With a tired groan, the 'evil intruder' stood up and looked the Senshi
of the {moon : Moon} dead in the eyes. With a loud crack, he twisted his

neck to

get the kinks out then settled into a relaxed stance. The perturbed
scowl on his face all but said, 'You've got to be fucking kidding me',
and with a tired sigh, he remarked, "Great, another one..."

The pretty sailor-suited champion of love and justice blinked in
surprise. "Another one?"

Well, he's not your everyday youma.  Just won't follow the script.

Heh ;)

Usagi paused as she mentally added all the factors. The father of
Hotaru's baby was named Saotome Ranma. Minako said that she saw him
walking into a {Love Hotel : love hotel} with Hotaru. Hotaru had

described Ranma was a

wonderful person and claimed that he was a powerful martial artist, but
why then would he be threatening her mother, and why for that matter
would her mother be acting like nothing was wrong? Oh, why did thinking
have to hurt so much!

Nap time?

No, its just too much for her underfunded brain to process.

Sailor Moon shrunk back at her {mothers : mother's} outburst.

In one swift motion the Ikuko grabbed her magic girl daughter by the
ear, forcing her to bend at a very unnatural angle. Screaming loudly,
but without the banshee like force she had used before, she exclaimed"
TSUKINO USAGI, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!?"

My guess at this point is the Ikuko thinks Usagi and Minako are
pretending to be senshi.

More like Usagi and Minako are senshi pretending to be totally mindnumbing
idiots...

Having fully caught her breath, Ikuko continued. "Minako's one of those
underdressed vigilantes too I see, and from the sound of it so is poor
Hotaru-chan! What about your other friends, huh? Ami, {Minako : Makoto},

Rei? What

{exact : exactly} are you girls? You dress like some perverts wet dream

{ruining : running}

around in those silly in those silly Lolita-Con schoolgirl outfits all
day long, are you just devil hunters{: ?} are you something more

extreme{, : ?}

like some kind of sick religious cult bent on world domination or
something? Are you recruiting? What other poor girls have you drawn into
your madness, how about poor, innocent Chibi-Usa? It looks like you
conned poor Hotaru in, what about her? Where does the madness end
Usagi?! Answer me, damn it... ANSWER ME!"

Usagi stood in place, {stupified : stupefied} by the mental overload.

That's even better.  It makes Hotaru getting knocked up seem safe and
sane.

True...

This probably wouldn't be a good time to bring up Crystal Tokyo.

Not on your life.

Ikuko sat down across from her daughter {glairing : glaring} at her with

a level,

interrogator's gaze. "Get started, Usagi."

"Ikuko-mama?" All eyes {tuned : turned} to the {stairs, ant : stairs

and} to Chibi-Usa who was

looking into the room, clearly confused by the chaos. "What's going on?"

I guess the butterfly has thrown off everything she knows about her
past.

More like a self-preservation thing...

Chibi-Usa blinked in surprise and walked down the steps to get a better
look. Mentally she categorized the situational elements. She did NOT
like what she saw{: .}

I'm skipping the little grammar/typo corrections. They go without saying and
really do not require me to go "DOWH!" every tine

Tomoe Hotaru was not having the best of weeks. In fact, in the last
three to four days her mood had gone up and down more often then a pair
of {Kangaroos : kangaroos} in the mating season. She didn't know if was

her pregnancy

hormones starting to kick in {of : or} the kind of crap that happened

for the

sole reason of making people's live that much more difficult, but it was
really starting to get on her nerves.

She was unsure of everything. She knew that deep down the apparent
happiness she had since meeting Ranma was for the most part, a facade, a
pitiful attempt to trick herself into believing that everything was
going to end up just {hokey : hunky}-dory. That was bullshit and she

knew it. She

was going to be a teen mother which would make her even more ostracized
by the public, she was engaged to wed a man who, no matter how sweet he
was, she barely knew, and the kind of emotional betrayal she'd suffered
of the past few days at the hands of her family deep left scars.

Earlier in the day Hotaru and her "beloved" had decided to do some soul
searching followed by the kinds of wild and wacky adult activities that
couples like to do in {Love Hotels : love hotels}. What really made this

"memorable" was

the presence of her father figure at the door, a little bit of fun made
possible by one "{Anio : Aino} Minako", a girl who was standing about

fifteen

feet from Hotaru

With a thunderclap, Hotaru punched Minako in the face. The {Blond Senshi

: blond senshi}

flew backwards against the wall and bounced off, leaving a {Vanus :

Venus} shaped

indentation.

"What?" Minako squeaked, quite intimidated by her precarious position.
It wasn't every day Hotaru shifted into full fledged Sailor Saturn {more

: mode}

and physically intimidated someone after decking them.

Hotaru scoffed. "Wait, I forgot. Your self-centered, trivially minded,
boy obsessed fluff-brain personality {frights : frightens} away all

things male who

are looking for anything deeper then a quick screw! Just because you
can't find someone who can stomach you for more then one night, doesn't
mean you should make others suffer because of your shortcomings!"

"You better..." Hotaru released her, throwing Minako to the floor. The
{Blonde : blond} senshi quickly {scampered : scrambled : scuttled} away

form Hotaru and stood on her feet.

Ikuko mutely looked around the room. She turned to Minako, who was about
ready to soil her fuku, She turned to her daughter who looked damn
intimidated. She looked to Chibi-Usa who seemed almost as confused as
she was. She looked to Hotaru who was both apologetic and enraged.
Finally she looked to Ranma, who seemed like nothing was amiss.

It is a typical situation for him, except less violent.

Yeah... girls have screamed at him a plenty but not one blow to the
thinky-bitz!

Silently, Ikuko stood up from her seat, and walked into the kitchen.
Moments later, she returned, holding a bottle of sake and a large water
glass. She sat back down at her table, opened the bottle, and filled the
glass, which she immediately drained.

She probably should have drained the bottle first.

Maybe. ;)

"But I can {explained : explain} why she was so mad at Minako."

They nodded and {truned : turned} back to normal.

"Momma?" asked Usagi, "Does this mean you're not going to tell {daddy :

Daddy}?"

Usagi smiled. "{Thanks momma : Thanks, Momma}..."

"Now Usagi, I'm not going to ground you for being Sailor Moon. I'm not
going to say anything else about those {consumes : costumes}..." Ikuko's

voice

lowered. "I have this sinking feeling that they have some god-awful
spinning naked in a light show transformation effect but I doubt you
have any choice in uniforms. I'm not laying blame for {thinks : things}

you can't

help."

Usagi winced. "{But mama : But, Mama}..."

"{Yes mama : Yes, Mama}?"

"{Yes mama : Yes, Mama}..."

"Yes Chibi-{usa : Usa}?"

Ikuko shook her head and waived goodbye to her {neice : niece}.
She smiled and Hotaru and motioned her head for the small girl to follow
her.

"{Good bye : Goodbye}, Ikuko-obasan!"

As soon as the four were clear of the front {doo : door}, Chibi-Usa

smiled at

Hotaru. "Want to go shopping?"

Both of the younger girls glared at the {blond : blonde}.

"It's never to early to shop!" {Usa : Chibi-Usa} replied.

Hotaru responded with an acidic {glair : glare}.

Hotaru sighed. "Our friend, Yoko is having problems. Oni attack at the
park, we have to go help stop it..."

Is that Mano Yoko?

Yep! With the Senshi's normal "Epic Threats From Beyond!" out of the picture
they've been getting mixed up in the duties of the other local costumed
female devil-hunters. Some reset the senshi putting their noses in someone
elses buisness/duty, but they're all glad to have the additional on call
backup ;)

I imagine Ranma will ask her to stop doing that, at least when she
starts to show.  I'm sure the world isn't ready for a maternity fuku.

Heh... Are you kidding? She'll be lucky if he doesn't try and confenscate
her Henshin pen!

Thanks a bunch and sorry about the wait...

- Sama



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