Five Times Five
By: Princess Ashley
*Nervously steps into the office* Okay, I've made it this far. I'm not even going to think about what you people think of me now. NO! I'm not death obsessed, as Blake so kindly put it. *ahem* He's not my friend anymore, he's been making fun of me, and Usagi Princess is making fun of me with one of my stories, 'Lies in the Middle.' Completely different couple there. After all the support I gave her, she goes and turns her back on me! Can you believe that? *humph! *
Anyways, I'm glad with the reviews I got for the last chapter, I'm mean, I'm not pleased with what happened to my Hee-chan, *sniffle* I miss him already! Don't worry; they make an appearance in this chapter. Wufei gets to have a little fun as well. I'm going to write a few more chapters before I write the Epilogue, which is basically what everyone does after it's all said and done. Trieze does get a little whipping from Wufei in this fic, yep, had to put that in, and I happy for it to. Most Heero/Usagi fics don't give much thought to the other characters. Well, I happen to like Wufei, so I'm going to give him some spotlight, just like he always wanted. I feel sorry for him, always in the shadows of all the others, always the last to be shown in all the episodes.
He wouldn't want any pity so I'll shut up now. Okay, here is the chapter, and I hope ya'll enjoy. Flames are pointless; they are just for sad people who want to spread their bad attitude. Flame me all you want, Usagi's been dying to have a camp out. Seeya!
Chapter 21: Crest of June (
Usagi stood in a barren waist land, she didn't think, and she took note that she wasn't even breathing. Unless she said something out loud, she wouldn't even be able to acknowledge she had a mind at all. "Where's Heero? Rei?" She called out, but there was no answer, there was nothing for miles, It seemed like it was just flat, she couldn't see anything anywhere, nothing went up, nothing went down. "Where am I?" The world echoed her words back to her, it had to have been come alternate universe. She walked on, knowing it wouldn't get her anywhere, it was like walking on a moving sidewalk, and she was in the same place as before.
She had walked for over an hour, but then again she didn't know that there was time at all in this place, wherever it was. "Who's there? Tell me where I am!" Usagi heard words coming from her mouth. Gusts of wind flew over this land, but there was no sand, not thing. She didn't know what she was standing on, for all she knew, it could have been space.
Then she saw someone coming from the space in front of her. Her figure was familiar, but from where, she didn't know. The figures hair was wavy, and the color looked that of auburn, but then as the person drew forward, it became a beautiful reddish, red as the rose, and she stopped, right in front of Usagi. Then Usagi remembered her. Somewhere, her memories were planted back within her, and she saw who this person was.
*Flashback*
May::14:: 180 A.C.
A red headed girl called over a small sand castle she made with the small red beach bucket. "Usa! C'mere! I made you something!" The small girl, no older than 2 ½ called to her friend. A young girl with short pigtails came running over, her little legs kicking in the sand, and sat down by her friend to admire the sand castle. "Wow Molly, thank you!" She hugged her friend. They sat on the beach and started to make other sand castles and started to connect them to make an even bigger castle.
An older lady with silver hair and a man her age also with silver hair that reached his thighs, the woman had her hair just like Usagi's, cascading down her light silvery gown that dragged in the sand. She took out a small black camera, and handed it to the man. He took it in his artist's hands and his long fingers pulled it to his face, over one eye, and the girls put their arms around each other, and looked and smiled at him, as he took a snap picture. And then they were purposely pushed over and onto their newly built sand castle. "ANDREW!!!"
*End flashback*
"Molly?" She asked. The girl smiled at her, and signaled that she was indeed who Usagi thought she was. Usagi wasn't sure of anything right now. She could have been an illusion, but her instincts as a soldier kept her from running out and hugging her childhood friend for all she was worth.
Molly looked at Usagi with confusion, the kind of confusion that clearly asked what she was doing, because the Usagi she knew would have run to her even if she wasn't even sure she was her friend, just happy that there was someone with her instead of being alone. But Molly's eyes looked aged with wisdom, and her skin and face looked as if she had always lived in a garden. Not just the innocent brown eyes she had when they were children, but she looked at Usagi as if she didn't know her anymore. True, Usagi wasn't the same person who she shared those few memories with before Usagi was taken from her and she was killed, as was anyone with a relationship with Usagi.
She smiled at Usagi, a knowing smile. "I guess I was just hoping you would run to me like you would when we were little. It's just an illusion now, right? A shadow of what once was?" She looked at Usagi, as if expecting an answer.
She didn't.
Molly sighed. "I guess I was just jealous. You got a new best friend when you were taken. I was dead; I guess you had no choice but to forget me. Now you are closer to Rei, right? You can bear your troubles to her, and she would understand? That was what we used to do." She looked down at her feet, and then looked at Usagi again.
Usagi's eyes had become distant, and she felt moisture under her eyelids and she tried to blink them away. But she sniffled instead, that made it obvious.
Molly's eyes were watery, as she cried, "Usa-chan! Speak to me, please!" She fell to her knees in despair, with the steady thoughts that her former best friend got someone to replace her.
Usagi's looked over on top of her, starring at her red head that was facing down with her face in her hands and crying her heart out. Usagi's face was scared, disbelief was written on her face, and her skin paled.
Was this it? Was she destined to choose between Molly and Rei as best friends? It was going to be hell in heaven if it turned out that way. She couldn't choose between the two. She had been a best friend with Molly a lot longer than she was with Rei, but Rei knew of all the things she had been through, she had understood her better in her circumstance than Molly ever could. It just didn't seem fair to have to choose. *And I thought heaven was supposed to be paradise. But if this is heaven, where are all the others? *
Her thoughts drifted away as she saw Molly look into her eyes, brown mixing with blue. And Usagi did the first thing she thought to do; she walked around Molly's body as it shivered with sobs. Then she ran. She was not used to these emotions. She was emotionless. And now that someone had come to her and expected her care, she didn't know what to do. She ran as fast as she could from all the memories she wanted to forget, and was taught to forget in the 16 years she had lived. And the 13 years she was taught to live. Her memories of those times were just her wishful thinking. They weren't real, just memories of a simple fairy tale, that she had no wish to end.
She heard the cried coming from behind her. "Usagi!!! Wait! Come back! You can't run forever!!!" Molly cried, begging her to come back, to stop running. But Usagi couldn't, she put up her guards and ran, her heart told her to go back, but her mind was in control, her shields were up, and she could no longer hear her cries for her to come back and face her. *I'm a Coward.* Usagi thought. *A bloody COWARD!!!*
She stopped as she saw another figure coming toward her, no, two, and three.
There were four figures coming toward her, they were too misty, to white. She squinted her eyes and then she could see them clearly. It was her mother, her father, her brother, and most painful of all.it was Apollo. The beautiful black panther that Minako had killed just to spit her. Suddenly she was reminded of how much she wanted to kill, tear, rip Minako from her head to her perfect little toes that walked over Apollo's body without heed to how many years he had spent protecting and comforting Usagi. She let the fresh tears run down her face again, but then she wiped them away from her eyes in case anyone would come to touch her soon. The last thing she wanted was for them to know what Apollo had been to her.
She felt his paw and warm tongue roll over her uncovered skin and over her body, comforting her in every way the poor panther could. He sat down next to her, and he pulled his upper body to her lap, and Usagi stroked the panther's long main. She hugged him around his neck, and whispered into his aware ears. "My beautiful. It's really you. Your spirit watched over me for a long time, Rei and me. You helped me, and now you can live your happy soul to its eternity, together with me." She took notice that her hair was getting black tints to it, the panthers own black fur was transferring to her hair. "My precious, now everyone will know of your beauty, I bare your main, as Rei bares your raven fur, you are beautiful." Her whispering became a sob as she felt the hand of her brother on her shoulder, and his other hand held the panther with her.
Andrew raised his head to speak with her, his blue eyes were aged with wisdom that Usagi knew that it would take forever for her to have. "Sister, you're beauty is that of the panther's, your strength is even stronger. We couldn't have asked for a better way for you to live your life, we expect nothing more of you. Now you can be the girl you want to be, or anything you want to be, you have eternity to try everything. Your weapons were strong, but now your heart is stronger. Let us go now to the place we call home." He was asking her to go back with them, to become what she was destined to become.
The man with the silvery hair down to his waist, and equally glittering silver eyes, spoke to his daughter as well. "You have spent your life running from the past, leaving us forgotten and leaving you unloved. But I see now that you already have enough love to carry on without us. But will you leave us behind again, now that you have us back again?" His words were gentle and caring and love dripped from his words, just as she remembered him speaking to her as a child. Her father, Apollo, stood up from his sitting position beside her, and let her mother, Serenity take his place.
She patted her knee, and she started to run her fingers through Usagi's blonde hair, that still shown through the thick fog that surrounded her.
"Your path does not have to be chosen, you can take two paths, staying with us and the ones you loved after us, or you can leave all the pain behind, all the memories of us behind, and go with them. We will not stop you. Only you can choose." She was just as gentle as her father was, but defiantly more delicate.
Usagi stayed quiet for a long time, and her mother knew what she was thinking about. Her father looked over her shoulder. Usagi turned to look as well over her right shoulder. Rei, no, not Rei. An illusion of Rei stood behind her, smiling at her the warmed smile Rei had within her. Usagi smiled back, and then turned to her left shoulder. Heero stood there, his face was expressionless, but his eyes were calling for her, in the deepest depths of his dark eyes, he longed for her to be back in his arms, and the wind threw itself against his face, his hair flew around his face, making his ten times more irresistible as before. But she remembered her real family, and silently made up her mind.
Usagi said with the most clear and soft voice she still had within her, "I choose to keep the good with the bad. I was a coward for running, and I never forgot you, not even for a minute." She melted into her mother's arms.
Heero and Rei disappeared. "You will meet them again, her mother whispered to her."
"Very soon."
*****
Uh..yeah, bye!
~PA
*Nervously steps into the office* Okay, I've made it this far. I'm not even going to think about what you people think of me now. NO! I'm not death obsessed, as Blake so kindly put it. *ahem* He's not my friend anymore, he's been making fun of me, and Usagi Princess is making fun of me with one of my stories, 'Lies in the Middle.' Completely different couple there. After all the support I gave her, she goes and turns her back on me! Can you believe that? *humph! *
Anyways, I'm glad with the reviews I got for the last chapter, I'm mean, I'm not pleased with what happened to my Hee-chan, *sniffle* I miss him already! Don't worry; they make an appearance in this chapter. Wufei gets to have a little fun as well. I'm going to write a few more chapters before I write the Epilogue, which is basically what everyone does after it's all said and done. Trieze does get a little whipping from Wufei in this fic, yep, had to put that in, and I happy for it to. Most Heero/Usagi fics don't give much thought to the other characters. Well, I happen to like Wufei, so I'm going to give him some spotlight, just like he always wanted. I feel sorry for him, always in the shadows of all the others, always the last to be shown in all the episodes.
He wouldn't want any pity so I'll shut up now. Okay, here is the chapter, and I hope ya'll enjoy. Flames are pointless; they are just for sad people who want to spread their bad attitude. Flame me all you want, Usagi's been dying to have a camp out. Seeya!
Chapter 21: Crest of June (
Usagi stood in a barren waist land, she didn't think, and she took note that she wasn't even breathing. Unless she said something out loud, she wouldn't even be able to acknowledge she had a mind at all. "Where's Heero? Rei?" She called out, but there was no answer, there was nothing for miles, It seemed like it was just flat, she couldn't see anything anywhere, nothing went up, nothing went down. "Where am I?" The world echoed her words back to her, it had to have been come alternate universe. She walked on, knowing it wouldn't get her anywhere, it was like walking on a moving sidewalk, and she was in the same place as before.
She had walked for over an hour, but then again she didn't know that there was time at all in this place, wherever it was. "Who's there? Tell me where I am!" Usagi heard words coming from her mouth. Gusts of wind flew over this land, but there was no sand, not thing. She didn't know what she was standing on, for all she knew, it could have been space.
Then she saw someone coming from the space in front of her. Her figure was familiar, but from where, she didn't know. The figures hair was wavy, and the color looked that of auburn, but then as the person drew forward, it became a beautiful reddish, red as the rose, and she stopped, right in front of Usagi. Then Usagi remembered her. Somewhere, her memories were planted back within her, and she saw who this person was.
*Flashback*
May::14:: 180 A.C.
A red headed girl called over a small sand castle she made with the small red beach bucket. "Usa! C'mere! I made you something!" The small girl, no older than 2 ½ called to her friend. A young girl with short pigtails came running over, her little legs kicking in the sand, and sat down by her friend to admire the sand castle. "Wow Molly, thank you!" She hugged her friend. They sat on the beach and started to make other sand castles and started to connect them to make an even bigger castle.
An older lady with silver hair and a man her age also with silver hair that reached his thighs, the woman had her hair just like Usagi's, cascading down her light silvery gown that dragged in the sand. She took out a small black camera, and handed it to the man. He took it in his artist's hands and his long fingers pulled it to his face, over one eye, and the girls put their arms around each other, and looked and smiled at him, as he took a snap picture. And then they were purposely pushed over and onto their newly built sand castle. "ANDREW!!!"
*End flashback*
"Molly?" She asked. The girl smiled at her, and signaled that she was indeed who Usagi thought she was. Usagi wasn't sure of anything right now. She could have been an illusion, but her instincts as a soldier kept her from running out and hugging her childhood friend for all she was worth.
Molly looked at Usagi with confusion, the kind of confusion that clearly asked what she was doing, because the Usagi she knew would have run to her even if she wasn't even sure she was her friend, just happy that there was someone with her instead of being alone. But Molly's eyes looked aged with wisdom, and her skin and face looked as if she had always lived in a garden. Not just the innocent brown eyes she had when they were children, but she looked at Usagi as if she didn't know her anymore. True, Usagi wasn't the same person who she shared those few memories with before Usagi was taken from her and she was killed, as was anyone with a relationship with Usagi.
She smiled at Usagi, a knowing smile. "I guess I was just hoping you would run to me like you would when we were little. It's just an illusion now, right? A shadow of what once was?" She looked at Usagi, as if expecting an answer.
She didn't.
Molly sighed. "I guess I was just jealous. You got a new best friend when you were taken. I was dead; I guess you had no choice but to forget me. Now you are closer to Rei, right? You can bear your troubles to her, and she would understand? That was what we used to do." She looked down at her feet, and then looked at Usagi again.
Usagi's eyes had become distant, and she felt moisture under her eyelids and she tried to blink them away. But she sniffled instead, that made it obvious.
Molly's eyes were watery, as she cried, "Usa-chan! Speak to me, please!" She fell to her knees in despair, with the steady thoughts that her former best friend got someone to replace her.
Usagi's looked over on top of her, starring at her red head that was facing down with her face in her hands and crying her heart out. Usagi's face was scared, disbelief was written on her face, and her skin paled.
Was this it? Was she destined to choose between Molly and Rei as best friends? It was going to be hell in heaven if it turned out that way. She couldn't choose between the two. She had been a best friend with Molly a lot longer than she was with Rei, but Rei knew of all the things she had been through, she had understood her better in her circumstance than Molly ever could. It just didn't seem fair to have to choose. *And I thought heaven was supposed to be paradise. But if this is heaven, where are all the others? *
Her thoughts drifted away as she saw Molly look into her eyes, brown mixing with blue. And Usagi did the first thing she thought to do; she walked around Molly's body as it shivered with sobs. Then she ran. She was not used to these emotions. She was emotionless. And now that someone had come to her and expected her care, she didn't know what to do. She ran as fast as she could from all the memories she wanted to forget, and was taught to forget in the 16 years she had lived. And the 13 years she was taught to live. Her memories of those times were just her wishful thinking. They weren't real, just memories of a simple fairy tale, that she had no wish to end.
She heard the cried coming from behind her. "Usagi!!! Wait! Come back! You can't run forever!!!" Molly cried, begging her to come back, to stop running. But Usagi couldn't, she put up her guards and ran, her heart told her to go back, but her mind was in control, her shields were up, and she could no longer hear her cries for her to come back and face her. *I'm a Coward.* Usagi thought. *A bloody COWARD!!!*
She stopped as she saw another figure coming toward her, no, two, and three.
There were four figures coming toward her, they were too misty, to white. She squinted her eyes and then she could see them clearly. It was her mother, her father, her brother, and most painful of all.it was Apollo. The beautiful black panther that Minako had killed just to spit her. Suddenly she was reminded of how much she wanted to kill, tear, rip Minako from her head to her perfect little toes that walked over Apollo's body without heed to how many years he had spent protecting and comforting Usagi. She let the fresh tears run down her face again, but then she wiped them away from her eyes in case anyone would come to touch her soon. The last thing she wanted was for them to know what Apollo had been to her.
She felt his paw and warm tongue roll over her uncovered skin and over her body, comforting her in every way the poor panther could. He sat down next to her, and he pulled his upper body to her lap, and Usagi stroked the panther's long main. She hugged him around his neck, and whispered into his aware ears. "My beautiful. It's really you. Your spirit watched over me for a long time, Rei and me. You helped me, and now you can live your happy soul to its eternity, together with me." She took notice that her hair was getting black tints to it, the panthers own black fur was transferring to her hair. "My precious, now everyone will know of your beauty, I bare your main, as Rei bares your raven fur, you are beautiful." Her whispering became a sob as she felt the hand of her brother on her shoulder, and his other hand held the panther with her.
Andrew raised his head to speak with her, his blue eyes were aged with wisdom that Usagi knew that it would take forever for her to have. "Sister, you're beauty is that of the panther's, your strength is even stronger. We couldn't have asked for a better way for you to live your life, we expect nothing more of you. Now you can be the girl you want to be, or anything you want to be, you have eternity to try everything. Your weapons were strong, but now your heart is stronger. Let us go now to the place we call home." He was asking her to go back with them, to become what she was destined to become.
The man with the silvery hair down to his waist, and equally glittering silver eyes, spoke to his daughter as well. "You have spent your life running from the past, leaving us forgotten and leaving you unloved. But I see now that you already have enough love to carry on without us. But will you leave us behind again, now that you have us back again?" His words were gentle and caring and love dripped from his words, just as she remembered him speaking to her as a child. Her father, Apollo, stood up from his sitting position beside her, and let her mother, Serenity take his place.
She patted her knee, and she started to run her fingers through Usagi's blonde hair, that still shown through the thick fog that surrounded her.
"Your path does not have to be chosen, you can take two paths, staying with us and the ones you loved after us, or you can leave all the pain behind, all the memories of us behind, and go with them. We will not stop you. Only you can choose." She was just as gentle as her father was, but defiantly more delicate.
Usagi stayed quiet for a long time, and her mother knew what she was thinking about. Her father looked over her shoulder. Usagi turned to look as well over her right shoulder. Rei, no, not Rei. An illusion of Rei stood behind her, smiling at her the warmed smile Rei had within her. Usagi smiled back, and then turned to her left shoulder. Heero stood there, his face was expressionless, but his eyes were calling for her, in the deepest depths of his dark eyes, he longed for her to be back in his arms, and the wind threw itself against his face, his hair flew around his face, making his ten times more irresistible as before. But she remembered her real family, and silently made up her mind.
Usagi said with the most clear and soft voice she still had within her, "I choose to keep the good with the bad. I was a coward for running, and I never forgot you, not even for a minute." She melted into her mother's arms.
Heero and Rei disappeared. "You will meet them again, her mother whispered to her."
"Very soon."
*****
Uh..yeah, bye!
~PA