Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Silence Amongst The Rose So Cold ❯ An Accusation and Relocation ( Chapter 4 )

Silence Amongst the Rose So Cold

An Accusation and Relocation

Sorry I've been umm late to update I suppose I've been uploading on Deviant Art and yeah I wasn't sure how to go about this chapter so it was a page at a time I guess.

Warning: Some er excessive language in the cursing from Shiva aka Usagi and Yaten

Yes I am gonna have Taiki and Yaten in this chapter but a small part. I really don't know how to portray Seiya further then putting him at a balancing point between Yaten's anger and Taiki's cool detachment so if I make any mistakes with them please tell me.

On a side note I've bee obsessed with a story called Only A Memory Away by Princess Destiny Moon I'll put in my favorite line of the whole story so far. I suggest you check it out lol it's great!

"Let me get this straight," Draco said quietly, trying desperately to get control of his temper which was caused by an intense case of frustration due to the situation at hand. "The person who's going to save us from powerful lightning-wielding super villain over there is a teenager in a custom-fit tuxedo, a stupid black top hat, and a white demi-mask who's defending himself by throwing roses and twirling a cane like a professional baton twirler." He closed his eyes and let out an acquiescent sigh. "Hansakai, give me your gun."

"Suicide is never the answer, Detective," Hansakai replied, immediately understanding why his superior had asked for the gun.

"Well neither is a baka in a tuxedo."

"With all due respect, sir, but we don't have much of choice here," pointed out the ever practical Hansakai. "The Sailor Senshi haven't arrived yet and this masked man seems to be a relatively good job of diverting the enemy from attacking civilians."

"His primary weapon is a floral arrangement!" ( My favvie line ever >D )

"Sir that floral arrangement has steel-tipped stems which has severely wounded the enemy's arm."

"Hansakai."

"Yes sir?"

"Do me a favor and shut up!"

Now after shamelessly advertising another author's work without ever telling her and in hope she doesn't sue me onto the story! Oh…that kind of reminds me…I never said I didn't own Sailor Moon well >>;; if I don't remember to say I don't then maybe I really do! At least in my dreams that's how it works

Mamoru slowly forced himself across the room and towards the door. It was only a foot away but with how the gas was steadily affecting his systems it was starting to look impossible. After a minute of moving he felt himself hit the solid oak of the door. Once his body had made contact he started slipping down until he was in a seated position with Hotaru in his arms. `Maybe…I should just take a small rest now…I'm sure someone will find us soon.' Despite what his traitorous mind tried to reason his sleepiness with and make him give in. Something inside him told him that the danger wasn't over just yet. So while holding Hotaru as securely as he could with one hand, he reached up to the handle with the other. He tried to keep from breathing in too often to keep as much of the gas out of his air as possible. Unluckily it really wasn't working by the time his hand found the handle. Once he had a firm grip or as firm as he could he just let all the muscles in his arm loosen except his hand. With a click the door opened, since he was resting against it, he literally fell outwards and into the hall. For a minute he just lay there, finally breathing in relatively unaffected air. Now that he was in the hallway that had multiple air circulators and a much larger area the percentage of gas to O2 would steadily drop.

Even though they were now in the clear something urged him forwards…and he slowly started to crawl forwards. Just as he made it out of the room for the most part a loud explosion ripped through the air. He was sent through the air like a rag doll until he hit the door that led into the emergency stairwell. Luckily for Hotaru, he took the brunt of both the explosion and impact since he had twisted in mid air. He had landed on his side after being thrown into the door and just lay there with a groan. This was not his day…they never mentioned in medical training god damn psycho boyfriends would drop a box of candy that contained knock out gas of some type and flowers that contained a bomb. He just lay there for a moment trying to retake all the oxygen he could into his lungs to clear out the ill effects of the gas. A soft stirring sound a few feet away from him alerted him that Usagi was coming to. With heavy eyes he glanced back to the fire and bit off a curse…it was steadily eating it's way out the door and he could not see what was on the other side of the hallway for his life. The whole floor was steadily becoming an inferno and if he didn't get moving they'd be fried as well.

Pushing himself up to his knees he let out a groan as his vision blurred for a moment and he almost lost balance. Luckily his hand came in contact with the handle of the emergency fire escape door. Even as his vision cleared the smoke started to collect into the small space that was still safe from the fire…making him effectively blind anyway. Keeping one hand upon the handle of the door his other groped about until it came across one of Usagi's small arms. Once he had gotten a firm grip he dragged Usagi over to him before she was within his arms more or less. He then pushed open the door with his free hand and dragged Usagi out and into the almost smoke free stairwell. Closing the doorway behind him to keep the smoke out…he took a few more breathes of fresh air. The moment he found Seiya he was going to kill the bastard…or at least mangle him to the point of needing to be in a hospital as well. He finally pushed himself up off the ground and picked Usagi up with him and started down the steps. Keeping one hand upon the railing at all times due to the fact he was still rather weak from the gas ordeal. He still managed to carry Usagi down the steps in an awkwardly positioned over his shoulder way. Along the way they met up with more orderlies, doctors and interns that were still in the building either working late or on the night shift carrying patients or walking patients down the stairs depending on their condition. Within moments he was in the mix of people trying to force their way down in an orderly fashion but also trying to get out as soon as possible. He was at least feeling better now to switch Usagi into a cradling position and tried to keep to the sides of the stair well as much as possible.

Finally after what seemed like minutes of slow torture he finally made his way out into the open…and away from the doors before he got ran over. His options were a few at this point…wait here for someone to find them. Or he could always try to find Ami or one of the other higher ups like Setsuna in this mess. He glanced about the general area trying to figure out where to even start looking…the whole place was general chaos. Ambulances and medical staff seemed to be swarming all around the outside. The fire fighters were also in the general area…some upon the truck's ladders trying to control the small blaze while other seemed to be questioning medical staff. As the adrenaline rush slowly died off he felt the full weight of what just happened to him hit him full force. That god damn psycho had tried to get rid of both him and Usagi. He really felt mentally drained at the moment…and physically too from fighting off gas and being thrown into a wall. Eager eyes glanced about for a place to sit down and his salvation was answered by a nearby bench that the hospital had set outside near the entrance of the small garden in the back of the building. Still carrying Usagi in his arms who had become semi-conscience but not much more, he trudged over to the seat and gratefully took a seat. His head fell back over the railing and he just let it rest where it was in a rather uncomfortable position. `Damn they are seriously bias about constructing these benches at the perfect height for short people…and just tall enough for me to rest my back on.' Despite his mental musing he was quite aware of the commotion still going on around the hospital. He'd give it another half an hour before he went back into the fray to find someone worth talking to.

"I thought I'd find you here…Mamoru Chiba a man that never has enjoyed too much action in his life."

"Huh?" Mamoru quickly raised his head from where it had been and pulled it upright with no little amount of effort. Right in front of him stood a girl of small build with jet black hair and her ever ominous violet eyes that made other people feel as if she was staring right into their souls. That may have been why his baby cousin had never had too many close friends further then Chad. "Hey…what are you doing here?"

"Oh I don't know I got a call from a Doctor. Mizuno…well my mother did and then she called me. Regardless she told me the room you had been working in had been the one that exploded…we all thought you were dead! And of course you decided to take a little break and stay away from the crowd. It's perfectly ok Mamoru we didn't want you to tell us you were still alive anyway."

`The sarcasm was strong in this one...' A slight smirk passed across his lips at the mere thought of it…only to have a very angry Rei glaring at him.

"So you think this is funny? That just figures…you are hopeless Chiba." Rei stopped mid rant when she finally saw the girl that was lying across his lap and simply stared at him with a raised eyebrow.

Mamoru opened one of his eyes when Rei's condescending tone suddenly cut off…she was rather vicious when it came to verbal abuse even to her own cousin. The only thing she seemed to be doing at the moment was staring at him in something of a speculative matter….this couldn't be good. "What are you staring at Rei?"

Rei shrugged a bit before motioning to the girl in a casual manner. "I just didn't realize you finally have an interest in the female gender…my mom will be so happy to hear."

"I'm sure she will…" He sighed slightly just thinking of his overly involved Aunt…guess one of Rei's parents had to be the caring type since her father was never around. "Anyway she's a patient here, under me…I suppose I should get her back to Doctor. Mizuno and figure out what we need to do about this." Mamoru slowly stood up from his recent sitting position, cradling Usagi in both arms before heading back into the fray in an attempt to find Ami or anyone else for that matter.

"What do you mean, it's not your problem to replace Usagi's room…it's the hospitals." Rei hadn't given up tailing him and grabbed hold of one of the sleeves of his light jacket, the material was a bit charred in the area probably from being put through a fire along with who knows what else on the way down. "What does Doctor. Mizuno look like anyway? Two eyes are always better then one you know…"

"As if you can see anything from way down there short stuff." He grumbled to himself…unluckily for him Rei managed to catch his last sentence and smacked him in the back of the head before he could even think about defending himself. He turned his head towards her with an annoyed expression upon his face. "That hurt you twit."

Rei shrugged her arms before crossing them over her chest with a little huff. "That'd be the general idea." A wide grin broke across her face as she stared back up at Mamoru.

He simply grumbled a tad before going back to his search for any of the medical staff that may know where Ami or Setsuna were. After almost twenty minutes of unfruitful searching he finally spotted a tall woman over by one of the fire trucks with Hunter green hair. Alongside her stood Makoto wrapped in a blanket, her face was smudged with smoke and even though she looked like she had just gotten a scolding from the older woman. A pleased grin was upon her face. With Rei tailing him he made it through the small crowd along the outer edges of the hospital in moments. When he came closer, Setsuna spotted him first followed by Makoto…the former shooting him a questioning glare. "Hey Setsuna..." Before he could even start off on Seiya and what happened, Setsuna interrupted.

"Where have you been Chiba…we thought you were dead...along with Usagi."

"He was taking a nap on a bench." Rei chimed in helpfully a slightly pleased smirk across her lips…she loved seeing him getting chewed out by other women.

"Yeah…I suppose I was…"

"Well why didn't you come sooner, we were worried about you Mamo-man but you got Usa out so hey you got her out that's all that counts." Makoto leaned back against the cold steel of the fire truck and pulled the blanket a little closer before staring back at the building which was still swarming with fire fighters. At least only three or four rooms had been destroyed in the end…and no lives were lost now that Mamoru and Usa were here.

"I'm sorry…next time I almost get knocked out by some kind of gas probably knock out and then barbecued by the cute little bomb Mr. Seiya dropped off in the form of flowers. I will try to be back in time but don't worry…I'm sure the second time around the gas won't effect my motor skills nearly as much as they did this time." Mamoru replied sarcastically…he glanced from Rei's surprised look to Setsuna's silent mask and to Makoto's taken aback look. Dammit now he felt bad for over reacting to Makoto's words. "Sorry Mako…I'm a bit stressed out." He offered an apologetic smile before turning to Setsuna. "So what do you want to do about this."

"I'd like you to file your statement with the Police."

"Alright…so what should I do with Usagi…?" He glanced down at the still partially passed out girl and then back up to Setsuna.

"I'll take her for now…but if someone really did try to kill her we may need to move her out of the hospital for a while. If we did would you be willing to put her up at your apartment…I'm sure between Ami, myself, Minako and you…we could watch her over the day. Leaving you only with a night shift and of course psychological evaluations…if you're up to it Doctor."

With a slight unsure nod…Mamoru slowly handed the small slip of a girl to Setsuna before the four minus Makoto who was still recovering from running into the burning hallway countless times to help straggling orderlies and patients out to the stairwell on the opposite side of the floor. Headed off to find the nearest officer to give their report, Setsuna had to anyway due to the fact she did over see the whole hospital.

* A few hours later…Police Station * ( Eh…too lazy for the statement just Mamoru basically restating everything that happened )

He raked a hand absently through his raven hair with something of a sigh…this was just one of those days where he should have never gotten out of bed. Forget even getting out…he just should have never woken up at all…Ami and Setsuna had called half way through the interview from his house…Rei of course was there. His cousin had been all to happy to let them in and were probably drilling the poor women for everything they knew about him. As he approached the street he waved over a cab that was coming down the street. When the cab pulled over he had to resist the initial reaction to step back from the cab...there was no way someone like THAT! Could be a cabby…just looking at the man's stone cold expression scared him, there was no trace of emotion on his face save for a slight tinge of impatience.

"You getting in or not?" The silver haired cabby asked in an annoyed matter…or at least as much of one, someone could use without showing a spark of emotion.

"Er yeah…yeah….could you take me to Averst and Novella street…umm the second apartment complex." After a moment of hesitating outside the cab he figured his day couldn't get any worse. If he survived an explosion surely he could survive a six foot six something cab driver assaulting him.

Kunzite slowly pulled away from the curb before glancing back at the black haired man in the seat behind him. The man smelled like burnt skin and dried blood…his nose scrunched up at the unusual smells in the cab. Usually he only had to deal with drunks coming home at this time of night, but he wouldn't question a customer. No point in it…he kept his car completely silent and minus the exceptionally loud engine in the taxi they drove in complete silence.

Mamoru rested his head against the glass of the rear door and attempted not to fall asleep. It was rather nice to have a silent cab driver like this guy. No forced conversation even if it was a bit eerie especially this late at night. After a few more moments of keeping his eyes open just be sheer will of force the lulling sound of the engine finally won out against his will power. Without ever knowing it he passed out against the window.

For a moment he glanced back at the man in the passenger seat to make sure he had truly fallen asleep before pulling out a small cell phone. With a click of the two way radio function he was in contact with another voice as calm as his upon the other line. "He's in the car…"

"I see…does he know anything…enough to help us?"

"No I don't think he knows anything nor does he suspect."

"Very well…Kunzite…keep in touch."

"Of course sir." He clicked the radio off with a double click before replacing the cell phone back into his pocket as if nothing had ever happened. When he glanced back up he found that he was almost to the man's stop…well things would get interesting within the next few weeks of that he was sure. The moment he pulled up to the curb he slowly reached into the back of the cab and gently pushed the man. It took another two pushes before the man started to come around. "We're here..."

With something akin to a grumble he slowly pushed his head away from the window and blinked the sleep from his eyes. He pushed the door open and finally managed to stumble out of it. Amazingly enough he was right in front of his apartment complex. The sound of tires screeching alerted him the cab left…he slowly reached to his back pocket and felt the firm pressure of his wallet. A moment later after enough sleep had cleared from his mind he immediately turned back to where the cab had been. Now though it was no where in sight. `Strange… never knew a cabbie to leave without his fare.' With a shrug and just placing it under the good will to man kind he forced himself to trudge up the steps to his apartment. All he wanted now was sleep…though once he got to his room he could hear muffled screams within Forgetting his sleepiness in the blink of an eye he pulled the door open and rushed in ready to take on whatever threat was present in his own apartment. The scene he was met with, was to say the least interesting. Usagi was tied to a dining chair looking absolutely vindictive. Setsuna was watching her with a careful eye while Rei and Ami were ransacking his kitchen. Well this was certainly a new factor to add into his night. "Dare I ask what you're doing to my apartment."

Usagi was the first one to see him and immediately swung her head around and gave him a glare that would send grown men crying. "Who the hell are you!"

"Remember when I told you Usagi's third personality is Shiva…well this is her…she's kind of violent."

"You're damn right I am, now untie me before I really get angry. I'll tear the heads off your children then tear your eyes out!"

Mamoru glanced over to Shiva as the hateful little thing started to use her feet to make the chair jump towards him, for the moment he disregarded the crazed personality and turned back to Setsuna with a questioning look. "Right…well that still doesn't explain what you are all doing in my kitchen…ransacking it."

"We're saving your life Mamoru be grateful!" Rei yelled across the room in a higher tone then was really needed, she waved a large knife around for epenthesis before dropping it into the burlap bag along with all the other knives.

Mamoru watched as Ami dumped all of his forks and butter knives into the burlap bag as well. "Yeah…well do you really need to take the butter knives?"

"I'm afraid so Mamoru." Ami answered in a slightly embarrassed apologetic tone, before holding the bag open while Rei dumped in all of his plastic forks and knives.

"You've got to be kidding me…" He grumbled unhappily, what would Shiva do with plastic utensils he had to wonder.

Rei looked up from her task with a huff of superiority. "She could stab your eye out with the plastic ware."

"I think I'll take my chances." Mamoru grumbled a bit, what in the world was he going to eat without forks or knives. A sigh of regret passed his lips…no more eating his usual egg breakfast…sure he could do it with a spoon but it just wasn't the same. A slight smirk crossed his lips…they probably had already taken the spatula and frying pan with claims of Shiva causing brain hemorrhage. He glanced up at that moment to the spot she was only to find it empty. `Now where did she…' "Ah!!" He let out a scream of pain when he felt something sink into his thigh, he looked down immediately while trying to back away. `Teeth.' He amended mentally as he finally got Usagi off of him. "God Damnit! That hurt!"

"That's the general point you bastard! Next time I'll bite off your ankles! Then your ears and then I'll make sure you can never have children again!" Shiva started to scoot towards him once more but Mamoru easily maneuvered around the crazed girl.

Now he knew why they kept her on lock down even though both Usagi and Hotaru seemed to be innocent enough. "I'm going to bed and locking my door. I need…sleep or something." He trudged off down a hallway without even listening to the obscenities Shiva shouted at his back and the calls from Ami and Rei…he'd deal with it all in the morning. Maybe though this whole night was a bad dream and he had fallen asleep back in the hospital.

* Three Lights Mansion *

Yaten sat on the sofa watching the morning news has had become his custom when they weren't on tour. Shoving Honey nut Cheerios into his mouth absently as he watched a police report come on from last night. He was fairly interested as to who did it since they said they had two witnesses, one a doctor and the other a mental patient. `What kind of nut destroys a hospital anyway.'

"Police Commissioner Reo do you have any idea who started the fire?"

"Yes actually we have the name of the primary suspect thanks to an eye witness account."

"Will you release this information to the press?"

"We will at a later date after the suspect has been brought in and has given his statement and then we can will release his name. This is a high profile case due to the nature of the crime along with the suspect's support base of higher ups."

"I have word that the FBI has been brought into this investigation."

"No comment…that is all the questions for today."

He simply shook his head as he watched the reporters on TV attempt to get around the circle of Police officers before Reo got into the relative safety of the Police station. From the sounds of it this guy must have been a celebrity of some type. Just as he finished the last of his Cheerios the distant sound of the door bell rang. It just figured a nice relaxing start to the day and he was interrupted by some annoying idiot he was sure. Practically throwing the cereal bowl down upon the table he made his way to the front door in an annoyed huff. With practiced ease he threw the door wide open and looked much like a bat out of hell. The furious gaze upon his face momentarily froze both the police where they stood. The younger of the two had his finger about an inch away from the doorbell and the other stood there with a warrant in his hand.

It was the older one that recovered first, shaking his head for a moment before addressing the obviously annoyed young man. "Sorry to bother you Sir…but we'd like a Mr. Kou to accompany us down to the station."

Yaten narrowed his eyes slightly before responding in an aggravated tone. "I'd gladly help but three Mr. Kou's live here, myself which would be Yaten Kou. Then there is also Taiki and Seiya Kou, so just pick which one you want."

"Ah…well then Mr. Seiya then."

He nodded a bit before glancing back to the officer. "Why exactly do you need my brother anyway?"

"He's been named as the prime suspect in the fire at the hospital." The younger one butted in before the older man could even get a word out.

"Well follow me he should be up in his room." Yaten grumbled to himself as he turned back from the door and started up towards Seiya's room on the fourth floor. He had a fairly good idea why Seiya did it and who he was targeting…the god damn bastard. If Seiya wasn't family…he would have been beat up and turned in a long time ago…not just beaten up. If only he had told Taiki about the whole damn mess, now it was too late to control the mess that had just exploded. `To late for `If what's and if only…I only hope he didn't decide to jet.' Instead of finding an empty room when he burst through the door without so much as a knock. Yaten found Seiya simply sitting upon his bed writing something upon a piece of paper. "You have a lot of nerve Seiya."

"It doesn't matter much…all they have is one account of what happened. It's my word against his you see." A slight smile curled over Seiya's face but it was not one of amusement or even fun as they used to be. Instead it was one that stretched the skin into a warped way. "Everything is in motion Yaten…no one can stop it now. This little trial if they can even get enough evidence for one will be short and I will get out without even lifting a finger. I never get caught brother."

"You conceded bastard! I'll kill you myself for what you have done to her! Wasn't the night enough you broke her you fucking broke her. You can't leave her alone though…god damn you."

"Now now…no need for such anger young brother. You know perfectly well it's her fault." His eyes darkened for a moment in anger and resentment or maybe just pain. He returned his normal smiling face when the two police officer's finally made it up to the room. "You two are obviously here for me…no need to worry I won't put up a struggle I will come for this questioning. Though it is a waste of time I was at the house the whole night."

The younger one immediately sided with the man, he was famous and a pop idol across Japan. Why would he set fire to a hospital? Even if he had, he'd hire people to do it for him. While the second appeared a bit more skeptical but gave a shrug of indifference before heading back the way he came with Seiya and the younger officer trailing afterwards.

Seiya stuffed a small note into Yaten's hand as he walked by…flashing the angry man a confident smile. "See you in a few hours."

Yaten watched till the trio disappeared before slowly opening the note…he only read the first line before throwing it down to the ground. He felt his chest constrict upon his lungs as he shuddered slightly. This wasn't happening…he wouldn't go this far. Just as he fell to the ground on his hands and knees shaking still Taiki walked into the room. The ever calm expression on his face and a book in his left hand his pointer finger placed in between the pages to mark his spot.

"What's going on…"

"I'll tell you what's going on…everything's gone to hell."

"What do you mean."

"I need to tell you something…I should have told you a long time ago."

Review Response Section:

Hopeless Dreamer 1125: Well I can't tell ya how close your guesses are but I'm glad you're enjoying the story

UNC6: not even I know how the plot'll turn out ^_^ Well I will eventually don't worry but I'm writing a lot by ideas I have from writing the chapter before lol and a very very basic outline. I don't want Usa's problem to be resolved right away and the plot given away but I don't want it to be dragged out to the point people are crying for the end…a very fine line between too fast and too slow.

Sailor-Sara-Moon: Hmm Usa and Mamo get closer? Well I suppose we'll see…

Lady of Enchantment: Yeah it's even a bit confusing to me and that was before I brought her third personality into the picture

Tramie: Yeah it is but I don't want Usagi to be in control all the time and the others to just be like randomly there with no personality further then to look innocent…or a psycho…whatever..

…: yub yub commander, welcome just tell me if I do anything else that is confusing

Chibi Crab: No No we won't ^^

Thanks again to Allie, Momoco Lady,