Part IV
"That yoma didn't even seem like it was after anything." Ami said while thinking out loud. The group was gathered at the Light's apartment and everyone was present and accounted for.
Seiya sat next to Yaten on the couch not saying a word. Yaten looked over at her to see what her reaction was to all of this. This was Usagi they were talking about and even though she had Kenada now, Yaten was sure that this news wouldn't be affecting Seiya in a good way.
"No, that's right, it didn't." Michiru agreed. All around the room the group was pondering what was going on.
"It was nice to see her again. even if it was so briefly." Rei smiled while looking at no one in particular. "She still looked just the same as I remembered her too." Rei began to cry a little.
The group of them had tried hard to suppress their memories of their friend. It was almost as if she had died and they had been mourning her loss. Seeing her again rehashed all of those painful memories for them and Rei seemed to be taking it the hardest.
"I wasn't her." Seiya spoke. These were the first words that she had spoken all evening.
"What?" Mamoru looked over at her. Seiya didn't reply as she was confident that Mamoru had heard what she had said. "What would you know? You weren't even there!" Mamoru's patients were already wearing thin and Seiya only aggravated him more.
"I didn't have to be there. it wasn't her." Seiya said staring directly into Mamoru's eyes. "I know."
"You know nothing." Haruka got up to confront her. "Mamoru's right, you weren't even there. Wait are you saying we're lying? We've all hoped and dreamed since the day that she disappeared that this day would come. the day that we got to see her again." The tall girl was visibly upset as were the rest of them but Haruka had a very hard time containing herself, especially when it came to Usagi.
Yaten put her hand on Seiya's arm to try and calm her down before she said something to further infuriate the group. Seiya continued to stare at Mamoru and quickly moved her arm away from Yaten. "Obviously I'm not wanted here and no one is listening to me so I think I'd better just leave." She said this in a low hiss and directed it for the most part at Mamoru.
"Yes, maybe you'd better leave." Mamoru watched as Seiya turned her back to him and headed towards the door. "I guess only the people that truly cared about her and miss her know that it really was her."
That was it, Seiya could no longer keep her composure and spun around and stared down the group that had previously been eyeing her. "What are you saying?" She asked threateningly.
"You heard me. You never loved her the way that I did, you have no idea how we feel!" Mamoru was now standing and the two towered over the group. "If you really loved her then how did you move on so easily? Huh? Tell me, how did you find such comfort in that man you call your boyfriend?!" Mamoru was now shouting across the room.
It took every ounce of self-control that Seiya had to keep from flying across the room to counter up against his face. Rei stood up and came between the two. "Mamoru! That's enough! You have no right to judge her." Rei had stopped crying when the confrontation began and couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"That's right Mamoru, you have no right to judge me." Seiya said with sort of a cocked smile. "So how hard was it for you to move in on Ami when you realized that she wasn't coming back?"
The group stared at Ami and then at Mamoru. They hadn't known about the relationship that the two had going on between them. Seiya never would have guessed it either if it hadn't been for Taiki telling her. Taiki had never given up her hope of capturing Ami's heart even though she was a female now, and Ami finally told her that there was no chance when she began secretly dating Mamoru.
Mamoru began to lunge at Seiya and she made no motion to move out of the way of the on coming attack. Ami had stood up behind Mamoru and held him back from doing what he intended. Ami looked over at Taiki because she knew that she was the only way that Seiya could have known. Taiki was sitting with her head down and cupped in her hands.
Seiya saw that there was no reason for her to stay here any more.
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"So a yoma was attacking the city and regardless of what anyone did to stop it they couldn't? Then suddenly Sailor Moon showed up and blasted the thing to pieces with one shot?" Kenada questioned Seiya as she sat on the porch looking up at the night sky.
"That's what they said." Seiya said bluntly and not really addressing the issue any further.
Kenada looked over at her form drenched in the moonlight. "Did something else happen tonight?" He knew that there was something else bothering her and she wasn't coming right out and telling her.
"I just lost my temper it's over now."
"What? Why?" Kenada became very concerned. Seiya always had a hot head but was doing well at working on it lately and for something to upset her this much must have been hard.
"I never did like Mamoru." She laughed a bit at herself and then rehashed the night's events for him. Seiya had never told him how Mamoru and Ami were dating now and figured that this was as good of time as any to break the news.
Kenada looked at her with sympathy in his eyes and wrapped himself around her to comfort her perhaps. "I'm sorry. "
"Don't be sorry, it's not your fault. They wouldn't believe me. Hell I wouldn't have believed me either. But it's not like I could just come out and tell them what happened." Seiya was smiling now. The situation had replayed itself one final time in her mind and she realized that she had the answer right next to her.
Kenada kissed her lightly on her forehead and smiled back, not really knowing why but it was just the fact that he loved to see her smile. Seiya squeezed his hand a little harder and just as she did her communicator went off. "Seiya." Yaten was on the other end and didn't see Kenada in the background. "Come quick. There's another yoma attacking in the middle of the Juuban district."
Yaten's face flickered from the communicator and Seiya looked at Kenada. "Are you coming?" She asked not really knowing what to expect for an answer.
"Hell yeah! I want to see just who this imposter is!" Kenada quickly got up and grabbed his keys.
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It was dark and the only light was coming from a few dimly lit streetlights and the moon. It was enough light however for Fighter to see the bodies of the fallen senshi around her. Healer, Venus, Uranus and Tuxedo Kamen were still busy with the fight. "Are you going to transform?" Fighter asked Kenada who was standing with her in a tree.
"No, I will if you need me, but I'm going to stay out of this." He said never once taking his eyes off of the battle going on below them.
The yoma blasted a shot at Tuxedo Kamen forcing him to the ground but was attacked from behind by Venus. The yoma's attention was taken from the fallen man to the blond behind it. This yoma was quick and didn't hesitate in blasting Venus square in the chest. Instead of just hitting Venus the blast came in contact with both her and Healer. Healer's last minute attempt to help her ended up in them both getting blasted. Tuxedo Kamen struggled to get to his feet as he realized that the yoma had turned its attention back to him. Uranus came in front of the prince to protect him but was distracted by the brilliant laser that crashed into the yoma.
"Fighter." Healer grumbled from the ground.
"There, now that's them all."
"Yes, that was the one that was missing last time."
"Stop right there!" A voice came from behind the yoma. "I'm not going to stand around and watch you hurt my friends! I am the pretty sailor suited soldier, Sailor Moon. In the name of the moon I will punish you!" The fallen senshi immediately recognized the corny poses and gestures that this mysterious senshi was making.
Sailor Moon quickly used her attack and hit the yoma head on with a flash of bright lights and colors. When the yoma was gone she began to make her way over to the senshi sprawled all around.
Fighter looked back over at the tree she had previously come from and saw Kenada still there. Then who was this girl? It was true she did look just like her. The same blond hair done up in odangos and the same fuku. Fighter had a hard time distinguishing what was going on.
Sailor Moon came up to her, as she was the closet one standing near her. "Don't come any closer." Fighter warned.
"What are you doing?!" Uranus yelled as she began to run over to them.
Sailor Moon began to take more steps towards her. "I'm warning you!" She held her yell in front of her. "Who are you?" She demanded as she refused to back away. She knew that Uranus was coming up behind her and knew that she didn't have much time.
"It's me. " Sailor Moon said. "Don't you remember me? Have I really been gone that long?" She said with a sweet smile and continued to step closer to Fighter.
"NO!" Fighter screamed. Uranus was almost upon her and she had to think fast. "STAR SERIOUS LASER!!"
The laser ripped through the night air and soared towards Sailor Moon. She must not have been expecting this because she had no time to react and was hit directly by the blast. Uranus was now on Fighter but a little too late. The other senshi that had regained consciousness rushed over to the fallen Sailor Moon. Fighter saw that she was unconscious and knew that she would be too soon if she didn't get out of there.
Fighter freed herself from Uranus's hold and took off. Uranus wasn't about to let her get away with hurting her princess that easily and took off into the night after her. Fighter saw this and knew that she couldn't go back to Kenada right now because she didn't want to lead Uranus right to him.
Kenada watched the whole scene unfold in front of him. He saw a girl that looked exactly the same as he used to laid out and bleeding on the ground as a result of Fighter's attack. A shiver went down her spine as she replayed the image of Fighter attacking her over in her mind.
Eventually Uranus returned to the scene and Kenada wondered if Fighter was safe. The senshi detransformed and brought Sailor Moon back to Rei's shrine to take care of her.
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Kenada walked in the door to find no lights on and no signs of Seiya anywhere. He tossed his keys down on the stand near the door and proceeded into the house turning the hall light on in the process. The answering machine was flashing with a single message. Kenada pressed play as he proceeded into the kitchen to make himself something to drink.
"Hello Kenada, this message is for Seiya. Please call me as soon as you get this, I'm really worried about you and I need to talk to you." The message played and Kenada didn't really seem to be effected by it too much. It had been Kakyuu checking up on Seiya.
Kenada finished what he was doing and began to head for his bedroom. There was no sense in going out to look for Seiya, if she was alright she would come home and if she wasn't alright. well he didn't even want to think about that.
"Are you sure you can still transform?" The question came from the dark room that Kenada just entered. It was Seiya sitting alone in the dark.
"What? Of course I can, what kind of question is that?" He asked.
"Show me."
Kenada flicked on the light next to the bed and saw Seiya's tear streaked face. She looked like hell and he could only begin to imagine what was wrong with her. "It was hard to attack me huh?" He said a little lightly to perhaps put some humor in the mood. It didn't work however and he knew that this was what was plaguing her. "What are you getting at anyway?"
"Just show me please. How do I know that you aren't the imposter? Maybe you really are Kenada and just disguise yourself as Usagi. Maybe that girl really is Sailor Moon, my Odango. and if she is that means that I just." Before her tears started again Seiya pleaded with him one more time. "Please Kenada, I need to see."
Kenada saw how much this was tearing her apart and saw no other way but to comply with what she asked. He pulled the broach out that was still in his pocket from going out tonight and held it up over his head and said those words that he never thought he'd have to say again. "MOON ETERNAL MAKE- UP!"
In seconds the room was filled with bright lights and feathers, suddenly Eternal Sailor Moon replaced Kenada. Seiya's face showed a smile as she stood up from her seat. A relieved sigh escaped Sailor Moon's lips as she saw this. The two wasted no time in walking towards each other and embraced in the middle of the room. "Thank you." Seiya said with tears streaming out of her eyes.
"Stop crying silly, you're going to make me." SM sniffed while she held her. Before she knew what was happening she found herself locked in a very passionate kiss with Seiya and this time she actually let herself enjoy it.
"That yoma didn't even seem like it was after anything." Ami said while thinking out loud. The group was gathered at the Light's apartment and everyone was present and accounted for.
Seiya sat next to Yaten on the couch not saying a word. Yaten looked over at her to see what her reaction was to all of this. This was Usagi they were talking about and even though she had Kenada now, Yaten was sure that this news wouldn't be affecting Seiya in a good way.
"No, that's right, it didn't." Michiru agreed. All around the room the group was pondering what was going on.
"It was nice to see her again. even if it was so briefly." Rei smiled while looking at no one in particular. "She still looked just the same as I remembered her too." Rei began to cry a little.
The group of them had tried hard to suppress their memories of their friend. It was almost as if she had died and they had been mourning her loss. Seeing her again rehashed all of those painful memories for them and Rei seemed to be taking it the hardest.
"I wasn't her." Seiya spoke. These were the first words that she had spoken all evening.
"What?" Mamoru looked over at her. Seiya didn't reply as she was confident that Mamoru had heard what she had said. "What would you know? You weren't even there!" Mamoru's patients were already wearing thin and Seiya only aggravated him more.
"I didn't have to be there. it wasn't her." Seiya said staring directly into Mamoru's eyes. "I know."
"You know nothing." Haruka got up to confront her. "Mamoru's right, you weren't even there. Wait are you saying we're lying? We've all hoped and dreamed since the day that she disappeared that this day would come. the day that we got to see her again." The tall girl was visibly upset as were the rest of them but Haruka had a very hard time containing herself, especially when it came to Usagi.
Yaten put her hand on Seiya's arm to try and calm her down before she said something to further infuriate the group. Seiya continued to stare at Mamoru and quickly moved her arm away from Yaten. "Obviously I'm not wanted here and no one is listening to me so I think I'd better just leave." She said this in a low hiss and directed it for the most part at Mamoru.
"Yes, maybe you'd better leave." Mamoru watched as Seiya turned her back to him and headed towards the door. "I guess only the people that truly cared about her and miss her know that it really was her."
That was it, Seiya could no longer keep her composure and spun around and stared down the group that had previously been eyeing her. "What are you saying?" She asked threateningly.
"You heard me. You never loved her the way that I did, you have no idea how we feel!" Mamoru was now standing and the two towered over the group. "If you really loved her then how did you move on so easily? Huh? Tell me, how did you find such comfort in that man you call your boyfriend?!" Mamoru was now shouting across the room.
It took every ounce of self-control that Seiya had to keep from flying across the room to counter up against his face. Rei stood up and came between the two. "Mamoru! That's enough! You have no right to judge her." Rei had stopped crying when the confrontation began and couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"That's right Mamoru, you have no right to judge me." Seiya said with sort of a cocked smile. "So how hard was it for you to move in on Ami when you realized that she wasn't coming back?"
The group stared at Ami and then at Mamoru. They hadn't known about the relationship that the two had going on between them. Seiya never would have guessed it either if it hadn't been for Taiki telling her. Taiki had never given up her hope of capturing Ami's heart even though she was a female now, and Ami finally told her that there was no chance when she began secretly dating Mamoru.
Mamoru began to lunge at Seiya and she made no motion to move out of the way of the on coming attack. Ami had stood up behind Mamoru and held him back from doing what he intended. Ami looked over at Taiki because she knew that she was the only way that Seiya could have known. Taiki was sitting with her head down and cupped in her hands.
Seiya saw that there was no reason for her to stay here any more.
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"So a yoma was attacking the city and regardless of what anyone did to stop it they couldn't? Then suddenly Sailor Moon showed up and blasted the thing to pieces with one shot?" Kenada questioned Seiya as she sat on the porch looking up at the night sky.
"That's what they said." Seiya said bluntly and not really addressing the issue any further.
Kenada looked over at her form drenched in the moonlight. "Did something else happen tonight?" He knew that there was something else bothering her and she wasn't coming right out and telling her.
"I just lost my temper it's over now."
"What? Why?" Kenada became very concerned. Seiya always had a hot head but was doing well at working on it lately and for something to upset her this much must have been hard.
"I never did like Mamoru." She laughed a bit at herself and then rehashed the night's events for him. Seiya had never told him how Mamoru and Ami were dating now and figured that this was as good of time as any to break the news.
Kenada looked at her with sympathy in his eyes and wrapped himself around her to comfort her perhaps. "I'm sorry. "
"Don't be sorry, it's not your fault. They wouldn't believe me. Hell I wouldn't have believed me either. But it's not like I could just come out and tell them what happened." Seiya was smiling now. The situation had replayed itself one final time in her mind and she realized that she had the answer right next to her.
Kenada kissed her lightly on her forehead and smiled back, not really knowing why but it was just the fact that he loved to see her smile. Seiya squeezed his hand a little harder and just as she did her communicator went off. "Seiya." Yaten was on the other end and didn't see Kenada in the background. "Come quick. There's another yoma attacking in the middle of the Juuban district."
Yaten's face flickered from the communicator and Seiya looked at Kenada. "Are you coming?" She asked not really knowing what to expect for an answer.
"Hell yeah! I want to see just who this imposter is!" Kenada quickly got up and grabbed his keys.
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It was dark and the only light was coming from a few dimly lit streetlights and the moon. It was enough light however for Fighter to see the bodies of the fallen senshi around her. Healer, Venus, Uranus and Tuxedo Kamen were still busy with the fight. "Are you going to transform?" Fighter asked Kenada who was standing with her in a tree.
"No, I will if you need me, but I'm going to stay out of this." He said never once taking his eyes off of the battle going on below them.
The yoma blasted a shot at Tuxedo Kamen forcing him to the ground but was attacked from behind by Venus. The yoma's attention was taken from the fallen man to the blond behind it. This yoma was quick and didn't hesitate in blasting Venus square in the chest. Instead of just hitting Venus the blast came in contact with both her and Healer. Healer's last minute attempt to help her ended up in them both getting blasted. Tuxedo Kamen struggled to get to his feet as he realized that the yoma had turned its attention back to him. Uranus came in front of the prince to protect him but was distracted by the brilliant laser that crashed into the yoma.
"Fighter." Healer grumbled from the ground.
"There, now that's them all."
"Yes, that was the one that was missing last time."
"Stop right there!" A voice came from behind the yoma. "I'm not going to stand around and watch you hurt my friends! I am the pretty sailor suited soldier, Sailor Moon. In the name of the moon I will punish you!" The fallen senshi immediately recognized the corny poses and gestures that this mysterious senshi was making.
Sailor Moon quickly used her attack and hit the yoma head on with a flash of bright lights and colors. When the yoma was gone she began to make her way over to the senshi sprawled all around.
Fighter looked back over at the tree she had previously come from and saw Kenada still there. Then who was this girl? It was true she did look just like her. The same blond hair done up in odangos and the same fuku. Fighter had a hard time distinguishing what was going on.
Sailor Moon came up to her, as she was the closet one standing near her. "Don't come any closer." Fighter warned.
"What are you doing?!" Uranus yelled as she began to run over to them.
Sailor Moon began to take more steps towards her. "I'm warning you!" She held her yell in front of her. "Who are you?" She demanded as she refused to back away. She knew that Uranus was coming up behind her and knew that she didn't have much time.
"It's me. " Sailor Moon said. "Don't you remember me? Have I really been gone that long?" She said with a sweet smile and continued to step closer to Fighter.
"NO!" Fighter screamed. Uranus was almost upon her and she had to think fast. "STAR SERIOUS LASER!!"
The laser ripped through the night air and soared towards Sailor Moon. She must not have been expecting this because she had no time to react and was hit directly by the blast. Uranus was now on Fighter but a little too late. The other senshi that had regained consciousness rushed over to the fallen Sailor Moon. Fighter saw that she was unconscious and knew that she would be too soon if she didn't get out of there.
Fighter freed herself from Uranus's hold and took off. Uranus wasn't about to let her get away with hurting her princess that easily and took off into the night after her. Fighter saw this and knew that she couldn't go back to Kenada right now because she didn't want to lead Uranus right to him.
Kenada watched the whole scene unfold in front of him. He saw a girl that looked exactly the same as he used to laid out and bleeding on the ground as a result of Fighter's attack. A shiver went down her spine as she replayed the image of Fighter attacking her over in her mind.
Eventually Uranus returned to the scene and Kenada wondered if Fighter was safe. The senshi detransformed and brought Sailor Moon back to Rei's shrine to take care of her.
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Kenada walked in the door to find no lights on and no signs of Seiya anywhere. He tossed his keys down on the stand near the door and proceeded into the house turning the hall light on in the process. The answering machine was flashing with a single message. Kenada pressed play as he proceeded into the kitchen to make himself something to drink.
"Hello Kenada, this message is for Seiya. Please call me as soon as you get this, I'm really worried about you and I need to talk to you." The message played and Kenada didn't really seem to be effected by it too much. It had been Kakyuu checking up on Seiya.
Kenada finished what he was doing and began to head for his bedroom. There was no sense in going out to look for Seiya, if she was alright she would come home and if she wasn't alright. well he didn't even want to think about that.
"Are you sure you can still transform?" The question came from the dark room that Kenada just entered. It was Seiya sitting alone in the dark.
"What? Of course I can, what kind of question is that?" He asked.
"Show me."
Kenada flicked on the light next to the bed and saw Seiya's tear streaked face. She looked like hell and he could only begin to imagine what was wrong with her. "It was hard to attack me huh?" He said a little lightly to perhaps put some humor in the mood. It didn't work however and he knew that this was what was plaguing her. "What are you getting at anyway?"
"Just show me please. How do I know that you aren't the imposter? Maybe you really are Kenada and just disguise yourself as Usagi. Maybe that girl really is Sailor Moon, my Odango. and if she is that means that I just." Before her tears started again Seiya pleaded with him one more time. "Please Kenada, I need to see."
Kenada saw how much this was tearing her apart and saw no other way but to comply with what she asked. He pulled the broach out that was still in his pocket from going out tonight and held it up over his head and said those words that he never thought he'd have to say again. "MOON ETERNAL MAKE- UP!"
In seconds the room was filled with bright lights and feathers, suddenly Eternal Sailor Moon replaced Kenada. Seiya's face showed a smile as she stood up from her seat. A relieved sigh escaped Sailor Moon's lips as she saw this. The two wasted no time in walking towards each other and embraced in the middle of the room. "Thank you." Seiya said with tears streaming out of her eyes.
"Stop crying silly, you're going to make me." SM sniffed while she held her. Before she knew what was happening she found herself locked in a very passionate kiss with Seiya and this time she actually let herself enjoy it.
