Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breaking Free ❯ Masquerade Jealousy ( Chapter 8 )
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Breaking Free
Chapter 8: Masquerade Jealousy
By
Middlen
Usa leaned back against the wall watching everyone in the room. Her arms are crossed over her white tux jacket, one of her black slacks covered leg is bent at the knee while her foot rests back behind her. Her crystal blue eyes, scan the room before a hand reaches up to run through her platinum blonde bangs and she lets out a sigh of relief when she notices that Yomiko is wondering off in the opposite direction of her.
When she had walked into the large ball room earlier the other woman had practically ran up to her and thanked her profusely for allowing her to grieve, while Usa blushes profusely at the apologizing girl in front of her, noticing Haruka with a slight frown on her face.
She had taken her hand away from Yomiko and told her that she was going off some where and left the girl standing in the middle of the ball room floor with a slight frown on her face. `Hmm, serves her right. She might have been trying to do the right thing by leaving Hotaru, so that no one would find out that my Aunt was a girl, but that doesn't excuse her for all the other horrible crap she's done,' Usa thinks to her self before pushing away from the wall and sneaks through the throng of people to a refreshment table to get a glass of punch.
She reaches out a hand to grab a glass when another hand comes into contact with her own. She looks up and notices a beautiful woman standing in front of her with a long sleeved, silky red dress that crossed into a v at her neck while around her neck was a gold chain with a silver phoenix attached to it. She follows that neck up to a face that is half covered by a mask, but she notices the familiar, bright amethyst eyes looking back at her.
She pulls her hand back for a moment before reaching back out when the other girl doesn't and hands her a cup of punch before bowing at the waist then walks off with her own cup of punch.
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Rei holds her breath for a moment trying to figure out if the dashing young man that had been standing in front of her a moment ago was actually Nate-san like she that it was. She shakes her head and for the hundredth time she asks herself why she cares before walking off to find her friends. She looks back one more time to where she saw the youth walk to and notices a blue haired girl talking to him. She shakes her head before turning back around and continues on her way towards her friends who are looking over towards the place that she had been staring at.
“Hey, isn't that, Nate-san?” Minako asks while standing on the tips of her toes to get a better look at the platinum blonde boy standing a couple of yards away.
“I wouldn't know,” Rei mumbles while rubbing the back of her hand where the blonde haired boy had touched it.
“Who's the girl that he's talking to?” Makoto questions while she watches the two teens while they talk.
“I don't know. I've never seen her before,” Minako states before glancing over towards Rei who is currently crushing her empty glass with a look of annoyance on her face.
“Hey, there's Taru. I'll bet he knows if that's Nate-san or not,” Makoto states while pointing over towards Hotaru who is currently standing at the other end of the room watching someone.
The three girls make their way through the crowd towards, Hotaru, who's currently watching a pink hair girl talking to another man in a powder blue tux. She's so engrossed with her vigilance that she doesn't notice the three teens walking up to her until Makoto is standing right beside her.
“Who are you staring at, Taru?” Makoto asks quietly which results in Hotaru jerking slightly before looking at Makoto.
“Oh, Makoto, I didn't know you were there. What did you say?” She asks while sneaking a quick glance over towards Yomiko one last time before turning her focus back to Makoto who smirking at her with a knowing look on her face.
“Oh, nothing. So, can you tell us if that's Nate-san over there,” Makoto asks while pointing towards the blonde haired boy who's still talking to a bluenette.
Hotaru stands on the tips of her toes in order to get a better look at the person that Makoto is pointing at. She raises an eyebrow when she indeed sees, Usa, standing by her cousin before she leads her out onto the dance floor and begins to dance with the girl.
“Yeah, that's Nate, alright,” Hotaru answers before lowering herself to a normal standing position. `I wonder how, Ami, was able to get her out onto the dance floor? Usually, Usa, hates to dance,' Hotaru asks herself before turning her attention back to Makoto.
“I didn't know he was coming,” Minako states before raising an eyebrow. “Wow, he's a really good dancer.”
The other two girls crane their necks to see Usagi gliding across the dance floor with the girl that he had been talking to. Makoto and Hotaru glance at each other with their eyebrows raised before turning their attention back to the dancing teens.
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“See, I told you it was easy,” Usagi states while she guides her cousin, Ami across the dance floor. “You're very good. Are you sure you can't dance or is it more that you're to shy to actually dance with someone else?”
Ami blushes a light red before looking down at her feet. “I guess it's more that I'm to shy to actually dance with anyone else here. Thank you for dancing with me, Nate. I really do enjoy dancing.”
“Well, that makes one of us. Usually, I don't like to dance, but I figured that I'd make an exception with you. You are family after all,” Usagi states with a chuckle before winking at her cousin when she notices other guys looking at her with envy. “I'm thinking that there are plenty of guys here that would love to dance with you.”
“You're just saying that, Nate. Why would any of the guys here want to dance with me?” The bluenette asks while blushing more.
“Ami, you really don't give yourself enough credit,” Usagi states while guiding her over to where a bunch of guys stand staring at the duo. “You see those guys over there? They are watching you because you are gorgeous. Any idiot can see that, Ami.”
Ami looks down at her feet once again before looking back up at her cousin with a serious expression on her face. “Can I confess something to you without you getting mad?”
“Ami, you can tell me anything. I promise I wont get mad at all,” Usagi states with a serious expression on her own face.
Ami licks her lips while furrowing her eyebrows. “I'm not really into, guys. I haven't been for a while and the real reason I asked to dance with you isn't only because you're my cousin nor just because I wanted to dance, but more along the lines that you're safe. You're family and I know that you wont try to cop a feel while we dance,” Ami explains with a slight blush on her face.
“Is that all? And here I was thinking that you were going to tell me that you want to run away with the circus or something,” Usagi states with a slight chuckle at her joke before shaking her head. “But seriously, that doesn't bother me, nor does it make me mad. Actually, it explains some things about yourself, really and please believe me when I say that I'm glad that I'm getting to know you, Ami. It's sorta nice to have someone else in the house besides Hotaru that's around my age.”
Ami looks up at her cousin and lets a large smile cross over her face before she allows herself to dance happily with her cousin while they chat about school, their childhood and some funny stories about growing up with their Aunts.
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Rei watches the two teens dancing with her arms crossed over her chest, a black cloud hangs over her while she watches the blonde haired boy laugh and shakes his had at something the girl that he's dancing with had said.
“How about instead of moping around you go over to Nate-san instead and ask him to dance?” Minako asks making Rei jump and spin around to glare at her blonde haired friend.
“Why would I want to dance with that baka?” Rei asks after regaining her composer and crosses her arms over her chest once again with a scowl on her face.
“Oh, I don't know. Maybe, because if you glare at Nate-san anymore then you are now, he's going to combust into a ball of fire,” Minako states with a wave of her hand. “Look, Rei. I know how you are. I know what you like and maybe just maybe you like this boy. Yes, it does seem ridiculous, especially with what you had confessed to me a year ago, but maybe there's something about this boy that makes you actually look.”
Rei scoffs and shakes her head before looking away from the dancing boy back towards her friend with an angry look on her face. “I don't want anything to do with that perverted boy, Mina. So get that thought out your mind right now,” she states before stalking off towards the refreshment table once again.
Minako lets out a sigh then turns back towards her other two friends with a shrug of her shoulders that says, “well, I tried”. The other two nod their heads before looking back towards the blonde and his dancing partner only to see a pink haired girl walking up towards the two. The blonde is about to ask her friend Taru if he knew the girl, but stops when she notices a dark look pass over the dark haired boys face and his eyes narrow.
Minako and Makoto exchange looks at the sudden change in attitude in their young friend, but they don't say anything only watch the interaction between Nate-san and the pink haired boy. They shake their heads while they wonder just what exactly is wrong with their friends right now.
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Rei lets out a scoff while her mind wanders back to the conversation she had with Minako before she stalked off towards the refreshment table. She notices that the bluenette that Nate-san had been dancing with is currently standing in front of the punch bowl pouring herself a glass of punch.
`Well, it can't hurt to find out what the relationship is between those two. It's not because I care, but it just looked like they had danced that way more then once and I'd like to know where they learned how to dance like that. Yeah, that's all it is,' Rei thinks to herself before slowly making her way over towards the other girl.
When she's close enough to the bowl she reaches out for a cup only to accidentally knock her hand against the other girls. They boy apologize to each other before they laugh softly with the short haired girl blushing slightly.
“I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention,” the blue haired girl states before bowing before Rei who blushes slightly as well.
“No, no. It's alright, really. I was a bit preoccupied with my thoughts,” Rei states while rubbing the back of her neck.
“Oh, that's alright,” the blue haired girl states before reaching out for a cup of punch after Rei does.
“I'm Hino Rei by the way,” Rei states before bowing towards the other girl who smiles back at the raven haired girl.
“I'm Mizuno Ami. It's a pleasure to meet you, Rei-san,” the bluenette states politely before taking a sip of her punch.
“Please call me, Rei,” Rei offers before taking a drink of her own punch before turning away from the girl and leans against the table only to see that boy dancing with a pink haired girl now.
“You can call me, Ami, if you'd like,” the girl states from beside Rei which causes Rei to look back over towards the girl with a slight embarrassed look on her face.
“I'd like to very much. So, tell me, how do you know, Nate-san?” Rei blurts out then rolls her eyes slightly at her out burst. “I mean, how did you two meet?”
Ami lets out a chuckle before looking over towards Nate who's still dancing with Yomiko, but from the look on his face he'd rather be anywhere but there.
“Oh, well, Nate is my cousin. I asked him if he'd dance with me because I was sort of shy to ask any of the other guys. Well, that and I felt safer dancing with him then anyone else really,” Ami answers with a smile on her face. “He really is a great dancer, even though he doesn't like too.”
“He's your cousin?” Rei asks with a raised eyebrow at the information that Ami had given her.
“Yeah, he is. He was just being nice to me,” Ami states with a shrug of her shoulders.
“Wait, Nate-san is nice? I find that hard to believe,” Rei states with a shake of her head.
“Yeah, he really is. It's hard to believe and you have to dig deep down into him, but the niceness is there. I think he's had a hard life and that's made him sort of hard to get to know and made him put up a wall to block everyone out except for family, but it is there,” Ami answers before letting out a chuckle at the look of horror on her cousins face. “I should go save him, before he decides to jump out of a window. It was nice meeting you, Rei.”
“It was nice meeting you as well, Ami,” Rei states before watching Ami make her way over towards her cousin with a raised eyebrow. `Nate-san's nice? Who would've thought that?' Rei asks herself before shrugging her shoulders then walks back over towards her friends once more while hoping that Minako wouldn't make any more comments about liking Nate-san.
When she reaches her friends she notices the dark cloud that is currently hovering over Taru's head. She looks over at her two friends who only shrug their shoulders at the silent question that she asks them. `Maybe Nate-san stole his girlfriend,' Rei muses before getting into a quiet conversations with Makoto so that they don't interrupt Taru's sulking.
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Later that night Usagi arrives back home with her Aunt and Michiru. She lets out a sigh of relief when she enters the tea room and falls over on to the couch before putting her arm over her eyes and lets out a groan while reaching down to rub at her feet.
“I haven't danced that much since well forever,” Usa states before she hears a chuckle from the other two occupants of the room before the door to the tea room opens up.
“I have a surprise for you!” An excited males voice exclaims and she lowers her arm to see her father standing in the door way with an excited look on his face.
She lets out a groan and sits up before giving her father an exasperated look. “And this is why I don't invite my friends over.”
Her father rolls his eyes before he tosses her an envelope. “Here smart ass. This is your early birthday present. There are four tickets in there for hot springs spa. I figured that with all the training that I've put you through that you could use it,” he states with a smile on his face before Usagi gets up from the couch and gingerly makes her way over to her father then hugs him gently.
“Thanks, pop. I really could use a vacation after all of the excitement that I've been put through,” she states with a chuckle before moving away from him and goes back to sit on the couch once again.
He smiles then nods his head towards Haruka and Michiru who give him a ghost of a wink before he walks out of the room leaving the three girls to themselves once again.
“So, I noticed that Yomiko wrangled a dance out of you tonight,” Haruka states before perching on the arm of the couch looking down at a sleepy looking, Usa.
Usa lets out a groan and places both hands over her eyes then shakes her head. “I don't even know why she wanted to dance with me to begin with when all she did was ask me about Hotaru and would talk about nothing else, but her. What is her malfunction anyway?”
Michiru and Haruka exchange looks before looking over at the young girl laying on the couch who continues to cover her face with her hands. Haruka shrugs her shoulders then lets out a chuckle.
“Well, maybe she's trying to make you jealous or something. Maybe she likes you and wants to judge how you react to her talking about your aunt,” Haruka states while rolling her eyes at the eep that comes from Usagi.
“Kill me. Just kill me now! That's all I need is another crazed girl coming after me because she thinks that I'm the best thing since slice bread!” Usagi exclaims before shaking her head. “What the hell is wrong with these girls? Don't they have anyone else to go after and torture beyond all comparison?”
Haruka falls off the arm of the couch laughing her ass off while Michiru gives Usagi a sympathetic look when the girl groans and covers her face this time with a small pillow that was once resting behind her head.
`This is going to be a long week,' Michiru muses before closing her eyes and shakes her head when she hears a yelp come from Haruka.
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Rei had asked Minako to say over night after the party to which the blonde haired girl had complied to since she would be going to an empty house once again when she got home.
After the party had ended the two girls had retired to Rei's room where they were currently sitting. Well, Minako was sitting while Rei paced around the room ranting and raving about a certain blonde haired boy that they both knew.
“He was dancing with his cousin, Mina. His cousin for Kami-sake! Who in the hell dances with their cousin?” Rei rants while waving her hands around in the air to enhance her point.
“Well, maybe he was being nice. Maybe his cousin didn't know anyone there and didn't want to dance with someone that was unknown to her,” Minako supplies with a shrug of her shoulders while she watches Rei stop and stare at her as if she grew another head.
“Or maybe he's just a hentai freak that has incestuous relationships with his family!” Rei exclaims while placing her hands on her hips.
“Rei, I really don't think that's the case here. I think that you are reading way too much into this whole thing. I mean really. Taru's his Uncle and does he seem to be engaging in incestuous relationships to you?” Minako asks while rolling her eyes while Rei sputters for a good response to her question. “Do you think that he's really that big of a jerk?”
Rei stops her pacing around then lets out a sigh while she thinks about the boy in question. There were instances where he seemed to be really nice and instances where he was a real big jerk.
“He can be a jerk... most of the time,” she concludes with a shake of her head.
“Hmm.. Rei are you sure that you aren't in love with Nate-san?” Minako questions with an eyebrow raised at her friend.
Rei's eyes bug out at the question and she glares at her life long friend with a mixed look of rage and well rage.
“W-what! Mina, are you sure that you aren't deaf or something? I just told you the guy's a jerk, not to mention a pervert, a hentai freak,” Rei rants while she paces around the room with her arms flailing.
“Yes, yes alright I get it. A Super pervert.” Mina sweat drops when she remembers that term along with several others that Rei had used several times the describe Nate-san.
“Alright, alright, Kami-sama, calm down Rei. I was only joking, you know!” Mina soothed while getting up to place a hand onto Rei's shoulder not only to stop her from pacing around the room, but to help her calm down as well.
After a couple of minutes, Rei finally calms down enough for Minako to sit her down on a chair and she squats in front of her looking up into a stormy amethyst eyes.
“Besides Mina.. you know I don't swing that way,” Rei states while dropping her voice down to a whisper before looking around as if to make sure no one can hear her.
“Yeah I know, but maybe you-,” she begins but Rei cuts her off before she can finish her sentence.
“No.. never. I can't see myself ever doing that again,” Rei answers with a sad look in her eyes while she plays with a ring on her finger.
Mina frowns while looking at her friend, not really knowing what words of comfort she can offer to her friend. The silence ensued for a few more seconds while both girls contemplated what to say to one another.
“I think that I'm just tired. So maybe we should go on to bed.” Rei states while faking a yawn to prove her point before she makes her way over to her bed while Minako sets up her futon for the night.
After they're settled into bed, Rei leans over and flips off the lights. The two girls lay in bed for while, neither one of them able to go bed right away because of the thoughts that churn through their minds.
“Rei..” Minako starts, but pauses to see if Rei will respond to her.
“Yeah?” Rei asks while she lays in her bed with her arms behind her head.
“I'm always here for you okay,” Mina reminds the dark haired girl that lays above her in her bed.
“Thanks Mina,” Rei answers with a smile at being reminded that no matter what they go through her best friend will be with her through it all.
“Love ya,” Mina's tired voice comes up from the floor making Rei smile in the dark.
“Yeah me too,” she answers before turning onto her side and allows sleep to over take her exhausted body.
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To Be Continued…
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Next Chapter: Back to school. Will Hotaru be mad at Usa for dancing with Yomiko? Stay tuned.
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Stormforce: Hey, I'm glad that you found this fanfic. It's great to see another person enjoying the story that I'm trying to put together here. I'm glad that you love it so much. Stick around cause its only going to get better with time! Thank you for the review and if you have any input let me know. I'm always open for that.
Aleric: Don't feel to bad. I've done that before. Left a review only to think it over after I've sent it and came to a different conclusion. It happens to the best of us. Lol. As for the whole Yomiko and Hotaru thing. That is going to get explained more throughout the story, but your assumptions aren't to far off, but you're just going to have to see where exactly I'm going with that one, but good thoughts! Thanks for the review very insightful as always!
a reviewer: Well, I really hope that I did this chapter justice. I liked the whole masquerade party as well. I know that wasn't in the original, but like I've said this story is loosely based on that. I'm glad that you thought the party was a good idea. Thank you for the review and stick around. Soon, Mamoru will get what's coming to him! evil laugh
Riku: Always a pleasure to get a review from you as it is from everyone. I'm very glad that you are enjoying this story as much as you are. It's reviewers like you and everyone else that keeps me writing these stories. I hope that you enjoyed this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thanks once again for your review and I look forward to more .