I did a little editing in the first chapter towards the end so for those of you who skipped it Hotaru is no longer part of the group with the princess. She is actually at school at the moment and not with any of the senshi.
Neither Haruka nor Michiru knew what was wrong with their princess but they both wanted to find out. Seeing her cry as she rand from the shrine was not a good sign. Had a monster attacked? Was there danger again? Or did something worse happen? While Haruka tried to help Usagi calm down Michiru went to where she hoped the others would be, to figure out what was going on.
As Michiru approached the shrine she heard the inners talking. 'Good, at least there alright' she thought. However when she ran inside the room where she heard them talking she was surprised to see not only the inners there and everything looking normal but Setsuna and Mamoru where there as well.
"Um… Is everything alright?" Michiru asked clearly confused as to what was going on and why her princess was so upset if everything was fine. (I know it's out of character but just this once)
"Oh Michiru, there you are. Where's Haruka?" Setsuna asked just realizing that Michiru was in the room (she didn't hear what Michiru had asked).
"Haruka's outside with Usagi. When we arrived she was really upset and nearly knocked the both of us down. Is everything alright?' –Michiru
"Yes everything's fine. The princess just found out something about her future that has her a little upset I'm afraid" –Setsuna
"Oh, what? It must be bad something big with how upset she was." –Michiru
"Not really. Usagi just has a habit of blowing everything out or proportion or over exaggerating." –Rei
"Are you sure?" Michiru asked with a little doubt in her voice. It was true that at times Usagi could be a little out of sorts with small problems at times but the way she was when she ran into her and Haruka was much more then just a little thing.
"Yes, she just doesn't like what she over herd about her future. It isn't that big of a deal." –Setsuna
"Ok… I see. Is there anything Haruka and I could do to help?" Michiru asked, meaning help cheer the princess up or at least calm her down and explain to her that the problem at hand wasn't that big of a deal.
"Yes, actually there is one thing. Tonight the princess is going to call you and Haruka very upset. She will tell you that her parents kicked her out and that none of the inners would take her in. She might also mention that she doesn't want to stay with Mamoru and she'll ask to stay with you, Haruka, and Hotaru. When she does you must tell her no. No matter how much she begs. She must stay with Mamoru once her parents kick her out. Staying with anyone else besides him might throw the future into chaos and Crystal Tokyo will no longer exist." –Setsuna
"Won't she want to stay with you anyway? After all you two are boyfriend and girlfriend and fut6ure wife and husband." Michiru asked Mamoru.
"No, unfortunately because of what she just over heard she won't want to be anywhere near me for a while." –Mamoru
"I see, and what exactly did she overhear?" –Michiru
"As I said before it's nothing important to the future and the future will still be the exact same as it is now. You just have to make sure tonight when she calls you to say no. Make sure Haruka knows to say no too." –Setsuna
"I see." Michiru answered. Now she was positive that there was more going on then what she was being told.
"If you like though Haruka could give Usagi a ride home. That way she can calm down a little before meeting her parents." –Setsuna
Michiru was a little shocked by this remark but quickly regained her composure.
"That would most likely be best. Haruka and I will take her home." –Michiru
"Ok make sure you take her straight home though. It's best if everything that is meant to happen today happens soon." –Setsuna
Michiru then said her good byes and left. She still had doubt though on what she was told and what happened with her princess.
As soon as Michiru left the others were jumping with questions.
"Why did you tell her to give Usagi a ride home? –Rei
"Yeah what happens if Usagi decided to tell them on the way home what she heard?" –Minako
Similar questions were asked to Setsuna from the other three before she raised her hand in a motion for them to stop.
"I realize you're all upset but don't be. Don't worry, as long as they take her straight home neither one of them will find out anything." –Setsuna
"Why not? Both of them are pretty smart when it comes to things like this." –Ami
"Because the princess won't let anything besides the fact that she's upset be known to the outers." –Setsuna
"What do you mean?' –Makoto
"I mean that the outers including myself can't read the princess the way you inners can. Haruka and Michiru have no clue of how to approach their princess when it comes to seeing her upset and there for don't know how to tell what's wrong. Only another inner can really understand Usagi." –Setsuna
"Come to think of it, even we have a hard time getting the princess to tell us what's wrong, and we're supposed to be the closes senshi. If we have to pry for months to get her to tell us anything then in only a couple of minutes there is no way that Haruka and Michiru could learn anything." –Rei
"Then the future will still be the same!" –Mamoru
"Yes everything will be fine. As long as Usagi goes home tonight the future will be just fine." –Setsuna
The others began talking again about how great the future would be once Usagi lost control of her own power and Mamoru gained control of it.
With Haruka and Michiru
When Michiru went back to Haruka she had discovered that Usagi had fallen asleep while Haruka was trying to comfort her.
"Michiru did you find anything out?' –Haruka
"Not as much as I would of liked. Did Usagi tell you anything?" –Michiru
"No, she fell asleep while still too upset to really tell me anything. What about the inners?" Setsuna? Mamoru" –Haruka
"I saw them. They said everything's find and that Usagi is just over reacting but…" –Michiru
"But?" -Haruka
"It feels like they were hiding something. II can't see the princess getting as upset as she was form something small." -Michiru
I agree you couldn't get them to tell you more?" –Haruka
"No" -Michiru
"So what should we don now? I would really like to find out what happened." –Haruka
"So would I but I think the only way we'll find out is from Usagi herself." –Michiru
"So what should we do now" -Haruka
"I don't know but it isn't good for Usagi to be sleeping on the ground" –Michiru
Haruka gently picked the sleeping Usagi up before asking "Should we take her home?" Michiru paused fro a second before giving her answer "No, we should take her to our place."
Later that Night
Usagi woke up not sure of where she was. She didn't recognize the room she was in. Suddenly Hotaru came into the room in her nightgown sniffing with fresh tears in her eyes. "Haruka-papa I had a bad dream." She said not noticing Usagi was on the sofa. "Hotaru?" Usagi said confused. Was she at Haruka and Michiru's place? Hearing
Hearing Usagi's voice Hotaru looked over."Usagi-san ? What are you doing here?"Hotaru asked confused. "I'm not sure. I just woke up a couple of minutes ago. Are you ok?" –Usagi
"No, I had a bad dream." –Hotaru
""Aw… Don't worry Hotaru. You'll be ok, it was only a dream. It can't hurt you." Usagi said trying to comfort the youngest senshi. As Usagi continued to comfort Hotaru Haruka and Michiru heard noise coming from their living room.
"Koneko you're up" –Haruka
"Haruka san" –Usagi
"Haruka-papa" –Hotaru
"Hotaru—chan what are you doing up so late? "Michiru
"I had a bad dream but I'm ok now. Usagi helped me." –Hotaru
"Ok well since you're all better now then I can tuck you in. Come on Hotaru. You shouldn't be up this late." –Haruka
"ok Haruka papa." Hotaru said walking up to her room with Haruka. She knew that Haruka and Michiru most likely wanted to talk to Usagi alone. (Though she's still young she does sometimes act older then her age, both in the anime and manga.)
After Haruka walked Hotaru upstairs Michiru decided to talk to her princess.
"Usagi-chan are you alright?" –Michiru
"Koneko chan is everything aright?" –Haruka
"Hm… yeah everything's fine. Why?" Usagi asked not yet recalling what had happened to her hours before when she overheard her friends talking. "And how did I get at your place?" She continued.
"When we came to Rei's shrine for the senshi meeting we ran into you. You were really upset princess." –Michiru
"Are you sure everything's alright?" –Haruka
After recalling her own memories about the shrine tears almost immediately began forming in her eyes. She remembered everything including what her future was supposed to be and how all of her friends had turned on her.
"Princess" "Koneko" both outers said at once. Concerned about their princess since she had started to cry again. They both knew that what ever had her upset was something much bigger then Setsuna had tried to make it.
However no matter how much Haruka and Michiru tried to get Usagi to tell them what was wrong and why she was so upset she would say it was nothing or that they didn't need to worry about it. Usagi felt like her friends (the inners, Setsuna and Mamoru) took her more as a burden then a friend and she didn't want Haruka and Michiru to see her as the same way so she didn't want to dump out all her problems on the two of them. After a long attempt on Haruka and Michiru's behalf on trying to figure out what was making Usagi so up set and getting no answers they decided to try a different subject.
"Usagi it's pretty late, I'm sure your parents are getting worried about you, since we don't have your home number we couldn't contact them." Haruka said. "If you want you can call them. Here I'll show you where the phone is." She continued. After Haruka showed Usagi where the phone was she went back into the living room with Michiru in order to give Usagi some privacy while talking with her parents.
"I don't like this." Haruka said angry. "Why won't she tell us, I know there's something that's really bothering her!" She continued.
"I don't know, but I think what ever the problem is I think it has to do with the inners." –Michiru
"Why do you think that?" –Haruka
"Because if it didn't she would most likely be with them and they could help her a lot better then us." –Michiru
"I see, so it's true, in the end the inners can deal with the inners better and the outers can deal with the outers." –Haruka
"Unfortunately that's the way it works. That's why the inners got along so well in the past and the outers kind of kept out of their way and vice versa." –Michiru
"Then what are we supposed to do? If the inners are making our princess this upset then it's up to us to help her!" –Haruka
"I don't know, and I don't know if we can even trust Mamoru at this moment either." –Michiru
"What why!" –Haruka
Michiru then explained what Setsuna told her about if Usagi asked to live with them until she could make it on her own.
"That doesn't make sense! If Usagi was truly that upset about living with him shouldn't the answer be yes!" –Haruka
"I agree, however Setsuna said in order for Crystal Tokyo to come in to reality she needed to be with him, no matter how much she didn't want to be." –Michiru
"So we just say no and watch her possibly become even more upset. Or worse in danger!" –Haruka
"But at the same time if we say yes we'll be going against our future and Setsuna." –Michiru
Haruka paused at this. Not knowing how to respond.
"So what do we do when she asks?" –Michiru
"I don't know." Haruka answered. This would be so much easier if we knew exactly what was going on!" She said in frustration.
"I know. If we decide to say no then we may be upsetting her more or worse yet putting her in danger, but if we say yes we could be putting the future in danger, not to mention going against Setsuna" –Michiru
The idea of going against Setsuna was not appealing to either of them at all. Though Haruka was technically the leader of the outers because Setsuna was so much older she acted as leader instead of Haruka. Both of them in a way looked up to her and respected her, and now that they were stuck with such a bad position wasn't appealing. Though they would never want to upset their princess going against Setsuna was just as bad in their minds.
When Usagi came back out she looked even more upset then before.
"Koneko chan are you alright?" Haruka asked seeing she was on the verge of crying again.
"Yeah I'm" sniff "fine, I just need to go." Usagi said trying to get away from her outers before they hated her too, her life was slowly falling apart.
"Do you want me to take you home?" –Haruka
"No, it's alright. I'll just walk" –Usagi
"This late at night, it's too dangerous. I'll take you." –Haruka
Michiru took a breath before talking. Saying this to the princess wasn't going to be easy
"Your parents told you not to come back that they were going to kick you out didn't they." -Michiru
"How did you…" –Usagi
"Setsuna told me at the shrine." –Michiru
Usagi couldn't answer her and just looked away in shame. 'Great' she thought 'now the outers hate me too. Maybe I really am as worthless and weak as everyone feels I am.'
"Koneko-chan if you want you can stay here tonight. Then tomorrow you can decide what to do." –Haruka
"No it's alright, besides I don't want to burden you." –Usagi
"You're not a burden koneko chan, besides it's getting really late anyway. So why don't you head yup to the guest room for the night. Here I'll show you where it is." Then before Usagi could argue any farther Haruka walked her upstairs to the guest room (I don't know Haruka and Michiru's house so I'm making this up as I go)
After walking her upstairs then coming back down Michiru looked at Haruka both hoping that letting her stay the night didn't cause problems with the future or worse problems between them and Setsuna.
Ok that's it for this chapter. Sorry about any grammar mistakes in this chapter. I wrote it in the middle of the night and was too tired to proof read, but if someone wants to take care of it for me please be my guest, then just leave the errors in the review or better yet my site found on my home page. I also want to point out that in this story Haruka loves Usagi like a Knight loves her princess NOT as lovers. The only one Haruka loves like that is Michiru and no one else. Haruka considers Usagi almost like a sister or child, she loves her the way she loves Hotaru to an extent and cares for her as that and nothing else. Now that you are finished reading this chapter pleasereview. Until next time
-Winlyx