Ami: And Ami-chan.
Amie: Bring you.
Ami: Old Flames!
Amie: snicker Yes. We're co-writing yet another fic, but of the fandom SM. waves to everyone
Ami: It's been an idea stuck in our heads since forever and we've finally gotten to writing a vague prologue to set it all up.
Amie: Be prepared to be uber-confuddled.
Notice:
1) Yet again - based on the manga.
2) We assure you - the next chapter is better.
3) It is intended as a Usa/Mamo fic.
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OLD FLAMES
BY: AMI-CHAN & AMIE-CHAN
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Chiba Mamoru left for the Americas three years ago. He had gone to the Great States in hopes of studying medicine, as the United States was advanced in that field of technology. He had other hopes to come back home with a degree in the medical arts and once home, help around in some nearby hospital. Of course, he had expected these things to happen with the help of encouragement and his studies. He wasn't that naive to think things came so easily. He expected that once his year was up, he'd go back to Tokyo, and have his life back with his Usako and his other friends. Actually, his real plan was to propose to his Usako.
Properly, this time of course - without any deaths or any other complications.
Unfortunately, complications did arise; as he soon found the United States did not quite live up to his expectations. It wasn't that the new and foreign land itself was horrible. Oh, no. Mamoru had found it rather refreshing to be in a new world. It was what he found about himself while being in the Americas. He found that Destiny had apparently mixed up her threads and everything with his Usako was not exactly the fate to be. In fact, his Usako was not his Princess or his soul mate. Destiny had screwed up....well...Destiny! It was far too literal to say that Destiny screwed Destiny over.
It didn't really help that this happened to happen when Usagi, Minako, and Rei came to visit him during his Winter break.
The revelation not only gave truth that Usagi, now not to be called by his nickname for her, was not his destined lover but that another girl was. A girl who proved to be one of his childhood friends before his memory was lost in that unfortunate accident when he was younger. A girl whom he happened to approach because she happened to be also attending the same University as he was. A girl whom he happened to, of lately, been feeling a certain tie to her.
A girl who was now known as Mamoru's soul mate and replaced the whole ideal and thought of Usagi. And he couldn't really resist Destiny, now could he?
But still; when he had found out Usagi was his Princess back then, it was not the sole reason for him to love her. No. It wasn't Destiny that forced him to love her. It was just the attraction between each other even before.
Maybe he just needed to know the girl. Just as he had done with Usagi. Then maybe everything would simply click into place.
Mamoru had been in distress at this time. Finding out that your girlfriend whom you've fought and dedicated yourself to for about three years and thought you would marry and have a child with in the future is not easy to take in when finding out it is a lie.
There were so many questions as to what would happen to the future of Crystal Tokyo and to the other 'Usagis' and 'Mamorus' of the other 'dimensions'.
Oh, how selfish he felt when realizing that he wasn't the only one who was incredibly confused from the news. He had thought of Usagi in the situation, but never even the fact that she, herself, was devastated as well!
He didn't have any chance to really talk to Usagi, to see how she truly felt because she had immediately left to go back to Japan. Perhaps she was mad. Or was she just upset? Or was she just afraid to deal with it all? For the first time, he had to deal with the fact that he didn't know what she felt.
He didn't receive word of her through the following weeks through mail or phone. Instead, he began to write letters to her and calling her during the day of Tokyo's time. Again, he got no response. He was tempted, truly tempted, to skip his classes and go to Japan to visit her. But, again, he was far too dedicated to his education.
It was until one simple day that he had a short message from her left on his cell phone.
"Mamoru. Be happy with her, okay? I'm fine. Honest. Ja. Aishi- Mmm...Ja ne."
Chiba, Mamoru chose to be content with this. He chose to be content with her reply; though he knew it was most likely just a lie. But for now, he would have to deal with it as the girl was being rather neglected. He had to be content in being in the US to receive his education. He simply had to be content.
How he did that for three years was neither easy nor such a straight-forward story to explain.
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Ami:
Doesn't attract you to the story too much, does it? Too cliche? sighs
Amie: We had no idea how we wanted to introduce her as Mamoru's new
lover.
Ami: We, together,decided to be vague yet give enough information
to understand the whole story.
Amie: Unfortunately; we're not quite
sure if we'll give full detail what happened during the time of which
the new girl was revealed to be Mamoru's destined lover.
Ami: Stay with us as the next chapter will be better!
Amie: As for reviews - flames are welcomed as long they aren't too above the line and are ridiculously pointless.
Muchos Love,
A M I - B A K A - C H A N
A M I E - C H A N