Title: A New Beginning

Author: Lady Angel

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon, capiche?

Well, hidie ho all! Guess what? Here's the seventh chapter, yay!!!! Okay, but I have some disturbing information… this pace I'm going at won't last. I have bunches of homework and everything so, yeah. But I promise that I won't take as long as I did when I first started A New Beginning. Okay, so on to the story!!!

A New Beginning

The senshi walked dejectedly into the Crown Game Center together. This was the first time in a long time that they had even gone anywhere together. They were slowly drifting apart without their princess to keep them together. Of course, they had been keeping track of her but they never had meetings about it. Instead they called each other; the thought of meeting at Rei's temple without Usagi's bright smile to cheer them up was just too painful. The only thought that kept them from wanting to drift out of existence was the fact that their princess was happy. They had done something good letting her live her own life. They knew, from Rei, that she had a new boyfriend, Haru and they heard from Minako that she also had a not-so-new best friend, named Aki.

They rarely saw Usagi anymore; in fact they hadn't seen her for the past six months. Their little girl was now seventeen years old, almost as smart as Amy (almost), and had a new life! And here they were…by themselves falling apart. It was Luna who had suggested that they go have some fun together. It was so strange for them to be together, though, so foreign. They just weren't used to it anymore and yet some where deep within their soul the feeling was entirely familiar, it felt good.

"This is good, girls, right?" Rei said as they slid into a small booth. It wasn't the one they used to always sit in; they didn't have the emotional strength to do that.

"Yeah, this pleasant. I'm glad we could hang out with each other the way we used to." Ami said, optimistically.

"I can't believe we haven't hung out for six months! I never thought that I'd be able to stay isolated for that long." Makoto said, raising her arms and placing them behind her head as she leaned back against the cushions.

"Correction, seven months. It's only been six months since we've last seen Usagi…" Minako closed her mouth the moment she spoke the name and the others became silent as well. A heavy, almost deafening silence spread throughout the booth for quite some time until Rei once again broke the silence with an amazed gasp.

"What is it, Rei?" Makoto asked as she saw her friends surprised stare.

Rei raised one finger and pointed to the booth in the far right corner of the crown game center. Makoto gasped, too as she followed the direction in which her finger was pointing. The others followed it as well. "Mamoru." They said unison.

The usual clean cut Terran prince was sitting in the corner booth with his shirt inside out. He was in desperate need of a hair cut and he had a shadow of a beard visible on his chin. If you looked any closer you could tell that the newspaper he was 'reading' was upside-down. They all knew why he was like that but they hadn't known that he had been like that. They hadn't had any contact with him in the past few months.

Then, as if his life couldn't be any more pathetic, the reason for Mamoru's sorrow walked in, her arm wrapped around the waist of her boyfriend. And at that very moment, of all moments Mamoru looked up. Usagi turned and blue met blue. His eyes filled with pain as he looked from her to her boyfriend and then back to her. She turned back around as her boyfriend leaned in and whispered in her ear. She nodded and they sat down at a booth a few seats behind the senshi. The others looked at her and figured that she didn't see them. But that wasn't true, because though Usagi had left the senshi she still had the blood and skills of a senshi, therefore she could sense her other soldiers. The others probably forgot about they. They turned back to Mamoru and saw that he was still looking longingly at the blonde.

"Poor guy," Minako said sympathetically as she watched him. Unlike the rest of them, Mamoru had no clue about Usagi's decision not to be queen and her departure from the senshi. All he knew was that she had someone new and that she didn't love him anymore. She tore her gaze from the homeless looking man, "I feel so sorry for him. He must be hurting so much."

"Yeah, we're being selfish. Mamoru is the one who was truly hurt by all this."

"Your wrong, Makoto. We were all hurt by it." Ami whispered softly.

"We should tell him." Minako said.

"Tell him what?" Rei asked confused.

"Well…you know." She said… nodding her head towards the direction of a certain princess.

"No way! Usagi told us not to tell Mamoru anything. We broke every other promise we made, no reason to break another one." Makoto said, giving Minako a look that promised death.

" So we don't tell Mamoru?" Ami asked.

"Tell me what?"

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Not much of a cliffhanger, but I tried. I hope you liked it, I can't believe that I spent more than an hour of this and only wrote three pages! Ugh, oh well. That is fine with me, I'm tired. I worked hard getting this out for you! After I got out Fake Princess chapter 3 I decided to write this for you, so I hope you're happy. Good bye! Thank you!

Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease,

Lady Angel