Golden Children (part 3)
By:
Lady of Earth (Aya-chan): lady_of_earth@hotmail.com
Garnet: chibi_chibi_acky@hotmail.com
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Usagi carried her school bag in front of her, while in deep thoughts.
She felt bad for knocking Taiyo out the other day. After all, he was the
other brother she never had. Always teasing, always pesting, but he 
neverthless,
he loves her. She felt pretty angry that she didn't get a chance to talk
longer with him. But what really made her furious at herself, had nothing
to do with Taiyo at all. It was the fact that tears weld up in her eyes when
she had seen Mamoru.

She gritted her teeth slowly, jaw clenched tightly as she
thought of it. Whacking her head clearly has no use. What she really needed 
was
to forget all about him. To...erase him out of her mind. She let out a 
frustrated
sigh. Right. That would be easy. She'd probably erase ALL of her memories in 
the
process.

"Yeah, nice thinking Usagi-baka." She muttered to herself, until someone
slapped her really hard on the back.

"Usa-chan! Just the person I wanted to see!" Exclaimed...Taiyo.

Usagi gulped, the memory of her tossing her book bag at him
paralyzing her in fear. In fact, it was playing over and over again...as if 
endless.
She hated feeling guilty.

"Er, Ohayo Taiyo-chan." She greeted nervously.

"Ohayo Imouto! Nice day isn't it?" He said, cheerfully. She nodded.

"Yup, certainly is. Not a cloud in the sky, birds are singing... no school 
bags
falling out of the sky..." Taiyo stopped as he threw her a stern look.
Usagi could only give him a sheepish smile. Before Taiyo managed to
grab her by the neck, she let out a squeal.

"Gomen ne, Taiyo-chan!"

"All I want to know, imouto, is what did I say or do that was so bad that I 
deserved
to have a school bag flung into my face." Taiyo said, half growling. Usagi 
could only
stare in shock, as she saw the sudden transformation. Her Taiyo-chan was 
looking...well,
furious! That was the first time she saw anything like that. And it amused 
her.
She broke into a grin, which surprised Taiyo. And then she started to laugh.
Then, it was Taiyo's turn to be stunned.

His previous experiences had been that, everytime
he got angry with someone, they would be taken back. Even afraid. But not 
Usa-chan.
She was laughing her head off. Taiyo muttered under his breath as Usagi 
tried to calm
herself down.

"Gomen, Onii-chan! I really am! But you just look..." She burst out
laughing once again.

"You know, Princess, I'm suppose to be angry at you." Taiyo said
with a sigh. Usagi tried to supress a giggle and pulled a straight face.

"I've just never seen you look so...'dangerous' before, Onii-chan." She said 
innocently.
And as if on cue, she burst out laughing again. He let out another sigh and 
a smile.
He ruffled her hair.

"Better get on going, little one." He said tenderly.

"I'm not little anymore, Onii-chan." Usagi said, almost sadly.

"I know. But you always will be my little sister to me." He said, then 
adding,
"No matter what happens."

Usagi's smile froze. Her insides just seem to turn cold.
What did Taiyo mean? This Taiyo was different than the Taiyo the other day. 
Then again,
that's Taiyo for you. One minute he's cracking up jokes, the next...
She forced a smile on her face and punched him playfully on the arm.

"Whatever! But you've got to go before YOU're late for class!" She 
exclaimed.
His eyes widened as he checked her watch. She was right.

"Ack! Baka! Ja ne, Princess!" He shouted out, before
running full speed towards Azabu, leaving a cloud of dust behind. Usagi 
grinned again.

"That's my Taiyo-chan." She said, coughing a little at the dust.

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In the North, trouble was brewing. Dark clouds were forming, as if to tell 
the citizens
of Tokyo to the approaching evil. Except of course, the citizens have no 
idea it was
a warning and thought rain was approaching. Taiyo looked out of his 
apartment.
He knew the signs he saw. His years of fighting these forces has trained his 
senses
for these kinds of warnings. He let out a sigh.

"Looks like no fun for me." He muttered.

Out of the thin air, he pulled out a perfect white rose. He looked at it for 
a while.

"Seems like I need you after all." He whispered and then his eyes looked at 
the skies
again. And unknown to him, about a few block away, down at a house in the 
Juuban district,
Usagi was looking out at the sky as well. She saw the circle around the 
moon, a warning
of the oncoming trouble. But she looked away quickly and let out a sigh. It 
wasn't her
place anymore. It wasn't her duty anymore. It stopped being her duty when 
her friends
stopped trusting her. Friends...She let out a bitter laugh. What a joke it 
all turned out
to be.

All that crap about sticking up for each other...

About trust...

Friends forever...

In one frustrated moment, she knocked over the books on her table.

She tried calming herself down. Or at least, make her breathing less rapid.
She covered her eyes with her hand, in hopes to make it all go away.

But it wouldn't go away.

She let out a long sigh. She still needed time to heal from that.
She had at least thought her friends would stick by her side.

After all, her Prince had left her.

Her eyes turned cold at the thought. She gritted her teeth, cursing herself
for letting him enter her thoughts. But she soon found herself at 
calm...after
knocking a couple more books on the ground and shouting at Shingo that is.


Mina too, had been looking at the sky. She could see the brightness of 
Venus,
miles and miles away. She felt the longing for her old home.

The happiness that surrounded her before.

Her ever caring mother, the former senshi of Venus.

She saw the darkness surrounding Venus, her way of telling trouble's heading 
their way.

She looked at her transformation pen.  She still would fight.
Minako knew she couldn't just stay still, especially when she knew what was 
coming.

But she also knew that she can't fight as Sailor Venus anymore.

Her eyes rested on the crescent moon mirror. Her Sailor V mirror.
Instantly, she smiled as she went and picked it up.
Perhaps it was time to revive good 'ol V-chan after all.
Thinking about Usagi at this, and remembering what she had told her about 
giving the
locket back to Luna, her stomach sank, and she felt an oncoming headache.


And after this... everything she went through...She didn't know what would 
happen.
What if Usagi's was in trouble? What would happen then? She had given up her 
powers as
the senshi of the moon; she couldn't protect herself anymore.

Mina looked at the sky once again, and for once, she wished she had answers.

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Some people might have that Chibi Usa was a rather annoying and snotty 
little girl.
Even if she was all those things, she certainly wasn't stupid.
So you could be sure that she could pick things up rather quickly.

Pick things up quickly she did, but act on it, she did not.

Snuggling into Mamoru's lap as he read her a bedtime story, she observed his 
actions
carefully. He would stutter over simple words, have to go back and read 
lines over and
over again to get them to make sense, and at the end of the story, when the 
princess was
awakened by the prince's kiss, Mamoru looked about ready to break into 
tears.

"Mamo-chan... is something wrong?" She asked as he finally closed the book 
with a far away
look in his eyes.

"Iie, I'm all right... but it's time for you to get into bed, little girl!"  
He swung her up
into his arms, carrying her into his bedroom.

"But MAMO-CHAAAAAAAAN!  I'm not tired, and it's your last night in Tokyo!" 
She yawned as he
tucked her in.

"But I'll see you in the morning, won't I?"  He gave her a charming grin.

"Oh... all right, g'night Mamo-chan."

'Kami-sama, she reminds me so much of Usako...' He thought sadly as he 
prepared himself for
another sleepless night.

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