Disclaimer: I dearly wish Sailor Moon was mine. But Sadly it is not. Just This Story is.
Pairings:
Haruka/Usagi
Taiki/Setsuna
Yaten/Hotaru
Seiya/Zoiycite
Beryl/Helios (As Siblings)
Luna/Artemis
Phobos/Deimos (As Siblings)
Amara/Serena (As Siblings)
Translations:
Koneko-chan = Kitten
Fuku = Sailor Suit
Ginzuishou = Silver Crystal
Odango's = Dumplings (Usagi's hair-style)
Pegicorn = Magical creature resulting from a unicorn & pegasus mating. Or in the case of Helios, Magical Shape-shifting gift bestowed upon a virgin male gaurdian by the gods.
Mugen Gakuen = Infinity Academy
Minna = Everyone
Gender Morph = Magical ability to take the fully functioning form of the opposite sex
Pink Taco = Slang for female genitals
Tsuki no Hime = Princess of the Moon
Seppuku (Hara Kiri) = Ritual Suicide
A PLACE TO CALL HOME
The Present Prt. 3
Haruka carefully watched her lover the rest of the day. While the ceremony had been draining on her physically, as Usagi had been forced to perform it before the power could fully take root in her soul that is not had her worried. She knew that Usagi had not realized just yet, that the dreams the girl had once harbored for herself were now gone. Usagi had had two very simple yet honorable dreams. The first, she had wanted to go to college and learn to be a proper writer so she could write children's books. The other, before destiny forced her to take the throne as Neo Queen Serenity, she had wanted to have her own small dance studio so she could teach the children dances that had been popular to her mothers time of rule. Haruka knew it would devastate the girl when she realized, that she would now have to choose between either restoring the Silver Alliance now, or, placing the Earth in a thousand year sleep state. If the Alliance was chosen it would mean asking her guardians to give up any dreams of their own to follow her back to the moon. If she chose the other, it would mean a mass funeral for the countless numbers who would not survive the great sleep.
Haruka would gladly support whichever choice her Koneko made. She just wished the final and third option was still open to them. She wished Usagi was not the only living full-blooded Lunarian royal. Because if she wasn't, while still retaining the power of Eternal Sailor Moon, she could give up her power as Sailor Cosmos to the other thus maintaining the proper balance of things. As Cosmos was meant to travel alone among the stars, not remain locked to either the moon or earth. But because the cosmic power was reborn here, it would be tied here, thus upsetting the natural balance of elemental power here. If the third option was still open to them, the earth would not go to war with itself thus eliminating the need for the great sleep, and the senshi could still have their dreams, only returning to the moon when they were damn good and ready to do so.
When midway through supper Usagi froze and dropped her fork, before leaving the table and running upstairs, Haruka knew it had finally hit home for her beloved. Nephrite and Jaedite were puzzled when she did so and wondered why Haruka hadn't gone after her. She replied. "Because I learned shortly after we met again in this life, when her tears are of the silent variety, to leave her the hell alone. She'll talk about it when she's damn good and ready." Nephrite leaned forward placing his elbows on the table. "But that doesn't explain what upset her Haruka. Maybe if you tell us, we can think up a solution. But start at the beginning of the struggles with a Chaos controlled Galaxia up to the events of today." Though she didn't understand why he wanted to know about that particular struggle again, and in detail, she told him. When she was done he was chuckling and she was getting pissed. "What the fuck is so funny Nephrite?"
"It's just the lot of you, including the princess were too close to the situation to see it for yourselves. You yourself said Chibi Chibi was Galaxias' star seed given human form. Galaxia is a full-blooded Lunarian royal! If she wasn't, the child would not have been known as Chibi Chibi Moon! Now remember the legend of Selene having fifty children. If I am right about Galaxias parentage, she would have once been known as Princess Galatea, the first born of Selene's fifty children! We have to somehow summon her back here. If she can hold the Ginzuishou without it harming her, it will be proof of her heritage!" Smiling wryly Haruka shook her head. "You just may be right. However, let's wait until tomorrow to do it. Usagi has been through enough for one day. Moreover, I have a feeling it is going to take all of us singing the summoning song to get her back here." Standing and moving away from the table she added. "Right now I am going to see if I can calm Usagi down." Haruka then went upstairs to their room.
When Haruka entered their room Usagi had been sitting in the window seat staring out at the distant horizon. But when she turned from closing and locking the door Usagi had stood and was facing the taller woman. "What would you do Haruka? What would you do if you were in my place?" Crossing the room and embracing her love the wind senshi replied. "Truthfully, I would restore the Moon Kingdom. Taking with me the social outcasts of the world. Offering them a life free of hatred, free of discrimination. I remember how it was when your mother was in charge. No one was discriminated against because of their color, their preferences, their gender, their weight, there were no homeless. The elderly were respected at all times, not cast aside because of it. I am not saying there were not any disagreements or crime, because that will happen anywhere, no matter what kind of life a person lives or creates for the people around them. It is just that we as a species were a lot more tolerant and respectful of those differences than most of us are now."
"We had a near perfect world. A world like no other. Until that power hunger bitch Metallia kidnapped Beryl and turned her against us. I think if we are ever to get back even a portion of what we had then, and not have the false peace of Crystal Tokyo, we need to go back to where we started. But only when you are damn good and ready to do so." Usagi sighed sadly. "But I have to be ready. Sometime within a year I have to be ready to either put the entire world to sleep, because my power as Cosmos has caused earth to go to war with itself, or ask you and the others to give up on their dreams." Haruka hooked a finger under her loves chin and lifted her face. "Before I tell you something, I would like to know what you want in your heart of hearts." Usagi replied. "If I could have my first home back without hurting you and the others, I would want that. But I'm only eighteen! I am not ready to be a queen!"
Haruka chuckled. "And that's coming from a girl who when she was sixteen, bluntly told me to mind my own fucking business, to stop poking my nose into her life. Kitten you are more ready than the rest of us. Now let me tell you how Nephrite came up with a way we all might be able to have our cake and eat it too." Haruka had truly been about to tell her love the possible good news, she truly had. However, when a soft hand slipped under her shirt and cupped then started to softly stroke an ultra-sensitive tit, those good intentions flew right out the damn window. They had made love several times in the past weeks, but this was the first time Usagi had acted as the aggressor, and Haruka was anxious to see what surprises were in store for her.
Though she was nervous about taking full control of their loving, Usagi was encouraged by the low moan of disappointment when she removed her hand and started to unbutton Haruka's shirt. Despite the intense pleasure she felt from the soft exploratory touches and kisses to her naked upper half. Haruka somehow managed to retain enough presence of mind to know Usagi's control was not complete. Not with them standing anyways. Backing them towards the bed Haruka levered them up onto and in the center of it, taking away the advantage her greater height gave. Harukas smirk that somehow managed to look both challenging and inviting at the same time remained in place, even as Usagi with glowing hands pushed the wind senshi's arms above her head. Magically binding her wrists to the headboard as surely as if the girl had used real handcuffs. Haruka didn't even get worried when blue eyes developed streaks of silver, showing that Usagi's princess form was partially in control.
Haruka really started tripping balls though when her love passed a glowing hand over her eyes, taking away her sight. While Haruka desperately tried to free her hands of the magical bonds, Usagi finished stripping her, then removed her own clothes. Stretching out Usagi covered her loves body with her own. While she started to lovingly manipulate a soft breast, Usagi whispered hotly into her loves ear, in a voice that was hers yet not. "Calm yourself my love, let yourself remember." Harukas body calmed and her struggles ceased as a memory from the past pushed aside the panic. The princess hadn't done this out of anger at her or even for the fun aspects of this kind of thing during sex, but to help her. Like the Saturnian, the Lunarians possessed the ability to heal. To heal her eyes properly though, the princess had to first completely blind her. Haruka had been about to thank her love for noticing she had been using her reading glasses more than usual as of late. However, when a warm mouth closed on a desire hardened nipple, her thought process was, effectively, short circuited. Time seem to have almost stopped in the darkness, heightening the tallest senshi's senses, making her even more sensitive to the slightest touch. When Usagi finally moved to the other breast, what few working brain cells Haruka had left, went on strike.
The lovers had been upstairs about forty minutes when Nephrite who had stayed behind to help with supper clean up, cursed when something crashed against the patio doors, breaking the glass. Knowing that the wind played a major part in any storm, and feeling uneasy, he muttered as he looked through the broken door. "Oh shit, not again." Seiya asked. "What's the big deal? It's just a storm." The general turned senshi replied. "Can't you feel what's wrong here? This isn't just any storm. Because of whatever Usagi is doing to Haruka, she's loosing control of her power. The last time this happened, Castle Selenity took some major damage." He grabbed Usagi's locket off the dining table and tossed it at Hotaru. "As her heir you can control this. Combine its power with your glaive and put a barrier around the islands." He then slapped open the communicator Usagi had given him. "Zoi transform now, and be outside the barrier when Saturn forms it. Neptune and I will be with you in a moment." The disembodied voice of the new Mercury laughed. "One step ahead of you, get here quick though. I need Neptune's help controlling these damn water spouts. Venus and Mars are helping, but there is only so much they can do until I can get control these damn things long enough to freeze them." The starlights transformed as well to help wherever they could.
When the two women showed themselves, some 90 minutes later, to get an after loving snack. Their hair looked like it had been through a wind tunnel, their planetary insignias were glowing brightly, and were wearing tank tops that did very little to conceal the countless love bites and scratches they both possessed. Usagi turned from grabbing a pint of rocky road from the freezer, only to swiftly turn back around. Haruka who had leaned down to get the turkey salad from the fridge heard Usagis' fierce whisper. "Haruka, everybody is here, and they looked pissed." Standing Haruka looked across the breakfast bar into the dining room, finding ten angry pairs of eyes looking back at them. Thanks to Harukas' quick reflexes, Usagi was saved from getting conked on the forehead by the locket Saturn had tossed at them.
"What the fuck?!" Haruka shouted. Making a slashing movement with her arm Saturn pointed towards the shattered glass door. "That's what the fuck Uranus! Thank Hades mother left that down here! Next time you two want to get your damn rocks off in whatever manner you just did. Kindly take it to what's left of Castle Miranda on Uranus! It is built to withstand uncontrolled bursts of your power! The Earth isn't!" In a hesitant manner both women walked around the breakfast bar. When they looked through the broken glass door both women's personalities seemed for a moment, to switch. Haruka giggled like a young girl and said, "Oopsy-daisy." While Usagi herself said, "Fuck a dead monkey and grab his balls, I am so glad mother isn't alive enough to beat the shit out of us for a second time." Showing the pluck and courage she had gained over the past couple months Usagi turned to face her friends.
"Though I know better than to magically bind the hands of a wind witch. I won't apologize for what I did. I knew if I warned Haruka what I planned on doing she would refuse to let me. The fun aspects of it, was just icing on an already very sweet cake. I talked to her optometrist yesterday. Did any of you know that in the two months that I have been here, that she's had the lenses in her reading glasses replaced twice? Each time the script was made stronger. Did any of you know? That knowing of her temperament, he's been trying to work up his courage to tell her something that would change her life forever. That he was lying, when he said the lab screwed up twice in their manufacture of the lenses! That because of a degenerative eye condition, inherited from her grandmother, she would have been completely blind before a year had even passed. Now thanks to what I did, that will never happen."
She then let her gaze fall on Star Maker. "I know you spoke the truth about why you wear glasses at times so I didn't bother with contacting your doctor. But there is someone else in this room that has been lying to us all about her health and ignoring her own physician." She then let her gaze fall on Neptune, and there was no mistaking the anger in Usagi's voice. "I have also spoken to your own doctor. Because of that conversation. I have taken the liberty of canceling all your obligations for the next three months. Because Monday, you will be going into surgery so you can have those heart valves replaced. I'll be damned, if I let your vanity over the scar open heart surgery creates, cost me the last living Neptarian!" Saturn was nervous of the sweet smile that settled on the lips of her parent. "And you. If you ever again throw something at me in anger. You'll find out you're never too old to have your mother pull you over her knee and take her hand to your ass!"
To indicate the subject was closed for her, Usagi plopped down onto the sofa and grabbed the remote before Haruka could. However, the subject wasn't closed for the six foot three blonde. Well aware of her cousin's vanity with certain issues she asked. "Michi there is no history of heart disease in either of our families, in both lives, so what the hell have you been doing to yourself?!" Haruka didn't wait for an answer. "Never-mind, I think I know." She then turned to the others. "While Michiru stays with Usagi and me. I want the rest of you to grab those canvas grocery bags from under the sink. Then go through this place top to bottom. Our room included, just so you know we aren't hiding anything. I don't care what form you find it in, properly labeled or not. Anything that's not obviously cosmetics, mouth-wash or toothpaste, I want brought down here." Jaedite bowed slightly. "Haruka, as fun as your little treasure hunt sounds, I would like to bow out and go home. I don't want to leave grandfather and Chad alone with Rei for longer than necessary." To show her agreement Haruka quipped. "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out."
Thirty minutes later, most of the bags were mostly empty, containing only truly needed medicines. The bag from Michi's room however held the most surprises. Along with the cold medicines she preferred, were tea mixes, herbs and pills. All designed to either help maintain weight or create the loss of weight. Haruka exploded. "God Damn it Michi! These diet pills alone are enough to cause damage to the heart! They have that damn Fen Phen in them! Combined with this other shit this could prove lethal. This as we now know, came damn close to doing just that! Are you that damn vain about your weight that you would rather stay at a size four instead of being at a more healthy size seven! Fucking Christ on a crutch! Not even I am that neurotic about my weight!"
Going into the kitchen, she started dumping everything down the drain. "Turn over your senshi items to Kitten, including the Deep Aqua Mirror. As of now, you are on medical leave from the senshi. Once you recover from surgery, and gain the necessary weight. You will be going into counseling. I will be damned if I let your parents obsession with their weight poison you too. I would tell you to get their opinion, but gee, guess what. They're both dead! Killed by the same damn shit you were taking!" Haruka would have continued ranting at the other woman, if Michi hadn't suddenly become encased in a silver aura as the ghostly form of Queen Serenity formed beside her.
Though the queen had always been a kind and fair ruler. She demanded the shows of respect her title gave her. Unlike her daughter who had hated the formalities, in both lives. Haruka was the first to bend knee to her, placing her right fist over her heart. "My Queen, what stirs you from your eternal rest in the Elysian Fields?" Haruka dearly hoped it wasn't to give her and Usagi hell over what happened. The former queen chuckled lightly over the slight fear that graced the eyes of her favorite of her daughters' senshi. "Well it certainly isn't to give you and my daughter an ear-full, as there was a valid reason behind her actions this time. Now why don't you stand Princess Haruka, as it is not you I am here to give the devil to." The ghostly queen then turned to Michi. "It's you I am here to see. You are going to get a very brief history lesson on the senshi."
"As you know my kingdom has been gone a little over a thousand years. However, it was nearly ten thousand years ago the senshi were created in the first place. When more and more people started following the different religions of the time instead of the gods. Each god chose the strongest of their people to cultivate life on the planets in order to preserve their power. Choosing also the strongest of their daughters to act as queens and senshi. You serve King Neptune and you draw your power from him. Yet you have always thought the mere-people were just a myth. The first Queen and Senshi for Neptune was called Ariel. She was the youngest of his seven daughters. At 16 she was also the youngest of the Queens."
When the silver glow around Michi faded away she continued. "What I have just done is place an enchantment on you that will reinforce my daughters and Harukas' edict. I may be dead, but I still carry a great deal of power. It is a two pronged enchantment. Should you ever again place that garbage into your system, without prior approval from your cardiologist, your hair will turn red like Ariel's was. However, since modern technology allows you to change hair color, they will have an undeniable sign that you are messing with your health. Should you deliberately screw with your health again, you will revert to what your bloodline started as. You will become a mermaid, and will only return to human form when Neptune feels you have been punished long enough." What the queen said next had both Haruka and Usagi dropping their jaws in amazement. Because of not only how vulgar her wording was, as she had never spoken that way before. But because also of what she said. "And you, dear daughter. I suggest you marry Princess Haruka very soon. Otherwise, I just might ask Hades to grant me life once more. Then I will take her from you and show her what it's like to be truly fucked blind. I even agree with Kunzite, Queen Marissa, was a grade A bitch. I used to have daydreams about throwing her ass into a pool full of scarabs!" Without any fanfare, the former queen faded from the room.
Though she had, in a very polite way, just caught hell from Queen Serenity. Michiru couldn't stop the full-blown laughter that sprang from her lips. When Haruka started prancing about the room, and rubbing her arms, as if trying to wipe away something nasty. "Dear Kami, Sweet Mary, Jesus and Joseph! I don't know what's worse! Hearing Serenity swear, or hearing her confirm what I've suspected since she pinched my ass that one time!" After a spate of cursing in every language she knew including Lunarian and Uraniun, she added. "The only thing I liked hearing was that she agreed about mother. I wonder whatever happened to that stupid cunt. She disappeared when I was fifteen and I never saw her again." Harukas' frantic movements stopped when another ghostly form manifested. However this one was male. "Hi there pops. How is the afterlife?" The former King of Uranus chuckled. "No damn fun at all. No matter how much I drink, I can't get drunk." Hotaru hung her head and groaned. "Two visits in one night, what the hell is going on that caused Hades to let two of you slip past him." The former King laughed again. "Don't blame your grandfather Princess Hotaru. This time it is Charons fault. He's finally getting lucky with a sweet little succubus named Saroyan that he has been lusting after for the past couple hundred years. Now, to answer my daughters' question." The ghostly King turned again to his daughter. "To put it bluntly Haruka, I had your mother executed for treason. Not only did I catch her in bed with another man. I caught them planning on how to kill you and me to gain our power." He laid a ghostly hand to his daughters face. "In the grand scheme of things, my kingdom and I were expendable. But you Haruka, my only treasure, never were." As Serenity had done, he then faded from the room.
Acting in, yet out of character as well, Haruka started pacing about the room throwing another temper fit. "God damn sun of a slug eating bitch! Two visits from well loved and respected people in one night! Yet not once did either think to say, hey Haruka, we know you're happy with the B cup tits you wound up with in this life. Instead of the double D's you had in the Silver Millennium! But hey would you also like to have back the hip length midnight blue hair you used to be so proud of! No they didn't! Fuck! I'm going for a walk, so maybe I can forget neither one offered me what I've been wishing for, for the past five years!" Already well used to her lovers' uncertain temperament, only Usagi wasn't phased by the fact Haruka threw a fit over things not even remotely related to the things that had been going on the past few hours. Especially as the short hair was her own damn fault.
Giggling Usagi popped in a DVD before going into the kitchen where she began gathering up bags of chips and bottles of soda by the arm-full. AFTER, using her own personal magic, to fix the broken patio door. "Ignore her guys. She is just trying to forget, that if she stays on schedule, starting day after tomorrow, she won't be getting any for at-least a week. Now who wants to watch Resident Evil Retribution with me?" A HUGE fan of the Resident Evil series, Taiki was the first to stake out her favorite spot on the sofa while grabbing a bottle of pepsi. Only Kunzite, Zoi and Nephrite didn't stay to watch the movie as they wanted to finish setting up their new apartments. When it came to the scene where Alice escaped the interagation room a good portion of the women started studying the outfit she wore. They studied the range of movement the character had even though the majority of the outfit was comprised of leather.
Although she liked her current fuku, Seiya could admit if the senshi wore something similar to what the Alice character wore. They would have a greater amount of protection for their legs, arms, backs and chests. "Hey Setsuna, you have been a senshi for at-least half the time the senshi have even been in existence. What nimrod designed everyones fukus anyway?" Taking a sip of the mint tea, she preferred Setsuna replied. "Truthfully Seiya, I think it was Ares and Zeus. The damn perverts. The more skin a woman shows, the happier they are." Yaten quirked eyebrows when Usagi started giggling like a child gone mad. Her eyes narrowing, when she noticed Usagis' locket glowing. "What are you up to Usagi-chan?" Between giggle fits she replied. "I think for once I know where Seiya is going with her question. But let's wait to see how it looks on Haruka first. She should be home any minute now. And, she will be either very happy or tripping balls because she henshined without using her stick and is not wearing her usual fuku."
When the front door crashed open five minutes later, Usagi whispered. "Sailor teleport." When Uranus showed herself Usagi was gone and Seiya was on the floor rolling in laughter. "God damn it! I just henshined in front of about fifty people! Where the hell is she?!" Wiping tears of laughter from her eyes Seiya looked up at the woman who now had hip length midnight blue hair, and was wearing a navy blue copy of what Alice wore. "When you slammed the door she lit out of here like a rabbit running from a hound. How do you like the new outfit?" Uranus replied. "Love it. Now where is she?" Being a maker of stars Taiki was just as tightly connected to the senshi as Usagi was, so she knew exactly where her new leader was. "Standing guard outside her parents house. May I finish my movie without interruption now?"
When Uranus teleported into the tree outside the Tsukino home, silent tears was sliding down the face of Cosmos. "It's his birthday, and he's sick again. I couldn't not come." Uranus was puzzled. Whenever she had seen the boy he always seemed healthy. "What do you mean he's sick again?" Cosmos replied. "I didn't know he was sick until I got here. But for the past couple years he has been getting sick on and off with a strange fever and weakness that keeps him almost completely bedridden. They refuse to take him to the doctor for it, saying it's all in his head. They are wrong, I just know it." Remembering a college friend of hers that used to get this way Uranus asked. "Does he ever get sores in his mouth and have severe pain in his joints? Does his legs and hands ever swell like he has eaten too much salty foods?" When Cosmos nodded her head yes Uranus leapt onto the balcony.
"Come on Kitten, we are getting him out of here. He has Lupus Erythematosus. If he isn't started on the proper meds soon, it will kill him." Joining her love on the balcony Cosmos asked. "How do you know what's wrong?" Uranus replied. "A college friend of mine has it." They had just jimmied the window open and stepped into the room, when the door flew open and a light came on. Although they were wearing different outfits and hair-styles, the older couple recognized two of Japan's heroes. "Sailor Uranus, Sailor Moon was our son in danger. Uranus was too pissed to reply. She just picked the fevered pre-teen up into her arms. It was a pissed off Cosmos who spoke. "Yes he was in danger, but not from a monster. We are taking my brother out of this hell-hole. Tell him goodbye, because this is the last you assholes will ever see of him."
It may have been Uranus and Cosmos that leapt out the window, but it was Haruka and Usagi that laid the boy on a hospital bed. After hearing about the boys' condition and examining him the doctor said. "It is Lupis I'm afraid. But I should warn you Miss Tsukino, that until we get his medications in the correct combination he might get worse before he gets better." Usagi replied. "That's fine, as long as he gets better. But you need to call the police. My fiance and I had to kidnap him to get him here." Thankfully it was Andrew's father Matoki that had shown up to question them. Bringing with him his wife, who was a child services advocate. After hearing the women confess to the crime they had committed the man who's hair was more grey than blonde sighed.
"You two do realize, if his life hadn't been at stake I would be forced to arrest the both of you. Thankfully his health concerns lands this into Keisha's jurisdiction and out of mine." Andrew's mother was thoughtfull for a moment. "Because they had Usagi's adoption overturned, I can't have the judge award her emergency temporary custody. But, I can have it given to Haruka, as she is already an adoptive mother and licensed for emergency foster care. This would still put him in Usagi's care so to speak. Things could still get ugly with them though, so if you guys plan to marry anytime soon, I suggest you move up those plans to better your chances of keeping him permanently." Haruka smirked. "We'll be married by this time tomorrow." The elder Furahata male asked. "How will that be possible? When there is a three day waiting period from license to marriage here." Keeping her smirk firmly in place Haruka replied. "Thanks to my mother I enjoy duel citizenship with America; there is no waiting period in Vegas."
Back at the mansion the credits were rolling when Taiki suddenly groaned. "What the hell are they doing now in Vegas of all places?" Setsuna smirked. "Probably getting married. As there is no waiting period there. Cosmos is starting her new kingdom off right by bringing her brother into the fold. He is very sick, and this is the only way to ensure he stays a part of Usagi's life." Hotaru muttered. "For the short amount of time he has left anyway." Setsuna leaned forward in her chair. "What does Saturn know that I don't hime-chan?" The girl replied. "His medical condition has been ignored for too long. He will get stabilized and even get better. But he still won't live to see thirty." None of them had to be told that this was something that needed to be kept from their ruler.
Usagis' head was swimming from all the information that it had assimilated the past several hours. The most important as far as she was concerned though was how close she had come to loosing her brother forever. It wasn't until they had been married by a Cher impersonater and headed toward an unknown destination in a rented car did Usagi think to ask. "Haruka are you sure this is something you wanted to do? It's not too late you know. We don't have to turn in these papers at the court house." Thanking God for automatic transmissions Haruka took a hand from the steering wheel pulling Usagi's hand into hers. "Kitten, I love you, make no mistake about that. Would I have been happier if we had married on our own timetable, sure? But I don't regret this. Please never think otherwise." Haruka took them to a quiet but decent hotel off the main strip, away from the glitz and false glamour that attracted the gambling community. When they were in bed with not even their panties between them, exhaustion claimed the young women before they could do much more than give the other a tender and loving kiss.