Short chapter. Absolutely pointless except for a dose of mush. Dragon Ball Z comes into it again. Naughty me, I've been neglecting the family.

Men with Guns

Chapter 9 - Doubts of the mind.

Usagi lay contently in Heero's arms, the unruly haired boy fast asleep. She still couldn't believe the words he had spoken to her, even several hours later. A soft smile came to her lips and she glanced ah Heero's face, softened in content sleep. The curtains of the room were closed but the early morning sunlight still crept through the thin crack and fell across the floor. She breathed deep and let out a content sigh, at the same time inhaling Heero's scent of fresh sawdust, sweat and just a slight tinge of pine. She snuggled closer to him and felt his arms tighten around her waist slightly then relaxing again. Again she smiled.

But then she frowned suddenly. What would she do when the time came for her to leave? She couldn't expect him to just drop everything in this world to follow he to her own. Heero had fought so hard to achieve his friends and home. She couldn't ask him to leave all that for her. It was too much to lose. But then if he didn't come with her he'd lose her, and she'd lose him.

Usagi chocked back a sob as she buried her face in Heero's bare chest. Again his arms tightened around her as he felt her shift, but her tears went unnoticed as they fell on to his chest. She wouldn't let him leave her, even if it ment going against the Fates themselves. She wouldn't let it happen.

But what about Heero?

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Heero gently kissed Usagi's neck as they both sat in the music room around sunset, watching the light fade from the sky. But Usagi didn't respond, her eyes fixed on the slanting light illuminating the carpet and never straying.

He frowned. "Usa, what's wrong?"

"Hm?" Usagi blinked and finally turned her gaze to meet Heero's. The boy stared hard at his lover, his deep blue eyes anxiously accessing her face.

"I said," Heero repeated slowly and softly. "What's wrong?" The young man was surprised to see a pained expression quickly flicker across the girls face before it was hidden and Usagi turned her face from him. He was about to open his mouth to ask her further when he was cut off by her soft, silvery voice.

"Heero. what will happen to us when the time comes for me to go home? I don't belong here, in your world and you know it." Her statement shocked Heero. He felt an icy chill sweep through his insides and he could have sworn his heart stopped right then and there. But then she turned her head to look at him and her deep midnight blue eyes were filled with worry and an undertone of dread, and Heero knew she was as worried about staying together as much as he was.

"Usa." He whispered softly, wrapping his arms tightly around her waist and pulling her to sit in his lap from her place on the arm of the chair. "Where you belong isn't important. What is important is that you're with me. And I'm never letting you go."

Usagi let his gentle words wash over her and sooth her fraying nerves. She leaned back on his strong chest and snuggled closer. But things weren't that simple. The fact that they were from different dimensions created big problems for the Time Stream, including making Setsuna's life difficult. The future of both dimensions would change from the lack of, or added, presence of a person, and although there was the possibility the change might be a good thing. it would most probably be a disastrous one.

"You're doing it again." Usagi nearly jumped as Heero's soft voice whispered past her ear. Tears surfaced in her pretty blue eyes making them shimmer beautifully, but were not allowed to fall.

"I don't want to lose you." She whispered heartbreakingly soft. Heero tightened his hold around her, knowing exactly what Usagi was feeling. He was scared of losing her too. The light and happiness she'd brought to his life after such bleakness making him unwilling to let her out of it without fighting tooth and nail to keep her.

"I don't want to lose you, either. And you won't. Now that I've found you I'm never letting go." He whispered possessively, gently reaching down to cup her chin and tilt her head back. His lips were soft against hers and the silver haired girl soon felt her doubts leaving her mind, the only coherent thoughts in her head centred on the man that she loved with all her soul.

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From a far away place Two people watched the couple kiss. A woman with snow-white hair and light lavender-grey eyes smiled as she saw her daughter finally happy. A flowing shoulder-less white gown clung tightly to her curvy form, and her hair was pulled into odangos'.

"I'm glad she's finally happy." Queen Serenity spoke with a smile. Sailor Pluto smiled as well, her dark eyes sparkling with amusement.

"It's about time, ne?"

Yes, it is." Suddenly Queen Serenity frowned. "But she's still letting her duties influence her hearts decision too much."

"You know as well as I do, Serenity," Pluto mildly chaste. "Her duties to the Earth have always influenced her life and her future, ever sine she was first born and she knows it. Too much would be jeopardized if she did not take her destiny into account."

"Her fathers influence, no doubt." Queen Serenity muttered under her breath. Setsuna had to smile. Perhaps it was time for Kronus to finally pay a visit to his daughter. It really had been too long since the two had talked.

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Bulma sighed, her blue eyes filled with worry as she watched Vegeta train from the doorway of the gravity room. It has been nearly six months since her husband had flown home near hysterical, rambling on about Usagi vanishing in the middle of training. Trunks and Bra had been doing homework at the time and had come running to see what was the matter. It had taken nearly 15 minutes to get the normally stoic warrior to calm down enough to tell them exactly what had happened. Even now, moths after it had happened, Vegeta still blamed himself for not being faster and saving her. And Vegeta wasn't the only one effected by Usagi's disappearance.

Bra had sort of shrunk inside a wall of silence, not speaking to anyone unless absolutely necessary. Trunks had been exactly the opposite. Having trained with his father since he was able to stand on his own his fathers temper had started to rub off on him; the smallest comment was all it took to send the normally easygoing boy flying off the hook. Vegeta was training himself to death, just like he did when the Z fighters were preparing to face to androids.

Bulma herself was trying to keep life relatively normal, even though her daughter's disappearance had hit her just as hard. Sighing to herself, the blue-green haired woman pushed herself from her position against the door jab. She had work to do.

'Please come home soon, Usa-chan,' She whispered in her head as she walked into her lab. 'We all miss you.'