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my first entry for @senshixshitennouweeks!

Rei x Jadeite Week - day 1: Pride

For this first prompt I give you art and a headcanon to go with it!

So I think that in the Silver Millennium, Jadeite had a very hard time trying and getting closer to Mars. Even in the midst of all the plans and efforts to strengthen the bond between the Moon and the Earth, while the Moon people and the senshi were generally welcoming of the Earth people and doing their best to promote good relations between the two Kingdoms, Mars would mantain an unfriendly and detached attitude towards them. She would refuse to interact with them in any way except for the bare minimum courtesy, even in formal circumstances—she wouldn't accept a dance at a party, she wouldn't make small talk during meetings etc. Just to remind them that the favour and friendship that was being extended to them weren't to be taken for granted. So Jadeite had to think about something less conventional to approach her. Lucky for him he's the Knight of Perseverance (and bad ideas) so he wasn't going to give up easily! :D

She was the Princess of Mars, so her domain was battle and war. He thus started to boast about his exceptional and unmatched fighting techniques whenever she was close by. Making sure to be extra pompous about it. Being the prideful warrior that she was, of course she took the bait. She had to teach this arrogant man from Earth a lesson. So she challenges him to show her his supposedly amazing fighting prowess, planning to thoroughly humiliate him and put him back in his place. They start sparring occasionally, and he finds out that she is in fact much more inclined to communication and to physical proximity in a fighting context. She is not completely unapproachable anymore. So he obviously uses these opportunities to try to impress her (which mostly fails—he's the one more and more impressed) but most of all to at least start a conversation (even if it's mostly snarky little banters at first) and of course to be a little flirty now and then.✨

I was planning to make a second piece from a different perspective so that the pose and dynamics of the scene would be clearer but couldn't make it. I was never fully happy with it and I didn't want to waste any more time on it and decided to just post this and be done with it. ;_; I'll just link the music video I used for reference so you can check it out to have a better idea (the fighting sequence is at around 2:40)!

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I can’t believe we’re already at VK Week almost! Trying to be better about getting these out on time :) Enjoy!

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A x Z Week 2024 Day 6: Blue

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The color of her eyes. Of melodies that slowed the heart. Of the unattainable rose.

The color that Zoisite had come to associate with her.

Princess Mercury.

With assured fingers, he tapped and pushed the keys, drawing out the golden sound of the piano in front of him, imagining the feeling of that dove like creature floating through endless cool water.

It's a song.

Like Rhapsody in Blue.

A song for her.

Music is the easiest thing in the world for him to communicate with, so he wants to make something that shows everyone just how he feels.

Little naiad. Curious mermaid. A sharp and radiant mind and a sweet little heart.

And the color blue.

The imagery curls and flows in his mind.

Gently. Gently.

It's a bluesy melody, but he's slowed it to a waltz. Added little shimmers of sound.

Blue.

Zoisite will work late into the night to finish it, maybe even until the sun rises the next day, when the sky turns from dark indigo to blue again.

But Ami will hear it.

A song for her.

He might call it "Blue on the Piano."

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Midnight Man

@senshixshitennouweeks This is my (very late im super sorry!!) second entry to the Rei x Jadeite week of last year. Prompt was "Recognition". It's kind of a re-write, or rather an 'expansion'?, of episode 3 of Sailor Moon classic, the one where Jadeite hijacks a radio station, but from Rei's perspective. Inspired by: sm episode 3 obviously, the manga, and this song. Enjoy! (AO3 link)

The day had come to an end.

Finally.

Rei took a deep sigh after closing the shoji screen of her room behind her. She couldn’t wait to slip under the covers and just be done with it. That had been a weird day, for sure. Not tiring or particularly busy, just… weird. She couldn’t pinpoint exactly what was that had disturbed her peace of mind; even her meditation didn’t go as well as usual and she somehow found herself continuously distracted; maybe it was all the fault of the nonstop chatter at school about that new late-night radio show. She didn’t catch a lot about it except that it was some kind of romantic program and it involved love letters. And that had been more than enough to irritate her greatly. Why in the world were so many girls at her school suddenly so invested in some random, superficial, romantic show?

Well, it was surprising, but not entirely implausible.

Even though the T.A. Academy was a very austere and strict environment, where girls had virtually no time nor incentive to dwell on frivolous things such as talks of romance, sentimental gossip and the likes, she knew her classmates were not immune to that altogether. She had occasionally overheard excited, secretive whispers in the hallways, accompanied by nervous giggles and flustered faces. There had been fleeting rumors about girls having some kind of secret relationship inside the school, right under the nuns’ noses. And one time, a girl was found in possession of a novel that wasn’t exactly… innocent. She had to spend a few hours in the punishment room waiting for her parents to come and then endure a probably embarrassing lecture from them and the nuns. All the girls had talked about it for days.

But this was different. She had heard about the damned radio show three times already, from different groups of girls, all in a single day. With a little too much enthusiasm for her liking too, and very little effort to conceal it. What in the world might even be the deal? It was just a stupid radio show. She sighed, and quickly changed into her night robes.

Except she was curious.

She shot a suspicious look at the radio in front of her bed. Maybe I should check just to see what the fuss is all about. She pursed her lips, pondering the idea. Her senses were strangely alert, like when an imminent danger is near; there was probably something behind this that was worth the bother to discover. Something nasty. Maybe it was a big scam. A scam made to prey on naive girls with their heads filled with romantic bullshit.

Yes. She hated the thought enough that she finally decided to momentarily leave the comfort of her bedsheets to go and pick up the radio from the shelf and put it on her nightstand, near her bed.

She turned it on.

Fidgeting with the dial to find the correct frequency, she stopped when the buzzing of the static softly melted into a smooth jazzy melody. Her hand froze, still on the dial, as a voice broke through the music, low and sultry.

“I want to see you. I want to see you one more time,” the voice pleaded, suddenly filling the room, almost startling her. It took her a moment to recollect herself, and realize that she had in fact found the right program, and that it was likely the host that she was listening to. Reading through what was undoubtedly a passionate love letter. Yes, he was just reading a letter, nothing more.

But damn.

The man sure knew how to use his voice, she mentally conceded, quite bitterly. For a cheap radio show, there was no denying that the host was putting quite the effort into making it sound almost believable. Almost. She crossed her arms and slightly lifted her chin, determined to keep listening, but with renewed defiance.

“If only you knew how much I regret our parting…” he continued, and she quickly found herself completely unable to move as she listened, barely breathing. “I still think of you every day, every night, wishing I could still see your smile, wishing I could hold you in my arms… close to me… closer than we’d ever been before”

With a sharp breath, Rei adjusted herself on the bed, shifting her position to distance herself just a bit from the radio. Her heart was pounding, and she couldn’t understand why. She did expect something incredibly corny, maybe even embarrassing to listen to. But this was having a completely unexpected effect on her. For a silly radio show, and one that she had never even listened to once before, something about it felt… too personal somehow. Was it because of the words? Unlikely. She never was particularly susceptible to cheesy romantic talk. On the contrary. Was it the voice? Sure, the host was extremely good at conveying the feelings of what he was reading and making it feel real. But Rei knew she was better than that. She was above falling for such insidious little traps. She sighed, then closed her eyes, trying to shake off the lingering sensation and focus instead on understanding why that voice was evoking such a strong reaction. There had to be a logical reason for that, a serious reason; she just had to concentrate harder.

Breathe Rei, breathe.

(Keep reading on AO3 as it turned out a bit too long to post all on tumblr)

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V x K Week 2024 Day 5: Forbidden

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They can't

They shouldn't.

They should be exemplars for their fellow guardians. They should be making sure that their charges are making the responsible decisions and not galivanting off with one another.

Like they were now.

Kunzite groaned and gripped the fabric of her dress, just above her waist as Venus continued to kiss and nip at his pulse.

To have this composed man coming apart from her touch was too much of a temptation for Venus, no matter how much she wished it wasn't.

The word 'forbidden' rang in her head like bells.

Forbidden. Forbidden. Forbidden.

This would be the last time, she promised herself.

She broke that promise.

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V x K Week 2024 Day 3: Heart

@senshixshitennouweeks super late and out of order but life hit me in the face. Hopefully more to come

She could feel her heart shattering as she watched him die a second time.

Her Kunzite. Yes, *her* Kunzite. She had known him. Yearned for him. Maybe even cried for him.

But now Beryl. That villain. That bitch. That selfish heartbreaking seducer. The moment the spell was broken, she just had to destroy the shitennou.

If she lived long enough, she'd tell her grandchildren that you could live a millennium of heartache in a single second.

She had.

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R x J Week 2024 Day 5: Psychic

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“That fortuneteller was full of crap!”

Rei fumed as she and Usagi left the tent of ‘Rani the Mysterious.’

“I don’t know,” Usagi said, pausing from inhaling the massive cotton candy she’d bought the moment they’d entered the carnival, “she told me I would marry young and live to old age with my sweetheart.”

The romantic wistfulness on her face melted into consternation.

“But then she said my first child would come before marriage.”

“Count yourself lucky,” Rei said, “that quack said that I would fall in love with someone I’ve already met, already hurt, been hurt by, and I wouldn’t know when I met them again.”

“In that order?”

Rei rolled her eyes.

“As if I would ever allow any of that to happen to me,” she said with a huff.

*

“That fortuneteller was full of crap!”

Kunzite looked up from the map of the carnival he held in his hands, his frown matching Jadeite’s.

“I don’t know why you even went in there,” he said, “you usually don’t go in for this sort of thing.”

Jadeite rolled his eyes.

“I lost a bet with Zoisite. I had to go to the next huckster I saw and let them ‘take me for a ride.”

“And that’s why we’re in disguise, in the middle of a carnival?”

Jadeite crossed his arms.

“If I didn’t hold up my end, I’d never hear the end of it. You know how Zoisite is.”

Kunzite sighed, then folded up the map and turned to go.

“I’ll have a talk with Zoisite,” he said.

Jadeite fell into step beside him.

“You better,” he replied, “that ‘Rani the Mysterious’ said that I would be dominated by a fiery woman.”

“She could have been talking about Beryl?”

Jadeite shook his head.

“Doubt it,” he said, “Beryl only gets pissed when someone screws up. Namely me.”

“If that’s the case, then it’s nothing to worry about.”

“Psychics,” Jadeite muttered, shoving his hands into his pockets, “I’ll never understand the appeal."

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A x Z Week 2024 Day 1: Bubbles

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This was crazy.

Of course, this was Zoisite they were talking about, so eccentricity came easy for him.

Case in point: Ami could barely see him through the water, but soon warm hands gently held her face and somehow, she knew he was smiling. Warm lips touched her’s, bubbles floated up from between them and she wasn’t just floating because she was underwater.

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R x J Week Day 3: Shrine

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Doing roof work was hardly in the purview of being a miko.

But then again, Rei wasn’t all that ready to let random strangers with power tools make shoddy workmanship decisions on her beloved shrine.

Which is what ultimately led to her standing on a ladder, nailing down loose shingles on the sacred fire’s building.

It was cost effective to do it herself anyway. And she’d be done in no time if it wasn’t for that damnable wind.

“You know, forecast says the wind is going to pick up another two kilometers today.”

Rei’s hammer halted just before it’s intended destination. She looked down over her shoulder at the young man who now stood at the ladder’s base, looking up at her with his hands in the pockets of a ratty old hoody.

“Well, I’ve still got three more shingles to fix,” Rei replied, “and no, I’m not calling a repairman.”

“It would go faster.” “And eat through our budget for the month.”

“I could always ask one of the others to help out.”

“You mean the peacock? Or the Midnight Stallion?”

“You’re never going to let that one rest, are you?”

 “Anyone who tries to make that into their nickname is clearly—whoa!”

She probably shouldn’t have been leaning over that far. Not when the wind was blowing as hard as it was. Not while trying to talk to someone and fix the roof at the same time.

Unfortunately, as anyone except Rei would tell you, she could be exceptionally bullheaded. So really, she had no-one to blame but herself for falling from a latter at that moment. If she had been Sailor Mars at that moment, a fall like this would have been nothing, landing with cat like grace on the cobblestones without a second thought.

The thoughts of “where’s my transformation pen” evaporated though, when her fall was cushioned by a pair of strong, familiar arms.

“So, what have we learned?”

That smirk on his face and the errant curl that was hanging roguishly just above his eyes made her want to slap and kiss him in equal measure.

“Shut up and put me down,” she said, “you can call the rest of the clown troop later.”

Rei squirmed out of his grip (without waiting to see if he’d put her down) and headed back inside.

Soon, the shrine would be fixed and she could worry about other things. That’s all that mattered.

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R x J Week 2024 Day 2: Burn

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She should be loyal.

To her princess, her friends, her mission.

And she hates herself.

Because she burns.

For *him* of all people!

Rei’s hands ghosted across the curves of her torso, and she frowned. His hands would no doubt be bigger than her’s.

Stop.

None of that.

She’s taking care of urges. No different than eating or going to the bathroom.

That’s it.

A shaky breath escaped Rei as her fingers teased her entrance.

Her eyes slide closed and she hates what her mind conjures.

Her fingers tangling in the golden curls of his hair.

The timbre of his voice against her throat.

His skin against hers.

Damn him.

Damn herself.

And still she burns.

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R x J Week 2024 Day 7: Recognition

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"And 1st place goes to Ms. Rei Hino!"

She’d joined this competition on a whim. And maybe as a favor.

Minako, in her infinite wisdom, had gone and caught herself a summer cold (during one of her coquettish escapades) and had begged her friends to join the Miss Seaside pageant in her place.

Of course, College courses for the rest of the senshi had left them with little time to actually join a beauty pageant, which left Rei to take pity on Minako (or rather try to get her to stop pestering her) and enter.

She hadn't expect to *win* though. But here she was, bedecked in a tiara and a swimsuit being handed a sash and bouquet of roses.

It was almost too much.

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“She asked you to what?”

Rei huffed at Jad and tossed another handful of seeds to Phobos and Deimos.

"Enter the Miss Seaside pageant for her and I won!"

"That's crazy," Jad said. He'd just returned from a "guys' brunch" and had yet to change into the robes he wore for working at the shrine.

"It's like something out of an anime!?" Rei replied.

"Well, I can't say I'm surprised you won."

Rei frowned.

"What do you mean by that."

"I mean, you are incredibly beautiful."

Rei flushed.

"Get changed and get to work," she grumbled.

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C x H Week Day 1: Sweet

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“What’s a six-letter word for ‘Sweet?”

Neo Queen Serenity looked up from her bowel of fruit loops to her husband, who was currently gazing at the open pages of the morning paper, taping a navy-blue pencil on the table top.

“What?”

King Endymion gestured at his paper with his pencil.

“The crossword. I need a six-letter word for sweet.”

“Are there any letters already filled in?”

“None.”

The queen pursed her lips, trying to recall her rather bumpy experiences in Middle School English Classes.

“Yummy?”

“That’s five letters.”

The queen pursed her lips in a pout.

“I’m making a law about crosswords,” she said, returning to her breakfast.

“Morning everyone.”

The royal princess, her bubblegum tresses a tangle, stepped into the kitchen still half asleep and in her Minky Momo pajamas. Chibiusa retrieved a bowl from the cabinet and took a seat at the table beside her mother.

“Morning, pumpkin,” the king greeted as his daughter poured herself some breakfast, “did you sleep well?”

“Pretty good,” Chibiusa said, "how are you today."

"Fine," her father replied, "just can't find a six-letter word for sweet."

Chibiusa yawned, sleep still in her system.

“Helios," she said tiredly.

The king paused, looking up from his paper to his daughter, who was currently staring at him with wide as she realized just what it was she had said. Meanwhile, The queen counted on her fingers.

“It fits,” she said.

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C x H Week 2024 Day 6: Pining

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"OK, spill."

Chibiusa nearly jumped out of her skin, her pencil clattering to the floor. Vesves stood in front of her desk, arms crossed and annoyance written all over her face.

"Spill what?"

"You've been staring off into space and drawing horses for a week now. What's got you so mucky?"

Chibiusa looked down at her English notebook. The margins were littered with fat little doodles of unicorns and cowboy boots. She felt her face heating.

"No reason," she said, a little too loudly as she slammed her notebook shut and shoved it back into her backpack.

"You're going to need that for class," Vesves said as she walked away.

Chibiusa huffed, fishing her notebook back out.

What did Vesves know? She'd never met a lovely boy in her dreams and fallen in love with him before.