Authors Note- Hello everyone! I just recovered form major writers block,
and wrote this entire chapter in like an hour. I hope you all like it!
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It was a beautiful day to go to the mall.and now the only problem was getting home. As Minako shuffled the many packages around in her hands to avoid dropping any of them, she once more wished that she had a car. But noooo her parents didn't think that she was responsible enough, which left her to carry all of these packages all by herself. *well, maybe if you didn't buy so much that wouldn't be a problem* that annoying voice in the back of her head reminded her, and she just pushed it into the back of her mind. It wasn't her fault that she just found so much that she could buy! And being a celebrity meant that she needed to constantly look her best in order to impress everyone with her image. And being the most popular girl in school wasn't an easy job either! She needed to keep up appearances. And all of her new friends looked up to her for guidance.
A familiar pang of sadness hit her as she thought of her new friends. Since Usagi had.well, since she had left it was like the glue that held all of them together had left them all drifting in separate directions. And it wasn't like she didn't still want to be friends with Ami, Rei, and Makoto.it was just that since that fateful day when they had left her alone they had been slowly been drifting apart. Ami had kept herself locked in her room, doing nothing else but studying, and Rei spent all of her free time in the temple. Makoto was off who knows where cooking, and spent most of her free time at the gym. And she.she had decided she wasn't like the others, and she couldn't handle being alone like they could. She couldn't stay by herself, letting the pain of her best friends' death eat away at all she was; she needed to be with people. That was what she was, a groupie. That was all she could ever be. So she had decided to try out for the cheer leading squad, and surround herself with other people. She spent all of her free time shopping and spending time with her new friends. So that way, if only for a moment she could forget.
She could forget that Usagi's death was all her fault, and it had been her idea to go off and get Mamoru because she thought it would help. She was the leader, and she hadn't even thought that something was going on with her friend, and it might not be a good idea to leave her alone. She had failed so completely and totally to protect the one that was most dear to her, her friend, and her princess. And then she had failed to keep their previously tight knit group of friends together. She had never thought of what Usagi did as very great, or even important. But now that she was gone it as like there was a big gap in each of their lives. Each of them trying to recover in different ways, not knowing they were only making the pain fester. That they couldn't heal by hiding themselves in their books, or in their cooking. They couldn't get better by spending all of their free time in the temple so they wouldn't have to think about what they had lost.and she could never recover by separating herself by everything and anything that reminded her of her friend. Such as all of them had stopped going to the arcade since she had left, because it was a constant reminder. She hadn't even seen Motoki in months, and her crush on him seemed the most stupid thing in the world.
Minako stopped in her tracks as all of her thoughts flew from her mind. Not thinking about anything else she dropped all of her packages onto the ground, and lifted her communicator up to her face. And for the first time since Usagi had left she felt the need to push the button that called everyone at the same time.
It took a minute before all three faces appeared on her wrist, and she could tell they were worried. So would she if after all of those weeks of silence she had heard her wrist beeping. But she completely ignored their surprised and then angry faces. She had more important things to do then waste her time clarifying everything for the other scouts.
"I'll explain everything later." She said quickly before any of them got a word in edgewise. "But we need to have a scout meeting at Rei's temple, and I mean now we have a problem. I'll call Mamoru, and I'll get there as soon as possible."
She could tell everyone was dying to know what was going on, but she turned off her communicator and pulled out her small cell phone. It took her a minute to remember Mamoru's number, as she hadn't used it in so long but finally she managed to press in the numbers.
"Hello, Mamoru Chiba speaking." His calm voice was heard on the other line.
"Hello. This is Minako. You need to meet with all of the scouts at Rei's temple immediately. We have a problem."
"What is it?" She couldn't refuse his demand for answers, so quickly before she hang up the phone up to run across the street she answered.
"Your daughter is here."
And then she raced to rescue Chibiusa from the perfect stranger she was holding hands with.
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Ayumi found it was quite pleasant to spend time with the small child, and entertaining as well. When she had asked Chibiusa what her mother was like, that had started a long flow of stories, that had as of yet to end. And most of them were entirely too amusing. Chibiusa seemed to like to talk about what her mother was like when she was a little girl, so all of the stories were about how her mommy was always late to school, and how her mommy once snuck into a concert hall to pretend she was performing, and had sung in front of a huge audience in her loud, off-key voice not knowing that there was another band about to come out that hadn't made it's appearance yet, and she had been booed off of the stage by a crowd of angry 'Our Lady Peace fans.' (AN: I just had to put that in, I went to their concert last night :O) And each story was even crazier than the last. And while each story was entirely too amusing, she had this crazy feeling of de- jvu like she had heard that before or something. Of course the very idea of that being true was simply too crazy, so she shrugged the feeling off and continued to walk hand in hand with Chibiusa, trying in vain to find her mother.
As she scanned the people walking on both sides of the street she spotted a girl carrying far too many packages for her to handle. For a second she thought about helping the girl, but then she remembered that she was already doing something and there was no way she could help a stranger carry packages, and help Chibiusa find her mother at the same time.
But she couldn't help looking at the girl.there was something about her.and when the blonde seemed to notice that she was being watched she looked at them, and right into her eyes. Ayumi stopped at the peculiar feeling that washed over her. But she didn't remember why that look was so familiar. And she knew she had never seen the girl before. But before an instant had passed the blue eyes passed over her green ones and looked down at the girl she was standing with.
And they flew wide with shock as she dropped all of her packages. But she didn't even seem to notice, and Ayumi watched, as she seemed to talk to her wrist, and then called someone on a little black box. And just a minute later she completely abandoned all of her boxes and raced across the road, right at.them.
For the fist time Chibiusa noticed the blonde, and without letting go of her hand started to wave frantically shouting "Minako, Minako! Over here!"
After barely avoiding traffic, and reaching them Minako stopped and fell to her knees in front of Lil Usa. She had such a look of complete and total sadness in her eyes, that Ayumi felt her heart break. She had never seen anyone so upset.But Chibiusa didn't notice, and let go of her hand to let Minako take both of her tiny hands in her larger ones.
"Chibiusa" She looked like she was talking to a ghost, and for the first time she saw real worry in the large red eyes of the child she had tried so hard to help. "It's so good to see you again."
Chibiusa paled, and in a worried voice asked. "Is something wrong?"
Minako's eyes filled with tears, and slowly she nodded. "Yes, yes something is wrong." Then she looked back at Ayumi, and coldly said.
"Thanks for your help, but I think I'll take it from here."
"But." Ayumi's response was cut short by the sound of Motoki shouting "Ayumi, there you are! I've been looking everywhere for you!" Forgetting the others there for a moment, she blushed beet red, and waved back. Motoki really looked worried, and she felt genuinely bad for leaving him like that. She hadn't even thought about her problem since she had become focused on Chibiusa's. It just seemed so insignificant in comparison to a little girl trying to find her parents.
She was enveloped in his arms, and he started scolding her for leaving him like she had. She couldn't see anything, as her face was in his shirt, and with a startling realization she realized it was wet. Why was she crying? She wasn't hurt, and she wasn't sad. And as he continued to tell her how stupid she was she realized he was shaking, and she looked up into his eyes and saw just how distressed he was.
Then she realized why she had been crying. She hadn't even thought that anyone cared about her, and here Motoki was clearly distraught at the thought of her being gone, even for a moment. She had made him sad, and through her tears stammered. "I'm so sorry, I wasn't thinking. I never meant to hurt you like I did. Can you ever forgive me, or do you hate me forever."
She was jerked back and Motoki looked into her eyes. He seemed angry with her. She wasn't surprised though, or course he did. He had cared about her, and now he hated her.
"Don't you ever say that again. NO ONE could ever hate you, least of all me. Now, I really think it's time to go home and get some lunch. It's been a long enough day."
"But.what about them." She gestured to Minako and Chibiusa, who were still standing there, apparently not able to move. Chibiusa now held Minako's hand, and she was staring off in space. Apparently she was wondering what could have happened to make her friend so upset. Minako on the other hand was looking at her and Motoki with an expression of pure shock. Her eyes were glazed over, and she looked like Ayumi had just grown another head or something.
"Oh," Motoki saw the couple for the first time. His expression changed when he saw the blonde from curiosity, to something she had never seen on anyone's face before. It was a look of absolute and complete loss, abandonment, and a spark of anger. "Hello Minako. Long time no see, I haven't seen any of you at the arcade for a while. I was beginning to wonder if you girls were all right." His voice was cold, and Ayumi shivered.
Minako seemed shocked that he could speak to her like that, and she just answered. "We've been around." But then she seemed to remember something, and grasped Chibiusa's hand tighter. "Oh, look at the time. Come on Chibiusa, we have a meeting to get to." And then she nodded goodbye and turned and ran away.
And Usagi noticed that the packages were still untended on the sidewalk.
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So, whaddya think? Review if you want more. I've been very distressed at the way things have been going at fanfiction.net, and apparently some people have been thinking that it's all right not to review, and it's no longer important. That's not gonna fly here. If you're reading this, and if your enjoying this, you need to take the time to write a review so I don't get the feeling there's no point in continuing. Just remember that the only thing I'm getting out of this is knowing I'm amusing someone.
Important-If you like this story, I would highly suggest you take a look at Chaos Enslaved. It's my new baby, and I expect it to be at least as good a read as this one is! Please just give it a chance!
Email me at sirencalling@yahoo.com
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It was a beautiful day to go to the mall.and now the only problem was getting home. As Minako shuffled the many packages around in her hands to avoid dropping any of them, she once more wished that she had a car. But noooo her parents didn't think that she was responsible enough, which left her to carry all of these packages all by herself. *well, maybe if you didn't buy so much that wouldn't be a problem* that annoying voice in the back of her head reminded her, and she just pushed it into the back of her mind. It wasn't her fault that she just found so much that she could buy! And being a celebrity meant that she needed to constantly look her best in order to impress everyone with her image. And being the most popular girl in school wasn't an easy job either! She needed to keep up appearances. And all of her new friends looked up to her for guidance.
A familiar pang of sadness hit her as she thought of her new friends. Since Usagi had.well, since she had left it was like the glue that held all of them together had left them all drifting in separate directions. And it wasn't like she didn't still want to be friends with Ami, Rei, and Makoto.it was just that since that fateful day when they had left her alone they had been slowly been drifting apart. Ami had kept herself locked in her room, doing nothing else but studying, and Rei spent all of her free time in the temple. Makoto was off who knows where cooking, and spent most of her free time at the gym. And she.she had decided she wasn't like the others, and she couldn't handle being alone like they could. She couldn't stay by herself, letting the pain of her best friends' death eat away at all she was; she needed to be with people. That was what she was, a groupie. That was all she could ever be. So she had decided to try out for the cheer leading squad, and surround herself with other people. She spent all of her free time shopping and spending time with her new friends. So that way, if only for a moment she could forget.
She could forget that Usagi's death was all her fault, and it had been her idea to go off and get Mamoru because she thought it would help. She was the leader, and she hadn't even thought that something was going on with her friend, and it might not be a good idea to leave her alone. She had failed so completely and totally to protect the one that was most dear to her, her friend, and her princess. And then she had failed to keep their previously tight knit group of friends together. She had never thought of what Usagi did as very great, or even important. But now that she was gone it as like there was a big gap in each of their lives. Each of them trying to recover in different ways, not knowing they were only making the pain fester. That they couldn't heal by hiding themselves in their books, or in their cooking. They couldn't get better by spending all of their free time in the temple so they wouldn't have to think about what they had lost.and she could never recover by separating herself by everything and anything that reminded her of her friend. Such as all of them had stopped going to the arcade since she had left, because it was a constant reminder. She hadn't even seen Motoki in months, and her crush on him seemed the most stupid thing in the world.
Minako stopped in her tracks as all of her thoughts flew from her mind. Not thinking about anything else she dropped all of her packages onto the ground, and lifted her communicator up to her face. And for the first time since Usagi had left she felt the need to push the button that called everyone at the same time.
It took a minute before all three faces appeared on her wrist, and she could tell they were worried. So would she if after all of those weeks of silence she had heard her wrist beeping. But she completely ignored their surprised and then angry faces. She had more important things to do then waste her time clarifying everything for the other scouts.
"I'll explain everything later." She said quickly before any of them got a word in edgewise. "But we need to have a scout meeting at Rei's temple, and I mean now we have a problem. I'll call Mamoru, and I'll get there as soon as possible."
She could tell everyone was dying to know what was going on, but she turned off her communicator and pulled out her small cell phone. It took her a minute to remember Mamoru's number, as she hadn't used it in so long but finally she managed to press in the numbers.
"Hello, Mamoru Chiba speaking." His calm voice was heard on the other line.
"Hello. This is Minako. You need to meet with all of the scouts at Rei's temple immediately. We have a problem."
"What is it?" She couldn't refuse his demand for answers, so quickly before she hang up the phone up to run across the street she answered.
"Your daughter is here."
And then she raced to rescue Chibiusa from the perfect stranger she was holding hands with.
***
Ayumi found it was quite pleasant to spend time with the small child, and entertaining as well. When she had asked Chibiusa what her mother was like, that had started a long flow of stories, that had as of yet to end. And most of them were entirely too amusing. Chibiusa seemed to like to talk about what her mother was like when she was a little girl, so all of the stories were about how her mommy was always late to school, and how her mommy once snuck into a concert hall to pretend she was performing, and had sung in front of a huge audience in her loud, off-key voice not knowing that there was another band about to come out that hadn't made it's appearance yet, and she had been booed off of the stage by a crowd of angry 'Our Lady Peace fans.' (AN: I just had to put that in, I went to their concert last night :O) And each story was even crazier than the last. And while each story was entirely too amusing, she had this crazy feeling of de- jvu like she had heard that before or something. Of course the very idea of that being true was simply too crazy, so she shrugged the feeling off and continued to walk hand in hand with Chibiusa, trying in vain to find her mother.
As she scanned the people walking on both sides of the street she spotted a girl carrying far too many packages for her to handle. For a second she thought about helping the girl, but then she remembered that she was already doing something and there was no way she could help a stranger carry packages, and help Chibiusa find her mother at the same time.
But she couldn't help looking at the girl.there was something about her.and when the blonde seemed to notice that she was being watched she looked at them, and right into her eyes. Ayumi stopped at the peculiar feeling that washed over her. But she didn't remember why that look was so familiar. And she knew she had never seen the girl before. But before an instant had passed the blue eyes passed over her green ones and looked down at the girl she was standing with.
And they flew wide with shock as she dropped all of her packages. But she didn't even seem to notice, and Ayumi watched, as she seemed to talk to her wrist, and then called someone on a little black box. And just a minute later she completely abandoned all of her boxes and raced across the road, right at.them.
For the fist time Chibiusa noticed the blonde, and without letting go of her hand started to wave frantically shouting "Minako, Minako! Over here!"
After barely avoiding traffic, and reaching them Minako stopped and fell to her knees in front of Lil Usa. She had such a look of complete and total sadness in her eyes, that Ayumi felt her heart break. She had never seen anyone so upset.But Chibiusa didn't notice, and let go of her hand to let Minako take both of her tiny hands in her larger ones.
"Chibiusa" She looked like she was talking to a ghost, and for the first time she saw real worry in the large red eyes of the child she had tried so hard to help. "It's so good to see you again."
Chibiusa paled, and in a worried voice asked. "Is something wrong?"
Minako's eyes filled with tears, and slowly she nodded. "Yes, yes something is wrong." Then she looked back at Ayumi, and coldly said.
"Thanks for your help, but I think I'll take it from here."
"But." Ayumi's response was cut short by the sound of Motoki shouting "Ayumi, there you are! I've been looking everywhere for you!" Forgetting the others there for a moment, she blushed beet red, and waved back. Motoki really looked worried, and she felt genuinely bad for leaving him like that. She hadn't even thought about her problem since she had become focused on Chibiusa's. It just seemed so insignificant in comparison to a little girl trying to find her parents.
She was enveloped in his arms, and he started scolding her for leaving him like she had. She couldn't see anything, as her face was in his shirt, and with a startling realization she realized it was wet. Why was she crying? She wasn't hurt, and she wasn't sad. And as he continued to tell her how stupid she was she realized he was shaking, and she looked up into his eyes and saw just how distressed he was.
Then she realized why she had been crying. She hadn't even thought that anyone cared about her, and here Motoki was clearly distraught at the thought of her being gone, even for a moment. She had made him sad, and through her tears stammered. "I'm so sorry, I wasn't thinking. I never meant to hurt you like I did. Can you ever forgive me, or do you hate me forever."
She was jerked back and Motoki looked into her eyes. He seemed angry with her. She wasn't surprised though, or course he did. He had cared about her, and now he hated her.
"Don't you ever say that again. NO ONE could ever hate you, least of all me. Now, I really think it's time to go home and get some lunch. It's been a long enough day."
"But.what about them." She gestured to Minako and Chibiusa, who were still standing there, apparently not able to move. Chibiusa now held Minako's hand, and she was staring off in space. Apparently she was wondering what could have happened to make her friend so upset. Minako on the other hand was looking at her and Motoki with an expression of pure shock. Her eyes were glazed over, and she looked like Ayumi had just grown another head or something.
"Oh," Motoki saw the couple for the first time. His expression changed when he saw the blonde from curiosity, to something she had never seen on anyone's face before. It was a look of absolute and complete loss, abandonment, and a spark of anger. "Hello Minako. Long time no see, I haven't seen any of you at the arcade for a while. I was beginning to wonder if you girls were all right." His voice was cold, and Ayumi shivered.
Minako seemed shocked that he could speak to her like that, and she just answered. "We've been around." But then she seemed to remember something, and grasped Chibiusa's hand tighter. "Oh, look at the time. Come on Chibiusa, we have a meeting to get to." And then she nodded goodbye and turned and ran away.
And Usagi noticed that the packages were still untended on the sidewalk.
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So, whaddya think? Review if you want more. I've been very distressed at the way things have been going at fanfiction.net, and apparently some people have been thinking that it's all right not to review, and it's no longer important. That's not gonna fly here. If you're reading this, and if your enjoying this, you need to take the time to write a review so I don't get the feeling there's no point in continuing. Just remember that the only thing I'm getting out of this is knowing I'm amusing someone.
Important-If you like this story, I would highly suggest you take a look at Chaos Enslaved. It's my new baby, and I expect it to be at least as good a read as this one is! Please just give it a chance!
Email me at sirencalling@yahoo.com