Coming face to face with Jadeite on that day 8 years ago, Rei had dismissed the fleeting moment of intense attraction and had used her newly found powers to make a pyre out of him. She'd been much more focused on the whole 'Superheroine with a cosmic destiny' thing to contemplate too long on whether an enemy had been objectively attractive.
She hadn't given it thought at all until Minako had confided that she'd had a similar reaction upon meeting Kunzite, which ultimately and perhaps inevitably led Ami and Makoto to admitting the same in terms of Zoisite and Nephrite.
It wasn't until they'd gotten their memories back that it made sense in context.
Namely that they had followed the track laid by their ruler and had engaged in highly forbidden relationships with their earthly counterparts, the guardians of Earth's ruler.
Rei took this information in stride and didn't demand any further explanation. There was no cause for it after all.
Aside from the fact that the lock on that part of her memories had been broken and had resulted in her having a few more steamy dreams than normal, but for the most part she was largely unbothered by it.
She still despised men and she still planned on sticking to her vow of chastity. Which, now that she thought about it, given the fact that the subject of her one and only affair in a previous life had switched sides and killed her, supported the logic of why that vow had been so easy to make.
And even had she wanted to do something about it, the Shittenou were rocks in Mamoru's pocket and therefore the point was moot.
There was nothing that could be done to refute these facts and as such it was useless trying to do anything about it or mourning the relationship as the other girls seemed to be doing.
Rei simply didn't care that she'd supposedly once been in love with Jadeite anymore that she cared that Yuuichiro had gotten married and left the shrine.
Which was to say, not at all.
When there was an increase in spiritual energy somewhere in the middle of Shinjuku-ku while she was shopping, she did little more than glance in the direction of the park in which it had occurred, despite the fact that she recognized the aura of the increase and wondered vaguely how how he'd regained a human form before continuing her shopping.
It really wasn't her concern after all.
As long as he kept his nose clear and stuck to giving Mamoru bad advice, she really didn't give a damn and wouldn't be forced to kill him.
Again.
The increase in spiritual pressure, as Rei had referred to it, was currently stretching it's muscles and trying to remember just what the hell it felt like to be in corporeal form again.
Being stuck as a rock in a linty and more than slightly musty pocket was not it's ideal means of spending an eternity.
He looked around the area where he had suddenly appeared and scratched his head in puzzlement, shortly after finding out that he did, indeed have a head, a hand to scratch it with and the ability to be puzzled.
It was a strange sensation, suddenly seeing again and in some vague sense he thought that the area he was currently in might be familiar, stepping out of the crater that he seemed to be in he wandered around what seemed to be a park smack in the middle of Tokyo, it took him a few minutes to notice that people were gasping in appellation and covering their children's eyes and it took him a few minutes more to realize why.
Looking down at his newly flesh body he also realized where the breeze he'd felt earlier had been coming.
Remembering that he had the power to do so, he materialized clothing similar to that of a teenage boy running across his path, slightly faded blue jeans, over sized, hooded sweatshirt and sneakers, and ignored the screams of shock as people saw this.
He smirked slowly to himself and put his hands in his pockets, wandering aimless out of the park and through the streets of the metropolis, he really had no clue why he'd been brought back to this current structure of life, but feeling the wind against his face and running through his blond hair, he was entirely grateful to whoever had been responsible.
He recalled his name suddenly as someone behind him called it out and he turned around to face the voice.
"I'm to see you returned all right." Said the man in front of him, who laid a heavy hand on his shoulder in camaraderie. He knew that this other man was a good friend of his from times past but for some reason he couldn't seem to recall exactly who he was. "As you were the first one of us to be returned to your mineral state, you were the most difficult to resurrect. It's the dawning of a new era my friend, welcome to it!"
Jadeite tilted his head to the side and smiled as the names came to him.
"It's good to be back, Kunzite. Where do we begin?"
Author's Notes: This story was originally written in 2007 and I am coming back to it 17 years later because the amount of random Japanese that I put in almost made me delete this entire story in a fit of a cringe, lol. So nothing is really new but certain parts have been drastically edited.