Millennium I: Secrets of the Past

Hikari Tsuki Chi

Chapter 12

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Yu-Gi-Oh! Otherwise Yugi and Yami would be a couple.

Note: Yes, I realize that I'm acting out of character. This is because now I actually DO know WHAT I am doing. I have a general idea of where I am going to go in this story, and I've been flushing out the fine details in my head.

Thank you everyone who reviewed! You can stop 'gomen nashi'ing, my beta! If anyone needs to apologize it's me for forgetting that I even had a beta! I have some problems remembering things.

Here's the responses for questions from the reviews (There will be some spoilers):

And I don't know where I get the names, WolfchildBlazer. They just came to be. Well the first names do. I plan the last names, and sometimes I chose a first and last name that has some meaning that pertains to the character in some way. 'Yama', I had originally thought was the female version of 'yami', since when I first had come up with this story, I really didn't know a lot of Japanese and I didn't know how the language worked. I know more about now, if anyone's curious. When I found out that it means 'mountain', I planned stuff around that. I do imagine the Millennium Crystal in my head as a crystalline version of the Millennium Puzzle, but not with as sharp of corners, kind of like a mountain. And later Serena will refer to Yama as her mountain. 'Hikami' I really have no idea where I got it. I might have been thinking about 'hikari' or 'hikaru', but I really don't think so. I think I was looking for a name that began also with 'H' to play off 'Hotaru', but I really didn't know any names and it just came to me. Though in the last story of the Millennium series Hikami and Yama are both hikaris. Spoiler alert!

To Funkangel (anonymous): Here's the response to what you said…typed…whatever… : In THIS story, there are no pairings, boy/girl or boy/boy or girl/girl. Right now, they are dealing with hormones. Yama doesn't know what she is feeling; she can't even REMEMBER what it was dealing with hormones; she's relearning how to. I'm a big fan of yami/hikari pairings, and Yama and Serena, as well as Hikami and Hotaru, ARE yami and hikari. In this story, they're in the 'okay, what the hell am I feeling' stage. In the sequel to this, the girl/girl stuff is only going to happen at the end, in the falling action reaching the conclusion. The third story in this series focuses in on the pairings, and part of the plot in story four of this series involves the couples remembering how they felt and them coming back together. The side story between story 4 and story 5 has no mention of girl/girl and boy/boy AT ALL. Story 5, it's more like a subplot, because in story 5, there's a trust issue going on, and while there are boy/boy and girl/girl pairings throughout that story, it's not the focus. The focus is Yama relearning how to trust Serena, who really changes and doesn't even go by Serena anymore. Both of them have gone through a lot by the time I reach story 5, so it's really not gonna enter the story a whole lot until the climax is coming, where there's the whole issue of 'I want you, but I don't want you in my world' on Serena's end and the issue of 'I like you but I don't know if I can trust you' on Yama's end. I don't care about what sex the characters are, because I'm of the opinion that love is love, no matter whether you're a girl or a boy, and the person you love is also a girl or a boy. And you find out towards the end of story 5 that in the side story, Yama was re-incarnated as a boy. I can't change how you feel. I'm not going to ask you to, and I'm not going to cut into you for it. I hope that you will continue reading this story and will read the sequels despite the fact that there will be pairings that you may not necessarily like, and that you don't criticize me for doing so. To each his, or her, own. If it helps, I go more for the story rather than the pairings, and there's not gonna be really hard-core stuff. I wanna keep my profile here, and if the reader wants to know exactly what the characters were doing, it will be available for them upon request. I hope this helps…and please keep reading…

I actually have this whole series planned out. So during those periods when I've not updated, I've been working on parts of those stories. It helps me if I know WHERE I want to end up at. Y'know, I have point A, I know where points B, C, D, and E are, I just have to find a way to connect said dots. There is a method to my madness! Even if it doesn't look like it! And it pays to know generally where you're gonna go, as I showed above in the previous paragraph.

I will now shut up.

P.S. Ryou and Hotaru ARE NOT brother and sister! Ryou's father is Hotaru's legal guardian. She lives with him, to which end I put him in a house rather than an apartment like in the manga so there will be enough room. They are best friends and people will tend to mistake them as boyfriend and girlfriend.

Chapter 12

Hotaru (and Hikami) settled into their lives in Domino.

It turned out that Hikami, while also a Sailor Senshi, Sailor Ma'at, she prefers to fight as a priestess. Her order was once a very powerful sect of warrior priestesses who helped bring out and maintain order in the very early days of Egypt were there was Chaos. They fought under the name of the goddess Ma'at, the feather which souls were weighed against when they were judged. By the time the Nanashi Pera-sama, the Nameless Pharaoh as Serena had begun calling him, was ruling Egypt, Hikami was the last of her order. In memory of her fallen order, should she have to fight, she preferred to fight in the battle dress of her order.

There was some jealously when Serena, Yama, and Hotaru saw it when they first got together for training sessions, since her outfit generally appeared to provide more coverage. Mainly they were jealous that she wouldn't have to worry about flashing when she kicked.

The guys were still clueless. What did you expect? Though Seto was beginning to suspect something. He figured that Serena was involved with something big, but he didn't know what.

Serena still didn't have her drive back. She gained some fire when she started sparring with Hotaru and Hikami, but the majority was still missing.

But soon the enemy will force her to fight. Whether she likes it or not.

It was around 2 AM on a Sunday night, about two weeks after Hotaru came to Domino. Serena was pulled from a sound sleep to the ever-pleasant sound of her communicator. Rubbing her eyes and opening it, she sleepily asked. "Umm…whazap?"

"The park. I sense something. And Pluto popped in and told me about the attack." Hotaru yawned and rubbed her eyes. "Wish they'd stick to 9 ta 5."

"Maybe the next 'ne." Closing the device which has robbed her of more sleep than she cared to think about, Serena climbed out of bed. Opening her window over her deck, Serena balanced herself on the windowsill. –We don't go out the door like normal people? —

Two words. Parental units. -

You live with your grandfather and cousin. WHO'S gonna be awake at this time of night? —

The enemy, for one. And it's quicker to take the rooftop express. -

She climbed up onto the roof, and quickly transformed. Yama joined her on the roof, transformed as well. "Rooftop express?"

Nodding her head over to the nearby rooftop, Sailor Moon jumped over, Sailor Millennium following her, with little choice. By running across the rooftops and leaping over to the next one, they quickly reached the park. "You're right, it is quicker. And fun." Said Millennium, grinning.

Leaping down, they saw Sailor Saturn and Priestess Ma'at running over to them. The youma looked like something out of an American cheesy horror movie from the 50's, some sort of a cross between a Roswell gray and…jell-o? It also had some weird symbol on what could be identified as its forehead, two overlapping arrowheads inside a circle, with another circle outside of that one, with signs between the two circles, forming another circle between those two. To top it off, it was a sickening lime green. It was intelligent, though. In the way of: "I will destroy you!"

"This is the sort of thing we fight?" asked Millennium and Ma'at in unison, put off by their first youma.

"I think this was a design reject from their youma product line that they decided to send out to test how strong we are." Said Moon, sweatdropping.

Rolling her eyes at the pointless reason they had been dragged out of bed for, Millennium swung her naginta around her. "Shadow Tempest Storm!"

A swirling vortex of shadows and gold dust crashed into it, destroying it. "And that's what we call 'moon-dusted'!" said Saturn.

"'Moon-dusted'?" questioned Ma'at and Millennium in unison.

"Are you going to start making that a habit? Talking in sync?" asked Moon, walking over to the pile of dust.

Beside the traditional pile of gray moon dust, there was a round crystal that glowed a dull green, with the same symbol that was on the youma. "What's this?" wondered Moon as she knelt down to pick it up, along with a sample of moon dust.

Capping off the test tube that contained the moon dust remains of the youma, bagging the crystal, and placing all of it in her subspace pocket, she said, "I'll analyze this stuff tomorrow…or would that be today…?… Anyway, let's meet up at the park, in my secret area where we train, after school. I wanna know what we're fighting."

"'kay." Said Saturn as she yawned. "How's your drive?"

"I didn't do anything. Yama did all the work."

"True…but it's like it was in Tokyo. There's something out there to fight now."

"This could just be a random youma that escaped from the negaverse."

"If it was, you wouldn't care as much. See ya tomorrow."

"See ya."

Leaping up to the rooftop where Millennium was waiting for her as she talked to Saturn, Moon asked, "What'd you think of your first youma?"

"Are all of them like that?"

"No… normally they're harder to fight."

Reaching home, she transformed back to Serena and climbed back through the window. –Aren't you worried that someone checked in on you while we were gone? —

No. I locked the door when I went to bed. Yugi's pulled too many pranks on me for me NOT to lock my door when I go to bed. -

Yugi pulls pranks? —

Only when I've gone after him. -

After school Hotaru and Serena met up like they had planned the night before. They discussed what happened. "I analyzed what we found at lunch when I was in the bathroom. The moon dust from the youma is 5,000 years old. The crystal's only slightly older than the dust, roughly the same age. It doesn't make sense, the only enemy I've come across that used youmas controlled by crystals was the Black Moon, and they came from the 30th century."

"Maybe whoever we're fighting, or someone associated with them, survived to show the Black Moon how to do it."

"Don't think so. The Black Moon used a crystal only found on Nemesis as a base for their youmas and their power, the Black Poison Crystal. And I vaporized that thing. This energy is different. It's older and far more dangerous. It…almost feels like the Galaxy Cauldron or Pharaoh 90."

"Pharaoh 90 was a child of Chaos, who's sealed in the Cauldron." Said Hotaru, deathly pale.

"I never told anyone, mainly 'cuz I thought that they'd think I was crazy, but I think that Pharaoh 90 came from some other place. Remember, he was after this solar system because his was dying? That cursed Tau system that Saturn gave her life to seal him there? …Mistress 9 felt like all the others did, like Chaos. But it feels like a mixture of the two, Pharaoh 90 and Chaos. I just don't know." Said Serena, pacing with her arms crossed.

"Well, there's really nothing more to discuss. Are the two of you going to that dance your school is having this Friday?" asked Hikami, diffusing the serious air.

"Yup. It's been awhile seen I relaxed. It's on Halloween so that means costumes. Hotaru?"

Hotaru screwed up her face in thought. "Probably a vampire."

"I'm gonna go as a vampire's victim."

And nothing serious was discussed. Friday came. Yama sat on Serena's bed in ghost form, watching her hikari get ready for the dance. She tended to appear in ghost form, as did Hikami, unless she knew that she was in a safe area, i.e., where she knew that Yami wouldn't see her. "You sure I should go for it?"

"Entirely. It's Halloween; you can't pass up a chance to mess with his head. And if you wear all black and make sure your face is mostly in shadow, he won't know whom it is. Yugi likes to hide in the hallway leading to the lockers in the gym during the dance, and that area's dark since the whole gym's gonna be dark, so it'll be perfect." Said Serena as she put on dark red-black lipstick.

She had already covered her face, shoulders, and any other bit of visible skin with white make up, which made the painted on vampire bite on her left jugular stand out. She lined her eyes with black eye liner, and shaded her eyelids with dark purple. She wore a long ankle-length black velvet skirt, with two slits up the sides, stopping at her upper thigh, the rest of the skirt tight on her hips. Her first shirt was a white sleeveless one with a collar, and was button-down. The first three buttons were undone, the rest of the shirt hidden under a lavender corset-type top, the kind that left her whole upper body uncovered, and wasn't meant to be wore without another shirt under it. It had sleeves attached to it, flowing, bell-shaped sleeves that aren't closed together on the outside seam. Serena wore a white tube tank top under her other two shirts, merely to keep some sense of modesty in front of boys. Black tights, black knee-high lace-up boots, and silver jewelry finished off her outfit.

Finished applying her lipstick, Serena turned around from her mirror and asked, "How do I look?"

Looking over her, Yama found herself with the odd thought of having her hikari under her, and pulling the clothes off of her. Mentally beating the dogged thought off with a stick, she said, "You'll be beating guys off with a stick."

"So'll Hotaru."

Closing her eyes, Yama mentally envisioned what she wanted to wear, and it appeared on her person. "Wish I could do that. Save on clothing."

Serena surveyed what her yami had chosen to wear. Black button-down shirt, with only the buttons over her breasts buttoned, with long sleeves, rounded up to mid-lower arm. Long black ankle-length skirt, black tights, and black boots, the same as hers. "Just one thing." Opening her jewelry box, Serena pulled out a silver chocker, and walking over to Yama, put it on her. "There, adds some color. Other than your hair, that is."

"What's everyone else going as?" Yama asked, ignoring how close she was to her hikari.

"Well, Hotaru you know is going a vampire, the gothic vampire. Yugi's borrowed Grandpa's old tux and hat and is gonna be Grandpa in his younger days when he was a gamer. Tea's gonna be the Magician of Faith. Ryou's going to be Indiana Jones, Hotaru told me that Bakura couldn't get him to be a tomb robber. Seto-kun's a stalker since he's wearing all black with a trench coat, but he said he is a spy. Tristan's a biker dude. And Joey I think is gonna be a Flame Swordsman."

"Flame Swordsman?"

"Something about a dream that wasn't a dream where everyone was their favorite card. They kinda skirted around the issue."

"They still think that you don't know about Yami, right?"

"Right. Better get going."

Serena's general descriptions of everyone's costumes were spot on. Yama agreed with her on Seto's costume; he really did look like a stalker.

About halfway through the dance, Yama decided to put her plan into action. Subtly separating from Serena as she slow-danced the dance she had conned out of Seto, Yama quickly weaved her way between the dancers to the exit. She quickly checked to make sure that her hair was the way she wanted. She had twisted it back into buns away from her face, and in such a way that none of the streaks of color in her hair showed. Yama quickly tied a black bandana around her head, making sure her bangs were out. Casting a glamour spell Serena had showed her to make her bangs look silver, she caught Serena's eye and winked. Serena returned the wink, and Hotaru gave her a quick thumbs up from where she was dancing with Ryou.

Smiling to herself, Yama slipped out into the hall, where Yugi had slipped out to once the slow dance songs started.

Yugi leaned against the wall and sighed. He always hid outside when slow dances started, since girls seem to hone in on all of the guys once those songs started. Suddenly he felt Yami tense up in his mind. –What is it? -

There's someone coming. May I take over?

Okay. -

Taking over subtly, Yami turned his glaze over to the corner where he felt the aura. "I'm surprised you sensed me that quickly. But, truth be told, I wasn't exactly trying to make it difficult."

Yami narrowed his eyes in an effort to see the person, but all he could make out was silver flashes, highlights off her hair from the dull lights in the gym, and red eyes. "What do you want?" he demanded.

"The same thing you do."

"Well what do you think I want?"

"To remember. To remember the truth."

"What I WANT is to left alone!" he exclaimed, walking away from her, denying that she was right on with what he wanted.

"You really think that's an option anymore? You have the completed puzzle, and the enemy will come." She pulled something out of a pocket. "Don't turn your back on this. You've got to be ready."

Turning around and catching what she threw at him, Yami asked, "What for?"

"For the battle."

Confused, he asked, "Who are you?"

He could hear the smirk in her voice as she said, "Let's just say…I'm a friend."

"Well maybe I don't want a friend."

Backing back into the gym, she replied, "I didn't say I was yours."

Glaring after her, Yami somehow knew that he wouldn't be able to find her in the darkened gym. Looking down at what he caught, he saw that it was a jewelry box. Yugi appeared in spirit form next to him as he opened it. Inside was a gold pendant on a gold chain. Lifting it out, yami and hikari examined it. It had the Eye of Ages between two fins, like on the crown they saw the Pharaoh wearing in the flashback during the duel with Kaiba. Dangling from it was a gold cartouche. It was blank. –This is supposed to help me in the battle to come?

Well, at least when you remember your name you can put in on there, remember, since the cartouche on the carving in the museum had the name scratched out .-

True. Wait… it looks like something else was attached to this on the back, see? Where there's a little piece jutting out behind the center of the Eye, with a hole in the center? Turning it over, Yami showed Yugi what he had felt and seen.

Feeling the pendant between his fingers. Yami had something flash in the back of his mind…a memory…

A girl, her face overshadowed, handing him the very same pendant, a matching one around her neck. There was a name carved on it, but he couldn't make out what was on it. "Now we have something we can both channel into when we do our joint spells. They hook together, so we can't lose each other in the Shadows." She was smiling as she said this.

Yami? Are you okay? - Yugi's face was full of worry.

Shaking himself, Yami replied, I'm fine…but I think I just had a flashback. A girl gave me this very same pendant, saying that now we wouldn't lose each other in the Shadows…

"She must have been someone who was very close to you in the past." Said Yugi as he regained control.

Yes. Know I have something that connects to someone who may know what happened back then.

Demo, didn't she say that the same thing you wanted is the same thing she wanted? -

She must not remember as well.

Serena smiled as she felt Yama rejoin her. –How'd it go? -

It went fine.

Where'd you find that? -

Found it in my soulroom…it felt like it belonged to him, so I gave it to him. I have a matching one.

The dance ended around midnight. It wasn't until Yugi was in bed and almost asleep that Yami realized that the person who gave him the pendant was the same person who freed Mai's mind on Kaiba's blimp during Battle City.

How was it? To clarify the timeline here: I've set this in 1998. Serena turned 16 in June. She came to Domino in late August. Battle City was in mid-September. Their exams were in the first week of October. The results came out at the end of the second week in October. The dance in this chapter was on Halloween, which I placed on a Friday. I know that it really wasn't on a Friday in reality back in 1998, but here I plead artistic license. I hope this clears some things up.

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