Daughters of Fate
Part 1(b) Hotaru's Lie
Author's Notes: Hehe, my least expected story thus far. Oh well, I have a lot of ideas for this story so I'll still be writing it. Now every part has a part (b) to it and the part (b) is the part where I add what happens in the future. Okay, a few notes, the first season's generals: Malachite, Zoisite, Nephrite, and Jadeite are fakes okay. They are Beryl's minions and are not the real reincarnated Earth generals. It's confusing but stick with it. {P.S, for the ppl at ff.net, please note that I will put all first parts on the Sailormoon section and all part b's on the Ranma 1/2 section}Now on with the show, e-mail me at silverflame_maiden@hotmail.com too.
Disclaimers: Sailormoon belongs to Naoko Takeuchi and Ranma 1/2 belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.
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Akane slammed the her clothes into the bookbag on her bed, her face awashed with old tears, ancient tears that never ended and never stopped. Tears that have flooded for a millenium. Her room seems so strange and foreign to her now, like a cage trapping her from what she wanted, suffocating. Suddenly, she broked down and sobbed ino the comfort of her arms as she slid down the wall. Tears for the family she has to leave, fear for the life she has to give up, and fear for her own mortality. A Princess, a Queen, a Warrior...and a Child of Darkness. How could that be her?
And yet, she felt the shadows calling to her even now, the darkness pleading to be evoked, begging and demanding to be noticed and accepted by their Mistress. This was what she wanted, was it not? She had wanted to be in the spotlight and be the one with the power. *No!* her heart and mind shouted *...I wanted to be better, but not at this price...nothing at this price...*
Footsteps were suddenly heard and Akane looked up to see Ranma's form filling her hallway. Ranma's eyes fixated on Akane's tear-streaked face which tore at his heart. *It was probably something I did again...* he thought despairingly, almost deperatly. Then, his gaze flitted over to the open backpack on her bed and his eyes narrowed. He felt an irrational anger build up in him, not directed at Akane, but at some unknown force...Fate. Somehow, he knew this w as it. The final battle. If he lost this battle, Akane would leave Nerima...and never return.
Akane quickly stood up and wiped her tears away as Ranma walked slowly towards her.
"Where are you going Akane?" he asked her.
"Ranma, get out of my room!" she shouted desperatly, hoping for any means to make him leave. If she was to dispatch herself from her family, she had hoped to leave quietly, to not see them, for if she did...she would not have the strength to leave and do as she was told.
"Not until you tell me," Ranma growled as he neared her, still blocking the exit.
She turned away from him, but he heard her muffled reply, "I go where destiny guides me, Ranma, and I will not disappoint her." She was speaking in riddles now, Ranma decided, words that confused him and yet he understood. Understood what she meant. Understood her destiny to leave. Ranma felt as if he was losing a battle, and he did what he usually did when he felt things were not going well for him...he went on instinct.
Akane snapped out of her thoughts as Ranma closed her suitcase and looked straight into her eyes, his an endless unwavering blue as he clasped her arm.
"Listen Akane," he said in a loud, frustrated shout, "Destiny does not control your life. Everything and anything can and will be changed but you have to change it!"
"You can not change destiny!" she shouted.
"Yes you can!" he shouted right back.
She tore from his grip as she yelled, "Watch Ranma, watch what destiny has made of me and you will see!"
Ranma watched as Akane pulled a long wand-like black stick the size of her arm out, a dark blue-black gem in the center of it.
"Saturn Soulstream Power!" she shouted as white light engulfed her. When the light was gone and Ranma could see Akane again, his jaw dropped...about six inches.
Akane's blue-black hair had silver streaks in it and her forehead adorned a beautiful, gold tiara with a dark violet gem on it. Light make-up was on her face, accenting her features beautifully, making her eyes seem like a darker brown, her lips a darker shade of pink. A choke-hold with a black diamond was on her neck and she wore an all too tight, white leaotard with a dark violet bow on the chest and a dark gem in the bow. From the leotard was a ver short, very mini black skirt (if it had been an inch higher, well...Ranma's thoughts didn't wish to dwell on such dangerous grounds). Another dark violet bow was on her back where the leotard and skirt met and long, silk-like, transparent violet cloths spread like a butterfly's wings from her back to her knees.
Akane looked magnificent.
In her hand was a weapon though, a dark glaive with intricate patterns and seemingly weighing tons.
Akane held the glaive up to his face and said, "This is what destiny has brought upon me. One tiny blast from this glaive will give you a painful death, Ranma, now move oput of my way before I kill you."
"The kill me," he said, unfliching, not moving, his eyes clear. She brought the glaive up and for a second he thought she really was going to kill him. The glaive came down with a thunk on his head as he fell back unconcious.
Akane transformed back to her regular self and picked up her backpack of clothes and meager belongings as she walked out the door.
#####Flashback######
"You must join with the other senshi," Pluto said.
"But where are they?" she questioned.
"Follow your heart, it will lead you to them."
#####End of Flashbcak######
So here she was, leaving her home, her life, her family...Ranma...to find her friends, her senshi, her princess...and her husband...the Dark One...
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Chibi-Usa and Hotaru stepped out of the school, the sunshine shining brightly down on their smiling forms. Hotaru was wearing a regular, black dress and Chibi-Usa wore her school uniform.
"So, we'll be heading to the Arcade to meet Usagi and the other girls before we-" Chibi-Usa chattered on, but Hotaru had stopped.
Finally, noticing her friend was no longer beside her, Chibi-Usa turned around to see Hotaru standing there, a blank expression on her face.
Walking over, the pink child asked, "Hotaru-chan, are you okay?"
Sudddenly, Hotaru's eyes snapped open and widened with happiness and something akin to utter, absolute joy. She smiled broadly and looked around as if looking for something before deciding on a spot around the corner. She ran around the corner to see a crowded street of people. She closed her eyes and focused her energy until it pinpointed on a person in the crowd. Grinning she ducked under the people and raced towards the person, Chibi-Usa straight behind her screaming for her to stop.
But she couldn't stop now.
Mama was waiting.
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Chibi-Usa chased worridly after her friend into the crowd. *What's Hotaru doing?* she wondered. Suddenly, Hoatru stopped and looked around desperatly as if she lost some part of her soul. She flung around to face Chibi-Usa and her eyes were so helpless and pained that Chibi-Usa felt the sting straight to her child heart.
"Hotaru," Chibi-Usa whispered as she neared her hopeless friend.
"Mama..." Hotaru cried before collapsing and having Chibi-Usa catch her.
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Haruka raced on her motorcycle and felt the wind pushing on her stubborn hair. Streetlight after streetlight, place after place...she was riding...riding the wind...riding her destiny...
Opening her eyes again she saw a person in the street and stopped the motorcycle as fast as she could, but she still hit the person. She swung the bike over and rushed over to see how the person sitting in the street, holding onto her leg.
"I'm so sorry, ma'am, is there anything I can-?" but at that she stopped for the girl looked innocently up at her. The girl had hair like Ami's, only hers was thicker and an even darker blue-black. It seemed to shine in the sun and her head wa s abeautiful heart-shape. The remarkable thing though, was the girl's large dark brown eyes...eyes that dazzled...eyes that brought a flaring memory into Haruka's mind...
######Flashback######
Uranus walked out onto the high cliff as she heard the tides hit the shore down below. Just like she knew she would, she found Saturn standing there, her dark hair blowing in the wind. The 19-year-old Uranus Queen walked over to the 12-year-old Saturn Queen.
Uranus waited silently, she knew to never rush Saturn into saying things.
"Isn't the wind just magnificent, Ruka?" Saturn asked, her eyes sparkling with joy and something that made Uranus' herat lurch in fear...unbridled freedom and rebellion. Uranus loved this daughter that she raised, but she knew that one day she would have to give her up to her own spirit.
"Yes, the wind is great," Uranus said in reluctance, Saturn didn't notice.
Breathing in deeply, Saturn said, "One day, I'm going to ride the wind, Ruka. Don't ask me how, but I will. I'll ride the wind to all the places that people dream of but never go. I'll paint the world in beautiful colors and will leave from place to place-"
"Please don't leave, Sanny," Uranus said almost desperatly, although she knew the child was only dreaming of such things. She didn't want her daughter to leave.
Saturn turned around and made Uranus bend down to her height. Taking the Queen's face in her two hands she said in a musical voice, "I'll ride the wind...only if you ride it with me, Ruka. I'll never be able to fly it alone. Promise me you'll always ride the wind with me, Ruka. Promise me you'll never be tamed like me and we'll travel the Realms together. Just you and me."
Uranus felt tears enter her eyes, but she nodded. Saturn smiled and kissed Ruka on the forehead like she did when she was just a baby.
#####End of Flashback#######
Haruka snapped out of her stupor and stared at the girl...the girl in her flashback... Saturn...her words still ringing clear, *...ride the wind with me, Ruka...*
Akane stared at the girl, she knew it was a girl even though she dressed as a boy. Akane had planned on giving this motorcycle rider a piece of her mind (and if need be a piece of her mallet :), but as soon as she saw the girl she felt the memory flash through her and she knew the girl had the same memory. *Ruka?* she wondered as she stood up.
"Are you alright?" Haruka asked again as the girl stood up and the blue-haired girl nodded as she picked up her backpack.
"Yeah, I-" Akane began, but Haruka suddenly heard her Sailor-radio beep. Excusing herself she turned away and whispered harshly into the radio, "What is it?"
"Haruka, Hotaru fainted and we don't know what to do, she won't talk to any of us and said she wanted everyone there now. We're at Rei's temple," Michiru's vioce came through loud and clear and Haruka said she would arrive before signing off.
Turning over, she got ready to speak to the girl...but she was already gone.
Getting onto her motorcycle, Haruka sped down the street a sweet, angelic voice whispering in her ear, *...ride the wind with me...*
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All of the Sailorsenshi, excluding Pluto and including Mamoru and Chibi-Usa, sat around Hotaru looking at her expectantly and worridly (Usagi was munching on some chips while she was looking worried).
"Everyone, I have something very important to tell you," Hotaru whispered, her breath husky with weakness and trepidition.
"I...I'm..." Hotaru looked around at the people who were her family and she took a deep breath before saying, "I'm not really Sailor Saturn...at least not yet..."
"What?" everyone asked in confusion.
Raising her head high, the child said, "I said...I'm not Sailor Saturn...and I'm not Hotaru Tomoe...I am Hikami...daughter of Sailor Saturn..."
Everyone watched her in a thrall awe, trying to deny the truth, but it was there for them to see since Hotaru's face and eyes told them that she did not lie.
"Let me explain. I am born in the future along with Chibi-Usa, my mother was the Saturn Senshi. When the Dark Moon family attacked and Small Lady was sent back in time, I sneaked away and traveled with her, though Pluto told me I must not. We...we got lost along the way...and were sent to seperate places. Our link was broken and Small Lady forgot me along with other things such as the Sailorscouts younger identities. I remembered though and knew I had to find the senshi, but before I did that I had to get an identity. That was when I met Dr. Tomoe. His wife was dead and his daughter had just died in a tragic lab accident. I cheered up his life by creating memories that never existed and became Hotaru Tomoe. I searched for the senshi, but little did I know Dr. Tomoe's other idenitity and soon the evil powers engulfed me until I became Mistress 9."
"But surely, they could not force you to become Mistress 9?" Luna asked.
That was when Hotaru's eyes got misty, "No, but I was a willing volunteer. Remember, when Chibi-Usa became the Black Lady? Chibi-Usa didn't want the Dark Power wither, but she wanted to be like someone...she wanted to be like her mother...the Neo-Queen...she wanted her mother to be proud of her strong daughter. I wanted that too. I felt the power and thought that maybe...maybe...if I was more powerful and a better senshi... mama would love me more...these doubts were only increased by Mistress 9's lies. I was a sailorsenshi, like Chibi-moon, a trainee, you might say, but Small Lady needed me...needed me to aid her...so I used what power I could to become Saturn. You think my Silence Glaive is powerful...it is just like Chibi-Usa's small moon-wand. It holds only one piece of the power the true Glaive holds.
"I couldn't tell any of you though, Pluto told me not to."
All the senshi sat thinking heavily on the subject trying to understand the serious subject at hand.
After a long while, the Shinto Priestess asked, "Then why tell us now?"
"Because," Hotaru swallowed, "I felt her. I felt mama's prescense this morning and she's here, but it's not her. It's Mama's younger self that I noticed and she's the real Sailor Saturn. You may all call me Hotaru, I am used to that name now."
Chibi-Usa suddenly remembered...
#####Flashback into the future######
Chibi-Usa picked at her dress as the Neo-Queen combed her light strawberry-blond hair. The Neo-Queen hummed softly, a tune that eased the servants in the palace to a relaxed mode. Chibi-Usa looked at her mother intently and smiled softly. The Neo-King suddenly appeared upon the scene in the doorway, refelcting from the mirror.
"How are my two most favorite girls doing?" he asked like he always did and walked over to kiss the Neo-Queen as though they were still both teenagers, carefree and fun-loving, instead of two great Universe Monarchs.
"Small Lady, can we go now?" Chibi-Usa looked up at the doorway to see her best friend, Hikami. She inched her way from betwen her parents and pulled Hikami out of the room shouting good-bye all the while.
Linking her arm around Hikami, Chibi-Usa laughed and raced along...
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Chibi-Usa put her hand into Hikami's and said, "It doesn't matter if your Hotaru or Hikami, I'll always be your best friend. But can I still call you Hotaru, though?"
Hoatru nodded and smiled as everyone came over to give her a hug.
Hotaru looked over at her two surrogate parents and said, "Haruka-mama? Michiru-mama?"
"We still love you, honey," Michiru and Haruka said, but in their minds were realizations. If Hotaru wasn't Saturn then that meant that their Sanny was still out there somewhere...
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Usagi, Ami, Minako, and Makoto sat at their seats in class waiting impatiently while their teacher was talking to the Principal outside of class.
"Usa-chan, what do you think about what Hotaru told us the other day?" Makoto asked.
Usagi appeared thoughtful before saying, "I don't know, guys, if Saturn's still out there then we got a whole mess of stuff to deal with." Minako and Makoto looked at Ami for a translation.
"Usagi means that if the Saturn is really out there and is more powerful then we think she is we're going to be in big trouble for she could be our friend...or foe," Ami explained. Everyone seemed to think about this for awhile before the teacher walked in the room, a girl in tow.
Cat whistles from the guys were heard and the girls had disgruntled looks on their faces. The new girl was semi tall with thick, short blue-black ahir that framed her delicate face. Large, luminous dark, choclate brown eyes that seemed to assess them all with long, dark, black lashes. She had on the school fuku, but the long skirt seemed so much shorter on her, a brown bookbag case in her hand.
While the rest of the class was busy admiring the girl or hating her, four special senshi felt a wave of power exude from her. Their was something about her, they all decided and knew that whateverit was they ad to find out. Makoto's, Minako's, Ami's and Usagi's gazes met once and they nodded, agreeing on meeting the girl.
"Class," the teacher began, "we have a new student, a Miss. Akane Tendo. Miss.Tendo here is 16-years old and she'll be telling you a bit about herself and where she's from. Go ahead, Miss. Tendo."
Akane bowed and said, "Thank you Toro-sensei." at the amazement of her other classmates.
She turned her sparkling gaze to them and began, "Like Toro-sensei said, my name is Akane Tendo and I come from the Nerima ward-"
"You mean Nutcase Nerima?" one student yelled out causing everyone to laugh, but Akane just smiled and said sweetly, "If I were you I wouldn't talk since I live in a ward where monsters are heard killing and taking people's souls." That shut them up.
"Anyways," Akane continued, "I am a Martial Artist, not a very good one compared to others, but I still know a few tricks."
"What do you study?" another student shouted out.
"I study my own Family Art, the Tendo Anything Goes Style of Martial Arts and no I can not teach you. It k me all of my life to learn what I did and I'm not half as good as the people I know. That's it about me. Any questions?" she asked and a voice immediatly shouted out causing hysterics of laughter, "Do you have a boyfriend?"
Akane smiled maliciously, "No, but I have one fiancee that's the best Martial Artist of his generation, one guy who has a major crush on me that can blow up buildings with only a flick of his hand, another guy who has a crush on me that defeats huge monsters every day for a job, about a dozen princes that like me, and about 100 guys from my last school. But no, I don't have a boyfriend." That shut everyone up too.
"Um...okay, you may take a seat next to Usagi over there," Mr.Toro said, but when Akane gave him a look that said do-I-look-like-I-know-who-Usagi-is? he said, "the girl witht the two buns on the top of her head."
Akane walked over to Usagi and sat down, somehow being stuck in the middle of Ami, Usagi, Minako, and Makoto. All the girls decided to talk to her after class and the class began.
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Akane heane take o their lunch andtart munching on it beside her. It was the middle of class and Akane inwardly groaned as she thought *He'll never change...* Without looking she put her hand over and smcked the person on the back of their head while whispering, "Stop eating in class baka!"
Uagi sat p indignantly, staring wide-eyed at the new girl that just slapped her on her head. Her bottom lip quivered slightly and she said shakily, "Akane-san?"
Akane froze immediatly, remembering her surroundings and that the person beside her wan't R Saotome, but that Usagi girl. Turning over she blushed and said, "I'm so sorry, Usagi-san! Gomen, gomen! Please forgive me, I didn't mean it, I swear. It's just you reminded me of a boy in my old school that used to dot hat and I guessed it was out of habit. Oh, I'm so sorry, can you forgive me." Akane watched as the girl brightened up immediatly and smiled brightly before saying, "Okay, Akane-san and you can call me just Usagi."
Akane smiled at the girl's brightness also and said, "Then you can call me Akane, Usagi." They both smiled and in that moment an old memory was evoked...
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"My name's Serenity, but you can call me Sere," the Princess smiled and the other girl smiled back, "My name's Saturn..."
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"Ahem! Miss. Tendo, Miss. Tsukino, this is not social hour, please pay attention," the teacher said {A.N: And believe me there are teachers that say this}
"Gomen, Toro-sensei," they both said before giggling and turning back to class.
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Ranma sat up slightly, his head still throbbing from the impact. Memories about what happened flooded through his hazyt mind and he got up quickly before running out of the room...
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Author's Notes: Now, who noticed that in my last chapter I said Saturn couldn't have any children? Who remembered that I keep spelling Sarenity and Serenity two ways? It's all in the grand seam of things (except for that spelling Sarenity two ways, I'm just not consistant). E-mail me, I love getting e-mail.
Part 1(b) Hotaru's Lie
Author's Notes: Hehe, my least expected story thus far. Oh well, I have a lot of ideas for this story so I'll still be writing it. Now every part has a part (b) to it and the part (b) is the part where I add what happens in the future. Okay, a few notes, the first season's generals: Malachite, Zoisite, Nephrite, and Jadeite are fakes okay. They are Beryl's minions and are not the real reincarnated Earth generals. It's confusing but stick with it. {P.S, for the ppl at ff.net, please note that I will put all first parts on the Sailormoon section and all part b's on the Ranma 1/2 section}Now on with the show, e-mail me at silverflame_maiden@hotmail.com too.
Disclaimers: Sailormoon belongs to Naoko Takeuchi and Ranma 1/2 belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.
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Akane slammed the her clothes into the bookbag on her bed, her face awashed with old tears, ancient tears that never ended and never stopped. Tears that have flooded for a millenium. Her room seems so strange and foreign to her now, like a cage trapping her from what she wanted, suffocating. Suddenly, she broked down and sobbed ino the comfort of her arms as she slid down the wall. Tears for the family she has to leave, fear for the life she has to give up, and fear for her own mortality. A Princess, a Queen, a Warrior...and a Child of Darkness. How could that be her?
And yet, she felt the shadows calling to her even now, the darkness pleading to be evoked, begging and demanding to be noticed and accepted by their Mistress. This was what she wanted, was it not? She had wanted to be in the spotlight and be the one with the power. *No!* her heart and mind shouted *...I wanted to be better, but not at this price...nothing at this price...*
Footsteps were suddenly heard and Akane looked up to see Ranma's form filling her hallway. Ranma's eyes fixated on Akane's tear-streaked face which tore at his heart. *It was probably something I did again...* he thought despairingly, almost deperatly. Then, his gaze flitted over to the open backpack on her bed and his eyes narrowed. He felt an irrational anger build up in him, not directed at Akane, but at some unknown force...Fate. Somehow, he knew this w as it. The final battle. If he lost this battle, Akane would leave Nerima...and never return.
Akane quickly stood up and wiped her tears away as Ranma walked slowly towards her.
"Where are you going Akane?" he asked her.
"Ranma, get out of my room!" she shouted desperatly, hoping for any means to make him leave. If she was to dispatch herself from her family, she had hoped to leave quietly, to not see them, for if she did...she would not have the strength to leave and do as she was told.
"Not until you tell me," Ranma growled as he neared her, still blocking the exit.
She turned away from him, but he heard her muffled reply, "I go where destiny guides me, Ranma, and I will not disappoint her." She was speaking in riddles now, Ranma decided, words that confused him and yet he understood. Understood what she meant. Understood her destiny to leave. Ranma felt as if he was losing a battle, and he did what he usually did when he felt things were not going well for him...he went on instinct.
Akane snapped out of her thoughts as Ranma closed her suitcase and looked straight into her eyes, his an endless unwavering blue as he clasped her arm.
"Listen Akane," he said in a loud, frustrated shout, "Destiny does not control your life. Everything and anything can and will be changed but you have to change it!"
"You can not change destiny!" she shouted.
"Yes you can!" he shouted right back.
She tore from his grip as she yelled, "Watch Ranma, watch what destiny has made of me and you will see!"
Ranma watched as Akane pulled a long wand-like black stick the size of her arm out, a dark blue-black gem in the center of it.
"Saturn Soulstream Power!" she shouted as white light engulfed her. When the light was gone and Ranma could see Akane again, his jaw dropped...about six inches.
Akane's blue-black hair had silver streaks in it and her forehead adorned a beautiful, gold tiara with a dark violet gem on it. Light make-up was on her face, accenting her features beautifully, making her eyes seem like a darker brown, her lips a darker shade of pink. A choke-hold with a black diamond was on her neck and she wore an all too tight, white leaotard with a dark violet bow on the chest and a dark gem in the bow. From the leotard was a ver short, very mini black skirt (if it had been an inch higher, well...Ranma's thoughts didn't wish to dwell on such dangerous grounds). Another dark violet bow was on her back where the leotard and skirt met and long, silk-like, transparent violet cloths spread like a butterfly's wings from her back to her knees.
Akane looked magnificent.
In her hand was a weapon though, a dark glaive with intricate patterns and seemingly weighing tons.
Akane held the glaive up to his face and said, "This is what destiny has brought upon me. One tiny blast from this glaive will give you a painful death, Ranma, now move oput of my way before I kill you."
"The kill me," he said, unfliching, not moving, his eyes clear. She brought the glaive up and for a second he thought she really was going to kill him. The glaive came down with a thunk on his head as he fell back unconcious.
Akane transformed back to her regular self and picked up her backpack of clothes and meager belongings as she walked out the door.
#####Flashback######
"You must join with the other senshi," Pluto said.
"But where are they?" she questioned.
"Follow your heart, it will lead you to them."
#####End of Flashbcak######
So here she was, leaving her home, her life, her family...Ranma...to find her friends, her senshi, her princess...and her husband...the Dark One...
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Chibi-Usa and Hotaru stepped out of the school, the sunshine shining brightly down on their smiling forms. Hotaru was wearing a regular, black dress and Chibi-Usa wore her school uniform.
"So, we'll be heading to the Arcade to meet Usagi and the other girls before we-" Chibi-Usa chattered on, but Hotaru had stopped.
Finally, noticing her friend was no longer beside her, Chibi-Usa turned around to see Hotaru standing there, a blank expression on her face.
Walking over, the pink child asked, "Hotaru-chan, are you okay?"
Sudddenly, Hotaru's eyes snapped open and widened with happiness and something akin to utter, absolute joy. She smiled broadly and looked around as if looking for something before deciding on a spot around the corner. She ran around the corner to see a crowded street of people. She closed her eyes and focused her energy until it pinpointed on a person in the crowd. Grinning she ducked under the people and raced towards the person, Chibi-Usa straight behind her screaming for her to stop.
But she couldn't stop now.
Mama was waiting.
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Chibi-Usa chased worridly after her friend into the crowd. *What's Hotaru doing?* she wondered. Suddenly, Hoatru stopped and looked around desperatly as if she lost some part of her soul. She flung around to face Chibi-Usa and her eyes were so helpless and pained that Chibi-Usa felt the sting straight to her child heart.
"Hotaru," Chibi-Usa whispered as she neared her hopeless friend.
"Mama..." Hotaru cried before collapsing and having Chibi-Usa catch her.
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Haruka raced on her motorcycle and felt the wind pushing on her stubborn hair. Streetlight after streetlight, place after place...she was riding...riding the wind...riding her destiny...
Opening her eyes again she saw a person in the street and stopped the motorcycle as fast as she could, but she still hit the person. She swung the bike over and rushed over to see how the person sitting in the street, holding onto her leg.
"I'm so sorry, ma'am, is there anything I can-?" but at that she stopped for the girl looked innocently up at her. The girl had hair like Ami's, only hers was thicker and an even darker blue-black. It seemed to shine in the sun and her head wa s abeautiful heart-shape. The remarkable thing though, was the girl's large dark brown eyes...eyes that dazzled...eyes that brought a flaring memory into Haruka's mind...
######Flashback######
Uranus walked out onto the high cliff as she heard the tides hit the shore down below. Just like she knew she would, she found Saturn standing there, her dark hair blowing in the wind. The 19-year-old Uranus Queen walked over to the 12-year-old Saturn Queen.
Uranus waited silently, she knew to never rush Saturn into saying things.
"Isn't the wind just magnificent, Ruka?" Saturn asked, her eyes sparkling with joy and something that made Uranus' herat lurch in fear...unbridled freedom and rebellion. Uranus loved this daughter that she raised, but she knew that one day she would have to give her up to her own spirit.
"Yes, the wind is great," Uranus said in reluctance, Saturn didn't notice.
Breathing in deeply, Saturn said, "One day, I'm going to ride the wind, Ruka. Don't ask me how, but I will. I'll ride the wind to all the places that people dream of but never go. I'll paint the world in beautiful colors and will leave from place to place-"
"Please don't leave, Sanny," Uranus said almost desperatly, although she knew the child was only dreaming of such things. She didn't want her daughter to leave.
Saturn turned around and made Uranus bend down to her height. Taking the Queen's face in her two hands she said in a musical voice, "I'll ride the wind...only if you ride it with me, Ruka. I'll never be able to fly it alone. Promise me you'll always ride the wind with me, Ruka. Promise me you'll never be tamed like me and we'll travel the Realms together. Just you and me."
Uranus felt tears enter her eyes, but she nodded. Saturn smiled and kissed Ruka on the forehead like she did when she was just a baby.
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Haruka snapped out of her stupor and stared at the girl...the girl in her flashback... Saturn...her words still ringing clear, *...ride the wind with me, Ruka...*
Akane stared at the girl, she knew it was a girl even though she dressed as a boy. Akane had planned on giving this motorcycle rider a piece of her mind (and if need be a piece of her mallet :), but as soon as she saw the girl she felt the memory flash through her and she knew the girl had the same memory. *Ruka?* she wondered as she stood up.
"Are you alright?" Haruka asked again as the girl stood up and the blue-haired girl nodded as she picked up her backpack.
"Yeah, I-" Akane began, but Haruka suddenly heard her Sailor-radio beep. Excusing herself she turned away and whispered harshly into the radio, "What is it?"
"Haruka, Hotaru fainted and we don't know what to do, she won't talk to any of us and said she wanted everyone there now. We're at Rei's temple," Michiru's vioce came through loud and clear and Haruka said she would arrive before signing off.
Turning over, she got ready to speak to the girl...but she was already gone.
Getting onto her motorcycle, Haruka sped down the street a sweet, angelic voice whispering in her ear, *...ride the wind with me...*
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All of the Sailorsenshi, excluding Pluto and including Mamoru and Chibi-Usa, sat around Hotaru looking at her expectantly and worridly (Usagi was munching on some chips while she was looking worried).
"Everyone, I have something very important to tell you," Hotaru whispered, her breath husky with weakness and trepidition.
"I...I'm..." Hotaru looked around at the people who were her family and she took a deep breath before saying, "I'm not really Sailor Saturn...at least not yet..."
"What?" everyone asked in confusion.
Raising her head high, the child said, "I said...I'm not Sailor Saturn...and I'm not Hotaru Tomoe...I am Hikami...daughter of Sailor Saturn..."
Everyone watched her in a thrall awe, trying to deny the truth, but it was there for them to see since Hotaru's face and eyes told them that she did not lie.
"Let me explain. I am born in the future along with Chibi-Usa, my mother was the Saturn Senshi. When the Dark Moon family attacked and Small Lady was sent back in time, I sneaked away and traveled with her, though Pluto told me I must not. We...we got lost along the way...and were sent to seperate places. Our link was broken and Small Lady forgot me along with other things such as the Sailorscouts younger identities. I remembered though and knew I had to find the senshi, but before I did that I had to get an identity. That was when I met Dr. Tomoe. His wife was dead and his daughter had just died in a tragic lab accident. I cheered up his life by creating memories that never existed and became Hotaru Tomoe. I searched for the senshi, but little did I know Dr. Tomoe's other idenitity and soon the evil powers engulfed me until I became Mistress 9."
"But surely, they could not force you to become Mistress 9?" Luna asked.
That was when Hotaru's eyes got misty, "No, but I was a willing volunteer. Remember, when Chibi-Usa became the Black Lady? Chibi-Usa didn't want the Dark Power wither, but she wanted to be like someone...she wanted to be like her mother...the Neo-Queen...she wanted her mother to be proud of her strong daughter. I wanted that too. I felt the power and thought that maybe...maybe...if I was more powerful and a better senshi... mama would love me more...these doubts were only increased by Mistress 9's lies. I was a sailorsenshi, like Chibi-moon, a trainee, you might say, but Small Lady needed me...needed me to aid her...so I used what power I could to become Saturn. You think my Silence Glaive is powerful...it is just like Chibi-Usa's small moon-wand. It holds only one piece of the power the true Glaive holds.
"I couldn't tell any of you though, Pluto told me not to."
All the senshi sat thinking heavily on the subject trying to understand the serious subject at hand.
After a long while, the Shinto Priestess asked, "Then why tell us now?"
"Because," Hotaru swallowed, "I felt her. I felt mama's prescense this morning and she's here, but it's not her. It's Mama's younger self that I noticed and she's the real Sailor Saturn. You may all call me Hotaru, I am used to that name now."
Chibi-Usa suddenly remembered...
#####Flashback into the future######
Chibi-Usa picked at her dress as the Neo-Queen combed her light strawberry-blond hair. The Neo-Queen hummed softly, a tune that eased the servants in the palace to a relaxed mode. Chibi-Usa looked at her mother intently and smiled softly. The Neo-King suddenly appeared upon the scene in the doorway, refelcting from the mirror.
"How are my two most favorite girls doing?" he asked like he always did and walked over to kiss the Neo-Queen as though they were still both teenagers, carefree and fun-loving, instead of two great Universe Monarchs.
"Small Lady, can we go now?" Chibi-Usa looked up at the doorway to see her best friend, Hikami. She inched her way from betwen her parents and pulled Hikami out of the room shouting good-bye all the while.
Linking her arm around Hikami, Chibi-Usa laughed and raced along...
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Chibi-Usa put her hand into Hikami's and said, "It doesn't matter if your Hotaru or Hikami, I'll always be your best friend. But can I still call you Hotaru, though?"
Hoatru nodded and smiled as everyone came over to give her a hug.
Hotaru looked over at her two surrogate parents and said, "Haruka-mama? Michiru-mama?"
"We still love you, honey," Michiru and Haruka said, but in their minds were realizations. If Hotaru wasn't Saturn then that meant that their Sanny was still out there somewhere...
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Usagi, Ami, Minako, and Makoto sat at their seats in class waiting impatiently while their teacher was talking to the Principal outside of class.
"Usa-chan, what do you think about what Hotaru told us the other day?" Makoto asked.
Usagi appeared thoughtful before saying, "I don't know, guys, if Saturn's still out there then we got a whole mess of stuff to deal with." Minako and Makoto looked at Ami for a translation.
"Usagi means that if the Saturn is really out there and is more powerful then we think she is we're going to be in big trouble for she could be our friend...or foe," Ami explained. Everyone seemed to think about this for awhile before the teacher walked in the room, a girl in tow.
Cat whistles from the guys were heard and the girls had disgruntled looks on their faces. The new girl was semi tall with thick, short blue-black ahir that framed her delicate face. Large, luminous dark, choclate brown eyes that seemed to assess them all with long, dark, black lashes. She had on the school fuku, but the long skirt seemed so much shorter on her, a brown bookbag case in her hand.
While the rest of the class was busy admiring the girl or hating her, four special senshi felt a wave of power exude from her. Their was something about her, they all decided and knew that whateverit was they ad to find out. Makoto's, Minako's, Ami's and Usagi's gazes met once and they nodded, agreeing on meeting the girl.
"Class," the teacher began, "we have a new student, a Miss. Akane Tendo. Miss.Tendo here is 16-years old and she'll be telling you a bit about herself and where she's from. Go ahead, Miss. Tendo."
Akane bowed and said, "Thank you Toro-sensei." at the amazement of her other classmates.
She turned her sparkling gaze to them and began, "Like Toro-sensei said, my name is Akane Tendo and I come from the Nerima ward-"
"You mean Nutcase Nerima?" one student yelled out causing everyone to laugh, but Akane just smiled and said sweetly, "If I were you I wouldn't talk since I live in a ward where monsters are heard killing and taking people's souls." That shut them up.
"Anyways," Akane continued, "I am a Martial Artist, not a very good one compared to others, but I still know a few tricks."
"What do you study?" another student shouted out.
"I study my own Family Art, the Tendo Anything Goes Style of Martial Arts and no I can not teach you. It k me all of my life to learn what I did and I'm not half as good as the people I know. That's it about me. Any questions?" she asked and a voice immediatly shouted out causing hysterics of laughter, "Do you have a boyfriend?"
Akane smiled maliciously, "No, but I have one fiancee that's the best Martial Artist of his generation, one guy who has a major crush on me that can blow up buildings with only a flick of his hand, another guy who has a crush on me that defeats huge monsters every day for a job, about a dozen princes that like me, and about 100 guys from my last school. But no, I don't have a boyfriend." That shut everyone up too.
"Um...okay, you may take a seat next to Usagi over there," Mr.Toro said, but when Akane gave him a look that said do-I-look-like-I-know-who-Usagi-is? he said, "the girl witht the two buns on the top of her head."
Akane walked over to Usagi and sat down, somehow being stuck in the middle of Ami, Usagi, Minako, and Makoto. All the girls decided to talk to her after class and the class began.
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Akane heane take o their lunch andtart munching on it beside her. It was the middle of class and Akane inwardly groaned as she thought *He'll never change...* Without looking she put her hand over and smcked the person on the back of their head while whispering, "Stop eating in class baka!"
Uagi sat p indignantly, staring wide-eyed at the new girl that just slapped her on her head. Her bottom lip quivered slightly and she said shakily, "Akane-san?"
Akane froze immediatly, remembering her surroundings and that the person beside her wan't R Saotome, but that Usagi girl. Turning over she blushed and said, "I'm so sorry, Usagi-san! Gomen, gomen! Please forgive me, I didn't mean it, I swear. It's just you reminded me of a boy in my old school that used to dot hat and I guessed it was out of habit. Oh, I'm so sorry, can you forgive me." Akane watched as the girl brightened up immediatly and smiled brightly before saying, "Okay, Akane-san and you can call me just Usagi."
Akane smiled at the girl's brightness also and said, "Then you can call me Akane, Usagi." They both smiled and in that moment an old memory was evoked...
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"My name's Serenity, but you can call me Sere," the Princess smiled and the other girl smiled back, "My name's Saturn..."
######End of Flashback#######
"Ahem! Miss. Tendo, Miss. Tsukino, this is not social hour, please pay attention," the teacher said {A.N: And believe me there are teachers that say this}
"Gomen, Toro-sensei," they both said before giggling and turning back to class.
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Ranma sat up slightly, his head still throbbing from the impact. Memories about what happened flooded through his hazyt mind and he got up quickly before running out of the room...
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Author's Notes: Now, who noticed that in my last chapter I said Saturn couldn't have any children? Who remembered that I keep spelling Sarenity and Serenity two ways? It's all in the grand seam of things (except for that spelling Sarenity two ways, I'm just not consistant). E-mail me, I love getting e-mail.
