Scarlet



Don't own Sailor Moon or any of the other characters.



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"No! I refuse to do that!" Usagi shrieked loudly at her friend, Rei.

"You have to. You chose dare, remember?" Rei pointed out, grinning evilly.

"Yeah Usagi, you chose dare. Now you have to do your dare, or we will be discussing your true feelings towards Mamoru.

Take your pick: the dare, or the truth," giggled Minako, having to dodge to the side as Usagi threw a pillow at her head.

"Fine," Usagi huffed, standing up. The rest of the girls followed suit.

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Mamoru had been tossing and turning in his bed, his mind in turmoil from the same dream he had been having for the past few days.

A dream where everything he feared came true; his own princess was so incredibly sad, tears streaked down her cheeks unchecked as a war raged on in the distance.

He tried uselessly calling out to her, but it was too late; it was always to late for she had already plunged the sword through her, whispering her last words with her final breath of air, before the last of her life essence disappeared from her body.

Shooting up from his bed into a sitting position, Mamoru covered his face with his hands, taking deep, long breaths of
air, trying vainly to calm himself down a little.

After a few minutes, he had managed to calm himself a little, but as soon as he lay back down on his bed and closed
his eyes, the images her tear-stained face would reappear, over and over again.

He sighed after a few minutes.
Giving up on trying to sleep, he got up, going to the kitchen for a glass of water. Sitting down at the breakfast counter,
he sighed again before raising the glass to his mouth and taking a sip of the cooled water.

'I need to get out' Mamoru thought desperately to himself, looking around his apartment, mind racing at where to go.
He looked over at the clock on the far wall. It read '1:36am'.
Putting the half full glass of water back down onto the counter, he stood up and went back into his bedroom.

Mamoru began rummaging threw his wardrobe for some clothes.

After getting dressed, he walked out of his apartment, heading to the one place that always seemed to calm him down, and calming down he needed indeed.

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"It's cold" Usagi whined loudly at her friends, trying desperately to cover her chest with one arm, and the other hand covering her crotch.

She was shifting from one foot to the other quickly, nervous at the possibility of getting caught.

At the display of Usagi trying vainly to cover herself, her friends were all nearly rolling around on the ground in laughter.

Pouting at her friends, Usagi exclaimed harshly at them "Oh shut up you lot!" looking away from their amused faces to the ground, bright red from embarrassment.

"Okay, Usagi, you know the dare. You've got part one down, now onto part two of strip and dip!" laughed Rei, clutching her stomach from laughing so hard.

"Fine, fine... One day though guys, I'll get you back twice as bad" Usagi growled warningly at them, before turning around and doing the walk of death to the end of the pier.

After saying one last prayer she stepped off, squeaking at she splashed into the cold water below.

Surfacing she turn herself around in the water, ready to scream at her friends, but stopped when she couldn't hear there laughter, calling out, unsure, to them.

"Guys?" Splashing her hand in the water angrily she proceeded to try yelling this time, "Guys! This isn't funny! Hello?!"

Upon hearing no reply, she grabbed onto the edge of the pier, pulling herself up to see over it. She looked over to the area her friends had been before, and, seeing no one there, she did the only thing she could: scream very loudly.

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Mamoru sat in a secluded part of the park, surrounded by roses of all different colours, shapes, and sizes.

Twirling the blood red rose he held in between his fingertips, he sighed softly, taking in the fresh scent of the night air mixed with the surrounding nature.


He was suddenly startled when he heard a loud, long scream coming from down near the water.
Thinking maybe it could be a Youma, he cautiously walked towards where the scream had come from, only to be confronted by a sight he was certainly not expecting to see.

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Gruffly, Usagi made her way to the shore, her mind clouded with the thoughts of murdering her closest friends for doing this too her.

At just the thought of her friends, she let out another scream - this time not of panic, but of anger.

"Stupid, no good friends of mine," she muttered under her breath, going back to the place where she and her so-called friends had been before, and where her clothes should be.

Usagi groaned depressingly upon finding they had taken off with her clothes, leaving her wearing nothing and soaking wet.

"When I get my hands on them, I'm going to strangle each and every one of them," She growled out to the night.

Unknown to Usagi, hiding behind a very large bush, her 4 friends were all silently cackling to themselves at the prank they were playing on their friend.

"Are you sure we should have done this Rei? She looks very angry. She'll kill us when she finds us, you know?" Ami whispered quietly into Rei's ear.

"Yea I know." Rei whispered back to Ami, grinning evilly, "But it's so worth it!"

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He watched, amazed, as a small blond female emerged from the water. Not only did she not look too happy, she was
very much naked. After another few more moments, he cleared his throat, making himself known.

"Ahem, miss. You screamed?" Mamoru asked, carefully avoiding looking below her face, trying to figure out why she looked so familiar.

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At the sound of a males voice, the four girls hiding behind the bush became silent as death, horror written all over their faces.

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Startled by someone clearing there throat, then talking to her, she turned to the intruder.

Her eyes widened in shock and embarrassment, recognizing the person before starting to shriek loudly at him, desperately trying to cover herself with her hands, and failing miserably.

"Oh god- Oh- Jesus Christ, you!" Usagi shrieked loudly at Mamoru.

Finally fully recognizing the girl in front of him, Mamoru's eyes widened considerably, looking the girl up and down before loudly exclaiming: "Usagi?! What the hell are you doing here swimming in the lake, naked, at this time in the morning?"Covering his ears when Usagi just started to shriek loudly, he grunted as pain rang threw his head.

"Will you stop shrieking like that? Your going to make me deaf before 20!" Mamoru yelled to the blond, and was happy to hear the shrieking stop.

Noticing her shiver, he strode quickly to her, taking his jacket off, and wrapping it around her small form.

Sniffling slightly, she gazed at Mamoru, who was now only an arms length away.

"Thank you, Mamoru," she said in a small voice, her face flushed a bright scarlet red from embarrassment.

Running a hand through his hair, he watched as she nervously started to shift from one foot to the other, staring intently at a tree.

Sighing, Mamoru decided to try his earlier question again.

"So is this a new hobby or something, Usagi? Because I didn't know you were one to go skinny dipping in a public parks lake," adding under his breath "If it is, next time you decide to do it again, give me a call first," laughing slightly at his line of thought.

Usagi's jaw dropped upon hearing him say the last part, before regaining her wit and slapping him as hard as she could across his head.

"You pervert!" Usagi shrieked, making Mamoru laugh harder.

"Oops?"

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Feel free to criticize about whatever the hell, etc.

-Broken.

-- Big thank you to my lovely editor! You can check out her stories under her pen name, xtremelyblonde.--