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Chapter one Will I?
Setsuna, hurried down the hospital hallways eager to return to the Timegates. There had to be a simple explanation to the recent events...There had to be a way to correct this mistake. With those thoughts in mind, she quicken her already frantic pace.
"Meiou Setsuna." a soft voice called out. The senshi of time, ignored the voice and continued on her way. "Sailor Pluto." the same voice spoke again.
"What!" She snapped, not realizing what the stranger had called her. The words sank in as she turned around. The young girl no more then seventeen stood a few feet away from her. Soft blue eyes watched her sadly, under a fringe of blue-violet bangs. She wore a white kimono, much like that of a priestess of a ancient cult. But what really caught her attention was the slender chain link belt around her waist. It held Setsuna's remaining timekeys.
The girl caught her incredulous look, and casted her a sympathetic look. "The time has come Setsuna."
"What are you..." Setsuna started to say, when it dawn on her. "No, it can't be. I have to find Usagi. I have my duty to my princess. The timeline must be corrected!"
"Gomen, Setsuna-sama. Sailor Pluto" The garnet rod appeared before the girl. Taking the rod in her hands, a incantation echoed softly in the empty hallway. The staff began to glow a faint green, as it changed from its distinct key-like shape, into a ordinary staff, her talisman still adoring the top. The object return to its mistress, "Your duty is done."
At Hikawa shrine, Hino Rei, stared numbly at her hands, still dressed in her school uniform. She had heard about the bombing when she passed an appliance store. There, at least twenty TV's mocked her with the aftermath of the attack. From there she had tried to go to hospital, and find out anything about her friends. But she wasn't family, and no one would tell her anything. Damn doctors, didn't they know Usagi, Minako, Makoto and Ami, were part of her family?
Rei stared at the shatter pieces on the communicator on the floor. She had to wait until Ami called her. Two hours of waiting and pacing, until she knew. The priestess didn't need anyone to tell her, that she didn't take it well. Two of her friends were unconscious in the hospital, Usagi was missing and replaced by someone that was to suppose to be dead. Not many people would take it well. Rei, buried her head in hers arms...she hated this feeling of helplessness. Maybe if she had been there...
Something warm was wrapped around her shoulders. Rei looked up, to see her grandfather. He had wrapped a warm blanket around her. "Its getting cold, Rei-chan. Don't stay out too long."
"Ojiisan..."
Hino-san looked at his beautiful granddaughter. Always so strong, able to take anything life throws in her way. Though right now, she needed someone else to be strong. He gathered her in his arms, and let her cry. "Everything will be alright, Rei-chan, you'll see. For now its okay to cry. Tomorrow, you can be strong."
Voices penetrated the dark. She didn't recognized them. They weren't very pleasant to listen to, as they argued. But that took a back seat to the soft pain drilling through her body.
"Get rid of her, Tot." A lady ordered, "This girl isn't something to add to your doll collection! She could interfere with our duty."
"Iie! Bunny-chan stays with me!" a slightly familiar voice exclaimed. "She's mine!"
"Tot, this girl is not a damn doll!" yet another insisted.
"Lovely child. Lost many jobs to children like her," a sardonic tone, commented, "She's almost doll-like, Tot, but she's not a doll."
With an uncharacteristic, serious face, Tot, turned to her teammates, "No, Bunny-chan stays with me."
She didn't understand, the argument, nor did she care. She was in pain. Perhaps one of them would help her... maybe take her out of her pain. She opened in her mouth, only to have her body raked with painful coughs.
Tot, quickly moved to her side, "Tot-chan is here. Everything will be okay."
Six months later
"Yes, I understand, Lt. Yuushi. Arigato," Tsukino Kenji, spoke politely into his phone, before hanging up. He raked his hands through his hair. Never in his life as a parent, had he ever felt so helpless. His daughter was out there, alone, with God knows who and the Tokyo Police was calling off the active search. How could he break this news to Ikuko and Shingo?
"Tsukino, hate to rush you..." a co-worker called out, 'But we need the Takatori photographs, before three!"
"You'll have them." Kenji, replied. As the man left, he pulled out a manila envelope. Glossy five by eighties photographs, fell across his desk. From the pile, he pulled out, a photograph of Takatori Reiji, looking arrogant and pompous as Kenji remembered him. Besides him, stood Takatori Shuuchi, appearing a bit older, then the last time they met. He looked at his array of picture frames: A recent family portrait, baby pictures and school pictures of both Shingo and Usagi. He brought the family portrait closer, and gave one last glance it, before pulling out a black address book. Kenji turned to the 'T' section and look at the two names.
Takatori Reiji
Takatori Shuuchi
Evil or good...
Kenji closed his eyes. Damnit! Since he was a young boy, he had wanted a simple family life, not the power hungry chaos that surrounded the Takatori's. Why couldn't one run from the Takatori name?
"Bunny-chan!"
Tsukino Usagi, looked up from her book, as the familiar childish voice and waved. "Tot-neesan!" She slowly got to her feet. Her legs, were still weak from her accident, but were slowly healing. She swayed slightly before the older girl steadied her. She smiled, "Why did you take so long, 'neesan?"
Tot didn't answer, just looped her arm through Usagi's and opened her umbrella. "Lets walk, Bunny-chan. Today, the pretty flowers are out."
Usagi, nodded. It didn't escape her notice that her 'sister' didn't answer her question. There are many questions that went unanswered, here. Usagi quickly learned to say nothing. The petite blonde glanced back the mansion, and shuddered. "A chill," she lied, when Tot looked down at her. She might have lack any memories of who she was, but she knew that something, was going on in that house. It scared her. Had she awaken into a dream or nightmare?
"Bunny-chan..." Tot, said, softly, "Don't be scared. I'm here...My umbrella!"
Usagi, let her gaze follow the airborne umbrella as Tot raced after the object. A unfamiliar young boy caught it. He was handsome is a boyish way, Usagi stared at him, as he presented himself to Tot, not in the least frightened of Tot's blade protruding from her umbrella tip. Where had that come from? His blue eyes were haunting and cold, as he spare her a glance. She wrapped her arms around, as she watched the scene unfold before her. They, this Naoe Nagi and Tot, shared a something, that she didn't understand. A secret.
A dangerous secret.
Tot let out, a delight squeal, as cherry blossom petals danced in the wind, almost by Nagi's will. With widen eyes, Usagi looked on in confusion, "How?" She gazed beyond, Nagi's shoulder, to see two figures, watching them intently. Usagi shuddered, and turned her gaze away.
Something was going to happen...and soon.
"Damnit, Setsuna!" Tenoh Haruka, bellowed, as her fist, pounded against a marble desk. "Why didn't you called us, when this happen? We could have been here."
"How could you keep this from us?" Kaioh Michiru, asked softly, "Usagi's our princess. We should have been here with the rest of senshi."
Setsuna, said, nothing. She didn't know what to say That had been happening a lot lately. "Gomen ne."
Ami spoke up," Would it have matter if you were here? There is no trace of Usagi...nor the Ginzuishou..." Ami stopped before she broke down. She knew if she dwelled on it to much, she would break down. She had to remind detached to get the job done. "All our efforts have failed. I doubt you could do better."
"In the mean time we're stuck with the undead princess, who has half of Tokyo, following her like bees to honey," Makoto muttered.
"With Mamoru as head bee," Rei stated, sourly. It bothered her to no end that Mamoru had easily forgotten, his 'beloved' and would have tossed him into the great fire, if he wasn't the prince of earth.
Minako nodded, "Serenity is very different from Usagi. With the princess...there a distance between all of us." Minako, looked away, not wanting to reveal the look of hurt on her face.
"Haruka, Michiru, she won't know you." Setsuna stated, quietly, "Serenity, never met the Outers, besides me. The night of the fall of the Silver Millennium, she was suppose to meet you for the first time. Remember, we protect the solar system from afar. She only knew the Inners"
"Anything else we should know?" Haruka, replied, looking away. Finding out that her Koneko-chan wouldn't know her, hurt, a lot more than she cared to admit.
"Another has taken my place as the guardian of time."
