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Caramel Kisses

By: LilBlueFairy

'She wasn't there...she wasn't there...' Mamoru's mind kept chanting. 'Why wasn't she there?'

For the past three months, Mamoru had been 'unofficially' seeing someone. Did it matter if she was in his dreams? No. The fact is she helped take the loneliness away.

Every night she entered his dreams, gracing him with a sweet smile and a petal soft kiss on the cheek. They would sit in a garden of roses covered by a blanket of stars and a moon so bright you could see her cerulean eyes lovingly watching him as he told her of his life and ambitions.

After awhile she would look towards the moon, smile sadly and ask in a soft voice, "One last dance, my love?" And of course he would eagerly agree. They would dance slowly to the sound of the wind and their beating hearts.

When the wind would stop, so would they. She would then step back, leaving Mamoru longing for her warmth.

It was then Mamoru would notice her elegant dress and remember that she was a princess, a mysterious princess that he would never really know.

"I have one more thing to ask of you, my prince. Find me the crystal." Her eyes held a burden that only she would know and Mamoru would comply with her wish just so he could see a glimpse of happiness flash across her face.

'Yet the night before last was different.' Mamoru realized. 'She seemed.... scared.'

They once again met under the moon, she dressed in her gown and he, in an armor of some kind. He would bow, then she would curtsy. But when she kissed his cheek it was longer and her lips almost seemed to be trembling. Mamoru shrugged it off as cold weather and went along with their normal routine.

When it came time for them to share their dance, she pulled him closer and was almost clinging to him as if some unknown force was going to take her away. It seemed their dance ended just as it began and instead of stepping away she looked him straight in the eyes, revealing everything and nothing at the same time.

"Find the crystal." No formalities, it wasn't even endearing. It was pleading. Then he noticed the fear. It was practically emitting from her entire being. She was afraid, but of what? "Find the crystal or else all will be lost."

Tears began seeping from her eyes and at that moment he saw how really frail she was.

"How, where? What is this Crystal?" He asked worriedly, while he held on to her tighter. He began to stroke her back in attempt to soothe her but she merely stepped away. A soft whisper reached his ears.

"Look for love."

He had almost missed it. 'Look for love? But didn't he have it with her? And what was this mysterious crystal?' Just as he was about to ask her, she kissed him. It was a kiss of desperation and despair. When it ended, she pulled apart from his embrace and looked into his eyes.

"Find the Crystal."

That's when he woke up. He was worried of course, but a look at the clock told him he was already running a little behind schedule and would miss running into Odango.

He had merely sighed and said, "Oh well, I'll just ask her tonight and get the answers," and then he started to get ready. He didn't know he wouldn't see her again.

Now Mamoru was worried and frustrated. He depended on that princess. She was the light to his darkness. He need her and she wasn't there. 'What crystal? Why wasn't she there? This is crazy, but that kiss and those eyes. I couldn't have made them up. They were too... ethereal.'

Now maybe if he had ran into Odango this morning he wouldn't have been a zombie, yet even Usagi was missing. 'Why am I thinking of her! What does she have to do with my missing Princess?'

Mamoru just sighed and stared into the cup of coffee Motoki gave him. 'I don't even remember coming here, but it doesn't matter. I have to figure this out.' And once again Mamoru became lost to his thoughts with the chant still running in his head. 'She wasn't there... She wasn't there...'


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