Promise Moon, Moon Promise
Chapter 1: Inner thoughts, Bai bai Senshi
~~DreamBlaze
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Gomen minna.. I'm starting another one, when I haven't even finished the others…. The thing is, this one is an OLD one.. originally a usa/mamo fic… but I thought it could go any way.. with mamoru or not.. you decide what this should crossover with.. Post to tell me if its okay and which anime it should go with..
Thanks for the assistance, and please I'd love it if you review..
This is during Chibi-Usa's stay, Mamoru and Usagi are broken up … they could get back together.. unless you prove to me otherwise.
Ages:
Inners: 16 (boy are they young to be fightin)
Chibi-Usa: 5 (isn't she smart for her age?)
Mamoru: 19 (I think they're three years apart)
DISCLAIMER: NOTHING I tell ya!! NOTHING!!! ::goes and runs out the room, but hits the door instead:: ooh… mama, look at all the senshi floating in the sky..
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~At the park~
"Moon Princess Elimination" and the youma was dusted.
Usagi detransformed and face the others.
"Good job Sailor Moon," indeed she had, Mars had not yelled at her, and Moon was determined out on the battle field.
All she did was smile, "I guess since I'm not the real moon princess I should step down ne," she questioned them. She had decided this during the battle, knowing it was hopeless for her now. She removed her brooch, com. Watch, Luna pen, moon scepter, and last the silver crystal, placing them all in the bewildered hands of Mars as the others stare, the last given gently and reverently as if it would break. "Lucky me," she told them all, "I seem to get my wish after all, don't worry, I'll still keep it a secret."
The remaining senshi looked at the saddened rabbit, they knew she wanted to cry, crystal tears were even pooling yet did not fall, they were guilty yet equally surprised.
She smiled at them, albeit a bit forced, "hey! I did a great job of faking it didn't i." Looking like she would break down there, she tried to stay happy, to know she was unaffected and hoping they'd be happy. She knew in her heart she was the real princess but didn't say anything, not wanting to argue with her dear friends.
The others felt even worse, Usagi meant so much to them, that no words could put into mouth of what should be said when they described her.
She turned to the hidden Tuxedo Kamen, walking towards him calmy she hands him the locket. It didn't play. It surprised him, and the others too, it always played when both persons touched it.
She knew though, when one doubted their loved it stops, never to play till that love returned. Closing her eyes, and breathed a deep shuddering breath, she summoned courage so she wouldn't cry. He doubted their love, a twist of thousands of knives had stabbed her already wounded and tattered heart.
Opening them, and were actually dry, she says, "I'm sorry I lead you on."
With that said, Usagi exits the park.
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Ami, the most calm and level headed, started to cry. Usagi was her best friend. She had pushed away her best friend, her first friend.
~Flashback~
She was alone, in an empty classroom. She knew what her classmates were saying, knew that they called her a nerd and a snob.
Honestly, Ami tried to ignore it, but the stinging pain that tortured her would not let her overlook their malicious remarks. It was always the same, everywhere she went, and she was an outcast.
Was it bad for her to like to study? It was her release, her escape, her home too empty, her life too hollow, her heart too bare. She loved her mother dearly yet that love seemed not to be returned. The books were her salvation, she found that the facts were an exilherating and usefull knowledge to learn. It filled her, the accomplishment of knowing things eased her loneliness. She also hoped her mother would be proud.
After that, it came naturally, to study when she didn't have to. To be ahead because she simply wanted to. Her mother never noticed, and she soon rejected her hopes and decided to just do what she loved.
"You know that new girl?" came a voice.
"The blue haired one?" a second one questioned.
"I heard that she was this snob who only studies because she has no friends." The muffled voices passed the closed door but their words echoed loudly in her ears.
'no friends… no friends… no friends'
Tears stung, shaking her head furiously she told herself she wouldn't cry, she would not let them see her cry. Ami would not be effected by their taunts and cold shoulders, only her books mattered to her.
When would it end?
Collecting herself, she braces and readies for her next class, the bell had rung, and everyone started to file in.
Ignoring the students and the nasty looks, she picks up a book to read, but one caught her eye.
She had blonde hair and blue eyes, and was probably 3.5 centimeters shorter than her. The girl was laughing joyously with two other students, a girl with reddish brown hair and green eyes and a boy with brown hair and bottled glasses eyes. The two laughed at something the girl had said.
A pang hits her heart, when would she ever be apart of that?
Never
As if sensing her bitter thoughts, the blonde hair girl catches her eye. Wise eyes met innocent, the girl smiled gently and brightly to Ami, Ami's heart seamed to lift at that smile.
It brought hope.
~The next day
"Where is it? Where's my disc?" Frustrated, she couldn't find her work for her after school juku.
"Excuse me," turning around, she saw the blonde hair girl from yesterday.
The blonde smiled at her, "Is this yours?"
Held out to her was her disc, sighing in relief she said, "thank you."
"No problem, Atashi wa Tsukino Usagi," she then bowed.
Ami was slightly surprised, the girl, Usagi, had stayed to talk, more surprising bowed to her. No one gave her that courtesy, it was always a sneer and a turn of the head.
Smiling a bit nervously, she shyly bowed back, "Nice to meet you, watashi wa Mizuno Ami."
Usagi smiled, tilting her head to the side she asked her, "do you wanna go somewhere later? To be friends?"
Friends…
That sentence, the last word, stopped her heart? Could it be? Someone wanted to be her friend? Thinking back to previous people, she thinks it might be a trick. Opening her mouth to reject the offer, she pauses, Usagi had a hopeful look in her eyes, one she could not squash nor turn down.
"Sure."
That day was the best day, her soul filled, she felt she had done the only right thing in the world. That day also turned out to be the day she discovered she was a Senshi, the Mercury no Senshi. Although being a Senshi should have been the most rewarding thing, it wasn't, befriending the Usagi, who turned out to be the Senshi of the Moon, was the most rewarding. To be friends with Usagi before they were comrades, it made the friendship true, not forced as a part of duty. She never regretted that day.
~~End Flashback
But now, Ami thought bitterly, she squashed the meaning of that day. Friendship destroyed all because Usagi wasn't the princess. Tears subsiding, she calms herself, she had to be strong, so Usagi would be proud of her. She wanted so badly to run up to Usagi and apologize but she couldn't duty came before self and that meant letting Usagi go.
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Makoto kicked a near by crash can, sending garbage all over the place. Her rage and hurt pent up into one spot, her heart. Usagi was her best friend, her first friend. Usagi was the one who came to her and made a friendship start, chuckling softly, albeit because she was hungry, but it didn't matter, she helped heal an abused soul.
~~Flashback
"There's that girl. The one who got kicked out for fighting," said the not so soft whisper.
Makoto tensed, she hated it when this happened. So what that she didn't hide what she was feeling, all she ever felt was loneliness and anger, why not let people show it.
"Your right, she does look like some barbaric Amazon, look at that.. She's so tall, taller than most boys."
Clutching her fists, she trembled. When would it stop? Why couldn't people leave her alone? All they ever did was judge and their comments weren't nice one at that.
"Oh! You know what? I heard she fought boys too, maybe she's a boy in a girls skirt," came the reply. Once the sentence was said the group listening fell into an uproar of laughter.
That was it, she wouldn't take this, they had no right to taunt her.
But before she could do anything about it the teacher walked in, it was a long period; all she did was close herself up and glare at others who stared. (oish, you would think she was related to Hii-chan. Hmm… maybe they are..)
The bell chimed, signaling the end of class and the start of recess, maybe she could find a place of seclusion, where no one would taunt her.
Heading out to the yard, she spots a large shaded tree, unoccupied. Sitting down, she leaned into the trees bark, the beings of brown and green comforted her, relaxing in the slight breeze and the shaded solitude, Makoto settles in to her lunch.
Looking around, she orients herself to the new school, she knew she wouldn't be here for long, she mused, it was one of the worse schools she'd been to.
A small group of three catches her eye, a brown haired boy with glasses seemed to be talking to the two girls: a reddish-brown haired girl with green eyes and a blonde haired girl with blue eyes. The two seemed to be listening to him, she could tell by their glances towards her that they were talking about her. The blonde haired one with the weird hairstyle seemed to frown, not agreeing with the boy.
She catches Makoto's eyes, the two stared at each other, something about her made Makoto calm, not angry, as she'd always feel. The girl breaks eye contact and glances down to her lap, where her lunch was. The girl's eyes seem to light up, and ignoring the twos protest she headed towards Makoto's way.
Makoto knew she wanted to know this girl, she was curious of her, but she knew she had to be wary; it could all be a trick.
She tenses at the arrival of the girl, "Is that fried tempura?"
Confused she answers, "yes."
"Can I have some of your lunch, you've got a big bag, and I forgot mines at home because I was late and forgot to grab it on my way out," amazingly, Makoto noticed, it was all said in one breath and the girl didn't even seem winded.
Then as an after thought, she smiles at Makoto and says, "by the way, atashi wa Tsukino Usagi."
Hesitantly, confused at the girls demeanor towards her she says, "anno, shouldn't you be afraid of me?"
Usagi tilts her head in a curious manner eyes full of trust, then says, "should I be?"
Those three words almost caused her to cry. She wasn't afraid of her, and seemed to want to be her friend. Taking a great risk, Makoto tentavely smiles back, "Ore wa Kino Makoto, here, you can have some of mine, I can make more at home."
Impossibly, the girls already large eyes grew larger, and were now filled with awe, "you made this."
Chuckling for no reason, "yup, I cook all my meals."
Worship crept through Usagi's eyes, "can you take me home with you."
Usagi's begging sounded so hilarious, that she clutched her stomach as she fell down in laughter.
Usagi just pouted cutely, slightly upset that her 'serious' (to her at least) question was ignored, yet was slightly happy that Makoto was happy.
Too bad Makoto didn't know that the girl's stomach was a bottomless pit, it would make her think twice before admitting she was a cook. Then again, she loved to cook for Usagi, it felt rewarding to know that someone appreciated her food, a subject she loved to work on.
Maybe the school wasn't so bad after all. It amazed her that a mean school could produce a kind hearted girl like Usagi.
~~End flashback
She had become Jupiter no Senshi, of lightning and nature. It was great that her fighting could be put to use, and that she now had a 'person' to focus her anger on. It was part of the reason she didn't fight anymore.
Though the main reasons were because Usagi changed her, and she was too busy cooking, and now that she wasn't lonely and angry as she had been. She had made another friend, and fellow senshi, and Usagi seemed to be the glue that held them together. Polar opposites, the scholar, the light, the fighter, yet they were compatible and they never questioned the miracle of it. They were glad it happened.
She always had a feeling that she had to protect Usagi, the day she had protected Usagi from getting hurt. Admittedly that day scared her, she never wanted Usagi to hurt, and if she did, she would have hurt also. She couldn't believe she fell for Yakusoku's words.
~~
Minako was silent; she missed her 'sister' already. The two were in so many was alike, not only in looks. Sure, they were both dumb and clumsy, but they weren't all the time, not when it counted.
Minako remembered her life in London; it was all work and no play. When Artemis had discovered her, he had looked thoroughly relieved. He told her that he was Senshi V, not revealing she was really the Venus no Senshi. She had fought stray youmas that had gotten there and the bad guys of the city.
She felt glad that she could help, but for some reason, that sense of gladness wasn't as strong as it should have been, like there was something more, something more greater. Artemis, as much as she liked him, got on her nerves, he always nagged and complained.
One day, he approached her with the most forlorn look, and knew that he was feeling heartbroken. Why? She never found out. Ever since she could remember, she could sense people's emotions, especially when it concerned feeling of love and hurt. She soon discovered she was really the Venus no Senshi, of love and beauty. Besides that, Artemis revealed that they were searching for a princess, until then, she was to disguise herself, that when she met the other senshi, shocked when she found out, she would tell them she was the princess. He claimed that she had to do so, so that the enemies would not find the real one, but she felt there was an underlying motive, one she has yet to discover.
The day she met Usagi, though it started horribly, was one of her better days.
~~Flashback
"Sailor V!! When will you make your next movie?" came a voice shouting over the hordes of a crowd.
"Marry me!"
"You're a fake!"
"Why do you fight the streets of London?"
"Why are you here? Are you going to fight the monster here?"
"Will you sign my poster?"
All questions similar to what she mostly heard rang through the recesses of her ear. It was annoying, she loved acting and she loved attention but she could only take so much.
Minako had just arrived out of the airport at Japan; it had been a long time she was on the steps of her birth home.
She was tired, she had heard questions all day and she wanted to rest or meet the Senshi. She was glad she wasn't alone anymore, the pressure of duty slightly lifted when she realized that.
Arriving to their temporary home, that is, until her parents found a house 'suitable' for them, a flat just out of Juuban. Figures, she was alone again, her mother and father out doing whatever social acts.
Plopping herself on the bed she takes Artemis out of his carrier. He looked joyful, she wondered what was here that would get the usual stiff and serious neko that way.
After a short rest, she changed and went out to explore the streets. She didn't really remember the place, it was so long since she had last been. Upon looking at an arcade called 'crown' she entered seeming to be one of the popular hang outs among her peers.
Sighing, she realized all eyes were on her, then, as usual, a mass of bodies surrounded her. She was again, signed the duty of autographing signatures, forcing a smile she looked at the clock. 4:30..
…5:55. The crowd finally left her alone, thanks to the cute worker that had caught her eye.
He seemed friendly and nice, "can I get you anything Miss?"
For some stupid reason, she berated herself, she blushed at that common statement.
"Could you get me a lemonade please?" Minako asked, the blush still slightly tingeing her cheek. Stupid, she slapped herself mentally, he's just any other boy. Boys come on to you all the time back home, there words more better, yet you wouldn't be affected, and here you are blushing like some school gir.. wait scratch that, child, all because HE ASKED YOU A DRINK?! Are you dumb? Where'd your brain go?
Snapping out of her self-admonishment, she straightens just in time for him to return.
"Here you go," he handed her the drink smiling cheerfully.
"Thank you," she told him smiling shyly.
Smiling back at her he says, "if you want anything else just call me."
That said he left.
"Awee.. that was so cute."
Snapping out of her daydreams with a certain arcade worker, she looks towards the speaker. She was slightly stunned. The girl look so much like her. Blond hair and blue eyes, if it weren't for the hairstyles and slightly different shade of eyes they could pass of as twins.
Realizing she was staring, she questions, "pardon me?"
Smiling secretly, the girl just said, "never mind."
Kind of unnerved by the girls judging, she realizes not once had she screamed and squealed that she was Sailor V. It was refreshing, yet she was still curious why the girl didn't do so.
"Watashi was Aino Minako," she tells her 'twin.'
Smiling at her, the girl bows, "atashi was Tsukino Usagi."
Then as if realizing it she gushes out, "your Sailor V!!!"
So much for a change, Minako thought, but still she wanted to get to know Usagi.
"Yes," she smiles waiting for the onslaught of questions.
She never got one.
Usagi merely states, with wonder and adoration in her eyes, "you're my role model."
Minako just gapes, she was never told that before, still it felt nice. Not knowing what to say to that she nods at Usagi, hoping she'd get the message of gratitude, she did.
"Excuse me for being rude, but I have to ask, why aren't asking questions?"
Usagi smiles serenely, and she said in a wise voice that did not suit her, "there is a basis for every soul, just because you are Sailor V, doesn't mean you aren't you. Aino Minako. Sailor V may be your alias but Minako is you, a person different from that, a person that does not want duty to overtake her life."
Those words stunned her to the core. It was true. All she wanted was to have fun, and Usagi made her realize that. She vowed she wouldn't let Artemis get to her anymore, she would just ignore his demands. Usagi, she recognized, was special. Someone that should not be ignored or neglected.
They talked all day, things a girl would talk about. It was nice to have a friend, it was even nicer to find out that friend liked you for who you were and not what role you took, it also didn't hurt that that friend looked up to her.
It gave her a sense of worth, a feeling stronger than being a Senshi.
She also found out Usagi was a senshi too. For some reason, it wasn't right. The innocent pure hearted girl shouldn't be facing battle and hurt. She admired Usagi, she was her role model, to see Usagi a girl who hated fighting, disregard her feelings just so she could help other innocents and prevent the world from darkness, gave her pride. She was proud of Usagi, the girl she acknowledged as her twin.
She remembered meeting the others, it was slightly tense, she supposed the others thought her a snob. But Usagi fixed that, she made it so no differences would hinder the friendship of the Senshi's. Minako was grateful for that, she didn't want to be left out. She wanted to belong.
~~End flashback
Artemis was so happy that day too. He seemed so glad and joyful when he saw Luna, who was in the arms of Usagi. He was relieved and, she thought, complete, like he was glad that everything was alright again. But how could everything be alright, the princess was still missing and evil still lurked. I guess, he realized that too, because soon, his eyes turn remorseful and guilty and a little bit of envy seemed to be there.. Why?
She sniffled, kami, she was going to cry. She couldn't cry, she wouldn't betray Usa that way. Usagi wanted them to be happy with Usagi's decision to leave. If she wanted that, she'd grant that, as a last wish of the princess, who wasn't their princess anymore but would always be one in her heart.
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Makoto couldn't take it anymore, "I don't know why we let her go!"
"What do you mean," questioned Ami, although she knew the answer.
"Usa's the real princess, I always felt like I should protect her even before I knew she was Sai…"
"What do you mean? Yaku's right, Serenity was never klutzy and an idiot," Rei cut in.
Rei wanted to cry, but she didn't want to, not in front of everyone. She wouldn't let them know how much it affected her so. She missed Usa, her best friend of all the others. Sure they fought, but it was all for fun, Usa knew that.
~~Flashback
"Rei-chan?"
"What Odango?"
"Why do you tease me?"
Pause…
Should she answer? Let Usagi actually know she cared?
"Because," she starts, a little hesitant to answer, "I want what's best for you. I want you to be the best that you can be and I don't want to see you hurt. So I tell you what you need to work on."
"Oh…"
The two smiled at each other, the room silent and warm..
"Rei-chan…" Usagi starts.
"What Usa?" Rei actually said nice and calmly.
"It's fun to do to, ne?"
Grins, "yup Odango."
"Rei-chan!!!!" Usagi whines.
Rei grins, getting into the motion, "What Odango?" She said, saying Odango longer than usual.
"Don't call me that!!"
"Why not?"
"…because," silent pause.
Arched eyebrow, "because?"
"It's mean!!"
"It's true," she retaliated, pointing to the odango's of a hair as proof.
Usagi glares, "no."
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!!"
"No!!"
"Yes!!!"
"No!!!"
And so the tongue war starts.
After a few minutes of staring heatedly at each other, one cracks, the other follows suit, and they collapse in a fit of laughter.
Regaining her breath, Usagi asks with a grin, "what were we arguing about?"
Smirking she replies, "the usual ODANGO!!"
"REI-CHAN!!!"
~~End Flashback
That was a fun day. Not long, a pillow fight started and a sleep over followed suit. One of the most 'relaxed' days it could get when it concerned Pyro and Odango.
She couldn't believe she let her best friend go. The girl who ignored the fact that she was cold and mean to her in the beginning, she saw Rei as a person who had been lonely, and fixed that. She took away Rei's loneliness and gave her a group of friends in the end too. The senshi wouldn't be the same with out her. And they couldn't do anything about it. They were bound to their princess and their 'princess' had a problem with Usagi. As far as she knew, she knew Yaku wouldn't allow her to continue her friendship with Usagi. Even if it meant breaking her heart.
"Well its because she was never allowed to be 'klutzy and dumb' as a princess and now that she's a normal person she can," exclaimed the angry senshi of Jupiter, breaking Rei out of her mellow reverie.
Mamoru just stood there, staring at the locket.
It didn't play… he kept thinking.
I guess it's true.
Though this hurt her to say Rei argued, "then why didn't the locket play? Huh? Why Mako? Why?"
"Because it isn't her. The locket won't play anymore since the real princess is back."
Mina watched them argue. She knew what it was like to play 'princess,' she had to do that with Usagi. She was lucky she did not have to contend with Rei and Makoto, she was especially lucky that Mamoru wasn't in the picture then..
She frowns, what the hell was Mamoru doing? She was doubting Usa and his love, they loved each other so much. But why did Mamoru's heart waver? Could it be that they really weren't meant to be. No, she shakes her head furiously, she wouldn't believe it, Mamoru wouldn't destroy his and Usa's love even if Usa wasn't the princess.
Though she thought that, why did she have the feeling it wasn't true?
"Mamoru you can't mean that," Makoto questioned in disbelief.
He stays silent.
Mina was now shocked, she couldn't believe it too, Mamoru was throwing away a love that even Aphrodite would envy, all because Usa wasn't a princess anymore?
Bastard.
Mamoru didn't know what to think anymore. He honestly thought he loved Usako, but upon seeing Yaku, why did his heart doubt? Why was life never simple for him? (you're the prince of earth? Idiot. Of course life is never simple, especially if you were a prince of your own damn planet.)
Even if he did love Usako, he knew it would never be, the prince and princess were destined. Not even they could stop the fates.
"I can't believe you," Makoto finally exclaims, disgusted with the earth prince.
"So what now? Now that you find Usa isn't the princess you'll go on to the next? What kind of love is that? Hop one to another? Then you'll find out Yakusoku's not the real one. Do you honestly think Usa's gonna let you come back with open arms? I don't think so!! You broke her heart," she exclaims to him.
Looking at everyone, "we all did, do you think that she'll let us in easily? Huh?"
No one had anything to say.
"Do you truly believe Usa's not the princess?"
No answer.
"I don't believe it! If I could, I would drop being a senshi, just to be with her, but I wont. I wont because I know Usa would be disappointed in me. Disappointed that I stopped helping innocents, I'll help Yakusoku, only because she a person not because she the princess, she'll never be my princess! So don't get any ideas that I think she's the princess!!" Makoto yelled, detransformed, then stomped off in the direction of HER princess.
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Oish.. I gots little reviews…. Anyways I'm sorry if I upset a few of you and that you don't like how its turning out.. but bear with me. All is not what it seems.. I also need you to review on what crossover this will be with..
~~DreamBlaze
Chapter 1: Inner thoughts, Bai bai Senshi
~~DreamBlaze
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gomen minna.. I'm starting another one, when I haven't even finished the others…. The thing is, this one is an OLD one.. originally a usa/mamo fic… but I thought it could go any way.. with mamoru or not.. you decide what this should crossover with.. Post to tell me if its okay and which anime it should go with..
Thanks for the assistance, and please I'd love it if you review..
This is during Chibi-Usa's stay, Mamoru and Usagi are broken up … they could get back together.. unless you prove to me otherwise.
Ages:
Inners: 16 (boy are they young to be fightin)
Chibi-Usa: 5 (isn't she smart for her age?)
Mamoru: 19 (I think they're three years apart)
DISCLAIMER: NOTHING I tell ya!! NOTHING!!! ::goes and runs out the room, but hits the door instead:: ooh… mama, look at all the senshi floating in the sky..
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~At the park~
"Moon Princess Elimination" and the youma was dusted.
Usagi detransformed and face the others.
"Good job Sailor Moon," indeed she had, Mars had not yelled at her, and Moon was determined out on the battle field.
All she did was smile, "I guess since I'm not the real moon princess I should step down ne," she questioned them. She had decided this during the battle, knowing it was hopeless for her now. She removed her brooch, com. Watch, Luna pen, moon scepter, and last the silver crystal, placing them all in the bewildered hands of Mars as the others stare, the last given gently and reverently as if it would break. "Lucky me," she told them all, "I seem to get my wish after all, don't worry, I'll still keep it a secret."
The remaining senshi looked at the saddened rabbit, they knew she wanted to cry, crystal tears were even pooling yet did not fall, they were guilty yet equally surprised.
She smiled at them, albeit a bit forced, "hey! I did a great job of faking it didn't i." Looking like she would break down there, she tried to stay happy, to know she was unaffected and hoping they'd be happy. She knew in her heart she was the real princess but didn't say anything, not wanting to argue with her dear friends.
The others felt even worse, Usagi meant so much to them, that no words could put into mouth of what should be said when they described her.
She turned to the hidden Tuxedo Kamen, walking towards him calmy she hands him the locket. It didn't play. It surprised him, and the others too, it always played when both persons touched it.
She knew though, when one doubted their loved it stops, never to play till that love returned. Closing her eyes, and breathed a deep shuddering breath, she summoned courage so she wouldn't cry. He doubted their love, a twist of thousands of knives had stabbed her already wounded and tattered heart.
Opening them, and were actually dry, she says, "I'm sorry I lead you on."
With that said, Usagi exits the park.
~~
Ami, the most calm and level headed, started to cry. Usagi was her best friend. She had pushed away her best friend, her first friend.
~Flashback~
She was alone, in an empty classroom. She knew what her classmates were saying, knew that they called her a nerd and a snob.
Honestly, Ami tried to ignore it, but the stinging pain that tortured her would not let her overlook their malicious remarks. It was always the same, everywhere she went, and she was an outcast.
Was it bad for her to like to study? It was her release, her escape, her home too empty, her life too hollow, her heart too bare. She loved her mother dearly yet that love seemed not to be returned. The books were her salvation, she found that the facts were an exilherating and usefull knowledge to learn. It filled her, the accomplishment of knowing things eased her loneliness. She also hoped her mother would be proud.
After that, it came naturally, to study when she didn't have to. To be ahead because she simply wanted to. Her mother never noticed, and she soon rejected her hopes and decided to just do what she loved.
"You know that new girl?" came a voice.
"The blue haired one?" a second one questioned.
"I heard that she was this snob who only studies because she has no friends." The muffled voices passed the closed door but their words echoed loudly in her ears.
'no friends… no friends… no friends'
Tears stung, shaking her head furiously she told herself she wouldn't cry, she would not let them see her cry. Ami would not be effected by their taunts and cold shoulders, only her books mattered to her.
When would it end?
Collecting herself, she braces and readies for her next class, the bell had rung, and everyone started to file in.
Ignoring the students and the nasty looks, she picks up a book to read, but one caught her eye.
She had blonde hair and blue eyes, and was probably 3.5 centimeters shorter than her. The girl was laughing joyously with two other students, a girl with reddish brown hair and green eyes and a boy with brown hair and bottled glasses eyes. The two laughed at something the girl had said.
A pang hits her heart, when would she ever be apart of that?
Never
As if sensing her bitter thoughts, the blonde hair girl catches her eye. Wise eyes met innocent, the girl smiled gently and brightly to Ami, Ami's heart seamed to lift at that smile.
It brought hope.
~The next day
"Where is it? Where's my disc?" Frustrated, she couldn't find her work for her after school juku.
"Excuse me," turning around, she saw the blonde hair girl from yesterday.
The blonde smiled at her, "Is this yours?"
Held out to her was her disc, sighing in relief she said, "thank you."
"No problem, Atashi wa Tsukino Usagi," she then bowed.
Ami was slightly surprised, the girl, Usagi, had stayed to talk, more surprising bowed to her. No one gave her that courtesy, it was always a sneer and a turn of the head.
Smiling a bit nervously, she shyly bowed back, "Nice to meet you, watashi wa Mizuno Ami."
Usagi smiled, tilting her head to the side she asked her, "do you wanna go somewhere later? To be friends?"
Friends…
That sentence, the last word, stopped her heart? Could it be? Someone wanted to be her friend? Thinking back to previous people, she thinks it might be a trick. Opening her mouth to reject the offer, she pauses, Usagi had a hopeful look in her eyes, one she could not squash nor turn down.
"Sure."
That day was the best day, her soul filled, she felt she had done the only right thing in the world. That day also turned out to be the day she discovered she was a Senshi, the Mercury no Senshi. Although being a Senshi should have been the most rewarding thing, it wasn't, befriending the Usagi, who turned out to be the Senshi of the Moon, was the most rewarding. To be friends with Usagi before they were comrades, it made the friendship true, not forced as a part of duty. She never regretted that day.
~~End Flashback
But now, Ami thought bitterly, she squashed the meaning of that day. Friendship destroyed all because Usagi wasn't the princess. Tears subsiding, she calms herself, she had to be strong, so Usagi would be proud of her. She wanted so badly to run up to Usagi and apologize but she couldn't duty came before self and that meant letting Usagi go.
~~
Makoto kicked a near by crash can, sending garbage all over the place. Her rage and hurt pent up into one spot, her heart. Usagi was her best friend, her first friend. Usagi was the one who came to her and made a friendship start, chuckling softly, albeit because she was hungry, but it didn't matter, she helped heal an abused soul.
~~Flashback
"There's that girl. The one who got kicked out for fighting," said the not so soft whisper.
Makoto tensed, she hated it when this happened. So what that she didn't hide what she was feeling, all she ever felt was loneliness and anger, why not let people show it.
"Your right, she does look like some barbaric Amazon, look at that.. She's so tall, taller than most boys."
Clutching her fists, she trembled. When would it stop? Why couldn't people leave her alone? All they ever did was judge and their comments weren't nice one at that.
"Oh! You know what? I heard she fought boys too, maybe she's a boy in a girls skirt," came the reply. Once the sentence was said the group listening fell into an uproar of laughter.
That was it, she wouldn't take this, they had no right to taunt her.
But before she could do anything about it the teacher walked in, it was a long period; all she did was close herself up and glare at others who stared. (oish, you would think she was related to Hii-chan. Hmm… maybe they are..)
The bell chimed, signaling the end of class and the start of recess, maybe she could find a place of seclusion, where no one would taunt her.
Heading out to the yard, she spots a large shaded tree, unoccupied. Sitting down, she leaned into the trees bark, the beings of brown and green comforted her, relaxing in the slight breeze and the shaded solitude, Makoto settles in to her lunch.
Looking around, she orients herself to the new school, she knew she wouldn't be here for long, she mused, it was one of the worse schools she'd been to.
A small group of three catches her eye, a brown haired boy with glasses seemed to be talking to the two girls: a reddish-brown haired girl with green eyes and a blonde haired girl with blue eyes. The two seemed to be listening to him, she could tell by their glances towards her that they were talking about her. The blonde haired one with the weird hairstyle seemed to frown, not agreeing with the boy.
She catches Makoto's eyes, the two stared at each other, something about her made Makoto calm, not angry, as she'd always feel. The girl breaks eye contact and glances down to her lap, where her lunch was. The girl's eyes seem to light up, and ignoring the twos protest she headed towards Makoto's way.
Makoto knew she wanted to know this girl, she was curious of her, but she knew she had to be wary; it could all be a trick.
She tenses at the arrival of the girl, "Is that fried tempura?"
Confused she answers, "yes."
"Can I have some of your lunch, you've got a big bag, and I forgot mines at home because I was late and forgot to grab it on my way out," amazingly, Makoto noticed, it was all said in one breath and the girl didn't even seem winded.
Then as an after thought, she smiles at Makoto and says, "by the way, atashi wa Tsukino Usagi."
Hesitantly, confused at the girls demeanor towards her she says, "anno, shouldn't you be afraid of me?"
Usagi tilts her head in a curious manner eyes full of trust, then says, "should I be?"
Those three words almost caused her to cry. She wasn't afraid of her, and seemed to want to be her friend. Taking a great risk, Makoto tentavely smiles back, "Ore wa Kino Makoto, here, you can have some of mine, I can make more at home."
Impossibly, the girls already large eyes grew larger, and were now filled with awe, "you made this."
Chuckling for no reason, "yup, I cook all my meals."
Worship crept through Usagi's eyes, "can you take me home with you."
Usagi's begging sounded so hilarious, that she clutched her stomach as she fell down in laughter.
Usagi just pouted cutely, slightly upset that her 'serious' (to her at least) question was ignored, yet was slightly happy that Makoto was happy.
Too bad Makoto didn't know that the girl's stomach was a bottomless pit, it would make her think twice before admitting she was a cook. Then again, she loved to cook for Usagi, it felt rewarding to know that someone appreciated her food, a subject she loved to work on.
Maybe the school wasn't so bad after all. It amazed her that a mean school could produce a kind hearted girl like Usagi.
~~End flashback
She had become Jupiter no Senshi, of lightning and nature. It was great that her fighting could be put to use, and that she now had a 'person' to focus her anger on. It was part of the reason she didn't fight anymore.
Though the main reasons were because Usagi changed her, and she was too busy cooking, and now that she wasn't lonely and angry as she had been. She had made another friend, and fellow senshi, and Usagi seemed to be the glue that held them together. Polar opposites, the scholar, the light, the fighter, yet they were compatible and they never questioned the miracle of it. They were glad it happened.
She always had a feeling that she had to protect Usagi, the day she had protected Usagi from getting hurt. Admittedly that day scared her, she never wanted Usagi to hurt, and if she did, she would have hurt also. She couldn't believe she fell for Yakusoku's words.
~~
Minako was silent; she missed her 'sister' already. The two were in so many was alike, not only in looks. Sure, they were both dumb and clumsy, but they weren't all the time, not when it counted.
Minako remembered her life in London; it was all work and no play. When Artemis had discovered her, he had looked thoroughly relieved. He told her that he was Senshi V, not revealing she was really the Venus no Senshi. She had fought stray youmas that had gotten there and the bad guys of the city.
She felt glad that she could help, but for some reason, that sense of gladness wasn't as strong as it should have been, like there was something more, something more greater. Artemis, as much as she liked him, got on her nerves, he always nagged and complained.
One day, he approached her with the most forlorn look, and knew that he was feeling heartbroken. Why? She never found out. Ever since she could remember, she could sense people's emotions, especially when it concerned feeling of love and hurt. She soon discovered she was really the Venus no Senshi, of love and beauty. Besides that, Artemis revealed that they were searching for a princess, until then, she was to disguise herself, that when she met the other senshi, shocked when she found out, she would tell them she was the princess. He claimed that she had to do so, so that the enemies would not find the real one, but she felt there was an underlying motive, one she has yet to discover.
The day she met Usagi, though it started horribly, was one of her better days.
~~Flashback
"Sailor V!! When will you make your next movie?" came a voice shouting over the hordes of a crowd.
"Marry me!"
"You're a fake!"
"Why do you fight the streets of London?"
"Why are you here? Are you going to fight the monster here?"
"Will you sign my poster?"
All questions similar to what she mostly heard rang through the recesses of her ear. It was annoying, she loved acting and she loved attention but she could only take so much.
Minako had just arrived out of the airport at Japan; it had been a long time she was on the steps of her birth home.
She was tired, she had heard questions all day and she wanted to rest or meet the Senshi. She was glad she wasn't alone anymore, the pressure of duty slightly lifted when she realized that.
Arriving to their temporary home, that is, until her parents found a house 'suitable' for them, a flat just out of Juuban. Figures, she was alone again, her mother and father out doing whatever social acts.
Plopping herself on the bed she takes Artemis out of his carrier. He looked joyful, she wondered what was here that would get the usual stiff and serious neko that way.
After a short rest, she changed and went out to explore the streets. She didn't really remember the place, it was so long since she had last been. Upon looking at an arcade called 'crown' she entered seeming to be one of the popular hang outs among her peers.
Sighing, she realized all eyes were on her, then, as usual, a mass of bodies surrounded her. She was again, signed the duty of autographing signatures, forcing a smile she looked at the clock. 4:30..
…5:55. The crowd finally left her alone, thanks to the cute worker that had caught her eye.
He seemed friendly and nice, "can I get you anything Miss?"
For some stupid reason, she berated herself, she blushed at that common statement.
"Could you get me a lemonade please?" Minako asked, the blush still slightly tingeing her cheek. Stupid, she slapped herself mentally, he's just any other boy. Boys come on to you all the time back home, there words more better, yet you wouldn't be affected, and here you are blushing like some school gir.. wait scratch that, child, all because HE ASKED YOU A DRINK?! Are you dumb? Where'd your brain go?
Snapping out of her self-admonishment, she straightens just in time for him to return.
"Here you go," he handed her the drink smiling cheerfully.
"Thank you," she told him smiling shyly.
Smiling back at her he says, "if you want anything else just call me."
That said he left.
"Awee.. that was so cute."
Snapping out of her daydreams with a certain arcade worker, she looks towards the speaker. She was slightly stunned. The girl look so much like her. Blond hair and blue eyes, if it weren't for the hairstyles and slightly different shade of eyes they could pass of as twins.
Realizing she was staring, she questions, "pardon me?"
Smiling secretly, the girl just said, "never mind."
Kind of unnerved by the girls judging, she realizes not once had she screamed and squealed that she was Sailor V. It was refreshing, yet she was still curious why the girl didn't do so.
"Watashi was Aino Minako," she tells her 'twin.'
Smiling at her, the girl bows, "atashi was Tsukino Usagi."
Then as if realizing it she gushes out, "your Sailor V!!!"
So much for a change, Minako thought, but still she wanted to get to know Usagi.
"Yes," she smiles waiting for the onslaught of questions.
She never got one.
Usagi merely states, with wonder and adoration in her eyes, "you're my role model."
Minako just gapes, she was never told that before, still it felt nice. Not knowing what to say to that she nods at Usagi, hoping she'd get the message of gratitude, she did.
"Excuse me for being rude, but I have to ask, why aren't asking questions?"
Usagi smiles serenely, and she said in a wise voice that did not suit her, "there is a basis for every soul, just because you are Sailor V, doesn't mean you aren't you. Aino Minako. Sailor V may be your alias but Minako is you, a person different from that, a person that does not want duty to overtake her life."
Those words stunned her to the core. It was true. All she wanted was to have fun, and Usagi made her realize that. She vowed she wouldn't let Artemis get to her anymore, she would just ignore his demands. Usagi, she recognized, was special. Someone that should not be ignored or neglected.
They talked all day, things a girl would talk about. It was nice to have a friend, it was even nicer to find out that friend liked you for who you were and not what role you took, it also didn't hurt that that friend looked up to her.
It gave her a sense of worth, a feeling stronger than being a Senshi.
She also found out Usagi was a senshi too. For some reason, it wasn't right. The innocent pure hearted girl shouldn't be facing battle and hurt. She admired Usagi, she was her role model, to see Usagi a girl who hated fighting, disregard her feelings just so she could help other innocents and prevent the world from darkness, gave her pride. She was proud of Usagi, the girl she acknowledged as her twin.
She remembered meeting the others, it was slightly tense, she supposed the others thought her a snob. But Usagi fixed that, she made it so no differences would hinder the friendship of the Senshi's. Minako was grateful for that, she didn't want to be left out. She wanted to belong.
~~End flashback
Artemis was so happy that day too. He seemed so glad and joyful when he saw Luna, who was in the arms of Usagi. He was relieved and, she thought, complete, like he was glad that everything was alright again. But how could everything be alright, the princess was still missing and evil still lurked. I guess, he realized that too, because soon, his eyes turn remorseful and guilty and a little bit of envy seemed to be there.. Why?
She sniffled, kami, she was going to cry. She couldn't cry, she wouldn't betray Usa that way. Usagi wanted them to be happy with Usagi's decision to leave. If she wanted that, she'd grant that, as a last wish of the princess, who wasn't their princess anymore but would always be one in her heart.
~~
Makoto couldn't take it anymore, "I don't know why we let her go!"
"What do you mean," questioned Ami, although she knew the answer.
"Usa's the real princess, I always felt like I should protect her even before I knew she was Sai…"
"What do you mean? Yaku's right, Serenity was never klutzy and an idiot," Rei cut in.
Rei wanted to cry, but she didn't want to, not in front of everyone. She wouldn't let them know how much it affected her so. She missed Usa, her best friend of all the others. Sure they fought, but it was all for fun, Usa knew that.
~~Flashback
"Rei-chan?"
"What Odango?"
"Why do you tease me?"
Pause…
Should she answer? Let Usagi actually know she cared?
"Because," she starts, a little hesitant to answer, "I want what's best for you. I want you to be the best that you can be and I don't want to see you hurt. So I tell you what you need to work on."
"Oh…"
The two smiled at each other, the room silent and warm..
"Rei-chan…" Usagi starts.
"What Usa?" Rei actually said nice and calmly.
"It's fun to do to, ne?"
Grins, "yup Odango."
"Rei-chan!!!!" Usagi whines.
Rei grins, getting into the motion, "What Odango?" She said, saying Odango longer than usual.
"Don't call me that!!"
"Why not?"
"…because," silent pause.
Arched eyebrow, "because?"
"It's mean!!"
"It's true," she retaliated, pointing to the odango's of a hair as proof.
Usagi glares, "no."
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!!"
"No!!"
"Yes!!!"
"No!!!"
And so the tongue war starts.
After a few minutes of staring heatedly at each other, one cracks, the other follows suit, and they collapse in a fit of laughter.
Regaining her breath, Usagi asks with a grin, "what were we arguing about?"
Smirking she replies, "the usual ODANGO!!"
"REI-CHAN!!!"
~~End Flashback
That was a fun day. Not long, a pillow fight started and a sleep over followed suit. One of the most 'relaxed' days it could get when it concerned Pyro and Odango.
She couldn't believe she let her best friend go. The girl who ignored the fact that she was cold and mean to her in the beginning, she saw Rei as a person who had been lonely, and fixed that. She took away Rei's loneliness and gave her a group of friends in the end too. The senshi wouldn't be the same with out her. And they couldn't do anything about it. They were bound to their princess and their 'princess' had a problem with Usagi. As far as she knew, she knew Yaku wouldn't allow her to continue her friendship with Usagi. Even if it meant breaking her heart.
"Well its because she was never allowed to be 'klutzy and dumb' as a princess and now that she's a normal person she can," exclaimed the angry senshi of Jupiter, breaking Rei out of her mellow reverie.
Mamoru just stood there, staring at the locket.
It didn't play… he kept thinking.
I guess it's true.
Though this hurt her to say Rei argued, "then why didn't the locket play? Huh? Why Mako? Why?"
"Because it isn't her. The locket won't play anymore since the real princess is back."
Mina watched them argue. She knew what it was like to play 'princess,' she had to do that with Usagi. She was lucky she did not have to contend with Rei and Makoto, she was especially lucky that Mamoru wasn't in the picture then..
She frowns, what the hell was Mamoru doing? She was doubting Usa and his love, they loved each other so much. But why did Mamoru's heart waver? Could it be that they really weren't meant to be. No, she shakes her head furiously, she wouldn't believe it, Mamoru wouldn't destroy his and Usa's love even if Usa wasn't the princess.
Though she thought that, why did she have the feeling it wasn't true?
"Mamoru you can't mean that," Makoto questioned in disbelief.
He stays silent.
Mina was now shocked, she couldn't believe it too, Mamoru was throwing away a love that even Aphrodite would envy, all because Usa wasn't a princess anymore?
Bastard.
Mamoru didn't know what to think anymore. He honestly thought he loved Usako, but upon seeing Yaku, why did his heart doubt? Why was life never simple for him? (you're the prince of earth? Idiot. Of course life is never simple, especially if you were a prince of your own damn planet.)
Even if he did love Usako, he knew it would never be, the prince and princess were destined. Not even they could stop the fates.
"I can't believe you," Makoto finally exclaims, disgusted with the earth prince.
"So what now? Now that you find Usa isn't the princess you'll go on to the next? What kind of love is that? Hop one to another? Then you'll find out Yakusoku's not the real one. Do you honestly think Usa's gonna let you come back with open arms? I don't think so!! You broke her heart," she exclaims to him.
Looking at everyone, "we all did, do you think that she'll let us in easily? Huh?"
No one had anything to say.
"Do you truly believe Usa's not the princess?"
No answer.
"I don't believe it! If I could, I would drop being a senshi, just to be with her, but I wont. I wont because I know Usa would be disappointed in me. Disappointed that I stopped helping innocents, I'll help Yakusoku, only because she a person not because she the princess, she'll never be my princess! So don't get any ideas that I think she's the princess!!" Makoto yelled, detransformed, then stomped off in the direction of HER princess.
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Oish.. I gots little reviews…. Anyways I'm sorry if I upset a few of you and that you don't like how its turning out.. but bear with me. All is not what it seems.. I also need you to review on what crossover this will be with..
~~DreamBlaze