Okay, so I never finished this story, but I just happened to see ALL the reviews on here and I figured I should give it a go! I haven't written anything in a long while, so don't be too harsh in your reviews. Also, I realize my old chapters have a ton of errors and if I wasn't so lazy I would go back and rewrite them, but alas! I am plagued with the sin of sloth. LOL Here is the last chapter, please review it. I would really like to get back to my old writing ways and can use some CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. Enjoy! Oh and Sailor Moon does not belong to me. Otherwise I wouldn't be writing this I would be living it up in Paris ;-)
Mamoru paid attention in class best he could, but his mind was stuck on one plaguing question. Who am I? He had asked himself the same question for the past two weeks. The two weeks following his near death and Usagi's revelation as Sailor Moon. His mind tried to make sense of it all, but it was like meditating to an impossible question. He vaguely heard his professor announce that class would continue next week as the sound of students collecting their things filled the classroom.
"Mamoru san, I would like to speak with you, please." The professor was standing next to him speaking. When had he gotten next to him? Mamoru felt like he was losing touch with reality everything was happening too fast around him. He professor said something and Mamoru forced himself to listen.
"Mamoru san, I heard about what has happened to you from your friend Matoki, which is why I am offering you an extension on your mid-term paper, but you seem to have been lost for the past two weeks. Have you spoken to a professional? You just seem…affected."
The professor struggled to find the right word to describe his A student's demeanor as of late. He decided that "affected" was indeed the right word. Mamoru distractedly nodded his head up and down. The professor let out a loud sigh.
"Mamoru san, have you heard anything I've said?" There was only concern in his voice.
"I'll have the mid-term done." Mamoru was trying to recall the rest of what was said to him, but the only thing that stuck was mid-term. He searched his professor for an answer to the questions that had been going through his mind, but he saw only concern. He took a step towards the door, hoping his professor would allow him to leave the conversation.
Dr. Takeuchi sighed heavily again and shook his head. "Please, get some rest this weekend; I'll give you an extra week to finish the mid-term. I….I'm worried about you Mamoru". Dr. Takeuchi's brown eyes crinkled in the corner as his eyes searched Mamoru's seeking answer to his own question. 'Just what happened the night you found that girl?' Mamoru would offer no answer.
"Thank you Dr. Takeuchi, I will try to get some rest." Mamoru swung the strap of his messenger bag over his shoulder and hastily left the class.
"Usagi chan!" Mrs. Tsukino's voice carried throughout the house as she called her only daughter down to dinner. Not just any dinner, but her favorite. Beef Stew, mashed potatoes and cherry cheesecake for dessert. Every night since she had been home, Ikuko would prepare Usagi's favorite breakfast, lunch and dinner. She would invite her best friends to the house to keep Usagi company. She would rent movies and video games to keep Usagi busy. She would watch Usagi like a hawk and not let her leave the house with an escort. It had been like this for the past two weeks since Usagi woke up in that hospital room. The only time she had alone to think was when she closed her bedroom door in between meals and visits. But the one person she wanted to visit still hadn't come by.
"Mamoru." He name sounded more like a prayer coming from her lips. She needed to speak to him, to ask him if it was all true. Did he really love her? Was he really Endymion? Was she the Moon Princess? Usagi shook her head in frustration. It was all too much to think about. Her arch enemy was really her one true love? Yes, she knew he was. If there was nothing else she knew for sure, she knew she loved him. But, what about the other stuff?
"Usagi, dear come get dinner!"
"I'm coming mom" She yelled as she stuffed her magical broche into her pocket. She ran down the stairs and was greeted by her whole family at the dinner table. Even her little brother had put down his game controller long enough to give his undivided attention to family dinner time. This was all an effect of her near death disappearance.
"MMM mom it looks good!" Usagi's mouth watered at the sight of the thick beef stew laden with vegetables and the side of creamy mashed potatoes. This side of her would never change and it was the only thing that seemed concrete. The rest, left her confused and asking just who she really was. For now she would settle to be 'Usagi Tsukino, the bottomless pit' Later, she would sneak out of her bedroom window and confront the only other person in the world that could help her figure out her other questions. She sincerely hoped her parents wouldn't check in her that night to find an empty bed. They had just gotten her back and the thought of distressing them further worried Usagi, but she needed to see him. She had to speak with Mamoru Chiba.
"Odango Atama got her appetite back!" Shingo laughed at the table as he pointed to his sisters large plate of food. She just stuck her tongue out at him. Her parents laughed and she smiled. She was doing a good job of pretending to be unaffected.
The cursor on the computer screen blinked impatiently back at Mamoru, he had no idea it had been blinking for an hour. He looked at his syllabus for the third time, once again trying to focus on the task at hand.
'What are the pathophysiological effects of stress on the human body? Please explain in four pages or less'
It seemed ironic he would be writing about the effects of stress. After another thirty minutes he had managed to restate the question in one sentence. Finally, he slammed his laptop closed and ruffled his hair in frustration. He wanted to go see her, but what the hell would he say?
"He Usagi, Sailor Moon, Serenity, whoever the hell you are, I'm madly in love with you or at least I think I am. Maybe if you could help me figure out who exactly 'I' is, I could better compartmentalize my feelings for you."
He dropped down to his apartment floor and began to do a series of push-ups out of frustration.
"1. I know I'm Mamoru Chiba." This would be a good start, but there was no one left from his childhood to confirm this fact. His parents had been killed in a car accident when he was a child. What if he was actually adopted? He decided to move on.
"2. Usagi is Sailor Moon so the fact I'm Tuxedo Mask (3) suggest that we are connected somehow." This was another source of his frustration. When he killed Seris with that rose, it was the first time he had been conscious of being Tuxedo Mask. The first time he knew he transformed into a freaking super hero!
"4. I love Usagi Tsukino….(5) and I love Princess Serenity." Push-ups weren't cutting it, it was only allowing him even more time to think. He grabbed a jump rope from his hall closet and began to count to himself.
"10,20,30,40,50,60…..what was that noise?" He froze, being still in his room. He heard nothing but rain drops hitting his bedroom window. He began to jump rope again when he heard it again, a light knock on his apartment door.
Usagi paced back in forth in front of Mamoru's apartment nervously. 'What should I say to him? How can I begin this conversation?' It was an impossible task to plan out what would happen once she showed him the broche, but she was hoping that maybe together they could have enough power to make it bring back their memories. Maybe it could make everything clear enough so that she wouldn't feel like she was split into three consciousnesses anymore. She stared at his plain white door. It might as well have been made of fire in her mind. She was so afraid to touch it. After a few more minutes of staring, Usagi knocked lightly on the door and waited.
No answer.
She let out a sigh and began to pace again.
"Maybe he isn't home and you're stressing for no reason." She said out loud to herself. She waited a few minutes longer and there was still no answer, so she turned on heels and began to leave, when a loud boom of thunder shook the building. She screeched and turned back to knock on his door once more. Anything was better than going back out in that storm! Once again, she waited and this time the door opened.
"Usagi…" He whispered her name as he took in her sight. She was drenched head to toe from the rain. She had on dark jeans and a black hoody with a bright pink bunny on the right breast pocket. The bunny almost made Mamoru smile as he remembered the girl he had met three years ago while walking home from class. Her blond hair was in a long wet braid that fell down her back, leading to a puddle of water on the floor beneath her. Seeing her was like being hit in the chest with a sledgehammer. She looked up at him with her crystal blue eyes as if she wanted to say something, but all she could manage was "I…I…."
"Come in, you're soaking wet, let me get you a towel."
Mamoru led her into his apartment and all the memories of the past weeks came back to her. The realization that he resonated with a strange energy, the realization that she wanted him. The realization that she loved him; none of those memories were going to make this conversation any easier. She watched him swiftly move to his linen closet to get a towel for her and she took in his appearance. He was wearing nothing but a white tank top and dark blue sweat pants. His arms where muscular and toned and there was a light sheen of sweat covering his body that did not escape her attention.
"Was I interrupting something?" She pointed to the discarded jump rope on the floor beside her spot on his white couch. He momentarily looked startled to hear her speak.
"Oh, no I was just trying to relax with some exercise." He smiled as he handed her a large white towel. She busied herself with unbraiding and drying her long hair as she tried to think of what she should say next. Mamoru just watched.
"So, that's some weather out there huh?" Mamoru stated matter of factly.
"Yeah, it's storming pretty bad…" She was staring down at her feet now, contemplating just how bad it would be if she made a run for it right this second.
"And yet, here you are at my apartment at 11:30 at night. Usagi…" He placed a finger under her chin and brought her eyes back to meet his. "Why did you come here?"
She contemplated the answer for a minute and chose she wasn't ready to answer.
"Better question is why didn't you come to see me?" Her gaze turned fierce, but it was all a façade to hide what she was really feeling. Mamoru never pulled his eyes away from her.
"I didn't know what to say." There he said it. This whole time he never came to visit her because he had no clue what to say or do. Obviously she felt the same way because her mouth formed an "O" but her had nodded in understanding. It was her turn to be brave.
"So, you're Tuxedo Mask." Mamoru nodded, still keeping eye contact with her.
"And you're Sailor Moon." She looked so vulnerable, so scared. But, she nodded bravely and once again fell into silence.
"I didn't know I was Tuxedo Mask until that night. When I saw Seris strangling you, something in me just connected and I knew. I had to save you. Next thing I knew, I was in a stupid suite throwing roses that can kill monsters." He chuckled. "How long have you known?"
"Three years." The shock was plainly visible on his face. She stammered to explain herself.
"The..There was a cat, a talking cat named Luna and she told me I was a Sailor Soldier. After that I met up with the other Sailor Scouts and we killed that Beryl chick, but once we defeated her, we all lost our memories. I didn't start to remember the battle until a year ago, but everything was so fuzzy, all I knew for sure was that I was Sailor Moon and I haven't had to BE Sailor Moon for years until Damieno showed up." Mamoru listened and contemplated her words. "The talking cats, the scouts…Beryl.
"So, the book he read…it was all true?" Once again there was silence. That was answer enough for him. He abruptly stood up and went to his bedroom and Usagi panicked that he was just waiting for her to leave, but when he returned he was holding a golden locket in his hands. He opened the locket and placed it next to her on the couch. It played a familiar melody and shock crossed her face.
"You knew?" He shook his head. No
"It was the only thing left after my parents died. I always thought it was a keepsake from my mother. You know, something she gave me as a child that I just couldn't remember." Usagi carefully lifted the locket in her hands and examined it. It was nothing she had ever seen. The gold seemed to have a blueish glow to it and it was so light in her hands, she thought it could float away. She closed the locket and placed it in Mamoru's hands.
"What else did you know?" She asked him softly.
Mamoru stared into her eyes for a good long while, trying to say what had been on his mind for the past two years. She looked so hopeful and innocent. Tears were in her eyes as she looked at him for an answer. Any answer.
"I…I knew I loved you." She inhaled sharply. He didn't know if that was a good or bad sign, so he waited for her to form her thoughts into words, but instead she just kissed him. The kiss was soft at first, as if she was waiting for a sign that it was alright and when she began to pull away fearful and embarrassed, he held her to him. He needed her.
His lips demanded hers in a way she imagined only his could. He parted from her momentarily only to trace the outline of her lips with his index finger before he pressed his lips to hers again. It wasn't long before she granted his tongue entrance and her lips parted in a soft moan that drove Mamoru completely insane. Her hands found his hot skin under the hem of his shirt and she began to slowly rub her hands up and down in a slow line that followed the path of his spine.
Usagi had never felt like this before. She had never let a man touch her like this in the past and the tingly sensation that was building between her legs excited and scared her. Then the memories started to flood back to her all at once. She gasped as his tongue found a sensitive spot on her neck. Mamoru took the opportunity to kiss again full on the lips.
"Serenity…" The name slipped from his lips as naturally as the rhythm that her hips were making as she brought them against Mamoru's body. He unzipped her hoodie and let it slide to the floor next to his jump rope. Her finger tangled into his dark hair as she pulled his head back down to her neck and bucked her hips hard against his groin. His hard groin bucked back.
'What the hell is happening?' Mamoru asked himself as thousands of forgotten memories began to flood his mind. He remembered everything, he remembered the final battle with Beryl, Sailor Moon unveiling herself as Usagi Tsukino to him in an elevator. He remembered the Moon Kingdom and Earth and the ring that he gave to Serenity. He remembered the promise that he would always protect this woman that lay below him now, begging him to let his body take over his mind completely. He felt her hands trace the hem of his pants undoing the knot in his drawstring. He felt her slide her hands beneath his pants and cup his buttocks pulling him even harder against her middle. Mamoru let out an involuntary moan at the contact.
When he moaned, Usagi felt the wetness between her legs increase and her legs opened wider of their own accord. Then he suddenly picked her up with her legs still wrapped around his waist and his lips still meeting hers. She felt like she was flying before he laid her back down on his bed. He fingers ever so slowly found the top of her jeans and began to pull them down. She moaned again when he kissed her belly button then the skin below her belly button as he slowly pulled of her wet jeans. She in turn pulled off his whit tank top. She traced her fingers along the lines of his chest and his chiseled stomach before planting a series of kisses from his neck to his navel. His eyes darkened and he gently bit one of her nipples through her thin pink t-shirt. Usagi let out another loud moan and her long legs pulled his hardness even closer to the part of her body that was slick with wetness. Mamoru growled low in his throat as he pulled off her t-shirt. Her nipples were hard under her baby pink bra and he found himself licking one. First through her bra, but then he pulled the strap down her shoulder and let his mouth cover her breast while his tongue drew a slow circle around her nipple. Then her bra found its way to the floor next to his bed.
Her body was on fire. She felt like she would die of need if he wouldn't make love to her. It was time and she knew it. His hand slowly moved up her thigh and began to rub the most sensitive part between her legs. Mamoru slowly moved his hand beneath her panties and dipped one finger inside her. Her back arched out of reflex and she breathed out his name "Endymion…" He kissed her again while he moved his finger in and out, one at first and then two. She was so wet it was driving him insane. Should he stop? Did she want him to stop?
"Usako?" She sighed at the name and managed small sound to let him know she was listening.
"Tell me you love me." Her eyes sprang open to meet his. Of course she loved him. She had known she loved him from the first day she saw him, but she couldn't admit that to herself. She had no idea what the feeling was, but now that she knew he was everything to her that she had always loved. He was her Endymion, her Tuxedo Mask, her Mamoru.
He was frozen, patiently waiting for her answer. She kissed him once on the forehead, then on his cheek, then his neck.
"I love you Mamoru…" He kissed her again and pulled her panties off and down to the floor. He watched her expression as he pulled off his sweat pants, but there was no hesitation in her eyes. Slowly he entered her.
At first Usagi felt like she would kill herself in anticipation by how slowly he entered her, but then the most wonderful stretching sensation began to flood her senses and then he pushed himself completely inside of her.
She screamed from the pain and he kissed her again.
"Tell me to stop and I will, if it hurts too much…"
"No! Don't stop" She gasped again when he pulled back slightly only to move inside her again, but then the pain began to go away. With each stroke pleasure replaced any discomfort until she was matching his movements with her own. He began to move a little faster, kissing her lips along the way. Mamoru's eyes were fixed on Usagi's, but she held hers tightly closed only letting the moans of pleasure that escaped her parted mouth betray her real state. She once again cupped his buttocks and began to push him deeper inside, then faster. He breaths became faster and more uncontrolled when he knew he was near his climax.
Usagi was so close to something. She could feel it building inside of her. She wrapped her legs tighter around his waist and he growled low in his throat as he pushed deeper and faster inside of her. Then all of a sudden she screamed his name as she felt something wonderful and intense burst throughout her whole body. Her legs shacked with exhaustion around him as her own pleasure brought him to his.
Mamoru couldn't hold on anymore. He felt her legs tighten around his waist and she began to hasten the speed he set by unconsciously moving herself against him even faster. A loud moan of satisfaction left his body as he finally reached his climax right after Usagi. He rested his head in the crook of her neck breathing in the scent of strawberries as they both tried to catch their breath. She spoke first.
"Do you remember?" She asked breathlessly. He smiled as he repositioned himself to hold her.
"Yes, I remember everything." She let out a contented sigh of relief.
"I'm glad."
A few hours later, Usagi awoke knowing she needed to get back home before her parents woke up. Mamoru had her in a vice grip with his arm locked protectively around her waist. She was trying not to wake him up, but obviously to no avail.
"Where are you going?" His voice sounded deep, groggy and utterly fulfilled.
"I have to get home before my parents wake up." He seemed to remember that she must've sneaked out the house and he nodded, throwing on his discarded pants so he could walk her to the door. She quickly got dressed on a mission not to get caught when he kissed her again. She fell back into his arms mentally yelling at herself to get home. When he pulled away his dark eyes met her crystal blue ones with a decision in them that she didn't expect.
"Marry me." The request shocked Usagi, but Serenity knew, this was the only real option for them. They would never look at another as long as they lived and they would never love each other any less than they did at this exact moment. She nodded her head.
"Yes, I will." He sighed as if all was right in the world.
"Ok, I'll walk you home. Make sure you get back ok?" She smiled to herself. He would always be her protector.
"Yeah, but you better hurry up because if my parents find out I'm not home they'll kill me!" Mamoru let out a laugh that sounded as if it radiated throughout his whole being.
"No, that won't happen. I can't have anyone ruining my happy ever after." His nose touched hers for a moment before he kissed her again and they left his apartment to get her home safely. Usagi planned her dream wedding the whole way home.
THE END….FINALLY