--Author's Notes at Bottom--
IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ THIS!!
This story is a SERIES. Which means
there are more chapters before this one!
You can start here, I can't stop you,
but you will be confused, I can
promise you!!
The story, in order, goes as follows
Don't Let Me Go: Broken Promises
Don't Let Me Go: Insanity
Don't Let Me Go: Roses
Don't Let Me Go: Apparition
Don't Let Me Go: Debauchery
Don't Let Me Go: Analogous
Don't Let Me Go: Barrage
Don't Let Me Go: Crystallization
And this week - the final chapters -
Don't Let Me Go: Eternity
Oh! Please, please don't go screaming
away and not read it ::sniff:: I
promise the first couple of chapters
aren't *that* long... ::sniff:: ^~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't Let Me Go: Eternity
Chapter 1
By: Bethany and Patch
Rated: PG
Editor: Meara
Email: (insert a hint here)
Bethany212@aol.com and
Patchkhan1@hotmail.com
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The girls sat around a floor table, each
with a piece of paper before them.
Ami leaned back, palm top in hand and
sighed heavily. "I think we covered it all.
I have checked Internet site after Internet
site and we have listed every possible thing
that we will need for a baby shower for Usagi."
"I really want Usagi to have a large baby
shower," Rei commented, also leaning back on the
floor. "Her wedding wasn't as large as she hoped.
And, at least we know it will be a girl."
"That's not completely true.." Setsuna
remarked, causing all the girls to look at her.
"Now wait just a second!" Minako raised
a fist in the air. "Chibi-Usa is Usagi's only
child, ne?"
Setsuna closed her eyes, as if asking for
guidance from some unknown force. Slowly she
began speaking. "I have told you girls, the
future is not set in stone - it could change."
"Are you saying it might not be a girl?"
Makoto inquired, looking at the list in front
of her with a gleam in her eye. "Or that
Chibi-Usa is not Usagi's only child?"
"...I can't say," the Guardian of Time
responded evenly.
"Then that means that Chibi-Usa is her
only child, right?" Haruka insisted.
"Perhaps... but I can't say otherwise,"
Setsuna replied, her mind coming up with quick,
painless ways to get out of this conversation.
It would take only a thought to open a portal
into the Corridor of Eternity that housed the
Timegate. Doing one of her disappearing into
thin air tricks seemed pretty appealing at the
moment.
The small clicking noise from the opposite
side of the room came to a halt, followed by Ami
lifting her mini-lap top up and giving an, "AH HA!"
causing everyone around Ami to looked at her in
surprise.
"The chances of Usagi-chan having any other
child, at this time, besides Chibi-Usa, are slim
to none! Unless Chibi-Usa lied about her age when
she came to the past. She didn't look a day over
seven to tell you the trut--"
"She was 903," Michiru stated softly.
"NANI?" Minako slammed her hand down.
"Oh dear," Ami sat down and re-opened her
laptop, erasing all the calculations she had done
over the last half hour and starting over again.
The small Senshi of Saturn had a way of
unobtrusively placing herself where she would
be out of the way of the others. But this time,
she slowly came out from behind Haruka and cleared
her throat. "I believe yellow is a good color to
use if we are not sure."
"Yellow?" Rei spat. "That's a girly color."
"I think it should be pink and blue and yellow,
that way we cover all the bases," Haruka inserted.
"If blue is boy, pink is girl... what is
yellow?" Makoto asked, her eyes crossing.
"Well, I want to use pink and get it over
with! There is no *proof*," Minako insisted,
looking towards Setsuna who was now backing slowly
away from the group. "That it will not be a girl."
"Okay, all in favor of pink - say 'I'," Luna
suggested.
"I!" shouted all of the room, with the
exception of Setsuna.
The tall, elegant Senshi of Pluto quickly
took a couple more steps back and turned on her
heel. "I think I should go.. to the party store
and buy plates and a cake, drinks; you know?"
Minako gave a halfhearted grunt before turning
back to the table. "OH! And Setsuna-san? Pick up
one of those diaper cakes while you're out!"
"No!" Makoto intervened immediately. "Just
pick up the stuff for one, I can make it!"
Rei groaned and looked at the list of games
in front of her. "So, has any of you been to a baby
shower? How do you play these games?"
"It looks easy enough," Michiru commented,
looking at the instructions that Ami had printed
off the computer.
"Look at this one!" Makoto pointed to a game.
"We should practice this, I don't believe I have
ever changed a diaper in my life!"
The girls decided to try the games out, so
after acquiring a baby doll, a newborn sized diaper
(from the package Rei had bought for Usagi); Ami
got out her stopwatch and set the timer.
"Okay, you have one minute to put the diaper
on the doll." Minako gulped and looked at the doll
before her. It always looked so easy on TV.. "Go!"
The other girls watched in awe as Minako
opened the diaper and studied it for a second. After
seemingly figuring out which end went where - she
placed it on the doll.
"Stop!"
Ami walked slowly towards where Minako sat,
a doll in her lap and sweat dripping off her forehead.
"That was intense..." she commented, handing the doll
to Ami for inspection.
A sweat line appeared on Ami's forehead as she
turned the doll over in her hands. "Eh.. Minako-chan?
I think the velcro straps are suppose to go on the
outside."
"Minako-chan no baka!" Rei huffed, taking the
doll from Ami and removing the diaper. "Let me try this."
Ami reset her watch and looked up at the
determined face of Rei. "Okay. Go!"
Rei stuck her tongue out of the corner of her
mouth, determination etched in her features. The
rustling of the diaper soon turned to the sound
of ripping then on to the sound of Rei cursing
under her breath.
"Stop!"
Ami walked pensively over and picked the doll
up, shaking it slightly to get rid of the pieces of
cotton coming from the holes that had been punctured
in it. As she turned the doll over, a small grin of
amusement came to her lips. "Rei-chan? Now, don't get
me wrong, I haven't done this much myself. But I think
that you have some how managed to put this on upside
down."
"What? How?"
Michiru took the doll from Ami and inspected it.
"Rei-chan, there were already places for the legs, you
need not made some." She giggled lightly and removed
the mangled diaper. "Ami-chan, time me?"
Ami nodded and again set her watch. "Go!"
A pin could have dropped in the room and made an
echo from the vast and uncomfortable silence. Every
female in the room watched in pure awe as the Senshi
of Neptune gracefully placed the diaper on the doll
and strapped it. Forty-five seconds later she held the
doll in her arms for them to see.
"Wow Michiru-san, I'm impressed!" Minako nodded
and studied the doll. "How did you do that?"
"Well, we did raise Hotaru from a baby; I have
had some practice," she giggled, laying the doll down.
"Cheater," Rei mumbled unhappily. "What is the
next game on the list?"
"Okay, this one is where you put a blind fold
on, put a plate on your head and try and scoop cotton
balls from a bowl and place them on the plate on your
head," Haruka explained, looking strangely at the paper
in her hands. "What is the point of this?"
Most of the girls shrugged while Makoto and
Hotaru set out to find the supplies needed.
A few minutes later Haruka sat in a chair, a
blindfold over her eyes and a paper plate strapped to
her head.
"Now, I'm going to hand you the spoon and put a
bowl of cotton balls in your lap. You have to scoop
them up and place them on the plate. You have one
minute," Minako explained, handing a tablespoon to
Haruka.
"Can't I use chop sticks?" Haruka asked.
"No, this is supposed to be more fun!" Makoto
answered. "Now.. go!"
Haruka successfully placed the spoon in the
bowl and carefully scooped it into the cotton balls.
A few seconds later she started moving the spoon
towards her head; empty. Carefully and very slowly
she brought it to her head and dumped the 'cotton ball'
on the plate.
~~
"Stop!" Ami called and Haruka dropped the spoon.
Makoto moved forward to take the bowl of cotton
balls as Haruka removed her blindfold. "See? I told
you it was a piece of cake.." her voice trailed off
as she saw the cotton balls lying on the floor around
her. Slowly she reached up and placed her hand on the
plate - bringing one cotton ball down. "Who took the
rest of my cotton balls off the plate?"
All the girls giggled. "You only got that one
to your head," Michiru pointed to the pile of cotton
balls on the floor. "The rest never made it."
Grumbling, Haruka got up from the chair and sat
back down at the table. "I still think you cheated."
Her eyes wandered back down to the list of games on
the paper. "Let's try this one, I bet I could beat
you all at it!"
Everyone sat at the table, a piece of paper
before them that said 'Usagi Mamoru' at the top.
"Now, you are suppose to see how many baby items
you can come up with out of the letters of the
parent's names in two minutes. Ready?" Ami prompted.
Everyone nodded and Ami set the timer. "Go!"
Setsuna opened the door slowly and entered
the room quietly. The first thing that caught her
attention was how all the girls seemed to be working
very hard on something. The next thing she noticed,
however, were the cotton balls and pieces of plastic
laying on the floor. I do not want to ask, she thought
and set her bags down on the floor.
The beeping of a stopwatch caused all the girls
to put their pens down and sigh. "Stop!" Ami said,
swatting at Minako's hand that still held a pen.
Minako looked sadly at her blank paper. In that
entire two minutes, she could not make one single thing
concerning babies out of those letters. She decided
they should have used their last names as well.
"What did you get?" Ami asked, looking at the
others.
Everyone shook their head, showing empty papers.
Except Haruka.
"I got one," she stated proudly. Ami looked at
the names again and then up at Haruka.
"Really? What was it?" she inquired, impressed.
"Gas."
"Nani?" Rei asked, everyone's faces turning red.
Holding her paper up, she repeated. "Gas, right
there! Babies have a lot of gas, don't they?"
Her reply was a lot of groaning.
___________________________________
Setsuna sat there and wondered why she had no
memory of these things happening. Were other disaster
could be coming that she didn't remember? After a
moment, she dismissed that idea. No, she decided as
she watched the others huddled together in a frenzy
of pre-natal activity, I must have blocked this one
incident out. There are some things too horrible to
contemplate for too long.
Happy with her conclusion of events; she once
more ventured into the kitchen where Ami, Makoto, Minako
and Haruka were.
Now, she never thought she would see the day that
Haruka was so interested in a baby shower - among other
things - but there the Senshi of Uranus was; sitting on
the counter watching the girls with a keen eye.
"I say four layers."
"Minako-chan, we don't have that many diapers."
Makoto pointed to the small package of diapers on the
counter and sighed. "It will have to be three."
"Where's the flour and sugar - and eggs, where
are the eggs??" Haruka asked, searching the counter
for anything pertaining to a cake.
"It's not made of cake," Ami explained. "It just
looks like one, see?" The petite girl held up a picture
of a cake shaped...object, that had baby bottles, binkies,
rattles and the like attached or sat in it. "You make
the main part from rolled up diapers, then wrap receiving
blankets around it and finally you place all the baby
items inside and around it. It's very cute."
"And very expensive," Rei noted, walking in the
kitchen with a receipt. "Why did you have to buy
peanuts, Minako-chan?"
"I was hungry?"
"An extra large jar?! That was my money you were
spending so graciously!" Rei fumed, ripping the receipt
in half.
Minako slowly backed up, twisting her hands
nervously in front of her. "Can we say it was for
a good cause?"
Before Rei could explode, a bell rang.
"Oh no! It might be Usagi-chan! Quick! Hide
everything!" Makoto yelled, shoving diaper bags,
bottles and bibs in cabinets and drawers.
Everyone managed to stuff everything away
and all run to the hallway outside the kitchen,
the door slamming behind them.
"Wow minna! I didn't know you all wanted
to see me so badly!" Hotaru giggled; watching all
the girls loose the 'innocent' smiles and head
back towards the kitchen.
Michiru and Hotaru followed shortly, and
watched with amused smiles as the girls pulled
everything from their hiding places.
"Eh, minna?" Minako said in one of her
I-done-something-stupid-and-I'm-going-to-be-killed
voices.
Rei thought for sure that Usagi's spirit had
invaded Minako. For there the girl stood with a
melted bottle in her hand. "You put the bottle
in the oven?! You baka!"
"Now Rei-chan," Minako giggled unconvincingly.
"The apple doesn't run far from the tree."
Everyone in the room looked up, puzzled, along
with Artemis groaning. "It's 'fall' Mina, 'the apple
doesn't fall far from the tree!' And what does that
have to do with anything?" he sighed and buried his
head in his paws.
Before Rei could reach out and grab Minako's
neck, Hotaru stepped between them. "Rei-chan, don't.
It's just a cheap bottle we can get more. We can't
replace Minako-chan if you kill her."
"Who said I wanted her replaced?!" Rei bellowed,
once again grabbing for Minako.
This time Haruka and Michiru came between Minako
and imminent death. "Rei-chan, you seem kind of
stressed out about this whole baby shower thing,
why don't you take the afternoon off, ne?" Michiru
softly suggested.
After a little more convincing, Yuuichirou was
persuaded to take Rei out to dinner, leaving the rest
of the girls working on the mysterious diaper cake.
~~~
"I don't get it, how is this blanket suppose to
stay together?" Makoto grunted, tying a large knot in
the back of the 'cake'.
"According to the picture, it just folds down
some way," Ami showed the picture to Makoto.
Haruka, Michiru, Setsuna and Hotaru sat at the
table watching the scene unfold. For more than two
hours Makoto had been working on the diaper cake -
and had yet to get past the bottom layer.
"Just.. a.. little.. tighter.... AHH!" Makoto,
along with the rest of the girls, jumped back as
diapers flew everywhere. "Damn it!"
Hotaru pulled an unrolled diaper from her
head and handed it back to Minako. "Is there
anything else that needs to be done before
tomorrow?" she asked.
"We have the decorations, the real cake,
presents, games.. I can't think of anything,"
Ami listed, her mini-lap top open in her hand.
"Perhaps we should just buy a diaper cake,
Mako-chan?" Hotaru suggested softly.
Makoto groaned and wiped the sweat from her
forehead before turning around. "Why?" she asked
through gritted teeth. "I am a master baker! I
can make any cake!"
"But Mako-chan," Minako pointed out. "This
isn't a cake that you bake."
Minako's eyes grew huge as she suddenly
found Makoto leaning over her, a fist in her
face. "Are you saying I can't put some diapers
together and call it a cake?!"
Minako gulped while weighing her options.
One - say yes and be killed. Two - say no and be
a coward.
The latter was looking pretty darn good at
the moment.
Luckily for the blonde Senshi, she didn't
have to answer. Haruka did it for her. "Well, so
far you haven't made much progress... "
"NANI?" Makoto lunged across the room, her
hands wrapping around Haruka's neck. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?"
Taking the opportunity to actually get
anywhere near the 'cake', Ami looked at the
paper and then looked at the diapers. Her eyes
lit up as she started rolling the diapers together.
Michiru and Setsuna finally pried Makoto's
hands away from Haruka and sat her down. The taller
girl bolted out of her seat and back towards the
counter; and that's when she noticed it.
Ami grinned happily as she turned around, a
four layer diaper cake in her hands; ready for the
decorations.
"ARGGGGG!!!!"
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**An hour, two four foot ropes and some pepper spray later**
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hotaru scooped up the bags of decorations and
motioned for Michiru to follow her. "While all of you
do the rest of the food, we'll decorate!" she called,
walking out the door.
The two started down the hallway when suddenly
Hotaru stopped. "Michiru-mama, hold on a second, okay?"
Michiru barely had time to blink before Hotaru
shoved the bags in her hands and walked down the
opposite hall.
A few moments later Hotaru returned, dragging
a very reluctant Shingo with her. "Come on! You don't
want me to climb up on a chair and fall trying to do
the streamers, do you?" she pleaded, her violet eyes
getting watery as she looked at her boyfriend.
"Demo Hotaru, you have fought lots of enemies,
died and been reborn, I'm sure you can climb in a
chair to hang streamers," he protested.
"Shingo!" she replied, stomping her foot. "Don't
make me use my Silence Glaive!"
Michiru giggled to herself as Shingo started
walking towards her, a look of defeated on his face.
"Women," he mumbled as he took the bags from her.
"Can't live with them and don't want to face the Silence
Glaive if you refuse them."
Following behind was Hotaru, smiling happily.
-End Chapter 1.
Wellll.... there it is! What did you think? I had tons
of fun writing this ^_^ My cousin had a baby shower the
weekend before last, that is where the idea for this
came. My mother, sister and I was in charge of getting
ready for it and it was very.. interesting to say the
least ^^;; But it got me thinking what could happen if
the senshi were to give a baby shower... hehehe (insert
evil grin here)
DOMO arigato to everyone emailing us!!! **HUGS** You
guys are the best ^_^!!
Huge thanks to our editor, Meara, for all her help,
spelling etc ^_^ *hugs*
So we have 3 more chapters to go before this story
is said and done - *covers eyes from the light at the
end of the tunnel* I almost was begining to wonder
if we would finish it ^^;
Next chapter - be ready for a big surprise - but that's
all I'm saying *shh* ^~
Email! Email!! Email is GOOD. Email is GOOD. *brings out
her watch* You are getting very sleepy... very sleepy..
.....
you will email us! you will email us! now, when I snap
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IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ THIS!!
This story is a SERIES. Which means
there are more chapters before this one!
You can start here, I can't stop you,
but you will be confused, I can
promise you!!
The story, in order, goes as follows
Don't Let Me Go: Broken Promises
Don't Let Me Go: Insanity
Don't Let Me Go: Roses
Don't Let Me Go: Apparition
Don't Let Me Go: Debauchery
Don't Let Me Go: Analogous
Don't Let Me Go: Barrage
Don't Let Me Go: Crystallization
And this week - the final chapters -
Don't Let Me Go: Eternity
Oh! Please, please don't go screaming
away and not read it ::sniff:: I
promise the first couple of chapters
aren't *that* long... ::sniff:: ^~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't Let Me Go: Eternity
Chapter 1
By: Bethany and Patch
Rated: PG
Editor: Meara
Email: (insert a hint here)
Bethany212@aol.com and
Patchkhan1@hotmail.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The girls sat around a floor table, each
with a piece of paper before them.
Ami leaned back, palm top in hand and
sighed heavily. "I think we covered it all.
I have checked Internet site after Internet
site and we have listed every possible thing
that we will need for a baby shower for Usagi."
"I really want Usagi to have a large baby
shower," Rei commented, also leaning back on the
floor. "Her wedding wasn't as large as she hoped.
And, at least we know it will be a girl."
"That's not completely true.." Setsuna
remarked, causing all the girls to look at her.
"Now wait just a second!" Minako raised
a fist in the air. "Chibi-Usa is Usagi's only
child, ne?"
Setsuna closed her eyes, as if asking for
guidance from some unknown force. Slowly she
began speaking. "I have told you girls, the
future is not set in stone - it could change."
"Are you saying it might not be a girl?"
Makoto inquired, looking at the list in front
of her with a gleam in her eye. "Or that
Chibi-Usa is not Usagi's only child?"
"...I can't say," the Guardian of Time
responded evenly.
"Then that means that Chibi-Usa is her
only child, right?" Haruka insisted.
"Perhaps... but I can't say otherwise,"
Setsuna replied, her mind coming up with quick,
painless ways to get out of this conversation.
It would take only a thought to open a portal
into the Corridor of Eternity that housed the
Timegate. Doing one of her disappearing into
thin air tricks seemed pretty appealing at the
moment.
The small clicking noise from the opposite
side of the room came to a halt, followed by Ami
lifting her mini-lap top up and giving an, "AH HA!"
causing everyone around Ami to looked at her in
surprise.
"The chances of Usagi-chan having any other
child, at this time, besides Chibi-Usa, are slim
to none! Unless Chibi-Usa lied about her age when
she came to the past. She didn't look a day over
seven to tell you the trut--"
"She was 903," Michiru stated softly.
"NANI?" Minako slammed her hand down.
"Oh dear," Ami sat down and re-opened her
laptop, erasing all the calculations she had done
over the last half hour and starting over again.
The small Senshi of Saturn had a way of
unobtrusively placing herself where she would
be out of the way of the others. But this time,
she slowly came out from behind Haruka and cleared
her throat. "I believe yellow is a good color to
use if we are not sure."
"Yellow?" Rei spat. "That's a girly color."
"I think it should be pink and blue and yellow,
that way we cover all the bases," Haruka inserted.
"If blue is boy, pink is girl... what is
yellow?" Makoto asked, her eyes crossing.
"Well, I want to use pink and get it over
with! There is no *proof*," Minako insisted,
looking towards Setsuna who was now backing slowly
away from the group. "That it will not be a girl."
"Okay, all in favor of pink - say 'I'," Luna
suggested.
"I!" shouted all of the room, with the
exception of Setsuna.
The tall, elegant Senshi of Pluto quickly
took a couple more steps back and turned on her
heel. "I think I should go.. to the party store
and buy plates and a cake, drinks; you know?"
Minako gave a halfhearted grunt before turning
back to the table. "OH! And Setsuna-san? Pick up
one of those diaper cakes while you're out!"
"No!" Makoto intervened immediately. "Just
pick up the stuff for one, I can make it!"
Rei groaned and looked at the list of games
in front of her. "So, has any of you been to a baby
shower? How do you play these games?"
"It looks easy enough," Michiru commented,
looking at the instructions that Ami had printed
off the computer.
"Look at this one!" Makoto pointed to a game.
"We should practice this, I don't believe I have
ever changed a diaper in my life!"
The girls decided to try the games out, so
after acquiring a baby doll, a newborn sized diaper
(from the package Rei had bought for Usagi); Ami
got out her stopwatch and set the timer.
"Okay, you have one minute to put the diaper
on the doll." Minako gulped and looked at the doll
before her. It always looked so easy on TV.. "Go!"
The other girls watched in awe as Minako
opened the diaper and studied it for a second. After
seemingly figuring out which end went where - she
placed it on the doll.
"Stop!"
Ami walked slowly towards where Minako sat,
a doll in her lap and sweat dripping off her forehead.
"That was intense..." she commented, handing the doll
to Ami for inspection.
A sweat line appeared on Ami's forehead as she
turned the doll over in her hands. "Eh.. Minako-chan?
I think the velcro straps are suppose to go on the
outside."
"Minako-chan no baka!" Rei huffed, taking the
doll from Ami and removing the diaper. "Let me try this."
Ami reset her watch and looked up at the
determined face of Rei. "Okay. Go!"
Rei stuck her tongue out of the corner of her
mouth, determination etched in her features. The
rustling of the diaper soon turned to the sound
of ripping then on to the sound of Rei cursing
under her breath.
"Stop!"
Ami walked pensively over and picked the doll
up, shaking it slightly to get rid of the pieces of
cotton coming from the holes that had been punctured
in it. As she turned the doll over, a small grin of
amusement came to her lips. "Rei-chan? Now, don't get
me wrong, I haven't done this much myself. But I think
that you have some how managed to put this on upside
down."
"What? How?"
Michiru took the doll from Ami and inspected it.
"Rei-chan, there were already places for the legs, you
need not made some." She giggled lightly and removed
the mangled diaper. "Ami-chan, time me?"
Ami nodded and again set her watch. "Go!"
A pin could have dropped in the room and made an
echo from the vast and uncomfortable silence. Every
female in the room watched in pure awe as the Senshi
of Neptune gracefully placed the diaper on the doll
and strapped it. Forty-five seconds later she held the
doll in her arms for them to see.
"Wow Michiru-san, I'm impressed!" Minako nodded
and studied the doll. "How did you do that?"
"Well, we did raise Hotaru from a baby; I have
had some practice," she giggled, laying the doll down.
"Cheater," Rei mumbled unhappily. "What is the
next game on the list?"
"Okay, this one is where you put a blind fold
on, put a plate on your head and try and scoop cotton
balls from a bowl and place them on the plate on your
head," Haruka explained, looking strangely at the paper
in her hands. "What is the point of this?"
Most of the girls shrugged while Makoto and
Hotaru set out to find the supplies needed.
A few minutes later Haruka sat in a chair, a
blindfold over her eyes and a paper plate strapped to
her head.
"Now, I'm going to hand you the spoon and put a
bowl of cotton balls in your lap. You have to scoop
them up and place them on the plate. You have one
minute," Minako explained, handing a tablespoon to
Haruka.
"Can't I use chop sticks?" Haruka asked.
"No, this is supposed to be more fun!" Makoto
answered. "Now.. go!"
Haruka successfully placed the spoon in the
bowl and carefully scooped it into the cotton balls.
A few seconds later she started moving the spoon
towards her head; empty. Carefully and very slowly
she brought it to her head and dumped the 'cotton ball'
on the plate.
~~
"Stop!" Ami called and Haruka dropped the spoon.
Makoto moved forward to take the bowl of cotton
balls as Haruka removed her blindfold. "See? I told
you it was a piece of cake.." her voice trailed off
as she saw the cotton balls lying on the floor around
her. Slowly she reached up and placed her hand on the
plate - bringing one cotton ball down. "Who took the
rest of my cotton balls off the plate?"
All the girls giggled. "You only got that one
to your head," Michiru pointed to the pile of cotton
balls on the floor. "The rest never made it."
Grumbling, Haruka got up from the chair and sat
back down at the table. "I still think you cheated."
Her eyes wandered back down to the list of games on
the paper. "Let's try this one, I bet I could beat
you all at it!"
Everyone sat at the table, a piece of paper
before them that said 'Usagi Mamoru' at the top.
"Now, you are suppose to see how many baby items
you can come up with out of the letters of the
parent's names in two minutes. Ready?" Ami prompted.
Everyone nodded and Ami set the timer. "Go!"
Setsuna opened the door slowly and entered
the room quietly. The first thing that caught her
attention was how all the girls seemed to be working
very hard on something. The next thing she noticed,
however, were the cotton balls and pieces of plastic
laying on the floor. I do not want to ask, she thought
and set her bags down on the floor.
The beeping of a stopwatch caused all the girls
to put their pens down and sigh. "Stop!" Ami said,
swatting at Minako's hand that still held a pen.
Minako looked sadly at her blank paper. In that
entire two minutes, she could not make one single thing
concerning babies out of those letters. She decided
they should have used their last names as well.
"What did you get?" Ami asked, looking at the
others.
Everyone shook their head, showing empty papers.
Except Haruka.
"I got one," she stated proudly. Ami looked at
the names again and then up at Haruka.
"Really? What was it?" she inquired, impressed.
"Gas."
"Nani?" Rei asked, everyone's faces turning red.
Holding her paper up, she repeated. "Gas, right
there! Babies have a lot of gas, don't they?"
Her reply was a lot of groaning.
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Setsuna sat there and wondered why she had no
memory of these things happening. Were other disaster
could be coming that she didn't remember? After a
moment, she dismissed that idea. No, she decided as
she watched the others huddled together in a frenzy
of pre-natal activity, I must have blocked this one
incident out. There are some things too horrible to
contemplate for too long.
Happy with her conclusion of events; she once
more ventured into the kitchen where Ami, Makoto, Minako
and Haruka were.
Now, she never thought she would see the day that
Haruka was so interested in a baby shower - among other
things - but there the Senshi of Uranus was; sitting on
the counter watching the girls with a keen eye.
"I say four layers."
"Minako-chan, we don't have that many diapers."
Makoto pointed to the small package of diapers on the
counter and sighed. "It will have to be three."
"Where's the flour and sugar - and eggs, where
are the eggs??" Haruka asked, searching the counter
for anything pertaining to a cake.
"It's not made of cake," Ami explained. "It just
looks like one, see?" The petite girl held up a picture
of a cake shaped...object, that had baby bottles, binkies,
rattles and the like attached or sat in it. "You make
the main part from rolled up diapers, then wrap receiving
blankets around it and finally you place all the baby
items inside and around it. It's very cute."
"And very expensive," Rei noted, walking in the
kitchen with a receipt. "Why did you have to buy
peanuts, Minako-chan?"
"I was hungry?"
"An extra large jar?! That was my money you were
spending so graciously!" Rei fumed, ripping the receipt
in half.
Minako slowly backed up, twisting her hands
nervously in front of her. "Can we say it was for
a good cause?"
Before Rei could explode, a bell rang.
"Oh no! It might be Usagi-chan! Quick! Hide
everything!" Makoto yelled, shoving diaper bags,
bottles and bibs in cabinets and drawers.
Everyone managed to stuff everything away
and all run to the hallway outside the kitchen,
the door slamming behind them.
"Wow minna! I didn't know you all wanted
to see me so badly!" Hotaru giggled; watching all
the girls loose the 'innocent' smiles and head
back towards the kitchen.
Michiru and Hotaru followed shortly, and
watched with amused smiles as the girls pulled
everything from their hiding places.
"Eh, minna?" Minako said in one of her
I-done-something-stupid-and-I'm-going-to-be-killed
voices.
Rei thought for sure that Usagi's spirit had
invaded Minako. For there the girl stood with a
melted bottle in her hand. "You put the bottle
in the oven?! You baka!"
"Now Rei-chan," Minako giggled unconvincingly.
"The apple doesn't run far from the tree."
Everyone in the room looked up, puzzled, along
with Artemis groaning. "It's 'fall' Mina, 'the apple
doesn't fall far from the tree!' And what does that
have to do with anything?" he sighed and buried his
head in his paws.
Before Rei could reach out and grab Minako's
neck, Hotaru stepped between them. "Rei-chan, don't.
It's just a cheap bottle we can get more. We can't
replace Minako-chan if you kill her."
"Who said I wanted her replaced?!" Rei bellowed,
once again grabbing for Minako.
This time Haruka and Michiru came between Minako
and imminent death. "Rei-chan, you seem kind of
stressed out about this whole baby shower thing,
why don't you take the afternoon off, ne?" Michiru
softly suggested.
After a little more convincing, Yuuichirou was
persuaded to take Rei out to dinner, leaving the rest
of the girls working on the mysterious diaper cake.
~~~
"I don't get it, how is this blanket suppose to
stay together?" Makoto grunted, tying a large knot in
the back of the 'cake'.
"According to the picture, it just folds down
some way," Ami showed the picture to Makoto.
Haruka, Michiru, Setsuna and Hotaru sat at the
table watching the scene unfold. For more than two
hours Makoto had been working on the diaper cake -
and had yet to get past the bottom layer.
"Just.. a.. little.. tighter.... AHH!" Makoto,
along with the rest of the girls, jumped back as
diapers flew everywhere. "Damn it!"
Hotaru pulled an unrolled diaper from her
head and handed it back to Minako. "Is there
anything else that needs to be done before
tomorrow?" she asked.
"We have the decorations, the real cake,
presents, games.. I can't think of anything,"
Ami listed, her mini-lap top open in her hand.
"Perhaps we should just buy a diaper cake,
Mako-chan?" Hotaru suggested softly.
Makoto groaned and wiped the sweat from her
forehead before turning around. "Why?" she asked
through gritted teeth. "I am a master baker! I
can make any cake!"
"But Mako-chan," Minako pointed out. "This
isn't a cake that you bake."
Minako's eyes grew huge as she suddenly
found Makoto leaning over her, a fist in her
face. "Are you saying I can't put some diapers
together and call it a cake?!"
Minako gulped while weighing her options.
One - say yes and be killed. Two - say no and be
a coward.
The latter was looking pretty darn good at
the moment.
Luckily for the blonde Senshi, she didn't
have to answer. Haruka did it for her. "Well, so
far you haven't made much progress... "
"NANI?" Makoto lunged across the room, her
hands wrapping around Haruka's neck. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?"
Taking the opportunity to actually get
anywhere near the 'cake', Ami looked at the
paper and then looked at the diapers. Her eyes
lit up as she started rolling the diapers together.
Michiru and Setsuna finally pried Makoto's
hands away from Haruka and sat her down. The taller
girl bolted out of her seat and back towards the
counter; and that's when she noticed it.
Ami grinned happily as she turned around, a
four layer diaper cake in her hands; ready for the
decorations.
"ARGGGGG!!!!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~
**An hour, two four foot ropes and some pepper spray later**
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hotaru scooped up the bags of decorations and
motioned for Michiru to follow her. "While all of you
do the rest of the food, we'll decorate!" she called,
walking out the door.
The two started down the hallway when suddenly
Hotaru stopped. "Michiru-mama, hold on a second, okay?"
Michiru barely had time to blink before Hotaru
shoved the bags in her hands and walked down the
opposite hall.
A few moments later Hotaru returned, dragging
a very reluctant Shingo with her. "Come on! You don't
want me to climb up on a chair and fall trying to do
the streamers, do you?" she pleaded, her violet eyes
getting watery as she looked at her boyfriend.
"Demo Hotaru, you have fought lots of enemies,
died and been reborn, I'm sure you can climb in a
chair to hang streamers," he protested.
"Shingo!" she replied, stomping her foot. "Don't
make me use my Silence Glaive!"
Michiru giggled to herself as Shingo started
walking towards her, a look of defeated on his face.
"Women," he mumbled as he took the bags from her.
"Can't live with them and don't want to face the Silence
Glaive if you refuse them."
Following behind was Hotaru, smiling happily.
-End Chapter 1.
Wellll.... there it is! What did you think? I had tons
of fun writing this ^_^ My cousin had a baby shower the
weekend before last, that is where the idea for this
came. My mother, sister and I was in charge of getting
ready for it and it was very.. interesting to say the
least ^^;; But it got me thinking what could happen if
the senshi were to give a baby shower... hehehe (insert
evil grin here)
DOMO arigato to everyone emailing us!!! **HUGS** You
guys are the best ^_^!!
Huge thanks to our editor, Meara, for all her help,
spelling etc ^_^ *hugs*
So we have 3 more chapters to go before this story
is said and done - *covers eyes from the light at the
end of the tunnel* I almost was begining to wonder
if we would finish it ^^;
Next chapter - be ready for a big surprise - but that's
all I'm saying *shh* ^~
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