Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Silence Amongst The Rose So Cold ❯ More then it Seems ( Chapter 6 )

Silence Amongst the Rose so Cold

 

More then it Seems

 

Well it's been almost a year since I last posted so I guess I kind of owe an explanation to anyone that may be reading this. My first year of college was a lot harder then I thought. I lost the original chapter 6 when my hard drive crashed last semester, I've now decided that was a good thing as it was too light and happy. I've declared myself as a psychology major and most of the information of this story doesn't agree with today's psychology. It's taken me this long to decide to continue this story as it is without changing it since it's for entertainment and not exact scientific proof.

 

 

Minako waved down the taxi as she stepped out of the doors to her business office. As usual the city streets were crowded and getting a taxi was hard. Yet the past few weeks ever since she had started to visit Usagi during her lunch breaks and after work. She had always managed to get a cab driven by the same guy. Silent as anything but he had that comforting aura about him. So as usual the sleek yellow cab pulled up to the curb. Followed by Minako pulling open the back side door as was now the usual routine. “Hey there…having a good day.” As usual of course she got the standard grunt from the large cabby. The man was a giant, though she had never seen him actually stand, the fact he almost had to lean down to see out the window and his broad shoulders basically blocked her view out the front of the car. That silver hair though was so exquisite, she found herself day dreaming about this silent man more and more every day.

 

“So…yeah Averst and Novella street as usual…”

 

“I know.” His reply to her directions came out as a simple fact. He had memorized the route by this point. She just happened to give him a good excuse to hang about the area that Usagi was currently located without raising too many eyebrows. Throwing the car into first gear, he slowly pulled out from the semi-park job he had done to get to the curb she was at. Once he fell into lane of outgoing traffic he almost sighed as he heard the little blonde minx try to start up conversation again. Could she never just be quiet for one ride out to her destination.

 

“Why can't you carry on a conversation with me just once without using grunts and single sentence answers.” Not that she really expected an answer from him, he just would grunt and go back to driving the car. Still it was annoying and as usual she fell back on her normal defense of throwing insults when being nice didn't work out for her. “Well I guess I can't expect giant gorillas…to be able to…drive well!”

 

Mean while in the front Kunzite simply cringed…these were the times he almost cracked when she started hurling insults…or attempted. Half the time he couldn't even distinguish what she meant by them. Luckily her stop was coming up and it was only a few more minutes.

 

“That's right you obviously have a glitch in your civil programming Mr. Roboto.” Minako silently cheered for herself as she watched him cringe. Another glancing blow to his obviously over inflated ego. “Oh you wish you were as cute as me then maybe you could get by on never talking. I bet you've never been out on a date because you're such a loser Mr. Roboto.”

 

Where ever did she come up with such insults he couldn't phantom. A few minutes though turned out to be much to long for him to handle and instead of even trying to be nice and just listening. He reached over to the very rarely used radio since he didn't want to chance missing a call when he had it on. Still this time without regret he flipped it on and pressed the preprogrammed button. That filled the taxi with jazz music the next moment.

 

After he put on the jazz music Minako obviously must have taken it as a signal that he didn't want to listen to her any more. So the rest of the car ride was in complete silence until their parting at Mamoru's house.

 

“So I'll see you back here in about an hour…right?” She was slightly concerned since he didn't seem to want to deal with her today. Or at least that's the impression she had gotten. The fact that taxi's didn't exactly flow through this area like water had her a little concerned.

 

“I'll be here.” With that he pulled away from the curb leaving behind the anxious looking girl. For some reason that worried look upon her face almost made him feel bad. Still once she had skipped off to Mamoru's apartment, he pulled into a spot right behind a old beaten up olive green conversion van. Turning off the radio he brought up the two way walkie talkie to his head. “Kunzite here, back in position, how is the Kou residence looking.”

 

“Same old, same old nothing out of the ordinary.”

 

Kunzite just grunted in response before flipping the dashboard over to the other side. The cabbie dashboard with the mileage calculator was all just a rouse for all the control board for all the advanced gadgets that the FBI had stuffed into the taxi. Flipping on the bugs that were all across the house. He was immediately greeted with a scream. “You're dead Chiba! Once I'm out of these restraints I'm going to twist your balls around and then rip them off strand by strand!” Safe house…sometimes Kunzite wondered about Setsuna's judgment.

 

Three Light's Mansion

 

“So Taiki I expect you didn't just call me over for tea.” It was more of a statement then a question. Setsuna set down her cup of tea upon the cherry end table before leveling calm eyes upon Taiki. No emotion got past that calm facade that she almost always had up when dealing with intense situations.

 

“No I'm afraid it isn't quite as simple as a cup of tea Setsuna.” Taiki said with a sigh as he absently stirred the tea bag about in his cup of tea. Unlike his brother's who preferred coffee of traditional Japanese tea. He had picked up a taste for English tea. Though he still kept traditional tea about his room for visitors. At the moment they were stationed in the study that branched off from his own room. Rather private which is what he needed at the moment to talk with Setsuna.

 

“I expected you'd be calling me eventually.”

 

“Hmm..did you now…well I do hate to disappoint, regardless. As you pointed out this is not a social visit. Instead it's about a certain patient of yours.”

 

“Usagi.” Once more Setsuna stated without a doubt in mind. Taking a moment to calmly sip her tea, the whole time keeping Taiki in her vision.

 

“Quite…it turns out my brother has found some disturbing information about the fire. That and I do believe it isn't standard practice to place a mental patient in a house with a young man and groups of young single girls.”

 

“You make it sound as if this is some plot out of an anime.”

 

“Well I must admit Setsuna, it really makes little sense.”

 

“Hm…that may be, still Usagi is there because it is a safe house. Her doctor just doesn't know it. Nor will he ever have a clue…nor will Seiya.”

 

“I understand.” Taiki ran his hand through his hair absent mindly for but a moment. Lost in thought, or rather analyzing what information he had gotten out of Setsuna. He carefully took the tea bag out of the cup as to not get drops of it all over himself. Placing it on the small coffee cup saucer before regarding his guest once more. “Now then…would that be an FBI safe house or a police safe house. Surely no normal psychiatric hospital has safe houses for patients.”

 

“Taiki you are much smarter then either of your brother's. Still this is not something you should be getting yourself into. Everything that is happening, is much more complicated then you'd ever believe. I don't even understand half of it myself.”

 

“That may be, but I do know that you need Usagi to be mentally one person. To be able to testify against Seiya.” Taiki reached down to the coffee table beside him and pulled up a DVD case. One of the many copies he had made of the security video tape that Yaten had given to him. “I suggest you take a look at this. Alone for that matter, you may find it interesting.” With that said he slide the DVD case across the end table between them. Then stood up with his tea, signifying an end to the meeting. Obviously he wouldn't get much else out of Setsuna this time. Then again when he had dealt with her back at the original Christmas fire incident, he hadn't gotten much out of her then.

 

Darien's home

 

“Get off me…” Darien managed to grumble, he felt teeth in the back of his neck. Currently he was being pushed down on his bed with Shiva somehow atop of him. She was still currently tied down to the chair and had managed to get onto the bed and on top of him. At the moment he was being bitten in the neck. At first he was too tired to acknowledge the pain going through the back of his neck. Now though…well it was a different story. He somehow managed to push her off of him and onto the other side of the bed.

 

“You're dead Chiba! Once I'm out of these restraints I'm going to twist your balls around and then rip them off strand by strand!”

 

Just then the door bell rang and Mamoru simply groaned. How could this day get any worse…he already was living off of oatmeal and cold cereal. He was sure it was only a matter of time before they decided that those corners may give him a death dealing paper cut. Running one of his hands through his hair he found it wet. With a grimace he brought his hand out of his hair. Finding thick strands of saliva running off his fingers. He scrunched up his nose in disgust before glancing over to Shiva. Who was snickering away to herself.

 

“You've got to be kidding me.” He muttered under his breath before he stepped out of the room. Leaving Shiva behind to scream death threats. The more time he spent around that crazy personality. The more he got the feeling it was just there to piss him off rather then kill him. When he got to the front door of his apartment he found Minako standing there as usual. It was a daily ritual to wake up in the morning. Then have breakfast with who ever happened to be Usagi. Followed by a consoling session and then a nap. Minako normally dropped by around noon.

 

“Morning sleepy head!” Minako said as Mamoru opened the door for her, she skipped right into the room before staring at Mamo with a slight head tilt.

 

“Umm….”

 

“Yeah?”

 

“You know you have spit in your hair right?”

 

“Oh yeah…I know.” He muttered as he almost slammed the door closed behind Minako, which prompted her to hop over to the other side of the room. Obviously he hadn't had a good nap or rather a good wake up call.

 

“So where's Usa?”

 

“In the bedroom…and she's Shiva right now.”

 

“Alright well…I'm gonna go ahead and go talk to her.”

 

“I'll be making sandwiches for lunch…oh wait my knives were taken from me along with my forks. So I guess I'll be making oatmeal for lunch.” His voice laced with Sarcasm as he moved across the kitchen to fetch a pot to make the gruel of oats and water.

 

“Don't worry I ordered pizza for your house before I left for lunch. Oh and by the way tip is three dollars.” Minako winked at him before disappearing into his bed room. Leaving behind a rather unhappy Mamoru.

 

A moment later the door bell rang once more. Obviously he had been left with the bill, not that it really surprised him. Reaching back to get his wallet out of his back pocket he opened the door for a young man obviously working the job for the summer. In his hand he held five pizzas all extra large.

 

“That'll be thirty two dollars my man.”

 

Mamoru's eyebrow twitched slightly as he dug through his wallet to find thirty five dollars. Taking the pizza in exchange for the money. Minako was becoming more and more of a pest about the house. He really needed to get her out of the Shiva mind set so he could talk to Usagi again. It was at that moment that he heard Minako coming back with an unbound Usagi in tow…he cringed. Until he realized the change in her eyes. It wasn't that curious look that Usagi had nor the sheer hatred that Shiva had. Instead it was that innocent and kind of frightened look Hotaru had.

 

“Hey Hotaru, how are you feeling? Want any pizza?” He gave Minako a pointed glare as he set the pizzas down on top of the stove. Looked like it was pizza for the next few weeks as his food source.

 

“If it isn't too much trouble…” Hotaru said, by the time she finished her sentence it was almost a whisper. “I'm sorry for what Shiva did to you Mamo-Chan.” A slight blush came across the girl's features as she quickly took a seat at the table.

 

“Oh don't worry Mamoru can take it. You just go ahead and keep abusing him till he makes you better! It'll encourage him to fix you up faster. Isn't that right Mamoru.” Minako grinned as she grabbed one of the pizza boxes.

 

Mamoru sighed, once again he suffered under female oppression or so it seemed. This was the exact reason why he moved across the city from Rei. Not that he didn't love her…but she had a habit of controlling him not to mention everything around her. It was just her way of dealing with life. Control anything that came at you so that it couldn't hurt you. “Yes…that's right Minako…now why did you order so much pizza?”

 

“Oh I was just hoping this much food would somehow trigger the old Usagi to come back out of her depressed mental state.”

 

Perhaps Setsuna had too much hope for him to cure Usagi, or he just needed to restrict visitors to those that didn't try and encourage the psychotic personality to kill him. At least later this week Makoto had promised to come over later and cook for them both. Or rather cook for Usagi and he'd get the left overs. He almost wished he could go back to the first day when he got hit with that alarm clock and give up then and there.

 

For the moment though he buckled down for a lunch with an over excited blonde and a rather calm Hotaru. Hopefully he could get back to actually working with Hotaru now that the killer personality finally had switched off. If he got lucky he may even get his plastic forks back.

 

Three Light's mansion.

 

Seiya walked into his room with a superior sneer upon his face. Those damn police down at the station had gotten nothing other then his autograph. The detectives had already been bought out so it really didn't matter what they had on him. Of course he had heard the rumors of the FBI actually in Nihon. Those bastards just never knew when to leave something alone. It mattered little though, he took out a key from his pocket and slipped it into the lock on one of his desk drawers.

 

Opening it quickly, he pulled forth a bottle of chloroform pills and a small shot glass. Shutting the drawer once more. He locked it up tight before dropping the two pills into the glass. Whistling to himself he made his way over to a fake wall panel. Pressing down at just the right place the wood paneling popped out of place and slide to the side on silent tracks. Revealing a metal door with a port hole that would look more at home on a navy ship. “Well time for your medicine can't have you making too much noise while I'm away.” He punched in the code to the door before popping the sound proof door open, swinging the glass in hand, he approached the prone form that lay across the bed. Just as he was about to rouse the figure to give them their daily dose of chloroform. A fierce knock came from the door.

 

“Oh my…seems your sleepy time shall come a bit late. No worries though I'll deal with which ever of those two annoying Kou brother's is at the door. Then it will be just me and you for another night of fun.” A soft snicker left his throat as he licked his lips, looking across the limp form. “Not that you'll ever remember it…I do miss your screams of pain…too bad they became too loud…no worries one day I'll make sure you're awake through the whole thing.” A throaty laugh left his lips as he stepped out of the door once more locking it closed and securing the wood paneling. Annoyed that his fun had been diverted he headed for the door to deal with Yaten.

 

This is where I leave you for now, hope you enjoyed it and next chapter will become more serious and advance the plot a bit more then this one I hope. Sadly I barely even know what the hell I'm doing as I write ^^;; oh well see ya next time. The next chapter'll be out a lot sooner then 8 months later like hopefully within a week.

 

*Review Responses*

 

Now that I've sufficiently pissed people off and or made them forget completely about the story! I will answer questions they completely forgot about.

 

SilverStarlet, yeah my grammar has much to be desired. Eh if you want me to E-mail you when I post a new chapter reply back with your e-mail address I'm not sure if it's just Judy 16 or Silverstarlet judy 16

 

Water Miko Sera Pisces: Sorry I made you hate Seiya haha

 

Moonlight Shadows: Well…without him the plot would kinda die…we'd have a screwed up Usa for no responsible explanation, Mamo-chan housing her for no reason. That and FBI agents running around in Tokyo for no good reason.

 

Hopeless Dreamer 1125: Da, I'll try to get Usagi and Mamo in next chapter and turn it back to a more serious note.

 

Starling Sinclair: That is scary, I just acquired a sega genesis again and I'm looking to find a SuperNes haha. Yeah hopefully I'll be able to put my real psychology knowledge to use next chapter.

 

Chibi Crab: Yeah guess so, I don't do much research with the signs and stuff. I'm Capricorn I think that must mean I don't care about others or I'm a sociopath or personality disorder as it's being called now-a days.

 

Lil-Harry-Hobo: Oh Seiya and Mamoru are gonna be besssstttt friends….and by friends I mean like Caboose and Church in RedVsBlue. So by friends I mean they'll kill each other if they ever meet.

 

Sailor-Sara-Moon: Well you've waited quite a bit of time ^^;;; sorry about that.

 

Thank you also to reviewers such as,

RoseWomen, Lady Tristana Rogue, momocolady, Evil but Friendly Rival, Tramie,