Title: Cat Got Your Tongue
Author: Princess Destiny
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Couple: Usagi/Mamoru and Kuzite/Venus
Rating: M 15+
Summary: 'One Hour Challenge' #67: Response Fanfic. When the Dark Kingdom changes Tuxedo Kamen into a cat, a lot of troubles are caused and secrets revealed. Now Motoki's help has to be called on to play a dangerous game.
Chapters: 4/?
Status: Unfinished
Year Started: 2007
Year Revised: 2011
Year Completed: N/A

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CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE

By Princess Destiny

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Chapter Four

"Odango Atama?" He gasped, eyes going huge. His tail puffed out and his ears went flat to his skull. Tuxedo Kamen had just received the shock of his life. He stared incredulously at the familiar blonde face above him and wondered when his world had collapsed from under him.

"Ah-I thought it was you." Usagi nodded knowledgably at the small cat, her suspicions confirmed. Only two people ever called her by that name, and seeing as Rei had coined it from him, it was a likely deduction. Her pretty face moved closer to his till their eyes met. "You're Mamoru, aren't you?"

She'd figured that out? The small golden cat suddenly felt extremely humbled. Even through his shock, he appreciated the Senshi of the Moon's intelligence. This was no blonde stereotype, but an intelligent young girl who would have rivaled Mercury.

When he was silent, a frown drew her brows together. Could she have miscalculated? Was this cat not Chiba Mamoru after all? "Am I wrong?" She asked hesitantly, biting her lower lip.

He was a pervert and no doubt! His head lowered in shame to her amble bosom, Mamoru wished the ground would open up and swallow him. She had been so brave in revealing who she really was to him, and all he'd thought of was how naked she had been a few moments before. "No, you're right, Usagi." He told her, looking up into her concerned eyes.

Usagi gave a sigh of relief, which she freely let him view. With him, she could be herself as she had always been able to be. The girls had never understood her and that was very clear by their cold dismissal of her duty as their Leader. "You're taking this awfully calmly, Mamoru." She remarked dryly, noting the slightly-wild look in his eyes. His tail was slowly going back to it's normal size and she could feel the tension in his muscles relaxing.

"It may sound very weird at this moment, but who else in the entire world can you be your true self with?" Mamoru said quietly, his eyes intent on her face.

The blonde girl nodded and continued to head towards home. She felt like crying, but that was what the others expected her to do. She would never again be restrained by how others expected her to act. "They-abandoned me so quickly." She mumbled, sinking into a daze. It had to be all a bad dream, but somehow she had considered that this would happen one day.

The golden cat scowled. "Backstabbers, the lot of them." He refused to remember that he had not been so dissimilar not long ago. Mamoru had always thought both Usagi and Sailor Moon were air-headed blonde's, completely oblivious to the world around them. "What have you been hiding from them?" He wondered aloud.

Usagi smiled at him, knowing he was trying to cheer her up. His little furry face was so cute when it was anxious! "Karate, gymnastics, better grades...I'm trying to improve on all my imperfections."

The cat was impressed. Very much so. "All of that, and Luna never noticed?" He questioned. They had said that Luna was Usagi's guardian and that she had lived with the girl. How had she not noticed, even something as simple as Usagi doing her homework now?

"I suppose it's because she was off training Mars." The blonde's voice was distant. Her arms tightened about Tuxedo Kamen, trying to get comfort from his furry little body. It was going to be very weird having a guy living with her. And she wasn't sure yet what she was going to tell her parents about exchanging one cat for another. Shingo had enough problems with his cat phobia before Luna used her powers on him. "I did think that she was going missing quite a lot, but Luna was never an ordinary cat. She didn't stay at home when I was in school, and went off to do who knows what."

"Luna has been keeping secrets herself." Mamoru noted dryly, mind going over it all. The Senshi hierarchy was a lot more complicated than he had expected. A cat was actually in charge of the girl fighting team. A cat that was going to very soon be regretting her decision to depose her original charge. "Usagi, you've been holding yourself back, right?"

The blonde girl looked both ways before running across the street before the traffic lights changed. "I really have." She said with feeling. "Not that I haven't been pulling my weight with the battles, but as you can see, they mostly expect me to stay to the back until I can use my tiara to dust the youma." She shrugged ruefully, but was really battling her hurt inside. They didn't trust her to do a good job, and that was clear by their actions towards her. Even when they weren't transformed, she was spoken down to, and left out of important things. The other three girls had a study group that they had never thought to invite Usagi to.

"You should show your true potential. They'll never appreciate what they threw away if you don't show them." He said wisely. Mamoru should really practice what he preached. He pulled a face, and felt his whiskers twitch. Was there really a way to change him back or would he be stuck as a cat forever?

"Well change you back." Usagi soothed, able to divine what he was thinking. His eyes were very expressive. Like Luna's. But thinking about her furry ex-adviser really hurt, so she quickly suppressed it. Holding onto a sense of betrayal would give her nothing but heartache. She had to live with it and move on. Perhaps it was time to leave the Senshi... They obviously did not need her. It would be interesting to see if they could make the Moon Wand work for their purposes, but she was pretty sure no one else could use it. "Zoisite was behind it happening, so she can undo it."

Zoisite? Mamoru looked up into her face doubtfully. "You're going to force Zoisite to do a good deed?"

"I can threaten her with the Moon Wand. I'm not entirely sure how the use it yet, but I'll try harder now." The blonde gave him a tiny smile and became lost in her thoughts again. The cat settled back trustingly into her arms and didn't bother her.

A few minutes later, the girl dashed into an alley and transformed back into Sailor Moon again. He was baffled until she explained that she really wanted to get home quickly, before she cried in public. She had almost detransformed to show Mamoru who she really was. Her eyes were already damp and her mouth trembling from the strain of it all. The cat nodded and let her hold him as they took to the rooftops and made their way towards her home.

The Sailor Senshi and her furry companion landed on the roof of a two story house in the suburbs and as the red booted feet came to a halt, Mamoru realized that this must be her house. The cat looked around in interest, noting the large backyard with lots of flowers and plants. Someone in the family had a green thumb. He turned an inquiring look to Sailor Moon and was about to ask her about it when she answered.

The blonde girl had seen what Tuxedo Kamen had been looking at and smiled. "Mom loves to plant and grow things. She's a lot like Makoto." Her happiness slowly faded and her blue eyes grew shadowed. She sighed and looked away. Talking, or even thinking about her best friends really hurt a lot at that moment. She felt their betrayal sharply, as if a knife had been shoved slowly into her heart and twisted.

"I'm sorry to have brought that up." Mamoru said gently, rising up on his paws slightly to rub the top of his head along the curve of her neck, up to her chin. He wasn't exactly sure what was prompting these movements of affection towards the blonde, who was both the girl he loved to rescue, and the girl he loved to argue with. Maybe it was a cat thing?

Sailor Moon's lips curved slightly. "Hey, your don't need to walk on eggshells around me, Mamoru." She teased him. "If there has always been something about our relationship that I have valued greatly, it was how honest we are when we talk. Whatever you want to tell me, is entirely welcome."

What an amazing girl! The golden eyes stared up at her with pride, and then he settled back into her arms. He had considered that the relationship between himself and the annoying younger blonde to be a rather unique one, and apparently she had too. Usagi was entirely correct in her assessment. They had always been able to say absolutely anything, no matter how brutally honest, and neither had taken offence. If he had spoken that way to Motoki, or the Odango to Rei or one of the other girls, they would definitely have ruined their friendship.

"Hold on, Mamoru." The Senshi advised him, head tilted slightly to the side as she tried to hear something. "I need to jump down to the kitchen and look inside to see if Mom is here. She does go shopping in the afternoon around this time, but we should keep you hidden until I can figure out something."

Mamoru nodded and relaxed, trusting that the girl could keep him safe. He had noticed almost immediately that she was very used to carrying a cat, most likely Luna, in her arms. The way the small girl had her arms about him protectively, hands gentle but firm on his body. She would be a good Mother one day... His golden eyes blinked in surprise at that inane thought, but he realized that it was absolutely true.

As the girl and cat leapt to the ground, keeping close to the brick wall and sidling under the kitchen window near some glass sliding doors, the upperclassman saw how different even her movements were from the old Sailor Moon. She flowed gracefully, smoothly like some great panther. Tuxedo Kamen had long admired how Sailor Mars had always moved the same way, but her former Leader had far surpassed her. Why had he never noticed?

After their talk on the way to her home, the blonde had revealed that although she had been exaggerating her clumsiness and had needed to be rescued by him, the girl was not much like she had been when she was younger or even a few months ago. She had been getting more and more confident with her body thanks to the martial arts and secret training she had done in the dead of night. Sailor Moon had told him that she was very frustrated by her own body, and that because she was still growing, it did not always do what she wanted. Mamoru could related, being so tall. In the Orphanage, he had been made fun of by the other kids, who saw his long limbs and stumbling as a source of amusement. It had been many years before he had grown out of his gawkiness and become a strong, confident guy.

Balancing on a light pole, whilst throwing roses, was not an easy task, no matter how you looked at it!

The blonde turned her body to the wall, head coming up to peer into the kitchen window with only her eyes showing. She looked left and right and then strained her ears to hear if her Mom was inside. The cat in her arms stretched up too, paws resting on the sill. "Can you hear her?" Sailor Moon whispered into a fury ear, noting with interest when it twitched as her breath stirred the small fine hairs.

"Hang on a second." He muttered back, turning his head slightly, then back the other way as the feline tried to use his new sharp senses. He listened hard, but could not detect any movement in the house. Mind you, it had been extremely hard to concentrate! He could hear cars on the road, some music from a house nearby, insects buzzing around, birds chirping in trees. There was just far too many things that Mamoru could now hear in the world that had meant little to his human self. His golden eyes went flat as an ant crawled out of a crack on the window sill and walked slowly across under his intent stare.

Sailor Moon noticed his attention had wandered and she picked the cat up under his arms, turning him to her face to face. "Mamoru, as amusing as that was, can you tell me if you heard my Mom inside?" Her voice was rich with suppressed laugher and he had the good grace to blush.

"Umm," The golden cat looked down from her face, so close to his, and he felt extremely embarrassed. "No, I couldn't hear anyone inside." He told her quietly, unable to meet her eyes. When he focused his eyes and saw that he was staring down at her breasts from above, pressed up as if by a wonder-bra in her fuku, his blush went up several levels into a fiery red color.

"Mamoru!" The Senshi gasped out, following his gaze and seeing what he was. "Are you some kind of pervert?" She demanded, holding him up over her head so that his hind paws dangled ungracefully.

"Er-no. No, I wasn't before at least." The superhero groaned and wished he could cover his face with a paw from her accusing stare up at him. "Since I became a cat, things have been sort of weird." The golden-eyed feline admitted.

Sailor Moon's hard look faded abruptly and she grinned. She brought the cat down to her chest and pressed him to her bosom with studied innocence. She heard a groan and chuckled. "Everything looks sort of bigger from your viewpoint, huh Tuxedo?" She asked him slyly.

Mamoru stared at her, and then he frowned. It felt weird doing it from his fury face, but maybe he wasn't just any other cat. Luna had seemed to be able to display quite human expressions. "Are you teasing me?" He demanded, wishing he could cross his arms and glare down at her like he had been used to do during a fight with Odango Atama. From her words, he had been able to divine that the blonde had been entirely aware of his fixation with her amazing cleavage, and now she was pressing him against it! What a wicked, evil girl this was. But somehow, fury face resting on the curve of one of her breasts, he couldn't seem to summon real anger. This was a side of Sailor Moon, and even Usagi, that he had never seen before!

"I am teasing you, Mamoru. I'm sorry." She told him solemnly. "Sometimes, I wonder...Do you ever have the feeling as if you're someone else?"

The golden cat mulled over that one as the Senshi made her way around the side of the house, through the carport and into the front yard to the base of a large tree. "Sometimes, I do feel as if I'm two different guys inside." He admitted to her. He had never even told Motoki about that, and his best friend knew all about his secret identity. Mamoru was telling her the truth though. It did, at times, feeling like he was fighting with two very different personalities inside. It was interesting to hear that it was the same with the blonde.

"Weird." Sailor Moon whispered to him, eyes lost in thought. But then she looked up at the tree and then down at him with a considering expression in her eyes. "How are you at climbing?"

The golden feline looked from the blonde's face to her bedroom window. He measured the distance, and paled. It had been easy to scale a tree when he was six feet tall and could fly. As a cat, maybe he could do it, but he had only been turned into one an hour or so ago! "No way." Mamoru said flatly, laying his ears back against his head. His fur was bristling and he couldn't seem to control the angry switching of his tail.

"Luna isn't here to hypnotize my family, Mamoru." The Senshi replied reasonably, her deep blue eyes looking into his in calm. "You'll be a natural, jumping up to the window." She had to keep the golden cat a secret until Luna could come over to her house and hypnotize the family into thinking that the former superhero had been her cat, and not the black one.

Golden eyes were filled with ire as he measured the distance from the ground to the window above. He would kill himself for sure. And here he had been thinking she was so smart! The cat struggled to be free of her hands, but she somehow divined his intent to bolt and he found himself pressed more firmly against her breasts. For a moment, he was lost in a haze of happiness. He now had enough fodder for his wet dream to last him a few years!

But that wasn't the point. The blonde was sending him on a suicide mission! "There is absolutely no way-" Mamoru began heatedly.

"Or I can slip you into my sub-space pocket." The Senshi of the Moon mused with a rather clinical look in her eyes.

It froze his blood, and he almost had a heart attack. The golden feline could just see the headlines now; Tuxedo Kamen murdered by the girl he was crushing on, trapped in the body of a cat. Usagi was really...bloodthirsty this way. If only the Senshi could see what they'd done to her. Even if she had been changing long before they had forced her to step down as the Leader of the Sailor Senshi, her inhibitions had been entirely freed of the air-headed girl she had been pretending to be.

Mamoru knew exactly what a subspace pocket was, as he kept his roses in there. Just thinking of the dark, empty space made his heart freeze in his chest. "I'll be going up now." He said quickly, tensing his muscles to leap out of her arms.

But then, Sailor Moon's grip grew tighter and she kissed his forehead. "I'm sorry, Mamoru. I was only kidding." She whispered, eyes filling with tears. She was angry and upset and her need to avoid explaining another cat to her parents, and the betrayal of her friends, had forced out her callousness. She wasn't like that usually.

The feline's eyes grew sad as he saw the Senshi he cared for was barely holding it all together. Despite their banter, she was ready to break. "Don't worry, Odango." The cat replied, very relieved that she had been joking. He had been concerned for life and limb for a minute. He was filled again with a murderous rage for what the other Senshi and Luna had done and vowed to take revenge on her behalf one day. Usagi was too gentle and loved her friends too dearly for her to ever do so herself. Those bitches didn't deserve her.

The blonde sniffed and blinked back her tears. She felt embarrassed at being so weak in front of Mamoru, but knew that he would understand. That had always been the wonderful thing about Chiba Mamoru. They had always been honest with their feelings towards each other, and strangely, they were very close. Usagi had not realized that fact till right then. "Huh. That made me feel better for some reason." She said, smiling. "Calling me Odango, I mean."

"You like me teasing?" Mamoru was very surprised at this. He had thought that she hated his pet name for her, but it had somehow given Usagi comfort. He was glad. If he had been a human right then, he would have been drawing her into his arms for a warm hug. His eyes went to her chin for a few seconds, the weirdest need to lick her comfortingly had entered into his head. Another cat thing?

Sailor Moon detransformed as she crouched behind some bushes and he had to quickly shut his eyes against her nakedness. The cat had gawked at her in disbelief and then he had slapped a paw over his face. Did she know about that? Probably not. And another really humiliating fact about being a cat. There was absolutely no way to hide the fact that he had been turned on by seeing her bare body. With a horrified glance between his fury legs, he had scampered to the wall and hunched down into a small ball, willing himself to calm down.

Usagi gave him a weird look as she picked up the bundle of fur and put him into the crook of her arm, but she had not asked what he was doing.

The blonde pulled out some keys from her sub-space pocket and unlocked the front door. She closed it behind her rather warily, blue eyes going around the room. She relaxed when she saw it was quiet and the lights were all off. Mamoru had great senses now as a cat! Even more than herself as a Senshi.

The golden cat lifted his head and sniffed, picking up the scent of several people. To his surprise, he was able to distinguish two males, one very young, an older female. "You have a little Brother?" He asked her, a little angry with himself that he had never asked her about her family in the last year he had known the Odango Atama. Sure, they usually fought, but Mamoru thought he had known her as well as her friends. Then again, Usagi gad never asked him about his family either.

"Mmm, Shingo." The small girl nodded at him absently, then she took him to a large framed picture on the wall.

He saw an older man with dark hair and eyes, and a little boy with his looks and much lighter hair. The woman had blue hair, like Ami and the cat frowned. "Your Mother doesn't look like you. In fact, neither does your dad or Brother." Mamoru gazed from the picture to the blonde and back, but it didn't seem to add up. Shingo did also have a look of his Mother about his features, but Odango didn't look like either of the Tsukino's.

"I know..." Usagi murmured, frowning also. She headed for the stairs to take the cat up to her room. "I'm definitely not adopted though. It has always been a strange thing. But Shingo didn't come out with blue hair either. My parents never could explain how their daughter was born with golden hair."

"My parents-neither of them had blue eyes." Mamoru felt as if he should share something, because he felt such unhappiness from the blonde. It was as if she was saddened by the fact that she didn't look like the rest of her family.

She looked at him quickly, and then flashed him a soft smile in appreciation. "Thank you, Mamoru." She said as she walked down the hall and opened a white door. They went in and Usagi closed her door firmly behind her back and locked it.

The two of them stared about her bedroom, the cat's golden eyes going huge at the girly decor. Yeah, this was what he would have expected of Odango Atama, but not exactly with the new personality that she had revealed.

"Your room is sort of-" Scary, he wanted to say. "Nice. Cute." He winced and wondered if she had caught his lie. A look into her amused blue eyes, and he wondered how he ever thought this girl brainless. She had a fine humor and an amazing sense of irony.

"Isn't it?" Usagi walked over to the bed and set him down gently onto the plush covers. She sat down beside him and took off her shoed, pushing them under the bed. Her deep blue eyes went around the room, taking in everything. "It's cute and pink and fuzzy, and just the type of nice normal room an air-headed blonde teen might have." Her tone was somewhat satisfied. "I prefer silver actually. Or maybe purple or deep green."

Her room was a deliberate set up? Looking about at the dozens of stuffed toys, pink curtains with yards of lace, throw cushions, dresser, bunny wall paper-Mamoru had to admire her gall. This must have cost her parents an arm and leg to outfit. "Wow." The cat whispered in awe. This girl was so sneaky and smart, it was absolutely terrifying.

"It's okay," The blonde Senshi hesitated, feeling bad about having encouraged her parents to think she was someone different. "Actually, I used to like this, so it's not like I did it on purpose. I just-exaggerated a little. My gushing is very good." She grinned in pride.

Mamoru's eyes widened incredulously as she pouted her lips at him, batted her eyes coyly and spoke in a vapid tone. "Ooh! I just love that bunny! And it's pink. Oh my god, I'll just die if I don't have some new Manga. Oh, and I'm really happy to eat anything and everything."

Usagi's face fell, her lips drooping unhappily and her hands clenching in her laps. "I've become so sarcastic and yucky, Mamoru." She said in dismay. She had been hiding her real personality from everyone, but sometimes she really hated what she was turning into. Sometimes, the blonde felt cold and impersonal inside, watching everything with an assessing eye, weighing her responses and reactions. As if she were someone else entirely. And now that her 'friends' had thrown her callously from her position as Leader of the Senshi, she felt...betrayed. Distant. Ice cold.

Was it from shock, or was her real personality emerging?

"No, I was like that too." Mamoru admitted something that he had not even told to Motoki. "My parents died and I cried all the time, but then I closed off my emotions." The cat was momentarily embarrassed to be saying all of this. To Odango Atama no less, the girl he loved to fight with. But she was Sailor Moon, and that somehow made it all right. "You know how I am. I don't let anyone close, I love to argue with you and tease you-and I'm most definitely the most sarcastic person I know."

Usagi's mouth parted in astonishment and then she gave him a lovely smile. "Thank you, jerk. I somehow feel better now." He was actually pretty sweet under that cynicism. His parents had died? How sad. When had it happened? How long had he been alone? Mamoru must have been in orphanages if it had happened a while ago. Come to think of it, she thought she had overheard something to that fact a few times when he was talking to Motoki.

"Well...we can both improve ourselves." She announced, slapping her hands together. A bewildered look crossed the blonde's face as she eyed the bed. "Oh dear, what are we going to do about sleeping arrangements?" Hmm, Luna did sleep on the end of the bed, but Mamoru was actually a guy in a cat's body. There were naked things to consider. Also, he had to be advised that she had nightmares a lot and her Guardian usually ended up flying into a wall from an involuntary kick.

"I'm a cat-I can sleep anywhere now." The feline muttered rather sourly. But he got the drift of what Usagi was saying. She had to get undressed and things. And she was only fifteen and already having a guy stay the night in her room. Sort of. Mamoru was still a guy inside for crying out loud! And she was someone he had deep feelings for. Could he help how many times his eyes went to her impressive bosom? Nope.

"We can work out something." The cat promised, telling himself over and over, he would not perve on her as she slept. When had his morals dropped so low?

Usagi stared down at him, eyebrows raised as she divined some of his perverted thoughts. She was certain that Mamoru had no idea that he was blushing whenever thinking about naughty things. "I can always blindfold you." She told him with an evil grin.

His look of chagrin was worth the trouble.

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