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Seiya lay on his side, and looked up at the white ceiling of the room he was in out of the corner of his eye. He was in a little pain. Not much though, because the painkillers took care of that. The Tomoe Mansion could be quite quiet. He didn't mind though. He needed some time to think. 'To think.' Seiya laughed inwardly. 'That's a laugh. To figure out these feelings... I need a whole research team.' He smiled, his eyes closed, and sighed. 'This is absolutely ridiculous. This is going to drive me crazy. That damn Haruka. Who am I kidding? No one can help me with this. I am not telling anyone about this. Under no circumstances.' He smiled again. 'I just can't stop thinking about it. That kiss... last night too... I... I want to kiss her again. But why does it feel like I'm almost... betraying Odango? Or even Michiru? Odango has Mamoru, and won't ever be with me... I know Michiru has Haruka wrapped around her little finger... but still...'

Seiya rolled onto his back. 'What to do... She can't be in love with me... I just know she can't be... there's no way. I do not know what I am going to do. I know there's some kind of attraction. I just can't stop staring into her eyes. Those distant, gorgeous blue eyes... how she's both masculine and feminine, like me, only without the fact that physically, right now I am a guy. She is gorgeous. Beautiful. Handsome. Admit it Seiya. She's one of the most damned sexy women you've ever seen. She just smiles, and I get all... weird.' Seiya eyes whipped open, at the sound of someone opening the door. He looked at the door.

Haruka. She walked in quietly, surprised to find Seiya's eyes opened. She chuckled quietly. "Gomen, Seiya. I didn't mean to wake you." She produced a glass of water and two painkillers, and set them down on the table beside Seiya's bed. Seiya flushed at his thoughts, and tried to calm down. Haruka sat on the side of the bed, and Seiya sat up, leaning against the headboard. He retrieved the pills and glass, and took them.

"Gomen, Haruka-kun. The painkillers I took earlier were wearing off." He said, surprised that his voice was still working...

"No problem. How are you feeling?" Haruka asked, her voice low. 'I wish she wouldn't talk in that voice... she knows how it makes me feel...'

"Alright, besides the constant pain." Seiya joked, and the two laughed lightly.

"That's good." Haruka looked at Seiya. Seiya looked at Haruka. Haruka was looking at him intensely, and she started moving her face closer to his. 'Kami-sama... those damned eyes... I just... wait.' Seiya realized something. 'I don't love Haruka. I don't. I know it. I just want to kiss her. That's all. It's... weird. I just want to lose myself... just for a while.' Their faces inched closer. Seiya had a sudden realization from Haruka's eyes. 'That's all she wants too. She doesn't love me. A little game. That's all this is too her. Cat and mouse... A fun, harmless... game.' Seiya wore a slight shocked expression on his face, and Haruka noticed. She was going to start backing away, but Seiya put his hand quickly behind her head.

'I like it.' Seiya brought Haruka into a hard kiss, and she responded without flinching. Seiya felt good. It was nice to kiss someone, and he was glad it was Haruka. He laughed to himself. 'Haruka, of all people. Well... she kisses even better than she looks... ' Seiya deepened the kiss, and Haruka lay over him on the bed, propped up on her elbows. They caressed each other's arms and faces, running their fingers through each other's hair. 'I could get used to this.'


A few hours later, Haruka lay on the bed on her left side, with one arm propped under her head, and the other draped carelessly over her stomach. Seiya lay right in front of her, sleeping quietly, with a slight smile on his face. Haruka reached over with her right hand, brushing a stray bit of hair from his forehead. 'It's been a long time since I've kissed a man.' Haruka though, and chuckled quietly. 'Even if this one really is a woman.' Haruka looked at her sleeping secret lover. She felt rather relaxed, and still a little surprised at Seiya's actions. 'He realizes how I feel. He knows that if we never did this again, it doesn't matter. He knows who I love, and vice versa. We go well together. Well for the time being anyway.'

Haruka leaned over, lightly kissing Seiya's lips. 'I like him. I like his kiss. It's different from both Neko-chan and Michiru. It's more... lonely, I'd say. He's never had a love he could keep before, and I think it might've driven him crazy. He needs someone. Someone he can rely on and relax with, on a different level.' A smile widened on Haruka's lips. 'He kisses pretty good. I like kissing him a lot. I just want to wake him up and kiss him again... but I'd better not. I'll come back later.' Haruka got up and blushed slightly. 'Who am I kidding? He kisses better than good. He is rather good at it. I sure didn't expect that. Too bad, almost. It was fun pursuing him like that.' She giggled. 'Oh well. To heck with decency.'

Haruka lay herself completely over Seiya, very carefully, and kissed him, very passionately. 'He likes the game. That's good. This will become very fun.' Seiya made a small noise, and woke up slowly, his eyelids fluttering. Once he realized who was atop of him, he grinned, and stared at her. She grinned back at him. He put his arms around her waist, pulling her closer, and brought his face up to hers. They kissed again, and he smiled through it. So did she. 'A damn good kisser.' Seiya pulled her even closer. She really liked how Seiya felt. Girl or guy form. 'I guess it's because he's the same person, with that same stubborn personality.' She laughed in her mind, and kissed him harder, putting everything she had into this kiss. Seiya responded the same way. 'I like how he's competitive. We won't take it any farther. He doesn't want to. Neither do I. I almost find that sad... I won't mind having him around so much now... Hmm...'

After several more minutes of this, the two broke the kiss, and Haruka slid down onto the bed beside Seiya, in the position she had been in before, breathing heavily. Seiya was breathing hard too, and the two looked at each other for a while.

"It doesn't hurt your injury, does it?" Haruka asked quietly. Seiya shook his head.

"Iie. It doesn't." Seiya said.

"However, I might've busted your stitches with all that... exercise." The two laughed.

"Yeah, yeah. Just an excuse to get me to take off my shirt." Seiya laughed. Haruka looked at him, feigning innocence.

"No, I'm just concerned."

"You'd be even more concerned if I was in my female form right now!" Seiya broke down laughing, and so did Haruka.

By the time they had quieted, they both had tears in their eyes, and Michiru and Hotaru had come to inspect what all the noise was coming from. Haruka had fallen off the bed in a fit of laughter, and Seiya was holding onto the headboard for dear life, almost falling off the bed.

Michiru looked at Haruka wiping tears away, while sitting on the floor cross-legged. Seiya pulled himself back onto the bed, and tried to regain his composure.

"What are you two doing?" Michiru scolded, helping Haruka off the floor.

"What was so funny, Haruka-poppa?" Hotaru asked curiously.

"Yes, what was so funny that Seiya could've popped stitches from it?" Michiru shook her head, and Seiya and Haruka looked at each other. "Let me take a look at them." This broke Seiya and Haruka into another fit of laughing. Haruka shook from laughter, nearly falling over when Michiru walked away from her. Seiya lay back, shaking, and Michiru pulled Hotaru from the room. "Let's leave these two to their joke. I don't think they'll calm down. See if Seiya laughs later when he does pop his stitches and Haruka has too fix them."

The door closed, and Haruka and Seiya laughed even harder.


"I can't believe you! How come you didn't tell me?!" Usagi hysterically screamed over the phone, causing Michiru to wince at the sound. "We had no idea where he was, and I've been worried sick!!!" Usagi kept on whining and yelling about how they should have been more responsible, and told someone what happened, and not kept it a secret, and this, and that, and so on... Haruka looked at Michiru and took the receiver from her.

"Neko-chan?" Haruka said, but obviously, Usagi hadn't heard and was getting even more hysterical. Michiru looked at Haruka, who sighed. "Ne... Nek... Neko..." Haruka grumbled, and took a deep breath.

"USAGI-SAN!!!" She yelled into the phone. Silence.

"H...Haruka-san?" Usagi asked timidly.

"There, Neko-chan! What's wrong? You didn't think we'd let anything happen to Seiya, did you?" Usagi sniffled.

"Well... its just... I was worried... and Seiya-kun was missing... and I didn't know what to do... and with the new threat... I wasn't there... a... and I don't know what I'd do... if... if... Haruka-san!" Usagi burst out crying. Haruka was startled. She covered the mouthpiece quickly.

"Michi-chan, the Princess is not doing so well..." Michiru nodded, and Haruka uncovered the phone. "Shh... It's alright, Neko-chan... nothings is wrong, Seiya is alright... We'd never let anything happen to him..." Usagi hiccuped.

"Honto? I thought... you two... didn't see on... on good terms... I was afraid that..."

"Neko-chan, I would never do anything to Seiya... I know you care about him... Does it make you better to know that we are friends now?" Haruka could just see Usagi nodding, forgetting she was on the phone.

"H... hai... but... he is okay? And the knights didn't follow him?" Haruka was shocked. She looked at Michiru and put her hand over the mouth piece.

"Michi-chan... was Seiya followed?!" Michiru looked at Haruka eyes wide. Haruka went back to Usagi. "Daijobu, Neko-chan! Would you like someone to come pick you up?"

"H... hai, Haruka-san... Arigato..." Haruka heard the phone click, and she hung up.

"I... I never thought..." Haruka looked at Michiru.

"Ruka-chan... what if?" They stood in silence.

"Then it means that it's my fault that they know where you live." Michiru and Haruka spun around, and looked to the top of the stairs where the voice was coming from. Seiya stood there, clutching his sides, wincing in pain.

"Seiya!" Haruka said.

"Seiya-kun! You shouldn't be out of bed!" Michiru scolded, as the two climbed the stairs to reach him.

"Iie." Seiya said, anger in his face. "I shouldn't have been so careless. I'm leaving. I've already put you in danger by leading them here, and I won't endanger you anymore by staying." Seiya made as if to go down the stairs, but Michiru and Haruka dragged him back to his room.

"Seiya-kun, your not going anywhere!" Michiru told Seiya, as they struggled to get him to lie down on the bed.

"But I ~wince~ itai! I... I can't stay here!! ~wince~ Let me go! Itaiiii.... I've just put everyone in danger with not thinking, so I have to ~wince~ go! Kami-sama, let me go!" Seiya winced once more, as Haruka sat on top of Seiya to get him to stop moving, and Michiru held down Seiya's arms.

"Seiya we won't let you leave!" Haruka growled. Seiya looked at her defiantly.

"You can't stop me! I can't be here to put anyone in danger! If anything happened to you..." Seiya looked away and started whispering. "..._or_ Michiru _or_ Hotaru... I'd never forgive myself." Seiya went limp, and looked away from the two who had been trying to restrain him.

Michiru pulled Seiya's face to look at hers. "Seiya-kun. It wasn't your fault. You were bleeding to death! What did you think you were supposed to do? Try and get to a hospital? Do you know how far the nearest hospital is from here? You made the best choice, and the only option!" Haruka looked at Seiya.

"What happened, happened. As long as you are okay, we'll be fine... there is still two good fighters here, and even if you did lead them to us... it was just a matter of time. We can assume they know who all of us are, so don't worry!" Haruka told Seiya. Seiya winced slightly and moaned.

"... Fine. I'll stay... but if anything happens to any of you because of me..." -Haruka and Michiru nodded. "But... I think... if you two want me to recover... I will need the use of my legs... itai!" Seiya flinched again, and Michiru and Haruka looked at him.

"Nani?" Michiru asked.

"Haruka-kun... my legs..." Haruka looked down and realized she was still sitting on Seiya.

"Ah! G... gomen!" Haruka laughed and got off Seiya. Seiya rubbed his legs.

"Arigato... "

"TAIKI-KUN! YATEN-KUN! You won't believe this!!!" Usagi screamed into the phone. Taiki moved his phone two feet away from his ear to avoid hearing damage. "Youtotallywon'tbelieve whatIfoundoutaboutwhereSeiyaisandhowMichiruandHarukawouldn'ttellusandthathe'sattheTomoemansionandhe'sinjuredand-"

"Usagi-chan!" Taiki yelled into the receiver.

"N... nani?" Usagi stopped, breathless. Taiki sweat dropped.

"What are you trying to say? Slow down" Yaten stood beside Taiki, and was hanging on every word. They could hear Usagi take a deep breath.

"I found out where Seiya is!" Silence.

"NANI?!" Taiki and Yaten yelled. Yaten grabbed the phone.

"Where is he, Usagi-chan?" Yaten yelled.

"Ara... Yaten-kun? Seiya-kun is with Haruka-san and Michiru-san at the Tomoe's!" Usagi cried. The two guys were silent.

"Usagi-chan... did I just hear you right??" Yaten asked. "Did you say... Seiya was with... Haruka-san and Michiru-san?!"

"H...hai! He was injured, he ran into another knight! Michiru said that Seiya's injuries were bad, but that he was okay now!" Taiki put his face in his hands.

"Iie..." Yaten whispered.

"Taiki-kun? Yaten-kun? Its okay... Ara... Rei-tachi need a ride to the mansion... would you be able to...?" Usagi trailed off.

"Hai, Usagi-chan..." Taiki said quietly. "Would you like us to pick you up too?"

"Iie, Haruka-san is picking my up..."

"Hai. Ja..." Taiki hung up the phone, and looked at Yaten. Yaten looked away from Taiki's gaze, but looked back up when he felt Taiki's hand on his shoulder.

"I should've been there..." Taiki squeezed Yaten's shoulder.

"There was nothing you could do..."

"NO! I should have followed him anyway... just to be sure... it's my fault he's lying injured in some weird place... what if those damned outers are torturing him?"

"You're such a pessimist... the outers are fairly friendly with Seiya... Usagi-chan said that he's alright, and he's not dying, so we have nothing to worry about..."

"Yeah, for now... Kami-sama! What if Seiya had been-"

"No. He didn't, and he's alive. That's all that matters. Ikimashou." Yaten nodded, and the two left the apartment to go fetch the inners...

Elsewhere:

The place was a distant rooftop, in downtown Tokyo. The wind was cold, and had a feeling of revolution... Nine figures and one swirling black essence formed on the roof, one by one, as if by teleportation. All the figures wore cloaks, except one woman. Malevolence. She stood out from the rest, tall and demure, an air of superiority around her.

The others bowed, silent in her possessive presence. Her face had the faintest trace of a maniacal smile, but just like the flicker in which it had appeared, it was suddenly gone. She addressed the one known as Fujitsu no Knight.

"Well? What news have you?" The orange-haired man straightened from his bow gracefully, and walked forward.

"I have located the holding of the Outer Sol Senshi, and have severely crippled the one known as Sailor Star Fighter." He bowed, black eyes flashing, and returned among the ranks of the other knights. Malevolence was pleased.

"Good." She looked each warrior over carefully. "You will return there at the time these people call 'midnight'. You will be second to Hikyou no Knight, and Utaguri no Knight will assist you." Malevolence then disappeared, without so much as a flash of light.

The knights looked at one another and nodded. Five of the warriors disappeared as well, leaving Hikyou no Knight, Utaguri no Knight, and Fujitsu no Knight.

Hikyou no Knight was dressed in the same manner as Fujitsu, except his armor was deep yellow and gold. In a scabbard on his hip, he carried a scimitar, similar to the Space Sword. His black hair flickered in the wind. He turned his black eyes on Fujitsu.

Hikyou turned to Fujitsu. "Is 'she' at the holding?" Fujitsu nodded, and Hikyou smiled, a flicker of pure evil in his eyes. "I trust you two will have no problems with me having a little fun..." Utaguri, a short knight, wearing blood red armor, pulled his hood off of his head, and sighed.

"Must you two be so... sadistic?" The two glared at him, and he pushed his dark brown hair out of his eyes.

"Are you saying that you would prefer to leave them alone?" Fujitsu's eyes narrowed, and he glared at Utaguri. He then smiled. "I don't know how you would want to... all these lovely senshi around..." Hikyou laughed.

"Learn to have some fun, Utaguri-kun! I intend to..." Utaguri couldn't help but smile.

"I trust you want my help..."

"Of course..." Fujitsu said. "I'll hold off any senshi that come, while Hikyou-kun has his... fun. It's only fair... I got to..." Utaguri and Hikyou stared at Fujitsu for a moment, then burst out laughing. "What?!"

"Oh sure... lots of fun... uh-huh..." Utaguri choked.

"I think maybe you forgot what happened, Fujitsu-kun! Her reaction... remind me never to kiss you... if its that bad..." Hikyou laughed, and teleported away, just as Fujitsu let four of his darts fly...

"Aww, don't take it badly, Fujitsu-kun! I was kidding! Besides, there are more star senshi where she came from..." Hikyou's voice faded. Utaguri laughed.

"Well, we'll meet him at the senshi holding..." Fujitsu nodded, and the two jumped off the rooftop.


KNOCK! KNOCK!

"Hai! Just a moment, Haruka-san!" Usagi yelled, rushing to the front door of her two-floor house. She had only had five minutes to get ready for when Haruka came to pick her up, and she was surprised she had made it... She opened the door, to find Haruka leaning up on the doorframe. Her face was withdrawn and closed up, but when she saw Usagi, her face brightened immediately

"Haruka-san!" Usagi smiled, and the two started towards Haruka's yellow convertible. "How is Seiya-kun?" Usagi looked up at a much taller Haruka. Haruka looked back at her. Her face washed over with sadness, and she drew Usagi into her arms. Usagi returned the embrace.

"Seiya's just fine, Neko-chan... just fine..." After a few moments, Haruka released Usagi, and the two got into Haruka's car. Haruka revved up the engine, and took off. Usagi stared at Haruka's eyes. 'What's wrong with Haruka-san? She's so... worried. What happened between her and Seiya I wonder?' Usagi thought for a few minutes, watching as the passers-by narrowly missed Haruka's car as she weaved through the streets. 'I know something is troubling her... but what?'
"Haruka-san?" Usagi asked.

"Hai, Neko-chan?"

"What's wrong?" Haruka looked at her startled.

"N... nothing! Why do you ask?" Usagi sighed.

"Don't lie to me Haruka-san... we mustn't keep anything from one another. How do we work together if we don't communicate?" Haruka looked at Usagi, startled. "Onegai, Haruka-san..." Usagi's electric blue eyes looked into Haruka's blue-green ones. Haruka could sense something in Usagi, something the younger girl had probably not realized. The girl's quiet eyes revealed a secret wisdom, and compassion beyond words. Her eyes spoke of strength and sacrifice. Haruka forced herself to rip her eyes away from Usagi's to watch the road.

"Usagi-san..." Usagi looked up at Haruka.

"Please, Haruka-san... don't call me that!" Haruka briefly looked back at Usagi.

"Don't you understand, yet? Don't you realize what's happening yet?" Haruka hissed, sounding more lethal than she had meant to. Usagi glared back defiantly, something she had never done in spite of Haruka's attitude before.

"Of course I understand! I've known for quite some time what's been going on, and I know what the arrival of the Knights of Corruption means!!!" Usagi nearly screamed, then stopped, clasping both of her hands over her mouth. "Ara... oh no..." Haruka suddenly sped up the car.

"What are you talking about?" Haruka asked. "How would you know anything about these knights? And how could you keep it from us when two of your friends have been injured?!"

"Because I have no choice! I have no choice! I can't tell you!"

"Did Setsuna make you promise that? Well, she kept something from us, and now look what happened..."

"She did it to save all of us!"

"She did it because she has too much pride to ask for help!"

SLAP!

Haruka suddenly stopped the car, as Usagi had just slapped her with more strength than it looked like the small girl had. Usagi was seething with anger.

"How dare you?! How DARE you?! Never say anything like that about Setsuna-san again!!! You have no idea just how much she gave up to escape! How much she has to live through, for our sakes! For our sakes she sacrificed herself!" Usagi was screaming now, her voice rising with tension. "Haruka, I know what happened to Setsuna-san, and I know everything about what's going on! I know lots of things! Why must you all treat me like a child? I sit because I act like one sometimes? Did no one stop to think that maybe I was smarter than that? That maybe, I am carefree... because I have a very big love for life... regardless of how many times I've seen all of you DIE?!" Usagi burst into tears, and covered her face with her hands. Haruka couldn't move. She couldn't breathe, couldn't think.

"Neko-chan..." she started quietly. "How many...?"

"What?" Usagi sobbed.

"How many times, Usagi-san?" Usagi suddenly stopped crying, and brushed her tears away fiercely. She refused to look at Haruka.

"It doesn't matter. I shouldn't have said anything. I shouldn't have opened my big mouth and started crying like a baby... maybe that's why you all underestimate me... iie... maybe I deserve to be underestimated..." Haruka turned around and grabbed Usagi's shoulders roughly.

"Never think that! Never! How could you, when you have faced every aspect of chaos, and defeated them all? When you've seen you friends die, over and over, and yet you still embrace the world? The world that's treated such a wonderful girl so terribly... Usagi," Haruka loosened her grip on Usagi's shoulders, but didn't let go. "Usagi... you are the strongest of us all! We only underestimated you, because we had no idea the length to which you understood things... you never show it! You're so strong Usagi-san!" Usagi was crying silently now, her shoulders shaking. She fell into Haruka's arms, and they hugged tightly. Usagi wept bitterly onto Haruka's shirt.