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Sailor Star Fighter was scared. More scared than she had ever been in her whole life. Well... almost. She was with Tenoh Haruka at the moment, speeding through downtown Tokyo in Haruka's sporty yellow convertible. Seiya could barely breathe, as the senshi of wind was making the car practically fly through the streets, nearly colliding with... everything!

"S... slow down, Haruka-san!" Seiya stammered as Haruka swiftly glided the car past a very large truck. "Onegai, Haruka-san! Do you want to kill us?" she shrieked, then quieter, "Ju roku sai desu!... I don't know about you, but I want to live to be twenty... " Too her shock, and immense relief, the traffic thinned out, and Haruka drove slower. Seiya held tightly to the seat belt... just in case.

"Gomen, Seiya-kun." Seiya looked at Haruka as she brushed a few stray strands of hair behind her ear. "I'd like to apologize for last week." She blushed. Seiya was utterly stunned.

"Nani?! Doushite?!" Seiya said, turning her entire body around to face Haruka. Haruka laughed at the expression on Seiya's face.

"Because. Boku... " Haruka took a deep breath. She hated confessions. Especially not to someone who was just as much a 'guy' as her. "I acted irrationally and I shouldn't have decked you." Seiya rubbed her cheek, remembering the past events. Haruka laughed lightly. "Gomen, gomen Seiya-kun... but there are a few things you need to know, and I am going to be the one to tell you." Seiya looked at her strangely.

"What do you mean?" Haruka closed her eyes for a moment.

"It's about Usagi-san." Haruka breathed.

"Usagi-san?" Seiya inquired.

"Hai, Usagi-san. The outers understand it, but the inners have yet to learn..." Haruka thought out loud, and stopped when she noticed Seiya staring at her wide-eyed.

"Listen, Kou," Haruka took a more serious tone of voice. "This is very important. No matter what, you can't pursue Usagi."

"Excuuse me?!" Seiya said angrily, "And who are you to tell me what to do??" Haruka glared at Seiya.

"I will make myself perfectly clear. Do not, under any circumstances, do anything that will upset the princess or have her choose anyone else other than Mamoru-kun to be with." Seiya glared at her.

"Why the hell not?"

"Because the future of the entire Sol system rests on her decisions." Haruka growled.

"Doushite?? How can that be possible?? It takes many people to change the future!" Haruka groaned, brushing a hand through her hair.

"Has she told you or not?" Haruka asked.

"The story of the Moon Kingdom?"

"Hai." Seiya nodded. "Good. That's fine. Our whole future rests on that innocent girl. She is the messiah of justice, love, and a lasting peace. She was the princess of our solar system a millennia ago, and she will one day be our queen. She has to, by all means, marry Mamoru-kun, because certain things that take place in the past and future rely on that."

"Demo..." Seiya started, unsure of what to say, "I can't help it." She sighed. "I've fallen for her, so hard that it still startles me..." Haruka looked knowingly at Seiya, who had her head in her hands.

"She is a picture of beauty. So innocent and pure, that your heart melts just to look at her, ne?" Haruka looked at Seiya, and she nodded. "You just feel like protecting her, and making sure that nothing would come between you. With even the smallest of smiles, she can light up your world, your being, your very soul. She is so carefree, and she brings that happiness to you in such innocence and loving freedom... it's hard not to love her..." Haruka looked at Seiya once more, to see a smile on her lips, her eyes closed, and blushing slightly. Suddenly, Seiya's eyes snapped open.

"How, by the stars, did you know that?" Seiya demanded, "You... you just described the exact way I've felt about Odango, since the moment I saw her... how could you possibly..." Seiya stopped and looked at the tomboy sitting across from her. Haruka glanced at Seiya quickly, before looking back at the road. "Kami-sama... " Seiya whispered, when a sudden realization dawned on her. "You love her too, don't you?" Haruka looked at Seiya again, and held her eyes.

"Hai, Seiya-chan." Haruka smiled lightly. "I always have. From the moment I saw her."

"But Michiru... I thought... " Haruka laughed.

"I'd never leave her, Seiya. I always wondered, if I had met Neko-chan before Michi-chan, who would I have picked? And would it have made a difference?" Haruka sighed. "It would have made a difference, Seiya. The future would have changed, and we could have a state of utter chaos on our hands."

Seiya was speechless. "Boku... "

"I still love her, and I always will. I could have easily gotten her to choose me over Mamoru-kun because she was so confused. I didn't... couldn't do it to her. I knew who she really loved, and I couldn't do it to my soul mate either." Haruka stopped talking and looked at her seriously. "Seiya... "

"I know, I know. Between us." Seiya said solemnly. "Does Michiru know about... ?"

"Hai, I think so. I can't hide anything from her. I'd swear she was reading my mind."

"But what could be so much of a disaster if she chose a different... husband?"

"Many things. I'd have to ask Setsuna-san if I could tell you. Unless Neko-chan...?"

"No, she only told me about the past, and the attack of queen... ?"

"Beryl. Okay." Haruka sighed. "But do you understand? Do you understand what you must give up to save everyone's future?" Seiya looked undecided. "Have you kissed her?" Seiya was silent. Makes it hurt even more, doesn't it? Because it isn't allowed to happen again... I know. Believe me."

"Hai. I don't like it... I love her so much... " Seiya almost couldn't speak. Haruka put her hand on Seiya's shoulder, as she brought the car to a stop. Seiya hadn't even noticed that they were a block away from her apartment. She got out of the car, and Haruka walked her to the front doors.

"I know it's hard, Seiya, but you must not love her like this. And if you continue to do so, you can't let her know. She looks on your relationship with her so innocently, and she can't see how deeply you feel. Our Odango is cute, but isn't too bright sometimes." They both laughed. "She still doesn't realize how I feel about her. The thing she does understand though, is the love she has for her prince, and the love he has for her. She knows what it is, and that she will always feel the same." They reached the corner of the apartment complex, after a brief silence. Seiya took a shot in the dark.

"We... we are on good terms now, ne, Haruka-san?" Seiya asked cautiously. Haruka laughed.

"Hai, Kou... " Haruka looked Seiya in the eyes, and, taking Seiya's chin in her hand, lightly kissed her on the lips. As she brought her face away, Seiya could see the sparkle in Haruka's eyes, and Haruka could see the utter shock in Seiya's. 'Those eyes...' "And call me Haruka-kun, ne? Ja!" She said as she turned and walked back to her car.

Seiya watched as she got in, and drove off, waving. She stood there in shock, dazzled really, until she realized she was standing in pure sight in broad daylight. Not to mention in her very revealing form of Sailor Star Fighter, dressed in black leather. 'Kami-sama... what in Kakyoku-sama's name was that all about?' Seiya jumped up quickly, to the nearest tree, and jumped off that on to the balcony of the apartment she shared with Taiki and Yaten. She almost fell of the balcony rail, as she was still recovering from shock.

"Seiya!" Yaten yelled, as he ran into the balcony, helping her back up. 'Now I know what she meant when she said she could have gotten Odango to choose her rather than Mamoru-kun! I almost envy Michiru!' Seiya thought. "Where have you been, baka!" Seiya detransformed. Yaten looked at Seiya's face. He paled. "What's wrong?" Seiya shook his head, and started towards the hall leading to his room.

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you, Yaten." Seiya closed the door to his room.

"Baka... running around in his fuku!" Yaten muttered. "Won't tell me where he's been, even after I saved him from falling off the balcony!"

Taiki was still sitting beside Ami's side, reluctant to leave, even when Usagi offered to make him some tea. He eventually gave in, and followed her outside to where the others were talking quietly. The sun had set a few hours ago. He sat down and Usagi placed a blanket over his shoulders and handed him a cup of tea. "Arigato, Usagi-chan." He said quietly. She nodded, and sat down next to him. They all sat in silence for a moment, looking at Taiki.

"I hope I'm not interrupting anything?" came a soothing voice from across the yard, at the top of the temple steps. Everyone looked up.

"Setsuna-san!" Usagi cried, running into the Guardian of Time's arms. Setsuna was startled, and then returned the embrace. "I'm so glad you're here!"

"What seems to be the problem, Princess?" Usagi blushed at the use of 'Princess' and explained to Setsuna about Ami.

"She has this large wound on her stomach... she's okay now, sleeping, but we were worried."

"Hai, I understand," said Setsuna, putting her hand on Usagi's shoulder. "What about the people who attacked you?" Everyone looked at Taiki.

"Perhaps it would be best if Taiki explained it." Rei said quietly, and Taiki nodded.

"The person we attacked, she had light brown hair and these... disturbing pure black eyes... they looked like glass. She donned a blue handled sword with a silver blade. I don't know what the problem is, but Ami-chan said that she wore... Earth armor??" Setsuna didn't move. Taiki continued. "It was light blue and silver, with a cape that was pinned on her left shoulder. She was fast. Very fast. I don't think I would have gotten her if she hadn't have stopped after... after getting Ami-chan." Taiki looked at the floor. Setsuna sat beside him and put her hand on his shoulder.

"Do not worry Taiki-kun." Setsuna said quietly. "Time heals all wounds, and eventually everyone comes to justice." Everyone nodded.

"What should we do now, Setsuna-san?" Taiki asked.

"Well... here's where we come to a problem." Setsuna said grimly. There has been a very large disturbance, I'm afraid."

"Oh no... " Usagi whispered. "I... I thought that we had finished with fighting... I thought it was over Setsuna-san!" Rei put a calming hand on her best friend's shoulder.

"I'm sorry, Princess. I... I don't want to tell you this... you and Taiki-kun..." Taiki paled at the mention of his name.

"Oh no..."

"What is it Setsuna?!" Setsuna looked up at the two young senshi in front of her.

"I'm afraid I just noticed a very large rip through time."

"A rip?" Asked Makoto, filling with fear she would not admit.

"Yes. Not just a twist or flux of some kind. A very large rip. As if... as if someone roughly forced themselves through time, with no training on the matter whatsoever... no time key, or any such object." No one could move. They all knew that this was bad. "And to make matters worse, I have not located who or what went through the time portal so brashly, and there is a very large emitting of energy from a certain part of the universe... Taiki-kun, I believe you know where." Taiki nodded grimly.

"Kinmokusei." Taiki said. Setsuna nodded.

"But what does that mean?!" Minako cried, holding Usagi's hand. Setsuna sighed.

"It may not mean anything... yet. The force I felt on Kinmokusei was not the same as the one that tore through the time gate. Although... it was familiar." She looked up thoughtfully. Everyone blinked.

"An old enemy perhaps?" Rei suggested.

"Maybe, old energies, dead ones that were in objects of some kind?" Makoto asked.

"I don't understand why Kakyuu-hime would have such a capacity of energy on Kinmoku..." Taiki said.

"Could it be another crystal, like the ginzuishou?" Minako asked. Usagi was quiet.

"What's wrong, Usagi-chan?" Minako asked.

"Ara... its nothing. You guys will laugh." Usagi said blushing.

"Tell us Princess." Setsuna said quietly. Usagi looked up.

"Could the energies you felt... be other senshi? A gathering of many star seeds?" Everyone's jaws dropped. Setsuna looked like she just realized something.

"Princess... you may be right!" Everyone was shocked. "But it is so alien... Just a moment..." Setsuna transformed in quick flash of light to Sailor Pluto. With a small wave of her Time Staff, she disappeared into the time gate. A moment later, she returned. After dismissing her Sailor Pluto attire, Setsuna sat down again.

"What was that all about?" Taiki asked.

"I had to check something, and it would be easier as Sailor Pluto in the time gate. My powers are much clearer there.

"What did you find out?" Makoto asked.

"Well, our Princess knows much more than some give her credit for."

"Nani??!!" Everyone gasped.

"You mean... it was senshi on Kinmoku?" Taiki choked. "D...doushite??"

"Perhaps we should call Haruka-tachi first? It may be better to have them all here..." came a small voice from behind them. They all turned around, save Setsuna, and they gasped.

"Ami-chan!" they all cried, and rushed to her, but Taiki made it there first.

"Ami-chan, you should not be over-exerting yourself... you just had an injury..." Ami smiled lightly.

"Gomen nasai, Taiki-kun, I want to help find this person... I can't sit around when Usagi-chan could be in danger..." Usagi stood beside Ami, and put her hand lightly on Ami's shoulder.

"Ami-chan, I'm not in danger... you should be resting... gathering your strength..."

"Demo..." Ami coughed.

"Iie, Ami-chan... back to bed..." Usagi said.

"What if something happens... ?"

"Nothing will happen, Ami-chan! Besides, you need rest, and it looks like right now, we are protecting you..." Usagi looked into her friend's eyes and smiled. Ami nodded, and Taiki helped Ami back into the temple. Usagi sat down again. After Taiki and Ami were out of hearing range, Rei confronted Usagi.

"Maaa... you are trying to get them together... baka..."

"Hee hee hee... well, where you would certainly fail, I succeeded!" Usagi gloated, and Rei sighed in exasperation. Setsuna sat there drinking tea thoughtfully.


The place was dark, and very cold... oh so cold... not a living thing in sight. Ami was lying in the fetal position on the ground, and shivering, no, shaking from the cold. 'Where am I?' she thought, trying to make herself warm by rubbing her hands furiously up and down her arms.

Suddenly, she heard this hysterical, maniacal laughter, emanating from everywhere. It got louder and louder, pulsing in her head. Tears streamed from Ami's eyes, as the force started pounding away at her brain and mind, her very being. 'Nooo...' she thought desperately, 'Leave me alone! Stop this noise! Taiki-kun, Usagi-chan!!! Help me!' as her thoughts got more desperate, the pulsing quickened, making her ears ring and her nose bleed. 'No... stop it!!! YAMETE!!!'
And it stopped. Ami could barely believe that the horrid ringing had stopped... She could've sworn she heard birds singing. If only she could open her eyes. 'Chiksuko, Ami! Open your eyes! It's only birds, Ami! Open your-' her eyes opened. She almost couldn't believe it. She got up and looked around. She was in the middle of a garden, surrounded in blooming white lilies. It was beautiful... She stood up.

"Doushite?!" She cried in surprise, as she noticed what she was wearing. "It- it can't be!" She was wearing a light blue dress with aquamarine jeweled straps and a ribbon tied around her neck. 'This... this is my celebration gown... my royal gown... from... when I was... a princess... ' Ami started getting dizzy, and nearly fell over, when she was caught by strong arms.

"Careful, my Princess..." said a low, masculine sounding voice. 'Taiki-kun??' Ami thought, and turned around, hugging her savior fiercely. 'Wait... this person is too short... and has...'. "I don't need that much thanks, Princess..." the voice giggled lightly. Ami looked up. Into another pair of blue eyes.

"G... gomen nasai!" she sputtered. The woman laughed, and smiled warmly at her.

"No need to apologize, either, m'lady! It seems you almost fainted... seeing that one from Maker... I do believe you are in love, Princess!" she giggled. Ami almost had a heart attack. The person giggling... smiling so tenderly at her... like a protector... she was the same person who had attacked her earlier! The woman was wearing armor like that of Endymion-sama, and she had the same sword... Her features were the same... short light brown hair; same height, same stature... but her eyes... her eyes were a beautiful icy blue... and did not look evil in any way whatsoever... and... and she had the symbol of mercury on her forehead. Did she know this person? What was she doing back on Mercury?!

"Who are you?" she asked, rather frightened.

"Who am I?" the girl felt Ami's forehead, and Ami flinched away from her touch. "What's wrong, my Princess??"

"I... I don't know you... what am I doing here?? What's going ON???!!!!!" Ami started screaming, and suddenly the whole scene went up in flames and explosions... "Onegai... someone please..." She begged, and all she could see was someone walking through the flames, eyes looking at her menacingly.

"You." the person said. It looked exactly like the woman who had attacked her. "You last!" She screamed and lunged at Ami. Ami tried to summon her henshin stick...

"No!" she cried, as she grasped in the air for nothing. The woman came right for her, and grabbed her neck in a vice-like strangle. "Hrrkkk!!!" was all she could manage as the woman started closing off her precious air supply.

"Ha ha ha ha ha!!!" she laughed, in the laugh that had penetrated her mind earlier. Ami heard bells ringing in her ears, and the tone became more and more like a buzzing.

"No, stop!!! Stop it! STOP IT!!!!!"

"STOP IT!!!" Ami cried, and Taiki pushed her back down on the futon where she lay.

"Ami-chan!" he cried. "Ami-chan! Wake up! Ami-chan!" Taiki shook her furiously. Her eyes were wide open, but she wasn't awake. She was thrashing around, and she seemed to be trying to claw her way out of something. Taiki slapped her across the face. Hard. Ami blinked, and regained her sight.

"T- Taiki-kun?" she whispered, tears trickling down her cheeks. Taiki was stunned.

"Ami-chan... gomen," Taiki wished he hadn't have done it. "I didn't mean too..." Taiki stopped as Ami buried herself in his chest, sobbing. He just sat there and rocked back and forth, smoothing her hair, and whispering soothingly until the racking sobs subsided and she regained her composure.

"G... gomen, Taiki-kun," she hiccuped, wiping the last of the tears away. She sat up. "Itai!" she winced suddenly, as pain flared up in her stomach.

"Oh, no you don't! You still haven't fully recovered..." he said quietly as he helped her back under the covers. "Gomen nasai, Ami-chan! I didn't mean to slap you so hard... I just-" Ami stopped Taiki from talking by putting a finger to his lips, but even that small action exhausted her, and her arm slumped down.

"Don't worry, Taiki-kun..." she said softly. "I wanted to wake up..."

"What did you dream about? You were yelling in your sleep." Taiki said softly. Ami sighed.

"Doushite? What did I say?"

"Just 'stop it' and 'no'... You wouldn't stop thrashing, and at one point you were convulsing..." Ami paled.

"It... it felt so real... how long was I sleeping for?" Ami asked.

"About an hour..."

"It felt like an eternity... Does anyone else know about it?" Taiki shook his head. "Good. Onegai, don't tell anyone, ne?"

"I don't know Ami-chan..." Taiki was worried. It was no ordinary dream. He didn't need to be a genius to figure that out.
"Taiki..." He nodded. When she gave him that look, it was hard to not listen to her... 'Kami-sama, she's so beautiful...' "Arigato, Taiki-kun. I... I need to talk to Setsuna... onegai, you have to let me go out there..."

"Ami-chan, you're very badly wounded, and Usagi-chan told you to stay in here..."

"I must speak to her, Taiki-kun! Onegai! I have to... I... I believe Usagi-chan may be in great danger... it's about that person who attacked me..."

"..." Ami's eyes pleaded with Taiki. "Okay." He agreed. "But on one condition." Ami sighed in relief.

"Arigato, Taiki-kun. What's the condition?" Taiki smiled. He scooped her up in his arms, careful to avoid agitating her injury.

"I will take you out there. I don't want you to hurt yourself anymore than you already are..." Taiki continued to make his way outside. Ami was not particularly disappointed at not being able to walk. She leaned her head against Taiki's chest and sighed quietly. Taiki looked down at her, and grinned. 'This is the best injury patient I've ever had the pleasure of treating!' He thought to himself, and blushed slightly. When they got outside, the others were gone.

"Where are they?" Taiki thought out loud.

"Try the sacred fire room." Ami replied. Taiki walked into the fire room, and saw everyone there. They all gasped.

"Ami-chan!" Usagi cried. "You are supposed to be resting in bed!" Taiki walked over to the girls and places her down lightly on the floor. She could stay sitting up with little pain. With the help of a very supportive Taiki of course.

"Gomen nasai, Usagi-chan... I had to tell all of you something." She smiled weakly, then looked at Setsuna, who was sitting quietly behind the group. "And I think you are holding something very important from us, Setsuna-san."

"Nani? What are you talking about?" Luna asked, who had previously been sleeping in the sun with Artemis.

"Yeah, Ami-chan!" Minako asked. "What are you accusing Setsuna of?"

"What is it you have to say, Ami-chan?" Setsuna asked. Ami took a deep breath. She was still feeling shaky from that dream.

"I had a dream while I was sleeping, minna."

"That's no new news, Ami-chan. We all dream when we sleep."

"I meant to say, it was more of a memory. I dreamt I was back on Mercury, during the silver millennium.

"Nani?" Everyone but Taiki and Setsuna cried.

"I... I woke up in this white lily garden... I knew it was Mercury, because... well... for one thing, I was wearing my celebrations gown, and it just... felt right... you know?" Usagi nodded. Ami cleared her throat and continued. "Then... I started to fall, I can't remember why. Someone caught me... I wasn't sure who. I thought it was a man, because the voice was quite low."

"You mean like Taiki-kun's voice?" Makoto asked suspiciously. Taiki blushed. So did Ami. Ami didn't tell them that she thought it was Taiki...

"More like Haruka-san's voice. But anyway, when I turned around... it was the woman who attacked me!" Everyone gasped. "There was something very different about her though. Rather than black eyes... she had these beautiful icy blue one's... She was so happy and sweet. She teased me, and laughed like I knew her. She called me Princess, and she looked like a... a guardian. The most important thing though, and I think if you remember what she looked like, Taiki-kun, you will notice that she looked very much like me." Ami purposely left out the part about the royalty from Maker. No one said anything. Setsuna closed her eyes.

"I didn't think you would remember so soon..." Setsuna whispered. Ami looked at her.

"I'm related to her in some way, aren't I?" Ami asked. "She comes from my planet. She had the sign of Mercury on her forehead. Like me." Setsuna nodded. Silence.

"Well, Setsuna-san, aren't you going to tell us who she is?" Usagi asked bluntly.

"Iie."

"Nani?!" Rei squeaked. "Why not?"

"Because I can't. The time is not proper."

"How come, Setsuna-san?! We already know basically what's going on..." Minako said.

"Because you don't even know the half of it. I cannot tell you."