Title: Moon Kingdom
Author: Nekkyoo Ema
Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own these charries, but I wish I did. However, I do own the storyline. If you want to steal... just ask. ^_~
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Recap:
"Dang, girl, I wish I had a guy like him..." Minako said, "lets go convince your mother that he is the only man for you and that Endyimon is a pompous jerk."
"Yes, lets." The determined Princess said as she and Minako walked from the room, ignoring all the hellos and the calls from the Earthian Prince who was behind them.
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Serenity knocked on the door of the Throne room, but did not wait for an answer before entering with Minako on her heels. "Mother, I think it is time you and I had a little chat."
Selene looked at her kin, surprised at the rudeness, "Serenity, do you not see that I am speaking with Hiroshi?" the queen asked.
"I do see that, Mother, but you have waited many years for him to return, you can surely wait another hour," Serenity said determinedly.
Trowa slipped out the doors, not wanting to be in the middle of his mother and sisters' cat fight, and watched from beside Minako.
"Mother, from what I have heard, you went behind my back and said I would be happy to be married to... to *him*," she stated as she waved her hand at the Prince behind her, "when I clearly did not give you any answer to the question. NOR did I even get asked about how I felt about this! I think you owe me an explanation."
"Serenity, first of all, you will *not* address the Prince in that way; and secondly, I did not have to get your consent on what you thought about this. I am your mother, therefore; I choose who you marry. In addition, this is for the good of our Kingdom, and the Earths'." Selene responded.
"But did you ever stop to think about how I would feel about this? I thought you went by the rule that if your children did not like something you were doing, you would not go thru with it!" Serenity answered.
"Yes, I do go by that rule, Serenity. But it does not apply here in this situation! I stand by my decision. You will marry Prince Endyimon in four days. No more, no less," Selene replied.
"But, Mother-" Serenity began all to soon cut off.
"Do not 'but, Mother' me, young lady! You will marry the Prince," Selene said in a voice that Serenity knew not to argue with. The young princess fled from the room to who knows where. She only knew that wherever her feet took her, it would be far away from the prince and her mother.
'I will not cry. I will not cry. *I will not cry!*' She said to herself over and over again. "There has got to be a way... there has got to!" She screamed. "Think, Usagi, think..." she said sitting down on the swing and rocking back and forth. She somehow had found her way to her secret playground from when she was little.
She wrapped her arms around the chains, lacing her fingers together so she could lean back and not fall. 'What am I going to do? I cannot get out of this arranged marriage unless I come up with a brilliant plan to get the joint delegation of the Earth and Moon to go on without the marriage.' She thought. She knew there was a way, she just hadn't thought of it yet.
"Hey, there," Minako said, tearing her cousin from the depths of her thoughts.
"Nako-chan, what am I going to do?" Usagi asked.
Minako sat down in the swing beside Usagi, "I don't know, Gi-chan. We all have tried to convince her that you should not get married. That you were too young. But she just won't listen."
"I know in my heart that there is a way, Nako-chan. I just know it," Usagi said with a voice that sounded so sure of itself.
"But what if there isn't?" Minako asked the question Usagi did not want to hear.
"There is. And if there isn't, then I guess I will just... run away..."
"Where will you run? Back to Hiiro? I may be afraid to walk on the moonbeams, but your mother certainly is not, and she will come after you." Minako stated clearly.
Usagi sighed, "when you're right, you're right. Lets go, it is almost nightfall and we should get some sleep. I have but four days to find a solution to my problem."
They both got up from the swings and made their way threw the maze of shrubs back to the palace. Usagi had lived there all her life, it was her safe haven. Now it looked like it would be the place where her life would end its happiness. Saying good night to each other, the two princesses retired to bed.
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Usagi woke with a start, her eyes flying open before shutting again just as quickly. "Ugh... you would think that after sixteen years here I would be used to the bright sun," she said to herself. Usagi tossed back her covers and made her way to her bathroom to shower and dress for another day of debating.
Twenty minutes later she emerged from her room only to bump into *him*. "Pardon me," she said curtly before trying to pass by him.
"I thought we should spend today getting to know each other since we will be married in three days." Endyimon said in a voice that would make any other girl melt. But it only made Usagi want to puke.
"*Pardon me*," she said again in a more annoyed tone of voice. "I have some important business to attend to. Good bye." With that the young princess walked off towards the throne room, and again without knocking, entered.
"We have been over this many times already, Serenity, you cannot change my mind," Selene said to her daughter in an exasperated voice.
"More the reason to find a way to stop this marriage, is it not, mother?" Serenity shot back. "I am but *sixteen*, mother, I am not ready for marriage."
"I was not ready at sixteen either, but that does not mean that I was not happy. You will be happy in time, too." Selene said in a calm voice.
"You lie!" Serenity accused, "you know just as well as I do that you were not completely happy. You were not happy with my father until Hiroshi was born and you had someone to take care of all the time. Someone to talk to. You may have been devastated with Zeus banished father, but you know in your heart and mind that deep down you were happy that he was gone." With that the Lunarian princess made her exit that would have put anyone to shame.
Selene sat in her chair a shocked face plastered into her normally beautiful features. Her daughter, as hard-headed as she was, was almost completely correct on how she had felt around her husband.
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"Hiiro, c'mon, you have got snap out of this," Duo said as he heard Hiiro sigh and look up at the sky for about the fiftieth time that day. Hiiro just ignored the braided haired pilot. Shaking his head, Duo got up and left the room.
"He still the same?" Quatre asked when he saw Duo. Duo just nodded. "I wish he would snap out of it. It's so different around here without his death threats to you Duo..." the Arabian teen said.
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"Gi-chan, are you sure you should have said all those things?" Minako asked again.
"For the final time, yes!" Usagi replied, "she needed to hear that. She needed to realize that her life was not peachy-keen when she knew of her arranged marriage and that my life will be the same."
Minako sighed, "okay. I just think that you might have hurt your mothers feelings."
"Well, she hurt mine..." Usagi stated. Minako shrugged and moved her Manacala pieces to the next bowls. Usagi scooped the up the pieces in her bowls and distributed them into Minakos side, leaving hers' empty.
"Arg! You always win, that is so not fair." Minako said with her famous pouty look.
Usagi smiled, "you just need more practice, that's all."
"More practice my butt. You just know the rules..." Minako muttered. "How do you think Hiiros' doing?" she said, changing the subject.
"I wouldn't know. The baka just will not go the sleep. I think he has forgotten about the whole Usagi-has-a-cousin-who-can-dream-hop-thing already." Usagi said sadly.
"Well, if he does not go to sleep soon, he will pass out from exhaustion. So either way, you will get to see him," Minako said playfully. Usagis' eyes bugged out as she smacked her cousin in the bicep.
"That is really *not* funny, Nako-chan." said Usagi.
Minako rubbed her arm for a second, "okay, okay, I know. Sorry." They both sat in silence for a minute until Minakos' outburst caused the Lunarian Princess to scream in fright. "I have got it!"
Catching her breath Usagi asked, "you have got what?"
"Well, as the old saying goes 'if you can't beat 'em, ignore them'," Minako said.
Usagi laughed, "Nako-chan, it's 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.' Anyway what is your point?"
Minako flushed, "well, you said that earlier the weirdo wanted to hang out..." Usagi nodded, "why not hang out with him? It will give you a chance to act like a total ditz and maybe he will tell your mother it is off."
Usagi looked at her, "Nako-chan, he is dumb, but not that dumb. He would see right threw it. Mother has told him all about my debating with other planets. And even if he did not see right threw it, Mother would."
"Darn..." Minako muttered. There went all of her ideas.
"Not to worry, I'll think of something," Usagi assured. 'At least I hope I do.' They both turned their heads at a knocking on the door. "Who is it?"
"Me, can I come in?" Hiroshi answered.
"Sure, it's open." Usagi said. Hiroshi walked in and nodded to Minako in greeting.
"Have you come up with any ideas yet?" He asked.
"Nope, but I hope to soon. There is only three more days to go." Usagi said with a sigh.
"I think I may have the solution you are looking for..." he said.
Usagi and Minako looked up at him with hopeful eyes, "what do you have in mind?" Usagi asked. Hiroshi leaned over and whispered into her ear so that Minako could not hear. Usagi gasped and looked at him, "you would do that? For me?"
"You are my baby sister," Hiroshi said with a smile.
Usagi jumped up and hugged him tightly, "thank you, thank you, thank you!"
"Wait, what just happened?!" Minako demanded. She wanted the information and she wanted it now.
"I shall most defiantly tell you in three days, Nako-chan, you can count on that. But right now, Hiroshi and I have to go see mother." Usagi said as she and her brother ran from the room leaving a confused Minako.
Usagi and Hiroshi walked into the throne room and waited for their mother to finish talking with Endyimon. When she did, Usagi smiled.
"Endyimon, would you mind leaving us to speak with our mother? Thank you." She said without even waiting for his answer. Hiroshi chuckled lightly before hushing up.
"What is it now, Serenity?" Selene asked. Her daughter was bugging her to the end of the Moon and now she was back, with her brother?
"Mother, we both have a proposition for you. I think that we all with agree with it." Hiroshi said.
"Alright, lets hear it," Selene replied. Soon Hiroshi and Usagi began to explain what Hiroshi had told his sister. By the time they were finished, Selene was deep in thought.
"What do you say, Mother?" Usagi asked.
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"He barely eats, I don't think I've seen him sleep for the time that Usagi has been gone. He is going to waste away..." Wufei said in an annoyed voice.
"Hey, it's not like he eats like me all the time." Duo said, not realizing the insult he had just placed upon himself. "He'll live."
"But I'm just saying, what if he-" Wufei started.
"*He'll live*," Duo interrupted sounding the most serious he had in his whole life.
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Selene looked at her kin. They had given her a reasonable offer, "alright. Things will go as planned. In three days, there shall be a wedding."
Usagi hugged her mother and said, "thank you!" before quickly exiting to the room with Hiroshi beside her. "And thank you, Roshi-chan."
"Eh, what are big brothers for?" He said with a shrug.
Usagi gave him a look, "well, I wouldn't know since mine was gone."
"Hey, it's not like I wanted to be."
"Liar."
"Hush, you."
"Make me."
"Okay!"
Usagi screamed and took off at a run, Hiroshi right behind her. "Ha-ha, you can't catch me!" she taunted as she ran into her bedroom where Minako still was waiting and shut the door. "Hide me!" Minako shot her a confused look, but then pointed to the ledge that sat atop the door. "Thanks!" with that the Lunarian princess jumped up and sat on the ledge.
Hiroshi opened the door and looked at Minako. "Where'd she go?" Usagi put a finger to her lips, signaling Minako to be quite.
"I don't know," Minako fibbed, trying to keep from laughing.
"You do too. Where did she go?" He asked again.
Usagi took the opportunity to jump quietly from the ledge before placing her hands on his shoulders and yelling, "boo!" that caused Hiroshi to jump in surprise.
Minako finally burst out laughing, as did Usagi.
"See you guys later, I have to go work out the kinks in our plan," Hiroshi said as he left the two laughing cousins.
Minako quickly sobered, "please tell me!"
"Begging really is not pretty on you," Usagi stated.
"I do not care, tell me," Minako said. Usagi shook her head. "Please?! Just a hint?"
"No, you will know on the wedding day," Usagi stated in a tone that Minako knew meant the end of that discussion.
"Anyway, I tried contacting Quatre to see how Hiiro was doing, but it seems that I could not." Minako said.
"How come?"
"Blocked."
"What? How can it be blocked?" Usagi asked.
Minako shrugged, "I don't now, it just was. Either that, or I just could not get a good connection since a Lunarian isn't there."
Usagi sighed, "oh. Hey, lets practice the song, it'll keep our minds off of things."
"Okay." Minako said. She turned on the song and then they both started singing.
"hanarerarezuni ita yo zutto
minareteru keshiki ga atta kara
itsuka mata kono basho he kute mo
onaji sora o onaji you ni mite
kanashii to ieru no kato
boku ha kangae sugita no kamo shirenai
sukoshi no nemuri ni tsuite mata ashita isogou
kowagatte fumi dasezuni iru ippo ga
kasanatte isukara ka nagaku nagai
michi ni natte te okure ni nattarishite
sono uchi ni nani to naku ima no basho mo
warukunai kamo nante omoidashite
nani to ka jibun ni riyuu tsuketarishita
HONTO hanetatta no ichido mo rikai shinai mama de
subete ga wakatta FURI o shite itanda ne
hanarerarezuni ita yo zutto
minareteru keshiki ga atta kara
nani daka subete ga chippoke de
chiisana katamari ni mieta no ha
aoida sora ga amari ni hatenaku
hiro sugita kara datta no kamo shirenai
kimo no tonari ni itakara kamo shirenai
atama de ha wakatteru tsumori demo ne
sure chigau doko ka no dare ka no koto
furikaette nagamete ha urayandari
nai mono ne dari o itsu made tsudzukete ikun darou
sou omoeta no ha kimi ni deatta kara desho
subete ha kitto kono te ni aru
koko ni yume ha oiteikenai
subete ha kitto kono te ni aru
kimerareta mirai mo iranai
subete ha kitto kono te ni aru
ugokanakya ugokasenai kedo
subete ha kitto kono te ni aru
hajimenakya hajimaranai kara."
"We're getting better at it, don't you think?" Usagi asked.
"Still a little slow, but we will get there," Minako replied. (AN: That song is called "Fly High" from Hamasaki Ayumi, it's really good, you should DL it. And, no, I don't know what it translates into.)
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For the next two days leading up to the wedding, Usagi worked to get things done. Minako helped, under much protest, with the gown.
"Thanks a lot for the help, Nako-chan, I don't think the dress would be ready without your help," Usagi said as they worked on the dress.
"I still just do not see why you one: will not tell me what the plan is; and two: why I have to help with the dress."
"You have to help with the dress because you are my cousin and my best friend. You should be happy for me, though, the plan is brilliant. I just know that you will love it to no end." Usagi replied.
"Hrump." Minako said, thoroughly annoyed.
"Pin it right there," Usagi said. The dress was indeed one of the most beautiful ones she had ever seen in her life. It was a soft, earthy green, sleeveless, and the skirt of it would flow behind the wearer gracefully and most certainly beautifully.
"Ouch!" Minako said as she accidentally poked the pin into her finger. "You will have to stop fidgeting, Yumi, or I am going to end up with a bunch of holey fingers."
"Sorry, Minako-chan," Yumi, the girl who was wearing the dress so that it could be made, said. She quickly stopped moving and just tried to stand still.
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Hiiro had finally decided that if he was going to wait for Usagi, he would have to be awake to see her and had gone to sleep.
"Wow, I didn't think he would last this long," Duo said.
"Duo, be quite! You don't want to wake him, now do you?" Quatre replied.
"Like he'd really wake up, he's so out of it you'd think he was dead." Duo said sarcastically. Quatre sighed and walked away. Duo was quite hopeless sometimes. Hiiro could, and right now was, worse.
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"Ouch!" Minako said again, this time because she had just stubbed her toe on the chair.
"Jeez, Nako-chan, you're just a walking disaster." Usagi joked.
"Bah, be quite, you," Minako said as she rubbed her foot.
"Ooh, and bitter too." The smiling Usagi said.
Minako rolled her eyes, "lets just go to bed. Tomorrows the big day."
"Oh, yes it is. Yes it is..." Usagi said much to happily. Minako raised an eyebrow, but just went to her room.
'Tomorrow is the big day. Should I feel nervous? I'm not sure...' Usagi thought. She dressed in her night gown and curled up under the covers of her bed. The Moon was once again her haven, she could be safe here at all times. 'Guess good things to happen to good people as the old saying went.'
Her eyes slowly closed as she fell into the hands of the all familiar blackness of sleep.
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Waking with a yawn, Usagi looked around her room and smile. Today was the wedding day. The day that the plan would go into action. She got up and showered, she had to look her best, as instructed by her mother. She slipped on her normal attire before making her way down the hall to the fitting room.
"Lets get going everyone! We have got lots of work to still do and only four hours to do it in!" Usagi heard her mother say.
"Hey, Mother," Usagi said as she walked in.
"Serenity, hurry, get Minako and Yumi up. We need your three to finish putting the last touches on the dress." Selene said. "Set everything up in the ballroom, please."
Usagi smiled as she walked to Minakos room and rapped on the door with her knuckles. "Nako-chan, wake up. We have to finish that dress."
"I am already up, just give me a minute," Minako replied as she put on her clothes and walked out of the room. They both walked down the east hall and knocked on Yumis' door.
"Yumi-chan, wake up. We have to get the dress finished." Usagi called.
"Okay!" Yumi replied. Usagi and Minako heard rustling coming from the other side of the door and when it opened, there stood Yumi, dressed and ready to go.
"Lets get going!" Usagi said cheerfully.
All three girls walked down the halls to the fitting room, saying hello to people as they walked past.
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An hour later, they were done with the dress.
"It is stunning, Serenity. Great job, all three of you." Selene said when she came to inspect the gown.
"Thanks," all three girls said. Usagi and Minako helped Yumi out of the dress and they hung it up on a hanger.
"One more hour. We should start getting ready." Usagi said after they had just sat around, chatting.
"Yeah, see you, Gi-chan and Yumi-chan," Minako said as she walked to her room to get ready.
"See you soon, Yumi-chan," Usagi said as she too left the room to go to her own as Yumi did the same.
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"I do," she said.
"I do," he said.
"I now pronounce you man and wife, you may kiss the bride," Aphrodite said.
Usagis' smile was huge, as was everyone else's.
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*Evil grin* well, well, well, it seems that I have come to the end of this chapter. Don't hurt me! It'll all turn out better and I will tell you about the plan! Bye! *runs away from mad ficy readers*
-Ema
Author: Nekkyoo Ema
Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own these charries, but I wish I did. However, I do own the storyline. If you want to steal... just ask. ^_~
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Recap:
"Dang, girl, I wish I had a guy like him..." Minako said, "lets go convince your mother that he is the only man for you and that Endyimon is a pompous jerk."
"Yes, lets." The determined Princess said as she and Minako walked from the room, ignoring all the hellos and the calls from the Earthian Prince who was behind them.
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Serenity knocked on the door of the Throne room, but did not wait for an answer before entering with Minako on her heels. "Mother, I think it is time you and I had a little chat."
Selene looked at her kin, surprised at the rudeness, "Serenity, do you not see that I am speaking with Hiroshi?" the queen asked.
"I do see that, Mother, but you have waited many years for him to return, you can surely wait another hour," Serenity said determinedly.
Trowa slipped out the doors, not wanting to be in the middle of his mother and sisters' cat fight, and watched from beside Minako.
"Mother, from what I have heard, you went behind my back and said I would be happy to be married to... to *him*," she stated as she waved her hand at the Prince behind her, "when I clearly did not give you any answer to the question. NOR did I even get asked about how I felt about this! I think you owe me an explanation."
"Serenity, first of all, you will *not* address the Prince in that way; and secondly, I did not have to get your consent on what you thought about this. I am your mother, therefore; I choose who you marry. In addition, this is for the good of our Kingdom, and the Earths'." Selene responded.
"But did you ever stop to think about how I would feel about this? I thought you went by the rule that if your children did not like something you were doing, you would not go thru with it!" Serenity answered.
"Yes, I do go by that rule, Serenity. But it does not apply here in this situation! I stand by my decision. You will marry Prince Endyimon in four days. No more, no less," Selene replied.
"But, Mother-" Serenity began all to soon cut off.
"Do not 'but, Mother' me, young lady! You will marry the Prince," Selene said in a voice that Serenity knew not to argue with. The young princess fled from the room to who knows where. She only knew that wherever her feet took her, it would be far away from the prince and her mother.
'I will not cry. I will not cry. *I will not cry!*' She said to herself over and over again. "There has got to be a way... there has got to!" She screamed. "Think, Usagi, think..." she said sitting down on the swing and rocking back and forth. She somehow had found her way to her secret playground from when she was little.
She wrapped her arms around the chains, lacing her fingers together so she could lean back and not fall. 'What am I going to do? I cannot get out of this arranged marriage unless I come up with a brilliant plan to get the joint delegation of the Earth and Moon to go on without the marriage.' She thought. She knew there was a way, she just hadn't thought of it yet.
"Hey, there," Minako said, tearing her cousin from the depths of her thoughts.
"Nako-chan, what am I going to do?" Usagi asked.
Minako sat down in the swing beside Usagi, "I don't know, Gi-chan. We all have tried to convince her that you should not get married. That you were too young. But she just won't listen."
"I know in my heart that there is a way, Nako-chan. I just know it," Usagi said with a voice that sounded so sure of itself.
"But what if there isn't?" Minako asked the question Usagi did not want to hear.
"There is. And if there isn't, then I guess I will just... run away..."
"Where will you run? Back to Hiiro? I may be afraid to walk on the moonbeams, but your mother certainly is not, and she will come after you." Minako stated clearly.
Usagi sighed, "when you're right, you're right. Lets go, it is almost nightfall and we should get some sleep. I have but four days to find a solution to my problem."
They both got up from the swings and made their way threw the maze of shrubs back to the palace. Usagi had lived there all her life, it was her safe haven. Now it looked like it would be the place where her life would end its happiness. Saying good night to each other, the two princesses retired to bed.
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Usagi woke with a start, her eyes flying open before shutting again just as quickly. "Ugh... you would think that after sixteen years here I would be used to the bright sun," she said to herself. Usagi tossed back her covers and made her way to her bathroom to shower and dress for another day of debating.
Twenty minutes later she emerged from her room only to bump into *him*. "Pardon me," she said curtly before trying to pass by him.
"I thought we should spend today getting to know each other since we will be married in three days." Endyimon said in a voice that would make any other girl melt. But it only made Usagi want to puke.
"*Pardon me*," she said again in a more annoyed tone of voice. "I have some important business to attend to. Good bye." With that the young princess walked off towards the throne room, and again without knocking, entered.
"We have been over this many times already, Serenity, you cannot change my mind," Selene said to her daughter in an exasperated voice.
"More the reason to find a way to stop this marriage, is it not, mother?" Serenity shot back. "I am but *sixteen*, mother, I am not ready for marriage."
"I was not ready at sixteen either, but that does not mean that I was not happy. You will be happy in time, too." Selene said in a calm voice.
"You lie!" Serenity accused, "you know just as well as I do that you were not completely happy. You were not happy with my father until Hiroshi was born and you had someone to take care of all the time. Someone to talk to. You may have been devastated with Zeus banished father, but you know in your heart and mind that deep down you were happy that he was gone." With that the Lunarian princess made her exit that would have put anyone to shame.
Selene sat in her chair a shocked face plastered into her normally beautiful features. Her daughter, as hard-headed as she was, was almost completely correct on how she had felt around her husband.
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"Hiiro, c'mon, you have got snap out of this," Duo said as he heard Hiiro sigh and look up at the sky for about the fiftieth time that day. Hiiro just ignored the braided haired pilot. Shaking his head, Duo got up and left the room.
"He still the same?" Quatre asked when he saw Duo. Duo just nodded. "I wish he would snap out of it. It's so different around here without his death threats to you Duo..." the Arabian teen said.
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"Gi-chan, are you sure you should have said all those things?" Minako asked again.
"For the final time, yes!" Usagi replied, "she needed to hear that. She needed to realize that her life was not peachy-keen when she knew of her arranged marriage and that my life will be the same."
Minako sighed, "okay. I just think that you might have hurt your mothers feelings."
"Well, she hurt mine..." Usagi stated. Minako shrugged and moved her Manacala pieces to the next bowls. Usagi scooped the up the pieces in her bowls and distributed them into Minakos side, leaving hers' empty.
"Arg! You always win, that is so not fair." Minako said with her famous pouty look.
Usagi smiled, "you just need more practice, that's all."
"More practice my butt. You just know the rules..." Minako muttered. "How do you think Hiiros' doing?" she said, changing the subject.
"I wouldn't know. The baka just will not go the sleep. I think he has forgotten about the whole Usagi-has-a-cousin-who-can-dream-hop-thing already." Usagi said sadly.
"Well, if he does not go to sleep soon, he will pass out from exhaustion. So either way, you will get to see him," Minako said playfully. Usagis' eyes bugged out as she smacked her cousin in the bicep.
"That is really *not* funny, Nako-chan." said Usagi.
Minako rubbed her arm for a second, "okay, okay, I know. Sorry." They both sat in silence for a minute until Minakos' outburst caused the Lunarian Princess to scream in fright. "I have got it!"
Catching her breath Usagi asked, "you have got what?"
"Well, as the old saying goes 'if you can't beat 'em, ignore them'," Minako said.
Usagi laughed, "Nako-chan, it's 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.' Anyway what is your point?"
Minako flushed, "well, you said that earlier the weirdo wanted to hang out..." Usagi nodded, "why not hang out with him? It will give you a chance to act like a total ditz and maybe he will tell your mother it is off."
Usagi looked at her, "Nako-chan, he is dumb, but not that dumb. He would see right threw it. Mother has told him all about my debating with other planets. And even if he did not see right threw it, Mother would."
"Darn..." Minako muttered. There went all of her ideas.
"Not to worry, I'll think of something," Usagi assured. 'At least I hope I do.' They both turned their heads at a knocking on the door. "Who is it?"
"Me, can I come in?" Hiroshi answered.
"Sure, it's open." Usagi said. Hiroshi walked in and nodded to Minako in greeting.
"Have you come up with any ideas yet?" He asked.
"Nope, but I hope to soon. There is only three more days to go." Usagi said with a sigh.
"I think I may have the solution you are looking for..." he said.
Usagi and Minako looked up at him with hopeful eyes, "what do you have in mind?" Usagi asked. Hiroshi leaned over and whispered into her ear so that Minako could not hear. Usagi gasped and looked at him, "you would do that? For me?"
"You are my baby sister," Hiroshi said with a smile.
Usagi jumped up and hugged him tightly, "thank you, thank you, thank you!"
"Wait, what just happened?!" Minako demanded. She wanted the information and she wanted it now.
"I shall most defiantly tell you in three days, Nako-chan, you can count on that. But right now, Hiroshi and I have to go see mother." Usagi said as she and her brother ran from the room leaving a confused Minako.
Usagi and Hiroshi walked into the throne room and waited for their mother to finish talking with Endyimon. When she did, Usagi smiled.
"Endyimon, would you mind leaving us to speak with our mother? Thank you." She said without even waiting for his answer. Hiroshi chuckled lightly before hushing up.
"What is it now, Serenity?" Selene asked. Her daughter was bugging her to the end of the Moon and now she was back, with her brother?
"Mother, we both have a proposition for you. I think that we all with agree with it." Hiroshi said.
"Alright, lets hear it," Selene replied. Soon Hiroshi and Usagi began to explain what Hiroshi had told his sister. By the time they were finished, Selene was deep in thought.
"What do you say, Mother?" Usagi asked.
~~
"He barely eats, I don't think I've seen him sleep for the time that Usagi has been gone. He is going to waste away..." Wufei said in an annoyed voice.
"Hey, it's not like he eats like me all the time." Duo said, not realizing the insult he had just placed upon himself. "He'll live."
"But I'm just saying, what if he-" Wufei started.
"*He'll live*," Duo interrupted sounding the most serious he had in his whole life.
~~
Selene looked at her kin. They had given her a reasonable offer, "alright. Things will go as planned. In three days, there shall be a wedding."
Usagi hugged her mother and said, "thank you!" before quickly exiting to the room with Hiroshi beside her. "And thank you, Roshi-chan."
"Eh, what are big brothers for?" He said with a shrug.
Usagi gave him a look, "well, I wouldn't know since mine was gone."
"Hey, it's not like I wanted to be."
"Liar."
"Hush, you."
"Make me."
"Okay!"
Usagi screamed and took off at a run, Hiroshi right behind her. "Ha-ha, you can't catch me!" she taunted as she ran into her bedroom where Minako still was waiting and shut the door. "Hide me!" Minako shot her a confused look, but then pointed to the ledge that sat atop the door. "Thanks!" with that the Lunarian princess jumped up and sat on the ledge.
Hiroshi opened the door and looked at Minako. "Where'd she go?" Usagi put a finger to her lips, signaling Minako to be quite.
"I don't know," Minako fibbed, trying to keep from laughing.
"You do too. Where did she go?" He asked again.
Usagi took the opportunity to jump quietly from the ledge before placing her hands on his shoulders and yelling, "boo!" that caused Hiroshi to jump in surprise.
Minako finally burst out laughing, as did Usagi.
"See you guys later, I have to go work out the kinks in our plan," Hiroshi said as he left the two laughing cousins.
Minako quickly sobered, "please tell me!"
"Begging really is not pretty on you," Usagi stated.
"I do not care, tell me," Minako said. Usagi shook her head. "Please?! Just a hint?"
"No, you will know on the wedding day," Usagi stated in a tone that Minako knew meant the end of that discussion.
"Anyway, I tried contacting Quatre to see how Hiiro was doing, but it seems that I could not." Minako said.
"How come?"
"Blocked."
"What? How can it be blocked?" Usagi asked.
Minako shrugged, "I don't now, it just was. Either that, or I just could not get a good connection since a Lunarian isn't there."
Usagi sighed, "oh. Hey, lets practice the song, it'll keep our minds off of things."
"Okay." Minako said. She turned on the song and then they both started singing.
"hanarerarezuni ita yo zutto
minareteru keshiki ga atta kara
itsuka mata kono basho he kute mo
onaji sora o onaji you ni mite
kanashii to ieru no kato
boku ha kangae sugita no kamo shirenai
sukoshi no nemuri ni tsuite mata ashita isogou
kowagatte fumi dasezuni iru ippo ga
kasanatte isukara ka nagaku nagai
michi ni natte te okure ni nattarishite
sono uchi ni nani to naku ima no basho mo
warukunai kamo nante omoidashite
nani to ka jibun ni riyuu tsuketarishita
HONTO hanetatta no ichido mo rikai shinai mama de
subete ga wakatta FURI o shite itanda ne
hanarerarezuni ita yo zutto
minareteru keshiki ga atta kara
nani daka subete ga chippoke de
chiisana katamari ni mieta no ha
aoida sora ga amari ni hatenaku
hiro sugita kara datta no kamo shirenai
kimo no tonari ni itakara kamo shirenai
atama de ha wakatteru tsumori demo ne
sure chigau doko ka no dare ka no koto
furikaette nagamete ha urayandari
nai mono ne dari o itsu made tsudzukete ikun darou
sou omoeta no ha kimi ni deatta kara desho
subete ha kitto kono te ni aru
koko ni yume ha oiteikenai
subete ha kitto kono te ni aru
kimerareta mirai mo iranai
subete ha kitto kono te ni aru
ugokanakya ugokasenai kedo
subete ha kitto kono te ni aru
hajimenakya hajimaranai kara."
"We're getting better at it, don't you think?" Usagi asked.
"Still a little slow, but we will get there," Minako replied. (AN: That song is called "Fly High" from Hamasaki Ayumi, it's really good, you should DL it. And, no, I don't know what it translates into.)
~~
For the next two days leading up to the wedding, Usagi worked to get things done. Minako helped, under much protest, with the gown.
"Thanks a lot for the help, Nako-chan, I don't think the dress would be ready without your help," Usagi said as they worked on the dress.
"I still just do not see why you one: will not tell me what the plan is; and two: why I have to help with the dress."
"You have to help with the dress because you are my cousin and my best friend. You should be happy for me, though, the plan is brilliant. I just know that you will love it to no end." Usagi replied.
"Hrump." Minako said, thoroughly annoyed.
"Pin it right there," Usagi said. The dress was indeed one of the most beautiful ones she had ever seen in her life. It was a soft, earthy green, sleeveless, and the skirt of it would flow behind the wearer gracefully and most certainly beautifully.
"Ouch!" Minako said as she accidentally poked the pin into her finger. "You will have to stop fidgeting, Yumi, or I am going to end up with a bunch of holey fingers."
"Sorry, Minako-chan," Yumi, the girl who was wearing the dress so that it could be made, said. She quickly stopped moving and just tried to stand still.
~~
Hiiro had finally decided that if he was going to wait for Usagi, he would have to be awake to see her and had gone to sleep.
"Wow, I didn't think he would last this long," Duo said.
"Duo, be quite! You don't want to wake him, now do you?" Quatre replied.
"Like he'd really wake up, he's so out of it you'd think he was dead." Duo said sarcastically. Quatre sighed and walked away. Duo was quite hopeless sometimes. Hiiro could, and right now was, worse.
~~
"Ouch!" Minako said again, this time because she had just stubbed her toe on the chair.
"Jeez, Nako-chan, you're just a walking disaster." Usagi joked.
"Bah, be quite, you," Minako said as she rubbed her foot.
"Ooh, and bitter too." The smiling Usagi said.
Minako rolled her eyes, "lets just go to bed. Tomorrows the big day."
"Oh, yes it is. Yes it is..." Usagi said much to happily. Minako raised an eyebrow, but just went to her room.
'Tomorrow is the big day. Should I feel nervous? I'm not sure...' Usagi thought. She dressed in her night gown and curled up under the covers of her bed. The Moon was once again her haven, she could be safe here at all times. 'Guess good things to happen to good people as the old saying went.'
Her eyes slowly closed as she fell into the hands of the all familiar blackness of sleep.
~~
Waking with a yawn, Usagi looked around her room and smile. Today was the wedding day. The day that the plan would go into action. She got up and showered, she had to look her best, as instructed by her mother. She slipped on her normal attire before making her way down the hall to the fitting room.
"Lets get going everyone! We have got lots of work to still do and only four hours to do it in!" Usagi heard her mother say.
"Hey, Mother," Usagi said as she walked in.
"Serenity, hurry, get Minako and Yumi up. We need your three to finish putting the last touches on the dress." Selene said. "Set everything up in the ballroom, please."
Usagi smiled as she walked to Minakos room and rapped on the door with her knuckles. "Nako-chan, wake up. We have to finish that dress."
"I am already up, just give me a minute," Minako replied as she put on her clothes and walked out of the room. They both walked down the east hall and knocked on Yumis' door.
"Yumi-chan, wake up. We have to get the dress finished." Usagi called.
"Okay!" Yumi replied. Usagi and Minako heard rustling coming from the other side of the door and when it opened, there stood Yumi, dressed and ready to go.
"Lets get going!" Usagi said cheerfully.
All three girls walked down the halls to the fitting room, saying hello to people as they walked past.
~~
An hour later, they were done with the dress.
"It is stunning, Serenity. Great job, all three of you." Selene said when she came to inspect the gown.
"Thanks," all three girls said. Usagi and Minako helped Yumi out of the dress and they hung it up on a hanger.
"One more hour. We should start getting ready." Usagi said after they had just sat around, chatting.
"Yeah, see you, Gi-chan and Yumi-chan," Minako said as she walked to her room to get ready.
"See you soon, Yumi-chan," Usagi said as she too left the room to go to her own as Yumi did the same.
~~
"I do," she said.
"I do," he said.
"I now pronounce you man and wife, you may kiss the bride," Aphrodite said.
Usagis' smile was huge, as was everyone else's.
~~
*Evil grin* well, well, well, it seems that I have come to the end of this chapter. Don't hurt me! It'll all turn out better and I will tell you about the plan! Bye! *runs away from mad ficy readers*
-Ema