Prologue

It had been two weeks since the battle against the then evil Sailor Galaxia and Sailor Moon and the rest of her loyal Senshi were just now starting to deal with the dramatic events of that horrific day. It was a day Usagi/Sailor Moon would never forget no matter how hard she tried. For the second time in her life, she had to go through the trauma of seeing her senshi, her friends, die in front her very eyes while trying to protect her, seeing their Star Seeds taken from them and feeling so helpless to save them. Learning that her one true love had been killed while he was on his was to America to further his studies ans seeing his Star Seed floating helplessly along with the rest of her friends. But nothing could compare to the feeling of absolute betrayal that she felt when she saw two of her senshi do something that she thought was unthinkable.

Even though Haruka and Michru's relationship with the inner senshi was lukewarm at best, Usagi still considered them as her friends and felt that they could be trusted. But during that faithful battle, that trust was replaced with betrayal when Uranus and Neptune allowed themselves to become minions of Galaxia, attacking and killing two of their fellow team mates. But what really had the moon princess shocked was the fact that the two outer senshi showed absolutely no signs of remorse when they took their friend and 'daughter's' star seeds. But even when the two lovers realized what they had done and tried to attack Galaxia, they two were no match for the senshi of the galaxy and in the end, they died.

Eventually Sailor Moon was able to free Galaxia of the Chaos that had possessed her and had all of her friends and her lover returned to her, but the actions of Uranus and Neptune had her questioning their loyalty not just to her, but to the entire team.

"I still can not believe they would do such thing." Usagi said sadly, as she and the rest of the inner senshi met at the Hikawa Jinja to discuss the situation.

"Well believe it." Rei said with disgust in her voice, "Those two acted recklessly and instead of talking with the rest of us, they acted on their on accord and killed Setsuna and Hotaru."

"Well it is just like them to do such a thing." Makoto interjected, "They always act out on their own and feel as if they answer to no one, not to mention that they were to eager to sacrifice Setsuna and Hotaru. Did they ever think once that their so called plan could back fire on them."

"Well they have always acted independently from us" Ami explained, "but after this, I am uncertain if they can ever be trusted again."

"But they did turn on Galaxia... you know... before they were... killed." Minako spoke up, "But what they did was not right."

While this was going on inside the temple, the two accused senshi sat silently outside on the front steps. The two of them both lost in thought and stewing in their own guilt. The two of them had not only turned on their fellow team mates, but had also struck at the one person that they had sworn there absolute loyalty to. Originally they had come to the Jinja in an attempt to smooth things over with their princess and their fellow senshi., but what had happened was that they over heard the discussion inside and what they heard had them thinking.

Ever since they made themselves known to their princess and her inner court, both Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune acted rather cold towards them. Always refusing to work with them and at times butting heads with their fellow senshi, even though they were very loyal to Usagi/Sailor Moon. But after hearing what the girls had to say about them made them realize just how wrong they had operated in the past.

Despite their loyalty they had acted rather cold and aloft towards the inners, even though all they wanted to do was make friends with them and work closely with them. Even when the situation called for them to work together, the two outers still would not allow them selves to work along side their princess and her court. Needless to say, that decision along with many others had cause a rift to form between them and the rest of the senshi, but their actions during the fight with Galaxia was possibly the worse decision they had ever made. Not because they had raised their hand at their princess, but because they had betrayed the two people who were not only fellow outers, but were also apart of a family that they had made.

Michiru could still see the look on Pluto's face as she took her friend's star seed, it was a look of pure shock and betrayal. She had 'Killed' a woman who along with Haruka, had vowed to take care of a young Hotaru while her father was in hospital, a woman who she loved like a sister. A woman who had at one time sacrifice herself so that the two of them could survive and finish their mission and in return, Neptune had killed her without any hesitation or remorse. But is was Haruka that really felt the weight of her actions.

It was her idea in the first place to turn on her fellow team mates, she had been the one who slapped her princess. But it was the fact that she had killed her adopted daughter, the one who she loved with all her heart, the one who lovingly called her "Papa", really had the senshi of the wind in a depressed mood. Just how could she have done such a horrific act? Just why did she come up with that stupid plan in the first place? Because of her, she almost lost 4 of most important women in her life and to some extent, she had possibly already lost one. There was just no way that Haruka could see her princess, or any of the other senshi for that matter forgiving what she and her lover had done. Filled with guilt and self hatred, the two outer senshi knew just what had to be done.

About an hour later the girls came out of the temple and they were about to head to their favorite watering hole, "The Crown Cafe" when Rei's grandfather called out to here...

"Rei!" the old Shinto priest called out. "What is it, grand pa?" the young miko asked him.

"Two of your friends were here just a while ago. They let you this note then they left." the old man said, as he held up a envelope. Curious, Rei opened the letter and with the other girls huddled around her,she began to read...

"To everyone,

By the tine you get this letter we shall be long gone. Our actions in recent events have caused great pain to the ones that we care about the most in the world and is unforgivable.

Because of our mind set at the time, we caused the deaths of 2 of our team mates who we were supposed to love and protect. We destroyed what ever trust they had for us and we shamed our selves in this manner.

There for we have decided to leave Tokyo and we shall not return for a little while. We just need time to be to our selves and do do some thinking. We just wanted to let you know that we are truly sorry for what we had done and hope that one day we can have a new start and become friends.

Signed, Haruka and Michiru"

"Figures..." Makoto snorted in disgust, "They ran away form their problems and they did not even had to gust to face us."

"Would not be the first time they ran." Rei added.

All of them just stood their in a stunned silence, as the fact that Haruka and Michiru had left Tokyo sunk in. But Usagi was more lost in thought than any of them.

The letter sounded as if they were truly sorry for what they had done and she could feel that the two of them were truly hurting inside. All Usagi could do at this point hope that they would be alright and that the two senshi would come back home soon.