Tenshi had just finished voice lessons and decided that maybe she'd stop by and see how Neko-chan was doing. She was worried about her koibito and wanted to make sure she was all right.
She gathered up her stuff, called her parents to tell them where she was, and drove off.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The doorbell rang and Neko ran to get it. As soon as Mi-chan had come home, Neko had started studying her Modern Japanese and doing whatever homework they had received today. But now she was ready for a break.
"I'll get it!" she yelled.
She opened the door and was shocked to see Jian-kun there.
"Jian-kun, what are you doing here?!"
She normally wouldn't have sounded so harsh, but she was still a little cranky and she hadn't quite forgiven him anyway.
Jian-kun lowered his eyes and said, "Uh, is Mi-chan here?"
Neko-chan softened her voice a little and answered, "Yeah, I'll get her."
She ran up to their room. "Mi-chan, Jian-kun's here."
Mi-chan looked up. "Honto?! He came to see me?" A big smile broke across her face.
Neko couldn't help it. She smiled too. "Of course, silly. Who else would he come here to see?"
Mi-chan jumped up and ran down the stairs.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The doorbell rang and Mi-chan ran to get it. She and Jian-kun had been discussing what movie they should go and see, but they weren't getting anywhere because she had seen everything that he wanted to see.
"I'll get it!" she yelled.
She opened the door to find Tenshi-san standing there.
"Konnichi wa. Is Neko-chan here?"
"Hold on, I'll get her," she said quickly and ran up the stairs. "Neko-chan, Tenshi-san's here."
"Honto?! Tenshi-kun came to see me?" Mi-chan stuck out her tongue at her twin, knowing that Neko-chan was just teasing her.
They went downstairs together, but separated at the bottom. Neko-chan ran to the door, and Mi-chan joined Jian-kun in the family room again. "Big day for boyfriends," she said.
He stared at her. "Boyfriends?"
"That was Tenshi-san at the door," she explained. He continued to look at her incredulously. "Nani?"
"Nothing," he looked away quickly.
This alarmed her more. "Nani!"
"Nothing," he echoed staring at the ground. "I didn't realize that you didn't know-"
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
He was cut off as Ami-sama came in the room, followed by Chibi and Kimako. "Neko and Tenshi-chan are going to be here in a second." Before she had finished, they came in.
She looked at Jian-wa. "Jian-wa-chan, since you're not a Senshi, you can go if you want. Michiru can call you when she's done. Or you can wait here for them to get back."
Jian-wa kept his eyes lowered. "Maybe it'd be best if I go," he said quietly. He didn't want Ami-sama to think that he was trying to gather information for the enemy or something.
But as he started to get up, Mi-chan grabbed his arm. "Iie. Stay here," she whispered loudly. He sat back down at her urging.
"Ok, well, we've found out that there has been a lot of missing person reports around Crystal Tokyo today. Most of them are women, but a few are men, and almost all of them complained of headaches yesterday. And all of them were missing this morning. I'm pretty sure there's a connection between this and what happened last night."
Everyone looked at Neko-chan, who was staring at the ground trying to avoid their eyes. "Do they know what caused it?" she asked quietly.
"Well, looking at the hospital records for them, I discovered that many of them were brought in last week for fainting or for allergies to flowers. So Ryo and I are pretty sure that this is connected to the flower incident last week."
Jian-wa sat up. He hadn't heard about the flower incident. He wondered if it had to do with when he gave Neko-chan the flowers and she fainted.
"I suspect that with Jadeite gone, Tanzanite decided to try and take over for herself."
"Tanzanite?" Jian-wa wondered if that was Tanzen-san.
"The general that Sailor Eryx and Night Angel met last week." Ami-sama raised her eyebrows at him as if to ask if he knew anything about her.
He shook his head and lowered his eyes again. He couldn't be sure that Tanzen-san was Tanzanite and even if she was, he didn't really have any information that could help them. He had gone back to where he was living before moving in with Cooan-san and nothing was there, so he wouldn't even know where to find her.
"Anyway, the best clue we have for where to find the missing people and Tanzanite is near the flower shop that was selling the 'I'm Sorry' flower. Tenshi-chan, can you drive them there?"
"Hai," Tenshi-san looked at Jian-wa. "Do you want to stay here? Or I could drop you off at Ayakashi-san's house."
Jian-wa had promised that he'd be home for dinner and there was no telling how long Mi-chan would be. "You probably should drop me off," he answered.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Tenshi hadn't yet gotten to Jian-kun's house before suddenly Neko-chan, who was sitting in the front seat next to her, winced in pain.
"Neko-chan!" Everyone in the car exclaimed.
"Keep going, I'm fine."
