Again I apologize for the wait on chapter 4. There is not much action in this one some flashbacks (ok quite a few), some romance and stuff. The plot thickens the next chapter is where the action and a few questions get answered. I'll start work on that tommorrow.
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and all of the characters belonging to the manag/anime belong to Naoko Takeuchi. DEMO, all the original character that appear in this story belong to me!!!! An d if you touch them without my permission I will send the Bonta-kun squad, the almighty Empire, every Sith Lord, and an army of random chibis to torture you end over end until I get bored with it all, show up at your home personallly, and sue you for every dime you have. Then i will finally kill you slowly... and then get away with it. Have a good day! XD Oh yes, Rei Hino is my wife (I have a marraige certificate to prove it) if you touch her it will also result in the aformentioned death. Enjoy my new chapter. XD
Chapter 4
He was standing in the middle of of a rose garden in front of a beautiful looking white palace. The sun was setting in the distance over in the south. Rei stood facing him dressed in a flowing white gown and a white silk robe. Her eyes were full of tears and she stared back at him silently. He looked down and noticed that he was dressed in a strange type of armor. It was a chest plate that was entirely white with lines of gold trimming flowing around the curves to give it the look of muscular definition. The long sleeved shirt he wore underneath it was of the same color and while. It felt soft to the touch, he knew for some reason that it was extremely, if not insanely durable. It seemed that his pants shared the same color and material as well. A silver cape fell from his shoulders and brushed gently against the grass around his ankles. Wait, just what the hell is going on here? Where am I? Who am I? Why is Rei here? Why is she crying? His hand moved without him commanding it to. It seemed his hold body was moving without his permission. It was his body, and at the same time... it wasn't. All Seth wanted was to find out where he was, ask some questions, and get his barrings. He looked up into her violet eyes, for a moment they just stood like that as if frozen in the instant. Staring at each other not saying a word as emotions told the story they already knew so well. He took her hand in his and sighed breaking the moment.
"You know I have to leave, the kingdom must be protected from the outsiders." he said softly and pulled her closer. She wrapped her arms around him.
"I'm just afraid you won't make it back. ." she whispered into his ear. He knew she had called him by a name, but for some reason he could not hear it. Even though he knew it was his name.
"Did you have a premonition? Or are these simply a lovers worries?" he smiled softly down at her and wiped a tear from her cheek with a finger.
"I'm just afraid you won't come back!" she cried out as if finally letting go of a burden she no longer wished to carry and buried her face in his shoulder.
"Hey I know you are good at seeing future events and all, but I want you to have faith in me. I promise, I will return." he said seriously and brushed his hands through her silky hair. He cupped another stray tear which was rolling down her face and closed his hand around it. When he reopened it a tiny pearl sat in the palm of his hand. "It's not much, but use this to remember me by. For now I promise that the next time I will leave something more personal." he spoke softly in a comforting voice that seemed to to warm her body and tighten her hands so he could not move away from her.
"No, it's fine." she smiled back up at him. A genuine smile not one of the false ones she gave for public appearances or when she wanted to make someone else feel better while she silently suffered. This was a private smile, and one that only he was allowed to see. This made his heart beat faster. "Take this then." she said removing a small golden locket from around her neck.
"I can't! It's all you have left of your family, and you know I won't take." he sternly replied.
"I'm giving it to you. So you better take it or you'll pay later for it." she glared at him in stubbornness.
"Fine, but I'm returning it when I get back." he said as she wrapped it around his neck.
"Make sure you do then." she smiled that same smile back at him. "I love you." she said softly as the tears came out again.
"I love you too." he said wiping away another tear and then he leaned in gently pressing his lips against hers before she wrapped him in tight for a strong passionate kiss.
What's going on? I know this, but I don't know this. It's like a vague memory or something. I can't hold onto it. Vague... but somehow familiar. A sharp pain brought him suddenly back to reality. He opened his eyes to see the soldier rushing forwards at him.
"You should have stayed out of this, boy! Now you will have to die along with them!" the soldier shouted rushing at him still wondering how the kid had survived the initial hit of his energy ball to begin with. Surely he was not that weak. Was General Akalyte's intelligence wrong? No! That wasn't possible. Yet here the boy stood getting ready his the next attack. The man grinned to himself at least the boy knew what real speed was.
The soldier threw his fist forward and the Silver Shadow grinned as Seth simply caught it as if snatching a piece of fruit from the air.
"Do you see how pointless it is?" the Silver Shadow sighed. "You're here to kill me? The boy isn't even a soldier." he said looking down at Seth. "This is the speed you need if you wish to continue your fight." he said looking the girls over. The soldier was so surprised by how quickly Seth had moved that he had lost his focus. Seth seized this opportunity to slam his fist into his stomach doubling the soldier over in pain. He slammed his elbow into the soldier's back knocking him to the ground. "You need to train..." the Shadow moved so quickly that in mid sentence he had moved to beside Seth. "Harder! Allow me." he said softly to Seth and turned the soldier into fine powder with a quick energy beam.
"Who the hell are you?" Seth asked in confusion. "Are you another one of these vigilante kids?" he asked pointing at the others.
"No. I'm not." he chuckled.
"So you just dress weird for the fun of it?" Seth responded to his outfit.
"I guess you could say that." the Silver Shadow grinned.
"Just who the hell are you?" Seth glanced him over once more in confusion.
"Not yet, but you'll find out soon." the Shadow grinned back at him and leaped away from him before disappearing. It was around that time when every one ran up towards him.
"Worry about the people before you worry about me!" he called out and they spread out to tend to the unconscious people laying in the street. Seth felt a small cool object touch his skin and reached into his shirt and pulled out a small golden necklace that was now hanging from his neck. Was it really real?
"What were you thinking?! I can't believe you were actually stupid enough to jump in on that fight you could have been killed!!!" Luna screamed at him when they made it back to the temple.
"Uh, Usagi... your cat... just... talked." Seth said falling over in shock staring dumbfounded at Luna.
"Yeah, I know. She does that." Usagi smiled and the girls began laughing.
"I'm serious you could have died!" Luna said jumping up on his chest and yelling at him some more.
"I think I liked her better when she didn't talk." Seth said looking at Usagi and ignoring Luna completely.
"Sometimes I think the same thing." Usagi said in between giggle fits.
"Are you even listening to me?!" Luna demanded.
"Look if it's so damn dangerous for me then why weren't YOU in there doing what I wasn't supposed to, huh?" he said picking Luna up and yelling back at her. "You got four legs, you should have been there ahead of me!" he continued and the girls burst out into new fits of laughter as Luna hung there speechless. "So, Usagi. Or should I call you Sailor Moon?" he added at the end mulling it over in his head.
"Usagi is fine." she answered finally getting a hold of herself.
"Is this why you asked me to train you, because of what the other guy was lecturing you all about?" he asked.
"That's right." she admitted.
"Then I've been taking you guys too lightly. From now on it's twenty laps around the temple and 2 hours of sparing with the weights." he said and the girls all moaned.
"Are you trying to put me in the hospital?" Usagi complained.
"Hey, don't give me that crap. That guy's attack just now, it stung. In fact I can still kinda feel it." he said rubbing his chest. "Your punches tickle. It's time to get serious. I just had no idea I was really at such a high level. I just figured when my master started losing to me he was doing it on purpose to get my confidence up." he chuckled.
"Nope. You're just gonna have to face the fact that your extraordinary." Rei chuckled and flashed him the smile he had seen in the hazy memory he had seen earlier. And just like it had then, his heart began to beat faster.
"How did you guys know to ask me, I held back a lot when I fought you guys at the Cd shop." Seth asked.
"On accident." Usagi admitted. "We were told to find someone to train us by the Silver Shadow, we all kinda figured he meant you."
"You mean that other freak in the white tux? Who is he?" he asked.
"We don't know, he just showed up a little while back." Rei answered.
"Actually, I thought he was you." Makoto admitted and got nods from the rest of the girls.
"I'm kinda glad I'm not. I'd probably shoot myself if I walked around like that all the time. Plus I hate ties, no way I'd fight evil in one." he grinned and Mamoru chuckled.
"What are you laughing at over there tuxedo boy? You look like the dark side of him." Seth teased.
"He stole the look from me." Mamoru shrugged.
"Are you sure?" Seth grinned even wider.
"I want to know who this boy is as well." the Prince said staring at small holographic recording being projected by a device sitting in the palm of his hand. "It seems they are becoming more than simply a mild irritant. You have my permission to eliminate them." he sighed. "I'm counting on you brother." he smiled at Akalyte.
"It will be done. I'll put two of my better soldiers on the job." he smiled back.
"See that you do. You have one day to get your plan ready and bring it to me." he waved dismissively and Akalyte bowed then disappeared. "You don't approve?" he asked into the chamber.
"It's not my place to question your decisions." a voice called out from the shadows as a young woman in short dark hair cut in a straight even line that fell just above her shoulders stepped out into the center of the chamber to address him properly. Her green eyes locked on him as she stood waiting for a reply. She was thin but her clothing was work loose to hide the sculpted muscles of a the hand to hand combat master that she was.
"True, but I'm not simply a dictator who will not let his own people speak their minds in front of him." he spoke softly reviewing the holo-image of the battle once again.
"You put too much trust in your brother. Anyone else would have been removed of their position or their life for such failure by now." she stated in a tone that held no emotion.
"You would have me strip him of his rank and have him killed then?" he asked raising and eyebrow but not taking his eyes off of the images before him. It bothered her that he did not look at her, but she had long since realized that when the prince was studying something for a weakness he stuck with it. He was capable of paying attention to more than one thing. For some reason she could not explain though it still bothered her that he did not look at her.
"No, but I ask that he should be removed from this assignment, he is having an apparent difficulty with it." she amended.
"I don't believe that is true. He has just put the wrong people forward to do the job he's testing the enemy. Which is a sound tactic." the Prince countered.
"With all due respect your highness we do not have the time or the personal to waste on measuring the strength of the guardians of this planet." she replied back in the same business tone she had used earlier.
"I don't disagree on any particular point, which is why I just had him speed things up by attacking them directly. Without them around don't you think that are progress will speed up?" he asked finally looking up from the hologram to look at her.
"I think it would be more prudent to do both at once with two separate teams." she replied.
"I see. You do have a point. I'll mention it to him." he nodded and resumed scanning the young man as the soldier attacked him with an energy ball that would should have turned the boy to dust. "it seems that we underestimate our opponent too often, sometimes it is better to play it safe." he sighed. "On to other matters. Such as psychological warfare, have the dreams I requested been sent?"
"An hour ago." she replied without pause.
"Good." he replied as he watched the kid slam his fist into the soldiers stomach that he spit up blood.
"Hey, I promise I'll be back. It's just some useless posturing and another boring social function. Don't worry so much Serenity." Seth said patting a very elegantly dressed Usagi on the head. He was dressed in the same outfit again. This time he was standing in front of the palace it wasn't just Usagi who was there either. Ami and Minako where there too. They were all dressed in soft flowing white gowns. White seemed to be an ongoing theme in this place and the was always a touch of peace to the atmosphere as well. As if the air was laced with a calming chemical. "You always worry over everything and yet you shy away from simple political functions like this. That's why she never sends you on the dignitary functions, even though you will be Queen eventually." he scolded her softly. Besides that secret lover of yours should be able to take care of you while I'm gone, right?" he said softly and watched her face turn red with both anger and embarrassment.
"On second thought, it would be better if you just left already." she said glaring at him and hopping Minako had not heard him. She glanced back and it appeared she had not.
"Are you guardians gonna be okay without me?" he asked raising his voice so the two others standing behind Serenity could hear him.
"We'll be fine." Ami replied.
"Don't you know. We're throwing a party to celebrate the fact that you'll be gone for a few days and won't be able to pester us." Minako said lightly. Seth grinned and nodded at the confirmation of the code phrase they used to say that all the protection for Serenity was in place.
"Now don't do anything stupid while I'm gone, like get married." Seth said turning back to Serenity.
"I'll wait until you get back." she relied with a sly grin.
"Don't do it then either." he smiled and stepped away from them and headed off down the long walkway. Midway down he turned to look back and saw that the palace lay in ruins and the courtyard was nothing more than dust and rock.
"!" a voice whispered the name that was supposedly his again. He woke up sitting up covered in a layer of cold sweat. What's going on? What are these? Are they memories? Of what? Why are they so familiar? And why me anyway?
"Seth are you alright?" Luna asked hopping up on his lap.
"Yeah, just another weird dream I didn't want." he replied.
"Wanna talk about it?' she offered.
"No, not really." he said wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"Right now we should check on Usagi. Sometimes I can get a sense of how people are feeling. I get it really well from Usagi for some reason. She just woke up too, and she doesn't seem to be dealing with good dreams either." he said moving Luna aside and climbing out from under his blanket.
Usagi ducked another punch.
"You're not too bad." she heard the Silver Shadow say to Seth. Seth threw his fist forward and the Shadow cocked his head to the side to dodge the blow. Seth's fist flew by, but the Shadow caught his wrist before the he could pull it back. He brought his hand swiftly into Seth's throat closing up his wind pipe. "Worthy of a quick death." the Shadow smiled and released a beam of energy, which quickly turned Seth into a pile of ashes.
"Seth! Damn you! NO!" Usagi screamed and charged at him. Only to be slammed into the ground by an invisible barrier.
"Stupid child. Perhaps the foreseer can teach you some manners." the Shadow said over the noise of the dying senshi and the fatally wounded Mamoru all around them. Usagi was lifted off of the ground as a yellow bubble formed around her.
"Let me out of here, you BASTARD!!!" she screamed at him, his only response was soft laughter. She disappeared from the area she was in and reappeared in a dark round chamber. It was difficult to see a ceiling of any kind due to the darkness around the top of the room, but the room had a dark blue hue to it.
"Welcome my child. It's too bad my son could not follow you here. I am the foreseer, at least that's what the Dark Army calls me. You will learn to call me master, and maybe one day you will call me father." Said a man in a black hooded robe that fell to his ankles. His face was hidden behind his hood, but she felt a tremendous amount of power radiating out of him. He held up his hand and Usagi lifted into the air. "I shall teach you to achieve power you could never believe, my daughter." he said softly.
She sat up quickly and pulled at her PJ's, which were stuck to her body because of the cold sweat she was covered in. A small knock on the door almost made her fall out of her bed.
"Who is it?" she asked as the door cracked open.
"Us." Seth said sticking his head in through the opening as Luna padded into the room and hopped up onto Usagi's lap.
"I had a dream about you." she said.
"I didn't know I was scary enough to cause you nightmares."
"How did you know I had a nightmare?" she asked.
"You mean aside from the fact that your covered in sweat, you keep acting like someone is around the corner waiting to grab you? Well then Nothing gave it away." he said sarcastically, but calmly.
"You died." she explained.
"Someone killed me?" he asked.
"The Silver Shadow." she answered.
"Do you think it might be an omen?" Luna asked.
"Omen?" Seth staring at them both skeptically.
"She sometimes gets premonitions of danger in the near future. It's less common with Usagi, Rei usually gets them, but it's not unheard of." Luna explained.
"Well that just makes things more interesting." Seth remarked sarcastically.
"I don't know, but it worries me." she said softly as she remembered the foreseer's words.
"I shall teach you to achieve power you could never believe, my daughter."
He stood frozen by the Silver Shadow's powers.
"Now, the only one who had a chance is dead." the Shadow said looking down at the pile of ash that had been Seth's body a few meters away. "No one can save you." he smiled picked Usagi up and threw her through a dark portal of some kind.
"Usagi!!!" Mamoru screamed.
"She's no longer your concern." the Shadow said stepping forward quickly and shoving a black crystalline dagger through Mamoru's lungs. "Die honorably, without a sound." the Shadow whispered into his ear. He slammed into the ground as his vision blurred and he slowly drowned in his own blood. His vision grew narrower and darker until all he saw was darkness. Mamoru sat up in his bed quicker that human speed would allow and he felt the muscles in his back protesting at his sudden reaction. Adrenaline kept most of the pain hidden though as he took a calming breath and wiped his face clean of a fresh layer of sweat. He reached out for his fiancé's presence. He found her immediately, she was fine. A little uneasy, but she was fine. Someone was with her... Seth. They were probably talking, but about what at this late hour? Setting that aside to ask him later, he laid back down and slowly slipped back into sleep. Hoping that his dreams would not all be nightmares, but as he slipped off he keept an unconscious watch on Usagi's presence.
"SETH!" she screamed and ran towards his fallen body.
"USAGI!" she heard Mamoru scream as the Shadow threw her through a portal.
"She's no longer your concern." the Shadow said back to Mamoru, and ran forward to stab him in the chest and whisper something in his ear before disappearing. Rei's eyes blinked open quickly. She looked around to get an idea of where she was before she exhaled a breath she did not know she was holding. Her room was as she had left it when she had drifted of into sleep the moonlight from her window cast a soft glow on her room giving just enough light to see by.
"Just a dream." she sighed to herself.
"Stay away from him." a soft almost whispered voice called out and she jumped up, but there was no one around. Even as she began to stretch out her aura to find anyone nearby.
"The Silver Shadow was the villain in your dreams too?!" Minako asked in disbelief.
"More like a monster than anything." Rei replied.
"So we stay cautious around him. Something about him bothered me from the start anyway." Makoto added in a serious tone.
"Yeah, let's watch him closely." Mamoru added.
"He can't be all that bad. I mean he did help us find Seth... sorta." Usagi smiled weakly.
"Yeah, and I think it's clear that he would have no problems helping us no matter what it cost him." Ami replied.
"Which is why we need to keep a close eye on him too." Luna added.
"We don't want those dreams to come true." Artemis chimed in.
"Yeah, his dream dreams are confusing enough as it is." Usagi mumbled a little too loudly. She looked up to see that everyone was looking at her and suddenly wished she had just kept her big mouth shut. "What?"
"What's so confusing about his dreams?" Rei asked.
"I can't tell you." Usagi replied with a not too innocent look on her face.
"C'mon, you have to tell me." Rei pleaded.
"I've been sworn to secrecy, especially form you. Sorry." Usagi sighed.
"Wow! Usagi keeping a secret, this is unusual." Makoto chuckled as did the rest of the group.
"Seriously though we just want to help." Ami said.
"Then leave it alone and figure out what your dreams mean." Seth said from a tree branch over head. He was sitting there carving slices from an apple.
"What are you doing there?" Makoto asked.
"Eating." he replied and hopped down from the branch. "Let me figure out my stuff on my own, you've got your own problems to deal with. And take it from me they are more important than a few weird dreams from my subconscious. Besides when I know what they mean I'll let you all know." he said and walked away.
"Where are you taking me?" a blind folded Rei asked as she walked through a field of flowers at the back of the palace. "" she called out his name again in annoyance. Seth turned back and stared at her. She was dressed in her silky, white royal robes with a small silk scarf tied behind her head to cover her eyes. "I'm not taking another step until you tell me where we're going." she said placing her hands on her hips.
"Fair enough." Seth grinned, lifted her off of the ground, and began to carry her the rest of the way to the second fountain in the middle of the field. It was a small simple circle. Not very lavish, but no less elegant and beautiful. It was cast out of a smooth white stone of some sort, and was a gift from the kingdom of Saturn. Seth found himself how he knew so much about this fountain and yet could not remember the name of the man whose body he was visiting... his body... or was it? He still did not have an answer to that question yet. All he knew was that these dreams or visions, whatever they were, stayed with him even after he woke up he would remember all of it in vivid detail. It in no way compared to the fountain at the front of the palace. In fact the only time this was used was when the birds came to drink or bathe themselves in the fresh water, but it still looked as beautiful as ever. Seth sat her down on the edge of the fountain and removed the blindfold from around her eyes. She blinked then open to see the sunsetting in front of her and the field of flowers they were sitting in as well as the meadow to the left. "I have something to confess." Seth said sitting down beside her.
"I'm a bit jealous of my sister." he smiled.
"Why?" Rei asked almost laughing.
"Well, because regardless of whether or not it's forbidden him or not she has someone she can be with and share her whole life with. I want that too." he smiled. She was also recently given a gift by this person. "And I'm jealous because of what the gift represents. So I got one too." he grinned and held up a tiny box. "And I'm giving it to you." he said handing it to her and placing it gently in here hand.
"Okay." Rei smiled in a not-so-completely-understanding way. "What is it?" she asked.
"Open it." he replied instead. She did and found a small gold ring inside. It began to rise from the box as Seth raised a finger obviously controlling it with... his mind? Seth was blown away by this revelation. Did I ever have powers like this. This can't be me I can't do that. It turned a bit in mid-air to show her that her name was spelled out in diamonds on the one side. She sat there speechless, staring at the ring. "I don't just offer you a ring. I'm offering you my heart, my soul, my power, my strength, my weakness, and my knowledge to do with as you wish. In short I am giving you my life. Rei." he said lifting her chin so that that he could stare into her beautiful violet eyes. "Will you marry me?" he asked. She pulled the ring from the air and tried it on. A perfect fit. She leapt into his arms and pressed her lips against his.
"Yes!" she whispered as she pulled away.
Seth blinked open his eye and stared up at the ceiling.
"Another dream?" Luna yawned, but softly enough to be sure she would not wake Shingo up.
"Yeah." Seth replied. "But a good one." he smiled and laid back down to rest.
Akalyte sat chuckling in the middle of the Juuban public library. He was reading a book on quantum physics.
"They have not idea that these are not even absolute laws. Most can be bent others ignored completely." he grinned thinking of the discoveries these people would make in the coming century that would change there opinions on space and travel. They probably did not even know how to use telekinesis or manipulate energy. He was now realizing just how rare that group of people fighting him were. He had simply assumed they were sent because they were the strongest, but it seemed they were simply the only ones on this planet. So the boy from the previous fight was even more rare. "Time to set the trap I guess." he sighed getting up and placing the book back on the shelf, but not before a thin black hazy outline appeared around the book and suddenly disappeared. "Stay ready." he said softly to no one in particular.
"Are you sure they will take the bait?" a voice called out from somewhere close by.
"This is one of there functions as guardians. If they simply did not care they would not help out the victims after the battles." he stated.
"Understood, we'll be ready for them." the voice called back as he turned and left.
"Hey could you stay a bit longer?" Rei asked.
"Yeah, I guess. Why?" Seth asked with a confused look.
"I just want you to be with me. It just somehow makes me feel content. It just feels... right." she smiled at her attempt to explain.
"I'm fine with that." he smiled back and stroked her cheek softly.
"So what was you new dream about?" she asked.
"You." he answered.
"Seriously?" she smiled.
"Yeah. Usagi says that the period I described to her was the old moon kingdom." he shrugged.
"So your seeing the past. And she didn't tell you anymore than that, did she?" she smirked as he shook his head. "I didn't think so." she said and began to explain the details of the Moon Kingdom to him. When she was finished she leaned back into his arms. "So what were you doing?"
"Proposing." he answered calmly.
"Wow! Kinda early for that huh?" she teased. "I wonder what it means." she mumbled.
"You're the psychic here, you tell me." he teased back., and began tracing his fingertips across her face.
"Stop it!" she smiled.
"Stop what?" he smiled. "Am I getting a reaction out of you?"
"Yes, you're turning me on. Now stop it." she said playfully.
"Alright I'm finished." he said softly and laid back against the wall.
She opened her eyes to see that Seth was sleeping against the wall behind her. She had to smile. He stayed with me all night just because I didn't want to be left alone. She stood up on the wooden floor and stretched.
"Rei, are you in there?" Yuichiro asked sticking his head in. "Did he sleep here?" he asked looking down at Seth.
"Yeah, you're a bad influence I suspect." she smiled warmly down at Seth. "Now go find grandpa, I'll wake him up." she assured him and he left, though rather worriedly. "Hey you. Good morning." she said as Seth blinked open his eyes and began stretching.
"Am I in trouble?" he asked yawning.
"For what?"
"Sleeping wit you." he answered.
"Don't worry I'll take care of it. I don't think Yuichiro's gonna be too happy about about it though." she smiled stroking his hair and face.
"Hey Seth!" Amy called from the bottom of the steps of the library later that day.
"Oh hi Ami-chan!" he said turning around to face her.
"What are you doing here?" she asked catching up to him.
"Probably the same thing you're doing here. Study materials." he grinned when she nodded he had guessed correctly.
"I'm here for medical books and human biology. What about you.?" she asked.
"Physics. The way of the universe and all that." he shrugged.
"Is that your major?" she asked skeptically.
"No, it's Japanese. I just like to read up on as much as I can. It helps to know as much as you can." he grinned.
"You and Mamoru have a lot in common." she chuckled.
"Does he have a major? Or is he undeclared still?" he asked curiously. Ami simply shrugged.
"Mizuno-san!" a voice called and both Ami and Seth turned to see a frizzy haired young man in coke bottle glasses and a blue high school uniform.
"Hi Gurio-san!" Ami waved back at him as he came walking up to them. "Umino Gurio." This is Seth Roberts." Ami said introducing them to each other. They bowed politely to each other in greeting.
"Boyfriend?" Seth mouthed the question to Ami so that Umino would not notice and Ami immediately shook her head no. They turned back to look at Umino who was curiously rubbing his thumbs across a small box in his hands. " What do you have there?" Seth asked wondering if maybe this Umino was gonna confess his love to Ami or something. He certainly seemed to be nervous.
"Uhm..." he stammered as he moved his hands from the top of the box and held it out to show them.
"Contacts?" Ami asked.
"Yeah, I went to see the optometrist to get a specific set for myself." she said and his shoulders visibly dropped as he let some of his tension drain away.
"Okay I'm lost here. What's wrong with doing that?" Seth asked looking at Umino worriedly.
"It's just that I wanted to do this for Naru, my girlfriend. But I'm worried. I don't wanna change, but I want her to be happy with being me. I don't want her to feel bad that she's with a dork like me." he sighed.
"Did she ask you to do this?" Seth asked.
"No, I wanted to do it for her?" he answered.
"Are you sure this is what she wants? I mean she did choose you because of who you are." Seth added. "Maybe you should talk it over with her first. Don't go changing yourself just because you think you should. If you act too quickly you usually wind up making a mistake. Or at least that's how it works for me." he chuckled.
"I guess I could give that a try." he nodded.
"Just so long as you remember that this won't change who you are just how you look." Seth added.
"Make sure you stay the same goofy but sweet guy she fell in love with." Ami added.
"Yeah she's right." Seth nodded. "Excuse me I have to get that Physics book." he said slipping past them and heading into the library.
"He's the college kid that's staying at Usagi's house." Umino asked.
"Yup" Ami replied.
"Now, where is that damned book." Seth muttered to himself making his way through stacks of books on the shelves. Now how in the hell... He thought as he found it lying on the floor but quickly stopped that thought when he saw four kids about his age lying on the ground nearby.
"Sad, isn't it?" a voice called out softly from nearby breaking Seth off from his thoughts. He turned to see the Silver Shadow standing behind him shaking his head in a sigh. That's when Ami came around the corner and gasped. She immediately shouted a warning and grabbed her cell phone as two figures appeared behind Seth and the Shadow.
Well that's chapter four. Hope you didn't fall asleep too much. lol as for Chapter 5 I'M WORKING ON IT!!! lmao. I am going to include the side charcters more later on they make guest appearances here and there, but I do try to include them in the story. Even some of the bad guys. :D Please leave comments, I like hearing from people. I will only do up to chapter 7 if I don't get many comments. Tell your friends or post this link on your sight ir something I'm trying to see what people think of it.
