AN: This is kind of my second Sailor Moon fic. Anyway, any comments are welcomed, and very much needed ^_^ since I want to become a professional writer one day.
Disclaimer: I do not own any Sailor Moon characters. I am disclaiming them…get it? Disclaimer…*dead silence* heh… This will apply for all my chapters. I do, however own any rights I have to this fic. I do have rights, right? O.o;;
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You Promised:
By: dragonfire onna
Prologue: Say Goodbye
"Does Mamoru have to go?"
A young, bouncy girl came to a sudden halt with her mother's stern voice. She had been dreading this moment since his foster mother arrived at the door with freshly baked sugar cookies, as always. The two mothers would talk for awhile, which gave her and Mamoru more time to talk and play, but now their time was up…forever.
"Say your goodbyes, Usagi. I know you won't see him again, but there is still email and letters, right?" The little girl nodded, her eyes glued to the floor. She turned her head towards her mother.
"Could you give us five more minutes, mommy?" Her mother gave her a quick nod before stepping out of the room and into the tidy kitchen with the other woman following closely behind. Usagi grabbed Mamoru by the sleeve and pulled him upstairs into her room, flipping over the "Do Not Disturb" sign.
The black-haired boy with deep sapphire eyes hopped on her bed and stared at her, little emotion in his eyes. She knew better though. It was just his way to keep from crying. She, on the other hand, always let the tears flow freely, and now was no exception.
Usagi ran over to him and gave him the biggest hug she could muster, burying her head into his open arms.
"I promise to write everyday," she said with a small sniff. She backed away from him to let him up. She stepped aside and bowed her head to the ten-yea-old boy in front of her, the boy she has had a crush on for nearly two years now, and the boy who was her best friend in the entire world.
"I'll wait for you, Usagi, until you come back to Japan. I promise." And he gave her a quick kiss on the cheek and placed a small box in her hands before running down the stairs and out the door. He couldn't stand the thought of never seeing his beloved friend again. She was always so cheerful and was very bright, despite what others thought of her. Even the two years age difference didn't affect their friendship. She was eight, and he was ten. As simple as that, though his other friends didn't understand why he would want to hang out with a cootie-infested girl. He always told him he didn't believe in cooties.
Usagi ran to her bedroom window, just in time to see Darien hop into his car with his mother and drive away. She waved after him.
"Goodbye, Mamoru." She watched until he disappeared from sight and then turned her attention to the box. She carefully opened it and peered curiously at what was inside. "It's so beautiful…" Usagi tied it around her neck. The star-shaped locket played a wondrous, romantic tune and had a sold gold chain.
"Usagi! It's time for us to go now too," her mother called up the stairs. Usagi hopped off her bed and slowly made her way to her mother. "Isn't this going to be exciting? Moving to the United States and making new friends?" Her mother was as cheerful as she use to be.
"Yeah…fun." Usagi forced out the word to make her mother happy, but couldn't change her facial expressions.
"Don't worry, sweetie. I'm sure you'll see him again. After all, you have your grandmother Nani here and you can come out and visit from time to time during the summer and on breaks," she said with hope in her eyes. She didn't like seeing her little girl like this.
"Yes mama…" She shoved the sob back into her throat and wiped away the tears with her shirt.
"Now why don't you go get Sammy and buckle him in his car seat?" Usagi nodded and did as she was told. She loved her brother to bits and pieces. Her mother and father had left her name him, and she had always liked the name Sammy, even though it was an American name. He was the only one in the entire family who didn't have a Japanese name.
"Sammy's in his seat now, mama," Usagi said as she pointed to the taxi. The two climbed into the car and headed to the air. Except for a few prized possessions, they all left with relatively nothing but some clothing and a few necessities.
They were moving because of her mother's boyfriend. They had become serious and he had asked her to move in with him. It was last summer when he came out to visit them in Japan with his two bratty children and asked her to move to America with him. She had declined at first, thinking of her own family, but had given in after awhile. Now they left everything in their house, and sold it with the house.
Usagi never liked her mother's boyfriend. He was a horrible man that wanted to take her real birth father's place in her life, in her mother's life. It wasn't fair. She would have been upset with her mother for allowing him into their lives had it not been for the fact that her mother and brother was all she really had left. Her real father, a good, honest man, died four years ago, one year after the birth of her little five-year-old brother, was a decent and respectable businessman.
"To the airport, please." Usagi turned over in her seat to get a last look at her old house and weakly whispered 'bye' to it before the taxi made a turn and her house was lost out of site.
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AN: I know it was short, but that's only because it was a good place to end it. I've got more, and I'll get out longer chapters, probably around 5-6 pages long each, if that helps any.
Alright, so how was it? Good, bad? Needs a lot more work? More details? Anything you're confused about? Just please review and tell me what you think.
