Kiss From A Rose: Chapter 6. Don't own SM. Please R&R
Ami stopped typing on her computer. It was usually a solace to her when she was feeling confused or down, but not this time. This time, the worry was too great. She put her head in her hands and sighed.
"If Minako-chan says it's okay, then it should be." she said sadly. "Why are Rei-chan and Mako-chan being so apprehensive?"
There was no reply in her room. She rubbed her tired eyes and yawned.
"Why can't we just trust each other?" Ami asked herself, frustrated.
***
Usagi sat in Mamoru's apartment, not talking like she usually did. Mamoru handed her a teacup and saucer, and smiled. "Here you go."
"Arigatou." she whispered, holding it in her hands. He sat down across from her, and sipped his drink. There was a sound of porcelain hitting itself from where Usagi was sitting. It was getting louder and louder every second.
"Usako..." Mamoru said softly.
A small tinkling sound signified that the cup and saucer were lying broken on the ground. Usagi gasped as Mamoru moved to the edge of his seat.
"G...gomen nasai!" she stuttered.
"Daijoubu (It's okay)." he said. "Don't worry about it."
Usagi stood up and walked to the window. She held her arm as if she'd been struck there. Mamoru put the pieces of broken porcelain on the coffee table, then walked to the window and stood next to her.
"Minna de...(Everyone...)" Usagi said, softly.
"I'm sure they're fine. Maybe..." Mamoru said, not knowing what to say. Usagi was in pain, and he wasn't quite sure how to help her. He put his arms around her and held her tight.
"HANASHITE YO!! (Let go of me!!)" she lashed out. Mamoru quickly let go, and backed away a few steps. Usagi was shaking from head to toe, looking at him in fright. Then, she gasped and put her hands to her mouth.
"I...I should go." Usagi said, still trembling violently. She grabbed her bag and quickly ran out of his apartment. Mamoru stood, confused and worried.
"Usako..."
***
Makoto looked outside at the pouring rain. She remembered the look on Usagi's face just a few weeks earlier, when she stepped off the steps of their school, into the rain. She looked so lost and forlorn. And she was even more so because her friends were trying to protect her. She sighed, and began to set the timer. She stopped when she heard a knock at the door.
"Coming!" Makoto cried. She set the timer, put her cookies in the oven, and went to answer the door, rubbing her hands on her apron as she went. When she opened the door, she gasped at who it was. "Usagi-chan!"
Usagi stood, wet, cold and shivering. Makoto hurried her inside, and quickly warmed her up with new clothes, a blanket, and a cup of tea.
There was silence between them, until Usagi broke it with a small, "Gomen ne, Mako-chan."
Makoto's face didn't change. It stayed the same concerned, motherly look. "About what?"
"Mamo-ch...I mean, Mamoru-san." Usagi said, looking at the floor.
Makoto looked at her squarely. "I'm not mad, just worried. Do you know what you've set yourself up for?"
"But he's saved me the whole time." Usagi protested.
"Yes, but he could be doing so to get you to trust him." Makoto said.
"Why are you so paranoid?!" Usagi cried.
Makoto sighed. "You love him?"
Usagi nodded, then shook her head. She shrugged. "I do," she admitted, biting her lip, "but, I want all of my friends to be okay with it."
Makoto looked at Usagi in a whole new perspective.
"Mako-chan, I..." Usagi started, but Makoto put up her hand.
"Let me explain my reasoning." she said firmly. "Usagi-chan, you're one of my best friends. You introduced me to Ami-chan and Rei-chan, and for that, I'm eternally grateful. So I want to protect you. Plus, you're Sailor Moon. The enemy is going to play every card up their sleeves to get to you. We don't know Tuxedo Kamen's true intentions. Who knows if we ever will?"
Usagi nodded. She remembered who taken with him she'd been when she first saw him. Her cheeks turned pink with embarrassment, and the acknowledgment that Makoto was right.
"I don't want to see your head impaled on a stick, or something bad like that. Do you understand?"
Usagi nodded. "But, he's not bad." she protested.
Makoto sighed. There was no way to get through to her. "How do you know for sure?"
"This feeling I have inside." Usagi said, clutching her teacup tighter.
"Feelings can be wrong." Makoto said softly. "Feelings can be a certain way, and we interpret them another. You can't always trust your gut."
"But you should always trust your heart." Usagi said. "I've always been taught to trust my heart."
Makoto took the teacups to the sink. She thought for a few seconds. "My mother always said the same thing."
"She did?" Usagi said, surprised.
Makoto nodded. "She told me that I have to look deeper, and trust my heart about a person. She said it would never fail me. I never really understood." Makoto laughed a little, but tears were welling up in her green eyes.
"Mako-chan..." Usagi said, getting up and hugging her friend.
"Arigatou, Usagi-chan." Makoto said, rubbing her eyes. "Oh! My cookies!" she said, running to the oven.
"Cookies? Oh, I came at the right time!" Usagi cried excitedly. Makoto laughed.
"I guess you're going to have to decide for yourself about him, Usagi-chan." she said.
Usagi nodded. "I know."
Makoto smiled. "You let me know the first moment you suspect you are, or know you are, in danger. I'll come and make sure he never has offspring."
Usagi smiled with so much happiness, she thought she'd burst with joy. "Arigatou, Mako-chan!!" she cried, hugging her friend tightly.
***
Zoicite stood in front of a crystal wall, trying to think. That girl...she was the first link to the chain of killing Sailor Moon. Hell, it wouldn't be just Sailor Moon, it'd be the whole Sailor Senshi-tachi, and their baka neko-tachi(stupid cats).
And all that was needed was that girl.
***
Minako ran as fast as she could. Emergency? From Mamoru-san? This must be bad.
Artemis and Luna ran as fast as they could next to her.
"Shimpai da wa!(I'm worried!)" Luna cried. "What if this is a kidnapping?"
"Henshin da, Minako-chan! (Transform, Minako-chan!)" Artemis cried.
"Hai!" Minako cried. She hid behind a building, and transformed into Sailor V. She ran out and called to the cats, "Iku wa yo! (Let's go!)"
"Wakatta! (Right!)" they cried, and all the three hurried to the park. Minako stopped when she saw someone else in the park she didn't suspect.
"Usagi-chan!!" Minako cried.
Usagi was lying on the ground. She didn't appear to be breathing.
"Usako!"
Minako looked up to see Tuxedo Kamen standing across from her, staring at Usagi's body lying on the ground, limp. Blood was forming a puddle around her.
"USAKO!!" Mamoru cried. He and Minako ran up to the body, and found themselves tied together, high in the air.
"Anou..." Minako said, shifting uncomfortably.
A shrill laugh rang through the empty park. Usagi stood up, and changed into the gray suited general-Zoicite.
"Usagi, is it? Or 'Usako', Top-Hat-Cape?"
Mamoru turned to look at Minako, glaring. She blushed uncomfortably, and shrugged as best she could.
"Well, arigatou. Now, I hope you two don't mind, but..." Zoicite said with mock politeness.
An electric shock ran through Minako's and Mamoru's ties, and they both screamed in pain. Zoicite laughed and clicked his fingers. The shock stopped. Zoicite smiled evilly.
"Now, them, how about a little vacation?" he said with the same mocking voice.
"SUGOI!!(Cool!!)" Minako cried. "Where are we going? I hope it's Hawaii! Or some tropical island! Maybe..." She cut off with one look from Mamoru, and a surprised look from Zoicite.
"Ah...gomen, gomen," she said, embarrassed.
"Omachinasai!!(Stop right there!!)"
"SAILOR MOON!!" Mamoru and Minako cried out.
"Let them go, Zoicite." Sailor Moon said, threateningly. "Let them go, or I'll stomp on your remains until they're no longer dust."
Zoicite laughed again. "You can't destroy me, little girl." he said maliciously. "And if you did, do you think I'd be like my drones?"
"I got rid of Jadeite and Nephrite, I can kill you too." Sailor Moon said, glaring at the general.
With a snap of his fingers, Tuxedo Kamen and Sailor V vanished. Usagi cried out in shock.
"Tuxedo Kamen-sama!! Sailor V-chan!! Iya!!" she gasped.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Zoicite said mockingly. "Were they your friends?"
"Kaeshite!! (Return them) Tuxedo Kamen-sama, Sailor V-chan...KAESHITE!!! (Return them!!)" Usagi screamed, her voice growing hoarse.
Zoisite laughed, and disappeared.
***
The last thing she had done was run away from him. All he was trying to do was help her the best he could, the only way he could. He tried to be there for her, and...she shoved him out of the way.
And he was gone.
***
"Mamoru-san, and Minako-chan." Luna said gravely. Rei, Makoto, and Ami nodded.
"They have the princess." Ami said softly.
Luna nodded. "We need to find a way to get them back."
Artemis stayed silent. Minako had been captured for a day now-this could jeopardize their whole plan.
"Artemis?"
Artemis looked up to see everyone staring at him.
"I'm just thinking about how they've been captured-" he started.
"This isn't some stupid game of capture the flag! FUCK!" Makoto cried, banging her fist on one of the beams of the Hikawa Jinja. Suddenly, it broke, bending at an odd angle, but luckily, still holding up the shrine.
"You're going to have to pay for that, Mako-chan." Rei said angrily. Makoto quickly took her fist away, looking shocked.
Ami sighed. "How's Usagi?" she asked Luna.
Luna looked at the ground. "Not good. She acts like she's walking around in a daydream, like she expects the both of them to walk in the door any second."
Rei snorted. "It's all Mamoru-san's-"
"That's enough." Ami said sharply. She stood up, hands on her hips. "When are you two going to grow up?!"
"You mean, 'When is Rei-chan going to grow up?'" Makoto said. "I want to get Mamoru-san back, for Usagi-chan's sake."
"Mako-chan!" Rei cried.
Ami smiled, then turned to Rei. "Are you just jealous?"
Rei blushed bright red. "W...what do you mean?"
"You know, Rei-chan, red really is a good color for you." Makoto said, teasingly. Rei blushed even more, and glared even harder at Makoto. "Mako-chan..." she said, warningly.
"You did go out on a date with him once, if I remember right." Ami said, smiling.
Rei was blushing as red as a heart on Valentine's Day, then became serious. "I didn't know he was Tuxedo Kamen then. And if I knew, I'd stop seeing him before I even started."
"Sou da ne(That's right.)." Ami said. "Now, I think we should leave before the whole shrine collapses on us."
Rei glared at Makoto as they all left to see Usagi.
***
*Pick up the phone. Dial his number. Hear his voice say, 'Hello'. Say, 'I'm sorry'.* Usagi repeated in her head. *Mamo-chan isn't gone. He's here. He just came back from the store. I'm going to go over later and apologize in person, too.* She picked up the phone and dialed his number. One ring...two rings...three...four...five...a pick up.
"Hello, this is Chiba Mamoru-"
"Mamo-chan! I..." she stopped when she heard the rest- "I'm not home right now, so please leave a message after the beep." BEEP!
*NO! He's home, he can't be avoiding me! He's there!*
She dialed again, and waited. One...two...five..."Hello, this is Chiba Mamoru. I'm not-"
"Chikushou!(Damn!!)" Usagi cried, hanging up and dialing again. One...two...five..."Hello, this is Chiba Mamo-"
"IYA!!! (No!)" Usagi said, blindly slamming the phone into the cradle over and over, until she felt someone pull the phone away.
"Usagi-chan!! He's not there!" Rei cried, holding her arms.
"Usotsuki!(Liar!) Mamo-chan ga...Minako-chan ga..." Usagi cried. "Mamo-chan!! Minako-chan!!" She got louder and louder with every panicked syllable. She started to hyperventilate, and burst into tears. Makoto and Ami tried to calm her down while Rei carefully put the broken phone away. They couldn't believe Usagi's acceptance to all of this. It scared them completely.
***
It took a lot of coaxing to get Usagi to come down to the kitchen. Makoto made some tea, and Rei grabbed a blanket to wrap around Usagi's shaking arms. Ami made sandwiches, and gave one to Usagi. Usagi turned her head away.
"Come on, Usagi-chan." Ami said worriedly. "You've got to eat something."
Usagi shook her head. "I'm not hungry."
Rei smiled, although it was a sad smile. "I never thought I'd hear that."
Usagi hugged the blanket tighter around herself. Food-what was that compared to Mamo-chan and Minako-chan's capture? Food was part of an old her. It was time to grow up and be who she needed to be.
"You know, Usagi, we're going to get them back." Makoto said. "Both of them."
"Datte...(but)" Usagi said, childlike. "I'm not strong enough."
"We haven't lost a battle yet." Ami said.
"Sou yo(That's right)." Rei said.
"Let's do our best, Usagi-chan." Makoto said.
"Issho ni ikimasho yo. (Let's go together.)" Ami said.
Usagi nodded. "We'll stop at nothing to get them back."
"All right. Everyone have a nice dinner and a quick nap, then meet in the park in three hours." Rei said.
"Meet at the shrine, then meet at the park." corrected Makoto.
"Un! (Yes!)." they all agreed.
Usagi looked to the window. A wave of melancholy and hopelessness swept over her, but she pushed it back furiously.
*I'm gonna get them back.* Usagi thought, a new fire burning in her heart. *I just know it.*
***
Hope you all like it. Please R&R *~*EternalSenshi*~*
Ami stopped typing on her computer. It was usually a solace to her when she was feeling confused or down, but not this time. This time, the worry was too great. She put her head in her hands and sighed.
"If Minako-chan says it's okay, then it should be." she said sadly. "Why are Rei-chan and Mako-chan being so apprehensive?"
There was no reply in her room. She rubbed her tired eyes and yawned.
"Why can't we just trust each other?" Ami asked herself, frustrated.
***
Usagi sat in Mamoru's apartment, not talking like she usually did. Mamoru handed her a teacup and saucer, and smiled. "Here you go."
"Arigatou." she whispered, holding it in her hands. He sat down across from her, and sipped his drink. There was a sound of porcelain hitting itself from where Usagi was sitting. It was getting louder and louder every second.
"Usako..." Mamoru said softly.
A small tinkling sound signified that the cup and saucer were lying broken on the ground. Usagi gasped as Mamoru moved to the edge of his seat.
"G...gomen nasai!" she stuttered.
"Daijoubu (It's okay)." he said. "Don't worry about it."
Usagi stood up and walked to the window. She held her arm as if she'd been struck there. Mamoru put the pieces of broken porcelain on the coffee table, then walked to the window and stood next to her.
"Minna de...(Everyone...)" Usagi said, softly.
"I'm sure they're fine. Maybe..." Mamoru said, not knowing what to say. Usagi was in pain, and he wasn't quite sure how to help her. He put his arms around her and held her tight.
"HANASHITE YO!! (Let go of me!!)" she lashed out. Mamoru quickly let go, and backed away a few steps. Usagi was shaking from head to toe, looking at him in fright. Then, she gasped and put her hands to her mouth.
"I...I should go." Usagi said, still trembling violently. She grabbed her bag and quickly ran out of his apartment. Mamoru stood, confused and worried.
"Usako..."
***
Makoto looked outside at the pouring rain. She remembered the look on Usagi's face just a few weeks earlier, when she stepped off the steps of their school, into the rain. She looked so lost and forlorn. And she was even more so because her friends were trying to protect her. She sighed, and began to set the timer. She stopped when she heard a knock at the door.
"Coming!" Makoto cried. She set the timer, put her cookies in the oven, and went to answer the door, rubbing her hands on her apron as she went. When she opened the door, she gasped at who it was. "Usagi-chan!"
Usagi stood, wet, cold and shivering. Makoto hurried her inside, and quickly warmed her up with new clothes, a blanket, and a cup of tea.
There was silence between them, until Usagi broke it with a small, "Gomen ne, Mako-chan."
Makoto's face didn't change. It stayed the same concerned, motherly look. "About what?"
"Mamo-ch...I mean, Mamoru-san." Usagi said, looking at the floor.
Makoto looked at her squarely. "I'm not mad, just worried. Do you know what you've set yourself up for?"
"But he's saved me the whole time." Usagi protested.
"Yes, but he could be doing so to get you to trust him." Makoto said.
"Why are you so paranoid?!" Usagi cried.
Makoto sighed. "You love him?"
Usagi nodded, then shook her head. She shrugged. "I do," she admitted, biting her lip, "but, I want all of my friends to be okay with it."
Makoto looked at Usagi in a whole new perspective.
"Mako-chan, I..." Usagi started, but Makoto put up her hand.
"Let me explain my reasoning." she said firmly. "Usagi-chan, you're one of my best friends. You introduced me to Ami-chan and Rei-chan, and for that, I'm eternally grateful. So I want to protect you. Plus, you're Sailor Moon. The enemy is going to play every card up their sleeves to get to you. We don't know Tuxedo Kamen's true intentions. Who knows if we ever will?"
Usagi nodded. She remembered who taken with him she'd been when she first saw him. Her cheeks turned pink with embarrassment, and the acknowledgment that Makoto was right.
"I don't want to see your head impaled on a stick, or something bad like that. Do you understand?"
Usagi nodded. "But, he's not bad." she protested.
Makoto sighed. There was no way to get through to her. "How do you know for sure?"
"This feeling I have inside." Usagi said, clutching her teacup tighter.
"Feelings can be wrong." Makoto said softly. "Feelings can be a certain way, and we interpret them another. You can't always trust your gut."
"But you should always trust your heart." Usagi said. "I've always been taught to trust my heart."
Makoto took the teacups to the sink. She thought for a few seconds. "My mother always said the same thing."
"She did?" Usagi said, surprised.
Makoto nodded. "She told me that I have to look deeper, and trust my heart about a person. She said it would never fail me. I never really understood." Makoto laughed a little, but tears were welling up in her green eyes.
"Mako-chan..." Usagi said, getting up and hugging her friend.
"Arigatou, Usagi-chan." Makoto said, rubbing her eyes. "Oh! My cookies!" she said, running to the oven.
"Cookies? Oh, I came at the right time!" Usagi cried excitedly. Makoto laughed.
"I guess you're going to have to decide for yourself about him, Usagi-chan." she said.
Usagi nodded. "I know."
Makoto smiled. "You let me know the first moment you suspect you are, or know you are, in danger. I'll come and make sure he never has offspring."
Usagi smiled with so much happiness, she thought she'd burst with joy. "Arigatou, Mako-chan!!" she cried, hugging her friend tightly.
***
Zoicite stood in front of a crystal wall, trying to think. That girl...she was the first link to the chain of killing Sailor Moon. Hell, it wouldn't be just Sailor Moon, it'd be the whole Sailor Senshi-tachi, and their baka neko-tachi(stupid cats).
And all that was needed was that girl.
***
Minako ran as fast as she could. Emergency? From Mamoru-san? This must be bad.
Artemis and Luna ran as fast as they could next to her.
"Shimpai da wa!(I'm worried!)" Luna cried. "What if this is a kidnapping?"
"Henshin da, Minako-chan! (Transform, Minako-chan!)" Artemis cried.
"Hai!" Minako cried. She hid behind a building, and transformed into Sailor V. She ran out and called to the cats, "Iku wa yo! (Let's go!)"
"Wakatta! (Right!)" they cried, and all the three hurried to the park. Minako stopped when she saw someone else in the park she didn't suspect.
"Usagi-chan!!" Minako cried.
Usagi was lying on the ground. She didn't appear to be breathing.
"Usako!"
Minako looked up to see Tuxedo Kamen standing across from her, staring at Usagi's body lying on the ground, limp. Blood was forming a puddle around her.
"USAKO!!" Mamoru cried. He and Minako ran up to the body, and found themselves tied together, high in the air.
"Anou..." Minako said, shifting uncomfortably.
A shrill laugh rang through the empty park. Usagi stood up, and changed into the gray suited general-Zoicite.
"Usagi, is it? Or 'Usako', Top-Hat-Cape?"
Mamoru turned to look at Minako, glaring. She blushed uncomfortably, and shrugged as best she could.
"Well, arigatou. Now, I hope you two don't mind, but..." Zoicite said with mock politeness.
An electric shock ran through Minako's and Mamoru's ties, and they both screamed in pain. Zoicite laughed and clicked his fingers. The shock stopped. Zoicite smiled evilly.
"Now, them, how about a little vacation?" he said with the same mocking voice.
"SUGOI!!(Cool!!)" Minako cried. "Where are we going? I hope it's Hawaii! Or some tropical island! Maybe..." She cut off with one look from Mamoru, and a surprised look from Zoicite.
"Ah...gomen, gomen," she said, embarrassed.
"Omachinasai!!(Stop right there!!)"
"SAILOR MOON!!" Mamoru and Minako cried out.
"Let them go, Zoicite." Sailor Moon said, threateningly. "Let them go, or I'll stomp on your remains until they're no longer dust."
Zoicite laughed again. "You can't destroy me, little girl." he said maliciously. "And if you did, do you think I'd be like my drones?"
"I got rid of Jadeite and Nephrite, I can kill you too." Sailor Moon said, glaring at the general.
With a snap of his fingers, Tuxedo Kamen and Sailor V vanished. Usagi cried out in shock.
"Tuxedo Kamen-sama!! Sailor V-chan!! Iya!!" she gasped.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Zoicite said mockingly. "Were they your friends?"
"Kaeshite!! (Return them) Tuxedo Kamen-sama, Sailor V-chan...KAESHITE!!! (Return them!!)" Usagi screamed, her voice growing hoarse.
Zoisite laughed, and disappeared.
***
The last thing she had done was run away from him. All he was trying to do was help her the best he could, the only way he could. He tried to be there for her, and...she shoved him out of the way.
And he was gone.
***
"Mamoru-san, and Minako-chan." Luna said gravely. Rei, Makoto, and Ami nodded.
"They have the princess." Ami said softly.
Luna nodded. "We need to find a way to get them back."
Artemis stayed silent. Minako had been captured for a day now-this could jeopardize their whole plan.
"Artemis?"
Artemis looked up to see everyone staring at him.
"I'm just thinking about how they've been captured-" he started.
"This isn't some stupid game of capture the flag! FUCK!" Makoto cried, banging her fist on one of the beams of the Hikawa Jinja. Suddenly, it broke, bending at an odd angle, but luckily, still holding up the shrine.
"You're going to have to pay for that, Mako-chan." Rei said angrily. Makoto quickly took her fist away, looking shocked.
Ami sighed. "How's Usagi?" she asked Luna.
Luna looked at the ground. "Not good. She acts like she's walking around in a daydream, like she expects the both of them to walk in the door any second."
Rei snorted. "It's all Mamoru-san's-"
"That's enough." Ami said sharply. She stood up, hands on her hips. "When are you two going to grow up?!"
"You mean, 'When is Rei-chan going to grow up?'" Makoto said. "I want to get Mamoru-san back, for Usagi-chan's sake."
"Mako-chan!" Rei cried.
Ami smiled, then turned to Rei. "Are you just jealous?"
Rei blushed bright red. "W...what do you mean?"
"You know, Rei-chan, red really is a good color for you." Makoto said, teasingly. Rei blushed even more, and glared even harder at Makoto. "Mako-chan..." she said, warningly.
"You did go out on a date with him once, if I remember right." Ami said, smiling.
Rei was blushing as red as a heart on Valentine's Day, then became serious. "I didn't know he was Tuxedo Kamen then. And if I knew, I'd stop seeing him before I even started."
"Sou da ne(That's right.)." Ami said. "Now, I think we should leave before the whole shrine collapses on us."
Rei glared at Makoto as they all left to see Usagi.
***
*Pick up the phone. Dial his number. Hear his voice say, 'Hello'. Say, 'I'm sorry'.* Usagi repeated in her head. *Mamo-chan isn't gone. He's here. He just came back from the store. I'm going to go over later and apologize in person, too.* She picked up the phone and dialed his number. One ring...two rings...three...four...five...a pick up.
"Hello, this is Chiba Mamoru-"
"Mamo-chan! I..." she stopped when she heard the rest- "I'm not home right now, so please leave a message after the beep." BEEP!
*NO! He's home, he can't be avoiding me! He's there!*
She dialed again, and waited. One...two...five..."Hello, this is Chiba Mamoru. I'm not-"
"Chikushou!(Damn!!)" Usagi cried, hanging up and dialing again. One...two...five..."Hello, this is Chiba Mamo-"
"IYA!!! (No!)" Usagi said, blindly slamming the phone into the cradle over and over, until she felt someone pull the phone away.
"Usagi-chan!! He's not there!" Rei cried, holding her arms.
"Usotsuki!(Liar!) Mamo-chan ga...Minako-chan ga..." Usagi cried. "Mamo-chan!! Minako-chan!!" She got louder and louder with every panicked syllable. She started to hyperventilate, and burst into tears. Makoto and Ami tried to calm her down while Rei carefully put the broken phone away. They couldn't believe Usagi's acceptance to all of this. It scared them completely.
***
It took a lot of coaxing to get Usagi to come down to the kitchen. Makoto made some tea, and Rei grabbed a blanket to wrap around Usagi's shaking arms. Ami made sandwiches, and gave one to Usagi. Usagi turned her head away.
"Come on, Usagi-chan." Ami said worriedly. "You've got to eat something."
Usagi shook her head. "I'm not hungry."
Rei smiled, although it was a sad smile. "I never thought I'd hear that."
Usagi hugged the blanket tighter around herself. Food-what was that compared to Mamo-chan and Minako-chan's capture? Food was part of an old her. It was time to grow up and be who she needed to be.
"You know, Usagi, we're going to get them back." Makoto said. "Both of them."
"Datte...(but)" Usagi said, childlike. "I'm not strong enough."
"We haven't lost a battle yet." Ami said.
"Sou yo(That's right)." Rei said.
"Let's do our best, Usagi-chan." Makoto said.
"Issho ni ikimasho yo. (Let's go together.)" Ami said.
Usagi nodded. "We'll stop at nothing to get them back."
"All right. Everyone have a nice dinner and a quick nap, then meet in the park in three hours." Rei said.
"Meet at the shrine, then meet at the park." corrected Makoto.
"Un! (Yes!)." they all agreed.
Usagi looked to the window. A wave of melancholy and hopelessness swept over her, but she pushed it back furiously.
*I'm gonna get them back.* Usagi thought, a new fire burning in her heart. *I just know it.*
***
Hope you all like it. Please R&R *~*EternalSenshi*~*