Usagi rushed down into where she could sense Minako's presence, and she ran into a hospital room. Spotting Minako on the hospital bed, Usagi rushed over to her, to find her sleeping peacefully.

"Thank goodness." Usagi whispered as she took Minako's hand and squeezed it gently.

"There's no danger here, Usagi." Yaten stood, eyeing the room suspiciously.

"He's gone now," Usagi whispered, tears falling from the corners of her eyes.

"Odango," Seiya walked over and placed a gentle hand onto Usagi's shoulder.

"We were too late." Usagi sighed, covering her face with her hands.

Suddenly Michiru, Haruka, and Setsuna rushed into the room, out of breath, Hotaru in tow.

"Koneko-chan!" Haruka's eyes were alight with worry. "What are you doing here? You need to leave immediately!"

Usagi nodded slowly. "I was just visiting her, Haruka-chan." Usagi smiled softly.

Haruka rushed over and grabbed Usagi by the arm, and looked nervously at Seiya. "You all need to leave Earth right now!"

Usagi nodded to the group as they transformed. Haruka grabbed Sailor Star Fighter's arm and pulled her aside for a moment. "Onegai, protect our Hime." Haruka said quietly, almost feeling helpless.

"I promise." Sailor Star Fighter smiled and walked over to the group of senshi and they were soon teleported off the planet.

"Usagi was worried. I think she suspects what we suspect, but I know she would never vocalize it." Setsuna looked at the sleeping figure of Minako.

Hotaru walked over to a table where flowers were set and took a card out and saw it was from Mamoru. "He was here!" Hotaru gasped as she dropped the card to the floor.

Michiru looked at Haruka and then took a deep breath. "Haruka, go and get some nurses, I think we need to check Minako-chan out."

"He must have brought this can of tea as well." Setsuna lifted the can and sniffed it. "I have a feeling . . ." She mumbled, watching Haruka leave the room.

Minako made a small noise in her sleep, and Setsuna turned her attention to her, and said soft soothing words.

"I have such a bad feeling about all of this . . ." Hotaru flinched, grabbing her shoulders in an attempt to ward off chills.

Suddenly, Mamoru walked into the room, carrying a bouquet of flowers. He stopped when he saw the women, and smiled. "Oh, hello, minna-chan. I wondered if I'd see you."

"How did you get here?" Michiru tried not to let her anger show through her cool-faced façade.

Mamoru laughed and set the flowers on the table. "I came today to visit her. I was wondering when you would tell me about my poor Usako."

"How did you find out?" Hotaru asked, holding back another chill.

Mamoru smiled. "A collogue of mine mentioned seeing a girl with an odd hairstyle in the hospital, and I figured out that it was Usako."

Haruka walked back into the room, and her gaze turned icy as she stared at Mamoru, her fists clenching at her sides.

"Haruka, can I talk to you?" Michiru grabbed Haruka's arm and brought her out of the room.

"I'm glad to hear that Usako is at least in good hands." Mamoru fingered a rose that was in the bouquet he had brought.

"Could you give me a moment alone with Usagi-chan, Mamoru-san?" Setsuna asked quietly.

"Sure thing, I'll go and get something to eat." He smiled and left the room.

The two women were quiet a moment, and Hotaru let out a large gasp as she shivered. "What's wrong with him?" She asked.

"I don't know," Setsuna shook her head. "If he's done what we think he has, then he must be disturbed."

***

Eternal Sailor Moon and the other Starlights arrived on Kinmoku quickly, and Usagi quickly de-transformed and hurried out of the room. Seiya quickly did the same, chasing her out of the room.

"What seems to be wrong?" Kakyuu asked, worried.

"I'm not sure." Sailor Star Maker sighed softly. "It seems that Seiya and Usagi are keeping this a secret."

"Wasted my perfectly good bath time." Sailor Star Healer sighed and blew silver bangs out of her eyes.

***

Usagi almost ran into her room and slammed the door, and Seiya almost ran into it if it weren't for his superior reflexes. He quickly grabbed the doorknob and opened the door and walked into the room where he saw Usagi had flung herself onto the bed, sobbing.

"Odango, please don't be sad." Seiya walked over to the bed and sat on the edge delicately.

"I thought he loved me," Usagi whispered. "I thought I loved him . . .but when I went back there, I realized that I don't anymore." She sobbed harder. "And the hardest thing is I don't even know if I want to go back ever again."

Seiya looked down at the crying angel. His love, the person he had loved since (it felt like) the dawn of his existence. The woman he would follow to the edges of the Earth just to see her smile. The Princess that he would die for, his Odango-atama.

Seiya wrapped his arms around Usagi and brought her into a strong hug, trying to send all of his love into a hug to her, trying to erase all of her fears by surrounding her with his pure love.

"Seiya," Usagi melted in his grasp, closing her eyes and letting his warm arms surround her. Usagi slid down and laid her head onto Seiya's lap, letting him stroke her hair as she softy cried.

The two sat like that for a while, Usagi's sobs slowly becoming softer and less frequent.

"Seiya?" Usagi asked quietly.

"Hmm, Odango?" Seiya answered.

"Will you ever leave me?"

Seiya paused a moment, knowing that his answer could be a double edged sword. "Odango," He twirled her bangs for a moment. "No matter what you choose your destiny to be, I'll always be here to support you. If you want to stay with me, then I'll do everything in my power to make it so." Seiya paused a moment, swallowing. "But if you choose that you need to go back to Earth and if that means giving you up so you can be happy, I'll do it. But Odango," He pulled her chin up to face his. "I will never, under any circumstances, leave you alone. I'll do whatever I can to protect you."

Usagi smiled, her blue eyes sparkling happily. "I'm so glad that you will always be there for me, Seiya." She hugged him tightly. "No matter what I choose to do, remember that I will always love you." She kissed him softly, almost meekly, as the darkness of the night surrounded them.

***

"I have a feeling that Usagi might have been drugged." Setsuna handed the nurse the can of tea. "Is there anyway we can get this tested?"

"Uh, hai." The nurse nodded and took the can from her hands. "And we can test your friend again if you think it necessary."

"Arigato gozimasu." Setsuna bowed deeply as the nurse left the room.

Haruka and Michiru walked back into the room.

"If I see him again, I'll kill him," Haruka muttered.

"That's my point, Haruka!" Michiru was exasperated. "We can catch him like this! We need to catch him in the act, otherwise . . ."

"I bet he did everything to Koneko-chan, too. Don't worry, I can beat a confession out of him." She balled her hands into fists.

Hotaru walked over to Minako and laid a gentle hand onto her friend. "Minna?" She asked quietly, and the group turned to her.

"What is it, Hotaru-chan?" Michiru asked.

"Minako-chan is in pain. A lot of it. Not just emotional, but she's in physical pain as well." Hotaru pulled down the blankets and looked at Minako's hospital gown. "Look, her gown is all torn." Hotaru slowly uncovered the blankets to her legs, "Look, she has all sorts of bruises, and they all look fresh."

"I don't see anything." Haruka stood near Hotaru and looked at Minako.

"That must be because of the disguise magic, but I can FEEL them, I know they're there." Hotaru looked up at Setsuna, "Break the magic just for a moment, so you can see them."

Setsuna nodded and looked at Hotaru, "But you need to keep a lookout at the door."

"Fine," Hotaru walked to the door and watched outside as Setsuna lifted the powerful magic for a moment, and the senshi gasped in horror.

"She looks like she's been beaten badly!" Michiru winced as she saw her body covered with bruises.

"I'll kill him . . .I'll kill him . . ." Haruka muttered, anger growing in her body.

Setsuna turned her head and quickly set the magic back.

Hotaru looked at the group, "He's coming back!" She almost yelped as she ran back into the room and hugged Setsuna tightly.

Michiru grabbed Haruka's arm and looked at her sternly, "Do nothing, am I clear?"

Haruka said nothing, letting her nails bite into her palms deeply, trying to detract her anger from Mamoru.

"How's my Usako doing?" Mamoru smiled as he entered the room.

"She's fine," Michiru smiled a sweet, (fake) smile. "I just remembered an important engagement that Haruka and I have, so we need to be leaving, we'll see you again, Mamoru." She quickly exited the room, practically dragging Haruka along with her.

Mamoru walked over to Minako and placed a hand onto her cheek and smiled softly. "Isn't she beautiful when she sleeps?" He asked.

Hotaru gripped Setsuna tighter.

"She's like an angel," He mused, rubbing his hand along her cheek softly. "But even angels sometimes need to punished." He stared at her for a moment, and Setsuna noticed a blank expression come across his face, and then he shook his head and looked at Setsuna. "Maybe that's why she was dealt this hand in life? She's strong enough to get over it."

Setsuna nodded slowly, unsure of what to say.

"Well, it seems that my Usako is in capable hands, so I'll be going then. Please tell her when she gets up that I love her." He nodded to Setsuna and then left the room.

"It WAS him . . ." Hotaru shuddered and Setsuna hugged her tighter.

***

Princess Kakyuu was walking slowly along the halls of her palace, wandering without a real purpose, just in deep thought. 'I've never seen Fighter so happy since we got back now that she's here.' She slowed her pace as she entered the garden. 'It's great that Serenity-sama can do something like this to Fighter, make Fighter feel love again. But it makes me wonder if Fighter ever knew . . .' She trailed off, stopping by a rosebush and running her hands along a bud. 'I suppose that life is the best this way, and they're both happy, so I should be happy.' She looked off into space, sighing. 'I need to make sacrifices just like everyone else, but I never thought it would have to be you, Fighter. It's cruel of me to take you away from the one you love. The one that you fought so hard to protect, the one who you would die for.' She caught her finger on a thorn and pulled her hand back, looking at her finger and noticing that it was bleeding.

"Don't worry about it, Kakyuu-sama." Sailor Star Maker walked over to her and took her hurt finger and gently wiped the blood off.

"Arigato, Maker." Kakyuu sighed and looked up at her tallest senshi. 'At least I'll always have Maker and Healer.' She thought sadly as she fell into Sailor Star Maker's arms.

"Kakyuu-sama?" Sailor Star Maker asked worriedly.

"I'm fine," She slid her arms around the tall senshi's body and closed her eyes. 'Maybe I'm not meant to feel love in this life.' She sighed as Sailor Star Maker hugged her back.

"I know," Sailor Star Maker hugged her Princess tightly. "It's hard for us to lose Fighter."

***

Seiya sat on Usagi's bed, with Usagi lying next to him, slumbering quietly. She had fallen asleep, she must have exhausted herself that day with all of the traveling she had done. He leaned down and placed a gentle kiss onto her hair and then got off the bed and left the room, walking down the hallway, admiring the tapestries, something he had not actually done for a while. Seiya was so engrossed in one, and still walking, that he didn't notice a small girl as she bumped into his legs.

"Oh!" Seiya looked down at the small girl and smiled. "Are you okay?"

"Yes, I'm fine." The girl sighed and fixed her hair, readjusting the bow that pulled it back. "Do you happen to know where Serenity-sama is? I have urgent business with her."

"How did you know she was here?" Seiya asked, eyeing the girl with pink hair suspiciously.

"Now that isn't really important, now is it? Can you take me to Serenity-sama or not?" The girl was annoyed.

"I guess I can," Seiya raised an eyebrow and turned around, walking to Usagi's room. "But you had better not try any funny stuff." He warned.

"Like I would try any funny stuff." The girl rolled her eyes.

Seiya walked to Usagi's door and then turned to the girl. "She's sleeping, can it wait?"

"Nope," The girl opened the door and walked right into the room, turning on the light switch and walking over and rousing Usagi. "Wake up, sleepy head!" The girl shook Usagi.

Usagi opened her eyes and looked at the girl for a moment. "Chibi-Usa-chan?" She asked, sleepily.

"What did you do to screw everything up?" She flopped down onto the bed and scowled at Usagi.

Usagi looked up at her, not sure what to do. "I . . I . . ."

"Look, you can't just talk to my Odango like that!" Seiya scowled at Chibi-Usa. "Who are you, anyway?"

"Well, I was SUPPOSED to be her daughter!" Chibi-Usa pointed to Usagi, scowling. "But this baka must have screwed everything up in the past."

"Daughter?" Seiya felt dizzy for a moment.

"Seiya . . ." Usagi got up and rushed to him, "Please let me explain," She pleaded.

"You're willing to throw away a daughter just to fulfill some stupid lust you have for me?" Seiya looked at her.

"What?" Usagi felt herself tremble.

"You're willing to KILL her for me?" Seiya asked again. "I can't be with you, Usagi. You're evil!" Seiya walked out of the room.

"No! Seiya, please!" Usagi tried to run after him, but Chibi-Usa grabbed her and spun her around.

"Well, are you going to fix the future or not, Oka-san?" Usagi started to sob violently, and she was shaken, and she opened her eyes.

"Usagi, are you okay?" Seiya was sitting in the dark room with her, looking at her worriedly.

"Let me explain, Seiya!" Usagi sobbed.

"What are you talking about?" Seiya looked at her, a small smile on his face.

"It was a dream?" Usagi asked, looking up at him.

"Must have been." Seiya smiled and hugged her tightly.

"I'll kill her," Usagi sobbed, holding onto Seiya.

"Kill who?" Seiya ruffled her hair gently.

"My daughter," Usagi looked up at Seiya. "Well, the daughter I was supposed to have with Mamoru. It must be the reason he . . .he . . .raped Minako-chan."

"Shh . . ." Seiya hugged her. "I don't think that you will kill your daughter if you don't end up with Mamoru."

"Demo . . ." Usagi started.

"Don't worry about it. Don't you think that if you were going to kill your daughter then Pluto wouldn't have sent you here?"

Usagi paused and thought about this piece of information. "I guess not . . ."

"See? Then there's no reason to worry." Seiya smiled.

"Seiya, you always say the most wonderful things." She kissed him gently.

"What am I for?" He grinned. "Come on, I think it's dinner time, and I'm hungry." He got off of the bed and helped Usagi and took her hand as they walked to the Dining Room.

***

Minako opened her eyes slowly, and her blurry eyes focused on Setsuna.

"Setsuna?" Minako asked quietly.

"Oh, you're awake!" Hotaru and Setsuna rushed over to Minako.

"Yes, I am." Minako sat up slowly, flinching at the pain brought on from her many bruises. "I feel like I got run over by a car." She held her head.

"Do you remember anything, Minako-chan?" Setsuna looked at her, pleadingly.

"You wouldn't believe it if I told you." Minako shook her head.

"Tell me, any clue can help us." Setsuna urged.

"Well, I can remember being in a place, filled with flowers . . .I looked like myself. I walked over to a small pond and there was a small girl sitting by it crying. I asked her what was wrong, and she looked up at me with the bluest eyes . . ." Minako trailed off, looking away. "She said that she was worried about existing, and I asked her why she was worried about that. She told me that her parents were having second thoughts, and then I woke up here."

Setsuna nodded slowly. "Do you remember anything before you fell asleep?"

Minako squinted a bit and then nodded. "Mamoru came and brought me some tea." Minako thought harder and then recalled what had happened to her. She started to shake violently, and Setsuna looked down at her, worried.

"Call the nurses," Setsuna instructed to Hotaru, who nodded and left the room.

"So much . . .pain," Minako could barely talk she was shaking so much.

"I know . . ." Setsuna stroked her hair gently. "This will all be over soon."

Minako heard those words and passed out, her breathing erratic and her blood pressure sky rocketing.

"Hold on, Minako, hold on!" Setsuna grabbed her hand and pleaded as the nurses ran into the room.

***

[Author's Note: Oh my GOSH! I have never before neglected a fic for three whole months, but I have a reason. My stupid dinosaur computer started giving me heck, and it won't even let me open up this story on it, so I had to switch computers and start over again with this chapter. And then my really old computer, like died totally, because now it won't even let me open up Internet Explorer . . .so it's been a rough road, but I think I'm finally back on track! Thanks for still reading, and I hope I'll be able to write more on this soon! Please review with your opinions! ^_^]