Here's Chapter two I hope you really like it!
Chapter Two: Brother's Aren't Prince Charming
Serenity's, new life was great. She was in a good home, with loving parents, her brother still came and saw her; on top of coming to see her, he spoiled her, bringing gifts and jewelry. She was able to see him every month. Though he had told her, once he rose in fame, she would have to settle, for seeing him less. She told him, with a smile, that she did not care, as long as he came.
Even when Serenity, wanted to complain to her brother, about him being gone, all the time, her mother's parting words of advice; come in her mind. Making it impossible for her to voice her thoughts.
'Sweetie your brother wants to make a band, but honey, he can't do that, if he has to watch over a little girl, as well. So I need you to be brave, and go make a new family, okay, don't hold him back, and be good and accept what he decides, okay?" "Do it for mommy okay?"
Those words had forever changed, something in her. She never complained. She never gave him a hard time. They laughed; played and enjoyed their time together. They went to the park, and swung; with Tohma pushing Serenity. He came to her eighth birthday and spoiled her. Then he pulled her aside and gave her a cross, it was black, and it had white diamonds on each the ends, and on the back was carved Serenity. He kneeled down to her, and clasped it on around her.
Then Tohma told her the meaning of it. "When you find a man, you have have fallen IN love with. You give this to him. okay?" Serenity had nodded not really understanding, the meaning quite yet. Thing were good.
But that all change when Tohma, began to feel different to Serenity, he felt far away, his emotions were not close to her like they always were. Then when she dug deeper into them, he felt of sadness, and angry. His visits no longer came at least once a month. He only called on every two weeks. Where as before, he had called every night, to to wish Serenity, happy dreams; at least. The only thing ,keeping her from saying anything, we're those last words of her mother. "Don't hold him back."
After all Little eight year old Serenity, refused to be the cause of her brother's failure, she was not going to make him unhappy and with every visit to her, he seemed to be more and more unhappy. But she clung to the visits she still got and hoped that he would at least still come for her birthdays.
Even though it was selfish of her, to want him to visit her even when it makes him sad. Serenity still hoped she be able to at least see him during, these rare visits. Even if he never brought gifts ever again. Still she hoped he would come. She began to wonder if the gifts he was always bringing, was why he didn't like coming to see her. So she stopped taking the gifts only to have him them with her parents.
On one of the rare visit he had graced them with that month. Serenity could feel his misery as she colored, she was coloring Tohma's wedding to Mika. She gave it to him while he was looking sadly out the window. She started to tear up. Did she make him that miserable.
"Why are you so sad, Toh?" She questioned wondering if he would tell her. Tohma looked to her in surprise, he had forgotten about her gift of emotions sensing. She usually just hugged them or did what she thought would make someone feel better. So her asking him startled him into remembering her gift. It also meant she must be really worried.
He smiled softly at her. "Eiri is going through a very hard time right now, people on picking on him because he doesn't look like them." Serenity stuck her nose up at him "That dumb, why does it matter?"Tohma laughed at her look. "Yes, but they think that mean his mommy made him, with a different daddy then his real one." I am so not going into adultery with her.
Serenity looked confused, but she just nodded. "Oh, well then why doesn't, he just go somewhere that he looks the same?" Tohma looked at her with a contemplating look. Then shook his thoughts away. "Because it is not that easy." She frowned at him "And why not?" she folded her arms and demanded. "Just because it is a little hard to hard to move, where Eiri would need to go?" He wasn't going to go, on into moving to another country, and why that would be hard, to an eight year old ,damn it!
But she did have an idea. He would have to talk to his fiance about it. The idea had merit, even if it was suggested by a an eight year old. How was Serenity, supposed to know that would be the last, she saw her brother, until many years later, it be the last time he would hug her, and kiss her forehead.
Serenity never heard from him again and as the months past her mother's words, constantly whispering in her ear. So I need you to be brave, and go make a new family, okay, don't hold him back, and be good and accept what he decides.
Tohma did not come for her ninth birthday, She cried and cried. Only to have her mommy take her to bed and hold as she cried herself to sleep. why didn't he come? Was all the little girl could even think to wonder. She was hurt and she was upset.
Ikuko, shut the door to her daughter's room. What a terrible birthday to have. She thought as she walked out to see her husband scowling, while leaning against the wall. "How is she?" Kenji asked his wife. She just shook her head. Walking into the room, finding the boy's,who made her daughter cried, number. Only to have it ripped out of her hand, by her glaring husband. "NO! if he wants nothing to do with her, that's his problem. I will have us pestering him, to come, only to leave Serenity, hurt even more, in the end!" He husband then threw the paper with the name on it, in the bedroom trash. Storming out to check on his daughter.
Kenji never knew his wife grabbed the paper and wrote the number down in her journal for safe keeping. Ikuko didn't know why, but she felt she would need it one day.
Kenji quietly opened his daughter's door and watched the rise and fall of his daughter breathing. She was asleep, yet he could see the dry tear marks, and it made him glare out the window and ironically at the moon. But when looking back at Serenity, his eyes softened and he kissed her forehead, pulling the covers over her more and whispered "I love you," Leaving to go to bed.
Meanwhile Tohma was not faring too well either, he and his band mates were fighting because he and his Fiance Mika. Had made the decision to move Eiri america, because it would indeed benefit Eiri. So they fought and fought, and then came the stressing of packing and moving, and finding a school and tutor for Eiri and teaching him english.
Tohma knew he had yet to visit his sister. and missed her birthday but he would make it up to her, he told himself. But then when he did get to america, he never had time to call, when it was convenient for them. He was always fast to fall asleep, after all taking care of Eiri and helping his to-be-wife plan their wedding, was exhausting him.
But Tohma did not forget about her, No when ever he saw things that reminded him of her. He buy them and put them away to give to Serenity at a later date. But as the year passed and Eiri grew close to his tutor, so close that it made Tohma and Mika uncomfortable. He began to stress out about what to do.
The Year dragged on and then came the big fight between Eiri and Tohma. "But, why Tohma, he wants to have dinner with me, he's my friend so why can't I?" Eiri whined to Tohma when he told him no, about going to Yuki, his tutor's for dinner. It made Tohma very uncomfortable the way Yuki acted.
"Because Eiri, I said no and also, he is not suppose to be a friend. He is suppose to be a teacher, and teacher's do not have dinner with their students. That is inappropriate Student Teacher relationship." But Eiri grew mad and slammed his door shut. Only to sneak out later that night, to go to Yuki's anyway.
Tohma who went to check on him an hour, after he sneak off. He made his way to Yuki's apartment, in a rage that Eiri, would disobey him. But that rage fled, only to be replaced by fear when he heard the four gunshots that rang outside the apartment. Fearing he would find Eiri dead, he raced up the stairs only to come, upon an shaken Eiri who had a gun, in his hands and looking unseeingly, at the four dead bodies, one of them being his tutor's Yuki. Tohma held Eiri in his arms as the boy sobbed and sobbed finally coming out of shock.
The police came and ruled it a self defense. Which was made quickly when they found the ten bucks, Eiri told him Yuki sold him for, and one of the guys pants unzipped, as well as all three thugs, fingerprints on the guy. So it was easy to rule it as self defense and easy to seal up.
But the damage was done already to Eiri. He became cold and closed off felt guilt he felt angry and bitterness. Tohma felt guilt, along with Mika. So they watched over Eiri forgetting to take care of even themselves, they too went to see someone for help. Then the next year they were married. Tohma joined his band and worked his way up to fame. He would still buy things that made him think of his sister. But Tohma could not go back. He was so ashamed, he had forgotten her. It was better that she moved on without him.
Years after the band had rose to fame. Tohma met a couple Haruka, and Michiru who reminded him of his sister. He was drawn to them for that reason. Yes they were go at playing music especially something that was not J-Pop. But the way Haruka could run with like the wind or the way Michiru felt so calm in water from what he saw.
Then the comments about them, that they could share an inside joke about. The comments being "Haruka sure runs like the wind, doesn't she?" or "Michiru plays as so smooth and calm like the ocean, but she can move it like tidal waves." They would share a smile with each other. The smile reminded Tohma of the ones he would share with his family. About Serenity and her emotion sensing.
He was so drawn and captivated by them that when the band disbanded, he called them up to record and work for NG records, only for a while. Yes they were interesting, especially for girls so young. Tohma soon grew close to them. Only for them to have to leave, after only a few months, of working for NG. He was sad to see them go.
While for Serenity, life changed for her once again. After her ninth birthday party; she would wish on stars and on her birthday, that Toh would come to find her. She changed so much that the once graceful girl. Became clumsy and fell, all the time. She cried at every little thing. To hide the pain of her brothers abandonment. Serenity's grades slipped, because she started sleeping in class, she had nightmares at night that kept her up at night. So she wound up falling asleep in class. Soon she wanted to be called Usagi and not Serenity.
When asked why, she got tears in her eyes. "Because Toh, called me that, and told me that an angel was called Serenity, and that's why he called me angel." They agreed to let her go by Usagi, instead. Soon Serenity stopped referring to him as Toh, but his full name Tohma.
Then on her twelve birthday she met her godfather, a Claude K Winchester. He was funny and made her happy, He talked weird to her but she loved her uncle K, very much so, and K, loved her too. He soon become over protective, of the little girl. Coming to see her, for her birthday and a few other times a year.
The hardest part about having Uncle K, was that he left. She always worried for days, after he left. Worried that he would never come back. So he called her for the first few days, after he left. Chatting to the little girl.
Also Serenity, followed her brother success in hopes that one day he would come back to her. But no matter how many poster of him or his band, and no matter how many albums of his she had. None made it feel like he was with her, and no how many time she wished it he never came. She was slowly losing hope on seeing her brother again. Well seeing out side a magazines anyway. Serenity also still held on and wore the cross he had given her. But she was losing hope.
Then she become Sailor Moon and life became more complicated for the girl. She could really use her brother. He know what to do. He would help her ignore Rei's mean comments, or Minako teasing and laughing at her. He would be there for her cry on after every battle, to cry out her guilt on killing Beryl and her guilt for Diamond's death. But Tohma wasn't there and he never would be, she soon realized, shortly after taking up leadership of being Sailor Moon.
She came home and much to Luna's surprise, tore down the poster of her favorite band, Nittle Grasper and put away their Cd's, and little trinkets she bought over the years. Luna had even padded in the room wondering what was going on.
While Usagi was putting away all the band's thing in the box she told Luna. "I think it's time I took being a senshi seriously." Luna had been really to Praise her only to fall down and cry when she looked over and saw Usagi ignoring her homework for a comic. Oh well Usagi will be Usagi I guess.
Later that day she put all the things her brother bought her away and she, put the cross in last. tearing as she did. remindering herself why she was doing this. I have a world that counts on me now. I need to focus all my hopes into protecting it, and keeping it safe. More than wanting my brother to come back. He won't be coming, I have finally accept that now.
She had cried tears that night, silently so Luna, wouldn't know after all, no one knew she was adopted, or really called Serenity. They just knew Usagi Tsukino. Which was who she was now. She now realized that if her brother had not come for back in the last six years, then he was never coming back. Usagi would just have to move on, and live with it. Thats why she put him away. She thought as little as she could about Tohma, then when she did think about him, all she managed to muster was bitterness, angry, and hurt.
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