Hello again! Not expecting so soon an update, huh? xD Well, since I have some free time on my hand, I thought I should translate as much as I can from my story and update here ^^ Also, I think I'm going to change the content warning from K to M, the next chapters might prove why ^^'

Thank you for keeping with this lazy me and following my story thus far 3 I'm very grateful! Please enjoy this chapter as little it may be .

Chapter 10 – Kidnapping and revealing

Backstage, the girls were waiting for the three boys with emotion in their hearts. All of them had felt their love through their songs, felt their desperation and hoping. But the one who had felt the most was Usagi, therefore her anxiety and fear were almost choking her. She didn't know why, but she was afraid of him…afraid of talking with him.

"You were brilliant!" Rei exclaimed and rushed toward Seiya, hugging him. Usagi almost jumped when she realized they were there. That he was there.

"The songs were great!" Mako said and hugged Taiki.

Usagi was staying a little farther than them, looking at them but not really seeing them. She was lost again in her thoughts, insecure of how she should act. But she wasn't unnoticed. Seiya was looking at her, his gaze piercing through all her thoughts and fears. She looked at him. Her blue eyes swan with fear and Seiya worried. Leaving Rei with Yaten, he got closer to Usagi.

"Is something the matter, Odango?"

"N…N-noyhing, Seiya." She answered with a false smile across her face.

"Did you like my song?" he asked, cursing himself for wanting to know more, for wanting to be sure. He was sure that the glimpse of fear that he saw in her eyes was because of him…because of what she realized.

"Yeah…I liked it." She said, again fear appeared in her eyes, but she turned to look at the others.

"Odango, are you scared of something?" Seiya asked, his tone grave and worried.

"N-n-…actually, yes." Usagi sighed and turned once again to look at him.

"What happened?" he asked, resting his hand on her small shoulders. Usagi felt shivers down her spine.

"Seiya…do you love me?" she asked, her heart beating so fast. She had plucked every bit courage she had, because this was no ordinary thing she'd ask.

"Odango…" The hope in his voice made her heart ache. "You know well that I do."

"This is what I feared." She said, closing her eyes. "And I still fear." Added, opening them. They were clear-blue and fogged with fear and pain. And maybe love; no, definitely love. Because she loved Seiya, but not in the same way as him. She had loved him in the past, she knew that, but now…now it was different.

"Why, Odango? Don't…don't you love me?" Seiya finally asked, his deep-blue eyes boring in hers.

"N-no. Seiya, I'm sorry…" she said, leaving his eyes and looking into the ground. She couldn't stand the pain she had witnessed in his eyes.

"Odango, you don't have to apologize." She heard him say, the felt his fingers grab her chin and lifted her face to meet his. She saw his bitter-sweet smile.

"Seiya…"

"You know…this scene happened before. Three years ago." He said, his gaze recording every feature of her face. "Only back then, it was before the concert and now is after. And this is a fact that things can always be changed…"

He parted from her and joined the others who were chatting happily, hoping that somehow it may soothe his pain. At least, for the moment.

Usagi watched him distancing himself from her and it pained her. She knew why. Seiya had been her lover on the Silver Millenium and now he is her friend on Earth. But only that…and it hurt her to see her friends hurt because of her. She hid her tears and wiped them clean. Then she joined them too.

Life goes on, no?

The next day, Concert of hearts was on everyone's lips; everyone was curious about the girls so important in their idols life that they were dedicated songs. Every girl was sighing over their lost loves and envying the lucky girls. Taiki…Yaten…Seiya – were no longer theirs.

Minako was walking down the street, seeing the people, but not really seeing. Her thoughts were so confused. That song was for her, she knew it even if Yaten had said it at the beginning. She didn't think that she would really go and neither did Ami. But their curiosity beat them and both of them left for Tokyo Stadium.

She wasn't prepared for what waited her there. His song touched her and her heart so deeply that had to admit her love for him. She knew that he poured all of his soul into that song, that he yearned for her… She couldn't help but crying. She cried for their lost love, for their friends and for what the future might hold. Because she was aware now as Ami was too. Their loves were easier even if they seem unacceptable. But…Seiya and Usagi. Their love was a real problem, because Usagi already has Mamoru and a future in front of her. They remembered their past together, they knew that they had loved each other…but now…was it the same?

With these thoughts wandering inside her head, Minako didn't see the black car which pulled near her and neither the weird person who rushed toward her. She only felt a hand covering her mouth, making her to inspire all sleeping solution that was sprayed over the cloth over her mouth. She tried to shout but quickly her strengths left her, leaving into the hands of the unknown assaulter. She fell asleep and then was carried into the car which soon left the place of crime.

Although being a bright afternoon, no one took notice of this incident or of the blond girl with sparkling blue eyes who had been kidnapped.

Ami was at Hikawa Shrine together with Usagi, Rei and Makoto. She came to tell them what had refused a few days ago to tell. Gathering her courage, she told them everything she heard and saw together with Minako. The shocking face of the girls made her smile a little. But when she looked more careful at Usagi she saw that she was the most shocked of them. Also…she could see fear on her face.

"Ami…tell me you're joking." whispered Usagi, her voice weak.

"I wish, Usagi." She replied with a sigh, knowing that to her was probably the hardest.

"And why weren't these memories revealed from the beginning?"

"This…I'm afraid I don't know. But probably Luna and Artemis might know why."

"Yes, you're right Ami! Let's go and ask them." said Usagi, hurrying toward the door, a desperate aura surrounding her.

"We can't." said Rei immediately.

"And why is so?" she turned to her friend irritated.

"Because they're gone into the future, remember?"

"And why have they gone there?"

"Baka!" said Rei through gritted teeth. "They missed Diana and went to see her. Now don't ask anymore stupid questions and calm down."

"Yeah…right." subdued Usagi, letting herself onto the floor and throwing them a lost look. She remembered last night.

[flashback]

"Seiya…"

"You know…this scene happened before. Three years ago. Only back then, it was before the concert and now is after. And this is a fact that things can always be changed…"

[end of flashback]

Only now she understood what his words really meant. But with her, things can never be changed.

Minako opened her eyes slowly, but quickly shut them because of the light that shined upon her. Immediately, the silence in the room was broken by the yell of a seagull and by the sound of waves. Shocked, she lifted herself from the bed and rushed toward the opened window. Her mouth fell down at the scenery.

In front of her eyes, there was the sea caressing the golden beach and punishing the high rocks with furious waves, while at the horizon the sun was submerging into the sea for a long sleep. Its last rays shone upon the water, giving her colors like orange, red and yellow. It was a great scenery, Minako was captured by its beauty and felt soothed in the same time. But all the magic vanished as the question "What I am doing here?" crossed her mind.

Before she could give herself a proper answer, the door opened, preparing herself against an enemy. She wasn't expecting this and neither the overflowing warmth and cold that spread into her body or the slightly tremble of her heart.

And before she knew, she was shacking against her will, against her control.