Back at the hotel, Setsuna with her staff at hand concentrated her energy to it as a bright light filled the room. In an instant she, was at her place at the Gate of Time. "Dear Portal of Time, please show me the future since this great change." The doors of the gate slowly opened, and a dim light confronted her.
"Take this you ugly youma!" A senshi, with a blue, gold, and white uniform yelled as attacked the youma. Her tiara sat at the top of her head the ends pointed up like cat ears and directly the behind the tiara laid two French braids trailing back and ended at her knees. Her uniform looked similar to Eternal Sailor Moons only the only difference was the color.
Setsuna gasped as she girl was hit.
Shaking her head, the girl looked up at the youma with anger. "Cats pounce!" Two large breams hit the youma, as it smoked it fell to its knees.
"Time to fry! Butt wipe!" She pulled out a sword that rested at her side, her hands glided along it's long length as the jewels glistened on it, the handle was the most unique apart, in stead of being gold like the rest of the sword, it was pink. "Golden Moon…" She called out; everything seemed to darken around her the only light was coming from the sword. "…World Shaking!" She brought up the sword and hit the ground with it, the light shot out of the sword and through the ground hitting the youma as it cried in agony. The cry was not long, for it was gone when the light hit it.
Two women seemed to come out of nowhere, clapping, one with short blue hair and the other with short blonde hair.
"Ohayoo Mercury, mother!" She squealed running to the two, tripping into the one she called mother. "Gomen!" She placed a hand behind her head and force out a loud.
"Oh Koneko." Be blue one called Mercury said.
"Koneko-chan, you're learning so quickly. I'm proud of you." She hugged her daughter as all three transformed.
"What do you say we go and find something sweet to eat, maybe ice cream." The blue haired one Mercury began to walk around. "I say Koneko buys."
"I agree with you." The blonde woman began to follow.
"Iie! Mother! Ami-chan! I spent all my allowance! Wait up!"
Setsuna jumped as the gates shut infront of her face. "Oh Kami…" She covered her mouth. "That was Ami and Haruka…so that must have been Usagi." She turned back to the gates, "What will happened to the rest of us!" She screamed at the closed doors, but there was only silence for her answer. Then, the next thing she knew, she was back at the hotel room.
**
"Iie, she is not here. She checked out around 3 o'clock this afternoon. She caught one of our shuttles to the airport," He paused then added, "with, I'm guessing, her child." Akio lied rocking the carrier with his foot. The man backed off, and so did the other.
"A-arigatou." Then, they all piled out of the lobby, leaving other impatience customers behind.
Akio's friend stared at him as her picked up the carrier then turned back to the other guest. "Gomen nasai for the wait…"
Akio walked out of the lobby in time to she two cars leaving the driveway. He placed Koneko in the back seat and strapped her in, she event still in his mind. "Koneko, we have about twenty five more minutes until it's time to go pick up mommy, so lets go to the park." He started the car, and again pulled off quickly, "Opps." He said to himself and slowed down.
*
At the park by where Haruka had her interview, Akio sat on the grass with Koneko in his lap as she nibbled on the stuffed cats ear. Akio had his hand on her chin and as she nibbled droll dripped from her mouth onto his hand. "We have to get that under control you know." He watched her and she began to hop a little as she stared at the butterflies around the park, she removed the cat from her mouth and giggled as she bounced. "Whoa there!" He laughed along with her and she giggled louder and louder.
"Oh my! What a kawaii chibi bouncer you have there." A female voice said beside him. He turned, "Oh it's you Haruka"
"Expecting a beautiful woman in a floral dress with long beautiful hair, and bright smile, and large blue eyes you just want to dive into them?"
Akio pretended to think, "Hai, I was."
I smacked him on the back of the head, "Well, this is all you're going to get." I said plainly.
"Well, I like it better anyway." He said looking down at Koneko.
I stayed silent, shocked at what he said. "Uh…how…was your day?"
Akio noticed the change in the subject. "It was fine, some people came by looking for you."
"Nani!" I felt as if my eyes were going to pop out. "Who?"
"A large group of people, young and a little old, dark hair and one have aqua colored hair. You know them?"
"Iie…I mean Hai. I mean, I thought I did." I looked down and picked up Koneko's baby bag.
"What's going on, Haruka? I know you do not really know me, but you don't know anyone else here is seems. You can trust me, I lied for you I said you went to the air port. What's going on?"
"You wouldn't understand." I took Koneko from his arms.
"Want to bet?" He stood up dusting off her jeans and crossed his arms.
I locked my eyes with his, "Hai, I want to bet."