Do not own sailor moon charcters or blue seed characters.

Momiji woke on a soft bed under her were green sheets and silk pillows. She sat up, her body was throbbing, she felt sore and when she looked down at her legs and arms she saw black and blue marks from where the thorns had captured her.

"Damn it," she said then she noticed that her clothes had been changed she was now dressed in a black tee shirt and black shorts. "What the hell? Where are my clothes?" she asked no one.

"I had the maid put them into the wash," said Kusanagi appearing at the foot of the bed. "I don't think that they will be any use I to you however, I don't think that they will be able to get the blood out of them."

"So you think that it's in your right to undress me and change my clothes," Momiji said standing and taking a few steps forward. Then her face fell and her body collapsed, but before she could hit the ground Kusanagi was there holding her in his strong embrace.

"You're the most stubborn woman I have ever met, you shouldn't be walking around in your state," he told her. He swung her into his arms and took her back to the bed, laying her on it as gently as he could. He lay down next to her and held her in his arms he leaned over her so that their faces were close enough to touch. Kusanagi stared into her eyes for what seemed like an eternity.

"You're so beautiful Momiji," he said. He kept staring into her eyes.

"Why do you keep showing up?" she asked him breathlessly.

"Why not, you seem to keep getting into situations where you need my help," he said to her.

"I don't need your help ever," Momiji said.

"Had I not come around today he most likely would have killed you," Kusanagi said.

"And why is that any business of yours?"

"Because if something were to happen to you then I would….." he stopped before he finished the sentence. He let go of her and rolled to the other side of the bed. He sat on the edge then stood and moved to stand in front of a large window overlooking dark hills and large fields.

"Then you would what?" asked Momiji slightly confused at his words she sat up in the bed and stared at his back. When he didn't answer her she looked down at the bed sheets. "I think I know what you wanted to say," she said quietly. "But I won't allow you to say it you can't ever utter those words do you understand me."

"Why, why would you never have me tell you that I have feelings for you?"

"Because Vampires and Vampire Slayers don't have those feelings for each other, you're the monster and I kill the monsters."

"I am not a monster, I have never done anything against anyone who didn't deserve it," Kusanagi told her.

"And all your victims, did you not harm them?" Momiji shot back at him.

Kusanagi turned away from her and looked out of the window. "You don't understand how we are, we drink to survive not out of malice or hatred, we don't like it but it's what needs to be done, and most of us don't kill our victims when we drink their blood."

"Ha if that were the case then there would be no need for my kind of people," she said.

"Some of our kind forget the laws and forget themselves, but not every vampire is evil," he said, "I'm not."

Momiji looked at him, "that can be debated."

"You really think that I am evil, after I have saved you numerous times, kept your secrets hidden and your family safe."

Momiji's eyes widened, "What do you know about my family?" she said.

"You may be good at hiding who you are, but we are better at discovering who you are. Your Abby's protégé one of three. And now that she has been diagnosed terminally ill the three of you run her "school". You train young slayers in the arts, you teach them how to kill our kind and other creatures that dwell in the night," he said. "You hunt down and kill my kind and yet you call me the monster how ironic for I am sure that you have killed more souls than I have."

"You're wrong most of the things that I have killed have no soul, or they've forgotten it," Momiji said.

"You can't forget your soul, it's there always there lingering inside and though some may ignore it they can't forget it, believe me I've tried."

"Why? Why did you try to forget it?" she asked curiosity bettering her common sense.

"Because once long ago I was what you say that I was, I was a monster and deserved to die, but for some reason I was kept alive, but I was cursed for my deeds and was turned into the man that stands before you."

"You're talking about when you took the spice aren't you," she said. "When it changed your body it made you crazy," she said coming to the realization of what he was revealing.

"Yes and once I escaped from my family's confines and ravaged the nearest town, I killed several people in my insanity, I did things that I never want to admit to doing," he turned and faced her. "I became the monster, and it was only after the spice wore off and my brothers caught me did I realize what I had done. After that I never touched the spice again but it was already too late like I told you the spice had altered my body into what you see."

He held up his hand for her to see, "you see what it has done on the outside but on the inside that's the worst. When I was finally sane I wanted to die for what I had done, I wanted my brothers to kill me, and when they refused I wanted to kill myself but for some reason my body wouldn't allow me to die. I was forced to live with the knowledge of what I had done. My soul was scarred from the first moment that I killed an innocent it will never heal, and though the pain stops I will never forget it."

Momiji was silent as she stared up at him somewhat understanding what he was talking about. "We don't forget our souls Momiji we just try to suppress them but in the end we are forced to remember, and we always remember, and we always regret."

Serena woke when the moon was just rising it was breathtaking. She leaned against the doorframe and watched as it went higher and higher into the sky. "You resemble the moon," Darien said from his seat behind her. Serena didn't respond she only stared up silent. "You haven't spoken in hours what's the matter?"

"My sister is falling in love with a vampire, I can tell even with the barrier that you have set around this place. I can still feel her confused emotions," Serena said. "I guess it's possible for a vampire and a slayer to be soul mates cause I can feel your brothers love for her as well."

"He loves her very much," said Darien.

"Yes, it makes me question what we were told and knowing this I also wonder at the other things that I was taught. I wonder what else was false," she said.

"Many things, they told you that we are evil creatures of the dark did they not?" Her silence was his answer. "They told you this because they fear us, they fear who we are, what we are. We're not all bad Serena. You know this you've had your own experiences with my people to know that they aren't evil."

"Everything that I've been told is a lie, or at least that's what it feels like."

Darien stood he leaned on the doorframe across from her, "Not everything was a lie Serena, there are evils out there in the world but not everything that is different is evil."

"That I know very well now," she said tears forming in her eyes. "I can tell that you all are not evil and that you're the same as me. You have souls and you have hearts that beat, you have thoughts and dreams and emotions. I know this now because if you didn't then I don't think that I would feel this way towards you."

Darien looked into her eyes understanding her meaning but before he could speak she continued. "I think I'm in love with you. Every second that you are near me my mind and soul scream out to be in your arms. Every move you make towards me sends my head rushing and my heart beating. Every time I look into your eyes I see the world and all its wonders and all its pain and then I see the love that you have for me. You try to hide it and you're good at hiding it but I think that because I feel the same I can recognize it." Serena paused, tears coming down her face now. "If Kusanagi and Momiji are soul mates then what I was taught must be false, because if it's possible then I think your mine."

"Serena," he whispered then in a blink she was in his arms. "I've known that you were mine from the moment that I set eyes upon you," he said as he stroked her hair. Darien rested his lips against her forehead and inhaled deeply. "Serena why this change?" he asked.

"I had a dream last night, it gave me the answers that I was looking for, I understand it all now," she said.

"What was your dream about?" he asked.

"A few things I haven't had one like that since I was young, but it gave me the answers that I was searching for," Serena said leaning in to his chest and wrapping her arms around his waist.

Darien took her chin in his fingers he stared into her eyes. "I love you Serena."

"I love you."