Chapter 7: He Is Not Useless!

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Hotaru and Rini went into Simon's hospital room. Hotaru wanted to cry as soon as she walked in. Simon was laying there with bandages all over him and his eyes closed.

His eyes... his eyes that would no longer work for him.

To think... Simon would wake up and not see anything... only darkness.

Hotaru went and sat down next to his bed. She grabbed his hand and tears fell down onto it.

Rini relized that Hotaru wanted to be alone, and she quietly left the room.

"I'm sorry for everything Simon... this is all my fault... I made you think that you were some kind of Sailor Scout... I made you believe you should've interfeared and protected Sailor Saturn... I should've just told you the truth... after all"

Hotaru leaned down and kissed his cheek.

"That's what friends do... please forgive me..."

Hotaru looked around Simon's room.

'His mom is at work and can't get off... and his dad walked out on him when he was young... he has nobody to confort him when he wakes up... and finds out he's..' She thought to herself, but was cut off my Simon's hand tugging out of hers.

"Ho-Taru..." He said quietly.

Hotaru got on the edge of her seat and her heart was pumping.

Simon slowly opened his eyes.

"W-What's going on!" He shouted loudly. "I- I can't see anything!" He said hystaracly.

Tears flowed down Hotaru's face, she tried to calm him down as much as she could.

"Simon! Simon!" She would call over and over and he twisted and turned in his bed.

"Simon! Please calm down!" She finally yelled and it worked. Simon looked all around, as if searching for his sight... but he would never find it.

The doctor suddenly burst through the door.

"Miss Tomoe, could you please leave for a moment?"

Hotaru nodded and walked out of the room.

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After a while the doctor left the room and nodded to Hotaru telling her it was alright to enter.

Hotaru slowly walked twords the door. She grabbed the door knob, but it took her about 2 minutes to actually turn it. When she finally opened the door, Simon was sitting up in his bed crying.

"Simon?" She asked sadly.

"DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR ME!" He snapped.

Hotaru took a step back from fear, but she remembered the look on Simon's face right before he was hit by the blast. He looked determined. Now he looked scared, like his entire world feel ontop of him and he was crushed.

"I will never draw again... I will never see my future wife and kids... I am never going to be happy... everything... is gone"

Hotaru walked up to the chair she sat in earlier and grabbed his hand.

"Simon... what happened?"

Simon looked over to her. Somehow, his eyes got brighter and it was covered by a foggy coating.

"I got in the way of Sailor Saturn... I thought I could save her but... I was wrong."

Hotaru burst into tears.

"This is all my fault" She said, choking on a few words. "I put all that stuff into your head..." She barley said, clearly.

Simon put his hand on her head, which was hung down low.

"Hotaru... This isn't your fault... your wern't there to stop this... there was nothing you could do..."

Hotaru hugged Simon and Simon returned the hug.

"Simon.. I'm so sorry... "

Simon pushed her away.

"I don't need anybody feeling sorry for me!" He yelled. "I don't want sympathy for being worthless!!!"

Hotaru shook her head.

"Worthless?" She asked. Hotaru looked around and found the sketch book on the back table.

She went and grabbed it and brought it back to him along with a pencil.

"Draw Something." She said.

Simon looked around, and was confused.

"I-I can't see!"

"Simon.. see with your heart... see with your mind... that's what you did earlier"

Simon shook his head and through the sketchpad across the room.

"Hotaru! You don't Understand! I can't do anything I used to do! I'm a worthless nobody!!!"

Hotaru stood up and opened the door, and walked out, and slammed it behind her.

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Hotaru got into the waiting room and found that all the Sailor Scouts were still there, along with Darien, Andrew and Chad.

Darien saw Hotaru and let go of Serena's hand and walked tword her.

Hotaru sighed at the fact that he was coming tword her. She liked Darien, she didn't know how many times he took a blast for her because she was only 13, but he always called her Tari, and for some reason, that made her furious, she thought of it as an insult to her mother when someone didn't call her by her real name.

"Tari?"

Hotaru rolled her eyes and looked up at him.

"Sit down... I need to talk to you."

Hotaru nodded and sat down on the chair and Darien sat down next to her, she looked aorund and saw that everyone was staring at them.

"Tari... You know about Sailor Titan correct?"

Hotaru nodded.

"Well... I need to know what you think about it?"

Hotaru shrugged.

"I can't change history... what's done is done... he's Sailor Titan and there is nothing I can do about it."

Darien leaned back.

"I mean about his blindness..."

"Oh... well umm... Doesn't he already have the attacks in his other form when he transforms... kinda like us?"

Darien shook his head.

"The Sailor Protecters are way diffrent from us...Sailor Moon is extreamly strong because she is a protecter of me... You are indeed stronger than her... but why is unknown for right now... but anyway..."

"The Protecters are stronger than the Scouts... because thier job isn't to kill the enemy... it's to protect us at any cost. As far as my memory can tell, Titan was the strongest protecter due to Saturn's enormus power... you yourself are stronger than all the Sailor Scouts... and match them equally in power when they work together... it may not seem that way now, but that's because your powers are still dorment... you have a ways to go before you reach full power."

"Anyway, Titan was extreamly strong. He could heal you, make a giant energy dome that every single ounce of energy that hits it goes into him and makes his attacks 10x stronger, he could fly, and he could also is one of the protecters who could only protect thier rightful scout."

"But I thought that all of the protecters could only protect thier rightful scout?"

Darien shook his head.

"Few couldn't... Jupiter, Moon, and Pluto were the only ones who can protect all... but that's due to thier powers... Jupiter makes a electric barrier, Moon... welll she does a lot of stuff... and Pluto can stop time so we can heal for the time being."

"So... what are you going to do?"

Darien was silent.

"I'm going to train Simon with all my might, and make him the first protecter..."

Hotaru sighed.

"What's wrong Tari?"

"I don't want him involved with this Sailor Stuff..."

"I'm afraid you don't have a choice Tari, He's your partner, other than Sailor Venus..."

"Huh?"

"Oh.. Luna didn't tell you about the Sun and the Moon?"

Hotaru nodded.

"Yea she told me about that... but what do you mean partners? Luna said"

"Oh... well all the Moon scouts have a match with the Sun Scouts... the only scout that thier powers don't cancel out with each other."

Darien looked tired and rubbed his eyes.

"Sailor Neptune and Uranus.. Sailor Mars and Pluto... Sailor Mercury and Jupiter... and Saturn and Venus"

"Why?"

"Well... For Neptune and Uranus...Water and Wind make a strong pair...Fire and Lightning are both destructive... Water and Time... well if you think about it... it kinda works... and Dark and Light... It works too"

Hotaru rolled her eyes.

"Plus... Venus leads the inner scouts... and you lead the outer... so it also works..."

"But Luna told us that if we fight with anybody with solar energy... it cancels out.."

Darien smiled.

"It seems Luna and Artemis are still short of memory... your going to have to excuse them... but if you have any more questions about the Sailoro Protecters... ask me.. ok?"

Hotaru nodded and looked at Simon's room.

"How is he going to be a protecter when he can't even see?"

Darien sighed.

"I'm disapointed that you feel that way... but don't worry.. leave it all to me!"

Hotaru looked at him in confusion and looked back at Simon's room.

'Somehow... I am still able to trust him... I don't know if it's the fact that I have to... or I feel like I have to... But I do... I am willing to put my life in his hands and trust him to protect it... But on the other hand... how can I trust someone... who can't see?' She asked herself.

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Darien walked into Simon's room with Hotaru staring.

"Who's there?" Simon asked in alert.

"Relax Simon... My name is Darien... and I am here to help you."

Simon shook his head.

"I don't need anybody's help... so you should just leave."

Darien stared at him.

"Simon.. You're going to have to excuse Hotaru... she is having as much as a time as you are with this... but she will come around... but untill then... you have a duty.."

Simon looked up at him slowly.

"Duty?"

"A duty to Sailor Saturn... You are Sailor Titan... and you protect Sailor Saturn... and I will train you to be the best protecter ever!"

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