The True Princess - Six - revised
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Usagi climbed the temple stairs with a sailor senshi on guard and armed on 
every side of her.  Mamoru was walking on the outside of the ring, much to 
far away for Usagi's liking.  She sighed, knowing that this was the only way 
the would let her go to the meeting.  The outer senshi still didn't trust the 
inners.  They still held the near death of the princess against them.  It 
wasn't even that they blamed Sailorvenus, they blamed all the inner senshi.  
No matter what Usagi said to them, they would not be dissuaded.  As they 
neared the temple, Usagi saw the four senshi sitting in front of the doors.  
Minako was perched slightly apart from the other three.


"Usagi-chan." Ami greeted, smiling shyly at her leader and eyeing the other
senshi warily.

"Who are they?" Makoto asked, cutting to the chase.

"Everyone, these are the outer senshi.  Sailorpluto, Sailoruranus, 
Sailorneptune and Sailorsaturn.  Also, this is Tuxedo Kamen." Usagi smiled at 
Mamoru.

"Mamoru is Tuxedo Kamen?" Rei asked with a doubtful look on her face.

"Yes." Usagi replied.  She went to sit next to her friends, but found a large 
key in her way.  She turned to look at Sailorpluto who shook her head almost 
inperceptibly.  Usagi sighed and remained standing with the outer senshi 
close behind her.

"How do we know we can trust them?" Makoto asked of the outer senshi.

"How do you know *we* are trust worthy?" Sailoruranus asked bitterly.

"They took care of me, and allowed me to realize my destiny." Usagi replied,
ignoring the comment.  "They are trust worthy."

"What did you call this meeting for?" Minako asked.  She had, thus far, been
silent.  She was very apprehensive.  

"The Princess..." Usagi began before faltering.  Taking a deep breath she 
tried again.  "You aren't..."

"I'm not the Princess." Minako agreed.  She quietly got to her feet. "You are 
the Princess."

Usagi expected a reaction from the inners, but they accepted the information 
as though they already knew.

"You all know?" Usagi asked, wondering exactly how long they had known.

"The night of the battle, when you got hurt...  We found out." Ami explained. 

"Oh." Usagi replied.  "Did any of you get hurt then?  I never thought to 
ask..."

"No, we were all fine, because of you." Makoto looked away. 

"I'm glad." Usagi smiled brightly.

"But you are our Princess and we should have protected you, not the other way 
around!" Minako exploded.  "I shouldn't have lied to you about being the 
Princess!"

"That's right.  You shouldn't have." Sailoruranus snapped visciously.

"We didn't want the Princess to see you again, but she wanted to.  I don't 
know why." Sailorneptune said in a very condescending way.  The inner senshi 
looked shocked.

"Stop!  Stop fighting!" Usagi exclaimed.  "Why can't you get along?"

"They almost let you die, Princess.  They lied to you.  Those are both 
unforgiveable crimes." Sailorpluto spoke calmly.

"Isn't it I who should be forgiving?  Where do you come in play there?" Usagi 
asked.  "It is my decision.  I don't hold it against them, so neither should 
you."

"We can't just forget..." Sailoruranus began when a sharp beep piereced the 
air.

"There's been an attack in central park." Sailorneptune said before Ami had 
time to whip out her mini computer.

"Let's go!" Usagi exclaimed before transforming.  The inner senshi followed suit and transformed.  The ten super heroes headed towards the park at 
unimaginable speeds.  

When they got there, they saw an extremely ugly youma terrorizing the 
civilians of Tokyo.

"You go left, I'll go right." Sailoruranus told Sailorneptune quietly.  
"Pluto, you go from behind and Saturn keep an eye on Princess."

"Right." Saturn nodded.

"What about us?" Rei asked, furious at being left out, like the inners 
weren't good enough.

"We don't want you getting hurt again." Sailorneptune said icily before the 
three launched their attacks.  

"World Shaking!"

"Deep Submerge!"

"Dead Scream."

The attacks hit the creature, sending it back a few paces, but not destroying
 it.

"We have to work together!" Sailormoon ordered.  "Mercury can freeze it, then 
the rest can launch their attacks to shatter it."

"Good idea Sailormoon!" Sailorjupiter agreed.  "Let's do it!"

"Shabon Spray!" Sailormercury froze the creature.  The rest of the senshi 
launched their attacks and easily shattered the creature.

"See?" Sailormoon exclaimed.  "When we work together, we are undefeatable!"

"We would have destroyed it on our own..." Sailoruranus began, but stopped 
when Sailorpluto placed a hand on her shoulder.  

"She's right, Sailoruranus.  We need to work together." Sailorpluto said 
softly.  "We have a common goal."

"We all want to protect the Princess." Sailormars replied.

"And the Prince."

"Yes."

"So we work together from here on in?" Sailormoon asked.  The outer senshi 
glanced at each other before nodding.  

"We will tolerate them, and their role in your life." Sailorneptune agreed.

Sailormoon turned to the inners who readily agreed.

"Good.  We start training tomorrow at the temple." Sailormoon ordered.  

"We'll be there." Sailoruranus agreed.

"Ten o'clock sharp." Sailormoon added.  The outers nodded before turning 
away.  The inners looked at their leader in shock.

"You expect to be on time?" Sailorvenus asked.

"Tell me," Sailormoon asked, ignoring the question.  "Why did you pretend to 
be the Princess?"

"A decoy.  You had yet to learn your powers and the negaverse would have been 
onto you soon." Sailorvenus replied easily.  "They would have killed you.  I 
didn't expect you to pull yourself together and start fighting so... well.  I 
didn't think things would change so much."

"Oh." Sailormoon replied before laughing.  "I sure surprised everyone, huh?"

"Not me.  I knew you had it in you all along." Tuxedo Kamen told her before 
kissing her deeply on the lips.  The four senshi sighed dreamily, before 
tiptoeing away to give the couple their privacy.

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