Whoot New Chapter, i like this Chapter, i'm finally getting to the stage where... hmm better not say to much read on :)

Lots of running around in this chapter, phew i don't know about you guys but i'm very tired, could be something to do with running for fifteen minutes in an absolute downpour, seriously monsoon season in the UK. I got sodden and now i have a cold sniff still, its good news for you guys since i always like to write to keep my mind off things when i'm not well meaning i got this chappy finished earlier than i thought i would.

Disclaimer- Who knows why we do this? If i owned Sailor Moon would i be posting FANfiction, cor honestly. Nope I'd be selling it and making even more MONEY. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Eh hem yes anyway on with the FANstory.


"Come on Haruka!" Usagi cheered along with the other scouts as Haruka lined up at the beginning of her race. She peered up into the large crowd and immediately spotted her friends, a wide smile spread across her face. All thoughts of having so little sleep slipped away as she prepared herself, glancing to her left and right at the other runners, none of them seemed to be much of a contest, but then that was always the case. They were told to get 'on their marks' and then suddenly a loud gunshot was fired and she was off.

Mere seconds later it was all over and she turned, not even slightly tired to see the others finishing behind her, all looking at her completely amazed as they took deep breaths. She didn't hang around long and went to find her friends; her spirits dropped slightly when she found that Michiru had not joined them; however she hadn't really expected her too.

"Amazing. As per usual," Said a grinning Makoto as she slapped Haruka on the back.

"Yeah you were fantastic as always Haruka," Usagi was beaming as she came to give her friend a huge hug. She felt Haruka go slightly stiff, but put it down to Haruka as being easily embarrassed by outward girly affection.

"Nice race Tenoh!"

Haruka blinked a couple of times before turning to see Seiya dragging Rei the limpet towards them.

"What the…"

"Oh I invited him along Ruka, you don't mind right!" Usagi said looking apprehensively from Haruka to Seiya. Thankfully all that happened was that Haruka's eyes narrowed slightly before she turned away, and Usagi breathed a gentle sigh of relief.

There was a small café near the racetrack, so once the awards had been given, they headed there to celebrate Haruka's win.

"So Kitten, where is Mamo-chan today," She saw Seiya wince slightly out of the corner of her eye.

"Oh he's off doing some boring college stuff, to be honest it's a bit of a relief," She sighed and leant back in her seat. It was a few moments before she realised everyone, with the exception of Seiya, was giving her funny and worried looks.

"Oh No!" She waved her hands in front of her face, "We're not having any problems it's just… well it's nice to spend some time just with you guys, we've been practically joined at the hip for about three years. All couples need some lone time every now and then right," she smiled round at them,

"Quite right!" Announced Seiya earning himself a hard poke from Mina and a glare from Haruka.

"Guys really don't worry," Usagi giggled, Seiya himself was close to laughter despite the topic. He didn't really understand, nor did he want to understand, the finer points of Usagi and Mamoru's relationship, the whole future daughter, Crystal Tokyo thing for instance seemed a little crazy, since when is the future a dead certainty; but what he did know was that any possible hitch was taken with a great degree of seriousness and it was very funny how worked up they all got.

"Perhaps you should call him Kitten," Put in Haruka,

"Yes, I'm sure he'll want to hear from you," Said Ami.

"Gah are you guys ever boring, I feel like I'm married to the lot of you sometimes," Usagi frowned slightly, but as the whole table started to giggle she started to smile again.

"Hey I better get going!" Seiya leapt up all of a sudden taking poor Rei, who had been leaning on him, by surprise as she toppled to the floor. "Oh Sorry Rei," He helped her up, causing one hell of a blush to pass across her face.

"You have to go Seiya?" Usagi looked at him, for a moment seeing the disappointment in her eyes he wanted to say he didn't, but he had sworn to Taiki and Yaten that he'd be back in time for an interview they were supposed to give that evening.

"Er Yeah… Three Lights stuff,"

"Oh right," She smiled,

"I'll see you then, Oda…Usagi," The other scouts, barring Haruka, gave him friendly waves as he turned to walk out.

"You know Seiya…" He turned back to see Usagi smiling serenely, "You can call me Odango, if you really want," He stared at her for a moment.

"I don't think Mamoru would…" Haruka started

"Pah, It's just a nickname what's everyone's problem," they all exchanged glances; it was too much to hope that she was just acting dumb.

"You know it's okay, I guess it's getting a little childish by now anyway," Seiya said forcing a smile, before turning back and walking out of the door.

He was just getting into his car when he heard his name called.

"Hey Kou!" Knowing the voice instantly he thought for a moment about pretending to not have heard and just getting into his car and driving away, but Haruka had already reached him before he could make up his mind.

"Tenoh," he said straightening up, "To what do I owe this… er,"

"Skip it! I just want to make sure you're not getting any ideas,"

"Er… about?"

"Don't act thicker than you are Kou, I'm talking about Usagi, just because she and…"
"If you're so convinced that their solid Tenoh, why are you out here making sure I don't try anything?"

Haruka was, much to her displeasure, at a loss for an answer to this. Seiya saw this and smiled.

"Look, you need to realise something Tenoh that I realised a long time ago: All this stuff about the future and destiny is a load of rubbish," Haruka opened her mouth to protest, "I'm not done! The future is what we make it okay, there are a hundred different paths, in the end it's always going to be Usagi's choice, and while it doesn't make it any easier for me to accept that she chose Mamoru, it does give me comfort to know that if he doesn't make her happy, she can decide to leave, even if not for me, for someone who will make her happy; because she deserves that. And just so you know, if you lot keep pressing this whole following destiny thing she's going to get sick of it, she's going to want to make you all happy even at a compromise to her own happiness, and I don't think you really want that do you?"

For the second time Haruka was lost for words and Seiya took the opportunity to get into his car.

"You know Kou… that's the second really deep thing you've said to me this week,"

"You clearly have some serious misconceptions about me Tenoh, and don't worry, I won't chase Usagi for as long as she is happy with Mamoru," he then started the car and Haruka jumped out of the way as he reversed and then drove off.

She watched him go, his words still echoing in her head. Until the last few months they'd never exchanged more than a few angry words; they'd known each other for so long and she still knew practically nothing about him, for instance she'd always assumed he'd chased Usagi even when he knew she had a boyfriend, who was admittedly dead although knew that at the time, simply because he was selfish. It occurred to her now that Usagi hadn't been very happy in those few months; maybe Seiya had picked up on that and tried to fill the gap because he truly cared. She blinked, and then frowned, she must be going insane, next thing you know I'll be thinking 'maybe he's not so bad' she scoffed in her own head at the very idea and tried to ignore the little voice somewhere in the shadows of her mind that kept whispering But maybe he's not. Shaking her head she turned on her heel and headed back into the café and sat herself down again between Mina and Makoto who were talking animatedly about the new guy working at a bar downtown.


"Where the Hell were you!" Snapped Yaten as Seiya came dashing in, just on time.

He started to speak but Yaten cut across him.

"I was…"

"No wait, don't tell me. You were talking to Tenoh!"

"She just…"
But Yaten had already thrown his hands in the air and stormed off. Taiki sighed and patted Seiya's shoulder.

"Leave him, you know he gets all worked up and jittery before interviews, he's just dreading the usual invasion of his privacy and he's taking it out on us!"

"On me you mean,"

"Are you kidding? What about when he was jittery about the privacy and the fact that you weren't here yet. I've never been so scared," He gave a fake shudder and headed off after Yaten. Seiya shook his head and took a deep breath and followed his brothers towards the backstage area.


A few days passed without much event, Yaten was getting more and more irritable by the day, only made worse by Seiya's suggestions that he was getting withdrawal from not seeing Mina, who had of course been studying since her final exams were getting closer.

"You know you'd feel a whole lot better if you just told her," said Seiya after a particularly long rant about why someone had put his best white shirt in the same wash as his coloured clothing, nobody had bothered to tell him it was he who had done this.

"Told who what?"

Seiya raised an eyebrow, he'd come to the conclusion long ago that Yaten was hopeless, but he had hoped it could be rectified.

"Oh I don't know, maybe tell Mina about your Undying love for her," Yaten blinked and paused.

"Ha, right," He scoffed and turned away, "I'll go tell her that the moment YOU declare undying love for Haruka Tenoh!" He paused again, "Then again maybe…"

"Oh shut up!" Seiya walked up and slapped him round the back of the head as he walked past "You need to wake up and smell the salt water,"

"What?"

"The Nile bro!" Seiya disappeared into his room before Yaten could work out what he was suggesting. (A/N I know OLD i couldn't resist ;P) A loud growl a few minutes later, followed by the slam of the door, confirmed his theory. Still chuckling to himself he grabbed his bag and pulled it onto his shoulder. He had recently taking up running at the track, though he would never tell anyone, he had got the idea ages ago when he had heard Haruka talking with the other scouts about how freeing running could be. He had found that she was right and he now went every few days. He had always been fast, being the leader of the Starlights, speed was essential, but he had never thought it could be relaxing; but for a little while it felt as if you had outrun all your problems, and then when they caught up with you you'd had time to gather yourself together, you were stronger and ready to face them, and it was wonderful. It was one of the reasons he had been able to spend more time around the girls and Usagi without a constant pang in his heart.

As he stared ahead down the track at the finishing line he tried to block the loud chattering and cheers coming from the stands, he had already accumulated quite a little fan club, and it was difficult to concentrate. Yuki, pretty much the only sensible girl he'd met there, was stood at the end holding a timer and a little starters gun. He heard the crack and he pushed forward. He ran one circuit of the track putting on as much speed as he could; the squeals of the small crowd were muffled by the rushing wind. As he crossed the end line he vaguely heard the beep of the timer and he turned and jogged over to Yuki to find his time.

"Amazing," She said staring at it in disbelief. "You broke the men's 400m track record in one go!" he broke into a grin.

"The men's maybe," Said an amused voice and Haruka Tenoh once more hoved into view. "Not bad Kou,"

"You know Seiya Haruka?" said Yuki looking from one to the other.

"Oh we go way back," Smiled Haruka, the smile was more unnerving to Seiya than her usual expression of choice, a frown.

"Check it out Haruka," Yuki moved the timer so Haruka could see, "He's only about one second off your best time,"

"One second is a long time in racing," Said Haruka not losing her smile. Seiya raised an eyebrow.

"Hey why don't you two have a race, men's record vs. women's record?"

"Oh… I wouldn't want to take advantage, I've only just finished my warm up and Seiya has already worn himself out I expect," She watched the amused expression getting worse as she saw the fire light behind Seiya's eyes. If there was one thing she did know about him it was that he never backed down from a challenge.

"Scared of losing to a guy Tenoh?" He taunted, his own smirk spreading across his face. She turned to him and stared him right in the eye.

"Never,"

A nervous giggle from beside them made both turn, Yuki jumped at the sudden attention and started to scurry off muttering about getting set up. The two competitors headed to the starting blocks.

"Sure you don't want an hours break to get your breath back Kou,"

"Save your own breath Tenoh, you'll need it," She gave a laugh and they both watched as Yuki walked down towards the finish line.

There were more cheers now, it seemed Haruka had her own fan club; Seiya couldn't help but wonder how many of those girls actually knew she was a girl. He didn't think to hard on it though because Yuki was holding the gun in the air.

BANG!


Ooooooo the wind vs the shooting star, who will be victorious HMMM it's a tricky one tee hee. Anyway from here on in we can finally start breaking down those barriers YAY someone get me a hammer :D.

REVIEWS my favourite part of my day is finding out what you guys think, okay one of my fave parts of the day, since i actually do have a life beyond fanfiction GOSH SHOCKING. :

bibi3758: A little in this chapter, but more so next chapter i promise ;)

sailor-ahiru: Coming soon, i hope xD, and i'm really glad you've decided to start writing your own Sei/Har fic, their my FAVEFAVEFAVE couple, you can just let your imagination run wild and it's not like you have to work around annoying future children or crystal cities or dull fiance's (yes i have issues with Mamoru get over it Mamo lovers, god is he ever boring, he can even make the superhero look, look yawn)

SeiHaru: beams like the sun BIG thank you to you, i think you've commented on practically every chapter (HUGS). Your comments really inspire me to keep writing :D.

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Katrina Kadabra: I hope it stays interesting ;)