Usagi knew her therapist believed she didn't remember the night her parents died – partly because Usagi had fostered that belief – but in actuality, memories of that night were crystal clear.
She remembered the monsters in the play scared her so much that she started to cry, hiding her face in her mother's shoulder. She remembered her mother had laughed, not in a mean way, but in the my daughter is so precious way.
She remembered they had left early, when no one else was out on the streets, because of her fear. She remembered the moon bright in the sky, despite rain, the only light in a dark night.
Rationally, she knew the murder wasn't her fault, but rationality had nothing to do with the memories of that night, or a child's emotions.
She remembered her mother had shoved her into a crack in the alley wall, just big enough to fit a small, terrified girl, and faced the thieves with a calm resignation – like she'd been expecting them for a long time.
She remembered the way the world became utterly silent, as if time stopped, before the loud crack of a gunshot pierced the air.
She remembered the sick, wet sound the shot made as it hit her mother, and the thud the body made as it collided with the concrete.
The thing was – the robbery hadn't been random. The thieves had known exactly what they were looking for and who her mother was.
She remembered them talking amongst themselves, cursing her mother for not having the Silver Millenium crystal on her, before abandoning her body in disgust.
She remembered crawling out of the wall, too shocked to cry, although the rain pouring from the sky gave her a facsimile of tears.
She remembered that her mother hadn't been quite dead yet.
She couldn't remember her mother's last words. But she remembered her mother's hand brushing against the necklace around Usagi's neck, bright with the Silver Millenium crystal, before falling to the ground, never to move again.
Usagi stared at the necklace in her possession, lit by the moon, and wondered what was so important about it that it was worth her mother's life.