Author Notes:
Story: A New Future
Chapter: Breaking Old Ties
Rating: G
Genre: General, Romance
Comments: Usagi begins to learn the truth about her future and those around her.
Character Name Translations:
Usagi~ Serena
Mamoru~ Darien
Japanese Word Translations:
Arigato~ Thank you.
Gomen~ Sorry.
Baka~ Fool, Silly, Dumb, etc.
Kami~ God, High Spirit.
Minna~ Everyone.
Senshi~ Soldier, Scout.
-chan~ friend (used at the ending of someone's name).
-san~ polite (used at the ending of someone's name).
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Disclaimer: Despite my desperate pleas, I do not own Sailor Moon,
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"Mamoru. . ." Usagi Tsukino spoke slowly, sitting on a park bench next to Mamoru Chiba.
Mamoru's head snapped up at the disuse of his nickname. "Usako? What's wrong?"
"Mamoru. .I have to tell you something. .Please don't be mad." Usagi looked at her hands in her lap, nervously
moving them.
"What is it?" He asked putting one his hands on hers. She shifted hers out of his grasp.
"I…I..d-don't think…I c-can see you anymore!" She stuttered hurriedly.
Stunned, Mamoru whispered the only question he could think of.
"Why?"
"I just don't. . .love you anymore! I love someone else!"
Mamoru, still broken, now angry too, questioned her again, "Who?"
"Don't do anything to him, all right? It's just that…he has always protected me since
I met him. He's been on my side the entire time. He's never gone against me. I can
rely on him and his love for me.
"I love Seiya."
Mamoru starred, momentarily stunned, then fired back at her. "How?! How can you love
her?! Usako! . .We are supposed to be together until the end!" His voice softened and
lowered. "Why did you stop loving me?"
"I-I realized something…this love I've always felt for you was different from what I
felt for Seiya. . .I love you like a best friend. . .I think we took it too far when we started
going out." Usagi closed her eyes for a moment then continued. "Back on the moon, I was
alone, and never had any real attention, male or otherwise, and then you came along. .I could confide in
you, count on you to protect me, and I was right. In those regards. Mamoru I love you,
not as a lover, but like the other senshi. I'm sosorry." Usagi stood up quickly and ran
away, leaving Mamoru shocked and saddened at her departure that meant different things on different levels.
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"Rei-chan, did I do the right thing?" The young blonde's voice quivered.
Rei looked at her friend from behind a cloak of raven strands and nodded. "It wasn't right to keep on lying to him, you had to do it."
Usagi smiled. "Argiato, Rei-chan."
"I'm glad you did it. It wasn't right to keep leading him on."
"I know, I know Rei-chan. . ." Usagi closed her eyes and hugged her friend then left.
"But Usagi. .though you did the right thing in telling him that you didn't love him anymore. .Am I doing the right thing at not telling you how much I care for you?" Rei asked herself quietly before resuming the chores she had been doing at the temple before Usagi and arrived.
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"Now and forever we can be together."
The couple's lips pressed together.
"Aishteru," Seiya whispered into Usagi's ear.
A soft smile played on Usagi's lips as she wrapped her arms around Seiya.
"Forever, I will love you."
The couple gently kissed again as the moon rose high in the sky.
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Mamoru watched silently as his future smashed to the ground. As Usagi and Seiya kissed beneath the moon. . . "Usako. .Aishiteru. .forever. . ."
Several seconds passed before Mamoru realized something at the same time Usagi did.
"Chibi Usa!"
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Usagi broke off the kiss with tear-filled eyes.
"No. .No. No!"
"What's wrong?" Seiya asked.
"Chibi Usa. .she's. . .she's never going to be born!" Usagi cried into her hands.
Seyia wrapped his arms around her. "Who's Chibi Usa?"
Usagi's tears stopped. "The daughter I would have had with Mamoru. She came from the
future. . ." Usagi told her story of her future daughter.
"Is it possible that maybe she's *our* daughter?"
She looked at him wonderingly as Mamoru continued to watch silently. "But. .Pluto said
that. .could she have lied? Could she have not told the truth?" The truth struck Usagi
as ChibiChibi wandered up to the couple.
"Chibi," The small, pink-haired child grinned at them.
"Chibi Chibi, what do you need?" Seiya asked as Usagi's eyes widened.
"Maybe. . .Chibi Usa was never meant to be and Pluto just said that to get us through those
times!" Usagi exclaimed. And then suddenly, Chibi Chibi held both of their hands. A warm feeling spread through all three.
"Chibi Usa never was, ChibiChibi was always meant to be."