Even Young Hearts Break
9.13.2012
Summary: Every day they grew together, every day they became closer and closer. Their friendship would survive anything, anything that is, except that.
AN: How can you tell that I've been on youtube too much? I produce a new story! Ha! So... this is inspired by a SnapexLily songvid I was watching and gave me an idea for an SM story... Please don't hate me! Hehehehehehe... It actually gave me a few ideas but we'll just start with this one. I'm not proficient enough in Lilyverse so I'm staying quite clear of her and Snape, well, he's just too awesome to touch from canons. So we're transcribing it into a totally different situation. Not a crossover and not a HP fic whatsoever, meaning no hogwarts, except a few conceptional ideas from it. You'll see them as we move along. There is also a complete screw up of all timelines and it is done on purpose. Just be happy you're not getting a Disney mashup like I was originally planning. Anyway, onto the story, yes?
Chapter 1
Chapter Characters: You'll just have to find out, won't you?
"Odango, you ignorant, brainless twit!" The black haired beauty just set in on the blond, throwing her onto the ground. "I told you not to bother me with this! I told you to leave me alone and not follow me. Now look what you've done!" The darker haired girl puffed up to her full height, which at their age wasn't much, but it was a lot more than the blond had. "Mom will be livid when she finds out I went there and its all your fault."
"I won't tell her, Rei, I promise!" The blond sobbed, throwing her arms up around her face to ward off any further attack the black-haired one would throw at her.
A snarl crossed her features as she looked down at the girl. "Oh, get up, it doesn't matter. The problem is already unfolding, you just being there will be cause for notice. It's not every day the supreme goddess's daughter sneaks out and is spotted in a place she shouldn't be. Honestly Odango, with your coloring you know that you'll stand out in any crowd." Rei huffed and crossed her arms around her body. "What did they want from you anyway?" Eyes narrowed as if she already knew.
"Me to use magic." The blond admitted and lowered her own arms, sure that she wouldn't be struck, this time. Not that the black-haired girl had ever struck her that she could recall.
"I should have known. That's all they ever want from you, to use parlor tricks." Rei snarled. "Never want you to use your powers for good, do they?" She reached out to drag the younger and smaller girl up to her feet but something blocked her hand. "Usagi, quit it, I'm not going to hurt you."
"It isn't me." Usagi looked around frantically "Could it be-"
But no, it wasn't their mother, it was a boy. He was scowling at Rei. "Leave her alone."
"I can do what I like. She's my sister." Rei answered back, her temper flaring again. "Release her at once."
"Or what? You'll yell at me until I give in?"
"You're not supposed to have magic." There was a vein of worry in Rei's voice and she looked down at Usagi. "He's not supposed to have magic, the only one besides mother who should have magic is you. Unless it's the dark arts. That's not good."
"Or-" Usagi started, knowing full well who else was capable of magic but Rei was shaking her head, her eyes darting back to the boy. Usagi's were slower to follow.
"I'll be back Odango, with mom. Be all right." Then the dark haired girl was running off as fast as her legs could carry her.
There was a shield protecting her from her sister and as soon as the other girl was gone, it was too. Usagi turned her attention to the boy who came closer. He had jaw length black hair but it didn't seem to fit him at all. A frown crossed her features when he sat and she again thought it, but with much more glaring obviousness. "You know, you have very white eyebrows?" She reached out and touched one, her finger sliding along the line smoothly.
He gave her a half smile. "Something that will be dealt with soon enough, Princess." He reached up and took her hand away from his face and held it at their side.
"You know who I am, but I don't know who you are." She wasn't scared, she didn't know why but she didn't feel the need to be, even with his blocking her sister from reaching her.
"I apologize. I am Demando."
"Doesn't it hurt?" She asked, squeezing his hand, worry for him coming across loud and clear.
He shook his head. "I am not quite like you. I am similar though. I am different like you are."
"The eyebrows."
He laughed. "The eyebrows, the hair, the sibling who doesn't understand. The parents who try to make you hide who you really are. Knowing that who you are isn't half as scary as everyone else thinks it is."
Usagi frowned as she heard something in the distance. "You'd better go. If they find me here alone I can probably talk them around, but if they think you are in anyway endangering me, well... it won't turn out all right."
"Ok." Demando released her hand and rose to his feet.
Usagi jumped up after him. "Wait! I would like to see you again. Can- Can you, can we-"
"I'll be there for you, whenever you need me." He leaned forward and rested a kiss on her brow. "And I'll be seeing you again soon enough if that isn't any time in between. We're starting school in a few weeks, aren't we?"
Usagi's head bobbed with excitement. "You'll be in my class?"
"You can count on it."
Usagi's lips twitched. "With black eyebrows?"
"Of course." Then he faded back into the tree line in front of the houses, just in time as boots slapped the ground, running up to her and a pair of high heels echoed behind them.
"Usagi!" She was pulled into an embrace and lifted up into the air.
"Daddy, too tight!" She protested the squeeze, but she giggled at him as he released her a little to look at her questioningly. She reached out a hand and tweaked his nose. "I'm perfectly all right. It was just a boy."
"A boy with magic?" The woman with heels questioned, worry evident in every line of her body. She had Usagi's features, but her hair was long and black, the same color as her eldest daughter's. Usagi rested her head on her father's chest, hearing his heart beat slow as he realized her words were true, and she was all right.
"No magic." She shrugged innocently. "I guess I didn't realize I was doing it to protect myself. I was scared."
"Of the boy?" Her father asked, shifting her up so her head rested on his shoulder and he could carry her one armed and returned to his family.
"Of Rei."
"Why?" The woman demanded, her hand resting on the older girl's shoulder. "She's your sister and protector." Usagi's eyes caught the malevolent lavender of her sister's and she shrugged.
"Rei was saying you'd be mad that she caught me sneaking out, and would blame her for following me and keeping me safe. I tripped and I guess my defenses rose in result. I was only trying to shield myself from the anger. I think Rei was only trying to help."
Rei's eyes held the anger for a moment longer until Usagi's words penetrated and then a thoughtful look softened them, and if she wasn't mistaken, she might have seen a hint of a smile on her lips and a short nod, saying she did good.
"Where did Rei find you?"
"I'm not sure." This Usagi could not say, because that part was the truth, she didn't know where they ended up.
"The markets." Rei provided. "They caught sight of her and I grabbed her before they made her do anything she wasn't supposed to."
Her mother gave a tortured sigh and ran her fingers through her eldest daughter's hair. "You did good Rei. Usagi-" She cut herself off in her frustration, knowing that she couldn't take it out on the child, not like that at any rate. "You have to have a bit more head about you, you can't keep doing things like that."
"Ah, give her a break, she's young." Her father defended her and Usagi knew he'd always be on her side. She looked up and reached for a curl of his ginger locks and gave it a playful tug. He laughed and smiled down at her. "I remember being her age, I was never as restricted to all these rules. Its worse too than Rei's, because she's so obvious. Children are meant to be free and have fun."
"You wouldn't understand, you didn't grow up being the chosen heir, you weren't from these parts." The Queen argued.
"Yes, but you chose me anyway, didn't you?"
Her mother was never able to stay angry with her father and sighed, her lavander eyes rolling as she looked down to the daughter still at her feet. "What am I to do with your father?"
"Kiss him?" Usagi answered helpfully and she could feel the rumble against her chest as he tried to hold back his amusement.
With a dark shake of her head her mother came closer and took her youngest's advice. Then she lifted Rei up into her arms though a guard tried to protest and the four of them walked back to the carriage as a family unit. Usagi noticed that their hands were linked between them. Usagi looked up and caught her sister's eye, both their arms were along their respective parent's shoulder and she opened her hand to Rei. The girl took it without hesitation.
Usagi would like to say that it was the moment that everything changed between them, that there was a new understanding and they became the best of friends as well as sisters, but that would be completely exaggerating. There was a new understanding and a bond had formed that would be tough to break, but Rei still teased her mercilessly at times and couldn't change her nature, and she got angry with Usagi, a lot. Probably set her off more than any other person in the entire kingdom. But Rei always had her back and Usagi always had hers. At least when it mattered and in the coming years it would matter, more and more until there was nothing greater than the most pinnacle moment of their lives.