Hey peepz~! There was a lotta questions raised in the last chapter, but hopefully I can answer them…-_-
~Well, ths fic is more like a/u, so theres a lot going on that shouldn't be, like the knowledge of sailor Pluto.
~Also this was more like a brief interlude, just to stir up sum stuff…I think it will make sense later, you just have to keep reading…
~And I understand that things were too short, I'll try to make them way longer, but don't expect anything…
~The enemy…isn't really important in this story, because 1:I made the enemy up, its not like any of the other previously done enemies…
And 2: well, its just sorta needed as more like a side show.
~no, this wont be like, all happy lovey dovey just because he kissed her…but you'll see.
~and maybe…theres a way for this to be not u/m…or s/m…w/e you call it
~once again…I use both jap. And American names…well, just because I think some of them are prettier than others…;)
~theres probably going to be more…confrontations,but I'm really not sure if this chapter has it though…
disclaimer: don't own sailor moon…T_T
Ice chap. 4Serena stumbled out of the oak bench, appalled. She regained her dignity and stood up tall, pointing an accusing finger at the one previously sitting next to her. previously kissing her. she shuddered. Fury. For the past night she had so much of it and this only added it on.
"you. Bastard. You stole my first kiss!" (ceres…) she hissed, glaring at Mamoru with nothing short of hate. Serena's feet dug into the grassy area, littered with bits of popcorn and gum wrappers. "I wanted to TALK you idiot! TALK! My first kiss was supposed to be reserved for someone I ACTUALLY care about! Not in a sort of –enemy way!" her voice started out as dangerous whispers and slowly rose in volume until she was screaming. Mamoru looked at the angry 16 year old teenager. then he looked at the worn grass below him. And he realized what he had done. Getting up also out of the bench, he turned and slowly walked away from the shouting girl, not uttering one word in his defense, or hers; letting her words sink in.
"Come back here! I'm not done talking!" Serena yelled as Mamoru heard less and less clearly. But she was NOT going to go chase after him. Not again.
When she was sure he was out of sight and hearing range, walked for a few minutes to the crown arcade she visited so frequently yet again, muttering unclean words at a certain guy. 'great, Serena. This is what happens when you think you start to like someone. Im trying to apologize and he tries to kiss me! The nerve! Maybe its not too late to go and wash my lips.' Her annoying shoes clicked against the tile as she walked over to one of the used up leather upholstered booths. Not bothering to take the time or go to any trouble whatsoever, she turned sideways and just lied down in the seat, looking up at the black light in the yellow lamp. 'what have I done…no wait. What has HE done?! That sorry *@^@@#$…and my first kiss! Maybe if it was my tenth kiss…' her mind wandered for a long time in the booth, almost half an hour. Even if it seemed like a long time to others, thirty minutes passed like a storm. She was too absorbed in her thoughts to realize what time it was. People had begun to stare at this strange person, but Serena couldn't care less. she eyed the beginning of the sunset through the huge windows as she sat up. Orange and pink were all swirled into one. 'shoot!' Serena looked at her baby blue watch. 'I'm supposed to be home in three minutes!' As she got up out of the booth to leave, Motoki called out to her.
"Serena! Are you sure you're ok?" concered for his friend, questions arose in his mind.
Serena glared at Motoki, and turned cold again as she spoke.
"why don't you ask your friend?" she spat out, and then silence ensued as she turned around and made her way home. Her heart pounded against her chest as she sprinted down one corner and onto another. Her books in her brown bookbag were weighing her down, but nonetheless she arrived at her doorstep in record time. Dropping her books on the little shelf by the door, she trodded up the white carpeted stairs to go change out of her uniform. Stepping down the stairs a few minutes later in black pants and a white tee shirt, Serena went cautiously into the kitchen, almost dreading the conversation with her mother after what happened last night. Serena went past the table and saw Ikuko, and just stood there, as if she was waiting for something, anything to happen. When nothing did, she went upstairs again and into her room, starting on her algebra homework.
Mamoru Chiba shoved his hands in his pockets and walked up the concrete stairs to his apartment. When he got there, before actually putting the key in the…keyhole, he just leaned against the door. 'God…what have I done? Isn't that what every girl wants me to do?' he walked into his large apartment and started watching some T.V, trying to forget the humiliation. 'heh…it seems like Serena's humiliating everyone these days.' Rei had told him of her dilemma with her former friend…if that's what you called it. He had work to be doing from the university of Tokyo, but sometimes thinking and doing nothing was a bit more important. 'wow…I didn't know odango could change so much…but she did. And she's not even my odango anymore.' He ran his hand through his ebony hair, wondering what was going to become of their friendship. If they even had one. 'seems like…Serena doesn't have any friends anymore. And she's learning to rely on herself. She's acting like Rei, Lita, Mina, Ami and I always wanted her to act. But…does anyone really want that anymore?' he took out a frozen dinner and popped it in the microwave for 2 minutes. When the microwave dinged, Mamoru took it out and ate in silence, not really caring if it scalded his mouth and tongue or not.
'dinner sucked. Never has there been such a silent dinner between us that we could hear each other breathing. But it gave me time to think.' The rice and eggs in her stomach threatened to come up as she stood, ready and willing to do what she had planned.
"Setsuna! I need you right now!!!" Serena yelled into nowhere. 'seems like…these days im either yelling or silent. How I wish it was like old times…' she realized what she'd just admitted to herself what she'd wanted all along. But no way was she going to back down. Not in this lifetime.
Immediately the woman she had seen this morning appeared, serious as ever. Serena coughed as she breathed in the smoke that had accompanied Setsuna's arrival.
"you." Ice dripped from the word, so much that it was all sailor Pluto could do to keep from shivering. "what were you trying to accomplish, Pluto? We make our destiny, you don't TELL us. If you wanted me to break Mamoru's heart just so you could "comfort" him and have him love you, you could have done it WITHOUT involving me. (a/n: dum dum dum….the plot revealed…) Setsuna turned around and prepared to leave.
"I don't have to take this."
Serena grabbed her shoulder and turned her around with so much force Setsuna was taked by surprise.
"oh yes you do." Serena's blue eyes glittered severely at her. "you were my friend, Pluto, after I lost all my friends I thought YOU would still be there. But if you ever use me as a pawn to get what you want again, you'll regret it. I swear. You'll regret it." Setsuna made a move to escape the girl's painful grasp by using an attack with her trusted staff, but before she could summon it, Serena put one hand against her chest and an enormous wind crashed Pluto against the wall, knocking over a chair and some books. She closed her dark red eyes, ignoring the immense pain in her back and shoulders, and then reopened them again. Using all of her strengh, Setsuna spoke in a barely audible tone.
"you were hiding your powers all along, weren't you?" it was more of a statement than a question, and in a way, Setsuna already knew what the answer would be.
"They weren't needed." Serena stood in a casual position. "I never thought the day I needed to bring them out of hiding was the day my friends…ALL my friends… betrayed me. Used me. As if I'm an object, aimed at getting what you want. Well you know what, Pluto? I'm changing destiny. Go after Mamoru. Because I'm not." Serena was about to exit the room when she heard her voice.
"thank you." Barely heard. Barely acknowledged. Serena paused before answering. She slowly turned around facing the senshi of time.
"don't thank me. You're not worth it." And with that, she slammed the door, leaving a woman behind whose life had a chance to change.
When serena exited her room, she put on a jacket and took a walk outside. All the streetlights were lit, as her sneakers enjoyed the feeling of the asphalt road under them. her legs were sore from running so much, but Serena was determined so run if off. As she took a jog around her neighborhood, thoughts of Sailor Pluto and Mamoru came to mind. 'my last gift to my last friend. I'm so sorry I had to be hard on you…but you, setsuna, deserve happiness more than anyone else I know.and you would never have accepted my gift if I hadn't been like that. So I'm going to give it to you. I'm going to give you the love that you've been watching…the love that you never thought you could have. And you better be happy…because you're changing destiny. But don't worry. We do it all the time.' With that she smiled a genuine smile for the first time this week. She passed Mamoru's apartment, and even though she knew she'd done the right thing, something inside Serena was whispering to her that Mamoru wasn't good enough for Setsuna. 'no matter. Im changing everything. And I don't care what the future holds. Destiny was made to be changed.'
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a senshi meeting was taking place at Mina's house, but no one was talking. They all knew what the main problem was. Serena.
"Are we really not needed?" Ami looked at the ground as she spoke up. All of them sat around a table with cookies, cake, and drinks, but no one could bear to eat them, it all reminded them of Serena pigging out.
"of COURSE we are! Didn't you see what happened in the last battle? Jupiter—" mina was cut off. ( I do that a lot, don't I?)
"Jupiter killed someone. Just like Serena said." Rei said, sullenly. Lita spoke up then, for all of them.
"what's with this change? She's so different, you know, its like, she never used to be like his 3 days ago…" everyone's eyes widened at the comment; they had figured out what inspired Serena's change.
"She heard us." Mina whispered, her eyes stricken with horror. "she heard us at the crown arcade."
"she couldn't have!" Rei panicked, using a tone of desperation.
"Think about it guys…she usually goes there after school. Imagine what she felt. We left her out AND we insulted her to no end." Everyone listened in silence when Ami spoke the words that no one wanted to hear.
"I…I miss her, guys." Mina spoke with unshed tears in her eyes. Everyone nodded agreement, except for Rei.
"look what she did to us guys! She accused us, she poured coffee on me!" Rei's arms flailed as she tried to make a statement while still sitting in the black leather couch in mina's house. All of the other senshi turned to look at her and Lita spoke for all of them once again.
"Rei…look what we did to her." Rei looked miserable, as if her own heart was breaking into tiny pieces. But in fact all their hearts were breaking. They didn't need to announce what was happening in the next split second, because all of them got up out of the large Japanese style living room, grabbed their jackets off the wooden coat rack, and sprinted out the door.
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Serena was just about ready to walk in the door of her house, feeling refreshed again, ready to go to bed. 'man, I must have been running for at least an hour…' she glanced at her watch and then used the key to open the door. Serena was just about to walk in her house when she heard four voices calling…actually, yelling her name.
"SERENA!!!" her light-heartedness disappeared and the heavy burden she carried for the past days returned.
"I'm listening." Was all she said.
"We're so sorry Serena…we know you heard us at the arcade that day, and we're sorry. We didn't mean to insult you or leave you out, its just that none of us could find you." Mina's voice begged Serena to believe them.
"oh I see how it is!!!" sarcasm dripped like honey. "you insulted me by ACCIDENT, and then you went to the one place I go EVERY SINGLE DAY and leave me out, again, BY ACCIDENT. You really think—" (there I go cutting off again)
she was interrupted as Rei pulled her into a hug.
"We missed you so much…please forgive us." At this Serena's eyes widened and she took a step back, breaking off the embrace.
"you want me. To forgive you. For trying to kick me off the sailor senshi team, leaving me out, making fun of me to no end, and never being satisfied for who I am. What a load of bull shit. Well you're mistaken. You did this to me. Yet another thing you have to live with." And with that Serena slammed the door, retreating in to her house. When she got to her room, she started straightening up the things Setsuna had knocked over. When she was done, she attempted on her homework, but Serena was too occupied. More mentally than physically. In a few moments after brushing her teeth, she tiredly got into bed, hugging a teddy bear she'd had since she was five. Luna peeked in, amazed at the new information she'd learned in one night. Serena hadn't seen her peek in through the door she left ajar of the heated conversation earlier that night…and the scouts hadn't seen her cry herself to sleep.
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well, I hope you understand what I was going for when I had u/m kiss…and I hope you liked this chapter better. Please review if you liked it ok? I appreciate it. Thankz again to all of you who reviewed! Byebye~!