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AN: Two story updates. I'm going to Canada's Wonderland Friday! And someone mentioned the last chapter being short, I was on my blackberry playbook which makes my chapters usually short.

Hako tossed and turned in the bed which Usagi had basically handed over to her for the long nap. She had been out several hours. Seiya and Usagi decided to go out to a café and discussed about what happened earlier between them. So, Yaten and Taiki took over the job.

"Mama..." Hako muttered as tears slipped down her face. "Stop it!"

"We need to wake her up," Yaten said.

Taiki sat Hako up like a baby and Yaten shook her and Hako awoke and hit Yaten.

"Ouch!" the silver haired girl said rubbing her hand. "What was that for?"

"A slap," Hako said with a smile. "See, now we're both okay."

"Are you hungry at all, Hako-chan?" Taiki asked as Hako nodded and the brown haired girl smiled.

"Do you have any idea what Usagi and Mamoru have hidden around this place?" Yaten asked as Taiki got up and closed the curtains to make the room less stuff.

"Hako-chan, want to come to the fridge with me?" Taiki asked as Hako nodded. She grabbed Taiki's hand and the two walked down the stairs as Yaten followed them at a slower pace; she wasn't the best person when it came to children.

"So, what do you want?" Taiki asked as Hako went through the fridge and slowly, taking her time. "Not too long, with this heat the fridge will sweat."

"I want this," Hako said taking out some cheese with some cooked fish Mamoru had made.

"Fish with cheese?" Taiki asked examining the plate in front of her.

"Yes please," Hako said bowing to show respect. "I'm gunna go watch T.V., wanna come Yaten?"

"Uh...sure..." Yaten said as Hako grabbed her hand and turned on the T.V.

"What do you want to watch?" Hako asked holding the remote in her hand and blinked.

"You can choose," Yaten said as Hako searched through the same channels at least three times.

"So, Hako-chan," Yaten tried to create a conversation with the little girl. "What's your favorite colour?"

"Pink, I also like bunnies," Hako said. "I had a bunch of better bunnies before. I had a couple named Carrot, Pink-Nose and Soto."

"Carrot? That's a good name for a bunny," Yaten commented as Taiki came out with the food for Hako.

"Here, Hako-chan," Taiki said with a smile and the child smiled back. Taiki sat in a black chair and looked at Hako, she looked like Seiya when she ate which was pretty sloppy.

"So, Hako-chan...what other activites do you like?" Yaten asked as Hako waited a moment for her food to go to her stomach.

"I like drawing, exercising and being with family and friends," Hako said with a large smile which soon faded. "Or I did but then..."

"Anyway, does Usagi have any paper around or markers?" Taiki asked changing the subject. "Do you like school or anything?"

"I like writing, but I usually only get C's on my work," Hako said. "My friend, Mi-chan is really smart and sometimes I feel dumb or I'm not pretty."

"Hako-chan," Yaten said. "If I know one thing, it's in the beauty apartment. Want me to do your hair again?"

"Yeah!" Hako said excited as Taiki frowned and Yaten started to do braided pig tails.

There goes the schooling idea... Taiki thought.

Kita sat in a chair while Ornee was busy looking at her make-up.

"You love your make-up, don't you?" Kita asked as she didn't move one bit. "When you go out, people look at you and think you wear too much."

"Shut up," Ornee said looking at Kita. "You do no work. I wish our leader would've let me go to work instead of that dumb little worker...I wanted to kill the senshi off."

"There's the other option," Kita said smiling. "Maybe we can work together for once, ne?"

"To do what?" Ornee said as Kita's smile grew wider.

"Go find the child of the two rulers and kill her," Kita suggested. "It's better than seeing her alive."

"We should wait for our rulers commands," Ornee told Kita .

"You're boring, you know that?" Kita told Ornee as the other girl clenched a fist.

"Will both of you shut up?" Koto asked as he looked at the two girls and they bowed to him.

"Master," they said in union.

"May we be of any service to you?" Ornee asked smiling a physco smile.

"Not needed," Koto told both of them as they sighed. "If you want something to do, go check how MiMi-chan is doing; see if the senshi have defeated her."

"I'll go!" Kita told Koto as he sighed knowing a fight would be coming.

"No, me!" Ornee said.

"Both of you can go," Koto told them as they suddenly vanished and he sighed. A figure came out of the darkness.

"What's wrong, Koto-san?" Dia asked. "Are those two being annoying again? Why don't we just get rid of them? It would make the job of finding the two queens a lot of easier. Think about it, no fighting, no idiotic ideas and no more Ornee-san and Kita-san."

"I like the way you think, Dia-san," Koto said. "That's why you're my most loyal assistant."

"I know that," Dia said. "Now, shall we watch how their lovely progress goes?"

"Actually, Dia...I want you go on a mission," Koto told Dia.

"What would that be?"

"Listen carefully."

Rei was selling charms to girls a bit younger, a girl with green hair studied the charm. "Do these charms bring anything?" she asked curiously.

"What do you mean?" Rei asked as she frowned.

"I mean, do they bring true love or will it help me pass the entrence exams?" she asked.

"If you believe," Rei told her and she gave her some money then ran off and joined her friend who had bought one.

Mamoru opened the shrines door and looked at Rei. "You look exhausted," he commented. "Why don't you take a bath or something? I'm sure it would work for a pretty girl like you."

Rei blushed. "Mamoru-san, you know Usagi's your girlfriend?"

Mamoru blushed too, realizing what he had just told his girlfriend from many years ago. "It was just an everyday comment. I'm serious, go to a cold shower and cool down. I can take over."

"Thank you, Mamoru-san," Rei said as she went inside her room and brushed her hair before going in the shower.

What kind of comment was that? Was that a friend kind of comment or did have more of meaning to it than it appeared?

Rei dropped the thought, grabbed a couple of red towels and headed for the shower to take a nice cold shower to cool down from being a shrine maiden outfit for hours.

While Rei was in the shower, the other inners came.

"Mamoru-san, what are you doing here?" Makoto asked as he looked up.

"Ah, Usako has Seiya over," Mamoru said.

Minako's eyes lit up. "Is Yaten there too?"

"Uh, I'm not sure," Mamoru said as Minako frowned. "She isn't home, I tried calling and nobody answered."

"Well, can Rei-chan come with us then to see if she's home?" Minako asked curiously.

"Minako-chan," Ami said. "Relax."

"Sorry, sorry," Minako said rubbing her head.

Mamoru gave the girls some charms while they weren't paying attention and they looked confused.

"Mamoru-san, what are these for?" Ami asked.

"Take them, and give them to Usako and Seiya," Mamoru advised. "I have a feeling a new enemy has arrived."

"We're officially going to Usagi's!" Minako said. "Let's go, see you around Mamoru-san!"

"Bye," Mamoru said as another girl came up to him.

The girl looked to be maybe eighteen with yellow eyes and yellow hair with a blue shirt on and white pants and weird looking white gloves.

"May I buy a charm, please?" she asked with a smile. "I mean-those girls got them for free, can I get a free one."

"They paid me a couple days ago and didn't get back to it until now," Mamoru lied. "I just didn't hand them over."

"Whatever, could I maybe work here?" the girl asked curiously.

"You'd have to talk to Mr. Hino-san or wait for his daughter to come out," Mamoru told her as she frowned. "Sit on the shrine steps and wait."

"Time to make Koto-san happy," the girl muttered looking at her nails as she sat on the steps waiting for Rei.

Seiya and Usagi sat in a café in the downtown Tokyo distract. The sun came in through the window and made Usagi look like an angel in Seiya's eyes.

"So, do you think Hako's name is actually Hako?" Usagi asked Seiya as she took a sip of her tea and a bite of her donut.

"I don't know," Seiya said. "At least the dreams won't come back, I still can't believe the dream I saw."

Usagi slowly placed her hand on Seiya's as Seiya's eyes went wide and she looked at Usagi.

"Hopefully, that vision won't come true," Usagi told Seiya as the other girl nodded.

"Odango, you're going to help me protect her?" Seiya asked as Usagi nodded.

"No lie," Usagi said as she smiled. "You know Seiya."

"What?" Seiya asked seeing that Usagi still hadn't removed her hand.

"I think I've fallen out of love with Mamo-chan," Usagi said Seiya gasped.

"H-how?" the other girl studied. "Aren't you destined to be with him?"

"Things are never wrote in stone," Usagi said smiled at Seiya. "I think I've loved someone else for a long, long, long time."

"Who would that be?" Seiya asked, having a feeling she knew where this was leading.

"I love you," Usagi said. "You're the one I want Seiya. I loved Mamo-chan for so long, it's kind of gotten boring...our love all together."

"I didn't know that," Seiya said. "When I came to Earth the first time, I truly only had a little knowledge about love."

"Love is everything," Usagi told Seiya. "Haruka-san said that before...a long time ago."

"Coming from the girl who told me to protect you, huh?" Seiya asked. "Anyway, back onto the topic of Hako."

"Do you think someone or something is after her?" Usagi asked Seiya who shrugged.

"I don't know," Seiya repeated. "But we have to protect her, no matter what. She came here for protection and we'll need to do that I guess."

Suddenly, Usagi's cellphone went off and she answered it.

"Hello?" she asked.

"Usagi-chan!" came Minako's voice. "You didn't tell me that Yaten and Taiki came back with Seiya? Why Usagi-chan?"

"Calm down, Minako-chan," Ami said in the background as she made some tea with Taiki.

"EHHHH! You guys are all at my house?" she asked as Seiya sweat dropped.

"Of course, aren't friends allowed to visit?" Minako asked. "And who's the kid here?"

"Hako-chan," Usagi said quickly. "She's in deep, deep, deep need of protection."

"How do you know that?" The blond asked as she tried to keep moving closer to Yaten who kept moving away.

"I just do," Usagi said. "I'll explain to you when I get to my house."

"Okay!" Minako said. "Bye-bye!" The phone signal went blank.

"I suppose we should go back," Usagi said with a sigh. "I wanted to finish my tea."

"You can have one once we get back to your house," Seiya told the senshi of the moon.

"So, protecting Hako-chan is our main mission?" Usagi asked as Seiya nodded, being very serious. "Will you stay by side, Seiya?"

"Of course," Seiya answered.

Usagi kissed Seiya on the lips and their foreheads touched. "I'm glad I have someone like you in my life. Welcome back to Earth," Usagi said as the two left the café.

Ami watched Taiki moving, setting up another snack for Hako. The blue haired female still found it odd they were actually there again, was there a reason why they should be here?

"Mizuno-san," Taiki said snapping Ami out of her thoughts. "What's wrong?" Taiki moved closer and Ami blushed a little.

"N-nothing," the blue-haired girl said to Taiki took her chin and made the blue-haired girl look at her.

"Mizuno-san, there's a story on Kinmoku called the 'Blooming Flower' would you like to hear it?"

"Sure," Ami said as she listed to Taiki.

"All flowers bloom at a different time, they reveal secrets of another world and another persons soul," Taiki started. "The tell a different story about everyone, everyone has an imaginary one. They say on Kimoku, the people who blue flowers are pure and shy; that's your flower colour."

"Why is it called 'Blooming Flower?'" Ami asked.

"To represent what people learn about another person, Mizuno-san," Taiki said placing a napkin on Hako's plate.

"You can called me Ami-chan, Taiki-san," Ami said. "What colour is your flower?"

"Purple, it's known as the lonely flower," Taiki said with a sad face.

"That doesn't suit you," Ami said as Taiki and her blushed.

"Come on, Hako-chan," Minako said leading the little girl into the kitchen. "It's time to eat."

"Yes!" Hako said excitedly.

"You remind me of Usagi-chan a bit," Minako told the child and she looked at her food. "She always wants food."

"Hey, Hako-chan," Makoto said. "What do you want for dessert?" Makoto wanted the subject changed, she remembered what Rei had said about the child.

"Ice cream," Hako said with a smile.

The front door opened as Seiya and Usagi came in and everyone's eyes went straight the two other females.

"W-whoa," Seiya said feeling a little uncomfortable.

"You two were gone for hours," Yaten said narrowing her eyes. "Did something happen?"

"No," Seiya said. "We just spent a lot of time at the café."

"Welcome back," Hako said gently and sounded a lot older than she looked.

"Usagi-chan," Minako said poking the blond and then she pointed the child. "We all want to hear the story of this kid."

"I heard you," Hako said as she stared at Minako and the Goddess Of Love and Beauty blushed.

"Sorry, Hako-chan," Minako said with a laugh that scared everyone.

"She's always creepy," Yaten muttered as Minako shot the silver-haired female a look.

"It's true," Yaten said as Minako stuck her tounge out at the girl and Yaten only smirked as she leaned against a sliding door.

"I'll be ready to talk soon, can I go sleep after my meal?" Hako asked the group.

"Sure," Usagi said as Hako smiled and planted a huge kiss on Usagi's face the girl blushed as Hako giggled.

"How cute," Ami whispered to Makoto who nodded.

As soon as Hako was done she went back to the room that Usagi had lent her, she wanted Seiya and Usagi to help her to get to bed. Usagi brushed Hako's hair as she sat a vanity that was in the room.

"Usagi..." Hako muttered.

"How do you my name?" Usagi asked.

"Minako told me," Hako told her.

"Okay then, what's up?"

"What's Seiya doing?" Hako questioned the blond who stopped brushing her hair.

"She's in the bathroom," Usagi answered the child. "Why?"

"Well...I was wondering could you two sleep with me tonight?" Hako asked as Usagi gasped.

"Why?" Usagi asked curiously.

"I'm scared of the dark," Hako admitted. "Scary things move through the night."

"I'm sure Seiya wouldn't mind," Usagi said. "I know I don't."

"So does that mean we can stay over since it's getting a little late?" Minako asked while standing in the door frame and Usagi smiled at her friend.

"Sure, go ahead," Usagi answered.

"Yay! Time with Yaten! Oh, Yaten!" Minako said rushing down the stairs almost killing Seiya on her way by.

"Now, what would I like to do?" Seiya asked curiously. She took a pair of Usagi's pajamas that were green with the name written 'Usagi' on them.

"Sleep with me!" Hako spit out. "Please, Usagi here said she would do it. Please, Seiya, I'm scared of the dark."

Seiya blushed by slowly nodded and Hako hugged the younger girl and climbed into the bed and closed her eyes. Seiya flipped the light switch off, Usagi had pajamas on, Seiya did and little Hako did too.

"This is good way of protecting her," Seiya whispered.

"You got that right," Usagi told Seiya. "I also get to spend time with you, good night Seiya."

"Good night, Odango," Seiya said. Before she closing her eyes, she kissed Usagi's hand and Hako snuggled up to both of them.

Hako-chan, you will be protected...

Usagi smiled as she slowly left the thought to stay there as her main mission. She had her friends by her side, especially Seiya.

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