Kasumi-sama, Aozuki no Hime (Kasumi, the Princess of the Blue Moon)
Part 6: Shouri/Victory
By: Kitsune-chan (kitsune-chan@trust-me.com)
Official Webpage: http://anime.at/pokemonorg/

	Minako looked at the flyer before her, in big 
bold black letters the words screamed, "Volleyball!" 
she smiled excitedly, it'd been a very long time since 
she played with her being a Sailor Senshi. She grabbed
the flyer and ran towards Rei's temple to tell the news.
	"Hi guys!" she said with a smile, Rei looked up.
	"Where were you?" she questioned.
	"Reading this.." she said and waved the flyer 
in front of Rei's face.
	"Stop moving it and maybe I can read it.." Rei 
said slightly annoyed. Usagi jumped up and grabbed the 
flyer, almost ripping it.
	"V-ball! I LOVE V-BALL!" she exclaimed and rolled 
up her sleeves, "This is great, Minako-chan! Are you gunna 
play?" Usagi asked.
	"Of course! And I'm going to win! I'm the best 
Volleyball player in Japan!" she said boastfully, "We get to
pick our own teams, you wanna play Usagi-chan?" Minako 
asked turning towards her.
	"Yea! I'm all for it!" Usagi squealed, Mako-chan 
looked up,
	"Hey I wanna play too.." she said and smiled. Minako
grinned,
	"Wonderful, hey now..we need three more players? 
Ami-chan? Rei-chan?" Minako asked and turned towards them.
	"No, thats okay Minako-chan, I think I might need 
to study that night." Ami replied politely, Usagi rolled 
her eyes and grabbed Ami's hands.
	"Come on Ami-chan! Have some fun!" Usagi exclaimed.
	"Thats quite alright, I'm not exactly an athelete." 
Ami said sweetly and pulled her hands away.
	"I'll play.." Rei shrugged, "I'm not that great at it,
but I can try.." she added. Minako grinned,
	"Great! Two more players..who's left?" Minako asked,
	"Why don't you ask Haruka and Michiru? I'm sure they'd 
love to play.." Mako said, Minako nodded in agreement and glanced
at Usagi.
	"Michiru's probably too afraid to hurt her hands, she 
might ruin her violin career." Usagi said more sarcastically 
than even she expected. Rei and Ami exchanged a glance.
	"Anyway, what are we going to call our team?" Minako
asked smiling brightly, ignoring Usagi's comment. Usagi smiled,
as if she suddenly had a great idea.
	"The 'V' team! Its your team, and your Sailor V and as
in V-ball!" Usagi suggested. Minako shrugged and looked around
at Rei and Mako who gave her a look of apathy.
	"The 'V' team it is! Welcome girls..to the Winners 
Club.." Minako smiled.

		*		*		*

	"Hotaru-chan..are you sure you don't want to come
to this game with us?" Michiru asked, smiling. She was 
exceptionally happy this day, it was a beautiful sunny 
day as well as it was looking to be a day of fun.	
	"I'm sure.." Hotaru sighed and walked away from 
the car that the rest of the Outer Senshi were standing 
around, Michiru, Haruka, and Setsuna watched as Hotaru 
opened the door and walked in. They were silent as they 
saw Hotaru looking at them from her window and weakly 
waving before she closed her curtains shut.
	"I'm sorry I can't come with you.." Setsuna 
apologized, "I'm being interviewed for a job.." she added. 
Haruka shook her head,
	"Its not your fault. Usagi told us about this just
yesterday, you would have thought that they would be kind 
enough to tell us with a little more notice." Haruka replied.
	"Haruka..they did have to fight those little Celestial
witches..and that Sasoriza woman.." Michiru began, Haruka 
looked angered and cut her off,
	"She HAS to die." Haruka said bluntly, "First Setsuna's
talisman, then Saturn's glaive...and look at Hotaru's mentality!
It's ruined..you know her mental health was shaky as it was, I
don't know what Sasoriza did to her..but whatever it was, 
she destroyed her.." Haruka added as if she had to 
prove her point.
	"Don't worry..we'll get Sasoriza back.." Setsuna 
said, "Just go do this Volleyball game to relax..we don't
want to let the Inners down, ne?" Setsuna added with a 
short small smile. Haruka nodded and silently got into 
the car, Michiru opened the passenger door and got in.
	They drove silently until they got to the park
where the outdoor Volleyball festival was going to take
place, the park had at least ten nets set up and hundreds
of girls seemed to be there, Haruka's eyes widened.
	"Who would have thought so many people liked the
sport..?" Michiru smiled, seeing Haruka's expression. 
Haruka smirked as if she were thinking something else, 
but kept her mouth shut. Michiru gracefully got out of the 
car and shielded the sun from her eyes,
	"MICHIRU-SAAN!!!" a voice said from behind her, 
Michiru turned around and saw Minako, Usagi, Mako, and 
Rei all wearing white shirts with red V's on them.
	"Tada!" Minako said holding out two shirts for 
Michiru and Haruka,
	"Glad you could make it, you guys.." Rei smiled.
	"Where's the bookwor..er, where's Ami?" Haruka 
asked, Mako blushed,
	"She uhh, back there.." she replied, Haruka looked 
to where Mako was pointing and in the distance she saw Ami
walking towards them, her face buried in a book, Haruka 
smirked.
	"Can we go now?" Usagi whined,
	"Uh yea, we can.." Minako said and glanced at her,
she gestured to the group, "Everyone, follow me.." she 
smiled.
	Meanwhile, Musashi, Kasumi, Natsume, Erika, Kanna 
and Imite, better known as the Celstial Senshi, had 
also decided to sign up for the Volleyball team.
	"I can't believe our team is called the 'Stars'
can we be any more obvious?" Musashi hissed, glaring 
at the rest.
	"Hey! I like it, it fits!" Kasumi exclaimed 
putting on the shirt with the blue star in the front.
	"Ugh blue, why did it have to be blue?" Musashi 
asked.
	"Did anyone ever tell you that you never know 
when to shut up?" Kanna asked,
	"Excuse me?" Musashi demanded staring at Kanna, 
Imite sucked in her breath.
	"Uhh..the team that works together stays 
together.." Natsume said out of the blue,
	"What?" Musashi asked.
	"Uhh, you guys need to follow me.." Imite said
and started walking towards the registration table. 
However, instead of following Imite, Musashi leaned 
back against a tree. The rest of the girls, seeing 
Musashi wasn't moving stayed where they where as 
well. Musashi glanced at her nails and waited patiently
seeing Imite was five more people from being at the 
table.
	"Oh my god! Who is that?" Natsume whispered, 
Musashi looked up and saw a handsome man with short 
black hair and deep blue eyes.
	"Koijiro is cuter.." Kanna shrugged, Natsume
looked at her wide-eyed,
	"Are you INSANE!?!" Natsume demanded. Musashi
rolled her eyes,
	"Kanna-chan is right for one, Koijiro is about 
ten times cuter.." she replied.
	"Whoa! He's coming this way.." Kasumi exclaimed
and brushed her orange hair out of her eyes,
	"Since when did you care about what men want?" 
Musashi asked,
	"Well, maybe she needs to worry about it.." 
Kanna snapped, not realizing her comment was rather
cruel towards Kasumi. Kasumi looked hurt seeing 
Kanna's comment as an insult. The man walked past the 
girls looking as if he were in extreme thought, he 
glanced up, and continued to walk, as he did a box 
fell out of his pocket. Musashi bent over and picked 
it up, she was about to open it when the man turned around,
	"Oh hey, thank you for picking that up for me.." 
he said, Musashi shrugged and handed the box to him.
	"Can I have your name?" the man asked,
	"I'm Musashi.."she said without enthusiasm.
	"Hanada Kasumi.." Kasumi said hasilty and 
stuck her hand out to him,
	"Yea and I'm Tamamushi Erika.." Erika said 
following Kasumi's lead waving from behind Musashi.		
	"Kouri Kanna.." Kanna replied and glanced 
in his direction.
	"Yamabuki Natsume." Natsume said, smiling 
vaguely.
	"Well, I'm Mamoru Chiba. Thank you Musashi, 
Kasumi..and the rest of you.." Mamoru smiled looking
a bit overwhelemed, "for telling me about this box..
I would have lost 3 months salary..I'm off to return 
it.." he explained.
	"And all of this matters to me because..?" 
Musashi asked.
	"Touche..well, madame and the rest of you 
ladies, good-bye and good-luck.." Mamoru said with 
a bow and walked off.
	"THAT WAS SO EMBARRASSING!" Erika screamed 
and slapped Musashi on the arm,
	"Did you just touch me?" she asked.
	"That guy wanted you soo bad!" Erika shrieked,
	"Your delusioned.." Musashi asked slightly 
annoyed.
	"He was going to return a wedding ring.." 
Kasumi mumbled,
	"Other things could be in a tiny black box 
that cost three months salary.." Kanna said somewhat 
sarcastically.
	"And you were about to open the box too!" 
Erika squealed.
	"Did I miss someting?" Imite asked walking towards
them with a sheet of paper,
	"Thank god we can get off the topic of Mamoru 
Chibi.." Musashi said and turned towards Imite,
	"ChibA..not i.." Kasumi corrected,
	"So how's the girl on our team?" Msuashi asked 
ignoring Kasumi.
	"Her name is Atsumi.." Imite explained,
	"You have got to be kidding me.." Musashi said,
	"Thats the koolest name!" Kasumi exclaimed. 
	"Anyway, were are we going to meet her?" Musashi
asked.
	"On Court 4 at 15 minutes before our first game..
which is..right about..now.." Alana said looking at her 
watch.
	"EEK! Lets go! I wanna meet this Atsumi!"
Kasumi exclaimed and grabbed Kanna's hand and began to 
run,
	"Must we run?" Musashi sighed.
	"Go with the flow, Musashi.." Natsume shrugged 
as she chased after Imite and Erika. Musashi however, 
didn't follow the lead and sauntered her way over to
Court 4. By the time she got there, they were all 
chatting happily with a girl with brown hair done up
on top of her head.
	"Hello, Atsumi-chan.." Musashi said and walked 
over to her.
	"Hi.." she said rather timidily, but before 
they could make any small talk their first team to 
play came, the game started off. The other team 
seemed to purposely hit it towards the weakest most 
worst player. The ball came flying towards Atsumi,
 strangely however, the ball slowed down and she 
lightly tapped the ball. It went straight into the 
air and flew over the net, the ball then seemed to
hover above their heads then just drop. Match after
match went that way..and soon the Stars had beaten 
every team except one. The last team to play was 
the "V" Team, who where also undefeated.
	After beating the last match Rei looked excitedly
to Court 6 where they were going to play next, she 
immediatly recognized the girls.
	"If we have trouble today..you know who's fault
it is.." Rei said and pointed in the direction of Kasumi,
Musashi and the rest.
	"Don't worry, we'll ace 'em like we did everyone 
else.." Minako said assuringly.
	"What are you girls saying?" Haruka asked as her 
and Michiru walked closer to them after shaking hands 
with the team they had just defeated.
	"Oh, Rei thinks those girls over there, except 
that short one, are the Celestial Senshi.." Usagi laughed
waving it off. Michiru pulled out her mirror,
	"We'll find out, ne?" Michiru smiled at Usagi. 
Michiru turned to look in the mirror and Usagi started 
to mimick Michiru, Mako poked her in the side.
	"Stop it.." she whispered.
	"Deep Aqua Mirror, tell me the truth about the
'Stars'.." Michiru whispered..




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Transaltions
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Atsumi = Sissy, the Micean Gym Leader
Kagesekai = Celestial Shadow
Kageboshi = Star Shadow
Kagebi = Sun Shadow
Kagezuki = Moon Shadow