Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Her Battle ❯ Our New Battleground – Minato-ku Hospital ( Chapter 13 )

Hello again, everyone. I'm back for chapter 13, and like I said at the end of the last chapter this one will have a good amount of fighting. Be warned this one is one hell of a long chapter too, but it's worth it.

LightningStrikes - We should start a support group for people who like to abuse fictional characters in fan fiction -laughs- But seriously, you don't have to worry its coming. If you want the real reason I haven't really abused her, it's because I think she's more of a competent fighter than some of the other senshi.

jamesstutz/The Master - Don't worry, I know you're The Master from MediaMiner. If you're wondering why I haven't addressed you individually, like I have other reviewers, it's because you haven't asked me anything that I needed to address. Please don't think that means I don't appreciate you taking the time to review every one of my chapters at MediaMiner and FanFiction.net. About the end of this story, let me just say there is still a long way to go before that happens. A lot needs to happen before all is said and done here; and when I say a lot, I mean a lot.

fan-rei - I just didn't want Mina completely left out the lovin' ; P I don't really like Yuuichirou, he just annoys me, plus he is only a minor character, but the way he feels about Rei will be addressed. Don't worry about Minako; she's already accepted that Rei loves Usagi, for the most part. That part of the scene was just a spur of the moment thing, and I don't think it will play a huge role the rest of the way, at least I don't think it will. I know I'm not really giving any straight answers, but I can't. I'm going to be steadily adding more Ami/Makoto until I do a chapter almost entirely devoted to them.

Fade9wayz - Thanks for reviewing, I was beginning to think no one at MediaMiner was reading this, except The Master. Minako/Setsuna won't work with what I have planned, sadly, but maybe if I do a sequel ;) I'll try to do a better job of editing, I go over each chapter before uploading them, but I know I still miss some things.

Alright here is chapter 13, read and enjoy…

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Chapter 13 - Our New Battleground - Minato-ku Hospital

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`Maybe I shouldn't have said that. Maybe I shouldn't have done that.' Minako thought as she stepped into the elevator that would lead her back to her friends waiting in the lobby. She pressed a button on the elevator's control panel and the doors slid shut. Minako leaned against the back of the elevator, `But if it can help her, that's really all that matters to me.' She thought and let out a sad sigh. `Am I a bad friend…a bad person…if a small part…just a very small part…of me wishes Usagi rejects her? Is that why I am pushing Rei to tell her?' Minako shook her head `No, I truly believe that if Rei tells her that it would be best for everyone; everything would out in the open then.' The elevator came to stop and soon after the doors slid open and Minako knew the short ride down was over.

Minako saw her friends sitting together, near to where she had left them a short time ago, except one was missing. No one had noticed her yet, so she just continued towards them. Finally after she had gotten within a couple meters of her friends she was spotted by one of them.

"Hey Minako! Did everything go alright? You didn't look this down when you left." Ami said as stood up to greet her friend.

"Everything's fine. I just can't believe my friends don't even notice when the goddess of love enters a room." Minako said as cheerful as she could.

"Sorry about that Minako." Makoto said apologetically. Her thoughts were on a different goddess, a blue haired goddess, and her usually behavior.

"You are back pretty quick. Did you talk with Rei about what ever you wanted to talk to her about?" Usagi curiously. She really had the urge to ask Minako exactly what she talked with Rei about, but if she wanted to do it alone it was probably something private between the two of them. This made Usagi even more curious however.

"Yes." Minako said simply and didn't elaborate. "You might want to head up there Usagi, I already told her you were coming up and you know how she can get." Minako said to change the subject.

"Oh right. Rei can be grumpy, but we love her despite her grumpiness." Usagi said happily.

"Speak for yourself!" Makoto said and Usagi just smiled.

"Tell Haruka I went up to see Rei, when she gets back ok?" Usagi said to the group and headed to the same elevator Minako had just come from.

"Yeah, no problem." Makoto replied.

"Where did Haruka go anyway?" Minako asked the two remaining girls.

"She went up to see Michiru." Ami responded.

"Oh, I guess should have assumed as much." Minako said and walked over to the chair Usagi had just vacated; both Ami and Makoto did the same and returned to the chair they were previously in.

Once they were all comfortably seated Makoto decided now would be a good time to ask her blonde friend what her meeting with Rei was about, "So Minako would like to tell us what you needed to speak with Rei alone about?"

"No, actually. It was just something I needed talk to her about alone. I'm sorry, but I really can't tell you anything about it, what we talked about was something I need to keep to myself." Minako said.

"Ok, if that's the way you feel." Makoto responded. All her friends were acting weird and she couldn't figure out what was wrong. `Ami's being distant, despite her saying that she's not trying to be. Minako is hiding something, I don't know what though. Usagi is acting normal most of the time, but sometimes she doesn't act like her normal self either. Even though they are all my friends, sometimes I just don't understand them.' Makoto thought to herself.

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`Minako…I'm sorry.' Rei thought sadly, `I just sorry, I didn't know.' Rei didn't know what to say so she didn't say anything when Minako kissed her. Sure it could have just been a friendly kiss, but Rei knew her blonde friend better than that. `Minako wouldn't have done that if she didn't mean something else behind it; she not the type of girl that would kiss anyone, even if just a kiss on her forehead. It was too tender…too loving than a friend would kiss a friend.'

Rei sighed and thought bitterly, `Can nothing ever be easy? On one hand I have one blonde friend that knows how I feel and despite that, holds feelings for me. And on the other hand my other blonde friend is oblivious to how I feel for her and I know that will only lead to heartbreak for me. Then why can't I take the easy road with someone I know at least has feelings for me other than friendship?'

`But I thought about that already, didn't I?' Rei told herself. `It wouldn't be right to Minako, she deserves someone who would love her wholeheartedly and she defiantly shouldn't be anyone's second choice. Besides she's not Usagi; I guess that will always be the problem.' Rei thought and shortly after there was another knock on the door. Slowly the door opened revealing her new visitor, `She always has a way of showing up when she's on my mind; not that it's too difficult for her to do. I can think about Minako later though, Usagi's here.'

Rei smiled, "I was beginning to think you weren't going to show up, Odango Atama."

"Really Rei, you have no patience." Usagi responded and shut the door.

"I do have patience, I just have my limits." Rei corrected.

"I never thought I see the day when you admit that you actually have limits." Usagi said teasingly.

"Hey, I never said I don't have limits, but some of those limits are flexible. Like when it comes to tolerating your tardiness." Rei said good-naturedly.

"Yeah, yeah, and you don't have any faults young lady." Usagi said sarcastically

"Usagi, I'm older than you." Rei corrected.

"Only by three months." Usagi said

"Three and a half months." Rei corrected again.

"Fine, you're three and a half months older than me" Usagi conceded. "Can we get off this subject?"

"Fine by me, I'm sure you didn't come in here to talk about our age differences anyway." Rei said and then noticed Usagi was still standing, "Usagi, you can sit down, you know." Rei said and motioned to the chair near her bedside.

"Oh right." Usagi responded as if she had forgotten that she was still standing herself. She made her way over to the chair and sat down slowly. Instead of continuing talking however, Usagi got quiet. Not only was she quiet, but she also started twirling the end of her hair around finger, which is a nervous habit of hers'. Every so often she would look up at Rei like she was going to say something but she would always look down or turn away before saying anything.

Rei was confused to say the least; one minute Usagi is talking normally with her and the next she's acting all shy. `What the heck is she so nervous about?' Rei asked herself. `You better not have said anything to her, Minako. But no, Minako wanted me to tell Usagi and I know Minako wouldn't go behind my back and do something like that.' Rei thought, `But then that only leads me back to my first question, what the heck is she nervous about?'

Rei decided she should say something since Usagi was obviously having trouble, "Is there something you wanted to ask me?" Rei asked curiously. Usagi was still reluctant to speak so Rei spoke again, "Usagi, if you have something you want to say, say it."

Usagi took a deep breathe before finally speaking, "I know I have absolutely no right to ask you this, but umm…how do I say it?"

"Just spit it out!" Rei said. She was getting a little aggravated, but she couldn't help it. Usagi was acting annoyingly shy, which is not how she had become accustom to Usagi acting.

"Umm…are you and Minako…you know…involved?"

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"This is the place." Kenjiro said as he and about ten youma stopped, `It's too bad its dark out already, this place would be busier when there is daylight.'

Kenjiro looked around that the youma that had come along with him, "You three" he pointed to three youma furthest away from him, "I want the three of you to go around to the back of this large building and find two large grey metal boxes that say `danger high voltage' and destroy them. Then return to the front of this building and we'll start our assault. Kill anyone that might get in your way."

The three youma nodded and ran toward where they were told to go.

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`How could Usagi ask her something like that? More importantly, why the hell does she care?' Rei thought and when she tried to speak she almost couldn't form the words she was looking for, "What!? Where the hell did you get that idea from?!"

"I just thought…I mean I just thought that…I've seen how she looks at you sometimes and then yesterday she was at the shrine even when you weren't there, and then there was today; how she wanted see you alone. I just thought…well you know…" Usagi said awkwardly.

"Usagi, don't you think if we were involved I would have told you." Rei said honestly.

"I don't know. I mean sometimes I can read you like a book, but then other times…other times you're just a real mystery. I would hope if you did find someone that you would tell me about him or her." Usagi said openly.

"Usagi, I don't want to keep anything from you, but there just some things I just can't tell you about." Rei said. `Kami-sama, what the hell am I doing. I can't talk with Usagi about this subject. If I let something slip…'

"What can't you tell me?" Usagi asked curiously.

"Please Usagi, just leave it at that." Rei implored.

"What can't you tell me?" Usagi repeated. Rei had peaked Usagi's interest and there was no way she was going to leave it at that. If there is something Rei is refusing to tell her it had to be important.

"You don't understand. If you did you would never have asked me about Minako." Rei said sadly.

"What don't I understand? Please tell me so I can understand." Usagi begged.

"Usagi-baka, I can never love Minako because…" Rei started but she couldn't get the words out that would finish her statement.

"Because…" Usagi encouraged Rei to continue.

"Because…because" Rei opened mouth to finish her statement she sensed something that stopped her. Her entire expression changed; there was something evil close by, very close by.

Usagi noticed Rei's expression change immediately, from the face of a friend that was going to say something very important to the face of battle ready warrior. "What is it Rei? What's wrong?" Usagi asked concernedly.

"An evil presence…something's coming." Rei said and sat up sharply. Just as soon the words left her mouth the lights went out.

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The three girls hadn't said anything since Makoto had asked Minako what was going on. It wasn't a comfortable silence, but rather more of an awkward silence. All three girls each had something on their minds, so none of them were really in a talkative mood.

`Those two are more foolish than Rei; at least she has a real reason to be afraid to tell Usagi.' Minako thought as she looked at her two friends. `I don't think I can deal with their love problems until I've dealt with Rei. Maybe I should just give them some time alone; I want to be alone with my thoughts anyway.' Minako thought and stood up, "If you guys don't mind, I think I'm going to go for a little walk." The other nodded their heads in acknowledgement of their friend; so she headed toward the hospital exit for some fresh air.

`Should I talk to Ami? I want to know why she is being distant; it hurts every time she avoids me. More than she knows..' Makoto thought and then took a deep breathe to muster up the courage. It was almost laughable, she was never one to be short on courage and yet here she was. Kino Makoto, the coward…those words in the same sentence didn't really seem to fit. Makoto glanced over to her blue haired friend, `She seems like she's in her own world, just staring off into space. Maybe I'm just reading too much in this, Ami told me herself that she just has had a lot on her mind. But I just want…no, need to know it's nothing more than that.' Makoto thought and took another deep breathe.

"Ami?" Makoto said, startling her friend somewhat.

"Yes Makoto?" Ami said after recover from the break in the silence.

"Do you remember the other night after we left the shrine?" Makoto asked.

"Yeah, what about it?" Ami replied.

"You told me then that you'd been acting distant because you had a lot on your mind, but then why have you been acting normally with everyone else. I thought we were supposed to friends." Makoto said the hurt evident in her voice.

Ami was more than a little taken aback by Makoto's words, "I…I'm sorry." `Everything I've been doing was just self-preservation, on my part. I didn't even stop to think about how Makoto would interpret my behavior.'

"You're sorry? Can't you at least tell me why you're acting like this?" Makoto asked sadly. Ami opened her mouth to respond when the lights went out.

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"And you say Pluto is where exactly?" Michiru asked.

"I'm not sure, she wouldn't tell me." Haruka said.

"And she hasn't returned either?" Michiru asked worriedly.

"No, but I'm sure wherever she is and whatever she's doing is important; she wouldn't have left otherwise." Haruka said.

"I'm sure you're right." Michiru said confidently.

"Aren't I always." Haruka said smugly.

"Not always." Michiru teased when suddenly the lights went out. "Do you feel that?" Michiru asked seriously.

"Youma. Those damn bastards are going to attack the hospital." Haruka said and pulled up her henshin stick.

Michiru looked at her sadly, "I wish I could go and fight with you."

"In due time love, in due time; don't worry I'll make sure to really kick their asses for interrupting our time alone." Haruka said as she got up and walked over to Michiru and put her hand behind her head and pulled her up a little and kissed softly. "I need to go."

"I know." Michiru said simply.

"URANUS PLANET POWER, MAKE-UP!"

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`I can't believe how foolish all of us are.' Minako thought to herself as she stepped outside. `You would think that after already living one life and being in the middle of a second one we would have learned something by now.' Minako looked up at her planet in the night sky, `It's just a distant star from here.' All the planets are visible, if you know where to look for them, but of course the easiest thing to spot in the night sky is the moon. The moon was only half visible this night, but it would soon be full and it would light up the night with its glow.

Minako lowered her head from sky and looked forward when something caught her eye, or rather someone, `That's an awfully large group of people to be gathered together outside of a hospital.' Minako thought, `But who am I to judge what people do with their free time.' Suddenly Minako could hear screaming from the hospital, behind her. She turned around and saw that the hospital was dark, and then she turned back to the group across the street to examine them better. One of the members of the group stepped into the light of a streetlight a little and Minako was able to see a…tail?

Minako moved behind a large bush and pulled out her communicator, "Guys we've got problems! The hospital entrance immediately!" Minako said and put away the communicator to get out another familiar device, her henshin stick.

"VENUS CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE-UP!"

`That light…' Kenjiro thought and focused his attention at source of the light. After a few moments the blonde girl dressed in an orange colored sailor fuku stepped out from behind a large bush; where the light had come from. `Sailor Venus? What is she doing here? Of course, she must be the one assigned to protect her comrade.' Kenjiro thought, then turned around to the youma that had come with him, "Take care of her, I have someone else to see that's waiting for me." Kenjiro said and ran off in a different direction then hospital entrance, where the other youma remained.

"Hey, where do you think you're going?!" Venus yelled and rosé her hand to fire an attack, but the youma had blended in with the darkness too much for her to risk blindly firing off an attack that could miss its target. `Chikusho!'

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"What just happened?!" Usagi asked when the lights went out.

"They must have cut the electricity." Rei thought aloud. Both Usagi and Rei's communicators activated and Minako's voice could be heard calling for assistance at the hospital entrance.

Rei quickly sensed Usagi's mood change, "Don't worry, I'm sure the back-up generators will start up soon." She neglected to say however that the generators would only give electricity to essential machines, which would mean the lights would likely remain off. "Come on, let's get to work." Rei said and started easing herself out of the bed.

"Wait, what do you think you're doing?" Usagi said as she stood up to stop Rei from getting up.

"What do you think I'm doing? I'm going to fight!" Rei said determinedly.

"You can't do that! You're not healed yet!" Usagi said.

"Usagi, because I'm here…because of my presence, the lives of everyone at this hospital are being threatened. I can't just sit back and do nothing!" Rei said.

"I don't expect you to, but I won't let you leave this room. And I'm staying here to make sure you don't." Usagi said resolutely.

"MOON CRISIS, MAKE-UP!"

Rei shielded her eyes as the room became filled with bright light. Once the light had subsided Rei looked towards Usagi, but there stood Sailor Moon. "Usagi, you should go to the others. They need you more than I do." Rei said. Sure it was a lie, but Usagi would be safer with more people around her. Though Rei had no intention of letting anything happen to her either, she also didn't know what might be coming her way.

"Rei, I'm not going anywhere. Besides, I have faith that they will handle themselves well enough." Moon said.

"And you don't have that kind of faith in me?" Rei said a little hurt by what Usagi might have meant.

"I didn't mean it like that, Rei." Sailor Moon denied.

"Really? How exactly did you mean it then?" Rei asked angrily and slowly pulled out her IV drop from her hand and slid off of the bed.

"Rei, you know have complete faith in you, but you're hurt and the others aren't. You can't expect me to leave you alone to face whatever might be coming after you." Sailor Moon said.

"MARS CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE-UP!"

"I expect you to trust my judgment." Sailor Mars said defiantly.

Sailor Moon looked at Mars and shook her head; she opened her mouth to speak when the lone window in the room blew out. Mars quickly grabbed her princess by her shoulders and moved her against the near by wall and positioned herself in front of Moon, shielding her from any flying glass. A number of glass shards hit Mars and she winced each time a piece of glass tore her flesh and fuku. Once the glass shower ended, Moon looked at Mars' face; her eyes were closed and she appeared to be in pain.

"Rei, are you alright?" Sailor Moon asked concernedly as she brought her hand toward Mars' face. Mars' eyes started to open and Moon quickly retracted her hand.

"Better than who ever did that is going to be." Mars said in a deadly voice and pulled out a good size piece of glass from her left shoulder and threw the shard to the ground.

"I'm glad to hear you still have the will to fight, despite your injuries." A figure dressed entirely in black said as he approached the two Sailor Senshi. Both Mars and Moon turned to see just who had entered the room. He wore a black cape that wrapped around his body and that also had a black hood to cover his head and obscure his face.

"And who exactly are you?" Mars questioned the him.

"Me? I am Kenjiro. It's good to finally exchange words with you, after watching you for so long." Kenjiro said.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Mars asked angrily.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Kenjiro said cryptically.

"Are you the one that did that to the window?" Sailor Moon asked as she pointed at the blown out window.

"What if I am?" Kenjiro said casually.

Sailor Moon looked over to Mars and saw the many cuts the flying glass had caused, most were just superficial wounds, but some were deeper like the cut on her shoulder where the glass was imbedded a short time ago. "I don't know where you get off attacking a defenseless girl in a hospital…" Moon started.

"I'm not defenseless!" Mars denied.

Sailor Moon rolled her eyes, "Fine. How dare you attack a nearly defenseless girl in a hospital? For love and justice, I'm the pretty solider Sailor Moon. In the name of the moon, I'll punish you!"

"Was there a point to that little speech? Oh, wait I know. You were trying to bore me to death." Kenjiro said, clearly unimpressed by Sailor Moon's speech.

"Hey!" Moon said indigently.

"Oh, I didn't mean upset you. You've actually made me quite happy, because now I can take the heads of two Sailor Senshi when I was only expecting one." Kenjiro said with a sinister smile.

"I think you'll find that the two of us are more than you've bargained for!" Mars said confidently.

"I'll give you credit for being able to kill that bastard sorcerer and Goro, but don't mistake me for either them; neither of them are in my league. But enough talk, I've been eager to test the skills of you two." Kenjiro said and entered his fighting stance, as did Moon and Mars.

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Ami and Makoto's communicators activated and Minako voice could be heard from the devices. Ami and Makoto looked from the communicators to each other, "We can talk about this later; right now Minako needs our help." Makoto said and Ami nodded her head in agreement. "We need to find somewhere private to henshin first."

"How about the restroom; over there?" Ami said pointing to her left. Makoto nodded and the two girls ran in the direction of the restroom.

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"Damn, you youma are annoying!" Venus yelled.

"Crescent Beam!"

Venus called forth her attack and the golden energy beam sailed toward its target with deadly accuracy, piercing the youma in its chest. `That makes two down, just about eleven more to go.' Venus thought with a sigh. `If I had an attack that could wipe out more than one youma at a time, this would be a lot easier.' Venus thought and then saw that three youma had gotten past her and were getting closer to the hospital.

"Venus Love-Me Chain!"

A golden chain wrapped around the youma and Venus pulled on the chain, causing the three youma to fall back. Venus kept pulling on the chain in order get the youma further away from the hospital. "You guys really need to lose some weight!" Venus said as she dragged them a little more, before being struck in her back. She fell to her knees and she lost control of her `love-me chain', so it broke. `Damn, there are just too many for me to fight alone.'

"Jupiter Oak Evolution!"

"Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!"

The green and blue attacks flew over Venus' head and hit the two youma that were closest to her, dusting the two youma almost instantly. "Sorry about taking so long, Venus." Jupiter said as she reach her friend and offered her a hand.

"It's ok. These youma don't seem to be particularly strong, I just had the numbers against me." Venus said and took Jupiter's offered hand and pulled herself off the ground.

"You're not alone now." Mercury said with a smile.

"What do you say we take care of these youma?" Jupiter said and clenched her fists, causing lightning to arch around her hands. Venus and Mercury nodded in agreement and they spread out with Jupiter on the far left, Mercury in the middle, and Venus on the far right. "Give us some cover, Mercury!" Jupiter called.

"Shabon Spray!"

The area where they all were was quickly covered in a cold fog. Despite being outnumbered the fog would be able to even the odds somewhat.

"Jupiter Oak Evolution!"

"Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!"

"Venus Love and Beauty Shock!"

The three attacks flew at three separate youma, each hitting its target. All of them moved from their previous positions, so the youma couldn't detect their locations by where their attacks came from. Jupiter spotted two confused looking youma together, one was green and one was brown, and decided to attack them before they realized she was so close to them. She ran at the brown one and quickly punched him in the stomach. The fell to the ground clutching his stomach, so Jupiter turned her attention to the other youma.

"Sparkling Wide Pressure!"

Jupiter called forth her attack and pressed her hands against the youma's stomach and before the youma had a chance to react the concentrated electricity blow right through its stomach. She turned around to deal the finishing blow to the youma she had left on ground, but when she turned around it wasn't there anymore. `Now where did he go off to?' Jupiter asked herself. Suddenly scaly brown foot kicked her on the side of her head, the force and unexpectedness of the attack sent her into the ground.

Jupiter got on her knees and pulled herself into as standing position, "You did that to the wrong person, you filthy youma." Jupiter said and flicked away a little bit of blood from the corner of her mouth with her thumb; the youma only smiled evilly at her.

"Jupiter Oak Evolution!"

Jupiter fired the electrified leaves at the youma, but he seemed to expect it and rolled to the left to avoid being hit, some still hit him however. Both Jupiter and the youma charged each other. Jupiter made the first attempt at an attack, she threw a punch at the youma's ribs, but he batted her hand away with his arm. The youma threw a punch at Jupiter's head, but she was able to duck before she could be struck. Jupiter followed up her defensive maneuver with a chop to the youma's throat that knocked him off balance. She didn't let up though; she kicked him in his knee and making in contort into an awkward angle Jupiter then stepped back a little from him.

"Jupiter Oak Evolution!"

The electrified leaves hit the youma dead on this time and he fell to the ground motionless before turning into dust. Jupiter looked around and saw that the fog had dispersed and that all the youma had been eliminated. After a little more scanning of the battle ground Jupiter spotted Mercury and Venus standing together a short distance away.

"Mercury! Venus!" Jupiter called and started running to her friends. For some reason Mercury and Venus started point at her, then she realized they weren't point at her they were pointing behind her. Jupiter tried to turn around, but she felt something cut her back, "AAAHHH!" Jupiter fell to the ground and the youma behind her raised its claws again.

"Dead Scream!"

Suddenly a purple energy ball flew that the youma that was standing over Jupiter and in the blink of an eye the youma was nothing more but dust in the wind.

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"Take this!" Kenjiro yelled and reached behind into his cape and threw two throwing knifes in the direction of the two senshi.

"Fire Soul!"

The fire ball left Mars' fingers and intercepted the knifes in mid-air, melting the blades before they could reach their destination. As Mars used her attack on the projectiles, Sailor Moon dodged to the right and summoned her own attack.

"Moon Tiara Action!"

Hoping to catch him off guard, Moon threw the golden disc at the youma. For a moment it seemed too worked but he rolled to the right and disc only caught the end of his cape, tearing off a large piece of cloth. `He's fast.' Moon thought as the tiara returned to her head and she placed it back on her head.

Kenjiro looked do at his torn cape and looked at Sailor Moon, "Not bad, but not good enough!"

Kenjiro sprinted at Moon and her eyes widened as he descended upon her at a break-neck speed. Sailor Moon reached for her tiara again, but before she could do anything an arrow of fire flew between her and the youma; halting him in his tracks.

"Don't take another step towards her!" Mars ordered; she already had another fire arrow ready. "If take another step, I'll kill you!" Mars threatened.

"Will you now?" Kenjiro questioned.

"I will." Mars said in a deadly voice, her eyes never looking away from him.

Kenjiro studied Mars a little longer before backing away from Sailor Moon a little, "I should have expected as much from you. You've always protected her more furiously than any other of the senshi, haven't you?"

"Why don't you keep your mouth shut?" Mars said angrily.

Mars fired off her attack and charged the youma. The youma quickly ducked the fire arrow, displaying great agility, and got to his feet before Mars reached him. Mars threw a punch at his face, but Kenjiro was able to lean his head away from Mars' fist so the punch would miss. Mars followed her first attempted punch with another, this time she targeted the youma's mid-section. Kenjiro was able to block the second punch with is forearm. Despite not connecting with either strike Mars continued her assault on the youma.

Moon just looked on as Mars attacked the youma. She wanted to do something, but she could risk hitting Mars with one of her attacks. Using her most powerful attack was out of the question, it would cause too much damage to the room, not to mention Mars would be caught up in the attack if tried to use it now. There was only one thing Sailor Moon could think to do and that was to help Mars physically attack the youma. Moon ran to where the two were exchanging blows, while she wasn't the best in hand to hand combat she could hold her own and she'd be damned she'd let Rei fight that youma alone.

Kenjiro realized Mars was favoring her left side, `She must not have healed completely.' He thought as he side stepped another punch. Mars threw yet another punch at the youma; however he had anticipated this one and caught her fist rather than dodging it.

"You are way to predictable, you haven't healed enough to fight me seriously. So why don't I just end this now?" Kenjiro said and pulled out another dagger from inside his cape. Kenjiro held the dagger close to Mars' left side and Mars' eyes widened as he brought the blade back and prepared to thrust it into her still healing side. Before he had the chance to do anything a pink boot kicked him in the stomach, causing him drop the blade. Kenjiro let go of Mars' hand and stumbled backwards, trying to catch his breath again.

"Are you ok?" Sailor Moon asked.

Mars nodded her head, "That was one hell of a kick; you really seemed to have knocked the wind out of him."

"Hehe, yeah. I told you that I wasn't going to let you fight alone." Moon said and smiled in such a way that Mars couldn't help smile back.

"How dare you! You little bitch!" Kenjiro said furiously. He was back on his feet again, obviously having recovered from the unexpected blow to his stomach. "You'll pay for that!"

"Catastrophe Cannon!"

"Sailor Moon!" Mars yelled and pushed the blonde to the floor, away from the youma's attack. Mars however that left her in the line of fire of the attack and energy ball struck her, propelling her back into the wall. She hit the wall hard and it knocked the wind out of her. She slid down the wall and dropped to her knees after hitting the wall and fell on to her stomach.

"Mars!" Sailor Moon called as she got up and ran to the motionless girl. Moon kneeled down next to Mars and turned her on to her back. She started shaking her, "Mars! Wake up! Mars!"

Sailor Moon put her head down to her chest, `Her heart's still beating strong. She's only unconscious then, thank God.' Moon thought and let out small sigh of relief. Moon looked up from Mars at the youma that was the cause of her senshi's unconscious state. "I'll make you pay for doing that!"

"Moon Gorg…" Moon started.

"I would think twice about using that technique. Think of the damage you could do to this place." Kenjiro said cockily. After a short pause he continued, "Fortunately, I don't have such reservations!"

"Catastrophe Can…!"

Before Kenjiro could finish his attack call the door to the room burst open.

"Space Sword Blaster!"

Multiple energy blades flew from Uranus' talisman and struck the unsuspecting youma. The youma fell to the floor having suffered numerous cuts and weakening him greatly. Sailor Uranus ran into the room and stood protectively in front of Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars.

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Ryuji stood perched on a near by tree that gave him a good view of the hospital room and the hospital entrance, where the rest of senshi had been fighting. He had done as he was told; he had not interfered in any way, yet. He watched both of the fights with interest. Of course he didn't voice his opinion, but he eager to fight as well.

`Ryuji.' A voice said mentally.

`Yes?' Ryuji responded.

`Kenjiro's time is up. Go and retrieve him.' The voice said.

Ryuji looked up at the sky, `It doesn't appear to have been thirty minutes yet.' He thought.

`Stop stalling and retrieve him, Ryuji.' The voice said.

`As you wish.' Ryuji replied and crouched down to jump through the hole in the wall where a window once was.

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"Are you alright, Princess?" Uranus asked.

"I'm fine, but Rei's out cold. It's not safe for her to be here anymore." Moon responded and Uranus nodded her head, acknowledging the girl's statement without turning around.

"Let me just finish that guy off." Uranus and approached the youma on the ground, when someone jump through the hole in the wall.

"I can't let you do that Uranus!" he announced and picked Kenjiro up off the floor and tossed him over his shoulder.

"And just who the hell are you?" Uranus questioned.

"I don't have the time to answer such a trivial question. Perhaps another time, Sailor Senshi." Ryuji said and turned toward the hole he had just come from.

"Just where do you think you're going?!" Uranus asked angrily.

"Sorry Senshi, while I do wish I could stay and play with all of you that will have to wait for another time." Ryuji said and continued to leave

"Don't think we're going to let you get away!" Uranus growled.

Sailor Moon looked up from Mars and saw that Uranus was powering up her attack. "No, not inside! Uranus!" Moon cried, but Uranus didn't hear her.

"World Shaking!"

Sailor Moon covered Mars with her body as soon as Uranus' attack left her hands, to try and offer the motionless senshi some protection. The yellow energy ball sailed toward the youma. Once the energy ball was close enough he materialized a halberd in his hands and lifted it into the air and sliced the ball of energy in half. The spilt energy collided with the wall behind the youma, shaking the building and blowing out a large portion of the wall.

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BOOM

"What was that?" Venus asked and turned back to the hospital to see a section of the wall be blown apart. It took Venus a few more minutes to realize just where the explosion came from; once she did her eyes widened and fear filled her heart, "Oh my God! That's Rei's room!"

"What?!" Pluto asked quickly. She looked around, Mercury was kneeling next to Jupiter on the ground, and it was then that she realized there were members missing from their group, `don't tell the she's up their too?' Pluto thought but she already knew the answer, "Princess!"

End Ch. 13

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Well I hope everyone enjoyed the longest chapter so far and I hope that the wait was worth it. I have two chapters later that might even be longer than this one. I had intended for there to be more fighting in this one than there turned out to be, but I think it turned out alright. I'm sorry if anyone thinks I coped out a little by not describing all the fights, but I couldn't think of what to do in some of them. I'm also sorry if I made many grammar mistakes, I did my best to revise it, but this one was so long I'm sure I still missed things here and there. If you were able to take the time to read this chapter I hope you can also take the time to review this long chapter :) Since it's 3:30 am and I can't think of anymore to say I'll just say, until next chapter, Ja minna!