Chapter 1
15 year old Usagi Tsukino sat in a booth looking down.
She was a little sad and a little happy.
She had found out that her father's job was transferring him.
But she wasn't going.
No, she had to stay and move in with her soon to be husband.
Back when she had been born, her father and his bestfriend got the idea and made arrangements for the baby girl and the 5 year old little boy.
They would be married when the time came.
The mothers were both happy and would make sure that it happened.
They were the ones that gave the idea.
When Usagi was 4 her father's best friend moved his family to a different city near by to start one of the companies for his father.
He had just finished a Hotel there in Tokyo.
The four adults got together on the holidays and most weekends.
Then one day 2 years later,
The Tsukino's got word that their best friends the Chiba's had been killed.
Mamoru who was 11 at the time survived.
He was in the hospital for a week.
Kenji rushed to bring the boy home with him.
Since he and his wife Ikuko, were closer then Mamoru's grandfather or his Aunt.
He had been over in Canada at the time and she couldn't leave right away.
Mamoru stayed with the Tsukino's for eight weeks, while the adults talked about whom he should live with.
He left to live with his Aunt who ran an orphanage for boys in a neighboring country.
Since he seemed happy with the other boys and Kenji and Ikuko didn't want the two growing up like brother and sister, they let Mamoru go.
Mamoru even spent time with his grandfather when he would visit.
He was living part time in Canada at the time.
He moved back to Tokyo for good when Mamoru started college at 17.
Of course Kenji and Ikuko kept in touch with the boy.
Usagi and Mamoru saw each other a few times before he left to go to private school when he turned 14.
As he got older he got busy with school.
Trying to finish so he could help run his grandfathers companies and get settled so he would be ready for his bride.
The two kids talked on the phone only around the holidays.
And then only when he had the time.
When they did talk, she would whisper and he would talk softly.
When Mamoru left for college, the two kept in touch by writing letters.
Since Usagi loved bunnies so much she always signed her name Buns.
(Yes I know that Usagi means Rabbit. Just go with it.)
Mamoru being older would just sign his Chiba M.
It had been 6 years that the two last saw each other face to face.
They both only knew what the other looked like as children.
They both had a black and white picture of the two of them together.
But at the time he was 14 and she was 9.
Usagi's mom had always thought that Usagi sent him pictures.
But she didn't because she thought her mom did.
Mamoru just never thought about it.
Usagi was looking at that picture now in its small frame. She sighed out loud.
"Usa what's wrong?" Motoki asked.
She looked over at the arcade guy.
He had been her friend for sometime.
All of her friends called her Usa for short.
"Nothing is wrong Motoki." She told him as she placed the picture frame back in her bag.
"Are you sure? You look sad." He said as he placed her drink in front of her.
"Usa sad? That's something new. She's usually bouncing off the walls." Her friend Rei said sitting across from her.
Usagi looked at her.
She then looked at the other girls.
Ami and Makoto were looking back and smiling at her.
They both sat down also.
"Like I told Motoki I'm fine." Usagi told them all. She than took a drink.
Motoki looked at her again then over to the others.
"Girls what can I get you?" he asked looking at each.
They all ordered a soda.
"Nothing to eat?"
"No thanks. Our guys are coming soon to take us out to eat." Makoto told him.
Motoki then walked away.
"Oh Usa I'm sorry." Makoto said looking at the younger girl.
Usagi smiled and told her that it was okay.
The other girls always tried to not talk about the dates they went on.
They all knew that Usagi wasn't aloud to date.
They didn't know why.
Everyone just thought that her father was really strict.
But the truth was his little girl already had someone.
Kenji would have all the guys in the neighborhood and at her school just think he was mean.
Usagi smiled again at them and looked at her drink.
"So where are you going tonight?" she asked them.
"Well umm…" Ami started, "We don't really know."
"Yeah the guys said that it's a surprise." Rei told her.
The others all nodded their heads in agreement.
"That's great! I hope it's some place romantic." Usagi said looking up with a half smile.
"Usa are you sure your okay?" Rei asked her again, as she took her hand.
Usagi was about to answer but Motoki came back with the drinks.
The girls told him thanks.
He then left.
He had wanted to stay, but the girls really wouldn't talk with him there.
He saw his friend Mamo come in.
So he went to get some fresh coffee going.
"So what's up girl?" Makoto asked as the girls looked back at Usagi.
"I found out something and it's made me kind of sad." Usagi told them.
She was about to say more when they all heard a deep male voice say sarcastically,
"Oh what happened Odango Atama? Are you sad because you failed another test?"
It was Mamo.
He had walked over to the group and was smiling at Usa.
Ever since he had meet Usa, that day 2 weeks ago when she threw her math test on his head, he would pick on her.
He really didn't mean to.
He just did.
He liked the girl.
Thought she was cute, but he wouldn't ask her out.
No.
He already had a girl waiting.
He never dated.
"You are such a jerk, Mamo! Can't you see that she is upset!" Rei yelled at him.
"If it wasn't for the guys, I'd hit you." Ami said quietly.
The girls all smiled over at her.
"Mamo just go sit down. Leave." Makoto told him pulling at his arm.
She was always nicer to him then the others.
Maybe it was because her man was one of his very best friends.
Since the guys called him Mamo, the girls did also.
The girls did not know his full name.
Usagi was just looking at her drink.
"Usa don't let that ass get to you." Rei said.
"Yeah girl, don't worry about him." Ami told her patting her hand.
"I'm not," Usagi said smiling again.
She never really looked at him or any guy.
But she did think he was handsome but a pain.
Besides Motoki, Kunzite and the girl's boyfriends, he was the only guy who would chance talking to her.
Even if it was an insult.
"Well girls." Usagi began looking up at them, "My dad's job is transferring him out of the country."
"What!" the other girls yelled at the same time.
"Oh no!"
"Are you moving?"
"No you can't!" The 3 girls all yelled at once.
Motoki and Mamo looked over at the group.
"Did I just hear one of them say that Usa was moving?" Motoki asked.
"Sounded like it." Mamo said taking a drink of coffee.
"I really don't care. Why don't you go over and find out." He said looking down at some papers in a folder.
"I'll be back." Motoki said walking over to the girls.
Mamo didn't really care if the Odango was leaving.
He had other things to think about.
He had just come from meeting with his dead fathers' best friend.
He started to remember the meeting.
He was at his desk when Tsukino-san came in.
Mamo got up and went to hug the man he thought of as a father.
"Kenji-san! How are you sir? How are Ikuko, the boys and Buns? Please have a seat." Mamo said pointing to the leather sofa in his office.
"I'm fine so are they Mamoru-kun." Kenji said sitting.
"Care for a drink?" Mamoru asked, as he sat down next to him.
"No thanks. Can't stay long. I came to tell you that my job is transferring me."
"What! When?"
"I will be leaving at the end of the month or sooner it depends."
"Depends? On what sir?"
"Mamoru. Ikuko and I have been talking and we wanted to ask you if you would do us a favor?"
"Of course sir anything."
"Son, since you finished school and have come back to help in the main company, and you are set up and everything…"
"Yes"
"We want to keep Usagi here with you."
Mamoru eyes went wide, he didn't know what to say.
He was happy and thought that it was about time.
He knew that it was Ikuko doing.
Kenji wanted to wait until Usagi was a little older.
She was his baby girl.
"Mamoru. I know that we were going to wait until she was a little older,
but with her Mother expecting and having her two little brothers to look after.
Well Ikuko doesn't want to pull her out of school." Kenji said.
"Sir I understand. But we haven't seen each other for years.
Yeah we write to each other but…I don't even know what she looks like now."
Mamoru said looking like he wasn't sure.
He knew he had to act like he was concerned.
Now that he was getting her, he wasn't going to mess anything up with Kenji.
"Come over tonight around 6 or 7 for dinner. You can both meet again. Then we can talk more." Kenji said getting up.
"Alright I will. I meant to come over sooner when I moved back here.
But I had to leave town a couple of times to check on some of the business.
And I was making sure the house was done." Mamoru said as he stood.
"That's fine. We knew you were busy. Your father would have been proud of you. I am."
The two men hugged then Tsukino-sun left.
Mamoru looked up.
Motoki was saying something but he missed it.
"What did you say?" He asked looking at Motoki.
"I said that Usa was upset because her father is getting transferred."
Motoki said walking around the counter.
"Oh yeah. That happens sometimes." Mamoru said taking a drink.
"Yeah but she's not moving." Motoki replied.
"No?" Mamoru said as he raised an eyebrow.
"Nope she's going to live with someone. The person will be a guardian." Motoki said smiling.
"Well that's great. I know how close you both are. You should ask her out sometime." Mamoru said smiling back.
"No Way! Her father would kill me. Anyways I have Reika." Motoki said as he stepped back.
They both laughed.
Motoki had told him the stories.
As the two were talking Usagi finished talking to the girls then got up to leave.
She told the guys' bye since they were coming in.
She stopped for a moment and talked to Kunzite who had come in also.
She gave him a big smile then walked away.
Her bag in her arms, in front covering her chest the whole time.
Mamoru watched her go, like he did every day.
Usagi stopped at the door and looked over and him.
She had felt his eyes on her.
The two looked at each other.
She then stuck out her tongue, turned and walked out really fast.
Like she did every day when she left.
Mamoru looked back at his papers chuckling to himself, thinking about how cute she was.
He then thought about his girl that he was going to go see later.
He smiled even more.
The guys walked over to the girls.
Kunzite walked over to Mamoru and ordered some coffee.
The two started to talk about work.
The couples walked over to pay Motoki and to say hi.
"I can't believe Usa never told us. I knew she had someone but I really thought he was just a close friend." Makoto said.
"No wonder her Dad never let her date." Rei replied.
"It is a surprise. She should have told us or at least her cousin should have." Ami said.
"But Usa did seem really happy about it. I still can't believe it." Makoto said.
"Yes you could tell how much she loves the man." Ami said.
"What are you girls talking about?" Kunzite asked turning around to look at them.
"Yeah girls what's up with Usa and some man?" Jadeite asked as Zoisite nodded his head in agreement.
"Usa just told us that her parents are moving, because of her fathers job transferring." Rei said.
"So jobs transfer all the time. When is she leaving?" Nephrite asked.
"No she's staying. She's staying here with a guardian." Motoki said handing Nephrite his change.
"Nooooo." Makoto said as she and the other girls shook their heads back and forth.
"She's staying right? Or did she lie to me?" Motoki asked looking at them.
The guys looked at each other then at the girls.
Mamoru was listening but was looking down at his papers.
The girls looked at each other then at the guys.
Rei then said, "She lied to you. She will be staying with her fiancée."
"What!" the 5 guys said at the same time.
Mamoru looked up.
He had a weird feeling.
A really weird feeling.
He slowly turned his head to the others.
"Isn't she a little young?" Kunzite asked. He thought that Usa was fine.
He had even tried to ask her out, but she had turned him down.
Now he knew why.
"Well maybe a little. But her father and his best friend had agreed to it long ago." Makoto told him as she took Nephrite's hand.
"Yeah that's why her father never let her date. She has a future husband." Rei said.
"Well that does happen." Zoisite said.
"Yeah me and Jadeite are to marry." Ami said getting red in the face.
Jadeite gave her a quick hug.
"How come she didn't tell me that?" Motoki asked.
"Maybe she's embarrassed. She told us that she hasn't seen him for many years. She also said he was 5 years older then her." Makoto told him.
"That would make him 19?" Jadeite asked.
"No 20, 21 or almost. Because she just turned 15 some months ago." Rei answered smiling at him.
"She showed us a black and white picture of them together, when they were little." Ami said.
"Yeah he was cute." Rei said then laughed when Zoisite and Jadeite said that she liked younger guys.
Zoisite then took Rei's hand.
"Did she give a name?" Motoki asked.
"No. We forgot to ask." Ami told him.
No one saw Mamoru.
He was slowly standing up and looking at them all with wide eyes with his mouth open.
Kunzite looked over at him and said, "Mamo you okay?"
"Yeah jerk you look like you seen a ghost." Rei said.
She was still upset with him.
"Hey Mamo you in there?" Nephrite asked waving his hand in Mamoru's face.
"Huh? What? No. I'm fine." He told them after a few seconds.
"Long day at work?" Motoki asked.
"Yes it was and I have some place to go." He said as he looked at his watch.
"Yes we do too. Ladies." Nephrite said pulling Makoto over to his arms.
"Hey girls!" Mamoru said before they got to the door.
"What?" Rei asked. Mamoru looked at the group.
He really had to make sure of something.
"Well what? We have dinner to get to." Makoto said softly as they all turned to look at the handsome 6'2" black haired man.
"What is Odango's last name?"
"Why you can't have her. She has a fiancée." Rei said glaring at him.
Ami and Makoto nodded their heads in agreement.
The guys were all laughing.
"I just want to know." Mamoru said looking at the girls hard.
"It's Tsukino." Ami told him.
"Yes her name is Usagi Tsukino." Makoto said.
"Hey don't tell him that!" Rei said looking at her.
"Rei he can know. He can't do anything to her or with her."
Ami said as the 2 looked at each other.
They didn't see Mamoru drop his folder on the floor.
Motoki went over to pick up the papers.
Kunzite stood up and placed his hand on Mamoru arm.
Nephrite walked over to him with Makoto following.
Mamoru looked like he was about to pass out.
"Tsukino? Usagi Tsukino!" He repeated the name gasping then whispered, "Buns."
"Hey man you okay?" Nephrite asked.
"Come on you two let's go." Zoisite said.
"You four go on. We'll meet up with you all." Nephrite said walking over to Mamoru.
"All right." Jadeite said taking Ami's hand.
They left out with Zoisite and Rei following.
"Here Mamo drink some water." Motoki said handing him a glass and the papers to Kunzite.
Mamoru sat down and took a drink.
Kunzite and Nephrite looked at each other then over to their friend.
Makoto was patting Mamoru's back.
"I…I…I have to go." Mamoru suddenly said grabbing his papers from his friend and walking fast to the door.
"Wait! Are you sure you're okay?" Kunzite asked.
"Yes I am." He suddenly stopped and smiled. "Yes I am. I'll talk to you all tomorrow."
Mamoru then said looking at them all with a big grin.
He then walked out of the doors.
The other four looked at each other.
Makoto and Nephrite then left and Motoki went back behind the counter.
Kunzite stayed for more coffee. He had no one to go home to.
The girl he liked lived over in England right now.
They would talk on the phone.
So he didn't worry about going home right away.
Mamoru got into his car and sat there for a few minutes.
He then reached for his wallet and took out a black and white picture.
It was a picture of him and a girl when they were younger.
Holding his hand was the girl with braids.
He hadn't looked closely at the picture for a few months.
He turned it over.
Then turned on the dome light to read the back.
He then unfolded the picture.
He had folded it a long time ago, so only him and the girl were showing.
It fit better in his wallet.
He looked and read, Mamoru Chiba age 14.
He smiled while he read Usagi Tsukino age 9.
He then placed the picture on the other seat, started the car and then drove home to get ready.
With a big grin on his face.
To be continued
For all of you reading "Daddy" NO I haven't stopped it.
I just needed a brake from it. It is a dark story at times.
And I needed something happier after finishing a few chapters of Daddy.
I will send out chapters for both stories when I can.
More of Daddy since that one is father along.
EvaC