LIGHT, DARKNESS AND SHADOWS
Part Two
By: Tsukiyono Nue
E-mail: Nue-kun@zipmail.com
Rated: R
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Well, here we go... The second and last chapter of my story... Hope you enjoy and please send me your opinions... I want to thank to my beautiful husband, without him, the inspiration for my stories would not be the same.
And Sailor Moon belongs characters to others... I just borrow them from time to time to expand on the love and romance between them...


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"I recognize his face. Has he moved from here?"
"Yes" said the woman "He moved about ten years ago... a couple of months before his death."

Usagi was shocked by that new piece of information. She could do nothing for some minutes.
"Dead?!" thought the girl "But I was with him last night. How can he be dead?"
The voice of a child called her attention.
"Mom, I've finished my homework. Can I play with my friends now?"
The woman turned to the little boy entering the room.
"Are you sure it's all done?"
"Yes."
"So you can go."
She kissed the boy's forehead
"Have fun and come back before dinner."
The woman turned back to Usagi when the boy left the room.
"He is my younger son. He was born a year after Mamoru's death. His name is Motoki."
The girl was still astonished with all that was happening.
"Look, thank you for the help but I have to go."
"Okay."
Usagi went all her way home thinking about what she had heard. How could he be dead? She had been with him the night before, hadn't she? No it must be another Mamoru. But... the boy on the photo was he.
The girl arrived at home very confused. While she was taking a bath and having lunch she decided what she was going to do. Something strange was happening and she was decided to discover what.
After lunch she looked for Chiba on the telephonic list and phoned her.
"Hello. It's Usagi, the girl that has been there today to interview Mamoru. Chiba-san, could you please give me the address he had moved to." Usagi wrote the address on her notebook "Right. Thank you, bye."
She was indeed going to discover who was that Mamoru.
"Mom, I'm going to Ami-chan's house to do school work, okay?"
"All right but be back before your father arrives."
"Okay, I will."
She left home and went to check that address. The girl walked her way there thinking of what to say. She stopped in front of a building and remembered: that was the building she had been the night before. Usagi pressed the button numbered 302. After a minute or two she saw Mamoru getting out of the elevator through the glass door. He stared at her and stopped.
"How have you find me?"
"You brought me here last night, don't you remember?"
"Yes, but... but I thought you was not going to remember how to arrive here."
"To say the truth I didn't remember..." she got the notebook and showed it to him "... so I had to do my homework."
Mamoru read his address on the notebook.
"How did you do that?"
"I got your mother's address at school and visited her. She... she told me you were dead."
Mamoru were with eyes wide opened. He unlocked the building's door.
"Please, get in. I have much to tell you."
They went to his apartment. He locked the door after getting in and took a deep breath thinking on how to begin his story.
"Please, sit down. The story I have to tell you may shock you."
Usagi took a seat.
"My mother told you the truth: I'm really dead." He said turning to the other side. He didn't want to see Usagi's face during the facts he had to say.
"I've died ten years ago. But I haven't been a good boy when I was alive so I went to hell. The hell is a terrible place. It burns but it's cold and dark and screams of despair sound everywhere. I just wanted to get out from there, and one day the chance came."
He stopped for a moment, organizing his ideas.
"A demon called Ashitarot looked for me. He said that if I could corrupt a soul for him I would be free from hell and could go to heaven."
He closed his eyes.
"The soul he chose was you, Usagi."
He bit his lower lip and continued.
"So I came to Earth with the mission of taking you to hell. He said that he had been working on you for some time, making your life terrible, and I would only have to make love to you and disappear: you would get pregnant and despair would lead you to suicide."
He stopped again. Mamoru knew that with each word he was destroying the love inside her heart.
"Last night I used my powers on you, making you desire me, making you love me. But, that night, I fell in love with you and can't complete my mission anymore. I couldn't make you suffer more than you already do so I decided to erase that night from your mind but I still wanted you to remember me. So I erased just my address from your mind."
He finished, waiting for her shouts and her punches against his back but her action surprised him: Usagi put the hands on his shoulders, turned him to face her and hugged him.
"I love you, Mamo-chan."
"Bu-but... how can you love me? I'm the worst person on Earth..."
"No, you're not. Your mission was to harm me but you didn't; you protected me."
He looked into her lovely blue eyes and didn't see hate, he saw compassion and love instead.
"Usako" he hugged her "I love you."
They kissed like hungry lovers feeding on each other's love. A sulfurous smell suddenly invaded the room.
"Oh, what a lovely scene! It's a pity that I'll have to take you both to hell!"
Usagi turned to see whose voice was that. She saw a horrible humanoid being. His skin was reddish-orange and his hair completely red. His eyes were living flames and he had a pair of bat's wings. His hands and feet were claws and he had a flaming whip on the right hand. Mamoru moved Usagi to behind of him.
"Ashitarot!"
"I'm glad to see you still remember your old master. Now let's go, we have a long journey to do."
The demon swung his whip hitting Mamoru. Usagi tried to help him but he told her to stay away.
"You'll not touch her, demon. I swear."
Ashitarot grimly smiled.
"Who is going to stop me?"
In this moment a light appeared by Mamoru's side and a voice came from it like a thunder:
"How about me, demon?!"
The light shaped itself into a very strong man wearing a studded leather armor. His hair was golden blonde and was long to his shoulders. His green eyes were starring at the demon's and he was holding a flaming sword with both hands. He had a pair of majestic white wings and a mild golden aura.
"Go back to the hell from where you shouldn't have came out." he said "You'll not touch her soul."
Ashitarot laughed.
"Surely you are new at the job, kid. Nobody can stop me but if you want to try, give me your best."
The angel charged against the demon and they started to fight. Mamoru just tried to protect Usagi but when Ashitarot knocked down the angel, he joined the battle. The demon noticed his attack and involved Mamoru's neck with his whip.
"Do you think you can fight me, little insect. So die!"
He pressed the whip around the young man's neck and its flames took out his soul. Usagi screamed but there was nothing she could do. The angel took advantage of the moment and pierced the demon's heart with his sword. Ashitarot faced him and fell on the ground. The angel pulled his sword back and turned to Usagi that was petrified in a corner.
"Your whole life here was a lie. You'll be given another chance. Be happy."
He took out one of his wing's feathers and placed it on Usagi's head. She was going to ask about Mamoru when all began to whirl and she passed out.

***
When she woke up she heard a baby crying and a strange voice saying something. She was placed in her mother's arm and realized that it was her own crying she was hearing.
"Oh, dear Usagi, stop crying. It's all right now." said a man's voice.
The girl stopped crying and saw her father and mother looking at her.
"Isn't she beautiful?" asked her mother.
"Yes. She is as beautiful as her mother." Usagi's father said and kissed his wife "I love you. I love you both."
A nurse came and said that she had to take the baby for the routine tests. She took Usagi from her mother's arms and walked away. Usagi, then, remembered the destiny of her beloved Mamoru and started to cry again. The nurse was useless trying to calm the girl down when a little boy, in the waiting room, called her.
"Let me try to make she stop crying" he said.
The nurse stooped and Usagi saw that angel-faced boy. "Mamo-chan" she wanted to say but she wasn't able to speak yet. Mamoru caressed her head and softly said:
"Calm down. The bad times are all gone. I'm sure you'll be very happy here."
Usagi smiled at him. The nurse thanked the boy and continued her way. Usagi was happy. Happy because she knew that they were going to meet again in the future and were going to be very happy together.



The End.