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Chapter 6

When I walked through the door of my house, I was thoroughly exhausted. At our senshi gathering after meeting 'Usagi' again, none of us could propose an explanation for what happened.

"Naru, dear, you look upset. Is there anything wrong?" Mom asked me.

"I thought I saw Usagi today, mom. But it turned out to be a girl named Hikari and there was a man with her named Kin. Although I could have sworn it was Usagi and Mamoru." I told her.

She sighed. "Naru, you have to stop doing this to yourself. Usagi is not coming back. You just have to face that."

"No!" I cried. "She is! She has to! Usagi is supposed to rule over the new Silver Millennium! How will she do that if she's not here?"

"Naru. Calm down. I'm sure that you and your friends can figure it out."

"Yeah, right." I answered. I could be pretty cynical when I wanted to.

I walked up to my bedroom. It was near 10:00 p.m. when I received a call.

"Hi, Naru! It's Minako and the others. We decided that we all need to push today's events into the back of our minds and we're going to have a sleepover at the shrine."

I heard a voice in the background. "We're what! I didn't..." The rest was muffled.

"Anyways, come on over okay?" Mina asked.

"Sure." I said.

In a half hour I had gotten ready and mom drove me to Rei's shrine.

When I walked in the shrine's main room was a mess of feathers and torn pillowcases.

"Pillow fight." Ami said earnestly, shrugging. She was curled up in a book.

I noticed that Mako was gone and there was a fantastic odor coming from the kitchen. At that moment she walked in with the most delicious looking cherry tarts I ever saw.

Immediately Mina grabbed one and dropped it.

"They're hot." Mako warned, a little too late.

I dropped my bag in the corner and laid out my sleeping bag and pillow amongst the others. Then I went to the bathroom and changed into my pajamas.

"So what are we doing?" I asked when I returned.

"Well, we thought that we'd play some poker." Mina said. "And I even brought poker chips!"

I sighed. I was no good at poker. "Shouldn't we be talking about what happened today?" I said.

All eyes looked at me. "Um, well, err..." Rei answered.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Mina went to open it. There stood Hikari, holding an overnight bag and pillow.

"Am I too late?" she asked.

"Nope. Right on time." Mina told her. She turned to me and winked.

"What is she doing here?" I whispered to Ami.

"Mina flagged her down today and asked her to come to a sleepover. We didn't really agree but what's done is done." Ami said.

Hikari walked in and looked around the room.

"Nice place you have here," she mused.

"Thanks. We try." Rei responded.

Then Hikari spotted the manga in the corner. "Ooh! Ooh! Manga! Can I look?"

"Sure, help yourself," Rei offered.

"Cool!"

Hikari stashed her bag in the corner and set up her bed for the night. Then she raced to the corner to look at the manga.

"Wow, Rei!" she exclaimed. "You have InuYasha, Tenchi Muyo, Card Captor Sakura, and Ranma ½! All of my favorite manga!"

"Yeah, I do." Rei agreed, blushing at the admiration.

Everyone laughed at Hikari's obvious similarity to Usagi.

"What's so funny?" she asked.

"Oh nothing," I said. "You just remind us of this girl we knew, Usagi. Your hairstyle is much like hers and you both like manga a lot."

Suddenly her face turned into a frown. "This Usagi, she sounds familiar. Do I know her?"

"Well, she used to live in Tokyo, and she was very friendly, so I don't know. You could've seen her and not realized." I told her.

"Where is she now?" Hikari asked.

"She moved, a long time ago." I responded quickly.

Suddenly Hikari fell to the floor and cradled her head. All of the girls rushed to her, and asked her what was wrong.

"I see images," She responded. "Images of some place that I've never seen before. There's a woman in a white flowing dress and a man who looks to be a prince and they are all dying!"

"You know about the Silver Millennium?" I cried.

Rei put her hand on Hikari's head. Immediately all of the images flashed into Rei's head too. Rei let go rather quickly, and was shaking. Hikari noticed it and looked at Rei.

"What did you see that scared you? I need to know," she said, out of breath.

"The Silver Millennium was being destroyed again, but not in the past, in the future!" Rei cried.

All gasped.

"I guess you've figured me out," Hikari replied. "I get these memory flashes to remind me of my purpose here. I didn't expect to get one then but I guess I did. I am Usagi Tsukino present during the birth of the 30th century."

I gasped. I knew it!

"In my time, the past is repeating itself. The senshi are all falling in battle. A new enemy has surfaced from the Galaxy Cauldron. One that when I died, took a bit of power from my ginzuishou. Its power continues to grow as I speak, and only two senshi can withstand it – Sailor Eos and I. Sailor Eos was awakened much too late for an unknown reason and is far behind in her training. Because of this, we are losing the battle. Therefore, I came back to train her. I assume that you are her." She pointed a finger at me.

I nodded.

"You and I need to do some serious training, or the 30th century as we know it will cease to exist." She told me.

"Crap." I muttered. I would never be ready for this Sailor Senshi business.

Hikari began to speak again. "But, time passes faster here than it does in the future. That's the time travel business for you. Therefore, every day here is ten minutes there. So, first thing in the morning we start training Miss Naru."

"S-sure." I muttered.

Hikari giggled. "In the meantime, pillow fight!" She yanked her pillow up and threw it at Rei who turned red and chucked the pillow back. "I miss this so much." Hikari exclaimed. "Stupid Chaos. It makes everything not fun at all." She gave us a smile that told us that there was still some of the old Usagi left in her.

"Can we call you Usagi?" I asked.

"Better not to. Everyone thinks her missing here. Just call me Hikari, ok?"

"Sure."

Well then, mystery solved, and tomorrow was a new day. I picked up a pillow and joined in.