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Hey, I wanted to say thank you for all those reviews so far! It's nice to see some people like this :) I didn't know if I should write this, and it isn't my mother-tongue either, sooo.

Especially thanks to xxxandraa! Thanks for the criticism, I need that, it makes me focus on my plot and see where I want to go with it!

I see Haruka really duty-driven, but not because of the duty, but because of her passion. She believes in Crystal Tokyo and I think she would want to protect it no matter what, because she thinks that's the best she can do and that she would protect Usagi's happiness, too. She just can't see Usagi being happy otherwise, and that's why I think she wouldn't accept Seiya, as she doesn't find him worthy of his Koneko. Does this sound logical? ... o.O

Anyway, on with...

Chapter 5:

Mamo-Chan, what would you say to this, Usagi thought as she looked around her. They were in the secluded part of the park, near the lake they loved so much and the bench on which she learned not to give up. The moon Usagi felt drawn to by her blood shone prone and full upon them, the light reflecting from their skin.

How did it come to such a mess? They just want to protect you, she reasoned with herself. They're doing what they must.

"They're intruders from outer space!" Haruka had shouted. "We cannot trust them."

But why? Why wasn't she allowed to trust Seiya when all he ever did was help her and protect her. Why wasn't the last doubt about their innocence in this war wiped away upon learning the Starlight's true identities.

Hadn't Taiki cared for that sick little girl? Hadn't he believed in the sensei's dream and his meteor after a while? Hadn't Yaten acted so loving towards Luna, hadn't he started to read all those love letters as to respect all these girls's feelings?

Hadn't Seiya of all proven, in all those times he comforted her, was there for her, that he was trustworthy? How could they look at the Three Lights, and believe them to be the enemy, when all they wanted was to live in peace, and find their princess.

"Wasn't every one of us an intruder? Before the sol senshi united? Wasn't earth the enemy of the Moon Kingdom? And look who we are now, the protectors of this very planet." Usagi had answered then. "Because I changed my fate. Because I fell in love with the prince of earth, something my law and moral forbade me, as he wasn't from my kingdom. Because he was dangerous for me, because he wasn't sworn to my throne, because he was an intruder."

This was different, Haruka had reasoned. But why was it? It was the same, really. The Starlights were the enemy, because they didn't believe in the same princess, because they came from a place unknown to them, from a background foreign to them.

And now she wanted to do what she did centuries ago, in the life which memories seemed to her like sequences from a dream.

She wanted to trust the enemy, because she fell in love with him.

All Senshi were gathered here, transformed, facing Maker andHealer

To say Taiki and Yaten were furious that Seiya had revealed their identity was the biggest understatement one could think of. They had accused Seiya of disloyalty to their princess, of endangering their cause of forgetting their mission.

But what was their mission? Why couldn't anyone see that this was the crucial point, here? That if they just talked, really really talked, they could understand each other?

But talk they did none. This war terrified everyone so much that they were on their barricades. They just couldn't talk, because they were too afraid they revealed too much should their opposite be the enemy after all.

And she was petrified as well. Because if she chose Seiya now, she would truelly throw her destiny away, stomp on it one last time until she threw it in the trash and it was gone from her forever. Up until now it had been an option, a road she could choose, a tempting adventure, the forbidden fruit

If she chose him now, she could never turn back. This was the climax of her story and the outcome would be a mystery to her forever if she chose the alternative part. As if standing on the point where the lane she had walked suddenly devided in two directions. The one was lit, known to her, nothing could surprise her there. And the other was dark and looming, where she couldn't see her hands because the fog kept her view to the same spot. Yet from this fog she could see a silhouette she liked, she was drawn to. This was a mystery she wanted to lift, a mystery she needed to explore.

And she realized suddenly, that yes, she had chosen. She didn't know if she were choosing right, though. How could she ever know, if she chose this path? She didn't really know what she felt, she didn't really know what attracted her, the only thing she knew for certain is that this is what she wanted!

And she told them so. And to her utter amazement, they seemed to come around to it. If this situation wasn't so serious, Usagi would have had to laugh. Here they stood, Seiya and her, back to back. Seiya in his navy coloured school uniform facing two angry leather clad vixens, and her, in faded denims and an old gray T-Shirt with the logo of her mother's old school under a black woollen sweater that was washed one too many times, facing eight women in their senshi transformations. She felt so small in her battered sneakers, confronting this wall of power.

She had considered transforming, because she felt more powerful, more secure as Sailor Moon, but decided against it. After all, she was reasoning with Usagi's hopes and wishes. So she should do so as Usagi.

But then Seiya had made the biggest mistake of the evening, and compared Usagi to their precious princess. And boy, did those two see red. Seiya now sported an impressive black eye, and only because he had managed to dodge Healer's Sensitive Inferno, which Taiki had tried but failed to keep the silver-haired woman from screaming.

The attack had hit Sailor Jupiter though, and Healer wasn't too fond of the word sorry, which lead to a confrontation of both sides which could only be ended when both Usagi and Seiya blocked the opposite group of senshi, Usagi standing protectively in front of Healer and Maker, Seiya blocking the path to Venus, Mercury and Saturn.

And this was exactly where they were now.

The silence was so thick it almost seemed deafening to the small blonde.

"Why?" Taiki asked behind her, but as she stood facing away from him, she couldn't know whom he addressed.

Seiya looked at Usagi then, smiling with just one side of his lips quirked upwards, his eyes seeming to twinkle, and then his gaze hardened again and he looked behind her. "I love her." He said, with such power and honesty in his voice.

Such power and honesty in fact, that Usagi's eyes met Seiya's, utterly surprised. And he smiled at her, shrugged and looked at the ground, as if to say "Wasn't it obvious?" and still she felt his uneasiness, his fright of being made vulnerable because of the love he exposed to the open.

Haruka snickered and Healer huffed. "You don't know what love is. You're just a kid." Haruka said. And she didn't mean it angrily or offensively, she believed it, and stated it matter of factly.

Taiki smiled. They clearly didn't know Fighter.

Seiya looked to side, straight into Uranus's eyes and rubbed his temple. "Well let's see," he began and his eyes returned to Usagi's, who seemed rather uneasy and shy all of a sudden. "I think love is when you want to rip your throat out because it would seem better than having to feel this huge rock in it that hurts so much only because there's one tear in her eyes.I think love is when you can't think straight anymore and worry so much only because she doesn't answer her phone on second ring. I think love is when my whole arm feels like burning and I shudder all over only because she has lightly touched it. I think love is when I rather look at her sleeping face all night than returning to dreams I had preferred only months ago because they meant I could see my princess if only in my mind." He smiled at her fully now, the passion he usually only felt on stage had grabbed him and it seemed to him as if the moon's light had increased and was beaming at him like a stagelight, swaying its light across the crowd. In fact, in his mind he could hear the strong and steady rhythm of the drums and base that kept him going faster and faster and faster. He had only eyes for her now. He'd wanted to say these things for so long now. Had wanted to scream it off that rooftop along with her those few days ago. "I think love is when this world that is so foreign and strange and scary to me feels like home only because she's here." He made a few steps towards her. "I think love is when you rather want to die than not being able to see her smile, to smell her hair, to hear her laughter, to feel her breath so feather-light on your skin. When everything else becomes just so damn unimportant compared to watching her breath. And protecting that smile."

So what would you say to this, Mamo-chan? Because I think you never loved me that deeply, did you. You loved me, oh you loved me. But like this? Would you sacrifice your mission, your world for me?

No, you wouldn't, I know this, the duty is more important. I think I wouldn't either.

But he, he would. She could see that. And by now she knew the others did as well.

Usagi didn't know what to do. She wanted to cry, she wanted to run up and throw her arms around him. She felt rooted to the spot, blown away by his emotions. And she stepped towards him, looking shortly at Rei, who, to her surprise and relief, nodded at her, and brought his right hand to her lips, kissing his palm, and then his pulse.

She wouldn't care anymore what anyone thought of them. She would be with this man no matter what. Now, for the first time, she would have to take her future into her own hands. From now on she didn't know what the future would hold in store for her.

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