"Ranae It is rumored that you are seeing the once again hot singing sensation Seiya Kou of the Starlights. Is that true? And is there reason for your awful break-up with Ranma Soatome?"
Usagi shifted in hers eat next to Alana and prepared to answer the question that the host of 'Good Morning Tokyo' asked. "Actually Seiya is one of my closest friends. But no there is no there isn't nor will there ever be a relationship more than friendship between myself and Seiya. As for Ranma we decided that we were better off not dating."
"Do you still have any chance of dating him?"
Usagi took a deep breath "As I said Ranma and I are not dating and we are still good friends and we are still running the Martial Arts School together."
"Is there any other special guy in your life?"
Usagi sighed inwardly this host was really beginning to get on her nerves but instead Usagi plastered a smile on her face and asked "Why the interest in my love like?"
The host laughed "OK so tell us about this new movie. If I'm correct it is the first movie the 4 of you have ever done."
Usagi sighed at least they had dropped the subject.
Usagi lay back against the sofa with a wet cloth covering her eyes and forehead after she had gotten home from the interview with a headache.
"Usagi are you OK?" Alana asked coming into the apartment, she, Callia and Callista had rented the apartment next to Usagi, Seiya, Yaten and Taiki.
"Yeah just a headache." Usagi said quietly.
"You have been getting those a lot lately are you sure your OK?"
"Yeah I think it is just because I haven't been getting enough sleep. You know with my dreams and my memory coming back I don't get a lot of sleep."
"I'm calling Mom. You should go see her."
"Alana I'm fine really." Usagi said struggling to sit up "Besides that I don't have time to do all the way to Kyra."
"Kyra is 45 minutes away." Alana said picking up the cordless phone "Besides Mom would shoot me if she knew I knew you were having problems and I didn't tell her."
Usagi sighed as she listened to Alana talk to her mother. "She said she wants you to be at her office tomorrow morning at 9." Alana said as she hung up the phone."
"Alana I don't need to go." Usagi protested.
"Yes you do. Callia and Callista have wanted to go home for a visit recently anyway."
"I'm not…"
Usagi was interrupted by the phone "Hello." Usagi said as she picked up the phone.
"Hi." A woman's voice said "May I please speak to Seiya Kou."
"Let me see if he's around. Can I tell him who is calling?"
"Yes this is Rei Hino."
Usagi set the phone down and walked towards Seiya's bedroom and knocking on the door called "Seiya there is a Rei Hino on the phone for you.
Seiya opened the door quickly "Rei Hino?" Usagi nodded.
Seiya hurried to the phone "Rei?"
Usagi and Alan exchanged glances "Both walked out of the room."
"Alana I can't go back to Kyra OK?" Usagi said starting the argument back up again.
"Usagi you can't hide from Kyra forever. Besides you have to meet with Laura in Kyra, you have to take care of things at the school. And the only family you know lives in Kyra. You have to face Ranma sooner or later."
"I prefer later." Usagi replied quietly.
"But Usagi the sooner you face him the better. It has been 2 months, you have to see him some time."
"Fine I will go tomorrow. But that doesn't mean that I have to see him." Usagi finally said.
Usagi stared out the window of the back seat of Alana's car, Callia sat beside her and Alana and Callista sat in the front. The car was silent. Usagi's head was pounding and she knew her face was pale from the pain. Usagi lay her head against the seat head rest and sighed, they were now in Kyra and the close top the hospital. When they reached the hospital all 4 got out of the car.
"They got a new receptionist." Callia mentioned as they walked towards Marianna's office.
"You guys I can do this on my own." Usagi insisted.
"OK send Mom to the cafeteria when she gets a chance." Alana said pulling her sisters along with her.
"How can I help you?" The receptionist asked, she looked about Usagi's age she had short bluish-black hair.
"Yes, I'm here to see Dr. Chan." Usagi replied.
"Usagi Tuskino?"
Usagi nodded "She is expecting you, go on in."
"Thanks." Usagi smiled.
"Hi." Marianna smiled and hugged Usagi "How have you been? How has the movie been coming?"
"It has been going great. WE have about half of it done now. And we are all having a blast. Alana, Callia and Callista are down in the cafeteria and they want you to go down as soon as you can get a chance."
"All of you came?" Marianna asked.
"Yeah. I think they were afraid I wouldn't come if they didn't come with me." Usagi replied "So why did you want me to come?"
"There are some tests I want to run on you. There are occasionally strange cases when people have lost their memories for a long period of time. And when they get them back."
"Such as?"
"Usually nothing serious but you can never be to sure."
"So when will I get back the test results? I don't have to stay in the hospital do I?"
"No." Marianna assured Usagi with a smile "The hospital remembers when we had you here before. But you might be here for awhile."
"Well it doesn't matter, Alana, Callia and Callista wont let me leave until you tell me what's wrong anyway."
Marianna smiled "OK well let's start these tests."
4 hours later Usagi sat at the table that Alana, Callia and Callista. "You guys are still here? Please tell me you haven't been sitting here for 4 hours have you?"
"No, we stopped by the pediatric ward and said hello to everyone over there." Alana replied.
Usagi nodded "Well I have to come back at 5 to see my test results and I don't feel like driving back into Tokyo. So what should we do?"
"Shopping." Callia suggested.
"Home." This was Callista.
"The school." Alana said "I feel like stopping over there."
"I'm up for shopping, I'm up for shopping, I'm up for going home but I'm not up for going to the school." Usagi responded.
"You can't…"
"Yeah I know hide from Ranma forever. But I can try."
"Angel?" The voice came from behind the group.
Callia, Callista and Alana turned around quickly and Usagi took a deep breath. Slowly Usagi turned around to see Ranma with the receptionist.
"Hi Ranma." Usagi said quietly.
Ranma walked towards Usagi "Ranae I would like you to meet Akane Tendo. Akane this is Ranae Chan."
"Excuse me." Usagi said interrupting "I'm Usagi Tuskino. Please to meet you." The group was surprised by the genuine kindness in Usagi's voice directed towards Akane "Can I speak to Akane alone?"
The 3 girls nodded and Ranma looked back and forth between the 2 finally though Alana dragged him away.
"I thought you would hate me." Akane said quietly sitting in a chair across from Usagi.
"Hate you? No. You did nothing to me. I don't even feel hate feel hate towards Ranma anymore. And I realized that it's good you came back. Listen I don't want to be enemies. Can we be friends?"
Akane smiled "Yeah. I would like that. So you lived with Ranma for 3 years?"
Usagi smiled "Yeah. It's interesting."
Akane laughed "Yes it is. When Ranma lived with us we fought a lot. I saw the school, it's great."
Usagi smiled "Thanks we worked really hard to get it started."
"Do you do martial arts?" Akane asked.
"Yes not as well as Ranma. But he trained me while I lived with him."
"What can they be talking about?" Ranma asked nervously.
"Ranma, Akane and Usagi really do have a lot in common." Alana noted.
"Yeah they have both been engaged to you." Callia joked.
"Ha ha very funny." Ranma said sarcastically.
"Usagi doesn't know you and Akane are engaged again does she?" Alana asked.
"Unless one of you told her, no. I haven't talked to her since she left." Ranma responded "You don't think Akane will mention it to Usagi do you? I don't want Usagi to get hurt."
"It's a little late for that isn't it?" Alana commented "Listen Ranma you need to tell Usagi. She was hurt that you didn't tell her about Akane in the first place. You really should tell her today before she finds out another way."
"Your right. How long are you going to be here?"
"Usagi's test results come back at 5." Callia didn't get to finish her sentence as Callista step on her sister's foot to get her to shut up.
"Why what's wrong with her?" Ranma asked concern evident on his face.
"Nothing." Alana assured him "She has just been having really bad headaches and you know Mom she just wanted to be sure." Ranma nodded "But listen we are all having dinner at the house at 6 why don't you and Akane come over and eat with us?"
"I will be there but. I think Akane has to work. And I think it might be better if it is just me when I tell her."
"OK we will see you then. Here comes Usagi and Akane and we are supposed to go shopping." Ranma nodded.
"It was nice meeting you Akane." Usagi called as the 4 girls walked away.
"See, you saw Ranma and the world did not end." Alana pointed out.
"Yeah, I guess your right. Akane's really very nice also." Usagi commented.
"I'm late." Usagi said as she hurried through the door.
"Oh well your Mom's last appointment anyway." Callia commented.
"You want us to go in with you?" Alana asked.
"Will it convince you that I'm fine?"
"Dad what are you doing here?" Callista asked. They all could see Erik Chan ahead of them.
"I'm picking up your mother." He replied "She mentioned when I talked to her that you have an appointment. Mind if I sit in?"
"I can see right through all of you. You all think I am going to get bad news…I'm to. I have just been stressed lately but you all can sit in and listen as I get good news." Slowly though Usagi's confidence in the fact that she was going to be fine was slowly deteriorating, as if they all knew something Usagi didn't. the group nodded to Akane as they walked into the office.
Marianna sat behind her desk her lips set in a grim line, Usagi sat in a chair, Erik taking the chair next to her, Callia, Callista, and Alana sat on a coach on one side of the room. Usagi knew by taking one look at Marianna that something was wrong and her hopes sank.
"What's wrong? How bad is it?" Usagi asked quietly.
"There is a chance you could go blind." Marianna replied "It could be caused by anything. But because you are just now getting your memory back, I'm almost positive that it is the stress from that."
"So what can we do to stop it?" Usagi asked.
"If this is a reaction to the stress which all the tests point to then the only way to stop you is to stop the cause of the stress." Marianna didn't need to finish her sentence.
"So basically what you are saying is I either don't get my memory back or I go blind." At Marianna's nod Usagi asked "How am I supposed to choose between those? Choose to live a life of darkness never seeing anything? Or choosing to have darkness surrounding my past? I can't choose between those."
The group was silent after those finally Usagi asked "Is there a 100% chance of me going blind if I don't take the medication?"
"No, but the chances are high.."
Usagi nodded and after several minutes she asked another question "If I was to get my memory back and do blind is there anyway to undo my blindness?"
"It would depend. I can't answer that now."
"I don't want to live my life not knowing who I am. I have lived like that for 3 years now and now I finally have the chance to get my memory back fully. I don't wan to give that up. I'm not going to take the medication.
"Usagi…" Alana said as the group came out of it's stupor.
But Usagi held up her hand :Don't try to talk me out of it. Please." Everyone nodded.
"Angel could I talk to you?" Ranma asked that night after dinner Usagi had just told the rest of the family and Ranma her news and her decision. Usagi nodded and followed Ranma out tot he back porch. Both sat next to each other on the porch swings.
"You know when your done filming this movie you can move back in with me. Just as friends if that is what you want."
Usagi looked at Ranma and finally said "Ranma I can't move backing with you."
"But…"
"Because I don't know what I feel for you anymore. And it's not just because of Akane. But when this all happened it made me think about our relationship. And I think we think about our relationship. And I think we are better off friend."
"So your saying you feel nothing for me." Ranma leaned forward. Slowly Ranma leaned in and Usagi and Ranma kissed.
As they pulled apart and Ranma asked "What did that feel like?"
"That felt like I was kissing my best-friend." Usagi replied.
Ranma nodded "Come on then." Ranma stood up and helped Usagi to her feet. "Let's go get desert."
Usagi shifted in hers eat next to Alana and prepared to answer the question that the host of 'Good Morning Tokyo' asked. "Actually Seiya is one of my closest friends. But no there is no there isn't nor will there ever be a relationship more than friendship between myself and Seiya. As for Ranma we decided that we were better off not dating."
"Do you still have any chance of dating him?"
Usagi took a deep breath "As I said Ranma and I are not dating and we are still good friends and we are still running the Martial Arts School together."
"Is there any other special guy in your life?"
Usagi sighed inwardly this host was really beginning to get on her nerves but instead Usagi plastered a smile on her face and asked "Why the interest in my love like?"
The host laughed "OK so tell us about this new movie. If I'm correct it is the first movie the 4 of you have ever done."
Usagi sighed at least they had dropped the subject.
Usagi lay back against the sofa with a wet cloth covering her eyes and forehead after she had gotten home from the interview with a headache.
"Usagi are you OK?" Alana asked coming into the apartment, she, Callia and Callista had rented the apartment next to Usagi, Seiya, Yaten and Taiki.
"Yeah just a headache." Usagi said quietly.
"You have been getting those a lot lately are you sure your OK?"
"Yeah I think it is just because I haven't been getting enough sleep. You know with my dreams and my memory coming back I don't get a lot of sleep."
"I'm calling Mom. You should go see her."
"Alana I'm fine really." Usagi said struggling to sit up "Besides that I don't have time to do all the way to Kyra."
"Kyra is 45 minutes away." Alana said picking up the cordless phone "Besides Mom would shoot me if she knew I knew you were having problems and I didn't tell her."
Usagi sighed as she listened to Alana talk to her mother. "She said she wants you to be at her office tomorrow morning at 9." Alana said as she hung up the phone."
"Alana I don't need to go." Usagi protested.
"Yes you do. Callia and Callista have wanted to go home for a visit recently anyway."
"I'm not…"
Usagi was interrupted by the phone "Hello." Usagi said as she picked up the phone.
"Hi." A woman's voice said "May I please speak to Seiya Kou."
"Let me see if he's around. Can I tell him who is calling?"
"Yes this is Rei Hino."
Usagi set the phone down and walked towards Seiya's bedroom and knocking on the door called "Seiya there is a Rei Hino on the phone for you.
Seiya opened the door quickly "Rei Hino?" Usagi nodded.
Seiya hurried to the phone "Rei?"
Usagi and Alan exchanged glances "Both walked out of the room."
"Alana I can't go back to Kyra OK?" Usagi said starting the argument back up again.
"Usagi you can't hide from Kyra forever. Besides you have to meet with Laura in Kyra, you have to take care of things at the school. And the only family you know lives in Kyra. You have to face Ranma sooner or later."
"I prefer later." Usagi replied quietly.
"But Usagi the sooner you face him the better. It has been 2 months, you have to see him some time."
"Fine I will go tomorrow. But that doesn't mean that I have to see him." Usagi finally said.
Usagi stared out the window of the back seat of Alana's car, Callia sat beside her and Alana and Callista sat in the front. The car was silent. Usagi's head was pounding and she knew her face was pale from the pain. Usagi lay her head against the seat head rest and sighed, they were now in Kyra and the close top the hospital. When they reached the hospital all 4 got out of the car.
"They got a new receptionist." Callia mentioned as they walked towards Marianna's office.
"You guys I can do this on my own." Usagi insisted.
"OK send Mom to the cafeteria when she gets a chance." Alana said pulling her sisters along with her.
"How can I help you?" The receptionist asked, she looked about Usagi's age she had short bluish-black hair.
"Yes, I'm here to see Dr. Chan." Usagi replied.
"Usagi Tuskino?"
Usagi nodded "She is expecting you, go on in."
"Thanks." Usagi smiled.
"Hi." Marianna smiled and hugged Usagi "How have you been? How has the movie been coming?"
"It has been going great. WE have about half of it done now. And we are all having a blast. Alana, Callia and Callista are down in the cafeteria and they want you to go down as soon as you can get a chance."
"All of you came?" Marianna asked.
"Yeah. I think they were afraid I wouldn't come if they didn't come with me." Usagi replied "So why did you want me to come?"
"There are some tests I want to run on you. There are occasionally strange cases when people have lost their memories for a long period of time. And when they get them back."
"Such as?"
"Usually nothing serious but you can never be to sure."
"So when will I get back the test results? I don't have to stay in the hospital do I?"
"No." Marianna assured Usagi with a smile "The hospital remembers when we had you here before. But you might be here for awhile."
"Well it doesn't matter, Alana, Callia and Callista wont let me leave until you tell me what's wrong anyway."
Marianna smiled "OK well let's start these tests."
4 hours later Usagi sat at the table that Alana, Callia and Callista. "You guys are still here? Please tell me you haven't been sitting here for 4 hours have you?"
"No, we stopped by the pediatric ward and said hello to everyone over there." Alana replied.
Usagi nodded "Well I have to come back at 5 to see my test results and I don't feel like driving back into Tokyo. So what should we do?"
"Shopping." Callia suggested.
"Home." This was Callista.
"The school." Alana said "I feel like stopping over there."
"I'm up for shopping, I'm up for shopping, I'm up for going home but I'm not up for going to the school." Usagi responded.
"You can't…"
"Yeah I know hide from Ranma forever. But I can try."
"Angel?" The voice came from behind the group.
Callia, Callista and Alana turned around quickly and Usagi took a deep breath. Slowly Usagi turned around to see Ranma with the receptionist.
"Hi Ranma." Usagi said quietly.
Ranma walked towards Usagi "Ranae I would like you to meet Akane Tendo. Akane this is Ranae Chan."
"Excuse me." Usagi said interrupting "I'm Usagi Tuskino. Please to meet you." The group was surprised by the genuine kindness in Usagi's voice directed towards Akane "Can I speak to Akane alone?"
The 3 girls nodded and Ranma looked back and forth between the 2 finally though Alana dragged him away.
"I thought you would hate me." Akane said quietly sitting in a chair across from Usagi.
"Hate you? No. You did nothing to me. I don't even feel hate feel hate towards Ranma anymore. And I realized that it's good you came back. Listen I don't want to be enemies. Can we be friends?"
Akane smiled "Yeah. I would like that. So you lived with Ranma for 3 years?"
Usagi smiled "Yeah. It's interesting."
Akane laughed "Yes it is. When Ranma lived with us we fought a lot. I saw the school, it's great."
Usagi smiled "Thanks we worked really hard to get it started."
"Do you do martial arts?" Akane asked.
"Yes not as well as Ranma. But he trained me while I lived with him."
"What can they be talking about?" Ranma asked nervously.
"Ranma, Akane and Usagi really do have a lot in common." Alana noted.
"Yeah they have both been engaged to you." Callia joked.
"Ha ha very funny." Ranma said sarcastically.
"Usagi doesn't know you and Akane are engaged again does she?" Alana asked.
"Unless one of you told her, no. I haven't talked to her since she left." Ranma responded "You don't think Akane will mention it to Usagi do you? I don't want Usagi to get hurt."
"It's a little late for that isn't it?" Alana commented "Listen Ranma you need to tell Usagi. She was hurt that you didn't tell her about Akane in the first place. You really should tell her today before she finds out another way."
"Your right. How long are you going to be here?"
"Usagi's test results come back at 5." Callia didn't get to finish her sentence as Callista step on her sister's foot to get her to shut up.
"Why what's wrong with her?" Ranma asked concern evident on his face.
"Nothing." Alana assured him "She has just been having really bad headaches and you know Mom she just wanted to be sure." Ranma nodded "But listen we are all having dinner at the house at 6 why don't you and Akane come over and eat with us?"
"I will be there but. I think Akane has to work. And I think it might be better if it is just me when I tell her."
"OK we will see you then. Here comes Usagi and Akane and we are supposed to go shopping." Ranma nodded.
"It was nice meeting you Akane." Usagi called as the 4 girls walked away.
"See, you saw Ranma and the world did not end." Alana pointed out.
"Yeah, I guess your right. Akane's really very nice also." Usagi commented.
"I'm late." Usagi said as she hurried through the door.
"Oh well your Mom's last appointment anyway." Callia commented.
"You want us to go in with you?" Alana asked.
"Will it convince you that I'm fine?"
"Dad what are you doing here?" Callista asked. They all could see Erik Chan ahead of them.
"I'm picking up your mother." He replied "She mentioned when I talked to her that you have an appointment. Mind if I sit in?"
"I can see right through all of you. You all think I am going to get bad news…I'm to. I have just been stressed lately but you all can sit in and listen as I get good news." Slowly though Usagi's confidence in the fact that she was going to be fine was slowly deteriorating, as if they all knew something Usagi didn't. the group nodded to Akane as they walked into the office.
Marianna sat behind her desk her lips set in a grim line, Usagi sat in a chair, Erik taking the chair next to her, Callia, Callista, and Alana sat on a coach on one side of the room. Usagi knew by taking one look at Marianna that something was wrong and her hopes sank.
"What's wrong? How bad is it?" Usagi asked quietly.
"There is a chance you could go blind." Marianna replied "It could be caused by anything. But because you are just now getting your memory back, I'm almost positive that it is the stress from that."
"So what can we do to stop it?" Usagi asked.
"If this is a reaction to the stress which all the tests point to then the only way to stop you is to stop the cause of the stress." Marianna didn't need to finish her sentence.
"So basically what you are saying is I either don't get my memory back or I go blind." At Marianna's nod Usagi asked "How am I supposed to choose between those? Choose to live a life of darkness never seeing anything? Or choosing to have darkness surrounding my past? I can't choose between those."
The group was silent after those finally Usagi asked "Is there a 100% chance of me going blind if I don't take the medication?"
"No, but the chances are high.."
Usagi nodded and after several minutes she asked another question "If I was to get my memory back and do blind is there anyway to undo my blindness?"
"It would depend. I can't answer that now."
"I don't want to live my life not knowing who I am. I have lived like that for 3 years now and now I finally have the chance to get my memory back fully. I don't wan to give that up. I'm not going to take the medication.
"Usagi…" Alana said as the group came out of it's stupor.
But Usagi held up her hand :Don't try to talk me out of it. Please." Everyone nodded.
"Angel could I talk to you?" Ranma asked that night after dinner Usagi had just told the rest of the family and Ranma her news and her decision. Usagi nodded and followed Ranma out tot he back porch. Both sat next to each other on the porch swings.
"You know when your done filming this movie you can move back in with me. Just as friends if that is what you want."
Usagi looked at Ranma and finally said "Ranma I can't move backing with you."
"But…"
"Because I don't know what I feel for you anymore. And it's not just because of Akane. But when this all happened it made me think about our relationship. And I think we think about our relationship. And I think we are better off friend."
"So your saying you feel nothing for me." Ranma leaned forward. Slowly Ranma leaned in and Usagi and Ranma kissed.
As they pulled apart and Ranma asked "What did that feel like?"
"That felt like I was kissing my best-friend." Usagi replied.
Ranma nodded "Come on then." Ranma stood up and helped Usagi to her feet. "Let's go get desert."