DISCLAIMER: The characters you don't have any idea who, belongs to me. The rest of the sailor moon cast belongs to Naoko Takeuchi-sensei respectively.


Once in a Blue Moon


"It's your dad! Hino-sensei's car was hit by a truck! We think the same person who's been targeting Kaioh-sensei is after him now!"

Minako was listening attentively to her companion's explanations, as her blue eyes ran over the crime scene.

It was not even an hour ago when she was summoned here. The blonde sergeant was just arriving in her apartment after going through medical check up for her knee when her cell phone rang. Mako-chan said something about a big accident involving the Politician Hino Ryuuji and how the Chief wanted the officers in charge of the attacks to come immediately to the crime scene.

And here she was minutes later. The first thing that had come to her mind when she heard the news was the name 'Hino'. It doesn't take a genius to realize that Hino Ryuuji was her partner's father, and so she'd call the Wakashira.

The blonde sergeant was now scanning the area of a possible raven haired figure to pop up out of nowhere.

"Minako-san!" the traffic officer beside her let out a sigh as he noticed that his companion ignored him once again "are you listening?"

"I was! But, I think you should wait for my partner to arrive before you continue, Genji-kun." Minako didn't spare her companion a look as she spoke.

Sergeant Amekazu Genji was the one in charge of the traffic control the time the accident happened, and so it was his duty to inform the other officers about the incident.

But Minako's words had Genji frowned in confusion.

"You have a partner? Since when?" the brunette man asks as the blonde swelled in pride.

"We just started working today though. You know the Kaioh Mansion bombing?" she raised her eyebrows at the other sergeant who let out a low whistle of awe.

"You're a rookie, but you sure got the big parts, kid. So, who's the lucky officer? Anyone I know?"

Minako opened her mouth to answer, but Mamoru's appearance had stopped the words from coming out.

"Is Hino here yet?" the Chief asked Minako, who shook her head in return.

"I called her like ages ago. What's taking her so long?" the blonde frowned as her eyes strayed over at the forming crowds that are watching from outside the police line, looking for a certain someone. The lack of light and the darkening sky didn't help her one bit.

Genji noticed the surname and his eyes widened "wait- Hino? Which Hino are we talking about again?"

"Rei Hino." Minako said with a tilt of her head.

"That Black Ravens leader?" he looked at Minako dubiously, the latter gave a nod in affirmation "w-wait, Hino-sensei's kid, the gang leader, is your partner?"

Minako nodded slowly as she pointed at Mamoru with a slight shrug "his decision though,"

Genji looked incredulously at the Chief, who avoided his eyes pointedly.

The sound of screeching tires broke their conversation as all eyes turned to the black Honda that had got through the Police barrier. Even in the darkness of the night, the blonde sergeant could make out the slim figure that got out of the driver's seat and was making her way towards where Minako was standing with Mamoru and Genji.

"Finally, Rei-chan!" Minako bounded to meet her partner, but the latter ignored her warm greetings and walked straight towards Mamoru.

The Chief eyed the newcomer with a smile "I thought you're not coming." An all knowing twinkle was present in his eyes as Rei shoot him a glare.

"Mind your own business." The Wakashira snaps angrily at the Chief whose smile didn't falter. Genji, however, had his jaw opened in shock. No one dared to speak to the Chief like that.

"Ne, Genji-kun, you can continue with the explanations now," Minako said to Genji but her mind was on Rei. There's something strange in Rei's angry snap just now, and the look in Mamoru's eyes only convinced her more that the Chief knows whatever that sets Rei off.

'Damn the Chief and his all knowing ways' the blonde sigh.

"A-ah, so," Genji flipped through his notes nervously "an accident between a black Mercedes and a container's truck had taken place here at approximately 1700 hours." He motioned towards the leftovers of the incident, an 8-wheeled truck that was flipped on its side and a sleek black Mercedes that had crashed right into the Government Building's wide lobby windows with both of the front tires flat "eyewitnesses had reported of gunshots being fired from the truck, but the driver had left in the middle of the chase after 2 of his bullets successfully hit the front tires of the Mercedes and had left the truck to hit the car and- well, you see how it ends up now" Genji ended lamely. He had never taken a liking to blood, and since he ended up as a police, he became a traffic police so at least he could avoid seeing bloodshed in murder cases. But there's just one of those days when he had to take care of a horrifying accident like this one where blood seems to be everywhere.

Minako could feel the hairs behind her neck rose in horror as her eyes took sight of the scene. The car was totally wrecked, and that's saying something. From the tip of the headlights to practically the driver and front seats were practically bashed against the busted lobby walls, looking like a useless piece of tin that was stepped over on. The indestructible windows shattered to useless pieces of glass that had flooded the car. Bullet holes filled the right side of the car, most of them ending at the backseat, where she'd figured Hino-sensei would be sitting.

What made her shiver though, was the amount of blood oozing out of the bullet holes.

Someone had to be as tenacious as a cockroach to be able to live from this type of ordeal with that much blood lost.

She quickly turned to her partner who still had that poker face on. Her expression shows nothing upon it, but her eyes, her mesmerizing violet eyes were blazing dangerously it might burn anything she sets her eyes on.

"Rei-chan…" the blonde sergeant breathed as the regal Wakashira walk pass her without a word, heading straight towards the half destroyed car ignoring the complains of the forensic teams that was working.

"This must be a huge blow for her," said a voice breaking Minako out of her reverie as she turned around and found her Chief by her side, his eyes gazing gently at the Wakashira's form as the later bend over the car "for no matter how much she'd claimed that she despised her father, there is still some compassion deep within her heart for him.."

The blonde blinked as her heart ache in a familiar pain that she'd long tried to bury deep within her "Rei-chan…hated…her dad?"

Thump.

Flashbacks of the past came flashing itself before her eyes once more.

Thump.

The pale hands that hung limply by his side…

Thump.

The trickling flow of thick blood that oozed down those arms that used to held her…

Thump.

The glazed look over the pair of the once-warm blue eyes that always showed her the endless love he had for her.

Thump.

A throbbing pain came to invade her heart as the blonde Sergeant clutched the front of her jacket desperately. The flashbacks rewind itself over and over again in her mind's eye.

'No…no!'

"Sergeant!!"

Blue eyes snapped open as its owner panted heavily. Both of Mamoru's hands were on her shoulders. Apparently he'd been shaking her since her visit to la-la land.

Eyes still hazy over internal shock, Minako tried her best to reply "Ch-chief?"

Mamoru peered down his subordinate, the drastic change of look that came upon her face. Her once determined look was replaced by the paling of the face that almost looks deathly.

"Are you alright?" he asks

Minako gave a furious nodding of the head, partly to get rid of the dull throbbing at the back of her head "y-yes. I'm fine. Just…a little shaken." She gave a nod towards the Mercedes, hoping that her Chief would let this one go.

Mamoru frowned, he knew she was lying. But then he smiled, as though he knew nothing "I see. I'm sorry to have surprised you by calling you here."

"n-no, it's alright…"

"Chief," both of them turned to Genji who had a file in his hand "present report, sir."

"Fire away."


Her eyes closed in silent prayer. The first reason why she'd chose to pray eluded her, yet the Wakashira concentrated fully on her left over powers from her past miko trainings as she lightly traced her fingers over what remains of the Mercedes.

Scenes came flashing at once.

The black Mercedes had just left a restaurant just after dusk as it now began its journey home. Unknown to the driver and the politician inside the car, an 8 wheeled truck had come out of nowhere and positioned itself on the car's tail.

The fingers moved the long gashes near the tires.

5 shots had missed hitting the tires as the Mercedes swerved in alarm of an oncoming danger.

It then moved towards the tires.

7 total with 2 of them ending up flatting the front tires, causing the Mercedes to lose its control on the busy roadway.

Rei's hands calmly went over the bloodied bullet holes. Strange, her hands felt clammy, yet her mind's eyes were as clear as ever.

The truck driver let out 7 more shots at the right side of the car, aiming for the back seat. When he saw blood had oozed out of the bullet holes in the car, the truck driver launched himself out of his ride and watch as the truck's front hit the Mercedes' back bumper, pushing it through the lobby windows before seeing 2 figures jumped out of the car the last minutes as the Mercedes went flat against the wall, the truck sliding for a length before it flipped to its side.

'Shit.' The capped figure snarled under his breath as he mingled with the crowds that had formed before the scene.

The Wakashira opens her eyes slowly, her breathing slightly racing. It's been a while since she'd used her powers, and so it took almost all in her to use it right now. Her hands unconsciously balled into fist as her blazing violet eyes ran over the destroyed for of her father's Mercedes.

She'd lacked in her trainings.

'Shit…' she cursed herself internally. Her post cognition power used to give her many details over the past she'd chose to see. Yet right now… the only detail she'd got from her peek to the past was the truck driver's identity.

And it bruised her pride so at her incompetence.

"Rei-chan." a soft voice brought her back from her anger gently. The Wakashira didn't have to turn around to see who had spoken.

Minako noticed the sudden tensing of the raven haired woman's shoulders and knew that the woman in front of her had her outmost attention.

"Are you alright?" her voice was soft, not more than a whisper, yet Rei heard it clearly all the same.

"I'm fine." The answer to it was short. Yet the blonde had expected it. Gently, she pry open the shaking left fist of her partner's and slip her slightly smaller hand through, earning a flinch from the taller woman.

It was a simple act, yet it calmed Rei's white hot bubbling flame of anger that had threatened to consume her logic.

Minako gave the Wakashira's hand a soft comforting squeeze before speaking "Rei-chan, your father's driver did not make it alive from the crash. When he'd jumped from the car, he'd hit his head with the asphalt, giving him a concussion. He passed away 10 minutes ago." She added softly as the forensic team went about them doing their work.

It's odd. The area around the scene of the crash was loud, yet what Rei felt was calming silence as she stood by the blonde sergeant's side, whose hand gripped her in comfort.

This is new for her. And it scared her.

The blonde noticed the stiffening of Rei's hand in her hold and she gave it another comforting squeeze, she's not finished talking yet.

"The other one left in the car beside the driver, is Hino-sensei," Minako paused to take a deep shuddering breath as her partner waited "he suffered from a broken leg and 2 shots on his sides that had thankfully missed his vitals. But he's currently in ICU, over at Central Tokyo Hospital."

Central Tokyo Hospital.

A painful churn took place somewhere in Rei's middle.

It's the hospital where her mom had spent her last dying breath.

Minako noticed the faint trembling of the taller woman on her side and tightened her hold on Rei's slightly clammy hand.

"As the last witness left, we go visit him now, ne?"


The whole place was still the same like all those years ago. The sharp smell of sterilized alcohol scented the air. It always gave a feeling of faint dread whenever this scent reach her nose, Rei noticed.

The young Wakashira walked slightly behind her partner in short reluctant strides. How the blonde had managed to drag her here she doesn't know. All had seemed to be a blur to her.

Her strides halted to a stop as she came to familiar location. Her head turned to her left where a white painted double door was placed. A familiar sense of long forgotten horror edged its way to her heart. She could practically hear the screams and crying as her past self waited in front of these doors, where her mother had laid just beyond it.

Hino Rei was always undefeatable.

But there's always a silver bullet to everything.

Minako noticed the absence of footsteps behind her. With a sense of dread, she turned around to find no regal Wakashira on her sight.

"Rei-chan!"


A/N:Oh my god. Am I happy to get this one out of my head. Don't forget to review and vote the poll on my profile page ne? And just to be completely random, I am in dire need of Re/Minako fic. So for all those reading this that had an unfinished fic, please, update!