Chapter 10
Disclaimer: No matter how much I wish I do not own Sailor Moon or any of the characters found in the anime, manga or musicals. I do however own Haruko, Michiyo, Queen Katsumi and any other characters sadly I've never made any money off them.
Author Note: I've played around with Photoshop a little and made a pic of what the teenage Haruko and Michiyo would look like if you want a copy send me a e-mail my addy is my pen name at hotmail.
Auraluna7: I'm sure the story is going to get far more complicated there is nothing I love more than a plot twist expect maybe leaving cliff hangers.
Keiko-chan2000 - I can't promise anything on Kimi not getting captured and turned bad. (Evil Grin)
(Kaiou/Ten'ou Manor)
Haruko sat on the couch with Kimi's head resting in her lap. Hotaru had healed her wounds after Michiyo had explained who the girl was. Kimi's wounds were healed but she still was sound asleep worn out from the battle she had fought in the future and traveling through time not to mention her wounds had been pretty severe. Haruko just sat there glancing down at the woman she loved her hand gently stroking her hair. "Kimi." She whispered she had hundreds of memories with this girl but each time she tried to think of them they became foggy and clouded. Still she couldn't deny the feeling in her heart she loved this girl.
"Why do you think she is here?" Michiyo asked.
"I don't know." Michiru said as she and Haruka went through her belongs there mostly were medical supplies and some rations. "There is no time key here. Pluto must have let her through."
"But why?" Haruka asked.
"Because we messed the time line up too much." Haruko said.
"Why didn't Setsuna-mama come herself?" Hotaru asked.
"I did." Setsuna said walking through the door with young Michiyo in her arms.
Michiru sprang to her feet running over to Setsuna and taking the sleeping child from her. "Kami-sama! Michiyo!"
Haruka was at her side at the same time looking down at her daughter, "Setsuna how?"
"Hotaru was right I did come from the future that's how I knew where she was." Setsuna said.
"Then you know where Haruko is." Haruka said glancing up from her daughter. Michiru had walked over to one of the chairs and sat down while Haruka sat on the arm of the chair.
"Not exactly." Setsuna said.
"What do you mean not exactly?" Haruko said her voice sharp.
"Katsumi's castle is on an island only this island has no fixed location. It floats." Setsuna told them. "I know where the island will be in a week from now." Setsuna looked over to Haruko and Kimi, "Why is she here?"
"You don't know?" Michiyo said. "We figured you sent her to help fix the timeline."
Setsuna shook her head, "No I came myself to fix the timeline. When I let you two steal that key I never imagined you would cause this much trouble. My counterpart from this time must have sent her."
"You knew?" Haruko asked.
"Haruko do you honestly think you could steal a time key without me knowing? Of course I knew." Setsuna said.
"Why did you let us?" Michiyo asked.
"The Queen asked me to. She cares so much for her senshi when Haruka and Michiru died it tore her heart." Setsuna told them as Kimi began stirring.
Kimi slowly opened her eyes to find herself staring into a pair of green eyes. Pair of green eyes that the last time she saw them were so full of hate and anger. "Haruko."
(Urawa Apartment)
Ami walked through the door of the apartment she shared with her husband and daughter. She was exhausted having just worked a double shift at the hospital. "Mommy!" A young girl with blue hair said running up to her. Ami picked the girl hugging her kissing her. The girl handed her a test that had a 100 written across the top.
"Kimi, another 100? Good job sweety." Ami said putting the girl down.
"She takes after her mother." A man with dark brown hair said coming into the room. He walked over to Ami and kissed her.
"Ryo." Ami said returning the kiss.
"Papa can I stay here with mommy? I don't really want to go to the store." Kimi said.
"Sure if you promise to let your mom relax." Ryo said as he grabbed his coat and headed out the door.
"Do you want anything to eat Kimi?" Ami asked to which Kimi just shook her head no. Ami fixed herself a sandwich and a drink think walked into the living room. She sat down on the couch picking up a book. She was going to start reading it when the small child sat down next to her leaning into her mother. "Is everything ok Kimi?"
"Haruko hasn't been to school in a while neither has Michiyo." Kimi said.
Ami sat silently how do you explain to a seven year old that her friends were kidnapped by an evil queen? "Haruko and Michiyo had to go away for a while."
"Where did they go?" Kimi asked. She may have been younger then the Kaiou/Ten'ou children but was just as bright if not brighter having been skipped ahead a grade.
"I don't know honey they just had to go away for a while." Ami said.
"When are they coming home?" Kimi said.
"Soon I hope." Ami said. Looking up as there was a knock on the door. She smiled at her daughter and stood walking over to the door. At the door Tetsuji stood with three men behind him all wearing business suits. "I'm sorry whatever you are selling we aren't interested in." Ami said as she started to close the door thinking they were sales men.
Tetsuji put his foot in the door stopping her from closing it. "We aren't selling anything." He said. "But we are here for something Mercury." He kicked the door open knocking Ami against the wall. Ami fell to the ground but was quickly on her feet again transforming.
"What do you want?" Mercury said as she pressed a button on her watch. Makoto lived several apartments down from her hopefully she was home.
"You dead." Tetsuji said.
"Sorry I don't think so. Bubble Spray!" Mercury said filling the room with mist.
From outside the door she heard, "Supreme Thunder" Jupiter yelled shocking the men.
The mist around them began to fade and Mercury stood in front of Jupiter there were three men lying on the ground. "There were four of them, kami-sama Kimi!" Mercury said running into the living room Jupiter right behind her.
They ran into the living room to find Tetsuji standing with Kimi in his arms. "Least I got half of what I came here for!" With that he disappeared.
(Katsumi's Hideout)
Haruko sat on a couch watching the TV and eating a bowl of ice cream while Katsumi was sitting on the sofa going over her files. "Katsumi-sama where is Michiyo?"
Katsumi looked up from her folder to Haruko, "Michiyo-chan said she didn't want to be here anymore she went home."
"Do I have to go home too?" Haruko asked.
"Do you want to go home?" Katsumi asked.
"No, I like it here." Haruko said.
"I like having you here." Katsumi said as Tetsuji walked up and whispered in her ear. She nodded and stood following after him but stopped by Haruko and ruffled her hair, "Haruko-chan you can stay here as long as you want."
Tetsuji led her to the room where Michiyo and Haruko were first brought to when they were kidnapped. She looked through the window on the door seeing a young girl with short blue hair sitting on the cot crying. She gestured for Tetsuji to open the door then sat stepped in sitting on the bed, "Why are you crying Princess?"
"I miss my mommy a bad man took me away." Kimi said.
"Tetsuji? He's not a bad man he just wanted to bring you here to me." Katsumi said.
"Who are you?" Kimi asked.
"I'm Queen Katsumi." Katsumi said.
"Why did you bring me here?" Kimi said finally looking up at Katsumi.
"A friend of yours is here I thought she might be a little lonely." Katsumi told her.
"Who is here?"
"I believe she is a good friend of your Kaiou Haruko." Katsumi said.
"Haruko-chan is here?" Kimi said her eyes growing wide, "Is Michiyo-chan here too?"
"No Michiyo-chan had to go home that's why Haruko-chan is lonely would you like to see her?" Katsumi asked. Kimi nodded as Katsumi stood taking the child's hand in hers and leading them down the hall to the room Haruko sat watching TV. "Haruko-chan there is someone here to see you."
Haruko looked up from the TV set her ice cream on the table and ran over to Kimi hugging her, "Kimi-chan !"
(Kaiou/Ten'ou Manor)
Michiru stood with the phone next to her ear. "Kami-sama" she said causing the whole room to look at her. She finished up on the phone and hung up. "That was Ami-chan she says that she was attacked."
"What?" Kimi said she was sitting next to Haruko who had her arm around her. Kimi felt right to be sitting here at least in her heart but her mind kept screaming at her telling her Haruko was her enemy the one that had killed many of the people of the white moon. She hadn't said anything about Haruko's betrayal she wanted to talk with Pluto alone for that. "Is my mother ok?"
"Ami-chan is fine luckily Mako-chan was home and helped her fight off the attackers but they were able to kidnap your younger self." Michiru said.
"What would they want with Kimi-chan ?" Haruka said holding Michiyo in her arms, since the girl had come back with Pluto she refused to leave the safety of her parents' lap.
"To replace me." Michiyo said causing Haruka to startle a little she had thought the child was asleep as she hadn't said more than a few words since returning.
"What hime-chan?" Haruka said holding her daughter tighter.
"She's trying to kill you and mama to get your henshin sticks so she can train Haruko and me to be senshi and serve her." Michiyo said. "Since I ran away she must want someone to take my spot."
"But why me?" Kimi said leaning forward out of Haruko's arm.
"Because you are close to me, you might not trust Katsumi-sama but you would trust me." Haruko said placing her hand on Kimi's shoulder. Something didn't seem right it was like Kimi was afraid of her. Every time she touched Kimi she would flinch or pull away. Earlier when Haruko had kissed her Kimi didn't return it hesitating before she did and it just didn't feel right. What had happened to Kimi?
Kimi stood and excused herself to the restroom this was all so strange, as she had hoped Pluto followed behind her a minute or so later. Kimi stood in the hall outside the bathroom watching Pluto walk to her, "So why are you really here? I got the feeling there was something you wanted to tell me but not the others." Pluto asked.
"Lady Pluto it's about Haruko the Haruko from our timeline. It's changed again since you left. Katsumi's army is growing larger." Kimi said.
"Kimi-chan call me Setsuna. I know her army is growing I sensed it before I left you traveled through time possibly disrupting the timeline more to tell me that?" Setsuna said with a little more anger in her voice than she had intended.
"It's not just that Setsuna-sensei Haruko is the head General in charge of her army. I don't understand how Haruko can be in this timeline and the future one." Kimi said.
"It's part of the time paradox that has been created. The timeline where Haruko and Michiyo traveled back to save their parents doesn't exist anymore so when this Haruko grew up she never had to travel back. It must seem that Haruko was never rescued from Katsumi." Setsuna said. "What about Michiyo where is she in the future?"
"She fights for the true queen and she has such a hatred for Haruko it's scary she's vowed that she will kill Haruko. Every time the two of them fight the battle is horrible. That's how I was injured. Haruko was attacking the palace and she was fighting Michiyo I was helping along with Moon, and Mars. When I was injured the princess ordered Mars to take me to the time gate I would be safe there. Mars returned to the palace to protect the queen." Kimi said. "Setsuna-sensei, I remember when I was a child my mother died around this time she was killed by a warrior of the golden sun she was killed by Haruko. She will betray us and when she does…" Kimi said trailing off.
(Katsumi's hideout)
Kimi sat with Haruko she was wearing a dress like Michiyo had worn when she was here. The two sat playing a game of chess, Kimi had always loved chess she would sit for hours and play with her mother. Haruko was good at the game but really didn't care much for it she only played because Kimi like it. She had wanted to go swimming but it was night and Katsumi had said it was too late they could swim tomorrow. "Check mate." Kimi said moving a piece and taking Haruko's queen.
Katsumi clapped and then put a hand on Kimi's shoulder. "That's enough games for today girls I think you should go to bed."
Haruko stood hugged Katsumi then grabbed Kimi's hand running down the hall to their room. Once they were in bed Katsumi came into the room. She sat on Kimi's bed and ran her hand through the girl's blue hair. "Good night Princess."
"Why do you call me that?" Kimi asked.
"Because we are princesses." Haruko said.
"Yep you are my little Princesses." Katsumi said. "Now get some sleep we are going to have a lot of fun tomorrow."
"Good Night Katsumi-sama." Kimi said. Katsumi kissed Kimi on the forehead the stood walking over to Haruko and kissed her on the forehead as well.
"Good night Katsumi-sama." Haruko said.
To Be Continued…
Angel's quick guide to Japanese:
Sensei – An honorific commonly given to a teacher, an expert in a field or someone in any respected occupation.
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