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Thanks again to the reviewers! I'm glad that you enjoyed the last chapter! Keep reading and keep reviewing!
By the way here are some Japanese terms in case you don't know them:
Hai – Yes
Gomen – sorry
Kudasai – please
Ikimasho – Let's go
Chapter 6
Usagi let out a big yawn and sat up in her bed. There was barely a dim light shining through her window. She looked at the clock.
"Six o' clock!" she exclaimed. "It's way too early to be up."
She looked to her left and saw a sleeping Minako with a blanket and pillow lying on the floor, snoozing softly. She let out a deep breath.
Just then Clark entered her room. "Bunny! Time to get up! Farm chores to be done!" He looked at her oddly. "You're awake?" He asked, more rhetorically than anything. "You're never awake now."
She stretched her arms and threw off the comforter on the bed. She then stood up and the bottom of her nightgown again uncurled and rested around her knees. She felt something wet and warm on her foot.
"Ick..." she said, looking down, the same time trying to shake it off.
"Five more minutes Artemis...kudasai?" Minako mumbled.
"I'm not your cat now get the heck off me!" Usagi yelled.
Minako woke with a start. "Where am I? Oh, hi Usagi-chan! Gomen! I came in here because Haruka-san snores."
"Yeah right. You just wanted to sleep in a house. I know that you hate drafty places. Nice try Minako, but I'm not buying it. And just for sneaking in here, you get the pleasure of helping me with the chores. Ikimasho!"
"Chores! Ah nuts!"
Clark just smiled. "Meet you guys outside in five minutes."
Minako's face was one of pure discontent as she shoveled hay and cleaned up after animals. "Do I have to?" she asked.
"Yes!" said Clark, in sync with Usagi saying, "Hai!"
She sighed and continued while both Clark and Usagi burst into laughter.
"Usagi-chan, I thought you were my friend." Minako muttered sarcastically, as she propped the shovel into the hay with her foot.
Jonathon, who had been outside since the crack of dawn, walked over to the little group. "Who's the poor tortured soul?" he asked jokingly.
"Oh, that's Bunny's friend Mina from Tokyo." Clark said.
"And you're torturing her with farm chores." Jonathon mused.
"That's about right." Bunny added.
Minako leaned against the wall, beat. "What's the time?" she asked Usagi.
"It's six thirty, and before you ask, yes, you can have a break." Usagi responded, giggling a bit.
Minako slid to the ground muttered a small "Thank you."
Jonathon looked at Usagi. "You're cruel," he joked.
"It's ok. Minako is used to it." She joked back.
Minako looked up. "Not used to farm chores," she exclaimed. "They are hard work!"
Usagi looked at Minako. "Not at all." She murmured jokingly.
Trying to get out of doing more chores, Minako asked "Shouldn't I go wake the others?"
Jonathon's face scrunched. "Wake the others?" he asked.
Usagi and Clark looked at each other as if to say, "Do you want to explain or should I?"
Usagi ended up telling him. "My friends from the universe I'm from found a way over to come and get me. They arrived yesterday and had no where to stay, so Clark let them stay in the barn for the night. That's okay, isn't it?"
Jonathon just nodded. "How many are there?"
"Well see, that's the tricky part." Clark said. "There're eight."
"Eight?" Jonathon exclaimed in disbelief. "Clark, we can't have them here for very long."
"I know. And that's why we're going to see if Lex can do us a big favor today." Clark added.
Jonathon just shook his head. "Alright." He said. "I hope you know what you're doing."
"By the way, Mina, this is my dad." Clark said.
"Pleased to meet you." Minako said.
Jonathon smiled. "Same to you. My name's Jonathon."
She smiled back. "So I've heard. I am going to wake everyone," she said.
Usagi and Clark decided to go with her.
When they reached the loft they noticed that Michiru and Haruka were laying together on the floor, Hotaru between them, Makoto was near the open window on the floor, Ami in toward the wall on the floor, and Rei had won the battle for the couch. Usagi laughed. She knew that Rei would win.
"Alright everyone! Up and at em!" Minako yelled enthusiastically.
There were many groans and a few curses from Haruka, who was smacked by Michiru after for swearing around Hotaru. Then everyone got up.
Hotaru jumped on top of Haruka automatically. "Haruka-papa, what's for breakfast?"
Haruka groaned. "What time is it?"
"It's now six forty-five." Usagi said.
"Six forty-five!" everyone exclaimed.
"Yep. If we have to be up to do farm chores then so do you!" Usagi said.
Ami looked at Usagi. "I can't believe it! You're up this early, and you're doing farm chores! You sure that you're Tsukino Usagi?"
Usagi just laughed.
"I can make breakfast," Mako offered.
"Actually, my mom usually does that." Clark explained.
"Well, I'll help then." Mako said, and immediately she rushed off toward the kitchen to help Martha make breakfast.
"Wait..." Clark yelled, but it was too late. "...but my mom doesn't know..." he trailed off. With that, he super sped to the kitchen before Mako could reach it, to explain who Mako was to his mom.
Ami got up and ran off to follow Clark, to see if he had a laptop with the internet so she could keep up with her studies. Everyone sighed.
Rei sat in the corner to meditate.
Haruka looked at Usagi. "Well, what's there for us to do?" she asked.
Then Usagi got a wickedly evil grin on her face.
"Odango, I don't like that look..." Haruka muttered.
"You can help me with the chores. Hotaru can go outside and play some basketball or something."
"But..." Haruka protested.
"Come on. You're swift as the wind. It won't take you any time. You too, Michiru. There's no violin for you to use as an excuse here." Usagi joked.
Therefore, everyone had something to do.
Some time later...
Everyone was eating in the living room, as there wasn't enough room in the kitchen. Martha and Jonathon sat down in the living room too.
"Mako is a wonderful cook." Martha said. "Did your mother teach you?"
Mako just looked down with sadness in her eyes. "My parents died in an airplane crash when I was younger. I live by myself so I've had to learn to cook." Her eyes brightened again. "But I hope to one day open my own bakery."
"You should have no problem at all." Martha said.
Mako blushed.
"So what are all of your names?" Martha asked. "Clark only introduced me to Mako."
With that, everyone told her their names.
Clark looked at his mom. "They came over here to find Bunny." He said. "We have to see if they can stay with Lex. Maybe later, you can meet Bunny's boyfriend. He's here too."
Usagi blushed. "He is staying in the apartment above the Talon."
Then Clark became serious. "Mom, Dad, I've got to tell you something."
Jonathon and Martha looked at Clark. They had no idea what he was about to say.
"I found out some extra things about my past." He continued. "I found out that Bunny is my biological sister."
Jonathon almost jumped out of his pants. Martha's eyes went wide.
"Yeah, I know. Apparently Jor-el has been ruining my life because he's possessed by some sort of entity. He asked me and Bunny to help him the same time he told us everything."
Jonathon just looked at Usagi. "But how is that even remotely possible? Bunny can't do anything that Clark can!"
"Actually I can." Usagi said, "But to a lesser degree. I can even fly."
Clark shuddered, remembering that experience. He hated heights with a passion.
"We thought we should tell you." He told his parents. They just nodded. Clark and Usagi then went into the kitchen to explain everything to his parents while everyone went to do their individual things.
Around lunch time Usagi and Clark decided to head to Lex's to ask for the favor. Since Usagi couldn't run as fast, Clark opted to carry her and within a few minutes, they were in front of Lex's door. Oddly enough, there was an extra limousine in front of the mansion, so Clark figured that Lex already had a guest. However, he walked on it like he usually did and motioned for Usagi to follow.
"Should we be coming in without knocking or anything?" she asked.
"No. Lex just told me to come in when I want." Clark answered.
Walking through the hall, Clark accidentally bumped into a tall woman in a knee high red dress. Her hair was an unusual shade of reddish-gold and she adorned bracelets on her wrists and a sapphire jewel around her neck.
"Sorry," Clark apologized. "I should've looked where I was going."
"Who are you?" she asked.
"I'm one of Lex's friends, Clark Kent." He answered, and held out his hand to shake hers. She eyed him cautiously and then took his hand.
"I'm Lex's guest, Keiko. I'm staying here until my business in Smallville is finished." She told him. "By the way, who's your friend?"
"Bunny, come here." Clark said, beckoning to Usagi.
Usagi walked up. "Hello, I'm Tsukino Usagi. Nice to meet..."
She trailed off when her eyes met Keiko's eyes. They were extremely familiar.
Keiko was thinking the same thing. Clark was standing around, confused.
Usagi glared at Keiko. She had finally recognized the face. "Galaxia! I had never thought you would show up here! What do you want?"
Keiko glared back. "I didn't even know you were here, Serenity. I'm here on business of my own."
"Didn't you have enough? Killing everyone I loved wasn't good enough for you so you had to come back? Besides that, I thought you fell into the cauldron!"
"I did, and I came back here, in this universe. Now shut up or I'll take your star seed again!"
"I don't have a star seed here." Usagi said.
"Of course you do!"
"Actually, no I don't, so don't bother to try and take it." Usagi remarked.
After watching with interest for a while, Clark finally stepped in.
"Whoa." He said. "Would someone mind telling me what's going on? Then maybe you guys could talk this out instead of killing each other."
"Clark, this is Sailor Galaxia, senshi of the Milky Way galaxy, holder of the sapphire crystal. Her only goal is to find all of the senshi in the galaxy and take their star seeds. She killed all of my friends once and every entity I've fought was because of her."
"Why, you little...how could you even think you know what I'm after?"
Then Lex walked down the stairs. "What's going on?" He asked. "Why all the yelling?"
Clark looked over. "These two aren't exactly on speaking terms. According to Bunny they're old enemies from the past."
Lex just whistled. "Keiko, why don't you just go to another part of the mansion?"
"I will not!" Keiko exclaimed.
Lex sighed and looked at Clark. "Did you want to speak with me?"
"Actually Bunny and I needed a favor. A bunch of her friends are visiting and they have no where to stay." Clark said.
"How many are there?"
"Eight."
"Eight!" Lex exclaimed. "I suppose so. The mansion does have many rooms. How long will they be staying for?"
"Hopefully no longer than a week." Clark told Lex.
"Okay, no problem. Bring them by later so I can meet them and get them situated."
"Thanks Lex!" Clark exclaimed.
Usagi was still glaring at Keiko.
Keiko looked over. "You mean there's going to be eight more people staying here?" She sighed.
"Perfect, so they can keep an eye on you." Usagi said menacingly to Keiko.
"You mean..."
"Yep...there're baaack!" Usagi said sarcastically and grinned.
"I'm going out." Keiko said, as she stormed out of the house.
Usagi was fuming as they left Lex's mansion.
Clark looked at her. "So, that lady killed all of your friends and your boyfriend?"
"Yeah..."
"Then how are they here?"
"They were reborn again."
"Oh, right. I'm still not used to this 'reborn' stuff yet. Here, if you die you die." He said. "What was all that about star seeds?"
"That's how she killed everyone. She took their star seed."
"But if you don't have a star seed here, then how can you have that crystal?" Clark asked.
"I lied." Usagi said, and laughed. "She believed me too! Ha!"
Clark just smiled. "I guess it's a good thing that everyone is going to keep an eye on her then."
Usagi grinned. "Exactly. Anyway, are we walking or speeding home?"
"Want to walk? If it gets late then we can 'speed'." Clark said, grinning.
"Actually I have an idea. Can't you teach me to be as fast as you?" Usagi asked. "I mean, I can run fast already, just not fast fast."
Clark laughed at the way she put it. "We could try if you really want."
"Of course I do!"
"Alright...well try to keep up!" Clark said as he speeded away.
"Hey! That's way too fast! Not fair!" she yelled and ran off after him.
About halfway to Clark's house, Usagi was still a bit behind Clark. Tired, she stopped for a second. Immediately Clark was at her side.
"I guess I just can't." Usagi said.
"You should be able to. Come on. Grab my hand and run with me this time." Clark instructed.
She tried that and surprisingly it worked. After she felt confident enough she let go of his hand and had no trouble keeping up. "Haruka is going to be sooo jealous!" she yelled.
"She's going to be more than jealous." Clark said.
Usagi then looked gravely at Clark. "Should we go get the others and check out the cave?"
"We could just go." Clark said.
"I'll get Mamoru and you get Chloe. We'll go then." Usagi agreed.
"That's a good idea. We don't want too many people to go because they could get hurt."
With that, Clark took off to Chloe's house and Usagi left for Mamoru's apartment.
About ten minutes later, both returned with their respective partners and began to go to the caves. However, Chloe had her jeep so they drove.
When they walked into the caves there wasn't as much as a peep. Clark had zipped home to get the key and he currently was putting it into the place where it fit. A light shone in all directions, but everyone managed to dodge each blast. Finally it settled down.
"Jor-el?" Clark asked.
"No," answered a voice.
"Who are you?" Usagi asked.
The voice just stifled a laugh. "Chloe should know." It said.
"Huh? How would I know anything?" Chloe asked.
"Because you killed me, Chloe."
Suddenly Chloe realized who was talking. "You're the girl I met on the day of the meteor shower!" she blurted.
"Yes I am, and you – Aurora – you ruined my life!"
"They buried you and had a funeral!"
"And then they forgot about me, too busy with you!"
Then a girl Chloe's age phased out of the cave wall, and landed as a solid figure. She looked exactly like Chloe, only her hair was a darker blonde.
"Your friends' father will have to suffer. These are my caves now. They were since I found them a year ago."
"You've been toying with me?" Clark yelled, ticked off. "How did you even find out anything?"
"Think about it. Your father is in here." She said. "He has a whole database of knowledge inside his head ripe for the picking. If I were you, Clark, I would not interfere, or else it may have dire consequences. I will tell everyone your secret. I'm sure a lab would be a comfortable place for you the rest of your life."
Clark gave her a pained look that made everyone realize the girl had hit a nerve. "You won't get a chance," he said, as he super sped in front of her and picked her up, ready to punch her.
She placed an open palm in front of Clark's face and a purple flash of light sent him flying backwards into the wall.
By now, Usagi was ready to seriously hurt the girl. With her newfound speed she ran up the cave wall and somersaulted, kicking the girl directly in the face, sending her into the wall. The girl then stood up and brushed herself off.
"You may have won the battle, but not the war." The girl said, and phased back through the cave wall.
Chloe fell to her knees, crying. "Oh my god, this is all my fault." She cried.
Usagi bent down and rubbed Chloe's shoulder. "You didn't do anything. It's ok. It's not like you knew what was happening at the time."
"Thanks Bunny." Chloe said.
Clark was now standing up and brushing himself off. He walked over and took the key out of the wall. It began to open and a wave of yellow light tried to haul him inside. Immediately Mamoru caught him and managed to pull him away from the swirling vortex. Usagi shot a blast of white light into the hole and it closed, causing the cave to shake and crumble a little. Everyone ran outside and headed toward Chloe's jeep. At least they knew who the entity was now, and their motivation. They decided to go back to Clark's so Chloe drove in the direction of Clark's house.
In The Evening...
Lex heard a knock on his door. Since he was closest to it, he went and answered it. "Clark!" he exclaimed. "I told you that you can come on in."
"Well, I have eight new people with me, so I don't think it would've been appropriate."
Lex laughed. "I guess not." He then stood aside for everyone to enter.
Clark introduced everyone.
Lex looked at the guy standing beside Usagi. "And you are...?"
"Chiba Mamoru, Usagi's boyfriend."
"I see." Lex said. "I've heard about you from Lana, but this is the first time we've really met, formally that is."
Mamoru laughed.
Suddenly, another guest showed up behind everyone. She walked to the front. It was Keiko. "Hi Lex. Hi everyone." She said. "I was just shopping." She smiled. Shopping always put her in a good mood, even to the point where she didn't care that the senshi were staying at Lex's with her.
Usagi just looked at her confused. She wondered what 'Keiko' was trying to pull.
Clark began to introduce her to everyone when she abruptly said, "It's ok. We're already acquainted."
Clark just shrugged and suggested that he, Usagi, Mamoru and Chloe, get back to their respective places for the night. Usagi, Clark, Mamoru and Chloe made plans to hang out tomorrow and everyone else was going to explore around town.
After Mamoru and Chloe were gone and they had reached Clark's house, Usagi looked coyly at Clark. "Want to teach me how to do other stuff?" she asked.
"I don't even know if you can." He responded.
"Would it hurt to try?" she asked.
"Guess not." Clark said, and looked over at a humongous rock. "Pick that up without struggling." He instructed her.
Usagi looked at the rock then at Clark then at the rock again. She sighed and walked over. There was extreme evidence of strain and struggle on her face as the rock lifted less than a foot off the ground. Usagi gave and let go, dropping the rock on her toe. Surprisingly it didn't hurt. She looked down. "My toe should be broken right now." She said.
"Well I guess you were lucky enough to have the ability to not get hurt." Clark mused.
"That's cool!" she yelled. "You mean I can jump off a cliff and I won't die? I can take bullets without flinching?"
"I wouldn't put that to the test." Clark warned.
She was so happy that she picked up the rock high above her head and danced around. Then, looking up she realized what she was doing and lay the rock on the ground.
Clark looked astounded. "Well, I guess you passed that test." He said. "I don't know what else to tell you."
"Oh come on! Didn't you say you could see through things or something, or that you could burn things with your eyes?"
"Well, yeah." He said, then grinned sheepishly.
"Wait a minute. Why didn't you use that to look through the cave wall?"
He shrugged. "Never thought about it I guess."
"Well next time we go, I have a mental note to do that."
Clark just nodded. "Bunny, it's hard to tell you how to do things because I can just do them, with no instruction. I mean all I do is just look at something and think that I want to see past it and it happens."
Usagi looked at the Kent's house. "Here we go." She thought, and concentrated, imagining that she could see her room from where she was. After five minutes the walls began to melt around the house and she could see her bed the new clothes that Martha had bought her, as well as her night gown and bunny head slippers.
"I did it!" she yelled. "Now how do I turn it off?" She looked at Clark and saw his bare chest. "Alright stop! I don't want to see through stuff anymore!" she yelled, and it did.
Clark just grinned at the spectacle she was making.
"Oh yeah." Usagi said, "Since you are my brother, you're going to have to learn how to say my real name."
Clark made a face. "But I like the name Bunny!"
"Tough," she said, grinning. "You say it like this: oo-sah-gi"
Clark gave in. "U-sah-gee" he repeated.
"No, that's wrong. Try again." She said.
After about five minutes, he finally pronounced it right.
"Usagi! Alright! I can pronounce it!" he said.
Usagi smiled. "I knew you could." She said. "Anyways about that whole heat vision thing, do you think I could do that?"
Clark shrugged. "Maybe."
"How do you do it?" she asked.
Clark immediately looked uncomfortable. She looked at him confused.
"It's just that...well...it has to do with something...personal." Clark said.
"I'm not going to make fun of you. Come on! Tell me!"
"Nah, it's not important." Clark said. "Maybe some other time."
Usagi sighed. "Alright," she said, even more confused. "Well, let's go in and watch some TV."
Clark smiled and nodded and they both walked inside.
Next: Usagi's accident and the run in with red kryptonite. The entity starts causing trouble!
