As promised I will be updating this story once a week. Now mind you this is an INSPIRED by piece. If you've read the note on my profile page then you know the rest of not here's a small note for this, its inspired by another author's works on here. While the first chapter…or two maybe be very close the rest afterwards is NOT. This I have already completed and am just updating weekly. It also gives 'shaydoe' a small break that she mentioned she needed on her profile page and it gives the viewers some mamo/usa moments while her muse is on life support. Lol
It is only 15 chapters long but its pretty fast paced and to the point so I sincerely hope you enjoy it. PLEASE let me know how you like it. Reviews mean the world to authors like us!
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Ice Queen ch.1
It was a lovely spring morning when Usagi got up from bed. The sun shining through her bed room windows as she looked forward to spending the day with Mamoru. They had a date set up from earlier that week to make sure it didn't co-inside with his work schedule and if she didn't get up now she'd be late…again. While she had been trying to get up earlier throughout the last few weeks she didn't manage her time very well so she was often late.
As she got up from bed and moved franticly about her room looking for a nice ensemble to wear that day Luna perked her head up from her position, lounging at the corner of her bed. Seeing the blonde rummaging through her closet and finding the outfit she wanted to wear, throwing it on and combing out her longer than normal golden hair. It was all in a mad frenzy, squealing and dashing about in a blind panic.
This crazed, disorganized, poorly pre-paired behavior made Luna cringe. Usagi was a whirlwind, with no control over her time, herself or her emotions. Since the day they met and she had been a scattered, out of control mess. It wasn't a flattering personality trait, but just annoying as hell. She was nothing like the Moon Princess...
Luna for her part wondered when the blonde would ever change more into the refined, disciplined princess that she had once been. Wishing that she had remembered more of her training as being royalty rather than this silly school girl that wanted to do nothing but hang out with her friends and gossip over boys. It wasn't becoming of someone with Lunarian blood lines running through them to be so simple minded and shallow. Especially someone that was a direct descendant of the Moon goddess Selene herself. Her mother would be in a tizzy over it.
Once Usagi got herself ready with a simple white spring dress, fitting with matching sandals she made sure her hair was nicely done before deciding to ditch the hair clips and go for a more mature look instead of the childish innocent look she usually wore. Something that Luna failed to see as she was becoming once more absorbed in her negative thoughts regarding the blonde. But Usagi was starting to notice the felines failed attempts to see her progress.
She had been training herself late at night a few times a week when she couldn't get to sleep right away and was mastering some moves that Makoto had taught her. She had yet to feel confident enough to do them with the other senshi present. Rei was her biggest fear as she seemed to be constantly ragging on her as of late. She sometimes wondered if Rei was really her friend or merely hanging around out of a sense of duty to protect her.
For Luna it seemed Usagi in her view hadn't changed as much as she had hoped since the defeat of the Doom Tree. The only change that seemed to readily occur was that her and Mamoru were getting much closer than before. Something Luna felt very strongly was too soon for the girl then and now. Even though Mamoru had confessed to Usagi on one of their first few days together when he got his memory back that he had always felt something towards her, he was just to stubborn to act on his feelings.
He knew he'd felt drawn to her from the start. Everything about her interested him, made him want to get to know her. That brightness about her lifted his spirits in a way no one in his life ever had. He had feared it so long that he had poked fun at her to hope that she would go away but she never did. She wasn't just the glue that held the senshi together she held him together and made him able to see things from more than a black and white perspective.
He had even used the excuse of the moon princess to prevent his feelings from growing but that had been a mute point. He still fell for her. Then to find out that she was the moon princess, when he told her the truth had her glowing in his presence before she kissed him. He accepted it happily and didn't even care that they had an 'awing' audience. He had his girl back and he wasn't letting her go for anything.
But Luna had been steadily following Usagi out on her dates with him, acting as a chaperon of sorts and wasn't to thrilled with the fast progress of their developing relationship. Despite the factor that Mamoru had just turned 18 that last August she felt as she had felt a thousand years ago about their relationship, that the romance was to mature for her charge. The moon princess wasn't even supposed to find her love till she hit 16, the 'maturity ball' to announce that she was of age for marriage.
Yet she found it earlier then and now to. It was something Luna couldn't fathom as she was very old fashioned. Seeing the lovely dovely stars in her charges eyes were one thing, seeing them look at one another with the level of love and growing passion made her very nervous. If she could transform into a human more often she would have gnawed her teeth to a fine point from worry by now.
Add to the fact that Usagi didn't seem to be improving in her grades to the higher standards she held for the young blonde and you make for one highly agitated, control freak feline wanting things to go her way. "It's time for a change." She decided. She left the house after Usagi to talk with Artemis about what her plans were. He seemed in doubt her and what she had planned to do to the blonde but her controlling ways took over and he submitted and offered guidance for the young blonde.
He also mentally told himself he'd help her keep from wanting to strangle poor Luna. Though he would never be able to foresee the effects the trip would have on her young charge. Luna he knew was capable as was Usagi but both were also like cats and dogs and could get at one another's throats. He didn't want to see them having a cat fight with both in human form…it wasn't something he wanted to visualize either.
As it was he was not thrilled with it but he was the more 'loose' of the two felines when it came to pressing matters. He could be counted on for anything but he had a way of making people feel at ease. He could make people see things once they calmed down and got to know him not only as an advisor but knowing there was a time for play and a time for work. Luna in her controlling motherly ways seven out of ten times did not.
She was fierce, loyal, loving, smart and excelled at many things but she was the type that had to have the control to the point where she could potentially loose the person within rather than just teach them something new. Usagi would not deal well with it. He knew when Luna pulled her little stunt off Usagi would need his presence to at least cope with the complete change that would occur.
After leaving Artemis once more she followed Usagi on her date – once more not telling him she was chaperoning the couple as she didn't see it necessary - she came in the rose gardens at the nature reserve. Enjoying the scents around her as she sniffed the floral fragrance and brushed her head gently into a flower. "So lovely here." She admitted to herself, not usually getting the chance to take in the splendor around her.
She inhaled and let herself for a brief moment feel the thrill of nature around her, 'this type of bliss and happiness is what we fight for." She felt a renewed sense of accomplishment. However she then saw Mamoru take Usagi into a more private location. She was hoping that this wouldn't be a repeat of past events where she would find them both in compromising situations. She had enough of that in the past.
To many times she would catch them with hands in inappropriate places. Most of the time her charges skirts had been taken to the floor while his hands remained inside her dress as the movements alone made Luna quite obvious to the actions going on. Their faces telling the true tale of the bliss they were both experiencing from the act. At one point he had pulled up both her legs to wrap around his waist.
It had been done so calmly, so naturally and so effortlessly that Luna knew back then that the couple had engage in the act of love making before. To be so open was in her opinion disrespectful of the other occupants around them…her. Not that they knew she was there, not until she made her presence known…but still. She remembered on several accounts getting into open arguments with him over it.
His arguing statement that 'we are to be married soon so why does it matter?' compared to her, 'she is supposed to be an innocent on her wedding night! Not tainted before then.' It seemed however that the princess had favored his side telling Luna 'we are to marry in a week's time, I am already getting to spend the rest of my life with him, what we do during our engagement is…to be honest…between us.'
It had stunned the advisor back in the day. The princess was so graceful at whatever she did and did as told on many things and for the longest time she obeyed and believed in her mother and in Luna's word that you should wait till marriage yet when Endymion came along that got thrown out the proverbial window. Her parting remarks to the prince that day had been 'you've ruined her for any other man if this marriage does not happen.'
His response was a smirk and to say 'good…cause there will be no other man to lay a hand on her like I do after me. I will be the only one to mark her flesh or touch her skin in such a manner.' His words were romantic and had the princess looking at him lovingly while Luna scoffed and left the room. She was so upset that she had denied Artemis that evening anything joyous in their bedroom and instead rabbled on about his words.
Artemis listened but found himself wondering if Luna ever saw the tremendous amount of love Serenity had for her prince or what he held for her. Even the queen by now had figured it out that the two had been intimate. It was why the wedding had been moved up to a week till then instead of the following spring. Endymion was more than happy for the martial speed up as was the dear princess of his.
He couldn't wait to show his parents, his kingdom, his people the lovely bride that he would be bringing home nor could he wait to lay with her without it being secret. Only their most trusted advisors knew of them together as of that time along with Luna. He couldn't wait for the day they said 'I do' so he could take his wife as many times as they pleased and raised their children together in peace and harmony.
It took her a few minutes to get through the maze of greenery around her to locate them. But when she did she wasn't happy with the end result. It seemed events did repeat themselves. The two were locked in a passionate kiss with exploring hands. Usagi's hands were mimicking his own. Both of them trying to test the waters, to feel their way, to figure out what was okay to touch and not touch.
For Mamoru he did remember that they had had a torrid, passionate love on the moon and on earth but that their intimacy here was still incredibly fresh and new to them both. He didn't want to push her to far or to tempt himself with something that they both needed to take slowly. It would just be hard to do at first since they were testing the waters out. Kind of hard to do that with the young woman that you've loved in two life times was so willing and unraveled in under his touch so easily.
She beckoned him with the slightest sultry looks and less then innocent touches of her own. Luna was fuming, she bowed her head down momentarily hoping that Usagi would stop the advancements only to hear, "Kami Mamo – chan." She looked back up and dropped her jaw at what she saw.
Mamoru had been unable to help himself and in a minor loss of control he held her pinned to a small tree as he struggled to contain himself in the secluded area, "We should stop." He breathed against her lips, cupping her face with one hand as his other hand was still slowly moving over her ever heating skin. Though he wasn't touching her skin only the thin cotton fabric covering it he could still feel the effect he had on her.
As it was she had the same effects on him. Never had a woman in his life aroused him so much, not when touching, hell not even with their verbal banter did it ever affect him so. So when she pulled him closer via his button up shirt he stifled a groan, "Hai, we should…" but they obviously didn't. Instead Luna watched for a shocking moment as his hand gently tested the boundaries and inched its way up touching the underside of her breast before letting his hand loosely cupped her left breast.
He watched her eyes for a point of retreat or a sign that it was to much to soon. But Usagi gave none of that. She looked into his eyes with her own trusting ones full of love and bliss. Luna had had it. Her charge would remain innocent until her marital bed. She failed in the past at that she would NOT fail in this time frame. She knew Mamoru would only provide a distraction and in her minds eyes he knew better.
Just as his lips meet hers again and she gasped in shocking pleasure Luna let out a loud and very threatening 'meow' that had every living critter in the area scrambling for safety. Mamoru automatically retracted his hands, at hearing the feline, letting Usagi go and put her at a respectable distance. Whereas Usagi was trying to keep her legs steady from the onslaught of emotions her body was going through. Not used to the advances but not wanting them to stop n the slightest either.
She knew what Mamoru had been wanting, she was the other half of him and felt his emotions through their dim bond. He himself felt it would get stronger over time but for now it was reconnecting as they were. As for herself, she wanted it to. She missed the feel of him and while the memories were still a little hazy she knew, she felt that they had been deeply intimate at some point before. She just couldn't readily remember it.
"Usagi…I think your time would be better spent studying for your math test rather than a useless date." Luna growled. As much as Mamoru wanted to snort at Luna for stating that their time together was useless, if her time with him was becoming a distraction from her grades he didn't want them to suffer on account of himself. He would feel bad if she began to decline further due to their time together.
Though he was also trying to figure that out as they had been having studying sessions together, though half of them – once the work was done – ended with them kissing and making out, they still studied none the less. "Usako we can always re-schedule." He compromised. She nodded her head and did her best to avoid tearing up in front of him as he gave her a chaste kiss goodbye. Neither knowing it would be an actual kiss goodbye for them, "Now come along." Luna ordered haughtily.
Usagi for her part felt miserable now. She knew she had to study but there were the study sessions with Ami that she knew she was improving on. She was no longer a D to C student. She came to be a good C decent B student now. But for Luna she knew it wasn't good enough. She was beginning to wonder if anything she did would be enough for the feline. So she obediently spent the rest of her Saturday studying, wishing she was out with Mamoru.
It would be this so called 'melodramatic sighing' behavior through the whole studying ordeal, that would convince Luna to go through with her plans for the young blonde charge of hers. Pushing the right buttons she set up a meeting to speak with the girls in private. Seeing them at the temple she explained to them her plans later on that day. Upon hearing the news Makoto, Ami and Minako were wary of doing such a thing while Rei was in full agreement.
"I'm not sure on this approach. She has been improving in her classes." Ami tried to reason with Luna. "She hasn't burnt any of my creations. Her last batch was actually pretty good and she has been taking the self-defense classes I give her more seriously." Makoto supplied, "I don't understand. If your serious then to do this is to send her away from Mamoru – san." Minako did not like the idea.
"She needs to focus. He's nothing more than a distraction." Luna chastised. "I for one agree with Luna." The girls looked to her in concern, "She's to air headed, lazy and frankly annoying as she is now. This could serve her well." it was no secret that even after An and El left that the miko was still upset with the blonde. She had kept it well covered from Luna but the girls saw right past her front.
They just choose not to disclose it as she acted all fine about it, but the truth was she hadn't been able to let go of her feelings for Mamoru back in the first few days they all met. No matter what they said when she would talk around the subject she seemed to only mull it over before ignoring their talks. As she saw it she had a chance to be with Mamoru, she had HAD Mamoru when the so called 'past' took him from her.
She tried in the beginning to be okay with it by being the best friend and supporter possible but there was only so much she could do. As a senshi she would protect the blonde moon princess, to the other girls she would be the banter filled friend who kept their leader on her toes but as she saw the relationship between him and Usagi go on. She wanted to believe it was a forced one, due to their past life. It was idealistic of her.
The miko tried to be friendly with her blonde friend but soon found her resentment of the turn of events making her find the blonde more repulsive to be around. She had had Mamoru first. She didn't want to contemplate that he never truly saw her that way. That he saw her as only a friend or a little sister. Her need to have him blinded her rational thinking and was on the verge of ruining her friendship with Usagi.
As it stood from the beginning Mamoru never saw her as anything more. Only going out with her to distract himself from thinking about the rainbow crystals, the moon princess or the one person he wasn't trying to find out why he thinking to hard on…Usagi. He had tried to ignore it months ago by taking Rei out when she called none stop. But now not only was he not able to ignore it but he didn't want to. Rei choose to ignore that and preferred her way of seeing things.
"Go ahead and make the arrangements, I'm behind you. Besides I'm sure the girls here want to help Usagi – chan improve as well." she looked at the others expectantly. Trying to in a sense bully them into agreeing. It was something Makoto wasn't to happy about. Makoto respected Rei but found that her jealously towards Usagi though carefully hidden from Luna was redundant. It had been clear as day before Mamoru got with Usagi that he liked her as such.
His constant picking on her, the verbal battles. They were practically flirting with one another building up the sexual tension without even knowing it. "I think she's fine. I think all she needs is support not to be - " but Rei cut her off, "Your just trying to keep your first true friend here." She smarted off, "Were here to." Makoto narrowed her eyes only to be cut off from talking once more when Luna replied, "Then it's settled."
"I don't agree either." Ami spoke up. Her anger that Luna was deciding something for Usagi and going behind her back to do so stunned the meek girl. "Usagi – chan is the type that can light up a room with her smile alone." She didn't see the narrowing of Rei's eyes at her words, "Is that something you want to diminish because I think this will. You're making a decision for her that should be made with her consent."
Minako agreed. "Not to mention how this will affect her relationship with Mamoru – san. It's not fair to them both to keep her away for so long." Luna snorted, "I understand you're the love goddess Minako – chan but Usagi – chan is to young to even think those thoughts just yet. What I saw in the nature reserves…is to much. Securing our future is more important then that frivolous love." It hurt the love goddess to hear that and it made Rei's eye narrow at what she could have seen.
"Well I won't be a party to this." Minako walked away in an angry huff as Ami followed suit with Makoto behind her, "It won't go over well with Usagi – chan. Besides you have to convince her parents of it." The brunette left off saying, "Looks like it's just us. What do you say?" Rei smiled, "You are a true friend to now that this is what's needed, not just for her but for the moon's heritage." Luna remarked.
Though Rei wasn't thinking completely of the moon at that point, only the young dark haired man that would be available for dating after Luna did what she had planned. She could win him back, win his heart and eventually he himself. She smiled in victory as she felt that once Usagi was gone, even if only bodily for now she could set her destiny back on its course and claim Mamoru once more, "Let's do this." Rei strode with the cat.
Determination in her face to set what in her mind's eye was right. She felt the chance for a bond between them months and months ago but Usagi's annoying presence would interrupt them or a youma attack would. Now though she had a chance to set the course of things right. Besides as long as Usagi went into power for the throne it wasn't set in fated stone that it HAD to be Mamoru right next to her.
It was an hour later when thanks to Luna's mind meld that her parents were in agreement with her plans to send Usagi off for the rest of the school year. The blonde had been studying upstairs and hadn't had a clue to what was being conspired against her. It was when Luna came upstairs that the blonde felt something was up. "It's time you stopped thinking of such ridiculous things as love and focused on your destiny as princess." Luna began throwing the blonde for a curve ball, "Nani?" Usagi remarked.
"Okay what are you going on about? And why are you practically attacking me? I've been doing better in school and quite frankly I think that you interrupting my date was rude and mean. I am improving Luna. You should have more faith in me." Usagi asked the first half then defended on the second half only to not get her answer but to get another response from the feline that would shock her.
"I'm having you sent away to a reserve place where you can study and train to be the eloquent moon princess you were meant to be. Not this lazy girl who pigs out." Usagi protested, "Hey!" "Don't 'hey' me. Everything changes now. I have already 'mind melded' your parents so they know you'll be going to a 'private school' for a year to improve. Now let's pack your things up and get ready. We're leaving out tonight." Usagi felt thrown, tossed and trampled on.
She had no words now for the betrayal she felt at Luna. The feline never even let her talk afterwards, "No I don't want to hear it. No more excuses no more meaningless ventures only training for you. My only regret is not doing this sooner." The cat remarked and began to leave the room only to stop at the door, "Oh and my advice would be to let Mamoru – san know so he can move on as well." to that Usagi's heart broke.
Luna paid it no mind, "It wouldn't be fair to make him wait for you right now. As it is a long distance relationships when you DON'T need a distraction of the male. If it's true love then even after all that time he will come back to you, if not then you know how shallow his feelings towards you might be. It's called living with decisions and being an adult about things. Something you need to learn about." Luna's parting words crashed on Usagi.
She gasped as if she had been physically hit before falling to her bed and began crying. The shock alone had prevented her back bone from coming forth once Luna left and now she had lost her chance to fight this any further…if she EVER had a chance to fight this. She hadn't been able to stop crying, not even when her parents packed her bags in the trunk of the taxi. Hugging them goodbye as if she was robot, tuning out all the wonderful praise they spouted about his private school and how it was going to change her life.
She sulked inside the car, slumped against the back seat. Glaring up at the platinum blonde man up in the driver's seat. "Relax Usagi – chan, its me Artemis." That shocked her. "Great." She muttered, as Artemis in human form smile weakly at through the rear view mirror.
"Feline form aides us in ways human form can't. That and its take a lot of magic for us to be in human form." He admitted. She nodded, "We will be going to Mamoru – san's to let you say goodbye." He told her. He saw her blank face and wondered for the thousandth time if Luna was seeing how devastated the blonde was. She was turning the girl's world on its axis once more only this time she was being forced to leave her dear friends, her beloved family and leave her soul mated boyfriend behind.
Here she had gotten him back only to loose him all over again. The realization much have been like a blow to the gut for her. "Gomen…" he muttered under his breath. He didn't like doing this to her and to be honest he felt that the group of girls should train together not single Usagi out to train on her own just because Luna wanted her to be a warrior that her enemies feared. Her enemies he feared wouldn't see the loving soul she was but whatever Luna turned her into out there. That's what he feared.
Parking in front of the building he said, "I'd say take your time but you can't. I can only give you five minutes." Her eyes widened, "That's it? It takes me two minutes alone to get to his floor once I pass security." He sighed, "Gomen. We're on a timed schedule. Blame Luna." He stated sourly as she dashed from the car to the building. Heart pounding in her chest like a frightened bird, wishing only to free the cage it was trapped in.
He felt horrible for her but now he also felt for Mamoru as well. Luna was interfering with destiny alone by wanting to delay their love from growing and maturing over time. "Damn bossy woman." Artemis muttered, wishing he had more of a back bone with her. He wondered how much this was going to affect the future if Usagi changed a lot.
It was up at the apartment complex that Usagi after running her ass off got to his grande apartment. "Mamo – chan!" she pounded on the door desperate and out of breath. He opened it and briefly found her still in that alluringly sweet white sundress. Sweaty and heaving appearance attractive before he questioned why she ran to his apartment.
She took in his handsome countance, dressed only in a pair of cotton sleep pants that hung off his strong hips, showing off a toned bare chest and a hard pack of muscled along his abdomen. His bare skin tanned and sun kissed from running shirtless over the summer months. He was breathtaking and...tragically someone she was being forced to set free again! The thought of leaving him stopped her heart and she was having a very hard time saying goodbye.
"Hey Usa - " he got bombarded by her as she lunged for him and wrapped her arms around him tight, "I don't want to do this for anything but I've been given no choice." She sobbed, brokenly. He was clueless but getting a bit scared now, "What is it Usako?" he asked. "I…I have to leave like now, Luna is making me go far away to train and says that its not fair to keep you in a long distance relationship. That I need to let you go." Usagi for her part was feeling ill at the very thought of doing such a thing.
Mamoru was now visibly upset. "Luna is telling you to break up with me? And your letting her?" he demanded, his face ashen and eyes darkening with anger. "NO! She's already made the decisions for me! She mind melded my parents to make them think I was going to a private school." Judging by the look on her face he knew the truth of it now. Luna was taking an assessment and making decisions for the blonde that weren't hers to make. He wanted to throttle the feline.
"Maybe I can talk to her." He suggested, "She said no more excuses no more ventures. My train leaves soon. I gotta go…" she looked up to him, her eyes stinging with tears. "I love you Mamo – chan…" she went to kiss him when Artemis came up, "I am sorry but I said five minutes!" he told them. All the air rushed out of her, as she looked back from Artemis to Mamoru, knowing fate was being cruel to her.
"I hope you never forget me…but once I thought about it Luna had a small point. It would be cruel of me to hope that you'll wait for me in this duration. It's not fair on you." Then she abruptly left, dashing away down the hall holding back her tears, her chest heavy and burning with misery. As Artemis told him, "She will be returned…in roughly a year. Don't give up." His face was remorseful but determined.
Mamoru felt his world shift and it wasn't in a pleasant way. It was like the ground had just crumbled beneath his feet. Leaving him suspended over a great casem filled with longing and frustration of having to wait again. He had just found his princess only for that blasted cat to take her from him…again. Several times in the past life he recalled the same thing. Luna and him got on one another's nerves with regards to Usagi back then like oil and water.
He tried to run out after them once he shook his mind free of the memories but the car was already speeding away down the street to fast for him to catch, not thinking coherently he hadn't grabbed his own car keys or anything to chase after them with. Filled with a painful desperation, his chest burning from chasing the car several blocks. He struggled to breath, struggled to make his heart continue to beat as the car taking his love away faded into the traffic of Azabu.
"I'll get you back Usako." He vowed leaving back for his apartment once more. He was going to be taking a visit to the temple to see if the other girls were in on this as well. If they were there would be hell to pay. But first he needed to get more properly dressed as he was in sweats and running shoes. "If it's the last thing I do…tired of people taking you away from me…or getting between us…" he muttered to himself back to his apartment.
On his sports bike he rode fast to the temple, barely even putting her into park he jogged the rest of the way and took the steps up. Nearly out of breath he found Rei sweeping the temple steps, "Mamoru – san!" Rei greeted only to come across his less than friendly demeanor, "Why is Luna taking Usako to some place abroad? She couldn't even tell me where she was going before some white haired guy told her they had to go."
That was not what she was expecting but what else should she have thought. That he'd be running to her the first chance he got? She shook that thought from her head and tried to make him see reason for Luna's actions, even if hers were so 'pure' or full of the right intent as Luna thought hers were. Now just to make him see that fact and hope that he could get on board with it even if no one else but her parents, Luna her and were.
"It's for the best. She's been lacking in school, getting lazy and Luna feels that her relationship with you is clouding her priorities." Rei stated matter of factly. Mamoru blanched. Mamoru got defensive, "Bull! Her grades have been improving, just not very fast, she's not lazy just needs to work on managing her time and our relationship is just that. OURS! What gives either of you the right to make that statement?" he barked.
Rei was not accustom to being yelled at so she defended her words and hoped that he would stop yelling into her face. As it stood she was now on the defensive as well and didn't like it. She was good at it but didn't like people coming at her, she would come back twice as fast and make them pay, "Yeah well it's done, she's gone and your just gonna have to deal with it." She snapped back at him in defense.
"I wanna know where the hell she's going. Tell me Rei – chan!" he demanded. It took a lot for Rei to not break and tell him where Usagi was going, "No. I'd rather have Luna scratch me than tell you." Mamoru had a small feeling Rei was enjoying this a little to much. "Where are the other girls? I'm sure they had some words about their friend leaving like this. What happens if there's an attack that you all can't handle?" he asked.
"Were the friggin' sailor senshi, we can handle it. But if we do then Luna will bring her back here but only then. Usagi – chan needs to grow up. Besides you two just stepped into this relationship overnight. You should wonder if the reason your with her isn't due to your past relations." Rei spoke up. Mamoru wanted to laugh, "Our past relations made me see the truth…if anything I've always liked her. Always felt a deep connection with her." He mused even as Rei felt upset by his admittance.
"Even when we were hanging out I felt like I was missing something by not talking with her." He missed the increasing anger in her eyes as she gripped her broom tighter. "Tough luck, maybe this will make you both stronger in the future. Or who knows maybe you'll find that she isn't your one true love in this time frame." She cautioned. "No I know she is, and when I find out where she's at I'm bringing her back home." He left swiftly even as Rei was thinking up ways to prevent that from happening.
"You're more obvious that you look." Minako voiced herself, scaring the miko. "What are you talking about?" Rei asked, feigning ignorance. "You still want him. That's why you agreed to sending Usagi – chan off. You're going to try and get him to be yours." Rei's childish qualities wanted to snap out 'he was mine first' but she refused to let it out, "She needs to learn these things. Mamoru – san is a distraction." Rei stated instead.
Minako walked forward, "That's bull and we all know it. You never let your torch for him die out and if you don't you'll not only loose Usagi – chan as a friend but also the potential I feel you have with Yuurichio. Stop aiming for someone already taken and LET HIM GO." The tone was low and cautious as Minako left, "What do you know?!" Rei snapped to her retreating form not wanting to admit that the love goddess may have been right.
However with Luna and Artemis leaving with Usagi, Mamoru had no real way of finding out where she was. He called the other girls to find out that because they didn't agree with Luna or her plans for their leader only Rei knew where Usagi was. Rei, Usagi, Luna and Artemis whom Mamoru had figured out via Minako that he was the long white haired man. He was pacing his apartment trying to figure out a way of getting to her when it struck him.
He raced to the temple and snuck inside to where Rei's room was. He had only ever been there once or twice for senshi meetings after An and El left. It was Rei walking out in her robes that had her blushing and him looking at her sternly. "Isn't it a little late to be coming over here?" she asked, "Where is Usako?" he demanded. Her fantasy of him popping up out of nowhere came true but not the end result where he would claim that he missed her dearly and wanted to be with her once more.
No he wanted Usagi and now she felt bitter over it. "You're not going to her. You're a distraction for her. How many times do I have to say it before it sinks in?" Rei smirked, "Rei – chan so help me…" he clenched and unclenched his fists wanting to throttle her for keeping his girlfriend's whereabouts from him, "Rei – chan please…I just got her back and now Luna's decided to take her again just because she's not advancing fast enough. Usako…tell her that I'll do more study sessions with her." He tried but his plea fell on deaf ears.
"More study sessions? You mean more make out sessions." Rei scoffed not believing for a second that studying was actually done when in reality they did get a lot of studying done. It was after the studying that other types of studying got done. Mainly of one another's bodies to a certain degree. Several times he had to pull himself back for fear of hauling her over his shoulder and throwing her on his bed.
He knew they had just gotten together in a 'were dating' sense a very short time ago. He didn't want to frighten her off so fast. "I know what you're thinking and you're wrong. I'm studying for my medical degree as well and I need to study." He told her. "Yeah I bet. In fact I bet you that the only studying you did was of her body." Rei's crude introspect on their private lives was an unnecessary thing.
"You're wrong. But it's good to know how you really felt about us together. You have very little faith in her and myself. As a friend I thought you'd be more willing to believe and compromise the situation." He walked out with a fuming Rei standing still. Her eyes burning with anger that she couldn't seem to keep away. If she was going to get him back it would have to be with kindness. Only problem was all he wanted was Usagi's whereabouts. She would keep that from him as long as possible.
It was the next day when Usagi arrived at a long forgotten looking place. "Where are we?" she asked, "Some place where you can train your mind, body and soul without any distractions." Luna smiled. Usagi just felt to tired to argue back. She learned along the way there that she would have no contact with her family nor her friends either. She felt exhausted now from all of her crying and Luna hadn't let her sleep a wink there.
"Is this really necessary?" she asked Luna for the hundredth time. The feline looked to her exhausted charge and became upset once more. Thinking Usagi should be taking this as a serious matter and NOT having crying sissy fits just because the feline was taking extra measures regarding her training. "Hai, Usagi now quit mopping you act as if I've taken your life away." The feline snipped.
"You have…" Usagi muttered under her breath as she stepped from the car. She took the next several hours to familiarize herself with the property and to put her clothing away. She hardly talked and Artemis was already seeing the signs of depression set in. Without her friends, her family and Mamoru she would have a difficult time with this and for the millionth time once more he wished he had a back bone when it came to Luna.
It was during the first round of attacks at her the next day that Luna went all out. Transforming herself into a human woman she attacked with her Mau powers against her. She wanted to test Usagi's weaknesses and strengthen them all. Once transformed Sailor Moon went through the first several rounds and broke a sweat. The fifth round she started to become exhausted and falter, "Luna please!"
She pleaded to the guardian, "I'm bone tired, I can barely stand, we've been at this all day long." she looked to the clock on a nearby wall from the inside of a window, "Since 7 a.m. which I might add is the earliest I've ever been up before. It's almost seven now and I've barely eaten all day." Her stomach growled in need of food. "An army marches on its stomach right?" she tried, "You had a reasonable lunch. It's not my fault you insisted on sleeping in." Luna retorted. Moon felt like falling down.
She had missed the breakfast cause it was at 6:30 a.m. she couldn't make herself get up. "You know what Luna fine, whatever you say. I'm wrong and you're right…all the time. As a matter of fact, I'm to damned lazy to get up in the morning on a regular morning mind you cause half the night instead of sleeping I'm busy fighting the evils of this world at friggin' 1 and 3 a.m. half the time I'm across town and have to run on rooftops just to get there in time. So yeah I need a little bit extra sleep." The senshi of the Moon snapped back.
Her words had Artemis thinking in regards to how accurate she was, "All the other girls do it with no fuss!" Luna retorted back, "Their not on the other - " but Luna cut her off, "What did I say about excuses?! Back to work!" she tossed another energy ball at her only to hit Moon square in the gut. "Luna I think that's enough." Artemis warned. Luna shot him a look, "She needs - " but Artemis cut her off.
"She needs support not a drill sergeant. Give her some time. Try some classes on manners tomorrow. Give her a break from this type of training." He suggested. "Fine." She walked back inside the residence that they had accommodated. "I wanna go home. To my family, my friends, to my Mamo…oh kami Mamo – chan." She began crying, "I feel horribly that I had to break things off with him." she sobbed.
"I know…but maybe if you improve fast enough Luna will let you go home early." He tried, "You think?" She asked, looking up at him with bright eyes full of hope, "Just try and see what happens." He said. She nodded. "I will." She replied and they walked inside. Every kept up the same things. Training for fighting, eating, training in etiquette, eating. It had become rigorous and routine.
Of course then there was also the five days out of the week for five till 10 p.m. schooling she did for her 'classes' in school to work on. She held no time for herself. Only showering and the barely there 7-8 hours of sleep she was allowed to have. It was a week later when she was back outside on the ground. Training was now in hand to hand combat. She had a split lip, a bruised rib and felt like her body was on fire from her muscle joints.
Her target to beat was a mass of energy that Luna had somehow formed into something resembling a person. "Harder Usagi. You're going to be a future queen one day." Luna stated harshly. It was after the mass of energy back handed her that her body fell limp. Her training was to extensive for her young body to handle and Luna was to harsh on her charge. Moon turned over and let the transformation fade. "Luna I need a break or at least to get my ribs wrapped up." Usagi said, feeling her rib.
"Your mother Queen Serenity could do this in her sleep if she wanted to." Luna snapped. Usagi looked to her, "My moon mother had probably been training from a younger age and was more adapted to it. Plus she probably had her friends to train with and got to go home to her parents." Luna's lips tightened up as Usagi was correct on that assumption. "These are extensive circumstances." Luna told her.
"Now if the other senshi can do everything needed to do and arrive at battles on time then so should you." Luna continued on, "Oh I see so when Rei – chan or the others arrived late to the battles that means it's alright and understandable because they live far away but when I do I'm late! Lazy! Irresponsible. Am I getting warmer?" Usagi snapped at the black cat. She was to tired to care.
Luna stood mouth a gap for a few moments before snapping back, "I'm tired of your excuses Usagi! One more round then it's time for more 'etiquette' training. You have much to catch up on. What you learned in the past for years on end you much catch up on in a year. You will NOT disappoint me. If only your mother could see you now…well thankfully she can't. If anything your current actions are a disgrace to the moon line."
She walked away charging up as Usagi held no more energy. Her body not used to the extreme ways Luna was training her in. She felt like passing out and was close to it when Luna sent her energy ball at her. She barely dodged it but the second one hit her dead on. She flew back into a tree. "Luna that's enough!" Artemis barked. He went to Usagi's side and saw her battered body, "She's not used to the extensive training." He reprimanded.
"She's gonna have to deal with it. How else is she going to fight the forces of the evils of this world if she's not hardened up? The time for being a crybaby child is over." Luna remarked. As it was Usagi was groggily standing up. Luna came up to her, "I knew I should have started this training early on." She sighed. With her body feeling defeated Usagi spoke up, "You know what some times I wish you never came into my life…you're the drill sergeant from hell!" her anger at the situation she was thrown into finally boiled over.
Luna angered by her words lashed out and changed the course of everything from then to the time to come, "I wish I had a more respectable, more reliable, less crybaby, less whiney, less lazy charge to deal with. And honestly I think Rei – chan would be more suited as a leader than yourself. She's reliable, she's everything you're not! But no I'm stuck trying to mold you." Her words were hurtful and broke the young blonde into tears. She ran for the shelter of the small room she was given.
Artemis looked to Luna in shock, "Nani?" Luna demanded, "That was way out of line. Over half the senshi didn't agree with this, I don't agree with it and yet you made the decision for everyone involve. You keep this up and we'll loose the wonderful Usagi – chan we have now." He told her as he walked away, "Evil needs to be defeated!" She snapped at him. Used to her wrath he took it in, "Yes but what good is defeating evil when the person battling it is as cold as them?" not understanding his words she walked away.