Sohma Kisa, the Tiger, was walking home from school that day with tears in her eyes and her head bowed in sorrow. Today had been even more unbearable than most: she wished, more so than ever, that she was able to stand up for herself. In Kisa's mind, she knew she could, but shyness and passiveness would always take over before any other emotion even made its way to her brain.

Today, people had been meaner than ever before. Now, her whole class, no, her whole grade was calling her a slut because of some stupid rumor that had started. Someone in the all-boys junior high school next door was claiming to have seduced her without even trying….Why were boys such morons? That brat had even had the nerve to say that she had come onto him. The idiotic rumor had spread to his girlfriend – 'More like make-out buddy,' Kisa thought with disgust – and the girl had slapped her, hard. What unnerved Kisa is that it felt like if she hadn't dodged partly out of the way, it would have been worse than Akito's abuse. Following up the slap were a string of many curses, courtesy of the girl and her mindless 'friends'.

Now Kisa was just mulling it over in her mind, over and over again, staring at her feet the entire time. When she finally did look up, she noted that her feet had carried her right past her home to the park she always went to, to look at the cherry blossoms during the spring. There was someone in the place that she always sat at though. It was strange; the girl was the only one in the park besides Kisa. People were usually milling around in the park around now. Yes, people would walk trough the park with out even bothering to gaze up and admire the beauty of it all.

This girl though…she was different. She was admiring the beauty for what if was and not just acknowledging the fact that it was there. This girl sat there deep in thought, mouthing her thoughts to herself while still staring at the cherry blossom trees. This was not unlike what Kisa liked to do sometimes.

Kisa didn't think about how long she had been staring at the girl until she twisted around and saw her. She bolted right then, ignoring Kisa's stunned face.

Kisa remembered only one feature of the girl: violet eyes. As it seemed though, Kisa never really saw her, just imagined her, because right then, all the people she hadn't seen, were there, all around her, in every corner of the park.

This is what happened: Setsuna had stopped time…in a way. Everyone was doing everything like usual, but only because Kisa was the only one time stopped for. The park had seemed empty to Kisa because time had stopped in her mind, and her mind alone. Setsuna had projected an image of Hotaru, just for Kisa to see. She had started the bond of the two girls, even though only one even had the smallest clue they were to meet.

Hotaru awoke with a haze of irredescent lavender light surrounding her. Saturn had awoken in this world, though she would probably, never in this lifetime, have to use her senshi powers. Slowly, as Hotaru lay in bed, the Saturnian coloration (1) went away, leaving her to her own devices.

"Glad to see you're awake," Setsuna said from the other side of the room, not long after Hotaru had awoken.

"Yeah," Hotaru muttered, "What hit me?" Hotaru was so disorientated at the moment that she couldn't even remember the events of the previous day.
"I'll explain it," Setsuna sighed, not really feeling up to the job, "I asked you if you wanted to come with me to another dimension, and you agreed. That's about all there is to it. You weren't happy where we used to be." Setsuna was not being completely truthful, but that was all Hotaru needed to know right now.

"Okay…" Hotaru muttered, thinking that there would be a much longer explanation than that, but just brushed it off. She wasn't in the mood to discern what she could get out of Setsuna. Not now, but maybe later.

"Anyway, Hotaru, go get dressed. You need to eat breakfast, and then we're going to go meet someone, so be quick about it. I let you sleep in for as long as I could," Setsuna seemed quite serious about this matter, but then again, she always seemed serious. It was almost a sheer impossibility for her not to be, Hotaru mused. Well, there was a good reason for Setsuna's almost unnatural seriousness, wasn't there?

Hotaru quickly dressed when she found her normal dark apparel in the dresser, whaich stood not far from the bed she had been sleeping on…in fact, this room was almost an exact replica of hers, color wise, but she would have to replace all the little knick-knacks that used to be there.

When Hotaru walked out of her room, she was greeted with a hallway like any other, though it was somewhat smaller than the one in her old home back in her world…

It was then that she finally realised it; she wasn't in her own dimension; the aura here was… different… She shook away her shock and went back to observing the place that was to be her home for her stay in this world.

It was apparent that they weren't in a large house; more like a medium sized apartment. The walls were a light coffee color, which seemed odd to her because she was so used to white walls. Walking out of the hallway, she found the living room, which had a small kitchen attached to it. Again, the walls were a light coffee color, and the cabinets were a similar shade. To say that this place was in pretty desparate need of redecorating would have been an understatement…

'Well, I guess I might as well do as Setsuna-mama wanted me to,' Hotaru rolled her eyes, not too into the idea of eating right away, but she got over it. Grabbing cereal out of the strangely overstocked cabinet, and milk out of the fridge, and all the other necessities for a bowl of cereal, she began eating. 'Yuck,' she thought, 'Setsuna has really crappy choice in cereal. Couldn't she have got something that tasted a little better than cardboard?'

It didn't take long for Hotaru to finish, and that made Setsuna slightly happier. That meant that they wouldn't be late to visit her old friend. Introductions needed to be made, and that would take a while, with the amount of people she would need to meet. 'Well,' Setsuna thought, 'I suppose it's now the right time for me to take her to meet them.'

(1) When Saturn's full powers are awoken, her colouration changes from its usual black-violet hair and violet eyes to being bright violet hair and eyes. Her symbol also glows, giving her an almost ethereal apperence.