Usagi sat quietly, her hands folded in her lap, while she watched her best friend's reaction to her story. The raven-haired girl had offered to call up the rest of the senshi, but Usagi expressed the desire to keep the whole situation private for the time being. Now, though, Rei was extremely worried, and it showed.
"You have no idea who it could be or what they're talking about?" Rei asked, for at least the third time since she'd been told the strange statement. Usagi, also for the third time, shook her head negative and stared into the cup of tea that Rei had made when she arrived. Her consciousness wavered from the minimal amount of sleep she'd gotten after the strange phone message, but she waited patiently for Rei to say something more.
"It doesn't make much sense. If you had used a spell on yourself, you'd certainly remember it, right? Nothing we've learned about our past lives involves a curse of any kind. I can't piece it together." Rei said hopelessly. Usagi bit down on her lip, looking at Rei uncertainly. The soldier of Mars didn't miss the look, and she looked at the blonde girl earnestly. "If there's something you know, Usagi, you can say it. I want to protect you from this if I can, but I need your help. Do you remember anything from your pasts about this?"
"Well, I..." Usagi sniffled, looking down at her hands. Her blue eyes twinkled with confusion, and some fear, and the hesitation was apparent in her soft tones as she spoke. "I've never told anyone this before, Rei-chan. It's hard."
"Usagi, I'm here for you, as your senshi and as your friend. You can tell me anything." Rei reached across the table and placed her hands on Usagi's, offering a reassuring smile. The blonde took a deep breath, and exhaled slowly, before she spoke.
"I was adopted. I don't remember anything about my parents or my life before the Tsukinos took me in. Everything before that time is a complete blank. All I know is that whenever it snows, I get really, really sad. I feel like there's something or someone missing, and that something is somehow related to the snow." Usagi covered her face with her hands, the familiar swell of sadness in her heart. "Why can't I just remember?"
Rei moved around the table, to Usagi's side, and pulled her into a comforting hug. Seeing someone as cheerful as Usagi look so lost and broken, it tore at her heart. Before she could say anything to cheer the blonde up, she heard someone shouting outside. Standing, she grabbed her broom from the floor and headed for the exit.
"Stay here, Usa-chan, I'll be right back." She said shortly, walking outside. The voices were getting closer, and if possible, even louder. Barely straining her ears, Rei could pick up the conversation.
"This is so stupid! All these damn shrine places are phony!" She heard one of the voices yell, obviously male, and full of annoyance. Rei scowled at the comment, but continued listening as another voice responded.
"No one forced you to come, stupid cat." The responding voice was much calmer, but it held the same tone of annoyance as the first. The first voice yelled something else, completely incoherent to Rei's listening ears.
"I'm sorry, Kyou, I didn't know you hated these places. We could've done something else if I'd known." A third voice said anxiously. This one was definitely feminine, Rei noted.
"It's no big deal." The first voice muttered. Rei was so absorbed in eavesdropping that when the three owners of the voices appeared at the top of the stairs, she nearly had a heart attack. It didn't take long for the raven-haired girl to regain composure, and she stared at the trio coolly with her broom firmly grasped in her right hand. The girl in the middle was the first to notice her.
"Oh, hello! Are you the priestess here?" The brunette girl asked, her eyes shining with admiration. Rei looked down, noting that she was indeed still wearing her priestess uniform. She observed the orange-haired boy to the right of the girl, and the silver-haired one on the left before responding.
"I'm a priestess-in-training. My grandfather owns the shrine, but we're closed today." She explained, watching with interest as the girl's face shone with disappointment.
"Oh my, where are my manners?" The girl exclaimed, making Rei's eyebrows lift in surprise as she bowed. "My name is Tohru Honda, and this is Yuki and Kyou. I'm sorry we bothered you on a day off, but Hana-chan said this was the best place to come."
"It's no problem." Rei said, shaking her head dismissively. Suddenly, her eyes lit up. "You know Hanajima-san?"
"Yes, she's one of my best friends!" Tohru explained brightly. "You must be Hino-san, then. She said you would know her by name."
"Um...Rei-chan, is someone here?" Apparently, Usagi had gotten bored with waiting, for she was now standing in the doorway to the shrine, looking at the three strangers with her eyes slightly wide.
"Oh, Usagi-chan, I almost forgot you were here!" Rei said, laughing at the pouting expression that the blonde sent her. Seeing Usagi cheerful again made her much happier than she let on.
"Rei-chan, you're so mean." Usagi whined, before turning her attention back to the three people at the top of the huge staircase that led to the temple. She offered a bright smile at the three of them, which only Tohru returned. "I'm Usagi!"
"It's nice to meet you, Usagi-san! I'm Tohru Honda, and this is Yuki and Kyou." The brunette repeated a second time, bowing just as she had to Rei. Usagi looked over the orange-haired boy dubbed 'Kyou,' who looked at her with sheer irritation, before she turned her gaze to the one named Yuki. As soon as she made eye contact with the silvery haired youth, she felt a familiar pain in her chest.
Only this time, it was much more pronounced than when she seen snow. She cradled her head in her hands, whimpering as her head throbbed. The pain felt like her brain was literally tearing in two, causing her knees to buckle. Rei attempted to catch the falling girl, but her weight was too much, and they both ended up falling. Usagi groaned, her eyes scrunched up in pain.
"Usagi, what's wrong?" Rei asked frantically, checking Usagi for some source of pain, but nothing external presented itself. She glared at the boy named Yuki accusingly. "What did you do?"
"I didn't..." Yuki couldn't respond. His normally expressionless demeanor was replaced with shock, and he couldn't will himself to speak. One minute the girl was looking at him, and the next she collapsed in pain. How could he possibly explain that? All at once, Usagi tense form relaxed, breathing heavily. She pulled herself up to her knees, resting her hands on the concrete to keep her balance.
"Yuki...as in snow?" Her blue eyes looked up at Yuki, watery and hopeful at the same time. "Oniisan?"
Wai! Now you know the crossover! Well, maybe. If not, it's Fruits Basket/Sailor Moon. We are just getting started in this story, though; there are so many questions to be answered.
By the way, incase there's people who don't know, 'Oniisan' is the Japanese word for big brother. For now, the chapters are kind of short, but I promise to lengthen them eventually.
I'm just an updating machine lately. I've already started on a nice chunk of chapter 7 to Oh Brawling Love and chapter 10 to Forbidden Dreams, not to mention the next installment for this! Be on the lookout for those, and review! There are way too few Fruits Basket/Sailor Moon crossovers out there, so get motivated and write a good one! I'll be dying to read it. :)
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