Don't own Sailor Moon, just love it.

I just wanted to get this out there to see what you all thought about it. I'm working on my other story right now, A New Life, and I promise I will keep working on that!!

So I will continue this at some point, I just wanted to see if you all would be interested in it.

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Chapter 1 (Although it's more like a prologue with how short it is hahaha)

"Sweetheart, how do I look?"

Usagi put the comic book she was reading down and sat up in her bed to look at her mother.

"Oh, mom, you look absolutely stunning!"

Ikuko slid her hands down her new dress. It was a brown silk gown with a strap that circled her neck and came down into a beautiful diamond-shaped weave of brown beads looped with gold thread. The dress was cinched around the beads, giving off a ruffled look around her breasts. It hugged her waist gently and then continued to flow down just past her knees.

Usagi laughed as her mother did a little spin in the doorway. "When will he be here?"

Ikuko glanced at the clock on her daughter's desk and her eyes filled with horror. "Thirty minutes?! Oh my gosh, what am I going to do with my hair!?"

Usagi followed her mother to her bedroom and went straight for a barrette that she knew was there. "Mom, how about something simple? This barrette would look stunning and would compliment the beads on your dress quite nicely."

Ikuko looked in her daughter's hands and sighed in relief. "Such a brilliant daughter I have." She smiled at her daughter's reflection in the mirror as she did her hair. 'Brilliant' wasn't quite the word one would normally associate with Usagi. At sixteen, she failed most of her exams, she was late to just about everything which caused her to get detention, and she was extremely whiny when she was upset or didn't get her way.

However, Ikuko spent more time with her daughter than anyone else did and she could see what she was truly like. She was such a kind-hearted person and was one of the most compassionate people Ikuko had ever known. 'Perhaps it was just not in Usagi's future to be an intellectual,' Ikuko thought to herself. After taking her hair down a few times to capture loose strands, she finally turned to Usagi. "How does it look?"

Usagi just had the time to say 'Great!' before the doorbell rang. Ikuko went in a mad frenzy to grab her hair spray.

"Sweetheart, can you get the door for me? Tell him I will be down in just a minute!"

Usagi sighed quietly but nodded, left the room, and slowly headed down the stairs.

Eight months ago her father died. Well, even if he wasn't her biological father he was the only father, and the sweetest and most thoughtful man, she had ever known. The fact that he wasn't her real father had been forgotten over the years by all of them. He loved her just as much as she had loved him. Usagi's thoughts paused as tears threatened to escape her eyes.

'Had.'

Sometimes it was so hard to think that he was gone. One second gone terribly wrong, her father lay in the hospital after a car accident. With only enough time to get his most pressing affairs in order and say goodbye to the two most important people in his life, he passed away. Usagi didn't understand why her mother started dating again. Her father was a wealthy man and left them with more money than they could even think of needing. Her mother kept saying that she would understand when she was older, but she wasn't sure that she ever would.

As Usagi got to the bottom of the steps her heart lurched to her throat. Out of all the men she dated, Usagi couldn't imagine why she had to pick this one. He was from America and was only here for four months on business. He had never said or done anything to make Usagi think ill of him, but something in the way he looked at her made her feel so tiny and weak. She, of course, never told her mother this because she just seemed too happy for the first time in months and Usagi couldn't bring herself to be the one that took away her happiness.

She opened the door. The man standing before her had sandy blonde hair that either had streaks of silver or streaks of grey, she couldn't tell, and sinister blue eyes. He was tall and very well built from what she could tell with the way he wore his clothes. He was dressed in a nice black dress shirt and well-fit tan slacks. However, Usagi didn't pay much attention to what he was wearing. Her eyes darted straight to his and her stomach suddenly felt like it was in knots. She could see that same evil look in his eyes.

"Why, hello Usagi."

Usagi's eyes tore from his. He spoke Japanese very well, but hearing his voice was almost as bad as looking into his eyes. "Hello. My mother said she would be down in a moment." She stepped back from the doorway, allowing him to enter the house. After shutting the door she walked into the living room with him close behind. As it seemed he was about to say something a sound was heard from the top of the stairs.

Her mother was so beautiful. Usagi watched her walk fluidly down the steps and sighed in the fact that it seemed she would never inherit her mother's grace. "Hello, Jake!"

"Why, Ikuko. You look absolutely beautiful!" Jake said as he eagerly accepted her into his arms and planted a kiss on her lips. Ikuko turned to her daughter.

"Usagi, don't stay up too late. Remember, you have school tomorrow. Go ahead and go to bed because I probably won't be in until late." After a quick hug, Usagi wished her mother a good night and headed back upstairs.

She continued to read her comic book and drifted off into a peaceful sleep not realizing that, come tomorrow, her entire world would change.

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Read the next chapter but please let me know what you think!