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Chapter 10: Miss You

--------------------------------- Fall 1997: September -----------------------------------

The traffic light turned from red to green. Engines started to roar, the sound of tires were taking their first step could be heard and the race was began. Everybody cheered up as the car paced up to their maximum speed.

"Why you bring me here?" Elsa Grey sat in between the enthusiastic spectators with her best friend, Kaioh Michiru.

"To see the race, of course"

"I know that! But I'm not interested"

"Come on, Elsa! How could you do this to me? We're friend no?" Michiru started to play her dramatiser's act and Elsa just sweated drop. The thing she could do as nodded in defeat. "Thanks, Elsa!"

"Geez, you don't have to use that silly act…" Elsa looked back at the race, "Which one is Haruka?"

"That's one, the red one which is leading!" Michiru shouted within the noise of the crowd.

"Wow, she is good…"

"Of course!"

"Anyway, something happened between you two? It seems you guys haven't spent your time together that much…"

Michiru stayed quite with what Elsa told her. She remembered the event from two weeks ago.

Flashback

"Michiru…"

Michiru looked up at Haruka as she was being call but her only answer was simply, "Huh?"

"I love you"

End of flashback

As her memories play-backed, she still could feel the touches and kisses upon her body which made her shivered. She loves those caresses but she refused them. Now, she doubted if her action was simply a duty or stupidity.

Since then, the summer break ended and the school started, they never had contact each other. 'I know she hates me now but I could not grip myself to not seeing her' Michiru shook her head, disbelieved with the relationship between her and Haruka had become, "I'm sorry… Ruka-chan" She whispered.

"Look! Look! Michiru! She won!"

"Huh?" Lost in her thought, Haruka had just finished the race and she missed the important event.

The crowd stood in amaze and applauded with how fast Haruka's car was and 'he' as they referred her, recorded as the fastest car driver in F1 Junior's history. As Haruka jumped out from her car, and her racing's team came to her with the same excitement she had, they hugged her and cheered for her. Then, the media also approached her to congratulate her and talked to her. The only thing she could do was gave them a smile but sad one.

--------------------------------- Changing Room -----------------------------------

Haruka sat in the changing room as she watched her interview just a moment ago which was showing on the TV. She just signed and started to pack her things. But then, something held her on the shoulder, punched her on the face as tried to turn around. A loud 'BANG' echoed in the room caused by Haruka's body thrown to the locker from the attack. Haruka touched her painful left cheek and then looked up to her attacker.

"That's what you got from winning the race! A GIRL should stay at home and knitting!" The black-haired man laughed and so as his three other friends.

Haruka stood up while still holding her left cheek and gave them a chilly stare which made them shut. "Then, men like you guys should go to your mom for not good enough to beat me"

"WHAT! You… bitch!" The men started to overrun Haruka but they were not fast enough. Haruka moved forward and beat up the first man, second one, and the third. All the three fell and one left. They could not believe their eyes with how the blond-girl defeated the three in a second. The last one was shaking and then changed her but Haruka evaded it easily and only pushed him down to fall. Before the last guy could get another grip, loud steps were coming from the door.

"Haruka-chan!" A man with brown shoulder-length hair came over with other several men in the back.

"Ah, Yamada-san…"

"What happen to your face?"

"This… It's nothing, just a scratch"

"It DOESN'T look like one… Who are they? Are they the one who did that!"

"Some sort like that…"

"How dare they, playing such a dirty trick!" Some other man shouted. "Let's beat them!"

"No! Stop it!" Yamada stopped them.

"But Yamada, they-"

"If you guys beat them, it is just making the situation even worse and there is might be a chance our team will be disqualified from the next tournament and all of what we have achieved will be for nothing!"

The other stayed quite, "Yamada-san is right", Haruka fitted in, "We can't risk our position… Let's bring this guy to the judges and see if their team could be dropped from the tournament instead".

"Yeah! That would be better", the men started to get near the four beaten men and dragged them outside.

"Thanks, Yamada-san!"

"Don't mention it. Take care of yourself, ok? Just leave everything to me", Yamada winked, giving Haruka an 'ok' sign and then left.

Haruka just smiled with her friend then she went back to re-packed her things. While she bent down, she realized that her upper button was ripped and something fell from it. It was a cross, her necklace which she received from Michiru. For a while, it brought out many memories, the time when she spent with Michiru but that happiness was gone by a single night.

She remembered that morning; she went back from the beach to her house after left by Michiru the night before. Later she found that the aqua girl had packed her stuffs and departed for Japan in the same night. Megumi asked her what happened but Haruka just avoided all of her mother's curiosity and spent the rest of her summer vacation without calling back her beloved aqua goddess until now.

'First, she told me that she loved me and then she blew me off… How could she be so selfish!' Haruka just could not hold her anger and pain. 'And why I'm still wearing her GIFT?' Haruka pulled the necklace from her neck and put it inside her bag. She zipped it off and grabbed it toward the exit.

Haruka walked on her way to the parking lot. She tried to avoid the crowd as much as possible since she wanted to be alone lately. As she passed the bazaar nearby, something attracted her attention. Far away, she saw a glimpse of aqua colour. Instantly, her heart soared, 'Michi!' and she ran to crowd where she saw her.

After running around for a while, she could not find the girl's she was searching for, 'Maybe it was my imagination', then, she stopped, 'Why I'm doing?' She walked slowly within the crowd and took the cross from her bag. She looked at it and wondered. She supposed to hate the girl but somehow she could not, why? She turned the cross back and red the writing behind, "Love n' Luck". Even though it was just a simple sentence but she knew that the meaning was deep especially with the 'Love' word one. "Love drives you crazy, huh? I guess it is right…" Haruka just smiled sadly to herself.

"TENOH-SAN! It's Tenoh-san!" A group of young girls went to her as they recognized her and in a few minute, she was surrounded and overwhelmed. "PLEASE! I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOUR SIGNATURE, TENOH-SAN"

"TENOH-SAN! MARRY ME!"

'That would be impossible', Haruka would love to answer that but quickly turned her attention back to the amok girls around her.

"YOU'RE SO COOL, TENOH-SAN!"

"TENOH-SAN! YOU'RE LOVE OF MY LIFE"

'What I'm getting myself into! Help me God!'

--------------------------------- Bazaar -----------------------------------

"Isn't this cute, Elsa?" Michiru held a cute doll, shown it to Elsa who stood beside her.

"It looks like Haruka, you know…"

"I know that's why I said it's cute", Michiru tried to sound happy but her face failed her.

Elsa signed with her friend's attitude, "Michiru…"

"Yeah?"

"I might not know what the problem is but I think you have to solve them…" Michiru turned silence. She knew that she had to do something about this but it was far too complex. Elsa could see how much pain that Michiru felt from her fight with Haruka but she could not involve more than a friend's advice. Both of them must solve it themselves. "I-" Suddenly, Elsa's word interrupted by a loud cheer in the middle of the crowd. Both of Elsa and Michiru turned to the source of the noise.

"TENOH-SAN! It's Tenoh-san! PLEASE! I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOUR SIGNATURE, TENOH-SAN"

"Ruka-chan?" Michiru tried to get a clear view with the situation but it was too crowded.

"Seems to… Wow, what a HELL lot of fans she has…" Then, Elsa got an idea. She grabbed Michiru and dragged her trough the crowd, "EXCUSE ME! MAKE A WAY PLEASE!"

"ELSA! That's embarrassing!" Michiru did not know what Elsa was planning but her action was kind of outrageous.

"Well, if we don't, you're never got chance to talk to her"

"Who said that I wanted to talk with her?"

"But you want to see her right? That's why you came here, today"

"B-but…"

"NO BUT!" Elsa stopped suddenly as they almost got to Haruka's fan girls; she pushed the aqua hair girl through.

"Elsa? You're not coming?"

"Of course not, silly! Now, go girl!" Elsa winked at her and gave her a 'peace' sign.

Michiru could not help but smile to her friend. "Thanks" and then she ran toward the crowd to find Haruka.

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Haruka finally escaped from the nightmare. She was able to hide into the rally car's garage which was only permitted for the authorized people.

"Geez, they're monsters! I need to get out of here, fast!" She fasten her pace as she walked out from her hiding's place and made her way to where her car's park.

"Urg…" But something stopped her pace. She heard someone groan from the other garage that she passed. The voice was not that loud but she was able to hear it. Haruka was getting curious. She approached the garage carefully. The shutter was half-closed which made Haruka was not be able to see what inside. She bent down to let herself in and then she got a clear view where the voice belongs to.

"Is someone there?"

"H-help me…" It turned out to be a boy, with dark brown hair. He was dressed in a short chemise with a light blue-brown tie and square's design pant in green-blue.

Haruka seemed to recognize the uniform but she was more concerned with the boy. "What's wrong? Are you alright?"

"Help m-me… ARGGGGG!" Hearing the scream, both eyes looked back at the boy. He was screaming as his body transformed into another form, Michiru recognized it. As it finished its transformation, the monster growled wildly.

"What?" Stunned by what her eyes saw, Haruka stepped back away from the transformed form. Quickly, she searched for something nearby to defend herself and then took the jack handlethat hanged on the wall beside and preparing to attack. "You… MONSTER!"

Before she could attack, she saw an image of the boy from before. 'Help!' Haruka surprised as the image shouted at her for rescuing him. As soon as the image disappeared, she realized something.

But then the monster attacked Haruka which was taken by the blond with surprise. Hesitated, Haruka raised her weapon and held back the attack. The monster was far too strong and Haruka was pushed back, and then lying on the ground. Helplessly, she tried to sit up while the monster was already in front of her and about to attack her again. Before the monster could do any harm, "DEEP SUBMERGE!"

A stranger's voice was winding out of nowhere which followed by blow's sound with an aqua light, headed to the monster but it missed the target. Haruka looked back toward the grage's entrance and found her saviour. A woman (or a girl) stood there confidently, with a sailor uniform and very short mini-skirt. Her deep blue eyes and aqua colour hair reminded Haruka to someone she knew.

After the monster evaded successfully, it re-attacked again so did Sailor Neptune. She charged ahead and knocked the monster out. It flied out to the corner of the room, crashed into the cabinet as it fell onto the monster and made a huge dust burst. "Wait!" Haruka ran and stood in front of the monster before Sailor Neptune. "What are you doing? You can't kill him! He was human until just a few minutes ago!" Haruka looked at the senshi who should be protecting people in the name of justice, but not killing them. "Are you alright with this? This is murder!"

Hearing the other girl's saying, Sailor Neptune's face became sad for a moment, "I… I have a duty to be fulfil… if I don't do this, there will be even more victims!"

"Are you saying that's why you don't care how you accomplish it?"

"That's right! I don't care what means I use", Sailor Neptune's face turned as cold as her voice.

Haruka was shocked with the answer but not yet gave in, "Are you really satisfied-"

Suddenly, a loud blast appeared behind Haruka as the re-emerge of the monster. Before Haruka could react, the monster had begun to attack.

"RUKA, LOOK OUT!"

'What?'

Sailor Neptune ran as fast as she could and reached Haruka on time. She grabbed Haruka and turned her back against the monster as it wounded her back painfully. In a sudden, everything seemed turn into slow motion for Haruka as she witnessed the entire incident. They arrived on the floor, lying with Sailor Neptune on top of Haruka. Without wasting anymore time, Sailor Neptune raised and counterattacking before the monster could take another attack, "DEEP SUBMERGE!"

The monster screamed in agony then and in that instant, it turned back into its human form. Haruka got up and looked at the scene which then followed by Sailor Neptune fell to the ground then a ray of light appeared out of nowhere which made her closed her eyes. That day was not one of the most extraordinary days in Haruka's life but it was the shocking one as she looked at the scene in front of her. "What the?"

Author's Notes:

Poor Haruka… Those girls were scary!

This chapter kind of remake of the anime… I was kind of stuck here (SORRY if it was boring) but I will pay off in the next chapter!

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