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Chibi Anime Otaku: Glad you like the story. 1st off The P.I in zodiac PI stands for Private eye. And yes, Teresa and Keiko are original characters. And you're right, Dave is a dork, can you believe he's based after a real person who will not leave us alone!Chapter 6:
Just for the sake of entertainment we are going to go straight to the weekend.
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Keiko & Hyoga:
Keiko and Hyoga had headed to the beach an hour and a half before sunrise. The water was freezing but to Hyoga it was just like visiting his mother in the frozen waters of Siberia. Keiko on the other hand wasn't as okay.
"Oh-my-gosh the water is freezing!" Keiko exclaimed as the cool water reached up to her waist and as a wave splashed over them.
"Come on Keiko it's not that bad, believe me I've swam through colder waters then this." Hyoga replied.
"Yeah well that's because you are more adapted to the cold then I am so please don't laugh at me!" Keiko pleaded. Hyoga smiled at her.
"Don't worry Keiko I would never dream of laughing at you." Keiko smiled back and was about to swim closer to him when a huge wave descended upon them and engulfed them. After a couple of seconds under the water, Hyoga resurfaced first. "Wow, wasn't that amazing Keiko? Keiko?" He looked around him to see that Keiko was nowhere to be seen. He quickly dived back beneath the ocean to search for her. After a few minutes of looking he resurfaced again but by this time he was beginning to panic and was just about to dive back under the water again when…
"Hey Hyoga what are you doing?" He turned around and gave a huge sigh of relief as he saw that Keiko was perfectly safe and was standing on the dock. He swam over to her and pulled himself onto the dock with a little help from Keiko.
"Dude what is wrong with you?"
"What are you talking about Hyoga?" Keiko asked with a confused expression on her face.
"You made me worry about you for nothing! I thought that the waves had claimed you and that I would never see you again!"
"Well I tried to tell you before you went diving back under the water but you didn't… wait. Did you say you were that worried about me?" Hyoga blushed as Keiko's face was just inches away from his face.
"Well, yeah of course I was worried about you I mean I wouldn't want you to die because I really like you." This time Keiko blushed as Hyoga's lips came closer to hers, however, just as Hyoga's lips were about to grace hers Keiko pushed Hyoga back into the freezing waters. When his head popped out from under the water he saw Keiko with a huge grin on her face.
"You didn't think I was going to let you kiss me that easily did you? You're going to have to catch me first!" She giggled as she started running along down the beach. Hyoga smiled slyly and quickly got out of the water and began to chase her down the sandy shore. After a few minutes of chasing the two of them were sitting on the dock again as the sun was shining brightly in the sky and the seagulls were making their usual fuss.
"Wow look at the sky." Keiko said looking to the east at the sun.
"It's beautiful just like you." Hyoga said with a sideways glance. Keiko smiled and a small blush graced her cheeks.
"Shut up." She said playfully as she gently nudged him in the side. Hyoga grabbed Keiko's arm and turned her towards him, his icy blue eyes glinting with mischief. "Hyoga what are you doing?"
"Well you did promise me a kiss if I caught you and I just did." Keiko laughed and blushed as again they moved closer to each other.
"Hate to break up the love fest but I've got a job to do." A voice snarled. Keiko and Hyoga turned to see a boy with messy chestnut hair and amber eyes. He was wearing a green ceremonial outfit with the Ying-yang symbol on it. A sword was gripped tightly in his hand.
"Who are you?" Hyoga asked getting up and standing protectively in front of Keiko.
"My name is no concern of yours." The boy replied.
"Okay then, what do you want? No wait I think I've got the answer to that…you work for Hera." Hyoga stated. The boy smirked evilly.
"Precisely." He said. Keiko looked at Hyoga and the boy who had both crouched down into fighting stances. Keiko decided to take a little gander at the boy's mind. Arg! Let me out! She can't control me forever! The damn immortal bitch!
"Oh my god! Keiko said.
"What is it?" Hyoga asked dodging a kick from the boy.
"Mind control." Keiko replied.
"Just great. Diamond Dust!" Hyoga shouted unleashing a blinding flurry of snow.
"Element Fire!" the boy said melting the fire before it reached him. (I think I just gave away mystery boy's identity or maybe I did that earlier…oh well don't mind me I'm leaving now.)
"Great. This is just peachy. Any idea how to stop the mind control?" Hyoga asked Keiko.
"Good whack in the head should do it." Keiko said with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Okay, you got that staff with you?" Hyoga asked.
"Always do." Keiko replied with a grin. Good, I'll keep him occupied while you hit him from behind. Hyoga thought. Keiko heard his thoughts and nodded. Hyoga smiled then ran at the boy and executed a complicated move which left him gripping the boy's lower legs.
"Freezing fist!" He shouted. Ice started to form on the boy's legs. As the boy struggled against the ice Keiko opened her wings and flew silently behind the boy. She lifted her staff and delivered a hard whack on the head to the boy.
"Hey! That hurt dammit! Wait just a minute! I'm in control. Yes! Finally!" the boy shouted happily.
"We'd like a name please? And a list of anyone else Hera has control of would be nice." Hyoga ordered.
"Well, my name's Syaoran Li. And there were 18 of us in total me, my friends and the rest I didn't know." The boy replied.
"Okay, I guess that's it then. Come one we'll take you back to the school and the nurse can look at any injuries." Keiko said. And with that said Keiko and Hyoga led Syaoran back to the school.
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Teresa & Shun:
The sun came up the next morning to find Teresa in the stables the pieces of a bridle sitting on her lap. Her ankle was wrapped in a bandage.
"What are you doing here so early Teresa?" Helios asked sticking his head out of his stall.
"Well for one, I haven't cleaned your tack in a while and besides I couldn't sleep any more. Heck, I could barely fall asleep last night." Teresa replied pouring some saddle soap on a sponge.
"Was it because of that guy?" Helios asked disdainfully. Before Teresa could answer Shun walked into the barn.
"Good morning Teresa. How's your ankle?" he asked cheerfully.
"Speak Of the damn devil." Helios said laying his ears flat against his head and sending a glare in Shun's direction. Teresa glared at Helios her eyes telling him to behave himself or pay the price.
"I'm fine. Thanks for asking Shun." Teresa said grinning before turning back to her work.
"That's good." Shun said his green eyes twinkling. Teresa rubbed her eyes before grabbing the bit (the metal part of the bridle that goes in the horse's mouth) and a piece of steel wool.
"Are you tired?" Shun asked placing a gentle hand on her shoulder. Helios glared and let out a loud snort.
"Oh, shove it Helios. Yeah I'm a little tired I couldn't sleep last night and I woke up early this morning." Teresa said.
"Ah, well you should try to get more sleep. You know I don't think your horse likes me much." Shun said. Teresa laughed slightly.
"He doesn't like many guys. It's because he's a stallion. Stallions are very protective of their herd and won't let any other males near it. Helios considers me as part of his herd and sees you as another stallion trying to take me away from him."
"I see… well you have nothing to worry about Helios. I'm not going to take her away from you."
"Like I'm going to believe him?" Helios grumbled.
"HELIOS!"
"What?"
"What's wrong Teresa?" Shun asked completely unaware of how much this stallion really didn't like him.
"Oh nothing Shun, you'll be riding Sweet she's a really gentle horse so she shouldn't be too much trouble so how about we get going?" She asked as she mounted Helios who was still reluctant in letting his mistress go off with this guy!
"Sure thing." Shun replied and mounted Sweet and then the two of them set off, unknown to them that someone was following them.
Teresa and Shun were busy talking and laughing while Helios was planning a diabolical plan in his little head.
"Hey Sweet."
"What is it Helios?" Sweet asked.
"I just thought you should know that the guy who is riding you likes to go really fast."
"Really? Okay then." And before Shun knew what was happening Sweet began to pick up speed.
"Whoa slow down Sweet-BAM!" Shun fell off Sweet. Helios laughed inside as Teresa dismounted and ran over to see if Shun was okay.
"OMG SHUN! Are you alright?" Teresa asked and helped him off the ground.
"Yeah I'm alright."
"But not for long!" The two of them turned around; startled that someone else was there.
"Who are you?" Teresa asked."
"No concern of yours since you'll be dead soon anyway." A young teenage boy with long fiery red hair replied and then began to attack them.
Teresa felt stupid that she left her sword behind at school and was sure that both her and Shun were going to die when a pink glow surrounded them and when it faded away Teresa was surprised to see Shun dressed up in pink armor while holding a chain and then mentally slapped herself for forgetting that Shun was the bronze saint of Andromeda.
"Teresa stay back okay I don't want you to get hurt." Teresa was about to protest when she realized without her sword she would only get in the way so she simply nodded and stepped back a little.
"How sweet of you to care about her safety you know if she wasn't a friend of yours I could have let her live."
"Let me fill you in on something, as long as I am around I will always protect her!" Shun shouted with true sincerity in his words. It moved Teresa to see how much he cared for her, Helios on the other hand…well let's just say he wasn't too thrilled.
"Oh please. How mushy is that Teresa? Let's just go and leave him to deal with his own problems."
"Helios if you say one more bad word against Shun I swear I am going to feed you nothing but those cheap oats you hate so much for at least a whole two months!" Teresa threatened. Helios immediately kept quiet for nothing was worse then having to be fed really cheap and soggy oats. "Okay now listen Helios I need you to do something very important…" She then proceeded whispering her plan into Helios's ear, while Shun kept up his fight with the mysterious young teenager.
"I have to admit you've got some skills as a warrior. However you still have a long way to go before you can beat me in combat." Fiery exclaimed as he dodged another one of Shun's attacks.
"Man this guy is good!" Shun thought. "How am I supposed to catch him?" As he began to ponder how he could use his chain to snare him the red headed teenager pulled out a single rose. Well obviously Shun didn't see much of a threat to this until the rose became a whip!
Meanwhile after Teresa had spoken of her plan to Helios he crept (if a horse could creep) behind Shun. He gave out a loud whinny and ran towards Shun like he was going to headbutt him and that was what Shun was expecting him to do at first when instead Helios ran right past him and kicked the teen in the stomach and making him smack right into the tree. It was a direct blow to his head, which worried Teresa for she didn't want to kill him.
As the red head opened his eyes he gave a bewildered expression. He looked like he didn't know where he was and had to quickly jump out of the way before he was greeted by hooves.
"Whoa horse! Calm down." He said as he got up slowly. Teresa and Shun could see something was definitely different about this young man.
"Helios! Stop, I mean it." Teresa ordered and moved towards the stranger. Helios stood protectively in front of his mistress.
"You can't be serious? He just tried to kill us! Why should we spare him?" He questioned and gave the guy a glare.
"We are not killers Helios and look at him. Look into his eyes, I can see he's not going to try and hurt us anymore." Helios looked back at the man and then at his mistress. He could tell the she was not going to change her mind and moved out of the way.
"Why does my mistress always fall for guys who look like girls?"
"Excuse me. Sorry about my horse but just a few moments ago you tried to destroy me and my date over there. Who are you and where did you come from?" She asked. He gave her an intent gaze.
"My name is Kurama and I was under mind control by a lady who looked like a bird." He replied. "There were other who were under the control as well. Some were my friends while the others I had never met before but were victims as well." Teresa and Shun looked at each. They knew exactly who it was that Kurama was talking about.
"The woman who did this to you goes by the name of Hera and if what you say is true that there were others then I'm betting that our friends our in trouble."
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Serena & Joey:
"Hey Joey!" Joey turned around at the sound of his name and smiled as Serena came running up towards him.
"Hey Serena are you ready to go?"
"Yep, hey where are we going exactly anyway?"
"You'll see when we get there." Joey replied with a sly smirk. Serena was a little disappointed that he didn't tell her but got over it quickly as Joey grabbed her hand and began to lead her to where they were going to be having their date.
5 minutes later:
"Here we are!" Joey announced as Serena gasped in shock at where they were.
"An arcade! How did you know I liked arcades?" Serena exclaimed.
"Well I just thought that since we had so much in common you would like a place like this."
"You guessed right come on let's go have some fun!" She grabbed Joey's arm and pulled him inside and was completely unaware that someone was watching them.
"So what do you want to play first?" Joey asked but Serena didn't reply. He turned to look at her and was shocked to see that she was gone. "Serena where did you go?"
"I'm over here!" He ran over to her to see that she was playing the new Sailor V game.
"Oh wow I love that game." He informed her as she got blasted by an alien monkey and died.
"This is so unfair!" She exclaimed and completely forgot what Joey had said. "This game is against me I mean every time I get closer to beating level ten I always get blasted!" Joey laughed at her look of frustration and walked up behind her and but his hand on top of hers which was still holding onto the joystick causing Serena to blush slightly.
"Let's do it together." He whispered gently. "If we combine our skills together I'm sure we can beat this game."
"R-right." Serena stuttered as Joey pushed the start button and his hand and her hand began to move as one.
While they played Serena thought about how totally different Joey was to Darien. Joey was outgoing and funny while Darien was quieter and kind of shy. Joey listened to her and laughed with her instead of always having his nose in a book. She really felt like she could trust Joey with anything including her secret past…
"We won!" Joey's voice exclaimed and broke into her thoughts and she realized that he had been moving their hands the whole time and that they actually won the game.
"Yes I finally did it or should I say we finally did it." Serena replied and smiled at him as he let go of the joystick and her hand. "You're really good at video games aren't you?" Joey blushed at Serena's smile and her compliment for him.
"I guess you could say so um I'm going to go get a soda do you want one too?" He asked trying to cover up his embarrassment.
"Sure!" She replied cheerfully as Joey walked away through the crowd. Serena turned back to the Sailor V game and decided to try it again on her own when some guy she didn't know jumped in front of her.
'Hey there gorgeous." He said making Serena feel very uncomfortable with him being in front of her. "Why don't you dump that pathetic loser I saw you with and hang out with me for the rest of the evening? I'm sure I can show you a better time then that guy could." Serena could sense that the guy had bad intentions with her and backed a way a little but he only followed.
"Uh no thanks I rather not leave Joey behind after all he is my date." She put extra emphasis on the word date but the idiot still didn't get the hint.
"Come on you so know you want to ditch him and hang with a real man." He then moved even closer to Serena and grabbed her hand and tried to pull her along with him when a hand grabbed his shoulder. He turned around and was greeted but a fist and was knocked to the ground. To Serena's relief it was Joey.
"What the hell do you think you're doing to my girlfriend?" Joey yelled as everyone in the arcade looked in their direction. The guy got up off the ground and rubbed his chin which was all red.
"Hey I was just going to take her and show a really good time unlike you!" The guy replied while Serena felt embarrassed that they were getting all this attention and the fact that Joey had called her his girlfriend.
"She doesn't want to go with you, you bastard so leave!"
"You can't tell me what to do and you can't say what she wants so how about we settle this with a competition?" The guy asked. Joey thought about it for a moment and was about to decline but didn't want Serena to think he was a wimp and agreed. "Okay then we're going to race at that game." He pointed at the racing car game and then continued.
"If I win this babe gets to come and spend the rest of the day with me"
"And if I win you are to leave and never show your ugly face around Serena again you got that." Joey added as the guy was already making his way to the cars. He was about to follow him when Serena grabbed his hand.
"Joey you don't have to do this and it's not fair that you're making me the prize for this contest I really do not want to go with that guy." Serena said.
"I know that but I still can't let that guy get away with trying to force you to go with him so don't worry I will win this I promise you I won't allow him to take you." She gave him a faint smile as he walked over and got ready to race. Before the game started though the guy looked back at Serena, winked and then off they went.
Joey saw the guy wink at Serena and that only made him even more determined to beat the guy. As they sped around the race track the guy beside him decided to give himself a better advantage by trying to knock Joey off the race track. However he was so busy trying to get Joey out of the race that he didn't notice the tree coming up and his car smashed right into it and Joey won.
"You did it Joey!" Serena exclaimed and was about to embrace him when a loud crash was heard from the entrance and two strangers walked in. One was very short and had short dull blonde hair, he wore a white shirt and tie and blue pants the other one however was much taller and had short brown hair with headphones, and he wore a baggy white T-shirt and baggy blue jeans and had wooden sword in his hands.
"Hey there!" The tall guy said. "We're here to destroy you." He pointed at Serena and Joey when he said those words and with that he and the short guy attacked.
"Joey stay back okay." Serena ordered. Joey was about to ask why when she pulled off her brooch (that's what I'm going to call it) and shouted… "Moon Cosmic Power!" In a flash she transformed into Sailor Moon leaving Joey completely speechless. "I'll explain it to you later." And she as well attacked.
She pulled out her Spiral Heart Moon Rod and began to attack the two intruders. She used all her attacks but for some reason none of them seemed to be working on them. After minutes of fighting with them she got so frustrated that she went right up behind each of them and smacked them on the head causing them to hit the ground with a loud 'thud.' She was about to hit them again when she noticed that they seemed to be different from before and walked up to them while Joey finally got over his shock and ran over to her.
"Why don't you finish them off?" He asked.
"Because they aren't going to attack us anymore." She replied. Joey gave her a confused look as the two of them got up.
"Ow! Okay what the hell happened and where are we?" The short guy asked.
"Um hi my name's Serena and this is Joey are you guys okay? You just tried to kill us."
"I'm Yoh and this is Morty… now I remember that weird bird lady put us under her complete control!" Yoh informed them.
"Okay how about you two tell us exactly what is going on."
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Rei & Marik:
"And this is considered the tomb of the pharaoh from ancient Egypt." Marik informed Rei as they continued their date at the museum.
"Wow Marik, I never knew you knew so much about ancient artifacts it's really amazing." Rei exclaimed as Marik couldn't help but feel embarrassed that someone would be interested in what he had to say.
"I think you're really amazing Rei." He informed her which made her blush this time.
"Oh look there's the armor exhibit over there!" Rei suddenly exclaimed and ran over to it. Marik looked after her with confusion on his face, but then quickly went after her. While Rei was ahead she kept thinking about how much Marik made her happy.
'Marik is such a nice guy. I can't believe I never thought of giving him a chance until now.' She thought to herself. Unfortunately she was so busy thinking that she didn't realize that someone was up ahead and bumped into them, causing both of them to fall to the ground. "OW!"
"Rei are you okay?" Marik asked as he ran up to her and helped her off the ground.
"Yeah I'm fine." She replied then turned her attention onto the person she bumped into. "Are you okay sir?"
"No I am not okay for you have gotten my suit all dirty and you should not be running in the museum, I am going to have to call security on you!"
"What?" They both said in unison.
"What gives you the permission to kick us out of the museum?" Marik asked.
"Because I am the assistant manager of this museum." He replied.
"Then how come I don't see your tag?" Marik asked with a sly smile.
"I don't need a tag to prove to the likes of you what I am or am not." He replied. "Now you two either leave or I'll call security." With that he began to walk away.
"Wait a minute you can't kick us out! It wasn't her fault that she bumped into you; she was just really excited to see the armor exhibit."
"Not my concern why she was running." Was all he said.
"I'm so sorry Marik, it's my fault, and now I've ruined our date." Rei said in such a sad voice that it made Marik want to belt the guy in the stomach for making her feel bad.
"Wait a minute Rei. I'll try talking to him again." With that Marik ran over to the so-called manager and pulled him out of the way so Rei couldn't see or hear what they were saying.
"What are you doing? I told you to leave."
"We are not leaving and you are not going to make us." He declared.
"Excuse me? You don't have a choice."
"Actually, we do." He pulled out his millennium rod and put the manager under his control. "Now you are going to go back to your office and you're going to forget all about making us leave."
"Of course." The manager replied in a magical trance and with that turned around and left.
"Don't worry Rei, I just talked to him and he has changed his mind and we're allowed to stay." Marik informed her as he walked back over to her.
"Oh Marik that's great!" She exclaimed and gave him a hug, causing Marik to blush.
"Isn't this a touching moment." A voice suddenly said causing them both to turn to the front of the museum. There stood a young teenage boy with blue-ish purple hair, who was wearing Chinese clothing and was holding what looked like a giant spear.
"Who are you?" Marik asked while putting a protective hand around Rei.
"Let's just say I'll be your murderer this evening, so if you have any last prayers before your demise, I'd say them now."
"No one here is going to die!" Rei shouted. "Mars Star Power!" In a flash of red, Rei became Sailor Mars to Marik's utter surprise.
"Rei you're…" Marik started to say.
"Yeah, I was going to tell you." Rei said with a shy smile on her face and then turned her attention back on the guy in front of her. "Why do you want to kill us? We've never even met you before!"
"I have specific orders and I intend on following them." With that the battle began. As they started to fight, all Marik could do was just stand there and watch, until he came back to his senses and realized that he had to help Rei.
"I have to do something before Rei gets hurt!" He muttered, and began to ponder what he could do when he noticed his millennium rod strapped to his side and let out a frustrated sigh at the fact that he completely forgot about it. "Okay bozo, you are no longer someone trying to kill us but a beautiful ballerina!" Marik held up his rod and waited for the guy to start dancing however… nothing happened.
"What the…" Marik started to say when he realized why it didn't work. "Rei! Can you hold him for a sec?"
"Sure…" Rei said with curiosity in her voice and then ran up to the guy and held him tightly. While the boy struggled to get out of Rei's grasp, Marik walked up behind him and whacked him with his rod. The boy let out a scream and collapsed in Rei's arms. "Marik what did you do?"
"Oops, I guess I hit him too hard." Marik said with a nervous laugh. Rei sighed and then gently placed the guy on the ground.
"Hey! Wake up." Rei said while shaking him. After a few seconds the boy opened his eyes.
"That damn bitch!" He yelled and then sat up. "I'm going to kill her! How dare she put me under her control… who are you?"
"Okay, wasn't he just trying to kill us a moment ago?" Rei asked.
"This is the thing Rei, this guy here was under someone else's control and I know this because my millennium rod here allows me to take control of people's minds. So when I tried it on him and it didn't work I knew that he must be under someone's control and that all I needed to do was hit him on the back of the head and that should snap him out of his control." Marik said in one long breath.
"Really? That's amazing! I would never have guessed this guy was brainwashed." Rei said with fascination in her voice.
"Hello! My name is not 'guy' it's Len and I'll ask again… who are you?"
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Hotaru & Mokuba:
"Mokuba look at all these flowers! They're so beautiful!" Hotaru exclaimed.
Hotaru and Mokuba were at the park for their date and Hotaru was admiring the flowers while Mokuba watched her as she ran through the field and thought how amazingly beautiful she looked in her purple sundress.
"Yeah Hotaru they are beautiful." "But they are nothing compared to you pale beauty." He thought.
Hotaru smiled at him and walked over to a certain spot in the field where a patch of bluebells were.
"Maybe Mokuba would like these?" She asked herself as she blushed at the thought of her actually getting enough courage to give them to him. She shrugged the embarrassment off though and bent down and began to pick some when a rough hand gripped her shoulder and spun her around fiercely.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" A park ranger demanded as he kept his grip on her.
"I-I was j-just picking some f-flowers for my friend o-over there." Hotaru stuttered as she tried not to let out a scream at the pain he was causing her right shoulder.
Mokuba had gone for a sec to get them both a soda from a nearby vending and when he returned and saw a strange man holding his Hotaru he saw red and dropped the soda's and stormed over to the ranger.
"Get your hands off her!" He yelled and slapped his hand away and helped Hotaru off the ground, who was still trembling for the scare she had gotten.
"How dare you order me around?"
"Well how dare you for scaring such an innocent girl!" Mokuba retorted,
"I had every right to do what I just did. She has just caused a major violation of the park rules."
"And what would that have been? Minding her own business as she picked some simple little flowers?"
"That is exactly what she did wrong! The sign clearly says 'DO NOT PICK THE FLOWERS.'" Mokuba looked around and then turned his attention back on the ranger.
"What sign?" The park ranger (whose name is Steve) looked around as well and the he too returned his attention back on Mokuba.
"Okay then there is no sign but this is not a public place where people like her can just come around and pick as many flowers as she chooses!" Steve replied coldly.
"Excuse me but this is a public place for your information since this is a park for the public; and if you don't know that how can you call yourself a park ranger?" By this time the two of them had gathered quite a crowd around them and as Steve looked around at the glaring eyes he realized he had lost.
"Fine then I'll let her off the hook this time but next time you're here there will be a sign!" And with that Steve turned around and stormed off in defeat. As soon as Steve was out of there sight for sure Mokuba turned his attention back to Hotaru.
"Are you okay Hotaru? He didn't hurt you did he?" He asked with worry in his voice and was not prepared for Hotaru to fling her arms around him and embraced him tightly.
"Oh Mokuba that was so scary!" She cried as her grip tightened. Mokuba blushed at the sudden embrace and then as well wrapped his arms around her as well. As the two of them embraced and she cried softly the two of them shared a "cosmic moment" (yes that was very corny but I couldn't help it please forgive.)
"Thanks Mokuba I don't think I would have been able to handle that if I was here by myself." Hotaru said as she wiped away a few of her remaining tears.
"No problem Hotaru, as long as I am here I'll always protect you."
"Thank you."
"Hey Mokuba is that you?" A voice suddenly broke into their "moment." When the two of them looked to see who it was they were both shocked to see Téa and Yugi walking towards them.
"It is you Mokuba… and Hotaru? Are you two on a date?" Téa asked with a bit of teasing in her voice. Mokuba was about to ask why she thought they were on a date when they both realized that they were still holding one another and quickly let go in embarrassment. "There's no need for you two to be embarrassed."
"Uh… um what about you and Yugi? What are you guys doing here?" It was now there turn to blush.
"We're on a date." Hotaru had to admire that she could go out and just say it to anybody who asked.
"So Mokuba if you're not on a date then what are you two doing here?" Yugi asked this time.
"We're…uh um… also on a date." Mokuba replied with his cheeks blazing red.
"Aw! Cute! I can't wait to tell you're brother that you found your special someone." Téa said.
"No! Téa you can't!" Mokuba exclaimed.
"Why not?"
"My brother would never except me dating Hotaru right now… I rather wait till later to tell him so please don't tell him." He begged.
"Okay, okay I won't tell him. Now we'll leave you two to finish your date, come on Yugi." Then the two of them left leaving behind two very embarrassed teens.
"I guess we should continue with our… um… date." Hotaru said as she played with the word date in her mind.
"Yeah I guess so." The two of them began to walk down the path both feeling a bit awkward towards one another after what had happened with Yugi and Téa. As the silence began to get to Mokuba he spotted something to break the ice between them.
"Hey Hotaru I know this might sound a bit childish but do you want me to push you on that swing?" He asked and pointed to the swings.
"I'd love that!" She replied and raced over to the swings with Mokuba close behind. Hotaru was just about to reach the swings when Mokuba saw something flying towards her.
"Hotaru look out!" He yelled and pushed her out of the way before she was hit.
"Mokuba are you alright?" Hotaru asked with worry.
"Yeah, what was that?"
"That was me." They looked towards the source of the voice and saw a young teenage girl with light blue hair and a headband standing a few inches away. "Too bad I missed."
"Mokuba stay here, it's my turn to protect you now." Hotaru ordered and stood up again. She pulled out her transformation pen and held it up to the sky. "Saturn Planet Power!" In a flash of purple Hotaru became Sailor Saturn to Mokuba's shock. "Sorry I didn't tell you."
"This might be more interesting then I thought." The blue haired girl said. "Ice Tornado!" A swirling tornado of ice (yes it is possible in this story to have a tornado of ice) headed towards Hotaru. She luckily was able to dodge it.
"I can't let you hurt Mokuba! Saturn Silence Glaive Surprise!" Complete and total silence.
"What kind of attack was that?" Blue hair asked. "Is that the best you got?" And before she knew what was coming, the attack hit her at full force, causing a rock to hit her in the head in the process. Hotaru and Mokuba walked over to the fallen warrior.
"She's just a normal girl. Those powers were not hers to begin with, they were given to her." Hotaru informed.
"How do you know?"
"I'm not sensing any real evil from this girl now." Blue hair began to move and then slowly opened her eyes.
"Where am I? Who are you? Where's Horohoro?"
"I'm Hotaru and this is Mokuba. Now how about you tell us why you attacked?"
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Mina & Kaiba:
"Kaiba!" Finally it was Saturday. Mina was super excited that day for obvious reasons. Today, she was not only getting to hang out with one of the hottest guys in school, Seto Kaiba, but she was also going to meet Pierre, the guy who could set Mina off on her journey to stardom.
"You're late." He answered coldly as Mina tried to recatch her breath. "Pierre doesn't take kindly to people who are tardy." Mina just gave him a cold glare and recomposed herself.
"Well sorry that my roommate Serena turned off my alarm last night so by the time I woke up I was late!"
"Whatever let's just go and get this over with." With that Kaiba turned around and began to lead the way. Mina had gone from super excited to super depressed. Today was supposed to be a special day where she would get to spend more time with Kaiba and hopefully get a record deal in the process.
Now she just felt like Kaiba. Wanted to get in over with quickly so she could go home and complain to Artemis and Luna (who both came along to the school) about making Kaiba angry.
However during her thought process, Kaiba had stopped at the corner and pulled out his cell. He dialed a few numbers and just a few minutes after hanging up Mina had finally noticed he had called someone and began to panic thinking he called Pierre and cancelled the meeting.
"Who did you call?" She exclaimed. "Did you cancel? How could you make me rush all the way here and just…"
"SHUT UP! I just called Mitsuru, my helicopter pilot." Kaiba explained after interrupting Mina's rant. "He is going to take us to the café where we are meeting Pierre."
Mina gave him a blank stare before saying…
"You called for a helicopter?" How lazy can you be? We could have just walked or if we had to use transportation we could have just hailed a taxi."
"Seto Kaiba doesn't take public transportation and he does not walk through crowded streets to meet someone who is less then him. However if you are so against the helicopter I can just cancel the meeting."
Mina quickly got over the fact that he was a lazy, obstinate ass to say, "No, no we'll take the helicopter." However she could not get over the fact that he had just spoke in third person. I mean who speaks in third person these days?
"Okay then get on." During their discussion on modes of transportation, the helicopter had arrived.
"Wow that was fast." Mina said with awe. She did not notice Kaiba had already boarded the helicopter and was waiting for her to board as well.
"What are you waiting for? Get on!" She blushed and then quickly hopped on. As they were lifted into the air and soared through the sky Mina couldn't help but gape in awe at the buildings and cars below them. Sure she was a Sailor Scout and had been above the clouds looking down on the city below before, but fir some reason being up in the air with Kaiba and not having to worry about the world being n danger made everything look so different.
"We have arrived at your destination Mr. Kaiba." Mitsuru informed as he began to land.
"Okay let's go."
"Have I ever informed you that you are really pushy?"
"Just get moving." As soon as the two had walked into the café Pierre arose from his sea and walked over to them.
"Ah Kaiba! So good to see you again, my this girl you brought me, I can already tell she will do great things in our line of music." Mina could already tell that she liked him. He obviously has a good eye for talent.
"It's nice to meet you my name's Mina." She held out her hand in order for him to shake but he surprised her by taking her hand and kissing it. It was a scene right out of a shoujo manga!
Mina blushed and pulled her hand back out of his grasp completely not noticing the shadow over Kaiba's face. That, and the fact that Pierre was smirking at her like she was a fine specimen.
"Pierre, let's just get this deal over with. I have more important things to do then be here." Mina began to wonder if Kaiba ever showed a softer side or if he even had a soul for that matter?
"Then why don't you just leave us here to talk things out? I'm sure Mina is quite capable…"
"NO!" Kaiba shouted so loudly that practically all the heads turned to look at them. Mina was shocked.
"There's no need to yell Kaiba. If you think Mina can't handle it then you are welcome to stay."
"I can handle things on my own Kaiba. You don't have to stay since you're so busy." Mina said icily. "Come on Pierre."
Mina began to walk away with Pierre, leaving Kaiba speechless, for once. The two of them ordered something and were having a lovely chat and talking about music and hobbies and other lovely things. To Mina, the conversation they were having was hitting her off to a good start in a new music career. To Pierre however, it was something else.
"Mina I want to show you something." He started to say. "I don't usually show this to people until I'm sure they've got what it takes to be in this business but I think I can show you."
"What is it Pierre?" He had caught her curiosity. He got out of his chair and motioned for her to follow him. She got up like he wanted her to and she followed like a stray puppy till they reached some kind of shed out back. Why there was a shed out back of a café and why his special thing was in there we will never know, and Mina was too dense to realize that something must not be right.
"Step inside." As soon as Mina stepped into the shed was when she realized something was wrong. All that was in the shed was nothing. No lawnmower, no shovel's just nothing.
"I don't get it Pierre. There's nothing in here."
"Of course there is. There's you, and then there's me." It finally dawned on Mina what he was planning to do and tried to get to the door, but he blocked her escape. Then the words Kaiba had spoke played in her head. "He can be kind of pushy." So this is what he meant. That jerk! He knew all along and still made an appointment with this… pervert!
As Pierre began to move closer to Mina, backing her up into a corner she got to make her move. By move I mean pulling back arm, tightening hand into fist and punching the guy so hard that it would be amazing if he survived and had any teeth left.
However before she could do just that the shed door opened and standing in the doorway was none other then…Kaiba, of course. Before Mina could holler a cry or a scream of "I'm going to kill you Kaiba!" He simply walked over to Pierre with the same, "I hate the world," stare and punched Pierre in the face. Of course it wasn't as hard as Mina was planning to do, but still had the basic effect, which meant that Pierre was now lying on the ground unconscious and Mina was safe.
Then without so much as a word, Kaiba grabbed Mina roughly by the hand and yanked her out of the shed. As she was being dragged through the café and then out into the street, Mina remembered how mad she was at him and was about to relay her feelings to him when he stopped and spun around so abruptly that it practically scared her to death.
"How stupid can you be?" He exclaimed. "I knew you were desperate to get an agent but I never thought you would go so far as to sell your body for a record deal!" That – Was – The – Last – Straw!
"HOW DARE YOU!" Mina screamed, "You're the one to blame for all this! I can't believe you actually made an appointment for me with that bastard! Do you know how scared I was? No, of course you wouldn't because you don't care about anyone!" With that said, all of Mina's dignity left her and she broke down in tears.
While Mina stood there in the street, bawling her eyes out Kaiba did something that it could probably be read only in this fanfiction and a few others. He did something that went beyond his true character. He said…
"Sorry." Mina couldn't believe he just said that. "I didn't want to leave you alone with Pierre, however my pride got the better of me. The reason why I made the appointment with Pierre is even though he is a horny sadistic pervert, he really is the best in the business and I felt that you deserved the best."
She had no words. Mina couldn't think of anything to say. The only thing she could do which really shocked Kaiba was… to hug him. (Everybody say aww, come on you know you want to coughs anyway.)
Of course as the two shared their special moment it was only natural that they were attacked. As they continued to embrace each other a flying bowtie swooped down and attacked.
"Kaiba watch out!" Mina pushed Kaiba out of the way and turned towards the bowtie. "Venus Planet Power!" And of course the theme music came on, the floating hearts surrounded her and the orange background appeared as she came out as the sailor of love… Sailor Venus!
"You're pretty good for a ditzy blonde in a sailor skirt." The attacker said mysteriously out of nowhere. Who by the way was a fourteen-year-old girl with long, wavy purple hair and a camera in her hand.
"OH MY GOSH! The bowtie is talking!" Everybody which meant Kaiba, attacker, people reading this story, authors and anyone for that matter fell over you know the anime way. Cause what better way to fall over then the anime way?
"Uh Mina… I mean Sailor Venus, that's not the bowtie talking. It's that girl over there." Kaiba explained and pointed towards the girl.
"Oh… well I knew that (yeah sure you did)." Mina turned towards the girl. "Venus Love Chain Encircle!" Her chain of hearts flew out and tried to ensnare the girl but the bowtie took the hit for her… what a noble bowtie TT.
"Nice try but you are definitely going to have to do a lot better then that." The girl put her camera down and pulled out two ribbons. "If you're going to use a whip I might as well keep things even."
"Thanks so very much." Mina said sarcastically, if this girl thought that her chain was her only weapon, well she had another thing coming.
The two of them circled around like in an old Western and then began their assault while Kaiba stood idly by.
"Venus Love and Beauty shock!" The heart kiss went flying towards violet head.
"Hey no fair! I thought you were only using a whip!" Mina smirked thinking she had got her when violet head started spinning the ribbons around creating a whirlwind and sending the attack right back at Mina. She dodged the attack in time, and as the smoke fluttered around in the air Mina came up with an idea.
When the smoke finally did clear, violet head was sure she had killed Mina since she wasn't there. Unfortunate for her she was wrong. Mina took the chance to use the smoke screen to get behind violet head and then issued her attack.
"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!" The hit was direct. Violet head was shot back and hit a building. Mina walked over and got ready to shoot at her again when she noticed something was different about violet head. Her eyes weren't pitch black anymore.
"Ow, where am I? Sakura?" Mina was about to ask who she was, why she attacked and who sent her when she remembered Kaiba was there and had no clue she was a senshi until now and quickly looked to see how he reacted to her transformation. He just stood there for 2½ seconds before saying…
"Where did you get the technology to make that outfit?"
"Oh my gosh! What an adorable sailor suit!" Violet head had recovered from the shock and had noticed her. "M name is Tomoyo, have you ever thought of adding more bows?"
Mina just looked back and forth between the two of them, thinking technology and bows and finally coming up with the answer…
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?"
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Lili and Ikki:Lili happily dragged Ikki towards the little ice cream parlor not far away from the school.
"Aren't you a little excited about just going for ice cream?" Ikki asked as he allowed himself to be dragged along the street.
"Yes, I'm excited! I haven't seen this town yet! I have every right to be excited." Lili replied a slight huff in her voice.
"Okay, Okay don't have a cow." Ikki said raising his hands in surrender. He couldn't help but notice that despite the similarities between Lili and Esmeralda the two were quite different. Where Esmeralda had been shy and quiet, Lili was loud and outgoing. Esmeralda had always seemed so delicate, like a flower that would die if handled the wrong way. Lili, on the other hand, was the complete opposite; it didn't matter what you did to her she would always bounce back.
"Ikki? Ikki wake up! You look like you're off in another world." Lili said waving her hand in front of Ikki's eyes.
"Huh? Wha- oh, sorry." Ikki said snapping out of his thoughts.
"That sounded so intelligent." The teen behind the counter said with a snicker. Ikki threw him a glare that promised a slow and painful death if he said one more word. The teen 'eeped' and ran to the back room. And other teen came out and took his place.
"What can I get for you?" The teen asked.
"I'll have strawberry." Lili said.
"And I'll take chocolate." Ikki added.
"Okay one strawberry and one chocolate coming right up." The teen said confirming the order.
"That'll be $10.95." The teen said coming back with their ice cream. Ikki paid the teen and he and Lili took their ice cream to a table near the window. After a while Lili began talking about just about anything that came to mind while waving her hands around wildly. She was so busy talking that she didn't notice when her ice cream flew off the cone until it landed on Ikki's face.
"Oh My…I'm so sorry." Lili apologized. Ikki gave her a look that plainly said 'you will pay'
"Um, should I be nervous about an impending retaliation?" Lili asked nervously.
"Depends." Ikki replied. He flicked his wrist allowing the ice cream to come flying off the cone he held.
"Eek!" Lili screamed quickly ducking out of the way of the frozen dairy product. Instead of hitting Lili as intended, Ikki's ice cream hit a middle aged bald man in the back of the head.
"What the…? Why you little brat!" the man yelled turning to face Ikki.
"Excuse me? Brat? Uh oh!" Ikki said joining Lili under the table just in time to avoid being hit by the man's sundae.
"You think this was a bad thing?" Lili asked innocently.
"Gee, ya think?" Ikki asked peaking out from under the table.
"Kinda." Lili replied.
"Okay, it looks like we just launched World War III out there. We're gonna have to make a run for it." Ikki said grabbing Lili's hand.
"Okay, on the count of three." Lili agreed blushing slightly.
"One…two…three!" Ikki said bursting out from under the table, with the inhuman speed that came with training as a saint of Athena, dragging Lili behind him.
"Ahhhh!" Lili screamed from both being pelted with ice cream and trying to at least semi-keep up with Ikki's cheetah like speed. When they finally made it out of the ice cream parlor they were both laughing like crazy.
"I can't remember the last time I laughed like that." Ikki said once he got his breath back. "I can't even remember the last time I even laughed at all." He added absentmindedly.
"What do you mean? Most people laugh at least once a day." Lili said looking at him.
"Not me, I spent most of my life in a place where laughter is almost a dream. Except evil laughter the kind you'd get from a villain in a movie or a cartoon." Ikki replied.
"Where in the world did you live?" Lili asked astonished that a place with such evil even existed.
"Hell, a living hell." Ikki replied his eyes darkening. Lili looked at Ikki; he seemed to be lost in his own horrible memories.
"Well, you're not there now are you?" Lili asked a smile forming on her face.
"No, but that doesn't matter. I'm the Phoenix, that place is now a part of me, and that won't change no matter how much I try to forget it." Ikki replied glaring at a clenched fist.
"Okay, here's my goal for the year, to get you to smile and laugh more often." Lili said happily. Ikki looked at her for a few seconds before turning quickly and starring down a dark ally way.
"Ikki? What's wrong?" Lili asked.
"Shhh. There's something there." Ikki replied hushing her. With those words a small black blur sped out of the ally. Lili saw Ikki move slightly as the blur went past him. Ikki was gripping his arm and his face was set in a wince as he turned to face the blur.
"I'm gonna kill ya, shrimpy." Ikki growled evilly. Lili gasped as Ikki took his hand away from his arm, his hand was covered in blood and there was a big gash going across his arm.
"Oh my god! How did that happen!" Lili asked.
"He's gotta sword." Ikki replied. By this time the blur has stopped revealing itself as boy in black, who was very small in stature and was holding a dangerous looking sword.
"The Queen wishes for the destruction of Athena's saints and all who move against her." The boy said.
"The Queen?" Lili repeated completely confused.
"I'm very tempted to go right on up there and kill them all off." Ikki muttered darkly.
"Up where? Them who?" Lili asked not understanding any thing that was going on.
"You will die now." The boy said and lunged at them with the sword ready.
"Run!" Ikki shouted.
"What? Why?" Lili asked.
"Hou Yoko Ten Sho! (Flaming wings takeoff)" Ikki shouted. The air around him burned with a fiery power as he threw a powerful punch at the boy. The boy leapt into the air and landed easily on Ikki's arm.
"Die." The boy said in a hushed whisper.
"Sorry, I've got a tendency to avoid an untimely, youthful death. Believe me I'd help ya if I could." Ikki remarked before moving away just managing to avoid the boy's blade.
'Not good, not good, not good.' Lili thought as she watched the scene play out. Then she saw a metal pipe that someone had thrown away lying on the ground.
"It's better than nothing." She muttered picking up the pipe. She walked quietly up behind the boy who was too busy fighting with Ikki to notice her. Ikki was also preoccupied so he was surprised when the metal pipe came down on the boy's head with a hollow thud.
"Ouch. That looked plenty painful." Ikki said watching the boy as he stumbled. When the boy got his bearings back he turned and glared at Lili.
"Baka Onna." He growled before lunging at her with his sword up.
"Hold it right there shrimp toast." Ikki said grabbing the boy's shirt.
"Let go of me you stupid human!" The boy growled.
"Sorry, but I usually like to know why I'm attacked by a complete stranger." Ikki said. The boy's eyes went from angry to enraged.
"That woman! I swear I'll kill her!" The boy shouted wiggling himself out of Ikki's grip.
"I thought so." Ikki muttered.
"Huh?" Lili asked.
"Hera, she must have brainwashed him." Ikki replied.
"Oh, I see. So what's your name kid?" Lili asked turning to the boy.
"I am not a kid." He snapped.
"Oh, I'm sorry. But I'd still like to know your name." Lili said.
"Hn." The boy grumbled.
"Okay that's an interesting name." Lili said.
"That's not his name Lili. He's not gonna tell ya." Ikki said.
"Oh, okay then I'll just call him shrimpy." Lili said brightly.
"You might want to tell her your name before that catches on." Ikki told the boy.
"Hiei." He growled out.
"It's nice to meet you Hiei." Lili said grinning brightly.
"Hn." The boy replied.
"Well, let's head back to the school before we get arrested for disturbing the peace." Ikki said.
"Agreed." Lili said nodding. Hiei Just glared.
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Hey FreeTheSoul888 here and oh my god we're finally updating after how long? Me and Hoshimare would like to apologize a million times for taking so long to update Boarding School Romance we have both been procrastinating and now we are both in the eleventh grade so we have a ton of assignments piled in front of us so me and her are both very sorry that we're taking so long to update chapters but you're going to have to please bare with us for the moment and I hope you all liked this chapter. We were originally going to have all the dates in this one chapter but it was taking a long time to get them all written out so we decided to post the first half of the dates in this chapter and then the others in the next chapter so Hoshimare and I, FreeTheSoul888 shall try to update the next chapter as soon as possible. Till then I love you all and I shall see you in the next chappie!
BYE!