Just A Kiss Goodnight
Set: Purple
Theme: Beginnings
By: Usagi Carter
Last Revised: May 31, 2011
Summary: While their lives have been anything but normal, the beginning is something she treasures above all else.
Rating: T
Setting: Crystal Tokyo
Character(s): Usagi/Neo Queen Serenity
Author's Note: Since I came up with a huge list of themes a couple years ago for a livejournal community I was once part of, I figured what better way than to get back into writing SM one theme at a time. There's a long list of the themes, twelve sets with ten themes each – that's 120 different themes. Each set is colored coded, but I may jump around, so pay careful attention to the themes ;). For a full list of the themes, you can visit my power rangers home page – it's under the "Fun Stuff" page. A link can be found on my profile. Or you can email me, I likes email ;)
Dedication: To Ang, Baine, Alicia Blade, Loki, and the countless other friends, fans and authors who've inspired me over the years.
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"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting."—Buddha
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They say beginnings are usually scary. Ever the optimist, I never believed that saying; couldn't see how a new adventure, a new beginning if you will, could ever be scary. They were exciting, the possibilities of what was to come. The chance to make another start, another impression - to undo the mistakes you've made. And then I got my memories back, the ones of a past where we'd had a hard but beautiful beginning.
Comparing that memory with how we started this time….it scared me witless. How could a clumsy, ditzy, less than average fourteen year old and an intelligent, witty, absolutely gorgeous eighteen year old hope to bridge the thousand year old gap that had separated a prince and princess destined to love one another through any lifetime? Our beginning in this time and place was anything but stellar.
I was just floating through life, carefree and unaware of anything outside the secure bubble of my family and friends. He was a lost, lonely soul who put up defensive walls to keep from getting hurt. The love the prince and princess shared had blossomed from a mutual respect and adoration of each other and their roles in that lifetime. In this time, we despised each other so much it was a wonder we could stand to be in each other's presence.
If I had known at the time exactly how many chances at a beginning we were going to get together, I'm not sure I'd have considered them good things. We've had more than our fair share of starts, and always, something seems to force us back to the beginning. When we defeated Beryl and the Dark Kingdom, I made the mightiest wish I could, wanting to live a normal happy life. The Ginzuishou interpreted it in a way none of us could have foresaw. Instead of getting my happy new beginning with my friends and beloved, it returned us to a year before, when none of us knew the others, where we were ignorant of the battles we had engaged in, in the changes that had forced us to grow up and seek out our destinies.
And when we finally got our memories back that time, the two of us were forced to endure another separation – this time caused by my beloved's future self – and finding out just what our future was going to look like. And then there was the arrivals of the Outer Senshi, the Deathbusters and the Dark Moon circus. Each time a change occurred it was like starting over again. The final straw for me was probably the arrival of Galaxia, Chaos, and the Sailor Stars. It happened right on the heels of my beloved going away to America, or so I thought.
So many times we've had to endure starting over and over again. Some would say we were extremely lucky to have so many chances, but for someone who lived each beginning, who remembers them all, it's like a broken record. All I've ever wanted was peace, justice, and love. I haven't always wanted to fight for it all, though I have learned to do so makes it all the more precious when you have it. The night we were crowned King and Queen of Crystal Tokyo and Earth, I made my beloved promise me something – that we wouldn't forget the sweetest beginning we'd ever had, that we wouldn't leave behind that purely normal first meeting. I didn't want to ever, ever forget the day I threw my horrible math test at him, nor did I want to forget the moment he called me Odango Atama, despite hating that nickname with a passion only surprised by my love for him.
Because underneath the rebirth of an ancient prince and princess, past the masks of two superheroes fighting to defend the world from evil, inside the hearts of an immortal king and queen, there was simply two people – a beautiful young blonde girl with her head in the clouds and a handsomely mysterious black haired man who liked to tease her. Of all our beginnings, that one is simply my favorite, because it wasn't dictated by destiny; Usagi and Mamoru were simply two young people who met under unique circumstances and fell in love with each other before they ever learned about their ancient pasts or their fantastic futures. They were simply mortals; it was not an extraordinary meeting, it was just a normal beginning that had magical and anything but ordinary results.