She dragged me through the crowd and led me to the research chambers, angry with me. She glared at me, making me feel small for what felt like the first time in years. She sat me down with a forceful air about her, glaring at me as if I were scum again. I didn't quite know why she was acting like this - surely I hadn't done anything wrong by sending Seiya over to Crystal Tokyo to make me feel better about what was going on? I looked at the glistening marble floor with my sapphire blue eyes. I blinked as I adjusted to the amount of light in the room - there was a fairly bright lamp in front of my face that felt as if it were likely to melt me, the chandelier was overflowing with glorious light and I felt that there was just far too much going on. It was so much brighter than it was out in the open within the city of Crystal Tokyo.

She tugged me onto the chair and assumed a forceful expression, Michiru looking nervous - an expression I had genuinely never seen her have before, for she was never a bit nervous when it came to Haruka, because she felt that any of what Haruka did was right, which was what led Haruka to believe in her in the first place. She looked at me with a glare that could stop time and melt the whole of the Antarctic in one attempt, and grimaced, leaving a furiously angry expression on her gradually reddening face. Michiru glanced at me as if she were telling me she was sorry, but she shouldn't have to do that. That should be Haruka telling me she was sorry. I thought I was her princess and deserved somewhat respect...

I rubbed at my temples in frustration, wondering when, if at all, I would be let out of this room of restriction. When I was let out, I would go to Seiya and ask her about her trip through the Milky Way, as well as make inquires about how well Kinmoku was being restored after that horrendous battle all that time ago. If the battle hadn't happened, her home planet would've been safe from harm and I could refrain from worrying. There was just something about that woman that made my heart beat many times faster than it should.

"What possessed you to detain me here?" I queried, glancing at Haruka as I surveyed the room.

"Don't you see the damage you're doing by dragging Seiya here?" Haruka hissed at me.

"Seriously, I can't believe you'd be so stupid." Michiru looked at me pointedly and she added, "Don't you think they want peace after all they've been through?"

Haruka glared at Michiru to attempt to shut her up. "That's not what I meant, Michi-chan." She focused her glare back on me. "You're putting the future in danger by simply doing what you're doing."

"I don't understand. I had Chibi-Usa, married Mamo and took the throne. And as soon as I feel that I deserve more from my life, like Seiya, you decide to shut me out and say I'm wrong. I'm not jeopardising the future if I've already created and followed with it. I don't care if it wasn't the plan for me to be with Seiya or not, but you can't stop me from doing anything regarding her."

"Don't be foolish, Princess. You have no idea what Haruka and I are capable of," Michiru whispered darkly. "Anyway, don't go too far. You don't want to risk doing anything you would regret."

"You don't get it!" I shouted, lifting myself up and letting myself out of the room with the most amount of grace that I could muster. I burst into tears. "You have no idea if what I'm saying, do you? All you want is for me to only love Mamoru. But I can't! There are other people in my life, okay?" And I proceeded to run out of the room and later flop onto my bed, crying into my pillow.

"I wish I didn't have a sister that was a total loser!"

"Crying doesn't suit you, bun-head."

"That's cold, isn't it?"

"You're such a wimp."

"Don't get in our way!"

As I went through those horrible memories of the past and the endeavours that we had to make to change them. If only Shingo was alive right now. Maybe then he would think I wasn't a total loser. I was cold to Seiya, I was a wimp, a klutz, and a crybaby. And now everybody hated me, including Haruka and Michiru. I continued to cry, though I knew how much it would solve in this situation - nothing. It was my way of escaping bad times, and what was bad had to be avoided - in most circumstances, at least. Sometimes what was bad didn't have to be avoided, and that was when the world became more interesting. I intertwined my fingers with the pillow.

"Yo, Odango-atama," a voice from outside of my room greeted me. "May I come in?"

"Just come in already, Seiya." I flung myself and my stupid princess attire on top of my bed and sat upright, facing her. "Hurry up and get in, I'm sick of crying alone in here!"

"Crying? Hey, why've you been doing that, Usagi?" Seiya asked with a sincere expression and a smile. "Do I need to tell something to somebody?"

"Haruka has been acting up lately, telling me about how dangerous this is," I replied with a pout. "She thinks I'm jeopardising Crystal Tokyo by being in a relationship with you."

"She should understand all this, right? After all, she is in love with Michiru and I would say their love is very passionate." Seiya just simply glanced at the ceiling and grabbed my hand with a smile.

"That's what I would say, too," I admitted. "Except, all she really cares about mentioning to me is how I'm jeopardising this fickle future they've got set up in their heads. But I've done what we knew was required from the start. I should, in theory, be able to change who I love, right? It's not going to make the world end or something."

I looked outside to see Kakyu and Galaxia talking about something. What, I didn't know.

"I think we might need to leave this to another time. It's a shame. I wanted to get closer to you." Seiya kissed me on the forehead and departed the room.

"I love you, my sweet osmanthus blossom."

"Love you too, Odango."

And then I left with her. I saw Minako and Yaten talking. What could they be talking about?

"Hey, love-birds!" Minako shouted.