Author: Hey peeps! This is my first fan fiction up here! Don't be too hard.
Yue: Can we just get on with it?
Kiwi: You're so mean Yue! I just wanted to say hi to everyone reading this!
Yue: They've all left by now. Anyways, normal disclamer thing, she doesn't own anyone in this fan fiction, not even me.
Kiwi: You're not in the fan fic!
Yue: I am now!
Kiwi: Anyways, on with the first chapter!


"But Haruka-papa, Michiru-mama, Setsuna-mama, you were the ones to have made me stay there!" Hotaru cried, keeping the tears from her eyes and frustration from her voice.
"Hime, understand," Michiru tried to sooth her 'daughter,' "We don't want you to get hurt, and the Three Lights are pure trouble."
"Just because they aren't from here doesn't mean that they can't be trusted." Hotaru balled her hands into fists at her sides.
"Yes, hime, but still, they've not proven that they can be." Setsuna's voice was wise, as always.
"We can't let you be with him, no matter how much you think you care about him. Gomen nasai, Hotaru." That was Haruka's 'I'll-take-no-more-argument' tone, "You won't be leaving this house for a while without us with you, and you most certainly won't be seeing him again," all three 'parents' said. Hotaru shuddered, and then did something none of them would have ever expected, and ran out into the pouring rain. Without glancing back once she somehow managed to run the mile and a half to the Kou house. Before it had even begun to process in her brain the consequences of her actions she was standing on the doorstep gasping for breath. Seiya opened the door and looked down at the drenched little girl, greatly surprised. "Hotaru-Chan? Come in," he moved out of the way and closed the door behind her. "What are you doing here?"
"Can I explain after I catch my breath?"
Fifteen minutes later she sat in a chair in their living room, having just finished explaining her story to Seiya and Taiki. "I'll go get Yaten," Taiki told her, standing and walking out of the house, destined for the studio. Seiya just shook his head, "I can't believe you, of all people, defied the Outers," he was still in utter amazement. Hotaru smiled, a small one that held no joy, more of a grimace. "I don't know what came over me," she explained, "I just..."
"I understand completely, the Outers can be... unreasonable." That got a small laugh from the fragile girl. They sat in silence and drank their tea as they waited for Taiki and Yaten to come back. After a little she heard her name called by a familiar voice and she was swept up in a strong hug that would have crushed her if she had really been as fragile as she looked. "Yaten! Calm down, you'll break her." Taiki said jokingly as he and Seiya gathered the things they had used for tea. "Gomen," he replied, but didn't release her. "But I'm just so happy to see her well."
"Let go of me, I'm alive enough, but won't be if you squish me," Hotaru's tone was strict, but she couldn't help it that a little relief managed it's way into her voice. "Gomen, koi," Yaten released her and smiled. "Koi?" He hadn't called her that in front of anyone before. He nodded, that brilliant smile still on his face. "Come on, clueless, let's go wash these," Taiki said, dragging Seiya behind him into the kitchen. "I take it the Outers forbid you to see me ever again?" Yaten asked, lifting her out of the chair and sitting in it himself. "Now what would make you think I would defy my family?" She replied with mock indigence as she was pulled into his lap, despite still being slightly damp. "Because I think I know you." He told her, tilting head upwards with a hand and kissing her softly. She sighed, "You're right, you're always right. Now do you know of a place where I can stay for the night, I'm afraid to go back home."