Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon does NOT belong to Me.!
The daydream was as vivid as it was in the classroom as I dozed off. My feet swung back and forth, hitting the wall slightly as I braced myself against the metal fence and watched the soccer game below from the roof.
I remembered dancing, laughing, parties that lasted all night.
It hadn't occurred to me that they might have been memories.
My fingers were lost in a mass of silver hair in the daydream. Eyes like stone watched me with a tint of adoration in them. I was in love.
I was in love with a shadow.
"Aino-san," my cheek rested against the soothing cold of the metal. I knew what he would say. I always knew what he would say. He would never be able to understand the torment my heart went through, because he never knew anything other than the duty of a senshi.
The duty of a senshi…
What exactly (was) the duty of a senshi?
I never thought about it before.
A silver ponytail glistened against the dusk of the afternoon in the corner of my eye and he sat down.
Is your dream more important than your duty as a senshi?
My heart clenched and I bit my cheek.
"The duty of a senshi is to protect." I murmured to the boy, trying to convince myself as well. My fingers trembled as memories flashed by my eyes. His mouth opened.
"You protect your princess," I continued, halting his speech.
"Hai," the boy agreed, looking down as one of our classmates – a junior in class 4B- scored a touchdown.
"Do you know why?" I asked him, my hair blowing in the breeze as I faced the boy that reminded me so much of the past. Silver hair…
He had asked me the same question so many years ago.
"I protect her because it is my duty to protect her," he decided after a few moments of silence.
"No," I shook my head giving him a wistful smile, "It is the duty of a senshi is to protect the dreams of others. You protect her because she has the power to do so."
"You say it as if you are different than me." He retaliated, emerald eyes filled with anger.
"Because I am. You and I are as different as night and day. I swore my allegiance to my princess because I love her. Because she is the single most important person in my life and will always be the only one who can ever say that."
He looked affronted then.
Is that girl more important to you than yourself?
"And until you can say the same thing, you can never be able to be like us. Until you have sacrificed like we have, you will be able to judge me."
Because I love you, I can wait years, centuries, millenniums. And I'll wait forever because you'll never see.
White hair, stone eyes, pale skin. They stay in the back of my mind. They always will.
You always choose something more important than love.
"I underestimated you," he decided firmly, shooting me an apologetic glance. I nodded silently.
To forgive is the hardest thing to do.
To learn is the second.
There is only one fate for you..
For all eternity, your love will be hopeless.
Your fate is to continue fighting.
Your Love or Your Duty?
"I thought you were immature. I thought you were too weak to be a sailor senshi. I thought there was only one face to Aino Minako." he continued, looking back down.
"I was wrong," he apologized.
Silver hair brushed my face, as he stood up and turned towards the door.
"But there are two duties of a senshi," he proclaimed, walking to the exit.
I watched the silver headed boy warily, too ready for another insult.
"One is to protect,"
" And the other is to love."
And if I have to wait for an eternity to see you again, I will. I'll meet you again and I'll tell you once more;;
I Love You.