A/N: Formally known as 'A Hidden Secret Revealed: A New Adventure'. Okaaay….um…please don't kill me:Huddles in a corner and whimpers as angry readers hold up pitchforks.: Wait wait wait! I have a good reason:Pauses: Um..uh…eep:Scrambles onto a brick wall: Gooooomeeeeeeeeeen! I've kind of gotten swept up in the craze of scanlations and downloading anime this year…and then school started….and then I had to do homework…and then I watched TV…

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I'm not making this better am I? Ehehehe. Well, I have more time now, provided I don't have to do much for my Science Project. 8th grade is hard:Pouts: I wanna go back to elementary school and play on the monkey bars again…:Coughs: anyways, I'm restarting everything now (geez, how many times have I said that?). Hopefully I'll, once again, get through with it. Once I finish my website however, I'll get back to writing…I mean:Climbs higher as readers poke with their pitchforks…. I'll get started right away! Ow…:

P.S. Fanfiction won't let me use the little star symbols for my author notes so I'll use this in stead. :

Also, be warned. The story has changed a whole lot and is sometimes dark

Revealing New Destinies

Chapter 1: Torn.

"Mama?" a little girl said from the backseat of the car as she played with her doll. "How much longer do we have to be on the car?" Her golden-blonde hair reached mid-back, matching with the light blue dress she was wearing. A deep blue ocean blinked from the eyes of the six year old, currently focused on a little doll wearing a silver kimono. Two appendages twitched from their position on her head, swiveling to hear her mother's answer.

Golden brown ears tipped with silver contrasted with her blonde hair. "Mama?" she called again, looking up to blink at the back of her mother's head.

Her mother turned around, light brown eyes looking back at her. Curly black hair framed her young face which looked slightly strained at the moment. "In awhile Usagi," she said, her voice tired. "It'll still be awhile until we get there."

Usagi nodded, accepting the simple answer with her six year old mind as she resumed playing. "The princess looked out the window of her beautiful castle, no palace, looking at everybody playing outside. She really wanted to play but she couldn't go until she cleaned her room…." The sound of Usagi's voice came softly as she played, unknowing to the location of their destination. After watching her daughter for a few minutes Usagi's mother turned to her husband who was driving.

"Hikishio," she whispered. "Are they following us?"

"I don't know Atsumi," he said in a tight voice. His knuckles were turning white from the grip he had on the steering wheel. He had dark brown hair pulled back into a small ponytail, his eyes shadowed by his hanging bangs. Deep lines marred his young face in the darkness of the night, a light rain falling. "I'm not sure about anything anymore. How's Usagi?" he asked, glancing at her from the corner of his eye.

"She's still unaware," Atsumi Kaisui said softly, staring at her hands on her lap.

"….The ball started, but the princess had to sit on her hard chair, because nobody would ask her to dance…."

"What do you think is going to happen?" she asked.

"…."

He didn't say anything, but she already knew the answer. Unbuckling her seatbelt she moved to the back seat, the rain coming down harder.

"….But then, the princess saw a hand in front of her. She looked up to see a prince staring down at her…."

Usagi blinked, looking up to see her mother smiling sadly down at her in the backseat. "Mama? What is it?"

Atsumi shook her head. "You know we love you, right Usa-chan?" her mother asked, using her nickname.

Usagi stared at her mother confused. "Of course I do, Mama. Why?" Shaking her head again, Atsumi unbuckled Usagi's seatbelt to cuddle the little rabbit in her lap. Hikishio reached back, firmly grasping Atsumi's hand in his, staring determinedly at the road in front of them as it slowly grew darker. A pair of head lights flashed behind them and he squeezed his wife's hand one more time before saying, "I love you both."

A soul shattering crash pierced the night as the two cars collided. The family's car skidded across the rode, screeching as its tires attempted to stop the car. Finally, the speed of the car too much, it flew off of the cliff side road, falling down to land in a heap of smoldering metal at the base. It instantly ignited, oblivious to the rain attempting to put it out. Hikishio's body hung over the steering wheel, his grip no longer tight. Blood trickled down his forehead, his body unmoving as it was slowly consumed by the growing flames. The window shield was shattered, the backseat's passengers missing. A few meters away from the burning car lay Atsumi's body, having crashed through the window shield, still holding her unconscious daughter as the last breaths of life left her.

The black car that ran into them was left in perfect condition. Not a single dent marred its sleek black surface. The car door opened with a faint click, lost in a roar of thunder. A man stepped outside, opening an umbrella at the same moment, looking down at the still crackling wreckage below. Black shades covered any little emotion that might have shown on the man's stone carved face. Calmly pulling out a black cell phone from his pocket, he pressed a button, holding the phone to his ear. It was picked up on the second ring.

"Speak," a cold voice said, chilling to the bone.

"The problem has been solved, Naraku-sama," the man said in a toneless voice.

"Excellent…." A smirk wound its way up his face as he heard the siren's from the other end of the phone, blood red eyes glittering.

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The darkness was clawing at her, dragging her down. She tried yelling out, but her voice seemed to have been lost. She stared at the darkness with wide, frightened eyes. It was cold, so very cold. It was smothering her. She could barely breathe…..

With a gasp, Usagi's eyes shot open, darting around. She winced. The room was too bright. Spots danced in her vision as she squinted. Slowly, her sensitive eyes adjusted to the light. For some reason, one of her eyes saw only darkness while the other could look around freely….

With a trembling arm she reached up to touch her left eye, feeling the texture of cloth covering it. She was shocked to see several tubes coming out of her arm. 'Na-nani….?' She thought, staring at her arm as liquid dripped its way through the tube. 'What is that?' Aware of an incessant beeping near her head, she looked up to see a strange machine with green squiggles going across the screen. Her ears twitched at each high pitched beep emitted from the machine. 'Where am I? What's that thing? I wanna go home, I don't like this place!' Tears of frustration clouded her eyes, making everything blurry. 'I want mama and papa. Why aren't they here? Did they leave me…? No! Mama….' She struggled to form the words. Her mouth had opened, but there was no sound.

'My voice….Why can't I say anything? I'm scared…. Mama, papa….why won't you come?' The tears slid unrestrained down her cheeks, soaking into the rough pillow beneath her head. For several minutes she cried silently, unable to call out for the parents that were no longer living.

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Empty eyes looked up from the lifeless body, staring. Usagi stepped back, stricken, away from her mother's body. The funeral was simple; with only her, the priest, and the doctor that had brought her to the witness her parent's burial. Her father's casket lay open next to his wife's, dressed up in a suit, looking without seeing at the cloudy gray sky. Her mouth opened to form a word. Mama…. Those wasn't her parent's, it couldn't be….that couldn't be them! They would come back; they would be here again, if only she could call out to them. Papa…. Usagi opened and closed her mouth desperately, tears falling down her face and onto the grass as her parent's were slowly lowered into the cold, hard earth. No….

The doctor's hands gripped her shoulders tightly as she fought to run to her parent's, to tell them not to go away. 'No! Don't leave me!' she thought, trying to speak. 'Mama, Papa, if you hear me, you'll wake up again right? Please hear me!' A strangled sound came from her throat, a noise, but not words. As her parent's were finally in their graves, their caskets making a resounding thud that echoed throughout her being, she fell to her knees. 'Please. Don't go…I don't want to be alone…..' In vain she tried to speak. She couldn't speak when she wanted them to come back, but now she couldn't even say goodbye.

A torrent of tears splashed onto the ground, followed shortly after by the rain that had been held up in the clouds overhead. A rumble of thunder split the night as Usagi watched dirt begin filling her parent's graves.

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AMG: Ok….um, I can unnecessarily say that the story has taken a long course off of the originally storyline. Sorry for the darkness, but when I read over my story, it seemed Usagi should have felt more sad and lost after her 'parents' dying. No, those aren't her actual birth parents either. Don't go to my website (wow, when have you ever heard me say that?), it's really out of date and I wanted to make a new one. Um, again I apologize for abandoning my story. I have a very small attention span and tend to drop things after I get really into them. ; Next chapter: Orphaned. Usagi gets sent to the orphanage (again….thanks to my lousy writing.) The story has started renewed.