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DISCLAIMER: Sailor Moon is copyrighted 1992 by Naoko 
Takeuchi.  All except the characters I created belong
to her.  I'm just borrowing them for awhile :-)
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SENSHI IN COLLEGE: EPISODE 11 -- The Golden Crystal appears!
Mamoru's amazing new transformation.

Written By: DQBunny
Edited By: Meara
Pre-Read By: SMRFF List
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	"Mamo-chan!"
	Mamoru looked up from his book to see Usagi running
down the path toward him.  He got up from the park bench
where he had been waiting for her.  The early September 
breeze blew leaves of different colors into Usagi's path 
and she promptly crushed them as she ran toward him.  He 
smiled in response to her carefree attitude and snapped the 
book shut.
	Usagi held several books and magazines in her arms.
She was almost to him when she tripped on a crack in the
sidewalk.  Mamoru reached out and caught Usagi before she
could fall to the ground.  This threw him off balance, and
they fell back onto the bench.
	They both laughed at the accident.  Usagi did not 
bother to move off of Mamoru's lap.  Besides, it made what 
she had to ask him much easier.  A wicked gleam appeared in 
her blue eyes as she got an idea, then started kissing him.
	"You're glad to see me," Mamoru managed to comment
between kisses.  Usagi pulled off his reading glasses and
tucked them into a pocket of his dress shirt.
	"I'm always glad to see you!" Usagi said, then 
snuggled up to him.  "Especially today!  I'm especially 
glad to see you today!"
	She wants something, Mamoru thought.  He knew he 
hadn't been around Tsukino Usagi for five years and not 
know when she was about to ask for something.  He grinned, 
her hair tickling his nose.  "So, what do you have to ask 
me today, Usako?"
	"Oh nothing," Usagi ran her hand up and down his 
chest, fiddling with the buttons on his shirt.  "Just one 
favor.  One teeny, weeny little favor. One miniscule little 
favor."
	"Do you know what miniscule means?" Mamoru asked her.
	"Come on, all of that studying with Ami-chan did pay
off," Usagi said.  "Miniscule means...umm...er..."
	Mamoru chuckled.  "That's what I thought.  What did
you want to ask me?"
	Usagi sat up straighter.  She brushed Mamoru's dark
hair out of his eyes.  "Well, you see, Momma's brother is
really sick.  You remember him, the one who works for the 
driver's license department."
	"Uh huh...and this has to with me because?" Mamoru
slightly raised one of his eyebrows.
	"Well, Rei-chan and Minako-chan are both in the 
school choir, and they're away in Osaka doing a series of
concerts for the next week."
	"Uh huh..."
	"And Mako-chan and her class are taking a trip as 
well to a sister cooking school in Kyoto.  And, of course,
Ami-chan's at Harvard.  That leaves you."
	Mamoru started to grow nervous.  Something inside him 
knew this was not going to be a small favor.  "Leaves me to 
do what?" he asked warily.
	"To take care of Chibi Chibi-chan!" Usagi said in a 
cheerful voice.
	"To do what?" Mamoru nearly knocked Usagi out of his
lap.  Instead, he managed to place her on the bench next to
him, books and magazines piled in her lap.  "Take care of
Chibi Chibi?"
	"Hai!" Usagi nodded.  She sighed and crossed her arms
over her chest.  She leaned back against the bench and her
cheerful expression was replaced by a grumpy one.  "Momma
wants me, Shingo, and Chibi-Usa to go to see my ojisan in
Kobe, but thinks Chibi Chibi-chan is too young to go.  She
said I needed to find her a babysitter, then suggested 
you."
	"Why me?" Mamoru asked, incrediously.
	"Momma says you've always taken really good care of
Chibi-Usa, so you're perfect to take care of Chibi Chibi."
Usagi shrugged.  She turned her gaze back on Mamoru and her
eyes turned pleading.  "Please, Mamo-chan?  Please?"  Usagi
grabbed hold of his arm and tears filled her eyes.
	Be strong, Mamoru, he thought to himself.  You're a
first year med student.  You have to study.  You don't have
time to take care of a two-year-old.  You...Mamoru stared
at Usagi's lips.  You....  Her bottom lip began to tremble.
Mamoru sighed in defeat.  "Okay, I'll take care of 
her," he said.
	"Arigato, Mamo-chan!" Usagi threw herself into his 
arms, her books and magazines falling to the ground.  
Mamoru caught a look at the cover of one of the magazines.
A giggling baby on some type of colorful blanket was the 
dominant art on the cover with the word "Parents" above the 
child.
	"Why do you have those?" Mamoru asked Usagi.
	"Oh!" Usagi reached down and scooped up the magazines
and books and deposited them in Mamoru's arms.  "They're a
bunch of parenting magazines and books.  Momma thought you
could use them.  We're only going to be gone a week.  How
hard could it be?"
	Mamoru started sweating at that moment.  He swallowed 
and tried to think of something to say in response to her, 
but words failed him at that moment.  He knew he was not 
going to come out of this the same person he went into it.

	**********
	"Have fun!  Ja ne!" Mamoru closed his apartment door
and leaned against it.  He rubbed his temples.  It had 
taken him nearly an hour to reassure Usagi's mother that 
everything would be all right.  Then Usagi and Chibi-Usa 
stalled for time because they did not want to go on the 
trip.  Finally, he had gotten the Tsukino family out of his
home and on their way to Kobe.  The sooner they got there,
the sooner they would be back home, he realized.
	"Chibi chibi?"
	Mamoru slowly turned around.  Chibi Chibi stood in 
the middle of his living room.  The little girl had her 
hair done up in heart-shaped odango and she wore a white
blouse and blue skirt with a small heart compact pinned
to the red bow on her blouse.  She stood there smiling at
him.
	He swallowed.  Chiba Mamoru was 23 years old.  An 
only child.  In his past life he was prince of the Earth.
Soon, he would be king.  He was going to be married in 
December.  He'd faced down the Dark Kingdom, the Black
Moon kingdom, and countless other youma and enemies in the
past few years.  He'd died on more than one occassion, not
to mention being brainwashed...constantly.  But nothing terrified 
him like the task that had been thrown at him now.
	Taking care of a two year old.
	Mamoru walked over to the little girl and crouched 
down before her.  He had taken care of Chibi-Usa plenty of
times, but she had been around eight-years-old the first 
time she came to the 20th century.  An eight-year-old
and a two-year-old were two different things entirely.
	"You know, if it makes you feel any better Mamoru-
san, Chibi Chibi-chan's potty-trained."
	Mamoru looked up to see Luna and Diana sitting on the
back of the sofa.  They had come as part of the baby-
sitting deal.  But, he knew he did not need to take care of
Luna and Diana the way he needed to take care of Chibi 
Chibi.  After all, Luna could play a mean game of poker.  
He figured that would bump her out of the "pet" category.
	"Chibi chibi!" Chibi Chibi toddled off into the 
kitchen.
	Mamoru sighed and sat down on the sofa.  "There's not
much to play with in there, she can't get into much 
trouble."
	"I'm not sure about that, Mamoru-san," Luna said.  
"Do you have any silverware lying around?  If so, she could
grab a piece and jam it in the electrical socket.  Then 
she could try to reach for something and have it fall on 
top of her.  And then if you have cleaning materials under
the sink, she could get into them and drink some of..."
	The cat watched as Mamoru jumped up and ran in the 
kitchen.  He returned moments later carrying Chibi Chibi in
his arms.  She held an apple in her hands and was trying to
chew on it.
	"You know, you should cut that into little pieces for
her," Luna said.  "But not too little or she'll choke on them."
	"Hai, hai," Mamoru carried Chibi Chibi back into the
kitchen.  He set her on the counter and took the apple from
her.  He hunted for a knife and started to cut the apple 
into slices.  Luna and Diana followed him into the kitchen.
	"Mamoru-sama!" Diana called.  "It's dangerous to have
a child on the counter!"
	Mamoru stopped cutting and put Chibi Chibi on the 
floor.  The child sat down, opened the bottom cabinet, and 
started to pull out the pots and pans.
	"Mamoru-san, she's getting into the pots and pans!"
Luna said.
	With a groan, Mamoru stopped cutting and picked up 
Chibi Chibi.  He held her to his hip with one hand while
trying to cut the apple with the other.  Mamoru managed to
hack a piece off the apple, and it flew across the room.
	Chibi Chibi clapped.  "Do again!"
	Mamoru sighed and handed her one of the pieces of
apple he had managed to slice.  He carried her back into
the living room and sat down with her on the sofa.  Reaching
over, he grabbed the remote control off of the
coffee table.  He turned it onto a channel which featured
children's programming.
	Luna jumped up to the sofa next to him.  "Have you
had any more of those strange glowing episodes?" she
asked.  Usagi had told her what happened in Nerima in
August, and she had been studying what it could possibly
be.
	"No," Mamoru said.  He looked over at Luna, wanting 
to continue the conversation.  His eyes landed on a clock 
that sat by the TV and suddenly jumped up.  "I've got a 
class in ten minutes!" he cried.
	Luna groaned.  "Mamoru-san, you're usually better 
than that about going to class!"
	"Hai, hai, but this is different."  Mamoru grabbed 
his satchel from next to the door and left the apartment as 
quickly as he good.  Luna and Diana followed him, Luna 
shaking her head.
	"Matte, Mamoru-san!" Luna called out.  Mamoru stopped 
by the elevator and turned around.
	"I think you forgot something," Luna said, motioning 
to Chibi Chibi, who had walked outside at this point.  
Mamoru groaned and ran a hand through his unruly hair and 
ran back down to the apartment door and picked up Chibi 
Chibi.
	"I suppose she'll have to go with me," he said.  "I 
don't have enough time to find someone to watch her."  With 
that, he took off again toward the elevator.

	**********
	Moreno looked up from his work just as Misora walked 
into the labortory.  He pulled off the safety goggles he 
wore and gazed at his sister.  "Hino-san says you've been 
lacking in your work lately," he commented.  "Something 
going on?"
	"Iie, onii-chan," Misora lied, walking over to the 
table where Moreno was bent over a gun.  "What is that?" 
she asked.  
	Hino Soun, their boss, had asked Moreno to 
construct the gun as an alternate means of obtaining people's
hopeful souls.  Ever since April, Misora had been trying to
obtain hopeful souls for reasons Hino had been very
secretive on.  Despite some successes, they had been outsmarted
by the Sailor Senshi using their current method.  Misora asked 
her brother, a history professor at Azabu University, to join
their campaign.
	"I've been quite interested in the work of the Death 
Busters," Moreno commented.  "They had very innovative ways 
of trying to steal pure korokos from people.  One of them 
by the name of Eudial was very innovative indeed.  She created 
weapon known as the 'Fire Buster.'  She tried to get a 
patent on it, but died before she had a chance to complete 
the paperwork.  It was a weapon that sucessfully battered 
down Sailor Moon before she attained her "super form" during the 
battle for the Holy Grail."
	"So what does this Eudial have to do with us?" Misora 
leaned against the table.
	"I'm changing some things on her 'Fire Buster' and
hope to compact - it into a smaller size," Moreno commented.  
"This weapon will take the place of the standard youma and 
enable you to take hopeful souls much quicker.  This increases 
getaway time.  A flick of a switch and this machine turns from 
soul-taking to Senshi-killing."
	"Not bad," Misora commented absently.  Moreno glanced 
at her.  "Nothing is wrong, hai?" he asked.
	"Nothing is wrong," Misora sighed.  She pushed 
herself off the table and walked out of the room.  Moreno 
gazed after her and frowned.  He knew something was up with 
his younger sister.  She had been like this just two years 
earlier when he closed his eyes and fought off the pain of 
the mutiple tragedy which befell her that day.

	**********
	Mamoru ran into the large lecture hall and leaned 
against the door to catch his breath.  It was just his luck 
that he caught every red light on the way to Azabu 
University, then had to park in the furthest commuter 
parking lot from his class as humanly possible.  Dashing 
across the mile-wide campus had not been easy with his 
satchel and Chibi Chibi in his arms.
	He scanned the rows of desks and noticed the 
professor had already started lecturing.  He saw one empty 
seat in the front of the room and one in the back.  He 
immediately moved to the empty seat in the back of the room 
and sat down, setting his satchel on the desktop, not 
noticing a sign written in kanji posted on the back of the 
chair.  Mamoru kept Chibi Chibi in his lap and leaned over 
to whisper to her.
	"Now, you be quiet for a little bit, ne Chibi Chibi?" 
he asked her.  "This class is only two hours long...more like 
an hour and thirty minutes now."  Chibi Chibi simply smiled 
at him.
	Luna walked up to the door and squinted at the sign 
on the back of Mamoru's chair.  She started chuckling to 
herself and slipped quietly into the corner of the room 
where no one could see her.  Diana glanced at the sign and 
tried to read it, then shook her head.  She followed Luna 
and sat down next to her.
	"Ne, Momma," she whispered.  "I can't see the sign on 
the back of Mamoru-sama's chair.  What does it say?"
	"Oh, you'll find out," Luna said with a sly grin.
	Meanwhile, Mamoru held Chibi Chibi in his lap with 
one hand and scribbled notes with the other.  He tried to 
follow what his professor was saying.
	At the front of the room, Onwa Aijou lectured to his 
class of first-year medical students about the kidneys.  
The chief professor of urology at the Azabu School of 
Medicine, he had given his lecture every semester of every 
school year for the past 22 years.  Every semester, the 
same lectures about the workings and diseases of the 
kidneys and the urinary track.
	As Onwa droned on, a sharp crack sounded out in the 
lecture room.  He paused in his lecture and peered over the 
edge of the spectacles he wore at the 42 students seated in 
the room.  Everyone one of them had a serious expression on 
their faces with the exception of one of the students in 
the back of the room holding a little girl in his lap.  The 
man's blue eyes were full of panic and he glanced around 
the room quickly.
	Suddenly, another crack sounded and the bottom of 
Mamoru's seat caved in, leaving him stuck in the bottom of 
the seat, his body making a V-shape with his arms and legs 
waving in the air above him.  The student next to him had 
grabbed Chibi Chibi just as the seat caved in.
	Onwa stopped lecturing completly, leaned on his 
podium and studied the student in the back of the room.  He 
briefly consulted his roll book and noticed only one 
student had come in late.  "Ah, Chiba Mamoru.  Nice of you 
to come to class today.  What a grand entrance as well.  
What shall you do for an encore?"
	"Funny!" Chibi Chibi exclaimed.  "Do again!"
	Not likely, Mamoru thought in a panic.  He felt the 
hands of several students trying to pull him out of the 
chair, but he was stuck tight.  In his struggle to try to 
maintain whatever was left of his dignity, he forgot about 
Chibi Chibi being in the classroom with him.
	However, Onwa noticed her.  He stepped down from the 
platform the podium stood on in the front of the room and 
walked down the aisle to the student who held Chibi Chibi.  
He took her from the student and held her in his arms.
	"Chibi chibi?" Chibi Chibi questioned, staring at 
Onwa.  The professor was no small man by any means.  He had 
a large stomach and also grey hair and a small gotee to 
match.  His eyes, a darker shade of grey than his hair, 
were kind and laugh lines edged his mouth.  
	"Well now, you're the youngest medical student I've 
ever had in one of my classes," Onwa said to her.  "What do 
you have to say for yourself, little lady?"
	Chibi Chibi looked pensive for a moment, then pointed 
at Mamoru.  "Funny!"
	"Hai, Chiba-san is funny," Onwa glanced at the 
struggling man in the chair.  They watched as the students 
turned Mamoru and the desk over to the side and pulled the 
desk off.
	Chibi Chibi patted the Onwa's stomach.  "Santa?" she 
asked.
	"No, no!" Onwa said with a laugh.  "I'm just a stand-
in," he said with a wink at her.
	Mamoru struggled to his feet with the help of his 
classmates, ignoring the cramping in his stomach from being 
squashed.  He bowed slightly before the professor.  "Gomen 
ne, sensei, demo..."
	"Save your breath, Chiba-san, I take it you have to 
take care of your daughter today," Onwa handed Chibi Chibi 
back over to Mamoru.
	"Demo, she's not my..."
	"She's a very cute little girl.  And quiet too.  I 
like that.  Now, back to your desks, students, we only have 
an hour of lecture left." Onwa turned around and headed 
back toward the front of class.  Mamoru knelt down and 
scooped up his notebook and pen and followed the professor 
to the empty seat in the front of the class.  His cheeks 
beet red, he sat down in the chair and started scribbing 
notes again.  Chibi Chibi sat on his lap and watched him.

	**********
	Misora walked down the street in the Jyuban district 
of Tokyo, absently window-shopping as she strolled along.  
She did not notice the items in each window she passed, for 
she was too lost in her own thoughts.  Finally, she stopped before 
one store and paused.
	She thought about what happened in Nerima and the odd 
power Tuxedo Kamen had used when he had stolen the 
ginzuishou from her.  The senshi are growing stronger, she 
realized.  It won't be long before they will be able to 
defeat us.
	Misora looked into the window and her heart stopped 
at the display of baby clothes arranged on dress dummies.  
She laid one hand on the window glass and gazed longingly 
at the clothing.  She closed her eyes, but not before a 
single tear rolled down her cheek.  She quickly turned away 
from the window and sighed.
	Her life had been taken from her two years earlier.  
Hino had been there to help pick up the pieces and put it 
back together.  Her work as his secretary gave her time to 
put her past life on hold and just fill her days with the 
ability to do something.  His request that she help him 
obtain hopeful souls had given her life even more purpose.
	Misora gazed at the sky.  She never wanted to kill 
anyone in her life before now.  But the Sailor Senshi were 
growing stronger and were standing in Hino's way of getting 
what he wanted.  She owed her life to Hino.  The Tokyo 
street scene faded from her mind.  Her mind too her back to
the day she had been standing in a hospital chapel, dagger in 
hand ready to be plunged into her heart. She paused, hearing
someone behind her.  Misora turned around to see a white flash 
appear before her.  In her surprise, she sucked in a large cloud of 
sparkling green dust that had appeared with the flash of light.  
That had been the moment she met Hino Soun.
	She balled one hand into a fist.  She had to stop the 
Sailor Senshi and their friends somehow, and she needed to 
start now.  She could not wait for Hino to tell her what to 
do.  She owed him this much for failing to get the 
ginzuishou.  She smiled, lowering her gaze back to street 
level.  She would start with the very man who prevented her 
from obtaining the ginzuishou in Nerima, Tuxedo Kamen...Chiba 
Mamoru.

	**********
	"Onwa-sensei is a very understanding person," Diana 
commented as she watched Mamoru place Chibi Chibi on the 
sofa in the living room of his apartment.  He had made a 
makeshift crib for her by pushing the high-backed chairs in 
the room to one end of the sofa to prevent her from falling 
off it.  He placed the sleeping child on the cushions, 
making sure her head was on the pillow he placed at one end 
of the sofa.  He pulled a blanket up over her and watched 
the little girl sleep.
	"Hai, he's the doctor who will be overseeing me 
when I start my internship at Azabu Medical Center when 
as a third year medical student," Mamoru said, then yawned.  
He gazed back down at the little girl.  Luna studied Mamoru 
carefully as he watched Chibi Chibi and noticed a look of longing 
come into his eyes.
	"Mamoru-sama, what happened to your parents?" Diana 
asked suddenly. 
	Luna's eyes widened and she shook her head violently 
at her daughter, but Diana walked over to Mamoru's feet and 
looked up at his face after she asked her question.
	Mamoru picked up Diana and began to pet her.  "They 
died in a car accident on my sixth birthday," he said in a 
low voice.
	"So who loved you when your parents died?" Diana 
asked.
	A bleak look came in his eyes.  "No one...," he said, 
letting the word trail off.  Then the bleakness disappeared 
and he smiled at Diana.  "But, now I have Usako and Chibi-
Usa."
	"Don't you want to marry Usagi-sama?" Diana asked.
	"We are getting married very soon," Mamoru pointed 
out to her.
	"Do you want to have a baby?" Diana asked.
	"Diana!" Luna cried out, mortified that her daughter 
was being so bold.  Suddenly, a thought crossed her mind.  
Diana is from the future, just like Chibi-Usa-chan, she 
thought.  She would know if Usagi-chan and Mamoru-san had 
another child after Chibi-Usa.  Luna's eyes narrowed.  She 
wondered if Diana was trying to tell Mamoru something about 
his future.
	"Hai, Usako and I will eventually have Chibi-Usa," 
Mamoru commented, absently stroking the cat.  "I guess 
taking care of Chibi Chibi's good practice."
	Diana yawned then nodded.  Mamoru kept stroking her, 
but walked into the bedroom where his laptop computer sat 
open on his bed, the screen lit up with the Microsoft Word 
program.  Diana jumped down and he sat himself on the bed 
so his back rested against the headboard with pillows 
behind him for support and the laptop sat before his 
crossed legs.  Books were spread out over the comforter.
	Luna followed and jumped onto the bed.  "You look 
tired, Mamoru-san," she commented.  "You should get some 
sleep," she said, gazing at the dark circles under his 
eyes.  She suspected he had not been sleeping well and the 
baby-sitting job had only begun.
	"I'm fine," Mamoru commented, staring at one of the 
books.  "I need to get this paper done for one of my 
classes."
	He started to type, but a question nagged him at the 
back of his mind.  He paused in typing and stared at Diana, 
who had curled up at the end of the bed and was watching 
him.  He thought about how to phrase his question to her, 
then shrugged.  Mamoru typed a couple more sentences before 
turning his attention back to Diana.  
	"Diana?" he asked.  "You don't need to tell me this 
if you don't want to, but I have a question for you."
	"Hai, Mamoru-san?" Diana sat up.
	Mamoru thought about all of the questions he wanted 
to know about his future.  His thoughts strayed to Chibi 
Chibi and the way the little girl made him feel.  He loved 
Chibi-Usa with all of his heart, and knew he loved Chibi 
Chibi as well.  Being an only child, he longed to have a 
big family.  It had been a desire he'd suppressed until 
meeting Usagi.  He thought of the consequences if he found 
out about his future and decided not to pursue his thoughts 
any further, even to the simple question of whether or not 
he and Usagi had more children.  "It's nothing," he told 
the young cat, then went back to typing his paper.
	After a while, the words on the screen began to grow 
blurry before him.  He yawned for a moment and gazed at the 
laptop screen.  The black words had completely blurred to 
the point where it looked like thin fuzzy line streaking 
across the screen.  He laid back against his pillows and 
close his eyes, figuring he would rest for just a moment 
before completing his paper.
	Meanwhile, in the living room, Chibi Chibi stood up
on the sofa.  She climbed over the arm of the sofa, which 
Mamoru had not blocked off, then snuck into his bedroom to
to see Mamoru asleep on the bed, the laptop next to his 
outstretched legs.  She climbed onto the bed and pushed the 
laptop out of reach in case he knocked it off the bed in the 
middle of the night, then grabbed a blanket folded at the end 
of the bed.  It took her several moments because the blanket was so 
awkward, but she managed to pull it over Mamoru's legs and 
left the blanket pooled around his waist.  
	He shifted in his sleep so he lay on his side and 
Chibi Chibi yawned, tired from the work she had done.  She 
crawled over and snuggled up next to Mamoru, grabbing a 
small amount of the blanket for herself.  She stared up 
into Mamoru's face with wide, curious blue eyes.  She had a 
serious expression on her face for a moment, but then 
smiled.  
	"Night night, Mamo-chan," she whispered, then closed 
her eyes to fall asleep just as Mamoru's arm instinctly 
circled the little girl.

	**********
	He stood alone in the middle of Jyuban Park, gazing 
at the rising sun.  Glancing around, he saw he was alone 
and smiled.  Dawn was his favorite time of day.  It was a 
time of new beginnings, of new hope.
	"Mamo-chan."
	He turned around to see Usagi standing behind him 
wearing a simple white dress.  He glanced down at himself 
to see he wore a navy blue dress suit with a slightly 
lighter blue necktie.  He smiled at Usagi and held his arms 
open and she rushed into them.
	He buried his face in her soft, strawberry-scented 
hair and smiled against the top of her head.  Suddenly, 
Usagi pulled back and tilted her head towards his, closing 
her eyes as she moved her lips toward his.  Eagerly, he 
took her lips with his own and began to kiss her.
	His arms wrapped around her, bringing her into closer 
contact with his body.  She moaned slightly, causing her 
lips to part and his tounge to slip inside.  He carefully 
explored every crevice in her wonderful mouth, savoring 
each and every surface he could reach.  She didn't respond 
much, but he didn't care, figuring he was overwhelming her 
senses.  He pulled away to gaze into her eyes.
	"Aishiteru, Usako," he said, huskily.
	"Oh, Mamoru-san," her lips moved down to nuzzled his 
neck.  "Wake up, Mamoru-san."
	He lifted his head up and gazed down into her blue
eyes for a moment, a puzzled expression on his face.  
"Demo, Usako, you never call me Mamoru-san," he pointed 
out.
	"She doesn't, Mamoru-san, but I do."
	Mamoru blinked once, then twice.  Suddenly, Usagi's 
face was replaced by something white that he had buried his 
face into.  Slowly, Mamoru lifted his head to see Luna 
sitting on the bed near his head.  He glanced down and his 
face turned red at what he had been doing and what Luna 
must had seen him doing.
	He had been making out with his pillow.
	"I don't even think Usagi-chan's made out with her 
pillow like that," Luna said with a sly wink.
	Mamoru grabbed the cat and turned over on his back, 
holding her high in the air above her.  "You never saw me 
doing that, got it?" he told her.
	Luna did not answer, just smiled at him.  He groaned 
and knew that the news of Chiba Mamoru making out with his 
pillow because he was so desperate to have his fiance back 
home would hit Crown's in less than 15 minutes.  Motoki 
would never let him live this one down, he realized.  
Neither would the rest of the senshi once they heard.  
Maybe committing seppeko wouldn't be a bad idea at the 
moment.
	"Momma!  Mamoru-sama!" Diana ran into the bedroom at 
that moment.  "Chibi Chibi-chan's gone!"
	"Huh?" Mamoru shot up in bed, still holding onto 
Luna.  They both stared at Diana as if she had lost her 
mind.
	"I've looked everywhere for her!" Diana exclaimed.  
"The front door to the apartment's open too."
	"Shimatta!" Mamoru jumped off the bed, Luna jumping 
out of his arms as he did so.  He ran out the apartment 
with the cats on his heels, not realizing that he left the 
door open as he left.

	**********
	Misora looked up from the phone book and reached for 
the pad of paper which sat next to her.  She quickly 
scribbed down Mamoru's address and tore off the paper from 
the pad.  She slipped it into the top pocket of her purse 
and walked into the empty lab.
	She hadn't seen Hino for several days, but she knew 
he was involved with his work in the Liberal Democratic 
Party since elections were drawing near.  She knew he hoped 
to become the party's president one day.  As for Moreno, 
she knew he was giving his history 101 lectures that day 
and would nowhere near the labortory tucked away in the 
basement of Hino's large mansion.  She picked up the small 
version of the "Fire Buster," which Moreno called "Kontsu" 
or "Soul Stealer."  She grabbed the kontou gun off the 
table and slipped it into her purse and ran out of the 
room.

	**********
	Unazuki waved to Michiru as the aqua-haired woman 
pushed open the door to Crown's Fruit Parlor.  
"Konnichi'wa, Michiru-san," she said, picking her tray up 
from the bar.  On it sat a large soda, a small child-sized 
soda, a burger, friends, and a white sack with colorful 
drawings on it.  Michiru smiled back at her.  Crown's 
wasn't usually the place she chose to go, but she had 
noticed Mamoru sitting in a booth as she passed by the 
store.  She wanted to discuss the enemy with him and more 
about what happened in Nerima.
	"What is this?" Michiru asked, admiring the bag on 
the tray.  The colorful drawings were done in crayon and 
seemed to be aimed at young children.
	"It's a children's meal, something Poppa wanted to 
try," Unazuki explained.  "I managed to get Mamoru-san to 
buy one, but I suppose in his current state of mind, I 
could get him to spend a million yen and he wouldn't blink 
an eye," she laughed and started walking toward the large 
corner booth.
	"Isn't Mamoru-san a little too old for a child's 
meal?" Michiru asked with a twinkle in her eyes.  
	"It's not for him.  It's for Chibi Chibi-chan," 
Unazuki threw Michiru a look over her shoulder.  "Haven't 
you heard?  Usagi-chan's ojisan got sich and her family 
went to Kobe to take care of him.  Usagi-chan asked Mamoru-
san to baby sit Chibi Chibi while they're gone.  Everyone's 
been talking about it.  I suppose it'll give him a good 
dose of fatherhood before marrying Usagi-chan."
	The women approached the booth.  It was the usual 
corner booth the senshi sat in.  Books, papers, and a 
laptop computer covered the large table's surface.  Michiru 
and Unazuki exchanged a smile.
	Sitting among the mess was a very exhausted Mamoru.  
Next to him, Chibi Chibi sat playing with a paper airplane.  
He had his head buried in a thick medical textbook, one 
hand propping the book open against the napkin holder while 
the other scribbed down notes.  
	"Lunch time!" Unazuki sang out cheerfully, moving 
some of the papers on the table to make a clear spot for 
the tray.  She handed the child's meal to Chibi Chibi.
	Michiru slid in the booth opposite of Mamoru.  She 
smiled at the harried man.  Chibi Chibi reached for her bag
and immediately pulled out the small doll inside it and 
started to play with it for a moment before abandoning it
for her food.  She smiled as the child began to devour her
meal with the speed of Usagi or Chibi-Usa.  She is so much
like them, she thought.  She frowned.  There is no way she
can be Galaxia's star seed, she thought.  But, if the child 
was not her star seed, who could she be?
	Chibi Chibi started to reach for Mamoru's fries, but
he pushed the tray away from her.  "No, Chibi Chibi.  
You're as bad as Usako," he said, looking up at her.  He
then noticed Michiru sitting across from him.  He pushed
his hair out of his eyes and managed a smile for her.
"Konnichi'wa, Michiru-san."
	"Konnichi'wa, Mamoru-san, Chibi Chibi," Michiru
replied.  "Tea, please," she told Unazuki.
	"Sure, coming up!" The girl went off to fill the 
order.
	Mamoru abandoned the textbook and fought back a yawn.  
He reached for the food, also feeling ravenous.  He gazed 
at Chibi Chibi.  So did Michiru.  They watched her quietly 
finish her food, then amuse herself with the doll.
	"I love children," Michiru admitted.  Mamoru gazed at 
Michiru in surprise.  The elegant senshi usually did not 
make comments like that out loud.  He felt that like 
himself, Michiru was a largely private person who kept most 
of her feelings reserved.  He reached for the hamburger and 
unwrapped it.
	"Do you want kids one day?" he asked her, so tired 
that he did not stop to think the question really was not a logical
one.
	A sad look appeared in Michiru's eyes.  "It is not in 
my destiny," she whispered.  Chibi Chibi looked up at this 
comment and stared at Michiru.  The little girl abandoned 
her toy and crawled into Michiru's lap.  The woman smiled 
and lovingly patted the top of her head.
	Mamoru gazed at her.  From the visions of the future 
he had managed to glimpse during the fight with the Black 
Moon Family, he did not recall seeing any of the senshi 
with children.  He wondered if any of them other than 
himself and Usagi would become parents.  His gaze went from 
Chibi Chibi up to Michiru and back down to the little girl.  
He hoped maybe there would be more children in Crystal 
Tokyo after all.  But, from the signs she gave, Chibi-Usa 
did not seem happy in the 30th century.  Was that because 
she had no friends?
	Michiru gazed at Chibi Chibi.  "Mamoru-san, we must 
talk about Misora," she said.  "She is becoming a bigger 
threat than we thought.  Apparently, she's fled the house 
that we originally traced her to.  We need to keep looking 
for her, especially now that the enemy is succeeding in 
taking hopeful souls from people."
	Michiru sighed.  "If only we could figure out what 
they're doing," she commented before hearing a soft snore 
coming from across the booth.  She looked up to see 
Mamoru's head had drooped down until his chin touched his 
chest.  He was fast asleep.  "Mamoru-san," she said in a 
low voice.
	Chibi Chibi climbed out of Michiru's lap and moved 
over to Mamoru.  She started pushing his arm.  "Mamo-chan, 
Mamo-chan," she chanted as she pushed.  His arm gave way 
and Mamoru's face landed in his unfinished hamburger.  
Michiru stared at Mamoru in shock for a moment, then her 
gentle laughter rang out like music over the store.

	**********
	Mamoru pushed open his apartment door, trying to 
stifle a yawn.  Chibi Chibi, Luna, and Diana sat next to 
him.
	"Good thing you didn't mess up your clothes," Luna 
commented, walking into the apartment ahead of him.  "I 
swear, Mamoru-san, you've been around Usagi-chan far too 
long."
	"Hai, hai," Mamoru commented, letting his satchel 
slide down to the ground.  He leaned against the wall and 
let his gaze fall on Chibi Chibi.  This was only the second 
day he was taking care of the little girl and he felt like 
he had already been fighting World War III for a year.  
	After Chibi Chibi had wandered out on her own that 
morning, he had spent an hour looking all over the Azabu 
and Jyuban districts for her before finding her at Crown's 
Fruit Parlor with Unazuki.  He had carried his satchel with 
him and figured he could get more work done at the Fruit 
Parlor rather than staying at home.  His bed looked far too 
tempting at that point.  
	Now, he didn't care at all, he just wanted to get 
some sleep.  The paper he had been working on had left him 
going on just three hours of sleep in the past 36 hours 
before Chibi Chibi entered the picture.  He took off his 
shoes and started toward his bedroom, not even bothering 
put on any slippers.  "Ne, Luna, you'll take care of Chibi 
Chibi?" he asked in a slurred voice as he stumbled toward 
the bedroom
	Diana gazed at the front door and her forehead 
wrinkled in concentration.  She noticed Mamoru had to open 
the door, but she knew that when they fled after Chibi 
Chibi earlier, he left the door standing wide open.  Her 
eyes widened in panic.  She turned toward Mamoru.
	"Mamoru-sama!" she cried.  "Don't go in your 
bedroom?"
	By this time, Mamoru had his hand on the doorknob and 
turned slightly toward Diana, trying to acknowledge her.  
"Nani?" he asked her a second before the door was pulled 
open and Misora stood before him.  He frowned and backed 
away from the woman.
	"Konnichi'wa, Chiba-san," Misora said, walking out of 
the room.  "Ne, Tuxedo Kamen."
	Mamoru lifted his hand into the air and used a deft 
hand motion to produce a rose.  "I suppose then I won't 
keep this a secret," he said, lifting the rose in the air.  
	Before he could concentrate on it to perform his 
transformation, he felt something hard hit his wrist and he 
dropped the rose.  He looked down at the ground to see one 
of his decorative stone coasters lying at his feet next to 
the rose.
	Misora reached in her purse and pulled out the kontsu 
gun.  She aimed it at Mamoru.  "I'll now take your hopeful 
soul," she said, then squeezed the trigger.  Mamoru ducked 
out of the way, but not fast enough.  A white, web-like 
substance shot out of the gun and wrapped itself around 
Mamoru's leg.  He fell to the ground and rolled onto his 
back.  Misora flipped a switch on the gun and shot it at 
Mamoru's chest.  He hollered as a small dart pierced his 
chest and a golden, sparkling substance rose from it.
	"Kami-sama," Luna whispered.  "She's stealing his 
hopeful soul!"
	"Chibi chibi!" Chibi Chibi yelled, then dove at 
Misora.  The woman whirled around, surprised to see the 
little girl under her feet, and backed away.  She tripped 
over her own feet and tumbled to the ground.  Chibi Chibi 
skirted around the fallen woman and headed toward Mamoru.
	Luna and Diana joined her as Chibi Chibi knelt down 
and took Mamoru's hand in her own.  A soft red glow started 
to form around her.
	Luna's eyes grew wide.  Masaka, does this mean 
Mamoru-san is powering-up as well, she thought, gazing at 
him.  What did this all mean? 

	**********
	Chibi-Usa sat on her knees on the sofa staring out 
the window of Satoru-ojisan, Ikuko's brother.  Ikuko was up at 
the hospital visiting him while Shingo had found an arcade 
near the house.  Usagi had gone out to get groceries.  She 
sighed and rested her chin on her crossed arms, which were 
on the window sill.  She was bored.  She had read her 
books, even done her homework.  There was no game consoles 
in the house and the books Satoru had looked boring.
	Suddenly, a pink glow started radiating from her 
chest.  Chibi-Usa straightened up, then gazed down to see 
her brooch was glowing.  She gasped in surprise.
	"Usa-chan."
	Chibi-Usa looked behind her to see a young man with 
white hair dressed in white robes standing behind her.  She 
turned around and sat down hard on her bottom.  
	"Elios!" she cried in surprise.  Elios reached over
and took her hand, pulling her to her feet.
	"Usa-chan," he said, his voice full of emotion.
"My Lady Serenity."
	"Oh, I've missed you so much!" Chibi-Usa started to 
hug, but he took a step back, still holding on to her hand.
	Tears filled her eyes.  "Doushite?" she asked, her
voice shaking.
	"I have a duty to protect the prince," he said.  "I
can not stay long.  But, I had to see you.  I had to speak
to you again.  But the prince needs my help now."
	"Elios...what's wrong with Mamo-chan?  Is he okay?
What's wrong with my poppa?" Chibi-Usa's voice grew shrill
with panic.
	"Things are going as they should."  Elios leaned over
and kissed Chibi-Usa's cheek.  "I'll see you again, 
maiden."
	She gentily brushed her cheek.  "Elios...," she
breathed just as he disappeared.  Tears rolled down her
cheek, and she started pacing the length of the room, 
trying to control her panic.  Chibi-Usa looked up as the 
front door opened and she saw Usagi trying to carry in bags 
of groceries.  She ran over to her.
	"Usagi!" she cried.  "Something's wrong with Mamo-
chan!"
	"Nani?" Usagi let the groceries slide to the ground 
as Chibi-Usa explained Elios' hurried visit.  Panic flashed 
in her blue eyes for a moment, then replaced by 
seriousness.  She had felt odd in the car on the way back to 
their uncle's house and felt something was wrong with Mamoru.
Elios' visit confirmed it.
	"Go pack," she told Chibi-Usa.  "I'll call Momma and 
see if we can go on home ahead of her."
	Chibi-Usa nodded and ran upstairs.  Usagi watched her 
for a moment, then closed her eyes.  She wrapped her 
fingers around her brooch and silently prayed.  Mamo-chan, 
please be okay, she thought.
	
	**********
	Misora slowly picked herself up and glared at Chibi 
Chibi and the cats.  "I will not let you have him!" she 
screamed, then dove for Chibi Chibi.  The little girl 
looked up just as Misora reached her and snatched her up in 
her arms, breaking her contact with Mamoru.
	"Chibi Chibi-chan!" Luna cried, not caring that 
Misora heard her.  She closed her eyes and concentrated, 
trying to send out an all-call signal to the senshi.  
Misora glanced down at Luna and kicked her, sending the cat 
flying into the wall.  Diana cried out and ran to her.
	Misora pushed Chibi Chibi into the hall closet and 
closed the door, turning the key in the lock.  She turned 
back to face a barely-conscious Mamoru and flipped another 
switch on the kontsu.  She used it to start sucking the 
hopeful soul into a tube connected to the gun.
	Mamoru watched this, feeling strangely detached from 
the situation.  He felt Chibi Chibi trying to give him some 
of her power, but failed to make a link with his.  He 
fought to keep his eyes open, to do something as his 
hopeful soul was taken from him.  In a panic, he realized 
that he could probably die.
	Suddenly, all hope seemed to be gone for him.  He 
felt as if he didn't have anything to live for.  The 
hardships, the pain...nothing was worth it.  He closed his 
eyes.  It would be so easy at this moment just to rest and 
let everything just slip away...
	"You have everything to live for Chiba Mamoru...ne, 
Prince Endymion."
	Mamoru fought the weight holding his eyes shut.  He 
opened his eyes to find himself standing in a white space.  
He glanced down at himself and noticed he was completely 
naked.  Before he could begin to feel embarassed about it, 
he noticed someone stood across from him.  He looked up to 
see Elios, Priest and Guardian of Elysion standing before 
him.
	"Elios...," Mamoru whispered.
	Elios nodded to him.  "It is time for you to come 
into your own, my prince.  Do you remember the Dead Moon 
Circus and how they stole my body along with the Golden 
Crystal?  How I held its power in the horn of my pegasus 
form?"
	Mamoru nodded in response.  "Hai, Sailor Moon and 
Sailor Chibi Moon used its power combined with their own to 
defeat the circus."
	"The Golden Crystal was not at its full strength when 
Sailor Chibi Moon received it," Elios said.  "Even then, 
the transference was already taking place.  You felt the 
power of the Golden Crystal earlier when fighting the Death 
Busters and Mistress 9.  It was the power of the Golden 
Crystal that kept Usa-chan alive."
	"Usa-chan, ne?" Mamoru cocked an eyebrow at Elios' 
statement.  Light red stained the priest's cheeks, but he 
kept on going.
	"Since you first became Tuxedo Kamen five years ago, 
there has been a continual transference of power from 
Elysion to you, Endymion.  Now," Elios held his hands out 
toward Mamoru's chest.  "It is time for you to wield the 
full power of the Golden Crystal."
	Mamoru gazed down at his chest and gasped when he saw 
a bright golden glow form in the center, just as it did in 
Nerima when he came into contact with the ginzuishou.  
Slowly, Elios drew a golden crystal from his chest, about 
the size and shape of the ginzuishou.  Eyes widened with 
shock, he gazed at the crystal as it slowly floated above 
his eyes.  
	
	**********
	In the car, Usagi shook her head suddenly and pulled 
off to the side of the road.  She glanced down at her body 
as it began to radiate with a golden glow.  What is this?
she thought.
	In the back seat, Chibi-Usa did the same.  She gazed 
at her hands in wonder.  Some new power, she thought.  
Shingo simply stared at the two of them in shock.
In a hotel room in Osaka, Rei looked up from the 
music she had been studying.  She frowned.  Something is 
happening, she thought.
	Minako burst into the room at that moment.  Rei's 
eyes met hers and she nodded.  "I can feel it," Minako
said.  "A new energy filling the earth."
	At the cooking school in Kyoto, Makoto's spoon 
dropped to the floor.  "Mako-chan, what is it?" Aneko asked 
as Makoto knelt to pick it up.  Makoto grasped the spoon 
and closed her eyes.  A new light, she thought.
	In her dorm room at Harvard, Ami suddenly sprang up 
in bed.  She gazed out the window at the full moon.  A new
hope she realized.
	In a large house in Azabu, Haruka, Michiru, Hotaru, 
and Setsuna stopped eating.  They stared at each other.  
Setsuna put down her fork, and gave the Outer Senshi a 
serious look.  "It has been done. The time is close at 
hand," she said.
	"He is in trouble," Hotaru stood up from her seat, a 
serious look on her young face.  "We must help him."
	The other senshi nodded and rose from the table, 
grasping their brooches.

	**********
	The light faded.  Elios nodded.  "It is done then."
	Elios produced a staff at this point.  With one hand, 
he guided the Golden Crystal until it attached itself to 
the top of the staff.  Mamoru recognized the staff as the 
one King Endymion had when they visited Crystal Tokyo.  
Elios held the staff for a moment, and it shrank down to a 
small round object.  Mamoru noticed it looked like a pocket 
watch.  The watch lifted from Elios' hand and moved over to 
his own.
	Mamoru took the watch.  "Open it and concentrate on 
it with your new power," Elios instructed.  "Pray to the 
gods that protect this earth and to the sun, your 
guardian."
	He nodded in response.  Suddenly, the white space 
dissapated leaving Mamoru standing in the middle of his 
living room, his hopeful soul floating before him.  He 
started to feel light-headed, but held up the watch instead 
of giving in to the tempting unconsciousness.  He pushed 
a button at its side and it opened. He closed his eyes and 
concentrated on the Golden Crystal.
	Suddenly, his clothes were torn off him and he was 
surrounded by a blinding light.  Before he could register 
the fact that he was naked once again, new clothes started 
to form around him.  The light died away and he realized 
that he was now dressed as Tuxedo Kamen, but with changes.
	First of all, the hat that he usually wore was gone.  
He was glad about that, he hated the thing.  The tuxedo was 
more elaborate than the one he had worn before with the 
most striking feature being a star-shaped medallion pinned 
to the collar.  The watch had elongated into a staff and he 
held onto it.  He aimed the staff at the gun Misora held in 
her hand and a golden beam shot out of it and destroyed the 
gun.  Misora screamed and jumped back, feeling the power of 
the Golden Crystal wash over her for a moment.  She 
stumbled back toward the apartment door and fled.
	Mamoru's hopeful soul glittered in the air and he 
took a deep breath to draw it back into his body.  He 
quickly closed the front door so none of his neighbors 
could look in the room and opened the closet door to let 
Chibi Chibi out.
	The little girl smiled at him.  "Power," she 
whispered.  "You now have power, Tuxedo Kamen-sama.  Part 
of my mission has been fufilled."
	Mamoru dropped to one knee, feeling dizziness wash 
over him.  He had never heard Chibi Chibi speak in a full 
sentence before.  His eyes narrowed slight.  Part of her 
mission was to give him power?  What was the rest then?
	He slowly picked himself up and sat on the sofa.  He
pushed one hand through his dark hair and surveyed the mess
his apartment had turned into.
	"Look at it this way, Mamoru-sama, you said you 
wanted to get a new apartment for you and Usagi-sama," 
Diana said.  Luna sighed in response.  She limped over to 
the sofa, sore from where Misora had kicked her in the 
side. Chibi Chibi wandered from the room.
	"Well," Mamoru said, shooting a glance at the cats. 
"It can't get any worse."
	"WORLD SHAKING!" 
	Suddenly, Mamoru's front door flew into the living 
room as Sailor Uranus' attack blew it off its hinges. 
Mamoru grabbed the cats off the back of the sofa and hit 
the ground just in time to prevent getting hit by the door.
The door fell onto the sofa.  Mamoru lifted his head and
looked back toward the doorway to see Sailors Uranus,
Neptune, Pluto, and Saturn gathered around the doorway.
	"Oooh, you did it now, Haruka-poppa," Saturn said.
	"I just meant to go for the lock," Uranus replied,
sheepishly.
	Neptune and Pluto exchanged looks and shook their
heads slowly.
	Uranus walked in and scanned the area.  She whistled.
"Wow, looks like a battle took place here or something."
Her expression turned serious.  "We felt something happen
during the battle, Mamoru-san.  Are you okay?"
	Mamoru got to his feet slowly, wincing from the
bruises he recieved during the battle.  "Hai, I'm fine.
Maybe Setsuna can answer your question better," he shot a
glance at the emerald-haired senshi.  All eyes turned to 
her.
	Pluto smiled at all of them.  "Mamoru-san is finally
growing into his destiny," she said.
	"What does that mean?" Saturn asked.
	"You'll find out soon enough."
	The four outer senshi detransformed where they stood.
Michiru walked into the apartment.  "Where's Chibi Chibi-
chan?" she asked.
	Mamoru looked around the remains of his living room,
but did not see the little girl anywhere.  He ran into the
kitchen, shards of glass from the window cutting through 
his socks and into his feet.  He ignored the pain and 
stumbled into his bedroom.  What he saw made him smile.
The others followed him and exchanged smiles as well as
they watched Chibi Chibi sleeping admist the debris strewn
across Mamoru's bed.
	"This is quite a mess you have here," Michiru 
commented.  "You can't stay here tonight."
	"I have an idea of where we can stay," Luna said, 
walking into the room.  Everyone looked down at her and she 
smiled.  She sat back on her haunches.  "I know where 
Usagi's okaa-san keeps the extra house key," she said with 
a wink.

	**********
	Misora wandered down the street, not caring where she 
walked.  In her mind, images of a man and child which she 
had buried were brought to the surface once again. She 
wandered down the street until she reached a cemetary.  
Near the entrance sat two headstones side by side, one 
large one and a small one.
	Slowly, she sank to the ground, grabbing onto to the 
larger headstone.  She burst into tears and held the smooth 
stone tightly in her arms, sobbing two names over and over 
again.
	"Tanjiro...Akiko...Tanjiro...Akiko..."
	The woman's sobs echoed into the night.

	**********
	"I have never been so glad to get home in my life,"
Usagi said, opening the front door to the Tsukino home.
"I'm glad Momma let us take the car and come back ahead of
her."
	"Hai, me too," Shingo said, dragging in two suitcases
behind him.  He put the luggage down and stretched.  "I'm 
even looking forward to going back to school!"
	"Kobe has got to be the most boring place I've ever
been," Chibi-Usa said, walking in behind Shingo, carrying a
smaller suitcase and wearing her bunny-shaped backpack.  
"It's even worse than the time Poppa took us to visit some
art museum in Paris.  Even Momma was bored," she added,
winking at Usagi.
	Usagi grinned.  Sounds just like Mamo-chan, she 
thought.  She stopped for a moment and frowned.  "I think I 
need to call Mamo-chan," she said.  "Everything feels 
normal again, but I know something happened."
	"The outer senshi would assist him, wouldn't they?" 
Chibi-Usa asked.
	"They would have to," Usagi admitted, knowing deep in 
her heart that other than throwing roses and distracting 
the enemy, Tuxedo Kamen did not have the power the senshi 
did.  It was something she had wondered about lately 
because Mamoru was suppose to be her equal.
	Shingo walked past the living room, then stopped.  He
slid backwards and peered into the living room.  "Say, 
Usagi, look at this."
	Usagi and Chibi-Usa walked over to Shingo and looked
into the living room to see Mamoru asleep on the sofa.  
He lay on his back and Chibi Chibi slept on his chest, his
arms wrapped around the little girl.  A blanket covered 
both of them.  Luna and Diana slept on the back of the 
sofa.
	"Oh, this is too kawaii!" Chibi-Usa said, taking off
her bunny backpack and rummaging through it.  She found her
camera and took several pictures of the two sleeping.
	Usagi walked over to Mamoru and shook his shoulder.
"Mamo-chan, wake up," she whispered.  "What're you doing 
here?"
	After a moment, Mamoru opened his eyes.  He glanced
down to make sure Chibi Chibi was still safe in his arms,
then rubbed his eyes with the back of one hand.  He looked
up to see Usagi, Chibi-Usa, and Shingo peering down at him.
"Usako," he whispered, then smiled.
	"Why are you here?" Usagi asked.  "Is everything 
okay?"
	He nodded.  "Hai, it is now.  My apartment's a mess,
so Luna told me where the spare key was hidden and I used
it to get in.  Gomen ne."
	"It's okay, what happened?"
	"I'll tell you about it later," Mamoru said.  Usagi
frowned, remembering the golden warmth that had filled her
the day before. 
	Usagi sighed and Chibi-Usa nudged her.  She looked 
down to see Mamoru had fallen back asleep and she smiled.
He looks so exhausted, she thought.  But, it looks like he
and Chibi Chibi had a really good week together.  
	Mamo-chan, what happened yesterday, she thought.
I hope you'll tell me soon.  She leaned over and gave him a 
kiss before leaving the room to put her things away.
	On the back of the sofa, Diana yawned and stretched 
her legs.  She sat up and gazed down at Mamoru and Chibi 
Chibi, then smiled.  She jumped down next to Mamoru's head 
and leaned over to whisper in his ear.
	"I know the question you wanted to ask me the other 
night," she whispered.  "And the answer is, yes, you'll 
make a good father, Mamoru-sama.  Your children love you 
very much."
	In his sleep, Mamoru smiled.


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Japanese words used in this episode:
Iie - no
Onii-chan - big brother
Hai - yes
ne - Hey or Okay
Gomen ne - I'm sorry
sensei - teacher or respected elder
demo - but
seppeko - suicide
aishiteru - I love you
Konnichi'wa - Good Afternoon
Masaka - It can't be
oji-san - Uncle (formal use)
Doushite - Why?
Nani? - What?
okaa-san - mother

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

This episode is my attempt to rewrite what happened in
the anime version of Sailormoon SuperS.  For those not
familiar with the manga, Mamoru is the sole owner and
controller of the Golden Crystal, not Sailor Chibi Moon.
This episode acknowledges what the anime did, then tries
to set the story straight.  I encourage reading manga
translations of the SuperS series at http://www.usagiand
mamoru.com to find out the real story behind the Golden
Crystal.