For the One I Love

Chapter Nine

"Double Kisses"

"I found you Rabbit!" Usagi and Seiya quickly broke their gaze with one another at the sound of a distant voice. "Who would've thought you'd be hiding here?" Seiya peeked over to see a woman standing in front of Chibi-Usa, dressed in a black and pink outfit he never thought he would see anyone wear in public.

"Huh?" He noticed something he had seen before. "That symbol." A black mirrored crescent moon sat in the middle of her forehead. The same one he had seen before in the cosmetic shop. Feeling that there was something wrong about the woman, he turned back around to look at Usagi and found panic written all over her face. "Usagi?"

"Seiya." She grabbed onto his arm. "I need you to do me a favor and go tell my mom. Tell her I found Chibi-Usa and we're on our way home. I'll meet you at my house in a bit, okay? "

"It is an enemy…" He thought. "Alright I'll go." Without arguing, Seiya got up and ran out of the hole they had originally come through. But he never intended to go to Usagi's house at the moment. Instead, Seiya flattened himself up against the wall and listened as Usagi transformed into Sailor Moon. "Idiot…she really should make sure people aren't around when she does that…"

"Hold it right there!" Sailor Moon's voice rang from high above. Seiya looked up to see her standing on top of some support beams.

"Sailor Moon!" The woman said annoyed.

"Evil one, picking on a little girl who came from the future city all by herself! In the name of the moon, I will punish you!" Sailor Moon flew down and landed next to the child with a small clack from her boots. Knowing she wouldn't be able to see her anymore, Seiya moved back to hiding behind the metal construction zone sign.

"Impudent brat!" The woman giggled. "Sisters!"

"What?" Seiya whispered. Out of nowhere, three more women appeared at the first's side. They all had the same black marking on their forehead, and something else, they all wore black crystal earrings on each side of their head.

"The eldest, Petz." The farthest right said.

"The second, Calaveras."

"The third, Bertheir."

"The youngest, Koan."

"We are from the tenth planet, The Dark Moon! Black Moon… The Four Phantom Sisters."

"Tenth Planet… Dark Moon?" Seiya couldn't recall there ever being a tenth planet in this solar system. Usagi had never mentioned anything about it, and if there were, surely somebody like Taiki would know. The sisters started closing in on Sailor Moon and her cousin. It was an unfair fight, four against two. More like four against one, he knew the child was a Sailor Senshi, she had told him herself, but he had never seen her transform in all the time of him being here. "Damn" He said. Closing his hand around his transformation pen, he wanted to transform and help. But… if he didn't stop involving himself with their affairs…

"Eh?" At the sound of more footsteps, Sailor Moon and the four sisters turned and saw more company approaching.

"Sailor Mars!"

"Sailor Mercury!"

"Sailor Jupiter!"

"Sailor Venus!"

"We've arrived!"

"Everyone!" Sailor Moon said happily. They stared at each other intensely before the first attack was thrown. Koan threw blue fire in Mars's direction which met with her own. The attacks collided in mid air setting off an explosion. The woman who called herself Bertheir hit Mercury on the side of her face with an ice attack. Venus attacked Calaveras with her love chain, Calaveras using her own whip while Jupiter dogged an attack by Petz and then the two of them went into hand-to-hand combat. While the Phantom Sisters and the Inner Senshi fought each other, Sailor Moon knelt down by the sign with Chibi-Usa in her arms.

Out of nowhere a blinding flash of purple light headed straights towards where Sailor Moon and Seiya were. Feeling the oncoming energy, Seiya jumped from behind the construction sign. He rolled to the support beams opposite, barely making it and to his horror heard Sailor Moon scream. When he looked up, Sailor Moon was crumbled onto the ground over the girl, in a large crater where the ground had been ripped out from underneath them. The sign that he once hid behind was smashed against the dented wall and smoldering.

"Sailor Moon!" Chibi-Usa and Seiya cried in unison.

"Playtime is over now." The voice came from a man that appeared in the air above them. He too, bore the black marking.

"Who are you?" Sailor Moon yelled.

"A member of the Black Moon Clan from the Dark Moon, Crimson Rubeus." He replied smirking.

"Why are you after this child?" Sailor Moon pulled Chibi-Usa closer to her.

"Our mission is to change the future of this city. In order to do so, that girl…" Crimson Rubeus started to build flashing balls of purple light in his hands. "…must die."

Sailor Moon evaded his first attack, but by the time she had landed on the ground he was already ready to throw another. She had no time to dodge it, instead she got stuck in its power which carried her into the air and slammed her against the wall. Rubeus laughed as Chibi-Usa called Sailor Moon's name in a panic, trying to get her to open her eyes.

"Dumpling!" He couldn't take it. Even if he was messing with time, he was here now, right at this moment, and he couldn't stop himself from protecting her.

"This is the end." Rubeus stood in front of the fallen Senshi.

"Not yet." Sailor Moon forced herself into a sitting position, stopping Rubeus from delivering the final blow. "I will not die so easily. I will protect this girl no matter what!"

"And I'll protect you!"

"What?"

"Star Serious… Laser!" Rubeus vanished and then reappeared to the side looking taken aback.

"You!" Sailor Moon said.

"You die here!" Sailor Star Fighter called from atop the support beams.

"Don't be so presumptuous!"

Star Fighter dodged the attack, flipping in the air and landing next to Sailor Moon's side. She was prepared for the next attack he threw at them.

"Star Serious Laser!"

"What?" The attacks hit causing another explosion. Star Fighter covered Sailor Moon and Chibi-Usa from the blast while Rubeus was blown backwards.

"Sailor Moon… now!" Fighter cried. She blinked a few times at her mysterious rescuer and then nodded, pulling out her scepter.

"Moon Princess Elimination!"

"Master Rubeus!" The sisters called out to their leader. He had escaped from being destroyed into the sky above them, but he was still injured.

"Four Phantom Sisters, retreat for now!" The sisters began to vanish from their fights with the Sailor Senshi. "I'll make sure you pay for this!" Crimson Rubeus then too, disappeared.

"Everyone!" They all looked to see Tuxedo Kamen running over. "What happened?"

"It's alright, they're gone." Venus walked over to meet Tuxedo Kamen, followed by everyone else. Tuxedo Kamen's eyes looked over the group and rested on the woman standing next to Sailor Moon.

"You." He said.

"Sailor Star Fighter, right?" Sailor Moon asked. "This isn't the first time you've shown up and saved us. Thank you."

"U-uh…" She blushed slightly. "You're welcome."

"But why?" Jupiter moved forward. "We've never heard of other Sailor Senshi before. How do we know you're not with them?"

"Come on, an evil Sailor Senshi?" Venus said. Fighter looked both annoyed and bothered by these words.

"No wonder…" She said. "You all still have a lot to learn."

"Huh?"

"Anyway… forget about me for now. I mean no harm, so please focus back to your enemy at hand. I am as interested in them as you are. And it seems, this young one has the answers we're both looking for." They all looked around at each other before Sailor Moon knelt down next to the girl who hadn't been paying attention to the Senshi's conversation, her back turned to them.

"Hey, Chibi-Usa, please tell me the truth." Sailor Moon said. "You came from the future, right? What is the tenth planet? What is the Clan of the Dark Moon? So your mom was captured by them?" The child turned around, tears pouring out of the corners of her eyes.

"Sailor Moon!" She jumped on her. "My mom… please help my mom, Sailor Moon! Please save my mom from those bad guys! Puu said that Sailor Moon and the Sailor Senshi would help me! Please… save my mom…" She buried her head into Sailor Moon's chest and continued to cry.

"Chibi-Usa…" She fell asleep. "I should take her home. She's been through a lot today." She added in a whisper to her friends.

"Alright. We should meet tomorrow and talk about this. See if she has anything to say in the morning." Mars glanced over to Fighter.

"I don't know who you are…"

"You don't need too."

"Fair enough. But… for now, thank you. You helped us a lot already, and without you… Sailor Moon could have been seriously hurt." Tuxedo Kamen looked away.

"Don't worry about it, I was happy to help." She said. "I would never, let a fellow Senshi be hurt."

"Well then…" Sailor Moon moved closer to her. "I guess this is goodbye for now."

"We'll meet again…moon bunny…" Sailor Star Fighter placed her hand on Sailor Moon's shoulder. Leaning down, she gave her a soft kiss on the cheek before jumping up onto the beams and disappearing behind the wall.

"Ah!" Sailor Moon grabbed her face embarrassed. "Who, is she?"

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Seiya sat on the chain link he met Usagi at earlier that day, with his head tilted back and staring up at the star littered sky above. A tiny red one twinkled at him. It was amazing if you thought about it, the naked eye seeing something that was more than a lifetime away, billions of miles into the sky. People usually took that kind of information for granted, but for some reason it stuck out in his mind at the moment.

"Princess… this is what you wanted for me isn't it? It's what I wanted for myself. But…"

"Seiya?" Seiya looked down from the sky to see Usagi standing in front of him with a stunned look on her face, carrying Chibi-Usa in her arms. "What are… have you been waiting for me this whole time?"

"That's right, I was going to yell at you for taking so long." He stood up and walked over to her. "But now I'm just happy to see you." He brushed a small piece of hair from her face and tucked it behind her ear causing her to turn a faint pink. "Made you blush." He teased.

"Hmph! As if I'd blush over you!" She knocked his hand away.

"Right, right." He smiled. "So what took you so long?"

"Oh ahh…" Usagi panicked. "Well you see… uh... I had to convince this lady to let me take her because she wouldn't let me have her, because she thought she wasn't mine. But luckily the girls showed up and helped me out and then we started talking for a while… sorry…" She added.

"Hahhaaa, well, I guess that's true. In an odd and choppy sort of way."

"What do you mean? Oh…" Chibi-Usa began to stir. "Now look what you did! You started to wake her up!" Usagi groaned. "Ohh… and I thought I could just put her down and go to sleep myself."

"Well, if she does wake up by the time you get inside you can always read her a story."

"A story?"

"Yeah, kids like stories. Don't you have something you could read to her? Any fairy tales or something?" He asked. Usagi thought about it for a moment.

"Oh! I think I have Sleeping Beauty somewhere! I could read that!"

"Well, I better go and leave you to your story then. See you in school?"

"Seiya, I'm sorry for making you wait this long. I…" Usagi stopped talking mid sentence. Seiya's warm lips touched her cheek, leaving the rest of her body feeling cold in comparison.

"That's my payment. Next time…" He poked the spot where he had kissed her. "It won't just be on the cheek. Goodnight, Dumpling." He walked away, leaving her dazed and flustered. "Maybe this is a good thing, being both Fighter and Seiya here. Two kisses in one night."