Ryoko: Sorry for the long wait! Sorry Vela-chan. I broke my promise.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, nor the chars used.
Fate Isn't Written in Stone
Chapter 3: Seiya's Nightmare
Usagi and Seiya stood in front of the Tsukino house. They had talked some more then Seiya had walked her home.
Usagi looked in Seiya's eyes. She couldn't figure it out, but she had a feeling she had seen them when she had visited the future with Mamoru and the Inners to defeat the Black Moon. If there was one thing she loved more than anything about Seiya- besides his personality- it was his eyes. They pulled her in and were filled with emotions she could read. Right now, they were filled with comfort and caring.
"Goodnight, Seiya-kun," she whispered.
He took her hand and kisses it gently then held it. "Want to go for ice cream tomorrow?" he asked.
Usagi nodded. "Tomorrow. I'll call you so we can arrange a time."
Seiya smiled. "Alright." He leaned down to kiss her but Usagi put a finger over his lips to stop him. He opened his eyes and looked confused.
Usagi smiled. "Mamoru-san." she reminded.
Seiya sighed and kind of groaned in exasperation.
Usagi smiled and kissed his right cheek, left cheek then pressed her left cheek against his left one. 'I wish I could Seiya-kun. Sometimes I really wish I could.' She thought. 'But Chibi-Usa chan must survive. I can't kill her.' A tear fell from her eye and fell onto their clasped hands.
Usagi felt another tear splash onto their hands. She realized with a start Seiya was crying. Her face fell. 'I'm sorry Seiya-kun. I don't want to hurt you.' Usagi drew back and let her hands fall to her sides.
"Goodnight Seiya-kun." She repeated her hand on the doorknob.
"Goodnight, Odango Atama." He whispered then turned and walked into the night.
Luna watched from her parents' balcony. 'I don't like this at all,' she thought. 'Not one bit.' She heard the door open and close and raced into Usagi's room. 'His love for her is making him bolder, and her love for him is marking her bolder. The sooner we visit the past the better.'
Seiya slowly opened the door to their apartment. The scanned the living room with a quickness. 2 chairs, a clear glass table, a small couch and a smaller table with a lamp and phone on it. Pale blue carpeting and a TV.
Yaten and Taiki's face suddenly appeared in front of his.
"How'd it go Mr. Cool?" Taiki inquired.
"Yeah! Did ya kiss her?!" Yaten gasped.
"You didn't meet Mamoru-san did you?"
"You gave her the ring?"
"Did you meet Mamoru-san?"
"Did you hold her hand or anything romantic?"
"Taiki," Seiya began, "It went fine, we just talked. I met Mamoru-san, he was mad because Usagi wanted to talk with me alone and without him.
"Yaten, yes I gave her the ring. Yes we held hands but only when we were saying goodnight-"
"Did ya kiss her?!" He asked again.
Seiya blushed slightly.
"You did! You did kiss her didn't you?!"
Seiya shook his head. "Not on the lips and I was never the one to do it. She kissed me goodnight on both of my cheeks."
Yaten started snickering.
"Huh?" A moment later he slapped Yaten up side the head and he fell to the ground. "Not those cheeks you perv!"
Taiki looked at Yaten. He had @ @ eyes. "You hit him pretty hard," he said watching drool come out of his open mouth. "He dissevered it though," he added.
Seiya nodded then walked towards his room. "I'm going to bed," he announced. "See you two in the morning."
"I don't think Yaten can hear you!" Taiki called prodding Yaten with his foot.
Seiya sighed. "I don't get girls.First they hate you, then they accept you, then they start to like you but don't want to dump their jerky boyfriends."
He sighed again as he crawled into his bed. "She almost kissed me.expect she would have felt guilty because of Mamoru." He drifted off into sleep.
He was standing by the bay, a cold evening wind blowing. He heard giggling and spun around. "I'll find you Usako!" he called walking around and looking behind stacks of crates. He saw a flash of blonde hair, giggling and quick steps. Silently and quickly he followed her, hearing her steps quicken as he drew closer. Finally he heard her give a squeal of excitement and she started running. It wasn't long before he managed to catch up to her in the maze of crates. "Gotcha!" he cried grabbing her hand (nicely). She turned and smiled at him.
"Drat," she said. "Less than two minutes."
"If you would keep quiet and stand still I wouldn't find you so easily," he laughed as they walked hand in hand out of the crate maze.
Usagi leaned her head on his shoulder as they come to the piers edge, then raised it and turned to him.
Just as they were about to kiss some invisible force pulled her away from him. "Seiya!" she gasped as she was pulled another few feet away from him.
He lunged for her but she was pulled away again. To his horror, as she shrieked, she was pulled quickly around a corner. "Seiya!" she yelled. Just as he was about to go after her he heard a chuckle followed by a cry of pain and a figure appeared on top of the 3-story warehouse to his right.
The figure had one arm around her neck, the other pinned her arms to her sides.
"Help me Seiya!" Usagi cried.
Seiya tried to move but he couldn't, his legs were frozen. "I can't move Usagi!"
It was then the figure stepped out of the shadow making a hatred boil up inside Seiya. It was Mamoru.
"What the hell are you doing?!" he yelled.
Mamoru rose up in the air 200 feet above the warehouse then levitated to be in front of it.
"What are you doing? You're suppose to love her!"
"We are destined to be together." Mamoru called back emotionlessly. "She chooses you instead."
"So what? It's her choice."
"We are destined to be together." Mamoru repeated. "We're to be together.forever."
"No!" Usagi cried. "I don't choose you! I choose Seiya! Seiya!"
Mamoru put down the hand that was around her neck and ripped off her broach. "You can't transform on your fall now." He whispered to her emotionlessly.
"If I can't have her, no one will," he called. He let go of Usagi.
Seiya suddenly found that his legs could move and he dashed to where Usagi would (hopefully) land. 'I'm not going to make it.' He thought. 'She's falling to fast.'
Just as Usagi was about to shatter onto the concrete, an abyss opened up. Seiya dove to its edge and managed to grab her arm.
"Usako," he whispered looking down at her.
"I love you Seiya," she whispered up to him.
"I love you t-" he stopped and screamed as a pain ripped into his side. Still managing to hold onto Usagi he looked and saw a black rose embedded in his flesh. Seiya looked up and saw Mamoru on the other side of the abyss. He held another rose in his hand.
"Die." Seiya heard him mutter as he threw the other rose straight as his heart.
He (Seiya) screamed and slumped over but still managed to hold onto Usagi as blood dripped out of him.
Mamoru levitated over the abyss and snapped his fingers. Usagi rose up and was set on its edge, tears streaming down her face as Seiya lay nearly dead.
Mamoru hovered over to Seiya and chuckled. Seiya lifted his head weakly. Mamoru smiled then kicked Seiya into the abyss.
"No!" Usagi screamed and threw herself in after him.
Seiya reached his hand up to Usagi as blackness surrounded them. 'I'm dying.' He thought. He felt Usagi grasp his hand and whispered his last sentence. "I love you too, Usagi."
Seiya sat up in bed gasping for air, his body clammy and his sheets twisted. "Oh my god." He gasped sitting on the bed's edge. His hands were trembling and he was surprised when he felt hot tears roll down his face. "It was just a dream," he murmured. "Just a dream."
He looked at his clock; 4:06. He had set his alarm for 8:00 but he would probably never get back to sleep. Seiya sighed and stood up. Maybe he'd watch TV for a while.
Luna watched Usagi sleep. It was 3 hours later and sunlight was creeping into her room.
Usagi rolled over. "Oh Seiya." she murmured.
Luna sort of growled then something caught her eye. It was the ring that Seiya had had given her, Usagi had forgotten to take it off.
Luna eyed it. "I can't believe he would give her that. Those are high quality gems! I've never seen anything better. Mamoru-san's was high quality but not anything like this. Seiya's make his look cheap!"
Usagi rolled over again, her ring catching the sunlight and sending rainbow prisms all over the room. Usagi stirred and opened her eyes. She blinked. "Luna what's happening?" she asked seeing the prisms.
"It's your ring." Luna snipped and jumped off the bed. "From Seiya." She walked out of the room.
Usagi sat up moving her hand and making the prisms disappear. "Luna?" She whispered. "Why do you hate him so?" She looked at her ring. 'I want to talk to him.' She thought. 'He's probably still asleep.but what's the worst that can happen? Yaten answering the phone.'
She picked up the phone and dialed his number.
"Seiya Kou here."
"Oh you're awake! I wasn't sure if you'd be or not."
"Couldn't wait to see me could you Usako?"
Usagi blushed. "How long have you been up?" she asked changing the subject. "You sound fully awake."
"I've been up since four. Bad dreams."
"Really? I had a bad dream the night before we were in the hospital."
"If I may ask-what was it about?"
"Well," she began. "Mamo-chan and I were on the beach during a sunset. I.I heard you whisper my name.and you were a few feet behind me. I tried to run to you but I was chained to Mamo-chan. He wouldn't unlock the chains. He said.something."
"Do you remember what he said exactly?" Seiya prompted.
Usagi chuckled. "What do you want to know so badly? Are you a dream expert?"
"Please, answer my question and I'll answer yours."
Usagi smiled. "He said 'We're destined to be together.we're to be together.forever.' Why?"
Seiya was silent.
"Seiya?"
He spoke up. "Can you meet me at the Crown restaurant in twenty minutes?"
Usagi looked at her clock. "Yes. Meet you there."
"Alright. Bye."
"Bye." Usagi returned and hung up the phone. She looked at her ring. "What's wrong.Seiya-kun?" she whispered then stepped out of bed.
Rei sat in front of the fire concentrating on trying to see the evil Mamoru again.
Again she saw herself in the fire. "Show yourself Mamoru!" she yelled. She waited for him to appear. He didn't. "Show yourself!"
She heard his chuckle and spun around. 'Don't be frightened.' She told herself. 'Don't let him sense your fear of him.' She turned behind her and saw him, still shadowy and only his eyes being distinguishable, clutching another rose in his hand.
"Afraid to step into light Mamoru?" she challenged.
Mamoru was still for a moment then he moved forward, out of the shadows. "No," he sneered.
"What is it that you want?"
"To rid the world of my challenger."
"Your challenger?!"
"The one who could make my pyramid of plans tumble and fall."
"What plans?"
"My plans to be ruler."
"What do you-"
"Silence!" Mamoru bellowed. "You have inquired too much." He raised the rose he clenched in his hand. "You know too much. You won't see me again." Mamoru threw the rose and just as it was about to stab her a voice called her out of her trance.
"Rei-chan!"
Rei looked at the doorway. Makoto, Minako, and Ami stood there. Minako and Ami looked frantic, excited wasn't enough to describe how Mako looked.
"It's seven-thirty." Rei snarled. "And you're interrupting my fire reading!"
Minako ran to Rei, grabbed her collar, and shook her. "This is more important Rei-chan!" Minako shrieked.
@ @ "It'd better be," Rei moaned.
"You won't believe this!" Minako gasped. "Usagi-chan called me this morning to talk to me. She said she had to go meet someone and I asked who and she replied 'Seiya!' She spit this out in a rush. And then I asked her if she was feeling alright and she said yes they're all here!"
Rei moaned since Minako was shaking her the entire time.
Minako pressed her forehead against Rei's. "DID YOU HEAR ME?! THEY'RE BACK! THE STARLIGHTS ARE BACK!!"
Ami clasped her together, got all starry-eyed and drooled slightly. "Taiki." she murmured. "O rose, thou art sick..." she recited.
Minako dropped Rei and did the same as Ami. "Yaten." she murmured. ".All the milk seems to melt away."
Makoto imitated them both. "Three Lights.Answer me gently."
Ami and Minako narrowed their eyes at her. "Don't you dare go near Yaten and Taiki!" they both shouted.
@ @ "Don't you dare let my hair catch on fire." Rei moaned.
Hotaru looked up at Setsuna over her cereal. "Setsuna-mama?"
"Yes?" she replied looking at Hotaru over her book.
"I have a funny feeling that.we should go to the past tomorrow."
"Why?"
Hotaru shrugged. "I have a feeling that if we find out what's making Usagi love Seiya instead of Mamoru the sooner the better it will be for us than if we wait until later."
Setsuna was quiet. She wanted Mamoru out of town before they went but if Hotaru had the same feeling Michiru had last night.
'Whatever is making Usagi love Seiya is getting stronger.' Setsuna recalled her saying. 'We should find out why soon.'
Setsuna nodded. "I guess that would be all right."
"Me too," a voice said.
Setsuna calmly replied, "Good morning Haruka-chan, Michiru-chan," without turning. When one was up the other was too. Michiru was the one that had spoken.
Haruka sat next to Hotaru who asked, "Aren't you afraid of the Guardian, Hakura-baka?"
"Why should I be? It'll probably turn out to be a little old' youma that be defeated."
"Do you think?"
Haruka nodded. "It seems like it."
"I'll go call the senshi," Michiru announced. "Should I call the Starlights too?"
Hotaru looked at Haruka who looked at Setsuna.
Setsuna nodded. "Seiya should come. Usagi too."
"Mamoru?" Michiru asked.
"No." Setsuna replied. "If Queen Serenity lied.and he didn't really love Usagi."
"I'll tell the Inners not to mention it to him." Michiru said. "I'll tell the Lights, too. Though I doubt that'd say anything anyway."
Setsuna smiled. "Seiya would be the most likely to say anything to Mamoru.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, nor the chars used.
Fate Isn't Written in Stone
Chapter 3: Seiya's Nightmare
Usagi and Seiya stood in front of the Tsukino house. They had talked some more then Seiya had walked her home.
Usagi looked in Seiya's eyes. She couldn't figure it out, but she had a feeling she had seen them when she had visited the future with Mamoru and the Inners to defeat the Black Moon. If there was one thing she loved more than anything about Seiya- besides his personality- it was his eyes. They pulled her in and were filled with emotions she could read. Right now, they were filled with comfort and caring.
"Goodnight, Seiya-kun," she whispered.
He took her hand and kisses it gently then held it. "Want to go for ice cream tomorrow?" he asked.
Usagi nodded. "Tomorrow. I'll call you so we can arrange a time."
Seiya smiled. "Alright." He leaned down to kiss her but Usagi put a finger over his lips to stop him. He opened his eyes and looked confused.
Usagi smiled. "Mamoru-san." she reminded.
Seiya sighed and kind of groaned in exasperation.
Usagi smiled and kissed his right cheek, left cheek then pressed her left cheek against his left one. 'I wish I could Seiya-kun. Sometimes I really wish I could.' She thought. 'But Chibi-Usa chan must survive. I can't kill her.' A tear fell from her eye and fell onto their clasped hands.
Usagi felt another tear splash onto their hands. She realized with a start Seiya was crying. Her face fell. 'I'm sorry Seiya-kun. I don't want to hurt you.' Usagi drew back and let her hands fall to her sides.
"Goodnight Seiya-kun." She repeated her hand on the doorknob.
"Goodnight, Odango Atama." He whispered then turned and walked into the night.
Luna watched from her parents' balcony. 'I don't like this at all,' she thought. 'Not one bit.' She heard the door open and close and raced into Usagi's room. 'His love for her is making him bolder, and her love for him is marking her bolder. The sooner we visit the past the better.'
Seiya slowly opened the door to their apartment. The scanned the living room with a quickness. 2 chairs, a clear glass table, a small couch and a smaller table with a lamp and phone on it. Pale blue carpeting and a TV.
Yaten and Taiki's face suddenly appeared in front of his.
"How'd it go Mr. Cool?" Taiki inquired.
"Yeah! Did ya kiss her?!" Yaten gasped.
"You didn't meet Mamoru-san did you?"
"You gave her the ring?"
"Did you meet Mamoru-san?"
"Did you hold her hand or anything romantic?"
"Taiki," Seiya began, "It went fine, we just talked. I met Mamoru-san, he was mad because Usagi wanted to talk with me alone and without him.
"Yaten, yes I gave her the ring. Yes we held hands but only when we were saying goodnight-"
"Did ya kiss her?!" He asked again.
Seiya blushed slightly.
"You did! You did kiss her didn't you?!"
Seiya shook his head. "Not on the lips and I was never the one to do it. She kissed me goodnight on both of my cheeks."
Yaten started snickering.
"Huh?" A moment later he slapped Yaten up side the head and he fell to the ground. "Not those cheeks you perv!"
Taiki looked at Yaten. He had @ @ eyes. "You hit him pretty hard," he said watching drool come out of his open mouth. "He dissevered it though," he added.
Seiya nodded then walked towards his room. "I'm going to bed," he announced. "See you two in the morning."
"I don't think Yaten can hear you!" Taiki called prodding Yaten with his foot.
Seiya sighed. "I don't get girls.First they hate you, then they accept you, then they start to like you but don't want to dump their jerky boyfriends."
He sighed again as he crawled into his bed. "She almost kissed me.expect she would have felt guilty because of Mamoru." He drifted off into sleep.
He was standing by the bay, a cold evening wind blowing. He heard giggling and spun around. "I'll find you Usako!" he called walking around and looking behind stacks of crates. He saw a flash of blonde hair, giggling and quick steps. Silently and quickly he followed her, hearing her steps quicken as he drew closer. Finally he heard her give a squeal of excitement and she started running. It wasn't long before he managed to catch up to her in the maze of crates. "Gotcha!" he cried grabbing her hand (nicely). She turned and smiled at him.
"Drat," she said. "Less than two minutes."
"If you would keep quiet and stand still I wouldn't find you so easily," he laughed as they walked hand in hand out of the crate maze.
Usagi leaned her head on his shoulder as they come to the piers edge, then raised it and turned to him.
Just as they were about to kiss some invisible force pulled her away from him. "Seiya!" she gasped as she was pulled another few feet away from him.
He lunged for her but she was pulled away again. To his horror, as she shrieked, she was pulled quickly around a corner. "Seiya!" she yelled. Just as he was about to go after her he heard a chuckle followed by a cry of pain and a figure appeared on top of the 3-story warehouse to his right.
The figure had one arm around her neck, the other pinned her arms to her sides.
"Help me Seiya!" Usagi cried.
Seiya tried to move but he couldn't, his legs were frozen. "I can't move Usagi!"
It was then the figure stepped out of the shadow making a hatred boil up inside Seiya. It was Mamoru.
"What the hell are you doing?!" he yelled.
Mamoru rose up in the air 200 feet above the warehouse then levitated to be in front of it.
"What are you doing? You're suppose to love her!"
"We are destined to be together." Mamoru called back emotionlessly. "She chooses you instead."
"So what? It's her choice."
"We are destined to be together." Mamoru repeated. "We're to be together.forever."
"No!" Usagi cried. "I don't choose you! I choose Seiya! Seiya!"
Mamoru put down the hand that was around her neck and ripped off her broach. "You can't transform on your fall now." He whispered to her emotionlessly.
"If I can't have her, no one will," he called. He let go of Usagi.
Seiya suddenly found that his legs could move and he dashed to where Usagi would (hopefully) land. 'I'm not going to make it.' He thought. 'She's falling to fast.'
Just as Usagi was about to shatter onto the concrete, an abyss opened up. Seiya dove to its edge and managed to grab her arm.
"Usako," he whispered looking down at her.
"I love you Seiya," she whispered up to him.
"I love you t-" he stopped and screamed as a pain ripped into his side. Still managing to hold onto Usagi he looked and saw a black rose embedded in his flesh. Seiya looked up and saw Mamoru on the other side of the abyss. He held another rose in his hand.
"Die." Seiya heard him mutter as he threw the other rose straight as his heart.
He (Seiya) screamed and slumped over but still managed to hold onto Usagi as blood dripped out of him.
Mamoru levitated over the abyss and snapped his fingers. Usagi rose up and was set on its edge, tears streaming down her face as Seiya lay nearly dead.
Mamoru hovered over to Seiya and chuckled. Seiya lifted his head weakly. Mamoru smiled then kicked Seiya into the abyss.
"No!" Usagi screamed and threw herself in after him.
Seiya reached his hand up to Usagi as blackness surrounded them. 'I'm dying.' He thought. He felt Usagi grasp his hand and whispered his last sentence. "I love you too, Usagi."
Seiya sat up in bed gasping for air, his body clammy and his sheets twisted. "Oh my god." He gasped sitting on the bed's edge. His hands were trembling and he was surprised when he felt hot tears roll down his face. "It was just a dream," he murmured. "Just a dream."
He looked at his clock; 4:06. He had set his alarm for 8:00 but he would probably never get back to sleep. Seiya sighed and stood up. Maybe he'd watch TV for a while.
Luna watched Usagi sleep. It was 3 hours later and sunlight was creeping into her room.
Usagi rolled over. "Oh Seiya." she murmured.
Luna sort of growled then something caught her eye. It was the ring that Seiya had had given her, Usagi had forgotten to take it off.
Luna eyed it. "I can't believe he would give her that. Those are high quality gems! I've never seen anything better. Mamoru-san's was high quality but not anything like this. Seiya's make his look cheap!"
Usagi rolled over again, her ring catching the sunlight and sending rainbow prisms all over the room. Usagi stirred and opened her eyes. She blinked. "Luna what's happening?" she asked seeing the prisms.
"It's your ring." Luna snipped and jumped off the bed. "From Seiya." She walked out of the room.
Usagi sat up moving her hand and making the prisms disappear. "Luna?" She whispered. "Why do you hate him so?" She looked at her ring. 'I want to talk to him.' She thought. 'He's probably still asleep.but what's the worst that can happen? Yaten answering the phone.'
She picked up the phone and dialed his number.
"Seiya Kou here."
"Oh you're awake! I wasn't sure if you'd be or not."
"Couldn't wait to see me could you Usako?"
Usagi blushed. "How long have you been up?" she asked changing the subject. "You sound fully awake."
"I've been up since four. Bad dreams."
"Really? I had a bad dream the night before we were in the hospital."
"If I may ask-what was it about?"
"Well," she began. "Mamo-chan and I were on the beach during a sunset. I.I heard you whisper my name.and you were a few feet behind me. I tried to run to you but I was chained to Mamo-chan. He wouldn't unlock the chains. He said.something."
"Do you remember what he said exactly?" Seiya prompted.
Usagi chuckled. "What do you want to know so badly? Are you a dream expert?"
"Please, answer my question and I'll answer yours."
Usagi smiled. "He said 'We're destined to be together.we're to be together.forever.' Why?"
Seiya was silent.
"Seiya?"
He spoke up. "Can you meet me at the Crown restaurant in twenty minutes?"
Usagi looked at her clock. "Yes. Meet you there."
"Alright. Bye."
"Bye." Usagi returned and hung up the phone. She looked at her ring. "What's wrong.Seiya-kun?" she whispered then stepped out of bed.
Rei sat in front of the fire concentrating on trying to see the evil Mamoru again.
Again she saw herself in the fire. "Show yourself Mamoru!" she yelled. She waited for him to appear. He didn't. "Show yourself!"
She heard his chuckle and spun around. 'Don't be frightened.' She told herself. 'Don't let him sense your fear of him.' She turned behind her and saw him, still shadowy and only his eyes being distinguishable, clutching another rose in his hand.
"Afraid to step into light Mamoru?" she challenged.
Mamoru was still for a moment then he moved forward, out of the shadows. "No," he sneered.
"What is it that you want?"
"To rid the world of my challenger."
"Your challenger?!"
"The one who could make my pyramid of plans tumble and fall."
"What plans?"
"My plans to be ruler."
"What do you-"
"Silence!" Mamoru bellowed. "You have inquired too much." He raised the rose he clenched in his hand. "You know too much. You won't see me again." Mamoru threw the rose and just as it was about to stab her a voice called her out of her trance.
"Rei-chan!"
Rei looked at the doorway. Makoto, Minako, and Ami stood there. Minako and Ami looked frantic, excited wasn't enough to describe how Mako looked.
"It's seven-thirty." Rei snarled. "And you're interrupting my fire reading!"
Minako ran to Rei, grabbed her collar, and shook her. "This is more important Rei-chan!" Minako shrieked.
@ @ "It'd better be," Rei moaned.
"You won't believe this!" Minako gasped. "Usagi-chan called me this morning to talk to me. She said she had to go meet someone and I asked who and she replied 'Seiya!' She spit this out in a rush. And then I asked her if she was feeling alright and she said yes they're all here!"
Rei moaned since Minako was shaking her the entire time.
Minako pressed her forehead against Rei's. "DID YOU HEAR ME?! THEY'RE BACK! THE STARLIGHTS ARE BACK!!"
Ami clasped her together, got all starry-eyed and drooled slightly. "Taiki." she murmured. "O rose, thou art sick..." she recited.
Minako dropped Rei and did the same as Ami. "Yaten." she murmured. ".All the milk seems to melt away."
Makoto imitated them both. "Three Lights.Answer me gently."
Ami and Minako narrowed their eyes at her. "Don't you dare go near Yaten and Taiki!" they both shouted.
@ @ "Don't you dare let my hair catch on fire." Rei moaned.
Hotaru looked up at Setsuna over her cereal. "Setsuna-mama?"
"Yes?" she replied looking at Hotaru over her book.
"I have a funny feeling that.we should go to the past tomorrow."
"Why?"
Hotaru shrugged. "I have a feeling that if we find out what's making Usagi love Seiya instead of Mamoru the sooner the better it will be for us than if we wait until later."
Setsuna was quiet. She wanted Mamoru out of town before they went but if Hotaru had the same feeling Michiru had last night.
'Whatever is making Usagi love Seiya is getting stronger.' Setsuna recalled her saying. 'We should find out why soon.'
Setsuna nodded. "I guess that would be all right."
"Me too," a voice said.
Setsuna calmly replied, "Good morning Haruka-chan, Michiru-chan," without turning. When one was up the other was too. Michiru was the one that had spoken.
Haruka sat next to Hotaru who asked, "Aren't you afraid of the Guardian, Hakura-baka?"
"Why should I be? It'll probably turn out to be a little old' youma that be defeated."
"Do you think?"
Haruka nodded. "It seems like it."
"I'll go call the senshi," Michiru announced. "Should I call the Starlights too?"
Hotaru looked at Haruka who looked at Setsuna.
Setsuna nodded. "Seiya should come. Usagi too."
"Mamoru?" Michiru asked.
"No." Setsuna replied. "If Queen Serenity lied.and he didn't really love Usagi."
"I'll tell the Inners not to mention it to him." Michiru said. "I'll tell the Lights, too. Though I doubt that'd say anything anyway."
Setsuna smiled. "Seiya would be the most likely to say anything to Mamoru.