Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon or any of the characters. This is just for fun.

A/N: Thank you Aelita56, LitaDelacour, PerlaNemesis, Tache, krugern, persian85033, sangoscourage, harucino, RukaMichiSkyKing, impersonal, LazCazodora, Thepillows93, gotToLuvAnime, Ryoko05, Facing Reality, wildflower1014, Wicked Prince X, DavisJes, (whoever gave me feedback), Martiny the one, The-Cursed-Daughter, sailormeg78, KaE,Nuben290, tototo and James Birdsongfor reviewing my first Sailor Moon fic.

Okay I have no volunteer to proof edit my story but that all right. If you're interested go back to chapter 7 and read the author's note chapter as well. Not bothering to repeat it.

Thanks DavisJes for pointing out that mistake. I accidentally missed it when I was proof reading my work.

Enjoy.

Chibi Outers

Chapter 10: Aftermath

Michiru felt the rays of sunlight stream in on her face and warm her skin. Groaning trying to get back to sleep she turned her back to the sun and snuggled up to Haruka who was slowly breathing in and out trying to fall asleep again.

"How much sleep do you think we got?" asked Michiru burying her head into Haruka's chest. Haruka's head rose to glance at the time and settled back down on the pillow.

"Bout four hours,"

Michiru let out another sigh before pushing her body out of bed. "I can't get back to sleep. I'm going to make breakfast, you can stay here if you want,"

Haruka nodded her head before she buried her head back into the pillow and pulling the covers back over her shoulders. Michiru smiled at her and leaned down kissing her forehead "Is there anything you want me to make,"

"No, I'll make some toast when I get up,"

With that Michiru walked out of their room and into the hallway rubbing her tired face. She descended down the stairs and was about to start boiling the kettle for tea to find it already boiled.

"Couldn't sleep,"

Michiru turned around to see Setsuna sitting at the counter sipping tea and flipping idly through a fashion magazine and the newspaper lying near by already flipped through.

"Hai, you too?"

Setsuna nodded her head before letting out a yawn.

Setsuna studied Michiru's tired features. There were dark circles under her eyes, one cheek rosy, the other one pale and her hair was a complete mess. She could tell Michiru's body ached a bit but that didn't stop the aqua-haired woman from doing anything.

Setsuna was just as bad and this morning accidentally spilled tea on her pink nightgown. Her hair was unpinned and a mess of its own.

"How long have you been up?"

"Not long, 30 minutes tops,"

Michiru felt the kettle's warmth deciding it was still warm enough for her tea. She searched the cupboards for her favorite herbal tea while chatting to Setsuna.

"Haruka still asleep?"

"Trying to fall asleep again. What about Hotaru and the clones?"

"Still asleep,"

Once Michiru was done making herself tea she quickly made some toast for herself "You hungry Sets-chan?"

"Iie, I already ate,"

Michiru nodded as silence instilled the room again. Neither of them spoke for a moment, as they were both in deep thought about last night. Michiru took a sip of her tea before taking a bite out of her toast.

Slow trudging was heard near by as another tired senshi stepped into the kitchen. Blonde locks stuck up in all different directions and red, tired teal eyes came into the room.

"Ohayo,"

Haruka kissed Michiru's cheek before making her own breakfast. She scratched the back of her head and neck before sitting down by Michiru. It wasn't too soon until the last and youngest Outer Senshi joined them.

"I checked on our clones. They're still asleep. I think they'll be asleep for some time," said Hotaru rubbing her own puffy eyes.

Setsuna glanced at the microwave digital time again before nodding "Enough time to talk about last night and them,"

As they quickly finished their meals they started on their quick meeting.

"Is there a way to get rid of the connection? Should we be staying away from the clones?" asked Michiru staring at Setsuna.

"Once the connections is made its almost impossible to break. The one who created the clones is the person that can break it and I doubt that person will unless we find out how to do it," explained Setsuna.

"Then what can we do?" Haruka drew circles on the back of her hand trying to think what best to do in this situation.

"Stay alert, keep a look out for anything out of the norm and stay safe. We need to look after the clones especially because they're easy target. Youma or no youma we need to keep them safe as if there are actually our own daughters,"

"What about our enemy?" asked Hotaru rubbing her cold hands.

"I'll go back on every clone record there is. Try to find a suspect that would want us dead. Unfortunately most criminals we've met in the Silver Millennium wants us dead,"

Haruka huffed as she took a sip of her tea "How many records are there?"

"Fortunately there's not many. Hopefully it wouldn't be too hard to find a suspect,"

"So you think its one of our old enemies?"

"Yes but there's also a possibility it could be something else. So right now we got to look after our clones and do our duties as Sailor Senshi,"

Haruka, Michiru and Hotaru nodded their head in affirmation. Michiru and Setsuna washed and put away the dishes while Hotaru went to change and Haruka decided to go and check up on their clones.

Just as Haruka walked into the hallway she saw the front door open "Hime-chan, can you check on the girls?" Haruka made her way to the door gazing outside in curiosity before closing the door.

"Akiko-chan and Cho-chan still asleep. I don't see Chiharu-chan or Sayuri-chan anywhere,"

"Shimatta,"

Haruka flung the door back open racing outside to see if Chiharu-chan or Sayuri-chan had run off somewhere.

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After Hotaru checked on the girls like Haruka-papa asked her she walked back down the stairs to see her running off. She remembered the door being open for some reason and Haruka-papa closing it. Then it hit her, could Sayuri and Chiharu ran off somewhere?

"Michiru-mama, Setsuna-mama," cried out Hotaru as she rushed back into the kitchen "Sayuri-chan and Chiharu-chan aren't in their rooms. Haruka-papa found the front door open and she's run outside to see if they ran off somewhere,"

Michiru and Setsuna shared a horrified glance before dropping the dishes back into the sink and dryer.

"Search around the house just in case they're still here. Hotaru-chan, stay up there with the girls to make sure they don't run off either. If we don't find them here Setsuna-mama and I will join Haruka-papa on trying to find the girls,"

Hotaru nodded her head before dashing back upstairs into Akiko's room. She quickly woke up the little girl before moving her to Cho's room and setting her back to sleep with Cho. She glanced around the room and checked everywhere if Sayuri or Chiharu had decided to hide in the room.

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Michiru scanned Sayuri's room before checking every small space a 4 year old can hide in. Once she couldn't find her she sprinted to Chiharu's room to do the same thing.

"Sayuri-chan, Chiharu-chan," screamed out Michiru. She pulled on her aqua locks before sprinting in another room. She checked each and every room for Sayuri or Chiharu but still no luck.

Meanwhile Setsuna had run outside straight away going for the backyard first. She scanned each little space and was looking in her small garden as well. She then ran back inside checking their indoor pool as well but still no sign of them.

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Haruka ran through the streets in search for Chiharu and Sayuri. The closet place to their home was the park so Haruka headed there first. She scanned the location but still no sign of any aqua hair or blonde locks. Haruka asked around if they saw Chiharu or Sayuri but unfortunately no had seen them at all.

Haruka checked the back streets and found herself in an old alleyway she told Hotaru to keep away from. Mostly because of muggers and kidnappers were often found here. She heard soft sobs and a male's voice close by.

"Its ok, this isn't going to hurt you. Much that is,"

Haruka sprinted off in the direction of the voice and saw Chiharu and Sayuri huddled in a corner while an old man stood in front of them with an old rusty blade in his hand. The man was poor and looked like one the muggers that roamed these old dodgy streets.

Haruka snuck behind him using one arm to put his head in a headlock and the other knife grasping his hand that held the knife. "Listen to me carefully and do what I tell you. Drop the knife and leave when I let you go,"

The man chuckled before Haruka tightened her grip on him "Drop the knife and I'll let you go," Haruka waited a moment before she tightened her grip again causing the man to drop his knife. She turned him around, shoved him away from them and send him a cold glare "Get out of here," The man chuckled again before backing away slowly. Haruka kicked the blade away from danger and turned around to kneel in front of Chiharu and Sayuri.

Chiharu avoided her gaze as she wiped her eyes. Sayuri just gazed down on the ground waiting for her to speak up "Chiharu-chan? Sayuri-chan? You should know you shouldn't leave the house without one of your mama's or me. Its very dangerous out here and you can get hurt easily,"

Chiharu chuckled before glaring coldly at Haruka. Haruka's body tensed up, Chiharu never gave her cold glare. "You're a big liar. You're not my mama; none of you are any of our mama's. We're just clones, we're not real,"

Haruka froze not knowing what to say. How did they find out? What was she going to say? How was she going to keep them from running away again? What was she going to do?

A/N: So there's another problem there. I'll update again when I can and I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Review please.