Ah, part 1 of my Legacy of Power Series! For now, there's only three animes but more will be added later on in the series, as it progresses and there WILL be references to people, places, things and abilities from different animes, mostly of those that will be added later on.

The "Version 2" is mainly for me but I didn't feel like removing it. It means that this is the more plausable work up of the original story so it's not like a major God-modding one shot, 'kay? And to show the difference, I may just post the original, too.

And here's a challenge for you, my readers: Which chars from which anime show up in this chapter and in what order?

Put your answers in the reviews, so I know that you were ACTUALLY paying attention!

So, let's get going, shall we?

Naruto/Bleach/Sailor Moon

"Timeless Scarlet Rain"

(Version Two)

Chapter 1:

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"Ordinary Everyday"

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Nothing was as common place, as ordinary—as boring as the morning train ride to school. It was mundane and tedious for those who did this every single day but for Hotaru Tomoe, this was exactly what she wanted. She wanted boring, ordinary and common place, despite nearly crawlings because of the inactivity. It had been 6 years since the defeat of Galaxia and Chibi Usa returned to her time, leaving the Senshi to live ordinary lives and the past to continue tirelessly towards the future.

While happy that things were quiet and peaceful, Hotaru was antsy from the lack of youma cells that had finally tempered off about 3 years prior but it was to be expected when one was used to conflict and fighting. And while Hotaru was a happily ordinary 15-year-old girl now, she was also the lone Senshi who was still considered "on call" with the occassional patrol allowing Rei and Makoto to help break the monotany. The Inner Senshi were in college, Mamoru was working at the hospital full time and the Three Lights were on another international tour. Michiru and Haruka were happy playing "house" with Hotaru and Setsuna, who was getting called to do wardrobes for movies and TV nowadays—ones Minako had referred her to when she was doing her part time acting bit while doing school. Rei was taking a few classes amid her duties as a priestess and Makoto was trying to get into cullinary school while Ami was getting closer and closer to the medical career of her dreams.

With Usagi married and Minako on her way of becoming a star, Luna and Artemis were now living with Hotaru and were left to guide the young Senshi of Silence. She was their soul responsibility and she wasn't at all concerned with boys or TV shows, which made their job easier. However, she was still dedicated to become a nurse and they were more than happy to help the girl study and make it to all her engagements on time, since Hotaru was now notorious for getting absorbed in her studies and forgeting to even have something to eat.

And to make sure she didn't get too absorbed while on her way to school, the two felines were in the rack above her head, watching her read a book on old methods returning to and inspiring modern medicine. She had done that before, being so absorbed in her book that she ended up riding it until she had finished it and thus ended up missing school. While delighted with the girl's dedication and determination, Luna half wished Hotaru was a little more active, for the sheer fact Hotaru was overlooking a lot. One example was how long the girl's hair had gotten.

While it looked cute on her, Hotaru's hair had always been cut to her chin and had never reached her collar bones for as long as Luna and Artemis had known her. She kept it back with a simple headband that was a perfect match to the blue skirt and sailor collar of Crossroads Middle School's girl's uniform. She wore a light weight pale cream sweater that she had gotten especially for school, her neatly pressed uniform, a pair of white ankle socks and her black ballerina Mary Jane flats with their inch and a half heel. She wore reading glasses, making her ressemble Ami quite a bit, and a pair of blue studs to match her uniform, like her headband.

Hotaru had been oblivious to the world around her the moment she opened her book when she left the house earlier and hadn't noticed Luna and Artemis had followed her this time. She usually asked them to stay at the house unless it was something important, mostly for their safety but missing school because of a book was something they couldn't overlook, even if it was an accident.

She sat serenely on the bench, her feet tucked as far under her seat as they could go and her school bag on her lap. She didn't chat with the other passengers or watch for her stop. She merely sat reading, totally in her own little world. Seeing such a sight made Luna half want to toss something at her head to get her to snap out of it.

"If she keeps this up, she'll miss her stop." Luna muttered to Artemis.

Artemis chuckled at his wife's grumblings. "You can't be happy, can you?"

"Whatever do you mean?" Luna asked, looking at her husband.

"You complained that Usagi wouldn't focus on her studies and now you're grumbling about Hotaru's dedication to getting into med school."

Luna stopped and blinked in realization. She chuckled at herself. "Yes, I see your point. I am worried about her, though. She needs to be a little more aware of her surroundings, like she used to be."

As if on cue, Hotaru stopped mid turn of her page as someone sat next to her and half leaned over her shoulder to look at what she was reading. She looked up at who was next to her, completely surprised with only mild disbelief on her face.

The person sitting next to her had white longish hair and purple eyes, a fang peeking out of his smiling lips. He wore the boy's uniform for Crossroads Middle School, the neru jacket open to show off a pale ocean blue t-shirt and a pair of white and blue tennis shoes.

"Hi." He greeted with a smile.

"Uh, hello." Hotaru greeted a little uneasily.

"Whacha readin'?" He asked. Hotaru held up her book so he could see the cover. "Oh, interestin'. So, ya wanna go into the medical profession, right?"

"Yes, I do." Hotaru answered, not sure what he wanted.

"Whadya wanna be?" He pressed.

"A-a nurse." Hotaru responded. "I want to be a nurse."

He smiled wider, showing teeth. "That would suit ya, since you're so gentle and ya like helpin' people."

"Who-who are you?" Hotaru asked nervously, getting his smile to fade a bit.

"Houzuki from 3-C." He replied. "You're Tomoe from 3-A. I've seen ya around, helpin' yearmates an' underclassmen all the time. An' ya spend a lot of time in the library, when ya do all your work in class an' are ahead of everyone else."

Hotaru leaned away from him, feeling apprehensive, a funny tingling settling over her skin and playing along her nerves. "You've-you've been following me?"

"Suigetsu, what the hell are you doing down here?" A too familiar voice half demanded, getting Houzuki's attention but he didn't lean away from Hotaru. She looked at the new arrival, not sure what the hell he was doing on her train to school.

"Ah, Sasuke!" Suigetsu Houzuki grinned. "Look who I found. I tolja I saw her on the platform."

"That doesn't matter." Sasuke shot back. "Come on. Karrin and Jugo are waiting."

Suigetsu's eyes dropped to Sasuke's arm. "You're doing it again."

Hotaru looked at Sasuke's arm and saw that he was rubbing his arm, his nails starting to scratch his skin in red furrows under his jacket sleeve. She stood suddenly, dropping her bag and book into her seat, and grabbed Sasuke's arm, pulling it away from his angry skin.

"Would you pay attention to what you're doing to yourself?" Hotaru scolded, not looking at him. She covered her right hand with her sleeve cuff and took his hand in hers, using her left to push his other sleeve back to look at his arm. "God, if you had kept going, you would have started bleeding."

"He's already done it to his bicep. He's been doin' that ever since we transferred." Suigetsu commented. "Karrin's preactically gettin' off with as many times as she's had to heal him. She's absolutely estatic with joy over it."

"That's enough, Suigetsu." Sasuke half snapped at the other boy. Hotaru lightly brushed her fingers over the red furrows, thinking she could possibly heal the damage. If she could trust him and Suigetsu to keep it quiet, she'd heal him right that instant.

ZZZZAP

Hotaru jerked her hand back, dropping Sasuke's arm and put the end of her left middle finger in her mouth, mentally muttering curses at static electricity. She took her hand away from her face and shook her hand, wondering why that funny feeling had strengthened.

"Weird." Hotaru muttered as she looked at her hand.

Sasuke grabbed her bicep and jerked her around to look at him, gripping both of her shoulders to keep her facing him. "How the hell did you do that?"

"It was static electricity." Hotaru retorted, brushing his arms away from her. "These trains are riddled with it, especially when they're in motion."

Out of all the boys at school, Sasuke Uchiha was the only one that defined Bipolar. He was either indifferent or just a plain ass whenever she came around and to make matters worse, he sat 2 chairs behind her, directly behind Usagi's younger brother Shingo Tsukino, who sat behind her. He never spoke to her before and she had seen him around more than once, usually being followed by a few mobs of crazy fangirls. He hadn't even know she existed until he was transferred into her class and then it was nothing but being ignored or being snapped at for no reason.

"It's called 'common sense,' Uchiha." Hotaru told him, picking up her bag and book off her seat but not giving him her back. "Do the world a favor and get some before you get 51-50'd because of your stupidity."

Hotaru put her book in her bag and slung the strap onto her shoulder, taking off her reading glasses to put them back in their case. Sasuke grabbed her bicep again and jerked her around to look at him.

"Care to repeat that, Tomoe?" Sasuke half growled at her.

"Look, Bipolar Boy." Hotaru said sharply, getting him to look at her surprised. She jerked her arm out of his grip again. "I don't know what your problem is but you're the one who's got it, not me. So, check your issues at the door and grow up already. This aggressive emo bullshit's getting old."

Sasuke just looked at her surprised, momentarily speechless at her spine. He hadn't seen her like this, Hotaru knew, since she was Little Miss Nice-Nice with the cheerful smiles and encouraging, uplifting remarks at school. If anyone ever saw through the act she put on, they'd have found out that Firefly had stopped taking crap from people a long time ago but she just pretended not to have changed to keep people from looking too deep. As Setsuna had said before, Hotaru was the universe's best actress and only 2 normal people on Earth really knew what she was like.

But she hadn't seen them in years.

Hotaru put her glasses case in her bag and shouldered the strap better as the train began to slow. She pushed passed Sasuke and slipped into the crowd beginning to form at the doors. Artemis and Luna scurried along the luggage rack so they wouldn't be left behind. Hotaru was easy to find, being the closest to the doors, and she had her eyes closed with her brow slightly furrowed, most likely counting as high as she could to keep her temper in check. Just because she seemed slow to react didn't mean that she didn't get mad; it just meant that whatever was pissing her off built up until she had had enough and by then, it was never a pretty sight.

When the train stopped and the doors opened, Hotaru was the first one off, making the 2 felines dart from their hiding place and out onto the platform to keep from losing her. Hotaru was already half way down the stairs and heading towards the street by the time the cats got half way across the platform. Apparently, Sasuke had put her in a mood and Luna could already feel the air begin to chill and see thin clouds begin to form in the sky.

Taking the high road, Luna and Artemis finally caught up to Hotaru several blocks from the platform. They hadn't made a sound or even called out to the young Senshi but so far, they hadn't been noticed….

"For the record, I don't like being followed."

…or so Luna had thought.

Hotaru looked up at them over her shoulder. "You know, I knew you were following me the entire time and if you're not careful, the next time you mutter on a train, someone's going to hear you."

Luna was quite surprised by Hotaru's comments. "You were faking being sucked into your book?"

"No, it's a very interesting book but you should know by now that I can't turn off my programming. I can ignore it to a point and do something else but I can't turn it off." Hotaru responded as the cats hustled a little faster so they were more or less walking even with her along the wall they were on.

"You're right, we should have known better but with your recent behavior, can you blame us for being worried?" Artemis inquired gently.

Hotaru gave them a weird look. "What recent behavior?"

"You've been too absorbed in your studies. You missed your stop the other day--" Luna began, getting Hotaru scoff with a dry laugh. "Your parents are worried about you."

"Okay, a few things—one, they're not my parents. Two, I'm not behaving any differently than usual because I'm usually focusing on my studies. Three, what I'm hungry for, you guys frown upon so I run off my power and thus I'm not usually hungry food wise. Four, I focus on my studies whenever I don't have someone to fight because it gives me something to do. And five," Hotaru said, holding up each finger on a hand for each point she was making, "I didn't miss my stop—I skipped school."

Luna was utterly shocked. "You skipped school?!"

"Why on Earth did you do that for?" Artemis asked.

"You saw my reason." Hotaru shot back. "He's a complete Bipolar asshole and I always get this weird feeling whenever he's around. Bugs the hell out of me."

"So, this Sasuke boy—where do you know him from?" Artemis asked over Luna's repeated exclamation of "you skipped school," which was being ignored by Hotaru anyway.

"He sits behind Shingo and Shingo sits behind me." Hotaru answered, shouldering her bag better. "We're in the same class. He's either giving me the silent treatment or copping an attitude. Ms. Haruna has tried to switch me around with someone else but the Super Intendant won't let her because I'm the best student Crossroads has and Class A is the best in any year, so I have to stay in Class A of my year."

"Oh, I see. You've told Setsuna, right?" Artemis wondered as Luna started babblingly scolding Hotaru on the importance of doing all her homework, putting her best effort forward and attending all her classes, a lecture she had never given to the Silent Soldier before. Usagi, however…

"No, only Makoto. The weird feeling I get when he's around kinda reminds me of the Element of Thunder so I thought maybe Mako would know but she doesn't have a clue. All she knows is that she's been getting a higher charge from me than usual and I've always given her a bit of a boost in energy whenever we're around each other." Hotaru shook her head, making her hair dance and the light play off almost every single strand. It was very pretty to look at but it was all a part of the physical beauty Hotaru held, the superficial appearance that made her an effective weapon because of people underestimating her because of that beauty. "I'd say it had to do something with our planetary closeness and the fact that her Element and my Element are similar in the way they can either be extremely deadly or extremely useful and that they are both storm based, even if mine only takes the form of a maelstorm because it's a feared yet accurate form. However, the fact that Mako said she can actually get a charge off of me is what blows both of those theories to Hell and beyond. I thought it might have been my ability to adapt by incorperating her DNA into mine but I've only had one transfusion from her and just the tiny bit of blood she ends up occasionally bleeding on me in battle wouldn't be enough to kick that genetic ability into affect."

"And then factor in why it only happens around Sasuke." Artemis added, getting a nod. "I can see why you're both lost on this. Maybe Ami and Mamoru could help."

"Mamoru's too busy and Ami's got enough to worry about." Hotaru shook her head again. "I…I called the genetics lab that Infinity Star Enterprises owns and sent them a sample of my blood. According to them, my structure hasn't changed, hasn't acquired any new helixes since my last adaptation and they have the best intergalactic genetics equipment avaliable."

"Leave it to you to make sure your people have the very best." Artemis quipped, thinking about the multinational conglomerate Hotaru had turned her father's labs, Black Star Laboratories, into by the time she had turned 12. She had resurrected Prince Diamond, his people, the Witches 5, certain Animates and a few other bad guys in order to run her company for her from the main branch, the tall tower built on what had been Infinity Academy that was now nicknamed the "Spire."

Looking over the girl's head and towards the business district, Artemis could see the glass-topped tower with the former crest of Infinity Academy, the black star with the gold Infinite Loop, and "ISE" in white across the designs, in the distance. It was one of the tallest buildings in Japan and its little sisters were scattered all over the world, at least 15 in Japan alone. Approaching business like it was war mixed with a chess game, Hotaru had ended up getting a little more than two-thirds of the world under her financal control with the rest of the world none the wiser. And yet, it was still the most honest and philanthropic company in the world while it turned out accumilated profits recorded in the multi-trillions.

And that was just on Earth.

Hotaru employed refugees from other stars, giving them places to live and secure jobs so they could begin new and better lives. She had alliances with at least 50 different universes, getting technology, medicine, cloth and God-knew-what else. She rehabilitated prisoners, giving them trust, compassion and second chances without any reservations and they had become model citizens, employees and human beings all over the planet, never resorting back to their old ways. And only very few of her employees ever ruined their second chances. Once they did, they lost everything in something Hotaru referred to as "liquidating."

It was the fear of letting Hotaru down and not the fear of getting everything liquidated that had her employees so damn loyal and working so hard. It was almost like Hotaru was their benevolent god who asked for their best and forgave their most ugliest of faults, thus receiving more than just 110 percent in return. And with the Element of Silence, calling Hotaru a "god" wasn't too far off, according to Setsuna.

"What are you going to do in the mean time?" Artemis inquired, his question getting Luna's attention as well. Hotaru shrugged, her shoulders rising and falling in that familiar graceful feline shrug that was signature to the interplanetary Chimera soldier beside them. "You can't just skip class again. Michiru and Haruka would throw a fit."

"If it wasn't for that damned substitute Hatake, they wouldn't have known." Hotaru didn't stop but the cats did and they were surprised by her admission.

Hotaru Tomoe, the Sacrifical Soldier of Silence, was knowingly breaking the rules?

O.o Kakshi--Mr. Never On Time--is a substitute?

Damn....

Well, yep, 'Taru skipped school and man, did anyone ELSE feel that temp change other than Artemis and Luna? XD

Please Read and Review and I'll have the next chap up soon!