Author's Note: this is Serena speaking to someone telepathically.

This is Li speaking to someone telepathically

This is a dream/flashback sequence

- this is sign language of some sort-

_ this is texting_

Vestal, Hospital, next day:

Dan smiles as he walks into the children's ward of the hospital, " I promised you all I'd be back, didn't I? "

Soon Dan has every child happy and laughing, telling them about his previous brawls, about his epic final showdown with Masquerade, how he and Draco became the ruler of all Bakugan though they never exercised that authority unless they had no other choice. Sira shakes her head as she watches Dan get the kids spirits up. Dan was really good with the kids, helped them to forget they were really sick for a little while.

While Dan is playing with the kids Serena has managed to get through a light kata and drank down several protein shakes. " You all right, Serena? " Shun asks her.

- Yeah, my body's bouncing back now, getting used to the treatments, which is why I have to be given so much more than anyone else, because my body responds so quickly.-

" I guess that would make it hard to actually treat you, at least Saeko knows what you can take but it takes you longer to bounce back after each treatment. " Shun says.

- It would be longer if I wouldn't keep Dan near me pretty much for the entirety of the next day.-

Shun's eyes widen, " The soul bond, Dan helps you to recover quicker just by being near you. "

Serena nods and goes through another low level kata needing to keep herself active and try to help her body remember how to fight. " Why'd you let Dan go visit the Children's Ward? "

- It's something he loves to do, he's been doing so since just after you all saved Vestroia for the first time. Seeing Joe like that kinda gave him a wakeup call.-

" I didn't know that, then again Dan always has kept a few things to himself. I can't blame him for that, but I would have gone with him. "

- Shun, kids just automatically gravitate towards Dan, they love him. I know he'll be great with any kids we have.-

" Dan, with kids of his own, I think I'm scared to try and imagine that. " Shun admits.

- Be nice, Shun. You haven't seen him with scared streets kids, they trust him and these are kids that have been abused almost all of their lives yet they trust Dan.-

" Yeah, really, Master Shun. Master Dan is just a natural with kids. " Baron says.

Serena whips through another kata a little faster and downs another protein shake, - I cannot wait until I can eat solid food again.-

" Can't blame you for that, Serena, a Jell-O and protein shake diet has got to get old, fast. " Shun states.

Serena rolls her eyes and rolls her shoulders, cursing how tense they were. That was until Li screamed a warning at her and street honed reflexes kick in immediately dropping her, Shun, and Baron to the floor even as Serena goes into a forwards somersault and spins around to face their attacker. She smirks, knives dropping into her hands with the ease of experience. A feral smile adorns her face as she gets into a knife fighting crouch. The attacker smirks and the deadly dance begins, each of them moving faster that either Baron or Shun could safely intervene. Dan would be able to easily enough and the senshi when transformed would have no problem as well.

Serena is currently swearing up a blue streak silently even as she continues the fight for hers and everyone else's lives. She was up against another knife fighter which meant she could not afford to make even a tiny misstep in this dance. Her sapphire eyes were calculating every move her opponent made, looking for a weak spot she could exploit. Years of street fighting had made sure she knew where all of hers were and how to cover them. Unfortunately she was going to mess up if she didn't end this now, she didn't have the stamina for a prolonged fight at the moment.

The opening came and Serena acted on it in a microsecond, their attacker now laid dead at her feet. It was Baron who caught her and steadied her, " You all right, Mistress Serena? "

- Just tired.-

" She says she's just tired and I can't blame her, she'll have to work hard to get her stamina back up to where it was before she started the treatments for her throat and vocal cords. " Shun says.

" Let's get you some place where you can rest and maybe another protein shake, help you recover quicker. " Baron says.

- Take me outside, please, I need some fresh air and natural light has always helped me to recover quicker.-

Shun translates for her and Baron nods, " I'll bring her out another protein shake, she does need some fresh air other than going to her appointments. " Shun says.

Serena smiles when she's outside again, Lunara hovers around keeping an eye out for trouble. Serena pulls out her communicator and hits the texting option, this way she could communicate with Baron, _ Chill, Baron, I'm all right. Just not as strong as I generally am. You've seen Dan and I spar, remember._

_ You do realize that your guardians need to be told about this, right?_

_ Dammit, Baron, I don't need them hovering over me. I hated it during the Silver Millennium._

_ You're not as capable of defending yourself right now though._

Serena takes the protein shake Shun offers her, _ Doesn't mean I want them invading my privacy. They'll try to take showers with me and that is something that won't happen._

Shun reads the text over Baron's shoulder, " She's right, Baron, they would try and do that. I'm her bodyguard and if she had been in true danger I would have acted, it's just I can't access most of my abilities from the Silver Millennium. "

Back at the hospital Dan is literally buried under the kids who could get out of bed and laughing the whole time. Drago took to chatting with the kids whom couldn't get out of bed, he understood why Dan visited sick children, they needed someone who could make them forget about their health for just a little while. Dan was good with kids, which had shocked Drago at first but once he got to really know Dan it made sense. Dan hated to see others suffer so he did whatever he could to ease that suffering.

On the way home, well, back to Klaus' place anyhow a certain pink haired child falls right on to him, " Rini, this getting to be a very bad habit. " Dan says.

" Not my fault the Plutonian who created this key had a strange sense of humor and loved having people fall on other people. " Rini retorts, " You guys need me here and I can actually be myself for once. I hated having to act like that and boy did mom read me the riot act after my first trip back. She informed me I didn't have to act like a brat all the time and that I should have never stolen her crystal and put the entire future at risk. It was not pretty. "

" Well, it was because of you she had to live with her parents again, can't blame her for that, and why do we need you here? " Dan asks her, his tone telling her that she had better tell him everything.

Rini sighs, " Mom's stamina isn't that good right now, she can handle short fights, but she can't handle prolonged ones right now, I can, even though I'm technically third in line for the throne. I'm not even supposed to be Mini Moon, but it was the pink haired child that went back in time so I was given the designation Mini Moon because one of my older sisters has taken over as Sailor Moon. "

" How many kids before you? " Dan asks her, " Not specifics, just how many? "

" I'm your fourth daughter and fifth child, a set of twins, one of each and then my other older sisters. " Rini admits.

" I get it, since you were the one who came back in everyone's memories to keep the continuity you had to be the one to go again. " Dan says.

" Pretty much and mom has told me that if I act like a royal spoiled brat again she's taking away everything I do for fun for the next year after I get back. "

Dan smirks, " Sounds like, Re, wait, aren't you born when your mom is twenty-two? "

" Maybe on her twenty second birthday, why? "

" Five kids in six years, what the hell was destiny thinking? " Dan mutters.

Rini laughs at the look on his face, " Hey, you only have you and mom to blame, I'm just the messenger. "

" I can see why she calls you a spore and hell spawn now. " Dan admits.

Rini pouts at this, " Do you know how revolting it was to call Mamoru Daddy? "

" Okay, so you suffered too, but still, couldn't you have eased up on your mom a little bit, she had to live with her parents again, people that hated her because of you. I had her calling me every day while I was battling the Vexos just trying to hold herself together. "

Rini sighs, she hadn't known yet how bad her mom had, had it as a kid until she came home one day to see her mother getting whipped with a chain. That was when she had started to be nicer to her mother. Her dad hadn't asked her if she had a twin, so she wasn't going to tell him that he had six kids in that amount of time. " In my defense I didn't know until I came home to see her getting whipped with a chain. I had never been told and after that I did make an effort to be nicer to her, at least when we were alone. "

" Still, she didn't have me there to help her, to keep her from committing an unjustifiable homicide. All of you got lucky that she was able to talk to me every night and sometimes after the really nasty battles she'd teleport to me or I'd come and help out since Cape Boy is pathetic. "

" You've been able to teleport for that long? " Rini asks him.

" That… is a secret. " Dan tells her.

Rini groans, " Must you really quote Xellos? "

" Yes, I really must. You seem to forget, I am your father, now, any siblings your age? "

Rini sighs, " Yes, my twin sister and Sailor Earth. "

" How many of you girls are Sailor Senshi? " Dan asks.

" One is Sailor Vestroia, she got that from you, oh King of the Bakugan, one as previously stated is Sailor Moon II, Sailor Earth, and myself. Earth comes from you as well. " Rini says.

" So, one daughter isn't a senshi, what about my son and please tell me I'll have more sons, please. " Dan begs her.

" That…is a secret, Daddy. " Rini tells him.

It was Dan's turn to groan as she turned the Xellos quote on him. " You do realize your mother is going to go ballistic when she sees you. She still can't look at any pictures of you without trying to throttle said picture. "

Rini winces, " Okay, so maybe I played my part a little too well. You see, I'm technically supposed to be still studying and not being a senshi. Hell, I'd give anything just to go back to the days of training brawls with you. Those were fun, unlike all those other damn lessons that someone seemed to think I needed, who needs freaking etiquette and I know mom didn't sign me up for those. Hell, etiquette lessons are her form of punishing all of us, you included. "

Dan blanches at this, " Right, never make Re angry. Especially when she's pregnant, any ideas on when that first set of twins is conceived anyhow? "

" That…is a secret. " is Rini's response.

Dan sighs, knowing full well they would have to be conceived soon. Well, he did want kids, but six in six years was a little much. At least four of them were twins, but still, six kids. True to Dan's prediction Serena tried to lunge at Rini and strangle her. Dan manages to hold her back, " I told you this would happen, Rini. I told you she'd go ballistic upon seeing you. "

" You do realize that I'm the only one here capable of using the Moon's power in a fight, right? " she asks her mother.

Like I care, you made my life hell, you brat!

Rini winces, damn, she had pissed her mother off, no wonder her mom wasn't as close to her as she was her other siblings. Her own actions in the past had made her own mother distant from her. Dan sighs, " I really wish I could take you two to family counseling because you seriously need it. "

" Dan, what's going on? " Shun asks just as Hotaru tackles her best friend.

" I missed you too, Hotaru, but I think it's getting harder to hold Serena back from killing me. "

" You have no idea how much of an understatement that is. " Dan mutters.

Hotaru blinks, " Let me guess she was actually acting every other time she's been in close proximity to you. "

" Yeah, I was a real brat the first time I came back in time when the Nega Moon was after me. I treated her like garbage and in general did everything I could to make her miserable not knowing my arrival was already doing that because it forced her to live with her parents, my maternal grandparents again. " Rini says.

" What did you do, Rini? " Hotaru asks.

Rini sighs and tells them all everything she had done to Serena when she had first come back in time, " Some of it was to make them think she was actually considering Mamoru as a prospect but the rest was unrelated. "

Hotaru sighs wearily, " Dan, get Serena out of here, take her on a date, something to get her to relax. "

Dan smiles at this and whispers into Serena's ear briefly. The golden haired blonde races off for her room, well, basically their room. Dan had spent some time quizzing Kisa and Sira on good date places and it was about time he was able to take his fiancée on a date again. " What did you say to her to elicit that reaction anyhow? " Shun asks.

" That…is a secret. " Dan says and heads outside.

It had been a long time since he and Serena had gone clubbing, and he was dressed for clubbing already. He waits under her window and she drops down to the ground silently, Loving those ninja lessons now.

Ninja nothing, this is street raised silence. I can sneak up on Shun, I just opt not to.

Dan smiles and leads her off, You allowed smoothies?

Yeah, why?

That way I know which club to direct us to. Chatting with the nurses is actually helpful.

Serena looks at him, You've been planning this for a while, haven't you?

Heck yeah, Re. I mean, when else am I going to see you in an outfit like this?

Dan was referring to the purple tube top and short black leather shorts with purple combat boots and the Pyrus symbol pendant with her engagement ring on it. She also wore the matching earrings and red fingerless gloves. She wore the red gloves because they were a gift from Dan. Dan had on his dark blue fingerless gloves with black cuffs and his usual goggles. His usual outfit was good for clubbing, but for Serena she liked to let loose when they went clubbing and Dan had found a teen club with a good reputation.

He knew he would be the envy of every male teen in the place and some female teens as well, when Serena dressed for clubbing she showed skin and wore form fitting clothes. Of course, Dan always set off the this is my girl stay away vibe when they went clubbing. Oddly enough most males weren't stupid enough to encroach upon his territory, then again lately when they'd gone clubbing it had been when his rep as a brawler had reached the top and they'd been in Bakugan City, which Serena had already stated she'd like to actually live there. It might be nice to have a getaway here on Vestal though and maybe a place on Neathia and Gundalia too.

The pair find themselves in a deserted alcove two hours later and Dan had her shoved up against the wall, hands pinned above her head, You drive me crazy, Re, but I can stop this if you say so.

Are you crazy, we are not getting interrupted this time, dammit. Every freaking time we get interrupted.

Dan growls low in his throat and kisses her hard before teleporting back to the house his family still owned in Wardington. Tonight there would be no interruptions.

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Bakugan Battle Brawlers. I also do not own Xellos.