Millennium I: Secrets of the Puzzle
By Hikari Tsuki Chi
Chapter 14
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! or Sailor Moon.
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Chapter 14
The battle ended quickly enough, and the group soon gathered back together and headed to the Kame Shop. Settling down into their study routine, Kaiba, Serena, and Hotaru quickly left their books alone. Ryou sat alone 'reading'- Serena and Hotaru figured his weird facial expressions were the result of Bakura yelling/cursing at him, while Yugi and the Yugi-gumi hovered over their books, talking quietly.
Kaiba looked over the top of his laptop without breaking his typing speed, his gaze directed to Serena and Hotaru, who were focused on Serena's laptop. He wanted to confront them, but not in front of the others. Knowing how tense things had been, and still were, between the cousins, so he was eager to avoid any confrontation between the two sides. Opening a new e-mail window, he quickly typed out an e-mail message to Serena and sent it, asking Serena for an IM chat.
Serena's laptop quietly 'pinged' with the arrival of a new e-mail. Opening it, she raised an eyebrow as she read it.
Serena-
Need to talk to you w/o the geek squad hearing. IM chat? Name's BlueEyesDragon.
Sharing a quick look with Hotaru, Serena opened her IM window and typed out an IM.
Kaiba's laptop 'pinged' with the arrival of a request for an IM chat.
MoonAngelWarrior: Okay, Seto-kun, what is going on?
BlueEyesDragon: Like I said, I need to talk to you w/o the geek squad hearing.
MoonAngelWarrior?
BlueEyesDragon: It's something I don't want them to overhear. Besides, things have been tense enough b/t you and Yugi, so I don't want to implode the situation. Plan?
MoonBunnyWarrior: Hotaru says that she's gonna head home. I say that I'll walk with her to her house. Ten minutes later, you leave, w/o explanation. If pressed for one, glare and say that you can't leave you company in the hands of idiots for too long.
BlueEyesDragon: Fine.
Closing out of the window, Serena begins to shut down her laptop. "I'm gonna head on home, okay guys?" said Hotaru.
"Want me to go with you?" asked Serena.
"If you want to. I'll see you at home, okay Ryou-kun?"
Starting, Ryou said, "Okay. See you."
Serena and Hotaru walked out the door. Once outside the Kame Shop, they walked for a block, stopped, and waited for Kaiba.
Ten minutes later…
Kaiba booted down his computer, got up and left. The Yugi-gumi was too deep in conversation to notice that he left, but Bakura, looking through Ryou's eyes, saw him leave.
Walking out of the Kame Shop, Kaiba saw Serena and Hotaru a block down. "Any problems?" asked Serena as he approached.
"They were too deep in conversation to notice me leaving."
Bakura, hiding up in a tree, used the power of the Ring to listen in on the conversation.
"So, what is it that you couldn't talk to us about in front of the others?" Asked Hotaru.
Leveling his gaze at them, he said, "You're Sailor Senshi, aren't you?"
Both of them were taken back as that statement sent both Bakura and Ryou reeling. "How…how do you know?" asked Serena, her voice cracking.
"I was in the bushes hiding from those…things when you and Hotaru ran into the clearing. Two other girls…appeared…next to both of you, all four of you transformed into Sailor Senshi, and ran off to find those things. I'm not one to believe in this sort of crap, but I can't deny what I saw."
Biting her lip, Serena didn't meet his eyes. "You're right. Hotaru and I…we are Sailor Senshi. I'm Sailor Moon and she's Sailor Saturn."
"How long?" he tried to keep his face passive, but some shock seeped through.
"I was fourteen…when one day a talking cat approached me in my room, gave me a brooch, and told me to say 'Moon Prism Power Make-up'."
"I learned of my powers as Sailor Saturn a year after Serena. That was when we meet." Added Hotaru.
"I take it that Yugi doesn't know."
"Of course not. I never told my family yet somehow my mother knew. And now my family dead because I'm a Senshi. Our latest enemy…I realize now…that while he sent one of his underlings to stall me…he went to my house and killed them…Mom…was just barely alive when I got home…she told that she knew, all along, that I was Sailor Moon…that she loved me, and…that she was very proud of me…and then she died…"
"Okay, I understand why you didn't tell Yugi…but why not tell me?"
"Even you're in danger just because you're friends with me. Mokuba knows, and only because I had to transform in front of him in order to stop Noa from using his body to escape into the real world."
Kaiba's face was pensive. "But…who are the other two girls, and where did they come from?"
"If you don't believe there's a mou hitori no Yugi, then you're not going to believe us." Said Hotaru.
"I never said that I didn't believe there was one, I SAID that I don't believe in destiny. I don't like him…either of them…" He looked as though he was confusing himself with what he was saying.
Serena and Hotaru exchanged glances and words with their other selves. – Should we? –
I don't think we have much of a choice. –
Letting out a long breath, Serena finally said, "Alright. We'll tell you."
With that, both Yama and Hikami appeared next to their hikaris. If shock and utter surprise was on Kaiba's face undisguised, then Bakura almost fell out of the tree he was in, taking Ryou along with him whether he liked it or not.
He dimly recognized the Princess, the pure sister of the Pharaoh, who was somehow darker, but this was only out of the corner of his eye.
All he saw was HER, changed and yet the same. The High Priestess of Ma'at, Hikami. She had understood his pain and desire for revenge, for as his village had been sacrificed to create the Items, her clan and her order, had all been slaughtered, in secret, by the Priests of Amun. They had desired for the legendary power they had to call upon their goddess into the material world to bring about order when chaos existed. They could have been the earliest of 'skeptics,' those who doubted the power of the Shadow Realm and of the existence of the world of the gods. After all, they had reasoned, why should only a few, and mainly women, be the only ones to invoke the gods? From reading Ryou's father's old textbooks on the 'history' of Egypt, he knew that they would become one of the most powerful orders in Khemet. Undoubtedly, they seized power after the age of the Shadows.
As Kaiba tried to form words, Yama asked, "You DO know that words and sentences are a common means of communication, right?"
"What-what the- "
"Language, Seto-kun, language. Be it in Japanese, English, Spanish, French, Chinese, or any other language you know." Said Serena, smirking at his glare.
"You're one to talk, Serena-san. When you get at it, you could probably say worse than he could." Said Hikami. Initially, upon hearing Jadeite's challenge, Serena had gone off into a trilingual rant in English, Japanese, and limited and mangled Korean. Hotaru and Hikami understood only the Japanese and part of the English, but Yama, having learned the languages in question from her mind, understood all of it. Judging by her 'HIKARI!' 'That's not physically possible', and 'NANI YO?' comments, they figured that they REALLY didn't want to know what she had said. Hotaru and Hikami were still trying to figure out where she had learned all of that.
"How?" he finally managed to get out, after roughly a dozen false starts and attempts.
"Somehow, we were sealed into items containing mystical power about 5,000 years ago. How or why, we aren't too sure of ourselves."
"So you're saying that…?"
Her eyes downcast, Yama said, "Hikami remembers more than I do. I don't even remember my own name. From what we've learned, which isn't much, it's highly likely that mou hitori no Yugi is my twin brother."
"And Yugi doesn't know this either, right?"
"He hasn't told me about Yami no Yugi, so I won't tell him about Yama until he tells me."
"Hence the tension."
"Yeah." Kaiba couldn't help but feel sorry for Serena. She was, and still is, the only friend he had ever really had, and so it tore him up to see her like this.
Can't you see how much this is hurting her Yugi? Or are you too caught up in your own pain to notice hers? He thought as he was driven back to his house. Undoubtedly, he was brooding to rival any guy off of American TV.
Yes, even Angel, the king of pain and brooding.
At Ryou's and Hotaru's house…Unlocking the door and going in, Hotaru was surprised to find Ryou standing in the foyer. "Ryou-kun! When did you get home?"
Bakura took over abruptly, and in a way that Hotaru would notice. "I want to speak with her." He said.
"With who?" Hotaru outwardly remained calm, but inside she was panicking. – Could he have overheard us? –
Possibly. –
Stall? –
"I think you know who." Bakura wasn't buying her apparent indifference.
Let me take over. –
Hikami took over Hotaru's body. The only real difference between them is that with Hikami in control, Hotaru's hair darkened to black. "Why didn't you let me know you were here?" asked Bakura.
"Don't play guessing games with me, BaKhuRa. You didn't bring your presence to my attention, so why should I have done so?" Hikami said, speaking in ancient Egyptian.
"It has been a very long time, Hikami. What is going on with the Pharaoh's sister suddenly appearing?"
"Apparently, our sacrifice of our darker halves wasn't enough. The pharaoh and his sister both sealed their darker halves as well. Yugi is unaware of her existence. She refuses to reveal herself until Yugi reveals to Serena-san of the Pharaoh's existence, although she already knows. Hotaru knows about you."
With that, Hikami retreated back to her soulroom, and Hotaru regained control of her body. "Bakura-san, I don't want to cause any trouble, and I don't know what kind of history you had with Hikami, but things are very tense between Serena and Yugi, and you are an unknown party. I know that you overheard our conversation with Kaiba-san. I'm asking you not to reveal our secret until Yugi 'reveals' his to us. Onegaishimasu. " Bowing, Hotaru headed upstairs. – What do you think he'll do? –
I don't know. Not anymore. –
Many things have changed on this small stage of life. Mainly how the characters trust each other. Anything and everything is uncertain, with the threat and promise of attack looming heavy in the horizon. Only time can tell what the outcome shall be. Life. Or will Death prevail? Which will rule the fate of these men and women, who are all merely players on a stage set merely for the amusement of the gods in heaven?
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