CHAPTER 10 - Chibi Chibi Moon Emerges.

Everything was fine for some time. The only one who felt the burden of Mina Darien's baby was Artemis. Life was back to normal - aside from the tattoos and the sudden fixation with sex.

Until one day, there was a knock on Serena's door. She opened it to find a very small girl standing there with dark pink hair in heart shaped odangos. She had a little heart shaped suitcase beside her on Serena's front step. She blinked up at Serena with strangely familiar big blue eyes, before her tiny face broke into a huge, adorable grin.

"AWWWWW!"Serena exclaimed, barely resisting the urge to scopp the small child into her arms and squeeze her. Luna appeared at Serena's feet. The child confused the small cat.

"Well Serena? Is that how you treat a guest? Gawk at them? Invite her in," Luna said, retreating back inside the house. Serena leaned down and took the girl's hand and led her into the house and closed the door behind them.

"She's so cute!" Lita exclaimed, snuggling the girl everyone had taken to calling Chibi Chibi Moon."Maybe you and Darien have another kid in the Moon Kingdom. She looks just like you!"

"You think?" Serena said, excitedly. "Mina... could you do me a favour? Darien and I have a date... would you mind babysitting tonight? I normally wouldn't ask, but all the other girls have something to do..."

"No, I don't mind!"Mina smiled, openly. Truth was, she did mind, but only a little. Something about the little girl freaked her out. She felt like she ought to know the girl, or that Chibi Chibi knew her.

When the girls got up to leave the cafe, Mina bundled Chibi Chibi into her arms, and grabbed the suitcase, which the girl was hardly ever without. Chibi Chibi, who was usually a very rambuncious creature, fidgeting whenever held, was strangely still in Mina's arms. She merely laid her head on Mina's shoulder and looked up at her, while twirling a peice of Mina's long golden hair around her little fingers. Mina felt an overwhelming surge of affection for the little thing. She felt like she was supposed to be carrying Chibi Chibi around, and that it was the most natural thing in the world.

Back at her apartment, Chibi Chibi and Mina were watching some cartoons. But the child wasn't paying attention at all, instead she was intently studying Mina's face, and keeping a tiny grasp on Mina's hand.

"You sure seem to find me interesting, eh?" Mina chuckled. The girl smiled, because Mina was smiling. "Not a big talker, though..."

In response, or at least, it seemed, Chibi Chibi put her tiny hand on the exact location of Mina's tattoo, and traced the EXACT shape of it with one stubby finger, and then grinned right up into Mina's eyes. Mina hadn't even noticed her mother enter the room.

"Who's this little cutie?" Her mother cooed.

"Another one of Serena's cousins." Mina straightened Chibi Chibi's socks, which were about the fall off.

"It's weird... she looks they way you did when you were about two," Mina's mother replied.

"Really? Everyone says she looks like Serena"

"They didn't know you when you were 2." Chibi Chibi grinned at Mina's mother and then traced the blonde's tattoo again.

"Mind you..." her mom continued, "She's a lot quieter than you were."

They laughed and Chibi Chibi just smiled even bigger, and crawled onto Mina's lap.

"And think about it... you and Serena look a lot alike too. I don't know how that boyfriend of hers keeps it straight."

"We're really different people." Mina's mom just shrugged and went into the kitchen. Mina looked down at the little girl in her lap. Studying her small face, and trying to find similarities to her own. It was true. The little girl's eyes were the same deep muted blue as hers, where Serena's was an excited medium tone. Her nose was rounder and her mouth smaller. But then there WERE things that would've made it feasible for Chibi Chibi to be another Moon Princess, like Rini. She had Darien's jaw, and Darien's full lower lip.

She had to be Darien's and Serena's daughter. There was no other explaination. But then... what about they way Chibi Chibi knew the EXACT location and shape of her tattoo?

Mina shrugged it off as coincidence.
The girl's hand was again, firmly placed on Mina's tattoo. It reminded her of a sensation that she couldn't remember having. A firm, soft squared hand on her 3 day old tattoo. But Mina never remembered getting it... she looked, shocked, into the girl's grinning face.

NOTES: WHOA! What's going on with Chibi Chib? Anyways... I hope you enjoyed that chapter and there will be another one out shortly! As soon as I figure out how to write it.
Also, I know this says Chapter 10, and the last one says 8.5, but is drunk and doesn't allow for half chapters. So just pretend that 8.5 WAS 9, and you can even feel cheaped out about because it was so short. meh.