This pertains mainly to the original Japanese manga. Because of the fact this is based on the manga, Rei's grandfather, Rei's family relationships, and Rei's personality are different from her anime counterpart. (There will be no Yuichiro! He does not exist in the manga.)


It was pleasantly sunny on that day. Even though the queen's child would be born today, Neo-Queen Serenity was determined to get her reign solidified. Mars reflected that the Silver Moon Crystal--the one that Usagi--the past self of Neo-Queen Serenity, was throbbing to a different beat now. It looked different too. Eternal Sailor Moon had earned it a long time ago. But the crystal was reverting now. It was slow and noticeable, as was the fading of her memories of the future. She knew she fought the Black Moon, but the details of fighting them were getting fuzzier by the second. Images of a pink-haired soldier were quickly disappearing from her consciousness. Any memories of the future and what they would definitely contain, were being slowly erased from her mind.

Somehow this made her glad. She could not remember exactly why as she lined up to take her place next to Sailor Mercury, but not remembering the day when she told her father and grandfather the truth about who she was. She could not remember why she told them, she just knew she'd told them. But the edges of that were fuzzy too.


It was only a few months earlier that it had happened. They were at Hikawa Shrine, sitting on the steps leading her room when Setsuna appeared before them.

"I have to return to my rightful time soon. The future Neo-Queen Serenity is waiting for me. But you know too much of the future it is not one you are supposed to know. If you constantly worry about tomorrow, you will never reach the end that needs to be reached," Setsuna said.

"Then why are you here?" Ami asked.

"To tell you, that I will erase your memories of the future slowly. Before Small Lady is born, you will forget anything you've learned of the future. It will become fuzzy. Any knowledge of the future attacks on this planet will disappear."

"But the enemy is coming, are they not?" Minako asked.

"The time is coming, and though it may not look like it now, you will not be able to defend everyone on this planet against the attacks. There will be three major waves, but the second one is the one that will devastate this planet. The enemy is strong. This is all I can tell you. This conversation will also fade in time."

Rei looked into those dark ruby eyes and knew it to be the truth. Her premonitions had been getting stronger as of late. Setsuna nodded at Rei and left.

Usagi said, "Then we cannot wait. We have to tell our families about who we are and warn them."

"But Usagi, so soon?" Makoto asked.

"We knew we had to tell them eventually!" Usagi said laughing.

"Has Mamoru even proposed properly to you yet? How soon will it be?" Minako asked.

"Remember King Endymion said it was on her 22nd birthday that she took the throne and became Queen," Ami supplied.

Rei didn't speak. Telling her father and grandfather about what was to happen was not one she wanted to think about. Makoto looked at her and said, "Rei, aren't you going to tell your family?"

Rei said nothing and then looked up at Phobos and Deimos. What did dreams matter? What did life matter anymore?

"No, I don't think so," Rei said.

"But Rei..." Makoto started.

"Why should they have to know? Should I tell Kotono and all of the people from my High School too? Should I tell everyone from my college? What then? You heard Setsuna, we won't even remember why."

"You can't be serious Rei!" Minako said.

"What will happen will happen. Why should I try to change that? Why should any of us?" Rei asked.

"But your father and your grandfather, you would let them die!" Makoto said.

"Nothing is certain. They might survive. I think my grandfather already knows. Even so, I doubt he will care. My father can do whatever he likes. He won't like Neo-Queen Serenity's reign anyhow."

Usagi's fists were clenched in her lap. She said, "How could you? Don't you love your father?"

"No, I don't," Rei said, "He's always in meetings, he never comes himself, and he pretends to send Casablancas on my birthday. He never visits Mama's grave, and he never comes to say hello. He's a politician. How do you think he'll take you becoming Queen? He'll never live it down."

"That's too cold!" Usagi said.

It was fact to Rei. From the time she was a child, and her mother had died and her father never visited her mother once, never sent flowers or gifts, she had hated him. For a while she believed that he wanted the best for her, and really believed in her. He sent her to a Catholic School, provided money for her, and sent her flowers on her birthday. Her favorites. But she had learned over these years that his political career was more important than anything else. He wanted her to go to a private school because of his image. If people learned that she was going to a public school then it would look bad. His solution to everything was his image and money. When she was in trouble at school, he used his political power to make sure that she would be OK. When she wanted to be with him, he sent her money in his place. He didn't understand her at all. Why should she put any effort into rescuing him, when he had put no effort into loving her?

"Well, if you don't tell him, then I will! I lost my parents in a plane crash. I can't stand to see you do this to yourself Rei," Makoto said.

Makoto could hardly understand her situation. How could she? She never had parents that were so cold to her and treted her as an object.

Rei grabbed a piece of paper and wrote down a series of numbers with names.

"You can try, but I doubt you will be able to reach him. He'll never come to see me. Never," Rei said bitterly.

Makoto got up for the phone with the list. Usagi bowed to Rei and excused herself.

"Are you going to tell your family about Neo-Queen Serenity?" Minako asked Usagi.

"I thought I would wait on that one. It's going to be hard enough to let them know I'm Sailor Moon," Usagi said smiling.

"I wonder if Artemis or Luna will help us tell our parents," Minako mused.

Usagi flipped back her odango ponytail. It drifted behind her. She paused and said, "I doubt it, they've been going on dates a lot. They're in... love."

Minako laughed merrily and smirked. "I wonder when Luna will have Diana."

Rei wished she could be so carefree about telling her parents. Ami paused as she left and looked back at Rei. Rei looked at the Sailor. Ami looked sad, but Rei couldn't figure out if it was because of her, or what Ami had to face. Rei knew that Ami's situation was no better than hers, but at least she had parents that cared about her, and wanted to see her happy.

The short-haired soldier left without saying anything.

Makoto was still trying to get a hold of her father by the end of the day. Makoto had even eaten while she was on the phone trying to get a hold of Mr. Hino. Rei watched her but didn't help. She had done this many times before to only get her father's assistant. Her father's assistant was the one that always sent the flowers, not her father. He would always make excuses for her father and say he was here or there. He would give her false messages of love from her father that for a while she believed.

"Thank you. Yes, I'll hold," Makoto said.

Rei passed by her on her way to meditation. Makoto didn't give up in all of that time. She never wavered, and for a while Rei thought she might get through. But then night fell, and Makoto had fallen asleep on the tatami mat. Rei sighed. It was always like that.

Rei put a blanket over Makoto and then went to bed. Makoto would probably give up in the morning. She would go home and then tell her friends she was Sailor Jupiter and to come to Crystal Palace with her.

Makoto was up in the morning calling again, taking notes and waiting on hold. Rei brought her rice and food while she called. When Rei tried to get her to stop Makoto said, "It'll be just a bit longer, I'm sure."

"Hi, yes, this is Kino Makoto. Yes, I am Hino Rei-san's friend. Yes, I'll hold," Makoto answered.

By noon Makoto asked for more paper to take notes on, and by evening, she had Hino-san on the line.

"You can't mean that sir! Rei really needs to talk to you, and--"

Rei knew it would end this way. It was always this way.

"If you love her sir, you'll come and see her...I already talked to your press secretary, who told me to talk to your publicist, who told me to talk to your regular secretary, who told me to talk to your assistant. Your assistant told me that you don't talk to people like me...I know sir, but if you just wait, I can get her on the phone."

Makoto handed the phone to Rei. Rei picked up the answer and said, "This is Hino Rei speaking, who is this?"

"Rei? Why are you having your friends call me out of an important meeting? If this deal doesn't go through then there will be big trouble for Japan."

"It's always the same, isn't it? You never have time for me. I'm never important enough for you. It's your career, money or meetings, isn't it Hino-san?"

Rei never called him papa anymore.

There was silence on the other end.

"You have nothing to say, do you? I'm never important enough for you. I bet you were going to say, 'Tell me over the phone if it's that important', 'Come and see me if you really need to talk', and then you never show up. You never take me seriously, do you, Hino-san? You never went to mama's grave once. You never came to the shrine. So why should I spare you from certain death if you never cared about me?"

Tears welled up in Rei's eyes. Her throat clenched, but she wouldn't let this man do this to her.

Still the other end was silent, and even though Rei wasn't sure if he was on the line anymore she started to talk. She said all the things she was meaning to say all these years.

"...Then I begged you to let me to go to Juuban High School. I wanted to be with my friends. But you said no. You didn't care, it was about your image, wasn't it Hino-san? And then when I went to college, you picked the college for me. I didn't get in because of my grades, I got in because you were a man with political pull. You know how many of my classmates think that? I know you did that. You never gave anything for my birthdays. It was your assistant, wasn't it, Hino-san? I didn't vote for you in the last election either. Why should I when I know how you treat your daughter and your wife? Why should I when I see you go out with women and treat them like you do me?"

All of the bitterness flooded out. She talked and talked. She didn't know for how long or exactly why. But it was long enough that her grandfather took notice. He knew what her father had put her through all these years. However, she doubted her grandfather would want to accept an eternal life as he was now. He was a Shinto Priest. What lived lived, and what died died, because that was how life went.

When she looked up she saw her father there, standing in a suit. His face was straight and clean, still holding his phone. Her grandfather was beside him.

"I tried to do the best for you Rei. I really tried," was all her father could say.

Rei put down the phone. Makoto had left her there.

"I was always last in your affections--even when mama was alive, you put us last. But it doesn't matter anymore. I know that in a few month's time, all of the world will die in an attack."

Rei laughed at this, though she didn't find anything funny.

"I wasn't going to tell you this Hino-san, but now it seems fitting. I am Sailor Mars. Your government underneath the wave of attacks will fall. War will come over the world as no one can fight it. Neo-Queen Serenity will take her place, and your pittance of a job will mean nothing."

She cried out the words for her transformation with complete anger. All of the frustration she had felt over her years of life now cemented into this moment.

"I am past calling you papa, a long time ago, Hino-san. But if you do not believe your eyes now, then you will not when you are dying outside of Crystal Palace. Though if I know you, you will worm your way in past a woman and child to take their place."

Somehow the words didn't comfort her.

"I am going to be a guardian for Neo-Queen Serenity's reign, and there is nothing you can do to stop me. There is nothing you can do to prevent these series of events. Now, do you--"

She stopped. Her father was crying. She for a moment thought it was over his political career, but he wasn't. He murmured a few words and then slowly said, "I see, I failed you. I could never replace your mother, Rei. How could I be a good father to you when you kept pushing me away? I couldn't be there for you. And when your mother died..."

Sailor Mars stopped her words. Even under the weight of this confession, she couldn't feel love for him. She wished she could, but so many bad things had happened.

"Rei, I cannot go to Crystal Palace if it means that I do not live out my term of life," the mustached man interrupted.

She looked at her grandfather. He nodded.

"I cannot sacrifice my beliefs--someone more young and worthy will take my place. Invite someone--a mother and a child perhaps. I am getting old, and though you are dear to me, I long to see my daughter," her grandfather said.

Then he had known for a long time. Her grandfather nodded in his knowing way and left her with her father.

"Then there is nothing I can do?" her father asked.

"No, all of the governments will fall."

"No, about us," her father said.

Sailor Mars shook her head. She let the transformation fade. Rei cleared her eyes of her hair.

"Are you coming to Crystal Palace once it's built? Chaos will come to this planet soon. It needs new victims. It followed us from the Cauldron. I saw it in a dream," Rei said.

"I can't, Rei. If what you say is true, then the best I can do is get the government to prepare."

"You won't remember why in a few months," Rei said, "The Sailor Soldier of Time has told us that all knowledge of future events will end before the coronation of Neo-Queen Serenity."

"I still have to try," her father said. He looked into her eyes in a way he hadn't done since she was a child. "Since you said that all knowledge of future events will be erased. I have one thing to tell you, that I wish you to remember always. I love you."

Rei smiled a bit at this, but stood stiffly as he kissed her on the forehead. He turned and left. She could count her heartbeats as he disappeared down the hallway.

As the months passed, and Usagi announced her pregnancy and wedding, Rei slowly forgot the conversation she had with her father. The only words that echoed in her mind were the last ones he'd told her, "I love you."

Rei expected him to fight Neo-Queen Serenity's reign. But the attacks had happened as she had thought, and her grandfather and father had died trying to save others from the attacks. She didn't remember now telling them anything about going to Crystal Palace. Perhaps it was for the best. Both of them had died doing what they needed to do and there was nothing in the world she could have done to stop them.


Makoto was luckier. She only had two people to tell about the attacks. Mars looked at Jupiter as she took her place on the podium. She was lucky, she'd already lost her family.


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