A New Beginning
By Callisto's Dream
Prologue: Now and Forever
It was a winter and everyone in Tokyo was all bundled up in coats and mittens. You could see your breath in front of you and you still were bouncing around. All of a sudden there was a shout and a yelp.
"Usagi-chan! Get off your butt! We still have to go to school!" Minako yelled at Usagi.
"Ooooh, Mina-chan, you are so mean!" Usagi yelled. Shivering, she stood from the bench at the park and looked around. "I was supposed to meet Mamo-chan here."
Minako looked at Usagi carefully and sighed. Just then another girl walked up to them. Her short blue hair and her look of intelligence made her look interesting. Seeing the girl approaching Minako smiled. "Hey Ami!"
Smiling Ami replied, "Hi Mina-chan, hi Usagi-chan."
Usagi just muttered a hello as she continued to look for Mamoru. As Usagi was looking a snowball hit her in the face. "Wha?!"
After she got the snow from her face she saw her other friends Makoto and Rei. She frowned and started crying, "You two are soo mean!" It seemed like Usagi wouldn't stop crying that is until she took a deep breath and calmed herself.
The others all stood where they were and their mouths dropped open. Silently Usagi sat down on the bench and continued to wait, her hands in her lap and her head bowed.
Luna and Artemis had also come by then. But the two of them looked at Usagi and nodded in agreement about something. Luna walked up to Usagi, putting a paw on her clasped hands.
Usagi looked at Luna and began to softly cry. No sound came from her, but the tears rolled down her cheeks. She looked up and saw Mamoru and Chibi Usa walking together hand in hand, and that seemed to break her. Standing, the tears still flowing, Usagi walked over to Mamoru.
She kissed his cheek and whispered, "I will always love you, now and forever." With that she ran, shouting as she went, "Moon Crisis Make-Up!" Turning to her friends she just disappeared into the sky.
"Usagi-chan!" they all yelled, but she was gone, and it was too late.
*
There was a soft sigh and the darkness of the room disappeared. Usagi looked around her old room from when she was a princess on the Moon. When the Moon Kingdom was restored, Usagi hadn't given it much thought, but as she sat and thought, she realized, 'This was my old home. It will now be my new home.' She began to change into one of the old gowns that were worn those hundreds of years ago.
It was white and the hem just touched the floor, and the tips of her shoes peeked out. Carefully, Usagi began to brush her long hair out of the pigtails she had them in. She thought of all the times that she was called Meatball Head because of her odango pigtails. Silently she put her hair back up as she looked around the room. There was a canopy bed and the sheets where white satin. Touching the sheets gingerly she stood up. With a slight sob she walked out of the room and into the hallway.
"Oh, why is it that they always pick on me?" Usagi walked over to a window and looked down on the Earth. Shaking her head she found a chair and fell into it. Soon, she had fallen fast a sleep.
*
Mamoru looked at the girls all gathered around in the park with a look of pure confusion and frustration. "What just happened here?" he looked to each one of them.
Ami frowned and shook her head, "I am not sure, but something snapped in her."
All the fellow scouts nodded their heads, but poor Mamoru. He was still standing in the place that Usagi kissed him, starring at the place where she disappeared. Silently, Chibi Usa walked over to Makoto and began to sob.
"Why did Usagi-chan leave? Did I do something wrong?" Makoto rubbed little Chibi Usa's back and held her.
Rei then began to fume. "What does that Meatball head think she is doing?" She began to pace back and forth. "Well, good riddance to her! We will finally have some peace and quiet!"
At that last phrase Minako finally seemed to come out of her trance. "How dare you say something like that Rei! Just because you two fought all the time doesn't mean that you didn't care for her a little!" Minako then fell to her knees and started to cry, "Why did she leave us?" She looked to Rei, "Oh, why did she?"
Rei rushed over to Minako and gave her a hug, "I'm sure she will come back to us, I am sure of it."
By then pretty much everyone was in tears, except Ami and Mamoru. Ami chose that time to leave and head for the arcade and the command room. Mamoru followed her and sat down at the Sailor V game that Usagi always seemed to have her butt and eyes glued to. He seemed to be trying to remember her as she was, just sitting there and laughing. Ami came over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. Mamoru looked up at her and could see the understanding in her eyes.
"It truly does seem like we always miss her the most when she decides to leave us," Ami said softly. Mamoru then stood back up and the two of them went down into the command room. The two of them looked at the computers and began to look for Usagi.
It had started to get dark and both of them where very tired. Agreeing that they would continue to look tomorrow, they left and went home. But when Mamoru got home he couldn't stop thinking of Usagi. He silently sat down by his window in a chair and soon fell asleep.
Mamoru began to dream soon after he fell asleep. "Usako?" He saw in his dream Usagi leaning over his body and laying a hand on his chest. It was almost as if he could feel her hand over his heart. She was dressed in a dress that she wore as the princess of the moon.
She whispered, "I love you Mamoru-san, but do you love me?"
At that Mamoru woke up to see the moon right outside his window and he knew where she was. Mamoru stood and transformed into Tuxedo Kamen. Gripping his ebony cane he teleported to the moon. When he stepped onto the marble floors of the moon, it seemed like dream from long ago. Shoving the feelings down he ran down the corridors trying to find Usagi.
When he found her she was asleep in a chair, her hands resting in her lap and her head to the side. Carefully he walked up to her and laid his hand over hers'. Blinking, Usagi opened her eyes.
Realization dawned on her and she tried to get up, but Tuxedo Kamen held her in place. He looked into her eyes and she into his. Her eyes clouded and tears fell down her cheeks in a soft stream.
"Oh Mamoru-san!" She then hugged him and just held him.
He pulled them apart to look into her eyes again. "Usako, why did you leave? Why did you have to make it seem like you were going to kill yourself?"
She just blinked. Slowly she took in a deep breath. "Oh, how to start? I guess it would be that I just don't feel loved at all down on Earth. Yes I know that I am, but I don't feel it. With you and Rei always calling me Meatball head and you and Chibi Usa!
"My guess is that it is really you and Chibi Usa that get me the most. I know that she is our future daughter and that you care for her, I do too. But you seem to prefer to spend time with her then you would me. I guess that sounds selfish, but I can't shake the feeling. She hangs all over you and when I try to spend some time with you. Oh! You just seem to not care!"
At that Usagi stopped and looked away from Mamoru. He took off his mask and top hat and kissed Usagi's neck.
Shocked Usagi looked at him, her eyes filled with tears.
"We are meant to be together, it has already happened in the future, and we have a daughter."
Angered, Usagi shoved him away from her and she stood. "So what! The future changes everyday! You might suddenly decide that you don't love me anymore and dump me! Don't you realize that?"
Mamoru came up to her but she went to slap him. But Mamoru easily caught her hand and pulled her to him. He then kissed her, holding her close. With a soft sob, Usagi kissed him back.
*
Usagi woke up in Mamoru's bed the next morning. She stretched and found that she was in her cloths from the day before, and no longer the gown. Turning she found Mamoru asleep next to her on the bed. She stroked his cheek and got out of bed. Wandering over to the kitchen she began to make breakfast.
When Mamoru awoke, the smiling face of Usagi greeted him. He smiled back at her and tried to pull her face down for a kiss. Smiling and shaking her head, Usagi put a plate and a glass of orange juice on a tray on his lap.
"Breakfast," she said as she kneeled down by his side.
Looking at the meal before him, Mamoru smiled. "Why the sudden urge to cook, Usako?"
Usagi just smiled, "Before you eat though, I have a question for you."
He sat up and carefully put the tray next to him on the bed. "What is it?"
Usagi laid her hand on his chest, over his heart, "I love you, but do really love me?"
It was almost like and electric charge had been sent through him and Usagi was the fuse of it. He remembered his dread from the night before and began to get slightly confused. Opening and closing his mouth a few times, Mamoru just starred at Usagi who had stood up and turned her back to him.
Usagi had her eyes squeezed shut and tears still came down her face. "What is taking him so long to answer?" she thought to herself. Turning around to face him she wiped her tears away.
Mamoru held his arms wide to her and she fell into them. "Of course I love you Usako! I always will, no matter what."
At that moment in time Usagi felt so at peace and her heart was more content then what it had ever been, ever. She looked up and into Mamoru's eyes, and they fell into a kiss. Then there was a giggle in the background and Mamoru and Usagi turned around. They saw all of the sailor senshi, even the outer senshi. Standing Usagi went to them and there was a big group hug.
Usagi then picked up Chibi Usa and gave her a big hug. "I love you Chibi Usa," she turned to all of them, "I love you all!"