Chapter One: The Letter 'You sit there nonchalantly, your golden hair to the side, reading a book. Have I ever told you how beautiful you look like that? I didn't think so. You slowly look up at me as I write this, and every once in a while an odd gleam sparkles in your deep blue eyes. I wonder what you're thinking, my love. I wonder what you would think if I told you how much I admire you for your beauty, your courage, and your kindness toward I and the others even in the hardest of times. I wonder too much. But, if you knew what I was writing, would you laugh? Would you just smile that beautiful smile and laugh at how silly this sounds? As I look at you, I am sure words cannot express what I feel inside, the way my heart flutters nervously as I imagine what it would be like to run my hands through your soft blonde hair, or the way I feel as you laugh at my serious expression. In the last sentence, I only scraped the surface of my emotions, I am sure. Sometimes it feels as if you feel the same way about me. Other times it seems as if we are 'just friends'. I truly wish you knew how much I care for you, Minako. From the first time I saw you, I knew I was in love. I just didn't know how to tell you. So here I am, finally admitting my true feelings, and praying you feel the same way. Do you remember the time that I kissed you, when my body was supposedly taken over by that demon from the well? I'm sure you do. Well, truthfully, I was in partial control at that time. All that time it was I kissing you, and you didn't know it. I almost wish you had known it. Then maybe you and I would have a chance together. I feel something powerful is about to happen. Something we cannot control. Death is on the horizon, and the Shrine has told me it will split us even further apart then we already are. At least, it feels that we have split apart. I don't know anymore. You just don't seem to know me anymore. Always nervous around me, quiet, intent on your studies, even. You're acting completely out of character. Do you feel the evil, too? Or have I been too visibly obvious in expressing my feelings for you? I told you I wonder too much. For now, I shall try and hide it... Though I'm not sure I can for much longer. Aishiteru~ ~*Rei*~ Rei Hino looked over her letter. It was truly unlike her. "Lovey-dovey piece of shit." She muttered under her breath, letting her large violet eyes wander unknowingly to her best friend, Minako Aino. Her heart ached at the mere thought of the golden-haired Senshi, who, at the time, was just sitting on a beanbag reading a book on dreams and their meanings. Rei smiled at the irony of it all. Although all of the Senshi knew their dreams were actually memories of the Silver Millennium, Minako still strove to learn more about dreams. She wouldn't tell the other Senshi of them, however. This confused Rei greatly, and she found herself wishing she could read Minako's mind at times. "Rei? Rei..." The raven-haired girl jumped at the mention of her name, and saw Minako looking at her curiously. Damn it all to hell. She'd been caught staring! "Huh? Oh... Oops. Gomen, Mina-hi...-chan. Just zoning off, I guess!" she said, allowing a nervous chuckle to escape her lips and hoping her blonde friend would buy it. Minako seemed to, and went back to reading her book. Rei uttered a sigh of relief, looking over her letter nervously. "Should I give it to her?" She mumbled to herself, brushing back a strand of long jet-black hair behind her ear. She had been working on this letter for the past hour, and somehow it still didn't seem right. It wasn't... Fitting enough. Weird how, just a few hours ago she was sure that she and Minako were just friends, and now she found herself contemplating on whether or not to give her a love note! What a screwed up world! "Rei-Chan, come sit over here. You look tired, and you have been writing whatever you've been writing for hours!" Minako said, twiddling absent-mindedly with the scarlet bow in her hair, and, much to Rei's chagrin, smiling at her like a true friend. I was foolish ever to think I loved her, Rei thought, I mean, we're just friends. It's only a crush! It'll pass! And with that thought, she sat down to rest upon the crimson beanbag beside her best friend. "So, what're you reading?" She asked in a feeble attempt to make conversation, although she knew very well what Minako was reading. "Oh, just some book on dreams and their meaning. I found it at the library. It's really quite fascinating." Minako stammered hurriedly. Rei looked at the cover of the paperback book and read the title. "Dreams: Your Magic Mirror, by Elsie Sechrist. Based On the Teachings of Edgar Cayce... Sounds boring, if you ask me! Who'd think that Aino Minako, famous blonde, would read a book with such a dull title?" Rei asked, laughing. Minako blushed a delicate pink. "Rei! It really IS interesting! Ami actually showed it to me one day, and she said she's read it fourteen times already! I can see why, really. There are a bunch of little things you can miss in here, or things you can't remember unless you write them down." The golden-haired girl said, her mouth turned up into a wry half-smile for a split second, but then it disappeared as quickly as it had come. "Really? And what is it you can't remember?" The Shinto Priestess asked her best friend mockingly. "Being as how you usually have the attention span of a fruit fly, I'm not surprised!" "HEY! Rei, that was just so uncalled for!" The blonde giggled. Good, Rei thought, she wasn't offended. "Gomen Nasai, Mina-chan!" She apologized. "But it just seemed like the right thing to say!" "Oh, really? Well, aren't YOU the nice one today?" Minako asked, that wry smile once again appearing upon her delicate face. "Okay, so maybe I'm a little cranky today!" Admitted the raven-haired girl, "But it's really not my fault!!!" "Whose fault is it, then?" Queried Minako. "None of your beeswax." Rei said huffily, crossing her arms over her chest in indignation. "Grumpy grumpy!" The blonde said, wagging a finger in front of Rei's face warningly. "So what if I am?" "So... Something's OBVIOUSLY bugging you, and I want to know what it is!" Minako smiled. Rei suddenly became nervous. She realized how close she was to spilling EVERYTHING... The way she felt, the letter... It was all too much for her! Then, she had an idea,,, "Ihaveacrushonsomeone." Rei admitted. At least it was the truth. "You WHAT?" "I..." Rei faltered, but then realized that, since Minako didn't go to her school, she could make somebody up! "I have a crush on someone." "OH MY GOD!!! Rei! This is wonderful! Who is he? Anyone I know? Anyone the others know? Someone from your school? Someone who stopped by at the Temple one day? Wh..." Minako paused, then lowered her voice to a hushed whisper "It's Yuuchiro, isn't it?" For a second, Rei felt like she was going to puke. Yuuchiro? Ew! Rei couldn't even begin to imagine where the blonde Senshi had gotten that idea! Reluctantly, she played along. "Yeah." She said, forcing a smile. "I knew it! He's crazy about you, Rei! Absolutely crazy!" "I noticed..." Rei muttered bitterly. "You act like it's a bad thing!" Minako said. "I mean, I've never had anyone that crazy about me! I've always had to go after them!" Little does she know... Rei thought, lying down upon the cushy beanbag. "Seriously, Rei, you should be proud of the fact that somebody loves you enough to chase after you for the past three years!" "I am, it's just... I like him and all..." She spat out the sentence as if it were poison. "But he's just so fucking... CLINGY!" Rei threw her hands up in the air in exasperation. "Shhhh... You'll wake everyone up..." Minako said, looking at Rei quizzically. "So you have a crush on him, but think he's too clingy?" "Uhh... That's right..." Rei said as convincingly as she could manage. "I see... Well, this is a job for Minako, Senshi of Love!!!" Minako said, grinning ear-to-ear, her pearly white teeth glittering in the light of the bright room. She jumped up and grabbed Rei's hand. As she registered Minako's feather-light touch, shivers were sent up Rei's spine at the thought of the blonde's smooth skin against her own. Without even knowing what she was doing, as soon as she was up, the raven-haired girl pulled Minako against her, and pressed her lips to hers. The taste of spearmint gum immediately flooded Rei's senses, and Minako, she noted, didn't seem to want to break away. Their lips pressed together even harder, and soon Rei felt Minako give her lips a few flicks with her tongue gently. Turning around, Rei immediately pushed Minako into a wall, rubbing her lower abdomen against the blonde angels' sensually. Minako pushed Rei away right at that exact moment, breathing heavily. "Rei... I don't think we should be doing this..." She said, trying to calm herself down. "Why not?" Rei asked, also breathing heavily due to this sudden burst of passion. "Because... Because... I don't know! You have a crush on Yuuchiro, don't you? "No." Rei whispered "I don't." And her lips eagerly sought Minako's again, only to be pushed away once more. "Rei! Please... Don't. Don't do this to me!" "To you? What am I doing to you? Think about what it's doing to me!" "It?" Minako queried, her eyes questioningly boring into the raven-haired girls' "This... The kissing and the... This thing I'm feeling..." "Thing you're feeling? Confusion?" "Love." Rei said simply. Minako's eyes grew wide with fear as she realized that Rei meant what she said, and that she herself felt the same way. "Rei-chan... I... I've gotta go... I have to leave." "Mina-chan." Rei helplessly said her best friend's name as the blonde girl bent down to pick up her book and overnight-pack. "Don't leave. You're supposed to be staying the weekend here at the Shrine. Where are you going to go?" "Usagi's. I have to go see Usagi." Minako said, apparently frightened out of her wits. "Minako, please don't leave! It's two o'clock in the morning! I don't think Ikuko and Kenji would appreciate it very much if you just up and waltzed in!" Minako sat back down dejectedly, realized that her raven-haired friend was right, and buried her head in her hands. "Damnit! Damnit all to hell!" She cried. Rei didn't know what else to do, so she sat down upon the bed next to Minako and put an arm around her comfortingly. "Shhh... Mina-chan. It'll all work itself out." She said, smiling at Minako with her even, white teeth. "I know! I'm just so... So fucking confused it isn't even funny!" The blonde said, looking at Rei with tears in her clear blue eyes. "I just don't know what I'm feeling right here... Right now...for...for..." She was hypnotized within the realms of Rei's sparkling violet eyes, and before she knew what she was doing, she had leaned foreward and gently kissed her best friend on her lips. Rei was surprised at how...intimate Minako was getting. She wrapped her arms around Minako protectively as their kiss deepened. She felt the blonde's hands travel up her back, to the tie on her halter top, and begin to untie it. Soon it was off of her shoulders, exposing her strapless bra. Minako's thoughts all processed with the speed of a 150 mph car. A whirlwind of emotion posessed her, and her hands somehow found their way upon Rei's halter top tie, undoing it with ease and desire. Her tongue flicked at Rei's teeth with such force that they opened unwillingly, and she gently laid Rei down on the bed, still kissing her. She heard her raven-haired friend groan sensually into her mouth, and she broke away before realizing that her plaid miniskirt had hiked up past her hips. Rei's heart was beating about 300 mph, she was sure of it. She had never felt such passion, such desire before in her life, much less for another woman! As Minako broke the kiss, she moved her perfectly manicured hands to the blonde's hips, and tentatively began to pull Minako's lower abdomen towards hers again, causing a rush of pleasure to fill her body. "Rei-hime." Minako moaned, lowering her head and nibbling gently at Rei's neck. The girl responded by puttiing her hands on Minako's bottom and pressing even harder than she had before. It felt so...right to her at that moment. She made up her mind that she didn't care what anybody else thought, as long as she could be with Rei forever. A/N: hehehe! Somewhat of a cliffie!!!!! Well, not really, but I don't care! It's just that I'd start freaking out if somebody left a story like this just... There! K, well, read on, and wait for chapter two, The Next Day! What trials await these two? Who knows?! It's all in my mind! Muhahaha!!! I just figured out that I own this plot as well!!! I rule something at last!!! Or maybe it's those crazy voices in my head that keep talking about cheese... dunno... Well, gtg, hope to see ya soon! BTW: REVIEW!!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAAAAA! OR ELSE!!! ~~Ai Always~~ ~Pyro Venus~
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