Hotaru didn't like how the results of the Galaxia incident had effectively erased Chibi-Moon from existence. Right now, she had the Silence Glaive in her wardrobe, and had mailed her transformation trinket to Setsuna in three pieces.

As she was finishing tidying her room, there was a knock at the door, and a brown-haired girl opened it "Oh my… My name is Kasumi Tendo, and we're apparently going to be roommates…"

Kasumi looked at the girl in front of her, she was slightly younger than her by a few years, but like certain girl that Kasumi did not know that it was a goddess, it have her the impression that she was actually older than she looked. Kasumi blinked, what? But she was not drunk!

"Oh my… My name is Kasumi Tendo, and we're apparently going to be roommates…"

The reason for her saying "Oh My" was not because the girl was beautiful, even if she was, but because the black haired girl was just wearing her underwear when she opened the door.

"Hello my name is Hotaru Tomoe… Oh my gosh, thats a cute kitten!"

Hotaru, acting like half her physical age, then processed to gush about the kitten. Kasumi smiled, now being in familiar territory.

Hotaru feel herself liking the older woman, plus she came with an adorable kitten to play with! She talked with Kasumi, explaining her interest in medicine, and what she could tell about herself that did not involve the Senshi. Then she was grateful that Kasumi did not seem offended by the fact Hotaru had been adopted by a pair of lesbians after her father passed away.

Kasumi watched as Botan sat on a pile of the black haired girl clothes, then she noticed something interesting about those clothes. It was a black version of an old style seifuku.

"What's this cute outfit?" Kasumi asked after picking it up, she did not know her new roommate was into cosplaying, or maybe she was a goth?

"It was a present from a friend…" Hotaru stammered, blushing, "She… She's passed away. Her and her father were in a plane accident…"

"Oh… sorry I asked. Was she your girlfriend?" Kasumi asked then mentally insulted herself for letting her tongue loose, what the hell was wrong with her?

The girl face blushed even more, thankfully Botan provided a much needed distraction by yawning loudly.

"Good point, Botan. I do feel tired…" Kasumi quickly said, "Mind if I use the shower first?"

Thankfully, it seemed Hotaru was distracted by the orange cat again, who curled into a ball and went to sleep over the rest of the black haired girl clothes.

Yes she needed a cool shower, and not to play in the shower, at least not while her roommate was inside the apartment.

Hotaru sighed as she got ready for bed. She hadn't expected a roommate, and this Kasumi seemed nice, and her cat was even more so. Except for the fact she'd fallen asleep on her bed rather than Kasumi's.

She slipped on the lace slip that was her nightwear, before considering how to get the cat off her clothes and bed without disturbing her. After a very short attempt, she decided instead to help out Kasumi with her unpacking, taking out her clothes and putting them in the second wardrobe in the room.

She then heard the door to the shared bathroom, and looked towards Kasumi. "Can you please tell your cat that she's sleeping on my bed?" She asked, sweetly.

Kasumi smiled, and without saying nothing just gently picked the cat up and started to pet it. "I should have brought her a basket to sleep on."

The Eldest Tendo Daughter then watched as Hotaru put on a black lace teddy instead of pyjamas or a nightgown.

"Uh… you don't mind we watching you change?" Kasumi asked nervously

"We are both girls, and I did grew up with a pair of lesbians, so, not really."

Blushing, Kasumi decided to play along and changed into her sleepwear in front of Hotaru, after leaving Botan over her pillow. The kitten must be pretty tired to not have woken up yet.

Then Kasumi noticed her sleepwear consisted in a somewhat transparent nightgown… that she never remembered having bought or own.

Kasumi blushed, she had no clue how Hild did it, but she knew it was that little girl who had switched her clothes. Still she decided that yelling Hild name would just make her look crazy to her new roommate, so she said nothing.

"Well..." Hotaru said while looking over her roommate taste of clothes and how she seemed uncomfortable at being discovered having such tastes. "I think I will go to sleep now, I have a lot of things to do tomorrow."

"I think I will do the same, I had a very tiresome day." Kasumi wondered how she could get back at Hild for this, even if she somehow had got her exact sizes and the nightgown was actually very comfortable. But then she had been honest when she said she was tired, so she went to sleep in her bed, Botan sleep with her.

Kasumi woke up with a headache, went to the bathroom and washed her face, then the eldest Tendou woman remembered she had not fully unpacked for some reason and went to get her toothbrush. For some reason Hotaru was singing, her voice was beautiful, it kind of reminded her of that time she and the other girls, including Ranma in girl form, had formed their own Pop music group named DoCo. They only got two disks out before everyone lost interest, but at least they got some money out of it.

Meanwhile, Hotaru picked Botan and placed her in front of a bowl of fish pieces, clearly off-cuts from the sushi she'd been preparing as part of breakfast.

"Did anything happen last night? I can't remember much of last night…" Hotaru stated, "You and Kasumi arrived, we compared notes, you slept where you liked, we went to bed…"

Yes, that was all had happened, right? And why was she talking to a cat? Sure, she had talked with two cats regularly, but those were moon cats, not regular cats like Botan.

Then Kasumi opened one of the bedroom cupboards, looking for her bag. But a heavy looking polearm that screamed "Danger!" to her senses more than any martial artist she had even meet, including Happosai , almost fell into her.

"AHHH!" Kasumi screamed and she could almost swear the polearm 'moved' to avoid her, but at the price of leaving a tick hole in the cupboard. Botan rant into the room upon hearing the noise, The brown haired woman then saw Botan looking at her with worry and she picked the kitten and cuddled it.

"Whoops! Sorry about that!" Hotaru said after entering the room, then pushed the polearm away like it weighed almost nothing. Hotaru was wearing a t-shirt with the astrological symbol for Saturn on the front, and then, on the back, some joker had written, in japanese, "You can destroy youma. I can destroy an entire planet." What was a youma? Did she got that from some anime or manga?

Kasumi mentally counted to ten and relaxed, the polearm was weird, but not so much compared to what she was used in Nerima. Her roommate was probably a weird martial artist that specialized in using polearms, or considering how weird that thing looked, maybe some kind of demon hunter with a magical weapon.

"Are you okay?" Hotary asked looking worried

"Yes, you should be careful with that thing. Are you a martial artist?"

Hotaru thought about the wonders of saying the truth for almost two seconds then decided to go with it. "Yes."

"Oh, I thought you were a demon hunter."

"Actually… I usually just say martial artist because when I say demon hunter people think I am crazy." Hotaru feel better than she was saying something close to the truth. Plus, she probably could use some magic without transforming as long as she had her polearm around. Why not get a job as independent demon hunter? Even in the case her power was greatly reduced while using the staff alone, she had the power to destroy planets, using just 1% of that should be enough for most cases.

"Oh I get that, I used to live in Nerima and when I talk about the stuff that goes around there people think I am crazy or exaggerating."

After that the two young women bonded by talking about the weird stuff going in her life, Hotaru just had to change some words and tone down the things she had done. For example her father became a "possessed warlock", the Witches Five became cultists and Mistress 9 became "An evil spirit". Overall it felt good to talk with someone outside the senshi that could understand what she was going through. When it came to Chibi-Usa she just avoided mentioning time travel. and created a sad story about her moving back to the US with her possessive father and then dying in a plane accident to not contradict what she had told Kasumi before.

Overall, besides her roommate being a demon hunter, and the fact that she keep finding sexy clothes on her size she had not packed in her room, the next few days were quite quiet for Kasumi.

The eldest Tendo sister then suspected Urd was involved, instead of Hild. Hild would have changed her clothes once as a prank, but Urd tended to be meddlesome in the love and sex life of others, and if the clothes were a hint, as least they were more subtle that what the tall bronze skinned woman with white hair usually did.

Sure, there was the nagging feeling that something had happened the first day they meet that Kasumi could not remember, but since Hotaru had not said anything about that, she dismissed it as something not important.

So it was not a big surprise for Kasumi when a weird blonde girl with twin pigtails appeared and demanded to see Hotaru about some family emergency.

"I am sorry, but Hotaru went out to the Higurashi Shrine in Tokyo to deal with a rampaging snake woman demon, if you want to leave her a message I will take notes." Without waiting for the blonde response, Kasumi took out pen and paper to take notes.

"What? She told you? But being a- kitten!" The blonde woman got distracted with Botan, who was biting her shoelaces, and then started to pet the cat.

"Demon hunter? Yes she told me about her having that job and that people usually think she is crazy when she mentions it."

"Demon Hunter? Well, we could call it that that."

"Well, unless you want to leave a message for her, I have to leave, I have classes in about an hour." Kasumi said, normally she was more polite, but preparing for her tests was not easy. Especially not when she keep having weird dreams involving her, female Ranma and Hotaru.
Yes she was quite sure that was not what was nagging her, whatever had happened it had just involved Hotaru and her, and maybe botan, not Ranma.

"Oh okay, this is my new Cell phone number. Please tell Hotaru to call me as soon as you can, okay?" The blonde said and left in a hurry.

Usagi had noticed the kitten glaring at her, and while it did not feel evil, it made her want to leave, maybe it was another moon cat? No, that would be silly, plus she was the moon princess, why would a moon cat… oh, she forgot to study again! Ami was gonna kill her!