TIME SKIP! Aren't you excited? I am :3 The Sailor Moon fuku is mainly *darkthewise's idea, watch him on deviantART! He's amazing :D I altered it a little to fit my story and so it wasn't totally stealing :3 ^_^' I also don't know a lot about how colleges work, let alone Japanese ones, so I'm just kinda making it as if it were like a high school ^^' Sorry, y'all, I know, it's gay, but that's all I know. This college will also have a cafeteria o_O Sailor Moon is owned by Naoko Takeuchi and TOEI Animation :3

~Time Skip~

~3 years later~

~Over the past three years, Tsukino Usagi, age 18, had been abused, beaten, and heartbroken, as she had not been allowed contact with her closest friends back in Tokyo, thus forcing her into a personality very different from the one Chiba Mamoru fell in love with. The girl had cut her hair to knee length, putting it in a bun everyday for school, straightening it on her days off, dip-dying it black once a month. She had to buy new clothes, as she grew so much that none of the ones she brought fit anymore. Her new clothes consisted of a black turtleneck, black skinny jeans (the denim kind that look cool, more like a really dark grey, not the cotton kind that are pure black), a black denim jacket (matching her jeans) and a pair of black knee high boots with many belts on them. On her torso, she wears two belts, on her arms, she wears four belts each, on her thighs, she wears one each, and on her jeans, she wears one with silver studs. On her ears, she wore silver skull earrings on her lobes, with black chains hanging and connecting to black cuff near the top of her ear. She does not wear make-up, except to cover her scars. To school, she chooses to wear the winter uniform, long sleeves and floor-length skirt, but still just like the original uniform. Her height is 5'5", her bust is 45", her waist is 24", her hips 36". Her natural hair color is a light blonde, her eyes a true blue. Her fuku consists of a white leotard turtle neck extend up farther onto her face like a ninja mask, a blue cape with five red stripes, a blue sash with tails gently curling to the floor. Her choker is red with a golden crescent moon with a star in it. Her brooch, as she's transformed, is a golden star with a small golden crescent moon on the bottom, with wings instead of a bow. Her gloves reach up to almost her underarm, with red tubes and the white feather clips on them, which she can use as a weapon, called "Moon Kunai". She has the same feather clips on top of her head. She has small white wings and a large blade on her back in the shape of a crescent. She has thigh high red boots with white belts on the top that have golden crescent moons on them. Her earrings are golden crescent studs with golden stars dangling from them. The Silver Crystal is placed on the back of her right hand.~

~As for Chiba Mamoru, age 22, he became the "king" of his college, every one knew exactly who he was. Everyone looked up to him as an athlete, as a scholar and a tutor, as a helper, as a friend. His hair was parted from the left, part of his hair covering his right eye. (Going to real people, look up Josh Farro, Former lead guitarist of Paramore, present lead guitarist of Novel American, fashion and hair are just like Mamoru's. I have a bad habit of drawing hair in the eyes ^^' But Mamoru ends up cutting his hair to match Josh's short hair, a little while later. I'll write it I guess :3) He is 6'0", and his normal style is either a v-neck or a coloured dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up with a tie and a vest with skinny jeans and low-top converse. His hair is black with natural blue highlights, and his eyes are sapphire blue. His Tuxedo is white with lavender accents.~

~March 31, 2015~

~Graduation Day, Tenth District High, Tokyo~

~Minako's POV~

Wow, if only Usagi could be here! And I know Artemis misses Luna, he hasn't been the same since they left. As a matter of fact, neither has Mamoru. Mamoru is here, though. Rei's graduation is tomorrow, so we can all go to that. But really, nothing has been the same since Usagi left! I wonder what she would think of us if she saw us now. Who knows, maybe she'll come visit! I really hope so. We've been devastated without our Princess to guide us. She's probably graduating today, too. I hope she's doing okay. I wonder if she changed a lot? Maybe she changed so much she forgot about us. Maybe she forgot about the Soldiers altogether, like we would have long ago, had it not been for your everyday criminals and Peach Hips, our band. We let Mamoru join, too. We're currently the most popular band over all of Japan. I feel like a Threelight, because most of our songs are to our Princess, Tsukino Usagi. Doesn't she hear us singing to her? It's so frustrating when the person you love most won't respond to your pleadings. Mamoru says we need to have patience, but I've seen him breaking down, slowly. One day, I think he'll crack and go crazy. It worries me. It worries all of us. Oh, who am I kidding? Inside, we're all bad. Breaking down. Going crazy. Ready to give up and cry. Oh, Princess, please come back to us!

~March 30, 2015~

~The night before Graduation, Kyoto~

~Usagi's POV~

I take a deep breath and hope for the best. I'm not allowed to speak unless spoken to. I swallow, and rap on her office door three times.

"Who is it?"

"This is Usagi, Grandmother."

She pauses. "Come in," she spits.

I slowly turn the door knob and push it in. I slide in and stand perfectly straight against the back wall. I'm not allowed to sit down unless she tells me to.

"Well, you must have something important to say, although I can't imagine what it might be. Go on, say it."

I take another deep breath, and look her straight in the eye. I won't do anything rash even though it's the last day. "Well, Grandmother, as you are probably aware, I graduate from high school tomorrow."

"So?"

"So, I was hoping to leave and go back home directly afterwards."

"And what do I care? Frankly, I'll be happy to have you out of my hair." As expected from her. "Do it. I don't care. Keep the futon, too, I won't want it since I know who's been sleeping in it the past three years."

"Thank you very much for this wonderful gift and your permission," to get out of this hell hole. "I will be gone before noon day tomorrow," happily speeding away in Akira's car with her illegal licence. She lied about her age, saying she was a year older than she actually is. Using a bit of her late guardian's fortune, she bought herself an electric blue 2015 Ford Mustang GT. She doesn't have insurance on it yet, she's waiting until we get back to Tokyo.

"Leave me to my business, you horrible excuse of a woman."

"Yes, Grandmother. I shall take my leave." No matter what crap she throws at me, I'm expected to keep a poker face and be super polite. I slide back out the door and softly shut it.

"What were you talkin' to her about, Onee-chan?"

I turn to see my little brother, Shingo. He's 15 years old, and filling out very nicely. He's 5'8", just a little taller than Akira. "I'm leaving tomorrow."

"Huh? Where?"

"Home, little bro. You've probably been turning a blind eye to it, but people aren't exactly pleasant towards me here. This place is my personal hell. I'm gonna try to return to my old life."

"Ah, I see. Well, it'll get a little lonely, but I guess if that's what you need to do..."

"Thanks for understanding. Sorry, kid."

He sniffs. "'S'okay," he says.

"I probably won't see you again until you're an adult and decide to visit Tokyo, maybe, if that's what you wanna do."

He walks over to me and wraps his arms around me. "See ya, Onee-chan," he whispers.

I stand there for half a second, before my brain fills me in. This is called a 'hug', Usagi. You wrap your arms around him as well in embrace. I wrap my arms around his body, and then he pulls away, the whole thing lasting for a little over a second. He smiles at me warmly, the first person to do that in three years besides Haruko. Now, lift the corners of your lips up slightly, you shy, retarded thing. I smile up at him, for once not totally fake.

"Well, it's getting late, I'd better go up to bed!" I say. "Gotta big day tomorrow, ya know?"

"Heh, yeah. See ya."

"Yeah." I go upstairs to my room in the attic, pulling down the door, which I've so skillfully learned how to open and close both ways with the smallest sound and effort.

Luna opens one eye from her nap and looks up at me crawling in.

"Hey. Where were you?"

"Talking to Grandmother. We're leaving tomorrow."

"Leaving to go where?"

"Home, Luna. We're going home to Tokyo."

"Are you gonna call them or anything?"

I shake my head. "I'm not sure how things will go. Maybe I'll go there and first observe their behaviour. Get close to them. Then, once I've decided it's safe, I'll reveal myself."

"What if it's not safe?"

I swallow. I hadn't thought about that. "I'll cross that bridge if I get to it."

"You're just scared, aren't you? I don't think you have anything to worry about."

"You can't know that, it's been three years."

"And what about Jose? You haven't defeated him yet."

"I don't sense an evil aura coming from him. His is rather nice, actually. I feel like he's not actually our enemy."

Luna rolls her eyes. "Why don't you ask him?"

"Ask him? He barely gives us time to say, 'Stop!', and you're saying to ask him a question? 'Hey, are you really a bad guy?'"

"You're the one who said he might not be bad."

"You're the one who asked. Anyways, I need to write."

Write for our band-to-be, Forever Flying. (The name comes from Flyleaf, Evanescence and Paramore. Used to be Flying EverMore [you see the Fly from Flyleaf, Ever from Evanescence, and More from Paramore] but Forever Flying made more sense. I'll have the Threelights make a comeback and sign with John, the manager and CEO of Lunar Music Group. He knows about their secret identities. All of them :3) We already sent Johnour finished music and an explanation of our situation.

I pull out my writing journal and my favourite purple pen.

(Dear My Closest Friend is by Flyleaf. I own nothing! :D You can listen to it here: watch?v=I-Dy0iqB7f8)

Dear my closest friend,

I'm writing because

I miss you so much

At night I always cry

The stillness still reminds me

Of when we first fell in love

And I miss that so much

I wrote that last night. My closest friend is him, of course.

Dear my closest friend,

I remember when

You asked me to stay

And I just walked away

(referring to S, on her 15th birthday :3 You remember how that went lol)

I apologize

I hope my letters sent

I lost that moment

Seconds at a time

I tap the pen against my mouth. Ooh! I know!

I wait for your answer

But your hand was always mine

Then maybe,

Dear my closest friend,

I'm writing because

I miss you so much.

I hope my letters sent, but I know they didn't. Grandmother has a way of "preventing certain things" from happening. She has "connections".

"What are you gonna tell him if he sees through? He probably will."

"How could he? I look almost nothing like I did three years ago."

"He just will. It doesn't matter. Even if you used the Lunar Pen, he would still see through it. I can almost guarantee it. It's not your looks, Usagi. It's your heart. Any man knows immediately what's his."

"I hope you're right... Well, I'm going to bed. I probably need to wake up early to straighten my hair. I'll have to talk with Haruko and Akira about this song, see what music we can put to it."

"Good night, Usagi."

"'Night, Luna!"

I turn out the lamp, but I can't fall asleep. I lay here for hours, and I can't sleep. Finally, Luna asks me if I'm awake. I guess it's 4:30 by now. I'm not tired at all. I sit up.

"Yeah. I never fell asleep."

"What?! Really?"

I nod and put on my normal clothes. They said that for just today dress code didn't matter for seniors who are graduating. I grab my hair straightener and quietly jump down from the attic door. I sneak into the bathroom and brush my hair. I plug the straightener into the wall and wait for it to heat up.

Almost an hour later, I go back up to the attic, my hair perfectly straight.

"The bag again?" Luna asks.

I smile slightly. "Nah, not this time. Just follow me. We don't have classes today. And plus, what harm could a little kitty do?"

"I think you're getting a little slaphappy, Usagi. Be careful."

"Today, if Arisa approaches me, I'm gonna show her what I've been training for. I could beat her in a physical fight any day! I wouldn't even have to try! I've been waiting for this day for so long!" Tsukamoto Arisa has beaten me up almost everyday for the past three years. I'm not gonna let her do it anymore.

"Where did you place on the entrance exams?"

"First, of course. Grandmother wouldn't accept otherwise. Why do you ask?"

"Just curious. You never told me."

"Ah, sorry. Slipped my mind."

"Whatever. It's getting close to six. We gotta go, because doesn't it start early today?"

"That's right! It starts at 6:10." I grab my boots and duffel bag and jump down again.

"What are you gonna do with your uniform, burn it?"

"I considered that," I say with a hint of a smile, "but I'll keep it for sentimental reasons."

"You're crazy, Usagi."

"What have I been the last three years, then?"

"Getting there."

"Ah, I see. Well, let's go, shall we?"

I open the front door of this pocket mansion for the last time. "Bye, Grandmother. The next time we meet, you won't be able to push me around. I can guarantee it." I walk to school, Luna trotting at my feet.

"Usa-chan!"

"Blondie!"

I turn around and walk backwards. "Hey, guys! Good morning!" I smile. Akira stops. Haru stops to look at her.

"What's up?"

"Ha-Ha-Ha-Haru, do you know what that twist of her lips is doing there?!"

"I believe it's called a 'smile', Akira. It looks strange on her face, doesn't it?"

"She's been acting weird all morning," Luna adds.

"I don't exactly blame her. She's been through a lot the past three years and it's about to come to an end."

"Am I not allowed to be happy for once? Or excited? Or giddy? Or anything remotely good?"

"It's a bit unnerving, hun."

I shrug and turn around, and Haruko and Akira join me.

We continue walking to school

~March 31, 2015~

~Graduation Day, Tenth District High, Tokyo~

~Mamoru's POV~

"Congratulations, you three!"

"Thanks for coming, Mamoru!"

"Let's go to the diner!" Mako says.

"Maybe we can swing by TA and steal Rei!" Mina suggests. (no, I'm not using the English name, that's just what they call her. The call her "Mina". They're close enough that they don't use honorifics :3)

"Hey, yeah! There's a good idea!" Ami agrees.

The four of us start walking to Rei's school, in hopes to take her away. But, of course, even when everything's happy, she slips into my mind. Always her. She's all I ever think about. I miss her. Her kind, innocent smile. Her warm, welcoming eyes, like the sky, wide and blue. Her shiny golden hair. Her sweet, childlike attitude. The way she laughed, it was like music. How she loved everyone. Everything about her.

"You're thinking about her, aren't you?"

We stop. "Mamoru?"

"She graduates today, too, probably, huh?"

"I should think so."

"Who knows? Maybe we'll see her soon. She made a promise, after all."

"And if I know her, she wouldn't break it. She would never."

"Do you think she'll recognize us?" I ask timidly.

"Of course! It doesn't matter what we look like. She can tell by our hearts."

"She really is amazing, isn't she?"

"Come on, guys, let's go pick up Rei."

"Her graduation is tomorrow, correct?"

"Yeah, so they're probably not doing anything important anyway."

They keep talking and I fall just behind them. I look up at the sky. Oh, how I long to see her!

~March 31, 2013~

~Graduation, St. Agatha's Catholic School for Girls, Kyoto~

~Usagi's POV~

"Tsukino Usagi," Sister Lucy states. I hurry across the stage to get my diploma, the graduation good sweeping against the floor. I hope I don't step on it.

"Congratulations, Miss Tsukino."

"Thank you very much, Sister Lucy." I take the diploma she hands to me and bow slightly. She bows as well.

I go backstage and rip off the gown, thankful to be in just my normal clothes again.

"Dude, dontcha get hot in such dark clothes?" Akira asks.

"You're gonna talk to me about clothes when you're wearing booty shorts and a tube top?"

"I'm wearing tall boots, leggings and a vest with them. I'm not that much of a whore. What more do you want?"

"So you admit it?"

"Shut up!"

"Tsukamoto Arisa."

"Damn. She's coming this way. We should git." (git=get :3)

"Naw, I wanna settle things with her. You guys head out to the car. Find Luna and take her with you."

"Are you sure you're going to be alright, Usa-chan? Arisa can be pretty fierce when she wants to be."

I wince. "Yeah, so I've noticed. I'll be okay."

"Aiight, let's go!" Akira wraps her arm around Haru's shoulders, and they walk out the back exit. Akira whistles for Luna.

"She's not a dog, nor is she retarded!" I call after her. Akira laughs. I roll my eyes.

"Whatcha gonna do now?" The voice sends shivers down my spine. Arisa.

I slowly turn around. "What am I gonna do? What won't I do? Well, first, I'm gonna beat you in a fight. I can't really hurt you since that goes against my morals." She scoffs. I continue like she hadn't done anything. "Then, I'm gonna get in my friend's car and we're going to drive to Tokyo so I don't have to worry about this hell anymore. After that, I'm gonna live the best life anyone ever lived."

"Really? Is that what you're going to do?"

"Yeah. Right now, just you and me, no calling in your goonies. It's going to be a fair fight."

"Everything's fair in a fight."

"Yeah a fight, not getting your gang together and beating the crap out of someone else. And plus, I let you beat me all those times. I didn't fight because I wanted to save it for this day."

"Yeah, OH-kay."

"As I expected, you don't believe me. That's okay, you will soon enough."

"Then quit your jabbering and fight me, if you're so confident!"

She throws me a punch and I neatly dodge. "Gotta be quicker than that!" She keeps trying to hit me, and I make it to the door. She tries to kick me, and I open the door, making her fall out into the bright sun.

~Akira's POV~

Suddenly, Blondie and the B'tch come out of the door, like I'd predicted. That's why the three of us are sitting on the hood of my new car. B'tch is trying to hit her, but Blondie keeps dodging. "C'mon, Blondie!" I cheer.

"Go, Usa-chan!" Haru calls. B'tch looks over at us wildly. She's getting frustrated, I can tell.

"Hah!" she says. "Is that all you got?! Hit me, why dontcha!"

Blondie shrugs. "Sorry. Can't. I'm waiting for you to tire yourself out."

"So you can beat me easily?! Wow what a loser!"

"No, so you can beat yourself. I'm not gonna hurt someone who hasn't done anything really bad. It goes against my nature."

"No, I want you to hit me! C'mon, do it!"

"Yeah, Blondie!" I encourage. What is she doing?! Does she want me to step in?

"Naw, I can handle this, Akira. Don't worry."

"Whatever. Psycho."

"Like I said, and how you've noticed, she's been weird all morning. She didn't even get any sleep last night."

"What?!" Haru says. She's so maternal, it's really cute.

"She was too excited, I guess," Luna says. "I can tell this isn't what she really wants to be doing. I can tell she really wants to be speeding down the highway towards Tokyo. I looked up the graduation dates of TA School for Girls and Tenth District High, and TA's graduation is tomorrow. We'll be going to it. I'm sure that we'll run into them there, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and Tux. Of course, Mars will be there."

"Kay."

"I'm interested in meeting them, after all the good things we've heard."

"Yeah."

Suddenly, B'tch shrieks. We look up and see Blondie holding her in a pose that's sure to break her arm if she went any tighter. Blondie let's go, and B'tch falls. Blondie grins and whispers something, and then walks over here. Arisa sits up.

"F'ck you, Tsukino Usagi! F'ck you!"

Blondie stops, turns around, and walks back over there and bends over to whisper something. It only seems to anger her more. She goes into punch Blondie, but Blondie puts her hand on Arisa's head at the same time and jumps over her, shoving her head down.

Blondie runs over and jumps into the converted car, not bothering to open the door. Luna jumps over the windshield and I get into the left-side driver's seat (Americans; tch [haha I'm totally kidding. I'm a proud American! :D])

I turn on the car and Blondie squeals. Oh boy, this is gonna be a long ride.

"I beat you and didn't even have to do much. That says a lot about you." I grin, something I haven't done in a while. "Also, you'll never see me again. Not this way."

It's so long! I know! Haha, that last bit at the end is what she said to Arisa :3 Now, we drive to Tokyo! I'm thinking about having them go to Rei's graduation, and having Usagi and Mamoru pass each other and sense something "familiar" in the other. Really, y'all need to tell me what you think! It makes me kinda of ticked just a little bit! I'm gonna just go ahead and make Haruko and Akira a couple. In the next real chapter, I'll include a flashback of when one confessed to the other. I'm going to post their profiles. :3 I think I'll draw them in their fuku, (Sun and Earth in ALL of them :3 Well, I think they only have three. Moon is gonna have her Supreme one and her Ninja one as well. The supreme one I designed myself on . The Sailor Senshi design template is third most popular there :D I'll post them on deviantART in a little bit :3 I designed the Outers and the Guardians, too. I'll draw them, too, eventually. Lol, I'm working on drawing and colouring them in their civilian forms, first. I'm almost done :3 In the meantime, please, please, review thoroughly! Especially this one! I get so excited when I get the email that says "[New Review] for The Beginning", and then it's just, "Keep writing." I guess that means that it's good and that they can't think of anything to say because I don't have to work on anything? I dunno. Still, especially this one. but, I think I know what I'm gonna do for the end, now, so, sorry to disappoint any who were looking forward to reading and reviewing the different endings (but the latter doesn't seem very likely with this crowd :P). But, to make up for it, I'm just gonna combine 'em all. Mostly :3 Stay tuned, I know I talk a lot, I have a lot to say! My brothers and I have a tendency to be and reputation of being loud and obnoxious XD