SailorStar9: With Chapter 67 out, this is Chapter 68 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 68: Protect the Pure Heart! A Three-Way Battle


Some time later...

Usagi yawned as she stretched herself. "We're studying at Rei's place today again." she whined. "It's tough having entrance exams."

"What are you saying?" Luna chided. "Don't stall yourself around here. We should get going. Otherwise, Rei and the others will yell at you again."

"But..." Usagi complained. "Studying on such a wonderful day like today? I feel like I'm wasting my precious adolescence."

"I won't be responsible if you come up in tears later." Luna sweatdropped.

"I wish I could go on a date with Mamo-chan." Usagi sighed. "My wish came true!" she gushed, hearing Mamoru's bike pull up by the roadside. "Mamo-chan!" she ran towards her boyfriend. "Mamo-chan..." she stopped when she noticed Mamoru carrying a passenger. "Who is that?" she yelled, pointing at the girl behind Mamoru.

"Usako." Mamoru greeted.

"Unazuki?" Usagi blinked when Unazuki removed her helmet.

"Hello, Usagi." the older girl smiled. "Motoki-onii-san is such a klutz. He said he was going on a trip but he forgot the ticket when he left the house." she hopped off the motorbike. "So, I rushed out of the house after him."

"That was when I was passing by their place." Mamoru explained.

"And so, Mamoru offered to take me to the train station." Unazuki finished.

"I see." Usagi sighed. "Don't surprise me like that. By the way, Mamo-chan, that riding suit is wonderful." she immediately nestled up to Mamoru as if staking her claim.


In the Fruits Parlor Crown...

"A kiss with Mamo-chan?" Usagi blushed after Unazuki posted her question.

"And what about it, Usagi?" Unazuki whispered. "Have you kissed Mamoru yet?"

"Well... " Usagi looked away, flustered.

"I see." Unazuki concluded. "After all, since you're blushing so much, you haven't kissed yet. Of course, it would be bad for you to kiss now, since you're still in junior high, Usagi. And you've got entrance exams this year, to boot."

"What about you, Unazuki?" Usagi composed herself. "You are in high school. You've kissed a boy, right?"

"I do have a boyfriend that I love." Unazuki admitted. "But I haven't kissed him yet. I want to cherish my first kiss."

"It's cute, to be dreaming of kisses." Haruka chuckled putting down her tea cup and alerting Usagi and Unazuki about her and Michiru's presence.

"I think it's romantic." Michiru remarked. "Do both of you know the first kiss in world history? The first people to kiss in this world were Adam and Eve."

"There are many different of kisses." Haruka continued. "The kiss on the back of the hand of someone you look up to. A kiss of friendship on someone's forehead. A kiss on the palm of one's hand to wish for something."

"In 15th century Italy, it was said that if a young couple kissed, they have to get married." Michiru continued her history lesson. "A first kiss... you want to cherish it."

"We have to get going." Haruka looked at her watch and she and Michiru got up. "See you."


In Professor Tomoe's laboratory...

"Kaolinite." Professor Tomoe started. "You have been piling up failures. But I'm sure you have found a new target?"

"Yes." Kaolinite nodded as Professor Tomoe sent another Daimon Egg out. "A girl with a Pure Heart that dreams of a first kiss."


In the Furuhata household...

Unazuki was vacuuming the living in preparation for her visitors. "Am I putting too much thought into this?" she wondered, walking over to her wardrobe where a photo of her and her boyfriend was kept in a photo frame.

With Unazuki distracted, the Daimon Egg floated into her room and embedded itself into the vacuum cleaner, before transforming into Daimon Osouji.

"Suction!" Osouji bore her chest and revealed her black stat mark to extract Unazuki's Heart Crystal. Her objective obtained, the Daimon fled out of the room.


Outside...

"We won't let you have that." Sailor Uranus declared, she and Sailor Neptune cornered the Daimon on the rooftop. "Guided by a new Era, Sailor Uranus acts with elegance."

"Guided by a new Era, Sailor Neptune acts with grace." Sailor Neptune posed.

"This is what I have taken." Osouji snorted. "I won't let you have it. Osouji Hurricane!" she blasted a powerful gust of wind at the two Outer Senshi.

"World Shaking!" Sailor Uranus jumped to dodge the attack and she retaliated by firing her own attack at the Daimon. "It's mine." she reached to snatch the Heart Crystal that was knocked out of the Daimon's hand. "Drat." she cursed, when Osouji blew her off course.

"The crystal!" Osouji chased after the Heart Crystal.

"Hold it right there!" Sailor Neptune took off after the Daimon with Sailor Uranus behind her.


In the Furuhata household...

"This is strange." Usagi mused, ringing the doorbell of the Furuhata household and receiving no response. "Maybe Unazuki isn't back from her job yet. It's open..." she pushed the unlocked door open. "Unazuki!" she exclaimed, spotting the unconscious girl on the floor.

"Her Pure Heart crystal has been taken away." Artemis made a quick diagnosis.

"If we don't follow the Daimon fast and get it back, Unazuki will..." Minako gasped.

"Give me a moment." Ami pulled out her compact supercomputer. "Within a 10-km radius, toward the north." she quickly picked up the energy signature. "I'm sorry, but I can't be more specific."

"In any case, we have to split up and look for them." Rei noted.

"A kiss..." Unazuki muttered, sitting up on her bed with blanked-out eyes. "I want a kiss." she jumped on the nearest person which was Makoto. "I don't care who. I wand to kiss." she struggled against Makoto and Usagi who tried to pin her back to the bed.

"Perhaps she became impure because her Pure Heart was stolen." Ami concluded.

"Akuryo Taisan!" Rei slapped an ofuda on Unazuki's mouth, temporarily immobilizing her. "I'll look after Unazuki. Everyone, hurry and find her Pure Heart Crystal."


On the streets...

"Usagi, there's a Daimon 3-km from you." Ami informed, coordinating the search. "Everyone, hurry over there."


In an abandoned scrapyard...

Osouji was engaged in a fight with Sailors Uranus and Neptune.

"You are as pesky as little ticks." the Daimon snarled.

"Cooperate and give us the Talisman." Sailor Uranus demanded.

"This is what I took." Osouji retorted. "If you want it, you'll have to wrestle it away from me."

"No, I won't let anyone have that Pure Heart Crystal." Sailor Moon cut in. "A girl who dreams of a first kiss from a wonderful boy, I can't forgive you for stealing such a Pure Heart. I am the Sailor Senshi of Love and Justice, Sailor Moon! In the name of the Moon, I will punish you!"

"I can't allow for any ticks!" Osouji snapped. Pulling out her extension wire from her back, she tossed it at Sailor Moon. "Gust of Wind!" she replaced her hand with an upholstery attachment and expelled a powerful gust of wind that blew Sailor Moon off. "Shut up. Take these pieces of trash!" she threw out the dust bags within her body at the two Outer Senshi. "I won't lose to someone like you." she mocked the three Senshi. "All of you, pile up and die." she trained her attachment at the Senshi, having soundly defeated the two Outer Senshi in hand-to-hand combat.

"Ice Crystal Prison!" Sailor Mercury threw an ice crystal in front of the Daimon, the freezing magic in the ice crystal releasing icy dust around the Daimon and trapping it in a solid ice prison.

"Moon Spiral Heart Attack!" Sailor Moon took out the frozen Daimon with her attack.

"Looks like it's a wasted trip for you two." Sailor Mercury told the two Outer Senshi, having captured the Heart Crystal within a water bubble and brought it to her hands.

"Looks like it." Sailor Neptune agreed.

"Let's hurry back to Unazuki." Sailor Moon told the water Senshi after the two Outer Senshi left the fight.


SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.