Chapter 4: New Moon

"Come on Yumoto!! Get out of bed!!" Ryuu's voice yelled outside the Kurotama bathhouse. "Yumoto!!!"

He frowned as Gora walked out to him, "He's coming...I've been trying to get him up for the past twenty minutes."

Ryuu nodded and watched as Yumoto walked outside, yawning. "Sorry..." He told him and sighed.

"Come on, we're late." He replied and Yumoto nodded as the two of them ran to meet up with the other Defense Club members.

Atsushi looked at them, "Come on, we're already late..."

Yumoto looked at him and smiled, "Sorry, I slept in. I was up late trying to do Japanese work!"

Ryuu raised an eyebrow, "I still don't get that about you!" He spoke while they walked, "You can do math perfectly and talk about love to monsters but yet you can't get a good grade in Japanese class!"

"But Ryuu-senpai, you don't understand! Japanese class is so hard! My teacher is so boring! That's why I always fall asleep during class!"

"Wait...you fall asleep in class?" Ryuu asked in disbelief, "I'm surprised your brother hasn't gotten on you about doing that."

Yumoto giggled, "He doesn't know. I don't mean to fall asleep, but school is so boring! Are we there yet, Atsushi-senpai?"

"Almost, Yumoto."

"Good!!"

The five walked together and Yumoto looked up as they walked into the Hikawa Shrine. "Hey! This is the shrine my big bro wants to take me to!" He gasped.

The five boys walked up to where five girls were standing at.

"Who are you?" One with long black hair asked and a girl with blonde hair gasped, "Ryuu-kun!!"

"Minako-chan." Ryuu smiled and Io glanced at his friend out of the corner of his eyes.

"Rei-chan it's the guys who helped us yesterday!" Minako explained and Rei looked at Yumoto, "You...are you alright from that attack yesterday?"

Yumoto nodded, "Yeah, I am." He looked down at Wombat by his feet.

"Is that a pink wombat?" A girl with brown hair asked and Minako looked at her, "I think so Mako-chan!"

Yumoto nodded again, "Yeah! This is Wom-san, he gave us our powers!"

He gasped as he saw Luna and Artemis, "KITTIES!"

"NO YUMOTO!" Atsushi panicked and Artemis gasped as Yumoto froze as he spoke, "Minako-chan!!"

"He talked!" Yumoto giggled and Usagi raised her eyebrow, "Yumoto-kun, how can you hear them?"

Yumoto shrugged, "Dunno! I don't really care though." He smiled and Wombat looked at Luna.

"Ami-chan!" Usagi called as her blue haired friend walked with books.

"Atsushi-senpai!" Yumoto called, "I'm hungry!"

"Yumoto, didn't you eat breakfast?" Atsushi asked and Yumoto nodded, "Of course! But I'm hungry again!"

Atsushi sighed, "Just wait, and I'll get you food soon."

Rei looked at the five Defense Club members, "Who are the VEPPer anyway?"

Wombat looked at her, "The Galaxy Idols...the VEPPer...are two twins who we cannot ignore any longer." He spoke and she nodded, "I can help show you were to find them and why they keep attacking you."

Yumoto looked at her, "How?"
Rei smiled, "Follow me."

The five Defense Club members followed her and the other four guardians followed also.

Yumoto sat in-between En and Atsushi and watched Rei as she sat in front of a fire pit.

She began to mumble something and was doing hand symbols in front of the flame, Yumoto watched as the flames grew brighter, "Show me their enemies!" Rei yelled and the five Defense Club members watched as the VEPPer appeared in the flames.

Rei looked at the flames, "I can sense that these two are very powerful...but...I can't tell why they keep attacking and why they'd work with our enemy."

Atsushi turned to En, "Didn't they say they hated Yumoto?" He asked and En nodded, "I think."

Ryuu looked at the flames, he could feel the connection that Vesta would be proud of...well that he would be proud of...he didn't really know what to think. He wondered if Io felt the earth like this when he wasn't transformed...he frowned and glanced at Io.

Io was looking intently at the flames and looked lost in thought about something. He didn't even look over at Ryuu like he usually would...Ryuu frowned and glanced at Yumoto.

Yumoto looked at the twins in the flame and Rei gasped out as another thing appeared in the flames. "They're planning something...Gora...? Who's that?"

"That's my big brother!" Yumoto cried out and Rei closed her eyes, "They know we found they were planning something...they're coming here..."

Yumoto looked at En, "We should go then...! We can fight them at the school and take care of the monster there!"

En looked at him, "Yumoto...we should try to talk to them."

Atsushi nodded, "Let's go."

The five boys stood up and walked outside, Usagi looked at Rei, "Rei-chan...should we help them?"

Rei shook her head, "No, they'll be fine...this is their fight, Usagi."

Usagi sighed and looked down at her feet.

Yumoto looked at Atsushi and smiled, "Atsushi-senpai, you look sad...why?"

Atsushi looked back at him, "It's nothing, Yumoto."

"Do you still miss the president?" He asked and Atsushi shook his head, "No, Kin-chan and I still talk. I was just thinking, alright?" He smiled and Yumoto nodded.

He looked up and smiled as he saw two boys walking up. "Oh, hi guys!" Yumoto giggled and one turned to the other, "Haru..."

"Yes, Aki?"
"They're so annoying aren't they?" Akihiko asked and Haruhiko nodded.

"What are you two doing here?" Yumoto asked and Haruhiko frowned as he pointed at him, "We're so sick of you! WE'RE THE ONES SENDING THE MONSTERS AFTER YOU!"

"Huh?"

"OH MY GOD, YOU'RE SO DAMN SLOW!" Haruhiko yelled and Akihiko growled, "We're the VEPPer!"

Yumoto raised an eyebrow and the twins began to transform in front of them.

"Salty Sol!"

"Melty Luna"

"Galaxy Idols, the VEPPer!"

Salty Sol looked at Yumoto, "You were supposed to die yesterday...but those damn girls showed up!"

Yumoto looked at him. "You want me...?"

En and Atsushi looked at one another and then down at Yumoto.

Salty Sol looked at his brother, "Hakone Yumoto, just what are you?! You always forgive monsters and give them love!"

Yumoto thought for a moment, "I...I don't know. I just feel like everyone deserves love."

Melty Luna grabbed his brother's hand in frustration, "You must be something then! You five don't deserve the love you've gotten!"

"Huh...?" Ryuu spoke, raising his eyebrow and the duo growled, "Next time we meet, Battle Lovers...you will come to an end!" Salty Sol yelled and pointed at Yumoto, "Especially you!"

Yumoto just blinked in confusion and Salty Sol threw his hands up in frustration, "You know what? Never mind, your end will come when you least expect it! You five are so slow!"

"Sol, don't get mad at them yet..." Melty Luna told him and turned to them, "We won't lose, we're stronger than you all."

The five Defense Club members watched as the duo then teleported away and Yumoto looked down...what did they mean when they kept asking what he was...? He's just himself...wasn't he? He was just a fifteen, almost sixteen-year-old boy who was fighting for love in the world, nothing else!

Chibiusa looked at Yumoto from her hiding spot, those twins acted like he was something different from the others...she wondered what they meant by that. "I'll have to find out what Yumoto actually is. He must be hiding something..." She thought and ran out from her hiding spot to go to Usagi.