********* ******** Kinmokusei Chapter 3 ********* ******** Disclaimer: Sailormoon does not in anyway belong to me. All rights belong to Naoko Takeuchi, the talented creator of the manga, Nakayoshi and others. Just writing a fanfic. =p Please don't hesitate to email me if you have any questions or comments. I love getting mail. ^_^ email : xxyumichanxx@aol.com ********************** The princess could not hide the confusion and surprise on her face. "Kakue!? What are you..? We thought you were kidnapped." Fighter asked in surprise looking for an answer. Maker put a hand before Fighter, to remind her of the situation they were in. "What did he mean by 'Master'?" Her dark eyes narrowed at the woman. She turns her attention to the brown-haired senshi. "Maker, you were always the intelligent one." She turns her attention back to the princess. "Glad you can make it back to your precious galaxy, well of course the one you deserted, that is." "Kakue!! How dare you talk to the princes like that! Do you know what you are saying!?" She turns to the white-haired Senshi, and gave her an evil stare. "I know exactly what I am saying!" "Kakue - -" The woman turns to a baffled Fighter. "Seiya." her eyes looked sad for a moment, but soon in a second sparked with dark fire, "you were always naïve." "What the hell did you do to Usagi you witch!!!" Rei could not stand silent any longer when she saw the woman who had cursed her friend before her eyes. The starlights and Princess immediately turn to Mars. Obviously surprised, their gaze goes back to the woman trying to find an answer. "I told you, I cursed her. How smart these earth senshi are, can't even remember the obvious answers you give them." She smirks at the Princess and starlights. "The Jasaiha Curse." "The Jasaiha Curse..." Fighter's face turns pale. "The Jasaiha Curse, the curse used by the evil witches of ancient times." Maker turns to the earth senshi. "It was used centuries ago," and with a little strain in his voice explained, "in the end resulting to death." The earth senshi all turn as pale as fighter. "A cure?" A smile spreads across the woman's face. "Reversion of the curse by the person who originally unleashed the curse." "or death of the person who originally unleashed the curse." Maker cut in. "Then the answers easy, all we have to do is kill you." Uranus took out her sword and was going to make a dash for the woman, when Mars ran in front of her and dashed for the woman instead. The woman lifted her hand and her nails turned into sharp claws. The claws extended about five inches. She jammed her nails into Mars's side. "Mars!!!" She released her hand from the senshi's body, and lifted her hand in the air, the senshi's blood flew in all directions. A ball of energy hit all of the senshi. Mars's body fell to the floor covered in blood. "Mars!!" Pluto goes to her side, and holds her body up. "Now be smart, and try not to end up like her." She lifts up her hand, and pauses, she picks up a shining pendant that had flew off the girl's body when she hit the floor. She snapped her fingers and disappeared. ************************** "Are you sure you don't want to contact Mamorusan about this?" "No!" Lunar, surprised by the sharpness in Usagi's voice makes a puzzled face at her. "I mean, he's just starting school at Harvard, I don't want to worry him. I mean he didn't even get to go last time with the whole Galaxia thing, I don't want it to interfere again." Lunar nods her head. "I'm going to spend the night at the headquarters tonight for research." "Don't worry Lunar, me and Hotaru are going to sleep over Makoto's. I'll be safe there." "Oh, good. Well, be careful." "You too." Usagi bites her lip as she watches Lunar walk off. ************************************** "So what else do we need?" Makoto scans through the aisles. She picks up a ball of cabbage. "What about some salad?" She turns to a nodding Minako and Usagi. She shakes her head, Why is she even asking? They will eat anything. She sighs. She turns to Hotaru. "Do you have any requests?" "Ummm, can we make a cake?" "Sure, okay we need to find some eggs. I think they're in aisle 3?" They all follow Makochan. With Usagi and Minako leaving slober all over the floor. "It's been a long time since we've slept over your house Makochan." "AHHHhhhhh!!!" They all bolt out the store to find a woman being held by her collar by a woman in a lime green costume. "Henshin you!" Jupiter Crystal Power! Venus Crystal Power! Saturn Crystal Power! Moon Eternal Crystal Power! "Venus Love Me chain!" The woman jumped from the attack. She looked over at the four senshi and threw the poor woman to the ground. "So you are the Sailor Senshi..." She threw her arms in the air, and screamed, "Radiar Attack!!" The senshi were all hit, especially Jupiter, since she had jumped in front of Sailormoon. "Aqua Illusion!" A blue rush of water hit the woman hard in the arm. "Mercury!" The damage of the attack had given her enough time to wip out her computer. Mercury typed like crazy on her little computer. Her eyes scanned the screen. "Her chest, aim your attacks at her chest!" "Dark Light" Hotaru raised her staff and directed her hit as told. The woman crumbled into sand. All the senshi sigh in relief. "Kukukukukuk" A dark figure appears before them, it floats in the sky. It flies closer to the senshi, to reveal a laughing face, on the woman who they had fought a few weeks ago. "Sailormoon." "Who are you? What do you want!?" "And here I thought you would have already made your way to kinmokusei." "Kinmokusei?" The woman eyes Sailormoon. "What does this have to do with Kinmokusei? ..What have you done to the Starlights!?" She grins. She throws something at Sailormoon. "I will be waiting for you." She disapears into a light fog. Sailormoon reaches for the shining object the woman had thrown. She picked it up. She immediately dropped it to the ground when she saw what it was. She gasped, and put her hands over her mouth. "Reichan..." Crimson blood dripped from the pendant as it shone in the light. ********************* ************************ "Kin moku sei?" She said the words slowly, as if they would break if pronounced to fast. Venus looked away, she had lied to her friend. She did not want her to find out this way. "Usagi, -- --" "Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, " Her eyes do not leave the ground, " they're not in Australia are they?" Venus nods her head. "Rei?" Mercury and Jupiter look away. "Why, why didn't you tell me?" "We didn't want to worry you, and they wanted to protect you, Usagi - -" "Why didn't you tell me!!? I'm sick of this, I'm sick of this!! " "Usagi chan" "I am not a little child!" "We shall go to Kinmokusei." Everyone turned their attention to the soft voice. "Saturn.." "Hotaruchan.." She walks over to Usagi. "Princess, I am sorry that we did not tell you, we were just thinking of your safety. I now realize that it will hurt you more, if you do not see Mars. Let us go to kinmokusei and see her and the others." "...Thank you Hotaruchan." "We shall leave tomorrow evening." ********************** A young man stood in the hallway, he leaned against the wall. He clasps his hands together as though to cuff his feelings inside. 'Odango, please be alright..' ********************************** "Mom..? Yah, me and everyone decided to go to Makochan's uncle's house for a trip in Hiroshima." She clutched the reciever. "I'm not sure yet, we might be a few days, but you know its spring vacation." "Oh, its okay, I'll borrow Makochan's clothes. " "I know, I know." "Okay, I will. Bye." She hung up the phone. She held the pendant in her hand. 'Rei, Harukasan, Michirusan, Setsunasan please be okay.' She looks up at the poster above Makoto's bed. The three boys had on their trademark suits and each held roses in their hands. She walks up to the poster and touches the face of the black haired singer. "Seiya." She clutches the pendant in her hand. 'Its my turn to protect you guys.' *************** ************************** "Are you ready?" Usagi, Minako, and Ami nod. Saturn holds a key up into the sky. It looked like the time key that Chibi Usa owned, but was gold, and had stars and unreadable symbols carved into it. "What is that?" The senshi all ask in unison. "Pluto gave this to me, in case we needed to contact each other. She will guide us there. Now, don't let go of each other's hand, and we must all concentrate on the destination we wish to be placed in." "Contact us if there is anything out of the ordinary." Ami nervously tells Makoto. "Don't worry Ami, and don't worry Setsunasan wont be mad at you. Me, Lunar, and Artemis will do fine." "It may be selfish of me, but I just felt I needed to go on this mission. Thank you Makochan." Makoto steps back from the circle. The four girls nod and squeeze eachother's hands tightly and closed their eyes. "Senshi of time, I ask you for your guidence, Lead us to you, Protect us from evil, Open the door of the galaxies, Key of Time!" A pink fog surrounded them, and they vanished. ***************************** ****************** Everyone in the room turns their attention towards Setsuna. Her staff had appeared to be glowing with great light. "The talisman..." Pluto's staff light glows more and more. It floats in the air and spirals around in circles. "This is--" A pink ball of light appears before her. It gently plummets to the ground. "Sailormoon!!!" ************************* ***************** "Sailormoon!" She looked around to see the familiar faces that surrounded her. "Princess..." Setsuna picked up her staff from the air. She glances at Saturn. "Mars! Where is sh- -- -" "Odango--" Seiya started, but was interrupted by a voice. "Hotaru, why did you bring her? " Everyone could feel Haruka's tension rising in her voice. Sailormoon turned to the voice. "Harukasan! Why didn't you tell me---" "You're leaving this instant." "Why...?" She didn't understand. 'Why was she pushing her away?' "Because its not your place to be here." "Haruka, wait." Micchiru tries to calm her down. She snaps her hand away from Michiru's grasp. "You're leaving at once." "Uranus! She came for you gu --- -- " Seiya couldn't stand her being yelled at. "NO I'M NOT!!!!" She runs to Haruka and by her and everyone else's surprise she wraps her arms around her. "Usagi." Venus looks up at Haruka, "Harukasan, she came because of Mars and we were worried, we were all worried for your guys safety, please, don't blame her." Haruka shuts her eyes and pushes her away. "You're leaving." Her eyes widen at the words that came from her mouth. "I don't care, I don't care what you say!! I'm not leaving, I'm not leaving here until I see Mars!! Until, unitl we all go home," She looks up at Haruka, "together, all of us." She could no longer bare to see, to see her princess in such tears because of her own harsh words. She let her arms fall and let the princess embrace her. Seiya felt a sharp pain in his chest, when he saw the scene. A voice breaks the silence. "Tsuki no Princess, " Kakkyu bows to Usagi. Usagi detaches from Haruka and bows in return. Kakkyu's smile turns serious in an instant. "Come." She takes her hand and leads her into a hall. ************************** ************* "Rei!" Her hands covered her mouth in horror, as she saw the body. Her whole body was bandaged up. She ran to Rei. "Rei?" Everyone looked uneasily at Usagi. "Usagi, she's in a coma, she cant hear you." "No, Rei can hear me, can't you, Rei? " She looks down at the face, she looked so peaceful like she was sleeping. "Rei, I brang you your necklace." She pulls out the gold necklace. See look, I cleaned it all up, theres not a spot of blood." Her lips began to tremble. "You have to take more care of it," Tears were falling from her eyes. "because it was a present from me." She dug her head into the sheets. "Rei," she said in a whisper, "please wake up." "Rei!!" Minako pulls Usagi up. "Usagi, she can't hear you." Minako glances at the others and back at Usagi, "You need some rest." "No!!! I'm staying here!!" She pulls away from Minako and goes to Rei's side. She places Rei's hand in her own and squeezes it tightly. "Usagi, you can't stay here forever, you can't do anything for her at this point." Usagi didn't move. There was a long silence. Just when Michiru was about to talk, Kakkyu spoke. "Let her stay." ********************** ********************** "Odango?" No voice answered. He placed the tray of food on the table. It had past two days and she hadn't eaten anything since she had gotten there. "The maids tell me you haven't been eating anything since you got here." He walks closer to Usagi. "She'll be alright." "Seiya, you think?" "I promise you." They smile at each other. He wanted to reach out and embrace her, but he didn't, instead he pointed to the meal on the table, "but she wont be happy if you're a skeleton when she wakes up." Usagi gives a thankful smile. "If you need anything, just ask for me." "Thankyou, Seiya." She looked after him as he left the room. ********************************************* (In the palace gardens.) "Why do you hide from her?" "Taiki." He smiles, "what are you talking about?" Taiki looks at him seriously. He knew him too well. There was no use lying to him. "I've tried to forget about her, really I've tried, but I cant, I want to comfort her, but I know that if I wrap my arms around her, that I have a feeling this time, that I wont be able to let her let go. " "Seiya.." "I know, I know that I could never have her, I know she belongs to someone else. That's why I don't want to see her. But now, now that she's so near, she's right where I could reach out and touch her, its too much, its just too much. This isn't the time to be thinking these things, our planet, our people, everything is at stake, and all I could think about is her, Dammit!!" He clenches his fist with shame. "Why did I ever fall in love?" Tears fell from his eyes. Taiki did not utter a word; he just stood by his side. He put a hand on his shoulder, and looked away. He did not look to the muffled cries. He just stood by him until he heard his cries die out. "Seiya, where love is - pain is never far away." ************************* ******************* The food lay untouched on the table beside Usagi. The doctor had said she was in critical condition and that there was a chance of, well death. She had overheard the conversation of the other senshi talking with the doctor, of course the others would never tell her a thing like that. She looked at her friend, she'd never seen her so helpless with bandages all wrapped around her body, it was too much for her to bare. "Rei, please don't die, please." Usagi held Rei's hand in her own, "What am I going to tell your grandpa?" Tears started to fall from her eyes, "Who's going to take care of the temple?" She squeezed her hand tighter. "Who's always going to be there to scold me? Rei, please, don't leave us." "Baka...." "Rei!??" Usagi looked up to see Rei's eyes slowly open and turn to her. "Baka, who said I would die?" "Rei are you okay? I thought you were dead!" "I'm okay," She looked at Usagi, "Look at me, I'm not even a proper senshi, all beat up like this, I'm a disgrace." "Rei, you're no disgrace - -" "She's right." "Harukasan." "Rei, we all underestimated her power. No one can ever tell you you're a disgrace, you fought for your princess, how can you call that a disgrace?" "I lost." "Harukasan is right, Reichan, you did your best, you're no disgrace." "Well talk about this later, Rei you need some rest. You too odango." "But -- -" "You've stayed here long enough, you need some rest." "If you're worried about Rei, Ill look after her." "Setsunasan." Usagi looked at the two older senshi and Rei and nodded her head, "I am a bit tired." "Ill walk you to your room." Usagi followed in Haruka's footsteps. ******************* ************* "Wow this place is so big, well, of course it's a palace." Usagi says as she admires the elegant furniture. "It reminds me of the palace of the moon." Haruka looks out the window of the room and stares in the direction of the moon. "Mamorusan must be worried about you, I assumed that he would've come too. He always did come at the perfect times to save you and be by your side." There was a long silence. "Mamochan won't come to save me this time, or ever." Haruka's calm expression that rarely did, turned in to a face of astonishment. "What?" "We both realized that there was no point in staying together if we didn't love each other." Usagi glanced at Haruka's stunned reaction. "What are you talking about? You guys are -- -" "No, Harukasan, we wanted to think we were in love. Through the years I've known him I have begun to look to Mamochan as more of a brotherly figure, I don't know when this had happened or maybe we didn't love each other from the start and was only a illusion that we loved each other." Usagi looked down to her feet, "I don't love him, that's why we broke up, before he went to America to study abroad. I know you might think its selfish, but I cant lie to myself anymore, this is something I had been thinking of since the end of the fight with Galaxia. While I thought Mamoochan was studying abroad in America at that time I kept writing him letters everyday telling him of everything I did, I think you must have noticed things between Seiya and me, and I actually started to have some feelings toward him, I'm not quite sure if it was as a man or what exactly but I felt so guilty, that I tried to make up for these feelings by givning him my constant attention. And when I saw that Galaxia had taken his starseed, it hurt even more because in the bottom of my heart I felt that I had something wrong, for not loving him enough, and that is why I continued to keep up this sharade but I realized that I didn't need to." Haruka's expression had resumed its usual coolness and with the steadiest voice he asked, "and what does Mamorusan think of this?" "Mamochan actually agreed with me. He also had the same feelings as if we had no other choice but to be together, but we realized it didn't have to be that way. We can go our separate ways." Usagi looked up awaiting the angry remarks, but was only met with silence. "Harukasan?" "I think you should get some sleep." And she did nothing but simply left the room and shut the door behind him. ************** *********** (Haruka and Michiru's room) "Haruka, what's wrong?" There was no response. "Haruka?" "Oh, yes Michiru?" "Really? You haven't said anything since you've come back." "No, Im just tired. I just need to get some sleep. Its nothing" "Well, we all had a long day today." "Yeah, yeah we did." ********** ******** to be continued Ive also gotten a question about why I have different versions of the fanfic "Kinmokusei" posted around the net. Well, the thing is the first time I wrote this fic, I didnt edit or anything and just sent it in..^^;; So, well I guess this is the edited version if youre reading this. Other fanfics by me: Yaten No Omoi Seiya and Usagi Together Again |