Reunion

By Bashfulglowfly

Chapter 3

When the other girls gasped, Usagi looked over her shoulder. Ami looked at Usagi. "The guy with Mamoru-san is your brother?"

"His name is Mamoru?" Usagi shot another look over her shoulder and blushed. "He's very handsome." She murmured something else beneath her breath before she turned back to the girls. "That's my older brother, Soichiro. He's going to Moto-Azabu High."

"That's where Mamoru-san goes." Said Rei. "I wonder if they are classmates."

"They're coming this way." Hissed Makoto.

Mamoru and Usagi's brother received cups of coffee from Motoki and walked towards the girls. Usagi frowned as she saw how tense the others were. "Is there something wrong?"

But before they could answer, the two young men were there and pulling up chairs. "Everyone, this is Tsukino Soichiro, a classmate of mine." Mamoru quickly performed introductions.

Soichiro nodded politely. "And this is my sister, Usagi. Usagi, this is Chiba Mamoru." He smiled at the stunned look on Mamoru's face when he saw Usagi. Usagi, for her part blushed brilliantly. Soichiro tugged lightly at one of Usagi's ponytails. "How was school today? Flunk any tests yet?" Usagi turned and glared at her older brother and stuck out her tongue. Quickly, Soichiro's hand flashed out and captured her tongue between thumb and index finger. "What is this?" he asked lightly as he shook her tongue, ignoring her slurred protests. "Is this disrespect for one's older brother? Have I not spoken to you about this?"

Usagi just glared, and then winced as Soichiro squeezed a bit harder. "Swowwy."

"Very good!" Praised Soichiro, but he didn't release her tongue. "Are you going to stick your tongue out at me again?"

"Nowo." Soichiro released her tongue then wiped the saliva on his fingers onto her blouse. "EWWWW! Don't wipe spit on me!"

"It's your spit." He pointed out calmly as he sat down between Usagi and Ami. He turned to Ami, "I'm not crowding you am I?"

"No." came Ami's soft but wary reply.

"Good." Soichiro looked at everyone at the table. "We might as well get this into the open…Yes, I am Zoicite."

Usagi choked on her milkshake. She stared at her brother. "Are you stupid? He'll kill you!"

"Oh, Kunzite's already very angry at us, Usagi-chan." The four Senshi stared at Mamoru who calmly took a sip of his coffee. Usagi turned and stared at him in horror. Mamoru looked over Usagi's head to Soichiro. "It would have been nice if you warned me about her though."

Soichiro grinned at him. "I thought I'd let it be a surprise."

Usagi just stared into the distance. "My brain just melted." She murmured.

The looks on the other four girls faces clearly said that their brains have melted too.

Minako shook her head, her hair flying and pointed at Usagi. "He should have warned you about her? Why should he warn you about her?"

Ami gave up all pretenses of trying to hide anything and reached out and pulled her Mercury computer out of her subspace pocket. Opening quickly, she tapped on several keys. Her eyes widened and her hands began to shake.

Usagi looked at her, sighed then smiled. "Go ahead. Tell them."

"A-according to my computer, she is the Princess of Moon." Ami turned stunned eyes to the others.

Minako leaned forward. "Are you sure?"

"Yes…well short of a blood test…yes." Stammered Ami.

Soichiro reached into his pocket and pulled out a small pocketknife. He turned to his sister. "Finger."

Usagi stared at him like he was an ax murderer and pulled her hands away. "NO!"

Soichiro rolled his eyes. "Big baby! It won't hurt for long. It will settle any questions. Besides Dymion can kiss it all better." He grabbed her hand.

"NO! Nononononono!" Usagi struggled but she also didn't want to make too big of a scene so Soichiro won and managed to prick her finger, causing it to bleed. He smeared the blood across the screen of the Mercury computer where it was quickly absorbed.

Usagi snatched back her hand and stared at it like it was going to fall off at any second. A tear began rolling down her cheek but before it could get far, Mamoru had swept it away. "Here." He didn't kiss her finger but he held her hand in his. Usagi felt tingling warmth. When Mamoru released her hand, the small mark that Soichiro had made was gone.

She looked up at Mamoru shyly. "Thank you." She turned and glared at Soichiro. "I'll get even with you for that!"

"I'm shaking." Retorted Soichiro. He looked at Ami. "Well, what does it say?"

Ami nodded. "It's confirmed. Usagi is Serenity, Princess of the Moon."

Rei glared. "Where have you been all this time?"

"Los Angeles." Chorused the siblings.

"Wait. I'm confused." Said Makoto. "Zoicite is our enemy and Serenity is his sister? How can one be evil and the other be good?"

Usagi smiled. "It happens all the time in stories, so why can't it be that way in real life?" She smiled. "But, he's not evil. None of the Shitennou are. At least not these Shitennou. Beryl's minions whom she called the Shitennou were evil."

Mamoru narrowed his eyes and turned her chin so she was looking at him. "You were living in Los Angeles yet you know about Beryl? How is that?"

"Because Usagi fought against her too." Jadeite slapped Mamoru on his back while he grabbed a chair with his free hand and sat down next to Rei who started to act as if he had the Plague. "Keep it down, Firebird. You don't want people saying things about you again."

Rei strangled on her rage. The others knew that people often thought she was strange because she could predict the future and because of Phobos and Demios. It had taken some time even after making friends with the others for the whispers to stop.

Nephrite walked around the table. "You two idiots okay? Kunzite smacked you about pretty hard."

"What? What happened?" Usagi looked back and forth between Soichiro and Mamoru. "You said something earlier about Kunzite being angry with you…"

"Yes, please tell us why you two were fighting on the roof of your school. I'm sure the answer will be utterly fascinating." Nephrite sat down a chair next to Makoto. She had the look on her face that the other girls recognized: The "he reminds me of my old boyfriend" look.

Mamoru looked at Soichiro who gestured for him to go ahead. Mamoru rubbed the back of his neck and spoke. "Well, we're in the same class. I recognized him from the minute I saw him. I was surprised to say the least. I was wondering what he was up to. So, at lunch, Soichiro asked if there was some place private where we could talk. When we got to the roof, he confronted me about staring at him all morning. I called him 'Zoicite' and demanded to know what he was up to. Long and short, accusations were made, denials were made, and I started the fight. I transformed and I gave Soichiro no choice, so he transformed as well. We started fighting and then I was hit by a brick wall."

"I thought it was a train myself." Laughed Soichiro.

Mamoru flashed him a grin. "It was Kunzite. He smacked us around like we were rag dolls; called us 'mental defectives' and I think that he's really going to make us pay for him having to come to our school. But, I did get a memory back because of that."

"Which one was that?" asked Jadeite.

"Remember when Dymion and I played matador with the herd bulls?"

From the heated glares the two younger men received from both Jadeite and Nephrite, they remembered.

Minako raised an eyebrow. "'Matador with the herd bulls'? That should be an interesting tale." After listening to the explanation, both of her eyebrows were raised, Usagi and Ami had hands covering their mouths while Rei and Makoto just stared. Minako laughed. "It's a wonder that you two made it to adulthood."

Nephrite snorted. "With some of what we got up to, it's a wonder that Kunzite didn't kill all of us before we reached adulthood."

"He would have had a hard time explaining how the Heir to the Kingdom got killed." Jadeite pointed out.

"Not after the matador stupidity, he wouldn't have!" came the retort.

Mamoru looked at Usagi and gestured at Nephrite. "He said that you fought against Beryl? How? When she was here?"

Usagi smiled. "Evil isn't just limited to Japan. She had minions in Los Angeles too but no one noticed because they're used to seeing weird people running around. The movie industry, you know."

Makoto snorted. "We've got Godzilla but we still get people getting in the way during battles trying to take our pictures."

Rei grinned. "Well if you'd just fry their cameras, then they won't try and take panty shots."

Minako glared. "You better not have set any civilians on fire again! I've told you not to do that!"

Rei tossed her head. "I didn't set the guy on fire…I set his camera on fire."

Minako drew in a breath to lambaste the Fire Senshi but she saw the looks on faces of Jadeite and Nephrite. She could clearly see that they weren't happy with the idea of panty shots either. Chewing her out can wait. If I do it here, there would be a lot of yelling and our private identities could come out. Of course, now that I think about, the Kunzite that I remember probably wouldn't be too happy about pervs taking panty shots of me either.

Usagi spoke again. "Getting back to about Beryl. I did fight her with Zoicite's help." She bit her lip. "I'm not really very good at fighting."

Soichiro spoke. "There's nothing for you to be ashamed of. We've told you that. Sailor Moon's job is not to lead the battle but to end it. There's nothing wrong with the fact that your talents lie elsewhere."

Nephrite nodded. "Usagi, remember, you didn't learn to fight in the Silver Millennium. You didn't need to. So don't be ashamed now."

Jadeite looked over at Ami. "Can you look through your computer and see what it says about Sailor Moon? What her skills were?"

Ami nodded. "I'll look into it tonight. It will take some time." She bit her lip. "Sometimes, it won't let me access things. I've noticed that as I regain more memories, there are more things that I can access."

Usagi looked at her. "I'll see what I can do to help. But this place is far too public for me to do anything." She sighed. "But I did what I could to fight Beryl." She looked at the group around her. "I was behind you in the Artic when you went to confront Beryl. I'm sorry that I didn't get to you in time."

"But you got there?" Asked Minako.

"Yes, after her minions killed you though." Usagi looked down at her hands. "Then I confronted Beryl, freed Endymion…"

Mamoru interrupted. "Freed me? I was there?"

Usagi looked up at him. "Yes, she had captured you at the Starlight Tower. She tried to brainwash you and make you fight me but you were too strong for her so she stopped using you…until the end. But I managed to make you remember and you wounded Beryl pretty badly."

"What happened to me?" Mamoru asked.

"Beryl wasn't happy that you regained your memories." Whispered Usagi. "She attacked and you protected me." She looked up at him, tears in her eyes. "You died. Endymion, Senshi, Shitennou. All of you died." She took a deep breath. "Beryl fled to Metallia and Metallia ate her soul."

"Ate her soul?" Rei was aghast.

Usagi nodded. "Ate her soul. Beryl can never be reborn. Ever. I fought Metallia, using the Ginzuishou. But even with the strength all of you gave me, it took all that and more to defeat Metallia. I died too." She smiled sadly at the gasps. "But as I died, I had one last wish and the Ginzuishou granted it. That's why we're all alive."

Minako thumped her fist on the table and pointed at Usagi. "I want my memories back. The good, the bad and the ugly. I want them ALL back!"