Author's Note - Not much to say except the identity of the little girl is explained in this chapter, but everything else about her will be explained next chapter. So please read and review.

Slowly, she fought off sleep and came to her senses. Suddenly, the amount of light penetrating her eyelids lessoned, and she could her quiet breathing. Who ever they were, they were close, maybe half a foot from her face. She pondered for a moment why someone would be that close to her and who they might be. Her mind drew a blank. Whoever the where touched her forehead and her eyes snapped open on reflex and she let out a small gasp. He was this close to her face, staring intently at her forehead. He heard her gasp and immediately his attention was on her open eyes. He looked surprised for a second and then his emotions where hidden from her. He sat up in his chair, and she did the same. She looked at him, and noticed he had brown hair that was short, except for his 'bang' that hid one of his eyes. The other eye was emerald green and emotionless. He seemed to be looking at her as well, probably looking at her hair and eye color. Her thoughts came to a sudden halt. Her hair and eye color, she didn't know them. Should she? She looked to her side where her hair fell onto the bed. It was very long, and very blond. She was about to attempt to look at her eyes to see what color they were, but stopped herself when she realized how stupid that would be. Then she noticed that she was only wearing a t-shirt. It was a very long shirt that went down to right above her knees. She wasn't sure what she should be wearing, but the fact that she was only wearing a shirt bothered her. She knew she wouldn't go anywhere or be with strangers dressed like this. She looked at him again, his 'eye' and face were still expressionless, and he was just sitting there watching her.

"Do I know you, do I live here?" He looked startled for a moment before he was expressionless again.

"No."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes." She didn't know this person, and she didn't live here. She would never go somewhere dressed like this. She started to draw conclusions. Her mind screamed warnings or being alone with strange men, and how it's to late once the kitten is caught by the wolf. She would have gotten out of bed and bolted for the door, but she was frozen in fear.

"I'm not going to hurt you."

At the Gate of Time

After Usagi disappeared into the Gate of Time Sailor Pluto immediately started to search the time stream for her. Oblivious to everything else, she searched only for her princess. When her princess appeared in the time stream again, it was in an alleyway in Tokyo. She watched as her unconscious princess was slowly buried in snow and froze to death. At that point, Sailor Pluto didn't care that she wasn't suppose to interfere. Her princess came first. She was about to step through the gate to help her princess when she sensed another presence. She whirled around, and pointed her staff at the intruder. She gasped and almost dropped her staff. Standing there was a little girl of about 11, a little girl with pale skin, short black hair, and purple eyes.

"Hotaru?"