Chapter 8

A few days had passed since the incident causing Serena's mother to be hospitalized, and most of the students in Juuben high was being cautious and giving stares at Melissa who was stood next to Lita and Ami. They had heard the rumours that Molly had spread through the whole school on Tuesday about Serena violently attacking Molly although had received the phone call from the hospital the night before explaining to her a few reasons why Lita and Melissa might be late to school.

Miss. Haruna's heart fell for when she had received that phone call indicating that Serena's mother had been attacked and hospitalised due to it, she wouldn't admit it but she really missed her rather lazy student, handing out detentions left right and centre to her for either being late or falling asleep in class, she had even given the Tsukino residents a call and Kenji had answered the phone, he had given the details that it was Molly that had attacked his wife putting her in the hospital so now she had to try and settle a civil war amongst the students.

She knew for a fact that the new transfer student had been apart of Serena's old life at Osaka high, in fact Melissa had come up to her the week before asking if Serena Tsukino attended this school but after telling the girl that she transferred schools due to bullying from one of her students the girl had simply held a sad smile to her face thanking her for the information and that she would have to try and meet up with the bubbly blonde girl on the streets or find a few of the girls old friends so she could get in contact.

Now she knew that Melissa had in fact been in contact with Serena from the doctor informing her, and also that she seemed to be close with Serena's old group of friends, Haruna had seen the bruising on Molly's neck but she didn't believe Molly for once second about the attack and even if Serena did the girl had it coming to her for even attacking Irene in the first place. The Tsukino family was held one of the biggest hearts for the city and especially this school so much for the fact that Haruna had asked Kenji what Serena was doing these days and when she heard the girl had a job down town at Gems studio she immediately planned to head down there one day after school and today would be the day she would be visiting her former student.

But for now she was stood outside the door of her classroom taking a deep breath walking in, she saw her students whispering stuff about Melissa and Lita before going into teacher mode, "alright class settle down and get in your seats, if I hear one more word about this ridicules rumour that's going round I will start handing detentions out! I received a phone call stating that Serena Tsukino's mother is currently in the hospital and has just come out of the ICU. So I suggest you stop talking nonsense."

The class soon settled down and lessons began.

Over at another school, sat in the courtyard was the blonde haired bubbly girl Serena, she was sat with a group of friends that we all know as Sapphire, Rubious and Emerald it was currently lunch break for them and Serena was sat on the picnic table held for students, Emerald was sat on the bench lower down from her with Rubious behind her. Sapphire was stood up next to Serena, "so Lita called you today saying that half the school has a rumour going round that you decided to randomly try and kill her?" Serena nodded she was wearing a pair of baggy blue jeans along with an orange vest with an orange checkered shirt over it, her glasses was clear on her face again.

"yeah, but most of the students don't believe her due to my reputation I had at that school, Even Miss Haruna doesn't believe it, from what I heard from my old man this morning is that she's planning on paying a visit today at the studio after school finishes I don't know how long she'll hang around the studio for but we can't do this meeting till after she leaves. It's bad enough that Melissa is involved with all this…"

"That reminds me, you and emerald mentioned something about Melissa knowing about the silver millennium! Have you been able to remember anything about it?" Serena sighed, "only little bits and pieces about a girl that I use to call Imori which stands for baby sister, but other than that I don't remember at all unless Melissa is blood related to me"

"That could be the case, if Molly is after the silver crystal as well as Darien then he could have some how changed your memories to believing that you loved him and never had a younger sister in the first place. Melissa said that you and Darien was never meant to be anyway and I've been thinking that he's been after the Silver crystal for a while now. Ever since he said to me that you'd run back to him within a week, and that the future can't happen unless your with him." Sapphire spoke, he sighed he didn't like the fact of Serena running off back to Darien at all.

"That's a load of bull! The future isn't set in stone, just because I'm not with that jerk now doesn't mean that the future isn't going to be bright, I'm just feeling guilty because Rini will never be born at all…. As much as she was a little spore I loved that little girl because she was a part of me." Sapphire sighed as he pulled the blonde into a gentle hug "That Rini that came from the future might not be born but there could be multiple different Rini's, and they will all have the same loving heart." That made the blonde smile before pulling away from the hug, it felt nice and she always loved being in Sapphires arms, in fact she had come to having a small loving crush on the man which is the reason why Emerald teases her so much about it.

"Get a room you two, we all know that you love each other!" the blonde and blue haired felt a little pink tint go on their cheeks while looking at Emerald to see that she held a smirk there. Serena suddenly jumped up causing Emerald to stand also but began walking backwards seeing the evil intent on the girls face, "EMERALD! YOU are so dead!" with that the two woman ran off leaving the boy's standing there shaking their heads.

"So Sapphire when DO! You plan on asking my cousin out! I know you hold a thing for her" the man sighed as he sat down, "soon I hope, she really has opened up to us, and it's just made me so attracted to her. But this Melissa that you hate so much what type of connection could she have with Serena?" Rubious sighed "I don't know all I know is that there around the same age and have the same bi-…. That's it! If there both from the silver millennium and born on the same day!"

"That Melissa is Serena's twin sister from then! But does she have scout powers?"

They both shrugged until the bell rang indicating it's back to class.

That evening 1 hour After school the group of four made their way down town to their studio when they saw a red haired woman in a pink suit waiting outside Gems studio, 3 of them blinked until the bubbly blonde spoke up "Miss. H? what are you doing down here? How long have you been waiting?" she gave the young teacher a hug before pulling out the keys to the studio.

"Not long actually in fact I just arrived here about 15 minutes ago i thought I'd come and give my old student a visit considering she transferred without not notifiying me that she was having problems in school!" Serena opened the door and they walked in, she threw her key's on the counter while Miss. H looked around the studio and noticed the smell and the needle guns, "You work here Serena?" She shivered slightly as Serena picked up one the needle guns making sure it was still working. "Sure do, great cash maker and I can express my art freely without it being judged."

She smiled as the green haired girl put on the kettle, "Coffee Miss. H?" spoke Emerald and the woman nodded, she studied Serena closely, she saw the tattoo on the girls neck and smiled she didn't approve of body art but it suited the former student "I also heard about your mother Serena I wanted to personally send my condolence to you, your father notified me that she would be released from the hospital tomorrow." Letting out a sigh, she noticed anger flash in the girls eye's "Yeah she is, I'll be glad when she's home she wont be able to do much for now though until she fully recovers. I just wish I would have been home to stop the attack my mother didn't deserve it she never did anything wrong." Serena pulled out a large folder and began sorting out some images, until she found one that held a dragon on it with sakura petals floating around it's body.

"My that's a really good picture, one of your clients?" Serena nodded smiling to her, "Yeah, he requested me to design a dragon as he loves them and I came up with this, he's coming in soon so I need to get it ready on the transfer paper. Normally it's just me on a Thursday evening but these guy's wanted to come bug me."

Rubious grunted as he sat down at the counter crossing his arms, "more like to keep a jealous stalking ex boyfriend away from my cousin." Haruna blinked a few times she knew Serena had been going out with a college student under her care, and that something went down. since they was outside school Miss. Haruna took off her jacket and placed her belongings on the counter, "You mean Darien right? I do remember a time that I tried to get them to break up because of him being 5 years older than Serena, but she wouldn't have it what happened?"

"Try that student Molly of yours, Serena caught them sleeping together, in fact I was at the house when Molly attacked Irene on Monday night, but I don't have proof that Molly did it so the police can't do anything about it even though I have a full description of the person" Sapphire spoke which was true he had been with Irene that night helping cook dinner while Beryl had gone down to Gems studio to collect Serena and Emerald after they had finished with work.

Haruna blinked in shock so Molly was the one that did it, "and now she's spreading rumours around the school that Serena jumped her and that the attack on her mother was nothing but bogus."

"WHAT! The rumours about me attacking her are true, I was riding on my bike when I saw her and slammed her up against a brick wall but the attack on my mother is not bogus it actually happened and she's the one that did it! She's also planning on harming my younger brother!" The teacher saw Serena's hands shake until Sapphire hugged the girl, he could see that these three people cared deeply for Serena, especially the one that had his arms wrapped around the girl. "Right well now that I have the correct information I can …. Sort of make Molly's life at school a living hell until the police start getting into action about locking her up for the assault."

The doorbell rang making them turn to see a man in his 20's spikey blonde hair and sun glasses, he took them off to reveal sparkling blue eye's, "I'm here for an appointment with Serena?" Serena broke the embrace from Sapphire, "that would be me your Spike right? Well let me just get the designs to show you and we can go forward with that, did you follow my advice with sugary drinks and food before coming down here?"

He smiled a pearly white grin nodding "sure did, I can't wait to get this piece done even if it takes me 3 sessions you're the best in the business and so young too!" Serena walked him over to her section and laid out the designs on the bed, "Wicked dude! It's an epic design!" Serena smiled and stretched "Alright then give me 10 minutes to set up and then we can get cracking ok?" he nodded and walked back over to the counter, while they all watched Serena set up her section.

Miss. Haruna smiled to the girl, "she's really changed from the girl I use to know, she seems more together with herself." She saw Serena take off her shirt and the 2nd tattoo on her arm, she was drawn into that design it seems lonely but had such a beautiful effect on her. "Yeah she has, when she walked into here for that first tattoo 3 months ago I could have sworn I saw a broken girl but she's really come a long way since then, her grades are A+ all round she's so loving to everyone and always makes sure the customers health comes before her own. She passed the course we placed her through with high marks and now she's more famous than us three put together. Our bookings are dead compared to her diary, if you want a place booking with her you have to wait till next month unless she has a cancellation." The teacher nodded to Emerald while sipping her coffee, Serena called the guy over and he took off his top indicating he wanted it done on his back, she sprayed something on him and then placed some transfer stuff before placing the paper on his back, she carefully smoothed it out and then gently pealed it backwards.

Haruna was surprised on how it worked although the image now looked blurry, the guy spike looked over his shoulder in the mirror nodding that the dragon was placed perfectly in the middle of the spine.

Serena stood up taking off her black latex gloves walking up to the counter and leaning over to grab her smokes, "Alright give me 5 minutes spike and we will get going, Rubious could you give him the consent form to fill out?" her red haired cousin rolled his eye's before grabbing the pad with the sheets on.

Haruna eye'd the smoking gear in the girls hand and then decided to follow Serena outside, she saw her leaning against the wall across from the gems shop.

"I'd never pegged you as a smoker Serena, I guess things got really rough for you…. I wish you would have come to me before transferring schools I would have tried to help you out as much as I could have before you say anything we are outside school grounds so I can't stop you from putting that death stick in your mouth."

Serena blinked a few times, her blue eye's lit up before laughing, "You're the first person to call it a death stick, Rei and Lita have been trying to get me to stop but I just can't at the moment especially with the added stress on what's happened Monday night, I swear Miss. H if I wasn't stopped by Melissa Monday night I would be the one in jail." The teacher sighed as she reached out and roughed up Serena's tidy blonde hair.

"Listen Serena I don't know what kind of stunt that girl is trying to pull here but I do know that you two went way back and was best friends, why would she now try to pull this crap on you to hurt you?" the blonde sighed knowing the woman was right. "I don't know… Maybe it was jealousy? I admit I began to neglect her when Ami , Lita and Mina all joined the school but I didn't mean too all I know is that I need to speak with Molly again before things start getting worse she almost killed my mother and that's not acceptable….And it's making me something never thought I would be….Violent."

Miss. Haruna nodded to that one, she could never picture Serena as violent in her life, lazy and clumsy but never violent. "I wonder what her mother's got to say about Molly going after a man 5-6 years older than herself. I may pull her in for a meeting, in fact that seems like a very good idea. As for you missy! Next time I see you I want you together with that blue haired man….sapphire was it?" Serena blushed deeply "Why do people keep saying for me and Sapphire to get together?"

"because dear… you suit each other perfectly, anyway I best be on my way I'd rather not see you stab a man millions of times with a needle." Serena laughed and nodded giving her teacher a hug, and let the woman be on her way.

Serena walked back into the studio with thought's playing on her mind about Molly, she knew that girl wasn't one for hurting people especially a friend's mother so why would Molly do it? She understood sleeping with her boyfriend because of jealousy but not harming people to the point where they would kill them.

She snapped on some latex gloves and smiled to her client, "Right Spike I want you laid down on your stomach and lets get this baby going!" he grinned giving her the thumbs up. She placed her glasses on and began to load the needle up with ink, getting to work on her latest piece.

An hour later, the studio was fairly quite all that could be heard was Serena's gun, light chatter and the radio in the back ground, it was only 5.30 she had finished with the outlines on the man, and now just started on the shading of the dragons scales. When the door opened for a 3rd time that night revealing two people a short blonde haired male? And a long haired turquoise female, They both looked around the studio before sapphire looked to them, "Welcome to Gems studio can I help you?" the blonde looked to him shooting him a dirty look, "were actually looking for Serena" the sound of Serena's gun stopped as she looked up to see who walked in.

"Haruka! Michiru!" both of the new comers saw Serena and her new look, Haruka's eye's widened "Kitten what the hell?" Serena grinned to the friends before putting the gun down, "Spike were going to take five ok? Take a stretch and get some fresh air ok?" Spike got up from the bed and did as he was advised to do smiling, "sure thing Serena" she placed some cling film over his Tattoo and stood up taking off her gloves throwing them in the bin.

She walked over to the two new comers to the shop "What brings you two down here? I would never think of you both coming into a tattoo shop." Haruka didn't have a pleased look on her face as Michiru laughed slightly, "We was actually looking for you, Rei said that you was working down here today so we decided to come and stop by, she also said that everyone else would be coming around 6 so we thought we'd come early to surprise you, but why are you working in a tattoo shop Serena? and why do you have Tattoo's yourself?" she gently traced the design on Serena's neck.

"Ah that's a very long story Michiru which I can speak at a later date, as for the tattoo's I wanted them and my mother allowed me to get them." Haruka crossed her arms pouting "what's wrong with you Ruka?"

"I want one done! I just can't make up my mind one what one I want…" even at that Rubious behind the counter began laughing. Haruka shot him a look, "You shouldn't even be breathing right now so stop your laughing." She felt a hit on the back of her head. "Oi that's my cousin your threatening there, now if your struggling with a design why don't you take a look at that wall behind you and maybe I'll keep my self open for after 6 and do it for you."

With that the tall blonde haired went looking at the wall behind her, awe struck "you designed all of these?" Serena just nodded while stretching for her coffee, "thanks Emerald, I sure needed this, Yeah the I designed everyones scout planet with the animals they love. For you Haruka the tiger, Michiru the Dolphin, Trista horse and Hotaru fox. Although I do have a rather peculiar design for the sun, I have no idea while I designed it because as far as I'm aware there is no sailor sun."

She pulled out a drawing from her portfolio and there was the sun holding a Lion facing along a sort of pride land. "It's beautiful Serena they all are, you was able to capture them so well. I'm proud of you" Michiru hugged the girl smiling as Haruka burst out "I want my planet one done! I've decided you are going to do it Serena after this guy gets lost!"

Again Haruka was hit by Michiru this time causing everyone to laugh, "that guy is Serena's client who is paying her money for this now sit down and wait your turn. Or I'll tell Serena to dig that needle so hard into your skin you'll bleed for a month!" the brave Uranus scout paled and began apologising when Spike came back into the studio. Serena was ready to finish up the next half hour saying to him it would take one more session to finish, he was quite happy to be able to wait another month before having his piece done.

Once the half hour was over Spike paid Serena the money, a big £650! Saying it should hopefully cover the next session, she gave him the after care leaflet and he left as one happy customer.

"Alright Haruka give me 10 minutes to clean down and get set up and I'll be ready for your session, where you wanting it done?" "I'd like it on my left arm Kitten." Serena nodded as she began cleaning down her section, throwing the used needles in a yellow bucket and spraying the bed. When she was about ready for Haruka the rest of the scouts including Melissa walked into the studio.

"alright give me a quick Bio break and I'll be ready ok? You lot start the meeting without me because when I get back in I'll be locking the studio door so no one can interrupt us." The scouts nodded as they watched Serena walk out of the studio with the smoke in her mouth Haruka wanted to go rip it out of the girls mouth and burn them all but she was tied down by her partner.

Saying that she was getting this tattoo for free so not to piss Serena off, so with that they began speaking about the events that happened from Saturday all the way till the present day.

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Well I hope that gives you a slight insight of what Dariens doing and why Molly is so willing to do stuff for him!

Also it brings Melissa more into the story too! Lets see on how this one plays out!