Flames of My Heart: Well I'm back with the third chapter of my Naruto/Sailor Moon crossover. Hope you enjoy!
Summary: "When I get older, I'll marry you, okay?" "Ha! Why would I marry a flat chested girl like you?" "Kakashi-baka!" "You look nothing like those girls in Icha Icha Paradise!" "I'll make you eat your words one day!" Sailor Moon/Naruto (Note: I reposted the first chapter, so please read it before continuing)
Rei stared into her Styrofoam cup of tea, and she automatically knew something wasn't right. She could've sworn that the tea leaves in the cup were forming into a pattern of Saturn and its rings. Taking a sip of the hot liquid, she shook her head, brushing off the thought.
There hadn't been any enemies for a long time, though she still managed to have visions, they had nothing to do with the senshi. She dreamed of people similar to ninjas; every dream scattered and none really matched another. It was surprising that she would remember any of the dreams in the first place.
Her cell phone rang, but she ignored it and continued to let it ring until the answering machine on. She was too lost in her day-dream to care about some pointless phone call. If it was so important, the person could come visit her at school or something.
She pressed her ice cold finger tips against her forehead, and let out a deep sigh, trying to understand the sudden rush emotions running through her heart. They didn't even feel like hers. The emotions felt panicky, rushed, as if something was troubling the person experiencing them. What was the point of having the gift of premonition if she couldn't even make sense of it?
Actually, in all truth, what was the point of the balance of light and dark? After all the fighting she and the other senshi had done, it didn't really amount to anything, except that they would grow stronger. That didn't matter much though, because the stronger they grew, the stronger the enemy grew. And for what? To protect a bunch of snotty city folks that could care less about the risks the girls went through to save their asses.
"Woah," Rei's eye's widened as she shook her head in frustration. She was a Shinto priestess; she shouldn't be thinking such hateful thoughts. These people needed her and her friends, whether they thought so or not.
Her phone rang again, and she continued to ignore it, dumping the now empty Styrofoam cup into the garbage can, before walking back into her school building.
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Hotaru continued to run, ignoring the burning pain in her chest. She was still weak from her experiences with the Messiah of Silence, and would sometimes have shortness of breath. But she pushed aside the squeezing pain she felt in her lungs and continued to run.
She stopped when the light on the side walk turned red and cars started zooming by her, leaving her no way to cross the street. Leaning over, her hands on her knees, she tried to catch her breath while thinking of a plan.
She was pretty sure that Haruka-papa, Michiru-mama and Setsuna-mama would expect something to happen, and they could probably hold off most of the youma heading their way, but Minako sounded worried. Minako may have been an airhead but she was the first sailor senshi and she knew how to keep her cool in a scary situation.
The light finally changed green, and she continued to run, not bothering to pay attention the scenery.
Behind her, an auburn haired woman followed, walking a slower pace, but her eyes never leaving the form of the young girl. Shoving her hands into her pocket, she glanced down at her outfit: white tennis shoes, black Levi's jeans and a white 'Hershey's' shirt. Human's have a disgusting taste in fashion. She snorted, wishing that she had worn her leather combat suit.
This whole thing was completely boring. Why did that stupid immature little girl force her to go through so much work just to kill a couple of schoolgirls? They're power is nothing compared to the power of the neo-senshi from Crystal Tokyo. They were just a bunch of rookies, why would Mana even waste her time trying to get rid of them? She should just slaughter them all, and take possession of Crystal Tokyo. It would be quick and easy.
The woman turned the corner after the senshi of Saturn and continued to scowl about how annoying complicated plans were. Finally the violet eyed girl threw the doors open to a house that was about 3 stories high and looked like it had at least 11 rooms. Well, maybe it was more of a mansion than a house. The front door was painted a dark blue color with a stained glass window on it. The entire mansion was brick and the theme was basically earth tones: black, brown, grey and dark green.
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"Haruka-papa!" Hotaru ran up the spiral staircase, into the training room, where Haruka would usually be found working out. When she entered the room she found it to be deserted, and blinked in confusion, wondering where her 'father' could be. Fear gripped her as she thought of the possibility that she was too late.
Turning around, she let out a frightful scream, her nerves getting the better of her. "Hotaru-chan, what's wrong?" Hotaru finally regained her senses and stared into the dark blue eyes of her foster mother, Michiru. Recognizing the woman, she sighed and clutched her heart, feeling the vibration of her heart beat in her palm.
"I… Minako… she called me… she said we were in trouble!" Hotaru managed to scream out, as she wrapped her arms around her mother's stomach and enveloped the older woman into a tight hug, almost as if she was scared Michiru would leave her.
"We already know," Michiru stated quietly, returning Hotaru's hug. "Don't be scared. This will all work out for the best." With the last sentence, Michiru's voice held a darker edge, something Hotaru assumed was sadism.
"The best? What will work out? Michiru-mama!" Hotaru screamed and pushed away from the woman. Looking back at the woman she took in her appearance. It defenetely looked like her. She had the same light green colored hair that was fashioned in a curly hairstyle, the same dark blue eyes, and the same facial features but her actions were be different. Michiru was always to first one trying to comfort someone, but Michiru's words held no real comfort. It was then Hotaru realized what was really going on.
"You're not Michiru-mama!" Hotaru said, swinging her fist, trying to land a punch at Michiru's face. Michiru easily caught it, and pulled her arm behind her back, so that Hotaru was facing the training room wall. The entire wall was basically a large mirror, made so that Haruka could watch who entered and left the room even without facing the door.
Still pinning Hotaru, Michiru's features began to change right before Hotaru's eyes. Michiru's shoulder length hair began to grow longer, though the curls remained. Her hair practically began to bleed red, until it finally stopped, and all her curls were a dark auburn colored. Her eyes narrowed, and her iris became a dark yellow color, resembling that of a cats. She became taller and more muscular, nothing like the thin and fragile form Michiru had.
With the transformation complete, Hotaru let out a war-cry and slammed her free elbow into the woman's stomach, only to have the cat-woman release her hold on Hotaru. Wasting no time, Hotaru shoved her hand in her pocket and pulled out a black pen that had a sphere shaped and colored to look exactly like Saturn.
"SATURN CRYSTAL POWER!" she shouted, dramatically shoving the wand into the air, allowing the cold feeling of darkness to envelop her. When the feeling left her, she was standing in front of the woman, dressing in her blue, black and white themed sailor fuku with her trusty Silence Glaive at her side. "I'm Sailor Saturn, and you're about to be dust."
Instead, of cowering in fear, the woman let out a hollow laugh, that seemed to echo off the walls, making the laugh seem even more empty. "Dust? No, sorry, that's not my name," her voice was no longer sweet and musical like Michiru's. It sounded low, the type of voice a hooker would have, and her accent had a small natural hiss to it. "My name is Neko. Not that it matters, you'll be dead soon."
"I am death," Hotaru's alter-ego personality had taken over, no longer leaving any evidence of her childlike innocence that she had prior. She was angry and wanted nothing more than to spill the other woman's blood. "So you're a shape-shifter. A nice trick, but you're basically screwed once you're caught. You have a lot of nerve to be so cocky, Neko."
"Enough talk!" The woman's arms took the shape of two overly-large scalpels and she swung her left 'arm' at Saturn. Saturn quickly moved to the side, but a few strands of her hair managed to get cut off.
Neko swung at her again, but Saturn blocked with her glaive, putting an extra effort into the block. The block emitted a purple colored aura, and began to push Neko back, until Saturn finally broke off the contact between the two blades.
"I'm feeling merciful today. I'll end this quickly," Saturn spoke as her she raised the glaive over her head and spun it in a flashy manner before screaming one of her attacks. "DEATH RIBBON REVOLUTION!"
From an outside view of the mansion, everything seemed to be consumed by a dark purple and black energy, before it disappeared, and there was only silence. That was the ultimate after effect of the ultimate power of Saturn: silence.
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On the other side of the city, Haruka Ten'ou gave a meaningful look to one of her two companions. "Was that truly necessary? To waste another one of her lives… for no reason!" she shouted at the dark green haired woman.
Setsuna's eye's looked solemn, and for a minute she did not reply. Finally finding the right words, she answered, "Hotaru is not dead. She simply is not here."
"What the hell are you talking about? You felt that! That was too much energy. She couldn't survive!" Haruka growled, as Michiru latched onto her arm, and patted her shoulder, trying to calm the other woman down.
"She de-transformed. She wanted to end the fight quickly, and now she is only hurt but she's living. In the Gates of Time. That's the safest place for her… for all of you," Setsuna reassured, as Haruka's eyes widened and then she smiled, happy that her daughter was okay.
"Did you plan this?" Michiru asked quietly. She was trying to stay out of the violent conversation, but she too wanted answers.
"It's better for the enemy to assume she's dead. If they find that she's wounded, than she truly will die."
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"Makoto!" Rei shouted as she noticed her tall friend in the distance. Speeding up her walking pace, she managed to catch up to the girl, and tug on her arm.
Makoto turned around and gave her a hard stare, her blue eyes narrowed, and her face twisted to a totally peeved look. Wait… blue eyes? Rei thought, as the image of Makoto disappeared from her eyes, and it was replaced by a girl with short pin-straight chocolate colored hair and blue eyes. This was definitely not Makoto.
"Oh sorry," Rei mumbled a quick apology and sped off, before the other angry teenager could give Rei a piece of her mind. Rei was not the type of person to take shit from people, and she wasn't about to get into a fight with some girl… especially since it was her fault.
Rei continued walking down the street, occasionally bumping into people. That's strange. She thought, though she wasn't referring to the bumping into people. It was rush hour after all. Every time she got a good look at someone's face, she could swear she was looking straight at Makoto. Was it a sign? Was Makoto in trouble?
"REI!" she heard a shout behind her, and turned to find Makoto running straight at her. Rubbing her eyes, she tried to make sure it actually was Makoto, until the girl stopped right in front of her and waved her hand in front of Rei's face. "Rei… are you okay?"
"Huh?" Rei stopped staring and tugged at Makoto's hair, making sure it was indeed dark brown and wavy and her eyes weren't playing tricks on her.
"Ow!" Makoto shouted as she pulled her hair out of Rei's 'evil' grasp. "What the hell was that?"
"Sorry," the fiery senshi said, finally believing it truly was the cook. "So what's up?"
"We need to go!" Makoto grabbed Rei's arm and began to drag her the opposite direction Rei had been walking.
"Where the hell are we going?" Rei managed to shout, while wondering if it was a possibility that Makoto could rip her arm off. Makoto was tugging awfully hard.
"I saw Luna! She said we're in trouble!" Makoto screamed, not bothering to turn her head back to look at Rei.
"We're in trouble?" Rei repeated. Her eyes widened as her thoughts immediately turned to her princess. "Is Usagi-hime okay?"
"This isn't about Usagi-chan!" Makoto continued to pull Rei, until they reached the intersecting that connected the highway to the streets. There parked off on the side, was Haruka's famous motorcycle and three out of the four outer sailor senshi.
"What the FCK is going on?" Rei shouted, her temper getting the best of her.
"We're going to meet Hotaru," Setsuna said, as Makoto grabbed onto Rei's hand, while using her other hand to grab onto Michiru's hand. Haruka and Michiru held hands, and Haruka was holding onto Setsuna's. Setsuna was the only one that had one hand free, and she raised her Garnet Orb over her head, illuminating the girls in a bright aura.
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"So, what's with the skirt?" Naruto blinked looking at the girl sitting next to him. She suddenly just popped out of nowhere, landing directly on the luckily empty seat next to him. She had a few scratches on her face, and a deep gash in her shoulder, but other than that, looked perfectly okay. But that wasn't what Naruto was worried about. After all, it wasn't everyday that you met a girl that falls out of the sky dressed in a mini skirt and holding a giant stick that looked really REALLY sharp and pointy.
The girl looked up at him, and that at the ramen restaurant, taking in everything around; her mouth opened in the shape of an 'o'. She then looked back at Naruto, blinked and then gave him a sheepish smile. "It's hot outside?" her voice didn't sound too sure. "Oh! Does the skirt bug you? I can change!"
Before Naruto could reply she pressed her hands together in a praying motion and her fingernails turned a glitter dark purple color, and then her body began to glow the same color. Her fuku peeled off and under it were a dark green sweater, and a long green pleated skirt. "Better?"
"Wha-wha-wha—" Finding no way to reply, Naruto slurped at his ramen, leaving some noodles to hang of the side of his mouth.
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"Can someone tell me what's going on?" Rei asked, pointing her question more at Makoto than anyone else.
"I don't know myself," Makoto whispered. "We're just going to find Hotaru, and then Setsuna will explain everything."
"Why aren't the others with us?" Rei asked again.
"Didn't I just say I don't know? Be patient, Rei!" Makoto said a little too loud. She grabbed tightly at Rei's hand to make sure that Rei knew that now was definitely not the time or place to talk about this.
They were basically floating, or maybe flying around in a sea of black. Makoto wondered how they could even breathe, but then stopped her wondering when she smacked into a door, and it tipped open a little. Michiru gave Makoto a look that definitely read 'Don't do that' and tugged on Makoto's arm to pull her away.
Maybe it was the force that everyone was pulled Rei at (since she was the end), or maybe it was the magnetic pull the door had but Rei suddenly found herself being flinging into the door dragging the other girl's with her. "I'M SORRY!" Rei and Makoto managed to scream, as the scenery changed from black water to a bright blue sky, to thousands of thousands of trees, and finally to what looked like a small village that had a giant rock at the end of it. The girl's all let go of each other's hands, knowing it would be easier for them to land, without someone restricting them.
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Naruto ordered another bowl of ramen, for him and his new friend, Hotaru, as she began to chat about what her home was like. He nodded his head every so often, not really understanding what she was saying, but enjoying the sound of her voice.
Maybe if he hadn't been zoning out, he wouldn't noticed the roof above him cave in, and a girl dressed in an outfit that was very similar to Hotaru's fall from the cave in, and straight onto the table that they were sitting at.
Naruto's eye's practically bugged out of his head, as he grabbed Hotaru and jumped back, a little reflex of his. But, instead of getting into a battle position, he pointed angrily at the girl, and screamed as loud as possible, "GET YOUR FOOT OUT OF MY RAMEN!"
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Makoto screamed loudly as she saw herself falling faster than any of the other senshi that were with her, and she closed her eyes, bracing herself for a huge fall. She pulled up her knees to her chest and wrapped her arms around them, continuing to scream.
Finally she felt herself crash into something, and heard a manly voice grunt loudly. Putting two and two together, Makoto realized that she probably landed on someone and opened her emerald colored eyes. Looking down she saw that she landed straight onto the back of a man that was sprawled out on the floor, wearing a green jumpsuit. He had dark brown hair that was almost black and it was in a bowl cut hairstyle. So tacky. Makoto imagined Minako's commentary about his fashion statement.
Getting up off the man, she helped him up and watched him give her a cheesy grin, his sparkling white teeth almost blinding her. She looked at the two men next to the bowl-cut dude, and her eyes turned into the shape of two hearts. "YOU LOOK LIKE MY OLD BOYFRIEND!" Makoto shouted latching onto the one that had a toothpick stuck in his mouth. The other one wearing a mask over his face looked unimpressed and pulled out an orange book.
Author's Note: And that's the end of chapter three. Hope you liked it!
trp0522: Yeah, I realized that I didn't mention their visions or anything… but I didn't really mention much in the second chapter, because it was short, and I totally forgot about that stuff. Thanks for telling me. I sort of incorporated that into this chapter, but not really. Sorry if this chapter is confusing, but you're just going to have to keep reading to find out what happens next!
Rei Minamino: I thought the Goddesses of Disaster sounded kind of stupid, but thanks! I feel so much better now! Hope you enjoyed this chapter, and you're not too confused! Everything will explain itself soon!
Princess Ren: Well I posted didn't I? And now you know what's next! Thanks for your complement!
ToraTigera: Thank you, I hope this chapter didn't disappoint you!
Firenze: Yeah, I always thought Hotaru had a little bit of a ditz side to her, since every tween girl usually does. Just curious, do you think I should pair Hotaru up with anyone?
Author's Note: Complaints? Comments? Constructive criticism? The only way for me to get it is with a review… SO REVIEW!
BTW: Thank you Narutosgirl for telling me that sempai means upperclassman… I thought it meant boyfriend… MY BAD!