Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ It's a Mad Univerese ❯ Confrontation and Conforting Get Messy ( Chapter 11 )

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Chapter Eleven: Confrontation and Comforting Get Messy


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Chapter Eleven: Confrontation and Comforting Get Messy

*It was nearly twelve thirty. Two
of three men paced around a living room, ruining the carpet and running a ditch
into the floor beneath it.

"Where is she? She went out three
hours ago. She promised she'd come
back."

"Do you think something's
happened to her? Maybe one of the gangs got her, or a car maybe. Maybe she…"

"She's fine." Said the only
rational voice in the house at the moment. Hiiro was watching Serena's father
and brother pace around the room. He himself was seated on the floor, leaning
against the wall. He had his laptop open and was trying to figure out if
emailing his friends was possible. So far, no luck. He wasn't overly worried about
Serena; he knew she could take care of herself just fine. What he did worry
about was her family worrying about her. 'It's not safe to be that gray at such
a young age.' He thought to himself about Serena's father. The door opened and
his thoughts went to pieces as Serena (in Sai's form) stepped in from the
chilly night air.

"Sorry
I'm late. I just missed the city so much that I guess I just lost track of
time."

"Serena,
it's twelve thirty! What's there to see in the dark in this God forsaken city?"
Cried her father.

"I was in
the park. There was this little bench that I remembered from when I was
younger, and I wanted to see it, but I couldn't wait until tomorrow. Well, when
I got there, I saw the roses…"

"You
stopped for a bench and some roses? Do you have any idea what happens to little
girls in those parks at night? They get raped! They get mugged, some times
beaten or killed! You could have been next on the front of the newspaper!"

"It
wasn't just any bench, and they weren't just some roses! And besides. I can
take care of myself. I'd like to see someone try to mess with Sai." Hiiro could
practically see her light lavender eyes become royal purple.

"Sai? You
think that just because your appearance has changed that they aren't going to
try something?"

"They
won't if they know what's good for them."

"Serena!"
This time both her father and brother screamed at her.

"Serry.
You worried them. And me. You could have called." Hiiro said, finally joining
the conversation. Even he had to admit that with each minute that had gone by,
he had gotten a nagging feeling that she was in trouble.

"Hii-kun,
you too? Selene! I know what I'm doing! Hiiro Yui! You above all people should
know that by now!" Serena had only stopped to look at the moon and send a prayer
to her mother on it for help. When she had woken from her meditative state, she
had realized she was late getting home, so she had come straight home. But now,
everyone was yelling at her for no reason. She couldn't understand why all
three of them had been so worried. Her dad, ok, she could see that. Her
brother, well, that was starting to cross the fine line between believable and
non-believable. As for Hiiro, she couldn't even comprehend that the last
sentence had left his mouth! He of all people should know how much she can and
can't handle.

"Serena
Usagi!" Don't take that tone of voice with me young lady! I'll ground you for a
month!" Her father cried.

"Ground
me? You'll ground me? How? You couldn't stop me from leaving the first time!
Why would now be any different? Ground me! I'm not a little girl anymore, pops!
You can't lock me in my room without dinner. I'm out of here!" With that, she
left the house, neglecting to take her coat and slamming the door behind her.

Hiiro
watched Serena's father sink down to sit on the couch behind him. "What have I
done? My little girl's gone and left me! Oh, God! Please help me! What have I
done?"

"It
wasn't your fault dad." Said Sammy from across the room. He crossed over to sit
beside his father. "She's changed too much. She's not our happy-go-lucky
Hurricane Serena. She doesn't trip down the stairs every morning only to be
late to class and forget her lunch. She doesn't fail her tests and then whine
anymore, and she certainly never complains about being hungry. She's changed.
We thought we could just pick up from where we left off, but we were wrong."

"I know,
but I shouldn't have made such a big deal about her being out so late. It's not
like I'm not used to her sneaking out every night, oh no. She used to do it
every night when she was younger. Some times, she'd leave, then come back,
sleep a few hours, and then leave again. And I knew every time, but couldn't
stop her. Every time I tried to, I saw how worn out she was and didn't bother
asking where she'd been or why."

"I'm going to look for her." With that, Hiiro
grabbed his coat and speed in her direction on his cycle.

"See dad?
Hiiro will find her and everything will be alright."

"I hope
so Sammy, I hope so. I don't want to lose her after only just now finding her
again."

"Me
either."

~~~In a bad neighborhood of Tokyo~~~

Hiiro had
traced Serena's cycle all the way to one of the worst parts of town. There were
few streetlights, and those there were didn't do much to stop the darkness from
extending into the street. He saw fire barrels with homeless people trying to
warm themselves around them. He saw gangs facing off at one another. He saw
thieves dividing their night's haul, and even worse, he saw Serena's motorcycle
parked out of the way in the parking lot of a bar. He capsulized it to keep it
from being ripped off and shoved it into his pocket.

When
Hiiro stepped into the bar, he was appalled. People passed out over the tables
and one man sat in a pool of blood with a knife in the back of his neck. He
spotted Serena at the bar counter, draining a shot glass of whiskey in one
gulp. He made his way over to her and pulled the glass from her hands. When she
resisted, he ended up having to hold her hands together with one of his while
he got the shot glass and bottle of whiskey out of her reach with the other.

"Hiiro.
Just let me have the bottle." He could smell the liquor on her breath.

"No."

"Just let
me have it."

"No." She
pulled her hand from his and pointed it at him, as if to blast him with a ki blast.

"Give it
to me or I shoot you."

"No.
Serry. You're drunk."

"No I'm
not. I'm not even remotely tipsy."

"Let's
go." He paid the cashier and then had to hold her at gunpoint to get her out of
the bar and onto his cycle. As he drove, he thought of something. Turning
towards the Cherry Hill Temple, he found the entrance to the park. He hauled
her off the bike, capsulized it, and pulled her until he reached the edge of
the lake. She was starting to squirm too much and getting the upper hand, so he
casually threw her into the lake.

Serena
felt the cold water wake her from her daze the alcohol had put her in. Now that
she was numb all over, what was the use of alcohol? She just let herself sit in
the shallow water of the lake until a familiar voice came from behind her.

"What the
hell were you thinking? Running away?
Getting drunk? Serry. Listen to me! Look at me!" She felt him turn her to face
him and shake her shoulders hard with his hands. " What the hell were you
thinking? That the drinks would solve the problem? Serena! Look at me!" When he
used her full name, she looked at him with cold dark purple eyes. He noticed
she was shivering and mentally cursed himself for thinking throwing her into
the lake would be a good idea. He picked her up and sat on the ground, her back
up against his chest, his arms wrapped around her so she couldn't escape him.

Suddenly,
Serena felt incredibly warm all over. She felt as if half of the weight lifted
from her shoulders and just dissipated into nothing, like it had never been
there in the first place. She leaned into her best friend's arms and relaxed
enough to begin to sob.

"Hii-chan,
I'm so sorry! I don't know what I was thinking. I was just hoping that maybe
the drinks would get rid of the argument, the problems, the monsters, and just,
oh, everything."

Hiiro
understood. He had tried it too. Of course, it had taken three of the pilots,
Duo, Trowa, and Quatre, to get him out of the bar and cooled down enough to
talk.

"Serry,
it's alright." He held her closer, wanting to help her, wising he could take
her pain and make it his own. What he felt for her now, at this very moment was
not friendship. Somewhere along the way, their innocent friendship had lost its
taste. He wanted more now, and he knew at this moment what it was that he
wanted. He wanted her love…

Serena
stopped crying and looked at her friend behind her. She saw his glazed over
eyes and knew he was thinking of something serious. She reached up, tracing her
fingers down his cheek and then around his chin. She tried to stop her fingers
as they brushed over his lips, but couldn't. She didn't know why, but he had a
strange gleam in his eye as his focus became her again. He grabbed her hand and
brought it up to his lips. Kissing it softly, he looked up. Prussian eyes met
azure ones as they locked in an intense stare. Leaning in closer, both lost
their senses in trying to capture each other's lips wit their own. Just as they
lightly brushed against each other, the Earth trembled and a loud scream was
heard in the distance.

Hiiro
pulled away roughly. He had been so close. So close to both losing the best
friend he had ever had if he had completed the movement inwards, and the little
piece of heaven he would have gained if he had.

Serena
felt him push away from her as the loud noise and sharp moving Earth startled
them back into reality. She felt slightly rejected at first, but soon after
realized that there had been a good reason for the harshness of his manner. She
had been so close to him. She didn't even know what she was thinking. He was
her friend, her best friend for crying out loud! There was no way he could feel
the same way about her… how did she feel about him anyway? Oh, it was all too
confusing to her! She liked him well enough so that she trusted him with her
life, and let him become her best friend. She loved him enough to want him to
kiss her and hold her and say things only lovers told each other…lovers? Her
and Hiiro? Hii-chan? 'When did it become Hii-chan, not Hii-kun? I'm losing it!
I can't possibly love him, he's my best friend!' Another loud boom and scream brought her out of her reverie.

Suddenly,
a body flew through the air and landed roughly against the tree right next to
them. Hiiro and Serena turned to inspect the body. Sailor Venus was the victim.
Three more scouts jumped into the clearing and then the night took on a whole
new meaning.

"Serena?"
whispered Mina. She saw her ex -friend, the one she had pretended to hate for
so long in front of her, watching her as if she were the enemy. "Serena, please
help them fight the youma. We can't do it without your help."

"She's
right koneko-chan. Help us fight Thereon's youma." Pleaded Sailor Uranus.

"Serena?
Help us?" Asked Michairu.

"Come on
Sailor Moon!" Added in Hotaru.

"Why
should I help you after all you've done to me? After you told me you all hated
me, I tried suicide to get away from how guilty I felt! I thought it was all my
fault! And now you say it was all just a mistake? I'm not a chess piece to be
played with and moved around strategically so you can win. I'm not an
expandable commodity for you to use when you need and then throw away once
you're done with me! I have feelings. And a heart. It's just been sewed back
up, tell me, why should I take the chance that it will be shattered again so
soon?" Serena raged.

"Serena,"
said Ami "We know that. It's just that somewhere along the way, we forgot it.
We are sorry, and we've been sorry ever since the day you were reported
missing." By now the other scouts and Darien had joined them, as well as Luna
and Artemis.

"Serena,
I was too hard on you. I'm sorry, I did notice you had gotten better at being
on time and kultzing out, but in the heat of the moment, I lost my cool and
said terrible things that you didn't deserve." Said Luna.

"Meatball
head, give us a second chance, would you already? The monster is going to be
here any minute now." The others glared at Mars, but she shrugged and went on:
" look. I know what we did was wrong. I'm sorry, so let's just forget it
alright?"

"It is
pretty hard to forgive people you die for when they tell you they didn't care
for you anymore."

"Serry…"
She looked at Hiiro. "stop playing with their minds and help them, would you?"

"Why,
what's the rush?"

"Oh, I
don't know. It could have something to do with the three monsters behind you,
but that's just a wild guess." She slowly turned around to face the three Vamps
that Thereon had sent out that day. They were closing in fast.

"Yeah, you know Hii-chan, I think you're right." He
did a double take at what she had just called him. "Back away so you don't get
hurt Hii-chan." Taking the brooch from her belt, where she always kept it now
days, she shouted out her famous henshin words: "Moon Eternal Make-up!"

Hiiro and
the rest of the people around had to shield their eyes from the bright light.
As he opened his eyes, Hiiro caught sight of a dazzling light show, and in the
middle was the beautiful girl who had changed him so much.

"Alright
trash!" She cried out when she was finished. "I am the exiled leader of the
Sailor Soldiers, and it is my pleasure to officially inform you that, your life
expectancy just dropped." With that, the first of the three youma stood to
fight her. Though the Sailors wanted to help, Hiiro had stopped them.

"Let
her." Of course, to follow through with it, he had to keep his gun out and
ready at all times.

Serena
had just finished trashing the first youma when the second tried to take her
from the back. She did a quick spin in mid air and landed behind it, surprising
it with a fast kick, following it with a chop from her sword, and finishing it
off with a ki blast that sent it straight back to hell. Ad the last one
approached her, she took time to sneak a glance back at Hiiro. He gave her a
smile that made her heart fly. She decided that she would not use a ki blast,
but instead one of her newer attacks to show her friends how powerful she
really had gotten. She saw the youma coming at her at breakneck speed and
grabbed her old moon scepter form it's sub space pocket.

"Crisis!
Cross! Resurrection!" The youma was slowed, so she decided to finish the job
fast. "Arch Angel! Kiss! Of Death!" The youma was nothing more than moon dust.
"Well, that was easy enough." She said, smirking a little.

"So
you're back moon angel! I've missed you so!"

"Put a
sock in it Thereon. I'm here to stop you, end of story. Now do you want to do
this now, or later?"

"Oh
angel, I don't want to do it ever. But I suppose I must, if only to humor you.
After all, I did send you to train with those bizarre Z Warriors. And I did
send you to train with those crazy doctors. And I did bring you home. The least
I could do is oblige you in a fight."

"So you
opened those rifts?"

"Of
course? Who else would have that kind of power? I must say, however, you've
changed a great deal. You're so much more grown up angel, so perfect now."

"You're
crazy! What do you want with Earth anyway? It's just another planet."

"A planet
with life, and intelligent at that. I could have so much fun playing with you
Earthlings, oh you have no idea how much fun. My motive is simple: rule the
Earth and play with you humans as pawns in a giant chess game. Now just think
angel, you could be with me, watching and laughing with me. Join me and we'll
rule the world!"

"You're
not exactly original in that thinking."

"Huh?"

"Yeah,
Prince Dimando had the same thought: love Serenity, want the world. I'm going
to tell you right now exactly the same thing I told him: Hell no you bastard! I
don't traded my planet for a crazy son of a bitch like you, much less anyone.
Back off, or you'll fond out how cruel my friends and I really can be."

"And who?
Your friends? Didn't they dump you? And you think that human assassin, the
Perfect Soldier, can really help you in a fight against magic?"

"They
don't have to fight. Just believe I can, which they do, most especially that
human assassin!"

"Sailor
Moon, you're dating an assassin?" broke the tension filled air from where the
Sailor Scouts were standing. Mina was just waking up from her nap against the
tree, and had missed the whole conversation. At that moment, Serena blushed a
crimson red and Hiiro pulled his gun on her.

"Omea wa
koruso!" He shot a bullet right above her head.

"Hii-chan,
let up a bit, would you? She didn't hear the whole conversation!" Hiiro
grumbled, but put his gun back.

"If
you're not dating him then, Sere, is he available?"

"Mina!"

"Silence!
I hate being ignored! This ends now Sailor Moon!"*