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Seiya woke up in a pile of warmth, he had Usagi under his chin, snuggling into his neck. On the other side he has Minako awkwardly snuggling his side. He notices that it’s just the 3 of them in bed, everyone else must be awake. He tries to get up but quickly realizes there’s no escaping the pile of blondes. As he wiggles the both of them just tangle more around him, Seiya sighs and admits defeat, he has to pee, but there’s no escaping his predicament. Mako pokes her head in to check on them and Seiya perks up, “Oh thank goodness, can you help me escape, I have to go to the bathroom.” Mako chuckles, “Just force your way up, they’ll find each other.” Seiya gives himself the count of three and heaves himself up out of the pile, and sure enough he was able to break free. He bolts to the bathroom and Mako stares at their blondes while their comet gets ready for the day. Smiling to herself the senshi of Jupiter goes back out into the kitchen to finish breakfast.
Breakfast was finally ready and the blondes were finally up. Seiya finally gets out of the shower, clad in only pajama pants. Ami notices his choice of attire “Aren’t you cold? It’s barely 50 degrees today.” Seiya waves the notion of cold off “Pffft, I’m never cold.” He walks up to her and puts her hand on his chest “See, I’m practically burning.” He was right, his skin was pretty darn warm. Rei gets up and walks over to him challenging the notion that he wasn’t cold in the slightest “There’s NO WAY you’re warm. I’M not even warm.” Seiya just stands there with a cocky look on his face, puffing his chest out “Try me firecracker, come feel the WARMTH of the brightest star in the sky.” Rei puts her hand on his chest, expecting him to be at least chilly, but Rei almost recoiled “You’re so WARM!” Seiya scoffed. “See I told you, I’m not just warm in bed.” He winks at Rei and pats her behind as he sits down, Rei blushes furiously and goes to help Mako serve up breakfast.
After breakfast Seiya steps out on the balcony, enjoying the crisp Spring air on his new chest. ‘This is going to be my first summer without a shirt!’ He smiles broadly and just stares at the sky. After some time passes he hears the sliding glass door open, Minako joins him, linking their arms. “Hey Koinu, everything ok?” Seiya nods. “Oh yeah, better than ok, I’m doing great! Ya know, just airing out the boys.” Minako chuckles at him. “You know, I’ve never seen you so happy. Even when you hung out with Usagi when you first came to Earth you still had this darkness about you.” Seiya looks at his goddess. “Yeah back then I was trying so hard to find my light, ya know. Even on Kinmoku I always felt like something was wrong.” He scoffs and shakes his head. “You remember that whole ‘Light of Hope’ thing? Well it seems like Usagi was more than a simple metaphor for our salvation.” He wraps his arm around Mina, pulling her close. “Usagi and all of you guys helped us find ourselves. We’re SO happy now! Even if Yaten and Taiki are grumps, I haven’t seen them like that since we were kids. And like, we used to be close before, but now we’re like brothers. I can’t thank you guys enough.” He kisses Minako’s head and as he pulls away he notices that she has tears in her eyes. “Was it something I said, or do you have something in your eye.” Minako hugs him with all she has. “I’m so glad for you! I’m so glad you decided to share your love with us.” The starlight kisses Minako. “ I’m so glad we came back, you guys literally saved our lives.”
Later that day Seiya is just laying on the couch and Ami comes up to him. “Hey, do you mind if I sit here?” Seiya grins from ear to ear. “Of course I don’t mind.” Seiya curls in his legs and Ami settles in the spot he left. “How’s your chest been? It seems to be healing nicely.” Seiya sits up and touches his scars. “Yeah! It’s been healing great! All of you guys have been so much help.” He sits up further, kissing Ami on the forehead. “I’m the luckiest guy ever.” As he pulls away, he notices that Ami is rather cold. “HEY! NO! YOU’RE FREEZING!!!” He immediately pulls Ami close to him, wrapping her in a searing hug. “THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE, I WILL WARM YOU!!!” Ami giggles. “I’m always cold, I usually snuggle with Rei, but her and Mako are….enjoying themselves.” Seiya wraps himself around her more. “WELL I’LL KEEP YOU WARM! DON’T YOU WORRY.” His hug was firm and very warm, and Ami just melted into him. They finally get settled in, Seiya wrapping a blanket around the both of them. “Now I know why we were all drawn to you.” Ami leans on his shoulder and Seiya gives her one of his cocky grins. “It’s because of my warmth isn’t it.” Ami looks into his eyes and takes his hand, it was basically on fire, and it thoroughly warmed her own. “Well yes, but you just radiate love, but not like Minako or Usagi. It’s this fiercely protective love that just bleeds into everything around you.” Seiya kisses the small ice senshi. “You know there is a reason Haruka started calling me Koinu. She says I’m like a puppy, a mess of love and loyalty.” Ami smiles at him and starts rubbing his knuckles. “Well she sure is right.” They stay together on the couch for the rest of the evening, until everyone starts filing in for bed.
Usagi loudly declares Seiya get in middle so he can keep everyone warm. “You guys act like you’re cold or something.” Seiya chuckles as he crawls into bed, everyone else following him. Ami snuggles into his chest on his right, with Rei spooning her from behind, for optimal warmth. Usagi takes his left side with Minako filling in a small space in between the two of them. Makoto spoons Usagi, snuggling her neck. As everyone settles Seiya sighs deeply, he’s finally home again. No matter which house he stayed at, whether it be here with the inners, at the outers mansion, or at his own apartment with his brothers, it was home. It was an incredible thought that he, this absolute disaster, found absolute happiness with the brightest stars in the galaxy. Yes what brought him to them was an absolute tragedy, but out of that deep darkness, a light so pure was born. He was given another chance, a chance to mold himself how he saw fit, be the man he always thought he could be, and love so endlessly that no pain could ever touch him like that again. He was finally whole. A love that was no longer unrequited.