Mark this as chapter one of three to be written this week. Ja ne.
Disclaimer(Almost forgot it): I don't own Sailor Moon, it's characters, or Gundam Wing and it's characters. However I do own lina and more senshi to come as well as the Lezamaverse as well that's it's followers.
****Last Time****
"Alright. Jupiter Crystal Power! Make-Up!" Lina yelled as eletricity and leaves of trees swirled around her, forming her Sailor fuku. Memories flooded back into her mind of the last battle. "Ami-chan! I thought you wouldn't ever come back!" Jupiter said, hugging Ami tightly. "Well it's a good thing we got here when we did otherwise your henshi wand would be in the hands of the Lezamaverse." Ami said before turning to Milliardo, "It looks like we found a prince too. Milliardo come here." Like he was in a trance, Milliardo complied. Ami held her crystal to the former prince of the Sank Kingdom. His memories of the Moon Kingdom came back as well. "I'm the Prince of Uranus....." he pondered to himself.
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After a few more minutes of conversation, Ami transformed back into Sailor Mercury and flew home, carrying Wufei. "That was strange. Milliardo is from the Moon Kingdom? How come you didn't tell us?" Wufei questioned Mercury. "Well I didn't know until I saw him with Jupiter and them I remembered him from the past." She explained to the Chinese Pilot. The two flew in silence until the reached Quatre's place where they were met by a very worried Hotaru.
"Ami! You're a girl again! Where were you?" Hotaru demanded to know. "We found Sailor Jupiter and the prince of Uranus." Sailor Mercury said in her normal tone. (Remember Mercury and Ami are two different personalities. Just like Saturn and Hotaru. Their personalities clash when they are really angry or excited.) "Oh really? Now we have a new senshi!" the black haired girl said as Mercury detrasformed. "Hai!" was all Ami said before collapsing into Wufei's arms. (If you think it's a Wu/Ami fic it ain't. They are gonna be friends because Ami and Wufei know what eachother have been through. Both lost their loves and family.)
****Lezamaverse H.Q.****
"You fool! The Sailor Scouts now posses one of the pure soul items and a new senshi! You have really screwed things up! You shall be punished, Melari for your weakness. Now get out of my sight, you disgust me." the voice of the leader of the Lezamaverse echoed through the black room as Melari was scolded. The young Melari left.
"Way to go, sis. Do you want to die? Is that why you keep screwing up?" Melari's triplet brother said as the girl walked into the hallway. "Shove it, Tari. I don't need your crap right now." Melari growled, walking away.
****Quatre's Place****
Ami's eyes began to flutter open. "Look, she's coming to." Ami heard Hotaru's voice as her eyes began to ajust. "What happened?" Ami said sleepily. "You fainted from exhaustion." Wufei said plainly. "But why?" Ami asked. "Well I think it's because of this." Hotaru said as she held up the wand Mercury used against the youma, "You dropped it when you fainted and Wufei said that Sailor Mercury conjured this weapon up." "That is a logical theory." Ami said, mostly to herself.
Later in the morning, the rest of the crew was shocked to find Ami had changed back, especially Heero since he was still a girl. "So you are closer to defeating this evil now?" Quatre questioned, sitting down in a seat next to Hotaru. "Hai! Then after we defeat this evil, we could probally rebuild our dimension." Ami said happily, buttering her toast. "Why do you want to leave? I mean don't you want to stay in your original dimension?" Duo questioned the blue haired woman. That caused Ami to stop and think, 'Do I really want to leave here? Duo is right about this being my original dimension but I miss my old one. I'm trying to do what's best for everyone but is this what's best? Is it what Shin-kun and Hotaru-chan want?' Her mind drifter to her dead fiancee, Ryo(You know Greg). He was destined to marry her in the other dimenstion Moon Kingdom and they were both deeply in love. She remembered the first time they met and how he possesed one of the rainbow crystals. Then remembered his death, protecting her. She daydreamed through the rest of the morning until Heero shook her awake.
"How are we going to change me back into a guy?" Ami was shocked. It was the first time since the incident Heero had talked to her. "I don't know. I'll have to figure out something but in the mean time we have to change your name. Haruka Tehno is your new name until you are able to become a man again." She told him, getting up from the table and heading to her room to figure out how to change Heero back. "I'll come with you." 'Haruka' said as she followed Ami.
They reached Ami's room and entered it. Then the senshi of ice took out her small crystal of pale blue and sliced the air, opening up her space pocket. Then she pulled out her trusty mini pc and began to analize 'Haruka'. 'Haruka' stood there, not know what to do. "You can g-" Ami was interupted as the window glass shattered, a youma appeared. The same youma that had changed her into a boy and Heero into a girl. Heero, as an instinct, stepped infront of Ami and pulled out his/her gun. Ami shouted, "Mercury Celest Power! Make-up!" yet nothing happened. She shouted the words of her trasformation again but she still didn't transform. Her eyes wided with shock, 'I don't have enough energy to transform! Oh kami, we're in trouble!' her mind shouted. "Haruka, I can't transform. We are gonna have to run for it." Ami whispered to the once-a-boy girl. The youma heard this and spilt into it's two forms, cornering Ami and Heero.
Ami and Heero's bodies landed on the ground with a thud. The room where they were a few seconds ago was burning in flames of black. Hotaru ran outside followed by everyone else, "Ami-chan! Heero!" She called apon her healing powers and was about the heal Ami when she stopped her. "Hotaru-chan, heal Heero first. He's a human. I can stand this kind of pain." Ami said getting to her feet with alot of difficulty due to her broken leg. Hotaru nodded her head and began to heal Heero as Ami distracted the monster. "Hey you two! I can't transform so now I'm an easy target, right? Come and get me if you can or are you afraid?" Ami teased the two monsters as they formed back into one being. "I'm not afraid of you." the youma replied, it's body growing taller. The youma's hands extended towards Ami, who was doing the best she could in running with a broken leg. The youma's hands grew to be almost Ami's height when it grasped her. "I got you now, pest. And Queen Matilda will be very pleased that I got rid of the strongest senshi with ease." the monster boasted, crushing Ami's bones within it's hands.
Ami's screams of pain echoed through the deserted area around Quatre's manshion. Hotaru finished healing Heero, feeling exhausted beyond relief. She couldn't transform let alone stand up. Shingo looked up and watched in horror as he saw Ami being crushed to death. His care for Ami took over this body and mind as he ran out to the monster before anyone could stop him, "Let her go! It's my you want, not her!" the blonde 13 year old screamed up at the 20ft tall youma. "Shin-kun...no! Get..away!" Ami choked out between the pain. The youma was about to grasp Shingo when Wufei pull the young prince out of the way. Shingo struggled against the Chinese Pilot's grip but wasn't strong enough to break it. Trowa appeared next to Wufei and stapped Shingo across the face. The boy's eyes widened, "Look Shingo. Ami is going through all of this pain because she is trying to by us time so we can leave. She is sacrificing herself so you, Hotaru, and the rest of us can live. Do you want her sacrifice to be in vain?" Wufei asked, shaking the young Prince of the Moon.
While Ami was screaming in pain, Quatre dropped to his knees, grasping his forehead. His bones ached just like Ami's did. He felt her pain and wanted it to stop. The thing that hurt the most was the searing pain on his forehead, like it was burning. He fell to the ground and began to twitch, his hands still on his forehead. The pilots looked at him, afraid that the Arab had a mental issue or something.
Then Quatre's hand fell from his face and his bangs floated alittle to reveal the sign of Mercury. The pain hadn't stopped but he had to fight it to save Ami. He rose to his feet. Hotaru's eyes widened as well as the rest of the group. He held his hands out infront of him and began to chant:
I call apon the planet I call home,
Lend me the weapon to defeat the fools that stand in my way.
After those words were said, two dagger hitls appeared infront of the now Mercurian Prince. Once Quatre touched the hilts, blades of ice form on them, also changing his outfit into a light blue armor and dark blue cape.(You know Mamoru's Prince outfit.) He charged at the youma, cape flying behind him. Quatre jumpped into the air and brought his Daggers of Ice through the youma like an x.(You know what Sandrock does) The monster dropped Ami and then exploded. Prince Mercury caught his sister and began to shake her gentily awake. "Ami-san, wake up."
Ami's saffire eyes opened slowly because of the pain in her body. "Quatre?" she whispered, "No wait you aren't Quatre, you're...you're my Onii-san." The blue haired girl began to hug Quatre. "I knew your aura seemed formilar. It's great to see you again, Onee-chan."(hopefully I got the onii-san and onee-chan right) the Prince of Mercury said, hugging his younger sister back.
Heero felt a twinge of jealous while watch Quatre and Ami hugging. Heero wished it was him/her hugging Ami but then just brushed it aside thinking, 'You can't think like that. You are the perfect soldier and you have no time for foolish emotions.'
Hotaru also felt jealous of Ami. She wanted to be the one hugging Quatre but then realized that Ami and Quatre couldn't have a relationship cause they were brother and sister. Her hopes were high once again.
The two children of Mercury went back over to the group, Quatre still carrying Ami. Quatre, now in his usual clothing, began to explain who he was, releiving Heero to find out Quatre was Ami's older brother. Then Jupiter and Milliardo appeared, "I guess we're late, aren't we." Sailor Juptier asked the group while looking over the damage to the mansion and sighed. "Well better late then never, right?" Milliardo said, walking over to the rest of the group, Sailor Jupiter detransformed and followed the Prince of Uranus. (Just to tell you. Milliardo hasn't transformed like Quatre did. He just remembers that he is Prince of Uranus.)
"But that doesn't make any sense.Quatre, when Ami was being crushed by the monster, why did you like start to twitch and stuff?" Duo questioned the Prince of Mercury. "Well to be honest I don't know." Quatre stated honestly. "I know," Ami managed to say, "In the Moon Kingdom, Quatre and I were more than brother and sister...We were twins. Twins of a planet can feel eachother's pain. Since Hotaru and I were reborn in another time and dimension, our ages changed. Hotaru also has a twin but we still have to find him first." "Well it looks like we found another prince. I bet that Lezamaverse leader ain't too happy now." Shingo said, grinning like a little kid. "There's just one thing wrong," Quatre began to say calmly but then began to panic, "my house is STILL on fire!"
After Hotaru, Shingo, and Wufei put out the fire in Quatre's house, the group settled into a not so burnt room and began to discuss matters that needed to be discussed. Heero blocked them out, still disgusted that he was still a she. Ami also didn't bother to listen. She just laid their, her eyes closed, letting her mind drift away from her Sailor senshi duties and onto more happier things. Don't get me wrong, she was happy to see her twin again but she didn't want him involved. That's how he died the first time.
She felt someone's eyes on her so she opened her eyes alittle to she who it was. Heero was staring at her, not blinking at all, her arms crossed and her back leaning against the wall. A small blush appeared on Ami's face as she closed her eyes once again. It was just something about that guy that got to her. She always felt so different and strange around him, sorta like she felt her first time around Ryo. 'No! I can't feel that way about Heero. Ryo-kun is the only one I will ever love! Besides Heero has no emotions or so he claims. He could never replace Ryo-kun. Not in a million years!' Ami's mind screamed at her as she laid on the couch. She couldn't like Heero. She was destined to be with Ryo, right? Ami didn't know anymore. All her dreams came back to her. Then what Wufei said about his dream of his late wife came to mind. '"She kept saying 'Let me go. I am not the one you are destined to be with."' Ami heard Wufei's voice repeat in her head why she didn't know.
Heero just stood there staring at the Princess of Mercury. S/he didn't know why but a strange feeling came over him. The same feeling that he got when he was around (Oh Nabiki, please don't kill me. I needed conflict in Heero's head and heart) Relena Peacecraft. He never told anyone but ofcourse Duo and Quatre knew of these feelings. The other pilots paid those feelings no mind because it would have conflicted wih their missions. 'What hold does this girl have over me? Why do I feel so strange around her? Why can't these emotions just leave me the hell alone? I am the perfect soldier. I don't have time for these stupid emotions. If you can't feel, you can't be hurt easily.' Heero's mind raged as s/he left the room. Just to be in the same room as Ami was too much. She had to leave or Heero would. Both couldn't be under the same roof.
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Well that's it. Another Prince has been found. Please review. They are the author's candy. And this author loves candy. *Important* Anyways if I don't get enough reviews I'm gonna have to start demanding reviews for each chapter.*Important* I only got one for the other chapter. Please review and thanks Kaiya for reviewing. This chapter was for you. Ja ne.
Disclaimer(Almost forgot it): I don't own Sailor Moon, it's characters, or Gundam Wing and it's characters. However I do own lina and more senshi to come as well as the Lezamaverse as well that's it's followers.
****Last Time****
"Alright. Jupiter Crystal Power! Make-Up!" Lina yelled as eletricity and leaves of trees swirled around her, forming her Sailor fuku. Memories flooded back into her mind of the last battle. "Ami-chan! I thought you wouldn't ever come back!" Jupiter said, hugging Ami tightly. "Well it's a good thing we got here when we did otherwise your henshi wand would be in the hands of the Lezamaverse." Ami said before turning to Milliardo, "It looks like we found a prince too. Milliardo come here." Like he was in a trance, Milliardo complied. Ami held her crystal to the former prince of the Sank Kingdom. His memories of the Moon Kingdom came back as well. "I'm the Prince of Uranus....." he pondered to himself.
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After a few more minutes of conversation, Ami transformed back into Sailor Mercury and flew home, carrying Wufei. "That was strange. Milliardo is from the Moon Kingdom? How come you didn't tell us?" Wufei questioned Mercury. "Well I didn't know until I saw him with Jupiter and them I remembered him from the past." She explained to the Chinese Pilot. The two flew in silence until the reached Quatre's place where they were met by a very worried Hotaru.
"Ami! You're a girl again! Where were you?" Hotaru demanded to know. "We found Sailor Jupiter and the prince of Uranus." Sailor Mercury said in her normal tone. (Remember Mercury and Ami are two different personalities. Just like Saturn and Hotaru. Their personalities clash when they are really angry or excited.) "Oh really? Now we have a new senshi!" the black haired girl said as Mercury detrasformed. "Hai!" was all Ami said before collapsing into Wufei's arms. (If you think it's a Wu/Ami fic it ain't. They are gonna be friends because Ami and Wufei know what eachother have been through. Both lost their loves and family.)
****Lezamaverse H.Q.****
"You fool! The Sailor Scouts now posses one of the pure soul items and a new senshi! You have really screwed things up! You shall be punished, Melari for your weakness. Now get out of my sight, you disgust me." the voice of the leader of the Lezamaverse echoed through the black room as Melari was scolded. The young Melari left.
"Way to go, sis. Do you want to die? Is that why you keep screwing up?" Melari's triplet brother said as the girl walked into the hallway. "Shove it, Tari. I don't need your crap right now." Melari growled, walking away.
****Quatre's Place****
Ami's eyes began to flutter open. "Look, she's coming to." Ami heard Hotaru's voice as her eyes began to ajust. "What happened?" Ami said sleepily. "You fainted from exhaustion." Wufei said plainly. "But why?" Ami asked. "Well I think it's because of this." Hotaru said as she held up the wand Mercury used against the youma, "You dropped it when you fainted and Wufei said that Sailor Mercury conjured this weapon up." "That is a logical theory." Ami said, mostly to herself.
Later in the morning, the rest of the crew was shocked to find Ami had changed back, especially Heero since he was still a girl. "So you are closer to defeating this evil now?" Quatre questioned, sitting down in a seat next to Hotaru. "Hai! Then after we defeat this evil, we could probally rebuild our dimension." Ami said happily, buttering her toast. "Why do you want to leave? I mean don't you want to stay in your original dimension?" Duo questioned the blue haired woman. That caused Ami to stop and think, 'Do I really want to leave here? Duo is right about this being my original dimension but I miss my old one. I'm trying to do what's best for everyone but is this what's best? Is it what Shin-kun and Hotaru-chan want?' Her mind drifter to her dead fiancee, Ryo(You know Greg). He was destined to marry her in the other dimenstion Moon Kingdom and they were both deeply in love. She remembered the first time they met and how he possesed one of the rainbow crystals. Then remembered his death, protecting her. She daydreamed through the rest of the morning until Heero shook her awake.
"How are we going to change me back into a guy?" Ami was shocked. It was the first time since the incident Heero had talked to her. "I don't know. I'll have to figure out something but in the mean time we have to change your name. Haruka Tehno is your new name until you are able to become a man again." She told him, getting up from the table and heading to her room to figure out how to change Heero back. "I'll come with you." 'Haruka' said as she followed Ami.
They reached Ami's room and entered it. Then the senshi of ice took out her small crystal of pale blue and sliced the air, opening up her space pocket. Then she pulled out her trusty mini pc and began to analize 'Haruka'. 'Haruka' stood there, not know what to do. "You can g-" Ami was interupted as the window glass shattered, a youma appeared. The same youma that had changed her into a boy and Heero into a girl. Heero, as an instinct, stepped infront of Ami and pulled out his/her gun. Ami shouted, "Mercury Celest Power! Make-up!" yet nothing happened. She shouted the words of her trasformation again but she still didn't transform. Her eyes wided with shock, 'I don't have enough energy to transform! Oh kami, we're in trouble!' her mind shouted. "Haruka, I can't transform. We are gonna have to run for it." Ami whispered to the once-a-boy girl. The youma heard this and spilt into it's two forms, cornering Ami and Heero.
Ami and Heero's bodies landed on the ground with a thud. The room where they were a few seconds ago was burning in flames of black. Hotaru ran outside followed by everyone else, "Ami-chan! Heero!" She called apon her healing powers and was about the heal Ami when she stopped her. "Hotaru-chan, heal Heero first. He's a human. I can stand this kind of pain." Ami said getting to her feet with alot of difficulty due to her broken leg. Hotaru nodded her head and began to heal Heero as Ami distracted the monster. "Hey you two! I can't transform so now I'm an easy target, right? Come and get me if you can or are you afraid?" Ami teased the two monsters as they formed back into one being. "I'm not afraid of you." the youma replied, it's body growing taller. The youma's hands extended towards Ami, who was doing the best she could in running with a broken leg. The youma's hands grew to be almost Ami's height when it grasped her. "I got you now, pest. And Queen Matilda will be very pleased that I got rid of the strongest senshi with ease." the monster boasted, crushing Ami's bones within it's hands.
Ami's screams of pain echoed through the deserted area around Quatre's manshion. Hotaru finished healing Heero, feeling exhausted beyond relief. She couldn't transform let alone stand up. Shingo looked up and watched in horror as he saw Ami being crushed to death. His care for Ami took over this body and mind as he ran out to the monster before anyone could stop him, "Let her go! It's my you want, not her!" the blonde 13 year old screamed up at the 20ft tall youma. "Shin-kun...no! Get..away!" Ami choked out between the pain. The youma was about to grasp Shingo when Wufei pull the young prince out of the way. Shingo struggled against the Chinese Pilot's grip but wasn't strong enough to break it. Trowa appeared next to Wufei and stapped Shingo across the face. The boy's eyes widened, "Look Shingo. Ami is going through all of this pain because she is trying to by us time so we can leave. She is sacrificing herself so you, Hotaru, and the rest of us can live. Do you want her sacrifice to be in vain?" Wufei asked, shaking the young Prince of the Moon.
While Ami was screaming in pain, Quatre dropped to his knees, grasping his forehead. His bones ached just like Ami's did. He felt her pain and wanted it to stop. The thing that hurt the most was the searing pain on his forehead, like it was burning. He fell to the ground and began to twitch, his hands still on his forehead. The pilots looked at him, afraid that the Arab had a mental issue or something.
Then Quatre's hand fell from his face and his bangs floated alittle to reveal the sign of Mercury. The pain hadn't stopped but he had to fight it to save Ami. He rose to his feet. Hotaru's eyes widened as well as the rest of the group. He held his hands out infront of him and began to chant:
I call apon the planet I call home,
Lend me the weapon to defeat the fools that stand in my way.
After those words were said, two dagger hitls appeared infront of the now Mercurian Prince. Once Quatre touched the hilts, blades of ice form on them, also changing his outfit into a light blue armor and dark blue cape.(You know Mamoru's Prince outfit.) He charged at the youma, cape flying behind him. Quatre jumpped into the air and brought his Daggers of Ice through the youma like an x.(You know what Sandrock does) The monster dropped Ami and then exploded. Prince Mercury caught his sister and began to shake her gentily awake. "Ami-san, wake up."
Ami's saffire eyes opened slowly because of the pain in her body. "Quatre?" she whispered, "No wait you aren't Quatre, you're...you're my Onii-san." The blue haired girl began to hug Quatre. "I knew your aura seemed formilar. It's great to see you again, Onee-chan."(hopefully I got the onii-san and onee-chan right) the Prince of Mercury said, hugging his younger sister back.
Heero felt a twinge of jealous while watch Quatre and Ami hugging. Heero wished it was him/her hugging Ami but then just brushed it aside thinking, 'You can't think like that. You are the perfect soldier and you have no time for foolish emotions.'
Hotaru also felt jealous of Ami. She wanted to be the one hugging Quatre but then realized that Ami and Quatre couldn't have a relationship cause they were brother and sister. Her hopes were high once again.
The two children of Mercury went back over to the group, Quatre still carrying Ami. Quatre, now in his usual clothing, began to explain who he was, releiving Heero to find out Quatre was Ami's older brother. Then Jupiter and Milliardo appeared, "I guess we're late, aren't we." Sailor Juptier asked the group while looking over the damage to the mansion and sighed. "Well better late then never, right?" Milliardo said, walking over to the rest of the group, Sailor Jupiter detransformed and followed the Prince of Uranus. (Just to tell you. Milliardo hasn't transformed like Quatre did. He just remembers that he is Prince of Uranus.)
"But that doesn't make any sense.Quatre, when Ami was being crushed by the monster, why did you like start to twitch and stuff?" Duo questioned the Prince of Mercury. "Well to be honest I don't know." Quatre stated honestly. "I know," Ami managed to say, "In the Moon Kingdom, Quatre and I were more than brother and sister...We were twins. Twins of a planet can feel eachother's pain. Since Hotaru and I were reborn in another time and dimension, our ages changed. Hotaru also has a twin but we still have to find him first." "Well it looks like we found another prince. I bet that Lezamaverse leader ain't too happy now." Shingo said, grinning like a little kid. "There's just one thing wrong," Quatre began to say calmly but then began to panic, "my house is STILL on fire!"
After Hotaru, Shingo, and Wufei put out the fire in Quatre's house, the group settled into a not so burnt room and began to discuss matters that needed to be discussed. Heero blocked them out, still disgusted that he was still a she. Ami also didn't bother to listen. She just laid their, her eyes closed, letting her mind drift away from her Sailor senshi duties and onto more happier things. Don't get me wrong, she was happy to see her twin again but she didn't want him involved. That's how he died the first time.
She felt someone's eyes on her so she opened her eyes alittle to she who it was. Heero was staring at her, not blinking at all, her arms crossed and her back leaning against the wall. A small blush appeared on Ami's face as she closed her eyes once again. It was just something about that guy that got to her. She always felt so different and strange around him, sorta like she felt her first time around Ryo. 'No! I can't feel that way about Heero. Ryo-kun is the only one I will ever love! Besides Heero has no emotions or so he claims. He could never replace Ryo-kun. Not in a million years!' Ami's mind screamed at her as she laid on the couch. She couldn't like Heero. She was destined to be with Ryo, right? Ami didn't know anymore. All her dreams came back to her. Then what Wufei said about his dream of his late wife came to mind. '"She kept saying 'Let me go. I am not the one you are destined to be with."' Ami heard Wufei's voice repeat in her head why she didn't know.
Heero just stood there staring at the Princess of Mercury. S/he didn't know why but a strange feeling came over him. The same feeling that he got when he was around (Oh Nabiki, please don't kill me. I needed conflict in Heero's head and heart) Relena Peacecraft. He never told anyone but ofcourse Duo and Quatre knew of these feelings. The other pilots paid those feelings no mind because it would have conflicted wih their missions. 'What hold does this girl have over me? Why do I feel so strange around her? Why can't these emotions just leave me the hell alone? I am the perfect soldier. I don't have time for these stupid emotions. If you can't feel, you can't be hurt easily.' Heero's mind raged as s/he left the room. Just to be in the same room as Ami was too much. She had to leave or Heero would. Both couldn't be under the same roof.
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Well that's it. Another Prince has been found. Please review. They are the author's candy. And this author loves candy. *Important* Anyways if I don't get enough reviews I'm gonna have to start demanding reviews for each chapter.*Important* I only got one for the other chapter. Please review and thanks Kaiya for reviewing. This chapter was for you. Ja ne.