The next couple of days were a blur for Usagi as she stayed in bed and healed. She didn't take any more meds, because she felt the need to be alert. So she would lie in bed and think, and think, and think. The only thing that kept her from going insane was Seiya's daily visits and (oddly enough) reading Ami's notes from class. Finally, it was time for her to go back to school and she welcomed the distraction. She was so excited that she was up early that morning and had enough time to eat her whole breakfast before she had to leave. When she stepped out side she didn't care that it was still really cold, she welcomed the sun on her face and smiled. A tall figure was leaning against a nearby tree as she walked out the door, and she soon realized it was Seiya.

"Hey! I'd rather walk today." Usagi called to him. She figured her had come to pick her up in his limo, even though she didn't see said limo.

"I figured, so I'm here to protect you." Seiya replied when she was near enough to hear him without shouting. He had told Usagi last night that the Three Lights were going to record a new song tonight and would be saving their voices for that.

"So when do you guys record?"

"Whenever the study group is over. I figured that you would want to get started immediately since you've been so restless. So I told everyone that we would begin implementing your plan after school."

"I'm not restless!" she lied.

Seiya laughed. "If you say so." Usagi just frowned at him. "Oh yeah, Ami said she got in touch with Perez and that her and her sisters will be in town at the beginning of next week."

"Good." Usagi could tell that Seiya had no idea who Perez was, but she would wait to explain everything this afternoon.

At school everyone was happy to see back and well, especially Naru. Over lunch Naru gushed about how great Seiya was and how excited she was about helping him get a better picture of Italy.

"You no, I never really knew Mamoru because he was so much older than us, but if he is anything like Seiya I can see where you would be bummed about not being together." Naru said gently. Just like always Naru was Usagi's best friend and knew when she needed to talk. Usagi loved that and the fact the she knew that it hadn't been her fault that they weren't together.

"Seiya isn't really like Mamo at all. Mamo was very serious, and Seiya is more laid back."

"Wait, you were dating someone who was 'very serious'? Oh Usagi, since when have you ever been serious?" Naru laughed.

Usagi stopped to think about that. Naru knew her better than anyone except her Mom. Usagi really wasn't very serious, Sailor Moon was, Princess Serenity was. Naru had just basically said the same thing that Mamo had, Usagi was not Princess Serenity. Usagi and Mamo really had nothing in common except the drive to save the Earth.

"I don't know Naru. It seemed like a good idea at the time." Usagi finally said.

"So what's the deal with you and Seiya?"

"I don't really know Naru, and isn't it too soon to have a 'deal' with Seiya?"

"Love doesn't own a watch." Naru said pretending to adjust invisible, scholarly glasses. Usagi exploded into laughter along with Naru.

When they sobered Usagi shrugged. "I don't know what is going on with Seiya and me. I couldn't have gotten through everything without him. He seems to know exactly what I need and manage to give it to me without being creepy. Like today I really needed this time with you and conveniently him and the rest of the Three Lights needed tech help from Umino."

"Wow that is kinda convenient. Yet if you needed him he would happen to be here huh?" Naru said with wide eyes.

Usagi leaned close to Naru. Naru was the only non-scout in her life that knew she was Sailor Moon. "Actually something like that happened while you were gone. We had had a new enemy and I was alone on the roof of the school. I was jumped, and would have been defeated, but he showed up at just the right time, and saved my life."

"Does Seiya know you're Sailor Moon?"

Usagi hated lying to Naru, but while she had told Naru her identity, Naru didn't know the identity of any of the other scouts. Usagi felt it wasn't her place to tell, and that included Seiya. "I don't thing so."

"Maybe he has an Usagi sixth sense and he doesn't even know it." Naru giggled and just like that they were back in a fit of laughter. For the rest of the day Naru and Usagi couldn't help but giggle every time either one saw Seiya, which for Usagi was a lot.

School got out and Naru and Usagi were walking out of the building. "So my Mom is holding a jewelry show to celebrate me being back home. She's got some pieces inspired by the photos that I sent to her from Italy. It's a really fancy show where everyone is supposed to dress up and she's going to have models wearing some of the pieces. She wanted to know if I could think of any girls who could wear some of the pieces and look elegant, so of course I suggested you, Makoto, Minoko, Ami, and wasn't your other friend Rei?"

"When is it? I'm seeing them tonight and I could tell them." Usagi was so excited.

"It's in a week. I thought maybe we could go shopping for dresses this weekend. Mom will want to come along to help pick out a dress that will look 'perfect'." She mimicked he Mom and added a flip of her wrists. Usagi giggled.

"Yeah I'll tell the girls, and get my Mom to OK it."

"Oh, but you will all need dates, and if you know anyone else might want to display jewelry just bring them with you when we go to buy the dresses." Naru ran over to where her Mom was waiting to pick her up and got in the car and left.

Usagi grimaced at the thought of needing a date, but hey the scouts had three guys, they just needed four more. Usagi figured Michiru and Haruka were fine without guys. Usagi had been walking for about ten minutes, and was just hoping that she could talk to someone about the jewelry show, when Seiya walked up beside her. Usagi couldn't help it she collapsed in a laughing fit while Seiya just looked at her like she had grown a second head.

"What?" Seiya asked, he had started to laugh at the way Usagi was acting.

"It's just I was just wishing I had someone to talk to and there you were with you Usagi sensing abilities."

"'Usagi sensing'? What are you talking about?" Seiya was laughing now too. Usagi explained the conversation that she had with Naru, skipping the awkward question of what was the deal between her and him. "Really? I didn't know I was so good at predicting you." He had a thoughtful, almost scheming look on his face that made Usagi nervous in a good way. She was working on not putting her self in dangerous situations if she could help it, so she didn't ask what he was thinking about.

They arrived at the temple and everyone suddenly got silent, Usagi had a feeling that they had been talking about either her or Seiya or both. Usagi sighed and decided to ask later. They needed to get started.

"Ok everyone, today I'm going to first get everyone on the same page, then we will divide into our groups and get started. Back about five years ago, Chibbiusa came to our time, seeking the Silver Crystal." Usagi opened her broach to show everyone the sparkling ball. "The Silver Crystal is a very powerful item that can be used for good or evil. It belongs to the royal line of the Moon Kingdom. Centuries ago there was a moon kingdom and the queen, Queen Serenity, used the Silver Crystal to save everyone from a witch call Queen Beryl. She then used the last of her powers to send her daughter, Princess Serenity, her daughter's love, Prince Endamyon, and the scouts charged to protect Princess Serenity, to be reborn on Earth as humans and have normal lives. She locked away Beryl and her most powerful minions away. Unfortunately, Beryl escaped and freed her minions, so the scout had to be awakened to save the Earth, and to find the princess, since the Silver Crystal would only appear for her. I was or am that princess. Chibbiusa was my and Mamoru's daughter from the future. She had accidently absorbed the Silver Crystal from her time, and had came back to our time to get my crystal to save the future queen and king of the Earth, her parents. While helping her, the inner scouts and I went to the future, and learned that we apparently lost against an enemy that made us go to sleep for a century until the Silver Crystal was strong enough to awaken us and defeat the enemy. The Silver Crystal is what Wise Man is after, and he can't have it. It will take the crystal to defeat him." Usagi knew she was skipping a few details that maybe they needed to know, but she didn't want to worry them.

Setsuma spoke up, as if reading Usagi's mind. "Usagi, you should tell them how your mother died." The inner scouts looked down, but the outer scouts, except the all knowing Setsuma seemed as curious as the Stars. Maybe that part of their memories never returned? Or maybe they weren't even there.

"When the Silver Crystal is used at full power, it kills the person welding it. It killed my mother, and when I fought Queen Beryl, it killed me. It was my last wish that all the scouts, Mamoru, and I could just go back to having our normal lives, that ended up saving us. The last of the energy of the crystal returned us all from the dead to our normal lives without memory of being scouts, or the princess." Usagi had stared at her feet while she had said that, and now looked up at her friends. Some looked sad, some looked resigned, and Seiya looked horrified.

"But you won't need to use the full amount of the Silver Crystal's power to get rid of this enemy. Will you?" Hotaru asked in a young, hopeful voice. Usagi grimaced.

"Last time the Silver Crystal I had wasn't recovered from the fight against Beryl, and the Silver Crystal Chibbiusa had wasn't recovered from the battle against the evil that had put the Earth to sleep. Between the two, we just barely defeated the Dark Phantom." Usagi knew she was basically telling them that fighting this enemy was going to kill her, she had been thinking that same thing all week, and she felt bad to have to tell them it. Usagi took a deep breath. "Now everyone has the basic information. We need to get started. Usagi had picked the first groups, and then they would rotate at random. Usagi, Ami, and Setsuma would be the first to work on compiling the data, since they knew the most about the enemy. Seiya, Haruka, and Makoto would spar with Rei, Yaten, and Hotaru. Finally that left Minako, Taiki, and Michiru to study. Usagi explained to Hotaru to not use her strongest attack, since it was able to destroy planets and killed her when she used it. Seiya tried to stop her to talk, but she shook him off and told him that they could talk later. Usagi was dreading that talk.

"Oh yeah!" Usagi said as everyone was about to go off to do their tasks. "I almost forgot. Naru's mother is hosting a huge ball to show off her new jewelry line that was inspired by pictures of Italy. She wants us to be there and wear her jewelry, and wants us to meet up with her this weekend to shop for dresses to complement the jewelry. But we need dates." Everyone's happy expressions quickly changed to sad. "We have three guys, four if you count Yuichiro." Everyone laughed. Yuichiro was in love with Rei, and secretly Usagi thought Rei felt the same. He lived in the temple and studied under Rei's grandfather.

"I can pass a guy." Haruka chimed in and everyone replied "We know." Which caused more laughter.

"I think Hotaru, and I would rather sit this out." Setsuma said. Hotaru nodded her agreement.

The next two hours were productive for Usagi's group. She was happy to have a distraction from the present. They worked hard and had a lot of data entered by the end. They walked outside and saw that apparently the training had went well, because everyone was dirty, sweaty, and limping. Mean while poor Minako looked like her brain was a fried piece of bacon. The Stars had to leave to get to the recording studio, but the look Seiya gave Usagi said, 'we will have that talk'. Usagi was too tired to even think about what it would entail, so she just trudged home, ate, asked her mom about the jewelry show, and went to bed. Tomorrow was finally Friday then she would go shopping like a normal teenage girl.