"I can't wait to see grandmother! Queen Serenity has always been my second favorite to my mother."

Kousagi smiled happily as Usagi finished combing her long pink locks. It took her sometime, but she finally perfected the two meatball's on each side of her future daughter's head. Kousagi smiled with approval.

"I'm sure my mother is ecstatic to see her future grandchild. She'll want you to be born right away." Usagi winked playfully while Kousagi giggled with glee. Mamoru looked on with pride at the two as he came into his and Usagi's bedroom.

"Yes and I'm sure after we fix this mess we will certainly get started on that wish."

Usagi jumped at her fiancé's voice while Kousagi chuckled at her 'mothers' reaction. Usagi stuck out her tongue playfully at the two.

"Now we need to leave before it gets to late. Your mother is a busy woman and coming unannounced isn't exactly the smartest thing to do. We'd be lucky if she even allows the visit."

"Of course she'd allow the visit. I'm her daughter after all and the moon is still my home. I have every right to come unannounced!"

"Yes yes of course dear, but still calling just to be sure she's in isn't the worst idea now is it?"

No answer came to him, just a very annoyed glare. Mamoru let out the breath he didn't know he had been holding.

"I'm just saying…"

"Yeah yeah, lets just go. Although I know that she is at home, sitting on her throne."

"Yes, right."

Another disconcerted glare had almost made Kousagi think she was finally back at home. It was so weird how alike they were to her actual parents.

'I thought people were suppose to change?'

"Ready dear?"

Kousagi met Usagi's smiling eyes before nodding her head in agreement. Usagi winked once more.

"Then on to the moon we go!"

ZZ

"What do you mean she's too busy to see us? I'm her daughter!"

It took all but fifteen minutes to reach the queens chamber at the moon palace. It took all but a second to be turned down the simple request of seeing her. Serenity was aghast and Mamoru just shook his head in annoyance. He knew this was bound to happen and hated how his lover couldn't be a little understanding about it. What was so wrong with just calling to affirm a visit? It's not like it would take more then a minute to do!

'Then again for Usagi a minute could be a life time. The girl could be so dramatic sometimes...'

"I'm sorry your highness, but her majesty has more pressing matters to worry about."

"So I am of less importance then?"

"That is not what I meant at all your highness! Please you misunder…"

"Then why is it so hard for me to just see my mother?"

"She is too busy…"

"What on earth could she be doing that makes her too unavailable to see her own daughter!"

"When one of her most trusting soldiers falls ill and disappears with no word. That would be of the up most importance to me, my dearest one."

Silence filled the room as the tall guard bowed in respect at the sight of the Queen of the Moon. Usagi looked on in wonderment, trying to figure out how her mother got there without them ever hearing her footsteps or the door opening for that matter. It took her a few moments before the words her mother had spoken finally registered in her mind. Blue eyes clouded in fear as she met the Queen's hardened gaze.

"Who? Which scout are you talking about?"

Mamoru tightened his grip on Kousagi's hand as the two looked on in worry. Kousagi wanted, at that moment, to be anywhere but there. She could almost hear one of her dearest friend's name slip past the older woman's lips and hated how much it seemed to crush her small heart. How could she not have remembered what Chibi Usa had told her? The rules of time and space had always been firm and clear.

'There can only be one person living in one time and place. No two people of the same self can survive in the same era of time.'

How did she forget?

Usagi braced herself for the horrible news as her mother's gaze softened. She wanted to keep her cool exterior for her daughters sake, but after days of no sleep, it was beginning to become impossible.

"Sailor Pluto. For weeks she has been feeling sick and when I went into her chambers a few days ago, I have noticed her disappearance."

"Perhaps she went out for some air? I know if I was sick for weeks I would want some kind of freshness to make me feel a little better. Did you check her planet?"

"I did."

"I see…the girls?"

"Yes."

"Well…How can that be possible…"

"It is."

"People do not just disappear!"

Tears swelled in her light orbs while her mother ushered them into her room. She sat her daughter down on her bed while Mamoru and Kousagi made themselves comfortable on the Queens couch across from the them. A look of gloom and horror came to their faces while they felt they could not watch the display before them. Their eyes stayed glued to the ground.

"She didn't disappear dear."

Usagi searched her mothers face and hated what she found. She had been crying and the streaks on her cheeks proved it.

"I don't…"

"Destiny stopped by the chambers of time to visit her."

"Her mother…"

"Around that time I noticed a lack in her power."

"She took her?"

"I went in to see what was wrong and I did not like what I found."

"Why?"

"Pluto was not taken Serenity. She is not to leave the chambers unless granted permission. Her mother knows it."

"…"

Usagi understood, yet didn't understand. She wanted to avoid her mothers gaze, but the Queen was done playing head games. Taking her daughters wet chin, she forced Usagi to meet her tired eyes, whipping away stray tears in the process.

"Serenity…Pluto died and I am unaware how. It was not in this era, but I will find out which one."

Shaking violently, Usagi pushed herself into her mothers embrace while the Queen tried her best to calm her. Mamoru shook his head while trying to fight back his own saddened tears while Kousagi never moved a muscle. She bit her lip while she let the water from her eyes fall freely.

'You must find her. You are our last hope.'

Tiny fists grew tighter while pink strands hid Kousagi's face from her past family's view.

'I know and I will. That dark devil will pay for her crimes. I promise, Sailor Pluto, you will all be saved.'

She knew the promise was big, but she hoped her small heart could still carry it out. Hearing her sisters words affirmed that it would and that she will indeed save her future, but time was running out. That she knew all too well. The future wasn't so far from them after all.