I am the Other: Chapter 4

(Finale)

"Motoki?" Usagi said.

"What's up?" he said placing a chocolate shake in front of her.

"You remember being on the moon, ne?"

"Yes. I assume its still bits and pieces for you." He stated.

"Yeah." She said then took a sip of the shake. "I wanna know what Endymion was like."

He took up a glass and began to clean it. "Anything specific?"

"Was he a flirt? Was he perverted? Was he a playboy? Was he sweet and quiet?"

"Hmm, let's see." He took up another glass to clean as he thought. "He was very quiet growing up but a fan club in his honour here was more than enough to loosen him up. When he realized he wasn't the awkward son of a handsome king and beautiful queen, he really took it to heart. The girls flocked him and he was happy to oblige."

"Much like he is now?"

"Yep. After his first visit to the moon, he completely changed. He spent the nights staring at the moon and the days hiding from the fan club, much to their disappointment."

"Was the age difference the same then as it is now?"

"Yes. He visited when he was fifteen, so that would make you ten."

"Really? I remember being ten – in this time – and I wasn't very pretty."

Motoki laughed. "I can say that after the first week of his constant sighing, we snuck back to take another peek at you. I realized that he hadn't been introduced to you formally because you were on your way out with your friends. He only saw you in passing. When he was spying on you, I saw nothing special about you."

"Motoki!" she whined.

"Hey! You wanted the truth. I thought you were a skinny girl with too long hair and too big, too blue eyes. He beat me up for my observations." He laughed at the memory.

"Serves you right. Picking on a girl five years your junior."

"Anyway," he continued after he got over laughing. "We never saw you again for three years and I don't know what happened in those three years, but all of a sudden, your hair was perfect, your eyes, perfect and your figure was to die for."

"By the way you're talking, it sounds like you had a crush on me."

"That I did. Endymion and my former self had a bit of an argument and an ongoing competition."

"You guys fought over me?"

"Like you wouldn't believe. The entire time we were there, we were supposed to be securing a treaty, we however, spent the time trying to win your favour."

"Do tell." She said intrigued.

"I was winning for the first few days. You took a liking to me instantly, while you never gave him the time of day. It bruised his ego to no end."

"Hmmm. Sounds like something I'd do."

"I was so happy that for once, the prince was playing the third wheel."

"So what changed?"

"Well, I don't really know, but soon, he was having all this private time with you and I was left to compete for the affections of Princess Aphrodite."

"Who?"

"Minako."

"You and Minako?"

"Kunzite was a worthy opponent."

"Kunzite? You mean Beryl's general Kunzite?"

"He wasn't always bad. He was chief of security to the prince just as Minako was yours."

"Interesting."

"Anyway, when I was not locked in battle with Kunzite, I was spying on you and Endymion. He always seemed to have you backed up against the wall, away from other prying eyes. I don't know what he was telling you but you had the cutest blush on your face." Usagi's face flushed as if on cue. "Exactly like that."

"Motoki!" she whined again.

"A few times, while I was talking to you, I would look away and you would be gone. After a few times of this happening, I realized he had been snatching you so that you two could enjoy make out sessions."

"I was thirteen. Wasn't I a bit young to be making out with a prince five years my senior?"

"In those days, you could've been married to him, if you wanted. Of course, your relationship was a secret. The earth and moon were still negotiating a treaty."

"Wouldn't a marriage take care of that easily?"

"Your mother, Queen Serenity did not want to use you as a bargaining chip. They all hoped you tow would decide on your own but it was not a necessity. It would've been a bonus."

"Back to Endymion."

"Yes. Quiet as a child, a playboy later then obviously, he took great pleasure in seducing you in dark corners. At public functions, he was your escort. A few times, it was obvious you were at odds. Other times, it seemed you two couldn't wait to slink off to some corner. At the dinner tables, he spent a great deal of time playing with your hair and from what I could assume, other parts of your body."

"He touched me, in public? Like that?"

"I don't think your parents realized but your friends and his friends realized. I think you returned the favour now and then. It amused me to see him completely surprised by your actions. I think he rubbed off on you a little."

"After that, you two were inseparable. He spent most of his time on the moon, often dragging me along. Not that I minded checking up on Minako. She is quite the charmer, you know. As Aphrodite, she had no problem stringing us weaker men along. I am quite pleased, Kunzite is no longer a problem for me now."

"You're going after Mina?"

"Oh no. I have gone and have come back a winner. This version of Aphrodite is surprisingly demure. It pleases me."

"So, did Endymion and I get married?"

"Unfortunately, no. When you turned fifteen, you two became public and arrangements for the ceremony were started but a noble of earth objected. He presented a document stating the prince was already betrothed to be married."

"To whom?"

"Princess Beryl."

"No." she said shocked. "Seriously?"

"She was a very beautiful and sweet girl. She adored Endymion and competed with you for his attention. She often got it."

"That fiend."

"That's where I came in to make him jealous. It worked. Often, I got a general to distract Beryl. That also worked."

"You're too good a friend to him."

"Yes. Yes. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to stop Beryl from going to the dark side and eventually becoming a vessel for the enemy. She walked in on you two – you know – don't make me say it."

"You mean – before we were married?"

"I guess the fact that the wedding was the next day was not soon enough for you two."

"How embarrassing." She said burying her face in her hands.

"And yet here you are talking to my best friend about it." Mamoru said surprising the two.

"Mamoru!" she said jumping up. "How long have you been there?"

"I've been sitting here for a while. I guess both of you were two engrossed in the dealings of my former self to realize my presence." He smirked.

"Or you wanted to hear what we were talking about."

"Either way, I was left out of a conversation about myself. I have to wonder what else you two talk about when I'm not here."

"Oh, that's easy. I complain about how you just don't do it for me anymore and I need to experience the goods out here. I was hoping to get Motoki to provide a free sample."

"Ha ha. Very funny." He said.

"Oh, I'm not joking." Usagi said managing a straight face. "I only wanted to know how much you were like Endymion to see if I could sneak around you."

"Motoki?"

"Hey, I'm the victim here." He said.

"Usako?"

"Don't worry, Mamoru, you're still my favorite tongue partner." Mamoru blushed had the grace to blush.

"Maybe I've been too much of an influence on you, Usako."

"What I just said isn't half as bad as what you said to me yesterday in your apartment."

"I'm a tad bit older than you. I can say certain things."

"So you're saying, because I'm still a bit young, I can't say the things that you say. But it's quite alright for you to say them to me?" she smiled. "That hardly seems fair. Maybe, I should get Motoki to say of that to me."

"You wouldn't dare."

"Or better yet, I'll say it to him." She leaned over the counter as a smiling Motoki moved to meet her. She was about to say something to his waiting ear when she found her mouth covered by a very warm hand and her waist trapped by another warm and obviously strong hand. Same hand pulled her back against a chiseled chest and abdomen.

"We'll see you later, Motoki. Tell Minako hello for us."

To passers-by, it seemed that he – Mamoru – was kidnapping a very young girl. Granted she was laughing and teasing him, he was very embarrassed.

"She got into her parents wine cabinet. I'm here to get her home safe." That got him smiles and nods all around as he placed her inside the car and buckled her in. "You cause me a lot of trouble you know that?"

"Wouldn't this be very boring if I didn't. I caused you trouble before we knew each other." The folded her arms and mocked pouted.

"If it wasn't for the fact that I'd be strung up by my toes, I'd kiss that very pretty bottom lip of yours and make it very hard for you to walk without blushing."

"Really? What could you possibly do that would make me do that?" she asked disbelieving him.

"I would-" he leaned into her and whispered words that had her blushing to her very toes. "And you'd still be a virgin." He finished.

"I'm not sure I know you. I'm not sure I even want to marry you anymore." She said.

"Oh you'll marry me, Serenity." He said and she could see his former self calling out to her former self yet still maintaining their present selves.

"I really wonder how you got me to like you instead of Motoki."

"You'll remember soon enough." He said. "One day, it'll just click."

"Mamoru, what did you do?"

"If you don't remember by the time we're married, I'll tell you." He walked to his side of the car and after securing himself drove home while she sang along with the radio.

"I still don't remember what you did. I'm seriously considering annulling this whole thing and going to find Motoki." She said while removing her diamond earrings followed by her tiara of the same.

"I'd enjoy watching you try to leave this room." H chuckled while removing his shoes and socks.

"I'm more powerful than you will ever be. I could stun you before you even know what hit you." She bragged.

"True, but I still have something against you. A sure fire way to get you to stay right here. The same way I did it when I first laid eyes on you as Endymion and as myself now."

"I'm dying of curiosity. How did you manage to steal me away? I know I'm not easy."

"You were a challenge and still are."

"What did you do?" she whined as he removed her shoes and came to sit with him on the bed.

"First I had to get you away from Motoki and his boyish charms. Since you were such a small girl, I had no problem snatching you and carrying you to where I wanted."

"Which was?"

"Your room."

"My room?"

"Your room. Nobody would bother the princess once she was in her room unless summoned."

"Of course you cursed me with all sorts of diseases."

"I guess it didn't work."

"See, I was banking on the fact that you were secretly fighting your attraction to me."

"And was I?"

"A little. So I was decided to be myself. All along, I had been trying to act like someone you would notice so I decided to be myself. Here I was eighteen, you thirteen and I was baffled as to how to win your affection so basically I jumped you."

"You jumped me."

"Yes. It seemed little Serenity was tired of everybody being so careful around her. You wanted someone to step on your toes and give you something you'd been craving. Adventure."

"You jumped me?" she said.

"I walked up to you, pinned you to the bed and whispered in your ears everything I thought of you from the first day I saw you and what I wanted to do to you. You slapped me of course."

"Damn right."

"Then I kissed you."

"You said I was the best kisser since your last boyfriend, Prince Demando."

"Me and Demando?"

"Apparently, you were quite the wild child. An angel yes but very adventurous."

"So I chose you because you gave me…adventure?"

"That and you couldn't you get enough of my kisses and sweet words."

"You cheated." She slapped him playfully. "Motoki was being all nice and gentlemanly and you seduced me."

"You can only be seduced if you were inclined to it. But I cannot take credit for the seduction. It was all you."

"Me?" she looked at him like he was crazy.

"As you told me," he said as he began to take off her wedding dress. "The very first day you saw me – the first day I arrived on the moon – I had been your target." He had her standing before him in a very sexy chemise that left everything and nothing to the imagination. His hands moved slowly over her arms as she leaned into him. "I was the prize of the five inner planets. As the Moon Princess, you had first shot. I was fair game. I had no chance going in." He kissed her shoulder, her neck, her ear. "Motoki was a pawn that was easily and skillfully traded off to Minako who also needed a pawn to make her intended jealous."

"Poor Motoki." She sighed as his lips brushed over hers.

"Oh no no no. He was right in his element. He relished being the object of jealously." He kissed her cheeks and the corner of her mouth and his hands caressed her back. Said hands moved up to tackle her meticulous meatballs. "But, Aphrodite was more than a match for him. He lost his heart in the game." He freed her hair and now ran his nimble fingers through them. The moaned in content. "But enough about them. I want to make good on some of my promises."

"What promises?"

"All my promises." He claimed her lips slowly while seducing her with his deep blue eyes that held such naughty promises.

"Ecchi!" she exclaimed once she had use of her lips. It came out slurred as his attention drugged her.

"And yours for a very long time." He stretched her out beneath him all the while the only contacts between them were their occupied lips and hands.

Like so many times before, his lips coaxed her playful, sensual side out of her. She couldn't help the delicious sounds that his willing mouth drew and swallowed from her. She couldn't help that her hands just wanted to live in his silky black mane. She also couldn't help said hands from copping a feel of his ass that looked so damn good in jeans.

"Naughty." He said nipping her bottom lip then soothing it with his tongue.

"I learned from the best." She moaned into his neck when his lips found her neck and began to lavish it with attention. "I swear, if you leave a mark-"

"Don't worry," he said soothing the area. "I won't leave it where anybody else can see." He allowed her to remove – no – tear his shirt off sending buttons flying. Her hands seemed to memorize his chest and abs while her lips sought to do the same. A quick tug of her silken locks showed her where he wanted her lips to be – pressed firmly against his.

"I love you, Usagi." He said after brushing his lips over hers.

"I hope you aren't trying to tell me that's it." She pouted. He was unmoving above her, positioned to enter her after a wondrous eternity of foreplay.

"You're such a tease." He said when she surreptitiously scooted down so that his tip was pressing even more against her. He kissed her lips and began a rhythm designed to bring the skin to burning, to make the senses obsolete, to shatter the nerves until all that was perceived was that deep movement – in, out, in out. His kissed seared into her soul, his touches scorched her and yet still she begged for more of him.

"More." She said when she felt him holding back.

"Greedy much?" he ground out as the pressure intensified between them.

"I will have all of you." She managed through her heavy pants. She dug her fingers into his hard, muscled back and rose to meet him thrust for thrust. Her legs left their former position to wrap around the hips she loved so much forcing him deeper and tearing a groan from him.

"You'll be the death of me, Odango." He teased even though it was all he could do to form a thought. She growled – as best she could – and dug her teeth into his shoulder drawing a hiss from him. Their movements intensified as they climbed, stretched and reached for the sweet oblivion. He claimed her lips in a bone melting kiss while one hand sought out that secret spot nestled in her short curls. The other secured her lips to him while finding solace in her golden crown. She moaned into his mouth, the only way she could express her pleasure and need for release. She anchored herself to him, her sweat drenched skin slapping against his own in a sexy, primal sound. She tore her mouth away from him as she clenched around him, drawing from him his own release. The sensation rolled over her as he thrust a few more times into her clenching temple.

She sighed in complete content as they rested against each other, exhaustion filling them.

"Wow." She breathed. "You're pretty good."

"Pretty good?" He looked at her. "Obviously I haven't done my best yet." He rolled over to start the whole process again. "You'll be singing a different song after tonight, Chiba Usagi."

"If you do it like that again, I don't think I'll be doing much of anything, much less sing." She smiled and traced his jaw with her index before sinking it into his mouth. "By the way, before I lose my ability to speak, I love you too." She kissed him sweetly then hungrily and the whole thing started again.

In love with me,

But never me.

Seeing me

Yet never seeing.

Holding, touching, kissing – always me.

Yet thinking of another – still loving me.

I loved you but you loved another.

It's hard when there is another in your heart

It's so much harder when the other woman…

Is me. I am the other.