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Hotaru Tomoe was depressed. Since Chibi-Usa had gone back to the future, she had lost the only friend who was close to her. Sure, Haruka, Michiru and Setsuna
were far from bad company, but they were *much* older than she was. Besides, they had other things to worry about than play baby-sitter to a
thirteen-year-old girl who could easily level the planet.
She missed her brother.
Following her rebirth, Hotaru had grown up at a phenomenal rate, though she still ended up smaller than the others (much to her constant annoyance). Only
this time, she remembered things from her days in the Silver Millennium, eight thousand years ago. Among other things, how everyone had different names back
then; Serenity, Endymion... One of the things she now remembered was that she had had an older brother, named Kanma. She remembered...
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The purple haired girl let out a long sorrowful sigh, feeling depressed and lonely. Or more appropriately, her loneliness was the cause of her depression.
Another sigh, resounded in the small bedroom she used in the Outer's house. Her own little sanctuary in the world; where her mind and feelings tormented
her in silence.
Hotaru sat on the edge of her bed, her eyes dropped to the hands folded in her lap, light skin contrasting with the dark colors of her cloths. The young
girl wasn't really looking at them, but they just lay there as her memories seemed to torture her.
Turing her head, she looked towards the end of her bed, sorrowful eyes seeing what wasn't really there. A ghostly image of a pink haired girl laughed
at the latest joke she told, her happy voice filling the small room. Hotaru's lips bent into a wistful smile at the edges until the ghost from her mind
faded back into nothingness.
"Usa-chan... I miss you...", her clear but weak voice called out into the emptiness. Hearing her words echo lightly off the walls, she reached
up to wipe a stray tear that threatened to fall from her eye. 'I do miss her...' she said in her thoughts, remembering how the girl from the future
departed to return to her own family.
Looking at a picture on her nightstand, she reminded herself that she wasn't truly alone without the time traveling girl. 'I have Haruka-papa,
Michiru-mama and even Setsuna-san... but it's not the same', she lamented. There was something about having a friend your own age to talk to.
The smile stayed on the melancholy Senshi's face as mused about how the three older Outer Senshi treated her like a full adult. Since her rebirth,
Hotaru had grown up at a phenomenal rate, though physically she was still younger than the rest of the Senshi. A small bit of her psyche found humor at the
thought of if her adopted parents, Haruka and Michiru, ever tried to find a babysitter for a girl who could easily level the planet.
All traces of the smile faded from her face at that thought though. It was the entire reason she felt so lonely her entire life. 'Sailor Saturn...
Senshi of Silence... Destroyer of Worlds...', she rattled her titles off in her head with no emotion. She remembered them all, everything they called he
in the past. A byproduct of her lack of major physical growth was a perfect remembrance of her past life during the Silver Millennium.
At first, it was odd for the Senshi, as Hotaru kept making mistakes by calling her fellow Senshi by their past names. Usagi was called Serenity, like her
mother; Mamoru was Endymion, after his father, and the other Senshi were no different. Even she had a different name, but she knew she would never be called
it again, never called that name by the person she wanted to hear it from.
Her eyes flew wide, as she felt the yearning tug at her heartstrings. Her eyes relaxed, then, as the girl fell over to curl up in a ball on her bed,
hugging her knees to her chest. A single sound escaped her lips as she felt her eyes overflow, wet drops of sadness and sorrow falling to the sheets.
"Kanma..."
don't know that it's an improvement.
Pronounced "shy guy."