Konnichi' wa everyone! Incase you are wondering why I'm
doing this, it's because #1 when I wrote From the Begining,
the first time, I had never seen the Japanese SM. Now that
I have, I know there were some errors in my story. Plus,
a year after this fic was finished, I *still* have requests
for a sequeal. And all of you who wanted one, will be happy
to know that I'm going to do one :)

I hope you enjoy this story if you are reading it for the
first time, and I hope you still enjoy this story if you
are reading it again :)

Much 3 ~
Bethany

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Part one- So much for the peaceful life
Rating: PG (language)
By: Bethany
Editor: Meara
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The road ahead was dark and forbidding.
A young woman, maybe eighteen or nineteen, slim with bright blue
eyes and long blonde hair that fell to her ancles and was put up in buns
and ponytails, wandered down the street. Her eyes reflected her fear as
she realized the road was was completely empty of the usual passers-by.
The wind blew roughly against her skin. It caused the light airy
fabric of her nightshirt to move closer, until it was almost plastred
against her skin. She shivered involuntarily before wondering why she
was out at night in only one of her husband's too-large shirts.
Turning her attention back to her surroundings, she noticed a
light shone in front of her, and slowly her eyes recognized it as knife
with the blade pointed directed at her. Before she had time to react,
it sliced through her...

~~~~~~~

A shrill scream erupted from Chiba Usagi's throat as she was
thankfully dropped back into conscience. A few moments before the
scream had sounded, Usagi's tossing and turning had woken up her
husband.
"Usako..." He grumbled sleepily before realizing she was
having another nightmare.
He took her by the shoulders, shaking her gently. "Come on
Usako, wake up." Still, her eyes remained closed, a tight pained
expression covered her face.
He shook her harder this time. "Usako!"
The scream landed hard on his ears, causing him to instinctively
cover them both. Usagi's eyes snapped open, and tears poured in rivers
down her face. "Mamo-chan?"
He pulled her into his arms, "Shh... it's okay Usa...I'm here.
It was only a dream."
Her crying subsided but still she held onto him, shaking badly.
"Did you have that dream again?" Mamoru asked, only after he was
sure she'd answer.
"Mmm Hmm" she mumbled into his chest.
"Dajiobu Usako?" He asked worriedly when she suddenly stopped
shaking.
No answer.
The warm, secure feeling of Mamoru's arms around her eased
Usagi's mind back to peaceful sleep. Just before her mind totally went
black, she pushed out a simple, but meaningful, statement to her loving
husband. "Aishiteru Mamo-chan."
Mamoru looked down. Sleep had relaxed her features, once again
bringing his quivering heart to a normal pace. He hated when she
was anything but happy. Sometimes he thought it hurt HIM more than
her. Although he knew she couldn't hear him, he still mumbled
out, "Aishiteru Usako."
The morning sun pouring through the window found Usagi still
laying on Mamoru's chest and his face in her hair.
A buzzing noise woke Mamoru up. Slowly, so not to wake her, he
unraveled his arms from Usagi and stumbled to the door.
The buzzing sounded again. "Ugh! I'm coming!"
He opened the door to see a short familiar blonde with bright
blue eyes, who looked a lot like Usagi. "Ohayo Mamoru-san, how are you
this morning?"
Mamoru scratched his head sleepily, "Ohayo Mina-chan, come in."
He stood back to let her pass.
Minako came in and sat down on the couch. "Where's Usagi-chan?"
"In bed," Mamoru answered, starting a pot of coffee.
Minako sucked her breath in, realizing a little too late that she
had woke him up. "Gomen. I didn't think you would still be sleeping."
"That's okay. It's late." If you call nine o'clock late,
Mamoru thought dejectedly.
The bedroom door opened and Usagi stumbled through the room going
straight to Mamoru.
"Morning sweetheart," Mamoru said cheerfully and hugged her.
"Morning Mamo-chan." She reached up and kissed him on the lips.
Minako watched with a hint of jealousy. She's so lucky to have
him. I'm soooo single. "Ah hm," Minako cleared her throat loudly.
Usagi turned around sharply, "Mina-chan, gomen. I didn't see
you."
Minako sighed. "No one ever does."
Usagi threw her a dirty look before latching back onto Mamoru.
"What brings you here so early?"
"Oh yeah," Minako slapped a hand to her head, "I almost forgot.
I'm suppose to tell you two to come to Rei's temple at ten o'clock for
a senshi meeting."
"Senshi meeting?" Usagi inquired.
Mamoru handed a cup of coffee to Minako. "We haven't had one of
them in almost two years. What's up?" Sitting down on the couch
next to Usagi, Mamoru watched intently as Minako gathered her thoughts.
"I don't know. Rei said something about an evil energy field or
something," Minako grumbled into her cup.
Usagi leaned heavily on Mamoru. "Just peachy," she stated
flatly, looking at the floor. "We no more than get a couple of years
of no fighting, when suddenly, someone else has to come back and try
their luck." Beside Usagi, the phone rang and she reached over to
answer it. "Moshi moshi, Chiba residence."
"Hey sweetheart." A woman's voice came over the line.
"Hi mom," Usagi answered, making a face at the phone.
"I was wondering if you and Mamoru-san wanted to come
to dinner tonight?"
Usagi let out some frustrated air. "Not if dad is still sore
about me marrying Mamo-chan."
"Honey, I know your father seems mad. But it'll take time for him
to adjust to you being married."
Usagi sighed. "We dated for four years and he never got used to
it," she pointed out.
"Please sweetheart?" Ikuko begged.
Usagi again sighed. "We'll let you know."
"Ok dear," Ikuko replied and hung up.
Usagi hung the phone up and sat back heavily.
"Doushita no?" Minako asked pensively.
"Mom wants us to come to dinner tonight."
"Great," Mamoru mumbled standing up. He liked Usagi's mom well
enough, but her dad, well... "I'm going to shower."
Usagi let go of his hand, somewhat disheartened.
Mamoru smiled wickedly at Minako and bowed to Usagi, his eyes
lighting up with an idea. "Care to join me?"
"Mmm, now that sounds like an idea." Usagi giggled.
Minako looked at the couple in front of her. "I'll see you at
the temple. Have fun guys!"
Minako got to the door and turned one more time to see Mamoru
pick Usagi up and carry her to the bathroom.
She sighed. "Wish I had someone," she mumbled going out the
front door. She made her way down the elevator. When the doors opened,
she walked out, not paying attention to where she was going.
WHAM!!
She fell to the ground. "Dammit," she mumbled to herself.
"Gomen! Boku o yuruse! I'm running into everything." Minako looked
up to see her victim, only to be shocked into blabbing, "Shinji nai!
Yaten-chan?!"
Yaten laughed at the sight Minako made. Her legs stretched out
in front of her, and her hands on the floor beside her, obviously
holding herself up. He reached out a hand. "Dajiobu Minako-chan?"
She blushed feverishly and took his hand. When she stood up, she
threw herself on him. "Yaten! I... this is... what are you doing
here?"
Looking decidedly embarrassed, Yaten pulled Minako from his
waist and stepped back, mumbling something about rude manners.
Minako also stepped back, her face blood red and her eyes
down cast. "Gomen."
Before saying his next statement, Yaten braced himself for the
attack that was sure to follow his words. "We decided to come here
to stay.."
He was not disappointed.
"Stay? Yippee!" Minako shrieked, hugging him again.
Yaten looked down at the blonde and let a small smile creep
onto this lips. Relizing what he was doing, he pulled back again.
"Geez Minako, do you have to do that?"
Unsucessfully, Minako tried to appear calm and collected. Pushing
her hair back and clearing her throat, she smiled at Seiya and Taiki.
"Has anyone else seen you? Do they know you are here?"
Seiya shook his head. "We were coming to see Mamoru-san, since
none of us can remember where Usagi lives."
Minako blinked. "You don't know?"
"Know what?" Taiki inquired, assuming the worst.
Minako laughed. "Usagi and Mamoru got married."
"Married?" Seiya stood stunned. He knew they were involved,
but married so soon? It had only been two years since he had seen her
last.
"Yeah, they make the perfect couple. Kinda makes me jealous,"
Minako admitted almost silently.
"Doushite?" Yaten inquired, noticing her face fall.
Minako shuffled her feet nervously. "Um well... their SO happy.
And I'm SO single." Suddenly Minako's eyes turned to the Lights. "Come on!
We've got a senshi meeting at ten o'clock. You can surprise everyone there!"
She skipped to the door and turned around. "Come on!" she beckoned.
The Lights shrugged and followed her.

*****

"This is so frustrating!" Michiru shrieked.
Around the corner, Haruka closed her eyes and stepped into
the bedroom. "What?" she asked, looking confused.
Michiru pulled her hair back, again trying to get it to twist the
way she wanted it. "I give up!" She ran a brush through her green
hair and stood up with a jerk. "I can never get my hair to do the same
thing on both sides."
Haruka walked up to her and blinked. "You look fine to me."
"Fine?" Michiru smiled. "Is that all?"
"For now?" Haruka winked. "That's all, for now."
Setsuna wandered down the hall toward Hotaru's room. "We're
leaving in five minutes for Rei's temple. You know she gets mad
if we're late."
"Why do we have to go?" Hotaru asked from the doorway.
"Because we joined the inner senshi. Dakara, we go to the
meetings. Besides, remember the last one?" Setsuna asked.
Hotaru remembered. The crazy senshi of Venus ordered pizza and
they ended up having a party and sleeping at Mamoru's apartment.
Hotaru's eyes lit up only to fall just as fast. "Yeah, but Chibi-Usa is
not there."
Setsuna gave the child a small hug. " I know you miss her."
Hotaru gave a brief smile. "Well at least there's Usagi and
Minako, they liven' up anything."
A laugh escaped Setsuna's lips. "So true, boredom is the least of
our concerns."
"Let's go, I'm hungry," Haruka stated.

*****

Makoto turned over and eyed the clock beside her bed.
"Crap, I'm gonna be late."
She slung her legs over the side of the bed, throwing her auburn
ponytail behind her as she did so, and stretched.
Grabbing her communicator, she pushed the Mercury button. A
second later a click sounded.
"Mako-chan? Is something wrong?!" Ami responded.
"I'm gonna be late for the meeting. Cover for me?"
Ami laughed her relief. "Just don't be later than Usagi and
you'll be fine."
Makoto laughed also. "If I'm ever THAT late, shoot me."
"Alright, see ya there," Ami came back then signed off.
"This figures. First time in two years we have a real meeting,
and I'm going to be late," Makoto mumbled angrily at herself.

*****

Ami closed her communicator and stood up. "If I want to be on
time, I'd better hurry and leave."
"I wouldn't worry," Luna said from the window.
Ami jumped and turned, covering her heart with her hand. "Oh
Luna, you frightened me. Why are you here? Where's Artemis?"
Luna watched Ami clasp a tiny water drop shaped barrette in her
hair. "Usagi and Mamoru are showering, if you know what I mean. And
Artemis is with Minako."
Ami giggled slightly knowing what Luna meant by 'showering'.
"Married life must be good for them. What about you Luna? It seems
like you send Artemis to Minako's a lot. Aren't you enjoying being married?"
Luna sighed dejectedly. "Marriage is better if you aren't married
to Artemis, who, since we moved in with Mamoru, has decided to become
a wild ally cat."
"Gomen Luna. Is it really *that* bad?" Ami uttered.
Luna gloomily lay down. "No, it's worse." Crossing her paws infront
of her, the black cat sighed and laid her head down, looking longingly into
space. "Sometimes I wonder what life has in store for me."
Ami looked worriedly at Luna and walked over in front of her. Smiling,
she petted the black cat. "Perhaps you should ask Setsuna?"
"I doubt I'd get an answer," Luna laughed lightly.

*****

Rei stood up from watching the Great Fire.
Yawning she turned around, only to slam straight into Yuuichirou.
"Gomen Rei, daijobu?"
Rei nodded and gently wrapped her arms around him. Theirs wasn't
a destined to be together for 1,000 years love, like Usagi's, but she
was happy. Yuuichirou loved her, and that's all that really mattered.
Not that she wasn't happy for the princess; she was. But it seemed
no one else could compare to the deep, unwavering love her friend had.
Yuuichirou gently kissed her forehead, reminding Rei that his love was
deep also.
"What time is it, Yuui-chan?"
"A quarter to ten."
"Guess I better get ready."

*****

Usagi allowed Mamoru put a trail of kisses down her neck.
The hot water barely touched her skin since it was hitting
Mamoru's back.
She sighed and turned slowly around. "You know, for some reason
when *we* shower, *I* never get my hair washed."
Mamoru let out a half giggle. "Here let me." He reached up to
pull the clip out of her odangos, but she stopped him.
"We gotta go, or Rei's gonna have a cow."
Mamoru hugged her tightly and started rubbing down her back.
Usagi felt something, and she giggled, "Mamo-chan, not now. Later."
He sighed and let go of her. "You better get out then, I'm gonna
have to turn the cold on full blast."
"I'm sorry, baby..." She whispered and stepped out.
Ten minutes later, Mamoru had won the battle and they closed
the bedroom door.

*****

Minako slipped up the steps of the temple and peeked around
the corner. On the steps sat Rei, Yuuichirou, Ami, Makoto, Luna
and Artemis. "Even Mamoru can't get Usagi here on time," she told
the Lights.
"Still as late as ever?" Seiya asked.
Minako nodded. "But she wouldn't be Usagi if she was on time."

*****

"She's late," Rei stated.
"Isn't she always?" Ami asked.
Makoto fumbled with her skirt for a moment. "Are we talking
about Usagi or Minako?"
"Both," Luna replied.
The sound of footfalls made all the senshi turn.
"Hi everyone!" Minako called out, waving.
"You're late," Rei told her, as if she didn't already know.
Minako stuck her tongue out. "I have a good reason!"
"What? You have a date?"
"Artemis you stupid..." Minako growled, chasing the cat around the
court yard, screaming that it wasn't her fault she was single.
"Um, can we come up now?"
Everyone stopped dead in their tracks and turned. Faces fell in
shock.
"L-lights?" Makoto stuttered.
Yaten busted out laughing. "Don't you love the looks we get?"
he said sarcastically, crossing his arms.
"Lights!"
Everyone turned again to see Hotaru running up the sidewalk,
followed by Setsuna, Michiru and Haruka. The four sat down on the
steps and started asking questions, joined by the inner senshi asking
questions.
"WAIT A MINUTE!" Seiya screamed.
Silence.
"Now," Seiya started, looking rather pleased with himself. "Ami-
chan, would you do the talking for the group?"
Ami nodded. "Ok, when did you get back?"
"Today," Taiki answered.
While the inner and outer senshi played twenty questions with the
Lights, Usagi was having some problems of her own.
Again, Usagi tried to get up, only to be held down by Mamoru.
"Let me up, Mamo-chan," she demanded. Never in my life did I imagine
me trying to get him to get up and get ready, Usagi mused humerously.
Mamoru leaned over her. "It won't kill them to wait a little
longer... besides isn't this more fun?"
Usagi bit her lip as if in deep thought.
"Please... let... me...up!" she finally managed to push him
off the bed.
He pulled on her hand.
Usagi turned, fire shooting from her eyes. "Let me go, or you'll
be hurting for the next week when you find your tail on the couch."
Mamoru scrunched up his face and grabbed his chest. "Oww, the
pain thou does cause me! To threaten to take away your beauty from my
life!" He threw himself back on the bed and laid still.
Usagi giggled slightly. "Come on Mamo-chan, you'd miss the sex,
not me."
Mamoru shot up. "Not true! I'd have you over sex any day!"
Usagi stuck her head out of the bathroom door and stared at him.
He scratched his head. "Um... what about... both? Aw, come on Usako,
gimme a break!"
She came back in the bedroom and handed him a pair of jeans and a
shirt. "I would, but I give you too many as it is. Now in five minutes
I'm leaving, with or without you."
A few minutes later, a dressed Mamoru followed Usagi to the
kitchen. "Gomen, Usa."
Usagi turned. "For what?"
"For that... in there. You know I was only playing, ne?"
Usagi looked thoughtful for a moment, trying to decide what he
was talking about. "Mamo-chan..."
He came up and put his arms around her. "You know, you could
deny me sex for the rest of my life, and I'd still love you. Still want
to sleep with my arms holding you."
A few tears filled Usagi's eyes. Gone was the joking tone he had
a few minutes before. Now he was full of emotion, voice full of
love. For her.
"Mamo-chan, I love you."
"I love you more," he quickly silenced her before she could argue.
Usagi broke the kiss first. "We need to go. We're already gonna
get an ear full."
Reluctantly, he let her go. "Hai."

*****

"Have we covered it all?" Seiya asked wretchedly. They had been
asking questions nonstop for about twenty minutes.
"I have one more," Minako started. "Where is Usagi?!"
"Here I am!" a voice sang out in greeting. "Sorry I'm late,
someone had some very important business to attend... to..." Her
voice left her as she realized there were three more faces in the
group.
"L... ights?!"
"None other," Seiya laughed.
"AHHH!" Usagi let go of her vise-like grip on Mamoru and ran
straight for the three men. All of them braced. Usagi was like getting
attacks from Minako, only ten times worse.
"Seiya-kun! Yaten-kun! Taiki-san!" Usagi squealed, throwing
herself at each light. "What are you guys doing here? When did you
get back? How long are you staying? There's not trouble is there?"
Usagi fired her questions one after another.
Yuuichirou laughed out loud. "Don't see why you all needed to
spend so long asking questions. Usagi-chan could have done it in half
the time." Everyone looked to him as if to say 'shut up' then back to
Usagi who had just lost her excited look and started a pout.
She placed herself beside Mamoru again, looking angry. "How long
have you been here?"
Yaten cleared his throat, indicating for someone to answer the
question. No one said a word. "Um, since this morning... about umm,
seven."
"Why am I the last to know anything?" Usagi whined.
Mamoru shook his head. Most of the time Usagi acted so grown up,
but little things could send her back to the teenager he had first
meet. This was one of those things.
"We tried to come see you first," Seiya started defensively. "But
we didn't know you had gotten married, and so we went to Mamoru's first.
That is when we saw Minako."
Usagi threw a dirty look at Minako, then suddenly brightened.
Her mood changed so fast that everyone was having a hard time keeping
up. "Oh well, so why are you here?"
Brace yourself Seiya, he told himself before answering. "We are
here to stay, we have been relieved of our duties."
SMASH!!
Usagi was on him again. "Wow! This is great!"
After re-answering all of the earlier questions, the group
finally got to the original purpose of the meeting.
Usagi sat on Mamoru's lap, Rei sat next to Yuuichirou, and
everyone else sat in different spots on the steps.
"I know I definitely felt something evil. Ami-chan, can you get a
reading on the city for me?" Rei asked.
Ami brought out her mini laptop and started typing slowly.
"So guys, how is Princess Kakyuu? And Galaxia and Chibi-Chibi?"
Usagi asked, too impatient to wait for Ami to find another 'evil'
field.
"Well, we haven't seen them for a couple of months, but last time
I ran into them, they were doing well. You know that Galaxia is
raising Chibi-Chibi didn't you?"
Usagi's eyes lit up. "No! That's so great! I didn't know she would
be able to stay disconnected from ChibiChibi like that, since she was
her star seed and all. But Chibi-Chibi gets to be a real little girl? That's
so great! I wish I could see them again..." By the end of the sentence
Usagi got strangely quiet.
"Yeah, we all miss them..." Michiru stated. The atmosphere
quieted down again. Everyone was lost in their own thoughts or memories.
"Iie," Ami breathed suddenly.
"Doushita no?" Rei asked pensively. That sound from Ami only
meant trouble.
"We need to get going. According my computer, there should be an
attack on Tokyo Park in five minutes. The energy force is planted
there and is growing by the second."
"Great," Usagi mumbled. It had been two years since anything had
happened and she was beginning to like peaceful life. The rest of the
senshi, on the other hand, didn't feel the same.
"Great! I need a good fight!" Makoto said, jumping up.
"Jupiter Eternal Make-up!"
After Jupiter's transformation, everyone else followed.
All around, ribbons were flying in bright lights. Transformations
over, the group started to leave.
"Mamo-chan?" Usagi looked at him weird. "Why aren't you
transforming?"
Mamoru shook his head. "Gomen Usako. I got caught up in your
transformation, I forgot how beautiful you look as Sailor Moon."
Usagi blushed feverishly.
Mamoru closed his eyes. A bright light flashed and a second later
he stood wearing a tuxedo, top hat and white mask.
Sailor Moon's eyes widened in shock and pleasure. "Au contraire,
Mamo-chan. I forgot how handsome and mysterious my Tuxedo Kamen was."
"Sailor Moon, will you quit drooling over your husband, and let's
go?!" Mars asked sarcastically.
Usagi glared at Mars. "Some things never change."
"You're telling me, we still have a hormone happy leader," Mars
retorted, ducking from the piece of gum that came flying at her. "I
hope your aim hasn't really gotten that bad since our last fight. If
so, we're in trouble."
Usagi started to stick her tongue out but decided that wasn't
the best way to prove a point. Instead she decided to drop it, for
now, and get going.
"Ok guys, let's do this!"
"Right!" The group said, following Sailor Moon to the park.

--End Chapter One.

Well, not too muched changed there - but it will ^^;

Thanks for reading!

3 Bethany
03-13-01