Chapter 6: Developments
After her class Trista went to the coffee shop. To her delight Aburatsubo was already there, waiting for her. As she approached the table he was at he got up and held her chair out for her. 'He is great. I wonder why guys like him are so few nowadays.' Trista thought. "So how was your class, Aburatsubo?" Trista inquired.
"It was fine," he responded, "but mostly I was thinking about seeing you again." Trista blushed and looked down into her coffee cup. Aburatsubo seeing this, smiled to himself.
Aburatsubo and Trista talked for over an hour, about anything and everything. Trista was more comfortable talking with Aburatsubo then she had ever been with anyone before. Nonetheless, Trista finally had to leave. "You see, it's my turn to cook dinner tonight," she explained.
"Well, at lest let me walk you home then," Aburatsubo insisted. Trista took his arm and they walked off. Though they didn't see him, Keisuke sees them. He quickly turns away, telling himself that he should be happy that his friend Trista had found a nice guy.
"So, do you live with your family?" Aburatsubo asked on their way to Trista's house.
"No, just some friends, Amara and Michelle, and a girl, Hotaru who we're rasing," explained Trista.
"Humm… Sailors Uranus, Neptune and Saturn, am I right? Sailor Pluto," deduced Aburatsubo.
Trista looked at him in surprise, "Oh, so you do know than. I couldn't be sure."
Nodding Aburatsubo said, "Yes, I've always been interested in the Sailor Scouts. I just never thought that I would… become friends with one."
"As you can see, we are just normal people. Just like everyone else," Trista assured him.
"Oh no, you are not like everyone else," Aburatsubo said, stopping and turning to her. "You are special. Very special, at lest to me." Aburatsubo tucked a piece of Trista's hair behind her ear.
Trista looked down and then into his eyes. Suddenly they were kissing. Startled Trista stepped back. "I'm sorry," Aburatsubo stammered, "I shouldn't of done that. Will you forgive me?"
"No, no it was fine," Trista blushed. "It just surprised me." She reached out and took one of his hands. "But I liked it."
Aburatsubo smiled and kissed her again. This time they separated because they herd footsteps. Trista looked up and was surprised to see they were in front of her house. The footsteps were from Hotaru, Jet, Pearl and Jade. 'Good thing they're to far away to see us,' Trista thought. She didn't want to introduce her friends to Aburatsubo by explaining who this guy was that she was kissing. Turning back to Aburatsubo she said, "I really do need to start dinner. Hotaru's bring friends over tonight."
Aburatsubo nodded, gave Trista one last kiss and walked off down the street. Trista went inside and started on dinner, and the four new comers had no idea what they'd just missed.
Bunny and Miaka walked home together. Both with a load of Raye's comics. "I wonder what Taka will think when he sees these," Miaka giggled.
"That you went on a crazy shopping spree," Bunny teased. "I'll bet Darien makes a comment about me laughing like a hyena while I read these." They laughed and then split up to go home.
When Bunny got home she was surprised that no one else was there. "Pearl went to Hotaru's for dinner tonight," Luna reminded her.
"Oh, that's right," Bunny remember. "Hey, why don't we start dinner for Darien?"
As Bunny said this the front door opened. "Only if your planning on making curry, otherwise, I wont eat it," Darien said as he walked in.
Bunny turned around and stuck her tongue out at him. "Fine then, I wont help you."
"But I really want curry tonight," Darien pleaded. They looked at each other and laughed, then went into the kitchen and made chicken curry.
"You know, it really surprises me that you can only cook curry," Luna admitted as they ate dinner.
"Yeah, I don't get it either, but somehow nothing else comes out right," Bunny sighed.
Darien smiled at her, "That's alright. It's one of the things I love about you Buns."
By the time they had finished cleaning up Pearl had come home. "Hi Bunny, Darien," she greeted them. "Did Bunny cook tonight?"
"How could you tell?" Bunny wanted to know.
"It was curry, and we only ever have curry if you cook," Pearl explained. "I'm kinda sorry I missed it."
"Did you have fun at Hotaru's?" Luna asked.
"Yup. Trista made pizza for us and Jade and Jet were making pictures on theirs with the toppings," Pearl laughed. They all sat down and talked about their day for a while. Finally Pearl made her way to her room, yawning, with Luna following right behind her.
"Are you tiered Buns?" Darien asked.
"Not really," Bunny answered.
"Me neither, lets read some more of The Universe of the Four Gods." The curled up together and read. However, when they got to the part were Tamahome and Miaka were sleeping by the lake they had to stop.
"Man, I never new that happened to Miaka," Darien declared.
"Me neither. But I'm not surprised that she doesn't want to talk about it," Bunny replied. "And look at what actually happened to Yui when she was first in the book. No wonder she feels bad about how she behaved." With all of this running through their heads they went to sleep.
"What are you talking about? You can't be serious. I'm the Priestess of Suzaku and you are only one of my warriors..." Bunny was confused. She was looking at Miaka and Taka, but Taka seemed different somehow. And she seemed to be in some old Chinese room.
"It's true Tamahome, I don't feel the same way about you. It was just puppy love, don't take it so seriously. Promise me that..." Tamahome? That was Taka's name in the book, Bunny remembered. That's it! She was watching a scene from The Universe of the Four Gods.
"Is there no choice...? I can't stand… to see him like this anymore… Is this the only way?" Miaka was looking at Bunny and Darien, but they were both dressed differently. Bunny was dressed like a sailor scout and Darien was dressed like a prince.
"Is this… the reason we were reborn...?" Miaka was shocked when she saw Bunny first kiss Darien and then stab herself with the crystal sword she was holding. Then she remembered how Bunny had told her about this. It was when the scouts had defeated Queen Metalia the first time.
Bunny and Miaka sat up in bed at the same time, somehow knowing that the other did so. Taka and Darien looked at them wondering what was wrong.
"Buns, what is it? Did you have another one of your dreams?" Darien asked, concerned.
Bunny nodded her head, "Um-hum, but this one was weird, I think I was seeing one of Miaka's memories, from inside the book." 'Miaka? Miaka… can you hear me?' Bunny thought. She had this feeling that Miaka would hear it.
'Bunny? Is that you?' Miaka answered.
'Yup. So how is this for weird, we can communicate through our thoughts, but why?' Bunny wondered.
'Yeah. And I just had the weirdest dream.' Miaka continued. 'I think I was seeing the time you killed yourself the second time.'
'No way. I just had a dream about the time Tamahome asked you to marry him, and you refused,' Bunny shared.
Darien was watching Bunny. She seemed to be having a conversation, inside her head. He gently placed a hand on her shoulder, "Buns… are you alright?"
Bunny jumped a little, "Oh Darien, yeah I'm fine. But you'll never believe this. Miaka and I can talk to each other in our minds."
Darien looked a little shocked, "Well, with all of your other powers it's not that surprising. But it's strange that it's Miaka and not one of the other scouts."
"That's true. I think we should get everyone together to talk about this," Bunny suggested.
"Good idea. How about we all meet here after your music lesson today?" agreed Darien.
Bunny relayed the idea to Miaka, who agreed to get all her friends there. Then Bunny got up and started to get ready for the day. When she went downstairs she was surprised to already see Rini up.
"Morning Rini. You're up early," Bunny greeted her future daughter.
Rini yawned and smiled, "Yeah, I don't really know why though. I just have this feeling that something is going to happen today."
Bunny poured herself a cup of tea, "Something already did happen today. Miaka and I can communicate mind-to-mind, we discovered this morning. So we're having a meeting today after my music class. Can you tell Helios and Hotaru please?"
"Sure, it's a good thing today is Saturday, so that we don't have school," Rini pointed out.
As they were talking Pearl, Luna and Diana came to join them. They explained what was going on to the new comers. Then they started to make breakfast and Bunny prepared to go to her music lesson. Rini got her communicator and contacted Hotaru and Helios and told them about the meeting. Then they started the grapevine of information… Helios would tell the generals, who in turn told the inner scouts, while Hotaru told the outer scouts and Jet and Jade. This system of information travel worked well for them, it meant that no one had to contact everyone.
Meanwhile, Miaka was on the phone with Yui, telling her about everything that was happening. She promised to tell Tetsuya, who would call Keiske. Then Miaka started to call the Suzaku warriors.
When Bunny got home from her lesson, Helios, Jet and Jade had already arrived. Next came Hotaru, Amara, Michelle and Trista. Amy, Zoisite, Raye, Jadeite, Lita, Nephrite, Mina and Kunzite all showed up together. Then Hotohori, Nuriko and Chiriko were followed shortly by Chichiri, Tasuki and Mitsukake. Yui, Tetsuya, Keiske, Miaka and Taka all came together, last. When they were all settled into the living room the meeting started.
Bunny looked around at everyone and sighed, "There sure are a lot of us now. Anyway, I don't know how much of what happened this morning any of you know. So, I'm just going to start at the beginning. Last night I had another one of my memory dreams."
"What memory was it this time?" Amy wondered.
"That's the weird thing," Bunny answered. "It wasn't one of my memories, but one of Miaka's."
"What!" Nuriko exclaimed.
"How could you dream one of Miaka's memories?" Amara inquired.
"That's not the strangest part," Taka replied.
Miaka nodded, "I know that Bunny has memory dreams all the time. And she has been reading The Universe of the Four Gods so she knows a lot about what happened to me. But I also had a memory dream, one of Bunny's memories."
This time there was stunned silence. Mina was the first to brake it, "So what were the memories?"
Miaka and Bunny looked at each other. 'Do you want them to know about it?' Bunny asked Miaka. 'I don't care about mine, they already all know about it'
'It doesn't matter. They all know at lest a little about it. And some of them have read about it.' Miaka responded.
"What are you two doing?" Hotaru asked.
Luna answered for them, "You'll find out about that next."
Bunny looked back at her friends, "Well, my dream was about when Miaka was still in The Universe of the Four Gods. It was just after the failed attempt to summon Suzaku. Taka, or rather Tamahome then, asked Miaka to marry him and Miaka had to reject him because of what Tai Itsukun told her."
The warriors of Suzaku looked at each other. They all knew by now what Tai Itsukun had told Miaka in their secret meeting after the blotched ceremony. But only those who had been reading the book at the time, and of course Miaka and Taka, knew what had happened before Miaka 'dumped' Tamahome back then. Hearing about it made Nuriko and Tasuki feel kinda guilty for teasing Tamahome back then.
After giving everyone time to absorb that information, Miaka told them about her dream. "I saw part of the Sailor Scouts first battle with Queen Metalia. When Bunny wanted to save Darien, but in the end had to stab herself with the crystal sword."
'It's called Silver Imperum Crystal,' Bunny informed Miaka.
"The Silver Imperum Crystal sword," Miaka corrected herself.
All the scouts knew about this. Some of them had even been there when it happened. But they still hated to be reminded of it. The Suzaku group had heard the scouts joke about almost dying in some of their battles, but none of them had realized that they were serious.
"Why are you two dreaming about such sad parts of each others pasts?" Pearl voiced the question on everyone's mind.
"We don't know," Bunny admitted.
"And there is more to what's going on," Diana reminded them.
"There's more?" Hotohori exclaimed in surprise.
'Ready? One three,' Bunny thought to Miaka… 'One… two… three...'
"We can speak to each other in our minds," Miaka and Bunny announced at exactly the same time.
Those who hadn't already heard this news just started at the two of them. The didn't seem to know what to make of this information.
"You're kidding" Keiske whispered.
"No way" was Jet's reaction.
"Why just her?" Zoisite wanted to know.
"That's amazing. No Da," commented Chichiri.
They all went on like this for about a minute or so. Finally they all just looked at Bunny and Miaka, as if they expected them to have an explanation for all that was going on.
Bunny shook her head, "We have no idea why this is happening."
"We just woke up this way," Miaka added.
Luna decided to make a suggestion, "Why don't we go ask your mother, Bunny? She's been able to help us figure out your weird dreams before."
"How could Mrs. Tuskino help?" Chiriko wondered.
"She doesn't mean that mother," Artemis commented.
Mitsukake looked confused, "Bunny has more then one mother?"
Bunny sighed, "Luna was talking about Queen Serenity. My mother back on the Moon."
The Suzaku group looked shocked and puzzled. They remembered hearing about Queen Serenity, but they hadn't really thought that they could communicate with her. Especially sense the Silver Millennium had been over 1,000 years ago, and Queen Serenity had died.
"How could you ask Queen Serenity about this?" Tetsuya asked.
"It's simple really," Lita explained. "We just go to the moon."
"Okay, I've heard you guys say that you go to the moon before, but I didn't think you were serious," Yui said. "Are you?"
The scouts nodded. "Bunny was the first to be able to do it. It was right after she… what Miaka dreamed about," Raye commented.
"Now it's really easy, because there are so many of us to lend power for the trip," Pearl added. "We visit her regularly."
"I'd love to be able to visit the moon," Miaka sighed.
Bunny looked at Luna, "Do you think we could bring them with us?"
Luna thought about it, "Actually, it shouldn't be a problem. Obviously most of them have some sort of power, so we would just have to teach them how."
"Do you really think it's possible?" Taka inquired.
"I agree with Luna," Artemis added. "The Suzaku Warriors have powers and Yui and Miaka do to becuase they are the Priestesses, so it should be fine."
"So all that's left is desiding when to go," Hotaru stated.
They all looked at Bunny, the time of the visit was usaly left to her. They were visiting her mother. Bunny thought for a moment, "The full moon is tommorrow, and that's the easiest time to go. But is that to soon?"
Everyone shook their heads. "Tommorrow sounds good to me," Michelle replied. All the others agreed.
Darien smiled, "All right then, we meet here at 8 pm tommorrow night, for our trip to the moon."