A/N: Alright, (definite) pairings are as follows: Usagi / Seiya & Minako / Yaten & Ami / Taiki.

This is NOT, I repeat NOT for Mamo-chan fans. Alright, I'm just warning you now.

Disclaimer: sings Turn it on! It's five minutes to midnight! See our name in city lights! stops on an unrelated topic, I do not own Sailor Moon.

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Chapter One

New Present, New Future

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Princess Kaykuu looked sadly over towards her starlights who were out helping the people of her planet try to restore it. But even though they were doing as they said they would, she could tell there was something wrong. The happiness and laughter that used to fill Fighter's eyes was gone. Healer barely ever snapped at anyone anymore. Maker still had her wisdom, yet she barely ever used it anymore.

Many times when they weren't called to do their duties they would walk around the halls as simply Kou Seiya, Yaten, and Taiki. Kaykuu knew something was wrong with her starlights, so one day she called a meeting.

She smiled warmly at them when they entered and they all sent her a small smile in return. They all sat down at a small table, the princess on one side, her friends and protectors on the other.

"I trust you all know what to day is," She began, Maker and Healer both looked at her in shock while Fighter shook her head up and down, a single tear falling down her pale cheek.

"Of course we do, but why would you bring that up now?" Maker asked her, concerned.

"Oh my starlights, I see the way that you are not yourselves, I see the way that sometimes you seem to be in another world, and I see the way that your hearts are not here. It has been two years since you saw them last, do you not wish to see them again?" She asked a hint of sadness in her voice.

"Of course we do!" Healer said, standing to her feet, her anger rising. Fighter put one hand on her shoulder before pulling her lightly back into her seat.

"Good, because as of now you are dismissed, I can see that this place is no longer home because home is not where you physically stand and live, it is where your heart resides, and that is not here. I have found your replacements already, and you do not need to return, but I do hope you come to visit. My starlights, my friends."

By the end of her speech Kaykuu was crying freely and Maker bent down towards her and wiped the tears from her eyes before they stared at each other and Maker brought her into a kind embrace, not that of a lover but that of a friend.

Healer's eyes lit up with joy before she practically ran through the halls calling 'Watch where you're going, Baka!' The princess giggled, "Now there's the Healer we've all been missing."

Fighter got down on her knees in front of her princess before looking her in the eyes and saying, "Thank you princess, thank you."

"Oh Fighter, I am no longer your princess, but you are welcome all the same."

The two remaining lights went to the doors but before she left Maker had one more question, "Who are our replacements?"

"Sailors Aluminum Siren, Lead Crow, and Iron Mouse, they could not resurrect their homes as we have and asked refuge here. They will treat me well."

She nodded once before walking after her friends down the halls, leaving the red-eyed woman alone in her private study to weep in solitude.

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"Who goes there?" called the beautiful woman standing guard at the gates of time. Her green hair flowed out behind her, her sailor suit flowing in a non-existent wind.

"What do you mean? Don't you know us?" A small boy said, pulling behind him two small girls.

"I'm afraid I don't child, where did you come from?" She said, bending down to his height. All of these children looked strikingly familiar to her. The boy had a girl the same age, looking similar to him clinging to him arm. Twins…?

The boy, his hair such a light green it was almost white with big blue eyes, his sister next to him with raven black hair and eyes the color of the sunset. The timid girl behind them had long blue hair cascading half way down her back and bright questioning violet eyes.

The boy's face contorted as if it hurt that she didn't know him. "But Sailor Plu, you and our mommy are friends!" He said, and the girl on his arm nodded. These children could not be older than seven.

The other girl said, shyly and looking at her feet, "You know my mommy too!"

She looked, perplexed, at these children. The two in front looked so much like her princess… This was the first sign of a future at all in a long time, Galaxia's attack had shattered the chance of Crystal Tokyo, and Chibiusa-chan had not been seen since. For days Setsuna had wept or mourned the loss, and she had not the heart to tell her King and Queen, but now a new future was setting its own path, and it scared and unnerved her quite a bit.

"Well, could you refresh my memory, I seem to have forgotten." She said with a warm smile to the children, still kneeling to their height.

"Oh sure-" The boy began, but then they all heard a woman's voice calling

"Hoshi! Kin! Come back to the palace, its dinner time!" Said a beautiful woman's voice. Setsuna's breath hitched, that was the voice of her Queen.

"Nozomi, come now! Don't you want to play with all of the other children?" Asked a different woman's voice, it was gentle and kind. It also sounded familiar to Setsuna.

"Yes mommy!" All three children said, they looked at each other and laughed, going back through the portal.

The Queen's voice drifted to her once again, "You children are so silly sometimes! What were you doing bothering poor Pluto, oh well maybe she'd like the company… I should go to see her soon."

Then a deep man's voice drifted to the stationary time soldier "You know, they get their silliness from you, dear."

That was the last thing she heard, and it almost ripped her heart out, that was not the voice of Mamoru. The future had changed.

Then with a tap of her staff the heart-orb at the top sent out a purplish-red glow and Sailor Pluto was no longer at the gates of time.

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"Rei-chan!" Usagi whined, reaching for her raven-haired friend's manga. The other girl just snickered and continued to hold it up just above her friend's head. They should have been studying, which their friend Ami Mizuno was not hesitant of reminding them.

Minako was arguing with Makoto about something, but even after these two years Ami, Minako and Usagi were not the same.

Something had died inside them when the Starlights had left. The light in Usagi's eyes had dulled; Minako had refused to pick up a microphone and pursue her dreams as an idol; Ami was studying harder than ever, but she blatantly refused to look at the stars in the sky or go near any form of gaming at all, always making an excuse.

"I am very sorry Sailor Soldiers, have I come at a bad time?" Asked a voice from the entrance of the room. There stood Sailor Pluto, a look of concern on her face.

"No not at all!" Ami said, being the first to recover from the shock of her being there.

Usagi had stopped trying to get the manga from Rei's grasp and was now looking at her friend. "What's wrong Setsuna?" She said, concerned.

The older woman smiled lovingly at her before saying, "We need a Sailor's meeting, now. If I could borrow a phone to get Haruka, Michiru and Hotaru here?"

She looked at Rei as she said this and the raven-haired girl nodded before pointing to the room across the hall.

Usagi let her thoughts wander, and as always they seemed to halt on Seiya. She missed him calling her 'odango' she missed his arrogance, she missed his smile that melted her heart, she missed his laugh which was music to her ears, she missed the smell of lilacs that seemed to only come from him. Then she was mad at herself for her thoughts, she was with Mamo-chan and they were to have Chibiusa as their family in the future and she would be happy. Or would she? When Mamo-chan was gone she had had Seiya there with her through it all and she found that she didn't miss him very much, even though she was convinced that he was the one that she loved. Now that she had Mamo-chan back, but Seiya was missing, it felt like he took her heart with him, and even Mamo-chan couldn't help her.

'Am I not good enough?' Oh, Seiya, it was me who was not good enough, I didn't realize until you were gone how much that I truly cared… That after all of that time I clinged to Mamo-chan scared that you would break the barrier around my heart that I had created to keep him in and other guys out. But I was stupid, you broke that barrier and took my heart with you, and now every day I look at the man I have to be with and see your face. My relationship is no longer love, but obligation.

She looked up, startled as Setsuna entered again, followed by Michiru, Haruka, and Hotaru. Usagi smiled a fake smile trying to show them her happiness that they were there.

Little did she know that everyone in the room (even Minako – ever the dense one) saw the fakeness in her smile, and everyone saw how her steps had less bounce to them, the spark in her eyes gone, part of the happiness in her soul gone. And only two of her friends could comprehend why.

Usagi looked into the sky to see three shooting stars, and immediately her thoughts reverted back to a certain starlight that she dearly missed. Please, if only I could see Seiya again, if only for a day. She thought, looking at it.

"-Usagi, did you hear me, we are about to begin the meeting!" Makoto said, waving a hand in Usagi's face.

"Hai!"

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"We are almost there!" Fighter yelled excitedly.

"I know we are, now shut up already!" Healer yelled back, angry. She hadn't slept for three days in their journey.

"Stop bickering you two! We are about to land and unless you want to end up in the ocean you need to concentrate; the park, alright?" Maker stated wisely.

The other two shook their heads, Fighter maintaining her stubbornness and Healer her childishness.

"We're here!" all three starlights said together.

"we're home." Seiya said under his breath as the three of them turned back into their male forms – their true gender in their true home.

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"Everyone, I have good and very bad news from the future." Setsuna said seriously. She looked around at all of them, looking each directly in the eyes before speaking again. "When… when we defeated Galaxia, Crystal Tokyo as we know it was destroyed. I didn't have the heart to tell you, but Chibiusa has been gone this whole time and no new future had come to me."

There were collective gasps from the other eight girls, Hotaru, Minako, Rei, Usagi, and Makoto had tears running down their faces.

"You said had." Haruka said, almost tranquilly.

"That I did, my friend." Setsuna said, smiling slightly, even if she was close to Chibiusa-chan she had had enough time to cry away all of her tears at the gates of time.

"Today I was watching the gates of time and out of the mist came three children, they couldn't have been over seven years old. Two were twins and one was their friend, but I know the twins were children of you Sailor Moon, but the other child was one of you girls' children. All three said 'You know my mommy!' But that's not the most important part. The most important part, that I think you all should know, is that when I was listening the parents called their children back. And, Mamoru-san was not the person you were married to in the future, my Queen. This does not mean that you can't still marry him because you shouldn't live the present for the future and something drastic and world-changing had to have happened for this change, since before there was no future. Just keep that in mind scouts."

There was silence following this speech, Usagi was looking down at her clasped hands, her tears for her future daughter still falling down her face, but when she looked up at her friends they were surprised to see hope in them.

"Minna, is it horrible of me to feel relieved that I don't have to be with Mamo-chan?" Everyone gasped and Rei flew over to her side and gave her a big hug, trying to stop the tears from flowing.

"Shhh, Usagi we all understand." She whispered in her friend's ear.

"Thank you Rei-chan." The blonde girl said through her tears and her friends saw the first real smile they had seen since the starlights had left two years ago.

"I have to go tell my King now, so I will see you all later?" Setsuna said, almost awkwardly.

"Can you take a letter to him for me; if you have enough time to let me write it that is." Usagi said, and Pluto merely nodded before returning to her spot on the floor. She loved her Queen and would not deny her anything.

"So, Setsuna," Minako started, "What did this third child look like?"

Everyone fell to the ground anime-style other than Minako and Usagi (who was working on her letter).

"Well," Sailor Pluto started a small smile on her face, "It was a girl, and she was probably about five years old at the time, maybe six. She had blue hair going halfway down her back and she had violet eyes. She was rather shy also."

"Sounds like you Ami-chan!" Minako said, nudging her friend (who had a rather red blush spreading across her cheeks) in the ribs.

"Finished!" Usagi said excitedly. Then she added, "Can you tell him first before giving this to him?"

Pluto nodded her head before she disappeared into the night.

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"Let's go surprise them!" Seiya said excitedly.

"Just because your head-over-heels for this girl does NOT mean I am going to miss out on more sleep to go see her and her friends!" Yaten told him, exasperated.

"Yes, but we have to find a place to sleep first, why don't we go to that temple up the hill there? I heard they almost always have rooms open for travelers. Then we can get our flat back tomorrow I guess." Taiki said wisely.

"Fine!" The silver-haired man said.

"Alright." The blue-eyes man said as well.

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"What are you saying Setsuna?" Mamoru said, worriedly.

"Chibiusa is no longer part of the future, she hasn't been for the past two years, I just never had the heart to tell you my King." She said, hanging her head sadly.

"Usagi-chan gave me this letter to give to you." She added, handing him a letter with a pink bunny-print envelope.

'Mamo-chan,' it read.

'I know this will be as hard on you as it has been on me about Chibiusa, and I don't mean to add to your heartbreak, but this is something I must do for me. I love you Mamo-chan, but not as intimate lovers would love eachother. I want to be your friend, because I don't think we can be anything more. I used to but now I don't think so anymore. I am sorry. I will miss you, Mamoru.

-Usagi'

Pluto looked down on him pityingly.

He merely sent her a small smile as one tear rolled down his cheek, "I knew, I knew after the fight with Galaxia that her heart no longer belonged to me. I saw the way that she looked at him, with more love than when she ever looked at me, but I always tried to give myself hope, hope that one day she would have that kind of love and adoration when she looked at me, but now all I ever see is emptiness. I do not blame her for her decision. It was rightly made."

Setsuna looked at him, shocked. "How can you just let her go that easily?"

He looked at her and smiled, "When you love someone with your whole heart you want them to be happy, even if it's not with you."

She nodded knowingly, because that was the way she felt about her King… and he would never know.

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"Yay! Sleepover!" Usagi said excitedly once Rei had finished calling everyone's moms. Makoto was over cooking something for everyone (half was for Usagi) to eat.

Rei was still on the phone with Minako's mom when someone knocked on the door. "Usagi can you get that please?" Rei said, covering the bottom of the phone.

"It's dark!" Usagi whined when she got to the hall.

"We'll go too." Minako said, rolling her eyes and grabbing Ami-chan's arm.

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"Hai!" Minako said, half-cheerily as she opened the door, she had Ami and Usagi's arms no longer in her grasp, they were further down the hall.

"Minako-chan?" Yaten said, confused.

"Yaten-kun!" She yelled, running to give him a hug.

"Minako, Rei-chan won't appreciate it if you wake up her grandpa." Chastized Ami, coming around the corner.

"Ami-chan!" Taiki said, excited.

"Taiki-san!" She exclaimed, giving him a hug like Minako had to Yaten.

"And I thought I was the loud one!" Usagi exclaimed as she came to the door and she stopped dead in her tracks, dropping the sweet she had been given by Makoto.

"S…Seiya?"

"Odango!"

"SEIYA!" She yelled before jumping into his arms. Everyone was talking and laughing until Rei came out.

"If you wake up my grandpa I swear… Oh my god!" She finished, looking at the starlights.

"Well, we came for a room…?" Taiki began.

"Oh, of course, of course. Have you eaten, we can ask Mako-chan to make you something too…?"

"That'd be great!" Yaten said before anyone else could respond.

Seiya and Taiki sweat-dropped but followed him inside none-the-less.

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"Mommy! Papa!" Yelled a small girl, running through the havoc-stricken palace.

"Nozomi!" She heard her mother's voice call. She ran there, and tears welled in her big violet eyes.

Her mother hugged her, her father running up behind. "Nozomi, I need you to go back to the gates of time, we need you to find Sailor Pluto, can you do that?" Her mother asked, rushed.

She nodded her small head, agreeing. "Alright, I need you to find the past sailor soldiers, go there and help them in any way you can, when you are able to help, you will know it. Ask for Ami, she is the only one who will be able to retrieve it from you. We have to do this to keep them protected. My child, be safe and do not be seen, this future relies on you and stay there at all costs, wait for the rest of the children to join you."

"Yes mama!" said the little girl seriously.

"Be strong and brave, we love you." Her father said before giving her a gentle kiss on the forehead.

"I love you too!" She said before scurrying off down the hallways, running from the fire and ruins that was the beautiful Crystal Tokyo Palace.

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Alright, I'm posting two chapters today, but I was just wondering, I had an idea for another fic (That I will do AFTER this one and my other current WIP are finished) and it is a S/U (like this one) No offence, but I can't stand Mamoru and Usagi together, he's so... mature and boring and she's so immature and fun. Way too different.

Anywho, my other story is about after the starlights leave Usagi becomes depressed and Pluto becomes worried, the future is slowly changing, the colors less vivid, the people less happy, so she decides to go for a visit with Queen Selenity (that's Usagi's past mom's name, correct? It's not Serenity also is it?). There the queen reveals to Pluto the true past of the Moon Kingdom.

What is all this about Endymion and Serenity being best friends, Serenity having a female lover who - on top of that - was a guard for another princess visiting from another Galaxy? What is this about Endymion loving one of the outer senshi, and why the hell are the other planetary princess acting so strange. And how, after all these years and no memories can they keep their promises to each other?

So... does it sound good? Yes or no? Write it or not?