[Author's Boring Note - Read at your own discretion]

This story occurs in the era after the Z fighters defeated Buu.
As you know, the story line of Dragonball Z stops for 10 years.
I'm writing about what happened during that time. Several characters
in each series (Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z) are used in this
crossover, but not all of them. At this time, Trunks is 9 years
old, Goten is 8, and they can fuse to become Gotenks. Please note
that in this story, Mamoru is nonexistent and you will find out
why soon enough. And the senshi are in their "Super" stage. You
do have to know both series pretty well to understand this story!
I do not own any of the characters I use, as they are copyrighted
to Naoko, Akira, the others who aided in the production of our
beloved anime, as well as TOEI entertainment, DiC, Funimation,
Cwi, and the others. (Blab, blab, blab.) I do take full credit
for the story line. That is all. Enjoy!

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Chapter One - Unexpected Return of Youth

A girl in pink pajamas walks sleepily down the stairs.

"Usagi! You're up early today!" Her mother gasps, "Are you feeling
all right, honey?"

"I'm fine, mom."

Usagi really didn't know what woke her up. Instinct, perhaps? She
was still quite sleepy...

"My backpack, mom. I'm late..." She mumbled.

Her mother eyed her father across the table. He raised his eyebrows.

"Honey, it's Saturday."

"Oh." She blushed, feeling stupid.

Dizzily, she walked back up into her room, shutting the door
silently.

"Hi, Luna." She patted her sleeping cat on the head while struggling
to get back into bed herself.

The black cat opened one eye, annoyed.

"Usagi!" She screeched, suddenly scooting away, "What in the world
is happening to you?"

"What's wrong, Luna?" The girl asks, alarmed.

"You're... you're... you're..." Frantically, the cat pointed to Usagi.

"What is it, Luna?" She cried helplessly, suddenly noticing a voice
change in herself.

Luna's eyes looked as if they were about to bulge right out.

"Usagi, you're shrinking!" She finally screamed.

Usagi turned to face her mirror. Indeed, as Luna said, she watched in
horror as her body shrank right in front of her own eyes. Soon, she
regressed to a little girl of about 8 years of age. Both she and Luna
stared at each other, unable to speak.

"Luna?" She squeaked uncertainly.

"You sound like a... child!" Luna shook her head, amazed. "Perhaps
you and I are having the same dream?"

"Must... be..."

The room fell silent for awhile as the two stared at each other, waiting
for an answer from the other.

"I'm afraid it was not a dream." Setsuna walked in, carrying a pouting
child. Artemis tagged behind.

"Minako!" Usagi and Luna both jumped a mile.

Setsuna put the child down.

"You, too?" Minako sighed as Luna nods miserably.

"What's going on, Setsuna?" Usagi began to whine, "Why are we all little
again?"

Minako crossed her arms, still pouting.

"At least they are much cuter now than in their teenage form." Luna
whispered to Artemis.

Minako steps on Luna's tail - on purpose. Usagi was still busy whining.
Luna hissed loudly and jumped on Artemis. Soon, the quarrelsome people
and cats began to scream at each other. No one could hear anything but
his or her own spoken words.

Finally when everyone quieted down again, Setsuna began to explain.

"I'm terribly sorry about this incident. But it seems as if the time
space is affecting your crescent moons," She nodded to Luna and Artemis,
"Like they're somehow connected in a way. And that is why they have
grew backwards, I believe."

The cats looked at each other and shrugged.

"I must say, the time space has been a bit unstable since my garnet rod
has fallen into it. I am considering asking the senshi to aid me in my
search. Because if we do not recover it soon, time could ultimately begin
to flow in an unfavorable manner."

"NO!" Usagi and Minako screamed in unison. Now both are pouting. "What
would they think if they saw us like this?"

"Well..." Setsuna sweatdrops and kneels down to child size as she said
jokingly, "Unless you two can find it for me."

"Sure, why not?" Minako shrugged.

"As long as you don't tell the others about us looking like this." Usagi
added, not knowing that Setsuna was only kidding.

Setsuna sighed and fell into deep thought, knowing the stubborn girls
would never let her contact the rest of the senshi without any failures
on their part.

"Well?" Usagi questioned.

"Okay. Okay." Setsuna reluctantly agrees. She didn't really think those
two would be able to recover anything by themselves, but heck, what could
possibly go wrong? Eventually, they'd beg for her to call the rest, anyhow.

"Why wasting time maintaining their reputation when they never had any?"
This time, it was Artemis who whispered to Luna, who nodded readily.

"Setsuna," Minako smirks, eyeing at the cats, "Since those crescent moons
of theirs screws up time... shouldn't we cover it up?"

"Oh, yeah! Definitely! I'm glad you reminded me." Setsuna said as she
searched for bandages. She, too, was becoming annoyed at their negative
feedback. After all, without their moon portals, the garnet could still
continue to stabilize the flow of time on its own for quite awhile.

"WHAT? NO!" Luna screamed as she made a dash toward the bedroom door.
Usagi shut it just in time.

"Sorry, guys. We can't let the time mess up even more - or they could
turn into babies!" She apologized, putting two bandages across Luna's
crescent moon. Then she did the same for an equally rebelling Artemis.

"MEOW!"

"Without that moon, they're just average cats." Setsuna told them
importantly.

Usagi rolled her eyes. She discovered that a year ago when she first
met Luna!

"Can we go search for your rod nowwwww? We don't wanna stay like this
foreverrrrrr!" Usagi whined, greatly taking advantage of her youth
form.

Setsuna decided that Usagi was a very good whiner.

"Come on, then. Let's go to the gate of time."

"We're NOT walking on the street like this. What if someone sees us?"

"Ugh... Then how do you propose we get there?"

After much planning, they finally covered themselves up as much as
possible. Each of them piled on shirts, pants, scarves, hats, and
sunglasses... really, whatever they could find. Afterwards, they looked
more like logs covered in clothing as opposed to children.

Satisfied, the three of them walked to the park, where the entrance
to the time gate was. Despite the mass amount of people staring at
them as they walked by, the managed to get to the park in one piece.

"You guys be careful, okay? Getting lost in time space is not funny."

"We know, we know!" Minako whined impatiently, "Could we go already?"

"Okay." Setsuna led the girls to the main gate. An eerie feeling crept
upon them.

"It looks weird." Usagi complained bitterly.

"Should I contact the rest of the senshi?" Setsuna asked, uncertain
about letting two kids go into the time gate alone. Although they are
two of the most powerful ones, they are still children - well, maybe
the word "still" isn't the best way to describe this situation.

"ChibiUsa goes in and out of it all the time." Minako stated crossly.

"Small lady is 907 years old." Setsuna informed them.

They, simply enough, disregarded her words.

"Enough said. I'm going." Minako didn't even look back and jumped right
into the time portal. Within an instant, she was out of sight. With one
last look at Setsuna, Usagi jumped in, too.

Setsuna peered into the portal.

They were gone, indeed.

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