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Hotaru looked outside from her hospital bed. She had had another fit, and Amara, Michelle, and Trista had taken her to the hospital. The doctor said that she was lucky to recover from this one, lately Hotaru had been getting very bad coughing fits, and high fevers, not to mention other wounds that would show up occasionally from gym class. Normally they were horrible deep gashes from falling or scraping her delicate skin, but with her healing power, Hotaru soon had them fixed up. Michelle had worried and fused over her like she was a baby, Hotaru was 15 years old now!

You would think that they would let me heal my own wounds, instead of staying in this prison cell that they call a hospital room. The food sucks here, I cant see my friends, how can anyone possibly stand it. Hotaru thought to herself, Rini had visited a couple of times, concerned as usual. The door opened, and Hotaru, startled, stopped looking out the window. A boy with dirty blond hair, and sparkling blue eyes entered the room; he's gorgeous! Hotaru thought.

"Hello," the boy said. "Would you by chance be Hotaru Tomoe?" He asked, running a hand through his perfectly straight hair..

"Yes, I am," Hotaru said, staring at the boy. He was the ideal height for her, 5'6", he seemed perfect already. "What can I do for you sir?" Hotaru asked him, as a bit of red formed on her cheeks.

"Well my name is Victor Kerstin. And I've heard a lot about you, Hotaru, if I may call you Hotaru?"

"Oh yes of course, no need for formalities though," Hotaru added with a smile.

I wonder who sent him here, and why... uh-oh. I should have known, this is Rini's doing. Rini was always trying to set her up with handsome young men that she knew through her 'connections' at school. As Hotaru looked at the boy she went through the list of Rini's failed attempts; Patrick, to stupid. Bruce, to preppy. George, to perverted. Richard, to stuck up. Thomas, to immature. Lionel, way to infatuated with himself to be interested in a girl. Henry, moved to fast, he said he wanted to get married, at 15! Hah, that's a laugh. Jack, to interested in sports and his buddies to care much about a girl. Now Rini is trying to set me up with another one, oh the agony.

Victor was walking towards her while she recalled past failures, and by the time that she had recited each one, Victor was standing right next to her by the bed. She jumped, a bit alarmed. Victor had his hands behind his back, and a grin on his face. Hotaru just stared into his eyes, uh-oh, it's coming again, there is that feeling. No Hotaru, you've done this a million times! You can NOT and I repeat, CAN NOT have a crush on this boy no matter how hot and muscular and ooooh! Stop looking at him! The argument went on inside her head until Victor coughed somewhat impatiently. Hotaru watched as he pulled from behind his back, a bouquet of red roses.

"Thank you they're beautiful, but I don't understand," Hotaru said, blushing furiously.

"Sailor Saturn...Hotaru...Beautiful Princess Saturn," Victor began. What did he just say? How does he know that, Rini couldn't possibly have told him, no then she would have to explain herself to. Then what...? The answer to Hotaru's thoughts came when Michelle, and Amara entered, however Trista was mising. Trista's probably off guarding time. Hotaru thought.

Michelle looked at the younger girl and boy and smiled, "oh Hotaru, you must have met Prince Victor!"

"Victor, you sly dog, I know we told you about Princess Saturn. But I'm sure that you must have scared the poor girl out of her wits, bringing her flowers and all!" Amara said to the boy.

"Oh Amara, don't be so hard on your little nephew. He wanted to meet Hotaru, that's all and besides, he's such a little gentleman, bringing Hotaru flowers. It's so romantic!" Michelle stated, smiling as Victors cheeks turned red with embarrassment.

"You know I was just teasing him Michelle, come on Victor, do you want to see me race, I'm up in about 35 minutes. Hotaru, you can come to if you want. The doctors say that you are well enough. And you also get to leave the hospital today, I hope that you have your things packed?"

"Yes please, I really want to see you race! Oh I have my stuff packed, and thank you so much for the flowers Victor." Hotaru said, smelling them, and placing them in a vase on the table by her bed. Michelle had already taken the liberty of filling the vase with water.

Victor only grinned in return. Hotaru smiled back. Well for once, Rini has not but in, and this guy is actually my type. Well destiny calls, and I'm just going to take destiny's hand and leave with it. I just hope that I haven't made a bad impression on him, since I'm so silent and shy.

Amara drove her yellow convertible down to the races, Hotaru got to sit in the back with Victor, and both of them were quiet the whole time. After 15 minutes of hectic running though crowds of people, and fans screaming AMARA!! down the hallways, Michelle, Victor, and Hotaru made it to their seats. Amara was able to find a pathway away from the admiring girl,s and made it in time to start the race. She blew Michelle a kiss as she got into her car. Victor and Hotaru sat next to each other, and as the race progressed, Hotaru was getting more and more nervous, Amara was losing, she was in 3^rd place, but she could make it to the finish line with a 1^st place finish. However, the thing that Hotaru was nervous about was Victor. Victor kept on staring at her and not the race, occasionally, his blue eyes would find themselves drowning in the pool of purple that were Hotaru's eyes.

As she was thinking, Victor was squirming in his chair, nervously. Victor, come on, you can’t possibly be this nervous, you've finally met her, the girl of your dreams, and all you can do is sit here squirming. Ask her out! The worst thing that she could say is no, but what if she says no, then what? Your heart will be broken, that's what, but what if she likes you to, but she was to shy to say, and you never ever found out that she liked you, then what? So do it man, go for the gold, ask her!

To be continued in the next chapter of: Romance Blooms, Hotaru's Adventure

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Victor turned to Hotaru, finally deciding on what he was going to do. Amara was speeding up the track way, getting ever so close to the finish line, she had passed up the two drivers in front of her, however they were both on her tail. Victor opened his mouth, to finally say the words that could win Hotaru’s heart.

Amara sweated bullets, this is going to be close, I've never had this close a race before. I have got to put the petal to the metal, here it goes then! At the same time, Victor was getting incredibly nervous. This is going to be close, she seems like she likes me, but I don’t know for sure, oh here it goes then! Amara crossed the finish line, undefeated once again, and Victor suddenly blurted out his hopes as the checkered flag came down and the fans screamed

"Hotaruyouwannagooutwithme?"

"What?" Hotaru asked quizzically, it was to loud and she couldn’t understand him since he spoke so fast.

"I said," Victor started, and he gulped, well here it goes... "Do you want to go out with me?"

That time Hotaru heard him, she blushed deeply as the question he asked her hit her hard in the heart. He likes me! Oh my gosh he likes me! He wants to go out with me, yes, yes, yes, yes! But what will happen, what will happen. What if he's like the others, I don’t even know that much about him, do I know anything about him at all? But I already like him. I need some time. Hotaru looked into Victors hopeful blue eyes, he really likes me though…

“Victor,” she started.

Victor just continued to stare at her.

“I need some time to think this over, I think that we should get to know each other better first. I’ll call you tonight. I’m going home today, and I just think that…” Hotaru said, and she stopped when she saw the look in Victors eyes. He was not sad, and yet he seemed somewhat distant, but she could tell that he was listening to every word that she said.

“That’s okay with me, just talk to me later, I’m temporarily staying at your house, I live on the 3^rd floor, maybe we could talk there.” He said.

Hotaru nodded, the race was over, and it was time to go, she got into the car, still thinking about everything that had happened.

“So Victor did you like the race?” Amara asked her nephew.

He replied, “yes,” however it was not a cheerful yes. His yes sounded a little depressed. Hotaru was the only one to notice it though.

“Great,” Amara said, and grinned.

The four went to the hospital to get Hotaru’s things, and when they dropped them off at the mansion that Hotaru, Amara, Michelle, and Trista called home, Hotaru decided to go and visit Rini.

To be continued in the next chapter of: Romance Blooms, Hotaru's Adventure

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The Tuskino household was quiet now, with the exceptions of a few screams from Serena the hyena at Rini and/or Sammy. Hotaru cheered up a bit, and giggled at the familiar loud argument going on between Rini and Serena as she rang the bell.

Rini and Serena ran to the door, fighting along the way about who should open it. This time, Rini got to it first, and opened it. Rini was pleased to find Hotaru standing there, a half-smile on her face.

“Hi Rini,” Hotaru said smiling.

“Hotaru! You’re back from the hospital, that’s great!” Serena said cheerfully.

“Serena’s being pleasant for once,” Rini said, and Serena scowled.

“What do you mean for once! I’m always nice and sweet!” She screamed at her future daughter.

“I’m glad you’re well to,” Rini said ignoring Serena. “Where’s our manners, come in Hotaru.” Rini said to Hotaru cheerfully, and Hotaru stepped in.

“I have to talk to you about something Rini.” Hotaru said, and eyed Serena carefully, since Serena was known to eavesdrop a lot. Rini also eyed her mother carefully, and whispered to Hotaru, “the basement, quick.”

The two girls ran to the basement and locked the door, just as a bunch of blonde hair was coming close to the door. It slammed in Serena’s face, and she was about to yell at Rini, but decided to listen to the conversation anyway, through the only method that she had. Serena put her ear by the door, and started listening through the keyhole.

“So glad that we got rid of Serena,” Rini said cheerfully, “now what did you want to talk to me about?”

Hotaru explained the whole situation to Rini. She sighed unhappily, “I don’t know what to do though, and I really like him.”

“Hotaru, you should follow your heart!” A voice said loudly from upstairs.

“SERENA!” Rini yelled at her mother unhappily, “you shouldn’t eavesdrop, it’s not nice!”

Rini went upstairs and opened the door to yell at her mother, who bolted in as soon as she opened it.

“Hey no fair,” Rini said unhappily, and scowled at her mother.

“Hotaru, if you really like the guy, and you know that he likes you, then you should go after him. It’s not like you don’t know if he cares for you, and you wanted to go for him. He’s waiting for you Hotaru, and I think that if you get to know him a bit more, then I think it’ll work out for the better.” Serena said, eyeing her little friend, with a smile on her face.

“You really think so Serena?” Hotaru asked.

“Well when I met Darien we had some problems, we didn’t really get along. All of that changed however, once we finally got to know each other. So yes, I really think so Hotaru. Trust your heart, it will tell you whether or not this Victor is a good guy or not.” Serena said, recalling her experiences with Darien, and smiling dreamily all the while.

“Thank you so much Serena!” Hotaru said to Serena, and gave her a hug.

“No problem, anytime,” Serena said cheerfully..

“Hey Rini do you want to go to the carnival before it gets to dark? Hotaru asked Rini, its only 5:00, we’ve got three hours.”

“Sure why not, see you later meatball brain!” Rini said to Serena, who scowled and stuck her tongue out at her future daughter. Then as Rini closed the door, she smiled. We may fight a lot, but I still love my daughter so much, Rini…and I also hope that Hotaru has good luck with Victor. He’s a nice boy, Amara’s nephew and all, I just hope…that his secret isn’t to much of a shock for Hotaru to bear. Oh well, she’ll see in time.

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Hotaru and Rini were walking down the street on their way to the carnival, when they spotted…

“Victor!” Hotaru said, and she got nervous. She started to turn in the other direction to run, when Rini grabbed her arm.

“Slow down girlfriend, you’re running in the wrong direction.” Rini said to her, “so that’s Victor, he’s mighty fine to. I’m sure a lot of girls would die to be in your position.”

Hotaru stopped, and looked at the face of her crush, who happened to be staring right at her at the moment. He then glanced at Rini, looked back at Hotaru, and continued on his way towards…

“He’s going to the carnival to!” Rini exclaimed happily, “perfect, now we can get you two together.”

Shyness overcoming her, Hotaru was beginning to have even more doubts, not to mention that Rini was scheming something.

“Rini I don’t think we should,” Hotaru said, blushing.

“If you really like him, then you’ll have to get to know him better, since you’re right, you cant go out with a total stranger. Besides, he has the hots for you and you know it. I guess that just makes you nervous. However if you want to chicken out, fine, we can leave, and leave Victor in the pile of single hot guys. All of whom are just eligible to be picked by a really fine girl.” Rini said, and stared at her friend for her reaction.

Hotaru finally got the message, she pictured it perfectly in her head, Victor walking with her, talking with her, maybe she could even get her first kiss, she turned an even deeper shade of red at the thought. Then, slowly, she thought about the consequences about not going after Victor. She imagined another girl, one without a face, talking to Victor, hugging Victor, being the one that she wanted to be, Victor’s girlfriend. She then came back to reality as she saw Victor walking into the carnival.

“Rini,” Hotaru said to her friend.

“Yes?”

“Let’s do it.”

“All right! Hooray for Hotaru! Hooray for Hotaru!: Rini shouted, and Hotaru grinned back.

“After all a chance like this doesn’t come around that often, right?” Hotaru asked Rini.

“Well I wouldn’t say that, it depends on personality.” Rini said to her friend, and giggled.

“And we’re about to find out what Prince Victor is all about.” Hotaru said to Rini, they both giggled and ran to the carnival.

It didn’t take them long to find Victor, who seemed to have been waiting for them. He waved to Hotaru, who waved back. Then he started walking over.

Oh my gosh, Hotaru this is it! Victor is walking towards you, is he going to ask you about your decision, or does he want to hang out, which one. Oh Victor, if only I knew you better. She looked at him approaching, and let out a small sigh, well here it goes. She put on a smile and walked up to him to meet him.

“Hey Victor.”

“Hey Hotaru, what’s up?”

“Oh nothing much, my friend Rini and I wanted to have some fun, that’s all.”

“Oh so this is Rini, your best friend, right Hotaru? Amara, and Michelle, and Trista told me about you.”

“Yeah, I’m Hotaru’s best friend forever!” Rini said happily and grinned.

Victor just smiled, and said, “hey I was wondering if you’d like to hang out. My friend Helios is meeting me here to, he’s a…”

“Priest.” Rini finished Victors sentence for him, he stared at her in silent shock.

“How did you know that?” Victor asked her, “I knew that he had a girlfriend, but I never got to meet her because I lived so far away, and I wasn’t able to visit Earth until now. Are you his girlfriend?”

“Yes I am.” Rini said cheerfully.

“Well its nice to meet you Rini, oh look here comes Helios.” Victor said, and waved to his friend.

Helios walked in casually, waved to Victor, smiled, and when he saw Rini, he ran towards her with open arms. They smiled at each other as they embraced. Rini decided that this was the perfect opportunity for Hotaru to get to know Victor, since she would be with Helios.

“Hey why don’t we go and have some fun now! Let’s get our tickets,” Rini said.

They paid for their three-hour tickets and debated on what ride to go on. Rini and Helios wanted to go on the rollercoaster, while Hotaru and Victor liked the Ferris Wheel.

“How about this, Rini said, her plan was going to come together so perfectly! Why don’t we just split up and meet each other for the last half and hour, there’s enough rides here to last more than five hours! All right?” Everyone nodded in agreement, and Rini declared, “all right, its settled, well meet back at 7:30. See you later then!” She smiled at Hotaru, mouthed the words “good luck,” and disappeared off into the small crowd near the rollercoaster, holding Helios hand and talking to him on the way.

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Hotaru watched as Rini disappeared arm in arm with Helios. She turned to Victor, who was watching them to; he grinned at her and nodded towards the Ferris Wheel. Hotaru smiled and nodded yes in reply. Victor and Hotaru walked silently together towards the Ferris Wheel.

Come on Hotaru, say something to him! It’s not like he’s going to bite you or anything. If you wait until the last minute, he might meet some other girl around here and ditch you. Talk to him! Hotaru told herself, and opened her mouth to say something, however nothing came out. Hotaru silently cursed herself and straightened up, she looked at the stars, which were beautiful in the clear sky, and the moon, smiling upon them happily. She finally got it, the stars, I could talk about the stars, and maybe that will help me out a bit.

“Victor,” Hotaru said quietly.

“Yes?”

“Do you like looking at the stars?” Hotaru asked as a rosy red dawned her cheeks.

“Yes it’s one of my favorite pastimes, I just love them, and look how beautiful the moon is right now. It’s so interesting; I used to watch them all the time from my planet, eyeing them closely through my telescope, never missing a minute. And this Ferris Wheel will bring us closer to the stars, so how about we hop on, and enjoy the view…together.” Victor said, looking into Hotarus eyes, they had reached their destination, and all Hotaru could think about was him, and all Victor could think about was her.

They got on the Ferris Wheel, and looked above their heads at the stars, pointing out different constellations with every turn of the wheel. Hotaru had never felt this way before, they managed to strike up some wonderful conversations during that time, and re-rode the Ferris Wheel five times. Then they decided to go on something a bit more thrilling, possibly the haunted house, or even the rollercoaster. As they were walking, something magical happened, Victor held out his hand at his side, and Hotaru took it, making them both blush with happiness.

“Victor, there is something that I need to tell you,” Hotaru said blushing.

Victor stared at her in hope; this is it, the moment that I’ve been waiting for, Hotaru, my dream girl. How I’ve always watched her planet, even back in the silver Millennium, with Queen Serenity as ruler. I’ve always loved her, and she is my only love for all time.

His thoughts were broken, as he realized that Hotaru’s hand had slipped out of his own, and he wondered if she was really going to say yes to him.

“Yes Hotaru?”

“About my…” Hotaru began, when suddenly a huge spray of blue plasma knocked them both to the ground.

“Ha, ha, ha, ha! Pitiful human weaklings, get up and taste the wrath of me, I am Draconus Rytechia, the blue dragon warrior. I am here to conquer this solar system, starting with the most powerful planets, the Earth and the Moon. Ha, ha, ha, ha!” Draconus laughed, it was a horrible screechy sound, making Hotaru and Victor cover their ears.

“Neptune Violent Tide!”

“Chronos Typhoon!”

The two attacks combined to hit the beast, and he hissed in pain and annoyance and looked up to see what it was that was attacking him.

“Draconus, you shall never have the Earth, or any of the beautiful people here, you have to go through us first!”

Draconus turned, a scowl forming across his ugly blue scales on his dragonhead. He was a tall dragon, with many shades of dark blue on his scales and his wings. He looked up to find three of the outer scouts, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto staring down at him with menacing looks.

“Pluto, Uranus, Neptune!” Hotaru cried as she looked at them, I should transform to, and protect Victor; he’ll have no one to aid him otherwise. Besides, he already knows that I’m Sailor Saturn, and all the other people have evacuated the place, thank goodness.

She looked at the beast that called himself Draconus and said, “outer senshi, I’ll fight with you!” Hotaru took out her crystal and said, “Saturn Crystal Power, make up!”

Hotaru transformed into what Victor thought was a beautiful goddess of Saturn, with purple waves of silk surrounding her, what heaven did she come from? Victor snapped out of it, when he saw that Hotaru, or rather Sailor Saturn was standing over him protectively.

“Draconus, you can’t have Earth or any of its people, I’m here to defend it from evil beings such as yourself. I am the one that calls death to my Glaive, and it answers with a triumphant ring, so don’t test me. I am Sailor Saturn, and in the name of the gorgeous planet of rings, I shall eliminate your terror!”

“Ha, ha, very funny Sailor wimp, but I have other plans.” Draconus said, as he made a move toward Saturn, who held her Silence Glaive in front of her and Victor protectively.

Victor watched as Draconus looked like he was going to hit Saturn. No, I can’t let her protect me, I’m supposed to be protecting her. I didn’t ever think that I’d transform in front of her until later, but there’s a time for everything, and now is my time.

“Outer senshi, I shall help you in this battle!” Victor said, and he silently transformed into…

“I am Vivacious Victory, a Knight like Tuxedo Mask, and a friend of all Sailor Scouts! I am here to help, and together I am sure that we can all be victorious!” Vivacious Victory said to the scouts.

His outfit was similar to Tuxedo Mask‘s, only his cape and Tuxedo were gold and navy blue. Sailor Saturn could not help but to stare at the heavenly figure of what used to be Victor.

“Uranus Space Turbulence!”

“Winning Smile!” Vivacious Victory said, as the outer senshi yelled their attacks at the same time. They combined their attacks and it hit Draconus with a powerful force, and he screamed in pain.

“Sailor brats, I shall repay you for scaring my scales. Luminous Fire Scorch!” A huge fire started, and knocked out the outer senshi, with the exception of Sailor Saturn who had been at the edge of the blaze, and was easily able to dodge it.

Vivacious Victory was nowhere in sight. What happened to them all, where’s Victor! Sailor Saturn thought, and then she saw Sailors Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto on the ground, barely breathing.

“Uranus, Neptune, Pluto!” Saturn said, and turned at Draconus angrily. Sailor Saturn gripped her Silence Glaive tightly and cried, ” Silence Glaive Surprise!”

Her attack damaged Draconus badly, and it seemed that the more hurt he was, the angrier, and the angrier, the more powerful.

The Dragon-beast looked at her and then said, “Fiery Demonic Skulls!”

Flaming hot screaming faces came out at her so fast that she knew that she wouldn’t have time to put up her silence wall.

I guess this is the end,…goodbye cruel world. Sailor Saturn said, as the screaming faces came closer and closer to her.

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Sailor Saturn closed her eyes, waiting for the pain to come to her. Suddenly she felt as if she was being picked up, and then she was rolling away from the screaming faces. She opened her eyes to see Vivacious Victory holding her in his arms. She smiled at him, and he smiled back.

He whispered to her, “ you should rest here, you’ve got a few scrapes on you here and there, hold on I’ll be back before you know it.”

“But Vivacious Victory, I…”

“Shhh, all will be well Sailor Saturn, all will be well.” Vivacious Victory said, winked, and as he left a swirl of navy blue and gold above Sailor Saturn, she mouthed the words…

“I love you, good luck...”

Vivacious Victory then walked over to Draconus, and concentrated, he said “Gold Medal!”

A huge golden light appeared and engulfed Draconus, and he disintegrated as soon as it touched him, never to be seen again.. Vivacious Victory walked up to Sailor Saturn, who was very happy to see him. She smiled at him happily, and then looked towards the place where the outer scouts had lain, to find that they were not there anymore.

“Thank you for saving me, but… what happened to Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto?” Sailor Saturn asked Vivacious Victory.

“They were healed by my Gold Medal attack, and so were you, all of the cuts and scrapes that you received on your pretty face are gone..”

Sailor Saturn blushed a deep red at that comment, but she was still curious about a few things, “and you’re a defender of good as well? I’m sorry I just can’t believe it…no offense or anything but…I just…am in shock I suppose.” Sailor Saturn said as she stared in Vivacious Victory, and looked him up and down and then looked straight into his eyes. She smiled, and he returned it.

“Yes, I’m a Knight, like Tuxedo Mask. I’ve known about, and liked you for a long while Sailor Saturn, but I did not know if you liked me, because I never saw you back in the Silver Millennium. I only heard stories of you, and how you were a beautiful princess, who is somewhat shy and silent, but still perfect, and not so delicate as she appears. We never met, but I always liked you since I first heard of you, and now that I’ve met you, I know that you’re the one for me, and not some dream. So Sailor Saturn, Princess Saturn, Hotaru Tomoe, I want to know now, will you…” Vivacious Victory said, de-transforming, he didn’t even have to finish his sentence.

Sailor Saturn smiled at him, “Yes Victor, I will go out with you.” She said, also de-transforming, and they kissed under the starlight, as fireworks lit up the sky above..

Well I hope that you liked this short story about Hotaru, I was really tempted to finish it after they decided to be together, and don’t we all wonder what Rini would say? But I stopped because I felt that it was just fine where it was. There could be a sequel, maybe, maybe not; I’m debating about that right now. Thanks for reading, and let's see what else I can come up with in the future, bye ^_^!

~*Sailor Infinity*~