Here it is the next chapter. I know it took a while but like I promised nowhere near as long as last time. This chapter is Michiru's turn to tell her story since Haruka had hers last time. I know there hasn't been as much Jennifer but trust me there will be more of her next chapter I just really wanted to tell both sides of the Raine story before she actually came into in properly so without further ado here is the next chapter.

Chapter 10: Reunion

The senshi sat open mouthed and staring at Michiru as if she were an alien until Haruka broke the silence with.

"What?" Michiru turned back to face her again.

"Raine is my sister." Haruka stared at her as if she was seeing Michiru for the first time slowly piecing things together until the answer became blindingly obvious.

When Raine was talking about her elder sister all that time she meant Michiru. How had Haruka never figured that out before? Haruka's train of thought was disturbed when Michiru spoke again.

"You were her friend, she loved you, how could you do that to her?"

"They said….."Haruka began but was once again cut off by Michiru.

"THEY sent you to a shrink because you were different and kicked you out when you wouldn't change to their liking. Shouldn't that have set alarm bells off ringing in your head?"

Michiru looked down then and shook her head.

"I'm sorry" she said looking up to face her partner again. "Raine is my little sister I get kind of defensive when it comes to her." Haruka held her hands up in front of her in a gesture of placation.

"Ok so Raine was your sister and you love her I get that. But how do you know that she didn't tell my parents out of concern for me?" she asked.

"Because Raine didn't think of the way we are as a bad thing. She knew about me for a long time and never once told my father. She understood our world Haruka; she lived in it every time she came to visit. She knew what was at stake, she knew how other people would react and she didn't want to lose you.

You mattered so much to her, you and the others. All she talked about when she came to visit was her friends back home and how wonderful they were and how she hoped so much that I'd get to meet them one day." Michiru looked down and smiled then.

"Oddly enough when I first told her about me she said. 'Really, cool. I think my friend back home's like that too but she hasn't said anything yet. Hey if I'm right I should set you guys up I think you'd be good together." She looked up then and blue eyes met green.

"I guess she was right." Haruka looked down. "Anyway when you disappeared and she hadn't heard from you in a while she called me frantically begging me to find you. She said she felt like something bad had happened to you and she was frightened she'd never see you again.

I knew my sister had a gift for being able to tell things like that so I got your name from her and I started looking for you only two days later my father kicked me out and I was left to fend for myself on the streets.

I decided at that moment that I was going to move to Australia and live with Raine and maybe finally have a real family of my own."

"But you didn't go?" Rei asked. Michiru shook her head.

"No I found my way to the police station and they placed me in emergency care until I could go and retrieve my things. 2 days before I was meant to fly out I received word that Raine and her family had been killed in an accident."

"That must have hurt" Minako commented. Michiru turned to face the blonde.

"More than you know and hopefully more than you ever will." She took a deep breath. "I don't remember the next two moths, not a moment of them."

"So what happened to you?" Ami asked.

"I'd rather not talk about it" Michiru replied continuing before anyone else could ask. "Anyway when I woke up from that moment I had I didn't remember much of anything. I knew that my mother and father didn't want me. I knew that I'd had a sister once but now she was gone."

She turned her attention to Haruka then.

"And I knew your name. I had no idea why but I did. I was taken in by my mother's sister Celia. She was very young but already an accomplished clothing designer with a lot of money. She was busy most of the time but that was fine. I'd been taking care of myself for years so that was nothing new to me.

As I got more settled in and comfortable with the place I began to remember more about myself. I remembered that I was an artist and a musician, why my parents didn't want me, everything except for my blackout and the month leading up to it.

As far as I was concerned my sister was gone, not dead, just gone and all the while your name was spinning around inside my head teasing me with thoughts of a person I didn't know but was meant to somehow.

I knew I had to find you so I started looking. Not long after that the dreams of the silence started and I remembered who I was supposed to be. I knew Sailor Neptune was supposed to have a partner and finally I had a dream about you."

"What about me?" Haruka asked. Michiru was facing Haruka so only she saw the suggestive look the ocean soldier cast her way.

"It was in our past life we were talking" She replied verbally for the others although a light blush had appeared on Haruka's face and she was doing her best to hide it from their guests.

"After that I realized who you were and I figured that was why I knew your name I never would have guessed that it was the last thing my beloved sister had asked me to do before she died."

"So somehow even though you forgot everything about Raine subconsciously your mind was still trying to fulfil your promise to her?" Usagi looked starry-eyed as Michiru nodded her reply. Usagi sighed blissfully "Wow that's so romantic"

The rest of the senshi turned curious eyes on their princess and watched her day dream with raised eye brows. Eventually Mamoru broke the silence with.

"So what made you remember?" Michiru turned her attention away from Usagi and sighed.

"That article." She replied. "When I picked it up the other day at school and saw the photo everything just came flooding back. My parents kicking me out my sister dying, I think I almost started to black out again". Haruka looked down sadly.

"I shouldn't have left." All eyes turned to her including Michiru's.

"What?" The ocean soldier asked.

"The other morning before all this happened; you said you were worried about something. I should have listened I should have been here. If I hadn't gone to that conference then maybe none of this would have happened.

Maybe you would have been okay, maybe you wouldn't have ended up the way you did. If that's what happened the last time you blacked out I'd hate to know what they had to do to bring you out of it ." She went quiet for a moment before she looked up into Michiru's bright blue eyes.

"I'm sorry" She said quietly "I should have been here." And she looked down again.

Michiru walked over to her love and taking her face in her hands she leant forward and kissed the wind soldier in a way that made all the senshi in the room blush and look away. When Michiru pulled away the look of shock on Haruka's face almost made her giggle.

"You were with me" she said quietly. "Maybe not in person but I could still feel you here with me. I said I started to black out I didn't say I did." She pulled back slightly then.

"When I thought about Raine and her death and all the ways she'd made my life so bright and full the memory almost destroyed me. But it didn't, because no matter how sad or depressed I was and no matter how big a hole she'd left inside me when she died I have people now that make my life happy.

I lost myself before because I had nothing, Raine was everything to me, the only bright spark in my dark horrible existence and there was no reason to exist without her. That's not the way it is now I have a family of my own making and friends and an important mission to live for. I fought back against the darkness because I wanted to see you again, all of you."

She turned to look at the others then. "I wanted to sit in Rei's temple and watch her read fire, eat Makoto's cookies and watch Usagi cry when there was none left, watch Ami engulfed in her books somehow completely oblivious to all the noise around her and watch Minako try and beat Haruka at the racing games even though she knows it's impossible."

She turned and smiled down at her little girl.

"I want to see you grow up into the beautiful, powerful, brilliant lady I know you're going to become little one." Hotaru looked back at Michiru and smiled.

Finally the ocean soldier turned her attention to Haruka. "And I wanted to be with you. I finally have you I'm not going to give you up now. So I didn't leave I stayed."

"So what happened to you then?" Makoto asked. Michiru turned to face the Jupiter soldier.

"I think it was a curse."

"A curse?" the others all asked in unison. Michiru nodded.

"Yes I remember Raine mentioning something about it during my healing. I remember the last few days as if they were a blur. It was like part of me was trapped inside my mind and couldn't get out. I was me but not all me all I could focus on was the pain of my parent's rejection."

"But when you saw Raine you didn't look like you'd seen a ghost" Chibiusa noted. "Why didn't you freak out and think she was dead?"

"Because it hadn't happened yet, whoever it was that placed that curse on me obviously knew about my parents kicking me out but didn't know about Raine. That's not surprising since it wasn't anything remarkable to anyone but me.

My family's name was well known Raine's wasn't not many people even knew my father had another child. The part of my memory that was alive in my mind was the moments where my father kicked me out and told me never to come back.

As far as I was concerned that had only just happened so Raine was still alive. The strange thing though is how badly I reacted to it. I mean when my parents kicked me out it hurt but not like that. That insane, pathetic, crying mess I was over the past few days, I was never like that, not for them. Whatever was in my head somehow made it all seem much worse than it really was."

"I've never encountered anything like this before" Luna stated.

"I have" All eyes turned to Haruka then and she looked at Michiru.

"The night of the battle, that day at school (No one noticed Chibiusa looking down sheepishly)It wasn't quite the same as you described but it felt a lot like it only my attention wasn't on a memory it was on a person."

"We never did figure out what was causing that" Setsuna noted.

"Although we had ideas" Michiru added. When they received confused stares from the others Haruka proceeded to explain what had happened during the first few weeks after Jennifer's arrival.

"But you have no idea what's causing it?" Rei asked silently begging for one for them to implicate Jennifer so she wouldn't have to.

"Nothing solid" Haruka replied. Rei's heart sank. Hotaru looked over at Chibiusa who just shook her head.

"That is odd" Artemis noted.

"Has anyone else noticed anything strange?" Luna asked.

Ami wanted to fly out of her chair and scream 'YES YES HELP ME PLEASE I'M GOING INSANE!' but somehow she just couldn't. What evidence did she have to go on? Some nasty thoughts and headaches? All of that could be put down to stress.

She began to feel helpless inside, what was she going to do? The others shook their heads and so lost was Ami in her own thoughts that she didn't notice Hotaru and Chibiusa's eyes intently focused on her lack of reaction.

"So where did the curse come from?" Usagi asked but Michiru just shook her head.

"I don't know. One moment I was standing at the look out, the next everything was black. When I woke up…well you saw what I was like."

"Then how did the curse go away?" Minako asked.

"Raine" Haruka replied. "She did something"

"What did she do?" Mamoru asked.

"I'm not sure. She was just standing there and then suddenly she was glowing and this…well I suppose you'd call her a spirit just appeared behind her. Lots of standing and flashing purple lights and whatever was affecting Michiru was gone."

"Who was she Setsuna mama? That spirit?" Hotaru asked. "You recognized her."

"I didn't recognize her so much as the feeling of her aura is familiar to me but until I can be sure there's no use speculating."

"Maybe there's no use but we'd sure appreciate it" Haruka prodded. Setsuna shook her head.

"Raine said she didn't know." Setsuna replied. "If she's not ready to know I don't think the rest of us are either."

"But Chibiusa knows." Usagi argued. "How can she know and you don't?" Setsuna's eyes turned to Chibiusa.

"I'm guessing that's to do with your future friends am I right?" Chibiusa just nodded.

"Chibiusa knows Raine because her friends back home know her. And if you remember she specifically told the princess not to say her name so by agreement to the hight power she is forbidden to speak of it to anyone until Raine gives her permission."

She turned her attention back to the others.

"Agreements in out time are held to much higher importance than they are here so don't even bother trying to weasel it out of her. There will be consequences to her if she breaks the agreement." A daunted look filled the eyes of the senshi as they turned their attention to Chibiusa.

"Are all agreements governed that way?" Minako asked in a small voice.

"Yes" Setsuna replied. Causing the Minako to swallow hard and Usagi to run over and bear hug her daughter and cry loudly. Chibiusa lifted her eyebrows at Setsuna who just shrugged.

"She's your mother."

"Wait a second there's one thing I don't get" Rei interrupted drawing all eyes to her and causing a break in Usagi's whining.

"Raine's quite obviously not dead. So what happened to her?" Michiru shook her head.

"I don't know, but I want to find out." She turned her attention to her wind soldier.

"I don't suppose you got Raine's phone number or anything for me did you?" Haruka just looked at Michiru apologetically.

"No"

"I didn't think so. Well, I guess I'll just have to go and find her then. We could always find each other when we were children no problem at all"

"That must of made hide and seek boring" Michiru chuckled and turned her attention to Usagi who was still clinging to Chibiusa for dear life.

"That's very true; we never did play that game much".

"So what do we do?" Haruka asked. Michiru looked over at her.

"Do you want to come with me then?"

"Of course I do. If Raine didn't tell my parents about me then I'm going to have to apologise profusely and probably more than once so I may as well start now." Michiru smiled.

"All right then. I'm going to shower and then we're going. Does anyone else want to come?" Michiru turned her attention back to the others to find them all already standing at the door waiting for her. Michiru chuckled to herself and turned to head up the stairs. As annoying as they could be sometimes it sure was good to have friends.

Once everyone else was out of the door Chibiusa turned to Setsuna and glared.

"You could have come up with something else you know Usagi is even more prone to crying and whining now that she'd pregnant."

"Well at least they won't bother you with questions now."

"Suppose not". Without another word they shrugged to each other and headed outside to join the others. Chibiusa shook her head. The inner senshi were just so easy to fool.

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An hour later saw the senshi in the park following Michiru like she was the pied paper. She didn't know where Raine was exactly but her senses had never failed her and she knew if she just kept following them they'd eventually lead her to her sister. She didn't care how long it took or how far she had to walk she'd find her.

She followed it and followed it until they were dead in the middle of the park where the local ice cream vendor set up shop during the day. She walked right up to the chair perched in front of it and all of a sudden the feeling she'd been following stopped.

She looked around her searching frantically but saw no sign of her sister. She began to feel frustrated and scared. Had she been away from her sister too long? Had her connection to her sister died during all those years apart?

No they can't have. Raine had found her way here when Michiru needed her that meant their connection was still there so if the signal had stopped at this particular place then there must be a reason why.

Decided Michiru sat down to wait. Haruka and Hotaru sat down on either side of her while Usagi who they hadn't even noticed was missing came back over and handed then all an ice-cream before digging into her double scoop with gusto.

"What's wrong Michiru?" Haruka asked looking at her partner concerned.

"I don't know" Michiru replied. "The signal just stops here I'm not sure why"

"Do you think Raine's somewhere near here?" Haruka asked. Michiru shook her head.

"Maybe I just don't know how to find my little sister anymore but I don't think it's that."

"You have been through a lot these last few days. Maybe you're just weaker that you usually are" Hotaru suggested. "Give it a minute and maybe something else will come to you." Michiru smiled over at her daughter and wrapped an arm around her.

"I love you my little optimist do you know that?" She asked. Hotaru laughed.

"Yes Michiru mama I love you too." They sat there for a while the inner senshi sitting on the grass around them eating ice-cream and talking.

Michiru smiled down at their young blonde princess. It must be nice for her to be able to catch up with the others and just gab over ice-cream. She didn't get to do that much anymore.

They sat there a bit longer and Michiru started to get worried again. She wasn't feeling anything else and she didn't see Raine anywhere. Haruka noticed her worry and took her hand squeezing it gently.

"It'll be okay Michiru it will". Michiru smiled up at her partner but at the same time she felt tears burning at the back of her eyes. What if Raine had gone home? What if…"

"Michiru mama" She was shocked out of her reverie by her daughter's voice. She looked down at her daughter only to find her looking straight ahead. Michiru followed Hotaru's line of sight and there, standing not 10 metres from her was her little sister.

For a moment nothing happened, time seemed to stand still. Michiru's blue eyes locked with Raine's Brown and they just stared at each other for what seemed like an age.

Then as if a gun had gone off Michiru flew out of her chair and ran to her sister. It seemed Raine had the same notion because they met in the middle and threw their arms around each other.

The rest of the senshi watched the scene unfolding in front of them with peaceful smiled on their faces including Haruka who was just so glad to see Michiru smiling. The two sisters pulled away from each other and proceeded to look the other over commenting on how tall the other had gotten or how beautiful.

It was then that Haruka decided she'd better go over and apologize. She was the one who thought the worst of her friend she was the one who should approach Raine and say sorry rather than making the lady in question come over to her.

She stood up and looked down at Hotaru.

"I think I should go over there now." The others nodded and Haruka turned back to face the sisters only to find herself staring into a pair or angry brown eyes, eyes that she'd once known well.

Stepping back slightly she took in the long tanned legs, the shapely hips and flat stomach, the shoulder length curly hair and again the deep angry brown eyes of Raine's best friend Flaime.

The girl in question did the same to her and when at last her eyes came to rest on Haruka's again her angry glare deepened into something akin to deep loathing and she took another step towards Haruka until they were inches from each other.

Haruka could feel within the girl a deep reservoir of power newly founded but already immensely strong and as her anger deepened the power flared within her, burning and rising like the element she'd been named for.

For the first time in her life Haruka felt she had reason to fear the younger girl who had once been her friend and just as she was about to speak Flaime opened her mouth and simply said.

"How does no sound?"

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There we go another chapter I hope you liked it I know there was a lot of Michiru talking and the last one was a lot of Haruka but next chapter the story line will go on more promise. I hope you're liking the story thank you so much to the lovely people who have reviewed I'm sorry to those I haven't gotten back to I've been trying to reply to them all but getting tied up with that damn thing called work. Anyway I hope you liked it please review and let me know what you think of Michiru's past do you think I did it justice?? Let me know

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