Selece
By Arimi
Author's Note: Stupid FF.net!! Yeah, it decided not to upload it right, so here I am having to reupload it. Sorry about that!
I am so sorry!! I though I would have this up by Saturday, but things got in the way (mainly my parents deciding to make a surprise visit, and instead of putting on the finishing touches, I had to heavily clean my dorm room!). So anyways
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon is the property of Naoko Takeuchi and Toei Corporation and a few other entities which I have forgotten as of the moment, in other words not me.
Chapter 3: Signs of Divinity
Rei looked up at the soldiers and looked back down at the girl. -What is with the Black Moon and young girls?- she thought, thinking of the girl that Mamoru had brought back. The girl was standing silently behind Makoto, a look of fear and dread on her face. Rei felt a protectiveness of the girl. She turned to the guards and gave them a very serious scowl.
"Sirs, for what reason are you chasing after my cousin?" she asked, and ignored Makoto and the girl's weird stares.
"Your sister? This girl has no family," the lead soldier said, but without much conviction.
"Are you sure?" Rei said, "she has been missing for the past week and I have been desperate to find her. Now why are you chasing her as if you wish to kill her?"
The soldier looked to his comrades who shrugged at him.
"Well we have only been following the orders that our superior has given us. We were ordered to capture Hotaru Tomoe," he said.
"Hotaru? Then sir, I believe you are mistaken. This is not the girl that you are looking for. This girl is Aiko Sakamoto; did you even bother to ask her name?" Rei asked
"Uh.no," he said, "but we found her around the target's address."
"Well that doesn't necessarily make her Hotaru Tomoe does it? If I hung around the Black Moon Headquarters that doesn't make me Lord Saffiel, does it?" Rei asked.
"No, but."
"Did your superior give you a picture of your target?"
"No, he just said we are to capture a twelve year old girl by the name of Hotaru Tomoe," the soldier said.
"Well obviously your superior didn't do his job properly. You just wasted you time chasing after an innocent young girl. Now I have the mind to report you, but if you leave quietly I will overlook your mistake," Rei said, and prayed to whatever god or gods existed to let the men leave. Neither her nor Makoto had the resources to overtake them at the moment.
A look of pure fear went across his face and he motioned for the others to follow him back towards the city. Rei watched after them, and when was satisfied that they were out of hearing turned to the little girl who was looking up at her with uncertainty.
"So your name's Hotaru Tomoe," Rei said, with more edge in her voice than she intended, "Why were those men after you?"
Hotaru was quiet for a moment, as if debating with herself whether to tell the woman who had saved her or not.
"I can show them something they want," she said.
"What can you show them?" said Makoto, speaking up for the first time since the whole thing began.
"The goddess," Hotaru replied.
"Goddess?" Rei asked in disbelief. -What the hell does a goddess have to do with the Black Moon?-
"Yes, the goddess who will throw the world upside down," Hotaru said.
Makoto looked at the girl and then at Rei.
"Well, whatever, we shouldn't stay here much longer; I wouldn't be surprised if that supervisor sends more soldiers out towards that place. Man Rei how in the hell did you pull that off?" Makoto asked.
"I was relying on his apparent stupidity, if he had been smarter we would all be dead right now," Rei said, and beckoned for Hotaru to follow her and Makoto.
"Well I am going to be laughing my ass over this one for a long time," Makoto said, and the trio headed back to the base.
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Usagi had spent most of her time waiting for that man to return, so that she could give him her apology. She had spent her time exploring her surroundings and trying to plan out what she would say. All the while Setsuna's death loomed over her, and she found herself begin to ask questions that had not been answered.
She knew without a doubt that Setsuna had died because of her. But why? What was it about her that those men wanted? She thought back to what happened, but she couldn't recollect it that well. All she remembered was that man's face. The man with the silver hair and piercing cold eyes. Who was that?
But she did not know the answer, and wondered if anyone here knew. She heard the door opened and she turned to find the man from earlier standing at the doorway. He did not look at her only proceeded to take off his jacket and shift through some papers on the table.
She bit her lip and calmed down the nervousness that had risen in the pit of her stomach, and walked towards him.
"Excuse me," she said; the wavering in her voice only slightly noticeable.
"Yes?" he said, not seeming to detect the nervousness in her voice.
"I.I'm sorry," she said, and a burst of courage allowed her to continue, "I'm sorry for breaking down like that earlier."
He looked at her strangely as if to comprehend what she was saying. He cursed himself for not being able to handle the situation better. The girl who stood before him was looking at him in a way that made him sorry that he had found her. She looked too innocent and too kind, two things that Mamoru did not have room in his life for. He had his mission and he knew that this girl would come in the way of that and he would not become distracted.
"Listen, forget about it," he said.
Usagi thought his manner a little bit more gruff then it should have been but she would not argue with him, he had after all saved her life.
"Listen, I have to take you somewhere, so hurry up and follow me," he said emphasizing his complete indifference to the matter.
-How rude!- Usagi thought, -and after I apologized for being a burden-
"Look, sir, I don't know where you get off treating me like that, when all I was trying to do was apologize. But no, you have to be all snot faced and act like you could care less," she said.
He was silent, but indifference and coldness never left his face. Usagi growled with annoyance. Of all the things, the last thing she needed right now was to deal with a rude insufferable man!
It was he who broke the moment of tension by heading towards the door and motioned for Usagi to follow him. She paused for a moment, debating whether she should take his orders, but than decided that she would die if she was boxed up in that room any longer. She followed him, but not without the childish act of making faces at him from behind his back. Her worries were forgotten for the moment.
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Rei and Makoto returned to the base with Hotaru locking step behind them. Nothing had been said on the way home. Rei and Makoto had tried to open the young girl up, but the girl was silent and barely refused to make eye conduct with either of them.
When they returned they found the base to be unusually quiet, and very few of the other operatives were roaming the halls.
Rei flagged down one of the passing initiatives and asked the man what was going on.
"We just received a message that Artemis and Luna will be coming here," he said, "most of the operatives are trying to find out what happened yesterday."
Rei nodded, "Is Kunzite in?"
"I believe he is in the office talking with that girl and Chiba-san," the man replied.
Rei nodded and looked to Makoto. They turned to Hotaru and Rei knelt down to the young girl and looked straight into the girl's eyes.
"Listen, you have to tell us exactly what you meant when you talked about a Goddess," Rei said, "otherwise we can't help."
Hotaru looked at the girl and she felt the weight of it. -What did these people want?-
"I can't tell you," she said, "You wouldn't believe me."
Rei looked at her.
"Try me," Rei said.
Hotaru looked at her and nodded.
"I've seen her."
"Who?"
"The goddess."
"And who is this goddess?"
"I don't know, all I know is they want her."
"And that is why they were after you."
"Yes, but it won't matter, the goddess will go to them anyways."
"Why?"
"To make them pay for their sins."
"The Black Moon's sins?"
"No, humanity's"
And Rei fell silent.
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Usagi looked at the silver haired man with nothing less than confusion. She had been unable to answer any of their questions.
"And who was this Setsuna?"
Usagi looked at him, and felt the tears begin to well up, but she held them back.
"She took care of me," she said, "until the very end she protected me."
"This was the woman you talked to last night Mamoru?" Kunzite asked turning to Mamoru.
"Yes."
"I see," Kunzite said and looked at the girl who was fidgeting in her position. In some sweet innocent way she reminded him of Minako.
"I am sorry that I don't know more," Usagi said.
"Don't worry about it, Usagi," he replied, "you have probably been through a lot."
She nodded.
"Well do not worry; you are safe here," Kunzite said, "we will have accommodations ready for you in a few days, until then you can stay with."
"Me."
Kunzite and Usagi both turned to Mamoru.
"What?" Kunzite asked.
"She will stay with me," Mamoru said, "She is my responsibility."
"Wait a minute!" Usagi burst in, "What about me? Don't I get a say in it."
Mamoru looked at her.
"Mamoru, I don't get it, I though that you didn't want to be burdened by her," Kunzite said, trying to diffuse the tension between the two.
"I don't, but I have a promise that I am supposed to keep."
Usagi growled under her teeth. The two men were ignoring her again.
Kunzite looked at Mamoru and nodded his assent. He stood.
"Well we are done here, Mamoru, I wish to speak to you later about official business."
Mamoru nodded, and stood and beckoned for Usagi to follow him.
She was about to make a biting comment, but instead remained silent, and just stood and strutted past Mamoru making it a point to ignore him.
When Mamoru followed her out, Kunzite gave a slight chuckle. -That girl just may be the one thing Mamoru needs most- Kunzite thought.
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Saffiel sat at his desk and tapped his pen against the desk. There was still no report and no lead as to where Usagi was or if she was even alive. Demando had been strict in his orders, and that Saffiel had exactly a week to find the girl, or his head was gone.
"Saffiel-sama?"
He looked up to see the figures of two women in the doorway. The one on the right was a full head taller than the woman on the right.
"I see that you got my message, I was expecting you tomorrow," he said.
"We will always come when you call us," the one on the left said.
"Is it true that Setsuna is dead, Safiel-sama?" the woman on the right said.
"Yes, I am afraid that you two, and the young girl are the only Sentinels left," he said.
"I see; why have you called for us?"
"You must find the goddess, and bring her back to me. You two will be the only was able to sense where she is," he said.
"Don't worry Saffiel-sama, we will find her, and bring her to you."
"I know you two will, you are the only ones I trust."
"And we can only trust you Saffiel-sama."
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Usagi was quiet as she sat in a big armchair in the middle of what was to be her and Mamoru's room. Mamoru himself had left to discuss something with Kunzite, and had indicated that he would not be returning for a while. She had looked through a few of the reading materials that Mamoru actually kept, but Usagi soon disregarded them as boring and she accustomed herself to the position of staring out the window and took the view of the city in the distance.
~Flashback~
The halls were silent as Usagi trudged silently to her destination. The other students didn't dare make a sound when Usagi passed. She felt their fear just as she felt their eyes boring into her soul.
No, but that day had been more cutting than any before. Usagi had finally gained the courage to tell the one boy she had longed after that she liked him.
His name had been Yukio Hayano, and had been relatively new to their school, and was a year older than Usagi, and on his first day he had greeted Usagi with sincerity and kindness. He had been the first person who had ever spoken to her after they had learned her name. From that day forward Usagi had been lovestruck, and she worshipped the ground he walked on. Every night she would look up into the sky and wish upon each every star that he would love her, and that he would save her.
And after weeks and weeks of wishing she finally wrote that letter, and she had placed it in his locker first thing in the morning. She had anticipated his reaction the whole day, and she walked towards his locker blinding hope, and full confidence that he would return her feelings.
She saw him at his locker with a few of the other boys from her class. She almost lost her nerve right then, but when she saw him turn to her, she knew there was no way to back down.
"Yukio-sempai," she whispered, almost above a whisper but she knew he heard it.
"What do you want?" he asked in a harsh tone.
Usagi felt her knees go weak but held herself up.
"I was wondering if you got my letter," she asked.
"Oh, you mean this?" he said and threw down a crumpled up piece of paper; Usagi slowly knelt down and picked up the paper and gently smoothed it, and she felt the tears began to fall as she saw the red markings all over it. He had drawn a rough stick figure of her with devil horns and wrote things like "witch-girl" and "freak" and other things of that nature.
"How could you possibly think I could like a beast girl such as yourself," he said, his cold dark eyes bore into the back of his head, "do you think I want to be associated with the likes of you?"
Usagi quickly stood up and ran away from his taunting with her desecrated love letter still held tightly in her hand. His voice and his taunts, and the his sketches on her letter still engraved deeply in her mind.
~End of Flashback~
Usagi wiped away a tear that had formed as a result of the memory. She remembered, that she had refused to go to school for the entire week after that, and Setsuna would sit with her head in lap and comb through Usagi's hair as she cried.
Usagi felt the despair grow within her again. Everything was supposed to get better, not worse! Why had he said that? Why had everyone ignored her? Why was Setsuna dead? What did those men want? What was so special about her? And where was she supposed to go from here?
The image of the woman from her dream instantly popped in her mind. Who was that woman? There so many questions that she didn't have the answer too.
She stood up from the chair, and pushed the questions and the images from her mind. She was beginning to feel cramped and she needed fresh air. She left the apartment and trudged to just outside the complex. The place was silent, and it was only than that Usagi realized that most of the base was underground. She walked steadily away from the base and through the wooded area that lay just ahead of the base. She walked enjoying how the sounds of the birds and the wind blowing the leaves calmed her, and she just strolled and contented herself in not thinking of anything at all.
She never heard the person who came up behind her.
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Ami stared at the security monitors with satisfied disinterest. She had finished her work for the day, and was for the moment waiting for a call from Dr. Ashida. It had been Zoisite who had led Ami into the rebellion after his medical practice had been suspended. Unlike most of the other rebels, Ami had had no personal dealings with the Black Moon, but rather had seen the effects of their rule on the people in Tokyo, in which Ami had been from.
Her mother, an affluent doctor who still held a reputable practice in Tokyo and introduced Ami to Zoisite in the first place, had been skeptical of Ami's joining the rebellion.
"Your just asking for trouble," her mother said, "there can be no good for challenging a group like that."
But Ami had joined anyways, because she believed in Zoisite, because she loved Zoisite. However, she didn't know how he felt about her. She knew that she was being wistful and was not focusing on the rebellion, but the fact that Ami was in love with Zoisite made her a bit guilty of her somewhat selfish reasons for joining.
She looked at the outside security camera and saw the girl Mamoru had brought back strolling through the forest. -It isn't safe for her to be out alone- Ami thought to herself. She was about to reach for the phone and alert someone to the girls presence when she saw a figure creep up behind the girl, and Ami froze for one moment. However when she saw the figure grab Usagi, Ami didn't hesitate to sound the alarm.
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Usagi felt the arm snake around her neck, and a sharp placed just before her chin.
"Be quiet," the figure said, "and you won't be hurt."
Usagi felt herself tremble but remained silent. She felt a fire and an ache begin to form in her stomach, and she closed her eyes trying to void out the man's scent and his growl.
She was disrupted by the sound of a gunshot, and the figure released her and turned to face the intruder. Usagi knelt to the ground and gasped as she saw Mamoru standing there his gun cocked straight towards the figure which now could be clearly identified as a man, and on the breast of his uniform was an upside down Black Moon.
"A rebel," the man cackled, "how amusing."
"I don't talk with scum like you," Mamoru said, "Now, tell me what you want with this girl and I will ease the pain of your passing."
The man smirked, but than leapt out of sight. Usagi and Mamoru stood still, Usagi crawled off her knees and balanced herself on the closest tree.
Mamoru turned to her and began to walk towards her when a gunshot rang out and Mamoru clutched his arm and fell to the ground.
"Mamoru-san!"
She looked fearfully at the fallen man and then she turned in horror as she saw a circle of men in the same uniform as the one before were closing in on her.
And that was when the ache that had been growing overcame her, and she blacked out.
The men watched as the girl grasped her head, and when she knelt down a bright light erupted, and the world began to shake.
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To Be Continued.
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There it is done!! The next chapter should be done next week. But until than don't forget to review!!!
Author's Note: Stupid FF.net!! Yeah, it decided not to upload it right, so here I am having to reupload it. Sorry about that!
I am so sorry!! I though I would have this up by Saturday, but things got in the way (mainly my parents deciding to make a surprise visit, and instead of putting on the finishing touches, I had to heavily clean my dorm room!). So anyways
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon is the property of Naoko Takeuchi and Toei Corporation and a few other entities which I have forgotten as of the moment, in other words not me.
Chapter 3: Signs of Divinity
Rei looked up at the soldiers and looked back down at the girl. -What is with the Black Moon and young girls?- she thought, thinking of the girl that Mamoru had brought back. The girl was standing silently behind Makoto, a look of fear and dread on her face. Rei felt a protectiveness of the girl. She turned to the guards and gave them a very serious scowl.
"Sirs, for what reason are you chasing after my cousin?" she asked, and ignored Makoto and the girl's weird stares.
"Your sister? This girl has no family," the lead soldier said, but without much conviction.
"Are you sure?" Rei said, "she has been missing for the past week and I have been desperate to find her. Now why are you chasing her as if you wish to kill her?"
The soldier looked to his comrades who shrugged at him.
"Well we have only been following the orders that our superior has given us. We were ordered to capture Hotaru Tomoe," he said.
"Hotaru? Then sir, I believe you are mistaken. This is not the girl that you are looking for. This girl is Aiko Sakamoto; did you even bother to ask her name?" Rei asked
"Uh.no," he said, "but we found her around the target's address."
"Well that doesn't necessarily make her Hotaru Tomoe does it? If I hung around the Black Moon Headquarters that doesn't make me Lord Saffiel, does it?" Rei asked.
"No, but."
"Did your superior give you a picture of your target?"
"No, he just said we are to capture a twelve year old girl by the name of Hotaru Tomoe," the soldier said.
"Well obviously your superior didn't do his job properly. You just wasted you time chasing after an innocent young girl. Now I have the mind to report you, but if you leave quietly I will overlook your mistake," Rei said, and prayed to whatever god or gods existed to let the men leave. Neither her nor Makoto had the resources to overtake them at the moment.
A look of pure fear went across his face and he motioned for the others to follow him back towards the city. Rei watched after them, and when was satisfied that they were out of hearing turned to the little girl who was looking up at her with uncertainty.
"So your name's Hotaru Tomoe," Rei said, with more edge in her voice than she intended, "Why were those men after you?"
Hotaru was quiet for a moment, as if debating with herself whether to tell the woman who had saved her or not.
"I can show them something they want," she said.
"What can you show them?" said Makoto, speaking up for the first time since the whole thing began.
"The goddess," Hotaru replied.
"Goddess?" Rei asked in disbelief. -What the hell does a goddess have to do with the Black Moon?-
"Yes, the goddess who will throw the world upside down," Hotaru said.
Makoto looked at the girl and then at Rei.
"Well, whatever, we shouldn't stay here much longer; I wouldn't be surprised if that supervisor sends more soldiers out towards that place. Man Rei how in the hell did you pull that off?" Makoto asked.
"I was relying on his apparent stupidity, if he had been smarter we would all be dead right now," Rei said, and beckoned for Hotaru to follow her and Makoto.
"Well I am going to be laughing my ass over this one for a long time," Makoto said, and the trio headed back to the base.
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Usagi had spent most of her time waiting for that man to return, so that she could give him her apology. She had spent her time exploring her surroundings and trying to plan out what she would say. All the while Setsuna's death loomed over her, and she found herself begin to ask questions that had not been answered.
She knew without a doubt that Setsuna had died because of her. But why? What was it about her that those men wanted? She thought back to what happened, but she couldn't recollect it that well. All she remembered was that man's face. The man with the silver hair and piercing cold eyes. Who was that?
But she did not know the answer, and wondered if anyone here knew. She heard the door opened and she turned to find the man from earlier standing at the doorway. He did not look at her only proceeded to take off his jacket and shift through some papers on the table.
She bit her lip and calmed down the nervousness that had risen in the pit of her stomach, and walked towards him.
"Excuse me," she said; the wavering in her voice only slightly noticeable.
"Yes?" he said, not seeming to detect the nervousness in her voice.
"I.I'm sorry," she said, and a burst of courage allowed her to continue, "I'm sorry for breaking down like that earlier."
He looked at her strangely as if to comprehend what she was saying. He cursed himself for not being able to handle the situation better. The girl who stood before him was looking at him in a way that made him sorry that he had found her. She looked too innocent and too kind, two things that Mamoru did not have room in his life for. He had his mission and he knew that this girl would come in the way of that and he would not become distracted.
"Listen, forget about it," he said.
Usagi thought his manner a little bit more gruff then it should have been but she would not argue with him, he had after all saved her life.
"Listen, I have to take you somewhere, so hurry up and follow me," he said emphasizing his complete indifference to the matter.
-How rude!- Usagi thought, -and after I apologized for being a burden-
"Look, sir, I don't know where you get off treating me like that, when all I was trying to do was apologize. But no, you have to be all snot faced and act like you could care less," she said.
He was silent, but indifference and coldness never left his face. Usagi growled with annoyance. Of all the things, the last thing she needed right now was to deal with a rude insufferable man!
It was he who broke the moment of tension by heading towards the door and motioned for Usagi to follow him. She paused for a moment, debating whether she should take his orders, but than decided that she would die if she was boxed up in that room any longer. She followed him, but not without the childish act of making faces at him from behind his back. Her worries were forgotten for the moment.
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Rei and Makoto returned to the base with Hotaru locking step behind them. Nothing had been said on the way home. Rei and Makoto had tried to open the young girl up, but the girl was silent and barely refused to make eye conduct with either of them.
When they returned they found the base to be unusually quiet, and very few of the other operatives were roaming the halls.
Rei flagged down one of the passing initiatives and asked the man what was going on.
"We just received a message that Artemis and Luna will be coming here," he said, "most of the operatives are trying to find out what happened yesterday."
Rei nodded, "Is Kunzite in?"
"I believe he is in the office talking with that girl and Chiba-san," the man replied.
Rei nodded and looked to Makoto. They turned to Hotaru and Rei knelt down to the young girl and looked straight into the girl's eyes.
"Listen, you have to tell us exactly what you meant when you talked about a Goddess," Rei said, "otherwise we can't help."
Hotaru looked at the girl and she felt the weight of it. -What did these people want?-
"I can't tell you," she said, "You wouldn't believe me."
Rei looked at her.
"Try me," Rei said.
Hotaru looked at her and nodded.
"I've seen her."
"Who?"
"The goddess."
"And who is this goddess?"
"I don't know, all I know is they want her."
"And that is why they were after you."
"Yes, but it won't matter, the goddess will go to them anyways."
"Why?"
"To make them pay for their sins."
"The Black Moon's sins?"
"No, humanity's"
And Rei fell silent.
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Usagi looked at the silver haired man with nothing less than confusion. She had been unable to answer any of their questions.
"And who was this Setsuna?"
Usagi looked at him, and felt the tears begin to well up, but she held them back.
"She took care of me," she said, "until the very end she protected me."
"This was the woman you talked to last night Mamoru?" Kunzite asked turning to Mamoru.
"Yes."
"I see," Kunzite said and looked at the girl who was fidgeting in her position. In some sweet innocent way she reminded him of Minako.
"I am sorry that I don't know more," Usagi said.
"Don't worry about it, Usagi," he replied, "you have probably been through a lot."
She nodded.
"Well do not worry; you are safe here," Kunzite said, "we will have accommodations ready for you in a few days, until then you can stay with."
"Me."
Kunzite and Usagi both turned to Mamoru.
"What?" Kunzite asked.
"She will stay with me," Mamoru said, "She is my responsibility."
"Wait a minute!" Usagi burst in, "What about me? Don't I get a say in it."
Mamoru looked at her.
"Mamoru, I don't get it, I though that you didn't want to be burdened by her," Kunzite said, trying to diffuse the tension between the two.
"I don't, but I have a promise that I am supposed to keep."
Usagi growled under her teeth. The two men were ignoring her again.
Kunzite looked at Mamoru and nodded his assent. He stood.
"Well we are done here, Mamoru, I wish to speak to you later about official business."
Mamoru nodded, and stood and beckoned for Usagi to follow him.
She was about to make a biting comment, but instead remained silent, and just stood and strutted past Mamoru making it a point to ignore him.
When Mamoru followed her out, Kunzite gave a slight chuckle. -That girl just may be the one thing Mamoru needs most- Kunzite thought.
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Saffiel sat at his desk and tapped his pen against the desk. There was still no report and no lead as to where Usagi was or if she was even alive. Demando had been strict in his orders, and that Saffiel had exactly a week to find the girl, or his head was gone.
"Saffiel-sama?"
He looked up to see the figures of two women in the doorway. The one on the right was a full head taller than the woman on the right.
"I see that you got my message, I was expecting you tomorrow," he said.
"We will always come when you call us," the one on the left said.
"Is it true that Setsuna is dead, Safiel-sama?" the woman on the right said.
"Yes, I am afraid that you two, and the young girl are the only Sentinels left," he said.
"I see; why have you called for us?"
"You must find the goddess, and bring her back to me. You two will be the only was able to sense where she is," he said.
"Don't worry Saffiel-sama, we will find her, and bring her to you."
"I know you two will, you are the only ones I trust."
"And we can only trust you Saffiel-sama."
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Usagi was quiet as she sat in a big armchair in the middle of what was to be her and Mamoru's room. Mamoru himself had left to discuss something with Kunzite, and had indicated that he would not be returning for a while. She had looked through a few of the reading materials that Mamoru actually kept, but Usagi soon disregarded them as boring and she accustomed herself to the position of staring out the window and took the view of the city in the distance.
~Flashback~
The halls were silent as Usagi trudged silently to her destination. The other students didn't dare make a sound when Usagi passed. She felt their fear just as she felt their eyes boring into her soul.
No, but that day had been more cutting than any before. Usagi had finally gained the courage to tell the one boy she had longed after that she liked him.
His name had been Yukio Hayano, and had been relatively new to their school, and was a year older than Usagi, and on his first day he had greeted Usagi with sincerity and kindness. He had been the first person who had ever spoken to her after they had learned her name. From that day forward Usagi had been lovestruck, and she worshipped the ground he walked on. Every night she would look up into the sky and wish upon each every star that he would love her, and that he would save her.
And after weeks and weeks of wishing she finally wrote that letter, and she had placed it in his locker first thing in the morning. She had anticipated his reaction the whole day, and she walked towards his locker blinding hope, and full confidence that he would return her feelings.
She saw him at his locker with a few of the other boys from her class. She almost lost her nerve right then, but when she saw him turn to her, she knew there was no way to back down.
"Yukio-sempai," she whispered, almost above a whisper but she knew he heard it.
"What do you want?" he asked in a harsh tone.
Usagi felt her knees go weak but held herself up.
"I was wondering if you got my letter," she asked.
"Oh, you mean this?" he said and threw down a crumpled up piece of paper; Usagi slowly knelt down and picked up the paper and gently smoothed it, and she felt the tears began to fall as she saw the red markings all over it. He had drawn a rough stick figure of her with devil horns and wrote things like "witch-girl" and "freak" and other things of that nature.
"How could you possibly think I could like a beast girl such as yourself," he said, his cold dark eyes bore into the back of his head, "do you think I want to be associated with the likes of you?"
Usagi quickly stood up and ran away from his taunting with her desecrated love letter still held tightly in her hand. His voice and his taunts, and the his sketches on her letter still engraved deeply in her mind.
~End of Flashback~
Usagi wiped away a tear that had formed as a result of the memory. She remembered, that she had refused to go to school for the entire week after that, and Setsuna would sit with her head in lap and comb through Usagi's hair as she cried.
Usagi felt the despair grow within her again. Everything was supposed to get better, not worse! Why had he said that? Why had everyone ignored her? Why was Setsuna dead? What did those men want? What was so special about her? And where was she supposed to go from here?
The image of the woman from her dream instantly popped in her mind. Who was that woman? There so many questions that she didn't have the answer too.
She stood up from the chair, and pushed the questions and the images from her mind. She was beginning to feel cramped and she needed fresh air. She left the apartment and trudged to just outside the complex. The place was silent, and it was only than that Usagi realized that most of the base was underground. She walked steadily away from the base and through the wooded area that lay just ahead of the base. She walked enjoying how the sounds of the birds and the wind blowing the leaves calmed her, and she just strolled and contented herself in not thinking of anything at all.
She never heard the person who came up behind her.
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Ami stared at the security monitors with satisfied disinterest. She had finished her work for the day, and was for the moment waiting for a call from Dr. Ashida. It had been Zoisite who had led Ami into the rebellion after his medical practice had been suspended. Unlike most of the other rebels, Ami had had no personal dealings with the Black Moon, but rather had seen the effects of their rule on the people in Tokyo, in which Ami had been from.
Her mother, an affluent doctor who still held a reputable practice in Tokyo and introduced Ami to Zoisite in the first place, had been skeptical of Ami's joining the rebellion.
"Your just asking for trouble," her mother said, "there can be no good for challenging a group like that."
But Ami had joined anyways, because she believed in Zoisite, because she loved Zoisite. However, she didn't know how he felt about her. She knew that she was being wistful and was not focusing on the rebellion, but the fact that Ami was in love with Zoisite made her a bit guilty of her somewhat selfish reasons for joining.
She looked at the outside security camera and saw the girl Mamoru had brought back strolling through the forest. -It isn't safe for her to be out alone- Ami thought to herself. She was about to reach for the phone and alert someone to the girls presence when she saw a figure creep up behind the girl, and Ami froze for one moment. However when she saw the figure grab Usagi, Ami didn't hesitate to sound the alarm.
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Usagi felt the arm snake around her neck, and a sharp placed just before her chin.
"Be quiet," the figure said, "and you won't be hurt."
Usagi felt herself tremble but remained silent. She felt a fire and an ache begin to form in her stomach, and she closed her eyes trying to void out the man's scent and his growl.
She was disrupted by the sound of a gunshot, and the figure released her and turned to face the intruder. Usagi knelt to the ground and gasped as she saw Mamoru standing there his gun cocked straight towards the figure which now could be clearly identified as a man, and on the breast of his uniform was an upside down Black Moon.
"A rebel," the man cackled, "how amusing."
"I don't talk with scum like you," Mamoru said, "Now, tell me what you want with this girl and I will ease the pain of your passing."
The man smirked, but than leapt out of sight. Usagi and Mamoru stood still, Usagi crawled off her knees and balanced herself on the closest tree.
Mamoru turned to her and began to walk towards her when a gunshot rang out and Mamoru clutched his arm and fell to the ground.
"Mamoru-san!"
She looked fearfully at the fallen man and then she turned in horror as she saw a circle of men in the same uniform as the one before were closing in on her.
And that was when the ache that had been growing overcame her, and she blacked out.
The men watched as the girl grasped her head, and when she knelt down a bright light erupted, and the world began to shake.
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To Be Continued.
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There it is done!! The next chapter should be done next week. But until than don't forget to review!!!