Kiseki had always been very sensitive to cold temperatures. So when her dad placed the water bottle against her neck, she gasped and shot up, breathing quickly and clapping a hand over where the bottle had touched her. When she seen her dad smiling, she glared at her. "Dad! What was that for?"

Haruka laughed out loud. "You were sleeping." She opened the bottle and took a drink then replaced the cap.

"So that automatically means open season on the kid?" Kiseki said in a little bit of a huff. When her dad nodded, she frowned. "That was mean."

Haruka laughed again and offered her daughter her hand. "Come on. Your mother is waiting for us in the car."

Kiseki took her dad's hand and stood up. Before they left the house, she felt her dad wrap an arm around her shoulders.

Haruka smiled. "I'm sorry, Ki-chan, but it was too good to pass up." She leaned her head against her daughter's and gave her a gentle squeeze

Kiseki sighed. As hard as she rarely tried, she could never stay mad at her parents. "It was still mean," she muttered. She walked ahead of her dad as they left the house and went to the car.

When her girls were in the vehicle, Michiru smiled at her wife. "Ruka, how did you wake her up?"

Haruka smirked but didn't get the chance to say anything.

"She was mean!" Kiseki shouted then chuckled when her dad received a glare.

Michiru crossed her arms. "You used that bottle, didn't you?"

Haruka started the car and turned to her wife. "It was too good of an opportunity. I wasn't about to let it slide." She turned in her seat and looked at Kiseki. "You should have seen her face, though," she said, more to Michiru. She turned back around and looked at her wife.

Kiseki looked around in the backseat. "Hey, mom? Did you grab my backpack?"

"Yes, I did," Michiru said. "I put it in the trunk with the rest of your stuff."

"Huh?" Kiseki said in confusion. "What are you talking about?"

Michiru chuckled. "Your tennis equipment, your duffle bag, your soccer ball, your lacrosse equipment," she explained.

Haruka laughed. "Your life is in the trunk, basically."

All three shared a long laugh and finally left for the track. They were going to be late. It was inevitable. No matter how early they were ready to go, they were always late going to the track if Haruka was driving. They knew that they were going to have to deal with Haruka's manager, Kuga, Yoshida, as well. He was the first person that they seen when they pulled up to the garage twenty minutes later.

"Tenoh!" Kuga yelled once they were all out of the car. "Late again. You were supposed to have the car out already!"

Haruka rolled her eyes. "Calm down, Kuga-san, or you'll pop another blood vessel." She went to the trunk and pulled out her helmet. After handing Kiseki's backpack to the girl, she closed the trunk and led her family and manager into the garage. Once inside, she waited until Kuga went back into his office before she spoke again. "Man, he can be a real jerk sometimes."

Michiru nodded. She spotted a table and looked at Kiseki. "Go do your homework until the race starts."

Kiseki nodded and walked to the table, setting her backpack in the chair beside her.

Michiru looked back at Haruka. She had a feeling that something was going to happen, but she didn't want Haruka to worry about it.

Haruka knew that Michiru was thinking about something but didn't press the issue. She had learned early on in their relationship that if Michiru didn't think something was important, she wouldn't tell the blonde. She smiled at Michiru and then turned to go join her teammates.

Michiru walked over and stood behind her daughter, making sure she didn't need any help.

Haruka stopped to talk with her crew before she took the car out for a test run. Once she concluded that the car was ok, she brought it back in.

Takeshi, one of Haruka's pit members, came up to the blonde just as she was getting out of the car. "That was a quick run, kid."

Haruka looked at him and shrugged. "Car's fine. Didn't need to be out any longer."

Takeshi shrugged. "You're the boss, Haruka-san," he said then turned and walked away.

Haruka looked at the large clock above the stands. "Wow," she thought. "It was a quick run. Only 10 minutes?" She thought about it for a moment longer and then shrugged it off. She went back into the garage and the first thing she saw was Kiseki hugging someone. She could tell from the hair color that it was Hotaru and a smile came to her lips.

Hotaru let go of her younger sister and seen Haruka. A quick and bright smile came to her face and she walked over to the taller blonde. "Haruka-papa!"

Haruka wrapped her arms around her adopted daughter and squeezed her. "Hi, Hotaru."

Setsuna walked into the garage a few minutes after Hotaru let go of her papa and rejoined her sister. The two didn't notice her as she walked past them to join Michiru, who hugged her, and Haruka. "How have you been?"

Michiru let her go and stepped back, smiling at her friend. "Stressed lately. Kiseki got accepted to 10th district high school and she still insists on going to school during her breaks."

Setsuna chuckled. "So she's a miniature version of you?"

"Yeah," Haruka said quickly. "Except Kiseki is willing." She received a light punch and she chuckled. "Well, it's true."

Michiru just glared at the blonde then turned back to Setsuna. "I'm glad you guys could make it. Are the others here yet?"

Setsuna nodded. "They're outside right now. Did you know that Mako-chan and Minako-chan had a child two weeks ago?"

Michiru smiled again. "Really?" She walked past her friend and out the door, joining the group of younger senshi.

Haruka watched as Hotaru helped Kiseki with her homework. "Did she get into Tokyo University or do you know yet?" she asked Setsuna quietly.

The dark-haired woman shrugged. "We haven't heard as of yet. She did get into some of the top American schools."

Haruka smiled. "That's my girl," she whispered. She looked over at Hotaru again.

Hotaru pointed at Kiseki's math book. "Ok. What would you do to find the third angle of this triangle?"

Kiseki thought for a moment. "Wouldn't you just add the two angles and then subtract that from 180?" When Hotaru nodded, she laughed. "My teacher didn't explain it like that."

The two girls continued to work on Kiseki's math work for another ten minutes before they finished it. Kiseki thanked her sister as she put her materials away and Hotaru said that she didn't mind. Before Kiseki went to put her backpack back into her dad's car, she asked her sister if she knew how to balance a chemical equation.

Hotaru laughed. "That's simple. All you have to do is multiply."

"Oh," Kiseki mumbled. She blushed lightly before looking at the older girl. "I didn't pass that part of my test last week."

Hotaru's jaw dropped. "Are you kidding me? If you need help, you should have called me."

Kiseki shrugged. "I thought I had it but when I got my results back, I was nowhere close to being right on any of them."

"Hmm," Hotaru mumbled. "You have to retest, right?" Her sister nodded. "Ok. I'll take you out before it and help you."

Setsuna walked over to the girls. "What are you two demons planning?"

Kiseki turned to the older woman. "Oh, hi, Aunt Setsuna. I didn't know you were here."

Setsuna smiled. "Are you having trouble in your classes?"

Kiseki shook her head. "Not exactly. Just a few topics." She shouldered her backpack. "Are you guys here for the race or are you staying longer?"

Setsuna shrugged. "We were thinking about staying but we're not sure yet."

Haruka, who had amazingly stayed quiet through the whole conversation, finally spoke up. "You know you guys are always welcome to stay with us. We have the space." She looked at Hotaru when she started to speak.

"I'm waiting on a call from my boss," the girl explained. "He's trying to find a replacement for me because I'm taking a break from my job."

Kiseki was confused. "You can take a break from work?"

All four girls chuckled, though Kiseki didn't know what was supposed to be funny.

"I can," Hotaru said. "Don't worry about it, Ki-chan. It's complicated." She didn't want her little sister to know that she was going to America to see the campuses of the schools she was accepted to. She didn't want her to worry.

They all turned when they heard the door open and watched as the Inner senshi filed into the garage.

Chibi-usa seen Hotaru and smiled brightly, running over to her best friend. "Hotaru-chan!"

Hotaru chuckled and hugged the pink-haired girl. "How are you?"

The two caught up as the other senshi gathered together.

Haruka spotted Michiru holding Makoto's daughter and smiled, thinking of her own child. She turned to the other athletic senshi. "What's her name?"

"Yoko," Makoto said. She looked at her wife but spoke, still, to Haruka. "Someone insisted that our names all sound the same."

Minako blushed and looked up at the ceiling. "I don't know what you're talking about."

Everyone laughed before Haruka's manager came out of his office. "I'm sorry to have to break up this little 'family reunion' but it's almost time to start." He shot a glare at Haruka before going back into his office.

Haruka sighed. "Ready, Ki-chan?"

"Um, no," she said, holding up her backpack.

Haruka chuckled. "Ok. Go put it away and I'll meet you in the pit." Then she walked back out to join her team.

Kiseki nodded and turned to her mother, holding out her hand. "Keys, please." When she received the keys, she walked quickly out to her dad's car and put her backpack back in the trunk. Running back inside, she went past her mother quickly, tossing her the keys as she went by. When she joined her dad by the track, she took a deep breath.

Haruka looked at her daughter and chuckled. "You ok?"

Kiseki nodded. "Let's do this," she said as she walked over to the rest of the crew, who were standing off to the side, and put her headset on. She gave her dad the thumbs up as she watched her get into the car.

Haruka moved the car to its place and waited.

Michiru and the others stayed in the garage and watched through the windows. The aqua-haired senshi said a silent prayer for her wife. Something was still bothering her but she pushed it aside.

Haruka made sure that her headset was working before the fifty-lap race started. Once the flag was dropped, she immediately took the lead. All was going well until someone started to bump her car in the 17th lap. She was starting to get upset about it and Kiseki told her to let it go. During one very tiny bump, nobody knew that Haruka's brake cable had come loose and was dangling dangerously low to the ground. Another few laps later, two cars managed to pull ahead of her but a piece of one of the cars broke off. Haruka couldn't avoid it and when it went under her car, it hit the hanging brake cable, disconnecting it. Nobody knew until the blonde got pissed off.

"Dad!" Kiseki shouted. "Don't do anything stupid! You can still get ahead of them. There's still fourteen laps left."

Haruka didn't respond. Her eyes narrowed and she focused on trying to get past the two ahead of her. There was one way she could get around them, but she knew that it would be tricky and risky. She decided to try it anyway. Flooring the gas pedal, she pulled up dangerously close to the outside wall and managed to pass them, but when she hit the brakes so she wouldn't hit the wall that was coming up, nothing happened. "Oh, sh..."

AN: Uh, oh. Spaghettio's! I did it again, didn't I? I left it on a huuuge cliffhanger and now everyone has to wait until I write the next chapter. I'm sorry. Seriously though, if you liked it, please review. Thank you!