Apparently two can play this game, feeling the sheets being taken away in a quickened snatch up! "Oops... looks like you'll have to get the sheet back from me..." A realistic expression of shock and surprise became evident now that the only cover surrounding her had been sneakily taken away from her then.
"Seiya!" Rei said in a normal, albeit-in-a-bit-hushed tone. She didn't want to wake up grandpa since she knew he was somewhere down the hallway. Unless he slept in one of the spare houses on property.
Standing there bare for all to see, she couldn't get angry at Seiya for that sneaky little move. Knowing if she was a little more awake, she would have done something similar as well. Rei's amethyst colored eyes followed where Seiya's hand reached out taking up the Star Change. In an instant, Seiya's form shifted, as the sheet they had stolen now became a makeshift cover to hide the lower parts of Seiya's body. "I'll go take a shower, it's a good thing I left my suitcase here with my extra suit . . . "
"Uh-huh... shower... that does sound good about now." Rei squinched up her nose and stuck out her tongue playfully at Seiya who was now half wrapped up in the bedsheet. Laying prone along the bed, as Rei propped up her elbows along the mattress. Both hands forming a supportive cup for her chin as she watched Seiya slowly make their way towards the bathroom. Grinning to herself to the sexy display on hand before her. 'The private' little show that Seiya had just for her. "I promise won't use all the hot water..." Rei giggled to herself, as she watched Seiya make a hasty departure to find the guest bathroom down the hallway.
Now that she was alone, Rei knew that she too needed to shower and get ready for the big day at the archery tournament and lantern festival. Rolling over and off of the bed, she headed in the direction of where her bathroom was. Rei wasn't one for taking long showers, unless it was absolutely needed to relax and unwind from the day. Taking a short shower to freshen up for the day, she wasn't in there long and she did manage to receive hot water. Recalling that Seiya promised he wouldn't use up the hot water. As soon as the water was turned off, Rei had already dried off in the shower stall. Walking towards the mirror as she towel dried her hair, Rei took the time to cast a glance up at the clock. As the arms on the clocked appeared to be moving fast, she took it upon herself to move at a steady pace to get ready. She was already accustomed with wearing her miko clothing, when not at school. So placing on a traditional kimono without assistance was an easy task. Rei was wanting to be ready and waiting for Seiya for when he was ready to go. Placing on an application of natural makeup, she checked out her attire one last time before the mirror. Slightly adjusting her kimonos' accessories before providing a nod to herself that she appeared to be ready to leave.
Rei had just enough time to straighten up the bedroom and make up the bedding, when she heard a light rapping knock at the door. "Hey uh... Rei, I thought we could go together..." Standing back upright, she moved to pick up her light ornamental bamboo umbrella (which was still closed - not open). "I'm coming in..."
As Seiya strode in past the sliding door, she could see him pinning a red rose along his signature jacket known to all. "I thought we could get breakfast at the festival... Taiki and the others are already there." Rei couldn't help but watch as to how Seiya was making sure he was presentable. The fine tuning of pinning the rose, to straightening out his jacket caused a small smile of approval to his actions. "Tai mentioned to me Yaten---Star Healer, is currently at Liara's house... dunno what for exactly but they will also be at the festival at some point."
Rei canted her head off to the side in curiosity to Seiya's statement of Yaten's current whereabouts. That was odd to hear that Yaten was Liara's house. Remaining quiet for the duration of Seiya speaking towards her, she was just reflecting in all that had transpired in the last twenty-four hours. Her amethyst eyes had settled upon Seiya's experienced hands that were in the process of adjusting his tie. "Let's hope for a better day..."
The moment Seiya walked over beside her to retrieve his cellphone and Star Change, Rei's eyes were still in a sense fixated upon when she had watched him adjust his tie. His statement, "Let's hope for a better day..." Lingered in her thoughts. Rei's lips moved to say something but she refrained from speaking. Somehow in the back of her mind, Rei already had a feeling that the new day was going to be specially challenged. Knowing Seiya undoubtedly picked up that something was on her mind, Rei turned her body slightly around to provide a small smile, while lightly biting her lower lip. "One can only hope that things will turn out better.. right?" Upon inspecting what was picked up off the bed, was none other than Seiya's Star Change, his silent actions caused Rei to respond in a likewise manner.
Holding out her transformation wand for Seiya to see, "You're not the only one who's going to be prepared if things get real." Recalling how many times, long ago in the distant past when they all were awakened and Usagi of all people would forget to bring her transformation brooch and wand to a fight. Usagi was not forgetful like that anymore.
Allowing the sleeve of her kimono on her left arm to naturally fall back revealing her wrist communication device. "With the history of our group, it's better to be safe than sorry." Rei said with a small smirk forming at the corner of her ruby painted lips.
"…I'm ready to go when you are. We'll take my car as I have a permit." Rei nodded her head, she was ready to go and hopefully start their day off on the right foot. It wasn't long until the two of them climbed inside Seiya's car and drove across town towards the festival. It did not seem to take them too long to get to their destination. The two of them had been having small talk with one another on the drive over. As Seiya pulled the car into a parking spot, Rei noticed that Taiki's car was right beside him. She also took note that there were a bunch of people around hauling off musical instruments. Was this planned? Them singing? Or was this a last minute gig placed together? Not really thinking too much about it, the car door opened as she glanced up to see that Seiya was holding out his arm for her to take. Gladly accepting the assist to get out of the car. She wrapped up the long sleeves of her kimono and robes as she stepped up and out of the car.
Holding onto Seiya's arm as the two of them walked together, she found that they had stopped briefly to glance up towards the ginormous posters of archers plastered up along the walls and temporary billboards. One person stood out among the other images of archers... it was Kira.
"Geez...spot the star student..."
Was that... jealousy she heard from Seiya then? Rei turned her head towards Seiya about to say something when suddenly everything around them came to an abrupt halt. What followed soon thereafter was a loud shout followed by a multitude of screams!
"AAAHHH OMGOD IT'S SEIYAAAAA"
Rei's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates when she saw a large mob of grayed out people running towards Seiya screaming his name and ... her name too?? Rei was NOT accustomed to hearing her name shouted out in the air, unless it was from her best friend, Usagi. They were about to have to make a mad dash off somewhere so not to get run over by all those people. It was in a fraction of a second, she noticed that Seiya remained cool headed and removed a set of darkened sunglasses and placed them on. Feeling time go from a slowed down pace to a instant speed upgrade, when she felt Seiya's arm wrap around her hip and the sensation of being lifted up and moved in haste. Those wide eyes were still present as she realized Seiya had quite literally scooped her up and carried her out of range of the crowd that no doubt could have been dangerous.
"Sorry about that, Rei… " Once Seiya had set her back down on the ground, Rei felt like she was glowing beacon of light. Blushing from the unexpected lift and hasty transport outta there to escape the wild crowd of fans chasing after their idol! "S-s-sure, no problem Seiya. Thanks for the rescue." Rei managed to say as she regained her composure. Fanning herself briefly as she thought to herself, 'You can rescue me anytime!' Making sure to straighten out her kimono since it had gotten bunched up in certain areas that some might deem inappropriate.
Noticing Seiya sensing that the close was clear and manage to locate their group of friends by spotting Taiki first. Rei was in the final process of lightly ironing out her attire using the palm of her hand, when she glanced upwards to see Haruka take notice of how Seiya was sneaking up on his bandmate Taiki.
"Yo, Tai."
Meanwhile, Rei took it upon herself to take the friendly, forward approach and greet both Haruka and Michiru since they were close by, "Hello Haruka and Michiru, you two look cute by the way." Dotting on the outfits that they had on, if it wasn't obvious, they were the "cute couple" among friends. Rei had a feeling that Haruka didn't like being called 'cute' but knew that Michiru didn't mind. She started to say something else when she could feel an odd pulling along her psychic abilities. Her facial reaction to this sensation would have been obvious as she would not have been able to place up a fake mask up in response to act as if nothing was wrong.
Several flashes of images spontaneously flashed from behind Rei's amethyst eyes like a camera bulb flashing when images were being captured at a rapid rate. Her psionic form taking shape and color along the psi-plane as she watched events unfold before her very eyes in a grayed out film in a slow motion picture.
Silhouetted images of various people being grayed and darkened out, as the figures began to move into an archer stance. Simultaneously longbows were being stretched out as far as archer's arms and bodies allowed. Holding onto the tension as the arrows were let loose. Wooden and iron lead arrows flew throughout the air in an arch as each arrow rained down upon circular targets in the distance. In between the greyed out figures stood a naturally colored figure whose skin appeared to be pallor, against the gradient colors of white, gold, maroon and... a shade of blue? A blue aura that surrounded the female among the crowd. The individual had a strong grip upon the longbow but was hesitant in shooting the arrow within her grasp. The arrow, was lit as if it was on fire. No ordinary flames licked along the surface of the arrow, the colors were gradient shades of purple and blue. As she watched the female individual react to the flames, dropping her longbow and arrow in the process. As the person turned to depart the area, the tied back hair came undone. Which caused long rows of auburn and dark brown hair to cascade and flow out at an extremely long length that touched the ground surrounding the archers feet. Trying to catch a better glimpse of who the individual was, Rei was stunned on the psionic plane as she experienced a high grade flash of blinding violet light erupting outwards in a fireworks display. The brilliant display of light, caused Rei to raise both hands to shield herself only to take notice that the light firing off vertically and horizontally began to bend and form in multiple curved symmetrical structures that began to close in on itself in sections of four points. The points began to take shape of what appeared to be warped violet and pink butterfly wings as well as the shape of a handheld mirror.
What truly began to shock Rei was the fact the form of the butterflies moving in slow motion began to take on the silhouetted shapes of people. Having moved forwards on the psionic plane to have a much closer inspection of the butterflies themselves. The power behind the butterflies must have sensed her presence and sent a shockwave of air blasting back against her. Causing her form to slam against the image of the handheld mirror in her mind. Her body fracturing on impact along the surface of the mirror's glass. A silent scream erupted from Rei as she watched her form splinter and shatter into pieces like glass. This sensation of breaking apart into pieces forced Rei out of the psionic plane and back into the present. She was shaking, while feeling her color drain away in a pale manner. Feeling absolutely breathless and caught off guard for that brief fleeting moment.
Gasping for a breath, with a look of shock and distress evident across her features. It took Rei a moment to collect herself and realize that she was no longer on the psionic plane. Reaching up with her bare hand and fingertips, to feel the left side of her face to make sure she herself had not been broken apart and sliced up like she was in the vision. A shaky sigh of relief escaped as she swallowed the dryness that had formed in her mouth. Still trying to get her bearings she noticed that Michiru and Haruka were standing close by to Rei when the vision struck her. Not realizing how long she had been held in the vision, she gathered that the vision must have been quick. Mainly due to the fact she saw Haruka's reaction to seeing Seiya sneaking up on his bandmate and soon thereafter finding his friend, Usagi.
"Oi, Odango, you going to ignore me? …Mamoru. Everyone."
"Hi Rei! Hello Seiya!"
Rei shifted in her stance a bit startled at Ami's greeting and not meaning to do so. Just the loudness of a voice on approach seemed to make her feel jumpy. Rei saw Ami's expression shift to worry in an instant, as Rei tried to wave her friend off. "Sorry.. I..." Realizing that they were not alone on this playing field. Hearing Ami say something but her friend's words' were muted and muffled at the time, all Rei could see was Ami's mouth moving. Looking past her friends' towards the field of archers. Those people in her vision were no longer greyed out. They all appeared to be normal. And the particular individual with long, floor length hair was different. Rei wanted to ask if anyone had seen an individual with ground length flowing hair on the field. But she refrained from asking anything, as she just stared at the colors of the archer who donned the colors: white, gold, maroon with a touch of blue - tied, along her hair.
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