Hey everybody! Sorry it took me so long to get this revised chapter out. School's been crazy and I've been working on my site and trying to finish chapter 5 of Better Days, which I did. But I have an idea for a fic, but it probably won't be out for another month.

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon and if you didn't know this little bit of information then there is something seriously wrong with you.

Chapter 3

"AAAAHHHHH!"

* kick *

* punch *

* kick *

Solius steps back and blocks her move all the while lifting a questioning eyebrow. Usagi was too busy concentrating on her fighting skills to notice. However, he's granted a questioning gaze when he stops moving completely to stare at her.

"Nani? Why'd you stop?"

Solius frowned at the question.

"Well it's kind of difficult to concentrate when you're screaming in my ear."

She smiles sheepishly.

"Gomen. I was watching this karate tournament last night and for some reason they would scream every time they kicked or punched…." Usagi rolled her eyes and shook her head before continuing, "…it was so annoying."

Solius cleared his throat.

"If it was so annoying then why the hell are you making me suffer the same fate as you did last night? Have you no consideration?" he says feigning hurt.

He grabs a bottle of water and sits down on the couch. "Time out! We need a break."

"Doushite? I was just getting started. Besides, I'm in a kick ass mood and I can't do that if you are sitting on the ass that I plan to use."

She grabbed his wrist and tried to pull him off the couch but she was unsuccessful since he was trying so hard to resist the gesture. She eventually let him go as he slumped back into the cushions with a huff breathing hard through his nose.

"Don't tell me your tired," she teased.

"Hai! We've been practicing for three hours straight!" he yells incredulously.

She smirks, "now how does the trainer get tired before his trainee?" When he didn't answer she continued.

"What happens when we have to fight? You can't call time out in the middle of a battle just because you're tired."

He took a gulp from his bottle and smirked.

"That may be true, demo you forget, it's your job to fight, not mine. I'll only help when need be."

Usagi sucked her teeth and walked over to the cooler with an attitude in her steps. Grabbing her own Dasani bottle, she sat in the chair across from the couch where her trainer resided.

"The kurai forces haven't attacked in almost 3 weeks. You think something's up?"

He nods surprised at the seriousness that covered her face.

"Definitely. You need to be ready, Usagi. There's no telling when they'll attack"

Usagi nodded in agreement and looks toward Solius. Her eyes widened slightly when his shirtless chest came into view. It was muscular and glistened under the fluorescent light fixtures. She couldn't take her eyes off of it, even when she moved her head away, her eyes stayed glued to it. Soon, her body heat began to rise. Oh, her hormones were definitely acting strange today.

To cool herself off, she put the cold Dasani bottle to the side of her neck, but it just felt warm against her already heated skin.

After a few minutes of repeating that routine and getting absolutely no results, she couldn't take it anymore.

"Er, I need to go," she says quickly as she heads toward the door. Without waiting for an answer she opened and walked through the exit.

She steps into the alley and looks toward the street. When she didn't see anyone she pulled out a small remote that looked like a car alarm and pushed the red button. With a small beep, the large garbage can slid back into place concealing the door that lead the way to their training/recuperation area.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Rei, Makoto and Ami walked aimlessly around the mall. Since they had no money they window shopped and talking about, what else, boys.

"I'm telling you Makoto, he was talking to me!" Rei boasted.

"Nani! Onegai! Why would he want you when he can have me!" Makoto raised her chin arrogantly.

The raven-haired stopped suddenly causing the couple behind to almost trip over her feet.

"Sumanai de gozaru," she apologized to them receiving a glare from the girl.

Rei crossed her arms over he chest and rolled her eyes.

"Well next time watch where you're going, baka!" she screamed with fire in her eyes. The girl turned around quickly and walked away with her boyfriend trailing behind who was staring at Rei with surprise.

"Rei!" Makoto chastised.

"Nani! I didn't have to apologize!" Makoto and Minako shake their heads.

"Sometimes you embarrass me," the blonde replied.

Rei shrugs and turns back to Makoto, "Anyway, he was talking to me!"

"Honey! He might have been talking to you, but he was looking at me!" the brunette replied.

As the two scouts argued, Minako turned to meet two pairs of eyes staring in their direction. One of them whistled and waved at her to come over and join them. Rei and Makoto stopped suddenly and turned to the sound. All three of them had goofy grins as they started to walk over. But a loud beep brought them back to reality.

"Shimatta!" Rei said as she took out her communicator.

"A-hh ma-an! They were kawaii too!" Makoto added as they all huddled around the screen with Ami's face visible.

"Guys, youma at the park, need help," she said.

"We're on our way," Minako said. As they ran toward the entrance, Makoto stopped to get another look at the guys,

She began to think about the situation but the others already knew what she was thinking. They grabbed her and started dragging her to the exit shaking their heads as she ranted on.

"Matte! I just want to give them my number…..come on guys!…at least let me give them my name…"

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Venus jumped to the side barely missing the sharp spike. Her bangs stuck to her forehead from her perspiration. She didn't know how long she could keep this up. She really hated playing bait.

"Venus love chain encircle!" she screamed.

The chain headed to the huge human-like porcupine. She hoped that the attack would work, but the creature took one of its long spikes and twirled it in front of its body, reflecting the chain back to Venus. She was caught off guard by this action as her own chain wrapped around her body, sending her plummeting to the ground.

"Shimatta! You're supposed to be wrapped around the bad guy, not me!" she muttered irritably

As she struggled to get the chain loose, the youma took advantage of the situation, walking toward its victim with a spike ready to kill.

"Mars fire ignite!"

As the porcupine ran around trying to get rid of the flames, the Mars ran over to the trapped senshi.

"Get this thing off me, now!"

She unraveled her trying hard to smother the laughter that was about to erupt.

Mercury saw none of this nor did she see the burnt youma coming right at her as she typed away on her computer, trying to find a weakness. Mars was able to see the youma's motive and tried to warn Ami.

"Mercury, watch out!" Mars screamed.

Mercury couldn't move; she stood there stunned as the youma headed straight for her. Mercury opened her eyes to see nothing but darkness; she realized she was looking at the inside of Tuxedo Kamen's jacket as he flew through the air with her in his arms.

When he touched down to the ground she thanked him with a small smile before getting back to work on her mini-computer. He tipped his hat and turned back to the fuming creature charging at him. Mercury was faster as she threw herself at him, knocking him to the ground.

"My Prince, get down!"

The senshi were so distracted by the near death of the masked man that they failed to realize the youma throw several spikes through the air, by the time the shock wore off they found themselves caged in.

"Now you're mine!" it yelled, unaware to the pair of eyes staring from one of the trees.

Sailor Sun and Solius sat in a tree observing the fight.

"Are you going to help them now?" he asked. She nodded before leaping from her hide out.

She didn't feel like making a speech. She picked up one of its stray spikes scattered along the ground and she thrust it through its back. Before it could react she tripped it, which pushed the spike in further, piercing the heart.

When the porcupine burst into dust she dusted her hands off and shrugged.

"Er, that was easy," Sailor Sun said to herself as she stared at the spot with a frown on her face.

She didn't notice the presence of the other senshi, until one of them grabbed her arm.

"Who are you?" Mars commanded.

Sun frowned at her as if she had just grown three heads.

"Hello, are you deaf or just plain stupid?"

Sun rolled her eyes at the scout in red. "If you want me to answer then I suggest you learn to speak to me with some respect!" Sun replied, surprising Mars.

"Who do you thi...,"

"Iie, who do you think you're talking? I saved your sorry ass! And this is the thanks I get," Sun snapped.

Mars could only stare wide-eyed.

"Hey! We didn't ask for your help," Jupiter hissed with her arms crossed.

"Yeah and you'd be dead if I hadn't!" Sun noticed Mercury typing on her mini- computer and automatically knew what she was doing. Jumping in the air, she kicked the device out of her hand sending it flying across the gravel.

Mercury stood shocked, "You must think I'm stupid. I'm not letting you scan my energy patterns!" she said with her eyes narrowed.

"What do you care? If you're not the enemy then there should be nothing to worry about," Venus said with sarcasm dripping from every word.

Sun glared at them and walked away.

"You just remember, I'm not your enemy or your ally, I help you because it keeps the dark forces from winning," she threw over her shoulder and leaped into one of the trees, disappearing out of sight.

Tuxedo Kamen stood there in a daze with the beautiful exotic looking sphinx still remained in his mind.

"Who is she?"

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"The nerve of them!" Usagi paced back and forth in her room, obviously upset.

"Why didn't you just compromise with them? You are on their side, Usagi"

She looked at her feline companion with a frown, "As if I even had a chance to compromise, Solius! Kami, were you paying attention or did you doze off?" she said.

He narrowed his eyes, she returned it.

Solius sighed. "I suppose you have a point, but eventually the senshi will have to accept the idea sooner or later."

Usagi nodded and sat on her bed pulling her covers over her body.

"You know what was really strange? Mercury called that masked guy, Prince. I wonder why?" she was too engulfed with her thinking that she didn't notice Solius' face pale.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

A 4-year old boy runs to retrieve the bouncing ball that made its way down the marbled path that was traveled so many times before. The ball began to slow down and eventually stopped near an open pair of twin doors.

As the child crouches to pick up the ball he can hear voices echoing from inside the vast room just beyond the large doors. Being curious like most kids he steps closer to get a better look. He easily recognizes one of the voices and happily moves through the doors to stand by his father's side.

As he caught sight of the two persons, he discovers the other voice belonging to a woman, a woman whom he's never met. Her back was turned to him; she had long silver hair pulled into two buns. They seemed to be engrossed in a serious conversation, the affection clearly seen through their body language. An affection that the boy will not experience for years down the road.

He drops the ball accidentally watching it roll over the floor. The ball begins to disfigure and is replaced with a decapitated head. The man, no longer a child, jumps back as his surroundings are of bloodshed and haunting screams of terror.

His head swings around making his blonde locks fall into his eyes. This particular scream somehow sounded familiar. Through his bangs he could see a girl with long blonde hair pulled into a similar style he's seen many times before. She was hugging a corpse to her body while she wept over the dark- haired soldier, or at least he figured it was a soldier since he could not see his face.

At that moment their eyes connect, sapphire clashing with sapphire. His eyes widen as he sees..... himself.

Kotaro's eyes snapped open, they swept over the room quickly trying to find any evidence that his dream could have been more than just that, a dream.

His hand glides through his damp hair and sighs, "now I'm starting to get like Usagi."

He grabs the glass of water on his bed stand and heads out the door. He walks down the hallway drinking the water hungrily, suddenly thirsty. As he passes his sister's room, Usagi startles him as her screams could be heard all over the house causing him to choke on the inhaled liquid.

"Solius!!!!"

Dropping the glass, he tries to get air into his lungs. Usagi opens her door to inspect the commotion and sees her brother slouched over trying to recover his breathing. She sees the water soaked into the carpet in front of her door and blinks.

"What did you do, forget to drink and walk at the same time?"

By now his breathing was back to normal, "Me? You need to learn to lower the decibels. You sound like freakin' horse."

She smirked, "well you looked like one, coughing like that." She said slouching over holding her throat as she imitated his choking stance.

"Well you caused it. What with you torturing your cat.l You probably deserved whatever he did."

Usagi's eyes wandered nervously, going unnoticed by her twin. "I still can't get over that bald spot on his head," he continued leaning to get a closer look, getting a glare from the feline.

Kotaro eyed him suspiciously, not sure of what he had seen did that cat just glare at me?

He shook it off and stood up from his crouched position. Usagi smiles at Solius' behavior,

"See, he doesn't like you," she teases playfully while sticking her tongue at him.

"Whatever odango," he replied before starting down the stairs as her voice followed,

"You know I hate that fucking name!" it ended with a slam of her door.

He loved calling her that, which sort of suits her with that hairstyle of hers.

I really need to thank that Mamoru guy

In the kitchen their mother was cleaning up the leftovers from breakfast, "Ohayo okaasan-Ikuko," he greeted.

"Ohayo. Was that Usagi screaming like that?" he nodded,

"She really needs to tone that mouth of hers down a notch," she said shaking her head.

He smirks at her comment,

"You missed breakfast, your sister was down here before you. Did you decide to sleep in?"

"Hai," he lied.

"Well I'm going to the store to pick up a few things. I dropped your father off at work so you and your sister can have the other car for today," she said as she walked out of the kitchen.

He picks up the newspaper noticing the headline, 'Sibling Rivalry' in bold letters. He begins to skim through the article: As shown in the photo above, the new scout that goes by the name of Sailor Sun, does not seem be accepted by the recent senshi.

So there's a new scout he thought looking at the snapshot.

He gets up, absently throwing down the paper never noticing the extra presence in the photo, a small cat with a weird bald spot sitting to the side of the battle.

The teenage trainee stands in a fighting stance facing his opponent. The elder mirrors the stance and strikes with his staff as the adolescent defends every blow. The duel continued for a few minutes, each move flawless as each opponent tries to find an advantage over the other. Just then the door opens to reveal a woman, from the way she stood anyone could tell that she was someone of importance, tall and regal. The elder notices her and is fascinated instantly losing his concentration.

The young man took the distraction as his cue. The staff swung around and was rammed into his stomach then the teen swung it over his partner's head and tripped him causing him to fall on his back.

The winner leaned on the staff, with his chin on the tip as he smiles down to the elder.

"Never allow distractions to interrupt your concentration, father." He teases while offering his hand.

He looks up to his son, "Well I'm glad you pay attention to your sessions. It's about time Shayou, I'm tired of berating you on your easy distractions whenever a female walks by." He replies with a grin accepting the hand and getting to his feet.

"Have you seen the girls here?!"

He rolls his eyes at the hormonal teen and turns his attention to the woman. She walks over gracefully, his father meeting her half way.

The teenager shakes his head, "he's one to talk, he's the one that dumps me for a woman,"

He eyes the new comer suspiciously

I've seen her before, demo where? he thinks, scrutinizing her appearance,

"The height, the same body movements," his eyes narrow, "the same hair..."

A honking horn brought him out of his reverie as he realizes the light is green.

"The woman in my dreams is always the same person…..that is until last night. What does it mean? Why is it always the same hairstyle? doushite?"

He put his signal on and turned the corner.

"Does Usa have something to do with this, she wears the same hairstyle too, demo what is her involvement? Her dreams are different than mine though...doushite did he call me Shayou?"

All these questions fill his head as he parks to the side of the curb and makes his way into the arcade hoping to find his twin.

"Kon'nichiwa Kotaro,"

He turns to see Motoki waving at him. He walks over to the counter,

"Hey Drew, what's up? Kind of slow today, ne?"

He nods, "hai, a little. I'm surprised I haven't seen Usagi around lately, I've seen her walk by a couple of times with some guy demo she never comes in."

Kotaro looks at him confused, "some guy?"

Motoki grins, "I probably shouldn't have said that knowing you, the brotherly instinct will kick in then you'll be like a machine repeating kill the boyfriend, he must not live."

Kotaro chuckled at the college student, "Iie, I wanted to talk to her, demo she had already left home when I went to her room," he explained.

Motoki again told him of Uasgi's absent for the past couple of weeks and then they said their good byes, while the lone twin continued his search for his other half.

"Where the hell has this girl been going everyday? She's never home and who's this guy? Maybe I should just ask Usa about her dreams when I see her later," with that decision, he headed to a friend's house.