Disclaimer: The Sailorstarlights and Princess Kakyuu are created by Takeuchi Naoko, owned by TOEI animation and a bunch of other production and distribution companies, and I actually have no legal right to use any of these characters whatsoever. But please don't sue me; I have no money to give you anyway.
In this story I mix around aspects of both the Sailormoon manga and anime. The anime mostly though ^-^. Kakyuu can become Sailor Kakyuu. And this will eventually turn out to be a Seiya/Kakyuu romance fic.
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The room was dark and the stillness of the night rang loudly in his ears. Beyond the loud sound of silence, he could hear the soft sound of his own breathing. Yaten sighed softly, his pillow a little too warm to be comfortable, as he waited impatiently for sleep to claim him. He opened his eyes again, the darkness glaring, and beams of pale moonlight from the otherwise dark night filtered in through the curtains. He caught his breath as a yawn attempted to escape his lips, and his green eyes ached with tiredness. He had been trying to loose his thoughts to the peacefulness of sleep for hours, yet the stubborn gods refused his pleas, torturing him with the painful memories of the past. Memories he wished he could forget because they reminded him all to well of the pain ... and they reminded him of -that- person. Their princess. His princess.
Finally, he slipped from beneath the light covers, his tired muscles aching from the residual energy left from a battle with a hideously human phage they had fought the day before. His days now consisted of being around annoying screaming girls, and fighting. Often times he wanted to be alone but that almost seemed impossible now that the Three Lights were becoming more popular. It was what they needed to do in order to find their Princess it was all absolutely necessary at least that's what the other two, Taiki, and Seiya would often tell him. Still he hated it. For his princess there was absolutely nothing he would not do but it bothered him that in order to find her they had to do all of this.
"Kami-sama.. I wonder if she would even recognizes us in these forms. Maybe she hasn't ... maybe that's why she hasn't appeared.." he whispered.
He hadn't seen her, his princess in so long.. how he missed her. She was the ONLY person, the only one who really understood him. Taiki and Seiya were fine Yaten loved them like sisters or shouldn't it be brothers now? But they didn't really understand him not like she did. In their own ways Yaten knew all three of them loved Princess Kakyuu dearly she loved them too. But because so much time had passed he had begun to wonder whether she was still alive or not. He didn't know what he would do if she was dead. He wasn't sure of how he would react, and he wasn't sure if he could handle it, if she really was. So often times he would sit quietly and try to think of reasons why she hasn't appeared. Anything was better then thinking she was dead.
He softly shook his head of his thoughts as tears welled in his green eyes. Yaten crawled out of bed and quietly walked towards his bedroom door, the carpet soft beneath his bare feet, he opened the door to walk in to the hallway. The hall light was still on, and he walked down the hall as quietly as possible so he would not wake the others. As he neared the living room, however, he could hear the faint sounds of typing. He blinked and peered curiously into the living room his gaze falling on Taiki.
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The dead, dark hours of night, the time when no distractions come forth, when one can listen and reflect on life, mistakes, successes and failures. A romantic Taiki was not, but behind the facade of constant calm, emotions took poetry as their chosen outlet. He sat alone with a laptop computer on the couch of the apartment he shared with Seiya and Yaten. He had awoken minutes before from a restless sleep when he heard noises in the apartment. It had turned out to be Seiya. Taiki could not help but wonder where his raven haired teammate had wandered off too.
With quick clicking strokes across the keys of his laptop, he was finally expressing the fear held inside, for his princess and his teammates. The frustration of shattered peace, shattered Kinmokusei, a shattered team. They had all been cast asunder. He was with Yaten and Seiya, but their princess? Where could she be?
Taiki glanced up from his typing for a brief moment, sensing the familiar presence of his silver-haired teammate. "Trouble sleeping?" He asked softly.
"Hmn," Yaten nodded as he stepped out from the doorway, an uncertain expression playing on his features. "I didn't mean to interrupt.."
"Your not..." Taiki responded quietly. Yaten lazily plopped down on an arm chair across from the couch Taiki sat in, he nodded again, resting his chin in his hands tiredly. "Will we find her, Taiki?" Yaten asked suddenly. He just wanted to hear Taiki say that they would find their princess, and that everything would be alright. He needed reassurance.
Taiki gingerly pulled down the screen of his laptop, then he set the computer aside on the glass coffee table. "I believe we will that's why we're singing all the time. Surely she'll hear our song and answer us.."
Yaten simply nodded again at his teammates words. Silvery strands of his hair brushed against his green eyes as he bobbed his head and he raised a slender hand to pull the stray strands of hair away from his eyes. Taiki was right. They would find her. They had too.
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Near the same park Seiya and Kakyuu were at, Sailorironmouse stepped inside of a phone booth disappearing in a flash of light. She had been certain that she had found a real star seed but alas it had been another blank. She knew that Galaxia would not be pleased in the least.
A petite black haired, green eyed woman, Karui Suzuki, stood motionless in a secluded part of the park. Her eyes dark and empty.. it was as if she was missing something and she was, her star seed had been taken moments before. Black ribbons erupted from the floor and engulfed Karui's prone body. The ribbons burst, revealing an orange petal-headed, white-skinned, black-eyed creature wearing a tight orange body suit and frilly green tutu, ankle length boots, and, of course, a green sailor collar.
"Sailor Flower!" shouted the newly created phage. It's gaze fell on those within the park that laid across the street. Couples walked hand in hand, a few joggers ran under the dim light of the Tokyo street lights. The phage wrinkled it's nose up in distaste. Moments later all hell broke loose.
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The gathering of power attracted Seiya's attention away from his turmoil filled thoughts. "Kami-sama," he hissed. He stood quickly from his seat on the wooden park bench and turned, his blue eyes searching for the source of the power. He didn't have to search long.. screams of terror could be heard in the distance. The screams caused a chill to run down Seiya's spine. During the months he had been on Earth, running away from himself, trying to find his way and getting more and more lost. Feeling that although his body was still palpable, he might as well have disappeared from the surface of the Earth.
The screams seemed to call him to duty, a duty abandoned in the attempt of escape to a new horizon. Cautiously, and unadverted by anyone, thanks to the extremely plain clothes he wore, he walked, running to where his ears lead him. His eyes were suddenly lit with a glint of that long lost enthusiasm which used to light his eyes and his days not too long ago... Still feeling his heart pressed, he smiled, and looked for a more or less private place. Whatever the cause of the screams ... Sailor Starfighter would find it.
He reached into his jacket pocket, and pulled out the winged star-shaped brooch. The winged headset appeared on his right ear. "Fighter Star Power, Make Up!" he yelled. Seiya pressed his hand to his forehead, the shine of the henshin filling his body. He tried to keep the henshin as quiet and dulled as possible so the shimmer wouldn't attract any unwanted attention.
Ready to face the enemy, or so she thought, Sailor Starfighter ran towards where all of the commotion was coming from, but just as she was about to make her entrance and directly confront the phage, she stopped. Deciding that she would miss a great opportunity if she opened her mouth.
Covered by the shadow of a thick tree, she felt a knot in her throat at the sight of so much horror around her. This world she was standing on, was not her planet. But she was not a cold statue made of stone.
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Kakyuu brought her arms up and wrapped them around herself as a sort of shield from the cold. She wandered aimlessly through the park her eyes fixed on the twinkling stars overhead. She was startled out of her dazed like state by the screams she heard close by. Very close by. As she turned in the direction of the screams, a familiar sensation pricked at the back of her mind and she froze in place. "No...I have only felt a presence like that when Kinmokusei was in danger." she whispered.
Kakyuu shut her eyes as she prepared to do something she hadn't done in a very long time, and once she had cleared her mind, she raised her hand in the air. "Kinmoku Star Power Make-UP!" she shouted as olive flowers and red ribbons engulfed her body. A rush of power ran through her veins, and Sailor Kakyuu stood clutching a familiar branch of olive flowers in her hands. "Time to go meet a new challenge, prepare yourself Kakyuu." she whispered into the empty air around her before sprinting towards where the screams were coming from.
A trail of smoke caught her eye after a few moments, and she quickly figured out where it was coming from. As she approached the place where the phage stood, it was chaos, something the city had known all too well since Galaxia's coming. A few people lay on the ground, either unconscious, wounded, or fainted from terror. Sailor Flower stood in the center, looking about with buglike eyes, perhaps considering who else to attack. A large tree burned merrily nearby, threatening to fall either on the street or on the victims already down.
On the other side of the park from where Sailorkakyuu stood, Starfighter also noticed the tree that threatened to fall on the innocent people littering the ground. At that moment, she would not waste her precious moments of lurking, trying to figure out what she should do. She should simply kill the phage and get it over with. After all that was her way of fighting, then again it was still killing wasn't it? And though she was doing it for 'the greater good' that still did not make it right did it? Without her Princess there she wouldn't be able to heal the phage, she didn't have that kind of power. She had to stop it from harming innocents she had too. A soft sigh escaped her lips.
"Kami.. what shall I do?" she whispered hoarsely.
Starfighter wondered how much longer she would be able to stay impassible. "I should just kill it, until I can find Kakyuu-Hime. It is my duty.. isn't it?"
Starfighter was so lost in her own turmoil filled thoughts that she did not yet notice when the phage spotted her. It turned to Starfighter and hissed, exposing a mouth full of wickedly sharp teeth. Lumbering about to face her, it's insectlike eyes focused, the phage soon began its charge at Starfighter with an angered roar.
Sailor Kakyuu came to a sudden halt in the shade of the trees across from a familiar figure. "It couldn't be, could it?"
Hope welled up within her, and Kakyuu was about to go over to Fighter when she caught a glimpse of the phage headed Fighter's way. The feeling that had brought her to the park came back strongly, and dread hit her as she saw the phage inch dangerously close to Fighter.
"'No..." She broke out into a run towards the unsuspecting Starfighter in the line of fire, and finally out of desperation shouted, "FIGHTER! LOOK OUT!!"
She hastily pulled out a hand of cards, and with out hesitation threw them at the flower phage. "Give me the power to help her..." Kakyuu begged.
"Starlights Royal Straight Flush!" the Kinmoku Senshi cried out as a burst of energy sent a stream of cards at the phage hoping it would stop the creature from harming Fighter. "Please, I just can't see her hurt again..." Kakyuu whispered in desperation.
"Kakyuu-hime!" Fighter cried out in shock. The sudden attack, the even more sudden appearance of her princess ... but there was no time for that now. Kakyuu-hime's warning echoed through her ears, spurring her to move, not think for a change. Fighter dived out of the phage's way. There was a reason to live, and she was trying to protect her. Fighter would not let her Princess' actions be in vain.
The sharp edged cards lodged themselves onto the phage, the creature stopped dead in it's tracks and screeched, a horrible sound. The two Kinmokusei senshi hardly heard the sound, however. Eyes of the deepest azure, and scarlet were locked on each other. It appeared Fighter had finally been reunited with her lost Princess....
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Gomen nasai minna-san! I didn't mean to take so long with this next chapter but I really hope you enjoyed it. Read and review onegai! The story isn't over yet, so if you have any suggestions on what you'd like to see happen. Feel free to email me. Arigato to all of those people who've taken the time to read this! ^_^ Bai Bai
In this story I mix around aspects of both the Sailormoon manga and anime. The anime mostly though ^-^. Kakyuu can become Sailor Kakyuu. And this will eventually turn out to be a Seiya/Kakyuu romance fic.
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The room was dark and the stillness of the night rang loudly in his ears. Beyond the loud sound of silence, he could hear the soft sound of his own breathing. Yaten sighed softly, his pillow a little too warm to be comfortable, as he waited impatiently for sleep to claim him. He opened his eyes again, the darkness glaring, and beams of pale moonlight from the otherwise dark night filtered in through the curtains. He caught his breath as a yawn attempted to escape his lips, and his green eyes ached with tiredness. He had been trying to loose his thoughts to the peacefulness of sleep for hours, yet the stubborn gods refused his pleas, torturing him with the painful memories of the past. Memories he wished he could forget because they reminded him all to well of the pain ... and they reminded him of -that- person. Their princess. His princess.
Finally, he slipped from beneath the light covers, his tired muscles aching from the residual energy left from a battle with a hideously human phage they had fought the day before. His days now consisted of being around annoying screaming girls, and fighting. Often times he wanted to be alone but that almost seemed impossible now that the Three Lights were becoming more popular. It was what they needed to do in order to find their Princess it was all absolutely necessary at least that's what the other two, Taiki, and Seiya would often tell him. Still he hated it. For his princess there was absolutely nothing he would not do but it bothered him that in order to find her they had to do all of this.
"Kami-sama.. I wonder if she would even recognizes us in these forms. Maybe she hasn't ... maybe that's why she hasn't appeared.." he whispered.
He hadn't seen her, his princess in so long.. how he missed her. She was the ONLY person, the only one who really understood him. Taiki and Seiya were fine Yaten loved them like sisters or shouldn't it be brothers now? But they didn't really understand him not like she did. In their own ways Yaten knew all three of them loved Princess Kakyuu dearly she loved them too. But because so much time had passed he had begun to wonder whether she was still alive or not. He didn't know what he would do if she was dead. He wasn't sure of how he would react, and he wasn't sure if he could handle it, if she really was. So often times he would sit quietly and try to think of reasons why she hasn't appeared. Anything was better then thinking she was dead.
He softly shook his head of his thoughts as tears welled in his green eyes. Yaten crawled out of bed and quietly walked towards his bedroom door, the carpet soft beneath his bare feet, he opened the door to walk in to the hallway. The hall light was still on, and he walked down the hall as quietly as possible so he would not wake the others. As he neared the living room, however, he could hear the faint sounds of typing. He blinked and peered curiously into the living room his gaze falling on Taiki.
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The dead, dark hours of night, the time when no distractions come forth, when one can listen and reflect on life, mistakes, successes and failures. A romantic Taiki was not, but behind the facade of constant calm, emotions took poetry as their chosen outlet. He sat alone with a laptop computer on the couch of the apartment he shared with Seiya and Yaten. He had awoken minutes before from a restless sleep when he heard noises in the apartment. It had turned out to be Seiya. Taiki could not help but wonder where his raven haired teammate had wandered off too.
With quick clicking strokes across the keys of his laptop, he was finally expressing the fear held inside, for his princess and his teammates. The frustration of shattered peace, shattered Kinmokusei, a shattered team. They had all been cast asunder. He was with Yaten and Seiya, but their princess? Where could she be?
Taiki glanced up from his typing for a brief moment, sensing the familiar presence of his silver-haired teammate. "Trouble sleeping?" He asked softly.
"Hmn," Yaten nodded as he stepped out from the doorway, an uncertain expression playing on his features. "I didn't mean to interrupt.."
"Your not..." Taiki responded quietly. Yaten lazily plopped down on an arm chair across from the couch Taiki sat in, he nodded again, resting his chin in his hands tiredly. "Will we find her, Taiki?" Yaten asked suddenly. He just wanted to hear Taiki say that they would find their princess, and that everything would be alright. He needed reassurance.
Taiki gingerly pulled down the screen of his laptop, then he set the computer aside on the glass coffee table. "I believe we will that's why we're singing all the time. Surely she'll hear our song and answer us.."
Yaten simply nodded again at his teammates words. Silvery strands of his hair brushed against his green eyes as he bobbed his head and he raised a slender hand to pull the stray strands of hair away from his eyes. Taiki was right. They would find her. They had too.
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Near the same park Seiya and Kakyuu were at, Sailorironmouse stepped inside of a phone booth disappearing in a flash of light. She had been certain that she had found a real star seed but alas it had been another blank. She knew that Galaxia would not be pleased in the least.
A petite black haired, green eyed woman, Karui Suzuki, stood motionless in a secluded part of the park. Her eyes dark and empty.. it was as if she was missing something and she was, her star seed had been taken moments before. Black ribbons erupted from the floor and engulfed Karui's prone body. The ribbons burst, revealing an orange petal-headed, white-skinned, black-eyed creature wearing a tight orange body suit and frilly green tutu, ankle length boots, and, of course, a green sailor collar.
"Sailor Flower!" shouted the newly created phage. It's gaze fell on those within the park that laid across the street. Couples walked hand in hand, a few joggers ran under the dim light of the Tokyo street lights. The phage wrinkled it's nose up in distaste. Moments later all hell broke loose.
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The gathering of power attracted Seiya's attention away from his turmoil filled thoughts. "Kami-sama," he hissed. He stood quickly from his seat on the wooden park bench and turned, his blue eyes searching for the source of the power. He didn't have to search long.. screams of terror could be heard in the distance. The screams caused a chill to run down Seiya's spine. During the months he had been on Earth, running away from himself, trying to find his way and getting more and more lost. Feeling that although his body was still palpable, he might as well have disappeared from the surface of the Earth.
The screams seemed to call him to duty, a duty abandoned in the attempt of escape to a new horizon. Cautiously, and unadverted by anyone, thanks to the extremely plain clothes he wore, he walked, running to where his ears lead him. His eyes were suddenly lit with a glint of that long lost enthusiasm which used to light his eyes and his days not too long ago... Still feeling his heart pressed, he smiled, and looked for a more or less private place. Whatever the cause of the screams ... Sailor Starfighter would find it.
He reached into his jacket pocket, and pulled out the winged star-shaped brooch. The winged headset appeared on his right ear. "Fighter Star Power, Make Up!" he yelled. Seiya pressed his hand to his forehead, the shine of the henshin filling his body. He tried to keep the henshin as quiet and dulled as possible so the shimmer wouldn't attract any unwanted attention.
Ready to face the enemy, or so she thought, Sailor Starfighter ran towards where all of the commotion was coming from, but just as she was about to make her entrance and directly confront the phage, she stopped. Deciding that she would miss a great opportunity if she opened her mouth.
Covered by the shadow of a thick tree, she felt a knot in her throat at the sight of so much horror around her. This world she was standing on, was not her planet. But she was not a cold statue made of stone.
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Kakyuu brought her arms up and wrapped them around herself as a sort of shield from the cold. She wandered aimlessly through the park her eyes fixed on the twinkling stars overhead. She was startled out of her dazed like state by the screams she heard close by. Very close by. As she turned in the direction of the screams, a familiar sensation pricked at the back of her mind and she froze in place. "No...I have only felt a presence like that when Kinmokusei was in danger." she whispered.
Kakyuu shut her eyes as she prepared to do something she hadn't done in a very long time, and once she had cleared her mind, she raised her hand in the air. "Kinmoku Star Power Make-UP!" she shouted as olive flowers and red ribbons engulfed her body. A rush of power ran through her veins, and Sailor Kakyuu stood clutching a familiar branch of olive flowers in her hands. "Time to go meet a new challenge, prepare yourself Kakyuu." she whispered into the empty air around her before sprinting towards where the screams were coming from.
A trail of smoke caught her eye after a few moments, and she quickly figured out where it was coming from. As she approached the place where the phage stood, it was chaos, something the city had known all too well since Galaxia's coming. A few people lay on the ground, either unconscious, wounded, or fainted from terror. Sailor Flower stood in the center, looking about with buglike eyes, perhaps considering who else to attack. A large tree burned merrily nearby, threatening to fall either on the street or on the victims already down.
On the other side of the park from where Sailorkakyuu stood, Starfighter also noticed the tree that threatened to fall on the innocent people littering the ground. At that moment, she would not waste her precious moments of lurking, trying to figure out what she should do. She should simply kill the phage and get it over with. After all that was her way of fighting, then again it was still killing wasn't it? And though she was doing it for 'the greater good' that still did not make it right did it? Without her Princess there she wouldn't be able to heal the phage, she didn't have that kind of power. She had to stop it from harming innocents she had too. A soft sigh escaped her lips.
"Kami.. what shall I do?" she whispered hoarsely.
Starfighter wondered how much longer she would be able to stay impassible. "I should just kill it, until I can find Kakyuu-Hime. It is my duty.. isn't it?"
Starfighter was so lost in her own turmoil filled thoughts that she did not yet notice when the phage spotted her. It turned to Starfighter and hissed, exposing a mouth full of wickedly sharp teeth. Lumbering about to face her, it's insectlike eyes focused, the phage soon began its charge at Starfighter with an angered roar.
Sailor Kakyuu came to a sudden halt in the shade of the trees across from a familiar figure. "It couldn't be, could it?"
Hope welled up within her, and Kakyuu was about to go over to Fighter when she caught a glimpse of the phage headed Fighter's way. The feeling that had brought her to the park came back strongly, and dread hit her as she saw the phage inch dangerously close to Fighter.
"'No..." She broke out into a run towards the unsuspecting Starfighter in the line of fire, and finally out of desperation shouted, "FIGHTER! LOOK OUT!!"
She hastily pulled out a hand of cards, and with out hesitation threw them at the flower phage. "Give me the power to help her..." Kakyuu begged.
"Starlights Royal Straight Flush!" the Kinmoku Senshi cried out as a burst of energy sent a stream of cards at the phage hoping it would stop the creature from harming Fighter. "Please, I just can't see her hurt again..." Kakyuu whispered in desperation.
"Kakyuu-hime!" Fighter cried out in shock. The sudden attack, the even more sudden appearance of her princess ... but there was no time for that now. Kakyuu-hime's warning echoed through her ears, spurring her to move, not think for a change. Fighter dived out of the phage's way. There was a reason to live, and she was trying to protect her. Fighter would not let her Princess' actions be in vain.
The sharp edged cards lodged themselves onto the phage, the creature stopped dead in it's tracks and screeched, a horrible sound. The two Kinmokusei senshi hardly heard the sound, however. Eyes of the deepest azure, and scarlet were locked on each other. It appeared Fighter had finally been reunited with her lost Princess....
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Gomen nasai minna-san! I didn't mean to take so long with this next chapter but I really hope you enjoyed it. Read and review onegai! The story isn't over yet, so if you have any suggestions on what you'd like to see happen. Feel free to email me. Arigato to all of those people who've taken the time to read this! ^_^ Bai Bai