Sailor Moon S 'Rise of the Messiah'

by max333

Weeks after the Wiseman is defeated and the dark crystal destroyed, the lives of all that were there or involved have changed, and not all for the better. With the approach of a new enemy and two potential allies do the senshi have what it takes to come together once more? Why are the senshi now acting disorganized? And will Usa's dad ever accept Mamo? SEQUEL to 'Roses & Diamonds'

42. exposed & avoiding rug burn

damonika2009: you'll see.

kera69love: it seems like we will be making another installment, won't be like the original or the manga, 'Shaydoe' will takes the reigns on that season.

Spike: oh your perspective of the Supers I agree, it wasn't my favorite season, I was never fond of the amazon quartet having such 'mature' bodies nor of its primary focus on Chibi Usa. there was only a few episodes that's I really liked so I'll be integrating those bits how I can otherwise 'Shaydoe' has the reigns. As for the 'Byruit' name, I totally forgot about the other name she had or else I would have used it. My bad.

trish1573: I could say the same thing when I read some of the other writers out there on their smut. lol

TNue: thank you so very much, I hope you'll enjoy the rest of these ch/ep's as the rest of the fans do.

AimlesslyGera: no I didn't see, it only the fan renditionings online or on youtube.

Slow Burn: I think you misspelled it, did you mean apartment hunting or something?

LoveInTheBattleField: will do.

Mavebelikova: bad confrontations…not really…depends…and yes she will be staying with him for a long while. Right now Mamoru loves the aspect of his girl being with him full time to care about the real world and how they'll view it. As it is I think that as logical as he is he really doesn't care what others think about him truly when it comes to her. And in a sense if this was the real world yes she would be to young for this kind of relationship but its not! Lol and I love that cuase you can throw real world aspects into something and pull people in but its still fantasy. Oh and the S&M moments won't stop either. lol

9 reviews, nice but coming towards the end, I think we need to up the game here…so to speak. Let's see about 15 plus!

Sailor Moon S 'Rise of the Messiah' ch/ep.42

The world had faded away, only pain and suffering remained. Unable to cope with the trauma of her body being ripped apart, her rational mind retreated away. Leaving her to scream and writhe upon the floor, all her senses now focused primarily on how intolerable the pain of being devoured was. Then she could sense her fellow senshi were incredibly close by. Running towards her destination.

The beautiful colored aura's of her true friends seemed to lead the charge to her rescue long before their physical bodies showed up. Like being lost in a delirium, she felt their strength, their compassion and hope soothe her flagging spirit. Giving her the extra push to hang in there and not give up. She smiled on the inside even if her outsides were in utmost pain. "Hurry Sailor Moon." She whispered, clutching her stomach and rolling in agony. The sound of Byruit's joyous laughter a painful throb in her ears.

"I can't let you do that." Moon rushed down the hall, along with the rest of the senshi. Tux was currently circling around the back halls, in the hopes of blocking Byruit's retreat. He stayed out of sight, but close enough to aid them. He waited for the need to strike or save his beloved if need be.

("I won't let you take away the pure heart of anyone in this world let alone a strong mind like Mercury. Your evil ways will not be tolerated. In the name of the moon we will punish you!" I yelled strongly. "Goodie all five of you are here." Byruit stated cryptically. "If you move Sailor Mercury's life will be over." the girls and I gasped at the threat and as it was Mercury was surrounded in them. Like a person wreathed in bees, she looked horrified and completely covered. Byruit shot her power at us.

Not knowing or wanting to know how dangerous the…whatever the hell the buzzing, eating things were…we just ducked and dodged the nano streams. Jupiter and Venus managed to flip over our adversary and reach Mercury's side while Mars kept her focus with nasty quips and smarts remarks that only the hot headed, venom tongued Miko could produce. It was enough to keep Byruit occupied.

During that I dashed to Uranus and Neptune's aid. Crouching down before them I surveyed the strange machines. They looked strangely like grey goop with seeds in it. Either way I didn't want to find out what they felt like, from the look of the outer's they were in a great deal of pain.

"Die!" Byruit shot a stream directly at me.

"Sailor Moon! Look out!" Mars let out an uncharacteristic screeched. I shot my gaze up in time to catch the attack coming my way fast! I ducked as it sailed over my head, then leapt to my side before using the main door that we had entered this subbasement through, to back flip off of and twist myself around. The door was hit but by the ubberly tiny mini-machines never attacked, but oozed uselessly to the floor. I shot her a confused, startled look. "It'll only respond to what I want it to hit." She explained, shooting some more at us.

"Fantastic." I muttered in irritation. Her strikes were so random and in two different directions that I knew Tux was having a hard time trying to aim a rose at her. She didn't use one directionality with her hands she was shooting them both at multiple targets and moving swiftly to. And from the looks of Mercury one hit and we'd be as crippled as she was, "We have to get her on the defense!" I growled to Mars dodging another attack. She looked to me, "Got any bright ideas? At this point I'm all ears." she asked.

Uranus and Neptune were struggling to their feet, the determination to stand and mount a counter attack looked deadly in their eyes. Byruit spun around, shocked to find the two women could stand let alone start to charge their powers, being covered nearly head to toe in Nano-machines that were eating them alive. Tux used the distraction to throw a rose at her hand. The steam sliced cleanly through her wrist, impaling the floor beside her.

She screeched at the effect and rubbed her sore hand, "What is the meaning of - " she looked over and saw him, "Who the hell are you?!" she demanded of him, "Using science for evil matters is not its true purpose. For your evil ways you will be punished." He stated instead, standing in the archway to an adjoining hall. His cape snapping in undercurrents of Uranus's charging attack.

"What is it with you goody two shoed people?! Science is science. This world belongs to those who are smart enough to survive. That and the 'messiah of silence'. Being a 'Goody two shoes' won't get you anywhere. People at the end of the day don't care!" she shot a blast at him that got deflected by his spinning cane. It ended up getting sent not back to her but due to the angle sent back into Hotaru's chambers. I finally noticed the dark room set to the side of the wide hallway, I saw a figure sitting inside, watching but do nothing.)

Mamo - chan is that...?

(I asked him. Hai, I think so...he answered. We need to get her out of here to safety. You need to try and get to her, I'll help the senshi keep Byruit occupied. I told him. If even one hit of that blast hits any of you you'll go down. He responded. We need to focus on stopping Byruit first. He left no room for argument. But Mamo - chan Hotaru needs our help. I pleaded.

Hai, I know but she is probably immune to the blasts I figure you're not. I know my Mamo - chan was just worried for me but I didn't like him trying to put my life above an innocents. Mamo - chan! I snapped audibly through our link. Go get Hotaru! My life is NOT above hers or anyone else's. Save - my thoughts got cut short as I just barely dodged another hit coming from Byruit as I had to leap to the side of the hall. During that Uranus and Neptune were charging up their attacks, staggering forward as they valiantly tried to aid us.)

Oh kami!

(I managed a mental sigh as I was able to land on both feet when Uranus's 'world shaking' hit Byruit. She shook like she's been hit with a stun gun, jolting all over the place before Neptune's 'deep submerge' hit her. She now looked like an enraged drowned rat. Though she did at least look winded. If a bit pissed that she wasn't the almighty top witch she thought she was when she took us on.

"I'll get you for this." she aimed her good hand at them but missed as they both leapt fast out of the blasts range. But that was all they had left, the nanites had been feasting to severely upon their bodies and what surge of strength and stubborn will power they had faded along with the energy. With twin moans of frustration they slumped against the wall and slid reluctantly unconscious to the floor.

"Uranus! Neptune!" I screamed, the sight of the writhing goop covering their bodies making me both sick to my stomach and enraged. Byruit's mechanical organism was just ghastly. We needed to save them, Mercury was screaming from further down the hall and my heart was thundering in my chest. I wanted to free them quickly, but I needed to keep my head. Acting rash and just slamming myself against Byruit's power wasn't a smart option.

Jupiter and Venus had been using low energy attacks on Mercury attempting to free her. It had been slow going, merely only removing a layer or two of the machines. But at least her face was clear of Nanites. She used the opportunity well. "Her wrists...Sailor Moon. Attack her wrist bands!" Mercury screamed out from the floor behind Byruit.

I heard our resident Genius loud and clear, casting Mars a serious look. The Senshi of fire was close by, hovering near my elbow in a defensive stance. Her dark lavender eyes glaring the witch down with a tenacity that left most petrified to approach her. I had endured that very same ferocious scowl many times before. Upon pissing my hot tempered Miko off.

Which for me was a rather easy feat. We were the best of friends but out rival personalities tended to clash from time to time.

So I sought to silently communicate with her. I needed her to distract Byruit so I could hit her with my powered up attack. The Guardian of War, looked to be contemplating her options, before she gave me a curt nod of acknowledgement.

I used the moment to undergo my second transformation. The poorly lit hall then flared brightly with white light as I absorbed the added power from the chalice as Mars charged for Byruit, igniting her burning mandala as she sprinted down the hall. The white washed walls now painted with the flickering orange glow of her fire balls.

If I could not damage the grey goop as a whole, I would hit those metal control bands she wore. I was sure I could end this quickly. Those wrist guards seemed to be the source of her power, as they kept lighting up whenever she activated an attack.

"Super Sailor Moon!" Byruit now looked a tad scared. This wasn't the case of a 'Mimet' where she could run off like a coward. We were confronting each other in the very bowels of Mugen, granted her home turf but still she was stuck. We were in an enclosed area of the sub-basement and she knew it. "This won't end here. I promise you that. I will kill you all." She promised us vehemently. I looked to her with fierceness in my eyes.

"No you will not and for doing all the bad heart snatching things you've done you won't be forgiven." Outraged she tried to blast me again only to get diverted by Tux. "Not so fast." he called out, leaping into the air and sailing over her head. Landing with a flourish of his cane before her, ready to engage her in battle.

"You want a target I'm a pretty good one. See if you can hit me. Unless you want to try your luck with my roses, again." He challenged. Even going as far as tipping his hat to her. A silent provocation. I knew she'd rage against him over the rose bit. I charged up my scepter as he distracted her with his perfectly timed jibes and smug posturing. He was always so good for that, he could act like a real pompous jerk...but he had a heart of gold!

"Spiral Moon Heartache!" I called out as I spun in my signature pose towards the ground. The others jumped out of the way as she rose her hands up in defense. "No!" she managed to call out in desperation. The power blasts hitting her wrist thingies that I had yet to truly identify. It started to smoke and light up from the hits it had taken. The lights coming were out of protest from what power source had been hit and could not sustain the damage. That much I remember from Ami's minor computer training with me.

Byruit looked like she wanted to console her wrist thingies, as if they were living thing. "How dare you hurt my precious little nano-cites. You brats! I'll make sure you all regret ever messing with me!" she was fuming, "Give me your best shot!" I taunted. I had a feeling as to what would happen and I almost felt sorry for her. "Attack, Super Sailor Moon!" she called, her nano-cites streamed from her hands.

It was to her utter horror when instead of attacking me they turned and loop back around like a boomerang before swarming her. As the nano-cites became confused by their targets, the ones currently covering Mercury, Uranus and Neptune disengaged. Flying in a persistent stream of horror towards Byruit.

As Mercury slowly calmed down from the assault. Every inch of her skin red and burning from their attempt to rip her apart at the molecular level. Her body ached yet she did not wallow in the residual pain. Know that the longer she spent in her sailor form the more healing would advance on her body. Still Jupiter and Venus were quick to bend down and aid her to stand on shaking legs. She paid each on a nod of gratitude. She was very thankful that she could always depend on her dearest friends.

Leaning against Jupiter, as the humming of adrenalin in her mind cleared. She frowned at Byruit, unconsciously feeling sympathy for the misguided girl whose admitted brilliant creation had turned on her and she was paying the bitter price for her arrogance.

We watched on knowing no further action would be required. The nano-cites would eat her till nothing remained.

"What is wrong with you? You're attacking the wrong target!" Byruit screamed, her whole body now writhed with her death machines. She knew not to try and attack further, sending out more would quicken the speed of her death. "Baka's! Attack Sailor Moon! Why aren't you listening to me?" She cried out. Falling to her knees her wrist thingie started to billow dark smoke as it finally broke.

"They're not human, and they can't feel that they have the wrong target. But you said that feeling wasn't needed. Remember?" Mercury stated in a low pitiful voice. What could be seen of Byruit's face twitched towards Mercury, her cold blue eyes clouded with pain and resentment. Then the pain became unbearable as they penetrated her flesh. She began to scream in agony, her body convulsing under their relentless attack.

The wrist thingie finally broke completely, exploding half of itself on her wrist revealing a broken mini - computer beneath as she groan in further pain from the repercussion of it. It was the loud protest of the giant computers we could heard that stunned us. "The main computer systems she was using must also be controlled by her wrist activated control panel." Mercury said with resigned sigh.

I looked to her, "And here I kept saying wrist thingie because I didn't know what that was." I muttered under my breath, glad no one could hear me. I really hated looking dumb, striving so hard to become the strong, in control leader. It still humbled me to know how much more I had to learn about the world.

We all could hear mini explosions coming from it as the loud alarms signaled it was exploding. I hope that means all the pure hearts are being returned. Venus, Jupiter go check and make sure. We don't want it to lock the pure hearts within and end up just destroying them in the process." I advised. They both nodded and left off, as Byruit continued to dissipate. With her screams echoing in the corridor, I saw her pained expression and mingled doubt in her eyes.

It was a realization to late that she was wrong about her methods, her unfeeling theory. We watched the tragedy of Byruit slowly vanishing. Her pleading cries and screams for her creation to stop had grown silent in her final moments. As the nano-cites ate away at not only her but at each other at the end as there was beginning to be no more of her to feed off of. It was a bit twisted that the nano-cites were becoming in a way 'cannibalistic' but whatever.

Her body glowing with a need to try and stay alive even as she began to fade away. We watched mournfully as Byruit disappeared. Her bracelet falling the ground as she finally faded away into nothingness. Mercury walked up and picked up the wrist activation band, "I wish there had been a different way."

"It's what she gets for turning science against man. It should be used to help not to destroy." Tux said. I nodded grimly but my heart hurt for what happened it had been such a grizzly end.

"The mechanical aspects of science should be to serve mankind, I just wish she would have realized that sooner." Ami sighed, as she held the metal wrist band until it to disintegrate into dust. However seconds later the whole room shook. "Nani?" I asked. Tux came to my side in a protective gesture. "The whole room feels like it's going to crumble." Mars stated, trying to keep her balance.)

Uranus and Neptune had regained their feet, using Byruits demise as a cover they headed back down the hall towards Hotaru's chambers. Seeing Neptune going into the direction of Hotaru I knew I had to do something. Vaulting in front of her, she gave me a hard look, "Byruit is our enemy, our priority and deep down you don't want to harm Hotaru - chan...Deep down you know of her innocence to all of this. If she's given the chance she could become a power senshi to fight against evil." I told her. She sighed, "While I'd love nothing more for you to be right..."

She shoved me to the side, "You're wrong."

"Not a chance!" Ami lunged past me, as I stumbled into the wall. Blocking the doorway in my place.

Jupiter and Venus stopped at the door to the stairs, giving me a questioning look. Wondering if I needed back up.

I threw my chin towards the door, silently commanding them to leave. We had to make sure the innocent lives upstairs were safe. All the innocents, even Hotaru...

Venus and Jupiter flew up the stairs, as being transformed gave them the advantage to take greater leaps up the steps leaving the remainder of us to handle our two stubborn Outer Senshi.

Neptune and Uranus glowered at us. Forced to take a step back as Tux and Mars moved to hover behind them threateningly.)

"This isn't the end." Uranus promised coldly, preparing to shoulder past Tux and leave. When a low rumbling echoed out behind Moon and Mercury within the darkness of Hotaru's chamber.

Moon and Mercury spun, as the rest stood in awe at the cataclysm happened deep inside the gloom. Hotaru was seated somber and silent upon a childlike throne. High up on a dais surrounded by red velvet curtains and a small army of loyal dolls and stuffed animals. A creepy royal facade that made Mar's blood run cold, she had never truly looked inside this room till now. The grim sight of it was chilling.

The back wall where Hotaru was, tore open and crumbled out completely. The dust it created was strong, creating a wall of debris that rolled like a toxic wave, threatening to choke them. Her chair lifted up as some unseen force began to expand over the room. She remained as if in a trance, her eyes dull and unfocused. Sitting as calmly and unconcerned as one would for a cup of warm tea. It was uncanny and a tad disconcerting to see.

As a massive cosmic vortex spun into view with the darkness behind her, "The 'messiah of silence'." Uranus spoke, a certain level of 'I told you so.' clear in the bitterness of her tone of voice. Mercury squinted her eyes, trying to recollect where she had seen that cosmic scape before. "The Tau Nebula..." She stated in an awed hush.

"Hotaru - chan..." Moon breathed uncertainly, walking forward tentatively. Only to find the chair being pulled back the mystical force starting to ebb away. The curtains and nearby walls that flanked her throne, surrendered to the structural damage the vortex's appearance caused and crumbled away from the force. Creating a more profound cloud of dust and debris to over take them. Forcing them to hunch over in coughing fits, valiantly trying to clear their lungs.

"Sailor senshi...I warn you the battle has just begun!" a low, deadly voice echoed out. A voice not of Hotaru's but of the evil the lay within. Mars swallowed hard, the dark spiritual vibrations Hotaru was giving off was intense. She was suddenly feeling very light headed and disorientated. This being was powerful! Almost god like…

"Hotaru!...Please...Hotaru, you can't give in to it. You have to fight it! Hotaru!" Moon pleaded to her, her voice futile and full of worry. Wanting her to hear her. But nothing. Hotaru remained in her trance, sitting upon her throne an innocent sacrifice for a hungry, all powerful evil. There was nothing she could do! It was killing her thinking that perhaps she was to late, that Hotaru's soul may have already been eaten that sinister looking vortex behind her.

"We need to go before the professor suspects anything." Tux said, taking her hand and leading her out of the basement. "We should de-transform." Mars said, "No need to draw attention to ourselves when get up to the main halls." Agreeing they all de-transformed. Too many flashing lights later and everyone was back to normal. Usagi cast Hotaru one final, grim look before resolutely turning away and leaving.

"We should head out. I just wish I knew what we were going to tell Chibi Usa..." Usagi moaned, her chest felt tight and her heart was suffering. How was she going to tell her daughter that she had been unable to rescue her friend. Mamoru put his arm around her for comfort. "We'll figure it out. But for right now she needs a night of rest. We all do." he told them.

Jupiter and Venus were going into the first and second floors they checked rooms on both floors to be certain. Seeing the hearts going back in naturally they stayed an extra few seconds apiece to ensure the students were okay. As if nothing had ever happened the students went back to work thinking that the stress of the exams caused them to pass out. So it was now business as usual in Mugen Academy.

However in the room with the professor and Kaolinite he saw how Byruit had failed, "She's done with. I thought her methods would work to." he scoffed. "It seems she wasn't the talent she claimed to be." Kaolinite stated, internally glad that the senshi had dealt away with her. Saved her the trouble of doing it herself. The smirk on her face was the first ever that she would be thanking the senshi for their interference. The professor was clueless to it.

"However it wasn't a total loss. We now have the identities of those pests, the sailor senshi." His computer screen clicked up to showcase the seven senshi and the masked man that had fought Byruit today. With their accompanying school I.D.'s from Juban to Mugen. Even Tux's photo up there from his own university was in living color. "Hmmm…Tsukino, Mizuno, Hino, Kino, Tenoh, Kaioh, Aino, Chiba..." he looked more closely, adjusting his glasses as he scrutinized each one.

"No one would believe the hero's of Japan were really young school girls with a college student, clever." He admitted. A part of him was curious about how the college student was involved but seeing as how he was protective of Moon he gathered his own conclusions.

"But you will all suffer to no end by the hands of the 'messiah of silence'." he proclaimed. The girls leaving were oblivious to the sinister man watching them. They were all powered down to their civilian forms heading on their way to the lobby. The Professor watched the monitors as intently as a cat hovering over a mouse hole. Laughed in evil glee over what he was imagining to be their quick demise. Kaolinite sneered as well, hoping that she would be able to finish the Moon senshi off herself.

But first he had to lure them in. He wouldn't out right seek them out. He still had a cover to maintain until the right time. Hopefully the Messiah would awaken soon. Then he would waste no time in killing them. "I have an idea...I think I might know of the perfect pure heart. One that is unwavering, one that is strong in love and devotion." Kaolinite didn't want to admit she had earlier dismissed it due to the targets irritation to her.

"Pick the target up tomorrow." he ordered, hoping that she wouldn't fail him again. "Hai." she agreed, "I want to use the last few pawns I have till the end." he explained. He would use the last of the 'witches 5' to maim them while Kaolinite went after what she believed to be a purest heart of all. "Sailor Moon...Tsukino, Usagi will pay for her meddlesome ways...they all will..." the professor sneered.

They all ended up congregating before the statuesque water fountain in the Academy's lobby as the crowds had thinned to practically nothing. Now that most of the congestion was confined to the classrooms.

"We need to talk, but not here." Haruka told them, "Tokyo Bay Bridge, 15 minutes. Don't be late." Then she and Michiru promptly walked away.

Mamoru sighed, as did the girls. The Outer's and their less then polite exits were starting to get a bit frustrating. Leaving out of the school as everyone else was taking the tests had been easy. It was even easier to walk to the car since there were no students about. "We'll take the bus." Minako said as she Makoto, Rei, and Ami dashed back down the street, to catch the bus that just pulled up. Usagi nodded and got into the red sports car of Mamoru's as they took off for the same destination.

("This is so wrong. Using an innocent sick little girl to bring such evil into this world. We've dealt with brainwashing, me being a double agent, making many bad people good again...but for the enemy to..." I began to babble, my voice wavering near tears. I had kept it together till we were alone, now all my walls were coming down and I turning into a real emotional mess. He placed his hand over my own.

"It'll be okay. We'll figure it out. We always do. Now let's get the bridge." he stated. I nodded and sniffed, averting my eyes to the window to hide my tears as we made our way through the Delta. It was 10 minutes later that we arrived. Pulling into a small bay, for sight-seeing. The girls had already arrived, occupying a wooden bench seat beside a huge tourist telescope. We got out and waited along with them.

It was blustery out, this close to the bay. The wind was wet, cold and tasted of salt. It reminded me of Uranus and Neptune and my stomach roiled. I had no idea how to deal with them. They were wild cards and I couldn't trust them. But now I knew without a doubt that Hotaru had been corrupted. She may be beyond saving at this point...I hated that I was now thinking along the same grim lines as the Outer's.

If I had no choice...if it was the world or that sweet innocent little girl...in the end what…what would I do? Who would I choose to save? That kind of decision was just to hard for me. I felt like screaming!

Seeing Haruka and Michiru come up, I unconsciously straightened myself up a bit. Brushing my fuku skirt down and dusting off my jacket, I always felt judged by those two it was unnerving and starting to affect my confidence. Ami went up to talk to them first. She was the one who had the encounter with them first and foremost. "Miss Mizuno if you hadn't have stopped us back there we would have defeated the 'messiah of silence'." Haruka snarled.

I went to protest but Mamo - chan put a hand on my own. Holding tightly to prevent me from smarting off. I looked to him as he scrutinized the scene before us, waiting to see what else they might say.

Hang on...he told me. Ami looked saddened and almost fearful of their harsh words to come, "Your idealism has let the 'messiah of silence' get away..." Haruka continued, "But that idealism is also what saved us today. So for that we do thank you." Michiru finished off with a kind and gentle smile. Both smiled at this point. I was relieved, that this might not turn into a confrontation. "But don't take our kindness for weakness on this one." Haruka warned, "Wouldn't dream of it." Ami smiled.

We all looked out at the Tokyo bay area as the sun went down. "This is beautiful. This is what we strive to protect. The simple beauties in life that others may take for granted at times. This world will not ever know the feel of evil as long as we work together to overcome any and all obstacles." I tell them. They ignored me but I had a feeling they had listened and contemplated my words. With Mamo - chan's arm wrapped around me I felt the security within the hold.

"We'll protect our world Mamo - chan." I tell him, "Hai, but now we should go home. We can have Oyakodon chicken and egg rice bowl tonight for dinner." He offered. "It always so nice and warm on a cold day like today."

I nod, but I just couldn't smile not even for food. My mind was just to full of foreboding. "I can boil the water for the rice." I offered, attempting to mask my melancholy. He laughed, knowingly.

"She can do more than that. Don't let her make you do all the work Mamoru - san." Makoto warned, giving me a warning smirk. He laughed harder, "I won't. Believe me she does her fair share around the apartment." he looked down to me, "We're not talking just bedroom activities then." Rei hinted with an arched brow.

I blushed, "Neither is he. I do cleaning...a bit and I do the cooking." I defended with my usual light hearted indigence when I knew the girls were just hazing me. Makoto looked proud while Rei looked skeptical. "You guys spoken to Luna or Artemis lately?" Minako asked, taking us back the seriousness at hand. "No, been busy. If anything we need to talk with them so we can see what to do with regards to Hotaru - chan and perhaps how to tell Chibi Usa." I tell her.

"I think Luna's staying over tonight with Artemis so I'll send them both over to your place to talk." Minako offered. "I think we all need to have a senshi meeting tomorrow at Mamoru - san's place." Ami chimed in.

"We need to go back to Mugen school and stop any more threats they make. If they were willing to try and take the pure hearts of all the students during exams who's to say what they'll try to do tomorrow when even more students are at the school." Mina added, her eyes cold and withdrawn. Meaning she was calculating the odds. We nodded understanding her, "Their upping their game and so should we." I confirm.

"Rest up tonight girls cause tomorrow we're going back in for Hotaru - chan and this time we're going to get her back." I tell them, my voice was hard and determined. A collective agreements followed, we couldn't give up!

Leaving off Mamo - chan and I went back to his apartment, the need to eat not to be outweighed by anything right now. We needed sustenance. Getting inside I slipped off my shoes and went to our room to change into more comfortable clothes as he did the same. Grabbing a long t shirt of his and some black booty shorts I walked back out and slipped my bare feet into my bunny house slippers. Going into the kitchen I began to take out the ingredients, attempting to keep my mind off of Hotaru for the time being. I had trouble cooking well and I needed to focus.)

Throwing on a t shirt and sweat pants he padded barefoot into the kitchen. Stopping briefly to lean casually against the archway to the back hall, just watching her delicate little form cooking in their kitchen. The stove was nice and hot throwing off waves of heat that he knew she was absorbing like a sponge. She was stirring her Dashi stock in a deep bowled frying pan, tossing in the bite sized pieces of chicken thighs, while glancing over to the rice cooker on the counter nearby making sure it was cooking nicely.

She looked like an expert wife, busy preparing a traditional comfort dish for her husband. His heart melted at the sight. With a huge smile of gratitude he crossed the living room to show her how he felt. Moving up before her, he settled his hands on her hips, placing a gentle kiss on her forehead, "Smells delicious." he inhaled smelling not only the hearty soup stock that the chicken was bathing in, but also the sweet scent of the shampoo in her hair.

He smiled at the odd combination, "Hai, it's one of Makoto - chan's favorite recipes." Usagi told him, humming in delight at the comforting warmth the palms of his large hands gave off. The firm grip of his finger's digging into her hips. It was the most perfect sensations for her, she felt secure and loved all at once.

She leaned back into his arms as she stirred the chicken, turning in his embrace to toss in her thinly sliced onion into the pan. The stock had thickened into a sauce that now sizzled and spit up. The steam wafted over them in a heady, spicing aroma. "Can you check on the rice?" She asked. He moved over a little and picked up the flat utensil to stir it for her to see if it was ready to be fluffed.

"This needs to stay like this...you...me...I don't want to give up the simple little things like these." he told her, "I understand...we won't let the death busters take away even the little things from us." she confided. But he wasn't thinking just on them and he let her know to. "Usako...I wasn't just refereeing to them..." He felt he needed to explain, she slowly lowered her head, becoming somber to his words.

"I know...but the death busters are something we can at least do something about right now. Papa and his issues will have to heal and mend over time. It's not something we or he can control. The death busters their physical force that we can fight. We can defeat and deal with them in that sense. Papa and his issues are something we can't physically fight and defeat. That's more of a time will heal thing." I sighed, the whole thing was Papa was like beating a dead horse.

I was tired of dealing with him and his hate of my soul mate. Every time we came one step closer we went two steps back. If only papa never found out about how intimate we were. Oh well can't undo the past. Mamoru nodded in understanding. "I just wish..." he began, but I put a finger to his lips, "Me to...but for right now..." I looked him fondly in the eyes. "Stir the rice before it burns the bottom of the cooker.")

She pointed her wooden spoon at the reservoir that had not run dry. He smiled at her flip of topics. But she was right. They couldn't actually fight her father but they could take care of the enemy in front of them and that was something. "Fluffed." he commented, having not cooked rice in a while he was looking to her now for confirmation.

"Take it off its done. The chicken needs a few more minutes so take the heat off and leave the lid on it. The moisture will keep it moist and the lid will prevent cooling air from hitting it." She instructed with a sense of expertize, he smiled proudly at her. She had come a long way in just a few months, acting more like an independent adult then a clumsy school girl. Everything about her had matured since Nemesis, she had survived a very harrowing gauntlet all on her own and had come out the terrible experience a much strong person.

"Makoto - chan's lessons are really paying off." he remarked. "Hai, they are!" She exclaimed, receiving a playfully slap to her butt from Mamoru, for good measure before checking the chicken himself. He honestly couldn't see this ending for them. His trip to the ring store a bit of time ago while she was at class had him wondering if he was pushing things too far. He'd initially walked away not wanting to feel like he was push to much on her but couldn't help walking around the mall a few more times thinking about it.

As it stood she wasn't on great terms with her father. How would it be to the older man if he asked his only daughter to marry him before school ended for her? Ergo the many trips he took walking around the mall that day.

Besides...as much as he adored her he knew that they weren't ready for that. He had been high on the idea of it till he remembered the fights with her father. He wanted them to be at peace as a father and daughter before he asked permission to marry her. Whether it was given approval or not from Kenji, he would marry her anyway. But he would still offer the man his respect. Or at the very least on civil grounds so that she could still see them on a regular basis. He didn't want her to have to time her visits to her family due to him.

He hoped the ties would mend themselves soon cause even without the prospect of his thoughts on marrying her he still wanted her and her father to be close once more. It wasn't fair on her nor her father but at the same time it wasn't fair on him that her father refused to be accepting of them. He loved Usagi more than life, he wouldn't be giving her up just because of her control issue father.

It didn't mean that he wouldn't be willing to do whatever it took to re - establish that bond for them. He knew how much it meant to her and her family. It was why he went out of his way and had invited them over. He just didn't think it would end the way it did. He would try to help the relationship but he didn't want to let theirs end. He'd die for her, had died for her...

He would fight till he was blue in the face to keep them together, but he would still want her to be happy and safe over his own desires.

But he would never want her to be in a relationship that she felt forced into just to appease her father or even him. If she wasn't happy with him he'd do whatever it took to make her happy and if he couldn't he'd let her go and let her be with someone that could make her happy. Till then however he would work to help her relationship with her father rebuild but he wouldn't let the man think he was letting go. Not by a long shot.

Didn't mean he wasn't temped that day to outright buy the ring he had thought would be perfect match for her. A ring that seemed to almost represent both of them with a crescent moon etched inside of an earth on it. He wondered if perhaps someone was sending him a fated clue, but he was ignoring it in favor of trying to mend things first. He shook his head knowing if he didn't stop that train of thought it would pull him further into his obsessive head space.

He knew he had an illogical desire to keep pushing forward with their relationship, to slip the ring on her finger and go over wedding plans with her, but more his reasonable mind always won out in the end. She was to young, she needed to study and over all the timing would be horrible right now so he needed to be patient just a little longer. Then he would slip it on her and make her LEGALLY his.

"You okay?" she asked, taking the chicken from the pan and putting it on top of the two rice bowls. "Hai, just thinking about things is all." he replied. He then grabbed his own chicken and rice keeping it separated while Usagi mixed hers together. They ate while watching some Japanese high school drama.

Usagi and Mamoru paid hardly any attention to it as they finished their meal. Placing the bowls on the coffee table. An up beat, theme song played out, drawing their attention to the t.v once again as a commercial for a Sailor Moon toy began. The background flashing prism power while small hands posed the very barbie like dolls. Into ninja kicks and twirling then gayly on their high heels.

The pure fan service of the ad had both spitting out their drinks they had just sipped, "And as a one time prize get a free Sailor Moon, defender of Tokyo doll - limited quantity - get it now!" both looked incredulously to one another before they set their drinks down and howled in roaring laughter over it.

"Oh kami! That's such a bad rendition of me! She's all puffed out!" Usagi laughed, rolling on the couch as Mamoru threw his head back in laughter, "At least they got the hair style right." he tried to give them credit as the doll was being posed by small children to fight evil dolls. "Oh kami! I have got to tell Rei - chan and the others." Usagi reached for her communicator when Mamoru stopped her, "Let them rest Usako. We have a big day tomorrow." she nodded and settled down next to him as he held her close.

However it was the Tuxedo mask doll that stunned him. Puffy and smiling with a rose sewn into the gloved hand. Complete with top hat and mask, the lunacy of it was appalling. It oddly reminded Mamoru of a homemade curse doll, which made him sweat drop. Usagi cracked up and fell over his lap in laughter. Hitting the couches arm in amusement Mamoru barely paid any attention to it as he was torn over embarrassment over the dolls inaccuracy and the object of his never ending affections bent over his lap, mouth open wide in laugher.

She twisted and giggled with her cute little bum in the air unable to pull herself up. The lust won out as he picked her little body up and pulled her securely into his lap. Looping a leg on either side of his waist he leaned up to kiss her passionately. She was blushing and grinning eagerly into his affections.

"Not a good idea to bend over my lap like that. From this moment on everything is entirely your fault." he muttered hotly against her lips. Quickly catching on she sank deeper into his lap and wrapped her arms about his neck. "Did someone get a little horny from my innocent -" her words got cut short as his mouth claimed hers and his arms became steel bands around her back. Her arm stuck in between but she managed to push a little room in and caress his cheek then his lips, "Well?" she asked with a wiry grin.

"Be careful or you'll lose that appendage." he gently bit her fingertip before attacking her neck with searing kisses, "Mamo - chan..." her words were lost on the next action as he bit gently into her throat, his teeth creating a sensation that went straight through to her now aroused center. He soothed it seconds later with his tongue before applying more teeth marks over her neck down to her collar bone. Her hands weaved into his hair before she gripped and pulled back, separating his head from her heated flesh.

He growled in rising desire over her rough handling, "You're not the only one in need." she dipped her head in and trailed a series of bite marks and darting her tongue shyly down his neck, barley touching. He had trouble keeping his hands from simply throwing her bodily down on the coffee table...again…and taking her lithe body oh so willingly. He wanted to enjoy the little treasures her body provided them before sinking himself into her once more.

But her mouthing at his neck was pleasant torture. It was like she alone possessed the secret map to drive him wild with pent up desire and sexual frustration…frustration that was currently in need of release. Release that only she could give him. Had she not been intimate before with him for the last few months and know that their past counter parts had made love...OFTEN, he would seriously wonder where she learned her skills from.

His was from past memories as well but he'd also had previous girlfriends to whom he had learned from. Granted none had elicited this amount of lust or love from but still. As far as he knew she'd had no boyfriends prior to him. So he was her teacher past and present in this intimate dance and he loved it! Nothing made him more proud then to know how fiercely attracted she was to him.

"Usako..." he groaned, grabbing a tail of her hair then the other he wrapped both around his wrist as she worked her magic mouth just behind his ear. The sensation was so distracting, so amazingly intense that his whole body was shivering. His mind falling into such a lust filled stupor, that he had focus really hard on how to wrap her hair, before he pulled her firmly but gently back. Hands holding the tails firmly as his fingertips held onto her head he placed their foreheads together, trying to gather himself. He wanted to savor this.

"You drive me insane Usako...I've never know anyone in either life that I've felt so in love with or connected with that made me want to never let go. Whether were making love or making chicken I don't want to live without you in my life. You are my life." he let go of her hair and caressed her cheek as she smiled lovingly at him, "Oh Mamo - chan..." She gushed, her face heating up even more at his sweet words.

He sought to memorize her facial features, looking at her eyes, hair, nose, lips...her lips that made him want to do simple beautiful and wild things, he loved every part of her, "Kami I'm not sure I could ever let you go..." he breathed.

She giggled, "I hope not. Because I could never let you go either...I need you in my life. I never want to go back to that lonely place. I think you remember…when you didn't remember me, or I thought that I wasn't good enough for you, or perhaps you might have hated me..." he cut her off, "Never!" he was vehement, "God, Usako. I will never hurt you again! Could never hurt you again. I promise." he blinked as it seemed their thoughts mirrored one another even when they didn't use their shared link.

"You're too perfect. We share so many of the same passions and interests, things that I wouldn't have had the nerve or guts to express to a former girlfriend and here you share the same things as I do. And after the stupid shit I have done to lose you I am the luckiest man to have gotten you back! Heaven lost its best angel when you fell..." she giggled at the compliment as he flipped her over on her back on the couch, "Mamo - chan!"

"If I didn't know any better I'd say you were having some sly thoughts pertaining to me." he smirked, "Only for you." he buried his head in her neck as he suckled on the soft succulent skin there. Trying to take this slow and savor the feel of her soft flesh beneath his lips and tongue, loving the feel of her skin. She was enjoying his attentions upon her when her mind wandered, she began to absently reflect on the talk with her mother. Over meeting up with her for lunch on the weekend with Shingo.

"I was thinking to try and schedule a time and date to meet up with my mama and Shingo." she said it so out of the blue he raised his head up to gawk at her in shock, "Your thinking of that now?" he asked a bit shocked that his magic wasn't magical enough to pull her away from her wayward thoughts. She saw the puzzled look on his face and realized his ego was a bit dented by her wayward thoughts.

She didn't mean to bring up such random things in the middle of foreplay. But she had so much rattling around in her mind right now it was hard to keep all her thoughts contained. So now she sought to repair the damage. Getting the devil inside of her. She nodded, smiling coyly. "Hai, I think I should call her up."

She made to get up when his wall of a body prevented that. Truthfully she wanted him to protest to it, at least long enough for him to make sweet love to her but instead he let her up and groaned in sweet agony, "Hurry up." he breathed, trying to keep himself in check. She giggled and made to get up when she took advantage and straddled him instead. It shocked him, "Honestly you can be so easy sometimes." she remarked. Growling he grabbed her and rolled her over. Miss judging the roll they landed with her on her back on the floor.

Feeling bad for it Mamoru immediately began to apologize, "Gomen Usako I should have paid more attention." he hadn't wanted to fall to the floor, he had miscalculated the roll over, "Why? I didn't mind it." she replied, caressing his face, "I've been treated much, much worse by enemies." she cooed. Before he could protest she leaned up and kissed him. Taking her sweet taste of him as well as her once more melted into one another's embrace.

Arms bracing himself and framing her head he looked like one big dominant alpha male protecting and ready to make love to his mate. "I have a confession to make." he breathed, pulling her shirt from her form. "Hai?" she answered. "A lot of the times when we would bump into one another..." his lips latched themselves onto her skin at her pulse point, I did it solely to have you in my arms for even just a few moments." she found it sweet, "And here I thought it was so you could look up my skirt." she teased, he smiled, "That to."

"Pervert." she lightly hit his butt through the pants he wore. He bent down and curved her left leg around his hip, "Only with you." it was when he grabbed her hair again that he growled once more. Seeing her neck arched up in a near sacrificial display for him to indulge upon her soft, succulent flesh. He tried valiantly to keep his primal desires reigned in till they were actually making love. It came out once before the last time he had her hair pulled back like this. It's what caused him to lose control. Thankfully it had ended well for both of them.

He took a brief look around and noticed that there wasn't truly one thing that wasn't already something they had made love on. As nice as the floor was he wasn't fond of rug burn or in this case carpet burn and she was so pliant beneath him. "Usako we need to move." he urged. "Hai." she complied only to wrap her legs around his waist and grind him into her. "Not exactly what I meant." he admonished, looking about for a surface as he grinded himself into her, "Kami Mamo - chan!" she ground herself back into him.

He lost focus for a moment, his eyes rolling into the back of his head till he noticed the glass against the balcony window and aimed there as it was the closest none carpet thing he could see and think of. Hauling her up with him he walked forward and pressed her in only to get a shriek in response as the cold from the outside had permeated itself through the glass making it exceptionally frigid.

Fighting against the cold he pulled her away from it feeling her body reject the depth of it and twist away he instead took her to their bedroom only for her to disentangle herself from him completely. "To cold, need a bath now." she remarked and dragged him in with her.

Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth he let her lead him as she shucked her shorts off and let his t shirt slip from her form. He watched with a heated look at her perfect body being revealed to him little by little. He reached his hand out and caressed her tenderly down her back. She stopped moving and arched into his touch. Smiling at her response he moved forward past, tossing the wooden stool for rinses aside.

He adjusted the taps and got the water at a nice hot but not boiling temperature filling the soaker tub. Then he quickly shed his clothing, throwing his pants and underwear into the small room set to the side of the bathroom that held his sink and toilet. Before tending to the extendable shower head attached to the wall before the tub. It rained out smoothly, a cloud of steam wafting through out the traditional Japanese bathing room.

They had plenty of room to play around on the tile area before the tub, he unlatched the shower head and attached it to the secondary perch higher up on the wall. Creating an American style shower experience for both of them.

With a huge smile of yearning, he spun around and picked her up, wrapping her legs around his waist and quickly moving her against the wall. Once the heat hit her back she sighed in relief then arched into his fingers making massaging motions against her back. "Oh so nice..." she sighed feeling the heat from the shower and from him, massaging her once tight skin. "Should I be jealous of the hot water?" Mamoru asked playfully.

She didn't respond as he ground himself into her hot core. "No." she responded, now wanting to feel him in her as he was grinding against her sensitive clit. Seeing her response he decided on a tiny bit of torture for her. Turning her he pinned her against the now warming shower wall away from the hot spray, "You want the heat of the shower or my heat?" he demanded, a low tone coming from his lips. He pinned her with a need to sate them both.

"Yours! Always and only yours!" she begged as he grinded himself against her once more. Allowing only a small amount of room his hand moved from its original position to slid between them. His fingers delicately yet in a dirty manner, glided over her numb vagina lips. Pulling at them every so often eliciting a groan of ecstasy from her. Her own wetness coating his fingers as he played with her.

Feeling her response to him he removed his playful fingers and brought them up to his mouth sucking the tantalizing juices from his finger-tips. Seeing the heated looks in the other's eyes he could no longer hold back. He angled and thrust himself within her tight wet center. Loosing himself in her heat he faltered and let himself sit for a moment allowing her inner muscles to clench upon him in love and lust. It wasn't till she clenched as hard as she could around his member that drew an intense moan from him.

She bit her lip in the power she enjoyed having over him. Relishing the effect she had on him she smiled in response, loving having him at her mercy at times. Though she could never get enough of when he took her, forcing her to submit to him. For he himself, he was trying to regain back some of the control but it was hard. Every inner muscle she had was purposely tightening unbearably around his aching member.

He finally reached a hand down once more and fondled her clit shocking her muscles into releasing long enough to get some control back and begin a rhythm, "Cutie." he growled speeding up his rhythm within her, "Didn't hear you complaining." she remarked riding his length with a need all her own. Drawing himself in and out of her tight depths as he struggled to make her come first. Her clenching now had him straining to hold on.

"Please!" she begged, wanting to feel him ride her just as much as he tortured her. He looked up to her, lust, love and passion swimming in his dark blue depths. Baring his teeth he rammed hard up within her, eliciting a passionate response. "Like that?" he asked, give her hard but slow thrusts. Wanting to make a point. "Hai!" she exclaimed only able to hang on as she knew he was getting her back for her deliberate clenching earlier.

He kept up his rhythm growling and huffing in passion and lust as he wanted her to come before himself, "I love you..." she whimpered, "And I you my Usako..." his length rammed into her even harder. It was when he used two fingers below to gently pinch and pull at her nub that she came without warning. Her muscles clenching tightly as he watched her face and the emotions running across, "Oh kami Mamo - chan!" she screamed, unprepared for the surprise orgasm that consumed her whole being.

He watched her as she came down only to lose himself and began a rhythm that he couldn't stop even if he wanted to. Faster and harder he slammed into her, while she could only hold onto his shoulders, the power behind his thrusts so intense she could barely catch her breathe. Locking her legs around his hips she held on tightly. Fasted, faster, harder he pushed and pulled...a timeless rhythm that they basked in.

Breathing becoming a need for him he released the hold he had on her neck, a place he'd sunk his head into, as he suckled the tender flesh there, intent on leaving a deeper mark. Not wanting any of them to fade from her at any point. He loved looking at them almost as much as he loved making them. He began his intense rhythm within her tight walls, not letting up or slowing down even remotely.

His roar was heard through the apartment as her shrill shriek echoed from the intensity. His orgasm triggering hers in blinding waves of heat and passion. She jerked from the constant thrusts, even after Mamoru let losing his seed he still kept up his rhythm bringing her back down to earth gradually. An effort to keep himself and her still going the only true piece of logic in his mind right now as she gripped his back in need.

"Every moment with you is magical." She whispered hoarsely against his ear. Turning off the faucets, he gently walked out from the shower's cascade, still inside of her, and grabbed a towel from a hook on the opposite wall to wrap around her back. Walking to their shared room he removed the towel from her semi dry body and disengaged himself from her as she held a dazed look of love and sated content within her eyes.

"I'll fight for us till the end of time." he murmured to her sleeping form. Setting himself beside her, pulling up the blankets. He settled himself snuggly against her, as he too passed out. With the pale glow of the full moon shining brightly down on them both. Casting the lover's in an eternal aura that would vibrate throughout time.