TADA! Chapter 2! Enjoy!

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"One coffee before I fall asleep please." Minako said as she laid her head in her hands. She was at the Crown Fruit Parlor on her way to the studio for another magazine shoot.

"Minako you look dead." The young boy said from behind the counter. "Why are you here at six in the morning on Thursday during spring break?"

"Why are you awake?" Minako snorted back. "I have a photo shoot today at the studio. You however don't need to be up, your Aunt can run this place like she has since I have moved here. Besides you are only eight right? Oh that reminds me... why are you here?"

"You are so weird when you wake up. Remember five months ago I transferred here and moved in with my Aunt?"

"Then who is your father?" Minako said as she lazily played with a straw she found on the counter.

"My Aunt's sister's husband you crazy lady. I can't imagine you ever having children they would be scared of you. Here is your coffee and here is your bill, see you at school on Monday."

"You don't go to Grass Valley." Minako said quickly looking at her watch and started chugging the coffee.

"Yeah but I know people who do. Bye Minako."

"Bye Pipsqueak!" Minako called over her shoulder as she flung some coins on the counter and ran out the door. It was becoming routine to make her stop at the parlor before running off to her appointments. After going about ten blocks she skidded to a stop before running into an old apartment building and not bothering to wait for the elevator, dashed up six flights of stairs.

"Minako you know you are half an hour early." Elean, Minako's agent said as the blonde burst through the door, dropping a backpack on the ground.

"You know you are smoking?" Minako said noticing the woman swinging in her chair on the other side of the room. "Good morning Leyna. I'm guessing you are my photographer today?"

"Darn right. Now get that stupid guy behind his desk to put out his cigarette, and get yourself in to costume and we'll start."

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'Thank god that didn't take too long.' Minako thought as she exited the building around lunch time. The streets were alive with people, some going to work, kids going to cram school, and the one part of the population that Minako could never look at long, couples. Even though she knew that going through the park was the easiest way to get to the police station, Minako took the long way hoping to avoid the lovers lost in their dream worlds.

'I wonder if it was really him?' Minako thought. 'Ace has been dead for years, or at least I think he was dead. I wonder if this has anything to do with the new enemy. Where am I supposed to be tomorrow night to meet him anyway?'

'The place where he died...' A voice echoed in her head. Minako was shaken out of her thoughts as her cell phone went off.

"MINAKO-CHAN!!!" Usagi's voice rang out, probably seriously injuring the ears of anyone within a mile. "Ami wanted me to call you."

"Usagi... you could speak a little softer. What do you need?" Minako said rubbing one hear while holding the phone to the other.

"Ami wanted you to get cracking on that investigation. She said you should go to the police station over by your junior high. She says that the lady in charge there has been handling the cases of the children."

"Her name isn't Natsuna Sakurada now is it?" Minako said absent mindedly.

"Uh... That's what Ami said. Do you know her?"

"Nope just wondering okay talk to you later!" Minako said hanging up the phone. "Well she's still in her office after what, almost ten years? I wonder if she still fits into those tight little skirts. AIE!!! Wakagi might still be there too!"

Minako skipped down the street, all thought of Ace had vanished from her mind as the thought of seeing her childhood crush. After eating lunch, she caught a train to the Grass Valley school and found her way to the police station. She had walked in undetected and was sorting through various files before a guard stopped her. She was in the public section of the police's library but was told off anyways.

Minako spent the next few hours before the station closed walking around the town thinking about Ace and where she needed to be the next night. For some reason she couldn't remember where he died until she passed a little shop selling a movie that she had done with Ace back in her Sailor V years.

"That's right!" Minako said snapping her fingers and smiling. "After I won that contest we did the movie together... in China! Oh crap he expects me to meet him in China tomorrow? Idiot... wait maybe not China, death is an end, meeting is a beginning! Maybe we are to meet where we first met! And that was... well he first appeared after that stupid chocolate case. He must be there! At the building the operation was in!"

"Now the only question left is why the hell is he here?" Minako continued after sitting down on a park bench. "I saw him die, I know that I destroyed him because he attacked me, but if he was alive why wait until now to show himself?"

"Maybe he has something to do with the new enemy." The voice in her head responded.

'But he was good! I swear! I know he was part of the Dark Agency but he has to be good!' Minako thought, almost hearing her inner voice sweat- dropping in her alleged innocence. She spent the rest of the day walking around and occasionally shopping, waiting until most of the people in the police office had gone home for the night. Finally around eight o'clock she walked in the shadows beside the station.

"I don't even need to use my disguise pen!" Minako giggled. "I was going to transform myself into that secretary lady that I normally evade offices in, but I look like that naturally. It really has been a while hasn't it?"

Looking up at the building, Minako spotted a second floor window that had bee left open. Checking the space around her for any watchers, she lightly jumped to the window, grabbing on to the windowsill and quietly climbing inside. Peering the around the dark room she only saw a desk, three chairs and two huge file cabinets. Taking out a small flashlight out of her bag she turned the little device on and glanced over the titles on the file drawers. Selecting a drawer that had 'Abnormal Events/Cases' written in small red ink on the front, she flipped through the case to find only one of the seven cases,

Putting the file in to her bag, Minako quickly slid out into the hallway to find her way to the Prefect's office. Making sure the coast was clear, she ran quietly down the corridor barley glancing at the doorways until she saw 'Prefect: Natsuna Sakurada' written in bold black writing. The room was light but no sound came from within. Pausing to look both ways for security cameras and passer-bys, Minako opened the door.

"If I ever had any doubt about this being her office from the sign, I know now I have the right office." Minako said as a large comical sweatdrop appeared on the back of her head. Posters of her earlier years as Sailor V plastered the walls, yet every single on could roll up at the pull of a string for meetings. Shaking her head about 'old obsessions die hard or not at all' Minako searched the drawers and cabinets for the folders and was happy to find that five more were in her office, and not only the files issued by the parents and child, but pictures of the places, addresses, pictures of the children, suspected witnesses, testimonies by the people who had found the people and best of all for Minako a list of whos and wheres pertaining to the string of cases. This gave her a list with very place they were found, who they were and all things that were known and thought to be important. She was amazed to find though that the attacks had totaled to twenty-three, the seven children included. Stuffing the folders in her bag, Minako searched for an exit.

"Sakurada! Are you in there? Your meeting downtown was an hour ago!" A strong voice came from the hallway. Minako tried to make a quick hide underneath the desk but before she could close the cabinet the door of the office was swung open and a tall man stepped in.

"Excuse me can I help you? Ms. Sakurada isn't here right now and it's against rules for you to be in here anyways after hours. Wait you look strangely familiar. Are you a friend of Natsuna Sakurada?" He said brushing his sandy colored hair back with his hand. Minako stared at him a long time before her memory kicked in.

"WAKAGI!!!" she yelled running and hugging him. "Don't you remember me?"

"Wait I know your voice... but I am sorry I can't place a name to it but it seem we knew each other quite well." Wakagi said removing her arms from around his neck.

"It's only been... what about seven or eight years? Think about it! You hated me for a while. I'm surprised that you are still working here! You were just Natsuna's tag along back then."

"Sakurada's... I never was her tag along!" Wakagi said blushing furiously. "You still have yet to tell me your name."

"I'm not telling if you don't remember someone as wonderful as me." Minako said putting her fists on her hips. Wakagi sighed and looking up slightly saw one of the many posters of Sailor V on the wall. Looking back between the poster and the woman in front of him, a gleam of hope and confusion shone in his eyes.

"Minako Aino?"

"Took you long enough." Minako smiled.

"I, I can't believe you are here." He whispered, raising his hand to touch her cheek, before letting it quickly drop. "How have you been?"

"I've gotten through school and I'm finally an idol like I've always wanted. Are you still single?" She said, a half smile on her face, as half of her was hoping he would say that he was.

"Yes," Minako's heart leapt up. "But I've had my eye on one girl for a long time, she doesn't know yet though." And her heart fell to the center of the earth. "I suppose you have a special someone?"

"No, I've been busy as of late." She said as she could have sworn she saw a gleam of something unseen before in her friend's eye. "Well, if you don't mind I was on my way out..."

"How about dinner tomorrow night?" Wakagi said just as Minako had placed her hand on the door handle.

"Are you asking me on a date Mr. I-hate-Sailor-V?"

"Yes." One word, and Minako's life was filled with balloons and hearts and bunny rabbits.

"I have an... appointment tomorrow night." She said hesitating slightly as she almost called her meeting with Ace a date. "I would love to any other night though."

"How about Saturday then? For dinner?" he said smiling softly at her.

"Sounds lovely." Minako said, a bit in awe, never seeing him smile before. Walking over to the prefect's desk she took two sticky notes, and wrote her phone number on both. The first she handed to Wakagi, the other she drew a small picture of Sailor V and stuck it on Natsuna's computer monitor.

"I'll call you tomorrow. You should probably be on your way I have to get some files from Sakurada." Wakabi said walking the blonde to the door. as she turned to wave goodbye, he kissed her cheek and quickly shut the door.

"Well isn't this a bundle of pie?" Minako said to herself as she walked towards the train station. "We have a new enemy and my gathering information is immensely easy. Two men of my past show up, both invite me out and my old crush apparently has a crush on me."

"Could this week get any better?" Minako yelled as she jumped in the air, punching the sky. Humming to herself and dancing down the street, she did not notice a pair of eyes watching her from a rooftop.

"Wait until tomorrow night before you ask that question." A young man said as he sat there, watching his current infatuation run to catch the last train of the night.

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Fin Chapter 2

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So you like? SORRY it took so long! I know I know, I'm a lazy bean. Updates will now be about once a month, and Nymph in heels is at a standstill due to I forgot what happens next, it's been so long *sweatdrop*