Chapter 3

Author's Note: this is titles of books, songs, and the like

- this is telepathy-

This is flashbacks and dreams

Taiyō curses as she finds herself running to school, she'd thought she was over being late to school after leaving her life as Usagi behind. Naru had left a while ago and Taiyō had thought she'd have enough time to have her shower. Now she was paying for that thought. She barely manages to skid into the classroom before the final bell. Naru holds up a bag of muffins and Taiyō falls upon them like Scooby Doo on Scooby Snacks. " Naru asked me to bring them, she called me earlier, figured you'd be running late and have to skip breakfast. " Takato says.

" I see, thank you, Matsuki-san. " Taiyō says.

Takato rolls his eyes, " At least call me Takato-san if you're going to use honorifics. "

" Takato, you know these two? " this is asked by a kid wearing a visor.

" Shioda Kazu and Kitagawa Kenta allow me to introduce Osaka Taiyō and her cousin Osaka Naru, they're new to the area and are becoming regular customers at the bakery. " Takato says by means of introduction.

" Well, more Taiyō than myself. " Naru says, " She found the bakery one day while she was exploring but, she kept missing out on meeting Takato until we ran into each other at a park. Though with how good that cinnamon bread is I may just start stopping in myself. "

Kazu snorts, " Takato can't bake though, not really. "

" Hey, I'm not that bad, I just prefer drawing and decorating, whom the hell do you think decorates those cakes. " Takato retorts.

Kazu holds his hands up in surrender, " Forgot about that, chumley. " Kazu admits.

Negaverse:

Princess Rei smirks as she oversees the current operations in effect, sure Minako was playing the good little mahou shojo but, if any of the ones at the fall remembered her for killing the bodyguard of the Prince of Dark Felidae then Minako was screwed. Rei, after her father abandoned her to her grandfather was approached by Beryl and she had immediately agreed to be one of her generals. Minako was to be a double agent which is why they had no problem with Sailor V taking down their operations. Still, there was someone else taking down some of their operations as well. That was what was grating on them.

London:

Yoru Kurayami smirks to herself as she walks along, no way in hell was she going to allow Danburite to do what he pleased here in London, she too had felt her hime's transformation and realized that things were starting to fall into place. The gray haired and black eyed thirteen year old was not about to allow things to go down the same way twice. Not while there was still breath in her lungs and her heart was still beating.

Still, it was going to be rather irksome to keep dealing with this all on her own, she'd awakened alone and had to relearn how to use her powers and abilities the hard way along with somehow finding the time to train. This meant that her powers were advancing and she hoped that she would soon get to the next level of strength.

Shinjuku:

Taiyō rolls her shoulders in one of the training rooms at the Circlet Game Center, she would like to at least advance to Quarter Style before things got too serious. Naru-chan was also in one of the rooms along with Takato and Henry, they were all training hard to reclaim the power they'd had before the fall of the Silver Millennium. They knew they were going to need every ounce of it and some new powers in order to deal with the Negaverse and the traitors. Nephrite had met them at the door and was running the training simulations they were going through. For Takato, well, he was getting to face every enemy a Saturnian royal Silence Knight, which would currently be Kazu, or Sailor Saturn, had ever faced and beaten alone since they didn't have access to Dark Felidae's battle archives.

Takato was swearing up a storm in his simulated battle, " How the hell is it that the Saturnians always get the royal pain in the ass to destroy enemies? "

Nephrite chuckles though he had to admit that Takato had a point, he was still on the first sim while the others were all on their third ones. Man, it had to just bite to be Takato at the moment. The holder of the Hazard was really wishing that he could use Hazards Light and end the damn fight but, he didn't have access to that kind of power yet. He had managed to summon his brandistock and he had the blade out. Right now he was mostly redirecting his opponents attacks as best he could while getting in a few solid hits. None were enough to even slow whatever the hell he was facing down though, which was what was really annoying him.

" Hazard Kunai Barrage! " Yes, he so got the inspiration for that attack from Naruto so sue him.

That did some damage and Takato's evil grin did not inspire confidence in his simulated foe. Now Takato had some idea of what he needed to do to finally end his fight. The next time he saw Kazu after he awakened or Sailor Saturn he was going make sure he thanked them for everything they did, facing down foes like this was a damned nightmare.

Henry somersaults under his current foe's attack and then immediately calls upon his planetary powers, sending them to his fist. One planet power charged punch later shows him standing victorious over his third simulated foe before he's moved on to the next one. Uranians prided themselves on their battle prowess and Henry was no different. He may act like a pacifist but that was only to throw off certain individuals. Henry lived for fighting, this culminated in his love of street fighting. He was also helping Naru and Taiyō learn the ins and outs of the card game though admittedly Taiyō already had a fairly good grasp on it already. Then again she had actually been interested in it and had been working hard to learn how to play.

Naru snarls as she spins away from the simulation of her cousin, oh, how she wanted to finally put her jumped up cousin in her place, of course, that meant they would have to find a Venus potential and get her trained up before the current Sailor V was dealt with. " Rolling Heart Vibration! "

" Soul Shield! "

An orange and gold barrier in the shape of a round shield appears before Sailor Psyche and deflects the Rolling Heart Vibration attack even as Psyche is already on the move, she would not allow herself to falter now, Usagi-chan needed her.

Nephrite observes his reincarnated lover and has to admit that she was highly motivated to take down the simulation of her cousin, the High Senshi of Venus. Still, there was the problem of whom would take her place, Naru had already accepted the role of Sailor Psyche and refused to take on that responsibility. This meant that they would need to start scanning for Venus potentials though they should do the same for Mars and Mercury as well. Kenta, Kai, and Henry did not deserve what their sisters had done to them. The spirits of the fallen had lingered to see Kazuto take his vengeance upon their sisters only for Venus to strike him down and then Ryo eliminated her. Poor Sailor Sun, being forced to kill her lover, that scream would haunt all of their dreams when she broke the spell upon herself.

He still woke up screaming from the fact he had been forced to kill his own lover, dear Sailor Psyche. He sends an e-mail off to Zoisite to start looking for Venus, Mercury, Mars, and Uranus potentials for sure.

Kaioh Michiru narrows her blue eyes, where had Haruka snuck off to and how was it she was able to get away from her so easily? This didn't bode well, they couldn't afford to have Haruka causing problems right now. Michiru knew that if push came to shove she would have to deal with her fellow Outer. How she had been able to strike down her own brother without cause or provocation she would never understand. Blue eyes narrow and she knows what she has to do, she has to train and make sure she's ready and able to kick ass when the time comes.

Okinawa:

Urazoe Kai frowns into the distance, he could feel the trouble that was stirring in Shinjuku and Juuban. He needed to get to Shinjuku, he thinks this even as he notches another arrow and lets it fly towards the target. There was no way he would not be where he was needed though he would need to work on his close combat skills, he was a long range fighter, plain and simple. The reincarnated Martian Prince knew the time was coming for him to face his traitorous sister. She would pay for what she had done to him, no two ways about it.

He gets another arrow ready and curses the day she became Sailor Mars, she had always been a greedy and ambitious bitch, her becoming Sailor Mars had just made all of that much worse. There had been one girl on Mars that had been a much better choice, her chocolate locks and eyes had been one of the most beautiful sights he had ever encountered.

Flashback:

Prince Kai rolls his shoulders to cool down from his most recent training session for Kyudo. He knew that he should work some more on his short range fighting skills but he preferred to take an enemy out from a distance. " You do realize you'd be dead right now if I'd be an enemy, right? "

Prince Kai turns around to see a girl with wavy mid-back length chocolate hair, chocolate eyes, wearing red wire frame glasses that were rectangularly shaped, and the uniform of one of the assassin corps. " You seem to have me at a disadvantage my lady, you know my name, but I have not yet had the pleasure of learning yours. "

" I am Calida of Vulcan's Dale. " She wore dark red arm and shin guards, " I could help you with your close range combat skills, my prince. "

Kai rolls his eyes at this, " None of that, my sister may stand on ceremony all the time but, I do not, when it is just us you may call me Kai. "

End Flashback:

Yeah, Calida would have made a perfect Sailor Mars as she actually cared about the people of Mars and would also serve the Moon Princess with pride and honor.

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