By Hotaru Hope Maxwell

I do not own anything from Sailor Moon or YYH!

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"Oh where in the world did that girl disappear to?" Keiko murmured as she and Yuusuke looked in one part of the divided territory that Kuwabara and Shizura said Hotaru's power had drifted off to. It was obvious that the raven-haired teen was solely interested in the Ferris wheel, but for her to come this far it must have been something of odd value to do so. "Hotaru! You Ass! Get back here!" Yuusuke shouted as loudly as he could. Kurama, who was standing not to far off, made a hasty right way exit as Keiko's fist met the idiotic spirit detective's head. "Moron." Keiko delivered another punch before stalking, steaming over to another part of the forest.

Hotaru pocked her head through a herd of bushes as she heard the word escape Keiko's mouth. Her violet eyes pretending to be large. "Keiko-dono?" She questioned, a small question mark appearing above her head. "Hotaru!" Keiko and Shizura shouted together as Botan squealed. The poor Saturnian didn't have a chance as she was hugged by the two humans and then tossed around as they shouted.

"Hotaru! How could you do something like there?! Where were you! Didn't you hear us calling for you?" Keiko and Botan were shouting as the blue-headed guide to death cried happily against a soggy piece of paper. "YUUSUKE!" A voice shouted over the area, causing the entire group to plummet from their hysterics.

Hotaru shot up from her position as did the others as the familiar big headed baby leader made an appearance in a pink puff of smoke. "Yuusuke! We got problems!" Koenma cried out. Hotaru, Kuwabara, Kurama, Botan and Hiei all swarmed about the leader of the team as the King of Spirit World made his announcement. "What's it about this time, brat?" Yuusuke muttered in his normal disrespecting tone.

"It is horrible! You have to return to Spirit World right now! Keiko! Shizura! You two come too!" Koenma shouted, pointing at the two humans. Hotaru found herself wanting to etch backwards as the baby king began to throw a fit. "It's so terrible! Yuusuke! I mean it! Come here now!" With that he vanished.

*@*@*@*@* About 10 minutes later *@*@*@*@*

Yuusuke whistled as he looked about the darkly colored halls of the Spirit World castle. Hotaru blinked, noting that the colors were more consistent with Pluto or Saturn tones now than the previously brighter ones. She blinked when a young woman with wild light green hair and dark brown red eyes appeared. She was short, like herself and was actually about her height. Hotaru blinked as Kuwabara rushed forward. "Yukina! My love!" He cried, his voice light with hope and laughter. The girl dodged to the left, not noticing the boy as he came up for a hug. He fell flat on his face and that broke Hotaru and Shizura into a fit of silent giggles.

"Yukina?! What in the name of the holy are you doing here?" Botan questioned, interrupting Hotaru and Shizura's fun. Hotaru blinked, taking in the slim girl's features. "It's horrid, Botan." A frail and fragile voice thick with pain whispered out so quietly that Hotaru almost didn't catch it. The others were looking at the small member with interest. "The Spirit world…. It's almost completely vanished…."

Hotaru froze at those words. Damn. That wasn't a good sign, now was it. If today was the day of bad omens, Hotaru was sure getting knocked around. First with the strange car things, then the dress up doll act, the strange pervert and now this. Hotaru was about to curse the gods whom made her fate but stopped noting a small jewel on the ground. Her eyes flew upward to see the girl was almost in tears, the trail of one on the edge of her cheek. The girl was her age, but the feelings Hotaru got from her was more innocent and sweet, as if the girl had never really had a chance to grow up.

It was somewhat like how the reasoning by Senshi to protect the ever innocent Serenity. Hotaru almost scoffed, almost. Grasping her hand into a fist, she shook herself of the thoughts and watched as Keiko and Shizura hugged Yukina. What she would give to have true friends like that, she figured. It was all right for strangers to hug her, but they didn't understand her in the way she wanted. Hotaru felt her heart lurch out inside of her chest and stepped gravely forward. Putting up a small smile atop a sad face, the girl grinned gently as she stared at the other.

"Hello. Your name's Yukina, correct?" she questioned quietly as she spoke to the brown eyed one. The girl nodded, blinking and looking at her. "I am called Hotaru. It is nice to meet you, Yukina." In Japanese tradition accordance, Hotaru bowed gracefully. The girl looked at her wide-eyed before doing the same. "The pleasure is mine." She spoke in a very precise and sweet manner. Hotaru smiled gently in a comforting way, causing the young girl to give a sad smile back. "Don't worry, beloved Yukina! I, Kuwabara will return all to normal." Hotaru sweat dropped and sent Kuwabara nasty look. "As if you could return anything to normal…" She huffed, crossing her arms stubbornly.

"I could so!" Kuwabara stated. "Could so what, moron?" Hotaru challenged in return, "Actually hitting a target would be hard for you!" Shizura laughed at Hotaru's remark. Kuwabara let out a growl before speaking, "Wouldn't you like to see what I'm able to half of what I could do!" He shouted at her. "It's Wouldn't you like to see half of what I could do, baka." Hotaru sneered, before stating, "Can't even form a sentence correctly I see." Botan snickered with Yuusuke before even the blue patron of death was in full out laughter. "Why you-" Kuwabara was stopped as his sister sent a punch into his face. "You moron! What happened to the 'Code' you pride yourself upon!" Shizura shouted.

Yukina looked at Hotaru as her temperament suddenly took a turn. When Kuwabara leapt at the chance to defend himself, he was batted and beaten down by the young raven-haired girl's words and then by his own sister and supposed friend. The way Hotaru calmly approached the onslaught of the strange human was quiet curious to Yukina until she found herself giggling. It was quite funny to hear all Hotaru had said. Kuwabara was a somewhat silly man, the funniest Yukina had met and when tempers flared to life like this, it was no fault of her own that she broke out laughing.

Hotaru hid her smile very well when she found Yukina laughing alongside Botan and Yuusuke. However, that slight smirk was well caught by the two demons of the party. Kurama shook his head and looked to see Hiei wearing a slight one of his own. ***Sweet, isn't it, Hiei?*** Kurama's voice entered Hiei's mind. The boy turned and glared at him. ****Shut up**** with that he tugged the laughing Yuusuke toward Koenma's door which led to Botan being pulled and then Hotaru and Keiko. Following them was a giggling Yukina and laughing Shizura and a snickering Kurama who was trailed by the angry and overly steaming Kuwabara.

"Yuusuke Urameshi! How long is coming here supposed to take!" Hotaru felt her back stiffen as she heard the infant leader of the Spirit World's loud voice. She turned in time to see Koenma crawl out from behind a bunch of papers. "We've got major problems!" Koenma told them, huffing and puffing.

"What's going on now, Koenma?" Yuusuke groaned out, his own look appearing more annoyed than anything else. Hotaru sighed, watching as Keiko hit the boy over the head and shut him up with a glare.

"It's Spirit World. As I assume, Yukina has told you part of the problem. It is dying as we speak…" The baby looked down. Hotaru grimaced, she had no choice then, and they would return her home no doubt. The raven-haired girl looked down, sensing eyes gazing at Yukina. Was it all her fault? Was she not strong enough to stop Kaori? Sighing, she looked to the group.

"Well, I guess you got to lead us, Miss Hotaru." Yuusuke grinned at her, noting the cold and distant look within the girl's eyes. Hotaru nodded, turning away to gaze at Koenma with haunted eyes. "When shall we depart?" Her voice was much colder, bringing a glare from Hiei. He didn't enjoy the voice's tone, how cold and dead it was. The way her voice was devoid of life caused Hiei to feel angry and bitter. It caused a pain in his chest that he didn't like, almost as horrible he'd felt as when he failed to defend Yukina from that blasted human who'd captured her. He never even noted Kurama's sly grin fixed upon his angry and spiteful face.

****Later***

Hotaru stood alongside Kurama as the group gazed into the swirling portal. Her clothing, upon getting close to the portal had shifted and become a long black dress with no sleeves and a somewhat puffy skirt. The dress had a belt trimmed in dark purple and the girl wore raven colored gloves, one reaching her lower wrist while the other touched her elbow. Her shoes were black heals. The boys seemed a bit surprised by the change, but ignored it as their clothing shifted as well. Kurama wore a white tunic like shirt with pale green pants. The shirt itself went to his knees and also had no shoulders. His hair was pulled into a loose ponytail and around his was a brown belt with a dagger and scarab attached. Kuwabara wore a similar outfit only his tunic shirt was a dull tone of gray and his pants were black. Black sandals covered his feet, like Kurama's. He however, lacked the belt and had a sword rapped around his arm. Yuusuke came to be pretty funny in Keiko's book. He wore a long sleeved, dark blue tunic shirt with black pants. The shirt cut off half way down, creating the tale like vision. It had the symbol of Saturn etched in light silver in the back and around his waist was a black belt. His arms had dark blue cuffs and his shoes were like his traditional fighting shoes that he wore to the tournament. Around his neck there was a choker colored the same as his cuffs but it had the symbol for Saturn in the front. Hiei's outfit was different. He still wore all black. It was a black button up shirt covered by a cloak lined on the inside with ruby red. His pants were black and like the others, however, dark brown riding boots helped in the ensemble. He wore a white bandana in his hair, per usual, however a small black jewel was attached to it, coming to stop on the border between his noise and eyes.

"What is with this get up, Koenma!" Yuusuke hotly remarked to the baby leader. The manager of Spirit world coughed. "We can't have you looking like hooligans in the capital of a long forgotten kingdom, Yuusuke! If you were to appear there dressed normally you might be considered spies. And another thing, each of your outfits shows who you are in a position of nobility." Koenma replied. After looking carefully at the attires, Hotaru could guess what position each held.

"Let's see. Kurama and Kuwabara are servants. Yuusuke is an inner guard and Hiei is a lord? Am I right?" Hotaru turned to face the world's master. The baby nodded as each of the boys sent him strange looks. "What! Shrimpy's the lord? How come!" Kuwabara gave a cry of outrage.

"I think you just answered your own question, idiot." Hotaru murmured, watching as Yukina, Botan and Keiko each broke into a fit of hidden giggles. At Kuwabara's glare, Hotaru began to answer with a smirk, "The Lords and Dukes of Saturn are taught to be quiet and respected. Saturn is a place where threats and silence run supreme. Take that for granted and you will lose your head, servant-boy." She snickered, crossing her arms. Kuwabara at this point started with a gaze of confusion until he figured out what she was saying. Then it seemed as if steam was coming out of his ears. Yuusuke and Kurama had joined the girls in trying to hide their own laughter.

"Can we go now?" Hotaru waltzed past the baka, straight into the portal without waiting for Yuusuke or the others. She'd figured that servants of her quarter's care had changed her clothing. 'Maybe they saw the dirt and cuts and decided to take care of me for once…' Hotaru's mind contemplated. Yuusuke and the others weren't far behind and Hotaru felt herself being torn again. When the group arrived, they were again inside of Kaori's lab. Each of the young men let out coughs while Hotaru just stood idly by.

"That's some sort of crazy trip." Yuusuke stated with a grin. Hotaru rolled her eyes and glanced about the room. Nothing looked damaged, if anything, Kaori's lack of cleaning up had improved. She floated through the near by crystal styled table. "I need to check on my body. I'll be back." Hotaru stated, floating through the door. She was surprised when Hiei and the others made moves to follow her.

Nothing seemed more uneasy to the girl as they walked through the halls of the palace. "Where are we Hotaru?" Kurama questioned the spirit, noting her downcast eyes. There it was; the dreaded question. The one that every part of her hated. Soon, soon all would be revealed and the life of equality without persecution she'd found would be destroyed. Hotaru came to a stop in the hall, staring at the black door with the heavy lock. "We are inside Saturn's castle. My home…." She muttered, not caring to see the widening eyes….

TBC….

Okay, so Hotaru's home and back as a spirit. She's floating through stuff and is really depressed. Hiei doesn't like it and doesn't understand why? Now the gang stands in front of her room. What will they think when Hotaru reveals that her name is Saturn and that she IS the royal in succession to the throne?! What will they do when the inner guard attacks them! Next time on Chocolate Violets: Dark Chocolate: Hotaru reveals all and the family of Saturn's heart breaking secret is revealed. Who ever said being a princess was easy was totally wrong. Chapter Title: Admissions