I don't own Yu-gi-Oh! Or Sailor Moon… please enjoy the story

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Chapter 1

Serena's eyes were downcast as her parents took her to her grandad's. She had become thin and her face drawn from lack of sleep, on the other side of the seat sat Luna, eyes studying her charge and princess with concern. It had been four months since the scouts save the princess had died and Darien had dumped her. Four very long months where Serena hardly ate a thing or slept a wink, to afraid because of the nightmares that came when she lay down at night. Her parents, being at the end of their idea's, had decided to send her to school in Domino, with her cousin Yugi, and Solomon, Ilene's father had agreed to take Serena in for the year in the hopes that she would perk up at this new school, and make some new friends.

"We're almost there, honey…" her mother said from the front seat, "Would you like us to stay for awhile?"

Serena looked up, her eyes vaccant, as if she wasn't really there, and shook her head slightly before looking back down at her hands, a few tears escaping her eyes.

Ilene looked at Ken, concern written on her face, that was mirrored in her husbands.

The car pulled to a stop outside a game shop, and Serena's parents got out, her dad going to the boot and taking out her suitcase. "Come on Sere" her mum said, opening the door for her, "let's go inside and greet your grandpa and cousin shall we, and don't forget to say thank you to him, okay." Serena nodded slightly and picked Luna up off the seat and got out slowly. She followed her dad and mum up to the front door of the game shop, which her mother opened for her and her father. "Dad, are you here?" Ilene called out as she let the door close behind her.

"I'm up here!" a male voice echoed down the stairs.

Ilene nodded and walked behind the counter, where a staircase was situated, and jumped the steps two at a time, followed by her husband. Serena watched them go, her eyes following them until they were out of sight, 'I better go up as well, or mum will get worried' she thought as she too mounted the stairs, going as slow as she could.

Once upstairs, Serena emerged into a nice sized living room, it was still as she remembered it, cream carpet, with cream curtains, a big, but not to big, flat screen t.v with a playstation 2 hooked up and a dvd player. To the side was a wooden table piled with what looked to be maths homework, and a bit of french translation work.

Serena took all this in with a quick glance around the room, before her gaze settled on her mum, hugging her grandpa, and her dad then shaking his hand. "It's good to see you again, Solomon, how have you and Yugi been?" Ken asked.

"We've been fine, Ken, Yugi's out with Yami, Joey, Tristan and Tea at the moment, though, said he'd be back soon" Solomon replied turning his head to catch sight of Serena, "Ahh, Rena, there you are, how's my little angel been?"

Serena starred at her grandpa, tears welling up in her eyes as events of the past year came back to her. The battle against chaos… the loss of her friends… Darien breaking up with her… It was just too much… "No…" Serena whispered, a golden light starting to form on her forehead, "No… not again… Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter… Please don't leave, not again…" Serena turned on her heals, rushing out of the room and down the stairs, only to fall on her bottom as she collided into something solid.

Serena looked up, a group of people were standing crowded around the base of the stairs, all eyes on her, out of them all only one was female, and Serena vaguely recognised her from her last visit. Infact there was only one whom she didn't recognise, and that was the boy she'd crashed into on her way out the door. "Sorry Yugi…" She apologised to her cousin, who was standing by Joey, "I… I've gotta book it…"

"Serena…" Yugi asked staring at her his heart reaching out to her, she was hurting, and he couldn't put his finger on why, "are you okay?"

"Yeah just peachy…"she replied with a wobbly smile, as she extended a hand to the boy she'd knocked down, her eyes widened slightly as she looked at him closely, he looked so much like Yugi, but maybe two, three years older at least…

The strange boy accepted the offered hand and let Serena help him up, before he dusted himself off, and starred at her strangely.

Serena smiled slightly at him, before turning to her cousin, "Mum and Dad are upstairs with Gramps, I'll be back later Yugi…." Before she walked hurriedly out the door.

"Sere…" Yugi started to protest, as the door slammed in his face causing him to sigh dejectedly. "I just want to help…"

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Serena looked down at the crashing waves, perched on a rock ledge above the sea, the sky had turned a bitter grey, and the waves had gotten pretty rough. It was almost high tide, and the sky was turning black with the approaching night, she had been sitting there for over two hours, left alone with her thoughts, replaying every year in her mind since she had become Sailor Moon. 'If only I'd learnt how to fight better, and not worn my heart on my face for everyone to see, maybe then Darien wouldn't have dumped me and the scouts wouldn't have sacrificed their lives for me… If only I'd never been discovered as the Moon Princess…. ….'

Something wet landed on her hand and Serena vaguely recognised it as her tears, 'I thought I had no more tears to cry… I guess I was wrong…'

An hour later a very wt and bedraggled Serena walked into the game shop and up the stairs, her parents car was outside any more so they must have left awhile ago.

"… Serena's going to be staying with us for awhile…. Lost her friends in a terrible accident….. taken …. Very hard…."

She heard her grandpa tell Yugi, through the door, even though it wasn't the full conversation it was enough to convince her she didn't want to go in, all she'd receive from them is pitying stares and she wasn't sure if she could handle that. She decided to skip didnner and went to the room that had always been hers when she stayed here. Everything was still as she had left it from her last visit a year ago, complete with the photo of her and all the scouts plus Darien and Andrew at the park. She smiled slightly as she saw Andrew was pulling a funny face, and Reeni had her nose screwed up because she didn't want her picture taken, before her eyes drifted to the other scouts, they all looked so happy, giving know indication to whether they knew they'd be dead soon or not, even though she had a sneaking suspicion that Setsuna and Rei had known. Finally her eye's rested on Darien and hate welled up inside of her, along with pain. The pain of having to choose between saving her friends lives and his, and she was ashamed at herself for making the choice she had…

Walking over to the picture, Serena turned it flat down on the desk before changing into her pajamas and getting into bed, a single tear flowing down her face.

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'There's something about that girl…' Yami thought as he lay on his back in the middle of his bed, 'something vaguely familiar, I feel as if I should know her from some where… but I can't for the love of Ra remember where….'

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Well this is my latest inspiration, and craze of the moment, I absolutely love Yu-Gi-Oh! And I think Yami is really hot, especially in his lovely grey sort of jacket thing, and lets not forget the tank top he wears with all the belts and chains… (Drools)

Don't worry Tears fans, I'm working on the next chapter, I just got a little stuck so decided to write up my first chapter/prologue to this story. Tears should be up soon as soon as I get unstuck, if you have any idea's for me please email them to me @ marsstarpower@sailormercury.com

Thanks, Raye.