Hey! I'm back with yet another chapter and this time a long one!! I've been gone for a month and was gonna go on a 3 month hiatus but decided not to. Hope you like the chapter!

Do I seem rich and talented enough to own Sailormoon??

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He smirked as he watched his next victim squirm in fear. This time it was Seiya's friend, Yaten. The man watched in horror as Darien pulled out his blade and pointed at him.

"Afraid, Yaten?" he said in a mocking tone.

The man looked at him, "Y-yes! Please, I'll take all charges off! I promise! Just spare my life!"

"Promise?" Darien said with a sly look is his dark eyes.

The man nodded furiously. His face was red and tears were streaming down fast. Cowards. This one didn't even deserve to live.

Darien walked up to the cowering man and instantly stabbed him through the chest. The man had a look of shock on his face right before his eyes closed and he dropped down, dead in his own pile of blood.

"I don't make promises to cowards." Darien said with satisfaction.

"Nice job, Darien," said a new but familiar voice.

Darien's head whipped around and saw his old friend, Kunzite, "Kunzite. Long time no see." he said with no emotions showing on his face. Inside he was actually happy that his best friend from few years back was here.

"Yes. I see you've been..." he trailed off as he looked at Yaten, "Busy."

Kunzite had long silver hair that almost looked white. He had beautiful gray eyes and the body to go with the rest of his features.

Darien smirked, "Yeah. Last time I heard from you were at that girl Mina's party."

Darien's shield was breaking down since he didn't need to hide his true self from his friend. Kunzite had heard off his killing ways. Kunzite wasn't that different to Darien. He also had killed. But stopped after he had met her. That was when Darien had really serious about it. His friends had left but that didn't mind him. They were back.

"Now where is Nephrite and Zoicite? Oh, and Jadeite?" Darien asked but he knew they were in the shadows.

"Hello old friend." a person with long brown hair came in.

"Ah, Nephrite. You finally came." Darien said and walked over to Nephrite, "Still the womanizer you are?"

"Nah, Nephy isn't into that anymore." a voice had interrupted them.

"And Jadeite." Darien sighed exasperatedly.

"And Zoicite." a person with long blonde hair tied into a pony tail. He had an aura of femininity around him. But still good looking. He was the only one out of the group who wasn't a trained mercenary. He preferred the science and physics.

"So your still up to your killing ways?" Nephrite asked bemused, even though he had frowned at Jadeite's comment.

"Why wouldn't I be? So what's with what Jadeite said? No more woman to warm your bed anymore?" Darien asked and gave a lazy smirk.

"You should talk. I saw you with that woman, Beryl at the party." Nephrite retorted.

"Ah. But I'm different. I still kill, but I get my fun." he said, enjoying every part of this, "So who's this woman that I've heard about that has stopped your playboy ways?"

"Lita. But she hates me anyway. Must have heard of my reputation." Nephrite said carelessly and shrugged.

"Yeah. Now you're acting all lovesick." Zoicite said and shook his head.

"What about you Darien, found anyone special?" Kunzite asked his friend.

"No." was Darien's reply.

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"This is just great!" Serenity said to herself, "You go off by yourself and look what happens! You get yourself lost! I don't even know where I am!" she wailed.

"Tsk tsk, Serenity. You don't want to wake people up do you?" a familiar deep voice said, "Did you know talking to yourself is a bad thing?"

"Argh." her usually calm face was now scrunched up in anger.

Darien loved seeing her like this. Her face was pure anger which made it more beautiful than it already was. Her eyes were flaming and he could see she was trying not to strangle him.

"Not you again." she said gritted through her teeth.

"So this is the person you were talking about Darien." Jadeite came out of the shadows of the night, along with 3 other men.

"Yeah, this is her." Darien smirked that smirk of his and threw a glance at Serenity.

She was terrified. Who were all these men? Were they going to hurt her? She felt to crystalline tears fall down her porcelain cheeks. She didn't want to be scared. She was supposed to stay strong. Her anger had faded away and was replaced with fear.

They all looked at her and the scene they saw broke their hearts. She looked so fragile and scared and Darien yearned to comfort her.

He unconsciously walked towards her and took her in his strong arms. She tried pushing away but his grip held on tighter.

"Please don't hurt me. Please. I'll go away, anything." she kept repeating softly while trying to break away from him.

"Shhh. Don't worry, they're not going to hurt you." he said softly and his actions and words shocked Serenity.

Was this the Darien she had met last night? The cold heartless man she thought he was? It couldn't be. This man whispered sweet reassuring words and being in his arms made her feel safe. It felt so right. But this was the person she was supposed to tame.

Tame the wild beast.

No, he wasn't a beast. Just misunderstood. She realized that they were all looking at her and Darien looked down at her with deep eyes. She pushed him away with all her strength and ran, ran as fast as she could. More tears were formed in her eyes.

Why was she crying?

She was so confused. This was not going well. She ran and ran until she couldn't breathe anymore. She had found a small bench and sat down. She checked if they were following her.

"What's the matter, Serenity?" a voice said and shocked the wits out of her.

"Ahhhhh!" she shouted while she stood up but tripped instead.

She had landed in the voice's arm and she looked up.

Darien...

"Don't worry, Serenity. They won't hurt you. I was just telling them about you and when we first met." he chuckled deeply.

When she didn't reply he looked at her and realized she was shivering and she was all pale. Her lips were a deathly blue and she looked like she was dead really.

Darien felt anger rise up in him. Why didn't she have a place to stay? She could've died! He quickly took off his jacket and wrapped it around her.

He carried her in his arms. He could tell she was very tired.

"Why are you being so nice and caring all of a sudden?" she asked him gently and softly that he barely heard her.

He was about to answer when she felt her go limp. He looked down in panic and was relieved that she fell asleep.

But he answered her question, "Because I think I feel something for you, Serenity."

He quickly placed a kiss on her forehead. Why was he like this? Why were all his defenses crumbling down for this delicate creature? He was going all soft on her. They just met but he knew from the moment he met her, there was something about her. Was she the one? The one that he will stick by and stop his killing ways for and do anything for?

Maybe....just maybe.....

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WOOHOOO! Darien has gone soft! And yes, the generals and Darien were all friends when they were younger. Hope you like the chapter and it was long!! Well I consider more then 1000 words long --' LOL. Well tune in next time when I update!