Author's note: Before you decide to leave a flame about the senshi's character consider this:

Started: June 2002

Chapter count: 25

Time on hold: 8 months

Posted first new chapter: November, 2003.

As you can see this is an OLD fic. I dare say it's ancient. It was known by the title: Lies and Deception before I removed it from ff.net. I will be the first to say that my first 7 chapters are crap. Plain and simple. Scan through them and then continue the real fic from 8. If you don't then you'll be clueless with what happens in the later ones.

Prologue

The fight with the heart snatchers was over. The private and elite school, Mugen, had been demolished. This was attributed to a gas leak in one of the sub-basements. The senshi were living in peace and tranquility for the time being, until the next threat to should show up. Everything was back to normal.

But for Mamoru, it wasn't. He felt inadequate and like a hindrance to the senshi. In the last battle, he was useless to them. One thing bothered him

though. He never really knew what had happened there. His curiosity got the better of him and he decided to go and explore the site himself. Mamoru walked around the ruins, which were scheduled to be cleared in a few days. As he walked, he thought. Most of all he thought about his girlfriend, Usagi. He loved her, that much was true, but the extent to which he did was questionable. He saw her as a friend, not marriage material. She was sweet and kind and caring, but he didn't see himself with her for the rest of his life. And that was important to him. The woman that he was going to marry had to be a woman that he could grow old with.

And Usagi wasn't that to him. Sure they had some nice times together, but he never felt the same way with her as he did with Rei. Rei was another enigma in his life. Lately they had been spending time together. It was friendly but he was growing attached to her. She was very special to him, someone he could confide in and someone to understand him. Usagi hadn't actually been that, preferring to shop and go out rather than talk about serious matters.

Mamoru sighed in frustration. He needed to let Usagi go, but he didn't want to hurt her feelings. She was a nice girl, too nice for him to do that to. He needed a way to put it delicately to her. Just then, he almost tripped over something buried under the rubble. Bending down, he picked it out of there and dusted it off. He saw that it was a book. A rather large and heavy book. Intrigued, he sat down, opened it and began to read.

It's an action that both he and the entire senshi body would regret, and something which would change their lives forever.

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