Author's Note: Hiyah! KissThis here! Ya missed me, didn't ya? Well, I'm going to try and swing an all-nighter and get everything updated. Stars is the first...mazel tov. Well, enjoy. We're starting to create a semblance of a plot.

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"For Kami's sake! Will the two of you ever stop arguing?"

The entire group stopped talking and turned to look at a slightly pink Taiki with gaping mouths. The normally soft-spoken Starlight was becoming increasingly more flustered under the amazed stares of her friends, but she wasn't about to back down before she'd said her piece.

"You two can't be that addle-minded -- she just drove off because of your childish behaviors. And frankly...you're ruining all the fun."

Ami smiled softly and rose on her tiptoes to kiss her girlfriends cheek. "Well said." She murmured.

A smirk had formed on Yaten's face and Taiki only flushed more as she started to clap. Makoto and Rei joined in on applauding the brunette, while Minako gave a little cheer. They all grouped around the nervous Taiki and continued to tease her sudden boldness in loud voices and seemingly all at once.

Haruka scratched the back of her head looking rather embarrassed with Seiya standing besides her looking equally uncomfortable. The older woman exhaled slowly turning away from the boisterous scene in front of her and looking up to the stars. Seiya, who was similarly silent, was surprised when Haruka began to talk.

"Don't get me wrong, Kou. I severely dislike you...but I would never do anything to hurt Usagi, and I know you feel the same." She looked down at her. "Since our quarrelling is obviously doing just that, I suggest a peaceful agreement."

Haruka held out her hand. "Truce?"

Seiya's eyes widened and she looked down at Haruka's outstretched hand. Whatever she'd been expecting from the Wind Senshi this was far from the top of the list. It was so random in fact to Seiya's line of thinking that her mind went blank for a split-second and all she was able to do was blink stupidly at Haruka's hand.

Haruka was looking at her expectantly.

"And this might hurt Kou -- while she is the woman of our dreams -- we are NOT the women of hers. So get over it."

Anger boiled in her heart and she fought off the voice in her head. She would never give up. She looked up at Haruka with cool eyes and then back down at the offered hand. With a look of revulsion at the offending object, she scoffed at Haruka's proposal and swatted her hand away. She turned on her heel and disappeared into the hotel, leaving a shocked and fuming Haruka in her wake.

Usagi stared out across the water -- her eyes pausing on the moon's ethereal reflection upon the lake's surface. She breathed slowly, in and out, trying to draw the moon's serenity into herself. Her head let out a particularly viscous throb and a hand flew to her temple as she growled at the moon's reflection.

No such luck.

Stupid moon...

Turning her back on the apparently useless moon hanging low in the sky she walked back through the underbrush and reappeared on the park's network of pathways. While the park had always been able to calm and clear her mind, it was doing little to help assuage her pounding headache.

With a defeated sigh, to no one in general, Usagi flopped down onto a bench. She let out her breath in a big gust of air and let her head fall down over the bench's back. Closing her eyes she surrendered herself to her thoughts.

Seiya and Haruka were driving her CRAZY. She couldn't remember if they'd said anything remotely civil to each other all day. Probably the only reason they were both still alive was due to several incidents of quick thinking from Minako. Usagi smiled and made a mental note to thank her friend later.

She sighed again. Her fun-filled day of skipping school hadn't turned out exactly as planned, and it irritated her a bit. She tried to think of when exactly the day had started to go bad, but found she couldn't put a finger on the exact moment. But the reason she knew easily enough.

Seiya.

Haruka.

She herself probably had something to do with it as well, but she wasn't sure if she wanted to think about how or why. But that's the bad thing about sitting in an empty park with nothing but the moon and the silence as your companions -- you think too much. She struggled not to think of what she knew in her heart to be true. Of course, her mental battle had the inevitable outcome -- she lost.

Seiya still felt for her.

"Oh, Seiya..." She whispered into the crisp, nighttime air. She dropped her head into her hands. Why? Why did that damned Starlight have to still be in love with her? Allowing a small smile to cross her lips she decided she'd best stay away from Taiki then. Apparently she made quite an impression on the Starlights, what with Yaten...and now Seiya.

Seiya...

Her smile dropped.

What was she going to do? She had been so sure that Seiya had gotten over her...but after the events of today that didn't seem to be the case. Naturally, Haruka wouldn't have the least bit of understanding to the situation. Usagi loved her dearly, but she could be a bit jealous and had a streak of being stubbornly possessive. Seiya too was as hard-headed if not more, and it was no wonder hostilities had been high.

Now how was she going to fix this problem?

There had to be some way to get her friends together. Minako was so lonely, and while they both pined for her, she had already given her heart away and made her choice. Usagi rubbed her temples. It was certainly going to be a long weekend.

Haruka, now car-less, walked silently down the streets of Juuban searching for her AWOL girlfriend and confiscated car. Her hands were crammed deep in the pockets of her jeans, and her face was skyward.

Inwardly, she was seething, but her face was a calm and unreadable mask. Outside, she was just a woman taking a walk and admiring the starry night sky, but inside she was visualizing Seiya's demise in a dozen different and painful ways the current of which, and her temporary favorite involved Seiya falling from a high rooftop only to be hit by a giant 18-wheeler before she hit the pavement.

"Damn Kou..." She growled. Who did that insolent brat think she was dealing with? What was she thinking? That cursed Starlight was in way over her head, and all for nothing. Usagi was in love with her!

She paused, and her gaze flickered to the looming moon.

Right?

She growled again and shook her head at her childish foolishness. Of course Usagi was in love with her -- she'd told her so herself! She kicked a nearby pebble and cursed Seiya a thousand times over again for making her doubt her relationship with Usagi.

"Damn Kou..."