Another Life
Chapter 8
Rating: PG
Author: Moonchild DJ
E-Mail: moonchilddj@yahoo.com
URL: www.angelfire.com/anime4/animehime
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and Gundam Wing aren't mine, they belong to the
various companies who own the rights to the anime and manga, I have no
claim to it. I'm just a loyal (ie addicted ^_~) fangirl who loves to
write fics about them!
Author's Note: Hey, there, minna-chan! Moonchild DJ back with a brand
new chapter to Another Life! I've had this wrote out for quite a while,
but with ff.net being the way it was, I haven't had a chance to post.
Gomen nasai!! I hope you enjoy this chapter, and, as usual, please let
me know what you think!
******
Japanese words:
chotto matte- wait
Kinusuinozuishou- roughly translated, Golden Light Imperium
Honto ni- really
******
~Previously:
With each girls' completion/connection with the boys from their dreams,
and a little help from the Ginzuishou and Queen Serenity, the boys
were somehow pulled into the Senshi's world. Furious that Heero seemed
to have an instant connection with Usagi, Mamoru lost his temper and
would have hurt Heero if not for Usagi's intervention and her statement
that she loved Heero..
*******
"...Mamoru, shizukani! I won't allow you to hurt him!" Tears trailed
down Usagi's face, and those sad blue eyes calmed his struggling until
he breathed softly,
"Doushite?"
"Because..I love him."
"Nani?!"
The girls and the cats gasped in surprise, and Heero blinked at her in
stupified amazement. Usagi blushed at her statement, lowering her eyes
and turning away from him. What had possessed her to say that? Did she
really mean it? Sure, he was handsome, and she was drawn to him, but
she barely knew him..
He grasped her chin with gentle fingers, turning her to face him. The
dark blue eyes met hers once again, and she found herself leaning into
his touch, shivering as his fingertips grazed her cheek. Kami-sama,
how she wanted that touch. How could she be so attracted to this near-
stranger in such a short time, and all because of dreams?
"Heero Yuy...who are you?" she whispered, closing her eyes and leaning
her cheek into his hand. "How can I feel so much for you, ne?"
Heero himself wasn't all that better off. He didn't understand his
connection with this girl, but something told him to not let her go..
again. He glanced at the man who was obviously her fiance in this life
and sighed. This was not looking good from the start. He knew this
meeting with his dream girl was not going to be easy.
Reluctantly, he pulled his hand away from the girl, ignoring the soft
protesting sound she made and crossed his arms over his chest. "I can
ask you the same thing..Serenity."
She wrinkled her nose and giggled shyly. "It's Usagi these days.
Tsukino Usagi."
"Rabbit of the Moon?"
"Long story, Hee-chan." She blushed and put a hand over her mouth.
"Gomen, I mean Heero-san."
Hee-chan? Heero considered the nickname. It sounded kinda kawaii,
coming from her lips, but as Duo laughed about it, getting ready to
tease him about the nickname, he glared at him and growled, "Don't
even THINK about it, baka."
Duo squeaked and ducked behind the blonde girl with the bow in her
hair, who rolled her eyes. Heero snickered and turned back to Usagi.
"First things first. You all have different names these days, am I
right? Get everyone re-introduced, then tell us where we are."
Usagi chuckled, shaking her head. "Bossy as ever, I see. Hai, fine,
that's Aino Minako your friend is cowering behind, Hino Rei beside
your grumbling dark-haired friend, Kino Makoto beside her, Mizuno Ami
on the end, and the others you've never met-the aqua-haired one is
Kaioh Michiru, the blonde is Tenoh Haruka, the young sad-eyed one is
Tomoe Hotaru, and beside her is Meioh Setsuna, and you're in the
twenty-first century, location, Juuban district, Tokyo, Japan. You?"
Heero blinked, amazed that she'd said all that without breathing.
"Uhhh...hai. We still have the same names. Myself, Yuy Heero, the
braided baka is Duo Maxwell, the grumbling one Chang Wufei. Beside
him, Trowa Barton and Quatre Winner, and we WERE in After Colony 198,
Earth."
"After Colony? 198?"
"Long story, Usa-chan." His eyes widened as he realized what he'd
called her, an endearment that somehow rolled off his tongue too
easily. "I mean.."
Usagi shook her head and smiled. "It's all right, I don't mind it.
It..fits, somehow."
A low growl rumbled through the now-crowded room, and he realized it
came from the man she'd neglected to introduce, and he didn't know if
he felt like drawing his gun at him, or cowering behind Usagi as Duo
was with Minako at the man's hard glare. He felt it would be..wrong to
anger him. "Usagi..?"
"Oops. Gomen nasai, both of you. Heero-san, Chiba Mamoru. Mamo-cha-
Mamoru, Yuy Heero." She winced. "Mamoru is also the reincarnation of
Prince Endymion of the Earth Kingdom from the time of the Silver
Millenium."
"AND her fiance then and now." Mamoru growled, clenching his hands to
keep himself from strangling the boy who seemed so close to Usako. Why
would they be so close, he wasn't even from the same *timeline* as
they were! He knew they'd also been there in the Moon Kingdom..his
thoughts stumbled to a screeching halt as Heero, Duo, Trowa, Quatre and
Wufei silently walked over to him and went to one knee before him,
heads bowed. "...Nani...?"
"We were members of the Earth Royal Guard, you and the Earth King's
top-notch warriors," Heero mumbled, feeling guilty now for having
feelings for his superior's love. "We failed to protect you when the
Moon Kingdom fell." 'And I also failed to protect Serenity. I promised
her mother I would, so long ago..' he thought to himself, ashamed at
the memory. "That must have been why we were reborn in a different
time from you, we failed in our mission and we had to pay for it."
*You are wrong.* A male voice chided gently, startling everyone in its
mental intensity.
Usagi's eyes bugged at the voice as her Senshi gathered around her in
a protective circle. "It...CAN'T be!"
Heero raised his head, as did the others. "Chotto matte..that voice...
Peacecraft? Show your face, Lightning Baron!"
A flash of light, then two figures appeared. One, the spectral form of
the great Queen Serenity, the other, a man that Heero, Duo, Trowa,
Quatre and Wufei knew as both Zechs Merquise and Milliardo Peacecraft,
but Usagi knew as--
"FATHER!!" Tears streamed in a sudden waterfall as she broke free of
the Senshi and raced to the tall golden-haired man who smiled warmly at
her and opened his arms. But just shy of his reach, she stopped
suddenly and whispered, "You're not a ghost again, are you?"
He chuckled and tapped a finger against her nose. "Does that feel like
a ghost's touch?"
Usagi squeaked and flung herself into his arms, bowling them both over
and through the giggling ghost of her mother.
Duo's wide violet eyes widened more at the spectacle and he stuttered,
"F-father? Peacecraft don't look old enough to be father to a teenager!
What in the h-hell is going on?!"
Arms firmly wrapped around his daughter, Milliardo smiled and brushed
away her tears before facing the stunned group. "My turn to explain. I
loved Serenity's mother ever since I first saw her at a royal ball her
parents held when she was only a Princess, a Moon maiden. We fell in
love, but couldn't be together because she was the Lunar Queen and I
was the King of the Sol Kingdom and our people were enemies.
"We had one last tryst before a war in which I died in, and Serenity
was the result many moons later. I had promised her mother I would
always be there, no matter what, so when Serenity was old enough to
understand who I was, I willed my spectral form her mother had known
to give comfort to my love and my daughter. They were the only ones
who could see me, so they never told a soul, not even Serenity to her
court or her love."
He smiled sheepishly in apology to the girls and nodded to Heero and
Mamoru. "I was always there for my lunar loves, I helped them to have
strength and courage and hope, I was there for them when they needed
advice or a sympathetic ear, even if I couldn't provide a shoulder to
cry on. That's why you always found my daughter talking to an empty
room."
Millardo grinned at them and hugged his daughter close. "But..the end
came. I could do nothing to save my love or my daughter, only wait for
them to join me. I saw my love use the Ginzuishou Crystal to have
Serenity and all of you reborn in the future on Earth, and desperately
wished on my own Sol Crystal, the Kinusuinozuishou Sol Crystal, to meet
my daughter again someday. But then I felt you, Heero, and your
friends, get lost in the timestream and followed after you, taking
physical form to aid and protect you. Because heaven knows my little
hime would scalp me if I didn't protect you!"
Duo's head was spinning with all this new, unbelievable, information,
but he found his voice to ask, "But..Peacecraft, you didn't protect us.
Not at first. You were our enemy!"
"Yes, well, after being reborn, the memories got a little..lost."
"Lost?! You damn near tried to kill Heero, hell, all of us, numerous
times before the 'Mariemeiya Incident'!"
Milliardo chuckled weakly under his daughter's disbelieving stare.
"Umm...I can explain?"
"And what about Noin? I thought you loved her?" Wufei added, smirking
as their former enemy received double barrels of angry light blue
glares from his ghostly love and his daughter. He and Duo grinned sly
smiles at each other as the man stepped cautiously back, sweating
bullets.
"Koi...hime.." he whispered, looking from one angry identically-
crossed-arms female to the other. "Don't be angy. This life..has been
more difficult than the last, I only adapted with the times. I may have
done some horrible things, I may have loved another, but that was only
because I didn't know I had another life to find. I have changed from
the man they knew."
"Honto ni?" Usagi whispered. Milliardo nodded.
"Honest. I am on their side now, and I could never love Lucrezia as
much as I loved you, but..isn't it time to move on, but always
remember?" This last he addressed to the ghostly shape of his once-
upon-a-time love, and Queen Serenity nodded, giving a sad smile in
understanding.
*You are right. It is not right to hold on to a love you can never
hold. Perhaps..in our next life, ne?* At Milliardo's nod, she gave an
ironic smile(now HE was real and SHE was the ghost!) and sent a
spectral kiss to her love and her daughter. *It is time for me to
depart for now. My mission is done.*
"Mission? What mission?" Usagi asked as she watched her mother's pale
odangoed streamers float in the breeze as the gowned ghost began to
fade away. Queen Serenity smiled.
*To reunite you with your father and your love. Luckily, the Ginzuishou
still listens to its previous holder once in a while.* She winked
mischieviously as Usagi blinked in confusion. *Farewell for now,
sweetheart. Have fun!*
"Demo..Mother, nani..?!" Usagi shut up as the ghost disappeared, then
turned and stared at the group. "Sugoi...now what happens? How are we
going to explain you five's arrival?"
As if in answer, the Ginzuishou flashed into being once again, at
Usagi's eye level, then sent twin beams towards Minako and Duo, Makoto
and Trowa, Ami and Quatre, Rei and Wufei, and lastly Usagi and Heero.
Everyone left got the sight of a lifetime as each pair shifted and
blended into *one* person! When the light faded, the girls stood, only
now each with a slight difference in their appearance.
Minako's long blonde hair was in a braid, the red bow replaced with a
black ribbon at the end of the braid. A curious pair of blue-violet
eyes stared back at the smaller crowd. "Naaaanni?! Why is everyone
staring at me?"
Makoto's green eyes had become lighter and one side of her bangs had
become longer, covering one confused eye. She sweatdropped at
everyone's stares and shuffled her feet nervously, but remained silent.
Ami's blue hair now had blonde streaks at the temples and bangs, which
were longer and hung into the ocean-blue eyes that were now even paler,
almost transparent. She blushed at the stares and twiddled her fingers,
totally embarrassed.
Rei shrieked in fury, the violet eyes now as dark as a thunderstorm,
her long black hair pulled back into a severe ponytail. "THIS IS
INJUSTICE! I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS..THIS..SACRILAGE! WHAT DID YOU
*DO* TO ME, ONNA!? I *DEMAND* YOU UNDO THIS NOW!!" She raced to the
wall and pulled out a sword from a wall display and brandished it
threateningly at Usagi, who had her head bowed. "GET UP, BAKA, OR
I'LL--!"
A gunshot rang out, knocking the sword from Rei's hand. Rei hissed in
pain and nursed her singed fingers as Usagi raised her head, now
holding in her hand Heero's gun, the end still smoking.
"Shizukani." She murmured, raising her eyes.
Those eyes were no longer the eyes of an innocent girl. Instead, the
light, happy gaze had darkened like a coming storm, the hue now a close
match to Heero's own Prussian blue gaze. The features were stern, even
cold, and the group gathered shivered when they received the full brunt
of Usagi's change. The golden odangoed hair was still the same, except
for brown highlights running through the streamers and meeting at her
forehead, the curly golden locks that hung heart-shaped above her eyes
now hanging straight into her eyes, one curl dangling between them to
her nose.
She said not a word, only stuck the gun back into the waistband of her
school uniform skirt and shook her head. "Baka." she grumbled finally,
spurring Mamoru to finally move since the appearance of Queen Serenity
and Usagi's father. He stepped behind Usagi and gently took her arm.
"Usako? Daijoubu ka?"
Usagi spun and pulled her gun, aiming it between Mamoru's eyes.
"Omae o korosu, Mamoru-baka."
******
~End Chapter 8~
****
*Surprised? I know I am..where DID the inspiration for that chappie
COME from?! I wrote this part while I was sick with a cold, so maybe
my mind was extra-warped..^_~ Anywho, yes, another cliffhanger, gomen,
but I've got more, so don't fear! Please let me know what you think!
REVEIW, REVIEW, REVIEW!! And arigato for reading! =^-^=
Chapter 8
Rating: PG
Author: Moonchild DJ
E-Mail: moonchilddj@yahoo.com
URL: www.angelfire.com/anime4/animehime
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and Gundam Wing aren't mine, they belong to the
various companies who own the rights to the anime and manga, I have no
claim to it. I'm just a loyal (ie addicted ^_~) fangirl who loves to
write fics about them!
Author's Note: Hey, there, minna-chan! Moonchild DJ back with a brand
new chapter to Another Life! I've had this wrote out for quite a while,
but with ff.net being the way it was, I haven't had a chance to post.
Gomen nasai!! I hope you enjoy this chapter, and, as usual, please let
me know what you think!
******
Japanese words:
chotto matte- wait
Kinusuinozuishou- roughly translated, Golden Light Imperium
Honto ni- really
******
~Previously:
With each girls' completion/connection with the boys from their dreams,
and a little help from the Ginzuishou and Queen Serenity, the boys
were somehow pulled into the Senshi's world. Furious that Heero seemed
to have an instant connection with Usagi, Mamoru lost his temper and
would have hurt Heero if not for Usagi's intervention and her statement
that she loved Heero..
*******
"...Mamoru, shizukani! I won't allow you to hurt him!" Tears trailed
down Usagi's face, and those sad blue eyes calmed his struggling until
he breathed softly,
"Doushite?"
"Because..I love him."
"Nani?!"
The girls and the cats gasped in surprise, and Heero blinked at her in
stupified amazement. Usagi blushed at her statement, lowering her eyes
and turning away from him. What had possessed her to say that? Did she
really mean it? Sure, he was handsome, and she was drawn to him, but
she barely knew him..
He grasped her chin with gentle fingers, turning her to face him. The
dark blue eyes met hers once again, and she found herself leaning into
his touch, shivering as his fingertips grazed her cheek. Kami-sama,
how she wanted that touch. How could she be so attracted to this near-
stranger in such a short time, and all because of dreams?
"Heero Yuy...who are you?" she whispered, closing her eyes and leaning
her cheek into his hand. "How can I feel so much for you, ne?"
Heero himself wasn't all that better off. He didn't understand his
connection with this girl, but something told him to not let her go..
again. He glanced at the man who was obviously her fiance in this life
and sighed. This was not looking good from the start. He knew this
meeting with his dream girl was not going to be easy.
Reluctantly, he pulled his hand away from the girl, ignoring the soft
protesting sound she made and crossed his arms over his chest. "I can
ask you the same thing..Serenity."
She wrinkled her nose and giggled shyly. "It's Usagi these days.
Tsukino Usagi."
"Rabbit of the Moon?"
"Long story, Hee-chan." She blushed and put a hand over her mouth.
"Gomen, I mean Heero-san."
Hee-chan? Heero considered the nickname. It sounded kinda kawaii,
coming from her lips, but as Duo laughed about it, getting ready to
tease him about the nickname, he glared at him and growled, "Don't
even THINK about it, baka."
Duo squeaked and ducked behind the blonde girl with the bow in her
hair, who rolled her eyes. Heero snickered and turned back to Usagi.
"First things first. You all have different names these days, am I
right? Get everyone re-introduced, then tell us where we are."
Usagi chuckled, shaking her head. "Bossy as ever, I see. Hai, fine,
that's Aino Minako your friend is cowering behind, Hino Rei beside
your grumbling dark-haired friend, Kino Makoto beside her, Mizuno Ami
on the end, and the others you've never met-the aqua-haired one is
Kaioh Michiru, the blonde is Tenoh Haruka, the young sad-eyed one is
Tomoe Hotaru, and beside her is Meioh Setsuna, and you're in the
twenty-first century, location, Juuban district, Tokyo, Japan. You?"
Heero blinked, amazed that she'd said all that without breathing.
"Uhhh...hai. We still have the same names. Myself, Yuy Heero, the
braided baka is Duo Maxwell, the grumbling one Chang Wufei. Beside
him, Trowa Barton and Quatre Winner, and we WERE in After Colony 198,
Earth."
"After Colony? 198?"
"Long story, Usa-chan." His eyes widened as he realized what he'd
called her, an endearment that somehow rolled off his tongue too
easily. "I mean.."
Usagi shook her head and smiled. "It's all right, I don't mind it.
It..fits, somehow."
A low growl rumbled through the now-crowded room, and he realized it
came from the man she'd neglected to introduce, and he didn't know if
he felt like drawing his gun at him, or cowering behind Usagi as Duo
was with Minako at the man's hard glare. He felt it would be..wrong to
anger him. "Usagi..?"
"Oops. Gomen nasai, both of you. Heero-san, Chiba Mamoru. Mamo-cha-
Mamoru, Yuy Heero." She winced. "Mamoru is also the reincarnation of
Prince Endymion of the Earth Kingdom from the time of the Silver
Millenium."
"AND her fiance then and now." Mamoru growled, clenching his hands to
keep himself from strangling the boy who seemed so close to Usako. Why
would they be so close, he wasn't even from the same *timeline* as
they were! He knew they'd also been there in the Moon Kingdom..his
thoughts stumbled to a screeching halt as Heero, Duo, Trowa, Quatre and
Wufei silently walked over to him and went to one knee before him,
heads bowed. "...Nani...?"
"We were members of the Earth Royal Guard, you and the Earth King's
top-notch warriors," Heero mumbled, feeling guilty now for having
feelings for his superior's love. "We failed to protect you when the
Moon Kingdom fell." 'And I also failed to protect Serenity. I promised
her mother I would, so long ago..' he thought to himself, ashamed at
the memory. "That must have been why we were reborn in a different
time from you, we failed in our mission and we had to pay for it."
*You are wrong.* A male voice chided gently, startling everyone in its
mental intensity.
Usagi's eyes bugged at the voice as her Senshi gathered around her in
a protective circle. "It...CAN'T be!"
Heero raised his head, as did the others. "Chotto matte..that voice...
Peacecraft? Show your face, Lightning Baron!"
A flash of light, then two figures appeared. One, the spectral form of
the great Queen Serenity, the other, a man that Heero, Duo, Trowa,
Quatre and Wufei knew as both Zechs Merquise and Milliardo Peacecraft,
but Usagi knew as--
"FATHER!!" Tears streamed in a sudden waterfall as she broke free of
the Senshi and raced to the tall golden-haired man who smiled warmly at
her and opened his arms. But just shy of his reach, she stopped
suddenly and whispered, "You're not a ghost again, are you?"
He chuckled and tapped a finger against her nose. "Does that feel like
a ghost's touch?"
Usagi squeaked and flung herself into his arms, bowling them both over
and through the giggling ghost of her mother.
Duo's wide violet eyes widened more at the spectacle and he stuttered,
"F-father? Peacecraft don't look old enough to be father to a teenager!
What in the h-hell is going on?!"
Arms firmly wrapped around his daughter, Milliardo smiled and brushed
away her tears before facing the stunned group. "My turn to explain. I
loved Serenity's mother ever since I first saw her at a royal ball her
parents held when she was only a Princess, a Moon maiden. We fell in
love, but couldn't be together because she was the Lunar Queen and I
was the King of the Sol Kingdom and our people were enemies.
"We had one last tryst before a war in which I died in, and Serenity
was the result many moons later. I had promised her mother I would
always be there, no matter what, so when Serenity was old enough to
understand who I was, I willed my spectral form her mother had known
to give comfort to my love and my daughter. They were the only ones
who could see me, so they never told a soul, not even Serenity to her
court or her love."
He smiled sheepishly in apology to the girls and nodded to Heero and
Mamoru. "I was always there for my lunar loves, I helped them to have
strength and courage and hope, I was there for them when they needed
advice or a sympathetic ear, even if I couldn't provide a shoulder to
cry on. That's why you always found my daughter talking to an empty
room."
Millardo grinned at them and hugged his daughter close. "But..the end
came. I could do nothing to save my love or my daughter, only wait for
them to join me. I saw my love use the Ginzuishou Crystal to have
Serenity and all of you reborn in the future on Earth, and desperately
wished on my own Sol Crystal, the Kinusuinozuishou Sol Crystal, to meet
my daughter again someday. But then I felt you, Heero, and your
friends, get lost in the timestream and followed after you, taking
physical form to aid and protect you. Because heaven knows my little
hime would scalp me if I didn't protect you!"
Duo's head was spinning with all this new, unbelievable, information,
but he found his voice to ask, "But..Peacecraft, you didn't protect us.
Not at first. You were our enemy!"
"Yes, well, after being reborn, the memories got a little..lost."
"Lost?! You damn near tried to kill Heero, hell, all of us, numerous
times before the 'Mariemeiya Incident'!"
Milliardo chuckled weakly under his daughter's disbelieving stare.
"Umm...I can explain?"
"And what about Noin? I thought you loved her?" Wufei added, smirking
as their former enemy received double barrels of angry light blue
glares from his ghostly love and his daughter. He and Duo grinned sly
smiles at each other as the man stepped cautiously back, sweating
bullets.
"Koi...hime.." he whispered, looking from one angry identically-
crossed-arms female to the other. "Don't be angy. This life..has been
more difficult than the last, I only adapted with the times. I may have
done some horrible things, I may have loved another, but that was only
because I didn't know I had another life to find. I have changed from
the man they knew."
"Honto ni?" Usagi whispered. Milliardo nodded.
"Honest. I am on their side now, and I could never love Lucrezia as
much as I loved you, but..isn't it time to move on, but always
remember?" This last he addressed to the ghostly shape of his once-
upon-a-time love, and Queen Serenity nodded, giving a sad smile in
understanding.
*You are right. It is not right to hold on to a love you can never
hold. Perhaps..in our next life, ne?* At Milliardo's nod, she gave an
ironic smile(now HE was real and SHE was the ghost!) and sent a
spectral kiss to her love and her daughter. *It is time for me to
depart for now. My mission is done.*
"Mission? What mission?" Usagi asked as she watched her mother's pale
odangoed streamers float in the breeze as the gowned ghost began to
fade away. Queen Serenity smiled.
*To reunite you with your father and your love. Luckily, the Ginzuishou
still listens to its previous holder once in a while.* She winked
mischieviously as Usagi blinked in confusion. *Farewell for now,
sweetheart. Have fun!*
"Demo..Mother, nani..?!" Usagi shut up as the ghost disappeared, then
turned and stared at the group. "Sugoi...now what happens? How are we
going to explain you five's arrival?"
As if in answer, the Ginzuishou flashed into being once again, at
Usagi's eye level, then sent twin beams towards Minako and Duo, Makoto
and Trowa, Ami and Quatre, Rei and Wufei, and lastly Usagi and Heero.
Everyone left got the sight of a lifetime as each pair shifted and
blended into *one* person! When the light faded, the girls stood, only
now each with a slight difference in their appearance.
Minako's long blonde hair was in a braid, the red bow replaced with a
black ribbon at the end of the braid. A curious pair of blue-violet
eyes stared back at the smaller crowd. "Naaaanni?! Why is everyone
staring at me?"
Makoto's green eyes had become lighter and one side of her bangs had
become longer, covering one confused eye. She sweatdropped at
everyone's stares and shuffled her feet nervously, but remained silent.
Ami's blue hair now had blonde streaks at the temples and bangs, which
were longer and hung into the ocean-blue eyes that were now even paler,
almost transparent. She blushed at the stares and twiddled her fingers,
totally embarrassed.
Rei shrieked in fury, the violet eyes now as dark as a thunderstorm,
her long black hair pulled back into a severe ponytail. "THIS IS
INJUSTICE! I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS..THIS..SACRILAGE! WHAT DID YOU
*DO* TO ME, ONNA!? I *DEMAND* YOU UNDO THIS NOW!!" She raced to the
wall and pulled out a sword from a wall display and brandished it
threateningly at Usagi, who had her head bowed. "GET UP, BAKA, OR
I'LL--!"
A gunshot rang out, knocking the sword from Rei's hand. Rei hissed in
pain and nursed her singed fingers as Usagi raised her head, now
holding in her hand Heero's gun, the end still smoking.
"Shizukani." She murmured, raising her eyes.
Those eyes were no longer the eyes of an innocent girl. Instead, the
light, happy gaze had darkened like a coming storm, the hue now a close
match to Heero's own Prussian blue gaze. The features were stern, even
cold, and the group gathered shivered when they received the full brunt
of Usagi's change. The golden odangoed hair was still the same, except
for brown highlights running through the streamers and meeting at her
forehead, the curly golden locks that hung heart-shaped above her eyes
now hanging straight into her eyes, one curl dangling between them to
her nose.
She said not a word, only stuck the gun back into the waistband of her
school uniform skirt and shook her head. "Baka." she grumbled finally,
spurring Mamoru to finally move since the appearance of Queen Serenity
and Usagi's father. He stepped behind Usagi and gently took her arm.
"Usako? Daijoubu ka?"
Usagi spun and pulled her gun, aiming it between Mamoru's eyes.
"Omae o korosu, Mamoru-baka."
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~End Chapter 8~
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*Surprised? I know I am..where DID the inspiration for that chappie
COME from?! I wrote this part while I was sick with a cold, so maybe
my mind was extra-warped..^_~ Anywho, yes, another cliffhanger, gomen,
but I've got more, so don't fear! Please let me know what you think!
REVEIW, REVIEW, REVIEW!! And arigato for reading! =^-^=