Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Silence Amongst The Rose So Cold ❯ Fire Side Secrets ( Chapter 5 )

Silence Amongst The Rose So Cold 5

Fire Side Secrets

Hey sorry to be late getting the chapter out but unseen events kind of staled writing. The first was a simple one I wasn't sure how I wanted Yaten to retell the tale needless to say there won't be any Mamoru or anyone else really save for Yaten, Taiki, Seiya and Usagi while Yaten's telling Taiki what happened to Usa. I figured it'd be better then some quick explanation from Yaten. Second my mom broke her collar bone and is basically disabled it's getting better now but for the first few days I was Nurse Scott…I can fix all your pains and broken bones with my amazing happy pills. On another point I have the next two chapters semi planned out…ya know instead of my normal write and think method. I'd go into the third and forth but you know I guess they could have been avoided and I don't want to complain and whine.

Yaten glanced over Taiki for a moment as if debating…this whole god damn situation was getting too out of control and he didn't like where it was heading. The damn man had turned into a psycho over the past few years and even if he was family…Seiya had taken the cake with this one. "Meet me in the Study in about ten minutes…I need to get something off my chest."

"As you wish Yaten." Even if he didn't know exactly what was going on, he afforded his younger brother with a small smile. After a moment of waiting by the door to wait and see if his brother would add anything else, Taiki simply left and headed towards the Study to wait for his brother.

He stood for a moment in Seiya's room briefly cursing the uncaring bastard…how dare he believe himself so high up that he could simply blow up a hospital and get away with it. With one more string of low curses he departed from the room as well, instead of heading for the study, he headed towards his room…there was something he needed up there. A few moment's after Yaten left Seiya's room a barely audible thud came forth from one of the walls towards the back of the room but no one was around to hear it anymore.

Once he reached his room, a good distance away from everyone else's room in the house…just as he liked it. He pulled open the side door that led into his studio room, the place was a general mess. Papers were strewn every where, half completed sketches and finished master pieces were scattered about amidst the trash. Without even looking he maneuvered around the still wet paint trays preserved by plastic wrap and a hasty scotch tape job so they didn't dry out. Once in the back of the room he slowly glanced around, a slightly paranoid feature of his even if this room had no natural light and was closed off from the rest of the house other then through his room. Kneeling down, his hands shakily wrapped about the edges of a slightly discolored panel in the wall. After a moment of careful pulling the fake panel gave out with a slight screech of metal on metal. He let the panel drop to the ground as he slowly shifted through some more of his personal things. A small sketch book and poetry book were pushed aside till his hand hit the tape in the very back. Wrapped around it was a yellowing piece of paper that had long ago conformed to the shape of the tape. He carefully removed the tape from it's confines and replaced the panel a moment later. Within the tape contained everything he had upon his own brother…the true happenings of the transpiring of January 1st. `Maybe if you had been there Taiki things would have been different…maybe if I had the guts to do something none of this would have happened.' With a shrug of helplessness he slowly pushed himself up off the ground and shook off the thoughts before they once more angered him.

Taiki looked up from the book he had started while awaiting his brother in the study as Yaten marched into the room, and he looked like he was debating whether to punch something or just yell. The sure fire sign of course was Yaten's free hand which was constantly clenching then unclenching as he stared at the tape in the other hand. He rose a slight eyebrow at his brother's apparent mood but said nothing. He gently placed the book down as Yaten made his way over to the TV in the room…and proceeded to turn it on before turning once more to him.

"Taiki…I know I should have told you think a long time ago. When you were gone on that trip to find yourself…or whatever the hell you were doing out in the mountains."

"I was writing my book in the peace and quiet of the Alps…away from the constant noise you and Seiya force upon me." Taiki interjected with a calm smile upon his face.

"Whatever…I don't give a damn what you did up there. This is serious…look Seiya…he turned into a monster on that night. More then a monster an abomination that needs to be stopped." Yaten sighed in defeat before carefully taking the rubber band from the yellowed paper before tossing the note over for Taiki to read.

Taiki had to bend forwards over the table he had taken a seat at to catch the half flying, half falling note. Once he had snatched it out of the air he brought it into the light of the small desk lamp.

"Yaten whatever happens tonight do not lose faith in me…"

Taiki readjusted his glasses once before regarding the note again…it looked like his brother's hand writing but it just wasn't Seiya's style it made no sense really. Seiya was more of a down to earth man and this was not consistent with his psyche. After one more look at it, he casually flicked his wrist and released the paper held between his fingers at the apex of the flick. It briefly sailed through the air before landing in Yaten's out stretched hand once more. "That makes no sense Yaten…"

"I know, don't you think I god damn know that. As I said though after Christmas he went all fricken psycho and i have no idea why. Though maybe you can tell me why since you are supposed to be the smart brother according to the tabloid reports." Yaten let out a snort at the comment.

"So hard to believe I am the smartest of you three baby brother?" Taiki spoke in a deadpan voice though a slight tug of a smile to one side of his cheek pointed out otherwise.

Yaten threw a furious glare over to Taiki before practically shoving the videotape into the VCR. "This is what really happened on the night of the fire here in Seiya's wing…according to the surveillance camera." With that Yaten popped the video tape into the TV right at the spot when the fire started. Yaten slowly stepped back till he was sitting on the top of the desk Taiki was sitting behind. Both of them watched in silence as the black and white feed showed Usagi and Seiya obviously arguing, followed by Usagi pointing at Seiya in complete out rage. The next thing that happened, Seiya slapped Usagi in the face without a hint of remorse upon his face. The camera started swiveling to the right side of the room till it lost sight of the fighting couple and moved over to a unoccupied part of the room. Yaten tapped his fingers for a moment as he waited a minute or two before the feed eventually moved back to the left. Now Seiya held Usagi by the shoulders and had her facing an open closet. As to what was in the closest the security camera didn't have an angle to see into it. Whatever it was though Usagi was obviously shocked and scared…her face was shell shocked for a moment before she started trying to get away from Seiya. There was a brief struggle before Seiya kneed her in the stomach. With a grunt of pain the girl crumbled to the floor and didn't get back up. Once more the video feed slowly started to turn to the right and within ten seconds the two were out of view once more replaced by blank screen.

"So can you make anything out of it…?"

"Of course not, this is just a video there are no sounds and I have no clue what she was responding to in that closest. All I have are facial expressions and they aren't always surprised…for all we know Seiya could have proposed to her and she responded in fear…"

"Cause…ya know…you slap and beat the one you love…that makes complete sense Taiki." Yaten grumbled while slamming his fist into his hand in annoyance.

"I never said it was a good theory…I'm just trying to explain to you things aren't always as they seem…she doesn't look afraid for herself…that face is one that's afraid for a loved one."

"You think Seiya grew that sick to hold one of her friends captive or family member?"

Taiki thought a moment before slowly shaking his head. "No…I don't believe so…Remember when they first met back in high school?"

"Yeah of course I do dumbass, Seiya was only talking about a girl at the concert we did here for seven months…that's why Tokyo became our home base."

"Yes well…remember for Usagi's senior year she just disappeared flat off the face of the earth and Seiya had her here supposedly being tutored."

"Yeah yeah I remember wouldn't let anyone see her except the doctor when she had the flu."

"Remember the tabloids suggested Seiya was hiding Usagi because she was pregnant at that time."

"Tabloids make things up all the time…don't they?" Yaten really wasn't following this…it made no real sense to him. This was almost six years ago and about four or so before the fire turned Usagi into a mental patient.

Taiki sighed as he rubbed his temples, of course his brother wouldn't understand but maybe a helpful push in the right direction. "A girl like Usagi wouldn't suffer that much mental damage from almost dying in a fire…she doesn't care about her own life as long as her loved ones are safe."

Taiki smirked slightly when Yaten finally made the connection between the tabloids and the fire. Well despite what he thought his brother wasn't as dense as he looked to be. "That's right…Usagi and Seiya did have a child during that year of absence…and the person in the closest was most likely the baby."

"You mean to tell me…that bastard of a brother torched the house not only with his fiancée in it but his daughter or son in there too!?" Yaten was too shocked for his normally violent personality to come into full swing but the glare upon his face was more then enough to clue off anyone not to test him.

"That's exactly right…Usagi would not have suffered such mental problems if she had been alone but she knew her daughter or son was in that closest next to her…hell she could probably hear the screams as she or he burned alive. If you look at the time frame the child would only have been two at the most certainly not old enough to open a door or get out of bounds. This of course explains her multiple personality disorder in a certain point of view though there's many ways of it…I believe this is the true way."

Yaten glanced back to the video that was still running. Seiya was setting a heavy dousing of gasoline near the closest door and around the other doors. As the image of Seiya taunted the helpless Usagi probably crying for her child to be spared…that bastard.

"You see…I believe Hotaru represents…the child, the innocent child that Seiya killed, Usagi herself is simply trying to recover from this whole ordeal…and finally Shiva is the automated protection system of Usagi and Hotaru to keep them both safe physically and mentally if any questions come too close to what really happened on that night."

A fist slammed down on the desk startling Taiki out of thought… and his eyes looked up to meet the angered gaze of Yaten. "We have to turn the bastard in then!"

"There's nothing we can do."

"What the hell do you mean you just told me exactly what happened!"

Taiki shrugged a tad with a tired look upon his face he glanced up to his younger brother who was about to explode in anger. The younger man had no ability to control his emotions or think out a plan…and if he couldn't take action he felt even more helpless. "Yes it is very probable and I actually believe it to be exactly what happened. Unluckily the only proof we have are some facial reactions on a video tape, my theories and our knowledge of Usagi's persona to go on. Now take that and add it on to the fact suddenly two of the three of the Three Lights attack the lead singer over an issue that was resolved a long time ago? It won't really matter…and since Usagi didn't die all we can really get him in for is a few years of arson. Claiming he killed his own child would be another death blow to the case, anyone that knew about the child was paid a long time ago to keep quiet about it from Seiya so I doubt there are really any records we could find."

Yaten simply grumbled unhappily…his hands clenching and unclenching as he tried to think through what he could do to somehow do the impossible and somehow solve the whole case with a fist and the word of justice behind him. Unluckily that seemed to be impossible for him. "So then what do you suggest?" He nearly growled as he turned his head to Taiki…just daring him to say nothing once more."

"Well…first I believe it'd be best to hear all of what you remember happening upon that night…then I suggest we return Usagi's mental state to normal if we can…if we can somehow get Usagi to realize the truth…then maybe her personalities will reform into one and then we'd have a eye witness account to back up my hypothesis."

"That could take years to have her restored to her once happy self…or did you not put that into your calculations." Yaten muttered in an aggravated growl.

Seiya simply grinned at the comment before responding in a deadpan voice. "You must have faith little brother…it will do you good in the end to have such."

"Well I don't give a damn if faith isn't gonna justify this situation…I'll kill him myself if I need to."

"Hopefully it won't come to that." Taiki murmured more to himself then to Yaten before shaking the slight feeling of dread from his mind…something told him no matter what they did this situation was not going to turn out for the best. "Well then Yaten." He spoke up to get his brooding brother's attention before the man blew a casket and all hell broke loose. "If you could, could you relay the events of that night from your perspective…I'd like to get a better idea of what went on. Especially how Seiya was acting, I remember before I left he was normal but I too noticed a change when I returned but I put it down as an effect from being away from you two and pursing an active goal within the writing community."

"Yeah yeah…I'll give you a big award for being the only one of us to do something with your life other then sing to millions of girls while we're on tour. Boo hoo you lead such a horribly boring and unaccomplished life…maybe one day I'll open my eyes like you and can become just like you." Yaten's sarcasm steadily grew during his small tirade before slowly settling down upon one of the chairs his arms resting across the back of the chairs before he slowly dredged up the memory of that night something he never really enjoyed doing even when alone.

January 1st, 2000

Yaten sighed happily as he finally was able to escape the horrible thing one called relatives, unluckily the holidays seemed to call them like rabid dogs to a running human. Of course coupled with the fact the world was supposed to end last night every damn one of them had attended for Christmas…something about dying all together. `Damn sadistic bastards…and they wonder why we moved away from Okinawa.' Shaking his head a bit he made a mental note to give Taiki yell for skipping out on this family occasion…how convenient it was that he just happened to get snowed in at the beginning of winter and couldn't get out till the Spring thaw. Shaking his head he reached into his side pocket for some cigarettes…that was till his hand brushed against the inner pocket of his vest and found only a lighter. `Oh yeah…that's right…I quit that four years ago.' It had been to keep the Three Lights looking like a clean cut group of boys with a high moral upbringing. Not that he didn't mind now…but the urge was still there now and again.

The sudden sound of footsteps alerted him to the fact he wasn't alone in the hall. Glancing over to a side hall he quickly jumped out of the way of anyone's view. There was no way he was going back into that crazy hall of relatives and annoying friends in the upper crust of society. In the cover of darkness he watched as both Seiya and Usagi were passing by having a hushed conversation.

"We've never left her alone this long…do you think she's alright?"

"Of course she is Usa…no worries I promise…everything will be fine…she was only alone for 15 minutes and you had the monitor the whole time." Yaten raised an eyebrow at this…oh well probably one of their friends that had, had a little too much to drink and was sleeping in there room. With a slight shrug of his head he watched Seiya and Usagi walk down the hall the rest of the way in complete silence.

After making sure they had rounded the next corner, Yaten pulled himself out from where he was hiding and shook his head. Now that, that threat was over…he moved off down the hall away from Seiya's section of the mansion and towards his own. Lucky for him, most of the guests didn't bother to wander away from the main hall where the huge party was now going on without either of the two hosts. The only ones that left the area were heading to their rooms which were situated near Seiya's section of the house. Taiki probably wouldn't want anyone even near his room so his section hadn't been used for the guests out of respect. He of course had just plain out told Seiya that he would have no one anywhere near his room he liked his privacy. He was about half way to his own room when the fire alarm went off throughout the whole house. A moment later their were sounds of confusion coming down the hall.

With a disgusted sigh Yaten ran down the hall, some idiot had probably smoked near one of the in home sensors. While running across a stretch of French style full length windows he caught a glimmer of red and yellow to his left. He barely had to turn his head to see it was coming from the area around Seiya's room. Not only was it coming from that general area but it was a huge blaze. `Oh crap…Usagi and Seiya are in there…"

August 4th 2004

"Sorry…it really isn't much…I really didn't see as much as the video tape saw…but after the fire had consumed most of Seiya's room and the rooms around it Seiya came stumbling out of the fire and collapsed. I told them Usagi was still in there…they said they got there in the nick of time but it was too late by that time. Usagi's soul was broken by that bastard." Yaten turned back to the camera footage, watching the last remaining bit that hadn't run out during the time he had told Taiki about what he had seen. They watched as a two fire fighters came through the door, one was a tall man with hair falling out of his helmet. It looked like it was white or silver on the black and white camera but it was probably a light blonde and it was the black and white picture. The other man was a lot smaller…actually he really wasn't sure if it was a man or a woman from the stature. Not that it really mattered…he simply waited till the part where the camera finally died consumed by fire. "We're lucky you reprogrammed those computers to send the feed directly to our central security station. Or else we wouldn't even have this to look off of."

"Yes indeed…it seems my intelligence goes far beyond even my perception…I must be a psychic of some type." Taiki stated dryly while looking over to the video feed that now was pure snow.

"Right…of course Taiki…I'm sure you had some sort of premonition of the whole situation and thought ahead subconsciously." Yaten moved back over to the TV and ejected the tape before flipping the power off to both the TV and VCR.

Taiki stood up from where he had been sitting for the past half an hour or so, stretching his legs a moment before moving around the desk in his normal grace. "Stranger things have happened…but for now…I believe we should keep all this to ourselves but I have to call someone now to see if they have any information."

"I thought you said that we shouldn't tell anyone!" Yaten exclaimed in confusion.

"By we…I meant you."

"Thanks…glad you trust the people I'd tell so much."

"Because I know you…and you'd walk around throwing innocent people against the wall demanding information." Taiki ended with a roll of his eyes. "I'm going to go talk to Setsuna before you ask or rather demand to know who I'm going to talk to."

"Whatever…" After a slight indignant huff Yaten blinked a bit before speaking once more. "Isn't that the crazy commander lady of the hospital Usagi's in?"

"Yes." With another roll of his eyes Taiki walked out of the room and headed towards his room within the huge mansion leaving Yaten alone in the study to scream in frustration over the whole situation.

Review Responses:

Sorry guys guess this turned out to be more of a informational chapter but next chapter we'll be back to Usa and Mamo and all the others…and I'm sure after this chapter you either have more reason to hate Seiya or me one of the other

Hopeless Dreamer 1125: Sorry ya gotta wait till next chapter to see what's happenin with Usa in Mamoru's home ^^ Let's hope for Mamoru's sake I decided to take away the Shiva personality for the moment.

Chibi Crab: You're right ^^ that would have been a lot funnier I wish I had thought of that. Hmm actually I'm not really sure where Rei is coming from x.x;;; I agree mostly with how the manga interprets her but maybe since she isn't a main char really I'm just using the anime to be easy on myself since the manga Rei is probably one of the most complex of the Scouts.

Starling Sinclair: sadly soon Sailor Moon will be forgotten to the younger generation…I mean my little sister never heard of Super Nintendo till I was talking about it one night with my friends and she's only 6 years younger.

Tramie: er you may want to hold off on killing Seiya just yet… I kinda need him ^^;;

Many thanks to: EternalMoonFighter, Sailor Phoenix, Ellen, Moonlightshadows, Starlit Warrior, Kilanda