Around the same time Hotaru was taking care of Ami, Setsuna had assigned herself to take care of Minako, a task she thought would be easy. She showed up to Minako's place in a black sweater, tan pants, black heels, and a white lab-coat, looking very much like a modern doctor. She knocked politely on the door.

"I got it!" Minako announced, running over to the door and opening it. "Setsuna-san! What are you doing here?" She asked.

"We all heard you girls weren't feeling very well, so we decided to take it upon ourselves to be your personal nurses for the day, is that alright?" Setsuna explained. Minako nodded.

"Sure, sure, come in! Mom and Dad are out right now, so it's just me. Mom took my tempeture before she left and said I had a fever, so watch out for that!" She winked at Setsuna.

"You seem awfully smiley for being sick." Setsuna teased, and Minako coughed with a small blush appearing on her face. She jumped back into her bed and awaited Setsuna. "So, did you need anything?" She asked, looking over Minako. Her flushed cheeks showed signs of her fever, and her hair was down with no bow in it. Her pajamas were striped blue and white with big buttons going down the front.

"Water! All I want is water!" Minako yelled, laying down on her pillow. By her bedside was an orange basin that was empty, although Setsuna assumed it wouldn't remain that way for long.

"Are you sure you'll be able to keep it down?" Setsuna asked nervously, and Minako nodded.

"Of course I can! If one is sick with a stomach bug, one must sip water slowly! And that's what I'll do!" Minako reassured her. Setsuna shrugged and went into the kitchen and poured some ice water into a blue glass. She gave it to Minako, who sat up and took small sips of it every few seconds. She managed to drain half of the glass and put it on her nightstand beside her basin. She laid back down, but had trouble falling asleep.

"How high is your fever?" Setsuna asked, placing her hand on Minako's forehead.

"Not very high." She responded weakly. Setsuna took her hand away.

"You're certainly warm, and I can see your flushed face, but other than that, you seem fine. Your fever should go down by itself in a few hours, or at the very latest by the end of this day."

Minako sipped a few more drinks of her water, then put the cup back. "I've been puking all day today and I feel so dehydrated. I need to replace my fluids!" She explained.

"Dehydrated?" Setsuna wondered. "In any case, if you can keep your fluids down, replacing them is a good thing to do."

Minako suddenly sat up and dissolved into a violent coughing fit. Setsuna looked at her in alarm. Minako grabbed her orange basin and puked water into it with a greenish tint from her bile. Afterwards she put it back and laid down with a groan. Setsuna gave her a look.

"You can't keep water down?" She asked.

"No, and it sucks! I need water, but can't keep it down! Even if I sip the tiniest bit, I chuck it back up with some bile mixed in!" Minako complained. She gestured over to the basin.

"Then perhaps you should focus more on resting and clearing everything out of your system before you try replacing it." Setsuna suggested, her irritability starting to show. Minako shrugged and sipped more water.

"You said all four of you guys were doing this. Who is everybody else assigned to?" Minako asked nicely. Setsuna sat on the foot of her bed.

"Well, Hotaru is in charge of Ami-san, Michiru is in charge of both Makoto-san and Rei-san, who are currently staying at Rei-san's place, so luckily she doesn't have to move back and forth, and Haruka has both Usagi-san and Chibiusa-chan." She listed.

"I wonder how they're doing?"

"I'm sure they're handling it fine. The only one I have concerns about is Haruka, who can't cook to save her life and can get rather impatient, but surely she'll be fine. After all, they're likely too sick to eat and will most likely sleep all day!" Setsuna giggled and Minako giggled with her.

"Why'd you choose me?"

"Because I thought my maturity and calmness was something a hyper and energetic person like you needed while they were sick. You need someone patient to deal with your many complaints."

"I would hardly call them complaints." Minako shrugged. "This reminds me of something that happened about two years or so ago."

"Really? Do tell me about it." Setsuna smiled a bit.

"Well, it was back when we were fighting the Black Moon Clan. One of their associates created a really bad influenza and infected the whole city with it! Everyone got sick with it except for me and Chibiusa-chan, so I took it upon myself to take care of everyone!" She winked.

"And how did that go?" Setsuna asked.

"According to them, not very well. After all these years, I agree with them. My heart was in the right place, but I didn't execute my idea very well! I should've just left them all alone to get some rest." She sighed.

"At least you showed them how much you care about them! That's all that should matter."

"You're right. All this time though, I never anticipated it would happen again, and I would end up getting sick too!"

"Do you think this is also done by the enemy?"

"No, since only us are sick. Mom and Dad are fine, and clearly so are you four. Like I said, this was the whole city who was sick, instead of just a few people. They would have to know our identities, and they obviously don't!" Minako giggled weakly. She grabbed the basin and hurled into it again, then put it back up. She handed her empty cup to Setsuna. "Can I have a refill, please?"

"No, you can't keep it down!" Setsuna shook her head at her.

"I have to restore my fluids!" Minako insisted.

"Not until you can hold them down!"

"I can't get sicker because of dehydration sickness!"

"That's not a thing!"

"Yes it is! Just ask Ami-chan's mom!"

"Whatever! I'll give you more water, just don't complain when you can't hold it down." Setsuna grumbled and filled the cup up again and handed it to Minako, who sipped it gently and set it back on her nightstand. She curled up in her blankets and instantly fell asleep, so Setsuna started to explore Minako's apartment.

There wasn't much to look at, since Minako was middle-class but clearly didn't have parents who wanted to spend a lot of money. The kitchen had a kitchen table and chairs in a corner of it, and a lot of the counters had seen better days. The floor was kept in pretty good shape though. The living room had a flat-screen TV in it, along with a dozen rainbow-colored lamps positioned on various tables. A small computer on a desk was positioned off to the side, and Setsuna turned it on to find it amazingly worked, despite its aged appearance. She turned it back off and checked back on Minako, who was still asleep.

She felt bad already for snooping around, so decided against looking in her parents' bedroom and their bathroom, and instead started watching very quiet TV in the living room. After nearly an hour, she heard the sound of painful puking coming from Minako's room and figured her to be awake again. She quickly ran in there and found Minako about to get out of bed, holding her basin in front of her.

"I was just going to rinse this out...unless you want to do it instead?" Minako held it out to Setsuna and she took it.

"Get back in bed, you need a lot of rest. Probably way more rest than the other girls do." She wouldn't leave until Minako got back in bed and wrapped herself up in her blankets again. She took the basin into the bathroom and dumped the mess down the toilet and flushed it, then rinsed it out in the bathroom sink. She briefly considered pouring some soap in it to make it smell nice for Minako, but decided against it when she realized Minako would just make it smell bad with her vomit again.

She was walking back to Minako's room when Minako suddenly ran past her, partially dressed and in a clear hurry. "Wait, where do you think you're going? You need to stay in bed and rest!" She demanded.

"An enemy was spotted in town! I just got a message from Rei-chan about it! I gotta go help them!" Minako explained in a rush. She was about to take off again when Setsuna lightly tugged on her hair.

"No way, Senshi business or not, you're sick, and you're staying in bed! Let the healthy Outer Senshi deal with this." Setsuna pulled out her pen, but Minako did as well.

"We're all Sailor Senshi, so we're all in this together! I won't sit around and let my friends fight! Do you think Usagi-chan is going to sit this battle out? If she's not, why should I?"

"Sometimes your leadership quality can get overbearing..." Setsuna laughed, making Minako laugh along weakly. "Alright, you can come, but if you start to feel bad again, don't push yourself. Your health is important, and when you have ten of us to spare, you should've have to push yourself."

"Understood! Now let's go defeat some evil!" Minako grinned again.

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They were the second group of Senshi to arrive, after Neptune with Mars and Jupiter.

"Pluto! You should've convinced her to stay at home! She's too sick to be out!" Neptune snapped. She felt Venus' forehead. "You still have a fever! Go home this instant!"

"I'm fine, damn it! I tell you, I'm fine!" Venus glared at her before exploding into a coughing fit.

"Yeah, we're all healthy enough to fight!" Jupiter insisted before leaning against a pole and splashing green bile vomit all over it. She struggled to catch her breath.

Uranus showed up with both Eternal Sailor Moon and Super Sailor Chibi-Moon in tow.

"They insisted to come with me." She explained to an upset-looking Neptune.

"Good job, Sailor Moon! Don't let them force you into bed!" Venus winked.

"You could've phrased that a better way..." Mars noticed.

"Quiet, they're at work!" Pluto demanded, and all the girls got behind the bushes and watched silently as Sailor Lead Crow demanded to see a woman's Star Seed.

"Such a famous nurse who helps sick people must have a true Star Seed! It only makes sense, since you shine brightly!" Sailor Lead Crow smiled.

"I have no idea what you're talking about! Just leave me alone!" The woman demanded.

"I'm afraid I can't do that!" Sailor Lead Crow fired a blast from her bracelets and hit the woman with them, making her scream as her Star Seed popped out of her forehead. "Surely it'll be a good one!"

Saturn and Mercury showed up last, looking the healthiest out of everyone else.

"Mercury! You're here too!" Venus said in shock.

"Why didn't anyone listen to us when I said to stay in bed? You six are way too unhealthy to be fighting!" Neptune demanded.

"We feel just fine! Right?" Jupiter asked, looking over at Mercury with a smile. Mercury simply spun around and puked, shocking Saturn.

"We can handle this, with or without Mercury!" Venus announced. Jupiter and Mars jumped out of the bushes to confront Sailor Lead Crow and do their poses.

"Too late, you have my monster to deal with now! She didn't have a real Star Seed, which means she'll turn into a monster." Her phone-booth appeared and she got in it with a grin. "Also, you guys should try investing in a shower. You reek of puke!" She laughed and vanished.

The woman turned into Sailor Nurse.

"I feel like I'm getting a familiar feeling, like I did something like this before..." Venus wondered, making Pluto look over at her.

"That fight with the Black Moon Clan! Just do what you did there!" Pluto encouraged her, and Venus nodded. Before she could do her attack, however, she and Mars were tied up by the monster's stethoscope and were tightly squeezed in it. They both screamed in pain.

"Deep Submerge!" Neptune launched her attack at Sailor Nurse, knocking her back and breaking her hold on Mars and Venus. The two girls quickly jumped up, happy to be freed.

"Time to check your reflexes!" Sailor Nurse formed a giant hammer and aimed it at Mercury, who barely noticed due to her coughing fit. Saturn jumped in at the last second and pushed her out of the hammer's path, making it hit the ground and vanish. "Time to take your medicine!" She flicked her wrist and several types of pills flew out in different directions, aimed at various Senshi. Eternal Sailor Moon simply screamed and ran away from her pills.

"Mars! Flame Sniper!" Mars fired her attack at the pills, making them melt. Her attack took a lot of her energy out, so she swooned and had to lean on a pole to recover it.

"My turn! Venus! Love and Beauty Shock!" Venus fired her own attack at the monster, making her fall to the ground. Her pills hit the ground with her. "Now, Sailor Moon!"

"Alright!" Eternal Sailor Moon pulled out her wand. "Silver Moon! Crystal Power Kiss!" She fired it at the monster, who got swallowed up by its light.

"Beautiful!" She screamed and transformed back into a regular woman, passing out and letting her Star Seed return back into her head.

"I think we did alright for being sick!" Mars bragged, flipping her hair.

"Only because we were here! If not for us, you guys would be dead!" Uranus shot back.

"But now we have to go back home and continue to take care of you guys more..." Pluto sighed, making Venus glare at her.

"Excuse me, I am an amazing patient!" She protested.

"You are right, you are...when you're not asking for things you can't hold down." A small smile appeared on her lips, and Venus glared at her more.

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Unlike Ami, the second Minako got home, she insisted her fever had gotten higher, and when Setsuna checked it, she confirmed it had.

"It's what you get for fighting while you're sick!" She scolded.

"It's what a leader does! She does anything that's possible to save both her team and her world!" Minako protested with a smile on her face.

"There's that leader in you talking again." Minako's half-empty cup was still sitting on her nightstand, seemingly forgotten. Setsuna was glad it was. "Do you know when your parents will be back?"

"They said something about a movie and dinner date, so they should be home in a few hours. I can take care of myself in that time, if that's what you're worried about." Minako curled up in her blankets as if to prove her point.

"Yes, sadly, I have to get home to my own family and see how their days as nurses went. Even though you're not a very good patient, you still gave me an interesting time as your nurse." Setsuna smiled at her. "Promise me you won't replenish your fluids until you can keep them down, alright?"

"I promise!" Minako smiled weakly, then fell asleep. Setsuna turned her light off and hurried back to her own place, finding the other three already there.

Later on Minako's own parents came home, her mother checking on her. "Oh, she's already asleep. Good, it'll help her recover quicker. Her face is still flushed, so she still has her stupid fever. Let's hope she recovers quickly though, she's such a pain when she's here."Her mother rolled her eyes and turned Minako's light off again and left the room, leaving Minako alone to sleep.

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"And that was my day over at Minako-san's." Setsuna finished.

"That wasn't as bad as you made it out to be, Setsuna-mama!" Hotaru decided.

"Yeah, but nothing could compete to the day I had yesterday." Michiru insisted before coughing.

"Really? Then maybe we should hear that story too!" Hotaru smiled at her, making Michiru sigh.

"Fine. As you know, I was in charge of two girls, Rei-san and Makoto-san. Basically total opposites except when it comes to their temper. Who knew someone so sick could show such a bad temper?" Michiru's story, however, must wait for another day...