Silver Millennium Life Bonds
Rocky Oberlin
Chapter 12


Disclaimer: I live in Michigan. We have cars and the Big Mac (Mackinac Bridge, not the sandwich). We don't have Sailor Moon or Ronin Warriors. Thus I am out of luck.


It was late evening when Lita sought out the Windwalker again. She was getting more disappointed with herself for crying so much over a lost friendship, but the ghost never seemed to mind. Windy just let her cry on her shoulder and listen to all her doubts. 'I don't even think that my parents would be proud of me for what I'm doing,' thought the tall girl as she knocked on Windy's door.

"Come in, Lita."

How did she know it was Lita, but then the answer came to her. 'I've been keeping her up at night, she should know it was me.'

Lita entered the small room and saw that Windy's two roommates were still downstairs or wherever Lady Kayura went to when not with the rest of the group. Movement in the shadows showed the two Guardians of the Moon Royalty were keeping the woman company. They saw the Jovian Sailor and started to leave.

"It's alright, you don't have to go," offered Lita.

The two cats settled down on the windowsills again and enjoyed the moonlight shining down on them. Windy smiled from her seat on the foot of her bed and motioned Lita to join her. "Still having doubts?" asked the ghost.

"I don't know if he even realizes that I still love him. I didn't even know it until you brought me to that meeting. Now I don't know if I can even live in this dimension let alone this house."

"May be you should do more then make a stand on where your loyalties lie, Lita," said a new voice. It was Setsuna coming to see Windy about what else she saw in the Nether Realm. "May be you should tell him about what you feel."

"That would go over great. It would be just like my first boyfriend. You know what happened; the jerk dumped me and I was a wreck for weeks. If I talked with Prince Sage now, I probably be in worse shape if he even says he'll think about it."

Windy looked at Setsuna. "May be we should give up our day jobs and let Lita do all the future seeing. She seems to know what will happen before it does."

Lita looked at her emotional support and saw the sarcasm reflected in her eyes that was in her tone. Setsuna showed small disappointment in her face as she looked at her fellow Scout. "If that is what you think," she trailed off.

The double attack was too much for Lita. She threw up her hands and cried, "Fine, I'll talk to him. If I do go catatonic, then it's both your faults."

Both women had Mona Lisa smiles on their faces at Lita's admission. "We shall see, won't we?"

Lita gave a surprised look and shook her head. Between the two, the ghost and the mysterious Scout managed to give her a sense of hope and to stop feeling sorry for herself so much. Now if only she could erase the fear that Serena showed in her eyes whenever she looked at Lita.

"Give that time, Lita," said Windy. "She has to get through this as much as you are. I have some advice; it was given to me when I was a girl. 'Give all your worries to God, He'll be up all night anyway.' (AN: Good advice.) You will not get anywhere worrying about your unsteady relationship with anyone. Just keep working at gaining the others' trust and let them decide. Now, go. To. Bed."

Lita smiled at the mothering tone in Windy's voice and took the advice on going to bed. She would have to work a little on the worrying part, but the right humor in the right places sure did help the situation.

Windy looked at Setsuna and smiled. "Thanks for helping with Lita. She needed that extra push."

"I was more then happy to help. May be the past won't be repeated this time."

"We can only hope." Windy looked out the window the two cats had sat by as they watched the whole discussion silently. Nephlite liked to say that the stars knew everything, but Windy trusted the one who made the stars and put them in their places. No, tonight she would be taking her own advice and giving her worries to God. She didn't want the ulcers over Lita and Sage, the small group who decided to watch Lita like a hawk, and the coming battle with something so powerful that It did what It chose because I wanted to. If Windy did have to fight Chaos, then she would be leaning heavily on God for this fight.

"Good night, Lady Windwalker."

"Good night, Lady Guardian of the Time Gates."

Sarcasm was thick that night. Windy would have to leave off on the chocolate if she didn't want to insult the male half of her Charges for the rest of the week. Or may be she should get more. It might improve her mood.


"Sage, what's wrong?" asked Rowen as he looked up from his reading. Ryo also looked at the Ronin of Halo from his perch on the floor next to White Blaze.

"Nothing," was the short reply.

Ryo and Rowen looked at each other. "That didn't sound like nothing," commented Ryo. "It sounded more like 'I need help, but I'm too stubborn to ask'."

"I do believe that you're right. May be we should get Cye and Anubis in here. They may be able to help Sage since he doesn't want to talk to us," continued Rowen.

"Or we could get Windy. I think that she is still up with Lita."

Sage flinched at Lita's name. Rowen and Ryo were watching Sage for a reaction and his response to Lita gave them an idea of what had the blond Ronin on edge.

"I think that we have our answer, Ryo," said Rowen. "Lita is the center of Sage's problem."

"I don't know what you're talking about," muttered Sage as he glared at his two roommates.

"Sure you do," Ryo said. "You don't know what to make of Lita. You get flustered when you're around her, but you listen to anything said about her. Kento even said that you were defending her from Dais, Seckmet, and Haruka this afternoon."

"Did Kento also mention that he was with that group also? Did he happen to say that they didn't trust Lita and will be keeping an eye on her while she's here?"

The other two Ronins shook their heads. Rowen turned to Ryo and said, "May be Anubis should take her to the Nether Realm when this is all done. Cale seems to be interested in her."

"Anubis has eyes for Lady Kayura and Cale just wants someone because he's lonely," retorted Sage. That was a mistake. Ryo and Rowen turned to look at him with questions in their eyes that demanded him to tell them why he thought like that. "If it was any of your business on knowing the relationships of others, then may be you should work on your own," snapped Sage at the twin looks. "Then you would stay out of trouble more."

The two other Ronins glanced at each other. "Ouch. That one might have hurt, Sage, except that Ryo and Mia seem to be getting along great and Serena and I are life bonded."

"Yeah, I guess that we're just lucky. Well, I don't know about the two of you, but I'm going to bed. Come on, Blaze, we shouldn't keep Sage and Rowen up." Ryo crawled to his air mattress on the floor and settled down for the night. White Blaze curled up in front of his human as if daring anyone to disturb the bearer of Wildfire. Rowen followed his leader's example and turned in early.

Sage was left the only one in the room with an empty bed and a full mind. What was he going to do with Lita and his feelings that have been coming to the surface?

The blond sighed. It was going to be another restless night filled with dreams about his past. He almost looked forward to them just to see Lita without the care lines etched on her face from her second reincarnation. From what his twin told him, Lita didn't have a wonderful childhood and had been living on her own for quite a while. That had lead to Lita learning to defend herself in all matters.

"This is getting me no where. I just want to sleep."

Sage tried to settle down for the night. Sleep did find the blond and the dreams came on its heels. The dreams were like a movie showing Sage what had happened in his past life and the vision of the tall Jovian princess he had fallen for, twice.


"You really should go easy on Lita, Haruka."

"Why, Michi? She has hurt Kitten with her comments before we left. May be she should learn what it's like to hurt."

"She has, Haruka-papa," said Hotaru. "She has lived with it all her life since she lost her parents. The princess was the one to give her joy again."

"And look how she thanked the princess; by blaming her for the head strong will of Rini. That child knew that it was dangerous, but she darted out anyway. And look where it got everyone."

"Yes, look where it got everyone. The traitors are dealt with for once and for all. Serena is happy with Rowen and she has her twin back. We at last remember our true lives and Lita will finally close what has been open for a thousand years," said Michiru.

"But what is the price?" asked Haruka. "Serena was ready to die when she lost her "friends". Endymion is now trying to take back what he wants and we have to fight to keep him from taking our princess again. Yes, having Lita here is just going to bring more harm than good."

"I don't know, she seems to have brought us together more," said Setsuna. "We haven't worked with anyone for a long time and now we are starting to mingle with others for Princess Serena's sake. Lita has given us a gift that we should thank her for." The older Scout turned to her adopted child and said, "Lita is going to bed and I think that you should as well. We may be practicing again in the morning."

Hotaru nodded her head and bade her adopted family good night. When she reached her room, Lita was in bed seeming asleep. Hotaru joined her in her slumber with a soft good night.

Haruka turned to her partners. "So we should thank Lita for not making her decision on the Moon all those years ago because it has brought us here?"

Setsuna shook her head. "No, we should thank her for trying to make up for a mistake that she made. The other Inners haven't even considered they even made a mistake. I talked with Windy after I had calmed down a little and she told me that the others weren't even sorry for turning their backs on the princess."

"So Lita is different from the others," muttered Haruka. "I still remain skeptical."

Michiru sighed. "Fine, but don't be so hard on her. She is trying to make up for what she has done. We must be as forgiving as the princess is, like the God that Windy follows is. Remember that we needed that forgiveness once."

Haruka nodded her head. She would wait out Lita and see what she will do. 'But gods help her if she makes Kitten cry again.'


"How was your session with Lita tonight?" asked Mia as she entered her room.

Windy looked up from her book and started to put it away. "It went fairly well. I think that she will now start working more on earning back the trust of the others and not being depressed about the loss."

"That wasn't what she meant," said Lady Kayura as she entered the room from the bathroom. "We want to know what she is going to do about her feelings for Halo."

Windy gave a mysterious smile. "That is up to her, Sage, and God." A sanctimonious look crossed the ghost's face. "I don't mettle in things like that." The look dissolved into a broad grin. The answering grins from the last Ancient and the archivist of the nine armors showed the understanding between the three. The pair would be watched and nudged in the right direction if needed.