Disclaimer I don't own Sailor moon, but I down own Kayla and the plot.

A/n: This story takes place shortly after Sailor Moon Sailor Stars. I will be bringing back the starlights, and I've already figured out pairings. This will also have hints of pgsm mixed with the anime….. so be on the look out.

Warnings: Standard warnings apply, this story does contain adult content, mild to severe langue, and other adult-related themes. Simple, don't like don't read.

Chapter 1

The sound of an alarm broke the still morning air, its owner ignoring the device turning under the covers in hopes the noise would vanish of its own accord. After several minutes, the figure realized in order to kill the sound she'd have to personally do something about it. Slowly one hand snaked its way out from under the mound of blankets and silenced the annoying buzzing. Not bothering to glance at the clock's display the figure lifted herself from the bundle of sheets and blanks before gradually starting her morning retune.

Normally she'd been up dressed and halfway ready for school long before her clock would have the slightest chance to sound, but as of late she hadn't been feeling like herself. Her grades had slipped in the past month, and she found herself late for school usually failing to make lunch, or even grab a bite for breakfast. Today, however she'd managed to squeak by. She now walked lunch and school bag in hand not even bothering to look up to school the once bright and cloudless sky changing to fit her mood.

Thick clouds hung in the air, and people started to scatter not watching where they were going in order to avoid getting caught in the pending down poor. Others opened umbrellas hurrying off to waiting cars or busses. The once genius found herself on the ground more than once, but she just stood and continued to school pausing only long enough to change her shoes. Students and teachers alike paused to bid her a good morning, but she promptly ignored them not even bothering to reply.

"Ami-chan Daijobou?" One of her friends called, this one with brown hair done up in a messy pony tail. "Ami-chan?"

The other girl looked up for the first time since she'd left the apartment she shared with her mother. "Watashi…." She begun slowly. "I'm fine…" she finally replied plastering on her fake smile.

"Come on Ami-chan…lets go…." The taller of the two continued giving her blue-haired friend a soft tug. "You know you don't look fine… What's really wrong?"

"Nothing….!" Ami shouted, "Can't you just let it go-" the smaller girl's sentence fell short as she had stepped into an empty bucket used for mopping and landed face first up against a pile of desks.

"Ami-chan!" two voices cried a blonde joining the brown-haired girl at the sound of the crash. It took both girls to lift the smaller one and free her foot from the bucket.

"Like I said I'm fine guys can't you let it go?!" Ami shouted a second time this time halting the laughter that had erupted when she'd fallen. Now all eyes were now on her, but the normally shy Ami didn't even bother to hide her anger instead she continued, "I don't need you guys trying to be my mother!"

"Gomen Ami-chan demo…." The blonde began but the appearance of the teacher quickly sent her scrambling for her seat.

"Well Mizno-san are you going to find a seat or have you forgotten how to walk?" the teacher barked.

"Iie… gomen sensei…" Ami replied as she took her seat.

School seemed to drag on, and Ami had once again managed to doge another day of detention. It seemed like ever since the starlights had left, She, Rei, and Usagi, had all been acting strangely. Normally Ami would have been early for every class, aced every test and even gotten herself ahead so that when she graduated high school she could become a doctor-in-training. As far back as Ami could Remember, becoming a world-famous doctor had been her dream. Now, it appeared she'd abandoned this dream and much more when all hope for peace appeared to be coming to pass.

Ami returned home to find a message from her mother. A message from her mother wasn't uncommon, often between Ami's school life, and her mother's job as a doctor, the mother daughter pair rarely saw one another. However, this message sent chill's down Ami's spine. Ami had been unaware, but her mother had noticed Ami's rapid decline in grades and behavior, and now requested, no, insisted her daughter see a professional for this growing problem. The woman had even gone as far to set her teenage daughter up with an appointment, which, from reading the note, Ami found herself very late for.

::Damn…:: Ami swore to herself, quickly changing from her school uniform and then sprinting down the street. She didn't want to see whoever it was her mother wanted her to see, but, if her mother had taken the time to arrange this, then the woman must have been more observant then Ami had previously thought.

As Ami slowed in order to make a careful note of her surroundings many thoughts raced through her head much involving what she'd tell this man or woman. She couldn't really tell them the truth and keep her senshi identity safe. So lost in thought she didn't see the streek of blonde coming towards her, that was until she felt her body collide with another sending them both crashing to the pavement. "Usagi-chan gomen …" Ami stated rather hurriedly "Demo… I've got to go I'm going to be late again."

"its fine…" the blonde moon bunny replied as she too picked herself up. She dusted her school uniform, and glanced apprehensively at the structures around her as if in deep contemplation.

Normally Ami would have questioned her friend being sure that she weren't hurt, but her own apprehension had her frozen. Taking a glance at the sheet of paper marking the address of her destination, the blue-haired girl found she now walked in step with her blonde companion. She spoke not a word eyes darting from the paper to the numbers on the buildings marking their location. Taking a deep breath she entered her mind still comptaplating of what she'd say to this "professional help" as her mother so rightly called it. She had failed to notice that her blonde meat-ball headed friend had also joined her in her agonizing wait.

Catching sight of the girl she'd refered to as Usagi-chan, she spoke not able to take the siclance any longer, "So what brings you here?"

Usagi twitched nervously in her chosen seat refusing to make eye contact with the blue haired genius. "Watashi…" she began unable to form a clear thought. "My mother made me come, she's worried about me because I've not been myself. I've refused to tell her what troubled me, so now she thinks I need to see a shrink. She says its either this or she'll ship me off to live in America."

"Demo, Usagi-chan didn't you want to live in America with Mamo-sama?" Ami inquired. She knew all too well about how much it hurt Usagi to have the love of her life halfway across the world, but she didn't expect the answer that did spill from the moon bunny's lips.

"I've been starting to wonder if mamo-chan even cares about me. He's promised to never leave me, but he's broken up with me several times… gone off to America, and not once contacted me. I know that his plane had been attacked before he could land, demo, he shouldn't have left a second time… and…" by now Usagi's words had blended together and her sobbing had begun again. Her words had turned into gasps of air, and intelligible sounds.

Ami sat there soothing her friend trying to help her to breathe a bit more normally. "Mizuno, Ami" came a male voice but Ami didn't care to reply. "Mizuno Ami…" came again this time a little louder.

This time Ami lifted her head to lock eyes with the speaker. "Hai…?"

"Fallow me…. " the male voice ordered, and now Ami could clearly see the voice belonged to a man about her mother's age. He held a clipboard hiding his name tag just to the point where she couldn't make out the name.

Ami rose and fallowed the man never once looking up from the floor. She'd slipped again, failing to make a plan of what she could say, in order to ease her mother and at the same time protect her and Usagi's secret.

"Mizuno-san?" the doctor questioned once he and Ami had taken their seats in his office. "Your mother is concerned. She says you've dropped out of cram school, and that your grades are slipping and you keep coming home with various injories." He finished. When Ami didn't reply he continued repeatedly calling her name.

After the third try, Ami finally replied, "Gomen Nasi…" what more could she say, fear had gripped her at this point and now she really had to think her way out of this one. "A lot's been going on and I guess I've been overwhelmed." She lied quickly. "gomen…. I've got to go." She stood fleeing from the office the doctor hot on her heals shouting her name. Usagi briefly glanced up, now feeling concerned with her best friend which only added to her emotional pain.

"Ami-chan matte!" Usagi called attempting to force her own pain back in order to deal with that of her friend, but the lack of eating had taken its toll and Usagi's weakened body gave out as she had begun to descend a flight of stairs. "Ami-chan…." She whispered weekly as her eyes closed and her body had gone limp in the doctor's arms.

Usagi and Ami's two classmates, Makoto, and Minako had gone searching for their friends during the end of school. They knew things were not going so well for the two senshi, but the extent still surprised them. Ami had been found a block from her apartment complex hugging herself as she atemped to cope with everything that had gone on. ::Oh god what's happened to me:: she'd been thinking to herself. Her heart ached for the missing peace of her life, the one part of her life she'd thought she could make since of. Now her mind had been clouded with doubt ever since that faithful day. ::Its not fair…..:: her mind screamed praying that love could have been more than just a dream reaming just out of reach.

"Ami-chan!" Makoto, her brown haired friend screamed running up. "Come on you've got to tell me what's going on." The senshi of thunder demanded.

"Fine….." Ami hissed through her tears. "I miss the starlights…one much more then the others….. much more then I ever thought possible. I can't handle it, and I can't talk about it. My mother wonders and I have to lie, because this is something I can't just beat around the bush with. I used to think my mother had no time for me, and no involvement in my life due to her being a doctor, but I come to this!" she produced the note with her mother's strict instructions to see the shrink.

At that moment a light bulb went off in Makoto's head and she finally understood what had been happening with her friends rapid decline. She wished she could offer aid to her blue-haired friend, but she couldn't honestly say she could feel the extent of the pain she and her friends must be feeling. ::I wonder if this what could be bothering Usagi-chan and Rei-chan:: Makoto quickly thought producing her cell phone and selecting the phone number to Minako, in order to find out weather or not the young pop idol had been able to locate their other friend. She, and the two cat guardians both had been very concerned when three out of the five inner senshi had started exhibiting strange behavior. However, Makoto had begun to wonder if more could be wrong…besides love-sickness. She herself couldn't honestly say she understood it, and Minako, goddess of love, seemed perplexed as well.

"Moushi, Moushi…" Minako answered not even bothering to look at the caller I.D. She could guess who it may be, or who she'd hopped it to be.

"Have you seen Usagi-chan yet?" Makoto inquired worriedly after finding Ami in a heart-breaking state.

"Iie… why what's wrong?" Minako begun to be anxious now too confusion adding to the fear she now felt.

"Ami-chan has suffered a server nervous reaction to the loss of the starlights." Makoto explained. I'm worried about Usagi-chan we know she doesn't handle loss well."

Makoto sighed, "I know I'm searching." She finished walking into a hospital, in fact the very hospital she'd been admitted too many times in the past. Clicking off the phone she turned to the nurse behind the desk. "Is a Tsukino, Usagi hear by any chance?"

A few minutes later, Minako got the confirmation. she'd been dreading. Quickly she called Makoto back, who, had also decided to have Ami checked out.

Outside, the storm clouds begun to part giving way to two orbs of light resembling that of a pair of eyes gazing over the city. Another formation of light formed moments later, directly under the two eye-shaped orbs, this one similar to an evil smile.

"Soon….my time will come." A voice boomed off the nearby skyscrapers sounding much like thunder, but louder if possible.

Across town in a townhouse-sized apartment, two woman stood gazing out at the storm. "I since the seas are restless, something evil is coming, " the woman warring the pale blue evening dress commented, her teal hair reflecting off the streetlamps below.

"I know our time of rest has once again been cut short." Her partner, a woman warring men's clothing, replied.

Flames flickered dancing of their own accord, sparks flying each and every which way. A figure sat knelt in front them, but her focus wasn't completely on the flames in front of her. "Yaten-kun…." She whispered.