Touching Eden
Chapter Two
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Shorter, maybe, but I've got reasons ;D
I love you all!
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She winced. "She saw us. I don't want to go back. Take me to whatever planet you came from, I'll find your blasted princess with my crystal, I'm just so sick of the youma and the suspicion..."
Seiya rubbed her small hand in-between his. "We can't take you away from your planet, Usagi. Your senshi would kill us."
Her look of fury told him this was not the right thing to say.
Yaten sat down beside Usagi. "Not that I wouldn't object to you finding the princess for us. Can you do that?"
"I don't know. Probably. The ginzuishou is really good about stuff like that." She held out her hand and a soft glow shone, before a crystal dropped into the girl's hand from no where. The three men stared at it, for they had never seen it before.
"I can't do it now, though." Usagi added, her fist closing around the crystal. "It's too soon after a battle. I'd probably die." She laughed.
"Don't laugh about things like that, Usagi." Taiki chastised.
"Your life is worth more than that."
Usagi didn't look at Seiya. "Haruka's going to be after your blood from here on out, you know." She changed the subject quickly.
Yaten crowed. "And Rei saw you guys kissing! Oh, that's just priceless." He paused, and cracked up again. "I mean, you girls." He apparently thought this was the funniest thing ever said.
Seiya's eyes closed in an attempt to keep from choking his brother.
Usagi smacked Yaten upside the head. "You're not the one that Rei is going to be branding a slut to the world!" She snapped angrily.
There was a silence. Seiya seemed to be struggling with himself. "Did you mean what you said?" He asked finally. She gave him a searching look.
"About Rei telling everyone I'm a slut? I meant it. She's probably raving about it to all the other senshi at the moment..."
"No..." He swallowed. "About you loving me."
Taiki immediately grabbed Yaten by the ponytail and dragged him off the couch and out of the room, to the silver-haired man's great protest. Usagi watched them go, her face even more pale than usual.
There was a long silence.
"If I did?" She inquired tentatively.
He gave her a warm smile. "Then I would be very happy, Usagi." He embraced her tightly to him. "There are very few people I know of that would be willing to accept all sides of me."
Usagi didn't comment. Finally, "I'll do my best to protect you from the senshi, Seiya. I can't promise you won't be ambushed in some alley by Uranus, but I'll do my best."
He laughed. "I think I might be able to hold my own against her as long as I have the benefit of surprise. If things get really bad, the shock of me actually being a woman might just let me escape with my anatomy intact."
Usagi giggled. "True, true. But then she'll probably just be even more angry when she finally does catch you. I won't always be around to shock her by ordering her away."
Seiya looked mildly insulted. "You're forgetting I am a seasoned soldier, Usa-chan. I can hold my own long enough. I'm strong." He did not possess the total arrogance that would have made him declare he could kick Haruka's ass any day of the week. He knew better from watching the senshi fight.
Usagi reached up and kissed his cheek lightly. "I'm aware of that. But I'm too used to the mother role. I want to protect you." She told him, with a funny expression on her face that made Seiya laugh.
"I'm probably the only lover you'll ever take that you won't have to always protect." He did not miss the dark look that flashed, most out of place, on her lovely face.
"You're probably right." She remarked lightly. "Destruction seems to follow in my wake... it's nice to love someone who I don't have to worry about every second of the day... even if I do anyway." She added impishly.
"If you keep making me feel like you think of me as a child, I will have to kick Taiki and Yaten out of my bedroom where they are most certainly eavesdropping on us to show you exactly how much a child I am not, since you've apparently forgotten."
Usagi eyed the door that the two young men had vanished into. "Why did they choose your bedroom?" She wondered out loud. Seiya opened his mouth to explain exactly why he thought, but she stopped him with a red face. "No, don't tell me."
He laughed again. "Because they don't think, silly. What did you think I was going to say?" He teased her.
A darkening of her blush only made him laugh harder.
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Usagi went to school the next day with a very somber expression on her Lunarian features. She did not ignore her friends, but she was not as warm to them as she usually was. None of them were perplexed by this behavior, as they had all received Rei's telling of events.
Minako cornered Usagi sometime after lunch, pulling her into a deserted restroom.
"Usagi, what were you doing, kissing a Starlight?" She asked curiously. "We don't even know them very well."
Usagi blushed faintly. "Minako, I'm in love with her." She knew from past experience there was absolutely no point in lying to Minako on matters of love.
Minako's eyebrows raised. "You barely know her. We've only met half a dozen times, and for a few minutes each." The senshi became very serious and very intelligent, as she did when she was truly concerned.
Usagi blushed a little darker. "I know her very well."
"How?" Minako was truly concerned, and Usagi's heart softened a little.
"Because I know who she really is, Minako. Her real form, not the senshi." She said, after a little hesitation. Minako's eyes widened, but Usagi continued. "Minako, I can't tell you who she is, but I can tell you I'm not cheating on Seiya and I do love him, too."
The wheels in Minako's mind went to work. Reaching out carefully with the magic few people knew she possessed, she cautiously probed the walls around Usagi's heart until she found a crevice and slipped inside.
Usagi watched as her friend's eyes closed and her breathing sped up. She could feel what Minako was doing, and knew she could throw the blonde out of her presence, but it was better she have a friend among the senshi.
She waited, ignoring the small pangs that accompanied Minako's search. It was not the full-blown agony that would have come from someone less experienced, and that much Usagi appreciated, but it did not stop her from loosing her balance and nearly falling over when Minako started and suddenly pulled back.
Her eyes opened, round and shocked.
Usagi blushed again.
"That is quite possibly the weirdest thing I have ever seen in my entire life." Minako looked very taken aback. "They can just switch back and forth?" Her face was getting a very bright shade of scarlet.
Usagi kept the wicked smirk off her face. "Yes."
Minako made a strangled noise. "That's got to be interesting." Her shock faded, replaced by the gossiping friend Usagi had always loved. "I want details." Minako grinned.
Usagi stuck her tongue out. "Maybe I will, maybe I won't." She sniffed. "I've got at least a little bit of dignity left, even if Rei's telling everyone she can what a whore I am."
Minako blinked. That word did not belong on her princess's lips. "She isn't saying that, exactly, just... well... okay, she's saying that. But she's angry, Usagi, and hurt. It isn't like you to hide things from us."
Usagi was suddenly ashamed. "I know... you all liked Mamoru, and I was confused... Seiya and I fought so much, and it just sort of happened, and I didn't know what any of you would do... and... I'm just so sick of all of it!" Usagi exploded.
Minako took a step back warily.
Usagi looked away guiltily. "I'm sorry."
Minako laid a comforting hand on Usagi's arm. "Don't be. we don't have any right to judge you. If you want to fly in the face of destiny, I'm all for it. Imagine Setsuna's face!"
Usagi looked sour. "Setsuna and I already had a talk. A talk where I reminded her that it was flying in the face of destiny that I existed at all, as I killed myself during the fall of the Silver Millennia and I should have never been reborn."
"You did what?" Minako found herself shocked once again. "Luna never told us that."
"I don't know if Luna remembers or not. Or if Luna ever knew at all." Usagi muttered. "I don't really care."
"Are you okay, Usagi?" Minako's face was one of apprehension.
Usagi smiled. "Yeah, I guess I'm just in a bad mood."
Something occurred to Minako. Something had been bothering her, and she just figured out what it was. She couldn't remember the last time Usagi had eaten in front of them. "Usagi, have you been eating?"
By the small flush and the lowering of Usagi's eyes, Minako knew. "When was the last time you ate, Usagi?"
"I had a sandwich earlier."
"And before that?"
Usagi shook her head. "I'm fine, Minako. I just haven't... nevermind. I already know I'm dehydrated." She sighed. "I just haven't felt like eating anything."
"Are you sick? Maybe we should have Ami look you over... Usagi, that's really just not like you. With our upped metabolisms... if you don't eat, Usagi, you could just fall in the middle of a fight and we wouldn't be able to save you."
"Fighter watches over me," Usagi said quietly.
Minako quirked her eyebrow. "Haruka's going to end up kicking Fighter's ass one of these days, Usagi."
Usagi nodded. "Did I mention that I've been training really hard lately? I might be able to help Fighter out when that happens."
The bell rang. "Erk!" Minako yelped. "we'd better go. I won't tell the others." She told Usagi. Usagi grinned and hugged her, and they left the bathroom.
As the door swung shut behind them, a very confused, very excited girl stepped out of one of the stalls, brushing her long, black hair out of her face.
"I know Umino is going to want to hear about this!" She squealed and rushed off to find the school's walking encyclopedia.
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After school, Usagi sought out Seiya, who had been waiting for her on the rooftop of the school. His brothers were no where to be seen, but the roof was occupied by the usual crowd that followed Seiya around the school. She was happy now that she had no reason to pretend she hated him.
His eyes lit up. "Usa-chan," he said, with such warmth in his voice that several members of his fan club turned to stare daggers at the blonde girl.
"Don't worry," one girl whispered confidently. "They totally hate each other."
Her argument was thrown to the wind as Seiya kissed Usagi, pulling her against him.
"That's some hatred, let me tell you!" A half-hysterical fangirl glowered. The first girl started crying.
Usagi pulled back and grinned at Seiya, opening her mouth to tell Seiya about Minako, but a hand tapped on her shoulder, stopping her. She turned.
A really bad feeling developed in her stomach.
"Yes, Umino?"
The boy's bright brown eyes were focused on her behind the huge lenses of his glasses with such concentration she took a step back out of sheer intimidation.
"I knew it. I so knew it. You know the Sailor Senshi. This explains so much!"
With heightened senses, Seiya could hear Usagi's heart sped up and her breathing stop.
But she laughed. "What on earth makes you think that?"
Umino waved his finger at her. "Ah-ah, Usagi, you know I have contacts and surveillance all over this school. I have suspected for quite some time now you have friends among the senshi!"
Usagi laughed again. "Just because I'm such a klutz that I stumble into half their battles needing to be rescued. Check your facts, Umino. I gotta run!"
She bolted so fast that Umino began to develop a new theory: Usagi was simply an alien who ate really fast and gossiped a lot.
Seiya shot him a dirty look. "Now I have to catch up to her." He groaned, and started off after Usagi.
Umino turned to one of the sobbing fangirls. "Did Kou Seiya just run after a *girl*?" He asked incredulously. In reply, the girl burst into full-blown tears.
Umino turned a calculating glance at the stairwell where the two students had disappeared.
"Well, time to go back to trying to prove Sailor V and Sailor Venus are the same person..." He muttered in defeat.
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Seiya frowned when he saw Usagi duck down an alley some distance ahead, and his frown deepened when Super Sailor Moon darted back out. With a great leap, she was in the air and on the rooftops, racing in the direction of the harbor.
Gathering his strength, he jumped, transformed in midair, and hit the rooftops just behind her. Somewhat surprised by her swiftness, it took all Fighter had to keep up with the blonde soldier, who ran without seemingly noticing she was even there.
She made jumps Fighter had thought her incapable of making.
"Sailormoon, what's going on?" She yelled.
Another jump. "I sense something, and I don't like it."
"Call the other senshi!"
"No, not if it's what I think it is. Who it is. I can't take the chance."
Fighter reached out and caught Sailormoon around the waist, dragging them both to a stop. "What are you talking about?"
"For a long time, I've been feeling little flashes of energy. I was never able to grasp onto them before now. At first, I thought maybe it was just the other senshi training... it's that faint... but it's stronger now, and I want to know what the hell it is."
"Why not call for backup? You don't know what it could be, Usagi. You could get hurt."
Sailormoon gave her a flippant smile. "I'll live." She kissed her lover's cheek. "Later, remind me to make it up to you."
Fighter was on the verge to throwing the soldier over her shoulder and marching off in the other direction. "What if you're not there for me to remind you!"
She shook her head. "If my suspicions are right, you're the only one in danger."
Fighter's eyebrows raised, but Sailormoon had neatly jumped off the side of the building and began to walk calmly to the longest pier, where storm clouds where gathering suspiciously.
A flash of lightning and a clap of thunder make Fighter jump and slightly deafened her for a second. She saw the figure descend from the clouds but did not hear what Sailormoon called to it as she pulled out her scepter.
Fighter ran closer as a young man unfolded himself from a dark, encompassing cloak. The scepter vanished from Sailormoon's hand and she rushed into the arms of the man, and Fighter felt a very strong pang of jealousy.
He was a rather good looking young man, with very dark, blue hair and eyes that shone a true blue. Fighter was seriously pondering if Usagi just liked men with dark hair and blue eyes and no other reason when another person appeared beside the first.
It was a little girl, with pink hair in odango, maybe about twelve, thirteen years old. Fighter was struck by the sheer resemblance the girl had to Usagi.
After Sailormoon had hugged the little girl, she motioned Fighter forward, who approached with some reservation.
"Sailor Star Fighter, this is Saffiru, and this is Usagi Tsukino. Call her Chibi-usa." She introduced. "And this is Sailor Star Fighter. My partner." She said quite smoothly. Saffiru's face was one of interest, but Fighter didn't get to ask why because the pink haired girl had flung herself at her.
"Seiya! You look good without your scars, just like you told me! I didn't believe you. Have you and Mama been getting along?" She asked suspiciously.
Fighter stared at her. "Who's your mother?" She asked uncertainly.
Chibi-usa sent a hurt look to Sailormoon, who was looking at the sky with a very misplaced expression on her face while Saffiru laughed, throwing his arm across Sailormoon's shoulders with such familiarity Fighter found herself a little curious.
"Well..." Sailormoon said, still looking at the sky. "I'm her mother."
Fighter nearly fell over. "What?" She asked, while Chibi-usa smirked. "Who's the father?" She asked, really not wanting to hear the name that was evitable to come.
Sailormoon turned to stare at Saffiru. "Yes, Saffiru, why don't you tell Fighter who the father was, as I have been lied to TWICE about it!" She said angrily.
Fighter looked at Sailormoon questionably.
"Well, first I was under orders to tell her that Mamoru was my father." Chibi-usa explained, directing the three adults to look at her. "And Endymion was under similar orders. The next time I came back, I was to let slip to my Mother that Mamoru wasn't my father, and that some other man my mother hadn't met yet was my father."
"And then about three months ago, Pluto kindly told me that Chibi-usa had been lying, then, too, and wouldn't tell me who my own daughter's father was, just that I'd met him before." The soldier was steaming. "She also told me that I'd been seeing Chibi-usa in a few months."
Sailormoon turned to glare at Saffiru. "That does not tell me how you're alive."
"You brought most of us back, Sailormoon, when you took the throne." Saffiru explained. "Once you figured out how do it without killing yourself, that is. I believe that Nephrite was the first one you brought back."
Sailormoon didn't look as surprised as she should have been. "Yeah, that sounds like something I would do. Now, do I get a straight answer on who the brat's father is?" She demanded.
"Puu said we could tell you now without you freaking out." Chibi-usa said happily.
There was a silence.
"Well?" Sailormoon was growing impatient, and Fighter wondered if it was good for her to be here.
Saffiru suddenly looked nervous, entailed with warnings from the Neo Queen on what a spitfire her younger self had been. "You had me come to tell you in person," he started apologetically.
Sailormoon stared at him. "You are not the father of Chibi-usa."
Saffiru averted his eyes. "I could be."
Sailormoon was speechless. "I had sex with you?" She blurted, forgetting Chibi-usa was there.
Saffiru looked a little affronted. "As well as Demando, and... nevermind!" He was growing red. "You're not married, so it doesn't really matter, and I don't think that'd stop you if you were!"
"I'm not married?" Sailormoon asked.
Chibi-usa glowered. "You're giving too much information." She accused her father.
Saffiru looked at a nonexistent watch on his wrist. "Oh, damn, it's time for me to go..."
Sailormoon grabbed the sleeve of the dark uniform the man wore. "No, you're coming along with Fighter and me to have a milkshake." She smiled at him. "I might as well start getting to know you better now, and besides, you could visit Petz while you're here."
Saffiru smiled back. "Thank you, Your Highness."
She shot him a funny look. "If you called me that while we were... I'm most certain I would've slapped you. So call me Usagi." She powered down and took a hold of Chibi-usa's hand.
Fighter hesitated, and powered down herself. He had no idea what to make of the news that Usagi had slept with other men and not even known about it.
Seeing the confused look on Seiya's face, Usagi shook her head. "They're from the future, Seiya."
"Oh!" Seiya felt a little stupid, and then a nagging disappointment settled over him. Maybe they weren't together in the future?
She noticed this new expression, but knew she couldn't help him. only Saffiru could, most likely, and although she was sure she could probably coax information out of the handsome man, she knew that things would work out the way they should, and that endangering it was not a good idea.
"Don't tell the other senshi Mamoru isn't your father," Usagi said, as they were walking off the long, wooden pier. "I want them to sweat a little."
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I admit it. I hate Mamoru, I want him to suffer, and I don't want him to be the father of Chibiusa. However I didn't want Seiya to be, either. Might as well make it someone no one else ever considered!
Yeah, yeah, flame me in the review box.
Chapter Two
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Shorter, maybe, but I've got reasons ;D
I love you all!
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She winced. "She saw us. I don't want to go back. Take me to whatever planet you came from, I'll find your blasted princess with my crystal, I'm just so sick of the youma and the suspicion..."
Seiya rubbed her small hand in-between his. "We can't take you away from your planet, Usagi. Your senshi would kill us."
Her look of fury told him this was not the right thing to say.
Yaten sat down beside Usagi. "Not that I wouldn't object to you finding the princess for us. Can you do that?"
"I don't know. Probably. The ginzuishou is really good about stuff like that." She held out her hand and a soft glow shone, before a crystal dropped into the girl's hand from no where. The three men stared at it, for they had never seen it before.
"I can't do it now, though." Usagi added, her fist closing around the crystal. "It's too soon after a battle. I'd probably die." She laughed.
"Don't laugh about things like that, Usagi." Taiki chastised.
"Your life is worth more than that."
Usagi didn't look at Seiya. "Haruka's going to be after your blood from here on out, you know." She changed the subject quickly.
Yaten crowed. "And Rei saw you guys kissing! Oh, that's just priceless." He paused, and cracked up again. "I mean, you girls." He apparently thought this was the funniest thing ever said.
Seiya's eyes closed in an attempt to keep from choking his brother.
Usagi smacked Yaten upside the head. "You're not the one that Rei is going to be branding a slut to the world!" She snapped angrily.
There was a silence. Seiya seemed to be struggling with himself. "Did you mean what you said?" He asked finally. She gave him a searching look.
"About Rei telling everyone I'm a slut? I meant it. She's probably raving about it to all the other senshi at the moment..."
"No..." He swallowed. "About you loving me."
Taiki immediately grabbed Yaten by the ponytail and dragged him off the couch and out of the room, to the silver-haired man's great protest. Usagi watched them go, her face even more pale than usual.
There was a long silence.
"If I did?" She inquired tentatively.
He gave her a warm smile. "Then I would be very happy, Usagi." He embraced her tightly to him. "There are very few people I know of that would be willing to accept all sides of me."
Usagi didn't comment. Finally, "I'll do my best to protect you from the senshi, Seiya. I can't promise you won't be ambushed in some alley by Uranus, but I'll do my best."
He laughed. "I think I might be able to hold my own against her as long as I have the benefit of surprise. If things get really bad, the shock of me actually being a woman might just let me escape with my anatomy intact."
Usagi giggled. "True, true. But then she'll probably just be even more angry when she finally does catch you. I won't always be around to shock her by ordering her away."
Seiya looked mildly insulted. "You're forgetting I am a seasoned soldier, Usa-chan. I can hold my own long enough. I'm strong." He did not possess the total arrogance that would have made him declare he could kick Haruka's ass any day of the week. He knew better from watching the senshi fight.
Usagi reached up and kissed his cheek lightly. "I'm aware of that. But I'm too used to the mother role. I want to protect you." She told him, with a funny expression on her face that made Seiya laugh.
"I'm probably the only lover you'll ever take that you won't have to always protect." He did not miss the dark look that flashed, most out of place, on her lovely face.
"You're probably right." She remarked lightly. "Destruction seems to follow in my wake... it's nice to love someone who I don't have to worry about every second of the day... even if I do anyway." She added impishly.
"If you keep making me feel like you think of me as a child, I will have to kick Taiki and Yaten out of my bedroom where they are most certainly eavesdropping on us to show you exactly how much a child I am not, since you've apparently forgotten."
Usagi eyed the door that the two young men had vanished into. "Why did they choose your bedroom?" She wondered out loud. Seiya opened his mouth to explain exactly why he thought, but she stopped him with a red face. "No, don't tell me."
He laughed again. "Because they don't think, silly. What did you think I was going to say?" He teased her.
A darkening of her blush only made him laugh harder.
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Usagi went to school the next day with a very somber expression on her Lunarian features. She did not ignore her friends, but she was not as warm to them as she usually was. None of them were perplexed by this behavior, as they had all received Rei's telling of events.
Minako cornered Usagi sometime after lunch, pulling her into a deserted restroom.
"Usagi, what were you doing, kissing a Starlight?" She asked curiously. "We don't even know them very well."
Usagi blushed faintly. "Minako, I'm in love with her." She knew from past experience there was absolutely no point in lying to Minako on matters of love.
Minako's eyebrows raised. "You barely know her. We've only met half a dozen times, and for a few minutes each." The senshi became very serious and very intelligent, as she did when she was truly concerned.
Usagi blushed a little darker. "I know her very well."
"How?" Minako was truly concerned, and Usagi's heart softened a little.
"Because I know who she really is, Minako. Her real form, not the senshi." She said, after a little hesitation. Minako's eyes widened, but Usagi continued. "Minako, I can't tell you who she is, but I can tell you I'm not cheating on Seiya and I do love him, too."
The wheels in Minako's mind went to work. Reaching out carefully with the magic few people knew she possessed, she cautiously probed the walls around Usagi's heart until she found a crevice and slipped inside.
Usagi watched as her friend's eyes closed and her breathing sped up. She could feel what Minako was doing, and knew she could throw the blonde out of her presence, but it was better she have a friend among the senshi.
She waited, ignoring the small pangs that accompanied Minako's search. It was not the full-blown agony that would have come from someone less experienced, and that much Usagi appreciated, but it did not stop her from loosing her balance and nearly falling over when Minako started and suddenly pulled back.
Her eyes opened, round and shocked.
Usagi blushed again.
"That is quite possibly the weirdest thing I have ever seen in my entire life." Minako looked very taken aback. "They can just switch back and forth?" Her face was getting a very bright shade of scarlet.
Usagi kept the wicked smirk off her face. "Yes."
Minako made a strangled noise. "That's got to be interesting." Her shock faded, replaced by the gossiping friend Usagi had always loved. "I want details." Minako grinned.
Usagi stuck her tongue out. "Maybe I will, maybe I won't." She sniffed. "I've got at least a little bit of dignity left, even if Rei's telling everyone she can what a whore I am."
Minako blinked. That word did not belong on her princess's lips. "She isn't saying that, exactly, just... well... okay, she's saying that. But she's angry, Usagi, and hurt. It isn't like you to hide things from us."
Usagi was suddenly ashamed. "I know... you all liked Mamoru, and I was confused... Seiya and I fought so much, and it just sort of happened, and I didn't know what any of you would do... and... I'm just so sick of all of it!" Usagi exploded.
Minako took a step back warily.
Usagi looked away guiltily. "I'm sorry."
Minako laid a comforting hand on Usagi's arm. "Don't be. we don't have any right to judge you. If you want to fly in the face of destiny, I'm all for it. Imagine Setsuna's face!"
Usagi looked sour. "Setsuna and I already had a talk. A talk where I reminded her that it was flying in the face of destiny that I existed at all, as I killed myself during the fall of the Silver Millennia and I should have never been reborn."
"You did what?" Minako found herself shocked once again. "Luna never told us that."
"I don't know if Luna remembers or not. Or if Luna ever knew at all." Usagi muttered. "I don't really care."
"Are you okay, Usagi?" Minako's face was one of apprehension.
Usagi smiled. "Yeah, I guess I'm just in a bad mood."
Something occurred to Minako. Something had been bothering her, and she just figured out what it was. She couldn't remember the last time Usagi had eaten in front of them. "Usagi, have you been eating?"
By the small flush and the lowering of Usagi's eyes, Minako knew. "When was the last time you ate, Usagi?"
"I had a sandwich earlier."
"And before that?"
Usagi shook her head. "I'm fine, Minako. I just haven't... nevermind. I already know I'm dehydrated." She sighed. "I just haven't felt like eating anything."
"Are you sick? Maybe we should have Ami look you over... Usagi, that's really just not like you. With our upped metabolisms... if you don't eat, Usagi, you could just fall in the middle of a fight and we wouldn't be able to save you."
"Fighter watches over me," Usagi said quietly.
Minako quirked her eyebrow. "Haruka's going to end up kicking Fighter's ass one of these days, Usagi."
Usagi nodded. "Did I mention that I've been training really hard lately? I might be able to help Fighter out when that happens."
The bell rang. "Erk!" Minako yelped. "we'd better go. I won't tell the others." She told Usagi. Usagi grinned and hugged her, and they left the bathroom.
As the door swung shut behind them, a very confused, very excited girl stepped out of one of the stalls, brushing her long, black hair out of her face.
"I know Umino is going to want to hear about this!" She squealed and rushed off to find the school's walking encyclopedia.
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After school, Usagi sought out Seiya, who had been waiting for her on the rooftop of the school. His brothers were no where to be seen, but the roof was occupied by the usual crowd that followed Seiya around the school. She was happy now that she had no reason to pretend she hated him.
His eyes lit up. "Usa-chan," he said, with such warmth in his voice that several members of his fan club turned to stare daggers at the blonde girl.
"Don't worry," one girl whispered confidently. "They totally hate each other."
Her argument was thrown to the wind as Seiya kissed Usagi, pulling her against him.
"That's some hatred, let me tell you!" A half-hysterical fangirl glowered. The first girl started crying.
Usagi pulled back and grinned at Seiya, opening her mouth to tell Seiya about Minako, but a hand tapped on her shoulder, stopping her. She turned.
A really bad feeling developed in her stomach.
"Yes, Umino?"
The boy's bright brown eyes were focused on her behind the huge lenses of his glasses with such concentration she took a step back out of sheer intimidation.
"I knew it. I so knew it. You know the Sailor Senshi. This explains so much!"
With heightened senses, Seiya could hear Usagi's heart sped up and her breathing stop.
But she laughed. "What on earth makes you think that?"
Umino waved his finger at her. "Ah-ah, Usagi, you know I have contacts and surveillance all over this school. I have suspected for quite some time now you have friends among the senshi!"
Usagi laughed again. "Just because I'm such a klutz that I stumble into half their battles needing to be rescued. Check your facts, Umino. I gotta run!"
She bolted so fast that Umino began to develop a new theory: Usagi was simply an alien who ate really fast and gossiped a lot.
Seiya shot him a dirty look. "Now I have to catch up to her." He groaned, and started off after Usagi.
Umino turned to one of the sobbing fangirls. "Did Kou Seiya just run after a *girl*?" He asked incredulously. In reply, the girl burst into full-blown tears.
Umino turned a calculating glance at the stairwell where the two students had disappeared.
"Well, time to go back to trying to prove Sailor V and Sailor Venus are the same person..." He muttered in defeat.
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Seiya frowned when he saw Usagi duck down an alley some distance ahead, and his frown deepened when Super Sailor Moon darted back out. With a great leap, she was in the air and on the rooftops, racing in the direction of the harbor.
Gathering his strength, he jumped, transformed in midair, and hit the rooftops just behind her. Somewhat surprised by her swiftness, it took all Fighter had to keep up with the blonde soldier, who ran without seemingly noticing she was even there.
She made jumps Fighter had thought her incapable of making.
"Sailormoon, what's going on?" She yelled.
Another jump. "I sense something, and I don't like it."
"Call the other senshi!"
"No, not if it's what I think it is. Who it is. I can't take the chance."
Fighter reached out and caught Sailormoon around the waist, dragging them both to a stop. "What are you talking about?"
"For a long time, I've been feeling little flashes of energy. I was never able to grasp onto them before now. At first, I thought maybe it was just the other senshi training... it's that faint... but it's stronger now, and I want to know what the hell it is."
"Why not call for backup? You don't know what it could be, Usagi. You could get hurt."
Sailormoon gave her a flippant smile. "I'll live." She kissed her lover's cheek. "Later, remind me to make it up to you."
Fighter was on the verge to throwing the soldier over her shoulder and marching off in the other direction. "What if you're not there for me to remind you!"
She shook her head. "If my suspicions are right, you're the only one in danger."
Fighter's eyebrows raised, but Sailormoon had neatly jumped off the side of the building and began to walk calmly to the longest pier, where storm clouds where gathering suspiciously.
A flash of lightning and a clap of thunder make Fighter jump and slightly deafened her for a second. She saw the figure descend from the clouds but did not hear what Sailormoon called to it as she pulled out her scepter.
Fighter ran closer as a young man unfolded himself from a dark, encompassing cloak. The scepter vanished from Sailormoon's hand and she rushed into the arms of the man, and Fighter felt a very strong pang of jealousy.
He was a rather good looking young man, with very dark, blue hair and eyes that shone a true blue. Fighter was seriously pondering if Usagi just liked men with dark hair and blue eyes and no other reason when another person appeared beside the first.
It was a little girl, with pink hair in odango, maybe about twelve, thirteen years old. Fighter was struck by the sheer resemblance the girl had to Usagi.
After Sailormoon had hugged the little girl, she motioned Fighter forward, who approached with some reservation.
"Sailor Star Fighter, this is Saffiru, and this is Usagi Tsukino. Call her Chibi-usa." She introduced. "And this is Sailor Star Fighter. My partner." She said quite smoothly. Saffiru's face was one of interest, but Fighter didn't get to ask why because the pink haired girl had flung herself at her.
"Seiya! You look good without your scars, just like you told me! I didn't believe you. Have you and Mama been getting along?" She asked suspiciously.
Fighter stared at her. "Who's your mother?" She asked uncertainly.
Chibi-usa sent a hurt look to Sailormoon, who was looking at the sky with a very misplaced expression on her face while Saffiru laughed, throwing his arm across Sailormoon's shoulders with such familiarity Fighter found herself a little curious.
"Well..." Sailormoon said, still looking at the sky. "I'm her mother."
Fighter nearly fell over. "What?" She asked, while Chibi-usa smirked. "Who's the father?" She asked, really not wanting to hear the name that was evitable to come.
Sailormoon turned to stare at Saffiru. "Yes, Saffiru, why don't you tell Fighter who the father was, as I have been lied to TWICE about it!" She said angrily.
Fighter looked at Sailormoon questionably.
"Well, first I was under orders to tell her that Mamoru was my father." Chibi-usa explained, directing the three adults to look at her. "And Endymion was under similar orders. The next time I came back, I was to let slip to my Mother that Mamoru wasn't my father, and that some other man my mother hadn't met yet was my father."
"And then about three months ago, Pluto kindly told me that Chibi-usa had been lying, then, too, and wouldn't tell me who my own daughter's father was, just that I'd met him before." The soldier was steaming. "She also told me that I'd been seeing Chibi-usa in a few months."
Sailormoon turned to glare at Saffiru. "That does not tell me how you're alive."
"You brought most of us back, Sailormoon, when you took the throne." Saffiru explained. "Once you figured out how do it without killing yourself, that is. I believe that Nephrite was the first one you brought back."
Sailormoon didn't look as surprised as she should have been. "Yeah, that sounds like something I would do. Now, do I get a straight answer on who the brat's father is?" She demanded.
"Puu said we could tell you now without you freaking out." Chibi-usa said happily.
There was a silence.
"Well?" Sailormoon was growing impatient, and Fighter wondered if it was good for her to be here.
Saffiru suddenly looked nervous, entailed with warnings from the Neo Queen on what a spitfire her younger self had been. "You had me come to tell you in person," he started apologetically.
Sailormoon stared at him. "You are not the father of Chibi-usa."
Saffiru averted his eyes. "I could be."
Sailormoon was speechless. "I had sex with you?" She blurted, forgetting Chibi-usa was there.
Saffiru looked a little affronted. "As well as Demando, and... nevermind!" He was growing red. "You're not married, so it doesn't really matter, and I don't think that'd stop you if you were!"
"I'm not married?" Sailormoon asked.
Chibi-usa glowered. "You're giving too much information." She accused her father.
Saffiru looked at a nonexistent watch on his wrist. "Oh, damn, it's time for me to go..."
Sailormoon grabbed the sleeve of the dark uniform the man wore. "No, you're coming along with Fighter and me to have a milkshake." She smiled at him. "I might as well start getting to know you better now, and besides, you could visit Petz while you're here."
Saffiru smiled back. "Thank you, Your Highness."
She shot him a funny look. "If you called me that while we were... I'm most certain I would've slapped you. So call me Usagi." She powered down and took a hold of Chibi-usa's hand.
Fighter hesitated, and powered down herself. He had no idea what to make of the news that Usagi had slept with other men and not even known about it.
Seeing the confused look on Seiya's face, Usagi shook her head. "They're from the future, Seiya."
"Oh!" Seiya felt a little stupid, and then a nagging disappointment settled over him. Maybe they weren't together in the future?
She noticed this new expression, but knew she couldn't help him. only Saffiru could, most likely, and although she was sure she could probably coax information out of the handsome man, she knew that things would work out the way they should, and that endangering it was not a good idea.
"Don't tell the other senshi Mamoru isn't your father," Usagi said, as they were walking off the long, wooden pier. "I want them to sweat a little."
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I admit it. I hate Mamoru, I want him to suffer, and I don't want him to be the father of Chibiusa. However I didn't want Seiya to be, either. Might as well make it someone no one else ever considered!
Yeah, yeah, flame me in the review box.