It was cloudy and abnormally cold for early fall. Usagi didn't mind, though, because the weather reflected her mood. Her and her long time boyfriend and future husband Mamoru had had another huge fight last night. It seemed like all they had done for the last year was fight and make each other miserable. Last night had been their worst fight yet. He had finally told her yesterday that he was going to try to go to America again. That caused a huge fight. Usagi still couldn't forget the last time he tried to get to America, the image of Galaxia's wicked smile as she boasted about how she had killed Mamoru. So last night she had freaked out about him leaving to go to America, and about him not telling her until now.

Usagi sighed. She still hadn't told her friends about the fighting or about him leaving. She was skipping class today to see him off, even thought right now she would rather take a calculus test. She had mentioned to Rei just once that there was friction between Mamo-chan and herself. Rei had told her to stop being such a baby (because she was bawling) and reminded her that he had had it hard. He had died and had been dead for months, and when he can back he was greeted by Seiya threatening him if he didn't take care of Usagi.

Usagi had to admit that Rei had a point. She couldn't imagine how she would feel if she had died and Mamoru had just moved on to another girl… she stopped. But that's not what happened, she hadn't moved on. Usagi didn't know what had possessed her to think that, and she didn't want to look into it. She shook her head and looked at her watch.

"Eep! I'm running early!" she never ran early, but she had been so worried that she had gotten up and left home an hour early.

"Usagi? What are you doing here?" Mamoru asked with a slight frown.

"I came to see you off. I may be worried about you going to America, since last time… But I am still your girlfriend and I want your dreams to come true. All of them." Usagi said blushing slightly. "I love you Mamo. You know that, right?"

"Yeah Usako. I do." He bent down and gave her small kiss on her lips.

"Mamo… you don't think there was something between Seiya and I, do you?" she asked. That question had been burning inside her for months, but she was always afraid of the answer.

"Why do you ask?" his voices was very flat when he asked that.

"Rei said you might think that since Seiya told you to take care of me. I…I just want you to know, nothing happened. Seiya and I were…" she didn't know how to explain what they were. Friends didn't work because they were more than that, but they weren't in love either. Then she remembered the schools roof top. He had saved her life and she thought it was Tuxedo Mask (Mamoru's transformed self). She had had a break down, and had wanted Mamoru so much during that moment. Seiya had asked her if he was enough and she never answered him. What were they to each other? He loved her, she knew that, but she loved Mamoru so she couldn't love Seiya too. Or could she?

"Usako?"

"What? Oh sorry, I got lost in thought." She blushed and giggled because she felt foolish.

"You were saying?"

"Right! Seiya and I were just good friends." She knew that wasn't the right term for what they were, but she didn't know what else they were.

"Usagi. I trust you, but I don't trust him. But if you say you were just friends, then fine."

"Fine?"

"Look, I don't really want to get into this with you at the airport before flying to America. Ok?"

Usagi realized he was as nervous about this as she was. "If your scared, you could stay here." She said with hope lighting her eyes.

Mamoru frowned. "Usagi I already told you, I'm going. I thought you wanted me to have my dreams come true. Or was that just a line that you saw in one of you chick flicks that manipulated the guy into staying."

Usagi's jaw dropped. She felt like he had just slapped her in the face. "I would never feed you a line. It's just you are scared to go, and I am scared for you to go. Maybe there is a reason for that. We shouldn't ignore our instincts."

"You know what, you're right. We shouldn't ignore our instincts. So you and I are over."

"What do you mean? Are you breaking up with me?" Tears were rolling unchecked down the side of her face.

"That is exactly what I mean. I can't take this anymore!" he went to walk away, but Usagi grabbed his arm.

"Wait! We are destined to be together! We waited a thousand years to be a couple."

"That is half my problem!" he shouted, then looked around seeing all the people who had stopped to stare, he lowered his voice. "WE were never destined to be together. I am NOT Endamion and YOU are NOT Serenity." He went to walk away again after shaking off her grip. She was shell shocked, and had to say something to making him changed his mind.

"What about Chibbiusa?" she said, her voice cracking over their future daughter's name. "If we are not together she won't be born."

"She was gone the moment you and your 'close friend' Seiya defeated Galaxia. She was the evil that made us all sleep until the thirty-first century. So her death is on your hands." He angrily wiped away a tear that had leaked out. "And so you know Usagi, I will NEVER forgive you for her death." He stormed off leaving Usagi in her own personal hell.

Numb she turned and stiffly walked toward the airport exit until she ran into someone and fell on her butt with a hard thud. She just stayed there as tears pored from her eyes. She couldn't even see who it was she had ran into and at the moment she truly didn't care.

"Odango?" a familiar voice asked near by. But she didn't respond. "Hey it's alright, it was an accident." The voice reassured her. But she just wanted to die. She had killed Chibbiusa. She had ended her future. "Usagi you're scaring me, what happened? Is Mamoru alright? Are you hurt?" The voice frantically asked. Then someone, she assumed the owner of the voice, lifted her up and walked a little ways the sat her down on a chair.

Her lip trembled but she managed to say. "Mamoru is better now."

She heard some swearing in a language she didn't know then the voice asked her, "Where is Mamoru?"

"He's going to America."

"OK you stay hear." She heard foot steps running away from her, but didn't care. She didn't care about anything. She had killed Chibbiusa and Mamoru hated her.

A few minutes later Usagi heard people shout and the sounds of a struggle. She wouldn't have cared, except she heard Mamoru cry out in pain. She wiped the tears from her eyes and got ready to find a place to transform, but then she saw what was going on.

It was Seiya! He was back and beating the crap out of Mamoru. Usagi jumped up and ran to the two fighting men.

"Seiya what are you doing!" Usagi yelled over the crowd.

"I was the person you ran into. I saw what he did to you." He turned back to Mamoru. "I told you to take care of her!" He lunged at Mamoru and punched him in the stomach.

Usagi was standing in the crowd and heard a girl say "Isn't that Seiya from the Three Lights? He is so graceful!"

Usagi had had enough and marched right into the thick of their fight. She may not have been Sailor Moon right then, but she had learned (finally) how to hold her own. She walked in between the two and held up her arms. "Stop!"

Seiya stopped and took a step back, but Mamoru push Usagi out of the way and jumped the unsuspecting other man. Mamoru got a good hit on Seiya's face, breaking his nose when Mamoru noticed security coming into break up the fight. He leaned into Seiya and whispered, "This isn't over. One day I will kill you." Then he jumped up and ran off.

Security came in just then and found Seiya lying on the ground, his face covered in blood, and Usagi lying very still next to some steps nearby.

Beep, beep, beep.

That was the first thing that Usagi noticed. She was still sleepy so she didn't want to open her eyes. She knew that the beeping wasn't a normal sound for her bedroom, but she didn't know where she was. Then she heard whispers. People were in the room with her. But who? Then there was the sound of a door and she heard Rei (she'd know that irate tone anywhere).

"What did you do to her?" Rei demanded in her best bossy voice (the same one she normally used on Usagi).

Who ever she spoke to answered in a low whisper.

"I will not be quite! You put her in a hospital!" Rei said even louder, her voice sound strange, as if she was going to cry. But Rei never cried and Usagi didn't know who was in the hospital.

Usagi opened her eyes, but when the bright lights from overhead shined into her eyes she immediately shut them and moaned. Her head was hurting!

"Usagi?" about a million voices said. Or at least that's how it felt to Usagi's head.

"Guys the doctor said she's going to have a terrible headache so please be quite." She heard Seiya say.

"We don't need to be told how to speak by the person who put her in here." Rei's voice was full of pure anger. Usagi had never heard Rei so angry before in her life.

"…Rei… be nice." Usagi mumbled softly.

"Usagi?" Rei asked unsure.

"It was… not his … fault. It was mine." Every word came slightly easier, then the room got darker.

"That should help." That was Ami, sweet smart Ami always knew how to make things better.

"Thanks." Usagi said and slowly opened her eyes. Everyone was there. The stars: Taiki (Star Maker), Yaten (Star Healer), and of course Seiya (Star Fighter). The inner scouts: Rei (Mars), Ami (Mercury), Minako (Venus), and Makoto (Jupiter). The outer scouts: Haruka (Uranus), Hotaru (Saturn), Michiru (Neptune), and the scout she wanted to talk to the most Setsuna (Pluto).

"Usagi I know you have questions, but I can't answer them. Not yet." The intuitive Setsuna said before Usagi could even ask. She had the ability to travel through time, and was the gate keeper of time, so she always was a step ahead.

"I only need one answered. Chibbiusa?" Usagi couldn't say the rest of the question.

"She's gone…for now."

"For now?" Usagi asked with hope while everyone except the stars demanded to know what she meant by Chibbiusa being gone.

"The future is always changing." She replied in the mysterious way she did sometimes.

"Explain. Now." Demanded Haruka slamming her hand down on the nearby table. Hotaru was crying in Michiru's arms.

"She is tired and will explain later, if she wants to." Seiya stepped in, putting himself in-between Haruka and Usagi.

"Seiya…It's ok." Usagi said trying to sit up. Seiya turned around and helped her up and fluffed the pillows behind her to make her more comfortable. "Mamoru broke up with me today before leaving for America."

"Why didn't you tell us there were problems?" Makoto asked grabbing Usagi's hand. "I remember when my senior broke my heart…" She wiped away a tear.

"Yeah Usagi. The Goddess of Love could have helped." Minako added her hand on top of Makoto's.

"I didn't know we were that bad. We… we had been fighting… but bbut." Usagi couldn't continue, tears were rolling down her face.

"But why would he kill Chibbiusa. If nothing else he should have stayed with you for her. He loved her." Ami stated and added her hand to Minako's.

"Seriously! What did you do to him Usagi?" Rei asked, but still added her hand to the pile. With all of them connected Usagi felt stronger.

"He didn't kill her. I did. I…I…I killed…Chibbiusa!" Usagi began crying even harder.

"That can't be true little kitten." Haruka said and grabbed her other hand.

"Usagi you are the sweetest girl and you loved Chibbiusa with all your heart. How could he say such a thing?" Michiru said and placed her warm hand on Haruka's and with a sniffle Hotaru put her small hand up with Michiru's.

"I defeated Galaxia, and she was the one who was supposed to make us sleep for ten thousand years. I won, so we didn't sleep, so no Chibbiusa." Usagi actually held herself together that time, she just felt drained.

"While it maybe true that Chibbiusa is gone. We do not know what caused it. Even if it was the defeat of Galaxia, you were saving the world. I, for one, am grateful that you won, Usagi." Setsuna said and joined the outer scout holding her hand.

"I don't know who Chibbiusa is. But we are happy you defeated Galaxia." Taiki said and Yaten nodded. They came to the foot of the bed and stood there.

"Usagi. I know you would never hurt someone. It was that kindness that helped you save the universe from Galaxia. I may not know what is going on, or who Chibbiusa is. However, I will do everything within my powers to help you get her back." Seiya said and walked up beside Usagi's head and ran his hand through her hair. When Seiya got there an electric current shot through them all and they all felt a warm energy.

"Thanks everyone." Usagi said. She was still upset, but it was nice to have so many people who cared.

Then the door opened and a nurse came in. "Ok everyone, Mrs. Kou needs rest."

Everyone's jaw dropped, except Seiya's. He just smiled and said, "Yeah guys out of here. Let my wife rest." this earned him more dropped jaws.

After everyone, including the nurse, but Seiya, left Usagi turned to him. "Why did you tell then I was your wife?"

"Easy, I knew you were skipping school and I didn't want your parents to find out that you were here. I also had my agent call your school and your parents and ask them if you could show us around town since we have been gone for a year. They both said yes. And your mother said that you could go to the recording of our new song tonight, as long as we promised to make sure you ate." His eyes shined with amusement.

"Seiya, you made sure I wouldn't get into trouble. Thank you!"

"I started the fight, so I took care of the consequences."

"But now everyone's going to think you're married. To me!"

Seiya laughed, "We can get divorced if you want. Plus this hospital is good at keeping things confidential."

"Seiya. Why are you here?"

"Later, Odango, later. Now get some rest. I'll leave."

"No. I don't want to be alone. Please stay."

"If that's what you want."

Usagi yawned, "Yes. That is what I want." She settled back into her bed and took an afternoon nap.