Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Runaways ❯ Chapter 7
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: Saiyagurl87 
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Suspense | Type: Songfic | Uploaded On: 05.30.2009 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 177 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Suspense | Type: Songfic | Uploaded On: 05.30.2009 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 177 | Status: Completed
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Elaine stifled a yawn, running a hand lazily through her tussled lavender locks. Rising from the bed, she soon frowned, feeling an unexpected weight upon her back. Confused, she slightly craned her head and spotted a pair of legs; the rest of the body draped over her form. Now startled, she rose a little higher from the bed to turn her head a little more, now able to see that the body belonged to Serena.
Shifting her eyes back to the bed, she noticed that Amara as well was lying in it, sprawled out on her back, feet towards the pillows and her head towards the opposite end of the bed. She had one arm draped over Serena’s feet as her other arm was lying across Ken’s legs. On closure inspection, she realized that Ken had his arms wrapped around one of Amara’s legs, his head resting upon her foot; blanket and sheets littering the floor.
Holding back a giggle, Elaine expertly slipped out from underneath Serena’s sleeping form without disturbing the child and made a quick retreat to her dresser. There, she picked up and turned on her digital camera and pointed it towards the sleeping trio. Zooming in on the scene, she grinned and clicked the shutter button, allowing the rather large room to be illuminated with a bright white light. She took a moment to admire the picture with a warm smile before turning off the camera and setting it down on the dresser once again.
“I think I’m in the mood for some pancakes.” she murmured softly, exiting the bedroom, humming a soft tune as she left.
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The sweet aroma of Elaine’s cooking slowly filled the kitchen and soon the entire house, awakening a very hungry 7 year old. Serena bolted upright in the bed, eyes still closed and silently sniffed the air. Her eyes suddenly snapped open, a large grin beaming upon her face.
“Pancakes!” she exclaimed, clumsily climbing to the edge of the bed. The movements caused Amara to stir awake, green eyes fixed on Serena as the blonde tumbled off the bed. A rather loud thud was heard when the small blonde collided to the hard wooden floor below her.
“OW!”
“HAHA!” Serena’s head popped up from the side of the bed, heated eyes glaring upon her laughing sister.
“Not funny!”
Amara grinned rakishly. “Looked pretty funny to me!”
Serena pouted, standing from the floor, rubbing her sore shoulder. “You’re so mean!”
Amara rolled her eyes and began to make an advancement towards the edge of the bed, only to find that she couldn’t. Frowning, she turned her head in confusion, spotting Ken, holding onto her leg. A little freaked, Amara began to pull on her leg, causing Ken to tighten his firm grip. Serena frowned herself as she saw panic embedded in her sister’s eyes and quickly climbed herself on top of the massive bed. She crawled her way over to Ken and took a hold of one of his arms and began to tug up on it.
“Geeze…he’s strong.” muttered the young blonde, turning to Amara, the girl’s eyes welling with tears.
“Amara…calm down. He just holding your leg; he’s a sleep.”
“I don’t care! I want him off!.” she snapped, a lone tear trailing down her flushed cheek. Serena swallowed deeply, empathizing with her sister. She quickly turned to Ken and placed her small hands upon his shoulder and gave him a few rough shakes. Ken blearily opened his eyes startled and as soon as his grip loosened upon Amara’s leg, the blonde snatched the appendage away and scurried her way off of the bed.
Ken rolled over to his night stand, taking a hold of his glasses and placed them on. He arched a brow when his gazed landed on a grinning Serena. He then averted his eyes towards Amara who stood at the edge of the bed., glaring daggers at him. Confused, he shifted his eyes upon Serena once more.
“Is something wrong?”
“Nope!” chirped the blonde, causing Ken to narrow his eyes slightly. Shaking off the feeling that something was wrong, he slowly made his way of the bed and ran his fingers through his messy brown locks.
“Smells like breakfast is ready.” he replied, flashing the girls a smile. As if on cue, Serena’s belly rumbled loudly and the girl clutched at her stomach with a look of distress.
“I’m so hungry!” she cried, hurriedly climbing off of the bed. As soon as her feet touched the floor, she darted for the door and out of the room. Amara frowned deeply as she watched her sister go and found herself leaving the room as well, Ken silently following behind her; a good bit of distance between the two.
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Elaine jumped startled as she spotted the girls and Ken sitting at the kitchen table, waiting for their breakfast patiently…well at least Amara was. Arching a brow, Elaine looked upon the three questioningly.
“When did you get in here?”
“We’ve been sitting here for like 5 minutes and yes we saw you dancing and heard you singing.” replied Ken with a smirk.
Elaine blushed, hearing Amara and Serena giggling and quickly turned to retrieve the finished pancakes from out of the skillet. She placed the fresh golden pancakes on a large plate with the others, placing the skillet into the sink. Taking a hold of the large plate, she made her way to the table, dishing out the food; she and Amara receiving two pancakes, Ken three, and Serena four. After retrieving the butter and syrup, Elaine was able to take a seat and indulge into her breakfast with her family.
She paused in mid bite as she looked upon Ken and the two girls hungrily tearing into their food. She smiled…yep…this was her new family and she liked the ring of that. Grinning to herself, she continued eating.
Serena picked up the last piece of her pancake and skillfully swirled it in syrup. Rising the fork to eye level, she silently watched as the syrup dripped off the golden treat. She closed her eyes and suddenly engulfed the pancake, pulling the fork from her lips and slowly began to chew with a small sigh. Swallowing deeply, she leaned back in her seat, laying her fork down in her empty plate and rubbed her belly happily. She slowly crept her eyes open to see Elaine, Ken and Amara staring upon her.
“What?”
“Was that necessary?”
Serena shifted her eyes to her sister. “What are you talking about?”
Amara shook her head. “That whole little scene you just had.”
Serena arched a brow. “The last bite is the best part!”
“You’ve got issues.”
Ken chuckled as Elaine choked on her coffee in her attempt to hold back a giggle. She quickly stood from her seat to redeem herself and began to gather the empty dishes. Placing them in the sink she turned to the girls.
“You two go ahead and get washed up and dressed.”
“Where are we going?” asked Serena, grinning with excitement.
“You wanted to go to the Go-Kart track didn’t you?” replied Ken.
Amara snapped her head towards the man, her own eyes lighting up with concealed excitement. “I get to drive again?”
“If you want too.” Amara grinned and without another word, darted out of the room; Serena fast on her heels. Ken chuckled, standing from his seat in the kitchen and turning towards his wife who was washing the dishes.
“I think I’ve found something they really like.”
Elaine smiled, turning to her husband. “Making progress I see.”
Ken grinned, making his way towards the love of his life and wrapped his arms around her. “Want me to help you with the dishes?”
Elaine shook her head. “I’m almost done, you go and get dressed.” Ken nodded, placing a soft kiss upon her cheek and left to perform his given task.
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Amara struck a few poses in front of bathroom mirror, before grinning upon her reflection. “Oh, I look so good!.” She winked, before jumping off the sink counter top and grabbed her black button down shirt, placing it on over her white undershirt. She buttoned up the shirt, leaving the top two unclasped. She then bent down, rolling the cuffs of her dark baggy blue jeans over her black and white high-top converse sneakers. Standing upright once more, she straightened her shirt and with a nod of satisfaction she began to leave the bathroom.
She made her way to her sister’s room that was combined with hers through the bathroom. Upon entry, the tomboy spotted her sister sitting in front of her vanity mirror, combing her long blonde hair. The young blonde was adorned in a sky blue tank top with a picture of Gir in his green dog outfit, tongue sticking out the corner of his mouth and a cupcake clasped in his hand, nestled on the center of her shirt. She as well wore a pair of light blue jean shorts and white tennis shoes.
Amara turned away from her, walking towards her sister’s bed and plopped down upon it. Lying on her stomach, she propped her chin up on palms of her hands; feet kicking lazily behind her.
“What’s taking you so long?”
Without pausing in her task at hand, Serena responded. “You know it takes a long time to do my hair.”
Amara pouted. “Why don’t you just cut it.”
Serena snapped her head towards the older blonde so fast, she nearly gave herself whiplash. “I would never!”
Amara rolled her eyes. “Its just hair.”
Serena turned from her sister, hand clutching upon her long tresses. “It’s not just hair…it make me think of Mom.” Straightening her posture, she began combing her hair again, smirking upon her sister through the mirror. “and…instead of you complaining, you should be over here helping.”
The tomboy looked exasperated for a moment, before she stuck out her tongue as her sister’s back and steadily climbed off of the bed. She made her way over to Serena and waited patiently as the blonde parted her hair.
“You haven’t worn your Odangos in a while.” replied Amara, as she took a hold of the thick golden locks and expertly twisted it up into the well known hair style her mother always wore.
“I didn’t have any pins.”
“Oh.” Amara took a step back after placing the last pin within the hair and watched as Serena looked into the mirror to make sure her Odangos were even and straight . With a grin, she gave two thumbs up, causing Amara to giggle.
“Perfect!”
Amara grinned. “Good! Now lets go. I want to drive again.”
Serena cocked her head to the side, looking rather peculiar. “You really like that don’t you?”
“Of course! Who wouldn’t, now come on!” before the blonde could respond, Amara had already bolted for the door and was heading for the stairs. With a pout, Serena chased after her sister not wanting to be left behind.
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A.J. pulled up into the drive way of his home with a grin plastered upon his face. He quickly exited his police vehicle and jogged his way up to the front door, entering his home. He made his was inside and upon hearing movements in the kitchen, he began to head towards that destination.
He spotted his wife talking on the phone, their 2 year old daughter Reika held up on her hip. When the infant spotted her father, she grinned and threw her arms into his direction, causing her mother to turn startled.
Laura smiled at her husband, handing her bouncing daughter to A.J. and turned to finish off her conversation on the phone. It wasn’t long before Laura hung up the phone and turned to see her husband giving their giggling child sloppy kisses.
Grinning, she leaned back against the counter. “You’re in a real good mood.” A.J. pulled back from his daughter as the child laid her head down against his shoulder.
“I talked to Darien’s grandfather today!”
Laura’s mouth flew open before gasping in surprise. “Really? What happened? What did he say?”
“Well we talked for a long time, shared some stories about Donny and I terrorizing the neighborhood. Than I began telling him that Darien and Andrew were as close as Donny and I. So, he has decided that he’s going to stay in Juuban. He wants Darien to grow up here like Donny and I had.”
“This is great!” exclaimed Laura as tears of joy welled in her eyes.
“That’s not even the best part. He’s unrolling Darien from private school and is letting him go to public school with Andrew.”
Laura stood in stunned silence as A.J. chuckled at his wife’s expression. “Darien hasn’t found any friends yet, so he’s hoping the Darien will hit it off with Andrew again.“ He paused, looking around the kitchen for a moment. “Where’s Andy? Dorian said he is bringing Darien to the Crown at noon.”
“Your father picked him up about an hour ago. Alan wanted Andrew to help him install this new game he finally got.”
“Oh.” A.J. propped himself up on the edge of the kitchen table, looking upon his wife with furrowed brows. “You remember the girls I was telling you about, Setsuna’s new case?” Laura nodded, allowing her husband to continue. “Well, there is just something about their father that has been bothering me…the big time trafficker gone addict; so I did a little more research on him. Come to find out, Donny was the cop that busted Tenoh on one of his big deals…” A.J paused., scratching at his chin.
“There’s something big staring me in the face and I just can’t figure it out. Plus what I‘ve seen on the reports on his wife‘s car accident is throwing me off…how could there not of been an investigation done, I honestly don‘t think that accident was a suicide.”
Laura arched a brow. “The accident was written off as a suicide?”
A.J. nodded. “Yes, I actually remember the case too. I was signed to it at first and I was at the scene. I remember getting a glimpse of the body.“ A.J. shook his head. “I know the wreck was bad, but the injuries she had sustained to the head did not come from the car accident...I just know it. Anyways, I had to interrogate the victim in the wreck. I remembered that he told me that the car just came at him like it wasn’t being controlled…that next day I was taken off the case and put on another; I never heard about the incident again.”
Laura frowned. “That sounds rather suspicious…and you sound as if she was dead before she started driving.” A.J. snapped his head towards his wife startled by her words. Laura threw up her hands up at the serious expression her husband held, as he was pondering over the possibilities of that statement.
“Honey…there’s no way that could have happened…that’s crazy.”
A.J. smiled softly “I know.” He ran a hand through his blonde locks as his wife stepped towards him, placing a soft kiss to his cheek.
“Don’t stress, you’ll get to the bottom of this…you always do.”
A.J. smiled, wrapping an arm around his wife’s waist. “Thanks”
Laura grinned. “Now go upstairs and get dressed. I can feed and change Reika while you get ready.”
A.J. gave a curt nod, handing off his half sleeping daughter to his wife. “Yes ma’am!” he dove in a gave her a quick peck on the lips before making a hasty retreat from the room.
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“Wow, Amara is really good!” Elaine sat in the bleachers with Serena, watching in child-like amazement as Ken and Amara went head to head in race on the Go-Kart track. Serena nodded enthusiastically, turning towards Elaine.
“I know!” she cried. “They’re nearing the finish line!”
“Oh man! Amara was so close!”
Serena pouted as her sister was defeated in the race. “I really thought she had him.”
“I thought so too.” replied Elaine as she lead the small blonde down the steps and down towards the two drivers. She couldn’t hold back her smile as she spotted a sulking Amara climbing out of the yellow Go-Kart, her hair a wind-blown mess.
“I almost had you!”
Ken grinned turning towards the blonde. “Almost!”
Elaine took this moment to step in, turning her attention onto Amara. “You were so close, you did really good.”
Amara blushed, casting her eyes down onto the ground. “Thanks.”
Elaine than turned towards her husband. “How about we go to the Crown.”
Ken arched a brow. “That arcade?”
Amara and Serena’s heads perked up and they turned towards their foster parents. “Arcade?!” they asked in unison.
Ken grinned. “To the Crown it is.” Amara and Serena darted past the two adults and hurriedly climbed up the stone steps. Ken watched them for a moment, before slowly turning his head towards his wife.
“I think I want Amara to race.”
“You what?” questioned Elaine, taken aback by the sudden comment.
“I want Amara to compete in the Go-Kart races.” he raised his hands before his wife could pretest. “It doesn’t start until a couple of months…if she keeps her grades up, I think she should be able to join.”
Elaine stood silent for a moment, contemplating over the idea. School is top priority, but she couldn’t ignore the pure bliss Amara had on her face as she drove as fast as she could around the track with determination burning in her eyes. Elaine silently nodded, smiling up at Ken.
“If her grades stay up then she can join. I want to monitor her grades for the next couple of weeks before we talk to her about it.”
Ken nodded with a grin. “Sounds like a plan.” He raised out his hand for his wife to take, in which she did and they both shook on the agreement. They both turned upon the two girls as they heard Serena whinnin for them to hurry up.
With a chuckle, Ken took a hold of his wife’s hand and began to lead her up the steps. “Let’s hurry up before they keel over with impatience!” Elaine giggled, walking along side her husband and closer to the impatiently waiting blondes.
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The Tuskino’s and the girls pulled up to the Crown, just as a black stretch limousine pulled away. Serena’s eyes widened as she stared upon the extended shinny black vehicle.
“Wow! I wonder who was in there!”
“Probably someone famous” replied Amara she stated at the departing vehicle in amazement.
“Come one girls.” replied Elaine, helping the girls out of the car and began leading them towards the building where they could hear children playing and the loud noises of the arcade games. Serena grinned, hardly able to contain her excitement as grew closer to the entry way of the arcade.
Elaine and Ken laughed at the wide-eyed expression held upon both Amara’s and Serena’s faces as they entered the Crown and led them over to the booths. Elaine quickly took the girls orders so Ken could take them the to coin machine and give the girls some tokens.
Ken handed both girls a handful of tokens each. “Me and Elaine will be sitting over there, and I’ll come get you when the food is here.” The girls nodded enthusiastically and darted off in different directions before Ken could say anything else. With a shake of his head, he began to head back towards the table where his wife was placing their order with a waitress.
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“Hey, you’re really good at this game!” Serena jumped startled, whirling around to see a boy a little older than she, with short blonde hair and dark green eyes. She furrowed her brows as she nearly mistook him for Amara…although he still looked rather familiar, but she knew for a fact that she had never seen him before. Plastering on a smile, she let a small blush tint her cheeks.
“Thanks. What’s your name?”
“I’m Andrew.”
Serena grinned. “Hi Andrew, I’m Serena.” Andrew returned the smile, with a small blush of his own tinting his cheeks. He shifted his eyes to the game as he saw the bold letters of GAME OVER flash across the scene.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I made you loose the game.” replied Andrew, pulling out a and handful of tokens from his pants’pocket and handing them to the girl. Serena’s eyes widened, as she stared upon the bronze tokens.
“The game is only one token to play!”
“I know, but I get a bunch of these. My grandpa owns this place.”
Serena’s eyes widened. “Really?”
“Yep!”
“Andrew!&# 8221;
Andrew snapped his head towards his father. “Coming Dad!” He turned back to the blonde with a smile. “I got to go, hope I get to see you again!”
Serena nodded numbly as the boy ran off and Serena eyes stayed transfixed on A.J.’s retreating back. Now she knew why Andrew looked so familiar…Officer Furuhata is his father. The young blonde shook her head and turned back to the Sailor V game she was totally kicking ass on and inserted a coin and began a death match with Sailor V and the terrible Youma.
Author: Sorry it took so long! My laptop crashed and I had all of this but two scenes written. So, not knowing when I’m getting my computer fixed, I’ve decided to re-write the chapter. Well I hope you enjoyed! ^_^ next chapter I think I’ll have the girls start school, I wonder who I’ll be introducing next?!
Disclaimer: Don’t own Sm.
Elaine stifled a yawn, running a hand lazily through her tussled lavender locks. Rising from the bed, she soon frowned, feeling an unexpected weight upon her back. Confused, she slightly craned her head and spotted a pair of legs; the rest of the body draped over her form. Now startled, she rose a little higher from the bed to turn her head a little more, now able to see that the body belonged to Serena.
Shifting her eyes back to the bed, she noticed that Amara as well was lying in it, sprawled out on her back, feet towards the pillows and her head towards the opposite end of the bed. She had one arm draped over Serena’s feet as her other arm was lying across Ken’s legs. On closure inspection, she realized that Ken had his arms wrapped around one of Amara’s legs, his head resting upon her foot; blanket and sheets littering the floor.
Holding back a giggle, Elaine expertly slipped out from underneath Serena’s sleeping form without disturbing the child and made a quick retreat to her dresser. There, she picked up and turned on her digital camera and pointed it towards the sleeping trio. Zooming in on the scene, she grinned and clicked the shutter button, allowing the rather large room to be illuminated with a bright white light. She took a moment to admire the picture with a warm smile before turning off the camera and setting it down on the dresser once again.
“I think I’m in the mood for some pancakes.” she murmured softly, exiting the bedroom, humming a soft tune as she left.
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The sweet aroma of Elaine’s cooking slowly filled the kitchen and soon the entire house, awakening a very hungry 7 year old. Serena bolted upright in the bed, eyes still closed and silently sniffed the air. Her eyes suddenly snapped open, a large grin beaming upon her face.
“Pancakes!” she exclaimed, clumsily climbing to the edge of the bed. The movements caused Amara to stir awake, green eyes fixed on Serena as the blonde tumbled off the bed. A rather loud thud was heard when the small blonde collided to the hard wooden floor below her.
“OW!”
“HAHA!” Serena’s head popped up from the side of the bed, heated eyes glaring upon her laughing sister.
“Not funny!”
Amara grinned rakishly. “Looked pretty funny to me!”
Serena pouted, standing from the floor, rubbing her sore shoulder. “You’re so mean!”
Amara rolled her eyes and began to make an advancement towards the edge of the bed, only to find that she couldn’t. Frowning, she turned her head in confusion, spotting Ken, holding onto her leg. A little freaked, Amara began to pull on her leg, causing Ken to tighten his firm grip. Serena frowned herself as she saw panic embedded in her sister’s eyes and quickly climbed herself on top of the massive bed. She crawled her way over to Ken and took a hold of one of his arms and began to tug up on it.
“Geeze…he’s strong.” muttered the young blonde, turning to Amara, the girl’s eyes welling with tears.
“Amara…calm down. He just holding your leg; he’s a sleep.”
“I don’t care! I want him off!.” she snapped, a lone tear trailing down her flushed cheek. Serena swallowed deeply, empathizing with her sister. She quickly turned to Ken and placed her small hands upon his shoulder and gave him a few rough shakes. Ken blearily opened his eyes startled and as soon as his grip loosened upon Amara’s leg, the blonde snatched the appendage away and scurried her way off of the bed.
Ken rolled over to his night stand, taking a hold of his glasses and placed them on. He arched a brow when his gazed landed on a grinning Serena. He then averted his eyes towards Amara who stood at the edge of the bed., glaring daggers at him. Confused, he shifted his eyes upon Serena once more.
“Is something wrong?”
“Nope!” chirped the blonde, causing Ken to narrow his eyes slightly. Shaking off the feeling that something was wrong, he slowly made his way of the bed and ran his fingers through his messy brown locks.
“Smells like breakfast is ready.” he replied, flashing the girls a smile. As if on cue, Serena’s belly rumbled loudly and the girl clutched at her stomach with a look of distress.
“I’m so hungry!” she cried, hurriedly climbing off of the bed. As soon as her feet touched the floor, she darted for the door and out of the room. Amara frowned deeply as she watched her sister go and found herself leaving the room as well, Ken silently following behind her; a good bit of distance between the two.
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Elaine jumped startled as she spotted the girls and Ken sitting at the kitchen table, waiting for their breakfast patiently…well at least Amara was. Arching a brow, Elaine looked upon the three questioningly.
“When did you get in here?”
“We’ve been sitting here for like 5 minutes and yes we saw you dancing and heard you singing.” replied Ken with a smirk.
Elaine blushed, hearing Amara and Serena giggling and quickly turned to retrieve the finished pancakes from out of the skillet. She placed the fresh golden pancakes on a large plate with the others, placing the skillet into the sink. Taking a hold of the large plate, she made her way to the table, dishing out the food; she and Amara receiving two pancakes, Ken three, and Serena four. After retrieving the butter and syrup, Elaine was able to take a seat and indulge into her breakfast with her family.
She paused in mid bite as she looked upon Ken and the two girls hungrily tearing into their food. She smiled…yep…this was her new family and she liked the ring of that. Grinning to herself, she continued eating.
Serena picked up the last piece of her pancake and skillfully swirled it in syrup. Rising the fork to eye level, she silently watched as the syrup dripped off the golden treat. She closed her eyes and suddenly engulfed the pancake, pulling the fork from her lips and slowly began to chew with a small sigh. Swallowing deeply, she leaned back in her seat, laying her fork down in her empty plate and rubbed her belly happily. She slowly crept her eyes open to see Elaine, Ken and Amara staring upon her.
“What?”
“Was that necessary?”
Serena shifted her eyes to her sister. “What are you talking about?”
Amara shook her head. “That whole little scene you just had.”
Serena arched a brow. “The last bite is the best part!”
“You’ve got issues.”
Ken chuckled as Elaine choked on her coffee in her attempt to hold back a giggle. She quickly stood from her seat to redeem herself and began to gather the empty dishes. Placing them in the sink she turned to the girls.
“You two go ahead and get washed up and dressed.”
“Where are we going?” asked Serena, grinning with excitement.
“You wanted to go to the Go-Kart track didn’t you?” replied Ken.
Amara snapped her head towards the man, her own eyes lighting up with concealed excitement. “I get to drive again?”
“If you want too.” Amara grinned and without another word, darted out of the room; Serena fast on her heels. Ken chuckled, standing from his seat in the kitchen and turning towards his wife who was washing the dishes.
“I think I’ve found something they really like.”
Elaine smiled, turning to her husband. “Making progress I see.”
Ken grinned, making his way towards the love of his life and wrapped his arms around her. “Want me to help you with the dishes?”
Elaine shook her head. “I’m almost done, you go and get dressed.” Ken nodded, placing a soft kiss upon her cheek and left to perform his given task.
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Amara struck a few poses in front of bathroom mirror, before grinning upon her reflection. “Oh, I look so good!.” She winked, before jumping off the sink counter top and grabbed her black button down shirt, placing it on over her white undershirt. She buttoned up the shirt, leaving the top two unclasped. She then bent down, rolling the cuffs of her dark baggy blue jeans over her black and white high-top converse sneakers. Standing upright once more, she straightened her shirt and with a nod of satisfaction she began to leave the bathroom.
She made her way to her sister’s room that was combined with hers through the bathroom. Upon entry, the tomboy spotted her sister sitting in front of her vanity mirror, combing her long blonde hair. The young blonde was adorned in a sky blue tank top with a picture of Gir in his green dog outfit, tongue sticking out the corner of his mouth and a cupcake clasped in his hand, nestled on the center of her shirt. She as well wore a pair of light blue jean shorts and white tennis shoes.
Amara turned away from her, walking towards her sister’s bed and plopped down upon it. Lying on her stomach, she propped her chin up on palms of her hands; feet kicking lazily behind her.
“What’s taking you so long?”
Without pausing in her task at hand, Serena responded. “You know it takes a long time to do my hair.”
Amara pouted. “Why don’t you just cut it.”
Serena snapped her head towards the older blonde so fast, she nearly gave herself whiplash. “I would never!”
Amara rolled her eyes. “Its just hair.”
Serena turned from her sister, hand clutching upon her long tresses. “It’s not just hair…it make me think of Mom.” Straightening her posture, she began combing her hair again, smirking upon her sister through the mirror. “and…instead of you complaining, you should be over here helping.”
The tomboy looked exasperated for a moment, before she stuck out her tongue as her sister’s back and steadily climbed off of the bed. She made her way over to Serena and waited patiently as the blonde parted her hair.
“You haven’t worn your Odangos in a while.” replied Amara, as she took a hold of the thick golden locks and expertly twisted it up into the well known hair style her mother always wore.
“I didn’t have any pins.”
“Oh.” Amara took a step back after placing the last pin within the hair and watched as Serena looked into the mirror to make sure her Odangos were even and straight . With a grin, she gave two thumbs up, causing Amara to giggle.
“Perfect!”
Amara grinned. “Good! Now lets go. I want to drive again.”
Serena cocked her head to the side, looking rather peculiar. “You really like that don’t you?”
“Of course! Who wouldn’t, now come on!” before the blonde could respond, Amara had already bolted for the door and was heading for the stairs. With a pout, Serena chased after her sister not wanting to be left behind.
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A.J. pulled up into the drive way of his home with a grin plastered upon his face. He quickly exited his police vehicle and jogged his way up to the front door, entering his home. He made his was inside and upon hearing movements in the kitchen, he began to head towards that destination.
He spotted his wife talking on the phone, their 2 year old daughter Reika held up on her hip. When the infant spotted her father, she grinned and threw her arms into his direction, causing her mother to turn startled.
Laura smiled at her husband, handing her bouncing daughter to A.J. and turned to finish off her conversation on the phone. It wasn’t long before Laura hung up the phone and turned to see her husband giving their giggling child sloppy kisses.
Grinning, she leaned back against the counter. “You’re in a real good mood.” A.J. pulled back from his daughter as the child laid her head down against his shoulder.
“I talked to Darien’s grandfather today!”
Laura’s mouth flew open before gasping in surprise. “Really? What happened? What did he say?”
“Well we talked for a long time, shared some stories about Donny and I terrorizing the neighborhood. Than I began telling him that Darien and Andrew were as close as Donny and I. So, he has decided that he’s going to stay in Juuban. He wants Darien to grow up here like Donny and I had.”
“This is great!” exclaimed Laura as tears of joy welled in her eyes.
“That’s not even the best part. He’s unrolling Darien from private school and is letting him go to public school with Andrew.”
Laura stood in stunned silence as A.J. chuckled at his wife’s expression. “Darien hasn’t found any friends yet, so he’s hoping the Darien will hit it off with Andrew again.“ He paused, looking around the kitchen for a moment. “Where’s Andy? Dorian said he is bringing Darien to the Crown at noon.”
“Your father picked him up about an hour ago. Alan wanted Andrew to help him install this new game he finally got.”
“Oh.” A.J. propped himself up on the edge of the kitchen table, looking upon his wife with furrowed brows. “You remember the girls I was telling you about, Setsuna’s new case?” Laura nodded, allowing her husband to continue. “Well, there is just something about their father that has been bothering me…the big time trafficker gone addict; so I did a little more research on him. Come to find out, Donny was the cop that busted Tenoh on one of his big deals…” A.J paused., scratching at his chin.
“There’s something big staring me in the face and I just can’t figure it out. Plus what I‘ve seen on the reports on his wife‘s car accident is throwing me off…how could there not of been an investigation done, I honestly don‘t think that accident was a suicide.”
Laura arched a brow. “The accident was written off as a suicide?”
A.J. nodded. “Yes, I actually remember the case too. I was signed to it at first and I was at the scene. I remember getting a glimpse of the body.“ A.J. shook his head. “I know the wreck was bad, but the injuries she had sustained to the head did not come from the car accident...I just know it. Anyways, I had to interrogate the victim in the wreck. I remembered that he told me that the car just came at him like it wasn’t being controlled…that next day I was taken off the case and put on another; I never heard about the incident again.”
Laura frowned. “That sounds rather suspicious…and you sound as if she was dead before she started driving.” A.J. snapped his head towards his wife startled by her words. Laura threw up her hands up at the serious expression her husband held, as he was pondering over the possibilities of that statement.
“Honey…there’s no way that could have happened…that’s crazy.”
A.J. smiled softly “I know.” He ran a hand through his blonde locks as his wife stepped towards him, placing a soft kiss to his cheek.
“Don’t stress, you’ll get to the bottom of this…you always do.”
A.J. smiled, wrapping an arm around his wife’s waist. “Thanks”
Laura grinned. “Now go upstairs and get dressed. I can feed and change Reika while you get ready.”
A.J. gave a curt nod, handing off his half sleeping daughter to his wife. “Yes ma’am!” he dove in a gave her a quick peck on the lips before making a hasty retreat from the room.
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“Wow, Amara is really good!” Elaine sat in the bleachers with Serena, watching in child-like amazement as Ken and Amara went head to head in race on the Go-Kart track. Serena nodded enthusiastically, turning towards Elaine.
“I know!” she cried. “They’re nearing the finish line!”
“Oh man! Amara was so close!”
Serena pouted as her sister was defeated in the race. “I really thought she had him.”
“I thought so too.” replied Elaine as she lead the small blonde down the steps and down towards the two drivers. She couldn’t hold back her smile as she spotted a sulking Amara climbing out of the yellow Go-Kart, her hair a wind-blown mess.
“I almost had you!”
Ken grinned turning towards the blonde. “Almost!”
Elaine took this moment to step in, turning her attention onto Amara. “You were so close, you did really good.”
Amara blushed, casting her eyes down onto the ground. “Thanks.”
Elaine than turned towards her husband. “How about we go to the Crown.”
Ken arched a brow. “That arcade?”
Amara and Serena’s heads perked up and they turned towards their foster parents. “Arcade?!” they asked in unison.
Ken grinned. “To the Crown it is.” Amara and Serena darted past the two adults and hurriedly climbed up the stone steps. Ken watched them for a moment, before slowly turning his head towards his wife.
“I think I want Amara to race.”
“You what?” questioned Elaine, taken aback by the sudden comment.
“I want Amara to compete in the Go-Kart races.” he raised his hands before his wife could pretest. “It doesn’t start until a couple of months…if she keeps her grades up, I think she should be able to join.”
Elaine stood silent for a moment, contemplating over the idea. School is top priority, but she couldn’t ignore the pure bliss Amara had on her face as she drove as fast as she could around the track with determination burning in her eyes. Elaine silently nodded, smiling up at Ken.
“If her grades stay up then she can join. I want to monitor her grades for the next couple of weeks before we talk to her about it.”
Ken nodded with a grin. “Sounds like a plan.” He raised out his hand for his wife to take, in which she did and they both shook on the agreement. They both turned upon the two girls as they heard Serena whinnin for them to hurry up.
With a chuckle, Ken took a hold of his wife’s hand and began to lead her up the steps. “Let’s hurry up before they keel over with impatience!” Elaine giggled, walking along side her husband and closer to the impatiently waiting blondes.
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The Tuskino’s and the girls pulled up to the Crown, just as a black stretch limousine pulled away. Serena’s eyes widened as she stared upon the extended shinny black vehicle.
“Wow! I wonder who was in there!”
“Probably someone famous” replied Amara she stated at the departing vehicle in amazement.
“Come one girls.” replied Elaine, helping the girls out of the car and began leading them towards the building where they could hear children playing and the loud noises of the arcade games. Serena grinned, hardly able to contain her excitement as grew closer to the entry way of the arcade.
Elaine and Ken laughed at the wide-eyed expression held upon both Amara’s and Serena’s faces as they entered the Crown and led them over to the booths. Elaine quickly took the girls orders so Ken could take them the to coin machine and give the girls some tokens.
Ken handed both girls a handful of tokens each. “Me and Elaine will be sitting over there, and I’ll come get you when the food is here.” The girls nodded enthusiastically and darted off in different directions before Ken could say anything else. With a shake of his head, he began to head back towards the table where his wife was placing their order with a waitress.
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“Hey, you’re really good at this game!” Serena jumped startled, whirling around to see a boy a little older than she, with short blonde hair and dark green eyes. She furrowed her brows as she nearly mistook him for Amara…although he still looked rather familiar, but she knew for a fact that she had never seen him before. Plastering on a smile, she let a small blush tint her cheeks.
“Thanks. What’s your name?”
“I’m Andrew.”
Serena grinned. “Hi Andrew, I’m Serena.” Andrew returned the smile, with a small blush of his own tinting his cheeks. He shifted his eyes to the game as he saw the bold letters of GAME OVER flash across the scene.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I made you loose the game.” replied Andrew, pulling out a and handful of tokens from his pants’pocket and handing them to the girl. Serena’s eyes widened, as she stared upon the bronze tokens.
“The game is only one token to play!”
“I know, but I get a bunch of these. My grandpa owns this place.”
Serena’s eyes widened. “Really?”
“Yep!”
“Andrew!&# 8221;
Andrew snapped his head towards his father. “Coming Dad!” He turned back to the blonde with a smile. “I got to go, hope I get to see you again!”
Serena nodded numbly as the boy ran off and Serena eyes stayed transfixed on A.J.’s retreating back. Now she knew why Andrew looked so familiar…Officer Furuhata is his father. The young blonde shook her head and turned back to the Sailor V game she was totally kicking ass on and inserted a coin and began a death match with Sailor V and the terrible Youma.
Author: Sorry it took so long! My laptop crashed and I had all of this but two scenes written. So, not knowing when I’m getting my computer fixed, I’ve decided to re-write the chapter. Well I hope you enjoyed! ^_^ next chapter I think I’ll have the girls start school, I wonder who I’ll be introducing next?!