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Usagi stood wide eye and mouth gaping at the sight of the pink hair little girl sitting on the coach in the living room eating cookies. Shingo was playing video games while her father was reading a newspaper. They paid the little girl no attention as if she belonged there.
"Usagi you're home," Ikuko said to her daughter as she stepped out of the kitchen with a cup of milk in hand, "Well don't just stand there. Aren't you going to greet your cousin?"
"My cousin," Usagi said dumbly.
"Don't tell me you forgot Chibi-usa was coming over to visit," Ikuko asked disbelievingly as she handed the glass of milk to Chibi-usa.
"Come on mom. It's no surprise," Shingo said with a grin while still focused on his game, "Usagi constantly forget things."
Too stunned by the sudden discovery of her new "cousin," Usagi did not yell at her brother like she usually would. At the corner of her eye, she noticed Luna sitting at the top of the staircase giving her a meaningful look.
"Well I'm going to head up to my room," Usagi declared before turning to the girl happily munching on cookies with narrowed eyes, "It was good to see you again Chibi-usa."
Not bothering to wait for a response, Usagi quickly headed upstairs and entered her room with Luna right behind her.
"What's going on Luna," Usagi immediately asked after shutting her door, "Who is that girl because I know for a fact she is not my cousin."
"I don't know who she is. All I know was that this Chibi-usa used that sphere she called Luna-P to hypnotize your family. I was heading out when I saw a pink flash so I ran back to find your family in a daze and Chibi-usa holding Luna-P that appeared out of a puff of smoke," Luna explained while sitting on Usagi's bed.
"Well I already had an encounter with her earlier at the park with Mamo-chan," Usagi said with a frown as she leaned against the door, "The little brat pointed a gun at me and demanded I give her the Ginzuishou."
"So then she could be a new enemy," Luna mused.
"I need the Ginzuishou to save mommy!"
"No," Usagi said with certainty, "She's not an enemy. She had screamed out that she's trying to save her mom with the Ginzuishou back at the park."
"You said she pointed a gun at you Usagi," Luna said with concern, "Are you sure she wasn't lying?"
"I can't explain it, but I know she's not an enemy," Usagi said, "She sounded really desperate when she said that. I really don't think she was lying. Besides, for some odd reason I feel like I should know her. She feels familiar somehow."
"Well in any case we need to call the others and discuss this with them," Luna declared.
With a nod, Usagi began walking toward her bed as she took out her communicator and began calling the others for a senshi meeting.
"So the little moon brat ran to this time," Koan said as she observed the city with her other three sisters aboard the ship.
"I suppose she feels more comfortable being surrounded by weak earthlings," Berthier said with a smirk.
"Well I'm growing tired of chasing the rabbit, so lets just hurry up and catch her already," Petz said with impatience.
"What getting tired so quickly," Calaveras teased with a mischievous grin, "I guess you really are getting old."
"Why you-"
"Enough," a voice boomed out causing the four sisters to turn. Rubeus materialized with an annoyed scowl and walked up to the four sisters, arms crossed.
"I grow tire of this constant argument, but more importantly our prince is growing impatient. He questions why we still haven't captured the rabbit," Rubeus said with narrowed eyes, "So if I were you I would stop wasting time and go search for the brat before the prince runs out of patience!"
"Hai," the four answered with a bow before teleporting away.
'The sooner we capture that rabbit the better,' Rubeus thought as he gazed out at the city, 'If my memories serve me correctly, we might run into some trouble in this time too.'
"So you're telling me a little kid is after the Ginzuishou now," Makoto asked with a shake of her head.
"Just when we thought it would be smooth sailing from now on," Minako said with a sigh.
"Well like I said I don't think she's an enemy," Usagi said with a shrug of her shoulders, "But we need to find out what she's trying to save her mother from. Obviously the kid needs help."
"First we need to find out who she is and how she knows about the Ginzuishou," Rei said.
"Not only that, but you said she even knew you had the Ginzuishou Usagi-chan," Ami said with a concerned look, "How much does this little girl know?"
The room fell into silence as each girl went into deep thoughts. Suddenly, Rei noticed a shadow appearing at the screen door causing her to leap up and open the door while demanding to know who was there.
"Hey what is this thing," Rei asked pointing at the Luna faced sphere.
"That's Chibi-usa's Luna-P! Is that brat spying on us," Usagi exclaimed in outrage as she got up and made a grab for the object, "Come back here!"
When Luna-P began floating away, Usagi immediately gave chase.
"Usagi," the others called out in unison before getting up to chase after her.
"Honestly that girl can be so impulsive," Rei said as they ran after their friend.
Usagi thought she was closing in when she heard a familiar scream. Stopping in her tracks, she noticed how Luna-P seemed to be waiting for her to follow.
'It's leading me to towards the scream,' Usagi realized and took off once more with increased speed, 'Chibi-usa must be in trouble!"
Running with urgency, Usagi did not understand why, but the thought of the pink hair girl getting hurt frightened her to her very core. Rounding a corner, she saw Chibi-usa being chased by a long blue hair woman wearing a tutu like dress. Her eyes grew wide when blue flames began dancing on the woman's fingertips. With a sudden burst of speed, Usagi grabbed the frightened girl and jumped out of the way just in the nick of time.
"Usagi," Chibi-usa cried out in surprise.
"You okay kid," Usagi asked to which the stunned girl could only nod in response, "That's good."
Then turning to the woman floating above them, Usagi glared defiantly and yelled, "What's the big idea attacking a defenseless little girl? Who are you?"
"This is none of your business, so get out of here before you get hurt," Koan threatened coldly.
"And leave her with a psycho like you? Not happening," Usagi spat back defiantly as she held Chibi-usa closer behind her.
"Fine then I'll just kill you first," Koan growled out as she dived straight for the two with extended claw like nails.
"Bubble Spray!"
"What," Koan exclaimed as she halted, "Where is this fog coming from?"
"Are you two all right," Venus asked placing a hand on Usagi's shoulder.
"Yeah we're fine," Usagi replied with a smile.
"Well then hurry up and take the kid to safety," Mars said, "We'll handle this."
Giving a nod of her head, Usagi picked Chibi-usa up and headed back toward the temple. Neither she nor the four senshis noticed the little girl's wide eye stare of recognition.
'The Sailor Senshis are here too,' Chibi-usa thought as she a glimmer of hope shone in her eyes only to be clouded by doubt once more, 'But where's Sailor Moon?'
"You're not going anywhere," Koan exclaimed and shot at Usagi, "I'm taking the rabbit with me!"
"Venus-Love-Me-Chain," Venus yelled as her golden chain wrapped around Koan trying her arms around her waist.
"You're the one who's not going anywhere," Jupiter said as she placed herself between Koan and the temple.
"We have some questions for you," Mars said.
"For starters who are you and why are you after Chibi-usa," Venus asked with a tug of her chain.
"Argh you meddlesome Sailor Senshis. Even in the past you have to interfere with our plans," Koan muttered darkly.
"Past? What are you talking about," Mercury asked in confusion.
With a burst of dark energy, Koan broke Venus's chain and blew her back at the same time.
"Venus," the others exclaimed.
"Sparkling Wide Pressure," Jupiter exclaimed immediately directing her attack at Koan.
The attack missed and hit the ground as Koan leapt into the air. Before anymore attacks could be unleashed on her, she teleported away in a quick flash of black light.
"Listen well Sailor Senshis. You will regret opposing the Black Moon Clan! I, Koan youngest of the four Ayakashi sisters, will make sure of it," Koan's voice echoed.
"Black Moon Clan," Usagi repeated softly having watched the exchange while hiding in a room.
"Usagi," Chibi-usa said quietly reminding her she was not alone.
"Oh right," Usagi said immediately putting the girl down, "You're really not hurt kiddo?"
"No, I already said I'm fine," Chibi-usa replied with an edge of annoyance while looking away stubbornly.
"Well excuse me for worrying," Usagi said with crossed arms before letting out a sigh, "Look Chibi-usa, I don't know how you got my family thinking you're my cousin or why you're being attacked, but I guess I'm kinda stuck with you for now. So how about you stop acting so defensive all the time. I promise, unless it becomes really necessary, I won't ask any questions and I also promise to protect you…whether you like it or not."
Chibi-usa bit the edge of her lip and silently considered Usagi's words.
"Why are you helping me," she finally asked in confusion, "By being around me you could get hurt. You're not responsible for me and I've even threatened you before! So why are you trying to act nice to me? Are you that stupid or just insane?"
"I don't really understand it myself squirt," Usagi replied with a grin, "But lets just say you feel familiar somehow. So call me crazy, but you're stuck with me as much as I'm stuck with you. Besides who else will help you when you're ready to explain why your mother needs help?"
Chibi-usa looked at Usagi's grinning face with her own stupefied one. Slowly, surprised changed into relieve as tears welled up in her eyes.
"Usagi-baka, what makes you think you would be able to help me," Chibi-usa hiccupped as tears began rolling down her face.
Hugging tightly onto Usagi, Chibi-usa began sobbing, letting lose her fear and relieve through tears. Not knowing what else to do, Usagi just held the crying girl in her arms and let the obviously scared girl release her pent up emotions.
'Thank you Usagi.'
A/N: Here's the next chapter. The idea pretty much just wrote itself here. Once I started writing I couldn't stop! That hasn't happened in awhile. So can anyone guess what's going to happen in the next chappie? Personally I think it's not much of a mystery what the next chapter has in store for us. Leave a review and tell me what you think!