Part IV
The park was cleared and there was no one around to see their landing. The three came out of their light and immediately ran for cover. They had no idea what kind of situation they would be transporting themselves into so their obvious first response is to take cover.
"Well now that we're here there's still one question. Should we detransform into our male forms or stay female?" Healer asked still checking behind her to make sure they hadn't been seen.
Maker looked at Fighter quickly before she started answering the question at hand. "We should be males. We don't know how long it will be before we find the princess again and we are going to need some means to survive here."
"Are you saying that we're going to take back up our careers?" Healer asked with wide eyes. "I thought we were going to lay low, that's kind of contradicting that whole idea isn't it?"
"Maker is right. The Princess obviously didn't want us to know why she was coming here otherwise she would have told us, which means that I'm sure she won't let us find her until she has done what she came to do." Fighter said taking one last look behind her to make sure that no one was watching before turning back into Seiya.
Healer and Maker followed his lead and also transformed. The three stood up from behind their cover. "Where to first?" Yaten asked directing his question more at Taiki than Seiya since he was sure that he had other things on his mind.
"Well what business would Kakyuu have here?" Taiki asked as a theoretical question. "The only people she knows on this planet are the planetary senshi." Taiki looked at Seiya with concern. "We have to trail them to see if they are aware of her presence here on Earth."
Yaten rubbed his hands together in a scary psycho way. "Great, we get to play detective!"
"I think you're a little too hyper about all of this…" Taiki sweat dropped. "We should split up and each of us cover certain senshi. I'll take Ami, Makoto, and Rei. Yaten you'll take Minako, Usagi, and Mamoru. And Seiya you will take the outer senshi, Haruka, Michiru, Setsuna and Hotaru, they all live together so it shouldn't be too hard. Agreed?"
"No, I'll take Usagi it's alright…" Seiya said with a certain sadness in his eyes.
"But you already have four people to look after and they live no where near the Juuban district." Yaten was actually being sensible, but he actually had an ulterior motive. He wanted to check out Usagi's life before Seiya did, he needed to know if Seiya was going to be able to take it.
Seiya just looked away a bit hurt in the direction of Usagi's house. "Fine…" He turned and walked off in the direction of the Outer's house.
"Meet us at the café on the corner of 4th and Lark St." Taiki said after the fading figure. Once Seiya was out of hearing range he turned down to Yaten. "I have a bad feeling about this."
~@~@~@~
"Now that we've been walking forever can I finally ask you both a question?" I said realizing that we were way out of harms way and just now clearing the wooded area. "What the hell are you two doing here?"
Helios and Kakyuu just looked at one another strangely. "The same thing you are."
"What?" I stopped and stared at them not really expecting an answer. "Is this all some sort of sick joke and everyone knows what's going on besides me?"
"You mean you're not here to help us?" Helios asked.
"I told you she had no idea about what was going on here." Kakyuu hissed at him and made me nervous in the process. "Let's get back to my place and we'll sit down and explain the whole thing to you. Sound good?"
"I guess." I started walking again, what choice did I really have?
We were soon in the city of Tokyo and near Kakyuu's apartment when Kakyuu and Helios suddenly disappeared into an alleyway. I stood there in the middle of the sidewalk completely confused until I saw him. I'm sure there was drool hanging heavily from my lip as I couldn't do anything but just sit there and stare at him. "Seiya…" I managed to mumble out as my senses picked up only him. He was heading in the direction that we had just come from.
Screw this, I thought to myself, I'm following Seiya. My feet started moving and I began to chase after him, that is until it felt like my arm was being ripped from its socket bringing me back to reality. "Hey! He's going to get away!" I said trying to struggle free from my captor.
"Shhh!" Helios put his hand over my mouth. "We can't let him know we're here."
"Why not?" I asked as he released me. "He doesn't know who you or I are."
Helios looked at Kakyuu for an answer. "She's right. Only I need to hide from my senshi."
"See! I could have chased after him!"
"And what would you have done?" Helios asked looking at me pretty retarded. "Drooled on him?" He began mocking me and making faces of what I can only assume he thought I looked like.
A quick smack to the back of the head from me ended that pretty quickly. Kakyuu laughed and began walking into the apartment building not too far ahead. "Behave you two." She spoke to us like we were children.
Once we were upstairs and safely locked away in her apartment Helios and I both bum-rushed the kitchen. "Out of my way! I thought it was ladies first?" I said to him as I tried to push my way past him.
"Yeah right! From what I've seen so far, who the hell can call you a lady?" He said pushing a little harder.
"Why you…"
"Yet another brilliant come back!"
"Shut up!" With my last burst of annoyance I some how found the energy to push my way in to the kitchen.
Kakyuu came up behind the both of us as we were piling food into our faces. "You two are just about as bad as Usagi!" She commented laughing.
"Hey, we should call them up!" I said starting to get a little bored.
"No way! What are you nuts?" Helios commented while crackers flew out of his face with every syllable. "They can't know I'm here!"
"Eh?"
"I came from the future. If they find out what I'm trying to do here… well all hell is gonna break loose." Helios stopped shoving goodies into his mouth.
"That's right, and no one can know that I'm here either. If they find out our plan won't work." Kakyuu joined us at the table.
"But they all know that I'm here… and I think they know something that I don't." I wanted to tell them about the whole fact that this was just some twisted episode of Sailor Moon that I some how got sucked into and that they were all fictional characters but for some reason that just didn't look like it was going to fly.
"Well, we can't let the outers get a hold of you again, there's no telling what those four are capable of." Helios stated grabbing his neck like he was strangling himself. Kakyuu and I just looked on bewildered.
"I believe the word you're looking for is … anyway…" I said as I looked at Kakyuu.
"Shut up!"
"No you shut up!"
"God, you two like children." Kakyuu sighed. "I don't even think Seiya and Yaten are this bad! Helios, tell her the story already."
"Fine!" He said as he grabbed the last cookie from right in front of me. He just smiled over and shoved it in his mouth. When he was done chewing a completely serious mood settled over the room. "Let me start with how I came to be here. I was to marry Usagi in the not to distant future, wait you probably know her as Chibi-Usa."
I nodded and he continued. "Unbeknownst to me she loved another."
"But how? I thought she was completely in love with you?" I asked.
"That was the past, she had grown and matured and must have realized that I was just a childhood crush and knew she had to move on. Well she did move on. Sailor Saturn had been appointed as her body guard so I wasn't surprised when I saw them together always, besides they were best friends. I found out that they were more than just friends. I found out the hard way. Having not suspected any of what I saw when I walked in her room just magnified my hurt. My love in the arms of another." Helios looked visibly upset but persevered to go on.
"Furious that I had been so blind I ran to the gates of time, I ran to Pluto. I told her that I was going to come back to the past and set everything right. I argued with her, she had no intention of letting me by. My original intentions were not to come to this time but to go to the time that I fell in love with Chibi-Usa and gave her my heart. If I could stop that from happening then I would never have gotten hurt. As I argued with Pluto however I realized just how deeply this problem was rooted." He paused to gather his thoughts I'd imagine, took a deep breath and continued.
"In the future I became personal aid to the King. He is miserable."
"Why?" I asked.
"King Endymion knows that Serenity loves another, and that she has since the moment she met him. Their marriage is a lie that is killing them both slowly. Neither of them mention any of this to anyone and put up the perfect front as King and Queen but I know the truth. I knew then that I had to come back to this time and set right that injustice of love to stop the suffering. I believe that Pluto let me pass and also summoned Kakyuu because of her love for Mamoru, the King."
I sat puzzled. "But if you stop Usagi and Mamoru from getting together than Chibi-Usa will never be born. You'd kill her just because of a broken heart?" I was amazed at what he was purposing.
"Wait you don't understand. It's not like I want anyone to get hurt here, Usagi came to me with her doubts before her and Mamoru were married and I was the one that convinced her that marrying Mamoru was the right thing to do. I know that it was selfish of me since I didn't really believe this, but Chibi-Usa had to be born, for me."
"So why don't they just get a divorce in the future and that way everyone can live on with their lives?" There had to be another way around this mess and I was determined to find it.
Kakyuu shook her head. "It wouldn't matter if they divorced or not."
"Why? You can't tell me that the kingdom would fall because of a divorce." I questioned.
"No, that's not it. If Usagi divorced Mamoru in the future for her true love it would make no difference since her true love has already died." Kakyuu got a terrible look of sadness about her.
"Is her true love Seiya?" I asked.
Kakyuu nodded. "Fighter is destined to live with a broken heart in the future and because of that takes her own life."
"So you see, you're saving from death by not giving some one else the opportunity to live and saving hearts in the process." Helios looked at me, I knew he was trying to read my expression. "Will you help us?"
~@~@~@~
Yaten knelt down behind the car in the driveway and observed the scene before him. Usagi, Minako and Mamoru were all walking up to the outer's mansion as the outers came out. "Shit, Seiya's going to be here too…" He whispered as he looked around for signs of his partner. Nothing.
"What are you guys doing here so late?" Michiru asked as she watched Haruka give Usagi a hug.
"We came to see Morgan." Minako winked at her. "Mamoru doesn't believe she exists."
Michiru looked at Mamoru suspiciously. Mamoru held his hands up in defense. "They said they met a cartoon character and I just wanted to see if they had completely lost it or not."
"Honest Mamo-chan, she's real."
"Usako, you've had crazier ideas in your head." He frowned at her as though he suddenly became embarrassed by her stupidity.
"Well you're going to have to see her some other time because she's not here." Haruka said in a rather pissy tone. She couldn't very well tell her to stay away from her, then she would have to explain the situation. "Mamoru, can we talk later?"
Mamoru became a little surprised by Haruka's question but nodded that he would. "Can you girls make it back by yourselves?" He asked.
"But Mamo-chan it's dark out…" Usagi whined as she tugged at his sleeve.
Mamoru rolled his eyes and sighed. "Usako, you have Minako with you."
"Yeah Usagi, I'm here." Minako said pulling Usagi's arm. Usagi just waved goodbye and followed her. Yaten moved quickly to follow them, it was Seiya's job to keep an eye on the outers. He jumped up in the tree next to him so that he could follow them from above, as he did though he caught a glimpse of a black haired spy looking longingly at the two blonds who had just left.
"Don't do it to yourself again Seiya…" Yaten whispered to himself and continued to follow them.
"Usagi?" Minako asked. "Why don't you kiss Mamoru goodbye any more?"
Usagi perked up at the question but then calmed herself a bit before answering. "I don't know, I guess I just forgot." She shrugged it off and hoped Minako would do the same.
"You forgot to give Mamoru a kiss? Yeah right! Now tell me what's really going on?" Minako had stopped for her sudden out burst.
"Nothing really." Usagi tried to start walking again but noticed that Minako wasn't following her. "Don't worry about it, it's nothing." Usagi turned and continued on her way.
Minako still didn't follow and just let her go on her own. "Yeah right nothing my ass! I'm the freakin senshi of love, and she doesn't think I know when something is going on?" Minako grumbled to herself. A slight noise from the tree above her startled her and she pulled her belt off.
Minako walked slowly up to the tree she heard the noise from and launched her belt at its branches. "VENUS LOVE ME BELT!" She yelled.
Minako was suddenly knocked to the ground by a heavy force. "AHHH!!! Get off of me!!" She screamed.
"Get off of you? You're the dumbass that knocked me down!" Yaten yelled as he got up and fixed his hair.
"Yaten?" Minako stared up in surprise from her position on the ground.
"Nice to see you too Minako." He smiled and she fainted on the ground with hearts in her eyes. As he bent down to wake her up with a sigh he saw a quick flash of light speed by him. "Shit, Seiya what are you doing?" He asked into the night air as he looked off in the direction that the light had gone… towards Usagi's house.
~@~@~@~
Usagi walked home mumbling to herself incoherently. Seiya kept his distance and just observed her. He went to the outer's house and knew that Kakyuu wasn't there so he saw no harm in watching after Usagi, especially since Mamoru had made her walk home by herself.
Usagi took a strange turn from her course and was now in the direction of the park that was not too far away. When she reached the park she simply sat down on the bench and watched the moonlight reflecting on the water. "It's so beautiful." She said to herself. "And as usual I'm here alone."
Seiya sat in the tree just above her and took his eyes from her to see what she was looking at. The moon, it truly was magnificent. But the Earth held the moon and it would always be that way. It's whole existence revolved around the Earth just as Usagi's entire existence revolved around Mamoru. Pathetic. Seiya thought, or was it just pathetic because he wasn't the man that captivated her so much?
"Usagi? What are you doing here?" Luna asked walking up to the bench. "Did you fight with Mamoru again?"
Usagi smiled at Luna. "No, I behaved."
"Usagi, it's not good for you to feel this way."
"I know, but I don't know what else to do about it. Minako questioned me about it today. Am I that transparent?" Usagi asked the small cat that sat on the bench with her.
Luna sighed and looked up at Usagi. "Sometimes you're like an open book but I don't know if it's just because I know."
"They'll all kill me if I tell them what's wrong."
"They won't kill you, they'll understand, they're your friends." Luna picked her head up at noise.
"How can I tell them that I love some one else and not Mamoru? How can I tell them that I love…" Usagi stopped as she saw how alert Luna was. "What is it?"
"Let's get home." Luna said still looking around suspiciously.
"Odango doesn't love Mamoru any more… but who does she love now?" Seiya pondered as he watched the two leave the park.