Yugi stop pacing...
Yugi stood outside the room they had taken Usagi and it had been a while, he was started to get nervous that they might not have made it in time. "I can't Yami...what if she's..."
Usagi is not dead Yugi, I can still sense her energy but its faint...
A doctor came out and Yugi immediately went up to him getting uncomfortably close. "How is she?! How's Usagi-chan!"
"She'll be fine! But I am curious to know how this happened." He somewhat glared at Yugi as if he thought he had something to do with it.
Yugi laughed nervously rubbing the back of his head "well she ano...we...where attacked and someone stabbed her." He looked away 'She's hurt because of me...' The doctor nodded and didn't question further even though he looked like he didn't believe him.
"Can I see her...?" asked Yugi shyly.
The doctor stepped aside and Yugi rushed past paying him no more heed.
Usagi lay on her back, a drip attached to her arm. Even in her sleep she looked sad and Yugi move to sit in a chair beside her taking her free hand in his.
Well at least it explains why the girls are helping us...and why Usagi's friend was killed in front of her...He must have been her boyfriend or something.
Yugi blushed at the mention of the word 'boyfriend' but quickly got over it "I wonder why she didn't say she was Sailormoon from the start though..."
"Because I don't want anyone else to get hurt..." whispered Usagi slowly opening her eyes half way.
Yugi gasped "Hu? But you protect people why would they get hurt if they knew you were Sailormoon?"
She turned her sad eyes to face him "If people know who I am...there is more chance that my enemies will learn my true identity...then my friends...and family are in danger...as you are now...the other girls are sailor scouts too...that's why we helped you...."
'Her heart is so pure...she doesn't deserve to be so sad...'
"Who are the sailor scouts Usagi-chan?"
Her lips curled into a small smile "I s'pose there's no hiding things now...One thousand years ago the planets of this solar system where all inhabitable...We lived peacefully back then, me on the moon...then one day we where attack by the Negaverse...a force of evil so strong that it killed us all...Queen Serenity defeated the evil and sent us all to the future to start our lives over at the cost of her own... About three years ago the Negaverse was reawakened and with it came a renewed war...we sailor senshi where reawakened too to fight the battle...We won and since then four more overwhelming evils have plagued our world. Each we have defeated...but now..." she choked on unshed tears and Yugi squeezed her hand. She continued shakily "Now a new threat is coming...Mamoru's death...and your arrival...and the monsters...I just don't want anyone to get hurt anymore..."
Yugi bowed his head "you blame yourself for his death don't you...?"
Usagi gasped and turned her head to face Yugi "h-how did you..."
"Because we are so much alike Usagi-chan...Both of us have had to save the world without asking to...no-one expects you to question and when you fail you blame yourself for it...he must have been very special to you, I can see that well..."
Looking back to the ceiling a tear rolled down her cheek. "He was...We where going to get married...we've even met our daughter...a while back we time traveled to save the future...but now that future isn't going to came to pass..."
She cried like she hadn't since it happened. Something about Yugi made her able to talk to him, tell him everything and she felt a little better for it. Yugi just sat with her as she cried trying to comfort her as much as possible.
"USAGI! My poor baby, are you alright?!" Ikuko hugged her daughter a little to tightly and had to be pried off by her husband.
"I'm fine mama...Yugi got me here pretty quickly so I'll be alright again in a day or two...the doctor said I can go home later today..."
"Yugi?" Usagi's father looked over to the boy standing in the corner and scratched his chin "well at least this one is more your age." Ikuko elbowed him in the ribs and Yugi blushed. Usagi tried to hide her hurt at the comment with a smile "It's not like that papa, Yugi's just a friend."
The door slammed open and Ami, Rei, Minako and Makoto all tried to cram in the door at the same time, all where out of breath.
"What happened! My mother called me and said you where in the hospital!" Ami looked a lot less composed then usual and this made Usagi smile for real.
"We where attacked on the way home...I was hurt but I'll be alright."
"Usagi-chan's alright..." Mina fell to her knees from the effort of running all the way here and the relief of her friend being all right. Rei looked about to explode with rage, tears forming in her eyes but she remained quite. Makoto smiled "Is anyone hungry? I was making slice when I was called about this and thought people would like something to eat, Usagi- chan want any?"
Usagi nodded and the girls looked shocked, but only for a second. "What? I haven't eaten anything since lunch!"
Later that day the girls other then Usagi along with Yugi sat in their usual place in Rei's temple. "What did you do to Usagi Yugi-san!" Minako slammed her hands onto the table putting her face inches from Yugi's and for a moment he thought he was in trouble but a huge grin spread across her face "She hasn't eaten that much for months and she's smiling!"
"Ano...I didn't do anything Minako-san." He pulled his face back a little.
"Well you must have done something! She's almost back to her ditzy self!" Rei crossed her arms but couldn't help but grin herself "Ever since you came its like she's gotten her soul back."
Yugi blushed more then he ever had "really, I didn't do any-oh no! I totally forgot about my card! Can you girls help me look, please."
Mina rested an extended finger under he lips thoughtfully "oh yeah, you told us at lunch that you'd lost your favorite card. Since you helped Usagi- chan we cant say no, right girls." The general answer was 'right.'
"Any luck over there Mako-chan?" called Rei as she stood up to stretch after a fruitless search in her designated area.
Makoto shook her head also standing up straight "No...Ami-chan, how's the scan going."
Ami looked up from her new mini-com "Its no use. I'm not picking up anything unusual so either its not something I can detect on my computer or its not here. The latter is more plausible because I can usually pick up objects from different dimensions easily. Yugi-san, where did you go after this alleyway?"
They followed the same path as Yugi had on his arrival to this world as best as they could considering the amount of turns he made without looking.
"This isn't good you guys, we cant find it and if Yugi didn't loose it while he was being chased or forget to pick it up with the others then it could be anywhere!" Minako sat down on a bus stop bench in a huff "What'll you do if we don't find it Yugi?"
He shrugged "I don't know, that was my favorite card, the dark magician..." he sat down next to Mina "I'll ask Usagi-chan next time I see her if she's seen it..."
Mina leaned in closer to his and elbowed him twice with a sneaky grin plastered on her face. "Hey Yugi, you like her, ne?"
"Wha?" Yugi leant back away from her and blushing.
"You like Usagi-chan!" the sailor scout of love said in a singsong voice "Now we just have to get Usagi-chan to move on from Mamoru-san and then you two can go out and then she'll be our Usagi again!" She balled her fists triumphantly while saying all this and Yugi skidded further back away from her, she was starting to scare him.
The other girls sweatdropped "Ano Minako-chan maybe we should focus on getting Yugi home rather then getting him a date." Rei sighed, it was just like Mina to be planning such a thing but then again...She wanted her old Usagi back and that wasn't about to happen unless she found someone new and Yugi seemed almost perfect, they where so much alike. "C'mon lets go search the walk to school, you might have dropped it on the way." It was getting dark.
"I have completed my part, have you?" commented the shadowed red head female.
"Yes, is the next stage at the ready?" the shadowed silver eyed male returned. She nodded and raised her arms filling the dark room with light.
Usagi sat up with a start then winced as the pain from her wound returned in almost full force. Laying back down she tried to remember the dream, this one was different somehow to the ones of late and she couldn't Keep away a sense of daja vo. Laying awake she thought about all that had happened in the last few days and smiled.
Yugi was woken early next morning by the cat Usagi had leant him to keep him company jumping onto his chest. He was up in a second and scrambled away in fright then remember that Luna was just a cat and that she couldn't hurt him...too bad. He scratched her behind the ears "Ohaio Luna...why'd ya have to wake me up this early on a Saturday?"
"Because someone is at the door." She replied.
At this Yugi really freaked out "Ga! You CAN talk!"
"oh calm down Yugi-san, its not like I'm attacking you now is it. Now go get the door or I will attack you." To emphasize her point she extracted her nails and Yugi was gone in a flash forgetting his millenium puzzle.
Unlocking then opening the door he was surprised to see Usagi on the other side. "U-Usagi-chan! What are you doing here?! Shouldn't you be in bed resting?"
She shook her head "Yeah...b-but..." she blushed and that made Yugi blush and then they both laughed. "Come on in, you must be tired." He led her over to the living room where she sat down on the couch. Once he had settled on the one across from her he asked "So why are you here Usagi-chan, isn't it a bit early?"
"Its silly really...I...I felt like I was meant to..." she looked up to the ceiling "like I was needed here..." Yugi nodded "Well I was going to ask you again about my card, its called the dark magician, have you seen it?"
Something twigged in Usagi's mind but it wasn't enough for her to remember anything so she shook her head again. "Gomen...I don't think I have...that's why I offered to look with you..." she looked back down to gaze at him and his heart jumped unexpectedly at the warmth in her eyes as she smiled that hadn't really been there before. "Where's Luna..?"
Yugi sweatdropped as he remembered the talking cat that he had last seen in his room "Luna...ano...you do know she can talk, ne?"
Usagi nodded "Sorry about Mina covering that up...people don't usually take easily to a talking cat with a crescent moon on her forehead. I hope she didn't scare you."
Yugi laughed nervously while rubbing the back of his head "Ano, not too badly..." 'just to the point that I almost jumped out of my skin' he thought then raised an eyebrow. 'no snide comment...' he gasped "my puzzle! I forgot to put it on!" jumping up he began to make his way toward his bedroom with Usagi in toe.
Just before they got there there was a loud crash of something breaking and an angry 'meow'. Yugi slid the door open and they both rushed in in time to see the tip of a black tail disappear over the balcony. "Luna!" screamed Usagi and she rushed forwards but sank to her knees before she got too far, clutching her side. Yugi knelt down by her side quickly. "Are you alright?!" she leant her head to the side so it leant on his chest. Without realizing he'd done it he wrapped his arms around her while looking around to see if whatever took Luna had taken anything else, he froze. Usagi made a sound that clearly suggested she was in a great amount of pain at the moment. Picking her up Yugi lay her down on the bed. "They got Luna...no...not Luna..." she whispered before passing out.
Yugi watched her for a second more then put his hand where he had left his puzzle. "Damn...maybe I just knocked it under the bed..." kneeling down again he put his head to the floor to look under the bed. He didn't find what he was looking for but what he did find he pulled out to look at.
Usagi stood next to a man looking to be a few years older then her, she herself looked a few years younger then she was now in this particular photo. She looked so happy, her eyes held none of the sadness they did now. "So that's Mamoru..." he couldn't help but feel a bit jealous of the deceased man and he scolded himself for it. Closing his eyes he tried to contact Yami and was surprised at how calm he was right now.
'Yami? Can you hear me, are you alright?"
Yu...gi...?
"Yami?! Where'd they take the puzzle, do you know?"
Yugi...they're...Yami's voice faded
"What Yami?! Who's they?!" It was too late, he lost connection with his friend much to his dismay. He leant his head back on the bed with a sigh. "What did I get myself into this time..."
"Do you feel it Michiru...?"
"Yes Haruka...the sea is thrashing."
"And the wind changed direction, we will be needed soon..."
Michiru smiled light heatedly despite the sense of foreboding welling up inside of her. "It will be good to see them again, ne?"
Her lover grinned lopsidedly "Maybe...we will see..."
It is awakening...soon...very soon
Usagi opened her eyes slowly to something wet on her forehead and focused them on Yugi. "Hu...what happened...?"
Yugi smiled in relief that she was awake again, it had been hours since she had passed out and he was just about to call Ami to get her mother to come over. "You passed out..." he didn't really want to remind her about Luna, or tell her about his puzzle but he would have to. "Someone took Luna and my millenium puzzle..."
Usagi didn't move she closed her eyes again tear forming in them. Trying to think straight and like the leader she was for once she tried to compose herself as well as she could before speaking "Did you call the girls and tell them about this?"
Yugi cursed himself inwardly. It felt weird not having Yami there to scold him or remind him to do things. He hung his head "No...I didn't think about telling them...well except Ami-san, but that was only about you collapsing..." He felt really stupid for doing such an obvious thing as forgetting to inform the girls who could have been out looking for the few hours that he had been helping Usagi. "I'm so sorry Usagi-chan, I didn't think!"
"Its alright...we'll just have to work harder. Go ring them now, say I'm calling a meeting here but don't waste time telling them what its for just get them to come quickly and I'll explain later."
At the moment his friend seemed to hold so much power, maybe even more so then Yami. He couldn't help but feeling that not doing what she said quickly wasn't an option. Rushing off to the phone he called all four girls and in a matter of twenty minutes they where all sitting in the living area of the apartment even Usagi, though she had been forced to lie on the couch.
"Guys, someone came here about four hours ago and took Luna and Yugi-kun's puzzle. I presume that they took Luna because she was hampering their plans and they can use her as a hostage..."
The girls all knew that no one except maybe Artimis loved Luna more then Usagi and they all knew how much this would be hurting her right now considering her state from Mamoru's death. All where surprised to see how mature she was acting in this situation.
"Do we have any clues?" Rei asked, her face serious.
Yugi shook his head "We just got in before Luna's tail disappeared."
"Hmm the I-"Minako cut Usagi off.
"Wait a minute, you where here that early?!" she was smiling broadly and somewhat evilly. To quell this Rei whacked her over the head "This is not the time Minako-chan, we need to find Luna."
Makoto nodded though she looked like she had been thinking the same thing as Mina "Aha, we should go search the city while Ami-chan scans around here for any clues."
They all nodded and Mina, Makoto and Rei left quickly discussing their plan of search while Ami remained sitting where she was. Slowly a blush formed on her cheeks. "So what where you doing here that early Usagi-chan?" She blurted out suddenly surprising Yugi and Usagi. Yugi personally didn't see her as they type to ask things like that.
Usagi on the other hand laughed "I came over because I could feel I would be needed...and I was I think...though I didn't do much to help..."
Ami nodded in understanding and smiled "I'm glad you're starting to come back to us Usagi, we've all been worried..."she trailed off then started with a new topic "So where did it happen, maybe I'll be able to pick something up that can help us."
"The bedroom, I left my puzzle in there with Luna while I was answering the door."
"Alright you stay in here and look after Usagi-chan, I'll check it out."
Once she had gone into the other room there was an uneasy silence.
"Kuso! I'm their leader! I cant just sit here and do nothing..." she sat up but Yugi put his hands on her shoulders "Don't Usagi-chan. If you don't rest now and let yourself heal then you wont be much good to anyone for a lot longer then you will be if you do!" His deep purple eyes looked so sincere and full of worry and what's more he spoke the truth, she wasn't much good like this.
She lay back resisting tears "I'm sorry about all this Yugi-kun..." She had long since stopped being a crybaby and she wasn't about to turn back now "but I promise that we'll get you back to your world..."
Yugi sighed, this girl was so kind and pure. He felt safe around her and trusted her fully even if they had only known each other for a few days. He smiled "Thank you Usagi-chan, that means a lot to me."
"Hey guys get in here! I found something!" Ami's voice held a tint of urgency so they went as fast as they could, Yugi carrying Usagi because Ami had told her not to walk around too much and he wouldn't let her walk by herself.
Upon entering the bedroom the sight that greeted them was Ami kneeling on the ground over something she was scanning. Yugi set Usagi down on the bed and knelt down beside her to see what she was so interested in and he gasped. "Hey, that's one of the Duel Monster cards that was in Jou's deck! It even has his signature so he could determine that it was his." It was the trap card, kunai with chain. Yugi's eyes widened "That means he could be here too!"
"What does he look like?" Ami asked after finishing her scan.
"Well, he has short blond and spiky hair," Yugi motioned how Jou's hair was styled on his own head "he's tall and has hazel eyes." Yugi laughed "He's fairly loud so I'd be surprised if he wasn't complaining about this not looking like our world and drawing attention to himself."
Usagi had out her communicator and had already relayed what Yugi had said to the other three scouts and told them to be on the look out for Jou before Yugi even noticed what she was doing.
"Ami-chan, you should go out and look too...I'm going to have another lay down and then I'll see how I feel and if I'm well enough I'll go out and help too..."
Ami nodded and quickly got up to leave.
They heard the front door close and Usagi doubled over in her sitting position "Don't tell them I'm this bad ok..."
Yugi narrowed his eyes with worry. The teen was obviously in more pain then she had been before and he couldn't do much about it. "But you might need to go back to the hospital again Usagi-chan."
She shook her head and instantly wished she hadn't, swaying and toppling forwards. Yugi caught her and despite her weak protests he held her still, making her look up at him. Then he wished he hadn't.
Her bright blue eyes sparkling with tears sent a jolt through his heart and it began to pound furiously. Usagi stopped moving as soon as their eyes meet and something familiar welled up inside her but in her weakened state she couldn't place it. "Yugi-kun..." Her soft voice was lost as he lowered his head down closer to hers and their lips meet. A shiver ran down Usagi's spine as she felt the all too familiar warmness pressed against her mouth, her mind was racing yet not with any intelligible thoughts. Yugi couldn't believe he was so bold to do this but he closed his eyes anyway as he felt her return his kiss gently.
They parted to stare at each other again and both blushed deep shades of scarlet.
"I'm so sorry about -I didn't mean-I mean I did, but-"He stopped talking as Usagi lay her head on his chest snuggling further into his arms.
"Don't worry...I needed that...I've been living in defiance for the past six months...its about time I realized he wasn't coming back and moved on..."
Yugi moved his arms around her small form instead of just hanging onto her arms. His head was screaming at him that he shouldn't be getting this close to anyone here because he had to go home but his heart said different. "Usagi-chan...are you ok?" She nodded, her head rubbing against his chest messing up her hair slightly.
That was how they sat for the next few hours until they heard the door open. Yugi jolted back to reality and picked up the now sleeping girl, placing her on the bed and covering her with a blanket.
He knew better then to leave her on her own in case whatever took his puzzle and Luna came back. "Ami-san? Girls?" He poked his head out the door to see who had come and was greeted by a small black haired girl he didn't know "Ga!" he fell backwards onto his butt and the girl giggled accompanied by two more female laughs, older then the girl.
"Hotaru-chan, I think you scared Yugi-kun." One voice said and a woman with teal coloured hair and aqua eyes smiled down at him, her arm linked with another taller person's whom at first glance with short sandy hair looked like a man but on closer inspection turned out to be a girl. (tehe, hunksterette!)
Usagi opened her eyes and smiled when they focused "Oh...hello Hotaru- Chan...Michiru-san...Haruka-San...why are you here...?"
Yugi looked up at the new comers and sighed in relief "So you are friends of Usagi-Chan?" He stood up rather embarrassed and rubbed the back of his head "Gomen Nasai...I thought you where the enemy." Usagi sat up and Michiru tilted her head to the side. "Usagi-Chan, are you alright?"
Usagi nodded and smiled again with a little more energy this time "Are things that bad that it has alerted the outer senshi?"
The sandy haired Haruka looked down at the blond girl and gave her the slightest of smiles "We don't know Usagi-Chan, we just felt we had to come and somehow Hotaru-Chan found out about this little adventure and just had to come along too." She placed a hand on the slender dark eyes girl's head and she pulled a face in protest "Haruka-Papa, stop it." Haruka laughed and removed her hand.
Michiru was now right in front of Yugi and she took one of his hands in both her own "So you are the one to bring our Hime back to us then."
Yugi didn't know what she meant by saying 'hime' from what he gathered she was the leader of the sailor senshi but she wasn't royalty, was she? He presumed that it was some sort of term of affection so he brushed it off "Ano...Did I?"
Usagi giggled softly "I suppose you did Yugi-kun, Arigatou."
"Now that's more like the Usagi-Chan we know!" Minako put in as she moved into the bedroom too, bowing briefly to Michiru and Haruka and winking at Hotaru. "I didn't find anything in my area. The others will be here soon, maybe they did."
Usagi hid the pain like she had for the past few months but this time with a happy face that she almost wanted to put on. "Well we'll hope so...I hope Luna is ok...and I hope they're not doing anything bad to your puzzle Yugi- Kun." Yugi had the urge to go over and hug her again but withheld the whim because of the people in the room. From what he knew of Minako if she saw anything that suggested they where closer then before they'd never hear the end of it if they denied it. He nodded and they all went out into the lounge room to talk some more.
"...so that's whats happened so far." Usagi finished after telling the three outer senshi about Yugi and the goings on of the past few days.
Haruka nodded thoughtfully. "Michiru, what about your mirror?"
Her lover put a finger to her chin "I haven't been called to look, but I can give it a try." She took out her Talisman and looked into its reflective glass. "All I see is darkness..."
The other inner senshi had returned without finding anything so the mood in the small apartment was not a happy one.
Usagi smiled "Its getting late...Michiru-San, Haruka-San, Hotaru-Chan. You can stay here too if you like...We should really call it quits for the night, I'm tired and my family is probably worried about me by now." She stood up with the help of Makoto and Haruka stood too. "I'll give you a lift Usagi-San." Usagi nodded and everyone that was leaving did.