Title: If you can't beat 'em join 'em

Author: Bchan and Evee

Rated: PG13

Chapter : 2 Under the Cherry Blossoms

Disclaimer: Okay... B-Chan and I (Evee) wrote this fic three years ago... so I finally came back to it. We kind of split off (I write under Duo'sBabe). But never fear I have returned... NOW my spelling is just a little bit better! Anyway I don't own sailor moon but I would love to if the author is selling it...

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So hey everyone! I have updated as promised. The last chapter was a bit flakey because I wrote it when I was in the seventh grade... and now I'm in the 11th sooo... hopefully you like this chapter better than you liked the last one.

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Chapter 2: Under the Cherry Blossoms

Serena Tsukiko sighed as she leaned against the Sakura tree at the center of the Park. She had been coming here a lot lately. Ever since she found out that what she thought was going to happen in the future wasn't.

Sakura petals fell and danced in the breeze. Spring was finally here and Serena was feeling strangely down and miserable.

All of the Sailor Scouts had noticed it. Raye had put it down to Serena finally growing up but Trista would smile at Serena sadly if anyone asked her if she was okay.

Serena had thought about what Queen Serenity had done. She had begun to have dreams about her true past on the moon kingdom. Trista was right.

She had loved Yaten and not Darien. Darien was her best friend. Thinking back, how could she have kissed her best friend? Can anyone say yuck?

Now it became hard not to blush when Yaten came near and she dreamed every night of a time when he loved her. He treated her like the Princess she was. He never spoke ill of her and always treated her with respect and compassion.

The dreams made Serena long for Yaten to love her like he once did. Her heart would pound when he spoke to her. It always had but she had pretended not to notice. She was supposed to marry Darien after all.

It just wouldn't do for her to have feelings for anyone else. Serena sighed and brushed a strand of her golden hair out of her eyes. She just didn't know what to do.

"Princess", A voice called to Serena from across the park. She looked up and let out an audible gasp. 'Oh no it's Yaten!', Serena blushed and looked down as he stopped in front of her.

"Hello Princess... What are you doing here?", Yaten smiled down at the blushing blonde."Nothing... just...thinking", Serena looked up at Yaten from underneath her lashes.

"Thinking?... about what?", Yaten asked as he took his place next to her. "The way things have turned out and what could have happened if they hadn't been the way they are", Serena looked out onto the lake in the distance.

"Well Princess, life gives us strange things to work with... we have to use lemons to make lemonade... but without the sugar... or you can call it happy times... it would only be lemon juice... or things you wish you had done differently", Yaten advised the moon princess.

"So, I should just live my life and never regret the things I could have done better?", Serena looked up into Yaten's softly gleaming golden eyes.

"No! Never that!... You should look ahead and smile... live your life boldly and maybe if your lucky someday someone will look up to you and wish they could do what you have done", Yaten admonished her gently.

Serena smiled warmly up at him. He always knew what to say to make her feel better. She lead him to a bench in the park near the sakura tree.

They spent the rest of the afternoon talking about little things and life in gerenal. But as Serena walked home beside Yaten...(he had wanted to take her home)... she knew that she would soon have to tell the rest of the scouts about her dreams and Yaten that he was her love.

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