Destiny

by Jasmin Kaiba

That day she thinks of him for the first time in years and she muses that it's been so long since her thoughts last strayed to him. In fact, it's been so long she's forgotten to count the years. She misses him. In times like these it's always made apparent that a part of her is missing and even if her mind isn't aware of that gap all the time, her heart feels it more and more each day. She's over-watching the training of the youngsters, smiling slightly when the Sailor Quartet banters over nothing, or how they try to flirt with the young guards who lose their eyes after the older, more mature Senshi that the young ones still address with 'Sensei'.

That innocent flirting and bickering, combined with training they only half-heartedly take serious, while Princess Lady Serenity, or simply Chibi-Usa, sits on the balcony and dreams the day away, reminds her of the old days in the Silver Millennium on the Moon, when she was a wet behind the ears young Venusian Princess, only interested in making boys fall for her and then dump them like a hot potato, and competing with the Martian Princess on who was prettier, while guards and generals attempted to teach them swordsmanship and archery. Their young charge and friend, the Lunarian Princess, would sneak off to the main computer room to look at the Earth and one day she found the most fascinating of all things on the blue planet, their Prince, Endymion. For the young Princess it had probably been love at first sight and from then on their days were filled with training while Serenity dreamt of the handsome Prince and a forbidden romance.

Their curious Princess did satisfy herself with dreams for long and decided that watching the Prince from afar wasn't enough; she snuck off to Earth and met him. They fell in love, despite everything and the young Senshi had their hands full with trying to keep the Princess from disobeying the Queen and sneaking off to Earth again and again. Of course she almost always managed to out-smart them and flee into her Prince's awaiting arms.

On one such trip, Venus decided that enough was enough, having been recently declared the head of the Senshi, she felt even more responsible and promptly followed Serenity to Earth. The young Princess wasn't hard to locate, Venus found her with two men, the black-haired Earth Prince and a tall handsome man with long white hair. At that moment Venus' attention had been on the run-away Princess, but then the white-haired man spoke, "It must be hard, having a bundle of curiosity for a Princess," and Venus had fallen under his spell completely.

That day had started everything. Serenity would sneak off whenever she got a chance and Venus would follow her after a few minutes, giving the couple enough time to convince Kunzite to try and stall her off. That had been Venus' main objective, anyway. She get on Earth and pretending to be angry go look for Serenity and always end up bumping into Kunzite who'd easily change her mind and thus give his Prince and the Moon Princess enough time without the leader of the Sailor Senshi bothering them.

This led to Venus and Kunzite talking sometimes for hours, sparring, and generally her trying to charm him and him acting unaffected. His act dropped one day when they had gotten in an argument about who was the better swordsman and agreeing on fighting it out. Venus, who wasn't prepared to fight with her heavy sword on Earth’s heavier gravity, lost her balance and almost impaled herself on her own sword. Kunzite had stopped caught her in time and after lifting her sword and seeing just how heavy it was, given up on his argument and agreed that she was better. She didn't leave his arms that day. They sat on a field full of wild flowers with him behind her, holding her tightly to his chest.

On their next meeting he admitted that he was more then just slightly attracted to her. Their relationship was rocky and unstable most of the time, but she still had many fond memories of him. The first time they ended making out for almost half an hour being her favorite.

Flashback

“Kunzite…” she breathed as he lowered his face closer to hers. “…the Princess?”

Venus closed her eyes in anticipation while trying to prevent the inevitable from happening. Kunzite smiled down at her before whispering in her ear.

“They can wait.” he said softly before lightly capturing her lips with his own. He placed soft kisses on her lips, teasing her until she let out a moan and wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him hard against her in a bruising kiss. Kunzite snaked his arms around her waist as her mouth opened up to him invitingly. Their tongues dueled for supremacy as their bodies clung to one another. They both felt a wave of relief wash over them. Relief to finally be in each others arms after wanting it for so long.

Kissing Venus was everything he expected and more. He could stay like this forever, basking in the sweet taste of her lips.

Venus struggled to catch her breath as Kunzite continued to devour her fully. His hands were everywhere at once. He groped frantically, desperate to feel as much of her as possible as the kiss intensified. They broke apart briefly so they could refill their lungs with as much oxygen as possible.

“You’re just trying to distract me from doing my job.” she breathed huskily. Kunzite smirked.

“Is it working?” he asked in a low tone.

“No.”

“Then I guess I’ll just have to try harder then.” Kunzite’s hands were in her hair, Venus' were tugging his shirt from his pants. She ran her soft fingers over his hard, muscular back as their mouths indulged in another hard, passionate kiss.

He broke the kiss and moved his attentions to her neck. He licked and sucked to his hearts content. Venus moaned as he found her pulse point.

“This isn’t very professional.” she admitted as he nibbled on her collarbone. “I’m not supposed to make out while trying to get my Princess to go home.”

“Well, don’t I feel special then.” he murmured. His breath against her neck caused the hairs to stand on end. He leaned in for another kiss, this time with so much ferocity it made her head spin. “You have no idea how long I have wanted to be able to kiss you like this.”

Venus smiled into the kiss. She had some idea. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him feverishly. Kunzite deepened the kiss. He couldn’t get enough of her. His hands were resting on her hips but quickly they lowered. His fingertips played with the hem of her fuku. He then slid his hand under her dress and stroked her thigh as he lifted her leg higher and wrapped it around his waist. Venus' brain registered something rather prominent pressing at her core and instantly decided things needed to be calmed down drastically. She wasn’t going to let him have his way with her right there in the middle of an open field on Earth. As much as her body was reacting to him, her head was telling her to put a stop to this as soon as possible.

“Kunzite.” she breathed shakily as she felt him tucking his fingers into the waistband of her panties. She quickly moved her hand down to stop him as he tugged gently on her underwear. “Kunzite, wait...”

He moved his hand away but continued his assault on her nervous system. He stroked his hand up over her waist as he pressed her up against a three.

“Kunzite…” she tried to get his attention but he was too far gone. She placed her hands on his chest to gently push him away, but he just kept kissing her and started moving backwards, heading deeper in the woods. His lust filled brain thinking that’s what she wanted. “Kunzite.”

They stumbled upon a rock and slid down a three. Kunzite broke away and gazed up at her as she struggled against him. “Psyche.”

Venus pushed at him and managed to slide off of him. She stood readjusting her fuku as he ran an unsteady hand through is hair. He moved so he was sitting.

“I think I should go.” Venus said as he looked up at her. He grabbed her hand and stood up. She lost her balance and fell into him. He pulled her against his chest.

“Stay.” he pleaded in a hushed tone. She felt his heart thumping hard in his chest and immediately reached up to kiss him thoroughly. Kunzite responded only too willingly before she pushed him away.

“I‘m not having sex with you here, Kunzite!” They both stared at each other, panting heavily. Kunzite moved towards her as she fixed the ribbon in her hair which had fallen down in all the commotion. They stood staring at each other, breathing deeply.

“Psyche…” But she cut him off by spinning on the spot and opening a portal to the Moon. She grabbed her sword on the way out. As she held the door open, she looked back at him. Kunzite stared after her, his eyes full of lust and longing. She said nothing. She just left the woods and closed the portal behind her. Kunzite let out a sigh and sat back down on the ground. He put his head in his hands as the events of the day sank in.

End Flashback

That had been their last encounter as lovers. The next time she saw him, he and his companions were leading the Earth army against them. He fell at her sword that day, but he took her with him.

Seeing him when she was reborn on Earth had taken a great deal of self-control not to run up to him and kiss him. Then he died again and everything was over.

Her very first love. The man she still desperately loved and regretted not having given her virginity to him that day in the woods.

As she watched Sailor Ceres flirting with a young General and him trying to get away from her, Venus mused that not all fated meetings were fated to have happy endings. Sailor Senshi existed because they needed to protect the heir to the Silver Imperial Crystal, they weren't meant to fall in love. If anyone knew that then it was the Senshi of Love and Beauty.

Noticing Jupiter and Mars sitting on the stairs to the palace, she joined them and observed that as soon as Chibi-Usa found a way to get to Elysian, the Sailor Quartet would have their hands full trying to get her back. Jupiter laughed and Mars just said that Elysian at least wasn't on another planet and that Chibi-Usa's love wasn't forbidden, their task had been harder. Venus agreed, yes it had been harder, harder on the heart.

AN: Just a little one-shot I couldn't resist writing after i re-read the Sailor Moon manga one more time. A tribute to one of my favorite couples. Please tell me what you think,

Jas