Chapter Four
That Friday, Usagi and Minako (who was staying with Usagi) went to meet Ami (who's mother couldn't come to pick her up because she had to see patients at the office) at the airport that Friday evening. The plane came in at four thirty, right when tutoring ended, and Shingo was conveniently around to drive Kaiki home so the other two could go pick up Ami.
The drive was the same as usual, Kai and Shingo enjoyed each other's company. After dropping Kai off, Shingo was waiting for a red light to change so he could pull out of the parking lot, when he saw Hotaru crossing the road right in front of him. He rolled down a window, and called to her,
"Hey, Hotaru-chan!" She looked up, startled at the sound of her own name. When she saw it was Shingo, she walked over to the open window.
"What're you doing at this side of town?" she asked with a smile, hopping into the passenger seat beside him.
"Looking for you," he said with a grin. "I miss you," he said. He tried to kiss her, but she pulled away.
"No way, Shingo. A nice kiss on the cheek, like you'd give your grandmother!" she said with a smile.
He laughed and kissed her on the cheek.
"Its not me you miss, you know," she said. "You just don't like being alone." He sighed. His ex-girlfriend knew him too well.
"Yeah, you're right," he said with a sigh. As the light turned green and they pulled out of the parking lot, Hotaru patted him on the shoulder.
"Don't worry, you'll find someone. Just keep looking! Meanwhile, you can treat me to a milkshake!" said Hotaru with a giggle. Shingo smiled.
"Is that the only reason you still hang out with me, because you know that I'll buy you whatever you want?"
"Oh no!" said Hotaru, feigning a grave and serious look, "that's only part of it, silly!"
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"Ami-chan!" exclaimed Minako and Usagi as they ran to embrace her simultaneously.
"Minako and Usagi -chan!" she said with tears running down her face. She smiled through her tears. "I've missed you so much! How could I ever leave this place?"
Minako spoke. "I've been asking that same question ever since I got back, Ami-chan, and I still don't know why I ever left."
"Its so strange...being here, back to doing the old thing. I thought it was over. But, you know what, in a way, I'm glad its not."
"Its what brought us all together," said Usagi with a warm smile and a hug to both her friends. "Come on you guys, lets bring Ami home."
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Shingo had been alone for some time on the park bench. Hotaru had left, but had promised to call later. Even though he loved Hotaru like a sister, he was glad to be alone. He needed to think.
Why suddenly were all of his sisters friends coming home?
This was the question that plagued his mind. He knew he shouldn't have cared, but it was just too weird. Last night, he had thought he had heard them talking about Senshi and Sailors and stuff. He shook his head, he didn't understand. Perhaps he didn't want to.
He tried to remember, remember any strange things that might have happened in the past, pointing to something strange about his sister. Besides all the obvious, of course. Like her odangos and her grades and her friends and the way she acted...
He recalled, for some reason, a pink haired girl, and then a red haired one. They both wore Usagi's stupid odangos.
"Where - where are they from?" He sighed and turned his thoughts to other things.
'Kai said that Usagi-baka and I would be separated soon, but why? If that's true...perhaps...perhaps I should take some time to know odango brain before whatever happens, happens...' He sighed. 'How do I even know that Kai was right?'
Suddenly, he heard some strange noises, it sounded like shouting and fighting. Somebody was in trouble! Shingo dashed off to try and help, it was his first instinct.
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They drove Ami home, laughing and crying and talking and reminiscing about all the old times. Suddenly, up ahead, they saw a scene of total destruction. The side of a building was caved in, there was a fire starting up in that same building. People were running everywhere screaming and crying. The senshi stopped the car and simultaneously transformed. They rushed to the scene.
"Oh, Sailor Moon, I was so hoping you'd show up," said Sailor Eclipse. "And I think Shingo was too."
"Why's that?" asked Sailor Moon, confused. She looked around to see where Sailor Eclipse was, and found her on top of another building, holding Shingo out over the ledge. Sailor Moon gasped. "What do you want, Eclipse?"
"To make your planet like mine, Moon. My planet was destroyed years and years ago, and if mine was, then yours surely has no right to be alive either."
"But why - "
"Moon, everything I ever loved was destroyed. I want you to know what that feels like!"
Suddenly she let go of Shingo, and the poor boy went tumbling into space.
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The force at work here was certainly not that of Chaos. This force didn't take star seeds, and it didn't care about power. All it cared about was death, and nothing else. Death to anything it could get it's hands on, a planet, a blade of grass, a person, a mosquito. Death.
The way it worked was a simple method, scarily simple, yet so terribly gruesome. It would destroy a planet, leaving a sole survivor, preferably a Senshi. This Senshi would be pure at first, the way all Senshi start out, but this evil death thirsty force could change that easily. The Senshi, with everything she ever loved dead and gone, could easily be corrupted and twisted. This evil force knew how to get to a person, to reach inside their head and leave nothing but darkness and emptiness.
Perhaps now you have a better idea of what happened to poor, poor Eclipse...
~~~~~~~~~~
Shingo fell for about six stories (it wasn't the tallest of buildings he was thrown from). He luckily managed to avoid hitting the fire escapes, and landed in a dumpster, which had (again, luckily) not been emptied that day.
Sailor Moon and her friends rushed to the dumpster.
"Shingo?" Sailor Moon called. "Are you all right?"
"Huh? Who're you?" he said.
"Sailor Moon," said Sailor Moon.
"Whoa..." he said, impressed. Sailor Moon sighed exasperatedly.
"You've got to get out of here, okay?" said Sailor Moon.
"But what about you?" asked Shingo.
"Me? Oh, I've gotten out of some sticky situations before." Sailor Moon winked.
"Ok, Sailor Moon," said Shingo and shakily got out of the dumpster. "If you say so..."
"I do," said Sailor Moon and she and the Senshi helped him out. He ran off, and Sailor Moon thought her little brother would be safe. She turned to face Eclipse, who had jumped off the top of the building and landed perfectly on her feet. She strode calmly up to Sailor Moon, and hissed in her ear,
"I'd watch him if I were you, big sister's not always going to be there to hold little Shingo's hand." She dashed off, and though the Senshi tried to chase her, they could not seem to find her.
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Usagi was on the phone, in her room, sobbing. "Haruka, please, you've got to come! This Senshi - this Senshi nearly killed Shingo! Please, we need all the Senshi here!"
"Usagi, I just can't - "
Rei snatched the phone away from Usagi and ripped Haruka a new one.
"Fine!" exclaimed Haruka. "Fine! I'll be there on the next flight, happy?"
"Yes!" chimed in all the inner Senshi, who were gathered in Usagi's room. Haruka grunted in reply and hung up.
Haruka sunk back into her couch and sighed. She couldn't believe she was going back. She thought she had left her life as a Senshi the day she had left Michiru.
Michiru...
Haruka sighed again. A sad, heartbroken sigh.
"What am I gonna say to her?"
"Nothing, Haruka," she answered herself. "Its over, move on already."
If only she could...if only she could...
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Usagi wiped her tears away. Haruka was coming, good. With every one there, it would make everything better. It had too.
"I'm glad we got that out of the way!" said Makoto.
"So'm I!" said Usagi. "Thanks Rei!" she said with a grin, remember the way Rei had yelled at Haruka.
"No problem. I'm experienced in things like this!" she said.
"Hey you guys!" said Minako. "With Haruka in town, you know what this means!"
"No...no I don't..." said Usagi.
"Its time to get her and Michiru back together!" said Minako.
"How do we go about doing that?" asked Makoto. Minako grinned almost sinisterly.
"Don't worry, we'll think of something..."
That Friday, Usagi and Minako (who was staying with Usagi) went to meet Ami (who's mother couldn't come to pick her up because she had to see patients at the office) at the airport that Friday evening. The plane came in at four thirty, right when tutoring ended, and Shingo was conveniently around to drive Kaiki home so the other two could go pick up Ami.
The drive was the same as usual, Kai and Shingo enjoyed each other's company. After dropping Kai off, Shingo was waiting for a red light to change so he could pull out of the parking lot, when he saw Hotaru crossing the road right in front of him. He rolled down a window, and called to her,
"Hey, Hotaru-chan!" She looked up, startled at the sound of her own name. When she saw it was Shingo, she walked over to the open window.
"What're you doing at this side of town?" she asked with a smile, hopping into the passenger seat beside him.
"Looking for you," he said with a grin. "I miss you," he said. He tried to kiss her, but she pulled away.
"No way, Shingo. A nice kiss on the cheek, like you'd give your grandmother!" she said with a smile.
He laughed and kissed her on the cheek.
"Its not me you miss, you know," she said. "You just don't like being alone." He sighed. His ex-girlfriend knew him too well.
"Yeah, you're right," he said with a sigh. As the light turned green and they pulled out of the parking lot, Hotaru patted him on the shoulder.
"Don't worry, you'll find someone. Just keep looking! Meanwhile, you can treat me to a milkshake!" said Hotaru with a giggle. Shingo smiled.
"Is that the only reason you still hang out with me, because you know that I'll buy you whatever you want?"
"Oh no!" said Hotaru, feigning a grave and serious look, "that's only part of it, silly!"
~~~~~~~~~
"Ami-chan!" exclaimed Minako and Usagi as they ran to embrace her simultaneously.
"Minako and Usagi -chan!" she said with tears running down her face. She smiled through her tears. "I've missed you so much! How could I ever leave this place?"
Minako spoke. "I've been asking that same question ever since I got back, Ami-chan, and I still don't know why I ever left."
"Its so strange...being here, back to doing the old thing. I thought it was over. But, you know what, in a way, I'm glad its not."
"Its what brought us all together," said Usagi with a warm smile and a hug to both her friends. "Come on you guys, lets bring Ami home."
~~~~~~~~~~
Shingo had been alone for some time on the park bench. Hotaru had left, but had promised to call later. Even though he loved Hotaru like a sister, he was glad to be alone. He needed to think.
Why suddenly were all of his sisters friends coming home?
This was the question that plagued his mind. He knew he shouldn't have cared, but it was just too weird. Last night, he had thought he had heard them talking about Senshi and Sailors and stuff. He shook his head, he didn't understand. Perhaps he didn't want to.
He tried to remember, remember any strange things that might have happened in the past, pointing to something strange about his sister. Besides all the obvious, of course. Like her odangos and her grades and her friends and the way she acted...
He recalled, for some reason, a pink haired girl, and then a red haired one. They both wore Usagi's stupid odangos.
"Where - where are they from?" He sighed and turned his thoughts to other things.
'Kai said that Usagi-baka and I would be separated soon, but why? If that's true...perhaps...perhaps I should take some time to know odango brain before whatever happens, happens...' He sighed. 'How do I even know that Kai was right?'
Suddenly, he heard some strange noises, it sounded like shouting and fighting. Somebody was in trouble! Shingo dashed off to try and help, it was his first instinct.
~~~~~~~~~~
They drove Ami home, laughing and crying and talking and reminiscing about all the old times. Suddenly, up ahead, they saw a scene of total destruction. The side of a building was caved in, there was a fire starting up in that same building. People were running everywhere screaming and crying. The senshi stopped the car and simultaneously transformed. They rushed to the scene.
"Oh, Sailor Moon, I was so hoping you'd show up," said Sailor Eclipse. "And I think Shingo was too."
"Why's that?" asked Sailor Moon, confused. She looked around to see where Sailor Eclipse was, and found her on top of another building, holding Shingo out over the ledge. Sailor Moon gasped. "What do you want, Eclipse?"
"To make your planet like mine, Moon. My planet was destroyed years and years ago, and if mine was, then yours surely has no right to be alive either."
"But why - "
"Moon, everything I ever loved was destroyed. I want you to know what that feels like!"
Suddenly she let go of Shingo, and the poor boy went tumbling into space.
~~~~~~~~~
The force at work here was certainly not that of Chaos. This force didn't take star seeds, and it didn't care about power. All it cared about was death, and nothing else. Death to anything it could get it's hands on, a planet, a blade of grass, a person, a mosquito. Death.
The way it worked was a simple method, scarily simple, yet so terribly gruesome. It would destroy a planet, leaving a sole survivor, preferably a Senshi. This Senshi would be pure at first, the way all Senshi start out, but this evil death thirsty force could change that easily. The Senshi, with everything she ever loved dead and gone, could easily be corrupted and twisted. This evil force knew how to get to a person, to reach inside their head and leave nothing but darkness and emptiness.
Perhaps now you have a better idea of what happened to poor, poor Eclipse...
~~~~~~~~~~
Shingo fell for about six stories (it wasn't the tallest of buildings he was thrown from). He luckily managed to avoid hitting the fire escapes, and landed in a dumpster, which had (again, luckily) not been emptied that day.
Sailor Moon and her friends rushed to the dumpster.
"Shingo?" Sailor Moon called. "Are you all right?"
"Huh? Who're you?" he said.
"Sailor Moon," said Sailor Moon.
"Whoa..." he said, impressed. Sailor Moon sighed exasperatedly.
"You've got to get out of here, okay?" said Sailor Moon.
"But what about you?" asked Shingo.
"Me? Oh, I've gotten out of some sticky situations before." Sailor Moon winked.
"Ok, Sailor Moon," said Shingo and shakily got out of the dumpster. "If you say so..."
"I do," said Sailor Moon and she and the Senshi helped him out. He ran off, and Sailor Moon thought her little brother would be safe. She turned to face Eclipse, who had jumped off the top of the building and landed perfectly on her feet. She strode calmly up to Sailor Moon, and hissed in her ear,
"I'd watch him if I were you, big sister's not always going to be there to hold little Shingo's hand." She dashed off, and though the Senshi tried to chase her, they could not seem to find her.
~~~~~~~~~~
Usagi was on the phone, in her room, sobbing. "Haruka, please, you've got to come! This Senshi - this Senshi nearly killed Shingo! Please, we need all the Senshi here!"
"Usagi, I just can't - "
Rei snatched the phone away from Usagi and ripped Haruka a new one.
"Fine!" exclaimed Haruka. "Fine! I'll be there on the next flight, happy?"
"Yes!" chimed in all the inner Senshi, who were gathered in Usagi's room. Haruka grunted in reply and hung up.
Haruka sunk back into her couch and sighed. She couldn't believe she was going back. She thought she had left her life as a Senshi the day she had left Michiru.
Michiru...
Haruka sighed again. A sad, heartbroken sigh.
"What am I gonna say to her?"
"Nothing, Haruka," she answered herself. "Its over, move on already."
If only she could...if only she could...
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Usagi wiped her tears away. Haruka was coming, good. With every one there, it would make everything better. It had too.
"I'm glad we got that out of the way!" said Makoto.
"So'm I!" said Usagi. "Thanks Rei!" she said with a grin, remember the way Rei had yelled at Haruka.
"No problem. I'm experienced in things like this!" she said.
"Hey you guys!" said Minako. "With Haruka in town, you know what this means!"
"No...no I don't..." said Usagi.
"Its time to get her and Michiru back together!" said Minako.
"How do we go about doing that?" asked Makoto. Minako grinned almost sinisterly.
"Don't worry, we'll think of something..."