Note/Celebratory: Yay! My exam is done! And I think I got at least a B on it! So in celebration of this wonderful occasion... a dozen pink roses for you!
Chibiusa sat looking dejected at the kitchen table. Nothing, nor anyone could move her as she sat waiting with Luna-P for some sort of news or alert. Luna-P rolled from side to side as if to try to comfort her, but she seemed to stare off into space. Her "aunt" did not know what was wrong and neither did the others in the family. Only Usagi knew, but could not tell them. Instead they only worried more.
"Chibiusa-chan!" Mama Ibuki said in a sing-song voice. "Want to come to the store with me, and then afterward you can get some ice cream!" Chibiusa moved her head from side to side and Ibuki sighed in despair. She was helpless in comforting her. Usagi stepped in beside her.
"I know something that will cheer her up!" She said with a smile. Chibiusa looked at her with a bit of anger in her red eyes. She knew she was being cheerful for Chibiusa's own sake, but it did nothing to sooth her. Only Mitsuko coming back could do that.
"I doubt it." Chibiusa said, placing her chin back on her arms and she starred back into Luna-P's yellow eyes, waiting for someone's voice or face to appear.
"We'll see!" Usagi said cheerfully once more. "I'll go out with Mama and when I come back, you'll be a bit more happy! I promise!" Chibiusa did not look back at her, and completely ignored her. Nothing could warm her heart. She had failed Mitsuko as a friend.
She had walked back to the cafe in tears after the battle and while there each had tried to comfort her. Only Ichigo could comfort her a bit.
"She isn't gone. You just have to keep believing that she'll come back to you and use all of your strength to help her once more when she appears." Chibiusaa had stopped crying a bit and nodded in agreement. She had been right, she still had a chance. She had looked into Ichigo's grey eyes and saw through her comfortig smile. Ichigo didn't have that chance. She had lost the ability to transform and when Deep Blue appeared she would have nothing to help Aoyama. Chibiusa was different, and lucky that she still had her powers to help Mitsuko.
Chibiusa sighed and sat up. Taking Luna-P in her small hands she hugged it close. She wanted her mother and father, but knew that she could not leave until Mitsuko was safe.
"You must make many new friends in the 20th century, Small Lady." That was what her mother had told her and she had done her best to fulfill this duty: from Momoko and Hotaru to the Sailor Quartet. Now it seemed that everything was changing. It was a new century and she was in a new stage of her life. It seemed that she was not able to help anyone. Her heart knew that this was not true. She had helped all of her friends and had protected them all, Mitsuko was no different. Her mind, though, did not see all of this. She didn't see anyway in how she had helped Mitsuko.
Hours had passed, but Chibiusa had not noticed. Mama Ibuki had come home without Usagi, but this did not surprise her. She was probably still searching in vain for something to cheer up Chibiusa.
The door swung open with a bang.
"I'm home!" Usagi cried out and her head poked around the corner to see Chibiusa still sitting in the living room. The rosy red colours of the sunset shone within the room, and her blue eyes sparkled with joy. "I found the perfect thing for you Chibiusa-chan!" She said. Her cheerfulness irritated Chibiusa. Was she really that dunce?
"Usagi, you of all people know that material things can't comfort a person's sorrow." She said sulking. Usagi waved her statement away.
"I know, I know." She grabbed Chibiusa's arms. "But I think that this will!" She said. Chibiusa resisted, but Usagi pulled her up onto her feet, and Chibiusa's body let out a cry. She had been sitting all day and her body was sore and ready to move. Chibiusa obliged her in order to get her blood circulating again in her legs. "Now close your eyes!" Chibiusa sighed and closed her eyes. She just wanted Usagi to get this out of her system and see that it was not going to work. Usagi's hands covered her closed eyes so she could not peek. She guided Chibiusa towards the front door.
"Couldn't you have just brought it inside?" She asked a bit irritated. Usagi laughed.
"I don't think so." Chibiusa's curiosity got the best of her and she began to wonder what it was that Usagi thought would cheer her up so much. Usagi bent Chibiusa's head down as she opened the door and blindly Chibiusa stepped out onto the porch. Usagi guided her head with her hands and Chibiusa's nose meet a sweet smell that was all to familiar.
Usagi removed her hands and Chibiusa slowly opened her eyes. Her entire view was taken up by the sight of a large bouquet of pink roses. Lifting her head, a familiar smile came into view.
"Mamo-chan!" She rushed into his waiting arms and he held her close. She began crying into his vest. "Mamo-chan!" Usagi stood above them watching them a bit sadly as she realized she should have done this a long time ago.
Chibiusa slept with her head against his chest hours later he sat on the couch cradling her like a small child. Usagi sat on his other side watching him stare at the sleeping girl. Her jealous nature towards Chibiusa had fallen away years ago with Mamoru's balanced attention to both of them, and this scene only reminded her of the times that had passed, and the time that were to come.
"She's so big now." Mamoru said softly and Usagi nodded her head in agreement.
"It seems like she was just a child." She agreed and Mamoru smiled.
"Just think, we still have so many memories to make with her." Usagi looked at the sleeping girl. Was she really her and Mamoru's daughter? It didn't seem possible that within the next few years she would become a mother. She blushed thinking about what this meant. Leaning closer to Mamoru she placed her own head on his shoulder and she looked up to his face.
"I missed you, Mamo-chan." He removed his eyes from the sleeping girl and took notice of the blossoming woman beside him.
"I missed you too, Usako." She felt a bit giddy, but she knew that she would not get what she wanted tonight. Him being home was about Chibiusa, and Usako would stand by the wayside in support of her. She would not move her mind onto more mature things. Instead she only looked back down to the sleeping girl and began to dream of the future to come in a world she still had yet to see fulfilled.