Okies, here's chapter 2 peoples! I hope you enjoy it!
Oops, I forgot in the first chapter, but... dun, dun, duuun……… Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon is not mine!!! Wow! Did I surprise anybodys??
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Five Years Later:
Usagi looked around, studying her new home. It's been a while since I've been here, she thought. I seriously believed I would never come back. But that part of my life ended long time ago, so so be it. She thought about her job, the one she had taken so she could get a challenge from her normally boring work. She was to be head photographer for the newly crowned King of Earth, Endymion. Funny, everyone thought that he and I would reign together. Shows how wrong they were. Usagi still heard from her friends, before and after the coronation of the long lost Earth Prince, who was now known as Neo-King Endymion, to all but his closest friends. Her friends and now the Queens of their respective planets had not spoken to her since the day she announced she was leaving. Or at least the didn't succeed in talking to her, as she had evaded even their most skilled trackers. I don't think their dreams in high school had seriously included becoming royalty of their respective planets, but they should've known better... She had read the first letter she had received from them, and immediately decided never to go back. The letter never once mentioned her, only that "her planet and soul mate needed her." Right, she thought. He's doing just fine. All puffed up with his own importance, but that's nothing new. She thought bitterly. The bitterness had been born of long years waiting for the love she had felt during the Silver Millennium to return, and being constantly disappointed when it never had. Oh well, it's behind me. I'll never go back now. He's fine, and the other senshi are fine as well. With luck, they'll let me live my new life in peace.
With that thought, she purposely walked over to the newly built Crystal Palace. She was greeted at the Gates of the Palace by servants, who obviously knew who she was. She was escorted to her working area of the Palace, and told that her living quarters adjoined it. She was also told she would be meeting the King the next day, to discuss what her duties and work would be. After dismissing the servants, Usagi sat down on her bed, thinking. It had become a trait of hers, to actually think, not that her friends had given her credit for it before or anything... At least I didn't run into any of the other senshi, she thought. But they're important now, and they probably wouldn't recognized me now anyway. But she couldn't help but think of all the good times she had had with her friends, all the times they had saved the world, with or without her. She had read about in the paper, about how the Sailor Senshi had defeated yet another monster. But all the attacks on Earth had ceased with the coronation of Endymion and the senshi. Another good reason to stay away from everyone, she thought. This way, if Chibi-Usa is never born, the Black Moon can never be after her, and their attack will fail. She was startled out of her thoughts by the sensation of first Ami, then Rei, then all of the senshi arriving at the palace. Usagi knew that her powers had grown stronger over the past five years, but she didn't think they were that much stronger, so that she could sense the power of her friends. It amazed her, yet somehow she just couldn't be all too surprised. She had also been regaining her memories of her past, so that might explain why she was not surprised. She suddenly came completely alert when she realized that every single one of her friends were coming directly to her. She hastily re-built the weave of her power around her, so that no one with power could sense hers, completing her disguise. That trick she had learned before she left the senshi, but she had told no one about it, that she could pretty much do anything with her power by simply weaving it into whatever she wished. She also looked different, she had cut her hair when she had moved away, and instead of the soft golden color it had once been, it was now a shimmering silver. She had matured even more in the years she spent away from Japan, learning more, expanding her knowledge of the world that the other senshi seemed to exist outside of. She was no longer anything like the crybaby wimp, she was now a beautiful, young, mature woman.
They all expected me to be a crybaby, and a wimp, and so I kept who I could be from them, she thought, not really wishing it was true, yet knowing it was. Then he had to go and mess up my entire life. It's all his fault! She had been telling herself the exact same thing over and over, hoping that she would eventually believe it. So far it hadn't worked.
She heard a knock at her workroom door, and rose to answer it. She could still sense her friends-no, she had to think of them of "their Majesties", same as Endymion, or she would reveal herself, and that was the last thing she wanted to do. She opened the door to see Queen Ami of Mercury, Queen Makoto of Jupiter, and the Queen of Saturn, Hotaru. They seemed surprised to see her, maybe they were expecting some one else, she could not tell.
"Yes?" Usagi asked politely. "Is there anything I can help you with?"
"We would like to welcome you to the Crystal Palace, is the name of Endymion. We have heard that you are the new Palace Photographer, and we had a few small requests, as well as do the others. We have also heard of your skill, and wish for you aide." Queen Ami then went on, detailing what they wished to be done. Realizing that it may take a while for them to finish, and also realizing that they still stood out in the hallway, Usagi invited them in. After Ami had finally finished, the Queens stayed to get to know their new neighbor.
"I once knew someone named Usagi, a while ago," said Makoto thoughtfully. "You said that you come from America? From Seattle? You wouldn't happen to know her, would you?"
"I'm sorry your majesty, but it is a fairly large country, so there's a good chance she does live there but I don't know her." Usagi said politely, finding it strange to speak to her one time friends this way, also thinking that she was right about her friends living outside of reality, that they should have at least known that there was very little chance of meeting one person in a country with millions.
"Please, don't call me that, it feels too officious. Please call me Makoto." Makoto said.
"As you wish."
"You may have been told, but the King wishes to speak with you about what he wishes for you to do. You are going to have a lot of work laid out for you." Hotaru said quietly.
"I understand, but I wish to earn my way here. It will not be a burden." Usagi said quietly. She wanted to tell her friends everything, but she knew she couldn't. It was too early. Even knowing that, she still wanted to test their strength, see if they had grown in power as well.
"We must go, but I hope that we meet again." Said Ami.
"Same here, your majesties." Replied Usagi.
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Well? Again, I apologize for the awfulness of this sad fic, but I really really appreciate the wonderful reviews. Thank-you so very much!!! That's the reason this is out so soon, I had to re-format and check it over (again!) Here ya go.