Author's Note: I wanted to show you a little from the guy's perspectives. I know it's a bit creepy for them to be following sixteen-year-old girls around, but it's really important to the story.

True Love's Kiss
Chapter Four
Watchers

Endymion watched from above as the skirmish was fought by the girl with long blonde hair and a white fuku with a blue skirt. He had been told to expect Senshi when they returned to Tokyo of course, but this one hadn't been listed. Who was this Sailor Moon? And why had he been tempted to help her? Why had he been pulled away from his own mission to come and see her?

Shaking his head he slipped into the darkness to follow the girl and her little black cat. He had been ordered to find and collect the Senshi. The queen wanted her full power. With her brother and the other older generals locked away in the Endless slumber there was plenty of room to become her favorite, though she seemed to want more from Endymion than the others. It sickened him as she was nothing but papery skin over bones. She looked beautiful from a distance but up close one could see that she was little more than a husk.

The little Moon Senshi however, he could see stealing a kiss from. He chuckled as he raced over the rooftops, never far behind the small hero. Suddenly she disappeared from sight. He raced to the edge of the roof and looked down to see a massive crowd of people going in every direction. He couldn't see the Senshi anymore!

Jadeite left through the back of the Jewelry store as the little red-head began stirring. He glared at Endymion. This was supposed to have been a solo mission. Jadeite wasn't about to share the credit! That had been his Youma who had gathered so much energy for their Great Ruler. He had designed and created it himself. Huffing angrily he teleported away from the city center and made his way to a place that had caught his attention weeks before. Endymion had no knowledge of his secondary plan. Each afternoon for the past four days he had taken the five o'clock Sendai-zaka bus full of passengers and brought it into a secondary dimension.

There was a large Shinto shrine at the top of that hill, and he had been there often, trying to blend in as a customer and then a visiting priest. Most of those he was taking visited there before or after work each day. The police had even questioned the old man about the disappearances. And the girl with long black hair... well he didn't mind being in her presence. She was incredibly beautiful, vivacious, temperamental and actually quite sweet.

"Jed-sama," the boy, he thought he was called Yuichiro, called out to him as he entered the room they were sharing. "How was your afternoon?"

"Pleasant," Jadeite lied. It hadn't been pleasant at all. The bus had disappeared easily enough but that interfering Endymion was trying to get into his territory and that couldn't be allowed whether he was the pet of the queen or not.

"Luna, bring Usagi to the park. I want her to meet another Senshi," Artemis said as soon as Luna answered the communicator that had begun beeping as they left the Jewelry store.

"You found one?" Luna asked, incredulous.

"Thanks to your advice, yes. I've found Venus. And she knows of another."

"Who?" Luna asked.

"Come to the park and we can explain everything. The one near Usagi's house. I need to see you. I miss you." His voice had almost turned into a whine at the end and Luna chuckled.

"We'll be there soon," she said. Then she turned to look up at Sailor Moon. "The park near your house."

Sailor Moon sighed. "We're going to have to have them come to my house after," she said softly. "I still have to make dinner for my parents."

Luna nodded. Usagi looked exhausted. Hopefully having another Senshi in their midst would help take some of the burden away.

Aino Minako sat cross-legged on the bench, the small white cat pacing back and forth on the grass in front of her. She could hardly get over the fact that he could talk, or that there was supposedly another girl out there like her, who could become a Senshi. Artemis had found her just in time. She shuddered. A white-haired man had released a Youma right in the center of a shopping complex. The little white cat had come running up to her with a pen in his mouth and had thrown it.

Minako still wasn't sure what had made her reach out and grab the pen, or lift it in the air over her head and call out to transform. But a moment later she had become Sailor Venus and was fighting a Youma that was made all of vines with a seedpod on top of it's head. It had been throwing seeds from that pod at people, who instantly collapsed and began glowing as their energy was drained. Sailor Venus had called out Crescent Beam and the next thing she knew the Youma was dust and the white-haired general was in her face.

She shuddered. He looked so like the boy from the posters, from her dreams. The one who had gone missing from the private school. He'd grabbed her arm, but Artemis had scratched him and told her to run. She'd obeyed him even though part of her had wanted desperately to stay with the general. Now she was waiting here for another Senshi who had apparently just had her own first fight. With a heavy sigh, Minako pulled a length of hair over her shoulder and started braiding it.

A small shout echoed across the park and Minako turned her head to see a streak of black fur running for the white cat. He turned at the sound of her voice and braced himself. For a moment it almost looked as though they were fighting, but when their strange roll was over the cats were laying side by side in the grass, panting, with Artemis rubbing the sides of his face over the black cat's fur.

"I missed you," Artemis told the other feline.

"Oh Arty, I missed you too," the black cat exclaimed.

"I assume that's Artemis," a soft voice said next to her ear.

Minako started and turned to look, her jaw dropping as she took in a girl who was so close to her own appearance she wondered if they were sisters. The other girl had her hair pulled up into kawaii little buns with long lengths of hair falling down her back. She wore the uniform of one of the local public high schools, and she looked exhausted.

"Wow," was the only intelligent comment she could make.

The other girl laughed. "I guess so. Are you sure we weren't separated at birth?"

Minako giggled. "Maybe we were. I'm Aino Minako."

"Tsukino Usagi. And the black cat is Luna. I saved her a few days ago and she's been following me ever since." Usagi went on to explain what had happened that evening at the Jewelry store and Minako told her about the shopping center. "I hope you don't mind, but we need to take this meeting to my house. I need to cook dinner and see if I can get my mother to eat something."

"Of course."

They gathered their things together and looked over at the cats, who were still snuggling. "We have to go Artemis," Minako called out.

Kunzite looked to his left as he heard rustling in the tree. He was surprised to see Endymion. The other dark general had seemed to be a favorite of Beryl's. At the moment his eyes were glued to the second blonde, the one with her hair up in two silly-looking buns. She had a pretty, heart-shaped face that wore a serious frown as though the weight of the world rested on her shoulders.

"Is she one of them?" he asked, startling Endymion.

The other dark general nodded. "Sailor Moon. She thought she lost me when she detransformed. Not so simple to lose one of us though."

"That it isn't," Kunzite agreed. "I've been with that one, Minako," he nodded his head to the blonde with her hair down, "since she beat my Youma. Impressive skills," he added. "She's a good fighter."

"The other girl isn't. And Beryl said nothing of a Sailor Moon. I doubt she was a Senshi during the war."

"Perhaps not," Kunzite said. "But I've heard from Jadeite. He's found one he has become drawn to at a local shrine. If you are drawn to that one, don't let her out of your sight. The queen wants all the Senshi."

"How are we supposed to take them," Endymion asked. "They'll fight us and put up a ruckus."

Kunzite only laughed. "You should watch a little more," he told him. "Every time they draw near the posters watch what they do," he suggested. "They are each drawn to one of us. I think the queen must have done that to help us. They'll be easier to catch if they are pulled to us."

Endymion chuckled. "Whatever she's done, it's certainly mutual. I want to kiss the girl."

Kunzite rubbed at his chest and nodded. Every time he looked at Minako he felt heat in his chest and an urge to kiss her. It made no sense for the queen to send her toys out so unprepared. She should have told them what she was doing and not forced this attraction on them. He found the longer he stayed near the blonde the worse the urge became. He would have to fight it.

"They're on the move again," Kunzite warned as the cats leapt to the shoulders of the two blonde girls.

Usagi led the way into the house. Minako was whisper-quiet behind her. On the way over Usagi had explained everything that had happened since her brother and cousin went missing as well as the way Ami and Rei had both also seemed drawn to a specific boy on the posters. Minako had admitted she'd been having dreams about the one named Kunzite and that over time they'd been growing stronger and stronger.

The house was still too quiet. Usagi sighed. Her mother obviously hadn't gotten up yet. She went to the kitchen and opened the fridge, urging Minako to sit. "So tell me about this girl," she said, referring to the one Artemis had spoken of.

"She's fourteen. In middle school. Her father owns that huge school in the center of the city. Anyways, we were on the bus together. She was coming back from an appointment and I could tell she was in pain. I sat next to her and started talking, but then I noticed she had a flier in her hand and was circling her finger around and around one of the pictures."

Minako reached out and took a flier off the stack in the center of the table. "This one. She's drawn to this boy here."

Usagi moved away from the fridge to look. "That's Shingo!" she gasped. "Who is this girl? Where is she?"

"Her name is Hotaru. I didn't get much chance to talk to her, but she did say she was thinking of volunteering for the phone lines. It's why she'd grabbed the flier. She cant stop thinking about the boy and wants to find him. She said every time she looks at his picture she feels better."

"This is a good thing," Usagi said softly. "This has to mean something. Maybe she can bring my brother home."

"Do you think we're connected somehow, to these boys?" Minako asked.

"You most certainly are," Luna said, leaping to the end of the table. Artemis jumped up beside her and nodded his head. "We can't remember everything," Luna continued, looking sad. "But we do remember that each of the Senshi was married, just like we are. The Senshi had to be sent to be reborn along with their mates. I remember this massive shadow creature. The Queen called her Metalia and said that only if the Senshi and their mates were united could she be destroyed and the others freed."

"So I was married to him?" Minako asked, tracing the picture of the man with silver-blonde hair.

"Hai. And Usagi would have been married to the one called Mamoru. This Hotaru you mentioned must have been Shingo's bride. Rei and Jadeite and Ami and Zoicite."

"So where are the wives of Nephrite and Haruki?" Usagi asked, trying to pay attention and cook at the same time. She wasn't the best cook even under ordinary circumstances.

"I don't know," Artemis said. "But I know we have to find them."

Endymion and Kunzite's eyes met and they stepped back from the window where they'd been listening.

"These are our wives?" Endymion asked. Nothing made sense anymore. Wasn't he sent out to capture them for the Negaverse?

"Maybe that's why Beryl wants us to collect them," Kunzite said thoughtfully. "If we can win them to our side, we are guaranteed to win the battle."

"Hai," Endymion said, looking back through the window at the little blonde. He desperately wanted to storm inside, snatch her up into his arms, and kiss her senseless. He didn't know why the urge was so strong. He didn't remember much of his life before he'd woken in the dark kingdom, but he thought he would remember feeling this way, if he ever had before. All he knew was that if he didn't find a way to kiss the girl he would break apart. Somehow he was going to get a kiss.

Senshi -
- Tsukino Usagi (Sailor Moon/Serenity)
- 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/Endymion)
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
Furuahata Motoki
Nishimura Reika
Osako Naru
Umino Guiro
Osaka Sensei
Haruna Sensei
Officer Takahashi
Officer Sato
Granfather Hino
Yuuichiro