A/N: Hi, everyone. Sorry for the late update, but finally here is the 12th chapter. Hope you enjoy it. Please read and review...I am really thankful for your opinions.

Chapter 12 – The loving heart of the Amazon senshi

Everyone looked on as the energy attack approached Jadeite. They were sure it was going to hit him, but then to the utter amazement of Mercury, Jupiter and Venus a beautiful fire phoenix appeared before him and collided with the energy attack protecting Jadeite.

"No!" Nephrite yelled after Jadeite was saved by the senshi of Mars. "You!" He whirled around and sent an attack towards Mars. "Die!"

"Not today." Sailor Moon said calmly "Silver Moon Shock!" her attack dissolved the energy attack Nephrite sent their way and hit him in the stomach sending him straight in to a tree. Nephrite tried to stand up, but fell back down. The attack didn't wound him greatly, but weakened him to the end that he knew that one more attack would kill him.

"You won the fight today…but you will never win the battle. Don't be mistaken I will be back."

"We will be waiting." Sailor Moon said.

Nephrite teleported back to his chambers, where he collapsed to the cold ground.

"General Nephrite your presence is requested in the throne room." A female voice resonated from the walls. Nephrite groaned, but knew that he has to present in front of the Queen.

"My lady." Nephrite bowed to the red haired woman.

"General Nephrite, what is the outcome of your mission?"

"Unfortunately, My Lady, the senshi are more powerful than Jadeite told us. Especially Sailor Moon."

"So you didn't succeed." Beryl breathed.

"I am sorry My Lady. I will prepare a better plan of attack for next time."

"Did the Princess make her appearance?"

"No. Only the senshi were fighting." Nephrite shook his head "Do you think they already awakened her?"

"No…for that they should have their full power."

"Maybe they have it…"

"If they had their full power…you wouldn't be standing in front of me right now…" Beryl replied with no emotion behind her words. She only pointed towards the general, made a lazy hand movement and the general was nowhere to be seen.

"Zoicite!"

"My lady." A long blond haired man knelt before her.

"What is the status on the rainbow crystal?"

"I am sorry to report that we didn't make any progress in finding the shadow warriors."

"How is that possible?" Beryl raised one eyebrow. "We should be able to pinpoint their whereabouts within seconds."

"It seems My Lady they don't even exist on this planet. There is no trace of negative energy, but ours."

"Could it be?" The Queen asked out loud "Would it be possible that the Princess already found them and retrieved the crystals?"

"Unfortunately that is highly probable. We don't have any other explanation on why we cannot find their locations."

"Yes…keep trying. Maybe they are only better hidden than we expected them to be."

"Yes, My Lady." Zoicite bowed before he disappeared.

While the Queen had her small meeting with two of her generals, the senshi bombarded their two comrades with questions on their decision to save the enemy.

"Why did you help him?" Jupiter asked.

"He is our enemy." Venus yelled.

"It is good when the enemy is battling between themselves. Strategically we would have the upper hand." Mercury added.

"Everyone shut up." Sailor Moon held up her hand "We will explain everything…later. For now I have to heal him."

"Usagi what is going on?" Motoki asked reminding the girls of the reality that he found out the truth. Sailor Moon whirled around to face him and the blood left her face. "Are you okay?" Motoki asked concerned. Little did he know that Usagi's change resulted from the fact that while they were arguing reporters have arrived to the scene and in that exact moment were approaching them with cameras turned on.

"Pretend you don't know us." Sailor Moon told Motoki in a whisper then turned towards her comrades. "Rei you are coming with us. The rest of you meet us in two hours at the training room. Get out of here and be careful. Our identities must remain a secret." She didn't finish well her sentence when she took Mars' hand and disappeared together with her and the wounded Jadeite. It didn't take much longer for Motoki to find himself standing alone in the middle of the circle the reporters formed around him.

Sailor Moon, Jadeite and Sailor Mars appeared in her living room where her family was watching the news about the fight that took place a few minutes ago together with Luna and Artemis.

"Oh my God!" Ikuko exclaimed when she saw the state the man was in.

"Dad, Help me put him on the bed." Sailor Moon instructed "Rei you will have to help me."

"What can I do?"

"He is gravely wounded…I won't be able to heal him alone."

"Why?" Shingo asked "Are you hurt too?"

"No, but I am too drained of power. I had to use a lot of energy in the last couple of days. If I heal him alone I won't be able to fight for at least two days and that is a risk I am not willing to take. We never know when the enemy will attack again."

"How can I help you?"

"Concentrate your energy on her. Transfer a part of your power to Usagi." Luna explained.

Rei took Jadeite's hands in hers and closed her eyes. Her body started to glow a dim red in the beginning, but intensified when she started to recall all the memories she and the wounded man shared. Sailor Moon kneeled down before the two, put one hand on Sailor Mars' and Jadeite's joined hand and the other on the wound on his body. At first she glow a vibrant red color just as Rei but with every passing second the light surrounding the trio became lighter and lighter until it turned to silvery white.

"Thank you." Jadeite said after the light dimmed down and he sat up on the couch. "To both of you."

"We are not finished yet." Sailor Moon said smiling "Although you broke Beryl's spell you still have dark energy in your body. I have to cleanse you."

"That will take to much energy!" Luna exclaimed. "You could do it tomorrow after you rest a little."

"No. It must be done now." Sailor Moon said while she called forward her Moon Wand. "Moon Healing Escalation!" The whole living room was engulfed by the pure comforting power of Sailor Moon. When the purification ended Sailor Moon dropped her transformation and collapsed to the couch which was occupied by the general up till a few minutes ago.

"Welcome back General Jadeite." Nobody realized until these words left Usagi's mouth the changes that took place in the appearance of the man. His gray uniform was replaced by black trousers, he also wore a blood red shirt which was half undone, his belt was golden representative to the long forgotten Earth Kingdom he once served.

"It is good to be back, Princess Serenity, Princess Rei."

"It is Usagi." She laughed.

"Don't you dare…listen to him 'Princess'!" Rei shouted "Is that the way you greet a lover you didn't see for a lifetime."

"Always so passionate. Come here my little phoenix." Jadeite took Rei in his arms and kissed her with the passion of dying man in need of oxygen.

"Stop that!" Kenji yelled.

"Let go of her or I swear you would wish Nephrite killed you." Haruka burst in to the room.

The two love birds jumped apart to the quit loud intrusion to their shortly leaved reunion.

"Haruka, could you please let them talk for a few minutes in the garden?" Usagi asked as sweetly as possible. "We have to go and meet the girls in half an hour you can talk to Jadeite during that time."

"No, I want to…"

"Sure, but stay where we can see you." Michiru interrupted "And keep your hands at home."

Rei and Jadeite ran out the door like the house was on fire. Usagi sat up on the couch and looked towards the other occupants of the room.

"One general down, three to go."

"Yes, you did a great job, although you scared us for a second there." Hotaru smiled.

"So…how did it go?" Usagi asked Rei as they walked towards the cave to talk to the other girls. "From what I saw today I understood you forgave him."

"There is a lot we have to talk about, but we decided to take it slowly."

"I don't think you could take it any other way, with Haruka, my father, my uncle, Hotaru's father and your grandpa there."

"Yeah…but I didn't decide because of that."

"What do you mean?"

"I am different person now." Rei explained "A person he doesn't know."

"You are not that different you know." Usagi told her friend.

"I know, but some things are different now."

"Yeah…I wanted Mamoru to love me for who I am now and not for the past."

"What are we going to tell the girls?" Rei suddenly asked when they approached the cave.

"The truth." Usagi said simply.

"You decided to give back them back their memories?" Rei asked shocked "A few days ago you didn't even want to hear about it."

"We will hold back information like the relationship between them." Usagi explained her plan "We will tell them that they were the Earth Kingdoms' generals and Beryl trapped them with black magic."

"What are we going to tell them when they will realize that Jadeite and I …"

"It is a good thing you decided to take it slowly, to get to know each other once again. I would like to ask you to be careful in the beginning in front of the girls."

"You want me to lie to them…"

"I don't like it either, but you can understand me better now…" Usagi looked in the eyes of her friend. "Although you knew he was on our side you suffered when you had to fight with him during the battles. The others would have to fight them knowing that they would kill them without thinking twice."

"You are right…I just hope it will end soon." Rei said.

They found the other girls seating in the control room talking to each other. When Usagi and Rei stepped in the room it was engulfed in silence and the girls looked at them with eyes full of doubts and questions.

"I think the time has come for you to tell us the truth." Minako told flatly her cousin.

"We were patient enough with you." Makoto added "We have the right to know what is going on."

"We are a team…its obvious Rei knows what is going on so why can't you tell us?" Ami asked.

"I will tell you the reasons for which we helped Jadeite, but first we should sit down." Usagi moved to the table and took her seat. "First of all Rei knows more about our second mission because her memories have returned."

"What? When?" all the girls asked at once.

"A few days ago." Rei admitted "I couldn't tell you. I am not allowed to speak of the past with you until all of you get your memories back."

"Do you have your memories too?" Ami turned towards Usagi who simply nodded.

"I have my memories almost from the beginning."

"What? And you never told me?" Minako asked shocked.

"I couldn't. As Rei just told you we are not allowed to speak of the past with you."

"That is just great!" Makoto exclaimed angry "I thought we were a team, friends…we weren't supposed to have any secrets, we were supposed to tell each other everything. Don't you guys trust us?"

"It is not about trust. You must remember by yourself, if not you wouldn't be able to understand certain things."

"What is that second mission you were talking about?" Ami asked.

"The Earth Generals." Usagi simply stated.

"The what?" Minako asked back confused.

"You already know from Luna the tale of the Silver Millennium. You already know about the Earth Kingdom." Usagi waited until everyone nodded to continue "Just like we were the protectors of the Moon Kingdom, the Earth had its own guardians, the Earth Generals. Unfortunately they were captured and turned with dark magic against their rulers and against the whole Silver Millennium. They fought against us on the night we were killed."

"Jadeite is one of the Earth Generals." Rei continued on with the story "Luna and Usagi told me of this new mission when I got my memories back. We have to free them from Beryl's influence."

"Why?" Makoto asked "They wanted to kill us in the past where they succeeded to, and they want to kill us now too."

"They are used by Beryl, they are not acting out of free will. It is our mission to save them."

"Great." Minako stood up nervously from her seat. "How many generals are their?"

"Four." Usagi replied

"So…there are three more generals we have to set free." Makoto whispered.

"Yes." Usagi nodded.

"You can't aspect us to not put up a fight against them." Minako argued "I want to speak with the princess. I am not following any other order if I don't talk to her personally."

"Why?" Usagi asked back "Do you think I am capable of betraying you and fight on the enemy's side?"

"Well…you did lie to us for more than two years."

"I can't believe you think that." Usagi whispered "I had to because of the mission."

"Just keep saying that to yourself if that makes you happier." Minako shot back.

"I think the meeting is over." Usagi said while she forced a smile on her face "See you guys later." With that said she just disappeared.

"You over reacted." Makoto simply said.

"No I didn't. She lied to me…she never did that before."

"Before she wasn't a senshi." Rei replied. In her mind she was talking about the Silver Millennium where the princess approached them directly and never had a real plan to change their mind. Things did change a lot since then Rei realized.

"I am going to look for her." Ami suddenly stood up.

"But where?" Makoto went to the window "She teleported. She could be anywhere."

"I will go to her house." Rei said standing up. You guys should look for her in the hangout places. What do you think?"

"I am going home." Minako said "She must be very upset right now."

"You can talk to her tomorrow. I am sure she will understand." Ami encouraged her friend.

When Rei stepped inside Usagi's house she couldn't believe her eyes: Jadeite was seating on the couch while Haruka, Usagi's dad and uncle and her grandpa were standing in front of him. It was like an interrogation.

"What is going on here?" Rei asked Ikuko

"They are explaining to him why he should keep the distance from you."

"What do you mean?"

"Rei, this is only natural." Kenji answered "You are a young girl, and he is a man. We only want to make sure he doesn't take advantage of you."

"You think that because you didn't know her in the past." Hotaru laughed.

"What do you mean?" Grandpa Hino asked.

"Well…she is the princess of Mars you know. Passion and flame?" Michiru asked fighting back the laughter after she saw the faces the protectors made.

"Young lady, you listen to me carefully…"

"Don't worry." Rei cut off her grandfather "I am not going to do anything…yet. Besides we do need to talk so if you excuse us we will be on our way now."

Rei took Jadeite's hand and simply walked out of the house under the penetrating eyes of her so called protectors.

"Where is Serenity?"

"She is not Serenity anymore." Rei replied "She has a different name now: Usagi."

"I know that, but I can't get used to it. Princess Usagi…"

"Without princess."

"Yeah…Anyway, where are we going?"

"To my house."

"What?" Jadeite stopped dead in his track "If they find out…"

"No one will find out and besides we are going to talk. We didn't really do that the last time we were alone."

"And is that such a big problem?" he engulfed her in a hug from behind and kissed her neck.

"You were afraid to come to my house but now you are trying to seduce me?" Rei asked back.

"No, of course not." Jadeite jumped back from her "You were saying…"

"I kind of told Usagi we talked and figured everything out."

"Why did you do that?"

"For one I didn't really feel like telling her we couldn't stop kissing for half an hour."

"What did you tell her?"

"I told her we were going to take it easy. Get to know each other again?"

"Why did you tell her that? We were apart for so much time…And I know you already."

"You know the past me. I am not the same person now. Besides I want you to love me because of me in the present, not me from the past."

"I already love you and nothing will change the way I feel about you."

"I hope so." Rei laughed "Oh before I forget…Usagi asked us to be careful near the girls. They don't have their memories and would ask a lot of questions we can't answer."

"On one condition."

"What?"

"If you kiss me." Jadeite pulled his love closer to him and smashed his lips on hers.

Meanwhile a few blocks away Makoto was searching for her friend who was nowhere to be found. She was running around for the last hour without any success. She thought she couldn't take another step when suddenly a woman's scream was heard from an alley. She ran in the screams direction only to find the General who wanted to kill Jadeite harassing a woman together with a youma. Makoto backed away from the alley slowly and once she was at a safe distance she contacted the girls, told them of the attack and transformed. In a few seconds Sailor Jupiter threw her supreme thunder attack towards the enemy, but unfortunately they were able to deflect it.

"Which one are you?" the chocolate brown haired general asked.

"Why do you care…all you have to know is that I am the one who will send you to hell."

"Oh…a fiery one…lets see how you can handle my little friend over here." Nephrite made a short head movement towards the youma standing next to him. The youma at first approached slowly Sailor Jupiter like it was afraid of her, but when it was a few feet away it sent towards her a huge energy attack that split in three ways right before her. Sailor Jupiter just stood there confused, not knowing where to move when she realized that the attacks were heading her way from three different angles: from two sides and from the back. The only way she could go was straight in the youma's hands. She rationalized it would be safer to take on the youma so that is what she did. In a seconds time she jumped towards the youma reading her attack "Supreme thunder dragon!" she yelled when she was only an arm length away from the youma. Her attack hit the enemy right in the chest and with a loud noise it dissipated in to smoke. Now all that was left were Sailor Jupiter and Nephrite.

"You are next…" Jupiter's sentence was cut short with a scream when Nephrite disappeared only to appear behind her in the next second. They fought each other for a few seconds; both of them taking injuries, but the inexperience of Jupiter said his word when she was sent to the ground with Nephrite hovering over her. "You still have to learn a lot before you can take me down." Nephrite said triumphantly "but I am sorry to tell you that I won't give you the chance." He placed his hands on her neck ready to deliver the last strike when she looked up at him with defying eyes "The senshi of Jupiter is not that simple to brake."

Flashback

He was in a forest, but not on Earth…he was sure of this. It was different. On Earth this kind of forest didn't exist. It was too beautiful, with trees and bushes he had never seen before, but knew in the same time. Suddenly a tall girl in shorts jumped out of her hiding place and attacked him. They were fighting for hours he thought when he was finally able to send his attacker to ground. She was lying beneath him, her beautiful body so close to his, he could feel every muscle, every move she made. "I won, Amazon Princess. I want my price." He started to move his hands up her long and toned leg.

"I am afraid you will have to wait a little longer, my dear. You know that the senshi of Jupiter is not that simple to brake."

End of flashback

The three second hesitation was all she needed to push him off of her and put a safe distance between them. She was ready to attack him when she realized he was holding his head in pain. Remembering what Usagi told them she approached the suffering man. Unfortunately for her the man realized that it was his chance to attack and sent an energy attack throwing her back in to a tree.

"Who are you? What did you do with me?" he yelled while he was holding another energy ball in his hand "I swear you will die this instant if you don't get out of my head!"

"What are you talking about?" Jupiter asked "I don't know what are…" she was cut short by a blinding light that threw Nephrite in to a near building.

"Are you all right?" Sailor Moon asked her friend.

"Yeah, I am fine." Sailor Jupiter realized all her friends were there, in front of her, between her and enemy, protecting her.

"We will see each other again." Nephrite said before disappearing.

"What?" Sailor Mars yelled "You must be fucking kidding me! He had the nerve to disappear?"

"Calm down." Mercury advised "Maybe it is better this way. We have to tend Jupiter's wounds."

"No. I am fine. I just need some sleep."

"You are not fine." Venus argued "Just let Moon heal you."

Sailor Moon didn't wait for any more arguments; she just put her hands on Jupiter's wounds and let her magic do the work.

After her wounds were healed Sailor Jupiter told her friends what happened before they arrived.

"I thought I told you to wait for us." Luna reprimanded her "Don't you understand that they are too powerful for you?"

"I can take care of myself. I am not a baby." Jupiter yelled and took of running.

"She didn't change at all." Sailor Moon sighed

"Just as stubborn." Mars added.

Nephrite had just arrived back in his bedchambers and he was pissed. Not only was he defeated by those senshi again his Queen also held him a one hour long speech about the mistakes he had done in the battle. On top of that his head still hurt like hell since he had that vision or something when he looked in the eyes of that woman. But at least he had information he could use if things got out of hand. He still couldn't believe he didn't told his Queen of his finding…he took the decision to hold back the information in the last second. He just shook his head and went to bed hoping he will feel better in the morning.

He was in the same forest as before the only difference he wasn't alone this time. She was with him and they weren't fighting…they were making love. He was kissing her passionately; his hands were exploring her body. They were finally united as one…as they should have been for a long time. Their body was moving as one on the same rhythm…it was more intense with every passing second. He knew it will end soon, he couldn't keep it back for long…he didn't want to.

"I love you." Both of them said in the same time.

Nephrite shot up in bed holding his head.

Usagi was standing in front of Motoki's door ready to knock when the door suddenly opened…she found herself face to face with Reika.

"Hi Usagi." Reika hugged and kissed the smaller girl. "Come in. Motoki is watching the television."

"Hi…thanks."

"I am sorry I can't stay. I was just on my way out."

"No problem." Usagi breathed a sigh of relief. "We should get together sometime this week."

"That is a good idea."

"Ok. I will call you."

Reika let Usagi inside and left. She was standing their looking at Motoki. She didn't know how to start the conversion…the explanation.

"When did this all start?" Motoki suddenly asked.

"Motoki…"

"I saw it, but I still can't believe it." Motoki said standing up.

"I am sorry you had to find out this way…or any other way."

"Why couldn't you simply tell me? And how is that even possible?"

"It is safer to not know." Usagi said not able to look in her friend's eyes. "If the enemy finds out that there are civilians who know our identity they could use it against us."

"What enemy?"

"I think I should start from the beginning."

"I think that would be a good idea."

"A long time ago life existed not only on Earth, but on every planet. Each planet was ruled by its own royals…" Usagi explained everything starting from the Silver Millennium to their current situation. "Now you know everything."

"This is…unbelievable. I…"

"I know it's hard to believe and understand what I just told you."

"It all seems like a fairy tail." Motoki mumbled "I can't believe that the girls I wanted to protect from harm, who I consider like my little sisters are the warriors who everybody is grateful for saving the innocent lives of hose who were attacked."

"You make it sound like a huge thing, when in the reality it is not." Usagi shook her head "The most amazing thing is when somebody jumps in danger ways to protect someone knowing that it would mean his end. Like you Motoki."

"What…"

"You jumped in front of Minako when the attack was heading her way. Such an attack would have meant for her an injury I could have healed perfectly after the attack, but for you it would have been deadly."

"I don't care…"

"Motoki, please." Usagi begged "I only told you everything because you need to understand the risks involved. I already explained this to everyone else who know our secret. No matter what you can't get involved in our fights. If any one of you guys would be there we would be distracted and wouldn't be able to do what we are supposed to do."

"You are asking for me to stay back."

"Yes. It would be far more dangerous for you to get involved." Usagi nodded "Promise me."

After she left Motoki's apartment Usagi walked home knowing that Mamoru would be waiting for her in front of the computer so they can have their unusual date. She was more relaxed now that she had the opportunity to talk to Motoki. She only hoped the enemy won't figure out their identities with the same method Motoki did.

Two days have passed since Nephrite first attack and everything was peaceful. Rei and Jadeite were together every passing moment under the supervision oh her grandpa. Usagi and Minako were busy with their apologizing and bonding after the fight they had when Jadeite was saved and Ami well…she was occupied with a project she worked on with the new teacher in her cram school. The only one who just stayed in her room, didn't sleep and didn't eat was Makoto. She always had a thing for bad guys…but this was ridiculous. She was thinking of him at all times. She even dreamt about him. "What is going on with me? He is the enemy." She thought to herself for the hundred time that day. She was panicking, freaking out. Her thinking was interrupted by a black flash that was followed by the appearance of Nephrite. She didn't have to react in any way. She was tied to the chair with some kind of magic the instant he appeared.

"Calm down, Sailor Jupiter…or should I say Makoto?"

"I…I don't know what you are talking about." Makoto tried to play the unknowing girl's part.

"Don't bother trying to fool me. I know exactly who you are." Nephrite laughed "But I didn't come here for that now."

"Why did you come than?"

"I came here because you did something to me the last time we met and I want you to stop it."

"I don't understand."

"I am having dreams…of us." Nephrite admitted "But those dreams can't be the reality because we were never in any kind of relationship, so it must be some kind of trick."

"Dreams…" Makoto repeated "You got to be kidding me." Makoto yelled and tried to get herself free "You have the nerve to tell me it is my fault you have dreams when I have trouble because of it too? Believe me…it would have stopped a long time ago if I had anything to say about it."

"What do you mean you have problems because of the dreams too?" Nephrite asked amazed.

"Do you think I am stupid? I won't tell you anything you can use against me." Makoto told the stunned man.

"What would you say if I let you go and we go somewhere, far from your family and we talk about the dreams you and I have?"

"What?" Makoto asked back shocked "How do I know you don't want to take me back to your comrades and use me to get the other senshi too?"

"In any normal circumstance that would be my plan, but now I am more interested of why we have dreams of each other when we were always on different sides."

"Okay. Let's go." Makoto nodded. She remembered Usagi and Rei saying the generals were on their side until they got captured by Beryl. Maybe they were friends in the past and that is what he is dreaming about. She must try to win some time until she can announce the girls of what is going on.

Nephrite undid the spell which was holding her to the chair and moved to the door.

"We are leaving through the window. You promised to leave my family out of it." Nephrite only nodded and climbed out of the window. Makoto not realizing…or not wanting to realize this would be the perfect opportunity to contact the girls followed him. Once out of the house Nephrite gently took her hand, to the surprise of both of them and disappeared with her.

"Why did you bring us here? Most importantly where is here?" Makoto asked looking around.

"Don't worry. As I told you this is not a trap. We are in a forest in Australia."

"Why in a forest and why on another continent?"

"You told me you had dreams too. What were they about?"

"They didn't really have a meaning. I usually see your eyes only, but it's really weird."

"What do you mean?"

"Your eyes change in my dream. In the beginning they are dark green, but after that they change to the black color they are now. I don't understand why."

"Was this your only dream?"

"No. Sometimes I don't see you…I only hear you."

"What do you hear?" Nephrite asked intrigued.

"You are apologizing."

"Apologizing? For what?"

"You don't say. You only repeat 'I am sorry' over and over again."

"Well at least I know we don't have the same dreams."

"What kind of dreams do you have?"

"I…don't know if you will like it."

"What do you men? What could you possibly dream of?" Makoto asked.

"That depends. My dreams are always different. When we were fighting the other day I had a vision I think of us fighting in the woods, but it was like a kind of training and I was teasing you."

"What do you mean teasing me?"

"I won, sent you to the ground…and I was asking for my price and started to caress your legs."

"What?" Makoto turned red as fire "You are only kidding, right?"

"No." Nephrite shook his head "I had two more dreams. In one of it we were making love, after that I dreamt of us talking about the consequences of our feelings."

"When you say making love…you mean you saw us…"

"No…I mean I was making love to you…I didn't see it from out side I was the man who…"

"Stop!" Makoto bowed her head. "You will forget that, everything you saw."

"My problem isn't with what I saw, but with what I felt."

"What do you mean?"

"I felt I loved you, I felt passion…"

"Why did I even ask? I don't want know. You just forget it."

"I would like to forget it, but I think they have a meaning."

"What do you mean meaning?"

"We are not supposed to know each other. I mean in other ways than enemies. Yet here I am dreaming of us making love and talking about feelings and you are dreaming of me apologizing. There has to be a meaning to it."

"You think?" asked Makoto

"Yes. Look at us now." Nephrite said pointing to the two of them "We are in the same place, sitting nicely near each other and talking. We should be fighting, we are enemies."

"Maybe not."

"What do you mean?"

"Sailor Moon said you weren't always on Beryl's side."

"That is not…"

"She told us you were the guardian of Earth before just like we were the guardians of the Moon."

"That can't be. For as long as I remember I served My Lady." Nephrite stood up from where he was sitting.

"You don't remember me either, but you have dreams of me. You dream of things…"

"Are you saying we were lovers in the past?" Nephrite asked "Don't be foolish."

"Am I foolish?" Makoto yelled "Then tell me why the hell can't I think of anything else than to kiss you?" the words left her mouth before she could stop herself.

Nephrite just stood there looking at her. He couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"I am such fool." Makoto breathed "I don't know where these feelings are coming from…but they exist. I can't stop thinking of you…it's like I fell in love with you without even knowing or talking to you. Is that even possible?"

Nephrite didn't answer her only approached her and engulfed her in his arms. Makoto didn't even realize what was going on when he kissed her. To her amazement it wasn't a rough kiss, but a gentle one. She recognized the lips, she recognized the lips…they belonged to her lover, the one she loved more than her mission to protect her princess, to protect Serenity…Usagi! Nephrite didn't know what happened…one second he was kissing his enemy, the next second he was holding in his arms the unconscious girl…and now her body was emitting a bright green light, that was engulfing him too. In a few seconds both of them were receiving memories of the past life. The light dimmed down leaving the two lovers unconscious lying on the ground.

"Usagi!" Luna asked panicking after her charge fell to her knees. "What happened?"

"Makoto…I just felt her power, the true power of Jupiter."

"How can that be?"

"I think something triggered her memories. I only wish I knew what. Mother told me only I can give back their memories. I understood with the outer senshi, but I can't understand how the hell is possible for the inner senshi to regain their memories like this."

"I don't understand either." Luna shook her head "Maybe we should talk to Jadeite."

"Yes. And find Makoto as quickly as possible. If she remembered…"

They took off running to the apartment her parents and uncle rented for Jadeite. Jadeite was sitting on the terrace when Usagi burst in the room with Luna behind her. "Jadeite we have to talk."

"What happened?"

"The girls are remembering their past life. Do you know how is that possible?"

"With Rei it is simple. I was the one sending her the memories." Jadeite confessed

"What? Why did you do that?"

"You need your senshi besides you, even if you think you don't."

"With Rei maybe I would understand, but why did you send memories to Makoto?"

"I didn't. I could send memories to Rei, because of the connection we have. With Makoto I don't have that."

"Well…someone as sure as hell did something, because I felt her true power."

"If you didn't do anything there is only one possibility left…" Jadeite shook his head in disbelief.

"Would you please tell me too?" Usagi yelled.

"Nephrite could have this kind of effect on her, but I don't think…"

"That would mean that he broke the spell to somehow." Usagi breathed and whirled around to face Luna.

"You have to find them…now." Luna exclaimed.

"What is going on?"

"Oh…come on Jadeite! Up until a few days ago you were working for her."

"And your point is…"

"She can track down the dark energy. If she realizes what is going on…she could find them in a heart beat." Usagi said panicking "We are not strong enough without the crystal to face her." With that said the trio ran out of the apartment each one of them contacting another person and telling them the situation.

Makoto opened her eyes to look into two dark green orbs. At first she looked on wondering where she was…then all of a sudden it all came back to her. Nephrite, her enemy, appearing in her room…the dreams they both had…the talk…the feelings…the memories. That is when she realized her head was hurting like hell.

"Are you okay?" Nephrite asked concerned.

"My head…"

"It's only normal. You got back your memories…this is the side effect."

"I didn't get all my memories back…I only remember parts. I remember you and The fact that Usagi is the princess, but it ends there."

"You mean…you don't remember what happened in the night…"

"When you killed me?" Makoto interrupted him. "I kind of put two and two together." Makoto added quickly when she saw the blood leaving her lovers face.

"I don't even deserve you looking at me."

"I know you weren't acting on your own will." Makoto took his hands in hers "Besides you fell for me even when you were under her control."

"Yeah…we were the first ones in the past to who accepted their feelings. But this time it's different…I don't know if I can forgive myself for what I did to you."

"You will, because I already forgave you."

"You don't even remember…when you will remember you will change your mind."

"All I know is that I love you…don't worry I won't change my mind." Makoto said while she moved towards Jadeite and sat in his lap with her legs on his sides. She moved closer to him. Kissed him on the cheek and gave him butterfly kisses until she got to his ears "What would you say if we would relieve one of my favorite memory with you?" she whispered seductively. She didn't have to ask twice. In the next second Nephrite was kissing her passionately while his hands were moving all over her body, exploring it, memorizing it all over again. It all happened so fast, it was only a few days ago when he wanted to kill her and now here he was making love to her…but he didn't care…it was like this on the Moon too. They met, they fell in love and they acted on their feelings. The princess of Jupiter was the first one to accept her feelings for the earthling. That strong body was keeping hidden a beautiful and loving heart.

"Oh my God!" Usagi fell to her knees holding her head

"What happened?" Rei asked worried

"Makoto…I can feel her getting stronger and stronger every freaking second."

"What do you mean stronger?" Michiru asked

"I don't know why I am able to sense her at this intensity, but…"

"What do you mean sense her?" Hotaru entered the room.

"I can feel her power. The true power of Jupiter."

"Your powers are getting stronger too." Luna piped in "It seems that you have a strong bond with the girls."

"Then why didn't I sense anything when Rei got her powers back?"

"I am a psychic, remember? Your powers are just forming now. You can't access my feelings and mind that easily."

"You will explain to me later. Right now we have to go to where Makoto is. I am afraid that the Dark Kingdom was able to sense the high energy too."

"Great. Just when I thought we would have a few days of peace and quiet." Rei mumbled under her breath.

"Do you know where she is?" Setsuna asked

"Yes." Usagi nodded "i can teleport us to them but we must be transformed so we can interfere if the Dark Kingdom sent somebody there already."

They arrived to a sight which Haruka would have preferred never to see…Makoto was only wearing Nephrites white shirt while he was only in his undone pants. It was really obvious what just happened there. While Uranus was approaching them to commit murder, Sailor Moon stood there frozen, not believing her eyes. While everyone else was busy shouting at them she realized what Makoto was holding in her hands…a small leaf.

"Makoto I need to speak with you right now." Sailor Moon said all of a sudden making everyone turn towards her.

"After I am finished with them." Uranus growled "Stay in line."

"No. Now!" Sailor Moon yelled

Once they were out of hearing distance Sailor Moon turned towards her friend.

"How did you get the crystal?"

"The crystal is in our heart…I mean the inner senshi. We always have it with us. Nobody can take. The princess that is chosen to become the senshi of the respective planet is born with the crystal in her heart. The crystal shows it self at birth, that is how they know who the next protector of the planet is."

"I was sure that you will be able to access the crystal only after you have your memories back…and I am sure you don't have all your memories."

"You are right I don't have all my memories. You should take care of that before we continue on with this little chat." Makoto laughed.

"You should first get dressed, don't you agree?" Sailor Moon winked.

Makoto only nodded and ran off to find her clothes. When she was dressed and Sailor Moon put the shield up around Nephrite to make sure that non of Uranus' and Neptune's attacks won't kill him, Makoto sat down right in front of Usagi. It was a simple hand movement and Makoto fell back to ground.

"I do hope she will wake up soon." Sailor Saturn sighed. I really don't want to stay here all day to see how she sleeps."

"We don't have to." Sailor Moon laughed "I will heal Nephrite and we can go."

"Why do you want to do that?" Uranus yelled "Just let me kill him."

"That way you save a lot of energy that you can use in case of an attack." Neptune added.

"I can't believe you are talking this way, Michiru!" Usagi exclaimed "You should be the calm one, the understanding one. It is enough that Haruka wants to kill the men that we love, don't you think?"

"When it is about dating I understand, but this is completely different. They had sex, he corrupted her…she is only 16 years old."

"I didn't know she was that young now." Nephrite tried to explain himself

"Yeah right." Uranus snorted "Unfortunately I can't kill you…but we will have a little nice chat later. You need to know the basic rules you have to keep if you want to date her."

"Later. You will talk to him at my place." Sailor Moon said "Now I need to heal him so we can go." Not waiting for someone to argue with her decision Sailor Moon took out her moon wand and turned towards Nephrite. "Moon Healing Escalation!" The shield dropped only seconds before the silvery white power engulfed Nephrite. When the light show died down General Nephrite was standing near his love.

"Don't you dare touch her!" Uranus yelled when she saw what Nephrite was doing.

"I do have to take her home somehow don't you think?"

"You don't even know where she leaves." Michiru added

"I know where she leaves. Meet me there." With that said Nephrite just disappeared.

"Why that little sun of a bitch…I am going to send his ass flying to Uranus if he keeps up this kind of attitude."

"Don't you think it would be more vise for us to go too rather than to sit here and mumble under our breaths?" Sailor Pluto asked.

"Besides we should really ask him if he told anyone else where you guys live." Sailor Moon shook her head. They all took hands and disappeared just like Nephrite did a few seconds ago.

When they appeared in the Sailor Moon dropped her transformation and collapsed on to the couch "I do hope there won't be any attacks today…I am to drained to fight at full capacity."

"We will take care of things if anything happens, you just rest." Everyone turned to see Makoto walking down the stairs hand in hand with Nephrite.

"You woke up sooner than me. It took me three hours to wake up after I got back my memories."

"It is because I have the crystal."

"Oh…"

"How come you didn't attempt to access it yourself after you got your memories back?" Makoto asked Rei

"I tried, but I didn't succeed. It drives me crazy knowing I can't use it."

"How can that be?" Usagi asked from where she was sitting.

"I don't really understand myself…I never had this kind of problem before in the past."

"I am sure you will figure it out. It needs a trigger to unleash its power." Makoto encouraged her friend.

"I am going home to bring some clothes for Nephrite." Jadeite suddenly whirled around.

"Why?" Nephrite asked puzzled "I am dressed."

Everyone looked at him and started laughing "Sorry. You can't go outside wearing this kind of clothes." Makoto said pointing to the black trousers and emerald green shirt he was wearing. "It is very possible that in the future you will have to fight with us against the Beryl. People would recognize you."

"Alright maybe you are right."

"While you are away we are going to have our little chat with your friend. You know how long it might take so don't hurry back." Haruka told Jadeite.

"Haruka, I…"

"Don't worry. He will live." Haruka interrupted Makoto who was ready to argue.

"Then I will have a little chat with our lying princess over there."

"Makoto…" Usagi breathed "I really thought you weren't upset."

"Oh…I am really upset…what did you think? That we would thank you for lying to us?"

Usagi only sighed and proceeded to calm down her friend and hope that she would understand why was it necessary for her to lie to them.