"Hi Luna. How are you?" Serena greeted her feline friend.
"Shouldn't I be the one asking you that?"
Serena smiled, "I'm okay Luna. Much better."
"Be thankful to Darien."
"Darien?"
Luna turned to Serena in a poise that matched her position in the Moon Kingdom as royal advisor, "He transferred spiritual energy to you so you may recover faster. And you did, almost 5 times faster at that. Even the doctor's began to be suspicious at how fast your wounds healed." Serena was about to say something but Luna continued to speak, "And you know what else? You could have been dead by now if Tuxedo Mask hadn't arrived to save your sorry ass and finish off the daimon."
"But it wasn't my fault!" Serena began to cry.
"Wasn't your fault? So who's fault is it then?"
"Why are you telling me this anyway?!"
"Listen to me Serena," Luna looked straight to Serena, "Darien couldn't have passed you his spiritual energy if he isn't bonded to you in more than one way."
"What do you mean?" Serena knew what she means. It's the truth that she keeps running away from.
"Darien's you destiny, Serena, you know that. Your future husband and king to Crystal Tokyo. You couldn't change that Serena. You couldn't change it just because you wanted to. Serena, please stop thinking about yourself! There are many people who need your help, who depend on the choices that you make."
"That's it Luna!! Why me? Why does it have to depend on me? Can't I find my true hapiness without destiny telling me what I should do and who I should love?" It's all beginning to get to Serena. She knows that she's starting to sound really selfish and conceited. But she wants to find herself. She wants to find her true hapiness, her true love! Why can't she make her own destiny?
Luna gave her a sad look, "Search your heart, Serenity. Open your eyes and find true love and hapiness that you desperately wanted to find." With that, Luna bowed her head low and headed out he window.
The blue waves of the sea splashed upon the white and gray rocks of the shore, wetting the warm sands of an early morning. The waters went back to sea, only to be replaced by a new wave of blue aqua. It was rhytmic, almost hypnotic, with its song relaxing the earth. The cry of a lark and the whoosh of a soft breeze hailed a new day, creating fresh music of a natural orchestra.And not far from this, a mansion stands in solitude, away from the busy life of the city. Its windows facing the ocean, laced with white satin curtains, served as windows of love to the couple inside, feeling the touch of the winds and the scent of ocean. Both stands on their favorite places as they duet to the tune of nature, one with fingers laced upon the ebony and ivory of the piano and the other, her hand upon the bow of the violin. With hearts as one, they drift away to their solemn paradise.
Haruka knows not what to do. He's got Michiru to think of and the child. God! He's going to be a father soon, a role that he didn't even imagine in his wildest dreams. Of course he was a female back then. But he's a man now. Things change. And they really did.
His thoughts started to drift to Michiru. Who is she exactly in his life?
She was his girlfriend.
Haruka cannot erase the fact that he loved Michiru more than his own life. His life centered around her and his career. He cannot say that he left nothing to himself because she was his life. It was though they were one. They were happy. What happened then? Haruka started to feel empty. And when he saw Serena, he immediately became filled with her charm, her radiance, her love.
Haruka changed for her. Then it struck him.
Why had he changed? He knew he changed for Serena, for his great love for her, for the fullfilment of a dream that was once impossible. But he didn't have to change for Michiru then. She accepted him as he was, back then when the world thought that their love was impossible moreover, immoral. He didn't change, yet she loved him--or rather, her, and "she" loved her too.
And Darien... he remembered now. He saw when Tuxedo Kamen came and saved Sailormoon from the daimon. Haruka saw the rage out of worry for Serena. His eyes were fierce against the monster and every move was marked with accuracy. And when he had finally defeated the daimon... when he bent to the blonde hero who had just detransformed from weakness... Haruka saw in his eyes all the love that he never thought could come from someone like Darien. He saw all the love that now he is beginning to doubt if he can ever give.
"Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Haruka shouted as he held his head in his hands in the hospital room. He began to ache... his head pained from all the thinking, and his heart broken. What was he thinking? Is he beginning to give up on his love for Serena? He can't. He couldn't. But then... why is he feeling this way?