All will be well in this chapter. I don't own Sailor Moon, hopefully for the last time. It's been a long, long journey to this day. Let's enjoy it greatly . . . and review!!!!

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Mamoru lay back against his couch in exhaustion. What had come over him? The person he had been today had not been him at all.

He was usually the cool, calm, and collected kind of guy, but lately Usagi had been messing with his brain; pulling his strings just like a puppeteer for a show. He could not believe how violent he had been, and how jealous. It was as if some type of mad primal urge had come over him, and he had been in no mood to try and suppress it. The thought of her being with any guy but him had nearly swamped him in betrayal and rage, especially after she had just pledged her love to him. He had believed Rei if only because he so deeply felt that it could have been true, yet had been trying as hard as he could to suppress it. He thought back to it now. What a betrayal to Usagi that he had believed a person he knew was jealous of his love over her. How he knew Rei was jealous was just a hunch, because she sure as hell was acting like a jealous ex. Perhaps he should talk to her about it . . . but how would he be able to handle his anger at her . . .

The telephone let out a loud ring, and he picked up the phone.

"Konichiiwa. Is this Chiba Mamoru?"

"Rei," he breathed. He was surprised at how calm he felt. When he had reenacted this moment in his head, he had gone from either great anger to unsuppressed sorrow. How could he feel so calm now?

"Hai, Mamoru-sama. I have to talk to you about Usagi."

"Usako . . ." he whispered softly, as if even speaking her name was the greatest pleasure of all. But the reality hit him too hard after. "I do not deserve Usako. She is too high above me for me to even consider myself worthy of her affections. I do not wish to discuss her at the moment. Besides, what right do you have to say anything on the subject of my relationship with her?"

He heard an exasperated sigh at the other end. "You are a fool, Mamo-chan," replied Rei evenly. "I know I have not even begun to atone for my unforgivable sins, but this is where I will start. Usagi loves you with all of her heart. If you were to deny both you and her of that love, the results would be far more disastrous than of going along with them and having them not work out. I can tell just by the way that you say her name that your love for her will never recede, and I can tell by speaking with her that if you even called her again, all would be made well between the two of you. I have known Usa-chan for a while now, and I know that her forgiveness and forgetting process occurs quite simply. Just sleep on it. Don't make a mistake that will affect the rest of your life."

Empty silence emanated from the room as he sat both in harsh anguish and a slim hope. Finally, he heard a click of the telephone being hung up on the other end and placed the phone back in its holder. He had to take a chance. He had to go see Usagi.

Tomorrow.

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The harsh beep of the alarm clock awoke her the next morning. Groaning, she rolled onto her side and slammed her hand down onto it to seize its monotonous call. Stumbling out of her bad and down the stairs to the kitchen, she was greeted with a sight she had only thought possible in her wildest dreams.

There was the largest bouquet of roses she had ever seen residing in her mother's best crystal vase sitting on her table, with a card that said her name on it plied into the middle of them.

And Mamoru sat next to him at the table.

She looked first to the vase, then to him, then to the vase again, and then turned around and marched right back up to her room and collapsed on top of her bed. "Stupid dreams keep on coming even when I think I'm awake," she grumbled into her pillow, and fell back to sleep.

She was awakened again by the slight shift of weight at the foot of her bed and a soft scent tickling her nose. Cracking open her eyes a bit, she saw the face of an angel looming into her line of vision.

"Why did you come back for me?" she whispered to him, squeezing her eyes shut. "Why did you come back for me if you hated me so?"

"When did I hate you?" he replied softly, lying down on the bed next to her, eyes gazing at her ceiling. "I was too jealous, I can tell you that was for sure." She grumbled a 'hai' into her pillow. "And I was violent as well; I cannot believe I almost raped you." At that remark, she turned onto her side to look at him. "I am not usually like that. In fact, never have I been moved to such acts before. I never thought that I was a jealous man, and never have I raised a hand to anyone before, especially not the woman I love nor my best friend. I still am not sure why I believed what Rei told me, it was just, I was so unsure of the way you felt of me; I felt you were just saying you loved me because I had you locked in my car on the highway- " This got a laugh from her. "-that when Rei said you loved Motoki something evil and cynical in my head said it was the truth. I am so sorry, Usako. I truly love you. Please, please take me back."

She took his face into her hands, gazing deeply into her eyes. "Are you sure?" she asked him. "I want me to tell me that you are sure."

A confused look crossed over his face. "Am I sure of what?"

She sighed, and sat up and walked to her door. Looking back at him, she replied. "Are you absolutely sure you love me? Come to me when you are."

He stayed in her room for a good five minutes after she had walked out to go get groceries for him mother. "Hai," her whispered. "Aishiteru, my Odango-atama."

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"Hino shrine, where you can pray for free as long as you're pretty. Can I help you?"

"Konichiiwa, Hino-sempai, is Rei-chan there?"

"Oh, Usagi, hai, one moment."

Usagi leaned back against the phone booth as she heard Rei's grandfather calling for her, her mother's groceries leaning against one of her legs. Finally, Rei grabbed the phone. "Hai? Who is this again? Grandpa wouldn't tell me, gomen."

Usagi took in a deep breath as she braced herself. "It's me."

There was a silence, and behind her Usagi could hear a child crying for her balloon. Finally, Rei replied, "Usa-chan? Is it really you?"

Usagi smiled as she saw the little girl and her mother walk by and get a balloon from the clown giving them out in the park she was in. "Hai, it's me. I want to ask you a question."

"Go ahead. I hope that we can still be friends even after all that has happened. Forgive and forget and all of that, no da?"

Usagi sneered, but then something clicked in her head. "Did you talk to Mamoru?"

There was another pause, and Usagi took that time to watch the little girl and her mother walk away. "Hai."

"What did you say to him," she asked, concentrating once again on their conversation.

"I told him that if the both of you kept denying your love for one another, the results could be disastrous. I told him that he should see you and try to make up with you. Doshte?"

Usagi sank down to her knees until she was squatting down at the bottom of the booth. "Because he came this morning in an attempt."

"And?"

"I told him to come and talk to me when he was absolutely sure he loves me."

There was laughter at the other end of the phone. "Oh, Usagi, he is absolutely sure he loves you, I am sure of it."

"I know," Usagi replied. "Demo, doshte?"

"Doshte nani?"

"You said something to him; you tried to get us back together. Doshte?"

"Because no matter how much I loved him and how much I tried to break the both of you apart in my jealousy, the both of you were still perfect for each other. I am now just trying to atone for my unforgivable sins against the both of you."

Usagi stared straight ahead of her, seeing nothing.

"Rei?"

"Hai?"

"I forgive you."

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Mamoru ran over to the intercom near his door at the sound of someone buzzing him. "Who is it?" he asked.

"Usagi."

Usagi.

He opened the door as fast as he could and ran down the stair to yank open the doors to his apartment building. "U-Usagi . . ."

She stood there in front of him, her short, curly bangs framing her face, with a bouquet of roses of a size to compare to his in her arms. "Gomen- nasai, Mamoru-kun. Aishiteru. I will love you forever. Please don't leave me anymore. Please don't hurt me anymore."

He looked at her and then to the roses before sweeping her into his arms and burying his face in her hair. "Oh, Usagi, I do absolutely love you. I never wanted to hurt you; I never would leave you. all I ever wanted to do was treasure you for the rest of your life, and I promise that is all I will ever do from this day forwards. Please forgive me, Usako."

"Oh, I do forgive you Mamoru, I truly do. And I forgive Rei, you need to forgive Rei too, we will all forgive each other. I hate all of this fighting and this drama and I hate all of these tears, especially," she wiped away at the tears coming from her own eyes. "I especially hate the tears that I keep having to shed. Mamoru, please don't ever stop loving me."

"I never have, Odango-atama."

She cuffed him on the side of his head, laughing. "Mamoru-baka."

He clutched at his chest as though she had shot him. "Oh, Usagi, that cuts me so deep. Darling, you must not be so harsh on me. I am only a poor mortal, and you, you are such a goddess."

Laughing even harder, she threw herself into his embrace and kissed him deeply. Pulling back, she asked him, "Want to go get a milkshake?"

"I would love to, my love," he replied.

As they walked arm in arm towards the Crown restaurant, she could be heard explaining to him that, in a milkshake infused with the love of friends, if you wish very deeply on it, you wishes can come true.

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Konichiiwa - hello

Hai - yes

Aishiteru – I love you

Odango-atama – dumpling head

No da – you know

Doshte - why

Demo - but

Nani – what

Gomen-nasai – I'm really sorry

Ja - bye