The Marine of Pluto

By Coenraad

Chapter 5

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon, nor do I make any money from this.

At their home, Setsuna had taken Jonathan's pants and sewed it up as best she could while he himself took a shower, Setsuna had said that his pants would be waiting for him once he was done with the shower. Currently however, she had to deal with two of her house mates who were less than a fan of her plan to invite the very man they were supposed to follow into their home.

"Seriously Haruka, I don't know what the problem is."

"Problem? He's a possible enemy. We don't know who's side he is on or what his intentions are, that is one of the reasons why Usagi wanted us to follow him in the first place. To discover more about him."

"Think of it this way, now you can follow him to where ever he goes from here."

Haruka shook her head at this. "This is so not what I had in mind."

Michiru walked up and stroked her lovers arm. "I know 'Ruka but this is how it is for now."

"You're right Michi, but you Sets will have to follow him across the roof tops."

Setsuna nodded. "Agreed."

Turning their head to Hotaru, the younger girl sighed "I'll go visit Rei at the shrine."

"That's settled." Setsuna said as she noticed that the water of the shower stopped running. "Go and get ready, I'll try to keep him around a little longer while you get to your car and all."

Upstairs Hawk just dried off his head. he had decided to add a small shave using his dagger to clean himself up more. 'well I needed this.' he thought to himself. As he recalled the ring she was wearing he added mentally; 'I wonder what her husband would say if he should find me here…'

Walking into the bed room, he saw his clothes on the bed and slowly started to dress. Taking his time as he did so, he had just gotten his boxers and pants on when the door opened.

He had his back turned towards the door but it was pretty clear to him who it was that had opened the door. "I don't think Voyeurism is becoming of married lady." Hawk idly remarked though in reality he didn't really mind it all that much.

"What?" was the only reply Setsuna could muster.

"Well…" Hawk scratched the back of his neck as he turned around.

"Well…" Jonathan scratched the back of his neck as he turned to face Setsuna. "The ring on your finger and the kid, I just assumed you were married."

Setsuna needed a moment to center herself. It looked like his body was having a muscle party and they all had brought their friends. It wasn't quite like a body builder or anything that extreme but still his rough build and healthy muscle tone where a good combination in her mind. She had to shake her head because of what he said but more so to clear her mind for what she wanted to say next. "Was married… he passed away long ago." She suppressed the urge to roll her eyes at herself as she mentally added; 'Try several millennia ago'.

"Ah, you have my sympathies. But I am sure that you would have no problem finding another man if you really desired to do so." Jonathan said to her as he turned to put a shirt on.

'Well that is a shame...' her mind groaned before a realization hit. 'Wait... I was actually enjoying looking at him?' Reaching with her hand to the ring she wore, she idly played with the metal. Say what you will about the Senshi of Pluto, the Mistress of time. For all her titles and job description, she was still and always will be a woman with needs. "So… do you believe in reincarnation?"

He shot her a confused look. "What brought that on?"

Setsuna raised her shoulders "No reason, but do you?"

Jonathan, to her slight disappointment, shook his head. "I don't, but only because I haven't ever seen or experienced anything to prove that reincarnation exists."

'Won't you be surprised.' she smiled at the inside joke. All the Senshi safe for herself were in fact reincarnations sent forth by the late Queen Serenity. "How long will you be in Japan for?"

"How long will you be in Japan for?" he heard Setsuna ask.

'why is she so curious?' Hawk started to wonder. 'Surely there are younger men out there that fit her age better than me.' he didn't show it but he truly didn't know what the mysterious woman's game was. For one thing Hawk had to admit that she was pretty good with fixing clothes, maybe she was a fashion designer?

He didn't feel like prying, after all he could be gone tomorrow for all he knew. Best case he'd be reassigned to more crucial matters worst case killed in the line of duty. But at the same time he was perfectly fine with answering any and all questions politely and honestly as long as they didn't pertain to his current mission. "I don't know, I could be out of the country at a moment's notice."

"Oh. Well that's a shame."

This caused him to raise his eyebrows "Excuse me?"

"Well you seem like a nice man."

Hawk had to shook his head "Don't know about that, I'm just a soldier."

"Modest too. Really Jonathan, soldiers are men and woman too." Setsuna said as she gestured to him while he turned to put his shoulder holster over his shirt. "And for someone your age, you won't have much chance of finding someone to love."

At this stage, hawk fought hard with himself. 'Is she paying me a compliment? What's this all about?' in his mind a course of action was beginning to form concerning the green haired woman. He turned around and walked up to her, he pushed the door close and put his hands on the door beside her head effectively trapping her against the door. Lowering his head slightly his blue eyes met level with her deep crimson ones. He spoke again while her crimson eyes searched for what his intentions were at this bold move. "What are you getting at Miss Meioh?"

Hawk could swear that he could hear her breath catch for a moment but the strange thing was that she seemed to smirk. "Stick around, and maybe you'll find out."

'Mmm well the train is rolling now anyways… Ah hell, lets blow the whistle.' Lifting one hand to reach for her chin, he made sure to be as gentle as possible as he placed his fingers on her smooth skin and lifted her head slightly to meet him better as he rolled his head to the side and pressed his lips to hers.

The contact looked forced from the outside due to the aggressive pose he had while she was backed into the door. But the kiss they now found themselves in was anything but. It was gentle though very sloppy on his side.

'NO!' her mind screamed. 'We don't even know if he is a friend or enemy and here I am kissing him! This is so not what I had in mind!' she had closed her eyes as soon as she saw him come forward and capture her lips. Slowly but surely she felt herself relax and come to terms with this. 'he is inexperienced but... I'm enjoying this... it really has been too long since... No! I don't want to think about Hayate, not now.'

Jonathan released her lips as he heard a knock on the door. "Setsuna-Mama? Are you there?"

She needed a second to collect her thoughts. "Yes Hime-chan, I am."

"I'm leaving for the shrine now."

"OK Hime-chan, say hi to Rei for me." She managed to say while staring at Jonathan as he slowly pushed off from the door that he had pinned her too. He strolled back to his jacket in which he had hidden his pistol. Following the pitter patter of feet on the floor outside of the room, she sighed when she could no longer hear Hotaru's light steps.

"Was that to your satisfaction?" Jonathan asked as he slid something into the bottom of the handle before pulling back the top portion of the weapon.

"A little inexperienced, I guess you've never been intimate before." She couldn't help but look slightly smug at him. But then it wasn't much of a contest seeing as she had several millennia of experience over him.

"Like I said on the way here... never had a girlfriend."

"How about a... well you know..."

Jonathan raised an eyebrow "I don't know what you are referring to."

"A place where a man can... for a price."

"A Brothel?" Jonathan asked while he switched to English for some reason.

"Yes." She answered. "Why did you switch to English for that?"

He chuckled at that. "I don't know the Japanese word for it."

"So did you?"

Jonathan shook his head. "No."

To say that Setsuna was stunned was an understatement. "How can you not!?" she half exclaimed.

He raised an eyebrow at her again. "No need to get all worked up about it. I never got the urge to have sex."

"Then that kiss just now was?"

"Curiosity." he said nonchalantly, like it didn't seem to matter to him. "We'll Miss Meioh, I thank you for allowing me to wash up here and that you fixed my pants, but I really need to go back to the barracks before I am missed." he said with a polite bow.

"... of course, this way please."

At the front door, Setsuna leaned against the frame as he was walking out onto the street. "You know, you could come back here if you ever develop that 'need' of yours."

"Maybe I will, maybe I won't. I leave no guarantees on this."

Setsuna nodded as she watched him go and after a while she closed the door and went to the back yard and transformed into Sailor Pluto. Ready to start following him from up high while Haruka and Michiru were following him in Haruka's car.

'Well that was… interesting.' Hawk thought as he stuck his hands on his pockets as he walked. 'Quite forward about her intentions... Sometimes this job sucks!' he started a mental fit 'If it wasn't for the fact that I had a secret mission, I would have totally taken her up on her offer. But with how the way things are right now; I would only put her in danger. Who knows if these Senshi aren't as friendly after all? Or if these monsters they fight figure out who I am and start to follow me around? God knows I'd only be inviting doom onto her door step.' Walking to where he had left his car to go get a coffee before running off to save that kid in the channel, he tried to order his thoughts. 'Well if this whole business with the Senshi pans out, I gotta have some R&R coming my way. Maybe I can take her up on that offer at that time. For now though, I have to get going to Yokata.'

After a good long walk, Hawk arrived at his car and brought his military machine to life. He picked a CD case from under the seat and selected a disk which he popped into the small radio that he had on the passenger seat, held down by a seat belt.

As Breaking Benjamin started to come out of the speakers with 'Enjoy the silence', a Depeche Mode Cover song, he put it in first gear and started to drive down the street.

"Finally he starts to drive." Haruka said with relief. It was quite hard to follow someone who was on foot with a car. Especially because cars attract more notice then people due to the noise they make.

Beside her Michirou nodded "Now just make sure you don't step onto the accelerator too hard or he will notice us."

"I know Michi-koi." she winked sideways to her lover. "Just sit back and enjoy the ride."

Michiru smiled as she did.

The whole drive was about 40 kilometers. Not all that far but considering the busy metropolitan traffic, it took a while to navigate the streets. Being half way though, Hawks training started to slowly kick in. He had noticed that white Toyota with open top following him for a while now. Which given the nature of his mission made him worry. 'time for some evasive driving and lose the tail.' He decided. Up ahead was one of exits he needed with a few trucks in-front of him. He gunned the engine and made to overtake but stayed reasonably parallel with the lead truck. As the turn came closer and closer he noticed that the Toyota was still behind him with only one other car in between, with a smirk he gunned the engine even harder and over took the truck only to jinx hard to the side earning a horn blast from the truck and only barely making the exit turn. To his delight the Toyota was nowhere to be seen. As he suspected it couldn't get out of the small box of trucks and cars he had left it in.

For all he knew it might have been coincidence that this Toyota had been behind him the whole way, but he had rather not leave it to chance.

Reaching over to his radio, he changed to the first track again, Breaking Benjamin, enjoy the silence. So far he had gone through several version of the song along with its original. The version from Lacuna Coil and It Dies Today were pretty good, but his favorite had to be Breaking Benjamin beside the original of course.

A little ways away. A short haired blond was struggling to suppress her rage. "Did he notice us or something!? I was so careful!"

Michiru sighed. "It's ok 'Ruka, you couldn't do anything about it, I'll call Pluto, maybe she still has sight of him."

A small snarl was on the blond's face as she looked for a way to get off the road and turn around to take the missed turn.

"Pluto, we lost him. Do you know where he is going?" Michiro spoke once connection had been established.

A/N:

Michi-Koi: Koi, shortcut for 'koibito' which is the Japanese word for love/lover.

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