Chapter 13: Reunited
Author's Comments
In reply to some reviews: Setsuna is not and will not be Chibi-Usa's mother in my story. Its true Setsuna has red eyes like Chibi-Usa, but she doesn't have pink hair to match. Now CereCere has red eyes and pink hair like Chibi-Usa, but she isn't her mother either. It's fun to tease everyone...hehe. Besides if Setsuna or CereCere had been her mother, like some of you had stated, she wouldn't be Lunarian and thus would be unable to use the Silver Crystal, which we all know she can. I had already thought about this way in advance. In fact, I had already thought about how Usagi and Chibi-Usa look alike except for the hair and eye color. I have solutions for both problems, but I can't say because it would ruin the surprise.
Oh and before I forget, Usagi will be getting more mature as the story goes on. Not that you ever see Usagi much when she isn't at war with some new enemy, but in the anime the few times you do see her like that she kind of starts reverting back to her old self. So I figured she'd probably would have done this after five years with no war. Besides the clutzy crybaby Usagi is the most fun to write. However, becoming a mother will change all that.
In this story, as I'm sure you can tell from the title, with the help of Haruka and Setsuna, Mamoru finds Usagi. And as always I don't own Sailor Moon... but I wish I did!
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A sports car with a metallic blue body drove down the block and turned the corner were it proceeded to travel down the next block. Although it was moving at a slow pace you could tell that it was a machine that drove like the wind. A person with short blonde hair was sitting in the driver's seat. If it weren't for the small curve of her breasts you would have been unable to tell if she was man or woman. In the passenger's seat sat a graceful beauty with blue-green hair. It was wavy like waves upon the ocean. They were both intently focused on the sidewalks beside them as if they were searching for something or someone.
"Michiru, finding Usagi is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be," said the driver as they came to a stoplight.
"I know, Haruka, its been almost three hours and we've still seen no sign of her," replied the woman in the passenger's seat as she looked down at her watch.
"Three hours, really? I didn't think it had been that long," Haruka said as she watched the light turn green. Once more she slowly started to make her way down the block as she began to speak with her friend again, "Setsuna and Hotaru should be out of school by now maybe we should call them and see if they want to help."
"That sounds like a good idea," Michiru said with a small smile. "We need more help anyways."
"Yeah," the blonde said as she picked up her cell phone and began to dial. It began ringing and after a few moments it continued without anyone picking up. "I guess they aren't home yet," she stated.
"Maybe Setsuna stayed after school," the woman with wavy hair told her, "you could try her office."
The woman behind the steering wheel nodded as she picked up her phone once again and began to dial. It began to ring like it had before, but this time someone picked up.
"Hello, this is Meiou Setsuna, the school nurse, how may I help you?" replied a woman on the other end.
"Hey this is Haruka," she replied. "Working late?"
"You could say that," Setsuna said.
"I was hoping you and Hotaru would come help us," the blonde told her.
"What do you need help with?" the woman asked.
"Usagi has run off and everyone is out searching for her," Haruka said. "We aren't having much luck so Michiru and I though you might want to come look with us."
"I take it Mamoru hasn't received my message yet," Setsuna stated.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"I left him a message on his answering machine, Usagi is here at the school with Hotaru and me," the green haired woman said. "Currently she's passed out on a bed in my office."
"What really?" Haruka said. "That's great, you just made our job a whole lot easier. I'll inform the others and we'll be over there shortly."
"Ok, I'll be expecting you," Setsuna said as she hung up.
"Well?" Michiru ask as she looked over towards her friend.
"Usagi is with Setsuna," Haruka told her.
"That's wonderful," she replied. "Shall we call the others?"
The blonde nodded and began to dial once more.
Meanwhile in another part of town, another car was slow driving up and down the blocks also in search of the same thing. There were also two occupants in this one as well. The driver had short hair much like the last, but it was blue and there was no mistaking her for anything but a woman. With her sat a woman with long blonde hair that was held up in a red bow. The blonde seemed like she was desperately trying not to fall asleep. Her eyes kept shutting and she was finding it increasingly hard to open them again. She was getting so desperate that she was tempted to use some toothpicks from her purse to pry them open. On top of that her head kept dropping forward as well. It was if she was unable to hold it up for long, much like that of a newborn baby.
"Minako, the seat reclines; do you want to lay back?" the driver asked as she noticed her friend's predicament.
"No, I'm alright Ami," the blonde protested as her head fell forward again.
"You sure?" the blue headed woman asked.
"Quite sure," she said as she tried to nod her head, but didn't have much luck and ended up rolling it around in a circle. Her eyes started drifting shut again and she was about to give up when suddenly her cell phone rang. Startled, she immediately perked up, but she still was not fully awake and was unaware that it was her phone was making noise. She sat there blinking her eyes for a moment listening to the sound, but was still unable to make a connection to it with her phone in her drowsy state.
"Are you going to answer that?" Ami asked.
"Huh? Oh yeah," Minako said as she began to realize that her phone was ringing and it was what had awoken her. She answered her phone and yawned as she said, "Hello."
An excited, relieved, and loud voice came blaring back.
"What?" the blonde asked as she tried to make out what had just been said.
"Usagi has been found!" exclaimed Rei from the other end of the phone.
"Really!" Minako yelled, "That's great! Where?"
"She's in the nurse's office at Chibi-Usa's old school and she's with Setsuna and Hotaru." the excited priestess replied.
"We're on our way," the drowsy blonde said as she hung up the phone.
"What was that all about?" Ami asked curiously.
"Usagi has been found. She's in the nurse's office at the school where Setsuna works," Minako said as she let out a big yawn before reclining the seat and drifting off to sleep.
Back at the school, in the nurse's office, Setsuna and Hotaru were waiting for the others to arrive all while Usagi still remained unconscious.
"Who was on the phone just a minute ago?" the dark headed girl asked as she brought a cup of tea down from her lips and held it in her hands upon her lap.
"Haruka," the nurse informed her. "Apparently our little sleeping beauty has been missing for two days now and they've been looking for her. They were quite thrilled to find out she was here. They're all headed over here now."
"It looks like we were some help after all," Hotaru said with a smile. "I'm glad."
Setsuna nodded as she sat down, picked up a cup from her desk, and began to sip the contents inside. Suddenly a man burst through the door shouting excitedly, which almost caused her spit her tea all over her friend. Hotaru also had trouble with hers, for she had almost spilled it all over her lap in her surprise. When the two recovered they looked over to see Mamoru running into the room and Rei was following right behind him.
"Where's Usagi?" he asked.
"Shh," Setsuna said as she brought a finger to her lips. "You're going to wake her." she told them as she pointed over to the curtain that she lay sleeping behind.
With that Mamoru ran over to it and pulled it open revealing the bed with sleeping pig-tailed woman. Immediately he let out a sigh of relief as he sat down on the edge of the bed and placed his hand upon her forehead. "My poor Usako you've had such a rough time," he said quietly to her. He then moved her bangs back and slowly brought his lips down to her head and gave her a small kiss. "I shouldn't have kept this from you," he whispered, "I'm so sorry."
Mamoru looked up to find Setsuna closing the curtain so he could be alone with his wife. Before it closed completely he told her, "Thanks for taking care of her."
"It was no problem at all," she said as she gave him a small smile and pulled the curtain to its resting-place.