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Mamoru sat at the desk in his small studio apartment wide awake and unable to sleep. His life had dramatically changed over the last three weeks. He had taken a job at a restaurant near the university to pay his bills and this left him little time to even try to see Usagi. With the exceptions of when he saw her at the guy's' apartment. It bugged him how close they all were. How they all adored Usagi even when they picked on her. Of course he knew that they were very much in love with their girlfriends; the pedestal that they placed Usagi on, not that she noticed, frustrated him to the core. Oh, and the fact they fed her alcohol. She was so cute after a few drinks. Her guard was always up around him now but when she drank with them she was quick and super funny… and possibly had a dirty mind. She would always leave with Minako and he was sure that they were up to no good.
The other reason he could not sleep was he was trying to figure out what was going on with his new… powers.
He was not sure if 'powers' was the right word because he could feel something that had not broken free yet inside of him. He knew that Usagi was brining whatever this was out of him and he didn't know if it was good or bad. It was the first time that he kissed Usagi when Rei told him something had awakened in him.
He remembered every moment of their first amazing kiss and the power he felt. What if she continued to bring out this power and it hurt her unable to control it? He was even close to going to get a fire reading from Rei but what if she could tell he was in love with Usagi and she told her. His mother would go ballistic. Marrying Usagi was the last thing on his mind.
He had tried a few things out to see what hurt and what didn't. Punching things... kicking things… he had also become very quick. He needed to learn to control the powerful blows he could deliver and he thought about doing Judo or something but what if someone else noticed it was abnormal.
It seemed to be fate the day he went over to the guys place and Nephrite and Zoiscite, Ami's new boyfriend, were going at it physically.
Mamoru noticed how quick they were in their movements and precise their kicks and punches were. They could also flip through the air and jump high… Mamoru could do this now too. That was when he asked them to train him… they told him No, flat out.
Then something inside of him told them to command them to do it. He had never demanded anything from anyone and now commanding someone to do something was outrageous. But the urge would not quit and he demanded that they train him.
Demanded.
Him.
Chiba Mamoru.
The three had stopped to look at him and he raised an eyebrow as if to challenge him. They complied even though he knew they had reservations.
He looked at the clock. 3:50am. He wanted to bash his head in to the desk. Maybe it would help him sleep. He looked out at the empty street illumined with streetlights. Some trash rolled in the street and then he saw a small form with blond hair zipping down the street. He stood up to get a better look. It could not be Usagi. He looked at the clock again. 3:51am. He also had one other ability that had strengthened as his powers did… he could find her if he wanted to do so with the link between them. He concentrated and gave the link a… tug… there was no other way to explain what he did.
She stopped short in the road, her blond ponytail blowing around her. She looked around with narrowed eyes but then she looked at her watch and took off down the road again. He knew she got up to run sometimes in the morning but all the way over here? His apartment was at least an hour walk from his parents, the university in between their two places. He could follow her and he thought testing out his new abilities. He grinned. He always liked a challenge.
Mamoru quickly pulled on some tennis shoes and a jacket over his tee shirt. He took the stairs two at a time trying to use the link to see how far Usagi may have gotten. He liked the fact that he could run way faster. He followed the link but the more he tried to follow it the weaker it got. He had never had tried to follow it for so long before.
Because he had followed it. Not to do anything perverse just to keep an eye on her around campus.
He went to turn a corner and he was drop kicked falling to the ground in surprise.
Usagi was standing over him.
"Baka?" She asked him in amusement.
"Ow, Usagi. What the hell?" He said standing up slowly.
Usagi could feel someone tug on the link she was sure she shared with Mamoru. The pulling sensation was lighter than earlier on her way to train but she was sure of it. He was following it.
He could feel it too?
How?
She had taken time to look up Endymion in the control system but it was blocked. She was going to ask Zoisite today to try and hack it. She needed to know the truth and she needed to know what the connection was to Chiba Mamoru.
He father was of no help either and she had a feeling he knew whatever it was that was going on.
"Following young ladies in the morning is kinda creepy." She told him now standing with him eye to eye.
"I was not following you. I was running. I could not sleep." He told her throwing back her go to excuse right in her face.
The comeback was, amusing and he knew wit as well. "Well, it's about time you started some sort of workout." She smiled.
"I could ask you the same thing? You are like an hour from home." She wanted to laugh this run only took her ten to fifteen minutes.
"I had a lot on my mind." She told him. She looked at her watch.
"Look, I have to go. You go your way and I will go…"
"Usagi?" Makoto and Nephrite were by her side the moment they saw a man talking to her.
Mamoru raised an eye brow in amusement.
"I never said I ran alone, baka." She tried to cover.
"Mamoru, running now too?" Nephrite asked him as his eyes scanned from Usagi and back to Mamoru.
He shrugged. "Yeah. New agenda."
A car drove by and Usagi knew it was Diamond. He had seen them on the corner and she knew he would have seen Mamoru too.
"As I was saying, go on your own way. We will go ours." She looked at her watch again nervously. "It's almost four."
Mamoru noticed when Makoto's eyes almost popped out of her head.
Usagi was not sure if she even knew what she was doing but she reached down inside and blocked the link between them.
Nephrite gave Mamoru a pat on the back and they took off in one direction. When they were out of sight Mamoru went to follow the link but it was gone. Well not gone… he knew it was there but he couldn't tug on it.
He frowned annoyed. He had to be up for classes soon anyway so he headed back to his apartment trying hard not to think about how beautiful Usagi looked this morning.
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Usagi's core and arms were on fire. Her glutes burned. This was the third time she was late this month and he made her mop the floor. Mopping the floor is a bitch.
It involved a bucket of water, a rag and Diamond sitting in a chair as he commanded her work out.
"Plank Usagi." She did as she was told as she washed the floor with her left arm. "Switch." She washed the floor with her right all while in a high plank position. "Five pushups." He commanded and she pushed out five from the high plank position. "Move" She moved three feet away lowering to a low plank and slide swideways to an area that needed to be mopped. "Downward dog." He paused. "Warrior One." He paused. "Move back to a high plank position from downward dog and mop."
When she finished an area she was allowed to stand but she had to use a towel to dry the floor with her feet but in a low squat position keeping her form. And repeat. Once she got the rhythm down she put in her head phones and 'mopped' the whole warehouse floor… which was huge. She had class and she was going to be late. Walking down the street… she was too tired to run… She saw Mamoru walking with Saori to school. Her hands wrapped around his arm.
Usagi ducked behind a building and watched as they laughed about something. They were walking to school together which means they must live together and that is why he wouldn't tell anyone where he lived. Not realizing it she had opened the link her sorrow filling it. Mamoru clenched a hand to his chest uncomfortable as he felt so much sadness he thought it would consume him.
"Mamoru sempi? Are you okay?" Saori asked him putting her hands on him in worry.
Usagi realizing her mistake blocked the link again. She would skip school today and she called on her transformation to make it home.
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Everyone looked at the information that Zoi had hacked in shock. Usagi was furious and heartbroken and betrayed and angry and sad and….
Prince Endymion Terra of Earth
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Resides: Earth Kingdom
Alignment: Moon Kingdom
Occupation: Prince of Earth
Family: King Terrian Terra of Earth
Queen Gaia Terra of Earth
Spouse: Princess Serenity Luna of the White Moon- Naturally Occurring Soul Bond
Associates: Guardians- The Shitennou; General Kunzite Mann; General Nephrite Northstar; General Zoiscite Octavious; General Jadeite Potter
Powers: Ability to manipulate the earth's powers with the Golden Crystal. Psychomerty; Psychokinesis; Teleportation;
Reincarnation: UPDATE: Chiba Mamoru*
This is why and how the Shitennou were aligned with her guardians. She had been married… and technically still was to Prince Endymion. His picture was stunning, just like Mamoru but older… more masculine. The Shientennou served him. They are his guardians which is why they knew him. They were here to serve and protect him.
"I need to talk to the King." Usagi hissed.
"We all do." Zoisite said placing a hand on her shoulder.
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Artemis walked in to the room in the temple where they held their meetings. Ten pairs of eyes on him but his daughter's glare spoke volumes.
He sighed. "I assume this is your doing, Zoisite?"
"Don't you dare blame this on him! You have been lying to all of us! Blocking our memories. Still blocking them." Usagi snapped at her father.
He sat down on the tatami mat, keeping his head regal.
"I did not block your memories." He sighed. "Luna did."
"But… why?" She thought of the fight that had caused Luna to leave.
"She did not want you back together nor did she want you aligned with earth. She wanted you to just take your place on the Lunar Throne." He said softly. Her eyes narrowed. She expected that truth to hurt but it didn't.
"Fine, so Luna blocked our memories but you could have told me the truth. You could have unblocked them at any time." She spat so angrily her crescent moon appearing on her head and flashing.
"I will admit I was against it from the very beginning but in the end she was right to do so. It's not like I kept you apart, Serenity. I have allowed you to live in the same house with him for almost two years now. I have allowed you to pursue him much to your own personal detriment." He said calmly without backing down to her.
She pursed her lips.
"Your Majesty, we have aligned ourselves with your daughter and we will continue to pledge allegiance to her. You have to understand that she is technically the Queen of Earth." Zoisite told him.
"Technically, but they are not married in his lifetime. Earth is self-sustaining for now and the help of all of you. There are factors that go in to making her the queen but mostly Endymion would need to claim his throne. Just like we are doing with Serenity." Artemis explained.
"But they are soul bound!" Minako told him fiercely.
"Yes, they are soul bound. Imagine my surprise living with the reason my daughter took her own life a thousand years ago. Imagine the worry I have felt every day, the flashbacks I have of her stabbing herself through." He snapped.
They stared at him confused and appalled by his words. His crescent moon flashed and then glowed slightly. Their memories returned of the Prince of Earth. The memories of how much Serenity loved Endymion and the way he loved her back was nothing like her relationship with Mamoru… Mamoru didn't love her. Mamoru didn't even like her and the only reason he may or may not keep her around is because of a stupid soul bond. But she loved him. She loved him before she even knew he was her past lover and husband. From the moment she saw him she knew… and he rejected her.
The sob caught in her throat. She had committed suicide for this man. She was so pathetic.
"Don't you dare awaken him." She said holding back the tears.
"Princess, we must! He is already awakening. I have seen his abilities as he has started to train with us." Jadeite told him wanting his prince back. Wanting to make up for their past.
"If he awakens on his own you can aid him. I will have no part in it." She said assure in her decision.
"But he is your husband." Nephrite told her grabbing on to Makoto's hand to show the love between them.
"Do you mean the man that has rejected me on numerous occasions? Who fights with me regularly? Who moved out of his house to possibly get away from me? I have done nothing but love him and yet he despises me." The truth was too much. "He has a thing against doing what other people say that he has to. I can handle the rejection now… I can't handle it when he doesn't want me after he knows and I can't have him want me because he knows."
Artemis kept his mouth shut. This is exactly why he didn't tell her. She would want him to love her… for her and not because of a thousand-year-old romance.
"Usagi… we know he cares for you." Ami told her softly.
"And yet he is with Saori san. I saw them this morning after training. He does not even want to be seen with me in public…" She was going to lose it. "I can't do this. I never give orders but I will this time. If anyone tells Chiba Mamoru or tries to force him to awaken Endymion you will deal with me… and I will consider it treason." She stood and left the room allowing her sorrow to wash over her.
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A week had passed and Usagi had blocked the link for good, remembering how to do it correctly. But she could not sleep. Bags were under her eyes and she had resigned to taking to the rooftops between training sessions so Mamoru would never see her again in the morning. Kunzite had still not appeared and she was stressed out about what would happen when he did.
She would come home, eat, do her schoolwork, sleep, go to training in the morning, work in the control room, have a meeting and do it all over again. She had also quit the tennis team not being able to stand seeing Saori san with everything she wanted. A normal life, the man she loved and the possibly of a normal future.
The same day she saw them in the morning she had to see him once more, following as Sailor Moon. She watched as they walked in to the same apartment.
She had a few weak moments where she wanted to know how to break their bond and finally have the potential to fully move on. But she couldn't. Not yet.
Hina was worried and had invited Mamoru over for dinner one night not having seen her son in what seemed like forever.
He had taken a couple jabs at Usagi but she didn't fight back. She just nodded at him making fun of her as usual. She helped clean up after dinner and she went to her room falling asleep. The sight of him was like being murdered over and over again… and she hoped this mourning phase would end soon.
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Mamoru had taken a punch to the gut from Jadeite who laughed at him as he side stepped away. The raven-haired man was distracted as he could usually focus. Jadeite took this moment to round house kick him in the face making him fall to the floor.
"That was low, Jade." Nephrite told him pulling Mamoru up off the ground. They called it quits for the day and headed in to the loft.
"He needs to snap out of whatever funk he is in… I will take full advantage." Jadeite told him walking in to the kitchen to grab a beer.
"What's wrong with you?" Jade threw him a beer as they walked in to the living room. Mamoru took it gladly. He had never been the one to talk about his feelings… not even with Motoki… but it seemed that these guys and him also had a bond. But the bond he was missing, he needed, was… gone.
He sank down in to the couch next to Nephrite who was looking at telescopes online.
"It's Usagi… she looks all wrong. Like she has not been sleeping and she is missing all of her energy." He wanted to say something about the bond but that would be too strange to bring up.
Zoisite lifted his eyebrows at him. "Really? What do you expect her to look like right now?"
Mamoru looked confused.
"You spend all of your time with Viper Vixen, practically rubbing it in to Usagi's face anytime you can. You know how she feels about you." Jadeite said taking a swig out of his beer.
"It's not like Saori and I are dating." He grumbled.
Now Nephrite laughed. "The whole university thinks you two are dating. You do not speak to anyone to deny it and Saori would never deny it when asked."
Mamoru spit out his beer. "WHAT!"
Jadeite laughed and Zoisite looked at him incredulously. "For someone almost as smart as Ami… you really are dumb."
Mamoru glared at him.
"Look Usagi is really important to all of us. She is like our sister and we would do anything in our power to protect her. She is just taking time to get over you so just leave her alone. We want our Usagi back to normal also." And the fact that you don't love her. Nephrite wanted to tack on. Mamoru blanched.
"Mamoru, don't worry. She's got this. She is super hot and I am sure one day she will call one of the many guys that ask her out regularly. If I was not with Rei… well Usa would be number two on my list." Jadeite said deep in thought and a dumb smile on his face.
Zoisite reached over and smacked him upside the head but Mamoru was seething. He looked stoic but thunder boomed in the distance.
Nephrite's lip twitched at the noise.
"I don't care about what happens to Usagi." Mamoru stated but it was a lie because it stated to rain.
"Well, then why do you care what she is doing?" Nephrite asked not believing that his prince was so senseless.
Mamoru huffed.
"I don't personally get the Matsuyama san over Usagi chan. Usagi is the kindest, too kind if you ask me, person in the whole universe. She is beautiful, smart, funny, she never lets anyone have a dull moment, she keeps life fun and she protects her friends and family. Kind of the package deal." Zoisite stated pulling out a book.
Jadeite put his feet up on the coffee table. "Yeah." He said in a dreamy look "Defiantly my number two."
Mamoru got up to leave and smacked Jed upside the head.
"Ow!"
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Usagi was lying in the grass under a cherry blossom tree on the university grounds. Her eyes were closed and she was remembering the first time she had done this so many, many years ago. Her hands were behind her head, eyes closed and she could feel the sun beating down on her eyelids turning everything a yellow blur. She was tired of being tired but she was slowly coming out of her funk. Kunzite had shown himself… and he didn't look good. Beryl must be at her breaking point with him or she was hurting him. As much as it sucked it would be easier to get him alone in a one on one fight. He was going to be the toughest, nastiest, meanest battle yet. He would be relentless as Kunzite believed in loyalty more than anything. And right now, he was loyal to an evil queen.
A shadow blocked out the warm sun on her closed eyelids and she squinted to see if it was going to rain.
"Odango." His voice rang out.
She had not seen him since dinner a week ago. His voice causing her skin to break out in goose bumps and her stomach to feel uneasy.
"Baka." She said back, closing her eyes again.
She felt him sit down in the grass next to her and she held back a groan of displeasure. This was her time to get over him and she needed him to go away.
"I haven't seen you in a while." He said casually.
"You don't ever see me." She retorted quietly to herself.
He chuckled.
"Is there something that you wanted?" She asked him in a dismissive way.
"Just missing my friend." He told her. Truth was he had been cornered in the café only moments before by a dozen male students. They told him that they knew Usagi liked him and they were sick of her turning them down since he was with Saori. He waved them all away, making a comment of it wasn't his fault she wasn't interested in them.
He had to fix things with Usa or it would be just like Jade said it would be. She would start dating and forget about him.
"What friend?" She asked incredulously.
"You."
She let out a dark laugh. More like wife, soul mate, past lover… she got friend. The word sounded dirty to her.
He lay down next to her, his arms behind his head but it was turned looking at her beautiful face. He wanted to feel their link again. Be able to find her when he wanted to… he was selfish.
"Baka, I am sure your girlfriend would not like it if you were here lying next to me… so get a move on." She said annoyed.
He laughed again. "I do not have a girlfriend, odango atama."
Her heart fluttered but she could not keep doing this. She snorted. "Could have fooled the rest of the school."
"Why would you care anyway?" He asked her amused.
"I am starting not to." She told him. A lie. She was not getting any better. She was only getting worse. Her thought's always traveling down the lowest path.
He grabbed her hand. "You know that's not true. I know that you are still in love with me."
She pulled her hand away from his and sat up.
"Stop it. Stop doing this to me." Tears pricked in her eyes.
"I am not good with emotions, Usagi. I don't understand them… I am trying to." He told her honestly taking her hand again.
"I didn't personally mean for you to think I was dating, Saori. Or for the whole school for that matter." He could not believe his own honestly.
"Do you like her?" She asked him. Her voice clipped.
"Yes." He told her but not in the way she meant it.
She nodded. "It's so easy for you to say that about anyone else but me. When I ask you if you like me it's just silence. You see I love you." And she opened up the link and an overwhelming sense of comfort and love fell over him. He already loved her but this was… so much more. He had missed it and he took in every feeling treasuring them.
She closed the link and he felt the loss… like death itself. Having it for a moment and losing it at the same time was brutal. He grabbed at his chest in pain.
"Do you like me, Mamoru?" He didn't just like her. He loved her.
"Maybe." He said just to be an ass.
She opened the link again so he felt all of her pain and fury and hurt. He gasped for breath and she cut it again.
"Are you okay?" She asked hiding the amusement behind her eyes.
"You can control it." He snapped at her. His eyes turning dark.
She looked at him confused. "Control what?"
"The…. Link." He admitted having never spoken the words out loud before.
"I have no clue what you are talking about, baka." She rolled her eyes knowing full well that he was right. She could control when she wanted him to feel of her feelings. If he was Endymion or not such a baka he could do the same.
He knew that she closed it off… she had to of. She was hiding something from him and his fury rose.
"Yes, you do." He growled low at her. The sun was shadowed by the building of a storm. Black clouds were forming in plain sight getting bigger and bigger. Her eyes went wide. He was awakening. The shinteenou had been right. KUSO.
"I need to go." She told him getting up and quickly walking away. He was right after her. 'Shit, and he is getting quicker too.'
Shit. Shit. Shit!
Thunder boomed across the sky.
Saori looked on from where she had seen Mamoru on the hill with Usagi. She couldn't believe that he was chasing that girl. Sure she was pretty but they had nothing in common. She wanted to go break them up but it started to rain.
Mamoru grabbed her hand and she pulled it away with force.
"Baka. Go away." She told him.
"Not until you tell me the truth!" Thunder boomed again in the sky and the wind began to whip through the streets.
"You sound crazy you know that." She told him. That was it, rain poured from the sky soaking them.
"KUSO, MAMORU!" She yelled at him. He looked at her in surprise and annoyance at her comment. It was not like he had made it rain.
"Come on!" He grabbed her wrist and pulled her down the street.
"Baka. I am okay on my own." She said but he was firmly attached to her wrist. He was stronger too. Only a few weeks ago she could break that hold.
"Shut up, Usagi." He said as he pulled her running down another street toward his apartment.
He made it to his complex and let them in. They were dripping wet and soaked through. He pulled her in to the elevator and then in to his apartment.
She was dripping wet. Soaked through but she took her time to take in Mamoru's surroundings.
Queen bed, desk, small table, small kitchen, no couch and spotless.
"You are still boring." She told him but he smiled amused until he saw the framed photo of the two of them on his desk. He pushed her toward the bathroom.
"Go take a shower. I will find you some clothes." He said quickly. She nodded and did as he asked.
He put the photo in his desk and quickly stripped off his clothes in to some dry ones. Then he found Usagi some clothes but he knew they would be way too big.
About ten minutes later she walked out dressed in tight purple yoga pants and a work out top.
"Had these in my bag." She lied. She had pulled them out of her sub space pocket. Always prepared… or just too lazy to take them out.
He nodded.
"I'll get things in to the dryer" and she went to grab her clothes and his.
"Do whatever you want. I will be five minutes. If you walk out that door I will come find you." He threatened.
He sounded like Endymion in that very moment. She raised her eyebrows to challenge him and the rain came down harder.
He went in to the bathroom and she walked around the small studio apartment. She should get her own place. A doorman, a huge walk in closet, a maid, a chef and if she wanted a butler. Maybe one like Alfred from Batman…oh a lair! Yes, that would freaking awesome with an elevator that led to a hidden room under the building. She started to wonder if she could build on top of the Crown. Yes…. And then she could get a Moonmobile. Hummmm maybe that was not the best name. Lunarmobile? She would have to think this out before deciding on a name.
But leaving right now… she would miss Hina way too much… she would miss all of them. Did she cut ties when she went back to the moon… who would she make an alliance with… would they put Endymion on the throne. She snorted. He would never take it especially if he felt like he was pressured to be there. Is that what he would do with her when he found out? What if he did really care for her but hated the fact that people pushed them together so he could not admit it.
She began to towel dry her hair and pulled a brush from her subspace pocket. If she didn't manage this now it would be a huge mess later.
The rain just fell and fell. Endymion must have been very angry. Good. She thought.
She heard the bathroom door open and saw Mamoru step out. He looked like a model with his hair all wet and mussed up.
"Think I am handsome?" He said amused when he saw her looking at him with her eyes wide and lips in a pout.
She turned away looking back at the rain. Of course she thought he was handsome.
He went and sat on the bed looking at her.
"So… tell me how do you do it?" He asked making sure he was close enough to analyze her facial expressions.
"Do what?" She asked him giving him a look that said he was crazy.
"Cut the link off. Don't play dumb." He snapped at her.
"Do you know that you sound nutty right now? I am sure that if you and I had some sort of link you wouldn't hate me so much." She said crossing her arms over her chest.
His jaw clenched.
"I do not hate you, Usa." He said irritated.
"Let's not get in to this right now. I have a lot on my mind." She said in a huff.
"Then tell me how you do it?" He said again not relenting. A year ago he would have given up but so many strange things were happening.
"Tell me why you resist me so much." She turned to him, daring him with her eyes to be honest.
"If we have this link you claim then why do you think it's me stopping it? Is it possible it's you denying something that is right in front of you. That you cut of this non-existent bond?"
His mouth gaped open. It couldn't be him as he was reaching for it daily, hourly, hoping that it would open back up. Hoping he could tug at it and feel where she was.
He narrowed his eyes at her. "It's not me." He growled at her. She smiled.
"You know I love you, why on earth would be me?" she said amused. She wanted to laugh at his frustration telling him that this is what she had been feeling for ages with him. He got off the bed and stalked toward her but she stood her ground. He wasn't admitting anything and either was she.
The rain came down harder and lighting snaked through the air.
"You make me furious." And just like that thunder and lighting boomed and the power went out.
She shook her head. "Now look what you did you baka." She said loudly.
He never could control his anger around her, especially as Endymion, and yes she had egged him on so it was partially her fault… but he didn't know that he was doing it.
She could see that he wanted to retort but she really was pissing him off. She bit her lip. He was going to flood the damn town. She had to calm him down but it would not be with the truth. She stood on her tip toes and grabbed his face pulling him to hers kissing him. His arms came around her waist pulling her closer to him. His lips locked on hers like a desperate man. It was the first time she had ever initiated and she was so thankful he responded and didn't turn her down.
Why did he keep denying himself this? Why? He wondered as he assaulted her with his anger. He brought her to the bed never taking his mouth off hers and laid her down. He moved his mouth from hers and on to her neck. He felt her moan and he smiled at her response. She ran her hands threw his hair pulling on the black strands. That used to drive Endy crazy and it worked. His mouth was back on hers in a second his hand roaming the side of her body and snaking up her shirt. She had rock… rock hard abs. He almost stopped kissing her to see what he was feeling but she let out shiver at his touch making his focus again.
She let her block on the bond slip and emotions flooded both of them. It was a mistake and she knew it. Mamoru was overwhelmed in the sensation of her as this was something that their bond did. It used to do in the past… it made their love life incredible.
Usagi wanted him but not like this. She wanted him to love her… it was hard… really hard to do but she blocked the link again.
Mamoru paused for a moment almost ashamed of what he was thinking about doing to her. His Usako. He put his head in to the crook of her neck and breathed her in.
"How do you do that? How do you make me feel this way?" He said breathless.
She growled. "make you?"
It was the wrong choice of words and he knew it. She pushed him off with so much force he fell off the bed in to a heap.
"I make you do this? I make you feel this way? You are unbelievable!" she shook her head.
"Usagi I…" He tried to right himself.
She waited for him to say the words. But they never came.
"Usagi. You can't go out in this." He told her as she went to grab her bag. She looked outside where the rain came down in torrents and thunder and lightning rolled across the sky. She may be Sailor Moon but that did not mean she was immune to getting struck by lightning.
"What do you have to eat?" She asked him and he had to smirk.
He wanted to kiss her again. He needed to kiss her again. They sat at his small table eating ramen noodles. She was lucky he had a portable Bunsen burner due to the power outage.
"You should call my mom. She will worry." He told her when they finished.
She sighed and pulled her phone out of her subspace pocket without thinking.
He raised an eye brow at her curious.
"No pockets so I tuck it into my waist band." She shrugged.
Usagi was a tricky one.
She dialed.
"Auntie. Yeah I am okay and safe." She smiled at something his mother said.
"I am with Mamoru."
She wants to talk to you.
He groaned.
"Mamoru the roads are closed due to flooding. Your father is even stuck at work. I think Usagi should stay there with you." He narrowed his eyes.
"That's a bad idea." He told her.
"Unless you want her to walk home in a foot of water then she will be staying with you."
"Fine." He said gruffly.
"You better not let anything happen to her." Hina told him.
"Bye Ma." He hung up and handed Usagi back her phone.
This is why he didn't tell Usako how he felt about her. His damn meddling mother. He didn't want his life planned for him or his parents chose who he loves and get the satisfaction of him choosing Usako.
"Is she okay?" Usagi asked worried at Mamoru's expression.
"The roads are flooded and she wants you to stay here."
Usagi's eyes went wide. "That's a bad idea." She mimicked him.
"Don't I know it." He murmured.
"I will just go to one of my friends' houses and you can tell her whatever you want. Haruka and Michru live close by." She said.
"If you go out in this weather and something happens to you… my life will end." He said seriously.
She frowned. If she weren't heartbroken over him she would have been ecstatic with this situation. She would make the best of it and leave as soon as he was out cold.
"I wouldn't mind that." She smirked.
"Yes you would." He said arrogantly.
"Baka" she told him with a smile.
"Odango atama." He told her.
She waved a finger at him. "Uh Uh Uhhh. No odangos right now." She pointed to her head.
They sat around doing homework for a while. Usagi did her best to ignore him. In the past, with Endy, this would have lasted all of a few minutes before they were going at it. Mamoru was much more reserved than Endymion… well with her at least. She was starting to think that it was Endymion kissing her and not Mamoru which freaked her out. She shook that notion. She knew she loved him and it had nothing to do with Serenity… she was Serenity and it was meant to be.
She all of a sudden felt awful for Mamoru. He was starting to finally find himself instead of being cold and unexpressive. He had friends, which he really didn't before. He was right about his emotions they were too much for him. But the fact that he didn't love her in this timeline even though they were still bonded… sole mates was wearing on her. She just was going to have to pray destiny brought him to her.
"Mamo chan?" She said looking up from her book.
"Huh." He asked as he sat reading a book about martial arts. Usagi tried not to smile. That baka. She knew that the shitennou were teaching him well thought out, military moves. Those idiots should have let Diamond train them. He was anything but predictable in battle and he taught the girls that as well. Strick Military moves. She laughed in her head.
"Friends work for me… as long as you are not scared to be seen with me in public."
"That's a lot to ask." He said pretending to think about it.
She threw her eraser at his head. He dodged it.
"I will work on it." She stuck her tongue out at him. Oh the things he wanted her to do with that tongue.
He wanted to slap himself for his thoughts. He never… ever had thoughts like that before her.
He looked at his watch. I have class early tomorrow.
She yawned as well. She was beat.
"So I am calling the bed." Usagi told him.
"I don't think so odango."
"You are supposed to say "of course.""
"You knew I was not going to say that."
"That's why I called it."
He sighed. "Take the bed."
She gave him a smile. "Okay." And she hopped in easily.
Mamoru grabbed some blankets and made a bed on the floor which annoyed him because it is not like they had not slept in the same bed together before. He tried to sleep tossing and turning then he gave up and climbed in to bed with Usagi.
"Baka." She yelled.
"Hush Odango. I am not going to try anything. I just want to sleep."
She sighed.
"I Prince Endymion of Earth take you, Princess Serenity of the white moon, to be my wedded wife. I promise to never betray you. To always love you as you are my soul mate in this life and the next. Our marriage is eternal as we are soul bonded for eternity."
Serenity smiled at him her eyes full of love for him. Her blue eyes showed nothing but love and she pushed it through the bond they shared.
He placed a ring on her finger.
"I Princess Serenity of the White Moon, take you, Prince Endymion of Earth to be my wedded husband. I will never betray you. I will always stand by your side and I will always love you as our love is never ending. Our marriage is eternal as we are soul bonded for eternity"
She placed a ring on his finger.
The declaration of their union was announced but neither heard it. When the crowned cheered he kissed her their bond glowing gold in what little space was between them.
Mamoru sat straight up in bed panting from the dream. It was the most real thing he had ever encountered… like a memory. He could feel all of it. The weather was cool and he could smell the fresh blooms of flowers that surrounded the ceremony.
He looked over at Usagi who was sleeping soundly next to him. The moon coming through the window illuminating her face. She looked just like Serenity in his dream without the insignia on her forehead. With the moon shining down on her even her hair looked silver like the girl in his dreams.
His brow furrowed. "That's because my name is Serenity Usagi Tsukino."
This was also the first dream he had in a while that did not involve death and destruction.
He also felt the same love toward her as Endymion of Earth did. 'Soul bonded?'
He would never have believed in this stuff before but the changes in himself felt that this dream was real.
He lay back down. No… it was just a dream. He told himself. Usagi was not a princess. He was not the prince of earth and he defiantly was not married to the odango.
He was still awake when he heard an alarm go off. Usagi groaned next to him and he pretended to be sleeping. He knew she was looking at him.
She got out of bed tip toeing around. He watched her through slit eyes. She grabbed her bag and walked in to the bathroom. She walked out dressed in a different running outfit and she had tennis shoes on. She looked at her phone smiling at something on it and it looked like she sent a text. He closed his eyes as she saw her look his way.
He swore she whispered "Well at least I kept my vows." As she slipped out the door in to the night.
Author Notes:
Thanks for the reviews! Your comments have me making a confession… The reason I did not update 'A Diamond in the Rough' was because I was writing this story. Sorry. I will finish the other one but this story (Part One at least. Part two is a little more difficult to navigate) is done. Complete. Finished.
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