Chapter Ten: Heather Snape, Japan Loves You

August 10th, 1996

Mamoru Chiba was reading an advanced economics text over tea. Tea with two curvy Russian exchange students to be exact. Tutoring was really getting the magical warrior a lot of international experience both in and out of the bedroom. His experience was leading him to evening's best possible end game scenario when the news broadcast filtering through the street level cafe caught his attention.

"... and presumed dead only to be seen at Tokyo Tower just minutes ago. Miss Tsukino disappeared during a school trip with no witnesses and no clues earlier this year. She was spotted today after she fell through a breach in the Special Observatory glazing. Another girl who has not yet been identified fell with her..."

Mamoru was beginning to think that he'd seen the last of Sailor Moon. He knew that they both had powers and responsibilities but the age difference and her focus on their future marriage was really weighing him down. He humored her for a while, even tried to let things happen as she wanted but there were just too many obstacles in the way of her Happily Ever After. They were actually experiencing one of the 'off again' parts of their 'on again off again' relationship when she disappeared and as sad as it was for the girl to disappear that didn't change the facts. All it did was give him a chance to focus on women in a more acceptable age and experience bracket. And now this...

Mamoru knew that the video footage showed Usagi and the girl who claimed to be his daughter getting up off of the ground after a two hundred and fifty meter drop. When did Usagi start to wear glasses? Was that a wand and a broom? He knew the lithe girl was a magical powerhouse but he also knew she didn't use that kind of magic. He resigned himself to paying a visit to the local Magical Girl Union Headquarters, a.k.a. the Hikawa Shrine.

Later.

He had Russian girls to bed tonight. He could go chat up his favorite miko tomorrow.

A tense group of magical girls hovered at the bottom of the stairs. After an awkward moment or two Ami made the first move to climb the stairs and look for their missing friends. Ami knew that the two girls made it into Chibi-usa's room after doing a discrete scan of the city with the Mercury Computer after the radio report they heard leaving Tokyo Tower mentioned two girls had disappeared into thin air. Harry had obviously used teleportation to escape the authorities.

This was both good and bad. Harry saved Chibi-usa's life, that was clear. Unfortunately, there would be a price to pay for that now. Harry may have been able to go around in Usagi's form without drawing much attention before. She wasn't advertising her presence. Now however, everyone was looking for Usagi Tsukino, the 'Japanese witch'. They were also looking for a pink haired little girl traveling with Teen Witch or Moon Rider or one of any number of new titles that the Boy-Who-Lived was collecting from the mahou shoujo obsessed media of Japan.

By population, she was now much more famous in Japan than 'he' was in the Wizarding World.

Minako and the others could make jokes about this later. First, were Harry and Chibi-usa okay?

Usagi backed into the corner above her daughter's bed to keep out of the way as the room quietly filled with her close friends. What they saw was very sweet. Even asleep as they were, Harry and Chibi-usa held on to each other like nothing else mattered. Their dirty, food covered bodies were the only mark against them. You didn't put your shoes on the bedroom floor and fall asleep covered in grime, coffee and fried seafood. They were in Japan, not West Virginia.

"So, do we wait for them to wake up?" Makoto asked the question.

Minako responded. "Ami, get your Mercury Computer out and see if Saturn needs to heal anything."

A three minute scan came up clean. They went back downstairs.

"So, what happened?" Hotaru was done waiting.

"Ask Rei, she was closest." Haruka had seen Rei getting close to their Mini-Moon before the glass disappeared.

"I don't know why she fell any better than you." Rei hissed. Even pressuring the pink haired little girl like she was, she had no idea how the glazing disappeared. "I was asking her questions when it happened. There's more to Harry then Pluto's let out. After seeing those two together yesterday, well, Chibi-usa must know more than she lets on."

"That's old news, Rei. She's from the future. She can't tell everything she knows, now, can she?"Minako was done with this subject, even if Rei wasn't. "There's no sense in beating a dead gift horse in the mouth. Let's go home."

As they left, Ami had to hand over five hundred yen to Makoto. Minako just couldn't get through a single day without mangling old sayings.

Harry and Cuteness slept for another hour before they were prodded awake for baths and dinner. As the Inners had gone home for the evening, Sunday morning would be spent back the shrine getting to one each other some more. First on the list? Magical home movies via Harry's pensieve.

Headmaster Dumbledore stepped around his desk, fell into his chair and closed his eyes for the first time in twenty-four hours. It was just approaching lunchtime but he had not the strength to head down to the Great Hall. Castle elves would have to bring him something. As he released a deep breath, the enchanted chair worked tension out of his muscles and revitalized him. Getting back to his desk meant for that the first time in a full day he had a wand that worked well. Sure, he hadn't so much as lifted it since he took the Elder Wand from Grindelwald in the Forties but it was the wand Ollivander sold Albus when he was eleven back when muggles thought that man would never achieve flight. He tested the wand by levitating his various Potter tracking instruments onto his desk from the shelves.

It was… not difficult but considerably less easily done. Most unfortunate.

It was far more difficult and took far longer than the same action would with his... with Potter's Elder Wand. Albus would have to make getting that wand back his highest priority when next Mister Potter deigned to set foot on English soil. If Harry realized that he currently possessed one of the Deathly Hallows he may try to retake his cloak from Snape's possession thereby claiming two of them. Luckily, almost no one actually believed in the tale let alone knew where the real Hallows were. Albus would look into Harry's things the minute Harry steps into English influence again and make sure that there wasn't anything in his trunk that could give the boy anymore opportunities to escape his destiny.

Ablus masked his original wand to look like the one Harry took. Mustn't allow anyone to see a difference in his magical abilities or his reduced abilities may be discovered by Tom. The Headmaster also asked Poppy to alert him when Severus regained consciousness. Severus had to be obliviated of the whole Japan trip. Even allowing his Potions Master to remember what happened long enough to tell Voldemort could violate his vows. Besides, the man had enough reasons to take a firm hand to the boy and being beaten soundly by school aged girls as Mister Potter watched was not likely to help the situation. The Headmaster briefly considered the possibility that these girls and their unorthodox ways may be 'the power the Dark Lord knows not'.

But no, these 'Senshi' could not proxy for Harry in this war. They would not beat Tom in Harry's name. Why, it was ludicrous to think they could. They may have surprised Albus in Tokyo but then he was pulling his punches so to speak. Tom would do no such thing. If Miss Granger could identify the girls with a few borrowed books, surely Tom already knew of them and knew how best to nullify their talents.

No, the prophesied power could be none other than manly love and resulting childbirth. Tom Riddle would never willingly submit to another and encouraging young Harry to tread that path would both give the boy a power Tom didn't understand and it would put Harry in the proper mindset to leave this world willingly when it was time for the horcrux in his head to be dealt with.

Voluntary submission to another. Love. Self sacrifice. These were not things Tom Riddle could understand nor could he counter their proper application.

The plan was perfect.

Voldemort was not pleased. Two of his lesser followers learned of this in excruciatingly painful detail over the course of several hours as Severus Snape continued to defy his summons. The pain pouring through Snape's Dark Mark should be unbearable by now.

The sleeping draught and other potions which Madam Pomfrey used to start Severus Snape on the road to recovery were stronger than usual on account of his injuries. Perhaps if the Headmaster had stopped off at any number of magical hospitals or healing stations along their portkey journey, Snape may have fully recovered by now. Instead, Albus brought his 'sleeping' friend along with him through the entire journey without more than the most basic aide. A couple of potions in the Potions Master's bag appeared to be his personal variants on healing draughts so the Headmaster saw no reason not to dose Severus with those while he was traveling.

The foot must have been getting worse for the unconscious man to react so poorly to his own medicinal potions.

Inside the potioned and tormented mind of Severus Snape, horrible things were happening. He was both too hot and too cold. His skin felt like rusty nails were being drawn over a terrible sunburn in the most sensitive of places. A constant feeling of inadequacy flooded his mind. These were the effects of the potions Albus had given him. Severus brewed that stock to look like healing potions for dosing the Brat before... but that didn't happen. On top of those rather dark potion effects were the poorly treated injuries sustained in twenty seconds of the most humiliating combat of Snape's entire dueling career. Then there was the Dark Mark. Imagine having testicles grafted onto one's arm; when Voldemort was displeased, the Dark Mark would feel as if those testicles were being squeezed more and more tightly over time without bursting. Snape could not escape from any of those feelings and would continue to suffer for hours yet.

Ranma Saotome thought that taking a ship back across the Sea of Japan might make him soft. After all, he and his old man swam across the first time he ever made the trip.

Stupid sharks.

Fun? No. Good training? Yes.

Ranma thought that staying in a passenger cabin would limit the number of exercises and kata he could perform. How much running and kicking and punching could you do in a space that was barely two meters wide by three meters deep? He thought that the lack of activity above and below decks may actually cause him to lose his edge.

Luckily, Shampoo had a plan. As soon as he made it into the cabin and began complaining about how boring and unproductive this trip would be, she smiled and laid out her training program. A challenge. Shampoo knew of a high end ki-burning Amazon practice Ranma had never been shown before and had not thought to pursue on his own. She claimed that she could beat him the first time, even if he learned fast enough to draw or win the second time. The stakes: winner has absolute 'training' authority for the full ocean voyage.

True to form, Ranma agreed to the challenge without any other explanation.

Shampoo pulled out a bottle of water. Best to show girl-Ranma first as that's how Shampoo learned it with her warrior sisters. Shampoo also promised they could try the training with his male form after his initial lessons.

This all made sense to Ranma.

Now for the rules of the training. Dominate your opponent without offensive or crippling strikes of any kind. Grappling was allowed with the exception of pain and choke holds. Both challengers must maintain physical contact with their opponents at all times. Victory was by submission or knockout. In reverence to their most ancient Amazon traditions, both challengers must compete in the nude. Shampoo laid out the allowable tools: oils and lotions. Ranma's eyes got wide at hearing the last rule to the competition he'd already agreed to. His eyes glazed over when the training tools were revealed.

The days and nights Ranma and Shampoo spent training within the bowels of the tramp steamer traveling from their undisclosed Chinese port to Japan were indeed some of the most intense and powerful physical and ki burning workouts that the aquatransexual had ever experienced. The other passengers and crew left that section of the ship alone. Strange lights, stranger moaning noises, shrieks and shaking bulkheads were the most disturbing signs of spectral activity that most of those people had ever experienced.

Long before landfall, hot water was applied and skills were modified and refined in order to achieve mastery of Ranma's new favorite 'combat' style.

August 11th, 1996

Today, Harry was going to put his new wand through its paces. To begin with, he turned the new wand on his old one and looked for charms, tracers, hexes and curses. Though he couldn't determine the exact nature of them, he did find a few.

"Finite incantatem."

One left. Harry dug deep and recalled another unlocking charm Hermione had pulled out of thin air during the DA research periods they had last year. On the next pass, his phoenix feather core wand was clean. He then cast a few charms with it just to prove that he hadn't messed up its magical output. Nope, it felt fine.

The first thing he did when he saw the girls getting ready to go was cast a hair switching charm between Haruka and Cuteness for the trip to Rei's shrine. Haruka wasn't entirely happy with the change at first but she did put up with it for Cuteness's sake. As the minutes passed by, the faux pinkette began to think that keeping her new uber-girly hair color would be a great way to prank anyone who knew her and knew of her tastes. Feeling left out of the fun, Hotaru and Michiru had their hair switched next. Harry's mistake was in saying that he could do eye color too. That was what set them back half an hour.

When the Outers plus Chibi and Harry entered the shrine, the Inners saw magical makeovers and went wild. Minako loudly declared that she'd help him 'relax' later if she could get a short, light blue hair cut with red eyes. She held up an anime poster of the look in question. Shocked, he automatically agreed to it. Ami shuffled over to his side and whispered her request. Blushing hard, Harry said that she could have Usagi's hair and his eyes, but that he really wouldn't request payment for the makeovers. True, her offer of payment was less risque than Minako's but it was far more than Ami had ever offered anyone else before.

Makoto spent the next few hours as a Minako clone while Rei wanted nothing more than to play around with Harry's kanzashi. Several other girls who had forgotten about his magic hair sticks swore for the lost opportunity. Harry and Cuteness both noticed that Usagi could not stop laughing at her friends' fashion games.

"I believe that we have taken enough of Mister Potter's salon time, ladies. Let's get down to business, shall we?" Hotness has entered the building.

Minako fired back at Setsuna, "Wouldn't you like Harry to pull out his wand and shoot his magic all over your face and hair? He's really good at it!"

Setsuna smirked at Harry. Some of the other girls began to catch on.

"I do believe Mister Potter will have his hands full with you and Ami tonight, Mina. I'm sorry Harry, you'll have to do me another night." Harry choked on her words.

His imagination ran overdrive trying to figure out Minako's very important line he'd just missed. Wait, him and Hotness? Ack...

In time honored tradition, Harry began to beat the dirty images and words out of his head by way of the closest available firm surface. A table.

Thump

Thump

Thump

Crack

"Reparo."

Harry found his self control and wiped the blood off of his head. He noticed all of the girls were either worried for him like Makoto or trying desperately to hold back laughter like Haruka.

"Right, business. I'll just get the pensive out then."

Just as before in China, Harry gave the girls a basic tour of Hogwarts Castle while giving them a broad survey of the Wizarding World. They were quite shocked to see ghosts. Rei wondered if he'd let them see Usagi. Oh. My. God. There's, like, no television anywhere. And no phones? Even worse. How do these girls do it? And those cloaks are the worst fashion disasters anywhere! Oh! Magic fight! Twenty points from Gryffindor of course. And back outside.

Rather than go right to the Department of Mysteries, Harry began loading the pensive with his standard Big Fight and Monster scenes in chronological order. As his audience was teenaged girls he put fun scenes in between each fight. For those scenes, he used Quidditch (Harry wins), Diagon Alley, Hogsmead and the Yule Ball (but without the angry bits). He did have the fight with Herb in there but chose not to include Tokyo Tower. If they were lucky, Harry's magical home movies would be done in time for lunch.

At quarter past noon, a very shocked and awed group of girls plus one boy came out of the pensive. They had heard some of it before, of course, but... wow.

Even as heavily laden with magic as their lives were none of them expected anything close to what they were shown. While he got big points for saving Chibi-usa the day before, the girls now knew that Harry was always like that. Harry had just been re-classified by several girls as Grade A Senshi Boyfriend Material. And as far as they could tell, he was single.

"Excuse me, am I interrupting something?"

Enter, stage left, the only other Grade A Senshi Boyfriend Material known to the assembled magical girls, Mamoru Chiba. Two young men stared at each other, each sizing the other up. Harry rose from his seat and offered the newcomer his hand.

"Good afternoon. I'm Harry Potter." After a moment, Mamoru took the hand and shook it, never looking away from Harry's eyes. A new Witch Usagi and a new guy in the Estrogen Zone? Coming here today was the right thing to do.

"Mamoru Chiba, pleased to meet you." Mamoru returned.

Diplomacy never hurt. With his future, he needed all the practice he could get. Setsuna set the meeting in motion with her own greeting. "Welcome back, Mamoru. Tea?"

He nodded and Makoto jumped up to grab a drink tray sitting nearby.

"I trust you heard about Tokyo Tower?" Setsuna added.

"Yes, thank you. I did. All the news channels were showing video footage yesterday. It's not every day that one see's his dead ex-girlfriend save his daughter by flying on a broom." Chiba noticed several girls flinch. Minako had covered her mouth and her eyes went wide. In his distracted state, he missed picking up the cup of hot tea, knocking over a soda next to it instead. Harry caught the spill on his side. Correction, her side.

"Damn! The old saying's right! Why are all the good ones married or gay?!" As Minako raged against the unfairness of the world Mamoru stepped back from the boy turned girl. An immature brat was bad enough, there was no way he was marrying another guy.

"Bugger that! You'll not be getting me preggers!" Harry growled out.

Harry had just gotten a translation from Ami, who added that Usagi was 'destined' to marry Mamoru and... well... Harry was Usagi.

"That's three blokes in two weeks that wanted me in the pudding club, and.. and one of them didn't care that I wasn't a girl right then!" She huffed.

Harry may not usually think like a girl but he got the righteous indignation down perfectly.

The world was about to end. Setsuna was laughing. She was laughing so hard that tears were pouring out.

The dam broke. Soon all the girls were laughing save Harry. She didn't think it was funny at all. Neither did Mamoru for that matter.

As the girls giggled in the background, Mamoru watched the dead girl dip her fingers into his tea and turn back into a boy. He then watched as Mister Potter drew a wand and used magic to clean up the mess.

"Setsuna, when your done rolling on the floor and showing us your knickers, would you care to explain what is going on before someone tries to have sex with me who shouldn't?"

Mamoru lost color in his face when Harry mentioned that. No, this was one sacrifice he was not willing to make for Crystal Tokyo. Having a relationship with Usagi had been hard enough before this. Chibi-usa was just going to have to find another Daddy if Mister Potter was her Mommy.

"Fine." Setsuna would rather continue laughing, as it was something she rarely got to do. However, the chaos that staying quiet now would generate would not be good for Crystal Tokyo. She collected herself and prepared to fix it.

"Well, first let me assure you that Harry and Mamoru will not be required to do anything they might consider unpleasant for this young lady here to still exist." She smiled at Cuteness who smiled back."We can explain now because any concerns I may have had with Mister Potter's new role in the future were erased when he jumped out of Tokyo Tower to save out littlest princess." With that, Cuteness jumped up off the floor and once again hugged her Daddy tight while beginning to interpret for him. "While Mister Chiba may have missed Harry's magical home movies this morning, now would be a good time to bring up one or two things that I saw in them."

"You mean Usagi." Rei had interrupted. It would have been the first thing brought up until Mamoru announced himself.

Setsuna continued. "Yes. You may recall that just as Harry was blacking out at Jusenkyo, a spirit rose up behind her."

Harry hadn't expected to see that. He was told about the end of the fight by Ranma but didn't realize that Usagi would show up in his memory. Usagi floated up to Harry and Cuteness as Setsuna spoke.

"While falling into the pool gave Harry the body of Usagi Tsukino, that fight is what set her spirit free. Harry, can you tell us how the Jusenkyo fight ended?"

After Cuteness finished translating for Harry, Usagi made a suggestion to Cuteness who whispered it into Harry's ear. Maybe Usagi could tell them herself.

Everyone else was plenty confused when Harry looked into empty air and nodded. Rei's eyes widened. Usagi was here! Harry pulled out his wand again and converted one of the sodas into ice water. As soon as the sex change was complete, a golden crescent moon flared on the blonde's forehead. Her expression and posture shifted from into something far more familiar than a female Harry Potter could provide, something none of the others had seen in almost a year.

"I took over from Harry, transformed into Sailor Moon and totally kicked that guy's ass, that's what happened!" Usagi was about to make a public spectacle of dumping her old flame when the girl hugging her waist squeaked out.

"Momma?" Explanations had to wait as Mother and Daughter soaked each other with tears. Other girls joined the crying jag until just Setsuna and Mamoru were left waiting for the others to calm down.

"Oh, dear. This is sure to cause trouble." Arthur Weasley was reading the morning's Daily Prophet. On the front cover of England's biggest magical paper was a picture of yesterday's scene at Tokyo Tower, a picture that covered half of the page. Japan's Teen Witch was exposed. The picture was taken right before Harry had apparated out, so the wand and broom were on full public display. Luckily for the subject of the photo, the wand was not in sharp focus so no-one would be able to identify it by sight. Arthur was sure he'd seen glasses like those before, though. And that was a Firebolt alright. None could deny that. This was no hoax.

While Arthur set the paper down muttering about how impossible it would be to obliviate all of Japan, Hermione saw the picture on the cover and froze up. 'That was Blondie! How irresponsible, using magic for all to see! And where did she get a Firebolt? Those brooms are still quite rare, even in Britain.'

Hermione grabbed Ginny's arm as she walked by and pointed at Blondie's photo while Hermione continued to read the cover story. Ginny went white. Ginny knew that wasn't just any Firebolt.

"How the bloody hell did that bitch get Harry's Firebolt?!" Ginny shrieked.

Molly stormed through the kitchen and twisted Ginny's ear as is any overbearing mother's right.

"Language! Young Lady, you do not say such things in this house!" Molly stopped shouting but she held the steel in her voice. "Now, what's this about Harry's broom?"

"I think Ginny may be right, Mrs. Weasley." Hermione spoke up. "Firebolts are rare enough here in England and Europe that knowing a witch used one near where Harry is makes him suspect."

The Bookworm of Gryffindor Tower looked closely at a familiar looking pair of glasses in the photo.

"This could be bad. Japan has been ignoring I.C.W. Rulings since the Nineteen fifties. The mahou shoujo are just one of the many classes of violations that occur in Japan everyday. The only reason that other Muggles don't catch on is that the relatively high technological advancements in Japan make magic easy to explain away or deny." Hermione had to stop to take a breath. "Even if the locals don't do anything, our own Ministry may try to pin it on Harry when he gets back if it can be proven that she used his broom."

Albus Dumbledore forced his way into Snape's quarters. Not that it was difficult for the Headmaster to open any door in Hogwarts castle but he was not in a mood to wait.

Empty. Harry's things weren't here.

Damn, the boy had two of the Deathly Hallows now. Even if Harry never learned what they were this meant that Dumbledore just lost two Hallows as he was near to finding the third.

When the Headmaster first gazed over today's Daily Prophet, he recognized the witch immediately from Fawkes' trip abroad. He also recognized the broom. If only he hadn't sworn that accursed oath. He couldn't even hint about Harry having a role in this secrecy breach so long as the oath was in effect. Plans would have to be made which could be carried out the moment the boy returned.

As noble as saving a little girl is the Headmaster would bury Harry for this in the Wizengamot and the Ministry. Albus would be declared Harry's rightful guardian when they saw how careless the boy was with his possessions. Then Harry would be forced to sign the Betrothal Contract with Severus and he would hand over the Elder Wand and the Cloak. This would all be over soon enough.

Once Albus Dumbledore had his local fires put out he could return to the matter of Mahou Shoujo. Such power could no longer be allowed to run unchecked, even on the other side of the planet. They would be brought to heel.

After the unscheduled love fest, Usagi Tsukino was able to pull herself together to address the big questions.

"Okay. -snif- Okay. -snif- Okay, everbody." She looked around. "First, -snif- I can't just kick Harry out of his own body forever." Usagi saw Haruka's face. "Stop it. Really, this is just a short term thing. -hick- I kind of like Harry now and it would be an awful shame if he up and died before Ami paid for her makeover."

Ami blushed while a couple of girls giggled in the background. Usagi continued.

"Anyway. -snif- I'm borrowing Harry here for a few minutes so that we can sort this mess out. Wonderful as the boy is, I don't think you'll just take his word for it if he tried to explain things. You see, the future went and changed on us."

There was an instant uproar. Mamoru and the girls who weren't in on the meeting at the Gates all asked the same things. How? What changed? What about Crystal Tokyo? If the future changed, then why is Chibi-usa still here?

"Everybody, please." The questions stopped. "Setsuna, feel free to step in if I get something wrong, but I don't think it's that hard to understand."

Setsuna nodded for Usagi to continue on. "The thing Harry and I have in common is Jusenkyo. So I'm guessing that that's where this... different future started."

Usagi looked to Setsuna who didn't move to correct her.

"Well, Mamoru and I were at a low point in or relationship right before I... left... and I'm guessing that you were just about ready to call it off yet again, huh?"

Mamoru nodded.

"Well don't feel bad about it. Fate's rewritten my personal fairy tale on us. Mamoru, if you hadn't already gotten yourself another girlfriend, well go ahead and do it. I found a new Daddy for my daughter."

Absolute silence. The wide eyed stares said a lot. Usagi turned to her daughter.

"So... you now speak English, you see ghosts like your Daddy can and you can do his magic too..."

Nod. Eyes kept opening wider.

"Did your name change?"

Nod.

"Well, don't keep everybody waiting Sweetie. What's your name?"

Everyone looked at the temporaly displaced immortal youth. She started playing with her faux blonde Haruka-hair.

"Good afternoon. I am Princess Usagi Cuteness Serenity-Potter of the Royal House of the Moon and of the Ancient and Noble House of Potter." She had curtseyed during her introduction. "Guess you could say I take after Mommy enough in looks that you couldn't tell when the change hit."

"So Harry's off the market? Damn. You gotta give us a chance before you sink your claws in one, Princess." Makoto mock pouted. Usagi smirked.

"Well, it's open season on Tuxedo Mask.." She winked at Mamoru. He gulped and took a step back."..and I don't exactly have a pulse just yet.. sooooooo. Mina? Ami? I'll give you all until Harry leaves for England to pay off your 'tabs'."

Both girls blushed, but Minako's blush framed a wicked smirk. Usagi continued.

"I have no doubt doubt Harry will finish the job and bring me back proper sometime. Sooner rather than later I hope. Anyway, when he does, I intend to thank him as any rescued Princess would. In bed. Naked."

Mamoru really didn't need to hear that. He started looking for a good time to leave.

"Usagi." Rei murmured.

The Moon Princess had been talking to her friends in smaller groups for about half an hour or so. When things degenerated into a more normal Senshi meeting, Mamoru had taken then opportunity to slip away. Now with the others distracted, Rei could finally get some one one one time with her Princess.

"Let's talk some where private." Typical Rei, the miko began to walk down a side hall before Usagi even agreed. Usagi followed just the same.

SLAP

Usagi held her cheek as Rei's emotions built to a fever pitch.

"What were you thinking in front of the shrine the other day? Can you tell me?" But Rei didn't really want answers."I had to hear second hand that you disappear one day and they never find you and your gone for months, Usagi. Months where we didn't know where you were. Chibi-usa was a wreck but she stayed here anyway - I don't know why. We were all wrecks. And then... and then Pluto tells us that you're coming back but you're not? And I see you as a ghost? Really.. I.. I just..." Rei was tearing up early in her rant. By this time there were long lines of tears fallin down both cheeks.

"I love you too, Rei." Usagi smiled at her closest friend. "I'm sorry for scaring the shit out of everyone. I'm sorry for hurting you."

She pulled a shaking Rei into a tight hug and began to whisper in Rei's ear.

"I watched you in class before following you home, you know. I just had to touch you. And when I did, I almost felt alive for a moment." Usagi backed off enough to look Rei in the eyes. "After not feeling anything for so long, even your slap felt good."

She winked at the miko and gave her a peck on the cheek.

Usagi moved to step away, but Rei held on. "Usagi, if Harry can still play the field for a few days, what about you?"

"I'm sorry Rei, I don't understand." Usagi thought she did understand but she wanted Rei to admit her own feelings.

Rei chose to answer with actions rather than words. After slapping her Princess around so often in the past, Rei finally did what she had always wanted to do. She kissed Usagi and really poured her heart into it. A minute later, the girls separated.

"We should get back before they come looking for us." The sound of several voyeurs running way could be heard through the rice paper screen door.

"I suppose our secret is out now." Usagi said with a smile.

"Our secret? I thought this was my secret." Rei felt better; her anger was just slipping away.

"Trust me, Rei. If Luna and Pluto hadn't made me believe that I'd get my Prince Charming without even working for it, I'd have pinned you to the floor a long time ago." Usagi had a big grin now.

Rei took the bait. "Well, my Princess. You rent that body off of Harry just one more time before he goes back to England and we'll just see who's on top of whom in the end."

She dove in for one last kiss before both girls walked into the meeting room to face the music.

"Do you and Rei have anything to tell us, Usagi?" Makoto was waiting for an answer.

Looking around at the sea of eager faces, Usagi settled on her best option. Her golden moon flickered and then died. The better part of valour was discretion, or so Shakespeare and Miss Tsukino would both have you believe.

"So, what did I miss?" Harry looked around. That Mamoru guy and Hotness were both missing. She was standing next to Rei, who was looking back at her with something akin to betrayal on her face. "What did she do, then?"

"She told me and Ami that we could have you until you left Japan and then she went and kissed Rei. I had no idea our Princess was such a kinky girl." Minako sounded hopeful. Harry didn't know what to think.

A few minutes later, Harry was snapped out of his daze when he noticed that Minako had taken to alternately splashing him with hot and cold water. She just giggled. "That will never get old!"

Harry hoped that this concert he had been invited to was going to be easier to deal with than a day with the Senshi.

Shortly before the Outers took Cuteness home at dinner time, Ami made her move for Harry. She used the traditional way to get a date when you weren't willing to ask the boy yourself; Ami asked Cuteness to ask Harry to ask Ami out one night that week. Giggling, Cuteness agreed. Usagi went home with Cuteness to get more ghostly mother-daughter time in.

After the Outers left, Harry's 'dates' for the evening had to go get ready. Harry took a nap. An hour later, Minako woke Harry up by sitting on his lap.

"Ready Harry?"

With his nod, they left for the nearest subway station. Harry was impressed by the Tokyo subway, not that he'd been allowed much time in British commuter trains for comparison and the Hogwarts Express really didn't count as it was magical and not muggle. During the subway ride and subsequent short walk to the concert, Ami and Minako took it upon themselves to give him a short lecture on the Nippon Budokan and Morning Musume. Several local guys gave the foreigner with four hot dates jealous looks but nobody made a scene of it.

After feeling a bit out of place in the beginning, Harry was finally starting to relax. While there were plenty of guys at the concert, he was the only non-Japanese person in sight. Wait, there were two waaaaay over there. Oh, well... he was still being stared at less than he would be on a bad day in the Great Hall of Hogwarts, like his first feast ever or the Heir of Slytherin mess or the Goblet of Fire... Compared to being in Hogwarts, he was practically invisible here.

The music was light and fun sounding. Some of it failed to impress Harry but his escorts were eating it up. Even Rei seemed to have gotten into the right mood. The most recent act, four girls in the most girlishly pink outfits he'd seen yet, were even getting him to sort-of-dance to their songs. Of course, that's when things were destined to go to hell.

Harry should have learned by now that if a massive dangerous beast was alive in his vicinity, he would be forced to deal with it before too long. Halfway through a song, the sound cut off. Though the concert lighting died, emergency lighting actually brightened the place up a bit. Something dark and wiggly started rising over a corner of the stage. If the screaming girls, mucous covered tentacles and ill defined body were any indication, this was what Hermione described as a tentacle demon. Harry was not in the mood to watch girls get raped and eaten. Oh, goody; two more of them just came out from under the other side.

"Fuck!" Minako swore loudly, "Why do monsters have to attack every fucking time we go to a concert or group thing together? Every damn time!"

Minako, Rei, Makoto and Ami were pushing him to a exit, but there was no good way out. The middle of a crowd was not a good place to transform either. Luckily, Harry could help with that.

He pulled out his wand and cast notice-me-nots on the girls and himself. As they got ready to transform unmolested, Harry tried to come up with some kind of plan. Well, the Japanese have already seen a blonde on a broom haven't they? He cast aguamenti at his foot and pulled out her Firebolt. By the time she was in the air, a demon had one of the singers pinned to the stage floor and the poor girl was screaming bloody murder. Harry let her notice-me-not fall and cast a reductor curse at the tentacle wriggling up to the singer's knickers.

Got it! Judging by the inhuman screech, getting a tentacle blasted off must hurt really bad. The demon pulled back in shock long enough for that last singer to stumble over the side of the stage and get picked up by a couple of the security staff.

As Harry swung around the stage just a few meters under the roof structure, she looked for an important looking bit of demon.

"Reducto! Reducto!"

This cry was accompanied by Mars Flame Sniper and Jupiter Oak Evolution. Lots of the trapped crowd would now have to clean demon goo off of their clothes when they got home.

Venus had been holding the second beasty in place with a Love-Me-Chain until Mars and Jupiter could splatter it like the first one. Mercury trapped the third demon in a Mercury Aqua Mist before turning it into a cloud of demon goo with a Mercury Aqua Rhapsody.

Harry, Mars, Jupiter and Venus stayed on guard until till Mercury reported in.

"We're clear! Those were the only three demons here."

The Senshi began to complain to each other that this was really Devil Hunter Clan work. Sacrificing their lives on a constant basis was one thing but becoming the star of a porn video when the fight ended poorly was a real risk when dealing with these things. Those Devil Hunters were kinda into that. Not Senshi. Well.. there was that one dream Jupiter had - but she wasn't about to tell anyone else.

Harry couldn't help but be impressed. If they could just get past muggle repellers and notice-me-nots, these girls would slaughter the Death Eaters. It was about this time when Harry realized that more than ten thousand concert going fans were now cheering for her and the Senshi. The singers were re-mounting the stage in front of the Senshi.

Bloody hell.

Harry dropped down to the stage and stepped off her Firebolt. While concert lighting and sound systems were being restored in the background, someone slammed into Harry and gave her a bone crushing hug. The singer who narrowly escaped public defilement was crying and babbling and hugging Harry for all she was worth. Harry looked over to Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Mercury. They were similarly occupied with the rest of the singers. Thankfully, the concert security staff was effectively keeping the crowd at bay.

Harry's personal J-Pop singer must have noticed that she didn't understand much of what was being said to her. The girl studied Harry for a moment and asked, "Do you speak English?"

"Right, sorry. I'm not this Tsukino bird the news is talking about." Harry began to relax. Too bad for her.

"I'm Mika Todd, and you are?"

"Ha-e-eather." Panic! Panic! Girl's name! Not Potter! Very not Potter! "Heather Snape."

Bloody hell, that's worse than telling the truth.

"Well, Heather Snape! I owe you my life, you and the Sailor Senshi with you tonight!"

The Senshi were all smiles. Then the crowd roared. 'No, no, no, no. Please tell me they didn't just restore the sound system right before I talked to a singer on stage.' Yes, that's just what happened. Each of the Senshi were given a standing ovation in turn. Mars, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus were just eating this up. Well, at least Harry recovered from almost giving her real name. Sweet Merlin, please let this night be over soon.

After a few minutes trying hard to not exist and praying that the singers would decide to start singing again, she and the girls finally caught a break long enough to leave the Budokan. Questions thrown out to Harry from the crowd as she flew overhead included: where was she from, was she a real witch, was she a new mahou shoujo, what were her sizes and did she swallow. She almost hexed that last one, but the Senshi pulled her back.

By the time they hit the subway station four beautiful local girls and a very embarrassed British boy were walking back to the subway station in silence. When they got back to the station at Azabu Juban, Harry returned their original hair and eye colors and offered to escort each girl to their homes. Being a little further out than the other three, Rei asked him how he would do that. Harry smirked that Potter smirk and answered.

"Magic."

Rei got to experience her first broom ride. Since Harry was driving, he didn't even try to go slow. It would be Rei's last ride if she had anything to say about it. Harry apparated back to the station and then proceeded to give Ami, Makoto and Minako each a high speed broom ride back to their homes, Harry apparating back to the station after each drop off. Being the last girl in line, Minako begged for a slow broom ride.

That fight had turned her on in the worst way. Monsters, a new ally, on-stage public recognition; that fight was what she wanted them all to be like. Once they were coasting smoothly over the rooftops, Minako proved that she would have made Gryffindor proud by twisting around, reaching behind Harry's head and snogging his brains out.

By the time Harry stepped into the main living room of his temporary home, he was in far too good a mood to remember that people may have a reason to be waiting up for him.

"Welcome home Heather." Hotness was smirking. They all were. Wait, she said Hea...ther... oh. News sure as hell travels fast in the muggle world.

End Chapter

Omake – You can't have a Senshi. Not yours.

Sometime after September First. Lunch in the Great Hall of Hogwarts.

"Not funny 'Mione! When hit by cold water I become a Magical Alien Princess with influence out past the orbit of planet Pluto! This is loads more to deal with than Hagrid knocking down the door and saying 'You're a wizard, Harry'." Harry's new magical disability was not getting the respect she felt it deserved.

The blonde wheeled around to Ron with a manic look in her eyes. "And YES it means I'm even more famous than I used to be and YES it means I'm even more powerful and rich than I used to be and NO I won't order any of my loyal-beautiful-alien-magical-princess-senshi to bed you even though we've been 'best mates' for years now!"

Someone had just kicked Ron's puppy.

"Pluto!" Harry bellowed.

Pluto heeded his call by materializing in the center of the Great Hall, Garnet Rod in hand. This was fun. "Yes, Princess Serenity?"

"I order you and the others to NEVER have sex with Ron Weasley for any reason ever!"

Someone had just kicked Ron's puppy and then shot it.

"Your will be done. Are we to pleasure anyone here, my Princess?"

"Good question." The hormone level in the teenager filled dining hall went up exponentially.

Harry smiled. It was a Weasley Twin Smile. "Senshi Pluto. I grant you and the other Senshi the right to seduce any willing witch fifth year and above with any house affiliation."

Luna Lovegood stood up and turned to Pluto. Bringing her arms forward to maximize cleavage, the dirty blonde posed her best 'sexy' pose and gave a very obvious wink to the Senshi. Sailor Pluto nodded to Luna before turning her intense gaze upon Hermione.

"Must they be willing, Highness?" 'Oh, Hotness, you know how to turn me on.'

"I'm afraid so. Though I bet not every girl who would enjoy your attention would be willing to admit it in public... you may have some sport on your hands. To that end, I grant you leave to conduct a... hard sell."

Pluto continued to gaze at Hermione during Harry's royal decree. For her part, Hermione quickly became flush faced and began to shake a little. Unable to withstand the Senshi's obvious interest, 'Mione bolted from the table and the room. Pluto appeared to track her progress through solid walls while audibly counting down from ten.

At 'zero' Pluto disappeared.

A faint female shriek was heard through the open doors of the Great Hall before it abruptly cut off.

Damn this going to be fun.

End Chapter

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