Chibiusa snapped back to reality as her sister slipped from her embrace. "Kousagi, what did you think you were doing!?" Usagi scolded her now that she seemed to have gotten her breath back. "Do you have any idea what you've done? You could have gotten killed! Mama and Papa are going to be very mad if you don't go home right now!" Chibiusa reached out to grab Kousagi's wrist, but she swiftly backed away with tears in her eyes.
"No! I'm not going back home! You're so mean to me Usagi! All I wanted to do was spend time with you, but you always push me away! I hate you Usagi!" Kousagi cried, the crescent moon on her forehead lit up and the energy that came out of her sent Chibiusa and Diana flying back a few feet. Realizing that she had hurt her sister and Diana she panicked. The only thing she could think to do so she wouldn't get in trouble was to grab Candy and run away.
"Damn it!" Chibiusa wobbled as she stood up. "That little brat messed everything up! I'm going to get into so much trouble when I get home for this." She muttered a few more things to herself as she recovered from the little surprise her sister had given her. Diana hadn't gotten anything more than a small scrape and ruffled fur. "Which way do you think they went?" Chibiusa held a hand over her eyes, scanning the area. It was pretty clear until a bit further down.
Diana looked around and sniffed the air, trying to pick up their scents. "For an open area there sure are a lot of smells around here. Why not asking your parents for help?" Diana hopped back up to her princess's shoulder.
"Are you crazy!" She had yelled a bit louder than she meant to, drawing the attention of a few people in the nearby park. Embarrassed she waved to them and lowered her voice as she looked around for her sister. "It's bad enough that I'm going to have to explain it to them in the future! If asked them in this time Mama and Papa will freak out even more! They don't even know they have another child!" She continued to search the area with no luck.
Two hours had passed and it wasn't looking better for them. Diana sniffed the air to confirm a suspicion she had about an hour ago. "We need to find her soon. It's going to rain." Her concern for the smaller pinkette was growing more and more by the minute. "Usagi, you need to get help! Kousagi wasn't prepared to come here like you were! Things are very different in this time, it hasn't become the peaceful place she grew up in yet!" Diana was getting upset as she was very clearly being ignored. "Usagi! She's your sister and she's probably terrified! If you're too stubborn to care for her then at least do it for Candy, she may not share my blood, but she is still my sister and she isn't familiar with this time either! They could be in trouble for all we know!"
Chibiusa bit her bottom lip feeling guilty. "I'm sorry Dia. Just give me a little more time! It's not like I made them come with me! It was her fault to begin with!" She knew she was crossing a line, but she was frustrated and hadn't planned on babysitting the little brat. Realizing she had gone a little too far she reached out to Diana. "Dia I-"
Diana smacked her hand away and shook her head in disapproval of her. "I can't believe you Usagi. I'm leaving, you better hope we find them in one piece." With that Diana took off to the Tsukino household, not willing to risk the safety of either Candy or Kousagi for Chibiusa's sake.
It didn't take long after Kousagi had ran off for her to run out of breath. She had made it to a playground and decided to hide out in the makeshift fort. She had seen Usagi and Diana run by earlier and hid deeper inside. Once they passed she let out her breath and began to cry again. Candy hopped down from her head and rubbed up against her.
"It's going to be okay Ko." Candy looked up at her with optimistic eyes. She rubbed her head against Kousagi's cheek, purring as she did so.
"Thank you candy." Kousagi smiled and started calming down. "I'm sorry I got us into such a mess. I just don't understand why Usagi hates me." Though she had stopped crying now her eyes still burned like they could spill over with more tears any moment.
Candy frowned at this. "She doesn't hate you. She's just struggling to adjust to how much her life has changed." Candy didn't know everything, but she had heard a decent amount from listening to her adoptive family and some of the other scouts when they got together. She wasn't sure what else she could say to help her feel better.
Kousagi wiped her eyes before more tears had a chance to fall. "I need to get out of here. It would be weird if someone found me hiding in here." After making sure the coast was clear she climbed down with Candy. It wasn't until they were out in the open she had noticed things were off. "Candy, where are we?" She blinked a few times at her surroundings. Crystal Tokyo was very different all of a sudden.
"Chibiusa? Is that you?" A soft voice called out from behind Kousagi.
Chibiusa ran up and down the streets completely exhausted. It had already begun to rain and it would be thundering real soon. "Why did this have to happen." She kept calling out for Kousagi with nor response. "This isn't how things were supposed to go!" Chibiusa stopped running. Tears stung her eyes. She wanted to give up and just curl into a ball, but her phone started to ring and snapped her out of her thoughts. "Hello?"
"Kousagi is with me." The voice came out calmly. "Why don't you meet me at the coffee shop near the park?"
Chibiusa froze. She failed to find her sister and now it looked like she was about to get into even more trouble because of her. Biting her lip she agreed to go to the coffee shop and hung up. She ran as fast as she could until she was finally back at the park. She looked around and spotted the place she was supposed to meet up with them at. Chibiusa sprinted into the shop, relieved to be out of the rain.
"Usagi!" Kousagi ran over and went to hug her sister, but stopped herself, remembering the trouble she caused her. "I'm sorry." She held Candy close as she waited to get scolded.
"Chibiusa, you made it." The voice came from none other than Ami. "I was starting to worry about you for a moment there. Come sit down, I ordered a hot chocolate for you." She pointed to a table in the corner of the room. She motioned to Kousagi to go take a seat again and she did.
Following Ami and her sister she sat down at the table, clasping her cold hands around her drink. She couldn't bring herself to look Ami in the eyes. "So are you going to ask for an explanation?" She focused her attention on the melting whipped cream and didn't notice that the door to the shop had opened again.
Ami smiled and shook her head. "No, I'm not going to ask you to explain anything to me. I think I get what's going on. You might want to explain to them though." She pointed at Usagi and Mamoru who had just came in with Luna and Diana. She waved them over and excused herself to the counter while the couple sat down.
"Mama! Papa!" Chibiusa looked up to them feeling sick to her stomach. She loved seeing them, but somehow she was now nervous and felt guilty before them. When she met their eyes she felt even worse as she saw the worry written all over them. "I'm sorry!"
Kousagi listened to her apologize a few times, confused as to why she was calling them Mama and Papa. When she made eye contact with them she would immediately blush and look down at Candy who sat in her lap.
I couldn't stand how I left this chapter so I decided to put a hold on Chapter 4 while I fixed this chapter. Hopefully you liked it and can give me some feed back on what you want to see from this story. I have a lot of pairings in mind and a lot of fights planned as well as some hopefully surprising returns. Be prepared for some shattered bonds in the future. Things are going to start getting crazy, also please keep in mind this is an AU and so things will not be 100% Cannon to the manga and show.
