That night Karunā was outside training, sweat pouring from her since she had long sleeves on.
"Seriously. Are you that paranoid about your scars? Seriously, like no one will care!" Junjun stated, all while hanging upside down from a tree.
"Oh really? And how do you know that? You're just a kid!" Karunā retorted, pausing before adding "and get down before you fall and break your neck."
"I'm not gonna fall! I may be smaller but in my past life I was an acrobat!" the green haired girl stated proudly before doing a flip and landing on her feet a meter away.
"I don't care if you were a bat….stop hanging upside down. It makes me nervous." The teen retorted, going back to focusing on her training.
"What were you and Kaasan talking about earlier? I saw you hug her." Junjun asked, earning a blush in response.
"None of your business!" Karunā growled, sending a particularly hard blast of fire over the lake.
"Come on you can tell me!" the little girl stated in a teasing voice, earning a glare.
"Shut up."
The two kept bickering for some minutes until a chuckle came from behind them.
"Junjun, your mother asked me to send you to fetch Uranus and Sphene. Do you think you can do that?" A soft voice chided, causing them both to turn around.
There standing, looking like a goddess was the queen herself, an amused look on her face.
"Of course!" the young girl stated before rushing off, earning a chuckle from the young queen.
"Actually Tsuki wanted you to go but I figured you'd need a break from her teasing." Serenity stated, earning a hint of a smile from Karunā.
"Your highness, may I ask you something?" Karunā questioned, earning a chuckle.
"You just did, didn't you?" came the response, causing whatever was left of the teen's nervousness to melt away.
"Why does everyone know you as a fake name? Like Uranus for example, I get that you rule whatever planet or whatever but you call each other by your real names too….well sometimes." Karunā asked, earning a chuckle.
"Well originally the titles were senshi names given to my guards and they were named after their ruling planet. Though honestly now….here in the twenty first century it's more to separate our public lives from our personal. You'll understand when you see the senshi in public verses when you see the people behind them in public." The queen explained
"So like Haruka…she's a famous racer. How do they not recognize Uranus and Haruka as the same person?" Karunā asked, earning a chuckle.
"Honestly that is literally magic. The transformation makes it so no one can recognize them….even if they grow suspicious to who it is. To be honest I didn't know Uranus was Haruka even after I noticed they wore the same cologne." Serenity answered then added with a chuckle "Of course Uranus was more of a headache than Haruka."
Karunā chuckled at that then paused, recalling what she had saw in the dark castle.
"You're real name is Usagi, right?"
The queen only nodded.
"Tsuki told me about you sneaking around her castle…A matter of fact she, Endymion and I were having tea together when she teleported off to see what you were up to. A figure you found that out there?"
However before either could reply Haruka and Danny approached, the later still in his pajamas.
"Tsuki and Akemi is on the second floor, west side balcony." The queen stated, earning a surprised look from them both.
"What's up? Who's Akemi?" Karunā asked, looking between the three adults.
"Akemi is the child that Taka brought in." Serenity answered, motioning the others to hurry along.
"I wonder what Momma needed with Danny and Ruka?" Junjun stated, earning a shrug from Karunā.
"It's grown up business…It'd be best if we stay out of it unless someone says otherwise."
Meanwhile on the balcony Tsuki sat beside the young teen who was shaking slightly.
"Are you sure that it's okay? I mean….Dad hated me for it."
Tsuki sighed and glanced over at the teen and took her hand.
"Look, I've never experienced this before but maybe my sister or Danny know about it. But honestly nothing like that matters." Tsuki answered, earning a sheepish grin.
"Thanks. I never showed you my ability….I'm odd for my heritage." She stated, suddenly levitating rock up.
"You're not a senshi but you have powers as one and the star seed of one." Tsuki stated, surprised.
"Do you think that I could be a senshi?" Akemi asked just as the queen, Danny and Haruka appeared in the doorway.
"You have a star seed. I don't see why not." Haruka stated, earning a surprised look.
"I wanted to talk to you because…Well….I'm different." Akemi began, standing up slowly from the wheel chair.
"Easy kid, sit back down. Tsuki sent everything to us telekinetically." Haruka stated, helping the teen back down before adding as she knelt down "so what you need us for?"
Karunā meanwhile was being driven crazy by Junjun who was teasing her about hugging Yaten.
"I swear you are so annoying! Go play in traffic or something!' The fire user snapped, earning a laugh from nearby.
"I'm glad I came to get you when I did…before you gave her any other ideas." The woman known as sailor Jupiter stated, causing Karunā to blush.
"Um…We were just." She stammered, only to earn a laugh.
"Relax…I know you're not serious. I came out here because dinner's ready…Though evidently the queen and a few others are taking dinner elsewhere tonight." Jupiter stated with a grin.
"Seriously Karu-san. Lighten up." Junjun stated before walking ahead
"Karu?" Karunā repeated, earning a shrug from Jupiter.
"No clue, just be glad they didn't give you the nickname Coco….though I think they spelt it with a k."
Karunā couldn't help but laugh at this, earning a light glare.
"I'm glad you're more comfortable now kid. But none of us will hurt you...or let anyone else either."
Yaten chuckled as Karunā and Vesves argued across the table, earning a chuckle from most of the people in the room.
"Why don't you two wait until after dinner to finish this argument?" she finally intervened, though she was trying not to laugh.
Both girls blushed at that but only managed to send a sheepish grin toward the white haired warrior, who just chuckled.
"At least they aren't on a Rei and Usagi level." Venus stated, earning a chuckle from everyone.
"That is true. I'm glad that has smoothed over….Somewhat." Michiru stated as she helped Hotaru refill her plate.
"That must have driven you crazy. You and Haruka were older than anyone of us…hearing all of that all the time." Yaten stated, earning a chuckle from the aqua haired woman.
"Well…sometimes. Most of the time though it was just funny." She retorted, then added "Tsuki and Yaten were worse!"
"Hey, I'll have you know that Tsuki and I were too hot headed for our own good." Yaten stated around a mouthful of Soba.
However before they could say anything else the door opened and in walked the others, causing everyone to turn toward them.
"This is Akemi and they will be staying here with us." The queen stated, earning confused looks from everyone.
"They?" Karunā whispered questioningly as Tsuki sat down, earning a sigh.
"How about you get Haruka to explain it to you? My psychology classes taught about it but I sure as hell suck at explaining it." She retorted, pouring herself a glass of water before taking a drink.
"Um. Can I sit here?" Akemi asked, coming over to their side of the table.
"Sure. Just ignore the fruit bats asking too many questions." Tsuki replied from around her glass.