Chibi no Senshi

(A/N: Another one out! Yes! Blah blah...)

Chapter Four - How They Got There and New Friends Made: Parts 03-04

--Minako's Knight in Shining Armor. Chivalry really isn't dead--

Duo sighed, he had just shipped off more parts to his co-worker Hilde. And he had the rest of the day to himself. But, to enjoy his free time he needed something to do! Just sitting around watching t.v. was boring! So to cure his boredom he figured he'd eventually find something to occupy his time if he went out into the streets and roads of Sanc.

And so he walked down some stupid street named after a flower or something and had yet to come across anything interesting.

'Great... this is so much fun. I shall never take working with Hilde for granted ever again. Or rather, under her. The stupid bossy hag...' and as he thought these rather mean thoughts several screams broke out. Down the road people were screaming about cars and little girls and potatoes.

Duo snapped into panic mode. This meant that he was ready for action and was gonna kick some... car booty! How he was to do this, well, you'll see.

He rushed down the street not really minding the fact that he pushed several people down (more like pummeled/mauled them!) and there in the middle of the damn road was a little blonde haired girl just standing. She didn't move. Wait, she had turned her head her eyes widened at the cars that came rushing towards her.

Minako was in shock you see, and she shut her eyes, expecting to feel lots of pain. Well, she didn't get her wish. She felt herself being lifted, but since when were cars made of flesh?

Her cornflower blue eyes opened and saw a wreck. Another car, a green Honda maybe, was attempting to stop but it got a little too close. Suddenly a fist came from her left side and the car never hit them. The fist smashed right into the front of the car, effectively stopping it. Minako stared. Who could have down that!

She looked up, and violet eyes looked down.

Duo stared at the little girl, she stared back. He wondered if she could talk, normally in accidents like this, girls tended to scream and cry. This one hadn't said a word. Well, until now.

"How did you do that?" Damn. He was in trouble. Duo looked around many people who had witnessed him practically throwing the cars to the side were staring in shock and one man had wet himself.

"Uh... crap." He had to get out of here! So he did the only thing he could think of.

He jumped. Really, really high. So high that he landed on top of one of the really high buildings. Unfortunately for him, he'd forgotten to put Minako down. People on the ground were still screaming, sirens were heard and someone said that a demon had flown up and kidnapped a little girl.

'This just isn't my day.' thought Duo. He still hadn't realized that the blonde was still wrapped securely in his arms.

Minako blinked. One second she was about to get hit by a bunch of cars, then she was safe, and then she was on a roof with a strange boy. He wasn't that much older than her. Mentally.

'I wonder if boys can be sailor senshi too. The Starlights did say that there were more than we could even imagine so... why not in another dimension?' Minako thought. Needless to say, she wasn't really surprised at his abilities.

"Um... dude? Could you... put me down now?" said the little girl, snapping Duo out of his daze. He looked down, and in shock dropped the girl, staggering away from her.

She stood up, rubbing her now slightly sore bottom. She glared at him.

"That wasn't very nice." what kind of five year old was she? Duo wasn't sure on how to handle his current situation.

'You idiot! You wanted some kind of action! Now you have it. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stu-'

"So how is it you have... powers like that?" Duo stared at the girl again. He attempted to get himself under control and took a deep breath. Maybe he could play dumb.

"What powers?" the girl looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"What do you mean, 'what powers'? I'm talking about all that punching and jumping and stuff!"

"What stuff? I have no idea about what you're getting at."

"Ugh! Stop that! I saw you! I think... did I?" the girl then pulled on a thoughtful look. Duo held back a smirk, he'd tricked the little girl.

'Kids are so stupid,' he thought.

Duo turned, getting ready to get off the roof before a bunch of cops came, but before he could...

"Yes I did see it all! You have like, super powers! Wait!" the little girl latched onto his waist just as he jumped. And as the two went flying to the next building, Minako yelled at him, still holding on for dear life. Somehow she had managed to poke him in the back several times with an accusing index finger.

"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING PAL! I WANT SOME DANG ANSWERSSS!" and the two landed. Duo stood still for a second before reaching back and pulling Minako away from him. He held her by the back of her dress, arms length away.

She glared at him and tried to look intimidating. She failed, and he laughed at her. So in retaliation at his meannesss she attempted to kick, scratch and bite whatever bit of him she could.

"Whoa! Watch it kid! Are you crazy?" he cried as she placed a well aimed kick to his right cheek. Pow! He dropped her and she fell as he staggered back. That girl knew how to kick!

"Don't call me kid!" she screeched at him as she stood up next to him, she tried to kick him again but he jumped away. Unfortunately, he jumped a little too far and went falling down the side of the building. This wasn't too bad for him since it got him away from the crazy kid, but now he had to worry about landing on something sharp in the alley.

He looked up as he fell and saw the blonde brat screaming down at him. What the hell, was she possessed or something?

"I WILL FIND YOU!"

--Makoto's New "Friend". Ah, Under the Sea--

Makoto gazed at the endless sea ahead of her, she'd walked a long way across the forest. And the salty smell in the air had led her down. The beach's hot sand flew into the air as she dropped her leaf-bag and ran towards the salty seawater.

She let the tide come in enough to pass over her sandals, time seemed to slow down and she wished this moment could last forever. And if only she were her normal size too, her love waiting on the beach to hold her in his arms...

Was that a boy?

Makoto looked over down the beach, a boy, maybe a man, lay on across the sand. She wondered if he was sleeping. Then panic filled her, what if he was ship-wrecked and had valiantly attempted to rescue his crew but ended up drowning and he washed up on the shore!

Makoto didn't think it was possible to watch The Little Mermaid too many times.

Shrugging, she headed towards him out of curiosity. She sort of hoped that he wasn't evil and would try to kidnap her. Dealing with kidnappers would result in much pain, and not on her side either.

She wasn't even a foot away from his head, she bent over and the glaring sun's rays were blocked by her head. She looked at him.

The boy's arms were spread out at his sides, making him lay like a cross. His clothing was plain, khaki knee-length shorts, he had sandals on too, an unbuttoned yellow shirt. Makoto blushed slightly at seeing his chest, it was built with a little muscle too. He had somewhat pale white skin, and platinum blond hair. She wondered what color his eyes were.

Curiosity killed the cat, you know.

And so Makoto actually used two small fingers to open his eye. It was a sort of green-blue color. She found that cool. His eye seemed to loll around a bit. A sign of someone sleeping. Or someone dead...

Makoto jumped away, releasing his eyelid causing it to close. She wondered if she should shake him to see if he would move. Then again, if he were dead he might not move and touching a dead person didn't seem too appealing.

Then again, she did just mess with his eye. And thus Makoto came up with a solution to this mystery.

Looking around she spotted just the thing she needed.

A nice, pointy, just long enough stick.

--Usagi and Hotaru, the Soon-to-be Inseparable Ones--

Usagi sighed, by some miracle baby Hotaru had shut up and fallen asleep. Of course, this was not technically a good thing, you see, Usagi's plan to contact Pluto was to scream her name over and over again until something happened. She couldn't risk the baby waking up and having her scream and cry.

Sometimes having peace and quiet was good. Sometimes it wasn't. Sometimes having a baby around isn't good. Sometimes having a baby around caused more trouble for people than those without one.

The trouble was... is... that three very mean and evil people came walking behind the building where Usagi and Hotaru were. It was then that Usagi found out that running with a baby in your arms was hard.

They'd started yelling at her, they looked angry. They started running to her. The only thing she knew to do was to run away. And in doing so she had to carry the little baby. She wished Hotaru could walk. There was also the whole trying to keep the baby from waking up, Usagi didn't want them to catch her! Who knew what kind of evil cult ritual they would pull on her?

So she ran into a really busy part of the crowd, hoping to get lost in there so they couldn't get her. This didn't go so well when Hotaru woke up, sure there were other crying babies, but it was a little more suspicious when a five year old was the one trying to quiet the baby down.

One rather scary looking woman, who was also kind of dirty, saw the little pig-tailed girl holding the most adorable baby she had ever laid her eyes on. The woman grinned wickedly, how easy it would be to take the baby from her.

She walked over to the girl and tapped on her shoulder. The girl spun around with wide eyes. Yeah, you would too if you saw some scary redhead grinning, showing all of her gold teeth at you. Even though Usagi had thought it was one of those men.

The woman thrust her arms out and wrapped them around Hotaru, who stopped crying and looked at the woman before attempting to cling to Usagi. Hotaru did not like this woman.

The woman glared at the baby, of course that didn't stop her from trying to lift it right out of Usagi's arms.

Usagi's eyes were as wide as saucers, this woman was just trying to take the baby away from her? Why? Not to mention, who was stupid enough to?

"Hey ugly! Let go of my baby!" she screamed at the woman, Usagi held on tightly to little Hotaru, there was no way she was just going to let this woman take her baby!

The woman faultered for a second, what the heck did the girl say? It sounded like a bunch of mushed up gibberish to her, shrugging, she went back to holding the baby up to her face. The baby was really heavy and it only took a second to realize that the little blond girl was still holding on, she glared as evily and hard as she could at the ugly woman.

"Tasukette kudasai!"

More gibberish, and now the girl was gaining other's attention. As well as the three men who had been chasing the girl. They glared hard at the girl, before contemplating whether or not it was a good idea to see if they could do something about her. Since she had been trespassing onto their territory.

That was until they saw some man walk right up to the woman. The men walked off, they'd either see her later or pretend she hadn't shown up.

"Miss, is there... a problem here?" asked the man. He was a bit odd looking. Escpecially with all that hair. His hair reached past his waist! Yes that was weird. And he wore black leather pants and boots, a black shirt under his unbuttoned red one. Usagi hoped that he was on her side, as well as hoped that he wasn't a cop or something.

The woman glared at the man who interfered with her kidnapping. Then an idea formed, she smiled "kindly".

"Well, yes. This young girl here is trying to harm my baby! I don't know why she thought she could just come up and take her from me, I want to see justice served! Do something!" she acted as if he were some officer. And he wasn't. Well, he sort of was. Whatever.

Usagi looked at the man who looked at her, he had rather kind violet colored eyes. They reminded her of Rei's only they didn't show the anger Rei usually portrayed. He furrowed his eyebrows. What kind of story was that? This little girl kidnapping the rather ugly woman's baby? Not to mention the two looked nothing alike.

Oh well, he might as well sort this all out. He reached for Usagi who attempted to squirm away but failed. He successfully had Usagi in his arms and the baby... was reaching wildly for her! That was weird. The baby began to cry, the woman began to walk away,

and his hand stopped her, "Wait miss. I'll have you wait and ask this little girl a couple of questions. Just be patient." he turned away and missed the woman's evil glare.

He bent down on his knees and set Usagi down in front of him, they were now at the same eye level, the woman wondered if she would be able to run away.

The man looked thoughful and rubbed his chin a bit, he might as well treat her nicely, she was only a child afterall. And he knew how to handle her if she were some crazy war orphan.

"Now... what's up with you and this baby?" he asked her.

The little girl tilted her head slightly, she perked up one eyebrow. All in all, the girl looked cute, and clean. Rather nicely dressed for an orphan.

Hm... this would be tougher than he thought. The baby's loud cries didn't help either. And with a pop! an idea that would solve much popped into his head.

He stood up and reached for the "woman's baby" and made a motion for her to hand Hotaru over,

"Mind if I hold her for a minute, miss?" she glared at him. She clearly did not want to give him the baby, but she handed her over anyway.

The man then bent down again and held the baby out to the little blond girl. (earning an angry gasp from the woman)

The little girl with the weird hair-do immediately had a big smile on her face and the baby stopped crying. The little girl held the baby in her arms and hugged her. A sweet sight for sore eyes.

"Arigato gouzaimasu!" she said happily. Happily as if he were actually returning the baby to it's rightful owner.

The girl held Hotaru over her left shoulder, balancing her on her left arm. She then held out her right hand towards him,

"Usagi." was the only word that came out. Then she pointed at the baby "Hotaru."

The man looked at her in confusion, those words weren't english! He wondered what was with that "Usagi" bit too. Then he looked down at her hand, he might as well act as if she were introducing herself.

So he took her small hand in his and shook it "Duo."

The girl smiled happily "Duo!"

They stopped shaking hands and Duo looked up to where the woman was. Was being the key word. She had just disappeared! Maybe the woman had been lieing.

"Well kiddo, it doesn't look like she'll be coming back for the baby." he said smiling, the little girl just tilted her head in confusion again and laughed.

"So... I take it you don't speak english?" the girl stared at him again.

"How is that? Everyone speaks english now. Mind sayin' a few words? I'd like to know just what you're speakin' here." he said to Usagi.

'Okay... that didn't work. Hm...' he thought, how to get her to talk?

And so he used his hands, opening his mouth as if her were speaking, any sort of idication that he wanted her to talk. The girl stared at the rather crazy man who looked like a fish out of water.

"Wakarimasen..." she said nervously. Duo stopped the weird hand movements and looked at her.

"What was that...? Sounded like... hm, Japanese!" he said, the girl grinned at him and nodded,bouncing up Hotaru in her arms a bit, she heard the "japanese" part

"Well then, I guess I better brush up on my Japanese then, hm?" he said standing up. He motioned for her to follow him. The two walked off, into a bookstore.

--More Introductions and a Helping Hand--

Poke, Poke, went the long stick as Makoto "nudged" the boy's arm. And by Joe! He groaned slightly, swatting his right arm at the stick. He ended up grabbing it and threw it off somewhere. 'How rude!' thought Makoto. Well, he was alive at least.

She shrugged slightly, the fun of poking him was gone, and so she went back to her original task.

Fishing.

Surely you know what horrendous activity shall go on here. Mainly because Makoto has no fishing pole and killing things is bad!

The water was up to her knees, she wondered if the fish would dare come so close to the shore. ...As if.

Sighing, she went in deeper, to the waist. She still didn't see any fish. Crap, this would be harder than she thought. Hm... an idea formed into her head again, she could use her powers! Quickly looking around, she saw the sleeping boy still sleeping and with a nod of her head, shouted out those oh-so well known words that would allow her to become Super Sailor Jupiter!

Only, the words came out different, she didn't shout "Jupiter Crystal Power Make-Up!"

She shouted "Jupiter Power Make-Up!"

And so the electricity formed around her and she transformed into her first stage of being senshi.

She stared down at herself, 'Boy this brings back memories.'

Makoto noticed that she was still five... a five year old senshi? Well, Chibi-Moon had been pretty young when she started out, Jupiter shrugged, might as well get used to it since she had a feeling that it would be a while before she became her old size.

She readied an attack, not realizing just what would happen if she did.

"Jupiter... Supreme Thunder!" and so she zapped the water, failing to realize she still stood in it. And all went black for our now hydrophobic friend.

"Um... little girl? Wake up! Are you all right?" came the distant voice, Makoto groaned slightly. She opened both eyes and saw the once sleeping boy looking at her with worried sea colored eyes.

"Oh good, I was afraid you were gone!" he said, Makoto found she liked his voice, of course she didn't understand a single word he spoke. She smiled slightly, not sure how to react, she sure hoped he hadn't seen her use her powers or henshin.

The boy offered his hand, she took it greatfully. She didn't fail to notice her old clothes back, when she knocked herself out she must have changed back.

"I'm not sure what happened, I tried not to panic when I saw you just lieing in the water!" he continued, not realizing that she had tuned him out. Makoto noticed that along the shore many fish and even a shark had washed up on the shore.

She giggled, she was alive and the fish were dead. All was good.

Now all she had to do was stop drooling over the hot guy who had actually been worried about her. The boy stopped talking and stared at her, not sure why she was laughing, he looked in her direction and saw a bunch of dead fish along the shoreline. What was so funny about that? Unless the girl had something to do with it...

He shrugged at her odd actions, and sat himself down on the warm, dry sand. She sat down next to him. The sun passed over them, it was now late in the afternoon. The boy was hungry, he'd went to the beach early that morning and had fallen asleep. His bodyguards were going to kill him. How ironic was that?

"Sore was utsukushii desu ne..." he heard the strange words from her mouth, he looked down at her, a small smile was on her face as she gazed off at the sea in her own little world. He smiled, he used to be like that. So relaxed and carefree. Now...

Makoto turned her head towards the boy, he held his hand out to her. She looked up into his eyes. Oh gosh... those eyes!

"I'm Quatre." was all he said. It was hard, making it out, but she tried.

"Imcatra?" the boy laughed, he knew she didn't speak english, he sort of just knew. There was no point in wondering why she didn't use english like everyone else.

"Quatre." he repeated.

"Quatre." Quatre nodded, she shook his hand enthusiastically.

"Makoto!"

"Doozo yoroshiku onegai shimasu, Makoto-san." he said those words before he even realized they'd popped out of his mouth.

"You speak my language!" she cried excitedly. He understood her, and she understood him. Whoa.

Quatre's head felt weird. It felt like he'd just been given a serious crash course in Japanese! Little did he know, from somewhere far off, a key shaped staff stood, and at the top in the middle of the heart, a garnet orb glowed. The woman holding it smiled mysteriously.

"Yeah... it would seem I do." he looked at her with wide eyes. Makoto laughed at him, she thought he was funny. Then her eyes widened too.

"Ohmigod! I have to get back to the girls!" she shrieked hysterically as she jumped up like a rabbit.

Quatre stood up hurriedly, the girl was in panic mode and running around in circles down in the wet sand, kicking it up everywhere. He would have laughed if she wasn't taking whatever was wrongso serious.

"Makoto! What... what's wrong?" he called to her. She stopped running and looked over at him. And it was then that for the life of him he couldn't figure out why her childish appearance seemed to melt away and revealed a beautiful young woman. Quatre blinked, the image gone and the small brunette was looking at him expectantly.

"What?"

He sighed, something told him the girl acted like that alot. "What's wrong? You're acting... well, crazy!"

"I'm supposed to get food for my friends! Who knows where they are or what happened to them! That's why I came down here, to get some fish!" her response was a bit odd. Why didn't she go to her parents or something? Quatre felt compelled to help her out.

"Friends...? Food...? Fish...? Well... I'll help you then!" she grinned. Nodding she bent over to pick up a rather ugly catfish when he stopped her.

"How about we go back to the city and buy something? It'll be my treat." he said as he led her back the way both of them had come, through the woods. She didn't even bother saying anything about the berries or leaves she'd worked rather hard to get.

--Pluto's "Devastating" News--

Hand-in-hand Duo and Usagi walked down one of the less busy streets of Sanc. At the bookstore he'd found two books. One for him and how to speak in Japanese to the girl, and one for her to speak in English to him. Several times both of them had pronounced a bunch of words wrong, but neither cared. They had become fast friends. He'd even bought her and Hotaru lunch! Of course afterwards she felt guilty because of her two friends. She'd told him the story. Leaving a few facts out like the antidote, dimension, princess, powers, becoming a teenager again, and that she had a boyfriend who was a squirrel.

Okay so basically she said that her and her friends had come to Sanc to live. That they'd run away and needed a place to stay. Duo decided against telling her off. If he had been her or her friends he would have been overjoyed at having a home and family. Of course he couldn't play grown-up because if would probably scare her off or something.

Duo had been very helpful, the two had walked around looking for her friends, she knew she described them right. Even if she hadn't she could always point them out if she saw Minako-chan or Makoto-chan.

"So..." Duo said seriously as he switched Hotaru over on his right arm. "...are you single?"

Usagi laughed, Duo was nice, funny, very cute, and just plain dreamy. If only she wasn't already destined to Mamoru she would totally pick him as her king.

'Besides, I love Mamoru. That and Duo only thinks I'm some little kid anyway. It's just luck that we met and he's helping me out.' Off at the gates of time Pluto thought up a plan. 'Hurry up girls! I guess I should have mentioned the deadline...'

Usagi stopped walking. 'What was that?'

'It's me Usagi, Pluto! You guys have less than a month to get that antidote or else you're stuck like that forever! I'm sorry but I didn't find this out until a while ago! Hurry!'

"Great!" shouted Usagi out of nowhere. Duo jumped, looking down at her angry face. "Pluto, when this is all over I'm gonna get you!"

(A/N: And so they bit the dust... literally. Uh, what?)