I hope that last one was okay. I'm not sure where I'm going with this. We'll see what happens, I guess :3 Sailor Moon is owned by Naoko Takeuchi and TOEI Animation. I can't type today :P The part of my brain that functions agile movement is always so mean to me .

There's a crash and a girly squeal outside, startling Rei into consciousness. She jumps up and grabs her brooch, running out the door to see the what the commotion is about.

The first thing she sees is a person in a tree, who looks like she had fallen there. "Ah!" she says, and slips down again, falling down again to the ground.

Rei squints in the poor light. "Who are you?"

The girl stands, and then the moon breaks through the clouds. "Rei-chan?"

"Huh?" The girl-woman, in fact-has long blonde pigtails and a white leotard and a large blade on her back. Though she's different, Rei recognizes her as the stupid girl who is her princess. Serenity, Sailor Moon, Usagi Tsukino. "I-It can't be...! Usagi!"

The woman smiles. "That's right!" She transforms back and walks closer. "I'm home, Rei-chan!"

"Rei, what's up?" A girl with a short blue bob and glasses walks out of the temple. "Eh? That's..."

"Usagi-chan?!" says a girl with long blonde ponytail with a big red bow.

"No way...!" another girl with a big red bun utters.

"Everyone... You're all here?"

"Hey, it makes sense now!" Rei exclaims suddenly.

"Eh? What?"

"The letter Mamoru told us about! It must've been from you... right?"

Usagi looks away awkwardly. "Y-Yeah... about that..."

"Anyhoo, come on in! Mako made brownies! We were just watching a movie... that is, until Rei jumped up from her sleep."

"Rei has a hard time staying awake past eight!"

The girls all laughed, and Usagi forced a giggle. She was still hurt by the others, but it seemed that the Inners' carefree attitude was healing her, bit by bit.

Usagi pretended to be all smiles and laughter. This went on for a while.

Rei pauses the movie.

"Aw, c'mon, Rei!"

"Don't tell me you have to go to the bathroom again!"

Rei shakes her head and looks at Usagi firmly, who avoids her gaze.

"What's wrong, Usagi?"

"Huh?"

"Was it Mamoru? Is that why you're here and not with him?"

"He can be a bit insensitive at points."

"Y-Yeah..."

"You can tell us anything, Usagi. Anything you could possibly think of."

"We understand that things might've changed."

"We've all changed. Surely, you have, too."

`Usagi!` Usagi hears in her head. Luna.

She thinks privately to her. `I'm at the shrine. Care to join us?`

`Akira and the others told me that you suddenly ran off in the middle of talking to him. Akira said they were looking for you. They're worried sick. Mamoru's here, too.`

Usagi grits her teeth. `Don't believe them! They're lying traitors! All of them! All... All of them...` Usagi's eyes sting as droplets of salt water trickle down her face. She squeezes them shut, forcing more tears out in the process.

"Usagi!" Then she feels warm, soft arms around her, four pairs, and she feels comforted.

"Thanks, you guys."

"Geez, what a stupid girl!" a short woman with wavy, medium-length blonde hair says, giggling. Her voice is like bubblegum, sickly sweet. They're in a long, dark hallway lit only by the moon shining through the windows, going in and out of the clouds.

"I can't believe she was that easy to fool!" agrees another, taller, woman with long, straight, dark brown hair. Her voice is lower, an alto, for sure.

"Girls, girls, please! Have some compassion! The memories of the older man state she has always been a dimwit!" a tall man half-way in the shadows says. He has semi-long (for a guy) dark green hair and a deep voice.

"Ikuto, don't stand up for such a thing!" another man, with short, spiky, flame-coloured hair says. They all laugh.

A woman with long, wavy black pigtails and a flowing black dress walks in. The two women and the flame-haired man bow. The other man talks her hand and kisses it.

"Ah, my dear, sweet Kuroi! It has been too long."

"My, Ikuto!" The woman puts a hand to her face and smiles coyly. She faces the other three. "Arise," she says simply, and quickly they stand. "How did the mission go?"

"Quite smoothly, in fact. Who knew the counterpart of such a beautiful woman as Princess Kuroi-sama be so dim-witted?"

They all laugh, except for Kuroi, who simply smiles. "Very good. You did a very nice job."

"Thank you very much, Princess."

"It was all for the sake of our Kingdom."

Kuroi smiles ever so slightly, and looks off in the distance, towards the other end of the hallway.

"Ayame. Ryouko. Kaoru. Aika. Come forth at once. You're needed."

A door opens farther down the hall. Four woman walk out. There's a tall woman with medium-length, wavy, purple hair tied in a ponytail, two medium-height women, one with a long, straight, pink bun, and the other with long, straight, dark red hair tied near the very bottom, and the last woman is somewhat short, with shoulder-length blonde hair and glasses. "You called?"

"Yes. I have a job for you."

Hm, who are these people? And what did they mean by "counterpart"? XD Honestly, I'm not sure yet myself. I'm kinda just writing. I won't put it on a real new story because a) I'm kinda lazy and b) it's a pain in the ace for both of us. I'll come up with an arc title later and put a slash by "Kyoto" and put that, so it'll be like "Kyoto/_". Ju no? (You know?) Sorry it's so short :/ But, this is the second one today, and the other one was kinda long, so, that's my excuse :D Kurai is from Sailor Moon: Sacrifice, but I replaced the name with Kuroi, an adjective meaning black. It's just pigtails, no odango. Kind of like Utau from Shugo Chara. Speaking which, Ikuto is the name of one of the main characters in that anime. But, the appearance is somewhat different. Hope it's okay ^^'