I'm already on my fifth chapter! Isn't that a good thing?

My favorite Sailor Senshi pops up in this chapter, and so does her best friend.

Digimon and Sailor Moon are not mine.

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Hidden Bloodlines

Chapter Five

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Mrs. Ichijouji knocked on Ken's door. "Ken? Ken? Wake up, son!"

Ken opened the door, half-asleep. "Ohayou, okaasan. What is it?"

"Hotaru's coming over!" gushed Mrs. Ichijouji.

"...Who's Hotaru?" yawned Ken as he sleepily rubbed his eye.

Mrs. Ichijouji facefaulted. Then she forced on a smile. "Oh Ken, stop fooling around! You remember your cousin Hotaru!" said Mrs. Ichijouji.

"No I don't," replied Ken.

Mrs. Ichijouji pushed a picture into Ken's hand. "This is Hotaru."

Ken looked at the picture and felt a wave of sadness come over him. In the picture were three smiling children: Ken, Osamu, and the girl called Hotaru. Ken noticed that Hotaru looked a lot like him, but she had violet eyes and purplish-black hair. Her haircut was chin-length, like Ken's was now.

"Why is she coming over?"

"Her house is being tested for termites and getting a new paint job," explained Mrs. Ichijouji.

Wow, thought Ken.

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Tomoe Hotaru looked out of her window. She saw a bird's nest with three baby chicks inside. Soon a bigger bird came by and dropped a worm into the nest. "Kawaii," mumbled Hotaru as she began slipping into a daydream.

"Hotaru!"

Hotaru's eyes popped open, and she looked around to find the source of the voice. Then she heard a knock on the door. She ran to answer it.

"ChibiUsa!" cried Hotaru in suprise.

The pink-haired red-eyed girl threw her arms around Hotaru in a loving bear hug. Hotaru returned the hug.

ChibiUsa looked up at her best friend and said, "Puu told me about your house! So I came to wish you good luck! Hehe!"

Hotaru smiled sadly. "Arigatou, ChibiUsa-chan."

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Hotaru looked at the bus stop that was going to take her to the district of Tamachi. Then she looked at her three suitcases. Then she looked at ChibiUsa, who had volunteered to go with her. "Nobody should go on trips alone!" ChibiUsa had said.

Suddenly a little scream was heard. ChibiUsa looked up and something fell on her face. She shrieked in shock and grabbed it with her hands.

"Oh, it's you!" said ChibiUsa as she saw the little ball of grey fur in her hands.

"Konnichiwa, Small Lady!" greeted Diana. "Konnichiwa, Hotaru!" added Diana.

"Konnichiwa," sighed Hotaru.

The bus driver arrived five minutes later. Hotaru, ChibiUsa, and Diana boarded the bus and took a seat.

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Mr. Ichijouji, Mrs. Ichijouji, and Ken were standing at the Greyhound bus stop (AN: I don't know what they call their bus transportation systems in Japan!) coming from Juuban. About a million buses passed before Hotaru's came.

"Look! That should be Hotaru's bus!" said Mrs. Ichijouji as she pointed to a small bus in the distance.

After what seemed to be like hours but was really minutes, the bus came and stopped in front of Ken and his parents. The doors opened, and out stepped two girls holding suitcases. A little grey cat stood next to them.

The two girls and their cat stepped on the sidewalk. They put their suitcases on the ground and turned around and waved at the bus driver. The driver smiled, closed the bus's doors, and drove off.

The girls turned around and smiled at Ken, his mom, and his dad. Mrs. Ichijouji ran towards the girl with black hair and hugged her.

"Hotaru-chan! Konnichiwa!" cried Mrs. Ichijouji.

"Obasan... konnichiwa." said the girl called Hotaru. (AN: "Aunt".)

Mrs. Ichijouji stopped hugging Hotaru and looked at ChibiUsa.

"Konnichiwa. Onamae wa nan desu ka?" (AN: What's your name?) asked Mrs. Ichijouji as she smiled at the shorter girl.

"Chiba ChibiUsa des. I'm Hotaru's best friend!"

"Nice to meet you, ChibiUsa-chan," said Ken's mother.

Mr. Ichijouji and Ken approached the three females.

Mr. Ichijouji bowed to Hotaru and ChibiUsa, who bowed in return.

"Anou... konnichiwa, Hotaru-san," said Ken as he bowed.

Hotaru bowed back. "Ogenki desu ka, Ken-kun?"

"Ogenki desu yo."

Ken shifted his gaze to the little pink-haired girl next to his cousin.

"Konnichiwa, ChibiUsa-san."

"Konnichiwa, Ken-san."

Mrs. Ichijouji looked at ChibiUsa's feet and noticed a grey kitten.

"Is this your cat, ChibiUsa-chan?" asked Mrs. Ichijouji.

"Yes!" ChibiUsa picked up the kitten and held her up to Mrs. Ichijouji's face. "Her name is Diana!"

Mr. Ichijouji and Ken picked up Hotaru's suitcases. "Are we ready to go?"

"Hai!" said everybody.

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Taichi knocked on the bathroom door.

"Hikari, are you done yet?" cried Taichi. "I gotta go!"

Hikari was standing in front of the mirror, twirling a tube of red lipstick between her fingers. She sighed dreamily and scribbled something on the mirror's surface.

"HIKARI!"

"Huh? Oh, okay!" Hikari snapped out of her little fantasy and ran out of the bathroom, past Taichi, and into their shared bedroom.

Taichi sprinted into the bathroom, closed the door, and did his business. As he washed his hands in the sink, he looked up at himself in the mirror and gasped.

"Hikari!"

Hikari left the safety of the bedroom to find a very angry Taichi standing by the bathroom door.

"Um, hey Onii-chan! What's up?" said Hikari as she smiled sheepishly.

"Explain this!" boomed Taichi as he pointed to the bathroom mirror.

"Um... I can explain.." said Hikari, blushing crimson.

Bright red lipstick was scribbled all over the mirror. And right in the middle were a symbol and two words:

Hikari

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Haruka