Created: 6/10/02

Day 5

Haruka blinked at the two girls and then her face turned white, and then a lovely shade of pink, red with anger, and a few other colors in between that Chibiusa and Hotaru could not quite read off of the lean girl's face.

Hotaru explained it quickly... and in a carefully laid out plan, she'd brought Chibiusa with her for backup and support in the affair of telling Haruka ahead of the bet, why Michiru was so mad at her.

The off-duty senshi, who was usually cool, and very dignified, was turning a lovely shade of purple now. She didn't have any words, as Hotaru could tell. Hotaru ducked as Haruka opened her mouth, and covered her ears.

Haruka instead muttered something very incoherent, and then said, very calmly, "Would you tell me that again?"

Chibiusa repeated it very slowly.

Haruka turned on her heel and a soft slam issued through the echoy house. Hotaru eyed the crack in the ceiling. It had grown.

Michirou couldn't figure out what to do... she had a date with a guy. She remembered in high school how she knew that she didn't like guys. Some people that were homosexual often dated guys just for the illusion of being heterosexual.

That was when she'd started to sneak off to read magazines about the ideal relationship. She'd hid it in school, too ashamed to really tell anyone, until she saw Haruka racing one day.

Michirou looked at the time, and immediately regretted the date. Why oh why did she have to agree to date him? This wasn't her. She'd won the bet.

Then her mind raced again on how Haruka had hit on Dousei. Haruka and Michiru had been together a long time. Haruka had never done anything as sleazy as that before. The excuses that Haruka had made ran through her head... again and again.

The man looked at Michirou, and said, "I thought you might want to go to a bar."

Michirou said, "I've gone to a lot of bars." Unperturbed the man said, "Is something wrong?"

Michirou said, "I really should tell you something."

It wasn't long before the ambulance came. Normally, you'd expect that either one of the blond senshi, even Haruka to be in the center of this mess of ambulances and emergency vehicles, but instead, there was a lone guy with aquamarine hair standing there looking entirely guilty.

There was a guy muttering something incoherently as he was loaded in the truck. Even though the doctors knew his condition to be pure shock, poor Michirou had no way of finding out since he wasn't family.

The scene of ambulances didn't fail to attract a large crowd, including a certain someone who had blond hair blue eyes and a pretty red bow that a sempai told her that looked good on her.

But at the same time in Michiru's utter humiliation, there was Dousei in the crowd. Dousei was waving at her, and trying to get her attention.

Michiru sheepishly, not feeling like her graceful self, went over to Dousei.

Dousei said, "Haruka explained everything. I'm so sorry that I caused so much trouble! I seriously didn't know."

Michiru's face turned even redder as Dousei explained. Soon, there was nothing, and Michiru blacked out-- to be more exact she fainted.

A deep voice and a more feminine voice were talking. There was a groan. As Michiru came to, she realized immediately, who the voices were.

She opened her eyes and saw white hair paired with a beautiful set of blue eyes stare at her. The face was hiding concern, and something of embarrassment.

"You honestly didn't know?" was all that Michiru could say weakly.

A dry sarcastic annoyed voice came from the white-haired girl's mouth, "No, I didn't know."

For the too many times that day, Michiru blushed.

A light girlish voice chimed in, "The doctors had a shock when they found out you were a girl."

Michiru stared at Haruka and then at the blond-haired girl that had started the mess. She stared at Haruka again.

"What is she doing here?" Michiru tried to say gracefully.

Haruka sighed as she explained how Minako had been spying on Michiru.

The next set of events are too ugly to describe, but suffice to say, Minako wasn't in that hospital room for long.

It took a long, long time before Michiru could fully admit she was wrong. It wasn't Haruka's fault that she didn't know that Dousei was also homosexual, and had a big crush on Haruka. Michiru was sure that Haruka knew. Everyone knew that next to Michiru, Dousei was the one that cheered on Haruka, and also was gay.

Even a blind person could see that Dousei's parents had even seemed to prophesize her being homosexual when they named their daughter Dousei, Hotaru reflected.

Hotaru knew how bad it was that she was Sailor Saturn... since the Japanese word for Saturn was "dousei". Dousei was Japanese also for lesbian. If anyone found out about her other identity, Sailor Saturn... no one would take it seriously that she was not a lesbian herself. She would be endlessly teased. After all, some strange power constantly had her say, "Atashi wa Sera Senshi no Dousei", really secretly humiliated her. At least no other Senshi had to put up with strange glares when they transformed and said their line. She was supposed to be the Senshi of Revolution, and be able to destroy the world. It didn't help to have people laugh at her introduction every time she said it.

Hotaru had complained about it on more than one occasion, asking how a person could really take her seriously, when she's announcing that she is the sailor soldier of lesbians. In Family-oriented Japan, despite what the manga said, it still elicited some laughs and giggles.

Michiru eventually had let Haruka play on her violin, after Haruka had conceded to let Michiru to drive Haruka's car along the coast near Tokyo.

But all that left was for Haruka to find a girl that would flirt with her that didn't know she was a girl. All the Sailor Soldiers feeling bad for Haruka had decided to eventually pitch in. Chibiusa almost tried to trick Naruru and Ruruna into flirting with Haruka, but they were too occupied with rumors that the Hammer Price Shrine was being rebuilt to actually show up where Chibiusa placed them.

It looked hopeless and there was only 2 days left to help Haruka win the bet, since Minako had decided that Haruka should pay the full consequences of her actions.

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