Author's Note: I first came up with the idea for a Sailor Moon/Street Fighter crossover fanfic about six years ago, inspired (very loosely) by a dream I once had. So, after a couple months, I managed to hammer a fairly decent fanfic (by my standards anyway, which were much lower back then). Problem was, I only saved it on the hard drive of our family computer, without bothering to save any backup copies on disk. (Stupid, stupid me.) You can probably guess what happened next: my stepfather wiped all the files on the hard drive clean, when he upgraded the computer to Windows Me. Thus the 'fic was lost forever.

Or was it?

I distinctly recalled printing out a hard copy of the fanfic for my sister to read, but had lost track of it over the years. I eventually decided that it was for the best, since, by my current standards, the 'fic had become too stupid and too embarrassing for me to show to anyone else, anyway.

Then, after reading a few of the other crossover 'fics at I thought, my story might not be so bad after all. (Uh, no offense to anyone who wrote those other 'fics, by the way. ) Plus, it was the only non-Battle-Arena-Toshinden-related fanfic that I'd actually managed to completely finish. To me, that little fact alone was enough to put it up. So, after an extensive search, I eventually unearthed the hard copy from a box at the back of my closet, copied it back onto my personal computer, and this time, saved it to disk.

And here it is, more or less unchanged from six years ago, with a few new things thrown in. It takes place about halfway through Sailor Moon R (after the episodes with Ail and Ann, but before the episodes with Chibiusa and the Black Moon people), and sometime after the first Street Fighter Alpha game. Mamoru is not in it (I just couldn't find anywhere to stick him in), which means no Tuxedo Kamen either. The Sailor Senshi are going to have other help this time. The only Street Fighter characters that I actually included are Ryu, Ken, Chun Li and Sakura, because they're my favourites and adding any more characters would've just made things too complicated. For better or worse, take it or leave it.

Sailor Moon and its characters are copyright of Naoko Takuchi, while Street Fighter Alpha and its characters are copyright of Capcom. Used without permission. All rights reserved. Kaori and Kakkazan are my original characters, so they're copyright of me, and used with my permission. Rated PG for some violence.

ALL PATHS CROSSING

A Sailor Moon/Street Fighter Crossover Fanfiction

By Kasumi Todoh

Chapter 1

A Meeting By Chance

The spring morning dawned bright and sunny, as it had been for the past few days. In one particular downtown Tokyo neighbourhood, things were relatively quiet, aside from a few chirping birds in the early morning tranquillity.

However, the peace was suddenly shattered by a loud shriek that echoed through the house of the Tsukino family.

"OhnoIoversleptagainthat'sthethirdtimethisweekI'msogoingtogetdetentionforsure!"

A few minutes later, the front door of house opened and out bolted a young girl, wearing a junior high sailor fuku, her blond hair done up in its usual two long ponytails with small buns on top. She was clutching her books in one hand, and a piece of toast in the other.

It was shaping up to be just another typical day for Usagi Tsukino.

This time, however, something happened that doesn't usually happen during Usagi's daily morning sprints to school.

Up ahead, two girls suddenly strolled casually into her path, chatting with each other and failing to notice her. Frantically, Usagi tried to put on the brakes, but it was too late. She was running too fast to stop in time. She smashed into one of the girls, and that was all it took. All three of them went down like dominos, in a flurry of books and papers.

Usagi quickly stood up and started bowing repeatedly to the two girls. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I am so, so sorry," she apologized over and over again.

She tried to help the girl whom she'd just collided with to her feet. Usagi noticed that both girls wore school fukus similar to the one that her friend Minako wore, except that their fukus had a yellow sash at the end of the collar, instead of a red one. They appeared to be highschool students. One girl had shoulder-length brown hair. The other, the one whom Usagi had just helped to stand up, had short brown hair, as well as a long white headband and strange yellow gloves of some kind.

Quickly, Usagi gathered up the scattered books and a few of the papers and shoved them hastily into the arms of the short-haired girl. "I'm really sorry," she said again.

"Hey, no hard feelings," the short-haired girl said with a smile. "I guess we should've been paying more attention to what was going on." She shifted the pile of books and papers, and held out one hand. "My name's Kasugano Sakura. And this is my friend, Takashi Kaori." She gestured toward the other girl. "What's your name?"

"Tsukino Usagi." Usagi shook Sakura's hand, glancing at her watch as she did so. "Oh no! I'm really going to be late now!" She bowed to the two girls once more. "I'm really sorry. It was nice meeting you. Bye!"

Usagi took off again and started running for school at top speed. Ten minutes later, she slid into her desk, out of breath, and late, as usual.

Sakura and Kaori continued on to their school, still hurting slightly from their encounter. At lunch time, as they sat together at their desks, Kaori remarked, "That was one strange girl we met this morning. I wonder what her story was?"

"I don't know," Sakura replied. "Have you ever had that feeling where you think you've seen someone before, but you just can't think of where?"

Like many people in Tokyo, Sakura was a fan of Sailor Moon, Usagi's alter ego. After Ryu, a top martial artist whom Sakura aspired to be like, of course.

"Anyway, she sure was fast. If she charged into a fighting opponent as hard as she did us, she'd win for sure," Sakura said with a laugh.

Kaori sighed. "Oh, here we go about street fighting again. Can't you think about anything else?"

Sakura looked at her. "Not really. Why?"

Kaori just shook her head. "You and your love for street fighting. Sometimes I really don't understand you."

Sakura picked up some more rice with her chopsticks. "I wonder if we'll ever see that girl again?" she mused, not expecting an answer.

After school, rather than going straight home, Usagi headed over to the temple of her sometimes-friend Rei, where a meeting had been called. When she got there, she found that she was the last to arrive. Her friends, Minako, Rei, Makoto, and Ami, already assembled in various positions on the temple's front steps.

"Late again, as usual," sighed Rei, as soon as she saw Usagi.

"Don't start, Rei," Usagi muttered.

"Detention again, Usagi?" asked Minako.

"Yeah," said Usagi grudgingly. "As if it was my fault that Ms. Haruna was in such a bad mood today."

"Okay girls, listen up." It was Artemis, along with Luna, Minako and Usagi's talking guardian cats. "Central Control just informed us that a new evil force is heading for Earth."

"A new evil force?" repeated all five girls, simultaneously.

"Could it be the Negaverse returning?" Makoto asked.

"Don't know," Luna shook her head. "It's too soon to tell."

"Have you had any visions about this lately?" Minako asked Rei. Rei was known for having the occasion vision of the future.

"I'm not sure," Rei answered. "I can sense that something's coming, and it's bad. Whatever it is, it's way more powerful that Queen Beryl or the Doom Tree were, and – and we're going to need the help of four other people in order to defeat it."

Of all of Rei's predictions, that was definately one of the more bizarre ones. Suddenly, everyone was talking at once.

"Four other people?"

"Who are they?"

"Are they Sailor Senshi, too?"

"How do we find them?"

"I don't know," Rei answered. "That's all my vision would tell me."

"Not much to go on," Artemis muttered.

"Well, this thing isn't here yet," Luna said, "so I believe that all we can do at the moment is wait and see what happens."

"And in the meantime, I'll see if I can find anything on this new threat, or the people in Rei's vision," Ami added.

Luna nodded. "Whatever it is, we're going to have to watch our backs."