A/N Okay...FF.Ns not showing some of my reviews.....DARN IT!!!

M. Trunks: Eh...yeah. But we're still doing good!

S. Saturn: *grumble grumble*

M. Trunks: Good thing we didn't delete the reviews from our inbox!

S. Saturn: *glares at review list* DARN IT ALL!!!

M. Trunks: *sweatdrop* Right.

RRs

aserene: Yeah. She is confused. As a matter of fact, so am I.....

Devilspet: Gee, thanks! I try to describe stuff as best I can, but my imagination is too detailed, and I always forget to mention something....and yes, they finally got the good guy, bad guy thing straight!

Ren-Okye: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! (however late this may be) And I'm sure Inuyasha WANTS to try and attack her, but the fact that his back is in pieces is stopping that! (as will something else.....)

esteebee: What do you mean, 'mates like dbz'....am I missing something?

SerinityRules: They always say a speech, for it is the law of Sailor Moon! LOL! Okay that was a stupid joke, forgive me. But its true, that's the way its done in the

manga and in the series, and I want to make this as 'in character' as I can.

Sesshoumaru: Well, he was, but if you remember, at the end of chapter 8, he ran for the well. And he got there and met Hotaru, who ran away.

HotaruMaxwell: ....okay. I'm seriously confused here, but hey! I'm always confused, so, I'll go with it! Thanks for reading! ^_^

rsd: Don't worry, I haven't forgotten. The new attacks I HOPE I'll use in this chapter. ^_^ Major fight scene! I can't wait!

Ss JK: Thank you! It'll hopefully continue to get better!

D.g. and Crew: I know I can't spell. I'll remember how to spell m-a-n-g-a from now on though. And the reason everyone breaks Inu's back is cause...uh....I don't know. It just fits, that's all I know. Thanks for reading! ^_^ I happyhappy!

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~^o_o^~ Doesn't like the fact that some reviews didn't take. Grrr...

Disclaimer: Uh....I no own nothing. Except this storyline, uh, Saturn's attacks...and that's it.

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Chapter 10: Secrets Out

The giant snake demon stopped and looked at the girl who stopped him from his next meal. "What do you want?!" It growled.

Seeing her chance, Kagome ran from the snake and went over to Inuyasha. "Are you okay?" She asked, with worry in her voice.

Inuyasha growled in annoyance and tried again to stand. "Damn. My back's snapped. It won't take long to heal, but we might not have long at all!"

"Don't worry! Sailor Saturn is here! She'll take care of that demon for you!" Kagome said as she watched the sailor jump in front of the demon.

Inuyasha glared and growled.

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Sailor Saturn glared at the creature as she jumped down and before the demon. "I don't know who you are, or where you came from, but you're not welcome here!"

The demon smiled, its acid dripped onto the cement below it and created huge holes wherever it fell.

'Note to self, don't let that thing spit on me!' Saturn thought.

As if reading her thoughts, the snake hissed at her, sending a flood of its corrosive venom her way. Without pausing to think, the sailor jumped straight up, barely avoiding a painful shower.

'Another note to self, DON'T DO THAT AGAIN!' She mused as she landed gracefully on a tree branch. 'Whew! That was too close!' Quickly, yet carefully, she jumped from branch to branch until her high-heeled knee-length purple boots met the solid ground beneath her.

"Yesssssss..." The creature hissed as it slithered her way again. "I love a before-dinner workout!"

"You'll get more than that!" Saturn retorted. 'Much more of this, and I might have to fight back...'

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Inuyasha winced in pain as he again tried to stand. 'Damn it!' He thought as he slid back to the ground. Kagome was on her knees next to him, though, like himself, was busy watching the fight before him.

"Wow, that was a close one!" Kagome said as Saturn jumped over the serpent's tail as it swiped the ground. "It looks like she's playing jump rope!"

Inuyasha just glared. "Grrr...."

"I wonder who she is...she's so cool!"

'That's it! If I can recognize her scent, I can find out who she REALLY is!' He looked smug. 'And then we'll see who's the kewl-ist around here!' Too his delight,a light wind started to blow, carrying the girl's scent towards his sensitive nose. He whiffed deeply. His face showed pure confusion. "What's going on here?!"

Kagome turned and looked at him with the weirdest look on her face. "Inuyasha, what are you doing?"

"Feh! What does it look like! I'm trying to catch her scent to see if I can figure out who she really is!" He snapped back. Breathing deep, he took in the girl's scent. 'Lets see, what smells like new born babies, budding trees, and young animals....' His eyes snapped open. "I don't get it!"

"Don't get what? What does she smell like?" Kagome asked, genuinely curious.

Inuyasha growled. "Life. She smells like life!"

"What? What does it mean?!" The young miko said, obviously confused.

"It means that I can't figure out who she is..." The hanyou just growled. "and that I'm being shown up again! By a DAMN CHEERLEADER!!!"

Of course Sailor Saturn heard that comment, and was definantly not happy.

"HEY!!! I AM NOT A CHEERLEADER! YOU DULT!!!" And that all she said before a swipe from the snake's body sent her sliding across the shrine grounds.

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Saturn squealed in pain as her body slid to a stop. A sharp pain in her ankle caused her to look. It was turned in an odd angle. 'Just great! Its looks broken!'



The demon chuckled to itself as it inched closer to the fallen scout. "Now you can't possibly dodge me! I will enjoy my victory!" It crowed as it sped up, mouth open and venom dripping.

'Its now or never!' Saturn thought. She gripped her injured ankle, sending a lighting bolt of pain up her leg. Wincing in pain, she quickly snapped her foot back into its proper alignment. Immediately followed by a wave of healing energy from her palm. She looked up in time to see the demon's mouth right on her.

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Kagome and Inuyasha watched as the snake slammed its mouth into the ground where the fallen sailor was. Kagome shielded her face on Inuyasha's shoulder as the resulting dust cloud swept over them. As the dust started to settle, Kagome looked around. "Inuyasha! Where is she?!"

The said hanyou was confused beyond all words. 'She was clearly smelling of pain and blood; but then....she was fine!'

"INUYASHA!!!" Kagome shrieked.

His ears automatically slammed into his skull, they were now ringing from the girl's shriek. "Wench! If you would just open your eyes and look!" He pointed above the snake demon, where the girl now was in midleap. "At the last second, she jumped straight up!"

Relieved, Kagome looked at the girl. She looked very ticked, and her left arm was stretched across her waist, in the same pose as Kagome seen her right before she summoned her 'death fox' before.

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'Great! I've got the element of surprise!' Saturn thought as she watched the snake demon rise from the concrete, it was looking around with a confused expression. Quickly, she took her left hand and folded her middle and ring fingers down, covered by her thumb. "Now!"

The snake stopped looking around, and looked up, just in time to be met with a little surprise.

Sailor Saturn swept her arm out and towards the demon. "SATURN BLACK RIBBONS.........SNAP!!!"

Dozens of black ribbons shot from the girl's index and pinky fingers, and shot towards the target. They struck the demon, going through its body and pinning it to the ground. One of the ribbons of energy gently nudged the shikon jewel shard that was stuck in the demon's stomach, making its now dark glow even darker.

Landing safely on the ground in front of the fallen demon, Saturn walked closer to it. "That was close!" Suddenly, the ribbons that were her attack were seemingly sucked into the demon's body. 'That's funny, it's never done that before!'

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Inuyasha smirked as he felt the bones in his back realign themselves, soon, they would mend and he would take care of that demon! 'Stupid girl doesn't know what she's doing!'

The dark glow of the shikon jewel shard caught Kagome's eye. 'That's new.' Then, a new dark aura surrounded the snake, as Saturn's attack entered its body. 'What's going on?'

From the look on the scout's face, she was just as surprised and confused about the whole situation. Inuyasha just growled as he watched impatiently. 'Come on, healing powers! I need to fight!' He mentally urged himself, when a new scent entered his nose. 'What's that? Oh, dammit!' The new scent came from the serpent, and would soon be a huge complication.

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Saturn looked on, horrorstruck, as the demon's wounds, as few as they were, started to glow and close. "What's going on?!"

The snake demon looked overjoyed. "Well, isssssn't thissss a niccce sssuprissse? It seems the jewel I ate is sapping your attack's energy! How lucky for me that you are not an ordinary human girl!" With newfound speed, the demon shot at the open-mouthed girl, body slamming her into the god-tree behind her.

Stars shot in Saturn's eyes, almost causing her to black out. 'No! I can't black out,

if I do, I'm done for!'

"You will prove useful to me, girl. Those weird powers of yours can come in handy!" Her captor said as it wound itself around her and the god-tree. "I will suck the life and energy right out of you!" Its body instantly tightened, pinning the girl's arms to her sides, and preventing her escape.

'Not. Good.' The girl thought, that was when she saw the silver-haired boy start to stand.

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"Inuyasha, what are you doing?" Kagome asked as she started to stand beside the hanyou.

The boy in question said nothing as he tried to push away the pain that had him crippled to the ground. It was all he could do to barely stand up, let alone try to fight. But, he knew he had to try, if that girl died, then the demon would come after him....and Kagome. And he couldn't have that. Too bad he couldn't even stand up straight. 'I just hope that girl keeps that overgrown worm busy for a few more minutes!'

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Sailor Saturn winced in pain as the snake bound her tighter to the tree. The part of its stomach that held the shard was right over her heart-shaped pin on the front of her sailor uniform, it and the jewel glowed in unison. 'What's this thing going to do to me!?'

Her eyes widened in surprise as a surge of energy shot through her pin, she squealed in pain/pain as she felt her energy begin to drain.

The demon chuckled as the sailor's energy flowed into the jewel shard, which in turn, started to flow through his body. 'She's full of power! Soon, I'll be able to get more shard fragments!'

Sweat dripped down Saturn's face as more and more of her power and strength started to leave her. Her vision was starting to blur as her head began to spin. 'Oh, God! Please don't let me black out! If I must lose my transformation, so be it...just PLEASE don't let me black out!'

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Kagome looked on in horror. "Inuyasha! We got to help her!" She looked to where Inuyasha stood, only to see him gone. "Where did he go?" Looking back towards the god-tree, she caught a glimpse of him. "One-step ahead, huh?"

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Saturn looked down to her pin as it started to flash, a warning that her energy was fading. Her head kept drooping, and her vision was nothing more than moving shapes and colors. 'I don't think....I can.....stay.......awake........god, PLEASE.....let the others.....get here......before......' Just then, her energy tapped out, and she fell limp in the bindings of the snake demon. Her bangs hid her forehead, and no one else could see, that her transformation had been undone.

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Inuyasha jumped into attacking range, just as the girl slipped into unconsciousness. "IRON REAVER SOUL STEALER!!!" He screamed as his attack hit the scaly hide of the snake.

The demon, caught off guard, unwound himself from the tree to have a better attacking point.

Kagome ran up to the facedown fallen girl as she fell limply to the ground. She noticed her change of clothes, but thinking it was just another transformation, she turned her over to check for a pulse. Taking one look at the girl, she gasped in surprise.

"Hotaru?!"

Ends chapter 10

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A/N Okay! Here we go! Interesting stuff! And yes! The plot is coming! Beware! Naw, I'm just kidding, this is a part of the plot!

M. Trunks: Okay, we're sooo close to 100 reviews! Please review!

S. Saturn: *sparkly eyes* I so happy!

M. Trunks: Me too! Now, it's reviewing time!

S. Saturn: See ya'll with the next chappie!

~Sailor Saturn and Mirai Trunks~