As Ama returns home she’ll find Kishin sitting lounging on top of a nearby wall half submerged in snow. He is wearing his usual hoody and sweats, but a black jacket with a fur lined collar has been added to the outfit. As he sees her pulls down his hood and sits up stretching. “*yawn* Oh there you are Rei I was wondering when you’d get back.” He yawns opening his mouth very wide.

“Sorry to drop by unexpected, but this seemed like the easiest way to get in contact with you.” He explains rolling his shoulders and walking up to her. “I think it’d be best if we had a bit of a talk. I’ve dealt with the snow mobile so I’ve got the time for it now.” He explains with a surprisingly serious expression given Kishin’s usual good natured and joking attitude.

“Is there a place you feel comfortable talking?” He asks pulling down his hood and staring her directly in the eyes. Snow continues to fall lightly as he takes a step back and puts his hand in his pockets, waiting for a reply.

It have been a regular school day but for some odd reason, Amarissa was tired and slightly annoyed as she finally made her way home. Just one of those days when the sound of other people got on her introverted nerves. Sighing in relief as she finally caught sight of her home, she picked up her pace to a brisk walk causing her lavender coat to flare a bit around her school uniform. Her hair was up in a half ponytail, very elegant and unusual for her. Then as she rounded the corner of the house, Amarissa spots Kishin.

Surprise crossed her features first, followed quickly by annoyance, and finally settling into a calm blankness. Amarissa continued to walk forward, giving him an obvious once over and noting the new coat. "Easiest way besides calling, I suppose," she agreed, her voice flat yet still polite, "Glad to hear. I hope you didn't get into any trouble," she added.

As Sailor Moon, she felt she couldn't really refuse to talk to him, so she turned and opened the door. "Inside is pretty comfortable, I think. Warm. Come on in, you can meet my mother," she said, a full grin finally lighting her features in a rare moment. "We can have some tea and a snack, if you wish." She entered, leaving the door open for him. Taking off her shoes in the entry, she hung her coat and bag then yelled "Mom, I'm home! I brought a friend from school."

Kishin looks at Ama with a slightly startled look at her flat replies. “Did I catch you at a bad time?” He asks looking genuinely worried, for all of his apparent whimsicalness he didn’t actually want to cause problems for the others.

Though when she invites him inside he stares at her a bit in surprise, introduce me to her mother?! Recalling his run in with the military Kousuke tries to decide how bad of an idea this is. “You realize questions will be asked once we inevitably show up on the news right?” He asks her raising his hand for the suggestion and then letting it fall to his side.

“Well I don’t really have a problem with it, but are you sure it’ll be okay? Your family will probably find out about you eventually if you introduce them to me when I’m transformed.” He points out then he lets out a sigh and shrugs his shoulders. “Well if that’s what you want, I guess I don’t actually have a problem with it.” He admits, though he doesn’t immediately enter the house as he decides to wait to see if she reconsiders.

"That's nice dear...just be sure your friend leaves before dinner, we're having company over from my work" Mai shouts from another room where she was engrossed with a laptop and a few papers. Being a banker at her experience often had lots of evenings where work was brought home with her. She trusted her daughter's judgment, but if some bumpity bump happened there would probably be enough noise to notice. If Kousuke doesn't run into the room and does a song and dance routine, she will probably not really notice his appearance.

Amarissa nods at all of Kishin's questions. "Yeah, it's fine," she assures him, having stopped in the entry way and turned back to him. Hearing her mom's response, she raises an eyebrow at him in a look that seems to say 'See, I told you so'. "Thanks Mom!' she shouted back. Amarissa then starts to head for the stairs. "Come on, my room is upstairs. We'll leave the door open, mom. Just homework," she says respectfully before leading Kishin up to her room.

Once there, she does indeed leave the door open and starts pulling her homework out and laying it on the desk and bed, a little scattered, with a text book on the bed and pencils thrown in among the papers. "There, you can have the desk. I like to keep up appearances," she crawled onto her bed, situating herself in the middle of the mess. "Now, what did you want to talk about?" she asks him. Then added, "Do you want any drinks, snacks?"

Upon hearing Amarissa’s mother’s voice Kishin’s hand shot towards his mask and he seemed about to remove it until he was assured that she was very unlikely to talk see him. Though as he watches Amarissa go up the stairs he lets out a sigh of defeat at how immature he was being. With his thoughts flashing back to a field of frozen faces and bodies and an eerily beautiful woman trying to kill him and his friends Kishin’s hand came away.

When Amarissa finally reach her room she would noticed that rather than Kishin, it was Kousuke following her. He was still wearing the firm rimed coat, but now he was wearing blue jeans and a beige long sleeved sweat shirt. “Well I suppose it never really was fair that I knew you, but not the other way around, but keep it a secret from the others okay?” He admits scratching his reddened cheek.

“Anyways,” he walks over to take a seat on the chair, no more self aware than he had been when he was Kishin about being in a girls room. “To be honest I mostly wanted to talk things over with you, despite the fact that it’s been about a week I haven’t really sat down with any of the scouts or knights an talked about what’s going on.” He explains, though he had been able to talk to Luna and he had known who about half of the revealed scouts really were he had stepped carefully around the topic until now.

“So how are you holding up with everything that’s been happening?” He asks, voice carrying genuine concern.

When Amarissa finally looked up, surprise lit her features followed by a genuine smile. So Kishin was Kousuke, that was interesting and quite happy news, as far as she was concerned. "Well, this is unexpected. You have a good point and I appreciate your honesty. I won't tell the others, that's not my place. It's not my identity," she says simply. Noting that he was unfazed by being in her room, she recalled the first time Kishin had been in and the fights they'd been in. How did she not see the resemblance? Shaking her head, she proceeds to give Kousuke a short explanation, covering a few recent topics and what had been going on.

"We have the meeting coming up later and I had plans to discuss everything then. The identity issue will likely be raised, as especially the cats seem to think its silly to hide from each other. I'd consider it non important really, a personal choice. Sailor Venus and I had a talk with Nazo the other day. He gave us some valuable information. We also have a new senshi, who's awakening I was at, and we were questioned by some military personnel," she finished, the last having a tone of amusement.

Finally, she caught his last question and she stopped. A thoughtful look crossed her face. He actually cared, and she wondered why. "I try to think of it as a job. I find it a bit less stressful that way. Though there is no way to completely avoid stress, after all we are risking our lives here. I worry about my mother. What would happen to her if she lost her daughter too, after already losing her husband? I'm all she has left, besides her stupid job," she says, mostly in a calm, worried tone. The last part about her mother's job having a hint of resentment. "That's life though right? School, responsibility, saving the world. And for me, art and archery on what little downtime I have."

When Amarissa said she wouldn’t reveal his identity Kousuke lets out a sigh of relief. He wanted to hold onto his normal school life for just a little longer, and besides if a hero is going to be unmasked, it needs to happen at a dramatically appropriate time. “I imagine, I’ll know who everyone is soon, but I don’t think anyone other than you is going to know who I am, so I’ll be counting on you to get in contact with me if something important happens.” He explains in a more serious tone than normal. “Sorry for giving you more responsibilities, but you’re the senshi who I trust the judgment of the most.”

When Ama explains that she had met with Nazo he nods. “Yeah I met him while I was rooftop hopping earlier he admits. “To be honest, I can’t bring myself to entirely trust him…no that’s wrong I feel like he’s doing all of this for his own reasons. I guess this is the problem with the mysterious characters. Anyways he told me that there used to be a kingdom on the moon and he made it sound like a paradise and he said that we’ve got way more power than what we’ve been using.” As he explains it Kousuke realizes how fragmented and vague most of what he had been told was. However he had learned one useful thing.

Though his face softens when Amarissa explains her worries and fears, “yeah, it’s only natural for us to feel overwhelmed this entire situation is kinda unfair.” He admits as he gets up and walks over to crouch down in front of her and look her directly in the eyes. Kousuke’s emotion power of hope activates as he continues to speak. “But listen Ama, no matter how bad it gets out there, you’ll get back here to your mom. I’ll make sure of that. I’m not so proud as to say that I will bear the weight of the world and save it, but you girls can do it I’m sure, and for my part I’ll make sure that all of you are safe so you can.” He promises with a look of absolute determination.

Then his expression slowly melts into a grin and he stands up straight. “Trust me, I can do at least that much, sorry for sticking you with the tough job though.”

"A kingdom on the moon?" Amarissa asks skeptically. She shakes her head in disbelief, though if you had told her a month ago that she'd be Sailor Moon and have a magic bow, she'd have called you crazy then too. "I suppose anything is possible at this point," she concedes, "Tell me more. And don't worry about the responsibilities. I'm glad you trust me, and I've been sort of thrown into this leader position. If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's you either take what you're given and do the best you can, try to make the best of it, or you can give up and die. I'll not be doing the latter anytime soon, there's too many beautiful things still to paint," she says smiling.

Amarissa just watches him, her face unreadable, as he promises to make sure she always comes home. She thinks about that, remembering other promises that were made and always broken. Something in his eyes though and his voice, convinces her that he can keep this. Smiling, Amarissa leans forward and hugs him. "Thank you," she says, giving him a light kiss on the cheek. "So what else did you want to discuss?" she asks seriously, pulling back and looking at the notes of everything she'd written down about what had been going on. It was all in a small lavender journal, just in case.

Kousuke lets out a laugh and nods. "Yeah a kingdom on the moon sounds silly to me as well." he admits before going into his promise.

Though he was surprised by the sudden hug and kiss and even Kousuke reacted to that slightly. Though when she releases him he ruffles her hair a bit and then stands up straight. "I'm glad you understand. Though to be honest I mostly just came because I was worried and I wanted to chat with you. To be honest of the whole group you've got the most responsibility and your real life seems to give you little in the way of stress relief so I was hoping I could come and help you feel a bit better. It wouldn't do for our leader to fall ill or worry." He explains with a broad smile as he retakes his seat on the chair. "Sorry if it was unnecessary."

Amarissa frowns as he ruffles her hair, effectively destroying her half pony tail. Sighing, she works the band out gently and then shakes her out before letting it fall straight down in a cascade of silver. She then gives Kousuke a questioning look as he mentions wanting to help her de-stress. If she didn't think that Kousuke had no interest in girls, she might take that the wrong. Come to think of it, he didn't seem to have much interest in anybody beyond just friends. Confusion crosses her face as she thinks about it, frustration follows as she realizes asking would be inappropriate. Perhaps he was simply too focused on his sports or something. Sighing, she chooses instead to address the stress thing having decided that she didn't really care. It didn't affect her and possibly wasn't even fair considering she wasn't interested in such things either. Right? Right.

Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, she began to pick up some of the unnecessary mess. "I do have some responsibility, not so much that I can't handle. Painting and archery help with the stress a lot. When that doesn't work, I go do something physical like ride my bike or ice skating," she answers, absently doing some of her homework. There really wasn't that much today. "Perhaps you'd like to go out sometime? Ice skating with me or something? Since you said you want to help. Everything's more fun when you go with a friend, or at least someone you like well enough to be willingly to put up with," she offers, laughing a bit at the end.

Kousuke smiles at her response. To someone as expressive as Kousuke such calm things as painting and archery would probably only get him more riled but, but in this case it was best to defer to the person who knew. "Well if you've got it under control that's good. I don't think I could handle everything you've been saddled with." He admits leaning back and looking up at the ceiling. "The whole thing is kinda unfair, isn't putting the world in the hands of high schoolers kinda unreasonable?"

Though when she invites him out to do sports and stuff Kousuke smiles. "Well I'd certainly be happy to get some activity in. Though I warn you I'm a pretty lousy skater...or rather I"m good at skating, but the art of stopping eludes me." he admits with a grin. "Though if you just want to go out and have fun I should invite some of the guys from the team, along with Yuki and Sophia, the more the merrier after all." He replies cheerfully having taken her words at total face value, apparently oblivious to their potentially separate meaning.

Amarissa nods solemnly. "Yes, for the most part I do anyway. I suppose you could call it unfair, but that's life right?" she laughs briefly, low and dark. "No it's not fair but it is what I've been given so I have to make the best out of the time I have. I read a quote once, from an old movie. It said 'This burden was given to you. If you do not find a way, no one will.' And somehow, I feel like that applies here," she finishes sadly.

Listening as he continues, she laughs at his admission about skating. "It's really not that hard. I could teach you, and maybe you could show me some basketball stuff," she says lightly. Then he offers to invite a bunch of people and she mentally facepalms her self. Well, that certainly didn't solve anything. Smiling at his obliviousness, she shrugs. "If you think so. I don't know Yuki that well, or any of the other guys. Sophia's alright. She has a bike too," she says, seeming to ramble a bit.

Kousuke nods at her explaination, it was much better thought out than his. "You're mature Ama." he muses allowed leaning back again and extending a hand into the air and closing it as if to grasp the light. "To be honest to me this is more like an extension of my sports life. I'm just on a new team." He says with a tight lipped smile that seemed both excited and nervous, or maybe scared. "The ace is the hope of his team, he does not lead the group but it fall upon him to be a beacon, and because of that I can never lose, I will never lose, I must be and am invincible." He repeats the words like a mantra and his tone will give the impression that there are words he has repeated to himself constantly for a very long time.

"You've probably like Yuki she's very sporty and upbeat. As for the guys for the most part they're pretty cool. Oh, don't fall for Capt though he's already got a girlfriend." Kousuke advices with an expression of mock seriousness. Though as he watches her he does get the vague feeling he did something wrong.

Though when Ama mentions the bike he smirks a bit. "Ever since awakening I've been better off running or jumping to get where I want to go so hearing that you go around by bike is kinda surprising."

"Well, a girl has to get around somehow and it's cheaper than public transportation," she says lightly. She hears the unspoken fears between his mantra. So much, he felt, depended on him. "You're doing a great job, and yes we are a team. Don't think that makes your life or your problems any less important. Nobody's going to be losing anything around here, between the two of us. We're both very determined, it seems," she said, smiling softly.

She finishes her homework and cleaning of the bed space, then gets up to start cleaning her desk. Working around Kousuke, she frowns a bit as he mentions falling for this 'Capt' person. "I've never been in a serious relationship, honestly. Too focused on my studies and painting. Besides, I'm sure he's not my type," she says as she stuffs papers in her binder, apologizing when she brushes his hand. "I'm curious. What made you say that though?" she asks.