Azusa's pov

I wake up, and stretch my arms. Its too early...

Suddenly I hear someone humming, and I sit up. I remember that Kari's here, and so I go into the kitchen. There I find Kari putting two bowls of fried rice on my table. She looks up at me, smiling.

Damn she's hot... I almost say that, but instead I look at the bowls. "Wha.."

"I know, its not the greatest breakfast, but I can't cook." She blushes and looks down at her bowl.

"No, I'm sure it'll be, okay." I say slowly. I take a bite, and cringe a bit. Yuck, this tastes horrible...

I look up to see Kari eating like a starved woman. She looks up at me, then wipes her mouth giggling.

"I'm sorry, I'm just really hungry. I'm eating for two ya know."

I nod, and look at the bowl. "Its very delicious."

Ugh, like sewage. Who screws up making fried rice?

"It is? I wanted to do something. I cleaned too." I look around the apartment. Somehow she's managed to clean everything.

She hugs me, and laughs. "Do you like it? I even moved a few things around."

"Oh I'm sorry am I interrupting something?" We both look up to see Rina. Kari quickly jumps away from me, blushing.

"Rina, your early." I smile. She looks at Kari curiously, but Kari looks back to me.

"Azu, I'm going to go change. I'm still in my cosplay clothes from Ryoki's store." She quickly goes into the bedroom, obviously embarrassed.

"She's so adorable. How long has she lived here?" Rina smiles.

"It's a really long story. Long to short, she's pregnant with my kid." I explain. Wow, I said that and didn't cringe...

"Azusa, you didn't tell me you were married." Rina says surprised. "I mean we haven't seen each other for a while but.."

"We're not." She looks at me a moment, then sits down beside me, fussing with her glasses.

Kari walks out in a knee length green skirt, and a spaghetti strapped black top. She sits down and smiles at us.

"Oh Kari, this is Rina. She's helping me get back into modeling."

"That won't be hard at all Azusa. I announced your coming back and you've got five shoots booked this week already." She smiles.

Kari's pov

Wow Azusa's manager sure is pretty... I try to smile a lot, and listen as she and he talk.

"Tomorrow you'll have the first shoot. You up for it?" She asks him.

"Ya, you wanna go Kari?" Azusa looks back at me, and I nod. Wow, I live with a model...

"Okay, that would be great." My phone starts vibrating in my pocket, and I pull it out.

Shinogu... I leave it alone, and look up to see both of them staring at me.

"It was just my Dad wishing me a happy birthday." I say quickly.

"Oh its your birthday? Well I was going to suggest we go out, why don't we all have dinner to celebrate." Rina suggests. I like her, she's very nice.

"Ya Kari, we can get something to eat, and go see a movie later." Azusa adds. I blush as he smiles at me...

"Okay." I look around the large apartment, then back at Azusa. A girl could get used to this...

Ryoki's pov

I sit up, and look beside me. Hatsumi is asleep, a smile on her face. I push back her hair, then climb out of bed. After cleaning up, and dressing, I go into the living room to see Mizuku digging through my address book.

"What're you doing?" I yawn. She looks up at me, then puts the book to my face.

"Is that Auntie Neptune's number? I have to call her." Mizuku says looking sadly at me. "I have to know where she is."

"Why do you need to talk to Kari?"

"Cause, I want to know where she is."

"She's probably at her apartment."

"But she moved out last night."

I look at Mizuku. "She what?"

"She told me she had to go."

I sigh and pick up my phone. I dial her cell, and listen to it ring. Finally she picks up.

"Hello?"

"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU? MIZU SAYS YOU LEFT SHINOGU'S!"

"Calm down Ryo, don't be mad. Look it's a long story, and..."

"What?"

"Look I'll just come by later okay. Tell Mizuku that. I'll explain everything later on."

"You better be by." I growl. How stupid can she be? Preggo and out on the streets...

"I promise. By the way how'd you know I left?"

"Mizuku was freaking out." Mizuku looks up at me, waving her arms for the phone. I hand it to her.

"Auntie Neptune, are you okay? Do you want to borrow my wand?" She says into the phone excitedlly. "Okay. I'll be a good girl. Okay. Promise? Okay, bye."

Mizuku looks up at me, then puts the phone down. "We gotta call Sailor Moon now!"

I chuckle. "Why?"

"Because she's at the bad man's house."

Shinogu's pov (poor guy)

I sigh and dial her number again. I've been calling all morning. All I want to do is hear her voice...

"Come on, quit being stupid." I tell myself. "She's all but broken us up."

The doorbell rings, and I go answer it. I open the door to see a tall blonde man about my old man's age.

"Um, I'm sorry is a Kari Tachibana staying here?" He says. Geez look at this guy. He's in a business suit and everything...

I think a moment and nod. "Ya, but she's out right now. You want me to leave a message.."

"Oh well you see I'm Takuya Tachibana, I'm her father. I came by to wish her happy birthday. When do you think she'll be back?" He's holding a package, and an envelope. I let him in, and suddenly the phone rings.

I grab it quickly. "Hello?"

"Shinogu? I know you don't want to see me, but is my...father there? I forgot he was coming by." I smile at the sound of her voice.

"Yes, he's here to see you."

"I've got to go see my father Azu, I'll be back for dinner." I hear her tell Azusa. "Shinogu you still there?"

"Ya."

"Thanks soo much, I'll be there in a sec."

I listen to her hang up, then sigh. "She's coming Mr. Tachibana."

Mizuku's pov

Daddy tells me not to tell Mommy that Neptune is with the bad man. I promise, and he starts making lunch. The door opens, and I run and hug Neptune as she comes in.

"Whoa I think someone's glad to see me." She smiles. "I heard you were worried about me."

"Ya, I missed you lots and lots." I tell her. "You were not nice leaving Uncle Shinogu's house."

She looks sadly at Daddy, then takes off her shoes and puts on slippers. "Look Ryoki, better yet read this."

She gives daddy a piece of paper, and he looks at it. He looks very mad. "YOU LIED?"

"I thought it would be better for me and Shinogu, but..." She stops and starts crying.

I hug her, and she stops. "Please Ryoki, don't be mad at me."

"What do you expect me to do dance for joy?"

Mommy walks in, and looks at us. "Kari what's wrong?"

"Moodswings, damned things." Neptune says wiping her eyes. "That's all."

"Oh, I know how that can be. Actually Ryoki and I were going to go out for the day, and Mizuku's awfully fond of you..."

"No I don't think Kari is up for babysitting today." Daddy tells her.

"I love to babysit her Ryo you know that. You wanna spend the day with me Mizu?" Neptune asks me.

"Yes please. Please daddy?" I look at daddy giving him a big smile. He sighs and nods.

"Yay I gets to spend the day with you!" I tell Neptune.

Neptune takes me with her to Uncle Shinogu's house. We go in to see an old man, and Uncle Shinogu talking.

"Sorry I'm late. I had to stop at Ryoki's and..I have babysitting duties today." Kari tells them.

"Who is this?" The old man says.

"This is Ryoki's daughter Mizuku. Mizu, this is my father."

"Wow if your Auntie Neptune's daddy you must be really old!" I say surprised. Kari looks at me funny, but her daddy laughs.

"Yes, I can see that she's Ryoki's." He looks back at her. "Now I wanted to give you this, your mother wanted me to send it to your finishing school but obviously that would have been a waste."

He gives the box to her, and she hugs him. "Thanks Dad."

"Fine young man you have here Kari. I'm very proud of you. Now I would stay darling, but your mother.."

"I know Mom. Thanks a lot." She looks at Uncle Shinogu sadly, then back at her dad.

The old man leaves, and Uncle Shinogu looks at Neptune. "So are you going back to his house now?"

"Shinogu, I..." Neptune looks at me. "We should talk about this when I'm not babysitting."

"Why should we wait until you have Azusa's brat?" Uncle Shinogu says grumpyly. Neptune starts crying, and grabs my hand.

"Come on Mizu." She tells me, crying.

"That was not nice Uncle Shinogu." I tell him as Neptune takes us outside where it is raining.

Kari's pov

Once I stop crying, I take Mizuku to Azusa's apartment. Azusa opens the door, with Rina writing something on a piece of paper behind him.

"Oh, Hatsu's brat." I hear him mutter.

"I promised I'd babysit. I hope that's okay." Azusa looks at me, and shrugs.

"Sure. I'm going out with Rina for a while, we'll be back in an hour or so." Mizuku goes inside, and Azusa leans closer to me.

"Later on, I'll give you a birthday party between the two of us." He winks. I feel his hand on my bum, and I blush furiously. Suddenly he jumps up, and I look down to see Mizuku biting his hand.

"Bad man keep your hands to yourself!" Mizuku orders.

"Mizuku you do not bite. Now say your sorry." I tell her. She looks at me mad, then at him.

"I'm sorry bad man." She sighs. I watch Azu and Rina leave, then I sit down on the couch, watching the rain outside the window.

"He wasn't being nice." Mizuku tells me. She sits beside me, her arms crossed.

"He's going to be my baby's daddy Mizu." I tell her softly.

"But he can't, because a daddy has to love the mama, and Uncle Shinogu loves you not the bad man!" Mizuku quickly leaves the room, and I go stand on the balcony, letting the rain soak me, and hide my tears.

A/N–Whew, didn't think I'd get this done so fast. I wrote this in 3 hours yay! I'll have the next one up by Tuesday probably.

Hint for next chap.

"Ryoki called me, what happened?" Shinogu says entering my hospital room...

Reviews:

the littlest weasley–Yes I'm super mean, but at least I wrote. LoL, I loved the wand too. Mizuku is too cute for her own good.

Haru is my lovely–Yes, I"m on track again. I know, Shinogu's really sad right now.

Bobthebrick–I'm so proud of you for knowing. LoL.

Ryokilover—Yes, Mizu is adorable.