Disclaimer: You are pretty stupid if you read this story and think I own sailor moon. I do not. Thank you.

PROLOUGE: Sight unseen

"And then, as I turned around…I saw her fist coming at me, so…I freaked out and ducked…and she decked Makoto instead! Rei had that look in her eyes…and when I looked back at Naru…I knew too. You know, like always…you try to tell them to stop, that what they are doing is not right, that 'this isn't like you', but pfft, it never works."

"I swear, she gets hit on by evil more times than I change socks. I am surprised she doesn't need therapy yet."

"Half the time she doesn't remember, I guess. Any who, Naru starts coming at me until Rei steps in my way and uses one of her sutra to buy me time so I can transform. I dart behind the building near by…and poor Naru is on the ground flailing around like an overturned insect…but I figure I might as well get this over with, so I transform. I appear and spout the usual crap, in return I get the usual 'There you are sailor moon, now I will destroy you' deal…Naru passes out and as usual…some weird ass monster appears. Makoto drags naru away, Mars burns the beast, and I go in for the kill."

"Sounds like you had a busy morning", Mamoru laughed as he gulped down the last of his iced coffee before throwing the empty cup in a near by waste receptacle.

Usagi stood near the garbage can, arms cross and brows furrowed, "Sometimes, I just wish evil would just…stop…even for just, just…ONE day! I hate being in the middle of something fun, or on a date with you only to have it cut short because some jackass in a crazy gay outfit is running around zapping people and-"

"Yesterday"

"hmm?", Usagi, tilting her head to the side, looked up at her beloved with a perplexed look.

"You spent most of the day out shopping with Minako before coming home to have a snack, then falling asleep to take a nap until I woke you up with a phone call so we could talk for an hour."

Usagi laughed as she returned to hanging on to her boyfriends arm, continuing their walk through the park.

Mamoru looked at Usagi and couldn't help but laugh himself. It was strange, how a guy like him could fall for a girl like her. Most people, upon seeing the two together, would scoff and wonder how it was even at all possible. They were just too opposite. A clumsy, ditzy, child paired with a mature, independent man? How could it be! What in heavens name kept their love for each other so strong?

"She has the biggest heart out of anyone I know", He would reply.

"She is beautiful, she is sweet…kind. She is not afraid to just…be, especially in a world where everyone is so, I don't know. Superficial I guess. Everyone is afraid to be themselves for fear of what someone else might think, or how someone might look down upon them. Usagi…she….she is just so carefree. On a gloomy day, she'll put a smile on your face."

Mamoru would smile as a daze would cross his face as images of is sweetheart raced through his mind. His heartbeat would quicken with every word he spoke of his dear Usagi.

"I may sometimes get annoyed by her childish behavior at times, but that doesn't mean I love her any less. Sometimes, that very immaturity is what I love about her. She means the world to me, even though some people can't tell. Someone once said 'If he doesn't die loving you, then he will die protecting you, for he loves you that much' or so I think the quote goes."

Haruka, once stopped him asked, "Why are you still with her. It seems to me that you two are only together because of your past lives, and for chibi-usa's sake. From what Rei told me, before you even had your past revealed, you two fought and didn't get along very well"

He would smile and nod in agreement with Haruka's words to the latter statement and only reply that love works in mysterious ways.

"As sailor moon, I always wanted to protect her. I guess it was subconscious and I never really thought too much about it. I always had my own goals which prevented me from even fully realizing what my heart was feeling, and why I was even protecting this girl. Even as Usagi, it didn't matter. In my eyes she was still Sailor Moon. I'd look at her eyes and just see a champion of justice before me. At times, my brain would yell at me going 'This is USAGI! The girl you argue with all the time!' but, I didn't see that…no…I saw more than that. I saw a girl who was willing to fight for what was right…I saw…so much and I wanted to protect that. I wanted to protect someone precious to me. Over time, as I started to get used to the fact that Usagi…was sailor moon, it made my heart beat like crazy. I wanted to see her smile, to hear her laugh…and crazy as it sounds…I loved the arguments " Mamoru would shrug at this point before continuing on with his statements

"Over time, I just started to fall in love. It's strange how the heart works."

"Lets walk by the lake!", Usagi giggled, as she tugged his arm toward the sparkling water dotted here and there with couples in boats.

"Ok! Ok!", smiled Mamoru as he let the pigtailed girl lead the way. "Slow down! We have all day unless a mon-"

Mamoru stopped dead in his tracks as a chill ran down his spine. He stared back at Usagi, his eyes growing serious. Something wasn't right; something was filling him with fear and panic and he didn't know why. He darted his eyes desperately around his surroundings for any sight of something a miss, but nothing.

"Mamoru? What's wrong?", Usagi smiled. "Lets go!"

Mamoru's eyes raced back to Usagi, his breath quickening and his thoughts racing with terror. What he saw before him made his heart stop dead. She was fading.

"USAKO? USAKO!", Mamoru screamed at the top of his lungs as his firm grasp held tight to usagi's arms. His voice was laden with fear as he shook his girlfriend furiously. It was no use.

She was forever frozen in time and space, a smile etched on her face as her body started to fade away into nothingness. He tried desperately calling out her name but to no avail. She was disappearing and nothing he tried was bringing her back.

With in minutes she was gone, leaving Mamoru grasping on to the empty air in front of him. He frantically tried to make sense of what had just happened, his head darting left and right searching for his vanished love. His eyes filled with tears as despair started to set in and the shock had him frozen in place.

A pang shot through his heart, and with in seconds Mamoru was on his knees. A flash of white light emanated from that very spot and shot out in all directions, a ripple spreading across the entire world. Mamoru lost his breath as seconds later he fell unconscious.