Need to Know Before We Begin: (In Order of Importance)

- This will use the live action series of Sailor Moon's continuity, but added characters we already know and love from the manga and anime.

- ... will identify a time period switch.

-Please bare with this chapter, its only setting up the scene.

-It's rated T just for safety reasons.

-This story originally was based off of Frozen, but changed drastically afterwards and expanded. Just know... it may look very, very similar in some areas because of this.


"Usagi..." Usagi rolled over with a sigh and smiled brightly at Mamoru stood beside the bed and then bent down to kiss her. "I'm going to work..." He told her. Usagi sat up with her eyes continuing to sparkle brightly. The sunlight was just peeking over the horizon, but for once Usagi felt energy flowing through her at an astonishing rate she usually never had that early in the morning.

"I didn't get to make you breakfast." She complained. A strange look came onto his face.

"I don't think that's entirely a bad thing." He allowed himself to think inwardly and then he nodded. "Maybe next time." He told her. "We do, after all, have forever now." He said with a smile, and this caused Usagi's face to light up even more. It had been a long journey there. Once they defeated Beryl four years ago, and found their way back to the living, they still had been forced to fight off personal obstacles as well as a threat from Mio and her attempt to recreate the Dark Kingdom, with her as its Queen.

"Promise?" Usagi asked. Mamoru smiled and nodded as he stood up.

"I'm going, I'll be back after work." He promised kissing her forehead. Usagi nodded cheerfully.

"Mm." She agreed. "Have a good day!" She called after him as he left the room, and she pulled her knees up to her chest as she swayed back and forth happily. Two weeks... They had been married a little more than a week and a half, and they had just gotten back from their honeymoon two days ago. Her smile faded a bit sadly. "It all went by too quickly." She thought with a pout. Now life had to resume, and the bills pressing against their lives. The dream had to be put off to the side. She turned to the nightstand and placed the ring on her finger, her sadness vanishing like fog. "A bride!" She thought, squealed, in her mind as she looked at it and her smile spread across her face. How could she be depressed at this? She glanced out the window and towards the rosy sky. "Nothing could make me sad!" She declared happily.


"Waaaah! Minako going to America?" She asked loudly.

"Yes." Minako said turning the page of her magazine. Usagi ran around the corner and leaned down to see her face.

"Why?!" She cried. "We were just together for a short time!" She said. "Ami-chan... Mamoru and me!" She said sitting down in the chair beside Minako.

"I'm sorry." Minako said closing the magazine. "I'm going to be filming a movie. Its an opportunity I, as an idol, cannot pass up." Usagi sighed and there was a weak pout. Minako smiled with a sly gleam in her eye. "What if I promise to bring back some thing for you? Some... autographs perhaps?" Usagi's face brightened drastically.

"Really?" Makoto asked leaning forward. Rei's eyes closed in a bit of annoyance, but there was a slight smile on her face. Usagi and the others never changed.

"Of coarse." Minako agreed with a slight nod. Usagi's face fell again.

"Minako-chan is still going to be here for my birthday, right?" She asked with her blue eyes glistening. "Next week? June 30th!" She asked desperately. "I don't think I could bare another birthday without everyone!" She declared. Minako bit her lip sorry.

"I'm sorry, Usagi." Minako said softly. "I can't put it off." Usagi sat back in the chair sadly.

"I understand." She whispered. "Ami-chan probably won't be able to stay that long either." Makoto leaned across the top of the table.

"It will be okay Usagi-chan. Once everything is done, we'll be able to be together again." She said trying to cheer her up. Minako nodded.

"No matter what. We just have to have patience." Minako agreed. Usagi looked up and offered them a bright smile.

"Right." She said, but as the two of them left a few hours later she sat at the kitchen table still smiling brightly, unable to stop it. "Right..." She said smiling like a fool. But... Why couldn't they just be together? Not having everyone going their separate ways again? Her wedding had been perfect... Everyone she loved was leaving her side again... Her smile disappeared and she placed her elbows on the table as she sat thinking. "Once they get back to America and back into their daily routines, it will go back to the way it was. We won't see each other everyday like before." She sighed. "And Mamoru will have to keep working." Her visions of marriage were slowly fading. Then again it wasn't going to be like it was with her parents. With her father working all the time and traveling so that she hardly ever saw him. She would still see Mamoru everyday. She smiled. She had to smile. She had been through tougher things than this! This was just her being sentimental. "It's not going to be permanent!" She scolded herself. A sickening feeling erupted in her stomach and she resisted the urge to throw-up. After a few minutes of pressing her hand to her mouth she removed it and sat back in the wooden chair once more with a burning sensation in her chest. "Calm down. You're just over reacting..."


"What if I told you... the company offered me a way to earn us more money?" Mamoru asked putting down his food and Usagi paused.

"What do you mean?" She asked finally. Mamoru's eyes narrowed sadly.

"What if they offered me a temporary position... a few hours away from here?" He asked. Usagi's hand gripped the fork in her hand until it hurt. "Just for a few weeks." He added softly. They had only been married a week and a half...

"But... we just got home..." Usagi said, and Mamoru smiled weakly, and Usagi immediately felt selfish. She had known how hard Mamoru had been struggling to earn his way in the world now that he had removed himself from his benefactors entirely. He was trying to give her the best.

"It was a bad idea, I'm sorry I brought it up." Mamoru said.

"No!" Usagi objected. "I'm sorry. You're right." Usagi said smiling brightly. "We should think of the future." Usagi said cheerfully. "If you think this is the best action to take, then... I am not against it at all." She said. Mamoru watched her for a moment in silence. "I'm serious!" Usagi confided. "I want Mamoru to go... If it's what he wants." She knew he hadn't found a way to get into his dream job, but anything was a step closer. Any experience could help him. She would not get in his dream's way. To provide everything he could for their family. A family he had already expressed to one day expand.

"To one day have our very own small lady." He had said as they had held each other. "We could name her after you..." Usagi smiled genuinely as she sat at the table with her fork digging into her skin, and piercing through her food. "Are you absolutely sure?" Mamoru asked. "It will be a few weeks. I'd leave sometime after your birthday." Usagi nodded.

"Mmm." She agreed. "I want you to go. It will be good for you, and it will force me to learn how to take care of things here." She said.

"I was more afraid you would be lonely." Mamoru admitted. Usagi shook her head.

"Of coarse I would miss you, but... Mama, Luna, and Mako-chan will all be around to keep me company." She said. "So... please... don't give up the opportunity on my account. I want you to go." Usagi said. Mamoru didn't move to continue to eat, but Usagi placed the food to her lips. The taste was bitter and the taste made her spit it out violently. Mamoru smiled in spite of himself. Usagi stared at the half-chewed piece and she felt a pang in her heart. "I'm sorry... It's no good." She told him sadly. Mamoru placed his own in his mouth and swallowed it down with a bit of difficulty. Mamoru smiled, but it looked forced.

"You'll get the hang of it." He almost choked as he tried to encourage her. Usagi nodded slowly and lifted the cup to her mouth only to find it empty. She had forgotten their drinks...

"I'll be back." She said standing up and she made her way to the kitchen. Mamoru watched her go sadly regretting even asking about the opportunity, and now that he had, she would not allow him to back out now matter how much she really wanted him to.

"How selfish can I be?!" He ridiculed himself. "And how selfless can she continue to be?" Usagi opened the refrigerator door but then paused as the warm pain from before returned to her chest and she rubbed against it.

"Why?" She asked herself. "Why does everyone have to leave?" She tightened her grip on the handle of the door and then she pushed the anger away, but it returned in full force but directed towards herself. "How can I think so selfishly?!" She demanded. "How can I want them to cast away their dreams so carelessly just because I'm lonely?! I don't deserve them." A bright light shone from her chest and Usagi gasped as she took a step back from the opened refrigerator hoping the light would reveal itself to be from there, but it followed her and the burning sensation in her chest erupted and power surge through her. Her shock pushed away her anger and she placed her hands on the chest as the light disappeared and she stood wide-eyed.

"Usagi? Is everything alright?" Mamoru called from the dinning room and Usagi looked back towards the room he was in.

"Y-Yes!" She called over her shoulder, but then she looked back down at her chest as her heart beat wildly in growing fear. "S-Silver Crystal?" That was what the power had felt like, but it couldn't have been! The crystal had been destroyed! Princess Serenity had said so! The only reason she and the others had been able to transform was because of The Sword... And it had only been temporary. Hadn't it? Fear gripped her and she shut the door of the refrigerator once she had gotten the juice she had been looking for. She couldn't let it become a problem. It was probably nothing... Just a left over of The Sword's power. She nodded. Yes. That was what that had been. Nothing to tell the others and get them worried. She would just feel guilty for keeping them from going on. "As long as nothing comes of it... I'll be fine." She nodded again and returned to the dinning room with a bright smile for Mamoru.


"Mama! I'm home!" The black-haired girl called as she entered the house and she heard the movement from the kitchen.

"I'm in here!" Her mother called cheerfully. The girl entered the kitchen after dropping her backpack beside her bedroom door, and she entered into the kitchen. Her mother remained with her black hair pulled back in its usual bun, and she was running back and forth from the sink and oven frantically. "I burnt the meal again!" Her mother said in a high-pitched complaint, and then her placed her fingers into her mouth as she seethed. "Ooowww." She whined pulling her fingers away and looking at them to see if a red mark was forming from where the hot broth had struck her. She turned the oven off and leaned back against the wall. "I'm a horrible Mama..." She said sadly. The girl rolled her eyes and sat down at the table with her arms crossed, and the two streams of hair from her dangos lying over her shoulder.

"It's because you can never learn from your mistakes." She said harshly. Her mother's eyes saddened.

"Aaww..." She whined. "Chibiusa-chan is so mean to Mama." Chibiusa's eyes narrowed even more and she stood up.

"If you weren't so careless maybe I wouldn't be!" She said sternly. "You missed another PTA meeting today, you are never on time for anything, and you can never get anything right!" She complained. Chibiusa sighed and tilted her head back. "Why couldn't I have gotten a Mama who can actually do at least something right?" She asked. Usagi stood in the middle of the kitchen holding a spatula in her hand as it fell to her side and her head dropped.

"Gomen." Usagi whispered. "I'm only doing my best. I know it is not enough." Chibiusa turned away from her and headed towards the door.

"I'll be eating at Hotaru-chan's." She said calling over her shoulder. "We're starting our summer homework." Usagi's face lit up.

"Chibiusa-chan!" She said leaning over the counter. "What do you want for our birthday?" Chibiusa paused and felt a wave of anger. Out of all things... why did she have to share a birthday with her as well? Out of all the 365 days, why did she have to come on the very day it was the worse case scenario?

"A better Mama..." She thought to herself, but she felt a strange prick of guilt at thinking it. She was... after all... actually doing her best, and she never did anything on purpose to frustrate Chibiusa. Chibiusa turned and she stopped short at Usagi bending down forward pressing her hand to her heart. "Mama?" Chibiusa asked finding that fear was gripping at her heart. Usagi shook her head and stood up straight with a bright smile.

"It's nothing." She said happily. "It's just some heartburn... or something." She said, but Chibiusa stood uncertain.

"Are you sure?" She asked. Usagi nodded with a brilliant smile. "Stupid Baka." Chibiusa thought with a sigh; though it was a bit redundant. "Always smiling at everything. Even when you're in pain!" Chibiusa turned. "I'm going, and I'll be back tonight. You and Papa don't really need to watch out for me."

"Wait! Chibiusa! You're birthday?" She asked standing on her tiptoes in order to lean farther across the counter. Chibiusa paused, and then shook her head before leaving the house. Usagi sank to the soles of her feet and bit her lip sadly as the strange burning sensation that had filled her heart was completely forgotten already and was replaced by the sadness and distance she felt with her daughter.


"Baka Usagi!" Chibiusa said throwing one of the peddles she had picked up as she walked. She had found herself reverting back to her disrespectful habit of calling her mother by her given name. "Can't get anything right!" She cried. Every bone of her teenage body rebelling from her scatterbrain mother. She threw another peddle and it skid across the sidewalk and struck someone's shoe.

"Nice shot it seems." The owner called out and Chibiusa gasped.

"Sorry!" Her surprised appearance fell away though as she saw who it was, and she found herself frowning. "Aunt Luna..." She said the woman always threw her off. It always felt as if she were hiding something. The woman waived and walked towards her. "I'm sorry. I'm in a hurry to get to Hotaru-chan's." Luna nodded and she smiled a bit.

"I'm sure you are." She said. "Such a hurry you kick up stones every way you go!" Chibiusa's frown deepened at Luna's sarcasm. "See you later." Luna said walking past her and towards Chibiusa's house. Chibiusa watched her for a moment and then walked forward. Both her and Uncle Artemis gave her the creeps sometimes! And their little girl Diana... The way she always looked at Chibiusa caused her to feel something askew with her. She told herself it was just admiration; the little girl did seem to look up to everyone and spoke way too respectfully. But... She was almost always watching Chibiusa, and finding ways to get closer to her. It just... felt strange. Chibiusa shook her head and continued to walk towards Hotaru's house.


Setsuna opened the door and smiled down at Chibiusa.

"Welcome, Small Lady." She greeted. "Hotaru is waiting in her room for you. I believe we're working on Social Studies today." Chibiusa smiled brightly up at her. The teenage girl hugged the woman before taking her shoes off and placing them beside Hotaru's. It always felt like home. Sometimes even more than her own. "How is your mother?" Chibiusa's smile faded a bit.

"Usagi is acting like Usagi." She stated angrily. Setsuna smiled sadly.

"I meant her health." She corrected. Chibiusa shrugged.

"Nothing to comment. She's just as stupid as ever!" Setsuna's smile vanished and a frown took its place.

"I will not have that sort of talk in my house." She said sternly, and Chibiusa stared at her in surprise. "Your mother is a stronger person then you know yet." Chibiusa let out a sound that could have been a scoff.

"I'll believe it when I see it." Chibiusa said before heading towards Hotaru's room. Setsuna watched her go and then glanced down at her red, crystal watch, and she held onto her arm as she looked back up towards the way Chibiusa had disappeared, her black dangos vanishing around the corner.

"You probably will very soon..." Setsuna whispered sadly.


...

Usagi's hand moved over the dishes with soapy water as she stood with a vacant stare, and the sunlight floating through the trees didn't even phase her as it hit her eyes. All she could think about was the growing power inside of her. "The Silver Crystal... How?" She couldn't find the answer, but she had found it nearly impossible get the words out while talking to Luna or even Rei. "I should probably wait... Until Minako and Ami are gone." She glanced at the calendar. They were leaving tomorrow: two days before her birthday, but they had already set up a party at The Crown before their departure; a place they had not had time to gather for a very long time. It would be perfect... "I can't worry them. I've only felt it a few times. It could just be nothing. No one else has felt their powers." Of coarse, their powers didn't have the ability to destroy the entire world if used wrongly. "I will not worry them. I can fight it." She smiled and nodded again. "Yes. Fight it. Smile..." She smiled to herself and began to hum a tune no one but her had sang in about two years. "C'est La Vie..." She moved side to side as she continued to hum the forgotten song. "I cannot worry them... I cannot be that selfish..."


Notes: This story at the moment, obviously, has two time periods we are looking at. So if you are confused as to why certain things are, its because the story probably will make them that way for Chibiusa's time. Such as Artemis (He gets ripped off a lot when it comes to human forms!). Also... I love Chibiusa and Usagi, but I have allowed a lot of Chibiusa's least likable qualities to take up her personality for the moment.