For the One I Love

Chapter Six: School Days

"Isn't there any medicine downstairs we can give her?" Minako asked Chibi-Usa as she sat on the edge of the bed, reaching out to feel Usagi's forehead.

"It wouldn't help anyway." Setsuna said, beckoning Chibi-Usa to come back into the room, as she had started to run out the door to go check. "This isn't happening because she's sick."

"We could open her window though right, will cooling her down help?" Rei asked, pointing her index finger over her shoulder.

"It may help her more comfortable at least."

Mamoru leaned over the end of her bed to open it. A cool breeze ran past them, fluttering the bedding for a brief second. Usagi moaned restlessly before turning over on her side.

"Unbelievable fool." Luna said suddenly.

"I've never seen Seiya act like this before." Taiki said looking at Usagi lying in bed, not bothering to hide his concerned face.

"I've been wondering." Haruka asked. "Why are you even here? You just rebuilt your kingdom didn't you? So don't you have your own princess to be with?" Taiki and Yaten quickly exchanged glances.

"Honestly, she told us to come back with Seiya." Yaten told them.

"Seiya went to see her, and before we knew it he said he was coming back to Earth, and that Princess Kakyuu told us come with him." Taiki sighed. "We didn't want to. Rather, we didn't want to leave her there without one of us, but she insisted we come with. So we figured we might as well give Earth another try as well."

"Then it was a sudden thing?" Ami asked.

"Yeah, it was. Our Princess and Seiya both suddenly had this idea of Earth in their minds." Yaten also looked down at Usagi concerned. "Actually, Seiya had been acting odd a few days before we came. We're not sure what's going on. When we got here we enrolled back into the high school," Yaten glared over in Taiki's direction. "Seiya set out to find Usagi right away and later that day we told everyone we were here over the phone, and told Minako about Seiya."

Minako and Michiru who were both at the receiving ends of the message they had returned to Earth, nodded.

"Usagi never mentioned anything had happened before just today." Mamoru said quietly.

"You understand why she didn't thought, right Mamoru-san?" Makoto asked him.

"No, I understand." He reassured. "That's just the way she is, she didn't want to worry me." Everyone fell silent as Usagi tossed around in her bed again.

"We have to find some way to bring Seiya back, but the problem is how without disturbing the timeline anymore." Ami leaned back against the doorframe, thoughtfully. "The only thing I can think of is to send someone back to retrieve him."

"It's dangerous, but doable with certain conditions." Setsuna replied. "And you're right, I don't see much more of an option at the moment."

"What conditions, Setsuna?" Rei inquired.

"Whoever goes back couldn't be anyone who was actually present during the time period he's in."

"So that almost definitely rules out Mamoru, Minako, Makoto, Ami and myself." Rei said. "Well, Mamoru might be able to if he's somewhere where they aren't together yet."

"That's right; we don't even know where in time he is!" Minako groaned in frustration.

"I have an idea in regards to that issue, but it might take me a while." Setsuna stood from Usagi's desk chair. "I need to use the King and Queen's computers in Crystal Tokyo."