Suddenly it seemed as though the world stopped moving. Setsuna felt the presence of maybe the strongest demon she'd ever encountered barring down on her location. A white ethereal figure emerged from the wood; Setsuna's eyes widened as a familiar visage stared back at her.

"You're—"she was cut off by a searing pain that flared from her back. The older woman's visage contorted as pain flared from hers as well. Setsuna fell to the ground and her wings exploded in a flurry from her back and spread carefully to blanket her fallen form.

As the younger girl calmed, another loud pop was heard as wings exploded from the older woman. The older woman did not fall as the younger one did, but the pain was mutual. The youngest girl gasped in surprise as the two's wings showed themselves.

"Angel!" she shouted, running to the black haired girl that lay on the ground. "Angel save me!" she cried as tears welled in her innocent eyes. Apparently she too could feel the amount of demonic pressure that the older woman exhibited.

Hurt was evident on the white haired woman's face as she looked on at the child that cowered next to her past form.

"Don't be scared, my little Ico, I won't hurt you." She said reaching out a pale, nearly florescent, hand. Ico's grip tightened on the younger Setsuna's shirt as the older inched forward, until she was forced to quickly jump away.

"Don't you come near her, you monster!" Setsuna said to her older form, raising her sword causing light to mirror the blade in her heated glare.

"Why do you do this? I assume you are aware of who I am." The white haired woman said, causing the younger woman to scoff.

"You attacked Kono-chan, almost hurt her. You allowed that damn demon to win, and you think you're better now? Have you felt your aura? It's the strongest demonic aura I've ever sensed, and yet you say you're better!? How laughable that I must fight myself to overcome the demon within. With your aura the way it is now, there's no doubt that I will have to face an incredibly strong demon to over come this." Setsuna said, enveloping herself in a strong Ki.

"What are you talking about? Why are you doing this? How do you think Kono—"The white haired woman was cut off by a blade that threatened her throat. She grabbed it easily, not caring to dodge and was left with nary a wound nor scratch.

Setsuna's eyes widened in surprise when her trusty Yunagi could not, even with a majority of her strength melded into it; make a mark upon her opponent's neck or hand.

"This is pointless, my younger self, you cannot hope to harm me without releasing you demonic aura. I hope you will lower your weapon against me and think of your actions before you act such things out." The older woman said, throwing the useless, trusty blade to the side away from the would-be threatening kiss on her neck.

"Angel! Let mommy's angel go!!" Ico shouted, grabbing onto the leg of the older woman's pants.

"My little one, I do not want to harm neither you nor her. It seems our powers don't like each other that much." The white haired woman said, lowering all offence toward her younger self, and once again hid her wings.

The youngest member now calmed, and drifted more toward the darker haired Setsuna.

"Ico!" was heard in the distance, Konoka's voice was young and familiar as she searched through the wood.

"Ojousama!" Setsuna called turning and hiding her burden once again as well.

"I must find my own. I ask you: mature quickly before history repeats itself, yet again." The older Setsuna called, and disappeared into the wood as the younger Konoka ran up to find the two alone with their future child.

"Secchan, you found Ico!" she paused and looked around with a confused expression. "Weren't you talking to someone?" asked the young princess, laying her sights back on her beloved's features.

"I was talking with my older self. It seems we are incompatible with being surprised by each other. Ico is safe, though I was not told of who she was… to me… by the Hime-sama. It caught me off guard to say the least." Setsuna said turning away from the object of her affection to hide a growing blush.

Konoka was blushing as well as she looked at the two of them standing there, a little family yet to be.

"Well, "Konoka finally said to break the ice. "I guess we should get back." She finished. Setsuna nodded and began to walk, but stopped when she was surprised by two masses holding her back.

"Secchan, Secchan!" called the very young white haired girl who now gripped her hand; she looked over to find Konoka had snaked her way into her left hand as well.

"O-Ojousama!" Setsuna said looking down with a blush.

"Let's go!" Konoka said walking off with her future family to see her future self to make her future right. (Or, at least, the way she thought it should be.)

The older Konoka searched the house thoroughly looking for her child who'd apparently woken up from her nap and had made her way to some other part of the house. As she rounded the corner, a pair of pail hands wrapped their way around the brunette woman and dragged her into a side room. A muffled shout echoed around the hand that covered her mouth until lips across her brow made her eyes shoot open.

"Kono-chan" a velvet voice said, unfamiliar to her—other than in her dreams—for the last four years.

"Secchan!" she cried, throwing her arms around her partner, who was finally free of that prison that kept her captive for the last four years. The older Setsuna pushed the princess back with a hurt expression on her face and turned away, causing the older Konoka to place her hand over her mouth to stifle a sob as her eyes flooded from the gesture.

"S-Secchan…" she whispered, reaching out to grab her lover's shoulder, but to her surprise, Setsuna turned quickly and grabbed her hand.

"Kono-chan, I've missed you so much, to much to begin to even explain, but I've also been feeling forgotten and left for the longest time; betrayal has made its front in my mind and I am not able to think of it any other way. Why, why did you do something like that to me? Why would you leave me stranded in such hell?" as Setsuna's inquiry got longer the more tears the older Konoka cried.

She knew she was in the wrong leaving her love and partner alone for so long.

"I had a very important reason…" Konoka whispered after calming her self a bit. Setsuna sat, giving Konoka open floor for debate. "Father, he was going to send Ico away to stay with Negi-kun and Asuna! I didn't want both things important to me taken away! You don't know what kind of a choice that was for me. He made me seal you in to show my sincerity on the subject." Konoka said broken; Setsuna's gaze softened and she soon wrapped her arms in a protective embrace around her love and buried her face in the familiar chocolate scented hair that had always been hers.

"He was going to kill you…" Konoka sobbed into her knight's shoulder.

"Shhh," Setsuna cooed. "It's alright. Thank you for explaining. I'm here now, don't worry." She continued to whisper condolences into her princess' consciousness; Konoka calmed and looked up to meet with lose wonderful ruby eyes—she was always so curious of their existence.

"So," she began with a shaky laugh, "You really are albino?" Konoka mumbled and received a chuckle from her white haired knight.

"Yes, I always have been. I just use Ki as camouflage." Setsuna said back, holding her princess tighter; before they knew it lips were on lips in a long awaited kiss that had both yearning for more. A knock interrupted them and Setsuna quickly hid as Konoka opened the door.

"Hey!" a voice called.

"Asuna, what's up?" Konoka asked, stepping into the hallway.

"Your mini-me and kid have been looking for you." She said placing a hand on Konoka's shoulder.

"Alright, could you have them come here?" Konoka asked; Asuna nodded and left with a 'thumbs up'.

After a while there was a knock on the door and Konoe-hime opened it to find her self and Ico on the other side.

"Secchan's here too." Konoka whispered and Konoe-hime motioned for all to come in.

:So, now that every one's here, I'd like to think of a way to get this sorted out." The younger Konoka nodded as she laid a slumbering Ico on a couch that furnished the room.

"so what do you think? Should we just come right out and sat I'm never going to leave your side again?" the older Setsuna said, startling all but the Konoe-hime.

"That sounds half-baked to me." The princess said and her younger self concurred.

"I can't really see any other way… Forced recognition?" the younger Setsuna suddenly spoke, withdrawing her concealment charm, she was now filled in on the situation more so than earlier, and was willing to finally take her older self's advise.

"I don't like to force anyone to do something, it seems wrong, like we're handling this the way it was started." Konoe-hime replied, scratching her head in thought.

"Let's just go and see what happens." Konoka said, finally reasserting what the older Setsuna had suggested earlier. A sigh echoed across the room; that did seem like the only good plan they had, no matter how bad it sounded.

"Fine, now let's go see father." The Konoe-hime said walking to the door, but was stopped when she heard Ico mumble "mommy".

"Yes dear?" the Konoe-hime said walking to her child's side.

"Is daddy ever coming home? I miss her." She mumbled, tears welled up in the princess' eyes.

"Yes, honey. Daddy will be home soon, just you wait. Now, go back to sleep." The Konoe-hime said, stroking her daughter's soft hair, lulling her back to sleep. "Let's go." She finally whispered and the foursome left to go right the future.

"Father." The Konoe-hime called as she walked into the elder's quarters.

"Yes dear?" he said looking up from his paperwork.

"I've come to tell you: Secchan will no longer be away from her daughter. Four years have passed since she was sealed away, and I just wanted to let you know that she and I will be taking Ico and go live somewhere quiet in the magic world." The Konoe-hime said; as her heart raced faster, her father's eyes widened.

"Is she free?" he asked somewhat frightened, and the door opened to reveal the person in question.

"You can always visit, Eishun-sama." She said with her beautiful voice, baring no ill-will toward the man that wanted her killed and was responsible for her absence of her daughter's life for the last four years.

"H-how!?" he asked standing.

"Konoka-chan had the courage to do what I could not, and she gave me the courage to take my life back!" the Konoe-hime said with valor.

"You don't have to go!" Eishun said, knowing that he could not seal that half demon away again.

"Father, I love you. But I want Ico to grow up as I did not: Free, knowledgeable, and I so want her to know Secchan." She paused, turning to hold the arm of her love. "So, as soon as we figure a way to send our younger selves home, we're leaving for Mundus Magikas. I love you father, but this is something that I feel we must do." The Konoe-hime said the elder stood torn over what was happening.

He knew he couldn't changer the mind of his stubborn daughter, but he did not want her to go away with such a dangerous being as an out of control hanyou.

"She's beaten the demon within her, so you needn't worry." The princess finally said, and turned to leave. "We'll be going tomorrow, tonight we send the younger girls off—"a loud alarm cut off the Konoe-hime's speech and her eyes widened. "A demon attack" he informed the older Setsuna and both ran off to Ico's side.

The younger Konoka and Setsuna waited in the hall for their older selves go come out of the elder's chambers, but they were startled when an alarm sounded, and all occupants of the room hastily rushed out of the room.

"Demon" was heard from someone and soon Konoka and Setsuna were running with the group too. As the group reached the room Ico was in, they were relieved to find the young girl okay, but a powerful demon could be felt coming closer every second.

"You guys run, we'll handle this." The older Setsuna said motioning for the younger people to leave.

"No,"

"Don't argue." The elder said, summoning his sword and cutting off the retort his daughter from the past was about to make.

Too late were the younger ones to run, for the roof was ripped up and off of the main house, and something resembling the time demon that had attacked the two younger women only a day or so ago.

"It got so huge!" Konoka commented, and her older self turned.

"You mean that is the time demon from before?!"

"Who cares?" the white haired Setsuna cut in. "I'm going to kill it!" she finished as her body flared with dark aura and Ki, and she soon turned into a demonic state of being. "Just you watch, Eishun, I won't hurt those I love any longer like this." She said and sped off in a blink taking the giant time demon with her.

Asuna ran in the room and was quickly saddled with Ico Allowing the rest of the group to follow the demon Setsuna. As they caught up they saw the end of what could only be described as an indescribably epic battle.

As the demon disappeared, the demon Setsuna landed near the group. The younger Setsuna jumped in front of her Konoka, ready to protect her if something were to happen with the demon Setsuna.

"Calm down, my little self, I'm not going to hurt anyone. Now, before this—"she paused as a bright light erupted behind her. "…Portal disappears, I'd go back to your own time." She finished reverting to her human form; replacing her white hair and red eyes with the colors they once were, making herself look more like her younger self again.

The younger Setsuna looked at her Konoka. "Shall we?" she said and her princess nodded. The two walked toward the light and it began to absorb the girls.

"Oh, and Setsuna, remember my words, don't let the future repeat itself." The older Setsuna said with a bright grin and waved as the two girls disappeared.

A train whistle sounded in the distance, jolting a pair for snoozing girls awake who were awaiting a train on the platform. "Secchan?" the brown haired young woman questioned setting up from laying on her friend's shoulder.

"K-kono-chan!" the raven haired girl nearly shouted, scooting quickly away from Konoka. "I'm sorry, I just had the weirdest dream…" she said, scooching closer to Konoka once again.

"Me too…" Konoka said and blushed a dark red, remembering the dream more clearly. "We had a kid…"

"Y-yeah!" Setsuna stopped Konoka from going on. "Dreams are weird!" she quickly dismissed it. "… Shall we go?" she asked finally calming down as the train pulled up. She extended her hand and pulled Konoka to stand next to her. "To the mall, right?" Setsuna said.

"Yes, to the mall," Konoka replied stepping onto the train, wondering what the future could have in store for her…

The end

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AN: Well, that's about it… I think I'm going to do an epilogue, so be on the look out for that.
Months seem to go by SO much quicker when you have a deadline to follow, I was surprised! I can't say that this is my best work ever, because it's not. But I hope you liked it… no matter how rushed it seemed; I really tried my best to make it transition smoothly to the end… but it looks like that didn't work really all that well… ^^;

Ah well, I must go work on other work! My next fanfiction should be "All my love to you reprise" I hope you all like that, and my sister: KazumiSakurazaki is starting a new crossover fanfic that crosses Naruto and Negima… I hope you'll go read that sometime too, if it ever comes out!

Well, until my next fanfiction,
~Bishimimou