Returning Home
By: Dal
Sorry it took so long. I've been busy. A few questions were asked about this fic. Okay, lemme clear something up for you all. Yes there are senshi. No, Usagi is not Sailor Moon. That's all I'm gonna tell you. Just read and find out the old-fashioned way.

Chapter Two:
"Where are we going?" Usagi asked and the blond next to her sped down the street.
Minako glanced at her. "Mako-chan has a really cute bakery nearby. I could use a cup of coffee and a donut, so I figured that would be the best place to start. Ami-chan may still be there too. She stops by in the mornings after her shift at the hospital is over."
Usagi nodded understandingly. The small white cat jumped into her lap and Usagi caught herself staring at it. Absently, she traced the golden moon on its forehead. The cat meowed, then climbed into the back seat and lay down.
Minako pulled into a small shopping center and parked in front of a tiny bakery. Usagi climbed out of the car and looked around the area before following Minako inside.
The first thing she noticed when she entered was Minako talking to a young, blue-haired woman. 'Ami.' She thought. She turned her emotionless gaze to the woman coming out from behind the counter. 'Makoto.'
Both women looked curiously at Usagi before they set to questioning Minako.
"Minako-chan!" Makoto said. "You haven't come by lately."
"I thought you were shooting this morning." Ami put in.
Makoto shrugged. "I couldn't wait till after shooting to tell you guys." She said. She smiled at the woman behind her. "You guys will never guess who this is."
Both women studied her. She in return, looked at the two with a cold, hard gaze. Ami shrugged. "Who is she?" She asked.
Minako smiled. "You guys, this is Usagi." She said. Both women looked at her. "Now, don't look at me like I'm nuts. It is. She's finally come back!"
Usagi nodded to show it was true. Makoto slammed her fist down onto the table and shot Usagi a glare that would have done Hiiro proud.
"You're lying." She hissed. "There's no way on Earth that that girl is Usagi."
Usagi didn't flinch at the gaze; instead she shot an even colder gaze back at the brunette. "I don't have time for this." She said. "If we're going to go through this, I'll just leave. I am in Tokyo for a reason, you know." She turned for the door.
"No, Usagi." Minako cried. She grabbed Usagi's wrist in an attempt to stop her.
Usagi jerked away from the blonde's grip. "I have to return soon, and then I'll be leaving town." She said. "If we don't get this meeting over with soon, then it's never going to happen."
Ami looked at the angry woman. "Can you prove your really Usagi
Tsukino?" She asked.
"I'm not." Usagi said.
Ami looked at her confused. "Nani?"
"I'm not Usagi Tsukino." She said. "Watashi wa Yui Usagi."
Ami gasped at the name and Makoto's brow furrowed with thought. "Yui, as in Hiiro Yui, gundam pilot?" Ami asked.
Usagi nodded. "Hai, he's my husband." She said.
Makoto took a step away from her and Ami looked as though she was about to. "I told you she wasn't Usagi, Mina-chan." Makoto said.
Minako rolled her eyes. "Minna, she is Usagi. She's married though. It's a long story, but you have to trust me." When neither of them looked like they believed her, she added, "Don't forget exactly who I am. I know what I'm talking about."
Usagi narrowed her eyes as she studied Minako. She was hiding something from her, something only they knew. She kept silent, as she was trained to, and studied the reactions of the others.
Makoto sighed and relaxed and Ami nodded. "If you say so." Ami said. "Then I guess we'd better go get Rei-chan and get it over with."
Usagi had had enough. "What the hell's going on?" She asked, a bit more harshly then she'd intended. "What are you three talking about?"
Minako looked at the ground. "Onegai, Sere… Usagi-chan." She said. "Just come with us to meet Rei and we'll explain everything."
Usagi caught the slip and was instantly even more suspicious. She shook her head. "Iie. If you want Rei, then you'd better have her come here." She said. "I don't know what's going on, and I don't like not knowing what's going on."
Makoto groaned. This was going to be harder than they'd expected, but they didn't have a choice. "Usagi, everything will be explained." She said. "But we have to go to Rei's temple. We just have to."
Usagi sighed softly. "Fine, let's go." She said. 'I have a bad feeling about this.' She thought as she followed the three to Minako's car.

Rei looked up from her sweeping as three voices reached her ears. She set the broom against a tree and went to great the visitors.
Four women were waiting at the entrance of the temple. Three of them she recognized instantly, her best friends. The other woman, a woman with silver-streaked hair and icy blue eyes, seemed familiar. But she couldn't place it.
"Ohayo minna!" She said as she approached the group. Suddenly, she realized who the other girl was and her smile slipped from her face. "Usagi." She said. She studied the other woman, who merely glared back. "Oh kami-sama, that means it's time already." She said.
Minako nodded grimly. "Hai, it's time." She said. "Usagi's here. Let's get it over with."
Usagi glared between the four girls. "What the hell's going on?" She said, her voice seething with anger.
A small black cat that Usagi hadn't noticed before walked out in between Rei and the other four. Usagi noticed it had a moon shape just like the white cat did.
"Usagi, you've finally returned." The cat said.
Usagi's eyes widened in not fear, but shock. "That neko just spoke." She said. She noticed the others weren't surprised. They already knew what was going on. And Usagi didn't like the looks in their eyes.
"Watashi wa Luna." The cat said. "And the time has come."
Usagi looked at the cat again, and before she could look away, a golden light had shot out of the cat's forehead and connected with her own.
Usagi's eyes fluttered as the link passed memories to her. She shut her eyes tight and concentrated. With all her might, she jerked her head away and disconnected the beam.
"I don't know what's going on here." She said, panting slightly. "And I don't want to know. But I do know I'm getting out of here." She turned and ran like the devil was on her heals.
Luna looked at her fading form in shock and worry. No one should have had enough power to break the mind meld, but that wasn't nearly as worrying as something else. The meld was incomplete, which meant Usagi now only had partial memories restored.
"She's gone." Rei said. "We may have just lost her for good."
Luna shook her head. "We just have to hope enough of her memories were awakened. The prophecy is beginning. If Usagi doesn't become Sailor Moon, then we won't win the next fight.
The other girls looked down the road at the fading form of Usagi.

Usagi ran and ran. She was tired and needed to stop to breathe, but she wouldn't until she was safe. She was also aware of the people staring at her, but that didn't matter. 'What did that damned cat do to me?' She thought. 'And for that matter, how did it do that? And how could it talk?' A vision came to mind, of those four girls wearing strange fuku with a shadowed figure in the middle of them. The two cats with the moon symbols stood in front.
'What the hell's going on?'

Hiiro looked up from his laptop as the door to his bedroom was slammed open and then shut just as hard. The source of the noise was definitely not happy.
He sighed and closed the laptop, sliding it under the bed he and Usagi shared. "What's wrong Usa?" He asked.
At first she didn't answer him. She pulled out her own laptop and began to type furiously on it. For a second, Hiiro was afraid she was going to break the damn thing. Finally, she stopped typing and read whatever information was on the screen.
"Usa." Hiiro said. She looked up, startled. "What's wrong?"
Usagi shook her head. "It's nothing she said." She looked back down at the screen and began to type again.
A second later, she looked up as two arms wrapped around her waist and she looked up to see her husband's Prussian blue eyes staring worriedly at her. "You're lying." He said. "What's going on?"
"You aren't going to believe me." She said. "Hell, I hardly believe it myself."
He gave her that one look that very clearly said 'try me'.
With a sigh, she began. "After you left, Minako and I went to visit Makoto and Ami. They said some weird things and Minako almost slipped and called me Sere something." She paused. "Even though I knew something was going on, I let them take me over to the temple Rei lives at. That's where the real weird stuff started."
"Weird?" Hiiro asked. "What kind of weird?"
Usagi rubbed her temples. "There was a black neko with a moon insignia on its forehead. And, here's the first weird thing, it could…" She paused. "It could talk."
She felt his hand go up to feel her forehead and pushed it away angrily. "I am not sick!" She said. "I told you that you wouldn't believe me."
Hiiro lowered his hand. "Gomen, gomen." He said. "Keep going."
"The neko introduced herself as Luna and then it did this funny thing." She said. "A light shot out of its forehead and it hit mine. It was like it was sending me images or something. It took all my will power to move my head. Then I ran off and came here." She sighed as she finished and leaned back against his chest.
Hiiro shook his head. "I know this is just too weird to be true, but I do believe you Usa." He said. "Now I just want to figure out who those girls are and what's going on."
Usagi looked up at him and smiled slightly. "You want to spy in other words." She said.
He nodded. "Hai, let's do it." He said. "We've got that mission tonight, so we'll have to go now."
Usagi nodded and stood. "Right. Just let me change and we'll head out." She said.

"This is it?" He asked.
She nodded, her silver hair sparkling in the midday sun. "Hai, this it." She said. She walked up the steps and led him to the shade of a large, leafy tree in the middle of the courtyard.
"I have a bad feeling about this." He muttered.
She punched him playfully in the shoulder. "You, Mr. Perfect Soldier, have a bad feeling?" She asked. "I thought you were fearless."
He glared at her, but she just smiled. The smile slipped almost as quickly as it appeared. "I hear something." She said.
He nodded and quickly pulled himself up into the tree behind her. She looked around for another second before following.
The four girls they were looking for were walking down the walk towards the bench next to the tree they were hiding in. They sat down and were quiet for a minute before they began to talk.

"I can't believe we lost her." Makoto said. "We should have been ready for this."
Minako shook her head. "We had absolutely no way of knowing she was a Gundam pilot. That alone changes everything." She said. "That and the fact that she's nine years older than we were when we got our memories returned."
Rei nodded in agreement. "Hai, I mean we were skeptical enough and we were at the age when we'd believe just about everything. She's already set in the world. It's different when you're this age."
Ami just sighed and looked across the courtyard where the two cats were napping. "She's ready for it." She said. "If her claims are true, and I think they are, then she's seen more death and destruction then we'll ever see. As senshi, all we killed were youma. She killed humans. She can handle the responsibilities of a Sailor Senshi."
"You're right. We just need to find her and make her understand what's going on." Minako said. "Let's just hope we aren't too late."

In the tree, Usagi shot a very questioning look at Hiiro. He, in return, just shrugged.
Usagi sighed softly and began to climb up the tree and toward the branches that hung over the sidewalk. As soon as she was sure it was safe, she jumped down onto the cement, landing easily. A second later, another body landed besides her.
"Those girls are the Sailor Senshi?" Usagi asked. "That's pretty hard to believe."
"You heard what they said. They think you're one of their little group. That's what that whole beam light was about."
Usagi shook her head. "I don't care what they think I am." She said. "I'm leaving town at first light tomorrow. We can leave a few people here to deal with Shingo, but I don't want to be one of them."
Hiiro nodded. "I'll file the transfer as soon as we get back to base." He said.

That's all. Yeah, five whole pages. I was gonna stop at three, but I figured I'd be nice and write a little bit more. Also, I might not get much out for a while. I'll do my best. Well, ja ne until I can get around to the next chapter.
Oh, and please review. 10 reviews equals the next chapter. Bai!
~Dal~