Author's Note(s): This chapter was written to the song "I'm Gonna Find You," by Stan Walker.

So, tell me the truth... are you all really mad that I'm adding yet another story to my long list of current fanfics? With fourteen already going, I thought about waiting, but I just couldn't help myself.

True Love's Kiss
Chapter One
I'm Gonna Find You

There were no answers. Her brother, her cousin, and the other boys had all been gone for five weeks. Everywhere she turned she saw them. All of them. She and many others had been working night and day, creating fliers, taking tips from callers, and walking the streets in groups, trying to find them.

Usagi's mother wasn't handling anything. She had slipped into a state of depression Usagi wasn't sure she could make her way back from. She hadn't left the bedroom in weeks, except to go to the bathroom. It was hard enough that Shingo was missing. When Haruki was added to that picture it made it incredibly difficult. And the fact that Ikuko had lost a nine month old daughter many years before to a heart defect had driven the last icicle into her heart. She had given up, and Usagi couldn't bear to see it.

Kenji, Usagi's dad, had thrown himself into his work with a vengeance, perhaps using it to numb himself to reality, or maybe he was searching in his own way. Usagi couldn't tell. She watched him leave the house every morning at five, and he rarely returned before seven in the evening. Usagi had quickly learned not only to cook, but to coax both her parents into eating. She would tell them to keep up their strength, but she was loosing hope herself.

Usagi found herself sinking into her own well of despair, and she wondered if it wouldn't drown her. With a heavy sigh, she turned a corner, not really paying attention. Her satchel was held by only one finger and her feet dragged along the pavement. Nothing seemed to help. She had groups of people all searching, but there was no sign. It had been over a month and she had hoped to find some clue long before.

And the worst part was that most people seemed to have given up searching. It was awful. She didn't know what to do. She had to find her brother, her cousin, and all the others, but she didn't know how.

The chirping of her phone startled Usagi. She reached into her pocket and pulled it out. "Moshi Moshi," she said.

"Usagi," Naru's voice was rushed. "Listen, you know Ami?"

"Yeah," Usagi said, nodding even though Naru couldn't possible see her. Ami was her neighbor, Doctor Mizuno's daughter, and they had become friends during the course of the search.

"She started doing some research on the internet," Naru continued excitedly. "It turns out that everyone who isn't related to you is related to Mamoru!"

"What?" Usagi asked, stopping in the middle of the street. A car honked, tires screeching as it stopped, and she hurried across, shaking at the near miss. "What do you mean?"

"They're all cousins!" Naru yelled, her voice excited. "Apparently the brothers are related on his mother side, and the other two are from his father's side. That's something new right? Something the detectives don't know?"

"It is," Usagi said, a feeling of excitement welling up.

She didn't want to hope, but anything new had to be a good thing. Most of what she'd found was that the boys had all been to the arcade, to the primary school and middle school, and all of them had spent time in the local library. All of the older boys had attended the same high school.

Other than that there had been nothing to completely connect them. They hadn't all met as far as she could tell, and there was nothing remarkable about any of them. Shingo still had both parents, and a sister. Haruki still had a father, though he was fading fast, and cousins. The others had no parents, but now she knew they were all related. That had to mean something.

"I'm going to call Officer Takahashi," she said. "I'm about ten minutes from the school. See you soon."

"Bye Usagi-chan," Naru chirped, and hung up.

She immediately dialed the work cell number of the officer she spoke to most. He answered after the first ring. "Usagi? Did you find something?"

Usagi quickly related what Naru had told her, hoping for something new to make things better. She waited as he wrote a note and then he coughed. Usagi's heart fell. So much for not getting her hopes up.

"This is good information Usagi," Takahashi said softly. "But what I'm looking for is a sighting. That would put new life into this case. Right now we're working off of old information. We know who took them. We just don't know where they are, or why they were taken, or if they're coming back."

With a heavy sigh, Usagi thanked him and hung up the phone. She was about to turn the corner when she heard frantic hissing and meows coming from an alley just behind her. Quickly she turned and found a cat trapped in what looked to be twine and Band-Aids.

"Oh you poor thing!" she exclaimed and rushed forward. The cat backed up, looking petrified, but Usagi knelt and crept closer slowly. "It's okay," she murmured. "I'm sorry if I scared you. I won't hurt you, I promise. Shhh, it's okay. I've got to get you out of there."

Finally the cat inched forward and Usagi very carefully picked her up. "I don't know if I can untie this string," she said softly. Thinking quickly, she reached into her satchel and pulled out her travel nail kit. It was tiny, a sparkling silver design with a little thin plastic cover that flipped open or snapped closed with a plastic snap. She took out the clippers and began working on the string.

There were two Band-Aids crossed over the cat's forehead. Slowly she pulled them off, trying to avoid pulling fur out as she worked. She clipped and pulled repeatedly on the string and bandages. As she worked she kept up a steady stream of soothing words and soft sounds to keep the feline calm. Her beautiful, silky black fur, which had been ruffled and erect in the beginning, slowly lowered, and eventually the cat relaxed completely in her arms.

Removing the string and bandages was a long process and took her well over the fifteen minutes she'd had before the bell. It looked like she was going to be late for class. She hoped Haruna-sensei wouldn't be too angry. Thinking quickly she pulled her phone back out and snapped a few pictures of the cat, tangled with the cords that were caught around all four legs, her tail, and even around her neck.

When it was done the cat lay in her lap for a moment, panting. "I hope you don't need to go to the vet," she murmured. "Maybe the nurse at my school could look at you. Poor thing. You didn't get like that on your own. Someone did that to you."

The cat stirred in her arms, and a few moments later was up on her feet and had leapt to the top of the car parked in the alley. "Don't worry little kitty," Usagi said. "I'll look for you after school. Hopefully I can find you and get you some milk. I bet you'd like that. And possibly a bath, though I've heard cats don't care much for water."

She looked at her watch and gasped. She was more than twenty minutes late. Gathering up the remnants of string and bandages so no other animals would get caught up, she waved goodbye to the cat, stood, and grabbed her satchel, then raced out of the alley and dashed up the street.

It took three minutes to reach the school, and soon she was dashing to her locker. After tearing her shoes off she hopped toward the classroom, slippers going on one foot at a time, and made it through the door.

"What happened Usagi?" Haruna-sensei asked the moment she entered the classroom. The teacher looked relieved. Usagi was still panting a bit from her run as she made her way to the desk.

"Sorry sensei," Usagi said, puffing. "There was a cat all caught up in string and bandages. She was so beautiful too, all black and she had a crescent mark on her head. But someone did that to her. There was no way she could have gotten that messed up on her own. Look," she added, showing her teacher the photos she had taken. "Who would do something like this?" she asked angrily.

Haruna-sensei shook her head, "I don't know Usagi-chan. I'm glad you were there. Next time, call the school to let them know you're going to be late," she added. "After all those disappearances I was worried when you didn't show up."

Usagl blushed at her thoughtlessness and bowed. "Gomen nasai sensei," she said, bowing a second time. "I promise, I will call."

"Good," the teacher said, pulling Usagi in for a brief hug. She didn't usually show her affection toward her students so publicly, but her heart was still racing and she knew Usagi had been through far too much in the past six weeks. "Go on and sit," she said, pointing towards Usagi's seat. "Or Naru over there will probably shake her way out of the school."

Naru was indeed bouncing in her seat, looking both excited and upset. Umino had reached out and was patting her shoulder awkwardly, looking like he would rather run away than deal with an emotional girl. Usagi stifled a giggle at the pathetic look on his face and hurried to her chair.

Nestled into a tree just outside the school, a very tired and shaken Luna looked into the classroom and watched the interaction of the little blonde with her peers and her sensei. She could see something in the girl and knew that very soon her life would change forever.

As Usagi left the school that afternoon a streak of black ran towards her and she laughed as the little cat she had rescued wound herself around the girl's ankles. "Well hello beautiful kitty," Usagi whispered. "Did you come for that milk I promised you?"

The cat seemed to nod her head and Usagi giggled. Bending, she picked the cat up and held her protectively as more and more students rushed out of the building. Naru and Umino hurried to her side, both exclaiming in wonder.

"She must have followed you here," Naru said. "Poor thing. She looks far too thin," she added, reaching out to scratch behind the feline's ears. "Come on. Let's see if Motoki has some milk for her."

Usagi nodded and they clustered together to make their way to the Crown. Not only was it the most popular hangout for the students of the Azabu Juban district, it had also become the defacto headquarters of the teens who were searching for the missing boys.

As they walked Usagi saw flier after flier. They were taped to windows, stapled to poles and trees, put under windshield wipers. Every night she and several others went out and added more fliers, talked to people in the area, and made dozens of phone calls to hospitals in and around Tokyo. They knew it was a long shot, but the core group didn't give up.

Reaching up, Usagi put a hand on one of the fliers. It was worn, yellowed with age and wrinkled from repeated exposure to rain. The pictures of the seven missing teens were printed in color on this one, which meant it was from one of their first few batches, which had been printed on the school computers the day her brother disappeared.

She sighed, her fingers tracing around the photo of her little brother, her cousin, and one other. For some reason she felt strangely drawn to the boy with black hair and midnight blue eyes. With a soft sigh, she pulled her hand away, but with one last look she whispered the same promise she made every single day. "I'm gonna find you," the soft words were heartfelt and sad.

Cast of Characters

Senshi -
- Tsukino Usagi (Sailor Moon)
- Aino Minako (Sailor Venus)
- Kino Makoto (Sailor Jupiter)
- Mizuno Ami (Sailor Mercury)
- Hino Rei (Sailor Mars)
- Meiou Setsuna (Sailor Pluto)
- Tomae Hotaru (Sailor Saturn)
Note: Ten'ou Haruka (Uranus) and Kaiou Michiru (Neptune) will be in England for the duration of this story.

Shitennou/Hogosha -
Chiba Mamoru (Tuxedo Kamen)
Ine Kunzite (North Knight)
Yoshida Nephrite (East Knight)
Sasake Zoicite (South Knight)
Sasake Jadeite (West Knight)
Kazuo Haruki (Sun Knight)
Tsukino Shingo (Blue Moon Knight)

Supporting Characters -
Luna & Artemis
Tsukino Ikuko & Kenji
Doctor Mizuno Saeko
Furuhata Motoki
Osako Naru
Umino Guiro
Haruna Sensei
Officer Takahashi
Officer Sato