Michiru Kaioh Michiru@tellmeimcute.com
Rating: PG
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the last 2 will be given the respect they deserve. (read: they will
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Standard disclaimers apply. I do not own any rights to Sailor Moon or
any of the characters therein. I am merely borrowing them for a little
while. Now, on to the story!
Windswept Waters
Part 10: The Real Haruka
Haruka stood and began pacing restlessly around the room. Michiru
watched her collect her thoughts in silence, hands clasped in her lap.
"Well, for the most part the story I told you was true... At least
so far as what happened after I was on my own." Haruka paused, then
continued. "As you have guessed, my father is still alive. However, my
mother is not. Which is why I was able to return home. But I am getting
ahead of myself. When I was a small child my mother loved me. She
was much like yours is, she loved showing me off to all her friends.
When I turned thirteen however, all this changed. I started showing
an interest in girls, not boys. Mother sent me to many doctors who
all promised they could 'fix' me for her. After the third failure, I
ran away."
"Fix you?" Michiru's face showed her bafflement.
Haruka's voice went expressionless. "They tried to make me 'normal.'
Gave me nasty tasting medicines to drink, and when that did not work,
they tried to beat it out of me. Thinking if I feared what would
happen to me when I looked at a pretty girl enough, I would stop
looking, and start taking an interest in boys instead. I chose a
third way however, and ran away.
"I learned to steal in the streets, and was good enough I was
usually fed. Then the police cracked down harder, and I was not
able to keep stealing without getting caught."
"But why come to me then? And why leave to come back here
if you had been treated so badly?"
Haruka looked out a window facing the grounds. Her back to
Michiru. "Because, you were kind to me. I could see you had a
mother similar in many ways to my own. Yet you were willing to
brave her wrath to keep it off me, a complete stranger."
"And you came back here, now, because?"
"My mother is dead. She died a few months ago. My father
has always loved me for who I am, not what I could be. And now
I am all he has left. The only heir to the estate. And I had
no where else to go when your mother threw me out.
"You had a home, as well as a fiancée. Why did you seek
me out Michiru? Just to get the answers to your questions?"
Haruka had been tense during her recital. She was afraid
Michiru had come only for that. Yet she so desperately wished
for another reason. She had come to love her over the year she
had spent living in the Kaioh household. She believed Michiru
loved her as well, yet she Was engaged...
She felt a light touch on her back, the scent of cherry
blossoms was very near. Michiru's reflection appeared beside
her own in the window.
"Because I love you Haruka. I have left my family, traveled
all this way, just to find you. I admit I did not expect to
find all of this at the end, but now that I am here...
Will you take me in?"
Haruka turned to face her. Looked down into eyes as full
of love as her own must be, and smiled. "All you ever had to
do was ask Michi. All you ever had to do was ask."
END
Rating: PG
http://smcollection.www.50Megs.com/index.html
Any comments, suggestions, flames, rants, are always welcome. Though
the last 2 will be given the respect they deserve. (read: they will
be used for virtual kitty-litter.)
Standard disclaimers apply. I do not own any rights to Sailor Moon or
any of the characters therein. I am merely borrowing them for a little
while. Now, on to the story!
Windswept Waters
Part 10: The Real Haruka
Haruka stood and began pacing restlessly around the room. Michiru
watched her collect her thoughts in silence, hands clasped in her lap.
"Well, for the most part the story I told you was true... At least
so far as what happened after I was on my own." Haruka paused, then
continued. "As you have guessed, my father is still alive. However, my
mother is not. Which is why I was able to return home. But I am getting
ahead of myself. When I was a small child my mother loved me. She
was much like yours is, she loved showing me off to all her friends.
When I turned thirteen however, all this changed. I started showing
an interest in girls, not boys. Mother sent me to many doctors who
all promised they could 'fix' me for her. After the third failure, I
ran away."
"Fix you?" Michiru's face showed her bafflement.
Haruka's voice went expressionless. "They tried to make me 'normal.'
Gave me nasty tasting medicines to drink, and when that did not work,
they tried to beat it out of me. Thinking if I feared what would
happen to me when I looked at a pretty girl enough, I would stop
looking, and start taking an interest in boys instead. I chose a
third way however, and ran away.
"I learned to steal in the streets, and was good enough I was
usually fed. Then the police cracked down harder, and I was not
able to keep stealing without getting caught."
"But why come to me then? And why leave to come back here
if you had been treated so badly?"
Haruka looked out a window facing the grounds. Her back to
Michiru. "Because, you were kind to me. I could see you had a
mother similar in many ways to my own. Yet you were willing to
brave her wrath to keep it off me, a complete stranger."
"And you came back here, now, because?"
"My mother is dead. She died a few months ago. My father
has always loved me for who I am, not what I could be. And now
I am all he has left. The only heir to the estate. And I had
no where else to go when your mother threw me out.
"You had a home, as well as a fiancée. Why did you seek
me out Michiru? Just to get the answers to your questions?"
Haruka had been tense during her recital. She was afraid
Michiru had come only for that. Yet she so desperately wished
for another reason. She had come to love her over the year she
had spent living in the Kaioh household. She believed Michiru
loved her as well, yet she Was engaged...
She felt a light touch on her back, the scent of cherry
blossoms was very near. Michiru's reflection appeared beside
her own in the window.
"Because I love you Haruka. I have left my family, traveled
all this way, just to find you. I admit I did not expect to
find all of this at the end, but now that I am here...
Will you take me in?"
Haruka turned to face her. Looked down into eyes as full
of love as her own must be, and smiled. "All you ever had to
do was ask Michi. All you ever had to do was ask."
END
