Looking out of the window to the restaurant's garden scenery for the countless time, Minako sighed, wondering what is taking her manager so long. She was already ten minutes late when she arrived the restaurant, but Sugao was even worse. Another fifteen minutes have already passed since Minako arrived.

Feeling bored, Minako closed her eyes and concentrated, trying tfo see people's aura in the area with her power, searching for Sugao. She smirked when she sensed him just at the entrance of the high-class restaurant, the other aura has to be the guiding waiter.

"Shacho! You're late." She opened her eyes and called, surprising Sugao.

"Awwww, I was planning to surprise you!" Sugao whined playfully. "How did you know I'm at the door?"

"I have my ways." Minako smiled smugly.

"Of course you do." Sugao rolled his eyes and waved his hands.

"Anyway, I have a few things for you." Sugao went for his bag, taking a few folders out, handing half of the pile to Minako. "This is the schedule for next week, you'll be a lot more busier. There's the interview session about your world tour in the radio, a guest talk for three TV show (oh! You don't know how many phone calls I received requesting you to appear as their guest) and a few more photo shoots and interviews for a few magazines. You are making their cover page." Sugao winked.

"Okay… that's really quite a few." Minako sweat dropped, looking at her itinerary and the information in her hands. "It's been only five days you're back and you arranged so much for me already?"

"Well, people just keep phoning me, you know. They just love you, Minako." Sugao grinned, "But don't worry, I told them not to spread out the news about you being back until the official announcement is out." Sugao took a sit beside Minako.

"Shacho, why are you sitting here?" Minako raised an eyebrow in question, for normally Sugao sits opposite to her, despite there are four chairs for the table.

"You'll know soon enough." Sugao gave Minako a mysterious smile, and Minako wasn't amused. For one who enjoys surprising people, she doesn't enjoy being surprised in return.

"What are you hiding?" Minako narrowed her eyes.

"Ah. Ah. Ah. Not gonna tell, you will have to wait." Sugao raised his hands to stop Minako from leaning in, then used his hand to make a zip motion on the lip.

Minako backed off, but kept eyeing Sugao suspiciously. She fought her urge to just feel Sugao's emotion for hints, knowing she shouldn't use her powers for such purpose.

"Ah! Saitou-san! Aino-san!"

Minako turned to see the owner of the voice. A man, probably a bit younger than Sugao, appeared at the door.

"Ah. You must be Hirai-san."

"Yes, yes. Hirai Yamato."

Minako observed the man as Sugao stood and shook hands with Hirai Yamato. Yamato appears to Minako as a humble and well-mannered man, unlike some of the snobs she had met countless in her career. The man wears a light pink shirt with black pants and leather belt and shoes. On top of the shirt is a blue tie with light blue patterns. Though the pairing of colours is quite unexpected, that is not what surprised Minako. When Minako took a closer look, she found the pattern on the tie to be the outline of her mascot – Nako Nako! It is one of the latest merchandise and Minako had heard it's very successful and popular among both men and women. Now she knows exactly how popular it is.

Though quite surprised by the unexpected guest, being a professional idol and having met different people in her career, Minako perfectly hided her surprise and showed her charming smile.

On the side, Sugao started the introduction. "Minako, this is Hirai Yamato, manager for the orchestral performing group – Symphonic. I believe you have heard of it."

The name did ring a bell in Minako's head, but not because she have heard of it, but because from where she heard of it.

"It's an honor! Aino-san!" The man shook hands like a gentleman, but his voice couldn't hide his excitement.

"Please, just call me Minako." Minako said sweetly.

"For your next coming album, Symphonic would be responsible for arranging the background music for a few of your orchestral remix. Isn't that right, Hirai-san?"

"Yes. Again, it's an honor to be able to work with world's famous idol Aino Minako. It is absolutely our pleasure! In fact, about the music arrangements, we have just ended the performances and lecture sessions in Hokkaido. One of our best member have returned early, and he should be here soon."

At the end of the sentence, Minako felt a familiar presence approaching. She looked up to see a man at the doorway.

"Ah. Speak of the devil." Yamato grinned.

"Sorry for my lateness, Yamato."

"Zoi—Shiroi-kun!" Minako's eyes widened to its fullest in shock and recognition, for right at the doorway, stood Endou Shiroi.

"I see we meet again, Minako-san." Shiroi smiled.

"Eh! You know each other?" The two managers exclaimed together.

"Yes, for quite some time now." Shiroi smiled, not the slight bit of surprise on his face, contracting to that of Minako. He held out his hand towards Sugao. "Endou Shiroi, pianist."

"Lead pianist. For both our piano performing group, and our best orchestra group." Yamato added happily.

"Ah, so there will be a lot of chances for us to work together then. Saitou Sugao, Minako's manager." Sugao winked and shook hands with Shiroi, visibly delighted.

After the greetings, they all sat down around the table. Shiroi took the seat beside Minako and ignored the interrogating look the international pop-idol shot him.

Minako found Shiroi standing in the middle of the hallway smiling, apparently waiting for her to exit the washroom. She raised her eyebrows in question.

"Care to join me for a little walk in the garden? It would seem our managers still have a lot of arrangements to make for the both of us, I do not wish to be bored to death."

"Sure, sounds good." Minako shrugged.

They accompanied each other and went to the garden at the back of the restaurant.

"So, that's how you figured I would need my laptop?"

"Yes. I was one of the first to be informed about working with you for your coming album plus the possibility of your concert as well. Apparently, your manager has been talking with Yamato for quite some time, even before he got back to Japan. It's for this reason, Yamato let me come back earlier than the others, so I can join him for today's meeting."

Shiroi pulled to a stop and leaned against a railing. Minako stopped near him. She closed her eyes and listened to the wind whistle, letting her hair fly freely in the air.

"Nice scenery here." Shiroi said as he looked at the idol.

"Yes, it's a VIP reserved club after all, lots of celebrities meet here, they have to make it look nice." Minako replied without thinking much. She turned to find Shiroi smiling and staring at her, looking amused.

"What?" Minako asked. There was something in Shiroi's emotion and aura that Minako couldn't understand, which is quite annoying.

"Nothing." Shiroi smiled and closed his eyes, listening to the trees leaves rustling in the wind.

They fell into a peaceful, calming silence.

"How is Mars? I haven't been able to visit lately."

"A lot better. She can walk on her own already, but still need guidance because of her eyesight."

"I see, good to hear." Shiroi nodded.

"How about you men? Akai and Kuroi managed to drop by once or twice this week with Ami and Makoto. I heard that more youma appeared again."

"Yes. They appear in larger groups now, those black ones. There is something suspicious about them, I have never seen youma evolving at such rate. They got stronger again, and they have claws." Shiroi frowned.

"Yeah. I heard it from Artemis. He told me he went to you once."

"Yes. It was quite surprising to see him and Luna tapping the window of our apartment. The men were out and only I was at home that time."

"You talked a lot?"

"Yes, but mostly it's about the youmas and Mars's condition."

"…I see you keep addressing us with our past names."

Shiroi shrugged. "It just sticks to my mind. Like you, I'm the one with the strongest remembrance of the past of the Shitennou. Even Master Endymion doesn't remember as much as I do."

Minako nodded. "Does it bother you?"

"You mean the knowledge of the past life? No, not anymore. Why? It bothers you?"

"Sometimes it does, especially when the others doesn't remember as much as I do. But apparently, someone told me that I focus too much on that past that it made me blind about the present. So I stopped." Minako smiled at the memory, somewhat nostalgic and find the arguments she got into quite humorous. "I used to call the girls as their past selves as well."

"That someone is Mars, isn't it?"

"Yeah. The others told you about us?"

"Not really. I did hear a bit about your rivalry relationship when you two first met, but I figured out mostly because my knowledge about Mars's personality. I spoke to her in a few occasions these two years, and found her quite reluctant to talk about the past."

"Yeah. Partly it's my fault."

"Why say that?"

"You know about my illness?"

"Of course, no one in Japan doesn't. You're a legend to be able to win over it."

"Well, you know what happened before Usagi righted the world?"

"No."

"I was too focused on the mission and didn't go for the surgery. It…killed me just before the final battle. Usagi brought me back with the crystal's power."

"Ah. I see." Shiroi immediately put the pieces together. "Well, even though I do always think about the past, I'm sure it didn't prevent me from facing the present. I enjoy the life I have now, more than I did in the past. I can just dedicate myself to my music."

"It's always about your piano, huh?" Minako giggled.

"It's my best and my interest, much like your own music. And I'm glad I could use it to bring smiles to people in this life."

"Yeah." They shared an understanding smile.

"Speaking of which, I have just finished writing the score earlier today."

"You mean…?" Minako recognize the change of tone, their topic became a much serious one.

"Yes. As long as Mars condition is well, we can start anytime soon."

Before Minako could speak, Sugao came and called.

"Minako! Shiroi-kun! We need you back in here. There a bit of information we need to wrap up with the two of you."

"Alright, we'll be right there!" Minako replied.

With an approving nod, Sugao went into the restaurant again.

"Let's go then." Shiroi started to walk back as well.

"Zoisite."

Shiroi turned to see Minako's face dead serious.

"It's safe, right?"

"I assure you it's safe, Venus. You have my word."

Minako nodded, letting out a sigh. Her face became more neutral. "I don't mean to doubt you, but I need to be sure."

"Understandable. You care for your friend and subordinate, you're a good leader." Shiroi nodded his acknowledgement.

With that, they returned to the restaurant.

Taking out the spare key Mamoru gave her, Minako opened the door to the apartment.

"Ah! Minako-chan, welcome back!" Usagi waved, sitting on the sofa watching television.

"I'm back. What's the smell?" Minako asked, smelling a sweet scent that made her stomach grumble.

"Mako-chan is making pancakes!"

"Because Usagi suddenly said she wanted to eat some." Makoto added from the kitchen, a pan in her hand. "You want some too?"

"I would love to! Thank you." Minako grinned, then turned to see Artemis making his way towards her with Luna right behind.

"Minako, how's work today?" Artemis asked as he jumped onto the idol's shoulder.

"Great, you won't believe who I met. Tell you later. How's Reiko?"

"Physically good, but emotionally disturbed." Makoto said as she set the plate of pancakes on the table.

"What do you mean?" Minako frowned at the cryptic answer she gotten.

"Her father, or rather, her father's secretary made the 100th phone call today." Makoto chuckled and slapped Usagi's hand without looking. "Usagi, use a fork."

Usagi pouted and ran into the kitchen to get the utensils for all of them. Minako giggled at the sight, then readdress the stronger woman.

"So what is she doing now?" Minako asked as she helped herself with a piece of pancake.

Makoto nodded her head to the direction of Rei's room "She finally decided to phone her father. She's probably talking on the phone now." She frowned seeing the newly opened bottle of syrup already half gone, for most of them went onto Usagi's dish.

"I see… I'll go check on her… later." Minako stuck out her tongue sheepishly and went for a second piece of pancake.

Rei sighed nervously as she made the phone call, which Makoto had first helped her enter the phone number. It took only a second before someone picked up the phone.

"This is Senator Hino's office."

Rei recognize the person speaking to be her father's personal secretary–Nishizaki Shoushi. It's a miracle her father have hired the same secretary for such a long time, but then again, this is the person who phoned her for more than 100 times in less than six days, it's probably why Hino Takashi found him to be a good secretary.

"Uh…Nishizaki-san? This is Hino Rei—"

"Ojou-sama! Oh finally, I've been trying to reach you for such a long time. I'll put you through right aw—" The man was in such a rush that he already pressed the button before he finished his sentence.

After a few seconds, the phone got through.

"Rei! Is this Rei?" Hino Takashi's low voice sounded uncharacteristically rushed.

"Papa."

"Good grief! Rei, what were you thinking? Playing missing like this." The Senator grumbled.

"It's nice to talk to you as well, papa." Rei said in a defiant voice.

A sigh could be heard coming from the other side of the phone.

"Rei, where were you all those time? I've been calling."

"I know, for 100 times. What were you thinking?"

"Trying to reach you. God knows where have you been after the attack at the shrine. There's the news about you saving people and all the fuss about you missing." Takashi referred to the news reports about Rei's involvement in saving the people from the shrine, evacuating people beforehand. The information had somehow leaked out to the press through the few days, luckily no one recognized Minako, having the impression that she's still away in Vienna.

"Papa, I'm fine. I've been…busy, and I lost my phone." Rei lied.

Dead silence.

"…"

"…"

"Rei, where are you staying now?"

"…Somewhere safe."

"Rei… Come live with me."

"W-what?"

"You can't stay in the shrine anymore, and the press is searching for you. They even phoned me a few times, until I made an official announcement that I do not know your whereabouts and simply know you are safe. Try going out and you risk being spotted and questioned. That's why, come live with me, Rei. I could even give you bodyguards if you want to leave the house during the day."

The words stunned Rei, speechless at how things turned out, though it's not really a problem, since she can't actually leave the apartment anyway.

Taking Rei's silence as a sign of rejection, Takashi continued. "Your grandpa is also staying with me."

And as if to emphasize the point, Rei's grandfather's voice appeared at the other side of the phone. "Takashi! Is that Rei on the phone? Let me speak to her!"

"Wait, father. Let me finish first."

"No, you've talked long enough, I want to speak to my granddaughter!"

"But I need to finish speaking with my daughter first!"

"Oh, right. Now you're treating her like one again, nice timing!"

Rei sighed. Like herself and Takashi, her father and grandfather are not exactly what people call a close father-son relationship.

"Papa, just let me speak to grandpa first."

"…Fine. But don't cut the line right afterwards."

Rei's grandfather glared at his son and snatched the phone. He made sure his son understood that he didn't want anyone to listen to the conversation between him and Rei.

"Rei! How are you doing?"

"I'm fine, grandpa. I see you didn't tell papa about our last conversation."

"Of course! I promised you, didn't I? Besides, even if you hadn't asked me to, I wouldn't have told him anyway. That workaholic son… I enjoy seeing him worry about you, something he should have done years ago! Humph!"

The elder's anger dropped when he heard his granddaughter's soft giggles.

"So, are you going to tell me where you're staying now?"

"Sorry, I told you I can't."

"But Minako-chan is still with you, right?"

"Yes. And you didn't tell Papa about Minako as well, right?"

"Don't worry. I didn't."

"How are Phobos and Deimos?"

"Well. They hunt their own food, then stay in a tree near the mansion for other times. Guarding me like you told them, I guess." The archpriest looked out at the window, and just like what he said, he saw the two crows in a tree nearby, looking at him.

"I see. I'll thank them later."

"Rei. I wanted to ask you last time but you ended the call. You aren't telling me something, aren't you?" The archpriest asked anxiously, he started pacing around while talking on the phone.

"I'm not."

"Rei, I know you. Takashi might fall for your lies, but I won't."

"…"

"Do you know what's going on?"

He heard a heavy sigh, before Rei responded. "…Yes."

The elder sucked in a breath. "Rei—"

"Look. Grandpa, some things are best left unknown. You shouldn't know about this, you're not a part of it. Just…leave this to me. Please."

He didn't want to agree, but he couldn't say no when he heard his always proud, stubborn and serious granddaughter plead him. "…Okay. But I'm here if you decide you want to talk one day, alright?"

"Okay. Thanks."

"You're welcome. Now, about Takashi's offer, though I hate to agree with him, I want you to come stay with us as well. I won't ask you to tell me anything, but at least we know you're safe."

"Grandpa… I can't. I can't tell you why, but I can't stay with you right now. You just have to trust me."

"But—"

The sound of door knock stopped him in mid-sentence.

"Father, are you done yet? I still need to speak to Rei and I have to leave soon." The Senator said, standing at the door.

"Hang on a sec would you?" The older Hino growled.

Takashi let out an annoyed sigh. "Just incase you didn't notice, you're using my cell phone as well."

"Then just stay for another minute!"

"Father, I have work to do!"

Rei sighed. The argument between her father and grandfather isn't making anything easier for her. It was tiring enough that she had to lie and keep her guard up and be careful of what she says, not leaking any information out about her location and status.

"Grandpa, it's alright. Just let me speak to papa. You don't have to get all worked up because of him. It's not worth it." Rei tried to sooth the older man.

"Oh, alright. Rei, please be safe."

"I will. Don't worry." Rei tried to sound convincing, though she believe it didn't ease the old man at all.

After a second of shuffling sound, her father's voice appeared. "Rei."

"Papa, what else do you want to talk about?"

"Rei, come stay with me and your grandfather. Or tell me where you are, I'll send you some bodyguards." Takashi insisted.

"Papa, no. Don't send me any bodyguard, I don't need them. I'm not going to move in with you, I'll be fine."

"Rei, the press…"

"Sorry for causing you trouble, but just keep telling them you don't know where I am, for they won't hear anything from me as well. That's all I have to say."

This time, a knock at the door drew Rei's attention from the conversation.

"Rei, who's there with you?" Takashi asked, also hearing the knock through the phone.

"Papa, I'll have to talk to you later. Bye." She said in haste, not wanting her father to know whoever is at the door, for he'll definitely find a way to seek the person's identity in order to reach her.

"Rei, wait! Re—" Rei ignored the Senator's protest and closed her Teletia S with a heavy sigh.

"Reiko?"

Only one person would call her like that, and the voice was unmistakable. "Minako, your back."

At the door, Minako stuck her head in. "Yeah. Work went well today, so I got back early. Am I here in a bad timing?"

"No, you actually saved me. You gave me an excuse to end the conversation."

"Makoto told me. 100 calls, huh?"

"Yeah." Rei sighed and dropped back onto the bed with a small thump.

"Are you alright?" Minako asked as she took the sit beside Rei's bed.

"I'm starting to get tired of people asking me that."

"I know, but everyone is worried about you. Even Shacho asked me about you after he saw the news." Minako gave Rei a sympathetic smile, though Rei couldn't see it. "Did the conversation with your father gone bad?"

"Grandpa is still staying with him, and both of them wants me to stay with them as well."

"Oh. And what did you say?"

"Of course no! How could I see them in this state? But it's so worrying, even only during that few minutes phone call, they can't stop arguing with each other."

"Ouch."

"Yes. Ouch."

Rei sighed again, and Minako couldn't stand it.

"Come on, lets go out. Makoto made pancakes, and you should really have some." Minako took hold of Rei's hand and to pulled her up.

"I'm not hungry." Rei protested but sat up in order to keep her balance, since her body is weaker than Minako's in this state.

"You need something sweet to cheer you up!"

"I'm not you."

"Oh, stop complaining and just come with me. I also have information to share with you all."

That last bit drew Rei's attention. "What information?"

"I'll only tell after you eat your pancake."

"…Fine." She got up and let Minako lead her into the living room, where she had her pancake without syrup and Minako told everyone about her encounter with Shiroi earlier that day.

The Shitennou and Senshis are all gathered in Mamoru's apartment, after hearing the news that Shiroi had finished the piano score and they could try retrieving Rei's memory.

"Mars. Are you sure you're ready?"

"Yes. Let's get this over with. We need clues to plan our next move, right?"

Shiroi turned to Minako, seeking for confirmation. Minako caught his gaze, and nodded.

In a white flash, Shiroi took the form of his past self.

Zoisite went to the grand piano and sat down, summoning the music score he wrote. Everyone went silent as they observe Zoisite's gloved hands brushed the surface of the keyboard, his silver booted feet on the pedals.

Zoisite started to play, his finger already pressing the keyboard for the first note. As he channeled his magic through the music, his aura intensified, and the magic tickled everyone's skin, giving them goose bumps.

The music started as a very slow and calming melody, but as it went on, Zoisite played with a lot more force, the music going in a ripple pattern.

"…!" Rei winced when a headache formed. As the music continued, pieces of memories started to play in her mind.

Flash.

"Minako!"

Rei caught Minako before she hit the floor.

Flash.

With a small kick, the bamboo fence fell easily.

Flash.

"I'm sorry, but you won't be seeing my face today." The man sneered, his hand gripping Rei's face, covering her eyes.

Flash.

The impact of the memories was so strong that it caused Rei to bend over in her sit, one hand holding her head.

"Rei!" The girls and cats all cried in alarm.

"It's alright. She's recovering her memories. It would only last for awhile." Zoisite informed without removing his gaze from the piano score.

"… If you count half the day as a while…" Kiiroi muttered under his breath.

The music worked towards its climax, and Zoisite was playing with a lot more power. Pure magic filled the room along with its medium.

"Usagi?" Mamoru called in worry as he saw his wife grimacing.

"I'm not feeling too well…" Usagi whimpered.

"Ami!" Akai went to the genius's side in a hurry.

"The magic, it's as if it's affecting me as well." Ami told her boyfriend.

Kuroi and Kiiroi looked at Makoto and Minako right after hearing what Ami said. They found the two girls looking uncomfortable as well.

"Minako!" Artemis jumped onto Minako's lap.

"Zoisite, what's happening? I thought it would only affect Rei-chan!" Luna asked.

Zoisite frowned looking at the ladies, but didn't say anything. He did not stop playing, and the music arrived its climax.

The five girls all reacted to the current stage of the music. Their respective planetary symbols appeared on their foreheads, their aura intensified so strongly that bright light burst out, filling the room. The men and plush cats all covered their eyes.

Cling!

A very sharp sound ringed through the room, putting the music to an end and the light faded.

The girls calmed down as well, their auras returning to normal, the symbols disappeared.

"Girls?"

"We're alright, Luna." Usagi answered.

"But what was that?" Makoto asked, frowning.

"Those flashes… they are memories from the past life, isn't it?" Ami looked at Minako.

Minako nodded, frowning as well.

"Memories of the past life?" Artemis asked.

"Yes. It flashed by in my mind – our minds, really." Minako looked up, and received a nod from all the girls. "And… some of those memories are new to me as well." Minako looked at her guardian.

"Are you sure? 'Cause that shouldn't be possible!" Artemis exclaimed, shock and frightened.

"I'm sure of it, and it's not even the first time."

"What! Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"That can wait, Artemis. The question we should really ask now is this: Zoisite, what did you do?" Kuroi looked at Zoisite, who has a very deep frown on his face. Zoisite stared at the broken bass string of the grand piano, deep in thought.

"I don't understand…this music piece was created to summon the memories hidden in Mars' mind, it shouldn't have an affect on the others, much less triggering such a strong response… Mars, did you recover your memory?"

"… Yes. And not only memories from the shrine, but some images of the past life as well." Rei said slowly, still recovering from the shock after the strong impact.

Everyone sucked in a breath due to a mixture of shock, anxiety and hope.

"Do you know who attacked you?" Akai asked excitedly, wanting to know who is the enemy they need to fight.

"No, not really. He had his hand over my face, I couldn't see him."

"So I guess we have to find another clue." Kiiroi said, sighing.

"…But I did catch a blurry image of him just before I lost conscious."

"Really?"

"I don't think it would be much help though. He has black hair, and his height is about the same as Kuroi's, and I think he wore a red shirt and black pants and black coat. But that's all."

"Okay… I guess the clues are quite limited… unless our enemy has no sense of fashion statement and wears the same clothes every time." Kiiroi commented.

"… Our enemy isn't only a he. They are a group. He told me something before I passed out. He said the mission given to him was to take away my 'sight'."

The others gasped.

"They knew about my gift and someone sent him to get me. I'm the reason they targeted the shrine. I'm the reason those people collapsed." Rei said bitterly.

"You are not to blame." Minako said, placing a hand on the priestess's shoulder.

"I know. But I can't forgive them for getting innocent people involved." Rei spat in rage and disgust.

"We won't let him—them get away with it." Akai said smashing his knuckles together, sharing the same rage Rei felt.

"But it won't be that easy, we still don't know much about them. The have organization, they planned their moves." Kuroi remarked.

The atmosphere in the room had gotten heavier that it's suffocating.

"But what's important now is why would the music would affect the other girls and trigger their memories. It made them remember things they aren't supposed to!" Artemis insisted.

"Memories we aren't supposed to remember? What do you mean, Artemis?" Ami asked.

Artemis sighed. "You girls aren't supposed to know so much as well, because it would make things complicated, but I guess I have no choice now. As you all know, Minako is the only one who gained all the memories of the past life, right? Those memories actually aren't everything. By 'all', we mean all the memories that you girls should know in order to fulfill the mission in this life. Queen Serenity had only made part of the memories available to you girls because she didn't want the past life to influence your present life too much."

"So… when Minako said she recovered some new memories, it means we are remembering things we aren't supposed to remember?" Makoto asked.

"Apparently, that would be the case. From what Minako just told me, she is gaining memories she didn't know of, that means something went wrong and you girls are recovering the memories of the past life that includes those that Queen Serenity didn't classified as crucial to the mission." He turned to face the white Shitennou. "This isn't right. Zoisite, what did you do?"

"I honestly don't know. I didn't expect this to happen." Zoisite shook his head. "Venus, you said this isn't your first, then when was it?"

"…The first time occurred the day Reiko got attacked."

"Ah! That's the day we started to have those images as well!" Usagi shouted, clapping her hands together.

"You girls too?" Minako blinked.

"Yeah, at the staircase." Makoto added and Ami nodded.

The girls looked at each other stunned.

"Of course!" Zoisite nearly shouted, startling everyone that the usual calm Shitennou would have such a big reaction.

"You understood what happened?" Kiiroi asked.

"Yes. As I said before, the score was written to summon Mars's memories, but my way of approaching it is different to how I summoned the memories of the past of Master's and you men back then." He looked at his fellow Shitennou. "Because I do not share the same memory as Mars's, I can't use my own memories as trigger, so instead, I wrote the score as a counter magic to what the enemy had cast on her. What went wrong… or actually right, just unexpected, is the enemy had actually done more than blocking Mars's memory with the magic."

"Of course!" Kiiroi exclaimed.

"Can we just get to the point? We already know you two have the most knowledge of the arts of magic." Akai grumbled impatiently.

"Remember we found something weird in the enemy's magic at the shrine, that there is something there that we can't explain it's use? Though I don't know about their intention, but they are the ones who tried to waken the girls' memories, the magic had also affected all of them that day in the shrine, that's why they saw those flashes! Zoisite's magic actually clashed with it and sped it up when he tried to summon Rei's memory."

"They want to waken our memories… why?" Usagi asked.

"Yeah. This is really suspicious, and things are just getting weirder and weirder." Makoto commented

"Did you girls remember anything that maybe related to the enemy in your past life?" Mamoru asked.

"I don't think so. What I just remembered now are just some random moments in the Moon Kingdom. Besides, if we know about the enemy, then shouldn't Artemis and Luna know as well?" Minako eyed her guardian.

"True…" Artemis sighed. "How about the Shitennou?"

The men shook their heads.

Silence.

"I don't think we can be sure for now that we must have met the enemy in the past life, since there are a lot of possibilities, but we do know that everything is connected somehow. I believe this connection is what we really need to aim to find out." Ami spoke up and broke the silence.

Everyone agreed what the ex-Senshi of wisdom said.

"And you girls! For the love of the moon… That was so impossibly coincidental, it's important information! Why did none of you tell us earlier?" Luna shook her head and lectured.

"Sorry, I guess there was just too much things going on." Minako and the other girls gave them a slight guilty, sheepish look.

Artemis sighed. "From now on, just tell us whenever something unusual happened, we don't know what information it might give us. We need anything we can get a hold of to fight our enemy." Artemis said, and everyone nodded.

"So I guess this is it. Since we still don't have much information about the enemy, we will have to rely on the counter magic. Zoisite, do you think you can finish it soon?" Kuroi said.

Zoisite nodded, and detransformed back to Shiroi. "The counter magic is half developed already. Now that I have learnt more about the enemy's magic, with Jadeite and my knowledge, we should be able to come up with something."

Mamoru nodded. "We'll work this out, and we won't let the enemy just continue to do what they want. We'll get your power back, Rei."

"Thank you, everyone." Rei said.

"Don't mention it."

Everyone smiled together for the first time through out the week, regaining hope and determination now they have a clearer direction and know more about what they have to face. They will succeed with friends by their side. They are sure of it.

Author's Note:

Hang on there, everyone! Next chapter: some romance, and then... ACTION!

Hope you liked Sugao, Takashi and Rei's grandpa. You can't believe how much fun I have writing them. [laugh]

Reviews are deeply appreciated.