Disclaimer: I, Shadow, do hereby state that I do not have any privileged to Sailor Moon only the great Naoko-Sama does.
Summary: High School is over, the enemies have been defeated, Mamoru is in America and the girls were accepted into different colleges. Who is left for Usagi? Is this the end of the Sailor Senshi?
Only A Memory Away
By: Shadow
Prologue
Tsukino Usagi sat on the train watching the scenes fly by the rain covered window, amused as she noticed how the raindrops magnified things like a little tiny telescope lens. She sighed and sat back pulling her knees against her chest.
She was on her way back to Tokyo after being gone for three years in her college in Nagasaki while Mizuno Ami went to Osaka to study medicine, Kino Makoto went to Yokohama to study the culinary arts, Hino Rei went away to Kyoto which was only fifty or so miles from Osaka and as for Aino Minako, she moved back to England to try and be a super star.
Meiou Setsuna, Tomoe Hatoru, Kiaou Michiru and Tenou Haruka, better known as the outer Senshi Sailor Pluto, Sailor Saturn, Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus, all decided to stay in the outskirts of Tokyo to let Hatoru finish up school.
Usagi sighed again and ran a hand through her hair. "I wonder how much they girls have changed." She mused as she put her headphones on to drone out the snoring of the people she had to share a train with. "I wonder if they will recognize me?"
Usagi's teenage years had been awkward; she had been a high-pitched, loud mouthed, clumsy, piggy, cry baby stereo typical blonde with the secret identity of Sailor Moon AKA Princess Serenity.
But being away from her normal scene, away from her old friends, away from every memory had been good for the young blonde. She still had big innocent looking blue eyes, honey blonde hair and was still only four foot eleven, but she had grown internally. No she wasn't pregnant, she had grown into a mature young woman.
She smiled as she remembered how everyone, except her friends of course, had thought she had matured. But she proved them wrong on her graduation day.
Three Years Ago
Usagi sat nervously as she watched her friends receive their diplomas, one by one. Naru, Melvin, Makoto, Minako and Ami, each of them had their turn and soon it would be her turn to say good-bye to her childhood and walk straight and proud into adult hood. They had been to see Rei graduate from her private school the week before.
Or one should say stumble dumbly as Usagi tripped on her way up the stairs to receive her diploma. She fell flat on her face, her white cap flying off her head, her odangos flying all around her. She quickly tried to compose herself but everybody was already laughing. She quickly grabbed her cap and walked swiftly across the stage replacing her hat on her head, grabbing her diploma and shaking her principles hand as she fought back tears of embarrassment which flowed freely as she ran off the stage back to her seat.
Present
She laughed lightly shaking her head, reaching a hand up to touch her head where her odangos used to be. No, they weren't there any more. She had gotten rid of the odango buns and cut her hair to an angled bob, which went from the hairline at the back of her neck, down along the line of her jaw to her chin.
Her new friend from college, Chihero, and her had gone and donated their hair to "Locks for Love" for children who had cancer and had lost all their hair. She grinned as she thought of what Rei would say.
Thinking of which. She sighed and shook her head, after being in separate colleges for over six months they all stopped talking getting to busy…and they hadn't talked since. Not even Rei and Ami who were so close to each other.
She sighed as she heard the song come onto her iPod. She smiled at the irony of the song lyrics.
I hear the voice of my destiny
call
And I know I must go find my way
The hardest part will be
leaving you all
And I'll miss you much more than words can
sayI'll be only a memory away
If you need
me
You can call me any time of day
And I'll be there, it's
okay
Only a memory away
My intuition says something is
wrong
My friends said they'd come and say
good-bye
I can't
go until I know what's going on
I fear there is danger somewhere
nearby
I'll be only a memory away
If
you need me
You can call me any time of day
And I'll be there,
it's okay
Only a memory away
We've been together through
good times and bad
You've always been there for me
I'll always
treasure the best friends I have
Eternally
I'll be only a
memory away
If you need me
You can call me any time of day
And
I'll be there, it's okay
Only a memory away
She nodded as tears welled up in her eyes. The song made separation seem so much more romantic then it actually was. She sighed and wiped her eyes, careful not to smudge her eyeliner.
She remembered the day she left for college clearly because she had been the first to leave. Only her mom, dad and little brother had arrived, the others were all busy doing something else.
Her heart clenched tightly in her chest. "Mamo-chan…" she whispered softly as she touched the glass, her heart's eye seeing him in her reflection. She and Mamoru hadn't talked once since he left for America…then again…things had become so painful after they all had to be brought back after their fight with Galaxia like they had been with Beryl. Only this time they got to keep their memories. They had to many scars and memories to have them removed Luna had said.
She just sighed again and closed her eyes as she waited for the train to finally get back to Tokyo.
