Chapter 2

Shifting his head to the side, the General of the Army peaked open his eyes. The sun was shining in his eyes once again. It was a similar morning to the prior morning. He looked to the window seeing it was still partially open allowing the gently breeze to caress those in the room. He gave a small smile.

It was another day.

Peace radiated in the room once again as he turned his gaze to his beautiful wife resting peacefully under the comforter. A smile curled on his lips. He leaned down towards her and began pressing his lips against hers giving a feather soft kiss. It took a few kisses before she began responding to his choice of affection.

"Good Morning Venus," he whispered to her.

Her eyes fluttered open as she saw him leaning over her once again.

She gave a smile back to him, her arm lifting up to wrap around his neck desiring to bring him in for another kiss. "Good Morning Kunz-"

"MOM!" shouted a loud voice from outside of their closed door. There was a loud knock again, and again, and again.

The General's face began to drop just a bit as his eyes narrowed. His wife gave a frustrated huff before speaking up diplomatically, her voice still fogged with sleep.

"Yes Mina?" spoke the mother as she waited to hear what her daughter wanted.

"Can I come in?!" shouted the girl from the other side of the door. "I want to tell you something important!"

Minako looked up at her husband, he gave her yet another silent look. She immediately knew what it meant.

"MOM!"

"Is there blood involved?" Venus asked.

"YES!"

The two looked at each other with alert in their eyes. Kunzite leaned back allowing his wife to sit up and quickly jump into action. She was still in her night gown and immediately went to the door. She unlocked the door and opened it quickly. She looked her daughter up and down calmly seeing a frightened look in her eyes.

"Where's the blood?" questioned the mother calmly.

Her daughter's face flushed bright red. She grabbed her mother's hand and pulled her to her room. It was when they entered the room, her daughter pointed to the bed. "Under the blankets..."

Venus looked at her daughter for a second, thinking this might have been the result of her bringing a man to bed... but then she remembered how much her daughter hated getting attention from boys. She always did as a child seeing boys as "gross".

When the mother pulled off the sheets, she saw the evidence.

Blood.

When she turned to her daughter, Mina began to cry. "I don't know how it happened! I went to bed feeling okay last night and woke up this morning with the lower part of my stomach hurting really, really bad! And then I saw my body had bled from... down there."

Venus waited silently as she watched her daughter begin to tear up, "Mama? Am... am I dying?"

A sweat drop fell from the side of Minako's face as she rubbed the side of her head. "No Mina, no. You are not dying."

Her daughter began to sniffle and leaned in to her mother's embrace, as she shed silent tears. "What's happening to me? My stomach really, really hurts!"

That's when Kunzite made his appearance in the room dressed in sweat pants and a loose white shirt, alert on his features and his training as a General kicked in. He was in over-protective father overdrive.

When he saw the blood on the bed sheets and his daughter crying in her mother's arms, his mind went into over drive thinking the worst for his little girl. Had someone taken advantage of her in the night?! Was she drugged and woke up to find this violation? Venus turned to her husband feeling a little sheepish. "She just started her period."

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

Four seconds.

Of all the good things in this world... The father of the daughter's face became pale as a sheet. He had to hold onto a wall for a second. He looked intensely at his youngest child in the arms of his wife as she continued speaking about how she was going to die by blood and would have to give her senshi role to someone else.

It would have all been comical to the father, perhaps decades down the road it would be joked about with her future husband, but the very real reality hit him like a ton of bricks at that second in time.

Kunzite realized his little girl was not so little any more.

She became a woman over night.

For the first time in the man's life, he felt true genuine fear mixed with a little something called dread.