Only you,

By Moonlight Bunny

Disclaimer: Well, like I said. I don't own the SM characters.

A/N: Hi. Sorry for taking it so long, but I actually had good reasons of why it took so long for me to up-date. Anyway, here's the chappie.

Previously

"Oh my god, she really did love Seiya." Makoto said to herself.

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"Now the Starlights have come back and by seeing Yaten-kun again makes me feel… It was the same feelings that I felt the last time he was here. Oh kami-sama! Am I still in love with him?"

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"That's the problem. We don't have the heart to tell Usagi-chan. We love her to much to see her hurt."

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"Gomen-nasai Usagi-san, demo Seiya can't talk right now. He's busy with doing something else."

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"That was your Odango. You know, the girl you travelled all over the galaxy for. God, if I knew that you were instead going to screw with someone else, than Yaten and I shouldn't have come with you."

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"I've been thinking a lot lately and I've decided to give up on Odango."

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"Well, the woman is destiny. The wind represents all those people who have their future decided by her and the golden orb is the people's future she's holding."

"Wow, must be tough to have their futures already decided. I know I wouldn't want that."

"You have no idea, bro." Usagi thought.

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By the way, Usagi-chan. Did Mamoru-san call you?"

"No, I haven't heard from him since he left."

"That's weird. He should have called you as soon as he arrived."

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"U… Usagi?" Rei gasped at the sight before her. Usagi's face was full of bruises and it looked like she has been crying because of the tearstains.

"Usa, no!!!" Rei cried as she tried to free her dear friend from the chains, but without any luck.

"Noooo…!!!" Rei screamed in agony as tears fell down her cheeks.

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"You love Seiya-kun, don't you?" Rei asked.

"Yes. Yes, I'm in love with Seiya. Please don't get angry at me, but I can't help it."

"For Chibi-Usa's sake, right?"

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"Luna, back early? I thought you wouldn't be coming back from the future until next week?"

"Usagi-chan, something happened!"

"The future is falling apart!" Artemis started to tell.

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"It's me. I'm the cause of it."

"Usa-chan, don't say that. We don't know that yet." Rei said, trying to calm the blonde.

"No, it's me! I'm the one who's caused it and because of my actions, the future, the people, Chibi-Usa. All of them paid the price."

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"I'm… I'm sorry!"

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"USAGI!!!" they screamed.

Rei arrived first at the scene. She ran to her friend, falling down on her knees as she held the small woman tightly.

"Usagi, no you can't do this to me!!! You promised me that we will be together until the end, so don't you dare die. You hear that, Odango Atama? Seiya needs you. We need you. I need you." Rei cried.

Looking around and sniffing she saw a crowded people around them, wanting to see what had happened. Rei glared at them behind the tears, yelling,

"What are you all baka standing there for? Can't you see she's hurt? Are you that stupid that you can't even call an ambulance?"

Looking back at Usagi, she whispered,

"Please don't go. There's so much you have to do. You have to finish your paintings for your big events party, and… and you have to kick Mamoru-baka's butt because you're going to get together with Seiya. Usagi, please don't leave me here. I don't know what to do without you."

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"It's Usagi." Ami started to cry.

"She's… she's been… she's been…"

"Okay, Ami. Calm down. Take a deep breath and then tell me what has happened."

""Usagi's been hit by a car. She's critically injured."

"WHAT?!" Taiki exclaimed.

"We just talked to a doctor and he told us that Usagi is in a problematical state. She's lost a lot of blood and her head was badly injured from the impact. I think they're telling us that she's not going to recover."

"We'll come right away. Just stay there and please wait for us. Ami-san? Ami?"

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"She's badly injured and the doctors don't think that she's going to make it." Taiki ended as he grabbed his car keys.

"Odango, no. Please tell me this is a joke. That you're only telling me this just to teach me a lesson?"

"Seiya, I'm serious. Ami just called and told me that. So are you coming or not." Taiki said, already knowing what the answer would be.

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"You're right! It should have been you lying there instead of Neko-chan."

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"Why don't you just shut up Haruka!" Makoto barked at the tall woman.

"Look here now! If Rei hadn't suggested of going to the park, then maybe this wouldn't have happened!"

"Could you stop blaming her? It's not her fault! She never saw this coming. Yelling at Rei-chan won't make things much better and it certainly won't help Usagi."

"Yes, it is. It was my fault all along." a sad and hoarse voice said behind the two women

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The inners were going to say something, when the doctor came out of the room. Everyone went to him, wanting to find out about the results. None of them could read his face if Usagi was getting better. He looked at each of them. He was not smiling, but he was not either looking sad.

"So how is she? Getting better?"

"Is Usagi going to be okay?"

"She's on the road to recovery, right?"

The doctor took a deep breath and opened his mouth. A few words came out from his mouth as he glanced at the Tsukinos and laid his hand on Kenji's arm, then he turned around and went.

Chapter ten: On the other side

"Where am I?"

A shadow figure formed through the fog revealing a beautiful young woman walking around. The woman had blonde hair put up into two pigtails. She was looking around, lost in the fog, when she suddenly saw a light.

"It's so bright and beautiful here." the woman said as she closed her eyes and smiled.

"Hmm… a warm feeling." but then the woman came into a realization as she turned around several times, scanning the area.

She started to panic as she cried out,

"I don't… I don't remember what's happened."

Then some memories flashed before her as she whispered to herself.

"Rei! The park, Luna and Artemis!"

"Was I… Did that… Am I dead?" she wondered as she looked around, only seeing this bright place she was on.

"No, you're not dead." a serene voice echoed through the fog.

"If I'm not dead than why am I here?"

"Baka-Usagi! Didn't you hear what mom told you? You're not dead." another serene, yet so childish voice said as it giggled through the thick fog..

"Huh? Chib… Chibi-Usa? But… but it can't be? You were supposed to be..." Usagi said, but got cut off.

"Stupid, I'm not dead. Why should I be dead? If I was would I be standing here in front of you and tease you?" the voice giggled.

"Small Lady, behave now."

"Oops… forgive me mother. I'm just so happy of seeing Usagi-chan again."

"Neo-Queen Serenity?" Usagi doubted,

"But Luna and Artemis told me that you died. They swore to have seen you dead too."

"Yes, I died. But in that other timeline."

"Huh?"

"I guess Setsuna never told you?" the serene voice sighed.

"Told me what?"

"There are many ways for you and the one you saw was only one of them." the voice told as Usagi saw shadowy figures through the fog.

"You mean, that I can choose whichever path I want and still not harm or change the future?"

"Well, both yes and no." the voice got nearer, until Usagi saw a beautiful woman stand before her. Her eyes were smiling softly at her as she spoke.

"Usagi-chan, you can choose either paths you want, but whichever you choose would still change the future. But the future would still be there existing."

"But how can it still be existing when Artemis and Luna told me that the Crystal Tokyo fell into darkness?"

"When your heart chose another one, the future that was suppose to be created by you and Endymion fell. That's what they saw, but they never saw the future rebuild it self again."

"I don't understand?"

"When you saw your future with Mamoru, you thought that everything you do would change the future whether it was a small change or big change. You never looked twice on other men, because of the thoughts of killing Chibi-Usa and the destruction of Crystal Tokyo. But it all suddenly changed when he came. He reached out for you, even though he was forbidden to. You denied the fact that you already loved him because of the future and that you couldn't grow on to him because of his mission."

"After he'd gone, you denied everything you two spent together. You didn't want to remember because of the pain."

Neo-Queen Serenity took a step towards Usagi and put a hand on her shoulder. Usagi saw tears twinkling in her eyes as she stood and stared at Usagi. She took a deep breath before continuing,

"Remember that night outside the temple? You were sitting and praying. Begging the stars to give something back to you."

"H… how… how did you know?"

"Have you forgotten that I'm you? I'm your future self. Everything you say and do in this time, I will remember in the future." Neo-Queen Serenity smiled at the younger woman.

Flashbacks

Usagi was walking from school. The sun was shining; the sakura trees were blooming. Usagi was walking to the Hikawa temple, when she instead turned at the other direction. Never caring of the people around her, she started to walk faster and faster until she was running. Running to god knows where. She felt the wind against her face as her hair fluttered freely behind her back. She felt freedom as she was running. She smiled, as she felt lighter of running. Running to where she wanted to run. Every time she ran she always felt free. She felt escaping destiny when she ran. Running was her only way to keep her minds off everything. Usagi then suddenly stops. She was at a park in front of a bench. The bench! It was here, at this very spot, where she had met him. Of all the places she could've run to, THIS was the place she had to run to. She closed her eyes for a moment and took a deep breath before sitting down. Memories flashed before her as she looked up to the sky. His eyes, his smile, that smirk. Usagi smiled as she thought of it. She could still hear his voice, his messages, and his songs. Lost in her thoughts she never noticed. She didn't care of how long she'd been sitting there and only thinking, remembering. Soon seconds turned into minutes and minutes into hours and before she knew it, it had started to get darker. Recalling that she was supposed to be meeting her friends, she started to run.

"No matter how early I get off school, I always end up getting late for the meetings." Usagi gasped as she ran faster.

Running up to the steps, she all of a sudden stops. She turned around and looked at the sunset. A wind blew towards her direction as her hair flowed freely in behind her neck.

"Same beautiful sunset that he and I saw, when…" Usagi stops as she looks down.

She closed her eyes, trying not to cry. But the pain was too much for her to stop the tears from falling and soon tears started to fall down her porcelain cheeks. Wiping away her tears, she shakes her head as in denying the feelings she had.  Then she turned around and continued going up the stairs.

As she neared Rei's room, she could hear her best friend talk and laugh. She could hear how Rei muttered and cursed, Minako was laughing like a hyena probably from reading a manga while Ami was lecturing her before she gave up and went back to her reading, and she could here Makoto sigh.

"She's late again!" Rei muttered, while Makoto tried to calm her down.

Then Usagi went in and smiled faintly at her friends. Minako, Ami and Makoto looked worried. Rei stood suddenly up, looking intently at Usagi. Usagi and the other girls thought that Rei was going to give her another lecture, when she instead gave her a sympathetic look and said,

"You're late Usagi-chan. Did something happen?"

Usagi and the rest of the girls was taken aback of Rei's kind words. They had all thought that Rei was going to yell at Usagi again complaining that she's always late, when she instead asked how Usagi was. Usagi stared at her for a moment, then smiled and shook her head, saying,

"Iie. Gomen ne, minna. My teacher wanted to talk to me." Usagi lied.

"Nande? What did you talk about?" Ami asked worriedly, wondering what Usagi did now.

"Sensei was wondering why I was down lately."

"So why are you down?" Minako asked curious, already knowing the answer Usagi was going to give.

"Oh, nothing. I'm just stressed out, but it'll go over soon." Usagi answered, pressing a smile.

Rei frowned, but then said,

"Okay. If you need something, anything, just let us know."

Usagi nodded as she sat down and joined the rest of the group.

Two hours later

Usagi was reading a book, when she got curious of what the others were doing. She could hear Minako and Rei bicker, Ami quieting them and Makoto sighing. Usagi paused from her reading and watched Minako and Rei argue over a magazine, while Ami sighed defeated as she shook her head and turned back to her reading. Makoto looked at them and sweat dropped, then she went out into the kitchen to make some snacks.

Usagi put down her books and quietly sneaked out of the room. Carefully closing the door behind her, she sighed. Usagi sat on the porch, looking up to the night sky, which were filled with many thousands of bright, shining stars. Then Usagi saw something travel through the sky, which made her teary eyed. It was a bright shooting star. As she saw the star, she thought of Seiya.

"Seiya…" Usagi mumbled.

A tear slid down her porcelain face. Thinking of the one thing he had said to her,

"Am I not good enough?"

"Stop it! Please stop it." she cried quietly. 

Ever since they have left, she thought of Seiya a lot, wondering what it could have been if she had chosen him. And remembering those words had stabbed her deeply into her heart leaving a scar that wouldn't heal, a pain that didn't want to go away. The words kept repeating itself in her mind, whenever she thought of them. It had haunted her over and over again in her dreams. Soon her tears fell down on her cheeks as she closed her eyes, trying to hold them back. Shaking her head, she said,

"No…stop it. Why do you keep haunting me with these words?"

The Usagi looked up to the sky, tears were shining brightly as it streamed down her cheeks.

"I never knew, that it could hurt this much."

"Seiya." she whispered.

"I never got to tell you, that I knew all along. But if I told you, would you stay? Would you have stayed here? Here with me?" Usagi sighed, but then continued talking to herself,

"I knew all along about your feelings. And it hurt me so much to see you heart broken, whenever I said his name or whenever you tried to show me that you loved me. And stupid as I was I played that naïve little girl, who never understood you and your feelings. But you see, I did understand you. I did. The pain of seeing you hurt over and over again because of me and my actions had stabbed me truly deep in my heart. That pain that I bear was too much for me and it still does for you have left me scars that won't heal. My heart still bleeds whenever I hear these words repeat over and over again." Usagi paused for a bit before she continued,

"You were the one who stood by me, whenever I was down or alone… god, you even volunteered to be my bodyguard. You always made me smile and made me laugh. I remembered when you said, "I'll never forget you". You were like telling me to come with you. Follow you to your world. Forget about my burden. Forget about my obligations. Run away with you. It seemed like you were stretching out your hand, waiting for me to grab it and just pull me away from everything. Rescue me. Rescue me from the chains I carried. Free me from my burden, releasing me from the destiny that was chosen before me. But I couldn't. I never could. Just like you I had to follow my duties. I couldn't leave with you. I had a responsibility to this world, just as you had yours to your princess."

Then Usagi whispered silently,

"You asked me once if you were good enough. I couldn't answer your question because of what I might do to the future. You were more than good enough, Seiya. You were my saviour, my best friend, and my prince. My love." Usagi smiled, when she said the words, but then fresh tears fell down her cheeks as she said,

"I wish I had said these words to you, but now when I realized that I should have done it, it's now too late. I hope that you can forgive me and I hope that you find someone who will love you more than anything and that will never hurt you like I did."

"After this night I will try and forget you. The pain of remembering you would only hurt me more as it already is." Usagi thought as she watched the sky.

End of Flashbacks

Usagi looked down, tears fell from her eyes as she remembered. That unforgettable night that she didn't want to remember. That was the reason she could go on with her life. But it all suddenly changed on the day of her graduation. Memories she had been suppressing inside of her came and rushed through her head. She rubbed her tears dry and looked up to her future self. Neo-Queen Serenity too seemed to have dried her tears.

"After that you just stopped remembering."

"I guess that Ami told you about how we make our own future. And she's right. The future is what you make it to."

"Yeah, I made it alright. I made it into a disaster." Usagi whispered at the same time as she tried to hold back her tears.

"Usagi-chan, whatever you do I'll be happy."

"Yeah, me too." the pink headed little girl said smiling.

"Even if it means losing you, Chibi-Usa?" Usagi sniffed.

The little girl stared at her for a moment and then giggled,

"Hey, who said that I'd be gone?"

"Usagi-chan, you'll never lose Chibi-Usa. She'll always be a part of you." Neo-Queen Serenity said as she held the little girl by her hand.

"Yeah, you better go now. You're time hasn't come yet. It'll take years, many years, before you can come here." Chibi-Usa winked.

"Huh?"

"You better go now Usagi-chan. They're waiting for you. They need you there." Neo-Queen Serenity spoke as she and Chibi-Usa floated further and further away from Usagi and into the fog.

"Wait! What do you mean?" Usagi started to run after them, stretching out a hand, but the faster she ran the further they went.

"Didn't you hear what mom said? They're waiting for you. Go!" Chibi-Usa pointed at Usagi's direction.

"Goodbye Usagi! Give them our best regards. And remember to listen to your heart and not to your mind."

"We'll always be with you, Usagi-mama." the little girl smiled and waved.

"Do you think she remembers anything?"

"I don't know."

"She's waking up."

"Seiya…" Usagi mumbled and smiled.

Then all of a sudden Usagi grabbed the first persons hand she felt as she woke up gasping for air. Like she had woken up from a terrible nightmare. She then smiled as she closed her eyes. A tear slid gently down her cheek. Then she looked up to the persons that were standing around her. She looked at them puzzled, before saying anything.

"Rei? Ami-chan, Mako-chan, Mina-chan?" she said with a raspy, but weak voice.

"Why are you all looking sad?"

Then she looked at the outers. Haruka smiled warmly at her, while Michiru held onto the sandy blonde. She was crying, but her eyes weren't sad. They were happy. Hotaru smiled and sighed in relief as for Setsuna, she just stared at Usagi before smiling.

"Ruka-chan? Michiru-san? Hotaru-chan, Setsuna-san?"

"Why… why are you all crying? Did something happen?" Usagi asked worried.

Then she looked at the person who was holding her hand. Two indigo blue eyes looked at her. They were sad, happy, worried and relieved.

"Seiya." Usagi whispered and smiled gently at the person.

No one in the room heard what Usagi had said except for Seiya, Taiki and Yaten who all smiled at her warmly. Usagi took a deep breath and closed her eyes, mumbling words they couldn't hear.

Everyone in the room panicked as they all cried at the same time,

"Usa-chan!"

"Usagi-chan!"

"Odango!"

"Koneko-chan!"

"Usagi-sama"

"Hime!"

"Usagi-san!"

Usagi suddenly opened her eyes, when she heard them call her name. Smiling at them, she said with a weakly voice that almost sounded like a whisper,

"Don't worry, minna. I won't go away. You won't get rid of me that easy. Demo I'm just tired. So tired. Oh, and guys? Neo-Queen Serenity and Chibi-Usa says hi! " Usagi smiled as her voice faded and she closed her eyes slowly.

Everyone got scared of what Usagi had said about being tired. Seiya shook Usagi's hand as Makoto was going to run to get the nurse. But Ami ran first to Usagi's side and felt her pulse. She then sighed in relief and said,

"It's okay, minna! She's just sleeping."

Hours later

Rei was sitting by the windowsill, looking at the night sky that was filled with shining bright stars.

"Looks like the stars are smiling down on earth, relieved that an angel hasn't left the earth."

Makoto had driven her back to the temple. Earlier after that Usagi went back to sleep, Rei was determined of staying in the hospital, but the others were persistent of getting her home and let her rest. Usagi's family stayed in the hospital to check on their little girl in case she woke up again. The outers drove home without saying anything to anyone. Seiya wanted to stay a little bit longer and so Taiki and Yaten stayed with him. Ami, Mina and Makoto wanted to stay too, but couldn't.

Rei walked away from the window and to her nightstand. Pulling out a drawer she picked up pictures of her, the inners and Usagi. Examining the pictures, she smiled at them. One that she was looking at was with her and Usagi wearing kimonos. They were hugging each other and laughing at the camera. Rei smiled. She remembered that day clearly.

Flashbacks

Usagi was telling the other girls that she wanted to go to the summer festival. Minako and Makoto thought it was a great idea and they all begged Ami to let them take a day off from studying. Meanwhile someone was bicycling down the street at high speed. Ami considered and said it was okay. Minako and Usagi were overjoyed, but Makoto was wondering where Rei was. Ami wondered why Rei said they couldn't have their study meeting at the shrine today.

Rei zoomed past on her bicycle and crashed to a halt. She didn't even notice the other girls as she rushed into a nearby cafe.

"Hmm", Usagi and the others looked suspicious and quickly snuck into the cafe behind her, their feet didn't move, they just "slid" into the coffee shop with a cute sound effect. Rei rushed over to where a girl was waiting and apologized for being late. The girl said she hadn't been waiting long.

Rei looked very anxious.

"Two girls" observed Minako suspiciously.

"It's not a date," said Usagi.

"You can't tell by looks," said Minako, "Haruka is a good example."

Makoto agreed, "could this be the opposite of Haruka... a man dressed up as a woman?"


"I can't see them that way..." protested a blushing Ami.

"Hmm, but we can't hear what they're saying..." complained Usagi.

"So please, I really need your help Miss Tono," Rei was saying.

Suddenly, something caught her eye... Rei wasn't sure, but she thought there was something... or someone... behind the waitress.

"I could have sworn I saw," thought Rei...

The poor waitress finally lost her balance and spilled the coffee on Rei's head.

"Hot, hot, hot!" shouted Rei, "Why are you guys here?!"

"Miss Hino", said the girl, "I'll accept your request."

"Really?" said Rei, "Thank you so much!"


The long-suffering waitress wiped a tear from her eye.

Rei said that she had been asked by her grandfather's friend to be on a comittee to promote the Juuban Festival.

 "Oh sure," said Usagi, "It was probably all your idea. You like to be in charge of everything and the centre of attention, like just now."

 "That was your fault!" shouted Rei.

"Now, now" said Minako, "Everyone makes mistakes. As the saying goes, even a kappa can get loose bowels."


"Uhh... even a kappa can drown," corrected Ami.

"So basically," Ami spoke to Rei, "You asked Miss Tono to perform Taiko at the festival."

"Right," answered Rei.


"Rei, Rei, let me play a Taiko," insisted Usagi.


"There's no Taiko for you," snarled Rei.

"Actually," continued Rei, "I do have a taiko for you, Usagi."

That night at the festival, Usagi was hitting the drums. But it was a little drum to attract people to the goldfish catching game. Usagi was upset that they had to take care of this game.

"You look great Usagi," called out Minako.

Usagi was beating a taiko that was shaped like a really stupid-looking goldfish.

"If it looks so great, why don't you do it," growled Usagi.

Minako said Usagi was the one who wanted to play a taiko. Usagi forced herself to be cheerful and pounded on the goldfish taiko.

"Goldfish scooping, goldfish scooping," she called into the crowd.

Ami, Makoto and Minako (who were all wearing yukatas of their Sailor planet colour) were in charge of the goldfish-scooping booth. Ami helped one little boy to win a goldfish.

Hey, obachan", said an older, pushy boy, "you got customers here - we wanna scoop goldfish." "OBACHAN?" repeated Minako.

Minako secretly tapped the scoops to weaken the paper, and then handed them to the boys with a big smile. The kids failed the game and Minakoko said to herself,

"Business, business."

End of Flashbacks

"Thank you for not taking away our princess." Rei whispered as she slowly closed her eyes.

In another place

"Seiya." a voice called to the young man, who was sitting on the sofa and thinking.

"Hmm?" he responded.

"She loves you, you know that."

"What makes you think that?" Seiya turned around to the person and frowned.

"You were the first person she mentioned, when she awoke."

"How could you have heard it, when no one else did?"

"The way her mouth moved, I assumed that she said your name. And the way she squeezed your hand when you two looked at each other. And that she whispered your name at the same time…"

"Well, maybe she was just happy that everyone was there, including us."

"No, the way she looked at you I would say that she loves you." Taiki reassured as he sat down, holding a book.

"Taiki's right. I felt it, right after her awakening and before the accident, when you two met at the restaurant." another voice cut in.

"Huh?" Seiya cocked an eyebrow as he watched Yaten enter the room.

"Yes, I felt it. And you know that I'm always right. That was love, Seiya."

"I wonder…" Taiki murmured to himself as he looked outside.