Her heart was hammering just as loudly as it was the previous night and she was sure that everyone in the room could hear it as they turned to glance at who had just walked in.
"I see you got Odango out of bed." Haruka stated with a smirk as she looked at a girl with her long hair pulled up in a strange style.
"Believe me...it took us a while to get her butt out of bed." A brown haired girl stated before asking "who's this with you?"
Tsuki blushed as everyone's attention turned to her, the only thing keeping her calm was that Setsuna put her hand on her shoulder.
"This is Haruka's half sister Tsuki." Michiru answered for her with a reassuring smile toward the dark haired teen.
"You have a sister? You never mentioned having any siblings!" the one that Haruka called Odango exclaimed, causing everyone to groan.
"I never mentioned her because I didn't even know I had a sister." Haruka retorted just as a black haired girl—who had been seated up until then—rolled her eyes and retorted
"Usagi, stop being an idiot."
The brown haired girl who had spoken first glanced her jade green eyes over to Tsuki again and smirked.
"don't worry you'll get use to them." she stated before adding "I'm Makoto by the way."
"nice to meet you everyone." Tsuki managed to say, though her voice shook with nervousness.
However before anyone else could say anything she felt a stronger hand envelope her shoulder.
"Don't worry Tsuki-Chan...No one here judges anyone." Haruka stated, the words hitting her like a ton of bricks.
Yeah right...as soon as they find out they'll freak out just like you.
The younger teen thought however she only smiled slightly back at her sister.
The room soon was full of chatter, however Tsuki held back. Perfering the back wall of the room to being anywhere near anyone. That was until a small pink haired girl walked over to her.
"You're sailor Eclipse aren't you?" the child asked in a whisper, her carmine eyes never leaving the dark haired girl's teal ones. However Tsuki's only answer was a quick dip of her head.
"She's from the future." Setsuna whispered from where she had taken a seat beside the younger soldier, answering the unasked question of how the heck did the kid know.
"really? Well I don't feel like discussing this." Tsuki replied coldly as she began to walk away however just as she did she tripped over something and landed flat on her face against the hard, dusty floor.
"Momma are you alright!" a shrill little voice shouted and the whole room went deathly quite as Tsuki sat up and got her wits about her, turning toward the voice to see a small grey kitten was the one who had spoken and that what she had fallen over was a black cat with a moon symbol on its forehead.
Tsuki glanced at Pluto then at the black cat, who seemed to still be dazed.
"I am sorry...I should watch where I am going." she stated calmly, causing everyone's looks of concern transform to those of surprise.
"Wait! A talking cat doesn't freak you out?" Haruka barked, her teal eyes widening and with tears in her eyes Suki shook her head.
"No...Sailor Uranus...it doesn't." she stated before turning to Michiru who smiled knowingly.
"Haruka...Perhaps you should pay more attention next time before you assume things." The aqua haired beauty stated.
"Just how the hell do you know about the sailor soldiers and what the heck are you talking about Michiru!" The boyish blonde demanded, her voice booming as she spoke however Tsuki sighed.
"I..." she began nervously, pausing to lick her lips as they had became suddenly dry "I am Sailor Eclipse."
Haruka's eyes turned as cold as arctic ice as her jaw clenched.
"Those bunch of rebels are the reason the moon kingdom fell!" she stated, her voice harsh as she spoke, however Tsuki didn't give her time to say anything else as she rushed out of the room.
"Good going Haruka...That wasn't only your friend you just snapped at but your sister." Michiru growled following the other girl.
"Oh really how do we know that we can trust her?" the tomboy demanded, however to her surprise Hotaru was the one to speak.
"she did help us fight last night Haruka-Papa...if she was against us wouldn't she had attacked us?" the child asked timidly.
"Hotaru...she could be trying to get us to trust her to come in for an attack! You can't trust her!" Haruka retorted, her tone lightening a little as she spoke to her daughter.
"Honestly...if that girl was going to hurt anyone she would have hurt me. I had to explain to her what was going on when she first transformed!" Setsuna stated as she too left the room.
Haruka rolled her eyes and began to say something however then Usagi stated
"Chibi-Usa? Do you know anything about her?"
The pink haired girl sighed and replied
"in the 30th century she stays by herself a lot but she acts as a teacher to the Senshi who are just developing their powers."
Meanwhile Suki was in standing in an alley, her fist colliding hard against the brick wall in front of her as tears gushed down her face.
"Tsuki! Stop it, hurting yourself wont help!" Michiru stated and with a sigh as she walked over and gently placed her hands on the other girl's shoulders.
"Why the hell do you care? You're girlfriend probably is brainwashing everyone back there to make them hate me too!" the younger girl snarled, however to her surprise the seafoam haired teenager only smiled lightly.
"I doubt that...I don't think that Usagi could ever hate anyone and as I was leaving I heard Hotaru take up for you." the older teen retorted lightly just as Setsuna rounded the corner.
"Tsuki...we better get you home and cleaned up." the time soldier stated, taking hold of one of the teens bloodied and battered hands into her own to examine the flayed skin around her knuckles.
"home? Home? Just where the hell is home Setsuna! Haruka fucking hates me for no Fucking reason! I should have never tried to find her!" The black haired girl demanded, whirling around on Setsuna though as soon as she finished speaking she began to sob, her whole body shaking.
"Tsuki...Home is with us. I don't care what Haruka says about it." Michiru stated gingerly, causing the younger girl to turn toward her, disbelief in her eyes.
"Why? You don't know much about me." Tsuki stated and Michiru smiled lightly.
"Tsuki...I think I saw enough last night when you leaped in front of us before that thing could attack. I know we can trust you." the aquatic goddess answered kindly, her sapphire eyes reflecting the honesty behind her words.
Setsuna smiled a bit at this exchange and then reaching out she brushed the dark haired child's hair out of her face.
"Everything will be alright...I'll do whatever it takes to make sure of that." Setsuna stated in the same tone that Michiru had used.
Their response surprised Tsuki who stood wordlessly with her head still low. She didn't know how to reply or even why these two seemed to care about her. However there was something in the back of her mind that simply told her to trust them and she knew that maybe her instinct was right just this once.