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Chapter 25: The End

Haruka was running towards the storm that took Saturn and Super Sailor Moon in. It was getting stronger and the blond just run recklessly. Michiru tried to stop her but she was already few feet away from her..

Michiru lost track of the blond when the storm died and then followed by a bright light, blinding them. All of the sudden, an explotion was heard and things were flung away. The world suddenly became hollow...

-- Winter 1999: January --

The end of January means another season is almost end. The winter wind was still blew around the outskirt of Tokyo. A house overlooking the beautiful hills seemed not disturbed by the cold. Instead, it was filled with warmth.

"Hime-chan! Careful!"

Michiru almost dropped the phone on her shoulder when she heard Haruka's yell, followed by a loud crying. She signed with a small smile on her face. She could imagine what the other two were doing in the backyard.

"Are you there, Michiru-chan?"

The aqua girl almost forgot. She was on the phone with Haruka's mother. "I'm sorry, Megumi-san, I was distracted"

"I could hear Haruka's shout from here. I told her so many times that child cried because of her shout, not from the fall. She should stop worrying too much or she will get old fast!"

Michiru responded her mother-in-law's complain with a giggle. She continued setting up the dinner table and smile never left her lips. "I will make sure to tell her that"

Megumi just returned back to London with Hiroshi after spending time with the trio during Christmas, New Year and most importantly, their granddaughter first birthday. Akiko also came to celebrate together with them. They were so excited when they knew the couple had a daughter and decided to come to see her.

After few minutes, the conversation ended. When she had make sure everything was ready, she exited the kitchen and sailed to the backyard where she found two people there.

Haruka was standing in the backyard. She was holding two small hands, together walking by the garden.

"You two, lunch is ready"

The blond looked up, smiled at the call and then turned her attention back to the little girl. "Let's go, Hime, mama's calling"

She picked up Hotaru by the armpits with struggle since the girl wanted to walk around for more. "Be a good girl okay, we can continue our walk after your nap"

Hotaru stopped struggling when she blew the little girl's tummy. The little snow white felt the ticklish and laughing.

"Okay, okay, let's have lunch. I don't want her to get so excited or she won't be able to take a nap"

"Yes, mama", Haruka stopped playing and gave the girl to Michiru. Hotaru was not refused. Once she got to be with her 'mama', she started to play with the long wavy hair.

"Did you hurt from the fall, Hime-chan?" Michiru gave small kisses and Hotaru just responded by giggling.

"It wasn't bad, she's a strong girl"

"She is a strong girl so your Haruka-papa shouldn't freak out easily", Michiru said to Hotaru, teasing her wife. "Your mother said to stop being overprotective, she is afraid your girl will get heart attck whenever you're around"

They entered the kitchen and Michiru placed Hotaru in her baby seat before she went to the stove to pick up the food. She knew that Haruka would not let go the topic easily.

"I'm not overprotective and I'm the one who should have heart attack. I mean she is just started walking and what if she fell, she will get hurt"

"That is overprotective, Ruka" Before the blond argued back, Michiru placed her index finger on her lips. "Let's eat. We don't want to argue with empty stomach"

Hotaru also nodded, agreed with her mama.

The lunch was lovely. Haruka kept arguing about her parental skill while Michiru and Hotaru were feeding each other, making the table a mess.

After their meal, the aqua hair gave kiss to the yawning baby and let Haruka took the girl to her room. She went to clean the table and wash the dishes. Humming happily, she looked at the window outside and felt the warm of the sun from it. She closed her eyes, enjoying the warm sensation. It seemed like Spring already, new beginning of the season, a new start for another life cycle.

She smiled, feeling hands slipped around her waist. She gave a surprised moan when she felt trail of kisses upon her neck. "Ruka, I am still washing the dishes"

The blond stopped although Michiru missed the kisses already. She was still locking the woman in her arms and placed her head on the aqua hair's shoulder, enjoying the closure.

"Do you think I'm overprotective?"

Michiru giggled at the question. "You still think about that?!"

"I couldn't protect her back then"

"Ruka, it wasn't your fault and if it wasn't because of that, we would never meet her. Just call it as fate has bring us together"

"I know... But I don't mind being overprotective. I just don't want her to wield that weapon ever again, risking her life"

"We will protect her from now on, we will... Together", the aqua girl pressed back against the blond, tightening the embrace. Haruka knew it was meant to give assurance. "She is our daughter"

"You're right..."

Michiru turned her head to the side and kissed the blond's cheek. "And I will support you for whatever you choose to be"

"Then, you don't mind for me being overprotective?"

"Not I agree but that's just you and I love you for that"

Haruka stared at her wife and smiled. "Thank you, Michi..."

Their eyes met. No words could desribe how much they meant to each other, how they understood each other and how they wanted each other. They just shared a meaningful kiss on the lips. It meant so much to just feeling each other lips, cold or warm, sad or content, take or give, they just knew what each other wanted.

Their lips separated once but not for a while. "Ruka, my hands still-"

Through unspoken words, Haruka turned the smaller woman around and gave passionate kiss on the lips. Michiru did not argue back and returned the kiss. The blond's hands started to unbutton the other woman one piece dress, pulling it off and gave trail of kisses on the neck and collarbone. Michiru's lips felt cold but replace by moans of pleasure, enjoying every bits of Haruka's lips and tongue.

It did not stop until that, Haruka continued to strip off the woman in her arms. She picked up Michiru to sit on the kitchen table beside the sink. She pulled off the underwear, leaving the aqua woman bra as her only clothing.

Michiru felt Haruka's naked eye staring at her almost naked body. The blond gave another kiss on the lips before trail the kisses down to her neck, her breast, her abdomen, and finally down between her thights.

She could feel her body shivered only by Haruka's breath. Once she felt Haruka's tongue inside her, it was more than that. She was moaning and shivering in ecstacy. It just made Haruka wanting for more of those sweet moans and she knew Michiru wanted the same. She devoured her clit harder and led her tongue deeper into the Michiru's.

The sea senshi knew she was gripping the edge of the table harder than anything she ever grip on. If she was transformed into her senshi form, she will make Haruka pay for the repairation's bill.

"OH Ruka..." She felt the blond thrust in more. The more it was in, the more of her soul was going to come out. It was addicting and she wanted it for more like she never had it in her life. The shudder grew and she knew she was going to come. "My God, Ruka don't stop, don't-"

After pleasure moan and uncontrollable shudder, Michiru could not any spare of energy in her living being. She still felt the tongue trailing, licking for her juices.

"Ruka, hold me"

As her request, the blond hugged her wife, knowing she did not have much strength to sit up. She gave small kisses on her neck as Michiru enjoyed the embrace and a little pleasurable sensation.

They stayed like that for a while, sharing soft kisses and exchanging gesture. When Michiru gained a little strength, she pulled away from the embrace and looked at Haruka, giving meaningful looks. Haruka's hand went to touch Michiru's red cheek and pushed back her hair behind the ear, admiring the woman in front of her. No words could describe everything she saw, feel and touch but only one thing matter to tell.

"I love you"

Michiru felt softness in her voice. The words were not just heard by her ears but also felt through the blond's green eyes. It was not just words, it was real.

"I love you too, Ruka"

They shared a kiss but when Michiru felt Haruka's hand moving to her tights, she stopped them.

"R-Ruka?!"

"Why? We have restrained ourselve since we have to take care of Hime-chan and then our parents came to visit"

"I know that but if we continue, I couldn't promise to not to wake Hime-chan"

"We don't have to wake her up"

Again their lips met and this time, Haruka surely would not leave any single remark from her lover's lips. She was planning on devouring everything in Michiru. The aqua hair knew there would be nothing left of her by the end of the day but she was just smiled knowing the fact.

While still kissing passionately, Haruka knew that Michiru was not denying to have another sex. She could feel the soapy cold hand was crawling underneath her t-shirt. The woman pulled up the blond t-shirt, leaving her topless. The kissing continued as they felt each other bare skin against each other with her hands behind the Michiru's back and the petite girl's around her neck. It just made both of them even more ecstacized. As Haruka felt they had enough warm up, her right hand fell back down to Michiru's inner tight and thrusted her middle finger in.

She could hear Michiru's moan echoed in her head with their lips still intact. It just made her crazier and crazier from that sensual yell. It was just like telling her to be sought for more, begging to be devour like before. Haruka inserted another finger and deeper, feeling Michiru inside, hot and wet. The aqua hair struggled keeping her tongue inside Haruka's mouth with the unbearable excitement Haruka did to her.

'Oh God'

The battle of pleasure continued...

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Neptune woke up from her slumber. She tried to bring herself up from the piles from the ruins. She did not see Pharaoh 90 anymore. The storm had gone leaving the island destroyed. Then she remembered about Haruka. She ran forward, tried to find clue whether the blond was still alive. Suddenly, her eyes were distracted by a light in between the ruins to the East. She ran towards it, felt like it called her there. Once she reached there, she could not hide her smiling face.

Sailor Moon sat there and together they were watching Haruka who was holding a baby. Neptune was not able to say anything. When the blond noticed her wife, she whispered to the child in her arms. "Hime-chan, meet Michiru-mama…"

It was a beautiful moment and Neptune could not help but cried.

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The sunrise awoke the sleeping beauty. Michiru opened her eyes to see the same ceiling of the master bedroom that she shared with Haruka. She turned her head to see her wife and her daughter, sleeping arm-in-arm facing her. She smiled and turned to her side, to get a better view of her family. She was just enjoying the moment of stillness as she watched her wife finally opened her eyes.

"Morning, love"

The blond gave a sleepy smile and slowly reached her wife to give morning kiss. "Morning, did you sleep well?"

"After our 'kitchen' activities yesterday, I never sleep so well in my life"

Haruka laughed and gave another peck. "Glad to hear that. Then, I could do it anytime?"

"Not for a while though"

The grin in Haruka's face was never gone. When she tried to reach her again, suddenly… "Ouf!"

Apparently the little princess was disturbed. She rolled to the blond, gave her 'papa' a small blow to the stomach.

Michiru could not contain her laugh while the blond was squirming on her tummy. Hotaru was still sleeping with content.

"She is very cute… I'm guessing that she will be very popular with boys", the aqua hair played with the girl's hair when suddenly Haruka hissed quietly.

"No, no, no! Absolutely no! She should watch out for boys"

"Ruka, we already discussed this that she could choose to love a man if she wants to-"

"Woa, Michi, that's too far, I was talking about boys not marriage, it's a whole different thing. My point is just that she should not hang around boys before she gets married"

"Ruka, that's not making any sense! She will be a teenager and for sure she will hang around with them. And how she knew men if she never hang around with them?!"

"Okay, I don't want to discuss this", Haruka covered her ears with her hands and went to the door.

Michiru signed and looked at her daughter. "I wonder which one is the kid?"

Suddenly, she heard a commotion outside. Worried, Michiru placed Hotaru safely on the bed and got up. She went to the living room where she found Haruka bent on the floor.

"Ruka!"

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"Talismans are the source power of Holy Grail and using its power means using the power of the talisman. In Haruka-san case, the power of talisman is too great to handle for a human body and it could consume the human's soul in order to maintain its existence."

Pluto words faded as the scenery changed.

She was looking into a large crystal castle stood largely overlooking the Tokyo's bay.

"Where are we?"

"The future" Haruka replied without looking at her wife.

"Future…" Michiru found the scenery breathtaking. It was so beautiful and she could feel the fresh air. There was no evilness and much more peace. "Is it our future?"

It was long enough before Haruka turned around to see her wife and gave her a small smile."It's your future with 'her'…"

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Haruka was lying on the bed. Her body felt weak and cold, feeling like she was a living dead body. Her breath became stagnant and her brain felt suffocate.

In the corner of her eyes, she saw a blond woman with short hair in senshi form, her old friend.

"Is it the time already?"

"Yeah", Uranus answered her in flat tone, unable to express her feeling to the motionless woman.

The blond understood through the sadness in the warrior eyes and just gave a small smile. "It feels like it was just yesterday…"

"It means you had a wonderful time with your family", Uranus returned the smile.

"Absolutely"

"Ruka, who's you talking to?"Haruka turned her head to see Michiru came in, confused.

"No one", Haruka smiled.

Michiru looked at her, worried. "I got you some medicine, you've got really bad cold"

"Thank you"

"And also, I've something for you"

Haruka looked the woman's cute smile and could not help to not smiling back at her. "What is it?"

Michiru took out a small blue box from the drawer. It was pretty simple box with white ribbon on it. It was also accompanied by a big white paper folded in half. She was not surprised with the gifts since she had known it for almost seventeen years of her life.

"Happy Birthday!"

Michiru gave the gifts to the blond and gave her a peck on the cheek. "Thank you, Michi"

"Open it!"

"Hmm… Let me open this giant paper first… Aha!" It was a white paper full of baby hands painted all over. Haruka chuckled at it and gave a fake serious face. "Hmm… This is a very interesting piece of art… I think our daughter will become an artist just like her mama"

Her wife giggled at Haruka's almost perfect imitation of an art dealer. "If her papa agrees then yes, I would love her to be an artist"

They laughed at their conversation and Haruka decided to continue opening the gift. She slowly pulled the white ribbon off the blue box and took the cover. She saw silver made clover shape pendant with black necklace. "I thought four clovers are for good luck?"

"I never believe in that… I thought three because there are you, me and Hotaru. Open the pendant"

The blond opened the pendant to see a family picture of them. She looked at the picture and kept smiling to see her family's picture. "Michiru… Thank you, really"

"I have them too", Michiru showed the necklace on her neck. "and I made one for Hotaru-chan as well"

"That's thoughtful of you"

Michiru gave a small smile to her wife and blushed as she received the compliment. "I… just want our family to stick together no matter what happened and hoping this pendant could remind us all that we love one and another"

The bright smile on Haruka's face faded.

"Michiru, listen…" The aqua hair was quiet all of the sudden and sat beside the blond, give her full attention. But no words came out from the blond's mouth. It was heartbreaking enough for her to tell the truth. Once the silence was broken, only painful reality was heard but it was not her to start. It was Michiru.

"Ruka… I've been having dreams far before we've met. I've been struggle with it and meeting you has not put me at ease. It just made it worse. That dreams still haunted me until now and it was almost unbearable", Haruka knew about those dreams. It has haunted her wife about the end of the world. She had forgotten about it ever since they defeat Death Bastard. "In that dream, it always haunted me about feeling of losing you and it was horrible. If any chance, I don't want to feel those feeling"

Michiru's words just made Haruka felt guiltier. She had promise her to stay by her side forever but the only reality exists was a lie.

"But from the worse of it always came the best" Haruka surprised to see tears flew on the aqua hair's white cheek. From the unspoken truth, somehow Michiru knew about it. She knew…

"Ruka… I could never been happier with anyone but you. You gave me those happy moments which I will cherish for the rest of my life. I will never regret this path that I took. I will never regret for loving you…"

She felt another tears dropped. It was her own. She pulled Michiru into her arms and kissed her passionately. They felt the passion that could be their last.

The kiss ended. They placed their forehead against each other. "I'm sorry…"

"Don't be… I-I love you, Ruka… I always will… and I will love Hime-chan as much as I can. Tell her how much you love her and always by her side, and tell her to watch out for boys, a-and…"

She could not continue anymore. She let herself fell into Haruka's embrace and cried. They stayed on the bed, hugging. Tears were continued to swarm and hearts were slowly broken into pieces. Their time was up. It was the time.

"I love you, Michi…"

Haruka's body slowly disappeared. The smaller woman tried to hold it as long as she could still feel her warmness. The blond gave her last kiss on Michiru's forehead but by the time, her lips touched upon the flesh, Haruka Tenoh had disappeared into thin air. Leaving only her talisman shined genuinely and then disappeared as well.

"Goodbye"

The woman continued to cry, feeling the empty air in her arms. She wanted to cry until there was no more tears, no more of these painful feelings in her chest. It was the same empty world that she felt before. There would never be Haruka's lips that she could feel. There would never be Haruka's scent that she could smell. There would never be Haruka's arms that could comfort her. She kept indulging in Haruka's loss and the cry was never stopped…

She snapped back from her agony when she heard Hotaru's cry. Michiru was about to run upstairs but then stopped. Sailor Pluto was carrying the baby.

Michiru took over Pluto and tried to calm down Hotaru. "Don't cry, Hotaru-chan, mama is here"

The cry then stopped and Michiru could feel the baby's grasp on her shoulder as if she was hugging her. She felt the little girl understood her mother lost and hers too. The unspoken gesture was giving her assurance and comfort. The aqua hair just hugged back and kissed Hotaru on the head. Then her eyes averted on Pluto sudden appearance. No words came out from the senshi's lips but Michiru felt the grief and compassion in her eyes. She was grateful for having them with her but her mind never left that one person.

"Haruka…"

All of the sudden, she was dragged into the darkness. Hotaru was not in her arms anymore and slowly she fell into deep slumber…

--- Spring 1998: Juuban Hospital ---

Michiru woke up in the hospital bed. She sat there confused. She was crying without knowing why. She could not remember what happened to her. She felt like she just had a long dream, living in whole new universe but she could not remember anything. It was so sad that she still wanted to cry until a loud voice pulled her back to reality.

"I need to see her!"

"Miss, you just miraculously woke up from you coma, we need to investigate-"

"I'm not a monster alright! Just happened that I have a very fast recovery, now let me go!"

"Miss Tenoh!"

The door opened and she saw a blond in hospital clothes came in. "Michiru!"

"Haruka??"

"Are you okay?"

"Miss Tenoh, please,-"

"Can you give us a moment?" Without waiting for the reply, she closed the door behind her. Haruka walked to her partner and sat on the empty bed beside Michiru. "FINALLY! That nurse pissed me off, she treated me like an alien or something"

"They told me that you're in coma and-"

"Michiru, we're sailor senshi remember? Well, the wound was bad, takes me months to recover BUT what happened to you?! My mom told me that they found you unconscious on the rooftop and slept for a week! After I got up, I just ran here to make sure you're okay-"

"I'M THE ONE WHO WORRIED ABOUT YOU! How could you do that?! Jumping in front of me and risking your life?! I thought we had a deal??? Y-you were wounded and t-there was a lot of blood…" Haruka saw tears in Michiru's eyes. "I was scared…"

In tears, Michiru jut continued her ramble. "I-I don't want to lose you… I was so depressed and I was about to kill myself… I-"

Haruka stopped the woman with kiss on the lips. Surprised with the blond's action, Michiru was dumbstruck. When the lips left, she was thrown in to a tight embrace. Then she realized that she had stopped crying.

"I'm sorry… I… I guess I don't want to lose you either… I'm sorry for worrying you", Michiru responded and hugged the blond back with all her strength. After a while, the blond started to tease the aqua hair senshi. "I'm glad you decided not to jump"

"I didn't… I was going to jump but someone stopped me"

"Someone?"

"Yea… I couldn't remember" Haruka felt Michiru tighten her arms around her. "Ruka..."

"Yes?"

"I will never regret for choosing this path"

The blond smiled and then pulled back to look the smaller girl in the eyes. "I think there's always reason for everything…"

She caressed Michiru's cheek gently without leaving her sight on the beautiful blue eyes. "Michiru… Despite the burden and pain we are facing, I am grateful that I met you"

Michiru could not hide the loving smile on her face. The blond went closing the distance between them and their lips met for one passionate kiss.

THE END

Author's Note:

Okay, answering the reviewers.

MANTARAY: The correct one is Mistress 9 not 99. I realized the mistake so I changed it in the next chapter without correcting last one. And I love being a cliffhanger author (sowwie! ^_^)

HARUKA LOVER: In this fic, Michiru was sent to another universe where Haruka is not a senshi. So I jumped backwards in the alternate universe so I could write my own version of how they met and included some small moments from actual Sailor Moon.

Last but not least, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for reading! The ending maybe not satisfying but it has been my intention to have Michiru came back from the alternate universe. Finally and sadly, it ends... For now! (Evil Grin)

See you next time.