Chapter 11: That's what's important...
*Sorry guys this chapter has been a little hard to get out, I want to go more in-depth with Usagi's emotions but I was finding it very hard to reach the place she is in. But I hope you all like it anyway. If you have any suggestions let me know, email me or review or both! Thanks*
"So what did you think of my friends?" Makoto asks her boyfriend as they walk towards his home on the street Usagi once lived on.
"I liked them. Haruka is a little intense and Mamoru is kind of quiet but they seem like really interesting people." Dave, an American transfer student and Makoto's boyfriend of a month, responds.
"Good, I'm glad you…" Makoto's sentence slips off as she stops dead in her tracks her eyes starting intently across the street.
"Makoto-Chan what is it?" Dave asks following her gaze. His eyes focus on a large family getting out of a car with an older teen, maybe Makoto's age, with long black hair carrying someone in his arms. "Do you know those people?"
"We've…I've got to go back to the Crown." Makoto murmurs.
"I'll come with you." Dave offers.
"No, thanks Dave. I just have to tell my friends something quick." Makoto kisses Dave quickly and turns on her heel and rushes away.
Haruka is the first to recover her voice when Makoto finishes telling her friends what she saw, "We should have known that she would be with him."
"He carried her into the house?" Minako asks, "Not like over the threshold marriage-style right?"
Everyone turns quick worried glances at Mamoru and then back at Makoto who shakes her head quickly, "No, something was wrong with her."
"Should we go see her?" Rei asks causing the whole group to fall silent again.
"How's she doing?" Seiya asks as Ikuko sits down at the breakfast table the evening before Christmas and a week later.
"Not much of a change." Ikuko sighs taking a sip of her coffee, "She doesn't leave her room except to use the bathroom. She doesn't eat and I don't think she sleeps all that much or well when she actually does. She was reading something when I went up to check on her just now. I was hoping that after a week she would begin returning back to her normal self. I understand losing her senshi power was a great loss…"
"Ikuko-Sama I think it his her so hard because not only is she feeling a loss of self but she is also feeling a loss of her past. I'm sure she will come around." Taiki comforts.
"I don't think she should go back." Kenji states.
"I agree." Ikuko nods.
"As Usagi's teacher I have to say she is doing excellently well at school. But even more importantly as her friends I have to agree. She needs to put her world back together." Seiya affirms.
"No." A weak voice comes from the doorway.
"Usagi-Chan you're up." Shingo states.
"Usagi-Chan sit down, would you like something to eat or drink?" Ikuko asks.
Usagi just shakes her head, "Not right now please."
"Usagi-Chan about you going back to Hogwarts…" Kenji starts.
"No Daddy please." Usagi shakes her head, her limp dirty blonde hair shaking in her face. "I want to go back to Hogwarts, I need to go back to Hogwarts."
"Usagi please." Ikuko begs.
"Momma I want to go back. I want to finish out my year at Hogwarts with my friends."
"Usagi maybe your parents are right." Seiya interrupts.
"No!" Usagi exclaims, "None of you went through what I had to go through. I had to get through my feelings of worthlessness, and feeling like you might as well die because everything you are is dead anyway. I had to get through that on my own this week, but I need to go back to Hogwarts. I can't look back, my past died last week, I need to look forward and the only way I can do that is if I return to Hogwarts and continue with my life there."
"If that's what you need Usagi then we aren't going to stop you."
"You guys didn't really have to get us anything." Taiki insists after all the Christmas presents have been opened the next morning.
"You didn't but thank you all the same." Yaten adds.
"Yes Momma Daddy thanks for everything." Usagi smiles. Everyone smiles at Usagi only just recovering from when Usagi emerged from her bathroom an hour before in a pair of jeans and a blue sweater. Both outfits hung to loosely on Usagi's frame showing the amount of weight she had lost in only a week and with the tears washed away from her face the dark circles under her eyes were more evident. She still isn't all smiles yet her depression still clings to her but everyone is happy with the improvement.
"All your presents aren't here just yet." Seiya teases.
"What else do I have?" Usagi asks just as the doorbell rings.
"That should be them right now." Yaten adds and Usagi rushes towards the door.
Usagi pulls the door open with everyone right behind her, but instead of anyone she would have expected Usagi faces all of the senshi that protect Tokyo, Mamoru included.
Backing up Usagi bumps into Yaten who murmurs in her ear, "That's not who we thought would be there."
"Usagi-Chan?" Rei asks staring at Usagi's face.
"What are you doing here?" Usagi whispers.
"We heard you were back." Minako states.
"You couldn't have heard that, no one knew Usagi was going to be here." Shingo insists.
"Right, my boyfriend lives down the street, I saw you last week." Makoto responds.
"Oh." Usagi's voice doesn't raise any louder than it had when she had come downstairs for the first time the night before. "Won't you guys come in?"
The senshi didn't need to be asked twice as they follow everyone else into the living room. "Where have you been?" Minako asks right off the bat.
"Minako-Chan!" Everyone hisses and Rei continues, "We decided not to ask her that right away."
"It's fine you guys." Usagi's voice remains the same whisper as he talks, "I've been away at a private school in England. I'm doing really well there."
Usagi is so worried about not freaking out during the small talk with the senshi that she doesn't notice as her mother slips out. And even though everyone else hears someone talking to Ikuko about, "Muggle plane being a new experience," Usagi misses the voice entirely.
"Usagi." Usagi's head shoots around at the sound of the accented male voice. Bolting to her feet Usagi propels herself into Harry's arms without even thinking of how it will effect the rest of the people in the room. All she can think about is the fact that Harry's arms are a safe haven.
"Oh my God Harry I'm so glad you are here." Usagi sobs into Harry's chest pulling her tear stained face away from Harry's shirt she asks, "What are you doing here?"
"Your mum thought it would be a nice surprise for you. We celebrated Christmas with Ron's family and then stopped off to get Hermione and here we are."
"I'm so glad you are here." Usagi latches her arms around Harry again causing Harry to shoot a look of concern at Seiya.
"We should probably go." Michiru states standing up and indicating for the others to follow her lead.
Usagi, who is to caught up in the fact that she doesn't have to feel the stress of half explaining things to the girls, doesn't even notice that they have excused themselves.
"How's she doing?" Everyone slows their walk to the front door at the sound of a British female accent.
"Is she doing any better than when we left her at the train station?" A 3rd, this time male, accented voice asks.
"A little, it hit her really hard. But she's come around in the last half day. It has been a really hard we week for her. We weren't going to let her return to school after break but she insists that if she can't look back anymore she only has school to look forward to."
Ikuko's words caused an expression of pain to cross the senshis' faces.
"You can't really blame her. She must have felt like the bottom fell out of her world." The younger female's voice replies.
"Well what are you? Chopped liver?" The male's voice interrupts.
"Ron, I didn't say her world fell out, I'm just saying that that must be how she felt."
"She's not powerless though." The one called Ron states, "She just feels that way and once she gets back to school to school she will see that."
There is a silence for a few seconds before Ron asks, "Do you think we gave Harry and Usagi enough time?"
The 7 women and Mamoru listen as the three walks through the other double doors and as Usagi squeals in excitement.
The group of eight walk into the café on their search for Setsuna, they find her sitting at her normal table obviously waiting for them.
"Before you sit down," Setsuna states, "I must remind you that the questions you come to me with are not those that should have a scene made of."
"Setsuna-San can you tell us what's going on?" Ami asks first.
"And where has Usagi been?" Minako adds.
"And how do the starlights factor into this?" Haruka's voice is lower and sounds more threatening than the previous two.
"Most importantly, what's wrong with Usagi? Two of the three from England said she is powerless." Mamoru speaks.
"You know I can't answer those questions. All I can say is Usagi is in school in England and she's going to be fine." Setsuna responds.
"Well she didn't look fine!" Haruka exclaims loud enough for the whole café to turn their attention to her.
"I didn't say she was fine now Haruka, I said she would be." Setsuna replies.
"So what should be do today?" Usagi asks cheerful as she sits at breakfast with her friends.
"We want to see everything you used to do when you lived in Japan," Harry states.
Usagi smiles and arches an eyebrow at Seiya, Taiki and Yaten, "The we are definitely stopping off at the Crown!"
"The Crown?" Hermione asks.
"An arcade." Yaten offers.
"An arcade Usagi as probably spend millions of pounds in." Seiya adds.
"Not millions." Usagi shakes her head, "Only my meager allowance."
"Her meager allowance for her entire life." Seiya states poking Usagi in the side.
"Usagi spending her meager allowance for her entire life," Ikuko states coming into the dining room, "am I correct in assuming that you guy swill be heading over to the arcade?"
Usagi nods with a smile, "I thought we would go say hi to Motoki-kun. Shingo-kun mentioned he told Motoki-kun that I would be back in Japan for Christmas."
Despite the cheerful façade Usagi was putting on as the group walked to the arcade it was obvious to everyone that she was a nervous wreck. She held Harry's hand tightly and chatted cheerfully with Hermione about what they would be learning about in the last half of their year.
With a sweeping glance of the arcade Usagi seems to relax a bit and walks over to the counter taking a stool. Through a window leading into the kitchen Hermione, Harry and Ron can see a blonde man kissing a woman. The two jump apart as Usagi calls, "Where's the service around here? How is anyone supposed to get served if the owner is in the kitchen doing smoochies with his girlfriend."
Motoki pushes through the door and smiles brightly when he catches sight of Usagi, "Hi Motoki-kun." Usagi hops off the stool and rushes behind the counter and Motoki gives her a hug lifting her slightly up off her feet.
"You look great Usagi-Chan, you've cut your hair though." Motoki touches the shoulder length locks, "You've lost weight though, don't they feed you at that school?"
"They do, but they don't have your famous chocolate shakes." Usagi replies and then suddenly as she seems to remember school she says, "Motoki-kun these are my friends from school, there are visiting for our break, Harry, Hermione and Ron. Guys this is Motoki, he's been like a big brother to me." The group converses slowly in a mixture of English, a class Motoki took for four years and Japanese, the sparse amount Harry, Hermione and Ron knew from Usagi's teaching.
When Motoki goes into the kitchen and returns moments later with shakes for everyone. Harry, Hermione and Ron watch in awe as Usagi finishes off her milkshake quickly, Seiya, Taiki, Yaten and Motoki just smile and shake their head. Wiping her mouth off Usagi hops off the stool, "A new Sailor V game!" And with that said Usagi hurries to the unoccupied game. "Harry, Ron, Hermione come check this game out."
When the three walk over to her Motoki asks, "Are you going to school with her too?"
The trio exchange glances and Seiya responds, "Yeah we do, she's doing really well."
"I'm glad to hear it. She and Harry are they…" Andrew let's his sentence trail.
"We're going to go see what they are playing." Yaten speaks as he and Taiki walk away from the two men.
"They cleared out of here quickly." Motoki comments.
"They don't want to get as involved with Usagi-Chan's romantic life, I can't help but be involved." Seiya shrugs. "They've just begun to explore the more than friendly side of their relationship. Usagi-Chan has been confused about what and who she wants in a relationship. Part of her wants to go along with the path that she always thought would be hers, she hides this side even from herself, she wants to wear Mamoru-San's engagement ring and finish high school and come back to Tokyo and marry him. On the other hand she has Harry, who in his own way is confused about who he loves, with them it's more of an exploration, it could turn into more and it might not."
"And you?" Motoki inquires.
"Me, how'd you know there ever was a me?" Seiya asks.
"All I know is there was almost a you guys last time you were around, but then she had everything around to remind her of Mamoru, away at school there's not as much of a reminder." Motoki states.
Seiya thinks for a minute, "She was confused about me for awhile, but I don't think know if it was more than I was a part of her past she was clinging on to. I was Tokyo; I was the only one she knew when she went to school. We're just friends now."
Both Seiya and Motoki watch Usagi as she laughingly beats Harry at the arcade game.
"Motoki-kun I wish we could stay longer." Usagi states kissing Motoki on the cheek.
"Yeah it was good meeting you." Harry adds.
"But we have hom-"
"Hermione Granger if you say what I think you are going to say I swear I'll…" Ron let his threat fall off.
Hermione only arches an eyebrow at Ron before turning her attention back to Motoki, "It really was wonderful to meet friends of Usagi's and see where she spent so much of her time."
"So Usagi," Ron's voice is slow at he Hermione, Harry, and Usagi get settled into their compartment on the train, "What brought you around, if you don't mind my asking." The last part was sped through quickly.
"You guys in a way and my trainer when I was a senshi," With Usagi's words she leans against Harry's shoulder taking a deep breath, it is obvious to the group that the past tense use of the expression still hurts Usagi. "I was reading a diary entry and inside it I wrote something Luna once told me. She said 'Power is a fickle thing one day you may have it and the next poof it's gone. But really matters is when you strip all that magic away it's who you are then.' And I realized that I have become a better person at Hogwarts and maybe I won't ever be a senshi again but I have my witchcraft magic, but more importantly I like who I am now, and Luna's right, that's what's important."
*Sorry guys this chapter has been a little hard to get out, I want to go more in-depth with Usagi's emotions but I was finding it very hard to reach the place she is in. But I hope you all like it anyway. If you have any suggestions let me know, email me or review or both! Thanks*
"So what did you think of my friends?" Makoto asks her boyfriend as they walk towards his home on the street Usagi once lived on.
"I liked them. Haruka is a little intense and Mamoru is kind of quiet but they seem like really interesting people." Dave, an American transfer student and Makoto's boyfriend of a month, responds.
"Good, I'm glad you…" Makoto's sentence slips off as she stops dead in her tracks her eyes starting intently across the street.
"Makoto-Chan what is it?" Dave asks following her gaze. His eyes focus on a large family getting out of a car with an older teen, maybe Makoto's age, with long black hair carrying someone in his arms. "Do you know those people?"
"We've…I've got to go back to the Crown." Makoto murmurs.
"I'll come with you." Dave offers.
"No, thanks Dave. I just have to tell my friends something quick." Makoto kisses Dave quickly and turns on her heel and rushes away.
Haruka is the first to recover her voice when Makoto finishes telling her friends what she saw, "We should have known that she would be with him."
"He carried her into the house?" Minako asks, "Not like over the threshold marriage-style right?"
Everyone turns quick worried glances at Mamoru and then back at Makoto who shakes her head quickly, "No, something was wrong with her."
"Should we go see her?" Rei asks causing the whole group to fall silent again.
"How's she doing?" Seiya asks as Ikuko sits down at the breakfast table the evening before Christmas and a week later.
"Not much of a change." Ikuko sighs taking a sip of her coffee, "She doesn't leave her room except to use the bathroom. She doesn't eat and I don't think she sleeps all that much or well when she actually does. She was reading something when I went up to check on her just now. I was hoping that after a week she would begin returning back to her normal self. I understand losing her senshi power was a great loss…"
"Ikuko-Sama I think it his her so hard because not only is she feeling a loss of self but she is also feeling a loss of her past. I'm sure she will come around." Taiki comforts.
"I don't think she should go back." Kenji states.
"I agree." Ikuko nods.
"As Usagi's teacher I have to say she is doing excellently well at school. But even more importantly as her friends I have to agree. She needs to put her world back together." Seiya affirms.
"No." A weak voice comes from the doorway.
"Usagi-Chan you're up." Shingo states.
"Usagi-Chan sit down, would you like something to eat or drink?" Ikuko asks.
Usagi just shakes her head, "Not right now please."
"Usagi-Chan about you going back to Hogwarts…" Kenji starts.
"No Daddy please." Usagi shakes her head, her limp dirty blonde hair shaking in her face. "I want to go back to Hogwarts, I need to go back to Hogwarts."
"Usagi please." Ikuko begs.
"Momma I want to go back. I want to finish out my year at Hogwarts with my friends."
"Usagi maybe your parents are right." Seiya interrupts.
"No!" Usagi exclaims, "None of you went through what I had to go through. I had to get through my feelings of worthlessness, and feeling like you might as well die because everything you are is dead anyway. I had to get through that on my own this week, but I need to go back to Hogwarts. I can't look back, my past died last week, I need to look forward and the only way I can do that is if I return to Hogwarts and continue with my life there."
"If that's what you need Usagi then we aren't going to stop you."
"You guys didn't really have to get us anything." Taiki insists after all the Christmas presents have been opened the next morning.
"You didn't but thank you all the same." Yaten adds.
"Yes Momma Daddy thanks for everything." Usagi smiles. Everyone smiles at Usagi only just recovering from when Usagi emerged from her bathroom an hour before in a pair of jeans and a blue sweater. Both outfits hung to loosely on Usagi's frame showing the amount of weight she had lost in only a week and with the tears washed away from her face the dark circles under her eyes were more evident. She still isn't all smiles yet her depression still clings to her but everyone is happy with the improvement.
"All your presents aren't here just yet." Seiya teases.
"What else do I have?" Usagi asks just as the doorbell rings.
"That should be them right now." Yaten adds and Usagi rushes towards the door.
Usagi pulls the door open with everyone right behind her, but instead of anyone she would have expected Usagi faces all of the senshi that protect Tokyo, Mamoru included.
Backing up Usagi bumps into Yaten who murmurs in her ear, "That's not who we thought would be there."
"Usagi-Chan?" Rei asks staring at Usagi's face.
"What are you doing here?" Usagi whispers.
"We heard you were back." Minako states.
"You couldn't have heard that, no one knew Usagi was going to be here." Shingo insists.
"Right, my boyfriend lives down the street, I saw you last week." Makoto responds.
"Oh." Usagi's voice doesn't raise any louder than it had when she had come downstairs for the first time the night before. "Won't you guys come in?"
The senshi didn't need to be asked twice as they follow everyone else into the living room. "Where have you been?" Minako asks right off the bat.
"Minako-Chan!" Everyone hisses and Rei continues, "We decided not to ask her that right away."
"It's fine you guys." Usagi's voice remains the same whisper as he talks, "I've been away at a private school in England. I'm doing really well there."
Usagi is so worried about not freaking out during the small talk with the senshi that she doesn't notice as her mother slips out. And even though everyone else hears someone talking to Ikuko about, "Muggle plane being a new experience," Usagi misses the voice entirely.
"Usagi." Usagi's head shoots around at the sound of the accented male voice. Bolting to her feet Usagi propels herself into Harry's arms without even thinking of how it will effect the rest of the people in the room. All she can think about is the fact that Harry's arms are a safe haven.
"Oh my God Harry I'm so glad you are here." Usagi sobs into Harry's chest pulling her tear stained face away from Harry's shirt she asks, "What are you doing here?"
"Your mum thought it would be a nice surprise for you. We celebrated Christmas with Ron's family and then stopped off to get Hermione and here we are."
"I'm so glad you are here." Usagi latches her arms around Harry again causing Harry to shoot a look of concern at Seiya.
"We should probably go." Michiru states standing up and indicating for the others to follow her lead.
Usagi, who is to caught up in the fact that she doesn't have to feel the stress of half explaining things to the girls, doesn't even notice that they have excused themselves.
"How's she doing?" Everyone slows their walk to the front door at the sound of a British female accent.
"Is she doing any better than when we left her at the train station?" A 3rd, this time male, accented voice asks.
"A little, it hit her really hard. But she's come around in the last half day. It has been a really hard we week for her. We weren't going to let her return to school after break but she insists that if she can't look back anymore she only has school to look forward to."
Ikuko's words caused an expression of pain to cross the senshis' faces.
"You can't really blame her. She must have felt like the bottom fell out of her world." The younger female's voice replies.
"Well what are you? Chopped liver?" The male's voice interrupts.
"Ron, I didn't say her world fell out, I'm just saying that that must be how she felt."
"She's not powerless though." The one called Ron states, "She just feels that way and once she gets back to school to school she will see that."
There is a silence for a few seconds before Ron asks, "Do you think we gave Harry and Usagi enough time?"
The 7 women and Mamoru listen as the three walks through the other double doors and as Usagi squeals in excitement.
The group of eight walk into the café on their search for Setsuna, they find her sitting at her normal table obviously waiting for them.
"Before you sit down," Setsuna states, "I must remind you that the questions you come to me with are not those that should have a scene made of."
"Setsuna-San can you tell us what's going on?" Ami asks first.
"And where has Usagi been?" Minako adds.
"And how do the starlights factor into this?" Haruka's voice is lower and sounds more threatening than the previous two.
"Most importantly, what's wrong with Usagi? Two of the three from England said she is powerless." Mamoru speaks.
"You know I can't answer those questions. All I can say is Usagi is in school in England and she's going to be fine." Setsuna responds.
"Well she didn't look fine!" Haruka exclaims loud enough for the whole café to turn their attention to her.
"I didn't say she was fine now Haruka, I said she would be." Setsuna replies.
"So what should be do today?" Usagi asks cheerful as she sits at breakfast with her friends.
"We want to see everything you used to do when you lived in Japan," Harry states.
Usagi smiles and arches an eyebrow at Seiya, Taiki and Yaten, "The we are definitely stopping off at the Crown!"
"The Crown?" Hermione asks.
"An arcade." Yaten offers.
"An arcade Usagi as probably spend millions of pounds in." Seiya adds.
"Not millions." Usagi shakes her head, "Only my meager allowance."
"Her meager allowance for her entire life." Seiya states poking Usagi in the side.
"Usagi spending her meager allowance for her entire life," Ikuko states coming into the dining room, "am I correct in assuming that you guy swill be heading over to the arcade?"
Usagi nods with a smile, "I thought we would go say hi to Motoki-kun. Shingo-kun mentioned he told Motoki-kun that I would be back in Japan for Christmas."
Despite the cheerful façade Usagi was putting on as the group walked to the arcade it was obvious to everyone that she was a nervous wreck. She held Harry's hand tightly and chatted cheerfully with Hermione about what they would be learning about in the last half of their year.
With a sweeping glance of the arcade Usagi seems to relax a bit and walks over to the counter taking a stool. Through a window leading into the kitchen Hermione, Harry and Ron can see a blonde man kissing a woman. The two jump apart as Usagi calls, "Where's the service around here? How is anyone supposed to get served if the owner is in the kitchen doing smoochies with his girlfriend."
Motoki pushes through the door and smiles brightly when he catches sight of Usagi, "Hi Motoki-kun." Usagi hops off the stool and rushes behind the counter and Motoki gives her a hug lifting her slightly up off her feet.
"You look great Usagi-Chan, you've cut your hair though." Motoki touches the shoulder length locks, "You've lost weight though, don't they feed you at that school?"
"They do, but they don't have your famous chocolate shakes." Usagi replies and then suddenly as she seems to remember school she says, "Motoki-kun these are my friends from school, there are visiting for our break, Harry, Hermione and Ron. Guys this is Motoki, he's been like a big brother to me." The group converses slowly in a mixture of English, a class Motoki took for four years and Japanese, the sparse amount Harry, Hermione and Ron knew from Usagi's teaching.
When Motoki goes into the kitchen and returns moments later with shakes for everyone. Harry, Hermione and Ron watch in awe as Usagi finishes off her milkshake quickly, Seiya, Taiki, Yaten and Motoki just smile and shake their head. Wiping her mouth off Usagi hops off the stool, "A new Sailor V game!" And with that said Usagi hurries to the unoccupied game. "Harry, Ron, Hermione come check this game out."
When the three walk over to her Motoki asks, "Are you going to school with her too?"
The trio exchange glances and Seiya responds, "Yeah we do, she's doing really well."
"I'm glad to hear it. She and Harry are they…" Andrew let's his sentence trail.
"We're going to go see what they are playing." Yaten speaks as he and Taiki walk away from the two men.
"They cleared out of here quickly." Motoki comments.
"They don't want to get as involved with Usagi-Chan's romantic life, I can't help but be involved." Seiya shrugs. "They've just begun to explore the more than friendly side of their relationship. Usagi-Chan has been confused about what and who she wants in a relationship. Part of her wants to go along with the path that she always thought would be hers, she hides this side even from herself, she wants to wear Mamoru-San's engagement ring and finish high school and come back to Tokyo and marry him. On the other hand she has Harry, who in his own way is confused about who he loves, with them it's more of an exploration, it could turn into more and it might not."
"And you?" Motoki inquires.
"Me, how'd you know there ever was a me?" Seiya asks.
"All I know is there was almost a you guys last time you were around, but then she had everything around to remind her of Mamoru, away at school there's not as much of a reminder." Motoki states.
Seiya thinks for a minute, "She was confused about me for awhile, but I don't think know if it was more than I was a part of her past she was clinging on to. I was Tokyo; I was the only one she knew when she went to school. We're just friends now."
Both Seiya and Motoki watch Usagi as she laughingly beats Harry at the arcade game.
"Motoki-kun I wish we could stay longer." Usagi states kissing Motoki on the cheek.
"Yeah it was good meeting you." Harry adds.
"But we have hom-"
"Hermione Granger if you say what I think you are going to say I swear I'll…" Ron let his threat fall off.
Hermione only arches an eyebrow at Ron before turning her attention back to Motoki, "It really was wonderful to meet friends of Usagi's and see where she spent so much of her time."
"So Usagi," Ron's voice is slow at he Hermione, Harry, and Usagi get settled into their compartment on the train, "What brought you around, if you don't mind my asking." The last part was sped through quickly.
"You guys in a way and my trainer when I was a senshi," With Usagi's words she leans against Harry's shoulder taking a deep breath, it is obvious to the group that the past tense use of the expression still hurts Usagi. "I was reading a diary entry and inside it I wrote something Luna once told me. She said 'Power is a fickle thing one day you may have it and the next poof it's gone. But really matters is when you strip all that magic away it's who you are then.' And I realized that I have become a better person at Hogwarts and maybe I won't ever be a senshi again but I have my witchcraft magic, but more importantly I like who I am now, and Luna's right, that's what's important."