X. Change of Plans

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A/N: YO! Haha How y'all doing? Hope well. I don't think I'll be done with the drama just yet. I know some of you might be getting desperate because y'all want H&M moments. I promise there will be H&M sex/romantic scenes just be patient. Talking about sex scenes, I've heard some people want me to consider the way of H&M's conception of their child/children. I opted to use the moon crystal/senshi power, BUT I'm willing to change it. Somebody suggested to have Haruka change her gender (only when having sex) in order to impregnate Michiru. Now, I want to ask what the rest think? Would it be OK that or you prefer Haruka a woman all the way? I already wrote some sex scene between the two, but I can always use it in another story (after I finish this one and decide for a plot line.) I need to know as soon as possible because I would like to have some ideas and advance as much as possible. Please let me know if you agree and want me to write their sex scenes as woman and man or just Yuri.

Here is my way to express my apology better. A chapter early, because I owed you guys and I'm starting a new job and I'll be terrible busy haha ( don't lose hope, I might update Friday too ;)- if I get enough reviews! Nah but I'll see what I can do.)

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from Sailor Moon (Haruka Tenoh & Michiru Kaioh) everybody else in the story is mine. All rights to their respective original owners. I'm sorry if I'm misusing them.

Next Morning

Kasumi exited the kitchen humming happily. Her lips tugging into a sweet smile upon seeing her blonde master going down the stairs, she even jogged lightly reaching the object of her affection. Haruka wore her usual black riding pants, long sleeve blue dress shirt and a brown coat. Her steps were slow as she kept a grip into the rail of the stairs.

"Good morning." Kasumi excitedly saluted. Her maroon eyes glancing up and down the Uranian.

Haruka sighed pressing a hand over her forehead. Her hangover was killing her. She saw the happy maid and instantly felt guilty. She took a few more steps until she reached the bottom. "Kasumi, I want you to forgive me for what happened last night," Haruka instead replied. She put both of her hands on her shoulders, "You know me, and you know I'm never like that. I was drunk and I didn't know what I was doing."

Had she heard right? The the words from the tall woman hit Kasumi as her eyes started to water. She knew she didn't have a chance. She had seen the way her master looked at her wife, but that didn't stop her for trying.

"No, please don't cry." Haruka guilty pleaded, she knew she was the reason for the young maid's cry.

"I'm not. It's j-just that I…I believed that…" Kasumi tried to talk in between sobs.

"I'm sorry Kasumi; I love you, but just like a sister." Haruka lamely continued, feeling each passing second worse. "You're like the sister I never had. I'm sorry."

Kasumi threw herself to Haruka's arms crying inconsolably, while Haruka hugged her back. As Haruka consoled and asked for forgiveness, Michiru descended the stairs gasping at the sight before her.

"What's going on?" Michiru asked a little bit agitated and annoyed. A fine aqua brow rising in suspicion.

Kasumi broke apart hearing the aquanette's voice. She sent a glance towards her Queen and then looked at Haruka worriedly. She didn't say anything as she exited the room almost running.

Haruka wanted to follow the young maid, but decided against it turning around to face the aquanette.

"May I help you?" Haruka asked in a rather cold tone.

Michiru remained at the middle of the stairs, still both shocked and confused. "You and Kasumi were hugging." She retorted not questioning, but rather confirmingly.

"So?"

"Here in the living room, where anyone could see you." Michiru finished going down the stairs, only to face Haruka.

"Is that what bothers you?" Haruka asked annoyed and slightly disappointed. "OK, then next time I'll do it in a private place." Haruka turned around walking towards the doors determined to leave the place.

Michiru followed behind. "What do you mean by that? You want to say she is your…mistress?"

Haruka turned around angrily. "And if she was. What?" She walked back towards Michiru, getting dangerously close. "Do you feel you have a right to reproach it? If you deny sharing your bed with me, I could easily console in some other woman's bed. Don't you think so?"

That was it, Michiru lowered her gaze. How could she reproach that to the blonde when she knew the blonde was right? If she wasn't meeting her role as a wife then she didn't have any right to stop the blonde, but even if, she couldn't calm the pang she felt inside her chest. She decided to end the conversation turning away from the blonde.

Haruka shook her head. For the second time that morning she felt guilty. She hesitantly approached the aquanette taking her by her shoulders.

"Don't listen to my words. Kasumi has a problem and I was only trying to help her." Great Haruka lie, yes, make things even better. Well what else could she say, maybe the truth, that she had kissed Kasumi but that wouldn't help her disastrous marriage.

Michiru controlled the urgency to cry wiping off any evidence of such act as she shook off Haruka's hands from her shoulders. "You can do whatever you please." She retorted taking her umbrella and leaving to the patio.

As she walked around the grand patio Michiru heard the sobs of a woman. She clenched the grip of her umbrella scowling when she saw Kasumi crying alone by the fountain. That Kasumi, she thinks she can do as she pleases. And Haruka…they can do what they want. Humph .Michiru turned around and kept on walking, still somewhat discontented with the previous events. As the aqua haired woman walked to the main entrance of the palace someone stopped her.

"Your Highness." A humble servant approached the aquanette bowing before her, "there are some guests from Mercury who wish to speak to Haruka-sama, and I can't find Kasumi-san."

Michiru frowned a bit annoyed by the mention of the browned hair maid. "And why do you need Kasumi-san for?" She asked exasperatedly.

The servant gulped and talked nervously. "Haruka-sama ordered to follow Kasumi-san's instructions when she is not here."

The frowned that adorned Michiru's beautiful features deepened. "I am sure that was before I arrived here." Michiru smiled trying to ease her discomfort. "Please let them in. I will take care personally."

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After the heated discussion of the morning Haruka left with Katsuru and Kioshi to the military base. The constants attacks in neighboring planets had suddenly stopped, but that didn't mean the blonde could let her guard down. The two men and she were evaluating strategies and combat plans the entire day. Knowing that she had accomplished her goal for the day Haruka decided to finish her work day. It was midafternoon when Kioshi and her left for the palace. Katsuru, being the general and head of the army, needed to stay longer to revise some documents. When Haruka arrived to the palace she found her wife dismissing a carriage with two persons inside, she quickly dismounted her stallion and joined her wife while Kioshi discretely stood by his horse.

"I'm sorry. I forgot today we were having visits." Haruka sheepishly commented slapping her forehead lightly.

Michiru rolled her eyes. "I'm sure you thought Kasumi-san could take care right? I hope it doesn't bother you I attended them."

The blonde sighed heavily as she tried to remain cool. "I believe you capable of dealing with visits Michiru." She watched the aquanette soften as she heard her words, but nonetheless continued. "I want you to meet someone." Haruka gestured Kioshi to step in closer, "Michiru, this is Ushida Kioshi. He will work for me and Katsuru."

"Hello, it's an honor your Highness." Kioshi kept his gaze firm on her, his voice deep and clear.

The aquanette looked at Kioshi, or rather Adoki, nervously bowing slightly in courtesy, but no words came out of her mouth. Michiru couldn't look at those blue eyes any longer and turned around without any other word.

"Michiru!"

Haruka followed the aqua haired woman inside the palace, bewildered with the attitude and actions of the Neptunian. Once inside her room, Michiru entered the bathroom and splashed fresh water on her face. She couldn't stay in front of Adoki and Haruka pretending she didn't know anything.

"Can you tell me what's wrong with you?" Haruka entered her bathroom too. "You take care of my visitors like a Queen, and then when I want to introduce you to someone you act all strange." The blonde sighed tiredly, "You didn't even greet him properly."

"I-I did…I just didn't have anything to say to him."

"No, that's not it." Haruka interrupted. "I think you attended the Mercurians because you wanted to bother Kasumi, and you were impolite to Kioshi-san because you wanted to bother me!"

"What are you talking about?" Michiru angrily replied. "If Kasumi-san didn't attend the Mercurians was because she wasn't available."

"One of the servants told me, you didn't want her to attend them." The blonde smirked cautiously asking, "Are you jealous?"

"O-of course not, but I think I deserve respect as your wife." Michiru talked moving outside the bathroom into her bedroom. "It is humiliating to see you hugging your mistress in front of me and even worse, she is the one who orders and says in the same place I live."

Haruka followed Michiru inside her room listening attentively to what the Neptunian had to say. "If I recall correctly, I remember I asked you to take care of the palace and you didn't want to." The blonde lowered her gaze but kept the same tone, "besides I don't see why you make such a big deal when you soon will leave."

Michiru also lowered her gaze. Haruka was right again. She had asked her to let her go and the Uranian had accepted. She soon would leave, why did it bother her then that the maid had taken her responsibilities?

"Do you want to come with me and have dinner?" Haruka asked in a much softer tone, obviously changing the painful subject.

"Who's going to be there?" Michiru asked already knowing.

Haruka rolled her eyes irritated. "If you think I will ask Kasumi to eat in the kitchen only to please you, you're wrong."

"Then never mind. I prefer to eat inside my room."

"As you wish."

Haruka slammed the door as she left the room. Walking down the hall, the blonde saw Kasumi looking at her worriedly. She couldn't help, but feel like remorseful. She had kissed a woman that wasn't her wife.

"Kasumi, what are you doing?" The blonde asked as soon as she approached the brunette.

"I'm very worried Haruka." Kasumi retorted. Her beautiful face marred in anguish, "What happened with Tenoh-sama?"

"Nothing, don't worry."

"But what did you tell her?"

"I told her you had a problem and I was only comforting you." Haruka replied in a low tone.

Kasumi exhaled relieved of what she heard. "I saw her very angry, what if she kicks me out of the palace."

"Don't worry, she won't do it."

"But what if she ends up hating me, then she will be able to fired me. " The maid scared continued. "I don't want to lose…"

"Kasumi, it's OK. It was my fault and I won't let anything happen to you. So stop it." Haruka left the maid behind.

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It was another bright day in Uranus. Michiru decided it was the perfect day to be productive and with the help of a few servants she carried her painting materials outside. According to Sango, Haruka, Katsuru, and Kioshi were working in the study, and she didn't really have any obligations. Definitely taking her hobbies back would help her relax. The colors mixed and with her brush she gave life to the white canvas.

"Michiru."

The voice of man interrupted. The aquanette dropped the brush as she recognized that voice.

"Adoki? What are you doing here?"

Adoki stood next to the wooden easel. "Why didn't you tell me you were going back to Neptune?"

"Adoki please leave." Michiru grabbed her things and started to pack them, "Someone can see us here, please leave."

The blue eyed man didn't listen grabbing her by an arm and walking behind a building. "Come here, no one will see you us."

"No, Adoki, no." Michiru struggled with his grip.

Adoki took Michiru by her hand taking her to a hidden place behind large walls.

"Adoki I don't want to talk to you." Michiru finally released from his grip.

"So, it is true then, you're going back to Neptune." The browned hair man stood in front of the Neptunian woman. His tone was confident and excited. "Did you ask her to let you go?"

"Yes, and she agreed." Michiru simply answered.

The man couldn't help his happiness. "And you're getting divorced?"

"We didn't talk about that." Michiru frowned. She hadn't thought about a divorce. How that could affect the pact between her parents and the Uranians, "but even if we do, I'm not going back with you Adoki. What we had is over."

"What?" The smile the Neptunian soldier had disappeared as he frowned angrily. "Why?"

"I promised Haruka I wouldn't look for you."

"You promised her? That idiot who kisses any woman anywhere!"

"You saw them kissing?" Michiru asked, somewhat incredulous and angered.

"So you know who am I talking about?" Michiru sighed but he kept continued, "and even though, you still want to forget about our love? To respect someone who doesn't deserve it, who is only playing with you." Adoki approached the artist taking her by her both arms. "What's wrong with you? Where is the Michiru I met? What happened to your pride and dignity?"

Michiru shrugged him off and turned around. Her eyes started to water as the words the man spoke pierced her heart. "That's precisely why I can't go back with you."

Adoki stayed close behind her. "No, Michiru you are being a coward. You are afraid of what people will talk." Adoki sighed turning Michiru very slowly until she could face him. "Look at me, are you willing to sacrifice my love too?" He pressed himself against her until they were breaths apart, "Michiru, I can't live without you." He pressed his lips against hers, kissing her tenderly yet firmly.

Michiru returned the kiss to then break apart. "Please, don't…" The aquanette separated from him, but he hold to her hand.

"I need you Michiru. You have become my obsession."

Michiru kept crying and shook her head slightly letting go of Adoki's hand.

"Michiru."

Adoki watched Michiru running away from him as he held his open hand in the air.

The night had come and after thinking the events of the day Michiru decided it was time to talk to her wife. She entered the bathroom both shared and stood behind closed doors that connected to the blonde's room, but she couldn't knock. She stood there for a minute and finally decided to go outside knocking the blonde's door from hallway.

"Come in." The tired replied from the blonde Uranian could be heard.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to bother you." Michiru embarrassedly said as she noticed the blonde was about to change into her night clothes.

"Don't worry." Haruka half smiled. "What brings you here?"

"I-I was thinking about my return to Neptune…." Michiru nervously started. "Are you thinking about filling for a divorce once I get back to my parents'?"

The blonde sat back on her bed looking at aquanette with a thoughtful expression. "Is that what you wish?"

Michiru evaded the question as she started to walk around the blonde's room. "Well, I ask because I think you would like to form a family, have children."

"And… you don't?"

"Umm huh. I would like that too."

"I don't know if a divorce is possible." Haruka stood up from her bed unbuttoning her shirt as she walked towards the aquanette. "Our marriage is different from those others." The blonde finished unbuttoning her shirt leaving her bandaged cleavage at sight. She now stood face to face with the Neptunian. "I don't want this Michiru; I don't want you to go." Michiru had her back against the blonde's closet as Haruka put her arms between her, perfectly trapping her. "Please, listen because this might be the last time I will dare to talk about my feelings." Michiru stayed still and breathed in nervously. The scent of Haruka intoxicated her, the blonde was only inches away her face. "I know I have made lots of mistakes. I admit them, but over all things I still love you." One of the slender hands of the Uranian left its position and reached for the aquanette's left cheek, caressing it softly, "why don't we try?" The blonde asked pleadingly, lovingly, "We might find out something inside us that might make us think that we can live together." Haruka moved her hand and started to caress the creamy, white neck of her wife.

Michiru was like in a trance. The hands of the blonde burned her skin, a warmth sensation spread all over her body each time the Uranian touched her.

"No..."

"No, don't say no before you try." Haruka gently cupped the aquanette's chin with one hand, tracing the Neptunian's lips with her thumb. "I planned my future by your side and I won't give up." The blonde placed a kiss on the aquanette's forehead to then advance to her neck and below her ear, "let me show you how much I love you…" Haruka kissed the silky, long neck one more time before moving to her lips, "what you mean to me." Haruka pressed her lips against those fully of her wife's. "I will be gentle and kind with you." The blonde kissed her one more time, "I will be amorous," another kiss. It was too much for Michiru not to react. She lifted up her arms placing them on the blonde's nape. The aquamarine returned the kiss of the blonde as the Uranian took her by the waist. "I want to show you the best of me." Haruka leaned for another kiss as Michiru moaned into their kiss.

They kissed passionately and Haruka effortlessly took Michiru in her arms gently putting her on her bed, all of this without breaking the kiss. Michiru moaned fervently as they kept kissing again and again. Haruka's expertise hands reached for the hem of Michiru's light- green dress.

"No…I shouldn't…" Michiru abruptly muttered.

"You shouldn't?" Haruka didn't stop kissing Michiru's neck.

Michiru did everything in her power to get up from that bed. "I'm sorry I can't." She finally stopped the blonde and got up leaving a confused and panting blonde behind.

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The night before had been failure. Haruka had open up to the beautiful Neptunian, confessing her love and kissing her so passionately but then...everything seemed to go downhill. Haruka was confused to say the least. The aquanette had reacted to her kisses and caresses; they were about to…What went wrong Michiru? I thought we could work things out and become a couple, but it's obvious that she despises me. Haruka rode in her horse. Every day she had to go to the military base to work, the Uranian military base was two hours from the palace and it was far easier to travel on horse. Only her personal guards, consisting of two men, and Kioshi followed her.

"Is something bothering you Haruka-sama?" Kioshi asked somewhat intrigued. The man rode side by side next to the blonde.

"Why?" The blonde answered in cold tone. Her eyebrows twitching, she was in a bad mood.

"Well, you been very quiet since we left the palace." The blue eyed man nonchalant replied.

"It's personal business!" Haruka snapped, commanding her horse to move faster.

A few minutes later the group stopped to take a break in the wilderness of the Uranian ground. Haruka watched her two Uranian men sitting on the ground greedily eating their lunches, while her strategist stood apart from them. She approached Kioshi who leaned casually against a tree.

"I think I owe you an apology."

Kioshi jerked up his head. "Why?"

The blonde shook her head apologetically. "I shouldn't have talk to you like that."

"You mean when we were on a way here?" The brown haired man recalled as the blonde simply nodded. "Well, I saw you very serious and I thought you might have been worried about the planet's security. I never thought you also have a family life."

Haruka chuckled sadly. "Well, to be honest that's my problem. I don't have a family life." The blonde inhaled profoundly giving her back to the blue eyed man. "I heard from Sayame that you're widowed. You must have suffered a lot your wife's death."

Adoki frowned slightly, but quickly composed the gesture feigning sadness. "Yes, I loved her a lot," the young man hadn't given much thought to the life details of Ushida Kioshi, but he continued talking, "she was beautiful, intelligent and talented..." a peculiar woman crossed his thoughts as he continued talking, "but she was abruptly taken away from me."

Haruka who had been looking away suddenly turned her head at the last words of the man. "I'm sorry," She said as she placed a comforting hand on his shoulder, "but you're young, you are going to find somebody else that will make you feel the same as you were before."

Adoki shook his head slightly. "No, no. There are sometimes when one falls in love, very, very deeply with someone that no other can take the place of that one person."

The blonde nodded realizing her mistake. "You're right." I don't think I will ever be able to love someone else the way I love Michiru… even if she doesn't care. "OK. We have to get moving now."

The group of men, Adoki and Haruka took their horses and started riding towards the military base. Uranus was a deserted place, only pastureland with a few scattered trees and rocks adorned the roads. The group and Haruka moved slowed and carefully in between the elevations of great rock walls. The road was rocky and they were under level.

"This is an excellent place for an ambush." Adoki commented as he looked the surroundings. They rode in a ravine.

Haruka smirked. "Are you afraid?"

"Me?" Adoki laughed. "No, I'm not afraid, but with the recent attacks of the rebels you never know."

The blonde smiled relieved to hear that her strategist wasn't a coward. "This is the fastest way to get to my palace from the base. Only visitors and a few of my employees transit this road."

Both Adoki and Haruka rode side by side one more time. The two other men accompanying them were a few meters behind. The blonde was only half way from the military base when a man galloping a horse at full speed caught her attention.

"Haruka-sama! Haruka-sama!" The man yelled just a few yards before he stopped his beast in front of the brown haired strategist and royal figure of Uranus.

"What is going on Tatsuya-san?" Haruka recognized the man as one of her soldiers.

Just as the man opened his mouth to speak a shotgun rang out.

In a span time of a second Haruka fell off from her black horse falling against the rocky walls. A red stain dirtied her tanned coat in her upper left side of her chest.

Instantaneously a second gunshot fired, this time wounding the Uranian soldier, Tatsuya. The horse of the soldier scared by the loud noise galloped on his own as the Uranian helplessly fell off from his horse only to be dragged by the strong beast all over the rocky road.

Adoki who had been carrying a riffle all the time dismounted his horse as soon as he heard the first gunshot. He kneeled on the ground and guarded posture as the soldier he was. He looked everywhere trying to find the source of the gunshots as more of them were firing. The well trained Neptunian soldier shot them back, showing in the process his military skills. A few minutes later the escort of the royal blonde was firing their riffles back against those who wounded their ruler. The gunshots stopped minutes later and the escort and Adoki looked at the fallen blonde. The blonde stain expanded ruining her clothes.

"Is she dead?" One of the men from the escort worriedly asked.

TO BE CONTINUED…

I'm mean right? Haha I left with a cliffhanger, but y'all know better. Please, please just to know and advance on my writing- review or PM me and let me know about the author's note. It's not that hard I promise; see the word Review at the bottom of this note? Well click it on it. Type- "Yes, changer her (only in sex scenes)" or "Are you crazy? Let her alone. We want Yuri." Not hard right? Well I hope to hear from y'all. If you guys don't say anything I'll assume you don't care, and I'll leave the Yuri scene I have. R&R

Snowflake- Hello :) Well I can only tell you that he won't be the only one you will hate :S Neptune is partly hers anyway, if Michiru hadn't accept the marriage then the planet would had been totally hers. Be attentive, you never know who will do what. Hope you liked this chapter

Anon- Yeah I think I had mentioned it, maybe not, but yeah chapter 8 was filler. I write in pieces, whenever some inspiration comes I'll sit and write and then at the end of the week I connect everything. I also had mention before that i'm not very good with humor (sorry :S) I will try thou, but obviously not next chapter.

Alex- Hola. Me alegra que te guste mi historia. Tambien es muy buen que no hayas olvidado esos pequenos detalles de lo que paso con los Malatians y si Habra lemon (creo jajaja no soy muy experta escribiendo eso.) Creo que Haruka intento conquistarla este capitol pero como que le falto un poquito mas :( No sabia que los anonimos reviews estaban bloqueados jajaja soy un poco despistada jeje