Okay, here's the third chapter. Happy? I'm in summer school, so I don't know when the next chapters are going to come along. Well, the standard disclaimers: I own neither Yoden Samurai Troopers nor Sailor Moon. I make a reference to a Sailor Moon episode in which Minako tried to say that Artemis is dead. Does anyone know if that show was cut from translation or in Sailor Stars? I forgot. Anyway, on with it!
All of the Inner and Outer scouts stood outside of 10th Street High school, where the battle had taken place. It was after school, so no one was around to really mess with them as they searched. Haruka and Michiru were searching in one area, Hotaru and Setsuna in another, Usagi and Rei decided to comb over the center where the battle happened, while Ami and Makoto walked around as Ami took readings wither her computer.
"Found anything yet?" Ami asked as she looked over to Makoto. All of the girls were still in their uniforms, and Makoto had her hands shoved into her pockets with her face pointed down.
"Not at all. Not even a footprint is left." Makoto muttered as she pulled her hands out of her pockets.
"I can't get a reading on anything other then us." Ami sighed as she kept on typing.
"We found something." A wheat blonde head popped up over a bush beside of Ami and Makoto. The hair had leaves wildly arranged in it from being in the bushes. Ami and Makoto were both startled, so they screamed and fell backwards. As they lay there, Haruka rose fully from the bush. "..." Michiru's head popped up soon behind of hers, her hair looking picture-perfect.
"Haruka-san!!! Don't scare us like that again!" Makoto ordered, with one hand over her head and trying to breathe regular again. Meanwhile, Ami had picked up her mini computer and was trying to figure out if the drop jarred it and damaged it.
"Just take a look at this." Haruka shoved an object up in Makoto's face. Makoto blinked, and took it gently with two fingers. "It's a piece of metal." The metal was colored light blue, and on it was a crimson splotch.
"Blood?" Ami grabbed the object, and looked it over. "I think we just might have a lead if this came from the boy with the light blue armor."
Minako still sat, tied up. She was left alone in Nasty's computer room. It was well into the afternoon by this time, and she was close to the starving point. She was planning on gnawing through the gag and the restraints if she didn't get any food. And then, she would feast upon Nasty's carcass, after she gutted her with one of her favorite attacks. 'Those aren't my typical thoughts...' Minako shook her head to the best of her abilities at herself.
Nasty pushed her chair back from the computer, popping her knuckles. She then rose, and started out of the room. She yawned on her way out, completely ignoring the blonde Minako who had a vein popping up on her forehead from anger. About 20 minutes later, the boy named Ryo walked into the room with the white tiger at his heels.
"Looks like you've calmed down. Now, we all know you're hungry because we've heard your stomach growl throughout the house nearly the whole day. Nasty-chan made something to eat, and I'll let you go..." Ryo slowly took the gag away from her mouth. She licked her lips, her throat feeling dry. "And if I were you, I would put a shirt on. Because it's not very lady like to walk around with a bandage just covering the important parts." He removed her feet bindings, and tied her hands in front of her. "I'll go with you to your room."
"You know, I would at least like to have some knowledge of why the hell I'm here." Minako sighed as Ryo followed her up to her bedroom. He led her in, and stood in the room as she pulled the uniform shirt over her head. She smoothed it out, and looked herself over in the mirror after Ryo had untied her wrist bindings.
"We'll explain later." Ryo sighed as Byacren plopped down beside of him.
"Does Nasty cook good?" Minako questioned. "And, did anyone take the honor to wash my shirt?"
"Nasty washed it. And she cooks pretty good." Ryo was getting a little agitated by her. 'At least she's calmed down and decided not to retaliate too much...or at least for right now.'
"Well, she owes me a new uniform shirt." Minako turned around from where she was admiring herself in the mirror to let Ryo observe her. The hem of it had drawn up, and was lucky that it even barely covered the bottoms of her female anatomy on her upper torso. The shirt was unbelievably tight, and it pressed her cleavage together.
'Ahh, Gods...' Ryo looked her over several times, admiring the way her toned body, with a gentle tan, looked in that shirt.
"I just hope she doesn't decide to wash my skirt." Minako remarked as she started out of the room, but paused in front of Ryo. Ryo still had his mind on how good she looked. "Hey! Aren't you gonna tie me back up?"
"N-no.." Ryo stammered slightly. "Umm...Well...Let's get going." A light blush was on his cheeks, and Minako wrinkled her nose up at him before walking on out ahead of him, blonde hair swirling behind of her like a golden waterfall. 'Gods, cold showers...ice cubes...'
Usagi sat in her bedroom, crying. Minako's parents had just called her house, wondering if she had seen their daughter. She said no, and then her parents filed a 'Missing Persons' report at the police office. Minako's parents had her friends come along with her. They all talked to the police, and informed them on what Minako did, whom she talked to last, and so on.
"Don't worry..." Artemis was staying with Usagi and Luna. "I've been her partner for a long time. They'll come pretty soon and begging for us to take her back. She's horrible. You remember the time she tried to say I was dead to all of you?" Usagi shook her head.
"She could be dead though...no one knows what those people want from her." Usagi whimpered. She had her knees brought up to her chin, and had dark tear streaks running down her cheeks.
"Usagi Tsunkino." Luna padded into the room, tail swishing behind of her. "Mamarou and you are going to go out on a date. That will help to take your mind off of the current situation for a bit."
"No, Luna." Usagi argued, throwing both fists on the bed. "How can I forget about her? She's one of my friends, and I'm not going to go off, acting like a blonde who doesn't care a thing about anyone. I won't do it."
"Usagi...If I have to make permanent marks on you with my teeth from dragging you out of this room, I will. You don't need to keep yourself locked up here and miserable. Minako couldn't stand it if she knew you were like this right now!" Luna stated. "Now, get ready."
Minako walked into the dining area, followed by Byacren and Ryo. Ryo had a hand on the back of his head, and putting a forced smile on his face. Minako walked up to a chair, and sat down in between Sai and Touma, smoothing her uniform skirt out.
"..." Sai and Touma both started at the girl who decided to plop herself in between them.
"Talk to Nasty about the shirt. She washed it." Minako explained as she picked up a fork. "Now, let's eat."
About 20 minutes later, everyone's concentration was on Shu and Minako. Minako ate like a wolf, as did Shu, making Nasty go back into the kitchen for numerous food items. It seemed like neither one of them were getting full. Minako shoved a bowl of Ramen down her throat, followed by five egg rolls. Seiji held a pair of chopsticks loosely in his fingers as he watched the Princess to Venus pig out.
"What?" Minako had a long noodle hanging out from between her lips. She crossed her eyes, and slurped it into her mouth. With a satisfied grin, she dived onto another plate of Dragon and Phoenix while shoving a piece of vegetable tempura in to go with it.
"Wow..." Shu paused from dinking from a bowl of soup to look at her. 'What a girl. She's actually some competition against me! But I won't allow her to beat me!!' Shu then nearly choked on a box of chocolate covered rice balls as he tried to eat them all at once.
Haruka, Michiru, Setsuna, and Hotaru were all seated around their dinner table. They had their eyes closed for the prayer, Hotaru, given the honors to say it. Haruka occasionally stole pieces from a piece of bread, and then quickly bowed her head back down and clasped her hands. Michiru caught her in the act once, and thwacked her in the back of the hand with a wooden spoon.
"Ow." Haruka muttered softly, before dropping her voice even lower. "Michi-chan, I thought you knew that I only enjoyed roughness in bed?" Unfortunately, both Hotaru and Setsuna heard this. A sweat drop slid down the back of both of their heads before Hotaru got up the strength to clear her throat and start the prayer.
"Holy Father, we thank you this day for what we have. And I thank you for Haruka-poppa, Michiru-momma, and Setsuna-momma. And, please, bring Minako-chan back to us. Amen."
"Amen." The chorus rang out softly from the other Outer senshi before they began to eat.
Minako and Shu had to call it a draw because they were all out of food. Actually, Shu was the only one who thought it to be a race. Minako was just hungry. Nasty had excused herself to go to the grocery store, and Jun accompanied her. Which left the Samurai Troopers and the one Sailor Senshi to determine what to do.
"I'm going to take a swim." Sai informed everyone as he pushed his chair back.
"I'm going to medatiate." Seiji sighed as he ran a few fingers through his hair.
"I'll probably spar with someone." Ryo stated as he nodded. Shu immediately put his self up for grabs to spar against Ryo.
"I'm going to set my telescope up and look at the stars." Touma gave his vote. They all looked to Minako, who was feebly trying to lick a plate for any more morsels of food. She blushed red, and then placed the plate back on the table.
"Well...Umm...I need a shower...And I need to find my gym bag, which had some of my clothes in it..." Minako was a bit embarrassed.
"No problem. The bag is under your bed." Shu informed her.
"Umm...thanks..." Minako got up to leave, but Sai grabbed her by the wrist.
"We're not letting you go out by your own. After all, there is a window in there. Someone with such a small body as yours could easily slip through it." Sai had his head pointed down, but then he looked up at her. "We wouldn't want for you to get away. Now, whose going to wait on Minako in the bath room with her as she takes a bath?"
"I will." Seiji, Ryo, and Shu offered them selves up. Ryo blushed red, as Shu did the same thing. Minako cocked an eyebrow up, thinking that they were just a little too eager to guard her as she took a bath.
"Touma it is." Sai let Minako go. Touma stood up, and sent a dirty glare into Shin's general direction.
Mamoru and Usagi walked arm and arm through the park. Usagi was silent, for a change. Luna decided to tag along, while her lovely companion Artemis was talking a catnap under a tree. Usagi held fast to a silver balloon that Mamoru had bought her, just like the one he had bought her on the date before he was taken by the evil Dark Moons Queen, whom had been brought back by Galaxia.
Out of nowhere, a black vortex swirled. Out of it stepped Kuntize, not looking too happy. He sent a dirty glare to the Moon Princess and the Earth prince, who both looked equally startled. "Kunzite?" Mamoru blinked in disbelief. "No way...You were killed."
"I'm back." Kunzite smirked at the two lovers, feeling a pang of jealously that he wasn't able to do the same thing with HIS Minako. "And now, I want Minako."
"No. Even if I knew where she was, I would never tell you." Usagi had luckily brought along her transformation brooch.
"Is that so?" Kunzite eyed the Princess. "I have ways of making you tell. I'm new and improved, your weak attacks won't be able to hurt me." By this time, Mamoru had pulled out a rose and transformed into Tuxedo Mask.
"You leave her alone!" Tuxedo Mask stated. Luckily, he had distracted Kunzite's attention from Usagi. She took the opportune time to transform.
"Moon Eternal Make UP!!" She cried out. She went through the transformation sequence, and came out in her Eternal Fuku. She stood in her typical pose, and looked Kunzite over.
Kunzite blinked, not knowing that their powers had obviously stepped up a few notches since he had last battled them. Queen Beryl obviously needed to check her listings on where she got her information. He then took a step back wards, the black vortex swirling. "I'll be back. And when I am, I'll be ready. I didn't know you had advanced so much. Syanora." And with that, he disappeared into the black vortex and back into the Dark Moon kingdom.
After the bath, she had rummaged through her gym bag to find some clothes. She found one old outfit, and decided to wear that. She would use her Volley Ball uniform top to sleep in. She slipped into a tight yellow ribbed mock turtleneck tank top, and a leather orange skirt. She tied her hair up into its typical hairstyle, and looked at Touma, who was still blushing from having to watch her non-stop while she was in the bath.
"What? I don't look horrible, do I?" Minako observed herself once again in the mirror. She couldn't find any flaws. "What are you doing tonight?"
"I'm planning on doing some star watching..." The bubbly girl, whom had turned around and given him the most irresistible puppy dogface, quickly cut him off.
"I can do it with you, please? There's nothing around here to do." Minako pouted. Reluctantly, he gave in. 'Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.'
About an hour later, the two were on the top of the roof. Touma had a telescope set up, one that looked advanced. "Sugoi!" Minako cried out as she saw a shooting star whoosh across the sky.
"Did you make a wish?" Touma gave a sidelong glance to the younger girl beside of him.
"I can't tell you what the whish was! But, yes, I did. But, if I tell you, the whish won't come true." Minako recalled on what she had been told. She gazed longingly up into the pitch-black sky, seeing the bright silver glint of a planet. "See what that is?"
"Yes, it's Venus." Touma blinked, wondering what her point was.
"I can't wait until I become Princess of it." Minako sighed happily, thinking about the Silver Millennium.
"You're a Princess?" Touma took a break from gazing into the telescope lens to look at Minako.
"Princess to the planet Venus, and also the pretty suited sailor soldier. Two for the price of one." Minako shrugged, popping her neck. "By the way, what did you whish for on that star?"
"I can't tell you, or it won't come true." He gently mocked Minako. Minako, on the other hand, huffed and glared at him.
"Do you always come up here and do this? It seems fun." Minako sighed as she lay out on the roof of the house, the stars being her blanket.
"Yes. Sometimes I stay out all night. I can identify every constellation." Touma looked out to the sprawled out Minako. "Don't fall down. I don't know how good a sailor soldier would be with an broken leg."
"No problem." Minako nodded.