In the next few weeks, there was some more moving going on. Taiki convinced his brothers to forfeit the mansion back to Seiya and Haruka, who moved back not without a considerable amount of trepidation. But, she found that with someone constantly there to help fill the silences in the house, and keep her too busy with plans for the wedding, parties, and a decent amount of re-decorating - it hadn't really been touched outside Nina's room, and the entire house had been made to fit more Michiru's taste than anyone else's - she didn't have much time to dwell on past memories much. Of course, for all three projects, she relied on her friends - a lot. Usagi helped her with the wedding plans, as did Rei since she had gotten her grand-father to agree to allow the wedding be performed there instead of a church. Hotaru and Makoto took care of the few parties that they had there since the engagement - most were just simple gatherings of their friends. Ami and Minako helped with the re-decorating part. Yaten had avoided all of them as much as possible, and Taiki would often drop by to help out with whatever they could. Life was a pleasant chaos that everyone had gotten caught up in, and most enjoyed it as much as they could.

One day, nearly two months after the engagement, the Three Lights scheduled a very short tour - Yaten would have preferred it to be longer, of course, but the wedding was actually another two months away, and neither Seiya or Taiki would let Yaten change anyone's mind about that.

One week, after the band had been gone for nearly a month, Haruka began to almost constantly be ill. She even had to excuse herself one afternoon when Ami had stopped by after work to help her with picking a few final touch sort of things to finish up the decorating. When she came back, she found Ami had abandoned the catalogue they had been looking over and was waiting for her. "Haruka, you really should go see a doctor."

"Nah. It's just a little stomach flu, it'll probably be out of my system by this time tomorrow."

"Haruka... you got sick a few days ago when we all got together for lunch at that restaurant too. This isn't a twenty-four hour stomach virus, this could be serious! Now you can either let me take you to the doctor, or I'll do anything and everything to get Seiya back here to make you."

The blond gave a small, scornful laugh, smirking down at her friend. "Wait... do you actually think that Seiya can make me do anything?" Ami raised an eyebrow at her and she sighed. "Fine, I'll go. The last thing I need is one more thing for Yaten to hate me for." She got up and headed for the door, closely followed by Ami.

Ami smirked a little as the taller woman opened the door and she started walking through, then paused. "You do know that in just over a month, he's going to be your brother-in-law."

Haruka wrinkled her nose. "I prefer not to think about that, actually."

Ami laughed and left the house, followed by Haruka, who made sure to grab her keys and lock the door.

It took them a lot less time to get the the hospital than it did for them to wait for Haruka to be seen by a doctor. When one was finally free, Ami waited for her as she disappeared down the hall with the nurse leading her to the room. After about half an hour of waiting, she spotted them coming back down the hall. The doctor was smiling a bit as he explained something to her before handing over the papers he had jotted his notes down on. Ami got up to join Haruka as she waited for the woman behind the counter to finish filling out a prescription.

"See? Now you can get better instead of being sick every day."

Haruka smirked over at her as she paid for the visit and accepted the slip of paper that held the prescription. "Don't be a know-it-all, Ami... I know generally you do, but don't flaunt it. Besides... he actually said this was perfectly normal and this is nothing more than just something to help calm my stomach. I haven't caught anything."

Ami raised an eyebrow as they both climbed into her car so she could take Haruka to the drug store. "Getting randomly ill to the point of throwing up for a week solid is normal?" She started the car and started backing out as Haruka cast her attention out the window.

Haruka cleared her throat a bit and shifted in her seat. "It is when you're pregnant."

The car came to an abrupt halt as Ami turned to look at Haruka increduously, beaming. "Are you really?!"

She glanced over at her, revealing a small blush on her cheeks before nodding. Ami squealed in delight and put the car into park right in the middle of the parking lot to lean over and hug her friend. "This is so wonderful! Everyone will be so thrilled!"

"Hold up," Haruka said with a small chuckle. "First off, you might want to get the car out of other people's way, you've got a small traffic jam back there." Ami grinned sheepishly before putting the car back into gear and pulling out of the parking lot. "Secondly... don't tell anyone just yet. It's going to be enough of a shock to Seiya to come home and find out I'm seven weeks pregnant, I should at least be the first he hears it from. You know Usagi or Minako would never keep their mouth shut about it."

"Fair enough... but as your friendly neighborhood pediatrician, I get to throw the baby shower."

Haruka laughed a little, shaking her head. "Like I need to feel any more girly about all this..."

Ami laughed as she pulled into the drug store. "Haruka, you don't get any more girly than giving birth... Speaking of girly, Usagi will kill me if she finds out I'm keeping a secret like this from her."

"Tell you what, I'll tell Seiya at the airport when we all go to meet him, and you can fake like you're surprised... That way I can get it over with in one big swoop, neither one of us has to be stuck with the task of telling Yaten to his face... and all of us can see the expression on his face when he finds out."

Ami laughed as they got out of the car. "I can't wait for that."

Two weeks and some odd days later, they were all gathered at the airport to meet with their friends. Gladly, Usagi had been conned out of making a sign welcoming them - they had all leared the hard way how much attention that would attract. Finally, the plane landed and docked with the runway to let passengers off. A few people passed by, some meeting up with others while the rest just walked on through to the baggage claim, before they noticed first Taiki's tall frame emerging. He was followed by Yaten, some strange woman, then Seiya. Seiya was the first to spot them and started over, his brothers and the strange woman following. She had flaming red hair in looped pig-tails, and was actually shorter than Yaten - who, in a shock to everyone waiting for them, was actually smiling.

Taiki was smiling, too, as he began speaking. "Minna... this is Kakyuu-hime. Kakyuu-hime, this is Mamoru, Usagi, and little Chibi-Usa," he paused long enough to tickle the little girl clinging to her mother's hand for dear life before continuing. "Ami, Minako, Makoto, Hotaru, and Haruka."

As Kakyuu-hime bowed politely, the group of former planetary senshi all briefly had their eyes set on Haruka, who had frozen briefly before forcing a smile and returning the bow. "It's wonderful to finally meet you, Kakyuu-hime." Ice broken, the others greeted her as well.

As they headed off to the luggage claims area, Ami hung back a little to match pace with Haruka, since the Three Brothers were still walking beside their princess. "Haruka...? Are you going to be alright?"

"I'm fine... I had no illusions that he would stay here forver. He was only fooling himself when he was trying to convince me..." She trailed off when she noted Seiya dropping back as well. Ami reached over and squeezed her hand before running to catch up with the others.

"Haruka, I know this is really bad timing... the three of them want to go home as soon as possible. But I talked with Taiki and Yaten about it, and they agreed that once she's settled back in at home, we can tell her about everything and I'll come back here -"

Haruka interrupted him with a smile that force, a fact that she did not try to hide. "We'll talk about it later. I'm sure you guys have major jet-lag and just want to go somewhere to get something to eat."

He smiled a little. "I suppose so... but we will talk about it and figure it out, alright?"

"Sure." He beamed at her before taking off to join his family and princess once again.

Later that night, Haruka and Seiya took Kakyuu-hime to the mansion and set up a room for her, since Taiki and Yaten just had the two-bedroom apartment. Kakyuu-hime, who had been watching how Haruka had been acting all night, excused herself to go to bed almost immediately. Haruka and Seiya both settled on the couch in the living room. Seiya started to speak once again, but Haruka stopped him.

"Before you get started, let me say something first... Seiya, I won't be the one that keeps you from being where you feel at home - with your family and princess. I watched you tonight, and I've never seen you so happy. Not on stage, with your friends, and not even when we're alone together. Finding your princess so that you can return home has been your goal all along. You've finally found her, so go."

Seiya frowned a little at her. "Yeah, it was my main goal for a while - but things changed. Now I want to get married and be here on Earth with you - I feel like this is my home now."

She put on a weak smile. "Alright, Seiya... What was the plan you were talking about earlier?"

"Well, the four of us were going to return home, and once everything settled and we're pretty sure it's safe, I'll come back here. Then I can just go back every once in a while and whenever there's trouble. I'm sure at least Taiki will want to come back with me sometimes too, so maybe at times they'll come to Earth with me."

"Alright," she agreed, leaning over to kiss him lightly. "We'll just wait and see how that all works out then... But right now, I'm really tired..." She stood and started for the stairs.

"Haruka." She paused to glance back at him. He stood and walked over to stand before her, taking her hands into his. "I'm not going to leave here and just forget everything I've been through here." He smirked a little. "You're pretty much impossible to forget, even when we hated each other." His expression returned to one of seriousness. "I will come back."

"I know," she said with a faint smile. "It's just that when you'd been gone about a month I got kind of sick - Ami had to convince me to go see a doctor. I just got over this weird virus a couple days ago and I'm kind of worn out."

He frowned. "I wish you'd told me sooner, we could have left early instead of hanging our with everyone and not getting home until nearly midnight..."

"I'm fine now, just tired."

"Well then, maybe I should get in practice then..."

"Practice?" Haruka raised an eyebrow at him before being shocked by him stooping down and picking her up to cradle her like a baby in his arms. He smiled at her before heading up the stairs.

She actually let herself be carried up to their shared bedroom before excusing herself to take a shower. She went into the bathroom and undressed, turned on the shower and got it. She stood under the water and started to reach for the shampoo before she simply sank down to the floor of the tub and cried so long the water began to run cold before she finally got herself together, washed, and got out. She dried and dressed in a pair of boxers and a t-shirt, checked to make sure signs of her crying didn't show, then left the bathroom to climb into bed where she lay awake all night, staring at the ceiling as she thought and Seiya slept peacefully at her side.