AN: As I've told you min'na, this fic is inspired from Love Storm and the first few chaps are inspired from the series though I haven't seen all of LS, I promise that there'll be a MAJOR twist. With that said, min'na, enjoy this first chap!
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon isn't mine. Love Storm, the series which this fic is based on isn't mine either. Oh and the song Happy isn't mine either!
My Only Love
Chapter 1: I Miss You
Tsukino Usagi was in heaven. All around her were her most favorite things in the world. Chocolates. . . stuffed bunnies. . . more chocolates. . . mangas. . . and oh pink chocolates!
She shrieked in delight as she tries to grab one pink chocolate bar but her hand went right through it. She turned confused eyes to the nearest bunny but was shocked to find out it singing.
Happy! Shala Lala!
It's so nice to be happy!
Just then Usagi's pink dream world began to fade. The bunnies. . . the chocolates they disappeared one by one. . .
Usagi's eyes fluttered opened as she realized it was all a dream.
Everybody should be happy!
Am I still dreaming? Usagi thought momentarily before she realized it was her cell phone ringing. Still sleepy, she grabs her phone from her nightstand.
"ODANGOOOO!!!"
Usagi took the phone away from her ear a few inches. Rei's voice was deafening.
"Rei-chan, what is it? So early in the morning," she mumbles.
Rei giggles mysteriously from the other line. "Odango it's eleven thirty and you're still sleeping?"
"Mmm-hmm."
Rei giggled again. "Well, check your email NOW. It'll surely wake you up," she says. Without even saying goodbye, Rei hangs up.
But Usagi was too tired to even stand let alone go over and check her email.
Maybe later she thought as she closes her eyes, wishing to return to her beautiful pink dreamland.
Three hours later, after getting three more calls from Rei and two more from Makoto, Usagi finally decided to get up.
Reluctantly, jumping out of her comfortable four-poster bed, Usagi walks slowly towards the other side of her bedroom where her pink laptop was. While logging on to her mailbox, Usagi tries hard not to fall back to sleep.
You have 20 new messages.
Looking through the subjects, Usagi scanned messages, wondering which one Rei could have wanted to show her.
There was one subject named "Odango" from their childhood friend, Chiba Ami. Deciding it was probably that Rei wanted her to see, Usagi quickly opens the message.
The message was simple and direct.
"Say goodbye to your odangos," Usagi read out loud. Usagi's brows knitted in confusion. "What does that mean?"
Suddenly, Usagi's eyes grew impossibly large. She shrieked, remembering her bet with Chiba Ami four years ago.
"Usagi-chan, there are six billion people on this planet. More than half of them are women that leave about 2.9 billion men. 2.9 billion men and about 40 percent are below five years old. The remaining 1.25 billion, 30% of them are either married or old enough to be grandfathers. That leaves about 600 million men, of those men another 40% are already with someone so that leaves 240 million to one chance of finding your soulmate."
"That's why I hate science," Usagi muttered. "It makes you so pessimistic, Ami-chan!"
Chiba Ami shook her head. "No, I'm not being pessimistic at all, Usagi-chan. I'm just stating the facts."
"I'm sorry but I don't see the difference," Kino Makoto said.
Hino Rei shrugged. "Well, Mako-chan, it means Odango here will probably grow old alone if she insists on finding her soulmate."
"It's not impossible, really," Usagi protested. "My oba-san found hers, I'm sure I can find mine too."
"So you'll refuse to go out with anyone until you are sure he is your soulmate?" Ami asked.
"Of course," Usagi answered. "I mean what's the use of hanging out with someone if you know nothing will turned out with that?"
Just then, a thin and sickly looking Chiba Mamoru entered the room. He hands Ami, Rei and Makoto some cold colas. He smiled a bit shyly at Usagi before handing her hers.
Usagi, dense and oblivious as ever, didn't saw the shyness in her friend's brother's smile. She gave him a warm smile that almost made Mamoru swallow his tongue. He continued to stand there, staring adoringly at the odango-ed beauty.
"Onii-san, we're having a discussion here," Ami said pointedly when she realized her brother wasn't planning on leaving anytime soon.
"Right," Mamoru said sheepishly. He bowed his head in embarrassment and prepared to leave the room.
"Wait, don't go Mamoru," Usagi called back.
"Hai?"
"What do you think, is there such thing as soulmates?"
Mamoru swallowed hard, looking at those crystalline blue eyes how could he not when he was convinced those pair of eyes had been always meant for him?
"Mamoru?" Usagi asked when he failed to answer.
"Huh? Err. . . hai, uh I believe in soulmates."
Usagi's smiled grew bigger. "See your brother understands!" she told Ami.
Ami shrugged as Makoto inched away from Mamoru who was itching and looking red as tomato.
"Why don't you two make a bet then?" she suggested.
"What kind of bet?" Rei asked, inching away from Mamoru too. She noticed him itching too. Yuck.
"Um you know if Usagi-chan here still hasn't found her soulmate after you return from London then. . ." Makoto trailed off.
"Then she should cut your hair!" Rei supplied.
Usagi looked absolutely aghast while Mamoru turned to his sister, knowing she would know better than that.
But Ami's genius and logical mind seemed to have been taken over by aliens. She was nodding. "Yes, Usagi-chan should cut hers even shorter than mine!" she said pointing to her chin-length do.
Usagi wanted to say no. Her long golden hair had taken years to grow. . . her odangos were special too since it somehow bonds her to her silver-haired oba-san who have the same hairstyle. . .
But to her surprise, Usagi had found herself agreeing.
That was a big mistake.
Back to the present time, a loud thud echoes through the bunnies and pink themed room as sixteen-year-old Tsukino Usagi, in her cute Sailor V pajamas, faints.
"I don't want to cut my hair!" Usagi wailed, falling back on her bed.
Hino Rei sat beside her friend on the bed, she smiled sympathetically. "Come on, Usagi-chan, we still have two days, we'll think of something."
Usagi tearfully turned to Rei, silently asking her for ideas how to save her hair from getting cut. But Rei could only shrug.
Usagi began to sob louder.
"Please don't cry anymore Usagi-chan," Makoto, who was sitting on Usagi's other side, soothed. "There's lots of guys wanting to date you. All you have to do is pick one and the problem's solve."
"Demo Mako-chan," Usagi started. "Not one of them is my soulmate!"
"Well, pretend for a while. . . I mean either that or haircut," Rei said, shivering at the thought.
"Pretend? You mean try and fool Ami-chan, the Einstein of this time? I don't think so!"
Rei shrugged. "It's just a suggestion."
Usagi's lower lip began to tremble and she pulled one pigtail to examine it. "It'll take forever to grow my hair this long again," she sobbed.
Makoto looked at her friend helplessly. She wanted to help Usagi, she really do but Tsukino Usagi could be as stubborn as a wall.
"This is all your fault, Mako-chan," Usagi whimpered between her cries.
"MY FAULT?"
"Yes. It was your idea of that stupid bet!"
"But it was Rei who suggested cutting your hair!"
Rei's eyes grew dangerously large. "So are you saying it's MY fault?"
"Well, yeah!"
Rei glared menacingly at Makoto. No one ever dares to accuse Hino Rei, daughter of one of Japan's Diet committee, of anything and gets away with it!
Kino Makoto, only child of the biggest Japanese telecommunications company, is not one who you could push around either. She glared with equal threat back at Rei.
"Ok, stop it, you two," Usagi interjected, seeing the unhealthy tension between her two friends.
Rei turned to Usagi and glared at her. "No one orders me around, Odango, just because you're the daughter of Japan's wealthiest man, doesn't give you the right to order me anything!"
"Ok, sure, Rei-chan. . ."
"And no one interrupts me when I'm talking!" Rei added. "This is all your fault in the first place!"
Usagi's eyes grew large. "My fault?"
"Yes! If you didn't have your stupid belief on soulmates at the first place then you could at least had a date or two!"
Tears sprang in Usagi's eyes. "It's not stupid," she whimpered.
That sobered Rei at lightning speed. She touched Usagi's arm, "Gomen, Usagi-chan."
Usagi wiped her tears away, reassuring Rei it was okay.
After a while Makoto spoke up. "But really, Usagi-chan, your idea of finding your soulmate is kinda umm eccentric?"
Usagi bit her lip. "Is it really? I don't think so."
Makoto rolled her eyes. "You don't think so? Asking the guy to jump off from the fifth floor, you don't find that eccentric?"
Rei giggled. "I remember that. We were fourteen and Usagi-chan had this biggest crush on her Motoki-oniisan," Rei ignored how Makoto blushed at the name of her crush too. "When Motoki finally got interested in her and asked her to go out, the first thing she said was 'Of course I'll go out with you but first will you jump off from this floor first?' I'll never forget that look on Motoki-san."
Makoto and Rei erupted into a fit of laughter while Usagi pouted.
"Well, I honestly forgot that we were in the fifth floor! I thought we were on the fourth!"
Makoto tried to stop her laughing to ask, "You mean you think he would have jump down if we were in the fourth floor?"
Usagi shrugged, "If he's my soulmate, he will."
Rei rolled her eyes. "That's why Makoto calls your idea of soulmate eccentric."
"It's not like it all depends if he was ready to die for me or not," Usagi protested. "He should also be able to make me laugh. And of course, he should be considerate of my feelings and I should feel comfortable with him too."
"Then why don't you just date Mamoru then?"
Usagi turned to Makoto, scandalized. "Mako-chan, Mamoru is just my best friend!"
Makoto shrugged and examined her long polished nails. "Well, it's just that he's all those you just said. I'm sure he'll even risk his life for you."
Rei flipped her long raven hair. "Mako-chan's probably right."
"Rei-chan, not you too!"
"All I'm saying is Mamoru's probably your last hope, your salvation." Rei smiled at Usagi's baffled expression. "Don't worry, I'm not suggesting you date him, I know that's too much for you. All I'm saying is you can always beg and ask for his help. I'm sure he'll risk his life convincing his sister to forget about this stupid bet."
Standing on the arrival area of the Tokyo International Airport was three of Japan's wealthiest and most powerful girls stood.
There was Tsukino Usagi, wearing a short pink dress, twirling her long pigtails in distress.
There was also Kino Makoto who was as usual looking around for some cute guy.
And lastly there was Hino Rei who was scrubbing her hands with some hand sanitizers.
"Rei-chan, that's the fifth time in the last 2 minutes we've been here," Usagi commented.
"Usagi-chan, I was raised with the finest of class, I'll be required to the very least shake hands with Mamoru."
Usagi frowned. "What are you implying Rei-chan?"
Rei rolled her eyes. "Look, Usagi-chan, I know he's your best friend but he isn't exactly neatest guy around."
"I know what you mean," Makoto interjected. "Remember how he used always get sick after doing only kami knows what?"
Rei nodded, she and Makoto shuddered in mock exaggeration. Usagi wanted to argue with them but suddenly the arrival of the plane from London. Usagi quickly tensed up.
Say goodbye to your odangos. That's what Chiba Ami wrote to her but who knows how much her hair could have grown? It has been four years, surely Ami's hair was longer now.
Usagi frowned just three months ago, she received a picture of Ami. Her hair was still as short as ever. Usagi groaned.
Makoto noticed her obvious distress, she touched Usagi's hand reassuringly. "Don't worry too much, Usagi-chan," Makoto comforted Usagi. "Here," she says handing her a card.
Usagi took the card and turned it over.
"It's a great salon I assure you," Makoto added.
"Mako-chan!" Usagi wailed.
"Now now Usagi-chan," Rei said. "Here, this is a better salon."
"Says who?"
"Says me," Rei countered.
The two girls began fighting and Usagi didn't bother stopping them. She inched away from the two. After five minutes, she suddenly spots a blue-haired girl.
She recognized her at once. And even if Usagi wished the girl's hair could have been a bit longer, Usagi knew at once it was Chiba Ami!
"Ami-chan!"
Ami's face erupted into a big smile. She rushed forward and met Usagi in a big hug.
Rei and Makoto too rushed forward and gave Ami a hug. The four childhood friends began talking all at once.
"I missed Japan so much!"
"How is London?"
"That blue dress is absolutely gorgeous!"
"Ami-chan, you must tell me, did you ever met Sailor V?"
But Hino Rei was distracted. A gorgeous guy was walking towards their way. . . he was tall. . . about 6 feet 2 inches. . . his hair dark as night. . .his eyes so incredibly blue. . . and his lips. . . they were smiling at her!
"Wow," Rei whispered.
"He's smiling at me!" Makoto gushed.
"He is not! He's smiling at me!"
"You wish!"
"What?"
"MAMORU!!!"
And with that Usagi came running forward and threw her arms around the gorgeous six-footer. Rei and Makoto's jaws dropped simultaneously.
"MAMORU?" they both said in unison.
But Mamoru was too busy hugging the golden haired girl to take notice of Rei and Makoto's awed expressions.
"I missed you, Usa," he said staring at Usagi's big blue eyes.
Usagi smiled at him and leaned her head to his chest. "I missed you too!"
And on and on the two babbled as if they haven't seen each other for forty years instead of four.
Rei couldn't stop staring at the changes four years brought in Chiba Mamoru. At twenty, he was probably the best-looking man she has ever seen.
Rei smiled. At sixteen, she was probably, one of the best-looking girls around as well. She walks up confidently towards Mamoru and Usagi, she then smiled at Mamoru.
"Don't I get a hug too, Mamoru-san?"
Mamoru turned to Rei and smiled at her. "Of course, Rei-chan," Mamoru said as he gives her a brief friendly hug.
Suddenly Makoto was shrieking and saying she'll beat Mamoru up and she don't get one too.
And back at where they left her, Chiba Ami rolled her eyes as her friends forgot all about her as they fight among themselves for her brother's attention.
"You mean not even one date?"
Usagi pouted and leaned closer to Mamoru's chest. He had his arm around her shoulders and stroking her arm comfortingly.
It was just not possible, Ami thought.
Out of the four, she was the most serious. And yet in four years of her stay in London, Ami had actually had two boyfriends between her precious schoolwork.
But Tsukino Usagi, bubbly and lovable, had not even gone to a single date?
Geez. No wonder she's best friends with oniisan, Ami thought.
Yep. It was the truth, at the old age of twenty, her brother had not been out in a single date! English ladies were virtually dragging him for some tea. . . gaijins in London practically drooling at the mere sight of him and yet Chiba Mamoru remained unyielding to his title of London's most sought after bachelor, that is, next to the princes of Wales of course.
While Ami was annoyed with her brother's stubborn will, Rei was staring adoringly into Mamoru's face. She also took notice how sweet Mamoru was as he does his best to cheer Usagi up. Rei could practically hear his thoughts thinking of ways to convince Ami of forgetting about the bet.
And just as Rei expected Mamoru spoke in Usagi's behalf. "Ami-chan, can you just forget about the whole bet? You don't really want Usagi-chan to cut her hair, do you?"
Ami shook her. "Sure, oniisan, you don't have to convince me. I love Usagi-chan's hair as much as you love it."
Rei saw the blush that had spread in Mamoru's cheeks but she chose to ignore it. Instead of speculating the meaning of that blush, she focused on thinking how adorable he had looked.
Usagi turned her eyes to Mamoru gratefully.
Mamoru smiled softly at Usagi and tenderly touched her hair.
Ami didn't noticed, she was too busy thinking about her brother's bachelor status.
Rei didn't notice either, she was too busy formulating ways to get Mamoru for herself.
Only Makoto noticed the spark in Mamoru's eyes.
If only Usagi-chan can see it too, Makoto thought. Then maybe she'll realize the soulmate she's been looking for was just in front of her all along.
"Well it's nice to know you guys still haven't changed at all!"
"Whatever do you mean, Ami-chan?" Rei asked as they crossed the street.
"Well you guys still shop until one drops," Ami joked. She turned to Usagi. "You okay, Usagi-chan?"
Usagi smiled and said she was fine now. She was about to add that her feet still feel sore though when suddenly a guy bumps into her. Her shopping bags all drop to the floor as Usagi fall on her butt.
Itai! Usagi thought. She turned to see the guy with a long ponytail kneeling beside her.
Usagi thought the guy would apologize. She thought the guy would ask to help her up but he didn't. He just knelt there, looking around her jumbled mess of shopping bags for something.
Before Usagi could even ask the guy what the matter was, she heard three familiar shrieks.
"Usagi-chan, watch out!" Rei, Makoto and Ami's voices called out from the sidewalk.
Usagi's head whipped towards an oncoming car, driving very fast and towards their way! Usagi sat there frozen in place as the car loamed closer and closer. . .
Suddenly, the guy was on his feet. Steeping in front of Usagi, he spreads his arms wide. . .
The image of her aunt's lover flashed before Usagi's eyes. He had his arms spread wide in the very same manner. . .
The car stops inches before he hits the guy. . . Usagi could not help staring at this leather clad man who had just saved her life. . .
Slowly, the man turned around and for the first time his blue eyes met Usagi's. . .
As Usagi stared back at those sky blue eyes, she knew it was definitely not the last. . .
AN: So that's it min'na. Hope you like the first part. Please review min'na. Love you all, ja ne!
To those who read my fic, the way it should be, I promise to update some time next week.^^
