A/N: For those who have a problem with the names that I choose…. Oh well. Seiya's name is the only one that I have kept as the original, and yes, if translated it would be a girls name, but at the same time, aren't there guys out there with female names? Ever heard of a guy with the name 'Ashley'? So once again, if you don't like the way that I use the names… either deal with it or don't read it…..

Also, this chapter has some foul language, so be warned… read at your own risk….

Now on with the story….

Chapter 5

Serena walked rather quickly, trying to get home as quickly as possible. Her mind was reeling over the events that have happened today. As soon as she arrived home, she raced to her bedroom and flung herself on the bed, finally allowing the tears to flow freely, letting her true emotions out.

"Why did this have to happen now?" she whispered to herself through her tears. "Why did he have to come back now?" Serena did not notice her cat guardian, Luna, jump in through the window until she sat down on the bed beside her sobbing body.

"Princess, what is wrong? Why do you cry so?" Luna asked as she laid her head comfortingly beside Serena's head.

"I feel so lost, Luna. Before I was for sure that what I was doing was right, but now… Now that Seiya has returned, I feel so torn," Serena said to her guardian as she lifted her head up to look at her.

"Seiya has returned?" Luna asked curiously.

Serena nodded, "He was sent by Princess Kakyuu to become one of my senshi. Oh Luna, I thought I had come to term with my infatuation with him. I knew it wasn't meant to be and that I would never see him again, but now… Now I am not so sure."

Luna looked at her with sorrow in her eyes, for she could tell her princess was truly hurting. Only she had known of the pain Serena had dealt with over the past two years. The senshi knew of the events that still haunted Serena, but none except Luna had seen what effect they had had on Serena.

"I am rather surprised that Kakyuu would send him to you. Wasn't Seiya one of her favorites?" Luna asked.

Serena nodded, "I do not understand it either. Kakyuu always seemed to side with Sailor Pluto about the whole 'destiny' thing and not wanting to tamper with it."

A thought came to Luna's mind, one that needed answering, "Seiya… were you in love with him?"

Silence filled the room until Serena slowly nodded, "Yes… I was deeply in love with him. I made sure he never knew of it… and I never told anyone for fear of what Darien would do. I have made sure that the destiny that has been laid out before me remains intact. I have worked for three long years to bury my love for him… But now… what am I going to do? I cannot send him back, for fear that it would be perceived as an insult to Kakyuu. I just don't want the same thing happening as did before."

Luna nodded, for she knew that her princess could not take another incident like before. She stretched out and noticed the tired look in Serena's eyes. "Get some sleep, Princess. Once you have rested, you will be able to think on this clearly. And you know that I am always there."

Serena yawned, "I know and I thank you for that. Let us sleep." Serena quickly changed into her long white nightgown and climbed under the covers and quickly drifted off to sleep.

Seiya sat on the bed inside the room that Raye had graciously offered him and was deeply troubled by the look in Serena's eyes just before she had ran out of the temple. He could swear that he saw regret and pain in her eyes as she looked at him. "What has happened to her?" he whispered to himself as he laid down on the bed, letting sleep overcome him.

When Seiya woke, the sun was barely shining over the horizon. He quickly got dressed and stepped outside to watch the remainder of the sunrise, thinking about what he had to do. He had come all this way… for her. He had underestimated his love for her. He had felt it fill his heart the moment he saw her. Now after knowing that she is going to America, he knew he has little time to convince her otherwise.

When Serena finally woke up it was a little before noon. She pulled herself from bed lazily and went to her closet to pick out the clothes she would wear today. After staring for several minutes, she finally decided on a deep blue kimono top that had a v cut that showed off her diamond belly button ring, and a pair of denim jeans. After putting on her clothes and a pair of black heeled sandals, she fixed her hair in their usual meatballs that she was famous for and went downstairs to get something to eat. As she was just leaving her room, she noticed that her cell phone was beeping. She turned and picked it up, checking her messages as she walked downstairs.

One was from Darien, reminding her that they had a date that afternoon and he would pick her up at 12:30, and the other was from Raye, telling her that Seiya needed to speak with her urgently.

"Well, Seiya will have to wait until this evening when I get back," Serena muttered to herself as she walked into the kitchen.

As she entered the kitchen, she was surprised to hear her mother and father talking to another person. Serena's eyebrows rose as she walked into the living room to see if Darien had arrived early. She was shocked to find both her mother and father were sitting on the couch visiting with Seiya. All of then looked up as Serena entered the room.

"Well look who decided to grace us with her presence," her mother said jokingly. Her father and Seiya smiled as Serena sat down on the arm of the chair Seiya was sitting on.

"How long have you been here, Seiya?" Serena asked calmly.

"I have only been here about fifteen minutes. I was waiting until you woke up because we need to talk. We didn't get the chance to since you kind of left before I was able to explain everything," Seiya replied as he looked deep into Serena's eyes. His eyes shone with love as stared at her for several minutes. Serena's parents stared at the couple as they looked into each other's eyes. They could tell that Seiya was in love with their daughter just by the conversation they had had with him and then by the look in his eye as he looked at Serena. They were all concentrating on Serena and Seiya that they didn't even notice that Darien had walked into the room with Serena's younger brother, Sammy.

Darien looked upon his girlfriend sitting rather close to a young man and they were concentrating more on each other than him. Seeing the way that Seiya was looking at his Serena produced a sharp pang of jealousy. Darien coughed to get their attention.

Seeing Darien there, Serena jumped up from the arm of the chair and raced over to him, "Darien, you're here early."

"Yeah," Darien said, his eyes never leaving Seiya, who had turned to stare him down. Darien was shocked by the look of hate in Seiya's eyes, and he had never even met the guy. "Sammy let me in. Um, Serena, who is this?"

Serena looked back at Seiya and then to Darien. "Darien, this is Seiya. You remember him, don't you? Him and I met when you were over in America last time… you know… three years ago? He just arrived in town last night. Seiya, this is Darien," Serena said nervously. Seiya looked to Darien and extended his hand.

Darien shook Seiya's hand, "It's nice to meet you." He then turned to Serena, "Well darling, we must be going if we are going to see the movie." Serena nodded and Darien led her towards the door. Seiya looked down and Serena's parents noticed the depressed look in his eyes.

"Serena, dear," her mother called. Serena left Darien's side and walked back into the living room.

"Yes, mother?"

"Don't you think you should reschedule your date so you can spend some time with your friend? I mean, it sounds like he came a long way to see you, especially since you haven't seen each other in three years," her mother said as she motioned towards Seiya who preparing to stand. Darien had walked in the room and stood behind Serena, listening to her mother. Serena looked back at Darien and then to Seiya.

"That's alright," Seiya said as he stood up. "I don't want to be any inconvenience to Serena. We can meet back up whenever you get back." He started for the door, moving just past Serena and Darien. Darien noticed how Serena's eyes followed Seiya as he walked past them, and then her eyes went to her mother's face.

"Seiya, wait," Serena called and then turned to Darien. "Darling, can we do this another time? My mother is right, Seiya did come a long way to see me and it would be very rude of me to jut blow him off. We can go to the movies another time."

Darien was fuming, he could not believe that his Serena was just going to break our date to go and hang out with another guy. "Are you sure this is what you want? This is my last afternoon off for about a week or two."Serena looked at him apologetically, "I am sorry Darien, but I need to do this. We will get together another time." Serena turned and gave him a hug and an innocent kiss on the cheek. She then turned and walked both men out of the door. When they reach outside, Darien turned to both Serena and Seiya, "What gives? This is my only day off and I wanted to spend time with you, and here you are just ditching me and going off with this guy! I thought we took care of all this two years ago, Serena." Seiya stared at the two, completely confused.

Serena sighed and placed her hand to her head, "It's not like I planned for this to happen. I can't just leave him here. Where is he supposed to go? We have important matters to discuss…."

"Well so do we, Serena. We still have to work out all the details of your moving with me. We have to get it done soon so we can tell your parents," Darien interrupted angrily.

"Please, let's not argue here…" Serena pleaded.

"We aren't arguing, Serena. I just want to know whether or not you are serious about us or if you are going to go through the same indecisiveness that you went through two years ago? Because if that's the case, then you might want to seriously reconsider our relationship," Darien continued. Seiya looked over and could see that she was on the verge of tears.

"Darien, please… not in front of Seiya…. "Serena begged.

"Why not? Isn't Seiya the entire reason we got into this is the first place? Then and now? Isn't that a funny coincidence? We were doing just fine until he had to show up again. I swear, how can you even think of choosing him over me? What about destiny?" Darien was starting to yell now. Seiya was a little intrigued by his choice of words and wanted him to continue, that was until he saw the look in Serena's eyes.

"Darien, we are only talking about rescheduling going to the movies, not anything more. What you are talking about is ridiculous," Serena said, her voice quivering. She knew she had to get him off this subject. She did not want Seiya to know about the terrible events that came after he had left those years ago.

"Is it? I mean, seriously," Darien pushed. He had a look in his eyes that frightened Serena. Just as he was about to take a step towards her, Seiya stepped in front of her.

"Hey man, I'm sorry if I have somehow pissed you off, I didn't mean too," Seiya said trying to lighten the mood. He was really interested in what had happened between the two of them, but he knew better than to push the subject, he would just ask Serena later.

Darien glared at Seiya, "Frankly I don't give a fuck what you have to say. This entire situation is because of you. If it hadn't been for you, Serena and I would have the perfect relationship, but no, she had to let some piece of shit like you worm your way into her heart." Seiya's eyes widened. "Oh, she never told you? That's just priceless. I'm rather disappointed in you, Serena. I would have thought you would have enjoyed being able to play with some poor guys emotions." Seiya looked back at Serena and could see the pain in her eyes as silent tears began to fall from her eyes.

"Please don't do this, Darien," she whispered.

"Don't do what? All I am doing is trying to find out whether or not I should be worried about you fucking some other guy after cancelling our date at the last minute," Darien said coldly. Seiya began to get angry at Darien's implications.

"Listen here," Seiya said, anger starting to show in his voice. "Serena has never even once, in the entire time I have known her, ever felt anything for anyone but you. Even after you had left her, she still remained completely faithful to you."

Darien laughed, "Well it's funny you should say that, because it wasn't until later that I found out she wasn't 'completely' faithful to me… Especially if she allowed herself to fall in love with another guy while I was gone. And here we are supposed to be destined to be together."

Serena gasped as Seiya spun around to face her, "Darien… Why are you being so cruel?" The tears Serena had been trying to hold back began to fall freely. "Darien… you are the biggest jerk I know. I cannot believe you would speak to me and about me especially because of all we have shared. Darien… I don't think I want to see you anymore… especially after this."

Darien's jaw dropped, "You're kidding me, right?" Serena shook her head, and before he could say anything more, she took off running down the street, desperate to get away from the two men who stared after her.

Seiya stared at Darien for a moment before speaking, "You are some piece of work… she would have went to the ends of the earth for you. I would give everything, even my life, to have her think of me like that." After giving one last glare to Darien, he ran after Serena.

It was several minutes before Darien even moved as he stared after the two. "Well Seiya, I may just have to watch out for you. Serena is destined to be mine and she would never go against destiny," he said as he began to walk home. Unknown to the three, was Serena's mother, and she had heard everything.

A/N: Du du dun… or however you spell that… lol… Some cliffhanger huh? Don't worry, I will go into more detail as to what really happened two years ago to put a little damper on Serena and Darien's happily ever after….. Till next time…..