Requested: @kuntasage-11
Warning: I'm not sure how to write a deaf person. I hope I do it justice. I hope not to offend anyone.
[Edited: 4-27-19]
♦️ You and Rei met at the Hikawa Shrine where she works.
♦️ Your parents brought you there to be prayed over.
♦️ They believed you deafness could go away with prayer.
♦️ It never did. But they pushed and forced you to go and pray/be prayed over.
♦️ Sometimes it was like they needed you to be cured. Like they couldn't love you if you weren't.
♦️ Rei Hino wasn't like that.
♦️ She liked you despite you being deaf.
♦️ She didn't care if she had to sign words out for you.
♦️ She didn't care that you had to sign words out, because you hated talking when you couldn't hear yourself.
♦️ She liked you for you.
♦️ When you guys were out together, she would do the talking for you.
♦️ She was super protective.
♦️ If anyone said shit about you, she'd go set them straight.
♦️ You'd smile because of it.
♦️ Even if you couldn't hear what they said about you.
♦️It showed she cared about you.
♦️ You were friends with all the sailors.
♦️ You even knew about their sailor secret.
♦️ Rei got them to learn sign language for you.
♦️ Even Usagi learned it.