Returning an Angel's Wings
By Luna Selene78 (Formally Mandy Shadow/Diva R.S)
Authors notes: First before anyone starts screaming that I stole Mandy Shadows (Diva R.S) story, I am her.
This is a Major AU storyline as well has character parings from other anime fandoms appearing but I must state this is NOT a crossover.
Summary: AU Seiya/Usagi. After a volatile split from her fiancee, Chiba Mamoru, Usagi decided to leave EVERYTHING behind and start a new life in America. Too bad Mamoru won't let her.
Warning: Language, Adult content and situations, sexual content,
TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL ASSULT
Chapter 1: Escape To Chicago.
Her body hurt...
She was in shock. Slowly and very shakily she pulled one of the disturbed and bloody bed sheets covering her nude body as tears silently continued running down her cheeks. "Why" she murmured softly. He knew she wanted to wait until after they were married but she had no idea what she said to set him off and rape her.
Slowly Usagi sat up on the bed wincing at the severe pain between her legs and looked around the bedroom as she started to remember what triggered Mamoru's rage towards her.
Flashback:
Usagi danced happily around the apartment as she held up the letter she had been waiting for. She read the letter once again smiling then looked at the contents of the package.
"You're in a good mood" Mamoru came in the apartment already frowning as he did not smell dinner.
"Yeah. The manga I submitted has made it to the final stage of competition and Moriboshi-sama wants me to come in for an interview so he can see my art. If he likes it, I could become his new protege!"
A deep frown touched his lips as he watched her jumping around and he grabbed her pigtail pulling her against his body snatching the letter. "You have more important things than to draw those stupid comics" He said tearing the letter into shreds in from of her.
Shocked and hurt that he would deny her dream, she slapped him. "What the hell is your problem! Am I not allowed to live my dream as well?" She snapped.
Mamoru frowned, her eyes narrowed dangerously as he grabbed her by her arm and returned the slap with a vicious punch to her jaw leaving a bruise on her delicate face.
"What the hell Mamoru!" She gasped gingerly touching the swollen cheek. "What is your fucking problem!"
"You are. You sit around here doing these stupid drawings, barely taking care of me and my needs..."
"Mamo-chan, I told you I wanted to wait until after we were married to do any of that!"
Mamoru growled and grabbed her by her neck pushing her against the wall. "Bullshit. You've probably been out there fucking other guys then coming back here playing that damn innocent virgin card. He dragged her to the bedroom and threw her on the bed.
For the next couple of hours, he brutally assaulted her body physically and sexually stealing away her purity. When he finished, he got up and smirked admiring his handy work watching Usagi just lay there.
"Why?" she softly sobbed out, her eyes staring out in a vacant stare.
He ignored her and glanced around the room finding the sketchbook with the new drawings she was working on for her portfolio and proceeded to rip them to shreds before getting dressed and heading out.
End flashback
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Slowly she got up from the bed wincing. She looked around at the destruction in the room as more tears filled her eyes. Her dreams had been shattered. Everything she had hoped for her future gone. Usagi's gaze then drifted to the mirror. She let go of the sheet letting the cotton fabric pool at her feet. From head to toe she assessed all he had done to her as she fought back the tears. His rough handling clearly showed over her body as well as the loss of her virtue on her thighs.
Unable to look at herself she quickly went into the bathroom and scrubbed herself upset she let it happen, let him rape her. After she finished in the shower she threw on some clothes and fished out a brown manila envelope her father had sent to her. Her family knew that there wasn't something right about her relationship lately and out of concern, they bought her an airline ticket to Chicago so she could go stay with her cousin. After a quick call for a cab, Usagi grabbed her large pink duffel bag and started shoving clothes in it. As she packed, she heard the phone ring. Cautiously she answered it relaxing a little hearing her best friend, Rei.
"Hey Usagi-chan. What's going on? I just got an angry call from Mamoru accusing you of cheating on him. What's this all about?"
"You know I have been trying to get that apprenticeship with Moriboshi Keigo seeing as I have been an admirer of his work since junior high, right?"
Rei nodded then remembered she was on the phone. "Yes, I remember. I also remember how excited you were when you passed the first two tiers of the judging process."
Usagi glanced at her destroyed art on the floor and choked back a sob. "I made it to the final tier where I would have been able to interview with Moriboshi-sama, but Mamoru in his twisted mind thought I was lying and destroyed my artwork."
"Oh no." Rei gasped at the thought of Usagi's artwork being destroyed. "Usagi, are YOU okay though"
Usagi unable to hold back anymore, broke down crying telling her what else he did to her. "...I don't care anymore Rei. I refuse to be chained down to an abusive asshole who refuses to let me fulfill my dreams while he get to live his dreams." Usagi snapped through choked tears as she hastily packed glancing at the remnants of her destroyed sketchbook on the floor.
"Aren't you being a little hasty?" Rei asked her friend over the phone. "What about your family?"
"Who do you think bought me the one way ticket to get away from Mamoru?" she spat his name like it was venom.
"Your dad agreed to let you leave the country?" Rei asked shocked as she stopped what she was doing.
"Yeah. He even talked to my cousin and he said that I could stay with him and his girlfriend until I can get on my feet over there on my own." Usagi finished stuffing clothes into a large duffel bag then grabbed a large pink messenger bag with a bunny patch on it and grabbed what was left of her drawing supplies. As she was stuffing her notebook computer and tablet in the bag, she paused. "Rei,I want you to promise me one thing. I know you are Mamoru's sister and all, but..."
"I won't tell him where you went Usagi-chan" Rei laughed a soft sad laugh.
"Thank you Rei" She said softly. "Listen, I don't have much time left before Mamoru gets home. "I'll e-mail you when I get settled in at Motoki's place"
"Take care Usagi. I'm going to miss you" Rei said before hanging up the phone.
"You too Rei" She said softly before ending the call and doubling her efforts with her packing.
Usagi looked around and made sure she had everything that was important that she would need. As she looked around, she was startled from her thoughts when the doorman called up to their apartment to let her know her cab had arrived
Quickly grabbing, her purse, messenger bag, and duffel bag, she scooped up her passport and airline ticket. Before she left the apartment for the last time ever, Usagi looked at her left hand and then removed the diamond and platinum engagement ring and dropped it on her desk and then left the apartment never to return.
Her timing as she left couldn't have been better because as soon as she stepped on one elevator to go down, Chiba Mamoru stepped off a different elevator. "Usagi!" He yelled as he entered the empty apartment. "Usagi where the hell are you!" He demanded walking into their bedroom and saw clothes scattered all over. Taking a better look, he saw that her computer no longer was on her desk nor where any of her drawing supplies. The platinum and diamond engagement ring he gave her on her eighteenth birthday only remained. Quickly he ran out of the apartment opting to take the stairs and ran all the way back to the lobby just in time to see Usagi get into a cab. "Usagi, you bitch! Get back here!" He yelled as he ran out of the lobby towards the cab.
Frightened, Usagi quickly just stuffed her bags in back with her and slammed the door shut before Mamoru could get a hold of her to pull her out of the cab. "Just drive... Quickly NOW!" she said panicked tossing some money over the seat to the driver.
"Yeah I would lady but where am I Going?" the driver said a little startled at the man beating on the side of his cab.
"Narita Airport, International terminal"
The driver nodded and sped off in the direction of the airport leaving a stunned Mamoru in the street.
Quickly Mamoru hailed a cab and demanded he follow the other one trailing it all the way to the airport.
Usagi sighed relaxing in the cab as she fished out her blackberry from her messenger bag and failed to notice that they were being followed, however the driver realized that he had someone on his tail and cleared his throat. "Excuse me miss, but by the appearance of things, you're on the run from someone?" he spoke up.
She looked up from what she was doing regarding the driver through the mirror with a slight nod. "I'm on the run from my fiancee...well Ex fiancee."
"The young man who was trying to pull you from my cab?" The driver nodded then glanced at Usagi again and saw some bruising around her neck and on her face she was trying to hide with makeup and then began driving evasively eventually loosing the other cab without delaying their arrival to the airport. Upon their arrival the driver helped Usagi with her duffel bag handing it back to her once she was out of the cab. .
Usagi reached into her purse getting her wallet to tip the driver whom she already paid, but he held up his hand and smiled a kind fatherly smile. "That's not necessary miss. Knowing you are getting yourself someplace safe is tip enough for me."
She looked at the driver shocked but then smiled softly as she grabbed her messenger bag and purse. "Thank you sir" She put the money in his hand then headed inside just barely making it on time for her flight.
A little over 14 hours later:
"Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, We are on our final approach and the captain has turned on the fasten seat belts sign..." The flight attendant announced over the P.A. System. Usagi stretched as she glanced out the window at the sprawling metropolis letting the blonde know the aircraft was on it's final approach and about to land.
"Excuse me miss, but you'll need to put your computer away and secure your tray table. We are landing in a few minuets. " A flight attendant smiled kindly in Japanese thinking Usagi didn't hear the announcement.
"Oh, thank you"Usagi said with her best English smiling as she complied putting away her laptop and quickly slid the bag under the seat.
It took him quite a bit of convincing considering how stiff homeland security was, but Motoki managed to convince airport security to let him go wait for his cousin, Usagi, at the arrival gate. He looked at the arrival board looking for the flight information his Uncle Kenji gave him about his cousin's flight and smiled as it said it was on time. He glanced at his watch and saw that it was about time for her flight to arrive and quickly headed to the gate arriving in time to see people streaming off the international flight. His smile grew as he spotted a sloppy yet very familiar set of hair buns floating through the crowd. "Oi Usagi-chan!" he called out over the crowd to get her attention. "Usagi-chan, Over here!" Motoki waved with a giant smile on his face.
Usagi heard someone calling her, but she couldn't see past the forest of people in the busy terminal. "Motoki-kun?" she called out.
"Hai. Over here!" He climbed up on one of the chairs in the waiting area and held up a colorful sign with Usagi's name and a cute bunny drawn on it.
For the first time in a while, Usagi giggled and ran towards her cousin and hugged him. "It's so good to see you again Motoki-kun!" she exclaimed happily.
"So Uncle Kenji said you wanted a change of pace?" he asked as he took her hand leading her down to the baggage claim.
Usagi's smile quickly faded as she walked with her cousin. "I left Mamoru." she said straight forward.
Motoki looked at his cousin shocked. "But Why? Mako-Chan and I were looking forward to coming back for your wedding."
A pained expression crossed her face as she recalled the months of abuse. "He changed for the worse Motoki." her eyes began to water as she self consciously wrapped her arms around herself. "Ever since he finished medical school and started his internship he changed for the worse"
Not liking to see his cousin in tears, he wrapped an arm around her shoulder as they walked holding her close. "Dad didn't tell you he had been beating me." she said more than asked.
"No, he didn't tell me that Usagi-chan"
"Dad thought it would be best for my safety if I came to stay with you and at first I wasn't going to use the ticket he bought for me but then..."she caught herself before telling him about the rape. "...He destroyed my work I was doing for my portfolio"
Motoki sighed softly as he could tell his cousin was hiding something else but he wasn't going to pressure her for the truth. "Well Mako-Chan and I are glad to have you stay with us Usagi-chan." he smiled giving her a hug. "Now where's that smile you greeted me with?"
Feeling safe, Usagi looked up at her cousin and smiled.
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