Chapter 6
Ekoda, Kuroba Home:
Soul Evans yawns as he stretches, staying with Maka's cousin, they called each other that to make life easier was much better than staying with Maka. Well technically he was living with Kuroba Kaito and attending Ekoda High with him. Finding out that Maka's cousin was Sailor Moon and a Phantom Thief was just too cool and they also housed the kiddified Kudo Shinichi whom was known as Kaito's cousin Conan, with his mom backing them up on that. What he didn't know was that Usagi had made certain that Shinichi's parents wouldn't find out the truth. He actually liked having Usagi as his meister since she treated him decently and didn't Maka Chop him all the time.
Soul gets ready for the day and starts on breakfast before making lunch for everyone as well. Kaito was the next to emerge from his room and get ready before eating the breakfast that Soul had made. " Thanks for cooking, Soul. " Kaito says.
" It's cool, you guys treat me better than Maka ever has. If only Usagi actually wanted to be a meister. " Soul says, sighing.
Kaito looks at him, " Usagi knows what it's like to be unwanted by her own family, if anything she'll consider you a brother. We can both resonate with you because we're all pranksters, we know how to cut loose and have fun, something that Maka doesn't know. " Kaito had actually met Maka when he went to a reunion with Usagi.
Conan ariives next and all three males look up when Usagi almost literally tumbles into the kitchen, long practice with Kaito at least helped her to come to a stop. Kaito sighs at this, it seemed Usagi hadn't gotten enough sleep, " Soul, better bust out Usagi's caffeine. "
Soul nods even as Kaito guides Usagi to a chair, the poor girl's eyes were bloodshot from all the memories she had been forced to relive, Serenity hadn't been able to stop the bleed through. She hadn't woken up either which meant she didn't get any decent sleep because after waking up she generally curled up with Kaito. It took three mugs to get Usagi to a proper state of wakefulness and the girl flew through getting ready, including make up this time in order to hide how rough she had slept. She heads out with Conan and Kaito curses under his breath, " I really don't like the fact that she got trapped in Serenity-hime's memories this time. "
" What keeps that from happening anyhow? " Soul asks.
" Generally curling up with me. " Kaito admits.
At school Soul keeps Aoko from using her Mop-fu on Kaito since he knew damn well that Kaito was on edge. It was only when Kaito pulls out a truly humiliating prank that Aoko realizes that something was bugging her best friend and that something probably had to do with Usagi. While they hadn't officially met yet she knew how much Kaito cared about Usagi. Aoko had realized what Kaito hadn't just yet, Aoko was his sister while Usagi was something more that Kaito was quite completely aware of yet. Sure, he had admitted he was attracted to her but he still hadn't worked everything out yet.
Aoko was decided, it was time for her to meet Usagi. She slips away before Kaito or Soul realize it and the female teen meets Usagi outside of Crossroads Jr. High, " Tsukino-san, we haven't formally met yet, I am Nakamori Aoko. "
" Tsukino Usagi, finally realized you're more like a sister to Kaito? "
" Hai, you're just waiting for him to realize his own feelings, aren't you? " Aoko asks her.
" I am, he loves you but he has yet to figure out what kind of love that is. I can wait and he does get all protective and possessive when some guy even thinks about asking me out or leers at me. Many of my male classmates have yet to realize why they're getting the evr loving hell pranked out of them. "
Usagi then introduces her to Naru and Ami before heading to the Crown Game Center to get a little de-stressing in. She introduces Aoko to Motoki and then deliberately only does a little better on the Sailor V game before rolling her shoulders and sugar loading. Motoki always gave her snacks for free because of her metabolism and anyone that annoyed her or pissed him off got charged more. Not even Motoki's father had caught on to that yet.
Negaverse:
Jadeite frowns as he goes over the clock store battle and sighs, who would have thought a weapon and meister pair would be there anyhow. Yes, Beryl and Metalia knew of the Death Weapon Meister Academy and some of their ops had been taken out by weapons and meister pairs. Beryl only got truly pissed if the senshi interfered because not even they could predict outside interference. However that white suited helper of Sailor Moon's was a new nuisance, they had no memories of him yet he had the disguise field that protected his identity.
Juuban:
Luna frowns heavily as once again Usagi manages to avoid her completely. The audacity of that girl in ignoring her. How was she supposed to know what to do. Luna was the only one whom could train the senshi properly after all. The feline hadn't even noticed that Sailor Mercury had been awakened either. Sailor Psyche was also awakened and active at this point because Serenity really didn't want to deal with Sailor Mars at any point in the near future. The black feline with crimson eyes had yet to find any of the other senshi and Usagi was sincerely hoping that she never did.
Beika:
Usagi twitches when she finds Conan, " Shimatta, your luck is just as bad as mine, isn't it? "
" Sadly, yes it is. This time I don't even have Kogoro around to make the deductions. How the hell am I going to get these idiots to actually do what they need to do to make the arrest? " Conan asks, despairing.
" Call Hattori? " Usagi suggests.
" Can't, he's on a family vacation. " Conan states.
" Well, I am a demon huntress. " Usagi ripostes.
After helping Conan solve the murder since she was able to lip sync with his speaking they were able to get back to Ekoda.
Ekoda:
" Dear Susanoo, you need to spend more time with Kaito or someone with similar luck. " Usagi states as they walk in the front door of the Kuroba home.
" It's not my damn fault that murder victims just crop up around me. " Conan/Shinichi retorts.
Soul blinks as Kaito just rolls his eyes, " You get used to the fact that Shinichi is in fact a corpse magnet. Not all of the bodies he finds are murder victims, sometimes they are also suicide victims. "
" Anything else I need to know about? " Soul asks sarcastically and he is then filled in on Usagi's brand of luck while Shinichi goes into more detail about his. Then they launch into how unfair it was that Kaito happened to be blessed by Lady Luck herself while they were chosen champions of Destiny.
Kaito blinks, " I think they've wanted to get this rant out for a while now anyhow. Didn't realize it bugged them that much. "
Usagi looks at him, " People like Shin-chan and myself have it a lot harder because very few people actually understand our situation and that it's not our damn fault that shit just happens around us. "
" What she said. " Shinichi admits.
" In other words you two just needed a good rant. " Soul says, he could understand that.
" Pretty much. " Usagi admits.
Shinichi nods and goes to do his homework at an appropriate elementary level while Kaito motions for Usagi to join him so he could help her with her homework. Soul and Shinichi both noticed that Kaito subconsciously had his chin propped on one of Usagi's shoulders while helping her with her homework, nudging her to find the right answers on her own and hinting when she needed to double check her work. Usagi says nothing about this since she was just waiting for Kaito to actually officially ask her out.
Juuban:
Sailor Psyche rolls her shoulders as she continues on with her patrol while Sailor Mercury is still working out an antidote for Shinichi. It would be easier if she had a little bit of help but Usagi needed a day off since she could sense she'd just had a rant that had been building for a while. That was when she noticed the bus thing and curses before calling in the rest of the group. KID, Moon, and the glamoured Soul in weapon form arrive and Psyche sighs, " I'll keep the way open, you guys go deal with this attempt. "
The other three nod and disappear into the other dimension to deal with the youma. Thankfully this was well before in several other dimensions that Jadeite had kidnapped Hino Rei which hopefully meant that she wouldn't be awakened as Sailor Mars. Moon uses Soul to destroy the youma and he eats the youma soul before they gather up all the kidnap victims and they get the hell out of dodge with some impressive thinking from KID. Psyche sighs in relief and they all head home for the night. Poor Jadeite never even realized his op had been busted until the next day and had a WTF moment.
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