The Never-Ending Pain
Author's Notes: This is a sequel to a fic I'm currently writing in my classes at the college. I have a good head start on it but while I am working on it I thought up of a sequel and for some reason just was dying to get it started. This is a Sailor Moon/Bleach x-over.
Summary: Years of heartache and pain for four people can be felt throughout the world. One person now in a comatose-like condition of which no one can really tell if they're dead or not. One safely in their world, unable to recover from a love that could never be, in a loveless marriage with a child. And two souls that are unknown of each other that are either searching for truth or searching for acceptance.
Chapter 0: Prelude to the opening of one's eyes
Her heart aches as she walked on the chilled marble floor. Voices from the maids and other personnel in the palace reached her ears without her even straining herself. Today was a big day for the tenants in this crystal cage. She continued to venture to her destination which she frequented since she was 3; 13 years of this routine have come and gone in the wink of an eye to her. The ivory doors that blocked her path opened as warmth skimmed across her skin. Inside the room she entered it looked like a temple of sorts. Fires were lit in the cardinal direction point as ashes from a phoenix lay to waste under a perch. The fires and phoenix weren't the things that she would come and see on a regular basis.
In the middle of the room there was a glass coffin-like fixture, as one got closer one could see what was in the fixture. A bloody and rusted dagger was next to who occupied the coffin-like case. Resting within the care was a beautiful woman in a red satin gown, where her chest was there was dry blood. No one has been able to confirm on whether this woman was dead or alive. As she rested her forehead on the cool surface of the coffin tears slid down her face. Being 16 years old with no knowledge of her birth father was one thing and knowing you had a twin that disappeared is another but to not have a mother who was not only on e of your only protectors but also the most powerful woman alive the kicker.
"Mom, I can feel your spirit near me, but I want you here." Her voice escaped from full lips.
"Ah, I figured that you were in here. I found something of your mother's that needs to be delivered." A voice, which was familiar and made her feel not as alone, made her turn and smile at the tall male at the doorway.
"Yuichiro-tou-san! You caught me again it seems." She smiled while wiping tears from her eyes.
"I've watched you do this since you mother fell into this state." The man that was her adopted father frowned while coming to her side.
"Guess it's not a secret then eh? It's just that I feel her near me but she's not here to truly protect me. The council will never acknowledge me as a suitable heir yet they train me and want to destroy everything you and mom worked so hard to accomplish." She shook in untamed rage at speaking of the injustices in the world which her mother was in a comatose/deceased state for.
The brown-haired male looked at his adopted daughter solemnly before taking a small hand in his and placing a book in it.
"You're, as of today, of age to inherit this book. It has the answers to all your questions about your mother and birth father. No one in this palace next to me, Phobos, and Deimos know of its existence and of its contents. Do what you will with these answers, but you also must carry out to the parties mentioned inside of your mother's condition as well as the status of our enemy because they can probably help us." Yuichiro said before she slowly opened the book.
Her eyes widened at the beginning contents of the book. It was addressed directly to her.
'My dearest Rinoa Arabella,
If you're reading this it may mean one or two of these things. That you are now a young woman in the eyes of our people or that I am not of this world. I must now enclose the answers of which I know you have wanted for all of these years. Your twin is very much alive and is under the guardianship of your godparents under a different name, your father does not know of your conception and birth because of the impossibility of us ever being, I never regret having you and your twin, my death was related to many factors of which were to seal away our enemy and to hold off your immediate awakening to your powers. You are to go to the world of which I sent your twin to for safety to retrieve them as well as deliver the enclosed letter to the guardians of your twin. Enclosed in this book are my will, my diary, and secrets along with the name of your father rand the story of how I met him.'
Were the words she read before tears started to blur her vision.
Her mother didn't abandon her through the suicide that was committed for selfish reasons. She was being protected by her mother even now. She slid to her knees and hugged the book to her chest at reading the next sentence which contained the name of a man who was not only her father but the rival of her adopted father. For the duration of the marriage in between in her mother and Yuichiro, her adopted father knew that her mother could never love him yet volunteered to marry her to get the elders off her back. As she read the diary within she could tell of the internal pain and guilt her mother felt for agreeing to marry someone who loved her yet couldn't return the feelings. The marriage was never consummated leaving her to be the only eligible heir along with her twin to prevent a child to be born in a one-sided, loveless marriage.
She learned in this diary as well that her twin looks like their mother while she took after her father. Hence she understood why her twin was in the other world and not her. If anyone was to have ever followed her mother and she was to be taken to that world her father's identity and life would have been compromised. After reading one more page she closed the book and looked at her adopted father with tears streaming down her face. Without warning she tackles her adopted father and hugged him tightly.
"Rinoa?" Yuichiro questioned while the 16 year old held on tightly to him.
"Thank you, even if you're not my biological father I love you so much. You weren't the only one suffering." She blubbered between tears, a heavy weight that was pressed on her chest now, finally relieved after many years of being in the dark.
"It's alright Rinoa, your mother and I made sure that there was nothing left unsaid. She suffered for all of us, she blamed herself for everything yet with you and her support system she handled it like a trooper. Although when it got close to your 3rd birthday she started to become hysterical. She never wanted to leave you here alone; she wanted to defy fate again like she did when she met your father." Yuichiro said detaching the teen from him and having her follow him.
"Yuichiro-tou-san?" Rinoa questioned before realizing that she was in her parents' room.
"It's time you take these then. These are your original birth certificates with the names that your mother chose for you. You'll see why we had to change a few things." Yuichiro handed Rinoa a folder.
With shaky hands the folder was opened…………………….
Author's Notes (2): Well what did you think? I have over ¼ of the next chapter already done and I'm getting ready to type up what I have to the story that is this one's predecessor which is a lot more than what I have for this fic so far. Yes in the next chapter you find out who mama and papa are although I'm pretty certain you can tell who mom is. Anywho….please review me to let me know if you liked it and would like for me to continue I have many plans, both good and evil for this story.
