The Red Side of a Blue Moon

~Noy Telinú~

Warning: this fanfic is odd. Mighty odd.

Caution: this next part might be emotional. I don't know for sure, cuz I'm the Text.

Fusion: fall is a game that Noy hasn't played but it's stuck in all of our heads.

Reviews: I like the 10 star system, actually. Spica75, k thanks. luger 7, PARTY! Aceina, noy is actually on an anti drug, anime. ^_^

Thanks!: to tuatara. Tuatara really, REALLY wanted this fic posted. And edits it too…

You have been warned…

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Chapter 2: Protecting sisters in daylight…

The next morning, Akane's best friends popped their question.

"So…" Yuka got the short stick. "Hear about Sailor Moon?"

Akane's eyes shot open as she was trying to get some sleep before class. "Wh-h-hat?"

Yuka smiled. "Hear about Sailor Moon?"

'Shoot, I forgot, they were the ones in the ice cream shop… Act casual…' Akane broke out into a grin. "Who's she? Is she like Sailor V? TELL ME!"

Yuka smirked. 'A quarter of a second hesitation… Got you.'

Sayuri smiled. "I don't know… She defeated a spoon demon-"

"Bandicoot!" Akane blurted, quickly covering her mouth.

Her friends gave her a knowing look.

"NoOooo… it wasn't me… I…" Akane twiddled her fingers.

They continued to give her the look.

Akane looked around and saw that they were alone. "Fine… you got me… Imma magic girl!"

Sayuri rubbed her temples. "Akane, this is even crazier than the time you wanted us to join you in a mystery team to solve mysteries..."

"Yeah, you even stole a van..." Yuka added.

"And a dog..." Sayuri counted off her fingers.

Akane slammed her fist. "I didn't steal that dog! It offered to help once I fed it Big Sister's cooking!"

"Or last month, when you wanted to be a vet..." Sayuri counted off another finger.

Akane grumbled. "That's different! I said I was sorry! Jeez!"

Yuka stroked her chin. "Are you a real one? Or…"

Akane nodded.

Yuka crossed her arms. "Pics or it didn't happen."

Akane growled. "I saved your lives from a spoon bandicoot Youma!"

Yuka shrugged and stared at the door of the classroom. "Well, yeah, but regular Akane could do that…"

Akane looked away and growled, mumbling something.

"She has a point, though…" Sayuri agreed with Yuka. "We would believe that you could do it with your martial arts moves…"

Akane sighed. "No, that only made it lose spoons."

The blue-haired girl with the hime cut's friends looked at each other.

Akane took a deep breath and looked around the room again to see that they were still alone. "You see this brooch?"

Her friends nodded.

"It allows me to transform… It takes forever and the skirt is very short…" Akane explained quietly.

"Show us." Yuka smiled.

Akane was about to answer when the students started coming in. "Later… Come to my house after school… You'll see me in action."

Both of Akane's friends nodded.

A random girl wearing as much black as she could in a school uniform rolled her eyes while chewing gum. "Seriously, why are you three losers always here so early?"

Akane smirked. "Because we're better than you…"

The goth girl shrugged and went away.

Ami then walked into the room, head in a book. "Good to see you awake, Sis. Good morning, Sayuri, Yuka."

Yuka chuckled. "Good morning, Belle-chan… Heard about Sailor Moon?"

Ami's book closed dramatically as the short-haired girl sighed and pinched her nose. "Akane…"

Sayuri giggled. "We figured it out on our own…"

The teacher then came in. "Class, get to your seats… You only have five minutes."

The class groaned but relented.

Ami looked right at her twin. "Be careful…"

With that, Ami walked towards her class… a class of one… in the library… with a private teacher… who Ami was teaching instead of the other way around…

Akane sighed and got ready for class.

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Akane popped her head around the corner as she followed her twin to her cram school.

Yuka and then Sayuri popped their heads around the corner as well.

Yuka whispered to her friends, "What are we doing?"

"And why did you bring your cat?" Sayuri added softly.

Akane rolled her eyes. "Honestly! Magic girl, cat, think!"

Akane's friends closed their eyes and took a deep breath.

Luna, who was on Akane's shoulder, settled for bowing her head and closing her eyes, head hurting too much to stand being hit again.

"Akane…" Yuka started.

"Come on!" Akane moved up to the pole on the sidewalk, hiding behind it… somehow.

Her two normal brown-haired friends shrugged and followed Akane.

"Alright, Luna…" Akane whispered, "Do you know any way to sneak into Ami's cram school?"

Luna just gave her a 'really?' look.

"… Why did I bring you then?" Akane mumbled. "Yuka?"

Yuka shrugged.

"Sayuri?" Akane bit her lip.

"I didn't even know there WAS a cram school here…" Sayuri answered.

Akane darted her eyes all over the building in front of them, her mind racing. "Hey… Luna, do you have anything to help us get in there?"

Luna turned to stare at Akane's friends for a moment, thinking it over.

"Look, they know because of YOUR MAGIC… so…" Akane grew impatient.

Luna was going to answer when there was an explosion nearby.

Akane blinked. "I KNEW they were evil! Cover me!"

{Moon Prism Power} Akane whispered and transformed.

Giant question marks appeared above Yuka and Sayuri, but they ended up being in the way of anyone who might look at Akane transforming.

Yuka stuck her hand out to Sayuri, who in turned grumbled and paid tree fiddy to Yuka.

Akane didn't seem to notice. "Come, Luna!"

Luna sighed and followed Akane… not that she had much of a choice, being on her shoulder and all. "Why were you coming here anyway? Didn't you agree-"

Akane cut her off. "Yeah, I said I'd wait a day, YESTERDAY… Besides, I have a twin to save heroically!"

Yuka and Sayuri followed to a safe distance outside the building and pulled out a bag of popcorn.

"At least we're not in the middle of it this time," Sayuri sighed in relief.

"I'm glad too… I think I'll spend my money on ice cream…" Yuka smiled.

Sayuri threw her arms into the air. "How was I supposed to know that it happened instantaneously? Akane said it took forever…"

Yuka shrugged. "I watched enough magic girl shows to know it's subjective. Speaking of which… 442 yen that Ami is a magic girl too…"

"No way! I'm not falling for that again…" Sayuri crossed her arms. "Wait, why 442?"

Yuka blushed. "There's a special at… well... I only need that much… And you're my friend, so…"

"Does this have to do with the bribe that Michiru gave you to not tell Akane that Haruka is a girl?" Sayuri raised an eyebrow.

Yuka looked away. "… Ma-a-aybe…"

"You could have asked for more. I got a CD of one of Michiru's performances." Sayuri looked smug.

"Yeah, yeah…" Yuka sighed. "I just love that show, you know?"

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Akane dramaticaly opened the door to the room where Ami was… except that it wasn't Ami's room.

The empty classroom mocked her with cricket noises.

Akane slumped and closed the door. "Where is she?"

Luna shrugged. "Use your mask."

"Speaking of that, can I change it to something better?" Akane asked.

Luna sweatdropped. "Later… Press the button on the right…"

Akane did as her cat advised and saw, through her mask, Ami.

In her vision, Ami was hiding behind a flipped table. Screams could be heard and there were things being thrown randomly. The table was grabbed by a monstrous-looking humanoid computer thing. Lastly, Ami had the symbol of Mercury on her head…

"Great, she's in trouble… At least her glowing forehead makes it easier to find her…" Akane started running down the hall, her twin senses tingling.

Luna almost fell off Akane's shoulder in shock. "Akane… did you say her forehead glowed?"

Akane rolled her eyes. "Now's not the time… It does that when she's in trouble or stressed. It happened only twice before, I think… Why?"

Luna breathed slowly. "What symbol was it?"

Akane grumbled. "How should I know? It's like the female symbol but mad. Why, is it… no… NO!"

Luna panicked as Akane's anger grew.

*SMASH* Akane kicked down the door to Ami's room.

"Die, evil monster!" Akane launched herself at the Youma, Luna jumping off Akane's shoulder.

"Ami!" Luna got over to Ami, noticing that everyone else seemed drained. "What happened?

Ami explained calmly. "The computer I used exploded. It caused a chain reaction, leading to the detonation of the bomb that was here, for some reason. I hid here and the monster almost got me when you arrived. Now, why are you staring at my forehead?"

Luna sighed and did a backflip. "You're Sailor Mercury. Say {Mercury Prism Power} and help your twin… I'm going to lie down and take a much needed nap…"

Ami took the pen with the star on it and frowned. "I have a very bad feeling about this…"

Nearby, Akane was screaming. "STUPID YOUMA! ALL BECAUSE OF YOU, I'M NOT SPECIAL ANYMORE! JUST LEAVE AMI ALONE! LEAVE HER ALONE!"

Ami sighed as she heard that. "She is not taking it well… as I feared. Alright… {Mercury Prism Power!}"

Ami transformed and looked over the table to see Akane jumping up and down on the knocked-over Youma, screaming.

"SHE'S ALREADY BETTER THAN ME IN EVERYTHING! WHY'D YOU DO THIS, HUH? WHY?" Akane had a battle aura of glowing red. "WHY DID YOU PICK ON HER SO MUCH THAT I WOULD COME AND, AND… ARGGGGGH!"

Ami blinked in surprise. 'Better than her in everything… Oh, boy… this is worse than I thought…'

Akane was so distracted at smashing the head that she didn't notice the Youma's foot come up…

*Kick* The Youma kicked Akane in the back.

*THUD* Akane was thrown headfirst into the wall, spiraling her into unconsciousness.

"Stupid girl…" the Youma spoke slowly, struggling to get on her feet.

This caused Luna to wake up and see what happened. "Oh no… Mercury! Use Mercury Bubble Blast!"

"Mercury Bubble Blast!" Ami shouted as the room began to fog up in bubbles. 'That felt very awkward for some reason… No matter, 'Kane needs me.'

Ami got over to Akane and started treating her wounds. Fortunately, Ami's bag was right next to her.

"Fools! This can't hide you forever!" the Youma yelled, still stumbling to get up. (A broken head will do that.)

Luna got to the both of them and fretted. 'Why did I have to go to sleep? Why did I feel so confident that I could go to sleep? Why did I do that?'

"Luna." Mecury looked at the cat. "Is there anything in that backflip space of yours that can help us?"

Luna sweated. "I don't know… I… Wait…"

The cat backflipped, producing a laptop with the Mercury symbol on it.

"Here, the Mercury Computer. I don't remember much about it, but it's yours," Luna explained.

Ami picked it up and opened it. After a few seconds, Ami grabbed her bag and gave it to Luna. "Get the smelling salts and open the cherry poptart. That will wake her up."

Luna nodded, determined to fix this situation. "And you?"

Ami stood up and narrowed her eyes. "Distraction…"

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The Youma finally got back onto its feet, head buzzing and ears blaring. It stumbled a bit, but braced itself against the wall. The Youma still wasn't feeling right and couldn't see a thing. Not that the bubbles helped in that regard.

"Come out, you coward!" the Youma dared.

Not helping matters was the fact that its ears were shattered and barely worked at all. The only way it was still of any use was that it could feel. The tremors of footsteps were irritating.

'That girl is up and about again…' the Youma snarled to itself. "Come out!"

The Youma heard a voice coming from its right. Being mostly deaf, it couldn't make it out.

"Hey! Over here!" Ami shouted, trying to distract the Youma.

The bubbles finally dispersed, not that it made much of a difference to the Youma.

*Wham* A computer hit the Youma upside the head, toppling it over.

Ami was smiling on how she was doing so far and continued to try and figure out how to use the Mercury Computer.

"HAHAHAHA!" the Youma laughed. "Foolish girl, you gave me what I need to regain my senses!"

Ami facepalmed at her mistake as the Youma merged with the computer, once again able to see and hear.

"You look different than last time… No matter, Computi-chan will destroy you!" The Youma smirked.

Ami frowned. "Mecury Bubble Blast!"

"NOT AGAIN!" the Youma screamed in agony as it couldn't see… yet again.

Ami got a chair and threw THAT at the Youma.

"OW! You! YOU! Where are you, GIRL?" The Youma started punching the air.

'The head is a weak spot, technology is its strength, and I just helped it… Great going, Ami…' the short-haired girl sighed as she thought up a plan.

By this time, Luna opened the cherry poptart. She didn't know HOW this would work, but that's what Ami told her told her to do.

"Mmm… food…" Akane's eyes blinked open as she stared at a poptart being held by a cat.

"Good, you're awake…" Luna sighed in relief.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are…" The Youma sneered.

Akane sat up and rubbed her head as she watched the Youma wander around aimlessly.

That's when the blue-haired girl and her cat saw the OTHER blue-haired girl with a chain of bookbags sneaking around the Youma.

'What the?' Akane shook her head and stood up, temples throbbing. 'Sis is a magic girl too… Why isn't she dusting this thing? Maybe if I prove to be a BETTER magic girl… YES! I WILL BE SPECIAL!'

Akane grabbed her tiara as her face showed her glee.

*THUMP!* That's when Ami used the bags to tie up and trip the Youma's legs.

Ami turned to see if Akane was alright and saw her twin ready to attack. Ami had the common sense to get out of the way.

"Moon Tiara ACTION!" Akane threw her tiara and it glowed into a disk, hitting the Youma, turning it into dust with a scream.

Akane smirked and took a step forward when suddenly she fell.

Ami caught her twin right before she hit the floor.

Luna came up to them, fear evident on her face. "Mercury…"

Ami sighed and started dragging her twin out of the building. "She's alright… just… out of it again…"

"But… how?" Luna wondered aloud as she followed them.

Ami smiled. "Sugar can awake her temporarily after a head injury… It was a risk I had to take…"

Luna nodded. "Is she alright?"

"She had worse before. She should be fine. Could you get my bag?" Ami asked.

"Huh, sure…" Luna went back and retrieved Ami's bag.

"Luna… how do I get out of this?"

The black cat sweated.

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Five minutes later, Ami dragged her twin out of the building, both back to their normal selves… and filthy.

Sayuri and Yuka found picnic chairs… somehow… and were sitting in them, finishing off their popcorn when they saw the twins exit the building followed by a black cat named Luna.

Immediately, Yuka and Sayuri dropped their popcorn and ran to go help.

"What happened?" Sayuri asked.

Ami caught her breath and answered… in a way. "I'll tell both of you AFTER Akane is cared for."

Sayuri and Yuka nodded.

"Good…" Ami rotated her shoulders to bring relief to them. "Tofu-sensei is close by. Let's hurry, my twin sister is experiencing head trauma."

Yuka glanced at Luna as she and Sayuri helped drag Akane. "Alright, cat, how bad is it?"

Luna didn't answer, but she looked away.

Ami pinched her nose. "Akane… you can't keep doing this…"

Sayuri released a giggle. "We already know about 'the secret' and Akane felt that her cat could help. And going by what she said, you're a magic cat, aren't you?"

Luna shut her eyes tightly in frustration.

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"Hm? Ami? What brings you-" Chiropractor and practitioner of alternate medicine Dr. Tofu Ono put down his clipboard as he saw Akane being dragged in by her friends, unconscious.

After they got her lying down, Ami explained what she could. "Akane was hit in the head during the explosion that occurred at my cram school. It was enough to knock her out. She awoke briefly before succumbing to unconsciousness again."

"So that's what that sound was…" Dr. Tofu mused. "I'll get her treated immediately."

The three humans and one cat watched Dr. Tofu take care of Akane.

Yuka fidgeted and poked Ami's shoulder, motioning her out of the room.

Ami took one last look at her sister and left the room with Sayuri and Yuka, confident in the doctor's abilities.

"We want answers." Yuka crossed her arms over her chest. "And HE needs to know as well…"

Ami sighed and looked around the room to see that it was clear. "There was a Youma… It caused the explosion. 'Kane was able to destroy it."

Yuka and Sayuri looked at each other and nodded.

"So… are you a magic girl too?" Yuka asked, twiddling her fingers.

Ami decided to be truthful; Sayuri and Yuka were known to be very observant, after all. "Yes. Yes, I am."

"Told you I wasn't stupid enough to take that bet…" Sayuri smirked at Yuka.

Ami rolled her eyes. "Don't let the whole school know. I'm serious. These Youma are from another world or dimension… Something like that. Our lives will be in danger…"

Yuka blinked and shrugged. "So, in other news, you two have blue hair. Things are ALWAYS in danger when your sister is around."

Ami bit her lip. "You don't understand. We are most likely in very, very far over our heads. I have a very bad feeling that this could end up being a war."

"Phshhh…" Sayuri dismissed the tone. "I'd rather know about a dangerous war that my friends are in rather than being ignorant about it. But about the keeping it secret thing… we won't tell anyone."

"Good." Luna suddenly came into the room, not surprising anyone… much to the cat's surprise.

Yuka held out her hand to Sayuri. "Talking cat. Pay up."

Luna sweatdropped. "You two are taking this awfully well."

Yuka shrugged as Sayuri paid up. "This is Tokyo. Weird things happen here. But Nerima is the crazy place in Tokyo, so… we count on weirdness to show up."

Sayuri sighed. "Even though this is mostly a martial arts and crafts town…"

"You got that right." Yuka nodded. "So… talking cat… WHAT… is your name?"

Ami pinched her nose, eyes shut.

"My name is Luna," the cat answered.

Sayuri smiled. "WHAT… is your quest?"

Luna slowly answered. "That's classified…"

"Luna, just tell them…" Ami shook her head and went to check up on her sister.

Sayuri tapped her foot. "GoOo on…"

Luna sighed. "To find the Moon Princess…"

Yuka had an exclamation point pop over her head. "Moon… Akane is Sailor Moon… Hmm… what is Ami?"

"Sailor Mercury," Luna answered. "Is that all?"

Yuka was rubbing her chin in thought. "So, Luna… this magic girl thing… How does one become one?"

Luna was growing suspicious of the two girls in front of her. "It's something you're born with… Akane and Ami are reincarnations of Sailor Senshi. They are the avatars of each planet…"

Yuka and Sayuri laughed.

Luna growled. "Now what?"

Yuka waved her hand in dismissal. "Nothing… nothing… Just… Akane is the Moon's avatar, right?"

Luna nodded slowly. "Yes…"

Yuka was in deep thought. "So, why are you looking for this princess?"

Luna narrowed her eyes. "She is the Crown Princess of the Moon… She was sent forward in time to be reincarnated."

Sayuri tilted her head. "Reincarnated?"

Luna sighed. "Yes. It's a long story… but the Sailor Senshi were sent forward in time to be reincarnated while I've been frozen since then."

"Uh huh… So, Sailor Moon is a reincarnation…" Yuka started pacing.

Luna sweated. "Well… not really…"

Both girls stopped and stared at her. "What?" they asked in unison.

Luna sighed. "I don't remember a Sailor Moon… The Moon didn't have a Senshi back then. Then again, my memory is Swiss cheese at the moment."

Sayuri and Yuka looked at each other for a second, the former frowning.

"If there wasn't a Sailor Moon…" Sayuri started.

"Then she must be…" Yuka's eyes went wide.

"…" Luna was really sweating now.

Yuka bent down to Luna's level. "Bet you that Akane is the Moon Princess."

Luna shook her head. "What? Why would you think that?"

Sayuri agreed with Luna. "It IS a bit of a stretch…"

Yuka laughed uncontrollably. "Why would the leader of the Moon (whatever that is) NOT be its avatar if they DO have one?"

Sayuri tapped her lips. "Oh, that DOES make sense…"

Luna shook her head. "No, that can't be… Just… Wait… HOW are you so calm about a Moon Kingdom?"

Sayuri rolled her eyes. "We're more open to crazy things than other people… I would believe that there are humanoid aliens out there hellbent on killing the avatars for all the planets in the galaxy. It would fit in with everything else…"

Luna's eye twitched.

"Hold on… Was there a king or queen in charge?" Yuka asked.

'What kind of question is that?' Luna buried her head in her paws. "A queen… There wasn't a king…"

Yuka scratched her head. "Shouldn't it be 'Queendom'? Because it can't really be a 'Kingdom' without a king… really."

Luna cried out in anguish.

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Akane's mind was in turmoil.

'Ami's a magic girl… YoU'rE not Special-l-l-l-l-l…' Akane's thoughts depressed her.

'No! I have to be special! No!' Another thought flew by, determination flowing through her.

'Back to square one… as usual… We were never going to be special…' A thought came in, boringly depressed.

'Shut up, Eeyore!' Akane tried to gain control of her thoughts… and was failing.

'Sure, tell the donkey to shut up. Seriously, grow up! So what if we're not special? Move on with life, already!' a thought echoed within Akane's mind.

'Just SHUT UP!' Akane was yelling inside her head.

'No, YOU shut up!' a thought responded immediately.

'I'll KILL YOU!' Akane threatened the goat.

'You can't!' the thoughts taunted. 'We're a figment of your imagination!'

'YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!' Akane yelled, tears starting to flow down her real face.

'NoOoo, we don't…' her thoughts mocked and berated her.

'Shut up… Oh, shut up…' Akane was really getting miserable.

'Banana-nana oh, shut up!' her thoughts sang, 'Fee fi shut up!'

'Ami, she's crying…' A thought that sounded like someone she knew flowed through her mind.

'Great going, you're crying. Argh… Just wake up,' Akane's thoughts told her.

'Hello? 'Kane? Can you hear me?' Ami's voice echoed throughout her mind.

'I WILL find a way to be special… I… I'll be the best magic girl EVAR!' Akane growled.

That determination finally got Akane's eyes to open. Not that they could see much of anything, as the room was too bright and her tears blurred her vision.

"Akane? Can you hear me?" Dr. Tofu's voice resonated and Akane was able to see that it came from a shadow to her right.

The injured Tendo girl nodded. "Yes, Dr. Tofu…"

"'Kane… how are you feeling?" Ami asked from another shadow to Akane's left.

"Terrible." Akane turned her head sideways. "Let's just go home…"

Dr. Tofu sighed. "Akane, you took a blow to the head. I need you to take some tests…"

Akane hastily sat up, eyes now working properly. "I'm fine. I'm just depressed. Now, just give me the stupid tests so I can go to my room and cry!"

Ami looked away. 'I was afraid of this…'

"Fine…" Dr. Tofu rubbed his forehead. "Let's get started."

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Akane walked out of the clinic, arms crossed and eyes downcast. Behind her, Yuka and Sayuri followed… concern evident on their faces. Ami was last behind them, bookbag and Luna in her arms.

None of the girls could muster up enough courage to talk to Akane. Ami felt guilty even though she knew she shouldn't. Yuka, though having a hunch of something to make Akane feel better, couldn't figure out a way to say it and kicked herself over that. Sayuri wasn't nearly as sure of things as Yuka and was too afraid of being wrong and getting Akane's hopes up, so she stayed quiet as well. Luna didn't know what to say. She really, really didn't know what to say.

Therefore, they walked home in silence.

"Bye, Akane…" Yuka fidgeted. "Things will go better… I know it."

Akane didn't respond beyond stopping in her tracks and nodding.

Yuka spent a few more seconds standing there like an idiot before turning towards her home.

Two minutes later, Sayuri turned to leave as well. "Good luck, Akane…" was all she said.

The Tendo twins and their cat got home soon enough.

"'Kane… I…" Ami couldn't think of what to say.

Akane just walked to her room, head hung low.

*Slam!* went her door.

Ami sighed. "Great…"

Luna got off of Ami and looked around. "Where's…"

"Father is at a meeting…" Ami walked towards the kitchen. "Big Sister is with her girlfriend."

Ami started making dinner, Akane's favorite.

"Will she be alright?" Luna asked.

"She'll come around," Ami answered. "Just let her cry it out."

Luna nodded and walked away.

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"Akane?" Ami opened the door to her sister's room. "Dinner is ready."

The other twin was curled up in a fetal position.

"I don't feel like eating," Akane spoke in a quiet voice.

Ami sighed and sat on the bed next to her. "You need to eat…"

Akane curled up tighter. "I can eat tomorrow."

Ami shook her head. "You know I can't let you do that. I made your favorite."

"Really?" Akane turned her head towards her sister. "Why?"

"Because that is what sisters are for." Ami smiled.

Akane's head plopped down again. "Thanks… I guess…"

"There's no need," Ami dismissed with a wave of her hand. "I can't let my twin sister be sad, now can I?"

Akane sighed. "No… you're too smart for that. What about Luna?"

"What about her?"

"She should sleep in your room now." Akane curled up even tighter. "You take care of her better and now she has an excuse for being with you. Besides, you're competent…"

"'Kane, I won't let you beat yourself up over this…" Ami ran her hand down Akane's hair. "If it weren't for you, we'd be dead."

"Yeah, right." Akane narrowed her eyes.

"I'm serious. You destroyed the Youma, remember?" Ami reminded her.

Akane's eyebrows eased up. "I did, didn't I?"

Ami nodded. "Now, come. Eat. The food will get cold soon."

Akane unraveled and sat up. "I'll eat…"

"Good, good…" Ami helped her twin up. "You'll always be special to me. You know that, right?"

*Glomp* happened between the twin sisters.

Tears rolled down Akane's face.

The twins embraced for a few moments before heading downstairs to eat.

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The sun had set on the Tendo home. Everyone had gotten ready for bed.

Michiru sat down behind Akane on the youngest Tendo's bed. The older sister was brushing the younger one's hair slowly.

"Akane, Akane, Akane… you have to take better care of your hair, especially when it's this long." Michiru shook her head.

The youngest Tendo sighed. "I know, honorable oldest sister…"

"Why the sad face? You were ecstatic this morning… What happened?" Michiru asked.

"It's not sad… It's… thinking… Yeah…" Akane answered.

"Thinking, hmm?" Michiru smiled. "What are you thinking about?"

"Nothing…" Akane lied. "Nothing at all… Nothing at all…"

*Ping* A hair got caught.

"Ow!" Akane felt that one.

"Now, now, little sister, when has lying to me done you any good?" Michiru teased.

"Oh, alright…" Akane slumped, chin on her fists. "Ami's a magic girl too…"

"…" Michiru stopped momentarily before continuing. "Oh…"

"Yeah…" Akane blew a hair out of her face. "Oh…"

"Akane…" Michiru was cut off.

"No, I don't need pity. I'll figure this out, Big Sister…" Akane's eyes narrowed. "So what if my twin is a magic girl too? So what? I'll DO BETTER! I'LL BE THE BEST MAGIC GIRL EVER!"

Determination radiated from Akane like uranium.

"As long as you don't hurt yourself… I got a call from Dr. Tofu saying that you hurt yourself in an explosion." Michiru sighed. "It was a Youma… wasn't it?"

"… So?" Akane balled her fists. "I did it to save Ami… I had to kill it… I had to fight…"

"And I don't mind," Michiru stated. "Just don't hurt yourself. You're good enough to do that."

"Well, yeah…" Akane relaxed. "I'm at least better at fighting these things than Ami is. I'm the hammer, Ami's the brains… Even Luna complimented me on defeating it. But I need to get better…"

Michiru hugged Akane from behind. "Glad to see that you're feeling better. Now I don't have to get you ice cream…"

"NOoOoo!" Akane fell on her face. "I love ice cream… I can't resist ice cream… My existence is meaningless without ice cream!"

Michiru giggled and smothered Akane. "Just like every girl, little sister…"

Akane couldn't help but giggle as well. "So… this means the ice cream place is fixed."

"Yes." Michiru smiled. "Tell you what… if you defeat another Youma tomorrow, I'll take you for some ice cream…"

Akane smiled and glomped her sister. "Thank you…"

Michiru smiled mischievously. "Of course, I'll have to bring Haruka as well…"

Akane tried to frown, but she couldn't. "Meanie…"

Michiru laughed and tousled Akane's hair. "What if I make Haruka pay?"

"Deal!" Akane smiled.

Michiru rubbed Akane's back. "Oh, little sister, you're so cute…"

"I am!" Akane laughed. "I feel better now… Thanks…"

Her sister shrugged. "It's what I do."

Akane looked away. "I like you better as a sister than a mom…"

Michiru glomped Akane tighter. "I know… I could never replace her… And I like you better as a sister than a rabbit…"

Akane smiled. "I'm glad I'm not a rabbit… That would be embarrassing. Honestly, I'm glad that my name isn't Rabbit…"

Michiru smirked. "No, you are definitely not like a rabbit… More like a gorilla."

*Smack* Michiru's arm took 3 damage.

"That's for slapping me twice… and for the comment." Akane frowned.

Michiru rubbed her arm. "… I may have deserved that one…"

Akane nodded. "Mm hmm!"

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Author's notes: the weirdest thing about this is that I can't tell if Noy is trying to be serious of hilarious. Oh well… thanks for reading. I'm glad this was split… the prologue would have been way too long otherwise. And yes, Yuka and Sayuri are a bit changed as well. It happens when you are friends with a girl like Akane in this.