:::Chapter V:::

Saturday came and with it brought a new visitor. Usagi was awakened by the annoying tapping at her door. "WHAT!!!" She screamed. Not much of a morning person huh? Since it was Saturday she thought that her family would have the common decency to leave her be to sleep in.

The door was opened just a crack and a little head poked in. Chibi-Usa cautiously slipped in the room. She wasn't afraid of Usagi yelling at her, she was afraid of what she might throw at her. She had lived with her before and knew how she was in the morning. Her tiptoe steps were soft and quiet on the carpet and then she made it to Usagi's bed. "GOODMORNING!!!!" She screamed when she was over the sleeping girl.

Usagi jumped up out of bed startled. It was amazing at how fast she had grabbed all of those books and started heaving them across the room. 'And I didn't think these things were good for anything!' She thought to herself as she continued with her assault. She stopped when she heard Chibi-Usa's scream and recognized it. "What are you doing here?" She asked as she got up out of bed to walk over to the fallen girl.

"OWW! What's wrong with you? No wonder Luna stays at Minako's house now-a days." Chibi-Usa rubbed her head and tried to sooth the lump that was forming. "I came here to visit you."

"Sorry." Usagi laughed at how Chibi-Usa was eyeing her. "Is there trouble? Is there going to be a new enemy?"

"No, nothing like that. Dad just sent me back here to visit. He said that you could probably use my support." Chibi-Usa was at the door ready to go downstairs. "You'd better hurry or I'll eat all of your breakfast piggy!" And with that she was gone and running down the stairs.

Usagi sat on her floor still where she had helped Chibi-Usa up. 'That's weird. Endymion never sent Chibi-Usa back, it was always Neo Queen Serenity.' Usagi thought to herself but quickly dismissed it and got dressed.

The lights, Kakyuu, and Nehelenia were all sitting around the breakfast table eating breakfast. "So what do you have planned today?" Kakyuu asks her companions.

"I have a photo shoot." Yaten was the first to speak up. "And after that I was going to go swimming."

Taiki starts making dreamy looks and tilts his head to the side. "With Minako!" Yaten flung a spoonful of cereal at him and the look quickly faded.

"Like you and Ami going out to dinner is any different!" Yaten snorted at the taller guy and knew he should get ready for impact.

Before an all out war started Kakyuu quickly asked Seiya what he was doing. "I didn't have any plans. I was going to take Odango on a picnic but she had already made plans with Mamoru." He seemed downhearted and she noticed this.

"I'll go on a picnic with you Seiya." Nehelenia smiled at him. She hadn't been out of the house in days.

"I'd love to go on a picnic with you, my other special lady." He smiled at her and they finished their breakfast.

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There were children playing around on the jungle gym not far away. Their blanket was spread out and their lunch was set out on it. Seiya looked at Nehelenia and noticed that she didn't act like other children. She seemed to have years of wisdom behind those innocent eyes. Nehelenia was asking Seiya about his life on Kinkomu and what else he did before he came to Earth.

Seiya didn't seem surprised at all that she knew he was from a different planet. Perhaps this had something to do with the brainwashing spell that she had first put on him. "Seiya, what do you see in your future?" She asked while cleaning up after herself.

He didn't quite know how to answer this question so suddenly. He knew what he wanted to see in his future but that was not what was going to happen. "I see myself spending the rest of my life with Kakyuu, Yaten, Taiki and YOU!" He said as he poked her nose.

She giggled at this gesture but then became composed again. "You don't see yourself being married or with children of your own?" She asked him with a curious tone.

The breeze picked up a bit and rustled the leaves in the tree above them. Seiya sighed as he thought. "I could only picture myself spending the rest of my life with one person, and that's the girl in my dream." He leaned back on his elbows in a reclined position. "That's never going to happen though. Not all dreams become a reality no matter how much you wish for them."

"Are you saying that you're giving up your hope of being with her?" Nehelenia asked leaning over to him. She seemed some how scared.

"No, I'll never give up my hope or my dream of one day being with her, and that is what will hinder me from ever trying to love some one else." He looked over at her with a smile. "But that's nothing for you to be concerned with, we'll always be together and have fun."

Nehelenia smiled back at him and then wrapped her arms around him. When she released him she winked at him. "I know your dream girl. Her name is Usagi right?"

Seiya was surprised that she knew her name but figured that she had some how sensed it from his dream. "Yeah that's right."

"Then why do you call her Odango?" She crinkled up her nose.

Her face looked cute like that. "I used to call her that to tease her, but I think it fits her. The buns in her hair look like odangos. But I also like to have a nick name for her that I can call her."

"That sounds kawaii!" Nehelenia was excited.

"Do you want to meet her?" Seiya asked.

This was the moment that Nehelenia was waiting for. "Of course I want to meet her. Anyone that you could love that much has to be a great person!" Seiya shook his head, agreeing that she was indeed a great person. "Please, can it just be us three though? I don't want her to bring her friends. Besides, afterwards you two could go out on a date or something."

A blush crept up on his cheeks at her words. Why could he have such a deep conversation about how much he loved her but when the mention of actually seeing her was brought up he would get nervous and blushed?

A red sports car pulled up in front of the Tsukino residence. "Usagi, Mamoru is here!" Her mother called up the stairs. Kenji wasn't home and therefore it was safe for Mamoru to come in. Usagi's mother had always liked Mamoru, but it was her father that needed the convincing.

Usagi and Chibi-Usa went down stairs to greet Mamoru. He seemed surprised to say the least when he saw the two coming down the stairs. Chibi-Usa took a flying leap into his arms. "Mamo-chan!" She called out.

Usagi cringed a bit at the mention of the nickname that she had given him. For some reason she had just felt strange calling him that lately. Could it be because of her thoughts for Seiya? "What are you doing in this part of town this early in the morning?" Usagi asked. This wasn't a normal occurrence for him to just stop by out of the blue. Sure she was supposed to do something with him today but that wasn't until later.

"I came by to drop off your bag that you left in my car." He held the suitcase looking back out in front of her.

"Mamo-chan, will you hang out with me today? I want to go to the amusement park and ride all of the rides!" Chibi-Usa tried to put on her cute face and puppy dog eyes.

"I didn't know you were taking art classes?" Mamoru didn't seem to be paying attention to the small girl at his leg.

Chibi-Usa starts her pestering again and Mamoru barely makes out what Usagi says under her breath. "You seem to be unaware of a lot of things I do."

Chibi-Usa hears this too and stops what she is doing. 'They're going to fight, I know it.' She looks up at the two. They both had expressionless faces.

Mamoru reaches into Usagi's bag and takes out her sketchbook. Chibi-Usa is curious and stands on her tiptoes to get a look. He flips through the pictures, most of them being sketches of Seiya. "You seem to be spending a lot of time with him." He says flatly. He doesn't give Usagi a chance to respond before he starts again. "I don't like it. It's not right for you to be spending that much time with him."

"He's my best friend and who are you to tell me who I can't see?" Where was this sudden rage coming from. Usagi looked down at Chibi-Usa and knew she had to calm down.

"I thought that I was your best friend?"

Usagi knew that Chibi-Usa had no idea who they were talking about. "They have nothing to do with our future, they are nothing any more." Mamoru flipped to a page with a clear portrait of Seiya on it. "Chibi-Usa, do you recognize this guy?" He questioned her as he held the picture down where she could see it.

"You drew this Usagi? It's very good." Chibi-Usa complimented Usagi and she just smiled. "No, I don't know who he is."

A hurt expression crossed Usagi's face as Mamoru closed the book and handed it back to her. "What how can you not know him?"

"See, I told you. They aren't in our future. They have nothing to do with us! Stop seeing him." Mamoru said forcefully and took Chibi-Usa's hand in his. "Do you want to come and stay with me this time?"

She nodded her head. "Usagi seems grouchy, who wants to be around her!" She said as they walked out the door.

Usagi walked up the stairs back to her room. She sat down on her bed and started thinking to herself. She became furious and aggravated as she thought of Mamoru telling her who she couldn't see. The nerve of that guy! And what was he doing going through her bag in the first place?! Then her anger subsided as her thoughts turned to Seiya. How could he not be in her future? What was going to happen to him? Then it came to her 'Oblivion'!

Her thoughts were interrupted by the telephone ringing, "Hello." She says into the line.

"Odango, it's me Seiya. I was wondering what you were doing tomorrow." He sounded like he was in a very good mood and this lightened Usagi's own spirit.

"You always seem to call just at the right time when I'm thinking of you." Usagi smacked herself on the forehead for voicing her thoughts out loud. The fact that she had been thinking of him excited Seiya on the other end of the phone. "I'm sorry that I told you I had something to do today, but my plans have changed if you'd like to do something today."

Usagi cancelled her plans with Mamoru and wanted to hang out with Seiya? What a great day this was turning out to be. "Well I wanted to know if you would like to come over?" Seiya knew this was the moment of truth, would she come over to his apartment to be with him?

"I'd love to." She exclaimed. "I haven't been over there since you guys moved in."

Seiya thought about this and didn't know why he hadn't invited her over, or anyone else for that matter. He knew there was a reason but couldn't come to it. Nehelenia smiled at him and he seemed to forget about it. "Alright then I'll be expecting you, ja ne!" He said as he hung up the phone.

Usagi put her bag away so that no more prying eyes could find it. As she did she pulled out the sketchbook that had caused so many problems and flipped through the pages. She stopped on the pictures of Seiya as she traced her fingers over some of the pencil lines. She was lost in a dream- state trans but then came out of it when she remembered that she was supposed to go over there and meet him.

The light's apartment wasn't too far away and she made it there in no time. It was pleasant walk and a beautiful day. Usagi saw Kakyuu getting into her car as she neared the building. "Hey Kakyuu!" Usagi waved.

Kakyuu noticed her and held up to say hello. "What brings you here Usagi?" She asked as they exchanged hugs. "Here to see Seiya?"

"Yeah, he asked me to come over. I haven't gotten to see you lately. I see the others all of the time since we go to school together, but I haven't been over here to see you, please forgive me."

Kakyuu laughed at Usagi's words. "You don't have to be sorry. I've been busy with my college studies. I promise we'll get together soon. I have to go now though, give me a call when you're not busy." She waved at Usagi who nodded her head and got in her car to drive off.

Once inside the building Usagi went up the elevator to the fifth floor. She walked down the hallway and knocked on her door. She had a huge goofy grin on her face as she was thinking of Seiya.

When the door opened she was shocked to see the little girl's face. "Nehelenia." She whispered as she brought her hand up to her mouth. Nehelenia just smiled back at her.