Chapter 5

"Excuse me, sir," Danielle said to the landlord, "We are interested in 
renting an apartment."

He looked up at the woman with the mask and the 15 year old in dark 
sunglasses. It seemed to him that they looked kind of suspicious, and 
just watched them for a moment. He thought he saw narrow, sapphire blue 
eyes, like the king's, looking back at him through the sunglasses, but 
dismissed it as his imagination.

"Any idea of what you want?" he asked.

"A two person room on the seventh floor, preferably."

"Let me check my book. Let's see here... There's three two person rooms 
available on the seventh floor. Billy! Come here!"

A worker that looked sort of like a bellhop ran up to them.

"Yes sir?"

"Show these two to rooms 702C, 723A and 727B."

"Yes sir," He turned to Danielle and Motoki, "This way," he said 
politely.

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"727B, basically the same as the others, but no one has been in it for 
many years, so it's a bit dirtier," Billy informed, "Sorry about that." 

"Well what do you think Motoki?" Danielle asked.

Motoki went inside and started to check everything out. Danielle had 
known this was the room she wanted from the beginning, but didn't want 
to be too obvious.

"The main reason no one's been here, is that it's kinda out of the way," 
Billy told Danielle as Motoki was still looking around. "But also I 
suppose people have made up some weird rumors, because," he began to 
whisper, "King Endymion used to live here." 

Danielle smiled, "I know."

"Nobody knows why he'd have a two person room, but it's obviously not 
important enough to ask, and they are just rumors."

She nodded, "Well, maybe he had a roommate."

"That would make sense."

"Mom, this is great!" Motoki interrupted the conversation, "The TV is 
perfect for video games, and there's a great space in the back room for 
a dart board."

"You want that for your bedroom then?" Danielle assumed.

Motoki nodded, and ran back to see what else he could do with the room 
now that they were getting it.

"Well, I guess it's settled then. Room 727B it is." (AN: Did they ever 
mention Mamoru's actual apartment number?)

"I'll inform the landlord, and you can move in at your earliest 
convenience," Billy said, "Rent is collected on the last Friday of the 
month."

"All right," Danielle replied, "Thank you."

She went in and looked around, almost overwhelmed with memories. She sat 
down on the couch, and something caught her eye under the dresser. When 
she went over to pick it up, she saw that it was a picture of Mamoru and 
Usagi sitting on a hill. She smiled.

"I remember taking this. Of course back then she had only been-"

"Hey Mom! Check this out!" Motoki called. 

Danielle put the picture in her pocket, and went into the back room to 
see what her son wanted. When she got there he put his mouth to the edge 
of a nightstand, and blew. A cloud of dust shot up into the air like a 
geyser.

"It's snowing!" he called out. (AN: He takes so much after his mom 
doesn't he?)

"Wow, when they said it was dirty, they weren't kidding!" She chuckled.

Motoki started coughing when the dust spread through the air.

"You okay?" 

* cough * "Yeah," * cough *

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Back at the palace, Pluto had returned from the time warp. Everyone gave 
her curious glances, assuming that there was probably something 
interesting about their newest member, but they knew she never told 
anyone secrets of the past, or what the future held. She simply said, 
"We can trust her. You don't remember yet, but she has a tight 
connection with us."
	
She looked at Endymion shook her head and thought, "Why would she make 
HIM forget?"

They told her about the ball, and even though she liked to keep to 
herself most of the time, she agreed that it was a good idea.