Chap.2 Without a Goodbye

RECAP:

The next morning found Luna telling the Senshi that Usagi was leaving for France. That very day.

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Ikuko Tsukino was standing with her husband in their livingroom waiting for their daughter to come down the stairs. They had never thought that this day would come so soon, that they would have to say goodbye to the little sunshine that had brightened up their lives from the day she opened her eyes to see the first rays of sun in her life.

Their little Bunny was an angel of her own right. She was a real wonder and Kenji and Ikuko had been prepared to someday see her marry a nice young man and go to have her own family, but they never even dreamed that she would go almost across the world at the tender age of 15.

They knew something big had hapened as Usagi came home last night with a deep bleeding gash on her right arm and demanded they call Setsuna to ask her if she could come with her to France. Kenji had been angry at first and strted scolding Usagi for having such alien ideas, then started to inerrogate her about what happened to her arm. Ikuko had been standing at the livingroom door together with Shingo, neither knowing if they were afraid of provoking Kenji of Usagi, further.

Then happened that which both, Ikuko and Shingo had felt would happen but didn't quite know what it was that made them stay silent in the matter. Usagi's voice though calm and low mannaged to shut Kenji up the moment the word "Father" left her lips.

That was Usagi from almost 2 years ago, before she started acting like a crybaby. That was the calm, colected Usagi who almost never raised her voice, the Usagi who had such a commanding and respect demanding air around her that she had perfect control over every person around her and every situation she found herself in. That was the perfect lady, the princess-like apperience that had dissapeared almost 2 years ago on the day Usagi came home fuming over the first failed test of her life and a young man who dared to call her "Odango Atama".

Ikuko would never forget that day in her life. It had changed her little Usagi completely.

The next day Usagi had woken up late and run a mad dash to school, but was late anyway and got detention. That was when Usagi brought home the black cat, Luna. That was also the time Usagi started waking up late, getting detention almost every day and her grades began getting worse and worse. She also started wailing and crying about the littlest things and not to mention the klutz attacks. Usagi had changed so drastically and quickly that Kenji and Ikuko never knew what hit them.

Last night has been the top of it all.

Usagi had sat down with them and Shingo and slowly explained to them that she was the city's most praised heroine, Sailor Moon. And to top it all she was also the Moon Princess, the golden haired maiden from the moon whom legends had so sung highly about. Luna could talk and was, once upon a time, the royal counsler of the Moon Queen.

Usagi explained to them also that she changed so much simply because she didn't want the other Senshi, when she finally found them, to be intimated by her. Even though she always had known it, she never told her Senshi or Luna that she indeed was Serenity, the princess they were looking for. She had hoped they could with the time forget their quest and wouldn't have to fight. Usagi had been ready to sacrifice everything for her friends and had done so, too. She had used her Silver Crystal so they maybe could live a normal life, when reborn again.

But she couldn't give up on her beloved Prince and had done everything for him to remember their past and come back to her.

But eventually she seemed to find out that her friends never loved her as much as she loved them and they thought her to be a failure as the Princess just because she had given up on her manners for them to feel more comfartable around her.

And then there was Mamoru, or Prince Endymion of Earth, who just couldn't seem to live with the fact that Usagi was the comlete opposite of the demure Princess he fell in love with.

If only he knew...

After telling them her story Usagi had once again insisted Ikuko called her cousin Setsuna and ask her to take Uasgi with her to France, where the unhappy Moon Princess could begin a new life.

Ikuko had agreed and called Setsuna who was sceptical at first but took Usagi in after Usagi had spoken to her. About what Ikuko didn't know.

Setsuna would come with her adopted daughter Hotaru in a few minutes to take Usagi to France with them...

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

The Senshi, Mamoru and Chibi-Usa came running to Usagi's house.

There were a lot of people in the front yard, Usagi's parents and her little brother, a pretty woman who looked slightly younger then Ikuko Tsukino, a black haired girl about Shingo's age, a tall blonde young man maybe a little younger then Mamoru, an aquamarine haired girl the same age and a blode girl with braided hair who was hugging Shingo. But Usagi was nowhere to be seen.

Chibi-Usa seemed to be the first one to run up the drive-way.

"Ikuko-mama, where is Usagi?!"

The others took up after her.

They came to a halt when the blonde man laid a hand on the blonde girl's shoulder and spoke up:

"Odango, they are looking for you."

The Senshi and Mamoru flinched lightly. That was Usagi?!

Then the girl turned around. It indeed was Usagi!

Her golden hair was pulled up in a high pony-tail which in turn was braided in a thick braid that was thrown over her right shoulder, lightly touching her hip. She wore a chineese styled, sleeveless white camisole with golden edges a golden dragon on the back, as well as a long white skirt with a golded sash tied around her hips and reaching down to her skirt-clad knees. Little golded slippers adorned her feet.

She looked every inch the royal Princess she was.

She spoke calmly and quietly to the young man :

"I would really appreciate it if you didn't call me that, Haru-chan. And they can look for me all they want, I have nothing to say to them. As my Senshi they hurt me too bad to forgive them. But could you, please give them this?"

Darien watched iddly as the blonde man, now known as Haru-chan walked up to Makoto and presented her with Usagi's LunaPen an communicator. Not quite realizing what was going on, Mamoru kept his eyes on Usagi who was seating herself in one of the three cars.

Luna has almost given him an heart-attack that morning as she jumped on his chest in an ungoldy hour, demanding he get up because the Senshi were coming. Still quite sleepy he transformed into Tuxedo Mask, thinking it was a droid attack. First when Luna "slapped" him upside the head and told him that she just wanted to tell them something important did he really wake up.

The news of Usagi leaving hit him like a thunderstorm from a clear sky. He never thought she would leave them, even as she gave her compact to Chibi-Usa and said that Sailor Moon doesn't exist anymore, was he sure she would come back when the Senshi and Luna menaged to talk some sense into her. But as he heared that Usagi has already packed her bags and her mother's cousin was coming to take her away he thought he was having a nightmare. Then Luna told them what Usagi told her parents the night before and what Shingo told Luna about a Usagi from two years ago, and that was when he thought he had gone crazy and was just hearing things.

How could a man belive that his beloved little klutz in reallity was a Lady and that she kept her knowledge and her personality hidden because she thought they wouldn't feel comfortable around her?!

How was he to belive that his Odango Atama was better a princess then Princess Serenity of the Silver Millenium, that slept within her?

How was he to belive that he fell in love with a girl that doesn't really exist?

But most of all, how was he to believe that his Odango was going away, forever?!

Horrified by that thought, he called after her:

"Usako!!!"

She turned her head slightly and regarded him with a semi-cold look before answering with a voice that truly was not hers:

"I already told you that Usagi doesn't exsist anymore. Please keep that in mind and the fackt that you shouldn't call me 'Usako' even if my name was Usagi, simply because if I'm right, and I'm never wrong, you broke up with me. Now please, leave here so I can leave this land that has brought me nothing but pain. I wish my mother never begged the Silver Imperium Crystal to give us another chance of love and life in the future, because I'm certanlly better off death, knowing that my Prince and my Senshi loved me, then alive with the knowledge that they despised what I became to make life easier for them. Goodbye Mamo-chan, Endy...

My love for you shall not end, for I would die without loving you. Goodbye Minko, Rei, Amy and Makoto, I loved having you as friends and I always loved you as my sisters. Someday I shall forgive all your lies, but I'm afraid I shall never forget them. Maybe we will meet someday in life but if not, please see that you live, because even without me you shall be strong enough to defeat your enemies. Goodbye Chibi-Usa, you won, congratulations. You got what you wanted. But don't ever forget that I will never bow my head before you simply because I know I get what I want with my IQ and my charm, not my getting on everybody's nerves by simply exsisting. Have Mamo-chan if you want to, but remember that Princess Serenity had and has Prince Endymion's heart and soul in her palm and that those things you shall never have.

I wanted to leave without a goodbye, but you came here, so Goodbye and have a nice life..."

That's chapter 2,please tell me if you like it or not.

Thank you for all your reviews!

Jasmin