Chapter 13: Rei-Chan
A longer chapter in store for you guys, this one just went off. And I have most of the next chapter planned out so if I can get some more time to sit down and write it I will hopefully have it out in a couple of days. So I hope you enjoy! Don't forget to review!
"Usagi don't take this the wrong way, but well I mean are you sure because I mean it was just a dream." Ron states the next morning; Harry, Ron, Hermione and Usagi are the only one in Gryffindor's common room on the last morning before classes start again.
Usagi nods, "In the past a lot of things like this have come to me in dreams."
"You did have that prophecy yesterday." Harry points out.
"My dreams never come without a reason." Usagi responds.
When Hermione gasps everyone turns their gaze quickly towards her, "Remember when the Ginny opened the Chamber of Secrets second year?"
"No of course we've forgotten it." Ron replies sarcastically.
Hermione glares at him but continues, "We thought Draco was the Heir to Slytherin but it turned out to be Tom Riddle, in all reality we were right though Draco is the Heir to Slytherin but it must not be on the Malfoy side of the family. Draco and Usagi really are the true heirs to Slytherin. Usagi do you have any idea…"
Usagi bites her lip and looks down at her hands clasped in her lap, "There's something else I didn't tell you guys."
"What is it Usagi?" Harry asks.
Usagi takes a deep breath and then states, "My mother isn't Japanese, she's English, her maiden name is Riddle. Tom Riddle, Voldermort, is my uncle, my mother's much older half-brother."
"Oh my God." Hermione covers her mouth with a hand as Harry and Ron stared stunned.
"I'm sorry I never told you, but that's the exact response that I didn't want to get." And then when Usagi stops speaking her expression turns from anguish to horror, "Oh my God." And before she says anything else she tears out of the common room and out through the portrait whole leaving her boyfriend and friends in their stunned state realizing slower than usual that Usagi has run away.
Usagi runs outside before she even realizes that she is breaking the new school rule and heading for the Quidditch field she only has one thought on her mind. Running up the stairs to the Gryffindor stands Usagi doesn't pay attention to her breathlessness and doesn't stop until she has climbed to the top and has pulled herself up onto the edge.
Crouching to keep her balance for a moment Usagi watches the green ground hundreds of feet below her and before she let's go she whispers, "It's my fault."
Instead of feeling the sense of falling she expected when she let go of the beam she feels arms wrapped around her. "Usagi-Chan nani?" Is all Seiya can muster. "What the hell are you doing?"
"Put me down!" Usagi screams, "Put me down Seiya! Put me down right now."
Seiya obliges and sets Usagi on her feet.
Harry, Ron and Hermione arrive at the top of the stands to see Seiya set Usagi back on her feet. The trio can't understand the exchange as Seiya and Usagi speak in rapid Japanese but as Usagi pulls something out of her robe and makes a long cut on her arm Harry has to be restrained by Ron and Hermione.
"See this blood Seiya?" Usagi asks, "It might as well be black, because it is pure evil. 100% pure evil, and you want to know why? Because I am pure evil. There's not doubt about it, and don't try to convince me otherwise. Because it's true totally, entirely, absolutely true."
"That's not true Usagi-Chan and you know it." Seiya states rushing forward and ripping a piece of his robe to apply pressure to Usagi's gash.
"Yes, it is Seiya! My entire family line has done nothing good! My father was founder of the Slytherin house, look at the people in it and that shows you how great of a person he was. And he was able to breed me, me and Draco. At least Draco doesn't go around acting like he isn't what he is."
"You're mother though…"
"Yes, Serenity she was a great person. But then go down the family line a few generations and you get to see my darling grandfather who was able to have my dear Uncle Tom and my mother. We know who…no what my uncle turned into. And mother was able to marry Lucius who is just…I don't know Lucius. And then there's that whole side of the family Kami-Sama knows who's on that side of the family."
"Usagi-"
"No don't Usagi-Chan me Seiya!" Usagi screams. "You talk me out of this. It would have been better off if you had let me jump. At least there would be one less evil person in this world, and with the battle of Voldermort looming that is just what this world needs. You should have let me jump." Usagi sobs.
Harry, Hermione and Ron continue to watch from a distance. Seiya was obviously trying to comfort a hysterical Usagi who after a long, tearful speech lets out a sob and collapses into Seiya's waiting arms.
Seiya carries her carefully as he picks his footing along the steps with Harry, Hermione and Ron straggling behind. They arrive in the hospital wing and Madam Pomfrey immediately took charge of the unconscious girl, "All of you out. I'm sure when she is conscious again you may visit with her."
"Madam Pomfrey it is crucial for the girl mental state that you inform me immediately that she is awake. I need to speak to her about something of great importance to her."
"All right Professor Kou but I must ask you to leave and take the students with you for now."
"What happened up there?" Harry asks when they are in the hallway.
"That's not is not of as much importance as what it is you guys were talking about before she left." Seiya states, "If I am going to help her deal with her demons…"
"That's my job." Harry states firmly, "I'm her boyfriend."
"Maybe, but you can't help her."
"And you can?" Harry challenges.
"Better than you can." With Seiya's response Harry turns the other way and stalks away and his best-friends look back and forth between him and Seiya, "So is anyone going to tell me what it was that set Usagi off or am I supposed to figure it out telepathically?" Seiya snaps.
Hermione and Ron did tell him everything, Seiya's facial expression didn't change throughout the replay of the conversation, and once they were finished he stated that they should probably go after Harry.
And after about an hour of waiting Seiya was ushered into the room Usagi waited in.
"Usagi-Chan." Seiya sits down gently on Usagi's bed and she turns her back towards him.
"I don't want to hear it Seiya." Usagi replies icily, "Because nothing you say is going to convince me that I'm not evil and I don't have evil blood."
"Usagi-Chan you got to say your part and I listened, now it is my time to talk and your turn to listen." Usagi doesn't respond but she doesn't tell him to leave either, taking this as a good sign Seiya continues. "You don't really think that it's really a coincidence that I, we, began teaching at Hogwarts when you began attending it."
"I didn't really give it much thought." Usagi replies softly, but her words held a hint of betrayal.
"I can't tell you everything but you must understand that Setsuna saw something in the future. Something…let's just say something you couldn't handle." Seiya speaks slowly picking and choosing his words carefully.
"Meaning." Usagi turns to face Seiya her blue eyes blazing, "that she sent you after me when I needed my messes cleaned up."
"Usagi-Chan, really come on, you're important to the future, and if at every turn to completely fall apart someone needed to be here for you. Setsuna thought that I was the best choice so she came to Kimnoku and brought Yaten, Taiki and I back."
"Get out!" Usagi screams, "Right now! Get out I don't want to talk to you anymore! Get out!"
"Usagi-Chan, please." Seiya begs softly, "Calm down."
"Don't act to damn kind Seiya! You're only here because you don't want to fail your precious mission! It's just like when you were looking for your princess except now it's not finding someone it's trying to keep someone from getting lost. So get the hell out! I don't want your damn protection!"
"I'm sorry Professor Kou but if Miss Tuskino expects to return for normal classes tomorrow she must rest." Madam Pomfrey swoops in.
"I just…" Seiya starts.
"Really professor you must leave now." Madam Pomfrey looks sternly and he gets up and walks out of room.
"Don't let him back in here." A now sobbing Usagi insist.
"Not to worry Miss Tuskino, I'm just going to give you something to sleep better."
Usagi wakes up groggily and looks around. She gasps surprised to find that Rei is sitting on the bed across from in her school uniform. "Rei-Chan what are you doing here?"
"You needed to talk so I came." Rei replies.
"How'd you know?" Usagi asks.
"I'm not the senshi with high senses for nothing Odango-Atama." Rei states. "So what's going on? What's wrong? Where'd you get the cut?"
Usagi recalls everything from the day and relays it to Rei, "I'm evil Rei-Chan, I shouldn't have ever been born."
"Not been born? Odango that's the craziest thing I have ever heard! Honestly!" Rei exclaims.
"It's true Rei-Chan, I only bring destruction wherever I go. In Tokyo it was the youma and here Voldermort. Beryl hated me out of jealousy. The Blackmoon Family came because Demando was in love with Neo-Queen Serenity. Chibi Chibi came to me bringing Galaxia and Chaos. And I never destroyed Chaos and Chaos took over Voldermort's body." Rei looks more enlightened and Usagi can't help but exclaim, "See they all tie back to me! It's all my fault anything bad happens, I'm evil."
Rei laughs, "Usagi-Chan don't you see it? It's because your not evil that all this happens."
"That's not true!" Usagi exclaims.
"Odango listen to me. Beryl hated you because of your pure innocence. Demando was in love with you for you beauty which came from the same thing. Chibi Chibi came to you because Galaxia's starseed needed someone the opposite of Chaos to take care of it. Maybe you are right, maybe this all started because of you."
"See you agree! I'm evil!"
"You aren't listening to what I am saying." Rei rolls her eyes at Usagi, "You are where you are because you are the only hope the people you are protecting have of standing against Voldermort and Chaos. You're not evil, but you are the only one who will be able to defeat it."
Silent tears run down Usagi's cheeks, "I-I I never thought of it that way. So I'm not evil?"
"Of course not you Odango-Atama!" Rei exclaims smiling and shaking her head at her best friend.
Usagi launches herself into her Rei's arms, "Thank you so much Rei-Chan I understand."
Rei hugs Usagi tightly, "You take care of this world Usagi-Chan, they need you here."
A raven hared young woman bolts up in bed looking around to find that she is still in her room in her grandfather's temple. Her dream had been so real, and yet it wasn't, she could still recall the entire dream and although crawling out of the bed she wrote the entire dream down. Because she had a feeling it had been more than just a made up fantasy about comforting her best friend, and writing it down helped her sort out what it had all meant.
Usagi sat up quickly in bed waking up from her dream and opening her eyes she finds that it is all ready morning. And her dream, Rei-Chan had been in her dream, and everything she had said made her feel better.
"How are you feeling Miss Tuskino?" Madam Pomfrey asks coming into the room.
"A lot better. I don't know what got into me. May I return to my common room so I can prepare for my first class?" Usagi asks.
"If you promise to take it easy." She responds.
"Of course." Usagi nods, "Thank you Madam Pomfrey."
A longer chapter in store for you guys, this one just went off. And I have most of the next chapter planned out so if I can get some more time to sit down and write it I will hopefully have it out in a couple of days. So I hope you enjoy! Don't forget to review!
"Usagi don't take this the wrong way, but well I mean are you sure because I mean it was just a dream." Ron states the next morning; Harry, Ron, Hermione and Usagi are the only one in Gryffindor's common room on the last morning before classes start again.
Usagi nods, "In the past a lot of things like this have come to me in dreams."
"You did have that prophecy yesterday." Harry points out.
"My dreams never come without a reason." Usagi responds.
When Hermione gasps everyone turns their gaze quickly towards her, "Remember when the Ginny opened the Chamber of Secrets second year?"
"No of course we've forgotten it." Ron replies sarcastically.
Hermione glares at him but continues, "We thought Draco was the Heir to Slytherin but it turned out to be Tom Riddle, in all reality we were right though Draco is the Heir to Slytherin but it must not be on the Malfoy side of the family. Draco and Usagi really are the true heirs to Slytherin. Usagi do you have any idea…"
Usagi bites her lip and looks down at her hands clasped in her lap, "There's something else I didn't tell you guys."
"What is it Usagi?" Harry asks.
Usagi takes a deep breath and then states, "My mother isn't Japanese, she's English, her maiden name is Riddle. Tom Riddle, Voldermort, is my uncle, my mother's much older half-brother."
"Oh my God." Hermione covers her mouth with a hand as Harry and Ron stared stunned.
"I'm sorry I never told you, but that's the exact response that I didn't want to get." And then when Usagi stops speaking her expression turns from anguish to horror, "Oh my God." And before she says anything else she tears out of the common room and out through the portrait whole leaving her boyfriend and friends in their stunned state realizing slower than usual that Usagi has run away.
Usagi runs outside before she even realizes that she is breaking the new school rule and heading for the Quidditch field she only has one thought on her mind. Running up the stairs to the Gryffindor stands Usagi doesn't pay attention to her breathlessness and doesn't stop until she has climbed to the top and has pulled herself up onto the edge.
Crouching to keep her balance for a moment Usagi watches the green ground hundreds of feet below her and before she let's go she whispers, "It's my fault."
Instead of feeling the sense of falling she expected when she let go of the beam she feels arms wrapped around her. "Usagi-Chan nani?" Is all Seiya can muster. "What the hell are you doing?"
"Put me down!" Usagi screams, "Put me down Seiya! Put me down right now."
Seiya obliges and sets Usagi on her feet.
Harry, Ron and Hermione arrive at the top of the stands to see Seiya set Usagi back on her feet. The trio can't understand the exchange as Seiya and Usagi speak in rapid Japanese but as Usagi pulls something out of her robe and makes a long cut on her arm Harry has to be restrained by Ron and Hermione.
"See this blood Seiya?" Usagi asks, "It might as well be black, because it is pure evil. 100% pure evil, and you want to know why? Because I am pure evil. There's not doubt about it, and don't try to convince me otherwise. Because it's true totally, entirely, absolutely true."
"That's not true Usagi-Chan and you know it." Seiya states rushing forward and ripping a piece of his robe to apply pressure to Usagi's gash.
"Yes, it is Seiya! My entire family line has done nothing good! My father was founder of the Slytherin house, look at the people in it and that shows you how great of a person he was. And he was able to breed me, me and Draco. At least Draco doesn't go around acting like he isn't what he is."
"You're mother though…"
"Yes, Serenity she was a great person. But then go down the family line a few generations and you get to see my darling grandfather who was able to have my dear Uncle Tom and my mother. We know who…no what my uncle turned into. And mother was able to marry Lucius who is just…I don't know Lucius. And then there's that whole side of the family Kami-Sama knows who's on that side of the family."
"Usagi-"
"No don't Usagi-Chan me Seiya!" Usagi screams. "You talk me out of this. It would have been better off if you had let me jump. At least there would be one less evil person in this world, and with the battle of Voldermort looming that is just what this world needs. You should have let me jump." Usagi sobs.
Harry, Hermione and Ron continue to watch from a distance. Seiya was obviously trying to comfort a hysterical Usagi who after a long, tearful speech lets out a sob and collapses into Seiya's waiting arms.
Seiya carries her carefully as he picks his footing along the steps with Harry, Hermione and Ron straggling behind. They arrive in the hospital wing and Madam Pomfrey immediately took charge of the unconscious girl, "All of you out. I'm sure when she is conscious again you may visit with her."
"Madam Pomfrey it is crucial for the girl mental state that you inform me immediately that she is awake. I need to speak to her about something of great importance to her."
"All right Professor Kou but I must ask you to leave and take the students with you for now."
"What happened up there?" Harry asks when they are in the hallway.
"That's not is not of as much importance as what it is you guys were talking about before she left." Seiya states, "If I am going to help her deal with her demons…"
"That's my job." Harry states firmly, "I'm her boyfriend."
"Maybe, but you can't help her."
"And you can?" Harry challenges.
"Better than you can." With Seiya's response Harry turns the other way and stalks away and his best-friends look back and forth between him and Seiya, "So is anyone going to tell me what it was that set Usagi off or am I supposed to figure it out telepathically?" Seiya snaps.
Hermione and Ron did tell him everything, Seiya's facial expression didn't change throughout the replay of the conversation, and once they were finished he stated that they should probably go after Harry.
And after about an hour of waiting Seiya was ushered into the room Usagi waited in.
"Usagi-Chan." Seiya sits down gently on Usagi's bed and she turns her back towards him.
"I don't want to hear it Seiya." Usagi replies icily, "Because nothing you say is going to convince me that I'm not evil and I don't have evil blood."
"Usagi-Chan you got to say your part and I listened, now it is my time to talk and your turn to listen." Usagi doesn't respond but she doesn't tell him to leave either, taking this as a good sign Seiya continues. "You don't really think that it's really a coincidence that I, we, began teaching at Hogwarts when you began attending it."
"I didn't really give it much thought." Usagi replies softly, but her words held a hint of betrayal.
"I can't tell you everything but you must understand that Setsuna saw something in the future. Something…let's just say something you couldn't handle." Seiya speaks slowly picking and choosing his words carefully.
"Meaning." Usagi turns to face Seiya her blue eyes blazing, "that she sent you after me when I needed my messes cleaned up."
"Usagi-Chan, really come on, you're important to the future, and if at every turn to completely fall apart someone needed to be here for you. Setsuna thought that I was the best choice so she came to Kimnoku and brought Yaten, Taiki and I back."
"Get out!" Usagi screams, "Right now! Get out I don't want to talk to you anymore! Get out!"
"Usagi-Chan, please." Seiya begs softly, "Calm down."
"Don't act to damn kind Seiya! You're only here because you don't want to fail your precious mission! It's just like when you were looking for your princess except now it's not finding someone it's trying to keep someone from getting lost. So get the hell out! I don't want your damn protection!"
"I'm sorry Professor Kou but if Miss Tuskino expects to return for normal classes tomorrow she must rest." Madam Pomfrey swoops in.
"I just…" Seiya starts.
"Really professor you must leave now." Madam Pomfrey looks sternly and he gets up and walks out of room.
"Don't let him back in here." A now sobbing Usagi insist.
"Not to worry Miss Tuskino, I'm just going to give you something to sleep better."
Usagi wakes up groggily and looks around. She gasps surprised to find that Rei is sitting on the bed across from in her school uniform. "Rei-Chan what are you doing here?"
"You needed to talk so I came." Rei replies.
"How'd you know?" Usagi asks.
"I'm not the senshi with high senses for nothing Odango-Atama." Rei states. "So what's going on? What's wrong? Where'd you get the cut?"
Usagi recalls everything from the day and relays it to Rei, "I'm evil Rei-Chan, I shouldn't have ever been born."
"Not been born? Odango that's the craziest thing I have ever heard! Honestly!" Rei exclaims.
"It's true Rei-Chan, I only bring destruction wherever I go. In Tokyo it was the youma and here Voldermort. Beryl hated me out of jealousy. The Blackmoon Family came because Demando was in love with Neo-Queen Serenity. Chibi Chibi came to me bringing Galaxia and Chaos. And I never destroyed Chaos and Chaos took over Voldermort's body." Rei looks more enlightened and Usagi can't help but exclaim, "See they all tie back to me! It's all my fault anything bad happens, I'm evil."
Rei laughs, "Usagi-Chan don't you see it? It's because your not evil that all this happens."
"That's not true!" Usagi exclaims.
"Odango listen to me. Beryl hated you because of your pure innocence. Demando was in love with you for you beauty which came from the same thing. Chibi Chibi came to you because Galaxia's starseed needed someone the opposite of Chaos to take care of it. Maybe you are right, maybe this all started because of you."
"See you agree! I'm evil!"
"You aren't listening to what I am saying." Rei rolls her eyes at Usagi, "You are where you are because you are the only hope the people you are protecting have of standing against Voldermort and Chaos. You're not evil, but you are the only one who will be able to defeat it."
Silent tears run down Usagi's cheeks, "I-I I never thought of it that way. So I'm not evil?"
"Of course not you Odango-Atama!" Rei exclaims smiling and shaking her head at her best friend.
Usagi launches herself into her Rei's arms, "Thank you so much Rei-Chan I understand."
Rei hugs Usagi tightly, "You take care of this world Usagi-Chan, they need you here."
A raven hared young woman bolts up in bed looking around to find that she is still in her room in her grandfather's temple. Her dream had been so real, and yet it wasn't, she could still recall the entire dream and although crawling out of the bed she wrote the entire dream down. Because she had a feeling it had been more than just a made up fantasy about comforting her best friend, and writing it down helped her sort out what it had all meant.
Usagi sat up quickly in bed waking up from her dream and opening her eyes she finds that it is all ready morning. And her dream, Rei-Chan had been in her dream, and everything she had said made her feel better.
"How are you feeling Miss Tuskino?" Madam Pomfrey asks coming into the room.
"A lot better. I don't know what got into me. May I return to my common room so I can prepare for my first class?" Usagi asks.
"If you promise to take it easy." She responds.
"Of course." Usagi nods, "Thank you Madam Pomfrey."