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Chapter 9: Victory, Friends, and Caresses
"The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention."– Richard Warren
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"Well that sucked," Minako sighed as she leaned against one of the support beams of the Hikawa shrine. "Let's not do that again…ever."
The day had truly been one of infamy. The Sailor Senshi had stood in front of Sailor Galaxia and been defeated. Minako and the others had their Star Seeds stolen and experienced death. It was only through the power of Sailor Moon were they again able to return to the land of the living. After small talk and promises to review everything they had experienced on a much later date, everyone left, leaving Minako and Rei together.
"I gotta admit I feel stupid," Minako chuckled. She was forcing small talk as she sensed something was on Rei's mind. "I mean of course Mamoru was dead the entire time. What else would have kept him from contacting Usagi? I wish she had been more open with us instead of keeping everything inside."
Rei's response was something of a grunt combined with an "uh huh."
"Speaking of people hiding things," Minako cleared her throat. She took a seat next to Rei and wrapped her arm around her friend."Is there something you'd like to talk about?"
"This whole experience has been intense," Rei admitted, forcing her eyes close. Minko could tell her friend was trying her best to resist crying. "It makes me feel like these feelings I've been denying have been a burden I don't want to keep carrying."
"Feelings? For who?" Minako wondered, hoping Rei didn't mean Yuuichirou. Though she had yet to fully recover the ability she possessed in the Silver Millenium to see soulmates, she knew Yuuichirou wasn't Rei's.
"Mina-chan," Rei began, taking a deep breath before releasing a long sigh. "I've found the reincarnation of Jadeite."
"You have?" Minako asked, practically cheering.
"I've known who he was since the surge," Rei added.
"You have?" Minako's voice dropped three octaves as she repeated her question. It had been two years since the surge. Yet Rei had not mentioned anyone special or something she enjoyed being with on a regular basis. "Then…why haven't you mentioned it?"
Minako immediately feared destiny had been cruel and Rei was in a similar situation as Mianko was with Shinn.
"He's…," Rei sniffled, struggling to hold back the tears. "He's my brother."
Minako's eyes went wide at this confession. She had expected a similar age gap like between her and Shinn. This bit of news took her by absolute surprise. "You have…a brother?"
"Half brother," Rei clarified, wiping her eyes before the tears could fall. "That asshole politician father of mine slept with the ambassador of Slovakia when my mother was pregnant with me. I'm four months older than him."
"Holy…," Minako gasped, still trying to wrap her mind around this new revelation. "When did you first meet him?"
"When I was six," Rei explained, finally opening her eyes and letting the tears fall onto her cheeks. "Not even half a year after my mom died he introduced me to him. Jadeite…I mean Taito Jin tried to shake my hand. I swatted it away and insisted I hated him."
"Oh wow," Minako commented, doing her best not to cringe at how poor Rei and Jin's first meeting was.
"I know. More misdirected anger at my father," Rei admitted burying her face in her hands. "He came to me the night after the surge. Turns out his mother had left politics and gotten a job in Japan helping to export material from Slovakia. As usual, he tried to push my buttons in a way only Jadeite knows how to do but I didn't fall for his charm. He insisted he'd be willing to try anything, no matter the consequences. I wouldn't hear it. I insisted it was wrong and society would never accept our relationship."
"So what are you gonna do?" Minako wondered, hating to see her friend suffer so much.
"What do you mean? What can I do?" Rei scoffed, almost angry Minako had asked. "There is no way society will accept our relationship."
Minako paused for a moment. She saw a bit of Shinn in Rei's commitment to a society despite how much it was preventing him from being with his soul mate. Her temperature rose as she clenched her fists.
"You know what Rei," Minako began, taking a deep breath. "After everything we have had to deal with…fuck society."
Rei's eyes went wide. Minako had always been eccentric and could be scatterbrained at times but her sense of justice was always on point. To hear her say something such a comment threw Rei for a loop. "But we…"
"We what?" Minako scoffed, frustration at an all time high from recent events. They had just helped save every person on the planet. Didn't they deserve happiness? "We are defenders of love and justice. Unfortunately society isn't always built on either. Justice goes unserved all the time and love is treated as a crime."
"Mina-chan," Rei whispered, shocked by her friend's comments.
"Society says Haruka and Mirchiru's love is wrong despite all we know they are soulmates," Minako continued, beginning to tick examples off her fingers. "That I'm less of a person because I'm an omega, and the man I love should be punished despite doing everything in his power to help me when I'm most vulnerable."
"The man you love?" Rei asked, unsure of what Minako was talking about.
"Rei," Minako paused for a moment before deciding to confess the truth. "My godfather…he's Kunzite."
"He is…," Rei gasped, realizing the implications. "Then you two have been…"
"He has been assisting with my heats," Minako acknowledged, utilizing incredible restraint in not going into further details. "And to treat me just like he did when we were married in my previous life."
"Previously…he was your husband and…," Rei stopped herself as she realized the implications of what Minako was saying. A small smile formed on her face and she shook her head. "We really don't live normal lives do we?"
"No we don't," Minako chuckled in response before wrapping her arms around Rei and giving her a hug. "Our duty makes things difficult. We are willing to step up and save the others from the darkness. We should have the right to find love and be loved. Even if that means being with someone older or even with our own half brother."
"I mean…," Rei returned the hug, enjoying the gesture. "When you put it like that I guess you're right."
"See," Minako smiled, breaking the hug, and starting to walk away. "Also, just an FYI…a warm bed with someone you love is a world in itself. A world for just the two of you."
Minako didn't wait for Rei to reply. As she descended the stairs of the shrine, she couldn't help but notice a young man with short blond hair running up the stairs as fast as possible. As he passed her, the Venusian could clearly see the red string of fate on the man connecting with someone at the top of the stairs.
"Good luck you two," Minako whispered as she watched the blond man enter the shrine's arc. Making sure no one was around, Minako pulled her transformation pen out of her pocket and held it over her head. "Venus Crystal Power Make Up!"
After the battle with Galaxia, Minako would have preferred to go a month without becoming her alter ego but she needed the speed and agility the form granted her. With the transformation complete, and with a few well placed leaps she reached the roof tops, and lept from structure to structure over the Tokyo Skyline heading straight for Shinn's house.
As she arrived at her destination she landed on the balcony outside of the main bedroom and found the sliding glass door was open as if he was expecting a visitor. He usually just kept it unlocked as it was only reachable if someone had superhuman abilities. Once inside Venus found Shinn sitting on the edge of the bed resting on his folded hands, praying.
In all of his incarnations, She had found her soulmate always kept some sliver of piety. His many incarnations insisted he was obligated to thank the deities of the universe for grinding him such a wonderful partner in his many lives. Despite this claim, Venus had found her lover praying when he was truly upset or in trouble.
She knew exactly why he was distressed and it was the same reason why she was standing in his bedroom. She had died today and he felt it in his very soul. Yes, the same connection had informed him of her return but the agony felt from feeling one's soulmate separate from the mortal coil was excruciating. As she stood and watched him, the Omega in her picked up on how the Alpha inside of Shinn was suffering. ALPHA IS IN PAIN. HE LONGS FOR US. LET HIM CLAIM US.
Venus closed her eyes and swallowed her mixed emotions as she worked to maintain her composure. When she had died she had been locked inside her Star Seed, unable to connect with the outside world. As the soldier of love and beauty, an Omega, and as a teenager who hoped for a normal life it was the worst hell one could think of. An absolute torture where she longed to be held by someone, anyone for the first time since she started this secret relationship, Minako her heart heavy and her Omega properly suppressed considered being bond to Shinn. Not when she was finally out of High school or another day in the future. Now as she stood in front of Shinn in the bedroom of the house she shared with him when she was Natsumi when she was willing to present her mating gland and allow Shinn to sink his teeth into it and bond them as Alpha and Omega in this life.
Despite her desire, Sailor Venus knew it was currently impossible. She was the furthest away from her heat and her gland barely showed. The chances of the bonding taking place was significantly low. Despite the slim possibility, Venus wanted it more than anything and she knew she was willing to toss aside the consequences.
At the same time she just wanted release. The release after one of the hardest battles she had ever found in this or any of her previous lives. For now, she just needed to be alone with Shinn. She disengaged her transformation, returned to being Aino Minako, and stood in front of the man she loved wearing her high school uniform.
"Caress me," Minako begged, wrapping her arms around Shinn's neck. "All night and into tomorrow. I don't care if I miss school or if my parents notice I'm missing. Hold me, Alpha. Hold me and keep me safe."
Shinn didn't object. He couldn't. The rational voice in his brain had been utterly silenced by his inner Alpha. A part of himself who had again felt the crippling, soul wrenching pain of the death of his mate again. The only act the rational voice was stopping him from performing was full puncturing her mating gland and completing the bond permanently for another lifetime. This was because it reminded him her heat had just passed and she couldn't be claimed properly.
He stripped her of every item of clothing including her bow and choker. Shinn would take a moment to bask in the beauty of his beloved in her full naked form. Minako would respond by helping Shinn out of his shirt and pants but would love his boxers in place. They served a port in their lovemaking process.
Picking her up, bridal style, Shinn exchanged a heated kiss with his Omega. Minako's hand got lost in his long hair, found the back of his head, and dug her nails in to intensify the kiss. He returned the gestures, his tongue dancing with hers as he held her of nude form against his chest. The sensation of her athletic and near perfect body against his hard muscles caused an immediate reaction in his boxers. He was hard in moments but he would need to wait. It was a part of making sure he was tender with her.
Placing her on the bed, Shinn hovered over her with his hands resting on the bed on opposite sides of her head. He licked his dry lips as he stared down at her with pure desire and love.
"You are…," Shinn began, his body burning with need for her. Yet he knew she needed affection more than she needed pleasure. "...the best thing has happened to me in all my many lives."
"And you…," Minako replied, her eyes roaming over his chiseled form. She could see his bulge as it strained at his boxers and it made her entire being aroused. Part of her wanted to unleash his primal nature and achieve a new heist of ecstasy, but another part longed to be caressed. "...remind me why I keep going into battle."
Shinn smiled as he bent down and pressed a firm kiss against Minako's lips. When they broke apart he placed another kiss on her chin. Slowly he continued to descend leaving kisses on her neck, shoulders, and collarbone. He took a moment to admire her chest when he arrived there.
Her nipples were already hard pebbles from his earlier attention. He took one into his mouth, gently nibbling on it, and caused goosebumps to form all over her body. Though he claimed a number of times to be an ass man and insisted Minako's perfect heart shaped behind haunted him in the best way possible, Shinn knew how to work her chest and leave her a mewing mess of pleasure.
Once he was done torturing one breast, he moved to the other and gave it just as much loving attention. After he was satisfied with how much she had squirmed, Shinn again descended with kisses all over her stomach. He flicked his tongue over her belly button, loving how she squealed with involuntary laughter.
"Stop it!" Minako protested, playfully trying to push him away. "You know I'm ticklish there!"
"I know that's why I do it," Shinn confirmed before giving her belly button a few more licks to prove his point. Once he had enough of her siren like laughter he continued to his intended target. Soon he was staring into Minkao's dripping flower. With a single kiss on her hardened pearl, Minako dug her nails into the sheets and scrambled to announce her orgasm. "My sweet vixen. I've never known you to have such a hair trigger."
"Sh-shut up!" Minako pouted, throwing an arm over her eyes as her face turned red. She prided herself on being worldly with her multiple lives of being a warrior of love and justice. Orgasming so hard like a schoolgirl after barely any stimulation was embarrassing. "I was just reborn today. My body is acting weird."
"I'll keep it in mind," Shinn insisted as he turned back towards her hot core. He momentarily considered saying 'we should stop' but his Alpha roared innerally so hard his entire body tensed. Omega needs attention. We shall claim her!
Sticking out his tongue, Shinn began to lap up her spilled nectar. As always she tasted like the scent given off from her mating gland. Pineapple, sunshine, and so damn addicting. He wanted to devour her all night and then wake up in the morning and have her for breakfast. Despite his preference, his inner Alpha and the painful erection still being constrained by his boxers had other plans. He shifted his body up so his boxer covered rod pressed firmly against her dripping box. This was the reason he left the last bit of clothing on. To further draw out the moment of passion between them
"Can you feel it?" Shinn asked in a low husky voice. He knew the answer but he was dying to hear her say it. "Can you feel my need for you?"
"Yes," Minako panted, wrapping her arms around his neck. She wanted to keep him close, afraid he'd somehow disappear if she didn't hold on tight. She could not only feel his aching manhood but she could feel her slick dampening his boxers every second she pressed against it. Please take me."
Shinn nodded. He reached down, released his hard cock, and aimed it at her entrance. He entered slowly and it was so good he did. Minkao was tight, even more so than usual. Almost back to virginal which was vicelike on his cock and not in a good way. He endured though, knowing his discomfort was nothing compared to hers. Once he had entered to the point his knot was touching her clit, he stopped, and gave her time to adjust to his size.
"Hmmm, so full," Minako purred once she became accustomed to Shinn being inside her.
Realizing she was ready, Shinn began a gentle rhythm with his hips. Each time he withdrew to the point his tip almost popped out before entering deep and bringing his knot to her hardened clit. Each thrust was a mind blowing experience and caused Minako's eyes to roll back in her head. The technique would keep her in a pit of ecstasy for hours but just out of reach of her climax and she knew Shinn was aware of this fact. It was driving Minako crazy.
"Harder," Minako pleaded, positive a little rougher treatment and she would see stars. "Fuck me harder."
"I'm trying to caress you, Vixen," Shinn teased, trying to draw out the moment. The slow pace was equally excruciating for him as well. His Alpha insisted he take her more aggressively but with his last bit of control he managed to keep the beast in line. "I thought this is what you wanted."
"Please…," Minako whimpered, feeling her endure body burn at the edge of release. "Please give it to me…daddy."
This was the trigger Shinn had been waiting for. He hoisted Minako's legs over his shoulders, eased his knot in, and began pumping into her with wanton abandon.
"Oh fuck yes!" Minako moaned, elated at the change in peace. Each deep thrust caused her swollen jewel to slam against his hard body. "I needed your knot, Alpha!"
"You feel so damn tight," Shinn roared, clenching his teeth to keep from cuming too fast. "You were made for my knot, my sweet Omega."
"Yes! Yes, daddy Alpha," Minako agreed, her nails digging into Shinn's back and beckoning him to keep the pace. "I was made to fuck you. Please give my little cunt all your seed!"
"Mina-chan," Shinn growled, before lunging forward and latching onto her shoulder. He was so close to her mating glade he touched it with the tip of his lips. The sensation was overwhelming and caused Minako to scream her orgasm.
"SHINN-KUN!" Minako gasped, letting the climax spread through her entire body and make her toes curl. "Thank you for making me cum."
"I'll make you cum all night!" Shinn insisted, stopping momentarily to allow Minako to ride the pleasure high she was on. He kissed her on the neck and rubbed his muscular chest against her hard nipples, feeling how every touch he gave her made his knot and cock throb. "I want to prove you are my good girl."
"I love being your good girl," Minako confessed, her mind coming back a bit but her lust still high. Wanting to get Shinn back in gear, she clenched her cunt to squeeze down on his knot.
"Oh shit!" Shinn growled, gathering fistfuls of bedding. Turned on by Minako's actions, he slammed into his Omega with a new sense of urgency. "Take my knot you little slut!"
"Damn right I'm a little slut!" Minako replied, wanting to make her Alpha achieve the same level of pleasure she had felt. Yet, her need was great and she could feel a climax building in record time. "But I'm only our little slut! I only will ever belong to you Alpha!"
"I…I…FUCK!" Shinn couldn't think straight as Minako's dirty talk pushed him over the edge. He orgasmed hard and shot rope after rope of cum inside her. He felt his heart pounding so hard in his chest he worried it would burst from his rib cage any moment.
As she felt Shinn's seed enter her, Minako found her own release. Not as powerful as the first one but seemed like the perfect way to end their
As the pair both slowly returned to reality after experiencing a brief slice of heaven, Shinn rolled onto his back. Still anchored in Minako by his knot, he held her against his body and stroked her hair. The two laid in silence just enjoying the peace of their afterglow as they tried to recover from their physical activities.
"I'm staying the night," Minako announced sleepily as she struggled to keep her eyes open. Her spirit was willing to easily go a few more rounds but her body was exhausted from the events of the day.
"Don't you have school tomorrow?" Shinn asked, knowing the answer.
"I just died saving the world for the hundredth time and was reborn," Minako scoffed, drawing invisible circles on Shinn's chest. "I can take a personal day."
"Then I'll do the same and give you a bit more pampering," Shinn chuckled, kissing the top of her head. "You're right. You deserve a personal day."
"I love you so much," Minako whispered, snuggling more into Shinn's chest, loving the comfort of being in her Alpha's arms.
"I love you too," Shinn replied, hugging Minako tighter. He felt blessed his prayers had been answered and the woman he loved had returned to him.
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A/N: So, I should probably address the elephant in the room here. The whole "Jadeite and Mars half siblings" sub plot, which probably raised some eyebrows for some of my readers. So for a bit there I was half debating whether this story would be part of a series (like my "After The Cauldron" series) focused on one where all of the Senshi/Shitennou would be having to deal with bizarre obstacles with their relationships. Venus and Kunzite would have the Alpha/Omega dynamic, Mars and Jadeite would be half siblings, Jupiter and Nephrite would deal with…Jupiter having abnormal lactation issues? Yeah, if you can't tell the planning stage broke down and I really couldn't think up good scenarios for the other two couples. This mixed with doing all the birthday prompts last year and all my other WIPs and things went out the window. So, I'm going to leave this out there so that I could write a taboo 1 shot (maybe 2 chapters but nothing more) where Mars and Jadeite give into their need for one another.
Sorry for taking so long to get another chapter of this done but if you can't tell all my other stories I have been a bit busy. I have every intention of finishing this story. I am ⅔ of the way done now.
Reviews are love and they keep me going.
NEXT TIME: Huh…my characters are so happy right now…I'll have to change that…(INSERT MALICIOUS LAUGH)