Well hello minna-san! it's been awhile, ne? totally my fault, and I'm sooo sorry it took so long to get this out, but in my defense I did have school to bug me!

First it was midterms and then the teachers started piling on the christmas work, and now it's just project after project that needs completing! Not only that, but my  brother shares this computer and he had all those university exams to study for, and essays to write… but it's all over now and I should be a lot quicker getting chapter 7 out ^-^

In answer to a couple people's e-mails from before, yes Usagi and Seiya were both virgins in chapter 3. Usagi really couldn't stand Mamoru and in fact slept in a different room than him. At the beginning of Stars Seiya was 16 (or turned 16 somewhere near that camping episode), which is just barely legal in japan, and in love with Usagi. He's still 16 in chapter 3 so I doubt he's been with someone else besides Usagi.

Now that that's out of the way, I present to you, drum roll please,

Sasurai no Nagareboshi – Chapter 6

Usagi strolled happily down the street, shopping bag in hand. Her and Seiya were at a climax in their relationship and had been since they had cleared up a few of their misunderstandings. Usagi was totally comfortable with things the way they were at that moment, and Mamoru hadn't been around in awhile so maybe this moment of calm would last.

There was one thing bothering her though. School. That epitome of hell that she would have to spend another year and a half of her life in. Summer holidays would be ending in a few weeks, and then it would be back to studying, assignments, and failed tests. At least Seiya would have to suffer with her, and maybe Yaten and Taiki too, if they planned on staying. As long as she wasn't the only one going through pain, she'd be able to survive.

'Usagi-chan?'

Usagi was snapped out of her thoughts and she was greeted with a pair of annoyed green eyes.

'Sorry Yaten!' She apologized. 'I was just thinking about something.'

'Yeah, that much was obvious. Were you thinking of someone with blue hair and indigo eyes?' Yaten teased.

Usagi shook her head. 'Nope! I was thinking of Seiya.'

(picture Yaten doing that little anime trademark falling over thing)

'Usagi! That's who I was describing!'

'No, no, Seiya doesn't have blue hair.' Usagi shook her head some more. 'And you call yourself a friend of his. Can't even take the time to look at his hair…'

'Fine!' Yaten said. 'You don't have to believe me, but if you want the proof that I'm right, just ask Sei—hey, Usa? Isn't that Mamo-baka over there? Walking towards us?'

'What? Where?' Usagi shielded her eyes from the sun and looked in the direction that Yaten pointed out for her. Sure enough, there was Mamoru, grinning cockily and heading their way.

Usagi sighed in frustration. 'I don't have the patience for this any more. Can't he just break his ankle or something, and leave us alone for awhile?' She swung her arms out as she spoke and her shopping bag went crashing into Mamoru's chest.

'Gomen,' Usagi said. 'I didn't meant to hit you, but you did deserve it, you ass.'

'Yeah right, you little whore.' Mamoru stood up and brushed himself off. He looked up in time to see Yaten's fist connect with his face.

'Damn, Usagi, you better appreciate that.' Yaten complained. 'I don't like physical exertion, and that man's face is as hard as it is ugly! He's probably built up a resistance for how many times he's been hit there.'

Usagi smiled at Yaten, but her expression turned sour when she cast her eyes over the bleeding man in front of her. 'Mamoru, I'm not afraid of you anymore. I'm more disgusted by how pathetic you are.'

He looked up at her and she noticed a couple things wrong with his face. No, not the blood pouring out of his nose. His eyes, there was something wrong with them. They were no more than tiny slits, glowing red.

'Damn it!' Usagi screamed. 'Why does this always have to happen on a good day?'

Yaten had also noticed what was causing Usagi annoyance, and she helped her drag Mamoru into an alley-way. (wow, it seems like a lot of my scenes take place in alleys^-^)

'So, can we kill him?' Yaten asked nonchalantly. 'He's evil right, 'cause most regular people's eyes don't glow, so we can kill him, can't we?'

'No!' Usagi looked shocked. 'He's still a person, somewhere in there.'

Yaten shrugged her shoulders. 'Just a suggestion.'

Mamoru looked back and forth between the two girls, confused. 'How can it be that you're not worried about what I'm going to do to you? Are you really so foolish?'

Yaten smiled at him. 'Listen honey, you haven't done anything scary yet, and you've been evil for how long? Why don't you just wait over there in the corner, while we figure out what to do with you, okay?'

She turned back to Usagi, who had already transformed into Eternal Sailor Moon. 'Yay! Powers!'

Eternal Sailor Moon walked over to where Mamoru stood and faced him. 'Yaten, would you give me a hand and restrain him so he doesn't get away?'

Yaten did as was asked of her and held Mamoru's arms from behind.

Sailor Moon pulled out her tier and pointed it at Mamoru. 'STARLIGHT… HONEYMOON… THERAPY… KISS!!!'

The black haired man screamed in aguish as a very small red spirit was pulled out of him. It disintegrated and Mamoru fell to the floor, unconscious.

Yaten shook her head. 'Tsk, tsk… can't even get posessed by one of the good demons…' She kicked Mamoru in the side. 'What now?'

Usagi de-transformed and helped Yaten lift Mamoru so that they were like human crutches for him. 'We bring him back to his apartment and let him rest.'

***

Mamoru awoke with a pounding headache. He groaned and tried to sit up, but found it was futile when the room around him began to sway.  He took a deep breath and tried again, but his efforts were proving useless, so he gave up and lay back in bed. He tried to remember how he'd gotten there in the first place, and judging by the size of his headache he was either hung over, or recovering from a head injury. He was so tired that he didn't even hear the light steps of someone's feet; he didn't even hear the sigh that accompanied them.

He shut his eyes, trying to will the pain away.

Damn, I must be pretty good, he thought, as he felt something cool slip onto his forehead.  He opened his eyes again and found himself staring into another pair of blue ones. The blues eyes widened and then the soothing hand disappeared from his forehead.

'Usagi…?'

Usagi's face began to come into focus, and she turned away from him. 'Go back to sleep.' She made her way to the door.

'Wait,' Mamoru called. 'Where are you going? Usa…'

Usagi gave him a sad look before heading out and closing the door behind her.

Mamoru scrambled off his bed to chase her, but in his weakened state he collapsed by the side of his bed. The darkness called out to him and he willlingly gave into it's seductiveness as it wrapped silently around him.

***

The sound of a door closing softly caught Seiya's attention, and he looked up just in time to see a solemn Usagi hanging up her coat.

'Hey,' he said. 'Where'd you go today?' It was Sunday, the day after Usagi's shopping trip with Yaten, and Seiya was hunting for clues as to why she looked so down. It wasn't a normal Usagi trademark.

Usagi sat down next to him and laid her head on his shoulder. 'I went to visit an old friend of mine. It turns out he's changed quite a bit since the last time I've seen him. It's kind of a good change…'

'HE, eh?' Seiya smiled. 'Should I be worried?'

'You have absolutely no reason to get jealous,' Usagi teased.

Seiya pretended to be insulted. 'Hey, who said I was jealous? I'm just looking out for your well being. Maybe this man seems like a nice person, but he could just be out to take advantage of pretty girls.'

Seiya's remark was said in a joking manner, but with Usagi it really hit home. She sighed and lowered her head. 'Actually, with him that's not totally impossible…'

Seiya pulled back from Usagi and looked her in the eyes. 'And just what is that supposed to mean Usagi?'

Usagi looked away. 'Nothing, I didn't mean anything by it.'

Seiya opened his mouth to respond, and then sighed. 'You know, I should probably be a little more worried, but something tells me that you know what you're doing. I trust that you can take care of yourself, but I just wish that you could confide in me, that's all.'

'Damn it,' Usagi pouted. 'You sure know how to pour on the guilt, huh? Well fine, I'll tell you what happened, but you won't like it.'

Seiya listened patiently as Usagi recounted the events of the previous day. '….and when I went to check up on him today he was awake. I honestly don't believe he knew what was happening to him. I don't think he remembered anything at all.'

Seiya stayed silent for a moment, and then he grabbed Usagi and kissed her, like he hadn't seen her in ages. 'You really have an exceptionally big heart, you know that?' he whispered. 'But I take back everything I said earlier, you obviously cannot take care of yourself. How did you know he didn't remember anything? What if he had tried to hurt you some more?'

'But, Seiy—'

'No,' Seiya cut her off. 'Promise me you won't go see him unless someone's with you. Preferably me.'

Usagi stared at him, as if unwilling to make that promise.

'Promise me.'

Her resolve wavered, and before she could stop herself Usagi had burst out laughing. 'You're so cute when you're worried!! Fine, fine! I promise! You can come with me next time I go see him, okay?' Usagi smiled softly. 'Will that make you feel better?'

'Hai,' Seiya nodded. 'That will make me feel better.'

'Good. Now let's go get something for dinner, maybe that little specialty shop outside the market? I bet we could find some great food there!' Usagi could feel her mouth watering at the prospect of dinner.

This time it was Seiya who couldn't help but laugh. 'All right, Usagi-sama, the princess shall get her food.'

And they went to that little specialty shop, bickering all the way, and yet with more love than it seemed possible.

***

Whew! It's finally out!! Gomen, but despite what that not at the beginning says, this is entirely my fault!! That note was actually written a month ago!! VioletAngel's been lazy, I'm afraid, but my holidays have been so comfortable.

Hey, did it get a little sappy near the end? That last paragraph isn't suposed to be so…… *shudders* oh well, I'm lazy an' it took way t long to get this out, so, no more procrastinating, this is goin' up! And by the way, none of my work has been beta read and most of my changes don't get made 'til months after I post when I realize that something's wrong an' I feel like changin' it, so don't mind any weirdness!

Oooh!! And I've been watching Fushigi Yuugi!!! I love that anime and before now I'd only seen the crappy dub version, and that version doesn't even honor my little okama-sama's death as much as it should.

Oops, was that a spoiler? Well I guess it's only a spoiler if you've watched FY and you know what okama means, so no worries!  

Mmmmmm…… I think I'm gonna try my hand at writing some hotohori/nuriko yaoi fanfic……… that would just be soooo yummy ^-^.

Ja ne, minna-san!!

~*VioletAngel*~

or

~*YanagiStar*~

(if you wanna read some lemons, that's the penname you need to check out. That is, whenever I get around to posting them ^_~.)