Agreed." Seiji concurred.
Backstage...
"Yo." Haruka greeted her visitors.
"Godmothers." Fumio smiled at his two godmothers.
"Heh?" Rei, Makoto and Minako chorused in disbelief. "But..." the three women turned to the amused Ami.
"I thought I had first dibs being godmother, Ami!" Makoto protested.
"By the way, did you all hear about Mamoru-san?" Rei asked.
"Fumio-kun?" Amuro looked at his son who had exited from the backstage preparation room. "What's wrong? Won't you inside with your mother?"
"Kaa-san is being all girly and gossipy with the others." Fumio shuddered, causing the four men to look at each other and stifle back a chuckle.
"Mouri-sensei." Amuro greeted the detective and his family at the entrance of the symphony hall.
"Amuro-kun." Mouri Kogoro returned. "You got tickets too?"
"Well," Amuro smiled. "Let's just say Fumio-kun has both Tenoh Haruka and Kaioh Michiru as his godmothers."
"Seriously?" Conan echoed.
"Otou-san," Ran reminded. "It's time go in."
"Right." Kogoro nodded. "Then, we'll see each other later, Amuro-kun."
Outside in the car-park of the concert hall...
The former Chiba Usagi was hiding behind a parked car as she stalked her ex-husband who had arrived at the concert venue with the woman he had been dating for the last nine months.
Oh, when the final divorce decree from the courts came down, she had shrugged it off dismissively, confident that she would still have much richer sponsors lining up to support her; after all, any man who could not provide for and spoil her was not a man of any worth, so she would just ditch him and find someone else who can give her the lifestyle she wants . But Mamoru had burnt that bridge when he outed her as a gold-digger and a chronic party addict on social media. The well-off men who had once been all-so-swarming over her had left her high and dry with no support, monetary or otherwise.
So, she changed her attack plan, targeting richer, married men, convinced that with her allure, she would be able to get them to dump their wives for her. She is the reincarnation of Princess Serenity after all, heiress to the most powerful kingdom in the Solar System and that's why she is entitled to having the lifestyle she used to have as Princess Serenity.
I won't have to live like this if I were Neo-Queen Serenity! She fumed. Damn that weakling Chiba for not giving me what I deserve! And damn that traitor Mizuno for walking out on me! Me! Her Princess, her liege! Then her eyes widened when she saw Mamoru walk up to the traitor and her friends to greet the group. How dare they be happy without me? She seethed. So what if I intend to build my own happiness on the Senshi's misery? So what if the Senshi aren't happy? They aren't supposed to be happy! My happiness should be their top-most priority, and only mine, not theirs. I can only be happy if I get what I want and being Queen and ruler of Earth is exactly what I deserve!
"Mamoru-san?" Rei recognized Mamoru as he approached the gathered group with his date.
"Kumada-san." Mamoru nodded in acknowledgment. "My date and girlfriend for the last six months, Beriru Katsumi."
"Beriru?" Makoto's eyebrows narrowed. "Mamoru-san, isn't that the equivalent to..."
"She isn't who you think she is." Mamoru assured.
"Guys, isn't it time we went in?" Minako reminded.
After the concert...
"How did all of you meet?" Haruka asked, the reunited group lounging in the back room.
The three unmarried couples looked at each other and back at their hostess.
"Work mates." Amuro replied.
"Actually, we met in school." Ami corrected. "This idiot," she gave Amuro a playful punch on the arm, the couple was cuddling on the love couch. "Only confessed one year later when we're working."
"Hey, I saved you, didn't I?" Amuro smiled. "And it got me you."
"Tou-san and kaa-san are being cute again!" Fumio pointed at his parents.
"It's a sweet story, really." Seiji admitted, the blond sitting on the arm rest of the sofa chair Makoto was sitting in and playing with the pâtissière's ponytail. "I was on my way back from a kendo match when the sweet scent of raisin croissants whiffed into my nose and lured me into this cozy, homely bakery where, lo and behold!" he gave Makoto a tender smile. "Through the glass pane that separated the counter and the kitchen, I see this beauty behind the metal counter kneading her dough."
"Raisin croissants were always your weakness." Makoto grinned.
"Ours..." Minako looked up at Kuwabara, the couple was sprawled on the carpeted floor. "Started off as a strictly manager-rising starlet relationship."
"However, there are people who aren't too happy about Mina's rapid rise in show biz and would often 'invent'... ugly gossip about her and spread it via social media." Kuwabara added. "Some even convinced their own fans to act as stalkers and try to dig up whatever dirt that could be used against Mina. Sometimes, it had gotten so bad that we had to apply for a protection order against some of the very persistent fans."
"Kazuma saved me from being killed more than once." Minako looked at her lover gratefully. "It wasn't until one almost car accident, which I just know was staged, that I realized that my feelings had shifted from being strictly professional to something more."
"What happened?" Haruka went into protective-mama-bear mode.
"I was merely crossing the road at the traffic light when I felt I was being pushed and I stumbled onto the road."Minako related. "Then suddenly, the car that should've stopped because it was still a red light, accelerated for no reason whatsoever and closed in on me. Kazuma quickly pulled me back to my feet and out of the danger zone."
SailorStar9: Virtual cookie for anyone who can guess which anime/manga Makoto's and Minako's lovers are from. Any OOC-ness is regretted, by the way. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.