Chapter 2 – Inked hearts

A few hours after Darien had seen the currently new Serena, the crown arcade had begun to fill up with children and teenagers from all schools with it being a Saturday off, yet he hadn't moved from his spot. He had asked countless times about delivering Serena's order to her work but each time he refused saying either himself, his sister or someone Serena had been hanging around with lately would come pick it up.

Tapping his finger on the counter, he didn't notice that someone had come into the arcade and walked up to the counter, "Yo Drew!" Darien's ears had picked up the familiar voice, looking up he saw a man that almost made him faint, fiery red hair, black waist coat and black denim jeans, he gave a smirk to Darien and looked back up as Andrew came over giving him a quick hand shake,

"Rue Man, good to see you, your turn to pick up the order?" Rubious grunted and sighed "Yeah she said that she didn't want you to deliver it today cause you have a slight pest problem." That's when Darien clicked on, Serena knew Rubius was alive and was hanging around him. "that's an understatement man, I was looking forward to getting booked in with my sis today, does she have any slots open around 3?"

The red haired black moon clan member shrugged his shoulders, "You'd have to call her, we're on lunch break at the moment so she should be avalible to take your call unless she's hanging with Sapphire again."

Andrew handed him a white carrier with containers inside, "Alright I made sure to pack a extra slice of fudge cake, I know what my sis is like when she doesn't get her cake. I'll give her a call in 10 minutes."

An Exchange of money was seen and then Rubious turned to head out before stepping to Darien's side, and whispered something only Darien could hear, "you come near my cousin again and I will kill you" with that he waved to Andrew and left.

The prince of earth turned to his friend, "Who was that and how do you know him?" playing it dumb so then Andrew wouldn't catch onto Darien knowing who he really was, "Oh Rue? He's Serena's boss and also our cousin. He's one not to mess with, bit of a black sheep in the family but when it comes to Rena, he'll protect her like no tomorrow. Then there is his best friend Sapphire, could pass off as your brother actually. He's helped Rena out so much these past 3 months, Listen Darien I really don't know what you was playing at when Serena caught you and Molly having sex.

But you have no chance in getting my sis back, although I can't control her actions I can make sure she doesn't get hurt by you or them girls again. So stay away from her, if she wants to be your friend let her come to you."

Darien stood up and took out some cash for Andrew "I understand I screwed up man, but I do plan to get Serena back, I love her."

With that the raven haired man walked out of the Arcade.

On the other side of town, down town to be exact, Serena was stood outside the tattoo studio she was working at with the girl who had offered her the job. At the time she didn't know but now she had become close friends to one of the enemy's that almost killed her in the past, Emerald.

"Oh come on kid! You should have at least punched him in the face! I would have if he played that trick on me!" Serena laughed as she brought a white stick up towards her mouth and drew back on it ((A/N:: yes at the moment Serena is smoking)) "no thanks Emerald, I'd rather not have you seen how tall Sapphire is compared to me? Why don't you bully my cousin instead? You and Ruby are dating after all." Emerald blushed and died out her cig, "we are not getting into this one young lady, after all remember I'm the one who did your tattoo and! Got you the job here."

Serena laughed as she did the same thing and necked back her coffee, "yeah that is true" she looked into her empty cup until she felt a hand on her shoulder, "Serena darling, don't start thinking about the pain that so called prince of earth caused you, he's not worth it although I have someone coming in later today that's suddenly wanting a piece of ink done by you"

Serena blinked a little looking at the green haired woman curiously, "Who?" she couldn't get her answer when a familiar voice spoke up, "Serena? what the hell did I just see you throw away?" Serena suddenly stopped in her tracks looking up to see Darien stood right there, she gave him a cold hard stare until Emerald stood in front of her, "Who do you think you are coming down here pretty boy?"

Darien face held a small hint of anger, "to speak to Serena, I followed Rubious down here, now what the hell are you dark moon people doing still alive! We killed you lot!" that was when Serena spoke up, "Fuck off Darien, Emerald there my friends and Ruby is my cousin! Now I suggest you get out of here before I decide to call civil law enforcement on you"

"Serena! listen to me, look at what they've done to you! You was kind, sweet and klutzy but now look at you!" "I've done what you all wanted me to do Darien, I've grown up! Damn where's Ruby? He should have been here by now" Darien stalked up pushing Emerald out of the way, grabbing Serena's wrist, dragging her away "We're going to Rei's temple right now!" she tried to yank her wrist back but he was putting pressure in the right spot, until the pressure was suddenly let go and she saw a blur of blue inbetween her and the damn prince of earth.

"I suggest you do what Serena tells you and get out of here, you can't take or abuse my workers like that prince, Serena you and Emerald get inside and lock the door, call the cops too" Serena was about to refuse until Emerald began to leader her inside the building, Darien tried to get past him but the man refused to let him pass.

"Sapphire get out of my way, Serena shouldn't be here, not in this part of town and not being brainwashed by the likes of you!" all of a sudden sapphire began laughing "Brainwashed? Why would we brainwash the one person that showed us kindness and also saved our lives? Especially when Serena and Ruby are BLOOD! Related?"

"You're the one who's fucked up dude, you broke the diamond heart she has, and her gentle smile, you hurt her man like no tomorrow now leave the Lady alone or I will get a restraining order placed on you!" Darien in anger just turned around, "I'll speak to her one way or another you can't stop me Sapphire, she is my future wife she will come back to me I can guarantee that!" with that he went getting on his bike and driving off, Sapphire watched him go into the distance while clentching his fists.

With a slight turn he walked into the tattoo studio to see Emerald placing some ice onto the moon princess wrist, "Are you girls ok? I'm sorry I got here late" Emerald nodded but turned to Serena who was showing slight pain, "I'm ok Sapphire, wasn't expecting him to turn up here after this morning" he walked over kneeling down in front of the blonde examining her wrist, there was a deep bruising forming on the cream coloured skin. It made him angry that the girl had been hurt yet again by the same man.

"Alright, why don't you two take the afternoon off? I don't have any appointments booked in myself so I can take your clients or just reschedule them with a discount that's your inking wrist so you won't be able to hold the gun properly." Serena was about to protest but he held up his hand, "I'm not taking no for an answer Serena, and if you protest I won't take you to that festival in Kyoto next month."

She let out a sigh as the green haired girl went over to the kettle letting it heat up, "I'm sorry Sapphire I've caused trouble for you all, I knew this would happen when I found out who actually owned this studio. I told you all he would come looking for me…. I" he placed a finger to her lips, "Are going to go home and rest or you girls are going to the mall ok? It's pay day anyway and you've earned more than what you've expected this past week right? It's because of you our customers have increased with your art, and it's because of you … that we all got a second chance in this life princess," Emerald placed two cups of coffee next to them and smiled standing back, "now drink up, go home and take a nice bath, and tell your mother we will all be still coming round tonight, especially that cousin of yours considering how much he loves your mothers lemon pie."

That made the blonde laugh, laugh to the point it hurt her ribs. "Oh you are so right with that one, and that's most likely the reason why you all follow him also I see you drooling at her baking. In any case I'm going shopping with my mother tomorrow so I think I may leave the mall today but Emerald your welcome to come over now, we can start with re-designing my bedroom" she gave a wink to the older girl who nodded loving the idea.

Serena gave Sapphire a hug "Thank you who knows who he is going to tell though about you all being alive still, in any case i will have to be ready just in case the scouts decide to come after you all."

He smiled roughing up her blonde hair, "We will be ready for them, after all its you we vowed to protect and the earths people" with that they sat back taking a sip of coffee, "Wait! Your actually taking me to Kyoto next month? yes!"

They all laughed when Emerald hit him around the head, "I thought you said you was just going to turn up at her house and kidnap her to the festival?" Sapphire rubbed the back of his head, "Oi you violent woman! Well in any case I am taking you Serena and Ruby's taking Emerald so we will all still be together, business and leisure trip. It's to promote our place as well as having some relaxing fun"

Both girls gave each other a high five just as Ruby walked in, he raised an eye brow, "Ok I smelt something rotten outside what happened?"

Emerald gave her boyfriend the 411 on what happened in the past half hour, he cracked his knuckles while Serena ate her food, he then agreed with Sapphire about the girls taking the afternoon off and saying they would be at Serena's at 6 for dinner. Not long after the girls left on Serena's bike home.

At the Tsukino house everything was quite peaceful for Irene and Kenji they had done about their normal morning jobs, and began to relax in front of the TV until the doorbell rang, Irene walked over to the door opening it to see the one girl she didn't think she'd see again, Molly, the one girl who had hurt her daughter so much.

"Hi is Serena home?" Irene's eye's hardened, "No, what are you doing here Molly?"

"Well I haven't seen my best friend in over 3 months, so I thought I'd stop by to see how she was doing? She use to stop at my mothers store but even my mother hasn't seen her."

The older woman shook her head, "Maybe you should think back to your actions with older men before coming back round here," with that Irene shut the door in Molly's face who had paled before sitting back down with her husband.

"That molly?" Irene nodded before sighing, "them two use to be so close I do wonder why Molly betrayed Serena in the first place. I know when Serena got new friends she barely hung with Molly but that's no reason for Molly to go after her boyfriend. Young girls these's days hold too much jealousy."

Irene nodded agreeing with her husband before running a hand threw her hair, "Maybe I should give her mother a ring and speak to her about this, but I don't want to make anything worse for the girls, especially since Serena's been with her cousin and new friends now for a while, I was surprised to find that Ruby owned his own studio and living on his own, I hadn't seen him since he was only 6."

Kenji smiled, when they had found out that Ruby was in town and there to stay, Irene immediately invited him over as often as possible for dinner, then it got to the point where Sapphire and Emerald was coming over too, and it became almost nightly event. Irene loved it with the dinning table so lively, an also she loved seeing that her daughter was getting rather close to Sapphire, on the other hand, she could see that Kenji was having a hard time holding back from telling Sapphire to stay away from his daughter. He would always hold the title of daddy's little girl, but she was growing up, 17 within the next year she could possibly move out. So he had to learn to start letting Serena go.

They heard the door unlock and two familiar girls talking, looking at the time seeing it was only 1.30pm they got up to see Serena there with Emerald,

"What are you two doing here so early? I thought you didn't finish till 5.30 Serena?" her eye's wandered and stopped on Serena's wrist, "What happened?"

Serena sighed not getting a word in as Emerald started, "We ran into a slight problem with a possessive ex boyfriend Irene-mama but it's all taken care of now, the police told us that if he comes back again to take out a restraining order against him"

Irene examined the bruised wrist, "Well lets just hope this goes away soon enough come lets get you two something to eat."

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I'm going to leave it there for now, as I don't want to put too much into one chapter, hope you like it and I know it's been a long time since I updated this story but it's still new to me so I'm hoping its going to come out well.

Curedream90 Over n Out!~