URANUS & NEPTUNE

Disclaimer: No, i actually don't own any senshi... As it says, this is a fanfiction; I'm a fan and fictioning...

Author's Note: This fanfic takes place when Silver Millennium still existed on Moon. I didn't want to give them completely different names, and instead I used names of the planets for girls' names. Their Japanese names sounded silly to me. I mean, Usagi's name was Serenity at past, right? Please note that this story is 3 years old, I edited little since then. Italic font parts between stars represent flashbacks, in case you couldn't figure out. Well, there are a lot of flashbacks in this story, it was necessary for me to write them to give you a better opinion about their relationship. Hope you'll enjoy as much as I did while writing.

Summary: Princess of Uranus is struggling a newly recovered mother from a coma, who's so eager to get her daughter married. Though she's far from the 12 year old girl she has last seen. Now, after 5 years, Princess of Uranus is respected and seen as a savior by her own people. But it's pretty ironic, blonde princess is quite lost with her memories of her childhood best friend, Princess of Neptune, whom she couldn't see over 5 years...

PART 1- REUNION

-Chapter 2-

With an elegant move of her hand, she finished the final touches on her painting. Woman looked at her model, a wavy aqua haired girl was sitting near the pool. There were some women in the water also. Young girl was laughing and chatting with the ones in the water. Then she looked at the painter. Queen smiled at her daughter and waved her hand to approve her dismissial. Princess got up quickly, but women at the pool pulled her dress.

"Princess, please don't go!"

"Why don't you swim with us Princess?"

"Can't you stay a little longer?"

Neptune looked at the begging ones in the pool. She could see the shiny fish tails floating in the water. All had lovely shining hair and jewels on them. She smiled sadly.

"I have works to do, I'm sorry."

But one reached and held her leg tightly; she pulled her harder than the others.

"No way…" she said with a deep voice and made Princess fall into the pool.

Neptune screamed as she was falling. She breathed deeply then looked angrily to the mermaid who pulled her. Queen sighed deeply as maids gathered her equipments, she gave a disapproving look at mermaid and walked to the palace.

"Gabriela!"

Mermaid only smiled stealthily to princess, then dived in the pool. Others giggled and swam around the Princess shyly, wondering what to do. Neptune looked in the water, she couldn't see well. Then someone pulled her underwater. She opened her eyes to see who was her sly attacker. It was the same mermaid; her golden-like orange hair was floating around her. Gabriela was the strongest and most mysterious of the mermaids. She laughed derisively.

"You look as beautiful as always dear Princess." She said with her deep voice, charmingly.

'Stop it.' Princess said from her mind.

Mermaid laughed, she swam around the wavy haired princess.

"He'll say those words to you."

Neptune just watched her. Her tail made aqua-blue shines on the girl.

"Why don't you just get rid of him?"

'Why should I?'

Mermaid looked at her, then moved close quickly her to hold her face. She looked straight at her ocean blue eyes. Neptune held her breath while mermaid was gazing into hers. Turquoise colored orbs were seeing through her soul, she could feel it and shivered with the thought. At last, mermaid grinned slightly.

"You are still with your Sky King, little princess."

'I said stop it!' Neptune pushed Gabriela and swam to surface.

Others were waiting curiously on the surface, Neptune got out of the pool without saying a word. Gabriela slowly rose on the surface and watched Princess walking away fastly.

"What have you done to Princess, Gabriela?" an older voice came from back.

Blonde one turned to long, ice blue haired mermaid, she smiled to her.

"Nothing." She said and dived in the pool.

Neptune hurried to her room, maids hurried after her. But she sent them away and closed the doors behind her. She sighed and quickly got undressed. She touched the shells on the wall of the bathroom. Water slowly began to fill the shell shaped, inlaid with mother of pearl bath tube, from bottom. Neptune sat in the bath tube and laid in it. Hot water made her cold muscles relax and comforted her. She leaned her head back and thought for a while. Maybe Gabriela was right; she had missed Sky Princess. But why she was always so strange? Honestly, she was the only mermaid Neptune was fond of since her childhood. Her acts were strange, but she loved princess too. Once, she had made a strange statement to Neptune.

"You love me, because I remind you your Sky King."

She always called Princess Uranus as Sky King… Neptune shaked herself mentally. It was not the right time for making nostalgia. She thought about tonight. There was going to be a ceremonial ball in Moon Kingdom. Queen Serenity was inviting all Princesses and royal families to this ball. Neptune wondered if Uranus was going to join too. For over 5 years no one joined from Uranus, because of mourning and all the chaos going on the blue planet. Even she hadn't seen them for years. Neptune was known as the closest planet to Uranus, they had so many unions together. But, for the last few years…

Neptune turned over and watched purple bubbles flying around her. She felt cold on her naked skin; she sank her body in water more. She thought about the last day she saw blonde princess visiting her own planet.

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"Do we really need to go that pool?" blonde asked hesitating.

Young Neptune giggled.

"Don't worry I warned them to not make you fall again."

They walked along the gardens of Neptune kingdom. They all had little pools with lovely water lilies. Uranus started to breath deeply when she saw the pool of mermaids. It was the largest pool in the kingdom and surely deepest. Neptune stopped her, then she stepped near the pool and leaned on the calm water surface.

"Girls… Come up and meet with my guest."

Water began to fill with little bubbles, soon a few shiny head appeared in the pool. Many women came and swam closer to them, they all had naughty and curious looking eyes. A black long haired one leaned her arms to the edge of the pool and smiled derisively to the guest.

"Hi dear, have you liked our planet?"

"Oh, what a classic start Fabriene." The brown haired started, she looked at Uranus with charming blue eyes. "Welcome to Neptune, little visitor."

They all giggled then. Neptune coughed warningly and gave a suspicious look at them.

"Didn't you promise me something?"

"Oh, sorry princess." Third one said shyly, she turned to Uranus and spoke with a gentle voice. "We like visitors, but not outers come to visit us. Please forgive my sisters' rudeness Princess."

Uranus looked at her; she had short green hair, just like Neptune had. But hers were not looking natural as her Princess. She smiled the mermaid a bit, still looking uneasy.

"How confident you are with that kid, Princess." A deep voice reached them.

A beautiful mermaid was sitting on the rock near the pool. She had long, bright orange hair. She looked at Neptune, and then her eyes moved to Uranus. Girl held her breath, that must been Gabriela, the mermaid Neptune liked most. Neptune smiled to her happily.

"Why don't you come and meet with Uranus, Gabriela?"

Mermaid looked at them.

"Why doesn't she come and meet with me?"

Neptune gasped, she opened her eyes with anger. Why was she so rude today? But Uranus passed her, she began to walk around the pool to the mermaid resting on rock. She stopped in front of her and looked with her confident green eyes. Gabriela eyed 12-year-old girl from head to toe.

"What's your name kid?"

Uranus raised her head up.

"I'm Princess Uranus of the Uranus Royal Family." She looked at woman "Who are you?"

Mermaid raised one eyebrow to girl's question. She threw her orange shinning hair back.

"I'm the Gabriela of Neptune." She answered with an unconcern look. "But you don't even look like a Princess. Uranian people are known with their speed and passion for skies. And you certainly don't look like an Uranian."

"Gabriela!!" Neptune hurried to them. "What have I told you!!!"

Mermaid looked bored, Princess Neptune had ordered them to be kind and polite to Uranus. Her father was sick and her mother was not well. She was depressed a bit, at her last visit to blonde's planet. She wanted to cheer her up, but mermaid was being cruel to her.

"I bet you can't even ride a dolphin, or a chemyre."

Uranus knew what a chemyre was, it was a fish with huge wing-like fins. Neptune had told that it could fly like pegasuses in Uranus. Before Neptune could say anything, Uranus talked.

"I can ride a chemyre. More better than you."

Gabriela lifted up her tail, yellow, green lights shined on it. She smiled slyly.

"We'll see…"

after a while...

Neptune hurried to her wet friend, with some maids following her.

"Uranus!! Are you all right? Were you hurt?"

Girl smiled tiredly to wavy haired one.

"It's ok Nep."

Uranus turned back and looked at the blonde mermaid, who was still holding her.

"Thank you for saving me." She smiled. "Gabriela of Neptune."

Mermaid smiled to them, mostly the princess under a blanket-like towel.

"Just keep smiling, Sky King."

Uranus blushed. When they were leaving mermaids' pool, Neptune stayed behind. She turned to her favorite mermaid.

"Why did you do that?"

"To keep her mind busy."

"Busy?"

Gabriela sighed.

"From the things you told me Neptune, I understood that she was a typical Uranian. Stubborn, ambitious and arrogant... She was born to take challenges to prove her perfection. That's what I did; took her as a kid and give her the chance to prove I'm wrong."

Neptune looked confused, she shook her head.

"You're strange Gabriela." She stood there for a while. "But why did you call her as Sky King?"

Mermaid smiled mysteriously.

"That's what she really is, my little princess." She said and dived into the deep blue pool.

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Neptune wore a light lilac colored dress, decorated with a few green gems and with tulles floating every move of her. She looked herself in the mirror; her wet hair was looking darker than the usual color of it. She put on a ribbon and made a loose bun with it. Some wavy tresses were falling on her naked shoulders; she smiled at the image of the girl looking at her. With a knock she turned her attention to door.

"Your highness, King and Queen are waiting for you at the crown hall."

Neptune nodded; she gave one more glance to herself. As she walked through the glass floor, she wondered why she was called. She looked at the fishes swimming under her; this was the prettiest thing she loved in the palace. It was just like buried into ocean; they didn't have long towers like Uranus Kingdom had. So, instead, they had glass floors and a palace built on ocean… Breathtaking craftsmanship greeted her as delicately carved doors opened for her, Queen and King were sitting on their thrones. Queen smiled slightly to her, she had a deep blue shaded gown. Her long straight hair was shining with ice blue gleams. King of Neptune looked confident and straight as always he was. His crown was placed carefully on his pale brown hair. His eyes moved to his left while her girl was approaching them. Princess lifted her dress and made an elegant bow to her parents.

"Your Majesty?"

"We have a visitor Neptune." her mother showed a fine dressed gentleman. "Prince Venedor of Saturn."

Young man walked to her and held princess's hand gently.

"You look splendid as always dear Princess." he said kindly and kissed her hand. "How are you today Princess Neptune?"

Neptune smiled slightly, a polite one. Just like she was used to do it everytime.

"Thank you Prince Venedor, I'm fine. You are also as nice as usual."

Queen and King smiled each other pleasantly; they let young couple go. Prince walked along the gardens of palace with princess. They passed over a bridge, there was a huge lake with lots of lotus flowers floating on surface.

"Princess," Venedor started. "You are going to the ball on moon, aren't you?"

"We had received an invitation a few days ago. I think I'll go in place of Queen and King, Prince Venedor." She answered politely.

Young prince sighed then stopped to start his speech.

"Princess Neptune, Ocean Princess. Your beauty and charm is been talked in all kingdoms. You'll surely shine like a pearl at the ball hall. But, I'd be the happiest man in the galaxy, if you let me accompany to you."

Princess looked at the handsome Prince, she thought about it for a minute. Queen and King was happy to see them together, always. She raised her head to sky and saw a blue sparkle. It was the planet Uranus, vision of a blonde girl appeared in front of her eyes. She wondered if she was going to come too. Then she turned her head to Prince, she smiled to him.

"It will be a pleasure Prince Venedor." She let him to kiss her hand.

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Note: Hmmm… Nothing is going on yet, and i know it's quite cliché to have Michiru coupled with a guy before falling in Haruka's arms... But well, after a while this story will get more interesting.