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Chapter 8
Usagi sighed relieved to find that her room was empty of her roommates, there hadn't been much talking after she made her confession to Seiya. Usagi knew beyond any doubt that she had stunned Seiya almost beyond belief. Usagi also knew it wasn't fair, for months Seiya had admitted his feelings for her when Mamoru had been gone. And now that Usagi was the one who was away from Tokyo she had all but admitted that she had feelings for Seiya. But despite Usagi's strong feelings for both Seiya and Harry she couldn't help but for feeling guilt for being drawn to anyone except Mamoru. And then there was the deal with her friends, she loved hanging out with Parvati, Lavender, Hermione, Ron and everyone else but she couldn't help but feel like she was being disloyal to her life-sacrificingly loyal senshi friends.
'I wish I could just talk to someone, anyone. Setsuna actually, maybe she could help me sort our my feelings.' Usagi thinks inwardly and sighs outwardly.
And in a flash Usagi finds herself in a dark void with mists swirling around her. "What am I doing here? Pluto are you here?" Usagi asks recognizing her surroundings.
"I am." A tall young woman maybe in her early twenties appears in front of Usagi.
"Who are you? And how did I get here?" Usagi asks quickly gazing at the woman in front of her. She had dark green hair, and looked much like Setsuna, except half of her hair was pulled back into many braids and then twisted into a bun with the remaining half in tight corkscrew curls. "Are you a younger version of Setsuna? Or her daughter from the future? Or who?"
"It doesn't matter which I am." The young woman responded, "But as to how you got here you wished to talk someone to help you sort out your feelings, so I brought you here." With a wave of her hand a chair appears behind Usagi, "You may sit if you like."
Usagi complies twisting Mamoru's ring around her finger, "I'm assuming you know about me and Mamoru."
Pluto, whether Chibi or not, nods her head. And with the nod Usagi spills everything from her confused feelings of whether or not she loved Mamoru any more and her new feelings for Seiya and Harry. And feeling like she was betraying her friends by making new, close friends. Talking about all the guilt Usagi was feeling felt like half of a huge stone was leaving her heart but it wasn't all gone.
"Guilt doesn't get anyone anywhere." Pluto states, "You can't feel guilty, you were sent to take care of something at Hogwarts. And you know not whether it has anything to do with a senshi mission, witchcraft or just for you, to grow and experience life without your senshi to protect you. You need to forget all of the guilt and just being yourself, you will not be able to complete anything if you can't do that…Hold true to the values both of your mother's held so dear…
When Usagi blinked again she hadn't moved and she was almost led to believe that it had all been a daydream. But somehow the haunting words of the mysterious Pluto caused her to believe it all true. And taking her advice Usagi drops in front of her trunk and pushes it open, shifting the contents of her trunk around Usagi felt the bottom of the trunk. Finding the small trap door she pulls it open clearing the area around it away, pulling out the small box Usagi set it in front of her feet.
With that complete she pulls off the ring on her right finger and sets it inside the box, "I'm not going to be guilty about Mamoru anymore. I am going to let things develop, if something happens with Seiya or Harry then it happens."
Reaching behind her head and pushing her hair to the side Usagi unclasps her necklace dropping it in and uttering the two reasons she does so, "Everyone is allowed to have friends, and I am going to allow myself to have them. Besides the object that used to make me feel so secure no longer does, more so it makes me more unsure of myself."
And finally Usagi drops the charm bracelet her mother sent her, "I need to let go of the past, mine and my mother's."
With all the jewelry in the box Usagi sets it back into the secret place she had made in her trunk and stands up brushing her robes off.
"There you are Usagi!" Lavender exclaims as she and Parvati rush into the room out of breath and red faced.
"What's going on?" Usagi asks noticing immediately that there is something wrong.
"It's your brother, he has gone nuts! He and Harry are going to kill each other!" Parvati exclaims.
"Why hasn't someone gone to get a professor?" Usagi asks as she rushes after Parvati and Lavender.
"They are holding an important meeting and no one knows where to find them. And Filch is being distracted by Crabbe and Goyle." Lavender gasps.
"Your brother set this all up!" Parvati adds, as they grow closer to the group circled around the two teen boys.
"Harry don't do this!" Hermione is saying from the side, "Malfoy's not worth getting kicked out of or kill over."
"Harry I'll be your second!" Ron offers.
"Ron don't encourage him!" Hermione exclaims, "Harry don't do this please. Malfoy isn't worth any of this."
"Hermione is right Harry." Ginny adds, "Don't do this, you'll get expelled for sure."
"Malfoy isn't, but Usagi is." Harry swears as both he and Draco prepare their wands to use a, undoubtedly, deadly attack.
"You stay away from my sister!" Draco orders, "Have nothing to do with her!"
"Stop it!" Usagi cries pushing through the crowd, "Just stop it!"
"Cassi what are you doing here?" Draco asks obviously surprised to see his very angry twin in front of him.
"What are both of you doing here?" Usagi exclaims near to tears, "I don't want you to fight over me!"
"They just care about you Usagi." Ron points out.
"Neither one of them cares about me!" Usagi exclaims her face turning beat red with anger, "They only care about finding a reason to continue you with this pointless feud between Slytherin and Gryffindor! If either one of them cared about me they wouldn't make me the reason they are fighting!" With Usagi's words she pushes between them tears beginning to fall, grabs their wands and then takes off at break neck speed towards the doors leading outside.
Usagi found herself in the same spot she had been only half an hour ago with Seiya earlier. Pulling her knees her chest Usagi rested her forehead against them and let her tears fall, when Usagi finally calmed her ragged breathing and her tears were slowing she sat up. The last tear that fell dropped onto the grass and transformed.
Reaching down Usagi picked up the necklace and held the delicate charm in the palm of her hand gazing down at it. On a barely visible gold chain was an equally delicate crescent moon with a star dripping off the trip of the moon. Usagi didn't understand what it represented but somehow she knew that it symbolized her future, clasping the chain around her neck it took the place the silver crystal had occupied and somehow Usagi's felt more peaceful, ready to take on anything…Even the two approaching figures.
Chapter 8
Usagi sighed relieved to find that her room was empty of her roommates, there hadn't been much talking after she made her confession to Seiya. Usagi knew beyond any doubt that she had stunned Seiya almost beyond belief. Usagi also knew it wasn't fair, for months Seiya had admitted his feelings for her when Mamoru had been gone. And now that Usagi was the one who was away from Tokyo she had all but admitted that she had feelings for Seiya. But despite Usagi's strong feelings for both Seiya and Harry she couldn't help but for feeling guilt for being drawn to anyone except Mamoru. And then there was the deal with her friends, she loved hanging out with Parvati, Lavender, Hermione, Ron and everyone else but she couldn't help but feel like she was being disloyal to her life-sacrificingly loyal senshi friends.
'I wish I could just talk to someone, anyone. Setsuna actually, maybe she could help me sort our my feelings.' Usagi thinks inwardly and sighs outwardly.
And in a flash Usagi finds herself in a dark void with mists swirling around her. "What am I doing here? Pluto are you here?" Usagi asks recognizing her surroundings.
"I am." A tall young woman maybe in her early twenties appears in front of Usagi.
"Who are you? And how did I get here?" Usagi asks quickly gazing at the woman in front of her. She had dark green hair, and looked much like Setsuna, except half of her hair was pulled back into many braids and then twisted into a bun with the remaining half in tight corkscrew curls. "Are you a younger version of Setsuna? Or her daughter from the future? Or who?"
"It doesn't matter which I am." The young woman responded, "But as to how you got here you wished to talk someone to help you sort out your feelings, so I brought you here." With a wave of her hand a chair appears behind Usagi, "You may sit if you like."
Usagi complies twisting Mamoru's ring around her finger, "I'm assuming you know about me and Mamoru."
Pluto, whether Chibi or not, nods her head. And with the nod Usagi spills everything from her confused feelings of whether or not she loved Mamoru any more and her new feelings for Seiya and Harry. And feeling like she was betraying her friends by making new, close friends. Talking about all the guilt Usagi was feeling felt like half of a huge stone was leaving her heart but it wasn't all gone.
"Guilt doesn't get anyone anywhere." Pluto states, "You can't feel guilty, you were sent to take care of something at Hogwarts. And you know not whether it has anything to do with a senshi mission, witchcraft or just for you, to grow and experience life without your senshi to protect you. You need to forget all of the guilt and just being yourself, you will not be able to complete anything if you can't do that…Hold true to the values both of your mother's held so dear…
When Usagi blinked again she hadn't moved and she was almost led to believe that it had all been a daydream. But somehow the haunting words of the mysterious Pluto caused her to believe it all true. And taking her advice Usagi drops in front of her trunk and pushes it open, shifting the contents of her trunk around Usagi felt the bottom of the trunk. Finding the small trap door she pulls it open clearing the area around it away, pulling out the small box Usagi set it in front of her feet.
With that complete she pulls off the ring on her right finger and sets it inside the box, "I'm not going to be guilty about Mamoru anymore. I am going to let things develop, if something happens with Seiya or Harry then it happens."
Reaching behind her head and pushing her hair to the side Usagi unclasps her necklace dropping it in and uttering the two reasons she does so, "Everyone is allowed to have friends, and I am going to allow myself to have them. Besides the object that used to make me feel so secure no longer does, more so it makes me more unsure of myself."
And finally Usagi drops the charm bracelet her mother sent her, "I need to let go of the past, mine and my mother's."
With all the jewelry in the box Usagi sets it back into the secret place she had made in her trunk and stands up brushing her robes off.
"There you are Usagi!" Lavender exclaims as she and Parvati rush into the room out of breath and red faced.
"What's going on?" Usagi asks noticing immediately that there is something wrong.
"It's your brother, he has gone nuts! He and Harry are going to kill each other!" Parvati exclaims.
"Why hasn't someone gone to get a professor?" Usagi asks as she rushes after Parvati and Lavender.
"They are holding an important meeting and no one knows where to find them. And Filch is being distracted by Crabbe and Goyle." Lavender gasps.
"Your brother set this all up!" Parvati adds, as they grow closer to the group circled around the two teen boys.
"Harry don't do this!" Hermione is saying from the side, "Malfoy's not worth getting kicked out of or kill over."
"Harry I'll be your second!" Ron offers.
"Ron don't encourage him!" Hermione exclaims, "Harry don't do this please. Malfoy isn't worth any of this."
"Hermione is right Harry." Ginny adds, "Don't do this, you'll get expelled for sure."
"Malfoy isn't, but Usagi is." Harry swears as both he and Draco prepare their wands to use a, undoubtedly, deadly attack.
"You stay away from my sister!" Draco orders, "Have nothing to do with her!"
"Stop it!" Usagi cries pushing through the crowd, "Just stop it!"
"Cassi what are you doing here?" Draco asks obviously surprised to see his very angry twin in front of him.
"What are both of you doing here?" Usagi exclaims near to tears, "I don't want you to fight over me!"
"They just care about you Usagi." Ron points out.
"Neither one of them cares about me!" Usagi exclaims her face turning beat red with anger, "They only care about finding a reason to continue you with this pointless feud between Slytherin and Gryffindor! If either one of them cared about me they wouldn't make me the reason they are fighting!" With Usagi's words she pushes between them tears beginning to fall, grabs their wands and then takes off at break neck speed towards the doors leading outside.
Usagi found herself in the same spot she had been only half an hour ago with Seiya earlier. Pulling her knees her chest Usagi rested her forehead against them and let her tears fall, when Usagi finally calmed her ragged breathing and her tears were slowing she sat up. The last tear that fell dropped onto the grass and transformed.
Reaching down Usagi picked up the necklace and held the delicate charm in the palm of her hand gazing down at it. On a barely visible gold chain was an equally delicate crescent moon with a star dripping off the trip of the moon. Usagi didn't understand what it represented but somehow she knew that it symbolized her future, clasping the chain around her neck it took the place the silver crystal had occupied and somehow Usagi's felt more peaceful, ready to take on anything…Even the two approaching figures.