I use Daijoubu ka – it means are you alright. I just used it to remind yall they are Japanese. Besides, I dunno, it has the tonal Japanese flare, that is forgotten in English fanfics. I also specifically in this chapter, used suffixes (-chan spefically) and dropped them because of tonal things to.

Usagi was near Rei's temple when she got the call from Ami. They all agreed to meet in an hour, but it only took her ten minutes to get there. Rei wasn't outside, so she wondered around the inside trying to look for her.

"Ojii-san ! That's the wrong Kanji!"

Usagi peaked around the corner.

She looked at the stack of the small prayer sheets, all written with the wrong Kanji. She sighed. He had been doing this all afternoon. She had told him repeatedly, and he would forget repeatedly.

"Rei, I am very sorry."

She threw them on the floor. "Why? What is wrong with you?"

"Nothing, Rei, I am perfectly fine." The small man huffed puffing his chest. "I just got them confused, that's all."

"Just, go to bed. I'll do these for the morning."

"I can do whatever I want. And I'm going to go pray." Rei wanted to strangle him. It was so confusing.

She let him walk out of the room.

She slumped down on the floor. She felt like crying. This was the second time this week, and he had been doing this stuff for years.

She took the sheets of rectangular rice paper and tore each one up, leaving the shreds around her, tears falling. It was just to much right now.

"Rei-chan?" Usagi called out.

Usagi saw her stiffen. Saw the sailormars exterior go into place.

Rei didn't say anything.

"Rei-chan, daijoubu ka?"

Usagi walked up next to her and put a hand on her shoulder. "Rei-chan, it will be all right."

That made her cry more. She was trying hard to put up all those barriers, but the flame of her spirit could not stop the tears, not right now.

"Its, its just…" She started to try and explain.

"This is to much isn't it?"

"No…" She shook her head. Her pride wouldn't let Usagi know how burdened she felt inbetween temple duties , her grandfather, school and senshi duty.

"Rei-chan, you look exhausted."

She shrugged as she started to pull herself together. "I had duty last night."

Usagi gave her a 'I-know-your-lieing' look. "That's not all of it. I heard the conversation with your grandfather."

Rei wiped her eyes and sighed. "He has Alzheimer's. And it is getting worse."

"Oh Rei…" Usagi sat on the floor next to her.

"I just wish there was something any of us could do. We can fight galactic enemy's but we're helpless to the stupid human diseases at the same time. Hell, we can be resurrected from the dead, and we can't stop anything mundane … we're just human!"

She threw some of the paper around in frustration. "I wish I could put out an add "Shinto priestess needed, now hireling:" or something. There just isn't anyone else—I've spent my whole life knowing I was supposed to take over this temple, and at the same time I have duties that are above this one."

"Rei… you're duties are a senshi are not any more important then this one. I'll take your nights alright?"

"No, no you can't do that Usagi. I know you're exhausted to. And besides, you want to go to college. I'm not, because I'll be a full time priestess here, but I don't even know if I can do that. This, this is more than a full time job. It's a lifestyle, it is everything."

Rei's grandfather wondered into the room. "Ahh Rei, just who I was looking for. What's with the mess?"

"Nothing, don't worry about it." Rei shrugged him off. "Its getting late."

"Ahh yes, that's where I was going. To bed. Right after I go pray."

He wondered back out of the room.

"Arg!" Rei just ran her hand through her hair, tears were starting to fall again. "Its so stupid! He just was praying so he could go to bed a minute ago. I just, I wish there was something that could be done!"

Usagi fingered the brooch in her pocket. She bit her lip.

She was quiet for a second. "Usagi, what are you thinking?"

Rei looked into her, like she was looking into her soul. Usagi mentally cursed, Rei knew her to well. "I…Luna told me explicitly not to… but I can try and heal him. I did it once to Shingo when he broke his leg, I healed it immediately on accident. Luna scolded me for it, because it isn't her her words "the crystal isn't made to heal everyone around you. Don't heal people of illnesses, and various other things. It is for your Duty…yada yada yada…dangers of draining myself, ect...Luna never fails to remind me."

"Then you shouldn't." The hard stubborn Rei came out. "Usagi, you just can't."

Usagi saw her eyes, and they were denying everything that her voice and body said.

Usagi looked at her, determined blue eyes met her fire with passion. "I am never good at following rules."

Rei just looked at her. Usagi stood up.

Rei scrambled up behind her, following her quietly as they went into the other room.

Rei's grandfather was kneeled infront of the enternal fire, mumbling phrases under his breath. Usagi took the brooch out of her pocket, closing her eyes and letting its warmth flow through her. She stepped forward closer to his body.

She let the energy go.

"Usagi ! Don't you EVER do that again!" Usagi hadn't even opened her eyes, and Luna was screeching into her ear. She wasn't exactly even sure where she was, her head hurt though, and her body felt heavy. She just moaned a bit, and forced her eyes open, to close them quickly at the brightness of the room.

All that succeeded in doing was signaling Luna that Usagi was wake enough to listen to her.

"How many times do I have to tell you simple things Usagi! That could have killed you! You should never use your powers like that! And I tell don't, and then you decide to! Usagi don't…" Minako scooped at the ranting cat.

Luna wiggled to get out, but Minako held he fimly in place. Luna, not deterred in the least, kept on. "Minako-san let me down! Usagi, you better be listening, you should never do that again!"

Usagi realized she had a slight headache. It had clicked on what it was, the familiar heavy tired feeling associated with using the crystal, the lightness of her fingertips, as if they were still radiating energy. She sat up slowly, her eyes readjusting to the room.

"I'm fine." She said before the rest of them could ask a multitude of questions.

Rei stood in the corner, and the rest of them started their barrage of questions.

"Excuse me," Michiru slid the door open. She looked tired, her hair down and frizzy. "What exactly is going on?"

Usagi put up her hand. Just what she needed was a frazzled Michiru lecturing her to. "It doesn't matter at the moment. We need to talk about getting the Tyldran, and now."

It didn't take long for the meeting to end once it started, it was just an overview of where they had looked, and the passages they led downward that they had not searched yet. A little complaining of the nightshifts, and wondering exactly how much longer it was going to last. With good byes everyone started to leave.

Rei put a hand on Usagi's shoulder.

"Thank you." She was almost about to cry. "He sounds 20 years younger."

Usagi smiled and hugged Rei.

Kyoufu smiled. A thin curling of the lips that singled that he was enjoying some type of cruelty. That's what moral beings called it away. His eyes were closed, he was focusing on something far away, outside his mind.

"It is done, Kinryoku."

"You made the link without her noticing?"

Kyoufunodded. "Haruka is so distressed we could probably teleport into her aperment and kill her before she transformed." He paused, as if thinking aboiut what he said. "Why aren't we doing that?"

"Because Kyoufu ..." Kinryoku seemed a little displeased at the question. "Watching her we can get the information we need. They will tell her where the Tyldran is, and we will know the second she does. And then, and only then will we move."

"Telepathy is a wonderful thing."

"Yes indeed. I just hope she doesn't notice if she gets back into a calmer state of mind." Kinryoku stated. "She is good at repressing emotions. She is her name."

Kyoufu looked out the window to the ruins of the kingdom. "You destroy the order in her mind, she won't have time to figure out how to walk outside muchless how to sense a telepathic bond and break it."

"You shouldn't underestimate your daughter."

"I don't. I am going to destroy her mind as soon as the time is right."