Sailor Moon
"Reflections of a Red Rose"
By: NeoMoon
Rated: PG-13
Chapter Ten:
Chi's eyes widen as she sat up, her blanket falling away. "Wh - What did you say?"
"Is Mamo-chan your brother?" Usagi repeated, her voice going annoyed.
Chi looked at her friend, her heart racing, the thunder outside drowned out by the drumming in
her ears. She took in a breath and tried to look away from Usagi, but the girl's eyes commanded
attention, slowly Chi nodded her head.
Usagi's shoulders slumped, and the girl let out a sigh. "I see." She said and looked up at Chi
with a tired smile. "Tell me." She whispered.
Chi started to open her mouth then shook her head. "No, you don't understand."
Confusion flashed in Usagi's eyes. "What don't I understand?"
Chi sat straighter and pushed a piece of stray hair away from her face. She tried to give Usagi
a smile, but knew she failed at it. "You love him, I - I can't damage that."
Usagi seemed to be shocked by what she had said, so Chi stood, and started to grab her things.
"I should go, I've been a bother."
"Does Mamo-chan know?" Usagi said from behind her, her voice strained fighting against the sock.
Chi shook her head. "No, he never knew, father hid his secret well."
Chi turned to find Usagi standing, a look of determination in her eyes. "Mamo-chan lost so much
when his parents died." Usagi said her voice whispered. "He has no family besides me now." She
shook her head and smiled softly at Chi. "He should know he has a sister."
"No!" Chi half screamed, shaking her head furiously. "I can't, I mean if he found out . . ."
Usagi put up a hand silencing the girl. "Just one more question. Are you Mamo-chan's sister or
Endymion's sister?"
Chi stepped back shocked. How did she know? She couldn't have figured it out.
Usagi smiled as if sensing her thoughts. "You talk quite a lot in your sleep."
Chi sighed in relieve and fell into the bed behind her. She looked at Usagi's expecting eyes,
and nodded. She would tell the girl anything. "I'm both."
It was Usagi's turned to be shocked; chi watched as the girl stumbled backwards hitting her door.
"How can - How can that be?"
Chi shrugged, she had never tried to figure out the answer. "Don't know."
Usagi seemed to accept this and walked over, sitting next to her in the bed. "We've got to let
Ami know, at least."
Chi sighed, she knew she couldn't hid from them forever, they would have found at anyway, she
knew it. She also knew that losing her secret wasn't her biggest problem. She turned to look at
the storm raging outside. No the secret wasn't her biggest problem.
"Will start tomorrow." Usagi said, breaking Chi's thought.
"What?"
"Tomorrow we will start: Operation Family Reunion!" Usagi through her hand into the air, and
for the first time Chi could see the diamond that rested on her ring finger. She smiled, knowing
what it was.
"Thank you." She said leaning over to give Usagi a hug.
Ami sat looking at the two printouts on the table, her hand daftly stirring the spoon through her
cereal. She sighed; looking at both with intensity she rarely gave anything. She had two pieces
of the puzzle; she knew only part of it! Question was, what was the third piece?
Standing up, she placed the bowl in the pink, and grabbed her bag; she would have to wait till
later, right now she was running late. An amused smile passed over her face, as she imaged the
shocked look on her teacher's face when she walked in late. A small laugh escaped her lips.
There was always a first time.
The day was cool, and Ami found herself walking slower then she would have like, she didn't mind
being a little late, but she really didn't want to et locked out. With a discontented sigh she
hurried her pace, hoping to make it before they started locking the gates.
"Hey Ami!"
Ami turned and smiled, Usagi and Chi were running toward her, both girls hurrying to catch up.
But why weren't they in there uniforms. Ami looked down at her watch and felt an embarrassed
blush rise on her face. It was Sunday.
Usagi bent down, her hands on her knees, trying to catch her breath, Chi though was much better,
and seemed to only be breathing hard.
"Usagi-chan." Ami said, her voice grave. "You shouldn't be exerting yourself so soon after your
injury."
Usagi smiled, and waved her hand. "It's alright Ami-chan." Usagi looked at her, her smile
growing. "Umm, why are you dressed . . ."
"Just don't ask!"
Chi stepped forward, and looked at Ami, her face was hard, her lips pursed. "We need to talk."
She said simply, and started down the way Ami had just come from.
Ami looked as Chi walked away, then over at Usagi who had started to follow, shrugging her
shoulders, Ami too started to Follow.
The wind blew in her face, the hum of the engine filling her ears. Her hand and foot moved in
unison working the clutch, after so long she was part of the machine she drove. Making a sharp
turn Haruka exited from the main road, trees now stretched before, seeming to move away as her
car neared. The trees grew thicker, the bright sun only shone out of little openings in the
canopy above. Fools! She thought as the car sped thought he forest lined road. We should be
seeking the source of this drain! Her car slowed and pulling over she parked on the roads edge.
Haruka looked back at her car as she started down the trail, and adjusted her pack. What she
wouldn't give to do nothing more then drive, and let the wind streak through her hair. She
turned away and started down the trail. Some dreams died before they were even truly born.
Micheru rolled over in her bed, her hand moving to touch the warm skin of her love, yet only cool
linen met her. "Haruka-chan?" She mumbled, with a smile, knowing that this above anything would
get her love to stir, but still nothing. Opening her eyes, Micheru sighed the bed was empty.
Sitting up she surveyed the dimly room, as she tucked a sheet around her. "She's gone." Micheru
whispered, her voice choked by something she couldn't explain.
Getting out of the bed Micheru dressed quickly, putting her green hair into a braid and walking
out of the room was greeted by the lovely smell of eggs. She smiled, and raced toward the
kitchen, Haruka had to have been making them breakfast!
Her heart fell as she stepped into the kitchen and saw the small girl at the stove stir eggs in a
pan. The girl turned to her and smiled, brushing some of her raven black hair out of her face.
"Good Morning Micheru-san!" Hotoru said cheerfully, then went back to her cooking.
Micheru leaned against the doorframe, her head lowered. "How could I be so stupid?" She
whispered to herself.
A hand rested on her shoulder, she looked to see Setsuna standing next to her, a said look in the
woman's dark eyes. "I know were she is." Se said in her simple whisper, and handed a jacket to
Micheru. "We should hurry."
Micheru nodded.
"But what about breakfast!" Hotoru yelled after them.
Usagi sat in the booth Ami sitting beside her, both girls looking as Chi went over the printouts
Ami had handed her.
"I - I can't believe this." She whispered in amazement, and looked up at the two girls, tears
pooling in her eyes. "If Mamoru should get these . . ."
Usagi nodded, and reached for the papers. "I'll make sure he finds them." She smiled.
Chi held the papers back. "But if he finds out about his father!"
Ami shook her head. "As Usagi said he has no family save Chibi Usa and herself." Ami smiled.
"He'll be glad to have someone again."
Usagi looked over at Ami, and could see that the girl was hurting, but tried to hide it behind
her smile. Ami's eyes spoke to clearly. Usagi would have to remember to 5talk with her friends
later.
Chi finally nodded, and handed the papers over to Usagi, making her turn away from her best
friend. Usagi took the papers and quickly looked at them again, she still couldn't believe it.
"I just hope the son didn't inherit the fathers sins." Usagi said drawing the attention of both
girls. "Sorry." She mumbled as a hot blush cover her face.
"Its alright." Chi said, as she stood and dug in her pocket, and dropped some yen on the table.
"I can understand were you'd be worried, its one of the reasons I'm so afraid of telling him."
Usagi nodded, her smile returning as she saw life returning to the girl's eyes, last night she
had looked at the edge of death.
"Don't worry." Usagi said and gripped Chi's hand. "I know Mamo-chan. Anyone who can find out
his daughter has a crush on him can take the fact that his father had an affair."
Chi looked at her confused. "Daughter?"
Usagi laughed, and waved the question away. "Another time, its a lot more complex then this."
Chi smiled. "I got to get to work." She said, her voice betraying the fact that she did not
want to leave.
Usagi nodded, and handed her a napkin. "Come here after you get off." She said.
Chi looked at the napkin, and nodded before she left.
"What was it?" Ami asked, as she reached for her milkshake.
"Rei's address, we should get everyone together."
Haruka stood in the middle of a large clearing; her eyes closed her breathing soft. She listened
to the slow mind that caressed her body, trying to discover its voice like she had done for most
of her life, yet the wind said nothing; it would not speak with her, not anymore. She growled
her eyes shooting open. She called upon her powers, letting the energy caress her body like a
lover's warm hand, the light washing over her.
The light in the clearing faded away, and she looked down at the uniform of one of the ancient
warrior of the Moon kingdom. She was a Senshi, she controlled and used the forces of the winds,
they were her companion, but no longer, the magic's of the winds were slowly fading from her, she
could feel it even now, the slow drain from her body.
A silent curse on her lips she raised her arm, calling forth her magic's, they formed into a ball
of light, with a smile she let them loose upon the world.
A small sapling exploded before her, chucks of wood and dust filled the small area of the
clearing. Haruka hissed as the dust cleared and she saw how little damage her powers had caused.
Once she could topple a building, now she could hardly take down a young tree.
"You waste your time Uranus." Spoke the wind. "You waste your powers.
Haruka's eyes brightened, the wind was talking to her again!
Someone stepped out into the clearing and her eyes fell, her hopes dashed away.
"Why are you here Setsuna?"
"Why are you?" The woman asked in return, her voice a cold whisper that told of the woman's
great power. "You know last night that most of us are losing or connections to the elemental
magic that sustains us, why do this?" She said and waved her hand across the clearing. "Why
waste yourself?"
"Because!" Haruka growled at her. "Because I will not lose something so close to me! I will
kill to keep it!"
A small gasp sounded from behind the tall woman, and Micheru stepped out from behind her.
Haruka's eyes went wide as she saw her love standing there, her eyes clearly showing the woman's
pain.
"Micheru." Haruka started but stood when Micheru raised her hand to her commanding silence.
"Is that how you truly feel?" Micheru asked her voice was low, the pain that flowed from it at
odds with the memory of the cheerfully bright voice in Haruka's mind.
"Mich - Micheru." Haruka said as she started toward her love.
Micheru backed away, becoming more and more apart of Setsuna's shadow. "Answer me!" She
screamed her eyes clenched shut, tears streaming down her ruddy cheeks.
"Reflections of a Red Rose"
By: NeoMoon
Rated: PG-13
Chapter Ten:
Chi's eyes widen as she sat up, her blanket falling away. "Wh - What did you say?"
"Is Mamo-chan your brother?" Usagi repeated, her voice going annoyed.
Chi looked at her friend, her heart racing, the thunder outside drowned out by the drumming in
her ears. She took in a breath and tried to look away from Usagi, but the girl's eyes commanded
attention, slowly Chi nodded her head.
Usagi's shoulders slumped, and the girl let out a sigh. "I see." She said and looked up at Chi
with a tired smile. "Tell me." She whispered.
Chi started to open her mouth then shook her head. "No, you don't understand."
Confusion flashed in Usagi's eyes. "What don't I understand?"
Chi sat straighter and pushed a piece of stray hair away from her face. She tried to give Usagi
a smile, but knew she failed at it. "You love him, I - I can't damage that."
Usagi seemed to be shocked by what she had said, so Chi stood, and started to grab her things.
"I should go, I've been a bother."
"Does Mamo-chan know?" Usagi said from behind her, her voice strained fighting against the sock.
Chi shook her head. "No, he never knew, father hid his secret well."
Chi turned to find Usagi standing, a look of determination in her eyes. "Mamo-chan lost so much
when his parents died." Usagi said her voice whispered. "He has no family besides me now." She
shook her head and smiled softly at Chi. "He should know he has a sister."
"No!" Chi half screamed, shaking her head furiously. "I can't, I mean if he found out . . ."
Usagi put up a hand silencing the girl. "Just one more question. Are you Mamo-chan's sister or
Endymion's sister?"
Chi stepped back shocked. How did she know? She couldn't have figured it out.
Usagi smiled as if sensing her thoughts. "You talk quite a lot in your sleep."
Chi sighed in relieve and fell into the bed behind her. She looked at Usagi's expecting eyes,
and nodded. She would tell the girl anything. "I'm both."
It was Usagi's turned to be shocked; chi watched as the girl stumbled backwards hitting her door.
"How can - How can that be?"
Chi shrugged, she had never tried to figure out the answer. "Don't know."
Usagi seemed to accept this and walked over, sitting next to her in the bed. "We've got to let
Ami know, at least."
Chi sighed, she knew she couldn't hid from them forever, they would have found at anyway, she
knew it. She also knew that losing her secret wasn't her biggest problem. She turned to look at
the storm raging outside. No the secret wasn't her biggest problem.
"Will start tomorrow." Usagi said, breaking Chi's thought.
"What?"
"Tomorrow we will start: Operation Family Reunion!" Usagi through her hand into the air, and
for the first time Chi could see the diamond that rested on her ring finger. She smiled, knowing
what it was.
"Thank you." She said leaning over to give Usagi a hug.
Ami sat looking at the two printouts on the table, her hand daftly stirring the spoon through her
cereal. She sighed; looking at both with intensity she rarely gave anything. She had two pieces
of the puzzle; she knew only part of it! Question was, what was the third piece?
Standing up, she placed the bowl in the pink, and grabbed her bag; she would have to wait till
later, right now she was running late. An amused smile passed over her face, as she imaged the
shocked look on her teacher's face when she walked in late. A small laugh escaped her lips.
There was always a first time.
The day was cool, and Ami found herself walking slower then she would have like, she didn't mind
being a little late, but she really didn't want to et locked out. With a discontented sigh she
hurried her pace, hoping to make it before they started locking the gates.
"Hey Ami!"
Ami turned and smiled, Usagi and Chi were running toward her, both girls hurrying to catch up.
But why weren't they in there uniforms. Ami looked down at her watch and felt an embarrassed
blush rise on her face. It was Sunday.
Usagi bent down, her hands on her knees, trying to catch her breath, Chi though was much better,
and seemed to only be breathing hard.
"Usagi-chan." Ami said, her voice grave. "You shouldn't be exerting yourself so soon after your
injury."
Usagi smiled, and waved her hand. "It's alright Ami-chan." Usagi looked at her, her smile
growing. "Umm, why are you dressed . . ."
"Just don't ask!"
Chi stepped forward, and looked at Ami, her face was hard, her lips pursed. "We need to talk."
She said simply, and started down the way Ami had just come from.
Ami looked as Chi walked away, then over at Usagi who had started to follow, shrugging her
shoulders, Ami too started to Follow.
The wind blew in her face, the hum of the engine filling her ears. Her hand and foot moved in
unison working the clutch, after so long she was part of the machine she drove. Making a sharp
turn Haruka exited from the main road, trees now stretched before, seeming to move away as her
car neared. The trees grew thicker, the bright sun only shone out of little openings in the
canopy above. Fools! She thought as the car sped thought he forest lined road. We should be
seeking the source of this drain! Her car slowed and pulling over she parked on the roads edge.
Haruka looked back at her car as she started down the trail, and adjusted her pack. What she
wouldn't give to do nothing more then drive, and let the wind streak through her hair. She
turned away and started down the trail. Some dreams died before they were even truly born.
Micheru rolled over in her bed, her hand moving to touch the warm skin of her love, yet only cool
linen met her. "Haruka-chan?" She mumbled, with a smile, knowing that this above anything would
get her love to stir, but still nothing. Opening her eyes, Micheru sighed the bed was empty.
Sitting up she surveyed the dimly room, as she tucked a sheet around her. "She's gone." Micheru
whispered, her voice choked by something she couldn't explain.
Getting out of the bed Micheru dressed quickly, putting her green hair into a braid and walking
out of the room was greeted by the lovely smell of eggs. She smiled, and raced toward the
kitchen, Haruka had to have been making them breakfast!
Her heart fell as she stepped into the kitchen and saw the small girl at the stove stir eggs in a
pan. The girl turned to her and smiled, brushing some of her raven black hair out of her face.
"Good Morning Micheru-san!" Hotoru said cheerfully, then went back to her cooking.
Micheru leaned against the doorframe, her head lowered. "How could I be so stupid?" She
whispered to herself.
A hand rested on her shoulder, she looked to see Setsuna standing next to her, a said look in the
woman's dark eyes. "I know were she is." Se said in her simple whisper, and handed a jacket to
Micheru. "We should hurry."
Micheru nodded.
"But what about breakfast!" Hotoru yelled after them.
Usagi sat in the booth Ami sitting beside her, both girls looking as Chi went over the printouts
Ami had handed her.
"I - I can't believe this." She whispered in amazement, and looked up at the two girls, tears
pooling in her eyes. "If Mamoru should get these . . ."
Usagi nodded, and reached for the papers. "I'll make sure he finds them." She smiled.
Chi held the papers back. "But if he finds out about his father!"
Ami shook her head. "As Usagi said he has no family save Chibi Usa and herself." Ami smiled.
"He'll be glad to have someone again."
Usagi looked over at Ami, and could see that the girl was hurting, but tried to hide it behind
her smile. Ami's eyes spoke to clearly. Usagi would have to remember to 5talk with her friends
later.
Chi finally nodded, and handed the papers over to Usagi, making her turn away from her best
friend. Usagi took the papers and quickly looked at them again, she still couldn't believe it.
"I just hope the son didn't inherit the fathers sins." Usagi said drawing the attention of both
girls. "Sorry." She mumbled as a hot blush cover her face.
"Its alright." Chi said, as she stood and dug in her pocket, and dropped some yen on the table.
"I can understand were you'd be worried, its one of the reasons I'm so afraid of telling him."
Usagi nodded, her smile returning as she saw life returning to the girl's eyes, last night she
had looked at the edge of death.
"Don't worry." Usagi said and gripped Chi's hand. "I know Mamo-chan. Anyone who can find out
his daughter has a crush on him can take the fact that his father had an affair."
Chi looked at her confused. "Daughter?"
Usagi laughed, and waved the question away. "Another time, its a lot more complex then this."
Chi smiled. "I got to get to work." She said, her voice betraying the fact that she did not
want to leave.
Usagi nodded, and handed her a napkin. "Come here after you get off." She said.
Chi looked at the napkin, and nodded before she left.
"What was it?" Ami asked, as she reached for her milkshake.
"Rei's address, we should get everyone together."
Haruka stood in the middle of a large clearing; her eyes closed her breathing soft. She listened
to the slow mind that caressed her body, trying to discover its voice like she had done for most
of her life, yet the wind said nothing; it would not speak with her, not anymore. She growled
her eyes shooting open. She called upon her powers, letting the energy caress her body like a
lover's warm hand, the light washing over her.
The light in the clearing faded away, and she looked down at the uniform of one of the ancient
warrior of the Moon kingdom. She was a Senshi, she controlled and used the forces of the winds,
they were her companion, but no longer, the magic's of the winds were slowly fading from her, she
could feel it even now, the slow drain from her body.
A silent curse on her lips she raised her arm, calling forth her magic's, they formed into a ball
of light, with a smile she let them loose upon the world.
A small sapling exploded before her, chucks of wood and dust filled the small area of the
clearing. Haruka hissed as the dust cleared and she saw how little damage her powers had caused.
Once she could topple a building, now she could hardly take down a young tree.
"You waste your time Uranus." Spoke the wind. "You waste your powers.
Haruka's eyes brightened, the wind was talking to her again!
Someone stepped out into the clearing and her eyes fell, her hopes dashed away.
"Why are you here Setsuna?"
"Why are you?" The woman asked in return, her voice a cold whisper that told of the woman's
great power. "You know last night that most of us are losing or connections to the elemental
magic that sustains us, why do this?" She said and waved her hand across the clearing. "Why
waste yourself?"
"Because!" Haruka growled at her. "Because I will not lose something so close to me! I will
kill to keep it!"
A small gasp sounded from behind the tall woman, and Micheru stepped out from behind her.
Haruka's eyes went wide as she saw her love standing there, her eyes clearly showing the woman's
pain.
"Micheru." Haruka started but stood when Micheru raised her hand to her commanding silence.
"Is that how you truly feel?" Micheru asked her voice was low, the pain that flowed from it at
odds with the memory of the cheerfully bright voice in Haruka's mind.
"Mich - Micheru." Haruka said as she started toward her love.
Micheru backed away, becoming more and more apart of Setsuna's shadow. "Answer me!" She
screamed her eyes clenched shut, tears streaming down her ruddy cheeks.