Mizuno Ami’s Journal

I ran into Usagi-chan just now as I was coming to the library. She seemed a little agitated, and thought I was going to cram school. I told her where I was actually going. She just seemed off, worried, upset; she was carrying a huge bag with her, but said she wasn’t going anywhere. I don’t know for sure, but I feel as though something awful might have happened. Why wouldn’t she talk to me about it? Why won’t she answer her phone?

Tuxedo Kamen was on television this morning. He made a news announcement that he was looking for the Maboroshi no Ginzuishou, and the local population is going mad trying to find the jewel in question and turn it in.

Usagi-chan was very upset this morning when we met to talk about it. Last night she had an encounter with Sailor V and V warned Moon that she should stay away from Tuxedo Kamen. She had been trying to justify to us that he wasn’t as bad as V was intimating and that we should give him a chance, but given he’s a thief and now this statement it’s hard for us, particularly Mako-chan were rather leery of doing so.

To make matters worse on the way to the meeting Rei-chan was approached by a gentleman who believed he had the true crystal and wanted her to protect it because she is a powerful miko and known around here apparently. For reasons she can’t explain to us right now this has made her very nervous. I volunteered to go in her place.

With the disguise power through the phones, I can make myself look like Rei-chan and let her not have to do such a thing that makes her so uncomfortable.

Things came to a head between friends today.

Usagi-chan came late to our meeting at Crown concerned more with a contest that’s going on involving Aino Minako than what we were supposed to be meeting for. I’m not sure of the nature of the contest, it involves dress-up and something that looks like a blue unicorn wearing a red cowboy hat.
Usagi-chan was wanting us to help her make something so that she could enter. When we told her we couldn’t, then she wanted us to help her redo her homework because she’d been working out of the wrong book, and while she thought she’d done what she was supposed to she hadn’t. Rei-chan got very angry with her over this, and she and Mako-chan had another argument. This one was much worse than all of the others they’d had, and Rei-chan left upset. Going after her was futile.

Usagi-chan gave Mako-chan a charm to take to the temple in the hopes that they’ll both make up. I told her that things would probably work out, and she was still upset also about her homework.

“Well, think how much less you’ll have to do when we get to that section,” I told her, but it didn’t make her feel too much better.

I hope things work out between Rei-chan and Mako-chan, I don’t want to have to take sides between friends, and neither would Usagi-chan so that would mean the break-up of the senshi so soon after we’ve apparently formed our quartet.

I can see I’m going to be spending more time working on trying to find out information on Sailor V. Hopefully my home computer has finished correlating her appearances to see if I can find a pattern.

Again, please bear with me as I attempt narrative
I unlock the door, cautiously and push it open, as the others crowd in the corridor looking around. Usagi is making some kind of exclamation to one of the others, as I hold the door open and let them walk in.
“Are you sure this is okay?” Rei asks, as they walk past me into the entryway, “Won’t anyone mind?”
I shake my head, glancing towards the kitchen, and peeling the note off the fridge, “No. I’m sure not, it’s not as if we’re going to be horrendously loud, and most of the people near here are at work right now anyway. Mama-san…” I read the note, “She won’t be back until later. She left for us to order food.”
“Order food?” Makoto inquires, spinning a couple of circles around a few feet away from me in the kitchen, “This is amazing! You could fit my kitchen in here twice over. You can’t order food with a kitchen like this! You should use it!”
I blush.
“That’s easily fixed!” Rei points out, “Mizuno-sama said to buy food? If we buy food for Makoto to cook, that’s still food.”
“But…that’s too much trouble, Kino-san,” I demur, “We came over here for other things, not to make you slave cooking for us.”
“I want to,” she says, taking my hand in hers, “Please, please, let me do this. It’s no trouble at all, and it’s much more fun to cook for more people than just myself…” she beams, and then gets a wicked smile, “It would insult me more to refuse.”
“Oh, say she can!!” Usagi comes running back over from the window in the living room where she’d been marveling that she could see her house. Luna hot on her heels, “Mako-chan’s cooking is awesome, and I should know I’ve been stealing half her obento for a while now!”
Makoto laughs, “I can make things a lot better than that obento.”
Usagi’s eyes practically twinkle, “You have to say yes, Ami-chan you have to! I have to taste this delicious food, look at me, my mouths watering,” she has hold of my hands and is practically on her knees.
“We have things to discuss,” Luna says, jumping up onto the breakfast bar, “What if this takes a while?”
“I can talk and cook at the same time, Luna,” Makoto responds, “Plus there’ll be the time it cooks after preparation. How much do we have to talk about?”
Luna muses on this for a moment, and seems to think its’ a viable course of action as she doesn’t protest.
“As long as you really don’t mind, Kino-san…I-I guess it would be alright.” I answer.
“I don’t mind,” she says, “Truly. Now if you’ll stop calling me ‘Kino-san’”
“She’ll get there,” Rei says, leaning across the counter from the other side, next to where Luna is, she absently ruffles Luna’s fur and smoothes it back down, “It took her a few weeks to get to –chan with us, but we’re working on it, ne, Ami-chan?”
I chew on my lip, “Yes. Sorry. I just—it’s a thing.”
“Always so formal,” Usagi teases, “You could be a…um…what are those people they go and they talk with everyone and make nice.”
“Diplomats,” Rei mutters, “and no, she couldn’t. They’re also liars. Ami-chan’s far too nice for that, leave her be.”
“Ah…sorry, sorry, Rei-chan,” Usagi replies, “What did I say?”
Rei doesn’t say anything for a moment, apparently chewing on something. Makoto looks over at me, from where she was browsing the fridge apparently looking for ideas of things to make. I shake my head. I have no idea. After a moment Rei forces her face to brighten, “It’s alright. Let’s just go get food, so we can get back and discuss our plan of action, ne?”
“Yes.” Makoto says, closing the fridge, and borrowing a sheet of paper from the notepad next to it, to scribble some things down, “I have a good idea for something, so I’m ready.” I hand her the two rolled up bills that Mama-san left, and she folds them quickly slipping them into her pocket, and the four of us, Luna safely back inside Usagi’s back-pack troop back out of the apartment and to the market a few blocks away.“Put on some Aino Minako!” Usagi exclaims, excitedly, sitting down on the stool she has pulled up to the breakfast bar.
“No-no!” Rei cuts in putting up a hand, sitting next to Usagi also at the bar. I’m getting drinks for everyone, glasses on the other side of the counter.
“If that happens,” Rei continues, “You’ll rope Ami-chan into singing along and we’ll not get anything done.”
“I would not!” Usagi exclaims.
Makoto looks bemused, chopping vegetables, and scraping leftover bits off into the trash can.
“You would, Usagi-chan,” I answer, setting drinks in front of both her and Rei, “You have before.”
She looks horrorstruck, “Ami-chan! You’re supposed to defend me!”
I flush, “Is there anything I can help you with?” I offer, setting a drink down where Makoto indicates she wants it by using the pointy end of the cutting knife.
“No, not right now,” she says, “that’ll do me, but thank you,” she looks around, as I look for a small bowl to put something in for Luna, “I don’t think I’ve heard Aino Minako,” she says, “why is she such a big deal?”
“Haven’t heard?” Usagi exclaims, “Haven’t heard Aino Minako? Rei-chan we have to put her on, this is—this is awful. How can you not have heard her?”
Rei puts her head down on her arms, “Usagi-chan, it’s not so big of a deal…”
Luna taps a claw against Makoto’s glass to draw our attention. She sits back on her haunches wrapping her tail around her front paws.
“I think Luna wants to get along with the meeting,” Makoto points out.
Luna nods, “Yes, yes. As I told Ami-chan and Usagi-chan when they were first awoken, there are four senshi to guard one princess. With you four girls we have our four senshi. So, it’s going to be important for us to keep an eye on everything right now, and watch for signs of the princess. Usagi-chan! Pay attention!” she lowers her head down to where Usagi was tracing the pattern on the counter top.
Usagi looks up, with an extremely guilty expression on her face.
“What about Sailor V, Luna?” Rei asks, “Did you ever find anything out about her?” Luna frowns, “I was never able to talk with her…” she shakes her head looking down at the counter top, “and there’s so much I still don’t remember. It’s very difficult,” she sighs and sits down, resting her head on her front paws, “So, have any of you had any strange dreams or had any inklings on anything?” I hesitate.
“Yes, Ami-chan?” she asks.
“Well, it’s not so-so much an inkling as it was just thinking on things…”
“Say it anyway.”
“Well, a theory I had was sort of confirmed when Ki…Mako-chan,”
“Yaay!” Makoto calls, “Bravo.”
“Yes, well, when she became one of us, with the henshin and was Sailor Jupiter. It means that we’re for the most part named for planets, ne? Except for Usagi-chan being Sailor Moon, and we don’t have a Venus, or Saturn and so on. So, why isn’t there a Sailor Earth, or any of us named for planetary moons?”
“Ami-chan this isn’t a homework assignment!” Usagi exclaims, “You were seriously thinking about all of this, it makes my head hurt,” and she massages her temples making a put-out noise.
I chew on my finger, “I get bored,” I consent, “Deducting on our senshi incarnations is a welcome change from homework.”
“Well we need to,” Rei says, “I have been trying fire readings, but they’re usually unclear, well, I say unclear, but what I really mean is a massive headache causing jumble. If Ami-chan can figure something with her amazing intellect more power to her, maybe something she’ll come up with will trigger someone’s memory,” she looks at Luna hopefully, as I try not to blush again.
“The astronomical monikers do seem to be a pattern,” Luna consents, “Perhaps because we seem to be…well, you seem to be protecting the Earth…it’s because it doesn’t have it’s own guardian,” she shakes her head, “I really don’t know. I’ve been wracking my brain, but the more I wrack the less I seem to remember,” she sighs again, “I keep feeling how important it is, something big is going to happen soon, and I don’t think I can prepare you any more than I have. I really-really wish I could remember more.”
“It’s okay Luna,” Makoto says, offering her a piece of fatty meat that she’s not using, “We understand how frustrating it must be, don’t we?” she looks around at us hefting the knife as if we would disagree, “Do you even know how come you’re a talking cat, and not a person wandering around trying to find us?”
Luna shakes her head, and it almost seems as if she’s blushing beneath the fur, “Moah,” she says, mournfully, “I have no idea. About the only thing I can think of is if a person ran up to you on the street and told you that you were a senshi, and that you had magical powers you probably wouldn’t believe them…but I’m a talking cat, that’s pretty strange to begin with…although some of us,” she looks at Usagi, “some of us thought they were dreaming,” she sighs, “I guess that’s my own fault for only managing to get a hold of her when she was getting ready for bed. The rest of you, found during the day…it was slightly easier.”
Usagi nods, “You woke me up, Luna. I have dreams like that all the time.”
“You have dreams where talking cats wake you up?” Makoto inquires, with a strange smile. Whatever she’s doing she’s apparently finished, because she puts the pan into the oven, and sets the timer, “Ten minutes,” she says, moving to get check on the pan on the stove top and turn it up so the water will boil.
“Well, no,” Usagi says, toying with her fingers, “not since I was little, but I have dreams where I wake up from a dream and I’m actually still dreaming,” she pauses, “So that was the big important meeting?” she continues, “Luna! Here I was all worked up, and…”
“Usagi-chan,” Luna says, still with seriousness permeating her tone, “It is important. All of this is very important. Things are building. I’m sure very soon we will not be fighting youma, but whoever it is that’s controlling them. We can’t assume that our enemy is clueless. They may well know more about us than I have been able to remember. It cannot have escaped them that they have fought different people. They will probably assume that we are much better equipped than we are, as far as knowledge goes and could attack with full force,” she emphasizes ‘full force’ by smacking the counter top with her paw, “We have to be prepared. We have to find someway to train…and beyond that you must be very careful to tell no one else of who you are, not only will it put yourselves in danger, but them as well.”

The information gave us a lot to think about, and also gives me a bit of a sense of foreboding…

Senshi comparions: Moon:
Fuku colors: Blue and red
Element powers are based on: none as such…
Planetary tag: actually a sattelite.
Henshin item: brooch/necklace.
Phone color: all pink.

Mercury:
Fuku colors: Shades of blue.
Element powers are based on: Water
Planetary tag: Mercury, first planet in the solar system. Not wet…so close to the sun…name from god of communication.
Henshin item: bracelet
Phone color: insert blue.

Mars:
Fuku colors: red and purple.
Element powers are based on: fire. Some spiritual (from miko, not senshi???)
Planetary tag: Mars, third planet. Name from god of war.
Henshin item: braclet
Phone color: insert red.

Jupiter:
Fuku colors: green and pink.
Element powers are based on: lightening/weather?? air/earth??
Planetary tag: Jupiter, fourth planet. Name from ‘king’ of gods. He did have lightening powers though…
Henshin item: bracelet.
Phone color: insert green.

We all seem to be being named for planets, except Usagi who is a satellite of a planet. Why is there no “Earth” then? I doubt she got her name wrong. Surely her henshin wouldn’t work otherwise. She also seems to have a different henshin item…does this denote special status?
Given our names does this mean we should have another senshi who is Venus, or Earth? or more senshi than that for the entire solar system. Why are we named for solar system? What significance does that have?

…do the review as I was intending to do.
I am also supposed to be doing some research about ‘Sailor V’ because I said I would. I spoke to Luna about it today because I had not had much time.I bowed out of a trip to a theme park with Usagi-chan-tachi (because I wanted to make up on the V investigating time I missed tutoring Aoshi-kun, among other things which have come up).

In some respects I’m glad I did, because of the youma attack, but I did also miss a Sailor V sighting, she actually spoke to Usagi-chan again, and I’m sure I could have been some help if I had been there.

The other night Usagi-chan had run into her (Sailor V, that is), while fighting some ‘corn dollie’ type youma. V-san had warned her to stay away from Tuxedo Kamen because either he was dangerous, or might be dangerous, Usagi-chan wasn’t very clear. She brought this prospect up at the meeting we had the next day, when we showed Kino-san the Crown Center for the first time.
With Tuxedo Kamen we’ve always had a bit of a ‘grey area’. He has protected Usagi-chan on numerous occassions, but he’s a known thief. For this reason Kino-san feels inclined to side with V-san that he is untrustworthy. Rei-chan doesn’t feel as if she’s ever really had a ‘bad vibe’ from him, and so consequently I’m torn. I would like to be able to trust these intuitions, but I’ve never really had cause to have confidence in my own all that much.
So, I can see I’m going to have to have another “fact book” (or at least a post or two) for information on Tuxedo Kamen and try to compare one off against the other…

Usagi-chan had been feeling that Motoki-onii-san might be Tuxedo Kamen, and one of the reasons she wanted to go on the trip to the theme park was to investigate this possibility.
He had three tickets to theme park, so Kino-san and Rei-chan (reluctantly) went along with Usagi-chan, and wound up being paired with Chiba Mamoru-san and another friend of Motoki-onii-san’s from his ‘turtle club’.
((Chiba Mamoru-san is a person we have run into several times, and he and Usagi-chan seem to antagonise each other drastically. She found out his name at the museum the other day, while I and the other two were still not quite talking)).
It would have been that Chiba-san and herself were paired together but Kino-san switched out so that Usagi-chan could see what might happen with Motoki-onii-san.
They went on several rides, except Rei-chan with the new boy, was unable. She sensed a problem and there was a youma encounter.

The dangerous thing about this encounter was that a controller showed up. Declaring himself Jadeite one of four kings. He was more powerful than any of the youma we’ve encountered before…and gave much cause for alarm.
Tuxedo Kamen again stepped in to rescue Jupiter and Moon…and was injured. This is when Moon encountered V-san again. She warned again about Tuxedo Kamen, but apparently also said something about being unable to avoid destiny.
Moon says she bandaged Tuxedo Kamen’s hand, but wasn’t able to really get any information out of him. Although apparently he doesn’t mind getting hurt for her, and doesn’t feel she needs to apologise for needing to be rescued.
Motoki-onii-san is not Tuxedo Kamen however because he had no wound, and Usagi-chan feels that something like a ‘vibe’ was not the same.
Ah, well, back to researching sitings, maybe I can pin something down…

I’m going to try the things in this book I found. It’s setting my mind at ease some as I’m reading it, and echoing some of the fears I’ve had.
I keep remembering the discussion that went on the other day between myself Tsuk–Usagi-chan, and Rei-san at the Crown center. How friends call each other by their first names, and Rei-s-chan calls her Usagi-chan and has known her less time. I keep putting it off because I don’t feel comfortable, and it’s causing a rift.
I don’t want to lose them as my friends, though.

We went to Rei-san’s after school, to talk with her, and so that Luna could fill her in on some of the things that she had filled Tsukino-san and myself in on when we were first Awakened, and let her input on things.
Apparently the fact that she’s a senshi makes sense to her, as far as the fact she has some psychic talents. I suppose it makes sense to all of us, giving us a reason for why we’ve always felt a little out of the loop. Maybe I shouldn’t say we on that and say me. I did always feel as though there was something I was missing, some thing else that was going on that I was supposed to be aware of and hadn’t put a finger on–didn’t quite fit in with the rest of the school.
We’re going to bring Rei-san to Crown some time this next week when she can get away from the temple so that Luna can ‘outfit’ her with a cell phone and she can know where our Private meeting place is, so if there’s something really important she can go there to meet with us and not worry about her grandfather overhearing, or someone in our family overhearing if she calls the cell phone.

I’m worrying a little about how we’re going to manage the school work + senshi thing. Tsukino-san doesn’t seem too concerned by this, and Rei-san is so new I don’t want to worry her.
Tsukino-san’s primary concern right now seems to be inducting Rei-san into the Aino Minako fan club, and not wanting to study as much as she needs to, and we need to so that her mother doesn’t get suspicious.

Busy studying and catching up on things that I haven’t been maintaining due to investigating the girls disappearance.

If Rei-san is at another school here…who’s to say other senshi aren’t at other schools in Japan? or even in Europe? or America? That would be tricky to track down.
Or I wonder…is there a reason perhaps why we might all be drawn to Tokyo? Maybe the Princess has some kind of beacon. So, maybe the other senshi are actually at our school? I suppose that really depends who the Princess is.

My mind wanders back to Sailor V. If the pictures on the television and online are anything to go by then she might well have a uniform that’s very like ours, so perhaps she is another senshi, perhaps she is the Princess even? Luna had mentioned that she was going to try and investigate V.

I really need to stop thinking about these things…it’s at the point where it’s not being productive any more.