Well, Here's part 3 of Mamoru's Love. It's titled "The Nightmare". Usagi finally finds out the truth in hsi part, and a lost power is discovered. You'll see what I mean. If you have any questions, you can E-mail me at Akanechan2001@Hotmail.com. I'd love to know what you think, so send me a line. Thankz!
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These characters all beling to Naoko Takeuchi, except for the small part of new Sialor Moon in her dream.
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Mamoru's Love: The Nightmare
Usagi yawned slowly covering her mouth with her hand. "Is it morning all ready, Luna-chan?" she mumbled.
"I'm afraid so, Usai-chan." Luna jumped onto the bed and grabbed the covers with her teeth. She started pulling them off Usagi.
"Just a little more sleep, Luna-chan." Usagi grabbed the covers back and yanked them over her head. "Oh!" Usagi practicly jumped up from her bed, her eyes wide open. "Oh, Luna-chan! I had the most greatest dream last night. Me and Mamo-Chan were getting married. You and Artemus-kun were there, the scouts, and oh! Check this out! Queen Serenity was there!
"And..." Usagi stopped. "What happened next?" She pondered this for a moment. "Oh! I can't remember!"
Luna sweatdropped. "It was only a dream."
"Oh! I know, Luna! But it seemed so real!" Usagi gasped. "I have to go tell Mamo-Chan right away."
"No! Usagi-chan! I don't think that's a very good idea," Luna jumped up and ran to the door to try and block her.
"And how come, Luna?" Usagi demanded.
"Well, for one, it's too early," Luna managed to say without studdering.
"Mmm, I guess your right. I'll call him later. Right now, I'm going back to bed. Good night, Luna-chan." Usagi crawled back underneath the covers.
"What am I going to do?" Luna whispeared to herself.
***
"Morning, Mom!" Usagi called as she ran down the stairs and into the kitchen. "Can't talk . Late for school." Usagi grabbed a piece of toast, her lunch, and her backpack and ran out the door.
She was half way to school when a voice called to her. It was Naru. "Hey! Usagi-chan! Wait up!"
Usagi stopped and waited for her red haired friend. She saw that Naru wasn't wearing her pack, or that she didn't have on her school uniform. "What's up with that?"
Naru was confused. "Why are you dressed in you school uniform, Usagi-chan?" She paused, then giggled. "Don't tell me you forgot today was Sunday?"
"Its....Sunday?" Usagi was the one confused now.
"Yeah, Usagi-chan. It would be prety funny if Sakurada-San knew this." She laughed some more.
"Very funny," Usagi said solemly. Tears started to form in her eyes. "I had to get up early for nothing?" she whined.
Naru suddenly became serious. "Are you feeling alright about, you know, everything, Usagi-chan?"
Usagi looked at her strangly. "I'm felling great!" she answered. "I mean, I have my family, my friends, Mamo-Chan!"
Naru grimanced. "Usagi-chan, Mamoru-san is......"
"Doing just fine!" Minako ran up to them. "Hey Usagi-chan, Naru-chan." She grabbed Naru by her shoulder and started pulling her away. "I can speak to you for a second," her whispeared to her.
Usagi looked at them strangly as Minako pulled Naru a great distance from her.
Minako filled Naru on the events of the past few days. Naru gasped, realizing she almost told Usagi the truth about Mamoru.
"I had no idea," Naru said. "Poor, Usagi-chan."
"Yeah. So keep it quite, Ok?"
Naru nodded. "OK."
Usagi starred at them suspeciously as they walked back. "What's going on?"
Minako smiled. "Nothing, Usagi-chan. Nothing."
"Minako-chan! Your hiding some juicy gossip from me, arn't you?" Usagi claped her hands to together. "Plese tell me."
"It's nothing, Usagi-chan," Naru said. She forced a laugh. "She just wanted to know why you were wearing your school uniform, thats all."
Usagi made a face. "So I forgot today was Sunday. So what! You don't have to make a big deal about it." She yawned. "I'm going home and back to bed, now. See ya!" Usagi started running.
"Bye, Usagi-chan!" she heard both Minako and Naru call to her.
As she ran, Usagi wondered what the two were up to. There is no way Minako-chan would pull her away just to talk about what I was wearing. There's gotta be another reason. An idea suddenly clicked in her mind. What was Naru-chan saying before Minako-chan came. 'Usagi-chan, Mamoru-san is....' Is what?
By the time she got home, Usagi had already had the day planned. She was going to change into something more appropriate, then head over to Mamoru's place. They would spend the day talking, laughing, and enjoying each others company. A thought made its way into her head, but she quciky dismissed it. She didn't want anything to runin her day.
***
"What do you mean Chiba Mamoru doesn't live here anymore?" Usagi yelled at the landlord. "He's only lived in this apartment for over four years now."
"He moved out a few months ago to go to college in the US," the man told her. "Look. All I know is that he left. Ok? I have things to do now, so if you don't mind....." He sighed and walked away.
"Hey! I'm not done with you! I'll be back!" Usagi shook her fist in the air. "The nerve of that guy!"
She spun around in fustration and started stomping her way home. "He wouldn't even let me see if he was there or not!" She yelled.
A thought suddenly accured to her. The Luna Pen! That's right! But I havn't used it in such a long time... She wondered where she had put it. With the thought of the Luna Pen in her mind, Usagi ran home to find it.
***
"What are you looking for?" Luna was casually.
Usagi was digging though a desk drawer. "Nothing." Usagi kept searching.
"It doesn't look like nothing to me," Luna said, jumping up on the desk. She peered down at Usagi.
"If you must know," Usagi sighed, "I'm looking for the Luna Pen."
Luna stood up quickly. "What for?"
"I need to get into some place." Usagi didn't bother to look up at Luna, knowing that her expression wouldn't be good.
"You know it's only for scout buisness, Usagi-chan." Luna jumped onto the bed to get closer to her. "So don't even think about using it if you do find it."
"Hey," Usagi cried. "It is for scout busness." We need Tuxedo Kamen here, don't we? She thought to herself. "Ah, Ha! Found it!" Usagi pulled out the yellow pen with the red jewel on top. She jumped up excited. "Be back soon!" With that, Usagi ran out her bedroom door, not even preparing for the worst.
***
"Luna Pen! Turn me into a realistate agent!" The jewel on the pen glowed, turning Usagi into a classy lady. Her hair was cut short around her neck (imagine it shorter then Ami's), her eyes covered with glasses, and her body covered with a blue skirt and a professional top and coat. On her feet were short blue high-heels. In her hand was a notebook.
She laughed. "Do I look good or what?" She stood up straight and walked causally into the apartment building.
"Can I help you?" It was the same man that had been so rude to her eailer that day.
Usagi played it cool. "I'm-" she looked down at her name tag on her shirt -"Rias Meoko, from the Banbori Realistate agent. I've come here to look at a few of your places here."
The man looked at her suspicily, but nodded. "I wish you would have called first."
"Well, um, it was a surprise visit. You should aways be ready." Usagi gulped.
The man grunted. "Yeah. Well, come on. I'll show you a few of the empty rooms."
Yes! Usagi screamed inside her head. Nothing can stop me now.
The man lead her down the hall of the first floor, where he took her into an empty apartment. As he lead her around the place, she tried to look interested, and tried to take notes.
Not to seem to anxious to get to Mamoru's, she suggested that they view an empty room on each floor. The man just nodded and they went up to the second story. He took her into another apartment that looked almost exact to Mamoru's. Her patients were wareing off.
"How about the third floor, now?" Usagi asked.
"Don't you want to see the rest of this apartment first?" the man asked her.
"I think I've seen enough." Usagi gave him her best smile.
The man just nodded and led her to the third floor.
Usagi was getting more and more anxious to see what the man was hiding behind her Mamo-chan's door. She noticed they were about to pass Mamoru's apartement and she panicked. "What about this one? Is it empty?"
The man turned around and looked at her. "Kinda." He looked at her strangly. "You know its funny. A young girl came by here ealier today wanting to go into that room."
Usagi smiled. "Really? Then maybe there's something to be seen in there."
"Yeah, maybe." The man pulled his ring of keys out and opened the door.
Usagi followed him in. She gasped when she saw the living room.
"Is something wrong?" he asked.
She shook her head. "Is it okay if I look around a little?"
The man grunted. "I suppose."
Usagi took a few quite steps into the room. Most of the room was empty. Mamoru's big screen TV was gone, as well as all of his plants, pictures, lamps, etc. The only thing left in the room was his couch, and the stand next to it.
She went into the kitchen and saw that all his dishes were gone, as well as the food. She made her way to the back of the apartment to where his bedroom was. It was completely empty. Not a single thing was left. She checked the bathroom, and it too was empty. She was about to leave the room when she noticed that the closet was ajar. She checked to make sure the landlord wasn't watching, and opened the closet. It was complety bare, except for...
"What's that?" Usagi whispeared to herself. She reached up onto the self and pulled down a large yellow envelope. No words were written on it.
"Are you alright in there?" the landlord called.
Usagi quickly threw the envelope into her notebook. "Just fine," she called back to him. She hurried out of the room. Too many memories were resufacing.
"Will that be all?" he asked when she got back.
She nodded. "Just one question, though. What happened to the guy who lived here? I mean, why did he leave this stuff here?"
The man shrugged. "A couple came and took most of his stuff. They said that the guy who lived here died, and that everything was left to his girlfriend."
"Died?" she squeaked.
"Yeah. Was hit by a car or something in the states."
"Well, thanks." Usagi started for the door.
"Hey," the landlord said frmly.
Usagi looekd back meekly. "Yes?"
His voice sofened. "Did I pass inspection?"
Usagi nodded. "You'll get results in about a week." She gave him a fake smile then left.
As soon as she left the door the tears started to come. She didn't know where she was going, but she knew she had to go somewhere. She knew if she went home, Luna would be there to question her. If she went to the arcade, Motoki was sure to be there, and that would just remind her of Mamoru. Ami's wasn't to far from here, but she didn't want any advice at the moment. A few blocks was the Hikawa Jinja, but she didn't feel like talking to Rei about her problems. She knew if she went to Makoto's, she could take out all the pressure by eating, but her stomach wasn't up to it. Minako was more than likely to be out scouting for boys, so didn't even bother thinking about going to her place.
She looked up as she passed the cemetary. An idea hit her. She remembered she was still transformed, and so detransformed. She walked up to the cemetary gates. She paused before going in, still holding the yellow elvelope she had found at mamoru's. She walked into the main building to get directions. An old man was stitting at the counter reading the newspaper.
He looked up as she entered. "Can I help you, miss?"
"Yeah," Usagi said, trying to cover up her tears. "I was wondering of someone was buried here a little while ago."
The man nodded and pulled out a folder. "What's the name?"
Usagi took a deep breath to stop the tears from coming. "Chiba Mamoru."
The man nodded and started flipping through the pages. He stopped on a page then ran his finger down it. He stopped and looked up at her. "Yeah. A few weeks ago."
"Do...do you know where.....?" she couldn't finish.
The old man smiled gemtly. "Section C, row G, spot 7." He paused, looking at her. "Would you like me to excort you there?"
"No, I'll be fine. Thanks." Usagi tried to smile as she left. She walked up the hill until she found section C. She walked by each grave until she foun row G. Her head down, she looked at each grave, counting them off as she went. 1...2...3...4...5...6...
She stopped dead in her tracks. Though all the information she had recieved, she still couldn't believe it. She fell to her knees in the grass, and placed her hands upon the earth. "Mamo-chan," she cried, the tears falling from her cheeks and onto the grave plate. Through blurry eyes, Usagi was still able to make out the words.
Chiba Mamoru
1974-1996
The protector of us all will live on.
A large red rose was engraved on the right side. Usagi put her fingers on his name and traced it, the tears falling slowly, but freely.
"My Mamo-chan. Why did you go? Why!" She punded her fist on his grave plate. Her head collapsed in her arms, crying. "Why?" It was only a whispear as she realaxed her body onto the ground. "Why?" Her head started to hurt from all the crying, but she didn't care.
The warm sun shined down upon her as she cried herself asleep.
***
Usagi laid in bed, not moving, barley breathing, and unaware of the people around her. She starred across the room at the picture of her and Mamoru, not blinking.
"How do you think she found out?" Ami whispeared to Makoto.
"Don't know. Maybe she just remembered," Makoto answered.
The old man from the cemerty had found Usagi slepping on the gave, and took her inside. Once she had woken up, she didn't move or say anything. From what they were told by Usagi's mother, the police identified her and called them. They picked her up and brought her home.
"She has to get over this!" Rei yelled. "Usagi-chan! Snap out of it!" She was about to strike Usagi when Minako stopped her.
"Rei-chan. Don't. Usagi-chan needs to get over this." Minako grabbed Rei at her wrist and pulled her hand down. "How would you feel if Yuuichirou-san died?"
Rei lowered her head. "Why would I care?"
"Come on, Rei-chan. You can't hide it. We all know you have feelings for him." Minako put her arms around Rei. "Just think about it, will ya?"
Rei nodded but didn't say anything.
"She took the Luna Pen with her when she left," Luna finally said, her voice cracking. "I'm sure that had something to do with it."
"Don't blame yourself, Luna-chan," Artemus said. He snuggled up to her, trying to comfort her. "You had no idea what she was going to use it for."
"Artemus-kun...."Luna nodded, determined.
"Why didn't anyone tell me?"
"Usagi-chan!" Minako cried. She dropped down beside Usagi's bed. The other senshi moved in closer.
"His he really gone?" Usagi looked staright ahead, still not blinking. She slowly everted her eyes away and looked at Minako.
Minako didn't know what to tell her. She just gullped and nodded.
Usagi gave a small smile to her friend. It was the fist time she had shown any emotion since she had got home. Usagi closed her eyes and let the smile slowly drop off her face. A single tear fell from under her eye lid, sliding down her cheek, and hitting the pillow.
***
"Hey, Usako. Where you going?"
"Nowhere important."
"Then how about coming with me?"
"Where to?"
"It's a surprise."
"I don't know...."
"Come on, Odango Atama. Don't you trust me?"
"It just seems so....sudden."
"Our love has been real since I first saw you on the moon, Serenity-sama."
"I know, Endymion-sama. I've loved you since that day...."
"Then come with me."
Serenity, who had just been Usagi moments before, smiled. "I think I will."
Prince Endymion wrapped an arm around her waist with his left hand, and with his right hand, took her left hand. "It's a surprise."
Serenity closed her eyes and let her prince guide her to where ever they were going. When it seemed like they had been walking for a half hour, they stopped. She felt a chill run down her spine. She opened her eyes to see that Endymion was gone. About a hundred yards away, she saw Chiba Mamoru, walking across the street, and in front of her house no less. She may have looked like Princess Serenity, but inside, she still retained the memories of Tsukino Usagi.
She stood there, watching Mamoru make his way across the simi-busy street. What she saw, she saw in slow motion. Only, when she moved, it was at normal speed. She saw that a disel was driving faster than it should have been, and that it was heading straight toward Mamoru.
Serenity raised her hands above her head, placing the back of her right hand into the palm of her left hand. "Moon Eternal Extreme Power, Make Up!" A broach appeared her in hands that looked just like her eternal broach, but this one was a bright pink. It grew large wings on its side, then flew around her, turning her into a prisim, transforming her into her new form, Extreme Eternal Sailor Moon. Her whole outfit was the same as it had been as Eternal Sailor Moon, but with one difference. All the colors on her fuku had turned neon. Even her white wings glowed with a white aura.
"Mamo-chan!" she yelled at Mamoru, watching the desil getting closer.
Mamoru turned and looked at her. He smiled and waved to her, not even noticing the oncoming vehicle.
Sailor Moon's world seemed to slow down as Mamoru's sped up. She watched, not being able to turn away, as Mamoru's smiling face was whiped out before her. She heard the deafing crack of skull against bumper and screamed.
***
Shingo got on his hands and knees so he could crawl under his sister's desk to get the pen he had dropped. He spotted it on the floor agaist the wall. As he stood to get up, his head hit the desk.
A shrill scream made him forget about the pain and jump to his sister's side. "Usagi! Usagi!" Shingo shook his screaming sister, forcing her to wake up.
When her eyes finally fluttered open, she stopped screaming, seeing that it was her brother's face before her. Tears fell form her eyes. "Oh, Shingo-kun." Usagi grabbed her brother and hugged him, keeping him close to her. "It was awlful."
Shingo let his older sister cry into his shirt. "Come on, now, Usagi-chan."
The door to Usagi's room burst open and her mothe rand fatehr came running in.
"What happened in here?" Kenji asked, standing next to Shingo.
Ikuko sat down on the bed and put arm around her daughter. "It's alright now, Usagi. It was all a dream. It's over now." She pryed Usagi's hands from Shingo and cluched them in her own. "It'll be alright."
"It'll never be alright," Usagi whispeared. "Mamo-chan is gone." She paused. "And Chibi-Usa as well. I'll never see any of them again."
"Look here, Usagi," Kenji said. "You've got to get over this boy..........."
Usagi looked up at her father, disbelife in her eyes. "How can you say that? I loved him!"
Kenji seemed shocked, and Ikuko gasped. Shingo just stood back, his arms crossed, and nodded.
"You may think you loved........." Kenji started.
Usagi jumped of her bed and looked her father in the eye. Tears fell from her face. "I don't care what you say! I know what true love is. A person doesn't wait over a thousand years to figure that out!" Usagi jumped back onto her bed, face down, and cried into and her pillow.
Before the shocked Kenji could say anything more, Shingo grabbed his arm. "Come on, Dad." Kenji let himself be led away.
Ikuko stood up and looked down at her daughter. She sighed and left the room, shuting the door behind her.
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Mamoru's Love: The Nightmare
Usagi yawned slowly covering her mouth with her hand. "Is it morning all ready, Luna-chan?" she mumbled.
"I'm afraid so, Usai-chan." Luna jumped onto the bed and grabbed the covers with her teeth. She started pulling them off Usagi.
"Just a little more sleep, Luna-chan." Usagi grabbed the covers back and yanked them over her head. "Oh!" Usagi practicly jumped up from her bed, her eyes wide open. "Oh, Luna-chan! I had the most greatest dream last night. Me and Mamo-Chan were getting married. You and Artemus-kun were there, the scouts, and oh! Check this out! Queen Serenity was there!
"And..." Usagi stopped. "What happened next?" She pondered this for a moment. "Oh! I can't remember!"
Luna sweatdropped. "It was only a dream."
"Oh! I know, Luna! But it seemed so real!" Usagi gasped. "I have to go tell Mamo-Chan right away."
"No! Usagi-chan! I don't think that's a very good idea," Luna jumped up and ran to the door to try and block her.
"And how come, Luna?" Usagi demanded.
"Well, for one, it's too early," Luna managed to say without studdering.
"Mmm, I guess your right. I'll call him later. Right now, I'm going back to bed. Good night, Luna-chan." Usagi crawled back underneath the covers.
"What am I going to do?" Luna whispeared to herself.
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"Morning, Mom!" Usagi called as she ran down the stairs and into the kitchen. "Can't talk . Late for school." Usagi grabbed a piece of toast, her lunch, and her backpack and ran out the door.
She was half way to school when a voice called to her. It was Naru. "Hey! Usagi-chan! Wait up!"
Usagi stopped and waited for her red haired friend. She saw that Naru wasn't wearing her pack, or that she didn't have on her school uniform. "What's up with that?"
Naru was confused. "Why are you dressed in you school uniform, Usagi-chan?" She paused, then giggled. "Don't tell me you forgot today was Sunday?"
"Its....Sunday?" Usagi was the one confused now.
"Yeah, Usagi-chan. It would be prety funny if Sakurada-San knew this." She laughed some more.
"Very funny," Usagi said solemly. Tears started to form in her eyes. "I had to get up early for nothing?" she whined.
Naru suddenly became serious. "Are you feeling alright about, you know, everything, Usagi-chan?"
Usagi looked at her strangly. "I'm felling great!" she answered. "I mean, I have my family, my friends, Mamo-Chan!"
Naru grimanced. "Usagi-chan, Mamoru-san is......"
"Doing just fine!" Minako ran up to them. "Hey Usagi-chan, Naru-chan." She grabbed Naru by her shoulder and started pulling her away. "I can speak to you for a second," her whispeared to her.
Usagi looked at them strangly as Minako pulled Naru a great distance from her.
Minako filled Naru on the events of the past few days. Naru gasped, realizing she almost told Usagi the truth about Mamoru.
"I had no idea," Naru said. "Poor, Usagi-chan."
"Yeah. So keep it quite, Ok?"
Naru nodded. "OK."
Usagi starred at them suspeciously as they walked back. "What's going on?"
Minako smiled. "Nothing, Usagi-chan. Nothing."
"Minako-chan! Your hiding some juicy gossip from me, arn't you?" Usagi claped her hands to together. "Plese tell me."
"It's nothing, Usagi-chan," Naru said. She forced a laugh. "She just wanted to know why you were wearing your school uniform, thats all."
Usagi made a face. "So I forgot today was Sunday. So what! You don't have to make a big deal about it." She yawned. "I'm going home and back to bed, now. See ya!" Usagi started running.
"Bye, Usagi-chan!" she heard both Minako and Naru call to her.
As she ran, Usagi wondered what the two were up to. There is no way Minako-chan would pull her away just to talk about what I was wearing. There's gotta be another reason. An idea suddenly clicked in her mind. What was Naru-chan saying before Minako-chan came. 'Usagi-chan, Mamoru-san is....' Is what?
By the time she got home, Usagi had already had the day planned. She was going to change into something more appropriate, then head over to Mamoru's place. They would spend the day talking, laughing, and enjoying each others company. A thought made its way into her head, but she quciky dismissed it. She didn't want anything to runin her day.
***
"What do you mean Chiba Mamoru doesn't live here anymore?" Usagi yelled at the landlord. "He's only lived in this apartment for over four years now."
"He moved out a few months ago to go to college in the US," the man told her. "Look. All I know is that he left. Ok? I have things to do now, so if you don't mind....." He sighed and walked away.
"Hey! I'm not done with you! I'll be back!" Usagi shook her fist in the air. "The nerve of that guy!"
She spun around in fustration and started stomping her way home. "He wouldn't even let me see if he was there or not!" She yelled.
A thought suddenly accured to her. The Luna Pen! That's right! But I havn't used it in such a long time... She wondered where she had put it. With the thought of the Luna Pen in her mind, Usagi ran home to find it.
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"What are you looking for?" Luna was casually.
Usagi was digging though a desk drawer. "Nothing." Usagi kept searching.
"It doesn't look like nothing to me," Luna said, jumping up on the desk. She peered down at Usagi.
"If you must know," Usagi sighed, "I'm looking for the Luna Pen."
Luna stood up quickly. "What for?"
"I need to get into some place." Usagi didn't bother to look up at Luna, knowing that her expression wouldn't be good.
"You know it's only for scout buisness, Usagi-chan." Luna jumped onto the bed to get closer to her. "So don't even think about using it if you do find it."
"Hey," Usagi cried. "It is for scout busness." We need Tuxedo Kamen here, don't we? She thought to herself. "Ah, Ha! Found it!" Usagi pulled out the yellow pen with the red jewel on top. She jumped up excited. "Be back soon!" With that, Usagi ran out her bedroom door, not even preparing for the worst.
***
"Luna Pen! Turn me into a realistate agent!" The jewel on the pen glowed, turning Usagi into a classy lady. Her hair was cut short around her neck (imagine it shorter then Ami's), her eyes covered with glasses, and her body covered with a blue skirt and a professional top and coat. On her feet were short blue high-heels. In her hand was a notebook.
She laughed. "Do I look good or what?" She stood up straight and walked causally into the apartment building.
"Can I help you?" It was the same man that had been so rude to her eailer that day.
Usagi played it cool. "I'm-" she looked down at her name tag on her shirt -"Rias Meoko, from the Banbori Realistate agent. I've come here to look at a few of your places here."
The man looked at her suspicily, but nodded. "I wish you would have called first."
"Well, um, it was a surprise visit. You should aways be ready." Usagi gulped.
The man grunted. "Yeah. Well, come on. I'll show you a few of the empty rooms."
Yes! Usagi screamed inside her head. Nothing can stop me now.
The man lead her down the hall of the first floor, where he took her into an empty apartment. As he lead her around the place, she tried to look interested, and tried to take notes.
Not to seem to anxious to get to Mamoru's, she suggested that they view an empty room on each floor. The man just nodded and they went up to the second story. He took her into another apartment that looked almost exact to Mamoru's. Her patients were wareing off.
"How about the third floor, now?" Usagi asked.
"Don't you want to see the rest of this apartment first?" the man asked her.
"I think I've seen enough." Usagi gave him her best smile.
The man just nodded and led her to the third floor.
Usagi was getting more and more anxious to see what the man was hiding behind her Mamo-chan's door. She noticed they were about to pass Mamoru's apartement and she panicked. "What about this one? Is it empty?"
The man turned around and looked at her. "Kinda." He looked at her strangly. "You know its funny. A young girl came by here ealier today wanting to go into that room."
Usagi smiled. "Really? Then maybe there's something to be seen in there."
"Yeah, maybe." The man pulled his ring of keys out and opened the door.
Usagi followed him in. She gasped when she saw the living room.
"Is something wrong?" he asked.
She shook her head. "Is it okay if I look around a little?"
The man grunted. "I suppose."
Usagi took a few quite steps into the room. Most of the room was empty. Mamoru's big screen TV was gone, as well as all of his plants, pictures, lamps, etc. The only thing left in the room was his couch, and the stand next to it.
She went into the kitchen and saw that all his dishes were gone, as well as the food. She made her way to the back of the apartment to where his bedroom was. It was completely empty. Not a single thing was left. She checked the bathroom, and it too was empty. She was about to leave the room when she noticed that the closet was ajar. She checked to make sure the landlord wasn't watching, and opened the closet. It was complety bare, except for...
"What's that?" Usagi whispeared to herself. She reached up onto the self and pulled down a large yellow envelope. No words were written on it.
"Are you alright in there?" the landlord called.
Usagi quickly threw the envelope into her notebook. "Just fine," she called back to him. She hurried out of the room. Too many memories were resufacing.
"Will that be all?" he asked when she got back.
She nodded. "Just one question, though. What happened to the guy who lived here? I mean, why did he leave this stuff here?"
The man shrugged. "A couple came and took most of his stuff. They said that the guy who lived here died, and that everything was left to his girlfriend."
"Died?" she squeaked.
"Yeah. Was hit by a car or something in the states."
"Well, thanks." Usagi started for the door.
"Hey," the landlord said frmly.
Usagi looekd back meekly. "Yes?"
His voice sofened. "Did I pass inspection?"
Usagi nodded. "You'll get results in about a week." She gave him a fake smile then left.
As soon as she left the door the tears started to come. She didn't know where she was going, but she knew she had to go somewhere. She knew if she went home, Luna would be there to question her. If she went to the arcade, Motoki was sure to be there, and that would just remind her of Mamoru. Ami's wasn't to far from here, but she didn't want any advice at the moment. A few blocks was the Hikawa Jinja, but she didn't feel like talking to Rei about her problems. She knew if she went to Makoto's, she could take out all the pressure by eating, but her stomach wasn't up to it. Minako was more than likely to be out scouting for boys, so didn't even bother thinking about going to her place.
She looked up as she passed the cemetary. An idea hit her. She remembered she was still transformed, and so detransformed. She walked up to the cemetary gates. She paused before going in, still holding the yellow elvelope she had found at mamoru's. She walked into the main building to get directions. An old man was stitting at the counter reading the newspaper.
He looked up as she entered. "Can I help you, miss?"
"Yeah," Usagi said, trying to cover up her tears. "I was wondering of someone was buried here a little while ago."
The man nodded and pulled out a folder. "What's the name?"
Usagi took a deep breath to stop the tears from coming. "Chiba Mamoru."
The man nodded and started flipping through the pages. He stopped on a page then ran his finger down it. He stopped and looked up at her. "Yeah. A few weeks ago."
"Do...do you know where.....?" she couldn't finish.
The old man smiled gemtly. "Section C, row G, spot 7." He paused, looking at her. "Would you like me to excort you there?"
"No, I'll be fine. Thanks." Usagi tried to smile as she left. She walked up the hill until she found section C. She walked by each grave until she foun row G. Her head down, she looked at each grave, counting them off as she went. 1...2...3...4...5...6...
She stopped dead in her tracks. Though all the information she had recieved, she still couldn't believe it. She fell to her knees in the grass, and placed her hands upon the earth. "Mamo-chan," she cried, the tears falling from her cheeks and onto the grave plate. Through blurry eyes, Usagi was still able to make out the words.
Chiba Mamoru
1974-1996
The protector of us all will live on.
A large red rose was engraved on the right side. Usagi put her fingers on his name and traced it, the tears falling slowly, but freely.
"My Mamo-chan. Why did you go? Why!" She punded her fist on his grave plate. Her head collapsed in her arms, crying. "Why?" It was only a whispear as she realaxed her body onto the ground. "Why?" Her head started to hurt from all the crying, but she didn't care.
The warm sun shined down upon her as she cried herself asleep.
***
Usagi laid in bed, not moving, barley breathing, and unaware of the people around her. She starred across the room at the picture of her and Mamoru, not blinking.
"How do you think she found out?" Ami whispeared to Makoto.
"Don't know. Maybe she just remembered," Makoto answered.
The old man from the cemerty had found Usagi slepping on the gave, and took her inside. Once she had woken up, she didn't move or say anything. From what they were told by Usagi's mother, the police identified her and called them. They picked her up and brought her home.
"She has to get over this!" Rei yelled. "Usagi-chan! Snap out of it!" She was about to strike Usagi when Minako stopped her.
"Rei-chan. Don't. Usagi-chan needs to get over this." Minako grabbed Rei at her wrist and pulled her hand down. "How would you feel if Yuuichirou-san died?"
Rei lowered her head. "Why would I care?"
"Come on, Rei-chan. You can't hide it. We all know you have feelings for him." Minako put her arms around Rei. "Just think about it, will ya?"
Rei nodded but didn't say anything.
"She took the Luna Pen with her when she left," Luna finally said, her voice cracking. "I'm sure that had something to do with it."
"Don't blame yourself, Luna-chan," Artemus said. He snuggled up to her, trying to comfort her. "You had no idea what she was going to use it for."
"Artemus-kun...."Luna nodded, determined.
"Why didn't anyone tell me?"
"Usagi-chan!" Minako cried. She dropped down beside Usagi's bed. The other senshi moved in closer.
"His he really gone?" Usagi looked staright ahead, still not blinking. She slowly everted her eyes away and looked at Minako.
Minako didn't know what to tell her. She just gullped and nodded.
Usagi gave a small smile to her friend. It was the fist time she had shown any emotion since she had got home. Usagi closed her eyes and let the smile slowly drop off her face. A single tear fell from under her eye lid, sliding down her cheek, and hitting the pillow.
***
"Hey, Usako. Where you going?"
"Nowhere important."
"Then how about coming with me?"
"Where to?"
"It's a surprise."
"I don't know...."
"Come on, Odango Atama. Don't you trust me?"
"It just seems so....sudden."
"Our love has been real since I first saw you on the moon, Serenity-sama."
"I know, Endymion-sama. I've loved you since that day...."
"Then come with me."
Serenity, who had just been Usagi moments before, smiled. "I think I will."
Prince Endymion wrapped an arm around her waist with his left hand, and with his right hand, took her left hand. "It's a surprise."
Serenity closed her eyes and let her prince guide her to where ever they were going. When it seemed like they had been walking for a half hour, they stopped. She felt a chill run down her spine. She opened her eyes to see that Endymion was gone. About a hundred yards away, she saw Chiba Mamoru, walking across the street, and in front of her house no less. She may have looked like Princess Serenity, but inside, she still retained the memories of Tsukino Usagi.
She stood there, watching Mamoru make his way across the simi-busy street. What she saw, she saw in slow motion. Only, when she moved, it was at normal speed. She saw that a disel was driving faster than it should have been, and that it was heading straight toward Mamoru.
Serenity raised her hands above her head, placing the back of her right hand into the palm of her left hand. "Moon Eternal Extreme Power, Make Up!" A broach appeared her in hands that looked just like her eternal broach, but this one was a bright pink. It grew large wings on its side, then flew around her, turning her into a prisim, transforming her into her new form, Extreme Eternal Sailor Moon. Her whole outfit was the same as it had been as Eternal Sailor Moon, but with one difference. All the colors on her fuku had turned neon. Even her white wings glowed with a white aura.
"Mamo-chan!" she yelled at Mamoru, watching the desil getting closer.
Mamoru turned and looked at her. He smiled and waved to her, not even noticing the oncoming vehicle.
Sailor Moon's world seemed to slow down as Mamoru's sped up. She watched, not being able to turn away, as Mamoru's smiling face was whiped out before her. She heard the deafing crack of skull against bumper and screamed.
***
Shingo got on his hands and knees so he could crawl under his sister's desk to get the pen he had dropped. He spotted it on the floor agaist the wall. As he stood to get up, his head hit the desk.
A shrill scream made him forget about the pain and jump to his sister's side. "Usagi! Usagi!" Shingo shook his screaming sister, forcing her to wake up.
When her eyes finally fluttered open, she stopped screaming, seeing that it was her brother's face before her. Tears fell form her eyes. "Oh, Shingo-kun." Usagi grabbed her brother and hugged him, keeping him close to her. "It was awlful."
Shingo let his older sister cry into his shirt. "Come on, now, Usagi-chan."
The door to Usagi's room burst open and her mothe rand fatehr came running in.
"What happened in here?" Kenji asked, standing next to Shingo.
Ikuko sat down on the bed and put arm around her daughter. "It's alright now, Usagi. It was all a dream. It's over now." She pryed Usagi's hands from Shingo and cluched them in her own. "It'll be alright."
"It'll never be alright," Usagi whispeared. "Mamo-chan is gone." She paused. "And Chibi-Usa as well. I'll never see any of them again."
"Look here, Usagi," Kenji said. "You've got to get over this boy..........."
Usagi looked up at her father, disbelife in her eyes. "How can you say that? I loved him!"
Kenji seemed shocked, and Ikuko gasped. Shingo just stood back, his arms crossed, and nodded.
"You may think you loved........." Kenji started.
Usagi jumped of her bed and looked her father in the eye. Tears fell from her face. "I don't care what you say! I know what true love is. A person doesn't wait over a thousand years to figure that out!" Usagi jumped back onto her bed, face down, and cried into and her pillow.
Before the shocked Kenji could say anything more, Shingo grabbed his arm. "Come on, Dad." Kenji let himself be led away.
Ikuko stood up and looked down at her daughter. She sighed and left the room, shuting the door behind her.