InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breathless ❯ Busted ( Chapter 41 )

Disclaimer: Neither Inuyasha nor Sailor Moon are mine, nope.

 

 

Chapter Forty.

 

 

`Busted'

 

 

“Because she is not Tsukino Usagi, or Neo Queen Serenity, and hasn't been for a long time…Even though she's taken back that body…that spirit…she is one with her reincarnation, into the next life…”

 

 

The sentences echoed again and again in her subconscious.

 

 

Reincarnation.

 

 

`I am…Tsukino Usagi's… Neo Queen Serenity's reincarnation?'

 

 

`But if that is true… then who am I?'

 

 

`Am I Serenity, or am I someone else?'

 

 

Flashback

 

 

“Cosmos crystal? Lambda power? Who are you?!” the leader of the former Amazon Quartet now turned Sailor Quartet, and protectors of Chibimoon, asked of her, stepping in front of her comrades.

 

 

“Are you the future…?” Sailor Ceres repeated “…the ultimate Sailor Moon?!”

 

 

End flashback.

 

 

Yes… she was Serenity; because once again, she'd been born to that name.

 

 

She was Serenity…but she wasn't Usagi.

 

 

Or better said, not just Usagi, anyway…

 

 

Not just Neo Queen Serenity…

 

 

She was the power of all the Serenity-line… poured into one.

 

 

Undivided, and whole.

 

 

The power that draws everything, the power of Light… the Cosmos Seed…

 

 

…Of Sailor Cosmos.

 

 

I remember now.

 

 

“But if I am Sailor Cosmos… …why am I in this form?” she asked herself aloud, looking down at her open hands.

 

 

Her unclothed body floated in the sea of white that was currently her subconscious, knees pulled up close to her naked chest.

 

 

“…Why have I chosen to revert back to my former lifetime…taken the body of my previous self?”

 

 

`To protect them'

 

 

“Huh?” the mental image of the unconscious girl looked up.

 

 

“…Guardian Cosmos?”

 

 

 

 

`I wonder what she's dreaming about, that is so interesting' Sesshoumaru thought once more as he looked down at the motionless figure, no longer sure whether it was still in anger at her for continuing to keep them all stranded here like this, due to her persistence in staying unconscious; or if it was in genuine curiosity and interest.

 

 

What a strange human girl…

 

 

That is, if you could really call her that, as the wing-like things sprouting from her back begged to differ…

 

 

And if it'd been anybody else but Sesshoumaru… he might have even been a little worried, wondering if it was common for all sailor-suited girls to spontaneously grow a power burst out of the blue like that; in which case Inuyasha's `wench', who wore a similar outfit, could suddenly undergo one too and do even more damage to his broken sword. ―Wait; then again, if you asked the secretly on looking Aku, that might have very well been what Sesshoumaru was thinking at that moment… being one of the few people on the globe who'd worry for the safety of a sword over the very ball of cosmic dust on which he inhabited…

 

 

Anyway; back to Sesshoumaru, he was currently recounting that the girl had certainly also undergone some physical changes…

 

 

To begin with, her entire complexion had become paler to the point of almost translucent skin; she was a few inches taller now, than before the power burst… Her wrists had grown thinner, as well as her legs, waist and arms which were also more narrowed… longer, with more pronounced shoulders and less baby fat; her golden hair now with a bright silver shine to it that almost made it look white under a certain light.

 

 

All in all, she seemed to have grown older and more feminine overnight…

 

 

Indeed, it was strange. To his knowledge, humans didn't suddenly change like that.

 

 

It was almost like looking at a different person…

 

 

The Taiyoukai slightly shook his head to clear it of such trivial musings. Rather irrelevant happenings like these shouldn't be the ones to concentrate his attention at this time.

 

 

Turning back, he started to walk away, ready to leave her in the sole company of her lavender-haired partner, when a slight breeze that swept his hair, and his ears that caught a quiet sibilant whisper, caused his eyes to widen… stopping him in his tracks.

 

 

`Sesshoumaru…'

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile, away from there, Jaken was walking behind Kohaku who was busy looking for preys to hunt.

 

 

“I don't understand why I have to be here, watching this spawn of a demon exterminator, when we could have stayed in the cabin with Lord Sesshoumaru and let Rin go get her own food… It's not like the annoying human child doesn't know how” the toad demon mumbled as he followed after the silent taijiya.

 

 

“Sesshoumaru-sama surely must know what he's doing” Kohaku tried to lighten the mood “He probably wants Rin to be there when Usagi-san wakes up”

 

 

“Blegh, the annoying older human girl…” Jaken said with sentiment “I don't understand why we couldn't have left her right there where she fainted. What does Lord Sesshoumaru care if something happens to an inferior ningen female?”

 

 

“But I know that you care for Rin more than you're ready to admit” Kohaku told him, turning around to glance his way with a small knowing smile.

 

 

The servant youkai's eyes immediately squinted as if insulted. “I'd watch my mouth if I were you, slayer” he told the boy in what was a perfect impersonation of the Inu Taiyoukai; pity that his master wasn't there to see his dedicated work of art.

 

 

Kohaku just nodded and shrugged.

 

 

`He didn't jump and openly deny it, though' he thought to himself with secret mischief, turning back to face the front now, since he had never stopped walking.

 

 

“…What do you think will happen once he gets to ask her the questions that he wanted?” he inquired after a while, curious about what would happen to the blonde young woman.

 

 

“We will be on our way, most surely” the green-skinned retainer replied “I don't think Lord Sesshoumaru has any more patience left for the other lavender-haired malevolence”

 

 

The boy then lowered his head in pity. So they were really going to leave them behind…

 

 

“They didn't seem so bad”

 

 

At this Jaken bristled.

 

 

“Do not tell me that you want those two to come with us, boy!” he exclaimed, detecting the reason for the slayer's newly upset mood “Sesshoumaru-sama would never stand for it! …We're not like Inuyasha's group! We don't know anything about them!!”

 

 

“You didn't know much more about me when you took me in, either” the young taijiya protested.

 

 

“That was different”

 

 

“How…? Because I have a shikon shard… is that it?” Kohaku reasoned.

 

 

“Of course not!!” the servant yelled in apparent outrage “My Lord couldn't care less about that measly jewel!”

 

 

“Then why…Mister Jaken? How else do you explain it?”

 

 

“It was because―” but Jaken could never finish that statement.

 

 

Because that was when they received an unexpected visitor…

 

 

“Well, well, well…see what we've got here” the raven haired detachment said as he got off of his paper plane “…Look who's stepped out of the holy barrier and come to play”

 

 

“…B-Byakuya!” the two non-gladly surprised followers of the Dog Demon seethed.

 

 

 

 

`I could have sworn that she'd spoken' back in the cabin, the Demon Lord mused as he once again found himself looking at the unconscious form with penetrating eyes.

 

 

However, he could clearly see that she hadn't. She had not even moved.

 

 

Talk about strange.

 

 

Sesshoumaru couldn't start to accept that he was hearing voices in his head… but that didn't mean that he would ask the lavender-haired boy either. For some reason, the prospect of asking `Hey, did you hear something?' did not sit well with him.

 

 

Besides, he was sure that he'd heard her calling his name.

 

 

It had not been his imagination…

 

 

`Still completely out of it… and she's able to tell that I am beside her? …Interesting'

 

 

It seemed there was something special, after all, about this girl…

 

 

Sesshoumaru then allowed himself to smile viciously. He couldn't wait to see what other unordinary abilities she possessed; this moon princess as the demon with the mask had called her…

 

 

Whatever it was that he'd meant by that.

 

 

No matter what it took he would get the upper hand, in the match with the masked youkai.

 

 

That was when he felt his servant Jaken's signal.

 

 

To Be Continued.