A/N: This is actually just Asahina peeking in people's lives with Hagakure's crystal ball. And in my case, I'm using both genders so my pronouns shouldn't be corrected. And this chapter will have them upgrade without a disaster happening.
Chapter 7: Time for Reflection, Sailor Neptune!
"Haaaa! I'm bored!" Asahina said as she ate her donuts on her bed. Hagakure was with her which Leon didn't mind since he's been very busy with his new goal. He got on the bed to snuggle with her. "Thanks Ha-chan, but I wanna do something. Maybe I should go swim!" She jumped out of bed.
"No!" Hagakure still wanted to snuggle with her. "What I mean was how about we spy on people's lives through my crystal ball!"
"Isn't that wrong?"
"It's not like they know! Plus it's not like what they're doing right now! We can go back a few days or a few weeks! You're a girl so you like romance! Well my crystal ball can turn their lives into like a tv show!"
"Wow! Really?!"
"Yeah! So come back down to bed and snuggle with me while we watch!"
"Okay! Which one do you like to see?"
The swimmer sat back down against the headboard holding Hagakure against her. He relished on the feel of her soft breasts. "Hm? How about Kirigiri's and Naegi-san's relationship?" Asahina suggested and a crystal ball appeared floating in front of her showing Naegi being surrounded by a bunch of girls while Kirigiri was at her locker talking to Togami.
When the detective was done talking to the elite, Naegi made his escape. "Hey Kyouko-chan, are you free this Friday night?"
"Yes. What do you plan we do?"
Naegi blushed, "I-I thought it'd be nice if we go to my house to watch a movie Friday Night! My little sister is going to a slumber party and my parents aren't going to be home. Not that I mean anything inspicuous! I meant like it'd be okay to talk about anything. Especially you know..." The teen was flushed red to the ears for what his earlier statement had implied.
Kirigiri smiled with mirth. "Yes, we have much to talk about." Then the bell rang for class. The two had the same one so they went hand in hand.
Asahina gave an awe. "That's really look like a really good couple. I guess it's no surprise since Naegi is such a good guy and Kirigiri is really pretty and smart. But even good couples have problems."
During one class that allowed free time, Naegi was with Mondo, Ishimaru and Chihiro. "Kyouko-chan has been spending a lot of time with Togami."
"Do I sense an affair?" Ishimaru questioned.
"No. What I meant is that I realized that every time I look for Kyouko-chan, she's either with Togami or some other guys. It's natural, but then I began to realize that I never seen her talk with another girl before."
"That's only natural." Another teenage girl told him out of nowhere having her phone out. "You and that Kirigiri chick are the most popular couple in school."
"What?"
She showed him a website that had everyone ranking each other. There was a picture of him and Kirigiri at the library studying together. Below it said that they were the number one couple with over a hundred comments below. "The reason why guys are talking to your girlfriend and a lot of girls are talking to you is because of the couple effect."
"Couple effect?"
"It's like the cheerleader effect where you immediately think the girls are hot when in reality they may be not. In your case, this ranking had people see you as completely irresistable because girls think your perfect boyfriend material, and Kirigiri is perfect girlfriend material. Plus there's a controversy on your virginity."
"What?!"
"That is complete violation of privacy!" Ishimaru cried out. "That website must be shut down immediately!"
"Hold you jizz, Hall boy."
"Ha-hall boy?"
"It's only comments and if anything were to include negative contents, it'd be erased. I am SHSL Website Blogger after all. Similar to Fujisaki, but I create ace-winning and easy using websites instead of artifical programs. There's also different rankings of others. Apparently Kuwata and Fujisaki had ranked first as the cutest couple. And you two ranked as the best gay couple."
Mondo and Ishimaru rose shocked by the results. "Who the fuck put that?!"
"I-I agree! Brother and I are not in a relationship of that sort!" There blushing faces and hesitance to look at each other wasn't convincing at all.
"Really? You two certainly don't look at each other like you do to Chihiro."
"Shut the fuck up! That's the problem with girls! They don't understand what it means for a guys to be friends!"
"Brother, please watch your language! We are still in the classroom!"
"How the fuck do you expect me to calm down?!"
Ishimaru took him by the shoulders. "By doing what they taught you in anger management! Can you do that brother!"
Mondo balled his fist having his veins form near his eyes as he force himself to down his emotions by counting the numbers in his head and then taking a breath. "Yeah, sorry brother."
"It's no worries brother!" The hall monitor patted him on the back for his good job. "Now please delete that false assumption!" He kindly told the blogger.
"Then I have to fire the reporter for indecent use of camera and false reports." She stated having the ranking as gay couple deleted and given to the second ranking.
Naegi sighed and then heard a sniff to see Chihiro was crying too. "Ah, Chihiro! What's wrong?!"
The student sniffed again. "Ca-can I... tell yo-you later?"
"Sure."
The class's free time continued awkwardly. After it, the four of them went to the boy's restroom to talk. There Chihiro confessed, "I-I-I..." He mumbled it.
"Hah? Chihiro you need to speak up." Mondo told him. The crossdresser mumbled a bit louder.
"Leon?" Naegi heard his name.
"What did that little fucker do?!" The biker cracked his knuckles. "If he hurt you, I'm gonna smash his balls!"
Chihiro shook his head. The green jacket teen became very worried, "Does it have to do with the DN?" The sun princess shook her head again. "Chihiro, we can't help you if you don't tell us."
The little teen took a breath and then confessed, "I think Leon wants to break up with me." He hugged Naegi since the floor was too dirty for him to kneel down and cry in his hands.
"What? That can't be. Leon's crazy about you."
"That is true Chihiro!" Ishimaru stated for support.
"No. Ever since we found Sakura-chan, he's been avoiding me. Did I do something wrong?"
"Che!" Mondo turned away.
"Brother, where are you going?!"
"I'm gonna set that fucking bastard straight!"
"I will follow you! Naegi comfort Chihiro but do not be late for class!" The two teen walked out.
Naegi continued to comfort him. "I'm sorry Makoto-kun."
"It's nothing to say sorry about. Why do you think Leon wants to break up with you? You two were all over each other at lunch."
The light brunette fidgeted having his hands together against him whilst staring at the corner. "Ever since we found Sakura-chan, he was still giving me kisses, hugs and stuff, but after school every day, even on the weekends, he wouldn't answer my calls and tells me different things everytime that I know he lying. What if he fell in love with someone else?... He can't. He can't. I don't know what to do if he is."
"Hey, your getting ahead of yourself. Remember all those times you spent with him as Princess Sun. Princess Venus and Leon loves only you. It's what his planet stands for."
Togami entered the restroom. "Do you really think that's the best example? Venus is the Roman Goddess version of the Greek Goddess Aphrodite who had many affairs despite being married."
Chihiro felt his confidence falter that he ran out of the bathroom. "Togami-san! Why did you have to say that?!"
"He'll get over it once he does know the truth. Besides I need to use the toilet. Get out."
Asahina glared at this. "That Togami is a real monster! Was he really a princess?" Then like an episode, it skipped the rest of the day to the next. Leon realized that the guys were acting weird. Togami and Komaeda were normal.
Chihiro was sitting away from him on the opposite side of the table looking away during lunch. It was a very silent atmosphere. "Guys, did I do something wrong?" They didn't say a word. "Come on! What the hell did I do?! Chihiro?" His boyfriend fidgeted but still didn't say a word. "Fuck this shit then!" He walked away.
The programmer now cried. "I'm sorry Leon."
"Oi, there's nothin' ta be sorry about." Mondo told him.
"I am interested to know why we are all silent?" Komaeda questioned.
Naegi responded. "Leon has been doing something behind Chihiro's back. Mondo, you said that you'd talk to him." He stated noticing that Leon acted like he hadn't been scared by Mondo at all. The biker was pretty scary.
"We didn't!" Ishimaru answered. "We followed him instead and believe that Chihiro should come follow us this afterschool!"
"Can you at least tell me?"
"No! But you may follow us as well!"
"Can I come?" Komaeda asked.
"Of course! You can all come!"
"Are you coming Kyouko-chan?" Naegi asked his girlfriend.
"I'm sorry, but no. Togami-san and I have research to do."
"Oh. Alright."
Asahina watched as everyone continued to ignore Leon which incredibly pissed him off. He turned to Komaeda in between breaks, "Hey Nagito, you're not mad at me right?"
"Not at all, but everyone else seems to be, and I don't know why. I was simply playing along." The white haired male responded. "Have you done anything to upset them?"
"No! Nothing that I know of..." The red head thought hard about it.
"My best guess is that you hurt your boyfriend indirectly if you truly don't know. Chihiro-chan is more sensitive than others that perhaps he over thought of something you did before."
"Mmmm." Leon thought harder of what he's been doing wrong but didn't know what. "Damn! I have no fucking clue! Does he wants to break up with me? But there's no fucking way that's gonna happen! I love him! We love each other dammit!"
"Are you sure? There are people out there who wait for the other person to break off their relationship, because they don't want to be the bad guy. Well, it's only the first day of the silent treatment. It's best to wait for tomorrow. I hope you two will be well." Komaeda walked away to his next class.
Leon wanted to confront the others but then figured that he should follow Komaeda's advice and wait for what tomorrow had to bring. For now he had to go to his scheduled destination without noticing the other guardians, except mercury and earth, with Komaeda following him.
"Where is he going?" Chihiro asked. Mondo told him to wait and see. To the shota's surprise, they were at the Cherry Blossom Martial Arts Dojo. They watched him from outside to see him enter a different room with Sakura.
They entered the place where the woman from before greeted them. "Come this way." She led them to another room that happened to have a one way see through mirror. The room on the other side had different exercising equipment and also other things you'd see in Ninja Warrior.
Chihiro saw Leon coming out of another room wearing a white gi. Sakura was with him and told him what to do. All of them watched as he stretched and then did general exercises like jumping jacks and pushups, and then uplifts, bench presses, globe grasp, vertical limit and many other things.
Of course Asahina had the fast forward ones as she saw him sweat, drink up his energy drink and then a few seconds of rest before continuing again. On the salmon ladder, he made a blunder and fell back down, but then he just got up and said that he was going to try again.
"I get it now." Komaeda said. "Leon always does things for the sake of girls like the time he wanted to be a musician for a girl at the salon. His dreams often include the attraction of other people more so than the dream itself. A hopeless romantic, so when he learned that Chihiro-chan liked strong guys, he quickly changed his dreams to become someone strong to make Chihiro-chan happy." Nobody said anything as they silently agreed. "The reason he hasn't told anyone was because he needed something to prove it like he did with his fashion style. In this case he wants to build muscles similar to Mondo-kun's before gloating about it."
Chihiro continued to watch his boyfriend struggle. His man already had muscles but in this case, he needed more to prove that he was as strong as he thought Chihiro wanted him to be. He felt guilty for letting Leon think he wasn't good enough for him, but also a little bit turned on by how he was sweating and had that water bottle pour down his body from head to toe. The way his face was strained with determination and how he kept pusing himself to keep going. And then that one moment he looked at the mirror angrily as if reflecting on the kind of man he was, and that reflection just got him angrier and more pumped to keep going was incredibly hot.
Then the training seemed to be over. Sakura walked over to him with a razor. "Your hair and piercings are a distraction. You must remove them."
"What?!"
"I allowed you to keep your appearance to test your devotion. This is your final step. Shave your head and beard and remove your piercings. And then I will know that you are truly devoted to this."
Leon hesitated but then took that razor in his hands. "STOP!" Chihiro ran into the room. "Leon you don't have to do this!"
"Chihiro! How did you know I was here?!"
"We followed ya, you dumbass." Mondo revealed the truth along with Ishimaru by his side who nodded for affirmation.
"You had left Chihiro in the dark of your secrets that had left him feel unwanted!" Ishimaru revealed more of the truth. "He thought you wanted to break up with him because you were having an affair!"
"What no! Chihiro, I would never cheat on you!" Leon walked over to him.
"I-I'm sorry. But you kept telling me lies of what you were doing and wouldn't return my calls."
"That's because I wanted to tell you later, and I didn't lie when I said that my phone broke. How can you think that I'd cheat on you?"
"I'm sorry." Chihiro fell to tears. He could blame Togami but that wasn't right.
Leon sighed taking him into his arms. "It's my fault for not being honest. Forgive me too?"
"Yes." The two shared a kiss that lasted longer that everyone was awkwardly looking away.
"Now I gotta shave my head gain."
"What? But I said you shouldn't."
"I know, but you like tough guys like Mondo so I gotta do this."
"It's not that I wanted you to be strong! It's because I wanted to be strong since I'm a boy."
"That can be arranged." Sakura stated. "But that depends if you are devoted as well."
"You'd take me as your student?" The woman nodded. "Then what should I do?"
"You will also have a hair cut and change your clothes to the image you truly want. If you wish to still wear dress, then fine."
"Leon?"
The red head grinned, "What are you asking me for? I wouldn't stop loving you either way would I? What kind of boyfriend would I be?" That earned him another kiss. So on the both of them got a haircut. Leon had to shave his head, beard and remove his piercings which would have him revert to his natural hair color and looks. Without the beard and all, he actually looked astonishingly younger. For Chihiro, he got his own in a military cut, and shopped for more boyish clothes. It didn't effect his cuteness at all.
Asahina watched as the ball reverted to Ishimaru and Mondo playing Mario Kart in the biker's room. Ishimaru won. "I understand why people play video games! It's really invigorating for the soul!"
"Yeah," Mondo said tiredly.
"Is there something wrong brother?"
"It's nothing. I'm still pissed off that my brother doesn't trust me with the gang."
"Mondo Oowada, your brother does trust you! He only wishes to give you time to be responsible for your education if you wish to be a carpenter! It requires geometry, economics and wood-shop classes! Some day you might even open up your own business!"
Mondo chuckled. "Yeah, and you're going to be the prime minister who's going to change Japan." Ishimaru nodded with determination staring into those purple cesspools of eyes that stared back into his auburn eyes. The Hall Monitor envied the masculity that Mondo possessed. The male was far more muscular as the loose white wife beater showed a proportion of his chest and his ripped arms that had held the emotional male many times. The biker also liked what he saw. The nerd was still wearing the school uniform and he had to subconsciencely admit to himself that he liked a man in uniform.
Ishimaru bit his bottom lips as the biker took the initiative to lean forward. They could both feel the warmth of their breaths on each other's lips. Their noses slightly touching that Mondo had to tilt his head to the side a little to reach his lips.
"LIL BRO! I bought you and your friend snacks!" Daiya entered the room to feel an awkward atmosphere.
"I must leave or else I'll miss curfew! Thank you and excuse me!" Ishimaru practically ran out of the house, and took a bus home. Mondo told his brother to get out and went to bed after turning off the game.
Asahina gave a sad awe. "They should've kissed! But I bet they'll be together everntually! Now how about Naegi-san and Kirigiri-san's date!" The ball switched to the two who were watching the latest Sherlock Holmes movie.
Naegi tried to slip his arm around Kirigiri's shoulder naturally but then chickened out. The detective instead took his arm and wrapped it around her shoulder. Later, the two lied down on the couch with Kirigiri comfortably on top of Naegi until the movie ended.
"That was a good movie. I still feel goosebumps." The lucky teen commented.
"Yes. Even if he was a fictional character, I admire his deductions. Which character do you like?"
"Uhm, to be honest I like the dog. I've always wanted a dog."
"Rude!" Yamada who's been watching with them got off the couch walking away. "If you want a dog so badly, then I'll be leaving now! Hmph!"
Naegi just laughed softly. "Kyouko-chan I have to ask, what are you and Togami doing exactly?"
"We've been trying to find out who the other Sailor guardians are. Togami has a hint of who is Saturn, and it is the best to not have her become a guardian again. For Sailor Pluto, it appears that there are many student gamblers, but if she truly is the gaurdian of time, then she'll come when she is needed."
"I see."
"We are also trying to find a way to wake up the healed DNs, but then the coma appears to be permanent."
"Isn't there something we can do?"
"I considered it, but then using your star energy that I borrow from all of you were repelled. This type of despair is stronger, or they wish to repel against hope."
"You took star energy from us?"
"Yes. By simply putting my hand on you, I am able to absorb star energy. I am the guardian of life." Kirigiri explained. "Do you mind?"
"N-no! I understand if it is you Kyouko-chan, but I wonder what is the extent of you power."
"I suppose I do make myself appear too strong, but then we are on my home planet. I asked Fujisaki-san of why he chose my home planet. He tells me he doesn't remember. I wonder why we aren't able to remember clearly. Yamada-san and Hagakure-san only remember their duty and who we were in general but other memories escape them. Back to the question of my powers, I control life." She made a rose appear on her hand. "And give it a meaning to its purpose, but there are extents I cannot cross like time travel or similar powers that the rest of you possess." She tried to give it a lightning power but then the flower died into a crisp.
"If you control life, does that mean you can make babies or actual living beings?"
"By simply molding clay and putting a seed of life inside it, yes. I can make artificial things into life, but I can't bring them back from the dead if they were to die. But I don't do that because life is a sacred power I'm forbidden to give. Just like Sailor Pluto who is not allowed to effect time in any way of preventing life from entering the afterlife. Sailor Sun is the guardian of birth and rebirth, and Sailor Saturn is the guardian of death. Their sacred powers have more leniency to how they can use their powers. I hope that neither of them were given a reason to use it either way."
Naegi was awed by all the power around him, but all he could think was, "You said hope."
"Isn't it natural to say that?"
"It is. But then it reminds me of Nagito. He says that a lot." Naegi smiled lamely. Kirigiri didn't make a statement on that.
"And then there's you." She said instead.
"Huh?"
"The guardian of Love and Justice, and also happens to be SHSL Luck. In life there are good and bad karma. With you on our side Naegi-san, perhaps your good luck will break us through the worst despair." For a moment Kirigiri seemed to glow with mystical beauty. Her light purple hair lazily cascaded down her body where Naegi was unable to not notice her own nice well rounded breast. He looked up to notice that her eyes told him that he knew where he was staring. She simply crossed her legs letting that short skirt slightly get much more shorter in perspective. Her pretty pink lips made Naegi want to kiss her so he leaned forward giving her a soft kiss that quickly turned into a deep toe curling hot make out sessions.
Until his parents' car was heard coming up and the door's handle shook by keys entering it. Naegi's parents found the teens still on the couch while there son hugged a pillow. That was the end for one night.
Asahina's perverted side was bummed out, and then blushed by how perverted she was. "Well that should be all for today! It was interesting and I got to know my teammates a lot better! Maybe I should try inviting them all to a brunch sometime!"
And then there was a call from Kirigiri who told her to come see them at Kirigiri's house. They all arrived to stand in front of Yamada and Hagakure on the living room's coffee table. "I called you here because I made upgrades to your power to allow you to reach a fuller potential to your powers."
"Really?!" The swimmer was excited.
The cat nodded. "What we need is for the inner senshi's to put their powers sticks on the table in front of me. For the outer senshi's they have another form of upgrade due to different cultures." The Inner senshis put their magical sticks on the table.
"Eh? What about us?" Chihiro asked since she and Sailor Moon held brooches.
"You two have to wait for the next upgrade. Besides you two are suppose to be the healers and you're doing a good job with it." Hagakure responded.
"Then what about Kyouko-chan?" Naegi questioned when she didn't put down a rose or anything.
The female responded, "I was born a prince. In theology, women have stronger connections with what is spiritual which is why I am limited with my powers while the rest of you will continue to enhance in power."
"Back then women were stronger than men due to the spiritual connection, but in physicality, it's men who hone more power. On the mentality case, its neutral since most people of either genders disappoint me." Togami explained.
The other inner senshis quietly said their insults or remarks about him. The two cats used their hair to change their magical sticks into Star magical sticks. "Now you guys have to say your planet name with Star Power! Make-up!"
They took their sticks and said it.
"Mercury Star Power! Make-Up! That's seriously a mouthful."
"Mars Star Power! Make-Up!"
"Jupiter Star Power! Make-Up!"
"Venus Star Power! Make-Up!"
They transformed to see that not much of their appearances had changed any different from the last one. "Is this some kind of joke?" Mondo had his fists on his love hips, but then that anger she had sparked up a lot stronger than before that she almost let that electricity slipped out. The other moved away from him.
"Nope! You guys have achieved a higher power so when you attack, it's stronger than how you were before!" Yamada explained and the four of them turned back. "Now it's your turn!"
"You two lovely ladies must transform in order for us to show you!" Hagakure told them.
"Uranus Planet Power! Make-Up!"
"Neptune Planet Power! Make-Up!"
The two transformed. Yamada explained, "Now as the outer guardians, in your culture, you two used weapons unlike the inner guardians that were made from your pure heart. You hold your hands to your chest like this." The two cats did the pose. The two outer senshis mimicked them. "Allow your heart crystal to exit your body and become your weapon."
The two had their heart crystal exit their body. For Sailor Uranus, her heart crystal became a pair of gauntlets for her, and then for Asahina, hers became the Deep Aqua Mirror. They thought all was good but then both of them fainted. The cats hurriedly caught them with magic by their hair returning the heart crystals to their bodies.
"I don't understand! That should've worked!" Yamada was bewildered. Everyone felt a tiny bit of their hope shredded from the failure.
A/N: This time they have the star power make up transformation that gives them two more moves except for Kirigiri, Chihiro and Naegi.
Now onto Pluto! The Gambling Princess!
