Authors notes: No muses this time besides my normal one, Babbit. Little to no humor in this chapter, Gomen, Minna-chan. I FINALLY get around to getting Mamoru back into the story too and I'm nice and didn't give you a cliff-hanger at the end this time.
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Give a Reason:
Chapter Fourteen: Truths Revealed
"Bunny," Duo whispered shaking the sleeping girl.
She groaned slightly and opened one eye. "Go away Rei-chan. I want to sleep."
Duo frowned. "Do I look like a Rei to you?"
Wufei scowled, "Baka weak onna woman..." He smirked slightly, "Wake up, Odango atama."
Usagi sprang out of bed a murderous glint in her eyes. "HOW DARE YOU CALL ME THAT!" She looked at the five people around her bed and stared at them startled. "What are you all doing here, Minna-chan?"
Trowa sighed, "Usagi-hime, you should know who we are."
Usagi looked up at him her face mirroring her puzzlment. "What do you mean?"
"That's what I'd like to know," Interrupted a voice behind the pilots.
Quatre turned slightly and saw Ail, Haruka, and Seiya. "You three shouldn't be here."
Seiya frowned, "I'm not leaving Odango-chan. I'm her protector and anything you say to her I'm going to hear."
Ail nodded slightly in agreement, "We all want to protect Usagi-chan and we frankly don't trust you with her."
Haruka ignored the two jealous idiots around her. "We're just here for Koneko."
Usagi leaned out of her bed and smiled at the three. "Minna-chan!"
Quatre glanced to Hiiro for guidance who merely nodded slightly. "You can stay if you wish," Quatre told the trio.
Trowa turned back to Usagi. "We're not who you think we are Usagi."
Quatre closed his eyes to shut out the expression Usagi would have when the truth was revealed. "We're trained killers; assassins if you will."
"NANI?" Seiya demanded instantly taking a position in between Usagi and the pilots. "I won't let you hurt her."
Wufei snorted, "Baka, we're not going to hurt her."
Usagi nodded slightly, "I see... demo who did you kill?"
"Everyone we were told to and some we weren't," Hiiro responded his eyes having a far off look as he remembered his second failed mission the first being the young girl and her puppy.
"Demo, you didn't want to kill anyone did you?" Usagi asked glancing at the five.
Duo shook his head a sad smile on his face. "Gomen, Bunny but I'm Shinigami. I rid the world of many Oz soldiers and would do so again in a heart beat."
"Gomen, Usagi-chan," Quatre whispered from his corner.
"I know you didn't want to, Quatre-chan..."
Quatre smiled weakly. "Demo, Usagi we've killed people in cold blood."
" It doesn't matter to me. That was in your past. I know none of you would hurt me or any of my friends."
Duo nodded, "Of course not, Bunny."
Usagi closed her eyes for a moment. "Besides, I've killed too before. They may have been just youma, demo they still bled. They still screamed in pain as my tiara or whatever weapon I was using destroyed them."
Usagi wasn't even aware of the tears on her cheeks until she felt Quatre hand her a tissue. "Gomen for making you cry, Usagi-chan."
Ail stood very still as he listened. 'Killing youma? Tiara?' He baciked up a step his light brown hair turning blue with pink highlights. "You're SAILOR MOON!!!!"
Usagi nodded, "Hai." Ail stood glaring at her shaking with rage. "Don't do it, Ail-san," Usagi whispered her eyes locked on his.
He growled showing rather canine teeth and turned away. "Why didn't you tell me sooner, Usagi-chan?"
Everyone in the room but Usagi and Ail relaxed slightly as they heard the alien use the affectionate nick name. Usagi smiled softly at him, "I couldn't tell you, Ail-san. For one thing you'd have tried to kill me and for another you're my friend and I don't want to fight you anymore."
"Demo, the Makaiju?"
"Isn't here so you don't have to support it."
"Then how can I live?" He demanded.
Usagi looked away slightly, "I'll share my energy with you."
Ail froze, "Demo..."
"I have more energy then you think. I'll be fine."
Ail frowned and shook his head slightly and backed away from the girl. "I'll talk to you later, Usagi-chan I need time to think." He strode away deep in his thoughts.
Haruka watched him go with a slight frown, "Do you think it's wise letting him leave like that, Koneko?"
Usagi nodded, "Hai, Ail won't hurt anyone. I just know he won't..."
Duo frowned, "You're just going to let him suck your energy out of ya like some vampire?"
Usagi giggled softly, "I have more energy then it looks, Duo-chan."
Duo frowned, "Maybe, but I know first hand what it feels like to have your energy drained... HEY! Stop laughing!"
Usagi shook her head tears of laughter rolling down her cheeks. "I forgot about that! Duo got kissed by a guy!"
Duo pouted. "Mean, Bunny."
Usagi smiled and stuck her tongue out at him. The action caused her to remember something and she turned to Wufei. "Fei-chan, how did you know THAT name?"
"Mars told me."
Duo rolled his eyes, "See what you did, Bunny?"
Usagi frowned, "What'd I do?"
"You broke, Wu-man!"
Usagi blinked, "... nani?"
"You have him thinking planets are talking to him!"
Usagi giggled, "Kawaii baka, Duo-chan."
Duo brightened at her first words, glared at the second, and smiled again at her last. "We'll it's true!"
Usagi turned back to Wufie. "Rei-chan talked to you?"
"Hai."
"How?"
"In a pink dream."
"Pink?" Duo asked with a chuckle. He was silenced by the glares Usagi, Hiiro, and Wufei were giving him. "Sheesh... all I did was ask if it was pink or not..."
"So why did Rei-chan meet with you?"
Wufei was about to answer when he noticed the looks of hatred bestowed on him by both Trowa and Hiiro. "She didn't say."
"Oh... what did you talk about?"
"You."
"Honto?"
"Hai."
".. and?"
"And what?"
"Aren't you going to tell me what she told you?"
"Iie."
Usagi pouted, "She told you that HORRIBLE name but she didn't tell you anything useful? That's JUST like Rei-chan..."
Duo pouted when Usagi stopped paying attention to him. "Bunny, I was visited by an angel too!"
Usagi turned startled, "Honto?"
"Hai."
"Who?"
"She said she was the Goddess of Love."
"Minako-chan!"
"She didn't give me her name..."
"Lucky you," Seiya remarked.
Duo scowled at him, "What do you mean by that?"
"I was CHASED by Minako. I know what she's capable of."
Usagi began to giggle, "I remember that. She was after you and Yaten and Taiki.... it seems like so long ago."
Haruka frowned at Seiya and repostioned herself so she was in between Usagi and Seiya. "Shouldn't we be concerned about why the Senshi are contacting these boys, Koneko?" She demanded glaring at the five gundam pilots.
Usagi inwardly giggled. Haruka hadn't changed a bit. "Iie, they had to have had a good reason... So what did Minako-chan tell you, Duo?"
Duo grinned, "That you and I would make a great couple."
Six pairs of eyes glared at him but he just grinned and ignored them. Usagi rolled her eyes. "Sounds like Minako all right."
"I to was contacted by one of your Senshi," Trowa announced. "She said her name was Makoto but she didn't have time to say much of importance."
Usagi smiled her blue eyes widening, "Honto?"
"Hai."
"What did she tell you then?"
"To protect you."
"Just like Mako-chan..." She turned to Hiiro and Quatre. "What about you two? Did any of the Senshi visit you?"
"Hai," Quatre responded. "Ami talked to me briefly."
"Hotaru," Hiiro responded.
Usagi giggled her eyes sparkling. "I can't believe you all got to talk to one of my senshi!"
Duo raised an eyebrow. "You're awfully happy, Bunny. Did you find some more chocolate?"
Usagi mock scowled at him. "Iie... not yet anyways." She grinned. "But now that you mention it I could go for some."
"Demo, you just ate an hour ago," Quatre weakly protested.
Usagi smiled. "Dessert time, Quatre."
"You had a shake."
"That was a prelude to dessert."
Quatre smiled and shook his head. His Goddess was something else. "The people bringing the rest of your manga should be here shortly."
Usagi grinned, "GREAT!"
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Ail walked down the hall his mind troubled. On one hand his greatest enemy was
the woman he loved and on the other she was still his enemy and therefore a
threat to his well being. 'Why did you have to be her, Usagi?' he wondered
with a frown.
"Daijobu ka?" Questioned a soft voice.
He glanced behind him and saw Ririna leaning against the wall. "Hai, daijobu."
"You look troubled."
"Hai..."
"Something go wrong with your meeting with her?"
"Iie... not exactly."
"What about Hiiro?"
"He's in there with them."
"Nani?"
"They're having a meeting of some sort in her room."
"Where's that?"
"Just follow the hall I came from and you'll eventually run into it."
Ririna smiled at him, "You look like you need some company. I'll stay with you for now." Ail simply nodded and the two walked down the hallways with Ail being completely silent and Ririna telling him everything about herself.
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Milardo tossed and turned in his sleep a scowl on his lips. Deep inside his
dreamworld however he was completely still as he stared into the shadows. "Who
are you?"
"You've failed." Interrupted a soft disappointed voice.
"I tried."
"You failed. I told you she was a witch."
"Hai."
"You saw what she did to all five of the gundam pilots. Even Hiiro has been fooled. Thankfully you and your sister are to strong to be controled by such magic."
"... hai..."
"You have to go back after her. You know the peace will be shattered if she remains alive."
"How?"
"Simple! Haven't you been paying attention to me at ALL?"
"I don't appreciate people who are to scared to come out of hiding and give their orders from the dark."
The soft-voiced figure ignored the barb. "If she can persuade these pilots like this think what havoc she could wreck between the colonies and Earth. All it takes is for one or the other to agree to follow her and her ways and then you'll have another war on hand. With witchcraft like hers soldiers will die for her. You have to stop her before it's too late."
"Any idea how? She's living with the five most dangerous men, remember."
"Exactly."
"Nani?"
"Think, baka!"
"I can't read your mind."
The figure threw it's hands up in frustration. "She lives with dangerous men. You have to figure out a way to get them to turn on her. What about planting evidence on her?"
"Hasn't she been with them too long for that to work?"
"Are you questioning me?"
"Iie, demo they're all too deeply under the spell for them to turn on her."
"Then plant some evidence that her and her friends are from a newly built
Oz on her."
"You really think that will work?"
"Hai! Of course it will! You said yourself that they're dangerous. If she starts to look like their greatest enemy what do you think they'll do?"
Milardo smiled and nodded, "I see..."
"About time, baka."
Milardo glared in the shadows at the figure and was about to retort when he felt himself waking up. "I'll do it but you have to keep the pilots distracted."
A flash of sparkling white teeth appeared in the inky black shadows, "No problem." It waited until he had vanished to scowl. "Baka human..."
"I agree."
"Mamoru..."
"Do you think he's capable of doing what you demanded?"
"He better be... if he isn't I'll let Ririna do it."
"You think she would?"
"To have revenge on Usagi, hai."
Mamoru frowned slightly at the mention of the name. "She disobeyed me... I'll have to punish her."
The figure chuckled in amusement, "Having girlfriend problems?"
Mamoru scowled, "Iie."
"You know how all those boys feel about her don't ya?"
"Hai..."
"And how she feels about them?"
"Usako only loves me."
"Looks like she loved that Wufei guy to me."
Mamoru glared again. "She's MINE. I'll get her back just watch..."
"Why are you so obsessed with her anyways?"
"She's mine. She belongs to me. None of those boys have any right to lay a finger on her."
"Demo, weren't you going to kill her for not granting you immortality?"
Mamoru smiled his red eyes starting to glow. "Oh, I still plan to do that but first I'm going to kill all of those children."
"What about Chibiusa?"
"It was her own fault."
"I see..."
"See what?"
"You turned on your own flesh and blood so quickly. She's dead now, you know."
"She will be reborn."
"Not until Usagi dies."
"True, and that's why I plan to do the deed myself. As soon as she's mine again I'll do it."
"Good plan..." Observed the figure with a smile. "So who do you plan to...."
"Milardo after he finishes his task."
"Honto? I thought for sure you'd go for Ail."
"Iie, I'll use Milardo. He has a weaker mind." Mamoru smirked, "Guess I should get ready, ne?" He concentrated and vanished from the scene. The figure smiled again and closed its eyes waiting for the moment it would take revenge.
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Authors notes: See a nice non cliff-hanger ending. Doesn't mean I want you
to stop reviewing though. So please review and I'll work on the next chapter
for everyone.
