November 2, 1983

Lawrence, KS

Azazel had just finished in Usagi Shingetsu's room. He had fed her some of his blood. She was to be his most special child of all, a moon child tainted with his blood. But hard as he tried, he could not taint her.

A barrier of immense strength pushed him far from the Aino house. To protect her mother, Usagi accepted the poison of the demon blood, although she knew it meant she wouldn't be able to protect the seal on the Darkness as long as she was meant to. She had to protect her mother.

When Dean was four and Sam was exactly six months old, Mary Winchester, their mother, was killed by Yellow Eyed Demon when she interrupted him while he was feeding demon blood to Sam. Azazel pinned Mary to the ceiling, where she suffered a bleeding stomach and was consumed in flames. Upon witnessing this, John, the boys' father, handed the infant Sam to Dean as the nursery burned and told him to "Take your brother outside as fast as you can! Don't look back! Now, Dean, go!" John left their home in Lawrence, Kansas, with Dean and Sam before Dean's fifth birthday.

February 28, 1986

Skylark Camp

Lebanon, KS

"I love you," Hana Aino held electric cables in her rubber gloved hands. She had just spoken to her eight year old daughter, Minako. Minako unsteadily ran and hid in the bushes.

Hana held out the cables, but the demon was upon her.

"HANA!" a shout rang out. Her whitelighter, Sachiel, had come for her.

Electricity rippled through her form. She was gone.

Minako ran up the pier as the police zipped up her mother in a body bag. "Mommy? Mommy!"

Her eyes filled with tears.

Xxx

And all alone in the Aino Manor, forgotten by the grieving family, lay a five year old girl named Usagi.

In a flutter of wings, the angel Castiel appeared.

The little girl began to cry.

Castiel tilted his head, unsure of what to do. "Please…do not. I was sent by Sachiel…"

He lifted Usagi from her bed and held her in his arms. Spontaneously he started to sing the theme from American Hero to her.

The child quieted, and he put her to bed. "I will return when you have need of me."

1990

Jimmy Novak was in car accident and lost his memory and his family. While recovering, he met Balthazar, an angel. Balthazar provided Jimmy the comfort and friendship he needed but Balthazar eventually had to leave on assignment before Jimmy. Jimmy cried in his room when a girl, Usagi walked in and gave Jimmy a rose to celebrate their meeting. Jimmy gave his rose to Balthazar as a parting gift. "Thank you," Balthazar said as he began to disappear. "Someday, I'll bring you lots of flowers."

Since then, Jimmy had a recurring dream of a princess calling out to him to find the Ginzuisho. Jimmy still had no idea of who he really was but he believed that dream was a clue.

2000

Jimmy and Usagi met again and spent a year together. They had a child, Hotaru, but Usagi put up the child for adoption and she was adopted by Professor Tomoe. Jimmy and Usagi broke up after a fight over Nina's fate.

Nine-years-later, Professor Tomoe gene manipulation experiment exploded, killing his wife and his eight-year-old adopted daughter, Hotaru. "Do you want to save your daughter's life?" Azazel asked. Professor Tomoe cried, "I'll do anything to save Hotaru!" Black smoke entered Professor Tomoe and he became possessed by demon Germatoid.