Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Shared Destiny ❯ Chapter 13: The Truth Will Set You Free ( Chapter 13 )
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By: Angel Della Notte 
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Drama / Romance | Type: Yuri | Uploaded On: 08.11.2014 | Pages: 5 | Words: 2.5K | Visits: 160 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Drama / Romance | Type: Yuri | Uploaded On: 08.11.2014 | Pages: 5 | Words: 2.5K | Visits: 160 | Status: Completed
Chapter 13: The Truth
Will Set You Free
(One week later)
Pluto sat in her study though it now was just a desk put in the corner of her bed room. She had wanted to keep an eye on Hotaru and her original study had been converted into a room for the young girl who was growing rather fast. When she first came to the moon she had appeared to be around four years old and now she looked closer to ten or eleven. Pluto sat at the desk going over lessons for the senshi but her mind wasn’t really on it. She kept thinking about the dream she had a week ago and the changes she had noticed in Neptune and Uranus. The pair had always been close which normally would be a good thing for the two outer senshi but now they seemed inseparable. She feared that they had the dream as well but neither of them had come to her to talk about it. But if what she feared was true neither would because it would mean that they were breaking the senshi laws. Why had she had the dream though? She hadn’t gone to the queen yet with her suspensions she wouldn’t until she knew for sure. “Puu?” Hotaru said coming into the room with a couple papers in her hand giving them to Pluto. “I’m finished.”
“Let me see.” Pluto said looking over the papers. Not only had she been teaching the senshi she was teaching Hotaru as well though not in the matters of being a soldier. Pluto hoped she would never have to teach Hotaru how to be a senshi. Hotaru was learning basic things like writing, history, science and math. The papers she held right now were math.
“Puu, can I go play with Neptune and Haruka?” Hotaru asked as she rocked impatiently on her heels.
Pluto looked up from the papers to the child not sure she had heard her right. “Play with who?” She asked.
“Neptune and Haruka,” Hotaru repeated.
“Hotaru, who is Haruka?” Pluto asked though she had a feeling she already knew.
“Uranus, Neptune calls her that sometimes.” Hotaru said. “She told me it was a nickname when I asked her.”
“When did you hear Neptune call her that?” Pluto asked wondering if Hotaru knew anything that might help her find out the truth about Neptune and Uranus.
“A couple nights ago when they were in the gardens, I didn’t get to ask her it about it until yesterday.” Hotaru said giggling a little remembering what she had seen in the garden.
“Why didn’t get a chance to ask?” Pluto asked wanting to know what the child found funny.
“Because I didn’t talk to them that night I thought they wanted to be alone. I left because they were…” Hotaru trailed off still giggling and turning a little red.
“Hotaru what were they doing in the gardens?” Pluto asked wondering why the child was laughing.
“They were kissing.” Hotaru giggled.
Pluto coughed not thinking she heard her right, “What? They were kissing?” Pluto asked and Hotaru just nodded.
“Yep, can I go play with them?” Hotaru said.
“I think they are a little busy why don’t you go see if the Princess wants to play?” Pluto said thinking that Uranus and Neptune were going to be busy talking to her. Hotaru nodded again and ran off to find the Princess as Pluto stood and began walking to Neptune and Uranus’ rooms.
(Neptune’s room)
Neptune stood in her room leaning against the wall as Uranus’ kissed neck. “Haruka.” Neptune breathed as her hands worked on Uranus’ shirt. She slid it off her shoulders and it dropped to the ground as Uranus picked her up and walked over to the bed. Just as she was laying Neptune down on the bed they both froze hearing a knock on the door, after the incident with Mercury both always made sure to lock the door.
Uranus swore in Uranian then quickly stood up. “Who the hell is that? You aren’t expecting anyone and forgot again?”
“No, I didn’t.” Neptune whispered pushing Uranus towards the balcony. “Quick hid out here.”
Neptune started walking to the door buttoning her own blouse on the way wondering who it was. She was about to unlock the door and open it when she heard Uranus whispering her name. “Michiru!”
Neptune turned waved for her to go. “Get out of here Haruka!” Neptune whispered as there was another knock on the door. “Now!”
“My shirt!” Uranus said pointing.
Neptune looked down at the shirt on the ground picked it up and threw it at Uranus waiting for her to get out of sight before she opened the door seeing Pluto on the other side. “Gods please tell Haruka to climb over to her room.” Neptune thought then smiled at Pluto, “Lady Pluto forgive me I didn’t hear you at first I was about to take a bath.” Neptune said.
“Ah, I’m sorry then.” Pluto said stepping in looking around for Uranus. She swore she could hear voices through the door and wondered who Neptune was talking to. “I’m looking for Uranus have you seen her?”
“No, she isn’t in her room?” Neptune said masking her nervousness.
“I looked there.” Pluto said knowing Uranus wasn’t there she had just come from there and not found the senshi of the sky. “She wasn’t there.”
“Did you try the balcony? Sometimes she likes to stand out there and let the wind blow in her hair.” Neptune said after a pause.
“Perhaps I missed her.” Pluto said knowing without a doubt Neptune was lying she had looked on Uranus’ balcony and she wasn’t there. Pluto let her eyes scan the room and looked out onto Neptune’s balcony seeing a shadow. “Neptune sit down I want to tell you a little story.” Neptune nodded and sat down on the bed sending a quick glance to the balcony hoping Uranus had left. “Do you know why there hasn’t been a Neptune or Uranus in a thousand years?”
“Because after they fell in battle their transformation pens disappeared nobody really knows why they disappeared.” Neptune said remembering the stories she had heard as a child though in the stories they always said that it was Uranus’ fault but they never said why.
“Part of that is true but there is far more to the story.” Pluto said looking out of the corner of her eye at the shadow almost missing it until she realized the person on the balcony had sat down. “The true is only Neptune fell in battle. Uranus survived though as the years passed the truth was blurred, told wrong and eventually forgotten.”
“Lady Pluto you were there and the queen was a child if the two of you know the truth then why did you let it be forgotten?” Neptune asked wondering what Pluto was telling her.
“The queen felt it was better to let it be forgotten. The truth was too painful those of us that lived it, we are still astonished that it happened.” Pluto said. “After their deaths the Queen amended the senshi laws so it would never happen again.”
“Lady Pluto what happened?” Neptune asked. “Which laws did she change?”
“Where to start?” Pluto said pausing, “You see the last Neptune and Uranus were lovers. Like I said their deaths caused the queen to amend the laws. Before the two of them two senshi had never fallen in love. The queen didn’t know it would be a problem and allowed them to be together if they both named their heirs since the two of them couldn’t have children. Neptune named her younger sister as her heir and Uranus named her brother’s daughter as her heir. The two of them were very happy together and in all my years as Guardian of Time I’ve never seen a Neptune and Uranus with a stronger bond I fear it was too strong though.”
“I don’t understand how can it be too strong? What is the problem with them being close?” Neptune asked thinking there was nothing wrong with it.
“Let me tell you how they died and I think you will understand better.” Pluto said, “There was a threat to the outer solar system an army of monsters had made a strong hold on the moon of Oberon. Uranus and Neptune went to fight them I had offered to come along and help but cockiness is a Uranian trait. Amara refused my help she said that she and Michelle could handle it. She was right too they defeated the entire army, well all but one. That last monster attacked them. They had set themselves up on the far side of a ravine the monster thought it could jump the ravine but he was wrong in his last moments of life he realized it and wasn’t going to die alone. It shot at Neptune and Uranus with spikes tipped with poison. Neptune pushed Uranus out of the way and took the brunt of the spikes. She died a few days later in Uranus’ arms.”
Neptune sat letting it set in realizing that the dream she and Uranus had wasn’t a vision of the future but of the past. She looked down at her mirror sitting on the bed next to her feeling it get warmer knowing it was showing the dream she had and was thankful it was face down on the bed. “Lady Pluto what happened to Uranus?” Neptune asked though she already knew the answer.
“Uranus lived longer if you could call it living. She never got over Neptune’s death. Slowly she withdrew herself from everyone and everything until she had locked herself inside the tallest tower of Miranda Palace where the wind was so loud you can’t even hear yourself think. She never said it but I always believed she went up there so she couldn’t think of losing Michelle. One day while up there she took her sword and slit her wrists. We found a note in her pocket it.” Pluto said.
“What did the note say?” Neptune asked.
“I’m sorry.” Pluto said, “That was all it said. After that the blade of the Space Blaster Sword faded and rusted something that had never happened. The Deep Aqua Mirror cracked. We never did find the transformation pens not until you and Uranus were born.”
“Lady Pluto is that why the planets of Neptune and Uranus have never gotten along?” Neptune asked remembering how her mother always cursed Uranus when she was mad.
“Both planets blamed the lost of their senshi and queen on the other.” Pluto answered as she stood up, “I’ve got to go now I ask you keep this to yourself. It really is better if the truth isn’t known.”
Pluto left the room and Uranus came in from the balcony. “Haruka what are you still doing here? She could have caught us!” Neptune said.
“Michiru what she said it was our dream. Why would she tell you that story so soon after we had it?” Uranus asked.
“I don’t know.” Neptune said hugging Uranus.
(Later that day Queen Serenity’s study)
“You wanted to speak with me Pluto?” Queen Serenity said.
“Yes my Queen it’s about Neptune and Uranus. I believe what we feared is happening.” Pluto said.
“You believe Amara and Michelle have been reborn?” Queen Serenity asked.
“I do my queen and I believe their love has as well.” Pluto said.
“What are we to do about it? We can’t let the past repeat itself not with everything we’ve been sensed. The last thousand years have been peaceful I don’t believe the next will be.” Queen Serenity said.
“I don’t know how strong their love is. If we separate them now we might be able to stop it. All we need is a reason to separate them.” Pluto said.
“Queen Nerissa has been constantly asking me to allow Neptune to return to her planet to be married. I’ve been refusing ever since Neptune came to me before leave telling me she wasn’t ready for marriage. I’ll send Nerissa a message saying I’ve granted Neptune a six month sabbatical. Can you finish Uranus’ studies in six months or should I make it longer?” Queen Serenity said.
“Six months should be long enough Uranus is months ahead of the other senshi.” Pluto said.
“It is settled then Neptune will return to her planet marry the Duke Tolsin De Rubikon when she returns to the Moon to complete her training Uranus will have already traveled back to her planet and assumed the throne. Hopefully they both will be so busy they will forget about each other.” Queen Serenity said.
To Be Continued…
(One week later)
Pluto sat in her study though it now was just a desk put in the corner of her bed room. She had wanted to keep an eye on Hotaru and her original study had been converted into a room for the young girl who was growing rather fast. When she first came to the moon she had appeared to be around four years old and now she looked closer to ten or eleven. Pluto sat at the desk going over lessons for the senshi but her mind wasn’t really on it. She kept thinking about the dream she had a week ago and the changes she had noticed in Neptune and Uranus. The pair had always been close which normally would be a good thing for the two outer senshi but now they seemed inseparable. She feared that they had the dream as well but neither of them had come to her to talk about it. But if what she feared was true neither would because it would mean that they were breaking the senshi laws. Why had she had the dream though? She hadn’t gone to the queen yet with her suspensions she wouldn’t until she knew for sure. “Puu?” Hotaru said coming into the room with a couple papers in her hand giving them to Pluto. “I’m finished.”
“Let me see.” Pluto said looking over the papers. Not only had she been teaching the senshi she was teaching Hotaru as well though not in the matters of being a soldier. Pluto hoped she would never have to teach Hotaru how to be a senshi. Hotaru was learning basic things like writing, history, science and math. The papers she held right now were math.
“Puu, can I go play with Neptune and Haruka?” Hotaru asked as she rocked impatiently on her heels.
Pluto looked up from the papers to the child not sure she had heard her right. “Play with who?” She asked.
“Neptune and Haruka,” Hotaru repeated.
“Hotaru, who is Haruka?” Pluto asked though she had a feeling she already knew.
“Uranus, Neptune calls her that sometimes.” Hotaru said. “She told me it was a nickname when I asked her.”
“When did you hear Neptune call her that?” Pluto asked wondering if Hotaru knew anything that might help her find out the truth about Neptune and Uranus.
“A couple nights ago when they were in the gardens, I didn’t get to ask her it about it until yesterday.” Hotaru said giggling a little remembering what she had seen in the garden.
“Why didn’t get a chance to ask?” Pluto asked wanting to know what the child found funny.
“Because I didn’t talk to them that night I thought they wanted to be alone. I left because they were…” Hotaru trailed off still giggling and turning a little red.
“Hotaru what were they doing in the gardens?” Pluto asked wondering why the child was laughing.
“They were kissing.” Hotaru giggled.
Pluto coughed not thinking she heard her right, “What? They were kissing?” Pluto asked and Hotaru just nodded.
“Yep, can I go play with them?” Hotaru said.
“I think they are a little busy why don’t you go see if the Princess wants to play?” Pluto said thinking that Uranus and Neptune were going to be busy talking to her. Hotaru nodded again and ran off to find the Princess as Pluto stood and began walking to Neptune and Uranus’ rooms.
(Neptune’s room)
Neptune stood in her room leaning against the wall as Uranus’ kissed neck. “Haruka.” Neptune breathed as her hands worked on Uranus’ shirt. She slid it off her shoulders and it dropped to the ground as Uranus picked her up and walked over to the bed. Just as she was laying Neptune down on the bed they both froze hearing a knock on the door, after the incident with Mercury both always made sure to lock the door.
Uranus swore in Uranian then quickly stood up. “Who the hell is that? You aren’t expecting anyone and forgot again?”
“No, I didn’t.” Neptune whispered pushing Uranus towards the balcony. “Quick hid out here.”
Neptune started walking to the door buttoning her own blouse on the way wondering who it was. She was about to unlock the door and open it when she heard Uranus whispering her name. “Michiru!”
Neptune turned waved for her to go. “Get out of here Haruka!” Neptune whispered as there was another knock on the door. “Now!”
“My shirt!” Uranus said pointing.
Neptune looked down at the shirt on the ground picked it up and threw it at Uranus waiting for her to get out of sight before she opened the door seeing Pluto on the other side. “Gods please tell Haruka to climb over to her room.” Neptune thought then smiled at Pluto, “Lady Pluto forgive me I didn’t hear you at first I was about to take a bath.” Neptune said.
“Ah, I’m sorry then.” Pluto said stepping in looking around for Uranus. She swore she could hear voices through the door and wondered who Neptune was talking to. “I’m looking for Uranus have you seen her?”
“No, she isn’t in her room?” Neptune said masking her nervousness.
“I looked there.” Pluto said knowing Uranus wasn’t there she had just come from there and not found the senshi of the sky. “She wasn’t there.”
“Did you try the balcony? Sometimes she likes to stand out there and let the wind blow in her hair.” Neptune said after a pause.
“Perhaps I missed her.” Pluto said knowing without a doubt Neptune was lying she had looked on Uranus’ balcony and she wasn’t there. Pluto let her eyes scan the room and looked out onto Neptune’s balcony seeing a shadow. “Neptune sit down I want to tell you a little story.” Neptune nodded and sat down on the bed sending a quick glance to the balcony hoping Uranus had left. “Do you know why there hasn’t been a Neptune or Uranus in a thousand years?”
“Because after they fell in battle their transformation pens disappeared nobody really knows why they disappeared.” Neptune said remembering the stories she had heard as a child though in the stories they always said that it was Uranus’ fault but they never said why.
“Part of that is true but there is far more to the story.” Pluto said looking out of the corner of her eye at the shadow almost missing it until she realized the person on the balcony had sat down. “The true is only Neptune fell in battle. Uranus survived though as the years passed the truth was blurred, told wrong and eventually forgotten.”
“Lady Pluto you were there and the queen was a child if the two of you know the truth then why did you let it be forgotten?” Neptune asked wondering what Pluto was telling her.
“The queen felt it was better to let it be forgotten. The truth was too painful those of us that lived it, we are still astonished that it happened.” Pluto said. “After their deaths the Queen amended the senshi laws so it would never happen again.”
“Lady Pluto what happened?” Neptune asked. “Which laws did she change?”
“Where to start?” Pluto said pausing, “You see the last Neptune and Uranus were lovers. Like I said their deaths caused the queen to amend the laws. Before the two of them two senshi had never fallen in love. The queen didn’t know it would be a problem and allowed them to be together if they both named their heirs since the two of them couldn’t have children. Neptune named her younger sister as her heir and Uranus named her brother’s daughter as her heir. The two of them were very happy together and in all my years as Guardian of Time I’ve never seen a Neptune and Uranus with a stronger bond I fear it was too strong though.”
“I don’t understand how can it be too strong? What is the problem with them being close?” Neptune asked thinking there was nothing wrong with it.
“Let me tell you how they died and I think you will understand better.” Pluto said, “There was a threat to the outer solar system an army of monsters had made a strong hold on the moon of Oberon. Uranus and Neptune went to fight them I had offered to come along and help but cockiness is a Uranian trait. Amara refused my help she said that she and Michelle could handle it. She was right too they defeated the entire army, well all but one. That last monster attacked them. They had set themselves up on the far side of a ravine the monster thought it could jump the ravine but he was wrong in his last moments of life he realized it and wasn’t going to die alone. It shot at Neptune and Uranus with spikes tipped with poison. Neptune pushed Uranus out of the way and took the brunt of the spikes. She died a few days later in Uranus’ arms.”
Neptune sat letting it set in realizing that the dream she and Uranus had wasn’t a vision of the future but of the past. She looked down at her mirror sitting on the bed next to her feeling it get warmer knowing it was showing the dream she had and was thankful it was face down on the bed. “Lady Pluto what happened to Uranus?” Neptune asked though she already knew the answer.
“Uranus lived longer if you could call it living. She never got over Neptune’s death. Slowly she withdrew herself from everyone and everything until she had locked herself inside the tallest tower of Miranda Palace where the wind was so loud you can’t even hear yourself think. She never said it but I always believed she went up there so she couldn’t think of losing Michelle. One day while up there she took her sword and slit her wrists. We found a note in her pocket it.” Pluto said.
“What did the note say?” Neptune asked.
“I’m sorry.” Pluto said, “That was all it said. After that the blade of the Space Blaster Sword faded and rusted something that had never happened. The Deep Aqua Mirror cracked. We never did find the transformation pens not until you and Uranus were born.”
“Lady Pluto is that why the planets of Neptune and Uranus have never gotten along?” Neptune asked remembering how her mother always cursed Uranus when she was mad.
“Both planets blamed the lost of their senshi and queen on the other.” Pluto answered as she stood up, “I’ve got to go now I ask you keep this to yourself. It really is better if the truth isn’t known.”
Pluto left the room and Uranus came in from the balcony. “Haruka what are you still doing here? She could have caught us!” Neptune said.
“Michiru what she said it was our dream. Why would she tell you that story so soon after we had it?” Uranus asked.
“I don’t know.” Neptune said hugging Uranus.
(Later that day Queen Serenity’s study)
“You wanted to speak with me Pluto?” Queen Serenity said.
“Yes my Queen it’s about Neptune and Uranus. I believe what we feared is happening.” Pluto said.
“You believe Amara and Michelle have been reborn?” Queen Serenity asked.
“I do my queen and I believe their love has as well.” Pluto said.
“What are we to do about it? We can’t let the past repeat itself not with everything we’ve been sensed. The last thousand years have been peaceful I don’t believe the next will be.” Queen Serenity said.
“I don’t know how strong their love is. If we separate them now we might be able to stop it. All we need is a reason to separate them.” Pluto said.
“Queen Nerissa has been constantly asking me to allow Neptune to return to her planet to be married. I’ve been refusing ever since Neptune came to me before leave telling me she wasn’t ready for marriage. I’ll send Nerissa a message saying I’ve granted Neptune a six month sabbatical. Can you finish Uranus’ studies in six months or should I make it longer?” Queen Serenity said.
“Six months should be long enough Uranus is months ahead of the other senshi.” Pluto said.
“It is settled then Neptune will return to her planet marry the Duke Tolsin De Rubikon when she returns to the Moon to complete her training Uranus will have already traveled back to her planet and assumed the throne. Hopefully they both will be so busy they will forget about each other.” Queen Serenity said.
To Be Continued…