SailorStar9: With Chapter 66 out, this is Chapter 67 of this fic. Remember boys and girls, reviews are an author's subsistence. Really, is it so difficult for you guys to review instead of just putting this fic up in your favorites and alerts?
Pairings: No official Tieria/Ami for this Book, sorry. Just canon Mamoru/Usagi and quite possible Setsuna/Hotaru in S Season.
Standard BS Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon, Gundam 00 or the pairings. If I did, the other Senshi would be as powerful as Sailor Moon and kicking MOTD ass more often and VEDA would have least an anti-hacker program installed. The only thing I do own is the plot.
Chapter 67: Usagi's Idol! The Graceful Genius Michiru
Some time later...
"Mamo-chan!" Usagi sang, ringing Mamoru's doorbell. "It's Usako. I brought some delicious cookies. Mamo-chan" she opened the unlocked door, stepping in to hear the classical music playing in the background. "Such an mature atmosphere as always." she gushed. "Future Considerations of Genetic Engineering?" she gawked at the textbook that was lying on the coffee table. "I guess it doesn't fit Mamo-chan." she sighed, accidentally shattering her burnt cookies across the table. "These charred cookies..."
"Usako." Mamoru blinked, entering his apartment after purchasing a can of coffee nearby and seeing his upset girlfriend on the floor.
"I really am good for nothing." Usagi sobbed. "I fail as Mamo-chan's wife after all!" she wailed.
"Don't cry." Mamoru pacified and popped a rabbit-shaped biscuit into his mouth. "It's not bad to have something on the bitter side." he added, swallowing the cookie. "Usako, you're fine the way you are now."
After school the next day...
"And so, Mamoru ate all of the charred cookies?" Rei was surprised.
"Poor thing." Makoto sighed at Usagi's pleased nod.
"I hope he doesn't get an upset stomach from it." Minako agreed.
"That could be possible." Ami agreed. "Overcooked food is almost as dangerous as under-cooked food; there is a high possibility of over-baked cookies causing cancer."
"Usagi..." Luna shivered, seeing her mistress tremble.
"She's gonna get mad." Artemis was also fearful.
"Today's Usa-chan is a good Usa-chan." Usagi beamed. "Say, Ami?" she leaned close to the girl genius. "I want you to teach me something. Genetic engineering! " she declared. "And Mako-chan." she turned to the taller girl. "Can you teach me how to cook? I decided I want to be even a little bit closer to where my Mamo-chan is right now. Minako, you're good at English, right?" she turned to he other blonde. "Rei would know how to wear a kimono. That perfects my preparation to be a wife."
"I forgot I had to do something." Minako snatched Artemis up and made her escape.
"Me too." Makoto smiled. "I have to get back."
"I'll see you tomorrow!" both girls made their getaway.
"Usagi, I think you'd be better off studying biology and chemistry before genetic engineering." Ami pointed out.
"It's all right, Ami." Rei sat the water Senshi down. "She's just being whimsical as usual. Come on, don't you have a watercolor painting you need to finish?" she pulled Ami off.
"Rei, you meanie." Usagi stuck out her tongue.
"Can you say all that, Usagi?" Luna chided. "When you learn cooking from Mako-chan or get tutored by Ami, you always quit within three days. Everyone is sick of it already."
"That's why I wanted to my best." Usagi sobbed. "But even Luna..." she wailed and ran off
Usagi made her way through the park and found herself in an empty performance stage where Michiru was practicing her violin.
"At least, there is no doubt that strong powers are concentrated in this city." Haruka remarked, tossing a lemon up and down . And when that power grows especially strong, those mysterious evil beings attack humans."
"Nothing will come from worrying." Michiru assured. "What we are is given a very vague memory of our past life that came back to us. Our mission is to find the three Talismans, call for the Holy Grail which is the source of an extreme amount of power and return it to its rightful owner as soon as possible."
"Who are the three owners of the Pure Hearts that hide the Talismans?" Haruka wondered. "If only we knew who they were..."
"But to extract the hearts of those Talismans mean the death of the respective owners." Michiru reminded.
"We can't help that." Haruka stated. "To meet the ultimate objective of saving the world, a few sacrifices have to be made. If that's the mission given to us, we can only plunge forward."
"Haruka." Michiru spotted Usagi in the aisle.
"This is it." Usagi gushed. "This is the ideal princess figure."
"The odango atama from before." Haruka recognized Usagi.
"Do you want something from us?" Michiru asked.
"I was just awed that you could play a violin like that." Usagi admitted. "I look up to people like that."
Haruka chuckled and tossed the lemon to Michiru, who balanced the fruit on her violin, all the while continuing to play as she juggled the lemon.
"Geez, stop showing off, Michiru-nee." Ami teased, walking up the aisle with her completed painting tucked under her arm.
"I''ll be going." Haruka got up. "I'm just a little frustrated. I'll go on a small spin to cool my head off."
"And don't get anymore speeding tickets, Haruka-nee-san!" Ami called out. "Or have you forgotten about the hefty fine the last time?"
"She knows this isn't a problem that aimlessly running around will solve." Michiru cut her practice short, bouncing the lemon into Ami's awaiting hand.
Ami looked at the lemon in her hand and then back at Michiru, "I'll bring a lemon meringue pie over this weekend."
"Better make it after the arts exhibition." Michiru corrected.
"Right." Ami nodded.
Later that week...
"Michiru, are you going to be a violinist in the future?" Usagi asked, as she and Michiru walked through Michiru's arts exhibition.
'I don't know." Michiru replied. "I'm not sure why I was born. I can't get a hold on which road I should take, and I am lost, so to say."
"You're Kaioh Michiru, right?" one of Michiru's arts fan stepped forward. "The one who painted this picture?" he pointed the portrait on the wall. "I'm a big fan of your art. I'm looking forward to the upcoming exhibition, too."
"Thank you." Michiru nodded. "And speaking of the upcoming exhibition, there would be a newcomer who will be putting on her artwork. Please keep an eye out for one Mizuno Ami."
"I will." the male fan answered and bade the two females farewell.
"Odango atama, you're here too?" Haruka raised an eyebrow at the driver's seat of her sports car, Ami was seated in the front seat
In a secluded outdoor patio...
"I see." Michiru spoke, after Usagi explained her reason. "That's why you wanted to play the violin."
"But it's no good." Usagi whimpered, gobbling up a slice of Ami's lemon meringue pie. "Even if I wanted Mamo-chan to hear it, I can't get better."
"Don't give up, Usagi." Michiru encouraged. "You look wonderful when you're trying. Girls always get better that way. Ami, I'll give this to you." she handed her younger cousin a stack of concert tickets. "There is a wonderful violin recital coming up. It's this evening. Please come with the person you cherish."
"Michiru-nee, you do remember Satoshi is still in Berlin, right?" Ami reminded, sipping her cup of cinnamon tea.
"Did I say anything about Kubo-kun?" Michiru teased.
Ami just gaped at Michiru and sighed. "I walked into that one, didn't I?" she looked at the amused Haruka.
In Professor Tomoe's laboratory...
"The time has come." Professor Tomoe grew his next Daimon Egg. "Kaolinite, how are your preparations coming?"
"I have a good idea already." Kaolinite replied. "Now go, Daimon Egg; go steal a Pure Heart." she sent the Daimon Egg out to search for its next target.
That night...
"A tuxedo without the mask is also wonderful." Usagi giggled as she clung onto Mamoru.
"But a violin concert..." Mamoru noted. "Aren't you trying a little too hard?"
"Usagi!" Minako called out, the rest of the Inner Senshi approached the couple in their formal dresses
Backstage...
The Daimon Egg found its way into concert violinist's violin and embedded itself within the instrument.
In the performance hall..
"There he is." Haruka peered through her binoculars from their booth on the second floor and located Usagi's group. "He's a pretty attractive guy."
"It's so nice to be young." Michiru joked.
"You sound like an old woman." Haruka jibbed, Michiru taking her seat when the over-lights dimmed to signal the start of the recital.
Usagi clung onto Mamoru's arm and stuck out her tongue at the four Inner Senshi smugly, as if mocking them about their lack of a partner on their arm.
In the midst of the performance, the violinist's violin then ejected out of his hands, turning into Daimon Octave in mid-air. Pulling her bow over her strings, Octave let loose a disrupting sound wave that knocked out the audience. Turning to her unconscious target, the Daimon opened her body to reveal the black star mark and proceeded to extract the violinist's Heart Crystal. Her objective acquired, she readied to leave the scene, not knowing the Senshi had left the hall earlier to counter her.
Outside the concert hall
"Moon Cosmic Power, Make Up!"
"Mercury Star Power, Make Up!"
"Mars Star Power, Make Up!"
"Jupiter Star Power, Make Up!"
"Venus Star Power, Make Up!"
Octave pulled her bow over her strings again, shattering the hall's glass windows as she made her escape.
"Hold it right there!" Sailor Moon stopped the Daimon. "You wrecked my very important romantic night. In the name of the Moon, the Sailor Team will punish you!"
Octave merely directed her disrupting sound wave at the Senshi, immobilizing them. She played another tune, directing an energy beam from her mouth to the ground and fired it straight towards Sailor Moon.
"Stellar Ice Barrier!" Sailor Mercury slammed both hands on the ground, a large star-shaped shield was erected between Sailor Moon and the energy beam.
"Light Canon!" Sailor Venus took the opening and blasted her light beam at the Daimon's hand, forcing the Daimon to drop her bow.
"Thunderbolt!" Sailor Jupiter summoned a single bolt of lightning down on top of the Daimon's head, electrocuting it.
"Deep Submerge!" Sailor Neptune's attack blasted in, adding more damage.
"Guided by a new Era, Sailor Uranus acts with elegance." Sailor Uranus posed.
"I am Sailor Neptune." the Ocean Senshi declared.
"Ice Claw!" ignoring the two Outer Senshi, Sailor Mercury's enlarged claw shot out at the downed Daimon, knocking the Heart Crystal out of her grasp and causing the cross-shaped crystal to land neatly in Sailor Uranus's hands.
"Moon Spiral Heart Attack!" Sailor Moon took out the Daimon.
"Uranus?" Sailor Neptune approached her partner.
"No, it isn't a Talisman." Sailor Uranus confirmed.
"Uranus, Neptune." Sailor Venus called out.
"Who in the world are you?" Sailor Jupiter demanded.
"And what are the Talismans?" Sailor Mercury inquired.
"If you really want to know, find out on your own." Sailor Uranus replied and left with Sailor Neptune to return the Heart Crystal.
SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.
