Prompt: How about the girls (or maybe Minako specifically) witnessing Usagi "kill" herself again (at the end of manga arc 1)
Minako had nightmares about it before she even knew what nightmares were. Waking up in tears, crawling into her parents' bed.
"I had a scary dream. There was blood." A metal blade slicing through the soft flesh of a belly.
It's not her death. But it feels like it.
There was a lot Minako had to learn about the moon kingdom, and it came in cryptic clues and riddles, Artemis wouldn't (or couldn't) ever sit down and explain the damn thing in straightforward, chronological terms.
But there was a princess. That much Minako knew. And with every mention of the princess, came that certainty and solid fact that came side by side with it: the princess died.
Whenever Artemis said 'the princess', Minako's memory inserted another word:
The dead princess
And then Minako met Usagi. Usagi of the sparkling eyes, "Wow, Sailor V!"
…the blade was stained such a dark red…
Usagi with her hands around Minako's arm, "What a brave princess!"
…blood soaking through the white of her dress…
Usagi, sitting in her average school-girl bedroom decorated with pink bunnies and photographs of her friends, looking at Minako with red-rimmed eyes. Wrapping her fists around uncontrollable waves of hair. "It won't stop growing…"
…her hair pooled around her lifeless body…
The moon is airless but they can still breathe, somehow. Minako grasps the sword. Usagi grasps her hand.
… her throat burned with screaming her name…
When it happens again, Minako's throat burns with screaming her name. Not Serenity, but Usagi.
USAGI
NO
It's not her death. But it feels like it.