Rei was impatienly tapping her foot, starting to get irritated. "Luna you said that they would be here around now, what the hell is taking them so long?" she snapped to the cat. "Don't worry Rei-chan, they should come around any minute now." assured Luna. "Well they better get here soon because I refuse to wait around here any moment longer." Rei huffed. Luna only sighed.

"Excuse me?"

That seemed to them shake them out of it. They turned away from each other to come face to face with a girl with blonde wavy shoulder blade length hair and amethyst eyes with a demure look on her face holding a suitcase. "Is this the Hikawa Shrine?"

Both Rei and Luna blinked in confusion and quickly turned to picture Rei had in her pocket that was mostly likely of the girl with the only differences being her lacking the braid holding her hair back and the air of haughtiness around her. They looked back and forth between both the picture and the girl until they were satisfied with what they saw. "Oh you must be Nanami Kiryuu-san, right?"

The girl smiled and nodded, sticking her hand out. "Yes and you must be Hino-san." Rei smiled and nodded back, shaking her hand. "Please just call me Rei." Nanami smiled but then darted her head around the area before leaning in closely to Rei. "… And Sailor Saturn, right?" she whispered only to make Rei sigh in exasperation. "Mars actually." That had made Nanami step back and do double take only to face palm herself. "Damn it so close!"

Rei and Luna only laughed. "It's alright Kiryuu-san," said Luna, "after all taking into consideration of disguise magic it's perfectly fine for you to make any mistakes on a fellow magical girl's identity." Nanami sighed. "Well if you say so. Anyway shouldn't we go inside now?"

"Well you might need to wait a little bit; you see another magical girl also answered Rei-chan's roommate ad." "Really who?" "A girl by the name of Kyoko Sakura." "Oh a Kyo- WHAT!?" Nanami immediately took a few steps back while also dropping her suitcase. "K-K-Kyoko Sakura? Y-y-you mean one of those P-P-Puella Magi involved with the i-i-incident?"

The incident in question that Nanami was talking about was when the Incubators, contractors of the Puella Magi, had decided to perform an experiment using a Puella Magi named Homura Akemi to see what happens when a Soul Gem is cut off from the Law of Cycles and as bait to trap the goddess of the Puella Magi, Madokami. However that had backfired on them when Homura had usurped Madokami's position and recreated the universe as the Devil and unfortunately for her this disturbance was felt by a couple of magical girls leading to investigation of the incident to her eventually being put under house arrest by the Outer senshi. Due to this event all magical girls and familiars (minus the Incubators of course) had decided to create a sort of housing program of magical girls rooming with other magical girls in order to prevent another grand scale incident such as this from ever happening again. As for Kyoko Sakura, she was one of the individuals involved in the matter along with a fellow Puella Magi named Mami Tomoe and former Puella Magi and angels of Madokami, Sayaka Miki and Nagisa Momoe.

"Y-y-you can't trust her! A-a-after all she was a part o-o-of those I-I-Incubators' scheme!" protested Nanami. "Now now Kiryuu-san, that wasn't what had happened," explained Luna,"Sakura-san was just involved in the incident, she didn't do anything to cause it as well as the others involved." "Th-th-that may be true but remember she's a Puella Magi which means she made a wish to become one. Who knows what sort of horrible thing she wished for?"

"Horrible huh? Now I wouldn't call my wish that."

Surprised to hear a new voice, all three of them turned to the direction where it came from only to see a girl with long red hair done up in a ponytail with matching eyes carrying a backpack slung over her shoulder eating a single stick of pocky. "Oh Kyoko you're here, took you long enough." said Rei causing Nanami to screech in terror and scramble to hide behind her peaking over her shoulder. "I-I-It's her!"

"Oh who's this, another magical girl that answered your add?" Asked Kyoko. "What are you a Precure? A Mew? A Sailor Senshi, cause if you are what's your name Sailor Screams-and-acts-like-a-bitch?" That had just angered Nanami. "Hey you listen here you-you-you juvenile delinquent! I am Nanami Kiryuu and you should very damn well know how to talk to a pure magical girl such as myself?"

"Pure, eh? And what just so happens to make you a "pure" magical girl?" "Well for starters I'm not stupid enough to make some deal with some overgrown rat in exchange for some silly miracles!" "Oh really? Well then maybe with such "purity" as yours maybe you are a Precure. What do they call you, Cure Cu-" "ENOUGH!" Rei yelled, startling both girls and Luna enough for her to hop off her shoulder. "If you two are done bickering, I'd like for all of us to head inside the shrine now so shall we?"

Nanami and Kyoko glared at each other and defiantly turned their heads away from the other and followed behind Rei as they climbed up the stairs. Once they made it to the top, they were met with a short old man in Shinto Priest robes sweeping. "Ah Rei-chan I see those lovely girls that answered our ad for shrine maidens have arrived. Nice to meet you two, I'm Rei's grandfather." said Grandpa Hino, reaching out to shake hands with both of them. "Nice to meet you too." agreed Nanami, shaking his hand while also being confused about the shrine maiden part. "Yeah, nice to meet you." said Kyoko, shaking his hand after Nanami had done so. "I gotta say you ladies look just as lovely as your pictures. Rei be a dear and show our new employees to their quarters." "Yes grandpa." With that Rei led both the girls into the shrine.

"Uh Hino- I mean Rei-san, why did your grandfather think we came here to be shrine maidens?" asked Nanami once she was sure that they were out of Grandpa Hino's hearing range. "Isn't it obvious?" Kyouko butted in,"it's because he has no idea that Rei's a magical girl and so she needed a cover up for why we're staying here you idiot." Nanami pouted at her for that."That and you guys are going to be shrine maidens." said Rei surprising both of them. "W-what do you mean we're gonna be shrine maidens!" "I only signed up for this for food, no one sad anything about work!"

"What did you two think you were just going to live here and goof off? Hell no, if you're going to live with me you sure as hell are going to carry your weight, therefore you two are going to be shrine maidens and help around here." Both Nanami and Kyoko sighed in disappointment. "Anyway here's your room." Rei said, sliding the door open to reveal a traditional shinto bedroom.

"Oh it looks lovely, where's the bed?" asked Nanami while also searching inside for it. Her question was answered by Rei promptly pointing at two mats on the floor in the middle of the entire room."WHAAAT!? What the hell is this!? This better be some kind of joke and also why are there two mats in here!?" Nanami demanded endlessly. "Because both of you are rooming together." Rei casually explained making Kyoko and Nanami's jaws drop."WHAT! With her!?" they said in unison."Well this is as much space we have at the shrine for people to sleep in. You should consider yourselves lucky." "LUCKY!?" "Hey if there's only enough space for two of us to sleep in, then how come one of us doesn't share a room with you?" "Are you kidding me? If I room together with either of you I'll never sleep again. By the way you can feel free to unpack now."

With that, Rei left both the girls alone together in the room. They glared at each other and turned away again and headed to their own drawers in the room to unload to their luggage. "Don't even think about stealing any of my things." "Oh like you have anything worth pawning off." "Why you -"


Meanwhile in another part of Juuban, Mako had just taken a cake out of the oven, baked in honor of her future roommates. She had gotten two of the people involved with the incident, Mami Tomoe and Nagisa Momoe, to come live with her thanks to Artemis, who interestingly enough knew the former from Minako's Sailor V days, and as soon as she heard what a great cook Mami was and how big an appetite Nagisa had she had immediately started planning and preparing a feast for the dinner they would have as roommates. Mako was just so excited about having people to live with, come home to, and cook for.

As soon as she was about to frost the cake, she heard the door bell ring. She gasped in excitement, believing it to be who she thought it would be. Mako rushed out of the kitchen and over to the door and before she could answer it wiped off some cake batter she saw she had gotten on her cheek when she went past a mirror. Finally she answered the door and was absolutely delighted to see she was right. "Hey, come in, come in." Mako greeted while also ushering them in.

Mami smiled. Mako was still as kind and sweet as the first time they had met. "Nice to see you too, Kino-san." "Now, now don't be so formal, I told you you could just call me Mako." "Hi Mako!" said Nagisa, clutching tightly to the straps of her back pack. "And hi to you too Nagisa. You know right now I've just finished baking a cake, wanna help me frost it?" asked Mako making the little girl's eyes light up. Nagisa replied with an eager yes while also even more eagerly nodding her head and ran inside the apartment, dropping her back pack on the floor.

Both older girls giggled at the sight. "She's still energetic as usual, huh?" commented Mako. "Indeed, mind if I help out with the cake?" "Not at all." Mami came inside and picked up Nagisa's back pack, setting both that and her suitcase on one of the couches and went into the kitchen with Mako just in time to see Nagisa oohing and awing at all the food she had cooked. "Wow." She was practically drooling at everything on the counter such as the meatloaf, the chicken, the shrimp, the salad, the pasta, the calzones, the lasagna, the ravioli, the steak, and the mashed potatoes and practically dropped her jaw when she saw the unfrosted cake.

"Glad to see you like it." quipped Mako, gathering aprons from a hook in the kitchen. After handing them to Mami and Nagisa she gotten out three cans of frosting. "So Nagisa which flavor should we use?" Nagisa was salivating while also contemplating which frosting would complement the cake's flavor. Chocolate frosting would be great with chocolate cake but so would vanilla and strawberry as well. "Uh this one. No this one! No wait this one!" She kept randomly pointing at the cans while the two older girls laughed. She soon ended up doing eeny meeny miny moe to select one and ended up choosing vanilla. "Great choice." complimented Mako, getting three frosting knives for each of them. "Ok Mami and I will do the sides and you can do the top. You like that?" Nagisa nodded happily. In the end Nagisa had ended up making a complete mess of the frosting, having gotten more of it on the counter and on herself instead of the cake. Both Mami and Mako giggled at the sight and offered to help the little girl a few times only to have their offers turned down when Nagisa insisted she could do it on her own. Soon enough Nagisa managed to get a decent amount on her part of the cake and was applauded by Mami and Mako for her job well done.

"Great job Nagisa," said Mako, "by the way you also got some frosting here." She grabbed a wash cloth and wiped vanilla frosting off of Nagisa's left cheek. Mami giggled. "You also got some here." She did the same as Mako and wiped off frosting from her other cheek and forehead. They then ended up making Nagisa take a bath to be able to clean out the frosting that had gotten in her hair with Mako insisting on taking care of washing her clothes that had also gotten frosting on them. With Mako pointing to the direction of the bathroom, Nagisa skittered off to there while Mami grabbed a fresh pair of clothes from her backpack. "I hope you don't mind the mess." said Mami, gesturing towards the frosting fiasco left by Nagisa. "Oh it's no problem, besides the kitchen is usually the messiest part of the house." Mako then got out her cleaning supplies while Mami went to help Nagisa with cleaning herself.

Once they were done they returned to to the kitchen part dining room to find it already set for dinner with Mako holding a chair out. "Feel free to dig in." Nagisa had happily climbed into the chair and gathered just about every food item there was onto her plate and immediately started gobbling it all down. Mako and Mami laughed at the sight. "Am I really that good or is this just a normal reaction to any kind of cooking?" jokingly asked Mako. Mami giggled in returned. "Well the only time I've seen her like this is when she's eating my cooking, so I suppose you're that good." With that Mami took a bite of the meatloaf and was delighted with the flavor. "Why Kino-san this is delicious, tell me what's your secret?" Mako smiled, letting the Kino-san slide. "Oh it's just regular meatloaf I made following the recipe exactly. But I'm pretty sure it's nothing compared to your cooking." "Nonsense. I'm pretty sure your culinary skills are superior to mine." "Oh yeah, care to prove it by helping me make tomorrow's dinner?" Mami giggled. "Of course."

Soon they all finished dinner and were about to move onto dessert when Mako brought in the cake they all frosted together. Nagisa was enamored by the sight, and was about to take a piece of the cake only to have her small hand lightly slapped away by Mami who also gave her a little reminder about manners. "Now before we eat this, there's something I want to do first." Mako announced. From behind her she took out an icing bag of chocolate icing causing Nagisa to drool more than before. "Care to take the honors Mami-san?" asked Mako, holding the bag towards Mami. "Indeed." With that Mami took the bag and went around the table to ice something on the cake that made Nagisa stand on her tip toes to see. "Wow that looks really good." Mako commented on the vine like borders with flowers Mami had made on the cake. "Oh I'm sure it's nothing compared to what you can do." "Wanna bet." Mako took back the icing and made frilly borders around Mami's vines. "Hm, that looks really good."

"I wanna see! I wanna see! Let Nagisa see!" demanded Nagisa, jumping and squeezing in between the two older girls making them giggle once more. "Here go ahead." said Mako, putting the bag down, lifting Nagisa up into the chair there and then dropping her on her knees to see the cake. "Wow," she awed, "can Nagisa do it too?" Mako smiled. "Of course," and handed the bag to the small child. Nagisa held the bag's tip in both hands, balancing the rest on her arm, and stared making her creation. When she was done she happily showed it to Mako and Mami. "Wow it looks great," said Mako, who then leaned in to Mami to whisper "what is it?" Nagisa had heard that and happily answered. "It's Nagisa as Bebe!" Both the older girls leaned to see the image more clearly, which to Mami looked exactly like Nagisa's form in Homulily's barrier adorably drawn while to Mako looked like a childish doodle of a clown with pointy teeth. "Oh I see it!" said Mako, clapping her hands together. "Who's Bebe exactly?" she whispered to Mami, while leaning away from Nagisa so she wouldn't hear her again. "I'll explain later." With that Mako cut out a slice of cake for each of them.

Later Mako led each of the girls to their bedrooms. "Nagisa, this right here is your bedroom." With that Mako opened the door to what was formerly a plain guest room and led both girls inside. Once inside they were met with a room that was perfect for the little girl it was intended for. It had honey orange walls with dots painted white, red, and blue in varying sizes, the floor had brown carpeting, the drawers and vanity were painted white, the closet had sliding mirror doors, there's was a small caramel colored table in the center of the room with four pastel colored stools, and a bed that was white with a wooden head board that had orange pillows with yellow and white dots with a matching comforter on it. "I decorated it myself," said Mako while Nagisa wowed at every last detail of the room. "If you don't like it we could change it -" "No it's perfect! Nagisa loves it!" Nagisa claimed. With that she plopped down onto the bed and spread her arms and legs out laughing. Both Mako and Mami smiled. "Remember I'm right next door." reminded Mako closing the door, leaving Nagisa to her own doings.

"Her room really does look lovely," commented Mami, making Mako blush and sheepishly rubbing the back of her head. "Oh it's nothing really besides the rest of the Inners helped me out with the more manual stuff." said Mako, happy to know that Minako and Usagi accidentally spilling paint, them arguing with Rei, her and Ami sighing while setting the floor, and Mamoru messily building the furniture until needing her help had all been worth it. "Oh, and there's something you should know." "Oh, really?" asked Mami, tilting her head. "Yeah, you see my apartment only has two rooms, so you and I pretty much have to bunk together." explained Mako. "If you have a problem with it, I could sleep on the couch -" "Oh no Kino-san that won't be necessary." assured Mami. "Oh that great to know since I already got an extra bed." With that both went down the small hall to what was formerly just Mako's room.

She opened the door and Mami was astonished as the sight of the room. The walls were painted a mint green color, the floor pale grey carpeting, there was a twin bed most likely for her with yellow pillows and blankets that had brown swirly designs on them between two wooden shelf drawers, on the opposite side a bed twice the size of the other one with white and green pillows and a rose patterned comforter in between two nightstands that had a pink lamp on each of them, to the side of that a closet with wooden doors, and in the middle wall there were clear doors in between two wooden regular drawers with the right one having an array of stuff animals on it that led to a balcony. "Why Kino-san it's absolutely lovely." "Thanks, if you want you can take the bigger bed." "Thank you Kino-san, but that won't be necessary."

Mako then pointed out that the drawer and one of the shelf drawers that were on the same side as Mami's bed were empty and that she'd cleared out half her closet for her to put her clothes in as well. She also offered to help Mami unpack her things but was turned down but insisted she do at least one thing to help her on her first day as a roommate making Mami relent and allow her to help. After that they went to help Nagisa unpack her things only to find the girl already asleep and the most unpacking she had done was putting a single sock in a still open drawer. They giggled and unpacked all her things for her and put them all away tidily into her drawers and anything else that couldn't fit into the closet. Once that was done, both girls decided it was late and headed to bed. Mami though took a shower and changed into a silk lavender night gown. She returned to her room to find Mako having just removed her hair bobble that kept her ponytail together, allowing her hair to freely flow down in waves. She also noticed that Mako had changed into a pair of cherry red silk pajamas. They both went to their own beds, climbed under the sheets, Mako turned off both her lamps, allowing the only light to be from the moon outside. "Goodnight Kino-san." "Goodnight Mami-san."


Ami stared out the taxi window, taking in the sights of Tomaeda. This definitely seemed like a good place for her friend to stay in. Speaking of her friend, Ami turned around only to see the back of her friend's pink head of hair, doing the same thing she was just doing before. "Tenjou-san?" she asked, placing a hand on the girl's shoulder. She didn't respond. Ami soon resorted to shaking her shoulder while repeating her name to get her out of it. Soon enough it worked. "Oh, sorry Mizuno-san." she apologized looking at her with wide pale blue eyes that reflected both her sudden surprise and apology while over all being blank.

Ami sighed. About two months ago she was visiting her mother's hospital and one of the nurses had asked her to throw away some trash. She obliged and went outside to the dumpster only to find a girl sitting limply next to it like a doll against a wall for support. Ami in shock had dropped the bag and ran over to the girl. She noticed she was covered in cuts and bruises and her clothes were ripped and torn. When she kneeled down and asked the girl if she was alright, her answer was met with the girl almost mechanically moving her hung head towards her and staring at her. The most distinct thing about the memory to her was how blank her eyes were, like a piece a paper no one had written on, a canvas not yet painted, an absolutely blank slate. She got up quickly and told the girl to stay where she was and went back inside to tell the doctors and nurses about an injured girl outside. There was blur of them rushing outside huddling around the girl, helping her stand, and rushing her indoors. Soon the girl was cleaned and bandaged by the nurses and given the hospital's standard night gown to wear. When asked by a doctor what her name was she blankly stared for a few moments before saying in a shaky yet husky voice: "U-Utena Tenjou."

When asked anymore questions such as old she was, where did she come from, when was her birthday, what school she go to, did she have any relatives and so on, she only responded with a tilt of the head and said "I don't know." To Ami she was like a doll, a doll that had been used and thrown about until it became worn out and broken. After that she had gone over to Hikawa Shrine to meet with her friends and tell them about what had just happened but as soon as she sat down she was interrupted by Luna who claimed to have felt the traces of a energy very similar to their's yet different. She ended up scanning the entire room to find where it was coming from only to find it was coming from Ami, shocking the other girls. Ami then explained how she didn't understand how this was possible until asked if she interacted with anyone new. She told them all about how she was at the hospital and the strange girl she had met, catching Luna's attention when she spoke about her. The cat immediately deduced that the girl was responsible for the energy trace left on Ami and asked her to take her to the hospital tomorrow to meet her which Ami agreed to do.

She had kept Luna hidden in a duffle bag the entire time, waving hello to all the employees there and asked the receptionist where Utena Tenjou was. When answered she went straight to the girls room and properly introduced herself to her, holding out her hand to greet her. When she was met once again with the blank stare coupled with the girl not doing anything at all, she retracted her arm and explained to Utena she had brought someone to meet her. She guessed Utena's interest was piqued from the way she tilted her head towards her. She unzipped her bag and released Luna onto the bed. Luna stared at her, Utena doing the same likewise. Luna soon scanned the girl using a beam from the crescent moon on her forehead, surprisingly not surprising Utena at all. Luna had then come to the conclusion that Utena, like Ami and the sailor senshi, was a magical girl. Ami had agreed that would be enough to explain as to how she was injured like she was. Luna was then about to ask her some questions until told by Ami that Utena was diagnosed with amnesia much to the cat's disappointment.

Luna had then realized that due to Utena being a magical girl while also having amnesia, Utena was at a high risk for danger. They had a meeting with the other Inners discussing how to protect her and decided that one or two of them would visit Utena each day and stand by her side to protect her from any sort of harm until she was released from the hospital. In the meantime Luna was communicating with other magical familiars and magical girls as to who Utena could stay with considering both Rei and Mako were booked for roommates, Ami's, Minako's, and Usagi's families probably wouldn't be too keen on taking a stranger into their homes, and that the Outers already had the Devil to deal with. A ray of hope soon shone when Kero, a familiar of a magical girl named Sakura Kinomoto, had offered to let the girl live with them.

Although it had come to a shock and a bit of a nuisance to Sakura herself that Kero had just volunteered her to take in Utena without asking her first, she nonetheless allowed her to come live with her. She also visited her along with her father and Kero when she was in the hospital. The two of them ended up getting along with each other really well and Sakura was more than happy to have Utena live with her. Now the big day had arrived.

Ami insisted on traveling with Utena to the Kinomotos' residence, having known and worried about the girl the longest. "We're almost there Tenjou-san." said Ami, assuringly. Utena nodded. "Thank you." And with that she returned to looking out the window. Utena enjoyed being around Ami, for some reason she felt familiar to her, almost reminding her of someone, she wasn't sure who exactly but she was happy to at least feel like she was remembering something.

"Ah we're here." announced Ami, pointing out through her window Sakura's home. With that the taxi stopped and both girls got out of the car. Utena went to the trunk to get out her luggage while Ami went to the front to pay the driver and thank him for his job well done. After she'd done so she went to help Utena unload her luggage.

Unbeknownst to both of them they had just captured the attention of a pair of green eyes. "Ami-chan! Utena-chan! Hi!" greeted Sakura from her window, waving wildly. This caught their attention, making Ami wave back happily and Utena wave back blankly. "Oh stay right there, I'm coming out!" Sakura then dashed out of sight from her window making Ami giggle at the scene all while also being reminded of when she first met Usagi. Sakura soon came out of the house along with her father Fujitaka and helped the girls unload the rest of the luggage. Once they done so, Fujitaka told the cab driver he could leave now and did so. He then went to face Utena and Ami. "Hello again girls, care to come in? We're just about to have lunch." Ami nodded and followed Fujitaka and Sakura into their home, Utena trailing lightly behind.

Once they were inside they were promptly sent to the half kitchen and dining room with Sakura and sat down at the table while Fujitaka went and got out the lunch. "I hope you girls enjoy." Fujitaka said, giving each of the girls a plate of spaghetti. "Thank you Professor Kinomoto." thanked Ami who soon enough took a bite. "Wow it's delicious." Utena took a bite as well. "It's good." she said, although in her usual blank voice. Sakura smiled. "Of course it's good, my dad made it. He's really good at cooking."

"Oh my, he might end up giving Mako a run for her cooking." joked Ami, who soon broke into a fit of giggles that Sakura immediately joined in. Utena simply stared at them. "I'm glad you all enjoy it." said Fujitaka, washing left over dishes.

"Not as much as I am that you're all enjoying it without me though."

Surprised at hearing a new voice they all turned towards where it came from only to be faced with Kero hovering in the air, arms crossed and a peeved look on his face. "Ah Kero-chan," started Sakura, surprised at most "I thought you were still sleeping." "Well I was until I was awoken by the delicious smell of spaghetti - That I happen to find all of you eating without me!" "Kero-chan, calm down-" "I will not calm down!" "Kero-chan-" "No I refuse! I can't believe you Sakura-chan, how could you betray me like this?" Kero sobbed into his arm while Ami and Sakura looked on in exasperation and Utena just blankly stared.

"Now, now Kero-chan, there's no need to make a fuss." chided Fujitaka from the kitchen scooping some spaghetti from the pot and putting it out on a plate. "There's plenty of spaghetti to go around." Fujitaka then put the plate right underneath Kero who immediately stopped crying. "Ah thanks Professor Kinomoto." Kero flew down and grabbed a fork and twisted himself up a big pile of spaghetti and ate it all in one gulp. As he was eating his meal Sakura and Ami were laughing together at the sight. Utena though just stared at Kero eating his weight in spaghetti, once again feeling the same sort of déjà vu she got around Ami only now she was being reminded of someone else.

"So Ami-chan are you going to stay a while longer." asked Sakura once their meals were finished. "I wish I could but no. I have to be back in Juuban by tomorrow." explained Ami while helping her pick up the dishes and handing them to Fujitaka. "Aw that's too bad," Kero said leaning against a salt shaker, "Sakura planned on taking Utena around the town and showing her around." Ami smiled. "I'm sure it would've been fun. Excuse me Professor Kinomoto but can I use your phone to call up a cab?" "Not at all." Fujitaka then lead Ami to the lounge while Sakura, Kero, and Utena stayed behind.

"So Utena-chan do you want to go out and see the town?" asked Sakura, Utena nodding yes. Soon both of girls left the house but not before Kero said goodbye to the two. Sakura had gladly shown Utena around from showing her the way to school and the school itself to all of the shops and restaurants around town. The whole time Sakura happily pointed out and explained little things and details about Tomaeda while Utena complacently listened. They soon made their way to King Penguin Park.

"This right here is King Penguin Park." explained Sakura. "The park is known for well the big King Penguin slide of course, but aside from that I had a lot of great times here during my Cardcaptor days." Sakura smiled as she thought fondly of those days from capturing the cards to changing them into her very own Sakura cards. Unfortunately for Sakura however, while she was lost in her memories she ended up bumping into someone and knocking both of them down.

"Ow. Huh? Hoeee!" Sakura immediately got up to help the person she had knocked down get back up. "I-I'm so sorry, so very sorry, p-please forgive me." begged Sakura once she helped the person up and bowed for forgiveness. Utena just stood there the entire time remaining quiet, keeping most of her focus on Sakura. However though when she turned to face the person Sakura had accidentally knocked down her eyes widened in shock. The person Sakura had knocked into was a woman, a woman with greenish blonde hair tied into a bun with green eyes behind wide round glasses wearing a mint green suit with a white blouse and orange scarf. "Oh no it's perfectly alright," said the woman, wearing a smile which to Utena didn't seem genuine at all, "I myself didn't look where I was going, so in any case I should be the one asking you to forgive me." Utena just stared at the woman, feeling the exact sort of déjà vu she got around Ami and Kero only more intense.

"D-Do I know you?" asked Utena, still staring wide eyed at the woman. Sakura stared at Utena in confusion while the woman continued to smile that false smile of her's. "Hm? No I don't believe so, in fact I highly doubt if we ever met before." she replied. "Oh but allow me to introduce myself, I am Reiko Hanato and I am pleased to meet you." she greeted both the girls with a bow. "Nice to meet you too. I'm Sakura Kinomoto and this is my friend Utena Tenjou." "Utena Tenjou?" Reiko said and then stared at Utena, making the girl express even more shock. Reiko's smile widened. She then lifted Utena's chin with only her finger tips and tilted her head to face her. "What a lovely name, Utena." She retracted her fingers, still leaving Utena stunned.

"So are you new to Tomaeda?" asked Sakura, trying to break up the somewhat awkward to her situation that had happened. Reiko nodded. "I am actually. My fiancé and I had recently moved here because I was offered job." "Really?" "Mm hmm. Oh my look at the time, it's getting really late." Reiko said, looking at her pearl wristwatch. "I better be going now, it was nice to meet both of you and I hope we can see each other again." Reiko then walked away, leaving both the girls behind together.

"She is right about it being late. We should probably go home." Utena agreed. She still felt strange about Reiko, and she believed that there was more to her than meets the eye. When they returned home, Fujitaka popped his head out from the kitchen. "Welcome back you two." he greeted. Utena looked around. "Professor Kinomoto, did Mizuno-san leave already?" Utena asked. "Ah yes she did, but before she left she told me to tell you she said goodbye and that she hopes your memories return soon." He then went back into the kitchen only to come back out again. "Oh and Sakura, Toya and Yukito are coming over for dinner." He told her. "Oh ok." "In the meantime while I cook do you think you and Tenjou-san can go upstairs and unpack her things?" Sakura happily nodded. Fujitaka nodded back and finally returned to the kitchen.

Both the girls grabbed Utena's suitcases and headed upstairs. Once up Sakura lead Utena to what used to be Toya's room and started unpacking. "Kinomoto-san-" "Just Sakura will be fine." "Sakura, did you feel anything strange about Hanato-san?" Sakura looked up from the suitcase she was emptying, confusion spread across her features. "Strange? Like what?" she asked, taking into consideration how Reiko had casually held Utena's face despite the latter's shock could classify as such. Utena looked away. "Nothing really. I guess it's not that important at all."

Sakura was saddened by that remark, remembering very much all the times when either Syaoran or Kero had sensed something odd while it hadn't bothered her at all. She then held her head up and placed her hand on Utena's, all with a determined look on her face. "Utena," she started, the determination melting into kindness, "if you ever have a problem, big or small, you can always come to me." Utena was silent, it wasn't that much of a surprise from usual but it was a silence birthed from shock. Once again she was feeling that intense déjà vu she had when with Reiko. She didn't understand exactly why what Sakura had said made her feel that way but it somewhat did.

"Utena-chan? Utena-chan? Are you ok?" asked Sakura, noticing the girl's change in mood. That managed to bring Utena back down. "Oh uh yeah I'm fine and I appreciate your offer." Utena then wondered whether she should tell Sakura about all those feelings she had till now, but decided against it so she wouldn't have to worry so much over her. "Oh that's good. Now hurry up so we can get down to dinner before Kero-chan eats everything." Both of them took out Utena's clothes, all of them kindly donated by Ami and her senshi friends, and placed them in the drawers and hanged them in the closet. As soon as they were done they headed downstairs just at the exact time the doorbell rang.

"Don't worry I got it!" said Sakura, rushing towards the door. When she opened it Toya and Yukito were revealed to be there. "Hello Yukito-san, onii-chan." she greeted them while allowing them both inside. "Hello Sakura-san." "Hey monster." "I told you I'm not a monster!" "Whatever you say monster." "Grr, onii-chan!" Utena stared at the siblings, somewhat feeling a faint pang of jealousy stir within her. She started to wonder if she even had siblings and then went on to wonder if she even had any relatives at all and if she did were they worried about her, wondering where she was, what had happened to her, and if she was ok.

After thoroughly teasing his sister, Toya finally took noticed of the pink haired girl near the stairs. "Oi Sakura, who's this?" Toya asked, also getting Yukito's attention towards the girl. "Oh that's Utena, the girl I've been telling you about." "Oh you mean the one you offered to let stay with you?" "Mm hm." Yukito smiled and went up to Utena reaching his hand out. "Hello I'm Yukito Tsukishiro, nice to meet you Tenjou-san, Sakura's told me all about you." Utena tentatively shook his hand. "Nice to meet you too." "Hey Toya, aren't you going to introduce yourself?" "Alright." Toya went up to Utena after she had finished shaking hands with Yukito. "I'm Toya, nice to meet you." he said gruffly while also trying to shake hands with her. Utena shook his hand and nodded.

Kero then came out from the kitchen telling them all dinner was ready. They all went in and sat down to a plate of curry and rice. "Ah this curry is so good and it's all thanks to me preparing this." Kero claimed during mega spoonfuls of the food. "Kero-chan don't take all the credit, you just helped dad out with cooking." scolded Sakura. "Eh but I did just as much work cooking this stuff as he did, right Professor?" "Indeed you did Kero." The rest of the dinner went along as any old meal in the Kinomoto residence would, with the siblings teasing and arguing with each other, Kero eating his meal all in one bite and asking for seconds, and Fujitaka and guests staring at the scene with heartfelt eyes. Utena stared at the sight, feeling a nice warmth within her, a warmth she believed she could've felt before with someone or some people. For the first time in what must've been a long time, she smiled.

Soon everyone finished their meals and moved onto dessert and finished that as well, Toya and Yukito left to return back home to what used to be only Yukito's house. Later after helping Fujitaka and Sakura clean up, Utena had taken a shower and was now putting on her pjs preparing for bed. Once she'd buttoned the last button there was a knock at the door and she went to open it to reveal Sakura dressed for bed as well. "Oh hello Sakura." started Utena. "Hi Utena," Sakura said, with hands that were behind her back now clasped together in the front, "I just wanted to tell you tomorrow we're going to go buy you a uniform for school." "School?" "Oh yeah. School starts in a couple of days and Luna told me she's estimated you to be around the same age as me so you'll be going to Tomaeda Junior High just like me." "Alright." Utena replied, closing the door only to be stopped by Sakura's foot.

"Also," trailed Sakura, looking at Utena then down to the floor and then back to her again, "I wanted to know if you had a great first day here, so did you?" Utena blinked. She thought about the question while also looking back on her day as well. She decided that apart from meeting Reiko, the day had been perfect. "My first day here was perfect, thank you for asking." she replied smiling. That answer had made Sakura happy.

"I'm happy to hear that. Well good night." "Goodnight." With that Utena closed the door and both girls headed towards their beds. Utena lied on her side, closing her eyes before flipping to the other side asleep. All seemed well for her right now, but unknown to her there were forces against her that at work now.


Reiko closed the door once she was inside the house. "I see you're back, how was your day?" asked a masculine voice coming from an armchair. From the exact same chair came three small daggers, two that were promptly thrown at a picture in front of the chair that was torn beyond recognition by other daggers still embedded in it and one that was thrown at Reiko only to be captured between two fingers. She smiled, only this smile however was different from the one she had earlier. Instead of being only a mere fake it was a true wicked one spread upon her features. "It was lovely," she said, walking over to sit on one of the chair's armrests, "I met her today." She threw her dagger at the picture as soon as she said that.

"Oh really?" the man asked quizzically, turning his attention towards her. Reiko nodded. "He was right, her memories are completely gone although she did somewhat recognize me." The man remained silent, throwing another dagger at the picture. "Oh don't worry she's not onto me though, in fact I think she's become more stupider than she was at school." she quipped while also throwing a dagger.

A ringing noise sounded out. It came from the phone on the side table near the chair. Reiko got it while her partner got up. "Hello." she answered, in voice that was sweet yet toxic. "So have you found her?" asked the voice on the line, the man plucking the daggers out of the wall and the picture. Reiko's smile widened. "I'll take that as a yes." She giggled, the man now throwing the picture away in a small rose crest patterned trash can, filled to brim with other pictures torn apart by daggers as well.

"And I'll take it she's no longer has her memories, like I said before?" "Mm hm." "Lovely to hear. And do you both have them with you?" The man grabbed a new photo from a box full of them, smoothed it down against the wall, then taped it. "Of course we do." She could practically hear the engine on the other side revving up. "Good. Remember, take her, along with anyone else who gets in our way, out. A stupid girl like her doesn't deserve the power to revolutionize the world." With that he hanged up and Reiko put the phone down, just in time for the man gave to give her a dagger. "I couldn't agree more." she said, taking the dagger and throwing it right in the middle of the person in the photograph's forehead; Utena Tenjou.