Author's Note - I've ment to post a chapter every day, but I've been really busy lately. And I have to go to Summer Camp for a week so there wont be any updates for a while. I'm really sorry about that. But please read and review, and I promise to post the next chapter as soon as I can.
Sailor Pluto lowered her staff and looked at the girl.
"You can't be Hotaru, she no longer exists."
"You're right. I'm not Hotaru because she no longer exists."
"Then why do you look so much like her?"
"Because I used to be Hotaru, and Hotaru used to be me, just as I also used to be death and rebirth, and they were me."
"Could you explain?"
"I was Sailor Saturn, Hotaru, death, and rebirth. The reason that Hotaru was Sailor Saturn, and the Messiah of Death, and the Messiah of rebirth, is because all of the things in me were her as well. The same reason Sailor Saturn was the soldier of death and rebirth. And had I not been death and rebirth, I would have ceased to exist with the other sailor senshi. Even though our princess locked away the part of me that was death when she destroyed Pharaoh 90, it was still there. And so even though Hotaru, Sailor Saturn, and rebirth were destroyed, you cannot kill death. So I am still alive." Sailor Pluto once again took a fighting stance.
"If all you are is death, do you plan to destroy the world?" Death (that's what I'm going to call Hotaru now) gave a small, kind smile.
"No, Sailor Pluto, I'm not going to destroy this world. I am alive, but I am not awake." Sailor Pluto lowered her staff.
"Why can't I see you in the time stream?"
"Because you did not recognize me, now that you do, look at the time stream again. Look at our princess." Sailor Pluto did and saw that Usagi did not freeze to death in a blizzard. Instead Death walked up to her and stood there, waiting for something. Then someone walked into the alley and followed Death's footprints to where the princess lay. Right before death came into his view she disappeared, and reappeared at the Gate of Time. And the boy took the princess home with him and nursed her back to health. "The princess will be taken care of. That man is Trowa Barton, you should know him because he is important to the time stream." Sailor Pluto turned to look at Death again.
"It's thoughtful of you to make sure the princess is taken care of, even though you owe her nothing in the form you are in now. But it should be her remaining loved ones that take care of her, that would be me and possible you. Why are you having this man help her?"
"You are mistaken, I owe the princess everything. It is because of the princess that I am asleep and do not have to drop the Silence Glaive on this world. I am indebted to her, and I still consider her my princess. Shouldn't purity be above all else? And the reason that I choose Trowa Barton to care for her instead of us, is because she has no memory of her past life."
"Then we should help her regain it."
"No, if she remembers her love and friends that died helping and protecting her she would be heartbroken. It is better that she doesn't remember. Her memories are sealed away under a thin sheet of ice. One step on the ice, and it will shatter." Sailor Pluto thought it over. She wanted to watch over her princess, but she could always do that from the Gate of Time. And be ready to intervene if the need should arise.
"Fine, I will stay away from the princess as long as she is happy and safe."
"Thank you Sailor Pluto. Will you now go to when I first become aware of myself and tell me when and where our princess will arrive. I will understand and handle everything else." Death then disappeared, and Sailor Pluto went through the Gate of Time to when Death first became aware.