Michiru


"Ruka," Michiru said shaking her sleeping partner only to be met with a reply of grunts. "I am going to Greece for a few days. I am going to go visit my mother and tell her who I am."

"I'll go with you," Haruka mumbled.

"You can't love. Remember you have to go talk to your father," Michiru replied with a smile.

"I don't wanna," Haruka pouted. "I don't want you to go either," as she pulled Michiru close to her causing Michiru to giggle.

Michiru kissed Haruka and tired to get out of bed. "Ruka you are going to make me miss my flight." Michiru could not help but smile at Haruka's pouting as she grabbed her bags. Kissing her again she headed for the door but stopped and turned back to Haruka. With a wink Michiru said quietly, "You can punish me when I get back," before closing the door and headed downstairs to the waiting cab.


She had gotten her looks from her father but her love of art and music from her mother. Her Japanese appearance made her stand out in a sea of Greeks. As she gathered her bags she saw a woman standing there holding a sign with her name on it. Michiru smiled and chuckled silently to herself. "Beware Greeks bearing gifts," Michiru thought.

Michiru walked up to the woman and smiled. She knew some Greek since her mother was Greek but had not had much contact with her mother's family so did not speak it often. Michiru was able however to tell the woman who she was.

"You can relax Miss Kaiou," the woman said in Japanese as they walked toward the car. "My name is Cassandra and I am fluent in Japanese which is why your mother asked me to come pick you up. Ever since your mother came back you have not come to visit her much." Michiru looked at the woman questioningly. "I apologize for sounding so forward. I am one of your mother's closet friends and she misses you very much."

"You must be Cassie who I have heard mother speak of before," stated Michiru. "I have been busy touring. I told mother when father died she could stay in Japan but I understand her wanting to be in her home country. It always feels good for me to get back to Japan after doing a tour. I know she was deeply hurt when father died when I was in high school." Michiru stopped speaking as Cassie opened the car door revealing a woman sitting inside.

"Mother why did you not come inside," she asked stunned.

"And miss the look on your face?" she asked. As they drove her mother turned serious and looked at her. "Do you really not hate me for leaving?"

"At first living own my own was hard and I missed you and father but I understood eventually. I was not alone for long as I soon found a roommate during the second year of high school. Father's family kept watch over me and let us live in an apartment in one of the building they owned," Michiru stopped when she noticed her mother's smile.

"That must be the girl named Haruka you wrote about in your letters," her mother answered as her daughter gave her a questioning look. Michiru nodded. "You must love her very much."

"Yes I….what," Michiru said surprised.

"It was not hard to figure out from your letters. The way you talked about her was like you were talking about a love and not just a close friend."

"You are not made or disappointed in me," asked Michiru.

"It was not a surprise to me. You may have dressed like a girl but you always hung around the boys but you were never a fan girl. When you were in a group of boys you were one of the boys or you were not interested in them the way they were in you. You may have only been in middle school but that did not stop the boys from having crushes on you."

"Well that was one of the things I wanted to talk to you about. I want you to come to meet Haruka. I also want you do meet Setsuna and Hotaru and my other friends. Setsuna, Haruka and I adopted Hotaru together." Her mother looked at her and raised and eyebrow causing Michiru to blush. "Yeah but it is not what I feel for Ruka. One day something just happened to the three of us. Setsuna would never get in the way of Ruka and I. Actually bother of us were surprised when Suna told us she had crushes on both Ruka and myself." Michiru showed her mother the gold band on her left hand. "Ruka, Suna, and I all wear one as our promise to take care of Hotaru."

"I am glad you are happy." Then with a smile her mother said, "How old is my granddaughter?"

"She just finished high school." Seeing her mother's look she continued. "I will explain everything later. Can we have dinner just the two of us?"

Alena nodded. "I would love that. It has been too long since the two of us have had dinner together." Then she said with some sadness in her voice, "There are thing I need to talk to you about too, Michiru."


Later that night her mother cooked Michiru's favorite Italian dish from when Michiru was younger.

As they set the table she wondered if she should go first or if she should let her mother talk. "Michiru," her mother began as she stopped and looked at her daughter. "I want to tell you why I left Japan."

"I know it was because you missed father so much," Michiru answered.

"Yes and I still do but there is more," her mother replied quietly. "You father's accident was not an accident. He was the head of the most powerful Yakuza in Japan. He was killed by a rival boss trying to takeover the Japanese underworld. Your father's successor thought it would be safer if I left Japan."

"Why leave me then?" Michiru asked with a mix of anger and confusion.

"The people who killed your father knew that I would never leave you. So as much as it hurt me to save you I had to leave. I knew they would always be looking for a woman and a daughter," answered Alena. "I told Tenho I would agree if he would teach you to protect yourself along with giving you a good education. I know he has done as he promised. I love your paintings and I have all your CDs. What I do not understand is why he had you dye your hair aqua and why you still do it?"

"Well something happened after you left that caused my hair to permanently turn to this color which I will explain later. It was hard not having you around. I wish you had stayed but I know you were doing what you thought was best for me by leaving me with…..wait! Did you say Tenho," Michiru asked almost yelling the last part.

"Yes why," her mother answered confused.

"Tenho is Ruka's last name," whispered Michiru.

Her mother left the table and came back with a picture frame in her hand. Setting the frame down on the table her mother pointed to a young little sandy blonde boy. Michiru looked at the picture and she remembered when it was taken. Her and her mother had gone with her father to some business function. The picture had her and her mother on the right of her father. The standing beside her father on his left was a sandy haired man with his young son, who had chased her the entire time they were there. Finally Michiru said pointing to the little boy, "That's Ruka."

"And that," he mother said pointing to the sandy haired man beside her father, "is Tehno Sentou, the man who I asked to care for you."

"It has been so long I did not realize that Ruka was the one who chased me that day. I remember talking to Sentou a few times but the way he talked about father it was like he was part of the family. He told me that if I ever needed anything I could call him. Ruka has never talked about her father except that he was very stern and wanted her to follow in his footsteps to take over the family business." Shaking her head, "It makes sense why she never talked about her father. I guess she did not want me to be in danger."

"Only a few people know that Haruka is a woman. Probably not even many of the people under her father know. I know because I knew your father and he trusted your father. Apparently Haruka's mother died when she was born and her father decided to raise her as a boy," Alena told her.

"I will definitely have to talk to Ruka when I get back but I came here to talk to you," Michiru told her mother. "This is probably going to be hard for you to believe," she said as so took a deep breath and closed her eyes. When she opened her eyes she said, "I am Sailor Neptune."

Her mother nodded, "Yes I know."

"You knew? But how," Michiru asked as she followed her mother to the living room.

"With your father being who he was I learned to look for things other people would not normally look for. Plus who else would have your hair color," she said pulling a scrapbook from the shelf. "Remember you did send me school pictures and there was no way to hide your outstanding new hair color. I was shocked at first but I slowly got used to the color as it complimented your eyes beautifully," said Alena as she laid the book on the table and opened it for Michiru to see.

"How did you know what Sailor Neptune looked like? Everything I have heard said that we do not photograph in our Senshi forms and that only people who know our identities can recognize us in that form," Michiru replied.

"There were not photos but there were written descriptions," her mother answered pointing to one article.

"Two now Senshi have appeared. One with aqua shoulder length hair and one with short sandy blonde hair. The aqua haired Senshi wears turquoise heels and she skirt and bows are also turquoise. The sandy blonde haired Senshi wears dark navy blue ankle boots and her skirt is the same shade of blue while her bows are yellow. Both of these new Senshi wear white body suits like Sailor Moon and the other Senshi. Even though they look similar are they friend or foe?"

Michiru glanced over the article having never paid attention to what the new said about her and her fellow Senshi because most of what she heard was untrue. "So from that article you figured it was me?"

"Not at first but something pulled me to the stories. I just had to follow them," her mother said with a smile.

"This is interesting. These seem to be nicer and more detailed than the few I read in the beginning and the ones I heard about from my classmates," Michiru replied as she glanced over a few other articles. "Who wrote these," she thought out loud as she flipped back and looked at the articles author.

"Tuskino Kenji," answered Alena.

"I should have known," Michiru replied with a laugh. When her mother looked at her she explained that he was Serenity's father. "I wonder if they knew the whole time." Then turning to her mother and grabbing her hands she looked her directly in the eyes. "Will you come back to Japan with me?"

"Yes," her mother answered.

"Tomorrow over breakfast I will tell you about the Silver Millennium and Crystal Tokyo," Michiru told her mother.

"After that you can meet the rest of the family," her mother replied. "Right now," she said looking out the winder, "we both need to get some sleep."

"Yeah," Michiru said with a yawn as her adrenaline had faded and jet lag slowly started to catch up with her.


Sentou means first in Japanese.

Alena means pretty in Greek.

The beginning part was taken from real life when one time my boyfriend did not want to let me go one morning when I had to get up an drive back to college so I would make it to work that morning.

Michiru's story was actually written before Haruka's but I thought it would be nice to use the opening part from Michiru's story from Haruka's point of view for her story to tie the two together.

Before Crystal Tokyo by DavisJes

Before Crystal Tokyo © DavisJes March 2008

Sailor Moon © Naoko Takeuchi